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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38032737/s-nitrosylation-attenuates-pregnane-x-receptor-hyperactivity-and-acetaminophen-induced-liver-injury
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Qi Cui, Tingting Jiang, Xinya Xie, Haodong Wang, Lei Qian, Yanyan Cheng, Qiang Li, Tingxu Lu, Qinyu Yao, Jia Liu, Baochang Lai, Chang Chen, Lei Xiao, Nanping Wang
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI), especially acetaminophen overdose, is the leading cause of acute liver failure. Pregnane X receptor (PXR) is a nuclear receptor and the master regulator of drug metabolism. Aberrant activation of PXR plays a pathogenic role in the acetaminophen hepatotoxicity. Here, we aimed to examine the PXR S-nitrosylation (SNO) in response to acetaminophen. We found that PXR was S-nitrosylated in hepatocytes and the mouse livers after exposure to acetaminophen or S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO)...
November 30, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38032735/uric-acid-formation-is-driven-by-crosstalk-between-skeletal-muscle-and-other-cell-types
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Spencer G Miller, Catalina Matias, Paul S Hafen, Andrew S Law, Carol A Witczak, Jeffrey J Brault
Hyperuricemia is implicated in numerous pathologies but the mechanisms underlying uric acid production are poorly understood. Using a combination of mouse studies, cultured cell studies, and human serum samples, we sought to determine the cellular source of uric acid. In mice, fasting and glucocorticoid treatment increased serum uric acid and uric acid release from ex vivo incubated skeletal muscle. In vitro, glucocorticoids and the transcription factor FoxO3 increased purine nucleotide degradation and purine release from differentiated muscle cells, which coincided with the transcriptional upregulation of AMP deaminase 3, a rate-limiting enzyme in adenine nucleotide degradation...
November 30, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38032732/neuronal-deletion-of-the-circadian-clock-gene-bmal1-induces-cell-autonomous-dopaminergic-neurodegeneration
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Michael K Kanan, Patrick W Sheehan, Jessica N Haines, Pedro G Gomez, Adya Dhuler, Collin J Nadarajah, Zachary M Wargel, Brittany M Freeberg, Hemanth R Nelvagal, Mariko Izumo, Joseph S Takahashi, Jonathan D Cooper, Albert A Davis, Erik S Musiek
Circadian rhythm dysfunction is a hallmark of Parkinson Disease (PD), and diminished expression of the core clock gene Bmal1 has been described in PD patients. BMAL1 is required for core circadian clock function, but also serves non-rhythmic functions. Germline Bmal1 deletion can cause brain oxidative stress and synapse loss in mice, and can exacerbate dopaminergic neurodegeneration in response to the toxin MPTP. Here we examined the impact of cell type-specific Bmal1 deletion on dopaminergic neuron viability in vivo...
November 30, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38016036/znfx1-promotes-ampk-mediated-autophagy-against-mycobacterium-tuberculosis-by-stabilizing-mrna
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Honglin Liu, Zhenyu Han, Liru Chen, Jing Zhang, Zhanqing Zhang, Yaoxin Chen, Feichang Liu, Ke Wang, Jieyu Liu, Na Sai, Xinying Zhou, Chaoying Zhou, Shengfeng Hu, Qian Wen, Li Ma
Tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease caused by a single pathogen, holds the highest mortality rate worldwide. RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are involved in autophagy - a key defense mechanism against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection - by modulating RNA stability and forming intricate regulatory networks. However, the functions of host RBPs during Mtb infection remain relatively unexplored. ZNFX1, a conserved RBP critically involved in immune deficiency diseases and mycobacterial infections, is significantly upregulated in Mtb-infected macrophages...
November 28, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38015639/neuregulin-4-mediates-the-metabolic-benefits-of-mild-cold-exposure-by-promoting-beige-fat-thermogenesis
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Zhimin Chen, Peng Zhang, Tongyu Liu, Xiaoxue Qiu, Siming Li, Jiandie D Lin
Interorgan crosstalk via secreted hormones and metabolites is a fundamental aspect of mammalian metabolic physiology. Beyond the highly specialized endocrine cells, peripheral tissues are emerging as an important source of metabolic hormones that influence energy and nutrient metabolism and contribute to disease pathogenesis. Neuregulin 4 (Nrg4) is a fat-derived hormone that protects mice from nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and NASH-associated liver cancer by shaping hepatic lipid metabolism and the liver immune microenvironment...
