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Reduction and Activation of Phosphate on the Primitive Earth 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Electrical discharges in water-saturated N2 containing 1–10% CH4 were shown earlier toreduce phosphate to phosphite. This mechanism was suggestedas a possible source of water-soluble phosphorus-containing compounds in volcanic environments on the prebiotic Earth.We have now extended our investigations to gas mixtures inwhich CO2 and N2 are the main components, and studied the effect of introducing smallamounts of H2 and CO.We show that surprisingly high conversions to phosphite occurin reducing mixtures and thatseveral percent reduction of apatite occurs even in thepresence of as little as 1% each of H2 and CO. We were also able to confirm a previous report ofpolyphosphate production as a result of heating the mineral apatite in the presence of other minerals. 相似文献
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Chemical Reduction of Phosphate on the Primitive Earth 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Glindemann D. de Graaf R. M. Schwartz Alan W. 《Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere》1999,29(6):555-561
If phosphorus played a role in the origin of life, some means of concentrating micromolar levels of phosphate (derived from the calcium phosphate mineral apatite), must first have been available. Here we show that simulated (mini)lightning discharges in model prebiotic atmospheres, including only minimally reducing ones, reduce orthophosphates, including apatite, to produce substantial yields of phosphite. Electrical discharges associated with volcanic eruptions could have provided a particularly suitable environment for this process. Production of relatively soluble and reactive phosphite salts could have supplied a pathway by which the first phosphorus atoms were incorporated into (pre)biological systems. 相似文献
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《Cell reports》2020,30(12):4281-4291.e4
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The results of a Metropolis Monte Carlo simulation of a three dimensional lattice model of an amphiphile and solvent mixture are presented. In the model each amphiphile molecule is represented as a connected chain of lattice sites with one site representing the head and the remaining chain sites representing the tail of the molecule. The remaining sites on the lattice represent solvent molecules. The amphiphiles interact through a nearest neighbour potential which includes head-solvent and tail-solvent interactions. No prior assumption is made about the structures which may be observed. The cluster size distribution and cluster structure is studied as a function of temperature and head-solvent interaction. If the tail-solvent interaction is solvophobic and the head-solvent interaction is solvophilic, a micellar region is observed in the phase diagram. For sufficiently solvophilic head-solvent interactions the low temperature phase exhibits self assembly into castellated bilayer structures. 相似文献
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In mammals, the primordial follicle pool represents the entire reproductive potential of a female. The transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family member activin (ACT) contributes to folliculogenesis, although the exact mechanism is not known. The role of FST288, the strongest ACT-neutralizing isoform of follistatin (FST), during cyst breakdown and primordial follicle formation in the fetal mice ovary was assessed using an in vitro culture system. FST was continuously expressed in the oocytes as well as the cuboidal granulosa cells of growing follicles in perinatal mouse ovaries. Treatment with FST288 delayed germ cell nest breakdown, particularly near the periphery of the ovary, and dramatically decreased the percentage of primordial follicles. In addition, there was a dramatic decrease in proliferation of granulosa cells and somatic cell expression of Notch signaling was impaired. In conclusion, FST288 impacts germ cell nest breakdown and primordial follicle assembly by inhibiting somatic cell proliferation. 相似文献
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Richard Wolfenden 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2014,289(44):30198-30204
Kelvin considered it unlikely that sufficient time had elapsed on the earth for life to have reached its present level of complexity. In the warm surroundings in which life first appeared, however, elevated temperatures would have reduced the kinetic barriers to reaction. Recent experiments disclose the profound extent to which very slow reactions are accelerated by elevated temperatures, collapsing the time that would have been required for early events in primordial chemistry before the advent of enzymes. If a primitive enzyme, like model catalysts and most modern enzymes, accelerated a reaction by lowering its enthalpy of activation, then the rate enhancement that it produced would have increased automatically as the environment cooled, quite apart from any improvements in catalytic activity that arose from mutation and natural selection. The chemical events responsible for spontaneous mutation are also highly sensitive to temperature, furnishing an independent mechanism for accelerating evolution. 相似文献
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VAISHAMPAYAN A.; REDDY Y. R.; SINGH B. D.; SINGH R. M. 《Journal of experimental botany》1992,43(6):851-856
