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Anjana RM, Unnikrishnan R, Deepa M, Pradeepa R, Tandon N, Das AK, Joshi S, Bajaj S, Jabbar PK, Das HK, Kumar A, Dhandhania VK, Bhansali A, Rao PV, Desai A, Kalra S, Gupta A, Lakshmy R, Madhu SV, Elangovan N, Chowdhury S, Venkatesan U, Subashini R, Kaur T, Dhaliwal RS, Mohan V. Metabolic non-communicable disease health report of India: the ICMR-INDIAB national cross-sectional study (ICMR-INDIAB-17). Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2023; 11:474-489. [PMID: 37301218 DOI: 10.1016/s2213-8587(23)00119-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Non-communicable disease (NCD) rates are rapidly increasing in India with wide regional variations. We aimed to quantify the prevalence of metabolic NCDs in India and analyse interstate and inter-regional variations. METHODS The Indian Council of Medical Research-India Diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB) study, a cross-sectional population-based survey, assessed a representative sample of individuals aged 20 years and older drawn from urban and rural areas of 31 states, union territories, and the National Capital Territory of India. We conducted the survey in multiple phases with a stratified multistage sampling design, using three-level stratification based on geography, population size, and socioeconomic status of each state. Diabetes and prediabetes were diagnosed using the WHO criteria, hypertension using the Eighth Joint National Committee guidelines, obesity (generalised and abdominal) using the WHO Asia Pacific guidelines, and dyslipidaemia using the National Cholesterol Education Program-Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines. FINDINGS A total of 113 043 individuals (79 506 from rural areas and 33 537 from urban areas) participated in the ICMR-INDIAB study between Oct 18, 2008 and Dec 17, 2020. The overall weighted prevalence of diabetes was 11·4% (95% CI 10·2-12·5; 10 151 of 107 119 individuals), prediabetes 15·3% (13·9-16·6; 15 496 of 107 119 individuals), hypertension 35·5% (33·8-37·3; 35 172 of 111 439 individuals), generalised obesity 28·6% (26·9-30·3; 29 861 of 110 368 individuals), abdominal obesity 39·5% (37·7-41·4; 40 121 of 108 665 individuals), and dyslipidaemia 81·2% (77·9-84·5; 14 895 of 18 492 of 25 647). All metabolic NCDs except prediabetes were more frequent in urban than rural areas. In many states with a lower human development index, the ratio of diabetes to prediabetes was less than 1. INTERPRETATION The prevalence of diabetes and other metabolic NCDs in India is considerably higher than previously estimated. While the diabetes epidemic is stabilising in the more developed states of the country, it is still increasing in most other states. Thus, there are serious implications for the nation, warranting urgent state-specific policies and interventions to arrest the rapidly rising epidemic of metabolic NCDs in India. FUNDING Indian Council of Medical Research and Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
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- Ranjit Mohan Anjana
- Department of Diabetology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- Department of Diabetology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Epidemiology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Research Operations & Diabetes Complications, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of General Medicine & Endocrinology, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India
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- Department of Diabetology & Endocrinology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Medicine, Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Department of Diabetology, Diabetes Care and Research Centre, Patna, Bihar, India
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- Department of Endocrinology, Gini Health, Mohali, Punjab, India
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- Department of Endocrinology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- Department of Endocrinology, Goa Medical College, Bambolim, Goa, India
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- Department of Endocrinology, Bharti Hospital, Karnal, Haryana, India
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- Department of Diabetology, Jaipur Diabetes Research Centre, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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- Department of Cardiac Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Endocrinology, University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Research Operations & Diabetes Complications, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGMER) & SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biostatistics, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Non-Communicable Disease Division, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Diabetology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation and Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Deepa M, Elangovan N, Venkatesan U, Das HK, Jampa L, Adhikari P, Joshi PP, Budnah RO, Suokhrie V, John M, Tobgay KJ, Subashini R, Pradeepa R, Anjana RM, Mohan V, Kaur T, Dhaliwal RS. Evaluation of Madras Diabetes Research Foundation-Indian Diabetes Risk Score in detecting undiagnosed diabetes in the Indian population: Results from the Indian Council of Medical Research-INdia DIABetes population-based study (INDIAB-15). Indian J Med Res 2023; 157:239-249. [PMID: 37282387 PMCID: PMC10438401 DOI: 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_2615_21] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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Background & objectives Screening of individuals for early detection and identification of undiagnosed diabetes can help in reducing the burden of diabetic complications. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF)-Indian Diabetes Risk Score (IDRS) to screen for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes in a large representative population in India. Methods Data were acquired from the Indian Council of Medical Research-INdia DIABetes (ICMR-INDIAB) study, a large national survey that included both urban and rural populations from 30 states/union territories in India. Stratified multistage design was followed to obtain a sample of 113,043 individuals (94.2% response rate). MDRF-IDRS used four simple parameters, viz. age, waist circumference, family history of diabetes and physical activity to detect undiagnosed diabetes. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) with area under the curve (AUC) was used to assess the performance of MDRF-IDRS. Results We identified that 32.4, 52.7 and 14.9 per cent of the general population were under high-, moderate- and low-risk category of diabetes. Among the newly diagnosed individuals with diabetes [diagnosed by oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)], 60.2, 35.9 and 3.9 per cent were identified under high-, moderate- and low-risk categories of IDRS. The ROC-AUC for the identification of diabetes was 0.697 (95% confidence interval: 0.684-0.709) for urban population and 0.694 (0.684-0.704) for rural, as well as 0.693 (0.682-0.705) for males and 0.707 (0.697-0.718) for females. MDRF-IDRS performed well when the population were sub-categorized by state or by regions. Interpretation & conclusions Performance of MDRF-IDRS is evaluated across the nation and is found to be suitable for easy and effective screening of diabetes in Asian Indians.
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- Mohan Deepa
- Department of Epidemiology, Diabetes Complications, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Research Operations & Diabetes Complications, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, ICMR NE Region, Dibrugarh, Assam, India
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- Directorate of Health Services, Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Epidemiology, Yenepoya Medical College, Yenepoya University Campus, Deralakatte, Karnataka, India
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- Department of General Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
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- Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland, Kohima, Nagaland, India
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- Deparment of Internal Medicine, Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
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- Department of Health Care, Human Services & Family Welfare, Government of Sikkim, Gangtok, Sikkim, India
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- Department of Biostatistics, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Research Operations & Diabetes Complications, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Diabetology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Diabetology, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation & Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Division of Non-communicable Diseases, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
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Hariprasad R, John A, Das HK, Bora K, Singh L, Khaund P, Hussain A, Singh S. Capacity building of primary care physicians of the tea garden hospitals in Dibrugarh, Assam: A demonstration project. J Family Med Prim Care 2020; 9:3688-3700. [PMID: 33102352 PMCID: PMC7567254 DOI: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_40_20] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2020] [Revised: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background: The three most commonly occurring cancers in India are those of the breast, uterine cervix, and lip or oral cavity, together accounting for approximately 34% of all cancers. All the three cancers are amenable to prevention, early detection, and treatment through which the morbidity and mortality due to these cancers can be reduced. This pilot study was conducted to assess the operational feasibility of the national cancer screening guidelines. Method: This study was conducted in the Dibrugarh district of Assam in seven tea garden hospitals which serve as the primary health centers for the tea estate population in the Northeast region of India. The study intervention was a three-day training package designed to train primary care physicians in population-based screening for oral, breast, and cervical cancers. Knowledge evaluation and skill assessment were performed with a validated questionnaire and checklist, respectively. Results: Pre and posttraining knowledge assessment showed significant gain in the knowledge levels of the participants in all topics. The greatest knowledge increase was seen in breast cancer (96.3%), followed by cervical cancer (57.5%), oral cancer (35.5%) and general cancer-related information (16.7%). The skill assessment done for each participant individually at the end of the training indicated a need for retraining all participants in breast cancer screening. Conclusion: The learnings from this study will be of great help in scaling up the capacity building programme for cancer screening when the nation-wide population-based cancer screening programme will be rolled out in the country.
