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Dhar N, Mohamed E, Kirstein F, Williams M, Dorasamy S, van Zyl P, Robertson MJ, Anderson T, Harden LM, Jardine K, Veeraraghavan B, Wilson S, Tippoo P, Madhi SA, Kwatra G. Immune responses against group B Streptococcus monovalent and pentavalent capsular polysaccharide tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccines in Balb/c mice. iScience 2023; 26:107380. [PMID: 37575182 PMCID: PMC10415928 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
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Immunization of pregnant women with Group B Streptococcus (GBS) capsular polysaccharide (CPS) conjugate vaccine (CV) could protect young infants against invasive GBS disease. We evaluated the immunogenicity of investigational five GBS monovalent (serotypes Ia, Ib, II, III, and V) CPS-tetanus toxoid (TT)-CV with adjuvant and GBS pentavalent CPS-TT-CV with adjuvant (GBS5-CV-adj) and without adjuvant (GBS5-CV-no-adj), in Balb/c mice. Aluminum phosphate was the adjuvant in the formulations, where included. The homotypic immunoglobulin G (IgG) geometric mean concentration (GMC) and opsonophagocytic activity (OPA) geometric mean titer (GMT) did not differ after the third dose of the GBS5-CV-adj vaccine compared with the monovalent counterparts for all five serotypes. The GBS5-CV-adj induced higher post-vaccination serotype-specific IgG GMCs and OPA GMTs compared to GBS5-CV-no_adj. The GBS5-CV with and without adjuvant should be considered for further development as a potential vaccine for pregnant women to protect their infants against invasive GBS disease.
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- Nisha Dhar
- South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Wits Research Animal Facility, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- South African Medical Research Council Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
- African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Mohr AJ, Chipangura JK, Fourie TA, Jardine K, Lewis DI. Life-long learning in laboratory animal science and ethics for veterinary and para-veterinary professionals in South Africa. J S Afr Vet Assoc 2023; 94:1-6. [PMID: 37358323 DOI: 10.36303/jsava.529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/27/2023] Open
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Veterinary and para-veterinary professionals working in the animal research sector are critical to ensure scientific quality and the humane care and use of animals. However, there are few focused education and training opportunities available for these professionals in South Africa. A survey of veterinarians working in animal research, undertaken by the South African Association for Laboratory Animal Science, identified the need for more advanced education and training opportunities beyond the routine Day 1 Skills currently provided for in undergraduate education. These could be broadly categorised into knowledge and skills relating to species-specific husbandry, procedures and clinical approaches, research-related biosecurity and biosafety, and study-specific ethical and animal welfare considerations. A subsequent workshop, attended by 85 veterinary and para-veterinary professionals in the animal research sector, identified 53 life-long learning needs, each with an associated learning outcome, for this professional community. These were grouped into five overarching themes: Personal development (9); Leadership and management skills (12); Education and training skills (5); Welfare, ethics and clinical skills (20); and Regulations and quality-assurance (7). Of the 53 learning outcomes, 14 were knowledge-based, ten were competencies, and 29 both knowledge and competence. These life-long learning opportunities, if available and implemented, will address important needs of veterinary and paraveterinary professionals in the animal research sector in South Africa. This would empower these professionals, assist in improving animal and human wellbeing, support high-quality ethical science, and maintain public confidence in the sector, thus enabling a more satisfactory career environment.
