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Takakura Y, Machida M, Terada N, Katsumi Y, Kawamura S, Horie K, Miyauchi M, Ishikawa T, Akiyama N, Seki T, Miyao T, Hayama M, Endo R, Ishii H, Maruyama Y, Hagiwara N, Kobayashi TJ, Yamaguchi N, Takano H, Akiyama T, Yamaguchi N. Mitochondrial protein C15ORF48 is a stress-independent inducer of autophagy that regulates oxidative stress and autoimmunity. Nat Commun 2024; 15:953. [PMID: 38296961 PMCID: PMC10831050 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45206-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Autophagy is primarily activated by cellular stress, such as starvation or mitochondrial damage. However, stress-independent autophagy is activated by unclear mechanisms in several cell types, such as thymic epithelial cells (TECs). Here we report that the mitochondrial protein, C15ORF48, is a critical inducer of stress-independent autophagy. Mechanistically, C15ORF48 reduces the mitochondrial membrane potential and lowers intracellular ATP levels, thereby activating AMP-activated protein kinase and its downstream Unc-51-like kinase 1. Interestingly, C15ORF48-dependent induction of autophagy upregulates intracellular glutathione levels, promoting cell survival by reducing oxidative stress. Mice deficient in C15orf48 show a reduction in stress-independent autophagy in TECs, but not in typical starvation-induced autophagy in skeletal muscles. Moreover, C15orf48-/- mice develop autoimmunity, which is consistent with the fact that the stress-independent autophagy in TECs is crucial for the thymic self-tolerance. These results suggest that C15ORF48 induces stress-independent autophagy, thereby regulating oxidative stress and self-tolerance.
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- Yuki Takakura
- Department of Molecular Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8505, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan.
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan.
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- Department of Molecular Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan.
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, 260-8675, Japan.
- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan.
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Ishikawa T, Horie K, Takakura Y, Ohki H, Maruyama Y, Hayama M, Miyauchi M, Miyao T, Hagiwara N, Kobayashi TJ, Akiyama N, Akiyama T. T-cell receptor repertoire analysis of CD4-positive T cells from blood and an affected organ in an autoimmune mouse model. Genes Cells 2023; 28:929-941. [PMID: 37909727 DOI: 10.1111/gtc.13079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Revised: 10/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/22/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
Abstract
One hallmark of some autoimmune diseases is the variability of symptoms among individuals. Organs affected by the disease differ between patients, posing a challenge in diagnosing the affected organs. Although numerous studies have investigated the correlation between T cell antigen receptor (TCR) repertoires and the development of infectious and immune diseases, the correlation between TCR repertoires and variations in disease symptoms among individuals remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the correlation of TCRα and β repertoires in blood T cells with the extent of autoimmune signs that varies among individuals. We sequenced TCRα and β of CD4+ CD44high CD62Llow T cells in the blood and stomachs of mice deficient in autoimmune regulator (Aire) (AIRE KO), a mouse model of human autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy. Data analysis revealed that the degree of similarity in TCR sequences between the blood and stomach varied among individual AIRE KO mice and reflected the extent of T cell infiltration in the stomach. We identified a set of TCR sequences whose frequencies in blood might correlate with extent of the stomach manifestations. Our results propose a potential of using TCR repertoires not only for diagnosing disease development but also for diagnosing affected organs in autoimmune diseases.
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- Tatsuya Ishikawa
- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory of Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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Horie K, Namiki K, Kinoshita K, Miyauchi M, Ishikawa T, Hayama M, Maruyama Y, Hagiwara N, Miyao T, Murata S, Kobayashi TJ, Akiyama N, Akiyama T. Acute irradiation causes a long-term disturbance in the heterogeneity and gene expression profile of medullary thymic epithelial cells. Front Immunol 2023; 14:1186154. [PMID: 38022666 PMCID: PMC10652284 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1186154] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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The thymus has the ability to regenerate from acute injury caused by radiation, infection, and stressors. In addition to thymocytes, thymic epithelial cells in the medulla (mTECs), which are crucial for T cell self-tolerance by ectopically expressing and presenting thousands of tissue-specific antigens (TSAs), are damaged by these insults and recover thereafter. However, given recent discoveries on the high heterogeneity of mTECs, it remains to be determined whether the frequency and properties of mTEC subsets are restored during thymic recovery from radiation damage. Here we demonstrate that acute total body irradiation with a sublethal dose induces aftereffects on heterogeneity and gene expression of mTECs. Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis showed that irradiation reduces the frequency of mTECs expressing AIRE, which is a critical regulator of TSA expression, 15 days after irradiation. In contrast, transit-amplifying mTECs (TA-mTECs), which are progenitors of AIRE-expressing mTECs, and Ccl21a-expressing mTECs, were less affected. Interestingly, a detailed analysis of scRNA-seq data suggested that the proportion of a unique mTEC cluster expressing Ccl25 and a high level of TSAs was severely decreased by irradiation. In sum, we propose that the effects of acute irradiation disrupt the heterogeneity and properties of mTECs over an extended period, which potentially leads to an impairment of thymic T cell selection.
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- Kenta Horie
- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- YCI Laboratory for Immunological Transcriptomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center of Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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Ishikawa T, Ishii H, Miyao T, Horie K, Miyauchi M, Akiyama N, Akiyama T. Sample Preparation and Integrative Data Analysis of a Droplet-based Single-Cell ATAC-sequencing Using Murine Thymic Epithelial Cells. Bio Protoc 2023; 13:e4588. [PMID: 36789086 PMCID: PMC9901465 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.4588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Accessible chromatin regions modulate gene expression by acting as cis-regulatory elements. Understanding the epigenetic landscape by mapping accessible regions of DNA is therefore imperative to decipher mechanisms of gene regulation under specific biological contexts of interest. The assay for transposase-accessible chromatin sequencing (ATAC-seq) has been widely used to detect accessible chromatin and the recent introduction of single-cell technology has increased resolution to the single-cell level. In a recent study, we used droplet-based, single-cell ATAC-seq technology (scATAC-seq) to reveal the epigenetic profile of the transit-amplifying subset of thymic epithelial cells (TECs), which was identified previously using single-cell RNA-sequencing technology (scRNA-seq). This protocol allows the preparation of nuclei from TECs in order to perform droplet-based scATAC-seq and its integrative analysis with scRNA-seq data obtained from the same cell population. Integrative analysis has the advantage of identifying cell types in scATAC-seq data based on cell cluster annotations in scRNA-seq analysis.
