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Srivastava M, Dukeshire MR, Mir Q, Omoru OB, Manzourolajdad A, Janga SC. Experimental and computational methods for studying the dynamics of RNA-RNA interactions in SARS-COV2 genomes. Brief Funct Genomics 2024; 23:46-54. [PMID: 36752040 PMCID: PMC10799312 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elac050] [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: 09/06/2022] [Revised: 10/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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Long-range ribonucleic acid (RNA)-RNA interactions (RRI) are prevalent in positive-strand RNA viruses, including Beta-coronaviruses, and these take part in regulatory roles, including the regulation of sub-genomic RNA production rates. Crosslinking of interacting RNAs and short read-based deep sequencing of resulting RNA-RNA hybrids have shown that these long-range structures exist in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2 on both genomic and sub-genomic levels and in dynamic topologies. Furthermore, co-evolution of coronaviruses with their hosts is navigated by genetic variations made possible by its large genome, high recombination frequency and a high mutation rate. SARS-CoV-2's mutations are known to occur spontaneously during replication, and thousands of aggregate mutations have been reported since the emergence of the virus. Although many long-range RRIs have been experimentally identified using high-throughput methods for the wild-type SARS-CoV-2 strain, evolutionary trajectory of these RRIs across variants, impact of mutations on RRIs and interaction of SARS-CoV-2 RNAs with the host have been largely open questions in the field. In this review, we summarize recent computational tools and experimental methods that have been enabling the mapping of RRIs in viral genomes, with a specific focus on SARS-CoV-2. We also present available informatics resources to navigate the RRI maps and shed light on the impact of mutations on the RRI space in viral genomes. Investigating the evolution of long-range RNA interactions and that of virus-host interactions can contribute to the understanding of new and emerging variants as well as aid in developing improved RNA therapeutics critical for combating future outbreaks.
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- Mansi Srivastava
- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East 3 St, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Medical Research and Library Building, 975 West Walnut Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
- Centre for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 5021 Health Information and Translational Sciences (HITS), 410 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
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Srivastava M, Srivastava PK. A correlational study of uranium in groundwater with other physicochemical parameters using GIS mapping in Godda district of Jharkhand, India. Environ Geochem Health 2023; 45:9903-9924. [PMID: 37891445 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-023-01757-8] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023]
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The present research concentrates on the cumulative use of GPS and GIS technologies, which are excellent resources for analyzing and monitoring divergent physicochemical parameters in groundwater, including pH, TDS, EC, ORP, Ca+2, Mg+2, NO3-, F-, SO4-2, Cl- and PO4-3 with explicit regard to uranium. Garmin GPS is used to record the locations of the sampling points in the Godda study area. The research aims to offer a thorough understanding of the relationship between soil and water, its impact on public health and the extent to which water can be used in various ways based on its quality. Utilizing the inverse distance weighted (IDW) technique, it is examined how these groundwater parameters and the Water Quality Index (WQI) can be estimated spatially. Additionally, a correlation analysis of the water quality parameters is computed to estimate the local population's cancer risk living in the study area. Except for calcium and magnesium, which are present in excess concentrations throughout the study area with the highest values of 325 and 406 mg/l, respectively at Amediha and Meherma, the results showed that the maximum concentration parameters are within limits with the standard. The main reason might be the area's predominance of Alfisol soil type. The radioactive element uranium is found to be in a limited range. Chemo-toxicity and radiological risk assessment of the whole area lie far below the restricted cancer risk limit i.e., 30 ppb with the highest concentration of 14 ppb in the 'Sunderpahari' region, following the results obtained. The WQI for the area ranges from 'good' to 'very poor.' The results were favorable but a few sites such as 'Boarijor' and its surroundings, require additional attention to enhance groundwater quality. Given uranium's low availability in groundwater the region's cancer risk assessment is below average.
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- Mansi Srivastava
- Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 825315, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 825315, India.
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Hulett RE, Gehrke AR, Gompers A, Rivera-López C, Srivastava M. A wound-induced differentiation trajectory for neurons. bioRxiv 2023:2023.05.10.540286. [PMID: 37214981 PMCID: PMC10197691 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.10.540286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Animals capable of whole-body regeneration can replace any missing cell type and regenerate fully-functional new organs, de novo . The regeneration of a new brain requires the formation of diverse neuronal cell types and their assembly into an organized structure and correctly-wired circuits. Recent work in various regenerative animals has revealed transcriptional programs required for the differentiation of distinct neuronal subpopulations, however how these transcriptional programs are initiated upon amputation remains unknown. Here, we focused on the highly regenerative acoel worm, Hofstenia miamia , to study wound-induced transcriptional regulatory events that lead to the production of neurons. Footprinting analysis using chromatin accessibility data on an improved genome assembly revealed that binding sites for the NFY transcription factor complex were significantly bound during regeneration, showing a dynamic increase in binding within one hour upon amputation specifically in tail fragments, which will regenerate a new brain. Strikingly, NFY targets were highly enriched for genes with neuronal functional. Single-cell transcriptome analysis combined with functional studies identified sox4 + stem cells as the likely progenitor population for multiple neuronal subtypes. Further, we found that wound-induced sox4 expression is likely under direct transcriptional control by NFY, uncovering a mechanism for how early wound-induced binding of a transcriptional regulator results in the initiation of a neuronal differentiation pathway. Highlights A new chromosome-scale assembly for Hofstenia enables comprehensive analysis of transcription factor binding during regeneration NFY motifs become dynamically bound by 1hpa in regenerating tail fragments, particularly in the loci of neural genes A sox4 + neural-specialized stem cell is identified using scRNA-seq sox4 is wound-induced and required for differentiation of multiple neural cell types NFY regulates wound-induced expression of sox4 during regeneration.
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Hulett RE, Kimura JO, Bolaños DM, Luo YJ, Rivera-López C, Ricci L, Srivastava M. Acoel single-cell atlas reveals expression dynamics and heterogeneity of adult pluripotent stem cells. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2612. [PMID: 37147314 PMCID: PMC10163032 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38016-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023] Open
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Adult pluripotent stem cell (aPSC) populations underlie whole-body regeneration in many distantly-related animal lineages, but how the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms compare across species is unknown. Here, we apply single-cell RNA sequencing to profile transcriptional cell states of the acoel worm Hofstenia miamia during postembryonic development and regeneration. We identify cell types shared across stages and their associated gene expression dynamics during regeneration. Functional studies confirm that the aPSCs, also known as neoblasts, are the source of differentiated cells and reveal transcription factors needed for differentiation. Subclustering of neoblasts recovers transcriptionally distinct subpopulations, the majority of which are likely specialized to differentiated lineages. One neoblast subset, showing enriched expression of the histone variant H3.3, appears to lack specialization. Altogether, the cell states identified in this study facilitate comparisons to other species and enable future studies of stem cell fate potentials.
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- Ryan E Hulett
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
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Tripathi D, Srivastava M, Rathour K, Rai AK, Wal P, Sahoo J, Tiwari RK, Pandey P. A Promising Approach of Dermal Targeting of Antipsoriatic Drugs via Engineered Nanocarriers Drug Delivery Systems for Tackling Psoriasis. Drug Metab Bioanal Lett 2023; 16:89-104. [PMID: 37534794 DOI: 10.2174/2949681016666230803150329] [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] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Revised: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023]
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Psoriasis is a complex autoimmune skin condition with a significant genetic component. It causes skin inflammation and is characterized by flaky, silvery reddish spots that can worsen with age. This condition results from an impaired immunological response of T-cells and affects 2-5% of the global population. The severity of the illness determines the choice of treatment. Topical treatments are commonly used to treat psoriasis, but they can have several adverse effects. Biological therapy is another option for treating specific types of psoriasis. Recently, new nanoformulations have revolutionized psoriasis treatment. Various nanocarriers, such as liposomes, nanostructured lipid nanoparticles, niosomes, and nanoemulsions, have been developed and improved for drug delivery. The use of nanocarriers enhances patient compliance, precise drug delivery, and drug safety. This review aims to suggest new nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems for treating psoriasis. It discusses the importance of nanocarriers and compares them to traditional treatments. Anti-psoriatic drugs have also been investigated for cutaneous delivery using nanocarriers. The review also covers various factors that influence dermal targeting. By highlighting several relevant aspects of psoriasis treatment, the review emphasizes the current potential of nanotechnology. Using nanocarriers as a drug delivery technique may be a promising alternative treatment for psoriasis.
