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Ito Y, Takeda S, Nakajima T, Oyama A, Takeshita H, Miki K, Takami Y, Takeya Y, Shimamura M, Rakugi H, Morishita R. High-Fat Diet-Induced Diabetic Conditions Exacerbate Cognitive Impairment in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease Via a Specific Tau Phosphorylation Pattern. J Prev Alzheimers Dis 2024; 11:138-148. [PMID: 38230726 DOI: 10.14283/jpad.2023.85] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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BACKGROUND Epidemiological evidence has demonstrated a clear association between diabetes mellitus and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cerebral accumulation of phosphorylated tau aggregates, a cardinal neuropathological feature of AD, is associated with neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Clinical and experimental studies indicate that diabetes mellitus affects the development of tau pathology; however, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain unknown. OBJECTIVE In the present study, we used a unique diabetic AD mouse model to investigate the changes in tau phosphorylation patterns occurring in the diabetic brain. DESIGN Tau-transgenic mice were fed a high-fat diet (n = 24) to model diabetes mellitus. These mice developed prominent obesity, severe insulin resistance, and mild hyperglycemia, which led to early-onset neurodegeneration and behavioral impairment associated with the accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau aggregates. RESULTS Comprehensive phosphoproteomic analysis revealed a unique tau phosphorylation signature in the brains of mice with diabetic AD. Bioinformatic analysis of the phosphoproteomics data revealed putative tau-related kinases and cell signaling pathways involved in the interaction between diabetes mellitus and AD. CONCLUSION These findings offer potential novel targets that can be used to develop tau-based therapies and biomarkers for use in AD.
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- Y Ito
- Shuko Takeda, MD, PhD and Ryuichi Morishita, MD, PhD, Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan, Tel: 81-6-6210-8351, Fax: 81-6-6210-8354, and
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Ochirkhuyag N, Nishitai Y, Mizuguchi S, Isano Y, Ni S, Murakami K, Shimamura M, Iida H, Ueno K, Ota H. Stretchable Gas Barrier Films Using Liquid Metal toward a Highly Deformable Battery. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:48123-48132. [PMID: 36168303 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c13023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Highly deformable batteries that are flexible and stretchable are important for the next-generation wearable devices. Several studies have focused on the stable operation and life span of batteries. On the other hand, there has been less focus on the packaging of highly deformable batteries. In wearable devices, solid-state or pouch lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) packaged in aluminum (Al)-laminated films, which protect against moisture and gas permeation, are used. Stretchable elastomer materials are used as the packaging films of highly deformable batteries; however, they are extremely permeable to gas and moisture. Therefore, a packaging film that provides high deformability along with gas and moisture barrier functionalities is required for the stable operation of highly deformable batteries used in ambient conditions. In this study, a stretchable packaging film with high gas barrier functionality is developed successfully by coating a thin layer of liquid metal onto a gold (Au)-deposited thermoplastic polyurethane film using the layer-by-layer method. The film exhibits excellent oxygen gas impermeability under mechanical strain and extremely low moisture permeability. It shows high impermeability along with high mechanical robustness. Using the proposed stretchable gas barrier film, a highly deformable LIB is assembled, which offers reliable operation in air. The operation of the highly deformable battery is analyzed by powering LEDs under mechanical deformations in ambient conditions. The proposed stretchable packaging film can potentially be used for the development of packaging films in advanced wearable electronic devices.
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- Nyamjargal Ochirkhuyag
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Life Science, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Life Science, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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Kodama K, Rich MK, Yoda A, Shimazaki S, Xie X, Akiyama K, Mizuno Y, Komatsu A, Luo Y, Suzuki H, Kameoka H, Libourel C, Keller J, Sakakibara K, Nishiyama T, Nakagawa T, Mashiguchi K, Uchida K, Yoneyama K, Tanaka Y, Yamaguchi S, Shimamura M, Delaux PM, Nomura T, Kyozuka J. An ancestral function of strigolactones as symbiotic rhizosphere signals. Nat Commun 2022. [PMID: 35803942 DOI: 10.1101/2021.08.20.457034] [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] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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In flowering plants, strigolactones (SLs) have dual functions as hormones that regulate growth and development, and as rhizosphere signaling molecules that induce symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Here, we report the identification of bryosymbiol (BSB), an SL from the bryophyte Marchantia paleacea. BSB is also found in vascular plants, indicating its origin in the common ancestor of land plants. BSB synthesis is enhanced at AM symbiosis permissive conditions and BSB deficient mutants are impaired in AM symbiosis. In contrast, the absence of BSB synthesis has little effect on the growth and gene expression. We show that the introduction of the SL receptor of Arabidopsis renders M. paleacea cells BSB-responsive. These results suggest that BSB is not perceived by M. paleacea cells due to the lack of cognate SL receptors. We propose that SLs originated as AM symbiosis-inducing rhizosphere signaling molecules and were later recruited as plant hormone.
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- Kyoichi Kodama
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
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- United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
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- Research Center for Experimental Modeling of Human Disease, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences, Teikyo University, Tochigi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University, Ehime, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Auzeville-Tolosane, France.
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- United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
- Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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Kodama K, Rich MK, Yoda A, Shimazaki S, Xie X, Akiyama K, Mizuno Y, Komatsu A, Luo Y, Suzuki H, Kameoka H, Libourel C, Keller J, Sakakibara K, Nishiyama T, Nakagawa T, Mashiguchi K, Uchida K, Yoneyama K, Tanaka Y, Yamaguchi S, Shimamura M, Delaux PM, Nomura T, Kyozuka J. An ancestral function of strigolactones as symbiotic rhizosphere signals. Nat Commun 2022; 13:3974. [PMID: 35803942 PMCID: PMC9270392 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31708-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [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: 08/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
In flowering plants, strigolactones (SLs) have dual functions as hormones that regulate growth and development, and as rhizosphere signaling molecules that induce symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Here, we report the identification of bryosymbiol (BSB), an SL from the bryophyte Marchantia paleacea. BSB is also found in vascular plants, indicating its origin in the common ancestor of land plants. BSB synthesis is enhanced at AM symbiosis permissive conditions and BSB deficient mutants are impaired in AM symbiosis. In contrast, the absence of BSB synthesis has little effect on the growth and gene expression. We show that the introduction of the SL receptor of Arabidopsis renders M. paleacea cells BSB-responsive. These results suggest that BSB is not perceived by M. paleacea cells due to the lack of cognate SL receptors. We propose that SLs originated as AM symbiosis-inducing rhizosphere signaling molecules and were later recruited as plant hormone. Strigolactones (SLs) regulate angiosperm development and promote symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizae. Here the authors show that bryosymbiol, an SL present in bryophytes and angiosperms, promotes AM symbiosis in Marchantia paleacea suggesting an ancestral function of SLs as rhizosphere signals.
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- Kyoichi Kodama
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
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- United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.,Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.,Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Auzeville-Tolosane, France
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- Research Center for Experimental Modeling of Human Disease, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Biosciences, Teikyo University, Tochigi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University, Ehime, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse INP, Auzeville-Tolosane, France.
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- United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. .,Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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Kyozuka J, Nomura T, Shimamura M. Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones. Curr Opin Plant Biol 2022; 65:102154. [PMID: 34923261 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [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: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 11/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Strigolactones (SLs) play roles as a class of plant hormones and rhizosphere signaling chemicals that induce hyphal branching of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and seed germination of parasitic plants. Therefore, SLs have dual functions. Recent progress in genome sequencing and genetic studies of bryophytes and algae has begun to shed light on the origin and evolution of these two functions of SLs.
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- Junko Kyozuka
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
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- Center for Bioscience Research and Education, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Hashimoto T, Tsubota H, Shimamura M, Inoue Y. The complete chloroplast genome of Petasites japonicus (Siebold & Zucc.) Maxim. (Asteraceae). Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 2021; 6:3503-3505. [PMID: 34869892 PMCID: PMC8635567 DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2021.2005476] [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] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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The complete chloroplast (cp) genome sequence of Petasites japonicus (Asteraceae) was determined. The cp genome is 150,445 bp and consists of a large single-copy region (82,910 bp), a small single-copy region (17,907 bp), and a pair of inverted repeats (24,814 bp). It encodes a set of 114 genes, consisting of 80 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and four rRNA genes. Phylogenetic inference confirmed that P. japonicus is sister to the genus Ligularia in the tribe Senecioneae of Asteraceae.
