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Microbiol Resour Announc ; 9(3)2020 Jan 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31948954

RESUMO

Novoherbaspirillum sp. strain UKPF54, a plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium with the ability to mitigate nitrous oxide emission from agriculture soils, has been successfully isolated from paddy soil in Kumamoto, Japan. Here, we report the whole-genome sequence of this strain.

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Microbiol Resour Announc ; 8(45)2019 Nov 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31699760

RESUMO

Arthrobacter sp. strain UKPF54-2, a plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium having the potential ability to control fungal and bacterial pathogens, was isolated from paddy soil in Kumamoto, Japan. We report here the whole-genome sequence of this strain.

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J Hum Genet ; 64(5): 459-466, 2019 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30796324

RESUMO

Recent findings have highlighted the possibility that polymorphisms within the annexin A5 gene (ANXA5) promoter contribute to the etiology of various obstetric complications. However, the underlying mechanisms are unknown. The M2 haplotype of the ANXA5 shows lower activity and less expression of ANXA5 mRNA. This gene promoter region has a motif that potentially forms a G-quadruplex structure. In vitro G-quadruplex propensity estimated by circular dichroism indicated that the M2 haplotype oligonucleotide manifested a decreased potential for G-quadruplex formation. In addition, in vivo G-quadruplex formation of the promoter region was evidenced by the presence of single-stranded DNA shown by sodium bisulfite treatment of placental genomic DNA. Comparative analysis indicated less potential in the M2 allele than the major allele. Promoter activity of the two haplotypes determined by luciferase reporter analysis correlated with the estimated G-quadruplex propensity. Our data lend support to the developing paradigm that genomic variation affects gene expression levels via DNA secondary structures leading to the disease susceptibility.


Assuntos
Anexina A5 , Quadruplex G , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/fisiologia , Polimorfismo Genético , Complicações na Gravidez , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas , Anexina A5/biossíntese , Anexina A5/genética , DNA de Cadeia Simples/genética , DNA de Cadeia Simples/metabolismo , Feminino , Haplótipos , Humanos , Gravidez , Complicações na Gravidez/genética , Complicações na Gravidez/metabolismo , Complicações na Gravidez/patologia
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Hypertens Pregnancy ; 32(4): 410-21, 2013 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23844873

RESUMO

OBJECTIVE: It is well documented that anti-angiogenic factors are likely to play essential roles in the etiology of pre-eclampsia. Apelin is a small peptide that may potentially act as an angiogenic factor. The expression of apelin was examined at the RNA and protein levels in this study. METHODS: We compared the expression of apelin, examined using quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction, western blotting, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunostaining, between pre-eclamptic patients and normotensive controls. RESULTS: Apelin messenger RNA is significantly decreased in pre-eclamptic placentas compared with normotensive pregnancies (p<0.05). Apelin protein levels are also lower in pre-eclamptic placentas than the controls but higher in the maternal circulation in pre-eclampsia patients. Immunohistochemical signals for apelin and its receptor APJ were detected mainly in the cytoplasm of syncytiotrophoblasts in chorionic villi and trophoblast-lineage cells in the decidua of term placentas. In early gestation, stronger APJ signals were observed at the cellular membrane. CONCLUSIONS: A functional role of the apelin--APJ system is likely in early gestation, and this raises the possibility that a dysfunctional apelin--APJ system contributes to the onset of pre-eclampsia via decreased angiogenic activity in placental implantation.