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- Roopa Hariprasad
- National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh, Assam, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh, Assam, India
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- National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, India
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- TATA Research and Referral Hospital, Dibrugarh, Assam, India
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- National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Das HK, Sahu PP. Electro-Physiology of Coupling Model and Its Impact on Naja Kaouthia Venom Treated Sciatic Nerves of Toad. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 2018; 26:987-992. [PMID: 29752233 DOI: 10.1109/tnsre.2018.2824844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Demyelination in peripheral nerves causes dysfunction of slowing down and stoppage of nerve impulses causing many neurological diseases, such as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, etc. This paper aims to develop a recovery model having interaction of a demyelinated nerve with a normal myelinated nerve. We validated the model by coupling between peripheral nerve of toad (demyelinated with Naja kaouthia venom) and a normal nerve of toad. An increase in both nerve conduction velocity as well as compound action potential amplitude is observed in the repetition of the experiments indicating gradual recovery of the patients. The significance behind this work is to suppress the malfunctioning of the demyelinated nerve by the normal electro-physiological activity of the normal nerve for speedy recovery using coupling model. The recovery model will be used in the treatment of neurological disorders with the influence of normal neuro physiological properties of a normal adjacent nerve.
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Anjana RM, Deepa M, Pradeepa R, Mahanta J, Narain K, Das HK, Adhikari P, Rao PV, Saboo B, Kumar A, Bhansali A, John M, Luaia R, Reang T, Ningombam S, Jampa L, Budnah RO, Elangovan N, Subashini R, Venkatesan U, Unnikrishnan R, Das AK, Madhu SV, Ali MK, Pandey A, Dhaliwal RS, Kaur T, Swaminathan S, Mohan V. Prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in 15 states of India: results from the ICMR-INDIAB population-based cross-sectional study. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2017; 5:585-596. [PMID: 28601585 DOI: 10.1016/s2213-8587(17)30174-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 403] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2017] [Revised: 04/10/2017] [Accepted: 04/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have not adequately captured the heterogeneous nature of the diabetes epidemic in India. The aim of the ongoing national Indian Council of Medical Research-INdia DIABetes study is to estimate the national prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes in India by estimating the prevalence by state. METHODS We used a stratified multistage design to obtain a community-based sample of 57 117 individuals aged 20 years or older. The sample population represented 14 of India's 28 states (eight from the mainland and six from the northeast of the country) and one union territory. States were sampled in a phased manner: phase I included Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra, sampled between Nov 17, 2008, and April 16, 2010; phase II included Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, and Punjab, sampled between Sept 24, 2012, and July 26, 2013; and the northeastern phase included Assam, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Manipur, and Meghalaya, with sampling done between Jan 5, 2012, and July 3, 2015. Capillary oral glucose tolerance tests were used to diagnose diabetes and prediabetes in accordance with WHO criteria. Our methods did not allow us to differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes in different states was assessed in relation to socioeconomic status (SES) of individuals and the per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) of each state. We used multiple logistic regression analysis to examine the association of various factors with the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes. FINDINGS The overall prevalence of diabetes in all 15 states of India was 7·3% (95% CI 7·0-7·5). The prevalence of diabetes varied from 4·3% in Bihar (95% CI 3·7-5·0) to 10·0% (8·7-11·2) in Punjab and was higher in urban areas (11·2%, 10·6-11·8) than in rural areas (5·2%, 4·9-5·4; p<0·0001) and higher in mainland states (8·3%, 7·9-8·7) than in the northeast (5·9%, 5·5-6·2; p<0·0001). Overall, 1862 (47·3%) of 3938 individuals identified as having diabetes had not been diagnosed previously. States with higher per-capita GDP seemed to have a higher prevalence of diabetes (eg, Chandigarh, which had the highest GDP of US$ 3433, had the highest prevalence of 13·6%, 12.8-15·2). In rural areas of all states, diabetes was more prevalent in individuals of higher SES. However, in urban areas of some of the more affluent states (Chandigarh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu), diabetes prevalence was higher in people with lower SES. The overall prevalence of prediabetes in all 15 states was 10·3% (10·0-10·6). The prevalence of prediabetes varied from 6·0% (5·1-6·8) in Mizoram to 14·7% (13·6-15·9) in Tripura, and the prevalence of impaired fasting glucose was generally higher than the prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance. Age, male sex, obesity, hypertension, and family history of diabetes were independent risk factors for diabetes in both urban and rural areas. INTERPRETATION There are large differences in diabetes prevalence between states in India. Our results show evidence of an epidemiological transition, with a higher prevalence of diabetes in low SES groups in the urban areas of the more economically developed states. The spread of diabetes to economically disadvantaged sections of society is a matter of great concern, warranting urgent preventive measures. FUNDING Indian Council of Medical Research and Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
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- Ranjit Mohan Anjana
- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India
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- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India
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- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India
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- Dia Care-Diabetes Care and Hormone Clinic, Ahmedabad, India
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- Diabetes Care and Research Centre, Patna, India
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- Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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- Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India
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- Agartala Government Medical College, Agartala, India
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- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India
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- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India
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- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India
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- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India
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- Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India
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- University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, New Delhi, India
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- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India
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- National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, India
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- Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
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- Dr Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre, WHO Collaborating Centre for Non Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, ICMR Centre for Advanced Research on Diabetes, Chennai, India.
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Midde K, Luchowski R, Das HK, Fedorick J, Dumka V, Gryczynski I, Gryczynski Z, Borejdo J. Evidence for pre- and post-power stroke of cross-bridges of contracting skeletal myofibrils. Biophys J 2011; 100:1024-33. [PMID: 21320447 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2010] [Revised: 12/28/2010] [Accepted: 01/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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We examined the orientational fluctuations of a small number of myosin molecules (approximately three) in working skeletal muscle myofibrils. Myosin light chain 1 (LC1) was labeled with a fluorescent dye and exchanged with the native LC1 of skeletal muscle myofibrils cross-linked with 1-ethyl-3-[3(dimethylamino) propyl] carbodiimide to prevent shortening. We observed a small volume within the A-band (∼10(-15) L) by confocal microscopy, and measured cyclic fluctuations in the orientation of the myosin neck (containing LC1) by recording the parallel and perpendicular components of fluorescent light emitted by the fluorescently labeled myosin LC1. Histograms of orientational fluctuations from fluorescent molecules in rigor were represented by a single Gaussian distribution. In contrast, histograms from contracting muscles were best fit by at least two Gaussians. These results provide direct evidence that cross-bridges in working skeletal muscle assume two distinct conformations, presumably corresponding to the pre- and post-power-stroke states.
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- K Midde
- Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Injection drug users (IDUs) and their associated risk behavior are responsible for driving the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in northeast India. So a group of IDUs from two northeastern states (Mizoram and Nagaland) of India were studied to find the prevalence of HIV, co-infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and associated risk behaviors. Out of the 400 IDUs enrolled, 398 consented for HIV, HCV, and hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg) test. Of them, 10.8% were HIV-1 antibody positive, 47.8% had HCV antibody, and 3.8% had detectable HBsAg. Among the HIV infected subjects, 79.1% were co-infected with HCV and 6.9% had triple infection. Heroin users showed a higher association with HIV (OR = 7.3, 95% CI: 2.5-21.5, p=0.0003) and HCV infection (OR = 7.6, 95% CI: 3.5-16.6, p<0.0001) than Spasmo-proxyvon (dextropropoxyphene, a synthetic opiod analgesic). In summary, apart from the known risk variables among IDUs, type of injecting drugs also influences the HIV/HCV transmission pattern among the IDUs.
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- Jagadish Mahanta
- Regional Medical Research Centre, Northeast Region (Indian Council of Medical Research), Dibrugarh, Assam, India.