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- Tamaki Hashimoto
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Program of Basic Biology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Ibaraki, Japan
- Hattori Botanical Laboratory, Miyazaki, Japan
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Sadamitsu A, Inoue Y, Sakakibara K, Tsubota H, Yamaguchi T, Deguchi H, Nishiyama T, Shimamura M. The complete plastid genome sequence of the enigmatic moss, Takakia lepidozioides (Takakiopsida, Bryophyta): evolutionary perspectives on the largest collection of genes in mosses and the intensive RNA editing. Plant Mol Biol 2021; 107:431-449. [PMID: 34817767 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-021-01214-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Complete chloroplast genome sequence of a moss, Takakia lepidozioides (Takakiopsida) is reported. The largest collection of genes in mosses and the intensive RNA editing were discussed from evolutionary perspectives. We assembled the entire plastid genome sequence of Takakia lepidozioides (Takakiopsida), emerging from the first phylogenetic split among extant mosses. The genome sequences were assembled into a circular molecule 149,016 bp in length, with a quadripartite structure comprising a large and a small single-copy region separated by inverted repeats. It contained 88 genes coding for proteins, 32 for tRNA, four for rRNA, two open reading frames, and at least one pseudogene (tufA). This is the largest number of genes of all sequenced plastid genomes in mosses and Takakia is the only moss that retains the seven coding genes ccsA, cysA, cysT, petN rpoA, rps16 and trnPGGG. Parsimonious interpretation of gene loss suggests that the last common ancestor of bryophytes had all seven genes and that mosses lost at least three of them during their diversification. Analyses of the plastid transcriptome identified the extraordinary frequency of RNA editing with more than 1100 sites. We indicated a close correlation between the monoplastidy of vegetative tissue and the intensive RNA editing sites in the plastid genome in land plant lineages. Here, we proposed a hypothesis that the small population size of plastids in each vegetative cell of some early diverging land plants, including Takakia, might cause the frequent fixation of mutations in plastid genome through the intracellular genetic drift and that deleterious mutations might be continuously compensated by RNA editing during or following transcription.
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- Atsushi Sadamitsu
- Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
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- Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0005, Japan
- Hattori Botanical Laboratory, 6-1-26 Obi, Nichinan, Miyazaki, 889-2535, Japan
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- Department of Life Science, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 171-8501, Japan
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- Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1156-2, Mitsumaruko-yama, Miyajima-cho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, 739-0543, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
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- Research Center for Experimental Modeling of Human Disease, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, 920-0934, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan.
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Kamamoto N, Tano T, Fujimoto K, Shimamura M. Rotation angle of stem cell division plane controls spiral phyllotaxis in mosses. J Plant Res 2021; 134:457-473. [PMID: 33877466 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-021-01298-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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The spiral arrangement (phyllotaxis) of leaves is a shared morphology in land plants, and exhibits diversity constrained to the Fibonacci sequence. Phyllotaxis in vascular plants is produced at a multicellular meristem, whereas bryophyte phyllotaxis emerges from a single apical stem cell (AC) that is embedded in a growing tip of the gametophyte. An AC is asymmetrically divided into itself and a single 'merophyte', producing a future leaf and a portion of the stem. Although it has been suggested that the arrangement of merophytes is regulated by a rotation of the division plane of an AC, the quantitative description of the merophyte arrangement and its regulatory mechanism remain unclear. To clarify them, we examined three moss species, Tetraphis pellucida, Physcomitrium patens, and Niphotrichum japonicum, which exhibit 1/3, 2/5, and 3/8 spiral phyllotaxis, respectively. We measured the angle between the centroids of adjacent merophytes relative to the AC centroid on cross-transverse sections. At the outer merophytes, this divergence angle converged to nearly 120[Formula: see text] in T. pellucida, 136[Formula: see text] in N. japonicum, and 141[Formula: see text] in P. patens, which was nearly consistent with phyllotaxis, whereas the divergence angle deviated from the converged angle at the inner merophytes near an AC. A mathematical model, which assumes scaling growth of AC and merophytes and a constant angle of division plane rotation, quantitatively reproduced the sequence of the divergence angles. This model showed that successive relocations of the centroid position of an AC upon its division inevitably result in the transient deviation of the divergence angle. As a result, the converged divergence angle was equal to the rotation angle, predicting that the latter is a major regulator of the spiral phyllotaxis diversity in mosses.
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- Naoya Kamamoto
- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8528, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8528, Japan.
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Nakajima K, Shimamura M, Furuno N. Generation of no-yellow-pigment Xenopus tropicalis by slc2a7 gene knockout. Dev Dyn 2021; 250:1420-1431. [PMID: 33760303 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Amphibians possess three kinds of dermal chromatophore: melanophores, iridophores, and xanthophores. Knockout Xenopus tropicalis that lack the pigmentation of melanophores and iridophores have been reported. The identification of the causal genes for xanthophore pigmentation or differentiation could lead to the creation of a see-through frog without three chromatophores. The genes causing xanthophore differentiation mutants are slc2a11b and slc2a15b in Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). RESULTS To obtain a heritable line of X tropicalis mutants without yellow pigment, we generated slc2a7 and slc2a15a knockout animals because they have the greatest similarity to the O latipes slc2a11b and slc2a15b genes. The slc2a7 knockout frog had a bluish skin and there were no visible yellow pigments in stereo microscope and skin section observations. Furthermore, no pterinosomes, which are characteristic of xanthophores, were observed via transmission electron microscopy in the skin of knockout animals. CONCLUSIONS We report the successful generation of a heritable no-yellow-pigment X tropicalis mutant after knock out of the slc2a7 gene. This finding will enable the creation of a see-through frog with no chromatophores.
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- Keisuke Nakajima
- Division of Embryology, Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan
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- Division of Embryology, Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan
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Inamori G, Kamoto U, Nakamura F, Isoda Y, Uozumi A, Matsuda R, Shimamura M, Okubo Y, Ito S, Ota H. Neonatal wearable device for colorimetry-based real-time detection of jaundice with simultaneous sensing of vitals. Sci Adv 2021; 7:eabe3793. [PMID: 33658197 PMCID: PMC7929506 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe3793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Neonatal jaundice occurs in >80% of newborns in the first week of life owing to physiological hyperbilirubinemia. Severe hyperbilirubinemia could cause brain damage owing to its neurotoxicity, a state commonly known as kernicterus. Therefore, periodic bilirubin monitoring is essential to identify infants at-risk and to initiate treatment including phototherapy. However, devices for continuous measurements of bilirubin have not been developed yet. Here, we established a wearable transcutaneous bilirubinometer that also has oxygen saturation (SpO2) and heart rate (HR) sensing functionalities. Clinical experiments with neonates demonstrated the possibility of simultaneous detection of bilirubin, SpO2, and HR. Moreover, our device could consistently measure bilirubin during phototherapy. These results demonstrate the potential for development of a combined treatment approach with an automatic link via the wearable bilirubinometer and phototherapy device for optimization of the treatment of neonatal jaundice.
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- Go Inamori
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of System Integration, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, 3-9 Fukura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0004, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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- Division of Cellular and Molecular Toxicology, Biological Safety and Research Center, National Institute of Health Sciences, Tonomachi 3-25-26, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 210-9501, Japan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, 3-9 Fukura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0004, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan.
- Graduate School of System Integration, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan
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Frangedakis E, Shimamura M, Villarreal JC, Li FW, Tomaselli M, Waller M, Sakakibara K, Renzaglia KS, Szövényi P. The hornworts: morphology, evolution and development. New Phytol 2021; 229:735-754. [PMID: 32790880 PMCID: PMC7881058 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Extant land plants consist of two deeply divergent groups, tracheophytes and bryophytes, which shared a common ancestor some 500 million years ago. While information about vascular plants and the two of the three lineages of bryophytes, the mosses and liverworts, is steadily accumulating, the biology of hornworts remains poorly explored. Yet, as the sister group to liverworts and mosses, hornworts are critical in understanding the evolution of key land plant traits. Until recently, there was no hornwort model species amenable to systematic experimental investigation, which hampered detailed insight into the molecular biology and genetics of this unique group of land plants. The emerging hornwort model species, Anthoceros agrestis, is instrumental in our efforts to better understand not only hornwort biology but also fundamental questions of land plant evolution. To this end, here we provide an overview of hornwort biology and current research on the model plant A. agrestis to highlight its potential in answering key questions of land plant biology and evolution.
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 739-8528, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, G1V 0A6, Canada
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá
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- Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, New York, 14853-1801, USA
- Plant Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853-1801, USA
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 EA, UK
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, 8008, Switzerland
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- Department of Life Science, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, 171-8501, Japan
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- Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Illinois, 62901, USA
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, 8008, Switzerland
- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
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Suzuki H, Harrison CJ, Shimamura M, Kohchi T, Nishihama R. Positional cues regulate dorsal organ formation in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. J Plant Res 2020; 133:311-321. [PMID: 32206925 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-020-01180-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2020] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Bryophytes and vascular plants represent the broadest evolutionary divergence in the land plant lineage, and comparative analyses of development spanning this divergence therefore offer opportunities to identify truisms of plant development in general. In vascular plants, organs are formed repetitively around meristems at the growing tips in response to positional cues. In contrast, leaf formation in mosses and leafy liverworts occurs from clonal groups of cells derived from a daughter cell of the apical stem cell known as merophytes, and cell lineage is a crucial factor in repetitive organ formation. However, it remains unclear whether merophyte lineages are a general feature of repetitive organ formation in bryophytes as patterns of organogenesis in thalloid liverworts are unclear. To address this question, we developed a clonal analysis method for use in the thalloid liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, involving random low-frequency induction of a constitutively expressed nuclear-targeted fluorescent protein by dual heat-shock and dexamethasone treatment. M. polymorpha thalli ultimately derive from stem cells in the apical notch, and the lobes predominantly develop from merophytes cleft to the left and right of the apical cell(s). Sector induction in gemmae and subsequent culture occasionally generated fluorescent sectors that bisected thalli along the midrib and were maintained through several bifurcation events, likely reflecting the border between lateral merophytes. Such thallus-bisecting sectors traversed dorsal air chambers and gemma cups, suggesting that these organs arise independently of merophyte cell lineages in response to local positional cues.
