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The aims of this study were to investigate how antennal olfactory cells of tsetse (Diptera: Glossinidae) code odour quality and how they are able to discriminate between attractive and repellent odours. For Glossina pallidipes Austen, a survey is presented of the cells' responses to attractive (1-octen-3-ol, acetone, 3-methylphenol, carbon dioxide) and repellent stimuli (2-methoxyphenol, acetophenone, lactic acid, naphthalene). In addition, the responses of these cells to binary mixtures and the dose-response curves of 1-octen-3-ol, 3-methylphenol, 2-methoxyphenol and acetophenone are presented. A minority of the cells responded to one attractant or repellent only, whereas the vast majority were excited by more than one of the attractive and/or repellent stimuli. It is proposed that the peripheral olfactory cells of tsetse discriminate between different compounds via an across-fibre pattern coding, in which the cells that specifically code for attractants or repellents may play a substantial role in composing a unique excitation pattern that informs the central nervous system about the specificity of odours. 相似文献
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Human death effector domain-associated factor interacts with the viral apoptosis agonist Apoptin and exerts tumor-preferential cell killing 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
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Cabral A Voskamp P Cleton-Jansen AM South A Nizetic D Backendorf C 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2001,276(22):19231-19237
The protective barrier provided by stratified squamous epithelia relies on the cornified cell envelope (CE), a structure synthesized at late stages of keratinocyte differentiation. It is composed of structural proteins, including involucrin, loricrin, and the small proline-rich (SPRR) proteins, all encoded by genes localized at human chromosome 1q21. The genetic characterization of the SPRR locus reveals that the various members of this multigene family can be classified into two distinct groups with separate evolutionary histories. Whereas group 1 genes have diverged in protein structure and are composed of three different classes (SPRR1 (2x), SPRR3, and SPRR4), an active process of gene conversion has counteracted diversification of the protein sequences of group 2 genes (SPRR2 class, seven genes). Contrasting with this homogenization process, all individual members of the SPRR gene family show specific in vivo and in vitro expression patterns and react selectively to UV irradiation. Apparently, creation of regulatory rather than structural diversity has been the driving force behind the evolution of the SPRR gene family. Differential regulation of highly homologous genes underlines the importance of SPRR protein dosage in providing optimal barrier function to different epithelia, while allowing adaptation to diverse external insults. 相似文献
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Enhanced Performance of the Eurostat Method for Comprehensive Assessment of Urban Metabolism: A Material Flow Analysis of Amsterdam 下载免费PDF全文
Ilse M. Voskamp Sven Stremke Marc Spiller Daniela Perrotti Jan Peter van der Hoek Huub H. M. Rijnaarts 《Journal of Industrial Ecology》2017,21(4):887-902
Sustainable urban resource management depends essentially on a sound understanding of a city's resource flows. One established method for analyzing the urban metabolism (UM) is the Eurostat material flow analysis (MFA). However, for a comprehensive assessment of the UM, this method has its limitations. It does not account for all relevant resource flows, such as locally sourced resources, and it does not differentiate between flows that are associated with the city's resource consumption and resources that only pass through the city. This research sought to gain insights into the UM of Amsterdam by performing an MFA employing the Eurostat method. Modifications to that method were made to enhance its performance for comprehensive UM analyses. A case study of Amsterdam for the year 2012 was conducted and the results of the Eurostat and the modified Eurostat method were compared. The results show that Amsterdam's metabolism is dominated by water flows and by port‐related throughput of fossil fuels. The modified Eurostat method provides a deeper understanding of the UM than the urban Eurostat MFA attributed to three major benefits of the proposed modifications. First, the MFA presents a more complete image of the flows in the UM. Second, the modified resource classification presents findings in more detail. Third, explicating throughput flows yields a much‐improved insight into the nature of a city's imports, exports, and stock. Overall, these advancements provide a deeper understanding of the UM and make the MFA method more useful for sustainable urban resource management. 相似文献
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Glycosylation sites and site-specific glycosylation in human Tamm- Horsfall glycoprotein 总被引:4,自引:1,他引:3
The N-glycosylation sites of human Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein from one
healthy male donor have been characterized, based on an approach using
endoproteinase Glu-C (V-8 protease, Staphylococcus aureus ) digestion and a
combination of chromatographic techniques, automated Edman sequencing, and
fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. Seven out of the eight potential
N-glycosylation sites, namely, Asn52, Asn56, Asn208, Asn251, Asn298,
Asn372, and Asn489, turned out to be glycosylated, and the potential
glycosylation site at Asn14, being close to the N-terminus, is not used.
