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Mutations in the Notch3 gene are the cause of the autosomal dominant disorder CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy). The CADASIL is an adult-onset neurologic disorder (average age of onset is 45 years) characterized by recurrent strokes and dementia. Clinical features combined with cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), showing a diffuse leukoencephalopathy with subcortical infarcts in the basal ganglia and white matter, are highly contributive to the diagnosis. We present a Turkish family with CADASIL, in which 12 individuals in four generations were affected showing the typical clinical features of recurrent strokes. Mutation analysis of the Notch3 receptor gene identified the recently described R90C mutation in the N-terminal part of the gene in affected individuals. Interestingly, migraine without aura was found as an initial symptom of the disease in two young mutation carriers (22 and 25 years, respectively), who did not show any additional clinical features or any MRI abnormalities. This indicates that migraine without aura in the absence of MRI abnormalities may represent an early initial symptom of CADASIL, which is difficult to diagnose in the absence of molecular diagnosis. Therefore, the used molecular screening method for Notch3 mutations provides a rapid and accurate diagnostic tool in addition to the standard diagnostic procedures.
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- U Utku
- Department of Neurology, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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Joutel A, Favrole P, Labauge P, Chabriat H, Lescoat C, Andreux F, Domenga V, Cécillon M, Vahedi K, Ducros A, Cave-Riant F, Bousser MG, Tournier-Lasserve E. Skin biopsy immunostaining with a Notch3 monoclonal antibody for CADASIL diagnosis. Lancet 2001; 358:2049-51. [PMID: 11755616 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)07142-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy) is a small-artery disease of the brain caused by NOTCH3 mutations that lead to an abnormal accumulation of NOTCH3 within the vasculature. We aimed to establish whether immunostaining skin biopsy samples with a monoclonal antibody specific for NOTCH3 could form the basis of a reliable and easy diagnostic test. We compared the sensitivity and specificity of this method in two groups of patients suspected of having CADASIL with complete scanning of mutation-causing exons of NOTCH3 (in a retrospective series of 39 patients) and with limited scanning of four exons that are mutation hotspots (prospective series of 42 patients). In the retrospective series skin biopsy was positive in 21 (96%) of the 22 CADASIL patients examined and negative in all others; in the prospective series, seven of the 42 patients had a positive skin biopsy whereas only four had a mutation detected by limited NOTCH3 scanning. Our immunostaining technique is highly sensitive (96%) and specific (100%) for diagnosis of CADASIL.
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- A Joutel
- INSERM EPI 99-21, Faculté de Médecine Lariboisière, 10 Avenue de Verdun, 75010, Paris, France.
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de Freitas GR, Miklossy J, Christen-Zäch S, Reichhart M, Bogousslavsky J. A CADASIL case with normal skin biopsy and without mutations in exons 3 and 4 of the Notch3 gene. J Neurol Sci 2001; 193:43-7. [PMID: 11718749 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(01)00579-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The diagnosis of cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is usually confirmed by genetic testing or skin biopsy. We here report the case of a 69-year-old woman with recurrent transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and strokes, seizures, and dementia without any mutations in exons 3 and 4 of the Notch3 gene and with a normal skin biopsy, but who showed characteristic CADASIL abnormalities on brain pathological examination. Our findings suggest that negative results in these two tests do not exclude the disease and a leptomeningeal biopsy or a second skin biopsy should be considered in such cases.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Biopsy
- Brain/pathology
- Brain/ultrastructure
- Cerebral Arteries/pathology
- Cerebral Arteries/ultrastructure
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/genetics
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/pathology
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Female
- Humans
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/pathology
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/ultrastructure
- Mutation/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Notch
- Skin/pathology
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- G R de Freitas
- Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, CH1011, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Folliculogenesis is the process of development of ovarian follicles that ultimately results in the release of fertilizable oocytes at ovulation. This is a complex program that involves the proliferation and differentiation of granulosa cells. Granulosa cells are necessary for follicle growth and support the oocyte during folliculogenesis. Genes that regulate the proliferation and differentiation of granulosa cells are beginning to be elucidated. In this study, the expression patterns of Notch receptor genes and their ligands, which have been shown to regulate cell-fate decisions in many systems during development, were examined in the mammalian ovary. In situ hybridization data showed that Notch2, Notch3, and Jagged2 were expressed in an overlapping pattern in the granulosa cells of developing follicles. Jagged1 was expressed in oocytes exclusively. Downstream target genes of Notch also were expressed in granulosa cells. These data implicate the Notch signaling pathway in the regulation of mammalian folliculogenesis.
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- J Johnson
- Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1501, USA
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Mutations in NOTCH3 are the cause of cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), a hereditary angiopathy causing stroke and vascular dementia. All CADASIL mutations identified so far result in the loss or gain of one cysteine residue within epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like repeat domains. Here an in-frame deletion causing a loss of three cysteine residues within EGF repeat 6 is reported. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that the change toward an odd number of cysteine residues within a given EGF repeat and therefore an unpaired, reactive cysteine residue is the common and critical molecular event in CADASIL.
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- M Dichgans
- Department of Neurology, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
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Hematopoietic development is a delicate balance of cell fate decisions in multipotent cells between self-renewal and differentiation. In multiple developmental systems, the Notch receptors are important factors regulating these processes. Hematopoietic progenitor cells have been shown to express Notch1, and studies with an activated intracellular form has revealed a functional role. To assess the function of other Notch members in hematopoiesis, we investigated the expression pattern of Notch1, Notch2, and Notch3 in hematopoietic lineages at the level of RNA and protein. We demonstrate that Notch1 and Notch2 are expressed in multiple lineages, and that Notch1 in particular appears to be regulated during myeloid differentiation. Notch1 was up-regulated and expressed at high levels in adherent macrophages. Mast cells expressed only low levels of Notch1 mRNA whereas Notch2 mRNA was highly expressed. In addition we could detect Notch3 mRNA and protein in cell lines representing mast cell progenitors. These expression patterns imply that the different Notch genes may have very distinct functions during hematopoiesis, and that Notch3 could be a specific regulator of mast cell development. The finding that Notch1 was up-regulated in the adherent cells developing from a multipotent progenitor cell line suggests that this protein may posses dual functions in hematopoiesis, i.e. at the stage of cell fate decision, and at the maturation stage of monocytes when adhesion to the specific microenvironment is accomplished.
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- J I Jönsson
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, University Hospital MAS, Malmö, Sweden.
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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare hereditary disease characterized by recurrent transient ischemic attacks (TIA) and strokes, and vascular dementia with Notch3 gene mutations as the cause of the disease. To date, there are only a few Japanese families ever reported with a mutation in the gene. Here, we report two more Japanese CADASIL families carrying a missense mutation in the Notch3 gene (R141C) with a unique lesion in the corpus callosum. This is the first report of two unrelated Japanese CADASIL families with a R141C mutation in the Notch3 gene. Although the disease is very rare among the Japanese population, our result suggests a possible relationship of this particular mutation (R141C) with the lesions of the corpus callosum.
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- T Murakami
- Department of Neurology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry
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- F C Luft
- Franz-Volhard-Klinik, Humboldt University of Berlin, Wiltbergstrasse 50, 13125 Berlin-Buch, Germany.
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Finnilä S, Tuisku S, Herva R, Majamaa K. A novel mitochondrial DNA mutation and a mutation in the Notch3 gene in a patient with myopathy and CADASIL. J Mol Med (Berl) 2001; 79:641-7. [PMID: 11715067 DOI: 10.1007/s001090100268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2001] [Accepted: 07/02/2001] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is characterized by cerebral symptoms, but peripheral nerve or muscle involvement has not been reported. We describe a patient who had a stereotypic clinical presentation of CADASIL and, in addition, myopathy with ragged-red fibers, suggesting a mitochondrial disorder. Therefore we determined the nucleotide sequence in the entire coding region of the patient's mtDNA by conformation-sensitive gel electrophoresis and sequencing. Sequence of the exon 4 in the Notch3 gene was determined in a similar fashion. We found that the patient had myopathy with ragged-red fibers, and ultrastructural examination revealed mitochondrial aberrations. CADASIL was due to an R133C mutation in Notch3; in addition, we found a novel mutation 5650G>A in the tRNAAla gene in mtDNA. The mutation was heteroplasmic, with the proportions of the mutant genome being 99% in muscle, 96% in the buccal epithelium, 95% in the skin, and 65% in the blood. The absence of the mutation in a maternal cousin four times removed indicated that it was new in the pedigree. We suggest that the mtDNA mutation is pathogenic, as it was associated with a relevant clinical phenotype, it was not found among controls, and it altered a structurally important segment in the amino acid acceptor stem in the tRNAAla. Furthermore, its absence in nine patients from five families with R133C suggests that its relationship with the Notch3 mutation is coincidental.