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- Hidemasa Suzuki
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8528, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
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Li FW, Nishiyama T, Waller M, Frangedakis E, Keller J, Li Z, Fernandez-Pozo N, Barker MS, Bennett T, Blázquez MA, Cheng S, Cuming AC, de Vries J, de Vries S, Delaux PM, Diop IS, Harrison CJ, Hauser D, Hernández-García J, Kirbis A, Meeks JC, Monte I, Mutte SK, Neubauer A, Quandt D, Robison T, Shimamura M, Rensing SA, Villarreal JC, Weijers D, Wicke S, Wong GKS, Sakakibara K, Szövényi P. Anthoceros genomes illuminate the origin of land plants and the unique biology of hornworts. Nat Plants 2020; 6:259-272. [PMID: 32170292 PMCID: PMC8075897 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-0618-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 02/11/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Hornworts comprise a bryophyte lineage that diverged from other extant land plants >400 million years ago and bears unique biological features, including a distinct sporophyte architecture, cyanobacterial symbiosis and a pyrenoid-based carbon-concentrating mechanism (CCM). Here, we provide three high-quality genomes of Anthoceros hornworts. Phylogenomic analyses place hornworts as a sister clade to liverworts plus mosses with high support. The Anthoceros genomes lack repeat-dense centromeres as well as whole-genome duplication, and contain a limited transcription factor repertoire. Several genes involved in angiosperm meristem and stomatal function are conserved in Anthoceros and upregulated during sporophyte development, suggesting possible homologies at the genetic level. We identified candidate genes involved in cyanobacterial symbiosis and found that LCIB, a Chlamydomonas CCM gene, is present in hornworts but absent in other plant lineages, implying a possible conserved role in CCM function. We anticipate that these hornwort genomes will serve as essential references for future hornwort research and comparative studies across land plants.
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- Fay-Wei Li
- Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA.
- Plant Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS Castanet-Tolosan, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, CSIC-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Department of Applied Bioinformatics, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Population Genetics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- LRSV, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS Castanet-Tolosan, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, CSIC-Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Plant Biology Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Faculty of Biology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO), University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panamá
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- Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Muenster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Naramoto S, Jones VAS, Trozzi N, Sato M, Toyooka K, Shimamura M, Ishida S, Nishitani K, Ishizaki K, Nishihama R, Kohchi T, Dolan L, Kyozuka J. A conserved regulatory mechanism mediates the convergent evolution of plant shoot lateral organs. PLoS Biol 2019; 17:e3000560. [PMID: 31815938 PMCID: PMC6901180 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Land plant shoot structures evolved a diversity of lateral organs as morphological adaptations to the terrestrial environment, with lateral organs arising independently in different lineages. Vascular plants and bryophytes (basally diverging land plants) develop lateral organs from meristems of sporophytes and gametophytes, respectively. Understanding the mechanisms of lateral organ development among divergent plant lineages is crucial for understanding the evolutionary process of morphological diversification of land plants. However, our current knowledge of lateral organ differentiation mechanisms comes almost entirely from studies of seed plants, and thus, it remains unclear how these lateral structures evolved and whether common regulatory mechanisms control the development of analogous lateral organs. Here, we performed a mutant screen in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, a bryophyte, which produces gametophyte axes with nonphotosynthetic scalelike lateral organs. We found that an Arabidopsis LIGHT-DEPENDENT SHORT HYPOCOTYLS 1 and Oryza G1 (ALOG) family protein, named M. polymorpha LATERAL ORGAN SUPRESSOR 1 (MpLOS1), regulates meristem maintenance and lateral organ development in Marchantia. A mutation in MpLOS1, preferentially expressed in lateral organs, induces lateral organs with misspecified identity and increased cell number and, furthermore, causes defects in apical meristem maintenance. Remarkably, MpLOS1 expression rescued the elongated spikelet phenotype of a MpLOS1 homolog in rice. This suggests that ALOG genes regulate the development of lateral organs in both gametophyte and sporophyte shoots by repressing cell divisions. We propose that the recruitment of ALOG-mediated growth repression was in part responsible for the convergent evolution of independently evolved lateral organs among highly divergent plant lineages, contributing to the morphological diversification of land plants. Ancestral land plants lacked leaves; instead, these evolved independently in each lineage and were key innovations that allowed the radiation of plants on land during the lower Palaeozoic. This study of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha reveals that each time they evolved they used the same molecular mechanism to control leaf development.
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- Satoshi Naramoto
- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Kanagawa University, Hiratsuka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Yamamoto K, Shimamura M, Degawa Y, Yamada A. Dual colonization of Mucoromycotina and Glomeromycotina fungi in the basal liverwort, Haplomitrium mnioides (Haplomitriopsida). J Plant Res 2019; 132:777-788. [PMID: 31617040 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-019-01145-3] [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: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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In general, Glomeromycotina was thought to be the earliest fungi forming mycorrhiza-like structure (MLS) in land plant evolution. In contrast, because the earliest divergent lineage of extant land plants, i.e. Haplomitriopsida liverworts, associates only with Mucoromycotina mycobionts, recent studies suggested that those fungi are novel candidates for the earliest mycobionts. Therefore, Mucoromycotina-Haplomitriopsida association currently attracts attention as an ancient mycorrhiza-like association. However, mycobionts were identified in only 7 of 16 Haplomitriopsida species and the mycobionts diversity of this lineage is largely unclarified. To clarify the taxonomic composition of mycobionts in Haplomitriopsida, we observed MLSs in the rhizome of Haplomitrium mnioides (Haplomitriopsida), the Asian representative Haplomitriopsida species, and conducted molecular identification of mycobionts. It was recorded for the first time that Glomeromycotina and Mucoromycotina co-occur in Haplomitriopsida as mycobionts. Significantly, the arbuscule-like branching (ALB) of Glomeromycotina was newly described. As the Mucoromycotina fungi forming MLSs in H. mnioides, Endogonaceae and Densosporaceae were detected, in which size differences of hyphal swelling (HS) were found between the fungal families. This study provides a novel evidence in the MLS of Haplomitriopsida, i.e. the existence of Glomeromycotina association as well as the dominant Mucoromycotina association. In addition, since hyphal characteristics of the HS-type MLS were quite similar to those of fine endophytes (FE) of Endogonales in other bryophytes and vascular plants previously described, this MLS is suggested to be included in FE. These results suggest that Glomeromycotina and Mucoromycotina were acquired concurrently as the mycobionts by the earliest land plants evolved into arbuscular mycorrhizae and FE. Therefore, dual association of Haplomitriopsida, with Endogonales and Glomeromycotina will provide us novel insight on how the earliest land plants adapted to terrestrial habitats with fungi.
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- Kohei Yamamoto
- Department of Bioscience and Food Production Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, 8304 Minami-minowa, Nagano, 399-4598, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
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- Sugadaira Research Station, Mountain Science Center, University of Tsukuba, 1278-294 Sugadaira, Ueda, Nagano, 386-2204, Japan
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- Department of Bioscience and Food Production Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, 8304 Minami-minowa, Nagano, 399-4598, Japan.
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Shinshu University, 8304, Minami-minowa, Nagano, 399-4598, Japan.
- Research Center for Fungal and Microbial Dynamism, Shinshu University, 8304 Minami-minowa, Nagano, 399-4598, Japan.
- Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem, Institute of Mountain Science, Shinshu University, 8304 Minami-minowa, Nagano, 399-4598, Japan.
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Tsuzuki M, Futagami K, Shimamura M, Inoue C, Kunimoto K, Oogami T, Tomita Y, Inoue K, Kohchi T, Yamaoka S, Araki T, Hamada T, Watanabe Y. An Early Arising Role of the MicroRNA156/529-SPL Module in Reproductive Development Revealed by the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. Curr Biol 2019; 29:3307-3314.e5. [PMID: 31543452 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In angiosperms, the phase transition from vegetative to reproductive growth involves the de-repression of the squamosa promoter-binding-protein-like (SPL) class of transcription factors, which is negatively regulated by the specific microRNAs (miRNAs/miRs) miR156/529 [1]. Non-vascular land plants also undergo growth-phase transition to the reproductive state, but knowledge regarding the controlling mechanisms is limited. Here, we investigate the reproductive transition in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, focusing on the roles of miR529c [2-4] and MpSPL2. First, we established mir529c-null mutants using CRISPR/Cas9. Even in the absence of far-red light-supplemented long-day condition, which is usually needed to induce reproductive development [5, 6], the mutant thalli developed sexual reproductive organs (gametangia) and produced gametes. Transgenic plants expressing a miR529-resistant MpSPL2 transgene also showed a similar phenotype of reproductive transition in the absence of inductive far-red light signals. In these mutants and transgenic plants, the MpSPL2 mRNA abundance was elevated. Mpspl2ko mutant plants showed successful gamete development and fertilization, which suggests that MpSPL2 is involved in, but not essential for, sexual reproduction in M. polymorpha. Furthermore, analysis of Mpspl2ko mutant and its complemented lines suggests that MpSPL2 may have a role in promotion of reproductive transition. These findings support the notion that the transition to reproductive development in liverworts is controlled by a system similar to that in angiosperms, and the miR156/529-SPL module has common significance in the control of the vegetative-to-reproductive transition during development in many land plants, including liverworts.