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- Tatsuya Ishikawa
- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan,Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan,Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan,Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan,Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan,*For correspondence: ;
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan,Graduate School of Medical Life Science, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan,*For correspondence: ;
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Miyazawa Y, Oka D, Nakayama H, Miyao T, Nakamura T, Takezawa Y, Shimizu N, Matsuo Y, Haruyuki O, Takei T, Sekine Y, Arai S, Suzuki K. Prospective study of the relationship between clinical outcomes of enzalutamide and serum androgen levels measured by LC-MS/MS in CRPC patients. Eur Urol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s0302-2838(21)01230-6] [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: 10/20/2022]
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Horie K, Kato T, Kudo T, Sasanuma H, Miyauchi M, Akiyama N, Miyao T, Seki T, Ishikawa T, Takakura Y, Shirakawa M, Shiba D, Hamada M, Jeon H, Yoshida N, Inoue JI, Muratani M, Takahashi S, Ohno H, Akiyama T. Impact of spaceflight on the murine thymus and mitigation by exposure to artificial gravity during spaceflight. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19866. [PMID: 31882694 PMCID: PMC6934594 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56432-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [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: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The environment experienced during spaceflight may impact the immune system and the thymus appears to undergo atrophy during spaceflight. However, molecular aspects of this thymic atrophy remain to be elucidated. In this study, we analysed the thymi of mice on board the international space station (ISS) for approximately 1 month. Thymic size was significantly reduced after spaceflight. Notably, exposure of mice to 1 × g using centrifugation cages in the ISS significantly mitigated the reduction in thymic size. Although spaceflight caused thymic atrophy, the global thymic structure was not largely changed. However, RNA sequencing analysis of the thymus showed significantly reduced expression of cell cycle-regulating genes in two independent spaceflight samples. These reductions were partially countered by 1 × g exposure during the space flights. Thus, our data suggest that spaceflight leads to reduced proliferation of thymic cells, thereby reducing the size of the thymus, and exposure to 1 × g might alleviate the impairment of thymus homeostasis induced by spaceflight.
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- Kenta Horie
- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center in Transborder Medical Research Center, and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.,Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immunogenetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center in Transborder Medical Research Center, and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.,Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center in Transborder Medical Research Center, and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.,Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan.,Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan.,Transborder Medical Research Center, and Department of Genome Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan
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- Laboratory Animal Resource Center in Transborder Medical Research Center, and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.,Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan.
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan. .,Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan.
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Kaneko KB, Tateishi R, Miyao T, Takakura Y, Akiyama N, Yokota R, Akiyama T, Kobayashi TJ. Quantitative analysis reveals reciprocal regulations underlying recovery dynamics of thymocytes and thymic environment in mice. Commun Biol 2019; 2:444. [PMID: 31815199 PMCID: PMC6884561 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0688-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Thymic crosstalk, a set of reciprocal regulations between thymocytes and the thymic environment, is relevant for orchestrating appropriate thymocyte development as well as thymic recovery from various exogenous insults. In this work, interactions shaping thymic crosstalk and the resultant dynamics of thymocytes and thymic epithelial cells are inferred based on quantitative analysis and modeling of the recovery dynamics induced by irradiation. The analysis identifies regulatory interactions consistent with known molecular evidence and reveals their dynamic roles in the recovery process. Moreover, the analysis also predicts, and a subsequent experiment verifies, a previously unrecognized regulation of CD4+CD8+ double positive thymocytes which temporarily increases their proliferation rate upon the decrease in their population size. Our model establishes a pivotal step towards the dynamic understanding of thymic crosstalk as a regulatory network system.
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- Kazumasa B. Kaneko
- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, 113-8656 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku Tokyo, 153-8505 Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045 Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, 113-8656 Japan
- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku Tokyo, 153-8505 Japan
- PREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi, Saitama, 332-0012 Japan
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Herppich S, Toker A, Pietzsch B, Kitagawa Y, Ohkura N, Miyao T, Floess S, Hori S, Sakaguchi S, Huehn J. Dynamic Imprinting of the Treg Cell-Specific Epigenetic Signature in Developing Thymic Regulatory T Cells. Front Immunol 2019; 10:2382. [PMID: 31681278 PMCID: PMC6797672 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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: 07/29/2019] [Accepted: 09/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Regulatory T (Treg) cells mainly develop within the thymus and arise from CD25+Foxp3− (CD25+ TregP) or CD25−Foxp3+ (Foxp3+ TregP) Treg cell precursors resulting in Treg cells harboring distinct transcriptomic profiles and complementary T cell receptor repertoires. The stable and long-term expression of Foxp3 in Treg cells and their stable suppressive phenotype are controlled by the demethylation of Treg cell-specific epigenetic signature genes including an evolutionarily conserved CpG-rich element within the Foxp3 locus, the Treg-specific demethylated region (TSDR). Here we analyzed the dynamics of the imprinting of the Treg cell-specific epigenetic signature genes in thymic Treg cells. We could demonstrate that CD25+Foxp3+ Treg cells show a progressive demethylation of most signature genes during maturation within the thymus. Interestingly, a partial demethylation of several Treg cell-specific epigenetic signature genes was already observed in Foxp3+ TregP but not in CD25+ TregP. Furthermore, Foxp3+ TregP were very transient in nature and arose at a more mature developmental stage when compared to CD25+ TregP. When the two Treg cell precursors were cultured in presence of IL-2, a factor known to be critical for thymic Treg cell development, we observed a major impact of IL-2 on the demethylation of the TSDR with a more pronounced effect on Foxp3+ TregP. Together, these results suggest that the establishment of the Treg cell-specific hypomethylation pattern is a continuous process throughout thymic Treg cell development and that the two known Treg cell precursors display distinct dynamics for the imprinting of the Treg cell-specific epigenetic signature genes.