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Chelleng PK, Borkakoty BJ, Chetia M, Das HK, Mahanta J. Risk of hepatitis C infection among injection drug users in Mizoram, India. Indian J Med Res 2008; 128:640-646. [PMID: 19179686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Prevalence of injection drug users (IDUs) is high in the northeastern region of India. This coupled with unsafe injecting practices as well as practice of tattooing in remote tribal areas call for baseline data on the prevalence of parentally transmitted viral diseases. In the present study we aimed to measure the risk behaviours and seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies amongst IDUs of Mizoram, a State of the northeast India. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2004-2005 amongst IDUs (including female sex workers) who had injected in the past six months and were unaware of their HCV/HIV status. They were recruited from various drop-in centers from Aizawl, Mizoram, and screened for anti-HCV antibodies using 3(rd) generation HCV EIA and recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA). RESULTS The prevalence of HCV antibodies was 71.2 per cent among the active IDUs. On univariate analysis increasing duration of injection, syringe sharing and heroin (diacetylmorphine) injectors were at a significantly higher risk of acquiring HCV antibodies (P<0.001). On multivariate analysis, HCV antibody prevalence showed a strong association with the type of drugs injected (P=0.001), frequency of injecting (P=0.013), multiplicity of drugs abused (P=0.004), and needle syringe sharing (P=0.003). INTERPRETATION & CONCLUSION Unsafe injecting practices were found to be associated with a higher risk of acquiring hepatitis C infection. Our findings showed that syringe and needle exchange programme alone was not sufficient as a preventive strategy for control of hepatitis C infection among IDUs of Aizawl.
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- P K Chelleng
- Regional Medical Research Centre, Northeast Region, Indian Council of Medical Research, Dibrugarh, India
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Das HK, Borkakoty BJ, Mahanta J, Medhi GK, Chelleng PK. Hepatitis C virus infection and risk behaviors among injection drug users of Nagaland. Indian J Gastroenterol 2008; 26:253-4. [PMID: 18227585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Das HK, Mitra AK, Sengupta PK, Hossain A, Islam F, Rabbani GH. Arsenic concentrations in rice, vegetables, and fish in Bangladesh: a preliminary study. Environ Int 2004; 30:383-7. [PMID: 14987870 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2003.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2002] [Accepted: 09/09/2003] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Arsenic contaminating groundwater in Bangladesh is one of the largest environmental health hazards in the world. Because of the potential risk to human health through consumption of agricultural produce grown in fields irrigated with arsenic contaminated water, we have determined the level of contamination in 100 samples of crop, vegetables and fresh water fish collected from three different regions in Bangladesh. Arsenic concentrations were determined by hydride generation atomic absorption spectrophotometry. All 11 samples of water and 18 samples of soil exceeded the expected limits of arsenic. No samples of rice grain (Oryza sativa L.) had arsenic concentrations more than the recommended limit of 1.0 mg/kg. However, rice plants, especially the roots had a significantly higher concentration of arsenic (2.4 mg/kg) compared to stem (0.73 mg/kg) and rice grains (0.14 mg/kg). Arsenic contents of vegetables varied; those exceeding the food safety limits included Kachu sak (Colocasia antiquorum) (0.09-3.99 mg/kg, n=9), potatoes (Solanum tuberisum) (0.07-1.36 mg/kg, n=5), and Kalmi sak (Ipomoea reptoms) (0.1-1.53 mg/kg, n=6). Lata fish (Ophicephalus punctatus) did not contain unacceptable levels of arsenic. These results indicate that arsenic contaminates some food items in Bangladesh. Further studies with larger samples are needed to demonstrate the extent of arsenic contamination of food in Bangladesh.
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- H K Das
- House 8, Road 6/A, Nobodoy R/A, Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Phukan AC, Sharma SK, Das HK, Mahanta J. HCV activity in an isolated community in north east India. INDIAN J PATHOL MICR 2001; 44:403-5. [PMID: 12035349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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Prevalence of anti-HCV among the people at risk and general population were reported across the globe. We investigated HCV activity among the members of "Lisu" community settled in a remote and isolated area of Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh during 1999-2000. The families were scattered with 380 households. Blood samples were collected from 76 (35 males and 45 females) apparently healthy individuals from randomly selected 10% families. Sera were processed for detection for antibody to HCV by using 3rd generation ELISA kit. All the persons were within the age of 18-98 years and 75% of them were uneducated and 92% were cultivators. The prevalence of anti-HCV was found to be very high (7.89%). Since the HCV activity is high in an isolated community, transmission dynamics study will be interesting for this epidemiologically important viral disease.
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- A C Phukan
- Regional Medical Research Centre, NE Region, (ICMR), Dibrugarh
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The expression of the human presenilin-1 cellular gene is suppressed by the p53 protooncogene. The rapid kinetic of the down-regulation has suggested that it may result from a primary mechanism. We show here that p53 also suppresses the transcription of a presenilin-1 promoter-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter synthetic gene in transient infection assays in neuroblastoma (SK-N-SH) and hepatoma (HepG2) cell lines. Only a minimum promoter including sequences from -35 to + 6 from the transcription initiation is sufficient to confer down-regulation. We have previously defined a crucial DNA element controlling 90% of the expression of the gene within the same short area, and the identification of the transcription factors involved should also provide insights into the regulation of PS1 by p53. This region contains an Ets transcription factor binding motif, and a 2-base pair alteration within the core sequence (GGAA to TTAA) of the Ets consensus also reduced transcription by more than 90%. We now show that Ets1 and Ets2 indeed transactivate a PS1 promoter-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter including the (-35 to +6) fragment. Furthermore, in vitro translated Ets2 binds specifically to the -10 Ets motif in electrophoretic mobility shift assays. Therefore, Ets1/2 factors bind specifically to the -10 Ets element and activate PS1 transcription. We also show that the coactivator p300 enhances the activation by Ets1 and Ets2 as well as the repression by p53. p300 is known to interact with p53 as well as with Ets1 and Ets2. We show that p53 does not bind directly to the PS1 promoter. Hence the repression of PS1 transcription by p53 is likely to be mediated through protein-protein interactions.
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- M Pastorcic
- Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience and Department of Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas 76107, USA.
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The putative replication origin of Azotobacter vinelandii was cloned as an autonomously replicating fragment after ligation to an antibiotic resistance cartridge. The resulting plasmids could be isolated and labelled by Southern hybridisation with the antibiotic resistance cartridge as probe and also visualised by electron microscopy. These plasmids integrated into the chromosome after a few generations, even in the recA mutant of A. vinelandii. The integrated copy of the plasmid was re-isolated from the chromosome and the DNA and its subfragments were cloned in the plasmid vector pBR322. A 200-bp DNA fragment was sufficient to allow the replication of pBR322 in an Escherichia coli polA strain. Electron microscopic analysis of this plasmid showed that replication initiated mostly within the A. vinelandii DNA fragment. The nucleotide sequence of the putative replication origin and its flanking regions was determined. In the sequence of the 200-bp fragment many of the distinctive features found in other replication origins are lacking. A greater variation from the consensus DnaA binding sequence was observed in A. vinelandii. Direct sequencing of the relevant genomic fragment was also carried after amplifying it from A. vinelandii chromosomal DNA by PCR. This confirmed that no rearrangements had taken place while the cloned fragment was resident in E. coli. It was shown by hybridisation that the 200-bp chromosomal origin fragment of A. vinelandii was present in three other field strains of Azotobacter spp.
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- R A Singh
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Chelleng PK, Narain K, Das HK, Chetia M, Mahanta J. Risk factors for cancer nasopharynx: a case-control study from Nagaland, India. Natl Med J India 2000; 13:6-8. [PMID: 10743368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND A high incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma has been reported from Nagaland, though it is considered to be a rare neoplasm in India. No case-control study to identify the risk factors of cancer nasopharynx has been conducted in this region. This study was undertaken to identify dietary and environmental risk factors for nasopharyngeal carcinoma relevant to this region. METHODS A matched case-control study using neighbourhood controls was conducted. For each of the 47 cases identified, 2 apparently healthy neighbourhood controls were matched for age, sex and ethnicity. All information on dietary, environmental, social and demographic factors was collected. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis using maximum likelihood method was used to analyse data. RESULTS Consumption of smoked meat was found to be the risk factor for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (adjusted odds ratio = 10.8; 95% CI 3.0-39.0). History of using herbal nasal medicine was also found to be associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (OR = 21.9, CI = 6.8-71.4). However, exposure to a smoky atmosphere, betel-nut chewing, use of smokeless tobacco products, smoking and drinking habits were not found to be associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. CONCLUSION This study reveals an association of nasopharyngeal carcinoma with consumption of smoked meat in Nagaland. The use of herbal nasal medicine seems to be an additional risk factor for nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Nagaland and needs further assessment.
