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TUNGSTEN     tungsten

Synonyms: Tunsten, Wolfram, tungstene, tungsteno, volframio, ...
 
 
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High impact information on tungsten

  • A gene encoding a transmembrane protein is mutated in patients with diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy (Wolfram syndrome) [10].
  • Linkage of the gene for Wolfram syndrome to markers on the short arm of chromosome 4 [1].
  • Based on a linkage analysis of 11 families segregating for this syndrome using microsatellite repeat polymorphisms throughout the human genome, we found the Wolfram syndrome gene to be linked to markers on the short arm of human chromosome 4, with Zmax = 6.46 at theta = 0.02 for marker D4S431 [1].
  • The crystal structure of the tungsten-containing aldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductase (AOR) from Pyrococcus furiosus, a hyperthermophilic archaeon (formerly archaebacterium) that grows optimally at 100 degrees C, has been determined at 2.3 angstrom resolution by means of multiple isomorphous replacement and multiple crystal form averaging [11].
  • A nonreverting strain, which is respiratory deficient because of a deletion in the mitochondrial oxi3 gene, was bombarded with tungsten microprojectiles coated with DNA bearing sequences that could correct the oxi3 deletion [12].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of tungsten

 

Biological context of tungsten

  • We propose a dual genome defect model for Wolfram syndrome in which nuclear genetic defects or mitochondrial genetic defects can independently lead to the disease [18].
  • This model suggests that besides a mitochondrial gene defect alone, a nuclear gene defect, which interferes with the normal function of mitochondria (probably with a normal mitochondrial genome), can also be the underlying explanation for the pleiotropic features of Wolfram syndrome [18].
  • Molybdenum and tungsten are found in biological systems in a mononuclear form in the active site of a diverse group of enzymes that generally catalyze oxygen-atom-transfer reactions [19].
  • Plastid transformation was obtained after bombardment of leaves with tungsten particles coated with pZS148 plasmid DNA [20].
  • These patients, who have the Wolfram syndrome phenotype, also have additional features that have not previously been reported [21].
 

Anatomical context of tungsten

 

Associations of tungsten with other chemical compounds

 

Gene context of tungsten

  • The CRMP1 and EVC genes are located near WFS1, the Wolfram syndrome type 1 gene, in which mutations also cause low frequency sensorineural hearing loss (LFSNHL) [29].
  • Direct DNA sequencing was done to screen the entire coding region of the WFS1 gene in 30 patients from 19 British kindreds with Wolfram syndrome [30].
  • MATERIALS AND METHODS: To study the role of the Wolfram gene (Wfs1) in beta cells, we developed a mouse model with conditional deletion of Wfs1 in beta cells by crossing floxed Wfs1 exon 8 animals with mice expressing Cre recombinase under the control of a rat insulin promoter (RIP2-Cre) [31].
  • In hemorrhaged mice depleted of xanthine oxidase (XO) by a tungsten-enriched diet, pulmonary mononuclear cell mRNA levels for IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha were significantly decreased (P < 0.01 and 0.05, respectively), compared with cells from hemorrhaged control mice fed a normal diet [32].
  • Wolfram (DIDMOAD) syndrome and Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) are associated with distinct mitochondrial DNA haplotypes [33].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of tungsten

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