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Carlton JM Adams JH Silva JC Bidwell SL Lorenzi H Caler E Crabtree J Angiuoli SV Merino EF Amedeo P Cheng Q Coulson RM Crabb BS Del Portillo HA Essien K Feldblyum TV Fernandez-Becerra C Gilson PR Gueye AH Guo X Kang'a S Kooij TW Korsinczky M Meyer EV Nene V Paulsen I White O Ralph SA Ren Q Sargeant TJ Salzberg SL Stoeckert CJ Sullivan SA Yamamoto MM Hoffman SL Wortman JR Gardner MJ Galinski MR Barnwell JW Fraser-Liggett CM 《Nature》2008,455(7214):757-763
The human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax is responsible for 25-40% of the approximately 515 million annual cases of malaria worldwide. Although seldom fatal, the parasite elicits severe and incapacitating clinical symptoms and often causes relapses months after a primary infection has cleared. Despite its importance as a major human pathogen, P. vivax is little studied because it cannot be propagated continuously in the laboratory except in non-human primates. We sequenced the genome of P. vivax to shed light on its distinctive biological features, and as a means to drive development of new drugs and vaccines. Here we describe the synteny and isochore structure of P. vivax chromosomes, and show that the parasite resembles other malaria parasites in gene content and metabolic potential, but possesses novel gene families and potential alternative invasion pathways not recognized previously. Completion of the P. vivax genome provides the scientific community with a valuable resource that can be used to advance investigation into this neglected species. 相似文献
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Analysis of the coding genome of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Pasqualucci L Trifonov V Fabbri G Ma J Rossi D Chiarenza A Wells VA Grunn A Messina M Elliot O Chan J Bhagat G Chadburn A Gaidano G Mullighan CG Rabadan R Dalla-Favera R 《Nature genetics》2011,43(9):830-837
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common form of human lymphoma. Although a number of structural alterations have been associated with the pathogenesis of this malignancy, the full spectrum of genetic lesions that are present in the DLBCL genome, and therefore the identity of dysregulated cellular pathways, remains unknown. By combining next-generation sequencing and copy number analysis, we show that the DLBCL coding genome contains, on average, more than 30 clonally represented gene alterations per case. This analysis also revealed mutations in genes not previously implicated in DLBCL pathogenesis, including those regulating chromatin methylation (MLL2; 24% of samples) and immune recognition by T cells. These results provide initial data on the complexity of the DLBCL coding genome and identify novel dysregulated pathways underlying its pathogenesis. 相似文献
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Ressler KJ Mercer KB Bradley B Jovanovic T Mahan A Kerley K Norrholm SD Kilaru V Smith AK Myers AJ Ramirez M Engel A Hammack SE Toufexis D Braas KM Binder EB May V 《Nature》2011,470(7335):492-497
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is known to broadly regulate the cellular stress response. In contrast, it is unclear if the PACAP-PAC1 receptor pathway has a role in human psychological stress responses, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here we find, in heavily traumatized subjects, a sex-specific association of PACAP blood levels with fear physiology, PTSD diagnosis and symptoms in females. We examined 44 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning the PACAP (encoded by ADCYAP1) and PAC1 (encoded by ADCYAP1R1) genes, demonstrating a sex-specific association with PTSD. A single SNP in a putative oestrogen response element within ADCYAP1R1, rs2267735, predicts PTSD diagnosis and symptoms in females only. This SNP also associates with fear discrimination and with ADCYAP1R1 messenger RNA expression in human brain. Methylation of ADCYAP1R1 in peripheral blood is also associated with PTSD. Complementing these human data, ADCYAP1R1 mRNA is induced with fear conditioning or oestrogen replacement in rodent models. These data suggest that perturbations in the PACAP-PAC1 pathway are involved in abnormal stress responses underlying PTSD. These sex-specific effects may occur via oestrogen regulation of ADCYAP1R1. PACAP levels and ADCYAP1R1 SNPs may serve as useful biomarkers to further our mechanistic understanding of PTSD. 相似文献
