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  • 1
    Publication Date: 1989-02-10
    Description: Transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) is produced by and required for the growth of epithelial cells and is angiogenic in vivo. Since epidermal hyperplasia and angiogenesis are hallmarks of psoriasis, TGF-alpha gene expression was analyzed in epidermal biopsies of normal and psoriatic skin. TGF-alpha messenger RNA and protein are much more abundant in lesional psoriatic epidermis than in normal-appearing skin of psoriatic patients or in normal epidermis. In contrast, messenger RNA levels of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1), which inhibits epithelial cell growth, are not significantly different in normal, uninvolved, and lesional psoriatic epidermis. Thus, psoriatic epidermal hyperplasia may involve increased expression of a keratinocyte mitogen (TGF-alpha) rather than deficient expression of a growth inhibitor (TGF-beta 1).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Elder, J T -- Fisher, G J -- Lindquist, P B -- Bennett, G L -- Pittelkow, M R -- Coffey, R J Jr -- Ellingsworth, L -- Derynck, R -- Voorhees, J J -- 5-T32-AM07197-10/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Feb 10;243(4892):811-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2916128" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Blotting, Northern ; Epidermis/physiopathology ; Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects ; Humans ; Immunoassay ; Psoriasis/*genetics ; Transforming Growth Factors/*genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1986-10-24
    Description: Cachectin (tumor necrosis factor), a protein produced in large quantities by endotoxin-activated macrophages, has been implicated as an important mediator of the lethal effect of endotoxin. Recombinant human cachectin was infused into rats in an effort to determine whether cachectin, by itself, can elicit the derangements of host physiology caused by administration of endotoxin. When administered in quantities similar to those produced endogenously in response to endotoxin, cachectin causes hypotension, metabolic acidosis, hemoconcentration, and death within minutes to hours, as a result of respiratory arrest. Hyperglycemia and hyperkalemia were also observed after infusion. At necropsy, diffuse pulmonary inflammation and hemorrhage were apparent on gross and histopathologic examination, along with ischemic and hemorrhagic lesions of the gastrointestinal tract, and acute renal tubular necrosis. Thus, it appears that a single protein mediator (cachectin) is capable of inducing many of the deleterious effects of endotoxin.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tracey, K J -- Beutler, B -- Lowry, S F -- Merryweather, J -- Wolpe, S -- Milsark, I W -- Hariri, R J -- Fahey, T J 3rd -- Zentella, A -- Albert, J D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1986 Oct 24;234(4775):470-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3764421" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Blood Glucose/metabolism ; Endotoxins/toxicity ; Female ; Glycoproteins/*toxicity ; Humans ; Potassium/blood ; Rats ; Recombinant Proteins ; Shock/*chemically induced/pathology/physiopathology ; Sodium/blood ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 1986-12-19
    Description: In postmortem studies of patients with schizophrenia, D2 dopamine receptors in the basal ganglia have been observed to be more numerous than in patients with no history of neurological or psychiatric disease. Because most patients with schizophrenia are treated with neuroleptic drugs that block D2 dopamine receptors in the caudate nucleus, it has been suggested that this increase in the number of receptors is a result of adaptation to these drugs rather than a biochemical abnormality intrinsic to schizophrenia. With positron emission tomography (PET), the D2 dopamine receptor density in the caudate nucleus of living human beings was measured in normal volunteers and in two groups of patients with schizophrenia--one group that had never been treated with neuroleptics and another group that had been treated with these drugs. D2 dopamine receptor densities in the caudate nucleus were higher in both groups of patients than in the normal volunteers. Thus, schizophrenia itself is associated with an increase in brain D2 dopamine receptor density.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wong, D F -- Wagner, H N Jr -- Tune, L E -- Dannals, R F -- Pearlson, G D -- Links, J M -- Tamminga, C A -- Broussolle, E P -- Ravert, H T -- Wilson, A A -- Toung, J K -- Malat, J -- Williams, J A -- O'Tuama, L A -- Snyder, S H -- Kuhar, M J -- Gjedde, A -- 1RO1 53146/PHS HHS/ -- NS15080/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1986 Dec 19;234(4783):1558-63.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2878495" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adult ; Antipsychotic Agents/*therapeutic use ; Caudate Nucleus/*metabolism ; Haloperidol/therapeutic use ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Receptors, Dopamine/*metabolism ; Receptors, Dopamine D2 ; Schizophrenia/drug therapy/*metabolism ; Spiperone/analogs & derivatives/metabolism ; Tomography, Emission-Computed
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 1986-11-28
    Description: Cells infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) show decreased expression of the 58-kilodalton T4 (CD4) antigen on their surface. In this study, the effect of HIV infection on the synthesis of T4 messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein products was evaluated in T-cell lines. Metabolically labeled lysates from the T4+ cell line Sup-T1 were immunoprecipitated with monoclonal antibodies to T4. Compared with uninfected cells, HIV-infected Sup-T1 cells showed decreased amounts of T4 that coprecipitated with both the 120-kilodalton viral envelope and the 150-kilodalton envelope precursor molecules. In four of five HIV-producing T-cell lines studied, the steady-state levels of T4 mRNA were also reduced. Thus, the decreased T4 antigen on HIV-infected cells is due to at least three factors: reduced steady-state levels of T4-specific mRNA, reduced amounts of immunoprecipitable T4 antigen, and the complexing of available T4 antigen with viral envelope gene products. The data suggested that the T4 protein produced after infection may be complexed with viral envelope gene products within infected cells. Retroviral envelope-receptor complexes may thus participate in a general mechanism by which receptors for retroviruses are down-modulated and alterations in cellular function develop after infection.