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- P K Chelleng
- Regional Medical Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Assam, India
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Cheema AK, Choudhury NR, Das HK. A- and T-tract-mediated intrinsic curvature in native DNA between the binding site of the upstream activator NtrC and the nifLA promoter of Klebsiella pneumoniae facilitates transcription. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:5296-302. [PMID: 10464200 PMCID: PMC94035 DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.17.5296-5302.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The nif promoters of Klebsiella pneumoniae must be activated by proteins bound to upstream sequences which are thought to interact with the sigma54-RNA polymerase holoenzyme by DNA looping. NifA is the activator for most of the promoters, and integration host factor (IHF) mediates the DNA looping. While NtrC is the activator for the nifLA promoter, no IHF appears to be involved. There are two A tracts and one T tract between the upstream enhancer and the nifLA promoter. This DNA segment exhibits anomalous electrophoretic mobility, suggesting intrinsic sequence-induced curvature in the DNA. On the one hand, mutation of the A tracts or T tract individually or together, or deletion of the A tracts and the T tract reduces the anomaly; on the other hand, creation of two additional A tracts enhances the anomaly. Intrinsic curvature in the DNA has been confirmed by circular permutation analysis after cloning the DNA fragment in the vector pBend 2 and also by electron microscopy. Computer simulation with the DNA base sequence is also suggestive of intrinsic curvature. A transcriptional fusion with the Escherichia coli lacZ gene of the DNA fragment containing the nifLA promoter and the wild-type or the mutated upstream sequences was constructed, and in vivo transcription in K. pneumoniae and E. coli was monitored. There was indeed very good correlation between the extent of intrinsic curvature of the DNA and transcription from the promoter, suggesting that DNA curvature due to the A tracts and the T tract was necessary for transcription in vivo from the nifLA promoter of K. pneumoniae.
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- A K Cheema
- Genetic Engineering Unit and Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
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Deletion mapping of the human presenilin-1 (PS1) promoter delineated the most active fragment from -118 to +178 in relation to the transcription start site mapped in this study, in both human neuroblastoma SK-N-SH and hepatoma HepG2 cells. 5' deletions revealed that a crucial element controlling over 90% of the promoter activity in these cell lines is located between -22 and -6. A mutation altering only two nucleotides of the ETS consensus sequence present at -12 (GGAA to TTAA) has a similar effect. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that a set of specific complexes between nuclear factors and the PS1 promoter are eliminated by this point mutation, as well as by competition with an ETS consensus oligonucleotide. Competition experiments in DNase I footprinting correlated with electrophoretic mobility shift assays and showed that only one of several footprints over the PS1 promoter is eliminated by competition with an ETS consensus oligonucleotide. It extends from -14 to -6 and surrounds the ETS motif present at -12. Thus, a crucial ETS element is present at -12 and binds a protein(s) recognizing specifically the ETS consensus motif. At least one such complex is eliminated by preincubating the nuclear extract with an antibody with broad cross-reactivity with Ets-1 and Ets-2 proteins, thus confirming that an ETS transcription factor(s) recognizes the -12 motif. Several Sp1 binding motifs at positions -70, -55, and +20 surround this ETS element. Competition DNase I footprinting showed that Sp1-like nuclear factors recognize specifically these sites in both cell lines. Furthermore, a combination of 5' and 3' deletions indicated the presence of positive promoter elements between -96 and -35 as well as between +6 and +42. Thus, transfection and footprinting assays correlate to suggest that Sp1 transcription factor(s) bind at several sites upstream and downstream from the initiation site and activate the transcription of the PS1 promoter. Sequences downstream from the transcription initiation site also contain major control elements. 3' deletions from +178 to +107 decreased promoter activity by 80%. However, further deletion to +42 increased promoter activity by 3-4-fold. Collectively, these data indicate that sequences upstream and downstream from the transcription start site each control over 80% of the promoter activity. Hence, this suggests that protein-protein interactions between factors recognizing downstream and upstream sequences are involved.
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- M Pastorcic
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas 76107, USA
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Hepatic cell-specific expression of the human apolipoprotein B (apoB) gene is controlled by at least four cis-acting elements located between positions -128 and +122 [Chuang, S. S., & Das, H. K. (1996) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 220, 553-562]. A negative cis-acting element (+20 to +40) is located in the first nontranslated exon of the human apoB gene, and apoB regulatory factor-3 (BRF-3) interacts with this. In this paper, we report the purification and characterization of BRF-3 from rat liver nuclear extracts. BRF-3 has been purified to apparent homogeneity by DEAE-cellulose, heparin-agarose, and DNA-specific affinity chromatography. Purified BRF-3 produced two polypeptide bands with apparent molecular masses of 70 kDa and 67 kDa in SDS/PAGE as detected by silver staining. Both 70-kDa and 67-kDa proteins have been found to hybridize specifically with labeled double-stranded oligonucleotide containing BRF-3 binding site in a South-Western blot. Double-stranded oligonucleotide containing mutations in the BRF-3 binding site was found to abolish DNA binding by these two proteins. Amino acid sequences of tryptic peptides derived from affinity purified 70-kDa and 67-kDa rat BRF-3 proteins were found to have 100% sequence homologies with DNA topoisomerase I. These data suggest that the 70-kDa and 67-kDa forms of BRF-3 are derived by proteolytic cleavage of topoisomerase I, and therefore, topoisomerase I may play an important role in transcriptional regulation of apoB.
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- S S Chuang
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, USA
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Chuang SS, Das HK. A single in vitro point mutation in the first non-translated exon silences transcription of the human apolipoprotein B gene in HepG2 cells. Biochim Biophys Acta 1999; 1436:600-5. [PMID: 9989290 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2760(98)00117-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Hepatic cell-specific expression of the human apolipoprotein B (apoB) gene is controlled by at least four cis-acting elements located within the -128 to +122 promoter region (S.S. Chuang, H.K. Das, Identification of trans-acting factors that interact with cis-acting elements present in the first non-translated exon of the human apolipoprotein B gene, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 220 (1996) 553-562). Two cis-acting positive elements (-104 to -85; -84 to -60) are located upstream from the start of transcription. A negative element (+20 to +40) and a strong positive element (+43 to +53) are located in the first non-translated exon of the human apolipoprotein B gene. Trans-acting factors BRF-2, BRF-1, BRF-3, and BRF-4 interact with the above four cis-acting elements respectively. In this study, we examine the roles of the upstream positive elements -104 to -85 and -84 to -60 in modulating transcriptional regulation of the apoB gene by downstream elements +20 to +40 and +43 to +53. Using in vitro mutagenesis and transient transfection experiments in HepG2 cells, the cis-acting element -84 to -60 has been found to be absolutely necessary for the function of the upstream element -104 to -85 and downstream elements +20 to +40 and +43 to +53. In vitro mutagenesis of the downstream positive element +43 to +53 and transfection of the mutant promoter constructs in HepG2 cells reveal that nucleotide G at position +51 is essential for the strong positive activity of the element +43 to +53. A single substitution point mutation of nucleotide G to either A or T at position +51 reduces apolipoprotein B gene transcription substantially in HepG2 cells. These results suggest that a single substitution mutation in vivo, of nucleotide G to either A or T at position +51 in the downstream positive promoter element +43 to +53 may potentially cause hypobetalipoproteinemia, a heterozygous from of an autosomal-dominant disorder.
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- S S Chuang
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth 76107, USA
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Prakash A, Mohapatra PK, Das HK, Sharma RK, Mahanta J. Bancroftian filariasis in Namrup tea estate, district Dibrugarh, Assam. Indian J Public Health 1998; 42:103-7, 112. [PMID: 10389521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023] Open
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Filariasis survey in a randomly selected tea estate of district Dibrugrah revealed 6.7% infection of Wuchereria bancrofti in labour population with microfilaria (mf) rate of 7.6% in males and 5.9% in females. The mf rate increased progressively with the age which however, dropped in 31-40 age group of males and in 41-50 age group of females. Chronic filariasis diseases rate was 2.7%. The involvement of genitals in manifesting chronic filariasis was significantly higher than of the lower extremities. Infection and infectivity rates in the vector mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus were 6.1% and 4.6% respectively with mean L3 load per infective mosquito of 8.5. Drains, land, peridomestic ditches were chief breeding habitats of Cules quinquefasciatus in the tea estate.
