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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2009-12-17
    Description: Using next-generation sequencing technology alone, we have successfully generated and assembled a draft sequence of the giant panda genome. The assembled contigs (2.25 gigabases (Gb)) cover approximately 94% of the whole genome, and the remaining gaps (0.05 Gb) seem to contain carnivore-specific repeats and tandem repeats. Comparisons with the dog and human showed that the panda genome has a lower divergence rate. The assessment of panda genes potentially underlying some of its unique traits indicated that its bamboo diet might be more dependent on its gut microbiome than its own genetic composition. We also identified more than 2.7 million heterozygous single nucleotide polymorphisms in the diploid genome. Our data and analyses provide a foundation for promoting mammalian genetic research, and demonstrate the feasibility for using next-generation sequencing technologies for accurate, cost-effective and rapid de novo assembly of large eukaryotic genomes.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951497/" 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/PMC3951497/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Ruiqiang -- Fan, Wei -- Tian, Geng -- Zhu, Hongmei -- He, Lin -- Cai, Jing -- Huang, Quanfei -- Cai, Qingle -- Li, Bo -- Bai, Yinqi -- Zhang, Zhihe -- Zhang, Yaping -- Wang, Wen -- Li, Jun -- Wei, Fuwen -- Li, Heng -- Jian, Min -- Li, Jianwen -- Zhang, Zhaolei -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Li, Dawei -- Gu, Wanjun -- Yang, Zhentao -- Xuan, Zhaoling -- Ryder, Oliver A -- Leung, Frederick Chi-Ching -- Zhou, Yan -- Cao, Jianjun -- Sun, Xiao -- Fu, Yonggui -- Fang, Xiaodong -- Guo, Xiaosen -- Wang, Bo -- Hou, Rong -- Shen, Fujun -- Mu, Bo -- Ni, Peixiang -- Lin, Runmao -- Qian, Wubin -- Wang, Guodong -- Yu, Chang -- Nie, Wenhui -- Wang, Jinhuan -- Wu, Zhigang -- Liang, Huiqing -- Min, Jiumeng -- Wu, Qi -- Cheng, Shifeng -- Ruan, Jue -- Wang, Mingwei -- Shi, Zhongbin -- Wen, Ming -- Liu, Binghang -- Ren, Xiaoli -- Zheng, Huisong -- Dong, Dong -- Cook, Kathleen -- Shan, Gao -- Zhang, Hao -- Kosiol, Carolin -- Xie, Xueying -- Lu, Zuhong -- Zheng, Hancheng -- Li, Yingrui -- Steiner, Cynthia C -- Lam, Tommy Tsan-Yuk -- Lin, Siyuan -- Zhang, Qinghui -- Li, Guoqing -- Tian, Jing -- Gong, Timing -- Liu, Hongde -- Zhang, Dejin -- Fang, Lin -- Ye, Chen -- Zhang, Juanbin -- Hu, Wenbo -- Xu, Anlong -- Ren, Yuanyuan -- Zhang, Guojie -- Bruford, Michael W -- Li, Qibin -- Ma, Lijia -- Guo, Yiran -- An, Na -- Hu, Yujie -- Zheng, Yang -- Shi, Yongyong -- Li, Zhiqiang -- Liu, Qing -- Chen, Yanling -- Zhao, Jing -- Qu, Ning -- Zhao, Shancen -- Tian, Feng -- Wang, Xiaoling -- Wang, Haiyin -- Xu, Lizhi -- Liu, Xiao -- Vinar, Tomas -- Wang, Yajun -- Lam, Tak-Wah -- Yiu, Siu-Ming -- Liu, Shiping -- Zhang, Hemin -- Li, Desheng -- Huang, Yan -- Wang, Xia -- Yang, Guohua -- Jiang, Zhi -- Wang, Junyi -- Qin, Nan -- Li, Li -- Li, Jingxiang -- Bolund, Lars -- Kristiansen, Karsten -- Wong, Gane Ka-Shu -- Olson, Maynard -- Zhang, Xiuqing -- Li, Songgang -- Yang, Huanming -- Wang, Jian -- Wang, Jun -- R01 HG003229/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG003229-05/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 21;463(7279):311-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08696. Epub 2009 Dec 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20010809" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Algorithms ; Animals ; China ; Conserved Sequence/genetics ; Contig Mapping ; Diet/veterinary ; Dogs ; Evolution, Molecular ; Female ; Fertility/genetics/physiology ; Genome/*genetics ; *Genomics ; Heterozygote ; Humans ; Multigene Family/genetics ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics ; Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/genetics ; Sequence Alignment ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Synteny/genetics ; Ursidae/classification/*genetics/physiology
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    Publication Date: 2009-05-05
    Description: Culture is typically viewed as consisting of traits inherited epigenetically, through social learning. However, cultural diversity has species-typical constraints, presumably of genetic origin. A celebrated, if contentious, example is whether a universal grammar constrains syntactic diversity in human languages. Oscine songbirds exhibit song learning and provide biologically tractable models of culture: members of a species show individual variation in song and geographically separated groups have local song dialects. Different species exhibit distinct song cultures, suggestive of genetic constraints. Without such constraints, innovations and copying errors should cause unbounded variation over multiple generations or geographical distance, contrary to observations. Here we report an experiment designed to determine whether wild-type song culture might emerge over multiple generations in an isolated colony founded by isolates, and, if so, how this might happen and what type of social environment is required. Zebra