1 00:00:05,817 --> 00:00:08,687 GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. 2 00:00:08,687 --> 00:00:10,288 I'M NINA SCHOR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR 3 00:00:10,288 --> 00:00:11,990 FOR INTRAMURAL RESEARCH HERE AT 4 00:00:11,990 --> 00:00:12,224 NIH. 5 00:00:12,224 --> 00:00:19,731 IT IS MY PLEASURE AND MY HONOR 6 00:00:19,731 --> 00:00:20,966 TO INTRODUCE THE SYMPOSIUM. 7 00:00:20,966 --> 00:00:27,405 THIS IS DAY 4 OF OUR 2023 8 00:00:27,405 --> 00:00:28,940 RESEARCH FESTIVAL. 9 00:00:28,940 --> 00:00:32,043 AND THIS DAY ACTUALLY RECOGNIZES 10 00:00:32,043 --> 00:00:34,312 THE WORK OF OUR SENIOR 11 00:00:34,312 --> 00:00:34,746 INVESTIGATORS. 12 00:00:34,746 --> 00:00:38,183 BOY, I CAN TELL YOU, YOU ARE IN 13 00:00:38,183 --> 00:00:42,487 FOR A TREAT WITH THIS SYMPOSIUM 14 00:00:42,487 --> 00:00:44,022 COMING UP. 15 00:00:44,022 --> 00:00:48,260 THIS SYMPOSIUM WILL PRESENT AND 16 00:00:48,260 --> 00:00:49,461 SHOWCASE FIVE INVESTIGATORS FROM 17 00:00:49,461 --> 00:00:52,397 NIH WHO HAVE BEEN ELECTED IN THE 18 00:00:52,397 --> 00:00:54,733 LAST TWO YEARS TO THE NATIONAL 19 00:00:54,733 --> 00:00:56,601 ACADEMY OF THE SCIENCES. 20 00:00:56,601 --> 00:00:59,938 SO, FIRST A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE 21 00:00:59,938 --> 00:01:04,242 NATIONAL ACADEMIES. 22 00:01:04,242 --> 00:01:06,011 THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PROVIDE 23 00:01:06,011 --> 00:01:07,212 RECOMMENDATIONS AND EXPERT 24 00:01:07,212 --> 00:01:10,215 ADVICE ON ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE 25 00:01:10,215 --> 00:01:13,451 TO SCIENCE, HEALTH, AND 26 00:01:13,451 --> 00:01:14,219 ENGINEERING. 27 00:01:14,219 --> 00:01:16,221 CURRENTLY, THERE ARE THREE 28 00:01:16,221 --> 00:01:17,722 NATIONAL ACADEMIES. 29 00:01:17,722 --> 00:01:20,759 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 30 00:01:20,759 --> 00:01:22,193 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF 31 00:01:22,193 --> 00:01:24,029 MEDICINE, AND THE NATIONAL 32 00:01:24,029 --> 00:01:27,399 ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING. 33 00:01:27,399 --> 00:01:34,806 AND NIH IS A PROLIFIC SOURCE OF 34 00:01:34,806 --> 00:01:36,074 ELECTEES TO THESE ACADEMIES, AND 35 00:01:36,074 --> 00:01:38,810 ELECTION TO ANY OF THESE 36 00:01:38,810 --> 00:01:41,913 ACADEMIES IS WIDELY DEEMED TO BE 37 00:01:41,913 --> 00:01:44,950 THE HIGHEST HONOR THAT THE 38 00:01:44,950 --> 00:01:46,918 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY CAN BESTOW 39 00:01:46,918 --> 00:01:49,988 UPON A SCIENTIST. 40 00:01:49,988 --> 00:01:51,823 WE CURRENTLY HAVE MORE THAN 50 41 00:01:51,823 --> 00:01:55,460 ACTIVE P.I.s IN THE NATIONAL 42 00:01:55,460 --> 00:01:57,796 ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, MORE THAN 43 00:01:57,796 --> 00:01:59,331 70 IN THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF 44 00:01:59,331 --> 00:02:01,800 MEDICINE, AND ONE IN THE 45 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,637 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING. 46 00:02:05,637 --> 00:02:07,906 SO, REALLY A FERTILE GROUND FOR 47 00:02:07,906 --> 00:02:11,609 THE NURTURING OF THE SCIENCE AND 48 00:02:11,609 --> 00:02:15,146 THE P.I.s THAT UPON WHOM THIS 49 00:02:15,146 --> 00:02:16,881 HONOR IS BESTOWED. 50 00:02:16,881 --> 00:02:19,918 SO, OUR FIRST SPEAKER TODAY, I 51 00:02:19,918 --> 00:02:23,254 WILL INTRODUCE THE SPEAKERS 52 00:02:23,254 --> 00:02:24,823 INDIVIDUALLY AS THEY COME UP TO 53 00:02:24,823 --> 00:02:29,427 THE PODIUM OR ARE SEEN ON THE 54 00:02:29,427 --> 00:02:31,930 SCREEN, IS DR. JULIE SEGRE. 55 00:02:31,930 --> 00:02:33,598 AT THE OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL, 56 00:02:33,598 --> 00:02:36,434 I TALKED ABOUT A VIRUS THAT 57 00:02:36,434 --> 00:02:39,004 SHALL REMAIN UNNAMED, AND I'M 58 00:02:39,004 --> 00:02:41,940 STILL NOT GOING TO -- VOLDEMORT 59 00:02:41,940 --> 00:02:44,442 THE VIRUS, BUT IN ANY CASE, DR. 60 00:02:44,442 --> 00:02:48,146 SEGRE IS COMING TO US VIRTUALLY 61 00:02:48,146 --> 00:02:49,314 THIS AFTERNOON. 62 00:02:49,314 --> 00:02:53,518 SO SHE IS A SENIOR INVESTIGATOR 63 00:02:53,518 --> 00:02:55,220 AT NHGRI. 64 00:02:55,220 --> 00:02:57,589 SHE IS AN INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN 65 00:02:57,589 --> 00:03:00,392 EXPERT IN THE MICROBIOME AND 66 00:03:00,392 --> 00:03:02,761 PARTICULARLY THE MICROBIOME OF 67 00:03:02,761 --> 00:03:05,463 THE SKIN AND THE ROLES THAT 68 00:03:05,463 --> 00:03:09,367 PLAYS IN MEDIATING THE 69 00:03:09,367 --> 00:03:10,702 IMMUNOLOGIC EFFECTS OF THE SKIN 70 00:03:10,702 --> 00:03:16,408 AND THE PROTECTION THAT THE SKIN 71 00:03:16,408 --> 00:03:19,544 CONFERS UPON PEOPLE, AND THE 72 00:03:19,544 --> 00:03:22,747 ROLE OF THAT MICROBIOME IN 73 00:03:22,747 --> 00:03:23,681 DISEASE. 74 00:03:23,681 --> 00:03:28,753 SHE APPLIES CUTTING EDGE GENOMIC 75 00:03:28,753 --> 00:03:31,356 AND GENE SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGIES 76 00:03:31,356 --> 00:03:33,258 TO BEST DEFINE THE MICROBIOME. 77 00:03:33,258 --> 00:03:36,394 AND SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, DR. 78 00:03:36,394 --> 00:03:38,563 SEGRE. 79 00:03:38,563 --> 00:03:41,132 80 00:03:41,132 --> 00:03:43,802 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DR. 81 00:03:43,802 --> 00:03:44,069 SCHOR. 82 00:03:44,069 --> 00:03:45,370 IT IS A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT TO 83 00:03:45,370 --> 00:03:47,672 ME NOT TO BE WITH YOU ALL, AND I 84 00:03:47,672 --> 00:03:51,042 HOPE I GET A RAIN CHECK SO THAT 85 00:03:51,042 --> 00:03:55,013 I CAN MEET YOU. 86 00:03:55,013 --> 00:03:57,348 BUT, YES, IT IS 3 1/2 YEARS 87 00:03:57,348 --> 00:04:01,653 LATER, AND YET HERE WE ARE. 88 00:04:01,653 --> 00:04:06,391 SO I WENT TO A -- THIS IS 89 00:04:06,391 --> 00:04:09,561 IRONIC, A MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIS 90 00:04:09,561 --> 00:04:10,161 MEETING, AND NOT SURPRISINGLY 91 00:04:10,161 --> 00:04:12,464 TWO TO THREE DAYS LATER I CAME 92 00:04:12,464 --> 00:04:14,265 HOME AND TESTED POSITIVE. 93 00:04:14,265 --> 00:04:16,034 SO, UNFORTUNATELY, I'M STILL IN 94 00:04:16,034 --> 00:04:17,502 MY PERIOD OF ISOLATION, BUT I'M 95 00:04:17,502 --> 00:04:20,972 GLAD I'M FEELING BETTER ENOUGH 96 00:04:20,972 --> 00:04:22,640 TO JOIN YOU TODAY. 97 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,143 REGRET NOT BEING WITH YOU ALL AT 98 00:04:25,143 --> 00:04:28,880 THE RESEARCH FESTIVAL. 99 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:36,521 SO, I'M GOING TO KICK US OFF 100 00:04:36,521 --> 00:04:38,990 TODAY AND IT'S REALLY A PLEASURE 101 00:04:38,990 --> 00:04:43,228 TO TALK ABOUT MY WORK ON HUMAN 102 00:04:43,228 --> 00:04:45,630 MICROBIOME AND AS DR. SCHOR 103 00:04:45,630 --> 00:04:47,499 MENTIONED THE SKIN MICROBIOME IN 104 00:04:47,499 --> 00:04:47,899 PARTICULAR. 105 00:04:47,899 --> 00:04:51,069 AND THE TITLE IS FINDING OUR 106 00:04:51,069 --> 00:04:52,303 FRIENDS AMONGST THE FOES. 107 00:04:52,303 --> 00:04:59,177 AS MY WORK HAS BEEN ALSO AT THE 108 00:04:59,177 --> 00:05:01,446 INTERSECTION OF ANAMICROBIAL 109 00:05:01,446 --> 00:05:02,080 RETANS AND MICROBIOME. 110 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,449 PART OF MY WORK IS TO TALK WITH 111 00:05:04,449 --> 00:05:06,217 THE IDEA IT MIGHT INSPIRE ANY OF 112 00:05:06,217 --> 00:05:09,020 YOU AND IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN 113 00:05:09,020 --> 00:05:11,055 DEVELOPING MICROBIOME AS PART OF 114 00:05:11,055 --> 00:05:12,323 YOUR OWN RESEARCH PROGRAM OR 115 00:05:12,323 --> 00:05:15,059 QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE, I WOULD 116 00:05:15,059 --> 00:05:16,427 WELCOME ANYONE TO SEND ME AN 117 00:05:16,427 --> 00:05:26,905 E-MAIL NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. 118 00:05:28,573 --> 00:05:29,607 THERE, OKAY. 119 00:05:29,607 --> 00:05:31,276 SO, LET'S JUST GET STARTED WITH 120 00:05:31,276 --> 00:05:33,044 THIS QUESTION OF WHAT DO I MEAN 121 00:05:33,044 --> 00:05:35,947 WHEN I SAY THE HUMAN MICROBIOME. 122 00:05:35,947 --> 00:05:38,483 BY THAT, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE 123 00:05:38,483 --> 00:05:40,018 COLLECTION OF ALL MICROORGANISMS 124 00:05:40,018 --> 00:05:41,819 AND THEIR DNA THAT LIVE IN 125 00:05:41,819 --> 00:05:43,421 ASSOCIATION WITH THE HUMAN BODY. 126 00:05:43,421 --> 00:05:46,791 SO I'M GOING TO GIVE A TALK 127 00:05:46,791 --> 00:05:49,661 TODAY AND COVER BOTH BACTERIA, 128 00:05:49,661 --> 00:05:50,795 FUNGI, AND VIRUSES. 129 00:05:50,795 --> 00:05:53,198 AND REALLY ONE OF THE GOALS OF 130 00:05:53,198 --> 00:05:54,699 THE HUMAN MICROBIOME PROJECT 131 00:05:54,699 --> 00:05:58,336 THAT I WAS PROUD TO BE A PART OF 132 00:05:58,336 --> 00:06:00,505 WAS TO MOVE THE DISCUSSION AWAY 133 00:06:00,505 --> 00:06:03,374 FROM THINKING ABOUT ONLY THE 134 00:06:03,374 --> 00:06:05,743 HUMAN MICROBIOME AND MICROBES 135 00:06:05,743 --> 00:06:07,412 THAT COLONIZE US AS BAD OR EVIL 136 00:06:07,412 --> 00:06:10,915 AND TO THINK AS MUCH ABOUT THE 137 00:06:10,915 --> 00:06:12,650 BENEFICIAL ROLES THAT THESE 138 00:06:12,650 --> 00:06:15,420 MICROBES PLAY ON OUR BODY. 139 00:06:15,420 --> 00:06:18,323 TO THINK ABOUT THIS AS TO 140 00:06:18,323 --> 00:06:20,992 REIMAGINE THAT WE THINK ABOUT 141 00:06:20,992 --> 00:06:23,394 OURSELVES, HUMANS, AS THE SUPER 142 00:06:23,394 --> 00:06:25,663 ORGANISMS, AND THAT WHEN I THINK 143 00:06:25,663 --> 00:06:30,501 ABOUT MYSELF, IT'S THAT I AM A 144 00:06:30,501 --> 00:06:33,471 COMBINATION OF THE HUMAN CELLS, 145 00:06:33,471 --> 00:06:36,474 SO THESE 30 TRILLION HUMAN 146 00:06:36,474 --> 00:06:39,477 CELLS, AS WELL AS AN EQUALLY 147 00:06:39,477 --> 00:06:42,981 LARGE NUMBER OF BACTERIA AND 148 00:06:42,981 --> 00:06:44,482 FUNGI AND PROBABLY EVEN MORE 149 00:06:44,482 --> 00:06:44,949 VIRUSES. 150 00:06:44,949 --> 00:06:47,619 BUT I CAME TO THIS WORK REALLY 151 00:06:47,619 --> 00:06:50,054 STARTING AS A GRADUATE 152 00:06:50,054 --> 00:06:50,755 OPPORTUNITY IN THE HUMAN GENOME 153 00:06:50,755 --> 00:06:56,060 PROJECT WHERE WE WERE WORKING TO 154 00:06:56,060 --> 00:06:58,529 DECIPHER THE HUMAN GENOME AND I 155 00:06:58,529 --> 00:07:00,531 THOUGHT THE ORIGINAL GOAL WAS WE 156 00:07:00,531 --> 00:07:04,002 WOULD STUDY THE HUMAN GENOME, 3 157 00:07:04,002 --> 00:07:06,838 BILLION BASE PAIRS OF DNA, AND 158 00:07:06,838 --> 00:07:08,239 ONCE REVEALED ABOUT THE 24,000 159 00:07:08,239 --> 00:07:09,274 PROTEIN CODING GENES THAT WE 160 00:07:09,274 --> 00:07:10,908 WOULD THEN HAVE THESE 161 00:07:10,908 --> 00:07:14,612 BREAKTHROUGHS, AND I THINK THOSE 162 00:07:14,612 --> 00:07:16,247 HAVE COME, EVEN MORE IS YET TO 163 00:07:16,247 --> 00:07:16,781 COME. 164 00:07:16,781 --> 00:07:18,116 WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HUMAN 165 00:07:18,116 --> 00:07:25,823 DISEASE, A LOT OF IT IS STILL 166 00:07:25,823 --> 00:07:27,392 ABOUT THIS HOST-MICROBIAL 167 00:07:27,392 --> 00:07:31,362 INTERACTION AND AND MICROBES 168 00:07:31,362 --> 00:07:32,263 THAT STIMULATE IMMUNE SYSTEM, 169 00:07:32,263 --> 00:07:35,333 GENERATE RESPONSES OR CAUSE 170 00:07:35,333 --> 00:07:36,067 INFECTION. 171 00:07:36,067 --> 00:07:38,236 HERE IT'S A MORE COMPLEX GENETIC 172 00:07:38,236 --> 00:07:38,503 QUESTION. 173 00:07:38,503 --> 00:07:39,937 WHILE A BACTERIAL GENOME IS 174 00:07:39,937 --> 00:07:42,307 SMALL, SO LIKE LET'S SAY 3 175 00:07:42,307 --> 00:07:43,841 MILLION BASE PAIRS, RIGHT? 176 00:07:43,841 --> 00:07:46,277 SO A THOUSAND TIMES SMALLER THAN 177 00:07:46,277 --> 00:07:49,414 A HUMAN GENOME. 178 00:07:49,414 --> 00:07:52,150 AND THE PROTEIN CODING OF THAT 179 00:07:52,150 --> 00:07:53,151 IS TEN-FOLD LESS. 180 00:07:53,151 --> 00:07:55,920 BUT NOW WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE 181 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,322 COMPLEXITY THAT THESE HUMAN 182 00:07:57,322 --> 00:08:00,191 CELLS ALL HAVE MORE OR LESS THE 183 00:08:00,191 --> 00:08:01,926 SAME CODING MATERIAL, BUT THE 184 00:08:01,926 --> 00:08:09,267 BACTERIA AND FUNGI CAN HAVE 185 00:08:09,267 --> 00:08:10,201 DIFFERENT GENOMES ACROSS STRAINS 186 00:08:10,201 --> 00:08:12,370 AND SPECIES, YOU END UP WITH 187 00:08:12,370 --> 00:08:14,939 AGGREGATE WHERE THE COMPLEXITY 188 00:08:14,939 --> 00:08:17,075 OF THE GENOMES OF THE MICROBIOME 189 00:08:17,075 --> 00:08:20,244 IS EQUAL OR EVEN LARGER THAN THE 190 00:08:20,244 --> 00:08:21,179 HUMAN GENOME. 191 00:08:21,179 --> 00:08:24,582 THERE'S A VAST SPACE TO EXPLORE 192 00:08:24,582 --> 00:08:25,350 HERE. 193 00:08:25,350 --> 00:08:28,119 I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE START 194 00:08:28,119 --> 00:08:32,156 WITH THIS IDEA THAT THERE IS A 195 00:08:32,156 --> 00:08:33,124 TREMENDOUS BENEFIT THAT MICROBES 196 00:08:33,124 --> 00:08:36,794 PROVIDES, WHAT WE CALL SORT OF 197 00:08:36,794 --> 00:08:39,397 ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. 198 00:08:39,397 --> 00:08:42,200 SO, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE GREAT 199 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:43,334 THINGS THE MICROBES DO THAT I'VE 200 00:08:43,334 --> 00:08:46,371 HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH 201 00:08:46,371 --> 00:08:49,974 MY COLLEAGUE, DR. YASMINE 202 00:08:49,974 --> 00:08:51,409 BELKADE, AN EXPERT, HOW MICROBES 203 00:08:51,409 --> 00:08:52,744 TUNE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, MAKE 204 00:08:52,744 --> 00:08:54,512 SURE THE IMMUNE SYSTEM DOESN'T 205 00:08:54,512 --> 00:08:57,081 FALL ASLEEP, ALSO TO RECOGNIZE 206 00:08:57,081 --> 00:08:58,950 FRIENDS AND FOES. 207 00:08:58,950 --> 00:09:02,520 THE SKIN MICROBES ALSO ARE GOING 208 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,322 TO SECRETE -- HELP BREAK DOWN 209 00:09:04,322 --> 00:09:07,258 PRODUCTS THAT THE HUMAN CELLS 210 00:09:07,258 --> 00:09:09,127 HAVE PRODUCED. 211 00:09:09,127 --> 00:09:11,429 AND HELP US THEN MAINTAIN THIS 212 00:09:11,429 --> 00:09:11,662 BARRIER. 213 00:09:11,662 --> 00:09:12,864 YOU SEE THIS IN THE GUT WHERE 214 00:09:12,864 --> 00:09:16,401 THEY WILL PROVIDE THIS BENEFIT 215 00:09:16,401 --> 00:09:20,004 OF HELPING US TO DIGEST FOOD AND 216 00:09:20,004 --> 00:09:20,271 NUTRITION. 217 00:09:20,271 --> 00:09:22,540 BUT REALLY ALSO ONE OF THE MAJOR 218 00:09:22,540 --> 00:09:25,042 THINGS THAT THE MICROBIOME DOES 219 00:09:25,042 --> 00:09:28,379 IS TO PROVIDE COLONIZATION 220 00:09:28,379 --> 00:09:28,780 RESISTANCE. 221 00:09:28,780 --> 00:09:31,249 IT'S MUCH MORE ENERGY INTENSIVE 222 00:09:31,249 --> 00:09:32,917 FOR SYSTEM TO MAINTAIN 223 00:09:32,917 --> 00:09:33,618 STERILITY. 224 00:09:33,618 --> 00:09:35,353 BUT YOU ARE CONSTANTLY BEING 225 00:09:35,353 --> 00:09:36,788 EXPOSED ON YOUR OUTER SURFACES 226 00:09:36,788 --> 00:09:37,922 TO PATHOGENS. 227 00:09:37,922 --> 00:09:39,390 IF YOU HAVE MICROBES ALREADY 228 00:09:39,390 --> 00:09:40,992 FILLING ALL THOSE NICHES, IT 229 00:09:40,992 --> 00:09:42,760 MAKES IT HARDER FOR PATHOGEN TO 230 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,929 COME IN, AND TAKE UP RESIDENCE. 231 00:09:44,929 --> 00:09:48,766 SO, THIS IS ONE OF ALSO THE 232 00:09:48,766 --> 00:09:51,969 MAJOR BENEFITS OF HAVING 233 00:09:51,969 --> 00:09:54,772 MICROBES COLONIZE YOU. 234 00:09:54,772 --> 00:09:56,874 SO, MY GOAL AS SOMEONE IN THE 235 00:09:56,874 --> 00:09:58,309 BEGINNING OF THE MICROBIOME 236 00:09:58,309 --> 00:10:02,847 PROJECT HOW DO WE CHARACTERIZE A 237 00:10:02,847 --> 00:10:04,215 MICROBIOME, AND IN EARLY WORK 238 00:10:04,215 --> 00:10:06,617 THAT WE DID WITH DR. PATRICK 239 00:10:06,617 --> 00:10:07,718 MURRAY, WE THOUGHT ABOUT LIKE 240 00:10:07,718 --> 00:10:09,821 HOW ARE WE GOING TO CHARACTERIZE 241 00:10:09,821 --> 00:10:11,088 ALL THESE MICROBES? 242 00:10:11,088 --> 00:10:13,424 THE ORIGINAL WAYS HAD BEEN TO 243 00:10:13,424 --> 00:10:15,226 PUT THEM ONTO PETRI DISHES. 244 00:10:15,226 --> 00:10:19,263 AND THEN YOU WOULD GET THIS, YOU 245 00:10:19,263 --> 00:10:19,964 KNOW, THESE CULTURED ISOLATES, 246 00:10:19,964 --> 00:10:22,400 AND SOME OF THEM YOU WOULD SEE 247 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,003 YOU COULD CULTURE BETTER ON, YOU 248 00:10:26,003 --> 00:10:27,605 KNOW, BLOOD AUGER OR BRAIN AND 249 00:10:27,605 --> 00:10:30,041 HEART INFUSION, SO YOU KNEW YOU 250 00:10:30,041 --> 00:10:39,717 WERE GETTING NOT THE FULL 251 00:10:39,717 --> 00:10:45,623 MICROBIAL COMMUNITY, BUT ABOUT 252 00:10:45,623 --> 00:10:46,557 HOW COMPLEX WITH MICROBIAL 253 00:10:46,557 --> 00:10:46,891 CULTURING. 254 00:10:46,891 --> 00:10:51,429 AT THIS POINT THE GENOME 255 00:10:51,429 --> 00:10:53,764 PROJECT, WHEN I STARTED GRADUATE 256 00:10:53,764 --> 00:10:55,199 SCHOOL IN 1990, WE'VE GONE 257 00:10:55,199 --> 00:11:00,137 THROUGH MAJOR REVOLUTION IN THE 258 00:11:00,137 --> 00:11:02,507 SCALE OF PROJECTS. 259 00:11:02,507 --> 00:11:03,241 ON 260 00:11:03,241 --> 00:11:06,377 ON THE LEFT THE CLASSIC IMAGE OF 261 00:11:06,377 --> 00:11:08,145 READING THE GENOME IN BITS AND 262 00:11:08,145 --> 00:11:09,213 PIECES BUT THAT MEANT AT THE 263 00:11:09,213 --> 00:11:10,515 SAME TIME AS WE WERE 264 00:11:10,515 --> 00:11:11,916 UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITY OF 265 00:11:11,916 --> 00:11:14,452 THE HUMAN GENOME, WE WERE HAVING 266 00:11:14,452 --> 00:11:16,320 A REVOLUTION IN THE SEQUENCING 267 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,089 TECHNOLOGIES. 268 00:11:18,089 --> 00:11:20,358 AND MOVING FROM THE ORIGINAL 269 00:11:20,358 --> 00:11:23,728 SANGER SEQUENCING TO MUCH HIGHER 270 00:11:23,728 --> 00:11:24,762 DENSITY SEQUENCING PLATFORMS. 271 00:11:24,762 --> 00:11:27,231 ALONG WITH THAT CAME THE COMPUTE 272 00:11:27,231 --> 00:11:31,002 POWER THAT WE HAVE AT THE NIH 273 00:11:31,002 --> 00:11:35,006 THROUGH THE GREAT BENEFIT OF CIT 274 00:11:35,006 --> 00:11:38,476 AND BIOWULF TO ANALYZE THESE 275 00:11:38,476 --> 00:11:39,277 LARGE DATASETS. 276 00:11:39,277 --> 00:11:42,079 SO, I THINK OF SEQUENCING AS A 277 00:11:42,079 --> 00:11:44,448 NEW LENS TO OBSERVE BIOLOGY. 278 00:11:44,448 --> 00:11:49,620 AND WHAT WE -- THE SAME WAYS 279 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:51,956 WE'RE CHARACTERIZING BACTERIA, 280 00:11:51,956 --> 00:11:54,292 THINKING OF GRAM POSITIVE OR 281 00:11:54,292 --> 00:11:55,593 GRAM NEGATIVE, UNDER MICROSCOPE 282 00:11:55,593 --> 00:11:57,728 OR STAINS WE USE, NOW WE'RE ALSO 283 00:11:57,728 --> 00:12:00,831 ADDING THIS OTHER FORM OF 284 00:12:00,831 --> 00:12:03,200 CHARACTERIZATION WHERE WE'RE 285 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:07,371 SEQUENCING AND ABLE TO SEQUENCE 286 00:12:07,371 --> 00:12:11,075 MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS 287 00:12:11,075 --> 00:12:12,410 INDIVIDUAL ISOLATES. 288 00:12:12,410 --> 00:12:13,477 WE'RE ILLUMINATING THIS MUCH 289 00:12:13,477 --> 00:12:15,479 GREATER SPACE BUT WE'RE THINKING 290 00:12:15,479 --> 00:12:16,414 ABOUT USING THAT INFORMATION IN 291 00:12:16,414 --> 00:12:19,584 THE SAME WAY SO I'M REALLY 292 00:12:19,584 --> 00:12:21,819 THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW 293 00:12:21,819 --> 00:12:25,723 THESE MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES COME 294 00:12:25,723 --> 00:12:26,557 TOGETHER. 295 00:12:26,557 --> 00:12:27,191 SORRY. 296 00:12:27,191 --> 00:12:30,528 THE FIRST STUDY WE DID ON THE 297 00:12:30,528 --> 00:12:32,196 SKIN MICROBIOME IN CONJUNCTION 298 00:12:32,196 --> 00:12:36,267 WITH MY LONG-TERM CLINICAL 299 00:12:36,267 --> 00:12:38,102 COLLABORATOR DR. HEIDI KONG AND 300 00:12:38,102 --> 00:12:42,707 INSPIRED BY WORK WITH DR. MARIA 301 00:12:42,707 --> 00:12:46,110 TURNER, WAS TO REALLY PUT FORTH 302 00:12:46,110 --> 00:12:48,245 THIS IDEA THAT THE HUMAN BODY IS 303 00:12:48,245 --> 00:12:49,714 AN ECOSYSTEM. 304 00:12:49,714 --> 00:12:51,148 THIS WAS ONE OF OUR GREAT 305 00:12:51,148 --> 00:12:53,718 STRENGTHS AS YOU THINK ABOUT 306 00:12:53,718 --> 00:12:54,852 LIKE THE HUMAN MICROBIOME 307 00:12:54,852 --> 00:12:58,022 PROJECT A LOT HAS REALLY BEEN 308 00:12:58,022 --> 00:12:59,857 DRIVEN BY THE HUMAN GUT 309 00:12:59,857 --> 00:13:00,558 MICROBIOME. 310 00:13:00,558 --> 00:13:02,493 BUT THE SKIN HAS THIS REMARKABLE 311 00:13:02,493 --> 00:13:05,529 ABILITY THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO 312 00:13:05,529 --> 00:13:06,097 THE TISSUE. 313 00:13:06,097 --> 00:13:08,432 MORE THAN EVEN JUST HAVING 314 00:13:08,432 --> 00:13:10,401 ACCESS, WE HAVE THESE 315 00:13:10,401 --> 00:13:12,570 CLINICAL -- THE CLINICAL ACUMEN 316 00:13:12,570 --> 00:13:14,839 OF DR. KONG, DR. TURNER, TO 317 00:13:14,839 --> 00:13:18,209 THINK ABOUT HOW DERMATOLOGIC 318 00:13:18,209 --> 00:13:21,212 DISORDERS MANIFEST AT SUCH 319 00:13:21,212 --> 00:13:22,079 STEREOTYPIC LOCATIONS, AND SO 320 00:13:22,079 --> 00:13:24,815 THE QUESTIONS THAT THEY BROUGHT 321 00:13:24,815 --> 00:13:26,717 FORTH WERE THIS IDEA ABOUT IS 322 00:13:26,717 --> 00:13:28,986 PSORIASIS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE 323 00:13:28,986 --> 00:13:31,222 ELBOW AND ECZEMA ON THE INSIDE 324 00:13:31,222 --> 00:13:32,089 BECAUSE WE HAVE DIFFERENT 325 00:13:32,089 --> 00:13:33,958 MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES AS WELL AS 326 00:13:33,958 --> 00:13:35,026 HAVING DIFFERENT SKIN? 327 00:13:35,026 --> 00:13:41,098 SO THIS WAS A STUDY THAT DOCTORS 328 00:13:41,098 --> 00:13:42,566 KONG AND TURNER DESIGNED, 329 00:13:42,566 --> 00:13:44,669 LOOKING AT 20 BODY SITES, AND 330 00:13:44,669 --> 00:13:51,308 SURVEYED THEM BY LOOKING AT WHAT 331 00:13:51,308 --> 00:13:53,878 WERE THE BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES. 332 00:13:53,878 --> 00:13:56,280 THE OILY COMMUNITIES IN BLUE, 333 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:57,314 BACTERIAL ARE SMALL PIECHARTS, 334 00:13:57,314 --> 00:14:06,824 YOU CAN SEE THE OILY SITES, LIKE 335 00:14:06,824 --> 00:14:12,229 FOREHEAD OR GLOBELLAR, THE NOSE, 336 00:14:12,229 --> 00:14:19,170 HAVE LIPID-LOVING BACTERIA, 337 00:14:19,170 --> 00:14:23,541 WHEREAS THE MOIST SITES WILL 338 00:14:23,541 --> 00:14:24,375 HAVE GREEN PROTEOBACTERIA, 339 00:14:24,375 --> 00:14:26,177 STAPHYLOCOCCUS, DRY SITES ARE 340 00:14:26,177 --> 00:14:27,611 SOME OF THE MOST DIVERSE 341 00:14:27,611 --> 00:14:28,279 BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES. 342 00:14:28,279 --> 00:14:31,048 AND IN FACT WHAT WE SAW WAS 343 00:14:31,048 --> 00:14:32,850 THAT, YOU KNOW, THE BEND OF MY 344 00:14:32,850 --> 00:14:33,851 RIGHT ELBOW IS MOST SIMILAR TO 345 00:14:33,851 --> 00:14:36,253 THE BEND OF MY LEFT ELBOW, BUT 346 00:14:36,253 --> 00:14:39,690 AFTER THAT, THE BEND OF MY LEFT 347 00:14:39,690 --> 00:14:41,125 ELBOW IS THE MOST SIMILAR TO THE 348 00:14:41,125 --> 00:14:44,795 BENDS OF YOUR LEFT ELBOW BECAUSE 349 00:14:44,795 --> 00:14:46,330 MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES ARE 350 00:14:46,330 --> 00:14:48,833 DEFINED BY THE ECOSYSTEM, BY THE 351 00:14:48,833 --> 00:14:51,368 NUTRIENTS AVAILABLE, RATHER THAN 352 00:14:51,368 --> 00:14:52,136 BY THE INDIVIDUAL. 353 00:14:52,136 --> 00:14:56,640 AND SO, YOU KNOW, MY AXILLA IS A 354 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:57,742 SWEATY REGION SO THAT'S GOING TO 355 00:14:57,742 --> 00:15:01,445 BE QUITE DIFFERENT THAN A MOIST 356 00:15:01,445 --> 00:15:01,912 CREASE. 357 00:15:01,912 --> 00:15:03,748 THESE KINDS OF IDEAS ABOUT WHAT 358 00:15:03,748 --> 00:15:05,483 ARE THE COMMUNITIES WE DID THIS 359 00:15:05,483 --> 00:15:08,018 THEN WITH THE BACTERIA, WITH THE 360 00:15:08,018 --> 00:15:09,920 FUNGI, WITH THE VIRUSES, AND 361 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,055 THESE KINDS OF CHARACTERIZATIONS 362 00:15:11,055 --> 00:15:13,924 THEN ENABLED US TO DO STUDY ON 363 00:15:13,924 --> 00:15:16,360 CLINICAL POPULATIONS SEEN HERE 364 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,763 AT THE NIH, AND THIS WAS A 365 00:15:18,763 --> 00:15:22,566 COHORT OF CHILDREN WITH ATOPIC 366 00:15:22,566 --> 00:15:25,202 DERMATITIS, DR. KONG SEES. 367 00:15:25,202 --> 00:15:28,739 AND IN THIS CASE, CHILDREN WERE 368 00:15:28,739 --> 00:15:33,878 LOOKED AT, AT BASELINE, FLARE, 369 00:15:33,878 --> 00:15:35,646 EPISODIC EXACERBATIONS, AND PUS 370 00:15:35,646 --> 00:15:35,846 FLARE. 371 00:15:35,846 --> 00:15:37,815 DR. KONG'S QUESTION WAS ABOUT WE 372 00:15:37,815 --> 00:15:39,517 KNEW FROM EARLIER STUDY, THIS IS 373 00:15:39,517 --> 00:15:41,218 JUST MOST RECENT STUDY, WE KNEW 374 00:15:41,218 --> 00:15:43,120 FROM EARLIER STUDY AT THE FLARE 375 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:53,631 SOME KIDS HAD HIGH LEVELS OF 376 00:15:55,733 --> 00:16:01,705 STAPH EPIDERMIS, STAPH AUREUS, 377 00:16:01,705 --> 00:16:04,074 WAS IT MULTIPLE OR ONE STRANGE 378 00:16:04,074 --> 00:16:05,876 AND HOW WERE THESE BACTERIAL 379 00:16:05,876 --> 00:16:09,180 STRAINS DRIVING THIS DISEASE. 380 00:16:09,180 --> 00:16:12,416 SO, IN THIS STUDY, SAMPLES WERE 381 00:16:12,416 --> 00:16:14,952 PUT FORTH FOR SEQUENCING, AND 382 00:16:14,952 --> 00:16:16,020 ALSO WE CULTURED INDIVIDUAL 383 00:16:16,020 --> 00:16:19,824 ISOLATES SO WE COULD DO 384 00:16:19,824 --> 00:16:20,724 STRAIN-LEVEL RESOLUTION. 385 00:16:20,724 --> 00:16:26,130 WHAT WE SAW IF THERE IS A CHILD 386 00:16:26,130 --> 00:16:29,200 WHO HAS STAFF EPIDERMIDIS IN 387 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,035 THEIR FLARE TIME POINT, SHOWING 388 00:16:31,035 --> 00:16:35,105 JUST THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY 389 00:16:35,105 --> 00:16:38,108 THAT IS THE STAPHYLOCOCCUS, JUST 390 00:16:38,108 --> 00:16:39,910 A SINGLE STRAIN OF STAPH AUREUS, 391 00:16:39,910 --> 00:16:42,613 THAT WILL INCREASE IN THE FLARE, 392 00:16:42,613 --> 00:16:46,150 BUT THEN WE SEE IF YOU MOVE TO 393 00:16:46,150 --> 00:16:49,253 POST-FLARE TIME POINTS YOU'LL 394 00:16:49,253 --> 00:16:50,588 SEE INCREASE IN STAPH EPI, AN 395 00:16:50,588 --> 00:16:52,590 INTERESTING WAY THAT ALLOWS US 396 00:16:52,590 --> 00:16:57,061 TO BUILD A MODEL THAT MAYBE THE 397 00:16:57,061 --> 00:16:58,262 STAPH EPIIS HELPING RESOLVE THE 398 00:16:58,262 --> 00:16:59,230 FLARE OF THE STAPH AUREUS. 399 00:16:59,230 --> 00:17:01,599 IN THIS CASE ON THE RIGHT NOW 400 00:17:01,599 --> 00:17:04,168 HERE WHERE I HAVE A CHILD WHO 401 00:17:04,168 --> 00:17:07,771 HAS AT THE FLARE INCREASE IN A 402 00:17:07,771 --> 00:17:09,840 LOT OF STAPH EPIDERMIDIS AS WELL 403 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:11,442 AS A LITTLE STAPH AUREUS, IN THE 404 00:17:11,442 --> 00:17:13,777 FLARE TIME POINT WE'RE SEEING 405 00:17:13,777 --> 00:17:18,148 INCREASE IN ALL OF THE STAPH 406 00:17:18,148 --> 00:17:22,219 EPIDERMIDIS SUGGESTING THERE'S 407 00:17:22,219 --> 00:17:24,855 SOMETHING ELSE IN TERMS OF 408 00:17:24,855 --> 00:17:26,357 INITIATION AND POST-FLARE STILL 409 00:17:26,357 --> 00:17:28,025 SEEING HIGH LEVELS OF STAPH 410 00:17:28,025 --> 00:17:28,592 EPIDERMIDIS. 411 00:17:28,592 --> 00:17:30,794 WE HAVE THESE STRAINS OF STAFF 412 00:17:30,794 --> 00:17:33,030 EPI AND STAPH AUREUS WE'RE ABLE 413 00:17:33,030 --> 00:17:34,798 TO USE IN ANIMAL MODELS AND 414 00:17:34,798 --> 00:17:36,800 SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY TO 415 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:42,172 START TO HAVE ANIMAL MODELS THAT 416 00:17:42,172 --> 00:17:43,774 REALLY THEN PUT FORTH THE 417 00:17:43,774 --> 00:17:46,510 LEGITIMATE SYSTEM OF HAVING THE 418 00:17:46,510 --> 00:17:49,146 HOST WITH THE, YOU KNOW, 419 00:17:49,146 --> 00:17:51,548 FILLEGRA MUTATION OR MOUSE MODEL 420 00:17:51,548 --> 00:17:53,183 WITH THE MUTATION, USING THESE 421 00:17:53,183 --> 00:17:54,718 STRAINS WE KNOW ARE INCREASING 422 00:17:54,718 --> 00:17:57,354 IN A FLARE AND SHOWING TO DRIVE 423 00:17:57,354 --> 00:17:57,855 DISEASE. 424 00:17:57,855 --> 00:18:04,328 WE HOPE BY DOING THIS WE'LL BE 425 00:18:04,328 --> 00:18:05,763 ABLE TO DEVELOP DIAGNOSTICS YOU 426 00:18:05,763 --> 00:18:07,398 CAN IMAGINE IN BASELINE STATE 427 00:18:07,398 --> 00:18:10,267 YOU CAN START TO MONITOR EITHER 428 00:18:10,267 --> 00:18:13,003 THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY OR 429 00:18:13,003 --> 00:18:14,204 METABOLITES OF THE MICROBIAL 430 00:18:14,204 --> 00:18:16,407 COMMUNITY AND PREDICT WHEN A KID 431 00:18:16,407 --> 00:18:19,109 MIGHT TRANSITION FROM BASELINE 432 00:18:19,109 --> 00:18:20,444 TO FLARE, AND INTERVENE EARLIER 433 00:18:20,444 --> 00:18:25,582 THAN WHEN THE KID HAD ITCHED 434 00:18:25,582 --> 00:18:28,218 THEMSELVES SO THEY ALREADY, YOU 435 00:18:28,218 --> 00:18:30,821 KNOW, EXCORIATED THE SKIN. 436 00:18:30,821 --> 00:18:32,823 437 00:18:32,823 --> 00:18:34,091 IN THE SKIN MICROBIOME WE HAVE 438 00:18:34,091 --> 00:18:37,494 THE GREAT PLEASURE OF BEING AT 439 00:18:37,494 --> 00:18:41,966 THE NIH CLINICAL CENTER, AND 440 00:18:41,966 --> 00:18:44,234 WORKING ON THESE FASCINATING 441 00:18:44,234 --> 00:18:45,469 PATIENTS WITH INBORN ERRORS OF 442 00:18:45,469 --> 00:18:47,004 IMMUNITY SO WE CAN BEGIN TO 443 00:18:47,004 --> 00:18:50,441 UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE 444 00:18:50,441 --> 00:18:50,975 HOST-MICROBE INTERACTION. 445 00:18:50,975 --> 00:18:55,746 WE THINK A LOT ABOUT HOW THE 446 00:18:55,746 --> 00:18:57,314 MICROBES STIMULATE THE IMMUNE 447 00:18:57,314 --> 00:18:59,516 SYSTEM, WE'RE ALSO FASCINATED TO 448 00:18:59,516 --> 00:19:02,786 COME UP WITH THE CONCEPT OF 449 00:19:02,786 --> 00:19:03,821 WHETHER THE MICROBES THEMSELVES, 450 00:19:03,821 --> 00:19:06,523 YOU KNOW, ARE BEING SEEN BY THE 451 00:19:06,523 --> 00:19:09,059 IMMUNE SYSTEM AND WHETHER THERE 452 00:19:09,059 --> 00:19:11,895 IS SPECIFICITY TO THAT. 453 00:19:11,895 --> 00:19:15,799 SO, THERE'S A LARGE COHORT OF 454 00:19:15,799 --> 00:19:18,602 GENETICALLY DEFINED PRIMARY OR 455 00:19:18,602 --> 00:19:20,337 IMMUNE -- PRIMARY IMMUNE 456 00:19:20,337 --> 00:19:22,506 DEFICIENT PATIENTS, 457 00:19:22,506 --> 00:19:24,241 FASCINATINGLY THEY HAVE -- YOU 458 00:19:24,241 --> 00:19:27,211 KNOW, MANY PRESENT WITH ATOPIC 459 00:19:27,211 --> 00:19:27,878 DERMATITIS WHICH GOT US 460 00:19:27,878 --> 00:19:33,350 ORIGINALLY INTERESTED BUT WILL 461 00:19:33,350 --> 00:19:36,754 ALSO HAVE OTHER ATOPES, AND WE 462 00:19:36,754 --> 00:19:40,691 LOOKED ON THE LEFT AT DOCK8 463 00:19:40,691 --> 00:19:42,659 DEFICIENT PATIENTS WITH ATOPY 464 00:19:42,659 --> 00:19:45,396 BUT A LOT OF WARTS, AND GOT THE 465 00:19:45,396 --> 00:19:50,868 FEELING THERE MIGHT BE 466 00:19:50,868 --> 00:19:52,269 ADDITIONAL HPVs. 467 00:19:52,269 --> 00:19:55,906 WHEN WE MINED GENOMIC DATA FROM 468 00:19:55,906 --> 00:20:00,144 THE DOCK8 PATIENTS WE WERE ABLE 469 00:20:00,144 --> 00:20:03,147 TO DEFINE 115 NEW HPV VARIANTS 470 00:20:03,147 --> 00:20:06,617 INCLUDING ONE NO SPECIES, THESE 471 00:20:06,617 --> 00:20:08,452 ARE THE 27 DOCK8 PATIENTS AND 472 00:20:08,452 --> 00:20:11,855 YOU CAN SEE WHERE I LABELED THE 473 00:20:11,855 --> 00:20:13,524 NOVEL SPECIES IN THE LIGHT BLUE 474 00:20:13,524 --> 00:20:17,561 AND LIGHT GREEN YOU CAN SEE 475 00:20:17,561 --> 00:20:20,130 THERE'S OFTEN MORE NOVEL SPECIES 476 00:20:20,130 --> 00:20:21,498 BEING DETECTED THAN KNOWN 477 00:20:21,498 --> 00:20:24,868 SPECIES OF HPV. 478 00:20:24,868 --> 00:20:27,304 WE'VE EXPANDED THE REPERTOIRE. 479 00:20:27,304 --> 00:20:33,043 AS WELL WORKING WITH DR. 480 00:20:33,043 --> 00:20:33,744 NOTORANGELO HAVE LOOKED AT HIS 481 00:20:33,744 --> 00:20:35,479 RAG DEFICIENT PATIENTS. 482 00:20:35,479 --> 00:20:39,016 HERE AGAIN IT'S THIS INTERESTING 483 00:20:39,016 --> 00:20:41,318 IDEA OF WHETHER THERE IS 484 00:20:41,318 --> 00:20:44,054 INCREASED COLONIZATION IN 485 00:20:44,054 --> 00:20:44,955 PATIENTS WITH IMMUNE 486 00:20:44,955 --> 00:20:45,289 DEFICIENCIES. 487 00:20:45,289 --> 00:20:47,858 WE SAW THIS IN THE DOCK8 488 00:20:47,858 --> 00:20:49,793 PATIENTS. 489 00:20:49,793 --> 00:20:53,363 WE SAW IN THE NARES THEY CARRIED 490 00:20:53,363 --> 00:20:57,634 CORONAVIRUS, WE SAW THAT AGAIN 491 00:20:57,634 --> 00:21:00,237 IN THE RAG-DEFICIENT PATIENTS 492 00:21:00,237 --> 00:21:02,306 THAT WE IDENTIFIED RAG-DEFICIENT 493 00:21:02,306 --> 00:21:03,607 PATIENT WITH NOVEL CORONAVIRUS 494 00:21:03,607 --> 00:21:08,245 229E AS WELL AS SEEING 495 00:21:08,245 --> 00:21:08,912 ADDITIONAL NOROVIRUS, INFLUENZA, 496 00:21:08,912 --> 00:21:11,048 RHINOVIRUSES IN BOTH OF THESE 497 00:21:11,048 --> 00:21:11,348 POPULATIONS. 