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Inhibition of telomerase by G-quartet DNA structures 总被引:52,自引:0,他引:52
The ends or telomeres of the linear chromosomes of eukaryotes are composed of tandem repeats of short DNA sequences, one strand being rich in guanine (G strand) and the complementary strand in cytosine. Telomere synthesis involves the addition of telomeric repeats to the G strand by telomere terminal transferase (telomerase). Telomeric G-strand DNAs from a variety of organisms adopt compact structures, the most stable of which is explained by the formation of G-quartets. Here we investigate the capacity of the different folded forms of telomeric DNA to serve as primers for the Oxytricha nova telomerase in vitro. Formation of the K(+)-stabilized G-quartet structure in a primer inhibits its use by telomerase. Furthermore, the octanucleotide T4G4, which does not fold, is a better primer than (T4G4)2, which can form a foldback structure. We conclude that telomerase does not require any folding of its DNA primer. Folding of telomeric DNA into G-quartet structures seems to influence the extent of telomere elongation in vitro and might therefore act as a negative regulator of elongation in vivo. 相似文献
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Genetic determinants of ulcerative colitis include the ECM1 locus and five loci implicated in Crohn's disease 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Fisher SA Tremelling M Anderson CA Gwilliam R Bumpstead S Prescott NJ Nimmo ER Massey D Berzuini C Johnson C Barrett JC Cummings FR Drummond H Lees CW Onnie CM Hanson CE Blaszczyk K Inouye M Ewels P Ravindrarajah R Keniry A Hunt S Carter M Watkins N Ouwehand W Lewis CM Cardon L;Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Lobo A Forbes A Sanderson J Jewell DP Mansfield JC Deloukas P Mathew CG Parkes M Satsangi J 《Nature genetics》2008,40(6):710-712
We report results of a nonsynonymous SNP scan for ulcerative colitis and identify a previously unknown susceptibility locus at ECM1. We also show that several risk loci are common to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease (IL23R, IL12B, HLA, NKX2-3 and MST1), whereas autophagy genes ATG16L1 and IRGM, along with NOD2 (also known as CARD15), are specific for Crohn's disease. These data provide the first detailed illustration of the genetic relationship between these common inflammatory bowel diseases. 相似文献
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As the site of gene expression and regulation, the nucleus is the control center of the cell. It might be thought that degradation
of nuclear contents is strictly ‘off-limits,’ given the importance of the genetic information contained within the nucleus,
but it has recently been reported that partial degradation of the nucleus may occur in yeast. Here we summarize the evidence
for the degradation and quality control of proteins found with the nucleus and its compartments, and of nucleic acids that
may occur under certain specific conditions. Only under certain special conditions such as differentiation of the lens are
the entire nuclear contents degraded.
Received 6 September 2006; received after revision 25 October 2006; accepted 13 December 2006 相似文献
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Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Nierman WC Pain A Anderson MJ Wortman JR Kim HS Arroyo J Berriman M Abe K Archer DB Bermejo C Bennett J Bowyer P Chen D Collins M Coulsen R Davies R Dyer PS Farman M Fedorova N Fedorova N Feldblyum TV Fischer R Fosker N Fraser A García JL García MJ Goble A Goldman GH Gomi K Griffith-Jones S Gwilliam R Haas B Haas H Harris D Horiuchi H Huang J Humphray S Jiménez J Keller N Khouri H Kitamoto K Kobayashi T Konzack S Kulkarni R Kumagai T Lafon A Lafton A Latgé JP Li W Lord A Lu C Majoros WH May GS 《Nature》2005,438(7071):1151-1156
