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Liu PC, Xu D, Ding GW, Zhao L, Yu JJ, Liu ZF, Li J. [Cost-effectiveness of HCV testing strategies for hepatitis C elimination in general population in China]. Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi 2024; 45:464-472. [PMID: 38514325 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20230908-00140] [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] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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Objective: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C screening in general population in China, and find the age group in which hepatitis C screening can achieve the best cost-effectiveness. Methods: A decision-Markov model was constructed by using software TreeAge pro 2019 to simulate the outcomes of hepatitis C disease pregression of 100 000 persons aged 20-59 years. The cost-effectiveness of the strategies were evaluated from societal perspectives by using incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) and net monetary benefit (NMB). One-way sensitivity analysis and probability sensitivity analysis were used to evaluate the uncertainty of parameters and model. Results: Hepatitis C screening was cost-effective in people aged 20- 59 years and the cost effectiveness was best in age group 40-49 years. Compared with non-screening strategy of hepatitis C in people aged 20-59 years, the incremental cost was 161.24 yuan, the incremental utility was 0.003 6 quality adjusted life years (QALYs)/per person, ICER was 45 197.26 yuan/QALY, ICER was less than the willing payment threshold. The ICER and NMB in all age groups were 42 055.06-53 249.43 yuan/QALY and 96.52-169.86 yuan/per person. Hepatitis C screening in people aged 40-49 years had the best cost-effectiveness. The results of one-way sensitivity analysis showed that the discount rate, anti-HCV detection cost, anti-HCV infection rate and the cost of direct antiviral agents were the main factors influencing economic evaluation. The results of the probability sensitivity analysis indicated that the model analysis was stable. Conclusions: Implementing hepatitis C screening based on medical institutions is cost-effective in people aged 20- 59 years, especially in those aged 40-49 years. Implementing the HCV screening strategy of be willing to test as far as possible in general population can reduce hepatitis C disease burden in China.
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- P C Liu
- National Center for STD/AIDS Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
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- National Center for STD/AIDS Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Center for STD/AIDS Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Center for STD/AIDS Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Center for STD/AIDS Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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- National Center for STD/AIDS Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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Liu PC, Wu MS, Hsieh MC, Suk FM. Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic: Development from gallbladder stone to gallstone ileus. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2017; 32:1539. [PMID: 28845586 DOI: 10.1111/jgh.13832] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2017] [Accepted: 05/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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- P C Liu
- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Liu PC, Chen CA, Chen CM, Yen CH, Lee MH, Chuang CK, Tu CF, Su BL. Application of xenogeneic anti-canine distemper virus antibodies in treatment of canine distemper puppies. J Small Anim Pract 2016; 57:626-630. [PMID: 27726133 DOI: 10.1111/jsap.12557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2016] [Revised: 07/10/2016] [Accepted: 07/31/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The clinical feasibility of passive immunotherapy has not been demonstrated in dogs naturally infected with canine distemper. In this study, porcine anti-canine distemper virus IgG and F(ab')2 antibody fragments were used to treat infected puppies. METHODS A total of 41 naturally infected puppies (age Äsix months) exhibiting severe respiratory signs, but lacking neurological signs, were enrolled in the study. Twenty-five puppies were treated with a combination of IgG or F(ab')2 antibody fragments (Group 1) and supportive therapy and 16 puppies received routine supportive care only (Group 2). RESULTS The survival rate of dogs in Group 1 (19/25; 76%) was significantly higher than that in Group 2 (5/16; 31·3%) (P<0·05). During the therapy, 8 of the 25 dogs (32%) in Group 1 developed neurological signs versus 12 of the 16 dogs (75%) in Group 2 (P<0·05). Adverse reactions were limited to elevated body temperature in dogs that received IgG antibodies. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE Porcine anti-canine distemper virus antibodies improved survival in puppies affected with canine distemper with minimal adverse effects. Therefore, this therapy could be considered for treatment of endangered animal species infected with canine distemper virus.
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- P C Liu
- Graduate Institute of Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, National Taiwan University, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Division of Animal Medicine, Animal Technology Laboratories, Agriculture Technology Research Institute, 35053, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Division of Animal Technology, Animal Technology Laboratories, Agriculture Technology Research Institute, 35053, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Division of Animal Technology, Animal Technology Laboratories, Agriculture Technology Research Institute, 35053, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Division of Animal Technology, Animal Technology Laboratories, Agriculture Technology Research Institute, 35053, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Division of Animal Technology, Animal Technology Laboratories, Agriculture Technology Research Institute, 35053, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Institute of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, National Taiwan University, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan. .,National Taiwan University Veterinary Hospital, National Taiwan University, 10617, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Liu PC, Jiang RK, Naijimidin P. [A case report of chromate manufacturing workers with lung cancer]. Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 2016; 34:543-544. [PMID: 27682497 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1001-9391.2016.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Wen CM, Chen MM, Wang CS, Liu PC, Nan FH. Isolation of a novel polyomavirus, related to Japanese eel endothelial cell-infecting virus, from marbled eels, Anguilla marmorata (Quoy & Gaimard). J Fish Dis 2016; 39:889-897. [PMID: 26566584 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Revised: 08/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/28/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Marbled eels, Anguilla marmorata (Quoy & Gaimard), cultured in Taiwan exhibited haemorrhage and mortality in January 2012. The severely diseased eels bled from the gills and showed congestion of the central venous sinus of the gill filaments and haemorrhage throughout the body similar to viral endothelial cell necrosis of eel. In this study, a novel polyomavirus (AmPyV) was isolated from the diseased eels using the AMPF cell line established from the pectoral fin of healthy marbled eels. AmPyV was found to encode a long T-antigen orthologous gene. Phylogenetic analysis showed that AmPyV was closely related to Japanese eel endothelial cell-infecting virus. PCR assays revealed AmPyV infection throughout the systemic organs. AmPyV proliferated in the AMPF, EK-1 and EO-2 cells at temperatures 25-30 °C, and the progeny virus yields were 10(7.0) , 10(7.4) and 10(7.7) TCID50 mL(-1) , respectively. The purified virions were icosahedral particles, 70-80 nm in diameter. No clinical signs or mortality was observed among the eels injected with the virus; however, the virus was reisolated from the brain, eyes, kidneys, fins and gills of infected eels 2 month after injection. Our results suggest that AmPyV exhibits a latent infection. Pathogen of the disease needs to study further.
