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Sultana T, Mou SI, Chatterjee D, Faruk MO, Hosen MI. Computational exploration of SLC14A1 genetic variants through structure modeling, protein-ligand docking, and molecular dynamics simulation. Biochem Biophys Rep 2024; 38:101703. [PMID: 38596408 PMCID: PMC11001776 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrep.2024.101703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024] Open
Abstract
The urea transporter UT-B1, encoded by the SLC14A1 gene, has been hypothesized to be a significant protein whose deficiency and dysfunction contribute to the pathogenesis of bladder cancer and many other diseases. Several studies reported the association of genetic alterations in the SLC14A1 (UT-B1) gene with bladder carcinogenesis, suggesting a need for thorough characterization of the UT-B1 protein's coding and non-coding variants. This study used various computational techniques to investigate the commonly occurring germ-line missense and non-coding SNPs (ncSNPs) of the SLC14A1 gene (UT-B1) for their structural, functional, and molecular implications for disease susceptibility and dysfunctionality. SLC14A1 missense variants, primarily identified from the ENSEMBL genome browser, were screened through twelve functionality prediction tools leading to two variants D280Y (predicted detrimental by maximum tools) and D280N (high global MAF) for rs1058396. Subsequently, the ConSurf and NetSurf tools revealed the D280 residue to be in a variable site and exposed on the protein surface. According to I-Mutant2.0 and MUpro, both variants are predicted to cause a significant effect on protein stability. Analysis of molecular docking anticipated these two variants to decrease the binding affinity of UT-B1 protein for the examined ligands to a significant extent. Molecular dynamics also disclosed the possible destabilization of the UT-B1 protein due to single nucleotide polymorphism compared to wild-type protein which may result in impaired protein function. Furthermore, several non-coding SNPs were estimated to affect transcription factor binding and regulation of SLC14A1 gene expression. Additionally, two ncSNPs were found to affect miRNA-based post-transcriptional regulation by creating new seed regions for miRNA binding. This comprehensive in-silico study of SLC14A1 gene variants may serve as a springboard for future large-scale investigations examining SLC14A1 polymorphisms.
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- Tamanna Sultana
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
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Brito-Robinson T, Ayinuola YA, Ploplis VA, Castellino FJ. Plasminogen missense variants and their involvement in cardiovascular and inflammatory disease. Front Cardiovasc Med 2024; 11:1406953. [PMID: 38984351 PMCID: PMC11231438 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1406953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 06/06/2024] [Indexed: 07/11/2024] Open
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Human plasminogen (PLG), the zymogen of the fibrinolytic protease, plasmin, is a polymorphic protein with two widely distributed codominant alleles, PLG/Asp453 and PLG/Asn453. About 15 other missense or non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) of PLG show major, yet different, relative abundances in world populations. Although the existence of these relatively abundant allelic variants is generally acknowledged, they are often overlooked or assumed to be non-pathogenic. In fact, at least half of those major variants are classified as having conflicting pathogenicity, and it is unclear if they contribute to different molecular phenotypes. From those, PLG/K19E and PLG/A601T are examples of two relatively abundant PLG variants that have been associated with PLG deficiencies (PD), but their pathogenic mechanisms are unclear. On the other hand, approximately 50 rare and ultra-rare PLG missense variants have been reported to cause PD as homozygous or compound heterozygous variants, often leading to a debilitating disease known as ligneous conjunctivitis. The true abundance of PD-associated nsSNPs is unknown since they can remain undetected in heterozygous carriers. However, PD variants may also contribute to other diseases. Recently, the ultra-rare autosomal dominant PLG/K311E has been found to be causative of hereditary angioedema (HAE) with normal C1 inhibitor. Two other rare pathogenic PLG missense variants, PLG/R153G and PLG/V709E, appear to affect platelet function and lead to HAE, respectively. Herein, PLG missense variants that are abundant and/or clinically relevant due to association with disease are examined along with their world distribution. Proposed molecular mechanisms are discussed when known or can be reasonably assumed.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the W.M. Keck Center for Transgene Research, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
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Alwan IH, Aljubouri TRS, Al-Shuhaib MBS. A Novel Missense SNP in the Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 4 (FABP4) Gene is Associated with Growth Traits in Karakul and Awassi Sheep. Biochem Genet 2024; 62:1462-1484. [PMID: 37640973 DOI: 10.1007/s10528-023-10504-8] [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: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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The fatty acid-binding protein 4 (FABP4) plays a crucial role in the transportation and metabolism of fatty acids. It binds to long-chain fatty acids and facilitates their transport within cells. FABP4 is involved in lipid metabolism, insulin sensitivity, inflammation, and energy homeostasis. This study was conducted to assess the association between the FABP4 gene and growth traits in Karakul and Awassi sheep. A PCR-single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) protocol was utilized to assess the polymorphism of FABP4 PCR products with growth traits measured at birth, three, six, nine, and twelve-month intervals. One non-synonymous SNP was identified in the second exon, in which threonine was converted to aspartate in the 61st position in FABP4 (p.61Thr > Asp). This novel SNP showed significant associations with all growth traits measured at all age intervals. The results showed that lambs with the TT genotype exhibited higher growth traits than those with the GT and GG genotypes, respectively. The conducted prediction showed a clearly deleterious effect of p.61Thr > Asp on FABP4 structure, which was accompanied by reduced fatty acid binding efficiency. Owing to the predicted damaging effects caused by p.61Thr > Asp on FABP, lower levels of lipid transport and its consequent increased weight gain and other growth trait indices are expected. Therefore, a putative mechanism through which lambs with these genotypes exhibit higher growth traits is proposed. The FABP4 gene is suggested as a promising marker to improve growth traits in Karakul and Awassi sheep. However, more research is required to validate this mechanism.
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- Ibrahim H Alwan
- Department of Animal Production, College of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University, Al-Qasim, Babil, 51001, Iraq
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- Department of Animal Production, College of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University, Al-Qasim, Babil, 51001, Iraq
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- Department of Animal Production, College of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University, Al-Qasim, Babil, 51001, Iraq.
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Dixit B, Vranken W, Ghysels A. Conformational dynamics of α-1 acid glycoprotein (AGP) in cancer: A comparative study of glycosylated and unglycosylated AGP. Proteins 2024; 92:246-264. [PMID: 37837263 DOI: 10.1002/prot.26607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2023] [Revised: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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α-1 acid glycoprotein (AGP) is one of the most abundant plasma proteins. It fulfills two important functions: immunomodulation, and binding to various drugs and receptors. These different functions are closely associated and modulated via changes in glycosylation and cancer missense mutations. From a structural point of view, glycans alter the local biophysical properties of the protein leading to a diverse ligand-binding spectrum. However, glycans can typically not be observed in the resolved X-ray crystallography structure of AGP due to their high flexibility and microheterogeneity, so limiting our understanding of AGP's conformational dynamics 70 years after its discovery. We here investigate how mutations and glycosylation interfere with AGP's conformational dynamics changing its biophysical behavior, by using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and sequence-based dynamics predictions. The MD trajectories show that glycosylation decreases the local backbone flexibility of AGP and increases the flexibility of distant regions through allosteric effects. We observe that mutations near the glycosylation site affect glycan's conformational preferences. Thus, we conclude that mutations control glycan dynamics which modulates the protein's backbone flexibility directly affecting its accessibility. These findings may assist in the drug design targeting AGP's glycosylation and mutations in cancer.
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- Bhawna Dixit
- IBiTech-BioMMeda Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB-VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB-VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- IBiTech-BioMMeda Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Salazar-Hamm PS, Johnson WL, Nofchissey RA, Salazar JR, Gonzalez P, Goodfellow SM, Dunnum JL, Bradfute SB, Armién B, Cook JA, Domman DB, Dinwiddie DL. Choclo virus (CHOV) recovered from deep metatranscriptomics of archived frozen tissues in natural history biorepositories. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2024; 18:e0011672. [PMID: 38215158 PMCID: PMC10810438 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011672] [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: 10/02/2023] [Revised: 01/25/2024] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/14/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Hantaviruses are negative-stranded RNA viruses that can sometimes cause severe disease in humans; however, they are maintained in mammalian host populations without causing harm. In Panama, sigmodontine rodents serve as hosts to transmissible hantaviruses. Due to natural and anthropogenic forces, these rodent populations are having increased contact with humans. METHODS We extracted RNA and performed Illumina deep metatranscriptomic sequencing on Orthohantavirus seropositive museum tissues from rodents. We acquired sequence reads mapping to Choclo virus (CHOV, Orthohantavirus chocloense) from heart and kidney tissue of a two-decade old frozen museum sample from a Costa Rican pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys costaricensis) collected in Panama. Reads mapped to the CHOV reference were assembled and then validated by visualization of the mapped reads against the assembly. RESULTS We recovered a 91% complete consensus sequence from a reference-guided assembly to CHOV with an average of 16X coverage. The S and M segments used in our phylogenetic analyses were nearly complete (98% and 99%, respectively). There were 1,199 ambiguous base calls of which 93% were present in the L segment. Our assembled genome varied 1.1% from the CHOV reference sequence resulting in eight nonsynonymous mutations. Further analysis of all publicly available partial S segment sequences support a clear relationship between CHOV clinical cases and O. costaricensis acquired strains. CONCLUSIONS Viruses occurring at extremely low abundances can be recovered from deep metatranscriptomics of archival tissues housed in research natural history museum biorepositories. Our efforts resulted in the second CHOV genome publicly available. This genomic data is important for future surveillance and diagnostic tools as well as understanding the evolution and pathogenicity of CHOV.
