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Endo A, Fukushima T, Takahashi C, Tsuchiya H, Ohtake F, Ono S, Ly T, Yoshida Y, Tanaka K, Saeki Y, Komada M. USP8 prevents aberrant NF-κB and Nrf2 activation by counteracting ubiquitin signals from endosomes. J Cell Biol 2024; 223:e202306013. [PMID: 38180476 PMCID: PMC10783432 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202306013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
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K63-linked ubiquitin chains attached to plasma membrane proteins serve as tags for endocytosis and endosome-to-lysosome sorting. USP8 is an essential deubiquitinase for the maintenance of endosomal functions. Prolonged depletion of USP8 leads to cell death, but the major effects on cellular signaling pathways are poorly understood. Here, we show that USP8 depletion causes aberrant accumulation of K63-linked ubiquitin chains on endosomes and induces immune and stress responses. Upon USP8 depletion, two different decoders for K63-linked ubiquitin chains, TAB2/3 and p62, were recruited to endosomes and activated the TAK1-NF-κB and Keap1-Nrf2 pathways, respectively. Oxidative stress, an environmental stimulus that potentially suppresses USP8 activity, induced accumulation of K63-linked ubiquitin chains on endosomes, recruitment of TAB2, and expression of the inflammatory cytokine. The results demonstrate that USP8 is a gatekeeper of misdirected ubiquitin signals and inhibits immune and stress response pathways by removing K63-linked ubiquitin chains from endosomes.
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- Akinori Endo
- Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
- Cell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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- Cell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
- Institute for Advanced Life Sciences, Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Protein Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
- Division of Protein Metabolism, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Cell Biology Center, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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Aditama R, Tanjung ZA, Aprilyanto V, Sudania WM, Utomo C, Liwang T. Identification of oil palm cis-regulatory elements based on DNA free energy and single nucleotide polymorphism density. Comput Biol Chem 2023; 106:107931. [PMID: 37481844 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2023.107931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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Transcription control through cis-regulatory elements (CREs) is one of important regulators of gene expression. This study aimed to identify the location of CREs in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) using the combination of DNA free energy and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) density approaches. Promoter region sequences were extracted oil palm genome spanning from 1500 nucleotides (nt) upstream to 1000 nt downstream of every annotated transcription start sites (TSS). Free energy profiles of each promoter region were calculated using PromPredict software. Raw reads from the deep sequencing of 59 oil palm origins were used to calculate SNP density of each promoter region. The result showed that the average free energy (AFE) on the upstream region of TSS is about 1.5 kcal/mol higher compared to the downstream region. Using DNA free energy method, 16,281 regions of CREs were predicted. Most of predicted CREs was located between 1 and 500 nt upstream of TSS. Anti-correlation pattern between free energy and SNP density was observed on the predicted regions of CREs. This anti-correlated pattern was also observed on an experimentally determined promoter of the oil palm metallothionein gene, EgMSP1. Considering the increasing use of promoter information on plant biotechnology, an easy and accurate promoter prediction using the combination of free energy and SNP density method could be recommended.
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- Redi Aditama
- Biotechnology Department, Plant Production and Biotechnology Division, PT SMART Tbk., Bogor 16810, Indonesia
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- Biotechnology Department, Plant Production and Biotechnology Division, PT SMART Tbk., Bogor 16810, Indonesia
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- Biotechnology Department, Plant Production and Biotechnology Division, PT SMART Tbk., Bogor 16810, Indonesia
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- Biotechnology Department, Plant Production and Biotechnology Division, PT SMART Tbk., Bogor 16810, Indonesia
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- Biotechnology Department, Plant Production and Biotechnology Division, PT SMART Tbk., Bogor 16810, Indonesia.
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- Biotechnology Department, Plant Production and Biotechnology Division, PT SMART Tbk., Bogor 16810, Indonesia
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He L, Chen IW, Zhang Z, Zheng W, Sayadi A, Wang L, Sang W, Ji R, Lei J, Arnqvist G, Lei C, Zhu-Salzman K. In silico promoter analysis and functional validation identify CmZFH, the co-regulator of hypoxia-responsive genes CmScylla and CmLPCAT. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2022; 140:103681. [PMID: 34800642 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2021.103681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Oxygen (O2) plays an essential role in aerobic organisms including terrestrial insects. Under hypoxic stress, the cowpea bruchid (Callosobruchus maculatus) ceases feeding and growth. However, larvae, particularly 4th instar larvae exhibit very high tolerance to hypoxia and can recover normal growth once brought to normoxia. To better understand the molecular mechanism that enables insects to cope with low O2 stress, we performed RNA-seq to distinguish hypoxia-responsive genes in midguts and subsequently identified potential common cis-elements in promoters of hypoxia-induced and -repressed genes, respectively. Selected elements were subjected to gel-shift and transient transfection assays to confirm their cis-regulatory function. Of these putative common cis-elements, AREB6 appeared to regulate the expression of CmLPCAT and CmScylla, two hypoxia-induced genes. CmZFH, the putative AREB6-binding protein, was hypoxia-inducible. Transient expression of CmZFH in Drosophila S2 cells activated CmLPCAT and CmScylla, and their induction was likely through interaction of CmZFH with AREB6. Binding to AREB6 was further confirmed by bacterially expressed CmZFH recombinant protein. Deletion analyses indicated that the N-terminal zinc-finger cluster of CmZFH was the key AREB6-binding domain. Through in silico and experimental exploration, we discovered novel transcriptional regulatory components associated with gene expression dynamics under hypoxia that facilitated insect survival.
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- Li He
- Hubei Insect Resources Utilization and Sustainable Pest Management Key Laboratory, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China; Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA; Institute for Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA; Institute for Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Entomology and Pest Control Engineering, College of Plant Protection, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400716, China
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- Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology (MOE), Institute of Urban and Horticultural Entomology, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75236, Sweden
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA; Institute for Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA; Institute for Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA; Institute for Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA; Institute for Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Animal Ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 75236, Sweden
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- Hubei Insect Resources Utilization and Sustainable Pest Management Key Laboratory, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA; Institute for Plant Genomics & Biotechnology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
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Huang R, Guo L, Gao M, Li J, Xiang S. Research Trends and Regulation of CCL5 in Prostate Cancer. Onco Targets Ther 2021; 14:1417-1427. [PMID: 33664576 PMCID: PMC7921632 DOI: 10.2147/ott.s279189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Prostate cancer (PCa) is considered as the most common cancer of urologic neoplasms, and its development and prognosis are associated with many factors. Chemokine receptor signaling combine with advances in advanced clinicopathological characteristics have provided new insights into the molecular landscape of prostate cancer. Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 5 (CCL5) is an important member of the CC subfamily of chemokines. The expression of chemokine CCL5 is positively correlated with poor prognostic features in patients with PCa. Current study suggested that CCL5/CCR5 axis plays a significant role in the proliferation, metastasis, angiogenesis, drug resistance of prostate cancer cells and promotes self-renewal of prostate cancer stem cells (PCSCs). Due to the major domination in CCL5 by prostate cancer and the high cancer-specific mortality with prostate cancer, research on the CCL5/CCR5 axis effective antagonists is widespread application. However, challenges for precision oncology of CCL5/CCR5 axis and effective antagonists in CRPC remain. Herein, we summarized the crucial role of CCL5 in promoting the development of PCa and discussed the antitumor application of the antagonists of CCL5/CCR5 axis.
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- Renlun Huang
- Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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Workman LM, Zhang L, Fan Y, Zhang W, Habelhah H. TRAF2 Ser-11 Phosphorylation Promotes Cytosolic Translocation of the CD40 Complex To Regulate Downstream Signaling Pathways. Mol Cell Biol 2020; 40:e00429-19. [PMID: 32041822 PMCID: PMC7156217 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00429-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2019] [Revised: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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CD40 plays an important role in immune responses by activating the c-Jun N-terminal protein kinase (JNK) and NF-κB pathways; however, the precise mechanisms governing the spatiotemporal activation of these two signaling pathways are not fully understood. Here, using four different TRAF2-deficient cell lines (A20.2J, CH12.LX, HAP1, and mouse embryonic fibroblasts [MEFs]) reconstituted with wild-type or phosphorylation mutant forms of TRAF2, along with immunoprecipitation, immunoblotting, gene expression, and immunofluorescence analyses, we report that CD40 ligation elicits TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1)-mediated phosphorylation of TRAF2 at Ser-11. This phosphorylation interfered with the interaction between TRAF2's RING domain and membrane phospholipids and enabled translocation of the TRAF2 complex from CD40 to the cytoplasm. We also observed that this cytoplasmic translocation is required for full activation of the JNK pathway and the secondary phase of the NF-κB pathway. Moreover, we found that in the absence of Ser-11 phosphorylation, the TRAF2 RING domain interacts with phospholipids, leading to the translocation of the TRAF2 complex to lipid rafts, resulting in its degradation and activation of the noncanonical NF-κB pathway. Thus, our results provide new insights into the CD40 signaling mechanisms whereby Ser-11 phosphorylation controls RING domain-dependent subcellular localization of TRAF2 to modulate the spatiotemporal activation of the JNK and NF-κB pathways.
