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Castaño N, Chua K, Kaushik A, Kim S, Cordts SC, Nafarzadegan CD, Hofmann GH, Seastedt H, Schuetz JP, Dunham D, Parsons ES, Tsai M, Cao S, Desai M, Sindher SB, Chinthrajah RS, Galli SJ, Nadeau KC, Tang SK. Combining avidin with CD63 improves basophil activation test accuracy in classifying peanut allergy. Allergy 2024; 79:445-455. [PMID: 37916710 PMCID: PMC10842984 DOI: 10.1111/all.15930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/12/2023] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Conventional basophil activation tests (BATs) measure basophil activation by the increased expression of CD63. Previously, fluorophore-labeled avidin, a positively-charged molecule, was found to bind to activated basophils, which tend to expose negatively charged granule constituents during degranulation. This study further compares avidin versus CD63 as basophil activation biomarkers in classifying peanut allergy. METHODS Seventy subjects with either a peanut allergy (N = 47), a food allergy other than peanut (N = 6), or no food allergy (N = 17) were evaluated. We conducted BATs in response to seven peanut extract (PE) concentrations (0.01-10,000 ng/mL) and four control conditions (no stimulant, anti-IgE, fMLP (N-formylmethionine-leucyl-phenylalanine), and anti-FcεRI). We measured avidin binding and CD63 expression on basophils with flow cytometry. We evaluated logistic regression and XGBoost models for peanut allergy classification and feature identification. RESULTS Avidin binding was correlated with CD63 expression. Both markers discriminated between subjects with and without a peanut allergy. Although small by percentage, an avidin+ /CD63- cell subset was found in all allergic subjects tested, indicating that the combination of avidin and CD63 could allow a more comprehensive identification of activated basophils. Indeed, we obtained the best classification accuracy (97.8% sensitivity, 96.7% specificity) by combining avidin and CD63 across seven PE doses. Similar accuracy was obtained by combining PE dose of 10,000 ng/mL for avidin and PE doses of 10 and 100 ng/mL for CD63. CONCLUSIONS Avidin and CD63 are reliable BAT activation markers associated with degranulation. Their combination enhances the identification of activated basophils and improves the classification accuracy of peanut allergy.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
- Department of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
- Department of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
- Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
- Department of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University
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Lejeune S, Kaushik A, Parsons ES, Chinthrajah S, Snyder M, Desai M, Manohar M, Prunicki M, Contrepois K, Gosset P, Deschildre A, Nadeau K. Untargeted metabolomic profiling in children identifies novel pathways in asthma and atopy. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2024; 153:418-434. [PMID: 38344970 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.09.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2023] [Revised: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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BACKGROUND Asthma and other atopic disorders can present with varying clinical phenotypes marked by differential metabolomic manifestations and enriched biological pathways. OBJECTIVE We sought to identify these unique metabolomic profiles in atopy and asthma. METHODS We analyzed baseline nonfasted plasma samples from a large multisite pediatric population of 470 children aged <13 years from 3 different sites in the United States and France. Atopy positivity (At+) was defined as skin prick test result of ≥3 mm and/or specific IgE ≥ 0.35 IU/mL and/or total IgE ≥ 173 IU/mL. Asthma positivity (As+) was based on physician diagnosis. The cohort was divided into 4 groups of varying combinations of asthma and atopy, and 6 pairwise analyses were conducted to best assess the differential metabolomic profiles between groups. RESULTS Two hundred ten children were classified as At-As-, 42 as At+As-, 74 as At-As+, and 144 as At+As+. Untargeted global metabolomic profiles were generated through ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectroscopy. We applied 2 independent machine learning classifiers and short-listed 362 metabolites as discriminant features. Our analysis showed the most diverse metabolomic profile in the At+As+/At-As- comparison, followed by the At-As+/At-As- comparison, indicating that asthma is the most discriminant condition associated with metabolomic changes. At+As+ metabolomic profiles were characterized by higher levels of bile acids, sphingolipids, and phospholipids, and lower levels of polyamine, tryptophan, and gamma-glutamyl amino acids. CONCLUSION The At+As+ phenotype displays a distinct metabolomic profile suggesting underlying mechanisms such as modulation of host-pathogen and gut microbiota interactions, epigenetic changes in T-cell differentiation, and lower antioxidant properties of the airway epithelium.
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- Stéphanie Lejeune
- Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif; University of Lille, Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy Department, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, CHU Lille, Lille, France; University of Lille, INSERM Unit 1019, CNRS UMR 9017, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France.
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- Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif; Department of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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- Quantitative Science Unit, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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- Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif; Department of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Mass
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif
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- University of Lille, INSERM Unit 1019, CNRS UMR 9017, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- University of Lille, Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy Department, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, CHU Lille, Lille, France; University of Lille, INSERM Unit 1019, CNRS UMR 9017, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France
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- Department of Environmental Health, T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Mass
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Chang I, Kaushik A, Satitsuksanoa P, Yang M, Buergi L, Schneider SR, Babayev H, Akdis CA, Nadeau K, van de Veen W, Akdis M. Distinct and mutually exclusive Ca 2+ flux- and adenylyl cyclase-inducing gene expression profiles of G-protein-coupled receptors on human antigen-specific B cells. Allergy 2023; 78:3016-3019. [PMID: 37615338 DOI: 10.1111/all.15858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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- Iris Chang
- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
- Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Graduate Studies, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Davos, Switzerland
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Balz K, Kaushik A, Cemic F, Sampath V, Heger V, Renz H, Nadeau K, Skevaki C. Cross-reactive MHC class I T cell epitopes may dictate heterologous immune responses between respiratory viruses and food allergens. Sci Rep 2023; 13:14874. [PMID: 37684288 PMCID: PMC10491592 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41187-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
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Respiratory virus infections play a major role in asthma, while there is a close correlation between asthma and food allergy. We hypothesized that T cell-mediated heterologous immunity may induce asthma symptoms among sensitized individuals and used two independent in silico pipelines for the identification of cross-reactive virus- and food allergen- derived T cell epitopes, considering individual peptide sequence similarity, MHC binding affinity and immunogenicity. We assessed the proteomes of human rhinovirus (RV1b), respiratory syncytial virus (RSVA2) and influenza-strains contained in the seasonal quadrivalent influenza vaccine 2019/2020 (QIV 2019/2020), as well as SARS-CoV-2 for human HLA alleles, in addition to more than 200 most common food allergen protein sequences. All resulting allergen-derived peptide candidates were subjected to an elaborate scoring system considering multiple criteria, including clinical relevance. In both bioinformatics approaches, we found that shortlisted peptide pairs that are potentially binding to MHC class II molecules scored up to 10 × lower compared to MHC class I candidate epitopes. For MHC class I food allergen epitopes, several potentially cross-reactive peptides from shrimp, kiwi, apple, soybean and chicken were identified. The shortlisted set of peptide pairs may be implicated in heterologous immune responses and translated to peptide immunization strategies with immunomodulatory properties.
