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Haro C, Anguita-Maeso M, Metsis M, Navas-Cortés JA, Landa BB. Evaluation of Established Methods for DNA Extraction and Primer Pairs Targeting 16S rRNA Gene for Bacterial Microbiota Profiling of Olive Xylem Sap. Front Plant Sci 2021; 12:640829. [PMID: 33777075 PMCID: PMC7994608 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.640829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized our ability to investigate the microbiota composition of diverse and complex environments. However, a number of factors can affect the accuracy of microbial community assessment, such as the DNA extraction method, the hypervariable region of 16S rRNA gene targeted, or the PCR primers used for amplification. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of commercially available DNA extraction kits and different primer pairs to provide a non-biased vision of the composition of bacterial communities present in olive xylem sap. For that purpose, branches from "Picual" and "Arbequina" olive cultivars were used for xylem sap extraction using a Scholander chamber device. The DNA extraction protocol significantly affected xylem sap bacterial community assessment. That resulted in significant differences in alpha (Richness) and beta diversity (UniFrac distances) metrics among DNA extraction protocols, with the 12 DNA extraction kits evaluated being clustered in four groups behaving differently. Although the core number of taxa detected by all DNA extraction kits included four phyla, seven classes, 12 orders, 16 or 21 families, and 12 or 14 genera when using the Greengenes or Silva database for taxonomic assignment, respectively, some taxa, particularly those identified at low frequency, were detected by some DNA extraction kits only. The most accurate depiction of a bacterial mock community artificially inoculated on sap samples was generated when using the PowerPlant DNA extraction kit, the combination of 799F/1193R primers amplifying the hypervariable V5-V7 region, and the Silva 132 database for taxonomic assignment. The DESeq2 analysis displayed significant differences among genera abundance between the different PCR primer pairs tested. Thus, Enterobacter, Granulicatella, Prevotella, and Brevibacterium presented a significant higher abundance in all PCR protocols when compared with primer pair 799F/1193R, while the opposite was true for Pseudomonas and Pectobacterium. The methodological approach followed in this study can be useful to optimize plant-associated microbiome analysis, especially when exploring new plant niches. Some of the DNA extraction kits and PCR primers selected in this study will contribute to better characterize bacterial communities inhabiting the xylem sap of olives or other woody crop species.
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- Carmen Haro
- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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Arias-Giraldo LF, Giampetruzzi A, Metsis M, Marco-Noales E, Imperial J, Velasco-Amo MP, Román-Écija M, Landa BB. Complete Circularized Genome Data of Two Spanish strains of Xylella fastidiosa (IVIA5235 and IVIA5901) Using Hybrid Assembly Approaches. Phytopathology 2020; 110:969-972. [PMID: 32096699 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-01-20-0012-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Xylella fastidiosa is an economically important plant pathogenic bacterium of global importance associated, since 2013, with a devastating epidemic in olive trees in Italy. Since then, several outbreaks of this pathogen have been reported in other European member countries including Spain, France, and Portugal. In Spain, the three major subspecies (subsp. fastidiosa, multiplex, and pauca) of the bacterium have been detected in the Balearic Islands, but only subspecies multiplex in the mainland (Alicante). We present the first complete genome sequences of two Spanish strains: X. fastidiosa subsp. fastidiosa IVIA5235 from Mallorca and X. fastidiosa subsp. multiplex IVIA5901 from Alicante, using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequence reads, and two hybrid approaches for genome assembly. These completed genomes will provide a resource to better understand the biology of these X. fastidiosa strains.
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- Luis F Arias-Giraldo
- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Consejo superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo della Pianta e degli Alimenti, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Centro de Protección Vegetal y Biotecnología, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Moncada, Spain
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- Institute of Agricultural Sciences, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Consejo superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Consejo superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Consejo superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain
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Drell T, Štšepetova J, Simm J, Rull K, Aleksejeva A, Antson A, Tillmann V, Metsis M, Sepp E, Salumets A, Mändar R. The Influence of Different Maternal Microbial Communities on the Development of Infant Gut and Oral Microbiota. Sci Rep 2017; 7:9940. [PMID: 28855595 PMCID: PMC5577157 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09278-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Very few studies have analyzed how the composition of mother’s microbiota affects the development of infant’s gut and oral microbiota during the first months of life. Here, microbiota present in the mothers’ gut, vagina, breast milk, oral cavity, and mammary areola were compared with the gut and oral microbiota of their infants over the first six months following birth. Samples were collected from the aforementioned body sites from seven mothers and nine infants at three different time points over a 6-month period. Each sample was analyzed with 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The gut microbiota of the infants harbored distinct microbial communities that had low similarity with the various maternal microbiota communities. In contrast, the oral microbiota of the infants exhibited high similarity with the microbiota of the mothers’ breast milk, mammary areola and mouth. These results demonstrate that constant contact between microbial communities increases their similarity. A majority of the operational taxonomic units in infant gut and oral microbiota were also shared with the mothers’ gut and oral communities, respectively. The disparity between the similarity and the proportion of the OTUs shared between infants’ and mothers’ gut microbiota might be related to lower diversity and therefore competition in infants’ gut microbiota.
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- Tiina Drell
- Competence Centre on Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia. .,Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. .,Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.,Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,iMinds Medical IT, Leuven, Belgium
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- Women's Clinic of Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Children's Clinic of Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Children's Clinic of Tartu University Hospital, Tartu, Estonia
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- School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Competence Centre on Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.,Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Competence Centre on Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia.,Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Laas P, Šatova E, Lips I, Lips U, Simm J, Kisand V, Metsis M. Near-Bottom Hypoxia Impacts Dynamics of Bacterioplankton Assemblage throughout Water Column of the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea). PLoS One 2016; 11:e0156147. [PMID: 27213812 PMCID: PMC4877108 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Over the past century the spread of hypoxia in the Baltic Sea has been drastic, reaching its ‘arm’ into the easternmost sub-basin, the Gulf of Finland. The hydrographic and climatological properties of the gulf offer a broad suite of discrete niches for microbial communities. The current study explores spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterioplankton community in the Gulf of Finland using massively parallel sequencing of 16S rRNA fragments obtained by amplifying community DNA from spring to autumn period. The presence of redoxcline and drastic seasonal changes make spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterioplankton community composition (BCC) and abundances in such estuary remarkably complex. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that analyses spatiotemporal dynamics of BCC in relation to phytoplankton bloom throughout the water column (and redoxcline), not only at the surface layer. We conclude that capability to survive (or benefit from) shifts between oxic and hypoxic conditions is vital adaptation for bacteria to thrive in such environments. Our results contribute to the understanding of emerging patterns in BCCs that occupy hydrographically similar estuaries dispersed all over the world, and we suggest the presence of a global redox- and salinity-driven metacommunity. These results have important implications for understanding long-term ecological and biogeochemical impacts of hypoxia expansion in the Baltic Sea (and similar ecosystems), as well as global biogeography of bacteria specialized inhabiting similar ecosystems.
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- Peeter Laas
- Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia Rd. 15A, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia Rd. 15A, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia Rd. 15A, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Institute of Technology at University of Tartu, Nooruse 1, 50411, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Tallinn University, Narva Rd. 25, 10120, Tallinn, Estonia
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Altmäe S, Tamm-Rosenstein K, Esteban FJ, Simm J, Kolberg L, Peterson H, Metsis M, Haldre K, Horcajadas JA, Salumets A, Stavreus-Evers A. Endometrial transcriptome analysis indicates superiority of natural over artificial cycles in recurrent implantation failure patients undergoing frozen embryo transfer. Reprod Biomed Online 2016; 32:597-613. [PMID: 27090967 DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2016.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2015] [Revised: 03/14/2016] [Accepted: 03/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Little consensus has been reached on the best protocol for endometrial preparation for frozen embryo transfer (FET). It is not known how, and to what extent, hormone supplementation in artificial cycles influences endometrial preparation for embryo implantation at a molecular level, especially in patients who have experienced recurrent implantation failure. Transcriptome analysis of 15 endometrial biopsy samples at the time of embryo implantation was used to compare two different endometrial preparation protocols, natural versus artificial cycles, for FET in women who have experienced recurrent implantation failure compared with fertile women. IPA and DAVID were used for functional analyses of differentially expressed genes. The TRANSFAC database was used to identify oestrogen and progesterone response elements upstream of differentially expressed genes. Cluster analysis demonstrated that natural cycles are associated with a better endometrial receptivity transcriptome than artificial cycles. Artificial cycles seemed to have a stronger negative effect on expression of genes and pathways crucial for endometrial receptivity, including ESR2, FSHR, LEP, and several interleukins and matrix metalloproteinases. Significant overrepresentation of oestrogen response elements among the genes with deteriorated expression in artificial cycles (P < 0.001) was found; progesterone response elements predominated in genes with amended expression with artificial cycles (P = 0.0052).
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- Signe Altmäe
- Competence Centre on Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia; Department of Paediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
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- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia; Quretec Ltd., Tartu, Estonia
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- Competence Centre on Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia; School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Centre for Reproductive Medicine, West Tallinn Central Hospital Women's Clinic, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Competence Centre on Health Technologies, Tartu, Estonia; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Caliz J, Montes-Borrego M, Triadó-Margarit X, Metsis M, Landa BB, Casamayor EO. Influence of edaphic, climatic, and agronomic factors on the composition and abundance of nitrifying microorganisms in the rhizosphere of commercial olive crops. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0125787. [PMID: 25950678 PMCID: PMC4423868 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The microbial ecology of the nitrogen cycle in agricultural soils is an issue of major interest. We hypothesized a major effect by farm management systems (mineral versus organic fertilizers) and a minor influence of soil texture and plant variety on the composition and abundance of microbial nitrifiers. We explored changes in composition (16S rRNA gene) of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), bacteria (AOB), and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB), and in abundance of AOA and AOB (qPCR of amoA genes) in the rhizosphere of 96 olive orchards differing in climatic conditions, agricultural practices, soil properties, and olive variety. Majority of archaea were 1.1b thaumarchaeota (soil crenarchaeotic group, SCG) closely related to the AOA genus Nitrososphaera. Most AOB (97%) were identical to Nitrosospira tenuis and most NOB (76%) were closely related to Nitrospira sp. Common factors shaping nitrifiers assemblage composition were pH, soil texture, and olive variety. AOB abundance was positively correlated with altitude, pH, and clay content, whereas AOA abundances showed significant relationships with organic nitrogen content and exchangeable K. The abundances of AOA differed significantly among soil textures and olive varieties, and those of AOB among soil management systems and olive varieties. Overall, we observed minor effects by orchard management system, soil cover crop practices, plantation age, or soil organic matter content, and major influence of soil texture, pH, and olive tree variety.
