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Various posttranslational modifications (PTMs) participate in nearly all aspects of biological processes by regulating protein functions, and aberrant states of PTMs are frequently implicated in human diseases. Therefore, an integral resource of PTM-disease associations (PDAs) would be a great help for both academic research and clinical use. In this work, we reported PTMD, a well-curated database containing PTMs that are associated with human diseases. We manually collected 1950 known PDAs in 749 proteins for 23 types of PTMs and 275 types of diseases from the literature. Database analyses show that phosphorylation has the largest number of disease associations, whereas neurologic diseases have the largest number of PTM associations. We classified all known PDAs into six classes according to the PTM status in diseases and demonstrated that the upregulation and presence of PTM events account for a predominant proportion of disease-associated PTM events. By reconstructing a disease-gene network, we observed that breast cancers have the largest number of associated PTMs and AKT1 has the largest number of PTMs connected to diseases. Finally, the PTMD database was developed with detailed annotations and can be a useful resource for further analyzing the relations between PTMs and human diseases. PTMD is freely accessible at http://ptmd.biocuckoo.org.
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Humans , Databases, Protein , Disease , Genetics , Gene Regulatory Networks , Phosphorylation , Protein Processing, Post-Translational , Proteins , Metabolism , Search EngineABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate clinicopathological characteristics of colorectal sessile serrated adenoma/polyp (SSA/P) and its differential diagnosis from other serrated lesions.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Clinicopathological features of all cases of colorectal serrated lesions from 5 209 colorectal biopsy samples at Shanghai Tongji Hospital from 2008 to 2013 were reviewed. Three hundred and fifty-three cases of serrated lesions were erolled in the study. Morphological features of SSA/P were investigated with an emphasis on histologic criteria for diagnosis and a literature review was performed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Three hundred and fifty-three cases of serrated lesions were identified, including 25 SSA/P (7.1%), 278 hyperplastic polyp (HP, 78.8%), and 44 traditional serrated adenoma (TSA, 12.5%). Twenty-five patients with SSA/P consisted of 16 males and 9 females with a mean age of 62.2 years (aged 34-84 years) and the lesions involved sigmoid colon (14 cases), ascending colon (9 cases), rectum (1 case) and transverse colon (1 case). Grossly, the majority of SSA/P was sessile with an averaged size of 0.73 cm. Histologically, typical SSA/P had elongated crypts with prominent serration and distorted crypts architecture. The detection rates of crypts dilatation and branching in SSA/P and HP were 100% (25/25) and 24% (12/50, P < 0.01), 72% (18/25) and 4% (2/50, P < 0.01), respectively. Morphological features observed only in SSA/P included L-shaped crypts (48%, 12/25), pseudo infiltration of mucosa muscle (16%, 4/25), atypical nuclei (32%, 8/25), and increased mucus secretion (24%, 6/25).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>SSA/P microscopically shows prominent serration and abnormal architectures of crypts. Complete tissue sectioning and correct embedding are helpful for the diagnosis. SSA/P without cytological dysplasia should be distinguished from HP, especially those with only a few distorted crypts.</p>
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Female , Humans , Male , Adenoma , Pathology , China , Colonic Polyps , Pathology , Diagnosis, Differential , Hyperplasia , Intestinal Polyps , Pathology , Polyps , Pathology , Rectal Neoplasms , PathologyABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE To identify the pop strain of Staphylococcus aureus hospital acquired infection by random amplification of polymorphic DNA(RAPD),and to study the molecular mechanism of antibiotic(resistance),so as to reduce the occurrence of drug resistance and infection acquired in hospital.METHODS 1.DNA from 21 strains of S.aureus were extracted by the phenol-chloroform method and analyzed by using arbitrary(primer) polymerase chain reaction(AP-PCR).2.Amplifying mecA,GyrA and GrlA by PCR,and testing the(variation) of these genes by using Hinf Ⅰ-digested analysis.RESULTS Twenty one S.aureus strains were divided into 3(genetic) types.Type Ⅰ is the pop strain in our hospital which including 12 strains.Fourteen from 17 clinical stains were resistant to meticillin and quinolones,of which 13 strains had mecA except isolate 13064.And they all had(variation) in(GyrA) and/or GrlA.CONCLUSIONS RAPD provides markers for the typing of clinical strains and is suitable for(molecular) epidemiologic studies with high type ability,powerful discrimination,simplicity and(rapidness). Type Ⅰ is the pop S.aureus strain in hospital-acquired infection of our hospital.The majority of these strains are multi-(resistant) to meticillin,quinolones and other antibiotics.
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OBJECTIVE To study the molecular mechanism of antibiotic resistance in hospital acquired(Staphylococcus) epidermidis infection,so as to reduce the occurrence of drug resistance and infection(acquired) in hospital.METHODS DNA from 18 strains of S.epidermidis were extracted by the phenol-chloroform method,and mecA,gyrA and grlA were amplified by PCR,then the variation of gyrA and grlA was tested by Hinf Ⅰ-(digested)(analysis).RESULTS Fifteen from 18 S.epidermidis strains were resistant to meticillin,and all of them had mecA gene. Eleven from 18 S.epidermidis strains were resistant to meticillin,quinolones and other(antibiotics).And they all had a mutant in gyrA and/or grlA.The mutated spots were gyrA Ser84(TCA→TTA) and GrlA Ser80(TCC→TTC).CONCLUSIONS The majority of hospital acquired S.epidermidis strains are multi-resistant to meticillin,quinolones and other antibiotics,which are caused by acquirement of drug-resistance gene or(mutation) of drug-targeting genes.Medical institutions must strictly standardize the application of antibiotics to(reduce)(development) of drug resistance.