小児期におけるドーパミンの役割と動態

取得学位 : 博士（医学）, 学位授与番号 : 医博乙第1171号, 学位授与年月日：平成4年4月15日,学位授与年：199

Oxidative stress causes enhanced endothelial cell injury in human heme oxygenase-1 deficiency

金沢大学医薬保健研究域医学系The first known human case of heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) deficiency is presented in this report. The patient is a six-year-old boy with severe growth retardation. He has been suffering from persistent hemolytic anemia characterized by marked erythrocyte fragmentation and intravascular hemolysis, with paradoxical increase of serum haptoglobin and low bilirubin. An abnormal coagulation/fibrinolysis system, associated with elevated thrombomodulin and von Willebrand factor, indicated the presence of severe, persistent endothelial damage. Electron microscopy of renal glomeruli revealed detachment of endothelium, with subendothelial deposition of an unidentified material. Iron deposition was noted in renal and hepatic tissue. Immunohistochemistry of hepatic tissue and immunoblotting of a cadmium- stimulated Epstein-Barr virus-transformed lymphoblastoid cell line (LCL) revealed complete absence of HO-1 production. An LCL derived from the patient was extremely sensitive to hemin-induced cell injury. Sequence analysis of the patient\u27s HO-1 gene revealed complete loss of exon-2 of the maternal allele and a two-nucleotide deletion within exon3 of the paternal allele. Growth retardation, anemia, iron deposition, and vulnerability to stressful injury are all characteristics observed in recently described HO-1 targeted mice. This study presents not only the first human case of HO-1 deficiency but may also provide clues to the key roles played by this important enzyme in vivo

The whole blood transcriptional regulation landscape in 465 COVID-19 infected samples from Japan COVID-19 Task Force

「コロナ制圧タスクフォース」COVID-19患者由来の血液細胞における遺伝子発現の網羅的解析 --重症度に応じた遺伝子発現の変化には、ヒトゲノム配列の個人差が影響する--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2022-08-23.Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a recently-emerged infectious disease that has caused millions of deaths, where comprehensive understanding of disease mechanisms is still unestablished. In particular, studies of gene expression dynamics and regulation landscape in COVID-19 infected individuals are limited. Here, we report on a thorough analysis of whole blood RNA-seq data from 465 genotyped samples from the Japan COVID-19 Task Force, including 359 severe and 106 non-severe COVID-19 cases. We discover 1169 putative causal expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) including 34 possible colocalizations with biobank fine-mapping results of hematopoietic traits in a Japanese population, 1549 putative causal splice QTLs (sQTLs; e.g. two independent sQTLs at TOR1AIP1), as well as biologically interpretable trans-eQTL examples (e.g., REST and STING1), all fine-mapped at single variant resolution. We perform differential gene expression analysis to elucidate 198 genes with increased expression in severe COVID-19 cases and enriched for innate immune-related functions. Finally, we evaluate the limited but non-zero effect of COVID-19 phenotype on eQTL discovery, and highlight the presence of COVID-19 severity-interaction eQTLs (ieQTLs; e.g., CLEC4C and MYBL2). Our study provides a comprehensive catalog of whole blood regulatory variants in Japanese, as well as a reference for transcriptional landscapes in response to COVID-19 infection

DOCK2 is involved in the host genetics and biology of severe COVID-19

「コロナ制圧タスクフォース」COVID-19疾患感受性遺伝子DOCK2の重症化機序を解明 --アジア最大のバイオレポジトリーでCOVID-19の治療標的を発見--. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2022-08-10.Identifying the host genetic factors underlying severe COVID-19 is an emerging challenge. Here we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) involving 2, 393 cases of COVID-19 in a cohort of Japanese individuals collected during the initial waves of the pandemic, with 3, 289 unaffected controls. We identified a variant on chromosome 5 at 5q35 (rs60200309-A), close to the dedicator of cytokinesis 2 gene (DOCK2), which was associated with severe COVID-19 in patients less than 65 years of age. This risk allele was prevalent in East Asian individuals but rare in Europeans, highlighting the value of genome-wide association studies in non-European populations. RNA-sequencing analysis of 473 bulk peripheral blood samples identified decreased expression of DOCK2 associated with the risk allele in these younger patients. DOCK2 expression was suppressed in patients with severe cases of COVID-19. Single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis (n = 61 individuals) identified cell-type-specific downregulation of DOCK2 and a COVID-19-specific decreasing effect of the risk allele on DOCK2 expression in non-classical monocytes. Immunohistochemistry of lung specimens from patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia showed suppressed DOCK2 expression. Moreover, inhibition of DOCK2 function with CPYPP increased the severity of pneumonia in a Syrian hamster model of SARS-CoV-2 infection, characterized by weight loss, lung oedema, enhanced viral loads, impaired macrophage recruitment and dysregulated type I interferon responses. We conclude that DOCK2 has an important role in the host immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the development of severe COVID-19, and could be further explored as a potential biomarker and/or therapeutic target

