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10.1126/science.1205405
83,307,251
Phosphorylation of an autophagy receptor restricts pathogenic cytosolic bacterial growth.
10.1038/nrm.2016.74
Describes the role of TBK1-mediated phosphorylation of OPTN. This modification enhances the affinity of OPTN for LC3, showing the phosphoregulation of the LIR in OPTN.
10.1126/science.1108190
82,938,903
Transgenerational effects of environmental toxins require either a chromosomal or epigenetic alteration in the germ line. Transient exposure of a gestating female rat during the period of gonadal sex determination to the endocrine disruptors vinclozolin (an antiandrogenic compound) or methoxychlor (an estrogenic compou...
10.1038/nmeth.4181
First demonstration in rat that environmentally induced phenotypes can be passed across multiple generations and likely involve the germline epigenome.
10.1182/blood-2007-01-069195
103,663,871
Abstract The triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (TREM-1) plays an important role in the innate immune response related to severe infections and sepsis. Modulation of TREM-1–associated activation improves the outcome in rodent models for pneumonia and sepsis. However, the identity and occurrence of the nat...
10.1038/nri2956
In this article, the authors demonstrated that platelets express the ligand for TREM1, and showed that the binding of this molecule to neutrophil TREM1 augments LPS-induced neutrophil activation, and ultimately the innate inflammatory response.
10.1126/science.1166296
101,031,479
Platelets play a critical role in the pathogenesis of malarial infections by encouraging the sequestration of infected red blood cells within the cerebral vasculature. But platelets also have well-established roles in innate protection against microbial infections. We found that purified human platelets killed Plasmodi...
10.1038/nri2956
This elegant study demonstrated that platelets can kill parasites in vitro and in mice, and found that platelet-deficient mice are more likely to die from malaria than mice with normal platelet counts. In addition, it showed that a single dose of aspirin may interfere with platelets sufficiently to prevent their killin...
10.1126/science.1181928
41,521,482
Platelet Microparticles Drive Inflammatory Arthritis Platelets are best known for their critical role in blood clot formation during wound repair, but an appreciation for their role in inflammatory processes is growing. Platelet-derived cellular microparticles (MPs) are small membrane vesicles released from platelets i...
10.1038/nri2956
This interesting study described an essential role for platelet-derived microparticles in the development of the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis, and identified the collagen receptor glycoprotein VI as a key stimulator of microparticle generation.
10.2337/diab.40.11.1397
82,835,785
Muscle and hepatic insulin resistance are two major defects of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Dietary factors may be important in the etiology of insulin resistance. We studied progressive changes in the development of high-fat–diet–induced insulin resistance in tissues of the adult male Wistar rat. In vivo i...
10.1038/nrendo.2017.56
This seminal study demonstrated that hepatic steatosis and hepatic insulin resistance are early pathological features of high-fat feeding in rats.
10.2337/diacare.29.04.06.dc05-1938
38,427,057
OBJECTIVE—The α2-Heremans-Schmid glycoprotein (AHSG; fetuin-A in animals) impairs insulin signaling in vitro and in rodents. Whether AHSG is associated with insulin resistance in humans is under investigation. In an animal model of diet-induced obesity that is commonly associated with hepatic steatosis, an increase in ...
10.1038/nrendo.2017.56
This paper described the discovery of fetuin A as a liver-secreted protein that is increased with steatosis and diabetes mellitus, consistent with a potential role of fetuin A as a link between fatty liver and insulin resistance.
10.1084/jem.193.1.1
20,705,077
Thymic selection depends on positive and negative selective mechanisms based on the avidity of T cell interaction with antigen–major histocompatibility complex complexes. However, peripheral mechanisms for the recruitment and clonal expansion of the responding T cell repertoire remain obscure. Here we provide evidence ...
10.1038/nri842
Clear evidence for the deletion of self-reactive T cells that express high-affinity TCRs during an in vivo immune response.
10.1084/jem.187.12.2055
106,921,416
To study the contribution of endogenous myelin basic protein (MBP) to the positive and/or negative selection of the MBP-specific T cell repertoire, we studied the T cell response to MBP in MBP-deficient shiverer and MBP-expressing congenic C3H mice. Immunization with MBP induced a vigorous T cell response in shiverer m...
10.1038/nri842
References 24 and 25 show that high-avidity MBP-reactive T cells are present in MBP-deficient mice.
10.1084/jem.191.5.761
121,831,116
The autoreactive T cells that escape central tolerance and form the peripheral self-reactive repertoire determine both susceptibility to autoimmune disease and the epitope dominance of a specific autoantigen. SJL (H-2s) mice are highly susceptible to the induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) with...
10.1038/nri842
Lack of autoantigen in the thymus allows a high frequency of PLP-reactive T cells to reach the periphery.
10.4049/jimmunol.167.4.2030
17,575,962
Abstract The in vivo T cell response to persistent Ag contains a hyporesponsive phase following an initial expansion and subsequent partial deletion of the responding cells. The mechanism(s) responsible for this tolerance process is poorly understood. In this study, we describe a new paired transgenic model (TCR and Ag...
10.1038/nri842
This study shows that encounter with self-antigen tunes T-cell-activation thresholds in the periphery.
10.1084/jem.192.12.1719
106,934,883
We recently described a novel way to isolate populations of antigen-reactive CD4+ T cells with a wide range of reactivity to a specific antigen, using immunization with a fixed dose of nominal antigen and FACS® sorting by CD4high expression. Phenotypic, FACS®, functional, antibody inhibition, and major histocompatibili...
10.1038/nri842
This paper describes the selection of moderate-affinity TCRs during an immune response.
10.1073/pnas.96.17.9781
83,184,135
Multimeric peptide/class II MHC staining reagents were synthesized and shown to bind with appropriate specificity to T cell hybridomas. A small, expanded population of T cells detected with one of these reagents in peptide-immunized C57BL/10 mice persisted for several months. This population expanded further on seconda...
