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Guo M, Gou Y, Dong X, Zhong J, Li A, Hao A, He TC, Fan J. Syrosingopine, an anti-hypertensive drug and lactate transporter (MCT1/4) inhibitor, activates hepatic stellate cells and exacerbates liver fibrosis in a mouse model. Genes Dis 2024; 11:101169. [PMID: 38434753 PMCID: PMC10909599 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.101169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Meichun Guo
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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Yu M, Qin K, Fan J, Zhao G, Zhao P, Zeng W, Chen C, Wang A, Wang Y, Zhong J, Zhu Y, Wagstaff W, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Ho S, Lee MJ, Strelzow J, Reid RR, He TC. The evolving roles of Wnt signaling in stem cell proliferation and differentiation, the development of human diseases, and therapeutic opportunities. Genes Dis 2024; 11:101026. [PMID: 38292186 PMCID: PMC10825312 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.04.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Revised: 03/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
Abstract
The evolutionarily conserved Wnt signaling pathway plays a central role in development and adult tissue homeostasis across species. Wnt proteins are secreted, lipid-modified signaling molecules that activate the canonical (β-catenin dependent) and non-canonical (β-catenin independent) Wnt signaling pathways. Cellular behaviors such as proliferation, differentiation, maturation, and proper body-axis specification are carried out by the canonical pathway, which is the best characterized of the known Wnt signaling paths. Wnt signaling has emerged as an important factor in stem cell biology and is known to affect the self-renewal of stem cells in various tissues. This includes but is not limited to embryonic, hematopoietic, mesenchymal, gut, neural, and epidermal stem cells. Wnt signaling has also been implicated in tumor cells that exhibit stem cell-like properties. Wnt signaling is crucial for bone formation and presents a potential target for the development of therapeutics for bone disorders. Not surprisingly, aberrant Wnt signaling is also associated with a wide variety of diseases, including cancer. Mutations of Wnt pathway members in cancer can lead to unchecked cell proliferation, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, and metastasis. Altogether, advances in the understanding of dysregulated Wnt signaling in disease have paved the way for the development of novel therapeutics that target components of the Wnt pathway. Beginning with a brief overview of the mechanisms of canonical and non-canonical Wnt, this review aims to summarize the current knowledge of Wnt signaling in stem cells, aberrations to the Wnt pathway associated with diseases, and novel therapeutics targeting the Wnt pathway in preclinical and clinical studies.
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- Michael Yu
- School of Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL 60064, USA
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- School of Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL 60064, USA
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Neurology, The First Dongguan Affiliated Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong 523475, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200000, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Gou Y, Huang Y, Luo W, Li Y, Zhao P, Zhong J, Dong X, Guo M, Li A, Hao A, Zhao G, Wang Y, Zhu Y, Zhang H, Shi Y, Wagstaff W, Luu HH, Shi LL, Reid RR, He TC, Fan J. Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are a superior cell source for bone tissue engineering. Bioact Mater 2024; 34:51-63. [PMID: 38186960 PMCID: PMC10770370 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2023.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 11/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Effective bone regeneration through tissue engineering requires a combination of osteogenic progenitors, osteoinductive biofactors and biocompatible scaffold materials. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) represent the most promising seed cells for bone tissue engineering. As multipotent stem cells that can self-renew and differentiate into multiple lineages including bone and fat, MSCs can be isolated from numerous tissues and exhibit varied differentiation potential. To identify an optimal progenitor cell source for bone tissue engineering, we analyzed the proliferative activity and osteogenic potential of four commonly-used mouse MSC sources, including immortalized mouse embryonic fibroblasts (iMEF), immortalized mouse bone marrow stromal stem cells (imBMSC), immortalized mouse calvarial mesenchymal progenitors (iCAL), and immortalized mouse adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (iMAD). We found that iMAD exhibited highest osteogenic and adipogenic capabilities upon BMP9 stimulation in vitro, whereas iMAD and iCAL exhibited highest osteogenic capability in BMP9-induced ectopic osteogenesis and critical-sized calvarial defect repair. Transcriptomic analysis revealed that, while each MSC line regulated a distinct set of target genes upon BMP9 stimulation, all MSC lines underwent osteogenic differentiation by regulating osteogenesis-related signaling including Wnt, TGF-β, PI3K/AKT, MAPK, Hippo and JAK-STAT pathways. Collectively, our results demonstrate that adipose-derived MSCs represent optimal progenitor sources for cell-based bone tissue engineering.
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- Yannian Gou
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Laboratory Animal Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 401147, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Geriatrics, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200000, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beijing Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100730, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- The Breast Cancer Center, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, 4000430, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 14627, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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Albaugh SL, Diaz A, Wang E, Shen TC, Williams L, He TC, Reid RR. Systematic Review of Nonsyndromic Craniosynostosis: Genomic Alterations and Impacted Signaling Pathways. Plast Reconstr Surg 2024; 153:383e-396e. [PMID: 37070824 DOI: 10.1097/prs.0000000000010522] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Genetic research in nonsyndromic craniosynostosis remains limited compared with syndromic craniosynostosis. This systematic review aimed to comprehensively summarize the genetic literature of nonsyndromic craniosynostosis and highlight key signaling pathways. METHODS The authors performed a systematic literature search of PubMed, Ovid, and Google Scholar databases from inception until December of 2021 using search terms related to nonsyndromic craniosynostosis and genetics. Two reviewers screened titles and abstract for relevance, and three reviewers independently extracted study characteristics and genetic data. Gene networks were constructed using Search Tool for Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins (version 11) analysis. RESULTS Thirty-three articles published between 2001 and 2020 met inclusion criteria. Studies were further classified into candidate gene screening and variant identification studies ( n = 16), genetic expression studies ( n = 13), and common and rare variant association studies ( n = 4). Most studies were good quality. Using our curated list of 116 genes extracted from the studies, two main networks were constructed. CONCLUSIONS This systematic review concerns the genetics of nonsyndromic craniosynostosis, with network construction revealing TGF-β/BMP, Wnt, and NF-κB/RANKL as important signaling pathways. Future studies should focus on rare rather than common variants to examine the missing heritability in this defect and, going forward, adopt a standard definition.
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- From the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
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- From the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
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- From the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
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- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center
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- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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Qin K, Yu M, Fan J, Wang H, Zhao P, Zhao G, Zeng W, Chen C, Wang Y, Wang A, Schwartz Z, Hong J, Song L, Wagstaff W, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Ho SH, Strelzow J, Reid RR, He TC, Shi LL. Canonical and noncanonical Wnt signaling: Multilayered mediators, signaling mechanisms and major signaling crosstalk. Genes Dis 2024; 11:103-134. [PMID: 37588235 PMCID: PMC10425814 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.01.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 11/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Wnt signaling plays a major role in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation. The Wnt ligands are a family of 19 secreted glycoproteins that mediate their signaling effects via binding to Frizzled receptors and LRP5/6 coreceptors and transducing the signal either through β-catenin in the canonical pathway or through a series of other proteins in the noncanonical pathway. Many of the individual components of both canonical and noncanonical Wnt signaling have additional functions throughout the body, establishing the complex interplay between Wnt signaling and other signaling pathways. This crosstalk between Wnt signaling and other pathways gives Wnt signaling a vital role in many cellular and organ processes. Dysregulation of this system has been implicated in many diseases affecting a wide array of organ systems, including cancer and embryological defects, and can even cause embryonic lethality. The complexity of this system and its interacting proteins have made Wnt signaling a target for many therapeutic treatments. However, both stimulatory and inhibitory treatments come with potential risks that need to be addressed. This review synthesized much of the current knowledge on the Wnt signaling pathway, beginning with the history of Wnt signaling. It thoroughly described the different variants of Wnt signaling, including canonical, noncanonical Wnt/PCP, and the noncanonical Wnt/Ca2+ pathway. Further description involved each of its components and their involvement in other cellular processes. Finally, this review explained the various other pathways and processes that crosstalk with Wnt signaling.
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- Kevin Qin
- Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL 60064, USA
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL 60064, USA
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Interventional Neurology, The First Dongguan Affiliated Hospital, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong 523475, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200000, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Zhou Y, Deng Y, Wang J, Yan Z, Wei Q, Ye J, Zhang J, He TC, Qiao M. Effect of antibiotic monensin on cell proliferation and IGF1R signaling pathway in human colorectal cancer cells. Ann Med 2023; 55:954-964. [PMID: 36896461 PMCID: PMC10795625 DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2023.2166980] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 03/11/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND/AIMS Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of death in patients with cancers in America. Monensin has represented anti-cancer effect on various human cancer cells. We seek to investigate the effect of monensin on proliferation of human colorectal cancer cells and explore whether IGF1R signaling pathway is involved in anti-cancer mechanism of monensin. METHODS Cell proliferation and migration were assessed by crystal violet staining and cell wounding assay respectively. Cell apoptosis was analyzed by Hoechst 33258 staining and flow cytometry. Cell cycle progression was detected with the use of flow cytometry. Cancer-associated pathways were assessed with the use of pathway-specific reporters. Gene expression was detected by touchdown-quantitative real-time PCR. Inhibition of IGF1R was tested by immunofluorescence staining. Inhibition of IGF1R signaling was accomplished by adenovirus-mediated expression of IGF1. RESULTS We found that monensin not only effectively inhibited cell proliferation, cell migration as well as cell cycle progression, but also induced apoptosis and G1 arrest in human colorectal cancer cells. Monensin was shown to target multiple cancer-related signaling pathways such as Elk1, AP1, as well as Myc/max, and suppressed IGF1R expression via increasing IGF1 in colorectal cancer cells. CONCLUSION Monensin could suppressed IGF1R expression via increasing IGF1 in colorectal cancer cells. It has the potential to be repurposed as an anti-colorectal cancer agent, but further studies are still required to investigate the detailed mechanisms of monensin underlying its anti-cancer motion.Key MessagesMonensin inhibits the cell proliferation and the migration, induces apoptosis and inhibits cell cycle progression in human colorectal cancer cells.Monensin may exert anti-cancer activity by targeting multiple signaling pathways, including the IGF1R signaling pathway.Monensin has the potential to be repurposed as an anti-colorectal cancer agent.