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- A J Mohr
- Centre for Animal Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Scientific Veterinary Consulting Inc., South Africa
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- Centre for Animal Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- LAS Veterinary Consultancy, South Africa
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- Wits Research Animal Facility, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Jardine K, Robertson T, Kava M, Bratkovic D, Stanley F. Tango 2 Case Series: Cardiac Manifestations. Heart Lung Circ 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2022.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Alphonso N, Shah J, Shikata F, Jardine K, Mcintosh A, Justo R, Venugopal P. M33 Vocal Cord Palsy Following Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease: The Elephant in the Room. Heart Lung Circ 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2021.03.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nadeau L, Patten DA, Caron A, Garneau L, Pinault-Masson E, Foretz M, Haddad P, Anderson BG, Quinn LS, Jardine K, McBurney MW, Pistilli EE, Harper ME, Aguer C. IL-15 improves skeletal muscle oxidative metabolism and glucose uptake in association with increased respiratory chain supercomplex formation and AMPK pathway activation. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2018; 1863:395-407. [PMID: 30448294 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2018.10.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 10/05/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND IL-15 is believed to play a role in the beneficial impact of exercise on muscle energy metabolism. However, previous studies have generally used supraphysiological levels of IL-15 that do not represent contraction-induced IL-15 secretion. METHODS L6 myotubes were treated acutely (3 h) and chronically (48 h) with concentrations of IL-15 mimicking circulating (1-10 pg/ml) and muscle interstitial (100 pg/ml -20 ng/ml) IL-15 levels with the aim to better understand its autocrine/paracrine role on muscle glucose uptake and mitochondrial function. RESULTS Acute exposure to IL-15 levels representing muscle interstitial IL-15 increased basal glucose uptake without affecting insulin sensitivity. This was accompanied by increased mitochondrial oxidative functions in association with increased AMPK pathway and formation of complex III-containing supercomplexes. Conversely, chronic IL-15 exposure resulted in a biphasic effect on mitochondrial oxidative functions and ETC supercomplex formation was increased with low IL-15 levels but decreased with higher IL-15 concentrations. The AMPK pathway was activated only by high levels of chronic IL-15 treatment. Similar results were obtained in skeletal muscle from muscle-specific IL-15 overexpressing mice that show very high circulating IL-15 levels. CONCLUSIONS Acute IL-15 treatment that mimics local IL-15 concentrations enhances muscle glucose uptake and mitochondrial oxidative functions. That mitochondria respond differently to different levels of IL-15 during chronic treatments indicates that IL-15 might activate two different pathways in muscle depending on IL-15 concentrations. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Our results suggest that IL-15 may act in an autocrine/paracrine fashion and be, at least in part, involved in the positive effect of exercise on muscle energy metabolism.
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- L Nadeau
- Institut du Savoir Montfort - Recherche, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Institut du Savoir Montfort - Recherche, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Institut du Savoir Montfort - Recherche, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Institut du Savoir Montfort - Recherche, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Science, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- INSERM, U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France; CNRS, UMR8104, Paris 75014, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris 75014, France
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- Institut du Savoir Montfort - Recherche, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Science, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
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- Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, United States
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- University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Institut du Savoir Montfort - Recherche, Ottawa, ON, Canada; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
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Jardine K, Powell J, Grips M. An Exceedingly Rare Combination of Truncus Arteriosus and Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection. Heart Lung Circ 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.06.785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Jardine K, Morwood J, Reeves B, Auld B. Ventricular Standstill in a Case of Acute Rheumatic Fever. Heart Lung Circ 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.06.838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Jardine K, Lee-Tannock A, Auld B, Stanley F, Anderson B, Franco H, Eagleston K, Suna J, Johnson J, Ward C, Gooi A. Antenatal Detection of Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries and Impact of Standardised Fetal Heart Screening in Queensland Over a 10-Year Period. Heart Lung Circ 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.06.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Misztal PK, Hewitt CN, Wildt J, Blande JD, Eller ASD, Fares S, Gentner DR, Gilman JB, Graus M, Greenberg J, Guenther AB, Hansel A, Harley P, Huang M, Jardine K, Karl T, Kaser L, Keutsch FN, Kiendler-Scharr A, Kleist E, Lerner BM, Li T, Mak J, Nölscher AC, Schnitzhofer R, Sinha V, Thornton B, Warneke C, Wegener F, Werner C, Williams J, Worton DR, Yassaa N, Goldstein AH. Atmospheric benzenoid emissions from plants rival those from fossil fuels. Sci Rep 2015; 5:12064. [PMID: 26165168 PMCID: PMC4499884 DOI: 10.1038/srep12064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite the known biochemical production of a range of aromatic compounds by plants and the presence of benzenoids in floral scents, the emissions of only a few benzenoid compounds have been reported from the biosphere to the atmosphere. Here, using evidence from measurements at aircraft, ecosystem, tree, branch and leaf scales, with complementary isotopic labeling experiments, we show that vegetation (leaves, flowers, and phytoplankton) emits a wide variety of benzenoid compounds to the atmosphere at substantial rates. Controlled environment experiments show that plants are able to alter their metabolism to produce and release many benzenoids under stress conditions. The functions of these compounds remain unclear but may be related to chemical communication and protection against stress. We estimate the total global secondary organic aerosol potential from biogenic benzenoids to be similar to that from anthropogenic benzenoids (~10 Tg y−1), pointing to the importance of these natural emissions in atmospheric physics and chemistry.
