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Jesús Arellano Filiberto Vázquez Thelma Villegas Georgina Hernández 《Plant cell reports》1996,15(7):455-458
Summary The sesquiterpene quinone currently known as perezone is abundantly produced by the roots of Perezia cuernavacana. This compound is of biotechnological interest since it may be used as a pigment and has several pharmacological properties. In this work we demonstrate that perezone is also produced in transformed root cultures of P. cuernavacana. Hairy roots were induced by inoculation of internodal segments of sterile plants of P. cuernavacana with Agrobacterium rhizogenes AR12 strain. The axenic liquid MS medium cultures of the hairy roots isolated from the internodes showed active growth in the absence of growth regulators. The transformed nature of the tissue was confirmed by genomic integration (PCR and slot blot hybridization) and expression (enzyme activity) of the marker gus-gene. The production of perezone by a transformed root culture was evidenced by IR spectroscopy. Our results offer an alternative for enhanced production of perezone and represent an advantage over its extraction from natural plant populations which present problems in their agronomic culture. 相似文献
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Enrique Ambrocio-Ortiz Gloria Prez-Rubio Alejandra Ramírez-Venegas Rafael de Jesús Hernndez-Zenteno Armando Paredes-Lpez Raúl H. Sansores María Elena Ramírez-Díaz Filiberto Cruz-Vicente María de Lourdes Martínez-Gmez Ramcs Falfn-Valencia 《Current issues in molecular biology》2021,43(2):887
Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an inflammatory disease characterized by airflow obstruction, commonly present in smokers and subjects exposed to noxious particles product of biomass-burning smoke (BBS). Several association studies have identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in coding genes related to the heat shock proteins family-genes that codify the heat shock proteins (Hsp). Hsp accomplishes critical roles in regulating immune response, antigen-processing, eliminating protein aggregates and co-activating receptors. The presence of SNPs in these genes can lead to alterations in immune responses. We aimed to evaluate the association of SNPs in the HSP90 gene complex and COPD. Methods: We enrolled 1549 participants, divided into two comparison groups; 919 tobacco-smoking subjects (cases COPD-TS n = 294 and, controls SWOC n = 625) and 630 chronic exposed to BBS (cases COPD-BBS n = 186 and controls BBES n = 444). We genotyped 2 SNPs: the rs13296 in HSP90AB1 and rs2070908 in HSP90B1. Results: Through the dominant model (GC + CC), the rs2070908 is associated with decreased risk (p < 0.01, OR = 0.6) to suffer COPD among chronic exposed BBS subjects. We found an association between rs13296 GG genotype and lower risk (p = 0.01, OR = 0.22) to suffer severe COPD-TS forms in the severity analysis. Conclusions: single-nucleotide variants in the HSP90AB1 and HSP90B1 genes are associated with decreased COPD risk in subjects exposed to BBS and the most severe forms of COPD in tobacco-smoking subjects. 相似文献
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) act as subcellular messengers in such complex cellular processes as mitogenic signal transduction, gene expression, regulation of cell proliferation, replicative senescence, and apoptosis. They serve to maintain cellular homeostasis and their production is under strict control. However, the mechanisms whereby ROS act are still obscure. Here we review recent advances in our understanding of signaling mechanisms and recent data about the involvement of ROS in: (i) the regulation of the mitogenic transduction elements, particularly protein kinases and phosphatases; (ii) the regulation of gene expression; and (iii) the induction of replicative senescence and the role, if any, in aging and age-related disorders. 相似文献
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Esposito F Chirico G Montesano Gesualdi N Posadas I Ammendola R Russo T Cirino G Cimino F 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2003,278(23):20828-20834
