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Sahoo A, Starr SL, Osadchiy V, Desai S, Iyer N, Luff M, Sollender GE, Sturm R. Identifying Targets for Innovation in Amazon Reviews of Bedwetting Alarms: Thematic Analysis. Interact J Med Res 2023; 12:e43194. [PMID: 37410523 PMCID: PMC10360013 DOI: 10.2196/43194] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2022] [Revised: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Nocturnal enuresis (NE) is a frequent diagnosis in pediatric and adolescent populations with an estimated prevalence of around 15% at the age of 6 years. NE can have a substantial impact on multiple health domains. Bedwetting alarms, which typically consist of a sensor and moisture-activated alarm, are a common treatment. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine areas of satisfaction versus dissatisfaction reported by the parents and caregivers of children using current bedwetting alarms. METHODS Using the search term "bedwetting alarms" on the Amazon marketplace, products with >300 reviews were included. For each product, the 5 reviews ranked the "most helpful" for each star category were selected for analysis. Meaning extraction method was applied to identify major themes and subthemes. A percent skew was calculated by summing the total number of mentions of each subtheme,+1 for a positive mention, 0 for a neutral mention, and -1 for a negative mention, and dividing this total by the number of reviews in which that particular subtheme was observed. Subanalyses were performed for age and gender. RESULTS Of 136 products identified, 10 were evaluated based on the selection criteria. The main themes identified across products were long-term concerns, marketing, alarm systems, and device mechanics and features. The subthemes identified as future targets for innovation included alarm accuracy, volume variability, durability, user-friendliness, and adaptability to girls. In general, durability, alarm accuracy, and comfort were the most negatively skewed subthemes (with a negative skew of -23.6%, -20.0%, and -12.4% respectively), which are indicative of potential areas for improvement. Effectiveness was the only substantially positively skewed subtheme (16.8%). Alarm sound and device features were positively skewed for older children, whereas ease of use had a negative skew for younger children. Girls and their caretakers reported negative experiences with devices that featured cords, arm bands, and sensor pads. CONCLUSIONS This analysis provides an innovation roadmap for future device design to improve patient and caregiver satisfaction and compliance with bedwetting alarms. Our results highlight the need for additional options in alarm sound features, as children of different ages have divergent preferences in this domain. Additionally, girls and their parents and caretakers provided more negative overall reviews regarding the range of current device features compared to boys, indicating a potential focus area for future development. The percent skew showed that subthemes were often more negatively skewed toward girls, with the ease of use being -10.7% skewed for boys versus -20.5% for girls, and comfort being -7.1% skewed for boys versus -29.4% for girls. Put together, this review highlights multiple device features that are targets for innovation to ensure translational efficacy regardless of age, gender, or specific family needs.
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- Astha Sahoo
- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
- University of California, Los Angeles Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Peiper AM, Helm EW, Nguyen Q, Phillips M, Williams CG, Shah D, Tatum S, Iyer N, Grodzki M, Eurell LB, Nasir A, Baldridge MT, Karst SM. Infection of neonatal mice with the murine norovirus strain WU23 is a robust model to study norovirus pathogenesis. Lab Anim (NY) 2023; 52:119-129. [PMID: 37142696 PMCID: PMC10234811 DOI: 10.1038/s41684-023-01166-5] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Noroviruses are the leading cause of severe childhood diarrhea and foodborne disease worldwide. While they are a major cause of disease in all age groups, infections in the very young can be quite severe, with annual estimates of 50,000-200,000 fatalities in children under 5 years old. In spite of the remarkable disease burden associated with norovirus infections, very little is known about the pathogenic mechanisms underlying norovirus diarrhea, principally because of the lack of tractable small animal models. The development of the murine norovirus (MNV) model nearly two decades ago has facilitated progress in understanding host-norovirus interactions and norovirus strain variability. However, MNV strains tested thus far either do not cause intestinal disease or were isolated from extraintestinal tissue, raising concerns about translatability of research findings to human norovirus disease. Consequently, the field lacks a strong model of norovirus gastroenteritis. Here we provide a comprehensive characterization of a new small animal model system for the norovirus field that overcomes prior weaknesses. Specifically, we demonstrate that the WU23 MNV strain isolated from a mouse naturally presenting with diarrhea causes a transient reduction in weight gain and acute self-resolving diarrhea in neonatal mice of several inbred mouse lines. Moreover, our findings reveal that norovirus-induced diarrhea is associated with infection of subepithelial cells in the small intestine and systemic spread. Finally, type I interferons (IFNs) are critical to protect hosts from norovirus-induced intestinal disease whereas type III IFNs exacerbate diarrhea. This latter finding is consistent with other emerging data implicating type III IFNs in the exacerbation of some viral diseases. This new model system should enable a detailed investigation of norovirus disease mechanisms.
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- Amy M Peiper
- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Office of Research, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Chen X, Chen LC, Khericha M, Meng X, Salvestrini E, Shafer A, Iyer N, Alag AS, Ding Y, Nicolaou DM, Chen YY. Rational Protein Design Yields a CD20 CAR with Superior Antitumor Efficacy Compared with CD19 CAR. Cancer Immunol Res 2023; 11:150-163. [PMID: 36409926 PMCID: PMC9898126 DOI: 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-22-0504] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) are fusion proteins whose functional domains are often connected in a plug-and-play manner to generate multiple CAR variants. However, CARs with highly similar sequences can exhibit dramatic differences in function. Thus, approaches to rationally optimize CAR proteins are critical to the development of effective CAR T-cell therapies. Here, we report that as few as two amino-acid changes in nonsignaling domains of a CAR were able to significantly enhance in vivo antitumor efficacy. We demonstrate juxtamembrane alanine insertion and single-chain variable fragment sequence hybridization as two strategies that could be combined to maximize CAR functionality, and describe a CD20 CAR that outperformed the CD19 CAR in antitumor efficacy in preclinical in vitro and in vivo assays. Precise changes in the CAR sequence drove dramatically different transcriptomic profiles upon antigen stimulation, with the most efficacious CAR inducing an enrichment in highly functional memory T cells upon antigen stimulation. These findings underscore the importance of sequence-level optimization to CAR T-cell function, and the protein-engineering strategy described here may be applied to the development of additional CARs against diverse antigens. See related Spotlight by Scheller and Hudecek, p. 142.