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- Susanne Herppich
- Department Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International Research Center Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International Research Center Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan.,Laboratory of Immunology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International Research Center Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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Horie K, Kudo T, Yoshinaga R, Akiyama N, Sasanuma H, Kobayashi TJ, Shimbo M, Jeon H, Miyao T, Miyauchi M, Shirakawa M, Shiba D, Yoshida N, Muratani M, Takahashi S, Akiyama T. Long-term hindlimb unloading causes a preferential reduction of medullary thymic epithelial cells expressing autoimmune regulator (Aire). Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 501:745-750. [PMID: 29753741 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.05.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 05/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Hindlimb unloading (HU) of rodents has been used as a ground-based model of spaceflight. In this study, we investigated the detailed impact of 14-day HU on the murine thymus. Thymic mass and cell number were significantly reduced after 14 days of hindlimb unloading, which was accompanied by an increment of plasma corticosterone. Although corticosterone reportedly causes selective apoptosis of CD4+CD8+ thymocytes (CD4+CD8+DPs) in mice treated with short-term HU, the reduction of thymocyte cellularity after the 14-day HU was not selective for CD4+CD8+DPs. In addition to the thymocyte reduction, the cellularity of thymic epithelial cells (TECs) was also reduced by the 14-day HU. Flow cytometric and RNA-sequencing analysis suggested that medullary TECs (mTECs) were preferentially reduced after HU. Moreover, immunohistochemical staining suggested that the 14-day HU caused a reduction of the mTECs expressing autoimmune regulator (Aire). Our data suggested that HU impacts both thymocytes and TECs. Consequently, these data imply that thymic T cell repertoire formation could be disturbed during spaceflight-like stress.
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- Kenta Horie
- Center for Integrative Medical Science, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan; Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; Laboratory Animal Resource Center and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Center for Integrative Medical Science, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan; Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Center for Integrative Medical Science, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan; Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; Laboratory Animal Resource Center and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; Laboratory Animal Resource Center and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Center for Integrative Medical Science, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Center for Integrative Medical Science, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, JAXA, Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, Center for Experimental Medicine and Systems Biology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; Department of Genome Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan; Laboratory Animal Resource Center and Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Center for Integrative Medical Science, RIKEN, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan; Mouse Epigenetics Project, ISS/Kibo experiment, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan.
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Garg G, Nikolouli E, Hardtke-Wolenski M, Toker A, Ohkura N, Beckstette M, Miyao T, Geffers R, Floess S, Gerdes N, Lutgens E, Osterloh A, Hori S, Sakaguchi S, Jaeckel E, Huehn J. Unique properties of thymic antigen-presenting cells promote epigenetic imprinting of alloantigen-specific regulatory T cells. Oncotarget 2018; 8:35542-35557. [PMID: 28415767 PMCID: PMC5482597 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.16221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are potential immunotherapeutic candidates to induce transplantation tolerance. However, stability of Tregs still remains contentious and may potentially restrict their clinical use. Recent work suggested that epigenetic imprinting of Foxp3 and other Treg-specific signature genes is crucial for stabilization of immunosuppressive properties of Foxp3+ Tregs, and that these events are initiated already during early stages of thymic Treg development. However, the mechanisms governing this process remain largely unknown. Here we demonstrate that thymic antigen-presenting cells (APCs), including thymic dendritic cells (t-DCs) and medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs), can induce a more pronounced demethylation of Foxp3 and other Treg-specific epigenetic signature genes in developing Tregs when compared to splenic DCs (sp-DCs). Transcriptomic profiling of APCs revealed differential expression of secreted factors and costimulatory molecules, however neither addition of conditioned media nor interference with costimulatory signals affected Foxp3 induction by thymic APCs in vitro. Importantly, when tested in vivo both mTEC- and t-DC-generated alloantigen-specific Tregs displayed significantly higher efficacy in prolonging skin allograft acceptance when compared to Tregs generated by sp-DCs. Our results draw attention to unique properties of thymic APCs in initiating commitment towards stable and functional Tregs, a finding that could be highly beneficial in clinical immunotherapy.
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- Garima Garg
- Department of Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.,Department of Experimental Pathology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Genome Analytics, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Division of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Vascular Medicine Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.,Department of Medical Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Immunology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.,Department of Experimental Pathology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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Hayatsu N, Miyao T, Tachibana M, Murakami R, Kimura A, Kato T, Kawakami E, Endo TA, Setoguchi R, Watarai H, Nishikawa T, Yasuda T, Yoshida H, Hori S. Analyses of a Mutant Foxp3 Allele Reveal BATF as a Critical Transcription Factor in the Differentiation and Accumulation of Tissue Regulatory T Cells. Immunity 2017; 47:268-283.e9. [PMID: 28778586 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2017.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2016] [Revised: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Foxp3 controls the development and function of regulatory T (Treg) cells, but it remains elusive how Foxp3 functions in vivo. Here, we established mouse models harboring three unique missense Foxp3 mutations that were identified in patients with the autoimmune disease IPEX. The I363V and R397W mutations were loss-of-function mutations, causing multi-organ inflammation by globally compromising Treg cell physiology. By contrast, the A384T mutation induced a distinctive tissue-restricted inflammation by specifically impairing the ability of Treg cells to compete with pathogenic T cells in certain non-lymphoid tissues. Mechanistically, repressed BATF expression contributed to these A384T effects. At the molecular level, the A384T mutation altered Foxp3 interactions with its specific target genes including Batf by broadening its DNA-binding specificity. Our findings identify BATF as a critical regulator of tissue Treg cells and suggest that sequence-specific perturbations of Foxp3-DNA interactions can influence specific facets of Treg cell physiology and the immunopathologies they regulate.
