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I Perrault S Hanein X Zanlonghi V Serre M Nicouleau S Defoort-Delhemmes N Delphin L Fares-Taie S Gerber O Xerri C Edelson A Goldenberg A Duncombe G Le Meur C Hamel E Silva P Nitschke P Calvas A Munnich O Roche H Dollfus J Kaplan JM Rozet 《Nature genetics》2012,44(9):975-977
In addition to its activity in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)) synthesis, the nuclear nicotinamide mononucleotide adenyltransferase NMNAT1 acts as a chaperone that protects against neuronal activity-induced degeneration. Here we report that compound heterozygous and homozygous NMNAT1 mutations cause severe neonatal neurodegeneration of the central retina and early-onset optic atrophy in 22 unrelated individuals. Their clinical presentation is consistent with Leber congenital amaurosis and suggests that the mutations affect neuroprotection of photoreceptor cells. 相似文献
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Sabine Gröbner Evelyn Fritz Friederike Schoch Martin Schaller Alexander C. Berger Michael Bitzer Ingo B. Autenrieth 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2010,67(19):3331-3344
Enterococci are commensal organisms in the alimentary tract. However, they can cause a variety of life-threatening infections,
especially in nosocomial settings. We hypothesized that induction of cell death might enable these facultative pathogenic
bacteria to evade the innate immune response and to cause infections of their host. We demonstrate that E. faecium when exposed to lysozyme induces cell death in macrophages in vitro and in vivo. Flow cytometric analyses of J774A.1 macrophages
infected with E. faecium revealed loss of cell membrane integrity indicated by uptake of propidium iodide and decrease of the inner mitochondrial
transmembrane potential ΔΨm. Inhibition of caspases, treatment of macrophages with cytochalasin D, or rifampicin did not prevent cells from dying, suggesting
cell death mechanisms that are independent of caspase activation, bacterial uptake, and intracellular bacterial replication.
Characteristics of necrotic cell death were demonstrated by both lack of procaspase 3 activation and cell shrinkage, electron
microscopy, and release of lactate dehydrogenase. Pretreatment of E. faecium with lysozyme and subsequently with broad spectrum protease considerably reduced cell death, suggesting that a bacterial
surface protein is causative for cell death induction. Moreover, in a mouse peritonitis model we demonstrated that E. faecium induces cell death of peritoneal macrophages in vivo. Altogether, our results show that enterococci, under specific conditions
such as exposure to lysozyme, induce necrotic cell death in macrophages, which might contribute to disseminated infections
by these facultative pathogenic bacteria. 相似文献
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Briggs TA Rice GI Daly S Urquhart J Gornall H Bader-Meunier B Baskar K Baskar S Baudouin V Beresford MW Black GC Dearman RJ de Zegher F Foster ES Francès C Hayman AR Hilton E Job-Deslandre C Kulkarni ML Le Merrer M Linglart A Lovell SC Maurer K Musset L Navarro V Picard C Puel A Rieux-Laucat F Roifman CM Scholl-Bürgi S Smith N Szynkiewicz M Wiedeman A Wouters C Zeef LA Casanova JL Elkon KB Janckila A Lebon P Crow YJ 《Nature genetics》2011,43(2):127-131
We studied ten individuals from eight families showing features consistent with the immuno-osseous dysplasia spondyloenchondrodysplasia. Of particular note was the diverse spectrum of autoimmune phenotypes observed in these individuals (cases), including systemic lupus erythematosus, Sj?gren's syndrome, hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, hypothyroidism, inflammatory myositis, Raynaud's disease and vitiligo. Haplotype data indicated the disease gene to be on chromosome 19p13, and linkage analysis yielded a combined multipoint log(10) odds (LOD) score of 3.6. Sequencing of ACP5, encoding tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, identified biallelic mutations in each of the cases studied, and in vivo testing confirmed a loss of expressed protein. All eight cases assayed showed elevated serum interferon alpha activity, and gene expression profiling in whole blood defined a type I interferon signature. Our findings reveal a previously unrecognized link between tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase activity and interferon metabolism and highlight the importance of type I interferon in the genesis of autoimmunity. 相似文献
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Stoetzel C Laurier V Davis EE Muller J Rix S Badano JL Leitch CC Salem N Chouery E Corbani S Jalk N Vicaire S Sarda P Hamel C Lacombe D Holder M Odent S Holder S Brooks AS Elcioglu NH Silva ED Da Silva E Rossillion B Sigaudy S de Ravel TJ Lewis RA Leheup B Verloes A Amati-Bonneau P Mégarbané A Poch O Bonneau D Beales PL Mandel JL Katsanis N Dollfus H 《Nature genetics》2006,38(5):521-524
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a genetically heterogeneous ciliopathy. Although nine BBS genes have been cloned, they explain only 40-50% of the total mutational load. Here we report a major new BBS locus, BBS10, that encodes a previously unknown, rapidly evolving vertebrate-specific chaperonin-like protein. We found BBS10 to be mutated in about 20% of an unselected cohort of families of various ethnic origins, including some families with mutations in other BBS genes, consistent with oligogenic inheritance. In zebrafish, mild suppression of bbs10 exacerbated the phenotypes of other bbs morphants. 相似文献
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Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative and infectious disorders of humans and animals, characterized by structural transition
of the host-encoded cellular prion protein (PrPc) into the aberrantly folded pathologic isoform PrPSc. RNA, DNA or peptide aptamers are classes of molecules which can be selected from complex combinatorial libraries for high
affinity and specific binding to prion proteins and which might therefore be useful in diagnosis and therapy of prion diseases.