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- Ximin Chen
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.,Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.,Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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Helm EW, Peiper AM, Phillips M, Williams CG, Sherman MB, Kelley T, Smith HQ, Jacobs SO, Shah D, Tatum SM, Iyer N, Grodzki M, Morales Aparicio JC, Kennedy EA, Manzi MS, Baldridge MT, Smith TJ, Karst SM. Environmentally-triggered contraction of the norovirus virion determines diarrheagenic potential. Front Immunol 2022; 13:1043746. [PMID: 36389732 PMCID: PMC9664153 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1043746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
Abstract
Noroviruses are the leading cause of severe childhood diarrhea and foodborne disease worldwide. While they are a major cause of disease in all age groups, infections in the very young can be quite severe with annual estimates of 50,000-200,000 fatalities in children under 5 years old. In spite of the remarkable disease burden associated with norovirus infections in people, very little is known about the pathogenic mechanisms underlying norovirus diarrhea, principally because of the lack of tractable small animal models. We recently demonstrated that wild-type neonatal mice are susceptible to murine norovirus (MNV)-induced acute self-resolving diarrhea in a time course mirroring human norovirus disease. Using this robust pathogenesis model system, we demonstrate that virulence is regulated by the responsiveness of the viral capsid to environmental cues that trigger contraction of the VP1 protruding (P) domain onto the particle shell, thus enhancing receptor binding and infectivity. The capacity of a given MNV strain to undergo this contraction positively correlates with infection of cells expressing low abundance of the virus receptor CD300lf, supporting a model whereby virion contraction triggers infection of CD300lflo cell types that are responsible for diarrhea induction. These findings directly link environmentally-influenced biophysical features with norovirus disease severity.
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- Emily W. Helm
- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
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Iyer N, Al Qaryoute A, Kacham M, Jagadeeswaran P. Identification of zebrafish ortholog for human coagulation factor IX and its age-dependent expression. J Thromb Haemost 2021; 19:2137-2150. [PMID: 33974340 DOI: 10.1111/jth.15365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Coagulation factor IX (FIX) is a serine protease zymogen involved in the intrinsic blood coagulation pathway, and its deficiency causes hemophilia B. Zebrafish has three f9 genes, and the ortholog to human F9 is unknown. OBJECTIVE To identify the zebrafish ortholog to F9 using sequence analysis and piggyback knockdown technology. METHODS Gene and protein sequence analysis for three f9 genes, f9a, f9b, and f9l, present in the zebrafish genome was performed. In vivo and in vitro assays after knockdown of each gene and immunodepletion using specific antibodies were carried out. RESULTS Sequence analysis revealed that f9a and f9b are similar to human F9, whereas f9l is similar to human F10. RNA analysis showed an age-dependent increase in expression of all three genes. Zebrafish f9a gene knockdown and Fixa immunodepletion prolonged kinetic partial thromboplastin time (kPTT), whereas f9l knockdown and Fixl immunodepletion prolonged kPTT, kinetic prothrombin time, and kinetic Russell viper venom activation time. Laser-assisted venous thrombosis increased time to occlusion after f9a and f9l knockdown and antibody inhibition of Fixa and Fixl. Further, analysis of plasma proteins by mass spectrometry and immunohistochemistry detected all three proteins. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that zebrafish f9a has functional activity similar to human F9. Fixl is functionally similar to Fx. The age-dependent increases of these factors are comparable to those observed in mice and humans. Thus, the zebrafish model could be used to study factors involved in increasing f9a expression during aging. It could also be used to test whether normal human Factor IX and Factor IX Leyden promoter work in zebrafish background.
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- Neha Iyer
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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Coagulation assays, prothrombin time (PT), and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) are tests to measure the clotting ability of plasma and used in evaluating patients suffering from bleeding disorders. These assays require 100 μl of human plasma. In zebrafish, dilute plasma with exogenously added human fibrinogen was used. Our objective is to create a microkinetic coagulation assay for human and zebrafish plasmas using 1 μl plasma under conditions similar to PT and PTTs. Here, we developed an assay using the Take3 plate with wells holding up to 6 μl, which can be loaded in a microplate reader for measuring the absorbance of fibrin formation. In this assay, we used 1 μl of citrated zebrafish or human plasma followed by the addition of either thromboplastin or Dade ACTIN or factor X activator from Russell viper venom as an activating agent and CaCl2. We found 4 or 3 μl of the final volume of reaction was optimal. Our results showed both zebrafish and human plasmas yielded kinetic PT, kinetic PTT, and kinetic Russel's viper venom time curves similar to previously established curves using dilute plasma. This kinetic coagulation was inhibited by heparin and was reduced significantly in coagulation factor deficient plasmas. These results validated our microkinetic coagulation assays. Moreover, we derived clotting times from these kinetic curves, which were identical to human PT, PTT, and Russel's viper venom time. In conclusion, we established a microkinetic assay that could measure blood coagulation activity in models like zebrafish and human blood samples obtained from a finger prick in adults or heel prick in infants.
