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Song J, Xue C, Preisser JS, Cramer DW, Houck KL, Liu G, Folsom AR, Couper D, Yu F, Dong JF. Association of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the ST3GAL4 Gene with VWF Antigen and Factor VIII Activity. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0160757. [PMID: 27584569 PMCID: PMC5008807 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/25/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
VWF is extensively glycosylated with biantennary core fucosylated glycans. Most N-linked and O-linked glycans on VWF are sialylated. FVIII is also glycosylated, with a glycan structure similar to that of VWF. ST3GAL sialyltransferases catalyze the transfer of sialic acids in the α2,3 linkage to termini of N- and O-glycans. This sialic acid modification is critical for VWF synthesis and activity. We analyzed genetic and phenotypic data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study for the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ST3GAL4 gene with plasma VWF levels and FVIII activity in 12,117 subjects. We also analyzed ST3GAL4 SNPs found in 2,535 subjects of 26 ethnicities from the 1000 Genomes (1000G) project for ethnic diversity, SNP imputation, and ST3GAL4 haplotypes. We identified 14 and 1,714 ST3GAL4 variants in the ARIC GWAS and 1000G databases respectively, with 46% being ethnically diverse in their allele frequencies. Among the 14 ST3GAL4 SNPs found in ARIC GWAS, the intronic rs2186717, rs7928391, and rs11220465 were associated with VWF levels and with FVIII activity after adjustment for age, BMI, hypertension, diabetes, ever-smoking status, and ABO. This study illustrates the power of next-generation sequencing in the discovery of new genetic variants and a significant ethnic diversity in the ST3GAL4 gene. We discuss potential mechanisms through which these intronic SNPs regulate ST3GAL4 biosynthesis and the activity that affects VWF and FVIII.
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- Jaewoo Song
- BloodWorks Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Molecular and Human Genetics Department, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- BloodWorks Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- BloodWorks Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America
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- Human Genome Sequencing Center, Molecular and Human Genetics Department, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, United States of America
- Institute of Neurology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
- * E-mail: (JFD); (FY)
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- BloodWorks Northwest Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, United States of America
- * E-mail: (JFD); (FY)
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Pierobon P, Miné-Hattab J, Cappello G, Viovy JL, Lagomarsino MC. Separation of time scales in one-dimensional directed nucleation-growth processes. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 82:061904. [PMID: 21230687 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.061904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2010] [Revised: 10/11/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Proteins involved in homologous recombination such as RecA and hRad51 polymerize on single- and double-stranded DNA according to a nucleation-growth kinetics, which can be monitored by single-molecule in vitro assays. The basic models currently used to extract biochemical rates rely on ensemble averages and are typically based on an underlying process of bidirectional polymerization, in contrast with the often observed anisotropic polymerization of similar proteins. For these reasons, if one considers single-molecule experiments, the available models are useful to understand observations only in some regimes. In particular, recent experiments have highlighted a steplike polymerization kinetics. The classical model of one-dimensional nucleation growth, the Kolmogorov-Avrami-Mehl-Johnson (KAMJ) model, predicts the correct polymerization kinetics only in some regimes and fails to predict the steplike behavior. This work illustrates by simulations and analytical arguments the limitation of applicability of the KAMJ description and proposes a minimal model for the statistics of the steps based on the so-called stick-breaking stochastic process. We argue that this insight might be useful to extract information on the time and length scales involved in the polymerization kinetics.
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- Paolo Pierobon
- Institut Curie, Centre de recherche, INSERM U932 Immunité et cancer, 12 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France.