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- C M Wen
- Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
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- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
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Lu TM, Pan W, Tsui DC, Liu PC, Zhang Z, Xie YH. Termination of two-dimensional metallic conduction near the metal-insulator transition in a Si/SiGe quantum well. Phys Rev Lett 2011; 107:126403. [PMID: 22026780 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.126403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report in this Letter our recent low-temperature transport results in a Si/SiGe quantum well with moderate peak mobility. An apparent metal-insulating transition is observed. Within a small range of densities near the transition, the conductivity σ displays a nonmonotonic temperature dependence. After an initial decrease at high temperatures, σ first increases with decreasing temperature T, showing a metallic behavior. As T continues decreasing, a downturn in σ is observed. This downturn shifts to a lower T at higher densities. More interestingly, the downturn temperature shows a power-law dependence on the mobility at the downturn position, suggesting that a similar downturn is also expected to occur deep in the apparent metallic regime at albeit experimentally inaccessible temperatures. This thus hints that the observed metallic phase in 2D systems might be a finite temperature effect.
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- T M Lu
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
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Huang YL, Chen YJ, Lin MW, Wu CY, Liu PC, Chen TJ, Chen YC, Jih JS, Chen CC, Lee DD, Chang YT, Wang WJ, Liu HN. Malignancies associated with dermatomyositis and polymyositis in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based study. Br J Dermatol 2009; 161:854-60. [PMID: 19558555 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2009.09274.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Previous studies showed that idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) carried an increased risk of cancers. However, no large-scale study of IIM has been conducted in the Chinese population. OBJECTIVES We sought to delineate the association of IIM and various cancer types from a nationwide database in Taiwan. METHODS We analysed the published national data from records of National Health Insurance claims. Cases of dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM) from 2000 to 2005 and cancers registered in the catastrophic illness profile from 1997 to 2006 were collected. A nationally representative cohort of 1,000,000 enrollees was included for comparison. RESULTS In total, 136 patients (12.8%) among 1059 cases of DM and 46 persons (7.0%) among 661 cases of PM carried internal malignancies. Patients with DM tended to have cancers of nasopharynx, lung and breast. On the other hand, patients with PM tended to have breast, uterine cervix and lung cancers. Compared with the general population, DM gave a 10-fold increased risk for cancers, in which a 66-fold increased risk for nasopharyngeal carcinoma and a 31-fold increased risk for lung cancer were the two most significant. For patients with PM, a 6-fold increased risk for cancer was observed. Juvenile DM had a 16-fold increased risk for haematopoietic or lymphoid malignancy. Two thirds of comorbid malignancies were detected shortly after the diagnoses of IIM, within a mean of 1-2 years. Overall, younger patients with IIM carried the highest risk for malignancies, especially those in their twenties and thirties. CONCLUSIONS This is the first large-scale study to report the associated malignancies and the cancer risk of IIM in Taiwan.
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- Y L Huang
- Department of Dermatology, National Yang-Mind University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Hsieh JH, Liu PC, Cheng MK, Kuo PW. Surface Characterization of TaN-Cu Nanocomposite Thin Films Using Scanning Surface Potential Microscopy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1166/jspm.2007.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lee KK, Liu PC, Chuang WH. Pathogenesis of gastroenteritis caused by Vibrio carchariae in cultured marine fish. Mar Biotechnol (NY) 2002; 4:267-277. [PMID: 14961260 DOI: 10.1007/s10126-002-0018-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2001] [Accepted: 01/10/2002] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Serious mortality among the cultured grouper Epinephelus coioides, characterized by a swollen intestine containing yellow fluid (gastroenteritis), occurred in 1993 in Taiwan. A bacterium isolated from the intestinal fluid and head kidney of moribund groupers was identified as Vibrio carchariae. Since then, the same Vibrio species has also been isolated from moribund black sea bream Acanthopagrus schlegeli, yellowfin sea bream A. latus, Japanese sea bass Lateolabrax japonicus, and red drum Sciaenops ocellatus suffering from the same syndrome. Each isolate was virulent to the respective fish. Recently, a similar syndrome, flounder infectious necrotizing enteritis, also caused by V. carchariae in summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus, was reported in Rhode Island. The extracellular products (ECPs) of V. carchariae strains EmI82KL (from grouper), Rd (from red drum), and SfUSA (from summer flounder, U.S.A.) were virulent to the grouper or red drum. A 33-kDa serine protease partially purified from the ECP of strain EmI82KL was lethal to the fish. All the moribund or killed fish exhibited gastroenteritis except those killed within 12 hours. This report is the first to show that intraperitoneal injection of the ECP or protease in the fish is virulent and can reproduce gastroenteritis. The serine protease was suggested as a major toxin in the grouper or red drum secreted by V. carchariae.
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- K K Lee
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2, Pei-Ning Road, Keelung, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Under stressful conditions organisms adjust the synthesis, processing, and trafficking of molecules to allow survival from and recovery after stress. In baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the cellular production of ribosomes is tightly matched with environmental conditions and nutrient availability through coordinate transcriptional regulation of genes involved in ribosome biogenesis. On the basis of stress-responsive gene expression and functional studies, we have identified a novel, evolutionarily conserved gene, EMG1, that has similar stress-responsive gene expression patterns as ribosomal protein genes and is required for the biogenesis of the 40S ribosomal subunit. The Emg1 protein is distributed throughout the cell; however, its nuclear localization depends on physical interaction with a newly characterized nucleolar protein, Nop14. Yeast depleted of Nop14 or harboring a temperature-sensitive allele of emg1 have selectively reduced levels of the 20S pre-rRNA and mature18S rRNA and diminished cellular levels of the 40S ribosomal subunit. Neither Emg1 nor Nop14 contain any characterized functional motifs; however, isolation and functional analyses of mammalian orthologues of Emg1 and Nop14 suggest that these proteins are functionally conserved among eukaryotes. We conclude that Emg1 and Nop14 are novel proteins whose interaction is required for the maturation of the 18S rRNA and for 40S ribosome production.