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- Youping Zhou
- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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Zhou S, He TC, Zhang Y, Zhang H. Comparison of the main pathogenic microorganisms of various common oral diseases in children and adults. Pediatr Discov 2023; 1:e35. [PMID: 38371743 PMCID: PMC10874635 DOI: 10.1002/pdi3.35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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The microorganisms in the human body gradually change and maintain a dynamic balance with the development of physiology and pathology. Oral microbiota is one of the most important microbiota in human body. It is not only closely related to the occurrence and development of oral diseases, but also plays an important role in the overall health. In childhood, the population of oral microorganisms is relatively small, but with the growth of age and tooth development, the species and quantity of oral microorganisms are gradually increasing. Different oral diseases also have their corresponding main microorganisms, and these dominant microorganisms change at different stages of the disease. In this review, we summarized and compared the main pathogenic microorganisms of several common oral diseases in children and adults. In addition, the possible association and difference between adults and children of the main pathogenic microorganisms in different stages of the same or different diseases are also discussed in order to provide research data for the development and diagnosis of common oral diseases in children and adults.
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- Siqi Zhou
- Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Qiang L, Zhao B, Ming M, Wang N, He TC, Hwang S, Thorburn A, He YY. Autophagy regulates tumor growth and metastasis. bioRxiv 2023:2023.10.31.564991. [PMID: 37961427 PMCID: PMC10635024 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.31.564991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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The role of autophagy in tumorigenesis and tumor metastasis remains poorly understood. Here we show that inhibition of autophagy stabilizes the transcription factor Twist1 through Sequestosome-1 (SQSTM1, also known as p62) and thus increases cell proliferation, migration, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in tumor development and metastasis. Inhibition of autophagy or p62 overexpression blocks Twist1 protein degradation in the proteasomes, while p62 inhibition enhances it. SQSTM1/p62 interacts with Twist1 via the UBA domain of p62, in a Twist1-ubiquitination-dependent manner. Lysine 175 in Twist1 is critical for Twist1 ubiquitination, degradation, and SQSTM1/p62 interaction. For squamous skin cancer and melanoma cells that express Twist1, SQSTM1/p62 increases tumor growth and metastasis in mice. Together, our results identified Twist1 as a key downstream protein for autophagy and suggest a critical role of the autophagy/p62/Twist1 axis in cancer development and metastasis.
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- Lei Qiang
- Department of Medicine, Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Dermatology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Zhu D, Jiang T, Ma D, Zhang H, Zhang J, Lv W, Gong M, Wang H, Liu Z, Su H, Zeng L, Liu S, Tang S, Yang B, Tshavuka FI, Fu G, Liu Z, Peng D, Liu H, Yan Z, Cao Z, Zhao H, He TC, Yu J, Shu Y, Zou L. S1P-S1PR3-RAS promotes the progression of S1PR3 hi TAL1 + T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia that can be effectively inhibited by an S1PR3 antagonist. Leukemia 2023; 37:1982-1993. [PMID: 37591940 DOI: 10.1038/s41375-023-02000-0] [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: 12/25/2022] [Revised: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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TAL1+ T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a distinct subtype of leukemia with poor outcomes. Through the cooperation of co-activators, including RUNX1, GATA3, and MYB, the TAL1 oncoprotein extends the immature thymocytes with autonomy and plays an important role in the development of T-ALL. However, this process is not yet well understood. Here, by investigating the transcriptome and prognosis of T-ALL from multiple cohorts, we found that S1PR3 was highly expressed in a subset of TAL1+ T-ALL (S1PR3hi TAL1+ T-ALL), which showed poor outcomes. Through pharmacological and genetic methods, we identified a specific survival-supporting role of S1P-S1PR3 in TAL1+ T-ALL cells. In T-ALL cells, TAL1-RUNX1 up-regulated the expression of S1PR3 by binding to the enhancer region of S1PR3 gene. With hyperactivated S1P-S1PR3, T-ALL cells grew rapidly, partly by activating the KRAS signal. Finally, we assessed S1PR3 inhibitor TY-52156 in T-ALL patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) mouse model. We found that TY-52156 attenuated leukemia progression efficiently and extended the lifespan of S1PR3hi TAL1+ T-ALL xenografts. Our findings demonstrate that S1PR3 plays an important oncogenic role in S1PR3hi TAL1+ T-ALL and may serve as a promising therapeutic target.
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- Dan Zhu
- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Clinical Research Unit of Children's Hospital, Institute of Pediatric Infection, Immunity, and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Division of Hematology, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Clinical Research Unit of Children's Hospital, Institute of Pediatric Infection, Immunity, and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Clinical Research Unit of Children's Hospital, Institute of Pediatric Infection, Immunity, and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Joint Laboratory of Bioresources and Molecular Research of Common Diseases, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
- Division of Hematology, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
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- Center for Clinical Molecular Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Stem Cell Therapy, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.
- Clinical Research Unit of Children's Hospital, Institute of Pediatric Infection, Immunity, and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
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Wan Q, Tang M, Sun SL, Hu J, Sun ZJ, Fang YT, He TC, Zhang Y. Erratum: SNHG3 promotes migration, invasion, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition of breast cancer cells through the miR-186-5p/ZEB1 axis. Am J Transl Res 2023; 15:5959-5960. [PMID: 37854202 PMCID: PMC10579028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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[This corrects the article on p. 585 in vol. 13, PMID: 33594311.].
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- Qun Wan
- Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine Designated by The Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine Designated by The Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine Designated by The Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine Designated by The Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine Designated by The Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400000, China
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine Designated by The Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400000, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine Designated by The Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400000, China
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Tian K, Gao G, He TC, Dong H, Zhang S, Zhang W, Wang J, Xu Y. Modified Technique for Labral Reconstruction of Hip Joint Using Autologous Iliotibial Band (ITB)-Make Labral Reconstruction Stress-Free. Arthrosc Tech 2023; 12:e1615-e1622. [PMID: 37780653 PMCID: PMC10533942 DOI: 10.1016/j.eats.2023.05.005] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Current treatments for labral tear include surgical debridement, arthroscopic repair, and labral reconstruction. Although labral debridement and labral suture repair are suitable for most patients, labral reconstruction is the first treatment option when there is extensive labral degeneration or defect. Often, however, the labral degeneration or defect is only detected intraoperatively; therefore, the surgeon should always have a backup plan. The current labral reconstruction technique has shortcomings such as long operation time, difficult autograft harvesting, cumbersome graft preparation, and the need for a large surgical incision and re-sterilization and draping. To address these problems, we developed a modified technique for draping and surgery. This technique ensures preparedness for labral reconstruction during each hip arthroscopic surgery. The method also simplifies the steps for autologous iliotibial band graft harvesting and shortens operative time. We have achieved satisfactory clinical results with use of this technique over the past 2 years. In this Technical Note, we describe our technique. This modified labral reconstruction technique greatly improves surgical efficiency and could be a promising surgical technique for hip labral reconstruction.
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- Kang Tian
- Department of Sports Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
- Department of Sports Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
- Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Sports Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Sports Injuries, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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Zhong J, Gou Y, Zhao P, Dong X, Guo M, Li A, Hao A, Luu HH, He TC, Reid RR, Fan J. Glycogen storage disease type I: Genetic etiology, clinical manifestations, and conventional and gene therapies. Pediatr Discov 2023; 1:e3. [PMID: 38370424 PMCID: PMC10874634 DOI: 10.1002/pdi3.3] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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Glycogen storage disease type I (GSDI) is an inherited metabolic disorder characterized by a deficiency of enzymes or proteins involved in glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis, resulting in excessive intracellular glycogen accumulation. While GSDI is classified into four different subtypes based on molecular genetic variants, GSDIa accounts for approximately 80%. GSDIa and GSDIb are autosomal recessive disorders caused by deficiencies in glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase-α) and glucose-6-phosphate-transporter (G6PT), respectively. For the past 50 years, the care of patients with GSDI has been improved following elaborate dietary managements. GSDI patients currently receive dietary therapies that enable patients to improve hypoglycemia and alleviate early symptomatic signs of the disease. However, dietary therapies have many limitations with a risk of calcium, vitamin D, and iron deficiency and cannot prevent long-term complications, such as progressive liver and renal failure. With the deepening understanding of the pathogenesis of GSDI and the development of gene therapy technology, there is great progress in the treatment of GSDI. Here, we review the underlying molecular genetics and the current clinical management strategies of GSDI patients with an emphasis on promising experimental gene therapies.
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- Jiamin Zhong
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Zhong J, Tian L, Gou Y, Zhao P, Dong X, Guo M, Zhao G, Li A, Hao A, He TC, Fan J. BMP4 upregulates glycogen synthesis through the SMAD/SLC2A1 (GLUT1) signaling axis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells. Cancer Metab 2023; 11:9. [PMID: 37443106 DOI: 10.1186/s40170-023-00310-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/15/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Excessive hepatic glycogen accumulation benefits tumorigenesis and cancer cell survival. We previously reported that BMP4 has the strongest ability to promote glycogenesis among the 14 BMPs in hepatocytes and augmented hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell survival under hypoxia and hypoglycemia conditions by promoting the glycolysis pathway. However, the mechanism underlying BMP4's effect on glycogenesis in HCC remains elusive. METHODS The expression of BMP4 and SLC2A1 were acquired by analyzing the TCGA-LIHC dataset, as well as by immunohistochemical analysis of the 40 pairs of human HCC samples and para-tumor tissues. Gene expressions were detected by qPCR, immunoflurorescence staining, and Western blotting. Overexpression and silencing of BMP4 were accomplished through adenoviruses Ad-B4 and Ad-siB4 infection. Hepatic glycogen was detected by PAS staining. SLC2A1 (GLUT1) function was blocked by the inhibitor BAY-876. ChIP assay was used to determine the binding of SMADs to the promoter region of SLC2A1 in HCC cells. Lastly, the in vivo effect of BMP4-regulated SLC2A1 on HCC tumor growth was assessed in a xenograft model of HCC. RESULTS The elevated expression of BMP4 in HCC tumor tissues was highly correlated with hepatic glycogen accumulation in clinical samples. SLC2A1 was highly expressed in HCC tumor tissue and correlated with clinical stage and prognosis. Exogenous BMP4 augmented glycogen accumulation and upregulated the expression of glycogen synthesis-related genes in Huh7 and HepG2 cells, both of which were effectively blunted by SLC2A1inhibitor BAY-876. In mechanism, BMP4 activated SMAD5 to regulate the promoter of SLC2A1to enhance its expression. The in vivo xenograft experiments revealed that BMP4 promoted glycogen accumulation and tumor growth, which were effectively diminished by BAY-876. CONCLUSION These results demonstrate that BMP4 upregulates glycogen synthesis through the SMAD/SLC2A1 (GLUT1) signaling axis in HCC cells, which may be exploited as novel therapeutic targets for HCC treatment.
