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Maite Verreault Sherry A. Weppler Amelia Stegeman Corinna Warburton Dita Strutt Dana Masin Marcel B. Bally 《PloS one》2013,8(3)
The PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway is commonly over activated in glioblastoma (GBM), and Rictor was shown to be an important regulator downstream of this pathway. EGFR overexpression is also frequently found in GBM tumors, and both EGFR and Rictor are associated with increased proliferation, invasion, metastasis and poor prognosis. This research evaluated in vitro and in vivo whether the combined silencing of EGFR and Rictor would result in therapeutic benefits. The therapeutic potential of targeting these proteins in combination with conventional agents with proven activity in GBM patients was also assessed. In vitro validation studies were carried out using siRNA-based gene silencing methods in a panel of three commercially available human GBM cell lines, including two PTEN mutant lines (U251MG and U118MG) and one PTEN-wild type line (LN229). The impact of EGFR and/or Rictor silencing on cell migration and sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs in vitro was determined. In vivo validation of these studies was focused on EGFR and/or Rictor silencing achieved using doxycycline-inducible shRNA-expressing U251MG cells implanted orthotopically in Rag2M mice brains. Target silencing, tumor size and tumor cell proliferation were assessed by quantification of immunohistofluorescence-stained markers. siRNA-mediated silencing of EGFR and Rictor reduced U251MG cell migration and increased sensitivity of the cells to irinotecan, temozolomide and vincristine. In LN229, co-silencing of EGFR and Rictor resulted in reduced cell migration, and increased sensitivity to vincristine and temozolomide. In U118MG, silencing of Rictor alone was sufficient to increase this line’s sensitivity to vincristine and temozolomide. In vivo, while the silencing of EGFR or Rictor alone had no significant effect on U251MG tumor growth, silencing of EGFR and Rictor together resulted in a complete eradication of tumors. These data suggest that the combined silencing of EGFR and Rictor should be an effective means of treating GBM. 相似文献
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Strachotová D Holoubek A Kučerová H Benda A Humpolíčková J Váchová L Palková Z 《Biochimica et biophysica acta》2012,1818(9):2126-2134
Each of the three plasma membrane Ato proteins is involved in ammonium signalling and the development of yeast colonies. This suggests that although these proteins are homologous, they do not functionally substitute for each other, but may form a functional complex. Here, we present a detailed combined FRET, FLIM and photobleaching study, which enabled us to detect interactions between Ato proteins found in distinct compartments of yeast cells. We thus show that the proteins Ato1p and Ato2p interact and can form complexes when present in the plasma membrane. No interaction was detected between Ato1p and Ato3p or Ato2p and Ato3p. In addition, using specially prepared strains, we were able to detect an interaction between molecules of the same Ato protein, namely Ato1p-Ato1p and Ato3p-Ato3p, but not Ato2p-Ato2p. 相似文献
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Discovery of novel aspartyl ketone dipeptides as potent and selective caspase-3 inhibitors 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Han Y Giroux A Grimm EL Aspiotis R Francoeur S Bayly CI Mckay DJ Roy S Xanthoudakis S Vaillancourt JP Rasper DM Tam J Tawa P Thornberry NA Paterson EP Garcia-Calvo M Becker JW Rotonda J Nicholson DW Zamboni RJ 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2004,14(3):805-808
The discovery of a series of potent, selective and reversible dipeptidyl caspase-3 inhibitors are reported. The iterative discovery process of using combinatorial chemistry, parallel synthesis, moleculare modelling and structural biology will be discussed. 相似文献
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Elevated glucose inhibits VEGF-A-mediated endocardial cushion formation: modulation by PECAM-1 and MMP-2 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Enciso JM Gratzinger D Camenisch TD Canosa S Pinter E Madri JA 《The Journal of cell biology》2003,160(4):605-615
Atrioventricular (AV) septal defects resulting from aberrant endocardial cushion (EC) formation are observed at increased rates in infants of diabetic mothers. EC formation occurs via an epithelial-mesenchymal transformation (EMT), involving transformation of endocardial cells into mesenchymal cells, migration, and invasion into extracellular matrix. Here, we report that elevated glucose inhibits EMT by reducing myocardial vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A). This effect is reversed with exogenous recombinant mouse VEGF-A165, whereas addition of soluble VEGF receptor-1 blocks EMT. We show that disruption of EMT is associated with persistence of platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1) and decreased matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) expression. These findings correlate with retention of a nontransformed endocardial sheet and lack of invasion. The MMP inhibitor GM6001 blocks invasion, whereas explants from PECAM-1 deficient mice exhibit MMP-2 induction and normal EMT in high glucose. PECAM-1-negative endothelial cells are highly motile and express more MMP-2 than do PECAM-1-positive endothelial cells. During EMT, loss of PECAM-1 similarly promotes single cell motility and MMP-2 expression. Our findings suggest that high glucose-induced inhibition of AV cushion morphogenesis results from decreased myocardial VEGF-A expression and is, in part, mediated by persistent endocardial cell PECAM-1 expression and failure to up-regulate MMP-2 expression. 相似文献