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- Paris S. Salazar-Hamm
- Clinical and Translational Science Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
- Center for Global Health, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Center for Global Health, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Department of Research in Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies, Panama City, Panama
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- Department of Research in Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies, Panama City, Panama
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- Center for Global Health, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
- Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Center for Global Health, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Department of Research in Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies, Panama City, Panama
- Sistema Nacional de Investigación (SNI), Secretaria Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovacion (SENACYT), Panama City, Panama
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
- Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Clinical and Translational Science Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
- Center for Global Health, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Schwaner C, Farhat S, Boutet I, Tanguy A, Barbosa M, Grouzdev D, Pales Espinosa E, Allam B. Combination of RNAseq and RADseq to Identify Physiological and Adaptive Responses to Acidification in the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica). MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2023; 25:997-1019. [PMID: 37864760 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-023-10255-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/23/2023]
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Ocean acidification (OA) is a major stressor threatening marine calcifiers, including the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica). In this paper, we provide insight into the molecular mechanisms associated with resilience to OA, with the dual intentions of probing both acclimation and adaptation potential in this species. C. virginica were spawned, and larvae were reared in control or acidified conditions immediately after fertilization. RNA samples were collected from larvae and juveniles, and DNA samples were collected from juveniles after undergoing OA-induced mortality and used to contrast gene expression (RNAseq) and SNP (ddRADseq) profiles from animals reared under both conditions. Results showed convergence of evidence from both approaches, particularly in genes involved in biomineralization that displayed significant changes in variant frequencies and gene expression levels among juveniles that survived acidification as compared to controls. Downregulated genes were related to immune processes, supporting previous studies demonstrating a reduction in immunity from exposure to OA. Acclimation to OA via regulation of gene expression might confer short-term resilience to immediate threats; however, the costs may not be sustainable, underscoring the importance of selection of resilient genotypes. Here, we identified SNPs associated with survival under OA conditions, suggesting that this commercially and ecologically important species might have the genetic variation needed for adaptation to future acidification. The identification of genetic features associated with OA resilience is a highly-needed step for the development of marker-assisted selection of oyster stocks for aquaculture and restoration activities.
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- Caroline Schwaner
- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11790, USA
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11790, USA
- Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France
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- Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS/Sorbonne Université, Place Georges Teissier 29680, Roscoff, France
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- Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS/Sorbonne Université, Place Georges Teissier 29680, Roscoff, France
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11790, USA
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11790, USA
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11790, USA.
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Kakraba S, Ayyadevara S, Mainali N, Balasubramaniam M, Bowroju S, Penthala NR, Atluri R, Barger SW, Griffin ST, Crooks PA, Shmookler Reis RJ. Thiadiazolidinone (TDZD) Analogs Inhibit Aggregation-Mediated Pathology in Diverse Neurodegeneration Models, and Extend C. elegans Life- and Healthspan. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2023; 16:1498. [PMID: 37895969 PMCID: PMC10610358 DOI: 10.3390/ph16101498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Chronic, low-grade inflammation has been implicated in aging and age-dependent conditions, including Alzheimer's disease, cardiomyopathy, and cancer. One of the age-associated processes underlying chronic inflammation is protein aggregation, which is implicated in neuroinflammation and a broad spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases. We screened a panel of bioactive thiadiazolidinones (TDZDs) from our in-house library for rescue of protein aggregation in human-cell and C. elegans models of neurodegeneration. Among the tested TDZD analogs, PNR886 and PNR962 were most effective, significantly reducing both the number and intensity of Alzheimer-like tau and amyloid aggregates in human cell-culture models of pathogenic aggregation. A C. elegans strain expressing human Aβ1-42 in muscle, leading to AD-like amyloidopathy, developed fewer and smaller aggregates after PNR886 or PNR962 treatment. Moreover, age-progressive paralysis was reduced 90% by PNR886 and 75% by PNR962, and "healthspan" (the median duration of spontaneous motility) was extended 29% and 62%, respectively. These TDZD analogs also extended wild-type C. elegans lifespan by 15-30% (p < 0.001), placing them among the most effective life-extension drugs. Because the lead drug in this family, TDZD-8, inhibits GSK3β, we used molecular-dynamic tools to assess whether these analogs may also target GSK3β. In silico modeling predicted that PNR886 or PNR962 would bind to the same allosteric pocket of inactive GSK3β as TDZD-8, employing the same pharmacophore but attaching with greater avidity. PNR886 and PNR962 are thus compelling candidate drugs for treatment of tau- and amyloid-associated neurodegenerative diseases such as AD, potentially also reducing all-cause mortality.
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- Samuel Kakraba
- Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (N.M.); (M.B.); (R.A.); (S.W.B.); (S.T.G.)
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- Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (N.M.); (M.B.); (R.A.); (S.W.B.); (S.T.G.)
- Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Service, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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- Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (N.M.); (M.B.); (R.A.); (S.W.B.); (S.T.G.)
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- Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (N.M.); (M.B.); (R.A.); (S.W.B.); (S.T.G.)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (S.B.); (N.R.P.); (P.A.C.)
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (S.B.); (N.R.P.); (P.A.C.)
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- Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (N.M.); (M.B.); (R.A.); (S.W.B.); (S.T.G.)
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- Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (N.M.); (M.B.); (R.A.); (S.W.B.); (S.T.G.)
- Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Service, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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- Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (N.M.); (M.B.); (R.A.); (S.W.B.); (S.T.G.)
- Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Service, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (S.B.); (N.R.P.); (P.A.C.)
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- Department of Geriatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA; (N.M.); (M.B.); (R.A.); (S.W.B.); (S.T.G.)
- Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare Service, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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Eltokhi A, Catterall WA, Gamal El-Din TM. Cell-cycle arrest at the G1/S boundary enhances transient voltage-gated ion channel expression in human and insect cells. CELL REPORTS METHODS 2023; 3:100559. [PMID: 37751687 PMCID: PMC10545908 DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2023.100559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Revised: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
Abstract
Heterologous expression of recombinant ion channel subunits in cell lines is often limited by the presence of a low number of channels at the cell surface level. Here, we introduce a combination of two techniques: viral expression using the baculovirus system plus cell-cycle arrest at the G1/S boundary using either thymidine or hydroxyurea. This method achieved a manifold increase in the peak current density of expressed ion channels compared with the classical liposome-mediated transfection methods. The enhanced ionic current was accompanied by an increase in the density of gating charges, confirming that the increased yield of protein and ionic current reflects the functional localization of channels in the plasma membrane. This modified method of viral expression coordinated with the cell cycle arrest will pave the way to better decipher the structure and function of ion channels and their association with ion channelopathies.
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- Ahmed Eltokhi
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7280, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7280, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7280, USA.
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Ko EJ, Shin JE, Lee JY, Ryu CS, Hwang JY, Kim YR, Ahn EH, Kim JH, Kim NK. Association of Polymorphisms in FSHR, INHA, ESR1, and BMP15 with Recurrent Implantation Failure. Biomedicines 2023; 11:biomedicines11051374. [PMID: 37239044 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11051374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 04/29/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Recurrent implantation failure (RIF) refers to two or more unsuccessful in vitro fertilization embryo transfers in the same individual. Embryonic characteristics, immunological factors, and coagulation factors are known to be the causes of RIF. Genetic factors have also been reported to be involved in the occurrence of RIF, and some single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) may contribute to RIF. We examined SNPs in FSHR, INHA, ESR1, and BMP15, which have been associated with primary ovarian failure. A cohort of 133 RIF patients and 317 healthy controls consisting of all Korean women was included. Genotyping was performed by Taq-Man genotyping assays to determine the frequency of the following polymorphisms: FSHR rs6165, INHA rs11893842 and rs35118453, ESR1 rs9340799 and rs2234693, and BMP15 rs17003221 and rs3810682. The differences in these SNPs were compared between the patient and control groups. Our results demonstrate a decreased prevalence of RIF in subjects with the FSHR rs6165 A>G polymorphism [AA vs. AG adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 0.432; confidence interval (CI) = 0.206-0.908; p = 0.027, AA+AG vs. GG AOR = 0.434; CI = 0.213-0.885; p = 0.022]. Based on a genotype combination analysis, the GG/AA (FSHR rs6165/ESR1 rs9340799: OR = 0.250; CI = 0.072-0.874; p = 0.030) and GG-CC (FSHR rs6165/BMP15 rs3810682: OR = 0.466; CI = 0.220-0.987; p = 0.046) alleles were also associated with a decreased RIF risk. Additionally, the FSHR rs6165GG and BMP15 rs17003221TT+TC genotype combination was associated with a decreased RIF risk (OR = 0.430; CI = 0.210-0.877; p = 0.020) and increased FSH levels, as assessed by an analysis of variance. The FSHR rs6165 polymorphism and genotype combinations are significantly associated with RIF development in Korean women.
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- Eun-Ju Ko
- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Life Science, CHA University, Seongnam 13488, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fertility Center of CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam 13520, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Life Science, CHA University, Seongnam 13488, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Life Science, CHA University, Seongnam 13488, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fertility Center of CHA Gangnam Medical Center, CHA University, Seoul 06125, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fertility Center of CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam 13520, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fertility Center of CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam 13520, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fertility Center of CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam 13520, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Science, College of Life Science, CHA University, Seongnam 13488, Republic of Korea
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Graci S, Ruggieri V, Francesca S, Rigano MM, Barone A. Genomic Insights into the Origin of a Thermotolerant Tomato Line and Identification of Candidate Genes for Heat Stress. Genes (Basel) 2023; 14:genes14030535. [PMID: 36980808 PMCID: PMC10048601 DOI: 10.3390/genes14030535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023] Open
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Climate change represents the main problem for agricultural crops, and the constitution of heat-tolerant genotypes is an important breeder’s strategy to reduce yield losses. The aim of the present study was to investigate the whole genome of a heat-tolerant tomato genotype (E42), in order to identify candidate genes involved in its response to high temperature. E42 presented a high variability for chromosomes 1, 4, 7 and 12, and phylogenetic analysis highlighted its relationship with the wild S. pimpinellifolium species. Variants with high (18) and moderate (139) impact on protein function were retrieved from two lists of genes related to heat tolerance and reproduction. This analysis permitted us to prioritize a subset of 35 candidate gene mapping in polymorphic regions, some colocalizing in QTLs controlling flowering in tomato. Among these genes, we identified 23 HSPs, one HSF, six involved in flowering and five in pollen activity. Interestingly, one gene coded for a flowering locus T1 and mapping on chromosome 11 resides in a QTL region controlling flowering and also showed 100% identity with an S. pimpinellifolium allele. This study provides useful information on both the E42 genetic background and heat stress response, and further studies will be conducted to validate these genes.