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- Joan Caliz
- Biogeodynamics & Biodiversity Group, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Girona
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario (ceiA3), Córdoba, Spain
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- Biogeodynamics & Biodiversity Group, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Girona
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- Tallinn University, Institute of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Narva mnt 25, Tallinn 10120, Estonia
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- Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario (ceiA3), Córdoba, Spain
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- Biogeodynamics & Biodiversity Group, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes, CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Girona
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Laas P, Simm J, Lips I, Lips U, Kisand V, Metsis M. Redox-specialized bacterioplankton metacommunity in a temperate estuary. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0122304. [PMID: 25860812 PMCID: PMC4393233 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2014] [Accepted: 02/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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This study explored the spatiotemporal dynamics of the bacterioplankton community composition in the Gulf of Finland (easternmost sub-basin of the Baltic Sea) based on phylogenetic analysis of 16S rDNA sequences acquired from community samples via pyrosequencing. Investigations of bacterioplankton in hydrographically complex systems provide good insight into the strategies by which microbes deal with spatiotemporal hydrographic gradients, as demonstrated by our research. Many ribotypes were closely affiliated with sequences isolated from environments with similar steep physiochemical gradients and/or seasonal changes, including seasonally anoxic estuaries. Hence, one of the main conclusions of this study is that marine ecosystems where oxygen and salinity gradients co-occur can be considered a habitat for a cosmopolitan metacommunity consisting of specialized groups occupying niches universal to such environments throughout the world. These niches revolve around functional capabilities to utilize different electron receptors and donors (including trace metal and single carbon compounds). On the other hand, temporal shifts in the bacterioplankton community composition at the surface layer were mainly connected to the seasonal succession of phytoplankton and the inflow of freshwater species. We also conclude that many relatively abundant populations are indigenous and well-established in the area.
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- Peeter Laas
- Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing, and Data Analytics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- iMinds Medical IT, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Institute of Technology at University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
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Moora M, Davison J, Öpik M, Metsis M, Saks Ü, Jairus T, Vasar M, Zobel M. Anthropogenic land use shapes the composition and phylogenetic structure of soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2014; 90:609-21. [PMID: 25187481 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2014] [Revised: 08/29/2014] [Accepted: 08/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi play an important role in ecosystems, but little is known about how soil AM fungal community composition varies in relation to habitat type and land-use intensity. We molecularly characterized AM fungal communities in soil samples (n = 88) from structurally open (permanent grassland, intensive and sustainable agriculture) and forested habitats (primeval forest and spruce plantation). The habitats harboured significantly different AM fungal communities, and there was a broad difference in fungal community composition between forested and open habitats, the latter being characterized by higher average AM fungal richness. Within both open and forest habitats, intensive land use significantly influenced community composition. There was a broad difference in the phylogenetic structure of AM fungal communities between mechanically disturbed and nondisturbed habitats. Taxa from Glomeraceae served as indicator species for the nondisturbed habitats, while taxa from Archaeosporaceae, Claroideoglomeraceae and Diversisporaceae were indicators for the disturbed habitats. The distribution of these indicator taxa among habitat types in the MaarjAM global database of AM fungal diversity was in accordance with their local indicator status.
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- Mari Moora
- Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Hiiesalu I, Pärtel M, Davison J, Gerhold P, Metsis M, Moora M, Öpik M, Vasar M, Zobel M, Wilson SD. Species richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: associations with grassland plant richness and biomass. New Phytol 2014; 203:233-244. [PMID: 24641509 DOI: 10.1111/nph.12765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Although experiments show a positive association between vascular plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) species richness, evidence from natural ecosystems is scarce. Furthermore, there is little knowledge about how AMF richness varies with belowground plant richness and biomass. We examined relationships among AMF richness, above- and belowground plant richness, and plant root and shoot biomass in a native North American grassland. Root-colonizing AMF richness and belowground plant richness were detected from the same bulk root samples by 454-sequencing of the AMF SSU rRNA and plant trnL genes. In total we detected 63 AMF taxa. Plant richness was 1.5 times greater belowground than aboveground. AMF richness was significantly positively correlated with plant species richness, and more strongly with below- than aboveground plant richness. Belowground plant richness was positively correlated with belowground plant biomass and total plant biomass, whereas aboveground plant richness was positively correlated only with belowground plant biomass. By contrast, AMF richness was negatively correlated with belowground and total plant biomass. Our results indicate that AMF richness and plant belowground richness are more strongly related with each other and with plant community biomass than with the plant aboveground richness measures that have been almost exclusively considered to date.
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- Inga Hiiesalu
- Department of Botany, University of Tartu, 40 Lai St, 51005, Tartu, Estonia; Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, 135 Dukelská St, 37982, Třeboň, Czech Republic
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Montes-Borrego M, Metsis M, Landa BB. Arbuscular mycorhizal fungi associated with the olive crop across the Andalusian landscape: factors driving community differentiation. PLoS One 2014; 9:e96397. [PMID: 24797669 PMCID: PMC4010464 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the last years, many olive plantations in southern Spain have been mediated by the use of self-rooted planting stocks, which have incorporated commercial AMF during the nursery period to facilitate their establishment. However, this was practised without enough knowledge on the effect of cropping practices and environment on the biodiversity of AMF in olive orchards in Spain. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Two culture-independent molecular methods were used to study the AMF communities associated with olive in a wide-region analysis in southern Spain including 96 olive locations. The use of T-RFLP and pyrosequencing analysis of rDNA sequences provided the first evidence of an effect of agronomic and climatic characteristics, and soil physicochemical properties on AMF community composition associated with olive. Thus, the factors most strongly associated to AMF distribution varied according to the technique but included among the studied agronomic characteristics the cultivar genotype and age of plantation and the irrigation regimen but not the orchard management system or presence of a cover crop to prevent soil erosion. Soil physicochemical properties and climatic characteristics most strongly associated to the AMF community composition included pH, textural components and nutrient contents of soil, and average evapotranspiration, rainfall and minimum temperature of the sampled locations. Pyrosequencing analysis revealed 33 AMF OTUs belonging to five families, with Archaeospora spp., Diversispora spp. and Paraglomus spp., being first records in olive. Interestingly, two of the most frequent OTUs included a diverse group of Claroideoglomeraceae and Glomeraceae sequences, not assigned to any known AMF species commonly used as inoculants in olive during nursery propagation. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE Our data suggests that AMF can exert higher host specificity in olive than previously thought, which may have important implications for redirecting the olive nursery process in the future as well as to take into consideration the specific soils and environments where the mycorrhized olive trees will be established.
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- Miguel Montes-Borrego
- Department of Crop Protection, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS-CSIC), Cordoba, Spain
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- Tallinn University, Institute of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Crop Protection, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS-CSIC), Cordoba, Spain
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Tamm-Rosenstein K, Simm J, Suhorutshenko M, Salumets A, Metsis M. Changes in the transcriptome of the human endometrial Ishikawa cancer cell line induced by estrogen, progesterone, tamoxifen, and mifepristone (RU486) as detected by RNA-sequencing. PLoS One 2013; 8:e68907. [PMID: 23874806 PMCID: PMC3712916 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Accepted: 06/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Background Estrogen (E2) and progesterone (P4) are key players in the maturation of the human endometrium. The corresponding steroid hormone modulators, tamoxifen (TAM) and mifepristone (RU486) are widely used in breast cancer therapy and for contraception purposes, respectively. Methodology/Principal findings Gene expression profiling of the human endometrial Ishikawa cancer cell line treated with E2 and P4 for 3 h and 12 h, and TAM and RU486 for 12 h, was performed using RNA-sequencing. High levels of mRNA were detected for genes, including PSAP, ATP5G2, ATP5H, and GNB2L1 following E2 or P4 treatment. A total of 82 biomarkers for endometrial biology were identified among E2 induced genes, and 93 among P4 responsive genes. Identified biomarkers included: EZH2, MDK, MUC1, SLIT2, and IL6ST, which are genes previously associated with endometrial receptivity. Moreover, 98.8% and 98.6% of E2 and P4 responsive genes in Ishikawa cells, respectively, were also detected in two human mid-secretory endometrial biopsy samples. TAM treatment exhibited both antagonistic and agonistic effects of E2, and also regulated a subset of genes independently. The cell cycle regulator cyclin D1 (CCND1) showed significant up-regulation following treatment with TAM. RU486 did not appear to act as a pure antagonist of P4 and a functional analysis of RU486 response identified genes related to adhesion and apoptosis, including down-regulated genes associated with cell-cell contacts and adhesion as CTNND1, JUP, CDH2, IQGAP1, and COL2A1. Conclusions Significant changes in gene expression by the Ishikawa cell line were detected after treatments with E2, P4, TAM, and RU486. These transcriptome data provide valuable insight into potential biomarkers related to endometrial receptivity, and also facilitate an understanding of the molecular changes that take place in the endometrium in the early stages of breast cancer treatment and contraception usage.
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- Karin Tamm-Rosenstein
- Centre for Biology of Integrated Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
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Öpik M, Zobel M, Cantero JJ, Davison J, Facelli JM, Hiiesalu I, Jairus T, Kalwij JM, Koorem K, Leal ME, Liira J, Metsis M, Neshataeva V, Paal J, Phosri C, Põlme S, Reier Ü, Saks Ü, Schimann H, Thiéry O, Vasar M, Moora M. Global sampling of plant roots expands the described molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhiza 2013; 23:411-30. [PMID: 23422950 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-013-0482-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2012] [Accepted: 01/28/2013] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We aimed to enhance understanding of the molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) by building a new global dataset targeting previously unstudied geographical areas. In total, we sampled 96 plant species from 25 sites that encompassed all continents except Antarctica. AMF in plant roots were detected by sequencing the nuclear SSU rRNA gene fragment using either cloning followed by Sanger sequencing or 454-sequencing. A total of 204 AMF phylogroups (virtual taxa, VT) were recorded, increasing the described number of Glomeromycota VT from 308 to 341 globally. Novel VT were detected from 21 sites; three novel but nevertheless widespread VT (Glomus spp. MO-G52, MO-G53, MO-G57) were recorded from six continents. The largest increases in regional VT number were recorded in previously little-studied Oceania and in the boreal and polar climatic zones - this study providing the first molecular data from the latter. Ordination revealed differences in AM fungal communities between different continents and climatic zones, suggesting that both biogeographic history and environmental conditions underlie the global variation of those communities. Our results show that a considerable proportion of Glomeromycota diversity has been recorded in many regions, though further large increases in richness can be expected in remaining unstudied areas.
