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Bose D, Banerjee N, Roy A, Sengupta P, Chatterjee S. Switchable tetraplex elements in the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K promoter: micro-environment dictated structural transitions of G/C rich elements. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2024:1-18. [PMID: 38235706 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2024.2303378] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/19/2024]
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We have elucidated the hnRNP K promoter as a hotspot for tetraplex-based molecular switches receptive to micro-environmental stimuli. We have characterised the structural features of four tetraplex-forming loci and identified them as binding sites of transcription factors. These segments form either G-quadruplex or i-motif structures, the structural dynamicity of which has been studied in depth via several biophysical techniques. The tetraplexes display high dynamicity and are influenced by both pH and KCl concentrations in vitro. The loci complementary to these sequences form additional non-canonical secondary structures. In the cellular context, the most eminent observation of this study is the binding of hnRNP K to the i-motif forming sequences in its own promoter. We are the first to report a probable transcriptional autoregulatory function of hnRNP K in coordination with higher-order DNA structures. Herein, we also report the positive interaction of the endogenous tetraplexes with Sp1, a well-known transcriptional regulator. Treatment with tetraplex-specific small molecule ligands further uncovered G-quadruplexes' functioning as repressors and i-motifs as activators in this context. Together, our findings strongly indicate the critical regulatory role of the identified tetraplex elements in the hnRNP K promoter.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Debopriya Bose
- Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Kemihuset (K), Campus, Umeå, Umeå universitet, Umeå, Sweden
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Sengupta P, Dutta A, Suseela YV, Roychowdhury T, Banerjee N, Dutta A, Halder S, Jana K, Mukherjee G, Chattopadhyay S, Govindaraju T, Chatterjee S. G-quadruplex structural dynamics at MAPK12 promoter dictates transcriptional switch to determine stemness in breast cancer. Cell Mol Life Sci 2024; 81:33. [PMID: 38214819 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-023-05046-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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P38γ (MAPK12) is predominantly expressed in triple negative breast cancer cells (TNBC) and induces stem cell (CSC) expansion resulting in decreased survival of the patients due to metastasis. Abundance of G-rich sequences at MAPK12 promoter implied the functional probability to reverse tumorigenesis, though the formation of G-Quadruplex (G4) structures at MAPK12 promoter is elusive. Here, we identified two evolutionary consensus adjacent G4 motifs upstream of the MAPK12 promoter, forming parallel G4 structures. They exist in an equilibria between G4 and duplex, regulated by the binding turnover of Sp1 and Nucleolin that bind to these G4 motifs and regulate MAPK12 transcriptional homeostasis. To underscore the gene-regulatory functions of G4 motifs, we employed CRISPR-Cas9 system to eliminate G4s from TNBC cells and synthesized a naphthalene diimide (NDI) derivative (TGS24) which shows high-affinity binding to MAPK12-G4 and inhibits MAPK12 transcription. Deletion of G4 motifs and NDI compound interfere with the recruitment of the transcription factors, inhibiting MAPK12 expression in cancer cells. The molecular basis of NDI-induced G4 transcriptional regulation was analysed by RNA-seq analyses, which revealed that MAPK12-G4 inhibits oncogenic RAS transformation and trans-activation of NANOG. MAPK12-G4 also reduces CD44High/CD24Low population in TNBC cells and downregulates internal stem cell markers, arresting the stemness properties of cancer cells.
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- Pallabi Sengupta
- Department of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN-80, Sector V, Salt Lake, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700091, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN-80, Sector V, Salt Lake, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700091, India
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- Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O., Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560064, India
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- Department of Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder, IICB, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN-80, Sector V, Salt Lake, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700091, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN-80, Sector V, Salt Lake, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700091, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN-80, Sector V, Salt Lake, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700091, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN-80, Sector V, Salt Lake, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700091, India
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- Barasat Cancer Research and Welfare Centre, Barasat, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, 403726, India
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- Bioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O., Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560064, India.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Unified Academic Campus, Bose Institute, EN-80, Sector V, Salt Lake, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, 700091, India.
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Sengupta P, Jamroskovic J, Sabouri N. A beginner's handbook to identify and characterize i-motif DNA. Methods Enzymol 2023; 695:45-70. [PMID: 38521590 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2023.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/25/2024]
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Genomic DNA exhibits an innate ability to manifest diverse sequence-dependent secondary structures, serving crucial functions in gene regulation and cellular equilibrium. While extensive research has confirmed the formation of G-quadruplex structures by guanine-rich sequences in vitro and in cells, recent investigations have turned the quadruplex community's attention to the cytosine (C)-rich complementary strands that can adopt unique tetra-stranded conformation, termed as intercalated motif or i-motif. I-motifs are stabilized by hemi-protonated C:CH+ base pairs under acidic conditions. Initially, the in vivo occurrence of i-motifs was underestimated because their formation is favored at non-physiological pH. However, groundbreaking research utilizing the structure-specific iMab antibody and high-throughput sequencing have recently detected their conserved dispersion throughout the genome, challenging previous assumptions. Given the evolving nature of this research field, it becomes imperative to conduct independent in vitro experiments aimed at identifying potential i-motif formation in C-rich sequences and consolidating the findings to address the properties of i-motifs. This chapter serves as an introductory guide for the swift identification of novel i-motifs, where we present an experimental framework for investigating and characterizing i-motif sequences in vitro. In this chapter, we selected a synthetic oligonucleotide (C7T3) sequence and outlined appropriate methodologies for annealing the i-motif structure into suitable buffers. Then, we validated its formation by CD (Circular Dichroism) and NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy. Finally, we provided a thorough account of the step-by-step procedures to investigate the effect of i-motif formation on the stalling or retardation of DNA replication using high resolution primer extension assays.
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- Pallabi Sengupta
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
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Shukla S, Dwivedi G, Goyal S, Sengupta P. 'Lateral Aberrant Thyroid Carcinoma' or 'Thyroglossal Duct Cyst Carcinoma Metastasizing to Neck Node': Can we Decide in this Interesting Case Report?. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2023; 75:2626-2629. [PMID: 37636601 PMCID: PMC10447327 DOI: 10.1007/s12070-023-03874-3] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/06/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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Lateral aberrant thyroid(LAT) belongs to subset of ectopic thyroid, mostly presenting as asymptomatic lateral neck swelling and are challenging to diagnose without histopathological examination. Malignant transformation in LAT is even rare and is best managed by surgical excision. Here, we report a case of papillary carcinoma of LAT, but with an unusual post-operative finding, revealing papillary carcinoma of thyroglossal duct cyst.
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- Shambhavi Shukla
- Department of ENT, Command Hospital (Eastern Command), Alipore-700027, Kolkata, India
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- Department of ENT, Command Hospital (Eastern Command), Alipore-700027, Kolkata, India
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- Department of ENT, Command Hospital (Eastern Command), Alipore-700027, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Pathology, Command Hospital (Eastern Command), Alipore-700027, Kolkata, India
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Deiana M, Andrés Castán J, Josse P, Kahsay A, Sánchez D, Morice K, Gillet N, Ravindranath R, Patel A, Sengupta P, Obi I, Rodriguez-Marquez E, Khrouz L, Dumont E, Abad Galán L, Allain M, Walker B, Ahn HS, Maury O, Blanchard P, Le Bahers T, Öhlund D, von Hofsten J, Monnereau C, Cabanetos C, Sabouri N. A new G-quadruplex-specific photosensitizer inducing genome instability in cancer cells by triggering oxidative DNA damage and impeding replication fork progression. Nucleic Acids Res 2023; 51:6264-6285. [PMID: 37191066 PMCID: PMC10325911 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad365] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2022] [Revised: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) ideally relies on the administration, selective accumulation and photoactivation of a photosensitizer (PS) into diseased tissues. In this context, we report a new heavy-atom-free fluorescent G-quadruplex (G4) DNA-binding PS, named DBI. We reveal by fluorescence microscopy that DBI preferentially localizes in intraluminal vesicles (ILVs), precursors of exosomes, which are key components of cancer cell proliferation. Moreover, purified exosomal DNA was recognized by a G4-specific antibody, thus highlighting the presence of such G4-forming sequences in the vesicles. Despite the absence of fluorescence signal from DBI in nuclei, light-irradiated DBI-treated cells generated reactive oxygen species (ROS), triggering a 3-fold increase of nuclear G4 foci, slowing fork progression and elevated levels of both DNA base damage, 8-oxoguanine, and double-stranded DNA breaks. Consequently, DBI was found to exert significant phototoxic effects (at nanomolar scale) toward cancer cell lines and tumor organoids. Furthermore, in vivo testing reveals that photoactivation of DBI induces not only G4 formation and DNA damage but also apoptosis in zebrafish, specifically in the area where DBI had accumulated. Collectively, this approach shows significant promise for image-guided PDT.
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- Marco Deiana
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-ANJOU, SFR MATRIX, F-49000 Angers, France
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-ANJOU, SFR MATRIX, F-49000 Angers, France
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- ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, F-69342 Lyon, France
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- ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, F-69342 Lyon, France
- Indian Institute for Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati-517507, India
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- Department of Radiation Sciences/Oncology, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, F-69342 Lyon, France
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- ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, F-69342 Lyon, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 5 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France
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- ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, F-69342 Lyon, France
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-ANJOU, SFR MATRIX, F-49000 Angers, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 02447, South Korea
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- Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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- ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, F-69342 Lyon, France
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- ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, F-69342 Lyon, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 5 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Radiation Sciences/Oncology, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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- ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, F-69342 Lyon, France
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- Univ Angers, CNRS, MOLTECH-ANJOU, SFR MATRIX, F-49000 Angers, France
- Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Building Blocks for FUture Electronics Laboratory (2BFUEL), IRL CNRS 2002, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, SE-901 87, Umeå, Sweden
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Paradezhenko GV, Pervishko AA, Swain N, Sengupta P, Yudin D. Spin-hedgehog-derived electromagnetic effects in itinerant magnets. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:24317-24322. [PMID: 36173187 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03486g] [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: 11/21/2022]
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In itinerant magnets, the indirect exchange coupling of Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida type is known to stabilize incommensurate spin spirals, whereas an account of higher order spin interactions favors the formation of a noncoplanar magnetic texture. This is manifested by the finite Berry phase the conduction electrons accumulate when their spins follow this texture, leading thus to the topological Hall effect. We herein utilize the effective spin model with bilinear-biquadratic exchange interactions for studying the formation of the magnetic hedgehog lattice, that represents a periodic array of magnetic anti- and monopoles and has been recently observed in the B20-type compounds, in a three-dimensional itinerant magnet. As opposed to widely used Monte Carlo simulations, we employ a neural-network-based approach for exploring the ground state spin configuration in a noncentrosymmetric crystal structure. Further, we address the topological Hall conductivity, associated with nonzero scalar spin chirality, in the itinerant magnet due to the coupling to the spin hedgehog lattice, and provide the evidence of a magneto-optic Kerr effect.
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- G V Paradezhenko
- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow 121205, Russia.
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow 121205, Russia.
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- MajuLab, CNRS-UCA-SU-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit IRL, 3654, Singapore.,Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow 121205, Russia.