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- Kathrin Balz
- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94040, USA
- Departmental of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, TH Mittelhessen, University of Applied Sciences Gießen, 35390, Giessen, Germany
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94040, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, TH Mittelhessen, University of Applied Sciences Gießen, 35390, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Departmental of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 35043, Marburg, Germany.
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Kaushik A. Virome. Br Dent J 2023; 235:361. [PMID: 37737381 DOI: 10.1038/s41415-023-6344-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023]
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Kaushik A. STRINGS. Br Dent J 2023; 235:296. [PMID: 37684442 DOI: 10.1038/s41415-023-6285-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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Kaushik A. Correction to: Citation context. Br Dent J 2023; 235:234. [PMID: 37620499 DOI: 10.1038/s41415-023-6226-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Kaushik A. Citation context. Br Dent J 2023; 235:77. [PMID: 37500834 DOI: 10.1038/s41415-023-6141-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2023] [Accepted: 06/08/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Aguilera J, Kaushik A, Cauwenberghs N, Heider A, Ogulur I, Yazici D, Smith E, Alkotob S, Prunicki M, Akdis CA, Nadeau KC. Granzymes, IL-16, and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 increase during wildfire smoke exposure. J Allergy Clin Immunol Glob 2023; 2:100093. [PMID: 37539354 PMCID: PMC10399148 DOI: 10.1016/j.jacig.2023.100093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
Abstract
Background Given the increasing prevalence of wildfires worldwide, understanding the effects of wildfire air pollutants on human health-particularly in specific immunologic pathways-is crucial. Exposure to air pollutants is associated with cardiorespiratory disease; however, immune and epithelial barrier alterations require further investigation. Objective We sought to determine the impact of wildfire smoke exposure on the immune system and epithelial barriers by using proteomics and immune cell phenotyping. Methods A San Francisco Bay area cohort (n = 15; age 30 ± 10 years) provided blood samples before (October 2019 to March 2020; air quality index = 37) and during (August 2020; air quality index = 80) a major wildfire. Exposure samples were collected 11 days (range, 10-12 days) after continuous exposure to wildfire smoke. We determined alterations in 506 proteins, including zonulin family peptide (ZFP); immune cell phenotypes by cytometry by time of flight (CyTOF); and their interrelationship using a correlation matrix. Results Targeted proteomic analyses (n = 15) revealed a decrease of spondin-2 and an increase of granzymes A, B, and H, killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor 3DL1, IL-16, nibrin, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1, C1q TNF-related protein, fibroblast growth factor 19, and von Willebrand factor after 11 days' average continuous exposure to smoke from a large wildfire (P < .05). We also observed a large correlation cluster between immune regulation pathways (IL-16, granzymes A, B, and H, and killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor 3DL1), DNA repair [poly(ADP-ribose) 1, nibrin], and natural killer cells. We did not observe changes in ZFP levels suggesting a change in epithelial barriers. However, ZFP was associated with immune cell phenotypes (naive CD4+, TH2 cells). Conclusion We observed functional changes in critical immune cells and their proteins during wildfire smoke exposure. Future studies in larger cohorts or in firefighters exposed to wildfire smoke should further assess immune changes and intervention targets.
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- Juan Aguilera
- the Center for Community Health Impact, University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, El Paso
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- the Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford
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- the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, KU Leuven, Leuven
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- the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos
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- the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos
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- the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos
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- the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles
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- the Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford
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- the Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos
- the Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos
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- the Department of Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford
- the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston
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Movassagh H, Prunicki M, Kaushik A, Zhou X, Dunham D, Smith EM, He Z, Aleman Muench GR, Shi M, Weimer AK, Cao S, Andorf S, Feizi A, Snyder MP, Soroosh P, Mellins ED, Nadeau KC. Proinflammatory polarization of monocytes by particulate air pollutants is mediated by induction of trained immunity in pediatric asthma. Allergy 2023. [PMID: 36929161 DOI: 10.1111/all.15692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The impact of exposure to air pollutants, such as fine particulate matter (PM), on the immune system and its consequences on pediatric asthma, are not well understood. We investigated whether ambient levels of fine PM with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 microns (PM2.5 ) are associated with alterations in circulating monocytes in children with or without asthma. METHODS Monocyte phenotyping was performed by cytometry time-of-flight (CyTOF). Cytokines were measured using cytometric bead array and Luminex assay. ChIP-Seq was utilized to address histone modifications in monocytes. RESULTS Increased exposure to ambient PM2.5 was linked to specific monocyte subtypes, particularly in children with asthma. Mechanistically, we hypothesized that innate trained immunity is evoked by a primary exposure to fine PM and accounts for an enhanced inflammatory response after secondary stimulation in vitro. We determined that the trained immunity was induced in circulating monocytes by fine particulate pollutants, and it was characterized by the upregulation of proinflammatory mediators, such as TNF, IL-6, and IL-8, upon stimulation with house dust mite or lipopolysaccharide. This phenotype was epigenetically controlled by enhanced H3K27ac marks in circulating monocytes. CONCLUSION The specific alterations of monocytes after ambient pollution exposure suggest a possible prognostic immune signature for pediatric asthma, and pollution-induced trained immunity may provide a potential therapeutic target for asthmatic children living in areas with increased air pollution.