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Scally A Dutheil JY Hillier LW Jordan GE Goodhead I Herrero J Hobolth A Lappalainen T Mailund T Marques-Bonet T McCarthy S Montgomery SH Schwalie PC Tang YA Ward MC Xue Y Yngvadottir B Alkan C Andersen LN Ayub Q Ball EV Beal K Bradley BJ Chen Y Clee CM Fitzgerald S Graves TA Gu Y Heath P Heger A Karakoc E Kolb-Kokocinski A Laird GK Lunter G Meader S Mort M Mullikin JC Munch K O'Connor TD Phillips AD Prado-Martinez J Rogers AS Sajjadian S Schmidt D Shaw K Simpson JT Stenson PD Turner DJ 《Nature》2012,483(7388):169-175
Gorillas are humans' closest living relatives after chimpanzees, and are of comparable importance for the study of human origins and evolution. Here we present the assembly and analysis of a genome sequence for the western lowland gorilla, and compare the whole genomes of all extant great ape genera. We propose a synthesis of genetic and fossil evidence consistent with placing the human-chimpanzee and human-chimpanzee-gorilla speciation events at approximately 6 and 10 million years ago. In 30% of the genome, gorilla is closer to human or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other; this is rarer around coding genes, indicating pervasive selection throughout great ape evolution, and has functional consequences in gene expression. A comparison of protein coding genes reveals approximately 500 genes showing accelerated evolution on each of the gorilla, human and chimpanzee lineages, and evidence for parallel acceleration, particularly of genes involved in hearing. We also compare the western and eastern gorilla species, estimating an average sequence divergence time 1.75 million years ago, but with evidence for more recent genetic exchange and a population bottleneck in the eastern species. The use of the genome sequence in these and future analyses will promote a deeper understanding of great ape biology and evolution. 相似文献
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Gallo EM Winslow MM Canté-Barrett K Radermacher AN Ho L McGinnis L Iritani B Neilson JR Crabtree GR 《Nature》2007,450(7170):731-735
At critical times in development, cells are able to convert graded signals into discrete developmental outcomes; however, the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. During thymocyte development, cell fate is determined by signals originating from the alphabeta T-cell receptor. Low-affinity/avidity interactions between the T-cell receptor and peptide-MHC complexes direct differentiation to the single-positive stage (positive selection), whereas high-affinity/avidity interactions induce death by apoptosis (negative selection). Here we show that mice deficient in both calcineurin and nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)c2/c3 lack a population of preselection thymocytes with enhanced ability to activate the mitogen-activated protein kinase (Raf-MEK-ERK) pathway, and fail to undergo positive selection. This defect can be partially rescued with constitutively active Raf, indicating that calcineurin controls MAPK signalling. Analysis of mice deficient in both Bim (which is required for negative selection) and calcineurin revealed that calcineurin-induced ERK (extracellular signal-regulated kinase) sensitization is required for differentiation in response to 'weak' positive selecting signals but not in response to 'strong' negative selecting signals (which normally induce apoptosis). These results indicate that early calcineurin/NFAT signalling produces a developmental period of ERK hypersensitivity, allowing very weak signals to induce positive selection. This mechanism might be generally useful in the discrimination of graded signals that induce different cell fates. 相似文献
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Krishnan KJ Reeve AK Samuels DC Chinnery PF Blackwood JK Taylor RW Wanrooij S Spelbrink JN Lightowlers RN Turnbull DM 《Nature genetics》2008,40(3):275-279
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions are a primary cause of mitochondrial disease and are likely to have a central role in the aging of postmitotic tissues. Understanding the mechanism of the formation and subsequent clonal expansion of these mtDNA deletions is an essential first step in trying to prevent their occurrence. We review the previous literature and recent results from our own laboratories, and conclude that mtDNA deletions are most likely to occur during repair of damaged mtDNA rather than during replication. This conclusion has important implications for prevention of mtDNA disease and, potentially, for our understanding of the aging process. 相似文献
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Talling PJ Wynn RB Masson DG Frenz M Cronin BT Schiebel R Akhmetzhanov AM Dallmeier-Tiessen S Benetti S Weaver PP Georgiopoulou A Zühlsdorff C Amy LA 《Nature》2007,450(7169):541-544