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- Norihito Hayatsu
- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; Laboratory of Immunology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; Disease Biology Group, RIKEN Medical Sciences Innovation Hub Program, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Integrative Genomics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immunogenetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Division of Stem Cell Cellomics, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, The Institute of Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immunogenetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immunogenetics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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- Laboratory for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan; Laboratory of Immunology and Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
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Toker A, Engelbert D, Garg G, Polansky JK, Floess S, Miyao T, Baron U, Düber S, Geffers R, Giehr P, Schallenberg S, Kretschmer K, Olek S, Walter J, Weiss S, Hori S, Hamann A, Huehn J. Active demethylation of the Foxp3 locus leads to the generation of stable regulatory T cells within the thymus. J Immunol 2013; 190:3180-8. [PMID: 23420886 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1203473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Stable expression of Foxp3 in regulatory T cells (Tregs) depends on DNA demethylation at the Treg-specific demethylated region (TSDR), a conserved, CpG-rich region within the Foxp3 locus. The TSDR is selectively demethylated in ex vivo Tregs purified from secondary lymphoid organs, but it is unclear at which stage of Treg development demethylation takes place. In this study, we show that commitment to a stable lineage occurred during early stages of murine thymic Treg development by engraving of lineage-specific epigenetic marks in parallel with establishment of a Treg-specific gene expression profile. TSDR demethylation was achieved through an active mechanism and involved enzymes of the ten-eleven-translocation family and hydroxylation of methylated cytosines, a modification that is implicated as an initiating step of mitosis-independent DNA demethylation pathways and has not yet been observed at specific loci during immune cell differentiation. Together, our results demonstrate that initiating TSDR demethylation during early stages of thymic Treg development commences stabilization of Foxp3 expression and guarantees full functionality and long-term lineage stability of Tregs.
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- Aras Toker
- Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig 38124, Germany
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Miyao T, Floess S, Setoguchi R, Luche H, Fehling HJ, Waldmann H, Huehn J, Hori S. Plasticity of Foxp3(+) T cells reflects promiscuous Foxp3 expression in conventional T cells but not reprogramming of regulatory T cells. Immunity 2012; 36:262-75. [PMID: 22326580 DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 407] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2011] [Revised: 12/08/2011] [Accepted: 12/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The emerging notion of environment-induced reprogramming of Foxp3(+) regulatory T (Treg) cells into helper T (Th) cells remains controversial. By genetic fate mapping or adoptive transfers, we have identified a minor population of nonregulatory Foxp3(+) T cells exhibiting promiscuous and transient Foxp3 expression, which gave rise to Foxp3(-) ("exFoxp3") Th cells and selectively accumulated in inflammatory cytokine milieus or in lymphopenic environments including those in early ontogeny. In contrast, Treg cells did not undergo reprogramming under those conditions irrespective of their thymic or peripheral origins. Moreover, although a few Treg cells transiently lose Foxp3 expression, such "latent" Treg cells retained their memory and robustly re-expressed Foxp3 and suppressive function upon activation. This study establishes that Treg cells constitute a stable cell lineage, whose committed state in a changing environment is ensured by DNA demethylation of the Foxp3 locus irrespectively of ongoing Foxp3 expression.
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- Takahisa Miyao
- Research Unit for Immune Homeostasis, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Yokohama, Kanagawa 230-0045, Japan
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Hosoda H, Miyao T, Uchida S, Sakai S, Kida S. Development of a tightly-regulated tetracycline-dependent transcriptional activator and repressor co-expression system for the strong induction of transgene expression. Cytotechnology 2011; 63:211-6. [PMID: 21336964 DOI: 10.1007/s10616-011-9335-z] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2010] [Accepted: 01/05/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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The teteracycline (Tc)-dependent and -inducible transcriptional activator (rtTA) system has been used to express regulated transgene expression in vitro and in vivo. However, previous reports have demonstrated that, even in the absence of Tc, the rtTA binds weakly to the tetracycline response element (TRE), leading to a low level of background activity. In order to reduce the leaky gene expression induced by rtTA, we previously established a tightly regulated system (A-IRES-R system) that makes use of both the rtTA (A) and a Tc-dependent repressor (TetR-Kruppel-associated box; KRAB) (R). In addition, others have described a transactivator rtTA2-M2 (M2) that displays higher sensitivity to Dox than rtTA. In this study, to further develop the A-IRES-R system, we generated a derivative Tc system (M2-IRES-R system) that co-expresses both rtTA-M2 and TetR-KRAB from a single vector. We show that compared to the A-IRES-R system, the M2-IRES-R system leads to a greater level of induced TRE-mediated transcription in the presence of doxycycline (Dox) and yet displays a similar level of basal TRE-mediated transcription in the absence of Dox. Furthermore, the M2-IRES-R system also displays less leaky gene expression in the absence of Dox compared to rtTA-M2 and rtTA systems. Taken together, our results suggest that the M2-IRES-R system enables to tightly regulate and highly induce the expression of transgene compared to other systems.
