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    The ancient drug salicylate directly activates AMP-activated protein kinase (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-04-21
    Description: Salicylate, a plant product, has been in medicinal use since ancient times. More recently, it has been replaced by synthetic derivatives such as aspirin and salsalate, both of which are rapidly broken down to salicylate in vivo. At concentrations reached in plasma after administration of salsalate or of aspirin at high doses, salicylate activates adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK), a central regulator of cell growth and metabolism. Salicylate binds at the same site as the synthetic activator A-769662 to cause allosteric activation and inhibition of dephosphorylation of the activating phosphorylation site, threonine-172. In AMPK knockout mice, effects of salicylate to increase fat utilization and to lower plasma fatty acids in vivo were lost. Our results suggest that AMPK activation could explain some beneficial effects of salsalate and aspirin in humans.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399766/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399766/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hawley, Simon A -- Fullerton, Morgan D -- Ross, Fiona A -- Schertzer, Jonathan D -- Chevtzoff, Cyrille -- Walker, Katherine J -- Peggie, Mark W -- Zibrova, Darya -- Green, Kevin A -- Mustard, Kirsty J -- Kemp, Bruce E -- Sakamoto, Kei -- Steinberg, Gregory R -- Hardie, D Grahame -- 080982/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 097726/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- MC_U127088492/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 May 18;336(6083):918-22. doi: 10.1126/science.1215327. Epub 2012 Apr 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22517326" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: AMP-Activated Protein Kinases/genetics/*metabolism ; Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; Aspirin/pharmacology ; Binding Sites ; Carbohydrate Metabolism/drug effects ; Cell Line ; Enzyme Activation ; Enzyme Activators/pharmacology ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; Lipid Metabolism/drug effects ; Liver/drug effects/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Knockout ; Mutation ; Oxygen Consumption/drug effects ; Phosphorylation ; Pyrones/pharmacology ; Rats ; Salicylates/blood/*metabolism/*pharmacology ; Thiophenes/pharmacology
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    Impact of caloric restriction on health and survival in rhesus monkeys from the NIA study (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-08-31
    Description: Calorie restriction (CR), a reduction of 10-40% in intake of a nutritious diet, is often reported as the most robust non-genetic mechanism to extend lifespan and healthspan. CR is frequently used as a tool to understand mechanisms behind ageing and age-associated diseases. In addition to and independently of increasing lifespan, CR has been reported to delay or prevent the occurrence of many chronic diseases in a variety of animals. Beneficial effects of CR on outcomes such as immune function, motor coordination and resistance to sarcopenia in rhesus monkeys have recently been reported. We report here that a CR regimen implemented in young and older age rhesus monkeys at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) has not improved survival outcomes. Our findings contrast with an ongoing study at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC), which reported improved survival associated with 30% CR initiated in adult rhesus monkeys (7-14 years) and a preliminary report with a small number of CR monkeys. Over the years, both NIA and WNPRC have extensively documented beneficial health effects of CR in these two apparently parallel studies. The implications of the WNPRC findings were important as they extended CR findings beyond the laboratory rodent and to a long-lived primate. Our study suggests a separation between health effects, morbidity and mortality, and similar to what has been shown in rodents, study design, husbandry and diet composition may strongly affect the life-prolonging effect of CR in a long-lived nonhuman primate.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3832985/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3832985/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mattison, Julie A -- Roth, George S -- Beasley, T Mark -- Tilmont, Edward M -- Handy, April M -- Herbert, Richard L -- Longo, Dan L -- Allison, David B -- Young, Jennifer E -- Bryant, Mark -- Barnard, Dennis -- Ward, Walter F -- Qi, Wenbo -- Ingram, Donald K -- de Cabo, Rafael -- ZIA AG000371-08/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):318-21. doi: 10.1038/nature11432.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, NIH Animal Center, Dickerson, Maryland 20842, USA. mattisonj@mail.nih.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22932268" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Age of Onset ; Aging/*physiology ; Animals ; Blood Glucose/analysis ; *Caloric Restriction ; Cardiovascular Diseases/blood ; Cholesterol/blood ; Female ; *Health ; Humans ; Incidence ; Kaplan-Meier Estimate ; Longevity/*physiology ; Macaca mulatta ; Male ; Models, Animal ; Monkey Diseases/blood ; *National Institute on Aging (U.S.) ; Neoplasms/blood ; Survival Rate ; Triglycerides/blood ; Uncertainty ; United States
