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Am J Pathol. 2001 Feb;158(2):663-72.
Expression of SMARCF1, a truncated form of SWI1, in neuroblastoma.
Takeuchi T, Nicole S, Misaki A, Furihata M, Iwata J, Sonobe H, Ohtsuki Y.
Department of Pathology, Kochi Medical School, Kochi, Japan. takeutied.kochi-ms.ac.jp
Previously we cloned and mapped a B120 gene to human chromosome 1p35-36.1 where possible suppressor genes for various neuroendocrine tumors including neuroblastoma have been mapped. Very recently, B120 was identified as a truncated form of p270, a putative human counterpart of SWI1. In the present study, expression of the B120 gene product was immunohistochemically investigated in 23 neuroblastomas. We also examined B120 expression in neural stem cells in developing brain and intact adrenal medulla. Four of 23 neuroblastomas strongly expressed B120 gene product in both cytoplasm and nucleus. The other neuroblastomas expressed B120 gene product in the nucleus; however, the intensity of staining was much weaker and equivalent to that in developing human brain stem cells in the subventricular region. B120 gene product was less strongly expressed in intact adrenal medulla. Subsequently, we performed loss of heterozygosity studies on 19 neuroblastomas using the polymorphic markers D1S195 and D1S511 located near the B120 gene. Loss of heterozygosity was observed in three of 19 tumors that abundantly expressed B120 protein. Furthermore, neuroblastoma cells were transfected with B120 expression vector. These transfected neuroblastoma cells adhered to each other and aggregated. Differential display experiments followed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and Northern blot analysis were performed and three molecules with altered expression in B120-transfected neuroblastoma cells were identified. One of three genes seemed to be a proliferation-related and cell cycle-related nucleolar protein, p120, encoding gene. We further characterized the genomic structure of B120. B120 appeared to be encoded by 17 exons in more than 20-kbp genomic DNA. The present findings contribute to understanding of the B120 gene, a truncated form of human SWII1, an approved term for which is SMARCF1, in normal cells and neuroblastomas.
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Biol Reprod. 2001 Feb;64(2):425-31.
Mice with a targeted disruption of the H1t gene are fertile and undergo normal changes in structural chromosomal proteins during spermiogenesis.
Fantz DA, Hatfield WR, Horvath G, Kistler MK, Kistler WS.
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, 631 Sumter Street, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
H1t is an H1 histone variant unique to late spermatocytes and early spermatids. Using gene targeting and embryonic stem cell technologies, we have produced mice with a disrupted H1t gene. Homozygous H1t-null mice have normal fertility and show no obvious phenotypic consequence due to the lack of this histone. Biochemical and immunohistochemical approaches were used to show that normal changes in chromosomal proteins occurred during spermatid development, including the appearance and disappearance of transition proteins 1 and 2. Both protamines 1 and 2 are present in normal amounts in sonication-resistant spermatid nuclei from H1t-null mice. Analysis of H1 histones by quantitative gel electrophoresis in enriched populations of pachytene spermatocytes and round spermatids showed that the lack of H1t is only partially compensated for by somatic H1s, so that the chromatin of these cells is H1 deficient. Because H1t is thought to create a less tightly compacted chromatin environment, it may be that H1-deficient chromatin is functionally similar to chromatin with H1t present, at least with respect to permitting spermatogenesis to proceed.
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Biol Reprod. 2001 Feb;64(2):451-6.
Stem cell factor and insulin-like growth factor-I stimulate luteinizing hormone-independent differentiation of rat ovarian theca cells.
Huang CT, Weitsman SR, Dykes BN, Magoffin DA.
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, UCLA School of Medicine, 8700 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA.