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- Hiroshi Hosoda
- Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1-1-1 Sakuragaoka, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 156-8502, Japan
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Hasegawa S, Furuichi T, Yoshida T, Endoh K, Kato K, Sado M, Maeda R, Kitamoto A, Miyao T, Suzuki R, Homma S, Masushige S, Kajii Y, Kida S. Transgenic up-regulation of alpha-CaMKII in forebrain leads to increased anxiety-like behaviors and aggression. Mol Brain 2009; 2:6. [PMID: 19257910 PMCID: PMC2660323 DOI: 10.1186/1756-6606-2-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2008] [Accepted: 03/04/2009] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Background Previous studies have demonstrated essential roles for alpha-calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (alpha-CaMKII) in learning, memory and long-term potentiation (LTP). However, previous studies have also shown that alpha-CaMKII (+/-) heterozygous knockout mice display a dramatic decrease in anxiety-like and fearful behaviors, and an increase in defensive aggression. These findings indicated that alpha-CaMKII is important not only for learning and memory but also for emotional behaviors. In this study, to understand the roles of alpha-CaMKII in emotional behavior, we generated transgenic mice overexpressing alpha-CaMKII in the forebrain and analyzed their behavioral phenotypes. Results We generated transgenic mice overexpressing alpha-CaMKII in the forebrain under the control of the alpha-CaMKII promoter. In contrast to alpha-CaMKII (+/-) heterozygous knockout mice, alpha-CaMKII overexpressing mice display an increase in anxiety-like behaviors in open field, elevated zero maze, light-dark transition and social interaction tests, and a decrease in locomotor activity in their home cages and novel environments; these phenotypes were the opposite to those observed in alpha-CaMKII (+/-) heterozygous knockout mice. In addition, similarly with alpha-CaMKII (+/-) heterozygous knockout mice, alpha-CaMKII overexpressing mice display an increase in aggression. However, in contrast to the increase in defensive aggression observed in alpha-CaMKII (+/-) heterozygous knockout mice, alpha-CaMKII overexpressing mice display an increase in offensive aggression. Conclusion Up-regulation of alpha-CaMKII expression in the forebrain leads to an increase in anxiety-like behaviors and offensive aggression. From the comparisons with previous findings, we suggest that the expression levels of alpha-CaMKII are associated with the state of emotion; the expression level of alpha-CaMKII positively correlates with the anxiety state and strongly affects aggressive behavior.
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- Shunsuke Hasegawa
- Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo 156-8502, Japan.
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Enomoto H, Choi T, Uchida S, Miyao T, Kida S. Roles of retinoic acid receptors in learning and memory. Neurosci Res 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2007.06.1217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Miyao T, Kitai M, Ogita T, Naito S. Generation of New Acidic Sites by Dispersing Zinc Oxide Fine Particles on Silica. Z PHYS CHEM 2002. [DOI: 10.1524/zpch.2002.216.7.931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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New acidic sites were generated on finely dispersed ZnO particles supported on silica prepared by impregnation method. Ammonia-TPD, XPS, XRD, TEM and catalytic measurements revealed that the acidic properties on the nano-sized amorphous particles of ZnO were quite different from homogeneous ZnO-SiO
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Miyao T, Barnett JD, Woychik NA. Deletion of the RNA polymerase subunit RPB4 acts as a global, not stress-specific, shut-off switch for RNA polymerase II transcription at high temperatures. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:46408-13. [PMID: 11577101 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m107012200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We used whole genome expression analysis to investigate the changes in the mRNA profile in cells lacking the Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNA polymerase II subunit RPB4 (Delta RPB4). Our results indicated that an essentially complete shutdown of transcription occurs upon temperature shift of this conditionally lethal mutant; 98% of mRNA transcript levels decrease at least 2-fold, 96% at least 4-fold. This data was supported by in vivo experiments that revealed a rapid and greater than 5-fold decline in steady state poly(A) RNA levels after the temperature shift. Expression of several individual genes, measured by Northern analysis, was also consistent with the whole genome expression profile. Finally we demonstrated that the loss of RNA polymerase II activity causes secondary effects on RNA polymerase I, but not RNA polymerase III, transcription. The transcription phenotype of the Delta RPB4 mutant closely mirrors that of the temperature-sensitive rpb1-1 mutant frequently implemented as a tool to inactivate the RNA polymerase II in vivo. Therefore, the Delta RPB4 mutant can be used to easily design strains that enable the study of distinct post-transcriptional cellular processes in the absence of RNA polymerase II transcription.
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- T Miyao
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-5635, USA
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Igarashi Y, Aoyama M, Nemoto K, Hirose K, Miyao T, Fushimi K, Suzuki M, Yasui S, Asai Y, Aoki I, Fujii K, Yamamoto S, Sartorius H, Weiss W. 85Kr measurement system for continuous monitoring at the Meteorological Research Institute, Japan. J Environ Monit 2001; 3:688-96. [PMID: 11785646 DOI: 10.1039/b105067m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A 85Kr measurement system for continuous monitoring based principally on the BfS-IAR method (activity measurement of 85Kr by gas counting coupled with gas chromatographic separation, using pure CH4 as carrier and Counting gas) was implemented for the first time in Japan. In this paper, a detailed description of the system and procedures is given and the inter-comparison results of our system with the BfS-IAR system are presented. A consistent temporal concentration change with high accuracy and consistency of the respective data with the BfS-IAR data (maximum difference of 5%) were achieved with the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) system, which shows that the system is valid and reliable for the purpose of background monitoring for 85Kr in air. Also, the 85Kr monitoring record at the MRI during 1995-2001 is described. The record distinctively shows the Northern Hemispheric background 85Kr concentrations at the mid-latitude and the elevated concentrations affected by the operation of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Tokai-mura, Ibaraki. Japan.
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- Geochemical Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Vpr, an accessory protein of HIV, is known to affect viral replication as well as cell growth, differentiation, and apoptosis in vitro. To investigate its pathogenicity in vivo, we have produced mice transgenic for the HIV-1 vpr gene with the CD4 enhancer/promoter. Interestingly, apoptotic death of T lymphocytes was enhanced in those mice, causing marked reduction of T cells in lymphatic organs and peripheral blood. Involvement of Bcl-x, Bax, and Caspase-1, but not of the Fas-Fas ligand system, was suggested in the apoptotic processes. These observations suggest that Vpr is involved in the pathogenesis of T cell depletion in HIV-infected people.