10.1038/nri842
The loss of high-affinity TCRs can be caused by high antigen doses in vivo and in vitro
10.1126/science.1150473
102,315,334
Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print—scientists and scholars tend to search electronically and follow hyperlinks rather than browse or peruse—electronically available journals may po...
10.1038/nrd2973
A much discussed study showing that online publishing, and the ease of following hyperlinks, tends to channel researchers towards a narrower and more recent set of publications, with a possible loss of diversity and historical perspective.
10.1063/1.3524521
20,257,555
We demonstrate over 1×1010 open-loop switching cycles from a simple memristive device stack of Pt/TaOx/Ta. We compare this system to a similar device stack based on titanium oxides to obtain insight into the solid-state thermodynamic and kinetic factors that influence endurance in metal-oxide memristors.
10.1038/nnano.2012.240
This article first proposed memristive material selection criteria for high endurance and low variability.
10.1073/pnas.94.1.59
122,153,708
The SELEX method and oligonucleotide combinatorial chemistry discovery process yields high-affinity/high-specificity ligands for virtually any molecular target. Typically, the enormous starting libraries used in the SELEX process contain 10 14 –10 15 sequences. We now ask if the smaller sequences, complexity of extant ...
10.1038/nrm1403
Although unpublished speculation that riboswitches might exist had been ongoing for several years, this is an early publication that briefly mentions the possibility.
10.1261/rna.5090103
19,278,587
Genetic control by metabolite-binding mRNAs is widespread in prokaryotes. These riboswitches are typically located in noncoding regions of mRNA, where they selectively bind their target compound and subsequently modulate gene expression. We have identified mRNA elements in fungi and in plants that match the consensus s...
10.1038/nrm1403
Demonstration that some eukaryotic mRNAs carry metabolite-binding domains that are probably components of riboswitches.
10.1126/science.7510417
83,102,910
Species of RNA that bind with high affinity and specificity to the bronchodilator theophylline were identified by selection from an oligonucleotide library. One RNA molecule binds to theophylline with a dissociation constant K d of 0.1 μM. This binding affinity is 10,000-fold greater than the RNA molecule's affinity fo...
10.1038/nrm1403
An early demonstration of the molecular recognition power of RNA aptamers.
10.1084/jem.186.1.65
39,298,387
Class I–restricted presentation is usually associated with cytoplasmic degradation of cellular proteins and is often considered inaccessible to exogenous antigens. Nonetheless, certain exogenous elements can gain entry into this so-called endogenous pathway by a mechanism termed cross-presentation. This is known to be ...
10.1038/nri.2015.10
References 22 and 23 are the first reports to show that CD4 + T cell help during the primary response is mediated through CD40 signalling on the antigen-presenting cell.
10.1126/science.1227049
123,324,230
Treg-ulating Immune Responses There are many checks and balances to keep the immune system from running amok. One of the most critical is a specialized population of T cells, called regulatory T cells (T regs ). In their absence, a lethal autoimmune disease develops in both humans and mice. Although T regs are well kno...
10.1038/nri.2015.10
This was the first study to describe a role for T Reg cells in promoting CD8 + T cell memory.
10.1126/science.1172815
27,019,526
Controlling Chronic Viral Infections Chronic viral infections such as HIV and hepatitis B and C viruses are major public health concerns. T cell—mediated immune responses are critical for controlling viral infections. In contrast to acute infections, chronic viral infections are characterized by “exhausted” cytotoxic C...
10.1038/nri.2015.10
Collectively, references 100–102 are the first reports to show that IL-21 is crucial for maintaining CD8 + T cell functionality and mediating viral control during chronic infection.
10.1126/science.1074192
4,697,166
Transgenic mice expressing a stabilized β-catenin in neural precursors develop enlarged brains with increased cerebral cortical surface area and folds resembling sulci and gyri of higher mammals. Brains from transgenic animals have enlarged lateral ventricles lined with neuroepithelial precursor cells, reflecting an ex...
10.1038/nrd4233
This article highlights the importance of β-catenin in neuronal stem cells and neuronal development.
10.1073/pnas.0504600102
83,081,425
Wnt/β-catenin signaling has been shown to promote self-renewal in a variety of tissue stem cells, including neuronal stem cells and hematopoietic stem cells. However, activation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway promoted and inhibition of the pathway prevented differentiation of neuronal precursor cells. A clear explanation...
10.1038/nrd4233
This is the first publication that describes the model for differential usage of coactivators in WNT–β-catenin signalling to explain the divergent outcomes — that is, proliferation versus differentiation via activation of the WNT signalling cascade.
10.1073/pnas.1001520107
60,835,949
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)/usual interstitial pneumonia is a ravaging condition of progressive lung scarring and destruction. Anti-inflammatory therapies including corticosteroids have limited efficacy in this ultimately fatal disorder. An important unmet need is to identify new agents that interact with key m...
10.1038/nrd4233
This study first demonstrates that idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis may be pharmacologically reversible via modulation of WNT–β-catenin signalling.
10.1126/science.1144090
83,352,175
The regenerative potential of skeletal muscle declines with age, and this impairment is associated with an increase in tissue fibrosis. We show that muscle stem cells (satellite cells) from aged mice tend to convert from a myogenic to a fibrogenic lineage as they begin to proliferate and that this conversion is mediate...
10.1038/nrd4233
References 170–172 demonstrate that increased WNT signalling is associated with ageing.
10.5966/sctm.2011-0033
60,206,781
Abstract An optimal culture system for human pluripotent stem cells should be fully defined and free of animal components. To date, most xeno-free culture systems require human feeder cells and/or highly complicated culture media that contain activators of the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and transforming growth fact...