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    High-resolution crystal structure of human protease-activated receptor 1 (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-12-12
    Description: Protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR1) is the prototypical member of a family of G-protein-coupled receptors that mediate cellular responses to thrombin and related proteases. Thrombin irreversibly activates PAR1 by cleaving the amino-terminal exodomain of the receptor, which exposes a tethered peptide ligand that binds the heptahelical bundle of the receptor to affect G-protein activation. Here we report the 2.2 A resolution crystal structure of human PAR1 bound to vorapaxar, a PAR1 antagonist. The structure reveals an unusual mode of drug binding that explains how a small molecule binds virtually irreversibly to inhibit receptor activation by the tethered ligand of PAR1. In contrast to deep, solvent-exposed binding pockets observed in other peptide-activated G-protein-coupled receptors, the vorapaxar-binding pocket is superficial but has little surface exposed to the aqueous solvent. Protease-activated receptors are important targets for drug development. The structure reported here will aid the development of improved PAR1 antagonists and the discovery of antagonists to other members of this receptor family.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531875/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531875/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhang, Cheng -- Srinivasan, Yoga -- Arlow, Daniel H -- Fung, Juan Jose -- Palmer, Daniel -- Zheng, Yaowu -- Green, Hillary F -- Pandey, Anjali -- Dror, Ron O -- Shaw, David E -- Weis, William I -- Coughlin, Shaun R -- Kobilka, Brian K -- HL44907/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL65590/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- NS028471/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL044907/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL065185/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL065590/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Dec 20;492(7429):387-92. doi: 10.1038/nature11701. Epub 2012 Dec 9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23222541" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Motifs ; Binding Sites ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Enzyme Activation/genetics ; Humans ; Hydrolysis ; Lactones/chemistry/pharmacology ; Ligands ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Myocardial Infarction/prevention & control ; Protein Conformation ; Pyridines/chemistry/pharmacology ; Receptor, PAR-1/agonists/antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/metabolism ; Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/chemistry/classification ; Receptors, Thrombin
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    Analysis of 6,515 exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-12-04
    Description: Establishing the age of each mutation segregating in contemporary human populations is important to fully understand our evolutionary history and will help to facilitate the development of new approaches for disease-gene discovery. Large-scale surveys of human genetic variation have reported signatures of recent explosive population growth, notable for an excess of rare genetic variants, suggesting that many mutations arose recently. To more quantitatively assess the distribution of mutation ages, we resequenced 15,336 genes in 6,515 individuals of European American and African American ancestry and inferred the age of 1,146,401 autosomal single nucleotide variants (SNVs). We estimate that approximately 73% of all protein-coding SNVs and approximately 86% of SNVs predicted to be deleterious arose in the past 5,000-10,000 years. The average age of deleterious SNVs varied significantly across molecular pathways, and disease genes contained a significantly higher proportion of recently arisen deleterious SNVs than other genes. Furthermore, European Americans had an excess of deleterious variants in essential and Mendelian disease genes compared to African Americans, consistent with weaker purifying selection due to the Out-of-Africa dispersal. Our results better delimit the historical details of human protein-coding variation, show the profound effect of recent human history on the burden of deleterious SNVs segregating in contemporary populations, and provide important practical information that can be used to prioritize variants in disease-gene discovery.