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- Hesam Movassagh
- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Allergy & Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
- Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Janssen Research & Development, LLC, San Diego, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford Program in Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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Parsons ES, Liu F, Kaushik A, Lee A, Schuetz J, Dunham D, Seastedt H, Ogulur I, Heider A, Tan G, Shah A, Cao S, Smith E, Kost L, Acharya S, Prunicki M, Rothenberg M, Sindher S, Leib R, Akdis CA, Nadeau K, Lejeune S. Detection of gut and mucosal peptides through TOMAHAQ in healthy individuals. Allergy 2023. [PMID: 36872560 DOI: 10.1111/all.15698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
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- E S Parsons
- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Mass Spectrometry Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Department of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.,Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Mass Spectrometry Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.,Department of Environmental Health Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.,INSERM U1019, CNRS UMR 9017, Center for infection and immunity of Lille (CIIL), Univ. Lille, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France
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Kaushik A. International collaboration impact. Br Dent J 2023; 234:293-294. [PMID: 36899217 DOI: 10.1038/s41415-023-5632-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023]
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- A Kaushik
- Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
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Kaushik A. Preprint Citation Index. Br Dent J 2023; 234:359. [PMID: 36964338 PMCID: PMC10037373 DOI: 10.1038/s41415-023-5695-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/26/2023]
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Han X, Ji X, Seastedt H, Dunham D, Kaushik A, Boyd S, Galli S, Maecker H, Chinthrajah RS, Dekruyff R, Nadeau K, Manohar M. Single-cell, Multi-omic Analysis of Peanut-reactive CD4+ T Cells Identifies Gene Signatures Favorable for Sustained Unresponsiveness Following Peanut Oral Immunotherapy. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2022.12.729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Aguilera J, Cauwenberghs N, Kaushik A, Smith E, Heider A, Ogulur I, Alkotob S, Akdis C, Nadeau K, Prunicki M. Proteomic and Immune Cell Alterations Upon Wildfire Smoke Exposure. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2022.12.662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Upadhyay A, Kaushik A. DORA challenges. Br Dent J 2022; 233:439-440. [PMID: 36151147 DOI: 10.1038/s41415-022-5047-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Zhang W, Dhondalay GK, Liu TA, Kaushik A, Hoh R, Kwok S, Kambham N, Fernandez‐Becker NQ, Andorf S, Desai M, Galli SJ, Boyd SD, Nadeau KC, Manohar M, DeKruyff RH, Chinthrajah RS. Gastrointestinal γδ T cells reveal differentially expressed transcripts and enriched pathways during peanut oral immunotherapy. Allergy 2022; 77:1606-1610. [PMID: 35143054 PMCID: PMC9581524 DOI: 10.1111/all.15250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Revised: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Wenming Zhang
- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
- Department of Pathology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Pathology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Pathology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Pediatrics University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati Ohio USA
- Divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Allergy & Immunology Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati Ohio USA
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science Stanford University Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
- Department of Pathology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
- Department of Pathology Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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- Department of Medicine Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford California USA
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Kaushik A, Roberts DP, Ramaprasad A, Mfarrej S, Nair M, Lakshman DK, Pain A. Pangenome Analysis of the Soilborne Fungal Phytopathogen Rhizoctonia solani and Development of a Comprehensive Web Resource: RsolaniDB. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:839524. [PMID: 35401459 PMCID: PMC8992008 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.839524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Rhizoctonia solani is a collective group of genetically and pathologically diverse basidiomycetous fungi that damage economically important crops. Its isolates are classified into 13 Anastomosis Groups (AGs) and subgroups having distinctive morphology and host ranges. The genetic factors driving the unique features of R. solani pathology are not well characterized due to the limited availability of its annotated genomes. Therefore, we performed genome sequencing, assembly, annotation and functional analysis of 12 R. solani isolates covering 7 AGs and select subgroups (AG1-IA; AG1-IB; AG1-IC; AG2-2IIIB; AG3-PT, isolates Rhs 1AP and the hypovirulent Rhs1A1; AG3-TB; AG4-HG-I, isolates Rs23 and R118-11; AG5; AG6; and AG8), in which six genomes are reported for the first time. Using a pangenome comparative analysis of 12 R. solani isolates and 15 other Basidiomycetes, we defined the unique and shared secretomes, CAZymes, and effectors across the AGs. We have also elucidated the R. solani-derived factors potentially involved in determining AG-specific host preference, and the attributes distinguishing them from other Basidiomycetes. Finally, we present the largest repertoire of R. solani genomes and their annotated components as a comprehensive database, viz. RsolaniDB, with tools for large-scale data mining, functional enrichment and sequence analysis not available with other state-of-the-art platforms.
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- Abhinav Kaushik
- Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Beltsville, MD, United States
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- Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Beltsville, MD, United States
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- Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.,International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Do E, Dunham D, Kaushik A, Manohar M, Chinthrajah S, Nadeau K. A010 MASS CYTOMETRY ANALYSIS REVEALS DAMPENING OF TH2 PHENOTYPE AMONG PEANUT-REACTIVE CD4+ T CELLS FOLLOWING PEANUT-OIT. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anai.2021.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Mourier T, de Alvarenga DAM, Kaushik A, de Pina-Costa A, Douvropoulou O, Guan Q, Guzmán-Vega FJ, Forrester S, de Abreu FVS, Júnior CB, de Souza Junior JC, Moreira SB, Hirano ZMB, Pissinatti A, Ferreira-da-Cruz MDF, de Oliveira RL, Arold ST, Jeffares DC, Brasil P, de Brito CFA, Culleton R, Daniel-Ribeiro CT, Pain A. The genome of the zoonotic malaria parasite Plasmodium simium reveals adaptations to host switching. BMC Biol 2021; 19:219. [PMID: 34592986 PMCID: PMC8485552 DOI: 10.1186/s12915-021-01139-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Plasmodium simium, a malaria parasite of non-human primates (NHP), was recently shown to cause zoonotic infections in humans in Brazil. We sequenced the P. simium genome to investigate its evolutionary history and to identify any genetic adaptions that may underlie the ability of this parasite to switch between host species. RESULTS Phylogenetic analyses based on whole genome sequences of P. simium from humans and NHPs reveals that P. simium is monophyletic within the broader diversity of South American Plasmodium vivax, suggesting P. simium first infected NHPs as a result of a host switch of P. vivax from humans. The P. simium isolates show the closest relationship to Mexican P. vivax isolates. Analysis of erythrocyte invasion genes reveals differences between P. vivax and P. simium, including large deletions in the Duffy-binding protein 1 (DBP1) and reticulocyte-binding protein 2a genes of P. simium. Analysis of P. simium isolated from NHPs and humans revealed a deletion of 38 amino acids in DBP1 present in all human-derived isolates, whereas NHP isolates were multi-allelic. CONCLUSIONS Analysis of the P. simium genome confirmed a close phylogenetic relationship between P. simium and P. vivax, and suggests a very recent American origin for P. simium. The presence of the DBP1 deletion in all human-derived isolates tested suggests that this deletion, in combination with other genetic changes in P. simium, may facilitate the invasion of human red blood cells and may explain, at least in part, the basis of the recent zoonotic infections.