The signal initiating ovarian theca cell (TC) differentiation is gonadotropin independent because theca precursor cells do not contain LH receptors. Previously we demonstrated that preantral follicles produce paracrine TC differentiating factors that promote androgen production by an LH-independent mechanism. This study tested the effects of two granulosa cell-produced peptides, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and stem cell factor (SCF), on TC differentiation and androgen production. Neutralizing antibodies to either IGF-I or SCF blocked the stimulatory effects of follicle-conditioned medium on TC precursor differentiation more than 90%. The TC isolated from the ovaries of hypophysectomized immature rats by percoll gradient centrifugation were cultured (48 h) with and without SCF (0-100 ng/ml) and IGF-I (0-100 ng/ml) to test their effects on TC differentiation. Androsterone in the medium was measured by RIA. Luteinizing hormone receptor, steroidogenesis acute regulatory protein (StAR), CYP11A, CYP17, and 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3beta-HSD) mRNAs were measured by specific reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assays. Stem cell factor or IGF-I alone did not stimulate androsterone production but in combination caused a concentration-dependent increase in androsterone levels. Maximum androsterone levels were less than those stimulated by LH (0.1 ng/ml) alone. Although IGF-I synergistically augmented LH stimulation of androsterone production, SCF did not alter LH-stimulated androsterone production in the presence or absence of IGF-I. Stem cell factor alone had no effect on LH receptor, StAR, CYP11A, and 3beta-HSD mRNA expression but decreased CYP17 mRNA levels. Insulin-like growth factor-I alone had no effect on StAR or CYP17 mRNA expression but increased LH receptor, CYP11A, and 3beta-HSD mRNA levels. In combination, SCF plus IGF-I increased the expression of all five mRNAs. These data support the conclusion that IGF-I and SCF are important regulators of TC differentiation.
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Blood. 2001 Feb 15;97(4):867-74.
Rising pp65 antigenemia during preemptive anticytomegalovirus therapy after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: risk factors, correlation with DNA load, and outcomes.
Nichols WG, Corey L, Gooley T, Drew WL, Miner R, Huang M, Davis C, Boeckh M.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Program in Infectious Diseases and the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
To determine the risk factors and outcomes associated with rising cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigenemia levels during preemptive therapy among stem cell allograft recipients, 119 patients with CMV antigenemia were studied. Patients were prospectively monitored for CMV antigenemia weekly; those with positive findings on antigenemia tests were treated with intravenous ganciclovir (5 mg/kg twice daily for 1 week, followed by 5 mg/kg per day for 5-6 d/wk). While on therapy, 47 of 119 (39%) patients demonstrated increases that were 2 or more times greater than their baseline values, whereas 33 of 119 (28%) patients demonstrated increases that were 5 or more times greater. Rising antigenemia was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction for CMV DNA. Multivariate analysis identified corticosteroids as the primary risk factor for increasing antigenemia: for increases greater than or equal to twice the baseline, 1 to 2 mg/kg steroids was associated with an odds ratio (OR) of 4.0. For increases greater than or equal to 2 mg/kg steroids, the OR was 10.1. CMV isolates obtained at the time of rising antigenemia were susceptible to ganciclovir, indicating that resistance was not a major factor. Overall, rising antigenemia levels were not correlated with CMV disease. All 4 patients in whom CMV disease developed during therapy, however, had rising antigenemia levels. Among the 47 patients with antigenemia increases greater than or equal to twice the baseline, 15 were re-induced with antivirals, whereas 32 continued to receive maintenance therapy. All 4 patients in whom CMV disease developed during therapy received maintenance therapy, and 3 died with CMV disease. Thus, host factors such as the receipt of corticosteroids explain increasing viral load during the early phase of preemptive therapy. Continued induction dosing or re-induction may protect against early breakthrough CMV disease and CMV-related death among patients with rising antigenemia on preemptive therapy. (Blood. 2001;97:867-874)
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Blood. 2001 Feb 15;97(4):895-900.
Telomere length in leukocyte subpopulations of patients with aplastic anemia.
Brummendorf TH, Maciejewski JP, Mak J, Young NS, Lansdorp PM.
Terry Fox Laboratory, British Columbia Cancer Agency, and the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
In most human cells, the average length of telomere repeats at the ends of chromosomes provides indirect information about their mitotic history. To study the turnover of stem cells in patients with bone marrow failure syndromes, the telomere length in peripheral blood granulocytes and lymphocytes from patients with aplastic anemia (AA, n = 56) and hemolytic paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (n = 6) was analyzed relative to age-matched controls by means of fluorescence in situ hybridization and flow cytometry. The telomere lengths in granulocytes from patients with AA were found to be significantly shorter than those in age-adjusted controls (P =.001). However, surprisingly, telomere length in granulocytes from AA patients who had recovered after immunosuppressive therapy did not differ significantly from controls, whereas untreated patients and nonresponders with persistent severe pancytopenia showed marked and significant telomere shortening. These results support extensive proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells in subgroups of AA patients. Because normal individuals show significant variation in telomere length, individual measurements in blood cells from AA patients may be of limited value. Whether sequential telomere length measurements can be used as a prognostic tool in this group of disorders remains to be clarified. (Blood. 2001;97:895-900)
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