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- Maarja Öpik
- Department of Botany, University of Tartu, 40 Lai Street, 51005 Tartu, Estonia.
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Lynch C, Tee N, Rouse H, Gordon A, Sati L, Zeiss C, Soygur B, Bassorgun I, Goksu E, Demir R, McGrath J, Groendahl ML, Thuesen L, Andersen AN, Loft A, Smitz J, Adriaenssens T, Vikesa J, Borup R, Mersy E, Kisters N, Macville MVE, Engelen JJM, Consortium SENN, Menheere PPCA, Geraedts JP, Coumans ABC, Frints SGM, Aledani T, Assou S, Traver S, Ait-ahmed O, Dechaud H, Hamamah S, Mizutani E, Suzumori N, Sugiyama C, Hattori Y, Sato T, Ando H, Ozaki Y, Sugiura-Ogasawara M, Wissing M, Kristensen SG, Andersen CY, Mikkelsen AL, Hoest T, Borup R, Groendahl ML, Velthut-Meikas A, Simm J, Metsis M, Salumets A, Palini S, Galluzzi L, De Stefani S, Primiterra M, Wells D, Magnani M, Bulletti C, Vogt PH, Frank-Herrmann P, Bender U, Strowitzki T, Besikoglu B, Heidemann P, Wunsch L, Bettendorf M, Jelinkova L, Vilimova S, Kosarova M, Sebek P, Volemanova E, Kruzelova M, Civisova J, Svobodova L, Sobotka V, Mardesic T, van de Werken C, Santos MA, Eleveld C, Laven JSE, Baart EB, Pylyp LY, Spinenko LA, Zukin VD, Perez-Sanz J, Matorras R, Arluzea J, Bilbao J, Gonzalez-Santiago N, Yeh N, Koff A, Barlas A, Romin Y, Manova-Todorova K, Hoz CDL, Mauri AL, Nascimento AM, Vagnini LD, Petersen CG, Ricci J, Massaro FC, Cavagna M, Pontes A, Oliveira JBA, Baruffi RLR, Franco JG, Wu EX, Ma S, Parriego M, Sole M, Boada M, Coroleu B, Veiga A, Kakourou G, Poulou M, Vrettou C, Destouni A, Traeger-Synodinos J, Kanavakis E, Yatsenko AN, Georgiadis AP, McGuire MM, Zorrilla M, Bunce KD, Peters D, Rajkovic A, Olszewska M, Kurpisz M, Gilbertson AZA, Ottolini CS, Summers MC, Sage K, Handyside AH, Thornhill AR, Griffin DK, Chung MK, Kim JW, Lee JH, Jeong HJ, Kim MH, Ryu MJ, Park SJ, Kang HY, Lee HS, Zimmermann B, Banjevic M, Hill M, Lacroute P, Dodd M, Sigurjonsson S, Lau P, Prosen D, Chopra N, Ryan A, Hall M, McAdoo S, Demko Z, Levy B, Rabinowitz M, Vereczeky A, Kosa ZS, Savay S, Csenki M, Nanassy L, Dudas B, Domotor ZS, Debreceni D, Rossi A, Alegretti JR, Cuzzi J, Bonavita M, Tanada M, Matunaga P, Fettback P, Rosa MB, Maia V, Hassun P, Motta ELA, Piccolomini M, Gomes C, Barros B, Nicoliello M, Matunaga P, Criscuolo T, Bonavita M, Alegretti JR, Miyadahira E, Cuzzi J, Hassun P, Motta ELA, Montjean D, Benkhalifa M, Berthaut I, Griveau JF, Morcel K, Bashamboo A, McElreavey K, Ravel C, Rubio C, Rodrigo L, Mateu E, Mercader A, Peinado V, Buendia P, Milan M, Delgado A, Al-Asmar N, Escrich L, Campos-Galindo I, Garcia-Herrero S, Poo ME, Mir P, Simon C, Reyes-Engel A, Cortes-Rodriguez M, Lendinez A, Perez-Nevot B, Palomares AR, Galdon MR, Ruberti A, Minasi MG, Biricik A, Colasante A, Zavaglia D, Iammarrone E, Fiorentino F, Greco E, Demir N, Ozturk S, Sozen B, Morales R, Lledo B, Ortiz JA, Ten J, Llacer J, Bernabeu R, Nagayoshi M, Tanaka A, Tanaka I, Kusunoki H, Watanabe S, Temel SG, Beyazyurek C, Ekmekci GC, Aybar F, Cinar C, Kahraman S, Nordqvist S, Karehed K, Akerud H, Ottolini CS, Griffin DK, Thornhill AR, Handyside AH, Gultomruk M, Tulay P, Findikli N, Yagmur E, Karlikaya G, Ulug U, Bahceci M, Bargallo MF, Arevalo MR, Salat MM, Barbat IV, Lopez JT, Algam ME, Boluda AB, de Oya GC, Tolmacheva EN, Kashevarova AA, Skryabin NA, Lebedev IN, Semaco E, Belo A, Riboldi M, Cuzzi J, Barros B, Luz L, Criscuolo T, Nobrega N, Matunaga P, Mazetto R, Alegretti JA, Bibancos M, Hassun P, Motta ELA, Serafini P, Neupane J, Vandewoestyne M, Heindryckx B, Deroo T, Lu Y, Ghimire S, Lierman S, Qian C, Deforce D, De Sutter P, Rodrigo L, Rubio C, Mateu E, Peinado V, Milan M, Viloria T, Al-Asmar N, Mercader A, Buendia P, Delgado A, Escrich L, Martinez-Jabaloyas JM, Simon C, Gil-Salom M, Capalbo A, Treff N, Cimadomo D, Tao X, Ferry K, Ubaldi FM, Rienzi L, Scott RT, Katzorke N, Strowitzki T, Vogt HP, Hehr A, Gassner C, Paulmann B, Kowalzyk Z, Klatt M, Krauss S, Seifert D, Seifert B, Hehr U, Minasi MG, Ruberti A, Biricik A, Lobascio M, Zavaglia D, Varricchio MT, Fiorentino F, Greco E, Rubino P, Bono S, Cotarelo RP, Spizzichino L, Biricik A, Colicchia A, Giannini P, Fiorentino F, Suhorutshenko M, Rosenstein-Tamm K, Simm J, Salumets A, Metsis M. Reproductive (epi)genetics. Hum Reprod 2013. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/det220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Velthut-Meikas A, Simm J, Tuuri T, Tapanainen JS, Metsis M, Salumets A. Research resource: small RNA-seq of human granulosa cells reveals miRNAs in FSHR and aromatase genes. Mol Endocrinol 2013; 27:1128-41. [PMID: 23660593 DOI: 10.1210/me.2013-1058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The granulosa cells in the mammalian ovarian follicle respond to gonadotropin signaling and are involved in the processes of folliculogenesis and oocyte maturation. Studies on gene expression and regulation in human granulosa cells are of interest due to their potential for estimating the oocyte viability and in vitro fertilization success. However, the posttranscriptional gene expression studies on micro-RNA (miRNA) level in the human ovary have been scarce. The current study determined the miRNA profile by deep sequencing of the 2 intrafollicular somatic cell types: mural and cumulus granulosa cells (MGCs and CGCs, respectively) isolated from women undergoing controlled ovarian stimulation and in vitro fertilization. Altogether, 936 annotated and 9 novel miRNAs were identified. Ninety of the annotated miRNAs were differentially expressed between MGCs and CGCs. Bioinformatic prediction revealed that TGFβ, ErbB signaling, and heparan sulfate biosynthesis were targeted by miRNAs in both granulosa cell populations, whereas extracellular matrix remodeling, Wnt, and neurotrophin signaling pathways were enriched among miRNA targets in MGCs. Two of the nine novel miRNAs found were of intronic origin: one from the aromatase and the other from the FSH receptor gene. The latter miRNA was predicted to target the activin signaling pathway. In addition to revealing the genome-wide miRNA signature in human granulosa cells, our results suggest that posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression by miRNAs could play an important role in the modification of gonadotropin signaling. miRNA expression studies could therefore lead to new prognostic markers in assisted reproductive technologies.
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- Agne Velthut-Meikas
- Competence Centre on Reproductive Medicine and Biology, Tiigi 61B, 50410 Tartu, Estonia.