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3676746/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3676746/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fu, Wenqing -- O'Connor, Timothy D -- Jun, Goo -- Kang, Hyun Min -- Abecasis, Goncalo -- Leal, Suzanne M -- Gabriel, Stacey -- Rieder, Mark J -- Altshuler, David -- Shendure, Jay -- Nickerson, Deborah A -- Bamshad, Michael J -- NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project -- Akey, Joshua M -- 090532/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- RC2 HL-102923/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- RC2 HL-102924/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- RC2 HL-102926/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- RC2 HL-103010/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- RC2 HL102925/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- RC2 HL102926/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- RC2HL-102925/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- U01 HG006513/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jan 10;493(7431):216-20. doi: 10.1038/nature11690. Epub 2012 Nov 28.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. wqfu@u.washington.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23201682" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Africa/ethnology ; African Continental Ancestry Group/genetics ; Alleles ; Europe/ethnology ; European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Exome/*genetics ; Exons/genetics ; Genetic Variation/*genetics ; Humans ; Open Reading Frames/*genetics ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics ; United States
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    HDAC8 mutations in Cornelia de Lange syndrome affect the cohesin acetylation cycle (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-08-14
    Description: Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is a dominantly inherited congenital malformation disorder, caused by mutations in the cohesin-loading protein NIPBL for nearly 60% of individuals with classical CdLS, and by mutations in the core cohesin components SMC1A (~5%) and SMC3 (〈1%) for a smaller fraction of probands. In humans, the multisubunit complex cohesin is made up of SMC1, SMC3, RAD21 and a STAG protein. These form a ring structure that is proposed to encircle sister chromatids to mediate sister chromatid cohesion and also has key roles in gene regulation. SMC3 is acetylated during S-phase to establish cohesiveness of chromatin-loaded cohesin, and in yeast, the class I histone deacetylase Hos1 deacetylates SMC3 during anaphase. Here we identify HDAC8 as the vertebrate SMC3 deacetylase, as well as loss-of-function HDAC8 mutations in six CdLS probands. Loss of HDAC8 activity results in increased SMC3 acetylation and inefficient dissolution of the 'used' cohesin complex released from chromatin in both prophase and anaphase. SMC3 with retained acetylation is loaded onto chromatin, and chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing analysis demonstrates decreased occupancy of cohesin localization sites that results in a consistent pattern of altered transcription seen in CdLS cell lines with either NIPBL or HDAC8 mutations.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443318/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443318/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Deardorff, Matthew A -- Bando, Masashige -- Nakato, Ryuichiro -- Watrin, Erwan -- Itoh, Takehiko -- Minamino, Masashi -- Saitoh, Katsuya -- Komata, Makiko -- Katou, Yuki -- Clark, Dinah -- Cole, Kathryn E -- De Baere, Elfride -- Decroos, Christophe -- Di Donato, Nataliya -- Ernst, Sarah -- Francey, Lauren J -- Gyftodimou, Yolanda -- Hirashima, Kyotaro -- Hullings, Melanie -- Ishikawa, Yuuichi -- Jaulin, Christian -- Kaur, Maninder -- Kiyono, Tohru -- Lombardi, Patrick M -- Magnaghi-Jaulin, Laura -- Mortier, Geert R -- Nozaki, Naohito -- Petersen, Michael B -- Seimiya, Hiroyuki -- Siu, Victoria M -- Suzuki, Yutaka -- Takagaki, Kentaro -- Wilde, Jonathan J -- Willems, Patrick J -- Prigent, Claude -- Gillessen-Kaesbach, Gabriele -- Christianson, David W -- Kaiser, Frank J -- Jackson, Laird G -- Hirota, Toru -- Krantz, Ian D -- Shirahige, Katsuhiko -- GM49758/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- K08 HD055488/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- K08HD055488/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- P01 HD052860/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM049758/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):313-7. doi: 10.1038/nature11316.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. deardorff@email.chop.