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- A Prakash
- Regional Medical Research Centre, N.E. Region, Dibbrugarh, Assam
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BAL-31 deletion products of the DNA fragment containing the vnfH promoter and upstream region, when cloned in a transcriptional fusion vector and analyzed for vnfH expression in Azotobacter vinelandii, revealed that the upstream activator sequence of the vnfH promoter lies about 140 nucleotides upstream of the promoter. Subsequent substitution and deletion analysis by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis in the upstream region of the vnfH promoter showed that sequences 5'-GTACCATGCGGAAC-3' and 5'-GTACCTGCGGGTAC-3', located 170 and 140 nucleotides upstream of the vnfH promoter, respectively, are both required for vnfH expression. Addition of four nucleotides in the intervening sequence between the vnfH promoter and the putative VnfA (analog of NifA of the conventional molybdenum-dependent nitrogen-fixation pathway) binding site resulted in a drastic reduction of expression from the vnfH promoter in Azotobacter vinelandii, where as addition of 10 nucleotides in the intervening sequence did not affect the expression. Therefore, the face of the helix-dependent contact appeared to be important. DNA bending seemed to play a crucial role in expression from vnfH promoter. The intervening sequence exhibited characteristics of sequence-dependent intrinsically curved DNA, as shown by anomalous low gel mobility with polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, electron microscopy, and computer simulated curvature analysis. Distamycin at very low concentrations significantly reduced the anomaly in electrophoretic mobility of the intervening DNA sequence.Key words: Azotobacter vinelandii, vnfA, vnfH, promoter-lacZ fusion, DNA bending.
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Bageshwar UK, Raina R, Choudhury NR, Das HK. Analysis of upstream activation of the vnfH promoter of Azotobacter vinelandii. Can J Microbiol 1998; 44:405-15. [PMID: 9699296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BAL-31 deletion products of the DNA fragment containing the vnfH promoter and upstream region, when cloned in a transcriptional fusion vector and analyzed for vnfH expression in Azotobacter vinelandii, revealed that the upstream activator sequence of the vnfH promoter lies about 140 nucleotides upstream of the promoter. Subsequent substitution and deletion analysis by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis in the upstream region of the vnfH promoter showed that sequences 5'-GTACCATGCGGAAC-3' and 5'-GTACCTGCGGGTAC-3', located 170 and 140 nucleotides upstream of the vnfH promoter, respectively, are both required for vnfH expression. Addition of four nucleotides in the intervening sequence between the vnfH promoter and the putative VnfA (analog of NifA of the conventional molybdenum-dependent nitrogen-fixation pathway) binding site resulted in a drastic reduction of expression from the vnfH promoter in Azotobacter vinelandii, whereas addition of 10 nucleotides in the intervening sequence did not affect the expression. Therefore, the face of the helix-dependent contact appeared to be important. DNA bending seemed to play a crucial role in expression from vnfH promoter. The intervening sequence exhibited characteristics of sequence-dependent intrinsically curved DNA, as shown by anomalous low gel mobility with polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, electron microscopy, and computer simulated curvature analysis. Distamycin at very low concentrations significantly reduced the anomaly in electrophoretic mobility of the intervening DNA sequence.
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- U K Bageshwar
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Bageshwar UK, Raina R, Das HK. Characterization of a spontaneous mutant of Azotobacter vinelandii in which vanadium-dependent nitrogen fixation is not inhibited by molybdenum. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1998; 162:161-7. [PMID: 9595678 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1998.tb12994.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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A spontaneous mutant derivative of Azotobacter vinelandii CA12 (delta nif HDK), which vanadium-dependent nitrogen fixation is not inhibited by molybdenum (A. vinelandii CARR), grows profusely on BNF-agar containing 1 microM Na2MoO4, alone or supplemented with 1 microM V2O5. The expression of A. vinelandii vnfH::lacZ and vnfA::lacZ fusions in A. vinelandii CARR was not inhibited by 1 mM Na2MoO4, whereas molybdenum at much lower concentration inhibited the expression of vnfH::lacZ and vnfA::lacZ fusions in A. vinlandii CA12. The mutant also exhibited normal acetylene reduction activity in the presence of 1 microM Na2MoO4. The expression of A. vinelandii nifH::lacZ fusion in A. vinelandii CARR was low even though the cells were cultured under non-repressing conditions with urea as nitrogen source in the presence of Na2MoO4. The molybdenum content of A. vinelandii CARR cells was found to be about one-fourth that of A. vinelandii CA12. No nitrate reductase activity could be detected in A. vinelandii CARR when the cells were cultured in the presence of 10 microM Na2MoO4, whereas A. vinelandii CA12 exhibited some activity even with 100 pM Na2MoO4.
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- U K Bageshwar
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Both the early and late-onset Alzheimer's disease affect millions of people throughout the world. A number of molecules have been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. These include presenilin 1 and 2 (PS1 and PS2), a beta-amyloid peptide, and tau protein. Presenilin 1 and 2 genes implicated in the early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease have been cloned. Both PS1 and PS2 are integral membrane proteins and may function as receptors or channel proteins. Missense mutations in PS1 and PS2 genes have been found in families that cosegregate with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Overexpression of the mutated PS1 gene produced amyloid plaques in the brain of transgenic mice. Secreted beta-amyloid protein similar to that in the senile plaques of Alzheimer's disease was found to be elevated in fibroblast media from subjects with PS1 or PS2 mutations. Transgenic mice which carried the mutant form of the beta-amyloid precursor protein gene expressed high concentrations of mutant copy of the gene and exhibited abundant amyloid plaques in the brain and memory loss. The mutated PS2 gene enhanced apoptotic activity. This enhanced apoptotic activity may accelerate the process of neurodegeneration leading to an earlier age in the onset of the disease. Identification of lesions in the molecules that are important in the Alzheimer's disease should allow developing therapeutic approaches for its treatment.
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- H K Das
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, Texas 76107, USA.
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Total mercury concentration in the muscle of 417 fish of 12 common freshwater and four anadromous species from Bangladesh were low, varying from 2 to 430 ng/g fresh wt. Depending on Hg speciation, three types of accumulation mechanisms were defined. Type I covers the majority of species and describes a pattern widely accepted as 'normal', with increasing levels of organic (methyl) mercury with length (age), combined to a low and constant inorganic level. This accumulation pattern leads to a relative increase of the organic mercury fraction with age, eventually reaching 90-100% of organic mercury in full grown specimens. Type II is found in both planktivorous genera only and showed increasing levels of inorganic mercury combined to low and constant organic mercury levels, leading to a relative decrease in organic mercury fraction with age. This unexpected pattern was only reported in cases of some marine species where it seemed to be linked to demethylation mechanisms or regional influences on Hg levels. A third intermediate accumulation pattern with increasing concentrations of both the organic and the inorganic Hg fraction with age was found in one bottom dwelling species only. The implications of these observations for the accumulation mechanisms of mercury in fish are discussed.
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- L Holsbeek
- Laboratory for Ecotoxicology and Polar Ecology, Free University of Brussels (VUB), Belgium
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Manna AC, Das HK. Characterization and mutagenesis of the leucine biosynthetic genes of Azotobacter vinelandii: an analysis of the rarity of amino acid auxotrophs. Mol Gen Genet 1997; 254:207-17. [PMID: 9108283 DOI: 10.1007/s004380050409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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An 8.7 kb region of the Azotobacter vinelandii chromosome has been analyzed by genetic complementation and nucleotide sequencing. The sequence reveals that leuC and leuD comprise an operon- and leuB is adjacent to leuD. leuA was not detected. Experiments involving lac fusion constructs have confirmed the existence of separate promoters for leuC-leuD and for leuB. Primer extension studies have localized the transcription initiation sites of the leuC-leuD operon and also of the leuB operon. Five more open reading frames showing homology with the Escherichia coli genes yoh1, ibpB, cynR, asd and usg1 have also been found. Auxotrophic mutations are rare in A. vinelandii. We have been able to generate, for the first time, stable mutations in leuB, leuC and leuD by insertion of various gene blocks in vitro and integration by double crossover in vivo. Homogenotization of the mutation into all of the multiple chromosomes of A. vinelandii has been achieved. Evidence has been obtained suggesting the presence of a permease in A. vinelandii capable of leucine transport. Possible reasons for the dearth of auxotrophic mutations in A. vinelandii are discussed.