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- Salvatore Graci
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, 80055 Naples, Italy
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-0812539491
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Scheffer H, Coate JE, Ho EKH, Schaack S. Thermal stress and mutation accumulation increase heat shock protein expression in Daphnia. Evol Ecol 2022; 36:829-844. [PMID: 36193163 PMCID: PMC9522699 DOI: 10.1007/s10682-022-10209-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Understanding the short- and long-term consequences of climate change is a major challenge in biology. For aquatic organisms, temperature changes and drought can lead to thermal stress and habitat loss, both of which can ultimately lead to higher mutation rates. Here, we examine the effect of high temperature and mutation accumulation on gene expression at two loci from the heat shock protein (HSP) gene family, HSP60 and HSP90. HSPs have been posited to serve as 'mutational capacitors' given their role as molecular chaperones involved in protein folding and degradation, thus buffering against a wide range of cellular stress and destabilization. We assayed changes in HSP expression across 5 genotypes of Daphnia magna, a sentinel species in ecology and environmental biology, with and without acute exposure to thermal stress and accumulated mutations. Across genotypes, HSP expression increased ~ 6× in response to heat and ~ 4× with mutation accumulation, individually. Both factors simultaneously (lineages with high mutation loads exposed to high heat) increased gene expression ~ 23×-much more than that predicted by an additive model. Our results corroborate suggestions that HSPs can buffer against not only the effects of heat, but also mutations-a combination of factors both likely to increase in a warming world. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10682-022-10209-1.
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- Henry Scheffer
- Department of Biology, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202 USA
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- Department of Biology, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202 USA
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- Department of Biology, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202 USA
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- Department of Biology, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, OR 97202 USA
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Nisar A, Kayani MA, Nasir W, Mehmood A, Ahmed MW, Parvez A, Mahjabeen I. Fyn and Lyn gene polymorphisms impact the risk of thyroid cancer. Mol Genet Genomics 2022; 297:1649-1659. [PMID: 36058999 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-022-01946-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Thyroid cancer is the most common malignancy of the endocrine glands, and during last couple of decades, its incidence has risen alarmingly, across the globe. Etiology of thyroid cancer is still debatable. There are a few worth mentioning risk factors which contribute to initiation of abnormalities in thyroid gland leading to cancer. Genetic instability is major risk factors in thyroid carcinogenesis. Among the genetic factors, the Src family of genes (Src, Yes1, Fyn and Lyn) have been implicated in many cancers but there is little data regarding the association of these (Src, Yes1, Fyn and Lyn) genes with thyroid carcinogenesis. Fyn and Lyn genes of Src family found engaged in proliferation, migration, invasion, angiogenesis, and metastasis in different cancers. This study was planned to examine the effect of Fyn and Lyn SNPs on thyroid cancer risk in Pakistani population in 500 patients and 500 controls. Three polymorphisms of Fyn gene (rs6916861, rs2182644 and rs12910) and three polymorphisms of Lyn gene (rs2668011, rs45587541 and rs45489500) were analyzed using Tetra-primer ARMS-PCR followed by DNA sequencing. SNP rs6916861 of Fyn gene mutant genotype (CC) showed statistically significant threefold increased risk of thyroid cancer (P < 0.0001). In case of rs2182644 of Fyn gene, mutant genotype (AA) indicated statistically significant 17-fold increased risk of thyroid cancer (P < 0.0001). Statistically significant threefold increased risk of thyroid cancer was observed in genotype AC (P < 0.0001) of Fyn gene polymorphism rs12910. In SNP rs2668011 of Lyn gene, TT genotype showed statistically significant threefold increased risk of thyroid cancer (P < 0.0001). In case of rs45587541 of Lyn gene, GA genotypes showed statistically significant 11-fold increased risk in thyroid cancer (P < 0.0001). Haplotype analysis revealed that AAATAG*, AGACAG*, AGCCAA*, AGCCAG*, CAATAG*, CGCCAG* and CGCCGA* haplotypes of Fyn and Lyn polymorphisms are associated with increased thyroid cancer risk. These results showed that genotypes and allele distribution of Fyn and Lyn are significantly linked with increased thyroid cancer risk and could be genetic adjuster for said disease.
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- Asif Nisar
- Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Lab, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Park Road Tarlai Kalan, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Lab, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Park Road Tarlai Kalan, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Radiation, Nuclear Oncology Radiation Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Lab, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Park Road Tarlai Kalan, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Lab, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Park Road Tarlai Kalan, Islamabad, Pakistan.,Pakistan Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences (PIRS), Isra University Islamabad Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Lab, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Park Road Tarlai Kalan, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Lab, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Park Road Tarlai Kalan, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Guttman Y, Kerem Z. Computer-Aided (In Silico) Modeling of Cytochrome P450-Mediated Food–Drug Interactions (FDI). Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23158498. [PMID: 35955630 PMCID: PMC9369352 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23158498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2022] [Revised: 07/26/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Modifications of the activity of Cytochrome 450 (CYP) enzymes by compounds in food might impair medical treatments. These CYP-mediated food–drug interactions (FDI) play a major role in drug clearance in the intestine and liver. Inter-individual variation in both CYP expression and structure is an important determinant of FDI. Traditional targeted approaches have highlighted a limited number of dietary inhibitors and single-nucleotide variations (SNVs), each determining personal CYP activity and inhibition. These approaches are costly in time, money and labor. Here, we review computational tools and databases that are already available and are relevant to predicting CYP-mediated FDIs. Computer-aided approaches such as protein–ligand interaction modeling and the virtual screening of big data narrow down hundreds of thousands of items in databanks to a few putative targets, to which the research resources could be further directed. Structure-based methods are used to explore the structural nature of the interaction between compounds and CYP enzymes. However, while collections of chemical, biochemical and genetic data are available today and call for the implementation of big-data approaches, ligand-based machine-learning approaches for virtual screening are still scarcely used for FDI studies. This review of CYP-mediated FDIs promises to attract scientists and the general public.
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Khan AS, Parvez N, Ahsan T, Shoily SS, Sajib AA. A comprehensive in silico exploration of the impacts of missense variants on two different conformations of human pirin protein. BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE 2022; 46:225. [PMID: 35967515 PMCID: PMC9362109 DOI: 10.1186/s42269-022-00917-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Pirin, a member of the cupin superfamily, is an iron-binding non-heme protein. It acts as a coregulator of several transcription factors, especially the members of NFκB transcription factor family. Based on the redox state of its iron cofactor, it can assume two different conformations and thereby act as a redox sensor inside the nucleus. Previous studies suggested that pirin may be associated with cancer, inflammatory diseases as well as COVID-19 severities. Hence, it is important to explore the pathogenicity of its missense variants. In this study, we used a number of in silico tools to investigate the effects of missense variants of pirin on its structure, stability, metal cofactor binding affinity and interactions with partner proteins. In addition, we used protein dynamics simulation to elucidate the effects of selected variants on its dynamics. Furthermore, we calculated the frequencies of haplotypes containing pirin missense variants across five major super-populations (African, Admixed American, East Asian, European and South Asian). RESULTS Among a total of 153 missense variants of pirin, 45 were uniformly predicted to be pathogenic. Of these, seven variants can be considered for further experimental studies. Variants R59P and L116P were predicted to significantly destabilize and damage pirin structure, substantially reduce its affinity to its binding partners and alter pirin residue fluctuation profile via changing the flexibility of several key residues. Additionally, variants R59Q, F78V, G98D, V151D and L220P were found to impact pirin structure and function in multiple ways. As no haplotype was identified to be harboring more than one missense variant, further interrogation of the individual effects of these seven missense variants is highly recommended. CONCLUSIONS Pirin is involved in the transcriptional regulation of several genes and can play an important role in inflammatory responses. The variants predicted to be pathogenic in this study may thus contribute to a better understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms of various inflammatory diseases. Future studies should be focused on clarifying if any of these variants can be used as disease biomarkers. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s42269-022-00917-7.
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- Auroni Semonti Khan
- Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, 1100 Bangladesh
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- Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, 1100 Bangladesh
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- Molecular Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Biotechnology, Savar, Dhaka, 1349 Bangladesh
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- Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000 Bangladesh
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- Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000 Bangladesh
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Leipart V, Ludvigsen J, Kent M, Sandve S, To TH, Árnyasi M, Kreibich CD, Dahle B, Amdam GV. Identification of 121 variants of honey bee Vitellogenin protein sequences with structural differences at functional sites. Protein Sci 2022; 31:e4369. [PMID: 35762708 PMCID: PMC9207902 DOI: 10.1002/pro.4369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Proteins are under selection to maintain central functions and to accommodate needs that arise in ever‐changing environments. The positive selection and neutral drift that preserve functions result in a diversity of protein variants. The amount of diversity differs between proteins: multifunctional or disease‐related proteins tend to have fewer variants than proteins involved in some aspects of immunity. Our work focuses on the extensively studied protein Vitellogenin (Vg), which in honey bees (Apis mellifera) is multifunctional and highly expressed and plays roles in immunity. Yet, almost nothing is known about the natural variation in the coding sequences of this protein or how amino acid‐altering variants might impact structure–function relationships. Here, we map out allelic variation in honey bee Vg using biological samples from 15 countries. The successful barcoded amplicon Nanopore sequencing of 543 bees revealed 121 protein variants, indicating a high level of diversity in Vg. We find that the distribution of non‐synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) differs between protein regions with different functions; domains involved in DNA and protein–protein interactions contain fewer nsSNPs than the protein's lipid binding cavities. We outline how the central functions of the protein can be maintained in different variants and how the variation pattern may inform about selection from pathogens and nutrition.
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- Vilde Leipart
- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.,Fürst Medisinsk Laboratorium, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.,Norwegian Beekeepers Association, Kløfta, Norway
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- Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.,School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
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Pabbathi A, Coleman L, Godar S, Paul A, Garlapati A, Spencer M, Eller J, Alper JD. Long-range electrostatic interactions significantly modulate the affinity of dynein for microtubules. Biophys J 2022; 121:1715-1726. [PMID: 35346642 PMCID: PMC9117880 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.03.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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The dynein family of microtubule minus-end-directed motor proteins drives diverse functions in eukaryotic cells, including cell division, intracellular transport, and flagellar beating. Motor protein processivity, which characterizes how far a motor walks before detaching from its filament, depends on the interaction between its microtubule-binding domain (MTBD) and the microtubule. Dynein's MTBD switches between high- and low-binding affinity states as it steps. Significant structural and functional data show that specific salt bridges within the MTBD and between the MTBD and the microtubule govern these affinity state shifts. However, recent computational work suggests that nonspecific, long-range electrostatic interactions between the MTBD and the microtubule may also play an important role in the processivity of dynein. To investigate this hypothesis, we mutated negatively charged amino acids remote from the dynein MTBD-microtubule-binding interface to neutral residues and measured the binding affinity using microscale thermophoresis and optical tweezers. We found a significant increase in the binding affinity of the mutated MTBDs for microtubules. Furthermore, we found that charge screening by free ions in solution differentially affected the binding and unbinding rates of MTBDs to microtubules. Together, these results demonstrate a significant role for long-range electrostatic interactions in regulating dynein-microtubule affinity. Moreover, these results provide insight into the principles that potentially underlie the biophysical differences between molecular motors with various processivities and protein-protein interactions more generally.