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- Lauren M Workman
- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Key Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Hebei Province, College of Life Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Nakayama TJ, Rodrigues FA, Neumaier N, Marcolino-Gomes J, Molinari HBC, Santiago TR, Formighieri EF, Basso MF, Farias JRB, Emygdio BM, de Oliveira ACB, Campos ÂD, Borém A, Harmon FG, Mertz-Henning LM, Nepomuceno AL. Insights into soybean transcriptome reconfiguration under hypoxic stress: Functional, regulatory, structural, and compositional characterization. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0187920. [PMID: 29145496 PMCID: PMC5690659 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2017] [Accepted: 10/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Soybean (Glycine max) is one of the major crops worldwide and flooding stress affects the production and expansion of cultivated areas. Oxygen is essential for mitochondrial aerobic respiration to supply the energy demand of plant cells. Because oxygen diffusion in water is 10,000 times lower than in air, partial (hypoxic) or total (anoxic) oxygen deficiency is important component of flooding. Even when oxygen is externally available, oxygen deficiency frequently occurs in bulky, dense or metabolically active tissues such as phloem, meristems, seeds, and fruits. In this study, we analyzed conserved and divergent root transcriptional responses between flood-tolerant Embrapa 45 and flood-sensitive BR 4 soybean cultivars under hypoxic stress conditions with RNA-seq. To understand how soybean genes evolve and respond to hypoxia, stable and differentially expressed genes were characterized structurally and compositionally comparing its mechanistic relationship. Between cultivars, Embrapa 45 showed less up- and more down-regulated genes, and stronger induction of phosphoglucomutase (Glyma05g34790), unknown protein related to N-terminal protein myristoylation (Glyma06g03430), protein suppressor of phyA-105 (Glyma06g37080), and fibrillin (Glyma10g32620). RNA-seq and qRT-PCR analysis of non-symbiotic hemoglobin (Glyma11g12980) indicated divergence in gene structure between cultivars. Transcriptional changes for genes in amino acids and derivative metabolic process suggest involvement of amino acids metabolism in tRNA modifications, translation accuracy/efficiency, and endoplasmic reticulum stress in both cultivars under hypoxia. Gene groups differed in promoter TATA box, ABREs (ABA-responsive elements), and CRT/DREs (C-repeat/dehydration-responsive elements) frequency. Gene groups also differed in structure, composition, and codon usage, indicating biological significances. Additional data suggests that cis-acting ABRE elements can mediate gene expression independent of ABA in soybean roots under hypoxia.
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- Thiago J. Nakayama
- Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Embrapa Soja, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Embrapa Soja, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Embrapa Agroenergia, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Embrapa Agroenergia, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Embrapa Agroenergia, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Embrapa Agroenergia, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Embrapa Soja, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Embrapa Clima Temperado, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Embrapa Clima Temperado, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Embrapa Clima Temperado, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Climbing Brain Levels of Organisation from Genes to Consciousness. Trends Cogn Sci 2017; 21:168-181. [PMID: 28161289 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2016] [Revised: 12/24/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Given the tremendous complexity of brain organisation, here I propose a strategy that dynamically links stages of brain organisation from genes to consciousness, at four privileged structural levels: genes; transcription factors (TFs)-gene networks; synaptic epigenesis; and long-range connectivity. These structures are viewed as nested and reciprocally inter-regulated, with a hierarchical organisation that proceeds on different timescales during the course of evolution and development. Interlevel bridging mechanisms include intrinsic variation-selection mechanisms, which offer a community of bottom-up and top-down models linking genes to consciousness in a stepwise manner.
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Martins RST, Gomez A, Zanuy S, Carrillo M, Canário AVM. Photoperiodic Modulation of Circadian Clock and Reproductive Axis Gene Expression in the Pre-Pubertal European Sea Bass Brain. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0144158. [PMID: 26641263 PMCID: PMC4671726 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2015] [Accepted: 11/14/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The acquisition of reproductive competence requires the activation of the brain-pituitary-gonad (BPG) axis, which in most vertebrates, including fishes, is initiated by changes in photoperiod. In the European sea bass long-term exposure to continuous light (LL) alters the rhythm of reproductive hormones, delays spermatogenesis and reduces the incidence of precocious males. In contrast, an early shift from long to short photoperiod (AP) accelerates spermatogenesis. However, how photoperiod affects key genes in the brain to trigger the onset of puberty is still largely unknown. Here, we investigated if the integration of the light stimulus by clock proteins is sufficient to activate key genes that trigger the BPG axis in the European sea bass. We found that the clock genes clock, npas2, bmal1 and the BPG genes gnrh, kiss and kissr share conserved transcription factor frameworks in their promoters, suggesting co-regulation. Other gene promoters of the BGP axis were also predicted to be co-regulated by the same frameworks. Co-regulation was confirmed through gene expression analysis of brains from males exposed to LL or AP photoperiod compared to natural conditions: LL fish had suppressed gnrh1, kiss2, galr1b and esr1, while AP fish had stimulated npas2, gnrh1, gnrh2, kiss2, kiss1rb and galr1b compared to NP. It is concluded that fish exposed to different photoperiods present significant expression differences in some clock and reproductive axis related genes well before the first detectable endocrine and morphological responses of the BPG axis.
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- Rute S. T. Martins
- Comparative Endocrinology and Integrative Biology group, Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, Portugal
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- Department of Fish Physiology and Biotechnology, Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Torre la Sal, Castellón, Spain
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- Department of Fish Physiology and Biotechnology, Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Torre la Sal, Castellón, Spain
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- Department of Fish Physiology and Biotechnology, Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre la Sal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Torre la Sal, Castellón, Spain
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- Comparative Endocrinology and Integrative Biology group, Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, Portugal
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Dey N, Sarkar S, Acharya S, Maiti IB. Synthetic promoters in planta. PLANTA 2015; 242:1077-94. [PMID: 26250538 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-015-2377-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2015] [Accepted: 07/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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This paper reviews the importance, prospective and development of synthetic promoters reported in planta. A review of the synthetic promoters developed in planta would help researchers utilize the available resources and design new promoters to benefit fundamental research and agricultural applications. The demand for promoters for the improvement and application of transgenic techniques in research and agricultural production is increasing. Native/naturally occurring promoters have some limitations in terms of their induction conditions, transcription efficiency and size. The strength and specificity of native promoter can be tailored by manipulating its 'cis-architecture' by the use of several recombinant DNA technologies. Newly derived chimeric promoters with specific attributes are emerging as an efficient tool for plant molecular biology. In the last three decades, synthetic promoters have been used to regulate plant gene expression. To better understand synthetic promoters, in this article, we reviewed promoter structure, the scope of cis-engineering, strategies for their development, their importance in plant biology and the total number of such promoters (188) developed in planta to date; we then categorized them under different functional regimes as biotic stress-inducible, abiotic stress-inducible, light-responsive, chemical-inducible, hormone-inducible, constitutive and tissue-specific. Furthermore, we identified a set of 36 synthetic promoters that control multiple types of expression in planta. Additionally, we illustrated the differences between native and synthetic promoters and among different synthetic promoter in each group, especially in terms of efficiency and induction conditions. As a prospective of this review, the use of ideal synthetic promoters is one of the prime requirements for generating transgenic plants suitable for promoting sustainable agriculture and plant molecular farming.
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- Nrisingha Dey
- Department of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
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- Department of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Department of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- KTRDC, College of Agriculture-Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40546, USA
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Serrels A, Lund T, Serrels B, Byron A, McPherson RC, von Kriegsheim A, Gómez-Cuadrado L, Canel M, Muir M, Ring JE, Maniati E, Sims AH, Pachter JA, Brunton VG, Gilbert N, Anderton SM, Nibbs RJB, Frame MC. Nuclear FAK controls chemokine transcription, Tregs, and evasion of anti-tumor immunity. Cell 2015; 163:160-73. [PMID: 26406376 PMCID: PMC4597190 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2015] [Revised: 07/17/2015] [Accepted: 08/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) promotes anti-tumor immune evasion. Specifically, the kinase activity of nuclear-targeted FAK in squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) cells drives exhaustion of CD8(+) T cells and recruitment of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the tumor microenvironment by regulating chemokine/cytokine and ligand-receptor networks, including via transcription of Ccl5, which is crucial. These changes inhibit antigen-primed cytotoxic CD8(+) T cell activity, permitting growth of FAK-expressing tumors. Mechanistically, nuclear FAK is associated with chromatin and exists in complex with transcription factors and their upstream regulators that control Ccl5 expression. Furthermore, FAK's immuno-modulatory nuclear activities may be specific to cancerous squamous epithelial cells, as normal keratinocytes do not have nuclear FAK. Finally, we show that a small-molecule FAK kinase inhibitor, VS-4718, which is currently in clinical development, also drives depletion of Tregs and promotes a CD8(+) T cell-mediated anti-tumor response. Therefore, FAK inhibitors may trigger immune-mediated tumor regression, providing previously unrecognized therapeutic opportunities.
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- Alan Serrels
- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK.
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, The Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- Verastem Inc., 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 500, Needham, MA 02494, USA
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- Queen Mary, University of London, Centre for Cancer and Inflammation, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, The Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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- Institute of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8TA, UK
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- Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XR, UK.