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Drell T, Lillsaar T, Tummeleht L, Simm J, Aaspõllu A, Väin E, Saarma I, Salumets A, Donders GGG, Metsis M. Characterization of the vaginal micro- and mycobiome in asymptomatic reproductive-age Estonian women. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54379. [PMID: 23372716 PMCID: PMC3553157 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 167] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2012] [Accepted: 12/11/2012] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The application of high-throughput sequencing methods has raised doubt in the concept of the uniform healthy vaginal microbiota consisting predominantly of lactobacilli by revealing the existence of more variable bacterial community composition. As this needs to be analyzed more extensively and there is little straightforward data regarding the vaginal mycobiome of asymptomatic women we aimed to define bacterial and fungal communities in vaginal samples from 494 asymptomatic, reproductive-age Estonian women. The composition of the vaginal microbiota was determined by amplifying bacterial 16S rRNA and fungal internal transcribed spacer-1 (ITS-1) regions and subsequently sequencing them using 454 Life Sciences pyrosequencing. We delineated five major bacterial community groups with distinctive diversity and species composition. Lactobacilli were among the most abundant bacteria in all groups, but also members of genus Gardnerella had high relative abundance in some of the groups. Microbial diversity increased with higher vaginal pH values, and was also higher when a malodorous discharge was present, indicating that some of the women who consider themselves healthy may potentially have asymptomatic bacterial vaginosis (BV). Our study is the first of its kind to analyze the mycobiome that colonizes the healthy vaginal environment using barcoded pyrosequencing technology. We observed 196 fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs), including 16 OTUs of Candida spp., which is more diverse than previously recognized. However, assessing true fungal diversity was complicated because of the problems regarding the possible air-borne contamination and bioinformatics used for identification of fungal taxons as significant proportion of fungal sequences were assigned to unspecified OTUs.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Asymptomatic Diseases
- Candida/classification
- Candida/genetics
- Candida/isolation & purification
- DNA, Intergenic/classification
- DNA, Intergenic/genetics
- Estonia/epidemiology
- Female
- Gardnerella vaginalis/classification
- Gardnerella vaginalis/genetics
- Gardnerella vaginalis/isolation & purification
- Humans
- Lactobacillus/classification
- Lactobacillus/genetics
- Lactobacillus/isolation & purification
- Metagenome/genetics
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/classification
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Vagina/microbiology
- Vaginal Discharge/microbiology
- Vaginosis, Bacterial/diagnosis
- Vaginosis, Bacterial/epidemiology
- Vaginosis, Bacterial/microbiology
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- Tiina Drell
- Centre for Biology of Integrated Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
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Bagur Quetglas R, Karu-Varikmaa M, Tepp K, Metsis M, Kaambre T, Grichine A, Boucher F, Saks V, Guzun R. Regulation of Respiration in Permeabilized Muscle Cells: Apparent KM for ADP Shows the Mitochondrial Outer Membrane Permeability. Biophys J 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.11.2482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sepper R, Prikk K, Metsis M, Sergejeva S, Pugatsjova N, Bragina O, Marran S, Fehniger TE. Mucin5B expression by lung alveolar macrophages is increased in long-term smokers. J Leukoc Biol 2012; 92:319-24. [PMID: 22591690 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0111047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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This study investigated the expression of MUC5B by AMs in the lungs of cigarette smokers and nonsmokers. We analyzed MUC5B expression by measuring the levels of apomucin and mRNA in human BALF cells from 50 subjects (20 nonsmokers, 17 patients with CB, and 13 patients with COPD). apoMUC5B was observed in BALF mononuclear cells in 60% of all subjects, but a significantly higher frequency of apoMUC5B(+) cells was found in subjects with CB (95% CI, 4.5-24.9) or COPD (95% CI, 6.2-39.6) than in nonsmokers (95% CI, 0.5-2.5). apoMUC5B(+) mononuclear cells showed strong expression of CD163, confirming their identity as AMs. MUC5B mRNA expression was detected by ISH in AMs of subjects investigated, and real-time qPCR analysis confirmed MUC5B mRNA expression. In conclusion, MUC5B is expressed in a subset of lung AMs and long-term cigarette smoking may increase the level of MUC5B produced by these cells.
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- Ruth Sepper
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
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Hiiesalu I, Opik M, Metsis M, Lilje L, Davison J, Vasar M, Moora M, Zobel M, Wilson SD, Pärtel M. Plant species richness belowground: higher richness and new patterns revealed by next-generation sequencing. Mol Ecol 2011; 21:2004-16. [PMID: 22168247 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05390.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Variation in plant species richness has been described using only aboveground vegetation. The species richness of roots and rhizomes has never been compared with aboveground richness in natural plant communities. We made direct comparisons of grassland plant richness in identical volumes (0.1 × 0.1 × 0.1 m) above and below the soil surface, using conventional species identification to measure aboveground richness and 454 sequencing of the chloroplast trnL(UAA) intron to measure belowground richness. We described above- and belowground richness at multiple spatial scales (from a neighbourhood scale of centimetres to a community scale of hundreds of metres), and related variation in richness to soil fertility. Tests using reference material indicated that 454 sequencing captured patterns of species composition and abundance with acceptable accuracy. At neighbourhood scales, belowground richness was up to two times greater than aboveground richness. The relationship between above- and belowground richness was significantly different from linear: beyond a certain level of belowground richness, aboveground richness did not increase further. Belowground richness also exceeded that of aboveground at the community scale, indicating that some species are temporarily dormant and absent aboveground. Similar to other grassland studies, aboveground richness declined with increasing soil fertility; in contrast, the number of species found only belowground increased significantly with fertility. These results indicate that conventional aboveground studies of plant richness may overlook many coexisting species, and that belowground richness becomes relatively more important in conditions where aboveground richness decreases. Measuring plant belowground richness can considerably alter perceptions of biodiversity and its responses to natural and anthropogenic factors.
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- Inga Hiiesalu
- Department of Botany, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
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Aaspõllu A, Lillsaar T, Tummeleht L, Simm J, Metsis M. Can microbes on skin help linking persons and crimes? Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigss.2011.08.131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Guzun R, Karu-Varikmaa M, Gonzalez-Granillo M, Kuznetsov AV, Michel L, Cottet-Rousselle C, Saaremäe M, Kaambre T, Metsis M, Grimm M, Auffray C, Saks V. Mitochondria-cytoskeleton interaction: distribution of β-tubulins in cardiomyocytes and HL-1 cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 2011; 1807:458-69. [PMID: 21296049 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2011.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2010] [Revised: 01/13/2011] [Accepted: 01/31/2011] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Mitochondria-cytoskeleton interactions were analyzed in adult rat cardiomyocytes and in cancerous non-beating HL-1 cells of cardiac phenotype. We show that in adult cardiomyocytes βII-tubulin is associated with mitochondrial outer membrane (MOM). βI-tubulin demonstrates diffused intracellular distribution, βIII-tubulin is colocalized with Z-lines and βIV-tubulin forms microtubular network. HL-1 cells are characterized by the absence of βII-tubulin, by the presence of bundles of filamentous βIV-tubulin and diffusely distributed βI- and βIII-tubulins. Mitochondrial isoform of creatine kinase (MtCK), highly expressed in cardiomyocytes, is absent in HL-1 cells. Our results show that high apparent K(m) for exogenous ADP in regulation of respiration and high expression of MtCK both correlate with the expression of βII-tubulin. The absence of βII-tubulin isotype in isolated mitochondria and in HL-1 cells results in increased apparent affinity of oxidative phosphorylation for exogenous ADP. This observation is consistent with the assumption that the binding of βII-tubulin to mitochondria limits ADP/ATP diffusion through voltage-dependent anion channel of MOM and thus shifts energy transfer via the phosphocreatine pathway. On the other hand, absence of both βII-tubulin and MtCK in HL-1 cells can be associated with their more glycolysis-dependent energy metabolism which is typical for cancer cells (Warburg effect).
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- Rita Guzun
- INSERM U884, Laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Bioenergetics, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France
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Palial KK, Drury J, Heathcote L, Valentijin A, Farquharson RG, Gazvani R, Rudland PS, Hapangama DK, Celik N, Celik O, Aktan E, Ozerol E, Celik E, Bozkurt K, Paran H, Hascalik S, Ozerol I, Arase T, Maruyama T, Uchida H, Miyazaki K, Oda H, Uchida-Nishikawa S, Kagami M, Yamazaki A, Tamaki K, Yoshimura Y, De Vos M, Ortega C, Smitz J, Van Vaerenbergh I, Bourgain C, Devroey P, Luciano D, Exacoustos C, Zupi E, Luciano AA, Arduini D, Palomino WA, Argandona F, Kohen P, Azua R, Scarella A, Devoto L, McKinnon B, Bersinger NA, Mueller MD, Bonavita M, Mattila M, Ferreira FP, Maia-Filho V, Rocha AM, Serafini P, Motta ELA, Kim H, Kim CH, You RM, Nah HY, Lee JW, Kang HJ, Kang BM, Letur - Koenirsch H, Haouzi D, Olivennes F, Rouleau C, Cohen-Bacri P, Dechaud H, Hamamah S, D'Hooghe T, Hummelshoj L, Dunselman GAJ, Dirksen CD, EndoCost Consortium WERF, Simoens S, Novembri R, Luisi S, Carrarelli P, Rocha ALL, Toti P, Reis FM, Florio P, Petraglia F, Bruce KD, Sadek KH, Macklon N, Cagampang FR, Cheong Y, Goudakou M, Kalogeraki A, Matalliotakis I, Papatheodorou A, Pasadaki T, Karkanaki A, Prapas I, Prapas I, Kalogeraki A, Matalliotakis I, Panagiotidis I, Kasapi E, Karkanaki A, Goudakou M, Barlow D, Oliver J, Loumaye E, Khanmohammadi M, kazemnejad S, darzi S, Khanjani S, Zarnani A, Akhondi M, Tan CW, Ng CP, Loh SF, Tan HH, Choolani M, Griffith L, Chan J, Andersson KL, Sundqvist J, Scarselli G, Gemzell-Danielsson K, Lalitkumar PG, Jana S, Chattopadhyay R, Datta Ray C, Chaudhury K, Chakravarty BN, Hannan N, Evans J, Hincks C, Rombauts LJF, Salamonsen LA, Choi D, Lee J, Park J, Chang H, Kim M, Hwang K, Takeuchi K, Kurematsu T, Fukumoto Y, Yuki Y, Kuroki Y, Homan Y, Sata Y, Takeuchi M, Munoz Munoz E, Ortiz Olivera G, Fernandez Lopez I, Martinez Martinez B, Aguilar Prieto J, Portela Perez S, Pellicer Martinez A, Keltz M, Sauerbrun M, Breborowicz A, Gonzales E, Vicente-Munoz S, Puchades-Carrasco L, Morcillo I, Hidalgo JJ, Gilabert-Estelles J, Novella-Maestre E, Pellicer A, Pineda-Lucena A, Yavorovskaya KA, Okhtyrskaya TA, Demura TA, Faizulina NM, Ezhova LS, Kogan EA, Bilibio JP, Souza CAB, Rodini GP, Genro V, Andreoli CG, de Conto E, Cunha-Filho JSL, Saare M, Soritsa D, Jarva L, Vaidla K, Palta P, Laan M, Karro H, Soritsa A, Salumets A, Peters M, Miskova A, Pilmane M, Rezeberga D, Haouzi D, Dechaud H, Assou S, Letur H, Olivennes F, Hamamah S, Piomboni P, Stendardi A, Gambera L, De Leo V, Petraglia F, Focarelli R, Tamm K, Simm J, Salumets A, Metsis M, Vodolazkaia A, Fassbender A, Kyama CM, Bokor A, Schols D, Huskens D, Meuleman C, Peeraer K, Tomassetti C, D'Hooghe TM, Machens K, Afhuppe W, Schulz A, Diefenbach K, Schutt B, Faustmann T, Reischl J, Peters M, Altmae S, Reimand J, Laisk T, Saare M, Hovatta O, Kolde R, Vilo J, Stavreus-Evers A, Salumets A, Lee JH, Kim SG, Kim YY, Park IH, Sun HG, Lee KH, Ezoe K, Kawano H, Yabuuchi A, Ochiai K, Nagashima H, Osada H, Kagawa N, Kato O, Tamura I, Asada H, Taketani T, Tamura H, Sugino N, Garcia Velasco J, Prieto L, Quesada JF, Cambero O, Toribio M, Pellicer A, Hur CY, Lim KS, Lee WD, Lim JH, Germeyer A, Nelson L, Graham A, Jauckus J, Strowitzki T, Lessey B, Gyulmamedova I, Illina O, Illin I, Mogilevkina I, Chaika A, Nosenko O, Boykova I, Gulmamedova E, Isik H, Moraloglu O, Seven ALI, Kilic S, Erkayiran U, Caydere M, Batioglu S, Alhalabi M, Samawi S, Taha A, Kafri N, Modi S, Khatib A, Sharif J, Othman A, Lancuba S, Branzini C, Lopez M, Baricalla A, Cristina C, Chen J, Jiang Y, Zhen X, Hu Y, Yan G, Sun H, Mizumoto J, Ueno J, Carvalho FM, Casals G, Ordi J, Guimera M, Creus M, Fabregues F, Casamitjana R, Carmona F, Balasch J, Choi YS, Kim KC, Lee WD, Kim KH, Lee BS, Kim SH, Fassbender A, Overbergh L, Verdrengh E, Kyama C, Vodolazkaia A, Bokor A, Meuleman C, Peeraer K, Tomassetti C, Waelkens E, Mathieu C, D'Hooghe T, Iwasa T, Hatano K, Hasegawa E, Ito H, Isaka K, L. Rocha AL, Luisi S, Carrarelli P, Novembri R, Florio P, Reis F, Petraglia F, Lee KS, Joo JK, Son JB, Choi JR, Vidali A, Barad DH, Gleicher N, Jiang Y, Chen J, Zhen X, Hu Y, Sun H, Yan G, Sayyah-Melli M, Kazemi-Shishvan M. POSTER VIEWING SESSION - ENDOMETRIOSIS, ENDOMETRIUM, IMPLANTATION AND FALLOPIAN TUBE. Hum Reprod 2011. