CARLOS ALBERTO MOREIRA FILHO
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Departamento de Pediatria, Faculdade de Medicina - Docente
LIM/36 - Laboratório de Pediatria Clínica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Líder
LIM/36 - Laboratório de Pediatria Clínica, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Líder
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- Age-related transcriptional modules and TF-miRNA-mRNA interactions in neonatal and infant human thymus(2020) BERTONHA, Fernanda Bernardi; BANDO, Silvia Yumi; FERREIRA, Leandro Rodrigues; CHACCUR, Paulo; VINHAS, Christiana; ZERBINI, Maria Claudia Nogueira; CARNEIRO-SAMPAIO, Magda Maria; MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos AlbertoThe human thymus suffers a transient neonatal involution, recovers and then starts a process of decline between the 1st and 2nd years of life. Age-related morphological changes in thymus were extensively investigated, but the genomic mechanisms underlying this process remain largely unknown. Through Weighted Gene Co-expression Network Analysis (WGCNA) and TF-miRNA-mRNA integrative analysis we studied the transcriptome of neonate and infant thymic tissues grouped by age: 0-30 days (A); 31 days-6 months (B); 7-12 months (C); 13-18 months (D); 19-31 months (E). Age-related transcriptional modules, hubs and high gene significance (HGS) genes were identified, as well as TF-miRNA-hub/HGS co-expression correlations. Three transcriptional modules were correlated with A and/or E groups. Hubs were mostly related to cellular/metabolic processes; few were differentially expressed (DE) or related to T-cell development. Inversely, HGS genes in groups A and E were mostly DE. In A (neonate) one third of the hyper-expressed HGS genes were related to T-cell development, against one-twentieth in E, what may correlate with the early neonatal depletion and recovery of thymic T-cell populations. This genomic mechanism is tightly regulated by TF-miRNA-hub/HGS interactions that differentially govern cellular and molecular processes involved in the functioning of the neonate thymus and in the beginning of thymic decline.
- Texture analysis of high resolution MRI allows discrimination between febrile and afebrile initial precipitating injury in mesial temporal sclerosis(2012) ALEGRO, Maryana de Carvalho; SILVA, Alexandre Valotta; BANDO, Silvia Yumi; LOPES, Roseli de Deus; CASTRO, Luiz Henrique Martins de; HUNGTSU, Wen; MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos Alberto; AMARO JR., EdsonA computational pipeline combining texture analysis and pattern classification algorithms was developed for investigating associations between high-resolution MRI features and histological data. This methodology was tested in the study of dentate gyrus images of sclerotic hippocampi resected from refractory epilepsy patients. Images were acquired using a simple surface coil in a 3.0T MRI scanner. All specimens were subsequently submitted to histological semiquantitative evaluation. The computational pipeline was applied for classifying pixels according to: a) dentate gyrus histological parameters and b) patients' febrile or afebrile initial precipitating insult history. The pipeline results for febrile and afebrile patients achieved 70% classification accuracy, with 78% sensitivity and 80% specificity [area under the reader observer characteristics (ROC) curve: 0.89]. The analysis of the histological data alone was not sufficient to achieve significant power to separate febrile and afebrile groups. Interesting enough, the results from our approach did not show significant correlation with histological parameters (which per se were not enough to classify patient groups). These results showed the potential of adding computational texture analysis together with classification methods for detecting subtle MRI signal differences, a method sufficient to provide good clinical classification. A wide range of applications of this pipeline can also be used in other areas of medical imaging. Magn Reson Med, 2012. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