Assuntos
Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intercelular/metabolismo , Placenta/metabolismo , Pré-Eclâmpsia/metabolismo , Receptores Acoplados a Proteínas G/metabolismo , Adulto , Apelina , Receptores de Apelina , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Feminino , Humanos , Pré-Eclâmpsia/etiologia , Gravidez
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Reprod Biol Endocrinol ; 9: 107, 2011 Aug 02.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21810232

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: It has been well documented that pre-eclampsia and unexplained fetal growth restriction (FGR) have a common etiological background, but little is known about their linkage at the molecular level. The aim of this study was to further investigate the mechanisms underlying pre-eclampsia and unexplained FGR. METHODS: We analyzed differentially expressed genes in placental tissue from severe pre-eclamptic pregnancies (n = 8) and normotensive pregnancies with or (n = 8) without FGR (n = 8) using a microarray method. RESULTS: A subset of the FGR samples showed a high correlation coefficient overall in the microarray data from the pre-eclampsia samples. Many genes that are known to be up-regulated in pre-eclampsia are also up-regulated in FGR, including the anti-angiogenic factors, FLT1 and ENG, believed to be associated with the onset of maternal symptoms of pre-eclampsia. A total of 62 genes were found to be differentially expressed in both disorders. However, gene set enrichment analysis for these differentially expressed genes further revealed higher expression of TP53-downstream genes in pre-eclampsia compared with FGR. TP53-downstream apoptosis-related genes, such as BCL6 and BAX, were found to be significantly more up-regulated in pre-eclampsia than in FGR, although the caspases are expressed at equivalent levels. CONCLUSIONS: Our current data indicate a common pathophysiology for FGR and pre-eclampsia, leading to an up-regulation of placental anti-angiogenic factors. However, our findings also suggest that it may possibly be the excretion of these factors into the maternal circulation through the TP53-mediated early-stage apoptosis of trophoblasts that leads to the maternal symptoms of pre-eclampsia.


Assuntos
Retardo do Crescimento Fetal/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Placenta/metabolismo , Pré-Eclâmpsia/genética , Feminino , Humanos , Análise em Microsséries , Gravidez , Proteína Supressora de Tumor p53/genética
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Mol Hum Reprod ; 17(7): 447-52, 2011 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21289001

RESUMO

Recent findings have raised the possibility that polymorphisms within the annexin A5 gene (ANXA5) promoter contribute to the etiology of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). In our present study, 243 Japanese women who had suffered more than three fetal losses and a group of 119 fertile controls were genotyped for four ANXA5 gene promoter single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs; SNP1-4: g.-467G >A, g.-448A>C, g.-422T>C, g.-373G>A) previously reported to be associated with this disorder. An additional two SNPs located within the 5'-untranslated region of the ANXA5 (SNP5 and 6: g.-302T>G, g.-1C>T) were also evaluated. Our case--control study revealed that the minor allele was significantly more frequent in the RPL group than controls for all six of these SNPs, among which SNP5 showed the highest significance (P= 0.002). As with the M2 haplotype for SNP1-4 (A-C-C-A) for a western population in previous reports, a haplotype comprising all of the minor alleles for SNP1-6 (A-C-C-A-G-T), the third major haplotype in the Japanese population, showed a significantly higher frequency in our current RPL subjects than in controls (P= 0.025). In addition, the second major haplotype (G-A-T-G-G-C) was found to confer a significant risk of RPL (P= 0.036), implicating SNP5 as a major risk determinant for this disease. Our present findings support the hypothesis that genomic variations within the ANXA5 gene upstream region impact upon the disease susceptibility to RPL. Our data indicate that SNP5 is a novel risk factor for this disease in the Japanese population.


Assuntos
Aborto Habitual/genética , Anexina A5/genética , Polimorfismo Genético/genética , Aborto Habitual/epidemiologia , Adulto , Povo Asiático/genética , Feminino , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Humanos , Gravidez , Complicações na Gravidez/genética , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética
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J Gen Virol ; 92(Pt 2): 326-35, 2011 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21068214