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- Masayuki Tsuzuki
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Hisanaga T, Okahashi K, Yamaoka S, Kajiwara T, Nishihama R, Shimamura M, Yamato KT, Bowman JL, Kohchi T, Nakajima K. A cis-acting bidirectional transcription switch controls sexual dimorphism in the liverwort. EMBO J 2019; 38:embj.2018100240. [PMID: 30609993 PMCID: PMC6418429 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2018100240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [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] [Received: 07/11/2018] [Revised: 11/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Plant life cycles alternate between haploid gametophytes and diploid sporophytes. While regulatory factors determining male and female sexual morphologies have been identified for sporophytic reproductive organs, such as stamens and pistils of angiosperms, those regulating sex‐specific traits in the haploid gametophytes that produce male and female gametes and hence are central to plant sexual reproduction are poorly understood. Here, we identified a MYB‐type transcription factor, MpFGMYB, as a key regulator of female sexual differentiation in the haploid‐dominant dioicous liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha. MpFGMYB is specifically expressed in females and its loss resulted in female‐to‐male sex conversion. Strikingly, MpFGMYB expression is suppressed in males by a cis‐acting antisense gene SUF at the same locus, and loss‐of‐function suf mutations resulted in male‐to‐female sex conversion. Thus, the bidirectional transcription module at the MpFGMYB/SUF locus acts as a toggle between female and male sexual differentiation in M. polymorpha gametophytes. Arabidopsis thaliana MpFGMYB orthologs are known to be expressed in embryo sacs and promote their development. Thus, phylogenetically related MYB transcription factors regulate female gametophyte development across land plants.
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- Tetsuya Hisanaga
- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University, Kinokawa, Wakayama, Japan
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan
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Higo A, Kawashima T, Borg M, Zhao M, López-Vidriero I, Sakayama H, Montgomery SA, Sekimoto H, Hackenberg D, Shimamura M, Nishiyama T, Sakakibara K, Tomita Y, Togawa T, Kunimoto K, Osakabe A, Suzuki Y, Yamato KT, Ishizaki K, Nishihama R, Kohchi T, Franco-Zorrilla JM, Twell D, Berger F, Araki T. Transcription factor DUO1 generated by neo-functionalization is associated with evolution of sperm differentiation in plants. Nat Commun 2018; 9:5283. [PMID: 30538242 PMCID: PMC6290024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07728-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 11/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Evolutionary mechanisms underlying innovation of cell types have remained largely unclear. In multicellular eukaryotes, the evolutionary molecular origin of sperm differentiation is unknown in most lineages. Here, we report that in algal ancestors of land plants, changes in the DNA-binding domain of the ancestor of the MYB transcription factor DUO1 enabled the recognition of a new cis-regulatory element. This event led to the differentiation of motile sperm. After neo-functionalization, DUO1 acquired sperm lineage-specific expression in the common ancestor of land plants. Subsequently the downstream network of DUO1 was rewired leading to sperm with distinct morphologies. Conjugating green algae, a sister group of land plants, accumulated mutations in the DNA-binding domain of DUO1 and lost sperm differentiation. Our findings suggest that the emergence of DUO1 was the defining event in the evolution of sperm differentiation and the varied modes of sexual reproduction in the land plant lineage.
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- Asuka Higo
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40546-0312, USA
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Unidad de Genómica, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, C/Darwin 3, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Japan Women's University, 2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8681, Japan
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
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- Advanced Science Research Center, Kanazawa University, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, 920-8640, Japan
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- Department of Life Science, College of Science, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 171-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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- Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University, Kinokawa, 649-6493, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, 277-8562, Japan
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- Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kindai University, Kinokawa, 649-6493, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
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- Unidad de Genómica, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, C/Darwin 3, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 3, 1030, Vienna, Austria.
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
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Nakanishi Y, Nishimaki H, Tsujino I, Takahashi N, Shimamura M, Kobayashi H, Tang X, Kusumi Y, Hashimoto S, Masuda S. P2.02-057 Expression of MGAT4a and MGAT5 Are Correlated with Poorer Outcome in Advanced Lung Adenocarcinoma. J Thorac Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.1235] [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: 10/18/2022]
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Kawano T, Shimamura M, Nakagami H, Koriyama H, Sasaki T, Sakaguchi M, Morishita R, Mochizuki H. A novel antithrombotic vaccine against S100A9 without risks of bleeding in ischemic stroke in mice. J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.2441] [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: 11/26/2022]
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Shimamura M, Hironori N, Ryuichi M, Hideki M. Therapeutic effects of RANKL-based peptide MHP1 in ischemic brain in mice. J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.263] [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: 10/18/2022]
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Koi S, Hisanaga T, Sato K, Shimamura M, Yamato KT, Ishizaki K, Kohchi T, Nakajima K. An Evolutionarily Conserved Plant RKD Factor Controls Germ Cell Differentiation. Curr Biol 2016; 26:1775-1781. [PMID: 27345165 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Revised: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In contrast to animals, in which the germ cell lineage is established during embryogenesis, plant germ cells are generated in reproductive organs via reprogramming of somatic cells. The factors that control germ cell differentiation and reprogramming in plants are poorly understood. Members of the RKD subfamily of plant-specific RWP-RK transcription factors have been implicated in egg cell formation in Arabidopsis based on their expression patterns and ability to cause an egg-like transcriptome upon ectopic expression [1]; however, genetic evidence of their involvement is lacking, due to possible genetic redundancy, haploid lethality, and the technical difficulty of analyzing egg cell differentiation in angiosperms. Here we analyzed the factors that govern germ cell formation in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. This recently revived model bryophyte has several characteristics that make it ideal for studies of germ cell formation, such as low levels of genetic redundancy, readily accessible germ cells, and the ability to propagate asexually via gemma formation [2, 3]. Our analyses revealed that MpRKD, a single RWP-RK factor closely related to angiosperm RKDs, is preferentially expressed in developing eggs and sperm precursors in M. polymorpha. Targeted disruption of MpRKD had no effect on the gross morphology of the vegetative and reproductive organs but led to striking defects in egg and sperm cell differentiation, demonstrating that MpRKD is an essential regulator of germ cell differentiation. Together with previous findings [1, 4-6], our results suggest that RKD factors are evolutionarily conserved regulators of germ cell differentiation in land plants.
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- Satoshi Koi
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan; Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, 2000 Kisaichi, Katano, Osaka 576-0004, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, 930 Nishimitani, Kinokawa, Wakayama 649-6493, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501, Japan; Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan; PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan.
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Bowman JL, Araki T, Arteaga-Vazquez MA, Berger F, Dolan L, Haseloff J, Ishizaki K, Kyozuka J, Lin SS, Nagasaki H, Nakagami H, Nakajima K, Nakamura Y, Ohashi-Ito K, Sawa S, Shimamura M, Solano R, Tsukaya H, Ueda T, Watanabe Y, Yamato KT, Zachgo S, Kohchi T. The Naming of Names: Guidelines for Gene Nomenclature in Marchantia. Plant Cell Physiol 2016; 57:257-61. [PMID: 26644462 PMCID: PMC4788412 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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While Marchantia polymorpha has been utilized as a model system to investigate fundamental biological questions for over almost two centuries, there is renewed interest in M. polymorpha as a model genetic organism in the genomics era. Here we outline community guidelines for M. polymorpha gene and transgene nomenclature, and we anticipate that these guidelines will promote consistency and reduce both redundancy and confusion in the scientific literature.
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- John L Bowman
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan
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- University of Veracruz, Institute for Biotechnology and Applied Ecology (INBIOTECA), Avenida de las Culturas Veracruzanas 101, Colonia Emiliano Zapata 91090, Xalapa, Veracruz, México
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Dr. Bohrgasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
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- Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501 Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8577 Japan
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- Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045 Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-0192 Japan
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- National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540 Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 860-8555 Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Kagami-yama, Higashi Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8526 Japan
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- Departamento de Genética Molecular de Plantas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia-CSIC, C/ Darwin, 3, Campus Cantoblanco, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute of Natural Sciences, 5-1, Higashiyama, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8787 Japan
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- Laboratory of Developmental Cell Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
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- Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, Nishimitani, Kinokawa, Wakayama, 649-6493 Japan
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- University of Osnabrück, Botany Department, Barbarastr. 11, D-49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan
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Shimamura M. Marchantia polymorpha: Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Morphology of a Model System. Plant Cell Physiol 2016; 57:230-56. [PMID: 26657892 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcv192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [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: 03/23/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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One of the classical research plants in plant biology, Marchantia polymorpha, is drawing attention as a new model system. Its ease of genetic transformation and a genome sequencing project have attracted attention to the species. Here I present a thorough assessment of the taxonomic status, anatomy and developmental morphology of each organ and tissue of the gametophyte and sporophyte on the basis of a thorough review of the literature and my own observations. Marchantia polymorpha has been a subject of intensive study for nearly 200 years, and the information summarized here offers an invaluable resource for future studies on this model plant.