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Sampson MG, Robertson CC, Martini S, Mariani LH, Lemley KV, Gillies CE, Otto EA, Kopp JB, Randolph A, Vega-Warner V, Eichinger F, Nair V, Gipson DS, Cattran DC, Johnstone DB, O'Toole JF, Bagnasco SM, Song PX, Barisoni L, Troost JP, Kretzler M, Sedor JR. Integrative Genomics Identifies Novel Associations with APOL1 Risk Genotypes in Black NEPTUNE Subjects. J Am Soc Nephrol 2015; 27:814-23. [PMID: 26150607 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2014111131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 05/31/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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APOL1 variants have been associated with renal phenotypes in blacks. To refine clinical outcomes and discover mechanisms of APOL1-associated kidney injury, we analyzed clinical and genomic datasets derived from 90 black subjects in the Nephrotic Syndrome Study Network (NEPTUNE), stratified by APOL1 risk genotype. Ninety subjects with proteinuria ≥0.5 g/d were enrolled at first biopsy for primary nephrotic syndrome and followed. Clinical outcomes were determined, and renal histomorphometry and sequencing of Mendelian nephrotic syndrome genes were performed. APOL1 variants were genotyped, and glomerular and tubulointerstitial transcriptomes from protocol renal biopsy cores were analyzed for differential and correlative gene expression. Analyses were performed under the recessive model (high-risk genotype defined by two risk alleles). APOL1 high-risk genotype was significantly associated with a 17 ml/min per 1.73 m(2) lower eGFR and a 69% reduction in the probability of complete remission at any time, independent of histologic diagnosis. Neither APOL1 risk group was enriched for Mendelian mutations. On renal biopsy, high-risk genotype was associated with increased fractional interstitial area, interstitial fibrosis, and tubular atrophy. Risk genotype was not associated with intrarenal APOL1 mRNA expression levels. Differential expression analysis demonstrated an increased steady-state level of five genes associated with the high-risk genotype (CXCL9, CXCL11, and UBD in glomerulus; SNOR14B and MUC13 in tubulointerstitium). APOL1 tubulointerstitial coexpression analysis showed coexpression of APOL1 mRNA levels with a group of intrarenal transcripts that together were associated with increased interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy. These data indicate the high-risk APOL1 genotype confers renal risk across histopathologic diagnoses.
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- Matthew G Sampson
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases,
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- Division of Nephrology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and
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- Division of Nephrology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
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- Kidney Diseases Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Division of Nephrology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and
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- Division of Nephrology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and
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- Division of Nephrology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
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- Department of Nephrology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine and
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- Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and
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- Department of Pathology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
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- Division of Nephrology, Departments of Internal Medicine and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University and Rammelkamp Center for Education and Research, MetroHealth System, Cleveland, Ohio
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Tsigelny IF, Kouznetsova VL, Jiang P, Pingle SC, Kesari S. Hierarchical control of coherent gene clusters defines the molecular mechanisms of glioblastoma. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2015; 11:1012-28. [PMID: 25648506 DOI: 10.1039/c5mb00007f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Glioblastoma is a highly-aggressive and rapidly-lethal tumor characterized by resistance to therapy. Although data on multiple genes, proteins, and pathways are available, the key challenge is deciphering this information and identifying central molecular targets. Therapeutically targeting individual molecules is often unsuccessful due to the presence of compensatory and redundant pathways, and crosstalk. A systems biology approach that involves a hierarchical gene group networks analysis can delineate the coherent functions of different disease mediators. Here, we report an integrative networks-based analysis to identify a system of coherent gene modules in primary and secondary glioblastoma. Our study revealed a hierarchical transcriptional control of genes in these modules. We elucidated those modules responsible for conversion of the glioma-associated microglia/macrophages into glioma-supportive, immunosuppressive cells. Further, we identified clusters comprising mediators of angiogenesis, proliferation, and cell death for both primary and secondary glioblastomas. Data obtained for these clusters point to a possible role of transcription regulators that function as the gene modules mediators in glioblastoma pathogenesis. We elucidated a set of possible transcription regulators that can be targeted to affect the selected gene clusters at specific levels for glioblastoma. Our innovative approach to construct informative disease models may hold the key to successful management of complex diseases including glioblastoma and other cancers.
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- Igor F Tsigelny
- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., MSC 0752, La Jolla, CA 92093-0752, USA.
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Martins R, Vieira FA, Power DM. Calcitonin receptor family evolution and fishing for function using in silico promoter analysis. Gen Comp Endocrinol 2014; 209:61-73. [PMID: 24815885 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In the present study the calcitonin receptor (CTR) sub-family of family B G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) in teleosts is evaluated and put in the context of the families overall evolution from echinodermates to vertebrates. Echinodermates, hemichordates, cephalochordates and tunicates have a single gene that encodes a receptor that bears similarity to the vertebrate calcitonin receptor (CTR) and calcitonin-like receptor (CTR/CLR). In tetrapods one gene encodes the calcitonin receptor (CALCR) and another gene the calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CALCRL). The evolution of CALCR has been under strong conservative pressure and a single copy is also found in fishes and high conservation of gene organisation and synteny exits from teleosts to human. A teleost specific CTR innovation that occurred after their divergence from holostei is the presence of several HBDs in the N-terminus. CALCRL had a different evolutionary trajectory from CALCR and although a single gene copy is present in tetrapods the sarcopterygii fish, the coelacanth, has 1 copy of CALCRL but also a fish specific form CALCRL3. The ray-finned fish, the spotted gar, has 1 copy of CALCRL and 1 of CALCRL3 but the teleost specific whole genome duplication has resulted in a CALCRL1 and CALCRL2 in addition to the fish specific CALCRL3. Strong conservation of CALCRL gene structure exists from human to fish. Promoter analysis in silico reveals that the duplicated CALCRL genes in the teleosts, zebrafish, takifugu, tetraodon and medaka, have divergent promoters and different putative co-regulated gene partners suggesting their function is different.
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- Rute Martins
- Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
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- Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
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- Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
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With current advances in genomics, several technological processes have been generated, resulting in improvement in different segments of molecular research involving prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems. A widely used contribution is the identification of new genes and their functions, which has led to the elucidation of several issues concerning cell regulation and interactions. For this, increase in the knowledge generated from the identification of promoters becomes considerably relevant, especially considering that to generate new technological processes, such as genetically modified organisms, the availability of promoters that regulate the expression of new genes is still limited. Considering that this issue is essential for biotechnologists, this paper presents an updated review of promoters, from their structure to expression, and focuses on the knowledge already available in eukaryotic systems. Information on current promoters and methodologies available for studying their expression are also reported.
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Martini S, Nair V, Keller BJ, Eichinger F, Hawkins JJ, Randolph A, Böger CA, Gadegbeku CA, Fox CS, Cohen CD, Kretzler M. Integrative biology identifies shared transcriptional networks in CKD. J Am Soc Nephrol 2014; 25:2559-72. [PMID: 24925724 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2013080906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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A previous meta-analysis of genome-wide association data by the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology and CKDGen consortia identified 16 loci associated with eGFR. To define how each of these single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) could affect renal function, we integrated GFR-associated loci with regulatory pathways, producing a molecular map of CKD. In kidney biopsy specimens from 157 European subjects representing nine different CKDs, renal transcript levels for 18 genes in proximity to the SNPs significantly correlated with GFR. These 18 genes were mapped into their biologic context by testing coregulated transcripts for enriched pathways. A network of 97 pathways linked by shared genes was constructed and characterized. Of these pathways, 56 pathways were reported previously to be associated with CKD; 41 pathways without prior association with CKD were ranked on the basis of the number of candidate genes connected to the respective pathways. All pathways aggregated into a network of two main clusters comprising inflammation- and metabolism-related pathways, with the NRF2-mediated oxidative stress response pathway serving as the hub between the two clusters. In all, 78 pathways and 95% of the connections among those pathways were verified in an independent North American biopsy cohort. Disease-specific analyses showed that most pathways are shared between sets of three diseases, with closest interconnection between lupus nephritis, IgA nephritis, and diabetic nephropathy. Taken together, the network integrates candidate genes from genome-wide association studies into their functional context, revealing interactions and defining established and novel biologic mechanisms of renal impairment in renal diseases.
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- Sebastian Martini
- Departments of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Intramural Research and Laboratory for Population and Metabolic Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, Massachusetts; Department of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; and
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- Institute of Physiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Departments of Internal Medicine, Nephrology, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
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Nguyen TT, Mattick JSA, Yang Q, Orman MA, Ierapetritou MG, Berthiaume F, Androulakis IP. Bioinformatics analysis of transcriptional regulation of circadian genes in rat liver. BMC Bioinformatics 2014; 15:83. [PMID: 24666587 PMCID: PMC3987685 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2012] [Accepted: 03/06/2014] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Background The circadian clock is a critical regulator of biological functions controlling behavioral, physiological and biochemical processes. Because the liver is the primary regulator of metabolites within the mammalian body and the disruption of circadian rhythms in liver is associated with severe illness, circadian regulators would play a strong role in maintaining liver function. However, the regulatory structure that governs circadian dynamics within the liver at a transcriptional level remains unknown. To explore this aspect, we analyzed hepatic transcriptional dynamics in Sprague-Dawley rats over a period of 24 hours to assess the genome-wide responses. Results Using an unsupervised consensus clustering method, we identified four major gene expression clusters, corresponding to central carbon and nitrogen metabolism, membrane integrity, immune function, and DNA repair, all of which have dynamics which suggest regulation in a circadian manner. With the assumption that transcription factors (TFs) that are differentially expressed and contain CLOCK:BMAL1 binding sites on their proximal promoters are likely to be clock-controlled TFs, we were able to use promoter analysis to putatively identify additional clock-controlled TFs besides PARF and RORA families. These TFs are both functionally and temporally related to the clusters they regulate. Furthermore, we also identified significant sets of clock TFs that are potentially transcriptional regulators of gene clusters. Conclusions All together, we were able to propose a regulatory structure for circadian regulation which represents alternative paths for circadian control of different functions within the liver. Our prediction has been affirmed by functional and temporal analyses which are able to extend for similar studies.
