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Mehrabian M Allayee H Stockton J Lum PY Drake TA Castellani LW Suh M Armour C Edwards S Lamb J Lusis AJ Schadt EE 《Nature genetics》2005,37(11):1224-1233
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Nazarian R Shi H Wang Q Kong X Koya RC Lee H Chen Z Lee MK Attar N Sazegar H Chodon T Nelson SF McArthur G Sosman JA Ribas A Lo RS 《Nature》2010,468(7326):973-977
Activating B-RAF(V600E) (also known as BRAF) kinase mutations occur in ~7% of human malignancies and ~60% of melanomas. Early clinical experience with a novel class I RAF-selective inhibitor, PLX4032, demonstrated an unprecedented 80% anti-tumour response rate among patients with B-RAF(V600E)-positive melanomas, but acquired drug resistance frequently develops after initial responses. Hypotheses for mechanisms of acquired resistance to B-RAF inhibition include secondary mutations in B-RAF(V600E), MAPK reactivation, and activation of alternative survival pathways. Here we show that acquired resistance to PLX4032 develops by mutually exclusive PDGFRβ (also known as PDGFRB) upregulation or N-RAS (also known as NRAS) mutations but not through secondary mutations in B-RAF(V600E). We used PLX4032-resistant sub-lines artificially derived from B-RAF(V600E)-positive melanoma cell lines and validated key findings in PLX4032-resistant tumours and tumour-matched, short-term cultures from clinical trial patients. Induction of PDGFRβ RNA, protein and tyrosine phosphorylation emerged as a dominant feature of acquired PLX4032 resistance in a subset of melanoma sub-lines, patient-derived biopsies and short-term cultures. PDGFRβ-upregulated tumour cells have low activated RAS levels and, when treated with PLX4032, do not reactivate the MAPK pathway significantly. In another subset, high levels of activated N-RAS resulting from mutations lead to significant MAPK pathway reactivation upon PLX4032 treatment. Knockdown of PDGFRβ or N-RAS reduced growth of the respective PLX4032-resistant subsets. Overexpression of PDGFRβ or N-RAS(Q61K) conferred PLX4032 resistance to PLX4032-sensitive parental cell lines. Importantly, MAPK reactivation predicts MEK inhibitor sensitivity. Thus, melanomas escape B-RAF(V600E) targeting not through secondary B-RAF(V600E) mutations but via receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK)-mediated activation of alternative survival pathway(s) or activated RAS-mediated reactivation of the MAPK pathway, suggesting additional therapeutic strategies. 相似文献
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Wang Z Klipfell E Bennett BJ Koeth R Levison BS Dugar B Feldstein AE Britt EB Fu X Chung YM Wu Y Schauer P Smith JD Allayee H Tang WH DiDonato JA Lusis AJ Hazen SL 《Nature》2011,472(7341):57-63
Metabolomics studies hold promise for the discovery of pathways linked to disease processes. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents the leading cause of death and morbidity worldwide. Here we used a metabolomics approach to generate unbiased small-molecule metabolic profiles in plasma that predict risk for CVD. Three metabolites of the dietary lipid phosphatidylcholine--choline, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) and betaine--were identified and then shown to predict risk for CVD in an independent large clinical cohort. Dietary supplementation of mice with choline, TMAO or betaine promoted upregulation of multiple macrophage scavenger receptors linked to atherosclerosis, and supplementation with choline or TMAO promoted atherosclerosis. Studies using germ-free mice confirmed a critical role for dietary choline and gut flora in TMAO production, augmented macrophage cholesterol accumulation and foam cell formation. Suppression of intestinal microflora in atherosclerosis-prone mice inhibited dietary-choline-enhanced atherosclerosis. Genetic variations controlling expression of flavin monooxygenases, an enzymatic source of TMAO, segregated with atherosclerosis in hyperlipidaemic mice. Discovery of a relationship between gut-flora-dependent metabolism of dietary phosphatidylcholine and CVD pathogenesis provides opportunities for the development of new diagnostic tests and therapeutic approaches for atherosclerotic heart disease. 相似文献
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Sensory information may be represented in the brain by stereotyped mapping of axonal inputs or by patterning that varies between individuals. In olfaction, a stereotyped map is evident in the first sensory processing centre, the olfactory bulb (OB), where different odours elicit activity in unique combinatorial patterns of spatially invariant glomeruli. Activation of each glomerulus is relayed to higher cortical processing centres by a set of ~20-50 'homotypic' mitral and tufted (MT) neurons. In the cortex, target neurons integrate information from multiple glomeruli to detect distinct features of chemically diverse odours. How this is accomplished remains unclear, perhaps because the cortical mapping of glomerular information by individual MT neurons has not been described. Here we use new viral tracing and three-dimensional brain reconstruction methods to compare the cortical projections of defined sets of MT neurons. We show that the gross-scale organization of the OB is preserved in the patterns of axonal projections to one processing centre yet reordered in another, suggesting that distinct coding strategies may operate in different targets. However, at the level of individual neurons neither glomerular order nor stereotypy is preserved in either region. Rather, homotypic MT neurons from the same glomerulus innervate broad regions that differ between individuals. Strikingly, even in the same animal, MT neurons exhibit extensive diversity in wiring; axons of homotypic MT pairs diverge from each other, emit primary branches at distinct locations and 70-90% of branches of homotypic and heterotypic pairs are non-overlapping. This pronounced reorganization of sensory maps in the cortex offers an anatomic substrate for expanded combinatorial integration of information from spatially distinct glomeruli and predicts an unanticipated role for diversification of otherwise similar output neurons. 相似文献