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- Tobias Mourier
- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Grupo de Pesquisa em Biologia Molecular e Imunologia da Malária, Instituto René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Belo Horizonte, MG, 30190-009, Brazil
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Centro de Pesquisa, Diagnóstico e Treinamento em Malária (CPD-Mal), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
- Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Doenças Febris Agudas, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
- Centro Universitário Serra dos Órgãos (UNIFESO), Teresópolis, RJ, 25964-004, Brazil
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Computational Bioscience Research Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biology and York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York, Wentworth Way, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Centro de Pesquisa, Diagnóstico e Treinamento em Malária (CPD-Mal), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
- Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
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- Centro de Pesquisa, Diagnóstico e Treinamento em Malária (CPD-Mal), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
- Laboratório de Pesquisa em Malária, IOC, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
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- Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), Centro de Pesquisas Biológicas de Indaial (CEPESBI)/ Projeto bugio, Blumenau, Indaial, SC, Brazil
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- Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), Centro de Pesquisas Biológicas de Indaial (CEPESBI)/ Projeto bugio, Blumenau, Indaial, SC, Brazil
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- Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro (CPRJ/Inea), Guapimirim, RJ, 25940-000, Brazil
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- Centro de Pesquisa, Diagnóstico e Treinamento em Malária (CPD-Mal), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
- Laboratório de Pesquisa em Malária, IOC, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
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- Centro de Pesquisa, Diagnóstico e Treinamento em Malária (CPD-Mal), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
- Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
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- Computational Bioscience Research Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- Centre de Biologie Structurale, CNRS, INSERM, Université de Montpellier, 34090, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Biology and York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York, Wentworth Way, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Centro de Pesquisa, Diagnóstico e Treinamento em Malária (CPD-Mal), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
- Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Doenças Febris Agudas, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil
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- Grupo de Pesquisa em Biologia Molecular e Imunologia da Malária, Instituto René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Belo Horizonte, MG, 30190-009, Brazil
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- Division of Molecular Parasitology, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University, Toon, Ehime, 791-0295, Japan
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- Centro de Pesquisa, Diagnóstico e Treinamento em Malária (CPD-Mal), Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil.
- Laboratório de Pesquisa em Malária, IOC, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21040-360, Brazil.
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
- Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, N20 W10 Kita-ku, Sapporo, Japan.
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Agarwal P, Kaushik A, Sarkar S, Rao D, Mukherjee N, Bharat V, Das S, Saha AK. Global survey-based assessment of lifestyle changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0255399. [PMID: 34388151 PMCID: PMC8362972 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Along with the major impact on public health, the COVID-19 outbreak has caused unprecedented concerns ranging from sudden loss of employment to mental stress and anxiety. We implemented a survey-based data collection platform to characterize how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the socio-economic, physical and mental health conditions of individuals. We focused on three broad areas, namely, changes in social interaction during home confinement, economic impact and their health status. We identified a substantial increase in virtual interaction among individuals, which might be a way to alleviate the sudden unprecedented mental health burden, exacerbated by general awareness about viral infections or other manifestations associated with them. The majority of participants (85%) lived with one or more companions and unemployment issues did not affect 91% of the total survey takers, which was one of the crucial consequences of the pandemic. Nevertheless, measures such as an increased frequency of technology-aided distant social interaction, focus on physical fitness and leisure activities were adopted as coping mechanisms during this period of home isolation. Collectively, these metrics provide a succinct and informative summary of the socio-economic and health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the individuals. Findings from our study reflect that continuous surveillance of the psychological consequences for outbreaks should become routine as part of preparedness efforts worldwide. Given the limitations of analyzing the large number of variables, we have made the raw data publicly available on the OMF ME/CFS Data Center server to facilitate further analyses (https://igenomed.stanford.edu/dataset/survey-study-on-lifestyle-changes-during-covid-19-pandemic).
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- Poonam Agarwal
- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, VA Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Dermatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA United States of America
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Narang T, Ashraf R, Kaushik A, Dogra S. Apremilast in multibacillary leprosy patients with chronic and recurrent erythema nodosum leprosum: a prospective single-centre pilot study. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2021; 35:e917-e919. [PMID: 34365679 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- T Narang
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Kaushik A, Dunham D, He Z, Manohar M, Desai M, Nadeau KC, Andorf S. CyAnno: A semi-automated approach for cell type annotation of mass cytometry datasets. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:4164-4171. [PMID: 34037686 PMCID: PMC9502137 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2020] [Revised: 04/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION For immune system monitoring in large-scale studies at the single-cell resolution using CyTOF, (semi-)automated computational methods are applied for annotating live cells of mixed cell types. Here, we show that the live cell pool can be highly enriched with undefined heterogeneous cells, i.e., 'ungated' cells, and that current semi-automated approaches ignore their modeling resulting in misclassified annotations. RESULT We introduce 'CyAnno', a novel semi-automated approach for deconvoluting the unlabeled cytometry dataset based on a machine learning framework utilizing manually gated training data that allows the integrative modeling of 'gated' cell types and the 'ungated' cells. By applying this framework on several CyTOF datasets, we demonstrated that including the 'ungated' cells can lead to a significant increase in the precision of the 'gated' cell types prediction. CyAnno can be used to identify even a single cell type, including rare cells, with higher efficacy than current state-of-the-art semi-automated approaches. AVAILABILITY The CyAnno is available as a python script with a user-manual and sample dataset at https://github.com/abbioinfo/CyAnno. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Abhinav Kaushik
- Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA
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- Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA
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- Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA
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- Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA
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- Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA
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- Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA
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- Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5101, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.,Divisions of Biomedical Informatics and Allergy & Immunology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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De D, Kaushik A, Handa S, Mahajan R, Schmidt E. Omalizumab: an underutilized treatment option in bullous pemphigoid patients with co-morbidities. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2021; 35:e469-e472. [PMID: 33725360 DOI: 10.1111/jdv.17229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- D De