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- S Finnilä
- Department of Neurology, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, 90014 Oulu, Finland
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de la Peña P, Bornstein B, del Hoyo P, Fernández-Moreno MA, Martín MA, Campos Y, Gómez-Escalonilla C, Molina JA, Cabello A, Arenas J, Garesse R. Mitochondrial dysfunction associated with a mutation in the Notch3 gene in a CADASIL family. Neurology 2001; 57:1235-8. [PMID: 11591842 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.57.7.1235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cerebral autosomal arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is characterized by recurrent subcortical ischemic strokes and dementia caused by mutations in the Notch3 gene. In Drosophila melanogaster, Notch signaling has a pleiotropic effect, affecting most tissues of the organism during development. OBJECTIVE To characterize a potential mitochondrial dysfunction associated with mutations in the Notch3 gene. METHODS Biochemical, histochemical, molecular, and genetic analyses were performed on muscle biopsy specimens and fibroblasts obtained from patients of a Spanish family with CADASIL. Additional biochemical and molecular analyses of the N(55e11) mutant of D. melanogaster were performed. RESULTS In muscle biopsy specimens, a significant decrease was found in the activity of complex I (NADH [reduced form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide] dehydrogenase), and in one patient, histochemical analysis showed the presence of ragged-red fibers with abnormal cytochrome c oxidase staining. Reduced fibroblast activity of complex V (ATP synthase) was found. Supporting data on patients with CADASIL, it was found that the mutation N(55e11) in Drosophila decreases the activity of mitochondrial respiratory complexes I and V. CONCLUSIONS Mitochondrial respiratory chain activity responds, directly or indirectly, to the Notch signaling pathway. Mitochondrial dysfunction in patients with CADASIL may be an epiphenomenon, but results of this study suggest that the pathophysiology of the disease could include a defect in oxidative phosphorylation.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/genetics
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/metabolism
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/pathology
- Electron Transport/genetics
- Electron Transport Complex I
- Electron Transport Complex IV/analysis
- Family Health
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mitochondria/enzymology
- Mitochondrial Myopathies/genetics
- Mitochondrial Myopathies/metabolism
- Mitochondrial Myopathies/pathology
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/enzymology
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/pathology
- Muscle, Skeletal/enzymology
- Muscle, Skeletal/pathology
- Mutation
- NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases/metabolism
- Pedigree
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Notch
- Succinate Dehydrogenase/metabolism
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- P de la Peña
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols" CSIC-UAM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare hereditary stroke disease. In the present study, a Japanese CADASIL family was first reported with missense mutation of Arg141Cys of Notch3 and a unique lesion of corpus callosum. Upon neuropsychological examination, our case 1 showed only right-handed constructional apraxia associated with corpus callosum lesion. No other callosal disconnection signs were present. Sagittal T2 weighted image of case 1 showed multiple small lesions along with the pericallosal branches from the truncus to the posterior part of the splenium in the corpus callosum. Although detailed mapping of the corpus callosum for functional fractionation in humans remains incomplete, the constructional apraxia on the right may be related to callosal dysfunction from the truncus to the posterior part of the splenium in the corpus callosum.
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- K Iwatsuki
- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama University, Japan
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Chuah TL, Tan KM, Tan SM, Flanagan S, Hyland V, Sullivan AA, Henderson R, MacMillan J, Lander C. CADASIL (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leucoencephalopathy): an Australian perspective. J Clin Neurosci 2001; 8:404-6. [PMID: 11535004 DOI: 10.1054/jocn.2000.0848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leucoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a recently described cause of stroke or stroke-like episodes. It is caused by mutations in the Notch3 gene on chromosome 19p. We sought to demonstrate mutations of the Notch3 gene in Australian patients suspected of having CADASIL. Patients from several families were referred to the study. A diagnosis was determined clinically and by neuroimaging. Those suspected of having CADASIL had sequencing of exons 3 and 4 of the Notch3 gene. Eight patients, two of whom were siblings, were suspected of having CADASIL. Five patients (including the siblings) had mutations. Because of strong clustering of Notch3 mutations in CADASIL, this has potential as a reliable test for the disease in Australian patients.
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- T L Chuah
- Department of Neurology, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia
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Oliveri RL, Muglia M, De Stefano N, Mazzei R, Labate A, Conforti FL, Patitucci A, Gabriele AL, Tagarelli G, Magariello A, Zappia M, Gambardella A, Federico A, Quattrone A. A novel mutation in the Notch3 gene in an Italian family with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy: genetic and magnetic resonance spectroscopic findings. Arch Neurol 2001; 58:1418-22. [PMID: 11559313 DOI: 10.1001/archneur.58.9.1418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a hereditary syndrome caused by mutations of the Notch3 gene, usually localized to exons 3 and 4. OBJECTIVES To report a novel pathogenetic mutation occurring in exon 6 of the Notch3 gene, a location not previously recognized in patients with CADASIL, and to report the results of magnetic resonance spectroscopy in CADASIL. METHODS Mutation analysis of the Notch3 gene was performed in 2 patients belonging to a large kindred manifesting CADASIL, as well as in 7 clinically unaffected members of the family and 200 control chromosomes. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to estimate metabolite resonance intensities in the 2 affected subjects. RESULTS Sequence analysis of the Notch3 gene showed a new missense mutation CGC-->TGC in codon 332 of exon 6, resulting in the replacement of an arginine residue with a cysteine. This mutation was never observed in the 7 unaffected members of the family and the 200 control chromosomes examined. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy showed a diffuse decrease in cerebral N-acetylaspartate, indicating the presence of widespread axonal damage. CONCLUSIONS Our findings emphasize the role of direct DNA sequence analysis for the diagnosis of CADASIL. Moreover, the results of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy suggest that widespread axonal damage may be an early finding of the disease.
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- R L Oliveri
- Institute of Neurology, University Magna Graecia, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
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Tuominen S, Juvonen V, Amberla K, Jolma T, Rinne JO, Tuisku S, Kurki T, Marttila R, Pöyhönen M, Savontaus ML, Viitanen M, Kalimo H. Phenotype of a homozygous CADASIL patient in comparison to 9 age-matched heterozygous patients with the same R133C Notch3 mutation. Stroke 2001; 32:1767-74. [PMID: 11486103 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.32.8.1767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE CADASIL is an autosomal dominant arteriopathy, characterized by multiple brain infarcts, cognitive decline, and finally dementia, which is caused by mutations in Notch3 gene encoding a Notch3 receptor protein. We describe the clinical, neuropsychological, imaging, genetic, and skin biopsy findings in a CADASIL patient homozygous for the C475T mutation resulting in R133C amino acid substitution, in comparison to 9 age-matched heterozygous patients with the same mutation. METHODS The patients were examined clinically and neuropsychologically and with MRI and positron emission tomography for assessment of cerebral blood flow. The gene defect was analyzed by sequencing the products of polymerase chain reaction of exons 3 and 4 of the Notch3 gene. Dermal arteries were analyzed electron microscopically. RESULTS The homozygous patient had his first-ever stroke at age 28 years. This is markedly earlier than the average, but the patient's heterozygous son had his first transient ischemic attack-like episode at the same age and another heterozygous patient had his first-ever stroke when only 2 years older. He was neuropsychologically more severely deteriorated than all but 1 of the heterozygous patients. These 2 patients had the most severe (confluent grade D) white matter MRI changes. Positron emission tomography showed markedly reduced cerebral blood flow. Skin biopsy revealed profuse deposits of granular osmiophilic material. The progression of disease in the homozygous case was, however, slower than in the most severely affected heterozygous patient. CONCLUSIONS Our homozygous patient's phenotype is within the clinical spectrum of CADASIL, although at its severe end. Thus, CADASIL may follow the classic definition of a dominant disease, according to which the heterozygous and homozygous patients are clinically indistinguishable.
