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Transcriptional inhibition of progressive renal disease by gene silencing pyrrole-imidazole polyamide targeting of the transforming growth factor-β1 promoter. Kidney Int 2010; 79:46-56. [PMID: 20861821 DOI: 10.1038/ki.2010.330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Pyrrole-imidazole (PI) polyamides are small synthetic molecules that recognize and attach to the minor groove of DNA, thereby inhibiting gene transcription by blocking transcription factor binding. These derivatives can act as gene silencers inhibiting target gene expression under stimulatory conditions such as disease. To evaluate PI polyamides as treatments for the progression of renal diseases, we examined morphological effects, pharmacological properties, and the specificity of PI polyamides targeted to the transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 promoter during salt-induced hypertensive nephrosclerosis in Dahl salt-sensitive rats. The targeted PI polyamide markedly reduced glomerulosclerosis and interstitial fibrosis without side effects. PI polyamide significantly decreased expression of TGF-β1 and extracellular matrix in the renal cortex. Microarray analysis found that only 3% of the transcripts were affected by PI polyamide, but this included decreased expression of extracellular matrix, TGF-β1-related cytokines, angiogenic, and cell stabilizing factors, proteinases, and renal injury-related factors. Thus, targeted PI polyamides are potential gene silencers for diseases not treatable by current remedies.
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Early alterations in protein and gene expression in rat kidney following bromate exposure. Food Chem Toxicol 2009; 47:1154-60. [PMID: 19425233 DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Bromate, a common disinfectant byproduct of drinking water ozonation, has been linked to human and animal renal toxicity, including renal cell carcinomas in multiple animal species. Here, we evaluate changes in protein and gene expression through two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) and Affymetrix arrays to identify potential modes of action involved in potassium bromate carcinogenicity. Male rats were exposed to potassium bromate in drinking water at concentrations of 0, 1, 20 and 400 ppm for two weeks. Differential expression of glycolytic proteins including enolase 1 (Eno1), triosephosphate isomerase 1 (Tpi1) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (Gapdh) suggests that bromate toxicity is associated with changes in energy consumption and utilization in renal cells involving up-regulation of glycolytic processes that may be the result of altered mitochondrial function. Several alterations in glycolysis and mitochondrial gene transcripts were also observed to be consistent with this mode of action. These studies provide insight into early events in renal cell physiology altered by bromate exposure.
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Wang E, Lichtenfels R, Bükur J, Ngalame Y, Panelli MC, Seliger B, Marincola FM. Ontogeny and Oncogenesis Balance the Transcriptional Profile of Renal Cell Cancer. Cancer Res 2004; 64:7279-87. [PMID: 15492247 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-04-1597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Global transcript analysis is increasingly used to describe cancer taxonomies beyond the microscopic reach of the eye. Diagnostic and prognostic portraits are formulated by ranking cancers according to transcriptional proximity. However, the role that distinct biological factors play in defining these portraits remains undefined. It is likely that the transcriptional repertoire of cancers depends, on one hand, on the anamnestic retention of their ontogenesis and, on the other, on the emergence of novel expression patterns related to oncogenesis. We compared the transcriptional profile of primary renal cell cancers (RCCs) with that of normal kidney tissue and several epithelial cancers of nonrenal origin to weigh the contribution that ontogeny and oncogenesis make in molding their genetic profile. Unsupervised global transcript analysis demonstrated that RCCs retain transcriptional signatures related to their ontogeny and cluster close to normal renal epithelium. When renal lineage-associated genes are removed from the analysis and cancer-specific genes are analyzed, RCCs segregate with other cancers with limited lineage specificity underlying a predominance of the oncogenic process over lineage specificity. However, a RCC-specific set of oncogenesis-related genes was identified and surprisingly shared by sarcomas. In summary, the transcriptional portrait of primary RCCs is largely dominated by ontogeny. Genes responsible for lineage specificity may represent poor molecular targets for immune or drug therapy. Most genes associated with oncogenesis are shared with other cancers and may represent better therapeutic targets. Finally, a small subset of genes is associated with lineage-specific oncogenesis, and these may provide information regarding the biological behavior of RCCs and facilitate diagnostic classification of RCCs.
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- Ena Wang
- Immunogenetics Section, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Wang E, Panelli MC, Zavaglia K, Mandruzzato S, Hu N, Taylor PR, Seliger B, Zanovello P, Freedman RS, Marincola FM. Melanoma-restricted genes. J Transl Med 2004; 2:34. [PMID: 15488140 PMCID: PMC527872 DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-2-34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2004] [Accepted: 10/15/2004] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Human metastatic cutaneous melanoma has gained a well deserved reputation for its immune responsiveness. The reason(s) remain(s) unknown. We attempted previously to characterize several variables that may affect the relationship between tumor and host immune cells but, taken one at the time, none yielded a convincing explanation. With explorative purposes, high-throughput technology was applied here to portray transcriptional characteristics unique to metastatic cutaneous melanoma that may or may not be relevant to its immunogenic potential. Several functional signatures could be identified descriptive of immune or other biological functions. In addition, the transcriptional profile of metastatic melanoma was compared with that of primary renal cell cancers (RCC) identifying several genes co-coordinately expressed by the two tumor types. Since RCC is another immune responsive tumor, commonalities between RCC and melanoma may help untangle the enigma of their potential immune responsiveness. This purely descriptive study provides, therefore, a map for the investigation of metastatic melanoma in future clinical trials and at the same time may invite consideration of novel therapeutic targets.
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- Ena Wang
- Immunogenetics Section, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Immunogenetics Section, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Immunogenetics Section, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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- Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, Oncology Section, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Cancer Prevention Studies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Cancer Prevention Studies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Institute of Medical Immunology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06112 Halle, Germany
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- Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, Oncology Section, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Gynecologic Oncology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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- Immunogenetics Section, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Takashi M, Sakata T, Ohmura M, Kato K. Elevated concentrations of the small stress protein HSP27 in rat renal tumors. UROLOGICAL RESEARCH 1997; 25:173-7. [PMID: 9228668 DOI: 10.1007/bf00941978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The expression of two small stress proteins, alpha B crystallin and the 27-kDa heat shock protein (HSP27), was studied quantitatively and immunohistochemically in normal kidney and renal tumors in rats. Levels of alpha B crystallin in renal cell tumors tended to be higher than in normal kidney (P = 0.07), but with a wide range of values, whereas they were significantly lower in mesenchymal tumors (P < 0.0001). In contrast, HSP27 concentrations in both renal cell (mean +/- SD: 1790 +/- 940 ng/mg protein, n = 15) and mesenchymal (1260 +/- 1080 ng/mg protein, n = 10) tumors were significantly higher than the normal kidney value (142 +/- 30 ng/mg protein, n = 10, P < 0.0001). A positive correlation was found between alpha B crystallin and HSP27 levels limited to the renal cell tumor case (Pearson's correlation coefficient, r = 0.68, P < 0.01). Immunohistochemistry revealed the loops of Henle to be positive for alpha B crystallin, whereas HSP27 staining was positive in glomerular and interstitial vascular walls and epithelial cells of proximal and distal tubules. Positive immunostaining for alpha B crystallin was demonstrated in six of nine renal cell tumors (67%) studied and for HSP27 in all of the nine cases (100%).
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- M Takashi
- Department of Urology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan
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