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Choudhary R, Marwah V, Sengupta P, Malik V, Verma S, Pandey I, Kumar TA, Wasan A. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in diagnosing mediastinal lymphadenopathy: Experience from a tertiary care centre. Med J Armed Forces India 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2022.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Venkata Suseela Y, Sengupta P, Roychowdhury T, Panda S, Talukdar S, Chattopadhyay S, Chatterjee S, Govindaraju T. Targeting Oncogene Promoters and Ribosomal RNA Biogenesis by G-Quadruplex Binding Ligands Translate to Anticancer Activity. ACS Bio Med Chem Au 2022; 2:125-139. [PMID: 37101746 PMCID: PMC10114666 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.1c00039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/28/2023]
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G-Quadruplex (GQ) nucleic acids are promising therapeutic targets in anticancer research due to their structural robustness, polymorphism, and gene-regulatory functions. Here, we presented the structure-activity relationship of carbazole-based monocyanine ligands using region-specific functionalization with benzothiazole (TCA and TCZ), lepidine (LCA and LCZ), and quinaldine (QCA and QCZ) acceptor moieties and evaluated their binding profiles with different oncogenic GQs. Their differential turn-on fluorescence emission upon GQ binding confirmed the GQ-to-duplex selectivity of all carbazole ligands, while the isothermal titration calorimetry results showed selective interactions of TCZ and TCA to c-MYC and BCL-2 GQs, respectively. The aldehyde group in TCA favors stacking interactions with the tetrad of BCL-2 GQ, whereas TCZ provides selective groove interactions with c-MYC GQ. Dual-luciferase assay and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) showed that these molecules interfere with the recruitment of specific transcription factors at c-MYC and BCL-2 promoters and stabilize the promoter GQ structures to inhibit their constitutive transcription in cancer cells. Their intrinsic turn-on fluorescence response with longer lifetimes upon GQ binding allowed real-time visualization of GQ structures at subcellular compartments. Confocal microscopy revealed the uptake of these ligands in the nucleoli, resulting in nucleolar stress. ChIP studies further confirmed the inhibition of Nucleolin occupancy at multiple GQ-enriched regions of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) promoters, which arrested rRNA biogenesis. Therefore, carbazole ligands act as the "double-edged swords" to arrest c-MYC and BCL-2 overexpression as well as rRNA biogenesis, triggering synergistic inhibition of multiple oncogenic pathways and apoptosis in cancer cells.
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- Yelisetty Venkata Suseela
- Bioorganic
Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, P.O., Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India
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- Department
of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Cancer
Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department
of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Bioorganic
Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, P.O., Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India
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- Cancer
Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department
of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Bioorganic
Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, P.O., Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India
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Pathania V, Sandhu S, Sengupta P, Kaur K. Cutaneous aspergillosis masquerading in sporotrichoid morphology in an immunocompetent host. Med J Armed Forces India 2022; 78:235-238. [PMID: 35463556 PMCID: PMC9023546 DOI: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2020.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Primary cutaneous aspergillosis is an uncommon opportunistic infection, generally seen in immunocompromised individuals. However, many atypical presentations have been reported recently particularly with the increased domain of immunosuppression. Sporotrichoid pattern of aspergillosis where it invades deep lymphatics have rarely been reported and never in immunocompetent individuals previously. We hereby report a case of a 29 years old immunocompetent individual with no comorbidities who presented with multiple painful erythematous papules and nodules over the left upper limb in a sporotrichoid pattern. Microscopy revealed branched septate hyphae and culture on Sabouraud dextrose agar grew powdery greenish colonies which showed hyaline branched septate hyphae with brush-like conidiophores and globose conidia in chains. Histopathology from one of the nodules was consistent with deep fungal infection. A diagnosis of Aspergillus chivalieri was made based on 18S rRNA sequencing of the isolate. The patient showed a satisfactory response to oral Itraconazole over 12 weeks.
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Parappil P, Ghimire S, Saxena A, Mukherjee S, John BM, Sondhi V, Sengupta P, Acharya S. New-onset diabetic ketoacidosis with purpura fulminans in a child with COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome. Infect Dis (Lond) 2022; 54:522-528. [PMID: 35300573 DOI: 10.1080/23744235.2022.2050423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) usually causes a mild illness among children. However, in a minority of children, it may be associated with the life-threatening multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), or thrombotic microangiopathy, or sequelae like type-1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). We describe a previously healthy, 12-year-old boy with new-onset T1DM with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in the setting of MIS-C, with a course complicated by thrombotic microangiopathy. CASE PRESENTATION The patient presented with four days history of fever, non-bilious vomiting, polyuria and polydipsia. On evaluation, he was noted to have diabetic ketoacidosis. Although Diabetic ketoacidosis with insulin and intravenous fluids, his hospital course was notable for shock requiring vasopressor, purpura fulminans with eschar formation, neurological manifestations (left hemiparesis due to right middle cerebral artery territory infarct, mononeuritis multiplex) and thrombotic microangiopathy. MIS-C-like illness secondary to COVID-19 was suspected due to diabetic ketoacidosis, thrombotic microangiopathy, elevated inflammatory markers, history of contact with COVID-19-infected individual and detectable COVID-19 IgG antibodies. He improved following management with methylprednisolone, intravenous immunoglobulin, low-molecular-weight heparin and aspirin, and was discharged on hospital day 48. CONCLUSION MIS-C-like illness should be considered in children and adolescents presenting with complex multisystem involvement in this era of COVID 19. Management with immunomodulatory agents can be lifesaving.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Command Hospital (SC), Pune, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, AFMC, Pune, India
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- Department of Pathology, Command Hospital, Kolkota, India
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Sengupta P, Bose D, Chatterjee S. The Molecular Tête-à-Tête between G-Quadruplexes and the i-motif in the Human Genome. Chembiochem 2021; 22:1517-1537. [PMID: 33355980 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.202000703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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G-Quadruplex (GQ) and i-motif structures are the paradigmatic examples of nonclassical tetrastranded nucleic acids having multifarious biological functions and widespread applications in therapeutics and material science. Recently, tetraplexes emerged as promising anticancer targets due to their structural robustness, gene-regulatory roles, and predominant distribution at specific loci of oncogenes. However, it is arguable whether the i-motif evolves in the complementary single-stranded region after GQ formation in its opposite strand and vice versa. In this review, we address the prerequisites and significance of the simultaneous and/or mutually exclusive formation of GQ and i-motif structures at complementary and sequential positions in duplexes in the cellular milieu. We discussed how their dynamic interplay Sets up cellular homeostasis and exacerbates carcinogenesis. The review gives insights into the spatiotemporal formation of GQ and i-motifs that could be harnessed to design different types of reporter systems and diagnostic platforms for potential bioanalytical and therapeutic intervention.
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- Pallabi Sengupta
- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Centenary Campus, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Centenary Campus, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Centenary Campus, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India
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Sengupta P, Chatterjee S. Inosine 5'-diphosphate, a molecular decoy rescues Nucleoside diphosphate kinase from c-MYC G-Quadruplex unfolding. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2020; 1864:129649. [PMID: 32492501 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2020.129649] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Revised: 05/02/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND The transcription-inhibitory G-Quadruplex(Pu27-GQ) at c-MYC promoter is challenging to target due to structural heterogeneity. Nucleoside diphosphate kinase (NM23-H2) specifically binds and unfolds Pu27-GQ to increase c-MYC transcription. Here, we used Inosine 5'-diphosphate (IDP) to disrupt NM23-H2-Pu27-GQ interactions and arrest c-MYC transcription without compromising NM23-H2-mediated kinase properties. METHODS Site-directed mutagenesis,31P-NMR and STD-NMR studies delineate the epitope of NM23-H2-IDP complex and characterize specific amino acids in NM23-H2 involved in Pu27-GQ and IDP interactions. Immunoprecipitations and phosphohistidine-immunoblots reveal how IDP blocks NM23-H2-Pu27 association to downregulate c-MYC transcription in MDAMB-231 cells exempting NM23-H2-mediated kinase properties. RESULTS NMR studies show that IDP binds to the Guanosine diphosphate-binding pocket of NM23-H2 (KD = 5.0 ± 0.276 μM). Arg88-driven hydrogen bonds to the terminal phosphate of IDP restricts P-O-P bond-rotation increasing its pKa (∆pKa = 0.85 ± 0.0025).9-inosinyl moiety of IDP is stacked over Phe60 phenyl ring driving trans-conformation of inosine and axial geometry of pyrophosphates. Chromatin immunoprecipitations revealed that these interactions rescue NM23-H2-driven Pu27-GQ unfolding, which triggers Nucleolin recruitment and lowers Sp1 occupancy at c-MYC promoter stabilizing Pu27-GQ. This silences c-MYC transcription that reduces c-MYC-Sp1 association amplifying Sp1 recruitment across P21 promoter stimulating P21 transcription and G2/M arrest. CONCLUSIONS IDP synergizes the effects of Pu27-GQ-interacting compounds to abrogate c-MYC transcription and induce apoptosis in MDAMB-231 cells by disrupting NM23-H2-Pu27-GQ interactions without affecting NM23-H2-mediated kinase properties. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Our study provides a pragmatic approach for developing NM23-H2-targeting regulators to rescue NM23-H2 binding at structurally ambiguous Pu27-GQ that synergizes the anti-tumorigenic effects of GQ-based therapeutics with minimized off-target effects.
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- Pallabi Sengupta
- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Centenary Campus, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Centenary Campus, P-1/12, C.I.T. Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India.
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Tang HK, Leaw JN, Rodrigues JNB, Herbut IF, Sengupta P, Assaad FF, Adam S. Response to Comment on "The role of electron-electron interactions in two-dimensional Dirac fermions". Science 2019; 366:366/6470/eaav8877. [PMID: 31806787 DOI: 10.1126/science.aav8877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2018] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Hesselmann et al question one of our conclusions: the suppression of Fermi velocity at the Gross-Neveu critical point for the specific case of vanishing long-range interactions and at zero energy. The possibility they raise could occur in any finite-size extrapolation of numerical data. Although we cannot definitively rule out this possibility, we provide mathematical bounds on its likelihood.
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- Ho-Kin Tang
- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 117546 Singapore.,Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117542 Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 117546 Singapore.,Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117542 Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 117546 Singapore.,Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117542 Singapore
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- Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 117546 Singapore.,School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371 Singapore
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik and Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 117546 Singapore. .,Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117542 Singapore.,Yale-NUS College, 138527 Singapore
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Dutta P, Islam S, Choppara S, Sengupta P, Kumar A, Kumar A, Wani MR, Chatterjee S, Santra MK. The tumor suppressor FBXO31 preserves genomic integrity by regulating DNA replication and segregation through precise control of cyclin A levels. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:14879-14895. [PMID: 31413110 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.007055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [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: 12/07/2018] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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F-box protein 31 (FBXO31) is a reported putative tumor suppressor, and its inactivation due to loss of heterozygosity is associated with cancers of different origins. An emerging body of literature has documented FBXO31's role in preserving genome integrity following DNA damage and in the cell cycle. However, knowledge regarding the role of FBXO31 during normal cell-cycle progression is restricted to its functions during the G2/M phase. Interestingly, FBXO31 levels remain high even during the early G1 phase, a crucial stage for preparing the cells for DNA replication. Therefore, we sought to investigate the functions of FBXO31 during the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Here, using flow cytometric, biochemical, and immunofluorescence techniques, we show that FBXO31 is essential for maintaining optimum expression of the cell-cycle protein cyclin A for efficient cell-cycle progression. Stable FBXO31 knockdown led to atypical accumulation of cyclin A during the G1 phase, driving premature DNA replication and compromised loading of the minichromosome maintenance complex, resulting in replication from fewer origins and DNA double-strand breaks. Because of these inherent defects in replication, FBXO31-knockdown cells were hypersensitive to replication stress-inducing agents and displayed pronounced genomic instability. Upon entering mitosis, the cells defective in DNA replication exhibited a delay in the prometaphase-to-metaphase transition and anaphase defects such as lagging and bridging chromosomes. In conclusion, our findings establish that FBXO31 plays a pivotal role in preserving genomic integrity by maintaining low cyclin A levels during the G1 phase for faithful genome duplication and segregation.
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- Parul Dutta
- National Centre for Cell Science, NCCS Complex, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India.,Department of Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, NCCS Complex, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India.,Department of Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, NCCS Complex, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India.,Department of Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, NCCS Complex, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India.,Department of Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, NCCS Complex, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India.,Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York 11201
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- National Centre for Cell Science, NCCS Complex, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, NCCS Complex, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, Maharashtra 411007, India
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Sengupta P, Banerjee N, Roychowdhury T, Dutta A, Chattopadhyay S, Chatterjee S. Site-specific amino acid substitution in dodecameric peptides determines the stability and unfolding of c-MYC quadruplex promoting apoptosis in cancer cells. Nucleic Acids Res 2019; 46:9932-9950. [PMID: 30239898 PMCID: PMC6212778 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [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: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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c-MYC proto-oncogene harbours a transcription-inhibitory quadruplex-forming scaffold (Pu27) upstream P1 promoter providing anti-neoplastic therapeutic target. Previous reports showed the binding profile of human Cathelicidin peptide (LL37) and telomeric G-quadruplex. Here, we truncated the quadruplex-binding domain of LL37 to prepare a small library of peptides through site-specific amino acid substitution. We investigated the intracellular selectivity of peptides for Pu27 over other oncogenic quadruplexes and their role in c-MYC promoter repression by dual-luciferase assays. We analysed their thermodynamics of binding reactions with c-MYC quadruplex isomers (Pu27, Myc22, Pu19) by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry. We discussed how amino acid substitutions and peptide helicity enhanced/weakened their affinities for c-MYC quadruplexes and characterized specific non-covalent inter-residual interactions determining their selectivity. Solution NMR structure indicated that KR12C, the best peptide candidate, selectively stabilized the 5′-propeller loop of c-MYC quadruplex by arginine-driven electrostatic-interactions at the sugar-phosphate backbone while KR12A peptide destabilized the quadruplex inducing a single-stranded hairpin-like conformation. Chromatin immunoprecipitations envisaged that KR12C and KR12A depleted and enriched Sp1 and NM23-H2 (Nucleoside diphosphate kinase) occupancy at Pu27 respectively supporting their regulation in stabilizing and unfolding c-MYC quadruplex in MCF-7 cells. We deciphered that selective arresting of c-MYC transcription by KR12C triggered apoptotic-signalling pathway via VEGF-A-BCL-2 axis.