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/26.s1.80] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Tamm K, Room M, Salumets A, Metsis M. 150 GENES TARGETED BY THE ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE RECEPTORS IN HUMAN ENDOMETRIAL CELL LINES. Reprod Biomed Online 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1472-6483(10)62568-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Tamm K, Rõõm M, Salumets A, Metsis M. Genes targeted by the estrogen and progesterone receptors in the human endometrial cell lines HEC1A and RL95-2. Reprod Biol Endocrinol 2009; 7:150. [PMID: 20034404 PMCID: PMC2805670 DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2009] [Accepted: 12/24/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND When the steroid hormones estrogen and progesterone bind to nuclear receptors, they have transcriptional impact on target genes in the human endometrium. These transcriptional changes have a critical function in preparing the endometrium for embryo implantation. METHODS 382 genes were selected, differentially expressed in the receptive endometrium, to study their responsiveness of estrogen and progesterone. The endometrial cell lines HEC1A and RL95-2 were used as experimental models for the non-receptive and receptive endometrium, respectively. Putative targets for activated steroid hormone receptors were investigated by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) using receptor-specific antibodies. Promoter occupancy of the selected genes by steroid receptors was detected in ChIP-purified DNA by quantitative PCR (qPCR). Expression analysis by reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR was used to further investigate hormone dependent mRNA expression regulation of a subset of genes. RESULTS ChIP-qPCR analysis demonstrated that each steroid hormone receptor had distinct group of target genes in the endometrial cell lines. After estradiol treatment, expression of estrogen receptor target genes predominated in HEC1A cells (n = 137) compared to RL95-2 cells (n = 35). In contrast, expression of progesterone receptor target genes was higher in RL95-2 cells (n = 83) than in HEC1A cells (n = 7) after progesterone treatment. RT-PCR analysis of 20 genes demonstrated transcriptional changes after estradiol or progesterone treatment of the cell lines. CONCLUSIONS Combined results from ChIP-qPCR and RT-PCR analysis showed different patterns of steroid hormone receptor occupancy at target genes, corresponding to activation or suppression of gene expression after hormone treatment of HEC1A and RL95-2 cell lines.
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- Karin Tamm
- Centre for Biology of Integrated Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
- Nova Vita Clinic, Centre for infertility treatment and medical genetics, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Centre for Biology of Integrated Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Nova Vita Clinic, Centre for infertility treatment and medical genetics, Tallinn, Estonia
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Competence Centre on Reproductive Medicine and Biology, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Centre for Biology of Integrated Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
- Competence Centre on Reproductive Medicine and Biology, Tallinn, Estonia
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Öpik M, Metsis M, Daniell TJ, Zobel M, Moora M. Large-scale parallel 454 sequencing reveals host ecological group specificity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a boreonemoral forest. New Phytol 2009; 184:424-437. [PMID: 19558424 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02920.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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* Knowledge of the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in natural ecosystems is a major bottleneck in mycorrhizal ecology. Here, we aimed to apply 454 sequencing--providing a new level of descriptive power--to assess the AMF diversity in a boreonemoral forest. * 454 sequencing reads of the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) gene of Glomeromycota were assigned to sequence groups by blast searches against a custom-made annotated sequence database. * We detected 47 AMF taxa in the roots of 10 plant species in a 10 x 10 m plot, which is almost the same as the number of plant species in the whole studied forest. There was a significant difference between AMF communities in the roots of forest specialist plant species and in the roots of habitat generalist plant species. Forest plant species hosted 22 specialist AMF taxa, and the generalist plants shared all but one AMF taxon with forest plants, including globally distributed generalist fungi. These AMF taxa that have been globally recorded only in forest ecosystems were significantly over-represented in the roots of forest plant species. * Our findings suggest that partner specificity in AM symbiosis may occur at the level of ecological groups, rather than at the species level, of both plant and fungal partners.
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- M Öpik
- Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 40 Lai St., 51005 Tartu, Estonia
- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- Tallinn University of Technology, Centre for Biology of Integrated Systems, Akadeemia tee 15A, Tallinn 12618, Estonia
- BiotaP LLC, Akadeemia tee 15, Tallinn 12618, Estonia
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- Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 40 Lai St., 51005 Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 40 Lai St., 51005 Tartu, Estonia
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Tsanev R, Tiigimägi P, Michelson P, Metsis M, Østerlund T, Kogerman P. Identification of the gene transcription repressor domain of Gli3. FEBS Lett 2008; 583:224-8. [PMID: 19084012 PMCID: PMC2697317 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2008] [Revised: 11/27/2008] [Accepted: 12/04/2008] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Gli transcription factors are downstream targets of the Hedgehog signaling pathway. Two of the three Gli proteins harbor gene transcription repressor function in the N-terminal half. We have analyzed the sequences and identified a potential repressor domain in Gli2 and Gli3 and have tested this experimentally. Overexpression studies confirm that the N-terminal parts harbor gene repression activity and we mapped the minimal repressor to residues 106 till 236 in Gli3. Unlike other mechanisms that inhibit Gli induced gene transcription, the repressor domain identified here does not utilize Histone deacetylases (HDACs) to achieve repression, as confirmed by HDAC inhibition studies and pull-down assays. This distinguishes the identified domain from other regulatory parts with negative influence on transcription.
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- Robert Tsanev
- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
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Kaer K, Mätlik K, Metsis M, Speek M. Combination of native and denaturing PAGE for the detection of protein binding regions in long fragments of genomic DNA. BMC Genomics 2008; 9:272. [PMID: 18533036 PMCID: PMC2435560 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2008] [Accepted: 06/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background In a traditional electrophoresis mobility shift assay (EMSA) a 32P-labeled double-stranded DNA oligonucleotide or a restriction fragment bound to a protein is separated from the unbound DNA by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) in nondenaturing conditions. An extension of this method uses the large population of fragments derived from long genomic regions (approximately 600 kb) for the identification of fragments containing protein binding regions. With this method, genomic DNA is fragmented by restriction enzymes, fragments are amplified by PCR, radiolabeled, incubated with nuclear proteins and the resulting DNA-protein complexes are separated by two-dimensional PAGE. Shifted DNA fragments containing protein binding sites are identified by using additional procedures, i. e. gel elution, PCR amplification, cloning and sequencing. Although the method allows simultaneous analysis of a large population of fragments, it is relatively laborious and can be used to detect only high affinity protein binding sites. Here we propose an alternative and straightforward strategy which is based on a combination of native and denaturing PAGE. This strategy allows the identification of DNA fragments containing low as well as high affinity protein binding regions, derived from genomic DNA (<10 kb) of known sequence. Results We have combined an EMSA-based selection step with subsequent denaturing PAGE for the localization of protein binding regions in long (up to10 kb) fragments of genomic DNA. Our strategy consists of the following steps: digestion of genomic DNA with a 4-cutter restriction enzyme (AluI, BsuRI, TruI, etc), separation of low and high molecular weight fractions of resultant DNA fragments, 32P-labeling with Klenow polymerase, traditional EMSA, gel elution and identification of the shifted bands (or smear) by denaturing PAGE. The identification of DNA fragments containing protein binding sites is carried out by running the gel-eluted fragments alongside with the full "spectrum" of initial restriction fragments of known size. Here the strategy is used for the identification of protein-binding regions in the 5' region of the rat p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) gene. Conclusion The developed strategy is based on a combination of traditional EMSA and denaturing PAGE for the identification of protein binding regions in long fragments of genomic DNA. The identification is straightforward and can be applied to shifted bands corresponding to stable DNA-protein complexes as well as unstable complexes, which undergo dissociation during electrophoresis.
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- Kristel Kaer
- Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, Tallinn 19086, Estonia.
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Hansson AC, Sommer WH, Metsis M, Strömberg I, Agnati LF, Fuxe K. Corticosterone actions on the hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression are mediated by exon IV promoter. J Neuroendocrinol 2006; 18:104-14. [PMID: 16420279 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2005.01390.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression is strongly regulated by adrenocorticosteroids via activated gluco- and mineralocorticoid receptors. Four separate promoters are located upstream of the BDNF noncoding exons I to IV and may thus be involved in adrenocorticosteroid-mediated gene regulation. In adrenalectomised rats, corticosterone (10 mg/kg s.c.) induces a robust down-regulation of both BDNF mRNA and protein levels in the hippocampus peaking at 2-8 h. To study the role of the individual promoters in the corticosterone response, we employed exon-specific riboprobe in situ hybridisation as well as real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the dentate gyrus. We found a down-regulation, mainly of exon IV and the protein-coding exon V, in nearby all hippocampal subregions, but exon II was only down-regulated in the dentate gyrus. Exon I and exon III transcripts were not affected by corticosterone treatment. The results could be confirmed with real-time PCR in the dentate gyrus. It appears as if the exon IV promoter is the major target for corticosterone-mediated transcriptional regulation of BDNF in the hippocampus.