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- Devika Tripathi
- Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology (Pharmacy), Kanpur, India
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- Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology (Pharmacy), Kanpur, India
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- Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology (Pharmacy), Kanpur, India
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- Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology (Pharmacy), Kanpur, India
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- Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology (Pharmacy), Kanpur, India
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- School of Pharmaceutical and Population Health Informatics, DIT University, Dehradun, India
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- Department of Pharmacy, Shri Ram Murti Smarak College of Engineering and Technology, Bareilly, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India
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Kimura JO, Bolaños DM, Ricci L, Srivastava M. Embryonic origins of adult pluripotent stem cells. Cell 2022; 185:4756-4769.e13. [PMID: 36493754 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [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: 03/28/2022] [Revised: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Although adult pluripotent stem cells (aPSCs) are found in many animal lineages, mechanisms for their formation during embryogenesis are unknown. Here, we leveraged Hofstenia miamia, a regenerative worm that possesses collectively pluripotent aPSCs called neoblasts and produces manipulable embryos. Lineage tracing and functional experiments revealed that one pair of blastomeres gives rise to cells that resemble neoblasts in distribution, behavior, and gene expression. In Hofstenia, aPSCs include transcriptionally distinct subpopulations that express markers associated with differentiated tissues; our data suggest that despite their heterogeneity, aPSCs are derived from one lineage, not from multiple tissue-specific lineages during development. Next, we combined single-cell transcriptome profiling across development with neoblast cell-lineage tracing and identified a molecular trajectory for neoblast formation that includes transcription factors Hes, FoxO, and Tbx. This identification of a cellular mechanism and molecular trajectory for aPSC formation opens the door for in vivo studies of aPSC regulation and evolution.
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- Julian O Kimura
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Rittmeyer A, Felip E, Altorki N, Vallieres E, Zhou C, Martinez-Marti A, Csoszi T, Reck M, Teixeira M, Deng Y, Huang M, McNally V, Bennett E, Gitlitz B, Srivastava M, Wakelee H. 123P IMpower010: Exploratory overall survival (OS) with adjuvant atezolizumab (atezo) vs best supportive care (BSC) in stage II-IIIA NSCLC with high PD-L1 expression. Immuno-Oncology and Technology 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.iotech.2022.100235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Kale HT, Rajpurohit RS, Jana D, Vishnu VV, Srivastava M, Mourya PR, Srinivas G, Shekar PC. A NANOG‐pERK reciprocal regulatory circuit regulates
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autoregulation and ERK signaling dynamics. EMBO Rep 2022; 23:e54421. [PMID: 36066347 PMCID: PMC9638859 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202154421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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: 12/01/2021] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The self‐renewal and differentiation potential of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) is maintained by the regulated expression of core pluripotency factors. Expression levels of the core pluripotency factor Nanog are tightly regulated by a negative feedback autorepression loop. However, it remains unclear how ESCs perceive NANOG levels and execute autorepression. Here, we show that a dose‐dependent induction of Fgfbp1 and Fgfr2 by NANOG activates autocrine‐mediated ERK signaling in Nanog‐high cells to trigger autorepression. pERK recruits NONO to the Nanog locus to repress transcription by preventing POL2 loading. This Nanog autorepression process establishes a self‐perpetuating reciprocal NANOG‐pERK regulatory circuit. We further demonstrate that this reciprocal regulatory circuit induces pERK heterogeneity and ERK signaling dynamics in pluripotent stem cells. Collectively our data suggest that NANOG induces Fgfr2 and Fgfbp1 to activate ERK signaling in Nanog‐high cells to establish a NANOG‐pERK reciprocal regulatory circuit. This circuit regulates ERK signaling dynamics and Nanog autoregulation in pluripotent cells.
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- Hanuman T Kale
- CSIR‐Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad India
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- CSIR‐Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad India
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- CSIR‐Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad India
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- CSIR‐Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad India
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- CSIR‐Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad India
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- CSIR‐Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad India
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- CSIR‐Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad India
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Frings VG, Jopp L, Srivastava M, Presser D, Goebeler M, Schmidt M. Stress signaling and STAT1 activation characterize the keratinocytic gene expression pattern in Hidradenitis suppurativa. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2022; 36:2488-2498. [PMID: 35881108 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.18465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND The pathogenetic factors generating the innate immune signal necessary for T cell activation, initiation and chronification of Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS, also known as Acne inversa) are still poorly understood. Emerging evidence suggests that a defective keratinocyte function critically contributes to HS disease development and progression. OBJECTIVES To elucidate the role of keratinocytes in HS lesion formation, we compared the transcriptomes of lesional and perilesional epidermis isolated from HS patients by RNA sequencing (RNA Seq). METHODS Pairwise-matched lesional and perilesional HS skin samples of five different donors were obtained and epidermal keratinocytes freshly isolated and processed for RNA extraction and RNA seq. Lesionally regulated genes were analyzed by large scale promotor analysis and functional annotation clustering to identify epidermally overrepresented transcription factor binding sites and functionally related gene groups. Results were experimentally validated with independent epidermal isolates of patient-matched lesional and perilesional HS skin employing qRT-PCR, cell culture, immunoblot, and immunostaining. RESULTS We show that HS is characterized by a strong epidermal stress state evident by a significant overrepresentation of an AP-1-driven gene signature and a substantial activation of the stress-activated cJun N-terminal kinase (JNK) pathway in lesional epidermis. Additionally, our data reveal a strong induction of STAT1 activation in lesional HS epidermis that likely results from IFNγ production and triggered expression of key inflammatory genes coordinating innate immune activation and the adaptive T cell response in HS. CONCLUSIONS Our data implicate a key role of stress signaling and JAK/STAT1 activation in disease progression of HS and suggest interference with JAK/STAT1 signaling as a potentially promising therapeutic approach for HS.
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- V G Frings
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany
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- Core Unit Systemmedizin (SysMed), Medical Faculty, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany
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Acoel worms represent an enigmatic lineage of animals (Acoelomorpha) that has danced around the tree of animal life. Morphology-based classification placed them as flatworms (Phylum Platyhelminthes), with much of their biology being interpreted as a variation on what is observed in better-studied members of that phylum. However, molecular phylogenies suggest that acoels belong to a clade (Xenacoelomorpha) that could be a sister group to other animals with bilateral symmetry (Bilateria) or could belong within deuterostomes, closely related to a group that includes sea stars (Ambulacraria). This change in phylogenetic position has led to renewed interest in the biology of acoels, which can now offer insights into the evolution of many bilaterian traits. The acoel Hofstenia miamia has emerged as a powerful new research organism that enables mechanistic studies of xenacoelomorph biology, especially of developmental and regenerative processes. This article explains the motivation for developing Hofstenia as a new model system, describes Hofstenia biology, highlights the tools and resources that make Hofstenia a good research organism, and considers the questions that Hofstenia is well-positioned to answer. Finally, looking to the future, this article serves as an invitation to new and established scientists to join the growing community of researchers studying this exciting model system.
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- Mansi Srivastava
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.
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Krohannon A, Srivastava M, Rauch S, Srivastava R, Dickinson BC, Janga SC. CASowary: CRISPR-Cas13 guide RNA predictor for transcript depletion. BMC Genomics 2022; 23:172. [PMID: 35236300 PMCID: PMC8889671 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-022-08366-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Recent discovery of the gene editing system - CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats) associated proteins (Cas), has resulted in its widespread use for improved understanding of a variety of biological systems. Cas13, a lesser studied Cas protein, has been repurposed to allow for efficient and precise editing of RNA molecules. The Cas13 system utilizes base complementarity between a crRNA/sgRNA (crispr RNA or single guide RNA) and a target RNA transcript, to preferentially bind to only the target transcript. Unlike targeting the upstream regulatory regions of protein coding genes on the genome, the transcriptome is significantly more redundant, leading to many transcripts having wide stretches of identical nucleotide sequences. Transcripts also exhibit complex three-dimensional structures and interact with an array of RBPs (RNA Binding Proteins), both of which may impact the effectiveness of transcript depletion of target sequences. However, our understanding of the features and corresponding methods which can predict whether a specific sgRNA will effectively knockdown a transcript is very limited. RESULTS Here we present a novel machine learning and computational tool, CASowary, to predict the efficacy of a sgRNA. We used publicly available RNA knockdown data from Cas13 characterization experiments for 555 sgRNAs targeting the transcriptome in HEK293 cells, in conjunction with transcriptome-wide protein occupancy information. Our model utilizes a Decision Tree architecture with a set of 112 sequence and target availability features, to classify sgRNA efficacy into one of four classes, based upon expected level of target transcript knockdown. After accounting for noise in the training data set, the noise-normalized accuracy exceeds 70%. Additionally, highly effective sgRNA predictions have been experimentally validated using an independent RNA targeting Cas system - CIRTS, confirming the robustness and reproducibility of our model's sgRNA predictions. Utilizing transcriptome wide protein occupancy map generated using POP-seq in HeLa cells against publicly available protein-RNA interaction map in Hek293 cells, we show that CASowary can predict high quality guides for numerous transcripts in a cell line specific manner. CONCLUSIONS Application of CASowary to whole transcriptomes should enable rapid deployment of CRISPR/Cas13 systems, facilitating the development of therapeutic interventions linked with aberrations in RNA regulatory processes.
