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  1. Article ; Online: Quantitative mRNA expression measurement at home.

    Pandey, Sonalisa / McCoy, Sara Safa / Stobdan, Tsering / Sahoo, Debashis

    Scientific reports

    2024  Volume 14, Issue 1, Page(s) 1013

    Abstract: mRNA measurement is dominated by RT-PCR, which requires expensive laboratory equipment and personnel with advanced degrees. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a versatile technique for detecting target DNA and RNA. The sensitivity of LAMP ... ...

    Abstract mRNA measurement is dominated by RT-PCR, which requires expensive laboratory equipment and personnel with advanced degrees. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a versatile technique for detecting target DNA and RNA. The sensitivity of LAMP in early reports has been below that of the standard RT-PCR tests. Here, we report the use of a fluorescence-based RT-LAMP protocol to measure CDX2 expression patterns, which match extremely well to the standards of sophisticated RT-PCR techniques (r = 0.99, p < 0.001). The assay works on diverse sample types such as cDNA, mRNA, and direct tissue sample testing in 25 min compared to more than 3 h for RT-PCR. We have developed a new protocol for designing RT-LAMP primers that reduce false positives due to self-amplification and improve quantification. A simple device with a 3D-printed box enables the measurement of mRNA expression at home, outdoors, and point-of-care setting.
    MeSH term(s) RNA, Messenger/genetics ; RNA ; Biological Assay ; DNA Primers ; DNA, Complementary
    Chemical Substances RNA, Messenger ; RNA (63231-63-0) ; DNA Primers ; DNA, Complementary
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-10
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-023-49651-8
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  2. Article ; Online: Methionine biosynthetic genes and methionine sulfoxide reductase A are required for Rhizoctonia solani AG1-IA to cause sheath blight disease in rice.

    Das, Joyati / Ghosh, Srayan / Tyagi, Kriti / Sahoo, Debashis / Jha, Gopaljee

    Microbial biotechnology

    2024  Volume 17, Issue 4, Page(s) e14441

    Abstract: Rhizoctonia solani is a polyphagous necrotrophic fungal pathogen that causes sheath blight disease in rice. It deploys effector molecules as well as carbohydrate-active enzymes and enhances the production of reactive oxygen species for killing host ... ...

    Abstract Rhizoctonia solani is a polyphagous necrotrophic fungal pathogen that causes sheath blight disease in rice. It deploys effector molecules as well as carbohydrate-active enzymes and enhances the production of reactive oxygen species for killing host tissues. Understanding R. solani ability to sustain growth under an oxidative-stress-enriched environment is important for developing disease control strategies. Here, we demonstrate that R. solani upregulates methionine biosynthetic genes, including Rs_MET13 during infection in rice, and double-stranded RNA-mediated silencing of these genes impairs the pathogen's ability to cause disease. Exogenous treatment with methionine restores the disease-causing ability of Rs_MET13-silenced R. solani and facilitates its growth on 10 mM H
    MeSH term(s) Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases ; Oryza/microbiology ; Methionine ; Hydrogen Peroxide/pharmacology ; Racemethionine/pharmacology ; Plant Diseases/microbiology ; Rhizoctonia
    Chemical Substances Methionine Sulfoxide Reductases (EC 1.8.4.-) ; Methionine (AE28F7PNPL) ; Hydrogen Peroxide (BBX060AN9V) ; Racemethionine (73JWT2K6T3)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2406063-X
    ISSN 1751-7915 ; 1751-7915
    ISSN (online) 1751-7915
    ISSN 1751-7915
    DOI 10.1111/1751-7915.14441
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  3. Article ; Online: Quantitative mRNA expression measurement at home

    Sonalisa Pandey / Sara Safa McCoy / Tsering Stobdan / Debashis Sahoo

    Scientific Reports, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2024  Volume 6

    Abstract: Abstract mRNA measurement is dominated by RT-PCR, which requires expensive laboratory equipment and personnel with advanced degrees. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a versatile technique for detecting target DNA and RNA. The sensitivity ... ...

