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Owens JD, Hegmann KT, Thiese MS, Phillips AL. Impacts of Adherence to Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines for the Management of Acute Low Back Pain on Costs of Worker's Compensation Claims. J Occup Environ Med 2020; 61:445-452. [PMID: 31167221 DOI: 10.1097/jom.0000000000001593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's (ACOEM's) evidence-based guidelines for acute low back pain (LBP) were used to assess relationships between guideline adherence and worker's compensation costs. METHODS Treatments at first appointments were abstracted. Two scoring tools were utilized to assess each patient's treatment plan. One score assessed ACOEM Guideline compliance while the second utilized mean expert scores of the perceived value of each treatment. Claim costs were log-transformed and compared with scores. RESULTS There is a significant trend between increased compliance and decreasing costs. Medical and total costs trended lower by an average $352.90 and $586.20 per unit of compliance score respectively. No outlier cost claims were in the best guidelines compliance groups. CONCLUSION This study shows a statistically significant trend in the relationship between adherence to ACOEM guidelines for initial management of work-related LBP and decreasing claim costs.
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- James D Owens
- Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Sahoo SK, Planavsky NJ, Jiang G, Kendall B, Owens JD, Wang X, Shi X, Anbar AD, Lyons TW. Oceanic oxygenation events in the anoxic Ediacaran ocean. Geobiology 2016; 14:457-68. [PMID: 27027776 DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Accepted: 02/06/2016] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The ocean-atmosphere system is typically envisioned to have gone through a unidirectional oxygenation with significant oxygen increases in the earliest (ca. 635 Ma), middle (ca. 580 Ma), or late (ca. 560 Ma) Ediacaran Period. However, temporally discontinuous geochemical data and the patchy metazoan fossil record have been inadequate to chart the details of Ediacaran ocean oxygenation, raising fundamental debates about the timing of ocean oxygenation, its purported unidirectional rise, and its causal relationship, if any, with the evolution of early animal life. To better understand the Ediacaran ocean redox evolution, we have conducted a multi-proxy paleoredox study of a relatively continuous, deep-water section in South China that was paleogeographically connected with the open ocean. Iron speciation and pyrite morphology indicate locally euxinic (anoxic and sulfidic) environments throughout the Ediacaran in this section. In the same rocks, redox sensitive element enrichments and sulfur isotope data provide evidence for multiple oceanic oxygenation events (OOEs) in a predominantly anoxic global Ediacaran-early Cambrian ocean. This dynamic redox landscape contrasts with a recent view of a redox-static Ediacaran ocean without significant change in oxygen content. The duration of the Ediacaran OOEs may be comparable to those of the oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) in otherwise well-oxygenated Phanerozoic oceans. Anoxic events caused mass extinctions followed by fast recovery in biologically diversified Phanerozoic oceans. In contrast, oxygenation events in otherwise ecologically monotonous anoxic Ediacaran-early Cambrian oceans may have stimulated biotic innovations followed by prolonged evolutionary stasis.
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- S K Sahoo
- Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- School of Earth Science and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Earth Science and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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Kinema fermentations of Indian and Canadian No. 1 soybeans by Bacillus sp. DK-W1 and by mixed cultures of Bacillus sp. DK-W1 and Enterococcus faecium DK-C1 were essentially identical. The viable cell count of Bacillus increased from an initial 10(5) to 10(10) c.f.u./g wet wt after 48 h incubation at 37°C. The pH of the fermentation dropped from an initial 6.9 to about 6.4 after 8 h and then rose to 8.6 after 32 h, with a coincident increase in proteolytic activity and ammonia concentration. The fermentations containing E. faecium and Bacillus exhibited a greater initial pH decline and a slightly retarded subseqent increase in pH compared with fermentations with Bacillus only. The presence of E. faecium had no detectable effects on growth of the Bacillus, proteolytic activity, ammonia production or the final pH of the fermentations.
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Wacher C, Cañas A, Cook PE, Barzana E, Owens JD. Sources of microorganisms in pozol, a traditional Mexican fermented maize dough. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 9:269-74. [PMID: 24419963 DOI: 10.1007/bf00327853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 10/30/1992] [Accepted: 11/04/1992] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Freshly prepared pozol, a traditional Mexican fermented maize dough, contained (c.f.u./g wet wt): lactic acid bacteria, 10(4) to 10(6); aerobic mesophiles, 10(4) to 10(5); Enterobacteriaceae, 10(2) to 10(3); yeasts, 10(2) to 10(4); and mould propagules, <10(3). After 30 h at 28°C the numbers were, respectively: 10(9), 7×10(6), 5×10(5), 10(6) and 10(4). Soaking alkali-treated grains overnight allowed lactic acid bacteria, aerobic mesophiles and Enterobacteriaceae to grow and these then constituted the primary microbial flora of the pozol dough. Grinding in a commercial mill inoculated the dough with lactic acid bacteria, aerobic mesophiles, Enterobacteriaceae and yeasts. Other processing stages, including the nature of the surface upon which the balls were made, handling of the dough, and air, contributed only minor numbers of microbes compared with the two major sources, soaking and grinding. The pH of pozol fell from an initial value of 7.3 to 4.6 after 30 h incubation at 28°C. The numbers of Enterobacteriaceae and other aerobic mesophilic bacteria remained constant between 11 and 30 h incubation and there was no evidence of the acidic conditions having any lethal effects on these organisms.
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- C Wacher
- Departamento de Alimentos y Biotecnologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico DF, Mexico
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Nuraida L, Wacher MC, Owens JD. Microbiology of pozol, a Mexican fermented maize dough. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2014; 11:567-71. [PMID: 24414915 DOI: 10.1007/bf00286375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/1995] [Accepted: 04/16/1995] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mexican fermented maize dough, pozol, including traditional banana leaf-wrapped samples and material in plastic bags, was purchased. All samples were pH 4.7 to 5.7 approx. 12 h after preparation, pH declining to 3.6 to 3.9 after 6 to 9 days storage at ambient temperature. These latter samples had dry matter contents of 31% to 48% (w/w), 0.35% to 0.75% titratable acidity as lactic acid and lactic acid bacteria as predominant microbial flora at about 10(8) c.f.u./ml. The lactic acid bacteria included strains of Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Lactobacillus plantarum, Lactobacillus confusus, Lactococcus lactis and Lactococcus raffinolactis. Fungi were not found in the samples stored in plastic bags. The samples wrapped in banana leaf, however, developed a large surface mycoflora within 2 days. This included Geotrichum candidum, yeasts and moulds. The majority of the lactic acid bacteria and approx. 50% of yeasts hydrolysed starch to some extent. No Geotrichum isolate hydrolysed starch. Lactate was assimilated by all the Geotrichum isolates and by 17 of 39 yeast strains.