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- Neha Iyer
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
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Khandekar G, Iyer N, Jagadeeswaran P. Prostasin and hepatocyte growth factor B in factor VIIa generation: Serine protease knockdowns in zebrafish. Res Pract Thromb Haemost 2020; 4:1150-1157. [PMID: 33134781 PMCID: PMC7590325 DOI: 10.1002/rth2.12428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Blood clotting in humans is initiated by the binding of tissue factor to activated coagulation factor VII (FVIIa) in the plasma. Previous studies have reported that hepsin and factor VII (FVII)-activating protease are responsible for generating FVIIa. OBJECTIVES We aimed to identify other proteases that may activate FVII using zebrafish as a model. METHODS We screened 179 genes encoding serine protease domains using the piggyback knockdown method to identify genes involved in the activation of zebrafish Fvii. A prolonged kinetic prothrombin time (kPT) assay was used to detect gene knockdown effects. RESULTS In the primary screen, 21 genes showed prolonged kPT. In the secondary screen, 14 of 21 genes showed positive results. In the tertiary screen, all 14 genes showed prolonged kPT. These 14 genes were knocked down again to estimate relative levels of zebrafish Fviia. Six genes, including known genes, such as f10 and novel prostasin and hepatocyte growth factor B (hgfb), showed lower Fviia levels. Fvii levels were affected only by the knockdown of f7 and not by the knockdown of the other five genes. CONCLUSIONS Prostasin and hgfb are involved in generating Fviia. We hypothesize that prostasin exerts serine protease activity directly or indirectly to activate Fvii. As Hgfb has a mutated serine protease domain, it may not cleave Fvii but may bind to Fvii to induce autoactivation. The approach developed here may be extended to design other large-scale knockdown screens.
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- Gauri Khandekar
- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of North TexasDentonTXUSA
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- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of North TexasDentonTXUSA
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Burggren W, Abramova R, Bautista N, Danielson RF, Gupta A, Hansson K, Iyer N, Jagadeeswaran P, Jennbacken K, Patel V, Raman R, Trivedi H, Wang QD. A Larval Zebrafish Model for Assessing Hypoxic‐Induced
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Cardiomyocyte Damage: Time Course for Induction and Cardiac Output Recovery. FASEB J 2020. [DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2020.34.s1.05935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Neha Iyer
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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MS222 is a compound used in anesthetizing vertebrates, including fish and frogs. Several side effects of this anesthetic have been reported, but its effect on hemostasis has not been studied. In our laboratory, we have used zebrafish for more than 2 decades as a model system to study hemostasis. During this period, we have had trouble in collecting blood from anesthetized zebrafish and observed more rapid blood clotting than in nonanesthetized counterparts. However, no systematic studies regarding the effect of MS222 on zebrafish hemostasis are available. In this study, we performed various assays such as gill bleeding, measurement of Hct, total blood cell counts, thrombocyte counts, thrombocyte aggregation, and coagula- tion and measured the amount of blood collected. We found that Hct values, the amount of blood collected, bleeding, and coagulation differed significantly between anesthetized and nonanesthetized fish. Our results suggest that blood collected after MS222 anesthesia of zebrafish has altered hemostasis.
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- Afnan Deebani
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas;,
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Foster K, Bilir P, Kruger E, Kowal S, Holmes JH, Hickerson W, Nystrom S, Turley D, Sparks J, Iyer N, Quick A. 288 Cost-effectiveness (CE) of an Autologous Regenerative Epithelial Suspension (RES) versus Standard of Care (SOC) for Treatment of Severe Burns in the United States. J Burn Care Res 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/iry006.210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- K Foster
- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; QuintilesIMS, San Francisco, CA; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, AZ; Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, TN; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Washington D.C, WA; Office of Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), US Dept. of
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Iyer N, Wilcox I. A Rare Case of Corynebacterium Endocarditis. Heart Lung Circ 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.06.560] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Iyer N, Ruhela R, Das A, Yadav M, Singh AK, Chakravartty JK. Novel imino diacetamide grafted styrene divinyl benzene resin for separation and recovery of palladium from simulated high level liquid waste. SEP SCI TECHNOL 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/01496395.2016.1199570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- N. Iyer
- Materials Processing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Materials Processing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Materials Processing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Materials Processing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Materials Processing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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- Materials Processing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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Iyer N, Ruhela R, Vishwakarma P, Yadav M, Singh A, Chakravartty J. Sorption studies of uranium on novel imino diacetamide grafted styrene divinyl benzene polymeric resin. SEP SCI TECHNOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/01496395.2015.1064137] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Ruhela R, Rao A, Iyer N, Das A, Kumar P, Singh AK, Tomar BS, Hubli RC. Novel imino diacetamide styrene divinyl benzene resin for separation of99molybdenum from irradiated uranium–aluminium alloy. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra12223b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Lau E, Jaijee S, Iyer N, Corte T, Torzillo P, Simmons L, Celermajer D. Insights into the Pathogenesis of Exercise Limitation and Right Ventricular (RV) Afterload in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). Heart Lung Circ 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2012.05.051] [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: 10/28/2022]
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Iyer N, Lau E, Celermajer D. Novel Use of Intra-arterial Doppler in the Assessment of Pulmonary Artery Flow Velocities—Observations Before and After Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Heart Lung Circ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.05.039] [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: 11/24/2022]
