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In vitro fertilization has overcome infertility issues for many couples. However, achieving implantation of a viable embryo into the maternal endometrium remains a limiting step in optimizing pregnancy success. The molecular mechanisms which characterize the transient state of endometrial receptivity, critical in enabling embryo‐endometrial interactions, and proteins which underpin adhesion at the implantation interface, are limited in humans despite these temporally regulated processes fundamental to life. Hence, failure of implantation remains the “final frontier” in infertility. A human coculture model is utilized utilizing spheroids of a trophectoderm (trophoblast stem) cell line, derived from pre‐implantation human embryos, and primary human endometrial epithelial cells, to functionally identify “fertile” versus “infertile” endometrial epithelium based on adhesion between these cell types. Quantitative proteomics identified proteins associated with human endometrial epithelial receptivity (“epithelial receptome”) and trophectoderm adhesion (“adhesome”). As validation, key “epithelial receptome” proteins (MAGT‐1/CDA/LGMN/KYNU/PC4) localized to the epithelium of receptive phase (mid‐secretory) endometrium obtained from fertile, normally cycling women but is largely absent from non‐receptive (proliferative) phase tissues. Factors involved in embryo‐epithelium interaction in successive temporal stages of endometrial receptivity and implantation are demonstrated and potential targets for improving fertility are provided, enhancing potential to become pregnant either naturally or in a clinical setting. 相似文献
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Susan Michie Stephen Pilling Philippa Garety Paula Whitty Martin P Eccles Marie Johnston Jemma Simmons 《Implementation science : IS》2007,2(1):1-8
Background
Monitoring and Messaging Devices (MMDs) are telehealth systems used by patients in their homes, and are designed to promote patient self-management, patient education, and clinical monitoring and follow-up activities. Although these systems have been widely promoted by health care systems, including the Veterans Health Administration, very little information is available on factors that facilitate use of the MMD system, or on barriers to use.Methods
We conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with clinicians using MMD-based telehealth programs at two Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in the Midwestern United States.Results
Findings suggest that MMD program enrollment is limited by both clinical and non-clinical factors, and that patients have varying levels of program participation and system use. Telehealth providers see MMDs as a useful tool for monitoring patients who are interested in working on management of their disease, but are concerned with technical challenges and the time commitment required to use MMDs.Conclusion
Telehealth includes a rapidly evolving and potentially promising range of technologies for meeting the growing number of patients and clinicians who face the challenges of diabetes care, and future research should explore the most effective means of ensuring successful program implementation. 相似文献5.
Martin FL Kelly JG Llabjani V Martin-Hirsch PL Patel II Trevisan J Fullwood NJ Walsh MJ 《Nature protocols》2010,5(11):1748-1760
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy of intact cells results in a fingerprint of their biochemistry in the form of an IR spectrum; this has given rise to the new field of biospectroscopy. This protocol describes sample preparation (a tissue section or cytology specimen), the application of IR spectroscopy tools, and computational analysis. Experimental considerations include optimization of specimen preparation, objective acquisition of a sufficient number of spectra, linking of the derived spectra with tissue architecture or cell type, and computational analysis. The preparation of multiple specimens (up to 50) takes 8 h; the interrogation of a tissue section can take up to 6 h (~100 spectra); and cytology analysis (n = 50, 10 spectra per specimen) takes 14 h. IR spectroscopy generates complex data sets and analyses are best when initially based on a multivariate approach (principal component analysis with or without linear discriminant analysis). This results in the identification of class clustering as well as class-specific chemical entities. 相似文献
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Influence of surface shape on DNA binding of bimetallo helicates 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Peberdy JC Malina J Khalid S Hannon MJ Rodger A 《Journal of inorganic biochemistry》2007,101(11-12):1937-1945
In order to probe the DNA-helicate interactions responsible for the DNA binding and remarkable changes of the DNA secondary structure induced by a tetracationic bi-metallo helicate [Fe(2)(L(1))(3)](4+) (L(1)=C(25)H(20)N(4)), we have designed and synthesised derivatives with hydrophobic methyl groups at different positions on the ligand backbone. Two dimetallo helicates [Fe(2)(L(i))(3)](4+) were prepared using ligands L(3) and L(5) with the methyl substituent on, respectively, the 3 and 5 positions of the pyridyl ring thus producing a wider or slightly longer tetracationic DNA binder. UV/visible absorbance, circular and linear dichroism spectroscopies have been used to characterize the interactions of the cylinders with DNA with the aim of investigating any sequence preference or selectivity upon binding. Competitive binding studies using fluorescent dyes Hoechst 33258 (a minor groove binder), ethidium bromide (an intercalator) and a major groove binding cation (cobalt (III) hexammine) which induces the B-->Z transition have been employed to determine the binding geometries of the enantiomers of two methylated helicates (L(3) and L(5)) to DNA and compare with the data obtained previously for the unmethylated analogue (L(1)). The results demonstrate that the racemic mixtures and the resolved enantiomers of all helicates bind to DNA inducing structural changes. The overall conclusion from the effect of adding these groups to the surface of the parent helicate is that increasing the width (L(3)) reduces the DNA binding strength, the bending and coiling effect and the groove selectivity of the enantiomers compared with the parent compound. There is limited evidence to suggest a slight GC sequence preference. Lengthening the helicate (L(5)) results in DNA interactions similar to those of the parent compounds, with an increased preference of the P enantiomer for the minor groove indicating an enhancement of mode selectivity. 相似文献
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An integrative approach combining ion mobility mass spectrometry,X-ray crystallography,and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study the conformational dynamics of α1-antitrypsin upon ligand binding