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- Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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Acharya S, Sengupta S, Patro S, Purohit S, Samal SK, Maiti IB, Dey N. Development of an intra-molecularly shuffled efficient chimeric plant promoter from plant infecting Mirabilis mosaic virus promoter sequence. J Biotechnol 2014; 169:103-11. [PMID: 24060830 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2013.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Revised: 08/16/2013] [Accepted: 08/19/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We developed an efficient chimeric promoter, MUASMSCP, with enhanced activity and salicylic acid (SA)/abscisic acid (ABA) inducibility, incorporating the upstream activation sequence (UAS) of Mirabilis mosaic virus full-length transcript (MUAS, -297 to -38) to the 5' end of Mirabilis mosaic virus sub-genomic transcript (MSCP, -306 to -125) promoter-fragment containing the TATA element. We compared the transient activity of the MUASMSCP promoter in tobacco/Arabidopsis protoplasts and in whole plant (Petunia hybrida) with the same that obtained from CaMV35S and MUAS35SCP promoters individually. The MUASMSCP promoter showed 1.1 and 1.5 times stronger GUS-activities over that obtained from MUAS35SCP and CaMV35S promoters respectively, in tobacco (Xanthi Brad) protoplasts. In transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum, var. Samsun NN), the MUASMSCP promoter showed 1.1 and 2.2 times stronger activities than MUAS35SCP and CaMV35S(2) promoters respectively. We observed a fair correlation between MUASMSCP-, MUAS35SCP- and CaMV35S(2)-driven GUS activities with the corresponding uidA-mRNA level in transgenic plants. X-gluc staining of transgenic germinating seed-sections and whole seedlings also support above findings. Protein-extracts made from tobacco protoplasts expressing GFP and human-IL-24 genes driven individually by the MUASMSCP promoter showed enhanced expression of the reporters compared to that obtained from the CaMV35S promoter. Furthermore, MUASMSCP-driven protoplast-derived human IL-24 showed enhanced cell inhibitory activity in DU-145 prostate cancer cells compared to that obtained from the CaMV35S promoter. We propose chimeric MUASMSCP promoter developed in the study could be useful for strong constitutive expression of transgenes in both plant/animal cells and it may become an efficient substitute for CaMV35S/CaMV35S(2) promoter.
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- Sefali Acharya
- Division of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar 751 023, Odisha, India.
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- Division of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar 751 023, Odisha, India.
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- Division of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar 751 023, Odisha, India.
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- Division of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar 751 023, Odisha, India.
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- Division of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar 751 023, Odisha, India.
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- Plant Genetic Engineering & Service, KTRDC, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546-0236, USA
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- Division of Gene Function and Regulation, Institute of Life Sciences, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar 751 023, Odisha, India.
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Hosseinpour B, Bakhtiarizadeh MR, Khosravi P, Ebrahimie E. Predicting distinct organization of transcription factor binding sites on the promoter regions: a new genome-based approach to expand human embryonic stem cell regulatory network. Gene 2013; 531:212-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2013] [Revised: 09/01/2013] [Accepted: 09/04/2013] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Kumari S, Ware D. Genome-wide computational prediction and analysis of core promoter elements across plant monocots and dicots. PLoS One 2013; 8:e79011. [PMID: 24205361 PMCID: PMC3812177 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2013] [Accepted: 09/18/2013] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Transcription initiation, essential to gene expression regulation, involves recruitment of basal transcription factors to the core promoter elements (CPEs). The distribution of currently known CPEs across plant genomes is largely unknown. This is the first large scale genome-wide report on the computational prediction of CPEs across eight plant genomes to help better understand the transcription initiation complex assembly. The distribution of thirteen known CPEs across four monocots (Brachypodium distachyon, Oryza sativa ssp. japonica, Sorghum bicolor, Zea mays) and four dicots (Arabidopsis thaliana, Populus trichocarpa, Vitis vinifera, Glycine max) reveals the structural organization of the core promoter in relation to the TATA-box as well as with respect to other CPEs. The distribution of known CPE motifs with respect to transcription start site (TSS) exhibited positional conservation within monocots and dicots with slight differences across all eight genomes. Further, a more refined subset of annotated genes based on orthologs of the model monocot (O. sativa ssp. japonica) and dicot (A. thaliana) genomes supported the positional distribution of these thirteen known CPEs. DNA free energy profiles provided evidence that the structural properties of promoter regions are distinctly different from that of the non-regulatory genome sequence. It also showed that monocot core promoters have lower DNA free energy than dicot core promoters. The comparison of monocot and dicot promoter sequences highlights both the similarities and differences in the core promoter architecture irrespective of the species-specific nucleotide bias. This study will be useful for future work related to genome annotation projects and can inspire research efforts aimed to better understand regulatory mechanisms of transcription.
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- Sunita Kumari
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America,
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- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America,
- United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, New York, United States of America
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DAX1 regulatory networks unveil conserved and potentially new functions. Gene 2013; 530:66-74. [PMID: 23954228 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.07.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2013] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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DAX1 is an orphan nuclear receptor with actions in mammalian sex determination, regulation of steroidogenesis, embryonic development and neural differentiation. Conserved patterns of DAX1 gene expression from mammals to fish have been taken to suggest conserved function. In the present study, the European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, DAX1 promoter was isolated and its conserved features compared to other fish and mammalian DAX1 promoters in order to derive common regulators and functional gene networks. Fish and mammalian DAX1 promoters share common sets of transcription factor frameworks which were also present in the promoter region of another 127 genes. Pathway analysis clustered these into candidate gene networks associated with the fish and mammalian DAX1. The networks identified are concordant with described functions for DAX1 in embryogenesis, regulation of transcription, endocrine development and steroid production. Novel candidate gene network partners were also identified, which implicate DAX1 in ion homeostasis and transport, lipid transport and skeletal development. Experimental evidence is provided supporting roles for DAX1 in steroid signalling and osmoregulation in fish. These results highlight the usefulness of the in silico comparative approach to analyse gene regulation for hypothesis generation. Conserved promoter architecture can be used also to predict potentially new gene functions. The approach reported can be applied to genes from model and non-model species.
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Martini S, Nair V, Patel SR, Eichinger F, Nelson RG, Weil EJ, Pezzolesi MG, Krolewski AS, Randolph A, Keller BJ, Werner T, Kretzler M. From single nucleotide polymorphism to transcriptional mechanism: a model for FRMD3 in diabetic nephropathy. Diabetes 2013; 62:2605-12. [PMID: 23434934 PMCID: PMC3712052 DOI: 10.2337/db12-1416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Genome-wide association studies have proven to be highly effective at defining relationships between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and clinical phenotypes in complex diseases. Establishing a mechanistic link between a noncoding SNP and the clinical outcome is a significant hurdle in translating associations into biological insight. We demonstrate an approach to assess the functional context of a diabetic nephropathy (DN)-associated SNP located in the promoter region of the gene FRMD3. The approach integrates pathway analyses with transcriptional regulatory pattern-based promoter modeling and allows the identification of a transcriptional framework affected by the DN-associated SNP in the FRMD3 promoter. This framework provides a testable hypothesis for mechanisms of genomic variation and transcriptional regulation in the context of DN. Our model proposes a possible transcriptional link through which the polymorphism in the FRMD3 promoter could influence transcriptional regulation within the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-signaling pathway. These findings provide the rationale to interrogate the biological link between FRMD3 and the BMP pathway and serve as an example of functional genomics-based hypothesis generation.
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- Sebastian Martini
- Departments of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix, Arizona
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- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix, Arizona
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- Research and Clinic Divisions, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Genomatix Software GmbH, Munich, Germany
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- Departments of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Corresponding author: Matthias Kretzler,
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Müller B, Prante C, Knabbe C, Kleesiek K, Götting C. First identification and functional analysis of the human xylosyltransferase II promoter. Glycoconj J 2013; 30:237-45. [PMID: 22886070 DOI: 10.1007/s10719-012-9439-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2012] [Revised: 07/25/2012] [Accepted: 07/27/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Recently, we demonstrated that the human xylosyltransferase II (XT-II) has enzymatic activity and is able to catalyze the initial and rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) like chondroitin and dermatan sulfate, as well as heparan sulfate and heparin. Therefore, this enzyme also very likely assumes a crucial regulatory role in the biosynthesis of proteoglycans (PGs). In this study, we identified and characterized for the first time the XYLT2 gene promoter region and transcription factors involved in its regulation. Several binding sites for members of the Sp1 family of transcription factors were identified as being necessary for transcriptional regulation of the XYLT2 gene. This was determined by mithramycin A treatment, electrophoretic mobility shift and supershift assays, as well as numerous site-directed mutagenesis experiments. Different 5' and 3' deletion constructs of the predicted GC rich promoter region, which lacks a canonical TATA and CAAT box, revealed that a 177 nts proximal promoter element is sufficient and indispensable to drive the constitutive transcription in full strength in HepG2 hepatoma cells. In addition, we also detected the transcriptional start site using 5'-RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends). Our results provide an insight into transcriptional regulation of the XYLT2 gene and may contribute to understanding the manifold GAG-involving processes in health and disease.