conferenceObject TRISOMY 21-DRIVEN GENE EXPRESSION DYSREGULATION IN HUMAN THYMUS: CONVERGING GENOMIC AND EPIGENOMIC MECHANISMS(2016) MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos Alberto; BANDO, Silvia Yumi; BERTONHA, Fernanda Bernardi; SILVA, Filipi Nascimento; COSTA, Luciano da Fontoura; FEREIRA, Leandro Rodrigues; CARNEIRO-SAMPAIO, Magda- Hippocampal CA3 transcriptional modules associated with granule cell alterations and cognitive impairment in refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy patients(2021) BANDO, Silvia Yumi; BERTONHA, Fernanda Bernardi; PIMENTEL-SILVA, Luciana Ramalho; OLIVEIRA, Joao Gabriel Mansano de; CARNEIRO, Marco Antonio Duarte; OKU, Mariana Hiromi Manoel; WEN, Hung-Tzu; CASTRO, Luiz Henrique Martins; MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos AlbertoIn about a third of the patients with epilepsy the seizures are not drug-controlled. The current limitation of the antiepileptic drug therapy derives from an insufficient understanding of epilepsy pathophysiology. In order to overcome this situation, it is necessary to consider epilepsy as a disturbed network of interactions, instead of just looking for changes in single molecular components. Here, we studied CA3 transcriptional signatures and dentate gyrus histopathologic alterations in hippocampal explants surgically obtained from 57 RMTLE patients submitted to corticoamygdalohippocampectomy. By adopting a systems biology approach, integrating clinical, histopathological, and transcriptomic data (weighted gene co-expression network analysis), we were able to identify transcriptional modules highly correlated with age of disease onset, cognitive dysfunctions, and granule cell alterations. The enrichment analysis of transcriptional modules and the functional characterization of the highly connected genes in each trait-correlated module allowed us to unveil the modules' main biological functions, paving the way for further investigations on their roles in RMTLE pathophysiology. Moreover, we found 15 genes with high gene significance values which have the potential to become novel biomarkers and/or therapeutic targets in RMTLE.
- A hemolytic-uremic syndrome-associated strain O113:H21 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli specifically expresses a transcriptional module containing dicA and is related to gene network dysregulation in Caco-2 cells(2017) BANDO, Silvia Yumi; IAMASHITA, Priscila; GUTH, Beatriz E.; SANTOS, Luis F. dos; FUJITA, Andre; ABE, Cecilia M.; FERREIRA, Leandro R.; MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos AlbertoShiga toxin-producing (Stx) Escherichia coli (STEC) O113:H21 strains are associated with human diarrhea and some of these strains may cause hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). The molecular mechanism underlying this capacity and the differential host cell response to HUS-causing strains are not yet completely understood. In Brazil O113:H21 strains are commonly found in cattle but, so far, were not isolated from HUS patients. Here we conducted comparative gene co-expression network (GCN) analyses of two O113:H21 STEC strains:EH41, reference strain, isolated from HUS patient in Australia, and Ec472/01, isolated from cattle feces in Brazil. These strains were cultured in fresh or in Caco-2 cell conditioned media. GCN analyses were also accomplished for cultured Caco-2 cells exposed to EH41 or Ec472/01. Differential transcriptome profiles for EH41 and Ec472/01 were not significantly changed by exposure to fresh or Caco-2 conditioned media. Conversely, global gene expression comparison of both strains cultured in conditioned medium revealed a gene set exclusively expressed in EH41, which includes the dicA putative virulence factor regulator. Network analysis showed that this set of genes constitutes an EH41 specific transcriptional module. PCR analysis in Ec472/01 and in other 10 Brazilian cattle-isolated STEC strains revealed absence of dicA in all these strains. The GCNs of Caco-2 cells exposed to EH41 or to Ec472/01 presented a major transcriptional module containing many hubs related to inflammatory response that was not found in the GCN of control cells. Moreover, EH41 seems to cause gene network dysregulation in Caco-2 as evidenced by the large number of genes with high positive and negative covariance interactions. EH41 grows slowly than Ec472/01 when cultured in Caco-2 conditioned medium and fitness-related genes are hypoexpressed in that strain. Therefore, EH41 virulence may be derived from its capacity for dysregulating enterocyte genome functioning and its enhanced enteric survival due to slow growth.