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- Ashok Pabbathi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; Eukaryotic Pathogen Innovations Center, Clemson, University, Clemson, South Carolina
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- School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina; Eukaryotic Pathogen Innovations Center, Clemson, University, Clemson, South Carolina; Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
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Identification of the most damaging nsSNPs in the human CFL1 gene and their functional and structural impacts on cofilin-1 protein. Gene 2022; 819:146206. [PMID: 35092861 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2022.146206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The cofilin-1 protein, encoded by CFL1, is an actin-binding protein that regulates F-actin depolymerization and nucleation activity through phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. CFL1 has been implicated in the development of neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease), neuronal migration disorders (lissencephaly, epilepsy, and schizophrenia), and neural tube closure defects. Mutations in CFL1 have been associated with impaired neural crest cell migration and neural tube closure defects. In our study, various computational approaches were utilized to explore single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in CFL1. The Variation Viewer and gnomAD databases were used to retrieve CFL1 SNPs, including 46 nonsynonymous SNPs (nsSNPs). The functional and structural annotation of SNPs was performed using 12 sequence-based web applications, which identified 20 nsSNPs as being the most likely to be deleterious or disease-causing. The conservation of cofilin-1 protein structures was illustrated using the ConSurf and PROSITE web servers, which projected the 12 most deleterious nsSNPs onto conserved domains, with the potential to disrupt the protein's functionality. These 12 nsSNPs were selected for protein structure construction, and the DynaMut/DUET servers predicted that the protein variants V7G, L84P, and L99A were the most likely to be damaging to the cofilin-1 protein structure or function. The evaluation of molecular docking studies demonstrated that the L99A and L84P cofilin-1 variants reduce the binding affinity for actin compared with the native cofilin-1 structure, and molecular dynamic simulation studies confirmed that these variants might destabilize the protein structure. The consequences of putative mutations on protein-protein interactions and post-translational modification sites in the cofilin-1 protein structure were analyzed. This study represents the first complete approach to understanding the effects of nsSNPs within the actin-depolymerizing factor/cofilin family, which suggested that SNPs resulting in L84P (rs199716082) and L99A (rs267603119) variants represent significant CFL1 mutations associated with disease development.
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Oktay EO. Bioinformatics Analysis of Functional SNPs in Human ASAH1 Gene Related to Farber Disease. RUSS J GENET+ 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795422010070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Votsi C, Ververis A, Nicolaou P, Christou YP, Christodoulou K, Zamba-Papanicolaou E. A Novel SPG7 Gene Pathogenic Variant in a Cypriot Family With Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia. Front Genet 2022; 12:812640. [PMID: 35096021 PMCID: PMC8793673 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.812640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The SPG7 gene encodes the paraplegin protein, an inner mitochondrial membrane—localized protease. It was initially linked to pure and complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia with cerebellar atrophy, and now represents a frequent cause of undiagnosed cerebellar ataxia and spastic ataxia. We hereby report the molecular characterization and the clinical features of a large Cypriot family with five affected individuals presenting with spastic ataxia in an autosomal recessive transmission mode, due to a novel SPG7 homozygous missense variant. Detailed clinical histories of the patients were obtained, followed by neurological and neurophysiological examinations. Whole exome sequencing (WES) of the proband, in silico gene panel analysis, variant filtering and family segregation analysis of the candidate variants with Sanger sequencing were performed. RNA and protein expression as well as in vitro protein localization studies and mitochondria morphology evaluation were carried out towards functional characterization of the identified variant. The patients presented with typical spastic ataxia features while some intrafamilial phenotypic variation was noted. WES analysis revealed a novel homozygous missense variant in the SPG7 gene (c.1763C > T, p. Thr588Met), characterized as pathogenic by more than 20 in silico prediction tools. Functional studies showed that the variant does not affect neither the RNA or protein expression, nor the protein localization. However, aberrant mitochondrial morphology has been observed thus indicating mitochondrial dysfunction and further demonstrating the pathogenicity of the identified variant. Our study is the first report of an SPG7 pathogenic variant in the Cypriot population and broadens the spectrum of SPG7 pathogenic variants.
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- Christina Votsi
- Neurogenetics Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Neurogenetics Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Neurogenetics Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Neurogenetics Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus
- *Correspondence: Kyproula Christodoulou,
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Zeng RJ, Xie WJ, Zheng CW, Chen WX, Wang SM, Li Z, Cheng CB, Zou HY, Xu LY, Li EM. Role of Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factors in non-small cell lung cancer. Bioengineered 2021; 12:11169-11187. [PMID: 34783629 PMCID: PMC8810164 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2021.2006519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Conventionally, Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) are known activators of Rho guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) that promote tumorigenesis. However, the role of Rho GEFs in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains largely unknown. Through the screening of 81 Rho GEFs for their expression profiles and correlations with survival, four of them were identified with strong significance for predicting the prognosis of NSCLC patients. The four Rho GEFs, namely ABR, PREX1, DOCK2 and DOCK4, were downregulated in NSCLC tissues compared to normal tissues. The downregulation of ABR, PREX1, DOCK2 and DOCK4, which can be attributfed to promoter methylation, is correlated with poor prognosis. The underexpression of the four key Rho GEFs might be related to the upregulation of MYC signaling and DNA repair pathways, leading to carcinogenesis and poor prognosis. Moreover, overexpression of ABR was shown to have a tumor-suppressive effect in PC9 and H1703 cells. In conclusion, the data reveal the unprecedented role of ABR as tumor suppressor in NSCLC. The previously unnoticed functions of Rho GEFs in NSCLC will inspire researchers to investigate the distinct roles of Rho GEFs in cancers, in order to provide critical strategies in clinical practice.
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- Rui-Jie Zeng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- Department of Gastroenterology, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, GuangzhouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- Institute of Oncologic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- CONTACT Li-Yan Xu Institute of Oncologic Pathology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou515041, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area, Shantou University Medical College, ShantouChina
- En-Min Li The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for High Cancer Incidence Coastal Chaoshan Area Shantou University Medical College, Shantou515041, China
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Adikusuma W, Irham LM, Chou WH, Wong HSC, Mugiyanto E, Ting J, Perwitasari DA, Chang WP, Chang WC. Drug Repurposing for Atopic Dermatitis by Integration of Gene Networking and Genomic Information. Front Immunol 2021; 12:724277. [PMID: 34721386 PMCID: PMC8548825 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.724277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Atopic Dermatitis (AD) is a chronic and relapsing skin disease. The medications for treating AD are still limited, most of them are topical corticosteroid creams or antibiotics. The current study attempted to discover potential AD treatments by integrating a gene network and genomic analytic approaches. Herein, the Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs) associated with AD were extracted from the GWAS catalog. We identified 70 AD-associated loci, and then 94 AD risk genes were found by extending to proximal SNPs based on r2 > 0.8 in Asian populations using HaploReg v4.1. Next, we prioritized the AD risk genes using in silico pipelines of bioinformatic analysis based on six functional annotations to identify biological AD risk genes. Finally, we expanded them according to the molecular interactions using the STRING database to find the drug target genes. Our analysis showed 27 biological AD risk genes, and they were mapped to 76 drug target genes. According to DrugBank and Therapeutic Target Database, 25 drug target genes overlapping with 53 drugs were identified. Importantly, dupilumab, which is approved for AD, was successfully identified in this bioinformatic analysis. Furthermore, ten drugs were found to be potentially useful for AD with clinical or preclinical evidence. In particular, we identified filgotinub and fedratinib, targeting gene JAK1, as potential drugs for AD. Furthermore, four monoclonal antibody drugs (lebrikizumab, tralokinumab, tocilizumab, and canakinumab) were successfully identified as promising for AD repurposing. In sum, the results showed the feasibility of gene networking and genomic information as a potential drug discovery resource.
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- Wirawan Adikusuma
- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Science, University of Muhammadiyah Mataram, Mataram, Indonesia
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ahmad Dahlan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Ph. D. Program in the Clinical Drug Development of Herbal Medicines, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Science, University of Muhammadiyah Pekajangan Pekalongan, Pekalongan, Indonesia
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- School of Health Care Administration, College of Management, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Taipei Medical University (TMU) Research Center of Cancer Translational Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Pharmacy, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Integrative Research Center for Critical Care, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Pharmacology, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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Tan KP, Kanitkar TR, Kwoh CK, Madhusudhan MS. Packpred: Predicting the Functional Effect of Missense Mutations. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:646288. [PMID: 34490344 PMCID: PMC8417552 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.646288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Predicting the functional consequences of single point mutations has relevance to protein function annotation and to clinical analysis/diagnosis. We developed and tested Packpred that makes use of a multi-body clique statistical potential in combination with a depth-dependent amino acid substitution matrix (FADHM) and positional Shannon entropy to predict the functional consequences of point mutations in proteins. Parameters were trained over a saturation mutagenesis data set of T4-lysozyme (1,966 mutations). The method was tested over another saturation mutagenesis data set (CcdB; 1,534 mutations) and the Missense3D data set (4,099 mutations). The performance of Packpred was compared against those of six other contemporary methods. With MCC values of 0.42, 0.47, and 0.36 on the training and testing data sets, respectively, Packpred outperforms all methods in all data sets, with the exception of marginally underperforming in comparison to FADHM in the CcdB data set. A meta server analysis was performed that chose best performing methods of wild-type amino acids and for wild-type mutant amino acid pairs. This led to an increase in the MCC value of 0.40 and 0.51 for the two meta predictors, respectively, on the Missense3D data set. We conjecture that it is possible to improve accuracy with better meta predictors as among the seven methods compared, at least one method or another is able to correctly predict ∼99% of the data.