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- Jiamin Zhong
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing, China.
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, No. 1 Medical School Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing, 400016, China.
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Liao J, Chen B, Zhu Z, Du C, Gao S, Zhao G, Zhao P, Wang Y, Wang A, Schwartz Z, Song L, Hong J, Wagstaff W, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Fan J, Reid RR, He TC, Shi L, Hu N, Huang W. Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) H19: An essential developmental regulator with expanding roles in cancer, stem cell differentiation, and metabolic diseases. Genes Dis 2023; 10:1351-1366. [PMID: 37397543 PMCID: PMC10311118 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Revised: 01/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Recent advances in deep sequencing technologies have revealed that, while less than 2% of the human genome is transcribed into mRNA for protein synthesis, over 80% of the genome is transcribed, leading to the production of large amounts of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). It has been shown that ncRNAs, especially long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), may play crucial regulatory roles in gene expression. As one of the first isolated and reported lncRNAs, H19 has gained much attention due to its essential roles in regulating many physiological and/or pathological processes including embryogenesis, development, tumorigenesis, osteogenesis, and metabolism. Mechanistically, H19 mediates diverse regulatory functions by serving as competing endogenous RNAs (CeRNAs), Igf2/H19 imprinted tandem gene, modular scaffold, cooperating with H19 antisense, and acting directly with other mRNAs or lncRNAs. Here, we summarized the current understanding of H19 in embryogenesis and development, cancer development and progression, mesenchymal stem cell lineage-specific differentiation, and metabolic diseases. We discussed the potential regulatory mechanisms underlying H19's functions in those processes although more in-depth studies are warranted to delineate the exact molecular, cellular, epigenetic, and genomic regulatory mechanisms underlying the physiological and pathological roles of H19. Ultimately, these lines of investigation may lead to the development of novel therapeutics for human diseases by exploiting H19 functions.
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- Junyi Liao
- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Orthopedic Research Center, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Orthopedic Research Center, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Orthopedic Research Center, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Orthopedic Research Center, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Orthopedic Research Center, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Orthopedic Research Center, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200000, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- School of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- The Medical Scientist Training Program, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Orthopedic Research Center, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Orthopedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Orthopedic Research Center, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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Huang L, Zhang J, Deng Y, Wang H, Zhao P, Zhao G, Zeng W, Wang Y, Chen C, Wagstaff W, Haydon RC, Reid RR, He TC, Shen L, Luu HH, Zhao L. Niclosamide (NA) overcomes cisplatin resistance in human ovarian cancer. Genes Dis 2023; 10:1687-1701. [PMID: 37397523 PMCID: PMC10311098 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2022.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/04/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Ovarian cancer (OC) is one of the most lethal malignancies of the female reproductive system. OC patients are usually diagnosed at advanced stages due to the lack of early diagnosis. The standard treatment for OC includes a combination of debulking surgery and platinum-taxane chemotherapy, while several targeted therapies have recently been approved for maintenance treatment. The vast majority of OC patients relapse with chemoresistant tumors after an initial response. Thus, there is an unmet clinical need to develop new therapeutic agents to overcome the chemoresistance of OC. The anti-parasite agent niclosamide (NA) has been repurposed as an anti-cancer agent and exerts potent anti-cancer activities in human cancers including OC. Here, we investigated whether NA could be repurposed as a therapeutic agent to overcome cisplatin-resistant (CR) in human OC cells. To this end, we first established two CR lines SKOV3CR and OVCAR8CR that exhibit the essential biological characteristics of cisplatin resistance in human cancer. We showed that NA inhibited cell proliferation, suppressed cell migration, and induced cell apoptosis in both CR lines at a low micromole range. Mechanistically, NA inhibited multiple cancer-related pathways including AP1, ELK/SRF, HIF1, and TCF/LEF, in SKOV3CR and OVCAR8CR cells. NA was further shown to effectively inhibit xenograft tumor growth of SKOV3CR cells. Collectively, our findings strongly suggest that NA may be repurposed as an efficacious agent to combat cisplatin resistance in chemoresistant human OC, and further clinical trials are highly warranted.
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- Linjuan Huang
- Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400046, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400046, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400046, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400046, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400046, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Jianghan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430050, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200000, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400046, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Yu Y, Zhong J, Chen C, Gou Y, Zhao G, Zhao P, Wang Y, Zeng W, Wang A, Wagstaff WD, Haydon RC, He TC, Reid RR, Lee MJ, Luu HH, Fan J. SV40 large T antigen-induced immortalization reprograms mouse cardiomyocyte progenitors with mesenchymal stem cell characteristics and osteogenic potential. Genes Dis 2023; 10:1161-1164. [PMID: 37397535 PMCID: PMC10311047 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2022.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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- Yichun Yu
- Emergency Department, Beijing Hospital, and The National Center of Gerontology, Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100051, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Jianghan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430050, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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Hu N, Jiang D, Huang E, Liu X, Li R, Liang X, Kim SH, Chen X, Gao JL, Zhang H, Zhang W, Kong YH, Zhang J, Wang J, Shui W, Luo X, Liu B, Cui J, Rose Rogers M, Shen J, Zhao C, Wang N, Wu N, Luu HH, Haydon RC, He TC, Huang W. Correction: BMP9-regulated angiogenic signaling plays an important role in the osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal progenitor cells. J Cell Sci 2023; 136:313576. [PMID: 37272422 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.261328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023] Open
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Cheng Q, Liu C, Chen Q, Luo W, He TC, Yang D. Establishing and characterizing human stem cells from the apical papilla immortalized by hTERT gene transfer. Front Cell Dev Biol 2023; 11:1158936. [PMID: 37283947 PMCID: PMC10239932 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1158936] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Stem cells from the apical papilla (SCAPs) are promising candidates for regenerative endodontic treatment and tissue regeneration in general. However, harvesting enough cells from the limited apical papilla tissue is difficult, and the cells lose their primary phenotype over many passages. To get over these challenges, we immortalized human SCAPs with lentiviruses overexpressing human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT). Human immortalized SCAPs (hiSCAPs) exhibited long-term proliferative activity without tumorigenic potential. Cells also expressed mesenchymal and progenitor biomarkers and exhibited multiple differentiation potentials. Interestingly, hiSCAPs gained a stronger potential for osteogenic differentiation than the primary cells. To further investigate whether hiSCAPs could become prospective seed cells in bone tissue engineering, in vitro and in vivo studies were performed, and the results indicated that hiSCAPs exhibited strong osteogenic differentiation ability after infection with recombinant adenoviruses expressing BMP9 (AdBMP9). In addition, we revealed that BMP9 could upregulate ALK1 and BMPRII, leading to an increase in phosphorylated Smad1 to induce the osteogenic differentiation of hiSCAPs. These results support the application of hiSCAPs in tissue engineering/regeneration schemes as a stable stem cell source for osteogenic differentiation and biomineralization, which could be further used in stem cell-based clinical therapies.
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- Qianyu Cheng
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, China
- College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Department of Endodontics, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, China
- College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Department of Endodontics, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Stomatology, Hainan Women and Children’s Medical Center, Haikou, China
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- Laboratory Animal Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, China
- College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Department of Endodontics, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Zhu Y, Shi Q, Peng Q, Gao Y, Yang T, Cheng Y, Wang H, Luo Y, Huang A, He TC, Fan J. [Corrigendum] A simplified 3D liver microsphere tissue culture model for hepatic cell signaling and drug-induced hepatotoxicity studies. Int J Mol Med 2023; 51:31. [PMID: 36896773 PMCID: PMC10035984 DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2023.5234] [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: 03/16/2019] [Accepted: 07/25/2019] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Following the publication of the above article, an interested reader drew to the authors' attention that the 'Sift80, Day 7 / 10% FBS' data panel in Fig. 1Ba looked strikingly similar to the 'Sift80, 2% BCS / Day 3' data panel shown in Fig. 1Bb. After having re‑examined their original data, the authors have realized that they inadvertently duplicated the data panel that correctly showed the results of the 'Sift80, Day 7 / 10% FBS' experiment in this figure. Therefore, the revised version of Fig. 1, now showing the correct data for the 'Sift80, 2% BCS / Day 3' panel, is shown on the next page. Note that the error made in assembling this figure did not affect the overall conclusions reported in the paper. All the authors agree with the publication of this corrigendum, and are grateful to the Editor of International Journal of Molecular Medicine for allowing them the opportunity to publish this. They also apologize to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [International Journal of Molecular Medicine 44: 1653‑1666, 2019; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2019.4321].