    Abstract Abstract mRNA measurement is dominated by RT-PCR, which requires expensive laboratory equipment and personnel with advanced degrees. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a versatile technique for detecting target DNA and RNA. The sensitivity of LAMP in early reports has been below that of the standard RT-PCR tests. Here, we report the use of a fluorescence-based RT-LAMP protocol to measure CDX2 expression patterns, which match extremely well to the standards of sophisticated RT-PCR techniques (r = 0.99, p < 0.001). The assay works on diverse sample types such as cDNA, mRNA, and direct tissue sample testing in 25 min compared to more than 3 h for RT-PCR. We have developed a new protocol for designing RT-LAMP primers that reduce false positives due to self-amplification and improve quantification. A simple device with a 3D-printed box enables the measurement of mRNA expression at home, outdoors, and point-of-care setting.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
    Document type Article ; Online
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  4. Article: C1QA is an invariant biomarker for tissue macrophages.

    Horowitz, Amir / Yu, Haocheng / Pandey, Sonalisa / Mishra, Bud / Sahoo, Debashis

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2024  

    Abstract: Macrophages play a pivotal role in immune responses, particularly in the context of combating microbial threats within tissues. The identification of reliable biomarkers associated with macrophage function is essential for understanding their diverse ... ...

    Abstract Macrophages play a pivotal role in immune responses, particularly in the context of combating microbial threats within tissues. The identification of reliable biomarkers associated with macrophage function is essential for understanding their diverse roles in host defense. This study investigates the potential of C1QA as an invariant biomarker for tissue macrophages, focusing on its correlation with the anti-microbial pathway. C1QA, a component of the complement system, has been previously implicated in various immune functions. Our research delves into the specific association of C1QA with tissue-resident macrophages and its implications in the context of anti-microbial responses. Through comprehensive systems biology and Boolean analysis of gene expression, we aim to establish C1QA as a consistent and reliable marker for identifying tissue macrophages. Furthermore, we explore the functional significance of C1QA in the anti-microbial pathway. This research seeks to provide valuable insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-microbial functions of tissue macrophages, with C1QA emerging as a potential key player in this intricate regulatory network. Understanding the relationship between C1QA, tissue macrophages, and the anti-microbial pathway could pave the way for the development of targeted therapeutic strategies aimed at enhancing the host's ability to combat infections. Ultimately, our findings contribute to the expanding knowledge of macrophage biology and may have implications for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-28
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2024.01.26.577475
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  5. Article ; Online: Boolean implication analysis of single-cell data predicts retinal cell type markers.

    Subramanian, Rohan / Sahoo, Debashis

    BMC bioinformatics

    2022  Volume 23, Issue 1, Page(s) 378

    Abstract: Background: The retina is a complex tissue containing multiple cell types that are essential for vision. Understanding the gene expression patterns of various retinal cell types has potential applications in regenerative medicine. Retinal organoids ( ... ...

    Abstract Background: The retina is a complex tissue containing multiple cell types that are essential for vision. Understanding the gene expression patterns of various retinal cell types has potential applications in regenerative medicine. Retinal organoids (optic vesicles) derived from pluripotent stem cells have begun to yield insights into the transcriptomics of developing retinal cell types in humans through single cell RNA-sequencing studies. Previous methods of gene reporting have relied upon techniques in vivo using microarray data, or correlational and dimension reduction methods for analyzing single cell RNA-sequencing data computationally. We aimed to develop a state-of-the-art Boolean method that filtered out noise, could be applied to a wide variety of datasets and lent insight into gene expression over differentiation.
    Results: Here, we present a bioinformatic approach using Boolean implication to discover genes which are retinal cell type-specific or involved in retinal cell fate. We apply this approach to previously published retina and retinal organoid datasets and improve upon previously published correlational methods. Our method improves the prediction accuracy of marker genes of retinal cell types and discovers several new high confidence cone and rod-specific genes.
    Conclusions: The results of this study demonstrate the benefits of a Boolean approach that considers asymmetric relationships. We have shown a statistically significant improvement from correlational, symmetric methods in the prediction accuracy of retinal cell-type specific genes. Furthermore, our method contains no cell or tissue-specific tuning and hence could impact other areas of gene expression analyses in cancer and other human diseases.
    MeSH term(s) Cell Differentiation/genetics ; Humans ; Organoids/metabolism ; Pluripotent Stem Cells/metabolism ; RNA/metabolism ; Retina
    Chemical Substances RNA (63231-63-0)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-16
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2041484-5
    ISSN 1471-2105 ; 1471-2105
    ISSN (online) 1471-2105
    ISSN 1471-2105
    DOI 10.1186/s12859-022-04915-4
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  6. Article: An AI-assisted Investigation of Tumor-Associated Macrophages and their Polarization in Colorectal Cancer.