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- Kuan Pern Tan
- Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore, Singapore.,School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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Structural and functional analysis of disease-associated mutations in GOT1 gene: An in silico study. Comput Biol Med 2021; 136:104695. [PMID: 34352456 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.104695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Disease-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) alter the natural functioning and the structure of proteins. Glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase 1 (GOT1) is a gene associated with multiple cancers and neurodegenerative diseases which codes for aspartate aminotransferase. The present study involved a comprehensive in-silico analysis of the disease-associated SNPs of human GOT1. Four highly deleterious nsSNPs (L36R, Y159C, W162C and L345P) were identified through SNP screening using several sequence-based and structure-based tools. Conservation analysis and oncogenic analysis showed that most of the nsSNPs are at highly conserved residues, oncogenic in nature and cancer drivers. Molecular dynamics simulations (MDS) analysis was performed to understand the dynamic behaviour of native and mutant proteins. PTM analysis revealed that the nsSNP Y159C is at a PTM site and will mostly affect phosphorylation at that site. Based on the overall analyses carried out in this study, L36R is the most deleterious mutation amongst the aforementioned deleterious mutations of GOT1.
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Tan M, Brusgaard K, Gerdes AM, Mortensen MB, Detlefsen S, Schaffalitzky de Muckadell OB, Joergensen MT. Whole genome sequencing identifies rare germline variants enriched in cancer related genes in first degree relatives of familial pancreatic cancer patients. Clin Genet 2021; 100:551-562. [PMID: 34313325 PMCID: PMC9291090 DOI: 10.1111/cge.14038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 07/22/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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First-degree relatives (FDRs) of familial pancreatic cancer (FPC) patients have increased risk of developing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Investigating and understanding the genetic basis for PDAC susceptibility in FPC predisposed families may contribute toward future risk-assessment and management of high-risk individuals. Using a Danish cohort of 27 FPC families, we performed whole-genome sequencing of 61 FDRs of FPC patients focusing on rare genetic variants that may contribute to familial aggregation of PDAC. Statistical analysis was performed using the gnomAD database as external controls. Through analysis of heterozygous premature truncating variants (PTV), we identified cancer-related genes and cancer-driver genes harboring multiple germline mutations. Association analysis detected 20 significant genes with false discovery rate, q < 0.05 including: PALD1, LRP1B, COL4A2, CYLC2, ZFYVE9, BRD3, AHDC1, etc. Functional annotation showed that the significant genes were enriched by gene clusters encoding for extracellular matrix and associated proteins. PTV genes were over-represented by functions related to transport of small molecules, innate immune system, ion channel transport, and stimuli-sensing channels. In conclusion, FDRs of FPC patients carry rare germline variants related to cancer pathogenesis that may contribute to increased susceptibility to PDAC. The identified variants may potentially be useful for risk prediction of high-risk individuals in predisposed families.
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- Ming Tan
- Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Department of Medical Gastroenterology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.,Odense Pancreas Center (OPAC), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Odense Pancreas Center (OPAC), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.,Department of Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Odense Pancreas Center (OPAC), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.,Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Department of Medical Gastroenterology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.,Odense Pancreas Center (OPAC), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.,Department of Medical Gastroenterology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark.,Odense Pancreas Center (OPAC), Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
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Lopes‐Marques M, Pacheco AR, Peixoto MJ, Cardoso AR, Serrano C, Amorim A, Prata MJ, Cooper DN, Azevedo L. Common polymorphic OTC variants can act as genetic modifiers of enzymatic activity. Hum Mutat 2021; 42:978-989. [PMID: 34015158 PMCID: PMC8362079 DOI: 10.1002/humu.24221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2020] [Revised: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Understanding the role of common polymorphisms in modulating the clinical phenotype when they co‐occur with a disease‐causing lesion is of critical importance in medical genetics. We explored the impact of apparently neutral common polymorphisms, using the gene encoding the urea cycle enzyme, ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC), as a model system. Distinct combinations of genetic backgrounds embracing two missense polymorphisms were created in cis with the pathogenic p.Arg40His replacement. In vitro enzymatic assays revealed that the polymorphic variants were able to modulate OTC activity both in the presence or absence of the pathogenic lesion. First, we found that the combination of the minor alleles of polymorphisms p.Lys46Arg and p.Gln270Arg significantly enhanced enzymatic activity in the wild‐type protein. Second, enzymatic assays revealed that the minor allele of the p.Gln270Arg polymorphism was capable of ameliorating OTC activity when combined in cis with the pathogenic p.Arg40His replacement. Structural analysis predicted that the minor allele of the p.Gln270Arg polymorphism would serve to stabilize the OTC wild‐type protein, thereby corroborating the results of the experimental assays. Our findings demonstrate the potential importance of cis‐interactions between common polymorphic variants and pathogenic missense mutations and illustrate how standing genetic variation can modulate protein function.
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- Mónica Lopes‐Marques
- i3S‐Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
- IPATIMUP‐Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- Faculty of Sciences, Department of BiologyUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
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- i3S‐Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
- IPATIMUP‐Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
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- ICVS‐ Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, School of MedicineUniversity of MinhoBragaPortugal
- ICVS/3B's‐PT Government Associate LaboratoryBragaGuimarãesPortugal
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- i3S‐Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
- IPATIMUP‐Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- Faculty of Sciences, Department of BiologyUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
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- i3S‐Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
- IPATIMUP‐Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- Faculty of Sciences, Department of BiologyUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
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- i3S‐Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
- IPATIMUP‐Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- Faculty of Sciences, Department of BiologyUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
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- i3S‐Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
- IPATIMUP‐Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- Faculty of Sciences, Department of BiologyUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
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- Institute of Medical Genetics; School of MedicineCardiff UniversityCardiffUK
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- i3S‐Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversidade do PortoPortoPortugal
- IPATIMUP‐Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, Population Genetics and Evolution GroupUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
- Faculty of Sciences, Department of BiologyUniversity of PortoPortoPortugal
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Mahmood MS, Irshad S, Kalsoom U, Batool H, Batool S, Butt TA. In silico analysis of missense Single Nucleotide Variants (SNVs) in HBB gene associated with the β-thalassemia. GENE REPORTS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.genrep.2021.101019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Aguilera C, Hümmer S, Masanas M, Gabau E, Guitart M, Jeyaprakash AA, Segura MF, Santamaria A, Ruiz A. The Novel KIF1A Missense Variant (R169T) Strongly Reduces Microtubule Stimulated ATPase Activity and Is Associated With NESCAV Syndrome. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:618098. [PMID: 34121983 PMCID: PMC8187576 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.618098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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KIF1A is a microtubule-dependent motor protein responsible for fast anterograde transport of synaptic vesicle precursors in neurons. Pathogenic variants in KIF1A have been associated with a wide spectrum of neurological disorders. Here, we report a patient presenting a severe neurodevelopmental disorder carrying a novel de novo missense variant p.Arg169Thr (R169T) in the KIF1A motor domain. The clinical features present in our patient match with those reported for NESCAV syndrome including severe developmental delay, spastic paraparesis, motor sensory neuropathy, bilateral optic nerve atrophy, progressive cerebellar atrophy, epilepsy, ataxia, and hypotonia. Here, we demonstrate that the microtubule-stimulated ATPase activity of the KIF1A is strongly reduced in the motor domain of the R169T variant. Supporting this, in silico structural modeling suggests that this variant impairs the interaction of the KIF1A motor domain with microtubules. The characterization of the molecular effect of the R169T variant on the KIF1A protein together with the presence of the typical clinical features indicates its causal pathogenic effect.
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- Cinthia Aguilera
- Genetics Laboratory, UDIAT-Centre Diagnòstic, Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari, Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí I3PT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain
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- Translational Molecular Pathology, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
- Spanish Biomedical Research Network Centre in Oncology (CIBERONC), Madrid, Spain
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- Group of Translational Research in Child and Adolescent Cancer, Vall Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Paediatric Unit, Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari, Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí I3PT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain
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- Genetics Laboratory, UDIAT-Centre Diagnòstic, Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari, Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí I3PT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain
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- Group of Translational Research in Child and Adolescent Cancer, Vall Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Cell Cycle and Cancer Laboratory, Group of Biomedical Research in Urology, Vall Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Genetics Laboratory, UDIAT-Centre Diagnòstic, Parc Taulí Hospital Universitari, Institut d’Investigació i Innovació Parc Taulí I3PT, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Sabadell, Spain
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Structural effects driven by rare point mutations in amylin hormone, the type II diabetes-associated peptide. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2021; 1865:129935. [PMID: 34044067 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2021.129935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Revised: 05/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Amylin is a 37-amino-acid peptide hormone co-secreted with insulin, which participates in glucose homeostasis. This hormone is able to aggregate in a β-sheet conformation and deposit in islet amyloids, a hallmark in type II diabetes. Since amylin is a gene-encoded hormone, this peptide has variants caused by point mutations that can impact its functions. METHODS Here, we analyzed the structural effects caused by S20G and G33R point mutations which, according to the 1000 Genomes Project, have frequency in East Asian and European populations, respectively. The analyses were performed by means of aggrescan server, SNP functional effect predictors, and molecular dynamics. RESULTS We found that both mutations have aggregation potential and cause changes in the monomeric forms when compared with wild-type amylin. Furthermore, comparative analyses with pramlintide, an amylin drug analogue, allowed us to infer that second α-helix maintenance may be related to the aggregation potential. CONCLUSIONS The S20G mutation has been described as pathologically related, which is in agreement with our findings. In addition, our data suggest that the G33R mutation might have a deleterious effect. The data presented here also provide new therapy opportunities, whether for creating more effective drugs for diabetes or implementing specific treatment for patients with these mutations. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Our data could help to better understand the impact of mutations on the wild-type amylin sequence, as a starting point for the evaluation and characterization of other variations. Moreover, these findings could improve the health of patients with type II diabetes.
