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Sci Rep ; 6: 29278, 2016 07 11.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27404346

RESUMO

Abiotic stresses in general and extracellular acidity in particular disturb and limit nitrogen-fixing symbioses between rhizobia and their host legumes. Except for valuable molecular-biological studies on different rhizobia, no consolidated models have been formulated to describe the central physiologic changes that occur in acid-stressed bacteria. We present here an integrated analysis entailing the main cultural, metabolic, and molecular responses of the model bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti growing under controlled acid stress in a chemostat. A stepwise extracellular acidification of the culture medium had indicated that S. meliloti stopped growing at ca. pH 6.0-6.1. Under such stress the rhizobia increased the O2 consumption per cell by more than 5-fold. This phenotype, together with an increase in the transcripts for several membrane cytochromes, entails a higher aerobic-respiration rate in the acid-stressed rhizobia. Multivariate analysis of global metabolome data served to unequivocally correlate specific-metabolite profiles with the extracellular pH, showing that at low pH the pentose-phosphate pathway exhibited increases in several transcripts, enzymes, and metabolites. Further analyses should be focused on the time course of the observed changes, its associated intracellular signaling, and on the comparison with the changes that operate during the sub lethal acid-adaptive response (ATR) in rhizobia.


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Citocromos/metabolismo , Fabaceae/microbiologia , Concentração de Íons de Hidrogênio , Rhizobium/fisiologia , Sinorhizobium meliloti/fisiologia , Estresse Fisiológico/fisiologia , Ácidos/metabolismo , Fixação de Nitrogênio , Consumo de Oxigênio , Via de Pentose Fosfato , Solo , Simbiose
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Oncogene ; 30(46): 4666-77, 2011 Nov 17.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21602893

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Identifying therapeutic targets for cancer treatment relies on consistent changes within particular types or sub-types of malignancy. The ability to define either consistent changes or sub-types of malignancy is often masked by tumor heterogeneity. To elucidate therapeutic targets in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), the most frequent skin neoplasm with malignant potential, we have developed an integrated approach to gene expression profiling beginning with primary keratinocytes in culture. Candidate drivers of cSCC development were derived by first defining a set of in vitro cancer genes and then comparing their expression in a range of clinical data sets containing normal skin, cSCC and the benign hyper-proliferative condition psoriasis. A small interfering RNA (siRNA) screen of the resulting 21 upregulated genes has yielded targets capable of reducing xenograft tumor volume in vivo. Small-molecule inhibitors for one target, Polo-like kinase-1 (PLK1), are already in clinical trials for other malignancies, and our data show efficacy in cSCC. Another target, C20orf20, is identified as being overexpressed in cSCC, and siRNA-mediated knockdown induces apoptosis in vitro and reduces tumor growth in vivo. Thus, our approach has shown established and uncharacterized drivers of tumorigenesis with potent efficacy as therapeutic targets for the treatment of cSCC.


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Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/genética , Proteínas de Transporte/genética , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/genética , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinases/genética , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas/genética , Neoplasias Cutâneas/genética , Apoptose , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/metabolismo , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/patologia , Carcinoma de Células Escamosas/terapia , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/metabolismo , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica , Histona Acetiltransferases , Humanos , Queratinócitos/metabolismo , Terapia de Alvo Molecular , Proteínas Nucleares , Proteínas Serina-Treonina Quinases/metabolismo , Proteínas Proto-Oncogênicas/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/análise , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Interferente Pequeno , Neoplasias Cutâneas/metabolismo , Neoplasias Cutâneas/patologia , Neoplasias Cutâneas/terapia , Células Tumorais Cultivadas , Quinase 1 Polo-Like
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