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- P C Liu
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, USA
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Huang CY, Liu PC, Lee KK. Withering syndrome of the small abalone, Haliotis diversicolor supertexta, is caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus and associated with thermal induction. Z NATURFORSCH C 2001; 56:898-901. [PMID: 11724402 DOI: 10.1515/znc-2001-9-1036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [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] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The susceptibility of the small abalone Haliotis diversicolor supertexta to Vibrio parahaemolyticus 880915 strain and its extracellular products (ECP) at different temperatures was investigated. The strain was previously isolated from the haemolymph of the moribund small abalone with withering syndrome during an outbreak of mass mortality among the cultured animals in September 1999 in I-Lan, Taiwan. The bacterium and its ECP were lethal to the small abalone. Onset of the withering syndrome in the moribund or dead animals could be observed at 4-7 d post-bacterial challenge. The same bacterial strain could be isolated from the haemolymph of the moribund animals with or without the syndrome post-bacterial challenge. This syndrome could not be observed in the moribund or dead animals post-ECP challenge. The animals were more susceptible to the bacterium and ECP challenge at higher temperature (28 degrees C) indicating that the outbreak of the disease in warmer season is associated with thermal induction.
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- C Y Huang
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Keelung
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Ahn SG, Liu PC, Klyachko K, Morimoto RI, Thiele DJ. The loop domain of heat shock transcription factor 1 dictates DNA-binding specificity and responses to heat stress. Genes Dev 2001; 15:2134-45. [PMID: 11511544 PMCID: PMC312766 DOI: 10.1101/gad.894801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Eukaryotic heat shock transcription factors (HSF) regulate an evolutionarily conserved stress-response pathway essential for survival against a variety of environmental and developmental stresses. Although the highly similar HSF family members have distinct roles in responding to stress and activating target gene expression, the mechanisms that govern these roles are unknown. Here we identify a loop within the HSF1 DNA-binding domain that dictates HSF isoform specific DNA binding in vitro and preferential target gene activation by HSF family members in both a yeast transcription assay and in mammalian cells. These characteristics of the HSF1 loop region are transposable to HSF2 and sufficient to confer DNA-binding specificity, heat shock inducible HSP gene expression and protection from heat-induced apoptosis in vivo. In addition, the loop suppresses formation of the HSF1 trimer under basal conditions and is required for heat-inducible trimerization in a purified system in vitro, suggesting that this domain is a critical part of the HSF1 heat-stress-sensing mechanism. We propose that this domain defines a signature for HSF1 that constitutes an important determinant for how cells utilize a family of transcription factors to respond to distinct stresses.
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- S G Ahn
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, USA
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Liu PC, Chen YC, Lee KK. Pathogenicity of Vibrio alginolyticus isolated from diseased small abalone Haliotis diversicolor supertexta. Microbios 2001; 104:71-7. [PMID: 11297013] [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: 02/19/2023]
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Outbreaks of mass mortality among cultured small abalone Haliotis diversicolor supertexta with abscess/ulcers in the mantle occurred in 1998 at Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan. A swarming bacterium, strain H-11 was isolated from the haemolymph of the moribund small abalone using tryptic soy agar supplemented with 3% NaCl and/or thiosulphate citrate bile salt sucrose agar. This strain was characterized and identified as Vibrio alginolyticus on the basis of various biochemical tests. The H-11 strain and its extracellular products were virulent to small abalones with LD50 values of 3.6 x 10(5) colony forming units and 2.96 microg protein/g body weight, respectively.
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- P C Liu
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Republic of China
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Liu PC, Chen YC, Huang CY, Lee KK. Virulence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from cultured small abalone, Haliotis diversicolor supertexta, with withering syndrome. Lett Appl Microbiol 2000; 31:433-7. [PMID: 11123551 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.2000.00843.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Outbreaks of mass mortality among cultured small abalone Haliotis diversicolor supertexta with withering syndrome occurred in May and September 1998 in Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan. Bacterial strains CH-1 and B4 were isolated from the haemolymph of the moribund small abalone using tryptic soy agar supplemented with 3% NaCl and/or thiosulphate citrate bile salt sucrose agar. These two strains were characterized and identified as Vibrio parahaemolyticus on the basis of various biochemical tests. The B4 strain and its extracellular products were virulent to small abalone with LD(50) values of 1.6 x 10(5) colony-forming units and 7.58 microg protein g-1 body weight, respectively.
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- P C Liu
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
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Chen FR, Liu PC, Lee KK. Purification and partial characterization of a toxic serine protease produced by pathogenic Vibrio alginolyticus. Microbios 2000; 98:95-111. [PMID: 10624008] [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: 02/15/2023]
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An extracellular lethal toxin produced by Vibrio alginolyticus strain Swy originally isolated from diseased kuruma prawn (Penaeus japonicus) was purified using the AKTA purifier system with hydrophobic interaction chromatography, anion exchange and gel filtration columns. The toxin is an alkaline serine protease, inhibited by phenyl methylsulphonyl fluoride (PMSF), antipain and shows maximal activity at pH 8 to 11, having a pI of 4.3 and a molecular weight of approximately 33 kD. The toxin was completely inhibited by FeCl2 but partially inhibited by 3,4-dichloroisocoumarin (3,4-DCI), ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), ethylene glycol-bis(beta-amino-ethyl ether) N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA), CuCl2 and ZnCl2. The purified protease was lethal for kuruma prawn at an LD50 of 0.29 microgram protein/g body weight. The haemolymph withdrawn from the moribund prawns injected with the toxic protease was unable to clot. The coagulogen in the kuruma prawn plasma showed an increased migration rate after incubation with this serine protease, and a plasma colour change from blue to pink was recorded. The addition of PMSF completely inhibited the lethal toxicity of the purified protease, indicating that this serine protease was a lethal toxin produced by the bacterium. The 33 kD protease was therefore a toxic protease produced by V. alginolyticus strain Swy.