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- Pallabi Sengupta
- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kolkata 700054, India
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- Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kolkata 700054, India
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- Cancer Biology and Inflammatory Disorder Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kolkata 700054, India
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Babu BV, Sharma Y, Kusuma YS, Sivakami M, Lal DK, Marimuthu P, Geddam JB, Khanna A, Agarwal M, Sudhakar G, Sengupta P, Borhade A, Khan Z, Kerketta AS, Brogen A. Patient experiences and health system responsiveness among internal migrants: A nationwide study in 13 Indian cities. J Healthc Qual Res 2019; 34:167-175. [PMID: 31713527 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhqr.2019.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Revised: 04/02/2019] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To report various components of health system responsiveness among poor internal migrants who availed the government health facilities in 13 Indian cities. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cluster random sampling was used to select 50,806 migrant households, of which 14,263 households avail the government health facility in last six months. In addition, 5072 women, who sought antenatal care and 3946 women who had delivery in government health facility during last six months were also included. Data on different domains of health system responsiveness were collected using an interviewer-administered questionnaire, developed based on the World Health Survey of WHO. RESULTS Of the eight domains of responsiveness, namely, autonomy, communication, confidentiality, dignity, choice, quality of basic facilities, prompt attention and access to family and community, seven domains, except the 'choice', are assessed, and they are moderate. Only about 30% of participants said that doctor discussed on treatment options (autonomy). And 50-60% of participants said positively for questions of clarity of communication. About 59% of participants acknowledged the confidentiality. Not more than 40% of participants said they were treated with dignity, and privacy is respected (dignity). The responses to quality basic amenities, prompt attention and access to family and community domains are fairly satisfactory. CONCLUSIONS This study has implications as many urban poor, including migrants do not utilize the services of public healthcare facilities. Hence, a responsive health system is required. There should be a policy in place to train and orient healthcare workers on some of the domains of health system responsiveness.
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- B V Babu
- Division of Socio-Behavioural & Health Systems Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.
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- Division of Socio-Behavioural & Health Systems Research, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
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- Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Centre for Health and Social Sciences, School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India
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- International Institute of Health Management Research, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biostatistics, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bangalore, India
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- National Institute of Nutrition of Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad, India
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- Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India
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- Department of Community Medicine & Public Health, KG Medical University, Lucknow, India
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- Department of Human Genetics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
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- Department of Community Medicine, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India
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- Indian Institute of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India
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- Department of Community Medicine, JN Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
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- Regional Medical Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Bhubaneswar, India
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- Department of Community Medicine, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, India
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Sengupta P, Bhattacharya A, Sa G, Das T, Chatterjee S. Truncated G-Quadruplex Isomers Cross-Talk with the Transcription Factors To Maintain Homeostatic Equilibria in c-MYC Transcription. Biochemistry 2019; 58:1975-1991. [PMID: 30920805 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [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: 11/30/2022]
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The nuclease hypersensitive element III1 (NHE III1) upstream c-MYC promoter harbors a transcription-silencing G-quadruplex (Pu27) element. Dynamic turnover of various transcription factors (TFs) across Pu27 to control c-MYC transcription homeostasis is enigmatic. Here, we reveal that native Pu27 evolves truncated G-quadruplex isomers (Pu19, Pu22, Pu24, and Pu25) in cells that are optimal intracellular targets of specific TFs in a sequence- and structure-dependent manner. Nuclear magnetic resonance and isothermal titration calorimetry envisaged that NM23-H2 (nucleoside diphosphate kinase) and nucleolin induce conformational fluctuations in Pu27 to sample specific conformationally restricted conformer(s). Structural investigations revealed that the flanking guanines at 5'-Pu27 control solvent exposure at G-quartets upon NM23-H2 and nucleolin binding driving Pu27 unfolding and folding, respectively. Transient chromatin immunoprecipitations confirmed that NM23-H2 drives the conformation switch to Pu24 that outcompetes nucleolin recruitment. Similarly, nucleolin arrests Pu27 in the Pu22 conformer minimizing NM23-H2 binding at Pu27. hnRNPK (heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K) positively regulates NM23-H2 and nucleolin association at Pu27 despite their antagonism. On the basis of these results, we simulated the transcription kinetics in a feed-forward loop in which the transcription output responds to hnRNPK-induced early activation via NM23-H2 association, which favors Pu24 formation at NHE III1 reducing nucleolin occupancy and driving quadruplex unfolding to initiate transcription. NM23-H2 further promotes hnRNPK deposition across NHE III1 altering Pu27 plasticity that finally enriches the nucleolin abundance to drive Pu22 formation and weaken NM23-H2 binding to extinguish transcription. This mechanism involves three positive feedback loops (NM23-H2-hnRNPK, NM23-H2-CNBP, and hnRNPK-nucleolin) and one negative feedback loop (NM23-H2-nucleolin) controlling optimal turnover and residence time of TFs at Pu27 to homeostatically regulate c-MYC transcription.
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- Pallabi Sengupta
- Department of Biophysics , Bose Institute , P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme-VIIM , Kolkata 700054 , West Bengal , India
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- Division of Molecular Medicine , Bose Institute , P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme-VIIM , Kolkata 700054 , West Bengal , India
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- Division of Molecular Medicine , Bose Institute , P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme-VIIM , Kolkata 700054 , West Bengal , India
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- Division of Molecular Medicine , Bose Institute , P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme-VIIM , Kolkata 700054 , West Bengal , India
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- Department of Biophysics , Bose Institute , P 1/12, C. I. T. Road, Scheme-VIIM , Kolkata 700054 , West Bengal , India
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Sengupta P, Burgaleta M, Zamora-López G, Basora A, Sanjuán A, Deco G, Sebastian-Galles N. Traces of statistical learning in the brain's functional connectivity after artificial language exposure. Neuropsychologia 2019; 124:246-253. [PMID: 30521815 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.12.001] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 11/27/2018] [Accepted: 12/01/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Our environment is full of statistical regularities, and we are attuned to learn about these regularities by employing Statistical Learning (SL), a domain-general ability that enables the implicit detection of probabilistic regularities in our surrounding environment. The role of brain connectivity on SL has been previously explored, highlighting the relevance of structural and functional connections between frontal, parietal, and temporal cortices. However, whether SL can induce changes in the functional connections of the resting state brain has yet to be investigated. To address this question, we applied a pre-post design where participants (n = 38) were submitted to resting-state fMRI acquisition before and after in-scanner exposure to either an artificial language stream (formed by 4 concatenated words) or a random audio stream. Our results showed that exposure to an artificial language stream significantly changed (corrected p < 0.05) the functional connectivity between Right Posterior Cingulum and Left Superior Parietal Lobule. This suggests that functional connectivity between brain networks supporting attentional and working memory processes may play an important role in statistical learning.
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- Pallabi Sengupta
- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
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Komatsu R, Sengupta P, Wadhwa A, Akça O, Sessler DI, Ezri T, Lenhardt R. Ultrasound Quantification of Anterior Soft Tissue Thickness Fails to Predict Difficult Laryngoscopy in Obese Patients. Anaesth Intensive Care 2019; 35:32-7. [PMID: 17323663 DOI: 10.1177/0310057x0703500104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [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: 12/29/2022]
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Morbid obesity is associated with difficult laryngoscopy and intubation. In the general population, bedside indices for predicting difficult intubation (i.e. Mallampati classification, thyromental distance, sternomental distance, mouth-opening and Wilson risk score) have poor-to-moderate sensitivity (20-62%) and moderate-to-fair specificity (82-97%). In the obese population, although the risk of difficult intubation after a positive Mallampati test is 34%, it is still not sufficient to be used as a single predictive test. An abundance of pretracheal soft tissue anterior to the vocal cords, as quantified by ultrasound, was a better predictor of difficult laryngoscopy than body mass index (BMI) in Israeli patients. Obesity is a growing problem in the United States: therefore we sought to confirm this finding in the obese population in the United States. We used ultrasound to quantify the neck soft tissue, from the skin to the anterior aspect of the trachea at the vocal cords, in 64 obese patients (BMI >35). We assessed thyromental distance, mouth-opening, jaw movement, limited neck mobility, modified Mallampati score, abnormal upper teeth, neck circumference, confirmed obstructive sleep apnoea, BMI, age, race and gender as predictors. Twenty patients were classified as difficult laryngoscopy; they were older (47±9 vs 42±1 years; P=0.048; mean±SD) and had less soft pretracheal tissue (20.4±3.0 vs 22.3±3.8 mm; P=0.049) than did easy laryngoscopy patients. Multivariate regression indicated that none of the factors was an independent predictor of difficult laryngoscopy. We conclude that the thickness of pretracheal soft tissue at the level of the vocal cords is not a good predictor of difficult laryngoscopy in obese patients in the United States.
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- R Komatsu
- Outcomes Research Institute and Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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Nawale GN, Bahadorikhalili S, Sengupta P, Kadekar S, Chatterjee S, Varghese OP. 4′-Guanidinium-modified siRNA: a molecular tool to control RNAi activity through RISC priming and selective antisense strand loading. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:9112-9115. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cc04141a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We present synthesis, biochemical, biophysical and computational evaluation of 4′ gunanidino modified siRNA.
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- Ganesh N. Nawale
- Translational Chemical Biology Laboratory
- Division of Polymer Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström
- Uppsala University
- Uppsala
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- Translational Chemical Biology Laboratory
- Division of Polymer Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström
- Uppsala University
- Uppsala
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- Biomolecular NMR and Drug Design Laboratory
- Department of Biophysics
- Bose Institute
- Kolkata
- India
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- Translational Chemical Biology Laboratory
- Division of Polymer Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström
- Uppsala University
- Uppsala
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- Biomolecular NMR and Drug Design Laboratory
- Department of Biophysics
- Bose Institute
- Kolkata
- India
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- Translational Chemical Biology Laboratory
- Division of Polymer Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström
- Uppsala University
- Uppsala
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Nawale GN, Bahadorikhalili S, Sengupta P, Kadekar S, Chatterjee S, Varghese OP. Correction: 4′-Guanidinium-modified siRNA: a molecular tool to control RNAi activity through RISC priming and selective antisense strand loading. Chem Commun (Camb) 2019; 55:10028. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cc90352f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Correction for ‘4′-Guanidinium-modified siRNA: a molecular tool to control RNAi activity through RISC priming and selective antisense strand loading’ by Ganesh N. Nawale et al., Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 9112–9115.
