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Development and applications of baculoviral display techniques
2004
Kirsi Ojalan väitöskirjatyön tulokset antavat lisätietoa bakuloviruksen pinnan muokkauksesta ja viruksen soveltuvuudesta geeniterapiaan. Bakulovirukset voivat tulevaisuudessa olla varteenotettava vaihtoehto kohdennettavana geeninsiirtovälineenä esimerkiksi syövän tai sydän- ja verisuonitautien hoidossa.Tutkimus osoittaa, että bakuloviruksen pinnalla voidaan tehokkaasti ilmentää vieraita molekyylejä liittämällä ne osaksi viruksen luonnollisia pintaproteiineja. Mikäli viruksen pinnalla ilmennetään solupinnan molekyyleihin sitoutuva proteiini, useimmat muokatut virukset sitoutuvat haluttuihin nisäkässolutyyppeihin. Mahdollisten geeniterapiasovelluksien kannalta onkin tärkeää, että virus pystyt…
Development of biotechnological tools for studying infectious pathways of canine and human parvoviruses
2005
Leona Gilbertin väitöskirjatyö antaa uutta tietoa parvovirusten pinnanmuokkauksesta ja hyödyllisyydestä virologian, geeniterapian ja biolääketieteen sovelluksissa. Parvovirukset ovat pieniä, yksisäikeistä DNA:ta sisältäviä eläinviruksia, jotka kykenevät infektoimaan isäntänsä soluja. Ihmisillä ne aiheuttavat ihottumaa sekä nivelkipuja. Tutkimuksessa tuotettiin bakuloviruksen avulla hyönteissoluissa sekä koiran että ihmisen parvoviruksen rakenneproteiineista fluoresloivia fuusioproteiineja. Selvisi, että parvoviruksen pinta sopii hyvin muokkaamiseen ja vieraiden molekyylien ilmentämiseen. Lisäksi havaittiin, että bakuloviruksia voidaan käyttää geeninsiirtovälineenä mm. parvovirusproteiinien …
Avidin engineering : modification of function, oligomerization, stability and structure topology
2003
Avidiini on neljästä samanlaisesta alayksiköstä muodostunut tetrameerinen glykoproteiini, jota esiintyy luontaisesti, pieninä pitoisuuksina, kanan munanvalkuaisessa. Eräs avidiinin merkittävimmistä ominaisuuksista on sen kyky sitoa vitamiini biotiinia. Avidiinin ja biotiinin välinen vuorovaikutus on voimakkain tunnettu luonnossa esiintyvä ei-kovalenttinen sidos proteiinin ja sen ligandin välillä. Tätä ominaisuutta on hyödynnetty jo pitkään lukuisissa bio- ja lääketieteellisissä sovelluksissa, jotka yhdessä muodostavat niin kutsutun (strept)avidiini-biotiini -teknologian. Avidin is a basic and rather stable tetrameric glycoprotein found in chicken egg-white. It has an enormous affinity towar…
Long-term leisure-time physical activity vs. inactivity, physical fitness, body composition and metabolic health characteristics : a co-twin control …
2013
No Difference in Penetrance between Truncating and Missense/Aberrant Splicing Pathogenic Variants in MLH1 and MSH2: A Prospective Lynch Syndrome Data…
2021
Background. Lynch syndrome is the most common genetic predisposition for hereditary cancer. Carriers of pathogenic changes in mismatch repair (MMR) genes have an increased risk of developing colorectal (CRC), endometrial, ovarian, urinary tract, prostate, and other cancers, depending on which gene is malfunctioning. In Lynch syndrome, differences in cancer incidence (penetrance) according to the gene involved have led to the stratification of cancer surveillance. By contrast, any differences in penetrance determined by the type of pathogenic variant remain unknown. Objective. To determine cumulative incidences of cancer in carriers of truncating and missense or aberrant splicing pathogenic …
STAT5b is a key effector of NRG-1/ERBB4-mediated myocardial growth
2023
The growth factor Neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) regulates myocardial growth and is currently under clinical investigation as a treatment for heart failure. Here, we demonstrate in several in vitro and in vivo models that STAT5b mediates NRG-1/EBBB4-stimulated cardiomyocyte growth. Genetic and chemical disruption of the NRG-1/ERBB4 pathway reduces STAT5b activation and transcription of STAT5b target genes Igf1, Myc, and Cdkn1a in murine cardiomyocytes. Loss of Stat5b also ablates NRG-1-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. Dynamin-2 is shown to control the cell surface localization of ERBB4 and chemical inhibition of Dynamin-2 downregulates STAT5b activation and cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. In zebrafish e…
Studies of Nature of Uncommon Bifurcated I–I···(I–M) Metal-Involving Noncovalent Interaction in Palladium(II) and Platinum(II) Isocyanide Cocrystals
2021
Two isostructural trans-[MI2(CNXyl)2]·I2 (M = Pd or Pt; CNXyl = 2,6-dimethylphenyl isocyanide) metallopolymeric cocrystals containing uncommon bifurcated iodine···(metal–iodide) contact were obtained. In addition to classical halogen bonding, single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed a rare type of metal-involved stabilizing contact in both cocrystals. The nature of the noncovalent contact was studied computationally (via DFT, electrostatic surface potential, electron localization function, quantum theory of atoms in molecules, and noncovalent interactions plot methods). Studies confirmed that the I···I halogen bond is the strongest noncovalent interaction in the systems, followed …
Halogen bond preferences of thiocyanate ligand coordinated to Ru(II) via sulphur atom
2017
Halogen bonding between [Ru(bpy)(CO)2(S-SCN)2] (bpy = 2,2’-bipyridine), I2 was studied by co-crystallising the metal compound and diiodine from dichloromethane. The only observed crystalline product was found to be [Ru(bpy)(CO)2(S-SCN)2]⋅I2 with only one NCS⋅⋅⋅I2 halogen bond between I2 and the metal coordinated S atom of one of the thiocyanate ligand. The dangling nitrogen atoms were not involved in halogen bonding. However, computational analysis suggests that there are no major energetic differences between the NCS⋅⋅⋅I2 and SCN⋅⋅⋅I2 bonding modes. The reason for the observed NCS⋅⋅⋅I2 mode lies most probably in the more favourable packing effects rather than energetic preferences between …
Associations of IGF-1 and Adrenal Androgens with Cognition in Childhood
2019
Background: Little is known about the association between adrenarche and cognition in general populations of children. We therefore studied the associations of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), androstenedione (A4), testosterone, insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), and adrenarche with cognition among prepubertal children. Methods: These cross-sectional analyses are based on baseline data of the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children Study. A total of 387 children (183 girls, 204 boys) were included in the analyses. Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices (CPM) score was used to assess nonverbal reasoning. Serum adrenal androgens and IGF-1 concentrations were measured and clinical…