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- S Tuominen
- Department of Neurology, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Finland
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Faux CH, Turnley AM, Epa R, Cappai R, Bartlett PF. Interactions between fibroblast growth factors and Notch regulate neuronal differentiation. J Neurosci 2001; 21:5587-96. [PMID: 11466430 PMCID: PMC6762663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023] Open
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The differentiation of precursor cells into neurons has been shown to be influenced by both the Notch signaling pathway and growth factor stimulation. In this study, the regulation of neuronal differentiation by these mechanisms was examined in the embryonic day 10 neuroepithelial precursor (NEP) population. By downregulating Notch1 expression and by the addition of a Delta1 fusion protein (Delta Fc), it was shown that signaling via the Notch pathway inhibited neuron differentiation in the NEP cells, in vitro. The expression of two of the Notch receptor homologs, Notch1 and Notch3, and the ligand Delta1 in these NEP cells was found to be influenced by a number of different growth factors, indicating a potential interaction between growth factors and Notch signaling. Interestingly, none of the growth factors examined promoted neuron differentiation; however, the fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) 1 and 2 potently inhibited differentiation. FGF1 and FGF2 upregulated the expression of Notch and decreased expression of Delta1 in the NEP cells. In addition, the inhibitory response of the cells to the FGFs could be overcome by downregulating Notch1 expression and by disrupting Notch cleavage and signaling by the ablation of the Presenilin1 gene. These results indicate that FGF1 and FGF2 act via the Notch pathway, either directly or indirectly, to inhibit differentiation. Thus, signaling through the Notch receptor may be a common regulator of neuronal differentiation within the developing forebrain.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blood Proteins/pharmacology
- Cell Count
- Cell Differentiation/drug effects
- Cell Differentiation/physiology
- Cells, Cultured
- Down-Regulation
- Fibroblast Growth Factor 1
- Fibroblast Growth Factor 2/metabolism
- Fibroblast Growth Factor 2/pharmacology
- Fibroblast Growth Factors/metabolism
- Fibroblast Growth Factors/pharmacology
- Gene Expression/drug effects
- Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments/genetics
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Membrane Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- Membrane Proteins/deficiency
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Membrane Proteins/pharmacology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Neurons/cytology
- Neurons/metabolism
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology
- Presenilin-1
- Protein Binding/physiology
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism
- Receptor, Notch1
- Receptor, Notch2
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptor, Notch4
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism
- Receptors, Notch
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Stem Cells/cytology
- Stem Cells/drug effects
- Stem Cells/metabolism
- Transcription Factors
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- C H Faux
- The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria 3050, Australia
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Broadley SA, Sawcer SJ, Chataway SJ, Coraddu F, Coles A, Gray J, Roxburgh R, Clayton D, Compston DA. No association between multiple sclerosis and the Notch3 gene responsible for cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL). J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2001; 71:97-9. [PMID: 11413271 PMCID: PMC1737440 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.71.1.97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The clinical and radiological overlap between multiple sclerosis and cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL; MIM 125310) raises the possibility of diagnostic confusion and suggests that pleiotropic effects of the Notch3 gene might include influencing susceptibility to multiple sclerosis. To investigate these possibilities three microsatellites markers closely flanking the Notch 3 gene in 745 simplex families with multiple sclerosis were genotyped and exon 3 and exon 4 of the gene were directly sequenced in a subset of the index members from these families (n=93). No evidence for association was found in any of the three markers and none of the commoner mutations causing CADASIL were found in the sequenced patients.
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- S A Broadley
- University of Cambridge Neurology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, UK
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Kotorii S, Takahashi K, Kamimura K, Nishio T, Arima K, Yamada H, Uyama E, Uchino M, Suenaga A, Matsumoto M, Kuchel G, Rouleau GA, Tabira T. Mutations of the notch3 gene in non-caucasian patients with suspected CADASIL syndrome. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2001; 12:185-93. [PMID: 11244211 DOI: 10.1159/000051256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The Notch3 gene has been recently identified as a causative gene for cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL). To investigate the genetic contribution of Notch mutations in familial cases with vascular leukoencephalopathy, we screened 13 patients from 11 unrelated families, which were selected on the basis of magnetic resonance imaging findings and positive family history. We identified three different missense mutations in 5 patients from 4 families. Two (Arg90Cys and Arg133Cys) are the same as previously reported in Caucasian patients, the other (Cys174Phe) is a novel mutation causing a loss of a cysteine in epidermal-growth-factor-like repeats of Notch3. These data indicate that the CADASIL Notch3 mutations were found in approximately 35% of familial cases with leukoencephalopathy, suggesting genetic heterogeneity of the disease.
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- S Kotorii
- Department of Demyelinating Disease and Aging, National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan
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Arcos-Burgos OM, Restrepo Arango T, Rivera Valencia D, Palacio LG, Castañeda M, Palacio O, Arboleda Velázquez J, Lopera Restrepo F. [Vascular hereditary dementia CADASIL type in Colombia. III. Linkage analysis to notch3 gene]. Rev Neurol 2001; 32:701-4. [PMID: 11391502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To perform linkage analysis between the Short Tandem Repeats (STR) microsatellite markers D19S923, D19S929, D19S22, which are in strong genetic linkage to Notch3 gene in order to contrast the hypothesis that the vascular hereditary dementia phenotype described in a multigenerational extended pedigree from Colombia correspond to CADASIL (Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy). Even we know that using techniques as the Single Strand Conformational Polymorphisms (SSCP) could determine mutations in Notch3, the rationality of this approach is that intronic variations could not be defined and that we are interested in determine if some forms of the clinical presentation and its phenotypic variability make part of CADASIL. INTRODUCTION The CADASIL phenotype is caused by mutations in the Notch3 gene. Clinical features of CADASIL are: 1. Recurrent cerebra-vascular episodes; 2. Migraine history; 3. History of transitory ischemic attack and, 4. Behavior changes and dementia. MATERIAL AND METHODS By using SIMLINK we showed that the extended genealogy had the enough power to detect significant LOD (logarithm of oods) score values when Notch3 was considered the disorder cause. Linkage analysis was carried out by using parametric and non parametrical methods. The Elston-Stewart general method was used as the parametrical analysis and the sib pair method as the non-parametrical one. We perform simulations changing the affection status codification by including as affected or not including those individuals with migraine. Furthermore, in order to detect the stability of the results, we changed the penetrance values, the genetic frequencies on both, the marker loci and the affection locus. RESULTS The maximum pair-wise LOD score was 2.04 which was detected at the marker D19S23 with q= 0.11cM. This distance correspond exactly with the Notch3 location. That is 100 times more probable that there is linkage that there is not. In other words this probability could be explained as if the phenotype correspond to CADASIL than to other vascular dementia. The non parametric results were compatibles with the parametric ones. When the migraine symptom was considered as a part of the affected status, the LOD score values showed not linkage. CONCLUSIONS The results of the linkage analysis to these STR microsatellite markers suggest that the vascular hereditary dementia phenotype described in this family correspond to CADASIL caused by a polymorphism on the Notch3 gene. On the contrary, these same results suggest that the migraine phenotype is not a part of the progressive dementia.
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- O M Arcos-Burgos
- Grupo Genética Poblaciones y Epidemología Genética; Universidad de Antioquía. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Depart. Biología, Medellín, Antioquía, Colombia.
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Oberstein SA, Bakker E, Ferrari MD, Haan J. [From gene to disease; from Notch3 to cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy]. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 2001; 145:359-60. [PMID: 11257815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy' (CADASIL) is an autosomal dominant inherited arteriopathy leading to brain infarcts and dementia at middle age with extensive cerebral white matter changes on MRI. CADASIL is caused by mutations in the Notch3 gene on chromosome 19.