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- Ganesh N. Nawale
- Translational Chemical Biology Laboratory
- Division of Polymer Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström
- Uppsala University
- Uppsala
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- Translational Chemical Biology Laboratory
- Division of Polymer Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström
- Uppsala University
- Uppsala
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- Biomolecular NMR and Drug Design Laboratory
- Department of Biophysics
- Bose Institute
- Kolkata
- India
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- Translational Chemical Biology Laboratory
- Division of Polymer Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström
- Uppsala University
- Uppsala
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- Biomolecular NMR and Drug Design Laboratory
- Department of Biophysics
- Bose Institute
- Kolkata
- India
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- Translational Chemical Biology Laboratory
- Division of Polymer Chemistry
- Department of Chemistry-Ångström
- Uppsala University
- Uppsala
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Ram SS, Aich A, Sengupta P, Chakraborty A, Sudarshan M. Assessment of trace metal contamination of wetland sediments from eastern and western coastal region of India dominated with mangrove forest. Chemosphere 2018; 211:1113-1122. [PMID: 30223327 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.07.201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Revised: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Ecosystem and biodiversity of India's coastal areas dominated with mangrove forest have been threatened by growing anthropogenic activities. The present work aims to investigate the contamination of wetland sediments with trace elements and assess the sediment quality at different sampling locations in eastern and western costal region dominated with mangrove forest. The longitudinal profile of trace elements in sediments from different sampling locations analyzed by employing Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer shows variations in distribution of elements like Al, Si, K, Ca, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn and Pb. The enrichment factor (EF) and Geo-accumulation index (Igeo) values suggested depletion of clay minerals and enrichment of heavy metals like Cr, Cu Fe and Mn. Depending on the variations in Igeo values, the elements are put into Igeo Class 0 to 3 levels of contamination. Contamination factor (Cf) and pollution load index (PLI) suggested deterioration of sediments analyzed in the present study. Assessment of ecological risk potential of elements suggests that few elements (Cr and Cu) are moderately contaminated and may cause environmental stress on the exposed flora and fauna.
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- S S Ram
- Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
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- Bhairab Ganguly College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre, West Bengal, India
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- UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre, West Bengal, India
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Darbandi S, darbandi M, Agarwal A, Esteves S, Sengupta P, Dutta S, saradha B, Khorram Khorshid H, Akhondi M, Sadeghi M. Oxidative stress induced alterations in seminal plasma antioxidants, is there any association with Keap1 gene methylation in human spermatozoa. Fertil Steril 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.07.493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Lapworth DJ, Das P, Shaw A, Mukherjee A, Civil W, Petersen JO, Gooddy DC, Wakefield O, Finlayson A, Krishan G, Sengupta P, MacDonald AM. Deep urban groundwater vulnerability in India revealed through the use of emerging organic contaminants and residence time tracers. Environ Pollut 2018; 240:938-949. [PMID: 29949845 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.04.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2017] [Revised: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 04/10/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Demand for groundwater in urban centres across Asia continues to rise with ever deeper wells being drilled to avoid shallow contamination. The vulnerability of deep alluvial aquifers to contaminant migration is assessed in the ancient city of Varanasi, India, using a novel combination of emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) and groundwater residence time tracers (CFC and SF6). Both shallow and intermediate depth private sources (<100 m) and deep (>100 m) municipal groundwater supplies were found to be contaminated with a range of EOCs including pharmaceuticals (e.g. sulfamethoxazole, 77% detection frequency, range <0.0001-0.034 μg L-1), perfluoroalkyl substances (e.g. PFOS, range <0.0001-0.033 μg L-1) as well as a number of pesticides (e.g. phenoxyacetic acid, range <0.02-0.21 μg L-1). The profile of EOCs found in groundwater mirror those found in surface waters, albeit at lower concentrations, and reflect common waste water sources with attenuation in the subsurface. Mean groundwater residence times were found to be comparable between some deep groundwater and shallow groundwater sources with residence times ranging from >70 to 30 years. Local variations in aquifer geology influence the extent of modern recharge at depth. Both tracers provide compelling evidence of significant inputs of younger groundwater to depth >100 m within the aquifer system.
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- D J Lapworth
- British Geological Survey, Maclean Building, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK.
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT-Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT-Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT-Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India.
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- National Laboratory Service, Star Cross, Exeter, EX6 8FD, UK
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- British Geological Survey, Maclean Building, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
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- British Geological Survey, Maclean Building, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
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- British Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, NG12 5GG, UK
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- British Geological Survey, Lyell Centre, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP, UK
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- National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, 247667, Uttarakhand, India
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT-Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India
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- British Geological Survey, Lyell Centre, Edinburgh, EH14 4AP, UK
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Tang HK, Leaw JN, Rodrigues JNB, Herbut IF, Sengupta P, Assaad FF, Adam S. The role of electron-electron interactions in two-dimensional Dirac fermions. Science 2018; 361:570-574. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2017] [Accepted: 05/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Taye N, Alam A, Ghorai S, Chatterji DG, Parulekar A, Mogare D, Singh S, Sengupta P, Chatterjee S, Bhat MK, Santra MK, Salunkhe PB, Finston SK, Chattopadhyay S. SMAR1 inhibits Wnt/β-catenin signaling and prevents colorectal cancer progression. Oncotarget 2018; 9:21322-21336. [PMID: 29765542 PMCID: PMC5940383 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.25093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2017] [Accepted: 03/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Reduced expression of Scaffold/Matrix Attachment Region Binding Protein 1 (SMAR1) is associated with various cancers resulting in poor prognosis of the diseases. However, the precise underlying mechanism elucidating the loss of SMAR1 requires ongoing study. Here, we show that SMAR1 is highly downregulated during aberrant Wnt3a signaling due to proteasomal degradation and predicted poor prognosis of colorectal cancer. However, substitution mutation (Arginine and Lysine to Alanine) in the D-box elements of SMAR1 viz. "RCHL" and "RQRL" completely abrogated its proteasomal degradation despite Wnt3a activity. SMAR1 inhibited Wnt/β-catenin signaling by recruiting Histone deacetylase-5 to β-catenin promoter resulting in reduced cell migration and invasion. Consequently, reduced tumor sizes in in-vivo NOD-SCID mice were observed that strongly associated with suppression of β-catenin. However, loss of SMAR1 led to enriched H3K9 Acetylation in the β-catenin promoter that further increased Wnt/β-catenin signaling activities and enhanced colorectal cancer progression drastically. Using docking and isothermal titration calorimetric studies we show that small microbial peptides viz. AT-01C and AT-01D derived from Mycobacterium tuberculosis mask the D-box elements of SMAR1. These peptides stabilized SMAR1 expression that further inhibited metastatic SW480 colorectal cancer cell migration and invasion. Drastically reduced subcutaneous tumors were observed in in-vivo NOD-SCID mice upon administration of these peptides (25 mg/kg body weight) intraperitoneally. Taken together our structural studies, in-vitro and in-vivo results strongly suggest that the D-box elements of SMAR1 represent novel druggable targets, where the microbial peptides hold promise as novel colorectal cancer therapeutics.
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- Nandaraj Taye
- National Centre for Cell Science, Pune 411 007, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, Pune 411 007, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, Pune 411 007, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata 700 054, India
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- National Centre for Cell Science, Pune 411 007, India
- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR), West Bengal, Kolkata 700 032, India
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Bhunia D, Mondal P, Das G, Saha A, Sengupta P, Jana J, Mohapatra S, Chatterjee S, Ghosh S. Spatial Position Regulates Power of Tryptophan: Discovery of a Major-Groove-Specific Nuclear-Localizing, Cell-Penetrating Tetrapeptide. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:1697-1714. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b10254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Debmalya Bhunia
- Organic
and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Organic
and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
- Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Organic
and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
- Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Organic
and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department
of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department
of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kolkata 700054, India
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- Organic
and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
- Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department
of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VII (M), Kolkata 700054, India
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- Organic
and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
- Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4, Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Kolkata 700032, India
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Jana S, Jana J, Patra K, Mondal S, Bhat J, Sarkar A, Sengupta P, Biswas A, Mukherjee M, Tripathi SP, Gangwal R, Hazra J, Sangamwar AT, Mukherjee G, Bhattacharjee S, Mandal DP, Chatterjee S. LINCRNA00273 promotes cancer metastasis and its G-Quadruplex promoter can serve as a novel target to inhibit cancer invasiveness. Oncotarget 2017; 8:110234-110256. [PMID: 29299144 PMCID: PMC5746379 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.22622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2016] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Discovery of anti-metastatic drugs is of immense clinical significance as metastasis is responsible for 90% of all cancer deaths. Here we report the inhibitory effect of a bis schiff base (M2) on cancer cell migration and invasion in vitro and in vivo. M2 has shown good solubility and permeability across the intestinal cell wall and hence can be classified as BCS (Biopharmaceutical classification system) class I. Microarray studies identified a long non coding intergenic RNA, LINC00273 as a novel molecular target of M2. We report that LINC00273 harbors a unique (4n-1) parallel G-Quadruplex structure in its promoter as validated by DMS footprint. M2 is proposed to stabilize this G-quadruplex structure resulting in the down-regulation of LINC00273 expression. Dual Luciferase reporter assay also suggests inhibition of LINC00273 promoter activity by M2. Involvement of this linc in metastasis is proven by siRNA and shRNA mediated knock down of LINC00273 in vitro and in vivo in nude mice which significantly decelerates cancer cell migration and invasion and also makes the cells unresponsive to TGF-β's pro-metastatic effects. Furthermore, the real time expression of LINC00273 in thirty seven human clinical samples is found to be positively correlated with the histopathological staging of metastasis.
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- Samarjit Jana
- Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Malikapur, Kolkata 700126, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Malikapur, Kolkata 700126, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Malikapur, Kolkata 700126, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector-67, S. A. S. Nagar, Punjab 160062, India
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- Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector-67, S. A. S. Nagar, Punjab 160062, India
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi Kolkata 700054, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector-67, S. A. S. Nagar, Punjab 160062, India
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- Barasat Cancer Research and Welfare Centre, Barasat, Kolkata 700124, India
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- Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Malikapur, Kolkata 700126, India
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- Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Malikapur, Kolkata 700126, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Kankurgachi, Kolkata 700054, India
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Bhat J, Mondal S, Sengupta P, Chatterjee S. In Silico Screening and Binding Characterization of Small Molecules toward a G-Quadruplex Structure Formed in the Promoter Region of c-MYC Oncogene. ACS Omega 2017; 2:4382-4397. [PMID: 30023722 PMCID: PMC6044917 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.6b00531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 03/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Overexpression of c-MYC oncogene is associated with cancer pathology. Expression of c-MYC is regulated by the G-quadruplex structure formed in the G-rich segment of nuclease hypersensitive element (NHE III1), that is, "Pu27", which is localized in the promoter region. Ligand-induced stabilization of the Pu27 structure has been identified as a novel target for cancer therapeutics. Here, we have explored the library of synthetic compounds against the predefined binding site of Pu27. Three compounds were selected based on the docking analyses; they were further scrutinized using all atom molecular dynamics simulations in an explicit water model. Simulated trajectories were scrutinized for conformational stability and ligand binding free energy estimation; essential dynamic behavior was determined using principal component analysis. One of the molecules, "TPP (1-(3-(4-(1,2,3-thiadiazol-4-yl)phenoxy)-2-hydroxypropyl)-4-carbamoylpiperidinium)", with the best results was considered for further evaluation. The theoretical observations are supported well by biophysical analysis using circular dichroism, isothermal titration calorimetry, and high-resolution NMR spectroscopy indicating association of TPP with Pu27. The in vitro studies were then translated into c-MYC overexpression in the T47D breast cancer cell line. Biological evaluation through the MTT assay, flow cytometric assay, RT-PCR, and reporter luciferase assay suggests that TPP downregulates the expression of c-MYC oncogene by arresting its promoter region. In silico and in vitro observations cumulatively suggest that the novel skeleton of TPP could be a potential anticancer agent by stabilizing the G-quadruplex formed in the Pu27 and consequently downregulating the expression of c-MYC oncogene. Derivation of new molecules on its skeleton may confer anticancer therapeutics for the next generation.
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Molnar A, Kovacs A, Kolossvary M, Lakatos B, Tarnoki A, Tarnoki D, Maurovich-Horvat P, Jermendy G, Sengupta P, Merkely B. P1446Common genetic background of left ventricular global longitudinal strain and diastolic function: new insights into the understanding of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction? Eur Heart J 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx502.p1446] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Purpose: To investigate whether the sperm concentration of European men is deteriorating over the past 50 years of time. Materials and Methods: We analysed the data published in English language articles in the past 50 years in altering sperm concentration in European men. Results: A time-dependent decline of sperm concentration ( r = −0.307, p = 0.02) in the last 50 years and an overall 32.5% decrease in mean sperm concentration was noted. Conclusion: This comprehensive, evidence-based meta-analysis concisely presents the evidence of decreased sperm concentration in European male over the past 50 years to serve the scientific research zone related to male reproductive health.