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- L Nuraida
- Food Microbial Interactions Laboratory, Department of Food Science and Technology, The University of Reading, RG6 6AP, Reading, UK
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Park ES, Shaughnessy JD, Gupta S, Wang H, Lee JS, Woo HG, Zhan F, Owens JD, Potter M, Janz S, Mushinski JF. Gene expression profiling reveals different pathways related to Abl and other genes that cooperate with c-Myc in a model of plasma cell neoplasia. BMC Genomics 2007; 8:302. [PMID: 17764563 PMCID: PMC2040348 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2006] [Accepted: 08/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background To elucidate the genes involved in the neoplastic transformation of B cells, global gene expression profiles were generated using Affymetrix U74Av2 microarrays, containing 12,488 genes, for four different groups of mouse B-cell lymphomas and six subtypes of pristane-induced mouse plasma cell tumors, three of which developed much earlier than the others. Results Unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis exhibited two main sub-clusters of samples: a B-cell lymphoma cluster and a plasma cell tumor cluster with subclusters reflecting mechanism of induction. This report represents the first step in using global gene expression to investigate molecular signatures related to the role of cooperating oncogenes in a model of Myc-induced carcinogenesis. Within a single subgroup, e.g., ABPCs, plasma cell tumors that contained typical T(12;15) chromosomal translocations did not display gene expression patterns distinct from those with variant T(6;15) translocations, in which the breakpoint was in the Pvt-1 locus, 230 kb 3' of c-Myc, suggesting that c-Myc activation was the initiating factor in both. When integrated with previously published Affymetrix array data from human multiple myelomas, the IL-6-transgenic subset of mouse plasma cell tumors clustered more closely with MM1 subsets of human myelomas, slow-appearing plasma cell tumors clustered together with MM2, while plasma cell tumors accelerated by v-Abl clustered with the more aggressive MM3-MM4 myeloma subsets. Slow-appearing plasma cell tumors expressed Socs1 and Socs2 but v-Abl-accelerated plasma cell tumors expressed 4–5 times as much. Both v-Abl-accelerated and non-v-Abl-associated tumors exhibited phosphorylated STAT 1 and 3, but only v-Abl-accelerated plasma cell tumors lost viability and STAT 1 and 3 phosphorylation when cultured in the presence of the v-Abl kinase inhibitor, STI-571. These data suggest that the Jak/Stat pathway was critical in the transformation acceleration by v-Abl and that v-Abl activity remained essential throughout the life of the tumors, not just in their acceleration. A different pathway appears to predominate in the more slowly arising plasma cell tumors. Conclusion Gene expression profiling differentiates not only B-cell lymphomas from plasma cell tumors but also distinguishes slow from accelerated plasma cell tumors. These data and those obtained from the sensitivity of v-Abl-accelerated plasma cell tumors and their phosphorylated STAT proteins indicate that these similar tumors utilize different signaling pathways but share a common initiating genetic lesion, a c-Myc-activating chromosome translocation.
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- Eun Sung Park
- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
- Molecular Therapeutics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030 USA
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- Donna and Donald Lambert Laboratory of Myeloma Genetics, Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR 72205 USA
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
- Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908
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- Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
- Molecular Therapeutics, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030 USA
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- Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
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- Donna and Donald Lambert Laboratory of Myeloma Genetics, Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, AR 72205 USA
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA
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- Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
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Wang H, Owens JD, Shih JH, Li MC, Bonner RF, Mushinski JF. Histological staining methods preparatory to laser capture microdissection significantly affect the integrity of the cellular RNA. BMC Genomics 2006; 7:97. [PMID: 16643667 PMCID: PMC1513394 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-97] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2005] [Accepted: 04/27/2006] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Gene expression profiling by microarray analysis of cells enriched by laser capture microdissection (LCM) faces several technical challenges. Frozen sections yield higher quality RNA than paraffin-imbedded sections, but even with frozen sections, the staining methods used for histological identification of cells of interest could still damage the mRNA in the cells. To study the contribution of staining methods to degradation of results from gene expression profiling of LCM samples, we subjected pellets of the mouse plasma cell tumor cell line TEPC 1165 to direct RNA extraction and to parallel frozen sectioning for LCM and subsequent RNA extraction. We used microarray hybridization analysis to compare gene expression profiles of RNA from cell pellets with gene expression profiles of RNA from frozen sections that had been stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), Nissl Stain (NS), and for immunofluorescence (IF) as well as with the plasma cell-revealing methyl green pyronin (MGP) stain. All RNAs were amplified with two rounds of T7-based in vitro transcription and analyzed by two-color expression analysis on 10-K cDNA microarrays. RESULTS The MGP-stained samples showed the least introduction of mRNA loss, followed by H&E and immunofluorescence. Nissl staining was significantly more detrimental to gene expression profiles, presumably owing to an aqueous step in which RNA may have been damaged by endogenous or exogenous RNAases. CONCLUSION RNA damage can occur during the staining steps preparatory to laser capture microdissection, with the consequence of loss of representation of certain genes in microarray hybridization analysis. Inclusion of RNAase inhibitor in aqueous staining solutions appears to be important in protecting RNA from loss of gene transcripts.
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- Hongyang Wang
- Laboratory of Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
- Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22906, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Biometric Research Branch, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
- Bldg. 37, Room 3134C, NIH, 37 Convent Drive, MSC-4258, Bethesda, MD 20892-4258, USA
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Park SS, Kim JS, Tessarollo L, Owens JD, Peng L, Han SS, Tae Chung S, Torrey TA, Cheung WC, Polakiewicz RD, McNeil N, Ried T, Mushinski JF, Morse HC, Janz S. Insertion of c-Myc into Igh Induces B-Cell and Plasma-Cell Neoplasms in Mice. Cancer Res 2005; 65:1306-15. [PMID: 15735016 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-04-0268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We used gene targeting in mice to insert a His(6)-tagged mouse c-Myc cDNA, Myc(His), head to head into the mouse immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus, Igh, just 5' of the intronic enhancer, Emu. The insertion of Myc(His) mimicked both the human t(8;14)(q24;q32) translocation that results in the activation of MYC in human endemic Burkitt lymphomas and the homologous mouse T(12;15) translocation that deregulates Myc in certain mouse plasmacytomas. Beginning at the age of 6 months, Myc(His) transgenic mice developed B-cell and plasma neoplasms, such as IgM(+) lymphoblastic B-cell lymphomas, Bcl-6(+) diffuse large B-cell lymphomas, and CD138(+) plasmacytomas, with an overall incidence of 68% by 21 months. Molecular studies of lymphoblastic B-cell lymphoma, the most prevalent neoplasm (50% of all tumors), showed that the lymphomas were clonal, overexpressed Myc(His), and exhibited the P2 to P1 promoter shift in Myc expression, a hallmark of MYC/Myc deregulation in human endemic Burkitt lymphoma and mouse plasmacytoma. Only 1 (6.3%) of 16 lymphoblastic B-cell lymphomas contained a BL-typical point mutation in the amino-terminal transactivation domain of Myc(His), suggesting that most of these tumors are derived from naive, pregerminal center B cells. Twelve (46%) of 26 lymphoblastic B-cell lymphomas exhibited changes in the p19(Arf)-Mdm2-p53 tumor suppressor axis, an important pathway for Myc-dependent apoptosis. We conclude that Myc(His) insertion into Igh predictably induces B-cell and plasma-cell tumors in mice, providing a valuable mouse model for understanding the transformation-inducing consequences of the MYC/Myc-activating endemic Burkitt lymphoma t(8;14)/plasmacytoma T(12;15) translocation.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- B-Lymphocytes/physiology
- Burkitt Lymphoma/genetics
- Burkitt Lymphoma/pathology
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 14/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 8/genetics
- Disease Models, Animal
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor/physiology
- Genes, myc/genetics
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/pathology
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plasmacytoma/genetics
- Plasmacytoma/pathology
- Point Mutation
- Precancerous Conditions/genetics
- Precancerous Conditions/pathology
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Transgenes
- Translocation, Genetic/genetics
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- Sung Sup Park
- Laboratory of Genetics, Genetics Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Sparringa RA, Kendall M, Westby A, Owens JD. Effects of temperature, pH, water activity and CO2 concentration on growth of Rhizopus oligosporus NRRL 2710. J Appl Microbiol 2002; 92:329-37. [PMID: 11849362 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.2002.01534.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 11/20/2022]
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AIMS To investigate the effects of temperature, pH, water activity (aw) and CO2 concentration on the growth of Rhizopus oligosporus NRRL 2710. METHODS AND RESULTS Hyphal extension rates from mycelial and spore inocula were measured on media with different aw (approximately 1.0, 0.98 and 0.96) and pH (3.5, 5.5 and 7.5) incubated at 30, 37 or 42 degrees C in atmospheres containing 0.03, 12.5 or 25% (v/v) CO2. The effects of environmental conditions on hyphal extension rate were modelled using surface response methodology. The rate of hyphal extension was very sensitive to pH, exhibiting a pronounced optimum at pH 5.5-5.8. The hyphal extension rate was less sensitive to temperature, aw or CO2, exhibiting maximum rates at 42 degrees C, a(w) approximately 1.0 and 0.03% (v/v) CO2. CONCLUSIONS The fastest hyphal extension rate (1.7 mm h(-1)) was predicted to occur at 42 degrees C, pH 5.85, a(w) approximately 1.0 and 0.03% CO2. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The present work is the first to model the simultaneous effects of temperature, pH, aw and CO2 concentration on mould growth. The information relates to tempe fermentation and to possible control of the microflora in Tanzanian cassava heap fermentations.