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- Alexander Krohannon
- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 535 West Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 535 West Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 535 West Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 535 West Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 5021 Health Information and Translation Sciences (HITS), 410 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Medical Research and Library Building, 975 West Walnut Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
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Goldstein B, Srivastava M. Preface. Curr Top Dev Biol 2022; 147:xvii-xviii. [DOI: 10.1016/s0070-2153(22)00040-0] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Dynamic gene expression seen during whole-body regeneration is likely controlled by genomic regulatory elements that dictate the spatiotemporal activity of the regeneration transcriptome. Identifying and characterizing these non-coding regulatory sequences are key to understanding how genes are connected into networks to deploy the process of whole-body regeneration. Here, we describe the application of the Assay for Transposase Accessible Chromatin (ATAC-seq) in the acoel Hofstenia miamia to identify regions of open chromatin that represent putative regulatory elements. Notably, when paired with gene knockdown techniques such as RNAi, ATAC-seq can be implemented in a functional genomics approach to validate putative regulatory elements. ATAC-seq requires no species-specific reagents, is amenable to small input cell numbers, and can be completed in a single day, making it an ideal assay to identify dynamic chromatin at high resolution during whole-body regeneration in virtually any species with a quality genome assembly.
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- Andrew R Gehrke
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Gehrke AR, Srivastava M. Correction to: Assessing Chromatin Accessibility during WBR in Acoels. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2450:C1. [PMID: 35859247 PMCID: PMC9761917 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2172-1_37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In the original version of this book, Figure 3 in Chapter 29 was inadvertently published with some errors. This has been rectified in the updated version of this book.
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- Andrew R Gehrke
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Srivastava M, Hall D, Omoru OB, Gill HM, Smith S, Janga SC. Mutational Landscape and Interaction of SARS-CoV-2 with Host Cellular Components. Microorganisms 2021; 9:1794. [PMID: 34576690 PMCID: PMC8464733 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9091794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 07/03/2021] [Revised: 08/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its rapid evolution has led to a global health crisis. Increasing mutations across the SARS-CoV-2 genome have severely impacted the development of effective therapeutics and vaccines to combat the virus. However, the new SARS-CoV-2 variants and their evolutionary characteristics are not fully understood. Host cellular components such as the ACE2 receptor, RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), microRNAs, small nuclear RNA (snRNA), 18s rRNA, and the 7SL RNA component of the signal recognition particle (SRP) interact with various structural and non-structural proteins of the SARS-CoV-2. Several of these viral proteins are currently being examined for designing antiviral therapeutics. In this review, we discuss current advances in our understanding of various host cellular components targeted by the virus during SARS-CoV-2 infection. We also summarize the mutations across the SARS-CoV-2 genome that directs the evolution of new viral strains. Considering coronaviruses are rapidly evolving in humans, this enables them to escape therapeutic therapies and vaccine-induced immunity. In order to understand the virus's evolution, it is essential to study its mutational patterns and their impact on host cellular machinery. Finally, we present a comprehensive survey of currently available databases and tools to study viral-host interactions that stand as crucial resources for developing novel therapeutic strategies for combating SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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- Mansi Srivastava
- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Informatics and Communications Technology Complex, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; (M.S.); (D.H.); (O.B.O.); (H.M.G.); (S.S.)
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Informatics and Communications Technology Complex, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; (M.S.); (D.H.); (O.B.O.); (H.M.G.); (S.S.)
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Informatics and Communications Technology Complex, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; (M.S.); (D.H.); (O.B.O.); (H.M.G.); (S.S.)
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Informatics and Communications Technology Complex, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; (M.S.); (D.H.); (O.B.O.); (H.M.G.); (S.S.)
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Informatics and Communications Technology Complex, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; (M.S.); (D.H.); (O.B.O.); (H.M.G.); (S.S.)
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- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Informatics and Communications Technology Complex, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; (M.S.); (D.H.); (O.B.O.); (H.M.G.); (S.S.)
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 410 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Medical Research and Library Building, 975 West Walnut Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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The majority of animal phyla have species that can regenerate. Comparing regeneration across animals can reconstruct the molecular and cellular evolutionary history of this process. Recent studies have revealed some similarity in regeneration mechanisms, but rigorous comparative methods are needed to assess whether these resemblances are ancestral pathways (homology) or are the result of convergent evolution (homoplasy). This review aims to provide a framework for comparing regeneration across animals, focusing on gene regulatory networks (GRNs), which are substrates for assessing process homology. The homology of the wound-induced activation of Wnt signaling and of adult stem cells are discussed as examples of ongoing studies of regeneration that enable comparisons in a GRN framework. Expanding the study of regeneration GRNs in currently studied species and broadening taxonomic sampling for these approaches will identify processes that are unifying principles of regeneration biology across animals. These insights are important both for evolutionary studies of regeneration and for human regenerative medicine. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, Volume 37 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Mansi Srivastava
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA;
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Acoels are marine worms that belong to the phylum Xenacoelomorpha, a deep-diverging bilaterian lineage. This makes acoels an attractive system for studying the evolution of major bilaterian traits. Thus far, acoel development has not been described in detail at the morphological and transcriptomic levels in a species in which functional genetic studies are possible. We present a set of developmental landmarks for embryogenesis in the highly regenerative acoel Hofstenia miamia. We generated a developmental staging atlas from zygote to hatched worm based on gross morphology, with accompanying bulk transcriptome data. Hofstenia embryos undergo a stereotyped cleavage program known as duet cleavage, which results in two large vegetal pole 'macromeres' and numerous small animal pole 'micromeres'. These macromeres become internalized as micromere progeny proliferate and move vegetally. We also noted a second, previously undescribed, cell-internalization event at the animal pole, following which we detected major body axes and tissues corresponding to all three germ layers. Our work on Hofstenia embryos provides a resource for mechanistic investigations of acoel development, which will yield insights into the evolution of bilaterian development and regeneration.
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- Julian O Kimura
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Srivastava M, Kaplan MH. Transcription Factors in the Development and Pro-Allergic Function of Mast Cells. Front Allergy 2021; 2:679121. [PMID: 35387064 PMCID: PMC8974754 DOI: 10.3389/falgy.2021.679121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 05/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Mast cells (MCs) are innate immune cells of hematopoietic origin localized in the mucosal tissues of the body and are broadly implicated in the pathogenesis of allergic inflammation. Transcription factors have a pivotal role in the development and differentiation of mast cells in response to various microenvironmental signals encountered in the resident tissues. Understanding the regulation of mast cells by transcription factors is therefore vital for mechanistic insights into allergic diseases. In this review we summarize advances in defining the transcription factors that impact the development of mast cells throughout the body and in specific tissues, and factors that are involved in responding to the extracellular milieu. We will further describe the complex networks of transcription factors that impact mast cell physiology and expansion during allergic inflammation and functions from degranulation to cytokine secretion. As our understanding of the heterogeneity of mast cells becomes more detailed, the contribution of specific transcription factors in mast cell-dependent functions will potentially offer new pathways for therapeutic targeting.
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- Mansi Srivastava
- Department of BioHealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States
- *Correspondence: Mark H. Kaplan
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Ramirez AN, Loubet-Senear K, Srivastava M. A Regulatory Program for Initiation of Wnt Signaling during Posterior Regeneration. Cell Rep 2021; 32:108098. [PMID: 32877680 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Whole-body regeneration relies on the re-establishment of body axes for patterning of new tissue. Wnt signaling is required to correctly regenerate tissues along the primary axis in many animals. However, the causal mechanisms that first launch Wnt signaling during regeneration are poorly characterized. We use the acoel worm Hofstenia miamia to identify processes that initiate Wnt signaling during posterior regeneration and find that the ligand wnt-3 is upregulated early in posterior-facing wounds. Functional studies reveal that wnt-3 is required to regenerate posterior tissues. wnt-3 is expressed in stem cells, it is needed for their proliferation, and its function is stem cell dependent. Chromatin accessibility data reveal that wnt-3 activation requires input from the general wound response. In addition, the expression of a different Wnt ligand, wnt-1, before amputation is required for wound-induced activation of wnt-3. Our study establishes a gene regulatory network for initiating Wnt signaling in posterior tissues in a bilaterian.