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- P Sengupta
- Physiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Lincoln University College, Malaysia
- Integrated Medical Care, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Fertility Medical Group, Avenida Brigadeiro Luiz Antônio, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Faculty of Science, Lincoln University College, Malaysia
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- Integrated Medical Care, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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Jana J, Mondal S, Bhattacharjee P, Sengupta P, Roychowdhury T, Saha P, Kundu P, Chatterjee S. Chelerythrine down regulates expression of VEGFA, BCL2 and KRAS by arresting G-Quadruplex structures at their promoter regions. Sci Rep 2017; 7:40706. [PMID: 28102286 PMCID: PMC5244364 DOI: 10.1038/srep40706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [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: 10/22/2015] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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A putative anticancer plant alkaloid, Chelerythrine binds to G-quadruplexes at promoters of VEGFA, BCL2 and KRAS genes and down regulates their expression. The association of Chelerythrine to G-quadruplex at the promoters of these oncogenes were monitored using UV absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence anisotropy, circular dichroism spectroscopy, CD melting, isothermal titration calorimetry, molecular dynamics simulation and quantitative RT-PCR technique. The pronounced hypochromism accompanied by red shifts in UV absorption spectroscopy in conjunction with ethidium bromide displacement assay indicates end stacking mode of interaction of Chelerythrine with the corresponding G-quadruplex structures. An increase in fluorescence anisotropy and CD melting temperature of Chelerythrine-quadruplex complex revealed the formation of stable Chelerythrine-quadruplex complex. Isothermal titration calorimetry data confirmed that Chelerythrine-quadruplex complex formation is thermodynamically favourable. Results of quantative RT-PCR experiment in combination with luciferase assay showed that Chelerythrine treatment to MCF7 breast cancer cells effectively down regulated transcript level of all three genes, suggesting that Chelerythrine efficiently binds to in cellulo quadruplex motifs. MD simulation provides the molecular picture showing interaction between Chelerythrine and G-quadruplex. Binding of Chelerythrine with BCL2, VEGFA and KRAS genes involved in evasion, angiogenesis and self sufficiency of cancer cells provides a new insight for the development of future therapeutics against cancer.
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- Jagannath Jana
- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, WB, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, WB, India
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- Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, WB, India
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- Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, WB, India
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Jana J, Sengupta P, Mondal S, Chatterjee S. Restriction of telomerase capping by short non-toxic peptides via arresting telomeric G-quadruplex. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra28149d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The stabilization of a G-quadruplex structure in human telomeric DNA has become a promising strategy in the development of cancer therapeutics.
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- Bose Institute
- Department of Biophysics
- Kolkata
- India
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Mondal S, Jana J, Sengupta P, Jana S, Chatterjee S. Myricetin arrests human telomeric G-quadruplex structure: a new mechanistic approach as an anticancer agent. Mol BioSyst 2016; 12:2506-18. [DOI: 10.1039/c6mb00218h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The use of small molecules to arrest G-quadruplex structure has become a potential strategy for the development and design of a new class of anticancer therapeutics.
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- Soma Mondal
- Department of Biophysics
- Bose Institute
- Kolkata-700054
- India
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- Department of Biophysics
- Bose Institute
- Kolkata-700054
- India
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- Department of Zoology
- West Bengal State University
- Kolkata-126
- India
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Winter R, Fazlinezhad A, Martins Fernandes S, Pellegrino M, Iriart X, Moustafa S, Stolfo D, Bieseviciene M, Patel S, Vriz O, Sarvari SI, Santos M, Berezin A, Stoebe S, Benyounes Iglesias N, De Chiara B, Soliman A, Oni O, Ricci F, Tumasyan LR, Kim KH, Popa BA, Yiangou K, Olsen RH, Cacicedo A, Monti L, Holte E, Orlic D, Trifunovic D, Nucifora G, Casalta AC, Cavalcante JL, Keramida K, Calin A, Almeida Morais L, Bandera F, Galli E, Kamal HM, Leite L, Polte CL, Martinez Santos P, Jin CN, Generati G, Reali M, Kalcik M, Cacicedo A, Nascimento H, Ferreiro Quero C, Kazum S, Madeira S, Villagra JM, Muraru D, Gobbo M, Generati G, D'andrea A, Azevedo O, Nucifora G, Cruz I, Lozano Granero VC, Stampfli SF, Marketou M, Bento D, Mohty D, Hernandez Jimenez V, Gascuena R, Ingvarsson A, Cameli M, Werther Evaldsson A, Greiner S, Michelsen MM, El Eraky AZZA, Kamal HM, D'ascenzi F, Spinelli L, Stojanovic S, Mincu RI, Vindis D, Mantovani F, Yi JE, Styczynski G, Battah AHMED, O'driscoll J, Generati G, Velasco Del Castillo S, Voilliot D, Scali MC, Garcia Campos A, Opitz B, Herold IHF, Veiga CESAR, Santos Furtado M, Khan UM, Leite L, Leite L, Leite L, Keramida K, Molnar AA, Rio P, Huang MS, Papadopoulos C, Venneri L, Onut R, Casas Rojo E, Bayat F, Aggeli C, Ben Kahla S, Abid L, Choi JH, Barreiro Perez M, Lindqvist P, Sheehan F, Vojdanparast M, Nezafati P, Teixeira R, Generati G, Bandera F, Labate V, Alfonzetti E, Guazzi M, Dinet ML, Jalal Z, Cochet H, Thambo JB, Ho TH, Shah P, Murphy K, Nelluri BK, Lee H, Wilansky S, Mookadam F, Tonet E, Merlo M, Barbati G, Gigli M, Pinamonti B, Ramani F, Zecchin M, Sinagra G, Vaskelyte JJ, Mizariene V, Lesauskaite V, Verseckaite R, Karaliute R, Jonkaitiene R, Li L, Craft M, Danford D, Kutty S, Pellegrinet M, Zito C, Carerj S, Di Bello V, Cittadini A, Bossone E, Antonini-Canterin F, Rodriguez M, Sitges M, Sepulveda-Martinez A, Gratacos E, Bijnens B, Crispi F, Leite L, Martins R, Baptista R, Barbosa A, Ribeiro N, Oliveira A, Castro G, Pego M, Samura T, Kremzer 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Tiu C, Vinereanu D, Hutyra M, Cechakova E, Littnerova S, Taborsky M, Lugli R, Bursi F, Fabbri M, Modena MG, Stefanelli G, Mussini C, Barbieri A, Youn HJ, O JH, Yoon HJ, Jung HO, Shin GJ, Rdzanek A, Pietrasik A, Kochman J, Huczek Z, Milewska A, Marczewska M, Szmigielski CA, Abd Eldayem SOHA, El Magd El Bohy ABO, Slee A, Peresso V, Nazir S, Sharma R, Bandera F, Pellegrino M, Labate V, Carbone F, Alfonzetti E, Guazzi M, Anton Ladislao A, Gomez Sanchez V, Cacidedo Fernandez Bobadilla A, Onaindia Gandarias JJ, Rodriguez Sanchez I, Romero Pereira A, Quintana Rackza O, Jimenez Melo O, Zugazabeitia Irazabal G, Huttin O, Venner C, Deballon R, Manenti V, Villemin T, Olivier A, Sadoul N, Juilliere Y, Selton-Suty C, Simioniuc A, Mandoli GE, Dini FL, Marzilli M, Picano E, Martin-Fernandez M, De La Hera Galarza JM, Corros-Vicente C, Leon-Aguero V, Velasco-Alonso E, Colunga-Blanco S, Fidalgo-Arguelles A, Rozado-Castano J, Moris De La Tassa C, Stelzmueller ME, Wisser W, Reichenfelser W, Mohl W, Saporito S, Mischi M, Bouwman RA, Van Assen HC, Van Den Bosch HCM, De Lepper A, Korsten HHM, Houthuizen P, Rodrigues A, Leal G, Silvestre O, Andrade J, Hjertaas JJ, Greve G, Matre K, Teixeira R, Baptista R, Barbosa A, Ribeiro N, Castro G, Martins R, Cardim N, Goncalves L, Pego M, Teixeira R, Baptista R, Barbosa A, Ribeiro N, Castro G, Martins R, Cardim N, Goncalves L, Pego M, Teixeira R, Baptista R, Barbosa A, Oliveira AP, Castro G, Martins R, Cardim N, Goncalves L, Pego M, Kouris N, Kostopoulos V, Markos L, Olympios CD, Kovacs A, Tarnoki AD, Tarnoki DL, Kolossvary M, Apor A, Maurovich-Horvat P, Jermendy G, Sengupta P, Merkely B, Viveiros Monteiro A, Galrinho A, Pereira-Da-Silva T, Moura Branco L, Timoteo A, Abreu J, Leal A, Varela F, Cruz Ferreira R, Yang LT, Tsai WC, Mpaltoumas K, Fotoglidis A, Triantafyllou K, Pagourelias E, Kassimatis E, Tzikas S, Kotsiouros G, Mantzogeorgou E, Vassilikos V, Calicchio F, Manivarmane R, Pareek N, Baksi J, Rosen S, Senior R, Lyon AR, Khattar RS, Marinescu C, Onciul S, Zamfir D, Tautu O, Dorobantu M, Carbonell San Roman A, Rincon Diez LM, Gonzalez Gomez A, Fernandez Santos S, Lazaro Rivera C, Moreno Vinues C, Sanmartin Fernandez M, Fernandez-Golfin C, Zamorano Gomez JL, Alirezaei T, Karimi AS, Kakiouzi V, Felekos I, Panagopoulou V, Latsios G, Karabela M, Petras D, Tousoulis D, Abid L, Abid D, Kammoun S, Ben Kahla S, Lee JW, Martin Fernandez M, Costilla Garcia SM, Diaz Pelaez E, Moris De La Tassa C. Poster session 3The imaging examinationP646Simulator-based testing of skill in transthoracic echoP647Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of isolated left ventricular non-compactionP648Appropriate use criteria of transthoracic echocardiography and its clinical impact in an aged populationAnatomy and physiology of the heart and great vesselsP649Prevalence and determinants of exercise oscillatory ventilation in the EUROEX trial populationAssessment of diameters, volumes and massP650Left atrial remodeling after percutaneous left atrial appendage closureP651Global atrial performance with tyrosine kinase inhibitors in metastatic renal cell carcinomaP652Early right ventricular response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: impact on clinical outcomesP653Parameters of speckle-tracking echocardiography and biomechanical values of a dilative ascending aortaAssessments of haemodynamicsP654Right atrial hemodynamics in infants and children: observations from 3-dimensional echocardiography derived right atrial volumesAssessment of systolic functionP655One-point carotid wave intensity predicts cardiac mortality in patients with congestive heart failure and reduced ejection fractionP656Persistence of cardiac remodeling in adolescents with previous fetal growth restrictionP6572D speckle tracking-derived left ventricle global longitudinal strain and left ventricular dysfunction stages: a useful discriminator in moderate-to-severe aortic regurgitationP658Global longitudinal strain and strain rate in type two diabetes patients with chronic heart failure: relevance to circulating osteoprotegerinP659Analysis of left ventricular function in patients before and after surgical and interventional mitral valve therapyP660Left ventricular end-diastolic volume is complementary with global longitudinal strain for the prediction of left ventricular ejection fraction in echocardiographic daily practiceP661Left ventricular assist device, right ventricle function, and selection bias: the light side of the moonP662Assessment of right ventricular function in patients with anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction; a 2-d speckle tracking studyP663Right ventricular systolic function assessment in sickle cell anaemia using echocardiographyAssessment of diastolic functionP664Prognostic value of transthoracic cardiopulmonary ultrasound in cardiac surgery intensive care unitP665Comparative efficacy of renin-angiotensin system modulators on prognosis, right heart and left atrial parameters in patients with chronic heart failure and preserved left ventricular systolic functionP666Left atrial volume index is the most significant diastolic functional parameter of hemodynamic burden as measured by NT-proBNP in acute myocardial infarctionP667Preventive echocardiographic screening. preliminary dataP668Assessment of the atrial electromechanical delay and the mechanical functions of the left atrium in patients with diabetes mellitus type IIschemic heart diseaseP669Coronary flow velocity reserve by echocardiography as a measure of microvascular function: feasibility, reproducibility and agreement with PET in overweight patients with coronary artery diseaseP670Influence of cardiovascular risk in the occurrence of events in patients with negative stress echocardiographyP671Prevalence of transmural myocardial infarction and viable myocardium in chronic total occlusion (CTO) patientsP672The impact of the interleukin 6 receptor antagonist tocilizumab on mircovascular dysfunction after non st elevation myocardial infarction assessed by coronary flow reserve from a randomized studyP673Impact of manual thrombus aspiration on left ventricular remodeling: the echocardiographic substudy of the randomized Physiologic Assessment of Thrombus Aspirtion in patients with ST-segment ElevatioP674Acute heart failure in STEMI patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention is related to transmural circumferential myocardial strainP675Long-term prognostic value of infarct size as assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging after a first st-segment elevation myocardial infarctionHeart valve DiseasesP676Prognostic value of LV global longitudinal strain in aortic stenosis with preserved LV ejection fractionP677Importance of longitudinal dyssynchrony in low flow low gradient severe aortic stenosis patients undergoing dobutamine stress echocardiography. a multicenter study (on behalf of the HAVEC group)P678Predictive value of left ventricular longitudinal strain by 2D Speckle Tracking echocardiography, in asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis and preserved ejection fractionP679Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of the flow-gradient patterns in patients with severe aortic stenosis and preserved left ventricular ejection fractionP6802D and 3D speckle tracking assessment of left ventricular function in severe aortic stenosis, a step further from biplane ejection fractionP681Functional evaluation in aortic stenosis: determinant of exercise capacityP682Left ventricular mechanics: novel tools to evaluate left ventricular function in patients with primary mitral regurgitationP683Plasma B-type natriuretic peptide level in patients with isolated rheumatic mitral stenosisP684Quantitative assessment of severity in aortic regurgitation and the influence of elastic