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    Structural basis for action by diverse antidepressants on biogenic amine transporters (2013)
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    Publication Date: 2013-10-15
    Description: The biogenic amine transporters (BATs) regulate endogenous neurotransmitter concentrations and are targets for a broad range of therapeutic agents including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) and tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs). Because eukaryotic BATs are recalcitrant to crystallographic analysis, our understanding of the mechanism of these inhibitors and antidepressants is limited. LeuT is a bacterial homologue of BATs and has proven to be a valuable paradigm for understanding relationships between their structure and function. However, because only approximately 25% of the amino acid sequence of LeuT is in common with that of BATs, and as LeuT is a promiscuous amino acid transporter, it does not recapitulate the pharmacological properties of BATs. Indeed, SSRIs and TCAs bind in the extracellular vestibule of LeuT and act as non-competitive inhibitors of transport. By contrast, multiple studies demonstrate that both TCAs and SSRIs are competitive inhibitors for eukaryotic BATs and bind to the primary binding pocket. Here we engineered LeuT to harbour human BAT-like pharmacology by mutating key residues around the primary binding pocket. The final LeuBAT mutant binds the SSRI sertraline with a binding constant of 18 nM and displays high-affinity binding to a range of SSRIs, SNRIs and a TCA. We determined 12 crystal structures of LeuBAT in complex with four classes of antidepressants. The chemically diverse inhibitors have a remarkably similar mode of binding in which they straddle transmembrane helix (TM) 3, wedge between TM3/TM8 and TM1/TM6, and lock the transporter in a sodium- and chloride-bound outward-facing open conformation. Together, these studies define common and simple principles for the action of SSRIs, SNRIs and TCAs on BATs.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3904662/" 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/PMC3904662/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, Hui -- Goehring, April -- Wang, Kevin H -- Penmatsa, Aravind -- Ressler, Ryan -- Gouaux, Eric -- R37 MH070039/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2013 Nov 7;503(7474):141-5. doi: 10.1038/nature12648. Epub 2013 Oct 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24121440" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Bacterial Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Binding, Competitive/drug effects ; Biogenic Amines/*metabolism ; Chlorides/metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Mazindol/metabolism/pharmacology ; Models, Molecular ; Mutation ; Norepinephrine/metabolism ; *Plasma Membrane Neurotransmitter Transport Proteins/antagonists & ; inhibitors/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Protein Conformation/drug effects ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Reproducibility of Results ; Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Sertraline/metabolism/pharmacology ; Sodium/metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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    Methylation of histone H4 at arginine 3 facilitating transcriptional activation by nuclear hormone receptor (2001)
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    Publication Date: 2001-06-02
    Description: Acetylation of core histone tails plays a fundamental role in transcription regulation. In addition to acetylation, other posttranslational modifications, such as phosphorylation and methylation, occur in core histone tails. Here, we report the purification, molecular identification, and functional characterization of a histone H4-specific methyltransferase PRMT1, a protein arginine methyltransferase. PRMT1 specifically methylates arginine 3 (Arg 3) of H4 in vitro and in vivo. Methylation of Arg 3 by PRMT1 facilitates subsequent acetylation of H4 tails by p300. However, acetylation of H4 inhibits its methylation by PRMT1. Most important, a mutation in the S-adenosyl-l-methionine-binding site of PRMT1 substantially crippled its nuclear receptor coactivator activity. Our finding reveals Arg 3 of H4 as a novel methylation site by PRMT1 and indicates that Arg 3 methylation plays an important role in transcriptional regulation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, H -- Huang, Z Q -- Xia, L -- Feng, Q -- Erdjument-Bromage, H -- Strahl, B D -- Briggs, S D -- Allis, C D -- Wong, J -- Tempst, P -- Zhang, Y -- GM63067-01/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA08748/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Aug 3;293(5531):853-7. Epub 2001 May 31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7295, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11387442" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylation ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Arginine/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Cell Nucleus/metabolism ; HeLa Cells ; Histones/chemistry/*metabolism ; Humans ; Hydroxamic Acids/pharmacology ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ; Lysine/metabolism ; Methylation ; Methyltransferases/chemistry/genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Oocytes ; Protein-Arginine N-Methyltransferases ; Receptors, Androgen/*metabolism ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism ; S-Adenosylmethionine/metabolism ; *Transcriptional Activation ; Xenopus
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    Role of histone H3 lysine 27 methylation in Polycomb-group silencing (2002)
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    Publication Date: 2002-09-28