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) participate as second messengers in the mitogenic signal transduction. Most of the experimental data supporting the role of ROS as signaling molecules have been obtained by using H2O2. Exposure of cells to H2O2 rapidly increases tyrosine phosphorylation of tyrosine kinase receptors (TKRs) in the absence of growth factor binding, thus inducing the activation of downstream signaling cascades, like that of protein kinase B (AKT). Another molecule able to induce an increase of intracellular ROS levels is diethylmaleate (DEM), which acts by depleting the ROS scavenger reduced glutathione (GSH). A comparison of the effects exerted by H2O2 and DEM shows that the latter induces redox modifications milder than those generated by H2O2. We also demonstrated that DEM-induced redox modifications are not accompanied by platelet-derived growth factor-receptor (PDGF-R) and epidermal growth factor-receptor Tyr phosphorylation, although they are able to activate ERKs and AKT, with kinetics different from those observed following H2O2 treatment. The activation of these two pathways is not blocked by AG1296, a selective inhibitor of PDGF-R Tyr kinase, thus confirming that the effects of DEM are not mediated by the TKR phosphorylation. On the contrary, PP2 (4-amino-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-7-(t-butyl)pyrazole[3,4-d]pyrimidine), an inhibitor of Src kinase, completely prevents DEM- and H2O2-induced AKT activation but has no effect on the pathway of ERKs. Finally, nitration of Tyr residues in PDGF-R is observed in DEM-treated cells, thus suggesting that ROS-induced modifications different from Tyr phosphorylation can occur at the growth factor-receptor level and can be involved in the regulation of signaling pathways. 相似文献
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D. Pimentel S. Cooperstein H. Randell D. Filiberto S. Sorrentino B. Kaye C. Nicklin J. Yagi J. Brian J. O’Hern A. Habas C. Weinstein 《Human ecology: an interdisciplinary journal》2007,35(6):653-668
The World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations report that the prevalence of human diseases during the past decade
is rapidly increasing. Population growth and the pollution of water, air, and soil are contributing to the increasing number
of human diseases worldwide. Currently an estimated 40% of world deaths are due to environmental degradation. The ecology
of increasing diseases has complex factors of environmental degradation, population growth, and the current malnutrition of
about 3.7 billion people in the world. 相似文献
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Amanda C Filiberto Matthew A Maccani Devin Koestler Charlotte Wilhelm-Benartzi Michele Avissar-Whiting Carolyn E Banister Luc A Gagne Carmen J Marsit 《Epigenetics》2011,6(5):566-572
Birthweight has been associated with a number of health outcomes throughout life. Crucial to proper infant growth and development is the placenta, and alterations to placental gene function may reflect differences in the intrauterine environment which functionally contribute to infant growth and may ultimately affect the child''s health. To examine if epigenetic alteration to the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene was linked to infant growth, we analyzed 480 human placentas for differential methylation of the GR gene exon 1F and examined how this variation in methylation extent was associated with fetal growth. Multivariable linear regression revealed a significant association (p < 0.0001) between differential methylation of the GR gene and large for gestational age (LGA) status. Our work is one of the first to link infant growth as a measure of the intrauterine environment and epigenetic alterations to the GR and suggests that DNA methylation may be a critical determinant of placental function.Key words: DNA methylation, placenta, fetal development, birthweight, epigenetics 相似文献
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Bevilacqua MA Iovine B Zambrano N D'Ambrosio C Scaloni A Russo T Cimino F 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2005,280(36):31809-31817
Cells undergoing replicative senescence display an altered pattern of gene expression. Senescent fibroblasts show significant changes in the expression of mRNAs encoding extracellular matrix-remodeling proteins; among these mRNAs, the mRNA encoding fibromodulin is highly decreased in these cells. To understand the molecular basis of this phenomenon, we explored the regulatory mechanisms of the human fibromodulin gene. We found that fibromodulin gene promoter contains a cis-element, crucial for its basal expression, that forms a DNA-protein complex when exposed to nuclear extracts from exponentially growing human fibroblasts and not to extracts from cells undergoing senescence by repeated in vitro passages or by mild oxidative stress. The purification of this complex showed that it contains the damage-specific DNA-binding protein DDB-1. The latter is known to be induced by UV irradiation; therefore we checked whether fibromodulin gene promoter is regulated upon the exposure of the cells to UV rays. The results showed that, in exponentially growing fibroblasts, the promoter efficiency is increased by UV irradiation and the DDB-1-containing complex is robustly enriched in cells exposed to UV light. Accordingly, in these experimental conditions the endogenous fibromodulin mRNA accumulates to very high levels. On the contrary, senescent cells did not show any activation of the fibromodulin gene promoter, any induction of the DDB-1-containing complex, or any accumulation of fibromodulin mRNA. These phenomena are accompanied in senescent cells by a decrease of the UV-damaged DNA binding activity. 相似文献
