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Zhang H, Zhang H, Wang JW, Gao JH, Wen Y, Li XK, Ren ZR. [Effect of Thermal Hydrolysis Pretreatment Time on Microbial Community Structure in Sludge Anaerobic Digestion System]. Huan Jing Ke Xue 2024; 45:2741-2747. [PMID: 38629537 DOI: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202305030] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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To evaluate the effect of thermal hydrolysis pretreatment time on the sludge anaerobic digestion system of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Daxing district, Beijing, the structure and diversity of microbial communities in primary sludge and an activated sludge anaerobic digestion system with different thermal hydrolysis pretreatment times (15 min, 30 min, and 45 min) were analyzed using Illumina MiSeq high-throughput sequencing. The results showed that the dominant groups of digested sludge were mainly distributed in Firmicutes, Cloacimonadota, Chloroflexi, and Synergistota, with W5 being the most common genus. The sum of relative abundance of the dominant phylum was greater than 60%, and W5 accounted for 20.8%-54.5%, showing a high abundance of a few dominant species. During the anaerobic digestion of thermo-hydrolyzed sludge, the relative abundance of acetogenic methanogens decreased due to high levels of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) concentrations, which suggested that the hydrogenophilic methanogenic pathway was more than that of the acetogenic methanogenic pathway. Correlation analysis showed that the soluble protein and pH of thermo-hydrolyzed sludge, NH4+-N of digested sludge, and thermal hydrolysis pretreatment time were the four main environmental factors affecting microbial community structure, and NH4+-N of digested sludge had the largest negative correlation with methanogens. The thermal hydrolysis pretreatment time was negatively correlated with both the Chao index and Shannon index, so longer thermal hydrolysis pretreatment time was not conducive to microbial flora during anaerobic digestion.
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- Han Zhang
- Research and Development Center of Beijing Drainage Group Technology, Beijing 100124, China
- Beijing Wastewater Resourceful Engineering Technology Research Center, Beijing 100124, China
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- School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Research and Development Center of Beijing Drainage Group Technology, Beijing 100124, China
- Beijing Wastewater Resourceful Engineering Technology Research Center, Beijing 100124, China
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- Research and Development Center of Beijing Drainage Group Technology, Beijing 100124, China
- Beijing Wastewater Resourceful Engineering Technology Research Center, Beijing 100124, China
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- Research and Development Center of Beijing Drainage Group Technology, Beijing 100124, China
- Beijing Wastewater Resourceful Engineering Technology Research Center, Beijing 100124, China
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- School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
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- Research and Development Center of Beijing Drainage Group Technology, Beijing 100124, China
- Beijing Wastewater Resourceful Engineering Technology Research Center, Beijing 100124, China
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Huang SZ, Huang Y, Chen MJ, Zeng FY, Ren ZR, Zeng YT. Selection of in vitro produced, transgenic embryos by nested PCR for efficient production of transgenic goats. Theriogenology 2001; 56:545-56. [PMID: 11572436 DOI: 10.1016/s0093-691x(01)00587-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The production of valuable pharmaceutical proteins using transgenic animals as bioreactors has become one of the goals of biotechnology. However, the efficiency of producing transgenic animals by means of pronuclear microinjection is low. This may be attributed in part to the low integration rate of foreign DNA. Therefore, a large number of recipients are required to produce transgenic animals. We recently developed a transgenic procedure that combined the techniques of goat oocyte in vitro maturation (IVM), in vitro fertilization (IVF), microinjection, preimplantation selection of the transgenic embryos with nested PCR and transferring the transgenic embryos into the recipient goat uterus to produce transgenic goats. Thirty-seven transgenic embryos determined by nested PCR were transferred to thirty-two recipient goats. In the end, four live-born kids were produced. As predicted, all the live kids were transgenic as identified by PCR as well as Southern blot hybridization, The integration rate was 100% (4/4) which was completely in accordance with the results of embryo preimplantation detection. The results showed a significant decrease in the number of recipients required as only 8 recipients (32/4) were needed to obtain one live transgenic goat. We suggest that the transgenic system described herein may provide an improved way to efficiently produce transgenic goats on a large scale.