498 00:21:11,348 --> 00:21:12,082 WHAT'S REALLY INTERESTING ABOUT 499 00:21:12,082 --> 00:21:15,953 THAT OF COURSE IS THAT WE'D LIKE 500 00:21:15,953 --> 00:21:16,987 FOR PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS HAVE A 501 00:21:16,987 --> 00:21:18,956 BETTER SENSE OF WHAT ARE THE 502 00:21:18,956 --> 00:21:21,391 VIRUSES THAT CAN COLONIZE HUMANS 503 00:21:21,391 --> 00:21:24,428 AND I SEE THE NIH CLINICAL 504 00:21:24,428 --> 00:21:25,929 CENTER'S PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY 505 00:21:25,929 --> 00:21:28,031 IMMUNE DEFICIENCY AS A RICH 506 00:21:28,031 --> 00:21:29,333 RESOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING 507 00:21:29,333 --> 00:21:31,301 VIRUSES THAT CAN COLONIZE HUMANS 508 00:21:31,301 --> 00:21:33,170 AS WELL AS USING THIS 509 00:21:33,170 --> 00:21:34,905 INFORMATION TO HELP TAILOR THEIR 510 00:21:34,905 --> 00:21:37,241 CARE BECAUSE WE'RE OFTEN FINDING 511 00:21:37,241 --> 00:21:39,309 VIRUSES THAT PERHAPS WE DIDN'T 512 00:21:39,309 --> 00:21:43,780 EVEN KNOW TO TEST FOR. 513 00:21:43,780 --> 00:21:45,115 ENOUGH ABOUT THE MICROBIUM 514 00:21:45,115 --> 00:21:46,016 FRIENDS AND, YOU KNOW, LET ME 515 00:21:46,016 --> 00:21:47,985 TALK ALSO A LITTLE ABOUT THE 516 00:21:47,985 --> 00:21:50,554 FOES BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN SOME 517 00:21:50,554 --> 00:21:54,491 OF THE WORK THAT REALLY HAS BEEN 518 00:21:54,491 --> 00:21:58,595 FOR ME PERFORMANCE FOREFRONT OF 519 00:21:58,595 --> 00:22:02,499 HOW RESEARCH CAN BE EMBEDDED 520 00:22:02,499 --> 00:22:04,535 INTO HOSPITAL LIKE THE NIH 521 00:22:04,535 --> 00:22:07,838 CLINICAL CENTER, SO HERE IN THIS 522 00:22:07,838 --> 00:22:08,505 TALK ABOUT THE NATIONAL 523 00:22:08,505 --> 00:22:10,908 ACADEMIES, I WANT TO BRING BACK 524 00:22:10,908 --> 00:22:13,076 TO A DECADE AGO, WHICH WAS 525 00:22:13,076 --> 00:22:15,746 REALLY ONE OF THE SIGNATURES OF 526 00:22:15,746 --> 00:22:18,482 MY CAREER AT NIH WHICH WAS THE 527 00:22:18,482 --> 00:22:24,955 OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH DR. 528 00:22:24,955 --> 00:22:26,823 TARA PALMORE, DAVID HENDERSON. 529 00:22:26,823 --> 00:22:29,293 AND IN THIS CASE, IT WAS THE 530 00:22:29,293 --> 00:22:30,961 FIRST PATIENT WHO WAS RECOGNIZED 531 00:22:30,961 --> 00:22:36,200 AS COMING TO THE NIH CLINICAL 532 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:41,772 CENTER CARRYING A CARBAPENEM 533 00:22:41,772 --> 00:22:46,076 RESISTANT KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIA. 534 00:22:46,076 --> 00:22:55,786 THE ENTEROBACTER ESIA LEAD THE 535 00:22:55,786 --> 00:22:57,120 THREATS, NO ANTIBIOTICS LEFT TO 536 00:22:57,120 --> 00:22:58,488 TREAT THESE BACTERIA. 537 00:22:58,488 --> 00:23:01,058 IN THIS STORY WE HAD A PATIENT 538 00:23:01,058 --> 00:23:05,195 COME INTO THE CLINICAL CENTER, 539 00:23:05,195 --> 00:23:06,563 AND SHE WAS PUT IN ISOLATION AT 540 00:23:06,563 --> 00:23:07,764 THAT POINT. 541 00:23:07,764 --> 00:23:12,736 WE HAD A FAIR AMOUNT OF 542 00:23:12,736 --> 00:23:13,904 EXPERIENCE AND PUT HER IN THE 543 00:23:13,904 --> 00:23:18,342 LAST ROOM OF THE ICU. 544 00:23:18,342 --> 00:23:20,944 AND A GOOD TWO MONTHS WENT BY, 545 00:23:20,944 --> 00:23:24,681 AND THEN THERE WAS A SECOND, 546 00:23:24,681 --> 00:23:25,549 THIRD -- OOPS. 547 00:23:25,549 --> 00:23:26,450 SORRY. 548 00:23:26,450 --> 00:23:28,719 SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH 549 00:23:28,719 --> 00:23:34,725 PATIENT WHO WERE IDENTIFIED AS 550 00:23:34,725 --> 00:23:36,293 CARRYING KPC, KRE KPC. 551 00:23:36,293 --> 00:23:38,228 THE TIMELINE IS WHEN PATIENTS 552 00:23:38,228 --> 00:23:40,197 WERE IDENTIFIED AND THE ORANGE 553 00:23:40,197 --> 00:23:42,566 ONES WERE IDENTIFIED AS CLINICAL 554 00:23:42,566 --> 00:23:43,700 CULTURES, BLUE IDENTIFIED AS 555 00:23:43,700 --> 00:23:45,102 SURVEILLANCE CULTURES. 556 00:23:45,102 --> 00:23:50,607 THESE WERE VERY SICK PATIENTS IN 557 00:23:50,607 --> 00:23:51,408 THE ICU. 558 00:23:51,408 --> 00:23:53,977 AND SO I CALLED UP DR. HENDERSON 559 00:23:53,977 --> 00:23:55,412 AND SAID, I'D LIKE TO SEQUENCE 560 00:23:55,412 --> 00:23:58,048 THEM AND LET'S SEE IF WE CAN 561 00:23:58,048 --> 00:23:59,549 FIGURE OUT ANYTHING. 562 00:23:59,549 --> 00:24:00,784 WE TOOK PATIENT NUMBER 1 BECAUSE 563 00:24:00,784 --> 00:24:03,053 WE THOUGHT THAT WAS GOING TO BE 564 00:24:03,053 --> 00:24:03,987 THE OUTLIER, AND THOUGHT THAT'S 565 00:24:03,987 --> 00:24:06,456 HOW WE WERE GOING TO UNDERSTAND 566 00:24:06,456 --> 00:24:08,425 WHAT'S THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN 567 00:24:08,425 --> 00:24:17,134 2, 3, 4 AND 5 USING PATIENT 1 AS 568 00:24:17,134 --> 00:24:17,467 THE REFERENCE. 569 00:24:17,467 --> 00:24:20,137 THIS IS THE DECISION POINT. 570 00:24:20,137 --> 00:24:22,239 OUR PRIMARY QUESTION WAS ABOUT 571 00:24:22,239 --> 00:24:23,540 THE RELATEDNESS OF PATIENTS 2, 572 00:24:23,540 --> 00:24:29,246 3, 4 AND 5, BUT WE ALSO HAD THIS 573 00:24:29,246 --> 00:24:30,647 REALLY DEEP QUESTION ABOUT 574 00:24:30,647 --> 00:24:34,151 PATIENT 1 AND WAS PATIENT 1 575 00:24:34,151 --> 00:24:37,888 GOING TO MATCH 2, 3, 4 AND 5. 576 00:24:37,888 --> 00:24:41,391 THE REASON THAT WAS IMPORTANT, 577 00:24:41,391 --> 00:24:42,492 THE DECISION MATRIX DR. PALMORE 578 00:24:42,492 --> 00:24:44,895 HAS TO MAKE, WHICH IS THE 579 00:24:44,895 --> 00:24:45,962 QUESTION IF PATIENT 1 MATCHES 2, 580 00:24:45,962 --> 00:24:51,568 3, AND 4 AND WE'RE ON THE LEFT, 581 00:24:51,568 --> 00:24:53,370 THEN WE HAD NOSOCOMIAL, OR 582 00:24:53,370 --> 00:24:54,037 HOSPITAL TRANSMISSION. 583 00:24:54,037 --> 00:24:57,140 THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THE CONTACT 584 00:24:57,140 --> 00:24:58,208 ISOLATION WAS INSUFFICIENT, THE 585 00:24:58,208 --> 00:25:00,610 SCREENING OF PATIENTS WAS 586 00:25:00,610 --> 00:25:02,145 INSUFFICIENT, AND THERE WAS A 587 00:25:02,145 --> 00:25:04,848 NEED THEREFORE TO CHANGE THE 588 00:25:04,848 --> 00:25:06,383 HOSPITAL PRACTICE. 589 00:25:06,383 --> 00:25:08,752 ON THE OTHER HAND, IF PATIENT 1 590 00:25:08,752 --> 00:25:11,788 DOESN'T MATCH 2, 3, 4 AND 5, 591 00:25:11,788 --> 00:25:12,823 IT'S TWO SEPARATE INTRODUCTIONS, 592 00:25:12,823 --> 00:25:15,359 AND THEN THAT MEANS THE CONTACT 593 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:16,626 ISOLATION IS SUFFICIENT, 594 00:25:16,626 --> 00:25:18,428 SCREENING OF PATIENTS IS 595 00:25:18,428 --> 00:25:20,864 SUFFICIENT, AND STAY THE COURSE. 596 00:25:20,864 --> 00:25:22,099 THAT'S MORE ACTUALLY ON THE 597 00:25:22,099 --> 00:25:22,966 RIGHT-HAND SIDE, THAT'S MORE 598 00:25:22,966 --> 00:25:24,968 WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE NIH 599 00:25:24,968 --> 00:25:32,342 CLINICAL CENTER DURING 600 00:25:32,342 --> 00:25:32,676 ASENITOBACTER. 601 00:25:32,676 --> 00:25:35,445 WE DIDN'T HAVE THE RESOLUTION, 602 00:25:35,445 --> 00:25:37,280 MICRO LAB STILL RUNNING GELS, 603 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,282 ALL WOULD LOOK THE SAME. 604 00:25:39,282 --> 00:25:44,187 BECAUSE 70% OF HEALTH CARE 605 00:25:44,187 --> 00:25:44,788 ACQUIRED KLEBSIELLA PMEUMONIAE 606 00:25:44,788 --> 00:25:46,957 IN THE U.S. ARE SEQUENCE TYPE 607 00:25:46,957 --> 00:25:48,558 258 THAT LOOK THE SAME. 608 00:25:48,558 --> 00:25:55,265 COULD GENOMIC DATA GIVE US MORE 609 00:25:55,265 --> 00:26:00,036 INFORMATION TO RESOLVE THIS? 610 00:26:00,036 --> 00:26:00,237 OKAY. 611 00:26:00,237 --> 00:26:01,838 SO, PATIENT 1, I WANT TO TAKE A 612 00:26:01,838 --> 00:26:04,674 BIT OF A DEEPER DIVE. 613 00:26:04,674 --> 00:26:06,476 NOW, ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE I'VE 614 00:26:06,476 --> 00:26:08,512 DRAWN THESE DIAGRAMS. 615 00:26:08,512 --> 00:26:12,382 THIS IS PATIENT NUMBER 1, AND 616 00:26:12,382 --> 00:26:14,418 SHE HAD BEEN COLONIZED FOR SO 617 00:26:14,418 --> 00:26:16,753 LONG THAT SHE ACTUALLY WAS 618 00:26:16,753 --> 00:26:19,656 COLONIZED AT MULTIPLE SITES IN 619 00:26:19,656 --> 00:26:20,690 HER BODY. 620 00:26:20,690 --> 00:26:22,259 WE HAD ISOLATES, MULTIPLE 621 00:26:22,259 --> 00:26:23,093 ISOLATES, FROM URINARY TRACT 622 00:26:23,093 --> 00:26:26,029 OVER A WEEK OR TWO IN WHICH WE 623 00:26:26,029 --> 00:26:28,031 KEPT CULTURES AND CLINICAL 624 00:26:28,031 --> 00:26:29,966 MICROLAB KEPT CULTURING THEM. 625 00:26:29,966 --> 00:26:31,868 WE ALSO HAD ISOLATES FROM THE 626 00:26:31,868 --> 00:26:35,138 THROAT AND FROM THE GROIN AREA. 627 00:26:35,138 --> 00:26:37,841 SO WE SEQUENCED ALL OF THESE 628 00:26:37,841 --> 00:26:38,108 ISOLATES. 629 00:26:38,108 --> 00:26:42,412 AND WHAT I'M SHOWING YOU IS THAT 630 00:26:42,412 --> 00:26:44,114 ON THE VERY LEFT, THE PLAIN 631 00:26:44,114 --> 00:26:45,182 CIRCLE, THAT'S THE URINE 632 00:26:45,182 --> 00:26:46,082 ISOLATE. 633 00:26:46,082 --> 00:26:48,418 WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER THAT 634 00:26:48,418 --> 00:26:50,086 ANCESTRAL OR REFERENCE STRAIN. 635 00:26:50,086 --> 00:26:52,589 IN THE THROAT ISOLATE, THERE 636 00:26:52,589 --> 00:26:55,659 SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN THREE SINGLE 637 00:26:55,659 --> 00:26:58,428 NUCLEOSIDE CHANGES IN A 6 638 00:26:58,428 --> 00:26:59,062 MEGABASE GENOME. 639 00:26:59,062 --> 00:27:00,397 THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED NOT IN 640 00:27:00,397 --> 00:27:02,232 CODING GENE OR ANYTHING BUT 641 00:27:02,232 --> 00:27:03,800 SMALL ERRORS IN REPLICATION THAT 642 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,370 GET PASSED ON, IN A CLONAL 643 00:27:07,370 --> 00:27:08,071 SPREAD. 644 00:27:08,071 --> 00:27:11,208 THE GROIN SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN 645 00:27:11,208 --> 00:27:13,477 SEPARATE, YOU KNOW, SEPARATE 646 00:27:13,477 --> 00:27:16,246 COLONIZATION, YOU SEE THREE 647 00:27:16,246 --> 00:27:17,781 DIFFERENT SNPs. 648 00:27:17,781 --> 00:27:21,151 THE KEY, THESE SNPs ARE 649 00:27:21,151 --> 00:27:22,152 IDENTIFIABLE TO THIS PATIENT. 650 00:27:22,152 --> 00:27:25,255 SO THE MOMENT THAT WE ALL 651 00:27:25,255 --> 00:27:27,757 REMEMBER IS SITTING THERE WITH 652 00:27:27,757 --> 00:27:29,192 THE ORIGINAL SEQUENCE DATA, WE 653 00:27:29,192 --> 00:27:32,462 GOT THE ISOLATES AND HAD THE 654 00:27:32,462 --> 00:27:33,864 SEQUENCE DATA, AND WITHIN 24 655 00:27:33,864 --> 00:27:35,532 HOURS WE HAD ANALYZED IT AND 656 00:27:35,532 --> 00:27:37,267 WE'RE SITTING IN A CONFERENCE 657 00:27:37,267 --> 00:27:40,437 ROOM WITH DR. PALMORE AND SAY, 658 00:27:40,437 --> 00:27:43,673 WE HAVE A MATCH FROM PATIENT 1, 659 00:27:43,673 --> 00:27:44,941 AND THE OTHER PATIENTS. 660 00:27:44,941 --> 00:27:47,978 BUT THE PART WE DON'T UNDERSTAND 661 00:27:47,978 --> 00:27:52,482 IS THAT WE THINK PATIENT 1 662 00:27:52,482 --> 00:27:53,583 TRANSMITTED TO PATIENT 3, 663 00:27:53,583 --> 00:27:55,986 BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE THE 664 00:27:55,986 --> 00:27:57,854 SAME THREE SNPs IN PATIENT 3'S 665 00:27:57,854 --> 00:28:00,190 THROAT ISOLATE AS IN PATIENT 1. 666 00:28:00,190 --> 00:28:04,027 AND THEN WE BELIEVE PATIENT 3 667 00:28:04,027 --> 00:28:05,395 TRANSMITTED TO PATIENT 2. 668 00:28:05,395 --> 00:28:06,796 BECAUSE PATIENT 2 HAS AN 669 00:28:06,796 --> 00:28:10,333 ADDITIONAL SNP WE DIDN'T SEE IN 670 00:28:10,333 --> 00:28:12,969 EITHER PATIENT 3 OR 1. 671 00:28:12,969 --> 00:28:14,471 AND DR. PALMORE SAYS, YEAH, 672 00:28:14,471 --> 00:28:16,773 THAT'S ALSO WHAT I THINK 673 00:28:16,773 --> 00:28:17,107 HAPPENED. 674 00:28:17,107 --> 00:28:19,509 SO FOR THIS MOMENT WE HAD THE 675 00:28:19,509 --> 00:28:20,744 GENOMIC DATA AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC 676 00:28:20,744 --> 00:28:22,412 DATA LINING UP. 677 00:28:22,412 --> 00:28:25,348 THE BOTTOM I SHOW PATIENT TRACE 678 00:28:25,348 --> 00:28:26,249 DATA. 679 00:28:26,249 --> 00:28:29,686 PATIENT 1 AND PATIENT 3 IN 680 00:28:29,686 --> 00:28:32,455 TURQUOISE OVERLAPPED IN THE ICU. 681 00:28:32,455 --> 00:28:34,624 AFTER PATIENT 1 HAD ALREADY LEFT 682 00:28:34,624 --> 00:28:37,928 THE ICU, PATIENT 3 AND 2 683 00:28:37,928 --> 00:28:39,062 OVERLAPPED IN THE ICU. 684 00:28:39,062 --> 00:28:40,664 WHAT THIS WOULD SUGGEST IS THAT 685 00:28:40,664 --> 00:28:43,633 THERE WAS A TRANSMISSION FROM 686 00:28:43,633 --> 00:28:46,403 PATIENT 1 TO 3, THAT WENT 687 00:28:46,403 --> 00:28:47,771 UNDETECTED FOR TWO MONTHS. 688 00:28:47,771 --> 00:28:50,974 BUT WAS CARRIED BY THAT PATIENT 689 00:28:50,974 --> 00:28:52,976 ENOUGH THAT THE PATIENT 3 COULD 690 00:28:52,976 --> 00:28:57,080 GO ON AND TRANSMIT TO PATIENT 2. 691 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:58,848 I REALLY DO THINK PROBABLY THE 692 00:28:58,848 --> 00:29:01,017 WORLD OF COVID HAS TAUGHT US 693 00:29:01,017 --> 00:29:02,218 LIKE HOW THIS COULD HAPPEN BUT 694 00:29:02,218 --> 00:29:03,320 I'M TELLING YOU THIS WAS MIND 695 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,389 BLOWING TO US AT THE TIME. 696 00:29:06,389 --> 00:29:08,191 AND IT MEANT EXACTLY THAT. 697 00:29:08,191 --> 00:29:13,630 WE HAD TO CHANGE THE -- ENHANCE 698 00:29:13,630 --> 00:29:15,198 SURVEILLANCE OF ASYMPTOMATIC 699 00:29:15,198 --> 00:29:18,335 PATIENTS, AND HAVE MORE CONTACT 700 00:29:18,335 --> 00:29:18,602 ISOLATION. 701 00:29:18,602 --> 00:29:21,237 THERE CONTINUED TO BE A CLUSTER 702 00:29:21,237 --> 00:29:24,074 OF INFECTIONS AT THE NIH 703 00:29:24,074 --> 00:29:29,446 CLINICAL CENTER, BUT WITH THIS 704 00:29:29,446 --> 00:29:34,584 ENHANCED PRECAUTIONS THERE WAS A 705 00:29:34,584 --> 00:29:37,420 HALT IN THE TRANSMISSIONS THAT 706 00:29:37,420 --> 00:29:38,521 OCCURRED IN THE HOSPITAL. 707 00:29:38,521 --> 00:29:40,256 WE WERE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 708 00:29:40,256 --> 00:29:42,058 WERE THE WEAKNESSES AND HOW WE 709 00:29:42,058 --> 00:29:44,828 COULD CHANGE THE PRACTICE. 710 00:29:44,828 --> 00:29:46,496 SO, A LOT OF WHAT WE DID WITH 711 00:29:46,496 --> 00:29:48,031 GENOMIC DATA WAS THINK ABOUT THE 712 00:29:48,031 --> 00:29:49,332 CONNECTIONS THAT WE COULD MAKE, 713 00:29:49,332 --> 00:29:52,602 BUT WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO RULE 714 00:29:52,602 --> 00:29:53,136 OUT CONNECTIONS. 715 00:29:53,136 --> 00:29:55,438 SO ON THE LEFT OF THIS SLIDE, 716 00:29:55,438 --> 00:29:57,540 I'VE DRAWN SORT OF WHAT WOULD 717 00:29:57,540 --> 00:29:59,976 HAVE BEEN THE POSSIBLE 718 00:29:59,976 --> 00:30:01,277 CONNECTIONS WHERE IF YOU HAD 719 00:30:01,277 --> 00:30:03,146 LOOKED AT HOW ALL THE WAYS IN 720 00:30:03,146 --> 00:30:05,649 WHICH THESE PATIENTS WERE ON THE 721 00:30:05,649 --> 00:30:08,918 SAME BOARD OR ARE THE SAME 722 00:30:08,918 --> 00:30:09,452 MEDICAL DEEM WHAT WERE 723 00:30:09,452 --> 00:30:11,621 EPIDEMIOLOGIC LINKS BUT WHEN YOU 724 00:30:11,621 --> 00:30:13,223 COMBINE EPIDEMIOLOGIC LINKS WITH 725 00:30:13,223 --> 00:30:14,424 THE GENOMIC DATA, THEN YOU CAN 726 00:30:14,424 --> 00:30:17,494 SEE WHAT ARE THE MOST LIKELY 727 00:30:17,494 --> 00:30:20,296 ROUTES OF TRANSMISSION, AND THAT 728 00:30:20,296 --> 00:30:21,598 MEANT THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE 729 00:30:21,598 --> 00:30:24,901 HAVE BEEN A NARRATIVE ABOUT TWO 730 00:30:24,901 --> 00:30:26,436 PATIENTS WHO THERE WAS THE SAME 731 00:30:26,436 --> 00:30:28,605 WOUND CART BEING USED ON THE TWO 732 00:30:28,605 --> 00:30:31,574 SUBJECTS, BUT WHEN WE SAW THEM 733 00:30:31,574 --> 00:30:33,943 IN THE GENOMIC DATA, ONE OF THEM 734 00:30:33,943 --> 00:30:35,945 WAS LIKE PATIENT 9 AND THE OTHER 735 00:30:35,945 --> 00:30:37,681 WAS PATIENT 16, YOU CAN SEE THEY 736 00:30:37,681 --> 00:30:40,383 WERE ON TWO DIFFERENT PARTS OF 737 00:30:40,383 --> 00:30:42,185 THE TRANSMISSION TREE, AND WE 738 00:30:42,185 --> 00:30:43,953 DIDN'T NEED TO CONTINUE TO LOOK 739 00:30:43,953 --> 00:30:47,057 FOR WHAT WERE THE LINKS. 740 00:30:47,057 --> 00:30:50,760 SO, WITH THIS DATA WE WERE ABLE 741 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:51,928 TO STOP THE TRANSMISSION. 742 00:30:51,928 --> 00:30:54,497 SO NOW I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE 743 00:30:54,497 --> 00:30:55,899 FINAL VIGNETTE WHICH IS REALLY 744 00:30:55,899 --> 00:31:00,937 ABOUT NEW WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN 745 00:31:00,937 --> 00:31:06,543 DOING ON CANDIDA AURIS COMBINING 746 00:31:06,543 --> 00:31:08,545 SKIN MICROBIOME AND RESISTANCE, 747 00:31:08,545 --> 00:31:16,786 WORKING WITH OUR COLLEAGUES AT 748 00:31:16,786 --> 00:31:18,488 THE CDC. 749 00:31:18,488 --> 00:31:23,493 SO CANDIDA AURIS IS FUNGAL 750 00:31:23,493 --> 00:31:25,261 PATHOGEN, THAT IS AGAIN CDC IS 751 00:31:25,261 --> 00:31:29,232 RATING THIS AS ONE OF ITS MOST 752 00:31:29,232 --> 00:31:31,234 URGENT THREATS BECAUSE CANDIDA 753 00:31:31,234 --> 00:31:32,635 AURIS ALSO HAS EVOLVED 754 00:31:32,635 --> 00:31:37,040 RESISTANCE TO ALL KNOWN 755 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:37,373 ANTI-FUNGALS. 756 00:31:37,373 --> 00:31:40,110 IF YOU THINK THERE'S A PROBLEM 757 00:31:40,110 --> 00:31:45,248 WITH DEVELOPMENT OF ANTIBIOTICS, 758 00:31:45,248 --> 00:31:47,617 ANTI-FUNGALS ARE HARDER BECAUSE 759 00:31:47,617 --> 00:31:49,119 THEY ARE EUKARYOTES, HARD TO GET 760 00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:51,588 IN THE SPACE TOXIC TO FUNGI AND 761 00:31:51,588 --> 00:31:54,958 NOT TOXIC TO THE HUMAN. 762 00:31:54,958 --> 00:31:58,762 CANDIDA AURIS IS AN ENIGMA. 763 00:31:58,762 --> 00:32:01,564 IT WAS NOT KNOWN BEFORE 2009, 764 00:32:01,564 --> 00:32:08,004 AND SINCE THEN FOUR CLADES OF 765 00:32:08,004 --> 00:32:09,339 CANDIDA AURIS HAVE BEEN 766 00:32:09,339 --> 00:32:10,173 RECOGNIZED, FOUR REGIONS OF THE 767 00:32:10,173 --> 00:32:11,808 GLOBE, BUT THEY HAVE ALL NOW 768 00:32:11,808 --> 00:32:14,711 COME TO THE UNITED STATES AND 769 00:32:14,711 --> 00:32:21,117 ARE CAUSING OUTBREAKS IN NURSING 770 00:32:21,117 --> 00:32:21,584 HOMES. 771 00:32:21,584 --> 00:32:23,453 AND WHY ARE THESE CANDIDA AURIS 772 00:32:23,453 --> 00:32:27,590 OUTBREAKS HAPPENING IN NURSING 773 00:32:27,590 --> 00:32:28,925 HOMES AND HOW DOES IT CONNECT TO 774 00:32:28,925 --> 00:32:30,193 THE SKIN MICROBIOME? 775 00:32:30,193 --> 00:32:31,661 THE SKIN IS CONSTANTLY TURNING 776 00:32:31,661 --> 00:32:31,961 OVER. 777 00:32:31,961 --> 00:32:34,230 SO WE SHED THE ENTIRE LAYER OF 778 00:32:34,230 --> 00:32:35,932 OUR SKIN EVERY TWO TO FOUR 779 00:32:35,932 --> 00:32:36,132 WEEKS. 780 00:32:36,132 --> 00:32:37,967 AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT AS 781 00:32:37,967 --> 00:32:40,170 THOSE DUST BUNNIES AROUND YOUR 782 00:32:40,170 --> 00:32:40,570 HOUSE. 783 00:32:40,570 --> 00:32:42,005 SO, WE'RE SHEDDING FIVE TIMES 784 00:32:42,005 --> 00:32:43,573 TEN TO THE EIGHTH HUMAN CELLS 785 00:32:43,573 --> 00:32:45,842 PER DAY, BUT THAT MEANS WE'RE 786 00:32:45,842 --> 00:32:48,578 SHEDDING, YOU KNOW, TEN TO THE 787 00:32:48,578 --> 00:32:51,281 SEVENTH MICROBES PER DAY. 788 00:32:51,281 --> 00:32:53,817 FOR THE MICROBES THAT CAN 789 00:32:53,817 --> 00:33:01,457 PERSIST IN THE ENVIRONMENT, LIKE 790 00:33:01,457 --> 00:33:03,493 ASENNICDOBACTER OR CANDIDA 791 00:33:03,493 --> 00:33:05,061 AURIS, IT CAN PERSIST AS VIABLE, 792 00:33:05,061 --> 00:33:11,668 THAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO 793 00:33:11,668 --> 00:33:13,369 CONTROL THESE OUTBREAKS IN 794 00:33:13,369 --> 00:33:14,504 CONGREGANT SETTINGS, I MEAN 795 00:33:14,504 --> 00:33:14,971 NURSING HOMES. 796 00:33:14,971 --> 00:33:17,907 WE'RE NOT SEEING THIS IN THE 797 00:33:17,907 --> 00:33:19,142 HEALTHY POPULATIONS, BUT IN 798 00:33:19,142 --> 00:33:22,946 THESE SICK OR OLDER PATIENTS 799 00:33:22,946 --> 00:33:23,913 WE'RE SEEING CANDIDA AURIS 800 00:33:23,913 --> 00:33:27,350 COLONIZE ONE RESIDENT IN THE 801 00:33:27,350 --> 00:33:29,185 NURSING HOME, THEM BEING 802 00:33:29,185 --> 00:33:31,387 BASICALLY RUNNING THROUGH THE 803 00:33:31,387 --> 00:33:32,822 ENTIRE NURSING HOME, UNLESS 804 00:33:32,822 --> 00:33:34,824 CASES ARE REALLY RECOGNIZED 805 00:33:34,824 --> 00:33:38,061 EARLY ON AND ISOLATED. 806 00:33:38,061 --> 00:33:41,497 SO, IN A STUDY THAT I'VE BEEN 807 00:33:41,497 --> 00:33:43,199 VERY FORTUNATE TO CARRY OUT WITH 808 00:33:43,199 --> 00:33:46,236 DR. MARY HAYDEN AND MY 809 00:33:46,236 --> 00:33:48,004 COLLEAGUES AT THE CDC, WE SET UP 810 00:33:48,004 --> 00:33:53,243 A STUDY TO LOOK AT RESIDENTS IN 811 00:33:53,243 --> 00:33:54,110 NURSING HOMES TO TRAP 812 00:33:54,110 --> 00:33:55,211 TRANSMISSION OF CANDIDA AURIS. 813 00:33:55,211 --> 00:34:00,250 SOME OF THAT INITIAL WORK HAS 814 00:34:00,250 --> 00:34:01,551 BEEN PUBLISHED, ABOUT HOW 815 00:34:01,551 --> 00:34:02,685 DIFFICULT IT IS TO DETECT 816 00:34:02,685 --> 00:34:04,487 CANDIDA AURIS BECAUSE IT CAN 817 00:34:04,487 --> 00:34:06,856 COLONIZE ANY PART OF THE SKIN, 818 00:34:06,856 --> 00:34:09,459 WHICH MAKES INFECTION CONTROL 819 00:34:09,459 --> 00:34:10,793 VERY HARD. 820 00:34:10,793 --> 00:34:14,831 BUT OUR LATEST WORK HAS BEEN 821 00:34:14,831 --> 00:34:16,966 LOOKING AT THE AGGREGATE OF WHAT 822 00:34:16,966 --> 00:34:18,334 IS COLONIZING THE SKIN. 823 00:34:18,334 --> 00:34:20,336 SO WE WENT IN THIS LOOKING AT 824 00:34:20,336 --> 00:34:23,072 THE SKIN AS WE WENT TO LOOK FOR 825 00:34:23,072 --> 00:34:25,875 CANDIDA AURIS BUT I WANT TO TALK 826 00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:26,409 ABOUT A SMALL TECHNOLOGY 827 00:34:26,409 --> 00:34:28,745 REVOLUTION, THIS WILL BE THE 828 00:34:28,745 --> 00:34:31,147 LAST PART, AND HOW THAT'S 829 00:34:31,147 --> 00:34:34,017 CHANGING THINGS FOR US. 830 00:34:34,017 --> 00:34:36,185 SO, I'M GOING IN AND LOOKING 831 00:34:36,185 --> 00:34:39,022 AT -- I'M LOOKING FOR CANDIDA 832 00:34:39,022 --> 00:34:39,489 AURIS. 833 00:34:39,489 --> 00:34:41,925 WHEN WE WANT TO STUDY SOMEONE'S 834 00:34:41,925 --> 00:34:45,061 SKIN MICROBIOME AND SEE, YOU 835 00:34:45,061 --> 00:34:45,962 KNOW, WHAT STRAINS OF CANDIDA 836 00:34:45,962 --> 00:34:47,997 AURIS, HOW MUCH THEY HAVE ON THE 837 00:34:47,997 --> 00:34:50,533 SKIN WE SWAB THE SKIN AND WE 838 00:34:50,533 --> 00:34:52,535 JUST PUT THAT SAMPLE -- WE CAN 839 00:34:52,535 --> 00:34:54,971 CULTURE BUT WE WANT TO LOOK AT 840 00:34:54,971 --> 00:34:57,774 THE STRAIN LEVEL VARIATION, WE 841 00:34:57,774 --> 00:34:59,442 TAKE THAT SAMPLE, CLINICAL 842 00:34:59,442 --> 00:35:02,679 SAMPLE, PUT IT STRAIGHT INTO THE 843 00:35:02,679 --> 00:35:04,180 ILLUMINA SEQUENCER. 844 00:35:04,180 --> 00:35:06,749 FROM THAT, WE CAN REASSEMBLE THE 845 00:35:06,749 --> 00:35:07,850 CANDIDA AURIS GENOME. 846 00:35:07,850 --> 00:35:10,486 THIS HAS REALLY BEEN ACTUALLY 847 00:35:10,486 --> 00:35:13,489 THE REVOLUTION OF MY LAB, WHERE 848 00:35:13,489 --> 00:35:16,159 FROM A COMPLEX SAMPLE OF THE 849 00:35:16,159 --> 00:35:20,163 SKIN, I CAN THEN REASSEMBLE THE 850 00:35:20,163 --> 00:35:23,599 ENTIRE GENOME OF CANDIDA AURIS 851 00:35:23,599 --> 00:35:25,234 AND OTHER BACTERIAL, FUNGAL, AND 852 00:35:25,234 --> 00:35:26,536 VIRAL SPECIES THAT ARE. THERE 853 00:35:26,536 --> 00:35:29,138 HOW I THINK ABOUT THIS IS THAT I 854 00:35:29,138 --> 00:35:31,441 THINK IT'S CLEAR TO EVERYONE HOW 855 00:35:31,441 --> 00:35:33,977 YOU ALL SEQUENCE -- MANY OF YOU 856 00:35:33,977 --> 00:35:35,078 SEQUENCE MICROBIAL GENOMES AND 857 00:35:35,078 --> 00:35:37,180 KNOW YOU GET THESE READS AND 858 00:35:37,180 --> 00:35:39,449 ASSEMBLE THEM AND GET A GENOME. 859 00:35:39,449 --> 00:35:42,285 THAT'S LIKE IF I JUST GAVE 860 00:35:42,285 --> 00:35:44,253 YOU -- I HAVE PUT ALL THE PIECES 861 00:35:44,253 --> 00:35:47,090 FOR A PUZZLE INTO A BOX, AND YOU 862 00:35:47,090 --> 00:35:49,425 USE THAT TO ASSEMBLE THE GENOME. 863 00:35:49,425 --> 00:35:51,160 BUT WHAT I'M TRYING TO DESCRIBE 864 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,531 TO YOU HERE WITH SHOTGUN 865 00:35:55,531 --> 00:35:58,067 METAGENOMICS TAKEN FROM THE SKIN 866 00:35:58,067 --> 00:35:59,769 SAMPLE DIRECTLY I HAVE ONE BOX 867 00:35:59,769 --> 00:36:01,571 WITH MULTIPLE PUZZLES IN IT, 868 00:36:01,571 --> 00:36:05,608 RIGHT? 869 00:36:05,608 --> 00:36:07,510 YOU'LL HAVE THE COMMENSAL 870 00:36:07,510 --> 00:36:08,411 STAPHYLOCOCCUS AND CUDO BACTERIA 871 00:36:08,411 --> 00:36:09,545 AND CANDIDA AURIS. 872 00:36:09,545 --> 00:36:11,347 I PUT THESE TOGETHER IN ONE BOX 873 00:36:11,347 --> 00:36:16,185 AND I SAY CAN YOU ASSEMBLE THEM 874 00:36:16,185 --> 00:36:22,458 INTO GENOMES TO LOOK AT 875 00:36:22,458 --> 00:36:22,925 TRANSMISSION NETWORKS. 876 00:36:22,925 --> 00:36:23,793 THIS IS MORE EFFICIENT THAN 877 00:36:23,793 --> 00:36:32,969 PREVIOUSLY WHERE I JUST LOOKED 878 00:36:32,969 --> 00:36:34,470 AT KLEB PNEUMO, FROM ONE AT A 879 00:36:34,470 --> 00:36:34,670 TIME. 880 00:36:34,670 --> 00:36:36,806 WHEN YOU THINK IF I DID GIVE YOU 881 00:36:36,806 --> 00:36:39,742 THESE PUZZLES, YOU WOULD SORT 882 00:36:39,742 --> 00:36:41,444 THE PIECES INTO EITHER THE 883 00:36:41,444 --> 00:36:43,846 COLORS YOU SAW OR THE SIZE OF 884 00:36:43,846 --> 00:36:47,884 THE PUZZLE PIECES OR MAYBE SOME, 885 00:36:47,884 --> 00:36:49,585 YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT MARKINGS 886 00:36:49,585 --> 00:36:51,554 THAT SOME HAVE, SMALLER PIECES, 887 00:36:51,554 --> 00:36:52,321 LARGER PIECES. 888 00:36:52,321 --> 00:36:56,526 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING 889 00:36:56,526 --> 00:36:58,795 ALSO, LOOKING AT TETRA 890 00:36:58,795 --> 00:37:00,463 NUCLEOSIDE, GC CONTENT, SORTING 891 00:37:00,463 --> 00:37:00,797 INTO PUZZLES. 892 00:37:00,797 --> 00:37:04,167 I WAS EXPECTING TO SORT OF LOOK 893 00:37:04,167 --> 00:37:06,469 AT FRIENDS AND FOES AND CANDIDA 894 00:37:06,469 --> 00:37:09,272 AURIS, AND INSTEAD WHEN WE 895 00:37:09,272 --> 00:37:11,974 ASSEMBLED ALL OF THE GENOMES 896 00:37:11,974 --> 00:37:14,243 WHAT WE FOUND WAS CANDIDA AURIS, 897 00:37:14,243 --> 00:37:16,412 AND FROM THE SKIN OF THESE 898 00:37:16,412 --> 00:37:19,248 RESIDENTS OF THE NURSING HOME 899 00:37:19,248 --> 00:37:20,616 FOUND A CLONAL SPREAD OF CANDIDA 900 00:37:20,616 --> 00:37:22,652 AURIS, IN ADDITION THE OTHER 901 00:37:22,652 --> 00:37:24,120 GENOMES THAT CAME OUT OF THE 902 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,290 SKIN OF THESE PATIENTS IN THE 903 00:37:27,290 --> 00:37:36,566 NURSING HOMES WAS E. COLI, STAPH 904 00:37:36,566 --> 00:37:37,300 AUREUS, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA, 905 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:40,436 THE FULL ESCAPE OF ALL OF THE 906 00:37:40,436 --> 00:37:43,172 BACTERIA WE CONSIDER AND ARE 907 00:37:43,172 --> 00:37:49,812 MOST CONCERNED ABOUT WITH 908 00:37:49,812 --> 00:37:51,214 MULTI-DRUG RESISTANCE. 909 00:37:51,214 --> 00:37:52,181 WE ASSEMBLED FULL GENESOME FROM 910 00:37:52,181 --> 00:37:55,017 THE SKIN OF THESE PATIENTS AND 911 00:37:55,017 --> 00:37:59,155 ARE TRACKING, WE WERE TRYING TO 912 00:37:59,155 --> 00:38:02,091 TRACK A CANDIDA AURIS OUTBREAK 913 00:38:02,091 --> 00:38:02,658 BUT INSTEAD TRACKING 914 00:38:02,658 --> 00:38:06,329 SIMULTANEOUSY SPREAD OF CANDIDA 915 00:38:06,329 --> 00:38:11,868 AURIS, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMO, E. 916 00:38:11,868 --> 00:38:15,805 COLI, AND STAPH AND PSEUDOMONAS, 917 00:38:15,805 --> 00:38:23,446 HAVING THE SPREAD OF A LOT MORE 918 00:38:23,446 --> 00:38:24,280 MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT ORGANISMS 919 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:25,348 THAN HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY 920 00:38:25,348 --> 00:38:25,648 APPRECIATED. 921 00:38:25,648 --> 00:38:27,817 AND THIS BRINGS ME TO MY FINAL 922 00:38:27,817 --> 00:38:31,420 POINT, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, AS WE 923 00:38:31,420 --> 00:38:32,655 THINK ABOUT ANTIBIOTIC 924 00:38:32,655 --> 00:38:33,656 STEWARDSHIP IN HOSPITALS, AND SO 925 00:38:33,656 --> 00:38:36,192 ON, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COVID 926 00:38:36,192 --> 00:38:39,028 HAS BROUGHT TO BEAR IS THAT 927 00:38:39,028 --> 00:38:41,831 NURSING HOMES ARE PART OF OUR 928 00:38:41,831 --> 00:38:43,733 HEALTH CARE ECOSYSTEMS, AND THEY 929 00:38:43,733 --> 00:38:45,501 DON'T HAVE THE SAME LEVELS OF 930 00:38:45,501 --> 00:38:48,104 INFECTION CONTROL BUT WE NEED TO 931 00:38:48,104 --> 00:38:49,939 START THINKING ABOUT THEM AS 932 00:38:49,939 --> 00:38:52,475 ALSO PLACES WHERE WE NEED 933 00:38:52,475 --> 00:38:55,711 ENHANCED INFECTION CONTROL AND 934 00:38:55,711 --> 00:38:56,946 CARE FOR THESE PATIENTS. 935 00:38:56,946 --> 00:38:59,949 SO WITH THAT, I AM HAVING 936 00:38:59,949 --> 00:39:03,052 TROUBLE NOW SOMEHOW -- OKAY. 937 00:39:03,052 --> 00:39:04,554 MY OVERALL CONCLUSIONS, GENOMIC 938 00:39:04,554 --> 00:39:06,088 SEQUENCING MAKES THE INVISIBLE 939 00:39:06,088 --> 00:39:10,927 WORLD OF MICROBES VISIBLE AND 940 00:39:10,927 --> 00:39:12,962 IDENTIFIABLE AND I HOPE WE'LL 941 00:39:12,962 --> 00:39:16,933 REVOLUTIONIZE WHAT IT MEANS TO 942 00:39:16,933 --> 00:39:19,202 BE HUMAN, HEALTHY, PROVIDE 943 00:39:19,202 --> 00:39:23,239 INSIGHTS TO FIGHT MICROBIAL FOES 944 00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:24,574 AND CULTIVATE MICROBIAL FRIENDS. 945 00:39:24,574 --> 00:39:26,075 I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY 946 00:39:26,075 --> 00:39:26,642 COLLABORATORS. 947 00:39:26,642 --> 00:39:27,743 IT'S BEEN THE PLEASURE AND HONOR 948 00:39:27,743 --> 00:39:31,547 OF MY LIFE TO WORK AT NIH, AND 949 00:39:31,547 --> 00:39:33,316 ALL OF THESE STUDIES WERE MADE 950 00:39:33,316 --> 00:39:35,718 POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THESE 951 00:39:35,718 --> 00:39:37,553 COLLABORATIONS, IN PARTICULAR 952 00:39:37,553 --> 00:39:38,654 THE LONG-TERM COLLABORATIONS 953 00:39:38,654 --> 00:39:45,761 WITH DR. HEIDI KONG, TAR A 954 00:39:45,761 --> 00:39:48,864 PALMORE, YASMINE BELKAID, NIH 955 00:39:48,864 --> 00:39:51,334 AND CDC AND LARGER COMMUNITY, 956 00:39:51,334 --> 00:39:58,040 ESPECIALLY SHOUT OUT TO MY LAB, 957 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,110 FROM 2011 AND 2013, AND REALLY 958 00:40:01,110 --> 00:40:02,612 THE PERMANENT MEMBERS OF THE LAB 959 00:40:02,612 --> 00:40:05,615 WHO ARE SHOWN IN BOTH OF THESE 960 00:40:05,615 --> 00:40:09,418 PICTURES, GREAT MENTORS I'VE HAD 961 00:40:09,418 --> 00:40:11,854 AT NHGRI AND NIH, AND MY FAMILY. 962 00:40:11,854 --> 00:40:14,523 SO THANK YOU ALL. 963 00:40:14,523 --> 00:40:17,159 AND I'M HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS. 964 00:40:17,159 --> 00:40:27,637 SORRY I COULDN'T JOIN YOU IN 965 00:40:31,841 --> 00:40:32,008 PERSON. 966 00:40:32,008 --> 00:40:32,275 [APPLAUSE] 967 00:40:32,275 --> 00:40:35,778 >> WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON, I 968 00:40:35,778 --> 00:40:36,746 CONVEY GET WELL WISHES AND THANK 969 00:40:36,746 --> 00:40:40,016 YOU FOR BEING PART OF THE 970 00:40:40,016 --> 00:40:40,283 SYMPOSIUM. 971 00:40:40,283 --> 00:40:45,554 NEXT SPEAKER IS DR. MICHAEL 972 00:40:45,554 --> 00:40:47,923 LICHTEN, SCIENTIST EMERITUS AT 973 00:40:47,923 --> 00:40:48,391 NCI. 974 00:40:48,391 --> 00:40:52,328 HE'S AN EXPERT ON MEIOSIS, THE 975 00:40:52,328 --> 00:40:54,797 PROCESS BY WHICH GAMETES ARE 976 00:40:54,797 --> 00:40:58,034 FORMED, AND PARTICULARLY ON THE 977 00:40:58,034 --> 00:41:01,304 PROCESS OF EXCHANGE OF CHROMATIN 978 00:41:01,304 --> 00:41:03,272 DURING MEIOSIS, AND WHAT HAP%ES 979 00:41:03,272 --> 00:41:07,343 WHEN THAT PROCESS GOES AWRY. 980 00:41:07,343 --> 00:41:11,781 HE USES A YEAST MODEL TO LOOK AT 981 00:41:11,781 --> 00:41:12,415 THESE RECOMBINATION EVENTS, AND 982 00:41:12,415 --> 00:41:14,884 I'M GOING TO TURN THE PODIUM 983 00:41:14,884 --> 00:41:21,724 OVER TO DR. LICHTEN. 984 00:41:21,724 --> 00:41:24,026 >> THANK YOU, NINA. 985 00:41:24,026 --> 00:41:29,865 YOU JUST BLEW 90% OF MY 986 00:41:29,865 --> 00:41:30,299 INTRODUCTORY SLIDES. 987 00:41:30,299 --> 00:41:33,636 [LAUGHTER] 988 00:41:33,636 --> 00:41:33,836 OKAY. 989 00:41:33,836 --> 00:41:44,213 OOPS, THE OTHER WAY. 990 00:41:46,449 --> 00:41:50,019 HERE WE GO. 991 00:41:50,019 --> 00:41:51,454 YOU WILL NOTICE A CERTAIN 992 00:41:51,454 --> 00:41:53,489 REPETITIVE NATURE TO THE TITLES 993 00:41:53,489 --> 00:41:53,956 OF THESE TALKS. 