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Mov Disord ; 16(4): 705-7, 2001 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11481695

RESUMO

Oxidative stress reactions may contribute to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). The superoxide dismutases potentially play significant roles in PD by detoxifying superoxide radical. We developed genomic DNA and cDNA-based sequencing assays to identify genetic variants in the copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) and manganese superoxide dismutase (SOD2) genes. No genetic variants were detected in the gene encoding SOD1 in DNA from 45 idiopathic PD cases and 49 controls from a population-based case-control study. However, we identified a previously described polymorphism of the mitochondrial targeting sequence consisting of a C47T in exon 2 of SOD2, which results in an alanine to valine substitution. We analyzed this SOD2 variant in DNA from 155 cases and 231 controls from the same study, using an allele-specific fluorogenic 5' nuclease assay, and found no differences in the distributions of allelic frequencies. These results indicate that SOD gene variants do not contribute to PD pathogenesis.


Assuntos
Doença de Parkinson/genética , Polimorfismo Genético/genética , Superóxido Dismutase/genética , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Alelos , Feminino , Frequência do Gene/genética , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estresse Oxidativo/fisiologia , Doença de Parkinson/enzimologia , Fatores de Risco
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Neurotoxicology ; 21(4): 441-5, 2000 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11022854

RESUMO

Mitochondrial dysfunction originating from mutations in Complex I genes may play a role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, the entire ND1 coding sequence was sequenced in 84 newly diagnosed PD cases and 127 age/gender-matched controls. Numerous missense mutations were found at low frequency (<5%), whereas a thymidine to cytosine missense mutation at position 4216 that results in the replacement of tyrosine with histidine was found in 25% of the PD case samples and in 18% of the controls. When calculated according to gender, the 4216 mutation was observed in 26% of the male cases versus 16% of male controls (Odds Ratio [OR] = 1.85; 95% CI = 0.79-4.34). In contrast, females exhibited approximately equal frequencies among cases (22.5%) and controls (21%), yielding an OR of 1.08 (95% C.I. = 0.36-3.22). The findings indicate only a weak association of this genetic variant with PD.


Assuntos
Proteínas de Insetos/genética , Mitocôndrias/metabolismo , Mutação/genética , NADH Desidrogenase , Doença de Parkinson/genética , Humanos , Proteínas de Insetos/análise , Linfócitos/química , Mutação de Sentido Incorreto/genética , Polimorfismo Genético/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Análise de Sequência de DNA
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Dev Growth Differ ; 42(4): 347-57, 2000 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-10969734

RESUMO

In spite of abundant evidence that Wnts play essential roles in embryonic induction and patterning, little is known about the expression or activities of Wnt receptors during embryogenesis. The isolation and expression of two maternal Xenopus frizzled genes, Xfrizzled-1 and Xfrizzled-7, is described. It is also demonstrated that both can activate the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway as monitored by the induction of specific target genes. Activation of the beta-Catenin pathway has previously been shown to be necessary and sufficient for specifying the dorsal axis of Xenopus. beta-Catenin is thought to work through the cell-autonomous induction of the homeobox genes siamois and twin, that in turn bind to and activate the promoter of another homeobox gene, goosecoid. However, it was found that the beta-catenin pathway regulated the expression of both endogenous goosecoid, and a goosecoid promoter construct, in a cell non-autonomous manner. These data demonstrate that maternal Frizzleds can activate the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway in Xenopus embryos, and that induction of a known downstream gene can occur in a cell non-autonomous manner.


Assuntos
Proteínas do Citoesqueleto/fisiologia , Embrião não Mamífero/metabolismo , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/metabolismo , Receptores de Superfície Celular/metabolismo , Receptores Acoplados a Proteínas G , Receptores de Neurotransmissores/metabolismo , Proteínas Repressoras , Transdução de Sinais/fisiologia , Transativadores , Fatores de Transcrição , Proteínas de Xenopus , Xenopus laevis/embriologia , Proteínas de Peixe-Zebra , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Sistema Livre de Células , Células Cultivadas , Primers do DNA/química , Evolução Molecular , Feminino , Receptores Frizzled , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Proteína Goosecoid , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/genética , Luciferases/metabolismo , Microinjeções , Microscopia Confocal , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas/metabolismo , RNA/metabolismo , Receptores de Superfície Celular/genética , Receptores de Neurotransmissores/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Homologia de Sequência de Aminoácidos , Decúbito Dorsal/fisiologia , Proteínas Wnt , Xenopus laevis/fisiologia , beta Catenina
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