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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2009-02-13
    Description: A major yet unresolved quest in decoding the human genome is the identification of the regulatory sequences that control the spatial and temporal expression of genes. Distant-acting transcriptional enhancers are particularly challenging to uncover because they are scattered among the vast non-coding portion of the genome. Evolutionary sequence constraint can facilitate the discovery of enhancers, but fails to predict when and where they are active in vivo. Here we present the results of chromatin immunoprecipitation with the enhancer-associated protein p300 followed by massively parallel sequencing, and map several thousand in vivo binding sites of p300 in mouse embryonic forebrain, midbrain and limb tissue. We tested 86 of these sequences in a transgenic mouse assay, which in nearly all cases demonstrated reproducible enhancer activity in the tissues that were predicted by p300 binding. Our results indicate that in vivo mapping of p300 binding is a highly accurate means for identifying enhancers and their associated activities, and suggest that such data sets will be useful to study the role of tissue-specific enhancers in human biology and disease on a genome-wide scale.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2745234/" 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/PMC2745234/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Visel, Axel -- Blow, Matthew J -- Li, Zirong -- Zhang, Tao -- Akiyama, Jennifer A -- Holt, Amy -- Plajzer-Frick, Ingrid -- Shoukry, Malak -- Wright, Crystal -- Chen, Feng -- Afzal, Veena -- Ren, Bing -- Rubin, Edward M -- Pennacchio, Len A -- R01 HG003988/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG003988-02/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS062859/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS062859-01/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Feb 12;457(7231):854-8. doi: 10.1038/nature07730.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Genomics Division, MS 84-171, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19212405" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Chromatin Immunoprecipitation/*methods ; Chromosome Mapping/*methods ; Conserved Sequence ; Embryo, Mammalian/embryology ; Extremities/*embryology ; *Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ; Mesencephalon/*embryology ; Mice ; Prosencephalon/*embryology ; p300-CBP Transcription Factors/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
    Description: The DNA-binding protein REST (also called NRSF) is a transcriptional repressor that targets many neuronal genes and is abundant in human and mouse pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESCs). In a recent Letter to Nature, Singh et al. suggested that REST controls the self-renewal and pluripotency of ESCs, because they found that ESCs in which a single REST allele was disrupted (Fig. 1a, beta-geo-stop insertion) had reduced alkaline phosphatase activity and expressed lower levels of several pluripotency-associated genes. Here we show that partial or complete loss of functional REST protein does not abrogate ESC potential as reflected by marker gene expression. These data are consistent with earlier reports, and argue that REST is not required for maintaining ESC pluripotency.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jorgensen, Helle F -- Chen, Zhou-Feng -- Merkenschlager, Matthias -- Fisher, Amanda G -- MC_U120027516/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2009 Feb 26;457(7233):E4-5; discussion E7. doi: 10.1038/nature07783.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Lymphocyte Development Group, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK. helle.jorgensen@imperial.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19242417" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alkaline Phosphatase/metabolism ; Animals ; Embryonic Stem Cells/*cytology/*metabolism ; Gene Knockdown Techniques ; Humans ; Mice ; Pluripotent Stem Cells/*cytology/*metabolism ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Repressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Reproducibility of Results ; Tretinoin/pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 2014-12-04
    Description: Cytotoxic chemotherapy is effective in debulking tumour masses initially; however, in some patients tumours become progressively unresponsive after multiple treatment cycles. Previous studies have demonstrated that cancer stem cells (CSCs) are selectively enriched after chemotherapy through enhanced survival. Here we reveal a new mechanism by which bladder CSCs actively contribute to therapeutic resistance via an unexpected proliferative response to repopulate residual tumours between chemotherapy cycles, using human bladder cancer xenografts. Further analyses demonstrate the recruitment of a quiescent label-retaining pool of CSCs into cell division in response to chemotherapy-induced damages, similar to mobilization of normal stem cells during wound repair. While chemotherapy effectively induces apoptosis, associated prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) release paradoxically promotes neighbouring CSC repopulation. This repopulation can be abrogated by a PGE2-neutralizing antibody and celecoxib drug-mediated blockade of PGE2 signalling. In vivo administration of the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX2) inhibitor celecoxib effectively abolishes a PGE2- and COX2-mediated wound response gene signature, and attenuates progressive manifestation of chemoresistance in xenograft tumours, including primary xenografts derived from a patient who was resistant to chemotherapy. Collectively, these findings uncover a new underlying mechanism that models the progressive development of clinical chemoresistance, and implicate an adjunctive therapy to enhance chemotherapeutic response of bladder urothelial carcinomas by abrogating early tumour repopulation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465385/" 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/PMC4465385/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kurtova, Antonina V -- Xiao, Jing -- Mo, Qianxing -- Pazhanisamy, Senthil -- Krasnow, Ross -- Lerner, Seth P -- Chen, Fengju -- Roh, Terrence T -- Lay, Erica -- Ho, Philip Levy -- Chan, Keith Syson -- AI036211/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- CA125123/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA129640/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA175397/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R00 CA129640/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA175397/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- RR024574/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Jan 8;517(7533):209-13. doi: 10.1038/nature14034. Epub 2014 Dec 3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Department of Molecular &Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Department of Molecular &Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Dan L Duncan Cancer Center and Center for Cell Gene &Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; 1] Department of Molecular &Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Summer