finch isolates, unexposed to singing males during development, produce song with characteristics that differ from the wild-type song found in laboratory or natural colonies. In tutoring lineages starting from isolate founders, we quantified alterations in song across tutoring generations in two social environments: tutor-pupil pairs in sound-isolated chambers and an isolated semi-natural colony. In both settings, juveniles imitated the isolate tutors but changed certain characteristics of the songs. These alterations accumulated over learning generations. Consequently, songs evolved towards the wild-type in three to four generations. Thus, species-typical song culture can appear de novo. Our study has parallels with language change and evolution. In analogy to models in quantitative genetics, we model song culture as a multigenerational phenotype partly encoded genetically in an isolate founding population, influenced by environmental variables and taking multiple generations to emerge.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2693086/" 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/PMC2693086/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Feher, Olga -- Wang, Haibin -- Saar, Sigal -- Mitra, Partha P -- Tchernichovski, Ofer -- R01 DC004722/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- R01 DC004722-09/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 May 28;459(7246):564-8. doi: 10.1038/nature07994. Epub 2009 May 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, City College, City University of New York, New York 10031, USA. olcifeher@gmail.com〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19412161" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biological Evolution ; *Culture ; Female ; Finches/*physiology ; Instinct ; Learning/physiology ; Male ; *Models, Biological ; Social Isolation ; Vocalization, Animal/*physiology
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    Publication Date: 2009-12-18
    Description: In the established model of mammalian cell cycle control, the retinoblastoma protein (Rb) functions to restrict cells from entering S phase by binding and sequestering E2f activators (E2f1, E2f2 and E2f3), which are invariably portrayed as the ultimate effectors of a transcriptional program that commit cells to enter and progress through S phase. Using a panel of tissue-specific cre-transgenic mice and conditional E2f alleles we examined the effects of E2f1, E2f2 and E2f3 triple deficiency in murine embryonic stem cells, embryos and small intestines. We show that in normal dividing progenitor cells E2f1-3 function as transcriptional activators, but contrary to the current view, are dispensable for cell division and instead are necessary for cell survival. In differentiating cells E2f1-3 function in a complex with Rb as repressors to silence E2f targets and facilitate exit from the cell cycle. The inactivation of Rb in differentiating cells resulted in a switch of E2f1-3 from repressors to activators, leading to the superactivation of E2f responsive targets and ectopic cell divisions. Loss of E2f1-3 completely suppressed these phenotypes caused by Rb deficiency. This work contextualizes the activator versus repressor functions of E2f1-3 in vivo, revealing distinct roles in dividing versus differentiating cells and in normal versus cancer-like cell cycles.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2806193/" 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/PMC2806193/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chong, Jean-Leon -- Wenzel, Pamela L -- Saenz-Robles, M Teresa -- Nair, Vivek -- Ferrey, Antoney -- Hagan, John P -- Gomez, Yorman M -- Sharma, Nidhi -- Chen, Hui-Zi -- Ouseph, Madhu -- Wang, Shu-Huei -- Trikha, Prashant -- Culp, Brian -- Mezache, Louise -- Winton, Douglas J -- Sansom, Owen J -- Chen, Danian -- Bremner, Rod -- Cantalupo, Paul G -- Robinson, Michael L -- Pipas, James M -- Leone, Gustavo -- 5 T32 CA106196-04/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA098956/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01CA097189/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA098956/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA098956-06A2/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01CA82259/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01CA85619/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01HD04470/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Dec 17;462(7275):930-4. doi: 10.1038/nature08677.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20016602" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Animals ; Apoptosis ; Cell Cycle/genetics/physiology ; *Cell Differentiation ; Cell Proliferation ; E2F Transcription Factors/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; E2F1 Transcription Factor/deficiency/genetics/metabolism ; E2F2 Transcription Factor/deficiency/genetics/metabolism ; E2F3 Transcription Factor/deficiency/genetics/metabolism ; Embryo, Mammalian/cytology/metabolism ; Embryonic Stem Cells/*cytology/*metabolism ; Female ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Intestine, Small/cytology/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; Repressor Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Retinoblastoma Protein/deficiency/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2009-07-10