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- Alyson N Ramirez
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Manning LK, Srivastava M, Bingham J, Curran GC, Westermann T, Cook RW. Neuronal inclusions resembling Negri bodies in the thalamus of a red kangaroo (Macropus rufus). Aust Vet J 2021; 99:178-180. [PMID: 33559148 DOI: 10.1111/avj.13057] [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: 09/22/2020] [Revised: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 01/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Eosinophilic intracytoplasmic neuronal inclusions resembling Negri bodies, but not associated with lyssaviral infection, were detected in the ventrolateral thalamus of a young-adult, male red kangaroo (Macropus rufus). Similar neuronal inclusions, also with a regional distribution in the brain, have been reported as an incidental, possibly age-related finding in other animal species.
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- L K Manning
- Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, 2568, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, 2568, Australia
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- CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, East Geelong, Victoria, 3219, Australia
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- Animal and Climate Investigations, Broken Hill, New South Wales, 2880, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, 2568, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, 2568, Australia
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Srivastava R, Daulatabad SV, Srivastava M, Janga SC. Role of SARS-CoV-2 in altering the RNA binding protein and miRNA directed post-transcriptional regulatory networks in humans. bioRxiv 2020:2020.07.06.190348. [PMID: 32676599 PMCID: PMC7359521 DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.06.190348] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The outbreak of a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 responsible for COVID-19 pandemic has caused worldwide public health emergency. Due to the constantly evolving nature of the coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 mediated alteration on post-transcriptional gene regulation across human tissues remains elusive. In this study, we analyze publicly available genomic datasets to systematically dissect the crosstalk and dysregulation of human post-transcriptional regulatory networks governed by RNA binding proteins (RBPs) and micro-RNAs (miRs), due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. We uncovered that 13 out of 29 SARS-CoV-2 encoded proteins directly interact with 51 human RBPs of which majority of them were abundantly expressed in gonadal tissues and immune cells. We further performed a functional analysis of differentially expressed genes in mock-treated versus SARS-CoV-2 infected lung cells that revealed enrichment for immune response, cytokine-mediated signaling, and metabolism associated genes. This study also characterized the alternative splicing events in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells compared to control demonstrating that skipped exons and mutually exclusive exons were the most abundant events that potentially contributed to differential outcomes in response to viral infection. Motif enrichment analysis on the RNA genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 clearly revealed the enrichment for RBPs such as SRSFs, PCBPs, ELAVs, and HNRNPs suggesting the sponging of RBPs by SARS-CoV-2 genome. A similar analysis to study the interactions of miRs with SARS-CoV-2 revealed functionally important miRs that were highly expressed in immune cells, suggesting that these interactions may contribute to the progression of the viral infection and modulate host immune response across other human tissues. Given the need to understand the interactions of SARS-CoV-2 with key post-transcriptional regulators in the human genome, this study provides a systematic computational analysis to dissect the role of dysregulated post-transcriptional regulatory networks controlled by RBPs and miRs, across tissues types during SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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- Rajneesh Srivastava
- Department of Biohealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 719 Indiana Ave Ste 319, Walker Plaza Building, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
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- Department of Biohealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 719 Indiana Ave Ste 319, Walker Plaza Building, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
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- Department of Biohealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 719 Indiana Ave Ste 319, Walker Plaza Building, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
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- Department of Biohealth Informatics, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Purdue University, 719 Indiana Ave Ste 319, Walker Plaza Building, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 5021 Health Information and Translational Sciences (HITS), 410 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202
- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Medical Research and Library Building, 975 West Walnut Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202
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The origin of bilateral symmetry, a major transition in animal evolution, coincided with the evolution of organized nervous systems that show regionalization along major body axes. Studies of Xenacoelomorpha, the likely outgroup lineage to all other animals with bilateral symmetry, can inform the evolutionary history of animal nervous systems. Here, we characterized the neural anatomy of the acoel Hofstenia miamia. Our analysis of transcriptomic data uncovered orthologues of enzymes for all major neurotransmitter synthesis pathways. Expression patterns of these enzymes revealed the presence of a nerve net and an anterior condensation of neural cells. The anterior condensation was layered, containing several cell types with distinct molecular identities organized in spatially distinct territories. Using these anterior cell types and structures as landmarks, we obtained a detailed timeline for regeneration of the H. miamia nervous system, showing that the anterior condensation is restored by eight days after amputation. Our work detailing neural anatomy in H. miamia will enable mechanistic studies of neural cell type diversity and regeneration and provide insight into the evolution of these processes.
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- Ryan E Hulett
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Gehrke AR, Neverett E, Luo YJ, Brandt A, Ricci L, Hulett RE, Gompers A, Ruby JG, Rokhsar DS, Reddien PW, Srivastava M. Acoel genome reveals the regulatory landscape of whole-body regeneration. Science 2019; 363:363/6432/eaau6173. [PMID: 30872491 DOI: 10.1126/science.aau6173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2018] [Revised: 11/08/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Whole-body regeneration is accompanied by complex transcriptomic changes, yet the chromatin regulatory landscapes that mediate this dynamic response remain unexplored. To decipher the regulatory logic that orchestrates regeneration, we sequenced the genome of the acoel worm Hofstenia miamia, a highly regenerative member of the sister lineage of other bilaterians. Epigenomic profiling revealed thousands of regeneration-responsive chromatin regions and identified dynamically bound transcription factor motifs, with the early growth response (EGR) binding site as the most variably accessible during Hofstenia regeneration. Combining egr inhibition with chromatin profiling suggests that Egr functions as a pioneer factor to directly regulate early wound-induced genes. The genetic connections inferred by this approach allowed the construction of a gene regulatory network for whole-body regeneration, enabling genomics-based comparisons of regeneration across species.
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- Andrew R Gehrke
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94703, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94703, USA
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- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. .,Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Badea CT, Clark DP, Holbrook M, Srivastava M, Mowery Y, Ghaghada KB. Functional imaging of tumor vasculature using iodine and gadolinium-based nanoparticle contrast agents: a comparison of spectral micro-CT using energy integrating and photon counting detectors. Phys Med Biol 2019; 64:065007. [PMID: 30708357 PMCID: PMC6607440 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab03e2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [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] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Advances in computed tomography (CT) hardware have propelled the development of novel CT contrast agents. In particular, the spectral capabilities of x-ray CT can facilitate simultaneous imaging of multiple contrast agents. This approach is particularly useful for functional imaging of solid tumors by simultaneous visualization of multiple targets or architectural features that govern cancer development and progression. Nanoparticles are a promising platform for contrast agent development. While several novel imaging moieties based on high atomic number elements are being explored, iodine (I) and gadolinium (Gd) are particularly attractive because of their existing approval for clinical use. In this work, we investigate the in vivo discrimination of I and Gd nanoparticle contrast agents using both dual energy micro-CT with energy integrating detectors (DE-EID) and photon counting detector (PCD)-based spectral micro-CT. Simulations and phantom experiments were performed using varying concentrations of I and Gd to determine the imaging performance with optimized acquisition parameters. Quantitative spectral micro-CT imaging using liposomal-iodine (Lip-I) and liposomal-Gd (Lip-Gd) nanoparticle contrast agents was performed in sarcoma bearing mice for anatomical and functional imaging of tumor vasculature. Iterative reconstruction provided high sensitivity to detect and discriminate relatively low I and Gd concentrations. According to the Rose criterion applied to the experimental results, the detectability limits for I and Gd were approximately 2.5 mg ml-1 for both DE-EID CT and PCD micro-CT, even if the radiation dose was approximately 3.8 times lower with PCD micro-CT. The material concentration maps confirmed expected biodistributions of contrast agents in the blood, liver, spleen and kidneys. The PCD provided lower background signal and better simultaneous visualization of tumor vasculature and intratumoral distribution patterns of nanoparticle contrast agent compared to DE-EID decompositions. Preclinical spectral CT systems such as this could be useful for functional characterization of solid tumors, simultaneous quantitative imaging of multiple targets and for identifying clinically-relevant applications that benefit from the use of spectral imaging. Additionally, it could aid in the development nanoparticles that show promise in the developing field of cancer theranostics (therapy and diagnostics) by measuring vascular tumor biomarkers such as fractional blood volume and the delivery of liposomal chemotherapeutics.