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- Benjamin Müller
- Institut für Laboratoriums- und Transfusionsmedizin, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
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Tsigelny IF, Kouznetsova VL, Baitaluk M, Changeux JP. A hierarchical coherent-gene-group model for brain development. GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR 2012; 12:147-65. [DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Revised: 05/30/2012] [Accepted: 11/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Department of Neuroscience, Collège de France & URA CNRS 2182; Institut Pasteur; Paris Cedex; France
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Urban A, Rossier J. Genetic targeting of specific neuronal cell types in the cerebral cortex. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2012; 196:163-92. [PMID: 22341326 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-59426-6.00009-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Understanding the structure and function of cortical circuits requires the identification of and control over specific cell types in the cortex. To address these obstacles, recent optogenetic approaches have been developed. The capacity to activate, silence, or monitor specific cell types by combining genetics, virology, and optics will decipher the role of specific groups of neurons within circuits with a spatiotemporal resolution that overcomes standard approaches. In this review, the various strategies for selective genetic targeting of a defined neuronal population are discussed as well as the pros and cons of the use of transgenic animals and recombinant viral vectors for the expression of transgenes in a specific set of neurons.
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- Alan Urban
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie et Diversité Cellulaire, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7637, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Paris, France.
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Stavrum R, Valvatne H, Stavrum AK, Riley LW, Ulvestad E, Jonassen I, Doherty TM, Grewal HMS. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mce1 protein complex initiates rapid induction of transcription of genes involved in substrate trafficking. Genes Immun 2012; 13:496-502. [PMID: 22695749 DOI: 10.1038/gene.2012.24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The mammalian cell entry (Mce)1 protein complex has an important role during the initial phase of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) infection. Murine macrophages were infected with M. tuberculosis H37Rv or Δ-mce1 H37Rv, and total RNA was isolated from the host cells at 15, 30 and 60 min, and 4 and 10 h post-infection. With the aim of studying the role for the Mce1 protein complex on host gene expression, the RNA was hybridized onto 44 K whole-genome microarrays. Selected genes were verified by reverse-transcriptase quantitative PCR (RT-QPCR). 'Transport' was the most overrepresented biological process during the first hour post H37Rv infection. Five genes (Abca1 (21.0-fold), Slc16a10 (3.1-fold), Slc6a12 (17.9-fold), Slc6a8 (2.3-fold) and Nr1h3, (5.5-fold)) involved in substrate trafficking were verified by RT-QPCR to be upregulated by >2-fold 1 h post H37Rv infection. By 1 h post Δ-mce1 H37Rv infection, only Abca1 and Slc6a12 were upregulated by >2-fold. A number of other genes, which may be directly involved in substrate trafficking or share the same transcription, were found to have expression profiles similar to the genes involved in substrate trafficking. The Mce1 protein complex has a significant role in the transcriptional activation of genes involved in substrate trafficking during the initial phase of an M. tuberculosis infection.
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- R Stavrum
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Gade Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
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Joshi H, Nord SH, Frigessi A, Børresen-Dale AL, Kristensen VN. Overrepresentation of transcription factor families in the genesets underlying breast cancer subtypes. BMC Genomics 2012; 13:199. [PMID: 22616941 PMCID: PMC3441847 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2011] [Accepted: 05/22/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background The human genome contains a large amount of cis-regulatory DNA elements responsible for directing both spatial and temporal gene-expression patterns. Previous studies have shown that based on their mRNA expression breast tumors could be divided into five subgroups (Luminal A, Luminal B, Basal, ErbB2+ and Normal-like), each with a distinct molecular portrait. Whole genome gene expression analysis of independent sets of breast tumors reveals repeatedly the robustness of this classification. Furthermore, breast tumors carrying a TP53 mutation show a distinct gene expression profile, which is in strong association to the distinct molecular portraits. The mRNA expression of 552 genes, which varied considerably among the different tumors, but little between two samples of the same tumor, has been shown to be sufficient to separate these tumor subgroups. Results We analyzed in silico the transcriptional regulation of genes defining the subgroups at 3 different levels: 1. We studied the pathways in which the genes distinguishing the subgroups of breast cancer may be jointly involved including upstream regulators (1st and 2nd level of regulation) as well as downstream targets of these genes. 2. Then we analyzed the promoter areas of these genes (−500 bp tp +100 bp relative to the transcription start site) for canonical transcription binding sites using Genomatix. 3. We looked for the actual expression levels of the identified TF and how they correlate with the overrepresentation of their TF binding sites in the separate groups. We report that promoter composition of the genes that most strongly predict the patient subgroups is distinct. The class-predictive genes showed a clearly different degree of overrepresentation of transcription factor families in their promoter sequences. Conclusion The study suggests that transcription factors responsible for the observed expression pattern in breast cancers may lead us to important biological pathways.
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- Himanshu Joshi
- Department of Clinical Molecular Biology and Laboratory Sciences (EpiGen), Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lorenskog, Norway
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Keller BJ, Martini S, Nair V. Linking variants from genome-wide association analysis to function via transcriptional network analysis. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 910:297-308. [PMID: 22821601 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-965-5_13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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We outline a strategy to use tissue-specific expression along with promoter module analysis to determine the putative functional context of candidate genes implicated in genome-wide association studies. First, genes are selected from candidate SNPs, followed by construction of a gene co-regulation network to expand the regulatory context of the candidate genes, functional analysis to determine putative functional roles, and subsequent analysis of regulatory elements. We describe these sub-strategies and variations, along with guidelines for alternatives in the overall analysis.
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- Benjamin J Keller
- Department of Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, USA.
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Rose G, Crocco P, D'Aquila P, Montesanto A, Bellizzi D, Passarino G. Two variants located in the upstream enhancer region of human UCP1 gene affect gene expression and are correlated with human longevity. Exp Gerontol 2011; 46:897-904. [PMID: 21827845 DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2011.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2011] [Revised: 05/31/2011] [Accepted: 07/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The brown fat specific UnCoupling Protein 1 (UCP1) is involved in thermogenesis, a process by which energy is dissipated as heat in response to cold stress and excess of caloric intake. Thermogenesis has potential implications for body mass control and cellular fat metabolism. In fact, in humans, the variability of the UCP1 gene is associated with obesity, fat gain and metabolism. Since regulation of metabolism is one of the key-pathways in lifespan extension, we tested the possible effects of UCP1 variability on survival. Two polymorphisms (A-3826G and C-3740A), falling in the upstream promoter region of UCP1, were analyzed in a sample of 910 subjects from southern Italy (475 women and 435 men; age range 40-109). By analyzing haplotype specific survival functions we found that the A-C haplotype favors survival in the elderly. Consistently, transfection experiments showed that the luciferase activity of the construct containing the A-C haplotype was significantly higher than that containing the G-A haplotype. Interestingly, the different UCP1 haplotypes responded differently to hormonal stimuli. The results we present suggest a correlation between the activity of UCP1 and human survival, indicating once again the intricacy of mechanisms involved in energy production, storage and consumption as the key to understanding human aging and longevity.
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- Giuseppina Rose
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
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Pande M, Hur J, Hong Y, Backus C, Hayes JM, Oh SS, Kretzler M, Feldman EL. Transcriptional profiling of diabetic neuropathy in the BKS db/db mouse: a model of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes 2011; 60:1981-9. [PMID: 21617178 PMCID: PMC3121428 DOI: 10.2337/db10-1541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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OBJECTIVE A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the development and progression of diabetic neuropathy (DN) is essential for the design of mechanism-based therapies. We examined changes in global gene expression to define pathways regulated by diabetes in peripheral nerve. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Microarray data for 24-week-old BKS db/db and db/+ mouse sciatic nerve were analyzed to define significantly differentially expressed genes (DEGs); DEGs were further analyzed to identify regulated biological processes and pathways. Expression profile clustering was performed to identify coexpressed DEGs. A set of coexpressed lipid metabolism genes was used for promoter sequence analysis. RESULTS Gene expression changes are consistent with structural changes of axonal degeneration. Pathways regulated in the db/db nerve include lipid metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, energy metabolism, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor signaling, apoptosis, and axon guidance. Promoter sequences of lipid metabolism-related genes exhibit evidence of coregulation of lipid metabolism and nervous system development genes. CONCLUSIONS Our data support existing hypotheses regarding hyperglycemia-mediated nerve damage in DN. Moreover, our analyses revealed a possible coregulation mechanism connecting hyperlipidemia and axonal degeneration.