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- F R Chen
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Republic of China
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Toxicity of the extracellular products (ECP) and the lethal attribute of serine protease secreted by five pathogenic Vibrio alginolyticus strains from various sources in kuruma prawn Penaeus japonicus were studied. The ECPs of organisms originally isolated from diseased kuruma prawn or small abalone Haliotis diversicolor supertexta were more lethal (LD50 value of 0.48 or 0.41 microg protein/g prawn) than those from diseased tiger prawn P. monodon, yellowfin porgy Acanthopagrus latus or horse mackerel (LD50 value of 0.98-1.17 microg protein/g prawn). All the ECPs manifested strong, weak and no activities against gelatin, sheep erythrocytes and chitin, respectively. In immunodiffusion tests using rabbit antiserum to a purified 33 kDa serine protease of strain Swy against ECP of each tested strain produced one single precipitation band in each treatment. Furthermore, the serine protease was suggested to be the dominant protease secreted by V. alginolyticus strains tested since the majority of enzymatic activity of the respective ECP was inhibited by phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride (PMSF). A higher inhibition of serine protease activity by PMSF resulted in lower mortality rate of the ECPs injected into the prawns suggesting that the protease is one of the major lethal factor(s) secreted by V. alginolyticus.
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- F R Chen
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung.
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Katz ML, Liu PC, Grob-Nunn SE, Shibuya H, Johnson GS. Characterization and chromosomal mapping of a mouse ortholog of the late-infantile ceroid-lipofuscinosis gene CLN2. Mamm Genome 1999; 10:1050-3. [PMID: 10556422 DOI: 10.1007/s003359901160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Late-infantile ceroid-lipofuscinosis (CLN2) is an autosomal recessively inherited, neurodegenerative disease in humans. The CLN2 locus has been mapped to Chromosome (Chr) 11p15, and its sequence and genomic organization have recently been reported. In the present study, the cDNA sequence, exon/intron organization, and chromosomal localization of a mouse ortholog of the CLN2 gene are described. The mouse cDNA contains an open reading frame that predicts a protein product of 562 amino acids. The mouse and human coding regions are 86% and 88% identical at the nucleic acid and amino acid levels, respectively. One less codon appears in the mouse cDNA when compared with the human ortholog. The mouse gene (Cln2) spans more than 6 kb and consists of 13 exons separated by introns ranging in size from 111 to 1259 bp. Length polymorphism in an (AC)(n) microsatellite in intron 3 of the mouse Cln2 gene was used to perform segregation analysis with The Jackson Laboratory DNA Panel Mapping Resource. On the basis of this analysis, the Cln2 gene was localized to a region of mouse Chr 7 that corresponds to human Chr 11p15. Characterization of the mouse Cln2 gene will facilitate generation of a mouse model for late-infantile ceroid-lipofuscinosis by gene targeting and identification of functionally important regions of the Cln2 protein.
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- M L Katz
- Mason Eye Institute, University of Missouri School of Medicine, One Hospital Drive, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
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Electrophoretic characterization of a novel cysteine protease produced by pathogenic luminous Vibrio harveyi, originally isolated from diseased tiger prawn Penaeus monodon in Taiwan, is demonstrated in the present study using native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (native PAGE), sodium dodecyl sulfate-PAGE (SDS-PAGE), crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE) and isoelectric focusing (IEF) gels. The protease has a pI of 6.4 and exhibits a fast-migrating feature in native-PAGE and CIE gels indicating that it is a negatively charged protease. The protease electrophoresed as a 22 kDa protein band in native- and SDS-PAGE (in SDS - buffer with or without the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol) while it electrophoresed as a 38 kDa protein band in SDS-PAGE when the samples were boiled for 10 min prior to electrophoresis. The results reveal that the enzyme is an SDS-resistant monomeric protease and its high negative charge is not influenced by SDS (detergent) without boiling the sample. The present results are useful in determining proteins of similar nature to this unique cysteine protease.
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- K K Lee
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung.
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Tanabe M, Sasai N, Nagata K, Liu XD, Liu PC, Thiele DJ, Nakai A. The mammalian HSF4 gene generates both an activator and a repressor of heat shock genes by alternative splicing. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:27845-56. [PMID: 10488131 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.39.27845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The expression of heat shock genes is controlled at the level of transcription by members of the heat shock transcription factor family in vertebrates. HSF4 is a mammalian factor characterized by its lack of a suppression domain that modulates formation of DNA-binding homotrimer. Here, we have determined the exon structure of the human HSF4 gene and identified a major new isoform, HSF4b, derived by alternative RNA splicing events, in addition to a previously reported HSF4a isoform. In mouse tissues HSF4b mRNA was more abundant than HSF4a as examined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, and its protein was detected in the brain and lung. Although both mouse HSF4a and HSF4b form trimers in the absence of stress, these two isoforms exhibit different transcriptional activity; HSF4a acts as an inhibitor of the constitutive expression of heat shock genes, and hHSF4b acts as a transcriptional activator. Furthermore HSF4b but not HSF4a complements the viability defect of yeast cells lacking HSF. Moreover, heat shock and other stresses stimulate transcription of target genes by HSF4b in both yeast and mammalian cells. These results suggest that differential splicing of HSF4 mRNA gives rise to both an inhibitor and activator of tissue-specific heat shock gene expression.