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Martinez SF, Renodon-Cornière A, Nomme J, Eveillard D, Fleury F, Takahashi M, Weigel P. Targeting human Rad51 by specific DNA aptamers induces inhibition of homologous recombination. Biochimie 2010; 92:1832-8. [PMID: 20713120 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2010.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2010] [Revised: 07/12/2010] [Accepted: 08/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Human Rad51 (HsRad51), a key element of the homologous recombination repair pathway, is related to the resistance of cancer cells to chemo- and radio-therapies. This protein is thus a good target for the development of anti-cancer treatments. We have searched for new inhibitors directed against HsRad51 using the Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment (SELEX) approach. We have selected three aptamers displaying strong effects on strand exchange activity. Analysis by circular dichroism shows that they are highly structured DNA molecules. Our results also show that they affect the first step of the strand exchange reaction by promoting the dissociation of DNA from the ATP/HsRad51/DNA complex. Moreover, these inhibitors bind only weakly to RecA, a prokaryotic ortholog of HsRad51. Both the specificity and the efficiency of their inhibition of recombinase activity offer an analytical tool based on molecular recognition and the prospect of developing new therapeutic agents.
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- Susan F Martinez
- UMR 6204, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Université de Nantes, 44322 Nantes cedex 3, France
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Kvikstad EM, Chiaromonte F, Makova KD. Ride the wavelet: A multiscale analysis of genomic contexts flanking small insertions and deletions. Genome Res 2009; 19:1153-64. [PMID: 19502380 DOI: 10.1101/gr.088922.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Recent studies have revealed that insertions and deletions (indels) are more different in their formation than previously assumed. What remains enigmatic is how the local DNA sequence context contributes to these differences. To investigate the relative impact of various molecular mechanisms to indel formation, we analyzed sequence contexts of indels in the non protein- or RNA-coding, nonrepetitive (NCNR) portion of the human genome. We considered small (<or=30-bp) indels occurring in the human lineage since its divergence from chimpanzee and used wavelet techniques to study, simultaneously for multiple scales, the spatial patterns of short sequence motifs associated with indel mutagenesis. In particular, we focused on motifs associated with DNA polymerase activity, topoisomerase cleavage, double-strand breaks (DSBs), and their repair. We came to the following conclusions. First, many motifs are characterized by unique enrichment profiles in the vicinity of indels vs. indel-free portions of the genome, verifying the importance of sequence context in indel mutagenesis. Second, only limited similarity in motif frequency profiles is evident flanking insertions vs. deletions, confirming differences in their mutagenesis. Third, substantial similarity in frequency profiles exists between pairs of individual motifs flanking insertions (and separately deletions), suggesting "cooperation" among motifs, and thus molecular mechanisms, during indel formation. Fourth, the wavelet analyses demonstrate that all these patterns are highly dependent on scale (the size of an interval considered). Finally, our results depict a model of indel mutagenesis comprising both replication and recombination (via repair of paused replication forks and site-specific recombination).
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- Erika M Kvikstad
- Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Nimonkar AV, Sica RA, Kowalczykowski SC. Rad52 promotes second-end DNA capture in double-stranded break repair to form complement-stabilized joint molecules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009; 106:3077-82. [PMID: 19204284 PMCID: PMC2651264 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0813247106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad52 performs multiple functions during the recombinational repair of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) breaks (DSBs). It mediates assembly of Rad51 onto single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) that is complexed with replication protein A (RPA); the resulting nucleoprotein filament pairs with homologous dsDNA to form joint molecules. Rad52 also catalyzes the annealing of complementary strands of ssDNA, even when they are complexed with RPA. Both Rad51 and Rad52 can be envisioned to promote "second-end capture," a step that pairs the ssDNA generated by processing of the second end of a DSB to the joint molecule formed by invasion of the target dsDNA by the first processed end. Here, we show that Rad52 promotes annealing of complementary ssDNA that is complexed with RPA to the displaced strand of a joint molecule, to form a complement-stabilized joint molecule. RecO, a prokaryotic homolog of Rad52, cannot form complement-stabilized joint molecules with RPA-ssDNA complexes, nor can Rad52 promote second-end capture when the ssDNA is bound with either human RPA or the prokaryotic ssDNA-binding protein, SSB, indicating a species-specific process. We conclude that Rad52 participates in second-end capture by annealing a resected DNA break, complexed with RPA, to the joint molecule product of single-end invasion event. These studies support a role for Rad52-promoted annealing in the formation of Holliday junctions in DSB repair.
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- Amitabh V. Nimonkar
- Departments of Microbiology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8665
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- Departments of Microbiology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8665
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- Departments of Microbiology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8665
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