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Ulrich Weber Walter P. Maksymowych Stanley M. Chan Kaspar Rufibach Susanne J. Pedersen Zheng Zhao Veronika Zubler Mikkel ?stergaard Robert GW Lambert 《Arthritis research & therapy》2015,17(1)
IntroductionInflammation of the sacroiliac joints (SIJ) is a fundamental clinical feature of axial spondyloarthritis (SpA). The anatomy of the irregularly shaped SIJ is complex with an antero-inferior cartilaginous compartment containing central hyaline and peripheral fibrocartilage, and a dorso-superior ligamentous compartment. Several scoring modules to systematically assess SIJ magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in SpA have been developed. Nearly all of them are based on the cartilaginous joint compartment alone. However, there are only limited data about the frequency of inflammatory lesions in the ligamentous compartment and their potential diagnostic utility in axial SpA. We therefore aimed to evaluate the ligamentous compartment on sacroiliac joint MRI for lesion distribution and potential incremental value towards diagnosis of SpA over and above the traditional assessment of the cartilaginous compartment alone.MethodsTwo independent cohorts of 69 and 88 consecutive back pain patients ≤50 years were referred for suspected SpA (cohort A) or acute anterior uveitis plus back pain (cohort B). Patients were classified according to rheumatologist expert opinion based on clinical, radiographic and laboratory examination as having nonradiographic axial SpA (nr-axSpA; n = 51), ankylosing spondylitis (n = 34), or nonspecific back pain (NSBP; n = 72). Five blinded readers assessed SIJ MRI globally for presence/absence of SpA. Bone marrow edema (BME) and fat metaplasia were recorded in the cartilaginous and ligamentous compartment. The incremental value of evaluating the ligamentous additionally to the cartilaginous compartment alone for diagnosis of SpA was graded qualitatively. We determined the lesion distribution between the two compartments, and the impact of the ligamentous compartment evaluation on diagnostic utility.ResultsMRI bone marrow lesions solely in the ligamentous compartment in the absence of lesions in the cartilaginous compartment were reported in just 0–2.0/0–4.0 % (BME/fat metaplasia) of all subjects. Additional assessment of the ligamentous compartment was regarded as essential for diagnosis in 0 and 0.6 %, and as contributory in 28.0 and 7.7 % of nr-axSpA patients in cohorts A and B, respectively. Concomitant BME in both compartments was evident in 11.6–42.0 % of nr-axSpA and 2.1–2.4 % of NSBP patients.ConclusionAssessing the ligamentous compartment on SIJ MRI provided no incremental value for diagnosis of axial SpA. However, concomitant BME in both compartments may help discriminate nr-axSpA from NSBP. 相似文献
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Chamot D Colvin KR Kujat-Choy SL Owttrim GW 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2005,280(3):2036-2044
Rearrangement of RNA secondary structure is crucial for numerous biological processes. RNA helicases participate in these rearrangements through the unwinding of duplex RNA. We report here that the redox-regulated cyanobacterial RNA helicase, CrhR, is a bona fide RNA helicase possessing both RNA-stimulated ATPase and bidirectional ATP-stimulated RNA helicase activity. The processivity of the unwinding reaction appears to be low, because RNA substrates containing duplex regions of 41 bp are not unwound. CrhR also catalyzes the annealing of complementary RNA into intermolecular duplexes. Uniquely and in contrast to other proteins that perform annealing, the CrhR-catalyzed reactions require ATP hydrolysis. Through a combination of the unwinding and annealing activities, CrhR also catalyzes RNA strand exchange resulting in the formation of RNA secondary structures that are too stable to be resolved by helicase activity. RNA strand exchange most probably occurs through the CrhR-dependent formation and resolution of an RNA branch migration structure. Demonstration that another cyanobacterial RNA helicase, CrhC, does not catalyze annealing indicates that this activity is not a general biochemical characteristic of RNA helicases. Biochemically, CrhR resembles RecA and related proteins that catalyze strand exchange and branch migration on DNA substrates, a characteristic that is reflected in the recently reported structural similarities between these proteins. The data indicate the potential for CrhR to catalyze dynamic RNA secondary structure rearrangements through a combination of RNA helicase and annealing activities. 相似文献
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GW Patton R Stephens IA Sidorov X Xiao RA Lempicki DS Dimitrov RH Shoemaker G Tudor 《BMC bioinformatics》2006,7(1):81
Background
Microarrays used for gene expression studies yield large amounts of data. The processing of such data typically leads to lists of differentially-regulated genes. A common terminal data analysis step is to map pathways of potentially interrelated genes. 相似文献35.
Roel GW Verhaak Frank JT Staal Peter JM Valk Bob Lowenberg Marcel JT Reinders Dick de Ridder 《BMC bioinformatics》2006,7(1):105-15
Background
Intensity values measured by Affymetrix microarrays have to be both normalized, to be able to compare different microarrays by removing non-biological variation, and summarized, generating the final probe set expression values. Various pre-processing techniques, such as dChip, GCRMA, RMA and MAS have been developed for this purpose. This study assesses the effect of applying different pre-processing methods on the results of analyses of large Affymetrix datasets. By focusing on practical applications of microarray-based research, this study provides insight into the relevance of pre-processing procedures to biology-oriented researchers. 相似文献36.