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.,Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology (LIED), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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Zhang D, Kaushik A, Xu Z, Li M, Ji M, Chen L. Flipped-classroom combined with case-based learning in human parasitology course for international students. MedEdPublish 2021. [DOI: 10.15694/mep.2021.000176.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Rchiad Z, Haidar M, Ansari HR, Tajeri S, Mfarrej S, Ben Rached F, Kaushik A, Langsley G, Pain A. Cover Image: Novel tumour suppressor roles for GZMA and RASGRP1 in Theileria annulata‐transformed macrophages and human B lymphoma cells (Cellular Microbiology 12/2020). Cell Microbiol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/cmi.13285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Balz K, Chen M, Kaushik A, Cemic F, Heger V, Renz H, Nadeau K, Skevaki C. Homologies between SARS-CoV-2 and allergen proteins may direct T cell-mediated heterologous immune responses. Res Sq 2020:rs.3.rs-86873. [PMID: 33052330 PMCID: PMC7553154 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-86873/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The outbreak of the new Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a public health emergency. Asthma does not represent a risk factor for COVID-19 in several published cohorts. We hypothesized that the SARS-CoV-2 proteome contains T cell epitopes, which are potentially cross-reactive to allergen epitopes. We aimed at identifying homologous peptide sequences by means of two distinct complementary bioinformatics approaches. Pipeline 1 included prediction of MHC Class I and Class II epitopes contained in the SARS-CoV-2 proteome and allergens along with alignment and elaborate ranking approaches. Pipeline 2 involved alignment of SARS-CoV-2 overlapping peptides with known allergen-derived T cell epitopes. Our results indicate a large number of MHC Class I epitope pairs including known as well as de novo predicted allergen T cell epitopes with high probability for cross-reactivity. Allergen sources, such as Aspergillus fumigatus , Phleum pratense and Dermatophagoides species are of particular interest due to their association with multiple cross-reactive candidate peptides, independently of the applied bioinformatic approach. In contrast, peptides derived from food allergens, as well as MHC class II epitopes did not achieve high in silico ranking and were therefore not further investigated. Our findings warrant further experimental confirmation along with examination of the functional importance of such cross-reactive responses.
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- Kathrin Balz
- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University and Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University and Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- TH Mittelhessen, Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Gießen, Hessen, Deutschland
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- TH Mittelhessen, Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences Gießen, Hessen, Deutschland
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany
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- Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University and Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany
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Rchiad Z, Haidar M, Ansari HR, Tajeri S, Mfarrej S, Ben Rached F, Kaushik A, Langsley G, Pain A. Novel tumour suppressor roles for GZMA and RASGRP1 in Theileria annulata-transformed macrophages and human B lymphoma cells. Cell Microbiol 2020; 22:e13255. [PMID: 32830401 PMCID: PMC7685166 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.13255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Theileria annulata is a tick-transmitted apicomplexan parasite that infects and transforms bovine leukocytes into disseminating tumours that cause a disease called tropical theileriosis. Using comparative transcriptomics we identified genes transcriptionally perturbed during Theileria-induced leukocyte transformation. Dataset comparisons highlighted a small set of genes associated with Theileria-transformed leukocyte dissemination. The roles of Granzyme A (GZMA) and RAS guanyl-releasing protein 1 (RASGRP1) were verified by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockdown. Knocking down expression of GZMA and RASGRP1 in attenuated macrophages led to a regain in their dissemination in Rag2/γC mice confirming their role as dissemination suppressors in vivo. We further evaluated the roles of GZMA and RASGRP1 in human B lymphomas by comparing the transcriptome of 934 human cancer cell lines to that of Theileria-transformed bovine host cells. We confirmed dampened dissemination potential of human B lymphomas that overexpress GZMA and RASGRP1. Our results provide evidence that GZMA and RASGRP1 have a novel tumour suppressor function in both T. annulata-infected bovine host leukocytes and in human B lymphomas.
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- Zineb Rchiad
- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, BESE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.,Laboratoire de Biologie Comparative des Apicomplexes, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.,INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR8104, Cochin Institute, Paris, France.,Centre de Coalition, Innovation, et de prévention des Epidémies au Maroc (CIPEM), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Ben Guerir, Morocco
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, BESE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.,Laboratoire de Biologie Comparative des Apicomplexes, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.,INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR8104, Cochin Institute, Paris, France
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, BESE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.,King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Comparative des Apicomplexes, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.,INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR8104, Cochin Institute, Paris, France
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, BESE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, BESE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, BESE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Comparative des Apicomplexes, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.,INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR8104, Cochin Institute, Paris, France
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- Pathogen Genomics Laboratory, BESE Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.,Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Kaushik A, Singh A. Metal removal and recovery using bioelectrochemical technology: The major determinants and opportunities for synchronic wastewater treatment and energy production. J Environ Manage 2020; 270:110826. [PMID: 32721300 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Revised: 05/10/2020] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology has emerged as a new and attractive bioelectrochemical approach in the last one and a half decade that offers an alternative to conventional treatment methods to remove and recover heavy metals and organics from wastewaters with simultaneous energy production. This technique has advantage over the conventional wastewater treatment techniques, which are energy intensive, sludge producing and with little effectivity at high concentrations. Significant work has been done in the recent years on MFC principle, electrode configuration, biofilm composition, application of MFC in wastewater treatment, metal removal or recovery and energy production. Basically, metal in the cathode chamber acts as acceptor of the electrons released from the oxidation of organic matter in the anode chamber by electrogenic microbes. Literature shows that efficacy of MFCs in removal and recovery of metals and power production is significantly influenced by redox potential of the metal, initial concentration, mix metal systems, carbon source in substrate, pH, biocathode, biofilm composition, gaseous environment in cathode, electrode modification and external resistance, which have been critically reviewed for the first time in the present paper to understand the role of the determinant factors that may be explored for improvement of the MFC performance. The paper provides further insights into the techno-economic aspects of MFC technology and suggests research needs for enhanced performance and reduced costs to increase its feasibility for application at commercial level.
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- A Kaushik
- University School of Environment Management, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University New Delhi, 110078, India.
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- University School of Environment Management, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University New Delhi, 110078, India.