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- M Tanabe
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8397, Japan
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The grouper industry in Taiwan faces serious threats from various disease problems. The present study investigated dual challenges with infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) and Vibrio carchariae in the grouper (Epinephelus sp.). The fish were infected with IPNV for 2 weeks prior to a secondary infection with the bacteria, or vice versa, by either immersion (10(3)-10(4) TCID50 IPNV per ml, 10(6)-10(7) colony forming units (CFU) Vibrio per ml) or by intraperitoneal injection (10(3)-10(4) TCID50 IPNV per g fish or 10(7) CFU Vibrio/g fish) challenges. Mass mortalities occurred in fish infected with IPNV for 2 weeks prior to the infection with the bacteria, or vice versa, in either immersion or intraperitoneal injection challenges. The bacterium could only survive in seawater or brackish water similar to that of cultured groupers.
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- K K Lee
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, ROC
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Katz ML, Shibuya H, Liu PC, Kaur S, Gao CL, Johnson GS. A mouse gene knockout model for juvenile ceroid-lipofuscinosis (Batten disease). J Neurosci Res 1999; 57:551-6. [PMID: 10440905] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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The human hereditary ceroid-lipofuscinoses are a group of autosomal recessively inherited diseases characterized by massive accumulations of autofluorescent lysosomal storage bodies in the cells of many tissues and by neuronal degeneration throughout the central nervous system. There are a number of clinically and genetically distinct forms of ceroid-lipofuscinosis, the most common of which is the juvenile type, also known as Batten disease and CLN3. To study the mechanisms that lead to pathology in CLN3 and to evaluate potential therapies, a mouse model has been generated by targeted disruption of the mouse ortholog of the CLN3 gene (Cln3). As in affected humans, mice homozygous for the disrupted Cln3 allele show accumulation of autofluorescent storage material in neurons and other cell types. The storage material consists of membrane-bounded intracellular inclusions with ultrastructural features typical of the ceroid-lipofuscinoses. The accumulation of this storage material validates the Cln3 knockout mice as a model for the human disorder.
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- M L Katz
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65212, USA.
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Chen FR, Liu PC, Lee KK. An evaluation of chromogenic substrates for characterization of serine protease produced by pathogenic Vibrio alginolyticus. Microbios 1999; 98:27-34. [PMID: 10413876] [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: 02/13/2023]
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Four chromogenic substrates for characterizing serine protease of Vibrio alginolyticus were evaluated. The protease activity of bacterial extracellular products, or the fractions of 33 kD protease purified by the AKTA purifier system with various columns, was completely inhibited by ethylenediamine tetra-acetic acid, ethylene glycol-bis(beta-amino-ethyl ether) N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (EGTA), antipain and phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride (PMSF) using water-soluble substrates (azoalbumin and azocasein). It was only completely inhibited by antipain and PMSF using water-insoluble substrates (azocoll and hide powder azure). The protease activity was not, or only partially, inhibited by 1,10-phenanthroline and sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) using all four substrates. Since chelating agents and 1,10-phenanthroline are commonly employed as inhibitors to identify metalloprotease, the two water-soluble substrates may not be appropriate for this purpose, except for using 1,10-phenanthroline as an inhibitor. Chelating agents may be still applicable as inhibitors using water-insoluble substrates and 1,10-phenanthroline is highly recommended in the characterization for metalloprotease to avoid confusion. In the present study, the 33 kD protease was further confirmed as an SDS-resistant serine protease and not a metalloprotease.
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- F R Chen
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Republic of China
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Heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) are stress-responsive proteins that activate the expression of heat shock genes and are highly conserved from bakers' yeast to humans. Under basal conditions, the human HSF1 protein is maintained as an inactive monomer through intramolecular interactions between two coiled-coil domains and interactions with heat shock proteins; upon environmental, pharmacological, or physiological stress, HSF1 is converted to a homotrimer that binds to its cognate DNA binding site with high affinity. To dissect regions of HSF1 that make important contributions to the stability of the monomer under unstressed conditions, we have used functional complementation in bakers' yeast as a facile assay system. Whereas wild-type human HSF1 is restrained as an inactive monomer in yeast that is unable to substitute for the essential yeast HSF protein, mutations in the linker region between the DNA binding domain and the first coiled-coil allow HSF1 to homotrimerize and rescue the viability defect of a hsfDelta strain. Fine mapping by functional analysis of HSF1-HSF2 chimeras and point mutagenesis revealed that a small region in the amino-terminal portion of the HSF1 linker is required for maintenance of HSF1 in the monomeric state in both yeast and in transfected human 293 cells. Although linker regions in transcription factors are known to modulate DNA binding specificity, our studies suggest that the human HSF1 linker plays no role in determining HSF1 binding preferences in vivo but is a critical determinant in regulating the HSF1 monomer-trimer equilibrium.
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- P C Liu
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0606, USA.
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The role of an extracellular cysteine protease, produced by pathogenic luminous Vibrio harveyi strain 820514 originally isolated from diseased tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon), in the disease process in the prawns was studied. The protease was lethal to P. monodon with an LD50 value of 0.3 microgram protein g-1 prawn. The lethal toxicity of the extracellular products (ECP) of the bacterium was neutralized by pre-incubation of the ECP with rabbit antiserum to the cysteine protease. Pre-incubation of ECP with CuCl2 (an inhibitor of cysteine protease) also inhibited toxicity. This suggests that cysteine protease is the major toxin produced by the bacterium. The present protease is the first toxic cysteine protease to be found in Vibrio species.