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- A C Manna
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Krishnamoorthy RR, Lee TH, Butel JS, Das HK. Apolipoprotein B gene regulatory factor-2 (BRF-2) is structurally and immunologically highly related to hepatitis B virus X associated protein-1 (XAP-1). Biochemistry 1997; 36:960-9. [PMID: 9020796 DOI: 10.1021/bi961407c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Hepatic cell-specific expression of the human apolipoprotein B (apoB) gene is controlled by at least four cis-acting elements located between positions -128 and +122 [Chuang, S. S., & Das, H. K. (1996) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 220, 553-562]. The distal element (-128 to -85) appears to be liver specific because it shows positive activity in HepG2 cells and negative activity in HeLa cells. ApoB gene regulatory factor-2 (BRF-2) interacts with the sequence (-104 to -85). BRF-2 has been purified from rat liver nuclear extract, and its molecular weight has been determined to be approximately 120 kDa [Zhuang et al. (1992) Mol. Cell. Biol. 12, 3183-3191]. In this paper we report the isolation of two isoforms of BRF-2 by further purification using high-performance liquid chromatography. Both isoforms produced a single approximately 120-kDa band in sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis detected by silver stain. The amino acid sequences of two tryptic peptides derived from HPLC-purified heavier BRF-2 isoform were determined to be YLAIAPPIIK and ALYYLQIHPQELR. These two peptides were found to share 100% sequence homology with human hepatitis B virus X associated protein-1 (XAP-1) and monkey UV-damaged DNA-binding protein (UV-DDB). Anti-peptide antisera raised against two synthetic peptides of XAP-1 recognized a approximately 120-kDa polypeptide band in both BRF-2 isoforms in a western blot analysis. By using apoB promoter fragments containing various internal deletions and a substitution mutation as templates for gel mobility shift assays, we identified the region between -104 and -85 as crucial for binding by the high-molecular weight form. In contrast, the lower molecular weight isoform bound to all apoB mutants tested. Anti-peptide 2 antiserum directed against XAP-1 was found to inhibit in vitro transcription of the apoB gene in rat liver nuclear extracts by 50%. These results suggest that BRF-2 and XAP-1 are structurally and immunologically highly related trans-activators of the apoB gene. We propose that BRF-2 exists both as a monomer (BRF-2M) and as a homooligomer. probably a homodimer (BRF-2D), in solution; oligomerization appears to be an essential step for imparting sequence-specificity to BRF-2 protein and thereby facilitating its role as a trans-activator of the apoB gene.
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- R R Krishnamoorthy
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth 76107, USA
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects millions of people throughout the world. The financial and emotional costs that are inflicted by this devastating disease are enormous. Genes responsible for the early-onset familial AD have been cloned and found to be membrane associated transport proteins. Evidence suggests that apolipoprotein E4 may be the risk factor for the late-onset form of the disease. Beta-amyloid and potassium channel dysfunction have also been implicated in the development of AD. Hyperphosphorylation of "tau" has been indicated for the generation of neurofibrillary tangles in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Since apoE4 does not bind to "tau", apoE4 may contribute to the hyperphosphorylation of "tau" which may cause the formation of neurofibrillary tangles in AD patients. Molecular biology research on AD should help in the development of drugs for the prevention and treatment of the disease.
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- H K Das
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth 76107, USA
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Nayak HK, Das HK, Mahanta J, Srivastava VK. An outbreak of acute diarrheal diseases caused by E. coli in a tea garden of upper Assam. J Commun Dis 1996; 28:209-11. [PMID: 8973023] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- H K Nayak
- Regional Medical Research Centre, N.E. Region Indian Council of Medical Research, Assam
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Human scalp hair mercury concentrations were determined in 219 hair samples from male individuals from different regions of Bangladesh. Total hair mercury concentrations were very low with a mean value of 0.44 +/- 0.19 micrograms Hg/g (range 0.02-0.95) for a moderately elevated fish consumption averaging 2.1 kg/month (range 1.4-2.6). A highly significant positive correlation (r = 0.88, P < 0.001) was found between fish consumption and hair mercury concentration. Neither age, region nor occupation had any influence on the hair mercury content. Our results in agreement with literature values, are described by equation (X = 183Y + 0.16) linking calculated daily methylmercury intake (X, mg) and hair total mercury level (Y, micrograms/g). Low concentrations in hair were linked to extremely low levels of daily mercury intake, the determining factor being remarkably low mercury levels in Bangladesh fish.
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- L Holsbeek
- Laboratory for Ecotoxicology and Polar Ecology, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
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Chuang SS, Das HK. Identification of trans-acting factors that interact with cis-acting elements present in the first nontranslated exon of the human apolipoprotein B gene. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1996; 220:553-62. [PMID: 8607803 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Apolipoprotein B is the sole protein of low density lipoprotein and is produced primarily in the liver. Previously, we have identified two cis-acting elements (+20 to +40; +43 to +53) in the non-translated exon of the human apolipoprotein B gene, using DNase I footprint analysis (S. S. Chuang, H. Zhuang, S. R. Reisher, S. I. Feinstein, and H. K. Das, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Com. 215, 394-404, 1995). Wild type and mutated promoter constructs were used as templates in DNase I footprint analysis with rat liver nuclear extracts. These experiments suggest that trans-acting factors BRF-3 and BRF-4 which recognize these two footprint regions (+20 to +40; +43 to +53) respectively, act independently. In vitro-synthesized hepatocyte nuclear factors HNF-1alpha, HNF-lbeta. HNF-3alpha, and HNF-2/HNF-4 showed no specific protein/DNA interaction with these regions. DNase I footprint analysis using other DNA-binding site oligonucleotides as competitors indicated that BRF-3 and BRF-4 could be different hepatocyte nuclear factors and may contribute to the regulation of transcription of the human apolipoprotein B gene.
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- S S Chuang
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Texas, The Health Science Center at Fort Worth, 76107, USA
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Chuang SS, Zhuang H, Reisher SR, Feinstein SI, Das HK. Transcriptional regulation of the apolipoprotein B-100 gene: identification of cis-acting elements in the first nontranslated exon of the human apolipoprotein B-100 gene. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1995; 215:394-404. [PMID: 7575618 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1995.2478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Apolipoprotein B-100, produced primarily in the human liver, is the sole protein component of low-density lipoprotein and serves as a ligand for the LDL receptor. Two cis-acting positive elements between -128 and -70 control hepatic cell-specific expression of the human apoB gene (H. K. Das, T. Leff, and J. L. Breslow, J. Biol. Chem. 263: 11452-11458, 1988). In this study, two apoB cis-acting elements (+20 to +40; +43 to +53) have been identified using DNase I footprint analysis. Through in vitro mutagenesis and transient transfection experiments in Hep G2 and HeLa cells, the element (+20 to +40) was observed to have a negative effect on transcription of the apoB gene. The element (+43 to +53) was found to have a strong positive effect on apoB gene transcription in Hep G2 cells and mild positive effect in HeLa cells. Therefore these two cis-acting elements mediate hepatic-cell specific expression of the apolipoprotein gene by interacting with trans-acting protein factors.
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- S S Chuang
- Department of Pharmacology, University of North Texas, Fort Worth 76107, USA
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The recF gene from Azotobacter vinelandii (Av) has been cloned by complementation in an Escherichia coli (Ec) recF mutant. The sequence of 1568 bp has been determined and analyzed. It showed an open reading frame of 1092 nt coding for a 364-amino-acid (aa) polypeptide. The comparison of the deduced aa sequence of the recF of Av with those of other bacteria has elicited the presence of the four conserved domains thought to be essential for RecF function. A transcriptional fusion of a DNA fragment containing the promoter sequence of recF with the lacZ gene of Ec was constructed and 3-4-fold enhancement of promoter activity was observed upon UV induction.