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- Manjusha Pande
- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Bioinformatics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Bioinformatics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Department of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Bioinformatics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Corresponding author: Eva L. Feldman,
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Nguyen TT, Foteinou PT, Calvano SE, Lowry SF, Androulakis IP. Computational identification of transcriptional regulators in human endotoxemia. PLoS One 2011; 6:e18889. [PMID: 21637747 PMCID: PMC3103499 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2010] [Accepted: 03/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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One of the great challenges in the post-genomic era is to decipher the underlying principles governing the dynamics of biological responses. As modulating gene expression levels is among the key regulatory responses of an organism to changes in its environment, identifying biologically relevant transcriptional regulators and their putative regulatory interactions with target genes is an essential step towards studying the complex dynamics of transcriptional regulation. We present an analysis that integrates various computational and biological aspects to explore the transcriptional regulation of systemic inflammatory responses through a human endotoxemia model. Given a high-dimensional transcriptional profiling dataset from human blood leukocytes, an elementary set of temporal dynamic responses which capture the essence of a pro-inflammatory phase, a counter-regulatory response and a dysregulation in leukocyte bioenergetics has been extracted. Upon identification of these expression patterns, fourteen inflammation-specific gene batteries that represent groups of hypothetically ‘coregulated’ genes are proposed. Subsequently, statistically significant cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) are identified and decomposed into a list of critical transcription factors (34) that are validated largely on primary literature. Finally, our analysis further allows for the construction of a dynamic representation of the temporal transcriptional regulatory program across the host, deciphering possible combinatorial interactions among factors under which they might be active. Although much remains to be explored, this study has computationally identified key transcription factors and proposed a putative time-dependent transcriptional regulatory program associated with critical transcriptional inflammatory responses. These results provide a solid foundation for future investigations to elucidate the underlying transcriptional regulatory mechanisms under the host inflammatory response. Also, the assumption that coexpressed genes that are functionally relevant are more likely to share some common transcriptional regulatory mechanism seems to be promising, making the proposed framework become essential in unravelling context-specific transcriptional regulatory interactions underlying diverse mammalian biological processes.
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- Tung T. Nguyen
- BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
- Department of Surgery, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Nelson PJ, Werner T. Pathways and promoter networks analysis provides systems topology for systems biology approaches. Semin Nephrol 2011; 30:477-86. [PMID: 21044759 DOI: 10.1016/j.semnephrol.2010.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Systems-level approaches provide help in characterizing the complexity of renal disease. In this review, we illustrate, using a series of recent examples of integrative studies based on pathway analysis and promoter networks, how new techniques allow the analysis of the layout of complex systems and, through this, help answer questions related to renal disease processes. These technologies include the identification of regulatory pathways dysregulated in the context of renal disease, and techniques for studying promoter networks. Both approaches make use of technologies applied to large-scale transcriptomics, transcriptomic profiling by DNA microarrays, or next-generation sequencing.
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- Peter J Nelson
- Medical Policlinic, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
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Kozhenkov S, Dubinina Y, Sedova M, Gupta A, Ponomarenko J, Baitaluk M. BiologicalNetworks 2.0--an integrative view of genome biology data. BMC Bioinformatics 2010; 11:610. [PMID: 21190573 PMCID: PMC3019228 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2010] [Accepted: 12/29/2010] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Background A significant problem in the study of mechanisms of an organism's development is the elucidation of interrelated factors which are making an impact on the different levels of the organism, such as genes, biological molecules, cells, and cell systems. Numerous sources of heterogeneous data which exist for these subsystems are still not integrated sufficiently enough to give researchers a straightforward opportunity to analyze them together in the same frame of study. Systematic application of data integration methods is also hampered by a multitude of such factors as the orthogonal nature of the integrated data and naming problems. Results Here we report on a new version of BiologicalNetworks, a research environment for the integral visualization and analysis of heterogeneous biological data. BiologicalNetworks can be queried for properties of thousands of different types of biological entities (genes/proteins, promoters, COGs, pathways, binding sites, and other) and their relations (interactions, co-expression, co-citations, and other). The system includes the build-pathways infrastructure for molecular interactions/relations and module discovery in high-throughput experiments. Also implemented in BiologicalNetworks are the Integrated Genome Viewer and Comparative Genomics Browser applications, which allow for the search and analysis of gene regulatory regions and their conservation in multiple species in conjunction with molecular pathways/networks, experimental data and functional annotations. Conclusions The new release of BiologicalNetworks together with its back-end database introduces extensive functionality for a more efficient integrated multi-level analysis of microarray, sequence, regulatory, and other data. BiologicalNetworks is freely available at http://www.biologicalnetworks.org.
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- Sergey Kozhenkov
- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Nagaraj SH, Ingham A, Reverter A. The interplay between evolution, regulation and tissue specificity in the Human Hereditary Diseasome. BMC Genomics 2010; 11 Suppl 4:S23. [PMID: 21143807 PMCID: PMC3005915 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-s4-s23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Human disease genes can be distinguished from essential (embryonically lethal) and non-disease genes using gene attributes. Such attributes include gene age, tissue specificity of expression, regulatory capacity, sequence length, rate of sequence variation and capacity for interaction. The resulting information has been used to inform data mining approaches seeking to identify novel disease genes. Given the dynamic nature of this field and the rapid rise in relevant information, we have chosen to perform a single integrated mining approach to explore relationships among gene attributes and thereby characterise evolutionary trends associated with disease genes. Results All against all cross comparison of 2,522 disease gene attributes revealed significant relationships existed between the age, disease-association and expression pattern of genes and the tissues within which they are expressed. We found that the over-representation of disease genes among old genes holds for tissue-specific genes, but the correlation between age and disease association vanished when conditioning on tissue-specificity. Of the 32 tissues studied, the genes expressed in pancreas are on average older than the genes expressed in any other tissue, while the testis expressed the lowest proportion of old genes. Following a focussed analysis on the impact of regulatory apparatus on evolution of disease genes, we show that regulators, comprising transcription factors and post-translation modified proteins, are over-represented among ancient disease genes. In addition, we show that the proportion of regulator genes is affected by gene age among disease genes and by tissue-specificity among non-disease genes. Finally, using 55,606 true positive gene interaction data, we find that old disease genes interacts with other old disease genes and interacting new genes interacts with genes originating from higher phylostrata. Conclusion This study supports the non-random nature of the human diseasome. We have identified a variety of distinct features and correlations to other molecular attributes that can be used to distinguish the set of disease causing genes. This was achieved by harnessing the power of mining large scale datasets from OMIM and other databases. Ultimately such knowledge may contribute to the identification of novel human disease genes and an enhanced understanding of human biology.
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- Shivashankar H Nagaraj
- CSIRO Livestock Industries, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
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Analysis of Combinatorial Gene Regulation with Thermodynamic Models. FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84996-196-7_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Targeting tumor stroma using engineered mesenchymal stem cells reduces the growth of pancreatic carcinoma. Ann Surg 2009; 250:747-53. [PMID: 19826249 DOI: 10.1097/sla.0b013e3181bd62d0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To analyze the efficacy of engineered mesenchymal stem cell based therapy directed towards pancreatic tumor stroma. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are actively recruited to tumor stroma where they enhance tumor growth and metastases. Upregulation of chemotactic cytokine (CCL5) by MSCs within the tumor stroma has been shown to play a central role in this process. Murine MSCs were engineered to express reporter genes or therapeutic genes under control of the CCL5 promoter and adoptively transferred into mice with growing pancreatic tumors. The effect on tumor growth and metastases was then evaluated. METHODS MSCs isolated from bone marrow of C57/Bl6 p53 mice were stably transfected with red fluorescent protein (RFP), enhanced green fluorescent protein (eGFP), or herpes simplex virus (HSV) thymidine kinase (Tk) gene driven by the RANTES promoter. MSCs were intravenously applied once per week over 3 weeks to mice carrying an orthotopic, syngeneic pancreatic Panc02 tumor. RESULTS eGFP and RFP signals driven by the CCL5 promoter were detected by fluorescence in treated pancreatic tumor samples. The HSV-Tk therapy group treated intraperitoneal with the prodrug ganciclovir 5 to 7 days after stem cell application lead to a 50% reduction of primary pancreatic tumor growth (P < 0.0003, student t test) and reduced liver metastases (0% vs. 60%). CONCLUSION The active homing of MSCs into primary pancreatic tumor stroma and activation of the CCL5 promoter was verified using eGFP- and RFP-reporter genes. In the presence of ganciclovir, HSV-Tk transfected MSCs led to a significant reduction of primary pancreatic tumor growth and incidence of metastases.
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Venter M, Warnich L. In silico promoters: modelling of cis-regulatory context facilitates target predictio. J Cell Mol Med 2008; 13:270-8. [PMID: 18505473 PMCID: PMC3823354 DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2008.00371.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Elucidation of gene regulatory complexity holds much promise towards aiding therapeutic interventions in medical research. It has become progressively more evident that the characterization of highly conserved regulatory modules within promoters may assist in the elucidation of distinct cis-motif and trans-element regulatory interactions, shared in response to stimulus-evoked pathological changes. With special emphasis on the promoter, accurate analyses of cis-motif architecture combined with integrative in silico modelling might serve as a more refined approach for prediction and study of regulatory targets and major regulators governing transcriptional control. In this review, we have highlighted key examples and recent advances implementing in silico promoter models that could serve as essential contributions for future research in molecular medicine.
