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Establishment of Down's syndrome periodontal ligament cells by transfection with SV40T-Ag and hTERT. Hum Cell 2021; 35:379-383. [PMID: 34590290 PMCID: PMC8732922 DOI: 10.1007/s13577-021-00621-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 10/29/2022]
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Down's syndrome is one of the most common human congenital genetic diseases and affected patients have increased risk of periodontal disease. To examine involvement of the disease with periodontal disease development, we established immortalized periodontal ligament cells obtained from a Down's syndrome patient by use of SV40T-Ag and hTERT gene transfection. Expressions of SV40T-Ag and hTERT were observed in periodontal ligament cell-derived immortalized cells established from healthy (STPDL) and Down's syndrome patient (STPDLDS) samples. Primary cultured periodontal ligament cells obtained from a healthy subject (pPDL) had a limited number of population doublings (< 40), while STPDL and STPDLDS cells continued to grow with more than 80 population doublings. Primary cultured periodontal ligament cells obtained from the patient showed a chromosome pattern characteristic of Down's syndrome with trisomy 21, whereas STPDLDS samples showed a large number of abnormal chromosomes in those results. Gene expression analysis revealed that expression of DSCR-1 in STPDLDS is greater than that in STPDL. These results suggest that the newly established STPDLDS cell line may be a useful tool for study of periodontal disease in Down's syndrome patients.
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Udroiu I, Sgura A. Cytogenetic tests for animal production: state of the art and perspectives. Anim Genet 2017; 48:505-515. [DOI: 10.1111/age.12581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- I. Udroiu
- Dipartimento di Scienze; Università Roma Tre; Viale G. Marconi 446 00146 Rome Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze; Università Roma Tre; Viale G. Marconi 446 00146 Rome Italy
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Yun N, Lee YM, Kim C, Shibayama H, Tanimura A, Hamanaka Y, Kanakura Y, Park IS, Jo A, Shin JH, Ju C, Kim WK, Oh YJ. Anamorsin, a novel caspase-3 substrate in neurodegeneration. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:22183-95. [PMID: 24973211 PMCID: PMC4139231 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.552679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2014] [Revised: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Activated caspases play a central role in the execution of apoptosis by cleaving endogenous substrates. Here, we developed a high throughput screening method to identify novel substrates for caspase-3 in a neuronal cell line. Critical steps in our strategy consist of two-dimensional electrophoresis-based protein separation and in vitro caspase-3 incubation of immobilized proteins to sort out direct substrates. Among 46 putative substrates identified in MN9D neuronal cells, we further evaluated whether caspase-3-mediated cleavage of anamorsin, a recently recognized cell death-defying factor in hematopoiesis, is a general feature of apoptosis. In vitro and cell-based cleavage assays indicated that anamorsin was specifically cleaved by caspase-3 but not by other caspases, generating 25- and 10-kDa fragments. Thus, in apoptosis of neuronal and non-neuronal cells induced by various stimuli including staurosporine, etoposide, or 6-hydroxydopamine, the cleavage of anamorsin was found to be blocked in the presence of caspase inhibitor. Among four tetrapeptide consensus DXXD motifs existing in anamorsin, we mapped a specific cleavage site for caspase-3 at DSVD(209)↓L. Intriguingly, the 25-kDa cleaved fragment of anamorsin was also detected in post-mortem brains of Alzheimer and Parkinson disease patients. Although the RNA interference-mediated knockdown of anamorsin rendered neuronal cells more vulnerable to staurosporine treatment, reintroduction of full-length anamorsin into an anamorsin knock-out stromal cell line made cells resistant to staurosporine-induced caspase activation, indicating the antiapoptotic function of anamorsin. Taken together, our approach seems to be effective to identify novel substrates for caspases and has the potential to provide meaningful insights into newly identified substrates involved in neurodegenerative processes.