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Genotype-expression interactions for BDNF across human brain regions. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:207. [PMID: 33757426 PMCID: PMC7989003 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-07525-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Background Genetic variations in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) are associated with various psychiatric disorders including depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance use disorders, and schizophrenia; altered gene expression triggered by these genetic variants may serve to create these phenotypes. But genotype-expression interactions for this gene have not been well-studied across brain regions relevant for psychiatric disorders. Results At false discovery rate (FDR) of 10% (q < 0.1), a total of 61 SNPs were associated with BDNF expression in cerebellum (n = 209), 55 SNPs in cortex (n = 205), 48 SNPs in nucleus accumbens (n = 202), 47 SNPs in caudate (n = 194), and 58 SNPs in cerebellar hemisphere (n = 175). We identified a set of 30 SNPs in 2 haplotype blocks that were associated with alterations in expression for each of these 5 regions. The first haplotype block included variants associated in the literature with panic disorders (rs16917204), addiction (rs11030104), bipolar disorder (rs16917237/rs2049045), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (rs6265). Likewise, variants in the second haplotype block have been previously associated with disorders such as nicotine addiction, major depressive disorder (rs988748), and epilepsy (rs6484320/rs7103411). Conclusions This work supports the association of variants within BDNF for expression changes in these key brain regions that may contribute to common behavioral phenotypes for disorders of compulsion, impulsivity, and addiction. These SNPs should be further investigated as possible therapeutic and diagnostic targets to aid in management of these and other psychiatric disorders. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12864-021-07525-1.
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Najjar Sadeghi R, saeedi N, sahba N, Sadeghi A. SMAD4 mutations identified in Iranian patients with colorectal cancer and polyp. GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY FROM BED TO BENCH 2021; 14:S32-S40. [PMID: 35154600 PMCID: PMC8817749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIM Search for SMAD4 mutations in Colorectal cancer (CRC) or polyp in Iran. BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer is one of the five prevalent cancers among the Iranian population; however, its molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. The vast majority of CRCs arise from neoplastic polyp. METHODS Colorectal cancer and polyp lesions with matched normal tissues from patients who had undergone colonoscopy in Taleghani Hospital (January 2009 - November 2010) were included in the study. DNA extraction and PCR-sequencing for exons 5-11 of the SMAD-4 gene were carried out on 39 and 30 specimens of polyp and adenocarcinoma, respectively. RESULTS Of cancer and polyp specimens, 33.3% and 28.2%, respectively, were mutated in the Smad-4 gene. The majority of SMAD4 mutations, especially in the MH2 domain were missense mutations (63.6% and 68.75, respectively). In cancer, codon 435 and in polyp, codons 435 and 399 were the most common alterations. Unlike cancer specimens, transversion was found frequently in the polyp (56.25% vs. 35.7%). CG>TA transition was about 18.75% and 14.3% in cancer and polyp samples, respectively. Mutations of codon 264 and C.483-4 were seen both in cancer and neoplastic polyps. CONCLUSION As frequent alterations, missense mutations are presumably selected during tumorigenesis and polyposis due to their structural impacts on SMAD4 functions and TGF-ß signaling pathway. The lower frequency of CG>TA can be attributed to global genome hypomethylation. Presumably, SMAD4 mutations had occurred in the primary polyps, and some of these mutated cells then developed into carcinoma. On the other hand, polyp-specific mutations may lower the risk of CRC.
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- Rouhallah Najjar Sadeghi
- Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran,Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
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- Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Imran FS, Al-Thuwaini TM, Al-Shuhaib MBS, Lepretre F. A Novel Missense Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the GREM1 Gene is Highly Associated with Higher Reproductive Traits in Awassi Sheep. Biochem Genet 2020; 59:422-436. [PMID: 33048279 DOI: 10.1007/s10528-020-10006-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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GREM1 (gremlin1) is a known inhibitor for BMP15 (bone morphogenetic protein 15) family, but its genetic diversity in sheep is unknown. The present study was conducted to analyze the polymorphism of GREM1 gene using PCR- single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) and DNA sequencing methods and to assess the possible association of GREM1 gene polymorphism with reproductive traits in Awassi ewes. A total of 224 ewes, 124 producing singles and 100 producing twins, were included in the study. Two SSCP patterns were detected in two amplified loci within the exon 2. Two exonic novel single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)s were identified, c.74 T > G (the silent SNP p.Met123 =) and c.30 T > A with (the missense SNP p.Ile237Phe). Statistical analyses indicated a non-significant (P > 0.05) association of p.Met123 = with the analyzed reproductive traits of fecundity, prolificacy, litter size, and twinning rate. Meanwhile, p.Ile237Phe SNP exhibited a highly significant (P < 0.01) association with the measured reproductive traits, in which ewes with TA genotype (with p.Ile237Phe SNP) exhibited higher litter size, twinning ratio, fecundity, and prolificacy than those with TT genotype (without p.Ile237Phe SNP). The deleterious impact of p.Ile237Phe SNP was observed by the means of ten different state-of-the-art in silico tools that predicted a highly damaging effect of p.Ile237Phe SNP on the structure, function, and stability of gremlin1. In conclusion, the results of our study suggest that p.Ile237Phe SNP has a remarkable negative impact on the gremlin1 structure, function, and stability. Since gremlin1 is a known inhibitor of reproductive performance, a consequent higher reproductive performance was observed in ewes with damaged gremlin1 (with p.Ile237Phe SNP) than those with non-damaged gremlin1 (without p.Ile237Phe SNP). Therefore, it can be stated that the implementation of the novel p.Ile237Phe SNP in the GREM1 gene could be a useful marker in marker-assisted selection. This manuscript is the first one to describe GREM1 gene variations in sheep.
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- Faris S Imran
- Branch of Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Kerbala, Fraiha, Kerbala, 56001, Iraq
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- Department of Animal Production, College of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University, Al-Qasim, Babil, 51001, Iraq
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- Department of Animal Production, College of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University, Al-Qasim, Babil, 51001, Iraq.
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- Univ. Lille, Plateau de Genomique Fonctionnelle Et Structurale, CHU Lille, Lille, France
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Ergoren MC, Cobanogulları H, Temel SG, Mocan G. Functional coding/non-coding variants in EGFR, ROS1 and ALK genes and their role in liquid biopsy as a personalized therapy. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 2020; 156:103113. [PMID: 33038629 DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2020.103113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Personalized medicine holds promise to tailor the treatment options for patients' unique genetic make-up, behavioral and environmental background. Liquid biopsy is non-invasive technique and precise diagnosis and treatment approach. Significantly, NGS technologies have revolutionized the genomic medicine by novel identifying SNPs, indel mutations in both coding and non-coding regions and also a promising technology to accelerate the early detection and finding new biomarkers for diagnosis and treatment. The number of the bioinformatics tools have been rapidly increasing with the aim of learning more about the detected mutations either they have a pathogenic role or not. EGFR, ROS1 and ALK genes are members of the RTK family. Until now, mutations within these genes have been associated with many cancers and involved in resistance formation to TKIs. This review article summarized the findings about the mostly investigated variations in EGFR, ROS1 and ALK genes and their potential role in liquid biopsy approach.
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- Mahmut Cerkez Ergoren
- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia, 99138, Cyprus; DESAM Institute, Near East University, 99138, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia, 99138, Cyprus; DESAM Institute, Near East University, 99138, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey; Department of Histology & Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey; Department of Translational Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences, Bursa Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia, 99138, Cyprus; Department of Medical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Near East University, Nicosia, 99138, Cyprus
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Pibiri I, Melfi R, Tutone M, Di Leonardo A, Pace A, Lentini L. Targeting Nonsense: Optimization of 1,2,4-Oxadiazole TRIDs to Rescue CFTR Expression and Functionality in Cystic Fibrosis Cell Model Systems. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21176420. [PMID: 32899265 PMCID: PMC7504161 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21176420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2020] [Revised: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients develop a severe form of the disease when the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene is affected by nonsense mutations. Nonsense mutations are responsible for the presence of a premature termination codon (PTC) in the mRNA, creating a lack of functional protein. In this context, translational readthrough-inducing drugs (TRIDs) represent a promising approach to correct the basic defect caused by PTCs. By using computational optimization and biological screening, we identified three new small molecules showing high readthrough activity. The activity of these compounds has been verified by evaluating CFTR expression and functionality after treatment with the selected molecules in cells expressing nonsense–CFTR–mRNA. Additionally, the channel functionality was measured by the halide sensitive yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) quenching assay. All three of the new TRIDs displayed high readthrough activity and low toxicity and can be considered for further evaluation as a therapeutic approach toward the second major cause of CF.
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- Ivana Pibiri
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16-17, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (R.M.); (M.T.); (A.D.L.); (A.P.)
- Correspondence: (I.P.); (L.L.); Tel.: +39-091-238-97545 (I.P.); +39-091-238-97341 (L.L.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16-17, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (R.M.); (M.T.); (A.D.L.); (A.P.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16-17, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (R.M.); (M.T.); (A.D.L.); (A.P.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16-17, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (R.M.); (M.T.); (A.D.L.); (A.P.)
- Centro di OncoBiologia Sperimentale (COBS), via San Lorenzo Colli, 90145 Palermo, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16-17, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (R.M.); (M.T.); (A.D.L.); (A.P.)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche (STEBICEF), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze Ed. 16-17, 90128 Palermo, Italy; (R.M.); (M.T.); (A.D.L.); (A.P.)
- Correspondence: (I.P.); (L.L.); Tel.: +39-091-238-97545 (I.P.); +39-091-238-97341 (L.L.)