proprieties of thoracic aortaP685Characterization of chronic aortic and mitral regurgitation using cardiovascular magnetic resonanceP686Functional mitral regurgitation: a warning sign of underlying left ventricular systolic dysfunction in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.P687Secondary mitral valve tenting in primary degenerative prolapse quantified by three-dimensional echocardiography predicts regurgitation recurrence after mitral valve repairP688Advanced heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and severe mitral insufficiency compensate with a higher oxygen peripheral extraction to a reduced cardiac output vs oxygen uptake response to maxP689Predictors of acute procedural success after percutaneous mitraclip implantation in patients with moderate-to-severe or severe mitral regurgitation and reduced ejection fractionP690The value of transvalvular gradients obtained by transthoracic echocardiography in estimation of severe paravalvular leakage in patients with mitral prosthetic valvesP691Characteristics of infective endocarditis in a non tertiary hospitalP692Infective endocarditis: predictors of severity in a 3-year retrospective analysisP693New echocardiographic predictors of early recurrent mitral functional regurgitation after mitraclip implantationP694Transesophageal echocardiography can be reliably used for the allocation of patients with severe aortic stenosis for tras-catheter aortic valve implantationP695Annular sizing for transcatheter aortic valve selection. A comparison between computed tomography and 3D echocardiographyP696Association between aortic dilatation, mitral valve prolapse and atrial septal aneurysm: first descriptive study.CardiomyopathiesP698Cardiac resynchronization therapy by multipoint pacing improves the acute response of left ventricular mechanics and fluid dynamics: a three-dimensional and particle image velocimetry echo studyP699Long-term natural history of right ventricular function in dilated cardiomyopathy: innocent bystander or leading actor?P700Right to left ventricular interdependence at rest and during exercise assessed by the ratio between pulmonary systolic to diastolic time in heart failure reduced ejection fractionP701Exercise strain imaging demonstrates impaired right ventricular contractile reserve in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathyP702Prevalence of overt left ventricular dysfunction (burn-out phase) in a portuguese population of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a multicentre studyP703Systolic and diastolic myocardial mechanics in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and their link to the extent of hypertrophy, replacement fibrosis and interstitial fibrosisP704Multimodality imaging and genotype-phenotype associations in a cohort of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy studied by next generation sequencing and cardiac magnetic resonanceP705Sudden cardiac death risk assessment in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: do we need to add MRI to the equation?P706Prognostic value of left ventricular ejection fraction, proBNP, exercise capacity, and NYHA functional class in patients with left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathyP707The anti-hypertrophic microRNAs miR-1, miR-133a and miR-26b and their relationship to left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with essential hypertensionP708Prevalence of left ventricular systolic dysfunction in a portuguese population of left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy, a multicentre studyP709Assessment of systolic and diastolic features in light chain amyloidosis: an echocardiographic and cardiac magnetic resonance studyP710Morbid obesity-associated hypertension identifies bariatric surgery best responders: Clinical and echocardiographic follow up studyP711Echocardiographic markera for overhydration in patients under haemodialysisP712Gender aspects of right ventricular size and function in clinically stable heart transplant patientsP713Evidence of cardiac stem cells from the left ventricular apical tip in patients undergone LVAD implant: a comparative strain-ultrastructural studySystemic diseases and other conditionsP714Speckle tracking assessment of right ventricular function is superior for differentiation of pressure versus volume overloaded right ventricleP715Prognostic value of pulmonary arterial pressure: analysis in a large dataset of timely matched non-invasive and invasive assessmentsP716Effect of the glucagon-like peptide-1 analogue liraglutide on left ventricular diastolic and systolic function in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomised, single-blinded, crossover pilot studyP717Tissue doppler evaluation of left ventricular functions, left atrial mechanical functions and atrial electromechanical delay in juvenile idiopathic arthritisP718Echocardiographic detection of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in patients with rheumatoid arthritisP719Left ventricular strain values are unaffected by intense training: a longitudinal, speckle-tracking studyP720Diastolic left ventricular function in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: a matched-cohort, speckle-tracking echocardiographic studyP721Relationship between adiponectin level and left ventricular mass and functionP722Left atrial function is impaired in patients with multiple sclerosisMasses, tumors and sources of embolismP723Paradoxical embolization to the brain in patients with acute pulmonary embolism and confirmed patent foramen ovale with bidirectional shunt, results of prospective monitoringP724Following the European Society of Cardiology proposed echocardiographic algorithm in elective patients with clinical suspicion of infective endocarditis: diagnostic yield and prognostic implicationsP725Metastatic cardiac18F-FDG uptake in patients with malignancy: comparison with echocardiographic findingsDiseases of the aortaP726Echocardiographic measurements of aortic pulse wave velocity correlate well with invasive methodP727Assessment of increase in aortic and carotid intimal medial thickness in adolescent type 1 diabetic patientsStress echocardiographyP728Determinants and prognostic significance of heart rate variability in renal transplant candidates undergoing dobutamine stress echocardiographyP729Pattern of cardiac output vs O2 uptake ratio during maximal exercise in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: pathophysiological insightsP730Prognostic value and predictive factors of cardiac events in patients with normal exercise echocardiographyP731Right ventricular mechanics during exercise echocardiography: normal values, feasibility and reproducibility of conventional and new right ventricular function parametersP732The added value of exercise-echo in heart failure patients: assessing dynamic changes in extravascular lung waterP733Applicability of appropriate use criteria of exercise stress echocardiography in real-life practice: what have we improved with new documents?Transesophageal echocardiographyP7343D-TEE guidance in percutaneous mitral valve interventions correcting mitral regurgitationContrast echocardiographyP735Pulmonary transit time by contrast enhanced ultrasound as parameter for cardiac performance: a comparison with magnetic resonance imaging and NT-ProBNPReal-time three-dimensional TEEP736Optimal parameter selection for anisotropic diffusion denoising filters applied to aortic valve 4d echocardiographsP737Left ventricle systolic function in non-alcoholic cirrhotic candidates for liver transplantation: a three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography studyTissue Doppler and speckle trackingP738Optimizing speckle tracking echocardiography strain measurements in infants: an in-vitro phantom studyP739Usefulness of vascular mechanics in aortic degenerative valve disease to estimate prognosis: a two dimensional speckle tracking studyP740Vascular mechanics in aortic degenerative valve disease: a two dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography studyP741Statins and vascular load in aortic valve disease patients, a speckle tracking echocardiography studyP742Is Left Bundle Branch Block only an electrocardiographic abnormality? Study of LV function by 2D speckle tracking in patients with normal ejection fractionP743Dominant inheritance of global longitudinal strain in a population of healthy and hypertensive twinsP744Mechanical differences of left atria in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: A speckle-tracking study.P745Different distribution of myocardial deformation between hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and aortic stenosisP746Left atrial mechanics in patients with chronic renal failure. Incremental value for atrial fibrillation predictionP747Subclinical myocardial dysfunction in cancer patients: is there a direct effect of tumour growth?P748The abnormal global longitudinal strain predicts significant circumflex artery disease in low risk acute coronary syndromeP7493D-Speckle tracking echocardiography for assessing ventricular funcion and infarct size in young patients after acute coronary syndromeP750Evaluation of left ventricular dyssynchrony by echocardiograhy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus without clinically evident cardiac diseaseP751Differences in myocardial function between peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis patients: insights from speckle tracking echoP752Appraisal of left atrium changes in hypertensive heart disease: insights from a speckle tracking studyP753Left ventricular rotational behavior in hypertensive patients: Two dimensional speckle tracking imaging studyComputed Tomography & Nuclear CardiologyP754Effectiveness of adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction of 64-slice dual-energy ct pulmonary angiography in the patients with reduced iodine load: comparison with standard ct pulmonary angiograP755Clinical prediction model to inconclusive result assessed by coronary computed tomography angiography. 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Tang HK, Laksono E, Rodrigues JNB, Sengupta P, Assaad FF, Adam S. Interaction-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in Strained Graphene. Phys Rev Lett 2015; 115:186602. [PMID: 26565484 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.186602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The question of whether electron-electron interactions can drive a metal to insulator transition in graphene under realistic experimental conditions is addressed. Using three representative methods to calculate the effective long-range Coulomb interaction between π electrons in graphene and solving for the ground state using quantum Monte Carlo methods, we argue that, without strain, graphene remains metallic and changing the substrate from SiO_{2} to suspended samples hardly makes any difference. In contrast, applying a rather large-but experimentally realistic-uniform and isotropic strain of about 15% seems to be a promising route to making graphene an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator.
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546, Singapore
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546, Singapore
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546, Singapore
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546, Singapore
- School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore, 6 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117546, Singapore
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117542, Singapore
- Yale-NUS College, 16 College Avenue West, Singapore 138527, Singapore
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Pal A, De S, Sengupta P, Maity P, Dhara PC. Evaluation of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorder and Postural Stress among Female Potato Cultivators in West Bengal, India. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.4314/esa.v27i1.5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Pasha K, Sengupta P, Alauddin S, Sheikh AK, Hossain MZ, Sumon SM. Transient Loss of Vision after Coronary Angiogram - A Case Report. Mymensingh Med J 2015; 24:615-618. [PMID: 26329965] [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: 06/05/2023]
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A 50-year old, diabetic, hypertensive patient with post-CABG status developed complete loss of vision about one hour after coronary angiogram (CAG). Thorough ophthalmological and neurological examination as well as magnetic resonance imaging of brain especially of the occipital region revealed no abnormality. The patient had complete recovery of vision about 48 hours later. We could not document any specific cause or mechanism for the visual loss, although the selective vulnerability of occipital lobes to contrast agent toxicity (Cortical blindness) was the most likely underlying mechanism.
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- Dr Kamal Pasha, Associate Consultant of Cardiology, Square Hospitals Ltd. Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Research into occupational exposure of metals and consequences of reproductive systems has made imperative scientific offerings in the preceding few decades. Early research works focused on possible effects on the reproductive functions rather than the complete reproductive health of the woman. Later, it was realized that metals, as reproductive toxins, may also induce hormonal changes affecting other facets of reproductive health such as the menstrual cycle, ovulation, and fertility. Concern is now shifting from considerations for the pregnant woman to the entire spectrum of occupational health threats and thus reproductive health among women.
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- Department of Physiology, Vidyasagar College for Women, University of Calcutta
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Genetics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Eccrine spiradenoma is an uncommon benign adnexal tumor of the eccrine sweat glands. Although it can occur at any age, it is most common in young adults without any sex predilection. Malignant transformation is rare, presenting as rapid increase in size of a long-standing lesion. Here, we report a case of eccrine spiradenoma in a 35-year-old man who presented with swelling over the right knee, with cytological atypia but no recurrence until date.