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- P C Liu
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, ROC
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Lee KK, Chen YL, Liu PC. Hemostasis of tiger prawn Penaeus monodon affected by Vibrio harveyi, extracellular products, and a toxic cysteine protease. Blood Cells Mol Dis 1999; 25:180-92. [PMID: 10575544 DOI: 10.1006/bcmd.1999.0244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The effects of bacterial cells, extracellular products (ECP) and a purified cysteine protease of Vibrio harveyi on hemostasis and plasma components of tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) were studied. The clotting ability of the hemolymph withdrawn from moribund prawns pre-injected with the bacteria, ECP, cysteine protease of PBS (control) was observed for 2 h at 25 C. Of these, only the control group was clottable while all the other groups were unclottable. A component of the plasma, previously identified as coagulogen-like protein, was further confirmed to be a coagulogen by the comparison of plasma with serum on non-reduced SDS-PAGE or using rabbit antiserum to the coagulogen-like protein (R alpha coagulogen) to neutralize the clotting ability of normal prawn hemolymph. The coagulogen was reduced in amount in plasma of moribund prawns after injection with the bacteria, ECP or cysteine protease while it apparently disappeared after pre-incubation with the ECP or cysteine protease for 2 h at 25 C compared with normal prawn plasma as observed in crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE) gels. The reduction of the amount of coagulogen in plasma of moribund prawns was also evident in CIE gels using R alpha coagulogen. In addition, the apparent disapperance of the coagulogen mentioned above was eventually proven to be due to the change of its migration rate in CIE gels after pre-incubation with ECP or cysteine protease, since the disappeared coagulogen arc (arc 2) (migrated into arc 1) could be visualized by using R alpha coagulogen or by reducing the time for pre-incubation from 2 h to 30 min. Thus, the effects of cysteine protease on plasma coagulogen observed in vitro and in vivo may markedly interfere with hemostasis leading to the occurrence of unclottable hemolymph. These complex events may significantly contribute to the pathogenicity of V. harveyi in the prawn.
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- K K Lee
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan.
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Lee KK, Yii KC, Yang TI, Hong HI, Liu PC. Protease and virulence of the extracellular products produced by Vibrio carchariae after growth on various media. Z NATURFORSCH C 1999; 54:383-6. [PMID: 10431390 DOI: 10.1515/znc-1999-5-613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Protease and virulence of the extracellular products (ECP) of Vibrio carchariae strain EmI82KL, a causative agent of gastroenteritis in Epinephelus coioides, cultured on different media were studied. The bacteria grown on peptone agar, nutrient agar or brain heart infusion agar produced higher protease activities than that grown on tryptic soy agar (TSA) in terms of protein content. The addition of ethylenediamine di(o-hydroxyphenylacetic acid) or horse serum in TSA enhanced the ECP protease production while the addition of grouper serum apparently reduced the enzyme activity indicating the presence of protease inhibitor(s) in the fish serum. Furthermore, the use of grouper meat or peptone as a single nutrient source remarkably enhanced the production of ECP protease. Adding proteinaceous materials from animal sources (horse serum, grouper meat or peptone) on agar manifested higher ECP protease activity than that from plant source (TSA), indicating the intestine of carnivorous groupers might favour the existence, survival or infection of the bacterium. The protease was a metal-chelator-sensitive serine protease since it was inhibited by 3,4-dichloroisocoumarin and phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride while about 80% of its activity inhibited by chelating agents (ethylene-diaminetetraacetic acid and ethylene glycol-bis(beta-amino-ethylether) N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid). The ECP obtained from each medium was not lethal to the groupers suggesting that the bacterium is low virulent. As grouper is carnivorous, therefore, the role of the protease played in the fish intestine probably is competing for nutrients and/or associated with the cause of edema leading to gastroenteritis.
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- K K Lee
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung.
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van der Heijden O, Chiu HC, Park TC, Takahashi H, LiVolsi VA, Risinger JI, Barrett JC, Berchuck A, Evans AC, Behbakht K, Menzin AW, Liu PC, Benjamin I, Morgan MA, King SA, Rubin SC, Boyd J. Allelotype analysis of uterine leiomyoma: localization of a potential tumor suppressor gene to a 4-cM region of chromosome 7q. Mol Carcinog 1998; 23:243-7. [PMID: 9869453 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2744(199812)23:4<243::aid-mc7>3.0.co;2-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [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] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Uterine leiomyoma is a benign smooth muscle tumor of the myometrium and is the most commonly encountered neoplasm in women of reproductive age. As for most benign tumors, the pathogenesis of leiomyoma remains obscure, especially at the molecular genetic level. The purpose of this study was to perform a genome-wide allelotype analysis to identify potential sites of tumor suppressor gene inactivation. Fifty-two cases of uterine leiomyoma were subjected to allelotype analysis by using matched pairs of tumor and blood DNA. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) was assessed at 61 microsatellite markers distributed throughout the genome and representing all 41 chromosome arms. In general, LOH was very rare except on chromosome 7q, where LOH was observed in 34% of all informative tumors. Fine-deletion mapping with 25 microsatellite markers from the 7q22 region revealed a minimal deletion unit of approximately 4 cM, bounded by the markers D7S2453 proximally and D7S496 distally, that probably harbors a novel tumor suppressor gene involved in the etiology of this tumor.
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- O van der Heijden
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA
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Chen YW, Bermudez AJ, Liu PC, Nonneman D, Johnson GS. A DraIII PCR/RFLP in an intron of the emu lysosomal protective protein gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:404-5. [PMID: 9800337] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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- Y W Chen
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Khan S, Shibuya H, Nonneman D, Liu PC, Huang TH, Johnson GS. A polymorphic (TG)n microsatellite in an intron of the canine tyrosine transaminase gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:322. [PMID: 9745673] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- S Khan
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Guo Q, Shibuya H, Nonneman D, Liu PC, Huang TH, Johnson GS. A polymorphic (CA)n microsatellite in the canine lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:328-9. [PMID: 9745681] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Q Guo
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Zhou T, Shibuya H, Liu PC, O'Brien DP, Johnson GS. A NlaIII PCR/RFLP in an intron of the retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator gene (RPGR) on the canine X chromosome. Anim Genet 1998; 29:330-1. [PMID: 9745684] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- T Zhou
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Liu PC, Chen YW, Shibuya H, Katz ML, Lubahn DB, Johnson GS. Length polymorphism in a CT-rich microsatellite in an intron of the canine tyrosinase-related protein-2 gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:327. [PMID: 9745679] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- P C Liu
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Liu PC, Chen YW, Shibuya H, Lubahn DB, Johnson GS. A length polymorphism in an intron of the canine polycystic kidney disease 1 gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:322-3. [PMID: 9745674] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- P C Liu
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Liu PC, Shibuya H, Nonneman D, Katz ML, Johnson GS. A BseRI PCR/RFLP in an intron of the canine phenol sulfotransferase gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:329. [PMID: 9745682] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- P C Liu
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Lee KK, Chiang HT, Yii KC, Su WM, Liu PC. Effects of extracellular products of Vibrio vulnificus on Acanthopagrus schlegeli serum components in vitro and in vivo. Microbios 1998; 92:209-17. [PMID: 9670552] [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: 02/08/2023]
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A Vibrio strain Ls001, originally isolated from a body surface lesion of a moribund black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegeli) in 1994 in Taiwan, was identified as Vibrio vulnificus. The extracellular products (ECP) of the strain were lethal to the fish, and its effects on fish serum in vitro and in vivo are described in the present study. Nine major precipitation arcs were visualized in normal fish serum in a crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE) gel using rabbit antiserum to the fish normal serum and staining with Coomassie brilliant blue. Only four and six of the nine major arcs could be tentatively identified by CIE following in vivo and in vitro ECP treatment, respectively. The same two major arcs were both missing following either in vivo or in vitro treatment with ECP. These complex events may significantly contribute to the pathogenesis of V. vulnificus in A. schlegeli.