Submarine landslides can generate sediment-laden flows whose scale is impressive. Individual flow deposits have been mapped that extend for 1,500 km offshore from northwest Africa. These are the longest run-out sediment density flow deposits yet documented on Earth. This contribution analyses one of these deposits, which contains ten times the mass of sediment transported annually by all of the world's rivers. Understanding how this type of submarine flow evolves is a significant problem, because they are extremely difficult to monitor directly. Previous work has shown how progressive disintegration of landslide blocks can generate debris flow, the deposit of which extends downslope from the original landslide. We provide evidence that submarine flows can produce giant debris flow deposits that start several hundred kilometres from the original landslide, encased within deposits of a more dilute flow type called turbidity current. Very little sediment was deposited across the intervening large expanse of sea floor, where the flow was locally very erosive. Sediment deposition was finally triggered by a remarkably small but abrupt decrease in sea-floor gradient from 0.05 degrees to 0.01 degrees. This debris flow was probably generated by flow transformation from the decelerating turbidity current. The alternative is that non-channelized debris flow left almost no trace of its passage across one hundred kilometres of flat (0.2 degrees to 0.05 degrees) sea floor. Our work shows that initially well-mixed and highly erosive submarine flows can produce extensive debris flow deposits beyond subtle slope breaks located far out in the deep ocean. 相似文献
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A mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer's disease and age-related cognitive decline 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
T Jonsson JK Atwal S Steinberg J Snaedal PV Jonsson S Bjornsson H Stefansson P Sulem D Gudbjartsson J Maloney K Hoyte A Gustafson Y Liu Y Lu T Bhangale RR Graham J Huttenlocher G Bjornsdottir OA Andreassen EG Jönsson A Palotie TW Behrens OT Magnusson A Kong U Thorsteinsdottir RJ Watts K Stefansson 《Nature》2012,488(7409):96-99
The prevalence of dementia in the Western world in people over the age of 60 has been estimated to be greater than 5%, about two-thirds of which are due to Alzheimer's disease. The age-specific prevalence of Alzheimer's disease nearly doubles every 5 years after age 65, leading to a prevalence of greater than 25% in those over the age of 90 (ref. 3). Here, to search for low-frequency variants in the amyloid-β precursor protein (APP) gene with a significant effect on the risk of Alzheimer's disease, we studied coding variants in APP in a set of whole-genome sequence data from 1,795 Icelanders. We found a coding mutation (A673T) in the APP gene that protects against Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline in the elderly without Alzheimer's disease. This substitution is adjacent to the aspartyl protease β-site in APP, and results in an approximately 40% reduction in the formation of amyloidogenic peptides in vitro. The strong protective effect of the A673T substitution against Alzheimer's disease provides proof of principle for the hypothesis that reducing the β-cleavage of APP may protect against the disease. Furthermore, as the A673T allele also protects against cognitive decline in the elderly without Alzheimer's disease, the two may be mediated through the same or similar mechanisms. 相似文献
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Yen AS Gellert R Schröder C Morris RV Bell JF Knudson AT Clark BC Ming DW Crisp JA Arvidson RE Blaney D Brückner J Christensen PR DesMarais DJ de Souza PA Economou TE Ghosh A Hahn BC Herkenhoff KE Haskin LA Hurowitz JA Joliff BL Johnson JR Klingelhöfer G Madsen MB McLennan SM McSween HY Richter L Rieder R Rodionov D Soderblom L Squyres SW Tosca NJ Wang A Wyatt M Zipfel J 《Nature》2005,436(7047):49-54
The mineralogical and elemental compositions of the martian soil are indicators of chemical and physical weathering processes. Using data from the Mars Exploration Rovers, we show that bright dust deposits on opposite sides of the planet are part of a global unit and not dominated by the composition of local rocks. Dark soil deposits at both sites have similar basaltic mineralogies, and could reflect either a global component or the general similarity in the compositions of the rocks from which they were derived. Increased levels of bromine are consistent with mobilization of soluble salts by thin films of liquid water, but the presence of olivine in analysed soil samples indicates that the extent of aqueous alteration of soils has been limited. Nickel abundances are enhanced at the immediate surface and indicate that the upper few millimetres of soil could contain up to one per cent meteoritic material. 相似文献