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- C T Badea
- Department of Radiology, Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, United States of America.,http://civm.duhs.duke.edu/.,Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed
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- Department of Radiology, Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology, Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, United States of America
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- Singleton Department of Pediatric Radiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, United States of America
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- Singleton Department of Pediatric Radiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, United States of America
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Bera A, Eidelman O, Russ E, Landa A, Karaian J, Eklund M, Hu H, Pollard HB, Shriver CD, Srivastava M. Abstract P4-01-26: Circulating cell-free DNA in serum as a marker for the early detection of tumor recurrence in breast cancer patients. Cancer Res 2019. [DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs18-p4-01-26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background: Quantitative estimation of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) isolated from serum by noninvasive procedures can serve as a potential biomarker for the early detection of many cancers. However, a simple, straightforward technique is unavailable to estimate the cfDNA in clinical labs. Moreover, the prognostic value of cfDNA in patients with breast cancer (BrCa) is currently under debate. The aim of this study was to develop a simple yet effective quantitative method for measuring the cfDNA in serum and to eventually investigate the relationship between cfDNA and the occurrence of recurrence in BrCa patients.
Methods: A total of 240 patient cases (n=240) were selected and are comprised of different subtypes of breast cancer patients and control individuals. We selected 21 serum samples from patients which showed recurrence after 4-7 years of disease-free survival. For the compare studies, each of the recurrent and non-recurrent serum samples was incubated with the SYBR Green I (2 μM). A standard graph was also made with known DNA concentration to calculate the amount of cfDNA in these recurrent and non-recurrent serum samples. Additionally, a comparative study was also performed with the serum of patients with non-recurrent BrCa versus healthy patients.
Results: We develop a simple fluorescent based measuring technique which can easily estimate the cfDNA in one step. SYBR Green binds to DNA, and as a result, the fluorescence of SYBR Green increases substantially. Global Wilcoxon analyses were performed to compare the cfDNA amount between non-recurrent and recurrent patients. There is a significant difference in fluorescent intensities between recurrent patients' samples versus non-recurrent patients which are directly proportional to the cfDNA levels. The amount of cfDNA is higher in recurrent patient (ratio is 1.3 up; p= 0.03; AUC=0.76) compared to similar non-recurrent patients. While we compared the fluorescence data between normal/healthy patients versus non-recurrent is turned out as non-significant (healthy to non-recurrent ratio = 1.03; p= 0.20, AUC=0.61).
Conclusion: In this current study, we developed a straightforward one-step technique to measure the amount of cfDNA in serum, which can easily translate into a clinical diagnostic tool. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report which demonstrates serum cfDNA as an early detection marker for recurrent breast cancer patients. The relatively high level of cfDNA in the serum of recurrent breast cancer patients compared to non-recurrent breast cancer patients indicates an uncovered circulating genetic information which triggers the cancer recurrence pathway to relapse cancer in the near future.
Citation Format: Bera A, Eidelman O, Russ E, Landa A, Karaian J, Eklund M, Hu H, Pollard HB, Shriver CD, Srivastava M. Circulating cell-free DNA in serum as a marker for the early detection of tumor recurrence in breast cancer patients [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2018 Dec 4-8; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P4-01-26.
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- A Bera
- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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- Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; Chan Soon-Shiong Institute of Molecular Medicine, Windber, PA
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Powerful tools for functional studies in emerging model systems are beginning to yield fresh insights into the inner workings of cells because of newly available tools for functional studies. Recent work leveraging a hydrozoan jellyfish to study light-mediated gamete maturation has uncovered a multifunctional cell type and the associated regulatory machinery, with implications for understanding the evolution of reproduction.
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- Mansi Srivastava
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology/Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is an important pneumovirus which causes acute respiratory disease in human beings. The viral infection leads to mild to severe respiratory symptoms depending on the age and immune status of the infected individual. Several groups across the world are working on the development of immunogens and therapy to manage HMPV infection with promising results under laboratory conditions but till date any virus specific vaccine or therapy has not been approved for clinical use. This minireview gives an overview of the prophylactic and therapeutic approaches to manage HMPV infections.
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- Prashant Kumar
- Amity Institute of Virology and Immunology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Sector-125, Noida, U.P. 201301 India
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- Amity Institute of Virology and Immunology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Sector-125, Noida, U.P. 201301 India
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Baig MS, Roy A, Saqib U, Rajpoot S, Srivastava M, Naim A, Liu D, Saluja R, Faisal SM, Pan Q, Turkowski K, Darwhekar GN, Savai R. Repurposing Thioridazine (TDZ) as an anti-inflammatory agent. Sci Rep 2018; 8:12471. [PMID: 30127400 PMCID: PMC6102213 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30763-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Nuclear factor-kB (NF-kB) is a crucial transcription factor in the signal transduction cascade of the inflammatory signaling. Activation of NF-κB depends on the phosphorylation of IκBα by IκB kinase (IKKβ) followed by subsequent ubiquitination and degradation. This leads to the nuclear translocation of the p50- p65 subunits of NF-κB, and further triggers pro-inflammatory cytokine gene expression. Thus, in the need of a more effective therapy for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, specific inhibition of IKKβ represents a rational alternative strategy to the current therapies. A computer-aided drug identification protocol was followed to identify novel IKKβ inhibitors from a database of over 1500 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drugs. The best scoring compounds were compared with the already known high-potency IKKβ inhibitors for their ability to bind and inhibit IKKβ by evaluating their docking energy. Finally, Thioridazinehydrochloride (TDZ), a potent antipsychotic drug against Schizophrenia was selected and its efficiency in inhibiting IκBα protein degradation and NF-κB activation was experimentally validated. Our study has demonstrated that TDZ blocks IκBα protein degradation and subsequent NF-κB activation to inhibit inflammation. Thus, it is a potential repurposed drug against inflammation.
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- Mirza S Baig
- Discipline of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Simrol, 453552, India.
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- Discipline of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Simrol, 453552, India
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- Discipline of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Simrol, 453552, India
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- Discipline of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Simrol, 453552, India
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- Discipline of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Simrol, 453552, India
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- Discipline of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Simrol, 453552, India
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- Centre for Inflammation & Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, 462020, India
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- National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad, 500032, India
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, 3015 CE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, 61231, Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Acropolis Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (AIPER), Indore, 453771, India
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- Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Department of Lung Development and Remodeling, 61231, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
- Department of Internal Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), member of the DZL, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, 35392, Germany.
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Srivastava M, Gupta A, Ojha B, Kumar D, Mishra S, Yadav G. Effect of fluoroscopically guided caudal epidural steroid injection in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis–A randomized controlled trial. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2018.05.035] [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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Ricci L, Srivastava M. Wound-induced cell proliferation during animal regeneration. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Dev Biol 2018; 7:e321. [PMID: 29719123 DOI: 10.1002/wdev.321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Many animal species are capable of replacing missing tissues that are lost upon injury or amputation through the process of regeneration. Although the extent of regeneration is variable across animals, that is, some animals can regenerate any missing cell type whereas some can only regenerate certain organs or tissues, regulated cell proliferation underlies the formation of new tissues in most systems. Notably, many species display an increase in proliferation within hours or days upon wounding. While different cell types proliferate in response to wounding in various animal taxa, comparative molecular data are beginning to point to shared wound-induced mechanisms that regulate cell division during regeneration. Here, we synthesize current insights about early molecular pathways of regeneration from diverse model and emerging systems by considering these species in their evolutionary contexts. Despite the great diversity of mechanisms underlying injury-induced cell proliferation across animals, and sometimes even in the same species, similar pathways for proliferation have been implicated in distantly related species (e.g., small diffusible molecules, signaling from apoptotic cells, growth factor signaling, mTOR and Hippo signaling, and Wnt and Bmp pathways). Studies that explicitly interrogate molecular and cellular regenerative mechanisms in understudied animal phyla will reveal the extent to which early pathways in the process of regeneration are conserved or independently evolved. This article is categorized under: Comparative Development and Evolution > Body Plan Evolution Adult Stem Cells, Tissue Renewal, and Regeneration > Regeneration Comparative Development and Evolution > Model Systems.