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Thiagarajan A, Caria N, Schöder H, Iyer N, Wolden S, Wong R, Kraus D, Sherman E, Fury M, Lee N. Target Volume Delineation in Oropharyngeal Cancer: Impact of PET, MRI and Physical Examination. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.07.1008] [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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Iyer N. Anthony Trevor Seaton. West J Med 2010. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c4398] [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: 11/04/2022]
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Mittal A, Das D, Iyer N, Nagaraj J, Gupta M. Masseter cysticercosis – a rare case diagnosed on ultrasound. Dentomaxillofac Radiol 2008; 37:113-6. [DOI: 10.1259/dmfr/31885135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Sharma A, Das D, Iyer N, Nagaraj J, Gupta A. “Vanishing mandible!”. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2007.08.300] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Kataria A, Das D, Iyer N, Nagaraj J. Maxillary sinus – a room with a view! Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2007.09.057] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Mehta S, Das D, Iyer N, Nagaraj J. Maxillary sinus floor elevation with hydraulic pressure for bone grafting and implant placement. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2007.08.084] [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: 11/30/2022]
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Nagaraj J, Das D, Iyer N. Sandwich grafting with simultaneous Implant placement. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2007.08.085] [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: 10/22/2022]
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Das D, Iyer N, Nagaraj J. “Face-off” incision—a concept. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2007.08.067] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Kucera GL, Goff CL, Iyer N, Morris-Natschke S, Ishaq KS, Wyrick SD, Fleming RA, Kucera LS. Cellular metabolism in lymphocytes of a novel thioether-phospholipid-AZT conjugate with anti-HIV-1 activity. Antiviral Res 2001; 50:129-37. [PMID: 11369433 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-3542(01)00137-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We previously synthesized a thioetherphospholipid-AZT conjugate (3'-azido-3'-deoxy-5'-(1-hexadecylthio-2-methoxypropyl)-phosphothymidine, CP-102) with potent anti-HIV-1 activity and significant reduction in cell cytotoxicity compared to AZT alone. To study the cellular metabolism of the conjugate compound we synthesized a double-tritium-labeled thioetherphospholipid-AZT conjugate (3'-azido-3'-deoxy-5'-(1-[9,10-3H]-S-octadecylthio-2-O-methoxypropyl)-phosphothymidine-[methyl-3H], [3H]CP-102). The intracellular radioactive metabolic products of [3H]CP-102 treated human lymphoblastoid CEM-SS cells were analyzed by HPLC and thin-layer chromatography. Results of this investigation provide evidence that a putative intracellular lipid cleavage enzyme metabolizes [3H]CP-102 to form a thioetherdiglyceride compound that migrates with an authentic 1-S-octadecyl-2-O-methyl-thioglycerol standard on TLC. The thioetherdiglyceride metabolite did not react with the ninhydrin reagent indicating it did not contain a primary amine such as that found on serine or ethanolamine containing phospholipids. Also, the product did not contain a phosphatidic acid group based on migration characteristics in the TLC plate. The other major hydrophilic metabolite was 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine-[methyl-3H]-monophosphate (AZT-MP) with lesser amounts of AZT, AZT-DP and AZT-TP. In summary, the best interpretation of these data is that the thioetherphospholipid-AZT conjugate, [3H]CP-102, is cleaved by a putative intracellular lipid cleavage enzyme to release a thioetherdiglyceride compound and AZT-MP. The resulting AZT-MP was either dephosphorylated to AZT or sequentially phosphorylated to AZT-DP and, ultimately, to AZT-TP, the known inhibitory metabolite against HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. Phospholipid-nucleoside conjugates may provide a unique approach for developing anti-HIV-1 prodrugs that do not have a strict requirement for a nucleoside kinase for initial activation of the prodrug to an antiviral form.
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- Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
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Semenza GL, Agani F, Feldser D, Iyer N, Kotch L, Laughner E, Yu A. Hypoxia, HIF-1, and the pathophysiology of common human diseases. Adv Exp Med Biol 2000; 475:123-30. [PMID: 10849654 DOI: 10.1007/0-306-46825-5_12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Hypoxia plays a fundamental role in the pathophysiology of common causes of mortality, including ischemic heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic lung disease, and congestive heart failure. In these disease states, hypoxia induces changes in gene expression in target organs that either fail to result in adequate adaptation or directly contribute to disease pathogenesis. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is a transcriptional activator that is expressed in response to cellular hypoxia and mediates multiple cellular and systemic homeostatic responses to hypoxia. Recent studies have provided evidence that important pathophysiological responses to hypoxia in pulmonary hypertension, myocardial ischemia, and cancer are mediated by HIF-1. Pharmacologic and gene therapy strategies designed to modulate HIF-1 activity may represent a novel and effective therapeutic approach to these common disorders.
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- G L Semenza
- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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This paper presents an alternative perspective on defensive medicine. Defensive medicine is usually understood as arising from the effect of law on medicine through fear of litigation. Of equal significance, however, is the complementary influence of medicine on law through technological innovation, and, more importantly, the way that medicine and law develop dialectically. Each shapes the other in establishing the standards of care central to both clinical medicine and to actual or potential legal action. Excessive testing owing to fear of litigation indicates that defensive medicine is being practised in a particular setting, but it does not explain why this is so. To understand why defensive medicine occurs and why it is so troubling to clinicians requires an understanding, not only of medical and legal developments, but of a political-economic system and the beliefs and values of a society. Defensive medicine is discussed in relation to hospital obstetrical scenarios commonly associated with fear of litigation: fetal oxygen deprivation ("distress"), which is detected using an electronic fetal monitor, and prolonged labor, known as "dystocia". The material presented is taken from a medical anthropological study of obstetrical care in rural British Columbia, Canada. Litigation fears are shown to result less from rare, albeit often devastating, allegations of malpractice than from doctors adopting a role as "fetal champions", together with the introduction of electronic monitoring technology. The paper concludes by asserting that, rather than being in an adversarial relationship, medical practice and associated litigation primarily work together to reinforce each other, and the social conditions in which defensive medicine occurs.