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- R A Sparringa
- School of Food Biosciences, The University of Reading, Reading, UK
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Parlato R, Rosica A, Cuccurullo V, Mansi L, Macchia P, Owens JD, Mushinski JF, De Felice M, Bonner RF, Di Lauro R. A preservation method that allows recovery of intact RNA from tissues dissected by laser capture microdissection. Anal Biochem 2002; 300:139-45. [PMID: 11779104 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2001.5463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We report a novel method for preparing samples for laser capture microdissection. The procedure described here permits extraction of intact RNA while preserving morphology, thus being suitable both for identification of specific cells and for analysis of their gene expression. The method is applicable to both mouse embryos and human tumors and may improve the preparation of cDNA libraries from specific cell types without interfering with histological diagnosis.
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- Rosanna Parlato
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoles, Italy
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The tolerance of 26 Bacillus species isolated from alkaline fermented foods, five other bacilli and nine non spore-forming bacteria to alkaline pH and ammonia was determined. All grew at pH 7, 8 and 9 in the presence of 930 mmol l-1 NH4 + at pH 7.0, and in the presence of NH3 concentrations up to 5 mmol l-1 at pH 7.0 and 8.0. At higher NH3 concentrations, growth of some of the bacteria was inhibited and at 500 mmol l-1 only B. pasteurii and B. pumilus grew. Bacteria from alkaline food fermentations included strains relatively sensitive to NH3 (inhibited by 50 mmol l-1) and relatively tolerant strains (grew in the presence of 300 mmol l-1) and there was no evidence that they were more tolerant to NH3 than bacteria not associated with these fermentations.
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- A Leejeerajumnean
- Department of Food Science and Technology, The University of Reading, Reading, UK
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The aim was to identify to what extent proteins were utilized during the fermentation of bacteria-free tempe prepared with acidified soybean cotyledons and Rhizopus oligosporus NRRL 2710 at 30 degrees C. Dry matter declined continuously during the fermentation to 980 g/(kg of initial dry cotyledons) at 28 h, 910 g at 46 h (when the tempe was judged mature), and 835 g at 72 h. The decrease in dry matter was due mainly to reduction in crude lipid, amounting to 65 g/(kg of initial dry cotyledons) at 46 h and 135 g/(kg of initial dry cotyledons) at 72 h and representing approximately 70% and 80%, respectively, of the total dry matter loss. Protein oxidation (estimated from ammonia production) was 5 g at 28 h,10 g at 46 h, and 20 g/(kg of initial dry cotyledons) at 72 h. The total amount of soy protein hydrolyzed, including that incorporated into mold biomass, was estimated to be 80 g/(kg of initial dry cotyledons) at 28 h incubation, 95 g at 46 h, and 100 g at 72 h. The hydrolyzed protein at 46 h represented 25% of the initial protein. Of this hydrolyzed protein, it is suggested that approximately 65% remained in the tempe as amino acids and peptides, 25% was assimilated into mold biomass, and 10% was oxidized.
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- R A Sparringa
- Department of Food Science and Technology, The University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AP, U.K
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The glucosamine content of Rhizopus oligosporus NRRL 2710 mycelium grown in different media was determined. In Sabouraud dextrose broth the glucosamine content ranged from 51 g (kg dry biomass)(-1) for mycelial pellets less than 5 mm diameter to 107 g kg(-1) for pellets 16-35 mm diameter. Mycelium grown on Sabouraud dextrose agar contained 111 g glucosamine (kg dry biomass)(-1) while that grown on soymilk agar, used to simulate growth on soybeans in tempe, contained 82 g kg(-1). The estimation of glucosamine was reproducible, with a mean coefficient of variation of 4% for mycelial pellets and 11% for mycelium from agar media. It is suggested that a conversion factor of 12 g dry biomass (g glucosamine)(-1) is applicable to determine fungal biomass in tempe fermentation.
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- R A Sparringa
- Department of Food Science and Technology, The University of Reading, UK
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Beecham EJ, Owens JD, Shaughnessy JD, Huppi K, Bohr VA, Mushinski JF. Decoupling of DNA excision repair and RNA transcription in translocation breaksite regions of plasmacytoma-susceptible BALB/cAnPt mice. Carcinogenesis 1997; 18:687-94. [PMID: 9111201 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/18.4.687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Preferential repair of pyrimidine dimers in rodent cells is thought to be directly coupled to the RNA transcription machinery. The most compelling evidence for this notion is the finding that excision repair occurs more rapidly in the template strand of DNA of transcribed genes than in the non-template strand. A thorough test of this coupling concept by careful comparison of the rate of repair to the rate of transcription of a gene and its regulatory region has not been reported. In the present study, we used nuclear run-on as a measure of transcription in the c-myc and Pvt1 genes in normal B-lymphoblasts from plasmacytoma-susceptible (BALB/cAnPt) and plasmacytoma-resistant (DBA/2N) strains of mice. Previous studies have shown that these loci, but not c-abl or Dhfr are repaired differently in mouse strains: poorly in BALB/cAnPt but efficiently in DBA/2N. The results presented here indicate that in DBA/2N cells, run-on transcription from both DNA strands can be readily detected in the regions of c-myc and Pvt1 that were efficiently repaired. Unexpectedly, however, in BALB/cAnPt lymphoblasts, transcription was equivalent to that of DBA/2N, despite a dramatic reduction in efficiency of excision repair. This finding indicates that, in BALB/cAnPt lymphoblasts, DNA repair 5' to c-myc and in Pvt1 is decoupled from the RNA transcription machinery. We postulate that this dissociation of repair and transcription represents a BALB/cAnPt-specific defect in a component of the transcription/repair complex that specifically compromises repair activity but not transcription. This defect may be responsible for the inability of normal BALB/cAnPt lymphoblasts to repair DNA sequences in the c-myc 5' flank and the Pvt1 gene, inducing gene-specific instability that predisposes these loci to genetic accidents, including chromosomal translocation, retroviral integration and other mutations.