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- Masaki Shimamura
- Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama 1-3-1, Higashi-Hiroshim, 739-8526 Japan
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Kurashige T, Shimamura M, Yasui K, Mitsutake N, Matsuse M, Nakashima M, Minami S, Eguchi S, Nagayama Y. Studies on expression of aldehyde dehydrogenase in normal and cancerous tissues of thyroids. Horm Metab Res 2015; 47:194-9. [PMID: 25181420 DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1387770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Recently published articles have reported the controversial data regarding expression of aldehyde dehydrogenase isozyme 1A1 (ALDH1A1), a potential candidate marker for normal and cancer stem cells (CSCs), in thyroid tissues. These data prompted us to re-evaluate expression of ALDH1A1 in normal and cancerous thyroid tissues by 2 different means. The first method was immunohistochemistry with 2 different anti-ALDH1A1 antibodies from distinct companies. Following validating the integrity of these 2 antibodies by Western blotting with ALDH-expressing and nonexpressing cancer cell lines and immunohistochemistry with breast and colon tissues, we report here significant and comparable expression of ALDH1A1 in both normal and cancerous thyroid tissues with both antibodies. Next, relative expression levels of ALDH isozymes were evaluated by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), revealing that ALDH1A1 was the most highly expressed isozyme followed by ALDH9A1 and relative expression patterns of isozymes were very similar in normal and cancerous tissues. All these data demonstrate that thyroid cells of normal and cancer origins do express ALDH1A1 and to a lesser extent 9A1. Further study will be necessary to study functional significance of ALDH1A1 in the function and behaviors of thyroid normal and cancer stem cells.
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- T Kurashige
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Medical Science, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Medical Science, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Tumor and Diagnostic Pathology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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Ishizaki K, Mizutani M, Shimamura M, Masuda A, Nishihama R, Kohchi T. Essential role of the E3 ubiquitin ligase nopperabo1 in schizogenous intercellular space formation in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. Plant Cell 2013; 25:4075-84. [PMID: 24170128 PMCID: PMC3877802 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.113.117051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2013] [Revised: 09/25/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2013] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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The vast majority of land plants develop gas-exchange tissues with intercellular spaces (ICSs) connected directly to the air. Although the developmental processes of ICS have been described in detail at the morphological and ultrastructural level in diverse land plants, little is known about the molecular mechanism responsible for ICS formation. The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha develops a multilayered tissue with a large ICS (air chamber), whose formation is initiated at selected positions of epidermal cells. We isolated a mutant of M. polymorpha showing impaired air-chamber formation, nopperabo1 (nop1), from T-DNA-tagged lines. In nop1 plants, no ICS was formed; consequently, a single-layered epidermis developed on the dorsal side of the thallus. The causal gene NOP1 encodes a Plant U-box (PUB) E3 ubiquitin ligase carrying tandem ARMADILLO (ARM) repeats in the C terminus. An in vitro ubiquitination assay indicated that the NOP1 protein possesses E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in a U-box-dependent manner. Confocal microscopy and biochemical analysis showed that NOP1 was localized to the plasma membrane. Our investigation demonstrated the essential role of the PUB-ARM-type ubiquitin ligase in ICS formation in M. polymorpha, which sheds light on the molecular mechanism of schizogenous ICS formation in land plants.
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- Kimitsune Ishizaki
- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Shimamura M, Hidaka H. Therapeutic potential of cholesteryl O-acyl α-glucoside found in Helicobacter pylori. Curr Med Chem 2013; 19:4869-74. [PMID: 22934809 DOI: 10.2174/092986712803341502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2012] [Revised: 08/13/2012] [Accepted: 08/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Steryl glycosides are derivatives of sterols where the 3β-hydroxy group is glycosylated. Some of them are further converted to steryl O-acyl glycosides. Steryl glycosides and their derivatives are widely distributed in plants, algae, and fungi, but are relatively rarely distributed in bacteria and animals. Accumulating evidence suggests that glycosylation of sterols not only modifies physicochemical properties of cell membranes but also alters immunogenicity of the cells. Helicobacter pylori, that colonizes the stomach and causes gastric diseases, is auxotrophic for cholesterol, so that it extracts this lipid from plasma membranes of epithelial cells of the host stomach. Since incorporation of cholesterol promotes immune responses of the host, Helicobacter pylori converts cholesterol to cholesteryl glucoside (ChG) and then to cholesteryl 6'-O-acyl glucoside (ChAcG) to evade the immune surveillance. We have found that ChAcG thus produced is specifically recognized by invariant Vα14-Jα18 TCR(+) (Vα14) NKT cells in a CD1-dependent manner. We have also found that activation of Vα14 NKT cells by administration of ChAcG retains homeostasis of immunity upon exposure to allergens and reduces the incidence of allergy. In this article, overview of immunological functions of steryl glycosides with an emphasis on the immunoregulatory functions of ChAcG, is demonstrated.
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- M Shimamura
- Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary Materials Science, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Nagayama Y, Nakahara M, Shimamura M, Horie I, Arima K, Abiru N. Prophylactic and therapeutic efficacies of a selective inhibitor of the immunoproteasome for Hashimoto's thyroiditis, but not for Graves' hyperthyroidism, in mice. Clin Exp Immunol 2012; 168:268-73. [PMID: 22519588 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2012.04578.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [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] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-restricted T cell epitopes are generated mainly by the immunoproteasome in antigen-presenting cells. Therefore, inhibition of activity of this proteolytic complex molecule is thought to be a potential treatment for cell-mediated autoimmune diseases. We therefore studied the efficacy of an immunoproteasome inhibitor, ONX 0914 (formerly PR-957), for the treatment of autoimmune thyroid diseases, including cell-mediated Hashimoto's thyroiditis and autoantibody-mediated Graves' hyperthyroidism using mouse models. Our data show that ONX 0914 was effective prophylactically and therapeutically at suppressing the degree of intrathyroidal lymphocyte infiltration and, to a lesser degree, the titres of anti-thyroglobulin autoantibodies in non-obese diabetic (NOD)-H2(h4) mice, an iodine-induced autoimmune thyroiditis model. It also inhibited differentiation of T cells to T helper type 1 (Th1) and Th17 cells, effector T cell subsets critical for development of thyroiditis in this mouse strain. In contrast, its effect on the Graves' model was negligible. Although ONX 0914 exerts its immune-suppressive effect through not only suppression of immune proteasome but also other mechanism(s), such as inhibition of T cell differentiation, the present results suggest that the immunoproteasome is a novel drug target in treatment of Hashimoto's thyroiditis in particular and cell-mediated autoimmune diseases in general.
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- Y Nagayama
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute Division of Immunology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medical and Dental Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
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Shimamura M, Itouga M, Tsubota H. Evolution of apolar sporocytes in marchantialean liverworts: implications from molecular phylogeny. J Plant Res 2012; 125:197-206. [PMID: 21544643 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-011-0425-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2011] [Accepted: 04/03/2011] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In meiosis of basal land plants, meiotic division planes are typically predicted by quadri-lobing of the cytoplasm and/or quadri-partitioning of plastids prior to nuclear divisions. However, sporocytes of several marchantialean liverworts display no indication of premeiotic establishment of quadripolarity, as is observed in flowering plants. In these cases, the shape of sporocytes remains spherical or elliptical and numerous plastids are distributed randomly in the cytoplasm during meiosis. Through a survey of sporocyte morphology in marchantialean liverworts, we newly report the occurrence of apolar sporocytes in Sauteria japonica and Athalamia nana (Cleveaceae; Marchantiales). Molecular phylogenetic analyses revealed that the quadri-lobing of cytoplasm and quadri-partitioning of plastids were lost independently several times during the evolution of marchantialean liverworts. In addition, our phylogenetic analyses indicate that the simplified sporophytes of several marchantialean liverworts are not a primitive condition but rather represent the result of reductive evolution. The loss of the quadripolarity of sporocytes appears to correlate with the evolutionary trend of the sporophyte towards reductions. Through the evolution of the simplified sporophytes, suppression of mitotic divisions of sporogenous cells might had caused not only the modification of sporophyte ontogeny but also the drastic cytological change of sporocyte.
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- Masaki Shimamura
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Kagami-yama, Higashi Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan.