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- P K Misztal
- 1] University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA [2] National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
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- Institut IBG-2, Phytosphäre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- 1] CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309 USA [2] University of Colorado, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, Colorado 80309 USA
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- 1] University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA [2] Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for the Soil-Plant System, Rome, Italy
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- 1] University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA [2] Yale University, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- 1] CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309 USA [2] ESRL-NOAA, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder CO 80305 USA
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- 1] CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309 USA [2] ESRL-NOAA, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder CO 80305 USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
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- 1] National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO 80301, USA [2] Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, USA [3] Washington State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, USA
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- University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- 1] National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO 80301, USA [2] Estonian University of Life Sciences, Department of Plant Physiology, Tartu, Estonia
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate Sciences Department, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- University of Innsbruck, Institute of Atmospheric And Cryospheric Sciences, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- 1] National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO 80301, USA [2] University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Institut IEK-8, Troposphäre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Institut IBG-2, Phytosphäre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- 1] CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309 USA [2] ESRL-NOAA, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder CO 80305 USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Max Planck Institut für Chemie, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- University of Innsbruck, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India
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- University of Northern Colorado, School of Biological Sciences, Greeley, CO 80639, USA
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- 1] CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309 USA [2] ESRL-NOAA, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder CO 80305 USA
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- University Bayreuth, AgroEcosystem Research, BAYCEER, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- University Bayreuth, AgroEcosystem Research, BAYCEER, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Max Planck Institut für Chemie, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- 1] University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA [2] Aerosol Dynamics Inc., Berkeley, CA, 94710, USA
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- 1] USTHB, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Faculty of Chemistry, Algiers, Algeria [2] Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelable, CDER, Algiers, Algeria
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- University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Jardine K, Barron-Gafford GA, Norman JP, Abrell L, Monson RK, Meyers KT, Pavao-Zuckerman M, Dontsova K, Kleist E, Werner C, Huxman TE. Green leaf volatiles and oxygenated metabolite emission bursts from mesquite branches following light–dark transitions. Photosynth Res 2012; 113:321-33. [PMID: 0 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-012-9746-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2012] [Accepted: 05/07/2012] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Jardine K, Yañez Serrano A, Arneth A, Abrell L, Jardine A, van Haren J, Artaxo P, Rizzo LV, Ishida FY, Karl T, Kesselmeier J, Saleska S, Huxman T. Within-canopy sesquiterpene ozonolysis in Amazonia. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1029/2011jd016243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Karl T, Harley P, Emmons L, Thornton B, Guenther A, Basu C, Turnipseed A, Jardine K. Efficient atmospheric cleansing of oxidized organic trace gases by vegetation. Science 2010; 330:816-9. [PMID: 20966216 DOI: 10.1126/science.1192534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The biosphere is the major source and sink of nonmethane volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere. Gas-phase chemical reactions initiate the removal of these compounds from the atmosphere, which ultimately proceeds via deposition at the surface or direct oxidation to carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. We performed ecosystem-scale flux measurements that show that the removal of oxygenated VOC via dry deposition is substantially larger than is currently assumed for deciduous ecosystems. Laboratory experiments indicate efficient enzymatic conversion and potential up-regulation of various stress-related genes, leading to enhanced uptake rates as a response to ozone and methyl vinyl ketone exposure or mechanical wounding. A revised scheme for the uptake of oxygenated VOCs, incorporated into a global chemistry-transport model, predicts appreciable regional changes in annual dry deposition fluxes.
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- T Karl
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA.
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Jardine K, Karl T, Lerdau M, Harley P, Guenther A, Mak JE. Carbon isotope analysis of acetaldehyde emitted from leaves following mechanical stress and anoxia. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2009; 11:591-597. [PMID: 19538397 DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2008.00155.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Although the emission of acetaldehyde from plants into the atmosphere following biotic and abiotic stresses may significantly impact air quality and climate, its metabolic origin(s) remains uncertain. We investigated the pathway(s) responsible for the production of acetaldehyde in plants by studying variations in the stable carbon isotope composition of acetaldehyde emitted during leaf anoxia or following mechanical stress. Under an anoxic environment, C3 leaves produced acetaldehyde during ethanolic fermentation with a similar carbon isotopic composition to C3 bulk biomass. In contrast, the initial emission burst following mechanical wounding was 5-12 per thousand more depleted in (13)C than emissions under anoxia. Due to a large kinetic isotope effect during pyruvate decarboxylation catalysed by pyruvate dehydrogenase, acetyl-CoA and its biosynthetic products such as fatty acids are also depleted in (13)C relative to bulk biomass. It is well known that leaf wounding stimulates the release of large quantities of fatty acids from membranes, as well as the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). We suggest that, following leaf wounding, acetaldehyde depleted in (13)C is produced from fatty acid peroxidation reactions initiated by the accumulation of ROS. However, a variety of other pathways could also explain our results, including the conversion of acetyl-CoA to acetaldehyde by the esterase activity of aldehyde dehydrogenase.
