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I. Campia E. Gazzano G. Pescarmona D. Ghigo A. Bosia C. Riganti 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2009,66(9):1580-1594
Digoxin and ouabain are steroid drugs that inhibit the Na+/K+-ATPase, and are widely used in the treatment of heart diseases. They may also have additional effects, such as on metabolism
of steroid hormones, although until now no evidence has been provided about the effects of these cardioactive glycosides on
the synthesis of cholesterol. Here we report that digoxin and ouabain increased the synthesis of cholesterol in human liver
HepG2 cells, enhancing the activity and the expression of the
3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMGCR), the rate-limiting enzyme of the cholesterol synthesis. This effect
was mediated by the binding of the sterol regulatory element binding protein-2 (SREBP-2) to the HMGCR promoter, and was lost
in cells silenced for SREBP-2 or loaded with increasing amounts of cholesterol. Digoxin and ouabain competed with cholesterol
for binding to the SREBP-cleavage-activating protein, and are critical regulators of cholesterol synthesis in human liver
cells.
Received 10 January 2009; received after revision 11 February 2009; accepted 6 March 2009 相似文献
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Zusammenfassung Die Aktivitäten von 7 glykolytischen Enzymen wurden in normalen menschlichen Erythrozyten gemessen. Kurze Ultraschall-Hämolyse und modifizierte Test-Bedingungen führten, verglichen mit den höchsten Werten, zu signifikant höheren Aktivitäten. 相似文献
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Rogaeva E Meng Y Lee JH Gu Y Kawarai T Zou F Katayama T Baldwin CT Cheng R Hasegawa H Chen F Shibata N Lunetta KL Pardossi-Piquard R Bohm C Wakutani Y Cupples LA Cuenco KT Green RC Pinessi L Rainero I Sorbi S Bruni A Duara R Friedland RP Inzelberg R Hampe W Bujo H Song YQ Andersen OM Willnow TE Graff-Radford N Petersen RC Dickson D Der SD Fraser PE Schmitt-Ulms G Younkin S Mayeux R Farrer LA St George-Hyslop P 《Nature genetics》2007,39(2):168-177
The recycling of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) from the cell surface via the endocytic pathways plays a key role in the generation of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) in Alzheimer disease. We report here that inherited variants in the SORL1 neuronal sorting receptor are associated with late-onset Alzheimer disease. These variants, which occur in at least two different clusters of intronic sequences within the SORL1 gene (also known as LR11 or SORLA) may regulate tissue-specific expression of SORL1. We also show that SORL1 directs trafficking of APP into recycling pathways and that when SORL1 is underexpressed, APP is sorted into Abeta-generating compartments. These data suggest that inherited or acquired changes in SORL1 expression or function are mechanistically involved in causing Alzheimer disease. 相似文献
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Patricia J. Lardone Amalia Rubio Isabel Cerrillo Araceli G��mez-Corvera Antonio Carrillo-Vico Marina Sanchez-Hidalgo Juan M. Guerrero Patricia Fernandez-Riejos Victor Sanchez-Margalet Patrocinio Molinero 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2010,67(18):3163-3172
Melatonin has been proposed as regulating the immune system by affecting cytokine production in immunocompetent cells, enhancing
the production of several T helper (Th)1 cytokines. To further investigate the melatonin’s role in IL-2/IL-2R system, we established
an inducible T-REx expression system in Jurkat cells in which the protein levels of HIOMT enzyme or MT1 receptor were significantly down-regulated upon tetracycline incubation. We found that T-REx Jurkat cells with lower levels
of HIOMT activity, and consequently lower content of endogenous melatonin, showed IL-2 production decrease after activation
with lectin. Likewise, tetracycline-inducible stable cell line expressing MT1 antisense produced decreased amounts of IL-2 (mRNA and protein levels) after stimulation. Moreover, in T-Rex-MT1 cells incubated with tetracycline, a sub-optimal PHA dose failed to induce the early activation marker CD25 on the cell surface.