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- E J Beecham
- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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A typical munkoyo beverage was made by fermenting Rhynchosia heterophylla root extract-cooked maize meal mixture with Lactobacillus confusus LZI and Saccharomyces cerevisiae YZ20. The fermented munkoyo beverage had a pH of 3.3, lactic acid content of 60 mmol/l, ethanol 320-410 mmol/l and a characteristic 'munkoyo' aroma. L. confusus, used alone, produced a beverage with a faint munkoyo flavour note whilst beverage produced with S. cerevisiae alone seemed not to have a typical munkoyo note. R. heterophylla root extract converted 75% of the starch in sterile cooked maize meat to maltose (80% of total sugars), maltotriose (17%) and glucose (3%) in I h at 45 degrees C. During fermentation by the mixed culture or the yeast alone most of the maltose was utilised but little or none of the maltotriose. The ratio of yeast to lactic acid bacteria in the starter culture affected the rate of production of ethanol but had no effect on the growth or acid production by the bacterium. To obtain a munkoyo beverage with the desired low alcohol concentration (< 100 mmol/l), the ratio of yeast concentration (cfu/ml) to Lactobacillus concentration in the starter culture should be 1:1000 or less and the beverage should be fermented for 24 h only.
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- R M Zulu
- Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading, UK
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The control of ammonia formation during the Bacillus subtilis fermentation of autoclaved, roasted soybean cotyledons (Glycine max) and of autoclaved African locust bean cotyledons (Parkia spp.) was investigated. Addition of NaCl, 1.5 mol (kg wet cotyledons)-1, part way through the fermentation inhibited ammonia formation and softening of the cotyledons. Addition of glycerol, 1.7 mol (kg wet cotyledons)-1 part way through the fermentation inhibited alkalinisation and ammonia formation while allowing enzymic activity and softening of the cotyledons to continue. Restriction of the oxygen supply by incubating the cotyledons in a sealed container also prevented excessive ammonia production and increase in pH value. Fermentations conducted in sealed containers with an air to cotyledons ratio of approximately 130-175 ml air (g wet cotyledons)-1 supported good microbial growth and proteolysis without the formation of detectable ammonia aroma.
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- N Allagheny
- Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria
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Gubag R, Omoloso DA, Owens JD. Sapal: a traditional fermented taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] corm and coconut cream mixture from Papua New Guinea. Int J Food Microbiol 1996; 28:361-7. [PMID: 8652344 DOI: 10.1016/0168-1605(95)00012-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Sapal is a traditional fermented food made by mixing cooked, grated taro [Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott] corm with coconut cream and allowing it to ferment at ambient temperature. The fermentation was primarily due to heterofermentative lactic acid bacteria, which reached 10(10) cfu/ml. Seven out of 10 isolated bacterial strains were identified as Leuconostoc mesenteroides or Leuc. paramesenteroides. The initial microbial flora was derived from the coconut cream. Yeasts grew on the surface of the sapal in the later stages of the fermentation. Overnight storage of the grated taro corm resulted in the glucose concentration increasing from 1.1 to about 5 g/l. During the fermentation the glucose concentration decreased to undetectable levels. The pH value fell from an initial value of 6.1 to 4.1 after 24 h.
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- R Gubag
- Department of Applied Science, University of Technology, Lae, Papua, New Guinea
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Shaughnessy JD, Owens JD, Wiener F, Hilbert DM, Huppi K, Potter M, Mushinski JF. Retroviral enhancer insertion 5' of c-myc in two translocation-negative mouse plasmacytomas upregulates c-myc expression to different extents. Oncogene 1993; 8:3111-21. [PMID: 8414513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Essentially all murine plasmacytomas have deregulated c-myc expression that is typically brought about by chromosomal translocations between the c-myc/Pvt-1 locus and one of the immunoglobulin loci. ABPC 22 and RFPC 2782 are BALB/c plasmacytomas that lack chromosomal translocations yet have Southern blot evidence of c-myc gene rearrangements. In this report we show that proviral integrations 5' of the c-myc gene can deregulate c-myc expression in mouse plasmacytomas. Analysis of DNA sequences 5' of the c-myc genes from both tumors demonstrated that rearrangements were caused by retroviral integrations 5' of c-myc exon 1. The proviral insertion in RFPC 2782 was associated with a high steady-state c-myc mRNA level comparable to that seen in plasmacytomas with typical translocations. An analogous proviral insertion in ABPC 22 was associated with a c-myc RNA level that was only 38% of that of RFPC 2782. Nuclear run-on studies of c-myc transcription showed that ABPC 22 has both a lower rate of transcription and a greater degree of transcriptional attenuation than RFPC 2782. DNA sequencing of the long terminal repeat of each tumor provirus showed that the ABPC 22 provirus harbors a deletion of one of the two direct repeats in the viral enhancer, whereas both repeats are present in the RFPC 2782 provirus. These data indicate that maximum LTR enhancer effectiveness in plasmacytomas in vivo requires the presence of both LTR direct repeats. The documentation of the low level of steady-state c-myc mRNA in ABPC 22 supports the notion that deregulated c-myc expression, even at low steady state levels, is effective in supporting the development of plasmacytomas.
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- J D Shaughnessy
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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The conductance change due to growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Y112, Zygosaccharomyces bailii M and Rhodotorula rubra NCYC 63 in culture media containing glucose, tartrate pH buffer and ammonium ions as sole nitrogen source was compared with that in a medium containing L-asparagine as sole nitrogen source. Decreases in conductance were observed in glucose-ammonium cultures of all three yeasts while little change occurred in cultures with L-asparagine as sole nitrogen source. This supports the hypothesis that the metabolic activity primarily responsible for conductance change in yeast cultures is the uptake of charged ammonium ions as nitrogen source and the reaction of protons with pH buffer compounds. Rhodotorula rubra cultures with L-asparagine as sole carbon source caused large increases in conductance with growth. Chemical analyses of culture filtrates showed that this increase in conductance was due to use of L-asparagine as carbon source and the excretion of nitrogen surplus to biosynthetic needs as ammonium. In addition, the production of aspartate, acetate and bicarbonate contributed to the increase in conductance.