    Description: Variable, diversity and joining gene segment (V(D)J) recombination assembles immunoglobulin heavy or light chain (IgH or IgL) variable region exons in developing bone marrow B cells, whereas class switch recombination (CSR) exchanges IgH constant region exons in peripheral B cells. Both processes use directed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) repaired by non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ). Errors in either V(D)J recombination or CSR can initiate chromosomal translocations, including oncogenic IgH locus (Igh) to c-myc (also known as Myc) translocations of peripheral B cell lymphomas. Collaboration between these processes has also been proposed to initiate translocations. However, the occurrence of V(D)J recombination in peripheral B cells is controversial. Here we show that activated NHEJ-deficient splenic B cells accumulate V(D)J-recombination-associated breaks at the lambda IgL locus (Igl), as well as CSR-associated Igh breaks, often in the same cell. Moreover, Igl and Igh breaks are frequently joined to form translocations, a phenomenon associated with specific Igh-Igl co-localization. Igh and c-myc also co-localize in these cells; correspondingly, the introduction of frequent c-myc DSBs robustly promotes Igh-c-myc translocations. Our studies show peripheral B cells that attempt secondary V(D)J recombination, and determine a role for mechanistic factors in promoting recurrent translocations in tumours.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907259/" 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/PMC2907259/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, Jing H -- Gostissa, Monica -- Yan, Catherine T -- Goff, Peter -- Hickernell, Thomas -- Hansen, Erica -- Difilippantonio, Simone -- Wesemann, Duane R -- Zarrin, Ali A -- Rajewsky, Klaus -- Nussenzweig, Andre -- Alt, Frederick W -- 5P01CA92625/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA092625/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA092625-010001/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA092625-020001/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA092625-060006/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA092625-070006/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA092625-080006/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA092625-090006/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI077595/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI077595-02/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009382/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009382-27/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009382-28/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Jul 9;460(7252):231-6. doi: 10.1038/nature08159.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19587764" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; B-Lymphocytes/*metabolism ; Cytidine Deaminase/deficiency/genetics/metabolism ; DNA Breaks, Double-Stranded ; DNA-Binding Proteins/deficiency/metabolism ; Female ; Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte/*genetics ; Genes, Immunoglobulin/*genetics ; Genes, myc/genetics ; Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism ; Immunoglobulin Class Switching/*genetics ; Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics ; Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains/genetics ; Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains/genetics ; Integrases/genetics/metabolism ; Interphase ; Lymphocyte Activation ; Male ; Mice ; Receptors, Complement 3d/genetics ; Recombination, Genetic/genetics ; Spleen/cytology/immunology ; Translocation, Genetic/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 2015-10-20
    Description: The development of life-threatening cancer metastases at distant organs requires disseminated tumour cells' adaptation to, and co-evolution with, the drastically different microenvironments of metastatic sites. Cancer cells of common origin manifest distinct gene expression patterns after metastasizing to different organs. Clearly, the dynamic interaction between metastatic tumour cells and extrinsic signals at individual metastatic organ sites critically effects the subsequent metastatic outgrowth. Yet, it is unclear when and how disseminated tumour cells acquire the essential traits from the microenvironment of metastatic organs that prime their subsequent outgrowth. Here we show that both human and mouse tumour cells with normal expression of PTEN, an important tumour suppressor, lose PTEN expression after dissemination to the brain, but not to other organs. The PTEN level in PTEN-loss brain metastatic tumour cells is restored after leaving the brain microenvironment. This brain microenvironment-dependent, reversible PTEN messenger RNA and protein downregulation is epigenetically regulated by microRNAs from brain astrocytes. Mechanistically, astrocyte-derived exosomes