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MESH Headings
- Cerebral Infarction/etiology
- Cerebral Infarction/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19/genetics
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/complications
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/diagnosis
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/epidemiology
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/genetics
- Genes, Dominant
- Humans
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Netherlands/epidemiology
- Point Mutation/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Notch
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- S A Oberstein
- Afd. Klinische Genetica, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Postbus 9600, 2300 RC Leiden.
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Lopera F, Rivera N, Arboleda J, Restrepo T, Arcos-Burgos M. [Analysis of complex segregation in a large family with hereditary cerebrovascular disease in Antioquia, Colombia]. Rev Neurol 2001; 32:222-5. [PMID: 11310272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Among different kinds of cerebrovascular diseases, few of them are caused by genetic disturbances, such as CADASIL (caused by Notch3 mutations), CARASIL, mitochondrial encephalopathy, MELAS and dementia typed Binswanger. However, to describe these type of cerebrovascular diseases related with genetic mutations could permit to determinate the causes of both hereditary and sporadic cerebrovascular diseases and then lead solutions. OBJECTIVE To describe the genetic, environmental and cohort factors that determinate the presence of many affected people by a several cerebrovascular diseases in the pedigree of a large family from Antioquia (Colombia). PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed one pedigree (268 individuals), through singular recruit and then complex segregation analysis with POINTER program. RESULTS The model that more close to data is autosomal dominant mayor locus without influence of environmental factors. Frequency of allele of susceptibility to develop stroke or subcortical vascular dementia was 0.0006. Mayor gene is over epistatic effects or interactions with other gene. CONCLUSIONS Described an autosomal dominant hereditary model through complex segregation analysis in a pedigree of patients with hereditary cerebral vascular diseases characterized by recurrent strokes, early onset subcortical dementia, hearing loss, antecedent of migraine and MRI signal abnormalities, subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy. In this family the parameter calculated, autosomal dominant model, and clinical feature strongly support the diagnostic of CADASIL, linkage analysis and sequentiation will be performed to determinate if mutant gene is Notch3.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Age of Onset
- Aged
- Alleles
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Chromosome Segregation
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/epidemiology
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/genetics
- Epistasis, Genetic
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Hearing Loss, Sensorineural/epidemiology
- Hearing Loss, Sensorineural/genetics
- Humans
- Infant
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Migraine Disorders/epidemiology
- Migraine Disorders/genetics
- Models, Genetic
- Pedigree
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/deficiency
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Notch
- Stroke/epidemiology
- Stroke/genetics
- Syndrome
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- F Lopera
- Universidad de Antioquia, Programa de Neurociencias, Colombia
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Pfefferkorn T, von Stuckrad-Barre S, Herzog J, Gasser T, Hamann GF, Dichgans M. Reduced cerebrovascular CO(2) reactivity in CADASIL: A transcranial Doppler sonography study. Stroke 2001; 32:17-21. [PMID: 11136908 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.32.1.17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a hereditary angiopathy caused by mutations in Notch3. Cerebral microvessels show an accumulation of granular osmiophilic material in the vicinity of degenerating vascular smooth muscle cells. To study cerebrovascular function in CADASIL, we performed measurements on cerebral hemodynamics by using transcranial Doppler sonography. METHODS Middle cerebral artery (MCA) mean blood flow velocity (MFV), cerebrovascular CO(2) reactivity, and the resistance index were measured by bilateral transcranial Doppler sonography in 29 CADASIL individuals (mean age, 49.0+/-2.4 years) and an equal number of age- and sex-matched control subjects. RESULTS Compared with control subjects, CO(2) reactivity was reduced in CADASIL (33.4+/-2.7% versus 45.3+/-3.0%; P:<0.01). This difference remained significant when only nondisabled CADASIL individuals (Rankin=0, n=21) were included in the analysis (P:<0.05). CO(2) reactivity was significantly lower in disabled than in nondisabled CADASIL individuals (24.5+/-2.7% versus 36.8+/-3.4%; P:<0.05). MCA MFV was reduced in CADASIL (45.6+/-2.2 cm/s versus 54.2+/-2.4 cm/s; P:<0.05) and correlated negatively with age both in affected individuals (r=-0.314; P:<0.05) and control subjects (r=-0.339; P:<0.05). Resistance index was not significantly altered (59.0+/-1.0% versus 57.7+/-1.2%; P:=0.42). CONCLUSIONS In CADASIL, there is a reduction of both CO(2) reactivity and basal MCA MFV. The reduced CO(2) reactivity suggests functional impairment of cerebral vasoreactivity probably related to vascular smooth muscle cell dysfunction. The reduction of CO(2) reactivity in nondisabled CADASIL individuals suggests an early role of impaired cerebral vasoreactivity in the evolution of the disease.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Blood Flow Velocity
- Carbon Dioxide/metabolism
- Cerebrovascular Circulation
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/diagnostic imaging
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/genetics
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/metabolism
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/physiopathology
- Female
- Humans
- Hypercapnia/metabolism
- Hypocapnia/metabolism
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Middle Cerebral Artery/diagnostic imaging
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/physiopathology
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Notch
- Ultrasonography, Doppler, Transcranial
- Vascular Resistance
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- T Pfefferkorn
- Department of Neurology, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Fryxell KJ, Soderlund M, Jordan TV. An animal model for the molecular genetics of CADASIL. (Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy). Stroke 2001; 32:6-11. [PMID: 11136906 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.32.1.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy) is an inherited condition that causes repeated small-scale strokes in adults. CADASIL is caused only by mutations in the human NOTCH3 gene that increase or decrease the number of cysteines within the epidermal growth factor (EGF) repeats of the NOTCH3 protein. Drosophila: lethal-Abruptex is a similar condition because it is also caused only by mutations that increase or decrease the number of cysteines within the EGF repeat portion of the Notch protein. SUMMARY OF COMMENT Drosophila: lethal-Abruptex and human CADASIL are precisely analogous at the molecular level, and both are genetically dominant. These precise similarities, together with the fact that the structure and function of Notch has been highly conserved throughout the animal kingdom, provide an animal model for the molecular and genetic aspects of human CADASIL. It also provides support for Spinner's proposal that CADASIL results from dominant inhibition of the Notch pathway. CONCLUSIONS Because the phenotypes of Notch mutations are cell-autonomous, the symptoms of CADASIL indicate that adult vascular smooth muscle cells require the continuing function of the NOTCH3 pathway in the adult. For this reason, further analysis of the NOTCH3 pathway may provide more general insights into the biology of vascular smooth muscle cells. In the case of CADASIL, the powerful genetic tools available in Drosophila: should help to facilitate future research.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Anura
- Arteries/metabolism
- Arteries/pathology
- Arterioles/metabolism
- Arterioles/pathology
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Division/genetics
- Collagen/metabolism
- Cysteine/genetics
- Cysteine/metabolism
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/genetics
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/metabolism
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/pathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Drosophila melanogaster/genetics
- Epidermal Growth Factor/genetics
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Lethal
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Mice
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/pathology
- Mutation
- Myosins/metabolism
- Nerve Fibers, Myelinated/pathology
- Organ Specificity/genetics
- Phenotype
- Protein Structure, Tertiary/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptor, Notch4
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Notch
- Signal Transduction/genetics
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- K J Fryxell
- Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.
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Lågas PA, Juvonen V. Schizophrenia in a patient with cerebral autosomally dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy (CADASIL disease). Nord J Psychiatry 2001; 55:41-2. [PMID: 11827605 DOI: 10.1080/080394801750093724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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CADASIL is an autosomally dominantly inherited multi-infarct dementia caused by mutations in the Notch3 gene in chromosome 19. In this report we present the first patient in the world literature with CADASIL and schizophrenia and discuss the co-occurrence of these conditions in the light of the literature.
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- P A Lågas
- Psychiatric Unit, Vasa Central Hospital, FI-65320 Vasa, Finland
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Escary JL, Cecillon M, Maciazek J, Lathrop M, Tournier-Lasserve E, Joutel A. Mutational analysis of GLUT1 (SLC2A1) in glut-1 deficiency syndrome; dong wang; pamela kranz-eble; darryl C. De vivo; (Article was originally published in human mutation 16:224-231, 2000). Hum Mutat 2000; 16:527. [PMID: 11102982 DOI: 10.1002/1098-1004(200012)16:6<518::aid-humu9>3.0.co;2-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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An error was made in the reproduction of Figure 2. Therefore, the corrected version is being reprinted here.