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hoxie, J A -- Alpers, J D -- Rackowski, J L -- Huebner, K -- Haggarty, B S -- Cedarbaum, A J -- Reed, J C -- 5-T32-GM-07170/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- CA-12779/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U01 AI23630-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1986 Nov 28;234(4780):1123-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3095925" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*immunology/metabolism ; Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology ; Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte ; Antigens, Surface/*biosynthesis ; Antigens, Viral/immunology ; HIV/immunology ; HIV Antigens ; Humans ; RNA, Messenger/*biosynthesis ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology/metabolism/*microbiology
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 1988-11-25
    Description: The gp120 envelope glycoprotein of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is expressed on the surface of many HIV-infected cells, binds to the cell surface molecule CD4. Soluble derivatives of recombinant CD4 (rCD4) that bind gp120 with high affinity are attractive vehicles for targeting a cytotoxic reagent to HIV-infected cells. Soluble rCD4 was conjugated to the active subunit of the toxin ricin. This conjugate killed HIV-infected H9 cells but was 1/1000 as toxic to uninfected H9 cells (which do not express gp120) and was not toxic to Daudi cells (which express major histocompatibility class II antigens, the putative natural ligand for cell surface CD4). Specific killing of infected cells can be blocked by rgp120, rCD4, or a monoclonal antibody to the gp120 binding site on CD4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Till, M A -- Ghetie, V -- Gregory, T -- Patzer, E J -- Porter, J P -- Uhr, J W -- Capon, D J -- Vitetta, E S -- CA-09082/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-28149/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA-41081/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Nov 25;242(4882):1166-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2847316" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/*administration & dosage/immunology ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; Cell Survival ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; HIV/*immunology ; HIV Envelope Protein gp120 ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology ; Humans ; Recombinant Proteins/administration & dosage/immunology ; Retroviridae Proteins/*immunology/metabolism ; Ricin/metabolism/*pharmacology ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology/microbiology/physiology
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    Publication Date: 1988-07-08
    Description: Molecules involved in the antigen receptor-dependent regulation of early T cell activation genes were investigated with the use of functional sequences of the T cell activation-specific enhancer of interleukin-2 (IL-2). One of these sequences forms a protein complex, NFAT-1, specifically with nuclear extracts of activated T cells. This complex appeared 10 to 25 minutes before the activation of the IL-2 gene. Studies with inhibitors of protein synthesis indicated that the time of synthesis of the activator of the IL-2 gene in Jurkat T cells corresponds to the time of appearance of NFAT-1. NFAT-1, or a very similar protein, bound functional sequences of the long terminal repeat (LTR) of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1; the LTR of this virus is known to be stimulated during early T cell activation. The binding site for this complex activated a linked promoter after transfection into antigen receptor-activated T cells but not other cell types. These characteristics suggest that NFAT-1 transmits signals initiated at the T cell antigen receptor.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shaw, J P -- Utz, P J -- Durand, D B -- Toole, J J -- Emmel, E A -- Crabtree, G R -- CA 01048/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA 39612/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- HL 33942/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1988 Jul 8;241(4862):202-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, CA 94305.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3260404" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*physiology ; *Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; HIV/genetics ; Humans ; In Vitro Techniques ; Interleukin-2/genetics ; *Lymphocyte Activation ; Nuclear Proteins/*physiology ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/*physiology ; *Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; T-Lymphocytes/*physiology ; Transcription Factors/*physiology
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 1989-10-27
    Description: Host cell factors act together with regulatory genes of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to control virus production. Human-Chinese hamster ovary hybrid cell clones were used to probe for human chromosomes involved in regulating HIV gene expression. DNA transfection experiments showed that 4 of 18 clones had high levels of HIV gene expression measured by both extracellular virus production and transactivation of the HIV long terminal repeat in the presence of the trans-activator (tat) gene. Karyotype analyses revealed a 94% concordance (17/18) between human chromosome 12 and HIV gene expression. Other chromosomes had an 11 to 72% concordance with virus production.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hart, C E -- Ou, C Y -- Galphin, J C -- Moore, J -- Bacheler, L T -- Wasmuth, J J -- Petteway, S R Jr -- Schochetman, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Oct 27;246(4929):488-91.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2683071" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase/genetics ; *Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12 ; Cricetinae ; Cricetulus ; Gene Expression Regulation, Viral/*genetics ; Genes, tat ; HIV-1/*genetics ; Humans ; Hybrid Cells ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Transcriptional Activation
