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Nephrotic Syndrome I : Introduction
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タンパク質ヒスティジン・フォスファタゼ (LHPP) は腫瘍抑制剤である
Sravanth K Hindupur1, Marco Colombi1, Stephen R Fuhs2
1Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
Nature
|March 22, 2018
まとめ
ヒスティジンの酸化は,十分に理解されていないタンパク質の改変であり,癌に作用する. ヒスティジン・フォスファタゼLHPPは腫瘍抑制剤として作用し,肝がん患者の低発現は生存率の低下を示しています.
科学分野:
- 生物化学
- 腫瘍学
- 分子生物学
背景:
- ヒスティジンのリン酸化は,翻訳後の修正が十分に研究されていない.
- 腫瘍形成におけるその役割はほとんど不明である.
- NME1とNME2は哺乳類のヒスティジンキナーゼとして知られている.
研究 の 目的:
- ヒスティジンリン酸化が肝細胞癌 (HCC) で果たす役割を調査する.
- 推定ヒスティジン・フォスファタゼ LHPP の機能を特徴づける.
- HCCにおけるLHPPの臨床的意義を決定する.
主な方法:
- mTOR駆動のHCCマウスモデルからの腫瘍のプロテオミック分析
- LHPPの発現と活動の評価
- LHPPが腫瘍負担と肝機能に及ぼすインビヴォの影響を評価する.
- LHPP発現と患者の腫瘍の重症度と生存率の相関分析
主要な成果:
- NME1とNME2ヒスティジンキナーゼは,HCC腫瘍において上調された.
- ヒスティジン・フォスファタゼLHPPは,HCC腫瘍においてダウンレギュレーションされた.
- 全球ヒスティジン酸化は肝臓腫瘍で上昇した.
- LHPPの発現は腫瘍の成長を抑制し,マウスモデルでは肝機能が保たれた.
- 人間のHCC患者におけるLHPP発現の低さは,腫瘍の重症度の上昇と生存率の低下と相関する.
結論:
- LHPPは機能性タンパク質ヒスティジンファスファターゼである.
- LHPPは肝細胞癌の腫瘍抑制剤として作用する.
- ヒスティジンの非調節型酸化は,HCCにおいて腫瘍性である.
- LHPPは肝がんの潜在的治療標的である.
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