scholarly journals Current Trends in Applications of Circulatory Microchimerism Detection in Transplantation

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (18) ◽  
pp. 4450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajnalka Andrikovics ◽  
Zoltán Őrfi ◽  
Nóra Meggyesi ◽  
András Bors ◽  
Lívia Varga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Solid Organ ◽  
Polymorphic Markers ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Minor Variant ◽  
High Sensitivity Detection

Primarily due to recent advances of detection techniques, microchimerism (the proportion of minor variant population is below 1%) has recently gained increasing attention in the field of transplantation. Availability of polymorphic markers, such as deletion insertion or single nucleotide polymorphisms along with a vast array of high sensitivity detection techniques, allow the accurate detection of small quantities of donor- or recipient-related materials. This diagnostic information can improve monitoring of allograft injuries in solid organ transplantations (SOT) as well as facilitate early detection of relapse in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). In the present review, genetic marker and detection platform options applicable for microchimerism detection are discussed. Furthermore, current results of relevant clinical studies in the context of microchimerism and SOT or allo-HSCT respectively are also summarized.

DNA Fingerprinting of Vegetable Soybean Cultivar ‘Zhexian No.9’ Using 101 New Developed HRM-Based SNP Markers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. J. Fu ◽  
J. X. Pei ◽  
Y. T. Zheng ◽  
D. D. Guo ◽  
Q. H. Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution Melting ◽  
Snp Markers ◽  
Soybean Cultivar ◽  
Polymorphic Markers ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Vegetable Soybean ◽  
Genomic Information ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Plant Genomes

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been proved to be powerful markers in genetic analysis due to their high abundance and polymorphism in plant genomes. The recently developed high-resolution melting (HRM) analysis method provides a novel, quick, and close-tube PCR approach to analyze SNP variations. In present study, 101 HRM-based SNP markers from 20 soybean chromosomes were developed for genotyping vegetable soybean cultivar ‘Zhexian No.9’ with ‘Williams 82’ as reference. 33.7% of these markers were polymorphic between ‘Zhexian No.9’ and ‘Williams 82’. Polymorphic markers were found on 85% (17 of 20) of the soybean chromosomes when comparing ‘Zhexian No.9’ and ‘Williams 82’. Finally, an array of 101 in-sequence nucleotide letters was generated as the first precise SNP fingerprint of ‘Zhexian No.9’. The described marker-developing methodology could be used in other crops with known genomic information.

scholarly journals Molecular Assay for Detection of Ciprofloxacin Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Isolates from Cultures and Clinical Nucleic Acid Amplification Test Specimens

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (11) ◽  
pp. 3606-3608 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. W. Peterson ◽  
I. Martin ◽  
W. Demczuk ◽  
A. Bharat ◽  
L. Hoang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nucleic Acid ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Nucleic Acid Amplification Test ◽  
Nucleic Acid Amplification ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Molecular Assay ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphism ◽  
Pcr Assay ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Ciprofloxacin Resistance

We developed a real-time PCR assay to detect single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with ciprofloxacin resistance in specimens submitted for nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT). All three single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) targets produced high sensitivity and specificity values. The presence of ≥2 SNPs was sufficient to predict ciprofloxacin resistance in an organism.

scholarly journals CMV Seropositive Status Increases Heparanase SNPs Regulatory Activity, Risk of Acute GVHD and Yield of CD34+ Cell Mobilization

Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 3489
Author(s):  
Olga Ostrovsky ◽  
Katia Beider ◽  
Yan Morgulis ◽  
Nira Bloom ◽  
Angel Cid-Arregui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Gvhd ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem ◽  
Viral Spread ◽  
Functional Snps ◽  
Healthy Donors ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Cell Mobilization ◽  
The Impact

Heparanase is an endo-β-glucuronidase that is best known for its pro-cancerous effects but is also implicated in the pathogenesis of various viruses. Activation of heparanase is a common strategy to increase viral spread and trigger the subsequent inflammatory cascade. Using a Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP)-associated approach we identified enhancer and insulator regions that regulate HPSE expression. Although a role for heparanase in viral infection has been noticed, the impact of HPSE functional SNPs has not been determined. We investigated the effect of cytomegalovirus (CMV) serostatus on the involvement of HPSE enhancer and insulator functional SNPs in the risk of acute graft versus host disease (GVHD) and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor related CD34+ mobilization. A significant correlation between the C alleles of insulator rs4364254 and rs4426765 and CMV seropositivity was found in healthy donors and patients with hematological malignancies. The risk of developing acute GVHD after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was identified only in CMV-seropositive patients. A significant correlation between the enhancer rs4693608 and insulator rs28649799 and CD34+ cell mobilization was demonstrated in the CMV-seropositive donors. It is thus conceivable that latent CMV infection modulates heparanase regulatory regions and enhances the effect of functional SNPs on heparanase function in normal and pathological processes.

scholarly journals The Association Between Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms of Co-Stimulatory Genes Within Non-HLA Region and the Prognosis of Leukemia Patients With Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ding-Ping Chen ◽  
Su-Wei Chang ◽  
Po-Nan Wang ◽  
Wei-Tzu Lin ◽  
Fang-Ping Hsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ◽  
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Stem Cell Transplantation ◽  
Cell Transplantation ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Nucleotide Polymorphisms ◽  
Single Nucleotide ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem

To avoid graft rejection, the hematopoietic stem cells with matched classical human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles are the primary choice for clinical allogeneic transplantation. However, even if the fully HLA-matched hematopoietic stem cells are used for transplantation, some patients still have poor prognosis after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), suggesting that the HLA system was not the only determinant of the outcomes of HSCT. In this study, we investigated whether the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the co-stimulatory genes within non-HLA regions were related to the outcomes of HSCT. The genomic DNAs of 163 patients who had acute leukemia and received HSCT and their respective donors were collected for analysis. Thirty-four SNPs located in the four co-stimulatory genes including cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 (CTLA4), CD28, tumor necrosis factor ligand superfamily 4 (TNFSF4), and programmed cell death protein 1 (PDCD1) were selected to explore their relationship with the adverse outcomes after transplantation, including mortality, cytomegalovirus infection, graft-versus-host disease, and relapse. Our results revealed that nine SNPs in the CTLA4 gene, five SNPs in the PDCD1 gene, two SNPs in the TNFSF4 gene, and four SNPs in the CD28 gene were significantly associated with the occurrence of adverse outcomes post-HSCT. These SNPs may play important roles in immune response to allografts post-HSCT and can be the targets for developing strategy to identify appropriate donors.

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