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22885700" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylation ; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism ; Anaphase ; Binding Sites ; Cell Cycle Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans/chemistry/metabolism ; Chromatin/genetics/metabolism ; Chromatin Immunoprecipitation ; Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/chemistry/*metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; De Lange Syndrome/*genetics/*metabolism ; Female ; Fibroblasts ; HeLa Cells ; Histone Deacetylases/chemistry/deficiency/*genetics/metabolism ; Humans ; Male ; Models, Molecular ; Mutant Proteins/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Mutation/*genetics ; Nuclear Proteins/metabolism ; Phosphoproteins/metabolism ; Prophase ; Protein Conformation ; Proteins/genetics ; Repressor Proteins/chemistry/deficiency/*genetics/metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Condition-dependent transcriptome reveals high-level regulatory architecture in Bacillus subtilis (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-03
    Description: Bacteria adapt to environmental stimuli by adjusting their transcriptomes in a complex manner, the full potential of which has yet to be established for any individual bacterial species. Here, we report the transcriptomes of Bacillus subtilis exposed to a wide range of environmental and nutritional conditions that the organism might encounter in nature. We comprehensively mapped transcription units (TUs) and grouped 2935 promoters into regulons controlled by various RNA polymerase sigma factors, accounting for ~66% of the observed variance in transcriptional activity. This global classification of promoters and detailed description of TUs revealed that a large proportion of the detected antisense RNAs arose from potentially spurious transcription initiation by alternative sigma factors and from imperfect control of transcription termination.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nicolas, Pierre -- Mader, Ulrike -- Dervyn, Etienne -- Rochat, Tatiana -- Leduc, Aurelie -- Pigeonneau, Nathalie -- Bidnenko, Elena -- Marchadier, Elodie -- Hoebeke, Mark -- Aymerich, Stephane -- Becher, Dorte -- Bisicchia, Paola -- Botella, Eric -- Delumeau, Olivier -- Doherty, Geoff -- Denham, Emma L -- Fogg, Mark J -- Fromion, Vincent -- Goelzer, Anne -- Hansen, Annette -- Hartig, Elisabeth -- Harwood, Colin R -- Homuth, Georg -- Jarmer, Hanne -- Jules, Matthieu -- Klipp, Edda -- Le Chat, Ludovic -- Lecointe, Francois -- Lewis, Peter -- Liebermeister, Wolfram -- March, Anika -- Mars, Ruben A T -- Nannapaneni, Priyanka -- Noone, David -- Pohl, Susanne -- Rinn, Bernd -- Rugheimer, Frank -- Sappa, Praveen K -- Samson, Franck -- Schaffer, Marc -- Schwikowski, Benno -- Steil, Leif -- Stulke, Jorg -- Wiegert, Thomas -- Devine, Kevin M -- Wilkinson, Anthony J -- van Dijl, Jan Maarten -- Hecker, Michael -- Volker, Uwe -- Bessieres, Philippe -- Noirot, Philippe -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Mar 2;335(6072):1103-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1206848.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉INRA, UR1077, Mathematique Informatique et Genome, Jouy-en-Josas, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22383849" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptation, Physiological ; Algorithms ; Bacillus subtilis/*genetics/*physiology ; Binding Sites ; Gene Expression Profiling ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial ; Gene Regulatory Networks ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; *Promoter Regions, Genetic ; RNA, Antisense/genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Bacterial/genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Regulon ; Sigma Factor/metabolism ; Terminator Regions, Genetic ; *Transcription, Genetic ; *Transcriptome
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    Public health and biosecurity. Adaptations of avian flu virus are a cause for concern (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-02-02
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Berns, Kenneth I -- Casadevall, Arturo -- Cohen, Murray L -- Ehrlich, Susan A -- Enquist, Lynn W -- Fitch, J Patrick -- Franz, David R -- Fraser-Liggett, Claire M -- Grant, Christine M -- Imperiale, Michael J -- Kanabrocki, Joseph -- Keim, Paul S -- Lemon, Stanley M -- Levy, Stuart B -- Lumpkin, John R -- Miller, Jeffery F -- Murch, Randall -- Nance, Mark E -- Osterholm, Michael T -- Relman, David A -- Roth, James A -- Vidaver, Anne K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 10;335(6069):660-1. doi: 10.1126/science.1217994. Epub 2012 Jan 31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22294736" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptation, Biological ; Advisory Committees ; Animals ; Biological Warfare Agents ; Containment of Biohazards ; Humans ; Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype/*pathogenicity ; Influenza, Human/epidemiology/transmission/*virology ; National Institutes of Health (U.S.) ; Orthomyxoviridae Infections/transmission/*virology ; *Public Health ; *Publishing ; Risk Assessment ; Security Measures ; United States