November 28, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38015634/horizontal-transmission-of-gut-microbiota-attenuates-mortality-in-lung-fibrosis
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Stephen J Gurczynski, Jay H Lipinski, Joshua Y Strauss, Shafiul Alam, Gary B Huffnagle, Piyush Ranjan, Lucy H Kennedy, Bethany B Moore, David N O'Dwyer
Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic and often fatal disease. The pathogenesis is characterized by aberrant repair of lung parenchyma resulting in loss of physiological homeostasis, respiratory failure and death. The immune response in pulmonary fibrosis is dysregulated. The gut microbiome is a key regulator of immunity. The role of the gut microbiome in regulating the pulmonary immunity in lung fibrosis is poorly understood. Here, we determine the impact of gut microbiota on pulmonary fibrosis in C57BL/6 mice derived from different vendors (C57BL/6J and C57BL/6NCrl)...
November 28, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38015625/a-mouse-model-of-weaver-syndrome-displays-overgrowth-and-excess-osteogenesis-reversible-with-kdm6a-6b-inhibition
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Christine W Gao, WanYing Lin, Ryan C Riddle, Priyanka Kushwaha, Leandros Boukas, Hans T Björnsson, Kasper D Hansen, Jill A Fahrner
Weaver syndrome is a Mendelian disorder of the epigenetic machinery (MDEM) caused by germline pathogenic variants in EZH2, which encodes the predominant H3K27 methyltransferase and key enzymatic component of Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2). Weaver syndrome is characterized by striking overgrowth and advanced bone age, intellectual disability, and distinctive facies. We generated a mouse model for the most common Weaver syndrome missense variant, EZH2 p.R684C. Ezh2R684C/R684C mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) showed global depletion of H3K27me3...
November 28, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37988170/lactate-and-immunomagnetic-purified-hipsc-derived-cardiomyocytes-generate-comparable-engineered-cardiac-tissue-constructs
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Kalina J Rossler, Willem J De Lange, Morgan W Mann, Timothy J Aballo, Jake A Melby, Jianhua Zhang, Gina Kim, Elizabeth F Bayne, Yanlong Zhu, Emily T Farrell, Timothy J Kamp, J Carter Ralphe, Ying Ge
Three-dimensional engineered cardiac tissue (ECT) using purified human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) has emerged as an appealing model system for the study of human cardiac biology and disease. A recent study reported widely-used metabolic (lactate) purification of monolayer hiPSC-CM cultures results in an ischemic cardiomyopathy-like phenotype compared to magnetic antibody-based cell sorting (MACS) purification, complicating the interpretation of studies using lactate-purified hiPSC-CMs...
November 21, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37988164/hypoxia-activated-prodrug-and-anti-angiogenic-therapy-cooperatively-treat-pancreatic-cancer-but-elicit-immunosuppressive-g-mdsc-infiltration
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Arthur Liu, Seth T Gammon, Federica Pisaneschi, Akash Boda, Casey R Ager, David Piwnica-Worms, David S Hong, Michael A Curran
We previously showed that ablation of tumor hypoxia can sensitize tumors to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Here, we used a Kras+/G12DTP53+/R172HPdx1-Cre (KPC) derived model of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) to examine the tumor response and adaptive resistance mechanisms involved in response to two established methods of hypoxia-reducing therapy: the hypoxia-activated prodrug TH-302 and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR-2) blockade. The combination of both modalities normalized tumor vasculature, increased DNA damage and cell death, and delayed tumor growth...
November 21, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37971882/dll4-notch3-wnt5b-axis-mediates-bi-directional-pro-metastatic-crosstalk-between-melanoma-and-lymphatic-endothelial-cells
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Sanni Alve, Silvia Gramolelli, Joonas Jukonen, Susanna Juteau, Anne Pink, Atte A Manninen, Satu Hänninen, Elisa Monto, Madeleine H Lackman, Olli Carpén, Pipsa Saharinen, Sinem Karaman, Kari Vaahtomeri, Päivi M Ojala
Despite strong indications that melanoma interaction with lymphatic vessels actively promotes melanoma progression, the molecular mechanisms are not yet completely understood. To characterize molecular factors of this crosstalk we established human primary lymphatic endothelial cell (LEC) co-cultures with human melanoma cell lines. Here, we show that co-culture with melanoma cells induced transcriptomic changes in LECs and led to multiple alterations in their function. WNT5B, a paracrine signaling molecule upregulated in melanoma cells upon LEC interaction, was found contributing to the functional changes in LECs...
November 16, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37971881/efficient-pulmonary-lymphatic-drainage-is-necessary-for-inflammation-resolution-in-ards
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Pu-Hong Zhang, Wen-Wu Zhang, Shun-Shun Wang, Cheng-Hua Wu, Yang-Dong Ding, Xin-Yi Wu, Fang Gao Smith, Yu Hao, Jin Sheng-Wei
The lymphatic vasculature is the natural pathway for the resolution of inflammation, while the role of pulmonary lymphatic drainage function in sepsis-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains poorly characterized. In this study, Indocyanine green (ICG)-Near Infrared (NIR) lymphatic living imaging was performed to examine pulmonary lymphatic drainage function in septic mice models. We found that the pulmonary lymphatic drainage was impaired owing to the damaged lymphatic structure in sepsis-induced ARDS...