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- S Z Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, PR China
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Huang SZ, Huang Y, Chen MJ, Chen W, Huang Z, Li H, Li JC, Ren ZR, Zeng YT. [A study of transgenic IFV cattle integrated with human serum albumin gene]. Yi Chuan Xue Bao 2001; 27:573-9. [PMID: 11051717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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The mammary gland expression vector (pcDNA 3.1-GCALBm) containing the full-length sequence of human serum albumin (hALB) cDNA and intron 1 as well as the goat beta-casien gene promoter and 5' up-stream regulatory sequence was constructed. The vector was micro-injected into bovine IVF eggs. The embryos were in vitro cultured to the late stage of morulae, and then few embryo cells were aspirated for the implantation detection of target gene integration and SRY DNA sequence using nested-PCR. Afterwards, ten integrated embryos were selected to transfer into eight recipients and three were pregnant. The pregnant rate was 37.5%(3/8). However, two were miscarried in mid-trimester but one was pregnant at term to deliver a male transgenic cattle integrated with hALB mini-gene. The transgenic efficiency was 12.5% (1/8).
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- S Z Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, China
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Gong L, Gu XF, Chen YD, Ren ZR, Huang SZ, Zeng YT. Reversal of aberrant splicing of beta-thalassaemia allele (IVS-2-654 C-->T) by antisense RNA expression vector in cultured human erythroid cells. Br J Haematol 2000; 111:351-8. [PMID: 11091224 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2000.02311.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The antisense fragment targeting the aberrant splice sites of the beta-thalassaemia allele, IVS-2-654 C-->T (beta654), pretranscript was cloned into the mammalian expression vector, pcDNA3. The recombinant construct, pCMVA, was then used to repair the defective splicing of the beta654 mutant pretranscript in cultured beta654 erythroid cells by the lipofectin-mediated DNA transfection method. The total RNA was extracted at given time points after transfection and the effect of antisense RNA was studied by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-mediated mRNA quantitative assay, as well as globin chain microbiosynthesis. The antisense fragment transcribed from pCMVA effectively improved the beta654 splicing pattern in cultured erythroid cells. The level of correctly spliced transcript increased from 0.19 (day 0 after transfection) to 0.58 (day 8) in beta654/beta654 homozygous erythroid cells, and from 0.45 (day 0) to 0.83 (day 8) in beta654/betaA heterozygous erythroid cells, as determined by the ratio of normally spliced beta-globin transcript over total beta-globin transcript. Correspondingly, the ratios of globin chain biosynthesis (beta/alpha) increased from 0.16 (day 0) to 0.52 (day 8) in beta654/beta654 erythroid cells, and from 0.39 (day 0) to 0.84 (day 8) in beta654/betaA erythroid cells. Antisense RNA had no significant effect on the splicing pattern in betaA/betaA erythroid cells. The splicing pattern in transfected cells with pCMVA showed significant changes compared with that in untransfected cells and that in transfected cells with the control antisense fragment (human SRY gene sequence). In addition, we did not observe side-effects on cytological features after the introduction of pCMVA. All these results indicated that the antisense RNA transcribed from the mammalian expression vector pCMVA could efficiently and specifically suppress the aberrant splicing pattern of beta654 mutant pretranscript and restore the correct splicing pathway in vivo, leading to the improvement of globin chain biosynthesis in thalassaemic cells.
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- L Gong
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, PR China
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Huang SZ, Zeng FY, Chen MJ, Ren ZR, Shen M, Rodgers GP, Schechter AN, Zeng YT. The delta-globin RNA transcript level in beta-thalassemia carriers. Acta Haematol 1999; 102:1-6. [PMID: 10473880 DOI: 10.1159/000040959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Increased levels of hemoglobin A(2) (HbA(2)) are present in most beta-thalassemia carriers. The mechanism of this effect is not understood, although the increase may result from transcriptional and posttranscriptional changes. In the present study, we quantitate delta-globin mRNA levels in peripheral-blood-enriched reticulocytes and characterize the variation of delta-mRNA levels in 30 beta-thalassemia heterozygotes who individually carry one of the four common Chinese beta-thalassemia alleles [codons 41/42 (-TTCT); codon 17 (A-->T); IVS-II-654 (C-->T); -28 (A-->G)]. A sensitive and quantitative competitive reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction method was developed and used to assess the absolute amounts of delta-mRNA transcripts in these peripheral erythroid cells. The results showed a large increase in delta-mRNA amounts in all the carriers examined (72.3 +/- 9.0 amol/microg RNA) as compared with those in 12 controls (1.2 +/- 0.2 amol/ microg RNA). There was a direct correlation between the delta-mRNA levels and types of beta-thalassemia alleles; generally, the delta-mRNA levels are higher in heterozygotes for beta(0)-thalassemia mutations than beta(+)-thalassemia mutations. The delta-mRNA levels correlated inversely with hemoglobin and red cell indices but directly with HbA(2) levels in heterozygotes of each of the group of beta-thalassemia mutations. These results suggest that a greater impairment in beta-globin gene expression results in increased transcription of delta-globin gene and in a higher level of HbA(2).