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- JL Escary
- Centre National de Genotypage, Evry, France
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- R Grigg
- Genomics Research Centre, School of Health Science, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4217
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Wang T, Sharma SD, Fox N, Rossor M, Brown MJ, Sharma P. Description of a simple test for CADASIL disease and determination of mutation frequencies in sporadic ischaemic stroke and dementia patients. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2000; 69:652-4. [PMID: 11032621 PMCID: PMC1763386 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.69.5.652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare inherited adult onset disease characterised most commonly by cerebral ischaemic events and dementia. It is caused by mutations in the Notch3 gene with most clustering in exons 3 and 4. Whether these mutations have any influence on common sporadic ischaemic stroke or dementia cases has not been investigated, partly hampered by the lack of a readily usable genetic test. An easy to use diagnostic array for CADASIL was designed using various restriction endonucleases for the known mutations in exons 3 and 4 and novel mismatch primers were designed where no such enzymes existed. This array was used to identify the allele frequencies of CADASIL mutations and polymorphisms in selected disease cohorts. Seventy patients with radiologically established sporadic ischaemic stroke and 77 patients from a specialist young dementia clinic were recruited. One hundred and seventeen age and sex matched asymptomatic controls were also identified. The diagnostic array was found to work well. None of the 14 known mutations and three previously identified polymorphisms (C474A, A587G, and C594A) in exons 3 and 4 were present in 140 stroke, 110 dementia, or 234 control chromosomes. Molecular variant C381T occurred with a higher frequency of 0.13, whereas G684A occurred with a lower frequency (0.09) than previously reported, although there were no statistical differences between selected cohorts. In conclusion, a readily usable genetic test for CADASIL has been devised that was used to determine allele frequencies in well characterised cohorts of sporadic stroke and dementia patients. The data suggest that despite the clinical resemblance, CADASIL is not a common masquerading cause of stroke or dementia. The test will enable units locally to rapidly screen patients with suspected CADASIL.
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- T Wang
- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
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OBJECTIVE More than 80 unrelated, but all Caucasian, patients with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), originating from various communities around the world, have been molecularly identified. To clarify the occurrence of CADASIL in Orientals, we investigated Japanese families presenting as CADASIL. METHODS We performed the PCR-SSCP and sequence analyses using genomic DNA, isolated from venous blood of participants under informed consent. PATIENTS We identified two unrelated Japanese families with CADASIL, including 5 affected members through 2 generations. RESULTS Each of the affected individuals developed recurrent strokes without risk factors resulting in progressive dementia, pseudobulbar palsy, and gait disturbances which started after the fifth decade of life. Although affected individuals had no vascular risk factors, they showed various degrees of narrowing of retinal arteries. Their MRI/CTs showed characteristics of the disease; bilateral small infarcts in the thalamus, basal ganglia, brain stem, and deep white matter in addition to the findings of leukoaraiosis. On SPECT imaging, there was severe hypoperfusion in the cortex as well as in the white matter. Ultrastructural studies revealed an abnormal deposition of granular osmiophilic materials (GOM) within the basal lamina of pericytes in muscular capillaries. On PCR-SSCP and sequence analyses, a heterozygous Arg133Cys mutation was present, in the affected individuals, in the exon 4 of Notch3 gene which is the hot spot region for CADASIL mutations in Caucasian families. None of the non-affected members nor the 50 Japanese normal controls revealed this mutation. CONCLUSION Thus, our results confirm that CADASIL is a geographically widespread disorder caused by a Notch3 mutation.
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- E Uyama
- Department of Neurology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine
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Dang TP, Gazdar AF, Virmani AK, Sepetavec T, Hande KR, Minna JD, Roberts JR, Carbone DP. Chromosome 19 translocation, overexpression of Notch3, and human lung cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 2000; 92:1355-7. [PMID: 10944559 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/92.16.1355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
MESH Headings
- Adult
- Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/genetics
- Carcinoma, Small Cell/genetics
- Chromosome Mapping/methods
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Karyotyping
- Lung Neoplasms/genetics
- Mesothelioma/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism
- Receptors, Notch
- Translocation, Genetic
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Up-Regulation
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- T P Dang
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Experimental Therapeutics Program, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN 37232-6838, USA
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Bellavia D, Campese AF, Alesse E, Vacca A, Felli MP, Balestri A, Stoppacciaro A, Tiveron C, Tatangelo L, Giovarelli M, Gaetano C, Ruco L, Hoffman ES, Hayday AC, Lendahl U, Frati L, Gulino A, Screpanti I. Constitutive activation of NF-kappaB and T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in Notch3 transgenic mice. EMBO J 2000; 19:3337-48. [PMID: 10880446 PMCID: PMC313949 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.13.3337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The multiplicity of Notch receptors raises the question of the contribution of specific isoforms to T-cell development. Notch3 is expressed in CD4(-)8(-) thymocytes and is down-regulated across the CD4(-)8(-) to CD4(+)8(+) transition, controlled by pre-T-cell receptor signaling. To determine the effects of Notch3 on thymocyte development, transgenic mice were generated, expressing lck promoter-driven intracellular Notch3. Thymuses of young transgenics showed an increased number of thymocytes, particularly late CD4(-)8(-) cells, a failure to down-regulate CD25 in post-CD4(-)8(-) subsets and sustained activity of NF-kappaB. Subsequently, aggressive multicentric T-cell lymphomas developed with high penetrance. Tumors sustained characteristics of immature thymocytes, including expression of CD25, pTalpha and activated NF-kappaB via IKKalpha-dependent degradation of IkappaBalpha and enhancement of NF-kappaB-dependent anti-apoptotic and proliferative pathways. Together, these data identify activated Notch3 as a link between signals leading to NF-kappaB activation and T-cell tumorigenesis. The phenotypes of pre-malignant thymocytes and of lymphomas indicate a novel and particular role for Notch3 in co-ordinating growth and differentiation of thymocytes, across the pre-T/T cell transition, consistent with the normal expression pattern of Notch3.
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- Animals
- Apoptosis/physiology
- Base Sequence
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- Cell Survival
- DNA Primers
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- I-kappa B Proteins
- Leukemia, T-Cell/metabolism
- Leukemia, T-Cell/pathology
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/metabolism
- Lymphoma, T-Cell/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- NF-KappaB Inhibitor alpha
- NF-kappa B/antagonists & inhibitors
- NF-kappa B/metabolism
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/physiology
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptor, Notch4
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/physiology
- Receptors, Notch
- Thymus Gland/pathology
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- D Bellavia
- Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology, University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
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Joutel A, Chabriat H, Vahedi K, Domenga V, Vayssière C, Ruchoux MM, Lucas C, Leys D, Bousser MG, Tournier-Lasserve E. Splice site mutation causing a seven amino acid Notch3 in-frame deletion in CADASIL. Neurology 2000; 54:1874-5. [PMID: 10802807 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.9.1874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- A Joutel
- INSERM U25, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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Ceroni M, Poloni TE, Tonietti S, Fabozzi D, Uggetti C, Frediani F, Simonetti F, Malaspina A, Alimonti D, Celano M, Ferrari M, Carrera P. Migraine with aura and white matter abnormalities: Notch3 mutation. Neurology 2000; 54:1869-71. [PMID: 10802804 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.54.9.1869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The authors report on an Italian family with eight affected members who show autosomal dominant migraine with prolonged visual, sensory, motor, and aphasic aura. These symptoms are associated with white matter abnormalities on brain MRI. All living affected members carry a Notch3 mutation (Arg153Cys) previously reported in cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL). White matter abnormalities occur in a variable percentage of the general migraine population; CADASIL should be suspected in migraineurs with prolonged atypical aura and white matter abnormalities.
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- M Ceroni
- Istituto Neurologico IRCCS C. Mondino, Pavia, Italy.