994 00:41:53,956 --> 00:42:00,730 I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT'S GOING 995 00:42:00,730 --> 00:42:03,933 TO EXTEND THROUGH THE SYMPOSIUM. 996 00:42:03,933 --> 00:42:07,002 I'M INTERESTED IN MEIOSIS AND 997 00:42:07,002 --> 00:42:07,737 RECOMBINATION, BUT IN PARTICULAR 998 00:42:07,737 --> 00:42:13,109 IN THE REPAIR OF DNA BREAKS, AND 999 00:42:13,109 --> 00:42:17,046 THE MECHANISTIC INSIGHTS WE CAN 1000 00:42:17,046 --> 00:42:17,613 GAIN. 1001 00:42:17,613 --> 00:42:19,882 SO, YOU KNOW EACH ONE OF US IN 1002 00:42:19,882 --> 00:42:21,650 EVERY ONE OF OUR CELLS, EVERY 1003 00:42:21,650 --> 00:42:26,188 ONE OF OUR CELLS THAT DIVIDES, 1004 00:42:26,188 --> 00:42:27,656 UNDERGOES DOZENS OF 1005 00:42:27,656 --> 00:42:32,628 DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS, EVERY CELL 1006 00:42:32,628 --> 00:42:32,895 CYCLE. 1007 00:42:32,895 --> 00:42:34,697 AND THIS IS -- IN FACT, IF YOU 1008 00:42:34,697 --> 00:42:37,299 LOOK AT THE NUMBER THROUGHOUT 1009 00:42:37,299 --> 00:42:40,302 THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, IT'S WITHIN 1010 00:42:40,302 --> 00:42:41,904 A COUPLE OF FACTORS OF TWO OF 1011 00:42:41,904 --> 00:42:42,638 EACH OTHER. 1012 00:42:42,638 --> 00:42:49,345 SO THIS SEEMS TO BE PRETTY MUCH 1013 00:42:49,345 --> 00:42:52,114 UNIVERSAL AMONG EUKARYOTES. 1014 00:42:52,114 --> 00:42:55,484 INACCURATE REPAIR, CELLS ARE 1015 00:42:55,484 --> 00:42:56,819 DEPENDENT ON ACCURATE REPAIR, 1016 00:42:56,819 --> 00:42:59,622 INACCURATE REPAIR CAN LEAD TO 1017 00:42:59,622 --> 00:43:01,791 MUTATIONS AND CHROMOSOME 1018 00:43:01,791 --> 00:43:02,458 REARRANGEMENT, AND IN PARTICULAR 1019 00:43:02,458 --> 00:43:03,926 I LIKE TO SHOW THIS PICTURE 1020 00:43:03,926 --> 00:43:09,398 WHICH IS THE FACE OF THE ENEMY. 1021 00:43:09,398 --> 00:43:16,138 THIS IS A SPECTRAL YOUR CARE -- 1022 00:43:16,138 --> 00:43:17,640 KARYOTYPE OF A BLADDER CELL BY 1023 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:18,340 THOMAS REIDED A NCI. 1024 00:43:18,340 --> 00:43:23,145 I THINK THERE ARE OVER A DOZEN 1025 00:43:23,145 --> 00:43:24,480 CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENTS IN 1026 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,449 THIS SOLID TUMOR, AND EACH ONE 1027 00:43:26,449 --> 00:43:27,883 OF THOSE WAS A DOUBLE STRAND 1028 00:43:27,883 --> 00:43:30,820 BREAK THAT AT ONE TIME WAS 1029 00:43:30,820 --> 00:43:32,922 REPAIRED INCORRECTLY. 1030 00:43:32,922 --> 00:43:35,491 SO, THIS IS OF RELEVANCE FOR A 1031 00:43:35,491 --> 00:43:40,162 NUMBER OF THINGS BUT CERTAINLY 1032 00:43:40,162 --> 00:43:41,430 IN ETIOLOGY OF CANCER. 1033 00:43:41,430 --> 00:43:47,203 SO BREAKS CAN BE REPAIRED BY TWO 1034 00:43:47,203 --> 00:43:48,437 MECHANISMS, NON-HOMOLOGOUS 1035 00:43:48,437 --> 00:43:50,072 JOINING, BASICALLY JUST BASHING 1036 00:43:50,072 --> 00:43:51,307 AND LIGATION, AND THAT'S WHAT 1037 00:43:51,307 --> 00:43:55,845 GIVES YOU PROBLEMS LIKE THIS. 1038 00:43:55,845 --> 00:43:59,715 OR BY HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION, 1039 00:43:59,715 --> 00:44:04,453 WHICH PRESERVES GENOME CONTENT. 1040 00:44:04,453 --> 00:44:06,388 BUT THIS IS -- DOUBLE-STRAND 1041 00:44:06,388 --> 00:44:08,457 BREAKS DON'T GO AWAY WITH THE 1042 00:44:08,457 --> 00:44:08,991 THOUGHT THAT DOUBLE-STRAND 1043 00:44:08,991 --> 00:44:10,226 BREAKS WITH JUST A CHALLENGE TO 1044 00:44:10,226 --> 00:44:13,062 THE CELL. 1045 00:44:13,062 --> 00:44:15,364 IN FACT, OUR CELLS AND CELLS OF 1046 00:44:15,364 --> 00:44:20,369 OTHER ORGANISMS MAKE WILLFUL USE 1047 00:44:20,369 --> 00:44:21,303 OF DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS, WILLFUL 1048 00:44:21,303 --> 00:44:23,839 DAMAGING OF GENOMES TO CARRY OUT 1049 00:44:23,839 --> 00:44:25,441 VARIOUS FUNCTIONS. 1050 00:44:25,441 --> 00:44:27,877 ONE MIGHT WONDER WHY, BUT THE 1051 00:44:27,877 --> 00:44:30,513 FACT IS EVERY CELL THAT DIVIDES 1052 00:44:30,513 --> 00:44:35,918 IN OUR BODY IS REPAIRING 50 1053 00:44:35,918 --> 00:44:36,352 DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS 1054 00:44:36,352 --> 00:44:42,658 EFFICIENTLY, SO WHAT'S A FEW 1055 00:44:42,658 --> 00:44:43,959 MORE? 1056 00:44:43,959 --> 00:44:45,661 SO, AMONG THOSE IS SWITCHING IN 1057 00:44:45,661 --> 00:44:49,565 FUNGI WITH ONE BREAK OR SO PER 1058 00:44:49,565 --> 00:44:53,035 CELL, EVERY MATING TYPE SWITCH, 1059 00:44:53,035 --> 00:44:56,972 GENERATION OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN 1060 00:44:56,972 --> 00:45:00,609 DEFICIENCY REPAIRED BY 1061 00:45:00,609 --> 00:45:02,144 HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION IN VDJ 1062 00:45:02,144 --> 00:45:04,179 RECOMBINATION, CLASS SWITCH 1063 00:45:04,179 --> 00:45:08,450 RECOMBINATION, ET CETERA, 1064 00:45:08,450 --> 00:45:09,251 REPAIRING BY NON-HOMOLOGOUS END 1065 00:45:09,251 --> 00:45:10,519 JOINING BY A COUPLE BREAKS PER 1066 00:45:10,519 --> 00:45:10,920 CELL. 1067 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,290 THEN YOU GET TO MEIOSIS, WHERE 1068 00:45:14,290 --> 00:45:17,660 THERE ARE ON THE ORDER -- THERE 1069 00:45:17,660 --> 00:45:19,295 ARE HUNDREDS OF HUNDREDS OF 1070 00:45:19,295 --> 00:45:20,729 BREAKS FORMED DURING THE PROCESS 1071 00:45:20,729 --> 00:45:21,830 OF MEIOSIS. 1072 00:45:21,830 --> 00:45:24,233 WHEN I WAS LOOKING FOR A MODEL 1073 00:45:24,233 --> 00:45:28,737 SYSTEM TO STUDY DNA DAMAGE 1074 00:45:28,737 --> 00:45:35,210 REPAIR, AND HOMOLOGOUS 1075 00:45:35,210 --> 00:45:36,078 RECOMBINATION, I FOCUSED ON 1076 00:45:36,078 --> 00:45:36,312 MEIOSIS 1077 00:45:36,312 --> 00:45:38,147 WHAT IS MEIOSIS? 1078 00:45:38,147 --> 00:45:40,282 MEIOSIS IS THE PROCESS, EXCUSE 1079 00:45:40,282 --> 00:45:44,887 ME. 1080 00:45:44,887 --> 00:45:51,827 MEIOSIS IS THE PROCESS BY WHICH 1081 00:45:51,827 --> 00:45:55,965 A DIPLOID GENOME IS DIVIDED INTO 1082 00:45:55,965 --> 00:45:57,933 FOUR HAPLOID GAMETES, SPERM -- 1083 00:45:57,933 --> 00:46:00,035 EITHER SPERM OR THE EGG, AND IN 1084 00:46:00,035 --> 00:46:04,773 DOING SO IT GOES FIRST THROUGH A 1085 00:46:04,773 --> 00:46:07,176 ROUND OF REPLICATION, AND THEN 1086 00:46:07,176 --> 00:46:09,445 THE CELL DOES SOMETHING THAT -- 1087 00:46:09,445 --> 00:46:11,647 EXCUSE ME, BEAR WITH ME FOR A 1088 00:46:11,647 --> 00:46:15,117 MINUTE, I'M GOING TO TRY AND 1089 00:46:15,117 --> 00:46:17,219 TURN ON THIS LASER POINTER. 1090 00:46:17,219 --> 00:46:20,189 THERE WE GO. 1091 00:46:20,189 --> 00:46:20,456 OKAY. 1092 00:46:20,456 --> 00:46:22,891 IT DOES SOMETHING THAT IT DOES 1093 00:46:22,891 --> 00:46:26,495 NO OTHER TIME IN THE LIFE CYCLE 1094 00:46:26,495 --> 00:46:27,429 OF THE ORGANISM. 1095 00:46:27,429 --> 00:46:29,999 RATHER THAN SEPARATE THE TWO 1096 00:46:29,999 --> 00:46:32,635 SISTER COPIES OF EACH 1097 00:46:32,635 --> 00:46:35,070 CHROMOSOME, IT GOES THROUGH AN 1098 00:46:35,070 --> 00:46:37,039 ELABORATE PROCESS OF TWO NUCLEAR 1099 00:46:37,039 --> 00:46:40,409 DIVISIONS, ENDING UP WITH FOUR 1100 00:46:40,409 --> 00:46:42,344 HAPLOID GAMETES WHICH INVOLVES 1101 00:46:42,344 --> 00:46:45,447 THE ASSOCIATION AND PAIRING OF 1102 00:46:45,447 --> 00:46:49,151 THE TWO COPIES OF THE SAME 1103 00:46:49,151 --> 00:46:49,718 CHROMOSOME, WHICH PREVIOUSLY 1104 00:46:49,718 --> 00:46:51,120 HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP TO EACH 1105 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,088 OTHER, SO THEY HAVE TO BE 1106 00:46:53,088 --> 00:46:56,592 BROUGHT TOGETHER AND STABLY 1107 00:46:56,592 --> 00:46:58,360 PAIRED. 1108 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,663 AND THEN CONNECTED BY 1109 00:47:00,663 --> 00:47:02,498 CHROMOSOME, BY CROSSOVERS THAT 1110 00:47:02,498 --> 00:47:04,233 LINK THE TWO HOMOLOGOUS 1111 00:47:04,233 --> 00:47:08,637 CHROMOSOMES AND PROVIDE THE 1112 00:47:08,637 --> 00:47:10,506 CONNECTION THAT ALLOWS THE 1113 00:47:10,506 --> 00:47:12,975 TENSION TO BE SENSED AT THE 1114 00:47:12,975 --> 00:47:15,310 FIRST DIVISION OF THE SPINDLE OF 1115 00:47:15,310 --> 00:47:16,945 THE FIRST DIVISION. 1116 00:47:16,945 --> 00:47:21,884 AND THEN THE SECOND DIVISION IS 1117 00:47:21,884 --> 00:47:24,720 A MORE MITOSIS-LIKE DIVISION. 1118 00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:26,722 SO, RECOMBINATION PLAYS A 1119 00:47:26,722 --> 00:47:30,759 CRITICAL ROLE IN BOTH THE EARLY 1120 00:47:30,759 --> 00:47:32,761 STEPS OF MEIOSIS, HOMOLOGS COME 1121 00:47:32,761 --> 00:47:35,764 TOGETHER AND ARE STABLY PAIRED, 1122 00:47:35,764 --> 00:47:37,900 AND IN COMING CROSSOVERS THAT AS 1123 00:47:37,900 --> 00:47:43,772 I SAID PROVIDE STABLE LICKS 1124 00:47:43,772 --> 00:47:45,340 BETWEEN HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES. 1125 00:47:45,340 --> 00:47:47,443 WHEN THIS GOES WRONG 1126 00:47:47,443 --> 00:47:48,510 CONSEQUENCES ARE DIRE. 1127 00:47:48,510 --> 00:47:59,054 MANY OF YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THIS 1128 00:48:04,093 --> 00:48:05,494 CURVE, AMYPLOIDY WITH A FUNCTION 1129 00:48:05,494 --> 00:48:06,261 OF MATERNAL AGE. 1130 00:48:06,261 --> 00:48:08,764 I WANT TO POINT OUT ALL ACROSS 1131 00:48:08,764 --> 00:48:14,002 THIS CURVE, BUT IN PARTICULAR IN 1132 00:48:14,002 --> 00:48:15,771 THESE LATER STAGES WHERE 1133 00:48:15,771 --> 00:48:20,142 ANEUPLOIDY CAN BE HIGH THERE'S 1134 00:48:20,142 --> 00:48:20,776 CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH 1135 00:48:20,776 --> 00:48:24,813 RECOMBINATION HAPPENING IN THE 1136 00:48:24,813 --> 00:48:26,648 WRONG PLACE. 1137 00:48:26,648 --> 00:48:28,684 IT'S IMPORTANT TO MAINTAIN -- TO 1138 00:48:28,684 --> 00:48:32,187 DO THIS PROBABLY IN ORDER TO 1139 00:48:32,187 --> 00:48:34,857 SEGREGATE CHROMOSOMES PROPERLY. 1140 00:48:34,857 --> 00:48:35,657 OKAY. 1141 00:48:35,657 --> 00:48:36,792 SO HOW DOES RECOMBINATION PLAY A 1142 00:48:36,792 --> 00:48:39,294 ROLE IN THIS? 1143 00:48:39,294 --> 00:48:42,598 AS I SAID, EARLY STEPS INVOLVE 1144 00:48:42,598 --> 00:48:45,868 MULTIPLE INTERACTION, MULTIPLE 1145 00:48:45,868 --> 00:48:48,237 TRANSIENT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN 1146 00:48:48,237 --> 00:48:51,740 HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES, 1147 00:48:51,740 --> 00:48:54,376 INITIATED BY PROGRAM 1148 00:48:54,376 --> 00:48:56,945 DOUBLE-STRAND STRAND BREAKS BY 1149 00:48:56,945 --> 00:48:58,280 SPO11 PROTEIN, HUNDREDS FORMED 1150 00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,082 PER GENOME. 1151 00:49:00,082 --> 00:49:01,083 NORMALLY MITOTIC CELLS SUCH 1152 00:49:01,083 --> 00:49:05,087 BREAKS WOULD BE REPAIRED BY 1153 00:49:05,087 --> 00:49:06,021 RECOMBINATION WITH SISTER 1154 00:49:06,021 --> 00:49:08,757 CHROMATID BUT IN THIS CASE USED 1155 00:49:08,757 --> 00:49:13,128 TO PAIR WITH HOMOLOGOUS, SO 1156 00:49:13,128 --> 00:49:15,297 SISTER RECOMBINATION IS 1157 00:49:15,297 --> 00:49:20,469 DISCOURAGED, RECOMBINATION WITH 1158 00:49:20,469 --> 00:49:21,570 HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOME IS 1159 00:49:21,570 --> 00:49:23,739 ENCOURAGED, SORTED INTO TWO 1160 00:49:23,739 --> 00:49:26,275 TYPES, MOST ARE SORTED OUT INTO 1161 00:49:26,275 --> 00:49:28,410 NON-CROSSOVERS, AND THEN A FEW 1162 00:49:28,410 --> 00:49:30,412 OF THEM ARE MATURED INTO 1163 00:49:30,412 --> 00:49:31,713 CROSSOVERS THAT, AGAIN, ARE 1164 00:49:31,713 --> 00:49:33,515 PROVIDING THE CONNECTIONS WITH 1165 00:49:33,515 --> 00:49:35,951 HOMOLOGS THAT ALLOW PROPER 1166 00:49:35,951 --> 00:49:36,885 SEGREGATION. 1167 00:49:36,885 --> 00:49:39,788 THAT ALLOW PROPER HOMOLOG 1168 00:49:39,788 --> 00:49:40,088 SEGREGATION. 1169 00:49:40,088 --> 00:49:44,126 SO, MY LAB'S BEEN INTERESTED IN 1170 00:49:44,126 --> 00:49:44,893 ALL OF THESE, MOLECULAR 1171 00:49:44,893 --> 00:49:47,896 MECHANISM OF ALL THESE STEPS 1172 00:49:47,896 --> 00:49:52,701 ALONG THIS PROCESS. 1173 00:49:52,701 --> 00:49:57,306 WE'VE STUDIED THE RULES THAT 1174 00:49:57,306 --> 00:50:01,376 DETERMINE WHERE SPO11 MAKES 1175 00:50:01,376 --> 00:50:02,911 DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS, STUDY 1176 00:50:02,911 --> 00:50:05,981 MECHANISMS THAT DISCOURAGE 1177 00:50:05,981 --> 00:50:07,950 SISTER CHROMATID RECOMBINATION, 1178 00:50:07,950 --> 00:50:08,784 ENCOURAGE INTERHOMOLOG 1179 00:50:08,784 --> 00:50:10,118 RECOMBINATION BUT MOST OF THE 1180 00:50:10,118 --> 00:50:12,020 FOCUS HAS BEEN ON MECHANISMS 1181 00:50:12,020 --> 00:50:12,688 THAT DETERMINE WHETHER 1182 00:50:12,688 --> 00:50:14,089 RECOMBINATION EVENT IS GOING TO 1183 00:50:14,089 --> 00:50:17,893 FORM A CROSSOVER OR 1184 00:50:17,893 --> 00:50:19,795 NON-CROSSOVER, AND THE 1185 00:50:19,795 --> 00:50:21,830 REGULATORY MECHANISMS, THE 1186 00:50:21,830 --> 00:50:23,398 ACTIVITIES THAT REGULATE WHETHER 1187 00:50:23,398 --> 00:50:25,133 ONE STEP IS -- WHETHER ONE FATE 1188 00:50:25,133 --> 00:50:28,670 IS FOLLOWED OR THE OTHER. 1189 00:50:28,670 --> 00:50:34,977 SO, AND OUR WORK HAS BEEN DONE 1190 00:50:34,977 --> 00:50:37,212 EXCLUSIVELY IN BUDDING YEAST, 1191 00:50:37,212 --> 00:50:38,814 I'LL DISPENSE WITH THIS BRAG 1192 00:50:38,814 --> 00:50:42,417 SLIDE BUT JUST TO POINT OUT THAT 1193 00:50:42,417 --> 00:50:45,187 BECAUSE YEAST IS A SINGLE-CELLED 1194 00:50:45,187 --> 00:50:47,823 ORGANISM WE CAN GROW IT IN 1195 00:50:47,823 --> 00:50:50,926 LIQUID CULTURE, WE CAN INDUCE 1196 00:50:50,926 --> 00:50:52,527 MEIOSIS SYNCHRONOUSLY AND 1197 00:50:52,527 --> 00:50:53,595 EXTRACT DNA FROM CELLS AS THEY 1198 00:50:53,595 --> 00:50:56,665 ARE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF 1199 00:50:56,665 --> 00:50:58,967 RECOMBINATION, AND THEREFORE BY 1200 00:50:58,967 --> 00:50:59,968 ANALYZING THE INTERMEDIATES AND 1201 00:50:59,968 --> 00:51:03,105 PRODUCTS AMONG THE DNA THAT WE 1202 00:51:03,105 --> 00:51:04,873 ISOLATE, WE CAN MONITOR 1203 00:51:04,873 --> 00:51:06,074 RECOMBINATION BASICALLY IN REAL 1204 00:51:06,074 --> 00:51:06,275 TIME. 1205 00:51:06,275 --> 00:51:09,912 AND SO WE CAN SEE THE 1206 00:51:09,912 --> 00:51:11,680 INTERMEDIATE STEPS, WHEN THE 1207 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:19,321 INTERMEDIATE STEPS GO TO 1208 00:51:19,321 --> 00:51:22,557 PRODUCTS, ET CETERA. 1209 00:51:22,557 --> 00:51:26,995 UNLIKE MANY ORGANISMS 1210 00:51:26,995 --> 00:51:27,763 PARTICULARLY DURING OOGENESIS 1211 00:51:27,763 --> 00:51:28,964 RECOVER ALL FOUR HAPLOID 1212 00:51:28,964 --> 00:51:37,606 PRODUCTS AND AND TETRADS, 1213 00:51:37,606 --> 00:51:39,107 ANALYZE PARENTAL CONTRIBUTION IN 1214 00:51:39,107 --> 00:51:44,379 EVERY RECOMBINATION EVENT. 1215 00:51:44,379 --> 00:51:46,048 FINALLY, I WOULDN'T BE UP HERE 1216 00:51:46,048 --> 00:51:51,920 IF IT WASN'T TRUE MY MEIOSIS IS 1217 00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:59,261 SIMILAR TO MEIOSIS IN U.S. US, 1218 00:51:59,261 --> 00:52:01,530 DIRECTLY APPLICABLE TO OTHER 1219 00:52:01,530 --> 00:52:01,797 ORGANISMS. 1220 00:52:01,797 --> 00:52:02,631 THE PRINCIPLES WE'VE DISCOVERED 1221 00:52:02,631 --> 00:52:07,269 IN OUR STUDY OF THE MECHANISMS 1222 00:52:07,269 --> 00:52:09,004 OF MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION HAVE 1223 00:52:09,004 --> 00:52:11,707 OVER THE YEARS INFORMED 1224 00:52:11,707 --> 00:52:15,310 MECHANISMS OF REPAIR OF 1225 00:52:15,310 --> 00:52:16,712 DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS AND 1226 00:52:16,712 --> 00:52:18,313 HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION IN THE 1227 00:52:18,313 --> 00:52:19,381 MITOTIC CYCLE AS WELL. 1228 00:52:19,381 --> 00:52:19,715 OKAY. 1229 00:52:19,715 --> 00:52:25,320 I'M GOING TO TELL YOU ONE STORY 1230 00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:26,688 ABOUT MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION. 1231 00:52:26,688 --> 00:52:32,728 IT STARTS AROUND THE TURN OF THE 1232 00:52:32,728 --> 00:52:34,029 CENTURY WITH A POSTDOC WHO WAS 1233 00:52:34,029 --> 00:52:37,099 INTERESTED IN TRYING TO FIGURE 1234 00:52:37,099 --> 00:52:42,704 OUT THE RULES FOR NON-CROSSOVER 1235 00:52:42,704 --> 00:52:44,139 VERSUS CROSSOVER RECOMBINATION. 1236 00:52:44,139 --> 00:52:47,109 I WON'T SHOW -- I'LL SHOW A 1237 00:52:47,109 --> 00:52:51,580 LITTLE BIT OF DATA ENFORCING 1238 00:52:51,580 --> 00:52:54,016 THIS LATER ON, BUT WHAT HE FOUND 1239 00:52:54,016 --> 00:52:57,019 OUT IN FACT AFTER ONE HAD MADE 1240 00:52:57,019 --> 00:52:59,321 AN INITIAL STRAND INVASION 1241 00:52:59,321 --> 00:53:02,491 INTERMEDIA, NOT CROSSOVERS AND 1242 00:53:02,491 --> 00:53:03,892 CROSSOVERS WERE FORMED BY 1243 00:53:03,892 --> 00:53:06,228 DISTINCT, VERY DISTINCT AND 1244 00:53:06,228 --> 00:53:07,095 DIFFERENT BIOCHEMICAL 1245 00:53:07,095 --> 00:53:07,396 MECHANISMS. 1246 00:53:07,396 --> 00:53:11,867 AND HE GOT A HINT THAT THAT WAS 1247 00:53:11,867 --> 00:53:15,871 TRUE JUST BY LOOKING AT TIMING. 1248 00:53:15,871 --> 00:53:19,007 I'VE DRAWN A TIME LINE. 1249 00:53:19,007 --> 00:53:24,446 SO NON-CROSSOVERS APPEAR EARLY, 1250 00:53:24,446 --> 00:53:28,550 WELL BEFORE CROSSOVERS APPEAR, 1251 00:53:28,550 --> 00:53:31,753 AND WHEREAS CROSSOVERS DERIVE 1252 00:53:31,753 --> 00:53:33,121 FROM THIS INTERMEDIATE, DOUBLE 1253 00:53:33,121 --> 00:53:36,525 HOLLIDAY JUNCTION, AND THE 1254 00:53:36,525 --> 00:53:40,162 RESOLUTION OF THIS INTERMEDIATE, 1255 00:53:40,162 --> 00:53:42,998 AND ITS PRECURSOR CALLED SINGLE 1256 00:53:42,998 --> 00:53:46,168 END INVASION INTERMEDIATE, AND 1257 00:53:46,168 --> 00:53:47,969 THIS RESOLUTION IS DEPENDENT 1258 00:53:47,969 --> 00:53:53,408 UPON -- ACTIVATED BY IN YEAST 1259 00:53:53,408 --> 00:53:59,881 THE CDC5 POLO KINASE UNDER 1260 00:53:59,881 --> 00:54:06,288 CONTROL OF THE NDT80 TRANSCRIPT 1261 00:54:06,288 --> 00:54:06,521 FACTOR. 1262 00:54:06,521 --> 00:54:10,926 IF ONE MUTATED EITHER OF THESE 1263 00:54:10,926 --> 00:54:14,296 PROTEINS, THESE GENES, ONE 1264 00:54:14,296 --> 00:54:18,100 TERMINATED MEIOSIS WITH MATURE 1265 00:54:18,100 --> 00:54:19,668 NON-CROSSOVERS, AND DOUBLE 1266 00:54:19,668 --> 00:54:22,504 HOLLIDAY JUNCTIONS WITHOUT 1267 00:54:22,504 --> 00:54:24,072 PRODUCING COSTOVERS. 1268 00:54:24,072 --> 00:54:25,240 SO NON-CROSSOVERS WERE DERIVED 1269 00:54:25,240 --> 00:54:27,776 FROM DOUBLE HOLLIDAY JUNCTION 1270 00:54:27,776 --> 00:54:28,777 BUS NON-CROSSOVER FORMATION WAS 1271 00:54:28,777 --> 00:54:32,681 INDEPENDENT OF THAT. 1272 00:54:32,681 --> 00:54:34,382 AND WHAT THORSTON SUGGESTED 1273 00:54:34,382 --> 00:54:41,756 THESE WERE FORMED BY DISTINCT 1274 00:54:41,756 --> 00:54:42,657 BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS, 1275 00:54:42,657 --> 00:54:45,527 CROSSOVER FORMED BY CLEAVAGE OF 1276 00:54:45,527 --> 00:54:46,495 HOLLIDAY JUNCTIONS BUT 1277 00:54:46,495 --> 00:54:48,763 NON-CROSSOVERS FORMED BY 1278 00:54:48,763 --> 00:54:50,198 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROCESS BY 1279 00:54:50,198 --> 00:54:54,236 WHICH THIS EARLY STRAND INVASION 1280 00:54:54,236 --> 00:54:57,005 INTERMEDIATE WAS TAKEN APART BY 1281 00:54:57,005 --> 00:55:04,880 HELICASE AND AKNEELED -- 1282 00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:10,352 A NEILSED, AFTER FILLING IN ONE 1283 00:55:10,352 --> 00:55:15,390 HAD A NON-CROSSOVER. 1284 00:55:15,390 --> 00:55:17,692 SINCE THEN, WE'VE LEARNED A LOT 1285 00:55:17,692 --> 00:55:18,026 MORE. 1286 00:55:18,026 --> 00:55:21,363 WE NOW KNOW THAT THIS PROCESS OF 1287 00:55:21,363 --> 00:55:23,064 CROSSOVER FORMATION FORMS IN 1288 00:55:23,064 --> 00:55:26,568 THE -- IS CARRIED OUT IN THE 1289 00:55:26,568 --> 00:55:29,504 CONTEXT OF AN ELABORATE PROTEIN 1290 00:55:29,504 --> 00:55:35,210 STRUCTURE THAT'S ASSEMBLED 1291 00:55:35,210 --> 00:55:37,646 BETWEEN HOMOLOGOUS CHROMOSOMES, 1292 00:55:37,646 --> 00:55:40,949 SYNAPTIC COMPLEX, IN PARTICULAR 1293 00:55:40,949 --> 00:55:46,254 BY ZM PROTEINS, THESE IN EFFECT 1294 00:55:46,254 --> 00:55:49,424 BIND TO AND PROTECT 1295 00:55:49,424 --> 00:55:51,660 RECOMBINATION INTERMEDIATES FROM 1296 00:55:51,660 --> 00:55:52,394 DISASSEMBLY AND NON-CROSSOVER 1297 00:55:52,394 --> 00:55:59,067 FORMATION, AND SET THEM UP FOR 1298 00:55:59,067 --> 00:56:02,337 THE RESOLUTION BY 1299 00:56:02,337 --> 00:56:03,538 MEIOSIS-SPECIFIC RESOLVEase TO 1300 00:56:03,538 --> 00:56:04,272 FORM CROSSOVERS. 1301 00:56:04,272 --> 00:56:06,274 THERE'S A THIRD PATHWAY OF 1302 00:56:06,274 --> 00:56:09,010 RECOMBINATION ACCOUNTING FOR A 1303 00:56:09,010 --> 00:56:11,046 MINOR FRACTION, 10% OF THE 1304 00:56:11,046 --> 00:56:13,315 PRODUCTS, WHICH OCCURS VIA 1305 00:56:13,315 --> 00:56:14,816 FORMATION OF INTERMEDIATE 1306 00:56:14,816 --> 00:56:17,018 SIMILAR TO THESE, ALTHOUGH THEY 1307 00:56:17,018 --> 00:56:19,221 HAVE MANY ALTERNATE STRUCTURES 1308 00:56:19,221 --> 00:56:27,028 AND THESE ARE, AGAIN, RESOLVED 1309 00:56:27,028 --> 00:56:31,566 UNDER CONTROL OF PROTEIN BUT A 1310 00:56:31,566 --> 00:56:32,968 SAID OF ENDONUCLEASES THAT ARE 1311 00:56:32,968 --> 00:56:39,374 NOT MEIOSIS SPECIFIC. 1312 00:56:39,374 --> 00:56:41,443 THESE ARE RESOLVED TO FORM 1313 00:56:41,443 --> 00:56:44,613 CROSSOVERS AND NON-CROSSOVERS. 1314 00:56:44,613 --> 00:56:47,349 SO THE QUESTION THAT AROSE THEN, 1315 00:56:47,349 --> 00:56:50,218 WELL, IF THERE ARE THESE 1316 00:56:50,218 --> 00:56:52,954 MULTIPLE PATHWAYS FOR 1317 00:56:52,954 --> 00:56:54,222 RECOMBINATION, WHAT'S REGULATING 1318 00:56:54,222 --> 00:56:55,257 THE BRANCH POINT, WHAT'S 1319 00:56:55,257 --> 00:56:56,091 DETERMINING WHICH PATHWAY WILL 1320 00:56:56,091 --> 00:56:56,791 BE FOLLOWED? 1321 00:56:56,791 --> 00:57:05,333 AND THE ANSWER TO THAT IS THIS 1322 00:57:05,333 --> 00:57:06,134 HELICASE, CONSERVED HELLICASE 1323 00:57:06,134 --> 00:57:10,038 COMPLEX THAT I'LL REFER TO AS 1324 00:57:10,038 --> 00:57:10,438 SDR. 1325 00:57:10,438 --> 00:57:12,307 WHAT I'LL TELL YOU IS NOW THE 1326 00:57:12,307 --> 00:57:17,579 LITTLE BIT OF EVIDENCE FOR THAT. 1327 00:57:17,579 --> 00:57:24,452 SO, STR IS THE HOMOLOG OF BTR, A 1328 00:57:24,452 --> 00:57:26,488 FAMILY, AND THESE GUYS ARE VERY 1329 00:57:26,488 --> 00:57:29,691 SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER BOTH IN 1330 00:57:29,691 --> 00:57:30,725 PRIMARY SEQUENCE AND STRUCTURE 1331 00:57:30,725 --> 00:57:34,296 BUT ALSO IN THE PHENOTYPES OF 1332 00:57:34,296 --> 00:57:37,666 MUTANTS THAT ONE SEES IN MUTANTS 1333 00:57:37,666 --> 00:57:38,967 LACKING THEM. 1334 00:57:38,967 --> 00:57:41,369 SO THEY BOTH SHOW PREMATURE 1335 00:57:41,369 --> 00:57:47,075 AGING, YES, YEAST GET OLD AND 1336 00:57:47,075 --> 00:57:48,410 AGE PREMATURELY. 1337 00:57:48,410 --> 00:57:49,711 THEY SHOW GENOME INSTABILITY. 1338 00:57:49,711 --> 00:57:52,981 AND MOST RELEVANT TO THIS TALK 1339 00:57:52,981 --> 00:57:54,516 INCREASED CROSSOVERS. 1340 00:57:54,516 --> 00:58:01,323 BOTH-- THIS IS AN ILLUSTRATION 1341 00:58:01,323 --> 00:58:06,127 FROM A VERY EARLY PIONEERING 1342 00:58:06,127 --> 00:58:07,896 PAPER SHOWING INCREASE THE 1343 00:58:07,896 --> 00:58:09,331 FREQUENCY OF SISTER CHROMATID 1344 00:58:09,331 --> 00:58:10,699 EXCHANGE IN THESE MUTANTS, EVERY 1345 00:58:10,699 --> 00:58:15,136 TIME YOU SEE A SWITCH FROM WHITE 1346 00:58:15,136 --> 00:58:18,807 OR GRAY TO BLACK IS A SISTER 1347 00:58:18,807 --> 00:58:19,908 CHROMATID RECOMBINATION. 1348 00:58:19,908 --> 00:58:23,945 OF COURSE, THESE PATIENTS ARE 1349 00:58:23,945 --> 00:58:25,613 ALSO HAVE PREDISPOSITION TO 1350 00:58:25,613 --> 00:58:26,047 CANCER. 1351 00:58:26,047 --> 00:58:27,115 YEAST DOESN'T GET CANCER, BUT 1352 00:58:27,115 --> 00:58:29,084 THE HOPE IS THAT BY 1353 00:58:29,084 --> 00:58:30,518 UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S GOING ON 1354 00:58:30,518 --> 00:58:34,255 HERE, WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT'S 1355 00:58:34,255 --> 00:58:36,758 GOING ON HERE. 1356 00:58:36,758 --> 00:58:37,125 OKAY. 1357 00:58:37,125 --> 00:58:40,362 OH, AND SO WHY IS THIS AN 1358 00:58:40,362 --> 00:58:43,098 ANTI-CROSSOVER, PREVENTING 1359 00:58:43,098 --> 00:58:44,165 CROSSOVERS? 1360 00:58:44,165 --> 00:58:47,068 THE HYPOTHESIS WAS THAT BTR OR 1361 00:58:47,068 --> 00:58:50,805 STR IS THE HELICASE THAT IS 1362 00:58:50,805 --> 00:58:51,539 INVOLVED IN NON-CROSSOVER 1363 00:58:51,539 --> 00:58:54,509 FORMATION, THAT IS IT'S TAKING 1364 00:58:54,509 --> 00:58:55,577 INTERMEDIATES THAT WOULD HAVE 1365 00:58:55,577 --> 00:58:56,811 MADE DOUBLE HOLLIDAY JUNCTIONS 1366 00:58:56,811 --> 00:58:58,813 AND THEN CROSSOVERS AND TAKEN 1367 00:58:58,813 --> 00:59:04,185 THEM APART AND TURNED THEM INTO 1368 00:59:04,185 --> 00:59:04,552 NON-CROSSOVERS. 1369 00:59:04,552 --> 00:59:06,020 THE IDEA WAS TO TEST THIS 1370 00:59:06,020 --> 00:59:10,492 HYPOTHESIS AND LOOK AT WHAT 1371 00:59:10,492 --> 00:59:14,329 HAPPENED DURING MEIOSIS IN SGS 1372 00:59:14,329 --> 00:59:20,668 1, TOP 3, RMI MUTANT. 1373 00:59:20,668 --> 00:59:23,304 THE PREDICTION WE MADE, THE 1374 00:59:23,304 --> 00:59:24,372 THREE DID VARIOUS ASPECTS, 1375 00:59:24,372 --> 00:59:25,940 PREDICTION WAS IF IT WAS TAKING 1376 00:59:25,940 --> 00:59:30,512 THINGS APART TO MAKE 1377 00:59:30,512 --> 00:59:31,546 NON-CROSSOVERS IN AN SGS1 MUTANT 1378 00:59:31,546 --> 00:59:34,282 SHOULD SEE A LOSS OF 1379 00:59:34,282 --> 00:59:36,785 NON-CROSSOVERS AND POSSIBLY 1380 00:59:36,785 --> 00:59:40,255 INCREASE IN THESE CROSSOVERS. 1381 00:59:40,255 --> 00:59:42,123 AND THAT TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE, 1382 00:59:42,123 --> 00:59:49,497 BUT ALSO NOT TO BE TRUE. 1383 00:59:49,497 --> 00:59:55,303 SO AS I ALLUDED TO EARLIER, WHEN 1384 00:59:55,303 --> 01:00:00,241 WE LOOKED AT -- WHEN ANAUD 1385 01:00:00,241 --> 01:00:02,110 LOOKED AT DNA LEVEL, IN 1386 01:00:02,110 --> 01:00:03,311 PARTICULAR UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES 1387 01:00:03,311 --> 01:00:06,681 WHERE HE BLOCKED FURTHER 1388 01:00:06,681 --> 01:00:08,316 PROGRESSION THROUGH THIS PROCESS 1389 01:00:08,316 --> 01:00:11,486 BY HAVING A -- BY CELLS THAT 1390 01:00:11,486 --> 01:00:14,155 FAILED TO EXPRESS CDC5 AND 1391 01:00:14,155 --> 01:00:17,659 TURNED ON CDC5, IN THE ABSENCE 1392 01:00:17,659 --> 01:00:24,899 OF CDC 5 HE SAW DOUBLE HOLLIDAY 1393 01:00:24,899 --> 01:00:26,267 JUNCTION INTERMEDIATES 1394 01:00:26,267 --> 01:00:26,935 ACCUMULATED, CROSSOVERS PRESENT 1395 01:00:26,935 --> 01:00:28,670 AT MUCH LOWER LEVEL, GRAPHS ARE 1396 01:00:28,670 --> 01:00:29,904 SHOWN HERE. 1397 01:00:29,904 --> 01:00:35,376 WHEN HE TURNED ON CDC5, HE SAW 1398 01:00:35,376 --> 01:00:38,146 RESOLUTION OF THE DOUBLE 1399 01:00:38,146 --> 01:00:39,914 HOLLIDAY JUNCTIONS, AND INCREASE 1400 01:00:39,914 --> 01:00:41,916 IN CROSSOVERS AS ONE WOULD 1401 01:00:41,916 --> 01:00:43,918 EXPECT IF DOUBLE HOLLIDAY 1402 01:00:43,918 --> 01:00:45,420 JUNCTIONS ARE RESOLVED TO FORM 1403 01:00:45,420 --> 01:00:47,188 CROSSOVERS BUT NO NET INCREASE 1404 01:00:47,188 --> 01:00:50,458 IN CROSSOVERS, AGAIN IN WILDTYPE 1405 01:00:50,458 --> 01:00:51,860 CELLS. 1406 01:00:51,860 --> 01:00:54,829 CONSISTENT WITH THE PICTURE THAT 1407 01:00:54,829 --> 01:00:57,665 THORSTON MADE THAT INDICATED 1408 01:00:57,665 --> 01:00:59,100 NON-CROSSOVERS WERE NOT FORMED 1409 01:00:59,100 --> 01:01:02,637 BY DOUBLE HOLLIDAY JUNCTION 1410 01:01:02,637 --> 01:01:04,005 INTERMEDIATE RESOLUTION. 1411 01:01:04,005 --> 01:01:07,141 HOWEVER, WHEN -- OH, I SHOULD 1412 01:01:07,141 --> 01:01:07,942 SAY THAT GENETICALLY IT WAS 1413 01:01:07,942 --> 01:01:10,645 SHOWN THAT THIS WAS THE MEIOTIC 1414 01:01:10,645 --> 01:01:15,016 RESOLVEASE THAT WAS DOING THIS. 1415 01:01:15,016 --> 01:01:17,352 HOWEVER, WHEN ARNAUD LOOKED AT 1416 01:01:17,352 --> 01:01:18,620 SGS1 MUTANTS HE FOUND A 1417 01:01:18,620 --> 01:01:20,221 DIFFERENT PICTURE. 1418 01:01:20,221 --> 01:01:22,323 IN THE ABSENCE OF CDC5 1419 01:01:22,323 --> 01:01:24,492 EXPRESSION WE DIDN'T GET 1420 01:01:24,492 --> 01:01:25,426 CROSSOVERS. 1421 01:01:25,426 --> 01:01:26,594 SAME AS IN WILDTYPE. 1422 01:01:26,594 --> 01:01:31,533 BUT WE ALSO DIDN'T GET 1423 01:01:31,533 --> 01:01:32,133 NON-CROSSOVERS. 1424 01:01:32,133 --> 01:01:36,571 AND WHEN YOU INDUCE CDC5 AND 1425 01:01:36,571 --> 01:01:38,840 INDUCED RESOLUTION EVER JOINT 1426 01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:39,741 MOLECULES, DOUBLE HOLLIDAY 1427 01:01:39,741 --> 01:01:41,910 JUNCTIONS, WE GOT BOTH 1428 01:01:41,910 --> 01:01:44,212 CROSSOVERS AND NON-CROSSOVERS. 1429 01:01:44,212 --> 01:01:48,483 SO, INSTEAD OF WIPING OUT 1430 01:01:48,483 --> 01:01:49,551 NON-CROSSOVER FORMATION 1431 01:01:49,551 --> 01:01:53,021 SPECIFICALLY, BOTH MEIOSIS -- 1432 01:01:53,021 --> 01:01:53,922 OH, BOTH MEIOSIS-SPECIFIC 1433 01:01:53,922 --> 01:01:58,226 CROSSOVER FORMATION BUT ALSO 1434 01:01:58,226 --> 01:01:59,661 MEIOSIS-SPECIFIC NON-CROSSOVER 1435 01:01:59,661 --> 01:02:00,929 FORMATION HAD BEEN ABROGATED. 1436 01:02:00,929 --> 01:02:06,501 I SHOULD SAY THIS RESOLUTION WAS 1437 01:02:06,501 --> 01:02:11,673 NO LONGER DEPENDENT ON THE 1438 01:02:11,673 --> 01:02:14,409 MEIOTIC RESOLVEASE BUT WAS 1439 01:02:14,409 --> 01:02:15,176 DEPENDENT ON MITOTIC 1440 01:02:15,176 --> 01:02:15,476 RESOLVEASES. 1441 01:02:15,476 --> 01:02:20,048 THE LOSS OF SGS IS1 AND ALSO 1442 01:02:20,048 --> 01:02:23,251 TOP3 AND RMI1 RESULTED NOT ONLY 1443 01:02:23,251 --> 01:02:31,693 IN DEPLETION OF NON-CROSSOVER 1444 01:02:31,693 --> 01:02:32,293 PATHWAY BUT MEIOSIS-SPECIFIC 1445 01:02:32,293 --> 01:02:33,761 PATHWAY, A POPULATION OF THE 1446 01:02:33,761 --> 01:02:36,731 MINOR PATHWAY NOW ACCOUNTS FOR 1447 01:02:36,731 --> 01:02:38,700 ALL EVENTS WHEREBY JOINT 1448 01:02:38,700 --> 01:02:41,436 MOLECULES ARE FORMED AND THEY 1449 01:02:41,436 --> 01:02:44,272 ARE RESOLVED BY MITOTIC 1450 01:02:44,272 --> 01:02:44,772 RESOLVEASES. 1451 01:02:44,772 --> 01:02:46,574 SO THIS RAISED THE QUANDARY 1452 01:02:46,574 --> 01:02:55,216 BECAUSE AS I SAID WE THOUGHT OF 1453 01:02:55,216 --> 01:02:58,953 STR AS ENZYME THAT DISASSEMBLED 1454 01:02:58,953 --> 01:03:00,588 JOINT MOLECULES BUT DATA SAID IT 1455 01:03:00,588 --> 01:03:03,291 WAS MORE THAN FOR MAKING 1456 01:03:03,291 --> 01:03:04,726 NON-CROSSOVERS, THAT'S OKAY, BUT 1457 01:03:04,726 --> 01:03:08,329 ALSO IMPORTANT FOR THE MEIOTIC 1458 01:03:08,329 --> 01:03:10,331 CROSSOVER PATHWAY WHICH IS 1459 01:03:10,331 --> 01:03:12,166 BASICALLY ALL ABOUT PROTECTING 1460 01:03:12,166 --> 01:03:13,801 AND PRESERVING AND MAINTAINING 1461 01:03:13,801 --> 01:03:14,602 JOINT MOLECULES. 1462 01:03:14,602 --> 01:03:17,038 SO HOW COULD SOMETHING THAT 1463 01:03:17,038 --> 01:03:21,042 TAKES APART JOINT MOLECULES BE 1464 01:03:21,042 --> 01:03:23,911 INVOLVED IN A PATHWAY THAT'S 1465 01:03:23,911 --> 01:03:25,346 ABOUT PRESERVING THEM? 1466 01:03:25,346 --> 01:03:28,483 AND THE HYPOTHESIS THAT WE CAME 1467 01:03:28,483 --> 01:03:38,993 UP WITH WAS THAT IN FACT STR 1468 01:03:39,193 --> 01:03:40,895 WAS A CHAPERONE, YOU THINK ABOUT 1469 01:03:40,895 --> 01:03:43,231 PROMOTING A PROCESS LIKE FOLDING 1470 01:03:43,231 --> 01:03:44,732 PROTEIN BUT MOST CHAPERONES ARE 1471 01:03:44,732 --> 01:03:47,502 NOT THINGS THAT DRIVE FOLDING, 1472 01:03:47,502 --> 01:03:48,970 THEY ARE THINGS THAT UNFOLD 1473 01:03:48,970 --> 01:03:51,005 THINGS OR THAT TAKE THINGS 1474 01:03:51,005 --> 01:03:51,239 APART. 1475 01:03:51,239 --> 01:03:54,776 AND BY TAKING THINGS APART, WHAT 1476 01:03:54,776 --> 01:03:56,811 THEY DO IS THEY TAKE THINGS THAT 1477 01:03:56,811 --> 01:03:58,946 HAVE STARTED GOING THE WRONG 1478 01:03:58,946 --> 01:04:01,215 WAY, OKAY, AND RETURNED THEM TO 1479 01:04:01,215 --> 01:04:02,850 THE GROUND STATE, SO THEY CAN 1480 01:04:02,850 --> 01:04:03,951 TRY AGAIN. 1481 01:04:03,951 --> 01:04:08,589 AND THEY KEEP DOING THIS AND THE 1482 01:04:08,589 --> 01:04:12,827 FINAL STATE THAT THE PROPERLY 1483 01:04:12,827 --> 01:04:14,929 FOLDED STATE IS ONE A CHAPERONE 1484 01:04:14,929 --> 01:04:16,164 NO LONGER RECOGNIZED. 1485 01:04:16,164 --> 01:04:18,299 WE ARGUED, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT'S 1486 01:04:18,299 --> 01:04:20,401 HAPPENING HERE. 1487 01:04:20,401 --> 01:04:21,803 THESE INTERMEDIATES ARE 1488 01:04:21,803 --> 01:04:23,304 VULNERABLE TO STR AND GET TAKEN 1489 01:04:23,304 --> 01:04:24,972 APART AND THEY CAN BE RETURNED 1490 01:04:24,972 --> 01:04:27,375 BACK TO THE GROUND STATE, TO THE 1491 01:04:27,375 --> 01:04:29,143 DOUBLE STRAND BREAK STATE. 