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    Structure of the human kappa-opioid receptor in complex with JDTic (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
    Description: Opioid receptors mediate the actions of endogenous and exogenous opioids on many physiological processes, including the regulation of pain, respiratory drive, mood, and--in the case of kappa-opioid receptor (kappa-OR)--dysphoria and psychotomimesis. Here we report the crystal structure of the human kappa-OR in complex with the selective antagonist JDTic, arranged in parallel dimers, at 2.9 A resolution. The structure reveals important features of the ligand-binding pocket that contribute to the high affinity and subtype selectivity of JDTic for the human kappa-OR. Modelling of other important kappa-OR-selective ligands, including the morphinan-derived antagonists norbinaltorphimine and 5'-guanidinonaltrindole, and the diterpene agonist salvinorin A analogue RB-64, reveals both common and distinct features for binding these diverse chemotypes. Analysis of site-directed mutagenesis and ligand structure-activity relationships confirms the interactions observed in the crystal structure, thereby providing a molecular explanation for kappa-OR subtype selectivity, and essential insights for the design of compounds with new pharmacological properties targeting the human kappa-OR.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3356457/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3356457/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wu, Huixian -- Wacker, Daniel -- Mileni, Mauro -- Katritch, Vsevolod -- Han, Gye Won -- Vardy, Eyal -- Liu, Wei -- Thompson, Aaron A -- Huang, Xi-Ping -- Carroll, F Ivy -- Mascarella, S Wayne -- Westkaemper, Richard B -- Mosier, Philip D -- Roth, Bryan L -- Cherezov, Vadim -- Stevens, Raymond C -- P50 GM073197/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P50 GM073197-08/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA009045/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA009045-17/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA017204/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA017624/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA027170/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM094618/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM094618-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Y1-CO-1020/CO/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Y1-GM-1104/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Mar 21;485(7398):327-32. doi: 10.1038/nature10939.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22437504" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Diterpenes, Clerodane/chemistry/metabolism/pharmacology ; Guanidines/chemistry ; Humans ; Models, Molecular ; Morphinans/chemistry ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Naltrexone/analogs & derivatives/chemistry/metabolism ; Piperidines/*chemistry/pharmacology ; Protein Conformation ; Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2/chemistry ; Receptors, CXCR4/chemistry/metabolism ; Receptors, Opioid, kappa/*antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Tetrahydroisoquinolines/*chemistry/pharmacology
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    MR1 presents microbial vitamin B metabolites to MAIT cells (2012)
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    Description: Antigen-presenting molecules, encoded by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and CD1 family, bind peptide- and lipid-based antigens, respectively, for recognition by T cells. Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are an abundant population of innate-like T cells in humans that are activated by an antigen(s) bound to the MHC class I-like molecule MR1. Although the identity of MR1-restricted antigen(s) is unknown, it is present in numerous bacteria and yeast. Here we show that the structure and chemistry within the antigen-binding cleft of MR1 is distinct from the MHC and CD1 families. MR1 is ideally suited to bind ligands originating from vitamin metabolites. The structure of MR1 in complex with 6-formyl pterin, a folic acid (vitamin B9) metabolite, shows the pterin ring sequestered within MR1. Furthermore, we characterize related MR1-restricted vitamin derivatives, originating from the bacterial riboflavin (vitamin B2) biosynthetic pathway, which specifically and potently activate MAIT cells. Accordingly, we show that metabolites of vitamin B represent a class of antigen that are presented by MR1 for MAIT-cell immunosurveillance. As many vitamin biosynthetic pathways are unique to bacteria and yeast, our data suggest that MAIT cells use these metabolites to detect microbial infection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kjer-Nielsen, Lars -- Patel, Onisha -- Corbett, Alexandra J -- Le Nours, Jerome -- Meehan, Bronwyn -- Liu, Ligong -- Bhati, Mugdha -- Chen, Zhenjun -- Kostenko, Lyudmila -- Reantragoon, Rangsima -- Williamson, Nicholas A -- Purcell, Anthony W -- Dudek, Nadine L -- McConville, Malcolm J -- O'Hair, Richard A J -- Khairallah, George N -- Godfrey, Dale I -- Fairlie, David P -- Rossjohn, Jamie -- McCluskey, James -- England -- Nature. 