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- A Sharma
- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Sagore Dutta Hospital, Kamarhati, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Pharmacology, N.R.S. Medical College, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Pathology, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Pathology, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, India
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Sengupta P, Sahoo S. Health-related morphological characteristics and physiological fitness in connection with nutritional, socio-economic status, occupational workload of tea garden workers. Afr Health Sci 2014; 14:558-63. [PMID: 25352872 DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v14i3.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Reports on the cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition of male workers engaged in processing of tea leaves in factories within the tea-estates of West Bengal, under the influence of physiological workload, are quite scanty. OBJECTIVES This cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate morphometric characteristics based on physiological status and physical fitness of tea factory laborers who are continuously exposed to tea dust in their work environment for more than two years. METHODS Subjects were divided into control and tea garden workers groups. Height and weight were measured and the body mass index (BMI) was computed. Physiological parameters such as resting heart rate, blood pressure, fitness variables like physical fitness index (PFI), energy expenditure (EE), handgrip strength and anthropometric parameters like mid-upper arm (MUAC), thigh circumference (TC), head circumference (HC) and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) were measured. RESULTS Body surface area (BSA), BMI, body fat percentage and fitness variables (PFI, EE) showed significant difference (p < 0.05) between the two groups. Anthropometric measures (MUAC, TC, HC, WHR) reflected poor status among laborers. CONCLUSIONS The present study shows that the majority of workers had ectomorph stature, good physical fitness, but had poor nutritional status (BMI and WHR).
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Extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH) refers to hematopoiesis occurring outside the medulla of bone. It may be physiologic or due to pathological conditions like hematopoietic disorders. EMH can involve liver, spleen, thorax, and lymph nodes. It can involve paraspinal tissues with extension and involvement of spinal canal. In our case, the diagnosis was confirmed by the history of the patient stating underlying hematological condition and by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings showing large soft tissue masses in paraspinal areas with involvement of spinal canal and leading to cord compression.
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- M A Hashmi
- MRI Section, EKO CT and MRI Scan Centre, Medical College and Hospitals Campus, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Paediatrics, Vivekananda Hospital, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Neurology, Medical College, and Hospitals, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Neurology, Medical College, and Hospitals, Kolkata, India
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- Department of Radiology, Darbhanga Medical College, India
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- Department of Radiology, Darbhanga Medical College, India
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Sengupta P. Comparing the Physiological, Socio-economic and Nutritional Status among Male and Female Undergraduate College Students of Metropolitan City of Kolkata. Ann Med Health Sci Res 2014; 4:537-42. [PMID: 25221700 PMCID: PMC4160676 DOI: 10.4103/2141-9248.139304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [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] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the present days, increasing trend of eating disorders are noticed among college students (both male and female) which can disturb their overall physiological and health status. It is more prevalent in metropolitan cities, like Kolkata. But, the existing literature about the physiological and nutritional status of the undergraduate college students of Kolkata is insufficient. AIM Thus, the objective of this small-scale cross-sectional study is to report and compare the prevalence of malnutrition (both obesity and undernutrition) among undergraduate male and female college students of Kolkata, based on body mass index (BMI) and some direct and derived anthropometric measures describing the body composition of the subjects. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study conducted in October-December 2011. The present investigation was carried out in randomly selected male (mean age 20.9 [2.25]) and female college students (mean age 20.3 [2.34]) of Kolkata. A total of 100 students of different colleges has participated, having the age of 18-22 years. Measures included a total of 24 variables which included thirteen direct anthropometric measures and 11 derived variables. RESULTS Analysis of collected data showed significantly higher BMI, fat mass, body adiposity index, but, lower waist-to-hip ratio, conicity index in female students. Anthropometric data also showed lower waist circumference and abdominal extension in female college students. Conversely, male students showed a higher fat free mass (FFM), mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and thigh circumferences (TCs). CONCLUSION Based on the findings of the present study, it can be reported that higher body fat distribution and increased propensity of being overweight/obese was observed in female students, though they have shown lower abdominal fat distribution, which is a cue of female physical attractiveness. However, male students are found to have a higher FFM, MUAC and TCs, which is the indicator of strength and energy.
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- Department of Physiology, Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa, Nepal
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- Department of Physiology, Vidyasagar College for Women, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Integrated Medical Care, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland E-mail:
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Pal A, De S, Sengupta P, Maity P, Dhara PC. Relationship of body compositional and nutritional parameters with blood pressure in adults. J Hum Nutr Diet 2013; 27:489-500. [PMID: 24206006 DOI: 10.1111/jhn.12180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obesity has been regarded as a single best predictor and major controllable contributor to hypertension. The present study aimed to assess the relationship between body compositional and nutritional parameters with blood pressure in rural Bengalee adults. METHODS Anthropometric measures, blood pressure and nutritional parameters were measured in 522 rural Bengalee adults using standard protocols. Receiver operating characteristic analysis was carried out to identify cut-off values of body mass index (BMI) and percentage of body fat (BF%) as associated factors of hypertension and hypotension. RESULTS Most of the subjects were normotensive. However, a notable percentage had hypertension (males: 21.86%; females: 15.27%), although the prevalence of hypotension was low (males: 10.53%; females: 8.73%). Obesity indicators were significantly higher in hypertensive individuals than hypotensive and normotensive individuals. All anthropometric parameters and obesity indicators were significantly correlated (P < 0.001) with blood pressure. Blood pressure increased steadily from being underweight through to normal and then to overweight/obese individuals. There were significant differences in the percentage of hypertension and hypotension between nutritional categories. Blood pressure had significant positive correlation with energy, carbohydrate and fat intake, whereas protein and calcium were negatively associated with blood pressure. The suggested cut-off values of BMI and BF%, which were taken as associated factors of hypertension, were 21.86 kg m⁻² and 20.31%, and those of hypotension were 18.18 kg m⁻² and 13.3%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS In lean rural Bengalee populations, high BMI levels may be associated with an increased risk of hypertension. The cut-off values of BMI and BF% in the present study suggested associated factors for cardiovascular risk factors and these values may be of help with respect to reducing mean population blood pressure levels.
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- Ergonomics and Sports Physiology Division, Department of Human Physiology with Community Health, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India
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Sengupta P, Chaudhuri P, Bhattacharya K. Screening obesity by direct and derived anthropometric indices with evaluation of physical efficiency among female college students of kolkata. Ann Med Health Sci Res 2013; 3:517-22. [PMID: 24380001 PMCID: PMC3868116 DOI: 10.4103/2141-9248.122066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The available information regarding the obesity pattern of the undergraduate female students of Kolkata is inadequate, though there are several reports which indicate the complications and/or awful consequences of obesity on female health particularly, during the reproductive years. AIM The present investigation has thus been carried out to report their present physiological status along with the prevalence of obesity, based on their body mass index (BMI), some direct and derived anthropometric indices, and physical fitness. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This small-scale cross-sectional study conducted in randomly selected 100 female students of different colleges of Kolkata with the age of 18-22 [mean age 20.4 (2.3)] years. Measurements of body composition included total 24 variables, with thirteen direct and eleven derived anthropometric variables; while physical efficiency parameters were physical fitness index, VO2max, energy expenditure and anaerobic power. The data of the experimental group were compared with those of the control group by t-test, using SPSS v.15.0 and MS-Excel v.2013. RESULTS Analysis of collected data showed majority of the students have normal range of BMI (67.95%), but, 21.95% of students found to be overweight and 3.84% are obese. They also showed higher fat mass [14.40 (4.11)], but, lower waist-to-hip ratio and conicity index. They were found to have poor to moderate physical fitness [57.60 (3.90)] and higher energy expenditure [5.61 (0.72)]. CONCLUSION The findings of the present obesity screening reports almost one of four female students (24 out of 100 participants) are overweight/obese, indicated higher body fat distribution and increased propensity of being obese with age. Thus, the overall data along with their low physical fitness points out to health risks among female undergraduates of Kolkata.
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- Department of Physiology, Vidyasagar College for Women, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Sonarpur Mahavidyalaya, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Physiology, Vidyasagar College for Women, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Hashmi M, Gautam G, Sengupta P, Singh H, Haque N. Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymenigitis - A long follow-up needed. Asian J Neurosurg 2011; 6:119-20. [PMID: 22347338 PMCID: PMC3277067 DOI: 10.4103/1793-5482.92181] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Idiopathic hypertrophic cranial pachymenigitis is a rare clinical condition caused by localized or diffuse inflammatory thickening of dura matter. Described here is a person having diffuse thickening of dura matter of base of skull and he was on follow-up treatment for 5 years with us. Diagnosis was done by excluding other conditions and with biopsy. The patient responded to steroid and the MRI picture, which is given serially, shows improvement