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- J D Owens
- Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading, UK
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Owens JD, Finkelman FD, Mountz JD, Mushinski JF. Nonhomologous recombination at sites within the mouse JH-C delta locus accompanies C mu deletion and switch to immunoglobulin D secretion. Mol Cell Biol 1991; 11:5660-70. [PMID: 1922069 PMCID: PMC361937 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.11.5660-5670.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Plasma cells secrete immunoglobulins other than immunoglobulin M (IgM) after a deletion and recombination in which a portion of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus (IgH), from the 5'-flanking region of the mu constant-region gene (C mu) to the 5'-flanking region of the secreted heavy-chain constant-region gene (CH), is deleted. The recombination step is believed to be targeted via switch regions, stretches of repetitive DNA which lie in the 5' flank of all CH genes except delta. Although serum levels of IgD are very low, particularly in the mouse, IgD-secreting plasmacytomas of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice are known. In an earlier study of two BALB/c IgD-secreting hybridomas, we reported that both had deleted the C mu gene, and we concluded that this deletion was common in the normal generation of IgD-secreting cells. To learn how such switch recombinations occur in the absence of a switch region upstream of the C delta 1 exon, we isolated seven more BALB/c and two C57BL/6 IgD-secreting hybridomas. We determined the DNA sequences of the switch recombination junctions in eight of these hybridomas as well as that of the C57BL/6 hybridoma B1-8. delta 1 and of the BALB/c, IgD-secreting plasmacytoma TEPC 1033. All of the lines had deleted the C mu gene, and three had deleted the C delta 1 exon in the switch recombination event. The delta switch recombination junction sequences were similar to those of published productive switch recombinations occurring 5' to other heavy-chain genes, suggesting that nonhomologous, illegitimate recombination is utilized whenever the heavy-chain switch region is involved in recombination.
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- J D Owens
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Mountz JD, Mushinski JF, Owens JD, Finkelman FD. The in vivo generation of murine IgD-secreting cells is accompanied by deletion of the Cm gene and occasional deletion of the mistakenly identified as Cd1 domain. The Journal of Immunology 1990. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.145.9.3151.b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Mountz JD, Mushinski JF, Owens JD, Finkelman FD. The in vivo generation of murine IgD-secreting cells is accompanied by deletion of the C mu gene and occasional deletion of the gene for the C delta 1 domain. J Immunol 1990; 145:1583-91. [PMID: 1696602] [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: 12/28/2022]
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Mature, resting rodent, and primate B lymphocytes express two membrane Ig isotypes, IgM and IgD. Although membrane IgD production by these cells is regulated at a transcriptional level, and does not require deletion of the C mu gene, C mu has been deleted in all of the IgD-secreting tumor cells that have been studied. These IgD-secreting tumors, which include two mineral oil-induced plasmacytomas and three IgD-switch variants of an IgM-secreting hybridoma, might not, however, be representative of the rare IgD-secreting cells generated in response to an immune stimulus. A recent study of mice injected with a goat antibody to mouse IgD has demonstrated the generation of a relatively large secretory IgD response in these animals. We have now produced hybridomas by fusing spleen cells from these mice with a non-Ig-secreting plasmacytoma. Two of these hybridomas, KWD-1 and KWD-2, secrete IgD and express cell membrane IgD. Both of these hybridomas were found to have deleted the C mu gene. KWD-2 produces a delta-chain mRNA and a delta-chain protein similar in size to those previously reported for normal secreted mouse IgD; however, KWD-1 synthesizes a secretory delta-chain mRNA that is approximately 0.25 kb smaller than the KWD-2 secretory delta-chain mRNA and secretes IgD with a delta-chain that is approximately 21 kDa smaller than the secretory delta-chain of KWD-2. ELISA studies with epitope-defined anti-delta mAb indicate that KWD-2 has both delta Fc (C delta 3) [corrected] and delta Fd (C delta 1) [corrected] determinants, whereas KWD-1 has delta Fc but not delta Fd. These studies also demonstrate that the Ag-binding site of KWD-1 is not deleted because KWD-1 specifically binds goat IgG. Northern blot analyses with exon-specific probes indicate that while both KWD-1 and KWD-2 synthesize kappa-chain mRNA and delta-chain mRNA that includes the VH, C delta hinge, and C delta 3 exons, the C delta 1 exon is present only on the KWD-2 delta-chain mRNA. Southern blot analysis confirms that the C delta 1 exon has been deleted in KWD-1, but not KWD-2. We have previously noted that a secretory delta-chain mRNA that is similar in size to that produced by KWD-1 accounts for approximately 25% of the splenic secretory delta-chain mRNA produced by goat anti-mouse IgD antibody-injected mice.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- J D Mountz
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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Mountz JD, Mushinski JF, Owens JD, Finkelman FD. The in vivo generation of murine IgD-secreting cells is accompanied by deletion of the C mu gene and occasional deletion of the gene for the C delta 1 domain. The Journal of Immunology 1990. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.145.5.1583] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Mature, resting rodent, and primate B lymphocytes express two membrane Ig isotypes, IgM and IgD. Although membrane IgD production by these cells is regulated at a transcriptional level, and does not require deletion of the C mu gene, C mu has been deleted in all of the IgD-secreting tumor cells that have been studied. These IgD-secreting tumors, which include two mineral oil-induced plasmacytomas and three IgD-switch variants of an IgM-secreting hybridoma, might not, however, be representative of the rare IgD-secreting cells generated in response to an immune stimulus. A recent study of mice injected with a goat antibody to mouse IgD has demonstrated the generation of a relatively large secretory IgD response in these animals. We have now produced hybridomas by fusing spleen cells from these mice with a non-Ig-secreting plasmacytoma. Two of these hybridomas, KWD-1 and KWD-2, secrete IgD and express cell membrane IgD. Both of these hybridomas were found to have deleted the C mu gene. KWD-2 produces a delta-chain mRNA and a delta-chain protein similar in size to those previously reported for normal secreted mouse IgD; however, KWD-1 synthesizes a secretory delta-chain mRNA that is approximately 0.25 kb smaller than the KWD-2 secretory delta-chain mRNA and secretes IgD with a delta-chain that is approximately 21 kDa smaller than the secretory delta-chain of KWD-2. ELISA studies with epitope-defined anti-delta mAb indicate that KWD-2 has both delta Fc (C delta 3) [corrected] and delta Fd (C delta 1) [corrected] determinants, whereas KWD-1 has delta Fc but not delta Fd. These studies also demonstrate that the Ag-binding site of KWD-1 is not deleted because KWD-1 specifically binds goat IgG. Northern blot analyses with exon-specific probes indicate that while both KWD-1 and KWD-2 synthesize kappa-chain mRNA and delta-chain mRNA that includes the VH, C delta hinge, and C delta 3 exons, the C delta 1 exon is present only on the KWD-2 delta-chain mRNA. Southern blot analysis confirms that the C delta 1 exon has been deleted in KWD-1, but not KWD-2. We have previously noted that a secretory delta-chain mRNA that is similar in size to that produced by KWD-1 accounts for approximately 25% of the splenic secretory delta-chain mRNA produced by goat anti-mouse IgD antibody-injected mice.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- J D Mountz
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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An alternative splicing event in which a portion of the intron bounded by the vE6 and vE7 exons with v-myb homology is included as an additional 363-nucleotide coding exon (termed E6A or coding exon 9A) has been described for normal and tumor murine cells that express myb. We show here that this alternative splicing event is conserved in human c-myb transcripts. In addition, another novel exon (termed E7A or coding exon 10A) is identified in human c-myb mRNAs expressed in normal and tumor cells. Although the myb protein isoform encoded by murine E6A-containing mRNA is larger than the major c-myb protein, the predicted products of both forms of human alternatively spliced myb transcripts are 3'-truncated myb proteins that terminate in the alternative exons. These proteins are predicted to lack the same carboxy-terminal domains as the viral myb proteins encoded by avian myeloblastosis virus and E26 virus. The junction sequences that flank these exons closely resemble the consensus splice donor and splice acceptor sequences, yet the alternative transcripts are less abundant than is the major form of c-myb transcripts. The contribution that alternative splicing events in c-myb expression may make on c-myb function remains to be elucidated.