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- A C Hansson
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Brunkhorst A, Karlén M, Shi J, Mikolajczyk M, Nelson MA, Metsis M, Hermanson O. A specific role for the TFIID subunit TAF4 and RanBPM in neural progenitor differentiation. Mol Cell Neurosci 2005; 29:250-8. [PMID: 15911349 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2005.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2004] [Revised: 02/13/2005] [Accepted: 02/22/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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TAF4 is crucial for the activity of many transcription factors, including CREB, RAR and CSL/RBP-Jkappa, but the role for TAF4 in neural development is unknown. Embryonic cortical neural stem cells (NSC) showed strong expression of TAF4 that decreased during neuronal but not glial differentiation. In a protein-protein interaction screen, we identified the intracellular signaling factor RanBPM as a co-factor of TAF4. RanBPM co-localized with TAF4 in a subset of mitotic progenitors in vivo and endogenous TAF4 and RanBPM could be co-immunoprecipitated from NSC extracts. Interestingly, co-transfections of TAF4 and RanBPM led to a significant increase in the number of primary neurite processes but no increase in total neurite length, whereas RanBPM and a TAF4 isoform lacking the RanBPM-interacting domain exerted no significant effect. Our results demonstrate that temporally high expression levels of two factors considered to be relatively general in function can influence very specific events in neuronal differentiation.
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- Adrian Brunkhorst
- Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Brunkhorst A, Neuman T, Hall A, Arenas E, Bartfai T, Hermanson O, Metsis M. Novel isoforms of the TFIID subunit TAF4 modulate nuclear receptor-mediated transcriptional activity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 325:574-9. [PMID: 15530431 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.10.078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The transcription factor TFIID consists of TATA-binding protein (TBP) and TBP-associated factors (TAFs). TAFs are essential for modulation of transcriptional activity but the regulation of TAFs is complex and many important aspects remain unclear. In this study, we have identified and characterized five novel truncated forms of the TFIID subunit TAF4 (TAF(II)135). Analysis of the mouse gene structure revealed that all truncations were the results of alternative splicing and resulted in the loss of domains or parts of domains implicated in TAF4 functional interactions. Results from transcriptional assays showed that several of the TAF4 isoforms exerted dominant negative effects on TAF4 activity in nuclear receptor-mediated transcriptional activation. In addition, alternative TAF4 isoforms could be detected in specific cell types. Our results indicate an additional level of complexity in TAF4-mediated regulation of transcription and suggest context-specific roles for these new TAF4 isoforms in transcriptional regulation in vivo.
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- Adrian Brunkhorst
- Group of Transcriptional Networks, Unit of Functional Genomics, Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics (CGB), Karolinska Institute, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Kilk K, El-Andaloussi S, Järver P, Meikas A, Valkna A, Bartfai T, Kogerman P, Metsis M, Langel U. Evaluation of transportan 10 in PEI mediated plasmid delivery assay. J Control Release 2005; 103:511-23. [PMID: 15763630 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2004.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2004] [Revised: 12/04/2004] [Accepted: 12/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are novel high-capacity delivery vectors for different bioactive cargoes. We have evaluated the CPP transportan 10 (TP10) as a delivery vector in different in vitro plasmid delivery assays. Tested methods include: TP10 crosslinked to a plasmid via a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomer, TP10 conjugation with polyethyleneimine (PEI), and addition of unconjugated TP10 to standard PEI transfection assay. We found that without additional DNA condensing agents, TP10 has poor transfection abilities. However, the presence of TP10 increases the transfection efficiency several folds compared to PEI alone. At as low concentrations as 0.6 nM, TP10-PNA constructs were found to enhance plasmid delivery up to 3.7-fold in Neuro-2a cells. Interestingly, the transfection efficiency was most significant at low PEI concentrations, allowing reduced PEI concentration without loss of gene delivery. No increase in cytotoxicity due to TP10 was observed and the uptake mechanism was determined to be endocytosis, as previously reported for PEI mediated transfection. In conclusion, TP10 can enhance PEI mediated transfection at relatively low concentrations and may help to develop future gene delivery systems with reduced toxicity.
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- Kalle Kilk
- Department of Neurochemistry and Neurotoxicology, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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A number of nervous system-specific enhancers and silencers have been isolated and characterized. However, the detailed mechanism of cell- and tissue-specific regulation of transcription is to a large extent unknown and the role of the basal transcriptional complex components in these processes is mostly unclear. Here we demonstrate that mRNA levels of TATA binding protein-associated factor TAF(II)135 are upregulated in neuronal cells during development. In addition, induction of neuronal differentiation of teratocarcinoma PCC7 cells results in dramatic induction of TAF(II)135 mRNA levels and activation of a variety of promoters. The stimulation of promoter activity in differentiating cells is mimicked by the overexpression of TAF(II)135. As neuronal differentiation requires changes in the general pattern of transcriptional activity, we suggest that increased levels of TAF(II)135 facilitate the induction of a large number of neuronal genes.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Brain/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation
- Cells, Cultured
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Situ Hybridization
- Mice
- Nervous System/metabolism
- Neurons/metabolism
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- TATA-Binding Protein Associated Factors
- Time Factors
- Trans-Activators/biosynthesis
- Trans-Activators/genetics
- Transcription Factor TFIID
- Transcription Factors, TFII/biosynthesis
- Transcription Factors, TFII/genetics
- Transcription, Genetic
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- M Metsis
- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden.
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We report the expression of TrkA, TrkB and TrkC mRNAs in adult rat testis. With in situ hybridisation a low signal for TrkB and TrkC could be seen in postmeiotic cells of the seminiferous epithelium, whereas no signal for TrkA could be observed in untreated animals. Animals treated with hCG showed an induction of TrkA mRNA in premeiotic cells 12 h after the treatment, whereas an injection with EDS had no effect on the expression of Trk mRNAs. With the RNAse protection assay a low signal for TrkA was seen in whole testis of hCG treated animals. In staged tubules low expression was seen at stages VII-XI of untreated animals. Animals injected with hCG revealed that TrkA induction was highest during stages VIIcd and VIII of the cycle. The distinct expression pattern of these high-affinity neurotrophin receptors suggests different roles for neurotrophins during spermatogenesis. Induction of TrkA mRNA by hCG suggests that high-affinity binding of NGF during stages VIIcd-VIII in premeiotic cells is under control of the hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Chorionic Gonadotropin/pharmacology
- In Situ Hybridization
- Male
- Mesylates/pharmacology
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/drug effects
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptor, trkA/genetics
- Receptor, trkA/metabolism
- Receptor, trkB/genetics
- Receptor, trkB/metabolism
- Receptor, trkC/genetics
- Receptor, trkC/metabolism
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/metabolism
- Seminiferous Epithelium/chemistry
- Testis/chemistry
- Testis/cytology
- Up-Regulation/drug effects
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- R Schultz
- Department of Developmental Biology, University of Tampere, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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Neurotrophins and their receptors have attracted much interest during the last two decades. Although the mode of action of molecules of the neurotrophin system has been studied extensively, information on molecular mechanisms governing their expression is mosaic and incomplete. This review attempts to summarize the data available on gene structure and transcriptional regulation of neurotrophins and their receptors, and outlines perspectives for the future in this field.
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- M Metsis
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Pombo PM, Barettino D, Espliguero G, Metsis M, Iglesias T, Rodriguez-Pena A. Transcriptional repression of neurotrophin receptor trkB by thyroid hormone in the developing rat brain. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:37510-7. [PMID: 10978336 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006440200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Expression of the neurotrophin receptor trkB is regulated by thyroid hormone (T3) during development of the rat brain. trkB mRNA levels, coding for the full-length and the truncated isoforms, are increased in the cerebral cortex of neonatal experimental hypothyroid animals. Run-on transcription assays with nuclei from postnatal day 15, hypothyroid, and control cerebral cortices demonstrated that an increase in the transcription rate of the trkB gene accounts for the observed effect. Transient transfection experiments using a reporter plasmid containing a 7-kilobase pair DNA fragment upstream of the mouse trkB gene showed that unliganded thyroid hormone receptor (T3R) increases promoter activity, whereas addition of T3 reverses that activity below basal levels. Deletion analysis shows that the T3-dependent repression requires binding of the T3R to a specific region located downstream of the transcription start site. This region, at nucleotide position -465/-432, contains an array of thyroid hormone response half-sites that bind preferentially T3R as heterodimers with retinoid X receptor and whose deletion causes loss of the T3-dependent repression. These half-sites are able to confer negative regulation by T3 to a heterologous promoter, thus indicating the functionality of these sequences. These results demonstrate that, in the developing rat brain, T3 down-regulates the expression of the trkB gene through the active repression of a novel negative response element located downstream of its transcription initiation site.
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- P M Pombo
- Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols," Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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Palm K, Metsis M, Timmusk T. Neuron-specific splicing of zinc finger transcription factor REST/NRSF/XBR is frequent in neuroblastomas and conserved in human, mouse and rat. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1999; 72:30-9. [PMID: 10521596 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(99)00196-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Neuron-restrictive silencer factor (NRSF), also known as repressor element RE1 binding transcription factor (REST) or repressor binding to the X2 box (XBR) (REST/NRSF/XBR), is a zinc finger transcription factor that during early embryogenesis is required to repress a subset of neuron-specific genes in non-neural tissues and undifferentiated neural precursors. We have previously shown that splicing within the coding region of rat REST/NRSF/XBR (rREST) generates several different transcripts all of which are expressed in the adult nervous system. rREST transcripts with short neuron-specific exons (exon N) have in-frame stop codons and encode truncated proteins which have an N-terminal repressor domain and weakened DNA binding activity. The aim of this study was to analyze the regulatory mechanisms underlying REST/NRSF/XBR activity in human and mouse as compared to rat. We show that the structure of REST/NRSF/XBR gene and its regulation by neuron-specific splicing is conserved in human, mouse and rat. Expression levels of REST/NRSF/XBR transcripts with the insertion of exon N are increased during the neuronal differentiation of mouse teratocarcinoma PCC7 and rat pheocromocytoma PC12 cells and are high in several human and mouse neuroblastoma cells as compared to the relatively low levels in the developing and adult nervous system. The exclusive expression of the neuronal forms of REST/NRSF/XBR mRNAs in mouse neuroblastoma Neuro-2A cells is not caused by rearrangement of the REST/NRSF/XBR gene nor by mutations in the sequence of the splice sites flanking exon N. These data suggest that changes in REST/NRSF/XBR splicing pattern may result from altered levels of splicing factors reflecting the formation and/or progression of neuroblastoma tumors.
