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Harakalova M van Harssel JJ Terhal PA van Lieshout S Duran K Renkens I Amor DJ Wilson LC Kirk EP Turner CL Shears D Garcia-Minaur S Lees MM Ross A Venselaar H Vriend G Takanari H Rook MB van der Heyden MA Asselbergs FW Breur HM Swinkels ME Scurr IJ Smithson SF Knoers NV van der Smagt JJ Nijman IJ Kloosterman WP van Haelst MM van Haaften G Cuppen E 《Nature genetics》2012,44(7):793-796
Cantú syndrome is characterized by congenital hypertrichosis, distinctive facial features, osteochondrodysplasia and cardiac defects. By using family-based exome sequencing, we identified a de novo mutation in ABCC9. Subsequently, we discovered novel dominant missense mutations in ABCC9 in 14 of the 16 individuals with Cantú syndrome examined. The ABCC9 protein is part of an ATP-dependent potassium (K(ATP)) channel that couples the metabolic state of a cell with its electrical activity. All mutations altered amino acids in or close to the transmembrane domains of ABCC9. Using electrophysiological measurements, we show that mutations in ABCC9 reduce the ATP-mediated potassium channel inhibition, resulting in channel opening. Moreover, similarities between the phenotype of individuals with Cantú syndrome and side effects from the K(ATP) channel agonist minoxidil indicate that the mutations in ABCC9 result in channel opening. Given the availability of ABCC9 antagonists, our findings may have direct implications for the treatment of individuals with Cantú syndrome. 相似文献
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Matmati M Jacques P Maelfait J Verheugen E Kool M Sze M Geboes L Louagie E Mc Guire C Vereecke L Chu Y Boon L Staelens S Matthys P Lambrecht BN Schmidt-Supprian M Pasparakis M Elewaut D Beyaert R van Loo G 《Nature genetics》2011,43(9):908-912
A20 (TNFAIP3) is a protein that is involved in the negative feedback regulation of NF-κB signaling in response to specific proinflammatory stimuli in different cell types and has been suggested as a susceptibility gene for rheumatoid arthritis. To define the contribution of A20 to rheumatoid arthritis pathology, we generated myeloid-specific A20-deficient mice and show that specific ablation of Tnfaip3 in myeloid cells results in spontaneous development of a severe destructive polyarthritis with many features of rheumatoid arthritis. Myeloid-A20-deficient mice have high levels of inflammatory cytokines in their serum, consistent with a sustained NF-κB activation and higher TNF production by macrophages. Destructive polyarthritis in myeloid A20 knockout mice was TLR4-MyD88 and IL-6 dependent but was TNF independent. Myeloid A20 deficiency also promoted osteoclastogenesis in mice. Together, these observations indicate a critical and cell-specific function for A20 in the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis, supporting the idea of developing A20 modulatory drugs as cell-targeted therapies. 相似文献
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Meijers-Heijboer H van den Ouweland A Klijn J Wasielewski M de Snoo A Oldenburg R Hollestelle A Houben M Crepin E van Veghel-Plandsoen M Elstrodt F van Duijn C Bartels C Meijers C Schutte M McGuffog L Thompson D Easton D Sodha N Seal S Barfoot R Mangion J Chang-Claude J Eccles D Eeles R Evans DG Houlston R Murday V Narod S Peretz T Peto J Phelan C Zhang HX Szabo C Devilee P Goldgar D Futreal PA Nathanson KL Weber B Rahman N Stratton MR;CHEK-Breast Cancer Consortium 《Nature genetics》2002,31(1):55-59
Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 confer a high risk of breast and ovarian cancer, but account for only a small fraction of breast cancer susceptibility. To find additional genes conferring susceptibility to breast cancer, we analyzed CHEK2 (also known as CHK2), which encodes a cell-cycle checkpoint kinase that is implicated in DNA repair processes involving BRCA1 and p53 (refs 3,4,5). We show that CHEK2(*)1100delC, a truncating variant that abrogates the kinase activity, has a frequency of 1.1% in healthy individuals. However, this variant is present in 5.1% of individuals with breast cancer from 718 families that do not carry mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (P = 0.00000003), including 13.5% of individuals from families with male breast cancer (P = 0.00015). We estimate that the CHEK2(*)1100delC variant results in an approximately twofold increase of breast cancer risk in women and a tenfold increase of risk in men. By contrast, the variant confers no increased cancer risk in carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. This suggests that the biological mechanisms underlying the elevated risk of breast cancer in CHEK2 mutation carriers are already subverted in carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, which is consistent with participation of the encoded proteins in the same pathway. 相似文献
