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Gianluca L. Perrucci Erica Rurali Aoife Gowran Alessandro Pini Carlo Antona Roberto Chiesa Giulio Pompilio Patrizia Nigro 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2017,74(2):267-277
Marfan syndrome (MFS) is a connective tissue disorder with multiple organ manifestations. The genetic cause of this syndrome is the mutation of the FBN1 gene, encoding the extracellular matrix (ECM) protein fibrillin-1. This genetic alteration leads to the degeneration of microfibril structures and ECM integrity in the tunica media of the aorta. Indeed, thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection represent the leading cause of death in MFS patients. To date, the most effective treatment option for this pathology is the surgical substitution of the damaged aorta. To highlight novel therapeutic targets, we review the molecular mechanisms related to MFS etiology in vascular smooth muscle cells, the foremost cellular type involved in MFS pathogenesis. 相似文献
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Danilo Capecchi Giuseppe Ruta Patrizia Trovalusci 《Archive for History of Exact Sciences》2010,64(5):525-559
In the first decades of the nineteenth century the French mechanicians—Cauchy and Poisson amongst them—developed a theory
of linear elasticity according to which matter is composed of material points. They believed that these points interact by
means of opposite central forces, whose magnitude depends on the length of the segment joining the particles. This theory
suggested that homogeneous isotropic materials were characterized by a unique elastic constant. Later experiments, however,
showed that two elastic constants were necessary. These results undermined the corpuscular model of matter as well as the
interpretation of elasticity in terms of central intermolecular actions. The continuous theory of Green, based on the postulate
that a potential function exists, gained fresh consensus in light of these experiments. These opposite views continued throughout
the nineteenth century until Woldemar Voigt proposed a molecular model confirmed by experiments. This article presents the
theories of each of these scientists and describes the contrasting views of nineteenth-century mechanicians. 相似文献
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Daniela Guerra Patrizia Romano C. Zambonelli 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》1981,37(7):691-693
Summary In resting cells of diploidSaccharomyces cerevisiae strains sulfur dioxide induces at very high frequency: a) respiratory deficinet mutants: b) mutants with altered methionine metabolism. In growing cells the following kinds of mutants appear: a) revertants for respiration; b) mutants altered in the methionine metabolism; c) SO2-resistants. It is suggested that sulfur dioxide acts as a selective agent through the induction SO2-resistant mutantsAcknowledgments. This investigation was supported by grant of C.N.R., Roma. The authors are grateful to Prof. Domenico L. Palenzona for helpful comments and suggestions. 相似文献
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Application of information technology and environmental planning share two very important characteristics: they are both concerned
with planning, evaluating, and directing human activity in a wider context, and this activity is multiaspectual, multimodal,
and multidisciplinary in scope. Further, the ideal in both cases is sustainable, long-term activity that brings overall good
rather than harm. This paper discusses the multiaspectual nature of environmental sustainability and shows briefly how this
understanding can be translated to the field of information systems. 相似文献
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Oncogene-induced senescence is a DNA damage response triggered by DNA hyper-replication 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Di Micco R Fumagalli M Cicalese A Piccinin S Gasparini P Luise C Schurra C Garre' M Nuciforo PG Bensimon A Maestro R Pelicci PG d'Adda di Fagagna F 《Nature》2006,444(7119):638-642
Early tumorigenesis is associated with the engagement of the DNA-damage checkpoint response (DDR). Cell proliferation and transformation induced by oncogene activation are restrained by cellular senescence. It is unclear whether DDR activation and oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) are causally linked. Here we show that senescence, triggered by the expression of an activated oncogene (H-RasV12) in normal human cells, is a consequence of the activation of a robust DDR. Experimental inactivation of DDR abrogates OIS and promotes cell transformation. DDR and OIS are established after a hyper-replicative phase occurring immediately after oncogene expression. Senescent cells arrest with partly replicated DNA and with DNA replication origins having fired multiple times. In vivo DNA labelling and molecular DNA combing reveal that oncogene activation leads to augmented numbers of active replicons and to alterations in DNA replication fork progression. We also show that oncogene expression does not trigger a DDR in the absence of DNA replication. Last, we show that oncogene activation is associated with DDR activation in a mouse model in vivo. We propose that OIS results from the enforcement of a DDR triggered by oncogene-induced DNA hyper-replication. 相似文献