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- Lorenzo Ricci
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Bera A, Leighton XM, Pollard H, Srivastava M. Cyclin E and FGF8 are downstream cell growth regulators in distinct tumor suppressor effects of ANXA7 in hormone-resistant cancer cells of breast versus prostate origin. Trends Cancer Res 2018; 13:55-62. [PMID: 30369774 PMCID: PMC6200414] [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] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Tumor suppressor function of Annexin-A7 (ANXA7) was demonstrated by cancer-prone phenotype in Anxa7(+/-) mice and ANXA7 profiling in human cancers including prostate and breast. Consistent with its more evident in vivo tumor suppressor role in prostate cancer, wild-type(wt)-ANXA7 in vitro induced similar G2-arrests, but reduced survival more drastically in prostate cancer cells compared to breast cancer cells (DU145 versus MDA-MB-231 and -435). In all three hormone-resistant cancer cell lines, wt-ANXA7 abolished the expression of the oncogenic low-molecular weight (LMW) cyclin E which was for the first time encountered in prostate cancer cells. Dominant-negative nMMM-ANXA7 (which lacks phosphatidylserine liposome aggregation properties) failed to abrogate LMW-cyclin E and simultaneously induced fibroblast growth factor 8 (FGF8) in DU145 that was consistent with the continuing cell cycle progression and reduced cell death. Adenoviral vector alone induced FGF8 in MDA-MB-231/435 cell lines, but not in DU145 cells. Our data indicated that the LMW-Cyclin E expressions in breast cancer and prostate cancer cell-lines were differentially regulated by wild-type and dominant-negative ANXA7 isoforms, demonstrating a different survival mechanism utilized by breast cancer cells. Conventional tumor suppressor p53 failed to completely abolish FGF8 and LMW-cyclin E in breast cancer cells, which were eventually translated into their survival. Thus, ANXA7 tumor suppression could modulate FGF8 and cyclin E expression, and control implying more specific associations with the annexin properties of ANXA7 in prostate tumorigenesis.
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Srivastava M, Alla SK, Meena SS, Gupta N, Mandal RK, Prasad NK. ZnxFe3−xO4 (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 0.8) nanoparticles for controlled magnetic hyperthermia application. NEW J CHEM 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8nj00547h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Stable temperature was attained during magnetic hyperthermia by Zn substituted magnetite nanoparticles.
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- M. Srivastava
- Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)
- Varanasi
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)
- Varanasi
- India
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- Solid State Physics Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Mumbai
- India
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- Technical Physics Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Mumbai
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)
- Varanasi
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)
- Varanasi
- India
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Singh RK, Srivastava M, Prasad NK, Shetty PH, Kannan S. Hyperthermia effect and antibacterial efficacy of Fe
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for bone cancer and defect therapy. J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 2017; 106:1317-1328. [DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.33921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2017] [Revised: 04/11/2017] [Accepted: 04/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Ram Kishore Singh
- Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Pondicherry UniversityPuducherry605 014 India
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- Department of Metallurgical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)Varanasi221005 Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Metallurgical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)Varanasi221005 Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Food Science and TechnologyPondicherry UniversityPuducherry605 014 India
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- Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Pondicherry UniversityPuducherry605 014 India
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Baig MS, Liu D, Muthu K, Roy A, Saqib U, Naim A, Faisal SM, Srivastava M, Saluja R. Heterotrimeric complex of p38 MAPK, PKCδ, and TIRAP is required for AP1 mediated inflammatory response. Int Immunopharmacol 2017; 48:211-218. [PMID: 28528205 DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2017.04.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 04/18/2017] [Accepted: 04/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Inflammation could be described as a physiological response of the body to tissue injury, pathogen invasion, and irritants. During the inflammatory phase, cells of both the innate as well as adaptive immune system are activated and recruited to the site of inflammation. These mediators are downstream targets for the transcription factors; activator protein-1 (AP1), nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer (NF-κB), signal transducers and activators of transcription factors (STAT1), as well as interferon regulatory factors (IRFs), which control the expression of most immunomodulatory genes. There is a significant increase in active p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (p38MAK) immediately after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation, which results in the activation of AP-1 transcription factor and expression of proinflammatory cytokines, IL-12 and IL-23. We studied the novel mechanism of p38 MAPK activation through the formation of a heterotrimeric complex of Protein kinase C delta type (PKCδ), Toll-Interleukin 1 Receptor (TIR) Domain Containing Adaptor Protein (TIRAP), and p38 proteins. TIRAP serves as an adaptor molecule which brings PKCδ and p38 in close proximity. The complex facilitates the activation of p38MAPK by PKCδ. Therefore, we propose that disruption of the heterotrimeric complex may be a good strategy to dampen the inflammatory response. Structure-based design of small molecules or peptides targetting PKCδ-TIRAP or TIRAP-p38 interfaces would be beneficial for therapy in AP1 mediated inflammatory diseases.
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- Mirza S Baig
- Centre for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India.
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- Centre for Inflammation & Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India
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- Centre for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India
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- Discipline of Chemistry, School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India
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- Centre for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India
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- National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad, India
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- Centre for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, India
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Singh RK, Srivastava M, Prasad NK, Awasthi S, Dhayalan A, Kannan S. Iron doped β-Tricalcium phosphate: Synthesis, characterization, hyperthermia effect, biocompatibility and mechanical evaluation. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl 2017; 78:715-726. [PMID: 28576042 DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2017.04.130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2016] [Revised: 04/20/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The ability of β-Tricalcium phosphate [β-TCP, β-Ca3(PO4)2] to host iron at its structural lattice and its associated magnetic susceptibility, hyperthermia effect, biocompatibility and mechanical characteristics is investigated. The studies revealed the ability of β-Ca3(PO4)2 to host 5.02mol% of Fe3+ at its Ca2+(5) site. Excess Fe3+ additions led to the formation of trigonal Ca9Fe(PO4)7 and moreover a minor amount of CaFe3(PO4)3O crystallization was also observed. A gradual increment in the iron content at β-Ca3(PO4)2 results in the simultaneous effect of pronounced hyperthermia effect and mechanical stability. However, the presence of CaFe3(PO4)3O contributes for the reduced hyperthermia effect and mechanical stability of iron substituted β-Ca3(PO4)2. Haemolytic tests, cytotoxicity tests and ALP gene expression analysis confirmed the biocompatibility of the investigated systems.
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- Ram Kishore Singh
- Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605 014, India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605 014, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605 014, India
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- Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605 014, India.
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Wright S, Amzel A, Ikoro N, Srivastava M, Leclerc-Madlala S, Bowsky S, Miller H, Phelps BR. Talking to children about their HIV status: a review of available resources, tools, and models for improving and promoting pediatric disclosure. AIDS Care 2017; 29:1019-1025. [PMID: 28081616 DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1273471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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As children living with HIV (CLHIV) grow into adolescence and adulthood, caregivers and healthcare providers are faced with the sensitive challenge of when to disclose to a CLHIV his or her HIV status. Despite WHO recommendations for CLHIV to know their status, in countries most affected by HIV, effective resources are often limited, and national guidance on disclosure is often lacking. To address the need for effective resources, gray and scientific literature was searched to identify existing tools and resources that can aid in the disclosure process. From peer-reviewed literature, seven disclosure models from six different countries were identified. From the gray literature, 23 resources were identified including children's books (15), job aides to assist healthcare providers (5), and videos (3). While these existing resources can be tailored to reflect local norms and used to aid in the disclosure process, careful consideration must be taken in order to avoid damaging disclosure practices.
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- S Wright
- a U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of HIV/AIDS , Washington , DC , USA
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- a U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of HIV/AIDS , Washington , DC , USA
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- a U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of HIV/AIDS , Washington , DC , USA
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- a U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of HIV/AIDS , Washington , DC , USA
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- a U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of HIV/AIDS , Washington , DC , USA
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- b Futures Group International , Washington , USA
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- a U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of HIV/AIDS , Washington , DC , USA
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- a U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of HIV/AIDS , Washington , DC , USA
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Singh R, Srivastava M, Prasad NK, Awasthi S, Kumar Dhayalan A, Kannan S. Structural analysis and magnetic induced hyperthermia of Fe3+and Mn2+substituted β-Ca3(PO4)2. NEW J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7nj01228d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Fe3+/Mn2+co-substitutions in β-Ca3(PO4)2elicit a good hyperthermia effect and biocompatible features.