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OBJECTIVE Hematopoiesis is the process by which mature blood cell types are generated from a small population of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells. How these cells undergo fate selection, however, is not fully understood. The Notch signaling system is known to mediate cell fate decisions of multipotent precursors in a wide range of complex animals throughout development. As Notch signaling involves cell-cell interactions, we sought to determine the expression of Notch receptors, ligands, and regulators in individual cell populations along the hematopoietic differentiation pathway. MATERIALS Described here is a single cell RT-PCR analysis of Notch1, Notch3, Notch4, Notch ligands (Dll1 and Jagged1), and Fringe gene expression in cells of the blood system. As previously described, single cell globally amplified cDNA was generated by RT-PCR from various hematopoietic precursor cells whose potential was known from sibling analysis. A precursor hierarchy slot blot was created containing these cDNAs as well as samples from maturing blood cell populations and two fibroblast cell lines. The precursor slot blot was screened with probes for each of the candidate genes. RESULTS Macrophage precursors expressed high levels of Notch1 transcript, while maturing macrophages expressed high levels of both Notch1 and Notch4. The Jagged 1 ligand transcript was highly expressed in terminally maturing cells including mast cells and megakaryocytes. In contrast, the Manic Fringe gene was highly expressed in uncommitted bi- and tri-potential precursors as well as in committed neutrophil and macrophage precursors. CONCLUSIONS Distinct expression patterns of Jagged1 and Manic Fringe suggest that their corresponding proteins could regulate cell fate choices during hematopoiesis and may be responsible for regulating communication between lineage compartments during hematopoietic development.
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- N Singh
- Program in Cancer & Blood Research and, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Dichgans M, Ludwig H, Müller-Höcker J, Messerschmidt A, Gasser T. Small in-frame deletions and missense mutations in CADASIL: 3D models predict misfolding of Notch3 EGF-like repeat domains. Eur J Hum Genet 2000; 8:280-5. [PMID: 10854111 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy) is a hereditary microangiopathic condition causing stroke in young adults. The responsible gene has recently been identified as the Notch3 gene. Notch3 encodes a large transmembrane receptor with 34 extracellularly localised epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) repeat domains. We screened 71 unrelated CADASIL families for mutations in two exons coding for the first five EGF-like repeats and found mutations in 70% of the families (n = 50). Two types of mutations were identified: 48 families (96%) had missense mutations and two families (4%) had small in-frame deletions. Seven mutations occurred multiple times. All of them are C to T transitions that affect CpG dinucleotides, suggesting that their multiple occurrence is due to the hypermutability of this sequence. All mutations, including the two deletions, result in the gain or loss of a cysteine residue, thus substantiating the pivotal role of an uneven number of cysteine residues within EGF-like repeat domains of Notch3 in the pathogenesis of CADASIL. To study the potential effects of these mutations 3D homology models of the first six EGF domains were generated on the basis of NMR data from human fibrillin-1. These models predict domain misfolding for a subset of mutations.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- DNA/chemistry
- DNA/genetics
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/genetics
- Epidermal Growth Factor/genetics
- Family Health
- Humans
- Models, Molecular
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Mutation, Missense
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Protein Folding
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/chemistry
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Notch
- Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid
- Sequence Deletion
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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- M Dichgans
- Department of Neurology, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) often begins with migraine with aura. Recurrent strokes usually appear between 30 and 50 years of age. The arteriopathy develops slowly, resulting in destruction of smooth muscle cells and thickening and fibrosis of the walls of small and medium-sized penetrating arteries with consequent narrowing of the lumen. This impairs cerebral blood flow, visible in PET, and produces characteristic white-matter hyperintensities in T2-weighted MRI on the basis of which CADASIL may be diagnosed well before the first stroke. Multiple lacunar infarcts, mainly in the frontal white matter and basal ganglia, lead to progressive permanent brain damage manifested as cognitive decline and finally as dementia. At present, no specific therapy is available. Infarcts result from thickening and fibrosis of the walls of small and medium-sized penetrating arteries with consequent obliteration and/or thrombosis. Although the symptoms are almost exclusively neurological, the arteriopathy is generalized and diagnosis can be made on the basis of accumulation of pathognomonic basophilic, PAS-positive and in electron microscopy osmiophilic material between degenerating smooth muscle cells in dermal arteries. CADASIL is caused by missense point mutations in the Notch3 gene, which encodes a transmembrane receptor protein with an important signaling function during development. The gene defects lead to either a gain or loss of a cysteine residue in the extracellular N-terminal part of the molecule, most probably causing a conformational and functional alteration. The function of Notch3 in adults and the definite pathogenesis of CADASIL are still unknown, but interestingly its intramembranous proteolytic cleavage may be regulated or implemented by presenilin similarly as cleavage of amyloid precursor protein in Alzheimer's disease.
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- M Viitanen
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge Hospital, Sweden
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Joutel A, Dodick DD, Parisi JE, Cecillon M, Tournier-Lasserve E, Bousser MG. De novo mutation in the Notch3 gene causing CADASIL. Ann Neurol 2000; 47:388-91. [PMID: 10716263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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CADASIL, an autosomal dominant arteriopathy responsible for stroke and dementia, is caused by strongly stereotyped mutations in the Notch3 gene. We report a patient with a condition strongly suggestive of CADASIL (migraine, stroke, and white matter abnormalities), except that this patient did not have any first-degree relatives with similar symptoms. This patient carried a heterozygous Arg182Cys mutation in the Notch3 gene; this mutation was absent in his two biological parents. These data demonstrate the occurrence of a de novo noninherited mutation in the Notch3 gene, which indicates that CADASIL should not be rejected in the absence of a family history. Therefore, our finding suggests that CADASIL may be more frequent than anticipated.
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- A Joutel
- INSERM U25, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, and Hopital Lariboisière, Paris, France
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Joutel A, Andreux F, Gaulis S, Domenga V, Cecillon M, Battail N, Piga N, Chapon F, Godfrain C, Tournier-Lasserve E. The ectodomain of the Notch3 receptor accumulates within the cerebrovasculature of CADASIL patients. J Clin Invest 2000; 105:597-605. [PMID: 10712431 PMCID: PMC289174 DOI: 10.1172/jci8047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 391] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Mutations in Notch3 cause CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant adult onset arteriopathy), which leads to stroke and dementia in humans. CADASIL arteriopathy is characterized by major alterations of vascular smooth muscle cells and the presence of specific granular osmiophilic deposits. Patients carry highly stereotyped mutations that lead to an odd number of cysteine residues within EGF-like repeats of the Notch3 receptor extracellular domain. Such mutations may alter the processing or the trafficking of this receptor, or may favor its oligomerization. In this study, we examined the Notch3 expression pattern in normal tissues and investigated the consequences of mutations on Notch3 expression in transfected cells and CADASIL brains. In normal tissues, Notch3 expression is restricted to vascular smooth muscle cells. Notch3 undergoes a proteolytic cleavage leading to a 210-kDa extracellular fragment and a 97-kDa intracellular fragment. In CADASIL brains, we found evidence of a dramatic and selective accumulation of the 210-kDa Notch3 cleavage product. Notch3 accumulates at the cytoplasmic membrane of vascular smooth muscle cells, in close vicinity to but not within the granular osmiophilic material. These results strongly suggest that CADASIL mutations specifically impair the clearance of the Notch3 ectodomain, but not the cytosolic domain, from the cell surface.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Brain/blood supply
- Brain/pathology
- Cells, Cultured
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/genetics
- Dementia, Multi-Infarct/pathology
- Endopeptidases/metabolism
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Microscopy, Immunoelectron
- Middle Aged
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism
- Mutation
- Peptide Fragments/analysis
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism
- Receptors, Notch
- Transfection
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- A Joutel
- INSERM U25, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris 75730, France. Laboratoire de Cytogénétique, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris 75010, France.