Aspergillus fumigatus is exceptional among microorganisms in being both a primary and opportunistic pathogen as well as a major allergen. Its conidia production is prolific, and so human respiratory tract exposure is almost constant. A. fumigatus is isolated from human habitats and vegetable compost heaps. In immunocompromised individuals, the incidence of invasive infection can be as high as 50% and the mortality rate is often about 50% (ref. 2). The interaction of A. fumigatus and other airborne fungi with the immune system is increasingly linked to severe asthma and sinusitis. Although the burden of invasive disease caused by A. fumigatus is substantial, the basic biology of the organism is mostly obscure. Here we show the complete 29.4-megabase genome sequence of the clinical isolate Af293, which consists of eight chromosomes containing 9,926 predicted genes. Microarray analysis revealed temperature-dependent expression of distinct sets of genes, as well as 700 A. fumigatus genes not present or significantly diverged in the closely related sexual species Neosartorya fischeri, many of which may have roles in the pathogenicity phenotype. The Af293 genome sequence provides an unparalleled resource for the future understanding of this remarkable fungus. 相似文献
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Distal ureter morphogenesis depends on epithelial cell remodeling mediated by vitamin A and Ret 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
Batourina E Choi C Paragas N Bello N Hensle T Costantini FD Schuchardt A Bacallao RL Mendelsohn CL 《Nature genetics》2002,32(1):109-115
Almost 1% of human infants are born with urogenital abnormalities, many of which are linked to irregular connections between the distal ureters and the bladder. During development, ureters migrate by an unknown mechanism from their initial integration site in the Wolffian ducts up to the base of the bladder in a process that we call ureter maturation. Rara(-/-) Rarb2(-/-) mice display impaired vitamin A signaling and develop syndromic urogenital malformations similar to those that occur in humans, including renal hypoplasia, hydronephrosis and mega-ureter, abnormalities also seen in mice with mutations in the proto-oncogene Ret. Here we show that ureter maturation depends on formation of the 'trigonal wedge', a newly identified epithelial outgrowth from the base of the Wolffian ducts, and that the distal ureter abnormalities seen in Rara(-/-) Rarb2(-/-) and Ret(-/-) mutant mice are probably caused by a failure of this process. Our studies indicate that formation of the trigonal wedge may be essential for correct insertion of the distal ureters into the bladder, and that these events are mediated by the vitamin A and Ret signaling pathways. 相似文献
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Hunt KA Smyth DJ Balschun T Ban M Mistry V Ahmad T Anand V Barrett JC Bhaw-Rosun L Bockett NA Brand OJ Brouwer E Concannon P Cooper JD Dias KR van Diemen CC Dubois PC Edkins S Fölster-Holst R Fransen K Glass DN Heap GA Hofmann S Huizinga TW Hunt S Langford C Lee J Mansfield J Marrosu MG Mathew CG Mein CA Müller-Quernheim J Nutland S Onengut-Gumuscu S Ouwehand W Pearce K Prescott NJ Posthumus MD Potter S Rosati G Sambrook J Satsangi J Schreiber S Shtir C Simmonds MJ Sudman M Thompson SD Toes R 《Nature genetics》2012,44(1):3-5
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Locasale JW Grassian AR Melman T Lyssiotis CA Mattaini KR Bass AJ Heffron G Metallo CM Muranen T Sharfi H Sasaki AT Anastasiou D Mullarky E Vokes NI Sasaki M Beroukhim R Stephanopoulos G Ligon AH Meyerson M Richardson AL Chin L Wagner G Asara JM Brugge JS Cantley LC Vander Heiden MG 《Nature genetics》2011,43(9):869-874
Most tumors exhibit increased glucose metabolism to lactate, however, the extent to which glucose-derived metabolic fluxes are used for alternative processes is poorly understood. Using a metabolomics approach with isotope labeling, we found that in some cancer cells a relatively large amount of glycolytic carbon is diverted into serine and glycine metabolism through phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH). An analysis of human cancers showed that PHGDH is recurrently amplified in a genomic region of focal copy number gain most commonly found in melanoma. Decreasing PHGDH expression impaired proliferation in amplified cell lines. Increased expression was also associated with breast cancer subtypes, and ectopic expression of PHGDH in mammary epithelial cells disrupted acinar morphogenesis and induced other phenotypic alterations that may predispose cells to transformation. Our findings show that the diversion of glycolytic flux into a specific alternate pathway can be selected during tumor development and may contribute to the pathogenesis of human cancer. 相似文献