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- Ramkishore Singh
- Centre for Nanoscience and Technology
- Pondicherry University
- Puducherry-605 014
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)
- Varanasi-221005
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)
- Varanasi-221005
- India
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- Department of Biotechnology
- Pondicherry University
- Puducherry-605 014
- India
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- Centre for Nanoscience and Technology
- Pondicherry University
- Puducherry-605 014
- India
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Roy A, Srivastava M, Saqib U, Liu D, Faisal SM, Sugathan S, Bishnoi S, Baig MS. Potential therapeutic targets for inflammation in toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-mediated signaling pathways. Int Immunopharmacol 2016; 40:79-89. [PMID: 27584057 DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2016.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [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: 07/02/2016] [Revised: 08/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Inflammation is set off when innate immune cells detect infection or tissue injury. Tight control of the severity, duration, and location of inflammation is an absolute requirement for an appropriate balance between clearance of injured tissue and pathogens versus damage to host cells. Impeding the risk associated with the imbalance in the inflammatory response requires precise identification of potential therapeutic targets involved in provoking the inflammation. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) primarily known for the pathogen recognition and subsequent immune responses are being investigated for their pathogenic role in various chronic diseases. A mammalian homologue of Drosophila Toll receptor 4 (TLR4) was shown to induce the expression of genes involved in inflammatory responses. Signaling pathways via TLR4 activate various transcription factors like Nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer (NF-κB), activator protein 1 (AP1), Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription family of transcription factors (STAT1) and Interferon regulatory factors (IRF's), which are the key players regulating the inflammatory response. Inhibition of these targets and their upstream signaling molecules provides a potential therapeutic approach to treat inflammatory diseases. Here we review the therapeutic targets involved in TLR-4 signaling pathways that are critical for suppressing chronic inflammatory disorders.
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- Anjali Roy
- Center for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, MP, India
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- Center for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, MP, India
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- Discipline of Chemistry, School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), Indore, MP, India
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- Center for Inflammation & Epigenetics, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA
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- National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Center for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, MP, India
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- Center for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, MP, India
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- Center for Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore, MP, India.
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Gehrke AR, Srivastava M. Neoblasts and the evolution of whole-body regeneration. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2016; 40:131-137. [PMID: 27498025 DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2016.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2016] [Revised: 07/02/2016] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The molecular mechanisms underlying whole-body regeneration are best understood in the planarian flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea, where a heterogeneous population of somatic stem cells called neoblasts provides new tissue for regeneration of essentially any missing body part. Studies on Schmidtea have provided a detailed description of neoblasts and their role in regeneration, but comparatively little is known about the evolutionary history of these cells and their underlying developmental programs. Acoels, an understudied group of aquatic worms that are also capable of extensive whole-body regeneration, have arisen as an attractive group to study the evolution of regenerative processes due to their phylogenetically distant position relative to flatworms. Here, we review the phylogenetic distribution of neoblast cells and compare their anatomical locations, transcriptional profiles, and roles during regeneration in flatworms and acoels to understand the evolution of whole-body regeneration. While the general role of neoblasts appears conserved in species separated by 550 million years of evolution, the extrinsic inputs they receive during regeneration can vary, making the distinction between homology and convergence of mechanism unclear. A more detailed understanding of the precise mechanisms behind whole-body regeneration in diverse phyla is necessary to understand the evolutionary history of this powerful process.
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- Andrew R Gehrke
- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Prasad NK, Srivastava M, Alla SK, Danda JR, Aditya D, Mandal RK. ZrxFe3−xO4 (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 1.0) nanoparticles: a possible magnetic in vivo switch. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra04815c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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AC field controlled temperature during magnetic hyperthermia for ZrxFe3−xO4 (0.01 ≤ x ≤ 1.0) based ferrofluids. The unexpected behavior observed despite their high magnetization (~50 Am2 kg−1) and Curie temperature (TC > 300 °C).
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- N. K. Prasad
- Department of Metallurgical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Banaras Hindu University
- Varanasi
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Banaras Hindu University
- Varanasi
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Banaras Hindu University
- Varanasi
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Banaras Hindu University
- Varanasi
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Banaras Hindu University
- Varanasi
- India
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- Department of Metallurgical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology
- Banaras Hindu University
- Varanasi
- India
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Saini AK, Srivastava M, Sharma V, Mishra V, Mobin SM. A highly selective, sensitive and reversible fluorescence chemosensor for Zn2+ and its cell viability. Dalton Trans 2016; 45:3927-35. [DOI: 10.1039/c5dt04945h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A new ligand (H2L) was synthesized and designed for sensing properties. H2L shows fluorescence ‘switch ON’ with Zn2+ ions with a detection limit of 1.47 μM. The H2L and 1 showed marginal toxicity against MCF-7 and A375 cell lines.
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- Anoop Kumar Saini
- Discipline of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore
- Indore 452020
- India
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- Centre for Biosciences and Bio-Medical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore
- Indore 452020
- India
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- Centre for Biosciences and Bio-Medical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore
- Indore 452020
- India
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- Discipline of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore
- Indore 452020
- India
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- Discipline of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore
- Indore 452020
- India
- Centre for Biosciences and Bio-Medical Engineering
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AbuRahma A, Srivastava M, Stone P. Effects of Statins on Early and Late Clinical Outcomes of Carotid Endarterectomy and the Rate of Post-Carotid Endarterectomy Restenosis. J Vasc Surg 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2015.10.019] [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: 11/26/2022]
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Sharma S, Javadekar SM, Pandey M, Srivastava M, Kumari R, Raghavan SC. Homology and enzymatic requirements of microhomology-dependent alternative end joining. Cell Death Dis 2015; 6:e1697. [PMID: 25789972 PMCID: PMC4385936 DOI: 10.1038/cddis.2015.58] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [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: 05/27/2014] [Revised: 12/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Nonhomologous DNA end joining (NHEJ) is one of the major double-strand break (DSB) repair pathways in higher eukaryotes. Recently, it has been shown that alternative NHEJ (A-NHEJ) occurs in the absence of classical NHEJ and is implicated in chromosomal translocations leading to cancer. In the present study, we have developed a novel biochemical assay system utilizing DSBs flanked by varying lengths of microhomology to study microhomology-mediated alternative end joining (MMEJ). We show that MMEJ can operate in normal cells, when microhomology is present, irrespective of occurrence of robust classical NHEJ. Length of the microhomology determines the efficiency of MMEJ, 5 nt being obligatory. Using this biochemical approach, we show that products obtained are due to MMEJ, which is dependent on MRE11, NBS1, LIGASE III, XRCC1, FEN1 and PARP1. Thus, we define the enzymatic machinery and microhomology requirements of alternative NHEJ using a well-defined biochemical system.
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- S Sharma
- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Singh A, Bajpai V, Srivastava M, Arya KR, Kumar B. Rapid profiling and structural characterization of bioactive compounds and their distribution in different parts of Berberis petiolaris Wall. ex G. Don applying hyphenated mass spectrometric techniques. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 2014; 28:2089-2100. [PMID: 25156599 DOI: 10.1002/rcm.7001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2013] [Revised: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/27/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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RATIONALE Berberis petiolaris Wall. is a lesser known medicinal plant, belonging to the family Berberidaceae. The genus Berberis is known for many biological activities such as anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and anti-diarrheal, etc. There are not many reports of the isolation of components from Berberis petiolaris. This study aims to seek identification, characterization and quantification of components. METHODS A method was developed for rapid screening of phytochemicals using high-pressure liquid chromatography hyphenated with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (HPLC/ESI-QTOF-MS/MS). Suitable collision-induced dissociation mass spectrometry (CID-MS/MS) methods were developed for structural investigation of alkaloids, flavanoids and other classes of compounds using nine reference standards for authentication. Multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) methods were developed for quantitative study of five constituents using triple quadrupole-linear ion trap mass spectrometry (UPLC/QqLIT-MS/MS). RESULTS On the basis of HPLC retention behavior and fragmentation pathways obtained by high-resolution MS and MS/MS, 32 compounds were identified and characterized in different parts of Berberis petiolaris. Quantitative studies of chlorogenic acid, magnoflorine, jatrorrhizine, palmatine and berberine were also completed successfully. CONCLUSIONS Rapid and accurate HPLC/ESI-QTOF-MS/MS and UPLC/ESI-QqLIT-MS/MS methods were established for identification, characterization and quantification of phytochemicals in the ethanolic extract of Berberis petiolaris. These methods, therefore, can be used for studies on phytochemical variation in different parts of the plant. Principle components analysis (PCA) may be used for plant part discrimination.
