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Evidence for Phloem loading from the apoplast: chemical modification of membrane sulfhydryl groups 下载免费PDF全文
Giaquinta R 《Plant physiology》1976,57(6):872-875
The water-soluble, sulfhydryl-specific, chemical modifier p-chloromercuribenzenesulfonic acid reversibly inhibited the accumulation of exogenously supplied 14C-sucrose into leaf discs of Beta vulgaris. P-Chloromercuribenzenesulfonic acid treatment did not inhibit photosynthesis or respiration or induce membrane leakage to sucrose, indicating that the site of inhibition was the plasmalemma. The active loading of sucrose and 14CO2-derived assimilates into the phloem and their translocation from the source leaf were inhibited by the nonpermeant modifier. Several nonpermeant sulfhydryl group modifiers also inhibited sucrose accumulation into leaf discs while two amino-reactive reagents had no effect. The results indicate that sugars are actively accumulated into the phloem from the apoplast and that membrane sulfhydryl groups may be involved. 相似文献
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Cytochemical demonstration of hydrogen peroxide in polymorphonuclear leukocyte phagosomes 总被引:7,自引:1,他引:6 下载免费PDF全文
Phagocytosis by polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) is accompanied by specific morphological and metabolic events which may result in the killing of internalized micro-organism. Hydrogen peroxide is produced in increased amounts during phagocytosis (17) and in combination with myeloperoxidase and halide ions constitute a potent, microbicidal mechanism (8,9,11). There can be direct iodination of micro-organisms (10), or alternatively, other intermediate reaction products, i.e. chloramines and aldehydes (21), can exert a microbicidal effect. The H2O2-peroxidase-halide system is presumed to operate within the phagocytic vacuole (12,18). Myeloperoxidase, present in the primary granules of PMN, enters the phagocytic vacuole during degranulation (1,4,7), and halide ions are probably derived from the extracellular medium or are present in the PMN (see 11, 18). For the operation of this system in intact cells, the presence of H2O2 in the phagocytic vacuole is necessary, and indeed this has been suggested by the work of several investigators (12, 18, 21). In the present investigation, the diaminobenzidine reaction of Graham and Karnovsky (5), modified to utilize endogenous myeloperoxidase and hydrogen peroxide, has been applied to actively phagocytizing PMN to demonstrate cytochemically the presence of H2O2 in the phagocytic vacuole. 相似文献
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Tobamoviruses, mostly isolated from solanaceous plants, may represent
ancient virus lineages that have codiverged with their hosts. Recently
completed nucleotide sequences of six nonsolanaceous tobamoviruses allowed
assessment of the codivergence hypothesis and support a third subgroup
within tobamoviruses. The genomic sequences of 12 tobamoviruses and the
partial sequences of 11 others have been analyzed. Comparisons of the
predicted protein sequences revealed three clusters of tobamoviruses,
corresponding to those infecting solanaceous species (subgroup 1), those
infecting cucurbits and legumes (subgroup 2), and those infecting
crucifers. The orchid-infecting odontoglossum ringspot tobamovirus was
associated with subgroup 1 genomes by its coat and movement protein
sequences, but with the crucifer-pathogenic tobamoviruses by the remainder
of its genome, suggesting that it is the progeny of a recombinant. For four
of five genomic regions, subgroup 1 and 3 genomes were equidistant from a
subgroup 2 genome chosen for comparison, suggesting uniform rates of
evolution. A phylogenetic tree of plant families based on the tobamoviruses
they harbor was congruent with that based on rubisco sequences but had a
different root, suggesting that codivergence was tempered by rare events of
viruses of one family colonizing another family. The proposed subgroup 3
viruses probably have an origin of virion assembly in the movement protein
gene, a large (25-codon) overlap of movement and coat protein open reading
frames, and a comparably shorter genome. Codon-position- dependent base
compositions and codon prevalences suggested that the coat protein frame of
the overlap region was ancestral. Bootstrapped parsimony analysis of the
nucleotides in the overlap region and of the sequences translated from the
-1 frame (the subgroup 3 movement protein frame) of this region produced
trees inconsistent with those deduced from other regions. The results are
consistent with a model in which a no or short overlap organization was
ancestral. Despite encoding of subgroup 2 and 3 movement protein C-termini
by nonhomologous nucleotides, weak similarities between their amino acid
sequences suggested convergent sequence evolution.