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Mun Peak Nyon Tanya Prentice Jemma Day John Kirkpatrick Ganesh N Sivalingam Geraldine Levy Imran Haq James A Irving David A Lomas John Christodoulou Bibek Gooptu Konstantinos Thalassinos 《Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society》2015,24(8):1301-1312
Native mass spectrometry (MS) methods permit the study of multiple protein species within solution equilibria, whereas ion mobility (IM)-MS can report on conformational behavior of specific states. We used IM-MS to study a conformationally labile protein (α1-antitrypsin) that undergoes pathological polymerization in the context of point mutations. The folded, native state of the Z-variant remains highly polymerogenic in physiological conditions despite only minor thermodynamic destabilization relative to the wild-type variant. Various data implicate kinetic instability (conformational lability within a native state ensemble) as the basis of Z α1-antitrypsin polymerogenicity. We show the ability of IM-MS to track such disease-relevant conformational behavior in detail by studying the effects of peptide binding on α1-antitrypsin conformation and dynamics. IM-MS is, therefore, an ideal platform for the screening of compounds that result in therapeutically beneficial kinetic stabilization of native α1-antitrypsin. Our findings are confirmed with high-resolution X-ray crystallographic and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic studies of the same event, which together dissect structural changes from dynamic effects caused by peptide binding at a residue-specific level. IM-MS methods, therefore, have great potential for further study of biologically relevant thermodynamic and kinetic instability of proteins and provide rapid and multidimensional characterization of ligand interactions of therapeutic interest.PDB Code(s): 4PYW 相似文献
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A palaeoecological investigation into the role of fire and human activity in the development of montane grasslands in East Africa 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Human activity has been widely implicated in the origin and expansion of montane grasslands in East Africa, yet little palaeoecological
evidence exists to test whether these grasslands are natural or secondary. Pollen and charcoal data derived from two Holocene
records in the Eastern Arc mountains of Tanzania are used as a case study to investigate the supposed secondary nature of
montane grasslands in Africa. Fossil pollen data are used to detect vegetation change, and charcoal analysis is used to reconstruct
fire history. The pollen data are characterised by stable proportions of local taxa suggesting permanence of grasslands throughout
the past ~13,000 years. Recent increases in fire adapted taxa such as Morella point towards the development of a grassland/forest patch mosaic possibly associated with burning. However, robust evidence
of human activity is absent from the records, which may be attributed to the late human occupation of the mountains. The records
indicate long-term persistence of grasslands which, coupled with a lack of evidence of human activity, suggests that these
grasslands are not secondary. These data support the hypothesis that grasslands are an ancient and primary component of montane
vegetation in Africa, but that they experienced some expansion during the late Holocene as a result of changing fire regime. 相似文献
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Large-scale candidate gene analysis of HDL particle features 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Kaess BM Tomaszewski M Braund PS Stark K Rafelt S Fischer M Hardwick R Nelson CP Debiec R Huber F Kremer W Kalbitzer HR Rose LM Chasman DI Hopewell J Clarke R Burton PR Tobin MD Hengstenberg C Samani NJ 《PloS one》2011,6(1):e14529
Background
HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) is an established marker of cardiovascular risk with significant genetic determination. However, HDL particles are not homogenous, and refined HDL phenotyping may improve insight into regulation of HDL metabolism. We therefore assessed HDL particles by NMR spectroscopy and conducted a large-scale candidate gene association analysis.Methodology/Principal Findings
We measured plasma HDL-C and determined mean HDL particle size and particle number by NMR spectroscopy in 2024 individuals from 512 British Caucasian families. Genotypes were 49,094 SNPs in >2,100 cardiometabolic candidate genes/loci as represented on the HumanCVD BeadChip version 2. False discovery rates (FDR) were calculated to account for multiple testing. Analyses on classical HDL-C revealed significant associations (FDR<0.05) only for CETP (cholesteryl ester transfer protein; lead SNP rs3764261: p = 5.6*10−15) and SGCD (sarcoglycan delta; rs6877118: p = 8.6*10−6). In contrast, analysis with HDL mean particle size yielded additional associations in LIPC (hepatic lipase; rs261332: p = 6.1*10−9), PLTP (phospholipid transfer protein, rs4810479: p = 1.7*10−8) and FBLN5 (fibulin-5; rs2246416: p = 6.2*10−6). The associations of SGCD and Fibulin-5 with HDL particle size could not be replicated in PROCARDIS (n = 3,078) and/or the Women''s Genome Health Study (n = 23,170).Conclusions
We show that refined HDL phenotyping by NMR spectroscopy can detect known genes of HDL metabolism better than analyses on HDL-C. 相似文献10.
Lefman J Zhang P Hirai T Weis RM Juliani J Bliss D Kessel M Bos E Peters PJ Subramaniam S 《Journal of bacteriology》2004,186(15):5052-5061
Electron tomography is a powerful method for determining the three-dimensional structures of large macromolecular assemblies, such as cells, organelles, and multiprotein complexes, when crystallographic averaging methods are not applicable. Here we used electron tomographic imaging to determine the molecular architecture of Escherichia coli cells engineered to overproduce the bacterial chemotaxis receptor Tsr. Tomograms constructed from fixed, cryosectioned cells revealed that overproduction of Tsr led to formation of an extended internal membrane network composed of stacks and extended tubular structures. We present an interpretation of the tomogram in terms of the packing arrangement of Tsr using constraints derived from previous X-ray and electron-crystallographic studies of receptor clusters. Our results imply that the interaction between the cytoplasmic ends of Tsr is likely to stabilize the presence of the membrane networks in cells overproducing Tsr. We propose that membrane invaginations that are potentially capable of supporting axial interactions between receptor clusters in apposing membranes could also be present in wild-type E. coli and that such receptor aggregates could play an important role in signal transduction during bacterial chemotaxis. 相似文献