10.1038/nrd4233
References 196 and 197 demonstrate that selective inhibition of WNT–β-catenin–p300 signalling maintains both mouse and human stem cell pluripotency.
10.1073/pnas.1120068109
104,277,587
The Wnt/β-catenin pathway, which signals through the Frizzled (Fzd) receptor family and several coreceptors, has long been implicated in cancer. Here we demonstrate a therapeutic approach to targeting the Wnt pathway with a monoclonal antibody, OMP-18R5. This antibody, initially identified by binding to Frizzled 7, int...
10.1038/nrd4233
This manuscript describes preclinical studies utilizing the monoclonal antibody OMP-18R5, which is currently in Phase I clinical trials.
10.1073/pnas.0404875101
62,247,509
Inherited and somatic mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli occur in most colon cancers, leading to activation of β-catenin-responsive genes. To identify small molecule antagonists of this pathway, we challenged transformed colorectal cells with a secondary structure-templated chemical library, looking for compou...
10.1038/nrd4233
This study and subsequent studies utilizing specific small-molecule CBP antagonists (including those detailed in references 252 and 253) provided the rationale for the clinical development of the second-generation CBP–catenin antagonist PRI-724, which is currently in Phase I/II clinical trials.
10.4155/fmc.11.126
61,224,958
The decision for a stem cell to undergo a symmetric versus an asymmetric differentiation is probably the most critical cellular decision process in adults, as it probably underlies a large array of diseases, is associated with a decrease in tissue maintenance/homeostasis and the ability to repair properly, may mediate ...
10.1038/nrd4233
This article outlines the mechanism whereby selective CBP–catenin antagonists can safely eliminate cancer stem cells via forced differentiation without having deleterious effects on the normal somatic stem cell populations.
10.1073/pnas.1314239110
83,440,706
Significance Targeting the Wnt pathway in cancer is an attractive therapeutic approach. However, success has been limited because of the lack of effective therapeutic agents and the lack of biomarkers to define the patient population that would benefit from such a therapy. Herein, we report the discovery of LGK974, a d...
10.1038/nrd4233
This study describes the discovery of the small-molecule Porcupine inhibitor LGK974, which is currently in Phase I clinical trials.
10.1146/annurev.immunol.21.120601.141049
122,702,683
Large DNA viruses defend against hostile assault executed by the host immune system by producing an array of gene products that systematically sabotage key components of the inflammatory response. Poxviruses target many of the primary mediators of innate immunity including interferons, tumor necrosis factors, interleuk...
10.1038/nrmicro1099
Summarizes the known immunomodulator and host-range gene families found in poxviruses, and documents the members that can be encoded by different poxviruses.
10.1128/jvi.62.4.1297-1304.1988
81,244,425
Cowpox virus, in contrast to vaccinia virus, can multiply in Chinese hamster ovary cells. To study the genetic basis for this difference in host range, recombinants between vaccinia and cowpox viruses were isolated and their DNA restriction patterns were examined. The ability to multiply in Chinese hamster ovary cells ...
10.1038/nrmicro1099
Another classic paper showing that a specific gene, CHOhr (or CP77), is required for the replication of cowpox virus in CHO cells.
10.1073/pnas.0402949101
103,803,924
Ectromelia virus (ECTV), a natural mouse pathogen and an orthopoxvirus, has been used to investigate the correlation between polarized type 1 or type 2 immune responses and resistance to disease in poxvirus infections by using well defined resistant and susceptible mouse strains. Our data show that distinct differences...
10.1038/nrmicro1099
Provides a useful up-to-date summation of what is known about the importance of T H -polarized responses in determining whether a given poxvirus infection will cause pathology or resolve.
10.4049/jimmunol.161.10.5133
139,034,847
Abstract To evaluate tumor immunotherapies, we used transgenic mice that harbor a progressive liver tumor associated with the expression of the SV40 large tumor T oncoprotein (SV40-T). To induce “self” tumor Ag-specific CD8+ T cells, mice were injected with an immunodominant SV40-T CTL epitope mixed with a heterologous...
10.1038/nri841
A mouse model system that graphically illustrates the consequences of self-tolerance on tumour immunity and the effectiveness of adoptive therapies.
10.1126/science.288.5466.669
83,484,463
Severe combined immunodeficiency–X1 (SCID-X1) is an X-linked inherited disorder characterized by an early block in T and natural killer (NK) lymphocyte differentiation. This block is caused by mutations of the gene encoding the γc cytokine receptor subunit of interleukin-2, -4, -7, -9, and -15 receptors, which particip...
10.1038/nri841
A description of the most successful human gene-therapy trial so far, which exemplifies the optimal conditions for gene therapy.
10.1126/science.274.5284.94
104,308,349
Identification and characterization of antigen-specific T lymphocytes during the course of an immune response is tedious and indirect. To address this problem, the peptide-major histocompatability complex (MHC) ligand for a given population of T cells was multimerized to make soluble peptide-MHC tetramers. Tetramers of...
10.1038/nri841
A landmark paper that describes how fluorescently labelled multivalent MHC molecules can be used to visualize antigen-specific T cells.
10.1182/blood-2005-11-013458
29,333,078
Abstract To better define the molecular basis of multiple myeloma (MM), we performed unsupervised hierarchic clustering of mRNA expression profiles in CD138-enriched plasma cells from 414 newly diagnosed patients who went on to receive high-dose therapy and tandem stem cell transplants. Seven disease subtypes were vali...
10.1038/nrc2189
This work provides a new classification of patients with multiple myeloma based on a comprehensive expression analysis of 414 newly diagnosed patients.
10.1073/pnas.93.24.13931
80,097,515
In multiple myeloma, karyotypic 14q32 translocations have been identified at a variable frequency (10–60% in different studies). In the majority of cases, the partner chromosome has not been identified (14q+), and in the remaining cases, a diverse array of chromosomal partners has been implicated, with 11q13 being the ...