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Yadav SK, Shukla P, Joshi M, Khan A, Kaushik A, Jha AK, Sapra BK, Singh RS. Emission characteristics of ultrafine particles from bare and Al 2O 3 coated graphite for high temperature applications. Sci Rep 2020; 10:14595. [PMID: 32884029 PMCID: PMC7471292 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-71424-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 08/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Owing to its exceptional properties at high temperature, graphite is used in several applications such as structural material and fuel block in high temperature nuclear reactors. Air ingress is one of the serious safety concerns in these reactors. Oxidation of graphite leading to increased porosity affects its mechanical strength and may lead to core collapse resulting in a severe accident. During such a scenario, generation of graphite particles could be the main hazard. Once generated, these particles often in fine and ultrafine sizes, may carry radioactivity to large distances and/or for long times. These particles owing to their higher surface to volume ratio possess an additional inhalation hazard. Ultrafine particles have the potential to enter into respiratory tract and cause damage to body organs. Coating of graphite components is preferred to reduce the oxidation induced damages at high temperatures. In the present work, effect of alumina (Al2O3) coating on the emission characteristics of particles from graphite under high temperature conditions has been investigated. Bare and Al2O3 coated graphite specimens were heated within a closed chamber at varying temperatures during these experiments. Temporal evolution of concentrations of gases (CO and CO2) and particles were measured. The results reveal that Al2O3 coating on the graphite delayed the oxidation behavior and the structure of graphite remained largely intact at high temperatures. A significant reduction in aerosol formation and CO emission was also noticed for the coated specimens.
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- S K Yadav
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, 221005, India.
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- Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India
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- Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India
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- High Temperature Reactor Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, 221005, India
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- Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India
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Mujawar MA, Gohel H, Bhardwaj SK, Srinivasan S, Hickman N, Kaushik A. Nano-enabled biosensing systems for intelligent healthcare: towards COVID-19 management. Mater Today Chem 2020; 17:100306. [PMID: 32835155 PMCID: PMC7274574 DOI: 10.1016/j.mtchem.2020.100306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 05/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Biosensors are emerging as efficient (sensitive and selective) and affordable analytical diagnostic tools for early-stage disease detection, as required for personalized health wellness management. Low-level detection of a targeted disease biomarker (pM level) has emerged extremely useful to evaluate the progression of disease under therapy. Such collected bioinformatics and its multi-aspects-oriented analytics is in demand to explore the effectiveness of a prescribed treatment, optimize therapy, and correlate biomarker level with disease pathogenesis. Owing to nanotechnology-enabled advancements in sensing unit fabrication, device integration, interfacing, packaging, and sensing performance at point-of-care (POC) has rendered diagnostics according to the requirements of disease management and patient disease profile i.e. in a personalized manner. Efforts are continuously being made to promote the state of art biosensing technology as a next-generation non-invasive disease diagnostics methodology. Keeping this in view, this progressive opinion article describes personalized health care management related analytical tools which can provide access to better health for everyone, with overreaching aim to manage healthy tomorrow timely. Considering accomplishments and predictions, such affordable intelligent diagnostics tools are urgently required to manage COVID-19 pandemic, a life-threatening respiratory infectious disease, where a rapid, selective and sensitive detection of human beta severe acute respiratory system coronavirus (SARS-COoV-2) protein is the key factor.
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- M A Mujawar
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33174, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, School of Art and Sciences, University of Houston, Victoria, TX, USA
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- NnaoBioTech Laboratory, Department of Natural Sciences, Division of Sciences, Art, & Mathematics, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, FL, 33805, USA
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- NnaoBioTech Laboratory, Department of Natural Sciences, Division of Sciences, Art, & Mathematics, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, FL, 33805, USA
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- NnaoBioTech Laboratory, Department of Natural Sciences, Division of Sciences, Art, & Mathematics, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, FL, 33805, USA
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Kaushik A, Mahajan R, De D, Handa S. Paediatric morphoea: a holistic review. Part 1: epidemiology, aetiopathogenesis and clinical classification. Clin Exp Dermatol 2020; 45:673-678. [PMID: 32472964 DOI: 10.1111/ced.14234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Morphoea, also known as localized scleroderma, is a debilitating fibrosing disorder of uncertain aetiology, affecting the skin and subcutaneous tissues. Paediatric-onset disease is not uncommon and is associated with frequent relapses. The disease has complex pathogenetic mechanisms and multiple clinical subtypes, and affects children of all ages. Recent research has focused on elucidating the disease pathophysiology and identifying measures of disease activity. We performed a literature search on PubMed, MEDLINE and Google Scholar, using keywords such as 'pediatric morphea', 'juvenile localised scleroderma' and 'juvenile systemic sclerosis'. Relevant studies, including randomized trials, reviews of standard current guidelines and original research articles, were selected, and results were analysed before being summarized. In the first of this two-part review, we provide a bird's-eye view of the current literature concerning the epidemiology, aetiopathogenesis and clinical classification of paediatric morphoea; in Part 2, we review the diagnosis, markers of disease activity, management and natural history.
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- A Kaushik
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Kaushik A, Mahajan R, De D, Handa S. Paediatric morphoea: a holistic review. Part 2: diagnosis, measures of disease activity, management and natural history. Clin Exp Dermatol 2020; 45:679-684. [PMID: 32449205 DOI: 10.1111/ced.14236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Paediatric morphoea is a debilitating fibrosing disorder of uncertain aetiology, affecting the skin and subcutaneous tissues. Defining optimum management strategies in paediatric morphoea remains an ongoing challenge, owing to the varied presentations and a relative paucity of paediatric-specific studies. We performed a literature search on PubMed, MEDLINE and Google Scholar, using keywords such as 'pediatric morphea', 'juvenile localised scleroderma' and 'juvenile systemic sclerosis'. Relevant studies, including randomized trials, reviews of standard current guidelines and original research articles, were selected and results analysed before summarizing them. In Part 1 of this review, we described the epidemiology, aetiopathogenesis and clinical classification; in this part, we discuss the diagnosis, markers of disease activity, management and natural history in paediatric morphoea.