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Zhang J, Sun H, Guo S, Ren Y, Li M, Wang J, Zhang H, Gong G, Xu Y. Decreased Protein Abundance of Lycopene β-Cyclase Contributes to Red Flesh in Domesticated Watermelon. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2020; 183:1171-1183. [PMID: 32321841 PMCID: PMC7333704 DOI: 10.1104/pp.19.01409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Red-fleshed watermelons (Citrullus lanatus) that accumulate lycopene in their flesh cells have been selected and domesticated from their pale-fleshed ancestors. However, the molecular basis of this trait remains poorly understood. Using map-based cloning and transgenic analysis, we identified a lycopene β-cyclase (ClLCYB) gene that controls the flesh color of watermelon. Down-regulation of ClLCYB caused the flesh color to change from pale yellow to red, and ClLCYB overexpression in the red-fleshed line caused the flesh color to change to orange. Analysis of ClLCYB single-nucleotide polymorphisms using 211 watermelon accessions with different flesh colors revealed that two missense mutations between three haplotypes (ClLCYB red , ClLCYB white , and ClLCYB yellow ) were selected and largely fixed in domesticated watermelon. Proteins derived from these three ClLCYB haplotypes were localized in plastids to catalyze the conversion of lycopene to β-carotene and showed similar catalytic abilities. We revealed that ClLCYB protein abundance, instead of ClLCYB transcript level, was negatively correlated with lycopene accumulation. Different amounts of ClLCYB protein degradation among the ClLCYB haplotypes were found in ClLCYB transgenic Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) lines. After treatment with the proteasome inhibitor MG132, the concentration of ClLCYBred increased noticeably compared with other ClLCYB proteins. These results indicate that natural missense mutations within ClLCYB influence ClLCYB protein abundance and have contributed to the development of red flesh color in domesticated watermelon.
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- Jie Zhang
- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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- National Watermelon and Melon Improvement Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Horticultural Crops (North China), Beijing Key Laboratory of Vegetable Germplasm Improvement, Beijing 100097, China
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Mohamed FE, Al Sorkhy M, Ghattas MA, Al-Gazali L, Al-Dirbashi O, Al-Jasmi F, Ali BR. The pharmacological chaperone N-n-butyl-deoxygalactonojirimycin enhances β-galactosidase processing and activity in fibroblasts of a patient with infantile GM1-gangliosidosis. Hum Genet 2020; 139:657-673. [PMID: 32219518 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-020-02153-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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GM1-gangliosidosis, a lysosomal storage disorder, is associated with ~ 161 missense variants in the GLB1 gene. Affected patients present with β-galactosidase (β-Gal) deficiency in lysosomes. Loss of function in ER-retained misfolded enzymes with missense variants is often due to subcellular mislocalization. Deoxygalactonojirimycin (DGJ) and its derivatives are pharmaceutical chaperones that directly bind to mutated β-Gal in the ER promoting its folding and trafficking to lysosomes and thus enhancing its activity. An Emirati child has been diagnosed with infantile GM1-gangliosidosis carrying the reported p.D151Y variant. We show that p.D151Y β-Gal in patient's fibroblasts retained < 1% residual activity due to impaired processing and trafficking. The amino acid substitution significantly affected the enzyme conformation; however, p.D151Y β-Gal was amenable for partial rescue in the presence of glycerol or at reduced temperature where activity was enhanced with ~ 2.3 and 7 folds, respectively. The butyl (NB-DGJ) and nonyl (NN-DGJ) derivatives of DGJ chaperoning function were evaluated by measuring their IC50s and ability to stabilize the wild-type β-Gal against thermal degradation. Although NN-DGJ showed higher affinity to β-Gal, it did not show a significant enhancement in p.D151Y β-Gal activity. However, NB-DGJ promoted p.D151Y β-Gal maturation and enhanced its activity up to ~ 4.5% of control activity within 24 h which was significantly increased to ~ 10% within 6 days. NB-DGJ enhancement effect was sustained over 3 days after washing it out from culture media. We therefore conclude that NB-DGJ might be a promising therapeutic chemical chaperone in infantile GM1 amenable variants and therefore warrants further analysis for its clinical applications.
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- Fedah E Mohamed
- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Pharmacology, Al Ain University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Pharmacology, Al Ain University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.,Department of Genetics and Genomics College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. .,Department of Genetics and Genomics College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. .,Zayed Center for Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
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In Silico Identification of QTL-Based Polymorphic Genes as Salt-Responsive Potential Candidates through Mapping with Two Reference Genomes in Rice. PLANTS 2020; 9:plants9020233. [PMID: 32054112 PMCID: PMC7076550 DOI: 10.3390/plants9020233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2019] [Revised: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Recent advances in next generation sequencing have created opportunities to directly identify genetic loci and candidate genes for abiotic stress responses in plants. With the objective of identifying candidate genes within the previously identified QTL-hotspots, the whole genomes of two divergent cultivars for salt responses, namely At 354 and Bg 352, were re-sequenced using Illumina Hiseq 2500 100PE platform and mapped to Nipponbare and R498 genomes. The sequencing results revealed approximately 2.4 million SNPs and 0.2 million InDels with reference to Nipponbare while 1.3 million and 0.07 million with reference to R498 in two parents. In total, 32,914 genes were reported across all rice chromosomes of this study. Gene mining within QTL hotspots revealed 1236 genes, out of which 106 genes were related to abiotic stress. In addition, 27 abiotic stress-related genes were identified in non-QTL regions. Altogether, 32 genes were identified as potential genes containing polymorphic non-synonymous SNPs or InDels between two parents. Out of 10 genes detected with InDels, tolerant haplotypes of Os01g0581400, Os10g0107000, Os11g0655900, Os12g0622500, and Os12g0624200 were found in the known salinity tolerant donor varieties. Our findings on different haplotypes would be useful in developing resilient rice varieties for abiotic stress by haplotype-based breeding studies.
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The Study of Mutation in LasR and PqsR Genes in Extremely Drug Resistant and Multidrug Resistant Strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Burn Wound Infection. Jundishapur J Microbiol 2019. [DOI: 10.5812/jjm.94254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Koirala M, Alexov E. Computational chemistry methods to investigate the effects caused by DNA variants linked with disease. JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY 2019. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219633619300015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Computational chemistry offers variety of tools to study properties of biological macromolecules. These tools vary in terms of levels of details from quantum mechanical treatment to numerous macroscopic approaches. Here, we provide a review of computational chemistry algorithms and tools for modeling the effects of genetic variations and their association with diseases. Particular emphasis is given on modeling the effects of missense mutations on stability, conformational dynamics, binding, hydrogen bond network, salt bridges, and pH-dependent properties of the corresponding macromolecules. It is outlined that the disease may be caused by alteration of one or several of above-mentioned biophysical characteristics, and a successful prediction of pathogenicity requires detailed analysis of how the alterations affect the function of involved macromolecules. The review provides a short list of most commonly used algorithms to predict the molecular effects of mutations as well.
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- Mahesh Koirala
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29630, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29630, USA
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Wang B, Yan C, Lou S, Emani P, Li B, Xu M, Kong X, Meyerson W, Yang YT, Lee D, Gerstein M. Building a Hybrid Physical-Statistical Classifier for Predicting the Effect of Variants Related to Protein-Drug Interactions. Structure 2019; 27:1469-1481.e3. [PMID: 31279629 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2019.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Revised: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A key issue in drug design is how population variation affects drug efficacy by altering binding affinity (BA) in different individuals, an essential consideration for government regulators. Ideally, we would like to evaluate the BA perturbations of millions of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). However, only hundreds of protein-drug complexes with SNVs have experimentally characterized BAs, constituting too small a gold standard for straightforward statistical model training. Thus, we take a hybrid approach: using physically based calculations to bootstrap the parameterization of a full model. In particular, we do 3D structure-based docking on ∼10,000 SNVs modifying known protein-drug complexes to construct a pseudo gold standard. Then we use this augmented set of BAs to train a statistical model combining structure, ligand and sequence features and illustrate how it can be applied to millions of SNVs. Finally, we show that our model has good cross-validated performance (97% AUROC) and can also be validated by orthogonal ligand-binding data.
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- Bo Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
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Wu H, Vonk KKD, van der Maarel SM, Santen GWE, Daxinger L. A functional assay to classify ZBTB24 missense variants of unknown significance. Hum Mutat 2019; 40:1077-1083. [PMID: 31066130 PMCID: PMC6771626 DOI: 10.1002/humu.23786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Revised: 05/06/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Increasing use of next‐generation sequencing technologies in clinical diagnostics allows large‐scale discovery of genetic variants, but also results in frequent identification of variants of unknown significance (VUSs). Their classification into disease‐causing and neutral variants is often hampered by the absence of robust functional tests. Here, we demonstrate that a luciferase reporter assay, in combination with ChIP‐qPCR, reliably separates pathogenic ZBTB24 missense variants in the context of immunodeficiency, centromeric instability, facial anomalies (ICF) syndrome from natural variants in healthy individuals and patients of other diseases. Application of our assay to two published ZBTB24 missense VUSs indicates that they are likely not to cause ICF2 syndrome. Furthermore, we show that rare gnomAD ZBTB24 missense variants in key residues of the C2H2‐ZF domain lead to a loss of function phenotype that resembles ICF2, suggesting that these individuals are carriers of ICF syndrome. In summary, we have developed a robust functional test to validate missense variants in ZBTB24.
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- Haoyu Wu
- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Kumar Ghosh D, Nanaji Shrikondawar A, Ranjan A. Local structural unfolding at the edge-strands of beta sheets is the molecular basis for instability and aggregation of G85R and G93A mutants of superoxide dismutase 1. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:647-659. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1584125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Debasish Kumar Ghosh
- Computational and Functional Genomics Group, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Uppal, Hyderabad, India
- Graduate Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
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- Computational and Functional Genomics Group, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Uppal, Hyderabad, India
- Graduate Studies, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad, Haryana, India
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- Computational and Functional Genomics Group, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Uppal, Hyderabad, India
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Waldrop E, Al-Obaide MAI, Vasylyeva TL. GANAB and PKD1 Variations in a 12 Years Old Female Patient With Early Onset of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Front Genet 2019; 10:44. [PMID: 30792735 PMCID: PMC6375066 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) typically results from a mutation in the PKD1 and PKD2 genes, which code for polycystin-1 (PC1) and polycystin-2 (PC2), respectively. Mutations in these genes promote renal cystic dysplasia and are a significant cause of End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD). Polycystic kidney disease-3 (PKD3), another form of ADPKD, is caused by mutations in glucosidase II alpha subunit (GANAB) gene and present in mid- and late adulthood. We report a description of an ADPKD case in a 12-year-old female presented bilateral renal cysts in adolescence. Two mutations in two genes PKD1 and GANAB were identified by targeted capture and next-generation sequencing (NGS) on an Illumina sequencing system. The identified PKD1 mutation p.Pro61Leu: c.182C > T (CCC > CTC) a missense type of uncertain clinical significance. However, the identified PKD1 mutation can alter transcription factors motifs and consequently disturb the transcription process. The second mutation identified in GANAB locus, p.Arg61Ter: c.181C > T, a nonsense type, CGA > TGA. The mutation is unreported pathogenic variant can cause loss of the glucosidase II alpha subunit normal protein function. Both the patient father and paternal grandmother had a history of ADPKD but never were tested. This case is the first case of combine presentation on PKD1 and PKD3 in a pediatric patient with nephrolithiasis.