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- Ying Zhu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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- department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious diseases of The Ministry of Education of china, Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400037, P.R. China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China
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Wang H, Cao Y, Shu L, Ying Z, Peng Q, Ran L, Wu J, Luo Y, Zuo G, Luo J, Zhou L, Shi Q, Weng Y, Huang A, He TC, Fan J. Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) H19 induces hepatic steatosis through activating MLXIPL and mTORC1 networks in hepatocytes. J Cell Mol Med 2023; 27:1021-1022. [PMID: 36883309 PMCID: PMC10064026 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.17719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023] Open
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- Hao Wang
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Pathology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases of The Ministry of Education of China, Institute for Viral Hepatitis, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Rogers MR, Zeng W, Zhang X, Li R, Wei Q, Kong Y, Zhao P, Zhao G, Wang Y, Zhong J, Zhu Y, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Reid RR, Peterson DA, Lee MJ, He TC. Bone Morphogenic Protein 9 (BMP9)/Growth Differentiation Factor 2 (GDF2) modulates mouse adult hippocampal neurogenesis by regulating the survival of early neural progenitors. Genes Dis 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.02.018] [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: 03/31/2023] Open
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Wu X, Li Z, Zhang H, He F, Qiao M, Luo H, Zhang J, Zhang M, Mao Y, Wagstaff W, Zhang Y, Niu C, Zhao X, Wang H, Huang L, Shi D, Liu Q, Ni N, Fu K, Haydon RC, Reid RR, Luu HH, He TC, Wang Z, Liang H, Zhang BQ, Wang N. Corrigendum to 'Modeling colorectal tumorigenesis using the organoids derived from conditionally immortalized mouse intestinal crypt cells (ciMICs)' [Genes Dis 8 (2021) 814-826]. Genes Dis 2023; 10:618-619. [PMID: 37223499 PMCID: PMC10201668 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
Abstract
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2021.01.004.].
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- Xiaoxing Wu
- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, And Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Department of Oncology, The PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing 100088, China
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, And Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, And Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, And Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Departments of Burn & Plastic Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, And Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510405, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266000, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing General Hospital Affiliated with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing 400013, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong 266000, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, And Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Department of Orthopaedics, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430022, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Department of Spine Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, And Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, And Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
- Department of Oncology, The PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing 100088, China
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Yan S, Zhang R, Wu K, Cui J, Huang S, Ji X, An L, Yuan C, Gong C, Zhang L, Liu W, Feng Y, Zhang B, Dai Z, Shen Y, Wang X, Luo W, Liu B, Haydon RC, Lee MJ, Reid RR, Wolf JM, Shi Q, Luu HH, He TC, Weng Y. Corrigendum to “Characterization of the essential role of bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9) in osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) through RNA interference” [ 5(2018):172–184]. Genes Dis 2023; 10:632-637. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.03.001] [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: 04/08/2023] Open
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Yu X, Chen L, Wu K, Yan S, Zhang R, Zhao C, Zeng Z, Shu Y, Huang S, Lei J, Ji X, Yuan C, Zhang L, Feng Y, Liu W, Huang B, Zhang B, Luo W, Wang X, Liu B, Haydon RC, Luu HH, He TC, Gan H. Corrigendum to “Establishment and functional characterization of the reversibly immortalized mouse glomerular podocytes (imPODs)” [ 5 (2018) 137-149]. Genes Dis 2023; 10:630-631. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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Zeng Z, Huang B, Huang S, Zhang R, Yan S, Yu X, Shu Y, Zhao C, Lei J, Zhang W, Yang C, Wu K, Wu Y, An L, Ji X, Gong C, Yuan C, Zhang L, Liu W, Feng Y, Zhang B, Dai Z, Shen Y, Wang X, Luo W, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Zhou L, Reid RR, He TC, Wu X. Corrigendum to “The development of a sensitive fluorescent protein-based transcript reporter for high throughput screening of negative modulators of lncRNAs” [ 5 (2018) 62-74]. Genes Dis 2023; 10:627-629. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2023.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2023] Open
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Zhong J, Kang Q, Cao Y, He B, Zhao P, Gou Y, Luo Y, He TC, Fan J. Erratum: BMP4 augments the survival of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells under hypoxia and hypoglycemia conditions by promoting the glycolysis pathway. Am J Cancer Res 2023; 13:1137-1139. [PMID: 37034226 PMCID: PMC10077042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023] Open
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[This corrects the article on p. 793 in vol. 11, PMID: 33791154.].
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- Jiamin Zhong
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, The Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400014, China
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- Department of Pathology, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department, Department of Pediatric Research Institute, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400014, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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Zhang Y, Luo W, Zheng L, Hu J, Nie L, Zeng H, Tan X, Jiang Y, Li Y, Zhao T, Yang Z, He TC, Zhang H. Efficient bone regeneration of BMP9-stimulated human periodontal ligament stem cells (hPDLSCs) in decellularized bone matrix (DBM) constructs to model maxillofacial intrabony defect repair. Stem Cell Res Ther 2022; 13:535. [PMID: 36575551 PMCID: PMC9795631 DOI: 10.1186/s13287-022-03221-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND BMP9-stimulated DPSCs, SCAPs and PDLSCs are effective candidates for repairing maxillofacial bone defects in tissue engineering, while the most suitable seed cell source among these three hDMSCs and the optimal combination of most suitable type of hDMSCs and BMP9 have rarely been explored. Moreover, the orthotopic maxillofacial bone defect model should be valuable but laborious and time-consuming to evaluate various candidates for bone regeneration. Thus, inspired from the maxillofacial bone defects and the traditional in vivo ectopic systems, we developed an intrabony defect repair model to recapitulate the healing events of orthotopic maxillofacial bone defect repair and further explore the optimized combinations of most suitable hDMSCs and BMP9 for bone defect repair based on this modified ectopic system. METHODS Intrabony defect repair model was developed by using decellularized bone matrix (DBM) constructs prepared from the cancellous part of porcine lumbar vertebral body. We implanted DBM constructs subcutaneously on the flank of each male NU/NU athymic nude mouse, followed by directly injecting the cell suspension of different combinations of hDMSCs and BMP9 into the central hollow area of the constructs 7 days later. Then, the quality of the bony mass, including bone volume fraction (BV/TV), radiographic density (in Hounsfield units (HU)) and the height of newly formed bone, was measured by micro-CT. Furthermore, the H&E staining and immunohistochemical staining were performed to exam new bone and new blood vessel formation in DBM constructs. RESULTS BMP9-stimulated periodontal ligament stem cells (PDLSCs) exhibited the most effective bone regeneration among the three types of hDMSCs in DBM constructs. Furthermore, an optimal dose of PDLSCs with a specific extent of BMP9 stimulation was confirmed for efficacious new bone and new blood vessel formation in DBM constructs. CONCLUSIONS The reported intrabony defect repair model can be used to identify optimized combinations of suitable seed cells and biological factors for bone defect repair and subsequent development of efficacious bone tissue engineering therapies.
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- Yuxin Zhang
- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education, Chongqing, China
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- grid.412578.d0000 0000 8736 9513Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
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- grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Chongqing Key Laboratory for Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology of Chongqing Medical University, 426 Songshibei Road, Chongqing, 401147 China ,grid.203458.80000 0000 8653 0555Department of Pediatric Dentistry, The Affiliated Hospital of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Zhang HJ, Li FS, Wang F, Wang H, He TC, Reid RR, He BC, Xia Q. Transgenic PDGF-BB sericin hydrogel potentiates bone regeneration of BMP9-stimulated mesenchymal stem cells through a crosstalk of the Smad-STAT pathways. Regen Biomater 2022; 10:rbac095. [PMID: 36683747 PMCID: PMC9847547 DOI: 10.1093/rb/rbac095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Silk as a natural biomaterial is considered as a promising bone substitute in tissue regeneration. Sericin and fibroin are the main components of silk and display unique features for their programmable mechanical properties, biocompatibility, biodegradability and morphological plasticity. It has been reported that sericin recombinant growth factors (GFs) can support cell proliferation and induce stem cell differentiation through cross-talk of signaling pathways during tissue regeneration. The transgenic technology allows the productions of bioactive heterologous GFs as fusion proteins with sericin, which are then fabricated into solid matrix or hydrogel format. Herein, using an injectable hydrogel derived from transgenic platelet-derived GF (PDGF)-BB silk sericin, we demonstrated that the PDGF-BB sericin hydrogel effectively augmented osteogenesis induced by bone morphogenetic protein (BMP9)-stimulated mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vivo and in vitro, while inhibiting adipogenic differentiation. Further gene expression and protein-protein interactions studies demonstrated that BMP9 and PDGF-BB synergistically induced osteogenic differentiation through the cross-talk between Smad and Stat3 pathways in MSCs. Thus, our results provide a novel strategy to encapsulate osteogenic factors and osteoblastic progenitors in transgenic sericin-based hydrogel for robust bone tissue engineering.
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- Hui-Jie Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology of Chongqing, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Department of Pharmacy, Chongqing Emergency Medical Center, Chongqing University Central Hospital, Chongqing 400014, China
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- Biological Science Research Center, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Sericultural Science, Chongqing Engineering and Technology Research Center for Novel Silk Materials, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Department of Pharmacy, Panzhou People’s Hospital, Guizhou 553599, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology of Chongqing, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Biological Science Research Center, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Sericultural Science, Chongqing Engineering and Technology Research Center for Novel Silk Materials, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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Wagstaff W, Mwamba RN, Grullon K, Armstrong M, Zhao P, Hendren-Santiago B, Qin KH, Li AJ, Hu DA, Youssef A, Reid RR, Luu HH, Shen L, He TC, Haydon RC. Melanoma: Molecular genetics, metastasis, targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and therapeutic resistance. Genes Dis 2022; 9:1608-1623. [PMID: 36157497 PMCID: PMC9485270 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2022.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Revised: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 04/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Cutaneous melanoma is a common cancer and cases have steadily increased since the mid 70s. For some patients, early diagnosis and surgical removal of melanomas is lifesaving, while other patients typically turn to molecular targeted therapies and immunotherapies as treatment options. Easy sampling of melanomas allows the scientific community to identify the most prevalent mutations that initiate melanoma such as the BRAF, NRAS, and TERT genes, some of which can be therapeutically targeted. Though initially effective, many tumors acquire resistance to the targeted therapies demonstrating the need to investigate compensatory pathways. Immunotherapies represent an alternative to molecular targeted therapies. However, inter-tumoral immune cell populations dictate initial therapeutic response and even tumors that responded to treatment develop resistance in the long term. As the protocol for combination therapies develop, so will our scientific understanding of the many pathways at play in the progression of melanoma. The future direction of the field may be to find a molecule that connects all of the pathways. Meanwhile, noncoding RNAs have been shown to play important roles in melanoma development and progression. Studying noncoding RNAs may help us to understand how resistance - both primary and acquired - develops; ultimately allow us to harness the true potential of current therapies. This review will cover the basic structure of the skin, the mutations and pathways responsible for transforming melanocytes into melanomas, the process by which melanomas metastasize, targeted therapeutics, and the potential that noncoding RNAs have as a prognostic and treatment tool.
