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2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Analysis of thyroid transcription factor-2 (TTF-2) gene and cloning of causative genes for Cretinism

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13470522
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Laboratory medicine
Research InstitutionDokkyo University School of Medicine

Principal Investigator

IEIRI Tamio  Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Professor -> 獨協医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (80049220)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HISHINUMA Akira  Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Associate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (40201727)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2003
KeywordsCretinism / thyroid dysgenesis / thyroid transcription factor-2 / thyroid / quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction / tissue specificity / T1560 gene / T1560遺伝子
Research Abstract

Thyroid dysgenesis is the most frequent cause of congenital hypothyroidism, but its molecular pathophysiology is largely unknown. Our hypothesis that. some genes downstream to thyroid transcription factor-2 (TTF-2) might be responsible for development of the thyroid prompted us to identify genes whose expression is stimulated by TTF-2. PCR product of cDNA clones obtained by a subtraction PCR method in TTF-2 expressing cell lines were screened with labeled cDNA by microarray analysis. We isolated 17 genes up-regulated by TTF-2, which were subsequently confirmed by quantitative RT-PCR. One of them is a novel gene designated T1560 that showed a highly thyroid-spesific expression pattern. Luciferase reporter assays showed that expression of all of the 14 genes tested was stimulated by both TTF-2 and TTF-1, another thyroid specific transcription factor. Our results have important implications for understanding normal thyroid development as well as the molecular defects underlying thyroid dysgenesis.

Research Products

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  • [Publications] Hishinuma, A, et al.: "Polymorphism of the polyalanine tract of thyroid transcription factor-2 gene in patients with thyroid dysgenesis"Eur.J.Endocrinol.. 145. 385-389 (2001)

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  • [Publications] 菱沼 昭, 他: "rdw小人症ラットに認められたサイログロブリン遺伝子ミスセンス変異G2320Rと細胞内輸送異常"ホルモンと臨床. 50. 219-222 (2002)

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  • [Publications] 菱沼 昭: "日本人特有に認められるサイログロブリン遺伝子異常症"Medical Practice. 19. 507 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Kotani, T, et al.: "Partial iodine organification defect caused by a novel mutation of the thyroid peroxidase gene in three siblings"Clin Endocrinol. 59. 198-206 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 小谷富男, 他: "甲状腺ペルオキシダーゼ遺伝子変異による部分的ヨード有機化障害を示した3兄妹"ホルモンと臨床 内分泌興味ある症例第42集. 72-79 (2003)

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  • [Publications] 菱沼 昭, 家入蒼生夫: "甲状腺転写因子TTF-2により発現増加する遺伝子群の同定"ホルモンと臨床. 52. 253-260 (2004)

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  • [Publications] Hishinuma, A, Ohmika N, Namatame, T, Ieiri, T: "TTF-2 stimulates expression of in genes, including one novel thyroid-specific gene which might be involved in thyroid development."Mol Cel Endocrinol. (in press).

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  • [Publications] Baryshev, M., Sargsyan, E., Wallin G., Lejnieks A., Furudate, S., Hishinuma, A., Mkrtchian S.: "Unfolded protein response is involved in the pathology of human congenital hypothyroid goiter and rat non-goitrous congenital hypothyroidism"J.Mol Endocrinology. (in press).

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  • [Publications] Hishinuma, A., Ohyama, Y., Kuribayashi, T., Nagakubo, N., Namatame, T., Shibayama, K, Arisaka, O., MaLsuura, N., Iciri, T.: "Polymorphism of the polyalanine tract of thyroid transcription factor-2 gene in patients with thyroid dysgenesis."Eur.J.Endocrinol.. 145(4). 385-389 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Kotani, T., Umeki, K., Kawano, J.I., Suganuma, T., Hishinuma, A., Ieiri, T., Harada, S.: "Partial iodide organification defect caused by a novel mutation of the : thyroid peroxidase gene in three siblings."Clin.Enodocrinol.. 59(2). 198-206 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Baryshev, M., Sargsyan,.K, Wallin, G., Lejnieks, A., Furudate, S-I., Hishinuma, A., Mkrtchian, S.: "Unfolded protein response is involved in the pathology of human congenital hypothyroid goiter and rat non-goitrous congenital hypothyroidism."J.Mol Endocirinol. (in press).

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  • [Publications] Hishinuma, A., Ohmika, N., Namatame, T., Ieiri T.: "TTF-2 stimulates expression of 17 genes, including one novel thyroid-specific gene which might be involved in thyroid development."Mol Cel Endocrinol. (in press).

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Published: 2005-04-18  

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