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- K Jardine
- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
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Karl T, Guenther A, Turnipseed A, Patton EG, Jardine K. Chemical sensing of plant stress at the ecosystem scale. Biogeosciences 2008; 5:1287-1294. [PMID: 0 DOI: 10.5194/bg-5-1287-2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Abstract. Significant ecosystem-scale emissions of methylsalicylate (MeSA), a semivolatile plant hormone thought to act as the mobile signal for systemic acquired resistance (SAR), were observed in an agroforest. Our measurements show that plant internal defence mechanisms can be activated in response to temperature stress and are modulated by water availability on large scales. Highest MeSA fluxes (up to 0.25 mg/m2/h) were observed after plants experienced ambient night-time temperatures of ~7.5°C followed by a large daytime temperature increase (e.g. up to 22°C). Under these conditions estimated night-time leaf temperatures were as low as ~4.6°C, likely inducing a response to prevent chilling injury. Our observations imply that plant hormones can be a significant component of ecosystem scale volatile organic compound (VOC) fluxes (e.g. as high as the total monoterpene (MT) flux) and therefore contribute to the missing VOC budget. If generalized to other ecosystems and different types of stresses these findings suggest that semivolatile plant hormones have been overlooked by investigations of the impact of biogenic VOCs on aerosol formation events in forested regions. Our observations show that the presence of MeSA in canopy air serves as an early chemical warning signal indicating ecosystem-scale stresses before visible damage becomes apparent. As a chemical metric, ecosystem emission measurements of MeSA in ambient air could therefore support field studies investigating factors that adversely affect plant growth.
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Lemieux ME, Yang X, Jardine K, He X, Jacobsen KX, Staines WA, Harper ME, McBurney MW. The Sirt1 deacetylase modulates the insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway in mammals. Mech Ageing Dev 2006; 126:1097-105. [PMID: 15964060 DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2005.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2004] [Revised: 02/16/2005] [Accepted: 04/27/2005] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The lifespan of the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, can be extended by mutations affecting components of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling cascade or by overexpression of SIR2, an NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase. The mammalian homologue of SIR2, Sirt1, has been shown to modulate the activity of FoxO, a transcription factor that is downstream of the IGF signaling system. These results suggest that Sirt1 ought to affect the IGF pathway. We report here evidence that this is the case in mice. The loss of Sirt1 protein in mice results in increased expression of the IGF binding protein IGFBP1, a secreted modulator of IGF function. A number of the anatomical characteristics of Sirt1-null mice closely resemble those of transgenic mice overexpressing IGFBP1. Our data suggest that Sirt1 is part of a regulatory loop that limits the production of IGFBP1 thereby modulating IGF signaling.
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- M E Lemieux
- Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, 501 Smyth Road, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada K1H 1C4
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McBurney MW, Lau S, Jardine K, Yang X, Davies B. Reexpression of a cluster of silenced transgenes is associated with their rearrangement. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2001; 32:311-23. [PMID: 11746972 DOI: 10.1002/gcc.1196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 11/11/2022] Open
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Irreversible inactivation or silencing of tumor suppressor genes occurs frequently in the development of cancer. A similar process of silencing can occur after the integration of transfected or microinjected genes into the genomes of recipient cells. The inactivation of transfected genes seems particularly efficient in cells with stem cell characteristics. We have been studying the inactivation of genes transfected into cultured P19 embryonal carcinoma cells and found that the CpG-rich sequence comprising the coding region of the lacZ reporter gene becomes extensively methylated after integration into the genome. 5-Aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5AdC), an inhibitor of DNA methylation, induced the reexpression of silent transgenes in one clone of P19 cells studied in detail. However, the reexpressed genes remained heavily methylated over the lacZ coding sequence. We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to analyze the structure of the transgenic locus in the parental and in 5AdC-treated cells and found that, in each of the cells reexpressing the transgene, the cluster of transgenes had been rearranged. Each clone had undergone a different rearrangement that appeared to involve recombination within the tandemly repeated copies of the transgene. Our data seem consistent with the idea that 5AdC induces efficient DNA recombination between tandemly repeated genes and that the reexpression of silenced genes induced by 5AdC might be triggered by the chromatin reorganization at the site of DNA recombination.
