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A 522-base-long Y-chromosomal sequence was isolated from a BALB/c genomic
library and was designated "BF046." It is repeated about 200 times in the
male genome, and a difference was detected between the Mus musculus
musculus and the M. m. domesticus type Y chromosomes. BF046- related
sequences were present over the entire length of the Y chromosome as
visualized by in situ hybridization. Southern blot analysis against DNAs
isolated from eight species in the genus Mus showed that BF046-related
sequences were amplified in the Y chromosomes of three closely related
species: M. musculus, M. spicilegus, and M. spretus. To gain insight into
the stability of the BF046 sequence family, we isolated 18 additional
clones from these three mouse species and compared their sequences. The M.
musculus sequences differed from the M. spicilegus and M. spretus sequences
by two indels. The remaining parts of the sequences were very similar, but
both parsimony and distance-based analytical methods divided the sequences
into the same four subgroups, with each species having its own subgroup(s).
Thus, the Y chromosomes of M. musculus, M. spicilegus, and M. spretus can
be distinguished from one another.
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Angstrom J; Teneberg S; Milh MA; Larsson T; Leonardsson I; Olsson BM; Halvarsson MO; Danielsson D; N aslund I; Ljungh A; Wadstrom T; Karlsson KA 《Glycobiology》1998,8(4):297-309
The possible role of glycosphingolipids as adhesion receptors for the human
gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori was examined by use of radiolabeled
bacteria, or protein extracts from the bacterial cell surface, in the
thin-layer chromatogram binding assay. Of several binding specificities
found, the binding to lactosylceramide is described in detail here, the
others being reported elsewhere. By autoradiography a preferential binding
to lactosylceramide having sphingosine/phytosphingosine and 2-D hydroxy
fatty acids was detected, whereas lactosylceramide having sphingosine and
nonhydroxy fatty acids was consistently nonbinding. A selective binding of
H. pylori to lactosylceramide with phytosphingosine and 2-D hydroxy fatty
acid was obtained when the different lactosylceramide species were
incorporated into liposomes, but only in the presence of cholesterol,
suggesting that this selectivity may be present also in vivo . Importantly,
lactosylceramide with sphingosine and hydroxy fatty acids does not bind in
this assay. Furthermore, a lactosylceramide-based binding pattern obtained
for different trisaccharide glycosphingolipids is consistent with the
assumption that this selectivity is due to binding of a conformation of
lactosylceramide in which the oxygen of the 2-D fatty acid hydroxyl group
forms a hydrogen bond with the Glc hydroxy methyl group, yielding an
epitope presentation different from other possible conformers. An
alternative conformation that may come into consideration corresponds to
the crystal structure found for cerebroside, in which the fatty acid
hydroxyl group is free to interact directly with the adhesin. By isolating
glycosphingolipids from epithelial cells of human stomach from seven
individuals, a binding of H.pylori to the diglycosylceramide region of the
non-acid fraction could be demonstrated in one of these cases. Mass
spectrometry showed that the binding-active sample contained
diglycosylceramides with phytosphingosine and 2-D hydroxy fatty acids with
16-24 carbon atoms in agreement with the results related above.
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Robert BM Landewé 《Arthritis research & therapy》2010,12(4):132-2
Increasingly, we see papers describing the long-term follow-up results of randomised clinical trials. Sometimes, like the
article by Rantalaiho and colleagues in the previous issue of Arthritis Research & Therapy, the follow-up extends to more than 10 years. It is not uncommon that authors of such articles describe their results as
a comparison of the original treatment groups in the original randomised clinical trial. Methodologically, such a comparison
is fallible for several reasons. In this editorial, two important sources of bias that may jeopardise the results of such
follow-up studies are discussed: confounding by indication and confounding by trial completion. 相似文献
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Our current understanding of clathrin-mediated endocytosis proposes that the process is initiated at a specialized anatomical structure called a coated pit. Electron microscopy has been required for elucidation of the morphology of coated pits and the vesicles produced therein, and the presence of a bristle coat has been taken as suggestive of clathrin surrounding these vesicles. More recently, immunocytochemical methods have confirmed that endocytic vesicles are surrounded by clathrin and its adaptor proteins, but there is a need to identify precisely and to follow the fate of the cellular organelles seen by fluorescence microscopy. We used quantum immune-electron microscopy to localize clathrin in a human adrenal cortical cell line (SW-13). Clathrin was shown to associate with a variety of vesicle types including the classic clathrin-coated vesicles and pits used in receptor internalization, pentilaminar annular gap junction vesicles, and multivesicular bodies. The images obtained with quantum dot technology allow accurate and specific localization of clathrin and the clathrin adaptor protein, AP-2, with cellular organelles and suggest that some of the structures classified as typical coated vesicles by immunocytochemical light microscopic techniques actually may be membrane bound pits. 相似文献