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Furumoto T, Yamaguchi T, Ohshima-Ichie Y, Nakamura M, Tsuchida-Iwata Y, Shimamura M, Ohnishi J, Hata S, Gowik U, Westhoff P, Bräutigam A, Weber APM, Izui K. A plastidial sodium-dependent pyruvate transporter. Nature 2011; 476:472-5. [DOI: 10.1038/nature10250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2010] [Accepted: 06/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Brown RC, Lemmon BE, Shimamura M. Diversity in meiotic spindle origin and determination of cytokinetic planes in sporogenesis of complex thalloid liverworts (Marchantiopsida). J Plant Res 2010; 123:589-605. [PMID: 20039093 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-009-0286-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2009] [Accepted: 11/02/2009] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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As the earliest divergent land plants, bryophytes (mosses, hornworts, and liverworts) provide insight into the evolution of the unique plant process of sporogenesis by which meiosis results in heavy walled spores. New immunohistochemical data on microtubules and gamma-tubulin in four genera of complex thalloid liverworts combined with previously published data on another four genera demonstrate grades in the evolution of spindle organization in meiosis. We have discovered that all recognized forms of microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) in plant cells (plastid MTOCs, spheroid cytoplasmic MTOCs, polar organizers, and nuclear envelope MTOCs) occur in organization of the meiotic spindle of complex thalloid liverworts. In addition, all aspects of pre-meiotic preparation for quadripartitioning of the sporocyte into a tetrad of spores occur, with the exception of pre-meiotic wall precursors found in certain simple thalloids. The preparation includes morphogenetic plastid migration, cortical bands of microtubules that mark future cytokinetic planes in pre-meiosis, quadrilobing of the cytoplasm during meiotic prophase, and quadripolar microtubule systems that are transformed into functionally bipolar metaphase I spindles. Quadripolar spindle origin is typical of bryophyte sporogenesis even though the MTOCs involved may differ. However, in certain crown taxa of complex thalloids the spindle develops with no traces of quadripolarity and placement of intersporal walls is determined after meiosis, as is typical of higher plants.
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- Roy C Brown
- Department of Biology, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, 70504-2451, USA.
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Kajiyama S, Joseph B, Inoue F, Shimamura M, Fukusaki E, Tomizawa K, Kobayashi A. Transient gene expression in guard cell chloroplasts of tobacco using ArF excimer laser microablation. J Biosci Bioeng 2008; 106:194-8. [PMID: 18804064 DOI: 10.1263/jbb.106.194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2007] [Accepted: 05/23/2008] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In this paper, we report a novel method for delivering genes into chloroplasts of tobacco cells using laser microablation. The plasmid pLD200-GFP was introduced into chloroplasts of Nicotiana tabacum cv. Xanthi guard cells and transient GFP expression was detected in the chloroplasts after 2-3 d of incubation. The technique uses an argon fluoride (ArF) excimer laser to perforate the cell surface in a 4 mum(2) area in the presence of plasmid coated gold microparticles. Pretreatment of guard cells to promote stomatal closure prior to laser ablation resulted in a significant increase in the survival rate of cells and a transient expression rate of 2-3% in trial number basis was archived. Our method has unique advantages such as avoiding laborious pretreatments that adversely affect cell viability and specific delivery of transgenes into a desired cell in complex leaf tissue. This technique is a potential tool for cell specific transient gene expression studies for elucidation of gene regulation and expression.
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- Shin'ichiro Kajiyama
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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Attempts have been made to find specific antigens for a novel NKT cell subset bearing invariant V alpha 19-J alpha 33 TCR alpha chains (V alpha 19 NKT cell). Comprehensive examinations revealed substantial antigenic activity in synthetic alpha-mannosylceramide (ManCer) that was presented by MR1. Structural modification of the sphingosine moiety of alpha-ManCer improved antigenic activity to enhance either Th1 or Th2 -promoting cytokine production by V alpha 19 NKT cells. Such alpha-ManCer analogues will be useful for developing new therapies as immunomodulators.
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- M Shimamura
- Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, 11 Minamiooya, Macchida, Tokyo 194-8511, Japan.
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Shimamura M, Yamaguchi T, Deguchi H. Airborne sperm of Conocephalum conicum (Conocephalaceae). J Plant Res 2008; 121:69-71. [PMID: 18058191 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-007-0128-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2007] [Accepted: 10/17/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We have obtained the first momentary photographs of sperms just as they are discharged from the antheridium of a liverwort, Conocephalum conicum, and have succeeded in monitoring the airborne sperms of bryophytes under field conditions. Airborne sperm of liverworts seems to be an effective strategy for raising the efficiency of fertilization between male and female plants separated in a drought environment.
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- Masaki Shimamura
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan.
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Narita M, Shimamura M, Imai S, Kubota C, Yajima Y, Takagi T, Shiokawa M, Inoue T, Suzuki M, Suzuki T. Role of interleukin-1beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha-dependent expression of cyclooxygenase-2 mRNA in thermal hyperalgesia induced by chronic inflammation in mice. Neuroscience 2007; 152:477-86. [PMID: 18262365 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.10.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2007] [Revised: 10/17/2007] [Accepted: 10/19/2007] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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The present study investigated whether the endogenous pro-inflammatory cytokines [interleukin (IL)-1beta and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)]-dependent expression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) mRNA within the spinal cord could be involved in the development of chronic inflammatory pain-like behaviors in mice. We demonstrated that the expression of COX-2 mRNA on the ipsilateral side of the spinal cord was significantly increased 6 h and 3 days after intraplantar injection of complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA), compared with the expression in saline-treated mice. In addition, the chronic pain-like behaviors following CFA injection were markedly suppressed by repeated intrathecal (i.t.) pre-treatment with the COX-2 inhibitor etodolac, but not with the COX-1 inhibitor mofezolac. The cytosolic level of the activated form of nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappaB), which is a major contributor to the induction of COX-2, on the ipsilateral side of the mouse spinal cord was also increased compared with that in the saline-treated mice. The key finding in the present study was that a single i.t. injection with either IL-1beta or TNF-alpha induced a marked increase in spinal COX-2 mRNA and persistent thermal hyperalgesia in mice. Furthermore, CFA-induced hypersensitivity to inflammatory pain was significantly reduced by repeated i.t. pre-injection of the recombinant Fc chimera of IL-1 receptor I or soluble TNF receptor I, which sequesters endogenous IL-1beta or TNF-alpha, respectively. In contrast, the expression of spinal COX-2 mRNA in CFA-treated mice was similar to that in saline-treated mice at 7 days after CFA injection. The present findings strongly indicate the early intrathecal use of the COX-2 inhibitor for the relief of chronic inflammatory pain. Furthermore, together with the result in a previous study that pro-inflammatory cytokines lead to stimulation of a NF-kappaB-dependent transcriptional pathway, these findings suggest that a spinal cytokine/NF-kappaB/COX-2 pathway may play an important role in the development, but not maintenance, of chronic pain following peripheral tissue inflammation.
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- M Narita
- Department of Toxicology, Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-4-41 Ebara, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan.
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Komi Y, Ohno O, Suzuki Y, Shimamura M, Shimokado K, Umezawa K, Kojima S. Inhibition of Tumor Angiogenesis by Targeting Endothelial Surface ATP Synthase with Sangivamycin. Jpn J Clin Oncol 2007; 37:867-73. [DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hym115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Deguchi K, Sasaki I, Ikeda K, Shimamura M, Urai Y, Tsukaguchi M, Touge T, Takeuchi H, Kuriyama S. The validity of a hyperventilation test for an investigation of autonomic failure: assessment in patients with multiple system atrophy and Parkinson's disease. Int J Clin Pract 2006; 60:1542-7. [PMID: 16669828 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2005.00802.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Although heart rate (HR) responses to hyperventilation (HV) have been used as a cardiovascular autonomic function test, autonomic involvement during HV remains uncertain. To clarify the relationship between autonomic activity and cardiovascular changes during HV, we compared cardiovascular responses during HV among subjects with different autonomic function, namely 16 patients with probable multiple system atrophy (MSA), 16 with possible MSA, 28 with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 28 healthy controls. Abnormalities of cardiovascular responses to head-up postural change and the Valsalva maneuver were definitely present in the order of probable MSA, possible MSA and PD, and abnormal HR and blood pressure (BP) responses during HV were observed in probable MSA and possible MSA, but not in PD. Unlike the significant difference in standard cardiovascular autonomic function tests, the HR and BP responses during HV were equivalent between probable and possible MSA. These findings suggest that cardiovascular control during HV may be affected not only by autonomic activity but also by other factors.
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- K Deguchi
- Department of Gastoenterology and Neurology, Kagawa, Japan
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Nakanishi Y, Oinuma T, Sano M, Fuchinoue F, Komatsu K, Seki T, Obana Y, Tabata M, Kikuchi K, Shimamura M, Ohmori K, Nemoto N. Coexpression of an unusual form of the EWS-WT1 fusion transcript and interleukin 2/15 receptor betamRNA in a desmoplastic small round cell tumour. J Clin Pathol 2006; 59:1108-10. [PMID: 17021139 PMCID: PMC1861750 DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2005.026245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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BACKGROUND The beta chain of the interleukin 2/15 receptor (IL-2/15Rbeta) is induced by the expression of the EWS-WT1. A case of desmoplastic small round cell tumour (DSRCT) expressing only an unusual EWS-WT1 treated by us is reported here. AIM To characterise an unusual form of EWS-WT1. METHODS Frozen tissue sections of the axillary tumour were examined using a laser-assisted microdissection technique and reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS The novel fusion of exon 8 of EWS and the defective exon 10 of WT1 (-KTS) was detected. Although it was an unusual form, the coexpression of the present EWS-WT1, IL-2/15Rbeta and Janus kinase (JAK1) mRNA was detected in the tumour cells. IL-2 and signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT5) mRNA were detected in both tumour and stromal cells. CONCLUSION The induction of the IL-2/15 receptor signalling pathway may contribute to tumorigenesis in DSRCT through a paracrine or an autocrine system, even though the EWS-WT1 was an unusual form.