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- Mauritz Venter
- Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa.
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Vuori KA, Nordlund E, Kallio J, Salakoski T, Nikinmaa M. Tissue-specific expression of aryl hydrocarbon receptor and putative developmental regulatory modules in Baltic salmon yolk-sac fry. AQUATIC TOXICOLOGY (AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS) 2008; 87:19-27. [PMID: 18294709 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2007] [Revised: 12/21/2007] [Accepted: 01/03/2008] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is an ancient protein that is conserved in vertebrates and invertebrates, indicating its important function throughout evolution. AhR has been studied largely because of its role in toxicology-gene expression via AhR is induced by many aromatic hydrocarbons in mammals. Recently, however, it has become clear that AhR is involved in various aspects of development such as cell proliferation and differentiation, and cell motility and migration. The mechanisms by which AhR regulates these various functions remain poorly understood. Across-species comparative studies of AhR in invertebrates, non-mammalian vertebrates and mammals may help to reveal the multiple functions of AhR. Here, we have studied AhR during larval development of Baltic salmon (Salmon salar). Our results indicate that AhR protein is expressed in nervous system, liver and muscle tissues. We also present putative regulatory modules and module-matching genes, produced by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) cloning and in silico analysis, which may be associated with evolutionarily conserved functions of AhR during development. For example, the module NFKB-AHRR-CREB found from salmon ChIP sequences is present in human ULK3 (regulating formation of granule cell axons in mouse and axon outgrowth in Caernohabditis elegans) and SRGAP1 (GTPase-activating protein involved in the Slit/Robo pathway) promoters. We suggest that AhR may have an evolutionarily conserved role in neuronal development and nerve cell targeting, and in Wnt signaling pathway.
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- Kristiina A Vuori
- Centre of Excellence in Evolutionary Genetics and Physiology, Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.
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Kohn MH. Rapid sequence divergence rates in the 5 prime regulatory regions of young Drosophila melanogaster duplicate gene pairs. Genet Mol Biol 2008. [DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572008000300028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- Michael H. Kohn
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University, United States of America
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The distinctive black phenotype of ebony mutants has made it one of the most widely used phenotypic markers in Drosophila genetics. Without doubt, ebony showcases the fruits of the fly community's labours to annotate gene function. As of this writing, FlyBase lists 142 references, 1277 fly stocks, 15 phenotypes and 44 alleles. In addition to its namesake pigmentation phenotype, ebony mutants affect other traits, including phototaxis and courtship. With phenotypic consequences of ebony variants readily apparent in the laboratory, does natural selection also see them in the wild? In this issue of Molecular Ecology, Pool & Aquadro investigate this question and found signs of natural selection on the ebony gene that appear to have resulted from selection for darker pigmentation at higher elevations in sub-Saharan populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Such findings from population genomic analysis of wild-derived strains should be included in gene annotations to provide a more holistic view of a gene's function. The evolutionary annotation of ebony added by Pool & Aquadro substantiates that pigmentation can be adaptive and implicates elevation as an important selective factor. This is important progress because the selective factors seem to differ between populations and species. In addition, the study raises issues to consider when extrapolating from selection at the molecular level to selection at the phenotypic level.
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Venter M. Synthetic promoters: genetic control through cis engineering. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2007; 12:118-24. [PMID: 17292658 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2007.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2006] [Revised: 12/12/2006] [Accepted: 01/29/2007] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Technological advances in plant genetics integrated with systems biology and bioinformatics has yielded a myriad of novel biological data and insights into plant metabolism. This unprecedented advance has provided a platform for targeted manipulation of transcriptional activity through synthetic promoter engineering, and holds great promise as a way to further our understanding of regulatory complexity. The challenge and strategy for predictive experimental gene expression is the accurate design and use of molecular 'switches' and modules that will regulate single or multiple plant transgenes in direct response to specific environmental, physiological and chemical cues. In particular, focusing on cis-motif rearrangement, future plant biotechnology applications and the elucidation of cis- and trans-regulatory mechanisms could greatly benefit from using plant synthetic promoters.
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- Mauritz Venter
- Institute for Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa.
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Liu GB, Jiang YF, Yan H, Zhao KN. Computational analysis of base composition pattern and promoter elements in the putative promoter regions in relation to expression profiles of 682 human genes on chromosome 22. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 17:270-81. [PMID: 17312946 DOI: 10.1080/10425170600886136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Abstract The base composition pattern (BCP) in the putative promoter region (PPRs) up to 5 Kb lengths of 682 human genes on Chromosome 22 (Chr22) was examined. Two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) functions were designed to delineate the DNA base composition, with four major patterns identified. It is found that 17.6% genes include TATA box, 28.0% GC box, 18.9% CAAT box and 38.4% CpG islands, and approximately 10% genes have one of four putative initiator (Inr) motifs. The occurrence of the promoter elements is tightly associated with the base composition features in the promoter regions, and the associations of the base composition features with occurrence of the promoter elements in the promoter regions mediate tissue-wide expression of the genes in human. The occurrence of two or more promoter elements in the promoter regions is required for the medium- and wide-range expression profiles of the human genes on Chr22. Thus, the reported data shed light on the characteristics of the PPRs of the human genes on Chr22, which may improve our understanding of regulatory roles of the PPRs with occurrence of the promoter elements in gene expression.
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- Guang Bin Liu
- Department of Biological and Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Centre for Systems Biology, The University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld 4350, Australia.
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Gene regulation and aging are intrinsically linked and these links often reach directly to transcription factors and their actions in gene regulation. However, it is very difficult to follow all the individual directions such factors can affect. Therefore, the opposite approach became more popular recently, i.e. observing the endpoints of all these actions. Microarrays are the preferred technology to monitor large-scale changes in transcripts across whole genomes. The trade-off for being able to survey whole genome transcriptomes is that the results are mere observations, which do not directly reveal the underlying mechanisms that represent the real link to transcription factors and their actions. Fortunately, a combination of knowledge mining (including but not restricted to literature mining) with genomics analyses can be harnessed to elucidate at least some of the regulatory networks orchestrating the transcriptional changes observed by microarray experiments. Thus, a considerable part of the functional system structure of cells and organisms can be revealed, which is a pivotal prerequisite for any meaningful systems biology approach towards aging related phenotypes.
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- Thomas Werner
- Genomatix Software GmbH, Bayerstr. 85A, D-80335 München, Germany.
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Khatri P, Desai V, Tarca AL, Sellamuthu S, Wildman DE, Romero R, Draghici S. New Onto-Tools: Promoter-Express, nsSNPCounter and Onto-Translate. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:W626-31. [PMID: 16845086 PMCID: PMC1538776 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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The Onto-Tools suite is composed of an annotation database and eight complementary, web-accessible data mining tools: Onto-Express, Onto-Compare, Onto-Design, Onto-Translate, Onto-Miner, Pathway-Express, Promoter-Express and nsSNPCounter. Promoter-Express is a new tool added to the Onto-Tools ensemble that facilitates the identification of transcription factor binding sites active in specific conditions. nsSNPCounter is another new tool that allows computation and analysis of synonymous and non-synonymous codon substitutions for studying evolutionary rates of protein coding genes. Onto-Translate has also been enhanced to expand its scope and accuracy by fully utilizing the capabilities of the Onto-Tools database. Currently, Onto-Translate allows arbitrary mappings between 28 types of IDs for 53 organisms. Onto-Tools are freely available at .
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- Perinatology Research BranchNIH/NICHD, 4 Brush, 3990 John R, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Perinatology Research BranchNIH/NICHD, 4 Brush, 3990 John R, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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- Perinatology Research BranchNIH/NICHD, 4 Brush, 3990 John R, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Uddin RK, Singh SM. Ethanol-responsive genes: identification of transcription factors and their role in metabolomics. THE PHARMACOGENOMICS JOURNAL 2006; 7:38-47. [PMID: 16652119 DOI: 10.1038/sj.tpj.6500394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Transcription factors (TFs) and their combinatorial control on cis-regulatory elements play critical role in the co-expression of genes. This affects the interaction of genes in the transcriptome and thus may affect signals that cascade through cellular pathways. Using a combination of bioinformatic approaches, we sought to identify such common combinations of TFs in a set of ethanol-responsive (ER) genes and assess the role of ethanol in affecting multiple pathways through their co-regulation. Our results show that the metallothionein genes are regulated by TF motifs cAMP responsive element binding protein (CREB) and metal-activated transcription factor 1 and primarily involved in zinc ion homeostasis. We have also identified new target genes, Synaptojanin 1 and tryptophan hydroxylase 1, potentially regulated by this module. Altered arrangement of TF-binding sites in the module may direct the action of these and other target genes in intracellular signaling cascades, cell growth and/or maintenance. In addition to CREB, other key TFs identified are ecotropic viral integration site-1 and SP1. These modulate the contribution of the target ER genes in cell cycle regulation and apoptosis or programmed cell death. Multiple lines of evidence confirm the above findings and indicate that different groups of ER genes are involved in different biological processes and their co-regulation most likely results from different sets of regulatory modules. These findings associate the role of the ER genes studied and their potential TF modules with alcohol response pathways and phenotypes.