The carbohydrate microheterogeneity on three of the glycosylation sites was
studied in more detail by high-pH anion-exchange chromatographic profiling
and 500 MHz1H-NMR spectroscopy. Glycosylation site Asn489 contains mainly
di- and tri-charged oligosaccharides which comprise, among others, the
GalNAc4 S (beta1-4)GlcNAc terminal sequence. Only glycosylation site Asn251
bears oligomannose-type carbohydrate chains ranging from Man5GlcNAc2to
Man8GlcNAc2, in addition to a small amount of complex- type structures.
Profiling of the carbohydrate moieties of Asn208 indicates a large
heterogeneity, similar to that established for native human Tamm-Horsfall
glycoprotein, namely, multiply charged complex-type carbohydrate
structures, terminated by sulfate groups, sialic acid residues, and/or the
Sda-determinant.
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Harteveld CL Kriek M Bijlsma EK Erjavec Z Balak D Phylipsen M Voskamp A di Capua E White SJ Giordano PC 《Human genetics》2007,122(3-4):283-292
Alpha thalassemia retardation associated with chromosome16 (ATR-16 syndrome) is defined as a contiguous gene syndrome resulting
from haploinsufficiency of the α-globin gene cluster and genes involved in mental retardation (MR). To date, only few cases
have been described which result from pure monosomy for a deletion of 16p. In most of these cases the deletion was identified
by densitometric analysis of Southern blot results or by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization analysis, and these alterations
have not been mapped in detail. In this study, we have fine mapped deletions causing α-thalassemia within 2 Mb from the telomere
of 16p by multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA). We have developed a rapid and simple test for high resolution
mapping of rearrangements involving the tip of the short arm of chromosome 16 by incorporating 62 MLPA probes spaced approximately
10–200 kb over a region of 2 Mb from the telomere. One deletion of approximately 900 kb without MR was identified in addition
to three de novo deletions varying between 1.5 and 2 Mb causing ATR-16 in three patients having mild MR and α-thalassemia.
Two were found by chance to be ATR-16 because they were included in a study to search for telomeric loss in MR and not by
hematological analysis. This would plead for more alertness when a persistent microcytic hypochromic anemia at normal ferritin
levels is observed as suggestive for the ATR-16 syndrome. The region on chromosome 16p for which haploinsufficiency leads
to the dysmorphic features and MR typical for ATR-16, has been narrowed down to a 800 kb region localized between 0.9 and
1.7 Mb from the telomere. 相似文献
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Voskamp KE; Noorman N; Mastebroek HA; Van Schoot NE; Den Otter CJ 《Chemical senses》1998,23(5):521-530
Spike trains from individual antennal olfactory cells of tsetse flies
(Glossina spp.) obtained during steady-state conditions (spontaneous as
well as during stimulation with 1-octen-3-ol) and dynamic stimulation with
repetitive pulses of 1-octen-3-ol were investigated by studying the spike
frequency and the temporal structure of the trains. In general, stimulation
changes the intensity of the spike activity but leaves the underlying
stochastic structure unaffected. This structure turns out to be a renewal
process. The only independently varying parameter in this process is the
mean interspike interval length, suggesting that olfactory cells of tsetse
flies may transmit information via a frequency coding. In spike records
with high firing rates, however, the stationary records had significant
negative first- order serial correlation coefficients and were non-renewal.
Some cells in this study were capable of precisely encoding the onset of
the odour pulses at frequencies up to at least 3 Hz. Cells with a rapid
return to pre-stimulus activity at the end of stimulation responded more
adequately to pulsed stimuli than cells with a long increased spike
frequency. While short-firing cells process information via a frequency
code, long-firing cells responded with two distinctive phases: a phasic,
non-renewal response and a tonic, renewal response which may function as a
memory of previous stimulations.
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