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- William Wagstaff
- The Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Medical Scientist Training Program, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- The Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Medical Scientist Training Program, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- The Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Medical Scientist Training Program, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- The Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Medical Scientist Training Program, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Peng M, Ma X, Cao Y, Wang C, Tan Q, Chu X, Zhou P, Fu T, Liang P, Ran S, He TC, Wang J, Huang E. Comparison of the biomechanical differences in the occlusal movement of wild-type and BMP9 knockout mice with apical periodontitis. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2022; 10:1036061. [PMID: 36324890 PMCID: PMC9618864 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.1036061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Apical periodontitis is a common clinical disease caused by bacteria; bacterial metabolites can cause an imbalance in bone homeostasis, bone mass reduction, and tooth loss. Bone resorption in apical periodontitis causes a concentration of stress in the tooth and periodontal tissues during occlusion, which aggravates the disease. Emerging evidence indicates that bone morphogenetic protein 9 (BMP9), also known as growth differentiation factor 2(Gdf2), may play an important role in tooth and dentoalveolar development. Herein, we investigated the role of BMP9 in the development of apical periodontitis and its effects on the biomechanics of dentoalveolar bone. Apical periodontitis models were established in five BMP9 knockout (KO) mice and five C57BL/6 WT (wild-type) mice. At baseline and 14, 28, and 42 days after modeling, in vivo micro-computed tomography analysis and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction were performed to evaluate the apical lesion in each mouse, and confirm that the animal models were successfully established. Finite element analysis (FEA) was performed to study the stress and strain at the alveolar fossa of each mouse under the same vertical and lateral stress. FEA revealed that the stress and strain at the alveolar fossa of each mouse gradually concentrated on the tooth cervix. The stress and strain at the tooth cervix gradually increased with time but were decreased at day 42. Under the same lingual loading, the maximum differences of the stress and strain at the tooth root in KO mice were greater than those in WT mice. Thus, these findings demonstrate that BMP9 could affect the biomechanical response of the alveolar fossa at the tooth root in mice with apical periodontitis. Moreover, the effects of BMP9 on the biomechanical response of the alveolar bone may be site-dependent. Overall, this work contributes to an improved understanding of the pathogenesis of apical periodontitis and may inform the development of new treatment strategies for apical periodontitis.
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- Mengtian Peng
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Stomatology, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- *Correspondence: Jinhua Wang, ; Enyi Huang,
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Chongqing Municipal Key Laboratory of Oral Biomedical Engineering of Higher Education College of Stomatology, College of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- *Correspondence: Jinhua Wang, ; Enyi Huang,
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Yu TX, Kalakonda S, Liu X, Han N, Chung HK, Xiao L, Rao JN, He TC, Raufman JP, Wang JY. Long noncoding RNA uc.230/CUG-binding protein 1 axis sustains intestinal epithelial homeostasis and response to tissue injury. JCI Insight 2022; 7:156612. [PMID: 36214222 PMCID: PMC9675575 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.156612] [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] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
Abstract
Intestinal epithelial integrity is commonly disrupted in patients with critical disorders, but the exact underlying mechanisms are unclear. Long noncoding RNAs transcribed from ultraconserved regions (T-UCRs) control different cell functions and are involved in pathologies. Here, we investigated the role of T-UCRs in intestinal epithelial homeostasis and identified T-UCR uc.230 as a major regulator of epithelial renewal, apoptosis, and barrier function. Compared with controls, intestinal mucosal tissues from patients with ulcerative colitis and from mice with colitis or fasted for 48 hours had increased levels of uc.230. Silencing uc.230 inhibited the growth of intestinal epithelial cells (IECs) and organoids and caused epithelial barrier dysfunction. Silencing uc.230 also increased IEC vulnerability to apoptosis, whereas increasing uc.230 levels protected IECs against cell death. In mice with colitis, reduced uc.230 levels enhanced mucosal inflammatory injury and delayed recovery. Mechanistic studies revealed that uc.230 increased CUG-binding protein 1 (CUGBP1) by acting as a natural decoy RNA for miR-503, which interacts with Cugbp1 mRNA and represses its translation. These findings indicate that uc.230 sustains intestinal mucosal homeostasis by promoting epithelial renewal and barrier function and that it protects IECs against apoptosis by serving as a natural sponge for miR-503, thereby preserving CUGBP1 expression.
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- Ting-Xi Yu
- Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Medicine and
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- Cell Biology Group, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Zhang L, Luo W, Liu J, Xu M, Peng Q, Zou W, You J, Shu Y, Zhao P, Wagstaff W, Zhao G, Qin K, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Reid RR, Bi Y, Zhao T, He TC, Fu Z. Modeling lung diseases using reversibly immortalized mouse pulmonary alveolar type 2 cells (imPAC2). Cell Biosci 2022; 12:159. [PMID: 36138472 PMCID: PMC9502644 DOI: 10.1186/s13578-022-00894-4] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/09/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND A healthy alveolar epithelium is critical to the gas exchange function of the lungs. As the major cell type of alveolar epithelium, alveolar type 2 (AT2) cells play a critical role in maintaining pulmonary homeostasis by serving as alveolar progenitors during lung injury, inflammation, and repair. Dysregulation of AT2 cells may lead to the development of acute and chronic lung diseases and cancer. The lack of clinically relevant AT2 cell models hampers our ability to understand pulmonary diseases. Here, we sought to establish reversibly immortalized mouse pulmonary alveolar type 2 cells (imPAC2) and investigate their potential in forming alveolar organoids to model pulmonary diseases. METHODS Primary mouse pulmonary alveolar cells (mPACs) were isolated and immortalized with a retroviral expression of SV40 Large T antigen (LTA). Cell proliferation and survival was assessed by crystal violet staining and WST-1 assays. Marker gene expression was assessed by qPCR, Western blotting, and/or immunostaining. Alveolar organoids were generated by using matrigel. Ad-TGF-β1 was used to transiently express TGF-β1. Stable silencing β-catenin or overexpression of mutant KRAS and TP53 was accomplished by using retroviral vectors. Subcutaneous cell implantations were carried out in athymic nude mice. The retrieved tissue masses were subjected to H & E histologic evaluation. RESULTS We immortalized primary mPACs with SV40 LTA to yield the imPACs that were non-tumorigenic and maintained long-term proliferative activity that was reversible by FLP-mediated removal of SV40 LTA. The EpCAM+ AT2-enriched subpopulation (i.e., imPAC2) was sorted out from the imPACs, and was shown to express AT2 markers and form alveolar organoids. Functionally, silencing β-catenin decreased the expression of AT2 markers in imPAC2 cells, while TGF-β1 induced fibrosis-like response by regulating the expression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition markers in the imPAC2 cells. Lastly, concurrent expression of oncogenic KRAS and mutant TP53 rendered the imPAC2 cells a tumor-like phenotype and activated lung cancer-associated pathways. Collectively, our results suggest that the imPAC2 cells may faithfully represent AT2 populations that can be further explored to model pulmonary diseases.
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- Linghuan Zhang
- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, and the Department of Respiratory Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Laboratory Animal Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, and the Department of Respiratory Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China
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- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, and the Department of Respiratory Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China
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- University-Town Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 401331, China
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- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, and the Department of Respiratory Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China
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- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, and the Department of Respiratory Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China
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- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, and the Department of Respiratory Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400046, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400046, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine, North Chicago, IL, 60064, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, and the Department of Respiratory Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases and Biomedical Sciences, the Stomatological Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 401147, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA.
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- Stem Cell Biology and Therapy Laboratory, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, and the Department of Respiratory Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China.
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Fan J, Reid RR, He TC. Pyrvinium doubles against WNT-driven cancer. J Biol Chem 2022; 298:102479. [PMID: 36096200 PMCID: PMC9525899 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The WNT-β-catenin signaling pathway has a major role in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation. Aberrant activation of the pathway contributes to various human cancer types. Because casein kinase CK1α-initiated phosphorylation of β-catenin is a key first step to restrain WNT signaling, effective restoration of CK1α activity represents an innovative strategy to combat WNT-driven cancer. A recent study in JBC reveals the anthelmintic pyrvinium directly binds to CK1α as an activator and also stabilizes CK1α protein, doubling against WNT-driven cancer activity.
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- Jiaming Fan
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China; Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Laboratory of Craniofacial Suture Biology and Development, Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Gardner BB, He TC, Wu S, Liu W, Gutierrez-Sherman V, Mass DP. Growth Factor Expression During Healing in 3 Distinct Tendons. Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online 2022; 4:214-219. [PMID: 35880149 PMCID: PMC9308159 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsg.2022.04.006] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 04/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Purpose We investigated unique tendon growth-factor expression profiles over time in response to simultaneous, similar injuries. Characterizing these genetic differences lays the foundation for creating targeted, tendon-specific therapies and provides insight into why current growth-factor treatments have success in some applications but not others. Methods The left fourth digital flexor, triceps, and supraspinatus tendons in 24 rats were cut to 50% of their transverse width at the midbelly under anesthesia. On postoperative days 1, 3, 5, 7, and 14, randomly selected rats were sacrificed, and the damaged tendons were excised and flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen. The expressional fibroblast growth factor 1, bone morphogenic protein 13, and transforming growth factor β-1 were measured at each time point and compared to their respective, uninjured levels with real-time polymerase chain reaction. Results The digital flexor tendon showed exponentially elevated expression of all 3 factors over the preinjury baseline values. Expression in the triceps and supraspinatus had more variation over time. The triceps tendon showed a considerable decrease of transforming growth factor β-1 and bone morphogenic protein 13 expression. The supraspinatus tendon had statistically significant increases of both transforming growth factor β-1 and bone morphogenic protein 13 expression relative to preoperative, uninjured levels, with a nonstatistically significant decrease of fibroblast growth factor 1. Conclusions Our study suggests different tendons express their own unique growth-factor profiles after similar, simultaneous injuries. The digital flexor showed particularly high, sustained levels of growth-factor expression in comparison to the supraspinatus and triceps, suggesting that variable dosing may be necessary for growth-factor therapies aimed at supplementing innate responses in these different tendon types. Clinical relevance These data show different tendons express unique trends of growth-factor expression over time in response to injury, suggesting each unique tendon may require specific dosing or knockdown therapies. These observations serve as a foundation for more tendon-specific questioning, experimentation, and therapeutic design.