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- A Kaushik
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India
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Ali MF, Kaushik A, Gupta D, Ansari S, Jairajpuri MA. Changes in strand 6B and helix B during neuroserpin inhibition: Implication in severity of clinical phenotype. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom 2020; 1868:140363. [PMID: 31954927 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2020.140363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 01/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Neuroserpin (NS) is predominantly expressed in brain and inhibits tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) with implications in brain development and memory. Nature of conformational change in pathological variants in strand 6B and helix B of NS that cause a relatively mild to severe epilepsy (and/or dementia) remains largely elusive. MD simulation with wild type (WT) NS, strand 6B and helix B variants indicated that substitution in this region affects the conformation of the strands 5B, 5A and reactive centre loop. Therefore, we designed variants of NS in strand 6B (I46D and F48S) and helix B (A54F, L55A and L55P) to investigate their role in tPA inhibition mechanism and propensity to aggregate. An interaction analysis showed disturbance of a hydrophobic patch centered at strands 5B, 6B and helix B in I46D and F48S but not in A54F, L55A, L55P and WT NS. Purified I46D, F48S and L55P variants showed decrease in fluorescence emission intensity but have similar α-helical content, however results of A54F and L55A were comparable to WT NS. Analysis of tPA inhibition showed marginal effect on A54F and L55A variant with tPA-NS complex formation. In contrast, I46D, F48S and L55P variants showed massive decrease in tPA inhibition, with no tPA-NS complex formation. Analysis of native PAGE under under polymerization condition showed prompt conversion of I46D, F48S and L55P to latent conformation but not A54F and L55A variants. Identification of these novel conformational changes will aid in the understanding of variable clinical phenotype of shutter region NS variants and other serpins.
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- Mohammad Farhan Ali
- Protein Conformation and Enzymology Lab, Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India
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- Translational Bioinformatics Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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- Translational Bioinformatics Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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- Protein Conformation and Enzymology Lab, Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India
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- Protein Conformation and Enzymology Lab, Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi 110025, India.
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Kaushik A, Papachristou E, Dima D, Fewings S, Kostaki E, Ploubidis G, Kyriakopoulos M. Measuring stigma in children receiving mental health treatment: Validation of the Paediatric Self-Stigmatization Scale (PaedS). Eur Psychiatry 2020; 43:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2016] [Revised: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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AbstractBackground:Research on the impact of stigma associated with mental illness in children is scarce. Considering the known negative effects of stigma associated with mental illness in adults, it is crucial to explore the stigma experienced by children who access mental health treatment. However, no scale measuring self-stigmatization in younger children is available to date. This study aimed to develop and validate such a scale, the Paediatric Self-Stigmatization Scale (PaedS).Methods:A total of 156 children (119 receiving outpatient and 37 receiving inpatient treatment), aged 8–12 years, completed the PaedS, the Self-Perception Profile for Children and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL – Child Report, ages 8–12). In addition, parents completed the PedsQL (Parent Report for Children, ages 8–12), the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and a modified subscale of the PaedS measuring the children's rejection by others due to their mental health difficulties.Results:A confirmatory factor analysis showed that a four-factor structure, comprising Societal Devaluation, Personal Rejection, Self-Stigma and Secrecy scales, had excellent fit to the data (CFI = 0.95; TLI = 0.95; RMSEA = 0.05). Child-reported PaedS scores were positively correlated with parental-reported PaedS scores and negatively with PedsQL, the SDQ, and 5 out of 6 subscales of the Self-Perception Profile for Children, suggesting adequate convergent validity (all P-values < 0.05).Conclusions:The PaedS is a valid instrument, which is hoped to advance the understanding of self-stigmatization in children with mental health difficulties and contribute to its prevention.
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Kaushik A, Singh G, Bansal N. PCI as a option to Redo CABG. Indian Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ihj.2019.11.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Kaushik A, Kapoor A. Cardioprotective Effect of Statins on Patients Undergoing Valvular Heart Surgery. Indian Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ihj.2019.11.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Kaushik A, Kapoor A, Dabadghao P, Khanna R, Kumar S, Garg N, Tewari S, Goel P. P1496Use of strain, strain rate, tissue velocity imaging and endothelial function for early detection of cardiovascular involvement in young diabetics. Eur Heart J 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz748.0260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background
Subtle structural and functional changes may precede the onset of overt global left ventricular dysfunction and obvious reduction of ejection fraction (EF), especially in young diabetics. Data pertaining to tissue velocity indices (TVI) and strain imaging to assess regional myocardial function and flow mediated vasodilatation is limited in young patients with diabetes.
Purpose
To evaluate conventional echocardiography parameters, tissue doppler indices, global and regional strain, carotid intimal medial thickness (CIMT), endothelial dependent (FMD) and independent function (NMD) of brachial artery in young patients (age <18 years) with type 1 diabetes and compare them with matched controls.
Methods
Conventional echocardiography parameters, tissue velocity indices (TVI) parameters along with strain (S), and strain rate (SR) in basal and mid left ventricular (LV) lateral wall, right ventricular (RV) lateral wall and septum were measured in 50 young diabetics (age 15.16±2.95 years, mean HBA1c 8.15±1.37 gm %) and 25 controls (age 15.60±2.51 years). Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), nitrate mediated dilatation and carotid intimal media thickness (CIMT) were also estimated.
Results
Conventional echocardiography parameters were similar in patients and controls however deceleration time of the mitral inflow velocity (EDT) was significantly shorter in patients when compared with controls (149.06±31.66 vs. 184.56±19.27 ms, p<0.05). Lateral early diastolic myocardial velocity (LV-Em) was significantly lower (10.30±0.99 vs. 11.67±3.21, p<0.05) whereas lateral late diastolic myocardial velocity (LV-Am) was significantly higher than controls (11.73±1.44 vs. 8.82±1.69, p<0.05), thus a significantly lower ratio of early/late diastolic velocity at the basal segment of lateral LV (LV-Em/Am). Lower strain values at the basal lateral LV (21.39±4.12 vs. 23.78±2.02; p<0.05), mid lateral LV (21.43±4.27 vs. 23.17±1.92; p<0.05), basal septum (20.59±5.28 vs. 22.91±2.00; p<0.05), and mid septum (22.06±4.75 vs. 24.10±1.99; p<0.05) as compared to controls. SR at the basal and mid segments of the lateral LV wall and at the basal septum were also significantly lower in diabetic subjects. Strain rate (SR) in mid septal, basal and mid RV were lower than controls although not statistically significant. Patients also had significantly lower flow mediated dilatation (FMD) (8.36±4.27 vs. 10.57±4.12, p<0.05) implying endothelial dysfunction.
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Conclusion
Left ventricular strain indices are impaired in asymptomatic children and adolescents with type 1 DM despite absence of overt heart failure and normal ejection fraction. Early detection of subclinical regional myocardial dysfunction by deformation analysis including strain and strain rate may be useful in the asymptomatic diabetic population. In addition, evidence of endothelial dysfunction in the form of impaired flow mediated vasodilatation was observed in the diabetic children.