10.1038/nrc2189
A landmark paper reporting the first description of frequent translocations into the IgH switch regions in multiple myeloma.
10.1182/blood-2005-01-0034
19,990,940
Two oncogenic pathways have been hypothesized for multiple myeloma (MM) and premalignant monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) tumors: a nonhyperdiploid pathway associated with a high prevalence of IgH translocations and a hyperdiploid pathway associated with multiple trisomies of 8 chromosomes. Cyc...
10.1038/nrc2189
This work provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of cyclin dysregulation in multiple myeloma, and proposes a multiple myeloma classification, the TC (translocation/cyclin D) classification, based on translocations and associated dysregulation of specific cyclins.
10.1182/blood.v93.5.1658.405a19_1658_1667
100,072,020
Integrin-mediated adhesion influences cell survival and may prevent programmed cell death. Little is known about how drug-sensitive tumor cell lines survive initial exposures to cytotoxic drugs and eventually select for drug-resistant populations. Factors that allow for cell survival following acute cytotoxic drug expo...
10.1038/nrc2189
This work demonstrates the concept of CAMDR, which overcomes conventional treatment in multiple myeloma.
10.1182/blood.v87.3.1104.bloodjournal8731104
41,301,681
Adhesion of multiple myeloma (MM) cells to bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) not only localizes MM cells in the marrow microenvironment, but also triggers interleukin-6 (IL-6) secretion by BMSCs and related MM cell proliferation. In the present study, we characterized the regulation of IL-6 gene expression in BMSCs dur...
10.1038/nrc2189
This is the first study to demonstrate that transcription and secretion of IL6 from BMSCs are modulated by NFκB.
10.1242/dev.126.16.3617
62,560,505
In situ immunolocalization of tubulin revealed that important rearrangements occur during all the early symbiotic steps in the Medicago/R. meliloti symbiotic interaction. Microtubular cytoskeleton (MtC) reorganizations were observed in inner tissues, first in the pericycle and then in the inner cortex where the nodule ...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
The definitive microscopy study of plant cytological changes during infection thread formation.
10.1104/pp.103.021634
41,364,427
Abstract A critical step in establishing a successful nitrogen-fixing symbiosis between rhizobia and legume plants is the entrapment of the bacteria between root hair cell walls, usually in characteristic 180° to 360° curls, shepherd's crooks, which are formed by the host's root hairs. Purified bacterial signal molecul...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Demonstrated that Nod factor has a directional effect on root hair polar tip growth.
10.1104/pp.106.084657
29,299,793
Abstract Rhizobial Nod factors are key symbiotic signals responsible for starting the nodulation process in host legume plants. Of the six Medicago truncatula genes controlling a Nod factor signaling pathway, Nod Factor Perception (NFP) was reported as a candidate Nod factor receptor gene. Here, we provide further evid...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Cloned the NFP -encoded Nod factor receptor and demonstrated that it has a role in infection thread formation.
10.1126/science.1090074
104,248,234
The rhizobial infection of legumes has the most stringent demand toward Nod factor structure of all host responses, and therefore a specific Nod factor entry receptor has been proposed. The SYM2 gene identified in certain ecotypes of pea ( Pisum sativum ) is a good candidate for such an entry receptor. We exploited the...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Identified and cloned the MtLYK3 and MtLYK4 Nod factor receptors.
10.1101/gad.2.6.677
17,708,430
To help dissect the molecular basis of the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis, we used in vitro translation and Northern blot analysis of nodule RNA to examine alfalfa-specific genes (nodulins) expressed in two types of developmentally defective root nodules elicited by Rhizobium meliloti. Fix- nodules were elicited by R. meli...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
First demonstrated that cyclic- β -glucan mutants and exopolysaccharide mutants of S. meliloti lack infection threads.
10.1128/jb.180.19.5183-5191.1998
84,497,134
ABSTRACT Rhizobium meliloti Rm1021 must be able to synthesize succinoglycan in order to invade successfully the nodules which it elicits on alfalfa and to establish an effective nitrogen-fixing symbiosis. Using R. meliloti cells that express green fluorescent protein (GFP), we have examined the nature of the symbiotic ...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Showed that succinoglycan must be succinylated and acetylated to efficiently facilitate infection thread formation.
10.1104/pp.103.031518
17,679,977
Abstract In the Medicago truncatula/Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiosis, the plant undergoes a series of developmental changes simultaneously, creating a root nodule and allowing bacterial entry and differentiation. Our studies of plant genes reveal novel transcriptional regulation during the establishment of the symbiosi...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Plant and rhizobial mutants arrested at different morphologically defined stages of symbiotic development are also arrested in the ability to undergo symbiosis-specific transcriptional changes.
10.1073/pnas.0600912103
19,848,890
Symbiosis between legumes and Rhizobium bacteria leads to the formation of root nodules where bacteria in the infected plant cells are converted into nitrogen-fixing bacteroids. Nodules with a persistent meristem are indeterminate, whereas nodules without meristem are determinate. The symbiotic plant cells in both nodu...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Showed that plants that form indeterminate nodules impose a programme of genomic endoreduplication on the bacteria, whereas plants that form determinate nodules do not.
10.1073/pnas.0504284102
101,821,519
In most legume nodules, the N 2 -fixing rhizobia are present as organelle-like structures inside their host cells. These structures, named symbiosomes, contain one or a few rhizobia surrounded by a plant membrane. Symbiosome formation requires the release of bacteria from cell-wall-bound infection threads. In primitive...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Demonstrated that a Nod factor signalling intermediate DMI2 is required for symbiosome formation as well as early events in Nod factor signalling.