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Modified peptides in anti-cancer vaccines: are we eventually improving anti-tumour immunity? 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Iero M Filipazzi P Castelli C Belli F Valdagni R Parmiani G Patuzzo R Santinami M Rivoltini L 《Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII》2009,58(7):1159-1167
The discovery of tumour antigens recognized by T cells and the features of immune responses directed against them has paved
the way to a multitude of clinical studies aimed at boosting anti-tumour T cell immunity as a therapeutic tool for cancer
patients. One of the different strategies explored to ameliorate the immunogenicity of tumour antigens in vaccine protocols
is represented by the use of optimized peptides or altered peptide ligands, whose amino acid sequence has been modified for
improving HLA binding or TCR interaction with respect to native epitopes. However, despite the promising results achieved
with preclinical studies, the clinical efficacy of this approach has not yet met the expectations. Although multiple reasons
could explain the relative failure of altered peptide ligands as more effective cancer vaccines, the possibility that T cells
primed by modified tumour peptides might may be unable to effectively cross-recognize tumour cells has not been sufficiently
addressed. Indeed, the introduction of conservative amino acid substitutions may still produce diverse and unpredictable changes
in the HLA/peptide interface, with consequent modifications of the TCR repertoire that can interact with the complex. This
could lead to the expansion of a broad array of T cells whose TCRs may not necessarily react with equivalent affinity with
the original antigenic epitope. Considering the results presently achieved with this vaccine approach, and the emerging availability
of alternative strategies for boosting anti-tumour immunity, the use of modified tumour peptides could be reconsidered.
This article is a symposium paper from the conference “Immunotherapy—From Basic Research to Clinical Applications”, Symposium
of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 685, held in Tübingen, Germany, 6–7 March 2008. 相似文献
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Ochoa-Leyva A Barona-Gómez F Saab-Rincón G Verdel-Aranda K Sánchez F Soberón X 《Journal of molecular biology》2011,405(1):143-157
Cellulosomes are large extracellular multi-enzyme complexes that exhibit elevated activity on plant cell-wall polysaccharides. In the present study, the relationships between the conformational flexibility and efficacy of cellulosomes, and the inter-modules linkers of their scaffold protein were investigated. For this purpose, the length of the intrinsically disordered Ser/Thr-rich 50-residue linker connecting a Clostridium thermocellum and a Clostridium cellulolyticum cohesin in a hybrid scaffoldin (Scaf4) was changed by sequences ranging from 4 to 128 residues. The composition was also modified and new linkers composed of series of N, S or repeats of the EPPV motif were generated. Two model cellulases (Cel48F and Cel9G) appended with appropriate dockerins were subsequently bound to the engineered scaffoldins. All the resulting minicomplexes displayed the same activity on crystalline cellulose as the complex based on the initial Scaf4, and were found to be 2-fold more active than Cel48F and Cel9G bound to separate cohesins. Small-angle X-ray scattering assays of the engineered scaffoldins confirmed, however, that the size and the conformational flexibility of some of the new inter-cohesins linkers differed significantly from that of the initial 50 residue linker displayed by the parental Scaf4. Our data suggest that the synergy induced by proximity does not require a specific inter-cohesins sequence or distance. The present study reveals that complexation onto the hybrid scaffoldins modifies the type of soluble sugars released from crystalline cellulose by the selected cellulases, compared to the free enzyme system. 相似文献