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- Center for Experimental Medicine, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan
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Using a high-copy-number suppressor screen to obtain clues about the role of the yeast RNA polymerase II subunit RPB4 in transcription, we identified three suppressors of the temperature sensitivity resulting from deletion of the RPB4 gene (DeltaRPB4). One suppressor is Sro9p, a protein related to La protein, another is the nucleosporin Nsp1p, and the third is the RNA polymerase II subunit RPB7. Suppression by RPB7 was anticipated since its interaction with RPB4 is well established both in vitro and in vivo. We examined the effect of overexpression of each suppressor gene on transcription. Interestingly, suppression of the temperature-sensitive phenotype correlates with the correction of a characteristic transcription defect of this mutant: each suppressor restored the level of promoter-specific, basal transcription to wild-type levels. Examination of the effects of the suppressors on other in vivo transcription aberrations in DeltaRPB4 cells revealed significant amelioration of defects in certain inducible genes in Sro9p and RPB7, but not in Nsp1p, suppressor cells. Analysis of mRNA levels demonstrated that overexpression of each of the three suppressors minimally doubled the mRNA levels during stationary phase. However, the elevated mRNA levels in Sro9p suppressor cells appear to result from a combination of enhanced transcription and message stability. Taken together, these results demonstrate that these three proteins influence transcription and implicate Sro9p in both transcription and posttranscription events.
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- Q Tan
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
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Ikeuchi Y, Amano H, Aoyama M, Berezhnov VI, Chaykovskaya E, Chumichev VB, Chung CS, Gastaud J, Hirose K, Hong GH, Kim CK, Kim SH, Miyao T, Morimoto T, Nikitin A, Oda K, Pettersson HB, Povinec PP, Tkalin A, Togawa O, Veletova NK. Anthropogenic radionuclides in seawater of the Far Eastern Seas. Sci Total Environ 1999; 237-238:203-12. [PMID: 10568277 DOI: 10.1016/s0048-9697(99)00136-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
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Large quantities of radioactive wastes have been dumped in the Far Eastern Seas by the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, and small amounts of radioactive wastes have been dumped by Japan and the Republic of Korea. In order to investigate the concentrations of anthropogenic radionuclides in the nine dumping areas, a second expedition was conducted in 1995 by Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and IAEA, following the first expedition in 1994. The results show that 137Cs, 90Sr and 239 + 240Pu concentrations in surface and bottom waters at dumping areas do not significantly differ from the values observed in background areas, and from historical values. There is no clear effect of possible contamination due to radioactive waste dumping. The concentrations and water column inventories of 137Cs, 90Sr and 239 + 240Pu in the Far Eastern seas are controlled by physical oceanic processes such as horizontal transport and biogeochemical processes such as scavenging.
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- Y Ikeuchi
- Japan Chemical Analysis Center, Chiba, Japan.
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Igarashi Y, Aoyama M, Miyao T, Hirose K, Komura K, Yamamoto M. Air concentration of radiocaesium in Tsukuba, Japan following the release from the Tokai waste treatment plant: comparisons of observations with predictions. Appl Radiat Isot 1999; 50:1063-73. [PMID: 10355107 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-8043(98)00129-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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On March 11, 1997 a fire and explosion accident occurred at the bituminization facility of the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development, Tokai, Japan. As a result of this accident, 134,137Cs was detected in an air filter sample collected at the Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba during March 10 to 12. The 134,137Cs air concentration was about 100 and 10 muBq m-3, respectively. This result suggests that there was little radiation exposure of the residents in the area. The average 137Cs air concentration during this period was about two orders of magnitude higher than "baseline" air (sub-muBq m-3) during February to April, 1997, measured by ultra-low background gamma-spectrometry. By a simple calculation using a Gaussian plume model with the measured data, we estimated the minimum emission of the radioactivity by the PNC accident to be in the range 60 MBq to around 600 MBq. The meteorological condition during the week of the accident are also described.
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- Y Igarashi
- Geochemical Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan.
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A mutation in RPB5 (rpb5-9), an essential RNA polymerase subunit assembled into RNA polymerases I, II, and III, revealed a role for this subunit in transcriptional activation. Activation by GAL4-VP16 was impaired upon in vitro transcription with mutant whole-cell extracts. In vivo experiments using inducible reporter plasmids and Northern analysis support the in vitro data and demonstrate that RPB5 influences activation at some, but not all, promoters. Remarkably, this mutation maps to a conserved region of human RPB5 implicated by others to play a role in activation. Chimeric human-yeast RPB5 containing this conserved region now can function in place of its yeast counterpart. The defects noted with rpb5-9 are similar to those seen in truncation mutants of the RPB1-carboxyl terminal domain (CTD). We demonstrate that RPB5 and the RPB1-CTD have overlapping roles in activation because the double mutant is synthetically lethal and has exacerbated activation defects at the GAL1/10 promoter. These studies demonstrate that there are multiple activation targets in RNA polymerase II and that RPB5 and the CTD have similar roles in activation.
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- T Miyao
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5635, USA
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Shibahara T, Noma H, Fujikawa M, Miyao T, Ishikawa M, Takasaki Y. Central island tongue flap. Bull Tokyo Dent Coll 1998; 39:211-5. [PMID: 9927907] [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: 02/10/2023]
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Pedicled tongue flaps have proved to be an effective method of repairing defects due to tissue loss in the oral cavity. Their central position, mobility, and excellent blood supply make their use feasible in a variety of sites. This paper describes the use and applications of central island tongue flaps to reconstruct defects of anterior floor of the mouth. This procedure was conducted at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical University Hanover, introducing an improved surgical method and presenting the actual operation performed in our department. This method is considered superior for resurfacing the anterior floor of mouth defects because it is easy to perform and results in recovery of function and cosmetics.
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- T Shibahara
- First Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan
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Miyao T, Honda A, Qu Z, Ishihama A. Mapping of Rpb3 and Rpb5 contact sites on two large subunits, Rpb1 and Rpb2, of the RNA polymerase II from fission yeast. Mol Gen Genet 1998; 259:123-9. [PMID: 9738888 DOI: 10.1007/s004380050796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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[Rpb1 and Rpb2] Mapping of the contact sites on two large subunits of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe RNA polymerase II with two small subunits, Rpb3 and Rpb5, was carried out using the two-hybrid screening system in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Rpb5 was found to interact with any fragment of Rpb1 that contained the region H, which is conserved among the subunit 1 homologues of all RNA polymerases, including the beta' subunit of prokaryotic RNA polymerases. In agreement with the fact that Rpb5 is shared among all three forms of eukaryotic RNA polymerases, the region H of RNA polymerase I subunit 1 (Rpa190) was also found to interact with Rpb5. On the other hand, two-hybrid screening of Rpb2 fragments from RNA polymerase II indicated the presence of an Rpb3 contact site in the region H which is conserved among the subunit 2 homologues of all RNA polymerases, including the beta subunit of prokaryotic RNA polymerases. Possible functions of the regions H in the subunits 1 and 2 are discussed.