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A spontaneous CD8 T cell-dependent autoimmune disease to an antigen expressed under the human keratin 14 promoter 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
McGargill MA Mayerova D Stefanski HE Koehn B Parke EA Jameson SC Panoskaltsis-Mortari A Hogquist KA 《Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)》2002,169(4):2141-2147
Using a previously described human keratin 14 (K14) promoter, we created mice expressing a peptide Ag (OVAp) in epithelial cells of the skin, tongue, esophagus, and thymus. Double transgenic mice that also express a TCR specific for this Ag (OT-I) showed evidence for Ag-driven receptor editing in the thymus. Surprisingly, such mice exhibited a severe autoimmune disease. In this work we describe the features of this disease and demonstrate that it is dependent on CD8 T cells. Consistent with the Ag expression pattern dictated by the human K14 promoter, an inflammatory infiltrate was observed in skin and esophagus and around bile ducts of the liver. We also observed a high level of TNF-alpha in the serum. Given that Ag expression in the thymus induced development of T cells with dual TCR reactivity, and that dual-reactive cells have been suggested to have autoimmune potential, we tested whether they were a causal factor in the disease observed here. We found that OT-I/K14-OVAp animals on a recombinase-activating gene-deficient background still suffered from disease. In addition, OT-I animals expressing OVA broadly in all tissues under a different promoter did not experience disease, despite having a similar number of dual-specific T cells. Thus, in this model it would appear that dual-reactive T cells do not underlie autoimmune pathology. Finally, we extended these observations to a second transgenic system involving 2C TCR-transgenic animals expressing the SIY peptide Ag with the hK14 promoter. We discuss the potential relationship between autoimmunity and self-Ags that are expressed in stratified epithelium. 相似文献
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Martina Ferraguti Sergio Magallanes Jéssica Jiménez-Peñuela Josué Martínez-de la Puente Luz Garcia-Longoria Jordi Figuerola Jaime Muriel Tamer Albayrak Staffan Bensch Camille Bonneaud Rohan H. Clarke Gábor Á. Czirják Dimitar Dimitrov Kathya Espinoza John G. Ewen Farah Ishtiaq Wendy Flores-Saavedra László Zsolt Garamszegi Olof Hellgren Dita Horakova Kathryn P. Huyvaert Henrik Jensen Asta Križanauskienė Marcos R. Lima Charlene Lujan-Vega Eyðfinn Magnussen Lynn B. Martin Kevin D. Matson Anders Pape Møller Pavel Munclinger Vaidas Palinauskas Péter L. Pap Javier Pérez-Tris Swen C. Renner Robert Ricklefs Sergio Scebba Ravinder N. M. Sehgal Manuel Soler Eszter Szöllősi Gediminas Valkiūnas Helena Westerdahl Pavel Zehtindjiev Alfonso Marzal 《Global Ecology and Biogeography》2023,32(5):809-823
Aim
The increasing spread of vector-borne diseases has resulted in severe health concerns for humans, domestic animals and wildlife, with changes in land use and the introduction of invasive species being among the main possible causes for this increase. We explored several ecological drivers potentially affecting the local prevalence and richness of avian malaria parasite lineages in native and introduced house sparrows (Passer domesticus) populations.Location
Global.Time period
2002–2019.Major taxa studied
Avian Plasmodium parasites in house sparrows.Methods
We analysed data from 2,220 samples from 69 localities across all continents, except Antarctica. The influence of environment (urbanization index and human density), geography (altitude, latitude, hemisphere) and time (bird breeding season and years since introduction) were analysed using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) and random forests.Results
Overall, 670 sparrows (30.2%) were infected with 22 Plasmodium lineages. In native populations, parasite prevalence was positively related to urbanization index, with the highest prevalence values in areas with intermediate urbanization levels. Likewise, in introduced populations, prevalence was positively associated with urbanization index; however, higher infection occurred in areas with either extreme high or low levels of urbanization. In introduced populations, the number of parasite lineages increased with altitude and with the years elapsed since the establishment of sparrows in a new locality. Here, after a decline in the number of parasite lineages in the first 30 years, an increase from 40 years onwards was detected.Main conclusions
Urbanization was related to parasite prevalence in both native and introduced bird populations. In invaded areas, altitude and time since bird introduction were related to the number of Plasmodium lineages found to be infecting sparrows. 相似文献8.