RESUMO

Through extensive isolation of neutralizing mAbs against H3N2 influenza viruses representing the in vivo repertoire in a human donor, we examined the relationships between antigenic drift of influenza virus and protective antibodies generated in an infected individual. The majority of mAbs isolated from a donor born in 1960 were divided into three major groups with distinct strain specificity: 1968-1973, 1977-1993 and 1997-2003. In the present study, we developed a new method that allowed us to comprehensively determine the location of epitopes recognized by many mAbs. Original haemagglutinins (HAs) of several strains and chimaeric variants, in which one of the seven sites (A, B1, B2, C1, C2, D or E) was replaced by some other strain-derived sequence, were artificially expressed on the cell surface. The binding activity of mAbs to the HAs was examined by flow cytometry. By using this method, we determined the location of epitopes recognized by 98 different mAbs. Clones that neutralize the 1968-1973 strains bind to site B2/D, A or A/B1. While sites C, E and B were recognized by clones that neutralized the 1977-1993 strains, the majority of these clones bind to site C. Clones that neutralize the 1997-2003 strains bind to site B, A/B1, A/B2 or E/C2.


Assuntos
Anticorpos Monoclonais/imunologia , Epitopos/química , Epitopos/imunologia , Vírus da Influenza A Subtipo H3N2/imunologia , Influenza Humana/imunologia , Influenza Humana/virologia , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Linhagem Celular , Epitopos/genética , Regulação Viral da Expressão Gênica , Testes de Inibição da Hemaglutinação , Hemaglutininas , Humanos , Vírus da Influenza A Subtipo H3N2/classificação , Vírus da Influenza A Subtipo H3N2/genética , Modelos Moleculares , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Conformação Proteica
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Am J Reprod Immunol ; 64(1): 68-76, 2010 Jul 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20192952

RESUMO

PROBLEM: To investigate the contribution of genomic variations in the indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) gene to the onset of pre-eclampsia. METHOD OF STUDY: We examined sequence variations in the IDO1 gene using placental genomic DNA from 35 pre-eclamptic patients and 32 normotensive pregnant women. RESULTS: A case-control study revealed that none of the common variants influences the risk of disease. Sequencing of each IDO1 exon in diseased subjects revealed rare variants. This variation, c.-147_150delGAAA, was located within the 5'-untranslated region of the IDO1 gene, and its homozygote was identified only in pre-eclamptic subjects. However, despite the low levels of IDO expression and enzyme activity in the c.-147_150delGAAA homozygote, reporter assays indicated that this variation does not affect gene expression. CONCLUSION: Our findings indicate that genetic alteration of fetal IDO gene does not appear to be a primary cause of pre-eclampsia.


Assuntos
Variação Genética , Indolamina-Pirrol 2,3,-Dioxigenase/genética , Pré-Eclâmpsia/genética , Adulto , Animais , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Feminino , Humanos , Camundongos , Placenta/metabolismo , Gravidez
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Virology ; 397(2): 322-30, 2010 Feb 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19969317

RESUMO

We tried to reveal the strain specificity of neutralizing mAbs against H3N2 influenza viruses in individuals. A large number of B lymphocytes of a pediatrician were collected by apheresis and two Ab libraries were constructed at 2004 and 2007 by using the phage-display technology. The libraries were screened against 12 different H3 strains of flu isolated between 1968 and 2004. Large numbers of clones that bound to the Ags were isolated and mAbs that specifically bound to H3 strain viruses were selected. Their binding activity to the 12 strains and neutralizing activity were studied by ELISA and focus reduction test, respectively. Furthermore, the binding activity to hemagglutinin (HA) was examined by Western blot. The majority of clones showing the neutralizing activity turned out to be anti-HA mAbs and could be divided into three major groups showing distinct strain specificity: 1968-1973, 1977-1993 and 1997-2003.


Assuntos
Anticorpos Monoclonais/imunologia , Anticorpos Neutralizantes/imunologia , Anticorpos Antivirais/imunologia , Especificidade de Anticorpos , Vírus da Influenza A Subtipo H3N2/imunologia , Anticorpos Monoclonais/classificação , Anticorpos Neutralizantes/classificação , Anticorpos Antivirais/classificação , Western Blotting/métodos , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática/métodos , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Testes de Neutralização/métodos
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