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Jiawang Tao Yan Chen Yuanqi Zhuang Ruzhi Wei Anteneh Getachew Tingcai Pan Fan Yang Yinxiong Li 《Current issues in molecular biology》2022,44(2):470
Liver regeneration is a complicated biological process orchestrated by various liver resident cells. Hepatic cell proliferation and reconstruction of the hepatic architecture involve multiple signaling pathways. It has been reported that the Hh signal is involved in liver regeneration. However, the signal transduction pathways and cell types involved are ill studied. This study aimed to investigate hedgehog signal response cell types and the specific molecular mechanism involved in the process of liver regeneration. Partial hepatectomy (PH) of 70% was performed on ICR (Institute of Cancer Research) mice to study the process of liver regeneration. We found that the hedgehog signal was activated significantly after PH, including hedgehog ligands, receptors and intracellular signaling molecules. Ligand signals were mainly expressed in bile duct cells and non-parenchymal hepatic cells, while receptors were expressed in hepatocytes and some non-parenchymal cells. Inhibition of the hedgehog signal treated with vismodegib reduced the liver regeneration rate after partial hepatectomy, including inhibition of hepatic cell proliferation by decreasing Cyclin D expression and disturbing the cell cycle through the accumulation of Cyclin B. The current study reveals the important role of the hedgehog signal and its participation in the regulation of hepatic cell proliferation and the cell cycle during liver regeneration. It provides new insight into the recovery of the liver after liver resection. 相似文献
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Migone FF Ren Y Cowan RG Harman RM Nikitin AY Quirk SM 《Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000)》2012,50(1):28-40
The role of hedgehog (HH) signaling in reproductive tract development was studied in mice in which a dominant active allele of the signal transducer smoothened (SmoM2) was conditionally expressed in the Müllerian duct and ovary. Mutant females are infertile, primarily because they fail to ovulate. Levels of mRNA for targets of HH signaling, Gli1, Ptch1, and Hhip, were elevated in reproductive tracts of 24-day-old mutant mice, confirming overactivation of HH signaling. The tracts of mutant mice developed abnormally. The uterine luminal epithelium had a simple columnar morphology in control mice, but in mutants contained stratified squamous cells typical of the cervix and vagina. In mutant mice, the number of uterine glands were reduced and the oviducts were not coiled. Expression of genes within the Hox and Wnt families that regulate patterning of the reproductive tract were altered. Hoxa13, which is normally expressed primarily in the vagina and cervix, was expressed at 12-fold higher levels in the uterus of mutant mice compared with controls. Wnt5a, which is required for development of the cervix and vagina and postnatal differentiation of the uterus, was expressed at higher levels in the oviduct and uterus of mutant mice compared with controls. Mating mutant females with fertile or vasectomized males induced a severe inflammatory response in the tract. In summary, overactivation of HH signaling causes aberrant development of the reproductive tract. The phenotype observed could be mediated by ectopic expression of Hoxa13 in the uterus and elevated levels of Wnt5a in the oviducts and uterus. 相似文献
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Identification of new potential inhibitors against Hedgehog pathway activator protein Smoothened (SMO) is considered to be of higher importance to improvise the future cancer therapeutics. Different SMO inhibitors/drugs (e.g. Cyclopamine, Vismodegib, Taladegib) used till date are found to be associated with several drug-related resistivity and toxicity. To explore the ability of new drug/inhibitor molecules, which can show better/similar binding and dynamic stability as compared to known inhibitors, virtual screening against SMO is performed followed by the comparative docking and molecular dynamic studies. ‘ZINC12368305’ is found to be the best molecule among the entire data-set, as it shows the highest binding affinity and stable conformations. Here, an integrative approach using Dynamic Graph Theory is introduced to gain the molecular insights of the structural integrity of these protein complexes at the residue level by analyzing the corresponding Protein Contact Networks along the Molecular Dynamics trajectories. The study further focuses to understand the detailed binding mechanisms of available inhibitor/drug molecules along with the newly predicted molecule. It is observed that a unique big cluster of low fluctuating residues at the vicinity of the drug binding pocket of the SMO in ZINC12368305-bound complex is present and driving it toward a more stable region. A close inspection on this site reveals the presence of a stable Pi–Pi interaction between the pyrazole group-associated phenanthrene ring of ZINC12368305 and aromatic ring of Phe484 of SMO, which could be the potential factor of ZINC12368305 to create a more stable complex with SMO as compared to the other inhibitors. 相似文献
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The solitary (primary) cilium--a mechanosensory toggle switch in bone and cartilage cells 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Whitfield JF 《Cellular signalling》2008,20(6):1019-1024