    Description: Polycomb group (PcG) proteins play important roles in maintaining the silent state of HOX genes. Recent studies have implicated histone methylation in long-term gene silencing. However, a connection between PcG-mediated gene silencing and histone methylation has not been established. Here we report the purification and characterization of an EED-EZH2 complex, the human counterpart of the Drosophila ESC-E(Z) complex. We demonstrate that the complex specifically methylates nucleosomal histone H3 at lysine 27 (H3-K27). Using chromatin immunoprecipitation assays, we show that H3-K27 methylation colocalizes with, and is dependent on, E(Z) binding at an Ultrabithorax (Ubx) Polycomb response element (PRE), and that this methylation correlates with Ubx repression. Methylation on H3-K27 facilitates binding of Polycomb (PC), a component of the PRC1 complex, to histone H3 amino-terminal tail. Thus, these studies establish a link between histone methylation and PcG-mediated gene silencing.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cao, Ru -- Wang, Liangjun -- Wang, Hengbin -- Xia, Li -- Erdjument-Bromage, Hediye -- Tempst, Paul -- Jones, Richard S -- Zhang, Yi -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Nov 1;298(5595):1039-43. Epub 2002 Sep 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7295, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12351676" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Carrier Proteins/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism ; Chromatin/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Drosophila ; Drosophila Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; *Gene Silencing ; Genes, Homeobox ; HeLa Cells ; *Histone-Lysine N-Methyltransferase ; Histones/*metabolism ; *Homeodomain Proteins ; Humans ; Lysine/*metabolism ; Methylation ; Methyltransferases/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Nuclear Proteins/metabolism ; Nucleosomes/metabolism ; Peptide Mapping ; Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 ; Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 ; Precipitin Tests ; Protein Methyltransferases ; Proteins/isolation & purification/metabolism ; RNA Interference ; Repressor Proteins/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Response Elements ; Temperature ; *Transcription Factors
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    HMG-1 as a late mediator of endotoxin lethality in mice (1999)
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    Publication Date: 1999-07-10
    Description: Endotoxin, a constituent of Gram-negative bacteria, stimulates macrophages to release large quantities of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-1 (IL-1), which can precipitate tissue injury and lethal shock (endotoxemia). Antagonists of TNF and IL-1 have shown limited efficacy in clinical trials, possibly because these cytokines are early mediators in pathogenesis. Here a potential late mediator of lethality is identified and characterized in a mouse model. High mobility group-1 (HMG-1) protein was found to be released by cultured macrophages more than 8 hours after stimulation with endotoxin, TNF, or IL-1. Mice showed increased serum levels of HMG-1 from 8 to 32 hours after endotoxin exposure. Delayed administration of antibodies to HMG-1 attenuated endotoxin lethality in mice, and administration of HMG-1 itself was lethal. Septic patients who succumbed to infection had increased serum HMG-1 levels, suggesting that this protein warrants investigation as a therapeutic target.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, H -- Bloom, O -- Zhang, M -- Vishnubhakat, J M -- Ombrellino, M -- Che, J -- Frazier, A -- Yang, H -- Ivanova, S -- Borovikova, L -- Manogue, K R -- Faist, E -- Abraham, E -- Andersson, J -- Andersson, U -- Molina, P E -- Abumrad, N N -- Sama, A -- Tracey, K J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1999 Jul 9;285(5425):248-51.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Surgery, North Shore University Hospital-New York University School of Medicine, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA. hwang@picower.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10398600" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Bacteremia/*blood ; Carrier Proteins/genetics/immunology/*metabolism/toxicity ; Cell Line ; Cells, Cultured ; Endotoxemia/*blood ; Endotoxins/blood/*toxicity ; HMGB1 Protein ; High Mobility Group Proteins/genetics/immunology/*metabolism/toxicity ; Humans ; Immune Sera/immunology ; Immunization, Passive ; Interferon-gamma/pharmacology ; Interleukin-1/pharmacology ; Lethal Dose 50 ; Leukocytes, Mononuclear/metabolism ; Lipopolysaccharides/toxicity ; Macrophages/*metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; Mice, Inbred C3H ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Time Factors ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/pharmacology
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    Calcium signaling by HBx protein in hepatitis B virus DNA replication (2001)
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    Publication Date: 2001-12-18
    Description: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infects more than 300 million people and is a leading cause of liver cancer and disease. The HBV HBx protein is essential for infection; HBx activation of Src is important for HBV DNA replication. In our study, HBx activated cytosolic calcium-dependent proline-rich tyrosine kinase-2 (Pyk2), a Src kinase activator. HBx activation of HBV DNA replication was blocked by inhibiting Pyk2 or calcium signaling mediated by mitochondrial calcium channels, which suggests that HBx targets mitochondrial calcium regulation. Reagents that increased cytosolic calcium substituted for HBx protein in HBV DNA replication. Thus, alteration of cytosolic calcium was a fundamental requirement for HBV replication and was mediated by HBx protein.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bouchard, M J -- Wang, L H -- Schneider, R J -- F32CA-4476/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R0ICA-565633/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Dec 14;294(5550):2376-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11743208" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Calcium/metabolism ; Calcium Channels/metabolism ; *Calcium Signaling ; Cyclosporine/pharmacology ; Cytosol/metabolism ; *DNA Replication ; DNA, Viral/biosynthesis ; Egtazic Acid/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Enzyme Activation ; Focal Adhesion Kinase 2 ; Genome, Viral ; Hepatitis B virus/genetics/*physiology ; Humans ; Mitochondria/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Plasmids ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Trans-Activators/genetics/*metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic ; Transfection ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Virus Replication ; src-Family Kinases/metabolism