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 1989-09-08
    Description: Overlapping complementary DNA clones were isolated from epithelial cell libraries with a genomic DNA segment containing a portion of the putative cystic fibrosis (CF) locus, which is on chromosome 7. Transcripts, approximately 6500 nucleotides in size, were detectable in the tissues affected in patients with CF. The predicted protein consists of two similar motifs, each with (i) a domain having properties consistent with membrane association and (ii) a domain believed to be involved in ATP (adenosine triphosphate) binding. A deletion of three base pairs that results in the omission of a phenylalanine residue at the center of the first predicted nucleotide-binding domain was detected in CF patients.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Riordan, J R -- Rommens, J M -- Kerem, B -- Alon, N -- Rozmahel, R -- Grzelczak, Z -- Zielenski, J -- Lok, S -- Plavsic, N -- Chou, J L -- DK34944/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK39690/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Sep 8;245(4922):1066-73.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2475911" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Biological Transport ; Cloning, Molecular/methods ; Cystic Fibrosis/*genetics/metabolism/pathology ; Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator ; DNA/*isolation & purification ; *Genes ; *Genes, Recessive ; Humans ; Ion Channels/pathology ; Membrane Proteins/*genetics/isolation & purification ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptides/*genetics/isolation & purification ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1989-05-12
    Description: Carcinoma of the breast and ovary account for one-third of all cancers occurring in women and together are responsible for approximately one-quarter of cancer-related deaths in females. The HER-2/neu proto-oncogene is amplified in 25 to 30 percent of human primary breast cancers and this alteration is associated with disease behavior. In this report, several similarities were found in the biology of HER-2/neu in breast and ovarian cancer, including a similar incidence of amplification, a direct correlation between amplification and over-expression, evidence of tumors in which overexpression occurs without amplification, and the association between gene alteration and clinical outcome. A comprehensive study of the gene and its products (RNA and protein) was simultaneously performed on a large number of both tumor types. This analysis identified several potential shortcomings of the various methods used to evaluate HER-2/neu in these diseases (Southern, Northern, and Western blots, and immunohistochemistry) and provided information regarding considerations that should be addressed when studying a gene or gene product in human tissue. The data presented further support the concept that the HER-2/neu gene may be involved in the pathogenesis of some human cancers.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Slamon, D J -- Godolphin, W -- Jones, L A -- Holt, J A -- Wong, S G -- Keith, D E -- Levin, W J -- Stuart, S G -- Udove, J -- Ullrich, A -- CA 36827/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA 48780/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 May 12;244(4905):707-12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine 90024.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2470152" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Biomarkers, Tumor ; Breast Neoplasms/*genetics ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA/analysis ; Female ; Gene Amplification ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Humans ; Immunohistochemistry ; Nucleic Acid Hybridization ; Ovarian Neoplasms/*genetics ; Prognosis ; Protein Kinases ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/*genetics ; *Proto-Oncogenes ; RNA/analysis ; Receptor, ErbB-2
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  • 10
    Publication Date: 1989-03-24
    Description: The 21-kD proteins encoded by ras oncogenes (p21Ras) are modified covalently by a palmitate attached to a cysteine residue near the carboxyl terminus. Changing cysteine at position 186 to serine in oncogenic forms produces a nonpalmitylated protein that fails to associate with membranes and does not transform NIH 3T3 cells. Nonpalmitylated p21Ras derivatives were constructed that contained myristic acid at their amino termini to determine if a different form of lipid modification could restore either membrane association or transforming activity. An activated p21Ras, altered in this way, exhibited both efficient membrane association and full transforming activity. Surprisingly, myristylated forms of normal cellular Ras were also transforming. This demonstrates that Ras must bind to membranes in order to transmit a signal for transformation, but that either myristate or palmitate can perform this role. However, the normal function of cellular Ras is diverted to transformation by myristate and therefore must be regulated ordinarily by some unique property of palmitate that myristate does not mimic. Myristylation thus represents a novel mechanism by which Ras can become transforming.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Buss, J E -- Solski, P A -- Schaeffer, J P -- MacDonald, M J -- Der, C J -- CA42348/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA42978/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Mar 24;243(4898):1600-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, CA 92037.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2648572" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Membrane/physiology ; Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/*physiopathology ; Gene Products, gag ; Guanosine Diphosphate/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Humans ; In Vitro Techniques ; Mice ; Myristic Acid ; Myristic Acids/*physiology ; Protein Processing, Post-Translational ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/*physiology ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras) ; Retroviridae Proteins/metabolism
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