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Culture in low levels of oxygen enhances in vitro proliferation potential of satellite cells from old skeletal muscles 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Chakravarthy MV Spangenburg EE Booth FW 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2001,58(8):1150-1158
The proliferation ability of satellite cells (considered the 'stem cells' of mature myofibers) declines with increasing age
when cultured under standard cell culture conditions of 21% oxygen. However, actual oxygen levels in the intact myofiber in
vivo are an order of magnitude lower. No studies to date have addressed the issue of whether culturing satellite cells from
old muscles under more 'physiologic' conditions would enhance their proliferation and/or differentiation ability. Therefore,
we analyzed satellite cells derived from 31-month-old rats in standard cultures with 21% O2 and in lowered (∼3%) O2. Under the lowered O2 conditions, we noted a remarkable increase in the percentage of large-sized colonies, activation of cell cycle progression
factors, phosphorylation of Akt, and downregulation of the cell cycle inhibitor p27Kip1. These data suggest that lower O2 levels provide a milieu that stimulates proliferation by allowing continued cell cycle progression, to result ultimately
in the enhanced in vitro replicative life span of the old satellite cells. Such a method therefore provides an improved means
for the ex vivo generation of progenitor satellite cell populations for potential therapeutic stem cell transplantation.
Received 20 April 2001; received after revision 28 May 2001; accepted 31 May 2001 相似文献
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Mammalian centromeres are not defined by a consensus DNA sequence. In all eukaryotes a hallmark of functional centromeres--both normal ones and those formed aberrantly at atypical loci--is the accumulation of centromere protein A (CENP-A), a histone variant that replaces H3 in centromeric nucleosomes. Here we show using deuterium exchange/mass spectrometry coupled with hydrodynamic measures that CENP-A and histone H4 form sub-nucleosomal tetramers that are more compact and conformationally more rigid than the corresponding tetramers of histones H3 and H4. Substitution into histone H3 of the domain of CENP-A responsible for compaction is sufficient to direct it to centromeres. Thus, the centromere-targeting domain of CENP-A confers a unique structural rigidity to the nucleosomes into which it assembles, and is likely to have a role in maintaining centromere identity. 相似文献
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A common CFH haplotype, with deletion of CFHR1 and CFHR3, is associated with lower risk of age-related macular degeneration 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Hughes AE Orr N Esfandiary H Diaz-Torres M Goodship T Chakravarthy U 《Nature genetics》2006,38(10):1173-1177
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD; OMIM #603075) is the most frequent cause of visual impairment in the elderly population, with severe disease affecting nearly 10% of individuals of European descent over the age of 75 years. It is a complex disease in which genetic and environmental factors contribute to susceptibility. Complement factor H (CFH) has recently been identified as a major AMD susceptibility gene, and the Y402H polymorphism has been proposed as the likely causative factor. We genotyped polymorphisms spanning the cluster of CFH and five CFH-related genes on chromosome 1q23 in 173 individuals with severe neovascular AMD and 170 elderly controls with no signs of AMD. Detailed analysis showed a common haplotype associated with decreased risk of AMD that was present on 20% of chromosomes of controls and 8% of chromosomes of individuals with AMD. We found that this haplotype carried a deletion of CFHR1 and CFHR3, and the proteins encoded by these genes were absent in serum of homozygotes. The protective effect of the deletion haplotype cannot be attributed to linkage disequilibrium with Y402H and was replicated in an independent sample. 相似文献
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