10.1128/jb.172.8.4295-4306.1990
17,679,008
Bacteroid differentiation was examined in developing and mature alfalfa nodules elicited by wild-type or Fix- mutant strains of Rhizobium meliloti. Ultrastructural studies of wild-type nodules distinguished five steps in bacteroid differentiation (types 1 to 5), each being restricted to a well-defined histological regi...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
The first observation of a plant defence response associated with failed infection threads.
10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01177.x
82,540,700
Summary DEAE‐cellulose chromatography of extracts of free‐living Rhizobium meliloti cells revealed separate NAD + ‐dependent and NADP + ‐dependent malic enzyme activities. The NAD + malic enzyme exhibited more activity with NAD + as cofactor, but also showed some activity with NADP + . The NADP + malic enzyme only show...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Showed that rhizobial malic enzyme is required for nitrogen fixation and proposed a model for carbon assimilation by bacteroids.
10.1104/pp.106.090985
42,511,149
Abstract In the establishment of symbiosis between Medicago truncatula and the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti, the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of the microsymbiont plays an important role as a signal molecule. It has been shown in cell cultures that the LPS is able to suppress an elicitor-induced oxidati...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Showed that the S. meliloti LPS suppresses short-term M. truncatula defence responses such as oxidative burst and longer-term defence responses requiring transcriptional changes.
10.1073/pnas.82.18.6231
17,706,151
By screening with the fluorescent stain Calcofluor, we have isolated 26 independent transposon Tn5 insertion mutants of Rhizobium meliloti that are deficient in the production of a known extracellular polysaccharide (Exo-). The mutants belonged to six distinct genetic groups based on the ability of their Exo- phenotype...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Demonstrated that succinoglycan is critical for successful infection thread formation.
10.1126/science.287.5462.2492
28,141,531
Brucella abortus , a mammalian pathogen, and Rhizobium meliloti , a phylogenetically related plant symbiont, establish chronic infections in their respective hosts. Here a highly conserved B. abortus homolog of the R. meliloti bacA gene, which encodes a putative cytoplasmic membrane transport protein required for symbi...
10.1038/nrmicro1705
Established that the bacA gene is required for survival of B. abortus within mammalian cells, as well as for survival of S. meliloti within plant cells.
10.1073/pnas.0530291100
104,385,636
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in United States women, accounting for >40,000 deaths each year. These breast tumors are comprised of phenotypically diverse populations of breast cancer cells. Using a model in which human breast cancer cells were grown in immunocompromised mice, we found that only a mino...
10.1038/nrc1232
Not all human breast cancer cells are equal in terms of their ability to form tumours in immunocompromised mice, and the tumorigenic subset of cells exhibits properties of cancer stem cells. The tumorigenic cell population represents a minority of cells within the tumours, but can be isolated from most of the patients ...
10.1073/pnas.252462599
40,044,343
Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is typically a disease of stem/progenitor cell origin. Interestingly, the leukemic stem cell (LSC) shares many characteristics with normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) including the ability to self-renew and a predominantly G 0 cell-cycle status. Thus, although conventional chemother...
10.1038/nrc1232
Shows that it is possible to identify therapeutic agents that kill leukaemic stem cells but not normal haematopoietic stem cells.
10.1126/science.1071489
123,158,111
Pharmacological inactivation of oncogenes is being investigated as a possible therapeutic strategy for cancer. One potential drawback is that cessation of such therapy may allow reactivation of the oncogene and tumor regrowth. We used a conditional transgenic mouse model for MYC -induced tumorigenesis to demonstrate th...
10.1038/nrc1232
Even a transient loss of MYC function can lead to an irreversible loss of neoplastic cells. This is consistent with the idea that MYC is required to maintain the state of cancer stem cells, much as it would be expected to be required for normal stem-cell self-renewal. So, targeting pathways that are required for mainte...
10.2307/1941034
102,451,616
The effects of both genotype and spatial position of host plants on density, proportion, and total community structure of herbivore species were experimentally tested for a guild of gall—forming sawflies on their host plant, the arroyo willow, Salix lasiolepis. Genetic differences among individually potted stem cutting...
10.1038/nrg1877
One of the first studies to examine how plant genotypes affect an arthropod herbivore community.
10.1073/pnas.150237597
83,306,093
Artificial selection has been practiced for centuries to shape the properties of individual organisms, providing Darwin with a powerful argument for his theory of natural selection. We show that the properties of whole ecosystems can also be shaped by artificial selection procedures. Ecosystems initiated in the laborat...
10.1038/nrg1877
The first study to demonstrate selection at the level of the ecosystem.
10.1126/science.2953071
20,678,540
Neoplastic transformation has been associated with a variety of structural changes in cell surface carbohydrates, most notably increased sialylation and β1-6-linked branching of complex-type asparagine (Asn)-linked oligosaccharides (that is, -GlcNAcβ1-6Manα1-6Manβ1-). However, little is known about the relevant glycopr...
10.1038/nrc3982
This study reported that increased expression of β1–6-linked branching oligosaccharide structures is directly related to the metastatic potential of the cells.
10.1073/pnas.92.19.8754
63,359,617
The beta 1-6 structure of N-linked oligosaccharides, formed by beta-1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GnT-V), is associated with metastatic potential. We established a highly metastatic subclone, B16-hm, from low metastatic B16-F1 murine melanoma cells. The gene encoding beta-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GnT...
10.1038/nrc3982
This article provides the first demonstration of the tumour-suppressive role of GnT-III.
10.1073/pnas.262438199
20,678,682
Human core 1 β3-galactosyltransferase (C1β3Gal-T) generates the core 1 O-glycan Galβ1-3GalNAcα1-Ser/Thr (T antigen), which is a precursor for many extended O-glycans in animal glycoproteins. We report here that C1β3Gal-T activity requires expression of a molecular chaperone designated Cosmc ( co re 1 β3-Gal-T- s pecifi...