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Both the Entamoeba histolytica lectin, a virulence factor for the causative
agent of amebiasis, and the mammalian hepatic lectin bind to
N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) and galactose (Gal) nonreducing termini on
oligosaccharides, with preference for GalNAc. Polyvalent GalNAc-
derivatized neoglycoproteins have >1000-fold enhanced binding affinity
for both lectins (Adler,P., Wood,S.J., Lee,Y.C., Lee,R.T., Petri,W.A.,Jr.
and Schnaar,R.L.,1995, J. Biol. Chem ., 270, 5164-5171). Substructural
specificity studies revealed that the 3-OH and 4-OH groups of GalNAc were
required for binding to both lectins, whereas only the E.histolytica lectin
required the 6-OH group. Whereas GalNAc binds with 4-fold lower affinity to
the E.histolytica lectin than to the mammalian hepatic lectin,
galactosamine and N-benzoyl galactosamine bind with higher affinity to the
E. histolytica lectin. Therefore, a synthetic scheme for converting
polyamine carriers to poly-N-acyl galactosamine derivatives (linked through
the galactosamine primary amino group) was developed to test whether such
ligands would bind the E.histolytica lectin with high specificity and high
affinity. Contrary to expectations, polyvalent derivatives including
GalN6lys5, GalN4desmosine, GalN4StarburstTMdendrimer, and
GalN8StarburstTMdendrimer demonstrated highly enhanced binding to the
mammalian hepatic lectin but little or no enhancement of binding to the
E.histolytica lectin. We propose that the mammalian hepatic lectin binds
with greatest affinity to GalNAc "miniclusters," which mimic branched
termini of N-linked oligosaccharides, whereas the E.histolytica lectin
binds most effectively to "maxiclusters," which may mimic more widely
spaced GalNAc residues on intestinal mucins.
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Giaquinta R 《Plant physiology》1977,59(2):178-180
Petiolar application of potassium cyanide inhibited 14C-assimilate translocation without affecting source leaf photosynthesis or phloem loading of sucrose in Phaseolus vulgaris. The inhibition of transport was correlated with disruption of the structural integrity of the sieve tubes (sieve pore blockage) rather than impairment of a metabolic process in the translocation path driving translocation. 相似文献
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A transversely isotropic, transversely homogeneous microstructural-statistical model of articular cartilage 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Articular cartilage is a multi-phasic, composite, fibre-reinforced material. Therefore, its mechanical properties are determined by the tissue microstructure. The presence of cells (chondrocytes) and collagen fibres within the proteoglycan matrix influences, at a local and a global level, the material symmetries. The volumetric concentration and shape of chondrocytes, and the volumetric concentration and spatial arrangement of collagen fibres have been observed to change as a function of depth in articular cartilage. In particular, collagen fibres are perpendicular to the bone-cartilage interface in the deep zone, their orientation is almost random in the middle zone, and they are parallel to the surface in the superficial zone. The aim of this work is to develop a model of elastic properties of articular cartilage based on its microstructure. In previous work, we addressed this problem based on Piola's notation for fourth-order tensors. Here, mathematical tools initially developed for transversely isotropic composite materials comprised of a statistical orientation of spheroidal inclusions are extended to articular cartilage, while taking into account the dependence of the elastic properties on cartilage depth. The resulting model is transversely isotropic and transversely homogeneous (TITH), the transverse plane being parallel to the bone-cartilage interface and the articular surface. Our results demonstrate that the axial elastic modulus decreases from the deep zone to the articular surface, a result that is in good agreement with experimental findings. Finite element simulations were carried out, in order to explore the TITH model's behaviour in articular cartilage compression tests. The force response, fluid flow and displacement fields obtained with the TITH model were compared with the classical linear elastic, isotropic, homogeneous (IH) model, showing that the IH model is unable to predict the non-uniform behaviour of the tissue. Based on considerations that the mechanical stability of the tissue depends on its topological and microstructural properties, our long-term goal is to clearly understand the stability conditions in topological terms, and the relationship with the growth and remodelling mechanisms in the healthy and diseased tissue. 相似文献
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Bosco G Casabona A Giaquinta G Maci T Valle MS Perciavalle V 《Archives italiennes de biologie》2000,138(3):229-240
The present study was carried out with the aim to observe whether, in the rat, the electric activation of the projection form the cerebellar lateral nucleus (LN) to the basilar pontine nuclei (BPN) and to the reticulotegmental nucleus (RtTg) is capable to induce the c-Fos expression. In particular, we compared the effects of a continuous LN stimulation at low-frequency (tonic stimulation) with those induced by high frequency pulse trains (phasic stimulation). The observed results show that the stimulation of LN induces c-Fos expression in a significant fraction of neurons in the contralateral BPN and RtTg. It was also observed that phasic stimulation was slightly more capable in producing c-Fos expression with respect to the tonic stimulation. Furthermore, systemic injection of MK-801, a non-competitive antagonist of the NMDA receptor, reduced the LN-induced c-Fos expression in BPN and RtTg. In contrast, GYKI 52466, an AMPA/kainate receptor antagonist, did not change the LN driven induction of c-Fos in both BPN and RtTg. 相似文献
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William D. Hitz Robert T. Giaquinta 《BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology》1987,6(5):217-221
Physiological studies show that the driving force for long distance transport and the control of nutrient movement in plants resides largely in the regulated, membrane transport of a few carbohydrates, principally sucrose. The evidence is reviewed here and biochemical studies on sucrose carrier proteins are discussed. 相似文献
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