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- BC Office of Health Technology Assessment, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Hypoxia is an essential pathophysiologic component of ischemic cardiovascular disease. A better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying adaptive responses to hypoxia may lead to novel therapeutic strategies. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is a heterodimeric basic-helix-loop-helix-PAS domain transcription factor that mediates changes in gene expression in response to changes in O2 concentration. Genes that are transcriptionally activated by HIF-1 in hypoxic cells encode proteins that increase O2 delivery or allow metabolic adaptation to limited O2 availability. HIF-1 target genes include those encoding vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), erythropoietin, glucose transporters, and glycolytic enzymes. In anemic fetal sheep, increased myocardial vascularization was associated with concomitant increases in the expression of HIF-1 and VEGF. Expression of HIF-1 target genes was not induced by hypoxia in embryonic stem cells lacking expression of the O2-regulated HIF-1 alpha subunit. Mouse embryos lacking HIF-1 alpha expression arrested in their development by E9.0 and died by E10.5 with cardiovascular malformations and massive cell death throughout the embryo. These studies indicate that HIF-1 functions as a master regulator of O2 homeostasis that controls the establishment of essential physiologic systems during embryogenesis as well as their subsequent utilization during fetal and postnatal life.
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- Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
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- Department of Medicine, Center for Medical Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
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Kucera LS, Iyer N, Morris-Natschke SL, Chen SY, Gumus F, Ishaq K, Herrmann DB. In vitro evaluation and characterization of newly designed alkylamidophospholipid analogues as anti-human immunodeficiency virus type 1 agents. Antivir Chem Chemother 1998; 9:157-65. [PMID: 9875387 DOI: 10.1177/095632029800900207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 11/15/2022] Open
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Our laboratories first reported two novel classes of complex synthetic lipids, including alkylamidophosphocholines (PC lipid; CP-51) and alkylamidophosphate ester-linked lipid-AZT conjugates (lipid-AZT conjugates; CP-92), with selective and potent activity against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). To extend these observations, we synthesized additional PC lipids and lipid-AZT conjugates (INK and INK-AZT conjugate) to evaluate their structure-activity relationships by testing for selectivity against infectious wild-type (wt) and drug-resistant HIV-1 replication, virus fusogenic activity and toxicity for mouse bone marrow cells. PC lipid compounds with medium chain lengths at positions 1 and 2 gave an improved selective index (SI). INK-3, with 12 and 8 carbons and INK-15, with 10 and 12 carbons were among the most selective when evaluated in CEM-SS cells. INK-14, a lipid-AZT conjugate where AZT replaced the choline in PC lipid INK-3, gave the highest SI of > 1250 against both infectious wt HIV-1 replication in CEM-SS cells and a clinical isolate in peripheral blood leukocytes. Notably, the PC lipid compounds INK-3 and INK-15, but not the lipid-AZT conjugate INK-14, were potent inhibitors of matched pairs of AZT-sensitive and AZT-resistant HIV-1 clinical isolates. INK-3 also inhibited replication of HIV-2 and TIBO-resistant HIV-1, and inhibited HIV-1-mediated fusogenic activity by 78, 41 and 9% in a dose-dependent manner. The TC50 for mouse bone marrow cells was > 100 micrograms/ml for INK-3 compared to 9.15-14.17 micrograms/ml for CP-51 and 0.142-0.259 microgram/ml for AZT. These data suggest that optimum PC lipid compounds are significantly less toxic than AZT and have high potential as novel therapeutic agents for AIDS.
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- L S Kucera
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, N.C., USA
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Dianov GL, Houle JF, Iyer N, Bohr VA, Friedberg EC. Reduced RNA polymerase II transcription in extracts of cockayne syndrome and xeroderma pigmentosum/Cockayne syndrome cells. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:3636-42. [PMID: 9278484 PMCID: PMC146943 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.18.3636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The hereditary disease Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a complex clinical syndrome characterized by arrested post-natal growth as well as neurological and other defects. The CSA and CSB genes are implicated in this disease. The clinical features of CS can also accompany the excision repair-defective hereditary disorder xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) from genetic complementation groups B, D or G. The XPB and XPD proteins are subunits of RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) transcription factor IIH (TFIIH). We show here that extracts of CS-A and CS-B cells, as well as those from XP-B/CS cells, support reduced levels of RNAP II transcription in vitro and that this feature is dependent on the state or quality of the template.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA
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Semenza GL, Agani F, Booth G, Forsythe J, Iyer N, Jiang BH, Leung S, Roe R, Wiener C, Yu A. Structural and functional analysis of hypoxia-inducible factor 1. Kidney Int 1997; 51:553-5. [PMID: 9027737 DOI: 10.1038/ki.1997.77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [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: 02/07/2023]
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Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) is a basic helix-loop-helix protein that activates transcription of hypoxia-inducible genes, including those encoding: erythropoietin, vascular endothelial growth factor, heme oxygenase-1, inducible nitric oxide synthase, and the glycolytic enzymes aldolase A, enolase 1, lactate dehydrogenase A, phosphofructokinase I, and phosphoglycerate kinase 1. Hypoxia response elements from these genes consist of a HIF-1 binding site (that contains the core sequence 5'-CGTG-3') as well as additional DNA sequences that are required for function, which in some elements include a second HIF-1 binding site. HIF-1 is a heterodimer. The HIF-1 alpha subunit is unique to HIF-1, whereas HIF-1 beta (ARNT) can dimerize with other bHLH-PAS proteins. Structural analysis of HIF-1 alpha revealed that dimerization with HIF-1 beta (ARNT) requires the HLH and PAS domains, DNA binding is mediated by the basic domain, and that HIF-1 alpha contains a carboxyl-terminal transactivation domain. Co-transfection of HIF-1 alpha and HIF-1 beta (ARNT) expression vectors and a reporter gene containing a wild-type hypoxia response element resulted in increased transcription in non-hypoxic cells and a superinduction of transcription in hypoxic cells, whereas HIF-1 expression vectors had no effect on the transcription of reporter genes containing a mutation in the HIF-1 binding site. HIF-1 alpha and HIF-1 beta (ARNT) protein levels were induced by hypoxia in all primary and transformed cell lines examined. In HeLa cells, the levels of HIF-1 alpha and HIF-1 beta protein and HIF-1 DNA-binding activity increased exponentially as cellular oxygen tension decreased, with maximum values at 0.5% oxygen and half-maximal values at 1.5 to 2% oxygen. HIF-1 alpha and HIF-1 beta (ARNT) mRNAs were detected in all human, mouse, and rat organs assayed and mRNA expression was modestly induced in rodents subjected to hypoxia. HIF-1 alpha protein levels were induced in vivo when animals were subjected to anemia or hypoxia. The HIF1A gene was mapped to human chromosome 14q21-q24 and mouse chromosome 12.