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- M W McBurney
- Ottawa Regional Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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The Pgk-1,2-lacZ transgene consists of the ubiquitously-expressed Pgk-1 promoter driving expression of the E. coli lacZ reporter gene. We studied the expression of this transgene in a mouse strain carrying 8-9 tandem copies of this construct. When inherited through the male germ line, the transgene was expressed in all tissues examined but when inherited through the female germ line, the transgene became irreversibly inactivated. The lacZ region is a CpG-rich island that was essentially entirely methylated in all copies of the silent, maternally-inherited transgene. At the active transgenic locus, all but one of the copies were entirely methylated. This one unmethylated copy was adjacent to the cellular DNA and was presumed to be the expressed transgene copy. These results suggest that the tandem repeats of transgenes become silenced by a mechanism associated with DNAmethylation and that proximity to the cellular genome may be important in maintaining expression against the spread of inactivation from the adjacent silent transgenes.
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- S Lau
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, Canada
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We have examined the expression of cloned genes following their stable integration into the genome of pluripotent embryonal carcinoma stem cells. Transfected genes integrate into the genome as tandem arrays. Expression of reporter genes from these tandem arrays in embryonal carcinoma cells is inefficient probably because genes are subject to repeat-induced gene silencing. We found that expression of reporter genes was significantly enhanced if co-transfected with cloned fragments derived from the murine Pgk-1 gene. The enhanced expression required (a) that the Pgk-1 fragment carries an active promoter, (b) that the promoter drives transcription through a region of more than 12 kbp, and (c) that this transcribed region contains both introns and exons. Reporter gene activity did not require specific Pgk-1 DNA sequences suggesting that the coupled processes of transcription and RNA processing conferred activity on neighboring genes probably by influencing local chromatin structure. Consistent with this idea, the effect of the Pgk-1 gene could be mimicked by exposing cells to butyrate or trichostatin A, inhibitors of histone deacetylase. Thus, the effect of the co-transfected Pgk-1 gene is to inhibit the process of gene inactivation possibly by functioning like an insulator or boundary element in the chromatin.
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- M W McBurney
- Ottawa Regional Cancer Center, University of Ottawa, Canada.
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We examined the expression of p53 in three lines of pluripotent embryonal carcinoma (EC) and ES cells. p53 mRNA and protein levels were constitutively high in two lines but absent from one. In the P19 line of EC cells neither p53 protein nor mRNA was detected. The first intron of the p53 gene in these cells had been invaded by a murine leukemia virus and there was extensive hypermethylation of the p53 gene accompanying its inactivation. In all three cell lines, irradiation resulted in arrest of the cells in the G2 but not in the G1 phase of the cell cycle despite the induction of p21cip1 in the cell lines expressing p53. Thus, the chromosomal stability of EC and ES cells appears to be not dependent on the p53 protein and we interpret our results to suggest that these cells may require the deletion of p53 dependent cell cycle regulation in order to become immortalized.
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- P K Schmidt-Kastner
- Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre and Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Schmidt-Kastner PK, Jardine K, Cormier M, McBurney MW. Genes transfected into embryonal carcinoma stem cells are both lost and inactivated at high frequency. Somat Cell Mol Genet 1996; 22:383-92. [PMID: 9039847 DOI: 10.1007/bf02369894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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: 02/03/2023]
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Embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells can be efficiently transfected with cloned DNAs but there is a strong tendency for expression from transfected genes to be lost from stably transformed cells. To investigate the mechanism responsible for this loss of expression, we transfected P19 EC cells with a gene encoding the E. coli beta-galactosidase and examined expression of this gene in clonal populations of cells. Cells that carry and express the beta-galactosidase gene give rise to cells that do not express at a rate of about 0.02 events per cell per cell division. These non-expressing cells were of two types, some had lost the transfected genes while others had inactivated them. In those cells that retained but inactivated the transfected genes, the inactive state was stable and suppression was at the level of transcription initiation but not associated with increased DNA methylation. Because transfected DNAs integrate into the genome as tandem arrays, the gene loss and inactivation seen in EC cells may be analogous to the repeat-induced gene inactivation seen in lower eukaryotes.