1492 01:04:29,143 --> 01:04:30,078 OKAY. 1493 01:04:30,078 --> 01:04:33,214 AND THIS WILL GO THROUGH 1494 01:04:33,214 --> 01:04:35,683 MULTIPLE CYCLES OF -- WE 1495 01:04:35,683 --> 01:04:37,819 HYPOTHESIZE MULTIPLE CYCLES OF 1496 01:04:37,819 --> 01:04:42,023 INVASION, DISASSEMBLY, NULL 1497 01:04:42,023 --> 01:04:42,890 UNTIL EITHER NON-CROSSOVERS 1498 01:04:42,890 --> 01:04:44,959 WERE -- YOU FORMED A 1499 01:04:44,959 --> 01:04:46,494 NON-CROSSOVER WHICH CAN'T BE 1500 01:04:46,494 --> 01:04:52,233 RECOGNIZED BY STR OR THESE 1501 01:04:52,233 --> 01:04:54,001 INTERMEDIATES WERE CAPTURED BY 1502 01:04:54,001 --> 01:04:58,406 THE ZMM PROTEINS OF THE 1503 01:04:58,406 --> 01:04:59,173 MEIOSIS-SPECIFIC STRUCTURE, THEN 1504 01:04:59,173 --> 01:05:01,409 ALLOWED TO MATURE, THEY WERE 1505 01:05:01,409 --> 01:05:02,143 ALSO PROTECTED. 1506 01:05:02,143 --> 01:05:02,443 OKAY. 1507 01:05:02,443 --> 01:05:05,880 SO ONE OF THE PREDICTIONS WAS 1508 01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:10,017 THAT IF WE WENT THROUGH MULTIPLE 1509 01:05:10,017 --> 01:05:15,990 CYCLES OF INVASION AND 1510 01:05:15,990 --> 01:05:19,193 DISASSEMBLY WE OUGHT TO SEE IT 1511 01:05:19,193 --> 01:05:21,829 AS TEMPLATE SWITCHING OR MOSAIC 1512 01:05:21,829 --> 01:05:23,397 HETERODUPLEX WITHIN THE PRODUCTS 1513 01:05:23,397 --> 01:05:24,465 OF RECOMBINATION. 1514 01:05:24,465 --> 01:05:26,501 BASICALLY I'VE DRAWN A 1515 01:05:26,501 --> 01:05:28,636 HYPOTHETICAL CASE WHERE THE BLUE 1516 01:05:28,636 --> 01:05:29,203 CHROMOSOME INVADES THE RED, 1517 01:05:29,203 --> 01:05:31,372 COPIES A LITTLE BIT OF RED, GETS 1518 01:05:31,372 --> 01:05:32,774 TAKEN APART, NOW IT HAS A LITTLE 1519 01:05:32,774 --> 01:05:34,275 BIT OF RED AGAIN. 1520 01:05:34,275 --> 01:05:37,378 HERE IT CAN NOW INVADE A BLUE 1521 01:05:37,378 --> 01:05:39,013 CHROMOSOME, COPY SOME BLUE, TAKE 1522 01:05:39,013 --> 01:05:40,314 APART AGAIN, ET CETERA, ET 1523 01:05:40,314 --> 01:05:41,115 CETERA. 1524 01:05:41,115 --> 01:05:44,919 AND IN THE END, WHAT ONE OBTAINS 1525 01:05:44,919 --> 01:05:46,521 ARE PRODUCTS OF RECOMBINATION 1526 01:05:46,521 --> 01:05:49,557 WHERE THERE ARE STRETCHES, 1527 01:05:49,557 --> 01:05:52,260 PATCHES OF RED DNA THAT ARE 1528 01:05:52,260 --> 01:05:53,828 INTERSPERSED WITH FULLY BLUE 1529 01:05:53,828 --> 01:05:54,061 DNA. 1530 01:05:54,061 --> 01:05:56,597 THE SAME IS TRUE OF CROSSOVERS. 1531 01:05:56,597 --> 01:05:59,534 AND SO THE PREDICTION WAS THAT 1532 01:05:59,534 --> 01:06:02,503 IF WE WENT THROUGH, IF THESE 1533 01:06:02,503 --> 01:06:09,143 MULTIPLE CYCLES OF INVASION AND 1534 01:06:09,143 --> 01:06:10,244 DISASSEMBLY WERE TRUE WE SHOULD 1535 01:06:10,244 --> 01:06:13,648 SEE EVIDENCE IN PRODUCTS OF 1536 01:06:13,648 --> 01:06:14,816 TEMPLATE SWITCHING. 1537 01:06:14,816 --> 01:06:16,717 A POSTDOC IN THE LAB SET OUT TO 1538 01:06:16,717 --> 01:06:17,685 DO THIS. 1539 01:06:17,685 --> 01:06:20,321 AND IN DOING SO, HE WENT BACK TO 1540 01:06:20,321 --> 01:06:24,458 THE VERY BEGINNING, TO TETRAD 1541 01:06:24,458 --> 01:06:28,095 DISSECTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE 1542 01:06:28,095 --> 01:06:33,334 DNA CONTENT OF THE SPORES THAT 1543 01:06:33,334 --> 01:06:41,108 ARE PRODUCTS OF MEIOSIS, SET UP 1544 01:06:41,108 --> 01:06:44,278 A MODEL, A RECOMBINATION -- 1545 01:06:44,278 --> 01:06:45,980 LOCUS TO STUDY RECOMBINATION, 1546 01:06:45,980 --> 01:06:48,649 ABLE TO INSERT MULTIPLE 1547 01:06:48,649 --> 01:06:50,084 POLYMORPHISMS AT REGULARLY 1548 01:06:50,084 --> 01:06:52,453 SPACED INTERVALS, WHICH HAD A 1549 01:06:52,453 --> 01:06:54,589 SINGLE DOUBLE-STRAND BREAK IN IT 1550 01:06:54,589 --> 01:06:56,724 SO WE KNEW WHERE RECOMBINATION 1551 01:06:56,724 --> 01:06:58,492 INITIATED AND WE COULD THEN 1552 01:06:58,492 --> 01:07:00,161 FOLLOW AMONG THE PRODUCTS OF 1553 01:07:00,161 --> 01:07:01,896 RECOMBINATION WHETHER IT HAD A 1554 01:07:01,896 --> 01:07:03,464 STRAND FROM THIS PARENT OR 1555 01:07:03,464 --> 01:07:06,133 STRAND FROM THAT PARENT. 1556 01:07:06,133 --> 01:07:08,903 SIMPLY BY SEQUENCING DNA 1557 01:07:08,903 --> 01:07:10,738 EXTRACTED FROM COLONIES FROM 1558 01:07:10,738 --> 01:07:11,739 THESE SPORES. 1559 01:07:11,739 --> 01:07:19,413 SO THIS IS ACTUALLY A MASSIVE 1560 01:07:19,413 --> 01:07:19,947 UNDERTAKING. 1561 01:07:19,947 --> 01:07:23,217 IT INVOLVED DOING PACK BIOSIS 1562 01:07:23,217 --> 01:07:24,852 SEQUENCING, MULTIPLE MILLIONS OF 1563 01:07:24,852 --> 01:07:27,755 READS, AND THEN SORTING OUT 1564 01:07:27,755 --> 01:07:34,662 THOSE READS AND REASSEMBLING 1565 01:07:34,662 --> 01:07:40,001 THEM INTO THIS. 1566 01:07:40,001 --> 01:07:43,571 HE WOULD GET AN E-MAIL FROM THE 1567 01:07:43,571 --> 01:07:44,205 BIOWULF FOLKS BECAUSE THEY 1568 01:07:44,205 --> 01:07:45,806 COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT COULD 1569 01:07:45,806 --> 01:07:48,109 BE MAKING SUCH HEAVY USE OF THE 1570 01:07:48,109 --> 01:07:50,912 CORES HE HAD REQUESTED. 1571 01:07:50,912 --> 01:07:54,215 BUT NEVERTHELESS, HE DID DO IT. 1572 01:07:54,215 --> 01:07:57,251 AND THE ANSWER WAS VERY CLEAR. 1573 01:07:57,251 --> 01:07:59,020 THAT BOTH THE NON-CROSSOVER AND 1574 01:07:59,020 --> 01:08:02,390 THE CROSSOVER PRODUCTS OF 1575 01:08:02,390 --> 01:08:03,391 MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION SHOWED 1576 01:08:03,391 --> 01:08:05,192 EVIDENCE, FREQUENT EVIDENCE -- 1577 01:08:05,192 --> 01:08:06,227 EVIDENCE OF FREQUENT TEMPLATE 1578 01:08:06,227 --> 01:08:06,994 SWITCHING WHERE, YOU KNOW, 1579 01:08:06,994 --> 01:08:09,730 THINGS WENT FROM RED TO BLUE TO 1580 01:08:09,730 --> 01:08:12,633 RED TO BLUE STRAND, ET CETERA, 1581 01:08:12,633 --> 01:08:17,672 ET CETERA. 1582 01:08:17,672 --> 01:08:22,109 SO, THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION 1583 01:08:22,109 --> 01:08:23,644 IS, YES, MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION 1584 01:08:23,644 --> 01:08:26,414 INVOLVES MULTIPLE CYCLES OF 1585 01:08:26,414 --> 01:08:27,915 ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY. 1586 01:08:27,915 --> 01:08:29,450 SO, THAT'S BASICALLY THE STORY I 1587 01:08:29,450 --> 01:08:37,191 WANTED TO TELL YOU TODAY. 1588 01:08:37,191 --> 01:08:39,827 JUST TO SUMMARIZE THEN, THAT 1589 01:08:39,827 --> 01:08:43,197 MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION AND BY 1590 01:08:43,197 --> 01:08:45,833 INFERENCE WE THINK REPAIR OF 1591 01:08:45,833 --> 01:08:48,369 DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS IN MITOTIC 1592 01:08:48,369 --> 01:08:50,671 CELLS IS A REMARKABLY DYNAMIC 1593 01:08:50,671 --> 01:08:52,306 PROCESS, IT INVOLVES MULTIPLE 1594 01:08:52,306 --> 01:08:55,943 CYCLES OF INVASION AND 1595 01:08:55,943 --> 01:08:57,545 DISASSOCIATION, IT INVOLVES 1596 01:08:57,545 --> 01:08:58,446 FREQUENT TEMPLATE SWITCHING, 1597 01:08:58,446 --> 01:08:59,747 SWITCHING FROM ONE REPAIR 1598 01:08:59,747 --> 01:09:05,353 TEMPLATE TO THE OTHER. 1599 01:09:05,353 --> 01:09:08,222 AND THAT IS DRIVEN BY HELICASES. 1600 01:09:08,222 --> 01:09:13,194 WHAT I HAVEN'T TOLD YOU TODAY IS 1601 01:09:13,194 --> 01:09:18,699 THAT SIMILARLY, THE OTHER STEPS, 1602 01:09:18,699 --> 01:09:20,935 SECOND STEP OF RECOMBINATION, 1603 01:09:20,935 --> 01:09:23,637 FORMATION OF DOUBLE HOLLIDAY 1604 01:09:23,637 --> 01:09:26,440 JUNCTIONS IS SIMILARLY DYNAMIC, 1605 01:09:26,440 --> 01:09:27,341 THAT HE'S DOUBLE HOLLIDAY 1606 01:09:27,341 --> 01:09:31,812 JUNCTIONS FREQUENTLY GO MOVEMENT 1607 01:09:31,812 --> 01:09:35,216 ACROSS THE CHROMOSOME, THAT 1608 01:09:35,216 --> 01:09:40,054 BRANCH MIGRATION ADDS ANOTHER 1609 01:09:40,054 --> 01:09:41,789 LAYER OF DYNAMISM, IF THEY 1610 01:09:41,789 --> 01:09:43,891 BRANCH MIGRATE IN ONE DIRECTION 1611 01:09:43,891 --> 01:09:45,926 WILL BECOME DISASSEMBLED AND 1612 01:09:45,926 --> 01:09:50,531 RETURNED BACK TO THIS STATE. 1613 01:09:50,531 --> 01:09:54,502 SO, AGAIN, THERE'S POTENTIAL 1614 01:09:54,502 --> 01:09:56,937 REVERSAL OF BOTH THE EARLIER AND 1615 01:09:56,937 --> 01:10:00,174 THE LATER STEPS OF MEIOTIC 1616 01:10:00,174 --> 01:10:00,508 RECOMBINATION. 1617 01:10:00,508 --> 01:10:02,209 SO, WHAT'S THE POINT HERE? 1618 01:10:02,209 --> 01:10:03,677 WHY GO DO ALL THIS STUFF IF YOU 1619 01:10:03,677 --> 01:10:07,915 JUST ARE GOING TO BACK OUT 1620 01:10:07,915 --> 01:10:09,450 AGAIN? 1621 01:10:09,450 --> 01:10:12,620 AND I THINK THERE ARE TWO -- AT 1622 01:10:12,620 --> 01:10:15,456 LEAST TWO POTENTIAL REASONS FOR 1623 01:10:15,456 --> 01:10:15,990 THIS. 1624 01:10:15,990 --> 01:10:22,229 THE FIRST IS -- INVOLVES THE 1625 01:10:22,229 --> 01:10:24,799 FACT THAT HOMOLOG PAIRING, THE 1626 01:10:24,799 --> 01:10:30,971 PAIRING OF HOMOLOGOUS 1627 01:10:30,971 --> 01:10:34,375 CHROMOSOMES DURING MEIOSIS, 1628 01:10:34,375 --> 01:10:37,311 INVOLVES THE INITIATION AND 1629 01:10:37,311 --> 01:10:40,281 INVASION AT MULTIPLE SITES ALONG 1630 01:10:40,281 --> 01:10:41,482 THESE CHROMOSOMES, MULTIPLE 1631 01:10:41,482 --> 01:10:43,717 TRANSIENT EVENTS ARE USED TO 1632 01:10:43,717 --> 01:10:48,789 DRIVE THE PAIRING OF HOMOLOGOUS 1633 01:10:48,789 --> 01:10:49,156 CHROMOSOMES. 1634 01:10:49,156 --> 01:10:51,158 IF ONE EVENT HAPPENS IN A 1635 01:10:51,158 --> 01:10:53,527 REPEATED SEQUENCE, WHICH HAS 1636 01:10:53,527 --> 01:10:55,729 POTENTIAL TO RECOMBINE WITH A 1637 01:10:55,729 --> 01:10:59,200 REPEATED SEQUENCE ON THE WRONG 1638 01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:02,103 CHROMOSOME, YOU CAN -- YOU END 1639 01:11:02,103 --> 01:11:04,038 UP WITH ECTOPIC INTERACTION, AND 1640 01:11:04,038 --> 01:11:06,373 THAT WILL INTERFERE WITH PAIRING 1641 01:11:06,373 --> 01:11:08,642 AND INTERFERE WITH SUBSEQUENT 1642 01:11:08,642 --> 01:11:13,781 CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION, SO THE 1643 01:11:13,781 --> 01:11:16,417 ABILITY TO REVERSE INTERACTIONS 1644 01:11:16,417 --> 01:11:19,153 IS -- ALLOWS ONE TO THEN GO 1645 01:11:19,153 --> 01:11:21,288 ALONG THE PROPER PATHWAY OF 1646 01:11:21,288 --> 01:11:23,524 HOMOLOG PAIRING. 1647 01:11:23,524 --> 01:11:25,526 THE SECOND IS THAT HOMOLOG 1648 01:11:25,526 --> 01:11:27,695 PAIRING ITSELF BECAUSE IT'S 1649 01:11:27,695 --> 01:11:29,263 INVOLVING MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS 1650 01:11:29,263 --> 01:11:32,199 AT DIFFERENT PLACES, HAS THE 1651 01:11:32,199 --> 01:11:33,200 POTENTIAL FOR MAKING 1652 01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:34,768 ENTANGLEMENTS WHERE IN THIS CASE 1653 01:11:34,768 --> 01:11:36,370 TWO HOMOLOGS PAIRED HERE AND 1654 01:11:36,370 --> 01:11:38,339 HERE, HERE AND HERE, BUT THEY 1655 01:11:38,339 --> 01:11:40,074 ARE INTERDIGITATED AMONG EACH 1656 01:11:40,074 --> 01:11:44,411 OTHER, AND, AGAIN, THIS IS GOING 1657 01:11:44,411 --> 01:11:47,982 TO BE LETHAL FOR SUBSEQUENT 1658 01:11:47,982 --> 01:11:48,582 CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION AND SO 1659 01:11:48,582 --> 01:11:50,918 ONE WANTS TO BE ABLE TO BACK OUT 1660 01:11:50,918 --> 01:11:53,354 PERHAPS AT THIS LATER STAGE IN 1661 01:11:53,354 --> 01:11:56,290 ORDER TO, AGAIN, PAIR HOMOLOGS 1662 01:11:56,290 --> 01:11:56,624 PROPERLY. 1663 01:11:56,624 --> 01:11:59,093 AND THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO 1664 01:11:59,093 --> 01:12:01,295 IN THE MINUS 12 SECONDS THAT I 1665 01:12:01,295 --> 01:12:03,364 HAVE IS TO POINT OUT TO YOU 1666 01:12:03,364 --> 01:12:05,599 AGAIN AS I SAID EARLIER THAT 1667 01:12:05,599 --> 01:12:09,270 WHAT WE LEARN IN MEIOTIC -- IN 1668 01:12:09,270 --> 01:12:10,738 STUDY OF MEIOSIS IS ALMOST 1669 01:12:10,738 --> 01:12:13,274 CERTAINLY GOING TO BE APPLICABLE 1670 01:12:13,274 --> 01:12:16,944 IN THE STUDY OF DNA REPAIR UNDER 1671 01:12:16,944 --> 01:12:19,947 OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES. 1672 01:12:19,947 --> 01:12:22,383 IN FACT, REALLY WHAT MY ON 1673 01:12:22,383 --> 01:12:24,652 THETIC RECOMBINATION IS IS 1674 01:12:24,652 --> 01:12:27,354 MITOTIC RECOMBINATION BECAUSE A 1675 01:12:27,354 --> 01:12:30,157 BUNCH OF CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE. 1676 01:12:30,157 --> 01:12:33,160 THE PICTURE THAT WE'VE COME 1677 01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:35,229 ABOUT FOR MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION 1678 01:12:35,229 --> 01:12:38,866 IF ONE JUST TAKES OUT THE 1679 01:12:38,866 --> 01:12:40,167 MEIOTIC CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES 1680 01:12:40,167 --> 01:12:41,135 THERE'S A PRETTY ACCURATE 1681 01:12:41,135 --> 01:12:42,069 PICTURE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN 1682 01:12:42,069 --> 01:12:47,942 THE MY TO THE INCORPORATE 1683 01:12:47,942 --> 01:12:48,542 CELL -- MITOTIC CELL. 1684 01:12:48,542 --> 01:12:50,177 I'D LIKE TO THANK THE PEOPLE WHO 1685 01:12:50,177 --> 01:12:53,480 WORKED WITH ME OVER THE YEARS. 1686 01:12:53,480 --> 01:12:58,552 AND I WOULD BE REMISS IF I 1687 01:12:58,552 --> 01:13:00,221 DIDN'T END THIS TALK WITH THE 1688 01:13:00,221 --> 01:13:03,724 WAY WE END OUR PAPERS WITH AN 1689 01:13:03,724 --> 01:13:06,493 ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO THE INTRAMURAL 1690 01:13:06,493 --> 01:13:08,696 RESEARCH PROGRAM, CENTER FOR 1691 01:13:08,696 --> 01:13:10,464 CANCER RESEARCH, NATIONAL CANCER 1692 01:13:10,464 --> 01:13:13,901 INSTITUTE, IN THIS CASE IN 1693 01:13:13,901 --> 01:13:16,604 PARTICULAR TO THE FOLKS AT CCR 1694 01:13:16,604 --> 01:13:20,574 IN GENOMICS CORE AND SEQUENCING 1695 01:13:20,574 --> 01:13:21,976 FACILITY THAT MADE THIS POSSIBLE 1696 01:13:21,976 --> 01:13:24,778 AND THE FOLKS AT BIOWULF WHO 1697 01:13:24,778 --> 01:13:35,189 HELPED US CARRY OUT THE 1698 01:13:38,559 --> 01:13:39,927 ANALYSIS. 1699 01:13:39,927 --> 01:13:40,194 [APPLAUSE] 1700 01:13:40,194 --> 01:13:40,928 YEAH, I KNOW. 1701 01:13:40,928 --> 01:13:43,430 >> I'M VERY BAD AS A TIME 1702 01:13:43,430 --> 01:13:43,664 KEEPER. 1703 01:13:43,664 --> 01:13:46,267 >> IT WAS A MINUTE AND 12 1704 01:13:46,267 --> 01:13:51,605 SECONDS OVER. 1705 01:13:51,605 --> 01:13:55,542 >> THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL 1706 01:13:55,542 --> 01:13:56,410 TALK. 1707 01:13:56,410 --> 01:13:57,278 SPEAKING OF CONTINUITY, THEMES 1708 01:13:57,278 --> 01:14:02,616 AND SO FORTH, A LITTLE BIT MORE 1709 01:14:02,616 --> 01:14:04,885 ON DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS AND YOUR 1710 01:14:04,885 --> 01:14:07,588 MEIOSIS TO MITOSIS I THINK WAS A 1711 01:14:07,588 --> 01:14:12,893 PERFECT SEGUE INTO THE NEXT 1712 01:14:12,893 --> 01:14:14,728 SPEAKER, DR. ANDRE NUSSENZWEIG 1713 01:14:14,728 --> 01:14:17,231 IS NIH DISTINGUISHED 1714 01:14:17,231 --> 01:14:19,333 INVESTIGATOR ALSO AT NCI CCR, 1715 01:14:19,333 --> 01:14:25,205 AND HE WORKS ON HOW CELLS REPAIR 1716 01:14:25,205 --> 01:14:27,141 DNA, PARTICULARLY DOUBLE-STRAND 1717 01:14:27,141 --> 01:14:29,777 BREAKS, BUT IN THE CONTEXT OF 1718 01:14:29,777 --> 01:14:33,914 ANOMALOUS REPAIR, IF YOU WILL, 1719 01:14:33,914 --> 01:14:35,883 BY TRANSLOCATION AND INSERTION 1720 01:14:35,883 --> 01:14:38,385 OF PIECES OF DNA FROM ONE 1721 01:14:38,385 --> 01:14:41,221 CHROMOSOME INTO THE NEXT, AND 1722 01:14:41,221 --> 01:14:44,525 THE ROLE OF THOSE -- THAT 1723 01:14:44,525 --> 01:14:46,994 PROCESS AND ITS REGULATION IN 1724 01:14:46,994 --> 01:14:49,596 CANCER BIOLOGY. 1725 01:14:49,596 --> 01:14:51,198 SO DR. NUSSENZWEIG. 1726 01:14:51,198 --> 01:15:00,507 [APPLAUSE] 1727 01:15:00,507 --> 01:15:01,342 >> THANK YOU, NINA. 1728 01:15:01,342 --> 01:15:03,377 I WILL TALK MORE ABOUT DNA 1729 01:15:03,377 --> 01:15:05,846 BREAKS BUT WANTED TO EXPAND A 1730 01:15:05,846 --> 01:15:09,183 LITTLE BIT ABOUT MYSELF BECAUSE 1731 01:15:09,183 --> 01:15:13,053 I HAVE A GOTTEN HERE IN A 1732 01:15:13,053 --> 01:15:14,822 ROUNDABOUT WAY. 1733 01:15:14,822 --> 01:15:17,191 MY TRAINING WAS ORIGINALLY IN 1734 01:15:17,191 --> 01:15:17,424 PHYSICS. 1735 01:15:17,424 --> 01:15:19,693 LET ME SEE IF I CAN GET THIS 1736 01:15:19,693 --> 01:15:25,366 POINTER TO WORK. 1737 01:15:25,366 --> 01:15:26,200 NOT SURE HOW. 1738 01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:28,068 WELL, SOMEONE CAN -- OH, THERE. 1739 01:15:28,068 --> 01:15:28,936 GOOD, GOOD. 1740 01:15:28,936 --> 01:15:31,105 MY TRAINING WAS IN PHYSICS. 1741 01:15:31,105 --> 01:15:35,609 I GOT A Ph.D. IN PHYSICS, THE 1742 01:15:35,609 --> 01:15:37,778 SAME DEPARTMENT AS MICHAEL 1743 01:15:37,778 --> 01:15:39,113 LICHTEN'S DADA PROFESSOR THERE 1744 01:15:39,113 --> 01:15:39,747 AT THE TIME. 1745 01:15:39,747 --> 01:15:45,219 I WENT ON AND DID A POSTDOC IN 1746 01:15:45,219 --> 01:15:47,187 PHYSICS AS WELL. 1747 01:15:47,187 --> 01:15:51,058 AND THEN, I STARTED TO DABBLE 1748 01:15:51,058 --> 01:15:57,631 INTO BIOLOGY, IN THE DEPARTMENT 1749 01:15:57,631 --> 01:16:01,435 OF MEDICAL PHYSICAL IT AT 1750 01:16:01,435 --> 01:16:01,802 SLOAN-KETTERING. 1751 01:16:01,802 --> 01:16:05,072 AL SINGER TOOK A RISK AND HIRED 1752 01:16:05,072 --> 01:16:08,342 ME IN EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY 1753 01:16:08,342 --> 01:16:08,976 BRANCH. 1754 01:16:08,976 --> 01:16:11,812 AND THAT'S WHERE I LEARNED A LOT 1755 01:16:11,812 --> 01:16:13,480 ABOUT IMMUNOLOGY AND ALSO 1756 01:16:13,480 --> 01:16:16,617 STARTED WORKING ON DNA REPAIR. 1757 01:16:16,617 --> 01:16:21,054 AND I CONTINUED TO WORK ON DNA 1758 01:16:21,054 --> 01:16:23,023 REPAIR, AND I GUESS NCI LIKED 1759 01:16:23,023 --> 01:16:25,793 THE TOPIC OF DNA REPAIR, AND 1760 01:16:25,793 --> 01:16:29,396 THEY CREATED A BRANCH CALLED 1761 01:16:29,396 --> 01:16:30,330 LABORATORY OF GENOME INTEGRITY, 1762 01:16:30,330 --> 01:16:33,434 WHERE I CONTINUED TO WORK ON 1763 01:16:33,434 --> 01:16:38,572 THAT, BUT ALSO NOW FLIRTING WITH 1764 01:16:38,572 --> 01:16:39,406 NEUROBIOLOGY. 1765 01:16:39,406 --> 01:16:41,074 SO YOU MAY THINK THIS SOUNDS 1766 01:16:41,074 --> 01:16:49,383 LIKE THIS GUY IS A DILITANT, 1767 01:16:49,383 --> 01:16:50,851 DABBLING IN DIFFERENT AREAS, BUT 1768 01:16:50,851 --> 01:16:53,020 I WANT TO DEFEND MYSELF BY 1769 01:16:53,020 --> 01:16:57,157 SAYING THE STUDY OF DNA REPAIR 1770 01:16:57,157 --> 01:16:59,860 ALLOWS YOU OR GIVES YOU MAJOR 1771 01:16:59,860 --> 01:17:01,528 INSIGHT INTO DIFFERENT AREAS, 1772 01:17:01,528 --> 01:17:05,466 I'VE BENEFITED AND LEARNED FROM 1773 01:17:05,466 --> 01:17:06,867 THIS STUDY. 1774 01:17:06,867 --> 01:17:09,169 BECAUSE DNA DAMAGE OCCURS IN ALL 1775 01:17:09,169 --> 01:17:11,572 CELL TYPES, OCCURS IN MANY 1776 01:17:11,572 --> 01:17:12,673 DIFFERENT WAYS AS MICHAEL 1777 01:17:12,673 --> 01:17:18,378 LICHTEN POINTED OUT THROUGH 1778 01:17:18,378 --> 01:17:22,649 EXOGENOUS AGENTS LIKE CHEMICALS 1779 01:17:22,649 --> 01:17:24,551 IN THERAPEUTICS, AND WE'RE 1780 01:17:24,551 --> 01:17:25,118 INTERESTING IN ENDOGENOUS 1781 01:17:25,118 --> 01:17:30,424 SOURCES OF DAMAGE, REOXYGEN 1782 01:17:30,424 --> 01:17:32,893 SPECIES THAT MIGHT OCCUR IN 1783 01:17:32,893 --> 01:17:34,661 NORMAL METABOLISM BY ENZYMES, 1784 01:17:34,661 --> 01:17:38,098 NUCLEASES THAT PURPOSELY CUT THE 1785 01:17:38,098 --> 01:17:42,336 DNA AS MICHAEL MENTIONED, RAG 1786 01:17:42,336 --> 01:17:47,774 AID, SPO11 AND THIS DEMETHase, 1787 01:17:47,774 --> 01:17:49,076 TET ENZYMES. 1788 01:17:49,076 --> 01:17:51,645 SO IF YOU STUDY THIS YOU CAN 1789 01:17:51,645 --> 01:17:53,080 LEARN ABOUT IMMUNOLOGY BECAUSE 1790 01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:55,249 THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR DIVERSITY 1791 01:17:55,249 --> 01:17:56,984 OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, RAG AND 1792 01:17:56,984 --> 01:18:00,053 AID, THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THE 1793 01:18:00,053 --> 01:18:02,256 DIVERSITY OF THE SPECIES, SPO 11 1794 01:18:02,256 --> 01:18:05,292 AND TET ENZYMES ARE IMPORTANT 1795 01:18:05,292 --> 01:18:09,563 FOR CELL IDENTITY. 1796 01:18:09,563 --> 01:18:10,664 OKAY. 1797 01:18:10,664 --> 01:18:13,934 AS MICHAEL POINTED OUT, THESE 1798 01:18:13,934 --> 01:18:15,135 ENDOGENOUS ENZYMES, NUCLEASES 1799 01:18:15,135 --> 01:18:16,570 ARE REALLY GOOD, REPAIR IS 1800 01:18:16,570 --> 01:18:18,272 REALLY GOOD BUT OCCASIONALLY YOU 1801 01:18:18,272 --> 01:18:20,507 HAVE MISTAKES AND THESE MISTAKES 1802 01:18:20,507 --> 01:18:23,277 HAVE CONSEQUENCES. 1803 01:18:23,277 --> 01:18:26,113 YOU GET MUTATIONS, CHROMOSOMAL 1804 01:18:26,113 --> 01:18:27,180 INSTABILITY, EPIGENETIC 1805 01:18:27,180 --> 01:18:28,282 ALTERATIONS. 1806 01:18:28,282 --> 01:18:31,718 AND THIS CAN LEAD TO TISSUE 1807 01:18:31,718 --> 01:18:35,956 DECLINE, AGING, AND OF COURSE 1808 01:18:35,956 --> 01:18:36,323 CANCER. 1809 01:18:36,323 --> 01:18:39,893 SO, YOU KNOW, BEING AT THE 1810 01:18:39,893 --> 01:18:41,862 CANCER INSTITUTE, THE FOCUS OF 1811 01:18:41,862 --> 01:18:45,165 MY LAB ANYWAYS IS ON BASIC 1812 01:18:45,165 --> 01:18:50,470 MECHANISMS OF CANCER, AND IT WAS 1813 01:18:50,470 --> 01:18:52,506 VERY INTERESTING THIS YEAR WHEN 1814 01:18:52,506 --> 01:18:56,877 THE NCI AND THE CANCER U.K. 1815 01:18:56,877 --> 01:18:59,279 ANNOUNCED THE CANCER GRAND 1816 01:18:59,279 --> 01:19:01,348 CHALLENGES, SO THESE WERE WHAT 1817 01:19:01,348 --> 01:19:04,084 THEY CONSIDERED TO BE NINE OF 1818 01:19:04,084 --> 01:19:05,886 THE TOUGHEST PROBLEMS, MOST 1819 01:19:05,886 --> 01:19:09,356 DIFFICULT PROBLEMS IN CANCER 1820 01:19:09,356 --> 01:19:11,191 RESEARCH, AND THESE NINE 1821 01:19:11,191 --> 01:19:12,693 PROBLEMS WERE BASICALLY A 1822 01:19:12,693 --> 01:19:15,228 CHALLENGE SO THAT YOU GET PEOPLE 1823 01:19:15,228 --> 01:19:16,930 FROM DIFFERENT AREAS TO 1824 01:19:16,930 --> 01:19:18,265 COLLABORATE, INTERACT, TRY TO 1825 01:19:18,265 --> 01:19:23,036 SOLVE THESE REALLY, REALLY TOUGH 1826 01:19:23,036 --> 01:19:23,437 PROBLEMS. 1827 01:19:23,437 --> 01:19:27,274 SO, WE STARTED WORKING ON THIS 1828 01:19:27,274 --> 01:19:28,475 PROBLEM, CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED 1829 01:19:28,475 --> 01:19:29,109 NEUROTOXICITY. 1830 01:19:29,109 --> 01:19:30,978 WE DIDN'T JUST DECIDE TO WORK ON 1831 01:19:30,978 --> 01:19:31,411 IT. 1832 01:19:31,411 --> 01:19:32,980 LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, YOU JUST 1833 01:19:32,980 --> 01:19:33,947 RUN INTO IT. 1834 01:19:33,947 --> 01:19:36,116 AND BUT WE BECAME VERY 1835 01:19:36,116 --> 01:19:36,550 INTERESTED IN THIS. 1836 01:19:36,550 --> 01:19:41,121 THIS IS -- YOU KNOW, REALLY A 1837 01:19:41,121 --> 01:19:42,155 CHALLENGING PROBLEM BECAUSE 1838 01:19:42,155 --> 01:19:45,792 CHEMOTHERAPY CONTINUES TO EXTEND 1839 01:19:45,792 --> 01:19:48,929 LIFESPAN OF PATIENTS, BUT THERE 1840 01:19:48,929 --> 01:19:51,231 IS FREQUENTLY PERSISTENT 1841 01:19:51,231 --> 01:19:53,200 NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEMS, SYMPTOMS, 1842 01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:55,168 AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT WHICH 1843 01:19:55,168 --> 01:20:00,107 MAKES THE LIFE VERY, VERY 1844 01:20:00,107 --> 01:20:00,741 DIFFICULT. 1845 01:20:00,741 --> 01:20:02,042 AND THE CHALLENGE REALLY IS 1846 01:20:02,042 --> 01:20:04,711 BECAUSE THIS IS A SUPER 1847 01:20:04,711 --> 01:20:06,413 COMPLICATED PROBLEM. 1848 01:20:06,413 --> 01:20:08,582 THERE ARE MULTIPLE FACTORS THAT 1849 01:20:08,582 --> 01:20:12,986 CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COGNITIVE 1850 01:20:12,986 --> 01:20:13,587 IMPAIRMENT AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY, 1851 01:20:13,587 --> 01:20:16,523 INCLUDING AGE OF THE PATIENT, 1852 01:20:16,523 --> 01:20:18,558 GENDER, CANCER TYPE, DOSE, 1853 01:20:18,558 --> 01:20:22,195 CANCER REGIMEN, ET CETERA, ET 1854 01:20:22,195 --> 01:20:22,562 CETERA. 1855 01:20:22,562 --> 01:20:27,367 AND JUST TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE HOW 1856 01:20:27,367 --> 01:20:33,874 DIFFERENT CANCER REGIMENS CAUSE 1857 01:20:33,874 --> 01:20:36,943 NEUROLOGICAL CHANGES, WITH 1858 01:20:36,943 --> 01:20:42,749 TOXICITIES DEPENDING ON WHAT 1859 01:20:42,749 --> 01:20:44,718 COMPOUND, FROM HEADACHE TO 1860 01:20:44,718 --> 01:20:55,262 MENTAL STATE, MEMORY, COGNITIVE 1861 01:20:56,196 --> 01:20:58,198 ABILITY, EVEN SEIZURE ONE 1862 01:20:58,198 --> 01:21:00,500 PARTICULAR TYPE OF CHEMOTHERAPY, 1863 01:21:00,500 --> 01:21:04,004 ANTI-METABOLITES, ARE SHOWN HERE 1864 01:21:04,004 --> 01:21:07,908 IN RED, WE BECAME INTERESTED IN 1865 01:21:07,908 --> 01:21:15,482 THEM, AND THEY INTERRUPT NUCLEIC 1866 01:21:15,482 --> 01:21:17,117 ACID SYNTHESIS. 1867 01:21:17,117 --> 01:21:18,518 IN PARTICULAR, WE WERE 1868 01:21:18,518 --> 01:21:23,190 INTERESTED IN STUDYING THESE SO 1869 01:21:23,190 --> 01:21:24,257 CALLED SUICIDE NUCLEOSIDES WHICH 1870 01:21:24,257 --> 01:21:25,192 TERMINATE DNA SYNTHESIS AND 1871 01:21:25,192 --> 01:21:30,130 THESE APPARENTLY ARE THE LARGEST 1872 01:21:30,130 --> 01:21:31,598 CLASS OF ANTI-NEOPLASTIC AGENTS, 1873 01:21:31,598 --> 01:21:40,707 20% OF CANCER THERAPIES USE 1874 01:21:40,707 --> 01:21:42,275 THESE SUICIDE ANTI-METABOLITES. 1875 01:21:42,275 --> 01:21:44,244 LET ME GO BACK. 1876 01:21:44,244 --> 01:21:46,446 THESE METABOLITES, WHAT THEY 1877 01:21:46,446 --> 01:21:49,216 BASICALLY ARE -- THEY MAINTAIN 1878 01:21:49,216 --> 01:21:50,016 NUCLEOBASE, PRETTY MUCH, BUT 1879 01:21:50,016 --> 01:21:54,755 THEY HAVE A SMALL CHANGE IN THE 1880 01:21:54,755 --> 01:21:57,924 SUGAR MOIETY, AND A RESULT OF 1881 01:21:57,924 --> 01:22:00,260 THIS CHANGE IS THAT THERE'S -- 1882 01:22:00,260 --> 01:22:10,704 WHEN YOU INCORPORATE THESE 1883 01:22:13,039 --> 01:22:16,409 ANTI-METABOLITES, THEY STOP 1884 01:22:16,409 --> 01:22:18,812 SYNTHESIS. 1885 01:22:18,812 --> 01:22:21,982 THIS KILLS RAPIDLY DIVIDING 1886 01:22:21,982 --> 01:22:23,950 CANCER CELLS AND ARREST DURING 1887 01:22:23,950 --> 01:22:26,019 REPLICATION OR THIS CAN GENERATE 1888 01:22:26,019 --> 01:22:34,995 DNA BREAKS AND MITOTIC CELL 1889 01:22:34,995 --> 01:22:35,195 DEATH. 1890 01:22:35,195 --> 01:22:37,497 WHAT ABOUT POST MITOTIC CELLS, 1891 01:22:37,497 --> 01:22:38,064 NEURONS? 1892 01:22:38,064 --> 01:22:42,369 HOW WOULD A SUICIDE 1893 01:22:42,369 --> 01:22:44,171 ANTI-METABOLITE IN NON-DIVIDING 1894 01:22:44,171 --> 01:22:46,907 CELLS HAVE THIS BAD EFFECT IN 1895 01:22:46,907 --> 01:22:47,507 POST MITOTIC NEURONS? 1896 01:22:47,507 --> 01:22:49,376 AND THEY DO. 1897 01:22:49,376 --> 01:22:50,076 THEY DEFINITELY DO. 1898 01:22:50,076 --> 01:22:54,247 AND THIS IS JUST ONE CLASSIC 1899 01:22:54,247 --> 01:22:58,084 EXAMPLE OF AN AGENT, THE 1900 01:22:58,084 --> 01:23:00,787 MAINSTAY WHICH HAS BEEN THE 1901 01:23:00,787 --> 01:23:04,191 MAINSTAY FOR 30 YEARS FOR AML 1902 01:23:04,191 --> 01:23:10,564 TREATMENT, AND KNOWN AT LEAST AT 1903 01:23:10,564 --> 01:23:15,468 HIGH DOSES INDUCES MAJOR 1904 01:23:15,468 --> 01:23:16,369 CEREBELLAR TOXICITY. 1905 01:23:16,369 --> 01:23:18,471 AND THERE'S ONE PARTICULAR CELL 1906 01:23:18,471 --> 01:23:21,274 TYPE ACTUALLY THAT IS PRIMARILY 1907 01:23:21,274 --> 01:23:31,818 AFFECTED IN TH CEREBELLUM, THAT 1908 01:23:34,921 --> 01:23:41,027 IS PURKINJE CELL FOR BASIC 1909 01:23:41,027 --> 01:23:41,294 MOVEMENT. 1910 01:23:41,294 --> 01:23:47,367 WE STARTED LOOKING AT 1911 01:23:47,367 --> 01:23:55,475 CYTARABINE, TREATED IPCs WITH 1912 01:23:55,475 --> 01:23:59,846 CYTARIBINE, IT IS VERY TOXICS. 1913 01:23:59,846 --> 01:24:00,914 WE LOOKED AT POST-MITOTIC 1914 01:24:00,914 --> 01:24:04,651 NEURONS DERIVED FROM THE SAME 1915 01:24:04,651 --> 01:24:05,685 iPSCs, TREATED WITH 1916 01:24:05,685 --> 01:24:07,487 CYTARIBINE, WE FOUND THAT THIS 1917 01:24:07,487 --> 01:24:11,091 WAS ALSO VERY TOXIC IN THE 1918 01:24:11,091 --> 01:24:11,858 NEURONS, NON-DIVIDING CELLS. 1919 01:24:11,858 --> 01:24:13,827 AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE CHALLENGE, 1920 01:24:13,827 --> 01:24:17,898 THE GRAND CHALLENGE HERE IS TO 1921 01:24:17,898 --> 01:24:19,299 UNDERSTAND AND PREVENT 1922 01:24:19,299 --> 01:24:20,934 CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED 1923 01:24:20,934 --> 01:24:21,735 NEUROTOXICITY AND NEUROPATHY. 1924 01:24:21,735 --> 01:24:24,671 AND SO I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 1925 01:24:24,671 --> 01:24:30,777 TODAY ABOUT RECENT STUDY WHERE 1926 01:24:30,777 --> 01:24:32,779 WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS 1927 01:24:32,779 --> 01:24:34,781 CYTARIBINE, HOW IT TRIGGERS CELL 1928 01:24:34,781 --> 01:24:39,452 DEATH IN POST MITOTIC NEURONS. 1929 01:24:39,452 --> 01:24:41,187 WE STARTED WITH CRISPR 1930 01:24:41,187 --> 01:24:43,423 INTERFERENCE SCREEN IN NEURONS, 1931 01:24:43,423 --> 01:24:44,891 WE KNOW CYTARIBINE IS TOXIC, 1932 01:24:44,891 --> 01:24:47,093 WANTED TO SEE WHICH GENES IF WE 1933 01:24:47,093 --> 01:24:51,431 KNOCKED THEM OUT WOULD DECREASE 1934 01:24:51,431 --> 01:24:52,499 TOXICITY. 1935 01:24:52,499 --> 01:24:53,900 WE PERFORMED CRISPR INTERFERENCE 1936 01:24:53,900 --> 01:24:55,101 SCREEN IN COLLABORATION WITH 1937 01:24:55,101 --> 01:24:58,204 MICHAEL WARD AT NINDS ACTUALLY. 1938 01:24:58,204 --> 01:25:01,341 SO HE HAS THE iPSCs WITH 1939 01:25:01,341 --> 01:25:05,045 CRISPR INTERFERENCE MACHINERY WE 1940 01:25:05,045 --> 01:25:07,580 CAN INACTIVATE TRANSCRIPTION OF 1941 01:25:07,580 --> 01:25:13,153 VARIOUS GENES USING THE Cas9 1942 01:25:13,153 --> 01:25:14,454 FUSED TO KRAB DOMAIN, INFECT 1943 01:25:14,454 --> 01:25:17,857 WITH LIBRARY OF GUIDES AND 1944 01:25:17,857 --> 01:25:21,494 DIFFERENTIATE OUR iPSCs INTO 1945 01:25:21,494 --> 01:25:23,263 NEURONS, SIMPLY WITH SINGLE 1946 01:25:23,263 --> 01:25:24,664 TRANSCRIPTION WITH INDUCIBLE 1947 01:25:24,664 --> 01:25:25,832 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, WHEN YOU 1948 01:25:25,832 --> 01:25:27,133 GET NEURONS THAT HAVE ALL OF 1949 01:25:27,133 --> 01:25:31,137 THESE GUIDES THAT ARE INHIBITING 1950 01:25:31,137 --> 01:25:33,840 INDIVIDUAL TRANSCRIPTION, WE 1951 01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:37,677 TREAT OR NOT WITH CYTARIBINE AND 1952 01:25:37,677 --> 01:25:40,146 LOOK FOR GUIDES THAT PREVENT 1953 01:25:40,146 --> 01:25:42,482 CELL DEATH IN THESE NEURONS. 1954 01:25:42,482 --> 01:25:45,919 AND WE FOUND A LOT OF 1955 01:25:45,919 --> 01:25:46,886 INTERESTING HITS, THE CURVE IS 1956 01:25:46,886 --> 01:25:51,257 NOT SHOWING BUT THE TOP HITS ARE 1957 01:25:51,257 --> 01:25:53,626 SHOWING. 1958 01:25:53,626 --> 01:25:56,296 SOMEHOW THAT'S THE MAC-TO-PC 1959 01:25:56,296 --> 01:25:56,496 THING. 1960 01:25:56,496 --> 01:26:00,700 WE DIDN'T EXPECT IS THIS, 1961 01:26:00,700 --> 01:26:09,142 FACTORS INVOLVED IN METHYLATION, 1962 01:26:09,142 --> 01:26:10,343 THIS DNA METHYLASE WHICH WORKS 1963 01:26:10,343 --> 01:26:13,079 WITH THIS PARTNER, AND THIS IS 1964 01:26:13,079 --> 01:26:22,622 INVOLVES IN THE REVERSE PROCESS 1965 01:26:22,622 --> 01:26:24,791 OF DNA DEMETHYLATION. 1966 01:26:24,791 --> 01:26:28,728 AND WE ACTUALLY WENT BACK AND 1967 01:26:28,728 --> 01:26:37,470 CLONED INDIVIDUAL GUIDES FOR 1968 01:26:37,470 --> 01:26:38,371 TDG, TREATED WITH CYTARIBINE, 1969 01:26:38,371 --> 01:26:41,608 WHEN YOU LOSE THESE GENES YOU 1970 01:26:41,608 --> 01:26:43,576 GET RESISTANCE TO CYTARIBINE 1971 01:26:43,576 --> 01:26:48,014 PARTICULARLY WITH TDG. 1972 01:26:48,014 --> 01:26:50,717 HOW OR OTHER, THE ARA-C IS 1973 01:26:50,717 --> 01:26:53,253 BLOCKING THIS PROCESS OF 1974 01:26:53,253 --> 01:26:54,421 METHYLATION/DEMETHYLATION, AND 1975 01:26:54,421 --> 01:26:57,657 THE CHANGES OF METHYLATION OCCUR 1976 01:26:57,657 --> 01:27:01,828 AT REGULATORY ELEMENTS LIKE 1977 01:27:01,828 --> 01:27:02,195 ENHANCERS DURING 1978 01:27:02,195 --> 01:27:04,064 DIFFERENTIATION, AS WELL AS IN 1979 01:27:04,064 --> 01:27:04,964 RESPONSE TO STIMULI. 1980 01:27:04,964 --> 01:27:11,037 SO YOU IMAGINE THAT YOU HAVE -- 1981 01:27:11,037 --> 01:27:16,643 THIS METHYLATION OCCURS AT CG 1982 01:27:16,643 --> 01:27:17,410 DINUCLEOTIDES, YOU HAVE 1983 01:27:17,410 --> 01:27:19,279 ENHANCER, CONVERTING TO NEURON, 1984 01:27:19,279 --> 01:27:21,247 THAT ENHANCER HAS TO OPEN UP, 1985 01:27:21,247 --> 01:27:28,822 THEN IT BECOMES DEMETHYLATED. 1986 01:27:28,822 --> 01:27:32,892 DMT1 IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 1987 01:27:32,892 --> 01:27:36,396 METHYLATION OF THE CYTOSINE AND 1988 01:27:36,396 --> 01:27:38,264 TET ENZYMES RESPONSIBLE TO 1989 01:27:38,264 --> 01:27:41,634 REVERSE THIS PROCESS, NOT JUST 1990 01:27:41,634 --> 01:27:42,802 GOING BACK TO UNMETHYLATED, 1991 01:27:42,802 --> 01:27:49,209 THERE'S A SERIES OF OXIDATION 1992 01:27:49,209 --> 01:27:52,946 STEPS WITH METHYL GROUP 1993 01:27:52,946 --> 01:27:55,148 OXIDIZED, TURNING TO 1994 01:27:55,148 --> 01:27:56,749 HYDROXYMETHYL CYTOSINE AND 1995 01:27:56,749 --> 01:27:59,619 OXIDIZED TO FORMAL FOLLOWED BY 1996 01:27:59,619 --> 01:28:02,755 CARBOXYL CYTOSINE, STILL NOT 1997 01:28:02,755 --> 01:28:04,757 ENOUGH. 