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Pauley KM Satoh M Chan AL Bubb MR Reeves WH Chan EK 《Arthritis research & therapy》2008,10(4):R101-10
Introduction
MicroRNAs are small noncoding RNA molecules that negatively regulate gene expression via degradation or translational repression of their targeted mRNAs. It is known that aberrant microRNA expression can play important roles in cancer, but the role of microRNAs in autoimmune diseases is only beginning to emerge. In this study, the expression of selected microRNAs is examined in rheumatoid arthritis.Methods
Total RNA was isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and healthy and disease control individuals, and the expression of miR-146a, miR-155, miR-132, miR-16, and microRNA let-7a was analyzed using quantitative real-time PCR.Results
Rheumatoid arthritis peripheral blood mononuclear cells exhibited between 1.8-fold and 2.6-fold increases in miR-146a, miR-155, miR-132, and miR-16 expression, whereas let-7a expression was not significantly different compared with healthy control individuals. In addition, two targets of miR-146a, namely tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) and IL-1 receptor-associated kinase 1 (IRAK-1), were similarly expressed between rheumatoid arthritis patients and control individuals, despite increased expression of miR-146a in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Repression of TRAF6 and/or IRAK-1 in THP-1 cells resulted in up to an 86% reduction in tumor necrosis factor-α production, implicating that normal miR-146a function is critical for the regulation of tumor necrosis factor-α production.Conclusions
Recent studies have shown that synovial tissue and synovial fibroblasts from patients with rheumatoid arthritis exhibit increased expression of certain microRNAs. Our data thus demonstrate that microRNA expression in rheumatoid arthritis peripheral blood mononuclear cells mimics that of synovial tissue/fibroblasts. The increased microRNA expression in rheumatoid arthritis patients is potentially useful as a marker for disease diagnosis, progression, or treatment efficacy, but this will require confirmation using a large and well defined cohort. Our data also suggest a possible mechanism contributing to rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis, whereby miR-146a expression is increased but unable to properly function, leading to prolonged tumor necrosis factor-α production in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 相似文献72.
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There has been some evidence that Beh?et's disease (BD) has a significant autoimmune component but the molecular identity
of putative autoantigens has not been well characterized. In the initial analysis of the autoantibody profile in 39 Chinese
BD patients, autoantibodies to cellular proteins were uncovered in 23% as determined by immunoblotting. We have now identified
one of the major autoantibody specificities using expression cloning. Serum from a BD patient was used as a probe to immunoscreen
a λZAP expression cDNA library. Candidate autoantigen cDNAs were characterized by direct nucleotide sequencing and their expressed
products were examined for reactivity to the entire panel of BD sera using immunoprecipitation. Reactivity was also examined
with normal control sera and disease control sera from patients with lupus and Sj?gren's syndrome. Six independent candidate
clones were isolated from the cDNA library screen and were identified as overlapping partial human kinectin cDNAs. The finding
that kinectin was an autoantigen was verified in 9 out of 39 (23%) BD patient sera by immunoprecipitation of the in vitro translation products. Sera from controls showed no reactivity. The significance of kinectin as a participant in autoimmune
pathogenesis in BD and the potential use of autoantibody to kinectin in serodiagnostics are discussed. 相似文献
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An empirical comparison of short tandem repeats (STRs) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for relatedness estimation in Chinese rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
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Molecular biologists commonly use bioinformatics to map and analyze DNA and protein sequences and to align different DNA and protein sequences for comparison. Additionally, biologists can create and view 3D models of protein structures to further understand intramolecular interactions. The primary goal of this 10-week laboratory was to introduce the importance of bioinformatics in molecular biology. Students employed multiprimer, site-directed mutagenesis to create variant colors from a plasmid expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP). Isolated mutant plasmid from Escherichia coli showing changes in fluorescence were sequenced. Students used sequence alignment tools, protein translator tools, protein modeling, and visualization to analyze the potential effect of their mutations within the protein structure. This laboratory linked molecular techniques and bioinformatics to promote and expand the understanding of experimental results in an upper-level undergraduate laboratory course. 相似文献
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We used Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Burkholderia cepacia and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, live or heat-killed, isolated from the airways of children with Cystic Fibrosis, to stimulate human neutrophils (PMN) and rat alveolar macrophages (AM) to produce reactive oxygen metabolites in the presence or absence of Curosurf, a natural porcine lung surfactant. We determined: (1) the amount of lipid peroxidation (LPO) as assessed by the amounts of malondialdehyde (MDA) and 4-hydroxyalkenals (4-HNE) using the LPO 586 test kit; (2) the production by AM of superoxide with the nitroblue tetrazolium test and (3) of nitric oxide (NO) with the Griess reaction. Stimulation of PMN or AM increases LPO of Curosurf and cell wall lipids. In both types of phagocytes, B. cepacia induced the highest LPO levels followed by P. aeruginosa and S. maltophilia. PMN, stimulated by live bacteria, induced higher LPO than those stimulated by heat-killed bacteria. B. cepacia stimulated AM to produce more superoxide and NO than did P. aeruginosa and S. maltophilia. The high phagocyte-stimulating ability of B. cepacia and its higher surfactant LPO than those of the other bacteria used in this in vitro study may play a role in vivo in the serious clinical condition known as the "Cepacia syndrome". 相似文献
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Development of a high throughput transformation system for insertional mutagenesis in Magnaporthe oryzae 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
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We have investigated the morphological effects of a genetic locus, Pgm1- t,
that affects the expression of a phosphoglucomutase locus (Pgm1) in liver
of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). We have previously shown that embryos
with liver Pgm1 expression hatch earlier than those without liver Pgm1
expression. We predicted that this difference in developmental rate should
cause a reduction in meristic counts in the more rapidly developing fish
with liver Pgm1 expression. Eight meristic (countable) characters in nine
full-sib groups segregating for the presence or absence of liver Pgm1
expression are in agreement with this prediction. In eight of the nine
families, there is a significant difference in the multivariate
distribution of the eight meristic counts between full sibs with and
without liver Pgm1 expression. This separation in multivariate space is
based on a tendency for lower meristic counts in fish with liver Pgm1
expression. The magnitude of these morphological differences is similar to
that between two subspecies of cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki) that show
substantial genetic divergence at structural loci encoding enzymes (Nei's D
= 0.34). These data support the view that small changes in the
developmental process caused by genetic differences at regulatory genes can
have large effects on morphology.
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