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    The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome (2009)
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    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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    Pten in stromal fibroblasts suppresses mammary epithelial tumours (2009)
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    Publication Date: 2009-10-23
    Description: The tumour stroma is believed to contribute to some of the most malignant characteristics of epithelial tumours. However, signalling between stromal and tumour cells is complex and remains poorly understood. Here we show that the genetic inactivation of Pten in stromal fibroblasts of mouse mammary glands accelerated the initiation, progression and malignant transformation of mammary epithelial tumours. This was associated with the massive remodelling of the extracellular matrix (ECM), innate immune cell infiltration and increased angiogenesis. Loss of Pten in stromal fibroblasts led to increased expression, phosphorylation (T72) and recruitment of Ets2 to target promoters known to be involved in these processes. Remarkably, Ets2 inactivation in Pten stroma-deleted tumours ameliorated disruption of the tumour microenvironment and was sufficient to decrease tumour growth and progression. Global gene expression profiling of mammary stromal cells identified a Pten-specific signature that was highly represented in the tumour stroma of patients with breast cancer. These findings identify the Pten-Ets2 axis as a critical stroma-specific signalling pathway that suppresses mammary epithelial tumours.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2767301/" 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/PMC2767301/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Trimboli, Anthony J -- Cantemir-Stone, Carmen Z -- Li, Fu -- Wallace, Julie A -- Merchant, Anand -- Creasap, Nicholas -- Thompson, John C -- Caserta, Enrico -- Wang, Hui -- Chong, Jean-Leon -- Naidu, Shan -- Wei, Guo -- Sharma, Sudarshana M -- Stephens, Julie A -- Fernandez, Soledad A -- Gurcan, Metin N -- Weinstein, Michael B -- Barsky, Sanford H -- Yee, Lisa -- Rosol, Thomas J -- Stromberg, Paul C -- Robinson, Michael L -- Pepin, Francois -- Hallett, Michael -- Park, Morag -- Ostrowski, Michael C -- Leone, Gustavo -- P01 CA097189/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01 CA097189-050002/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P01CA097189/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA053271/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA085619/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA085619-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA121275/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA121275-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD047470/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD047470-05/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01CA053271/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01CA85619/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01HD47470/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Oct 22;461(7267):1084-91. doi: 10.1038/nature08486.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Genetics, College of Biological Sciences, 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/19847259" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Breast Neoplasms/*metabolism/*pathology ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cell Proliferation ; Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Extracellular Matrix/metabolism ; Fibroblasts/*metabolism ; Gene Deletion ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic ; Humans ; Immunity, Innate ; Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism/pathology ; Mice ; Mice, Transgenic ; Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial/*metabolism/*pathology ; PTEN Phosphohydrolase/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Protein c-ets-2/deficiency/metabolism ; Stromal Cells/*metabolism
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    Peptide neurotransmitters activate a cation channel complex of NALCN and UNC-80 (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2008-12-19
    Description: Several neurotransmitters act through G-protein-coupled receptors to evoke a 'slow' excitation of neurons. These include peptides, such as substance P and neurotensin, as well as acetylcholine and noradrenaline. Unlike the fast (approximately millisecond) ionotropic actions of small-molecule neurotransmitters, the slow excitation is not well understood at the molecular level, but can be mainly attributed to suppressing K(+) currents and/or activating a non-selective cation channel. The molecular identity of this cation channel has yet to be determined; similarly, how the channel is activated and its relative contribution to neuronal excitability induced by the neuropeptides are unknown. Here we show that, in the mouse hippocampal and ventral tegmental area neurons, substance P and neurotensin activate a channel complex containing NALCN and a large previously unknown protein UNC-80. The activation by substance P through TACR1 (a G-protein-coupled receptor for substance P) occurs by means of a unique mechanism: it does not require G-protein activation but is dependent on Src family kinases. These findings identify NALCN as the cation channel activated by substance P receptor, and suggest that UNC-80 and Src family kinases, rather than a G protein, are involved in the coupling from receptor to channel.