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A real-time PCR assay was used to quantify the relationship in alfalfa and pea between disease severity and the amount of Aphanomyces euteiches detected in roots. The study included isolates of race 1 and race 2 of the alfalfa pathovar of A. euteiches and an isolate obtained from diseased pea. Spearman rank correlations between pathogen DNA content and disease severity index (DSI) ratings were positive ( ? 0.57) and significant (P 0.0007) for individual alfalfa plants, bulked alfalfa plant samples, and individual pea plants. In all experiments, significantly more pathogen was detected in susceptible populations than in resistant populations. The results clearly demonstrate that resistance to A. euteiches in both alfalfa and pea is characterized by a reduction in pathogen colonization relative to levels observed for susceptible reactions. The assay was very specific for A. euteiches, producing very linear assays with DNA extracted from pathogen isolates obtained from alfalfa, pea, and bean. Possible applications of the assay in conjunction with other real-time PCR assays specific to other legume pathogens are discussed in relation to simultaneous disease screening for multiple plant pathogens and the study of microbial population dynamics in mixed plant infections. 相似文献
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The Bank Cormorant Phalacrocorax neglectus is endemic to the Benguela upwelling ecosystem off southwest Africa and is classified as Endangered owing to a recent large reduction in its number. It is thought that food scarcity, including a decreased abundance of West Coast rock lobster Jasus lalandii, has been a major driver of the decrease, yet its diet in South Africa is poorly known. We collected 941 pellets regurgitated by Bank Cormorants, at 18 South African breeding colonies during 1975–1985, and 1 523 pellets at 17 colonies during 1995–2002. The species composition of the diet (% numbers) was significantly different between the two periods, with widespread decreases in proportions of rock lobster in the west and of octopus and cuttlefish Sepia spp. at most localities. These taxa were replaced in the diet by fish, including Gobiidae and Clinidae. The pelagic goby Sufflogobius bibarbatus, an important prey of Bank Cormorants in Namibia, was absent from pellets collected in 1975–1985 but common at northern localities from 1995–2002. Composition of the diet by frequency of occurrence was only determined for 1995–2002, when rock lobster was present in 67% of all samples collected, cuttlefish in 39%, and Clinidae in 32%. Data for 1975–1985 and 1995–2002 showed that carapace lengths of rock lobsters eaten by Bank Cormorants averaged 56 mm (range 22–82 mm) and 50 mm (range 22–75 mm), respectively, which compares to the minimum legal size of 75 mm for fisheries in South Africa. This energy- rich prey item was an important constituent of the diet in the winter breeding period. 相似文献
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In vitro biosynthesis, core glycosylation and membrane integration of opsin 总被引:10,自引:4,他引:6 下载免费PDF全文
A membrane-integrated , core-glycosylated form of bovine opsin was synthesized in vitro when bovine retina mRNA was translated in a wheat germ cell-free system supplemented with dog pancreas microsomal vesicles; glycosylation and integration of opsin into membranes were coupled to translation. Proteolysis with themolysin was used to probe the orientation of opsin within the dog pancreas microsomal membrane, and to compare it with that of opsin in rod cell disk membranes isolated from bovine retina. Intact microsomal or disk vesicles were required for production of discrete, membrane-associated thermolysin fragments of opsin; no discrete opsin fragments were detected when membranes were incubated with thermolysin in the presence of the nonionic detergent, Triton X-100. The major opsin fragments produced by themosylin treatment of intact microsomal vesicles resembled those from disk vesicles in their size, oligosaccharide content, and order of appearance. In each case, the first cleavage of opsin took place at the COOH-terminus, generating a glycosylated fragment, O’, which was only slightly smaller than intact opsin. Both the microsomal and disk membrane forms of O’ were next cleaved internally; glycosylated fragments of similar sizes in both cases were detected which were derived from the NH(2)-terminal portion of O’. Several smaller NH(2)-terminal fragments of opsin were detected only in thermolysin-treated microsomal membranes, and not in disk membranes. The data suggest that the topology of opsin integrated into dog pancreas microsomal vesicles is similar to that in rod cell disk vesicles, although not identical. In each case, the glycosylated NH(2)-terminal region of opsin is located within the lumen of the vesicle, while discrete COOH-terminal and internal segments of opsin apparently emerge at the outer, cytoplasmic face of the membrane. Thus, opsin in the heterologous microsomal membrane, like its counterpart in the native disk membrane, may cross the bilayer at least three times. The internal domain of the polypeptide that emerges at the outer membrane surface is apparently more highly exposed in the case of opsin in microsomal membranes, evidenced by the additional internal thermolysin cleavage sites detected. 相似文献
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Attentional modulation of central odor processing 总被引:4,自引:1,他引:3
Two studies were conducted to investigate the influence of attention on the
components of the chemosensory event-related potential (CSERP). In the
first study the odors linalool and eugenol were delivered to six male
subjects, in the second study three male and two female subjects were
presented with their own body odor (axillary hair) and the body odor of a
same sex donor. In both studies the odors were presented in an oddball
paradigm under ignore and attend conditions via a constant- flow
olfactometer. In the ignore condition attention was diverted from the odors
with a distractor task, while in the attend condition the subjects were
asked to respond to the infrequently occurring odor. In both studies the
allocation of attention led to a decrease in the latency of the early
components (N1, P2, N2) and to an increase in the amplitude of the late
positivities. The modulation of the early components suggests that
attentional gating in olfaction might already be effective at an early
processing level.
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