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- K K Lee
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Republic of China
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Ganjam KK, Shibuya H, Stoy SJ, Liu PC, Ganjam VK, Katz ML, Johnson GS. A BstUI PCR/RFLP marker in an intron of the canine fibrillin 1 gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:240-1. [PMID: 9720191] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- K K Ganjam
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Chen YW, Liu PC, Shibuya H, O'Brien DP, Lubahn DB, Johnson GS. Length polymorphism in a CAG-rich coding region of the canine dentatorubro-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:241. [PMID: 9720192] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Y W Chen
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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- P C Liu
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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- D G Jagdeo
- Department of Pediatrics, Scarborough Hospital, Ontario, Canada
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Zhou T, Nonneman D, Shibuya H, Khan S, Liu PC, Johnson GS. An AvaII PCR/RFLP in an exon of the canine gene for the beta subunit of the amiloride-sensitive sodium channel (SCNN1B). Anim Genet 1998; 29:239. [PMID: 9720188] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- T Zhou
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Shibuya H, Liu PC, O'Brien DP, Chen YW, Johnson GS. A BbvI mismatch PCR/RFLP marker for the canine huntingtin gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:239-40. [PMID: 9720189] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- H Shibuya
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Liu PC, Dunlap DY, Matsumura F. Suppression of C/EBPalpha and induction of C/EBPbeta by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in mouse adipose tissue and liver. Biochem Pharmacol 1998; 55:1647-55. [PMID: 9634001 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-2952(98)00012-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We examined the effect of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) on two transcription factors, CAAT/enhancer binding protein-alpha (C/EBPalpha) and beta (C/EBPbeta), involved in the coordination of gene expression in adipose and liver. A single dose of TCDD (100 microg/kg) to male C57BL mice resulted in a time- and dose-dependent decrease in the level of C/EBPalpha mRNA in adipose tissue and liver, and a reciprocal increase in C/EBPbeta mRNA. Gel shift analysis using hepatic nuclear extracts from control and TCDD-treated mice and an oligonucleotide containing a C/EBP recognition element revealed a time-dependent change in DNA-protein complexes formed. Bands corresponding to C/EBPalpha, as determined by supershift analysis, diminished in TCDD-treated animals over a 7-day time period, whereas two new bands corresponding to C/EBPbeta, not present in control extracts, were increased significantly in treated samples. TCDD induced C/EBPbeta mRNA in wild-type mouse hepatoma cells, but not in aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) nuclear translocator-deficient hepatoma cells. Induction in wild-type hepatoma cells was antagonized effectively by a molar excess of alpha-naphthoflavone. These results showed that TCDD caused rapid, reciprocal changes in C/EBPalpha and C/EBPbeta mRNAs and DNA binding in the adipose and liver of male C57BL mice and induced C/EBPbeta in hepatoma cells in an AhR-dependent manner. C/EBPs play vital roles in the coordination of energy homeostasis, and their alteration by TCDD may provide insight into the mechanism by which TCDD perturbs energy storage and utilization in vivo.
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- P C Liu
- Department of Environmental Toxicology and the Center for Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Davis 95616, USA
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Shibuya H, Liu PC, Katz ML, Siakotos AN, Nonneman DJ, Johnson GS. Coding sequence and exon/intron organization of the canine CLN3 (Batten disease) gene and its exclusion as the locus for ceroid-lipofuscinosis in English setter dogs. J Neurosci Res 1998; 52:268-75. [PMID: 9590435 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4547(19980501)52:3<268::aid-jnr3>3.0.co;2-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Hereditary ceroid-lipofuscinosis in English setters has been proposed to be the canine equivalent of human juvenile ceroid-lipofuscinosis, which results from defects in the CLN3 gene. Analyses were performed to determine whether the disease in English setters is also the consequence of a CLN3 gene mutation. Canine CLN3 cDNA was found to contain a 1,314-bp open reading frame predicting a derived amino acid sequence which is 89%, 85%, and 84% identical to the predicted amino acid sequences for the human, mouse, and rabbit CLN3 proteins, respectively. The canine gene has sixteen exons. No differences were detected when cDNA nucleotide sequences from an English setter with ceroid-lipofuscinosis and from a normal dog were compared. Moreover, alleles of the canine CLN3 gene distinguished by an intragenic marker segregated independently from the disease in an English setter family, eliminating CLN3 as the locus for the canine disease. A ceroid-lipofuscinosis-affected Tibetan terrier was homozygous for a Gly70Glu CLN3 variant; however, this allele is common in dog breeds considered free of ceroid-lipofuscinosis.