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- S Z Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, Shanghai, China
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Zhou G, Chen MJ, Ren ZR, Huang SZ, Zeng YT. Patterns of the (AT)xTy motif at the -530 region 5' to the beta-globin gene in the Chinese population. Hemoglobin 1995; 19:311-6. [PMID: 8537238 DOI: 10.3109/03630269509005821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- G Zhou
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, P. R. China
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Zeng YT, Huang SZ, Ren ZR, Lu ZH, Zeng FY, Schechter AN, Rodgers GP. Hydroxyurea therapy in beta-thalassaemia intermedia: improvement in haematological parameters due to enhanced beta-globin synthesis. Br J Haematol 1995; 90:557-63. [PMID: 7646994 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1995.tb05584.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The beta-thalassaemias represent a heterogenous group of diseases resulting from decreased erythroid beta-globin mRNA expression and imbalanced alpha/beta-globin chain synthesis which are manifest clinically by ineffective erythropoiesis and excessive haemolysis. Increasing levels of haemoglobin F (HbF) by pharmacological agents has been proposed to ameliorate the severity of the disease by improving the balance in globin chain synthesis. Hydroxyurea (HU), as an effective agent with low toxicity for activating gamma-globin gene, has been shown to enhance HbF synthesis in experimental animals and in patients with sickle cell anaemia. However, previous trials of HU in beta-thalassaemia patients are ambiguous, with a small number having increased HbF synthesis. In a recent study of HU effects in Chinese beta-thalassaemia patients we unexpectedly found that two unrelated patients with beta-thalassaemia intermedia demonstrated an improvement in the effectiveness of erythropoiesis reflected by an increase in haemoglobin concentration (from 4.1 to 6.3 g/dl, patient 1; from 6.5 to 9.7 g/dl, patient 2) and in red cell volume (from 68 to 104 fl, patient 1; from 68 to 85 fl, patient 2) after a period of excess of 300d of low-dosage HU treatment. These effects, however, appear to be due to increased beta-globin biosynthesis, because the percentage of HbF decreased in each patient as total Hb increased. This was reflected by changes in the beta/alpha ratio (from 0.301 to 0.581, patient 1; from 0.348 to 0.487, patient 2) with minimal changes in gamma-globin biosynthesis. We conclude that in addition to its known effects in stimulating gamma-globin production, hydroxyurea may have a more general role in augmenting globin synthesis, including beta-globin in some thalassaemia intermedia patients who maintain the capacity to express normal beta-globin chains.
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- Y T Zeng
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, China
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Huang SZ, Zeng FY, Ren ZR, Lu ZH, Rodgers GP, Schechter AN, Zeng YT. RNA transcripts of the beta-thalassaemia allele IVS-2-654 C-->T: a small amount of normally processed beta-globin mRNA is still produced from the mutant gene. Br J Haematol 1994; 88:541-6. [PMID: 7819066 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.1994.tb05071.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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IVS-2-654 C-->T is a common Chinese beta-thalassaemia mutation. Previous studies report that this mutation resulted in the formation of an abnormally spliced mRNA and the absence of detectable normal beta-globin mRNA, hence the mutation was considered to cause beta o-thalassaemia. We recently used the method of PCR amplified cDNA copies of circulating erythroid cell mRNA to analyse the mutant gene transcripts and found that this IVS-2-654 mutation does not abolish normal RNA processing entirely, but that a significant amount (over 15%) of normally processed beta-globin mRNA is produced. Microglobin chain biosynthetic analysis using the HPLC method showed that beta-globin chain was also present in the blood of patients with IVS-2-654 C-->T mutation. Accordingly, this mutant allele leads to a beta (+)-thalassaemia. Further, the methodology described in this paper provides a new approach towards the detection of RNA transcripts of beta-thalassaemia alleles as well as the study of gene expression in beta-thalassaemia and other genetic diseases.