Medical and Research Training (SMART) Program, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. ; 1] Department of Molecular &Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [2] Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [3] Dan L Duncan Cancer Center and Center for Cell Gene &Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA [4] Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25470039" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antibodies, Neutralizing/immunology/pharmacology ; Apoptosis/drug effects ; Celecoxib ; Cell Proliferation/drug effects ; Cyclooxygenase 2/metabolism ; Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors/pharmacology ; Dinoprostone/*antagonists & inhibitors/immunology/metabolism/secretion ; Drug Resistance, Neoplasm/*drug effects ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Mice ; Neoplastic Stem Cells/*drug effects/metabolism/*pathology ; Pyrazoles/pharmacology ; Signal Transduction/drug effects ; Sulfonamides/pharmacology ; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/*drug therapy/*pathology ; Wound Healing/genetics ; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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    Publication Date: 2011-03-25
    Description: Melanoma is a tumour of transformed melanocytes, which are originally derived from the embryonic neural crest. It is unknown to what extent the programs that regulate neural crest development interact with mutations in the BRAF oncogene, which is the most commonly mutated gene in human melanoma. We have used zebrafish embryos to identify the initiating transcriptional events that occur on activation of human BRAF(V600E) (which encodes an amino acid substitution mutant of BRAF) in the neural crest lineage. Zebrafish embryos that are transgenic for mitfa:BRAF(V600E) and lack p53 (also known as tp53) have a gene signature that is enriched for markers of multipotent neural crest cells, and neural crest progenitors from these embryos fail to terminally differentiate. To determine whether these early transcriptional events are important for melanoma pathogenesis, we performed a chemical genetic screen to identify small-molecule suppressors of the neural crest lineage, which were then tested for their effects on melanoma. One class of compound, inhibitors of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), for example leflunomide, led to an almost complete abrogation of neural crest development in zebrafish and to a reduction in the self-renewal of mammalian neural crest stem cells. Leflunomide exerts these effects by inhibiting the transcriptional elongation of genes that are required for neural crest development and melanoma growth. When used alone or in combination with a specific inhibitor of the BRAF(V600E) oncogene, DHODH inhibition led to a marked decrease in melanoma growth both in vitro and in mouse xenograft studies. Taken together, these studies highlight developmental pathways in neural crest cells that have a direct bearing on melanoma formation.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759979/" 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/PMC3759979/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉White, Richard Mark -- Cech, Jennifer -- Ratanasirintrawoot, Sutheera -- Lin, Charles Y -- Rahl, Peter B -- Burke, Christopher J -- Langdon, Erin -- Tomlinson, Matthew L -- Mosher, Jack -- Kaufman, Charles -- Chen, Frank -- Long, Hannah K -- Kramer, Martin -- Datta, Sumon -- Neuberg, Donna -- Granter, Scott -- Young, Richard A -- Morrison, Sean -- Wheeler, Grant N -- Zon, Leonard I -- K08 AR055368/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA103846/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG002668/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG002668-08/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- T32 CA009172/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):518-22. doi: 10.1038/nature09882.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Stem Cell Program and Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital Boston, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21430780" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Substitution ; Animals ; Animals, Genetically Modified ; Cell Differentiation/drug effects ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cell Lineage/drug effects ; Disease Models, Animal ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Genes, p53/genetics ; Humans ; Isoxazoles/pharmacology/therapeutic use ; Melanoma/drug therapy/enzymology/*genetics/*pathology ; Mice ; Neural Crest/drug effects/*enzymology/metabolism/pathology ; Oxidoreductases Acting on CH-CH Group Donors/antagonists & inhibitors/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf/antagonists & ; inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Rats ; Stem Cells/cytology/drug effects/pathology ; *Transcription, Genetic/drug effects/physiology ; Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays ; Zebrafish/embryology/genetics
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2011-03-29
    Description: Although the question of to whom a male directs his mating attempts is a critical one in social interactions, little is known about the molecular and cellular mechanisms controlling mammalian sexual preference. Here we report that the neurotransmitter 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is required for male sexual preference. Wild-type male mice preferred females over males, but males lacking central serotonergic neurons lost sexual preference although they were not generally defective in olfaction or in pheromone sensing. A role for 5-HT was demonstrated by the phenotype of mice lacking tryptophan hydroxylase 2 (Tph2), which is required for the first step of 5-HT synthesis in the brain. Thirty-five minutes after the injection of the intermediate 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), which circumvented Tph2 to restore 5-HT to the wild-type level, adult Tph2 knockout mice also preferred females over males. These results indicate that 5-HT and serotonergic neurons in the adult brain regulate mammalian sexual preference.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094133/" 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/PMC4094133/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Yan -- Jiang, Yun'ai -- Si, Yunxia -- Kim, Ji-Young -- Chen, Zhou-Feng -- Rao, Yi -- R01 AR056318/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Apr 7;472(7341):95-9. doi: 10.1038/nature09822. Epub 2011 Mar 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing 102206, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21441904" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 5-Hydroxytryptophan/metabolism/pharmacology ; Animals ; Brain/*metabolism/physiology ; Brain Chemistry ; Estrous Cycle/physiology ; Female ; Heterosexuality/physiology ; Homosexuality, Male/genetics ; Housing, Animal ; Male ; Mating Preference, Animal/*physiology ; Mice ; Mice, Knockout ; Neurons/metabolism/physiology ; Odors/analysis ; Serotonin/biosynthesis/*metabolism ; Sex Attractants/analysis ; *Sex Characteristics ; Smell ; Tryptophan Hydroxylase/deficiency/genetics/metabolism
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