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T Shiosaka

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PubMed1975

Intracellular distribution of various enzymes concerned with DNA synthesis from normal and regenerating rat liver, and Yoshida sarcoma.

During the fractionation of various enzymes concerned with DNA synthesis from the postmicrosomal supernatant fraction of various tissues, DNA polymerace [EC 2.7.7.7], thymidine kinase [EC 2.7.1.75], dTMP kinase [EC 2.7.4.9], deoxycytidine kinase [EC 2.7.1.74], and deoxycytidine monophosphokinase (dCMP kinase) [EC 2.7.4.14] were found in the pellet fraction of postmicrosomal supernatant. Further, the uridine kinase [EC 2.7.1.48] and aspartate transcarbamylase [EC 2.1.3.2] activities of postmicrosomal supernatant from various tissues were also present in this pellet fraction. The activities of DNA polymerase, thymidine kinase, uridine kinase, and aspartate transcarbamylase from normal and regenerating rat liver, and Yoshida sarcoma were higher in the pellet fraction than in the supernatant. On the other hand, the activities of dTMP kinase, dCMP kinase, and orotidine-5'-phosphate decarboxylase [EC 4.1.1.23] were lower in the pellet fraction than in the supernatant. The pellet fractions of regenerating rat liver and Yoshida sarcoma showed a remarkable incorporation of various precursors (thymidine, dTMP, deoxycytidine, and dCMP) into DNA in the presence of a suitable DNA template, ATP and all four deoxynucleoside 5'-triphosphates for DNA synthesis. Normal adult rat liver catalyzed a much smaller incorporation of all these precursors, except for dCMP.

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Discrepancy between antiplatelet antibody activities detected by immunoblot procedure and platelet counts in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

By immunoblot procedure it is possible to identify the pathogenic autoantibody responsible for platelet destruction in idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). We assessed the relationship between antiplatelet antibody activities detected by this technique and clinical thrombocytopenia in a patient with ITP whose antiplatelet autoantibody was directed toward an 85-kDa antigen. In this patient, over a 2-year-period, the platelet counts were not correlated with the levels of antiplatelet autoantibody detected by immunoblotting. The present observations suggest that IgG autoantibody directed toward a specific antigen is not necessarily a critical determinant of the degree of thrombocytopenia, and that factors other than IgG-Fc-receptor-mediated platelet destruction are also important in the determination of the disease activity in ITP.

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Selective IgG2,4 subclass and IgE deficiencies in an adult patient with recurrent pneumonia.

A 28-year-old woman with recurrent pneumonia was found to have selective IgG2, 4 subclass and IgE deficiencies. She had a history of repeated episodes of otitis media and sinusitis in childhood. Her total immunoglobulin level was slightly below the normal range, and selective deficiencies of IgG2, 4 and IgE were found. Although lymphocyte responses to several mitogens were within the normal ranges, peripheral blood mononuclear cells produced only IgM when stimulated by Staphylococcus aureus Cowan 1 and interleukin-2. Gene deletion of the IgG2, 4 subclass was not found, but polymorphism of the IgG gene was detected by DNA analysis of the patient's lymphocytes.

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Expression of selected genes and oncogenes in differentiated HL-60 cells and primary cells from human leukemias.

cDNA clones complementary to mRNA of cells from patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) were used to examine quantitative changes in the mRNA levels of specific genes in human leukemia leukocytes. Twenty one CLL-positive clones that did not hybridize with placental mRNA were studied. These clones were significantly represented in the mRNA from leukemic leukocytes and were not represent in the mRNA from normal leukocytes. There was high level of expression of 7-2D gene in CLL and B lymphoma cells. RNA hybridizing with clone 7-3G was comparatively highly abundant in CCRF-CEM and EB virus transformed lymphoid cell, while clone 6-1E was highly represented in the mRNAs of Molt 3 and CCRF-CEM cells. The expression of three clones (6-1E, 7-3G and 9-5C) selected from a CLL cDNA library was studied by nucleic acid hybridization in human promyelocytic leukemia cell (HL-60) treated with chemical inducers of cell differentiation. The differentiation of HL-60 cells into macrophage-like cells upon induction by 12-o-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) was accompanied by rapid induction of the expression of 6-1E and 7-3G genes. The levels of expression of the 9-5C gene were not altered during macrophage-monocytic or granulocytic differentiation of HL-60 cells. The expression of the 6-1E and/or 7-3G gene was induced by TPA in four of 6 samples derived from patients who achieved complete remission, but not in any of the acute nonlymphocytic leukemia samples from patients who failed to achieve complete remission. These findings suggest that expression of the 6-1E and 7-3G genes is related to macrophage-monocytic differentiation and that alterations of these gene expressions in fresh leukemic cells after one hour of TPA treatment are of prognostic significance in predicting the response to treatment. The primary structure of a cDNA of a gene (6-1E) selectively expressed in CLL was determined. A computer search in the nucleotide sequence data bank did not identify this gene as any other gene. The 677 nucleotide mRNA is composed of a 384 nucleotide pol A tail. Moreover, the sequences of the other cDNA clones (1-6G, 5-2C,5-5G, 6-1G, 7-3G, 7-4A, 8-6G, and 9-5C) are not present in those of the data base of GenBank recorded up to 1988.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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