1998 01:28:04,757 --> 01:28:11,531 THERE'S THIS ENZYME TDG THAT 1999 01:28:11,531 --> 01:28:12,832 REMOVES AND RECOGNIZES, EXCISES, 2000 01:28:12,832 --> 01:28:17,036 YOU HAVE TO REPAIR AND GET BACK 2001 01:28:17,036 --> 01:28:20,640 TO UNMETHYLATED CYTOSINE. 2002 01:28:20,640 --> 01:28:23,009 TO TEST HOW ARA-C MIGHT AFFECT 2003 01:28:23,009 --> 01:28:27,147 THIS PROCESS WE DEVELOPED HIGH 2004 01:28:27,147 --> 01:28:30,216 RESOLUTION METHODS TO DETECT 2005 01:28:30,216 --> 01:28:30,850 METHYLATION AND DEMETHYLATION. 2006 01:28:30,850 --> 01:28:35,588 SO, THIS IS WHAT I OUTLINED TO 2007 01:28:35,588 --> 01:28:38,558 YOU AT THE DNA LEVEL, TET 2008 01:28:38,558 --> 01:28:40,727 ENZYMES OXIDIZES METHYL GROUPS 2009 01:28:40,727 --> 01:28:42,128 TO CHANGE METHYLCYTOSINE 2010 01:28:42,128 --> 01:28:43,897 EVENTUALLY TO FORMAL CYTOSINE 2011 01:28:43,897 --> 01:28:45,999 AND CARBOXYL CYTOSINE. 2012 01:28:45,999 --> 01:28:49,569 THIS IS RECOGNIZED BY TDG WHICH 2013 01:28:49,569 --> 01:28:55,074 POPS IT OUT, EXCISES THE SPACE, 2014 01:28:55,074 --> 01:29:04,584 AND ENZYME AND NUCLEASE MAKES A 2015 01:29:04,584 --> 01:29:09,189 KNICK, 2016 01:29:09,189 --> 01:29:14,494 OR A MORE COMPLEX A LONGER PATCH 2017 01:29:14,494 --> 01:29:16,429 IS REPAIRED BY BASIC EXCISION 2018 01:29:16,429 --> 01:29:19,165 REPAIR NOT ONLY INVOLVING 2019 01:29:19,165 --> 01:29:22,368 CYTOSINE BUT A FEW MORE BASES 2020 01:29:22,368 --> 01:29:23,369 ARE SYNTHESIZED. 2021 01:29:23,369 --> 01:29:25,338 WE DEVELOPED WHO WAYS TO LOOK AT 2022 01:29:25,338 --> 01:29:29,142 THIS PROCESS. 2023 01:29:29,142 --> 01:29:32,312 ONE BY USING DIDEOXY CYTOSINE TO 2024 01:29:32,312 --> 01:29:34,080 BOX THIS SHORT PATCH BASE 2025 01:29:34,080 --> 01:29:37,383 EXCISION REPAIR AND THEN GOING 2026 01:29:37,383 --> 01:29:39,152 TO DETECT THIS BY THIS PROCESS 2027 01:29:39,152 --> 01:29:42,088 I'LL DESCRIBE, THIS THING WE 2028 01:29:42,088 --> 01:29:42,355 DEVELOPED. 2029 01:29:42,355 --> 01:29:45,191 THIS METHOD. 2030 01:29:45,191 --> 01:29:47,227 WE ALSO DETECTED LONG PATCH BY 2031 01:29:47,227 --> 01:29:48,928 INCORPORATING EDU, WE WOULD HOPE 2032 01:29:48,928 --> 01:29:49,562 GETS INCORPORATED SOMEWHERE 2033 01:29:49,562 --> 01:29:54,133 ALONG THE LINE AFTER THE 2034 01:29:54,133 --> 01:29:54,934 CYTOSINE IS INCORPORATED. 2035 01:29:54,934 --> 01:29:58,438 SO THIS IS A SEQUENCING APPROACH 2036 01:29:58,438 --> 01:29:59,706 THAT WE CALL 2037 01:29:59,706 --> 01:30:00,306 SYNTHESIS-ASSOCIATED REPAIR 2038 01:30:00,306 --> 01:30:05,578 SEQUENCING, WHERE WE SIMPLY TAKE 2039 01:30:05,578 --> 01:30:09,382 OUR POST MITOTIC NEURONS, ADD 2040 01:30:09,382 --> 01:30:15,154 EDU, ASK WHETHER THIS LONG PATCH 2041 01:30:15,154 --> 01:30:17,790 REPAIR IS HAPPENING, WE CAN 2042 01:30:17,790 --> 01:30:20,827 BIOATEN LATE AND SONICATE AND 2043 01:30:20,827 --> 01:30:25,932 PULL DOWN AND SEQUENCE AND IF 2044 01:30:25,932 --> 01:30:27,433 THERE ARE PEAKS, SPECIFIC SITES 2045 01:30:27,433 --> 01:30:30,603 IN THE GENOME, POST MITOTIC 2046 01:30:30,603 --> 01:30:31,971 CELLS UNDERGOING DNA REPAIR. 2047 01:30:31,971 --> 01:30:34,173 IF THERE ARE NO PEAKS IT'S 2048 01:30:34,173 --> 01:30:35,408 RANDOM OR DOESN'T HAPPEN. 2049 01:30:35,408 --> 01:30:45,852 I WILL GET BACK TO ARA-C. 2050 01:30:47,687 --> 01:30:51,024 WE DETECTED 50,000 HOT SPOTS OF 2051 01:30:51,024 --> 01:30:52,892 DNA REPAIR IN THE GENOME, 2052 01:30:52,892 --> 01:30:54,560 ABSOLUTELY NOT RANDOM BUT 2053 01:30:54,560 --> 01:30:56,729 ASSOCIATED WITH ENHANCERS, JUST 2054 01:30:56,729 --> 01:31:00,366 ADD EDU TO POST MITOTIC NEURONS 2055 01:31:00,366 --> 01:31:06,873 AND YOU SEE THESE SAR Seq 2056 01:31:06,873 --> 01:31:08,775 PEAKS CORRELATE WITH ENHANCERS. 2057 01:31:08,775 --> 01:31:14,914 AND THEY CO-LOCALIZE WITH THE 2058 01:31:14,914 --> 01:31:16,916 ENZYME, METHYL TRANSFERASE, 2059 01:31:16,916 --> 01:31:18,518 DIRECTLY BINDS TO THESE SITES, 2060 01:31:18,518 --> 01:31:20,687 NOT JUST ANY OPEN DNA, NOT 2061 01:31:20,687 --> 01:31:24,991 PROMOTERS OR GENE BODIES BUT 2062 01:31:24,991 --> 01:31:26,292 SPECIFICALLY NEURONAL ENHANCERS. 2063 01:31:26,292 --> 01:31:28,594 SO THIS IS A NICE METHOD, 2064 01:31:28,594 --> 01:31:30,697 SURPRISING RESULT BUT WE WANTED 2065 01:31:30,697 --> 01:31:34,067 TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WITHIN THE 2066 01:31:34,067 --> 01:31:37,270 ENHANCERS DO THESE ENDOGENOUS 2067 01:31:37,270 --> 01:31:39,305 DNA REPAIR INTERMEDIATES OCCUR. 2068 01:31:39,305 --> 01:31:49,682 AND SO WE USED A CHAIN 2069 01:31:51,284 --> 01:31:51,784 TERMINATOR, DIDEOXYCYTOSINE, 2070 01:31:51,784 --> 01:31:52,919 HAPPENING IN POST MITOTIC CELLS 2071 01:31:52,919 --> 01:31:55,655 AND USE THIS TO TERMINATE THE 2072 01:31:55,655 --> 01:32:00,593 CRANE -- THE CHAIN. 2073 01:32:00,593 --> 01:32:03,930 IF IT TERMINATES YOU HAVE A GAP, 2074 01:32:03,930 --> 01:32:07,133 WE TRY TO DETECT THE GAP USING 2075 01:32:07,133 --> 01:32:09,035 S1 NUCLEASE TO CUT THAT AND 2076 01:32:09,035 --> 01:32:09,836 WE'LL GENERATE NOW A 2077 01:32:09,836 --> 01:32:11,404 DOUBLE-STRAND BREAK WHICH WE 2078 01:32:11,404 --> 01:32:13,906 KNOW HOW TO DETECT. 2079 01:32:13,906 --> 01:32:17,944 SO BASICALLY PROTOCOL IS JUST TO 2080 01:32:17,944 --> 01:32:24,450 TAKE YOUR NEURONS, TREAT WITH 2081 01:32:24,450 --> 01:32:26,486 DIOXYCYTOSINE, EMBED THE CELLS 2082 01:32:26,486 --> 01:32:36,896 IN A PLUG AND THEN USE 2083 01:32:42,201 --> 01:32:45,204 RECOMBINANT, AND WITH END-Seq 2084 01:32:45,204 --> 01:32:45,905 ATTACHING HAIRPIN ADAPTER TO 2085 01:32:45,905 --> 01:32:48,341 LEFT AND RIGHT END OF THE BREAK 2086 01:32:48,341 --> 01:32:50,810 AND WE WOULD GET A READ ON THE 2087 01:32:50,810 --> 01:32:52,078 BOTTOM, CORRESPONDING TO LEFT 2088 01:32:52,078 --> 01:32:53,613 END, AND READS ON THE TOP 2089 01:32:53,613 --> 01:32:58,017 CORRESPONDING TO THE RIGHT END. 2090 01:32:58,017 --> 01:33:01,454 SO, HERE WE HAVE OUR SAR-Seq, 2091 01:33:01,454 --> 01:33:03,289 DNA REPAIR SYNTHESIS, 2092 01:33:03,289 --> 01:33:04,724 INCORPORATE EDU. 2093 01:33:04,724 --> 01:33:06,793 RESOLUTION OF ABOUT 500 BASE 2094 01:33:06,793 --> 01:33:08,327 PAIRS OR SO. 2095 01:33:08,327 --> 01:33:11,097 AND OUR END-Seq BY ITSELF 2096 01:33:11,097 --> 01:33:13,933 THERE'S NO DOUBLE-STRANDED 2097 01:33:13,933 --> 01:33:14,267 BREAKS. 2098 01:33:14,267 --> 01:33:16,202 TREAT WITH S1, SEE NO GAPS, BUT 2099 01:33:16,202 --> 01:33:19,505 WHEN WE USE OUR CHAIN TERMINATOR 2100 01:33:19,505 --> 01:33:22,508 TO HALT THIS PROCESS AND THEN S1 2101 01:33:22,508 --> 01:33:27,613 AND THEN END-Seq WE SEE PEAKS. 2102 01:33:27,613 --> 01:33:31,717 THESE PEAKS OVERLAP WITH 2103 01:33:31,717 --> 01:33:35,521 SAR-Seq, HIGH RESOLUTION, 2104 01:33:35,521 --> 01:33:38,224 SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE RESOLUTION, 2105 01:33:38,224 --> 01:33:39,659 CLUSTERS OF SINGLE-STRAND BREAKS 2106 01:33:39,659 --> 01:33:45,798 THAT OVERLAP WITH BLOBS OF 2107 01:33:45,798 --> 01:33:47,767 SAR-Seq PEAKS, WHEN WE LOOK 2108 01:33:47,767 --> 01:33:51,404 BACK WE SEE FIERY HIGH LEVEL OF 2109 01:33:51,404 --> 01:33:52,939 CG CONTENT. 2110 01:33:52,939 --> 01:33:55,575 CG METHYLATION, SO IT'S SMELLING 2111 01:33:55,575 --> 01:34:04,584 LIKE DNA DEMETHYLATION THAT WE 2112 01:34:04,584 --> 01:34:06,252 ARE DETECTING. 2113 01:34:06,252 --> 01:34:07,887 SO WE WANTED TO -- THIS IS 2114 01:34:07,887 --> 01:34:09,822 ENDOGENOUS SOURCE. 2115 01:34:09,822 --> 01:34:11,691 WE'RE NOT GOING ANYTHING TO THE 2116 01:34:11,691 --> 01:34:12,191 NEURONS. 2117 01:34:12,191 --> 01:34:18,364 AND SO WE WANTED TO KNOW IS THIS 2118 01:34:18,364 --> 01:34:21,534 REALLY DNA DEMETHYLATION? 2119 01:34:21,534 --> 01:34:27,707 WE STARTED EXAMINING THIS 2120 01:34:27,707 --> 01:34:29,742 GLYCOSYLASE, DEVELOPED DEGRON 2121 01:34:29,742 --> 01:34:33,579 SYSTEM TO ENACT RAPIDLY TDG WITH 2122 01:34:33,579 --> 01:34:35,581 DETAG SYSTEM AND FOUND THE 2123 01:34:35,581 --> 01:34:41,487 SINGLE STRAND BREAKS YOU SEE 2124 01:34:41,487 --> 01:34:43,055 WITHOUT DTAG WERE ELIMINATED 2125 01:34:43,055 --> 01:34:44,790 WHEN YOU ADD, THIS IS THE HEAT 2126 01:34:44,790 --> 01:34:45,224 MAP. 2127 01:34:45,224 --> 01:34:47,593 BOTTOM LINE IS THAT WE FOUND 2128 01:34:47,593 --> 01:34:50,596 WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING TO THE 2129 01:34:50,596 --> 01:34:54,066 NEURONS JUST ADDING EDU SITES OF 2130 01:34:54,066 --> 01:34:56,569 DNA SYNTHESIS ASSOCIATED WITH 2131 01:34:56,569 --> 01:34:58,271 ENHANCERS, NEURONAL ENHANCERS, 2132 01:34:58,271 --> 01:35:02,508 AND THESE ARE GENERATED BECAUSE 2133 01:35:02,508 --> 01:35:07,213 OF THIS ENZYME, TET, WHICH 2134 01:35:07,213 --> 01:35:08,881 BASICALLY CONVERTS THE 2135 01:35:08,881 --> 01:35:09,615 METHYLCYTOSINE TO UNMODIFIED 2136 01:35:09,615 --> 01:35:12,885 CYTOSINE BUT THROUGH A PROCESS 2137 01:35:12,885 --> 01:35:15,721 THAT INVOLVES DNA DAMAGE AND 2138 01:35:15,721 --> 01:35:18,157 WE'RE -- WE BASICALLY USED OUR 2139 01:35:18,157 --> 01:35:20,426 CHAIN TERMINATOR TO DETECT THAT 2140 01:35:20,426 --> 01:35:21,861 INTERMEDIATE. 2141 01:35:21,861 --> 01:35:23,429 OKAY? 2142 01:35:23,429 --> 01:35:26,799 AND SO, THIS IS IMPORTANT, IT 2143 01:35:26,799 --> 01:35:29,001 HAPPENS IN, WE SEE SHORT PATCH 2144 01:35:29,001 --> 01:35:31,170 BASE EXCISION REPAIR AND LONG 2145 01:35:31,170 --> 01:35:32,438 PATCH BASE EXCISION REPAIR, AND 2146 01:35:32,438 --> 01:35:34,707 THIS PROCESS IS IMPORTANT FOR 2147 01:35:34,707 --> 01:35:37,643 CELL IDENTITY BUT ALSO THIS DNA 2148 01:35:37,643 --> 01:35:42,381 SYNTHESIS COULD LEAD TO -- COULD 2149 01:35:42,381 --> 01:35:43,783 CAUSE MUTAGENESIS ACTUALLY. 2150 01:35:43,783 --> 01:35:46,218 AND CHRIS WALSH GROUP AND PETER 2151 01:35:46,218 --> 01:35:50,489 PARK PUBLISHED A PAPER PRETTY 2152 01:35:50,489 --> 01:35:57,630 RECENTLY IN WHICH THEY SEQUENCED 2153 01:35:57,630 --> 01:36:00,333 NEURONS FROM POSTMORTEM PATIENTS 2154 01:36:00,333 --> 01:36:03,169 AND THEY FOUND THAT HUMAN 2155 01:36:03,169 --> 01:36:04,604 NEURONS HAVE ACTUALLY ACCUMULATE 2156 01:36:04,604 --> 01:36:07,440 POINT MUTATIONS AT A RATE OF 20 2157 01:36:07,440 --> 01:36:11,777 MUTATIONS PER NEURON PER YEAR. 2158 01:36:11,777 --> 01:36:16,682 AND THEY ALSO ACCUMULATE 2159 01:36:16,682 --> 01:36:17,817 INSERTION-DELETIONS ABOUT THREE 2160 01:36:17,817 --> 01:36:20,786 PER NEURON PER YEAR. 2161 01:36:20,786 --> 01:36:24,156 AND THEY -- MUTATIONS WERE NOT 2162 01:36:24,156 --> 01:36:26,058 RANDOM AND THEY COMPARED SITES 2163 01:36:26,058 --> 01:36:29,395 OF MUTATIONS WITH OUR HOT SPOTS 2164 01:36:29,395 --> 01:36:32,932 AND FOUND THAT ENHANCER 2165 01:36:32,932 --> 01:36:38,204 ASSOCIATED HOT SPOTS WERE 2166 01:36:38,204 --> 01:36:39,238 ENRICHED FOR SOMATIC INDELS 2167 01:36:39,238 --> 01:36:40,840 FOUND IN THE PATIENT. 2168 01:36:40,840 --> 01:36:51,317 THIS MAY GO WRONG LEADING TO 2169 01:36:52,418 --> 01:36:52,585 INDELS. 2170 01:36:52,585 --> 01:36:54,387 BACK TO ARA-C, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 2171 01:36:54,387 --> 01:37:03,362 IF YOU INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS OF 2172 01:37:03,362 --> 01:37:04,063 ACTIVE DEMETHYLATION WITH 2173 01:37:04,063 --> 01:37:04,730 CYTARIBINE. 2174 01:37:04,730 --> 01:37:07,133 IF THIS IS HAPPENING IN NEURONS 2175 01:37:07,133 --> 01:37:09,268 AND WE TREAT AND IT INTERRUPTS 2176 01:37:09,268 --> 01:37:10,903 THIS SYNTHESIS, WHAT IS THE CELL 2177 01:37:10,903 --> 01:37:12,805 GOING -- IS THE CELL GOING TO 2178 01:37:12,805 --> 01:37:15,841 DETECT IT AND RESPOND TO THAT 2179 01:37:15,841 --> 01:37:17,977 FORM OF INCOMPLETE DNA SYNTHESIS 2180 01:37:17,977 --> 01:37:18,911 OR DNA DAMAGE? 2181 01:37:18,911 --> 01:37:21,614 WE HAVE A VERY NICE WAY TO LOOK 2182 01:37:21,614 --> 01:37:24,917 AT DNA DAMAGE, THANKS TO BILL 2183 01:37:24,917 --> 01:37:28,421 BONNER, HERE AT NCI IN THE SAME 2184 01:37:28,421 --> 01:37:33,893 BUILDING 37 WHO DISCOVERED THIS 2185 01:37:33,893 --> 01:37:35,761 REMARKABLE HISTONE RARANT, H2AX, 2186 01:37:35,761 --> 01:37:38,931 WE USED HIS ANTIBODY AFTER 2187 01:37:38,931 --> 01:37:42,968 TREATING NEURONS WITH ARA-C, YOU 2188 01:37:42,968 --> 01:37:47,606 SEE THESE FOCI OF GAMMA H TO AX 2189 01:37:47,606 --> 01:37:48,974 INDICATING THERE'S A DNA DAMAGE 2190 01:37:48,974 --> 01:37:50,810 RESPONSE WHEN YOU TREAT NEURONS 2191 01:37:50,810 --> 01:37:51,510 WITH ARA-C. 2192 01:37:51,510 --> 01:37:54,513 IF YOU TREAT THE NEURONS WITH 2193 01:37:54,513 --> 01:37:59,819 ARA-A, ALSO VERY TOXIC TO CANCER 2194 01:37:59,819 --> 01:38:01,587 CELLS, THERE'S NO GAMMA-H2AX BUT 2195 01:38:01,587 --> 01:38:04,557 THERE'S A PROFOUND RESPONSE WITH 2196 01:38:04,557 --> 01:38:05,458 ARA-C. 2197 01:38:05,458 --> 01:38:09,595 DOES THIS DAMAGE RESPONSE 2198 01:38:09,595 --> 01:38:15,801 REQUIRE TET TDG? WE USED OUR 2199 01:38:15,801 --> 01:38:17,870 DTAG SYSTEM. 2200 01:38:17,870 --> 01:38:23,809 YOU GET THESE ROBUST GAM H2AX 2201 01:38:23,809 --> 01:38:24,643 FOCI, INACTIVATE, DOESN'T HAPPEN 2202 01:38:24,643 --> 01:38:27,146 BECAUSE YOU DON'T EXCISE THE 2203 01:38:27,146 --> 01:38:28,481 BASE, REINCORPORATE ACA-C, 2204 01:38:28,481 --> 01:38:30,216 DOESN'T GET THERE. 2205 01:38:30,216 --> 01:38:31,717 INDEED I SHOWED YOU THAT NEURONS 2206 01:38:31,717 --> 01:38:35,121 ARE VERY, VERY SENSITIVE TO 2207 01:38:35,121 --> 01:38:36,922 ARA-C, THEY DIE. 2208 01:38:36,922 --> 01:38:40,392 IF YOU INACTIVATE TDG THEY DON'T 2209 01:38:40,392 --> 01:38:44,363 DIE BECAUSE THEY DON'T 2210 01:38:44,363 --> 01:38:45,731 INCORPORATE THE ARA-C, THERE'S 2211 01:38:45,731 --> 01:38:50,202 NO CELLULAR DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE 2212 01:38:50,202 --> 01:38:53,339 SO CELLS DON'T DIE. 2213 01:38:53,339 --> 01:38:57,543 INTERESTING FACTS, MOST COMMON 2214 01:38:57,543 --> 01:39:01,113 CHEMOTHERAPY TO INDUCE 2215 01:39:01,113 --> 01:39:08,020 CEREBELLAR FUNCTION IS HIGH 2216 01:39:08,020 --> 01:39:09,321 DOSE, LOSS OF PURKINJE CELLS, 2217 01:39:09,321 --> 01:39:11,557 THEY HAVE AMONG THE HIGHEST 2218 01:39:11,557 --> 01:39:15,561 LEVELS OF TET PROTEINS, SO MAYBE 2219 01:39:15,561 --> 01:39:19,298 THIS PROCESS IS HAPPENING MORE 2220 01:39:19,298 --> 01:39:23,335 SPECIFICALLY IN PURKINJE CELLS 2221 01:39:23,335 --> 01:39:24,837 MAYBE CORRUPTED BY ARA-C. 2222 01:39:24,837 --> 01:39:27,439 WE STARTED TO INVESTIGATE THIS. 2223 01:39:27,439 --> 01:39:28,674 IN MICE. 2224 01:39:28,674 --> 01:39:31,043 SO WE TREAT MICE WITH ARA-C ON 2225 01:39:31,043 --> 01:39:35,047 DAILY BASIS FOR SEVEN DAYS, DO 2226 01:39:35,047 --> 01:39:38,317 BRAIN TISSUE SECTIONS, AND STAIN 2227 01:39:38,317 --> 01:39:39,285 FOR OUR GAMMA-H2AX. 2228 01:39:39,285 --> 01:39:42,221 AND THIS IS WHAT THE 2229 01:39:42,221 --> 01:39:42,988 CEREBELLUM -- WHAT A SECTION 2230 01:39:42,988 --> 01:39:44,456 LOOKS LIKE. 2231 01:39:44,456 --> 01:39:46,192 THESE ARE THE PURKINJE CELLS, IN 2232 01:39:46,192 --> 01:39:49,795 GREEN THE BIG CELLS WITH BIG 2233 01:39:49,795 --> 01:39:55,534 NUCLEOAND CYTOPLASM, STAINED BY 2234 01:39:55,534 --> 01:39:59,605 CAL BINDING, GAMMA-H2AX IS 2235 01:39:59,605 --> 01:39:59,805 CLEAN. 2236 01:39:59,805 --> 01:40:01,507 IF YOU SEAT FOR SEVEN DAYS YOU 2237 01:40:01,507 --> 01:40:06,512 SEE FOCI AND THEY REALLY ARE 2238 01:40:06,512 --> 01:40:07,780 VERY SPECIFICALLY FOUND IN THE 2239 01:40:07,780 --> 01:40:09,315 PURKINJE CELLS. 2240 01:40:09,315 --> 01:40:11,584 THAT INDICATES MAYBE TET TDG IS 2241 01:40:11,584 --> 01:40:13,752 JUST ACTIVE FOR SOME REASON IN 2242 01:40:13,752 --> 01:40:14,486 PURKINJE CELLS. 2243 01:40:14,486 --> 01:40:17,022 AND THIS IS AN ADULT MOUSE. 2244 01:40:17,022 --> 01:40:21,460 AND SO WE THEN HAVE MICE 2245 01:40:21,460 --> 01:40:22,795 DEFICIENT IN TDG, TREAT WITH 2246 01:40:22,795 --> 01:40:27,600 ARA-C OR MICE THAT ARE KIND 2247 01:40:27,600 --> 01:40:30,336 OF -- THESE ARE THE 2248 01:40:30,336 --> 01:40:31,237 TDG-DEFICIENT MICE, AND THESE 2249 01:40:31,237 --> 01:40:33,038 ARE THE WILDTYPE MICE. 2250 01:40:33,038 --> 01:40:36,508 YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE FOCI FOR 2251 01:40:36,508 --> 01:40:37,843 GAMMA-H2AX HERE IN THE PURKINJE 2252 01:40:37,843 --> 01:40:41,847 CELLS AND THEY ARE LARGELY 2253 01:40:41,847 --> 01:40:43,449 ABSENT IN THE TDG-DEFICIENT 2254 01:40:43,449 --> 01:40:48,520 CELLS THAT ARE TREATED WITH 2255 01:40:48,520 --> 01:40:49,355 ARA-C. 2256 01:40:49,355 --> 01:40:51,056 WE DID FLOW CYTOMETRY BY 2257 01:40:51,056 --> 01:40:52,024 ISOLATING PURKINJE CELLS AND 2258 01:40:52,024 --> 01:40:54,193 THEN WHEN YOU SEE WILDTYPE CELLS 2259 01:40:54,193 --> 01:40:57,930 TREATED WITH ARA-C YOU CAN SEE A 2260 01:40:57,930 --> 01:41:00,766 SHIFT, GAMMA-H2AX HAPPENING IN 2261 01:41:00,766 --> 01:41:02,534 THE PURKINJE CELLS. 2262 01:41:02,534 --> 01:41:03,903 IN THE TDG DEFICIENT WHEN YOU DO 2263 01:41:03,903 --> 01:41:08,440 THE SAME YOU DON'T SEE THIS 2264 01:41:08,440 --> 01:41:12,278 SHIFT SO THIS INCORPORATION AND 2265 01:41:12,278 --> 01:41:14,079 GAMMA-H2AX FORMATION IS 2266 01:41:14,079 --> 01:41:16,181 DEPENDENT ON TDG. 2267 01:41:16,181 --> 01:41:19,485 OUR HYPOTHESIS IS THAT THE ARA-C 2268 01:41:19,485 --> 01:41:20,686 NEUROTOXICITY IS CAUSED BY 2269 01:41:20,686 --> 01:41:23,322 INTERRUPTING A PROCESS THAT IS 2270 01:41:23,322 --> 01:41:25,591 ACTUALLY IMPORTANT FOR NEURONAL 2271 01:41:25,591 --> 01:41:28,193 CELL IDENTITY, NAMELY THIS 2272 01:41:28,193 --> 01:41:30,696 ACTIVE DNA DEMETHYLATION. 2273 01:41:30,696 --> 01:41:36,001 IT'S BEEN USED, CORNERSTONE OF 2274 01:41:36,001 --> 01:41:38,504 DRUGS FOR TREATMENT OF AML, 2275 01:41:38,504 --> 01:41:40,172 SPECIFICALLY WITH LOSS OF 2276 01:41:40,172 --> 01:41:41,840 PURKINJE CELLS, ONE SUGGESTION 2277 01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:42,975 IS WHAT ABOUT -- I DON'T KNOW 2278 01:41:42,975 --> 01:41:45,277 WHY PEOPLE DIDN'T USE THIS BUT 2279 01:41:45,277 --> 01:41:46,745 WHAT ABOUT USING ARA-A INSTEAD? 2280 01:41:46,745 --> 01:41:48,714 WE THINK THAT COULD KILL CANCER 2281 01:41:48,714 --> 01:41:49,581 CELLS. 2282 01:41:49,581 --> 01:41:52,484 BUT IT WOULD BE LESS TOXIC 2283 01:41:52,484 --> 01:41:54,186 BECAUSE IT WOULD AVOID 2284 01:41:54,186 --> 01:42:00,092 DOUBLE-STRAND BREAKS AT NEURONAL 2285 01:42:00,092 --> 01:42:00,492 ENHANCERS. 2286 01:42:00,492 --> 01:42:03,996 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIMING IS 2287 01:42:03,996 --> 01:42:06,498 HERE. 2288 01:42:06,498 --> 01:42:09,168 >> YOU HAVE A COUPLE MINUTES. 2289 01:42:09,168 --> 01:42:10,636 >> I HAVE TWO MINUTES. 2290 01:42:10,636 --> 01:42:13,872 I WANT TO SHOW YOU CAN CHANGE A 2291 01:42:13,872 --> 01:42:17,009 CELL STATE AND ALSO INDUCE THE 2292 01:42:17,009 --> 01:42:18,344 SIMILAR PHENOMENON BY CHANGING 2293 01:42:18,344 --> 01:42:19,945 THE CELL STATE. 2294 01:42:19,945 --> 01:42:22,514 WE'RE GOING TO TURN 2295 01:42:22,514 --> 01:42:24,016 TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES INTO 2296 01:42:24,016 --> 01:42:25,551 DOUBLE-STRANDED BREAKS. 2297 01:42:25,551 --> 01:42:27,119 SO HERE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT 2298 01:42:27,119 --> 01:42:28,087 SYSTEM. 2299 01:42:28,087 --> 01:42:31,390 WE TAKE BONE MARROW DERIVED 2300 01:42:31,390 --> 01:42:33,092 MACROPHAGES, GROW THEM, AND IN A 2301 01:42:33,092 --> 01:42:39,264 DISH, AND THEN WE TREAT THE 2302 01:42:39,264 --> 01:42:40,299 MACROPHAGES WITH LPS, WE'LL MAKE 2303 01:42:40,299 --> 01:42:43,702 A MAIN CHANGE IN THE 2304 01:42:43,702 --> 01:42:45,104 TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSE. 2305 01:42:45,104 --> 01:42:48,540 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IF YOU LOOK 2306 01:42:48,540 --> 01:42:49,608 AT FOUR DIFFERENT ENHANCERS AND 2307 01:42:49,608 --> 01:42:53,679 LOOK FOR MARKS OF ENHANCERS, YOU 2308 01:42:53,679 --> 01:42:55,848 CAN SEE LIKE H3K27 ACETYLATION, 2309 01:42:55,848 --> 01:42:56,949 WITHOUT LPS, YOU DON'T REALLY 2310 01:42:56,949 --> 01:42:59,451 SEE THAT MUCH BUT WITH LPS YOU 2311 01:42:59,451 --> 01:43:02,621 SEE ENHANCERS GET TURNED ON 2312 01:43:02,621 --> 01:43:05,891 AFTER LPS. 2313 01:43:05,891 --> 01:43:10,729 SO WE DID OUR LITTLE PDC OR 2314 01:43:10,729 --> 01:43:13,465 ARA-C SN 1 Seq, WITHOUT LPS WE 2315 01:43:13,465 --> 01:43:15,200 DON'T DETECT ANYTHING 2316 01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:15,501 WHATSOEVER. 2317 01:43:15,501 --> 01:43:20,439 BUT WITH LPS, WE CAN DETECT 2318 01:43:20,439 --> 01:43:22,674 THESE SINGLE-STRAND BREAKS 2319 01:43:22,674 --> 01:43:24,576 CONVERTED TO DOUBLE-STRAND 2320 01:43:24,576 --> 01:43:27,613 BREAKS, SO THESE ENHANCERS ARE 2321 01:43:27,613 --> 01:43:29,381 UNDERGOING ACTIVE DMEET LAYINGS 2322 01:43:29,381 --> 01:43:31,617 AND WE'RE CONVERTING THIS TO A 2323 01:43:31,617 --> 01:43:33,385 DOUBLE-STRAND BREAK SO WE CAN 2324 01:43:33,385 --> 01:43:34,286 DETECT IT. 2325 01:43:34,286 --> 01:43:37,189 AND WE CAN DO THIS ALSO JUST 2326 01:43:37,189 --> 01:43:38,524 WITH CELL BIOLOGY, WITH OUR 2327 01:43:38,524 --> 01:43:46,298 STAINING, WITH OUR BILL BONNER 2328 01:43:46,298 --> 01:43:48,167 GAMMA-H2AX, BONE MARROW DERIVED 2329 01:43:48,167 --> 01:43:49,068 MACROPHAGES AFTER ACA-C 2330 01:43:49,068 --> 01:43:50,602 TREATMENT, YOU DON'T SEE MUCH, 2331 01:43:50,602 --> 01:43:54,073 IF YOU HAVE LPS PLUS ARA-C YOU 2332 01:43:54,073 --> 01:43:57,142 GET NEW ENHANCERS UNDERGOING 2333 01:43:57,142 --> 01:43:57,843 ACTIVE DEMETHYLATION, TRIGGERED 2334 01:43:57,843 --> 01:43:59,812 A DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE, AND YOU 2335 01:43:59,812 --> 01:44:01,747 CAN SEE THESE SPOTS. 2336 01:44:01,747 --> 01:44:03,882 THESE LITTLE SPOTS ARE DEPENDENT 2337 01:44:03,882 --> 01:44:08,754 ON TDG BECAUSE IF YOU INACTIVATE 2338 01:44:08,754 --> 01:44:10,255 TDG YOU DON'T SEE THEM. 2339 01:44:10,255 --> 01:44:13,258 NOW WE CAN STUDY WHAT IS THE 2340 01:44:13,258 --> 01:44:17,096 ROLE OF ACTIVE DEMETHYLATION IN 2341 01:44:17,096 --> 01:44:17,963 A -- DURING TRANSCRIPTIONAL 2342 01:44:17,963 --> 01:44:18,464 RESPONSE. 2343 01:44:18,464 --> 01:44:19,932 WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT IT DOES 2344 01:44:19,932 --> 01:44:23,035 BUT WE KNOW THAT IT HAPPENS. 2345 01:44:23,035 --> 01:44:27,539 SO I JUST WANT TO END THERE. 2346 01:44:27,539 --> 01:44:31,743 AND THANK THE REALLY AMAZING 2347 01:44:31,743 --> 01:44:38,417 POSTDOCS THAT LED THIS PROJECT. 2348 01:44:38,417 --> 01:44:46,391 AND BEST HIRE I EVER MADE, ELSA 2349 01:44:46,391 --> 01:44:49,995 CALLEN IN MY LAB, GREAT 2350 01:44:49,995 --> 01:44:51,029 COLLABORATORS, AND OUR -- 2351 01:44:51,029 --> 01:44:54,933 MICHAEL WARD WHO INTRODUCED ME 2352 01:44:54,933 --> 01:44:56,135 INTO THE SUBJECT OF NEURONAL 2353 01:44:56,135 --> 01:44:58,403 DAMAGE AND GOT ME INTERESTED IN 2354 01:44:58,403 --> 01:44:58,604 THIS. 2355 01:44:58,604 --> 01:44:59,771 I WANT TO THANK YOU. 2356 01:44:59,771 --> 01:45:02,407 [APPLAUSE] 2357 01:45:02,407 --> 01:45:05,844 2358 01:45:05,844 --> 01:45:07,613 >> APOLOGIES TO OUR ONLINE 2359 01:45:07,613 --> 01:45:09,181 VIEWERS, YOUR FIRST FIVE MINUTES 2360 01:45:09,181 --> 01:45:13,986 OF THE SLIDES WEREN'T SHOWING. 2361 01:45:13,986 --> 01:45:15,721 AND THEIR URGENT MESSAGING TOOK 2362 01:45:15,721 --> 01:45:19,625 CARE OF THAT AFTER FIVE MINUTES. 2363 01:45:19,625 --> 01:45:21,660 I COULDN'T REPLY TO ALL AT ONCE. 2364 01:45:21,660 --> 01:45:23,395 >> AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 2365 01:45:23,395 --> 01:45:24,062 A WONDERFUL TALK. 2366 01:45:24,062 --> 01:45:27,266 I THINK ALL OF YOU ARE GETTING 2367 01:45:27,266 --> 01:45:31,003 THE SENSE OF THIS 2368 01:45:31,003 --> 01:45:32,938 INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF WHAT 2369 01:45:32,938 --> 01:45:36,108 EVERYONE WHO HAS SPOKEN DOES AND 2370 01:45:36,108 --> 01:45:39,244 THE UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT OF THE 2371 01:45:39,244 --> 01:45:44,316 NIH THAT ALLOWS US TO REALLY 2372 01:45:44,316 --> 01:45:47,819 SEGUE BETWEEN FIELDS AND ORGAN 2373 01:45:47,819 --> 01:45:48,053 SYSTEMS. 2374 01:45:48,053 --> 01:45:49,988 NEXT SPEAKER IS NO EXCEPTION TO 2375 01:45:49,988 --> 01:45:52,658 THAT RULE. 2376 01:45:52,658 --> 01:45:55,494 DR. JOHN O'SHEA, SCIENTIFIC 2377 01:45:55,494 --> 01:45:57,095 DIRECTOR AND SENIOR INVESTIGATOR 2378 01:45:57,095 --> 01:46:00,165 AT NIAMS. 2379 01:46:00,165 --> 01:46:07,873 HE WORKS ON CD4 POSITIVE T CELLS 2380 01:46:07,873 --> 01:46:08,974 AND CYTOKINES THEY PRODUCE, 2381 01:46:08,974 --> 01:46:10,943 EXPERT IN MECHANISMS OF NOT ONLY 2382 01:46:10,943 --> 01:46:12,844 THE PRODUCTION OF THOSE 2383 01:46:12,844 --> 01:46:16,515 CYTOKINES BUT ALSO IN THE SIGNAL 2384 01:46:16,515 --> 01:46:18,884 TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS THAT THEY 2385 01:46:18,884 --> 01:46:22,754 INITIATE AT RECEPTORS, AND HE 2386 01:46:22,754 --> 01:46:26,191 STUDIES THOSE PATHWAYS IN 2387 01:46:26,191 --> 01:46:28,093 EFFORTS TO DESIGN THOUGHTFULLY 2388 01:46:28,093 --> 01:46:29,561 THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS WHEN 2389 01:46:29,561 --> 01:46:31,830 THOSE PATHWAYS GO AWRY. 2390 01:46:31,830 --> 01:46:42,341 SO, JOHN, THE PODIUM IS YOURS. 2391 01:46:42,808 --> 01:46:43,008 [APPLAUSE] 2392 01:46:43,008 --> 01:46:45,510 >> THANKS, NINA. 2393 01:46:45,510 --> 01:46:50,349 2394 01:46:50,349 --> 01:46:51,016 LET'S SEE. 2395 01:46:51,016 --> 01:46:54,486 MOUSE HERE. 2396 01:46:54,486 --> 01:47:00,392 2397 01:47:00,392 --> 01:47:04,429 I JUST RUINED MY JOKE THERE. 2398 01:47:04,429 --> 01:47:05,430 OKAY. 2399 01:47:05,430 --> 01:47:08,300 THANKS VERY MUCH FOR THIS 2400 01:47:08,300 --> 01:47:08,600 OPPORTUNITY. 2401 01:47:08,600 --> 01:47:09,801 WHAT I WANTED TO DO IN THE NEXT 2402 01:47:09,801 --> 01:47:13,538 FEW MINUTES IS TALK ABOUT THE 2403 01:47:13,538 --> 01:47:19,111 DISCOVERY OF JAKs AND JAK 2404 01:47:19,111 --> 01:47:21,413 INHIBITORS AND IT'S BEEN ABOUT 2405 01:47:21,413 --> 01:47:23,615 30-YEAR SORT OF BIRTHDAY PARTY, 2406 01:47:23,615 --> 01:47:26,518 LAST YEAR, FOR THE JAK/STAT 2407 01:47:26,518 --> 01:47:28,186 PATHWAY, AND I WANTED TO REFLECT 2408 01:47:28,186 --> 01:47:32,357 ON WHAT WE NEED TO DO FOR THE 2409 01:47:32,357 --> 01:47:35,527 NEXT 30 YEARS OR SO 2410 01:47:35,527 --> 01:47:37,629 I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT AND HOW 2411 01:47:37,629 --> 01:47:40,032 CYTOKINES MET THE GENOME, WHAT 2412 01:47:40,032 --> 01:47:41,833 THAT MEANS, COMMON AND RARE 2413 01:47:41,833 --> 01:47:46,038 DISEASES, SOME RARE DISEASES 2414 01:47:46,038 --> 01:47:46,872 MAYBE NOT SO RARE. 2415 01:47:46,872 --> 01:47:49,341 I'M PLEASED I'M IN THE NATIONAL 2416 01:47:49,341 --> 01:47:51,977 ACADEMY BUT WHAT IS THE REAL 2417 01:47:51,977 --> 01:47:53,812 HONOR IN MANY RESPECTS IS JUST 2418 01:47:53,812 --> 01:47:55,247 BEING HERE AT THE NIH. 2419 01:47:55,247 --> 01:47:56,515 THERE'S SO MANY GREAT PEOPLE AND 2420 01:47:56,515 --> 01:47:59,918 I JUST THINK WHEN I CAME HERE, 2421 01:47:59,918 --> 01:48:02,154 JUST BLEW MY MIND, ALL THE 2422 01:48:02,154 --> 01:48:03,889 AMAZING SCIENTISTS AROUND ME. 2423 01:48:03,889 --> 01:48:07,859 I THINK I INCLUDED MOST PEOPLE'S 2424 01:48:07,859 --> 01:48:08,694 NAMES HERE. 2425 01:48:08,694 --> 01:48:11,229 BUT IF I LEFT OFF YOUR NAME, 2426 01:48:11,229 --> 01:48:15,300 JUST SEND ME A NOTE AND NEXT 2427 01:48:15,300 --> 01:48:17,102 TIME I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO 2428 01:48:17,102 --> 01:48:22,040 PUT UP THIS SLIDE I PROMISE I'LL 2429 01:48:22,040 --> 01:48:23,108 ADD THAT. 2430 01:48:23,108 --> 01:48:26,578 BUT IT DOES MAKE ME THINK ABOUT 2431 01:48:26,578 --> 01:48:31,116 THIS AMAZING ECOSYSTEM THAT WE 2432 01:48:31,116 --> 01:48:31,616 HAVE. 2433 01:48:31,616 --> 01:48:33,085 MICHAEL, I THINK FOR A LOT OF 2434 01:48:33,085 --> 01:48:36,555 TIME I WAS -- YOU KNOW, STARTING 2435 01:48:36,555 --> 01:48:38,190 OFF AS, YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU'RE 2436 01:48:38,190 --> 01:48:40,258 RESPONSIBLE FOR A LOT OF THIS 2437 01:48:40,258 --> 01:48:40,592 ECOSYSTEM. 2438 01:48:40,592 --> 01:48:42,994 NINA, I DON'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU 2439 01:48:42,994 --> 01:48:44,596 FEEL NERVOUS BY ANY MEANS BUT 2440 01:48:44,596 --> 01:48:46,898 IT'S REALLY -- YOU SAID THE SAME 2441 01:48:46,898 --> 01:48:49,301 THING, MICHAEL GETS CREDIT FOR 2442 01:48:49,301 --> 01:48:50,836 THIS? 2443 01:48:50,836 --> 01:48:51,436 YEAH. 2444 01:48:51,436 --> 01:48:52,804 JUST AN AMAZING PLACE. 2445 01:48:52,804 --> 01:48:55,140 AND REALLY IN MANY RESPECTS 2446 01:48:55,140 --> 01:48:57,008 THAT'S REALLY THE HONOR. 2447 01:48:57,008 --> 01:48:58,944 SO, HOW DID I GET STARTED IN 2448 01:48:58,944 --> 01:48:59,578 THIS BUSINESS? 2449 01:48:59,578 --> 01:49:02,681 I WAS A MEDICAL STUDENT, DOING 2450 01:49:02,681 --> 01:49:04,116 ROTATION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASE. 2451 01:49:04,116 --> 01:49:05,650 I SAW A PATIENT AT THE TIME THAT 2452 01:49:05,650 --> 01:49:07,486 HAD THE DISEASE THAT WE DON'T 2453 01:49:07,486 --> 01:49:10,422 CALL SO MUCH ANYMORE BUT ACUTE 2454 01:49:10,422 --> 01:49:11,022 RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME 2455 01:49:11,022 --> 01:49:12,724 WAS NEW AT THE TIME. 2456 01:49:12,724 --> 01:49:15,093 THE ATTENDING TOLD ME THAT YOU 2457 01:49:15,093 --> 01:49:18,897 COULD TAKE THESE PATIENTS IN 2458 01:49:18,897 --> 01:49:23,068 SEPTIC SHOCK, GIVE THEM 2459 01:49:23,068 --> 01:49:24,102 ANTIBIOTICS, STERILE BLOOD 2460 01:49:24,102 --> 01:49:25,537 CULTURES BUT SOMETHING CAUSED 2461 01:49:25,537 --> 01:49:27,639 THIS INFLAMMATION, I DIDN'T KNOW 2462 01:49:27,639 --> 01:49:30,575 MUCH ABOUT THAT BUT HE THEN 2463 01:49:30,575 --> 01:49:33,111 STILL -- I CAN SEE THE POINTER, 2464 01:49:33,111 --> 01:49:38,483 MAYBE I'LL DO IT THIS WAY. 2465 01:49:38,483 --> 01:49:38,683 OKAY. 2466 01:49:38,683 --> 01:49:39,317 I'LL DO THAT. 2467 01:49:39,317 --> 01:49:41,086 WHAT HE HAD BEEN WORKING ON FOR 2468 01:49:41,086 --> 01:49:47,192 A VERY LONG TIME WERE THINGS 2469 01:49:47,192 --> 01:49:48,527 CALLED LEUKOCYTE ENDOGENOUS 2470 01:49:48,527 --> 01:49:48,794 PYROGENS. 2471 01:49:48,794 --> 01:49:50,629 I SAID CAN I JUST TAKE SOME TIME 2472 01:49:50,629 --> 01:49:52,230 AND WORK IN YOUR LAB? 2473 01:49:52,230 --> 01:49:56,902 I WORKED IN HIS LAB WHERE HE WAS 2474 01:49:56,902 --> 01:49:58,036 TRYING TO PURIFY WHAT ULTIMATELY 2475 01:49:58,036 --> 01:50:01,440 TURNED OUT TO BE INTERLEUKIN 1 2476 01:50:01,440 --> 01:50:04,276 AND TNF AND IL-6 AND OTHERS, HE 2477 01:50:04,276 --> 01:50:08,213 DIDN'T SUCCEED IN THAT BUT AS 2478 01:50:08,213 --> 01:50:10,415 YOU KNOW CHARLES WHO WAS HERE 2479 01:50:10,415 --> 01:50:16,488 AND MOVED ON AND EGAL GEARY DID 2480 01:50:16,488 --> 01:50:18,457 DISCOVER IL-1. 2481 01:50:18,457 --> 01:50:19,491 THE OTHER THING THAT HAPPENED 2482 01:50:19,491 --> 01:50:21,126 LATER WHEN I WAS A RESIDENT I 2483 01:50:21,126 --> 01:50:24,062 SAW A PATIENT WITH VASCULITIS. 2484 01:50:24,062 --> 01:50:25,630 THIS IS PETER GRAYSON'S IMAGE 2485 01:50:25,630 --> 01:50:28,400 HERE, BUT THAT'S -- WE OBVIOUSLY 2486 01:50:28,400 --> 01:50:29,634 DIDN'T HAVE THIS TECHNOLOGY BACK 2487 01:50:29,634 --> 01:50:32,137 WHEN I WAS SEEING THIS PATIENT. 2488 01:50:32,137 --> 01:50:33,772 BUT I THEN IMMEDIATELY WENT TO 2489 01:50:33,772 --> 01:50:36,041 THE LIBRARY AND THEN HAD TO READ 2490 01:50:36,041 --> 01:50:38,243 UP ON VASCULITIS AND I CAME 2491 01:50:38,243 --> 01:50:42,614 ACROSS THIS GUY HERE WHO YOU MAY 2492 01:50:42,614 --> 01:50:44,249 KNOW, TONY FAUCI, ALL OF US AT 2493 01:50:44,249 --> 01:50:47,519 THE TIME WOULD HAVE OUR WHITE 2494 01:50:47,519 --> 01:50:50,188 LAB COATS, SPECTRUM OF 2495 01:50:50,188 --> 01:50:50,589 VASCULITIS. 2496 01:50:50,589 --> 01:50:52,524 I CALLED TONY AND COLLEAGUES, 2497 01:50:52,524 --> 01:50:54,493 WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS PATIENT? 2498 01:50:54,493 --> 01:50:57,629 WHAT WAS REALLY NEW AT THE TIME 2499 01:50:57,629 --> 01:51:02,501 WAS TREATMENT OF AUTOIMMUNE 2500 01:51:02,501 --> 01:51:03,068 DISEASES WITH CANCER DRUGS, 2501 01:51:03,068 --> 01:51:05,036 CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE, ET CETERA. 