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- G L Semenza
- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Iyer N, Reagan MS, Wu KJ, Canagarajah B, Friedberg EC. Interactions involving the human RNA polymerase II transcription/nucleotide excision repair complex TFIIH, the nucleotide excision repair protein XPG, and Cockayne syndrome group B (CSB) protein. Biochemistry 1996; 35:2157-67. [PMID: 8652557 DOI: 10.1021/bi9524124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [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] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The human basal transcription factor TFIIH plays a central role in two distinct processes. TFIIH is an obligatory component of the RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) transcription initiation complex. Additionally, it is believed to be the core structure around which some if not all the components of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) machinery assemble to constitute a nucleotide excision repairosome. At least two of the subunits of TFIIH (XPB and XPD proteins) are implicated in the disease xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). We have exploited the availability of the cloned XPB, XPD, p62, p44, and p34 genes (all of which encode polypeptide subunits of TFIIH) to examine interactions between in vitro-translated polypeptides by co-immunoprecipitation. Additionally we have examined interactions between TFIIH components, the human NER protein XPG, and the CSB protein which is implicated in Cockayne syndrome (CS). Our analyses demonstrate that the XPB, XPD, p44, and p62 proteins interact with each other. XPG protein interacts with multiple subunits of TFIIH and with CSB protein.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235, USA
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Henning KA, Li L, Iyer N, McDaniel LD, Reagan MS, Legerski R, Schultz RA, Stefanini M, Lehmann AR, Mayne LV, Friedberg EC. The Cockayne syndrome group A gene encodes a WD repeat protein that interacts with CSB protein and a subunit of RNA polymerase II TFIIH. Cell 1995; 82:555-64. [PMID: 7664335 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(95)90028-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 341] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [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] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The hereditary disease Cockayne syndrome (CS) is characterized by a complex clinical phenotype. CS cells are abnormally sensitive to ultraviolet radiation and are defective in the repair of transcriptionally active genes. The cloned CSB gene encodes a member of a protein family that includes the yeast Snf2 protein, a component of the transcriptional regulator Swi/Snf. We report the cloning of the CSA cDNA, which can encode a WD repeat protein. Mutations in the cDNA have been identified in CS-A cell lines. CSA protein interacts with CSB protein and with p44 protein, a subunit of the human RNA polymerase II transcription factor IIH. These observations suggest that the products of the CSA and CSB genes are involved in transcription.
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- K A Henning
- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235, USA
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Krugner-Higby L, Goff D, Edwards T, Iyer N, Neufeld J, Kute T, Morris-Natschke S, Ishaq K, Piantadosi C, Kucera LS. Membrane-interactive phospholipids inhibit HIV type 1-induced cell fusion and surface gp160/gp120 binding to monoclonal antibody. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1995; 11:705-12. [PMID: 7576930 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1995.11.705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Membrane-interactive phospholipids (PLs), previously evaluated for activity against HIV-1 in vitro, are known to affect late steps in viral replication. Studies were done to determine the effects of PL analogs on post-translational processing of HIV-1 proteins, binding of viral surface gp160/gp120 to CD4 receptor, and HIV-1-induced cell fusion. Results of this investigation indicated that PL alone (1-octadecanamido-2-ethoxypropyl-rac-3-phosphocholine, CP-51) and PL-AZT conjugate (1-octadecanamido-2-ethoxypropyl-rac-3-phospho-3'- azido-3'-deoxythymidine, CP-92) have no effect on HIV-1-induced syntheses or processing of gp160/gp120, pr51, p24, or p17 (including myristoylation) in infected cells. Progeny HIV-1 particles made in CP-92-treated H9IIIB cells contained gp120, pr51, and p24; however, these virus particles had reduced capacity to bind to CD4+ cells. Both CP-51 and CP-92 inhibited syncytium (cell fusion) formation between treated HIV-1-infected cells and uninfected CD4+ cells, and, they reduced HIV-1 gp160/gp120 binding to CD4+ cells and monoclonal antibody. These results suggest that anti-HIV-1 activity of PL compounds involves alteration of cell surface membranes and viral envelopes. Phospholipid compounds are a novel class of membrane interactive compounds with potential use in blocking the spread of HIV-1 infection and pathogenesis in AIDS.
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1064, USA
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Bromoacetal 2 undergoes a novel ring-contracted reaction to give the aldehyde 3 in the presence of DBU or triethylamine. The aldehyde 3 is reduced to the alcohol 4 and oxidized to the carboxylic acid 5. The alcohol 4 reacts with dihydroartemisinin to give the two diastereoisomers 38 and 39. All the compounds were tested for antimalarial activity in mice infected with chloroquine sensitive Plasmodium berghei. If the activity of a compound was comparable to that of the standard compound, such as arteether, it was tested against chloroquine resistant NS strain infection in mice. Initially the compounds were administered subcutaneously, and if found to be active, they were tested by oral route. The antimalarial activity of compounds 19, 38, and 39 was found to be comparable to that of arteether when tested in K-173-infected mice. They were also active against chloroquine resistant NS strain infection in mice.