10.1038/nrc3982
This study describes the role of the molecular chaperone C1GALT1C1 for activity of the core 1 β3-GalT.
10.1073/pnas.96.6.2805
83,422,063
The assembly of focal adhesions and actin stress fibers by cells plated on fibronectin depends on adhesion-mediated signals involving both integrins and cell-surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans. These two cell-surface receptors interact with different domains of fibronectin. To attempt to identify the heparan sulfate...
10.1038/nrc3982
This article describes how a proteoglycan cooperates with integrins interfering with focal adhesions and actin stress fibres.
10.1126/science.1235681
81,085,181
Glycosylation plays a key role in a wide range of biological processes. Specific modification to a glycan’s structure can directly modulate its biological function. Glycans are not only essential to glycoprotein folding, cellular homeostasis, and immune regulation but are involved in multiple disease conditions. An inc...
10.1038/nrc3982
Addresses the potential of glycans to be an important source for the development of novel targeted therapeutic strategies.
10.1073/pnas.95.20.12022
103,230,673
A class of high-affinity inhibitors is disclosed that selectively target and irreversibly inactivate the epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase through specific, covalent modification of a cysteine residue present in the ATP binding pocket. A series of experiments employing MS, molecular modeling, site-direct...
10.1038/nrd3410
This was the first example of targeted covalent inhibition of a kinase with detailed in vitro and in vivo characterization.
10.1083/jcb.200502053
83,250,455
Yeast actin patches are dynamic structures that form at the sites of cell growth and are thought to play a role in endocytosis. We used biochemical analysis and live cell imaging to investigate actin patch assembly in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Patch assembly proceeds via two parallel pathways: one depend...
10.1038/nrm1940
An important study of regulators of actin polymerization at endocytic sites in S. pombe
10.1091/mbc.e04-09-0774
83,395,408
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis in mammalian cells is critical for a variety of cellular processes including nutrient uptake and cell surface receptor down-regulation. Despite the findings that numerous endocytic accessory proteins directly or indirectly regulate actin dynamics and that actin assembly is spatially and te...
10.1038/nrm1940
This work showed a functional requirement for dynamic actin at endocytic sites in mammalian cells.
10.1083/jcb.200404173
62,278,454
Using FM4-64 to label endosomes and Abp1p-GFP or Sac6p-GFP to label actin patches, we find that (1) endosomes colocalize with actin patches as they assemble at the bud cortex; (2) endosomes colocalize with actin patches as they undergo linear, retrograde movement from buds toward mother cells; and (3) actin patches int...
10.1038/nrm1940
The visualization of endocytic vesicles in actin patches and their movement along actin cables using a lipid dye in S. cerevisiae
10.1242/jcs.02444
123,057,001
WASP and WAVE family proteins promote actin polymerization by stimulating Arp2/3-complex-dependent filament nucleation. Unlike WAVE proteins, which are known to drive the formation of protrusions such as lamellipodia and membrane ruffles, vertebrate cell functions of WASP or N-WASP are less well established. Recent wor...
10.1038/nrm1940
Showed a functional requirement for N-WASP in endocytic internalization in mammalian cells.
10.1126/science.1150255
20,809,315
Dietary vitamin A deficiency causes eye disease in 40 million children each year and places 140 to 250 million at risk for health disorders. Many children in sub-Saharan Africa subsist on maize-based diets. Maize displays considerable natural variation for carotenoid composition, including vitamin A precursors α-carote...
10.1038/nrg2342
This paper is an example of a successful study using combinational approaches, with association analysis, QTL mapping and chemical mutagenesis revealing that the variation at the lycE locus has major effects on carotenoid and provitamin A composition in maize grain.
10.1126/science.1113373
38,397,761
Most agriculturally important traits are regulated by genes known as quantitative trait loci (QTLs) derived from natural allelic variations. We here show that a QTL that increases grain productivity in rice, Gn1a , is a gene for cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (OsCKX2), an enzyme that degrades the phytohormone cytokini...
10.1038/nrg2342
This paper provides evidence that levels of the phytohormone cytokinin in the inflorescence affect the branching pattern of the panicle, and thus the grain yield, of rice. A QTL pyramiding method in rice is also demonstrated.
10.1073/pnas.0707193104
80,330,814
Commercially improved crop performance under drought conditions has been challenging because of the complexity of the trait and the multitude of factors that influence yield. Here we report the results of a functional genomics approach that identified a transcription factor from the nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) family, AtNF...
10.1038/nrg2342
This paper reports a good example to show that the identification of a transcription factor in model plants can be applied for crop improvement in the field.
10.1104/pp.107.095992
17,747,361
Abstract The modification of an endogenous gene into a designed sequence by homologous recombination, termed gene targeting (GT), has broad implications for basic and applied research. Rice (Oryza sativa), with a sequenced genome of 389 Mb, is one of the most important crops and a model plant for cereals, and the singl...
10.1038/nrg2342
This report and previous studies by the same group have showed the advance in homologous recombination in rice.
10.1126/scisignal.aaa1796
29,313,986
The human pathogen Salmonella senses ʟ-arginine and responds by increasing c-di-GMP and cellulose synthesis.
10.1038/nrmicro.2016.190
This study applies a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensor for c-di-GMP to identify l-arginine as a signal that activates a DGC and leads to biofilm formation.
10.1038/ncomms12481
103,788,317
Abstract C-di-GMP is a bacterial second messenger regulating various cellular functions. Many bacteria contain c-di-GMP-metabolizing enzymes but lack known c-di-GMP receptors. Recently, two MshE-type ATPases associated with bacterial type II secretion system and type IV pilus formation were shown to specifically bind c...
10.1038/nrmicro.2016.190
By elucidating the structure of the N-terminal domain of the MshE ATPase bound to c-di-GMP, this study defines a large and widespread new family of c-di-GMP-binding proteins.