    Dadlani, Ekta / Dash, Tirtharaj / Sahoo, Debashis

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2023  

    Abstract: Tumor-associated Macrophages (or TAMs) are amongst the most common cells that play a significant role in the initiation and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC). Recently, Ghosh et al. proposed distinguishing signatures for identifying macrophage ... ...

    Abstract Tumor-associated Macrophages (or TAMs) are amongst the most common cells that play a significant role in the initiation and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC). Recently, Ghosh et al. proposed distinguishing signatures for identifying macrophage polarization states, namely, immuno-reactive and immuno-tolerant, using the concept of Boolean implications and Boolean networks. Their signature, called the Signature of Macrophage Reactivity and Tolerance (SMaRT), comprises of 338 human genes (equivalently, 298 mouse genes). However, SMaRT was constructed using datasets that were not specialized towards any particular disease. In this paper, (a) we perform a comprehensive analysis of the SMaRT signature on single-cell human and mouse colorectal cancer RNA-seq datasets; (b) we then adopt a technique akin to transfer learning to construct a "refined" SMaRT signature for investigating TAMs and their polarization in the CRC tumor microenvironment. Towards validation of our refined gene signature, we use (a) 5 pseudo-bulk RNA-seq datasets derived from single-cell human datasets; and (b) 5 large-cohort microarray datasets from humans. Furthermore, we investigate the translational potential of our refined gene signature in problems related to MSS/MSI (4 datasets) and CIMP+/CIMP- status (4 datasets). Overall, our refined gene signature and its extensive validation provide a path for its adoption in clinical practice in diagnosing colorectal cancer and associated attributes.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2023.08.01.551559
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  7. Article ; Online: Artificial intelligence-guided discovery of gastric cancer continuum.

    Vo, Daniella / Ghosh, Pradipta / Sahoo, Debashis

    Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association

    2023  Volume 26, Issue 2, Page(s) 286–297

    Abstract: Background: Detailed understanding of pre-, early and late neoplastic states in gastric cancer helps develop better models of risk of progression to gastric cancers (GCs) and medical treatment to intercept such progression.: Methods: We built a ... ...

    Abstract Background: Detailed understanding of pre-, early and late neoplastic states in gastric cancer helps develop better models of risk of progression to gastric cancers (GCs) and medical treatment to intercept such progression.
    Methods: We built a Boolean implication network of gastric cancer and deployed machine learning algorithms to develop predictive models of known pre-neoplastic states, e.g., atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia (IM) and low- to high-grade intestinal neoplasia (L/HGIN), and GC. Our approach exploits the presence of asymmetric Boolean implication relationships that are likely to be invariant across almost all gastric cancer datasets. Invariant asymmetric Boolean implication relationships can decipher fundamental time-series underlying the biological data. Pursuing this method, we developed a healthy mucosa → GC continuum model based on this approach.
    Results: Our model performed better against publicly available models for distinguishing healthy versus GC samples. Although not trained on IM and L/HGIN datasets, the model could identify the risk of progression to GC via the metaplasia → dysplasia → neoplasia cascade in patient samples. The model could rank all publicly available mouse models for their ability to best recapitulate the gene expression patterns during human GC initiation and progression.
    Conclusions: A Boolean implication network enabled the identification of hitherto undefined continuum states during GC initiation. The developed model could now serve as a starting point for rationalizing candidate therapeutic targets to intercept GC progression.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Mice ; Humans ; Stomach Neoplasms/genetics ; Gastric Mucosa ; Artificial Intelligence ; Gastritis, Atrophic ; Intestinal Neoplasms ; Metaplasia ; Precancerous Conditions ; Helicobacter Infections/drug therapy
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-24
    Publishing country Japan
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1463526-4
    ISSN 1436-3305 ; 1436-3291
    ISSN (online) 1436-3305
    ISSN 1436-3291
    DOI 10.1007/s10120-022-01360-3
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  8. Article: Anaphylactic Shock After Intramuscular Diclofenac Sodium: A Case Report.

    Sahoo, Debashis P / Barman, Bhupen / War, Gwenette A / Gupta, Annu / Tara, Ruth K

    Cureus

    2024  Volume 16, Issue 2, Page(s) e55279

    Abstract: Diclofenac sodium is a commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. It is widely used for acute and chronic pain management. Side effects, such as fixed drug eruption, asthmatic attack, and vasospastic angina, are commonly seen after the use of ... ...