2502 01:51:05,036 --> 01:51:07,005 I GOT SO INTERESTED I WROTE TO 2503 01:51:07,005 --> 01:51:08,406 TONY, ANY CHANCE YOU COULD PICK 2504 01:51:08,406 --> 01:51:12,777 ME UP AND HAVE ME JOIN NIAID? 2505 01:51:12,777 --> 01:51:19,551 WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE THE CASE. 2506 01:51:19,551 --> 01:51:22,187 I CAME TO THE NIH, BUT TONY AT 2507 01:51:22,187 --> 01:51:24,656 THAT POINT MOVED ON TO ANOTHER 2508 01:51:24,656 --> 01:51:27,526 DISEASE WORKING ON HIV NOT SO 2509 01:51:27,526 --> 01:51:28,159 MUCH VASCULITIS. 2510 01:51:28,159 --> 01:51:32,197 I WAS MORE INTERESTED IN 2511 01:51:32,197 --> 01:51:33,498 CYTOKINE -- IN IMMUNE RECEPTORS, 2512 01:51:33,498 --> 01:51:36,568 AND STARTED OFF WITH COMPLEMENT 2513 01:51:36,568 --> 01:51:38,537 RECEPTORS BUT THEN WORKED WITH 2514 01:51:38,537 --> 01:51:42,274 BILL PAUL AND RICK CLAUSENER, 2515 01:51:42,274 --> 01:51:44,209 LARRY SAMUELSON TO WORK ON OTHER 2516 01:51:44,209 --> 01:51:46,077 RECEPTORS AS WELL, AND AGAIN 2517 01:51:46,077 --> 01:51:49,114 JUST AN AMAZING TIME AT THE NIH 2518 01:51:49,114 --> 01:51:52,350 TO SEE DISCOVERY AFTER STOVER. 2519 01:51:52,350 --> 01:51:54,553 AND SO WHEN I HAD STARTED MY OWN 2520 01:51:54,553 --> 01:51:56,254 LAB I STARTED THINKING ABOUT THE 2521 01:51:56,254 --> 01:52:00,492 ONE THING RICK TAUGHT ME ABOUT 2522 01:52:00,492 --> 01:52:01,426 WAS THAT TYROSINE KINASES SEEM 2523 01:52:01,426 --> 01:52:05,096 TO BE REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE 2524 01:52:05,096 --> 01:52:06,498 PROXIMAL EVENTS IN SIGNAL 2525 01:52:06,498 --> 01:52:09,734 TRANSDUCTION BY LOTS OF THINGS, 2526 01:52:09,734 --> 01:52:11,169 FROM INSULIN TO GROWTH FACTORS, 2527 01:52:11,169 --> 01:52:11,970 ET CETERA. 2528 01:52:11,970 --> 01:52:15,507 WHAT WAS REVEALED WAS THAT 2529 01:52:15,507 --> 01:52:16,474 CYTOKINES ALSO INDUCED TYROSINE 2530 01:52:16,474 --> 01:52:17,609 PHOSPHORYLATION, BUT THE RACE 2531 01:52:17,609 --> 01:52:20,679 WAS ON, WHAT IS THE KINASE 2532 01:52:20,679 --> 01:52:22,914 THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. 2533 01:52:22,914 --> 01:52:25,483 AND SO WE DID WHAT A LOT OF 2534 01:52:25,483 --> 01:52:26,585 PEOPLE DID. 2535 01:52:26,585 --> 01:52:28,620 WE GENERATED LIBRARIES LOOKING 2536 01:52:28,620 --> 01:52:31,456 FOR KINASES IN MY CASE IN IMMUNE 2537 01:52:31,456 --> 01:52:31,823 CELLS. 2538 01:52:31,823 --> 01:52:33,858 AND REALLY THE KEY THING THAT 2539 01:52:33,858 --> 01:52:37,896 HAPPENED NEXT WAS THIS WORK BY 2540 01:52:37,896 --> 01:52:42,367 GEORGE STARK AND ALSO JIM 2541 01:52:42,367 --> 01:52:42,667 DARNELL. 2542 01:52:42,667 --> 01:52:44,869 JIM WAS A YELLOW BERET HERE AT 2543 01:52:44,869 --> 01:52:47,572 THE NIH AND HAD LOTS OF STORIES 2544 01:52:47,572 --> 01:52:50,175 ABOUT HIS TIME AT THE NIH. 2545 01:52:50,175 --> 01:52:54,679 BUT WHAT GEORGE DID WAS TO TAKE 2546 01:52:54,679 --> 01:52:56,948 CELLS AND MUTAGENIZE THEM AND 2547 01:52:56,948 --> 01:52:59,784 IDENTIFY CELLS THAT LACKED THEIR 2548 01:52:59,784 --> 01:53:02,354 SENSITIVITY TO INTERFERENCE AND 2549 01:53:02,354 --> 01:53:04,823 SANDRA PELEGRINEY REALIZED SHE 2550 01:53:04,823 --> 01:53:06,758 COULD COMPLEMENT CELLS WITH THIS 2551 01:53:06,758 --> 01:53:12,731 KINASE HERE WITH THIS AMBIGUOUS 2552 01:53:12,731 --> 01:53:15,667 NAME, TURNS OUT TO BE A JAK, A 2553 01:53:15,667 --> 01:53:16,534 KEY DISCOVERY. 2554 01:53:16,534 --> 01:53:21,473 JIM IS TAKING A DIVERSITY 2555 01:53:21,473 --> 01:53:24,843 APPROACH USING THESE ELEMENTS AS 2556 01:53:24,843 --> 01:53:28,813 BAIT TO DISCOVER STAT FAMILY OF 2557 01:53:28,813 --> 01:53:29,381 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS. 2558 01:53:29,381 --> 01:53:33,852 SO, THIS IS AN AMAZING TOOL, ALL 2559 01:53:33,852 --> 01:53:35,787 THESE MUTAGENIZED CELLS, VERY 2560 01:53:35,787 --> 01:53:39,190 QUICKLY WE BEGAN TO SORT OF PUT 2561 01:53:39,190 --> 01:53:42,127 TOGETHER THE PATHWAYS OF 2562 01:53:42,127 --> 01:53:43,361 CYTOKINES, CYTOKINE RECEPTORS, 2563 01:53:43,361 --> 01:53:45,296 DIFFERENT JAKs, ET CETERA. 2564 01:53:45,296 --> 01:53:48,700 NOW TURNED OUT THAT THERE ARE 57 2565 01:53:48,700 --> 01:53:52,570 CYTOKINES THAT USE JAK/STAT 2566 01:53:52,570 --> 01:53:54,939 PATHWAY, PATHWAY IS CONSERVED 2567 01:53:54,939 --> 01:53:56,374 FROM INSECTS TO MAMMALS. 2568 01:53:56,374 --> 01:53:57,776 BUT THE KEY QUESTION REALLY WAS 2569 01:53:57,776 --> 01:54:02,480 WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE IN 2570 01:54:02,480 --> 01:54:06,551 VIVO CRITICALITY OF THIS 2571 01:54:06,551 --> 01:54:08,620 JAK/STAT PATHWAY. 2572 01:54:08,620 --> 01:54:11,690 WE MADE KNOCKOUT MICE, BERG AND 2573 01:54:11,690 --> 01:54:14,392 OTHERS, BUT THE FIRST JAK/STAT 2574 01:54:14,392 --> 01:54:16,695 KNOCKOUT CAME IN SLIGHTLY 2575 01:54:16,695 --> 01:54:18,463 DIFFERENT WAY, AND IT STARTS 2576 01:54:18,463 --> 01:54:25,136 WITH THIS COLLABORATION WITH 2577 01:54:25,136 --> 01:54:26,504 WARREN LEONARD. 2578 01:54:26,504 --> 01:54:28,540 JAK 3 IS HIGHLY EXPRESSED IN 2579 01:54:28,540 --> 01:54:29,441 IMMUNE CELLS, SUSPICIOUS IT 2580 01:54:29,441 --> 01:54:34,879 MIGHT BE INVOLVED IN SIGNALING 2581 01:54:34,879 --> 01:54:36,715 VIA THESE CYTOKINES HERE THAT 2582 01:54:36,715 --> 01:54:38,516 USE COMMON GAMMA CHAIN. 2583 01:54:38,516 --> 01:54:41,619 WHAT WARREN HAD SHOWN WAS THAT 2584 01:54:41,619 --> 01:54:44,322 MUTATIONS OF THE COMMON GAMMA 2585 01:54:44,322 --> 01:54:46,191 CHAIN SHOWN HERE UNDERLIE THE 2586 01:54:46,191 --> 01:54:47,058 DISEASE, BUBBLE BOY SYNDROME, 2587 01:54:47,058 --> 01:54:50,328 AND IF YOU HAD THESE MUTATIONS 2588 01:54:50,328 --> 01:54:53,264 YOU COULDN'T SIGNAL VIA 2589 01:54:53,264 --> 01:54:53,698 CYTOKINES. 2590 01:54:53,698 --> 01:54:56,701 SO WITH WARREN, WE SPECULATED 2591 01:54:56,701 --> 01:54:58,903 AND THEN PROVED THAT JAK 3 2592 01:54:58,903 --> 01:54:59,704 ASSOCIATES WITH COMMON GAMMA 2593 01:54:59,704 --> 01:55:01,272 CHAIN, IN THE SAME PAPER SAID, 2594 01:55:01,272 --> 01:55:03,441 WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, IF YOU HAVE 2595 01:55:03,441 --> 01:55:05,877 MUTATIONS OF GAMMA C MAYBE IF 2596 01:55:05,877 --> 01:55:07,645 YOU HAVE MUTATIONS OF JAK 3 2597 01:55:07,645 --> 01:55:13,918 YOU'LL GET A SIMILAR PHENOTYPE. 2598 01:55:13,918 --> 01:55:16,121 IN FACT GIGI NOTARANGELO ACTED 2599 01:55:16,121 --> 01:55:19,958 ON THAT AND LOOKED AT HIS COHORT 2600 01:55:19,958 --> 01:55:22,026 OF PATIENTS. 2601 01:55:22,026 --> 01:55:24,095 FABIO CANDOTTI, WHO CARED FOR 2602 01:55:24,095 --> 01:55:26,064 SOME OF THESE PATIENTS IN GIGI'S 2603 01:55:26,064 --> 01:55:28,900 COHORT WAS WORKING IN MY LAB AT 2604 01:55:28,900 --> 01:55:30,435 THAT TIME. 2605 01:55:30,435 --> 01:55:33,271 ANOTHER AMAZING PART ABOUT BEING 2606 01:55:33,271 --> 01:55:34,405 THEY NIH. 2607 01:55:34,405 --> 01:55:37,442 AND SO THEN WARREN COLLABORATED 2608 01:55:37,442 --> 01:55:38,276 WITH REBECCA BUCKLEY'S GROUP, 2609 01:55:38,276 --> 01:55:40,745 AND WHAT WE SHOWED WAS THAT 2610 01:55:40,745 --> 01:55:45,483 MUTATIONS OF JAK 3 UNDERLIE AND 2611 01:55:45,483 --> 01:55:50,021 FORM SCID THAT'S SIMILAR TO 2612 01:55:50,021 --> 01:55:50,488 X-LINK SEVERE COMBINED 2613 01:55:50,488 --> 01:55:51,790 IMMUNODEFICIENCY. 2614 01:55:51,790 --> 01:55:54,592 THIS IS THE FIRST KNOCK OUTIN 2615 01:55:54,592 --> 01:55:57,962 THE JAK/STAT PATHWAY, VERY 2616 01:55:57,962 --> 01:56:01,666 QUICKLY OTHER KNOCKOUT MICE 2617 01:56:01,666 --> 01:56:02,367 CONFIRMED THESE FINDINGS. 2618 01:56:02,367 --> 01:56:05,537 THE OTHER PART ABOUT THIS IS 2619 01:56:05,537 --> 01:56:09,707 THAT THE AMAZING PART ABOUT THIS 2620 01:56:09,707 --> 01:56:10,508 STORY WITH THE CYTOKINE 2621 01:56:10,508 --> 01:56:12,410 REVOLUTION WITH ALL THE CLONING 2622 01:56:12,410 --> 01:56:14,479 OF ALL THE MANY CYTOKINES THAT 2623 01:56:14,479 --> 01:56:16,181 WE HAVE IN THE GENOME PROBABLY 2624 01:56:16,181 --> 01:56:18,883 MORE THAN 200 OR SO THAT WAS 2625 01:56:18,883 --> 01:56:21,953 RAPIDLY CAPITALIZED UPON BY 2626 01:56:21,953 --> 01:56:24,656 MAKING A VARIETY OF MONOCLONAL 2627 01:56:24,656 --> 01:56:27,625 ANTIBODIES, THE NEXT LEVEL 2628 01:56:27,625 --> 01:56:31,930 BEYOND DRUGS LIKE METHOTREXATE 2629 01:56:31,930 --> 01:56:33,097 AND CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE, ET CETERA. 2630 01:56:33,097 --> 01:56:35,733 WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY 2631 01:56:35,733 --> 01:56:39,404 BEGIN TO SHUT OFF THE 2632 01:56:39,404 --> 01:56:40,405 INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES BY 2633 01:56:40,405 --> 01:56:41,706 TARGETING TNF, ET CETERA, ET 2634 01:56:41,706 --> 01:56:43,441 CETERA, ALL THE OTHER DIFFERENT 2635 01:56:43,441 --> 01:56:46,878 CYTOKINES SHOWN HERE BUT DESPITE 2636 01:56:46,878 --> 01:56:49,380 THAT, DESPITE THE IMPRESSIVE 2637 01:56:49,380 --> 01:56:50,815 RESULTS WITH BIOLOGICS, THERE 2638 01:56:50,815 --> 01:56:53,017 ARE PATIENTS WHO HAD INCOMPLETE 2639 01:56:53,017 --> 01:56:54,352 OR DIDN'T REALLY RESPOND TO 2640 01:56:54,352 --> 01:56:55,887 THESE DRUGS. 2641 01:56:55,887 --> 01:56:57,021 WHAT OTHER OPTIONS MIGHT WE 2642 01:56:57,021 --> 01:56:57,222 HAVE? 2643 01:56:57,222 --> 01:57:00,859 THE IDEA AT THE TIME WAS CAN WE 2644 01:57:00,859 --> 01:57:03,394 TARGET SIGNALING MOLECULES 2645 01:57:03,394 --> 01:57:11,469 MAINLY CAN WE TARGET JAKs? 2646 01:57:11,469 --> 01:57:13,838 IS WE MADE THIS BOLD CLAIM WITH 2647 01:57:13,838 --> 01:57:15,607 WARREN IN 1995. 2648 01:57:15,607 --> 01:57:18,009 WE SAID THIS WORK SUGGESTS WE 2649 01:57:18,009 --> 01:57:20,645 COULD TARGET JAKs, A NEW CLASS 2650 01:57:20,645 --> 01:57:21,446 OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT MOLECULES, 2651 01:57:21,446 --> 01:57:23,248 BUT AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, IT'S 2652 01:57:23,248 --> 01:57:25,516 ALWAYS EASY TO MAKE A PREDICTION 2653 01:57:25,516 --> 01:57:27,852 WHEN YOU KNOW THE ANSWER. 2654 01:57:27,852 --> 01:57:29,888 SO THIS IS IN 1995, BUT I WAS 2655 01:57:29,888 --> 01:57:33,091 FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE AT THIS 2656 01:57:33,091 --> 01:57:36,160 MEETING HERE IN LOVELY SAXTON 2657 01:57:36,160 --> 01:57:37,562 RIVERS, VERMONT, IN 1993. 2658 01:57:37,562 --> 01:57:42,700 I RAN INTO THIS GUY, PAUL 2659 01:57:42,700 --> 01:57:44,669 CHINGELLI, WE WORKED ON 2660 01:57:44,669 --> 01:57:46,905 COMPLEMENT RECEPTORS, SORT OF 2661 01:57:46,905 --> 01:57:48,273 COMPETITORS, HE WAS AT HARVARD, 2662 01:57:48,273 --> 01:57:50,808 I WAS WORKING WITH MIKE FRANK. 2663 01:57:50,808 --> 01:57:55,613 BUT IT WAS A FRIENDLY 2664 01:57:55,613 --> 01:57:55,914 COMPETITION. 2665 01:57:55,914 --> 01:57:56,848 BUT I SAID AT THE TIME WAIT A 2666 01:57:56,848 --> 01:57:59,217 MINUTE, PAUL, WHAT ARE YOU DOING 2667 01:57:59,217 --> 01:58:00,785 HERE AT THIS LYMPHOCYTE AND 2668 01:58:00,785 --> 01:58:01,986 ANTIBODIES MEETING? 2669 01:58:01,986 --> 01:58:06,824 I'M WORKING AT AT PFIZER, NOW, 2670 01:58:06,824 --> 01:58:11,396 AND PFIZER IS THINKING WE SHOULD 2671 01:58:11,396 --> 01:58:13,164 TARGET TYROSINE KINASE AS NEW 2672 01:58:13,164 --> 01:58:14,432 THERAPY FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE. 2673 01:58:14,432 --> 01:58:18,703 HE'S RIGHT NEXT TO ART WEISS, 2674 01:58:18,703 --> 01:58:21,372 WHO JUST CLONED JAK 7, I THINK 2675 01:58:21,372 --> 01:58:22,907 HE WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM 2676 01:58:22,907 --> 01:58:26,911 ME AND TALK TO ART. 2677 01:58:26,911 --> 01:58:27,278 OOPS. 2678 01:58:27,278 --> 01:58:29,414 I'M RUINING MY JOKES HERE. 2679 01:58:29,414 --> 01:58:29,681 [LAUGHTER] 2680 01:58:29,681 --> 01:58:31,182 IT'S OKAY. 2681 01:58:31,182 --> 01:58:33,718 YOU LAUGHED, THAT'S GOOD. 2682 01:58:33,718 --> 01:58:36,554 SO, YOU COULD ALSO SEE HERE ALL 2683 01:58:36,554 --> 01:58:47,031 SORTS OF OTHER NIH-ERS HERE, 2684 01:58:48,666 --> 01:58:51,202 MIKE LEOARDO AND ON AND ON. 2685 01:58:51,202 --> 01:58:55,606 WE HAD GONE INTO THE WOODS HERE, 2686 01:58:55,606 --> 01:59:03,982 WE HAD THIS COLLABORATION 2687 01:59:03,982 --> 01:59:05,783 CRADA, WHAT WOULD WE DID? 2688 01:59:05,783 --> 01:59:06,684 THAT'S A FORBES MAGAZINE WHETHER 2689 01:59:06,684 --> 01:59:11,456 THEY TALK ABOUT THE IDEA OF THIS 2690 01:59:11,456 --> 01:59:13,591 COLLABORATION BETWEEN PUBLIC AND 2691 01:59:13,591 --> 01:59:14,459 PRIVATE APPROACH WHICH, YOU 2692 01:59:14,459 --> 01:59:17,695 KNOW, LOTS TO SAY THERE BUT 2693 01:59:17,695 --> 01:59:19,430 MAYBE IN A DIFFERENT LECTURE. 2694 01:59:19,430 --> 01:59:22,867 IN ANY CASE, NOW THIS IS WHERE 2695 01:59:22,867 --> 01:59:24,235 WE ARE NOW. 2696 01:59:24,235 --> 01:59:27,605 THERE ARE 11 APPROVED 2697 01:59:27,605 --> 01:59:30,742 INDICATIONS FOR JAK INHIBITORS, 2698 01:59:30,742 --> 01:59:32,176 12 JAK INHIBITORS, MANY MORE ON 2699 01:59:32,176 --> 01:59:34,112 THE WAY, DRUGS APPROVED FOR 2700 01:59:34,112 --> 01:59:39,717 VARIOUS FORMS OF ARTHRITIS SHOWN 2701 01:59:39,717 --> 01:59:41,919 HERE. 2702 01:59:41,919 --> 01:59:43,321 ULCERATIVE COLITIS, 2703 01:59:43,321 --> 01:59:47,992 CORONAVIRUS'S DISEASE, 2704 01:59:47,992 --> 01:59:49,227 DERMATOLOGICAL DISEASES AND JAK 2705 01:59:49,227 --> 01:59:50,661 INHIBITORS USEFUL IN CYTOKINE 2706 01:59:50,661 --> 01:59:53,064 STORM ASSOCIATED WITH COVID-19. 2707 01:59:53,064 --> 01:59:54,732 WELL, IT'S INTERESTING IN THAT 2708 01:59:54,732 --> 01:59:56,901 REGARD THAT WITH THE CRADA WHEN 2709 01:59:56,901 --> 01:59:59,103 WE WERE WORKING WITH PFIZER, YOU 2710 01:59:59,103 --> 02:00:01,072 COULD IMAGINE THAT THERE'S SOME 2711 02:00:01,072 --> 02:00:03,241 RESTRICTIONS ON WE DO THESE 2712 02:00:03,241 --> 02:00:10,248 EXPERIMENTS AND I REMEMBER WE 2713 02:00:10,248 --> 02:00:18,056 SAID CAN WE USE TOFACINITIB? 2714 02:00:18,056 --> 02:00:27,432 I LIKED THE EXPERIMENT. 2715 02:00:27,432 --> 02:00:29,367 COLLABORATED WITH NCATS, HOME 2716 02:00:29,367 --> 02:00:36,507 BREW, WE SHOWED IN SEPTIC SHOCK 2717 02:00:36,507 --> 02:00:39,243 MODEL JAK INHIBITORS BLOCKED 2718 02:00:39,243 --> 02:00:41,479 THAT SEPTIC SHOCK PHENOTYPE, 2719 02:00:41,479 --> 02:00:47,652 USEFUL KNOWLEDGE DURING THE 2720 02:00:47,652 --> 02:00:49,754 PANDEMIC. 2721 02:00:49,754 --> 02:00:54,592 ELEVEN JAK INHIBITORS, NOT JUST 2722 02:00:54,592 --> 02:00:56,794 FOR PEOPLE BUT ALSO FOR DOGS. 2723 02:00:56,794 --> 02:00:58,329 THIS IS AN NIH DOG. 2724 02:00:58,329 --> 02:01:00,598 THIS IS THE JOKE I RUINED. 2725 02:01:00,598 --> 02:01:01,799 I'VE SHOWN THIS MANY TIMES. 2726 02:01:01,799 --> 02:01:04,969 WHEN I GO AROUND THE WORLD AND 2727 02:01:04,969 --> 02:01:06,137 SHOW PICTURES OF JAK INHIBITORS, 2728 02:01:06,137 --> 02:01:07,772 ET CETERA, ET CETERA, PEOPLE 2729 02:01:07,772 --> 02:01:09,173 HAVE A TENDENCY TO SHOW ME 2730 02:01:09,173 --> 02:01:13,611 PICTURES OF THEIR DOG SO IF 2731 02:01:13,611 --> 02:01:17,849 ANYBODY'S DOGS ARE ON A JAK 2732 02:01:17,849 --> 02:01:19,717 INHIBITORS, SEND ME A PICTURE. 2733 02:01:19,717 --> 02:01:22,120 I'LL PRESERVE, THESE ARE HIPAA 2734 02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:26,124 COMPLIANT DOGS BUT HAPPY TO SHOW 2735 02:01:26,124 --> 02:01:27,091 THESE PICTURES. 2736 02:01:27,091 --> 02:01:30,261 THIS IS WHERE WE WERE WITH 2737 02:01:30,261 --> 02:01:31,929 BIOLOGICS, TURN THE LIGHT ON, 2738 02:01:31,929 --> 02:01:34,298 TURN THE LIGHT OFF, YOU HAVE A 2739 02:01:34,298 --> 02:01:35,566 DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH 2740 02:01:35,566 --> 02:01:36,968 CYTOKINES, BUT THEN JAK 2741 02:01:36,968 --> 02:01:39,637 INHIBITORS GAVE THE OPPORTUNITY 2742 02:01:39,637 --> 02:01:42,807 TO HAVE A RHEOSTAT, GETTING FROM 2743 02:01:42,807 --> 02:01:43,574 HOME DEPOT. 2744 02:01:43,574 --> 02:01:45,476 IT GIVES TWO OPTIONS TO BE 2745 02:01:45,476 --> 02:01:49,780 THINKING ABOUT HOW TO TREAT 2746 02:01:49,780 --> 02:01:50,148 THESE DISEASES. 2747 02:01:50,148 --> 02:01:54,485 BUT THE OTHER THING WE'RE 2748 02:01:54,485 --> 02:01:55,853 THINKING ABOUT WAS WHAT'S AHEAD 2749 02:01:55,853 --> 02:01:57,922 FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS? 2750 02:01:57,922 --> 02:02:01,058 OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A LOT TO DO 2751 02:02:01,058 --> 02:02:01,759 WITH UNDERSTANDING DISEASE 2752 02:02:01,759 --> 02:02:07,932 MECHANISM, MUCH BETTER, HAVE A 2753 02:02:07,932 --> 02:02:09,834 BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF 2754 02:02:09,834 --> 02:02:10,735 GENOMICS, PERSONALIZED MEDICINE, 2755 02:02:10,735 --> 02:02:12,470 CAPITALIZE ON GENE EXPRESSION. 2756 02:02:12,470 --> 02:02:15,406 THE OTHER THING THANKS TO CHRIS 2757 02:02:15,406 --> 02:02:17,475 GARCIA'S WORK, NOW JUST 2758 02:02:17,475 --> 02:02:20,178 RECENTLY, IN THE LAST YEAR OR 2759 02:02:20,178 --> 02:02:22,146 SO, WE FINALLY HAVE THE 2760 02:02:22,146 --> 02:02:25,816 STRUCTURE OF JAK SO THE FIRST 2761 02:02:25,816 --> 02:02:28,386 GENERATION OF JAK INHIBITORS 2762 02:02:28,386 --> 02:02:31,055 TARGETED THE CATALYTIC DOMAIN, 2763 02:02:31,055 --> 02:02:33,424 SO COMPETITIVE ANTAGONIST OF 2764 02:02:33,424 --> 02:02:33,991 ATP. 2765 02:02:33,991 --> 02:02:35,092 I REMEMBER WHEN PAUL WAS TELLING 2766 02:02:35,092 --> 02:02:38,496 ME ABOUT THIS, I WAS THINKING 2767 02:02:38,496 --> 02:02:39,096 ATP? 2768 02:02:39,096 --> 02:02:40,264 YOU'RE GOING TO TARGET ATP? 2769 02:02:40,264 --> 02:02:41,766 THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE. 2770 02:02:41,766 --> 02:02:45,002 IT IS POSSIBLE. 2771 02:02:45,002 --> 02:02:46,370 BUT IT'S ACTUALLY PROBABLY IF 2772 02:02:46,370 --> 02:02:52,410 YOU WANT TO GET MORE 2773 02:02:52,410 --> 02:02:56,914 SPECIFICITY, TARGETING GETTING 2774 02:02:56,914 --> 02:02:57,648 ALLOSTERIC INHIBITORS. 2775 02:02:57,648 --> 02:03:01,018 I WANTED TO GO BACK TO THINKING 2776 02:03:01,018 --> 02:03:03,187 ABOUT DISEASE MECHANISM AND THEN 2777 02:03:03,187 --> 02:03:03,921 PERSONALIZED MEDICINE, ET 2778 02:03:03,921 --> 02:03:05,022 CETERA, AND GENE EXPRESSION. 2779 02:03:05,022 --> 02:03:08,659 I'LL GIVE A FEW EXAMPLES OF 2780 02:03:08,659 --> 02:03:08,859 THAT. 2781 02:03:08,859 --> 02:03:12,563 SO, THIS IS THE CARTOON I SHOWED 2782 02:03:12,563 --> 02:03:13,864 JUST BEFORE, THINKING ABOUT WAY 2783 02:03:13,864 --> 02:03:17,768 BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY, THIS 2784 02:03:17,768 --> 02:03:20,137 IS HOW WE THOUGHT ABOUT 2785 02:03:20,137 --> 02:03:22,406 SIGNALING, PROMOTER CENTRIC, 2786 02:03:22,406 --> 02:03:23,507 THINKING ABOUT TRANSCRIPTION 2787 02:03:23,507 --> 02:03:24,709 FACTORS, BINDING THESE PORTIONS 2788 02:03:24,709 --> 02:03:26,577 OF THE GENOME BUT ONE THING THAT 2789 02:03:26,577 --> 02:03:30,114 WE FOUND IS THAT THE GENOME IS 2790 02:03:30,114 --> 02:03:34,385 ONLY 2% GENES AND 98% OF OTHER 2791 02:03:34,385 --> 02:03:36,420 STUFF, AND AT THE TIME WE DIDN'T 2792 02:03:36,420 --> 02:03:45,096 REALLY KNOW WHAT THIS STUFF WAS. 2793 02:03:45,096 --> 02:03:45,930 THAT GOES BEYOND PROMOTERS. 2794 02:03:45,930 --> 02:03:49,033 MUCH OF THE GENOME IS ACTIVE IN 2795 02:03:49,033 --> 02:03:51,168 CELL-SPECIFIC MANNER. 2796 02:03:51,168 --> 02:03:52,837 THERE'S THOUSANDS OF CELL 2797 02:03:52,837 --> 02:03:53,271 SPECIFIC ENHANCERS. 2798 02:03:53,271 --> 02:03:55,806 MUCH OF THE GENOME IS 2799 02:03:55,806 --> 02:03:58,075 TRANSCRIBED INCLUDING LONG 2800 02:03:58,075 --> 02:04:01,245 NON-CODING RNAs, AND MUCH OF 2801 02:04:01,245 --> 02:04:02,680 THE LINKS TO HUMAN DISEASE IS 2802 02:04:02,680 --> 02:04:04,348 NOT IN THE CODING PORTIONS OF 2803 02:04:04,348 --> 02:04:07,785 THE GENE BUT IN THE NON-CODING 2804 02:04:07,785 --> 02:04:14,825 PORTION OF THE GENOME, ET 2805 02:04:14,825 --> 02:04:15,493 CETERA. 2806 02:04:15,493 --> 02:04:19,664 THE OTHER PART WITH THESE ACTIVE 2807 02:04:19,664 --> 02:04:21,432 ENHANCERS WE HAVE BETTER 2808 02:04:21,432 --> 02:04:27,772 UNDERSTANDING OF THE LOOPING OF 2809 02:04:27,772 --> 02:04:30,474 THE GENOME, AGAIN CELL SPECIFIC 2810 02:04:30,474 --> 02:04:31,108 INACTIVATION DEPENDENT MATTERS, 2811 02:04:31,108 --> 02:04:33,611 I'LL COME TO THAT AS WELL. 2812 02:04:33,611 --> 02:04:35,246 ONE OF THE STRIKING FINDINGS, 2813 02:04:35,246 --> 02:04:39,684 THIS IS THE WORK FROM DAN 2814 02:04:39,684 --> 02:04:40,551 KASTNER AND MY BOSS LINDSEY 2815 02:04:40,551 --> 02:04:43,087 CRISWELL WE KNOW A LOT ABOUT OF 2816 02:04:43,087 --> 02:04:47,024 ROLE OF MHC AS A LINK IN 2817 02:04:47,024 --> 02:04:48,759 DISEASES, AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, 2818 02:04:48,759 --> 02:04:53,264 BUT UP HERE IS STAT 4, STRIKING 2819 02:04:53,264 --> 02:04:54,498 TO US. 2820 02:04:54,498 --> 02:04:59,270 WE WORKED A LOT WITH STAT4 OVER 2821 02:04:59,270 --> 02:05:00,204 THE YEARS, DIDN'T EXPECT 2822 02:05:00,204 --> 02:05:02,440 NECESSARILY THAT IT WOULD BE 2823 02:05:02,440 --> 02:05:08,312 ASSOCIATED WITH RHEUMATOID 2824 02:05:08,312 --> 02:05:10,381 ARTHRITIS, LUPUS, ET CETERA. 2825 02:05:10,381 --> 02:05:15,486 THE PRESENCE OF THE STAT4 RISK 2826 02:05:15,486 --> 02:05:16,787 ALLELE, THIS VARIANT IS 2827 02:05:16,787 --> 02:05:17,988 ASSOCIATED WITH MORE SEVERE 2828 02:05:17,988 --> 02:05:18,222 DISEASE. 2829 02:05:18,222 --> 02:05:20,758 WE WERE THINKING IN TERMS OF 2830 02:05:20,758 --> 02:05:25,496 USING JAK INHIBITORS, MIGHT WE 2831 02:05:25,496 --> 02:05:27,198 TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION, 2832 02:05:27,198 --> 02:05:28,232 PATIENTS WITH STAT4 RISK ALLELE 2833 02:05:28,232 --> 02:05:32,970 AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T. 2834 02:05:32,970 --> 02:05:35,306 I HAVE TO SAY THAT THIS WAS 2835 02:05:35,306 --> 02:05:37,041 BETTY DIAMOND'S IDEA. 2836 02:05:37,041 --> 02:05:39,810 AND WE HAD A CLINICAL TRIAL HERE 2837 02:05:39,810 --> 02:05:43,647 IN THE CLINICAL CENTER, VERY 2838 02:05:43,647 --> 02:05:46,684 SMALL TRIAL WITH 30-SOME-ODD 2839 02:05:46,684 --> 02:05:46,951 SUBJECTS. 2840 02:05:46,951 --> 02:05:48,853 AND I SAID AT THE TIME TO BETTY 2841 02:05:48,853 --> 02:05:51,222 THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NEVER 2842 02:05:51,222 --> 02:05:54,658 GOING TO GET THE SENSITIVITY, 2843 02:05:54,658 --> 02:05:56,160 WE'RE NEVER GOING TO GET IT WITH 2844 02:05:56,160 --> 02:05:57,628 THAT FEW PATIENTS. 2845 02:05:57,628 --> 02:05:58,829 MAYBE IF WE HAD A THOUSAND 2846 02:05:58,829 --> 02:06:01,198 PATIENTS WE COULD SEE THAT. 2847 02:06:01,198 --> 02:06:02,566 THEY DIDN'T LISTEN TO ME IN 2848 02:06:02,566 --> 02:06:10,007 PLANNING THIS, THAT WAS REALLY 2849 02:06:10,007 --> 02:06:14,478 GOOD. 2850 02:06:14,478 --> 02:06:16,781 BECAUSE THEY DEVISED A PROTOCOL, 2851 02:06:16,781 --> 02:06:19,116 MARIANA INTERESTED IN THE ROLE 2852 02:06:19,116 --> 02:06:20,451 OF NEUTROPHILS IN LUPUS, ONE 2853 02:06:20,451 --> 02:06:24,255 THING THAT WAS CLEAR YOU COULD 2854 02:06:24,255 --> 02:06:29,994 SEE THAT THE EFFECT OF JAK 2855 02:06:29,994 --> 02:06:32,663 INHIBITORS AND LEVEL OF 2856 02:06:32,663 --> 02:06:36,233 NETosis WAS MORE PROFOUND WITH 2857 02:06:36,233 --> 02:06:39,703 STAT4 RISK ALLELE, BETTER 2858 02:06:39,703 --> 02:06:41,772 RESPONSE WITH JAK INHIBITORS. 2859 02:06:41,772 --> 02:06:49,647 SO GOING FURTHER ON THIS I GUESS 2860 02:06:49,647 --> 02:06:51,849 I WASN'T -- HAD LOOKED NOT JUST 2861 02:06:51,849 --> 02:06:53,017 FOR PATIENTS WITH LOSS OF 2862 02:06:53,017 --> 02:06:54,485 FUNCTION OF DIFFERENT STAT 2863 02:06:54,485 --> 02:06:56,854 MOLECULES AND LOSS OF FUNCTION 2864 02:06:56,854 --> 02:06:58,823 OF STATS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, 2865 02:06:58,823 --> 02:07:00,257 BUT THIS DISEASE REALLY WAS 2866 02:07:00,257 --> 02:07:03,694 REALLY QUITE STRIKING TO ME. 2867 02:07:03,694 --> 02:07:05,496 AND REVEALS A COUPLE LESSONS I 2868 02:07:05,496 --> 02:07:05,863 THINK. 2869 02:07:05,863 --> 02:07:11,602 AND SO THIS IS A DISEASE CALLED 2870 02:07:11,602 --> 02:07:14,004 PAN SCLEROTIC MORPHEA, PATIENTS 2871 02:07:14,004 --> 02:07:18,042 HAVE THIS DEFORMING SKIN DISEASE 2872 02:07:18,042 --> 02:07:19,376 SHOWN HERE IN THIS PATIENT, 2873 02:07:19,376 --> 02:07:21,912 REALLY TRAGIC CHILD WHO HAS 2874 02:07:21,912 --> 02:07:27,785 ACTUALLY THREE AMPUTATION OF 2875 02:07:27,785 --> 02:07:29,119 LIMBS WITH INFLAMMATION IN THE 2876 02:07:29,119 --> 02:07:32,089 SKIN, REALLY AS YOU MIGHT 2877 02:07:32,089 --> 02:07:33,958 IMAGINE WAS REFRACTORY TO 2878 02:07:33,958 --> 02:07:35,226 VARIOUS THERAPIES. 2879 02:07:35,226 --> 02:07:38,529 AND WHAT HAD TURNED OUT, THIS 2880 02:07:38,529 --> 02:07:42,666 WAS A COLLABORATION OF RODERIC 2881 02:07:42,666 --> 02:07:44,568 AND KASTNER AND TOUROC, 2882 02:07:44,568 --> 02:07:48,305 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, WHAT 2883 02:07:48,305 --> 02:07:51,775 THEY HAD WAS VARIANTS IN THE SH 2884 02:07:51,775 --> 02:07:53,944 2 DOMAIN, THE STRUCTURE OF 2885 02:07:53,944 --> 02:07:58,415 STATS, DNA COMING OUT AT YOU, 2886 02:07:58,415 --> 02:08:02,486 AND STAT MOLECULES BIND AROUND 2887 02:08:02,486 --> 02:08:05,723 THE DNA, IT'S THIS SH 2 DOMAIN, 2888 02:08:05,723 --> 02:08:07,925 THIS INTERACTION IS THE THING 2889 02:08:07,925 --> 02:08:10,194 THAT PROVIDES THE HINGE OVER 2890 02:08:10,194 --> 02:08:11,529 THESE STAT MOLECULES SHOWN HERE 2891 02:08:11,529 --> 02:08:15,833 AND THESE PATIENTS WHO HAVE GAIN 2892 02:08:15,833 --> 02:08:17,635 OF FUNCTION ALLELES HAVE 2893 02:08:17,635 --> 02:08:18,469 EXAGGERATED STAT ACTIVITY WHICH 2894 02:08:18,469 --> 02:08:21,038 I'LL SHOW IN A MOMENT AND SO 2895 02:08:21,038 --> 02:08:26,911 THAT THIS DISEASE HAS 2896 02:08:26,911 --> 02:08:31,248 EXAGGERATED RESPONSES TO 2897 02:08:31,248 --> 02:08:33,083 CYTOKINES THAT USE STAT4. 2898 02:08:33,083 --> 02:08:35,986 WE FOUND THAT JAK INHIBITORS ARE 2899 02:08:35,986 --> 02:08:41,325 EFFECTIVE IN THIS SETTING, THAT 2900 02:08:41,325 --> 02:08:43,093 THESE STAT4 VARIANT -- I'M GOING 2901 02:08:43,093 --> 02:08:45,396 TO GET INTO MORE DETAIL IN A 2902 02:08:45,396 --> 02:08:48,699 MOMENT BUT WE ASSOCIATED STAT4 2903 02:08:48,699 --> 02:08:50,901 WITH FUNCTIONING IN IMMUNE 2904 02:08:50,901 --> 02:09:01,612 CELLS, LYMPHOCYTES, ET CETERA, 2905 02:09:01,612 --> 02:09:02,980 NK CELLS. 2906 02:09:02,980 --> 02:09:05,516 IL-6 CAN SIGNAL THROUGH STAT4 2907 02:09:05,516 --> 02:09:07,117 AND ACTUALLY THEN GIVES A 2908 02:09:07,117 --> 02:09:09,453 FEEDBACK SO THERE'S MORE IL-6 2909 02:09:09,453 --> 02:09:11,689 PRODUCTION AND SO YOU HAVE 2910 02:09:11,689 --> 02:09:14,058 ABERRANT FUNCTION OF FIBROBLAST 2911 02:09:14,058 --> 02:09:15,726 AND INCREASE FIBROSIS AND 2912 02:09:15,726 --> 02:09:17,227 IMPAIRED WOUND HEALING. 2913 02:09:17,227 --> 02:09:18,162 THANKFULLY WITH THESE PATIENTS 2914 02:09:18,162 --> 02:09:20,764 WE NOW HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO 2915 02:09:20,764 --> 02:09:26,470 TREAT THESE PATIENTS WITH JAK 2916 02:09:26,470 --> 02:09:26,770 INHIBITORS. 2917 02:09:26,770 --> 02:09:28,572 TURNING TO ANOTHER PART OF THE 2918 02:09:28,572 --> 02:09:33,377 STORY, THIS IS WORK BY RACHEL 2919 02:09:33,377 --> 02:09:36,113 PHILLIPS IN THE LAB, STARTS WITH 2920 02:09:36,113 --> 02:09:38,482 CHRIS BYRON, THIS IS WHAT I WAS 2921 02:09:38,482 --> 02:09:42,186 REFERRING TO BEFORE WHEN WE 2922 02:09:42,186 --> 02:09:44,822 FIRST STUDIED JAK/STAT PATH WAY 2923 02:09:44,822 --> 02:09:48,325 HAD A TENDENCY TO TAKE 2924 02:09:48,325 --> 02:09:49,727 CYTOKINES, THIS USES STAT, 2925 02:09:49,727 --> 02:09:54,698 STAT1, IN THIS CASE, SHOWN HERE, 2926 02:09:54,698 --> 02:09:57,001 STAT1, STAT2, HOW INTERFERON 2927 02:09:57,001 --> 02:09:58,969 WORKS, IL-12, WORK WE DID SOME 2928 02:09:58,969 --> 02:10:02,206 TIME AGO WITH CHRIS BYRON IN MY 2929 02:10:02,206 --> 02:10:03,974 LAB, LINKED IL-12 TO STAT4. 2930 02:10:03,974 --> 02:10:07,544 SO WHEN WE WERE THINKING ABOUT 2931 02:10:07,544 --> 02:10:11,415 THE ACTION OF TYPE I 2932 02:10:11,415 --> 02:10:17,287 INTERFERONS, SIGNAL VIA STAT1 2933 02:10:17,287 --> 02:10:19,056 HOMODIMERS AND ISGF 3, BINDS A 2934 02:10:19,056 --> 02:10:23,927 DIFFERENT ELEMENT IN THE GENOME, 2935 02:10:23,927 --> 02:10:26,096 AND STAT4 ACTIVATES -- IS 2936 02:10:26,096 --> 02:10:27,731 ACTIVATED BY IL-12, THE PART 2937 02:10:27,731 --> 02:10:30,968 THAT DRIVES THIS ACTIVATION 2938 02:10:30,968 --> 02:10:32,002 PHENOTYPE, IN PARTICULAR INDUCES 2939 02:10:32,002 --> 02:10:32,736 INTERFERON GAMMA. 2940 02:10:32,736 --> 02:10:35,873 THAT'S THE KEY PART OF THE STORY 2941 02:10:35,873 --> 02:10:42,146 THAT I'LL EXPLAIN AS I GO ALONG 2942 02:10:42,146 --> 02:10:42,346 HERE. 2943 02:10:42,346 --> 02:10:43,747 SO WHAT WE FOUND AT THE TURN OF 2944 02:10:43,747 --> 02:10:46,850 THE CENTURY OR SO LONG BEFORE WE 2945 02:10:46,850 --> 02:10:48,252 REALLY HAD THE TECHNIQUES THEY 2946 02:10:48,252 --> 02:10:50,054 HAVE NOW IN TERMS OF SEQUENCING 2947 02:10:50,054 --> 02:10:54,491 AND THE LIKE, BUT WHAT CHRIS 2948 02:10:54,491 --> 02:10:57,928 BYRON HELPED US UNDERSTAND WAS 2949 02:10:57,928 --> 02:11:00,864 THAT IN LYMPHOCYTES THAT TYPE I 2950 02:11:00,864 --> 02:11:01,999 INTERFERONS ALSO ACTIVATE STAT4, 2951 02:11:01,999 --> 02:11:06,870 THAT MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE 2952 02:11:06,870 --> 02:11:10,507 BECAUSE LUPUS IS AN 2953 02:11:10,507 --> 02:11:12,309 INTERFERONOPATHY, AND THE 2954 02:11:12,309 --> 02:11:13,477 LINKAGE BETWEEN TYPE I 2955 02:11:13,477 --> 02:11:15,646 INTERFERONS AND STAT4 MAKES 2956 02:11:15,646 --> 02:11:17,848 SENSE WITH LINDSEY CRISWELL AND 2957 02:11:17,848 --> 02:11:19,917 DAN KASTNER'S WORK. 2958 02:11:19,917 --> 02:11:23,220 IN LYMPHOCYTES, IN THE BASAL 2959 02:11:23,220 --> 02:11:28,559 STATE, WHEN YOU FIRST HAVE AN 2960 02:11:28,559 --> 02:11:29,026 INSULT, INDUCTION OF 2961 02:11:29,026 --> 02:11:33,864 INTERFERENCE, TYPE I INTERFERONS 2962 02:11:33,864 --> 02:11:35,866 PREFERENTIALLY ACTIVATE STAT4 2963 02:11:35,866 --> 02:11:37,301 AND DRIVE ACTIVATION PHENOTYPE 2964 02:11:37,301 --> 02:11:39,937 IN INTERFERON GAM A LATER ON 2965 02:11:39,937 --> 02:11:42,973 STAT1 INCREASES AND THEN YOU 2966 02:11:42,973 --> 02:11:45,876 HAVE MORE PREDOMINANTLY THIS 2967 02:11:45,876 --> 02:11:46,510 ANTI-VIRAL RESPONSE. 2968 02:11:46,510 --> 02:11:46,810 OKAY. 2969 02:11:46,810 --> 02:11:51,782 SO WHAT MIGHT THAT MEAN? 2970 02:11:51,782 --> 02:11:53,484 SO, THERE ARE STAT1 LOSS OF 2971 02:11:53,484 --> 02:11:54,818 FUNCTION VARIANTS, STAT1 GAIN OF 2972 02:11:54,818 --> 02:11:55,619 FUNCTION VARIANTS. 2973 02:11:55,619 --> 02:11:58,555 AND YOU KNOW ALL THIS WORK FROM 2974 02:11:58,555 --> 02:11:59,757 STEVE HOLLAND AND COLLEAGUES 2975 02:11:59,757 --> 02:12:01,925 SHOWN HERE, I COULDN'T FIND A 2976 02:12:01,925 --> 02:12:06,130 PICTURE OF ALEX FREEMAN WITH HER 2977 02:12:06,130 --> 02:12:06,630 PARTNER OVER HERE. 2978 02:12:06,630 --> 02:12:09,700 BUT SOMEBODY SHOULD TAKE A 2979 02:12:09,700 --> 02:12:10,033 PICTURE. 2980 02:12:10,033 --> 02:12:14,304 CHARLIE, ARE YOU STILL HERE? 2981 02:12:14,304 --> 02:12:14,938 MAYBE HE'S NOT HERE. 2982 02:12:14,938 --> 02:12:16,273 >> WE'LL WORK ON IT. 2983 02:12:16,273 --> 02:12:17,841 >> OKAY. 2984 02:12:17,841 --> 02:12:21,211 IN ANY CASE, STEVE AND JOHN, ET 2985 02:12:21,211 --> 02:12:22,846 CETERA, IDENTIFIED PATIENTS WITH 2986 02:12:22,846 --> 02:12:25,315 STAT1 LOSS OF FUNCTION VARIANTS, 2987 02:12:25,315 --> 02:12:26,483 THESE PATIENTS HAVE BACTERIAL 2988 02:12:26,483 --> 02:12:29,086 AND VIRAL INFECTION BUT ALSO 2989 02:12:29,086 --> 02:12:30,454 IDENTIFIED PATIENTS WITH STAT1 2990 02:12:30,454 --> 02:12:32,156 GAIN OF FUNCTION VARIANT. 2991 02:12:32,156 --> 02:12:36,193 WHAT THAT RESULTS IN IS THAT 2992 02:12:36,193 --> 02:12:38,996 THEY HAVE IMPAIRED RESPONSES TO 2993 02:12:38,996 --> 02:12:41,865 FUNGAL INFECTIONS, CANDIDA SHOWN 2994 02:12:41,865 --> 02:12:45,736 HERE, BECAUSE INTERFERON GAMMA 2995 02:12:45,736 --> 02:12:46,737 AND EXAGGERATING INTERFERON 2996 02:12:46,737 --> 02:12:50,474 RESPONSES IMPAIRS THE TYPE 3 2997 02:12:50,474 --> 02:12:55,245 RESPONSE, IL-17 RESPONSES BUT 2998 02:12:55,245 --> 02:12:56,480 INDUCES LUPUS. 