10.1101/gad.222679.113
124,216,523
Eukaryotic morphogenesis is seeded with the establishment and subsequent amplification of polarity cues at key times during the cell cycle, often using (cyclic) nucleotide signals. We discovered that flagellum de- and repolarization in the model prokaryote Caulobacter crescentus is precisely orchestrated through at lea...
10.1038/nrmicro.2016.190
This study demonstrates how oscillations of c-di-GMP contribute to flagellar polarity in a simple polarized bacterium.
10.1111/j.1399-0004.2006.00708.x
45,453,531
Evidence from many sources suggests that similar phenotypes are begotten by functionally related genes. This is most obvious in the case of genetically heterogeneous diseases such as Fanconi anemia, Bardet‐Biedl or Usher syndrome, where the various genes work together in a single biological module. Such modules can be ...
10.1038/nrg3253
This paper provides a motivation to use the guilt by association principle to identify novel disease causing genes
10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08471.x
82,799,582
The identification of genes involved in human hereditary diseases often requires the time‐consuming and expensive examination of a great number of possible candidate genes, since genome‐wide techniques such as linkage analysis and association studies frequently select many hundreds of ‘positional’ candidates. Even cons...
10.1038/nrg3253
This review focuses on the different data sources and the algorithms underlying the prioritization methods.
10.1093/bioinformatics/btq076
28,139,187
Abstract Motivation: Understanding the association between genetic diseases and their causal genes is an important problem concerning human health. With the recent influx of high-throughput data describing interactions between gene products, scientists have been provided a new avenue through which these associations ca...
10.1038/nrg3253
This is a recent review about predicting disease–gene associations using gene–protein networks and network-based algorithms.
10.1101/gr.117143.110
58,445,122
Whole exome sequencing has become a pivotal methodology for rapid and cost-effective detection of pathogenic variations in Mendelian disorders. A major challenge of this approach is determining the causative mutation from a substantial number of bystander variations that do not play any role in the disease etiology. Cu...
10.1038/nrg3253
This is a study in which traditional mapping methods, new sequencing tools and network analysis are combined to identify the causal mutation for a rare monogenic disease.
10.3762/bjnano.3.14
123,870,719
Contact electrochemical transfer of silver from a metal-film stamp (parallel process) or a metal-coated scanning probe (serial process) is demonstrated to allow site-selective metallization of monolayer template patterns of any desired shape and size created by constructive nanolithography. The precise nanoscale contro...
10.1038/nnano.2014.157
Comprehensive study of the use of oxidation scanning probe lithography to pattern organic monolayers and their use as templates for the deposition of metallic nanoparticles.
10.1126/science.270.5242.1639
63,224,083
Metal wires and metal-oxide-metal junctions were fabricated by anodic oxidation with the conducting tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM). The width of the wires and resistance of the junctions were controlled by real-time, in situ measurement of the device resistance during fabrication. Because the properties of nan...
10.1038/nnano.2014.157
One of the earliest applications of oxidation scanning probe lithography to fabricate nanoscale transistors.
10.1126/science.270.5240.1354
42,588,809
A yeast two-hybrid system was used to identify a protein that interacts with and enhances the human progesterone receptor (hPR) transcriptional activity without altering the basal activity of the promoter. Because the protein stimulated transactivation of all the steroid receptors tested, it has been termed steroid rec...
10.1038/nrc2695
This article identified SRC1 as the first steroid receptor co-activator.
10.1126/science.277.5328.965
82,807,486
Members of the recently recognized SRC-1 family of transcriptional coactivators interact with steroid hormone receptors to enhance ligand-dependent transcription. AIB1, a member of the SRC-1 family, was cloned during a search on the long arm of chromosome 20 for genes whose expression and copy number were elevated in h...
10.1038/nrc2695
This article first reported that SRC3 was amplified and overexpressed in breast cancer.
10.1073/pnas.0808703105
103,672,292
Steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) is a coactivator for nuclear hormone receptors such as estrogen and progesterone receptors and certain other transcription factors such as Ets-2 and PEA3. SRC-1 expression in breast cancer is associated with HER2 and c-Myc expression and with reduced disease-free survival. In this...
10.1038/nrc2695
This article first reported that SRC1 deficiency strongly suppressed breast cancer metastasis in MMTV-PyMT mice by inhibiting ERBB2 and CSF1 expression.
10.1158/0008-5472.can-03-3745
38,590,762
Abstract Although the amplified in breast cancer 1 (AIB1) coactivator is amplified and overexpressed in breast cancers, its role in mammary carcinogenesis remains unknown. We demonstrate that during mammary development and tumorigenesis, the elevation of AIB1 level and its nuclear localization correlate with normal and...
10.1038/nrc2695
This article first demonstrated that SRC3 deficiency suppressed oncogene-induced mammary tumour initiation, growth and metastasis and inhibited the IGF1 signalling pathways by downregulating IGF1, IRS1 and IRS2.
10.1158/0008-5472.can-05-1179
109,414,523
Abstract Amplified in breast cancer 1 (AIB1; steroid receptor coactivator-3, p/CIP, RAC3, ACTR, TRAM-1, or NCoA-3) is a transcriptional coactivator for nuclear receptors and certain other transcription factors and is a newly defined oncogene overexpressed in human breast cancer. Although the role and molecular mechanis...
10.1038/nrc2695
This article demonstrated that SRC3 deficiency specifically protected mouse mammary gland from chemical carcinogen-induced tumorigenesis.
10.1158/0008-5472.can-06-3168
58,357,844
Abstract Although the amplified-in-breast cancer 1 (AIB1; SRC-3, ACTR, or NCoA3) was defined as a coactivator for androgen receptor (AR) by in vitro studies, its role in AR-mediated prostate development and prostate cancer remained unexplored. We report here that AIB1 is expressed in the basal and stromal cells but not...