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- T Miyao
- National Institute of Genetics, Department of Molecular Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
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The subunit composition of RNA polymerase II (polII) was compared between the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. For this purpose, we partially purified the enzyme from S. pombe. Judging from the co-elution profiles in column chromatographies of both the RNA polymerase activity and the two large subunit polypeptides (subunit 1 (prokaryotic beta' homologue) and subunit 2 (beta homologue)), the minimum number of S. pombe polII-associated polypeptides was estimated to be ten, less than the proposed subunit number of the S. cerevisiae enzyme. These ten putative subunits of S. pombe polII correspond to subunits 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 of the S. cerevisiae counterparts.
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- H Sakurai
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan
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Miyao T, Yasui K, Sakurai H, Yamagishi M, Ishihama A. Molecular assembly of RNA polymerase II from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe: subunit-subunit contact network involving Rpb5. Genes Cells 1996; 1:843-54. [PMID: 9077438 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1996.730274.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [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: 02/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Eukaryotic RNA polymerase II is composed of more than 10 polypeptide chains. The minimum and essential subunits for RNA synthesis have not yet been identified. Toward this ultimate goal, we analysed the topological arrangement of the putative subunits. Here we report a subunit-subunit contact network involving subunit 5 of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe RNA polymerase II. RESULTS The rpb5+ gene encoding subunit 5 of RNA polymerase II was cloned from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The polypeptide predicted from DNA sequence of the rpb5+ gene consists of 210 amino acids with a calculated molecular weight of 23914. The homology of the amino acid sequence is 55% and 43% with Saccharomyces cerevisiae RPB5 and human hRPB25, respectively. Far-Western blot analysis of S. pombe RNA polymerase II using 32P-labelled recombinant Rpb5 fused to glutathione S-transferase (GST) as a probe, indicated that Rpb5 binds strongly to membrane-immobilized Rpb1, Rpb2 and Rpb3 and weakly to Rpb5 and a 15-kDa subunit (Rpb8 or Rpb11). In agreement with this result, the 32P-labelled Rpb3 probe showed a strong binding signal against Rpb5 in addition to Rpb1 and Rpb2. The existence of Rpb5-Rpb3 contact was supported by detection of complexes formed between these two proteins synthesized in vitro using protein-immobilized beads. CONCLUSION Rpb3 and Rpb5, the putative subunits of RNA polymerase II, associate each other to form binary complexes. These two subunits also bind to the two large subunits, Rpb1 and Rpb2, independently.
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- T Miyao
- National Institute of Genetics, Department of Molecular Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Y Nomura
- Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Sawai K, Miyao T, Takakura Y, Hashida M. Renal disposition characteristics of oligonucleotides modified at terminal linkages in the perfused rat kidney. Antisense Res Dev 1995; 5:279-87. [PMID: 8746777 DOI: 10.1089/ard.1995.5.279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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To clarify the renal disposition characteristics of oligonucleotides at the organ level, the renal handling of model end-capped oligonucleotides, 3'-methoxyethylamine 5'-biotin-decathymidylic acid containing phosphoramidate modifications at 3'- and 5'-terminal internucleoside linkages (T10) and its phosphorothioate (Ts10), were studied in the perfused rat kidney. In a single-pass indicator dilution experiment, venous outflow and urinary excretion patterns and tissue accumulation of radiolabeled oligonucleotides were evaluated under filtering or nonfiltering conditions. No significant binding to bovine serum albumin (BSA) in the perfusate was observed for T10, whereas more than 90% of Ts10 bound to BSA. The steady-state distribution volume of T10 calculated from the venous outflow pattern was larger than that of inulin, which corresponds to the extracellular volume of the kidney, whereas the distribution volume of Ts10 was larger than that of BSA (the intravascular volume). These results suggested their interaction with the vascular wall. Rapid urinary excretion was observed for T10, similar to inulin used as a marker of golmerular filtration rate. On the other hand, urinary excretion of Ts10 was greatly restricted due to its high binding ability (> 90%) to BSA in the perfusate. A significant amount of T10 and Ts10 was accumulated in the kidney (T10, 1.8% of injected dose; Ts10, 1.3%) compared with inulin (0.2%) and BSA (< 0.1%). The accumulation of these oligonucleotides was ascribed to both tubular reabsorption and uptake from the capillary side. In addition, the uptake of T10 from the capillary side was significantly inhibited by simultaneous injection of dextran sulfate, suggesting that the oligonucleotide was taken up as an anionic molecule. These findings will be useful information for the development of delivery systems for antisense oligonucleotides.