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- K Palm
- Department of Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Box 587, S-751 23, Uppsala, Sweden
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Bonetto V, Eriste E, Metsis M, Sillard R. Extracellular acidification: a novel detection system for ligand/receptor interactions. Demonstration with bioactive peptides and CHO or pancreatic beta cells, but of possible interest for tracing putative receptors in ethanol metabolism. Adv Exp Med Biol 1999; 463:351-8. [PMID: 10352705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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- V Bonetto
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Timmusk T, Palm K, Lendahl U, Metsis M. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in vivo is under the control of neuron-restrictive silencer element. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:1078-84. [PMID: 9873054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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Neuron-restrictive silencer element (NRSE) has been identified in multiple neuron-specific genes. This element has been shown to mediate repression of neuronal gene transcription in nonneuronal cells. A palindromic NRSE (NRSEBDNF) is present in the proximal region of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) promoter II. Using in vitro binding assays, we establish that the upper half-site is largely responsible for the NRSEBDNF activity. To delineate the in vivo role of NRSE in the regulation of rat BDNF gene, promoter constructs with intact and mutated NRSEBDNF were introduced into transgenic mice. Our data show that NRSEBDNF is controlling the activity of BDNF promoters I and II in the brain, thymus, and lung, i.e. in the tissues in which the intact reporter gene and endogenous BDNF mRNAs are expressed. Mutation of NRSEBDNF did not lead to the ectopic activation of the reporter gene in any other nonneural tissues. In the brain, NRSEBDNF is involved in the repression of basal and kainic acid-induced expression from BDNF promoters I and II in neurons. However, NRSEBDNF does not control the activity of the BDNF gene in nonneuronal cells of brain.
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- T Timmusk
- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Timmusk T, Palm K, Lendahl U, Metsis M. Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Expression in VivoIs under the Control of Neuron-restrictive Silencer Element. J Biol Chem 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)88378-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Torasdotter M, Metsis M, Henriksson BG, Winblad B, Mohammed AH. Environmental enrichment results in higher levels of nerve growth factor mRNA in the rat visual cortex and hippocampus. Behav Brain Res 1998; 93:83-90. [PMID: 9659990 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-4328(97)00142-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Evidence for structural modifications in the brain following environmental changes have been provided during the last decades. The most pronounced alterations following environmental manipulations have been found in the visual cortex. These plastic changes are supposed to reflect reorganization of neuronal connections involved in postnatal development and adult adjustments of connections involved in sensori-perceptual processing and learning. Potential candidates to mediate these changes are neurotrophins. Nerve growth factor (NGF) has been associated with cognitive functions and shown to improve the performance of aged rats in spatial learning and memory task. In the central nervous system, NGF is of importance for development and maintenance of cholinergic neurons and atrophy of cholinergic neurons is strongly correlated with learning and memory impairments. Exposure to enriched environmental conditions improves learning and problem-solving ability and results in plastic changes in the brain. This study examined the effect of environmental enrichment on expression of NGF mRNA in the rat visual cortex and hippocampus. Rats housed in groups in a stimulus-rich environment for 30 days had significantly higher levels of NGF mRNA than rats housed individually in single cages without stimulus-enrichment. We have recently presented results showing higher levels of neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) mRNA and improved spatial learning following environmental enrichment, and suggest that an interplay involving the neurotrophins NGF and NT-3 may be mediating experience-induced structural changes.
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- M Torasdotter
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden.
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Funakoshi H, Risling M, Carlstedt T, Lendahl U, Timmusk T, Metsis M, Yamamoto Y, Ibáñez CF. Targeted expression of a multifunctional chimeric neurotrophin in the lesioned sciatic nerve accelerates regeneration of sensory and motor axons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95:5269-74. [PMID: 9560265 PMCID: PMC20250 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.9.5269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Peripheral nerve injury markedly regulates expression of neurotrophins and their receptors in the lesioned nerve. However, the role of endogenously produced neurotrophins in the process of nerve regeneration is unclear. Expression of a multifunctional neurotrophin, pan-neurotrophin-1 (PNT-1), was targeted to the peripheral nerves of transgenic mice by using a gene promoter that is specifically activated after nerve lesion but that is otherwise silent in all other tissues and during development. PNT-1 is a chimeric neurotrophin that combines the active sites of the neurotrophins nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and neurotrophin-3 and binds and activates all known neurotrophin receptors. In adult transgenic mice, PNT-1 was highly expressed in transected but not in intact sciatic nerve. Morphometric analyses at the electron microscopy level showed increased and accelerated recovery of axon diameter of myelinated fibers in crushed peripheral nerves of transgenic mice compared with wild type. Examination of nerve bundles in target tissues indicated accelerated reinnervation of foot pad dermis and flexor plantaris muscle in transgenic mice. Moreover, transected sensory and motor axons of transgenic mice showed faster and increased return of neurophysiological responses, suggesting an accelerated rate of axonal elongation. Importantly, transgenic mice also showed a markedly ameliorated loss of skeletal muscle weight, indicating functional regeneration of motor axons. Together, these data provide evidence, at both the anatomical and functional levels, that neurotrophins endogenously produced by the lesioned nerve are capable of significantly accelerating the regeneration of both sensory and motor axons after peripheral nerve damage. In addition, our results indicate that exogenous PNT-1 administration may be an effective therapeutic treatment of peripheral nerve injuries.
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- H Funakoshi
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Palm K, Belluardo N, Metsis M, Timmusk T. Neuronal expression of zinc finger transcription factor REST/NRSF/XBR gene. J Neurosci 1998; 18:1280-96. [PMID: 9454838 PMCID: PMC6792720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The identification of a common cis-acting silencer element, a neuron-restrictive silencer element (NRSE), in multiple neuron-specific genes, together with the finding that zinc finger transcription factor REST/NRSF/XBR could confer NRSE-mediated silencing in non-neuronal cells, suggested that REST/NRSF/XBR is a master negative regulator of neurogenesis. Here we show that, although REST/NRSF/XBR expression decreases during neuronal development, it proceeds in the adult nervous system. In situ hybridization analysis revealed neuronal expression of rat REST/NRSF/XBR mRNA in adult brain, with the highest levels in the neurons of hippocampus, pons/medulla, and midbrain. The glutamate analog kainic acid increased REST/NRSF/XBR mRNA levels in various hippocampal and cortical neurons in vivo, suggesting that REST/NRSF/XBR has a role in neuronal activity-implied processes. Several alternatively spliced REST/NRSF/XBR mRNAs encoding proteins with nine, five, or four zinc finger motifs are transcribed from REST/NRSF/XBR gene. Two of these transcripts are generated by neuron-specific splicing of a 28-bp-long exon. Rat REST/NRSF/XBR protein isoforms differ in their DNA binding specificities; however, all mediate repression in transient expression assays. Our data suggest that REST/NRSF/XBR is a negative regulator rather than a transcriptional silencer of neuronal gene expression and counteracts with positive regulators to modulate target gene expression quantitatively in different cell types, including neurons.
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- K Palm
- Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Ferencz I, Kokaia M, Keep M, Elmér E, Metsis M, Kokaia Z, Lindvall O. Effects of cholinergic denervation on seizure development and neurotrophin messenger RNA regulation in rapid hippocampal kindling. Neuroscience 1997; 80:389-99. [PMID: 9284342 DOI: 10.1016/s0306-4522(97)00006-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Intraventricular 192 IgG-saporin was used to induce a selective lesion of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in rats. When subjected to 40 rapid hippocampal kindling stimulations with 5-min intervals, these animals exhibited increased number of generalized seizures and a higher mean seizure grade in response to the first five stimulations, and required fewer stimuli to develop focal behavioural seizures, as compared to non-lesioned rats. In contrast, both groups showed similarly enhanced responsiveness when test stimulated four weeks later. Using in situ hybridization, cholinergic denervation was found to cause a significant decrease of basal brain-derived neurotrophic factor messenger RNA levels in the hippocampal formation and piriform cortex, whereas gene expression for nerve growth factor, neurotrophin-3, and TrkB and TrkC was unchanged. Four weeks after rapid kindling stimulations, basal levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor messenger RNA in the dentate granule cells were restored to normal in the lesioned rats, whereas neurotrophin-3 messenger RNA levels were decreased. No differences in the seizure-evoked levels of neurotrophin and Trk messenger RNAs were detected, except in the dentate granule cell layer, which had significantly higher brain-derived neurotrophic factor messenger RNA expression in the lesioned animals at 2 h. In conclusion, the basal forebrain cholinergic system (i) dampens the severity of recurring seizures induced by rapid hippocampal kindling stimulations, but has no effect on the subsequent delayed phase of epileptogenesis; and (ii) exerts a tonic stimulation of basal brain-derived neurotrophic factor messenger RNA levels in the hippocampal formation and piriform cortex. The findings also indicate that the cholinergic lesion does not affect neurotrophin and Trk gene expression after recurring seizures, and that the kindling process leads to long-term changes in basal brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 messenger RNA levels in the denervated animals.
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- I Ferencz
- Section of Restorative Neurology, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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Neurotrophin-4 (NT-4) is a member of the neurotrophin family of growth factors. To study the molecular mechanisms that govern NT-4 expression, we have cloned and characterized the rat genome region encoding NT-4. The rat NT-4 gene consists of three exons: two 5'-flanking noncoding exons and a coding exon. NT-4 mRNA transcription is controlled by two promoters flanking the noncoding exons. Alternative splicing of the second intron results in a NT-4 mRNA with a different open reading frame, encoding a shorter protein lacking pre-NT-4 sequence. A rat NT-4 gene fragment, containing all exons and introns in addition to 1.4 kb of the upstream genomic sequence, has been introduced into mice. This transgene enables partial recapitulation of the expression pattern of NT-4 mRNA and confers activity-dependent expression of the NT-4 mRNA in muscle.