Acknowledgement/Funding
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- A Kaushik
- Sanjay gandhi post graduate institute of Medical sciences, Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay gandhi post graduate institute of Medical sciences, Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay gandhi post graduate institute of Medical sciences, Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay gandhi post graduate institute of Medical sciences, Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay gandhi post graduate institute of Medical sciences, Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay gandhi post graduate institute of Medical sciences, Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay gandhi post graduate institute of Medical sciences, Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay gandhi post graduate institute of Medical sciences, Lucknow, India
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Narang T, Kaushik A, Dogra S. Apremilast in chronic recalcitrant erythema nodosum leprosum: a report of two cases. Br J Dermatol 2019; 182:1034-1037. [DOI: 10.1111/bjd.18233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- T. Narang
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh India
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Shinkafi TS, Kaushik A, Mahmood A, Tiwari AK, Alam MM, Akhter M, Gupta D, Ali S. Computational prediction and experimental validation of the activator function of C2-β-D-glucopyranosyl-1,3,6,7-tetrahydroxyxanthone on pancreatic and hepatic hexokinase. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:2976-2987. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1650829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Tijjani Salihu Shinkafi
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard (Deemed University), Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria
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- Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
- International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard (Deemed University), Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India
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- School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
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- Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
- School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
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- International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Jamia Hamdard (Deemed University), Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India
- Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India
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Vinay K, Kaushik A, Narang T, Dogra S. Ichthyosiform sarcoidosis: a mimic of leprosy? Reply from authors. Clin Exp Dermatol 2019; 44:589-590. [PMID: 30903704 DOI: 10.1111/ced.13966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- K Vinay
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Sardar R, Kaushik A, Pandey R, Mohmmed A, Ali S, Gupta D. ApicoTFdb: the comprehensive web repository of apicomplexan transcription factors and transcription-associated co-factors. Database (Oxford) 2019; 2019:5560306. [PMID: 31529106 PMCID: PMC6748703 DOI: 10.1093/database/baz094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 04/28/2019] [Accepted: 06/28/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
Despite significant progress in apicomplexan genome sequencing and genomics, the current list of experimentally validated transcription factors (TFs) in these genomes is incomplete and mainly consists of AP2 family of proteins, with only a limited number of non-AP2 family TFs and transcription-associated co-factors (TcoFs). We have performed a systematic bioinformatics-aided prediction of TFs and TcoFs in apicomplexan genomes and developed the ApicoTFdb database which consists of experimentally validated as well as computationally predicted TFs and TcoFs in 14 apicomplexan species. The predicted TFs are manually curated to complement the existing annotations. The current version of the database includes 1292 TFs which includes experimentally validated and computationally predicted TFs, representing 20 distinct families across 14 apicomplexan species. The predictions include TFs of TUB, NAC, BSD, HTH, Cupin/Jumonji, winged helix and FHA family proteins, not reported earlier as TFs in the genomes. Apart from TFs, ApicoTFdb also classifies TcoFs into three main subclasses: TRs, CRRs and RNARs, representing 2491 TcoFs in 14 apicomplexan species, are analyzed in this study. The database is designed to integrate different tools for comparative analysis. All entries in the database are dynamically linked with other databases, literature reference, protein–protein interactions, pathways and annotations associated with each protein. ApicoTFdb will be useful to the researchers interested in less-studied gene regulatory mechanisms mediating the complex life cycle of the apicomplexan parasites. The database will aid in the discovery of novel drug targets to much needed combat the growing drug resistance in the parasites.
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- Rahila Sardar
- Translational Bioinformatics Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India.,Department of Biochemistry, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi 110057, India
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- Translational Bioinformatics Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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- Translational Bioinformatics Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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- Parasite Cell Biology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi 110057, India
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- Translational Bioinformatics Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067, India
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Kaushik A, Vinay K, Narang T, Saikia UN, Modi M, Prakash M, Dogra S. Ichthyosiform sarcoidosis: a mimic of leprosy? Clin Exp Dermatol 2018; 44:677-680. [DOI: 10.1111/ced.13863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/24/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- A. Kaushik
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and LeprologyPGIMERChandigarh India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and LeprologyPGIMERChandigarh India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and LeprologyPGIMERChandigarh India
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- Department of Histopathology PGIMER Chandigarh India
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- Department of Neurology PGIMER Chandigarh India
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- Department of Radiodiagnosis PGIMER Chandigarh India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and LeprologyPGIMERChandigarh India
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Dabas G, Dogra S, Kaushik A, Narang T, Aggarwal D, Kumaran MS, Radotra BD. Image Gallery: Multiple cutaneous and oral nodules in histoid leprosy. Br J Dermatol 2018; 179:e227. [PMID: 30508228 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.17030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- G Dabas
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India
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- Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India
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Kaushik A, Kapoor A, Agarwal SK, Pandey S, Kumar S, Khanna R, Garg N, Tewari S, Goel P. P3607Can high-dose statin therapy given before off-pump CABG “recapture” cardioprotection in patients already on chronic statin therapy: Assessment by serial cardiac biomarker assay. Eur Heart J 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy563.p3607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- A Kaushik
- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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- Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India
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Kaushik A, Handa S, Chatterjee D, Vinay K, Mahajan R. Disseminated filiform hyperkeratosis – a variant of porokeratosis? J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2018; 32:e419-e421. [DOI: 10.1111/jdv.15008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- A. Kaushik
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology Level 2, Nehru Hospital Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Sector 12 Chandigarh 160012 India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology Level 2, Nehru Hospital Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Sector 12 Chandigarh 160012 India
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- Department of Histopathology Level 5, Research Block A Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Sector 12 Chandigarh 160012 India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology Level 2, Nehru Hospital Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Sector 12 Chandigarh 160012 India
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology Level 2, Nehru Hospital Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Sector 12 Chandigarh 160012 India
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Gupta V, Somarajan BI, Walia GK, Kaur J, Kumar S, Gupta S, Chaurasia AK, Gupta D, Kaushik A, Mehta A, Gupta V, Sharma A. Role of CYP1B1, p.E229K and p.R368H mutations among 120 families with sporadic juvenile onset open-angle glaucoma. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2017; 256:355-362. [PMID: 29168043 DOI: 10.1007/s00417-017-3853-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2017] [Revised: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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