November 16, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37971880/disruption-of-cfap418-interaction-with-lipids-causes-widespread-abnormal-membrane-associated-cellular-processes-in-retinal-degenerations
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Anna M Clark, Dongmei Yu, Grace Neiswanger, Daniel Zhu, Junhuang Zou, J Alan Maschek, Thomas Burgoyne, Jun Yang
Syndromic ciliopathies and retinal degenerations are large heterogeneous groups of genetic diseases. Pathogenic variants in the CFAP418 gene may cause both disorders, and its protein sequence is evolutionarily conserved. However, the disease mechanism underlying CFAP418 mutations has not been explored. Here, we apply quantitative lipidomic, proteomic, and phosphoproteomic profiling and affinity purification coupled with mass spectrometry to address the molecular function of CFAP418 in retinas. We show that CFAP418 protein binds to lipid metabolism precursor phosphatidic acid (PA) and mitochondrion-specific lipid cardiolipin but does not form a tight and static complex with proteins...
November 16, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37971878/spatial-transcriptomics-identifies-candidate-stromal-drivers-of-benign-prostatic-hyperplasia
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Anna S Pollack, Christian A Kunder, Noah Brazer, Zhewei Shen, Sushama Varma, Robert B West, Gerald R Cunha, Laurence S Baskin, James D Brooks, Jonathan R Pollack
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the nodular proliferation of the prostate transition zone in older men, leading to urinary storage and voiding problems that can be recalcitrant to therapy. Decades ago, John McNeal proposed that BPH originates with the "reawakening" of embryonic inductive activity by adult prostate stroma, which spurs new ductal proliferation and branching morphogenesis. Here, by laser microdissection and transcriptional profiling of the BPH stroma adjacent to hyperplastic branching ducts, we identified secreted factors likely mediating stromal induction of prostate glandular epithelium and coinciding processes...
November 16, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37971875/myc-driven-increases-in-mitochondrial-dna-copy-number-occur-early-and-persist-throughout-prostatic-cancer-progression
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Jiayu Chen, Qizhi Zheng, Jessica L Hicks, Levent Trabzonlu, Busra Ozbek, Tracy Jones, Ajay M Vaghasia, Tatianna C Larman, Rulin Wang, Mark C Markowski, Samuel R Denmeade, Kenneth J Pienta, Ralph H Hruban, Emmanuel S Antonarakis, Anuj Gupta, Chi V Dang, Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, Angelo M De Marzo
Increased mitochondrial function may render some cancers vulnerable to mitochondrial inhibitors. Since mitochondrial function is regulated partly by mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNAcn), accurate measurements of mtDNAcn could help reveal which cancers are driven by increased mitochondrial function and may be candidates for mitochondrial inhibition. However, prior studies have employed bulk macrodissections that fail to account for cell type-specific or tumor cell heterogeneity in mtDNAcn. These studies have often produced unclear results, particularly in prostate cancer...
November 16, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37962950/ghrelin-responsive-mediobasal-hypothalamic-neurons-mediate-exercise-associated-food-intake-and-exercise-endurance
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Omprakash Singh, Sean B Ogden, Salil Varshney, Kripa Shankar, Deepali Gupta, Subhojit Paul, Sherri Osborne-Lawrence, Corine P Richard, Nathan P Metzger, Connor Lawrence, Luis León-Mercado, Jeffrey M Zigman
Previous studies have implicated the orexigenic hormone ghrelin as a mediator of exercise endurance and the feeding response post-exercise. Specifically, plasma ghrelin levels nearly double in mice when they are submitted to an hour-long bout of high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) using treadmills. Also, GHSR (ghrelin receptor)-null mice exhibit decreased food intake following HIIE and a diminished running distance (time until exhaustion) during a longer, step-wise exercise endurance protocol. To investigate whether ghrelin-responsive mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) neurons mediate these effects, we stereotaxically delivered the inhibitory DREADD virus AAV2-hSyn-DIO-hM4(Gi)-mCherry to the MBH of Ghsr-IRES-Cre mice, which express Cre-recombinase directed by the Ghsr promoter...