2012 Nov 29;491(7426):717-23. doi: 10.1038/nature11605. Epub 2012 Oct 10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23051753" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antigen Presentation ; Bacterial Infections/immunology/microbiology ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Folic Acid/chemistry/immunology/*metabolism ; Histocompatibility Antigens/chemistry/immunology ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/*chemistry/*immunology/metabolism ; Humans ; Immunologic Surveillance/immunology ; Jurkat Cells ; Ligands ; Lymphocyte Activation ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Refolding/drug effects ; Pterins/*chemistry/*immunology/metabolism/pharmacology ; Salmonella/immunology/metabolism ; Salmonella Infections/immunology/microbiology ; Static Electricity ; T-Lymphocytes/*immunology ; beta 2-Microglobulin/immunology/metabolism
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    FMRP targets distinct mRNA sequence elements to regulate protein expression (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-12-14
    Description: Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a multi-organ disease that leads to mental retardation, macro-orchidism in males and premature ovarian insufficiency in female carriers. FXS is also a prominent monogenic disease associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). FXS is typically caused by the loss of fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) expression, which codes for the RNA-binding protein FMRP. Here we report the discovery of distinct RNA-recognition elements that correspond to the two independent RNA-binding domains of FMRP, in addition to the binding sites within the messenger RNA targets for wild-type and I304N mutant FMRP isoforms and the FMRP paralogues FXR1P and FXR2P (also known as FXR1 and FXR2). RNA-recognition-element frequency, ratio and distribution determine target mRNA association with FMRP. Among highly enriched targets, we identify many genes involved in ASD and show that FMRP affects their protein levels in human cell culture, mouse ovaries and human brain. Notably, we discovered that these targets are also dysregulated in Fmr1(-/-) mouse ovaries showing signs of premature follicular overdevelopment. These results indicate that FMRP targets share signalling pathways across different cellular contexts. As the importance of signalling pathways in both FXS and ASD is becoming increasingly apparent, our results provide a ranked list of genes as basis for the pursuit of new therapeutic targets for these neurological disorders.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3528815/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3528815/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ascano, Manuel Jr -- Mukherjee, Neelanjan -- Bandaru, Pradeep -- Miller, Jason B -- Nusbaum, Jeffrey D -- Corcoran, David L -- Langlois, Christine -- Munschauer, Mathias -- Dewell, Scott -- Hafner, Markus -- Williams, Zev -- Ohler, Uwe -- Tuschl, Thomas -- HD068546/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- K08 HD068546/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM104962/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH080442/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- UL1RR024143/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Dec 20;492(7429):382-6. doi: 10.1038/nature11737. Epub 2012 Dec 12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23235829" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Brain/metabolism ; Child ; Child Development Disorders, Pervasive/genetics/metabolism ; Cross-Linking Reagents ; Female ; Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein/*genetics/*metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation/*genetics ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; Immunoprecipitation ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Multigene Family ; Mutation ; Ovary/metabolism/pathology ; Protein Biosynthesis/*genetics ; RNA, Messenger/*genetics/metabolism ; Regulatory Sequences, Ribonucleic Acid/*genetics ; Response Elements/genetics ; Signal Transduction ; Substrate Specificity
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