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Slack RS, Skerjanc IS, Lach B, Craig J, Jardine K, McBurney MW. Cells differentiating into neuroectoderm undergo apoptosis in the absence of functional retinoblastoma family proteins. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1995; 129:779-88. [PMID: 7730411 PMCID: PMC2120451 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.129.3.779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The retinoblastoma (RB) protein is present at low levels in early mouse embryos and in pluripotent P19 embryonal carcinoma cells; however, the levels of RB rise dramatically in neuroectoderm formed both in embryos and in differentiating cultures of P19 cells. To investigate the effect of inactivating RB and related proteins p107 and p130, we transfected P19 cells with genes encoding mutated versions of the adenovirus E1A protein that bind RB and related proteins. When these E1A-expressing P19 cells were induced to differentiate into neuroectoderm, there was a striking rise in the expression of c-fos and extensive cell death. The ultrastructural and biochemical characteristics of the dying cells were indicative of apoptosis. The dying cells were those committed to the neural lineages because neurons and astrocytes were lost from differentiating cultures. Cell death was dependent on the ability of the E1A protein to bind RB and related proteins. Our results suggest that proteins of the RB family are essential for the development of the neural lineages and that the absence of functional RB activity triggers apoptosis of differentiating neuroectodermal cells.
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- R S Slack
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Clarke HF, Derrick L, Eivemark J, Fulton T, Iker C, Jardine K, Leroux K, MacDonald V, Marshal M, McCall M. Nursing research: pain management. Patient-controlled analgesia. Nurs BC 1995; 27:15-6. [PMID: 7742416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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McBurney MW, Fournier S, Schmidt-Kastner PK, Jardine K, Craig J. Unstable integration of transfected DNAs into embryonal carcinoma cells. Somat Cell Mol Genet 1994; 20:529-40. [PMID: 7892650 DOI: 10.1007/bf02255843] [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: 01/27/2023]
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Plasmid DNA can be efficiently transfected into embryonal carcinoma cells but it is difficult to isolate clones of cells stably expressing genes present on the transfected plasmids. Even in clonal populations derived from transfected cells, the introduced genes are expressed in some but not all cells. Cotransfection with a region of the Pgk-1 gene results in more efficient, stable cotransformation due to increased numbers of copies of the transfected plasmids integrated into the genomic DNA. The PgK-1 genomic sequences did not allow the plasmid DNA to replicate autonomously but seemed to enhance the ligation of transfected plasmids before their integration into the host genome. Our results suggest a model in which the plasmid DNAs are able to integrate and subsequently excise from the host genome by recombination events enhanced by transcription through the tandemly repeated sequences of the transfected plasmids.
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- M W McBurney
- University of Ottawa, Department of Medicine, Ontario, Canada
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McBurney MW, Fournier S, Jardine K, Sutherland L. Intragenic regions of the murine Pgk-1 locus enhance integration of transfected DNAs into genomes of embryonal carcinoma cells. Somat Cell Mol Genet 1994; 20:515-28. [PMID: 7892649 DOI: 10.1007/bf02255842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Introduction of recombinant genes into mammalian cells in culture has been an important procedure in establishing the molecular mechanisms of various cellular processes. The efficiency with which plasmid borne recombinant genes are expressed following stable integration into genomes of embryonal carcinoma cells is low. Using the P19 embryonal carcinoma cells as recipients, we found that constructs carrying the promoter and intragenic regions of the murine Pgk-1 gene were expressed with high efficiency. This elevated expression was associated with increased numbers of copies of the transfected plasmid DNA stably associated with the genomes of recipient cells. The elevated plasmid copy numbers may result from enhanced ligation of transfected plasmids because cotransfected plasmids were also integrated in increased numbers. The enhanced integration and expression of transfected plasmids required active transcription through an intragenic region of Pgk-1, perhaps resulting in more recombinogenic plasmid DNAs.