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- S Z Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, China
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Huang SZ, Ren ZR, Chen MJ, Xu HP, Zeng YT, Rodgers GP, Zeng FY, Schechter AN. Treatment of beta-thalassemia with hydroxyurea (HU)--effects of HU on globin gene expression. Sci China B 1994; 37:1350-9. [PMID: 7865126] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A newly developed method of RT-PCR/competitive PCR for measuring the relative and absolute content of globin mRNAs as well as micro-globin chain biosynthetic assay have been used to study the alterations of globin gene expressions in the patients with beta-thalassemia pre- and post-hydroxyurea (HU) treatment. It was found for the first time that HU had the effect of enhancing beta-globin gene expression in some patients. Two cases with beta-thalassemia who were subjected to HU treatment for over two years showed a marked increase in beta-globin mRNA level and beta-globin chain synthesis, resulting in more effective erythropoiesis and the alleviation of clinical symptoms.
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- S Z Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, PRC
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Zeng YT, Zhang ML, Chen MJ, Zhou XD, Huang Y, Ren ZR, Huang SZ, Hu MX, Wu XQ, Gao JM. Sexing bovine embryos using PCR amplification of bovine SRY sequence. Sci China B 1994; 37:170-6. [PMID: 8068189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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This study analyses the bovine SRY DNA sequence by direct sequencing procedure, followed by the designation of the PCR primers specific for bovine SRY. Using PCR amplification of bovine SRY gene, the embryo sex was determined. The results of the embryo sex identification were confirmed after the embryo transfer and pregnancies.
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- Y T Zeng
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, PRC
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We describe a new point mutation in the SRY gene of a Chinese XY female with gonadal dysgenesis (Swyer syndrome). Using the double stranded DNA cycle sequencing method, a single nucleotide substitution of G-->A was identified at codon 113 of the patient's SRY gene, resulting in a conservative amino acid change from alanine (A) to threonine (T) at a residue that lies within the putative DNA binding motif. With this mutation, one MnlI recognition site is abolished and a new BsmAI site is present in the DNA sequence of the SRY gene; therefore, it is easily detected by analysis of the digestion of the amplified SRY DNA fragment on an electrophoretic agarose gel. In situ hybridisation to the XY female's chromosomes showed that her mutant SRY gene was indeed located on the short arm of her Y chromosome. The SRY mutation in the XY female reported here occurred de novo, as sequence analysis showed that it was not present in her father or other family members.
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- Y T Zeng
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, PR China
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Huang SZ, Ren ZR, Zeng YT, Zeng FY, Rodgers GP, Schecter AN. Study of the RNA splicing defect in the common Chinese beta-thalassemia gene, IVS-II nt. 654 C-->T by using mRNA/PCR. Sci China B 1992; 35:1232-7. [PMID: 1285849] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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With direct sequencing of the amplified cDNA, we analysed the transcript and mRNA splicing defect in a common Chinese beta-thalassemia mutant (IVS-II nt. 654 C-->T). The result shows that this mutant gene would not only produce abnormally processed beta-globin mRNA, but also transcribes a small amount of normally spliced mRNA, hence leading to beta+ thalassemia. The method described herein provides a simple and sensitive approach to the studies of gene expression and molecular defects in genetic diseases at transcriptional level.
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- S Z Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, PRC
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Zeng YT, Chen MJ, Ren ZR, Huang Y, Qiu XK, Huang SZ. Detection of molecular deletions in the Chinese DMD patients using two amplified dystrophin sequences. Biochem Med Metab Biol 1992; 47:195-7. [PMID: 1515177 DOI: 10.1016/0885-4505(92)90024-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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This Brief Communication reports the detection of molecular deletions in Chinese DMD patients using two new amplified dystrophin DNAs involving the regions of exon 49 and 50. The results show that over 50% of the DMD deletions can be rapidly detected by PCR amplification of these two dystrophin sequences.
