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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Keywords: Mesothelioma ; Serous membrane ; Localized tumour ; Histogenesis ; Ultrastructure
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary It is uncertain whether localized lesions of serosal membranes have a kinship to mesotheliomas or are truly fibromatous in nature. Ultrastructural and immunohistochemical investigations were carried out on 12 localized benign and malignant pleural and peritoneal tumours from 10 patients. Electron microscopic findings, including the consistent and non-fibroblastic cellular organization of localized neoplasms, the presence of some form of intercellular junctions in 7 of 10 cases, basal lamina deposition in 3 cases, and polarized microvilli in one case indicated a form of mesothelial differentiation. Using monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, positive immunostaining of tumour cells for cytokeratin peptides was detected in one case, while antibody to vimentin stained four cases. Light microscopic, ultrastructural and immunohistochemical features of one benign localized serosal tumour, with a unique blend of epithelial and spindle cells, provided further evidence for a histogenic link between localized serosal tumours and diffuse epithelial mesotheliomas. On the basis of the current findings and reports in the literature, it would appear that the majority of localized tumours of serosal membranes are a subset of mesothelioma, while a minority are fibromas.
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    ISSN: 1432-0983
    Keywords: Key wordsCandida albicans ; Gene family ; Hyphal-specific ; Differential gene regulation
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The ALS1 (agglutinin-like sequence) gene of Candida albicans encodes a protein similar to alpha-agglutinin, a cell-surface adhesion glycoprotein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Hoyer et al. 1995). A central domain of a tandemly repeated 108-bp sequence is found in the ALS1 coding region. This tandem-repeat motif hybridizes to multiple C. albicans genomic DNA fragments, indicating the possibility of other ALS1-like genes in C. albicans (Hoyer et al. 1995). To determine if these fragments constitute a gene family, tandem-repeat-hybridizing genomic fragments were isolated from a fosmid library by PCR screening using primers based on the consensus tandem-repeat sequence of ALS1 (Hoyer et al. 1995). One group of fosmids, designated ALS3, encodes a gene with 81% identity to ALS1. The sequences of ALS1 and ALS3 are most conserved in the tandem-repeat domain and in the region 5′ of the tandem repeats. Northern-blot analysis using unique probes from the 3′ end of each gene demonstrated that ALS1 expression varies, depending on which C. albicans strain is examined, and that ALS3 is hyphal-specific. Both genes are found in a variety of C. albicans and C. stellatoidea strains examined. The predicted Als1p and Als3p exhibit features suggesting that both are cell-surface glycoproteins. Southern blots probed with conserved sequences from the region 5′ of the tandem repeats suggest that other ALS-like sequences are present in the C. albicans genome and that the ALS family may be larger than originally estimated.
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