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- Department of Chemistry, Hoechst India Ltd., Mulund, Bombay, India
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Venugopalan B, Karnik PJ, Bapat CP, Chatterjee DK, Iyer N, Lepcha D. Antimalarial activity of new ethers and thioethers of dihydroartemisinin. Eur J Med Chem 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0223-5234(96)88287-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Bardwell AJ, Bardwell L, Iyer N, Svejstrup JQ, Feaver WJ, Kornberg RD, Friedberg EC. Yeast nucleotide excision repair proteins Rad2 and Rad4 interact with RNA polymerase II basal transcription factor b (TFIIH). Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:3569-76. [PMID: 8196602 PMCID: PMC358724 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.6.3569-3576.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The Rad2, Rad3, Rad4, and Ss12 proteins are required for nucleotide excision repair in yeast cells and are homologs of four human proteins which are involved in a group of hereditary repair-defective diseases. We have previously shown that Rad3 protein is one of the five subunits of purified RNA polymerase II basal transcription initiation factor b (TFIIH) and that Ss12 protein physically associates with factor b (W.J. Feaver, J.Q. Svejstrup, L. Bardwell, A.J. Bardwell, S. Buratowski, K.D. Gulyas, T.F. Donahue, E.C. Friedberg, and R.D. Kornberg, Cell 75:1379-1387, 1993). Here we show that the Rad2 and Rad4 proteins interact with purified factor b in vitro. Rad2 (a single-stranded DNA endonuclease) specifically interacts with the Tfb1 subunit of factor b, and we have mapped a limited region of the Rad2 polypeptide which is sufficient for this interaction. Rad2 also interacts directly with Ss12 protein (a putative DNA helicase). The binding of Rad2 and Rad4 proteins to factor b may define intermediates in the assembly of the nucleotide excision repair repairosome. Furthermore, the loading of factor b (or such intermediates) onto promoters during transcription initiation provides a mechanism for the preferential targeting of repair proteins to actively transcribing genes.
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- A J Bardwell
- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235
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Kondorosi E, Buiré M, Cren M, Iyer N, Hoffmann B, Kondorosi A. Involvement of the syrM and nodD3 genes of Rhizobium meliloti in nod gene activation and in optimal nodulation of the plant host. Mol Microbiol 1991; 5:3035-48. [PMID: 1809842 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1991.tb01863.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We identified and sequenced the regulatory syrM and nodD3 genes of Rhizobium meliloti 41. Both genes were shown to contribute to optimal nodulation of alfalfa. In R. meliloti strains carrying syrM and nodD3 on plasmid, the nod genes are expressed constitutively, resulting in host-range extension to siratro. This is due to the presence of multiple syrM copies, suggesting that SyrM participates directly in nod gene activation. NodD3 activates nod genes in conjunction with flavonoids and enhances syrM expression, which is controlled also by its own product, NodD2, and two putative trans-acting factors. nodD3 is regulated by SyrM, NodD1, nodD3, the repressor NoIR, and two putative factors.
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- E Kondorosi
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des Sciences Végétales, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Piantadosi C, Marasco CJ, Morris-Natschke SL, Meyer KL, Gumus F, Surles JR, Ishaq KS, Kucera LS, Iyer N, Wallen CA. Synthesis and evaluation of novel ether lipid nucleoside conjugates for anti-HIV-1 activity. J Med Chem 1991; 34:1408-14. [PMID: 1901911 DOI: 10.1021/jm00108a025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Combinations of an amidoalkylphosphocholine, 8, and AZT have been found to cause an apparent synergistic action in suppressing infectious HIV-1 replication. In addition, amidoalkyl, oxyalkyl, and thioalkyl ether lipids have been chemically linked to anti-HIV-1 nucleosides (AZT and DDI) through phosphate and phosphonate linkages. These conjugates have shown promising in vitro anti-HIV-1 activity. Also, the conjugates have a 5-10-fold reduction in cell cytotoxicity compared to AZT alone. The most active compound, an amidoalkyl ether lipid-AZT conjugates, 4A, was found to have a differential selectivity of 1793 in a syncytial plaque assay. In comparison, AZT alone has a value of 1281.
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- C Piantadosi
- University of North Carolina, School of Pharmacy, Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, Chapel Hill 27599
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Kucera LS, Leake E, Iyer N, Raben D, Myrvik QN. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) can coinfect and simultaneously replicate in the same human CD4+ cell: effect of coinfection on infectious HSV-2 and HIV-1 replication. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1990; 6:641-7. [PMID: 1972888 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1990.6.641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [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] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Experiments were designed to determine whether HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) coinfection leads to simultaneous replication of both viruses in the same human CD4+ cell (MT-4 cell line) and the possible effects of coinfection on infectious virus production. Results from transmission electron microscopy analysis revealed replication of typical HSV-2 nucleocapsids in the nucleus and budding of HIV-1 particles through the plasma membrane and through intracytoplasmic vacuoles containing enveloped HSV-2 particles in the same coinfected cell. Coinfection of HIV-1 persistently infected H9IIIB or promonocytic U1 cells with HSV-2 did not alter total production of infectious HSV-2 or the percentage of HSV-2 infectious centers compared with control H9 and U937 cells infected with HSV-2 alone. However, in coinfected promonocytic U1 cells HSV-2 induced infectious HIV-1 production measured by syncytial plaque assay. In summary, both HIV-1 and HSV-2 can coinfect and simultaneously replicate in the same human CD4+ cell. Interactions between HIV-1 and HSV-2 appear to be unidirectional, resulting in accelerated replication of HIV-1 as reported by Albrecht et al. (J Virol 1989;63:1861-1868), but not HSV-2 as shown by us.