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- Elizabeth Waldrop
- Department of Pediatrics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, TX, United States
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Gupta MK, Vadde R. Insights into the structure–function relationship of both wild and mutant zinc transporter ZnT8 in human: a computational structural biology approach. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:137-151. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1567391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Manoj Kumar Gupta
- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, India
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- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, India
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Hornbeck PV, Kornhauser JM, Latham V, Murray B, Nandhikonda V, Nord A, Skrzypek E, Wheeler T, Zhang B, Gnad F. 15 years of PhosphoSitePlus®: integrating post-translationally modified sites, disease variants and isoforms. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 47:D433-D441. [PMID: 30445427 PMCID: PMC6324072 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2018] [Revised: 10/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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For 15 years the mission of PhosphoSitePlus® (PSP, https://www.phosphosite.org) has been to provide comprehensive information and tools for the study of mammalian post-translational modifications (PTMs). The number of unique PTMs in PSP is now more than 450 000 from over 22 000 articles and thousands of MS datasets. The most important areas of growth in PSP are in disease and isoform informatics. Germline mutations associated with inherited diseases and somatic cancer mutations have been added to the database and can now be viewed along with PTMs and associated quantitative information on novel 'lollipop' plots. These plots enable researchers to interactively visualize the overlap between disease variants and PTMs, and to identify mutations that may alter phenotypes by rewiring signaling networks. We are expanding the sequence space to include over 30 000 human and mouse isoforms to enable researchers to explore the important but understudied biology of isoforms. This represents a necessary expansion of sequence space to accommodate the growing precision and depth of coverage enabled by ongoing advances in mass spectrometry. Isoforms are aligned using a new algorithm. Exploring the worlds of PTMs and disease mutations in the entire isoform space will hopefully lead to new biomarkers, therapeutic targets, and insights into isoform biology.
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- Peter V Hornbeck
- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA
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- University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Cell Signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA
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A computational model to predict the structural and functional consequences of missense mutations in O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase. DNA Repair (Amst) 2019; 115:351-369. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2018.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Chiddarwar AS, D'Silva SZ, Colah RB, Ghosh K, Mukherjee MB. Genetic lesions in the UGT1A1 genes among Gilbert's syndrome patients from India. Mol Biol Rep 2018; 45:2733-2739. [PMID: 30105552 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-018-4305-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 08/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The present study was undertaken to investigate genetic variations present in the coding regions of the UGT1A1 gene among the Gilbert's syndrome patients. Analysis of genetic variations was performed by direct DNA sequencing among the patients that do not have any polymorphic variations in the promoter regions of the UGT1A1 gene. We identified seven different sequence variations among Gilbert's Syndrome patients, of which four were novel. Out of seven variants, six missense and one silent single nucleotide substitutions were present in the UGT1A1 gene. In addition, molecular modeling of UGT1A1 (H55R, P152S and N212H) variants suggested a reduced activity of the enzyme. This study demonstrates that different variations present in the UGT1A1 gene and specifically, the H55R variation had a significant effect on bilirubin levels and could be genetic risk factors for hyperbilirubinemia.
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- Ashish S Chiddarwar
- National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), 13th Floor, NMS Building, K.E.M Hospital Campus, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, India
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- National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), 13th Floor, NMS Building, K.E.M Hospital Campus, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, India
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- National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), 13th Floor, NMS Building, K.E.M Hospital Campus, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, India
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- National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), 13th Floor, NMS Building, K.E.M Hospital Campus, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, India
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- Department of Haematogenetics, National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), 13th Floor, NMS Building, K.E.M Hospital Campus, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, India.
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Saini S, Jyoti-Thakur C, Kumar V, Suhag A, Jakhar N. In silico mutational analysis and identification of stability centers in human interleukin-4. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS 2018; 7:67-76. [PMID: 30046620 PMCID: PMC6054777 DOI: 10.22099/mbrc.2018.28855.1310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Interleukin-4 (IL-4) is a multifunctional cytokine that plays a critical role in apoptosis, differentiation and proliferation. The intensity of IL4 response depends upon binding to its receptor, IL-4R. The therapeutic efficiency of interleukins can be increased by generating structural mutants having greater stability. In the present work, attempts were made to increase the stability of human IL-4 using in-silico site directed mutagenesis. Different orthologous sequences of IL4 from Pan troglodytes, Aotusnigriceps, Macacamulatta, Papiohamadryas, Chlorocebusaethiops, Vicugnapacos, Susscrofa and Homo sapiens were aligned using Clustal Omega that revealed the conserved and non-conserved positions. For each non-conserved position, possible favorable and stabilizing mutations were found using CUPSAT with predicted ΔΔG (kcal/mol). The one with highest ΔΔG (kcal/mol) among all possible mutations, for each non-conserved position was selected and introduced manually in human IL-4 sequence resulting in multiple mutants of IL-4. Mutant proteins were modeled using structure of IL4 (PDB ID: 2B8U) as a template by SWISS MODEL. The mutants A49L and Q106T were identified to have stability centre using SCide. Molecular dynamics and docking analysis also confirmed the mutants stability and binding respectively. Mutants A49L and Q106T had -7.580079 kcal/mol and -39.418124 kcal/mol respectively lesser energy value than the wild type IL4. The result suggested that, the stability of human IL-4 has been increased by mutation.
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- Sandeep Saini
- Department of Bioinformatics, G.G.D.S.D. College, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, G.G.D.S.D. College, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, G.G.D.S.D. College, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, G.G.D.S.D. College, Chandigarh, India
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Li L, Jia Z, Peng Y, Godar S, Getov I, Teng S, Alper J, Alexov E. Forces and Disease: Electrostatic force differences caused by mutations in kinesin motor domains can distinguish between disease-causing and non-disease-causing mutations. Sci Rep 2017; 7:8237. [PMID: 28811629 PMCID: PMC5557957 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08419-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The ability to predict if a given mutation is disease-causing or not has enormous potential to impact human health. Typically, these predictions are made by assessing the effects of mutation on macromolecular stability and amino acid conservation. Here we report a novel feature: the electrostatic component of the force acting between a kinesin motor domain and tubulin. We demonstrate that changes in the electrostatic component of the binding force are able to discriminate between disease-causing and non-disease-causing mutations found in human kinesin motor domains using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC). Because diseases may originate from multiple effects not related to kinesin-microtubule binding, the prediction rate of 0.843 area under the ROC plot due to the change in magnitude of the electrostatic force alone is remarkable. These results reflect the dependence of kinesin’s function on motility along the microtubule, which suggests a precise balance of microtubule binding forces is required.
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- Lin Li
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA
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- Department of Biology, Howard University, Washington, DC, 20059, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA.
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Kumar V, Rahman S, Choudhry H, Zamzami MA, Sarwar Jamal M, Islam A, Ahmad F, Hassan MI. Computing disease-linked SOD1 mutations: deciphering protein stability and patient-phenotype relations. Sci Rep 2017; 7:4678. [PMID: 28680046 PMCID: PMC5498623 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04950-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Protein stability is a requisite in the field of biotechnology, cell biology and drug design. To understand effects of amino acid substitutions, computational models are preferred to save time and expenses. As a systemically important, highly abundant, stable protein, the knowledge of Cu/Zn Superoxide dismutase1 (SOD1) is important, making it a suitable test case for genotype-phenotype correlation in understanding ALS. Here, we report performance of eight protein stability calculators (PoPMuSiC 3.1, I-Mutant 2.0, I-Mutant 3.0, CUPSAT, FoldX, mCSM, BeatMusic and ENCoM) against 54 experimental stability changes due to mutations of SOD1. Four different high-resolution structures were used to test structure sensitivity that may affect protein calculations. Bland-Altman plot was also used to assess agreement between stability analyses. Overall, PoPMuSiC and FoldX emerge as the best methods in this benchmark. The relative performance of all the eight methods was very much structure independent, and also displayed less structural sensitivity. We also analyzed patient's data in relation to experimental and computed protein stabilities for mutations of human SOD1. Correlation between disease phenotypes and stability changes suggest that the changes in SOD1 stability correlate with ALS patient survival times. Thus, the results clearly demonstrate the importance of protein stability in SOD1 pathogenicity.
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- Vijay Kumar
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India
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- Department of Medical Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 712-749, South Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cancer Metabolism and Epigenetic Unit, Faculty of Science, Center of Innovation in Personalized Medicine, Cancer and Mutagenesis Unit, King Fahd Center for Medical Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Cancer Metabolism and Epigenetic Unit, Faculty of Science, Cancer and Mutagenesis Unit, King Fahd Center for Medical Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80216, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India.
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Cang Z, Wei GW. TopologyNet: Topology based deep convolutional and multi-task neural networks for biomolecular property predictions. PLoS Comput Biol 2017; 13:e1005690. [PMID: 28749969 PMCID: PMC5549771 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2017] [Revised: 08/08/2017] [Accepted: 07/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Although deep learning approaches have had tremendous success in image, video and audio processing, computer vision, and speech recognition, their applications to three-dimensional (3D) biomolecular structural data sets have been hindered by the geometric and biological complexity. To address this problem we introduce the element-specific persistent homology (ESPH) method. ESPH represents 3D complex geometry by one-dimensional (1D) topological invariants and retains important biological information via a multichannel image-like representation. This representation reveals hidden structure-function relationships in biomolecules. We further integrate ESPH and deep convolutional neural networks to construct a multichannel topological neural network (TopologyNet) for the predictions of protein-ligand binding affinities and protein stability changes upon mutation. To overcome the deep learning limitations from small and noisy training sets, we propose a multi-task multichannel topological convolutional neural network (MM-TCNN). We demonstrate that TopologyNet outperforms the latest methods in the prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities, mutation induced globular protein folding free energy changes, and mutation induced membrane protein folding free energy changes. AVAILABILITY weilab.math.msu.edu/TDL/.
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- Zixuan Cang
- Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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