Martínková N Bačkor P Bartonička T Blažková P Cervený J Falteisek L Gaisler J Hanzal V Horáček D Hubálek Z Jahelková H Kolařík M Korytár L Kubátová A Lehotská B Lehotský R Lučan RK Májek O Matějů J Rehák Z Šafář J Tájek P Tkadlec E Uhrin M Wagner J Weinfurtová D Zima J Zukal J Horáček I 《PloS one》2010,5(11):e13853
Background
White-nose syndrome is a disease of hibernating insectivorous bats associated with the fungus Geomyces destructans. It first appeared in North America in 2006, where over a million bats died since then. In Europe, G. destructans was first identified in France in 2009. Its distribution, infection dynamics, and effects on hibernating bats in Europe are largely unknown.Methodology/Principal Findings
We screened hibernacula in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for the presence of the fungus during the winter seasons of 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. In winter 2009/2010, we found infected bats in 76 out of 98 surveyed sites, in which the majority had been previously negative. A photographic record of over 6000 hibernating bats, taken since 1994, revealed bats with fungal growths since 1995; however, the incidence of such bats increased in Myotis myotis from 2% in 2007 to 14% by 2010. Microscopic, cultivation and molecular genetic evaluations confirmed the identity of the recently sampled fungus as G. destructans, and demonstrated its continuous distribution in the studied area. At the end of the hibernation season we recorded pathologic changes in the skin of the affected bats, from which the fungus was isolated. We registered no mass mortality caused by the fungus, and the recorded population decline in the last two years of the most affected species, M. myotis, is within the population trend prediction interval.Conclusions/Significance
G. destructans was found to be widespread in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with an epizootic incidence in bats during the most recent years. Further development of the situation urgently requires a detailed pan-European monitoring scheme. 相似文献9.
Kiryluk K Li Y Sanna-Cherchi S Rohanizadegan M Suzuki H Eitner F Snyder HJ Choi M Hou P Scolari F Izzi C Gigante M Gesualdo L Savoldi S Amoroso A Cusi D Zamboli P Julian BA Novak J Wyatt RJ Mucha K Perola M Kristiansson K Viktorin A Magnusson PK Thorleifsson G Thorsteinsdottir U Stefansson K Boland A Metzger M Thibaudin L Wanner C Jager KJ Goto S Maixnerova D Karnib HH Nagy J Panzer U Xie J Chen N Tesar V Narita I Berthoux F Floege J Stengel B Zhang H Lifton RP Gharavi AG 《PLoS genetics》2012,8(6):e1002765
IgA nephropathy (IgAN), major cause of kidney failure worldwide, is common in Asians, moderately prevalent in Europeans, and rare in Africans. It is not known if these differences represent variation in genes, environment, or ascertainment. In a recent GWAS, we localized five IgAN susceptibility loci on Chr.6p21 (HLA-DQB1/DRB1, PSMB9/TAP1, and DPA1/DPB2 loci), Chr.1q32 (CFHR3/R1 locus), and Chr.22q12 (HORMAD2 locus). These IgAN loci are associated with risk of other immune-mediated disorders such as type I diabetes, multiple sclerosis, or inflammatory bowel disease. We tested association of these loci in eight new independent cohorts of Asian, European, and African-American ancestry (N = 4,789), followed by meta-analysis with risk-score modeling in 12 cohorts (N = 10,755) and geospatial analysis in 85 world populations. Four susceptibility loci robustly replicated and all five loci were genome-wide significant in the combined cohort (P = 5×10−32–3×10−10), with heterogeneity detected only at the PSMB9/TAP1 locus (I2 = 0.60). Conditional analyses identified two new independent risk alleles within the HLA-DQB1/DRB1 locus, defining multiple risk and protective haplotypes within this interval. We also detected a significant genetic interaction, whereby the odds ratio for the HORMAD2 protective allele was reversed in homozygotes for a CFHR3/R1 deletion (P = 2.5×10−4). A seven–SNP genetic risk score, which explained 4.7% of overall IgAN risk, increased sharply with Eastward and Northward distance from Africa (r = 0.30, P = 3×10−128). This model paralleled the known East–West gradient in disease risk. Moreover, the prediction of a South–North axis was confirmed by registry data showing that the prevalence of IgAN–attributable kidney failure is increased in Northern Europe, similar to multiple sclerosis and type I diabetes. Variation at IgAN susceptibility loci correlates with differences in disease prevalence among world populations. These findings inform genetic, biological, and epidemiological investigations of IgAN and permit cross-comparison with other complex traits that share genetic risk loci and geographic patterns with IgAN. 相似文献
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The exposure of developing thymocytes to high-affinity self-Ag results in T cell tolerance. A predominant mechanism for this is clonal deletion; though receptor editing, anergy induction, and positive selection of regulatory T cells have also been described. It is unclear what signals are involved in determining different tolerance mechanisms. In particular, OT-I mice displayed receptor editing when the high-affinity self-Ag was expressed in cortical epithelial cells (cEC) using the human keratin 14 promoter. To test the hypothesis that receptor editing is a consequence of a unique instruction given by cEC presenting self-Ag, we created mice expressing the 2C and HY ligands under control of the keratin 14 promoter. Alternatively, we studied the fate of developing T cells in OT-I mice where Ag was presented by all thymic APC. Surprisingly, we found that the tolerance mechanism was not influenced by the APC subset involved in presentation. Clonal deletion was observed in 2C and HY models even when Ag was presented only by cEC; and receptor editing was observed in OT-I mice even when Ag was presented by all thymic APC. These results suggest that different TCRs show intrinsic differences in thymic tolerance mechanism. 相似文献