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- R K Uddin
- Department of Biology and Division of Medical Genetics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Cohen CD, Klingenhoff A, Boucherot A, Nitsche A, Henger A, Brunner B, Schmid H, Merkle M, Saleem MA, Koller KP, Werner T, Gröne HJ, Nelson PJ, Kretzler M. Comparative promoter analysis allows de novo identification of specialized cell junction-associated proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:5682-7. [PMID: 16581909 PMCID: PMC1421338 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0511257103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Shared transcription factor binding sites that are conserved in distance and orientation help control the expression of gene products that act together in the same biological context. New bioinformatics approaches allow the rapid characterization of shared promoter structures and can be used to find novel interacting molecules. Here, these principles are demonstrated by using molecules linked to the unique functional unit of the glomerular slit diaphragm. An evolutionarily conserved promoter model was generated by comparative genomics in the proximal promoter regions of the slit diaphragm-associated molecule nephrin. Phylogenetic promoter fingerprints of known elements of the slit diaphragm complex identified the nephrin model in the promoter region of zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1). Genome-wide scans using this promoter model effectively predicted a previously unrecognized slit diaphragm molecule, cadherin-5. Nephrin, ZO-1, and cadherin-5 mRNA showed stringent coexpression across a diverse set of human glomerular diseases. Comparative promoter analysis can identify regulatory pathways at work in tissue homeostasis and disease processes.
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- Clemens D. Cohen
- *Medizinische Poliklinik, University of Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- *Medizinische Poliklinik, University of Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- *Medizinische Poliklinik, University of Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- *Medizinische Poliklinik, University of Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- *Medizinische Poliklinik, University of Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
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- Children’s Renal Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS10 5NB, United Kingdom; and
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- Cellular and Molecular Pathology, German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- *Medizinische Poliklinik, University of Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
- **To whom correspondence should be addressed at:
Medizinische Poliklinik, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Pettenkoferstrasse 8a, 80336 Munich, Germany. E-mail:
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- *Medizinische Poliklinik, University of Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany
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Among more than 120 genes that are now known to regulate mammalian pigmentation, one of the key genes is MC1R, which encodes the melanocortin 1 receptor, a seven transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor expressed on the surface of melanocytes. Since the monoexonic sequence of the gene was cloned and characterized more than a decade ago, tremendous efforts have been dedicated to the extensive genotyping of mostly red-haired populations all around the world, thus providing allelic variants that may or may not account for melanoma susceptibility in the presence or absence of ultraviolet (UV) exposure. Soluble factors, such as proopiomelanocortin (POMC) derivatives, agouti signal protein (ASP) and others, regulate MC1R expression, leading to improved photoprotection via increased eumelanin synthesis or in contrast, inducing the switch to pheomelanin. However, there is an obvious lack of knowledge regarding the numerous and complex regulatory mechanisms that govern the expression of MC1R at the intra-cellular level, from gene transcription in response to an external stimulus to the expression of the mature receptor on the melanocyte surface.
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- Francois Rouzaud
- Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 37, Room 2132, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Masuda K, Werner T, Maheshwari S, Frisch M, Oh S, Petrovics G, May K, Srikantan V, Srivastava S, Dobi A. Androgen receptor binding sites identified by a GREF_GATA model. J Mol Biol 2005; 353:763-71. [PMID: 16213525 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2005] [Revised: 07/31/2005] [Accepted: 09/07/2005] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Changes in transcriptional regulation can be permissive for tumor progression by allowing for selective growth advantage of tumor cells. Tumor suppressors can effectively inhibit this process. The PMEPA1 gene, a potent inhibitor of prostate cancer cell growth is an androgen-regulated gene. We addressed the question of whether or not androgen receptor can directly bind to specific PMEPA1 promoter upstream sequences. To test this hypothesis we extended in silico prediction of androgen receptor binding sites by a modeling approach and verified the actual binding by in vivo chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. Promoter upstream sequences of highly androgen-inducible genes were examined from microarray data of prostate cancer cells for transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs). Results were analyzed to formulate a model for the description of specific androgen receptor binding site context in these sequences. In silico analysis and subsequent experimental verification of the selected sequences suggested that a model that combined a GREF and a GATA TFBS was sufficient for predicting a class of functional androgen receptor binding sites. The GREF matrix family represents androgen receptor, glucocorticoid receptor and progesterone receptor binding sites and the GATA matrix family represents GATA binding protein 1-6 binding sites. We assessed the regulatory sequences of the PMEPA1 gene by comparing our model-based GREF_GATA predictions to weight matrix-based predictions. Androgen receptor binding to predicted promoter upstream sequences of the PMEPA1 gene was confirmed by chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. Our results suggested that androgen receptor binding to cognate elements was consistent with the GREF_GATA model. In contrast, using only single GREF weight matrices resulted in additional matches, apparently false positives. Our findings indicate that complex models based on datasets selected by biological function can be superior predictors as they recognize TFBSs in their functional context.
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- Katsuaki Masuda
- Center for Prostate Disease Research, Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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Clifton R, Lister R, Parker KL, Sappl PG, Elhafez D, Millar AH, Day DA, Whelan J. Stress-induced co-expression of alternative respiratory chain components in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2005; 58:193-212. [PMID: 16027974 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-005-5514-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2005] [Accepted: 04/14/2005] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Plant mitochondria contain non-phosphorylating bypasses of the respiratory chain, catalysed by the alternative oxidase (AOX) and alternative NADH dehydrogenases (NDH), as well as uncoupling (UCP) protein. Each of these components either circumvents or short-circuits proton translocation pathways, and each is encoded by a small gene family in Arabidopsis. Whole genome microarray experiments were performed with suspension cell cultures to examine the effects of various 3 h treatments designed to induce abiotic stress. The expression of over 60 genes encoding components of the classical, phosphorylating respiratory chain and tricarboxylic acid cycle remained largely constant when cells were subjected to a broad range of abiotic stresses, but expression of the alternative components responded differentially to the various treatments. In detailed time-course quantitative PCR analysis, specific members of both AOX and NDH gene families displayed coordinated responses to treatments. In particular, the co-expression of AOX1a and NDB2 observed under a number of treatments suggested co-regulation that may be directed by common sequence elements arranged hierarchically in the upstream promoter regions of these genes. A series of treatment sets were identified, representing the response of specific AOX and NDH genes to mitochondrial inhibition, plastid inhibition and abiotic stresses. These treatment sets emphasise the multiplicity of pathways affecting alternative electron transport components in plants.
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- Rachel Clifton
- Plant Molecular Biology Group, School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
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Cartharius K, Frech K, Grote K, Klocke B, Haltmeier M, Klingenhoff A, Frisch M, Bayerlein M, Werner T. MatInspector and beyond: promoter analysis based on transcription factor binding sites. Bioinformatics 2005; 21:2933-42. [PMID: 15860560 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1571] [Impact Index Per Article: 82.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Promoter analysis is an essential step on the way to identify regulatory networks. A prerequisite for successful promoter analysis is the prediction of potential transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) with reasonable accuracy. The next steps in promoter analysis can be tackled only with reliable predictions, e.g. finding phylogenetically conserved patterns or identifying higher order combinations of sites in promoters of co-regulated genes. RESULTS We present a new version of the program MatInspector that identifies TFBS in nucleotide sequences using a large library of weight matrices. By introducing a matrix family concept, optimized thresholds, and comparative analysis, the enhanced program produces concise results avoiding redundant and false-positive matches. We describe a number of programs based on MatInspector allowing in-depth promoter analysis (DiAlignTF, FrameWorker) and targeted design of regulatory sequences (SequenceShaper).
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- K Cartharius
- Genomatix Software GmbH Landsberger Strasse. 6, 80339 München, Germany.
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Döhr S, Klingenhoff A, Maier H, de Angelis MH, Werner T, Schneider R. Linking disease-associated genes to regulatory networks via promoter organization. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:864-72. [PMID: 15701758 PMCID: PMC549397 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Pathway- or disease-associated genes may participate in more than one transcriptional co-regulation network. Such gene groups can be readily obtained by literature analysis or by high-throughput techniques such as microarrays or protein-interaction mapping. We developed a strategy that defines regulatory networks by in silico promoter analysis, finding potentially co-regulated subgroups without a priori knowledge. Pairs of transcription factor binding sites conserved in orthologous genes (vertically) as well as in promoter sequences of co-regulated genes (horizontally) were used as seeds for the development of promoter models representing potential co-regulation. This approach was applied to a Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY)-associated gene list, which yielded two models connecting functionally interacting genes within MODY-related insulin/glucose signaling pathways. Additional genes functionally connected to our initial gene list were identified by database searches with these promoter models. Thus, data-driven in silico promoter analysis allowed integrating molecular mechanisms with biological functions of the cell.
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- Genomatix Software GmbHLandsberger Str. 6, D-80339 München, Germany
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- Genomatix Software GmbHLandsberger Str. 6, D-80339 München, Germany
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +49 89 3187 4060; Fax: +49 89 3187 4400;
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