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- Y Nakanishi
- Department of Pathology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Okumura S, Sawada M, Park YW, Hayashi T, Shimamura M, Takase H, Tomizawa KI. Transformation of poplar (Populus alba) plastids and expression of foreign proteins in tree chloroplasts. Transgenic Res 2006; 15:637-46. [PMID: 16952016 DOI: 10.1007/s11248-006-9009-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2006] [Accepted: 04/30/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Plastid transformation offers several unique advantages compared with nuclear genome transformation, such as high level of transgene expression within plastids, expressing multiple transgenes as operons, lack of position effect due to site-specific transgene integration, and reducing risks of gene flow via pollen due to maternal inheritance of the plastid genome. Plastid transformation has been applied to several herbal species, but as yet there are no applications to tree species. We report here the first successful plastid transformation in a tree species, Populus alba. A vector for plastid transformation of poplar (Populus alba) was constructed, which carried the spectinomycin resistance gene and the green fluorescence protein gene as marker genes. In the regenerated shoots, the site-specific integration of foreign genes and the establishment of a high homoplastomic state were confirmed. Immunoblot analysis and histological observations corroborated the accumulation of green fluorescence protein in chloroplasts. The establishment of a plastid transformation system in poplar provides a novel tool for tree biotechnology.
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- Satoru Okumura
- Plant Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), 9-2 Kizugawadai, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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Koike H, Ishida A, Shimamura M, Mizuno S, Nakamura T, Ogihara T, Kaneda Y, Morishita R. Prevention of onset of Parkinson's disease by in vivo gene transfer of human hepatocyte growth factor in rodent model: a model of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease. Gene Ther 2006; 13:1639-44. [PMID: 16791285 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SNi). As neurotrophic factors support the survival and enhance the function of dopaminergic neurons, gene therapy using neurotrophic factors has become the center of interest. Thus, we focused on hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) as a neurotrophic and angiogenic growth factor. At 7 days before injection of 6-hydroxydopamine into the SNi, stereotaxic transfection of human HGF or lacZ plasmid was performed into the unilateral striatum of rats. Expression of human HGF in the injected sites could be detected in rats transfected with HGF plasmid DNA, using immunohistochemical staining. Consistently, human immunoreactive HGF protein could be detected at least up to 12 days after transfection. Interestingly, PD rats transfected with lacZ demonstrated amphetamine-induced rotational asymmetry. However, transfection of HGF plasmid DNA resulted in significant inhibition of abnormal rotation up to 24 weeks in a dose-dependent manner. Over 90% of dopaminergic neurons were lost in PD rats transfected with lacZ, whereas over 70% survived in rats transfected with HGF, as assessed by immunohistochemical staining. Overall, the present study demonstrated that overexpression of HGF prevented neuronal death in a PD rat model, providing a potential novel therapy for PD.
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- H Koike
- Division of Clinical Gene Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Shimamura M, Shimizu M, Yagami T, Funabashi T, Kimura F, Kuroiwa Y, Misu Y, Goshima Y. L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine-induced c-Fos expression in the CNS under inhibition of central aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase. Neuropharmacology 2006; 50:909-16. [PMID: 16504219 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2006.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2005] [Revised: 12/16/2005] [Accepted: 01/04/2006] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) is a neurotransmitter candidate. To map the DOPAergic system functionally, DOPA-induced c-Fos expression was detected under inhibition of central aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC). In rats treated with a central AADC inhibitor, DOPA significantly increased the number of c-Fos-positive nuclei in the paraventricular nuclei (PVN) and the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS), and showed a tendency to increase in the supraoptic nuclei (SON), but not in the striatum. On the other hand, DOPA with a peripheral AADC inhibitor elevated the level of c-Fos-positive nuclei in the four regions, suggesting that DOPA itself induces c-Fos expression in the SON, PVN and NTS. In rats treated with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) to lesion the nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) pathway, DOPA significantly induced c-Fos expression in the four regions under the inhibition of peripheral AADC. However, under the inhibition of central AADC, DOPA did not significantly increase the number of c-Fos-positive nuclei in the four regions, suggesting that DOPA at least in part induces c-Fos expression through its conversion to DA. It was likely that the 6-OHDA lesion enhanced the response to DA, but attenuated that to DOPA itself. In conclusion, we proposed that the SON, PVN and NTS include target sites for DOPA itself.
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- M Shimamura
- Department of Neurology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan
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Hamanaka Y, Mukai M, Shimamura M, Kitagawa T, Nishida T, Isohashi F, Ito T, Nishizawa Y, Tatsuta M, Matsuda H, Inoue M. Suppression of PI3K/mTOR pathway rescues LLC cells from cell death induced by hypoxia. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 330:318-26. [PMID: 15781267 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.02.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Cancer cells in solid tumors are challenged by various microenvironmental stresses, including hypoxia, and cancer cells in hypoxic regions are resistant to current cancer therapies. To investigate the mechanism of resistance to hypoxia in cancer cells, we examined mouse Lewis lung carcinoma (LLC) cells, which died due to necrosis at high density under hypoxic but not under normoxic conditions. Levels of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), a central regulator of cellular energy, are reported to be suppressed in hypoxia. We found that phosphorylation of two molecules downstream to it, ribosomal p70 S6 kinase (S6K) and ribosomal protein S6, was markedly suppressed by hypoxia. Overexpression of the active form of S6K increased the sensitivity of LLC cells to hypoxia. On the other hand, inhibition of PI3K or mTOR dramatically reduced hypoxia-induced cell death under hypoxic conditions. Under hypoxic conditions, blockade of the PI3K or mTOR pathway increased levels of intracellular ATP and delayed decreases in pH and glucose level in culture medium, without affecting the cell cycle.
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- Y Hamanaka
- Department of Biochemistry, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan
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Shimamura M, Garcia JM, Prough DS, Dewitt DS, Uchida T, Shah SA, Avila MAA, Hellmich HL. Analysis of long-term gene expression in neurons of the hippocampal subfields following traumatic brain injury in rats. Neuroscience 2005; 131:87-97. [PMID: 15680694 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.10.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/03/2004] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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After experimental traumatic brain injury (TBI), widespread neuronal loss is progressive and continues in selectively vulnerable brain regions, such as the hippocampus, for months to years after the initial insult. To clarify the molecular mechanisms underlying secondary or delayed cell death in hippocampal neurons after TBI, we compared long-term changes in gene expression in the CA1, CA3 and dentate gyrus (DG) subfields of the rat hippocampus at 24 h and 3, 6, and 12 months after TBI with changes in gene expression in sham-operated rats. We used laser capture microdissection to collect several hundred hippocampal neurons from the CA1, CA3, and DG subfields and linearly amplified the nanogram samples of neuronal RNA with T7 RNA polymerase. Subsequent quantitative analysis of gene expression using ribonuclease protection assay revealed that mRNA expression of the anti-apoptotic gene, Bcl-2, and the chaperone heat shock protein 70 was significantly downregulated at 3, 6 (Bcl-2 only), and 12 months after TBI. Interestingly, the expression of the pro-apoptotic genes caspase-3 and caspase-9 was also significantly decreased at 3, 6 (caspase-9 only), and 12 months after TBI, suggesting that long-term neuronal loss after TBI is not mediated by increased expression of pro-apoptotic genes. The expression of two aging-related genes, p21 and integrin beta3 (ITbeta3), transiently increased 24 h after TBI, returned to baseline levels at 3 months and significantly decreased below sham levels at 12 months (ITbeta3 only). Expression of the gene for the antioxidant glutathione peroxidase-1 also significantly increased 6 months after TBI. These results suggest that decreased levels of neuroprotective genes may contribute to long-term neurodegeneration in animals and human patients after TBI. Conversely, long-term increases in antioxidant gene expression after TBI may be an endogenous neuroprotective response that compensates for the decrease in expression of other neuroprotective genes.
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- M Shimamura
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-0830, USA
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Shimamura M, Sato N, Taniyama Y, Yamamoto S, Endoh M, Kurinami H, Aoki M, Ogihara T, Kaneda Y, Morishita R. Development of efficient plasmid DNA transfer into adult rat central nervous system using microbubble-enhanced ultrasound. Gene Ther 2004; 11:1532-9. [PMID: 15269716 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Although gene therapy might become a promising approach for central nervous system diseases, the safety issue is a serious consideration in human gene therapy. To overcome this problem, we developed an efficient gene transfer method into the adult rat brain based on plasmid DNA using a microbubble-enhanced ultrasound method, since microbubble-enhanced ultrasound has shown promise for transfecting genes into other tissues such as blood vessels. Using the microbubble-enhanced ultrasound method, luciferase expression was increased approximately 10-fold as compared to injection of naked plasmid DNA alone. Interestingly, the site of gene expression was limited to the site of insonation with intracisternal injection, in contrast to previous studies using viruses. Expression of the reporter gene, Venus, was readily detected in the central nervous system. The transfected cells were mainly detected in meningeal cells with intracisternal injection, and in glial cells with intrastriatal injection. There was no obvious evidence of tissue damage by microbubble-enhanced ultrasound. Overall, the present study demonstrated the feasibility of efficient plasmid DNA transfer into the central nervous system, providing a new option for treating various diseases such as tumors.