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Eton D, Zhou G, He TC, Bartholomew A, Patil R. Filgrastim, fibrinolysis, and neovascularization. J Tissue Eng Regen Med 2022; 16:496-510. [PMID: 35175691 PMCID: PMC9302657 DOI: 10.1002/term.3284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Segmental recanalization of chronically occluded arteries was observed in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) treated with Filgrastim, a granulocyte colony stimulating factor, every 72 h for up to a month, and an infra-geniculate programmed compression pump (PCP) for 3 h daily. Molecular evidence for fibrinolysis and neovascularization was sought. CLTI patients were treated with PCP alone (N = 19), or with Filgrastim and PCP (N = 8 and N = 6, at two institutions). Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay was used to measure the plasma concentration of plasmin and of fibrin degradation products (FDP), and the serum concentration of proteins associated with neovascularization. In the PCP-alone group, blood was sampled on Day 1 (baseline) and after 30 days of daily PCP. In the Filgrastim and PCP group, blood was drawn on Day 1, and 1 day after the 5th and the 10th Filgrastim doses. Each blood draw occurred before and after 2 h of supervised PCP. Significant (p < 0.01) PCP independent increases in the plasma concentration of plasmin (>10-fold) and FDP (>5-fold) were observed 1 day after both the 5th and the 10th Filgrastim doses, compared to Day 1. Significant (p < 0.05) increases in the concentration of pro-angiogenic proteins (e.g., HGF, MMP-9, VEGF A) were also observed. Filgrastim at this novel dosimetry induced fibrinolysis without causing acute hemorrhage, in addition to inducing a pro-angiogenic milieu conducive to NV. Further clinical testing is warranted at this novel dosimetry in CLTI, as well as in other chronically ischemic tissue beds. Trial registration. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02802852.
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- Darwin Eton
- Department of Surgery, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- GCIS, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine Research, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Stem Cell Transplant and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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Liu Q, Wang Z, Jiang Y, Shao F, Ma Y, Zhu M, Luo Q, Bi Y, Cao L, Peng L, Zhou J, Zhao Z, Deng X, He TC, Wang S. Single-cell landscape analysis reveals distinct regression trajectories and novel prognostic biomarkers in primary neuroblastoma. Genes Dis 2022; 9:1624-1638. [PMID: 36157484 PMCID: PMC9485279 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2021.12.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [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: 09/26/2021] [Revised: 12/07/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Neuroblastoma (NB), which is the most common pediatric extracranial solid tumor, varies widely in its clinical presentation and outcome. NB has a unique ability to spontaneously differentiate and regress, suggesting a potential direction for therapeutic intervention. However, the underlying mechanisms of regression remain largely unknown, and more reliable prognostic biomarkers are needed for predicting trajectories for NB. We performed scRNA-seq analysis on 17 NB clinical samples and three peritumoral adrenal tissues. Primary NB displayed varied cell constitution, even among tumors of the same pathological subtype. Copy number variation patterns suggested that neuroendocrine cells represent the malignant cell type. Based on the differential expression of sets of related marker genes, a subgroup of neuroendocrine cells was identified and projected to differentiate into a subcluster of benign fibroblasts with highly expressed CCL2 and ZFP36, supporting a progressive pathway of spontaneous NB regression. We also identified prognostic markers (STMN2, TUBA1A, PAGE5, and ETV1) by evaluating intra-tumoral heterogeneity. Lastly, we determined that ITGB1 in M2-like macrophages was associated with favorable prognosis and may serve as a potential diagnostic marker and therapeutic target. In conclusion, our findings reveal novel mechanisms underlying regression and potential prognostic markers and therapeutic targets of NB.
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- Qingqing Liu
- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Singleron Biotechnologies Co., Ltd, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211800, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
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- Molecular and Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University; National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Chongqing 400014, PR China
- Corresponding author. Department of Pediatric Surgical Oncology, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400014, PR China.
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Ni N, Deng F, He F, Wang H, Shi D, Liao J, Zou Y, Wang H, Zhao P, Hu X, Chen C, Hu DA, Sabharwal M, Qin KH, Wagstaff W, Qin D, Hendren-Santiago B, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Reid RR, Shen L, He TC, Fan J. A one-step construction of adenovirus (OSCA) system using the Gibson DNA Assembly technology. Mol Ther Oncolytics 2021; 23:602-611. [PMID: 34977337 PMCID: PMC8666640 DOI: 10.1016/j.omto.2021.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Adenovirus (Ad) is a non-enveloped linear double-stranded DNA virus with >50 serotypes in humans. Ad vectors have been used as gene delivery vehicles to express transgenes, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) for gene silencing, or CRISPR/Cas and designer nucleases for genome editing. Although several methods are used to generate Ad vectors, the Ad-making process remains technically challenging and time consuming. Moreover, the Ad-making techniques have not been improved for the past two decades. Gibson DNA Assembly (GDA) technology allows one-step isothermal DNA assembly of multiple overlapping fragments. Here, we developed a one-step construction of Ad (OSCA) system using GDA technology. Specifically, we first engineered several adenoviral recipient vectors that contain the ccdB suicide gene flanked with two 20-bp unique sequences, which serve as universal sites for GDA reactions in the Ad genome ΔE1 region. In two proof-of-principle experiments, we demonstrated that the GDA reactions were highly efficient and that the resulting Ad plasmids could be effectively packaged into Ads. Ad-mediated expression of mouse BMP9 in mesenchymal stem cells was shown to effectively induce osteogenic differentiation both in vitro and in vivo. Collectively, our results demonstrate that the OSCA system drastically streamlines the Ad-making process and should facilitate Ad-based applications in basic, translational, and clinical research.
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- Na Ni
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Pathophysiology, and Key Laboratory of High Altitude Medicine, College of High Altitude Military Medicine, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Gastroenterology, Blood Transfusion, and Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Gastroenterology, Blood Transfusion, and Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Division of Research and Development, Decoding Therapeutics, Inc., Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Gastroenterology, Blood Transfusion, and Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Gastroenterology, Blood Transfusion, and Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Wang D, Kuzma ML, Tan X, He TC, Dong C, Liu Z, Yang J. Phototherapy and optical waveguides for the treatment of infection. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 2021; 179:114036. [PMID: 34740763 PMCID: PMC8665112 DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2021.114036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 05/28/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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With rapid emergence of multi-drug resistant microbes, it is imperative to seek alternative means for infection control. Optical waveguides are an auspicious delivery method for precise administration of phototherapy. Studies have shown that phototherapy is promising in fighting against a myriad of infectious pathogens (i.e. viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa) including biofilm-forming species and drug-resistant strains while evading treatment resistance. When administered via optical waveguides, phototherapy can treat both superficial and deep-tissue infections while minimizing off-site effects that afflict conventional phototherapy and pharmacotherapy. Despite great therapeutic potential, exact mechanisms, materials, and fabrication designs to optimize this promising treatment option are underexplored. This review outlines principles and applications of phototherapy and optical waveguides for infection control. Research advances, challenges, and outlook regarding this delivery system are rigorously discussed in a hope to inspire future developments of optical waveguide-mediated phototherapy for the management of infection and beyond.
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- Dingbowen Wang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Academy of Orthopedics, Provincial Key Laboratory of Bone and Joint Degenerative Diseases, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510280, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Dougherty U, Mustafi R, Zhu H, Zhu X, Deb D, Meredith SC, Ayaloglu-Butun F, Fletcher M, Sanchez A, Pekow J, Deng Z, Amini N, Konda VJ, Rao VL, Sakuraba A, Kwesi A, Kupfer SS, Fichera A, Joseph L, Hart J, He F, He TC, West-Szymanski D, Li YC, Bissonnette M. Upregulation of polycistronic microRNA-143 and microRNA-145 in colonocytes suppresses colitis and inflammation-associated colon cancer. Epigenetics 2021; 16:1317-1334. [PMID: 33356812 PMCID: PMC8813074 DOI: 10.1080/15592294.2020.1863117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 05/06/2020] [Revised: 11/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Because ADAM17 promotes colonic tumorigenesis, we investigated potential miRNAs regulating ADAM17; and examined effects of diet and tumorigenesis on these miRNAs. We also examined pre-miRNA processing and tumour suppressor roles of several of these miRNAs in experimental colon cancer. Using TargetScan, miR-145, miR-148a, and miR-152 were predicted to regulate ADAM17. miR-143 was also investigated as miR-143 and miR-145 are co-transcribed and associated with decreased tumour growth. HCT116 colon cancer cells (CCC) were co-transfected with predicted ADAM17-regulating miRNAs and luciferase reporters controlled by ADAM17-3'UTR. Separately, pre-miR-143 processing by colonic cells was measured. miRNAs were quantified by RT-PCR. Tumours were induced with AOM/DSS in WT and transgenic mice (Tg) expressing pre-miR-143/miR-145 under villin promoter. HCT116 transfection with miR-145, -148a or -152, but not scrambled miRNA inhibited ADAM17 expression and luciferase activity. The latter was suppressed by mutations in ADAM17-3'UTR. Lysates from colonocytes, but not CCC, processed pre-miR-143 and mixing experiments suggested CCC lacked a competency factor. Colonic miR-143, miR-145, miR-148a, and miR-152 were downregulated in tumours and more moderately by feeding mice a Western diet. Tg mice were resistant to DSS colitis and had significantly lower cancer incidence and tumour multiplicity. Tg expression blocked up-regulation of putative targets of miR-143 and miR-145, including ADAM17, K-Ras, XPO5, and SET. miR-145, miR-148a, and miR-152 directly suppress colonocyte ADAM17 and are down-regulated in colon cancer. This is the first direct demonstration of tumour suppressor roles for miR-143 and miR-145 in an in vivo model of colonic tumorigenesis.