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- M W McBurney
- University of Ottawa, Department of Medicine, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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McBurney MW, Staines WA, Boekelheide K, Parry D, Jardine K, Pickavance L. Murine PGK-1 promoter drives widespread but not uniform expression in transgenic mice. Dev Dyn 1994; 200:278-93. [PMID: 7994075 DOI: 10.1002/aja.1002000403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [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] Open
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Pgk-1 is an X-linked gene encoding 3-phosphoglycerate kinase, an enzyme necessary in every cell for glycolysis. The regulatory sequences of the Pgk-1 gene were used to drive the E. coli lacZ reporter gene and 2 strains of transgenic animals created with this Pgk-lacZ transgene carried on autosomes. The levels of expression of Pgk-1 varied from one adult tissue to another and the transgene was similarly regulated. However, in situ staining of the beta-galactosidase encoded by the transgene indicated extensive cell-to-cell variability in its level of expression. A reproducible subset of cells stained darkly for the transgene product. Some of these beta-galactosidase positive cells were rapidly proliferating while others appeared to be metabolically very active, suggesting that the Pgk-1 promoter is regulated so as to be more active in cells requiring high levels of glycolysis. Although Pgk-1 is X-linked and subject to X chromosome inactivation, the transgenes were not inactivated in either female somatic or male germ cells. Thus, the Pgk-1 promoter drives transgene expression in all tissues but the levels of expression are not uniform in each cell.
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- M W McBurney
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Vidricaire G, Jardine K, McBurney MW. Expression of the Brachyury gene during mesoderm development in differentiating embryonal carcinoma cell cultures. Development 1994; 120:115-22. [PMID: 8119120 DOI: 10.1242/dev.120.1.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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]
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When aggregated and treated with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), P19 embryonal carcinoma cells differentiate into cell types normally derived from the mesoderm and endoderm including epithelium and cardiac and skeletal muscle. The Brachyury gene is expressed transiently in these differentiating cultures several days before the appearance of markers of the differentiated cell types. The expression of Brachyury is not affected by DMSO but is induced by cell aggregation, which requires extracellular calcium. Expression of Brachyury is also induced by various members of the TGF beta family such as activin and bone morphogenetic proteins. D3 is a mutant clone of P19 cells selected for its failure to differentiate when aggregated in DMSO. Aggregated D3 cells express Brachyury mRNA suggesting that the mutation(s) responsible for the phenotype of D3 cells is downstream of the chain of events initiated by Brachyury expression.
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- G Vidricaire
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada
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McBurney MW, Sutherland LC, Adra CN, Leclair B, Rudnicki MA, Jardine K. The mouse Pgk-1 gene promoter contains an upstream activator sequence. Nucleic Acids Res 1991; 19:5755-61. [PMID: 1945853 PMCID: PMC328987 DOI: 10.1093/nar/19.20.5755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [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: 12/29/2022] Open
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The Pgk-1 gene encodes the housekeeping enzyme, 3-phosphoglycerate kinase, and is ubiquitously expressed. This gene resides on the X chromosome in mammals and is always expressed except where it is silenced along with most other genes on the inactive X chromosome of female somatic cells or male germ cells. The Pgk-1 promoter is in a region rich in nucleotides G and C. This promoter can efficiently drive high levels of expression of reporter genes such as E. coli lacZ and neo. We have determined that the 120 bp upstream of the transcription start site functions as a core promoter. Upstream of this is a 320 bp region which enhances transcription from the core promoter in an orientation and position independent fashion. This 320 bp region does not enhance transcription from the core promoter of the SV40 early region. Nuclear proteins bind to this 320 bp fragment although the restricted regions to which binding can be demonstrated with gel mobility shift assays suggests that the activity of the enhancer may be mediated by factors which bind at multiple sites each with low affinity.
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- M W McBurney
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Pari G, Jardine K, McBurney MW. Multiple CArG boxes in the human cardiac actin gene promoter required for expression in embryonic cardiac muscle cells developing in vitro from embryonal carcinoma cells. Mol Cell Biol 1991; 11:4796-803. [PMID: 1875951 PMCID: PMC361383 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.9.4796-4803.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Chimeric genes composed of the human cardiac actin promoter driving the Escherichia coli lacZ reporter gene were constructed, transfected, and stably integrated into genomes of P19 embryonal carcinoma cells. The transfected constructs were expressed actively in cardiac myocytes formed following dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-induced cell differentiation but poorly in undifferentiated cultures and in cultures treated with retinoic acid to develop into derivatives of the neuroectoderm. A number of deletions of the promoter were constructed and tested. Three regions required for efficient expression in P19-derived cardiac muscle were identified, each containing sequences referred to as CArG boxes (CC[AT-rich]6GG). This analysis indicated that regulatory sequences important for expression in cardiac muscle were present upstream of the core promoter identified previously by transient assays in skeletal myoblasts. Expression of the cardiac actin promoter was enhanced 10-fold in undifferentiated P19 cells in the presence of the myoD protein. The promoter regions important for expression in P19-derived cardiocytes were similar to those important for myoD-induced enhancement, a result we interpret to be consistent with the idea that cardiac muscle might contain a myoD-like activity.