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AS Tayi AK Shveyd AC Sue JM Szarko BS Rolczynski D Cao TJ Kennedy AA Sarjeant CL Stern WF Paxton W Wu SK Dey AC Fahrenbach JR Guest H Mohseni LX Chen KL Wang JF Stoddart SI Stupp 《Nature》2012,488(7412):485-489
Materials exhibiting a spontaneous electrical polarization that can be switched easily between antiparallel orientations are of potential value for sensors, photonics and energy-efficient memories. In this context, organic ferroelectrics are of particular interest because they promise to be lightweight, inexpensive and easily processed into devices. A recently identified family of organic ferroelectric structures is based on intermolecular charge transfer, where donor and acceptor molecules co-crystallize in an alternating fashion known as a mixed stack: in the crystalline lattice, a collective transfer of electrons from donor to acceptor molecules results in the formation of dipoles that can be realigned by an external field as molecules switch partners in the mixed stack. Although mixed stacks have been investigated extensively, only three systems are known to show ferroelectric switching, all below 71 kelvin. Here we describe supramolecular charge-transfer networks that undergo ferroelectric polarization switching with a ferroelectric Curie temperature above room temperature. These polar and switchable systems utilize a structural synergy between a hydrogen-bonded network and charge-transfer complexation of donor and acceptor molecules in a mixed stack. This supramolecular motif could help guide the development of other functional organic systems that can switch polarization under the influence of electric fields at ambient temperatures. 相似文献
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Churchill GA Airey DC Allayee H Angel JM Attie AD Beatty J Beavis WD Belknap JK Bennett B Berrettini W Bleich A Bogue M Broman KW Buck KJ Buckler E Burmeister M Chesler EJ Cheverud JM Clapcote S Cook MN Cox RD Crabbe JC Crusio WE Darvasi A Deschepper CF Doerge RW Farber CR Forejt J Gaile D Garlow SJ Geiger H Gershenfeld H Gordon T Gu J Gu W de Haan G Hayes NL Heller C Himmelbauer H Hitzemann R Hunter K Hsu HC Iraqi FA Ivandic B Jacob HJ Jansen RC Jepsen KJ Johnson DK Johnson TE Kempermann G 《Nature genetics》2004,36(11):1133-1137
The goal of the Complex Trait Consortium is to promote the development of resources that can be used to understand, treat and ultimately prevent pervasive human diseases. Existing and proposed mouse resources that are optimized to study the actions of isolated genetic loci on a fixed background are less effective for studying intact polygenic networks and interactions among genes, environments, pathogens and other factors. The Collaborative Cross will provide a common reference panel specifically designed for the integrative analysis of complex systems and will change the way we approach human health and disease. 相似文献
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Schunkert H König IR Kathiresan S Reilly MP Assimes TL Holm H Preuss M Stewart AF Barbalic M Gieger C Absher D Aherrahrou Z Allayee H Altshuler D Anand SS Andersen K Anderson JL Ardissino D Ball SG Balmforth AJ Barnes TA Becker DM Becker LC Berger K Bis JC Boekholdt SM Boerwinkle E Braund PS Brown MJ Burnett MS Buysschaert I;Cardiogenics Carlquist JF Chen L Cichon S Codd V Davies RW Dedoussis G Dehghan A Demissie S Devaney JM Diemert P Do R Doering A Eifert S Mokhtari NE Ellis SG Elosua R 《Nature genetics》2011,43(4):333-338
We performed a meta-analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery disease (CAD) comprising 22,233 individuals with CAD (cases) and 64,762 controls of European descent followed by genotyping of top association signals in 56,682 additional individuals. This analysis identified 13 loci newly associated with CAD at P < 5 × 10?? and confirmed the association of 10 of 12 previously reported CAD loci. The 13 new loci showed risk allele frequencies ranging from 0.13 to 0.91 and were associated with a 6% to 17% increase in the risk of CAD per allele. Notably, only three of the new loci showed significant association with traditional CAD risk factors and the majority lie in gene regions not previously implicated in the pathogenesis of CAD. Finally, five of the new CAD risk loci appear to have pleiotropic effects, showing strong association with various other human diseases or traits. 相似文献
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Gieger C Radhakrishnan A Cvejic A Tang W Porcu E Pistis G Serbanovic-Canic J Elling U Goodall AH Labrune Y Lopez LM Mägi R Meacham S Okada Y Pirastu N Sorice R Teumer A Voss K Zhang W Ramirez-Solis R Bis JC Ellinghaus D Gögele M Hottenga JJ Langenberg C Kovacs P O'Reilly PF Shin SY Esko T Hartiala J Kanoni S Murgia F Parsa A Stephens J van der Harst P Ellen van der Schoot C Allayee H Attwood A Balkau B Bastardot F Basu S Baumeister SE Biino G Bomba L Bonnefond A Cambien F Chambers JC Cucca F 《Nature》2011,480(7376):201-208
Platelets are the second most abundant cell type in blood and are essential for maintaining haemostasis. Their count and volume are tightly controlled within narrow physiological ranges, but there is only limited understanding of the molecular processes controlling both traits. Here we carried out a high-powered meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in up to 66,867 individuals of European ancestry, followed by extensive biological and functional assessment. We identified 68 genomic loci reliably associated with platelet count and volume mapping to established and putative novel regulators of megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation. These genes show megakaryocyte-specific gene expression patterns and extensive network connectivity. Using gene silencing in Danio rerio and Drosophila melanogaster, we identified 11 of the genes as novel regulators of blood cell formation. Taken together, our findings advance understanding of novel gene functions controlling fate-determining events during megakaryopoiesis and platelet formation, providing a new example of successful translation of GWAS to function. 相似文献
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