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- Department of Drug Delivery Research, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
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Miyao T, Takakura Y, Akiyama T, Yoneda F, Sezaki H, Hashida M. Stability and pharmacokinetic characteristics of oligonucleotides modified at terminal linkages in mice. Antisense Res Dev 1995; 5:115-21. [PMID: 7580115 DOI: 10.1089/ard.1995.5.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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To construct the strategy for delivery systems that can control in vivo disposition of antisense oligonucleotides, we studied the stability and basic pharmacokinetic characteristics of oligonucleotides. Decathymidylic acid (T10), a model oligodeoxynucleotide, and its derivatives, 5'-biotin-T10) and 3'-methoxyethylamine 5'-biotin-T10 (3'M5'B-T10), containing phosphoroamidate modification at 3'- and/or 5'-terminal internucleoside linkages, were synthesized. In phosphate-buffered saline (PBS, pH 7.4) containing 10% mouse serum, unmodified T10 was degraded with a half-life of 45 minutes; the degradation half-lives of 5'B-T10 and 3'M5'B-T10 were 11 and 30 h, respectively. In mouse whole blood, 3'M5'B-T10 was relatively stable, and 45% remained intact after 1 h incubation. After intravenous injection of [3H]3'M5'B-T10 into mice at a dose of 1 mg/kg, the radioactivity was rapidly cleared from plasma with a half-life of 2 minutes and accumulated in the kidney, liver, and gallbladder. About 30% of the dose was excreted in the urine within 60 minutes. A much more rapid degradation of [3H]3'M5'B-T10 was observed in vivo than expected from in vitro experiments: more than 90% of the radioactivity in plasma was degradation product at 2 minutes after injection. These results suggested that enzymatic degradation occurred in some compartments in addition to the blood pool. The apparent urinary excretion clearance of [3H]3'M5'B-T10 was close to that of inulin, whereas the apparent hepatic uptake clearance was much greater than that of inulin and comparable to that of dextran sulfate, which is taken up by the liver by scavenger receptors for polyanions.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- T Miyao
- Department of Drug Delivery Research, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
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Takakura Y, Miyao T, Kawabata K, Hashida M. [Control of in vivo characteristics of gene and antisense DNA disposition]. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho 1994; 21:320-4. [PMID: 7509150] [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: 01/25/2023]
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In order to construct a strategy for control of in vivo disposition characteristics of gene and antisense DNA, in vivo stability and basic pharmacokinetic properties of DNA were investigated. A model gene, plasmid DNA (pCAT), and model oligonucleotide (thymidine 10-mer; T10) derivatives with phosphoroamidate substitution at the 3' and/or 5'-terminal internucleotide linkage, were rapidly degraded in vivo after intravenous injection into mice. The degradation rates were much faster than those observed in in vitro experiments using plasma and whole blood, suggesting that they underwent enzymatic degradation in other compartments than the blood pool. More than 70% of injected pCAT was taken up by the liver within 5 minutes, and the uptake clearance was almost identical to the plasma flow rate in the liver. On the other hand, T10 derivatives were rapidly excreted in the urine and taken up by the kidney and liver. The urinary excretion clearance was close to the glomerular filtration rate. In an attempt to control T10 disposition characteristics, the oligonucleotide was conjugated to a macromolecular carrier, carboxymethyl dextran (CMD). The T10-CMD conjugate exhibited increased in vivo stability and prolonged plasma circulation time. Thus, the present study has shown that macromolecular conjugation is a useful approach to improve in vivo disposition of antisense oligonucleotides.
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- Dept. of Basic Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University
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Saji H, Iida Y, Nakatsuka I, Kataoka M, Miyao T, Ariyoshi K, Magata Y, Yoshitake A, Yokoyama A. Radioiodinated nordiazepam analog for in vivo assessment of benzodiazepine receptors by single photon emission tomography. Nucl Med Biol 1994; 21:57-62. [PMID: 9234264 DOI: 10.1016/0969-8051(94)90129-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [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: 02/04/2023]
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2'-Iodo-nordiazepam (2'-IND), a nordiazepam analog iodinated at the 2'-position of the C-5 phenyl ring, was synthesized and evaluated as a potential radiopharmaceutical for investigating brain benzodiazepine receptors by SPECT. [125I]2'-IND was synthesized by the halogen exchange reaction and purified by HPLC. In an in vitro competitive binding study using [3H]diazepam and rat cortical synaptosomol membranes, 2'-IND showed an almost equal affinity for benzodiazepine receptors as diazepam. In a saturation binding study using rat cortical synaptosomal membranes, 2'-IND displayed a Kd of 1.10 nM and a Bmax of 1.87 pmol/mg protein. Biodistribution and metabolism studies in mice showed that [125I]2'-IND exhibited rapid and high accumulation in the brain, and that the cerebral uptake and distribution of this compound occurred in the intact form. Furthermore, the administration of diazepam and flumazenil reduced cortical uptake by approx. 20%, suggesting that the uptake of 2'-IND occurred at least partly in association with benzodiazepine receptors.
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- H Saji
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
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Miyao T. Long-run urban growth with agglomeration economies. Environ Plan A 1987; 19:1-92. [PMID: 12280688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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"It is widely recognized that agglomeration economies are a crucially important factor in explaining the existence and growth of urban areas, and therefore should be explicitly taken into consideration in long-run urban growth analysis. Once such economies are introduced, however, the urban economy tends to diverge from a steady state equilibrium and may 'explode' without limit. A possible way to solve this dilemma is shown. First, a simple urban growth model with production and factor migration functions in the presence of agglomeration economies is set up....Then, land is introduced to show that the availability of the third factor of production will make it more likely to achieve a steady growth equilibrium in the presence of agglomeration economies. Last, the model is generalized to include many factors of production."
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Miyao T. Rural and urban population changes and the stages of economic development: a unified approach. Environ Plan A 1983; 15:1-174. [PMID: 12339077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The long-term aspects of the process of economic development and urbanization are examined. A model is presented that shows the dynamics of economic development from the earliest to the more advanced stages. "The model is able to explain not only the occurrence of a downturn in the rural population after the initial phase of population growth both in rural and urban areas, but also the delayed occurrence of such a downturn in many present-day developing countries. The author then focuses [on] the later stages of economic development and explains two alternative courses of urbanization, namely, the reversal process and the continual-growth process, as special cases of the general model; which of the courses occurs depends on the value of the elasticity of urban agglomeration-economies."
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Tanaka T, Ozeki M, Takahashi M, Takei M, Takada Y, Hannamura H, Miyao T. [The study of Staphylococcus isolated from wild living Insectivora and Rodentia (author's transl)]. Aichi Gakuin Daigaku Shigakkai Shi 1979; 17:77-86. [PMID: 297438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Miyao T, Shapiro P. Dynamics of rural-urban migration in a developing economy. Environ Plan A 1979; 11:1-163. [PMID: 12337209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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