mediate an intercellular transfer of PTEN-targeting microRNAs to metastatic tumour cells, while astrocyte-specific depletion of PTEN-targeting microRNAs or blockade of astrocyte exosome secretion rescues the PTEN loss and suppresses brain metastasis in vivo. Furthermore, this adaptive PTEN loss in brain metastatic tumour cells leads to an increased secretion of the chemokine CCL2, which recruits IBA1-expressing myeloid cells that reciprocally enhance the outgrowth of brain metastatic tumour cells via enhanced proliferation and reduced apoptosis. Our findings demonstrate a remarkable plasticity of PTEN expression in metastatic tumour cells in response to different organ microenvironments, underpinning an essential role of co-evolution between the metastatic cells and their microenvironment during the adaptive metastatic outgrowth. Our findings signify the dynamic and reciprocal cross-talk between tumour cells and the metastatic niche; importantly, they provide new opportunities for effective anti-metastasis therapies, especially of consequence for brain metastasis patients.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhang, Lin -- Zhang, Siyuan -- Yao, Jun -- Lowery, Frank J -- Zhang, Qingling -- Huang, Wen-Chien -- Li, Ping -- Li, Min -- Wang, Xiao -- Zhang, Chenyu -- Wang, Hai -- Ellis, Kenneth -- Cheerathodi, Mujeeburahiman -- McCarty, Joseph H -- Palmieri, Diane -- Saunus, Jodi -- Lakhani, Sunil -- Huang, Suyun -- Sahin, Aysegul A -- Aldape, Kenneth D -- Steeg, Patricia S -- Yu, Dihua -- 5R00CA158066-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01-CA099031/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA016672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R00 CA158066/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA194697/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01-CA112567-06/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01CA184836/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Nov 5;527(7576):100-4. doi: 10.1038/nature15376. Epub 2015 Oct 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Cancer Biology Program, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA. ; Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Woman's Malignancies Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia. ; The School of Medicine and Pathology Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia. ; The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia. ; Department of Pathology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Center for Molecular Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26479035" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptation, Physiological/genetics ; Animals ; Astrocytes/cytology/metabolism ; Brain/metabolism/pathology ; Brain Neoplasms/metabolism/*pathology/*secondary ; Cell Proliferation/genetics ; Chemokine CCL2/secretion ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Down-Regulation/genetics ; Evolution, Molecular ; Exosomes/*genetics/metabolism/secretion ; Female ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; *Gene Silencing ; Genes, Tumor Suppressor ; Humans ; Male ; Mice ; MicroRNAs/*genetics ; PTEN Phosphohydrolase/*deficiency/genetics ; RNA, Messenger/analysis/genetics ; *Tumor Microenvironment/genetics ; Tumor Suppressor Proteins/deficiency/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2012-07-18
    Description: The inflammasome regulates the release of caspase activation-dependent cytokines, including interleukin (IL)-1beta, IL-18 and high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1). By studying HMGB1 release mechanisms, here we identify a role for double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR, also known as EIF2AK2) in inflammasome activation. Exposure of macrophages to inflammasome agonists induced PKR autophosphorylation. PKR inactivation by genetic deletion or pharmacological inhibition severely impaired inflammasome activation in response to double-stranded RNA, ATP, monosodium urate, adjuvant aluminium, rotenone, live Escherichia coli, anthrax lethal toxin, DNA transfection and Salmonella typhimurium infection. PKR deficiency significantly inhibited the secretion of IL-1beta, IL-18 and HMGB1 in E. coli-induced peritonitis. PKR physically interacts with several inflammasome components, including NOD-like receptor (NLR) family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3), NLRP1, NLR family CARD domain-containing protein 4 (NLRC4), absent in melanoma 2 (AIM2), and broadly regulates inflammasome activation. PKR autophosphorylation in a cell-free system with recombinant NLRP3, apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD (ASC, also known as PYCARD) and pro-caspase-1 reconstitutes inflammasome activity. These results show a crucial role for PKR in inflammasome activation, and indicate that it should be possible to pharmacologically target this molecule to treat inflammation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4163918/" 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/PMC4163918/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lu, Ben -- Nakamura, Takahisa -- Inouye, Karen -- Li, Jianhua -- Tang, Yiting -- Lundback, Peter -- Valdes-Ferrer, Sergio I -- Olofsson, Peder S -- Kalb, Thomas -- Roth, Jesse -- Zou, Yongrui -- Erlandsson-Harris, Helena -- Yang, Huan -- Ting, Jenny P-Y -- Wang, Haichao -- Andersson, Ulf -- Antoine, Daniel J -- Chavan, Sangeeta S -- Hotamisligil, Gokhan S -- Tracey, Kevin J -- DK052539/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- G0700654/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- R01 DK052539/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM057226/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM062508/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM62508/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Aug 30;488(7413):670-4. doi: 10.1038/nature11290.