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- G L Shen-Ong
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Bauer SR, Piechaczyk M, Nordan RP, Owens JD, Nepveu A, Marcu KB, Mushinski JF. Altered myc gene transcription and intron-induced stabilization of myc RNAs in two mouse plasmacytomas. Oncogene 1989; 4:615-23. [PMID: 2657576] [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]
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Accumulation of unusually high amounts of larger-than-normal c-myc mRNAs occurs in two mouse plasmacytomas, TEPC 1165 and TEPC 2027. Southern blot and DNA sequence analyses showed that both tumors have undergone translocations of immunoglobulin heavy chain loci to positions 5' of the c-myc gene promotors resulting in removal of DNA sequences encoding a negative transcriptional regulatory element. In contrast to other mouse plasmacytomas, TEPC 1165 and TEPC 2027 rearranged myc genes show increased transcription, partially explaining their abundance of myc RNA. Similar to other mouse plasmacytomas, the abundance of myc RNA in TEPC 1165 and TEPC 2027 is also influenced by increased stability of structurally atypical myc RNAs. Two myc mRNAs are found in TEPC 2027, a 2.4 kb species including all 3 myc exons and a 4.0 kb species with the 3 exons plus the first intron. The two major myc mRNAs in TEPC 1165, 3.0 and 3.9 kb species, also include all three myc exons plus portions of the first intron. S1 nuclease protection analyses show that the 5' initiation and 3' untranslated (UT) regions of the unusual TEPC 1165 RNAs are normal showing that the size differences arise solely from inclusion of first intron sequences in the large myc RNAs. DNA sequence analysis showed that the presence of first intron sequences in the large myc RNAs is due to mutations affecting the splice donor region at the 3' end of exon 1 in both tumors. SDS-PAGE analysis of immunoprecipitated TEPC 1165 and TEPC 2027 myc proteins showed them to be of normal electrophoretic mobility but no more abundant than in a pre-B cell line 18-81 that contains at least 10 fold less myc RNA. The 4.0 kb myc mRNA of TEPC 2027 is atypically stable while the 2.4 kb myc mRNA undergoes normal rapid turnover within the same cell, demonstrating that the presence of first intron sequences in the large myc RNA stabilizes it despite the presence of 3' UT and putative exon 1 destabilizing sequences. These results show that myc intron 1 sequences can counteract the effect of 3' UT region destabilizing sequences in myc RNA and suggest that the increased myc RNA stability noted in TEPC 1165 and TEPC 2027 is largely due to the presence of the intron 1 sequences.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- S R Bauer
- Laboratory of Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Murine V kappa-J kappa recombination is characterized by a maintenance of size at the site of recombination and the use of nucleic acids found only in germline sequences. This is in contrast to heavy chain VH-D-JH assembly where random nucleotides are added at the recombination sites to produce considerable size variation, even though the heptamer/nonomer recombination sequences are identical in both kappa and heavy chain genes. We have examined the origin of an unusual amino acid, Ile, found at the site of V kappa-J kappa recombination in antigalactan antibodies, by sequence analysis of the corresponding rearranged and germline genes. Results indicate that the Ile codon can be generated by use of a single nucleotide 3' of the V kappa segment in combination with the second and third nucleotides of the first codon of J kappa 5 or J kappa 4. However, several antigalactan antibodies express Ile in combination with J kappa 2. An Ile codon cannot be generated by recombination in any reading frame between germline V kappa and J kappa 2 segments. These results suggest that the origin of the Ile codon in lines using J kappa 2 may represent a novel even in murine light chain assembly, possibly similar to the de novo addition of nucleotides observed in heavy chain gene recombination.
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Many metabolic activities of micro-organisms lead to changes in the pH value of cultures and consequently pH buffer compounds are potentially a major source of conductivity changes in cultures. To maximize changes in conductivity associated with microbial growth the pH buffer-associated changes should occur in a direction that reinforces those due to other metabolic activities. In agreement with this, studies with Escherichia coli showed that fermentation of glucose and aerobic growth on L-alanine yielded greater changes in the conductivity of media containing Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane or L-histidine buffers than in a medium containing phosphate buffer, whereas aerobic growth on glucose or succinate yielded greater changes with phosphate buffer than with Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane or L-histidine buffers. Criteria for the selection of appropriate pH buffer compounds are presented.
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McMaster PR, Wong VA, Kyriakos M, Owens JD. Prevention of autoimmune uveitis by competitive immunization with bovine gamma globulin. Ann Ophthalmol 1985; 17:779-83. [PMID: 2418737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The effect of antigenic competition on the development of autoallergic experimental uveitis and autoallergy to ocular antigens was studied. Strain 13 guinea pigs were immunized with adjuvants containing either National Institutes of Health strain retina-uvea extract or retina-uvea extract plus bovine gamma globulin (BGG). They were later reimmunized with ocular extract and BGG or ocular extract alone, in adjuvant. They were observed weekly by slit-lamp examination. At the end of the study, they were skin tested using strain 13 retina-uvea extract. The eyes of certain groups were examined histologically. Immunization and reimmunization with ocular extract produced uveitis. The addition of BGG to the initial immunization prevented the development of uveitis even after reimmunization with ocular extract alone. It did not, however, necessarily prevent the development of delayed type skin sensitivity to retina-uveal extract.
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Owens JD, Miskin DR, Wacher-Viveros MC, Benge LC. Sources of conductance changes during bacterial reduction of trimethylamine oxide to trimethylammonium in phosphate buffer. J Gen Microbiol 1985; 131:1357-67. [PMID: 3900275 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-131-6-1357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The sources of conductance changes during reduction of trimethylamine oxide to trimethylamine by Escherichia coli with formate as electron donor and in the presence of phosphate buffer were investigated. Theoretical considerations and experimental results suggest that the major source of conductance change is the conversion of dihydrogen phosphate to hydrogen phosphate. This transformation contributes almost twice as much to the total conductance change as does the conversion of uncharged trimethylamine oxide to charged trimethylammonium.