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Baylor University, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Departments of Pathology, Beth Israel, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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- Departments of Orthopedics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Departments of Orthopedics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
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Zhong J, Wang H, Yang K, Wang H, Duan C, Ni N, An L, Luo Y, Zhao P, Gou Y, Sheng S, Shi D, Chen C, Wagstaff W, Hendren-Santiago B, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Reid RR, Ho SH, Ameer GA, Shen L, He TC, Fan J. Reversibly immortalized keratinocytes (iKera) facilitate re-epithelization and skin wound healing: Potential applications in cell-based skin tissue engineering. Bioact Mater 2021; 9:523-540. [PMID: 34820586 PMCID: PMC8581279 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2021.07.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Skin injury is repaired through a multi-phase wound healing process of tissue granulation and re-epithelialization. Any failure in the healing process may lead to chronic non-healing wounds or abnormal scar formation. Although significant progress has been made in developing novel scaffolds and/or cell-based therapeutic strategies to promote wound healing, effective management of large chronic skin wounds remains a clinical challenge. Keratinocytes are critical to re-epithelialization and wound healing. Here, we investigated whether exogenous keratinocytes, in combination with a citrate-based scaffold, enhanced skin wound healing. We first established reversibly immortalized mouse keratinocytes (iKera), and confirmed that the iKera cells expressed keratinocyte markers, and were responsive to UVB treatment, and were non-tumorigenic. In a proof-of-principle experiment, we demonstrated that iKera cells embedded in citrate-based scaffold PPCN provided more effective re-epithelialization and cutaneous wound healing than that of either PPCN or iKera cells alone, in a mouse skin wound model. Thus, these results demonstrate that iKera cells may serve as a valuable skin epithelial source when, combining with appropriate biocompatible scaffolds, to investigate cutaneous wound healing and skin regeneration. A reversibly immortalized mouse keratinocyte (i.e., iKera) line was established. The iKera cells maintain the characteristics of keratinocytes without tumorigenecity. A combination of thermoresponsive scaffold PPCN and iKera cells facilitates re-epithelization and cutaneous wound healing. The iKera cells are a valuable cell source for skin tissue engineering studies.
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- Jiamin Zhong
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- The Pediatric Research Institute, The Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400014, China
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedics, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE), Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE), Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 60616, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering (CARE), Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, And Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA
- Corresponding author. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.
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He F, Ni N, Wang H, Zeng Z, Zhao P, Shi D, Xia Y, Chen C, Hu D, Qin K, Wagstaff W, Qin D, Hendren-Santiago B, Ho S, Haydon R, Luu H, Reid R, Shen L, Gan H, Fan J, He TC. OUHP: an optimized universal hairpin primer system for cost-effective and high-throughput RT-qPCR-based quantification of microRNA (miRNA) expression. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 50:e22. [PMID: 34850128 PMCID: PMC8887422 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab1153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 05/16/2021] [Revised: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) are single-stranded, ∼22-nucleotide noncoding RNAs that regulate many cellular processes. While numerous miRNA quantification technologies are available, a recent analysis of 12 commercial platforms revealed high variations in reproducibility, sensitivity, accuracy, specificity and concordance within and/or between platforms. Here, we developed a universal hairpin primer (UHP) system that negates the use of miRNA-specific hairpin primers (MsHPs) for quantitative reverse transcription PCR (RT-qPCR)-based miRNA quantification. Specifically, we analyzed four UHPs that share the same hairpin structure but are anchored with two, three, four and six degenerate nucleotides at 3'-ends (namely UHP2, UHP3, UHP4 and UHP6), and found that the four UHPs yielded robust RT products and quantified miRNAs with high efficiency. UHP-based RT-qPCR miRNA quantification was not affected by long transcripts. By analyzing 14 miRNAs, we demonstrated that UHP4 closely mimicked MsHPs in miRNA quantification. Fine-tuning experiments identified an optimized UHP (OUHP) mix with a molar composition of UHP2:UHP4:UHP6 = 8:1:1, which closely recapitulated MsHPs in miRNA quantification. Using synthetic LET7 isomiRs, we demonstrated that the OUHP-based qPCR system exhibited high specificity and sensitivity. Collectively, our results demonstrate that the OUHP system can serve as a reliable and cost-effective surrogate of MsHPs for RT-qPCR-based miRNA quantification for basic research and precision medicine.
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Departments of Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, and Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China
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- Departments of Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, and Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA,Section of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA,Section of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Correspondence may also be addressed to Hua Gan. Tel: +86 23 8901 2019; Fax: +86 23 8901 2019;
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- Correspondence may also be addressed to Jiaming Fan. Tel: +86 23 6848 5240;
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 773 702 7169; Fax: +1 773 834 4598;
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Wang N, Zhang H, Zhang BQ, Liu W, Zhang Z, Qiao M, Zhang H, Deng F, Wu N, Chen X, Wen S, Zhang J, Liao Z, Zhang Q, Yan Z, Yin L, Ye J, Deng Y, Luu HH, Haydon RC, Liang H, He TC. Correction: Adenovirus-Mediated Efficient Gene Transfer into Cultured Three-Dimensional Organoids. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0259544. [PMID: 34710199 PMCID: PMC8553162 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Mao Y, Ni N, Huang L, Fan J, Wang H, He F, Liu Q, Shi D, Fu K, Pakvasa M, Wagstaff W, Tucker AB, Chen C, Reid RR, Haydon RC, Ho SH, Lee MJ, He TC, Yang J, Shen L, Cai L, Luu HH. Argonaute (AGO) proteins play an essential role in mediating BMP9-induced osteogenic signaling in mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Genes Dis 2021; 8:918-930. [PMID: 34522718 PMCID: PMC8427325 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2021.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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As multipotent progenitor cells, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can renew themselves and give rise to multiple lineages including osteoblastic, chondrogenic and adipogenic lineages. It's previously shown that BMP9 is the most potent BMP and induces osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation of MSCs. However, the molecular mechanism through which BMP9 regulates MSC differentiation remains poorly understood. Emerging evidence indicates that noncoding RNAs, especially microRNAs, may play important roles in regulating MSC differentiation and bone formation. As highly conserved RNA binding proteins, Argonaute (AGO) proteins are essential components of the multi-protein RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISCs), which are critical for small RNA biogenesis. Here, we investigate possible roles of AGO proteins in BMP9-induced lineage-specific differentiation of MSCs. We first found that BMP9 up-regulated the expression of Ago1, Ago2 and Ago3 in MSCs. By engineering multiplex siRNA vectors that express multiple siRNAs targeting individual Ago genes or all four Ago genes, we found that silencing individual Ago expression led to a decrease in BMP9-induced early osteogenic marker alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity in MSCs. Furthermore, we demonstrated that simultaneously silencing all four Ago genes significantly diminished BMP9-induced osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation of MSCs and matrix mineralization, and ectopic bone formation. Collectively, our findings strongly indicate that AGO proteins and associated small RNA biogenesis pathway play an essential role in mediating BMP9-induced osteogenic differentiation of MSCs.
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- Yukun Mao
- Departments of Spine Surgery and Musculoskeletal Tumor, and Neurosurgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430072, PR China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Nephrology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Spine Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410011, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430022, PR China
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- Departments of Spine Surgery and Musculoskeletal Tumor, and Neurosurgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430072, PR China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Section of Plastic Surgery and Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, and Section of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Section of Plastic Surgery and Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, and Section of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Section of Plastic Surgery and Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, and Section of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Section of Plastic Surgery and Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, and Section of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Section of Plastic Surgery and Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, and Section of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Departments of Spine Surgery and Musculoskeletal Tumor, and Neurosurgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430072, PR China
- Corresponding author. Department of Spine Surgery and Musculoskeletal Tumor, Zhongnan Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430071, China.
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Corresponding author. Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC3079, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Fax: +(773) 834 4598.
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Wu X, Li Z, Zhang H, He F, Qiao M, Luo H, Zhang J, Zhang M, Mao Y, Wagstaff W, Zhang Y, Niu C, Zhao X, Wang H, Huang L, Shi D, Liu Q, Ni N, Fu K, Haydon RC, Reid RR, Luu HH, He TC, Wang Z, Liang H, Zhang BQ, Wang N. Modeling colorectal tumorigenesis using the organoids derived from conditionally immortalized mouse intestinal crypt cells (ciMICs). Genes Dis 2021; 8:814-826. [PMID: 34522710 PMCID: PMC8427244 DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2021.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [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: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Intestinal cancers are developed from intestinal epithelial stem cells (ISCs) in intestinal crypts through a multi-step process involved in genetic mutations of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. ISCs play a key role in maintaining the homeostasis of gut epithelium. In 2009, Sato et al established a three-dimensional culture system, which mimicked the niche microenvironment by employing the niche factors, and successfully grew crypt ISCs into organoids or Mini-guts in vitro. Since then, the intestinal organoid technology has been used to delineate cellular signaling in ISC biology. However, the cultured organoids consist of heterogeneous cell populations, and it was technically challenging to introduce genomic changes into three-dimensional organoids. Thus, there was a technical necessity to develop a two-dimensional ISC culture system for effective genomic manipulations. In this study, we established a conditionally immortalized mouse intestinal crypt (ciMIC) cell line by using a piggyBac transposon-based SV40 T antigen expression system. We showed that the ciMICs maintained long-term proliferative activity under two-dimensional niche factor-containing culture condition, retained the biological characteristics of intestinal epithelial stem cells, and could form intestinal organoids in three-dimensional culture. While in vivo cell implantation tests indicated that the ciMICs were non-tumorigenic, the ciMICs overexpressing oncogenic β-catenin and/or KRAS exhibited high proliferative activity and developed intestinal adenoma-like pathological features in vivo. Collectively, these findings strongly suggested that the engineered ciMICs should be used as a valuable tool cell line to dissect the genetic and/or epigenetic underpinnings of intestinal tumorigenesis.