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810458/" 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/PMC2810458/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lu, Boxun -- Su, Yanhua -- Das, Sudipto -- Wang, Haikun -- Wang, Yan -- Liu, Jin -- Ren, Dejian -- R01 NS055293/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- R01 NS055293-01A1/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Feb 5;457(7230):741-4. doi: 10.1038/nature07579. Epub 2008 Dec 17.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 415 S. University Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19092807" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Cell Line ; Electric Conductivity ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Heterotrimeric GTP-Binding Proteins ; Hippocampus/cytology ; Humans ; Ion Channels/agonists/genetics/*metabolism ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/agonists/genetics/*metabolism ; Neurons/metabolism ; Neurotensin/pharmacology ; Neurotransmitter Agents/*pharmacology ; Receptors, Neurokinin-1/metabolism ; Substance P/pharmacology ; Transfection ; Ventral Tegmental Area/cytology ; src-Family Kinases/metabolism
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    Microenvironment-induced PTEN loss by exosomal microRNA primes brain metastasis outgrowth (2015)
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    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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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    YAP is essential for tissue tension to ensure vertebrate 3D body shape (2015)
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    Publication Date: 2015-03-18
    Description: Vertebrates have a unique 3D body shape in which correct tissue and organ shape and alignment are essential for function. For example, vision requires the lens to be centred in the eye cup which must in turn be correctly positioned in the head. Tissue morphogenesis depends on force generation, force transmission through the tissue, and response of tissues and extracellular matrix to force. Although a century ago D'Arcy Thompson postulated that terrestrial animal body shapes are conditioned by gravity, there has been no animal model directly demonstrating how the aforementioned mechano-morphogenetic processes are coordinated to generate a body shape that withstands gravity. Here we report a unique medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) mutant, hirame (hir), which is sensitive to deformation by gravity. hir embryos display a markedly flattened body caused by mutation of YAP, a nuclear executor of Hippo signalling that regulates organ size. We show that actomyosin-mediated tissue tension is reduced in hir embryos, leading to tissue flattening and tissue misalignment, both of which contribute to body flattening. By analysing YAP function in 3D spheroids of human cells, we identify the Rho GTPase activating protein ARHGAP18 as an effector of YAP in controlling tissue tension. Together, these findings reveal a previously unrecognised function of YAP in regulating tissue shape and alignment required for proper 3D body shape. Understanding this morphogenetic function of YAP could facilitate the use of embryonic stem cells to generate complex organs requiring correct alignment of multiple tissues.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4720436/" 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/PMC4720436/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Porazinski, Sean -- Wang, Huijia -- Asaoka, Yoichi -- Behrndt, Martin -- Miyamoto, Tatsuo -- Morita, Hitoshi -- Hata, Shoji -- Sasaki, Takashi -- Krens, S F Gabriel -- Osada, Yumi -- Asaka, Satoshi -- Momoi, Akihiro -- Linton, Sarah -- Miesfeld, Joel B -- Link, Brian A -- Senga, Takeshi -- Castillo-Morales, Atahualpa -- Urrutia, Araxi O -- Shimizu, Nobuyoshi -- Nagase, Hideaki -- Matsuura, Shinya -- Bagby, Stefan -- Kondoh, Hisato -- Nishina, Hiroshi -- Heisenberg, Carl-Philipp -- Furutani-Seiki, Makoto -- P30 EY001931/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY014167/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01 EY016060/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- R01EY014167/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2015 May 14;521(7551):217-21. doi: 10.1038/nature14215. Epub 2015 Mar 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. ; Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Tokyo 113-8510, Japan. ; IST Austria, Am Campus 1, A-3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria. ; Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan. ; Department of Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. ; Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO-SORST Kondoh Differentiation Signaling Project, Kyoto 606-8305, Japan. ; Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA. ; Division of Cancer Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan. ; Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7FY, UK. ; 1] Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO-SORST Kondoh Differentiation Signaling Project, Kyoto 606-8305, Japan [2] Graduate School of Frontier Bioscience, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan [3] Faculty of Life Sciences, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan. ; 1] Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK [2] Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), ERATO-SORST Kondoh Differentiation Signaling Project, Kyoto 606-8305, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25778702" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Actomyosin/metabolism ; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics/metabolism ; Animals ; Body Size/*genetics ; Embryo, Nonmammalian/anatomy & histology/embryology/metabolism ; Fish Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; GTPase-Activating Proteins/metabolism ; Genes, Essential/genetics ; Gravitation ; Humans ; Morphogenesis/*genetics ; Mutation/genetics ; Organ Size/genetics ; Oryzias/*anatomy & histology/*embryology/genetics ; Phenotype ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics/metabolism ; Signal Transduction ; Spheroids, Cellular/cytology/metabolism
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