    Abstract Diclofenac sodium is a commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. It is widely used for acute and chronic pain management. Side effects, such as fixed drug eruption, asthmatic attack, and vasospastic angina, are commonly seen after the use of diclofenac sodium. However, anaphylaxis and anaphylactic shock secondary to injection of diclofenac sodium are rare. Our main aim in reporting this adverse event is to alert healthcare professionals to this potentially life-threatening adverse effect of diclofenac sodium and prompt use of adrenaline for treatment.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2747273-5
    ISSN 2168-8184
    ISSN 2168-8184
    DOI 10.7759/cureus.55279
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  9. Article: Acute Pyelonephritis by Scrub Typhus: A Rare Condition.

    Sahoo, Debashis Priyadarshan / Pradhan, Soumya Ranjan / War, Gwenette / Gupta, Annu / Tara, Ruth K

    Cureus

    2024  Volume 16, Issue 3, Page(s) e55752

    Abstract: Scrub typhus is prevalent in tropical countries and can have a varied spectrum of presentations from pneumonia, gastroenteritis, lymphadenitis, meningitis, encephalitis, and acute kidney injury to multi-organ dysfunction syndrome. Urinary tract ... ...

    Abstract Scrub typhus is prevalent in tropical countries and can have a varied spectrum of presentations from pneumonia, gastroenteritis, lymphadenitis, meningitis, encephalitis, and acute kidney injury to multi-organ dysfunction syndrome. Urinary tract infections like cystitis and pyelonephritis are rarely reported. Here we present an atypical presentation of a 53-year-old female with diabetes mellitus who came to the outpatient department with complaints of high-grade fever, burning micturition, and left flank pain for three days and was initially treated outpatient basis with oral antibiotics. However, her deteriorating condition landed her in an emergency in a state of septic shock. She was initially treated with broad-spectrum conventional antibiotics with other supportive medications. Even after confirmation of the diagnosis of left acute pyelonephritis with septic shock, with appropriate antibiotics, her condition was deteriorating. A sterile urine culture raised suspicion of atypical organisms causing the infection. Proper analysis of her history and readily available investigations of IgM against scrub typhus antigen led to a diagnosis of scrub typhus-related left acute pyelonephritis with septic shock. She was treated adequately with an injection of doxycycline, followed by oral tablets of the same, after which she showed drastic improvement in her symptoms, and then she was discharged. Thus, atypical organisms causing urinary tract infections should be kept always in mind, which can be treated easily and if untreated, can lead to life-threatening consequences.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-07
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2747273-5
    ISSN 2168-8184
    ISSN 2168-8184
    DOI 10.7759/cureus.55752
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  10. Article ; Online: A Boolean approach for novel hypoxia-related gene discovery.

    Stobdan, Tsering / Sahoo, Debashis / Haddad, Gabriel G

    PloS one

    2022  Volume 17, Issue 8, Page(s) e0273524

    Abstract: Hypoxia plays a major role in the etiology and pathogenesis of most of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, whether cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases or stroke. Despite active research on hypoxia-signaling pathways, the ... ...

    Abstract Hypoxia plays a major role in the etiology and pathogenesis of most of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, whether cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases or stroke. Despite active research on hypoxia-signaling pathways, the understanding of regulatory mechanisms, especially in specific tissues, still remain elusive. With the accessibility of thousands of potentially diverse genomic datasets, computational methods are utilized to generate new hypotheses. Here we utilized Boolean implication relationship, a powerful method to probe symmetrically and asymmetrically related genes, to identify novel hypoxia related genes. We used a well-known hypoxia-responsive gene, VEGFA, with very large human expression datasets (n = 25,955) to identify novel hypoxia-responsive candidate gene/s. Further, we utilized in-vitro analysis using human endothelial cells exposed to 1% O2 environment for 2, 8, 24 and 48 hours to validate top candidate genes. Out of the top candidate genes (n = 19), 84% genes were previously reported as hypoxia related, validating our results. However, we identified FAM114A1 as a novel candidate gene significantly upregulated in the endothelial cells at 8, 24 and 48 hours of 1% O2 environment. Additional evidence, particularly the localization of intronic miRNA and numerous HREs further support and strengthen our finding. Current results on FAM114A1 provide an example demonstrating the utility of powerful computational methods, like Boolean implications, in playing a major role in hypothesis building and discovery.
    MeSH term(s) Cell Hypoxia/genetics ; Endothelial Cells ; Genetic Association Studies ; Humans ; Hypoxia/genetics ; MicroRNAs/genetics
    Chemical Substances MicroRNAs
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-08-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0273524
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