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Pryhuber GS Huyck HL Bhagwat S O'Reilly MA Finkelstein JN Gigliotti F Wright TW 《Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)》2008,181(2):1409-1419
The opportunistic organism Pneumocystis carinii (Pc) produces a life-threatening pneumonia (PcP) in patients with low CD4(+) T cell counts. Animal models of HIV-AIDS-related PcP indicate that development of severe disease is dependent on the presence of CD8(+) T cells and the TNF receptors (TNFR) TNFRsf1a and TNFRsf1b. To distinguish roles of parenchymal and hematopoietic cell TNF signaling in PcP-related lung injury, murine bone marrow transplant chimeras of wild-type, C57BL6/J, and TNFRsf1a/1b double-null origin were generated, CD4(+) T cell depleted, and inoculated with Pc. As expected, C57 --> C57 chimeras (donor marrow --> recipient) developed significant disease as assessed by weight loss, impaired pulmonary function (lung resistance and dynamic lung compliance), and inflammatory cell infiltration. In contrast, TNFRsf1a/1b(-/-) --> TNFRsf1a/1b(-/-) mice were relatively mildly affected despite carrying the greatest organism burden. Mice solely lacking parenchymal TNFRs (C57 --> TNFRsf1a/1b(-/-)) had milder disease than did C57 --> C57 mice. Both groups of mice with TNFR-deficient parenchymal cells had low bronchoalveolar lavage fluid total cell counts and fewer lavageable CD8(+) T cells than did C57 --> C57 mice, suggesting that parenchymal TNFR signaling contributes to PcP-related immunopathology through the recruitment of damaging immune cells. Interestingly, mice with wild-type parenchymal cells but TNFRsf1a/1b(-/-) hematopoietic cells (TNFRsf1a/1b(-/-) --> C57) displayed exacerbated disease characterized by increased MCP-1 and KC production in the lung and increased macrophage and lymphocyte numbers in the lavage, indicating a dysregulated immune response. This study supports a key role of parenchymal cell TNFRs in lung injury induced by Pc and a potential protective effect of receptors on radiosensitive, bone marrow-derived cells. 相似文献
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Debra L Fulton Yvonne Y Li Matthew R Laird Benjamin GS Horsman Fiona M Roche Fiona SL Brinkman 《BMC bioinformatics》2006,7(1):270-16
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Orthologs (genes that have diverged after a speciation event) tend to have similar function, and so their prediction has become an important component of comparative genomics and genome annotation. The gold standard phylogenetic analysis approach of comparing available organismal phylogeny to gene phylogeny is not easily automated for genome-wide analysis; therefore, ortholog prediction for large genome-scale datasets is typically performed using a reciprocal-best-BLAST-hits (RBH) approach. One problem with RBH is that it will incorrectly predict a paralog as an ortholog when incomplete genome sequences or gene loss is involved. In addition, there is an increasing interest in identifying orthologs most likely to have retained similar function. 相似文献35.
A novel method, single-molecule anisotropy imaging, has been employed to simultaneously study lateral and rotational diffusion of fluorescence-labeled lipids on supported phospholipid membranes. In a fluid membrane composed of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, in which the rotational diffusion time is on the order of the excited-state lifetime of the fluorophore rhodamine, a rotational diffusion constant, D(rot) = 7 x 10(7) rad(2)/s, was determined. The lateral diffusion constant, measured by direct analysis of single-molecule trajectories, was D(lat) = 3.5 x 10(-8) cm(2)/s. As predicted from the free-volume model for diffusion, the results exhibit a significantly enhanced mobility on the nanosecond time scale. For membranes of DPPC lipids in the L(beta) gel phase, the slow rotational mobility permitted the direct observation of the rotation of individual molecules characterized by D(rot) = 1.2 rad(2)/s. The latter data were evaluated by a mean square angular displacement analysis. The technique developed here should prove itself profitable for imaging of conformational motions of individual proteins on the time scale of milliseconds to seconds. 相似文献
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Evolution of antibiotic resistance genes: the DNA sequence of a kanamycin resistance gene from Staphylococcus aureus 总被引:14,自引:0,他引:14
The kanamycin resistance gene from Staphylococcus aureus has been sequenced
and its structure compared with similar genes isolated from Streptomyces
fradiae and from two transposons, Tn5 and Tn903, originally isolated from
Klebsiella pneumoniae and Salmonella typhimurium, respectively. The genes
are all homologous but, since their common ancestor, have undergone
extensive divergence, with more than 43% divergence between the closest
pair. The phylogeny of the genes cannot be made congruent to the phylogeny
of the taxa from which they were isolated without requiring rather
improbable differences in rates. One is therefore led to conclude that
there have been multiple occurrences of gene transfer between these
species. Thus, although they are homologous, they are neither orthologous
nor paralogous. It is suggested that homologous genes of this type be
called xenologous.
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