2999 02:12:56,480 --> 02:12:59,283 THE PARADOX HERE THOUGH IS THAT 3000 02:12:59,283 --> 02:13:00,450 PATIENTS WHO HAVE STAT1 GAIN OF 3001 02:13:00,450 --> 02:13:04,421 FUNCTIONS AND OTHER PATIENTS WHO 3002 02:13:04,421 --> 02:13:06,056 HAVE INTERFERONOPATHYS INCLUDING 3003 02:13:06,056 --> 02:13:09,393 CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND 3004 02:13:09,393 --> 02:13:11,361 THAT HAVE INTERFERONOPATHYS 3005 02:13:11,361 --> 02:13:13,130 BECAUSE THEY HAVE DUPLICATION OR 3006 02:13:13,130 --> 02:13:22,539 INCREASED EXPRESSION OF 3007 02:13:22,539 --> 02:13:23,373 INTERFERON RECEPTORS, 3008 02:13:23,373 --> 02:13:24,608 EXAGGERATED INTERFERON RESPONSE, 3009 02:13:24,608 --> 02:13:28,545 SHOULD HAVE IN PRINCIPLE 3010 02:13:28,545 --> 02:13:29,179 EXAGGERATED ANTI-VIRAL RESPONSE 3011 02:13:29,179 --> 02:13:31,181 BUT THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. 3012 02:13:31,181 --> 02:13:32,516 THAT'S THE CASE FOR COVID-19. 3013 02:13:32,516 --> 02:13:36,954 SO WE WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE 3014 02:13:36,954 --> 02:13:37,688 MECHANISM OF THIS. 3015 02:13:37,688 --> 02:13:39,957 AND SO WE MADE A MOUSE, SHOWN 3016 02:13:39,957 --> 02:13:43,327 HERE, WE PUT THE MUTANT ALLELE 3017 02:13:43,327 --> 02:13:44,828 IN SO THAT THE MICE WOULD BE 3018 02:13:44,828 --> 02:13:46,630 LIKE THESE PATIENTS THAT THEY 3019 02:13:46,630 --> 02:13:48,232 WOULD HAVE A ONE GAIN OF 3020 02:13:48,232 --> 02:13:50,534 FUNCTION ALLELE AND ONE NORMAL 3021 02:13:50,534 --> 02:13:51,969 ALLELE, AND THIS IS 3022 02:13:51,969 --> 02:13:57,074 COLLABORATION AGAIN WITH JOSH 3023 02:13:57,074 --> 02:14:05,315 MILNER AND STEVE AND LEE, WE 3024 02:14:05,315 --> 02:14:07,050 INFECT MICE WITH USUAL VARIANTS, 3025 02:14:07,050 --> 02:14:10,120 VIRUSES THAT WE USUALLY THINK 3026 02:14:10,120 --> 02:14:14,758 ABOUT BUT ALSO WITH SARS, I 3027 02:14:14,758 --> 02:14:16,026 MANAGED TO COVER THAT. 3028 02:14:16,026 --> 02:14:17,294 THE LEGEND HERE. 3029 02:14:17,294 --> 02:14:22,633 SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT THE MICE 3030 02:14:22,633 --> 02:14:24,935 RECAPITULATE WHAT YOU SEE IN 3031 02:14:24,935 --> 02:14:29,273 PATIENTS, THAT THE MICE IN THIS 3032 02:14:29,273 --> 02:14:31,608 CASE THIS -- THESE MICE EXPRESS 3033 02:14:31,608 --> 02:14:33,343 THE MUTANT ALLELE IN ALL TISSUES 3034 02:14:33,343 --> 02:14:35,612 BUT WE OBVIOUSLY CAN DO THIS IN 3035 02:14:35,612 --> 02:14:37,214 A TISSUE-SPECIFIC MANNER AS 3036 02:14:37,214 --> 02:14:37,447 WELL. 3037 02:14:37,447 --> 02:14:42,519 AND WHAT YOU SEE IS INCREASE 3038 02:14:42,519 --> 02:14:43,153 SUSCEPTIBLABILITY TO VIRAL 3039 02:14:43,153 --> 02:14:44,688 INFECTION, THIS IS SARS-COV-2 AS 3040 02:14:44,688 --> 02:14:45,055 WELL. 3041 02:14:45,055 --> 02:14:49,459 SO WE WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE 3042 02:14:49,459 --> 02:14:50,460 MECHANISM AND WHAT RACHEL FOUND, 3043 02:14:50,460 --> 02:14:52,296 IN THE INTEREST OF TIME I WON'T 3044 02:14:52,296 --> 02:14:55,432 SHOW ALL THE DATA, THAT THESE 3045 02:14:55,432 --> 02:14:57,067 MICE HAVE CYTOKINE STORM, AGAIN 3046 02:14:57,067 --> 02:14:58,602 AS WE HAVE BEEN HEARING OVER THE 3047 02:14:58,602 --> 02:15:01,104 PAST THREE YEARS OR SO, BUT ONE 3048 02:15:01,104 --> 02:15:03,307 OF THE SURPRISING THINGS IS THAT 3049 02:15:03,307 --> 02:15:04,541 THESE MICE DON'T MAKE INTERFERON 3050 02:15:04,541 --> 02:15:04,875 GAMMA. 3051 02:15:04,875 --> 02:15:08,679 I JUST TOLD YOU ACTUALLY THAT 3052 02:15:08,679 --> 02:15:10,480 THIS IS AN INTERFERONOPATHY, AND 3053 02:15:10,480 --> 02:15:12,282 YOU HAVE INCREASED RESPONSES TO 3054 02:15:12,282 --> 02:15:13,717 INTERFERONS, AND THERE'S A PAPER 3055 02:15:13,717 --> 02:15:16,019 THAT CAME OUT IN SCIENCE 3056 02:15:16,019 --> 02:15:17,854 TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE BY 3057 02:15:17,854 --> 02:15:19,489 ANOTHER GROUP THAT MADE THESE 3058 02:15:19,489 --> 02:15:23,060 MICE AS WELL, AND THEY FOUND 3059 02:15:23,060 --> 02:15:23,694 THERE'S PATHOLOGY ASSOCIATED 3060 02:15:23,694 --> 02:15:24,962 WITH INTERFERON GAMMA. 3061 02:15:24,962 --> 02:15:27,364 IF THEY KNOCK OUT INTERFERON 3062 02:15:27,364 --> 02:15:29,132 GAMMA RECEPTOR THEY ACTUALLY 3063 02:15:29,132 --> 02:15:32,035 HAVE REDUCTION IN AUTOIMMUNE 3064 02:15:32,035 --> 02:15:32,269 DISEASE. 3065 02:15:32,269 --> 02:15:35,706 TURNS OUT WHAT HAPPENS IN THESE 3066 02:15:35,706 --> 02:15:41,645 MICE IS THAT YOU HAVE IMPAIRED 3067 02:15:41,645 --> 02:15:42,512 STAT4 ACTIVATION. 3068 02:15:42,512 --> 02:15:50,821 TYPE I INTERFERON IS 3069 02:15:50,821 --> 02:15:51,755 PREFERENTIALLY ACTIVATE STAT4. 3070 02:15:51,755 --> 02:16:02,232 IN THE MICE YOU HAVE REDUCED 3071 02:16:03,433 --> 02:16:04,334 STAT4 PHOSPHORYLATION. 3072 02:16:04,334 --> 02:16:06,303 MAY BE YOU CAN GIVE INTERFERON 3073 02:16:06,303 --> 02:16:10,507 GAMMA BACK? 3074 02:16:10,507 --> 02:16:13,877 THE PATHOLOGY IS DRIVEN BY 3075 02:16:13,877 --> 02:16:14,845 INTERFERON GAMMA. 3076 02:16:14,845 --> 02:16:16,346 I ALSO WAS THINKING IT'S GOING 3077 02:16:16,346 --> 02:16:18,882 TO BE REALLY HARD TO FIGURE OUT 3078 02:16:18,882 --> 02:16:20,417 WHAT'S THE DOSE OF INTERFERON 3079 02:16:20,417 --> 02:16:23,153 GAMMA, THE TIMING, ET CETERA, ET 3080 02:16:23,153 --> 02:16:23,387 CETERA. 3081 02:16:23,387 --> 02:16:25,489 BUT, AGAIN, RACHEL DIDN'T LISTEN 3082 02:16:25,489 --> 02:16:25,689 TO ME. 3083 02:16:25,689 --> 02:16:28,325 AND WHAT SHE DID WAS TO DO A 3084 02:16:28,325 --> 02:16:30,494 COUPLE THINGS HERE, AND WHAT SHE 3085 02:16:30,494 --> 02:16:33,597 DID WAS THIS IS THE NORMAL 3086 02:16:33,597 --> 02:16:36,333 RESPONSE TO INFECTION SHOWN 3087 02:16:36,333 --> 02:16:36,666 HERE. 3088 02:16:36,666 --> 02:16:39,836 AND HERE ARE THE MICE THAT HAVE 3089 02:16:39,836 --> 02:16:42,606 THE STAT1 GAIN OF FUNCTION 3090 02:16:42,606 --> 02:16:43,607 VARIANT. 3091 02:16:43,607 --> 02:16:46,910 AND THEY DID SOMETHING ELSE 3092 02:16:46,910 --> 02:16:48,745 CLEVER, HOW ABOUT IF WE BLOCK 3093 02:16:48,745 --> 02:16:50,947 INTERFERON GAMMA, DOES THAT GIVE 3094 02:16:50,947 --> 02:16:51,982 THE SAME PHENOTYPE? 3095 02:16:51,982 --> 02:16:54,418 AGAIN WE'VE DONE LOTS OF 3096 02:16:54,418 --> 02:16:55,819 DETAILS, LOTS OF SINGLE CELL 3097 02:16:55,819 --> 02:16:56,953 RNAseq, ET CETERA. 3098 02:16:56,953 --> 02:16:58,422 I'M GOING TO SPARE YOU THAT FOR 3099 02:16:58,422 --> 02:16:59,189 THE MOMENT. 3100 02:16:59,189 --> 02:17:03,693 AND WHAT YOU SEE WAS WHEN YOU 3101 02:17:03,693 --> 02:17:05,295 BLOCK INTERFERON GAMMA YOU SET 3102 02:17:05,295 --> 02:17:06,496 THE SAME PHENOTYPE. 3103 02:17:06,496 --> 02:17:12,436 IF I GIVE THE MICE INTERFERON 3104 02:17:12,436 --> 02:17:16,173 GAMMA EXOGENOUS YOU CAN RESOLVE 3105 02:17:16,173 --> 02:17:20,377 THIS CYTOKINE STORM. 3106 02:17:20,377 --> 02:17:21,978 SO, THIS IS PRETTY INTERESTING 3107 02:17:21,978 --> 02:17:23,847 IN A WAY THAT WHEN WE THINK OF 3108 02:17:23,847 --> 02:17:26,049 THE PATIENTS THAT WE'VE SEEN 3109 02:17:26,049 --> 02:17:29,119 WITH CYTOKINE STORM, IF SOME 3110 02:17:29,119 --> 02:17:31,288 PATIENTS, IN THE SETTING, IF 3111 02:17:31,288 --> 02:17:34,124 THEY -- EVEN IF THEY HAD BASAL 3112 02:17:34,124 --> 02:17:38,462 LEVELS OF INTERFERON GAMMA, YOU 3113 02:17:38,462 --> 02:17:41,631 KNOW, AT HIGHER LEVELS, THAN 3114 02:17:41,631 --> 02:17:42,699 NORMAL SUBJECTS, BUT THEY 3115 02:17:42,699 --> 02:17:45,202 DIDN'T -- WERE NOT ABLE TO SORT 3116 02:17:45,202 --> 02:17:47,204 OF GET THIS BOOST OF INTERFERON 3117 02:17:47,204 --> 02:17:51,942 GAMMA PRODUCTION YOU WOULD NEED 3118 02:17:51,942 --> 02:17:54,344 DURING THE INFECTIONS, THEN 3119 02:17:54,344 --> 02:17:56,480 ACTUALLY YOU COULD TREAT 3120 02:17:56,480 --> 02:17:57,481 PATIENTS WITH INTERFERON GAMMA, 3121 02:17:57,481 --> 02:17:59,216 THAT MIGHT BE RELATIVE FOR 3122 02:17:59,216 --> 02:18:07,257 PATIENTS WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND 3123 02:18:07,257 --> 02:18:08,425 INTERFERONOPATHYS, ET CETERA. 3124 02:18:08,425 --> 02:18:16,533 SIGNALING IS NOT JUST ABOUT THIS 3125 02:18:16,533 --> 02:18:17,667 ON/OFF SWITCH. 3126 02:18:17,667 --> 02:18:19,202 ONE PART, TO END QUICKLY, ONE 3127 02:18:19,202 --> 02:18:23,173 THING WE LEARNED IN TERMS OF 3128 02:18:23,173 --> 02:18:26,510 THINKING ABOUT CYTOKINES IS THE 3129 02:18:26,510 --> 02:18:27,744 COMPLEXITY OF CYTOKINE GENES 3130 02:18:27,744 --> 02:18:31,114 SHOWN HERE, SO HERE YOU HAVE 3131 02:18:31,114 --> 02:18:32,816 INTERFERON GAMMA, A TINY 3132 02:18:32,816 --> 02:18:33,583 INTERFERON GAMMA GENE, LITTERED 3133 02:18:33,583 --> 02:18:37,354 WITH ALL OF THESE ACTIVE 3134 02:18:37,354 --> 02:18:42,492 ENHANCERS, AND INCLUDES THINGS 3135 02:18:42,492 --> 02:18:46,163 LIKE LONG ENCODING RNAs, 3136 02:18:46,163 --> 02:18:47,697 INCLUDING INTERFERON GAMMA 1, 3137 02:18:47,697 --> 02:18:50,367 Th1 CELLS WITH ACTIVE 3138 02:18:50,367 --> 02:18:55,405 ENHANCERS, Th2 CELLS WHICH 3139 02:18:55,405 --> 02:18:57,607 DON'T, AND WHAT WE FOUND A FEW 3140 02:18:57,607 --> 02:19:01,845 YEARS AGO THAT IF YOU LOOKED AT 3141 02:19:01,845 --> 02:19:03,480 SUPERENHANCERS IN IMMUNE CELLS, 3142 02:19:03,480 --> 02:19:13,957 THEY OFTEN ENCOMPASS CYTOKINES, 3143 02:19:13,957 --> 02:19:14,524 CYTOKINE RECEPTORS, ANOTHER 3144 02:19:14,524 --> 02:19:15,659 STORY MORRISON PRESENTED THIS 3145 02:19:15,659 --> 02:19:18,061 TWO DAYS AGO BUT I'LL SPARE YOU 3146 02:19:18,061 --> 02:19:20,330 THAT AT THE MOMENT. 3147 02:19:20,330 --> 02:19:23,033 INTERFERE GAMMA AS 1 IS LINKED 3148 02:19:23,033 --> 02:19:24,301 TO IBD. 3149 02:19:24,301 --> 02:19:25,635 THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHAT 3150 02:19:25,635 --> 02:19:27,571 I WAS SAYING BEFORE THAT THE 3151 02:19:27,571 --> 02:19:30,473 GENETIC LINK IS OUT HERE, NOT 3152 02:19:30,473 --> 02:19:31,775 ACTUALLY IN THE CODING REGION. 3153 02:19:31,775 --> 02:19:36,046 AND WHAT WE DID WAS WE MADE TWO 3154 02:19:36,046 --> 02:19:38,782 MODELS OF INTERFERON GAMMA AS 1 3155 02:19:38,782 --> 02:19:43,954 KNOCKOUT MICE AND SHOWED THAT 3156 02:19:43,954 --> 02:19:47,924 THIS GAVE REDUCED SUSCEPTIBLITY 3157 02:19:47,924 --> 02:19:51,428 OR INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY. 3158 02:19:51,428 --> 02:19:53,496 ONE THING, A COLLABORATION WITH 3159 02:19:53,496 --> 02:19:58,335 AHMED, HE FOUND IN HIS COHORT 3160 02:19:58,335 --> 02:20:00,904 VACCINATED WITH YELLOW FEVER, 3161 02:20:00,904 --> 02:20:02,005 LOOKING AT ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC 3162 02:20:02,005 --> 02:20:06,209 MEMORY T CELLS, HIGHER LEVELS OF 3163 02:20:06,209 --> 02:20:08,211 INTERFERON GAMMA AS1 EVEN WITH 3164 02:20:08,211 --> 02:20:13,516 NORMAL LEVELS OF INTERFERON 3165 02:20:13,516 --> 02:20:14,851 GAMMA. 3166 02:20:14,851 --> 02:20:23,793 FINALLY. 3167 02:20:23,793 --> 02:20:25,829 SO RETURNING TO WHAT I WAS 3168 02:20:25,829 --> 02:20:28,064 MENTIONING BEFORE ABOUT THE 3169 02:20:28,064 --> 02:20:30,066 LOOPING OF CHROMATIN, SO HERE WE 3170 02:20:30,066 --> 02:20:31,134 HAVE THE INTERFERON GAMMA GENE 3171 02:20:31,134 --> 02:20:32,002 SHOWN HERE. 3172 02:20:32,002 --> 02:20:33,837 HERE IS THE LONG NON-CODING RNA 3173 02:20:33,837 --> 02:20:35,171 THAT I MENTIONED. 3174 02:20:35,171 --> 02:20:37,974 THIS IS A CYTOKINE CLUSTER, 3175 02:20:37,974 --> 02:20:45,849 INTERFERON GAMMA IL- 22 AND IN 3176 02:20:45,849 --> 02:20:47,117 HUMANS IL-26. 3177 02:20:47,117 --> 02:20:50,620 HUMAN GENOME IS PLAID. 3178 02:20:50,620 --> 02:20:56,760 IS THIS PLAIDNESS IMPORTANT? 3179 02:20:56,760 --> 02:21:03,300 AND SO HUNG HU WHO WILL GIVE A 3180 02:21:03,300 --> 02:21:06,102 TALK OCTOBER 4, CAREFULLY 3181 02:21:06,102 --> 02:21:08,305 ASSESSED FOLDING OF CHROMATIN IN 3182 02:21:08,305 --> 02:21:12,042 THIS LOCUS, WHAT SHE IDENTIFIED 3183 02:21:12,042 --> 02:21:16,279 WAS CTCF BINDING ELEMENT, MINUS 3184 02:21:16,279 --> 02:21:22,218 70 REGION, USING CRISPR/Cas. 3185 02:21:22,218 --> 02:21:30,427 I'LL CUT TO THE CHASE. 3186 02:21:30,427 --> 02:21:33,296 WHAT WAS FOUND IF YOU ALTER 3187 02:21:33,296 --> 02:21:35,932 CHROMATIN STRUCTURE NK CELLS AND 3188 02:21:35,932 --> 02:21:38,435 MEMORY CD8 T CELLS, THAT'S FINE. 3189 02:21:38,435 --> 02:21:40,170 THEY CAN MAKE INTERFERON GAMMA. 3190 02:21:40,170 --> 02:21:43,540 WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT IN TH1 3191 02:21:43,540 --> 02:21:47,277 CELLS THAT START IN NAIVE STATE 3192 02:21:47,277 --> 02:21:48,044 AND POLARIZE TO Th1 CELLS 3193 02:21:48,044 --> 02:21:52,782 THAT'S WHERE THIS ELEMENT IS 3194 02:21:52,782 --> 02:21:53,383 CRITICAL. 3195 02:21:53,383 --> 02:21:56,152 ARCHITECTURE DOES MATTER IN THIS 3196 02:21:56,152 --> 02:21:56,486 SETTING. 3197 02:21:56,486 --> 02:21:58,621 AND SO THIS COMES BACK TO THIS 3198 02:21:58,621 --> 02:22:00,490 POINT THAT I THINK ONE OF THE 3199 02:22:00,490 --> 02:22:02,592 CHALLENGES FOR THE NEXT 30 3200 02:22:02,592 --> 02:22:05,562 YEARS, THAT WE HAVE BIOLOGICS, 3201 02:22:05,562 --> 02:22:06,763 THAT'S GREAT. 3202 02:22:06,763 --> 02:22:11,201 WE REALLY -- PATIENTS COME INTO 3203 02:22:11,201 --> 02:22:12,802 THE CLINIC, REALLY DO NOT COME 3204 02:22:12,802 --> 02:22:15,705 IN WHEELCHAIRS AS THEY DID WHEN 3205 02:22:15,705 --> 02:22:18,174 I WAS A RESIDENT, ET CETERA. 3206 02:22:18,174 --> 02:22:21,244 SO WE HAVE BIOLOGICS, CAN TREAT 3207 02:22:21,244 --> 02:22:22,712 THESE PATIENTS, AND WE ALSO HAVE 3208 02:22:22,712 --> 02:22:23,713 JAK INHIBITORS AS WELL. 3209 02:22:23,713 --> 02:22:26,750 I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS, THIS 3210 02:22:26,750 --> 02:22:28,852 IS OUR BAND, FRANCIS COLLINS, ET 3211 02:22:28,852 --> 02:22:29,352 CETERA. 3212 02:22:29,352 --> 02:22:31,254 AND WHAT YOU MAY NOT THINK ABOUT 3213 02:22:31,254 --> 02:22:34,624 AS MUCH AS I THINK ABOUT WHEN 3214 02:22:34,624 --> 02:22:36,226 WE'RE PLAYING IS THAT SOMEBODY 3215 02:22:36,226 --> 02:22:39,262 HAS TO PUT ALL THIS STUFF 3216 02:22:39,262 --> 02:22:41,197 TOGETHER, YOU HAVE THESE MIXING 3217 02:22:41,197 --> 02:22:44,067 THAT'S GOING ON BEHIND THE 3218 02:22:44,067 --> 02:22:45,568 SCENE, SO THAT IT SOUNDS 3219 02:22:45,568 --> 02:22:47,670 BEARABLE TO YOU. 3220 02:22:47,670 --> 02:22:54,110 WHEN I'M OFF KEY OR PLAYING THE 3221 02:22:54,110 --> 02:22:55,912 WRONG SONG, ARRINGTON PRICE OR A 3222 02:22:55,912 --> 02:22:57,414 COLLEAGUE CAN TURN ME DOWN 3223 02:22:57,414 --> 02:22:57,847 QUICKLY. 3224 02:22:57,847 --> 02:23:00,917 I WAS THINKING THIS REMINDS ME 3225 02:23:00,917 --> 02:23:04,954 OF THE INTERFERON GAMMA GENE, WE 3226 02:23:04,954 --> 02:23:07,424 HAVE ALL THESE SWITCHES, JUST 3227 02:23:07,424 --> 02:23:08,124 SURROUNDING THIS REGION. 3228 02:23:08,124 --> 02:23:11,761 AND THE ISSUE OF COURSE IS DO WE 3229 02:23:11,761 --> 02:23:13,229 TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION AS 3230 02:23:13,229 --> 02:23:15,999 WE'RE SORT OF THINKING ABOUT 3231 02:23:15,999 --> 02:23:16,766 TREATMENT? 3232 02:23:16,766 --> 02:23:20,003 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BIOLOGICS, JAK 3233 02:23:20,003 --> 02:23:24,374 INHIBITORS, WHAT WE NEED TO 3234 02:23:24,374 --> 02:23:26,543 UNDERSTAND IS MORE SOPHISTICATED 3235 02:23:26,543 --> 02:23:28,344 BIOMARKERS IN PATIENTS, 3236 02:23:28,344 --> 02:23:29,379 CONSEQUENCE OF CYTOKINE 3237 02:23:29,379 --> 02:23:30,146 SIGNALING, ET CETERA. 3238 02:23:30,146 --> 02:23:31,714 AND REALLY UNDERSTAND AS I WAS 3239 02:23:31,714 --> 02:23:33,583 REFERRING TO BEFORE WITH THE 3240 02:23:33,583 --> 02:23:37,720 STAT 4 RISK ALLELE AND PATIENTS 3241 02:23:37,720 --> 02:23:38,888 HAVE VARIOUS GAIN OF FUNCTION 3242 02:23:38,888 --> 02:23:40,056 MUTATIONS TO UNDERSTAND THAT SO 3243 02:23:40,056 --> 02:23:41,691 WE CAN PICK THE RIGHT DRUGS AT 3244 02:23:41,691 --> 02:23:42,625 THE RIGHT DOSES. 3245 02:23:42,625 --> 02:23:43,927 REALLY ULTIMATELY I THINK WE 3246 02:23:43,927 --> 02:23:48,631 NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE 3247 02:23:48,631 --> 02:23:49,999 COMPLEXITY OF GENE REGULATION 3248 02:23:49,999 --> 02:23:51,501 THERAPEUTICALLY AND REALLY IN 3249 02:23:51,501 --> 02:23:54,204 MOST DISEASES EVERYTHING FROM 3250 02:23:54,204 --> 02:23:56,539 HYPERTENSION TO CANCER, IT'S 3251 02:23:56,539 --> 02:23:57,407 COMBINATORIAL THERAPY. 3252 02:23:57,407 --> 02:24:00,610 TYPICALLY YOU GO TO THE DOCTOR, 3253 02:24:00,610 --> 02:24:01,744 WHATEVER, SAY, NO, OKAY, THAT 3254 02:24:01,744 --> 02:24:02,946 DIDN'T WORK, LET ME GIVE YOU 3255 02:24:02,946 --> 02:24:04,714 THIS OTHER DRUG. 3256 02:24:04,714 --> 02:24:06,516 IT'S NOT RATIONALE, DOESN'T TAKE 3257 02:24:06,516 --> 02:24:08,318 INTO ACCOUNT ALL OF THE FACTORS 3258 02:24:08,318 --> 02:24:09,953 REALLY THAT REGULATE ALL THESE 3259 02:24:09,953 --> 02:24:10,854 KEY GENES. 3260 02:24:10,854 --> 02:24:13,122 I WOULD ARGUE THAT THIS IS JUST 3261 02:24:13,122 --> 02:24:14,491 THE BEGINNING OF OUR 3262 02:24:14,491 --> 02:24:16,059 UNDERSTANDING OF IMMUNE CELL 3263 02:24:16,059 --> 02:24:16,326 SIGNALING. 3264 02:24:16,326 --> 02:24:18,561 AND I THINK I MENTIONED PEOPLE'S 3265 02:24:18,561 --> 02:24:22,065 NAMES ALONG THE WAY. 3266 02:24:22,065 --> 02:24:22,999 AGAIN, JUST TREMENDOUSLY 3267 02:24:22,999 --> 02:24:25,368 THANKFUL JUST TO BE HERE AT THE 3268 02:24:25,368 --> 02:24:25,535 NIH. 3269 02:24:25,535 --> 02:24:26,503 SO THANKS. 3270 02:24:26,503 --> 02:24:28,004 [APPLAUSE] 3271 02:24:28,004 --> 02:24:34,010 3272 02:24:34,010 --> 02:24:34,477 3273 02:24:34,477 --> 02:24:37,113 >> DR. O'SHEA'S BAND IS PLAYING 3274 02:24:37,113 --> 02:24:41,117 TOMORROW AT THE CLOSE. 3275 02:24:41,117 --> 02:24:41,384 >> NOT ME. 3276 02:24:41,384 --> 02:24:42,652 >> WE GOT A SOUND PERSON. 3277 02:24:42,652 --> 02:24:44,554 YOU CAN ADD ME TO YOUR 3278 02:24:44,554 --> 02:24:45,088 ACKNOWLEDGMENT PAGE. 3279 02:24:45,088 --> 02:24:46,956 >> I HAVE TO MAKE A COMMENT. 3280 02:24:46,956 --> 02:24:49,359 I HAVE TO SAY FIRST OF ALL I'VE 3281 02:24:49,359 --> 02:24:54,430 ALWAYS THOUGHT IT IS INDICATIVE 3282 02:24:54,430 --> 02:24:57,000 OF INCREDIBLE HEALTHY EGO OF THE 3283 02:24:57,000 --> 02:24:59,102 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY THAT 3284 02:24:59,102 --> 02:25:00,336 BECAUSE WE DON'T UNDERSTAND 98% 3285 02:25:00,336 --> 02:25:03,473 OF THE GENOME WE JUST CALL IT 3286 02:25:03,473 --> 02:25:04,240 JUNK, CLEARLY NOT. 3287 02:25:04,240 --> 02:25:06,109 AND THE OTHER THING THAT 3288 02:25:06,109 --> 02:25:08,344 OCCURRED TO ME, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN 3289 02:25:08,344 --> 02:25:10,780 AMAZING TO ME, SINCE EARLY IN 3290 02:25:10,780 --> 02:25:12,482 MEDICAL SCHOOL, THAT THE SAME 3291 02:25:12,482 --> 02:25:16,686 PERSON THAT MAKES SUCH A ROBUST 3292 02:25:16,686 --> 02:25:20,390 IMMUNE RESPONSE THAT THEY 3293 02:25:20,390 --> 02:25:22,125 DESTROY THEIR GENES, THEIR 3294 02:25:22,125 --> 02:25:25,929 JOINTS, THEIR G.I. TRACT, THEIR 3295 02:25:25,929 --> 02:25:28,364 HEART, CAN'T MAKE AN IMMUNE 3296 02:25:28,364 --> 02:25:30,466 RESPONSE TO KILL OFF THE BUGS 3297 02:25:30,466 --> 02:25:32,635 THAT INFECT ALL OF US, I MEAN, 3298 02:25:32,635 --> 02:25:36,005 THAT IS -- THAT IN ITSELF SAYS 3299 02:25:36,005 --> 02:25:40,310 THIS IS A REGULATORY DISORDER, 3300 02:25:40,310 --> 02:25:45,815 AND NOT AN IMMUNE SINGLE 3301 02:25:45,815 --> 02:25:46,849 FUNCTION DISORDER. 3302 02:25:46,849 --> 02:25:47,650 ANYWAY, VERY INTERESTING. 3303 02:25:47,650 --> 02:25:50,620 I THINK YOU SEE THE THREAD IN 3304 02:25:50,620 --> 02:25:53,690 THIS THAT EVERY ANSWER TO A 3305 02:25:53,690 --> 02:25:56,025 QUESTION GENERATES 100 MORE 3306 02:25:56,025 --> 02:25:56,326 QUESTIONS. 3307 02:25:56,326 --> 02:25:58,461 AND THAT IS THE JOY OF WHAT WE 3308 02:25:58,461 --> 02:26:00,730 ALL DO. 3309 02:26:00,730 --> 02:26:02,198 SO OUR FINAL SPEAKER THIS 3310 02:26:02,198 --> 02:26:10,106 AFTERNOON IS DR. DEBORAH 3311 02:26:10,106 --> 02:26:13,676 MORRISON, SENIOR INVESTIGATOR AT 3312 02:26:13,676 --> 02:26:16,312 NCI CCR, AN EXPERT IN THE 3313 02:26:16,312 --> 02:26:20,917 FUNCTION OF THE RAS PROTEIN 3314 02:26:20,917 --> 02:26:23,419 KINASE PATHWAYS, AND SHE HAS 3315 02:26:23,419 --> 02:26:25,388 STUDIED BOTH THE NORMAL FUNCTION 3316 02:26:25,388 --> 02:26:28,291 OF THOSE PATHWAYS AND THE WAY 3317 02:26:28,291 --> 02:26:31,594 THOSE PATHWAYS AND THEIR 3318 02:26:31,594 --> 02:26:33,429 ABERRATIONS LEAD TO DISEASE. 3319 02:26:33,429 --> 02:26:37,200 AND, AGAIN, TO LOOK AT THE 3320 02:26:37,200 --> 02:26:38,101 BIOCHEMICAL AND STRUCTURAL 3321 02:26:38,101 --> 02:26:41,671 ASPECTS OF RAS AND THE PROTEINS 3322 02:26:41,671 --> 02:26:44,073 WITH WHICH IT INTERACTS TO TRY 3323 02:26:44,073 --> 02:26:46,409 AND DEVELOP NEW THERAPEUTIC 3324 02:26:46,409 --> 02:26:46,709 STRATEGIES. 3325 02:26:46,709 --> 02:26:47,110 DR. MORRISON. 3326 02:26:47,110 --> 02:26:50,513 [APPLAUSE] 3327 02:26:50,513 --> 02:26:57,420 3328 02:26:57,420 --> 02:26:57,553 3329 02:26:57,553 --> 02:27:02,125 >> IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE TODAY. 3330 02:27:02,125 --> 02:27:04,060 AND I WANT TO GIVE YOU -- TO 3331 02:27:04,060 --> 02:27:06,496 GIVE ME A CHANCE TO TELL YOU 3332 02:27:06,496 --> 02:27:09,165 ABOUT MY JOURNEY IN SCIENCE. 3333 02:27:09,165 --> 02:27:09,899 LET'S SEE. 3334 02:27:09,899 --> 02:27:14,771 I WANT TO GO FORWARD. 3335 02:27:14,771 --> 02:27:24,547 3336 02:27:24,547 --> 02:27:25,081 3337 02:27:25,081 --> 02:27:26,115 I NEED HELP. 3338 02:27:26,115 --> 02:27:33,823 JUST TO GET ME STARTED. 3339 02:27:33,823 --> 02:27:36,192 SO, ONE OF THE MAJOR FOCUSES OF 3340 02:27:36,192 --> 02:27:43,866 MY LAB HAS BEEN IN THE STUDY OF 3341 02:27:43,866 --> 02:27:47,804 SINGLE -- SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION 3342 02:27:47,804 --> 02:27:52,208 PATHWAY REGULATED BY RAF FAMILY 3343 02:27:52,208 --> 02:27:52,975 OF GTPaseS. 3344 02:27:52,975 --> 02:27:57,313 LET ME GO BACK. 3345 02:27:57,313 --> 02:27:57,447 3346 02:27:57,447 --> 02:27:58,881 CLEARLY I'VE NEVER USED THIS 3347 02:27:58,881 --> 02:28:01,050 POINTER BEFORE. 3348 02:28:01,050 --> 02:28:03,486 3349 02:28:03,486 --> 02:28:12,395 I WANT TO GO BACK. 3350 02:28:12,395 --> 02:28:13,062 BOTTOM? 3351 02:28:13,062 --> 02:28:21,738 NO, THIS IS GOING FORWARD. 3352 02:28:21,738 --> 02:28:31,781 3353 02:28:49,665 --> 02:28:50,299 >> THERE YOU GO. 3354 02:28:50,299 --> 02:28:51,734 >> ANYHOW, WE'RE INTERESTED IN 3355 02:28:51,734 --> 02:28:56,038 THE PATHWAY THAT'S REGULATED BY 3356 02:28:56,038 --> 02:28:58,674 THE RAF GTPase, AND THIS PLAY 3357 02:28:58,674 --> 02:29:01,144 AS VERY IMPORTANT ROLE IN 3358 02:29:01,144 --> 02:29:02,445 TRANSMISSION OF MANY CELLULAR 3359 02:29:02,445 --> 02:29:05,381 SIGNALS AND OFTEN SIGNAL IS 3360 02:29:05,381 --> 02:29:07,416 INITIATED BY EITHER GROWTH 3361 02:29:07,416 --> 02:29:10,219 FACTOR OR LIGAND BINDING TO 3362 02:29:10,219 --> 02:29:12,655 RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE ON THE 3363 02:29:12,655 --> 02:29:23,132 CELL SURFACE THAT LEADS GTP 3364 02:29:23,666 --> 02:29:26,202 LOADING, A CRITICAL FACTOR 3365 02:29:26,202 --> 02:29:30,139 COMPONENTS OF CASCADE, AND A 3366 02:29:30,139 --> 02:29:32,942 PROTEIN KINASE, THE RAF KINASES. 3367 02:29:32,942 --> 02:29:36,546 I AGAIN WORKING ON RAS AS A 3368 02:29:36,546 --> 02:29:41,184 FIRST-YEAR POSTDOC IN IT TOM 3369 02:29:41,184 --> 02:29:43,152 ROBERTS' LAB AT DANA-FARBER 3370 02:29:43,152 --> 02:29:44,754 CANCER INSTITUTE, 30 YEARS LATER 3371 02:29:44,754 --> 02:29:46,055 I'M STILL WORKING ON IT. 3372 02:29:46,055 --> 02:29:48,758 BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU CHOOSE AS A 3373 02:29:48,758 --> 02:29:54,330 POSTDOC TO STUDY. 3374 02:29:54,330 --> 02:29:55,131 SO, LET'S SEE. 3375 02:29:55,131 --> 02:29:56,866 IN ADDITION TO PLAYING AN 3376 02:29:56,866 --> 02:29:58,734 IMPORTANT ROLE IN NORMAL GROWTH 3377 02:29:58,734 --> 02:30:00,536 AND DEVELOPMENT, WE ALSO KNOW 3378 02:30:00,536 --> 02:30:02,872 THIS PATHWAY PLAYS A VERY 3379 02:30:02,872 --> 02:30:04,574 IMPORTANT ROLE IN HUMAN DISEASE 3380 02:30:04,574 --> 02:30:06,409 STATES AS WELL. 3381 02:30:06,409 --> 02:30:11,080 AND SOMATIC MUTATIONS IN VARIOUS 3382 02:30:11,080 --> 02:30:13,149 COMPONENTS OF THE PATHWAY ARE 3383 02:30:13,149 --> 02:30:18,988 KNOWN TO BE DRIVERS IN CERTAIN 3384 02:30:18,988 --> 02:30:19,589 CANCERS. 3385 02:30:19,589 --> 02:30:21,257 IN ADDITION, GERMLINE MUTATIONS 3386 02:30:21,257 --> 02:30:23,759 AND COMPONENTS OF THE PATHWAY 3387 02:30:23,759 --> 02:30:26,863 CAN ALSO BE CAUSATIVE FOR A 3388 02:30:26,863 --> 02:30:27,830 GROUP OF DEVELOPMENTAL 3389 02:30:27,830 --> 02:30:36,072 DISORDERS, SHOWN HERE, KNOWN 3390 02:30:36,072 --> 02:30:40,276 COLLECTIVELY AS RASOPATHYS. 3391 02:30:40,276 --> 02:30:46,282 BECAUSE OF THAT, FOR THE PAST 25 3392 02:30:46,282 --> 02:30:49,151 YEARS EFFORTS TO TARGET 3393 02:30:49,151 --> 02:30:51,320 COMPONENT PATHWAYS FOR 3394 02:30:51,320 --> 02:30:54,156 THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION. 3395 02:30:54,156 --> 02:30:56,893 BUT I THINK ONE OF THE LESSONS 3396 02:30:56,893 --> 02:30:59,495 WE'VE LEARNED OVER TIME IS THAT 3397 02:30:59,495 --> 02:31:02,131 IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THIS 3398 02:31:02,131 --> 02:31:07,036 KIND OF DEVELOPMENT TO BE MOST 3399 02:31:07,036 --> 02:31:08,471 OFFICIAL AND TO WORK THE BEST 3400 02:31:08,471 --> 02:31:10,706 YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW 3401 02:31:10,706 --> 02:31:13,743 NORMAL SIGNALING THROUGH THE 3402 02:31:13,743 --> 02:31:16,579 PATHWAY TAKES PLACE. 3403 02:31:16,579 --> 02:31:19,715 AND IN -- WHAT HAS TURNED OUT IS 3404 02:31:19,715 --> 02:31:24,954 FOR THE RAF KINASES THEIR 3405 02:31:24,954 --> 02:31:28,291 REGULATION IS HIGHLY COMPLEX. 3406 02:31:28,291 --> 02:31:33,162 3407 02:31:33,162 --> 02:31:35,364 3408 02:31:35,364 --> 02:31:37,600 SO FOR THOSE WHO DON'T THINK 3409 02:31:37,600 --> 02:31:41,304 ABOUT THE RAFs ALL DAY EVERY 3410 02:31:41,304 --> 02:31:44,740 DAY, THEY ARE BASICALLY -- THEY 3411 02:31:44,740 --> 02:31:47,877 CONSIST OF C-TERMINAL CATALYTIC 3412 02:31:47,877 --> 02:31:49,178 DOMAIN, N-TERMINAL REGULATORY 3413 02:31:49,178 --> 02:31:54,483 DOMAIN, CONTAINS A RAF BINDING 3414 02:31:54,483 --> 02:31:54,717 DOMAIN. 3415 02:31:54,717 --> 02:31:59,989 WHICH TURNS OUT THERE ARE THREE 3416 02:31:59,989 --> 02:32:03,526 RAF FAMILY MEMBERS ARAF, BRAF, C 3417 02:32:03,526 --> 02:32:06,062 RAF, EVERY ONE CAN FUNCTION AS 3418 02:32:06,062 --> 02:32:07,596 EFFECTOR OF RAF, DIRECTLY BINDS 3419 02:32:07,596 --> 02:32:11,600 RAF, ALL CAN ALSO FUNCTION AS 3420 02:32:11,600 --> 02:32:13,402 INITIATING KINASE IN THE 3421 02:32:13,402 --> 02:32:13,736 CASCADE. 3422 02:32:13,736 --> 02:32:15,604 IF WE THINK ABOUT WHAT'S 3423 02:32:15,604 --> 02:32:16,939 DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM, WELL, IT 3424 02:32:16,939 --> 02:32:20,776 REALLY IS IN TERMS OF ENZYMATIC 3425 02:32:20,776 --> 02:32:21,043 ACTIVITY. 3426 02:32:21,043 --> 02:32:22,445 AND THE INTRINSIC CATALYTIC 3427 02:32:22,445 --> 02:32:24,814 ACTIVITY OF BRAF IS BY FAR THE 3428 02:32:24,814 --> 02:32:25,982 HIGHEST. 3429 02:32:25,982 --> 02:32:28,617 THEN C RAF, THEN ARAF. 3430 02:32:28,617 --> 02:32:31,120 WHAT DISTINGUISHES BRAF IS 3431 02:32:31,120 --> 02:32:32,755 DIFFERENTS WHERE THE ASTERISKS 3432 02:32:32,755 --> 02:32:34,023 ARE, DIFFERENCE IN SEQUENCES AT 3433 02:32:34,023 --> 02:32:37,026 THE BEGINNING OF THE KINASE 3434 02:32:37,026 --> 02:32:39,862 DOMAIN THAT DETERMINE ITS HIGH 3435 02:32:39,862 --> 02:32:42,164 LEVEL OF BASAL KINASE ACTIVITY. 3436 02:32:42,164 --> 02:32:45,234 SO, WORK FROM OUR LAB AND A 3437 02:32:45,234 --> 02:32:46,936 NUMBER OF LABS IN THE FIELD HAVE 3438 02:32:46,936 --> 02:32:49,338 KIND OF LED TO THIS MODEL OF HOW 3439 02:32:49,338 --> 02:32:54,243 THE RAFs ARE REGULATED. 3440 02:32:54,243 --> 02:32:56,512 BRAF AND CRAF ARE PRIMARY 3441 02:32:56,512 --> 02:32:57,313 DISEASE DRIVERS. 3442 02:32:57,313 --> 02:33:00,850 BRAF IS IMPORTANT IN CANCER, 3443 02:33:00,850 --> 02:33:03,619 c-RAF AND BRAF TOGETHER ARE 3444 02:33:03,619 --> 02:33:13,529 DRIVERS IN THE RAFOPATHYS. 3445 02:33:13,529 --> 02:33:15,698 THEY EXIST AS AUTOINHIBITTIVE 3446 02:33:15,698 --> 02:33:19,935 MONOMERS IN THE CYTOSOL AND IT'S 3447 02:33:19,935 --> 02:33:22,671 BOUND TO DIMER OF 14-3-3. 3448 02:33:22,671 --> 02:33:24,173 ONE HIGHLIGHT OF MY CAREER IN 3449 02:33:24,173 --> 02:33:29,478 THE LAST COUPLE YEARS HAS BEEN A 3450 02:33:29,478 --> 02:33:37,620 REALLY WONDERFUL COLLABORATION 3451 02:33:37,620 --> 02:33:45,027 WITH A YOUNG TENURE TRACK 3452 02:33:45,027 --> 02:33:47,196 INVESTIGATOR OF NCI, ABLE TO 3453 02:33:47,196 --> 02:33:50,499 SOLVE THE CryoEM STRUCTURE, 3454 02:33:50,499 --> 02:33:53,536 YOU CAN SEE THE 14-3-3 DIMER IS 3455 02:33:53,536 --> 02:33:57,807 A CRADLE, NIGH CASE ON TOP. 3456 02:33:57,807 --> 02:34:01,010 RBD WAS ALSO RESOLVED. 3457 02:34:01,010 --> 02:34:07,883 AND THE RBD REPRESENTS THE RAF 3458 02:34:07,883 --> 02:34:10,052 BINDING DOMAIN, A BREAKTHROUGH 3459 02:34:10,052 --> 02:34:12,421 WHEN WE LEARNED THEY WERE DIRECT 3460 02:34:12,421 --> 02:34:14,023 EFFECTORS OF RAF. 3461 02:34:14,023 --> 02:34:18,494 AND THEY CAN DIRECTLY INTERACT 3462 02:34:18,494 --> 02:34:21,464 RAS, FIRST IT RECRUITS THE RAF 3463 02:34:21,464 --> 02:34:23,732 KINASES TO THE PLASMA MEMBRANE, 3464 02:34:23,732 --> 02:34:27,036 PROMOTES THE RELEASE OF THE 3465 02:34:27,036 --> 02:34:29,605 AUTOINHIBITED STATE AND RESULTS 3466 02:34:29,605 --> 02:34:34,643 IN RAF DIMERIZATION WHICH WE 3467 02:34:34,643 --> 02:34:37,780 KNOW IS ESSENTIAL IN MOST 3468 02:34:37,780 --> 02:34:41,383 INSTANCES FOR RAF TO BECOME AN 3469 02:34:41,383 --> 02:34:42,785 ACTIVE KINASE. 3470 02:34:42,785 --> 02:34:45,121 AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IN THE 3471 02:34:45,121 --> 02:34:47,223 REMAINING TIME IS TELL YOU A 3472 02:34:47,223 --> 02:34:48,524 LITTLE BIT ABOUT A RECENT 3473 02:34:48,524 --> 02:34:51,560 PROJECT THAT WE'VE DONE THAT I 3474 02:34:51,560 --> 02:34:52,695 THINK REALLY HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF 3475 02:34:52,695 --> 02:34:53,796 THE COLLABORATIONS THAT WE'VE 3476 02:34:53,796 --> 02:34:56,031 BEEN ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 3477 02:34:56,031 --> 02:34:58,334 HERE AT THE NIH. 3478 02:34:58,334 --> 02:35:01,170 AND ALSO, IT ALLOWED US TO 3479 02:35:01,170 --> 02:35:03,873 DOVETAIL IN AN EXCITING NEW 3480 02:35:03,873 --> 02:35:05,474 INITIATIVE, THAT'S ALSO GOING ON 3481 02:35:05,474 --> 02:35:06,842 AT NIH. 3482 02:35:06,842 --> 02:35:10,146 SO AS I SAID, BRAF IS ONE OF THE 3483 02:35:10,146 --> 02:35:12,581 RAF FAMILY MEMBERS THAT PLAYS A 3484 02:35:12,581 --> 02:35:16,185 ROLE IN HUMAN DISEASE STATE. 3485 02:35:16,185 --> 02:35:18,487 BOTH IN CANCER AND IN 3486 02:35:18,487 --> 02:35:19,088 RASOPATHYS. 3487 02:35:19,088 --> 02:35:21,790 WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT THE 3488 02:35:21,790 --> 02:35:23,125 CANCER ASSOCIATED BRAF MUTATIONS 3489 02:35:23,125 --> 02:35:25,427 HAVE BEEN FOUND TO OCCUR 3490 02:35:25,427 --> 02:35:28,697 PRIMARILY IN THE KINASE OR 3491 02:35:28,697 --> 02:35:29,865 CATALYTIC DOMAIN. 3492 02:35:29,865 --> 02:35:31,967 OFTEN STRONG GAIN OF FUNCTION. 3493 02:35:31,967 --> 02:35:37,573 AS A RESULT BECAUSE THEY ARE SO 3494 02:35:37,573 --> 02:35:38,174 ACTIVE, THEIR EMBRYONIC 3495 02:35:38,174 --> 02:35:39,441 (INDISCERNIBLE) IF YOU TRY TO 3496 02:35:39,441 --> 02:35:42,745 MAKE A MODEL. 3497 02:35:42,745 --> 02:35:43,412 RASOPATHY-ASSOCIATED MUTATIONS 3498 02:35:43,412 --> 02:35:45,381 TEND TO BE WEAKER GAIN OF 3499 02:35:45,381 --> 02:35:49,618 FUNCTION, OFTEN OBSERVED IN THE 3500 02:35:49,618 --> 02:35:51,887 N-TERMINAL REGULATORY DOMAIN, IN 3501 02:35:51,887 --> 02:35:55,991 PARTICULAR FOR RASOPATHYS, FOR 3502 02:35:55,991 --> 02:35:57,359 BRAF, CYSTEINE-RICH DOMAIN HAS 3503 02:35:57,359 --> 02:36:01,230 BEEN A UNIQUE HOT SPOT. 3504 02:36:01,230 --> 02:36:03,465 AND FOR THOSE MAYBE NOT SO 3505 02:36:03,465 --> 02:36:05,834 FAMILIAR WITH THE RASOPATHYS, 3506 02:36:05,834 --> 02:36:06,802 IT'S A DEVELOPMENTAL SYNDROME 3507 02:36:06,802 --> 02:36:09,004 AND THERE'S A GROUP OF THEM 3508 02:36:09,004 --> 02:36:09,939 LISTED HERE. 3509 02:36:09,939 --> 02:36:13,042 AND THEY ARE CAUSED BY GERMLINE 3510 02:36:13,042 --> 02:36:17,546 MUTATION IN MEMBERS OF THE RAS 3511 02:36:17,546 --> 02:36:22,918 OR RAS KINASE PATHWAY OCCUR IN 1 3512 02:36:22,918 --> 02:36:30,559 IN A THOUSAND TO 1 IN 2,000 LIVE 3513 02:36:30,559 --> 02:36:40,569 BIRTHS, FOR NOONAN 7% HAVE C RAF 3514 02:36:40,569 --> 02:36:41,604 MUTATION 3515 02:36:41,604 --> 02:36:44,406 70% IN CARDIO FASCIOCUTANEOUS. 