Nucleic acid aptamers, which can be chemically synthesized, stabilized and immobilized, appear more suitable for diagnostic
purposes, allowing use of PrPSc as selection target. Peptide aptamers facilitate appropriate intracellular expression, targeting and re-routing without losing
their binding properties to PrP, a requirement for potential therapeutic gene transfer experiments in vivo. Elucidation of
structural properties of peptide aptamers might be used as basis for rational drug design, providing another attractive application
of peptide aptamers in the search for effective anti-prion strategies. 相似文献
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Alsford S Eckert S Baker N Glover L Sanchez-Flores A Leung KF Turner DJ Field MC Berriman M Horn D 《Nature》2012,482(7384):232-236
The concept of disease-specific chemotherapy was developed a century ago. Dyes and arsenical compounds that displayed selectivity against trypanosomes were central to this work, and the drugs that emerged remain in use for treating human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). The importance of understanding the mechanisms underlying selective drug action and resistance for the development of improved HAT therapies has been recognized, but these mechanisms have remained largely unknown. Here we use all five current HAT drugs for genome-scale RNA interference target sequencing (RIT-seq) screens in Trypanosoma brucei, revealing the transporters, organelles, enzymes and metabolic pathways that function to facilitate antitrypanosomal drug action. RIT-seq profiling identifies both known drug importers and the only known pro-drug activator, and links more than fifty additional genes to drug action. A bloodstream stage-specific invariant surface glycoprotein (ISG75) family mediates suramin uptake, and the AP1 adaptin complex, lysosomal proteases and major lysosomal transmembrane protein, as well as spermidine and N-acetylglucosamine biosynthesis, all contribute to suramin action. Further screens link ubiquinone availability to nitro-drug action, plasma membrane P-type H(+)-ATPases to pentamidine action, and trypanothione and several putative kinases to melarsoprol action. We also demonstrate a major role for aquaglyceroporins in pentamidine and melarsoprol cross-resistance. These advances in our understanding of mechanisms of antitrypanosomal drug efficacy and resistance will aid the rational design of new therapies and help to combat drug resistance, and provide unprecedented molecular insight into the mode of action of antitrypanosomal drugs. 相似文献
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Tip60 is a haplo-insufficient tumour suppressor required for an oncogene-induced DNA damage response
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Aude Doody Sabine Föllinger Liba Taub 《Studies in history and philosophy of science》2012,43(2):233-236
Most of our knowledge of Greek and Roman scientific practice and its place in ancient culture is derived from our study of ancient texts. In the last few decades, this written evidence—ancient technical or specialist literature—has begun to be studied using tools of literary analysis to help answer questions about, for instance, how these works were composed, their authors’ intentions and the expectations of their readers.This introduction to Structures and strategies in ancient Greek and Roman technical writing provides an overview of recent scholarship in the area, and the difficulty in pinning down what ‘technical/specialist literature’ might mean in an ancient context, since Greek and Roman authors communicated scientific knowledge using a wide variety of styles and forms of text (e.g. poetry, dialogues, letters).An outline of the three sections is provided: Form as a mirror of method, in which Sabine Föllinger and Alexander Mueller explore ways in which the structures of texts by Aristotle and Plutarch may reflect methodological concerns; Authors and their implied readers, with contributions by Oliver Stoll, David Creese, Boris Dunsch and Paula Olmos, which examines what ancient texts can tell us about the place of technical knowledge in antiquity; Science and the uses of poetry, with articles by Jochen Althoff, Michael Coxhead and Laurence Totelin, and a new English translation of the Aetna poem by Harry Hine, which explores the (to us) unexpected roles of poetry in ancient scientific culture. 相似文献