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Hitaru Kishida

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PubMed2005

Association study of the chemokine, CXC motif, ligand 1 (CXCL1) gene with sporadic Alzheimer's disease in a Japanese population.

Inflammation is profoundly involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative diseases. Chemokine, CXC motif, ligand 1 (CXCL1; or GRO1) is an inflammatory cytokine and appears to be implicated in the pathogenesis of AD. It is of interest and importance to see if the CXCL1 gene, mapped on chromosome 4q12-q13, has potential for conferring the predisposition to AD. Here we report on an association study of the CXCL1 gene with sporadic AD patients in a Japanese population; three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CXCL1 locus were investigated in 103 AD patients and 130 healthy individuals. The results indicate that neither genotype frequencies nor allele frequencies of the examined SNPs attained statistical significance even after being stratified by the presence or absence of the Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele. Therefore, the data presented here suggests that the CXCL1 gene could not be associated with the susceptibility to AD in a Japanese population.

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PubMed2004

Non-glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored recombinant prion protein with dominant-negative mutation inhibits PrPSc replication in vitro.

Dominant-negative mouse prion protein (PrP) with a lysine mutation at codon 218 (Q218K) is known to inhibit prion replication. In order to gain further mechanistic insight into such dominant negative inhibition, non-glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored recombinant PrP with Q218K (rPrP-Q218K) was investigated. When applied into scrapie-infected mouse neuroblastoma (ScN2a) cells, rPrP-Q218K but not wild-type rPrP (rPrP-WT) exclusively inhibited abnormal protease-resistant pathogenic isoform (PrPSc) replication without reducing the viability of the cells. It was even more efficient than quinacrine, which has already been prescribed for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) patients; 50% effective concentration (EC50) = 0.20 microM, 99% effective concentration (EC99) = 0.86 microM vs. EC50 = 0.45 microM, EC99 = 1.5 microM. Besides, no apparent cell damage was observed at the concentration of up to 4.3 microM (100 micrograms/ml). In combination treatment with 0.43 microM (10 micrograms/ml) of rPrP-Q218K, EC99 of quinacrine was decreased from 1.5 microM to 0.5 microM, and the cell viability was recovered from 50% to over 90% as inversely proportional to the concentration of quinacrine. Such combination could alleviate the side effects of quinacrine by reducing its effective concentration without changing or even acceleration the inhibition efficacy. Since homogeneous, high-quality rPrPs could be easily prepared from Escherichia coli in large quantities, rPrP-Q218K is a good candidate for a prion replication antagonist.

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PubMed2004

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PubMed2003

Lack of association between TrkA single nucleotide polymorphisms and sporadic Alzheimer's disease in a Japanese population.

Nerve growth factor and its receptor with tyrosine kinase activity (TrkA) have been implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Entire coding regions of TrkA gene harboring exons 1 through 17 were sequenced in 114 patients with sporadic AD and 112 control subjects in a Japanese population, and six known and two novel single nucleotide polymorphisms were identified, but no mutation associated with sporadic AD was identified. Concurrently, case-control analysis of TrkA gene A1674G polymorphism in 534 patients with sporadic AD and 454 control subjects has revealed no significant differences in TrkA genotype or allele frequencies even after stratification for Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 carrier statuses. Thus, the TrkA genotype does not appear to influence the risk of developing sporadic AD in a Japanese population.

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