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- A Singh
- CSIR - Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), SAIF Division, Lucknow, 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, 110025, India
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An adult animal's form is shaped by the collective behavior of cells during embryonic development. To understand the forces that drove the divergence of animal body-plans, evolutionary developmental biology has focused largely on studying genetic networks operating during development. However, it is less well understood how these networks modulate characteristics at the cellular level, such as the shape, polarity, or migration of cells. We organized the "Cell's view of animal body plan evolution" symposium for the 2014 The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting with the explicit goal of bringing together researchers studying the cell biology of embryonic development in diverse animal taxa. Using a broad range of established and emerging technologies, including live imaging, single-cell analysis, and mathematical modeling, symposium participants revealed mechanisms underlying cells' behavior, a few of which we highlight here. Shape, adhesion, and movements of cells can be modulated over the course of evolution to alter adult body-plans and a major theme explored during the symposium was the role of actomyosin in coordinating diverse behaviors of cells underlying morphogenesis in a myriad of contexts. Uncovering whether conserved or divergent genetic mechanisms guide the contractility of actomyosin in these systems will be crucial to understanding the evolution of the body-plans of animals from a cellular perspective. Many speakers presented research describing developmental phenomena in which cell division and tissue growth can control the form of the adult, and other presenters shared work on studying cell-fate specification, an important source of novelty in animal body-plans. Participants also presented studies of regeneration in annelids, flatworms, acoels, and cnidarians, and provided a unifying view of the regulation of cellular behavior during different life-history stages. Additionally, several presentations highlighted technological advances that glean mechanistic insights from new and emerging model systems, thereby providing the phylogenetic breadth so essential for studying animal evolution. Thus, we propose that an explicit study of cellular phenomena is now possible for a wide range of taxa, and that it will be highly informative for understanding the evolution of animal body-plans.
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- Deirdre C Lyons
- *Department of Biology, 4115 French Family Science Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida, St Augustine, FL 32080, USA; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- *Department of Biology, 4115 French Family Science Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida, St Augustine, FL 32080, USA; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- *Department of Biology, 4115 French Family Science Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA; Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences, University of Florida, St Augustine, FL 32080, USA; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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Jain S, Mahajan S, Srivastava M. Pure chondrosarcomas of the uterus: a rare uterine tumour. J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2014; 34:752-4. [PMID: 24921947 DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2014.923820] [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: 11/13/2022]
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- S Jain
- Department of Pathology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital , New Delhi , India
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The aim of the present study was to formulate and evaluate in situ gelling syringeable nanoemulgels (NEGs) of ketoprofen for periodontal delivery. Application of 3-factor 3-level design was employed using the Box-Behnken experimental design for the optimization of nanoemulsion using three independent variables such as percent concentration (v/v) of oil (X1), S mix (mixture of surfactant and cosurfactant) (X2) and water (X3); while the particle size (nm) (Y1), polydispersity index (Y2) and zeta potential (mV) (Y3) were used as dependent variables. The NEG was evaluated based on their drug content, pH measurement, mucoadhesion on the goat buccal mucosa, syringeability and inverted sol-gel transition temperature. The drug release data were analyzed for curve fitting based on the Korsmeyer-Peppas law, and the n-values of optimized A5 and A8 formulations were found 0.3721 and 0.3932, respectively, confirmed that both the formulations followed pseudo Fickian diffusion (n < 0.43). The formulation A8 with the optimal drug release was identified as the best NEG formulation. Results of rheological, mucoadhesion and syringeability studies showed the suitability of desired sol-gel property for periodontal drug delivery. The Herschel-Bulkley model was the best fit model to explain the flow behavior of optimized formulation. Using the HET-CAM method, significantly lower in vitro toxicity was indicated the suitability of developed NEG for intra-pocket delivery.
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- M Srivastava
- a Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy , Jamia Hamdard University , New Delhi , India
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- a Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy , Jamia Hamdard University , New Delhi , India
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- a Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy , Jamia Hamdard University , New Delhi , India
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Srivastava M, Mazza-Curll KL, van Wolfswinkel JC, Reddien PW. Whole-body acoel regeneration is controlled by Wnt and Bmp-Admp signaling. Curr Biol 2014; 24:1107-13. [PMID: 24768051 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2013] [Revised: 02/10/2014] [Accepted: 03/14/2014] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Whole-body regeneration is widespread in the Metazoa, yet little is known about how underlying molecular mechanisms compare across phyla. Acoels are an enigmatic phylum of invertebrate worms that can be highly informative about many questions in bilaterian evolution, including regeneration. We developed the three-banded panther worm, Hofstenia miamia, as a new acoelomorph model system for molecular studies of regeneration. Hofstenia were readily cultured, with accessible embryos, juveniles, and adults for experimentation. We developed molecular resources and tools for Hofstenia, including a transcriptome and robust systemic RNAi. We report the identification of molecular mechanisms that promote whole-body regeneration in Hofstenia. Wnt signaling controls regeneration of the anterior-posterior axis, and Bmp-Admp signaling controls regeneration of the dorsal-ventral axis. Perturbation of these pathways resulted in regeneration-abnormal phenotypes involving axial feature duplication, such as the regeneration of two heads following Wnt perturbation or the regeneration of ventral cells in place of dorsal ones following bmp or admp RNAi. Hofstenia regenerative mechanisms are strikingly similar to those guiding regeneration in planarians. However, phylogenetic analyses using the Hofstenia transcriptome support an early branching position for acoels among bilaterians, with the last common ancestor of acoels and planarians being the ancestor of the Bilateria. Therefore, these findings identify similar whole-body regeneration mechanisms in animals separated by more than 550 million years of evolution.
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- Mansi Srivastava
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Ikmi A, Gaertner B, Seidel C, Srivastava M, Zeitlinger J, Gibson MC. Molecular evolution of the Yap/Yorkie proto-oncogene and elucidation of its core transcriptional program. Mol Biol Evol 2014; 31:1375-90. [PMID: 24509725 PMCID: PMC4032125 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Throughout Metazoa, developmental processes are controlled by a surprisingly limited number of conserved signaling pathways. Precisely how these signaling cassettes were assembled in early animal evolution remains poorly understood, as do the molecular transitions that potentiated the acquisition of their myriad developmental functions. Here we analyze the molecular evolution of the proto-oncogene yes-associated protein (Yap)/Yorkie, a key effector of the Hippo signaling pathway that controls organ size in both Drosophila and mammals. Based on heterologous functional analysis of evolutionarily distant Yap/Yorkie orthologs, we demonstrate that a structurally distinct interaction interface between Yap/Yorkie and its partner TEAD/Scalloped became fixed in the eumetazoan common ancestor. We then combine transcriptional profiling of tissues expressing phylogenetically diverse forms of Yap/Yorkie with ChIP-seq validation to identify a common downstream gene expression program underlying the control of tissue growth in Drosophila. Intriguingly, a subset of the newly identified Yorkie target genes are also induced by Yap in mammalian tissues, thus revealing a conserved Yap-dependent gene expression signature likely to mediate organ size control throughout bilaterian animals. Combined, these experiments provide new mechanistic insights while revealing the ancient evolutionary history of Hippo signaling.
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- Aissam Ikmi
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MODepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS
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- Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MODepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS
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Gsponer JR, Braun M, Scheble VJ, Zellweger T, Bachmann A, Perner S, Vlajnic T, Srivastava M, Tan SH, Dobi A, Sesterhenn IA, Srivastava S, Bubendorf L, Ruiz C. ERG rearrangement and protein expression in the progression to castration-resistant prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 2014; 17:126-31. [PMID: 24469092 DOI: 10.1038/pcan.2013.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2013] [Revised: 12/02/2013] [Accepted: 12/17/2013] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Approximately half of the prostate carcinomas are characterized by a chromosomal rearrangement fusing the androgen-regulated gene TMPRSS2 to the oncogenic ETS transcription factor ERG. Aim of this study was to comprehensively analyze the role and impact of the ERG rearrangement and protein expression on the progression to castration-resistant (CR) disease. METHODS We used a tissue microarray (TMA) constructed from 114 hormone naive (HN) and 117 CR PCs. We analyzed the ERG rearrangement status by fluorescence in situ hybridization and the expression profiles of ERG, androgen receptor (AR) and the proliferation marker Ki67 by immunohistochemistry. RESULTS Nearly half of the PC tissue specimens (HN: 38%, CR: 46%) harbored a TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion. HN PCs with positive translocation status showed increased tumor cell proliferation (P<0.05). As expected, TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion was strongly associated with increased ERG protein expression in HN and CR PCs (both P<0.0001). Remarkably, the study revealed a subgroup (26%) of CR PCs with ERG rearrangement but without any detectable ERG protein expression. This subgroup showed significantly lower levels of AR protein expression and androgen-regulated serum PSA (both P<0.05). CONCLUSIONS In this study, we identified a subgroup of ERG-rearranged CR PCs without detectable ERG protein expression. Our results suggest that this subgroup could represent CR PCs with a dispensed AR pathway. These tumors might represent a thus far unrecognized subset of patients with AR-independent CR PC who may not benefit from conventional therapy directed against the AR pathway.
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- J R Gsponer
- Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Prostate Cancer Research, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Pathology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Division of Urology, St Claraspital, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Urology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Prostate Cancer Research, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Genetics, and Institute for Molecular Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Prostate Disease Research, Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Prostate Disease Research, Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center for Prostate Disease Research, Department of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Pathology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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