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Thiele CJ, Owens JD, Finkelman FD, Mushinski JF. Mouse IgD half molecules with shortened IgD heavy chain result from alterations within C delta locus. J Immunol 1985; 134:1251-6. [PMID: 3917473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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An unusually small (51 KD) IgD myeloma protein was isolated from secretions of TEPC 1017 generation (gen) 24. The delta-chain mRNA and the delta-chain gene in this tumor were compared with those of TEPC 1017 of earlier generations. The gen 24 protein contained one normal-sized kappa-type light chain (21 KD) and one unusually short delta-heavy chain (30 KD). The delta-heavy chain was 15 KD shorter than that of TEPC 1017 of earlier generations, owing to a delta-mRNA (1.15 kb) which was 600 bp shorter than that of TEPC 1017 of earlier generations. TEPC 1017 is a tetraploid tumor, and the gen 24 appears to contain at least two different deletions on different chromosomes. The short mRNA was produced from one of these altered delta-chain genes which had a productive VDJ rearrangement but which had lost the C delta 3 domain and perhaps the C delta H domain as well. Despite these genetic insults, RNA splicing produced delta-mRNA with secreted termini and mRNA with membrane-binding termini. It is suggested that the mouse C delta gene has an unusual predilection for deletions because it normally lacks any vestige of C delta 2 and, during i.p. passage, it suffered further deletions or alterations.
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Thiele CJ, Owens JD, Finkelman FD, Mushinski JF. Mouse IgD half molecules with shortened IgD heavy chain result from alterations within C delta locus. The Journal of Immunology 1985. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.134.2.1251] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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An unusually small (51 KD) IgD myeloma protein was isolated from secretions of TEPC 1017 generation (gen) 24. The delta-chain mRNA and the delta-chain gene in this tumor were compared with those of TEPC 1017 of earlier generations. The gen 24 protein contained one normal-sized kappa-type light chain (21 KD) and one unusually short delta-heavy chain (30 KD). The delta-heavy chain was 15 KD shorter than that of TEPC 1017 of earlier generations, owing to a delta-mRNA (1.15 kb) which was 600 bp shorter than that of TEPC 1017 of earlier generations. TEPC 1017 is a tetraploid tumor, and the gen 24 appears to contain at least two different deletions on different chromosomes. The short mRNA was produced from one of these altered delta-chain genes which had a productive VDJ rearrangement but which had lost the C delta 3 domain and perhaps the C delta H domain as well. Despite these genetic insults, RNA splicing produced delta-mRNA with secreted termini and mRNA with membrane-binding termini. It is suggested that the mouse C delta gene has an unusual predilection for deletions because it normally lacks any vestige of C delta 2 and, during i.p. passage, it suffered further deletions or alterations.
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Mushinski JF, Thiele CJ, Owens JD, Blattner FR, Shen AL, Tucker PW, Fitzmaurice L. Genetic aspects of IgD expression: II. Multiple forms of delta chain mRNA in normal mouse spleen, mouse B-cell lymphomas and mouse and human myelomas. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1982; 399:15-25. [PMID: 6819800 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1982.tb25660.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Mushinski JF, Blattner FR, Owens JD, Finkelman FD, Kessler SW, Fitzmaurice L, Potter M, Tucker PW. Mouse immunoglobulin D: construction and characterization of a cloned delta chain cDNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1980; 77:7405-9. [PMID: 6784124 PMCID: PMC350512 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.77.12.7405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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TEPC 1017 is a BALB/c plasmacytoma that synthesizes IgD in large enough amounts to permit the isolation of mRNA for mouse delta chains. cDNA has been prepared from this mRNA, and an 880-base-pair fragment of it has been cloned by recombinant DNA techniques. The hybridization selection technique has been used to show that this cDNA clone specifically binds only mRNA that can be translated into immunoprecipitable delta chains. the sequence of a portion of this clone has been determined and, when translated, shows homology with the C delta 3 of a human myeloma protein. Using this cDNA clone as a probe, we have found that several different-sized delta RNAs are present in TEPC 1017 and in another IgD-secreting plasmacytoma, TEPC 1033.
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McMaster PR, Owens JD, Prescott B, Finerty J, Weichbrod R. The induction of immunologic tolerance with type III pneumococcal polysaccharide cross-linked or coupled to protein. Ann Immunol (Paris) 1978; 129:337-45. [PMID: 79330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Type III pneumococcal polysaccharide molecules were linked to one another, i. e. cross-linked. The product was essentially insoluble in saline. Large pieces weighing 1-2 mg were inserted into mice. They produced immunologic paralysis or immune tolerance. When placed intraperitoneally in millipore chambers the cross-linked polysaccharide did not have any apparent effect, for the mice were not tolerized. When pneumococcal polysaccharide was linked to a protein, the amount of polysaccharide required to cause tolerance or immunity was essentially the same as the amount of free pure soluble polysaccharide. In addition, Xenopus laevis eggs were injected with a different antigen, bovine gamma globulin, and then with antibody to that antigen. Twelve of the twelve eggs so injected changed shape. Equal numbers of other eggs injected twice with the antigen or twice with the antibody did not change shape.
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McMaster PR, Owens JD, Dvorak HF, Weichbrod R, Asofsky R. Hapten-specific delayed hypersensitivity to epsilon-2,4-dinitrophenyl-L-lysine-Ficoll in guinea pigs immunized with 2,4-dinitrophenyl-keyhole limpet hemocyanin. J Exp Med 1977; 145:1101-14. [PMID: 858997 PMCID: PMC2180661 DOI: 10.1084/jem.145.5.1101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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After active immunization with 2,4-dinitrophenyl-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (DNP-KLH), 2,4-dinitropheynl-L-lysine (DNPL)-Ficoll may elicit indurated, erythematous skin reactions lasting 24-72 h. Histological sections of these reactions, examined by microscope techniques, showed they contained polymorphonuclear leukocytes and perivascularly situated lymphocytes and macrophages, but had very few basophils. Consequently, the reaction was interpreted as having an immediate component and a component typical of delayed hypersensitivity; this indicated that the delayed reaction could be specific for the DNP hapten. Although this delayed type of skin reaction was not transferred to recipients with anti-DNP-KLH serum, one pool of that serum did sensitize guinea pigs so that they could respond with a different skin reaction after challenge with DNPL-Ficoll. This reaction was soft, pale pink, and lasted for 24 h. Histologically, it contained only a few polymorphonuclear leukocytes. It differed from the delayed reaction in actively immunized animals in that it lacked induration, and was devoid of lymphocytes and macrophages.
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McMaster PR, Owens JD, Asofsky R. Hapten-specific leukocyte migration inhibition. I. Inhibition of cells from animals immunized with DNP-KLH by epsilon-DNP-L-lysine Ficoll. J Immunol 1977; 118:1335-7. [PMID: 300405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Guiena pigs were immunized with dinitrophenyl-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (DNP-KLH) or with hemocyanin in complete Freud's adjevant. The migration of oil-induced peritoneal exudate cells was measured in the presence and absence of epsilon-dinitrophenyl-lysine-tyrosinyl Ficoll (DNPL-F). When the cells came from animals immunized with DNP-KLH their migration was inhibited by DNPL-F. Control cells from animals immunized with KLH or not immunized migrated normally in the presence of DNPL-F.
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McMaster PRB, Owens JD, Asofsky R. Hapten-Specific Leukocyte Migration Inhibition. The Journal of Immunology 1977. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.118.4.1335] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Guinea pigs were immunized with dinitrophenyl-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (DNP-KLH) or with hemocyanin in complete Freund's adjuvant. The migration of oil-induced peritoneal exudate cells was measured in the presence and absence of ε-dinitrophenyl-lysine-tyrosinyl Ficoll (DNPL-F). When the cells came from animals immunized with DNP-KLH their migration was inhibited by DNPL-F. Control cells from animals immunized with KLH or not immunized migrated normally in the presence of DNPL-F.