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- H Shibuya
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65212, USA
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Liu PC, Lee KK, Chen SN. Susceptibility of different isolates of Vibrio harveyi to antibiotics. Microbios 1998; 91:175-80. [PMID: 9523424] [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: 02/06/2023]
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The susceptibility of six Vibrio harveyi strains to antibiotics was studied. Four strains originally isolated from diseased penaeids and two reference strains originally isolated from either sea water (ATCC 25919) or diseased Talorchestia sp. (ATCC 14126) were used in the present study. Results revealed that all three strains isolated in Taiwan exhibited resistance against nitrofurantoin, novobiocin and sulphonamide. The two reference strains and the strain isolated in Indonesia were susceptible to these three antibiotics.
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- P C Liu
- Department of Aquaculture, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Recent studies have shed new light on the complexities of the heat shock response in yeast. Multiple pathways for transcriptional induction of both classic and novel heat shock proteins are emerging together with a more detailed understanding of the interactions between protein chaperones and their physiological targets. New roles for heat shock proteins in defense and recovery from the impacts of thermal stress on critical cellular processes have expanded our understanding of these elaborate and ubiquitous proteins.
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- K A Morano
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, 1301 Catherine Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0606, USA.
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Kakeya H, Onose R, Liu PC, Onozawa C, Matsumura F, Osada H. Inhibition of cyclin D1 expression and phosphorylation of retinoblastoma protein by phosmidosine, a nucleotide antibiotic. Cancer Res 1998; 58:704-10. [PMID: 9485024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In this report, we studied the effect of phosmidosine, a proline-containing nucleotide on the serum-induced cell cycle progression in human lung fibroblast WI-38 cells. Phosmidosine suppressed S-phase entry and arrested cell cycle progression at the G1 phase. In serum-stimulated cells, phosmidosine did not affect the activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade. However, phosmidosine inhibited hyperphosphorylation of retinoblastoma (RB) protein by RB-kinases such as cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and cyclin-dependent kinase 2, probably as a result of the inhibition of cyclin D1 expression. Furthermore, in tsFT210 cells, a temperature-sensitive cdc2 mutant isolated from the mouse mammary carcinoma cell line FM3A, phosmidosine, irreversibly inhibited the cell cycle progression at G1 without affecting the G2 to M transition. Phosmidosine acts at an earlier point in G1 compared with mimosine or aphidicolin, well-known cell cycle blockers at the G1-S boundary. Taken together, phosmidosine arrested cells at a specific point between the start point and restriction point in G1 and is a useful drug that may contribute to the understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of G1 progression.
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- H Kakeya
- Antibiotics Laboratory, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Saitama, Japan
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Liu PC, Shibuya H, Lubahn DB, Johnson GS. A polymorphic (CT)n microsatellite in an intron of the canine SA-hypertension gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:72. [PMID: 9682465] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- P C Liu
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Liu PC, Shibuya H, Katz ML, Johnson GS. A BsmFI PCR/RFLP in the canine CD19 gene. Anim Genet 1998; 29:64-5. [PMID: 9682456] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- P C Liu
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Heat shock factors (HSF) are important eukaryotic stress responsive transcription factors which are highly structurally conserved from yeast to mammals. HSFs bind as homotrimers to conserved promoter DNA recognition sites called HSEs. The baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae possesses a single essential HSF gene, while distinct HSF isoforms have been identified in humans. To ascertain the degree of functional similarity between the yeast and human HSF proteins, human HSF1 and HSF2 were expressed in yeast cells lacking the endogenous HSF gene. We demonstrate that human HSF2, but not HSF1, homotrimerizes and functionally complements the viability defect associated with a deletion of the yeast HSF gene. However, derivatives of hHSF1 that give rise to a trimerized protein, through disruption of a carboxyl- or aminoterminal coiled-coil domain thought to engage in intramolecular interactions that maintain the protein in a monomeric state, functionally substitute for yeast HSF. Surprisingly, hHSF2 expressed in yeast activates target gene transcription in response to thermal stress. Moreover, hHSF1 and hHSF2 exhibit selectivity for transcriptional activation of two distinct yeast heat shock responsive genes, which correlate with previously established mammalian HSF DNA binding preferences in vitro. These results provide new insight into the function of human HSF isoforms, and demonstrate the remarkable functional conservation between yeast and human HSFs, critical transcription factors required for responses to physiological, pharmacological and environmental stresses.
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- X D Liu
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0606, USA
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Katz ML, Gao CL, Prabhakaram M, Shibuya H, Liu PC, Johnson GS. Immunochemical localization of the Batten disease (CLN3) protein in retina. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1997; 38:2375-86. [PMID: 9344361] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Batten disease, also known as juvenile ceroid-lipofuscinosis and CLN3, is an autosomal recessively inherited disorder that results in blindness due to retinal degeneration. The CLN3 gene has been identified, but the function of the protein that this gene encodes is unknown. Experiments were conducted to determine where the CLN3 protein is localized in the mouse retina. Localization should provide a clue in evaluating potential functions of this protein. METHODS Using oligonucleotide primers based on the reported human CLN3 cDNA sequence, the mouse cDNA nucleotide sequence was determined from products of the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and 3' rapid amplification of cDNA ends. A synthetic 20-amino-acid peptide corresponding to an internal hydrophilic region of the predicted amino acid sequence of the mouse CLN3 protein was used to immunize rabbits. The resulting antiserum was used in immunoblot analysis of mouse retina homogenates and in electron microscopic immunocytochemical labeling of mouse retina sections. RESULTS The peptide antibody labeled a single protein band of approximately 50 kDa on immunoblots of mouse retina homogenates. No labeling was detected with homogenates from human retinas. The antibody specifically labeled mitochondria of Müller cells and inner retinal neurons. Little labeling was observed in mitochondria of the photoreceptor cells. Mitochondria of other cell types, including the retinal pigment epithelium and choroidal cells, were not labeled. CONCLUSIONS The retinal CLN3 protein appears to be localized almost exclusively in the mitochondria, but was detected only in certain cell types. Batten disease is characterized by massive lysosomal accumulations of a small inner mitochondrial membrane protein (subunit c of ATP synthase). The mitochondrial localization of the CLN3 protein suggests that it may play a role in the normal processing of subunit c.
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- M L Katz
- Mason Eye Institute, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia 65212, USA
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