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Hinke F van Thuijl Ilari Scheinin Daoud Sie Agusti Alentorn Hendrik F van Essen Martijn Cordes Ruth Fleischeuer Anja M Gijtenbeek Guus Beute Wimar A van den Brink Gerrit A Meijer Miek Havenith Ahmed Idbaih Khê Hoang-Xuan Karima Mokhtari Roel GW Verhaak Paul van der Valk Mark A van de Wiel Jan J Heimans Eleonora Aronica Jaap C Reijneveld Pieter Wesseling Bauke Ylstra 《Genome biology》2014,15(9)
Background
The disease course of patients with diffuse low-grade glioma is notoriously unpredictable. Temporal and spatially distinct samples may provide insight into the evolution of clinically relevant copy number aberrations (CNAs). The purpose of this study is to identify CNAs that are indicative of aggressive tumor behavior and can thereby complement the prognostically favorable 1p/19q co-deletion.Results
Genome-wide, 50 base pair single-end sequencing was performed to detect CNAs in a clinically well-characterized cohort of 98 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded low-grade gliomas. CNAs are correlated with overall survival as an endpoint. Seventy-five additional samples from spatially distinct regions and paired recurrent tumors of the discovery cohort were analyzed to interrogate the intratumoral heterogeneity and spatial evolution. Loss of 10q25.2-qter is a frequent subclonal event and significantly correlates with an unfavorable prognosis. A significant correlation is furthermore observed in a validation set of 126 and confirmation set of 184 patients. Loss of 10q25.2-qter arises in a longitudinal manner in paired recurrent tumor specimens, whereas the prognostically favorable 1p/19q co-deletion is the only CNA that is stable across spatial regions and recurrent tumors.Conclusions
CNAs in low-grade gliomas display extensive intratumoral heterogeneity. Distal loss of 10q is a late onset event and a marker for reduced overall survival in low-grade glioma patients. Intratumoral heterogeneity and higher frequencies of distal 10q loss in recurrences suggest this event is involved in outgrowth to the recurrent tumor.Electronic supplementary material
The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13059-014-0471-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献38.
Characterization of the cold stress-induced cyanobacterial DEAD-box protein CrhC as an RNA helicase 总被引:6,自引:2,他引:4
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We have shown previously that CrhC is a unique member of the DEAD-box family of RNA helicases whose expression occurs specifically under conditions of cold stress. Here we show that recombinant His-tagged CrhC, purified from Escherichia coli, is an ATP-independent RNA binding protein possessing RNA-dependent ATPase activity which is stimulated most efficiently by rRNA and polysome preparations. RNA strand displacement assays indicate that CrhC possesses RNA unwinding activity that is adenosine nucleotide specific. Unwinding of partially duplexed RNA proceeds in the 5′→3′ but not the 3′→5′ direction using standard assay conditions. Immunoprecipitation and far-western analysis indicate that CrhC is a component of a multisubunit complex, interacting specifically with a 37 kDa polypeptide. We propose that CrhC unwinds cold-stabilized secondary structure in the 5′-UTR of RNA during cold stress. 相似文献
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Purification and characterization of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from a cyanobacterium. 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) was purified 100-fold from the cyanobacterium Coccochloris peniocystis with a yield of 10%. A single isozyme was found at all stages of purification, and activity of other beta-carboxylase enzymes was not detected. The apparent molecular weight of the native enzyme was 560,000. Optimal activity was observed at pH 8.0 and 40 degrees C, yielding a Vmax of 8.84 mumol/mg of protein per min. The enzyme was not protected from heat inactivation by aspartate, malate, or oxalacetate. Michaelis-Menten reaction kinetics were observed for various concentrations of PEP, Mg2+, and HCO3-, yielding Km values of 0.6, 0.27, and 0.8 mM, respectively. Enzyme activity was inhibited by aspartate and tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates and noncompetitively inhibited by oxalacetate, while activation by any compound was not observed. However, the enzyme was sensitive to metabolic control at subsaturating substrate concentrations at neutral pH. These data indicate that cyanobacterial PEP carboxylase resembles the enzyme isolated from C3 plants (plants which initially incorporate CO2 into C3 sugars) and suggest that PEP carboxylase functions anapleurotically in cyanobacteria. 相似文献
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The ability of particular cell surface glycoproteins to recycle and become
exposed to individual Golgi enzymes has been demonstrated. This study was
designed to determine whether endocytic trafficking includes significant
reentry into the overall oligosaccharide processing pathway. The Lec1
mutant of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells lack N -
acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GlcNAc-TI) activity resulting in surface
expression of incompletely processed Man5GlcNAc2 N -linked
oligosaccharides. An oligosaccharide tracer was created by exoglycosylation
of cell surface glycoproteins with purified porcine GlcNAc-TI and
UDP-[3H]GlcNAc. Upon reculturing, all cell surface glycoproteins that
acquired [3H]GlcNAc were acted upon by intracellular mannosidase II, the
next enzyme in the Golgi processing pathway of complex N -linked
oligosaccharides (t1/2= 3-4 h). That all radiolabeled cell surface
glycoproteins were included in this endocytic pathway indicates a common
intracellular compartment into which endocytosed cell surface glycoproteins
return. Significantly, no evidence was found for continued oligosaccharide
processing consistent with transit through the latter cisternae of the
Golgi apparatus. These data indicate that, although recycling plasma
membrane glycoproteins can be reexposed to individual Golgi-derived
enzymes, significant reentry into the overall contiguous processing pathway
is not evident.
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