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- H Badran
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Raina S, Raina R, Venkatesh TV, Das HK. Isolation and characterization of a locus from Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 that complements the tumorigenic defect of Agrobacterium tumefaciens chvB mutant. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 1995; 8:322-6. [PMID: 7756697 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-8-0322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The chromosomal virulence gene chvB of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is required for pathogenesis. A DNA fragment from the chvB locus can hybridize to DNA from Azospirillum brasilense Sp7. This DNA fragment could restore the tumorigenic activity of the chvB mutant strain A. tumefaciens A1011 towards leaf disks of Nicotiana tabacum. An NH2-terminal open reading frame, 480 codons long, was most likely responsible for the restoration of the tumorigenic activity. The A. brasilense sequence showed good homology with the NH2-terminal region of the ndvB gene of Rhizobium meliloti.
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- S Raina
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India
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Mynatt RL, Park EA, Thorngate FE, Das HK, Cook GA. Changes in carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I mRNA abundance produced by hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism parallel changes in activity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1994; 201:932-7. [PMID: 8003033 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1994.1791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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To study the regulation of carnitine palmitoyltransferase-I by thyroid hormone, a cDNA was obtained by PCR amplification of DNA obtained by reverse transcription of rat liver RNA. CPT-I mRNA abundance was measured in livers of hyperthyroid, euthyroid and hypothyroid rats. In hypothyroid rats, the CPT-I mRNA levels decreased 40-fold relative to that of the hyperthyroid animals. These changes paralleled alterations in enzyme activity. These data suggest that CPT-I is regulated at the transcriptional level by thyroid hormone.
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- R L Mynatt
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163
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The chromosome of Azotobacter vinelandii UW was digested separately with the rape cutter restriction endonucleases SwaI (5'-ATTTAAAT), PmeI (5'GTTTAAAC) and PacI (5'-TTAATTAA) and the products were separated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The size of the chromosome was determined to be approximately 4.5 megabase pairs (Mb) based on the sum of the sizes of the restriction fragments. This is almost the same as the size of the chromosome of Escherichia coli. The inability of the undigested DNA to enter the gel has led us to infer that the chromosome is circular.
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- A C Manna
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Raina R, Bageshwar UK, Das HK. The Azotobacter vinelandii nifL-like gene: nucleotide sequence analysis and regulation of expression. Mol Gen Genet 1993; 237:400-6. [PMID: 8483455 DOI: 10.1007/bf00279444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The nucleotide sequence of the Azotobacter vinelandii nifL-like gene (Av-nifL) was determined. The 1.9 kb sequence shows an open reading frame (ORF) of 1577 bp which encodes a polypeptide of 519 amino acids, with a calculated molecular weight of 57,793. Av-nifL has about 50% homology with the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifL gene (Kp-nifL) at the nucleotide level and a little more than 52% homology at the amino acid level. The N-terminal regions show more homology than the C-terminal regions. As is the case in K. pneumoniae, Av-nifL is located just upstream of the A. vinelandii nifA gene (Av-nifA) and both genes constitute an operon. The expression of Av-nifL, however, seems to be independent of NtrA and NtrC. Furthermore, Av-nifL expression is not autogenously regulated by NifA, unlike the case in K. pneumoniae. The expression of an Av-nifL::lacZ fusion in A. vinelandii is inhibited by novobiocin and coumermycin A, which are inhibitors of DNA gyrase.
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- R Raina
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Raina R, Bageshwar UK, Das HK. The ORF encoding a putative ferredoxin-like protein downstream of the vnfH gene in Azotobacter vinelandii is involved in the vanadium-dependent alternative pathway of nitrogen fixation. Mol Gen Genet 1993; 236:459-62. [PMID: 8437593 DOI: 10.1007/bf00277149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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An open reading frame (ORF) in the same operon as, but downstream of, vnfH in Azotobacter vinelandii can code for a ferredoxin-like protein. The role this ORF may play in the vnf (vanadium-dependent alternative) pathway of nitrogen fixation was investigated. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to alter one base in each of the codons specifying amino acids 18 and 19 generating a unique Bg/II site. A kanamycin resistance cartridge was cloned into the Bg/II site. This construct was mobilized into A. vinelandii CA12 (delta nifHDK) strain by conjugation and the mutation was introduced into the genome by marker exchange. The resulting mutant was unable to fix nitrogen under conditions in which the vnf pathway of nitrogen fixation operates. This suggests that this ORF is functional and is essential for the vanadium-dependent alternative pathway of nitrogen fixation in A. vinelandii.
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- R Raina
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Zhuang H, Chuang SS, Das HK. Transcriptional regulation of the apolipoprotein B100 gene: purification and characterization of trans-acting factor BRF-2. Mol Cell Biol 1992; 12:3183-91. [PMID: 1620125 PMCID: PMC364533 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.7.3183-3191.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Apolipoprotein B100 (apoB), the only protein of low-density lipoprotein, is produced primarily in the liver and serves as a ligand for the low-density lipoprotein receptor. Hepatic cell-specific expression of the human apoB gene is controlled by at least two cis-acting positive elements located between positions-128 and -70 (H. K. Das, T. Leff, and J.L. Breslow, J. Biol. Chem. 263:11452-11458, 1988). The distal element (-128 to -85) appears to be liver specific since it shows positive activity in HepG2 cells and negative activity in HeLa cells. The proximal element (-84 to -70) acts as a positive element in both these cell lines, and two rat liver nuclear proteins, BRF-1 and C/EBP, bind to two overlapping sites (-84 to -60 and -70 to -50, respectively). By gel mobility shift assay, we have identified a rat liver nuclear protein (BRF-2) which binds to the distal element (-128 to -85) of the apoB gene. This putative trans-acting factor has been purified to apparent homogeneity by DEAE-cellulose, heparin-agarose, and DNA-specific affinity chromatography. The purified BRF-2 has an apparent molecular mass of 120 kDa and was found to specifically recognize sequence -128 to -85; BRF-2 also produced a strong hypersensitive site at nucleotide position -95 with copper-orthophenanthroline reagent. A double-stranded oligonucleotide (-128 to -85) containing a 3-nucleotide (TTC) insertion between position -95 and -94 was found to abolish DNA binding by BRF-2. This result suggests that the region surrounding the hypersensitive site -95 is important for protein-DNA interaction. By using apoB promoter fragments containing various internal deletions as templates for gel mobility shift assay, the region between -104 and -85 was identified to be crucial for binding by BRF-2. We propose that BRF-2 may play an important role in the tissue-specific regulation of apoB gene transcription.
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- H Zhuang
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Tennessee-Memphis 38163
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The nucleotide (nt) sequence of the Azotobacter vinelandii recA gene (Av-recA) was determined and compared with the recA sequences from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa-recA), a soil bacterium, and Escherichia coli (Ec-recA), an enteric bacterium. The Av-recA gene and the deduced aa sequence were found to be more similar to their Pa-recA counterparts than to the Ec-recA gene and protein. Expression of Av-recA was found to be autoregulatory. Unlike Ec-recA and Pa-recA, however, expression of Av-recA was weakly enhanced upon DNA damage. In E. coli, expression of an Av-recA::lacZ fusion was poor, but its autoregulation was similar to that of Ec-recA. Av-recA expression, however, could not induce the repair system response in E. coli.
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- T V Venkatesh
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Venkatesh TV, Reddy MA, Das HK. Cloning and characterization of the Azotobacter vinelandii recA gene and construction of a recA deletion mutant. Mol Gen Genet 1990; 224:482-6. [PMID: 2266950 DOI: 10.1007/bf00262444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The recA gene of Azotobacter vinelandii was isolated from a genomic library by heterologous complementation of an Escherichia coli recA mutation for resistance to UV radiation. The A. vinelandii recA gene was localized on adjacent PstI fragments of 1.3 and 1.7 kb. The cloned A. vinelandii recA gene was functionally analogous to the E. coli recA gene. It was also able to complement the E. coli recA mutation for homologous recombination. A recA deletion mutant of A. vinelandii was constructed. This mutant was sensitive to DNA-damaging agents like UV rays, methyl methane sulfonate (MMS) and nalidixic acid and was deficient in homologous recombination.