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- G Pari
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Rudnicki MA, Sawtell NM, Reuhl KR, Berg R, Craig JC, Jardine K, Lessard JL, McBurney MW. Smooth muscle actin expression during P19 embryonal carcinoma differentiation in cell culture. J Cell Physiol 1990; 142:89-98. [PMID: 2404996 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.1041420112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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P19 embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells can be induced in vitro to differentiate into cells resembling those normally formed in the embryo. Among these cell types is one whose morphology is fibroblast-like. Using indirect immunofluorescence and Western blot analysis with antibodies directed against various isoforms of actin, many of these fibroblast-like cells were found to express smooth muscle actin isoforms. Northern blot analysis of RNA indicated the presence of a smooth muscle-specific isoform of myosin heavy-chain mRNA in immortal lines of these fibroblast-like cells. These results suggest that these fibroblast-like cells resemble fetal myofibroblastic or myoepithelial cells, which have a wide distribution during embryonic development.
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- M A Rudnicki
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Ruben MM, Rudnicki MA, Bladon TS, Jardine K, Craig J, McBurney MW. Expression of the human cardiac actin gene in differentiating rat skeletal myoblasts. Biochim Biophys Acta 1988; 950:374-84. [PMID: 2844260 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(88)90134-0] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The human cardiac-actin (CH-actin) gene was transfected into rat L6 skeletal myoblasts and stable transformants were isolated. The level of the CH-actin transcript varied between clones but changed little during the differentiation of myoblasts into multinucleate myotubes. Chimeric genes were constructed in which the CH-actin promoter, first non-coding exon (44 bp), and first intron (about 700 bp) were linked to the Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (tk) coding region. Clones of L6 cells transformed with these chimeric genes contained variable levels of actin-tk mRNA which changed little during differentiation. Thus, the activity of the CH-actin promoter appeared not to be up-regulated upon differentiation of myoblasts into myotubes. In clones of cells expressing the actin-tk mRNA, the TK protein was not detected in myoblasts but appeared in differentiating multinucleate myotubes. We interpret these results as suggesting developmentally regulated translation of the actin-tk mRNA. Since the first 44 nucleotides of the actin-tk mRNA were derived from the 5'-untranslated region of the CH-actin mRNA. These experiments suggest that translation of the actin-tk mRNA may be controlled by this region.
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- M M Ruben
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Bell JC, Jardine K, McBurney MW. Lineage-specific transformation after differentiation of multipotential murine stem cells containing a human oncogene. Mol Cell Biol 1986; 6:617-25. [PMID: 3785155 PMCID: PMC367553 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.6.2.617-625.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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We transfected the human EJ bladder carcinoma oncogene (Ha-rasEJ-1) into multipotential embryonal carcinoma cell line P19. The transgenic P19(ras+) cells expressed high levels of both the mRNA and the p21EJ protein derived from the oncogene. When cultured in the presence of retinoic acid, P19(ras+) cells differentiated and developed into the same spectrum of differentiated cell types as the parental P19 cells (namely, neurons, astrocytes, and fibroblast-like cells). Thus, it seems unlikely that the Ha-ras-1 proto-oncogene product plays a role in initiation of differentiation or in the choice of differentiated cell lineage. Most of the P19(ras+)-derived differentiated cells contained relatively low levels of p21EJ and were nontransformed, whereas certain cells with fibroblast-like morphology continued to express the Ha-rasEJ-1 gene at high levels and were transformed (i.e., immortal and anchorage independent). Fibroblasts derived from P19 cells did not become transformed following transfection of the Ha-rasEJ-1 oncogene, suggesting that transformation of the fibroblast cells only occurred if the oncogene was present and expressed during the early stages of the developmental lineage.
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