Insight into the sequence-structure relationship of TLR cytoplasm’s Toll/Interleukin-1 receptor domain towards understanding the conserved functionality of TLR 2 heterodimer in mammals

Author(s):  
Soumya Kanti Ghosh ◽  
Bhaskar Saha ◽  
Raja Banerjee
2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 2765-2772
Author(s):  
Chengjun Liu ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
Yifan Meng ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Shiyan Jiao ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rawa Ibrahim ◽  
Aparna Gopal ◽  
Megan Fuller ◽  
Patricia Umlandt ◽  
Linda Chang ◽  
...  

AbstractActivation of inflammatory pathways is associated with bone marrow failure syndromes, but how specific molecules impact on the marrow microenvironment is not well elucidated. We report a novel role for the miR-145 target, Toll/Interleukin-1 receptor domain containing adaptor protein (TIRAP), in driving bone marrow failure. We show that TIRAP is overexpressed in various types of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and suppresses all three major hematopoietic lineages.. Constitutive expression of TIRAP in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSPC) promotes upregulation of Ifnγ, leading to bone marrow failure. Myelopoiesis is suppressed through Ifnγ-Ifnγr-mediated release of the alarmin, Hmgb1, which disrupts the marrow endothelial niche. Deletion of Ifnγ or Ifnγr blocks Hmgb1 release and is sufficient to reverse the endothelial defect and prevent myelosuppression. In contrast, megakaryocyte and erythroid production is repressed independently of the Ifnγ receptor. Contrary to current dogma, TIRAP-activated Ifnγ-driven marrow suppression is independent of T cell function or pyroptosis. In the absence of Ifnγ, TIRAP drives myeloproliferation, implicating Ifnγ in suppressing the transformation of bone marrow failure syndromes to myeloid malignancy. These findings reveal novel, non-canonical roles of TIRAP, Hmgb1 and Ifnγ function in the marrow microenvironment,and provide insight into the pathophysiology of preleukemic syndromes.Graphical Abstract: Model of proposed mechanism of TIRAP-induced BMFConstitutive TIRAP expression in marrow cells releases Ifnγ, which directly impacts on megakaryocyte and erythroid production, but indirectly suppresses myelopoiesis through the release of the alarmin, Hmgb1, which disrupts the marrow endothelial compartment.


2009 ◽  
Vol 256 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Benros ◽  
Alexandre G. de Brevern ◽  
Serge Hazout

Author(s):  
D. F. Blake ◽  
L. F. Allard ◽  
D. R. Peacor

Echinodermata is a phylum of marine invertebrates which has been extant since Cambrian time (c.a. 500 m.y. before the present). Modern examples of echinoderms include sea urchins, sea stars, and sea lilies (crinoids). The endoskeletons of echinoderms are composed of plates or ossicles (Fig. 1) which are with few exceptions, porous, single crystals of high-magnesian calcite. Despite their single crystal nature, fracture surfaces do not exhibit the near-perfect {10.4} cleavage characteristic of inorganic calcite. This paradoxical mix of biogenic and inorganic features has prompted much recent work on echinoderm skeletal crystallography. Furthermore, fossil echinoderm hard parts comprise a volumetrically significant portion of some marine limestones sequences. The ultrastructural and microchemical characterization of modern skeletal material should lend insight into: 1). The nature of the biogenic processes involved, for example, the relationship of Mg heterogeneity to morphological and structural features in modern echinoderm material, and 2). The nature of the diagenetic changes undergone by their ancient, fossilized counterparts. In this study, high resolution TEM (HRTEM), high voltage TEM (HVTEM), and STEM microanalysis are used to characterize tha ultrastructural and microchemical composition of skeletal elements of the modern crinoid Neocrinus blakei.


2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.


Author(s):  
Pawan Kumar Jayaswal ◽  
Asheesh Shanker ◽  
Nagendra Kumar Singh

Actin and tubulin are cytoskeleton proteins, which are important components of the celland are conserved across species. Despite their crucial significance in cell motility and cell division the distribution and phylogeny of actin and tubulin genes across taxa is poorly understood. Here we used publicly available genomic data of 49 model species of plants, animals, fungi and Protista for further understanding the distribution of these genes among diverse eukaryotic species using rice as reference. The highest numbers of rice actin and tubulin gene homologs were present in plants followed by animals, fungi and Protista species, whereas ten actin and nine tubulin genes were conserved in all 49 species. Phylogenetic analysis of 19 actin and 18 tubulin genes clustered them into four major groups each. One each of the actin and tubulin gene clusters was conserved across eukaryotic species. Species trees based on the conserved actin and tubulin genes showed evolutionary relationship of 49 different taxa clustered into plants, animals, fungi and Protista. This study provides a phylogenetic insight into the evolution of actin and tubulin genes in diverse eukaryotic species.


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