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- Y T Zeng
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, China
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- S Z Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, P.R. China
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Huang SZ, Zhou XD, Ren ZR, Zeng YT, Woo SL. A new silent mutation found in the Chinese PAH locus and its role in the prenatal diagnosis of phenylketonuria. Sci China B 1991; 34:606-10. [PMID: 2059324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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A silent mutation or sequence polymorphism. A to T substitution at codon 399 in exon 11 of the PAH gene from a Chinese PKU patient, was found by sequence analysis. The frequencies of this new mutation in normal and abnormal (PKU) genes were 0.005 and 0.09, respectively, based on the analyses of 100 normal individuals and 39 PKU patients using DNA amplification with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and oligonucleotide hybridization methods. This silent mutation can be used as a "genetic marker" for PKU prenatal diagnosis. Recently, a fetus at risk for PKU, who could not be completely predicted by RFLPs linkage analysis, was prenatally diagnosed with this genetic marker.
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- S Z Huang
- Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital
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Sixty-nine unrelated Chinese DMD patients were studied with a series of genomic and cDNA probes. Analysis of 13 polymorphic sites showed that pERT87-1, 87-8, 87-15, and XJ probes gave favourable allele frequencies in the Chinese population, and nearly 90% of the DMD families in this study were informative for prenatal diagnosis and carrier detection using these four polymorphic markers. Nine out of 69 (13%) were also found to have gene deletions using a panel of genomic probes. However, when using cDNA probes, deletions were found in 56.5% of the patients. The deletions were concentrated in the areas of probes 7 and 8, giving a proportion of about 80% of all deleted patients in this study. All these results provide valuable information for planning prenatal diagnosis programmes for DMD in China.
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- Y T Zeng
- Surgical Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, People's Republic of China
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Huang SZ, Zhou XD, Ren ZR, Zeng YT, Woo SL. Prenatal detection of an Arg----Ter mutation at codon 111 of the PAH gene using DNA amplification. Prenat Diagn 1990; 10:289-93. [PMID: 1975096 DOI: 10.1002/pd.1970100503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A CGA----TGA mutation at codon 111 in exon 3 of the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene was recently identified in a Chinese phenylketonuria (PKU) patient. This paper reports the prenatal diagnosis of a Chinese fetus at risk for PKU using DNA amplification with PCR and oligonucleotide hybridization. RFLP analysis revealed that the fetus had inherited a PKU gene from his mother, but his paternal PAH gene was uninformative. PCR amplification of 300 bp which included exon 3 plus the flanking intronic sequences of the PAH gene was performed. The amplified DNA was hybridized with a pair of allele-specific oligonucleotide probes. The results indicated that the fetal DNA carried a PAH 111 Arg----Ter mutant gene inherited from his father. Thus, the fetus was predicted to be affected with PKU.
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- S Z Huang
- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, People's Republic of China
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- S Z Huang
- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, China
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This paper describes DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification directly from dried blood specimens for the detection of the beta-thalassemia mutation in China. Target DNA was amplified to span the beta-globin gene regions, which included ten types of mutation sites specific for Chinese beta-thalassemias. Ten kinds of oligonucleotide probes were constructed and used to hybridize with the amplified DNA. A total of 170 beta-thalassemia alleles originating from eastern, southwestern and southern China were analyzed. The results revealed that the distributions of different types of mutations were different in the three regions. The most common types in southern China were a frameshift at codons 41/42 and a C----T substitution at IVS II n.654, the most frequent types in southwestern China were codon 17 and IVS II n.654 mutations, and the predominant mutations in eastern China were frameshifts at codons 41/42 and 71/72.