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- L S Kucera
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27103
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Kucera LS, Iyer N, Leake E, Raben A, Modest EJ, Daniel LW, Piantadosi C. Novel membrane-interactive ether lipid analogs that inhibit infectious HIV-1 production and induce defective virus formation. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1990; 6:491-501. [PMID: 1692729 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1990.6.491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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A new class of membrane-active ether lipid (EL) analogs of platelet-activating factor were studied for in vitro anti-HIV-1 activity. Human T-cell (CEM-ss) monolayers or suspension cultures were used to determine effects of structural modifications of Type A phosphorus-containing and Type B nonphosphorus EL analogs on (a) the inhibitory concentration50 (IC50) for HIV-1 syncytial plaque formation and cell growth, and, (b) virus budding at the cell plasma membrane. Results indicate that representative Type A and Type B EL inhibit HIV-1 but not herpes simplex virus type 2 plaque formation when added before or up to 2 days after viral infection. Anti-HIV-1 activity does not involve direct inactivation of virus infectivity. Type A EL (IC50 range = 0.2-1.4 microM) with alkyoxy, alkylthio, or alkyamido substitution at glycerol position 1 and ethoxy or methoxy substitution at position 2, and Type B compounds (IC50 range = 0.33-0.63 microM) with an inverse choline or nitrogen heterocyclic substitution at position 3 have selective activity against HIV-1-infected T-cells. EL treatment of HIV-1-infected cells is associated with subsequent release of reverse transcriptase activity, but infectious virus production is inhibited with time after infection. Electron microscopic examination of HIV-1-infected and EL-treated cells revealed absence of detectable budding virus at the plasma membrane but presence of intracytoplasmic vacuolar virus particles. In summary, these data suggest that EL analogs are a novel class of agents that induce defective intracytoplasmic vacuolar HIV-1 formation in T-cells. Being membrane interactive, EL are ideally suited for combination chemotherapy with DNA-interactive anti-HIV nucleoside analogs.
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- L S Kucera
- Department of Microbiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27103
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Unstimulated human leukemia T-cell lines (MOLT-4, MT-4) were tested for their susceptibility to herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection. Permissive infection of MT-4 cells was demonstrated by growth curve and infectious center assays. In growth curve experiments new progeny virus replication was detected by 24 hrs and maximum titers of HSV-2 replication were measured by 72 hrs after infection of MT-4 cells, whereas, MOLT-4 cells did not produce detectable infectious HSV-2 in growth curve experiments. It may be that a T-cell subset is involved with infectious HSV-2 production, since 5.7% of MT-4 cells were scored as infectious centers after HSV-2 infection compared to only 0.06% of MOLT-4 cells. Furthermore, HSV-2 infected MT-4 (45% of cells) and MOLT-4 cells (30% of cells) expressed viral induced antigen(s) detected by immunofluorescence assays. These data provide the first evidence of infectious HSV-2 replication in T-cells not prestimulated in vitro with mitogens, pharmacologic agents or growth factors. The establishment of T-cell systems that permit rapid and efficient replication of HSV-2 could greatly facilitate studies on interactions between human herpesviruses and AIDS retroviruses since recent published evidence indicates possible synergistic interactions between these virus groups.
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- L S Kucera
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27103
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Chonemorphine, a steroidal alkaloid isolated from Chonemorpha fragrans Moon (Apocyanaceae) was identified as an antimoebic principle during the course of a screening programme for novel antiparasitic agents from plant sources. At a dosage of 100 mg/kg x 4 chonemorphine led to a 100% cure of experimental hepatic infection in golden hamsters and cleared 90% of the intestinal infection in weanling Wistar rats at 200 mg/kg (x4) dosages. The discovery of chonemorphine as an antiamoebic agent is an addition to the few known plant amoebicides such as emetine and conessine.
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- D K Chatterjee
- Research Centre, Hoechst India Limited, L.B.S. Marg, Bombay, India
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Kucera LS, Iyer N, King L, Krebs C, Waite BM. Calcium ionophore A-23187 and 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate stimulation of prostaglandin synthesis in herpes simplex virus type 2-transformed rat cells. Cancer Res 1984; 44:1625-9. [PMID: 6322982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether cells transformed by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) can be stimulated to synthesize prostaglandins (PG). Stimulation was determined by measuring the release of PG into overlay fluids from cell monolayers prelabeled with [3H]arachidonic acid. Results showed that Ca2+ ionophore A-23187 markedly stimulated arachidonic acid release starting 30 min after treatment of HSV-2-transformed and nontransformed rat embryo fibroblast cells. However, only HSV-2-transformed cells were stimulated in production of PG. HSV-2-transformed, nontumorigenic, rat embryo fibroblast, line G, clone 2.0 cells synthesize nearly equal amounts of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and prostaglandin F2 alpha, while tumor (rat fibrosarcoma) cells synthesize primarily PGE2. Stimulation of PGE2 synthesis by Ca2+ ionophore A-23187 or 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate decreased as rat fibrosarcoma cells were serially passaged in tissue culture. At low passage of parental rat fibrosarcoma cells, four distinct morphological clonal cell lines were isolated, which varied markedly in their capacity to be stimulated in PG synthesis by 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate. There was correlation between the capacity of clone 1 cells to be stimulated in PGE2 synthesis by serum alone and capacity of the tumors produced by the clone 1 cells to metastasize to the lungs of syngeneic tumor-bearing rats. In summary, cell transformation by HSV-2 appears to be essential for stimulation of PG synthesis in cells. The capacity to be stimulated in arachidonic acid metabolism and PG synthesis may be important in the process of carcinogenesis by a putative human cancer virus.
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