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Ramsden S Richardson FM Josse G Thomas MS Ellis C Shakeshaft C Seghier ML Price CJ 《Nature》2011,479(7371):113-116
Intelligence quotient (IQ) is a standardized measure of human intellectual capacity that takes into account a wide range of cognitive skills. IQ is generally considered to be stable across the lifespan, with scores at one time point used to predict educational achievement and employment prospects in later years. Neuroimaging allows us to test whether unexpected longitudinal fluctuations in measured IQ are related to brain development. Here we show that verbal and non-verbal IQ can rise or fall in the teenage years, with these changes in performance validated by their close correlation with changes in local brain structure. A combination of structural and functional imaging showed that verbal IQ changed with grey matter in a region that was activated by speech, whereas non-verbal IQ changed with grey matter in a region that was activated by finger movements. By using longitudinal assessments of the same individuals, we obviated the many sources of variation in brain structure that confound cross-sectional studies. This allowed us to dissociate neural markers for the two types of IQ and to show that general verbal and non-verbal abilities are closely linked to the sensorimotor skills involved in learning. More generally, our results emphasize the possibility that an individual's intellectual capacity relative to their peers can decrease or increase in the teenage years. This would be encouraging to those whose intellectual potential may improve, and would be a warning that early achievers may not maintain their potential. 相似文献
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Epigenetic remodeling in colorectal cancer results in coordinate gene suppression across an entire chromosome band 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
We report a new mechanism in carcinogenesis involving coordinate long-range epigenetic gene silencing. Epigenetic silencing in cancer has always been envisaged as a local event silencing discrete genes. However, in this study of silencing in colorectal cancer, we found common repression of the entire 4-Mb band of chromosome 2q.14.2, associated with global methylation of histone H3 Lys9. DNA hypermethylation within the repressed genomic neighborhood was localized to three separate enriched CpG island 'suburbs', with the largest hypermethylated suburb spanning 1 Mb. These data change our understanding of epigenetic gene silencing in cancer cells: namely, epigenetic silencing can span large regions of the chromosome, and both DNA-methylated and neighboring unmethylated genes can be coordinately suppressed by global changes in histone modification. We propose that loss of gene expression can occur through long-range epigenetic silencing, with similar implications as loss of heterozygosity in cancer. 相似文献
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RK Koenekoop H Wang J Majewski X Wang I Lopez H Ren Y Chen Y Li GA Fishman M Genead J Schwartzentruber N Solanki EI Traboulsi J Cheng CV Logan M McKibbin BE Hayward DA Parry CA Johnson M Nageeb;Finding of Rare Disease Genes 《Nature genetics》2012,44(9):1035-1039
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a blinding retinal disease that presents within the first year after birth. Using exome sequencing, we identified mutations in the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) synthase gene NMNAT1 encoding nicotinamide mononucleotide adenylyltransferase 1 in eight families with LCA, including the family in which LCA was originally linked to the LCA9 locus. Notably, all individuals with NMNAT1 mutations also have macular colobomas, which are severe degenerative entities of the central retina (fovea) devoid of tissue and photoreceptors. Functional assays of the proteins encoded by the mutant alleles identified in our study showed that the mutations reduce the enzymatic activity of NMNAT1 in NAD biosynthesis and affect protein folding. Of note, recent characterization of the slow Wallerian degeneration (Wld(s)) mouse model, in which prolonged axonal survival after injury is observed, identified NMNAT1 as a neuroprotective protein when ectopically expressed. Our findings identify a new disease mechanism underlying LCA and provide the first link between endogenous NMNAT1 dysfunction and a human nervous system disorder. 相似文献
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Summary The facile preparation of hexitol-lysyl derivatives is reported. Some of the properties of these compounds, particularly those relevant to protein structural studies, are described.Supported by grants from Medical Research Council of New Zealand, New Zealand Neurological Foundation and National Heart Foundation of New Zealand. 相似文献
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J. H. Turnbull 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1959,15(8):304-305
Résumé L'auteur propose un mode de liaison entre les molécules d'antigène et d'anticorps au moyen d'un centre réactif spécifique résultant de l'interaction d'un groupe récepteur carboxylique de l'antig`ene avec le groupe iminazole d'une unite particuli`ere histidine de l'anticorps. Plusieurs faits viennent done confirmer l'hypoth`ese selon laquelle nous suggérons une analogie entre les interactions antig`eneanticorps et les interactions de certains enzymes et de leurs substrats. 相似文献
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Yang L Anderson DE Baecher-Allan C Hastings WD Bettelli E Oukka M Kuchroo VK Hafler DA 《Nature》2008,454(7202):350-352
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Activation of innate immunity by lysozyme fibrils is critically dependent on cross-β sheet structure
Adelin Gustot Vincent Raussens Morgane Dehousse Mireille Dumoulin Clare E. Bryant Jean-Marie Ruysschaert Caroline Lonez 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2013,70(16):2999-3012
Inflammation occurs in many amyloidoses, but its underlying mechanisms remain enigmatic. Here we show that amyloid fibrils of human lysozyme, which are associated with severe systemic amyloidoses, induce the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines through activation of the NLRP3 (NLR, pyrin domain containing 3) inflammasome and the Toll-like receptor 2, two innate immune receptors that may be involved in immune responses associated to amyloidoses. More importantly, our data clearly suggest that the induction of inflammatory responses by amyloid fibrils is linked to their intrinsic structure, because the monomeric form and a non-fibrillar type of lysozyme aggregates are both unable to trigger cytokine secretion. These lysozyme species lack the so-called cross-β structure, a characteristic structural motif common to all amyloid fibrils irrespective of their origin. Since fibrils of other bacterial and endogenous proteins have been shown to trigger immunological responses, our observations suggest that the cross-β structural signature might be recognized as a generic danger signal by the immune system. 相似文献