conferenceObject Complete Transcriptional Network Driven-View of Thymic Hypofunction in Down Syndrome(2014) MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos Alberto; BANDO, Silvia Yumi; BERTONHA, Fernanda Bernardi; FEREIRA, Leandro Rodrigues; SILVA, Filipi Nascimento; COSTA, Luciano da Fontoura; GRASSI, Marcilia Sierro; CARNEIRO-SAMPAIO, Magdaarticle 16 Citação(ões) na Scopus Modular transcriptional repertoire and MicroRNA target analyses characterize genomic dysregulation in the thymus of Down syndrome infants(2016) MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos Alberto; BANDO, Silvia Yumi; BERTONHA, Fernanda Bernardi; SILVA, Filipi Nascimento; COSTA, Luciano da Fontoura; FERREIRA, Leandro Rodrigues; FURLANETTO, Glaucio; CHACUR, Paulo; ZERBINI, Maria Claudia Nogueira; CARNEIRO-SAMPAIO, MagdaTrisomy 21-driven transcriptional alterations in human thymus were characterized through gene coexpression network (GCN) and miRNA-target analyses. We used whole thymic tissue - obtained at heart surgery from Down syndrome (DS) and karyotipically normal subjects (CT) - and a network-based approach for GCN analysis that allows the identification of modular transcriptional repertoires (communities) and the interactions between all the system's constituents through community detection. Changes in the degree of connections observed for hierarchically important hubs/genes in CT and DS networks corresponded to community changes. Distinct communities of highly interconnected genes were topologically identified in these networks. The role of miRNAs in modulating the expression of highly connected genes in CT and DS was revealed through miRNA-target analysis. Trisomy 21 gene dysregulation in thymus may be depicted as the breakdown and altered reorganization of transcriptional modules. Leading networks acting in normal or disease states were identified. CT networks would depict the ""canonical"" way of thymus functioning. Conversely, DS networks represent a ""non-canonical"" way, i. e., thymic tissue adaptation under trisomy 21 genomic dysregulation. This adaptation is probably driven by epigenetic mechanisms acting at chromatin level and through the miRNA control of transcriptional programs involving the networks' high-hierarchy genes.conferenceObject MODULAR TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPERTOIRE AND microRNA-TARGET ANALYSES IN THYMIC TISSUE OF DOWN SYNDROME INFANTS(2015) MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos Alberto; BANDO, Silvia Yumi; BERTONHA, Fernanda Bernardi; SILVA, Filipi Nascimento; COSTA, Luciano da Fontoura; FEREIRA, Leandro Rodrigues; CARNEIRO-SAMPAIO, Magda- Phylogenetic Analysis of Stenotrophomonas spp. Isolates Contributes to the Identification of Nosocomial and Community-Acquired Infections(2014) CEREZER, Vinicius Godoy; BANDO, Silvia Yumi; PASTERNAK, Jacyr; FRANZOLIN, Marcia Regina; MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos AlbertoStenotrophomonas ssp. has a wide environmental distribution and is also found as an opportunistic pathogen, causing nosocomial or community-acquired infections. One species, S. maltophilia, presents multidrug resistance and has been associated with serious infections in pediatric and immunocompromised patients. Therefore, it is relevant to conduct resistance profile and phylogenetic studies in clinical isolates for identifying infection origins and isolates with augmented pathogenic potential. Here, multilocus sequence typing was performed for phylogenetic analysis of nosocomial isolates of Stenotrophomonas spp. and, environmental and clinical strains of S. maltophilia. Biochemical andmultidrug resistance profiles of nosocomial and clinical strains were determined. The inferred phylogenetic profile showed high clonal variability, what correlates with the adaptability process of Stenotrophomonas to different habitats. Two clinical isolates subgroups of S. maltophilia sharing high phylogenetic homogeneity presented intergroup recombination, thus indicating the high permittivity to horizontal gene transfer, a mechanism involved in the acquisition of antibiotic resistance and expression of virulence factors. For most of the clinical strains, phylogenetic inference was made using only partial ppsA gene sequence. Therefore, the sequencing of just one specific fragment of this gene would allow, in many cases, determining whether the infection with S. maltophilia was nosocomial or community-acquired.
- Human Leukocyte Transcriptional Response to SARS-CoV-2 Infection(2020) VIEIRA, Sandra Elisabete; BANDO, Silvia Yumi; LAUTERBACH, Gerhard da Paz; MOREIRA-FILHO, Carlos Alberto