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- Philip R. B. McMaster
- Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health From the , Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health From the , Bethesda, Maryland
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- Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health From the , Bethesda, Maryland
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McMaster PR, Owens JD, Vannier WE. The preparation and characterization of a thymic independent antigen: episilon-dinitrophenyl-L-lysine-Ficoll. Immunochemistry 1977; 14:189-96. [PMID: 324892 DOI: 10.1016/0019-2791(77)90193-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The rate constant for the catalytic transfer of the active-site PO3 group from rabbit muscle phosphoglucomutase to the hydroxyl group of a water molecule is about 3 x 10(-8) s-1 under optimal reaction conditions, but in the absence of the normal substrate, viz., at pH 7.5 and 30 degrees C, in the presence of saturating Mg2+; the corresponding constant for transfer to the 6-hydroxyl group of glucose 1-phosphate under analogous conditions, about 1000 s-1, is larger than this by some 3 x 10(10)-fold. Since no single factor appears to be capable of providing a rationale for a majority of this "substrate-induced rate effect" (Ray, jr., W.J., and Long, J.W. (1976), Biochemistry, the preceding paper in this issue), the change in the PO3-transfer rate produced by binding various parts of the phosphoglucosyl moiety to the enzyme, both separately and concurrently, was investigated. The rate of PO3 transfer to water is increased by up to 1000-fold by binding entities that provide the active site with a second PO3 group, e.g., ethyl phosphate or inorganic phosphite. Using an alcoholic acceptor further increases transfer efficiency (in the presence of bound phosphite): increase with methanol, about 2000-fold on a molar basis. The reactivities of ten other primary aliphatic alcohols vary by nearly 600-fold as the acidity of the PO3 acceptor is varied over a 4000-fold range. Although no straightforward relationship is observed between the efficiency of an alcohol as an acceptor and its acidity - presumably because of complications due to steric effects, for example - an increased transfer rate of 100-fold, relative to the water reaction, is estimated for a simple primary alcohol with a pKa similar to that expected for the 6-hydroxyl group of glucose 1-phosphate, when the alcohol is present at a concentration of 1 M. Joining an alcoholic acceptor and a PO3 group via five apparently inert bridging units changes PO3 transfer to an intramolecular process; in the case of 1,4-butanediol monophosphate the rate of transfer also increases by 240-fold, relative to the analogous reaction in the presence of 1 M propanol and bound inorganic phosphite. Comparable values also are obtained in comparisons of PO3 transfer rates for trans- 1,4-butenediol and 1,4-butynediol monophosphates relative to 1 M allyl and propargyl alcohols, respectively, in the presence of bound phosphite. An increased rate of transfer also is produced by binding the xylosyl part of the glucose ring, either when the acceptor is an hydroxyl group attached to the ring or when it is the hydroxyl group of a water molecule, e.g., as in the water reaction facilitated by bound xylose 1-phosphate. These and other results suggest that most of the differences between the rates of the water reaction and the glucose 1-phosphate reaction can be rationalized in terms of four fairly discrete factors whose approximate values are as follows: the PO4 factor, 1000-fold; the C-OH/H-OH factor, 100-fold; the nucleophile-binding factor, 250-fold; and the (CHOH)3-bridging factor, 200-fold...
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These experiments were undertaken to determine if methotrexate therapy, initiated after immunization, could prevent the development of experimental allergic uveitis. Strain 13 guinea pigs were immunized with Strain 13 guinea pig retina-uvea extract that had been emulsified in Freund complete adjuvant. Some were treated with methotrexate twice a week until the 21st day. Each week, all of their eyes were examined with a slit-lamp. At the end of the study, some were skin tested, and the sera of selected animals were tested by immunodiffusion for antibody. The eyes of certain groups were examined histologically. Results show methotrexate prevented the development of this type of uveitis, even when therapy was initiated seven days after immunization. The disease did not appear after therapy was stopped. Methotrexate also inhibited the development of skin sensitivity and antibody to retina-uvea antigen.
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Sharon R, McMaster PR, Kask AM, Owens JD, Paul WE. DNP-Lys-ficoll: a T-independent antigen which elicits both IgM and IgG anti-DNP antibody-secreting cells. J Immunol 1975; 114:1585-9. [PMID: 1091706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The 2,4-dinitrophenyl-lysyl derivative of Ficoll (DNP-Lys-Ficoll) was prepared and examined for immunogenicity. This antigen elicited large numbers of DNP-specific plaque-forming cells (PFC) of the IgM and IgG2 class in the spleens of C57BL/6 mice. Similar responses were observed in congenitally athymic (nu/nu) mice and in their littermates indicating that DNP-Lys-Ficoll is a T-independent antigen. The responses of nu/nu mice included a large number of IgG2 DNP-specific PFC, indicating that IgG responses can be initiated in the absence of mature thymus-dependent (T) lymphocytes. Cell transfer studies confirmed the T independence of the response and indicated that priming with DNP-Lys-Ficoll induces only a very meager degree of memory. Because they can be obtained in large quantities and in relatively pure form, DNP-Lys-Ficoll and other hapten conjugates of Ficoll should prove most valuable in the delineation of the mode of activation of precursors of antibody-secreting cells by T-independent antigens.
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Sharon R, McMaster PRB, Kask AM, Owens JD, Paul WE. DNP-Lys-Ficoll: A T-Independent Antigen Which Elicits Both IgM and IgG Anti-DNP Antibody-Secreting Cells. The Journal of Immunology 1975. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.114.5.1585] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The 2,4-dinitrophenyl-lysyl derivative of Ficoll (DNP-Lys-Ficoll) was prepared and examined for immunogenicity. This antigen elicited large numbers of DNP-specific plaque-forming cells (PFC) of the IgM and IgG2 class in the spleens of C57BL/6 mice. Similar responses were observed in congenitally athymic (nu/nu) mice and in their littermates indicating that DNP-Lys-Ficoll is a T-independent antigen. The responses of nu/nu mice included a large number of IgG2 DNP-specific PFC, indicating that IgG responses can be initiated in the absence of mature thymus-dependent (T) lymphocytes. Cell transfer studies confirmed the T independence of the response and indicated that priming with DNP-Lys-Ficoll induces only a very meager degree of memory. Because they can be obtained in large quantities and in relatively pure form, DNP-Lys-Ficoll and other hapten conjugates of Ficoll should prove most valuable in the delineation of the mode of activation of precursors of antibody-secreting cells by T-independent antigens.
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- Laboratory of Immunology and Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health From the , Bethesda, Maryland 20014
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- Laboratory of Immunology and Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health From the , Bethesda, Maryland 20014
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- Laboratory of Immunology and Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health From the , Bethesda, Maryland 20014
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- Laboratory of Immunology and Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health From the , Bethesda, Maryland 20014
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- Laboratory of Immunology and Laboratory of Microbial Immunity, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health From the , Bethesda, Maryland 20014
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McMaster PR, Owens JD, Kyriakos M. A comparison of autoimmunity and experimental allergic thyroiditis in strain 2 and Hartley strain guinea pigs. Cell Immunol 1974; 14:39-45. [PMID: 4219588 DOI: 10.1016/0008-8749(74)90167-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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