Osteocytes and articular chondrocytes sense and respond to the strains imposed on bones and joints by various activities such as breathing and walking. This mechanoresponsiveness is needed to maintain bone and cartilage microstructure and strength. In bone the large number of osteocytes form a vast osteointernet in which the gap junctionally interconnected members are lodged in an extensive lacunocanalicular network. The much smaller number of articular chondrocytes are not interconnected in a chondrointernet. Instead, they are separately lodged in capsules called chondrons. While there are many possible strain-sensing devices, it now appears that the non-motile solitary (primary) cilia protruding like aerials from osteocytes (as well as osteoblasts) and chondrocytes are switches that when toggled by cyclical pulses of lacunocanalicular fluid or cartilage compression send signals such as Ca2+ surges into the cell to trigger a cascade of events that include appropriate gene activations to maintain and strengthen bone and cartilage. Moreover, the chondrocyte cilium with its Ihh(Indian hedgehog)-activated Smo receptor is a key player along with PTHrP in endochondral bone formation. 相似文献
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Rostral–caudal distribution of Emx1‐lineage stem/transit amplifying cells and lineage progression in embryonic cortex depend on hedgehog signaling
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Laura Lillien 《Developmental neurobiology》2014,74(11):1096-1109
Lineage progression of neural precursors to an EGF‐responsive state can be promoted by several extrinsic signals, including fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) and Hedgehog (Hh). It has been suggested that EGF‐responsive precursors in the embryonic cerebral cortex originate in the ventral telencephalon in an FGF‐dependent manner and migrate dorsally. To determine whether cortical EGF‐responsive cells originate locally from dorsal precursors, we marked these precursors using Emx1‐cre and the cre reporter Z/EG and observed a local origin for EGF‐responsive cells. We also found a rostral–caudal difference in the abundance of self‐renewing, neurogenic Emx1‐lineage precursors, with more present rostrally. Deleting the Hh receptor smoothened in Emx‐1 lineage cells impaired their progression to an EGF‐responsive state. Moreover, loss of smoothened increased the proportion of neurogenic, self‐renewing Emx1‐lineage cells in caudal regions of cortex, eliminating their asymmetric distribution. Our results support the idea that Hh signaling promotes lineage progression of stem/transit amplifying cells, particularly in caudal regions of the embryonic cortex, leading to rostral–caudal differences in the abundance of neurogenic, self‐renewing precursors.© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Develop Neurobiol 74: 1096–1109, 2014 相似文献
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Saccoglossus kowalevskii (the acorn worm) is a hemichordate belonging to the superphylum of deuterostome bilateral animals. Hemichordates are sister group to echinoderms, and closely related to chordates. S. kowalevskii has chordate like morphological traits and serves as an important model organism, helping developmental biologists to understand the evolution of the central nervous system (CNS). Despite being such an important model organism, the signalling system repertoire of the largest family of integral transmembrane receptor proteins, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is largely unknown in S. kowalevskii. Here, we identified 260 unique GPCRs and classified as many as 257 of them into five main mammalian GPCR families; Glutamate (23), Rhodopsin (212), Adhesion (18), Frizzled (3) and Secretin (1). Despite having a diffuse nervous system, the acorn worm contains well conserved orthologues for human Adhesion and Glutamate family members, with a similar N-terminal domain architecture. This is particularly true for genes involved in CNS development and regulation in vertebrates. The average sequence identity between the GPCR orthologues in human and S. kowalevskii is around 47%, and this is same as observed in couple of the closest vertebrate relatives, Ciona intestinalis (41%) and Branchiostoma floridae (~ 47%). The Rhodopsin family has fewer members than vertebrates and lacks clear homologues for 6 of the 13 subgroups, including olfactory, chemokine, prostaglandin, purine, melanocyte concentrating hormone receptors and MAS-related receptors. However, the peptide and somatostatin binding receptors have expanded locally in the acorn worm. Overall, this study is the first large scale analysis of a major signalling gene superfamily in the hemichordate lineage. The establishment of orthologue relationships with genes involved in neurotransmission and development of the CNS in vertebrates provides a foundation for understanding the evolution of signal transduction and allows for further investigation of the hemichordate neurobiology. 相似文献
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Cancer development is a multiple-step process involving many cell types including cancer precursor cells, immune cells, fibroblasts and endothelial cells. Each type of cells undergoes signaling and functional changes during carcinogenesis. The current challenge for many cancer researchers is to dissect these changes in each cell type during the multiple-step process in vivo. In the last few years, the authors have developed a set of procedures to isolate different cell populations during skin cancer development using K14creER/R26-SmoM2YFP mice. The procedure is divided into 6 parts: 1) generating appropriate mice for the study (K14creER+ and R26-SmoM2YFP+ mice in this protocol); 2) inducing SmoM2YFP expression in mouse skin; 3) preparing mouse skin biopsies; 4) isolating epidermis from skin; 5) preparing single cells from epidermis; 6) labeling single cell populations for flow cytometry analysis. Generation of sufficient number of mice with the right genotype is the limiting step in this protocol, which may take up to two months. The rest of steps take a few hours to a few days. Within this protocol, we also include a section for troubleshooting. Although we focus on skin cancer, this protocol may be modified to apply for other animal models of human diseases. 相似文献