3516 02:36:44,406 --> 02:36:49,345 THE RASOPATHYS CAN BE BROADLY 3517 02:36:49,345 --> 02:36:51,513 CHARACTERIZED BY DISTINCT 3518 02:36:51,513 --> 02:36:52,648 CRANIOFACIAL FEATURES, 3519 02:36:52,648 --> 02:36:54,016 CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS, 3520 02:36:54,016 --> 02:36:57,119 PATIENTS ARE OFTEN SHORT 3521 02:36:57,119 --> 02:36:58,854 STATURE, THEY HAVE LEARNING 3522 02:36:58,854 --> 02:37:03,259 DISABILITIES, AND INCREASED RISK 3523 02:37:03,259 --> 02:37:04,460 OF CERTAIN CHILDHOOD CANCERS. 3524 02:37:04,460 --> 02:37:08,163 SO I SAID THAT FOR BRAF, AGAIN 3525 02:37:08,163 --> 02:37:12,968 WHICH 71% OF PATIENTS WITH CFC 3526 02:37:12,968 --> 02:37:14,870 HAVE BRAF MUTATION, CRD IS A 3527 02:37:14,870 --> 02:37:15,971 PARTICULAR HOT SPOT. 3528 02:37:15,971 --> 02:37:19,508 WE WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS 3529 02:37:19,508 --> 02:37:21,010 THE BASIS FOR THIS. 3530 02:37:21,010 --> 02:37:24,480 AND SO JUST TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT 3531 02:37:24,480 --> 02:37:28,417 A CYSTEINE-RICH DOMAIN IS, IT IS 3532 02:37:28,417 --> 02:37:32,321 A SMALL, 15 AMINO ACID DOMAIN IN 3533 02:37:32,321 --> 02:37:34,323 PROTEINS, COORDINATE ZINC IONS, 3534 02:37:34,323 --> 02:37:36,358 TWO TYPES FOUND. 3535 02:37:36,358 --> 02:37:39,428 TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL. 3536 02:37:39,428 --> 02:37:42,131 AND A CLASSICAL TYPICAL C1 3537 02:37:42,131 --> 02:37:47,770 DOMAIN IS CONTAINED IN PROTEIN 3538 02:37:47,770 --> 02:37:51,106 KINASE C, BINDS. 3539 02:37:51,106 --> 02:37:53,475 ATYPICAL ONES, ATYPICAL IS THAT 3540 02:37:53,475 --> 02:37:55,544 THERE'S A TRUNCATION IN LOOP 2, 3541 02:37:55,544 --> 02:38:01,083 WHICH DOESN'T ALLOW THEM TO 3542 02:38:01,083 --> 02:38:02,718 INTERACT, BUT THE ATYPICAL 3543 02:38:02,718 --> 02:38:05,421 CRDs ARE OFTEN FOUND IN 3544 02:38:05,421 --> 02:38:06,422 SIGNALING MOLECULES, CAN 3545 02:38:06,422 --> 02:38:08,691 INTERACT WITH BOTH LIPIDS AND 3546 02:38:08,691 --> 02:38:11,527 PROTEINS, AND ARE OFTEN INVOLVED 3547 02:38:11,527 --> 02:38:17,299 IN REGULATING ACTIVITY AND 3548 02:38:17,299 --> 02:38:18,467 LOCALIZATION. 3549 02:38:18,467 --> 02:38:21,837 WHAT WE KNEW ABOUT THE RFA CRD 3550 02:38:21,837 --> 02:38:23,305 BEFORE WE STARTED THIS PROJECT 3551 02:38:23,305 --> 02:38:27,076 WAS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SHOWN 3552 02:38:27,076 --> 02:38:37,619 NOT TO BIND ESTER BUT INTERACT 3553 02:38:40,389 --> 02:38:43,859 WITH STERINE, AND RECENTLY 3554 02:38:43,859 --> 02:38:46,362 INTERACT CORRECTLY WITH RAS. 3555 02:38:46,362 --> 02:38:49,898 THESE FUNCTIONS OF CRD ARE 3556 02:38:49,898 --> 02:38:53,902 CRITICAL UNDER NORMAL SIGNALING 3557 02:38:53,902 --> 02:38:54,203 CONDITIONS. 3558 02:38:54,203 --> 02:39:01,777 BUT IT'S SURPRISING THAT THE CRD 3559 02:39:01,777 --> 02:39:04,646 PLAYS A ROLE IN RAF 3560 02:39:04,646 --> 02:39:07,516 AUTOINHIBITION AS WELL. 3561 02:39:07,516 --> 02:39:09,151 CRD IS IN MAGENTA. 3562 02:39:09,151 --> 02:39:15,090 IT FITS THERE AT THE CENTER OF 3563 02:39:15,090 --> 02:39:17,259 THE AUTOINHIBITED COMPLEX, MAKES 3564 02:39:17,259 --> 02:39:26,034 CONTEXT WITH KINASE DOMAIN AND 3565 02:39:26,034 --> 02:39:28,003 BOTH PROTOMERS OF THE DIMER 3566 02:39:28,003 --> 02:39:29,772 WHAT IS THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE 3567 02:39:29,772 --> 02:39:31,306 AND HOW DID THEY INTEGRATE? 3568 02:39:31,306 --> 02:39:33,041 ONE IS A POSITIVE, ONE IS A 3569 02:39:33,041 --> 02:39:36,211 NEGATIVE, HELPING TO KEEP IT 3570 02:39:36,211 --> 02:39:37,713 EITHER QUIESCENT OR PROMOTING 3571 02:39:37,713 --> 02:39:38,113 ACTIVATION. 3572 02:39:38,113 --> 02:39:44,386 AND WE ALSO WANTED TO KNOW DOO 3573 02:39:44,386 --> 02:39:48,090 RASOPATHY MUTATIONS ALTER THESE 3574 02:39:48,090 --> 02:39:48,490 MUTATIONS. 3575 02:39:48,490 --> 02:39:50,592 SO FOR OUR MUTATIONS WE SELECTED 3576 02:39:50,592 --> 02:39:53,328 A PANEL OF THEM. 3577 02:39:53,328 --> 02:39:54,730 AND ACTUALLY SEVERAL OF THE 3578 02:39:54,730 --> 02:39:57,266 PANEL WERE IN A REGION THAT'S 3579 02:39:57,266 --> 02:39:59,001 KNOWN AS LOOP 1. 3580 02:39:59,001 --> 02:40:01,203 THAT'S ABOUT 11% OF THE 3581 02:40:01,203 --> 02:40:02,271 MUTATIONS CLUSTER IN AND AROUND 3582 02:40:02,271 --> 02:40:03,505 LOOP 1. 3583 02:40:03,505 --> 02:40:06,341 THOSE ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN ORANGE. 3584 02:40:06,341 --> 02:40:09,511 BUT THE ADDITIONAL ONES THAT 3585 02:40:09,511 --> 02:40:10,946 YOU'LL SEE ARE SCATTERED 3586 02:40:10,946 --> 02:40:12,047 THROUGHOUT THE DOMAIN. 3587 02:40:12,047 --> 02:40:14,283 WHAT THEY TEND TO DO IS ADD A 3588 02:40:14,283 --> 02:40:19,121 POSITIVE CHARGE TO THE DOMAIN. 3589 02:40:19,121 --> 02:40:22,357 IN PARTICULAR, THE Q2 57R 3590 02:40:22,357 --> 02:40:27,029 ACCOUNTS FOR 67% OF THE CRD 3591 02:40:27,029 --> 02:40:29,498 MUTATIONS IN THE RASOPATHY. 3592 02:40:29,498 --> 02:40:35,938 AND SO WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS 3593 02:40:35,938 --> 02:40:45,180 ASK DO THEY ALTER THE FUNCTION. 3594 02:40:45,180 --> 02:40:47,216 CLEARLY I DON'T KNOW IF THIS 3595 02:40:47,216 --> 02:40:52,821 IS -- SO WE JUST WANTED TO LOOK 3596 02:40:52,821 --> 02:40:55,491 AT THE PANEL WITH THE DIFFERENT 3597 02:40:55,491 --> 02:40:58,760 ACTIVITIES THAT WE KNEW. 3598 02:40:58,760 --> 02:41:00,729 FIRST WAS PS BINDING. 3599 02:41:00,729 --> 02:41:04,766 SHOULD I BE POINTING AT 3600 02:41:04,766 --> 02:41:05,033 SOMETHING? 3601 02:41:05,033 --> 02:41:14,877 IT'S JUST NOT -- YEAH, MAYBE. 3602 02:41:14,877 --> 02:41:19,581 IF I CAN DO THAT MAYBE I HAVE 3603 02:41:19,581 --> 02:41:20,549 ADVANCE THIS DAY. 3604 02:41:20,549 --> 02:41:22,117 TO LOOK AT LIPID BINDING THIS 3605 02:41:22,117 --> 02:41:23,519 WAS A COLLABORATION WITH ANDY 3606 02:41:23,519 --> 02:41:27,222 STEVENS AT THE RAS INITIATIVE, 3607 02:41:27,222 --> 02:41:30,492 WE USED SURFACE PLASMA RESONANCE 3608 02:41:30,492 --> 02:41:31,493 BINDING. 3609 02:41:31,493 --> 02:41:35,330 AND SO WE COUPLED LIPO SENSOR TO 3610 02:41:35,330 --> 02:41:37,933 THE SURFACE, FLOWED OVER, 3611 02:41:37,933 --> 02:41:39,234 PURIFIED CRD, WILDTYPE OR 3612 02:41:39,234 --> 02:41:41,670 MUTANTS, WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE 3613 02:41:41,670 --> 02:41:49,378 IS THAT IF WE HAD 3614 02:41:49,378 --> 02:41:50,078 PHOSPHO-SERRINE WOULD SEE 3615 02:41:50,078 --> 02:41:55,717 BINDING, AT THE CONTROL 3616 02:41:55,717 --> 02:41:59,321 LIPOSOMES WERE 100% CONTAINED NO 3617 02:41:59,321 --> 02:42:00,856 STEERENE WE SAW VERY LITTLE 3618 02:42:00,856 --> 02:42:01,223 BINDING. 3619 02:42:01,223 --> 02:42:05,594 WE BEGAN TO LOOK AT MUTANTS, 3620 02:42:05,594 --> 02:42:15,437 LOOP 1 VERY ALSO EFFECT ON PS 3621 02:42:15,437 --> 02:42:20,842 BINDING -- VERY LITTLE EFFECT ON 3622 02:42:20,842 --> 02:42:22,077 PS BINDING. 3623 02:42:22,077 --> 02:42:25,714 IF WE STEPPED BACK AND LOOK AT 3624 02:42:25,714 --> 02:42:28,450 STRUCTURE, THIS IS IN 3625 02:42:28,450 --> 02:42:30,018 ELECTROSTATIC SURFACE DEPICTION, 3626 02:42:30,018 --> 02:42:32,721 JUST THE CRD, WE'RE LOOKING AT 3627 02:42:32,721 --> 02:42:36,425 THE MEMBRANE BINDING VIEW, 3628 02:42:36,425 --> 02:42:37,993 THERE'S HYDROPHOBIC POCKET, WHAT 3629 02:42:37,993 --> 02:42:41,897 YOU SEE WITH THESE PUTTING IN 3630 02:42:41,897 --> 02:42:44,633 THESE BASIC RESIDUES, THEN 3631 02:42:44,633 --> 02:42:47,302 SURFACE BECOMES MORE POSITIVELY 3632 02:42:47,302 --> 02:42:47,536 CHARGED. 3633 02:42:47,536 --> 02:42:50,439 AND ALSO SHOWING SIDE VIEW, YOU 3634 02:42:50,439 --> 02:42:52,207 GET THESE BASIC PATCHES BUT THEY 3635 02:42:52,207 --> 02:42:54,242 ARE EXTENDING OUT. 3636 02:42:54,242 --> 02:42:57,012 SO WE THINK THIS ADDING THESE 3637 02:42:57,012 --> 02:42:59,648 POSITIVE CHARGES WOULD BE 3638 02:42:59,648 --> 02:43:02,217 CONDUCIVE FOR INTERACTIONS WITH 3639 02:43:02,217 --> 02:43:04,152 NEGATIVELY CHARGED PLASMA 3640 02:43:04,152 --> 02:43:04,419 MEMBRANE. 3641 02:43:04,419 --> 02:43:05,487 SO THAT MADE SENSE. 3642 02:43:05,487 --> 02:43:11,026 NOW WE WANTED TO LOOK AT EFFECTS 3643 02:43:11,026 --> 02:43:12,527 ON AUTOINHIBITION AND THOUGHT IT 3644 02:43:12,527 --> 02:43:14,229 WAS IMPORTANT TO DO IN THE CELL. 3645 02:43:14,229 --> 02:43:18,800 WE NEEDED TO KNOW HOW IT WAS 3646 02:43:18,800 --> 02:43:19,835 AFFECTING AUTOINHIBITION IN THE 3647 02:43:19,835 --> 02:43:21,003 CONTEXT OF EVERYTHING GOING ON 3648 02:43:21,003 --> 02:43:22,671 IN THE CELL. 3649 02:43:22,671 --> 02:43:26,375 RUSSELL SPENCER SMITH, A 3650 02:43:26,375 --> 02:43:28,243 POSTDOC, DEVELOPED A PROXIMITY 3651 02:43:28,243 --> 02:43:34,316 BASED ASSAY TO DO THIS. 3652 02:43:34,316 --> 02:43:35,684 IT'S A BIOLUMINESCENCE ENERGY 3653 02:43:35,684 --> 02:43:37,386 TRANSFER BASED ON RESULTS WE HAD 3654 02:43:37,386 --> 02:43:38,820 KNOWN FOR MANY YEARS IN THE 3655 02:43:38,820 --> 02:43:42,024 FIELD, IF YOU JUST EXPRESS THE 3656 02:43:42,024 --> 02:43:45,961 ISOLATE THE BRAF KINASE DOMAIN 3657 02:43:45,961 --> 02:43:47,796 IT CAN FORM CONSTITUATIVE DIMERS 3658 02:43:47,796 --> 02:43:50,232 AND SIGNAL TO MEK. 3659 02:43:50,232 --> 02:43:53,702 IF YOU EXPRESS THE ISOLATED 3660 02:43:53,702 --> 02:43:56,471 REGULATORY DOMAIN, IT COULD BIND 3661 02:43:56,471 --> 02:44:00,342 AND ACT TO BLOCK THE ACTIVITY OF 3662 02:44:00,342 --> 02:44:02,044 THE ISOLATED KINASE DOMAIN. 3663 02:44:02,044 --> 02:44:06,214 SO WE WONDERED IF WE TAGGED EACH 3664 02:44:06,214 --> 02:44:08,216 OF THOSE ISOLATED DOMAINS WITH A 3665 02:44:08,216 --> 02:44:10,819 TAG THAT IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT 3666 02:44:10,819 --> 02:44:13,789 COULD SERVE AS ENERGY DONOR AND 3667 02:44:13,789 --> 02:44:16,692 ENERGY ACCEPTOR, WOULD WE SEE A 3668 02:44:16,692 --> 02:44:20,095 SIGNAL THAT REFLECTED 3669 02:44:20,095 --> 02:44:20,996 AUTOINHIBITION? 3670 02:44:20,996 --> 02:44:24,566 SHOWN HERE AS WE DID INCREASING 3671 02:44:24,566 --> 02:44:25,567 AMOUNTS OF THE REGULATORY 3672 02:44:25,567 --> 02:44:27,202 DOMAIN, HOLDING THE KINASE 3673 02:44:27,202 --> 02:44:29,404 DOMAIN CONSTANT, YOU CAN SEE 3674 02:44:29,404 --> 02:44:34,576 WE'RE SEEING AN INCREASE IN BRET 3675 02:44:34,576 --> 02:44:35,811 SIGNAL THAT CORRELATES WITH 3676 02:44:35,811 --> 02:44:40,382 EXPRESSION OF SIGNALING TO THE 3677 02:44:40,382 --> 02:44:41,616 DOWNSTREAM SUBSTRATE MEK. 3678 02:44:41,616 --> 02:44:44,286 SO THIS WAS GREAT NEWS. 3679 02:44:44,286 --> 02:44:46,621 WE CAN DETECT AUTOINHIBITION. 3680 02:44:46,621 --> 02:44:49,825 WELL, NEXT IMPORTANT THING CAN 3681 02:44:49,825 --> 02:44:52,561 WE DETECT DISRUPTION OF 3682 02:44:52,561 --> 02:44:53,328 AUTOINHIBITION? 3683 02:44:53,328 --> 02:44:54,730 FOR THIS WE STARTED WITH ONE 3684 02:44:54,730 --> 02:44:57,332 THING WE THOUGHT WOULD BE AN 3685 02:44:57,332 --> 02:44:58,133 OBVIOUS CONTROL. 3686 02:44:58,133 --> 02:45:02,337 WHAT IF WE PUT IN AN ACTIVATED 3687 02:45:02,337 --> 02:45:02,871 RAF? 3688 02:45:02,871 --> 02:45:05,640 THAT SHOULD RECRUIT THE RBD AND 3689 02:45:05,640 --> 02:45:11,113 PULL THE REGULATORY DOMAIN AWAY 3690 02:45:11,113 --> 02:45:11,980 FROM THE KINASE DOMAIN. 3691 02:45:11,980 --> 02:45:14,783 THAT'S WHAT WE SAW. 3692 02:45:14,783 --> 02:45:17,652 ABOUT A 50% REDUCTION IN BRET 3693 02:45:17,652 --> 02:45:18,954 SIGNAL. 3694 02:45:18,954 --> 02:45:21,256 WE DID ANOTHER CONTROL, 3695 02:45:21,256 --> 02:45:25,460 INCORPORATING V600E ONE OF THE 3696 02:45:25,460 --> 02:45:28,296 MOST TRANSFORMING OR ONCOGENIC 3697 02:45:28,296 --> 02:45:29,164 CANCER-ASSOCIATED BRAF 3698 02:45:29,164 --> 02:45:29,531 MUTATIONS. 3699 02:45:29,531 --> 02:45:34,302 AND WHAT WE ALSO FOUND WAS, YES, 3700 02:45:34,302 --> 02:45:35,470 IT ALSO DISRUPTED 3701 02:45:35,470 --> 02:45:36,037 AUTOINHIBITION. 3702 02:45:36,037 --> 02:45:40,208 WHEN WE LOOKED AT MUTANTS IT WAS 3703 02:45:40,208 --> 02:45:42,544 A BIT SURPRISING, ALL THEM 3704 02:45:42,544 --> 02:45:43,812 DISRUPTED ON AUTOINHIBITION 3705 02:45:43,812 --> 02:45:50,185 EXCEPT ONE, THAT WAS THE E275K, 3706 02:45:50,185 --> 02:45:53,021 ABOUT THE TIME WE GOT THE 3707 02:45:53,021 --> 02:45:54,756 STRUCTURE OR FIRST CryoEM 3708 02:45:54,756 --> 02:45:56,491 STRUCTURES, AND WHEN WE STARTED 3709 02:45:56,491 --> 02:45:58,860 LOOKING AT THE STRUCTURES AND 3710 02:45:58,860 --> 02:46:01,163 WHERE THE CRD LAY, IT MADE ALL 3711 02:46:01,163 --> 02:46:04,299 THE SENSE IN THE WORLD BECAUSE 3712 02:46:04,299 --> 02:46:10,138 ALL OF THE POINT MUTATIONS THAT 3713 02:46:10,138 --> 02:46:11,573 DISRUPTED AUTOINHIBITION HAD -- 3714 02:46:11,573 --> 02:46:13,675 WERE INTERACTING AND MAKING 3715 02:46:13,675 --> 02:46:18,513 CRITICAL INTERACTIONS THAT 3716 02:46:18,513 --> 02:46:20,048 HELPED HOLD THE AUTOINHIBITION 3717 02:46:20,048 --> 02:46:22,384 CONFIRMATION TOGETHER. 3718 02:46:22,384 --> 02:46:24,653 WHEN WE LOOKED AT E275 WHERE IT 3719 02:46:24,653 --> 02:46:27,155 LAY, IT'S LIKE OUT THERE WAVING 3720 02:46:27,155 --> 02:46:28,123 IN THE WIND. 3721 02:46:28,123 --> 02:46:31,226 AND SO IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT 3722 02:46:31,226 --> 02:46:32,394 JUST CHANGING THAT RESIDUE IN 3723 02:46:32,394 --> 02:46:36,765 SIDE CHAINS WOULDN'T HAVE EFFECT 3724 02:46:36,765 --> 02:46:38,333 ON AUTOINHIBITION. 3725 02:46:38,333 --> 02:46:38,667 OKAY. 3726 02:46:38,667 --> 02:46:42,838 SO NOW WHAT ABOUT RAS BINDING? 3727 02:46:42,838 --> 02:46:45,640 SO, WE THEN WENT AND CONTINUED 3728 02:46:45,640 --> 02:46:46,908 TO THINKING IT WAS VERY 3729 02:46:46,908 --> 02:46:48,844 IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THIS IN THE 3730 02:46:48,844 --> 02:46:50,812 CONTEXT OF THE CELL. 3731 02:46:50,812 --> 02:46:53,248 AND WE HAD ALSO DEVELOPED 3732 02:46:53,248 --> 02:47:00,555 ANOTHER -- THIS IS TRADITIONAL 3733 02:47:00,555 --> 02:47:04,960 BRET ASSAYS TAGGING VENOUS TO 3734 02:47:04,960 --> 02:47:07,195 KRAS OR THE LOOP, IF THEY ARE 3735 02:47:07,195 --> 02:47:10,699 ABLE TO BIND AN ACTIVATED KRAS 3736 02:47:10,699 --> 02:47:13,435 WE SHOULD SEE A SIGNAL. 3737 02:47:13,435 --> 02:47:16,371 WE ACTUALLY DID A TITRATION 3738 02:47:16,371 --> 02:47:18,740 CURVE AND WE INCORPORATED A 3739 02:47:18,740 --> 02:47:21,943 KNOWN MUTATION IN THE RVD THAT 3740 02:47:21,943 --> 02:47:23,111 COULD DISRUPT BINDING. 3741 02:47:23,111 --> 02:47:25,814 IN CONTEXT OF FULL LENGTH 3742 02:47:25,814 --> 02:47:27,449 PROTEIN, BINDING TO RAS, THIS IS 3743 02:47:27,449 --> 02:47:30,285 GOING TO BE SUBJECT TO EFFECTS 3744 02:47:30,285 --> 02:47:33,521 ON AUTOINHIBITION AS WELL AS TO 3745 02:47:33,521 --> 02:47:36,658 CHANGES IN MEMBRANE BINDING. 3746 02:47:36,658 --> 02:47:38,894 WHAT WE OBSERVED WAS THAT YOU 3747 02:47:38,894 --> 02:47:41,930 SEE LITTLE INCREASE IN RAS 3748 02:47:41,930 --> 02:47:46,368 BINDING IF AUTOINHIBITION IS NOT 3749 02:47:46,368 --> 02:47:46,801 RELIEVED. 3750 02:47:46,801 --> 02:47:50,939 SO FOR THE MUTANT, E2 75K WHERE 3751 02:47:50,939 --> 02:47:59,214 AUTOINHIBITION WAS A FINE 3752 02:47:59,214 --> 02:47:59,414 BUNCH. 3753 02:47:59,414 --> 02:48:02,450 THE OTHERS WHERE AUTOINHIBITION 3754 02:48:02,450 --> 02:48:04,386 IS RELEASED BINDING IS HIGHER 3755 02:48:04,386 --> 02:48:06,421 LEVEL, HIGHER AFFINITY AS WELL, 3756 02:48:06,421 --> 02:48:10,158 AT THE TOP OF THE LIST ARE THE 3757 02:48:10,158 --> 02:48:12,560 ONES THAT HAVE INCREASED 3758 02:48:12,560 --> 02:48:13,528 BINDING. 3759 02:48:13,528 --> 02:48:16,698 IF YOU CAN GET -- CAN OPEN AND 3760 02:48:16,698 --> 02:48:18,333 GET TO RAS, THEN THE ADVANTAGE 3761 02:48:18,333 --> 02:48:20,669 IS GIVEN TO YOU WITH BEING ABLE 3762 02:48:20,669 --> 02:48:28,376 TO HAVE A TIGHTER BINDING. 3763 02:48:28,376 --> 02:48:30,278 THIS IS A SUMMARY OF WHAT 3764 02:48:30,278 --> 02:48:30,912 MUTATIONS DO. 3765 02:48:30,912 --> 02:48:34,215 WE'VE KIND OF BEEN ABLE TO 3766 02:48:34,215 --> 02:48:36,451 CATEGORIZE HOW THEY AFFECTED 3767 02:48:36,451 --> 02:48:38,620 FUNCTIONS OF CRD BUT HOW DOES 3768 02:48:38,620 --> 02:48:41,823 THIS PLAY TOGETHER IN TERMS OF 3769 02:48:41,823 --> 02:48:43,858 THE BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF BRAF? 3770 02:48:43,858 --> 02:48:48,530 AND WE FIRST JUST DID A VERY 3771 02:48:48,530 --> 02:48:50,498 STANDARD, YOU KNOW, ASSAY IN 3772 02:48:50,498 --> 02:48:53,601 MAMMALIAN CELLS, LOOKED AT CELL 3773 02:48:53,601 --> 02:48:56,705 GROWTH, FOCUSED ASSAYS, AND 3774 02:48:56,705 --> 02:48:58,440 LOOKED AT SIGNALING DOWNSTREAM, 3775 02:48:58,440 --> 02:49:04,145 ABILITY TO ACTIVATE MEK BY 3776 02:49:04,145 --> 02:49:05,981 MEASURING p-MEK LEVELS, THEY 3777 02:49:05,981 --> 02:49:07,382 HAVE ELEVATED ACTIVITY ABOVE 3778 02:49:07,382 --> 02:49:11,353 WILD TYPE BUT WHAT'S NOTICEABLE 3779 02:49:11,353 --> 02:49:14,589 IS THAT THEY E275K THE GUY WHO 3780 02:49:14,589 --> 02:49:18,893 CAN ONLY -- HAS HIGHER BINDING 3781 02:49:18,893 --> 02:49:20,061 AFFINITY BUT DOESN'T RELIEVE 3782 02:49:20,061 --> 02:49:20,996 AUTOINHIBITION IS THE WEAKEST OF 3783 02:49:20,996 --> 02:49:24,099 ALL OF THE OTHER MUTANTS. 3784 02:49:24,099 --> 02:49:27,002 SO WE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT 3785 02:49:27,002 --> 02:49:29,871 ACTUALLY TO TRY TO GET INTO A 3786 02:49:29,871 --> 02:49:31,506 SYSTEM WHICH WOULD BE MORE 3787 02:49:31,506 --> 02:49:36,945 RELATABLE TO THE PATIENT. 3788 02:49:36,945 --> 02:49:38,380 WHAT PATIENTS WITH EXPERIENCING, 3789 02:49:38,380 --> 02:49:45,954 WORKING WITH NCI AND FREDERICK 3790 02:49:45,954 --> 02:49:49,357 AND BIGGER LABORATORY, TO 3791 02:49:49,357 --> 02:49:51,026 ESTABLISH SOME ASSAYS IN 3792 02:49:51,026 --> 02:49:55,063 ZEBRAFISH, MODEL SYSTEM OF 3793 02:49:55,063 --> 02:49:55,764 ZEBRAFISH, THAT WOULD 3794 02:49:55,764 --> 02:49:58,400 RECAPITULATE SOME THINGS SEEN IN 3795 02:49:58,400 --> 02:49:59,901 THE RASOPATHY PATIENTS. 3796 02:49:59,901 --> 02:50:05,740 SO, WE INJECT THE PROTEINS OR 3797 02:50:05,740 --> 02:50:07,942 RNA INTO THE ZEBRAFISH AT THE 3798 02:50:07,942 --> 02:50:11,713 ONE CELL STAIN, ONE DAY 3799 02:50:11,713 --> 02:50:16,484 POST-FERTILIZATION LOOK AT -- 3800 02:50:16,484 --> 02:50:18,953 MEASURE EMBRYS, AXES, LOOKING 3801 02:50:18,953 --> 02:50:21,790 FOR DEFECTS IN CONVERGENT 3802 02:50:21,790 --> 02:50:24,826 EXTENSION MOVEMENTS REFLECTIVE 3803 02:50:24,826 --> 02:50:27,595 IN GETTING OBLONG EMBRYOS. 3804 02:50:27,595 --> 02:50:30,498 WE ALSO INJECTED AND LOOKED AT 3805 02:50:30,498 --> 02:50:32,400 THREE DAYS POST-FERTILIZATION, 3806 02:50:32,400 --> 02:50:34,269 WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE HEART 3807 02:50:34,269 --> 02:50:36,604 EDEMA THAT MANY OF THE RASOPATHY 3808 02:50:36,604 --> 02:50:38,540 PATIENTS HAVE. 3809 02:50:38,540 --> 02:50:43,611 AND FINALLY WE ALSO LOOK AT 3810 02:50:43,611 --> 02:50:46,815 ANGLE OF THE CARTILAGE WHICH IS 3811 02:50:46,815 --> 02:50:50,318 A DIRECT MEASURE, INDICATIVE OF 3812 02:50:50,318 --> 02:50:52,520 GETTING INCREASED HEAD WIDTH AND 3813 02:50:52,520 --> 02:50:54,989 EYE SPACING, CHARACTERISTICS OF 3814 02:50:54,989 --> 02:50:56,558 THESE PATIENTS. 3815 02:50:56,558 --> 02:50:57,892 AND SO WE TOOK REPRESENTATIVE 3816 02:50:57,892 --> 02:51:00,395 FROM EACH OF OUR KIND OF CLASSES 3817 02:51:00,395 --> 02:51:02,997 OF THESE MUTANTS, AND WHAT YOU 3818 02:51:02,997 --> 02:51:08,336 CAN SEE HERE IS THAT MUTATIONS 3819 02:51:08,336 --> 02:51:09,637 THAT RELIEVE AUTOINHIBITION SHOW 3820 02:51:09,637 --> 02:51:11,239 GREATEST INCREASE IN CONVERGENT 3821 02:51:11,239 --> 02:51:12,207 EXTENSION MOVEMENTS SO THESE 3822 02:51:12,207 --> 02:51:16,945 CELLS ARE MOVING MORE THAN THEY 3823 02:51:16,945 --> 02:51:22,750 REALLY SHOULD DURING 3824 02:51:22,750 --> 02:51:23,585 GASTRILATION. 3825 02:51:23,585 --> 02:51:25,720 IF WE LOOK AT HEART EDEMA 3826 02:51:25,720 --> 02:51:35,964 MUTANTS THAT RELIEVE 3827 02:51:35,964 --> 02:51:36,598 AUTOINHIBITION INCREASE, CLEARLY 3828 02:51:36,598 --> 02:51:41,769 DIFFERENT, NOT AS SEVERE AS WITH 3829 02:51:41,769 --> 02:51:43,805 THE OTHER TWO. 3830 02:51:43,805 --> 02:51:46,040 WHEN WE LOOK AT ANGLE OF THE 3831 02:51:46,040 --> 02:51:50,879 CARTILAGE YOU CAN SEE FOR THE 3832 02:51:50,879 --> 02:51:52,247 E275K IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN 3833 02:51:52,247 --> 02:51:53,248 WILD TYPE. 3834 02:51:53,248 --> 02:51:56,184 FOR THE OTHER TWO WITH RELIEF 3835 02:51:56,184 --> 02:51:59,287 AND AUTOINHIBITION YOU'RE SEEING 3836 02:51:59,287 --> 02:52:01,389 A WIDENING OF THAT ANGLE. 3837 02:52:01,389 --> 02:52:02,557 AND THIS WAS ACTUALLY EXCITING 3838 02:52:02,557 --> 02:52:04,626 TO US BECAUSE WE WENT AND 3839 02:52:04,626 --> 02:52:04,959 LOOKED. 3840 02:52:04,959 --> 02:52:09,464 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PATIENT 3841 02:52:09,464 --> 02:52:11,099 DATA FOR THE RASOPATHY PATIENTS 3842 02:52:11,099 --> 02:52:13,067 BUT THERE'S SOME. 3843 02:52:13,067 --> 02:52:16,337 IN PARTICULAR, FOR THIS, E275K, 3844 02:52:16,337 --> 02:52:18,072 ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING 3845 02:52:18,072 --> 02:52:20,608 DOWN HERE WITH THE WIDE-SET 3846 02:52:20,608 --> 02:52:22,911 EYES, IT'S REFLECTIVE OF WHAT WE 3847 02:52:22,911 --> 02:52:29,551 SAW IN THE ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS. 3848 02:52:29,551 --> 02:52:31,519 IT'S A LESS SEVERE DISEASE, IN 3849 02:52:31,519 --> 02:52:33,288 THIS ONE PATIENT, THERE'S ONE 3850 02:52:33,288 --> 02:52:35,356 OTHER PATIENT THAT HAS BEEN 3851 02:52:35,356 --> 02:52:37,692 REPORTED RECENTLY ALTHOUGH WE 3852 02:52:37,692 --> 02:52:39,260 DON'T HAVE MORE INFORMATION 3853 02:52:39,260 --> 02:52:43,998 ABOUT WHAT THEIR TRAITS ARE. 3854 02:52:43,998 --> 02:52:45,166 IT SEEMS ZEBRAFISH, WELL, 3855 02:52:45,166 --> 02:52:47,569 RESULTS IN THE ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS 3856 02:52:47,569 --> 02:52:50,738 ARE CORRELATING WELL WITH 3857 02:52:50,738 --> 02:52:52,874 PHENOTYPES OBSERVED IN PATIENTS. 3858 02:52:52,874 --> 02:52:57,645 AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE THINK 3859 02:52:57,645 --> 02:53:04,552 ACTUALLY TAKING THIS I GUESS 3860 02:53:04,552 --> 02:53:06,120 BIOCHEMICAL CELL, BIOLOGICAL, 3861 02:53:06,120 --> 02:53:09,524 STRUCTURAL APPROACH, HAS BEEN 3862 02:53:09,524 --> 02:53:12,594 VERY INFORMATIVE AND STUDYING 3863 02:53:12,594 --> 02:53:14,596 THESE DISEASE-ASSOCIATE MUTANTS 3864 02:53:14,596 --> 02:53:16,264 CAN GIVE IMPORTANT REGULATORY 3865 02:53:16,264 --> 02:53:16,564 INFORMATION. 3866 02:53:16,564 --> 02:53:18,533 AND I THINK IT'S INTERESTING TO 3867 02:53:18,533 --> 02:53:20,535 THINK ABOUT THIS IN CANCER WHEN 3868 02:53:20,535 --> 02:53:24,005 YOU REALLY NEED TO BE HITTING 3869 02:53:24,005 --> 02:53:26,074 THE CELL WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER, 3870 02:53:26,074 --> 02:53:28,409 THOSE MUTATIONS ACTIVATE THE 3871 02:53:28,409 --> 02:53:31,913 CATALYTIC ACTIVITY, YES, THEY 3872 02:53:31,913 --> 02:53:33,081 ALSO RELIEVE AUTOINHIBITION, BUT 3873 02:53:33,081 --> 02:53:34,148 WHILE THEY ARE SUCH STRONG 3874 02:53:34,148 --> 02:53:37,485 DRIVERS IS BECAUSE OF ENHANCED 3875 02:53:37,485 --> 02:53:38,953 CATALYTIC ACTIVITY, WHERE WHEN 3876 02:53:38,953 --> 02:53:41,356 YOU HAVE TO SLIGHTLY UPREGULATE 3877 02:53:41,356 --> 02:53:43,891 THE PATHWAY, IN ORDER TO 3878 02:53:43,891 --> 02:53:47,428 MAINTAIN LIFE, THESE MUTATIONS 3879 02:53:47,428 --> 02:53:48,363 ARE ACTUALLY IMPACTING 3880 02:53:48,363 --> 02:53:50,498 MECHANISMS THAT ARE KNOWN TO 3881 02:53:50,498 --> 02:53:57,105 KEEP THE PROTEIN IN A QUIESCENT 3882 02:53:57,105 --> 02:53:58,473 STATE WHEN SIGNALING IS NOT 3883 02:53:58,473 --> 02:53:58,873 GOING ON. 3884 02:53:58,873 --> 02:54:01,643 WE'RE EXCITED TO BE PART OF A 3885 02:54:01,643 --> 02:54:06,848 NEW INITIATIVE CALLED THE NCI 3886 02:54:06,848 --> 02:54:07,782 ADVANCING RASOPATHY THERAPY, 3887 02:54:07,782 --> 02:54:11,552 ART, BRINGING TOGETHER PEOPLE 3888 02:54:11,552 --> 02:54:17,358 FROM THE CLINICAL GENETICS, 3889 02:54:17,358 --> 02:54:19,394 PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY, NCI, NCI RAS 3890 02:54:19,394 --> 02:54:22,096 INITIATIVE TO IDENTIFY NEW 3891 02:54:22,096 --> 02:54:25,767 RASOPATHY MUTANTS SO LOOKING 3892 02:54:25,767 --> 02:54:28,403 FIRST AT PATIENT DATA AND SAYING 3893 02:54:28,403 --> 02:54:31,472 ARE THERE MUTATIONS IN SOME OF 3894 02:54:31,472 --> 02:54:33,141 THE KNOWN COMPONENTS THAT 3895 02:54:33,141 --> 02:54:34,309 CONTRIBUTE TO THE RASOPATHYS, 3896 02:54:34,309 --> 02:54:38,012 AND ANOTHER GOAL IS TO ANALYZE 3897 02:54:38,012 --> 02:54:40,315 THESE POTENTIAL NEW MUTANTS AND 3898 02:54:40,315 --> 02:54:41,749 DEVELOPMENT OF NEW THERAPIES. 3899 02:54:41,749 --> 02:54:44,118 I WANT TO SAY WE'VE ALREADY -- 3900 02:54:44,118 --> 02:54:45,486 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY 3901 02:54:45,486 --> 02:54:46,254 WORKING ON. 3902 02:54:46,254 --> 02:54:48,723 WE'VE STARTED WITH THIS ACTUALLY 3903 02:54:48,723 --> 02:54:52,093 LOOKING AT THE CRAF, ONE OF THE 3904 02:54:52,093 --> 02:54:54,262 OTHER MEMBERS OF THE RAS FAMILY 3905 02:54:54,262 --> 02:54:54,562 MEMBERS. 3906 02:54:54,562 --> 02:54:57,632 WE'VE ANALYZED THE PATIENT DATA, 3907 02:54:57,632 --> 02:55:00,435 AND WE FOUND ACTUALLY A COUPLE 3908 02:55:00,435 --> 02:55:01,969 POTENTIAL CLUSTERS, NOW IN THE 3909 02:55:01,969 --> 02:55:04,405 PROCESS OF ANALYZING THESE. 3910 02:55:04,405 --> 02:55:08,376 AGAIN, IT'S INTERESTING, 3911 02:55:08,376 --> 02:55:10,378 REINFORCES THE IDEA THAT BECAUSE 3912 02:55:10,378 --> 02:55:12,246 WHERE THESE CLUSTERS LIE ARE IN 3913 02:55:12,246 --> 02:55:16,617 RESIDUES WE KNOW ARE CRITICAL 3914 02:55:16,617 --> 02:55:17,652 FOR DOWNREGULATING PATHWAY UNDER 3915 02:55:17,652 --> 02:55:21,723 NORMAL GROWTH CONDITIONS. 3916 02:55:21,723 --> 02:55:24,892 WE THINK THE RASOPATHYS, YOU'RE 3917 02:55:24,892 --> 02:55:27,428 SUBVERTING SOMETHING THAT 3918 02:55:27,428 --> 02:55:28,062 NORMALLY KEEPS IT SUPPRESSED, 3919 02:55:28,062 --> 02:55:31,199 NOT AS, YOU KNOW, A CATALYTIC 3920 02:55:31,199 --> 02:55:32,066 ACTIVATION. 3921 02:55:32,066 --> 02:55:35,069 SO THERE'S REALLY A DIFFERENCE 3922 02:55:35,069 --> 02:55:35,370 THERE. 3923 02:55:35,370 --> 02:55:38,773 A COUPLE YEARS AGO WE CONDUCTED 3924 02:55:38,773 --> 02:55:40,675 A HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREEN USING 3925 02:55:40,675 --> 02:55:43,144 OUR LIVE CELL ASSAYS, IN 3926 02:55:43,144 --> 02:55:44,579 COLLABORATION WITH MOLECULAR 3927 02:55:44,579 --> 02:55:46,247 TARGETS PROGRAM IN FREDERICK, 3928 02:55:46,247 --> 02:55:48,449 AND THEIR LARGE AND DIVERSE 3929 02:55:48,449 --> 02:55:50,952 LIBRARY OF NATURAL PRODUCTS. 3930 02:55:50,952 --> 02:55:53,321 WE'RE LOOKING FOR COMPOUNDS THAT 3931 02:55:53,321 --> 02:55:54,822 WOULD DISRUPT DIRECTLY OR 3932 02:55:54,822 --> 02:55:56,824 INDIRECTLY SOME OF THESE 3933 02:55:56,824 --> 02:56:03,731 CRITICAL PROTEIN INTERACTIONS 3934 02:56:03,731 --> 02:56:05,433 LIKE RAF, RAF BINDING, RAF 3935 02:56:05,433 --> 02:56:06,401 DIMERIZATION. 3936 02:56:06,401 --> 02:56:09,570 I WANT TO SHOW HOW WE'VE USED A 3937 02:56:09,570 --> 02:56:11,472 NATURAL PRODUCT INHIBITOR, AGAIN 3938 02:56:11,472 --> 02:56:13,841 SHOWING A MUTANT, AN N-RAS 3939 02:56:13,841 --> 02:56:16,544 MUTANT, REMEMBER RAS IS UPSTREAM 3940 02:56:16,544 --> 02:56:18,713 FROM RAF, WE KNOW SIGNAL 3941 02:56:18,713 --> 02:56:21,482 TRANSMISSION FROM A MUTANT RAF 3942 02:56:21,482 --> 02:56:22,750 DOES REQUIRE RAF DIMERIZATION. 3943 02:56:22,750 --> 02:56:26,354 AND YOU CAN SEE THAT EXPRESSION 3944 02:56:26,354 --> 02:56:29,791 OF THIS MUTANT IN THE ZEBRAFISH 3945 02:56:29,791 --> 02:56:31,592 EMBRYOS, YOU GET ELONGATED 3946 02:56:31,592 --> 02:56:32,293 EMBRYO. 3947 02:56:32,293 --> 02:56:34,762 AND IF WE TREAT THEM WITH THIS, 3948 02:56:34,762 --> 02:56:38,399 AS I CALL IT A RAF DIMER 3949 02:56:38,399 --> 02:56:39,901 DISRUPTER, WE CAN ACTUALLY 3950 02:56:39,901 --> 02:56:41,903 SUPPRESS THAT PHENOTYPE. 3951 02:56:41,903 --> 02:56:43,638 SO WE'RE STARTING TO SEE 3952 02:56:43,638 --> 02:56:43,938 SUPPRESSION. 3953 02:56:43,938 --> 02:56:47,275 IT'S TURNING OUT TO BE A VERY 3954 02:56:47,275 --> 02:56:49,610 RAPID WAY OF ASSESSING IF ANY OF 3955 02:56:49,610 --> 02:56:53,314 THESE NEW DRUGS OR NEW COMPOUNDS 3956 02:56:53,314 --> 02:56:57,018 MAY HAVE AN EFFECT ON SOME 3957 02:56:57,018 --> 02:56:58,953 RASOPATHY MUTANTS THAT ARE NOT 3958 02:56:58,953 --> 02:56:59,954 -- YOU KNOW, THEIR ACTIVITY 3959 02:56:59,954 --> 02:57:01,355 NEEDS TO BE DAMPENED DOWN. 3960 02:57:01,355 --> 02:57:03,724 IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE COMPLETELY 3961 02:57:03,724 --> 02:57:05,092 TURNED OFF. 3962 02:57:05,092 --> 02:57:06,494 JUST DAMPENED DOWN, YOU KNOW, TO 3963 02:57:06,494 --> 02:57:11,766 HELP SOME OF THESE PATIENTS. 3964 02:57:11,766 --> 02:57:12,800 I'D LIKE TO THANK -- THERE ARE 3965 02:57:12,800 --> 02:57:16,704 THE PEOPLE IN THE LAB THAT 3966 02:57:16,704 --> 02:57:18,206 HELPED, COLLABORATORS, AND LIKE 3967 02:57:18,206 --> 02:57:20,575 EVERYONE ELSE, I THINK I HAVE 3968 02:57:20,575 --> 02:57:25,446 TO -- A DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO 3969 02:57:25,446 --> 02:57:27,682 THE INSTITUTE BECAUSE WHAT WE'VE 3970 02:57:27,682 --> 02:57:29,984 ACCOMPLISHED OVER THE YEARS IS 3971 02:57:29,984 --> 02:57:32,720 REALLY REFLECTIVE OF A GROUP 3972 02:57:32,720 --> 02:57:34,188 OF -- A TEAM OF COLLABORATORS 3973 02:57:34,188 --> 02:57:36,224 I'VE BEEN ABLE TO WORK WITH WHO 3974 02:57:36,224 --> 02:57:37,558 HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RECEPTIVE, YOU 3975 02:57:37,558 --> 02:57:39,694 KNOW, TO SAYING, SURE, COME TO 3976 02:57:39,694 --> 02:57:42,930 OUR LAB, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE GLAD 3977 02:57:42,930 --> 02:57:44,465 TO HELP YOU DO THIS. 3978 02:57:44,465 --> 02:57:47,869 I'M REALLY GRATEFUL FOR HAVING 3979 02:57:47,869 --> 02:57:53,140 TO BE HERE, BASICALLY MY ENTIRE 3980 02:57:53,140 --> 02:57:55,343 CAREER AS AN INDEPENDENT 3981 02:57:55,343 --> 02:57:55,676 INVESTIGATOR. 3982 02:57:55,676 --> 02:57:58,379 SO THANK YOU. 3983 02:57:58,379 --> 02:57:58,646 [APPLAUSE] 3984 02:57:58,646 --> 02:58:04,385 3985 02:58:04,385 --> 02:58:04,685 3986 02:58:04,685 --> 02:58:07,922 >> THAT CONCLUDES THIS 3987 02:58:07,922 --> 02:58:09,123 PHENOMENAL SYMPOSIUM. 3988 02:58:09,123 --> 02:58:12,293 BEFORE I THANK THE SPEAKERS, I'M 3989 02:58:12,293 --> 02:58:14,762 GOING TO MAKE A SUGGESTION THAT 3990 02:58:14,762 --> 02:58:18,533 NEXT YEAR WE CALL THIS SYMPOSIUM 3991 02:58:18,533 --> 02:58:20,835 MYTH BUSTERS BECAUSE I THINK 3992 02:58:20,835 --> 02:58:23,037 WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, SKIN FLORA 3993 02:58:23,037 --> 02:58:28,676 CAN BE FRIEND AND FOE, WE'VE 3994 02:58:28,676 --> 02:58:30,378 LEARNED THAT YOU CAN BREAK DNA 3995 02:58:30,378 --> 02:58:33,080 IN THE COURSE OF MEIOSIS, AND 3996 02:58:33,080 --> 02:58:35,049 THEN USE THE MITOTIC APPARATUS 3997 02:58:35,049 --> 02:58:35,783 TO FIX IT. 3998 02:58:35,783 --> 02:58:38,553 WE'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN HAVE 3999 02:58:38,553 --> 02:58:41,355 A POST MITOTIC CELL, AND HAVE 4000 02:58:41,355 --> 02:58:45,760 DAMAGE DONE TO IT BY AN 4001 02:58:45,760 --> 02:58:49,664 ANTI-MITOTIC AGENT. 4002 02:58:49,664 --> 02:58:52,199 WE'VE LEARNED THAT THERE ARE 4003 02:58:52,199 --> 02:58:54,702 PATIENTS WHO HAVE ABERRATIONS OF 4004 02:58:54,702 --> 02:58:59,206 SORT OF GAIN OF FUNCTION 4005 02:58:59,206 --> 02:58:59,774 INFLAMMATORY ABERRATIONS OF 4006 02:58:59,774 --> 02:59:00,408 GAMMA INTERFERON. 4007 02:59:00,408 --> 02:59:02,877 AND YOU CAN GIVE THEM INTERFERON 4008 02:59:02,877 --> 02:59:04,045 TO MAKE THEM BETTER. 4009 02:59:04,045 --> 02:59:06,514 AND WE'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN 4010 02:59:06,514 --> 02:59:12,219 HAVE A PEPTIDE THAT INHIBITS THE 4011 02:59:12,219 --> 02:59:14,622 FUNCTION OF A SIGNAL 4012 02:59:14,622 --> 02:59:17,258 TRANSDUCTANT, AND IT CAN ALSO 4013 02:59:17,258 --> 02:59:19,694 ACTIVATE THAT SAME SIGNAL 4014 02:59:19,694 --> 02:59:20,995 TRANSDUCTANT AND SO I THINK 4015 02:59:20,995 --> 02:59:23,631 WE'VE LEARNED THAT THERE'S A LOT 4016 02:59:23,631 --> 02:59:26,100 MORE COMPLEXITY TO THE BIOLOGICS 4017 02:59:26,100 --> 02:59:27,935 SYSTEMS THAN WE EVER EXPECTED 4018 02:59:27,935 --> 02:59:30,805 AND I THANK ALL OF OUR 4019 02:59:30,805 --> 02:59:32,340 WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL SPEAKERS 4020 02:59:32,340 --> 02:59:34,342 FOR HELPING US UNDERSTAND THAT. 4021 02:59:34,342 --> 02:59:36,577 PLEASE JOIN ME IN CONGRATULATING 4022 02:59:36,577 --> 02:59:36,911 OUR SPEAKERS. 4023 02:59:36,911 --> 02:59:46,911 [APPLAUSE]