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Mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis in myopathic mice with collagen VI deficiency 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
Irwin WA Bergamin N Sabatelli P Reggiani C Megighian A Merlini L Braghetta P Columbaro M Volpin D Bressan GM Bernardi P Bonaldo P 《Nature genetics》2003,35(4):367-371
Collagen VI is an extracellular matrix protein that forms a microfilamentous network in skeletal muscles and other organs. Inherited mutations in genes encoding collagen VI in humans cause two muscle diseases, Bethlem myopathy and Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy. We previously generated collagen VI-deficient (Col6a1-/-) mice and showed that they have a muscle phenotype that strongly resembles Bethlem myopathy. The pathophysiological defects and mechanisms leading to the myopathic disorder were not known. Here we show that Col6a1-/- muscles have a loss of contractile strength associated with ultrastructural alterations of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and mitochondria and spontaneous apoptosis. We found a latent mitochondrial dysfunction in myofibers of Col6a1-/- mice on incubation with the selective F1F(O)-ATPase inhibitor oligomycin, which caused mitochondrial depolarization, Ca2+ deregulation and increased apoptosis. These defects were reversible, as they could be normalized by plating Col6a1-/- myofibers on collagen VI or by addition of cyclosporin A (CsA), the inhibitor of mitochondrial permeability transition pore (PTP). Treatment of Col6a1-/- mice with CsA rescued the muscle ultrastructural defects and markedly decreased the number of apoptotic nuclei in vivo. These findings indicate that collagen VI myopathies have an unexpected mitochondrial pathogenesis that could be exploited for therapeutic intervention. 相似文献
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Serena Duchi Valeria Cavaliere Luca Fagnocchi Maria Rosaria Grimaldi Patrizia Falabella Franco Graziani Silvia Gigliotti Francesco Pennacchio Giuseppe Gargiulo 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2010,67(10):1699-1712
Polydnavirus-encoded IκB-like proteins are similar to insect and mammalian IκB, and an immunosuppressive function in the host
cells has been inferred to these proteins. Here we show that the expression of one of these IκB-like viral genes, the TnBVank1, in the Drosophila germline affects the localization of gurken, bicoid, and oskar mRNAs whose gene products are relevant for proper embryonic patterning. The altered localization of these mRNAs is suggestive
of general defects in the intracellular, microtubule-based, trafficking routes. Analysis of microtubule motor proteins components
such as the dynein heavy chain and the kinesin heavy chain revealed defects in the polarized microtubule network. Interestingly,
the TnBVANK1 viral protein is uniformly distributed over the entire oocyte cortex, and appears to be anchored to the microtubule
ends. Our data open up a very interesting issue on novel function(s) played by the ank gene family by interfering with cytoskeleton organization. 相似文献
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Molecular and functional heterogeneity of GABAergic synapses 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Fritschy JM Panzanelli P Tyagarajan SK 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2012,69(15):2485-2499
Knowledge of the functional organization of the GABAergic system, the main inhibitory neurotransmitter system, in the CNS has increased remarkably in recent years. In particular, substantial progress has been made in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying the formation and plasticity of GABAergic synapses. Evidence available ascribes a key role to the cytoplasmic protein gephyrin to form a postsynaptic scaffold anchoring GABA(A) receptors along with other transmembrane proteins and signaling molecules in the postsynaptic density. However, the mechanisms of gephyrin scaffolding remain elusive, notably because gephyrin can auto-aggregate spontaneously and lacks PDZ protein interaction domains found in a majority of scaffolding proteins. In addition, the structural diversity of GABA(A) receptors, which are pentameric channels encoded by a large family of subunits, has been largely overlooked in these studies. Finally, the role of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex, present in a subset of GABAergic synapses in cortical structures, remains ill-defined. In this review, we discuss recent results derived mainly from the analysis of mutant mice lacking a specific GABA(A) receptor subtype or a core protein of the GABAergic postsynaptic density (neuroligin-2, collybistin), highlighting the molecular diversity of GABAergic synapses and its relevance for brain plasticity and function. In addition, we discuss the contribution of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex to the molecular and functional heterogeneity of GABAergic synapses. 相似文献