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- T Salin
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Falkenberg T, Lindefors N, Camilli F, Metsis M, Ungerstedt U. Glutamate release correlates with brain-derived neurotrophic factor and trkB mRNA expression in the CA1 region of rat hippocampus. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1996; 42:317-27. [PMID: 9013789 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(96)00134-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Synthesis of the neurotrophic factor brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its receptor TrkB in the hippocampus have been proposed to be influenced by endogenous glutamate. To test this hypothesis we have investigated if increases in BDNF and trkB mRNAs are associated with changes in the synaptic release of glutamate in the dorsal hippocampus in the conscious rat by combining the technique of in vivo microdialysis with in situ hybridization histochemistry. A 35% and 66% increase in extracellular levels of glutamate in the dorsal CA1 region was detected following injection into the lateral entorhinal cortex of 2.4 and 9.6 microg of the non-NMDA glutamate receptor agonist quisqualate, respectively. The increase in glutamate was attenuated by local administration of tetrodotoxin (TTX) indicating neuronal origin. Levels of BDNF and trkB mRNAs were increased in the hippocampus in a dose-dependent fashion following the stimulations. The extracellular levels of glutamate in individual animals correlated to the levels of BDNF and trkB mRNAs in the dorsal CA1 region of the hippocampus. This study provides for the first time evidence of an entorhinal cortex influenced concentration-dependent relationship between the release of endogenous glutamate in vivo and neuronal expression of mRNAs for BDNF and its receptor trkB in the hippocampus.
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- T Falkenberg
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Torasdotter M, Metsis M, Henriksson BG, Winblad B, Mohammed AH. Expression of neurotrophin-3 mRNA in the rat visual cortex and hippocampus is influenced by environmental conditions. Neurosci Lett 1996; 218:107-10. [PMID: 8945739 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(96)13127-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Environmental enrichment results in structural changes in the brain. Recent findings indicate involvement of neurotrophins in neuronal plasticity. This study examined the effect of environmental complexity on the levels of neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) mRNA in the rat visual cortex and hippocampus, studied by in situ hybridization. Rats housed in groups in a complex, stimulating environment had significantly higher levels of NT-3 mRNA in the visual cortex and the hippocampus than rats housed in individual cages without stimulating objects. These results indicate a possible role for NT-3 in synaptic plasticity.
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- M Torasdotter
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden.
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Naveilhan P, Neveu I, Baudet C, Funakoshi H, Wion D, Brachet P, Metsis M. 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 regulates the expression of the low-affinity neurotrophin receptor. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1996; 41:259-68. [PMID: 8883959 DOI: 10.1016/0169-328x(96)00103-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25-(OH)2D3) is known to regulate the expression of neurotrophins [45,46]. Here, we report that 1,25-(OH)2D3 does not influence the expression of truncated or full-length forms of trkB and trkC receptors mRNAs in primary cultures of astrocytes and in C6 glioma cells. In contrast, low concentrations of 1,25-(OH)2D3 increased low-affinity neurotrophin receptor (P75NTR) mRNA and protein levels in C6 glioma cells. Putative vitamin D responsive elements (VDRE) in the P75NTR promoter have been investigated by transfecting plasmids containing sequences from P75NTR promoter fused to a cat reporter gene. A region between -610 and -860 bp upstream from the translation start codon was found to respond to 1,25-(OH)2D3. Interestingly, 1,25-(OH)2D3 does not regulate P75NTR in primary cultures of astrocytes even at concentration as high as 10(-7) M. Since long-term treatment of 1,25-(OH)2D3 induces cell death in C6 glioma cells but not in primary astrocytes [41], the possible involvement of P75NTR in 1,25-(OH)2D3-induced cell death is discussed. Finally, in-vivo studies show that treatment of 15-day-old and adult rats with 1,25-(OH)2D3 leads to a decrease in the level of P75NTR mRNA in the spinal cord but does not influence its expression in dorsal root ganglion or sciatic nerve. These results suggest that 1,25-(OH)2D3 may have a role in the specific regulation of P75NTR in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Astrocytes/drug effects
- Astrocytes/metabolism
- Base Sequence
- Brain Neoplasms/pathology
- Calcitriol/pharmacology
- Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase/biosynthesis
- Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase/genetics
- Female
- Ganglia, Spinal/drug effects
- Ganglia, Spinal/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects
- Genes, Reporter
- Glioma/pathology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neoplasm Proteins/biosynthesis
- Neoplasm Proteins/genetics
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/biosynthesis
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/biosynthesis
- Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics
- Receptor, Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor
- Receptor, trkC
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/biosynthesis
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Sciatic Nerve/drug effects
- Sciatic Nerve/metabolism
- Spinal Cord/drug effects
- Spinal Cord/metabolism
- Transfection
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- P Naveilhan
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unité U.298, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Angers, France
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Kokaia M, Ferencz I, Leanza G, Elmér E, Metsis M, Kokaia Z, Wiley RG, Lindvall O. Immunolesioning of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons facilitates hippocampal kindling and perturbs neurotrophin messenger RNA regulation. Neuroscience 1996; 70:313-27. [PMID: 8848142 DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00384-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The immunotoxin 192 IgG-saporin induces an efficient and specific lesion of low-affinity nerve growth factor receptor-bearing cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain. Intraventricular injection of 192 IgG-saporin, which caused a complete loss of cholinergic afferents to the hippocampus and neocortex and a partial denervation of amygdala and piriform cortex, was found to markedly facilitate the initial stages of seizure development in hippocampal kindling. In contrast, the progression of kindling process from focal to generalized seizures was not affected. In situ hybridization demonstrated that basal levels of brain-derived neutrotrophic factor messenger RNA in the hippocampal formation and piriform cortex were significantly decreased by the lesion, which also attenuated the seizure-induced increase of brain-derived neurotrophic factor messenger RNA expression in the hippocampus and frontal cortex. In the dentate gyrus, the 192 IgG-saporin lesion selectively reduced the upregulation of messenger RNAs for brain-derived neurotrophic factor exons I and III after a generalized seizure, whereas the increase of exon II messenger RNA was unchanged. The lesion abolished the seizure-evoked increase of nerve growth factor and TrkC messenger RNA levels and decrease of neutrophin-3 messenger RNA expression in dentate granule cells, while TrkB messenger RNA levels were not affected. We conclude that the basal forebrain cholinergic system (1) suppresses kindling epileptogenesis in the hippocampus, and (2) enhances both basal and seizure-evoked brain-derived neurotrophic factor synthesis in the hippocampal formation and some cortical areas through a specific pattern of activation of promoters within the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene.
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- M Kokaia
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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Torasdotter M, Metsis M, Henriksson B, Winblad B, Mohammed A. 79 Environmental complexity alters expression of nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 mRNAs in the visual cortex. Neurobiol Aging 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0197-4580(96)80081-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Condorelli DF, Salin T, Dell' Albani P, Mudo G, Corsaro M, Timmusk T, Metsis M, Belluardo N. Neurotrophins and their trk receptors in cultured cells of the glial lineage and in white matter of the central nervous system. J Mol Neurosci 1995; 6:237-48. [PMID: 8860235 DOI: 10.1007/bf02736783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Previous studies have analyzed the expression of different members of the neurotrophin family and their trk receptors in glial cultures composed mainly or exclusively of type-1 astrocytes, whereas only partial data have been published on other cultured glial types. In this article we compare the mRNA levels for neurotrophins (NGF, BDNF, NT-3, NT-4) and their high-affinity receptors (trkA, trkB, trkC) in cultures enriched in specific glial types, such as microglia, type-1 astroglia, and cells of the O/2A lineage (type-2 astroglia and oligodendroglia). Relatively high levels of NGF mRNA (comparable to those observed in adult rat cerebral cortex) are present in all types of cultured glial cells, except for a low level of expression in cultures enriched in microglial cells. In contrast, BDNF mRNA is undetectable in all cultures examined. NT-3 and NT-4 mRNA molecules, at a level equal to that observed in adult rat cerebral cortex, are easily detected in type-1 astrocyte cultures, whereas their hybridization signals are undetectable in cells of the O/2A lineage and in microglial cultures. The analysis of neurotrophin receptor mRNAs confirms the absence of trkA mRNA, the presence of relatively high levels of trkB mRNA (70-100% of cerebral cortex values), and low levels of trkC mRNA (10-18% of cerebral cortex values) in both cultured astroglial and oligodendroglial cells. Only very low levels of trkB and trkC mRNAs are observed in microglial cultures. Although cultured glial cells express mainly mRNAs encoding for the truncated form of trkB and trkC, a low level of mRNA encoding for the full-length catalytic form of these receptors is detected by the sensitive ribonuclease protection assay.
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Kokaia Z, Zhao Q, Kokaia M, Elmér E, Metsis M, Smith ML, Siesjö BK, Lindvall O. Regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene expression after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion with and without brain damage. Exp Neurol 1995; 136:73-88. [PMID: 7589336 DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1995.1085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Abstract
Levels of mRNA for c-fos, nerve growth factor (NGF), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), neurotrophin-3 (NT-3), TrkB, and TrkC were studied using in situ hybridization in the rat brain at different reperfusion times after unilateral middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). Short-term (15 min) MCAO, which does not cause neuronal death, induced elevated BDNF mRNA expression confined to ipsilateral frontal and cingulate cortices outside the ischemic area. With a longer duration of MCAO (2 h), which leads to cortical infarction, the increase was more marked and elevated BDNF mRNA levels were also detected bilaterally in dentate granule cells and CA1 and CA3 pyramidal neurons. Maximum expression was found after 2 h of reperfusion. At 24 h BDNF mRNA expression had returned to control values. In the ischemic core of the parietal cortex only scattered neurons were expressing high levels of BDNF mRNA after 15 min and 2 h of MCAO. Analysis of different BDNF transcripts showed that MCAO induced a marked increase of exon III mRNA but only small increases of exon I and II mRNAs in cortex and hippocampus. In contrast to BDNF mRNA, elevated expression of c-fos mRNA was observed in the entire ipsilateral cerebral cortex, including the ischemic core, after both 15 min and 2 h of MCAO. Two hours of MCAO also induced transient, bilateral increases of NGF and TrkB mRNA levels and a decrease of NT-3 mRNA expression, confined to dentate granule cells. The upregulation of BDNF mRNA expression in cortical neurons after MCAO is probably triggered by glutamate through a spreading depression-like mechanism. The lack of response of the BDNF gene in the ischemic core may be due to suppression of signal transduction or transcription factor synthesis caused by the ischemia. The observed pattern of gene expression after MCAO agrees well with a neuroprotective role of BDNF in cortical neurons. However, elevated levels of NGF and BDNF protein could also increase synaptic efficacy in the postischemic phase, which may promote epileptogenesis.
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Affiliation(s)
- Z Kokaia
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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