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Jadeja S Smyth I Pitera JE Taylor MS van Haelst M Bentley E McGregor L Hopkins J Chalepakis G Philip N Perez Aytes A Watt FM Darling SM Jackson I Woolf AS Scambler PJ 《Nature genetics》2005,37(5):520-525
Fraser syndrome is a recessive, multisystem disorder presenting with cryptophthalmos, syndactyly and renal defects and associated with loss-of-function mutations of the extracellular matrix protein FRAS1. Fras1 mutant mice have a blebbed phenotype characterized by intrauterine epithelial fragility generating serous and, later, hemorrhagic blisters. The myelencephalic blebs (my) strain has a similar phenotype. We mapped my to Frem2, a gene related to Fras1 and Frem1, and showed that a Frem2 gene-trap mutation was allelic to my. Expression of Frem2 in adult kidneys correlated with cyst formation in my homozygotes, indicating that the gene is required for maintaining the differentiated state of renal epithelia. Two individuals with Fraser syndrome were homozygous with respect to the same missense mutation of FREM2, confirming genetic heterogeneity. This is the only missense mutation reported in any blebbing mutant or individual with Fraser syndrome, suggesting that calcium binding in the CALXbeta-cadherin motif is important for normal functioning of FREM2. 相似文献
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Raghoebarsing AA Smolders AJ Schmid MC Rijpstra WI Wolters-Arts M Derksen J Jetten MS Schouten S Sinninghe Damsté JS Lamers LP Roelofs JG Op den Camp HJ Strous M 《Nature》2005,436(7054):1153-1156
Wetlands are the largest natural source of atmospheric methane, the second most important greenhouse gas. Methane flux to the atmosphere depends strongly on the climate; however, by far the largest part of the methane formed in wetland ecosystems is recycled and does not reach the atmosphere. The biogeochemical controls on the efficient oxidation of methane are still poorly understood. Here we show that submerged Sphagnum mosses, the dominant plants in some of these habitats, consume methane through symbiosis with partly endophytic methanotrophic bacteria, leading to highly effective in situ methane recycling. Molecular probes revealed the presence of the bacteria in the hyaline cells of the plant and on stem leaves. Incubation with (13)C-methane showed rapid in situ oxidation by these bacteria to carbon dioxide, which was subsequently fixed by Sphagnum, as shown by incorporation of (13)C-methane into plant sterols. In this way, methane acts as a significant (10-15%) carbon source for Sphagnum. The symbiosis explains both the efficient recycling of methane and the high organic carbon burial in these wetland ecosystems. 相似文献
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Two new haemoglobin variants involving proline substitutions 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Pansuriya TC van Eijk R d'Adamo P van Ruler MA Kuijjer ML Oosting J Cleton-Jansen AM van Oosterwijk JG Verbeke SL Meijer D van Wezel T Nord KH Sangiorgi L Toker B Liegl-Atzwanger B San-Julian M Sciot R Limaye N Kindblom LG Daugaard S Godfraind C Boon LM Vikkula M Kurek KC Szuhai K French PJ Bovée JV 《Nature genetics》2011,43(12):1256-1261
Ollier disease and Maffucci syndrome are non-hereditary skeletal disorders characterized by multiple enchondromas (Ollier disease) combined with spindle cell hemangiomas (Maffucci syndrome). We report somatic heterozygous mutations in IDH1 (c.394C>T encoding an R132C substitution and c.395G>A encoding an R132H substitution) or IDH2 (c.516G>C encoding R172S) in 87% of enchondromas (benign cartilage tumors) and in 70% of spindle cell hemangiomas (benign vascular lesions). In total, 35 of 43 (81%) subjects with Ollier disease and 10 of 13 (77%) with Maffucci syndrome carried IDH1 (98%) or IDH2 (2%) mutations in their tumors. Fourteen of 16 subjects had identical mutations in separate lesions. Immunohistochemistry to detect mutant IDH1 R132H protein suggested intraneoplastic and somatic mosaicism. IDH1 mutations in cartilage tumors were associated with hypermethylation and downregulated expression of several genes. Mutations were also found in 40% of solitary central cartilaginous tumors and in four chondrosarcoma cell lines, which will enable functional studies to assess the role of IDH1 and IDH2 mutations in tumor formation. 相似文献
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Jacquemont S Reymond A Zufferey F Harewood L Walters RG Kutalik Z Martinet D Shen Y Valsesia A Beckmann ND Thorleifsson G Belfiore M Bouquillon S Campion D de Leeuw N de Vries BB Esko T Fernandez BA Fernández-Aranda F Fernández-Real JM Gratacòs M Guilmatre A Hoyer J Jarvelin MR Kooy RF Kurg A Le Caignec C Männik K Platt OS Sanlaville D Van Haelst MM Villatoro Gomez S Walha F Wu BL Yu Y Aboura A Addor MC Alembik Y Antonarakis SE Arveiler B Barth M Bednarek N Béna F Bergmann S Beri M Bernardini L 《Nature》2011,478(7367):97-102