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- S Z Huang
- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, People's Republic of China
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Zeng YT, Huang SZ, Ren ZR, Li HJ. Identification of Hb D-Punjab gene: application of DNA amplification in the study of abnormal hemoglobins. Am J Hum Genet 1989; 44:886-9. [PMID: 2729278 PMCID: PMC1715661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Hemoglobin D-Punjab (or D-Los Angeles) is a common variant worldwide. It is also the most frequent abnormal hemoglobin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. A large survey of hemoglobinopathy, including 142,171 people and 21 national/ethnic groups, was carried out in Xinjiang and indicated Hb D-Punjab accounted for 55.6% of the total hemoglobin variants there. Here we describe a simple way--EcoRI mapping of the amplified beta-globin DNA sampling from dried blood spots on filter paper blotters--of identifying the Hb D-Punjab gene. The primers were designed and synthesized to emzymatically amplify a 144-bp fragment of beta-globin gene which included codons beta 121 (GAA) and 122 (TTC) representing an EcoRI recognition site. The Hb D-Punjab gene could be easily detected by EcoRI digestion of the amplified DNA sequence on agarose gel because of a single base change at codon 121. The analysis of amplified DNA sampling from dried blood provides a very useful method for population study of Hb D-Punjab and will be of significance for demonstration of the occurrence of the Hb D-Punjab gene and for understanding of the relations among various nationalities.
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- Y T Zeng
- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, People's Republic of China
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Zeng YT, Huang SZ, Chen MJ, Zhang ML, Ren ZR, Xu YH, Peng SF, Woo SL. A study on Chinese phenylalanine hydroxylase gene restriction site polymorphism. Sci Sin B 1988; 31:1447-53. [PMID: 2908213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Human phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) cDNA was applied as a hybridization probe to analyzing the following 8 restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLP) in the PAH genes of 80 normal and 28 phenylketonuric Chinese patients: BglII, 3.6 kb/1.7 kb; EcoRI, 17 kb/11 kb; EcoRV, 30 kb/25 kb; HindIII, 4.2 kb/4.0 kb; MspIa, 23 kb/19 kb; MspIb, 4.0 kb/2.2 kb; PvuIIa, 19 kb/6.0 kb and PvuIIb, 11.5 kb/9.1 kb. The frequencies of the above RFLP in normal Chinese and PKU patients are: 0.13, 0.83, 0.77, 0.81, 0.12, 0.04, 0.70, 0.10 and 0.12, 0.93, 0.89, 0.81, 0.04, 0, 0.69, 0.04, respectively. This study reveals significant differences between the frequencies of individual RFLPs when these values are compared with those of the Caucasians. Finally, the detection of RFLPs in the PAH gene in the Chinese population will permit prenatal diagnosis of PKU in China.
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- Y T Zeng
- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital
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- Y T Zeng
- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, China
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Abstract
A 34-year-old woman patient was found to have a chronic hereditary haemolytic anaemia. No abnormal haemoglobin band was detected by conventional electrophoresis, but a slow beta chain could be separated on urea-carboxymethyl cellulose chromatography. Investigations of the patient's haemoglobin revealed an unstable component. Analyses of chemical structure, including isolation and TPCK trypsin digestion of the abnormal globin chain. HPL chromatography, amino acid composition as well as sequence determination of the abnormal peptide, indicated that a glutamine was replaced by a proline at position beta 131 (H9). Biosynthesis studies demonstrated a normal rate of synthesis but relatively fast degradation of the mutant beta chain. The new variant is named as Hb Shanghai according to the place where it was discovered.
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- Y T Zeng
- Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Children's Hospital, China
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Zeng YT, Huang SZ, Qiu XK, Cheng GC, Ren ZR, Jin QC, Chen CY, Jiao CT, Tang ZG, Liu RH. Hemoglobin Chongqing [alpha 2(NA2)Leu----Arg] and hemoglobin Harbin [alpha 16(A14)Lys----Met] found in China. Hemoglobin 1984; 8:569-81. [PMID: 6526652 DOI: 10.3109/03630268408991742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
Hemoglobin Chongqing is a new slowly-moving and unstable hemoglobin variant with a high oxygen affinity, that was discovered in five members of a Chinese family in the suburb of Chongqing. Hemoglobin Harbin is another new rapidly-moving hemoglobin variant with slightly reduced stability and slightly increased oxygen affinity, found in a Chinese woman living in Harbin. The relative amounts of these two variants in the propositi were about 9% and 18%, respectively. Sequence analyses identified a Leu----Arg substitution at position alpha 2(NA2) of Hb Chongqing, and a Lys----Met substitution at position alpha 16(A14) of Hb Harbin.
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