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- T V Venkatesh
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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The gene gyrA encoding the DNA gyrase A subunit of Klebsiella pneumoniae has been cloned in the plasmid pBR322. Bases of about 3.5 Kb DNA have been sequenced to locate the gyrA gene. An open reading frame of 2628 nucleotides coding for a 97 KD protein has been identified. Homology to the extent of about 85% was detected at the nucleotide level and about 90% at the amino acid level, when the sequences were compared with that of Escherichia coli gyrA. Some very interesting differences have, however, been found in the promoter region.
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- G P Dimri
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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The number of copies of the genes leuB, nifH, nifD, and nifK per cell of Azotobacter vinelandii has been determined to be about 80. A beta-lactamase gene was integrated into the A. vinelandii chromosome by single-point crossover. Subsequently, we have been able to detect nearly 80 copies of this beta-lactamase gene per cell of A. vinelandii when cultured for a large number of generations in the presence of ampicillin. The multiple copies of the beta-lactamase gene do not seem to be present on a single chromosome, as evident from the fragment obtained by digestion of cellular DNA with the appropriate restriction endonuclease. The kinetics of renaturation of DNA of A. vinelandii is suggestive of complexity similar to that of Escherichia coli. The DNA content of A. vinelandii, however, is 40 times that of E. coli. All these indicate the presence of multiple chromosomes, possibly as many as 80, in A. vinelandii.
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- P Nagpal
- Genetic Engineering Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Raina R, Reddy MA, Ghosal D, Das HK. Characterization of the gene for the Fe-protein of the vanadium dependent alternative nitrogenase of Azotobacter vinelandii and construction of a Tn5 mutant. Mol Gen Genet 1988; 214:121-7. [PMID: 3226421 DOI: 10.1007/bf00340189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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A sequence homologous to the conventional nifH gene has been cloned from a different region of the Azotobacter vinelandii genome. Tn5 insertions were obtained in this clone and the mutagenized plasmid was used for marker exchange with A. vinelandii strain CA12 (delta nifHDK) to obtain Tn5 mutants. These mutants exhibited a Nif- phenotype in the presence of vanadium, unlike CA12 which was Nif+ on vanadium-containing medium. The gene in the cloned nifH-like region is therefore apparently involved in the vanadium dependent alternative pathway of nitrogen fixation. This gene, nifH2, has been sequenced and encodes a protein of 289 amino acids that is similar to nifH in nucleotide sequence, deduced amino acid sequence, predicted secondary structure and hydrophobicity profile. A second open reading frame downstream of nifH2 codes for a protein of 64 amino acids, similar to the ferredoxin (Fd)-like protein encoded downstream of nifH* in A. chroococum. Sequence analysis suggests that the nifH2 and Fd-like genes are in a single operon.
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- R Raina
- Genetic Engineering Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Das HK, Leff T, Breslow JL. Cell type-specific expression of the human apoB gene is controlled by two cis-acting regulatory regions. J Biol Chem 1988; 263:11452-8. [PMID: 3165376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The human apolipoprotein B (apoB) gene codes for two related proteins, apoB-100 and apoB-48. ApoB-100 is synthesized in the liver, is the major protein constituent of low density lipoprotein, and serves as the ligand for the LDL receptor. cis-acting DNA sequence elements required for hepatic specific apoB transcription were identified in hepatoma (HepG2) and epithelial carcinoma (HeLa) cell lines transfected with apoB/CAT (chloramphenicol acetyltransferase) hybrid constructions. HepG2 cells express the transfected apoB constructions at high levels relative to expression in HeLa cells. Mutational analysis of the 5'-flanking region of the apoB gene revealed the presence of positive and negative regulatory regions. The most distal of these regions, located from -261 to -128 (with respect to the start site of transcription), was found to have a roughly equivalent negative activity in both cell types. However, sequences located from -128 to -86 showed a positive activity in HepG2 cells and a negative activity in HeLa cells. Finally, a sequence element located between positions -86 and -70 was found to have a very strong positive effect in HepG2 cells and only a mild positive effect in HeLa cells. These two proximal regions located between -128 and -70 appear to act together to determine the cell type-specific expression of the apoB gene in HepG2 and HeLa cells. Using the gel mobility shift assay and the DNase I footprinting technique, we demonstrated that DNA binding proteins from HepG2 and mouse liver nuclear extracts interact with the crucial positive region located between -86 and -70. This region was also found to contain sequence elements similar to sequences found in the promoters of other apolipoprotein genes, as well as other genes that are expressed in the liver, suggesting that these genes may share some transcriptional regulatory components.
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- H K Das
- Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism, Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
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Das HK, Jackson CL, Miller DA, Leff T, Breslow JL. The human apolipoprotein C-II gene sequence contains a novel chromosome 19-specific minisatellite in its third intron. J Biol Chem 1987; 262:4787-93. [PMID: 3558370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The human apolipoprotein C-II gene was sequenced and found to contain four exons and three introns, with a major transcription initiation site located 26 base pairs downstream from a TATA sequence element. The third intron was found to be composed almost entirely of a novel 37-base pair minisatellite that is repeated six times. The minisatellite sequence was found to be present in approximately 60 different genomic locations. The minisatellite DNA sequence at three of these loci were compared and found to be highly conserved. In situ hybridization indicated that the minisatellite loci were clustered in the q13.3 band of chromosome 19. This is the first example of a chromosome- and band-specific repetitive element in the mammalian genome.
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We have isolated a unique fragment of the HLA-DR alpha gene and probed human genomic DNA at low stringency to search for homologous sequences. A minimum of six non-polymorphic cross-hybridizing high molecular weight fragments were found in all DNAs examined. In order to obtain molecular clones of these cross-hybridizing fragments, we constructed lambda and cosmid libraries of human DNA and screened them at low stringency with the HLA-DR alpha gene specific subclone. We have isolated clones corresponding to each of the six fragments and, in this paper, describe those which contain the gene encoding HLA-SB(DP) alpha.
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Das HK, Chakravorty M, Sanyal B. Serum enzymes as bio-chemical markers in the diagnosis and prognosis of carcinoma of the cervix uteri. Indian J Cancer 1985; 22:121-31. [PMID: 3842127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Das HK, McPherson J, Bruns GA, Karathanasis SK, Breslow JL. Isolation, characterization, and mapping to chromosome 19 of the human apolipoprotein E gene. J Biol Chem 1985; 260:6240-7. [PMID: 3922972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The human apo-E gene has been isolated from a lambda phage library using as a probe the previously reported apo-E cDNA clone pE-301. Lambda apo-E was mapped and subcloned, and the apo-E gene was completely sequenced. The DNA sequence was compared with that of a near full length cDNA clone pE-368 and revealed three introns. The first intron was in the region that corresponds to the 5' untranslated region of apo-E mRNA. The second intron interrupted the codon specifying amino acid -4 of the apo-E signal peptide. The third intron interrupted the codon specifying amino acid 61 of the mature protein. Analysis of the DNA sequence revealed four Alu sequences. Two were in opposite orientations in the second intron, and one each occurred in the regions 5' and 3' to the apo-E gene. There were two base differences between the apo-E gene sequence and the sequence derived from the cDNA clones. At the codon for amino acid residue 112, the apo-E gene contained CGC, specifying Arg, whereas the cDNA contained TGC, specifying Cys. The other base difference was in the area corresponding to the 5' untranslated region of apo-E mRNA. Apo-E is commonly polymorphic in the population and the data suggest that the genomic clone was derived from the epsilon 4 apo-E allele, whereas the cDNA clones were derived from the epsilon 3 apo-E allele. S1 nuclease protection and primer extension experiments allowed the tentative assignment of the cap site of apo-E mRNA to the A approximately 44 base pairs upstream of the GT that begins the first intron. The sequence TATAATT was identified beginning 33 base pairs upstream of the proposed cap site and is presumably one element of the apo-E promoter. Finally, the apo-E gene was mapped in the human genome to chromosome 19 through the use of DNA probes and human-rodent somatic cell hybrids.
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Das HK, McPherson J, Bruns GA, Karathanasis SK, Breslow JL. Isolation, characterization, and mapping to chromosome 19 of the human apolipoprotein E gene. J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)88963-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Boral RC, Majumder S, Das HK, Bose SK. Glucose levels & glucose metabolism in human amniotic fluid at different stages of pregnancy. Indian J Med Res 1983; 78:866-9. [PMID: 6674178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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