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Marsango S Bonaccorsi di Patti MC Barra D Miele R 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2011,68(17):2919-2929
Prokineticins are proteins that regulate diverse biological processes including gastrointestinal motility, angiogenesis, circadian
rhythm, and innate immune response. Prokineticins bind two closed related G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), PKR1 and PKR2.
In general, these receptors act as molecular switches to relay activation to heterotrimeric G-proteins and a growing body
of evidence points to the fact that GPCRs exist as homo- or heterodimers. We show here by Western-blot analysis that PKR2
has a dimeric structure in neutrophils. By heterologous expression of PKR2 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we examined the mechanisms of intermolecular interaction of PKR2 dimerization. The potential involvement of three types
of mechanisms was investigated: coiled-coil, disulfide bridges, and hydrophobic interactions between transmembrane domains.
Characterization of differently deleted or site-directed PKR2 mutants suggests that dimerization proceeds through interactions
between transmembrane domains. We demonstrate that co-expressing binding-deficient and signaling-deficient forms of PKR2 can
re-establish receptor functionality, possibly through a domain-swapping mechanism. 相似文献
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Horvath A Boikos S Giatzakis C Robinson-White A Groussin L Griffin KJ Stein E Levine E Delimpasi G Hsiao HP Keil M Heyerdahl S Matyakhina L Libè R Fratticci A Kirschner LS Cramer K Gaillard RC Bertagna X Carney JA Bertherat J Bossis I Stratakis CA 《Nature genetics》2006,38(7):794-800
Phosphodiesterases (PDEs) regulate cyclic nucleotide levels. Increased cyclic AMP (cAMP) signaling has been associated with PRKAR1A or GNAS mutations and leads to adrenocortical tumors and Cushing syndrome. We investigated the genetic source of Cushing syndrome in individuals with adrenocortical hyperplasia that was not caused by known defects. We performed genome-wide SNP genotyping, including the adrenocortical tumor DNA. The region with the highest probability to harbor a susceptibility gene by loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and other analyses was 2q31-2q35. We identified mutations disrupting the expression of the PDE11A isoform-4 gene (PDE11A) in three kindreds. Tumor tissues showed 2q31-2q35 LOH, decreased protein expression and high cyclic nucleotide levels and cAMP-responsive element binding protein (CREB) phosphorylation. PDE11A codes for a dual-specificity PDE that is expressed in adrenal cortex and is partially inhibited by tadalafil and other PDE inhibitors; its germline inactivation is associated with adrenocortical hyperplasia, suggesting another means by which dysregulation of cAMP signaling causes endocrine tumors. 相似文献
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Recognition of unmethylated histone H3 lysine 4 links BHC80 to LSD1-mediated gene repression 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Lan F Collins RE De Cegli R Alpatov R Horton JR Shi X Gozani O Cheng X Shi Y 《Nature》2007,448(7154):718-722
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Nasibeh Karimi Aleksander Cvjetkovic Su Chul Jang Rossella Crescitelli Mohammad Ali Hosseinpour Feizi Rienk Nieuwland Jan Lötvall Cecilia Lässer 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2018,75(15):2873-2886
The isolation of extracellular vesicles (EVs) from blood is of great importance to understand the biological role of circulating EVs and to develop EVs as biomarkers of disease. Due to the concurrent presence of lipoprotein particles, however, blood is one of the most difficult body fluids to isolate EVs from. The aim of this study was to develop a robust method to isolate and characterise EVs from blood with minimal contamination by plasma proteins and lipoprotein particles. Plasma and serum were collected from healthy subjects, and EVs were isolated by size-exclusion chromatography (SEC), with most particles being present in fractions 8–12, while the bulk of the plasma proteins was present in fractions 11–28. Vesicle markers peaked in fractions 7–11; however, the same fractions also contained lipoprotein particles. The purity of EVs was improved by combining a density cushion with SEC to further separate lipoprotein particles from the vesicles, which reduced the contamination of lipoprotein particles by 100-fold. Using this novel isolation procedure, a total of 1187 proteins were identified in plasma EVs by mass spectrometry, of which several proteins are known as EV-associated proteins but have hitherto not been identified in the previous proteomic studies of plasma EVs. This study shows that SEC alone is unable to completely separate plasma EVs from lipoprotein particles. However, combining SEC with a density cushion significantly improved the separation of EVs from lipoproteins and allowed for a detailed analysis of the proteome of plasma EVs, thus making blood a viable source for EV biomarker discovery. 相似文献
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The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway is a central controller of growth and homeostasis, and, as such, is implicated in disease states where growth is deregulated, namely cancer, metabolic diseases, and hamartoma syndromes like tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Accordingly, mTOR is also a pivotal regulator of the homeostasis of several distinct stem cell pools in which it finely tunes the balance between stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. mTOR hyperactivation in neural stem cells (NSCs) has been etiologically linked to the development of TSC-associated neurological lesions, such as brain hamartomas and benign tumors. Animal models generated by deletion of mTOR upstream regulators in different types of NSCs reproduce faithfully some of the TSC neurological alterations. Thus, mTOR dysregulation in NSCs seems to be responsible for the derangement of their homeostasis, thus leading to TSC development. Here we review recent advances in the molecular dissection of the mTOR cascade, its involvement in the maintenance of stem cell compartments, and in particular the implications of mTOR hyperactivation in NSCs in vivo and in vitro. 相似文献
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In this paper we will propose an empirical analysis of spatial and temporal boundaries. Unlike other proposals, which deal mainly with the commonsense level of the subject, we will ground our explication on well-established scientific practice and language. In this way we show how to reconsider in an innovative way questions such as the distinction between the bona fide boundaries and the fiat boundaries, the thickness and the ownership of the boundaries. At the same time we propose a division between ex mensura boundaries and qui vulgo dicuntur boundaries. What is it, therefore, that divides the atmosphere from the water? [Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks] 相似文献