10.1038/nrc2695
This article first reported that SRC3 deficiency in mice arrested spontaneous prostate cancer progression at a well-differentiated stage.
10.1126/science.279.5358.1922
101,890,845
The in vivo biological function of a steroid receptor coactivator was assessed in mice in which the SRC-1 gene was inactivated by gene targeting. Although in both sexes the homozygous mutants were viable and fertile, target organs such as uterus, prostate, testis, and mammary gland exhibited decreased growth and develo...
10.1038/nrc2695
This article first reported the phenotype of SRC1-knockout mice and demonstrated an important physiological role of the co-activator in vivo
10.1073/pnas.120166297
83,316,698
Steroid receptor coactivator-3 (SRC-3) is a coactivator of nuclear receptors in the SRC family as assayed in vitro . Here, we show that mouse SRC-3 is expressed in a tissue-specific fashion and distributed mainly in the oocytes, mammary glands, hippocampus, olfactory bulb, smooth muscle, hepatocytes, and vaginal epithe...
10.1038/nrc2695
This article first reported the phenotype of SRC3-knockout mice and demonstrated that SRC3 has an important role in growth and mammary gland development.
10.1189/jlb.0502261
44,907,381
Abstract Over most of the 20th century, immunotherapy for cancer was based on empiricism. Interesting phenomena were observed in the areas of cancer, infectious diseases, or transplantation. Inferences were made and extrapolated into new approaches for the treatment of cancer. If tumors regressed, the treatment approac...
10.1038/nri1592
A comprehensive and excellent review of the development of immunotherapy for cancer, including DC-based vaccination trials.
10.1146/annurev.immunol.21.120601.141040
123,169,333
▪ Abstract Dendritic cells (DCs) have several functions in innate and adaptive immunity. In addition, there is increasing evidence that DCs in situ induce antigen-specific unresponsiveness or tolerance in central lymphoid organs and in the periphery. In the thymus DCs generate tolerance by deleting self-reactive T cell...
10.1038/nri1592
An outstanding review that summarizes studies on tolerogenic DCs, written by the researchers who were the first to propose and show that DCs can induce immune tolerance.
10.2337/diab.14.10.619
20,705,586
1. Quantitative study of insular tissue has revealed that the number of B cells is greatly diminished in Patients with acute juvenile diabetes from the time of clinical onset of the disease. The number of these cells is as a rule less than 10 per cent of normal. Such B cells as are still present show the cytological si...
10.1038/nrdp.2017.16
This paper represents the hallmark investigation and rediscovery of insulitis in individuals who died shortly after the clinical diagnosis of T1DM.
10.2337/db13-0300
103,896,263
We analyzed demographic and genetic differences between children with various diabetes-associated autoantibodies reflecting the autoimmune process. In a prospective birth cohort comprising children with HLA-conferred susceptibility to type 1 diabetes (T1D), the pattern of autoantibody appearance was analyzed in 520 chi...
10.1038/nrdp.2017.16
This is the first investigation to dissect the temporal pattern of the first-appearing β-cell-targeting autoantibody as a biomarker of T1DM.
10.1111/apm.12023
60,656,265
Autoimmune and allergic diseases have become a major health problem in the Western world during past decades. The hygiene hypothesis suggests that decreased microbial exposure in childhood leads to increasing prevalence of these diseases. This review summarizes epidemiological evidence and current immunological knowled...
10.1038/nrdp.2017.16
Along with other studies by the same authors, this study demonstrates the importance of gene–environment interactions in the risk of developing both allergies and cell-specific autoimmune diseases such as T1DM.
10.2337/diabetes.51.5.1346
20,528,657
Age-dependent associations between type 1 diabetes risk genes HLA, INS VNTR, and CTLA-4 and autoantibodies to GAD65 (GADAs), ICA512/IA-2, insulin, and islet cells were determined by logistic regression analysis in 971 incident patients with type 1 diabetes and 702 control subjects aged 0–34 years. GADAs were associated...
10.1038/nrdp.2017.16
This major investigation of patients with newly diagnosed T1DM (1–34 years of age) demonstrates that the age-dependent onset of T1DM is strongly related to the presence of β-cell-targeting autoantibodies, which is associated with specific HLA-DR-DQ genotypes.
10.1084/jem.194.4.393
19,718,473
MHC class II (MHCII) molecules play a pivotal role in the induction and regulation of immune responses. The transcriptional coactivator class II transactivator (CIITA) controls MHCII expression. The CIITA gene is regulated by three independent promoters (pI, pIII, pIV). We have generated pIV knockout mice. These mice e...
10.1038/nri1708
This paper describes the generation of mice that lack pIV of the C2ta gene. It shows that this promoter is essential for driving IFN-γ-induced CIITA and MHC class II expression by non-haematopoietic cells but is dispensable for this function in macrophages.
10.1101/gad.14.9.1156
133,915,560
By virtue of its control over major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II) gene expression, CIITA represents a key molecule in the regulation of adaptive immune responses. It was first identified as a factor that is defective in MHC-II deficiency, a hereditary disease characterized by the absence of MHC-II expres...
10.1038/nri1708
This paper was the first to show that CIITA is physically recruited to the promoters of its target genes in vivo and in vitro through multiple protein–protein interactions with an enhanceosome complex formed by DNA-bound transcription factors.
10.1182/blood-2002-06-1855
84,454,429
Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHCII) expression is regulated by the transcriptional coactivator CIITA. Positive selection of CD4+ T cells is abrogated in mice lacking one of the promoters (pIV) of the Mhc2ta gene. This is entirely due to the absence of MHCII expression in thymic epithelia, as demonstrated ...
10.1038/nri1708
This paper shows that pIV of the C2ta gene is essential for driving positive selection of CD4 + T cells, because it is required for the induction of CIITA and MHC class II expression in TECs.