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- Xiaoxing Wu
- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Department of Oncology, The PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, 100088, PR China
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Departments of Burn & Plastic Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 610041, PR China
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, 510405, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430071, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, 266000, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing General Hospital Affiliated with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, 400013, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, 266000, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Department of Orthopaedics, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430022, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Department of Spine Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, 410008, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430071, PR China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China
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- Department of Oncology and Southwest Cancer Center, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, 400038, PR China
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- Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Medicine/Gastroenterology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, PR China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 606037, USA.,Department of Oncology, The PLA Rocket Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing, 100088, PR China
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Pakvasa M, Tucker AB, Shen T, He TC, Reid RR. The Pleiotropic Intricacies of Hedgehog Signaling: From Craniofacial Patterning to Carcinogenesis. FACE (Thousand Oaks) 2021; 2:260-274. [PMID: 35812774 PMCID: PMC9268505 DOI: 10.1177/27325016211024326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Hedgehog signaling was discovered more than 40 years ago in experiments demonstrating that it is a fundamental mediator of limb development. Since that time, it has been shown to be important in development, homeostasis, and disease. The hedgehog pathway proceeds through a pathway highly conserved throughout animals beginning with the extracellular diffusion of hedgehog ligands, proceeding through an intracellular signaling cascade, and ending with the activation of specific target genes. A vast amount of research has been done elucidating hedgehog signaling mechanisms and regulation. This research has found a complex system of genetics and signaling that helps determine how organisms develop and function. This review provides an overview of what is known about hedgehog genetics and signaling, followed by an in-depth discussion of the role of hedgehog signaling in craniofacial development and carcinogenesis.
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- Mikhail Pakvasa
- Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
- Molecular Oncology Lab, Department of Orthopedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine,University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
- Molecular Oncology Lab, Department of Orthopedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine,University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
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- Molecular Oncology Lab, Department of Orthopedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine,University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Molecular Oncology Lab, Department of Orthopedic Surgery & Rehabilitation Medicine,University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
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Huang L, Zhao L, Zhang J, He F, Wang H, Liu Q, Shi D, Ni N, Wagstaff W, Chen C, Reid RR, Haydon RC, Luu HH, Shen L, He TC, Tang L. Antiparasitic mebendazole (MBZ) effectively overcomes cisplatin resistance in human ovarian cancer cells by inhibiting multiple cancer-associated signaling pathways. Aging (Albany NY) 2021; 13:17407-17427. [PMID: 34232919 PMCID: PMC8312413 DOI: 10.18632/aging.203232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ovarian cancer is the third most common cancer and the second most common cause of gynecologic cancer death in women. Its routine clinical management includes surgical resection and systemic therapy with chemotherapeutics. While the first-line systemic therapy requires the combined use of platinum-based agents and paclitaxel, many ovarian cancer patients have recurrence and eventually succumb to chemoresistance. Thus, it is imperative to develop new strategies to overcome recurrence and chemoresistance of ovarian cancer. Repurposing previously-approved drugs is a cost-effective strategy for cancer drug discovery. The antiparasitic drug mebendazole (MBZ) is one of the most promising drugs with repurposing potential. Here, we investigate whether MBZ can overcome cisplatin resistance and sensitize chemoresistant ovarian cancer cells to cisplatin. We first established and characterized two stable and robust cisplatin-resistant (CR) human ovarian cancer lines and demonstrated that MBZ markedly inhibited cell proliferation, suppressed cell wounding healing/migration, and induced apoptosis in both parental and CR cells at low micromole range. Mechanistically, MBZ was revealed to inhibit multiple cancer-related signal pathways including ELK/SRF, NFKB, MYC/MAX, and E2F/DP1 in cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer cells. We further showed that MBZ synergized with cisplatin to suppress cell proliferation, induce cell apoptosis, and blunt tumor growth in xenograft tumor model of human cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer cells. Collectively, our findings suggest that MBZ may be repurposed as a synergistic sensitizer of cisplatin in treating chemoresistant human ovarian cancer, which warrants further clinical studies.
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- Linjuan Huang
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Medicine/Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Spine Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and the School of Laboratory Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Li RD, Deng ZL, Hu N, Liang X, Liu B, Luo J, Chen L, Yin L, Luo X, Shui W, He TC, Huang W. Erratum to: Biphasic effects of TGFβ1 on BMP9-induced osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells. BMB Rep 2021. [PMID: 34042565 PMCID: PMC8167244 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2021.54.5.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Rui-Dong Li
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
- Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine Designated by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Zhao X, Huang B, Wang H, Ni N, He F, Liu Q, Shi D, Chen C, Zhao P, Wang X, Wagstaff W, Pakvasa M, Tucker AB, Lee MJ, Wolf JM, Reid RR, Hynes K, Strelzow J, Ho SH, Yu T, Yang J, Shen L, He TC, Zhang Y. A functional autophagy pathway is essential for BMP9-induced osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). Am J Transl Res 2021; 13:4233-4250. [PMID: 34150011 PMCID: PMC8205769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are capable of differentiating into bone, cartilage and adipose tissues. We identified BMP9 as the most potent osteoinductive BMP although detailed mechanism underlying BMP9-regulated osteogenesis of MSCs is indeterminate. Emerging evidence indicates that autophagy plays a critical role in regulating bone homeostasis. We investigated the possible role of autophagy in osteogenic differentiation induced by BMP9. We showed that BMP9 upregulated the expression of multiple autophagy-related genes in MSCs. Autophagy inhibitor chloroquine (CQ) inhibited the osteogenic activity induced by BMP9 in MSCs. While overexpression of ATG5 or ATG7 did not enhance osteogenic activity induced by BMP9, silencing Atg5 expression in MSCs effectively diminished BMP9 osteogenic signaling activity and blocked the expression of the osteogenic regulator Runx2 and the late marker osteopontin induced by BMP9. Stem cell implantation study revealed that silencing Atg5 in MSCs profoundly inhibited ectopic bone regeneration and bone matrix mineralization induced by BMP9. Collectively, our results strongly suggest a functional autophagy pathway may play an essential role in regulating osteogenic differentiation induced by BMP9 in MSCs. Thus, restoration of dysregulated autophagic activity in MSCs may be exploited to treat fracture healing, bone defects or osteoporosis.
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- Xia Zhao
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao UniversityQingdao 266061, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang UniversityNanchang 330031, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory and Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory and Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Medicine/Gastroenterology, Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Spine Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South UniversityChangsha, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Orthopaedics, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Departments of Medicine/Gastroenterology, Orthopaedic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and School of Laboratory and Diagnostic Medicine, Chongqing Medical UniversityChongqing 400016, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Section of Plastic Surgery and Laboratory of Craniofacial Biology and Development, and Section of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao UniversityQingdao 266061, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of The Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Section of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
- Section of Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao UniversityQingdao 266061, China
- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL 60637, USA
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Pei YA, Dong Y, He TC, Li WJ, Toh WS, Pei M. Editorial: Extracellular Vesicle Treatment, Epigenetic Modification and Cell Reprogramming to Promote Bone and Cartilage Regeneration. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 9:678014. [PMID: 33968918 PMCID: PMC8096898 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.678014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Yixuan Amy Pei
- Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Center for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
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Zhao X, Hu DA, Wu D, He F, Wang H, Huang L, Shi D, Liu Q, Ni N, Pakvasa M, Zhang Y, Fu K, Qin KH, Li AJ, Hagag O, Wang EJ, Sabharwal M, Wagstaff W, Reid RR, Lee MJ, Wolf JM, El Dafrawy M, Hynes K, Strelzow J, Ho SH, He TC, Athiviraham A. Applications of Biocompatible Scaffold Materials in Stem Cell-Based Cartilage Tissue Engineering. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2021; 9:603444. [PMID: 33842441 PMCID: PMC8026885 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.603444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [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: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Cartilage, especially articular cartilage, is a unique connective tissue consisting of chondrocytes and cartilage matrix that covers the surface of joints. It plays a critical role in maintaining joint durability and mobility by providing nearly frictionless articulation for mechanical load transmission between joints. Damage to the articular cartilage frequently results from sport-related injuries, systemic diseases, degeneration, trauma, or tumors. Failure to treat impaired cartilage may lead to osteoarthritis, affecting more than 25% of the adult population globally. Articular cartilage has a very low intrinsic self-repair capacity due to the limited proliferative ability of adult chondrocytes, lack of vascularization and innervation, slow matrix turnover, and low supply of progenitor cells. Furthermore, articular chondrocytes are encapsulated in low-nutrient, low-oxygen environment. While cartilage restoration techniques such as osteochondral transplantation, autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), and microfracture have been used to repair certain cartilage defects, the clinical outcomes are often mixed and undesirable. Cartilage tissue engineering (CTE) may hold promise to facilitate cartilage repair. Ideally, the prerequisites for successful CTE should include the use of effective chondrogenic factors, an ample supply of chondrogenic progenitors, and the employment of cell-friendly, biocompatible scaffold materials. Significant progress has been made on the above three fronts in past decade, which has been further facilitated by the advent of 3D bio-printing. In this review, we briefly discuss potential sources of chondrogenic progenitors. We then primarily focus on currently available chondrocyte-friendly scaffold materials, along with 3D bioprinting techniques, for their potential roles in effective CTE. It is hoped that this review will serve as a primer to bring cartilage biologists, synthetic chemists, biomechanical engineers, and 3D-bioprinting technologists together to expedite CTE process for eventual clinical applications.
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- Xia Zhao
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Nephrology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Spine Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.,Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, The School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.,Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.,Departments of Neurosurgery, The Affiliated Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic Surgery, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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