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Yvonne G. J. van Helden Roger W. L. Godschalk Hans J. M. Swarts Peter C. H. Hollman Frederik J. van Schooten Jaap Keijer 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2011,68(3):489-504
Molecular mechanisms triggered by high dietary beta-carotene (BC) intake in lung are largely unknown. We performed microarray
gene expression analysis on lung tissue of BC supplemented beta-carotene 15,15′-monooxygenase 1 knockout (Bcmo1
−/−) mice, which are—like humans—able to accumulate BC. Our main observation was that the genes were regulated in an opposite direction in male and female Bcmo1
−/− mice by BC. The steroid biosynthetic pathway was overrepresented in BC-supplemented male Bcmo1
−/− mice. Testosterone levels were higher after BC supplementation only in Bcmo1
−/− mice, which had, unlike wild-type (Bcmo1
+/+) mice, large variations. We hypothesize that BC possibly affects hormone synthesis or metabolism. Since sex hormones influence
lung cancer risk, these data might contribute to an explanation for the previously found increased lung cancer risk after
BC supplementation (ATBC and CARET studies). Moreover, effects of BC may depend on the presence of frequent human BCMO1 polymorphisms, since these effects were not found in wild-type mice. 相似文献
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van de Laar IM Oldenburg RA Pals G Roos-Hesselink JW de Graaf BM Verhagen JM Hoedemaekers YM Willemsen R Severijnen LA Venselaar H Vriend G Pattynama PM Collée M Majoor-Krakauer D Poldermans D Frohn-Mulder IM Micha D Timmermans J Hilhorst-Hofstee Y Bierma-Zeinstra SM Willems PJ Kros JM Oei EH Oostra BA Wessels MW Bertoli-Avella AM 《Nature genetics》2011,43(2):121-126
Thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections are a main feature of connective tissue disorders, such as Marfan syndrome and Loeys-Dietz syndrome. We delineated a new syndrome presenting with aneurysms, dissections and tortuosity throughout the arterial tree in association with mild craniofacial features and skeletal and cutaneous anomalies. In contrast with other aneurysm syndromes, most of these affected individuals presented with early-onset osteoarthritis. We mapped the genetic locus to chromosome 15q22.2-24.2 and show that the disease is caused by mutations in SMAD3. This gene encodes a member of the TGF-β pathway that is essential for TGF-β signal transmission. SMAD3 mutations lead to increased aortic expression of several key players in the TGF-β pathway, including SMAD3. Molecular diagnosis will allow early and reliable identification of cases and relatives at risk for major cardiovascular complications. Our findings endorse the TGF-β pathway as the primary pharmacological target for the development of new treatments for aortic aneurysms and osteoarthritis. 相似文献
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Santen GW Aten E Sun Y Almomani R Gilissen C Nielsen M Kant SG Snoeck IN Peeters EA Hilhorst-Hofstee Y Wessels MW den Hollander NS Ruivenkamp CA van Ommen GJ Breuning MH den Dunnen JT van Haeringen A Kriek M 《Nature genetics》2012,44(4):379-380
We identified de novo truncating mutations in ARID1B in three individuals with Coffin-Siris syndrome (CSS) by exome sequencing. Array-based copy-number variation (CNV) analysis in 2,000 individuals with intellectual disability revealed deletions encompassing ARID1B in 3 subjects with phenotypes partially overlapping that of CSS. Taken together with published data, these results indicate that haploinsufficiency of the ARID1B gene, which encodes an epigenetic modifier of chromatin structure, is an important cause of CSS and is potentially a common cause of intellectual disability and speech impairment. 相似文献
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Segal E Fondufe-Mittendorf Y Chen L Thåström A Field Y Moore IK Wang JP Widom J 《Nature》2006,442(7104):772-778
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Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Davies H Bignell GR Cox C Stephens P Edkins S Clegg S Teague J Woffendin H Garnett MJ Bottomley W Davis N Dicks E Ewing R Floyd Y Gray K Hall S Hawes R Hughes J Kosmidou V Menzies A Mould C Parker A Stevens C Watt S Hooper S Wilson R Jayatilake H Gusterson BA Cooper C Shipley J Hargrave D Pritchard-Jones K Maitland N Chenevix-Trench G Riggins GJ Bigner DD Palmieri G Cossu A Flanagan A Nicholson A Ho JW Leung SY Yuen ST Weber BL Seigler HF Darrow TL Paterson H Marais R Marshall CJ Wooster R 《Nature》2002,417(6892):949-954
Cancers arise owing to the accumulation of mutations in critical genes that alter normal programmes of cell proliferation, differentiation and death. As the first stage of a systematic genome-wide screen for these genes, we have prioritized for analysis signalling pathways in which at least one gene is mutated in human cancer. The RAS RAF MEK ERK MAP kinase pathway mediates cellular responses to growth signals. RAS is mutated to an oncogenic form in about 15% of human cancer. The three RAF genes code for cytoplasmic serine/threonine kinases that are regulated by binding RAS. Here we report BRAF somatic missense mutations in 66% of malignant melanomas and at lower frequency in a wide range of human cancers. All mutations are within the kinase domain, with a single substitution (V599E) accounting for 80%. Mutated BRAF proteins have elevated kinase activity and are transforming in NIH3T3 cells. Furthermore, RAS function is not required for the growth of cancer cell lines with the V599E mutation. As BRAF is a serine/threonine kinase that is commonly activated by somatic point mutation in human cancer, it may provide new therapeutic opportunities in malignant melanoma. 相似文献
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Hon WC Wilson MI Harlos K Claridge TD Schofield CJ Pugh CW Maxwell PH Ratcliffe PJ Stuart DI Jones EY 《Nature》2002,417(6892):975-978
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Bedding TR Mosser B Huber D Montalbán J Beck P Christensen-Dalsgaard J Elsworth YP García RA Miglio A Stello D White TR De Ridder J Hekker S Aerts C Barban C Belkacem K Broomhall AM Brown TM Buzasi DL Carrier F Chaplin WJ Di Mauro MP Dupret MA Frandsen S Gilliland RL Goupil MJ Jenkins JM Kallinger T Kawaler S Kjeldsen H Mathur S Noels A Aguirre VS Ventura P 《Nature》2011,471(7340):608-611
Red giants are evolved stars that have exhausted the supply of hydrogen in their cores and instead burn hydrogen in a surrounding shell. Once a red giant is sufficiently evolved, the helium in the core also undergoes fusion. Outstanding issues in our understanding of red giants include uncertainties in the amount of mass lost at the surface before helium ignition and the amount of internal mixing from rotation and other processes. Progress is hampered by our inability to distinguish between red giants burning helium in the core and those still only burning hydrogen in a shell. Asteroseismology offers a way forward, being a powerful tool for probing the internal structures of stars using their natural oscillation frequencies. Here we report observations of gravity-mode period spacings in red giants that permit a distinction between evolutionary stages to be made. We use high-precision photometry obtained by the Kepler spacecraft over more than a year to measure oscillations in several hundred red giants. We find many stars whose dipole modes show sequences with approximately regular period spacings. These stars fall into two clear groups, allowing us to distinguish unambiguously between hydrogen-shell-burning stars (period spacing mostly ~ 50 seconds) and those that are also burning helium (period spacing ~ 100 to 300 seconds). 相似文献