November 14, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37943620/tmtc4-is-a-hair-cell-specific-human-deafness-gene
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Jiang Li, Byung Yoon Choi, Yasmin Eltawil, Noura Ismail Mohamad, Yesai Park, Ian R Matthews, Jin-Hee Han, Bong Jik Kim, Elliott H Sherr, Dylan K Chan
Transmembrane and tetratricopeptide repeat 4 (Tmtc4) is a recently described novel deafness gene in mice. Tmtc4-knockout mice have rapidly progressive postnatal hearing loss due to overactivation of the unfolded protein response (UPR); however, the cellular basis and human relevance of Tmtc4-associated hearing loss in the cochlea was not heretofore appreciated. We created a hair-cell-specific conditional knockout mouse that phenocopies the constitutive knockout with postnatal onset deafness, demonstrating that Tmtc4 is a hair-cell specific deafness gene...
November 9, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37943618/region-specific-wnt-signaling-responses-promote-gastric-polyp-formation-in-familial-adenomatous-polyposis-patients
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Kevin P McGowan, Elizabeth Delgado, Theresa M Keeley, Elise S Hibdon, Danielle Kim Turgeon, Elena M Stoffel, Linda C Samuelson
Germline APC mutation in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) patients promotes gastrointestinal polyposis, including the formation of frequent gastric fundic gland polyps (FGPs). In this study, we investigated how dysregulated Wnt signaling promotes FGPs and why they localize to the corpus region of the stomach. We developed a biobank of FGP and surrounding non-polyp corpus biopsies and organoids from FAP patients for comparative studies. Polyp biopsies and polyp-derived organoids exhibited enhanced Wnt target gene expression...
November 9, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37943614/hnf1%C3%AE-maintains-pancreatic-%C3%AE-and-%C3%AE-cell-functions-in-primary-human-islets
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Mollie F Qian, Romina J Bevacqua, Vy Mn Coykendall, Xiong Liu, Weichen Zhao, Charles A Chang, Xueying Gu, Xiao-Qing Dai, Patrick E MacDonald, Seung K Kim
HNF1A haploinsufficiency underlies the most common form of human monogenic diabetes (HNF1A-MODY) and hypomorphic HNF1A variants confer type 2 diabetes risk, but a lack of experimental systems for interrogating mature human islets has limited our understanding of how the transcription factor HNF1α regulates adult islet function. Here, we combined conditional genetic targeting in human islet cells, RNA sequencing, chromatin mapping with Cleavage Under Targets & Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN), and transplantation-based assays to determine HNF1α-regulated mechanisms in adult human pancreatic α and β cells...
November 9, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37943605/fgf23-directly-inhibits-osteoprogenitor-differentiation-in-dmp1-knockout-mice
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Guillaume Courbon, Dominik Kentrup, Jane Joy Thomas, Xueyan Wang, Hao-Hsuan Tsai, Jadeah J Spindler, John Von Drasek, Laura Mazudie Ndjonko, Marta Martinez-Calle, Sana Lynch, Lauriane Hivert, Xiaofang Wang, Wenhan Chang, Jian Q Feng, Valentin David, Aline Martin
Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) is a phosphate (Pi)-regulating hormone produced by bone. Hereditary hypophosphatemic disorders are associated with FGF23 excess, impaired skeletal growth and osteomalacia. Blocking FGF23 became an effective therapeutic strategy in X-linked hypophosphatemia, but testing remains limited in autosomal recessive hypophosphatemic rickets (ARHR). This study investigates the effects of Pi repletion and bone specific deletion of Fgf23 on bone and mineral metabolism in the Dmp1 knockout (Dmp1KO) mouse model of ARHR...
November 9, 2023: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37934865/validation-of-a-murine-proteome-wide-phage-display-library-for-identification-of-autoantibody-specificities
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Elze Rackaityte, Irina Proekt, Haleigh S Miller, Akshaya Ramesh, Jeremy F Brooks, Andrew F Kung, Caleigh Mandel-Brehm, David Jl Yu, Colin R Zamecnik, Rebecca Bair, Sara E Vazquez, Sara Sunshine, Clare L Abram, Clifford A Lowell, Gabrielle Rizzuto, Michael R Wilson, Julie Zikherman, Mark S Anderson, Joseph L DeRisi
Autoimmunity is characterized by loss of tolerance to tissue-specific as well as systemic antigens, resulting in complex autoantibody landscapes. Here, we introduce and extensively validate the performance characteristics of a murine proteome-wide library for phage display immunoprecipitation and sequencing (PhIP-seq), to profile mouse autoantibodies. This library was validated using seven genetic mouse lines across a spectrum of autoreactivity. Mice deficient in antibody production (Rag2-/- and µMT) were used to model non-specific peptide enrichments, while cross-reactivity was evaluated using anti-ovalbumin B cell receptor (BCR)-restricted OB1 mice as a proof of principle...
November 7, 2023: JCI Insight
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