Theoretical study of magnetic nanostructures on metallic surfaces

Neste trabalho, utilizamos o método de primeiros princípios RS-LMTOASA (Real Space - Linear Muffin-Tin Orbital - Atomic Sphere Approximation), baseado na Teoria do Funcional da Densidade (DFT Density Functional Theory) e implementado para o cálculo de estruturas magnéticas não colineares, para investigar as propriedades magnéticas de nanoestruturas adsorvidas em superfícies metálicas. Primeiramente, devido ao aparecimento de estruturas magnéticas complexas, foram estudadas nanoestruturas magnéticas depositadas em substratos ferromagnéticos. Foram consideradas nanoestruturas de Mn tais como nanofios adsorvidos, pirâmides e aglomerados adsorvidos e embebidos, com o tamanho destas nanoestruturas variando de dois até nove átomos depositados em Fe(001) e Fe(110). Nossos cálculos indicam uma interação de troca magnética de longo alcance entre os átomos de Mn-Mn e Mn-Fe. Além disto, a presença de uma forte dependência destas interações de troca magnética com o meio local, frustrações magnéticas e o acoplamento spin-órbita forneceram a possibilidade da presença de estruturas magnéticas complexas tais como, por exemplo, spin espiral e half-skyrmion. Por fim, com o objetivo de estudar nanoestruturas que podem apresentar altos valores de momento magnético, foram investigados nanofios de FexCo1-x adsorvidos em uma superfície de Pt(111) . Nossos resultados indicam que os momentos magnéticos de spin dos átomos de Fe e Co são independentes da concentração de Fe e apresentam valores superiores quando comparados aos das ligas FeCo bcc, enquanto que o momento magnético médio de spin do nanofio FexCo1-x varia linearmente com a concentração de Fe, comportamento este que é diferente da curva de Slater-Pauling observada na liga FeCo bcc. O momento magnético orbital médio do nanofio de FexCo1-x é monotonicamente decrescente com a concentração de Fe que se apresenta bastante diferente a monocamada FexCo1-x sobre Pt(111).We use the first principles RS-LMTO-ASA (Real Space - Linear Muffin- Tin Orbital - Atomic Sphere Approximation) method, in the framework of the Density Functional Theory and implemented to calculate noncollinear magnetic structures, to investigate the magnetic properties of nanostructures adsorbed on metallic surfaces. First, due to presence of the complex magnetic properties, we investigated magnetic nanostructures deposited on a ferromagnetic substrate. We have considered a variety of nanostructures such as adsorbed wires, pyramids, at and intermixed clusters with sizes varying from two to nine atoms deposited on Fe(001) and Fe(110). Our calculations reveal the long-range nature of exchange interactions between Mn-Mn and Mn-Fe atoms. Moreover, the presence of the strong dependence of these interactions on the local environment, the magnetic frustration, and the effect of spin-orbit coupling lead to the possibility of realizing complex noncollinear magnetic structures such as helical spin spiral and half-skyrmion. Finally, we also investigated FexCo1-x nanowires deposited on Pt(111) surface aiming to investigate materials with large local magnetic moment. Our results reveal that the Fe and Co spin magnetic moment are independent of the Fe concentration with the enhancement of the spin magnetic moment when compared with the FeCo bcc alloys, while the average spin magnetic moment is a linear function of the Fe concentration. This is in contrast to the Slater-Pauling model observed in the FeCo bcc alloys. The average orbital magnetic moment shows a linearly decreasing behavior with the Fe concentration which is in contrast to the behavior of FexCo1-x monolayer on Pt(111) surface