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Shimizu K, Chiba S, Kumano K, Hosoya N, Takahashi T, Kanda Y, Hamada Y, Yazaki Y, Hirai H. Mouse jagged1 physically interacts with notch2 and other notch receptors. Assessment by quantitative methods. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:32961-9. [PMID: 10551863 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.46.32961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Delta/Serrate/LAG-2 (DSL) domain containing proteins are considered to be ligands for Notch receptors. However, the physical interaction between DSL proteins and Notch receptors is poorly understood. In this study, we cloned a cDNA for mouse Jagged1 (mJagged1). To identify the receptor interacting with mJagged1 and to gain insight into its binding characteristics, we established two experimental systems using fusion proteins comprising various extracellular parts of mJagged1, a "cell" binding assay and a "solid-phase" binding assay. mJagged1 physically bound to mouse Notch2 (mNotch2) on the cell surface and to a purified extracellular portion of mNotch2, respectively, in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. Scatchard analysis of mJagged1 binding to BaF3 cells and to the soluble Notch2 protein demonstrated dissociation constants of 0.4 and 0.7 nM, respectively, and that the number of mJagged1-binding sites on BaF3 is 5,548 per cell. Furthermore, deletion mutant analyses showed that the DSL domain of mJagged1 is a minimal binding unit and is indispensable for binding to mNotch2. The epidermal growth factor-like repeats of mJagged1 modulate the affinity of the interaction, with the first and second repeats playing a major role. Finally, solid-phase binding assay showed that Jagged1 binds to Notch1 and Notch3 in addition to Notch2, suggesting that mJagged1 is a ligand for multiple Notch receptors.
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- K Shimizu
- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8655 Japan
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Apelqvist A, Li H, Sommer L, Beatus P, Anderson DJ, Honjo T, Hrabe de Angelis M, Lendahl U, Edlund H. Notch signalling controls pancreatic cell differentiation. Nature 1999; 400:877-81. [PMID: 10476967 DOI: 10.1038/23716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 865] [Impact Index Per Article: 34.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The pancreas contains both exocrine and endocrine cells, but the molecular mechanisms controlling the differentiation of these cell types are largely unknown. Despite their endodermal origin, pancreatic endocrine cells share several molecular characteristics with neurons, and, like neurons in the central nervous system, differentiating endocrine cells in the pancreas appear in a scattered fashion within a field of progenitor cells. This indicates that they may be generated by lateral specification through Notch signalling. Here, to test this idea, we analysed pancreas development in mice genetically altered at several steps in the Notch signalling pathway. Mice deficient for Delta-like gene 1 (Dll1) or the intracellular mediator RBP-Jkappa showed accelerated differentiation of pancreatic endocrine cells. A similar phenotype was observed in mice over-expressing neurogenin 3 (ngn 3) or the intracellular form of Notch3 (a repressor of Notch signalling). These data provide evidence that ngn3 acts as proendocrine gene and that Notch signalling is critical for the decision between the endocrine and progenitor/exocrine fates in the developing pancreas.
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- A Apelqvist
- Department of Microbiology, University of Umeå, Sweden
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Felli MP, Maroder M, Mitsiadis TA, Campese AF, Bellavia D, Vacca A, Mann RS, Frati L, Lendahl U, Gulino A, Screpanti I. Expression pattern of notch1, 2 and 3 and Jagged1 and 2 in lymphoid and stromal thymus components: distinct ligand-receptor interactions in intrathymic T cell development. Int Immunol 1999; 11:1017-25. [PMID: 10383933 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/11.7.1017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The suggested role of Notch1 or its mutants in thymocyte differentiation and T cell tumorigenesis raises the question of how the different members of the Notch family influence distinct steps in T cell development and the role played by Notch ligands in the thymus. We report here that different Notch receptor-ligand partnerships may occur inside the thymus, as we observed differential expression of Notch1, 2 and 3 receptors, their ligands Jagged1 and 2, and downstream intracellular effectors hairy and Enhancer of Split homolog 1 (HES-1) and hairy and Enhancer of Split homolog 5 (HES-5), depending on ontogenetic stage and thymic cell populations. Indeed, while Jagged2 is expressed in both stromal cells and thymocytes, Jagged1 expression is restricted to stromal cells. Moreover, a differential distribution of Notch3, with respect to Notch1, was observed in distinct age-related thymocyte subsets. Finally, Notch3 was preferentially up-regulated in thymocytes, following the induction of their differentiation by interaction with thymic epithelial cells expressing the cognate Jagged1 and 2 ligands, suggesting that, besides Notch1, Notch3 may also be involved in distinct steps of thymocyte development. Our results suggest that the Notch signaling pathway is involved in a complex interplay of T cell developmental stages, as a consequence of the heterogeneity and specific expression of members of the Notch receptor family and their cognate ligands, in distinct thymic cell compartments.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
- Calcium-Binding Proteins
- Carrier Proteins/biosynthesis
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Carrier Proteins/physiology
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- DNA-Binding Proteins/biosynthesis
- Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs
- Homeodomain Proteins/biosynthesis
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Jagged-1 Protein
- Jagged-2 Protein
- Ligands
- Lymphoid Tissue/cytology
- Lymphoid Tissue/metabolism
- Male
- Membrane Proteins/biosynthesis
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Membrane Proteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Proteins/metabolism
- Proteins/physiology
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/biosynthesis
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/metabolism
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/physiology
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptor, Notch1
- Receptor, Notch2
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptor, Notch4
- Receptors, Cell Surface/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism
- Receptors, Cell Surface/physiology
- Receptors, Notch
- Repressor Proteins/biosynthesis
- Serrate-Jagged Proteins
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Stromal Cells/metabolism
- T-Lymphocyte Subsets/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Thymus Gland/cytology
- Thymus Gland/metabolism
- Transcription Factor HES-1
- Transcription Factors
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- M P Felli
- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of L'Aquila, Aquila 67100, Italy
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Several homologs of the Drosophila Notch receptor and its ligands, Delta/Serrate, have been cloned in man. Three human disorders including a neoplasia (a T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma), a late onset neurological disease (CADASIL) and a developmental disorder (the Alagille syndrome) are associated with mutations in, respectively, the Notch1, Notch3 and Jagged1 genes, pointing out the broad spectrum of Notch activity in humans. We report herein on what has been learned on the role of these human Notch genes and the mechanisms leading from mutations in those genes to the observed phenotypes.
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- A Joutel
- INSERM U25, Faculté de Médecine, Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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Lewis AK, Frantz GD, Carpenter DA, de Sauvage FJ, Gao WQ. Distinct expression patterns of notch family receptors and ligands during development of the mammalian inner ear. Mech Dev 1998; 78:159-63. [PMID: 9858718 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4773(98)00165-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The cochlea and vestibular structures of the inner ear labyrinth develop from the otic capsule via step-wise regional and cell fate specification. Each inner ear structure contains a sensory epithelium, composed of hair cells, the mechanosensory transducers, and supporting cells. We examined the spatio-temporal expression of genes in the Notch signaling pathway, Notch receptors (Notch1-4) and two ligands, Jagged1 and Delta1, in the developing mammalian inner ear. Our results show that Notch1 and Jagged1 are first expressed in the otic vesicle, likely involved in differentiation of the VIIIth nerve ganglion neurons, and subsequently within the inner ear sensory epithelia, temporally coincident with initial hair cell differentiation. Notch1 expression is specific to hair cells and Jagged1 to supporting cells. Their expression persists into adult. Notch2, Notch3, Notch4, and Delta1 are excluded from the inner ear epithelia. These data support the hypothesis that Notch signaling is involved in hair cell differentiation during inner ear morphogenesis.