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Biomedical Science, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, New York 11030, USA. blu@nshs.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22801494" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism ; Adenosine Triphosphate/pharmacology ; Animals ; Antigens, Bacterial/pharmacology ; Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/metabolism ; Bacterial Toxins/pharmacology ; CARD Signaling Adaptor Proteins/metabolism ; Calcium-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Carrier Proteins/metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; Crystallins/metabolism ; Escherichia coli/immunology/physiology ; Escherichia coli Infections/immunology/metabolism ; Female ; HMGB1 Protein/blood/*secretion ; Humans ; Inflammasomes/agonists/*metabolism ; Interleukin-18/blood ; Interleukin-1beta/blood ; Interleukin-6/analysis/blood ; Macrophages, Peritoneal/drug effects/metabolism ; Male ; Membrane Proteins/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Peritonitis/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; RNA, Double-Stranded/immunology/pharmacology ; Rotenone/pharmacology ; Salmonella Infections/immunology/metabolism ; Salmonella typhimurium/immunology/physiology ; Transfection ; Uric Acid/pharmacology ; eIF-2 Kinase/antagonists & inhibitors/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2014-08-15
    Description: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest cancers in western countries, with a median survival of 6 months and an extremely low percentage of long-term surviving patients. KRAS mutations are known to be a driver event of PDAC, but targeting mutant KRAS has proved challenging. Targeting oncogene-driven signalling pathways is a clinically validated approach for several devastating diseases. Still, despite marked tumour shrinkage, the frequency of relapse indicates that a fraction of tumour cells survives shut down of oncogenic signalling. Here we explore the role of mutant KRAS in PDAC maintenance using a recently developed inducible mouse model of mutated Kras (Kras(G12D), herein KRas) in a p53(LoxP/WT) background. We demonstrate that a subpopulation of dormant tumour cells surviving oncogene ablation (surviving cells) and responsible for tumour relapse has features of cancer stem cells and relies on oxidative phosphorylation for survival. Transcriptomic and metabolic analyses of surviving cells reveal prominent expression of genes governing mitochondrial function, autophagy and lysosome activity, as well as a strong reliance on mitochondrial respiration and a decreased dependence on glycolysis for cellular energetics. Accordingly, surviving cells show high sensitivity to oxidative phosphorylation inhibitors, which can inhibit tumour recurrence. Our integrated analyses illuminate a therapeutic strategy of combined targeting of the KRAS pathway and mitochondrial respiration to manage pancreatic cancer.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376130/" 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/PMC4376130/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Viale, Andrea -- Pettazzoni, Piergiorgio -- Lyssiotis, Costas A -- Ying, Haoqiang -- Sanchez, Nora -- Marchesini, Matteo -- Carugo, Alessandro -- Green, Tessa -- Seth, Sahil -- Giuliani, Virginia -- Kost-Alimova, Maria -- Muller, Florian -- Colla, Simona -- Nezi, Luigi -- Genovese, Giannicola -- Deem, Angela K -- Kapoor, Avnish -- Yao, Wantong -- Brunetto, Emanuela -- Kang, Ya'an -- Yuan, Min -- Asara, John M -- Wang, Y Alan -- Heffernan, Timothy P -- Kimmelman, Alec C -- Wang, Huamin -- Fleming, Jason B -- Cantley, Lewis C -- DePinho, Ronald A -- Draetta, Giulio F -- CA016672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA16672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA117969/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA120964/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01CA117969/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01CA120964/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA016672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30CA16672/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P50 CA127003/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Oct 30;514(7524):628-32. doi: 10.1038/nature13611. Epub 2014 Aug 