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- M Shimamura
- Division of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University, Yamada-oka, Suita, Japan
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Shimamura M, Brown RC, Lemmon BE, Akashi T, Mizuno K, Nishihara N, Tomizawa KI, Yoshimoto K, Deguchi H, Hosoya H, Horio T, Mineyuki Y. Gamma-tubulin in basal land plants: characterization, localization, and implication in the evolution of acentriolar microtubule organizing centers. Plant Cell 2004; 16:45-59. [PMID: 14660802 PMCID: PMC301394 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.016501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2003] [Accepted: 10/21/2003] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Although seed plants have gamma-tubulin, a ubiquitous component of centrosomes associated with microtubule nucleation in algal and animal cells, they do not have discrete microtubule organizing centers (MTOCs) comparable to animal centrosomes, and the organization of microtubule arrays in plants has remained enigmatic. Spindle development in basal land plants has revealed a surprising variety of MTOCs that may represent milestones in the evolution of the typical diffuse acentrosomal plant spindle. We have isolated and characterized the gamma-tubulin gene from a liverwort, one of the extant basal land plants. Sequence similarity to the gamma-tubulin gene of higher plants suggests that the gamma-tubulin gene is highly conserved in land plants. The G9 antibody to fission yeast gamma-tubulin recognized a single band of 55 kD in immunoblots from bryophytes. Immunohistochemistry with the G9 antibody clearly documented the association of gamma-tubulin with various MTOC sites in basal land plants (e.g., discrete centrosomes with and without centrioles and the plastid surface in monoplastidic meiosis of bryophytes). Changes in the distribution of gamma-tubulin occur in a cell cycle-specific manner during monoplastidic meiosis in the liverwort Dumortiera hirsuta. gamma-Tubulin changes its localization from the plastid surface in prophase I to the spindle, from the spindle to phragmoplasts and the nuclear envelope in telophase I, and back to the plastid surfaces in prophase II. In vitro experiments show that gamma-tubulin is detectable on the surface of isolated plastids and nuclei of D. hirsuta, and microtubules can be repolymerized from the isolated plastids. gamma-Tubulin localization patterns on plastid and nuclear surfaces are not affected by the destruction of microtubules by oryzalin. We conclude that gamma-tubulin is a highly conserved protein associated with microtubule nucleation in basal land plants and that it has a cell cycle-dependent distribution essential for the orderly succession of microtubule arrays.
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- Masaki Shimamura
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
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Muramatsu T, Ohmori I, Shimamura M, Hasegawa M, Furuichi M, Maekawa Y, Nakamura T, Negishi N. [Complications of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery]. Kyobu Geka 2003; 56:920-3. [PMID: 14579693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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We introduced video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for chest disorders in our institution in March, 1992. At first, many of the subjects' disorders were non-malignant diseases such as spontaneous pneumothorax, but later we started to perform this procedure for lung cancer and mediastinum neoplasm, with improved result over thoracoscopic surgical procedures. Now most of the chest disorders at our institution are treated with VATS. However, many kinds of complications due to manual techniques and instrument troubles surfaced during this period. Therefore, in this article we would like to describe the complications that we have experienced in our institution using VATS and discuss how we have attempted to deal with these complications.
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- T Muramatsu
- Department of Second Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Shimamura M, Nagasawa H, Ashino H, Yamamoto Y, Hazato T, Uto Y, Hori H, Inayama S. A novel hypoxia-dependent 2-nitroimidazole KIN-841 inhibits tumour-specific angiogenesis by blocking production of angiogenic factors. Br J Cancer 2003; 88:307-13. [PMID: 12610518 PMCID: PMC2377039 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Tumour angiogenesis is initiated by angiogenic factors that are produced in large amounts by hypoxic tumour cells. The inhibition of this step may lead to tumour-specific antiangiogenesis because normal tissues are not usually hypoxic. On the other hand, blocking a biological function of endothelial cells is known to result in angiogenic inhibition. To produce a tumour-specific and powerful antiangiogenesis, we determined whether potent angiogenic inhibition could be achieved by inhibiting the production of angiogenic factors by hypoxic tumour cells and simultaneously blocking certain angiogenic steps in endothelial cells under normoxia. We focused on the 2-nitroimidazole moiety, which is easily incorporated into hypoxic cells and exhibits its cytotoxicity as hypoxic cytotoxin. We designed and synthesised 2-nitroimidazole derivatives designated as KIN compounds, and investigated their antiangiogenic activities under normoxia using a chick embryo chorioallantoic membrane. KIN-841 (2-nitroimidazole 1-acetylhydroxamate) showed a potent angiogenic inhibition in a dose-dependent manner. This compound inhibited the proliferation of bovine pulmonary arterial endothelial (BPAE) cells more strongly than that of tumour cells, such as Lewis lung carcinoma (3LL) cells, under normoxia. The inhibition of cell proliferation by KIN-841 under hypoxia increased about five-fold compared to that under normoxia. Moreover, under hypoxia, KIN-841 significantly decreased the excessive production of vascular endothelial cell growth factors induced by 3LL cells as determined by tritium-labelled thymidine ([(3)H]thymidine) incorporation into BPAE cells and by ELISA. Intraperitoneal administration of KIN-841 suppressed 3LL-cell-induced in vivo angiogenesis in the mouse dorsal air sac system. These results indicate that the regulation of the production of angiogenic factors by hypoxic tumour cells is a useful target for tumour-specific angiogenesis inhibition, and that KIN-841, which causes simultaneous direct inhibition of endothelial cell function and production of angiogenic factors by hypoxic tumour cells, is a very potent inhibitor of tumour-specific angiogenesis. Thus, the potential for clinical use of KIN-841 as an antitumour drug is very high.
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- M Shimamura
- Medical R&D Center, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan.
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Ohta M, Minagi S, Sato T, Okamoto M, Shimamura M. Magnetic resonance imaging analysis on the relationship between anterior disc displacement and balancing-side occlusal contact. J Oral Rehabil 2003; 30:30-3. [PMID: 12485380 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2842.2003.01000.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between balancing-side occlusal contact patterns and the prevalence of the internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). Forty-one patients were used for the magnetic resonance image (MRI) analysis of TMJ and occlusal examination. Balancing-side occlusal contact patterns observed during mandibular lateral excursive movements were classified into the three following categories: group A, simultaneous balancing-side contact, group B, balancing-side contact (with clenching only) and Group C, no balancing-side contact (with or without clenching). By the occlusal examination of 57 sides, 31.6% showed group A, 8.8% showed group B and 59.6% showed group C contact. Group A could not be observed in the patient group with normal disc position. In the disc displacement group, the prevalence of group A, group B and group C were 40.9, 6.8 and 52.3%, respectively. The higher prevalence of simultaneous balancing-side contact was revealed to be associated with articular disc dislocation.
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- M Ohta
- Department of Removable Prosthodontics, Okayama University Dental School, Okayama City, Okayama, Japan
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Yamamoto Y, Ono H, Ueda A, Shimamura M, Nishimura K, Hazato T. Spinorphin as an endogenous inhibitor of enkephalin-degrading enzymes: roles in pain and inflammation. Curr Protein Pept Sci 2002; 3:587-99. [PMID: 12470213 DOI: 10.2174/1389203023380404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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It is possible that enkephalins are involved in the pain-modulating mechanism in the spinal cord. Enkephalins, however, are short-lived, being rapidly degraded by various endogenous enzymes. Many substances that inhibit enkephalin-degradation have been investigated and it has been reported that some inhibitors (e.g. kelatorphan and RB101) alone showed anti-nociceptive activity. We found an endogenous factor that modulated enkephalin-degrading activity and purified it from bovine spinal cord based on its inhibitory activity toward enkephalin-degrading enzymes. Structural analysis revealed the factor to be Leu-Val-Val-Tyr-Pro-Trp-Thr and it was named spinorphin. It has been found that spinorphin inhibited the activity toward various enkephalin-degrading enzymes from monkey brain, especially dipeptidyl peptidase III (DPPIII, Ki=5.1 x 10(-7) M). Recently we reported that this inhibitor significantly inhibited bradykinin (BK)-induced nociceptive flexor responses. Importantly, the mode of inhibition to BK-responses by spinorphin was different from the case with morphine. The morphine-induced blockade of BK-response was attenuated by pertussis toxin treatment, whereas that of spinorphin was not. We also have reported roles for spinorphin in inflammation. Spinorphin significantly inhibited the functions of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) by suppressing the binding of fMLF to its receptor on PMNs. Further, this inhibitor suppressed the carrageenan-induced accumulation of PMN in mouse air pouches after intravenous administration. These results indicate that spinorphin may be an endogenous anti-inflammatory regulator. The possible role of spinorphin and its analog as regulators in pain and inflammation will be discussed.
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- Y Yamamoto
- Department of Medical Biology, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan.
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Shimamura M. [Intra-and extra-thymic development of NKT cells]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 2001; 46:2171-5. [PMID: 11762077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2023]
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