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- Nuri Yun
- From the Department of Systems Biology, Yonsei University College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Seoul 120-749, Korea
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- From the Department of Systems Biology, Yonsei University College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Seoul 120-749, Korea
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- From the Department of Systems Biology, Yonsei University College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Seoul 120-749, Korea
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
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- Division of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon 440-746, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, and
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- Division of Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon 440-746, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, and
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- Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul 136-705, Korea
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- Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul 136-705, Korea
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- From the Department of Systems Biology, Yonsei University College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Seoul 120-749, Korea,
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Ni Y, Jiang Y, Wen J, Shao Z, Chen X, Sun S, Yu H, Li W. Construction of a functional silk-based biomaterial complex with immortalized chondrocytes in vivo. J Biomed Mater Res A 2013; 102:1071-8. [PMID: 23625883 DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.34763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2013] [Accepted: 04/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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To explore the feasibility of constructing a functional biomaterial complex with regenerated silk fibroin membrane and immortalized chondrocytes in vivo. Rat auricular chondrocytes (RACs) were transfected with the lentivirus vector pGC-FU-hTERT-3FLAG or pGC-FU-GFP-3FLAG, encoding the human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) or GFP gene. The effects of regenerated silk fibroin film on the adhesion, growth of immortalized chondrocytes and expression of collagen II in vitro were analyzed with immunofluorescent histochemistry. Immortalized RACs were transformed. Induction by nutrient medium promoted higher expression levels of collagen II in transformed chondrocytes. The regenerated silk fibroin film was not cytotoxic to immortalized chondrocytes and had no adverse influence on their adhesion. Collagen II expression was good in the immortalized chondrocytes in vivo. The construction of a silk-based biomaterial complex with immortalized chondrocytes may provide a feasible kind of functional biomaterial for the repair of cartilage defects in clinical applications.
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- Yusu Ni
- Department of Otolaryngology, Eye and ENT Hospital of Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Xie Y, Zhao X, Jia H, Ma B. Derivation and characterization of goat fetal fibroblast cells induced with human telomerase reverse transcriptase. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim 2012; 49:8-14. [PMID: 23271363 DOI: 10.1007/s11626-012-9554-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2011] [Accepted: 09/07/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Fetal fibroblast cells (FFCs) are often used as donor cells for somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) because they are easy to culture and suitable for genetic manipulation. However, through genetic modification process, which required FFCs to be cultured in vitro for several passages, cells tended to age very rapidly and became inappropriate for SCNT. Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) possessed the activity of human telomerase and maintains telomere in dividing cells; therefore, hTERT can be transfected into somatic cells to extend their lifespan. In this study, we transfected a Xinong Saanen Dairy Goat FFC line with hTERT. Then, we tested several characteristics of transfected cells, including growth curve, expression and activity of hTERT, tumorigenicity, and expression of oct4 and nanog. The result showed that hTERT could significantly extend the lifespan of transfected cells in vitro. hTERT mRNA was expressed in hTERT-transfected cells. Moreover, hTERT-transfected cells presented enhanced telomerase activity and longer telomere than untransfected cells at the same passage. On the other hand, hTERT-transfected cells can maintain normal karyotype even after several times of subculture in vitro. After inoculation of hTERT-transfected cells in nude mouse, none of them developed tumors on the vaccination site. Interestingly, transfection of hTERT can improve expression of nanog and oct4 in Xinong Saanen Dairy Goat FFCs, especially in low generation after transfection, but with increasing subculture, this effect gradually weakened.
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- Ying Xie
- College of Animal Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang, Shaanxi, 712100, China.
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Reversible immortalization of Nestin-positive precursor cells from pancreas and differentiation into insulin-secreting cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2012; 418:330-5. [PMID: 22266322 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2011] [Accepted: 01/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Pancreatic stem cells or progenitor cells posses the ability of directed differentiation into pancreatic β cells. However, these cells usually have limited proliferative capacity and finite lifespan in vitro. In the present study, Nestin-positive progenitor cells (NPPCs) from mouse pancreas that expressed the pancreatic stem cells or progenitor cell marker Nestin were isolated to obtain a sufficient number of differentiated pancreatic β cells. Tet-on system for SV40 large T-antigen expression in NPPCs was used to achieve reversible immortalization. The reversible immortal Nestin-positive progenitor cells (RINPPCs) can undergo at least 80 population doublings without senescence in vitro while maintaining their biological and genetic characteristics. RINPPCs can be efficiently induced to differentiate into insulin-producing cells that contain a combination of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and sodium butyrate. The results of the present study can be used to explore transplantation therapy of type I diabetes mellitus.
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De Lorenzi L, Molteni L, Denis C, Eggen A, Parma P. A new case of centric fusion in cattle: rob(21;23). Anim Genet 2008; 39:454-5. [PMID: 18724411 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2008.01731.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- L De Lorenzi
- Department of Animal Science, Section of the Faculty of Agriculture Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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