10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [3]. ; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065, USA. ; Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; 1] Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; 1] Department of Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [3] Department of Experimental Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan 20139, Italy. ; Institute for Applied Cancer Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Pathology Unit, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan 20132, Italy. ; Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Department of Medicine, Division of Signal Transduction, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. ; Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Department of Cancer Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25119024" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Autophagy ; Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal/drug therapy/genetics/*metabolism/*pathology ; Cell Respiration/drug effects ; Cell Survival/drug effects ; Disease Models, Animal ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Genes, p53/genetics ; Glycolysis ; Lysosomes/metabolism ; Mice ; Mitochondria/drug effects/*metabolism ; Mutation/genetics ; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/prevention & control ; Neoplastic Stem Cells/drug effects/metabolism/pathology ; Oxidative Phosphorylation/drug effects ; Pancreatic Neoplasms/drug therapy/genetics/*metabolism/*pathology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)/*genetics/metabolism ; Recurrence ; Signal Transduction
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2012-09-21
    Description: The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas belongs to one of the most species-rich but genomically poorly explored phyla, the Mollusca. Here we report the sequencing and assembly of the oyster genome using short reads and a fosmid-pooling strategy, along with transcriptomes of development and stress response and the proteome of the shell. The oyster genome is highly polymorphic and rich in repetitive sequences, with some transposable elements still actively shaping variation. Transcriptome studies reveal an extensive set of genes responding to environmental stress. The expansion of genes coding for heat shock protein 70 and inhibitors of apoptosis is probably central to the oyster's adaptation to sessile life in the highly stressful intertidal zone. Our analyses also show that shell formation in molluscs is more complex than currently understood and involves extensive participation of cells and their exosomes. The oyster genome sequence fills a void in our understanding of the Lophotrochozoa.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhang, Guofan -- Fang, Xiaodong -- Guo, Ximing -- Li, Li -- Luo, Ruibang -- Xu, Fei -- Yang, Pengcheng -- Zhang, Linlin -- Wang, Xiaotong -- Qi, Haigang -- Xiong, Zhiqiang -- Que, Huayong -- Xie, Yinlong -- Holland, Peter W H -- Paps, Jordi -- Zhu, Yabing -- Wu, Fucun -- Chen, Yuanxin -- Wang, Jiafeng -- Peng, Chunfang -- Meng, Jie -- Yang, Lan -- Liu, Jun -- Wen, Bo -- Zhang, Na -- Huang, Zhiyong -- Zhu, Qihui -- Feng, Yue -- Mount, Andrew -- Hedgecock, Dennis -- Xu, Zhe -- Liu, Yunjie -- Domazet-Loso, Tomislav -- Du, Yishuai -- Sun, Xiaoqing -- Zhang, Shoudu -- Liu, Binghang -- Cheng, Peizhou -- Jiang, Xuanting -- Li, Juan -- Fan, Dingding -- Wang, Wei -- Fu, Wenjing -- Wang, Tong -- Wang, Bo -- Zhang, Jibiao -- Peng, Zhiyu -- Li, Yingxiang -- Li, Na -- Wang, Jinpeng -- Chen, Maoshan -- He, Yan -- Tan, Fengji -- Song, Xiaorui -- Zheng, Qiumei -- Huang, Ronglian -- Yang, Hailong -- Du, Xuedi -- Chen, Li -- Yang, Mei -- Gaffney, Patrick M -- Wang, Shan -- Luo, Longhai -- She, Zhicai -- Ming, Yao -- Huang, Wen -- Zhang, Shu -- Huang, Baoyu -- Zhang, Yong -- Qu, Tao -- Ni, Peixiang -- Miao, Guoying -- Wang, Junyi -- Wang, Qiang -- Steinberg, Christian E W -- Wang, Haiyan -- Li, Ning -- Qian, Lumin -- Zhang, Guojie -- Li, Yingrui -- Yang, Huanming -- Liu, Xiao -- Wang, Jian -- Yin, Ye -- Wang, Jun -- 268513/European Research Council/International -- England -- Nature. 2012 Oct 4;490(7418):49-54. doi: 10.1038/nature11413. Epub 2012 Sep 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22992520" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptation, Physiological/*genetics ; Animal Shells/chemistry/*growth & development ; Animals ; Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/genetics ; Crassostrea/*genetics ; DNA Transposable Elements/genetics ; Evolution, Molecular ; Female ; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental/genetics ; Genes, Homeobox/genetics ; Genome/*genetics ; Genomics ; HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins/genetics ; Humans ; Larva/genetics/growth & development ; Mass Spectrometry ; Molecular Sequence Annotation ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Polymorphism, Genetic/genetics ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid/genetics ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Stress, Physiological/genetics/*physiology ; Transcriptome/genetics
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