The results shown here support the relevance of endogenous melatonin and its signaling in T cell activation. 相似文献
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Chiara Riganti Iris C. Salaroglio Martha L. Pinzòn-Daza Valentina Caldera Ivana Campia Joanna Kopecka Marta Mellai Laura Annovazzi Pierre-Olivier Couraud Amalia Bosia Dario Ghigo Davide Schiffer 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2014,71(3):499-516
Low delivery of many anticancer drugs across the blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a limitation to the success of chemotherapy in glioblastoma. This is because of the high levels of ATP-binding cassette transporters like P-glycoprotein (Pgp/ABCB1), which effluxes drugs back to the bloodstream. Temozolomide is one of the few agents able to cross the BBB; its effects on BBB cells permeability and Pgp activity are not known. We found that temozolomide, at therapeutic concentration, increased the transport of Pgp substrates across human brain microvascular endothelial cells and decreased the expression of Pgp. By methylating the promoter of Wnt3 gene, temozolomide lowers the endogenous synthesis of Wnt3 in BBB cells, disrupts the Wnt3/glycogen synthase kinase 3/β-catenin signaling, and reduces the binding of β-catenin on the promoter of mdr1 gene, which encodes for Pgp. In co-culture models of BBB cells and human glioblastoma cells, pre-treatment with temozolomide increases the delivery, cytotoxicity, and antiproliferative effects of doxorubicin, vinblastine, and topotecan, three substrates of Pgp that are usually poorly delivered across BBB. Our work suggests that temozolomide increases the BBB permeability of drugs that are normally effluxed by Pgp back to the bloodstream. These findings may pave the way to new combinatorial chemotherapy schemes in glioblastoma. 相似文献
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Stem and progenitor cells use asymmetric cell divisions to balance proliferation and differentiation. Evidence from invertebrates shows that this process is regulated by proteins asymmetrically distributed at the cell cortex during mitosis: Par3-Par6-aPKC, which confer polarity, and Gα(i)-LGN/AGS3-NuMA-dynein/dynactin, which govern spindle positioning. Here we focus on developing mouse skin, where progenitor cells execute a switch from symmetric to predominantly asymmetric divisions concomitant with stratification. Using in vivo skin-specific lentiviral RNA interference, we investigate spindle orientation regulation and provide direct evidence that LGN (also called Gpsm2), NuMA and dynactin (Dctn1) are involved. In compromising asymmetric cell divisions, we uncover profound defects in stratification, differentiation and barrier formation, and implicate Notch signalling as an important effector. Our study demonstrates the efficacy of applying RNA interference in vivo to mammalian systems, and the ease of uncovering complex genetic interactions, here to gain insights into how changes in spindle orientation are coupled to establishing proper tissue architecture during skin development. 相似文献
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Recurrent de novo point mutations in lamin A cause Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome 总被引:36,自引:0,他引:36
Eriksson M Brown WT Gordon LB Glynn MW Singer J Scott L Erdos MR Robbins CM Moses TY Berglund P Dutra A Pak E Durkin S Csoka AB Boehnke M Glover TW Collins FS 《Nature》2003,423(6937):293-298
Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by features reminiscent of marked premature ageing. Here, we present evidence of mutations in lamin A (LMNA) as the cause of this disorder. The HGPS gene was initially localized to chromosome 1q by observing two cases of uniparental isodisomy of 1q-the inheritance of both copies of this material from one parent-and one case with a 6-megabase paternal interstitial deletion. Sequencing of LMNA, located in this interval and previously implicated in several other heritable disorders, revealed that 18 out of 20 classical cases of HGPS harboured an identical de novo (that is, newly arisen and not inherited) single-base substitution, G608G(GGC > GGT), within exon 11. One additional case was identified with a different substitution within the same codon. Both of these mutations result in activation of a cryptic splice site within exon 11, resulting in production of a protein product that deletes 50 amino acids near the carboxy terminus. Immunofluorescence of HGPS fibroblasts with antibodies directed against lamin A revealed that many cells show visible abnormalities of the nuclear membrane. The discovery of the molecular basis of this disease may shed light on the general phenomenon of human ageing. 相似文献
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