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- Animals
- Calcium-Binding Proteins
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cochlea/embryology
- Cochlea/growth & development
- Cochlea/metabolism
- Fetal Proteins/biosynthesis
- Fetal Proteins/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Hair Cells, Auditory/cytology
- Hair Cells, Auditory/metabolism
- In Situ Hybridization
- Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Jagged-1 Protein
- Ligands
- Membrane Proteins/biosynthesis
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Morphogenesis/genetics
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/biosynthesis
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Proteins/genetics
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/biosynthesis
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor, Notch1
- Receptor, Notch2
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptor, Notch4
- Receptors, Cell Surface/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Notch
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Serrate-Jagged Proteins
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Transcription Factors
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- A K Lewis
- Department of Neuroscience, Genentech, Inc., South, San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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- X Gao
- Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609, USA
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Joutel A, Vahedi K, Corpechot C, Troesch A, Chabriat H, Vayssière C, Cruaud C, Maciazek J, Weissenbach J, Bousser MG, Bach JF, Tournier-Lasserve E. Strong clustering and stereotyped nature of Notch3 mutations in CADASIL patients. Lancet 1997; 350:1511-5. [PMID: 9388399 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(97)08083-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 411] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy) is commonly overlooked or misdiagnosed owing to its recent identification and its variable mode of presentation. The defective gene in CADASIL is Notch3, which encodes a large transmembrane receptor. To set up a diagnostic test and to delineate the Notch3 domains involved in CADASIL., we undertook mutations analysis in this gene in a group of CADASIL patients. METHODS 50 unrelated patients with CADASIL and 100 healthy controls were screened for mutations along the entire Notch3 sequence, by means of single-strand conformation polymorphism, heteroduplex, and sequence analysis. FINDINGS Strongly stereotyped mis-sense mutations, located within the epidermal-growth-factor-like (EGF-like) repeats, in the extracellular domain of Notch3, were detected in 45 patients. Clustering of mutations within the two exons encoding the first five EGF-like repeats was observed (32 patients). All these mutations lead to loss or gain of a cysteine residue and therefore to an unpaired number of cysteine residues within a given EGF domain. None of these mutations was found in the 100 controls. INTERPRETATION Because of the strong clustering and highly stereotyped nature of the pathogenetic mutations detected in CADASIL patients, and easy and reliable diagnostic test for CADASIL is feasible. The findings suggest that aberrant dimerisation of Notch3, due to abnormal disulphide bridging with another Notch3 molecule or with another protein, may be involved in the pathogenesis of this disorder.
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- A Joutel
- INSERM U25, Faculté Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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- A M Goate
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Luo B, Aster JC, Hasserjian RP, Kuo F, Sklar J. Isolation and functional analysis of a cDNA for human Jagged2, a gene encoding a ligand for the Notch1 receptor. Mol Cell Biol 1997; 17:6057-67. [PMID: 9315665 PMCID: PMC232455 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.10.6057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Signaling through Notch receptors has been implicated in the control of cellular differentiation in animals ranging from nematodes to humans. Starting from a human expressed sequence tag-containing sequence resembling that of Serrate, the gene for a ligand of Drosophila melanogaster Notch, we assembled a full-length cDNA, now called human Jagged2, from overlapping cDNA clones. The full-length cDNA encodes a polypeptide having extensive sequence homology to Serrate (40.6% identity and 58.7% similarity) and even greater homology to several putative mammalian Notch ligands that have subsequently been described. When in situ hybridization was performed, expression of the murine Jagged2 homolog was found to be highest in fetal thymus, epidermis, foregut, dorsal root ganglia, and inner ear. In Northern blot analysis of RNA from tissues of 2-week-old mice, the 5.0-kb Jagged2 transcript was most abundant in heart, lung, thymus, skeletal muscle, brain, and testis. Immunohistochemistry revealed coexpression of Jagged2 and Notch1 within thymus and other fetal murine tissues, consistent with interaction of the two proteins in vivo. Coculture of fibroblasts expressing human Jagged2 with murine C2C12 myoblasts inhibited myogenic differentiation, accompanied by increased Notch1 and the appearance of a novel 115-kDa Notch1 fragment. Exposure of C2C12 cells to Jagged2 led to increased amounts of Notch mRNA as well as mRNAs for a second Notch receptor, Notch3, and a second Notch ligand, Jagged1. Constitutively active forms of Notchl in C2C12 cells also induced increased levels of the same set of mRNAs, suggesting positive feedback control of these genes initiated by binding of Jagged2 to Notch1. This feedback control may function in vivo to coordinate differentiation across certain groups of progenitor cells adopting identical cell fates.
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- B Luo
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Joutel A, Corpechot C, Ducros A, Vahedi K, Chabriat H, Mouton P, Alamowitch S, Domenga V, Cécillion M, Maréchal E, Maciazek J, Vayssière C, Cruaud C, Cabanis EA, Ruchoux MM, Weissenbach J, Bach JF, Bousser MG, Tournier-Lasserve E. Notch3 mutations in cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), a mendelian condition causing stroke and vascular dementia. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1997; 826:213-7. [PMID: 9329692 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48472.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is an inherited condition whose key features include recurrent subcortical ischemic events, migraine attacks and vascular dementia in association with diffuse white-matter abnormalities seen on neuroimaging. Pathologic examination shows multiple small deep cerebral infarcts, a leukoencephalopathy and a nonatherosclerotic nonamyloid angiopathy involving mainly the media of small cerebral arteries. To progress in understanding the pathophysiological mechanisms of this condition, we undertook the identification of the mutated gene. We mapped the CADASIL gene on chromosome 19p13.1. More than 120 families have been referred to our lab. Genetic linkage analysis of 33 of these families allowed us to reduce the size of the genetic interval to less than 1 cM and to demonstrate the genetic homogeneity of this condition. In the absence of any candidate gene, we undertook positional cloning of this gene. We identified, within the CADASIL critical region, the human Notch3 gene, whose sequence analysis revealed deleterious mutations in CADASIL families co-segregating with the affected phenotype. These data establish that this gene causes CADASIL. Identification of the CADASIL gene will provide a valuable diagnostic tool for clinicians and could be used to estimate the prevalence of this underdiagnosed condition. It should help in the understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms of CADASIL and vascular dementia.
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- A Joutel
- INSERM U25, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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Joutel A, Corpechot C, Ducros A, Vahedi K, Chabriat H, Mouton P, Alamowitch S, Domenga V, Cécillion M, Marechal E, Maciazek J, Vayssiere C, Cruaud C, Cabanis EA, Ruchoux MM, Weissenbach J, Bach JF, Bousser MG, Tournier-Lasserve E. Notch3 mutations in CADASIL, a hereditary adult-onset condition causing stroke and dementia. Nature 1996; 383:707-10. [PMID: 8878478 DOI: 10.1038/383707a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1324] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Stroke is the third leading cause of death, and vascular dementia the second cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease. CADASIL (for cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy) causes a type of stroke and dementia whose key features include recurrent subcortical ischaemic events and vascular dementia and which is associated with diffuse white-matter abnormalities on neuroimaging. Pathological examination reveals multiple small, deep cerebral infarcts, a leukoencephalopathy, and a non-atherosclerotic, non-amyloid angiopathy involving mainly the small cerebral arteries. Severe alterations of vascular smooth-muscle cells are evident on ultrastructural analysis. We have previously mapped the mutant gene to chromosome 19. Here we report the characterization of the human Notch3 gene which we mapped to the CADASIL critical region. We have identified mutations in CADASIL patients that cause serious disruption of this gene, indicating that Notch3 could be the defective protein in CADASIL patients.
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- A Joutel
- INSERM U25, Faculté de Medecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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Sugaya K, Fukagawa T, Matsumoto K, Mita K, Takahashi E, Ando A, Inoko H, Ikemura T. Three genes in the human MHC class III region near the junction with the class II: gene for receptor of advanced glycosylation end products, PBX2 homeobox gene and a notch homolog, human counterpart of mouse mammary tumor gene int-3. Genomics 1994; 23:408-19. [PMID: 7835890 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1994.1517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Abstract
Cosmid walking of about 250 kb from MHC class III gene CYP21 to class II was conducted. The gene for receptor of advanced glycosylation end products of proteins (RAGE, a member of immunoglobulin superfamily molecules), the PBX2 homeobox gene designated HOX12, and the human counterpart of the mouse mammary tumor gene int-3 were found. The contiguous RAGE and HOX12 genes were completely sequenced, and the human int-3 counterpart was partially sequenced and assigned to a Notch homolog. This human Notch homolog, designated NOTCH3, showed both the intracellular portion present in the mouse int-3 sequence and the extracellular portion absent in the int-3. It thus corresponds to the intact form of a Notch-type transmembrane protein. About 20 kb of dense Alu clustering was found just centromeric to the NOTCH3.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites/genetics
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosome Walking
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast
- Cosmids
- DNA/genetics
- Exons
- Genes, Homeobox
- Genes, MHC Class II
- Glycation End Products, Advanced/metabolism
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Introns
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics
- Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products
- Receptor, Notch3
- Receptor, Notch4
- Receptors, Cell Surface
- Receptors, Immunologic/genetics
- Receptors, Notch
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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Affiliation(s)
- K Sugaya
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka-ken, Japan
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