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- EKO CT and MRI Scan Centre, Medical College and Hospitals Campus, Kolkata
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- Department of Neurology, Medical College and Hospitals, Kolkata
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- Department of Neurology, Medical College and Hospitals, Kolkata
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- Department of Radiology, Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga
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- Department of Radiology, Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga
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Wang M, Yan G, Yue W, Siu C, Tse H, Perperidis A, Cusack D, White A, Macgillivray T, Mcdicken W, Anderson T, Ryabov V, Shurupov V, Suslova T, Markov V, Elmstedt N, Ferm Widlund K, Lind B, Brodin LA, Westgren M, Mantovani F, Barbieri A, Bursi F, Valenti C, Quaglia M, Modena M, Peluso D, Muraru D, Dal Bianco L, Beraldo M, Solda' E, Tuveri M, Cucchini U, Al Mamary A, Badano L, Iliceto S, Goncalves A, Almeria C, Marcos-Alberca P, Feltes G, Hernandez-Antolin R, Rodriguez H, Maroto L, Silva Cardoso J, Macaya C, Zamorano J, Squarciotta S, Innocenti F, Guzzo A, Bianchi S, Lazzeretti D, De Villa E, Vicidomini S, Del Taglia B, Donnini C, Pini R, Mennie C, Salmasi AM, Kutyifa V, Nagy V, Edes E, Apor A, Merkely B, Nyrnes S, Lovstakken L, Torp H, Haugen B, Said K, Shehata A, Ashour Z, El-Tobgy S, Cameli M, Bigio E, Lisi M, Righini F, Franchi F, Scolletta S, Mondillo S, Gayat E, Weinert L, Yodwut C, Mor-Avi V, Lang R, Hrynchyshyn N, Kachenoura N, Diebold B, Khedim R, Senesi M, Redheuil A, Mousseaux E, Perdrix L, Yurdakul S, Erdemir V, Tayyareci Y, Memic K, Yildirimturk O, Aytekin V, Gurel M, Aytekin S, Gargani L, Fernandez Cimadevilla C, La Falce S, Landi P, Picano E, Sicari R, Smedsrud MK, Gravning J, Eek C, Morkrid L, Skulstad H, Aaberge L, Bendz B, Kjekshus J, Edvardsen T, Bajraktari G, Hyseni V, Morina B, Batalli A, Tafarshiku R, Olloni R, Henein M, Mjolstad O, Snare S, Folkvord L, Helland F, Torp H, Haraldseth O, Grimsmo A, Haugen B, Berry M, Zaghden O, Nahum J, Macron L, Lairez O, Damy T, Bensaid A, Dubois Rande J, Gueret P, Lim P, Nciri N, Issaoui Z, Tlili C, Wanes I, Foudhil H, Dachraoui F, Grapsa J, Dawson D, Nihoyannopoulos P, Gianturco L, Turiel M, Atzeni F, Sarzi-Puttini P, Stella D, Donato L, Tomasoni L, Jung P, Mueller M, Huber T, Sevilmis G, Kroetz F, Sohn H, Panoulas V, Bratsas A, Dawson D, Nihoyannopoulos P, Raso R, Tartarisco G, Gargani L, La Falce S, Pioggia G, Picano E, Gargiulo P, Petretta M, Cuocolo A, Prastaro M, D'amore C, Vassallo E, Savarese G, Marciano C, Paolillo S, Perrone Filardi P, Aggeli C, Felekos I, Roussakis G, Poulidakis E, Pietri P, Toutouzas K, Stefanadis C, Kaladaridis A, Skaltsiotis I, Kottis G, Bramos D, Takos D, Matthaios I, Agrios I, Papadopoulou E, Moulopoulos S, Toumanidis S, Carrilho-Ferreira P, Cortez-Dias N, Jorge C, Silva D, Silva Marques J, Placido R, Santos L, Ribeiro S, Fiuza M, Pinto F, Stoickov V, Ilic S, Deljanin Ilic M, Kim W, Woo J, Bae J, Kim K, Descalzo M, Rodriguez J, Moral S, Otaegui I, Mahia P, Garcia Del Blanco L, Gonzalez Alujas T, Figueras J, Evangelista A, Garcia-Dorado D, Takeuchi M, Kaku K, Otani K, Iwataki M, Kuwaki H, Haruki N, Yoshitani H, Otsuji Y, Kukucka M, Pasic M, Unbehaun A, Dreysse S, Mladenow A, Kuppe H, Hetzer R, Rajamannan N, Yurdakul S, Tayyareci Y, Tanrikulu A, Yildirimturk O, Aytekin V, Aytekin S, Kristiansson L, Gustafsson S, Lindmark K, Henein MY, Evdoridis C, Stougiannos P, Thomopoulos M, Fosteris M, Spanos P, Sionis G, Giatsios D, Paschalis A, Sakellaris C, Trikas A, Yong ZY, Boerlage-Van Dijk K, Koch K, Vis M, Bouma B, Piek J, Baan J, Abid L, Frikha Z, Makni K, Maazoun N, Abid D, Hentati M, Kammoun S, Barbier P, Staron A, Cefalu' C, Berna G, Gripari P, Andreini D, Pontone G, Pepi M, Ring L, Rana B, Ho S, Wells F, Yurdakul S, Tayyareci Y, Yildirimturk O, Dogan A, Aytekin V, Aytekin S, Karaca O, Guler G, Guler E, Gunes H, Alizade E, Agus H, Gol G, Esen O, Esen A, Turkmen M, Agricola E, Ingallina G, Ancona M, Maggio S, Slavich M, Tufaro V, Oppizzi M, Margonato A, Orsborne C, Irwin B, Pearce K, Ray S, Garcia Alonso C, Vallejo N, Labata C, Lopez Ayerbe J, Teis A, Ferrer E, Nunez Aragon R, Gual F, Pedro Botet M, Bayes Genis A, Santos CM, Carvalho M, Andrade M, Dores H, Madeira S, Cardoso G, Ventosa A, Aguiar C, Ribeiras R, Mendes M, Petrovic M, Petrovic M, Milasinovic G, Vujisic-Tesic B, Nedeljkovic I, Zamaklar-Trifunovic D, Petrovic I, Draganic G, Banovic M, Boricic M, Villarraga H, Molini-Griggs Bs C, Silen-Rivera Bs P, Payne Mph Ms B, Koshino Md Phd Y, Hsiao Md J, Monivas Palomero V, Mingo Santos S, Mitroi C, Garcia Lunar I, Garcia Pavia P, Castro Urda V, Toquero J, Gonzalez Mirelis J, Cavero Gibanel M, Fernandez Lozano I, Oko-Sarnowska Z, Wachowiak-Baszynska H, Katarzynska-Szymanska A, Trojnarska O, Grajek S, Bellavia D, Pellikka P, Dispenzieri A, Oh JK, Polizzi V, Pitrolo F, Musumeci F, Miller F, Ancona R, Comenale Pinto S, Caso P, Severino S, Cavallaro C, Vecchione F, D'onofrio A, Calabro' R, Maceira Gonzalez AM, Ripoll C, Cosin-Sales J, Igual B, Salazar J, Belloch V, Cosin-Aguilar J, Pinamonti B, Iorio A, Bobbo M, Merlo M, Barbati G, Massa L, Faganello G, Di Lenarda A, Sinagra GF, Ishizu T, Seo Y, Enomoto M, Kameda Y, Ishibashi N, Inoue M, Aonuma K, Saleh A, Matsumori A, Negm H, Fouad H, Onsy A, Hamodraka E, Paraskevaidis I, Kallistratos M, Lezos V, Zamfir T, Manetos C, Mavropoulos D, Poulimenos L, Kremastinos D, Manolis A, Citro R, Rigo F, Ciampi Q, Patella M, Provenza G, Zito C, Tagliamonte E, Rotondi F, Silvestri F, Bossone E, Monivas Palomero V, Mingo Santos S, Beltran Correas P, Gutierrez Landaluce C, Mitroi C, Garcia Lunar I, Gonzalez Mirelis J, Cavero Gibanel M, Gomez Bueno M, Segovia Cubero J, Beladan C, Matei F, Popescu B, Calin A, Rosca M, Boanta A, Enache R, Savu O, Usurelu C, Ginghina C, Ciobanu AO, Dulgheru R, Magda S, Dragoi R, Florescu M, Vinereanu D, Silva Marques J, Robalo Martins S, Jorge C, Calisto C, Goncalves S, Ribeiro S, Barrigoto I, Carvalho De Sousa J, Almeida A, Nunes Diogo A, Sargento L, Satendra M, Sousa C, Lousada N, Palma Reis R, Schiano Lomoriello V, Esposito R, Santoro A, Raia R, Schiattarella P, Dores E, Galderisi M, Mansencal N, Caille V, Dupland A, Perrot S, Bouferrache K, Vieillard-Baron A, Jouffroy R, Moceri P, Liodakis E, Gatzoulis M, Li W, Dimopoulos K, Sadron M, Seguela PE, Arnaudis B, Dulac Y, Cognet T, Acar P, Shiina Y, Gatzoulis M, Uemura H, Li W, Kupczynska K, Kasprzak J, Michalski B, Lipiec P, Carvalho V, Almeida AMG, David C, Marques J, Silva D, Cortez-Dias N, Ferreira P, Amaro M, Costa P, Diogo A, Tritakis V, Ikonomidis I, Paraskevaidis I, Lekakis J, Tzortzis S, Kadoglou N, Papadakis I, Trivilou P, Koukoulis C, Anastasiou-Nana M, Bombardini T, Picano E, Gherardi S, Arpesella G, Maccherini M, Serra W, Magnani G, Del Bene R, Pasanisi E, Sicari R, Startari U, Panchetti L, Rossi A, Piacenti M, Morales M, Mansencal N, El Hajjaji I, El Mahmoud R, Digne F, Dubourg O, Gargani L, Agoston G, Moreo A, Pratali L, Moggi Pignone A, Pavellini A, Doveri M, Musca F, Varga A, Picano E, Pratali L, Faita F, Rimoldi S, Sartori C, Alleman Y, Salinas Salmon C, Villena M, Scherrer U, Picano E, Sicari R, Baptista R, Serra S, Castro G, Martins R, Salvador M, Monteiro P, Silva J, Szudi L, Temesvary A, Fekete B, Kassai I, Szekely L, Abdel Moneim SS, Martinez M, Mankad S, Bernier M, Dhoble A, Pellikka P, Chandrasekaran K, Oh J, Mulvagh S, Hong GR, Kim JY, Lee SC, Choi SH, Sohn IS, Seo HS, Choi JH, Cho KI, Yoon SJ, Lim SJ, Lipiec P, Wejner-Mik P, Kusmierek J, Plachcinska A, Szuminski R, Kasprzak J, Stoebe S, Tarr A, Trache T, Hagendorff A, Mor-Avi V, Yodwut C, Jenkins C, Kuhl H, Nesser H, Marwick T, Franke A, Niel J, Sugeng L, Lang R, Gustafsson S, Henein M, Soderberg S, Lindmark K, Lindqvist P, Necas J, Kovalova S, Saha SK, Kiotsekoglou A, Toole R, Govind S, Gopal A, Amzulescu MS, Florian A, Bogaert J, Janssens S, Voigt J, Parisi V, Losi M, Parrella L, Contaldi C, Chiacchio E, Caputi A, Scatteia A, Buonauro A, Betocchi S, Rimbas R, Dulgheru R, Mihaila S, Vinereanu D, Caputo M, Navarri R, Innelli P, Urselli R, Capati E, Ballo P, Furiozzi F, Favilli R, Mondillo S, Lindquist R, Miller A, Reece C, O'leary P, Cetta F, Eidem BW, Cikes M, Gasparovic H, Bijnens B, Velagic V, Kopjar T, Biocina B, Milicic D, Ta-Shma A, Nir A, Perles Z, Gavri S, Golender J, Rein A, Pinnacchio G, Barone L, Battipaglia I, Cosenza A, Marinaccio L, Coviello I, Scalone G, Sestito A, Lanza G, Crea F, Cakal S, Eroglu E, Ozkan B, Kulahcioglu S, Bulut M, Koyuncu A, Acar G, Alici G, Dundar C, Esen A, Labombarda F, Zangl E, Pellissier A, Bougle D, Maragnes P, Milliez P, Saloux E, Aggeli C, Lagoudakou S, Felekos I, Gialafos E, Poulidakis E, Tsokanis A, Roussakis G, Stefanadis C, Nagy A, Kovats T, Apor A, Vago H, Toth A, Sax B, Kovacs A, Merkely B, Elnoamany MF, Badran H, Abdelfattah I, Khalil T, Salama M, Butz T, Taubenberger C, Thangarajah F, Meissner A, Van Bracht M, Prull M, Yeni H, Plehn G, Trappe H, Rydman R, Bone D, Alam M, Caidahl K, Larsen F, Staron A, Gasior Z, Tabor Z, Sengupta P, Liu D, Niemann M, Hu K, Herrmann S, Stoerk S, Morbach C, Knop S, Voelker W, Ertl G, Weidemann F, Cawley P, Hamilton-Craig C, Mitsumori L, Maki J, Otto C, Astrom Aneq M, Nylander E, Ebbers T, Engvall J, Arvanitis P, Flachskampf F, Duvernoy O, De Torres Alba F, Valbuena Lopez S, Guzman Martinez G, Gomez De Diego J, Rey Blas J, Armada Romero E, Lopez De Sa E, Moreno Yanguela M, Lopez Sendon J, Aggeli C, Felekos I, Poulidakis E, Trikalinos N, Siasos G, Aggeli A, Roussakis G, Stefanadis C, Tomaszewski A, Kutarski A, Tomaszewski M, Ikonomidis I, Lekakis J, Tritakis V, Tzortzis S, Kadoglou N, Papadakis I, Trivilou P, Anastasiou-Nana M, Koukoulis C, Paraskevaidis I, Vriz O, Driussi C, Bettio M, Pavan D, Bossone E, Antonini Canterin F, Doltra Magarolas A, Fernandez-Armenta J, Silva E, Solanes N, Rigol M, Barcelo A, Mont L, Berruezo A, Brugada J, Sitges M, Ciciarello FL, Mandolesi S, Fedele F, Agati L, Marceca A, Rhee S, Shin S, Kim S, Yun K, Yoo N, Kim N, Oh S, Jeong J, Alabdulkarim N. Poster Session 4: Friday 9 December 2011, 14:00-18:00 * Location: Poster Area. European Journal of Echocardiography 2011. [DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Witkowski T, Thomas J, Delgado V, Ng A, Auger A, Leong D, Bax J, Marsan N, Florescu M, Magda L, Mihalcea D, Enescu O, Suran B, Mincu R, Cinteza M, Vinereanu D, Khalifa EA, Mornos C, Ionac A, Cozma D, Petrescu L, Mornos A, Pescariu S, Dragulescu S, Laser K, Hauffe P, Koerperich H, Peters B, Kececioglu D, Dumitrascu A, Dumitrascu C, Sarov R, Mantu I, Tanaseanu C, Oliva Sandoval M, Gonzalez Carrillo J, Romero Puche A, Cerdan Sanchez M, Garcia Navarro M, Saura Espin D, Lacunza Ruiz J, Gimeno Blanes J, De La Morena Valenzuela G, Valdes Chavarri M, Flessas N, Velitsista S, Tsorlalis Y, Berry C, Tzemos N, Staron A, Gasior Z, Tabor Z, Sengupta P, Mornos C, Cozma D, Ionac A, Pescariu S, Petrescu L, Mornos A, Dragulescu S. Moderated Poster Sessions 2: From deformation imaging to clinical decision * Thursday 8 December 2011, 14:00-18:00 * Location: Moderated Poster Area. European Journal of Echocardiography 2011. [DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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