The use of the photo-autotrophic nitrogen-fixing water fernAzolla as an effective source of organic nitrogen in tropicalpaddy fields has been limited by a high phosphorus requirement.Azolla species with a minimum of 1.5 to 2.0 mM phosphate (P)requirement, under controlled conditions, are known. A local Azolla species requiring at least 1.5 mM sodium phosphatefor a normal rate of multiplication and N2 fixation was exposedto N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG). The resultingmutant population had a significantly lower P requirement, butwas auxotrophic for glutamine with an extremely reduced glutaminesynthetase (GS) activity. An L-methionine-DL-sulphoximine (MSX)-resistant(MSXr) Azolla population, having an approximately 1.5 timeshigher GS activity than that of the wild type (WT) parent organism,was cultured and subjected to MNNG-induced mutation for lowP requirement while putting MSX as a control in the mutant selectionmedium. The resulting population of mutant Azolla was a normalprototroph with a P requirement as low as 0.75 mM for its WTparent-like usual growth and N2 fixation. Key words: Azolla, phosphorus requirement, mutation 相似文献
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Ehud Gazit 《朊病毒》2007,1(1):32-35
The formation of amyloid fibrils is the hallmark of more than twenty human disorders of unrelated etiology. In all these cases, ordered fibrillar protein assemblies with a diameter of 7–10 nm are being observed. In spite of the great clinical important of amyloidassociated diseases, the molecular recognition and self-assembly processes that lead to the formation of the fibrils are not fully understood. One direction to decipher the mechanism of amyloid formation is the use of short peptides fragments as model systems. Short peptide fragments, as short as pentapeptides, were shown to form typical amyloid assemblies in vitro that have ultrastructural, biophysical, and cytotoxic properties, as those of assemblies that are being formed by full length polypeptides. When we analyzed such short fragments, we identified the central role of aromatic moieties in the ability to aggregate into ordered nano-fibrillar structures. This notion allowed us to discover additional very short amyloidogenic peptides as well as other aromatic peptide motifs, which can form various assemblies at the nano-scale (including nanotubes, nanospheres, and macroscopic hydrogels with nano-scale order). Other practical utilization of this concept, together with novel β breakage methods, is their use for the development of novel classes of amyloid formation inhibitors.Key Words: Alzheimer''s disease, amyloid disease, molecular recognition, nanostructures, protein aggregation, protein misfolding, self-assembly, type II diabetes 相似文献
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Festuca arundinaceae was grown at high and low wind-speed attwo levels of either soil phosphorus or soil nitrogen. At increasedwind-speed, mean relative growth rate and leaf extension ratewere reduced when plants were grown with high nutrient concentrationsand further reduced when phosphorus or nitrogen stress was imposedon the plants. Transpiration was increased at high wind-speedexcept under conditions of phosphorus stress, where the ratewas actually decreased. Relationships between water stress,wind and nutrient status are discussed, especially in relationto the possible role of phosphorus stress in causing sclerophylly. Festuca arundinacea Schreb., relative growth rate, water stress, wind, nitrogen, phosphorus, sclerophylly 相似文献
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Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres - 相似文献
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Medha Manchekar Yanwen Liu Zhihuan Sun Paul E. Richardson Nassrin Dashti 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2015,290(13):8196-8205
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP) is a plausible mediator of phospholipid (PL) transfer to the N-terminal 1000 residues of apoB (apoB:1000) leading to the initiation of apoB-containing lipoprotein assembly. To this end, primary hepatocytes from wild type (WT) and PLTP knock-out (KO) mice were transduced with adenovirus-apoB:1000 with or without co-transduction with adenovirus-PLTP, and the assembly and secretion of apoB:1000-containing lipoproteins were assessed. PLTP deficiency resulted in a 65 and 72% reduction in the protein and lipid content, respectively, of secreted apoB:1000-containing lipoproteins. Particles secreted by WT hepatocytes contained 69% PL, 9% diacylglycerol (DAG), and 23% triacylglycerol (TAG) with a stoichiometry of 46 PL, 6 DAG, and 15 TAG molecules per apoB:1000. PLTP absence drastically altered the lipid composition of apoB:1000 lipoproteins; these particles contained 46% PL, 13% DAG, and 41% TAG with a stoichiometry of 27 PL, 10 DAG, and 23 TAG molecules per apoB:1000. Reintroduction of Pltp gene into PLTP-KO hepatocytes stimulated the lipidation and secretion of apoB:1000-containing lipoproteins by ∼3-fold; the lipid composition and stoichiometry of these particles were identical to those secreted by WT hepatocytes. In contrast to the WT, apoB:1000 in PLTP-KO hepatocytes was susceptible to intracellular degradation predominantly in the post-endoplasmic reticulum, presecretory compartment. Reintroduction of Pltp gene into PLTP-KO hepatocytes restored the stability of apoB:1000. These results provide compelling evidence that in hepatocytes initial recruitment of PL by apoB:1000 leading to the formation of the PL-rich apoB-containing initiation complex is mediated to a large extent by PLTP. 相似文献
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《朊病毒》2013,7(1):32-35
The formation of amyloid fibrils is the hallmark of more than twenty human disorders of unrelated etiology. In all these cases, ordered fibrillar protein assemblies with a diameter of 7-10 nm are being observed. In spite of the great clinical important of amyloid-associated diseases, the molecular recognition and self-assembly processes that lead to the formation of the fibrils are not fully understood. One direction to decipher the mechanism of amyloid formation is the use of short peptides fragments as model systems. Short peptide fragments, as short as pentapeptides, were shown to form typical amyloid assemblies in vitro that have ultrastructural, biophysical, and cytotoxic properties, as those of assemblies that are being formed by full length polypeptides. When we analyzed such short fragments, we identified the central role of aromatic moieties in the ability to aggregate into ordered nano-fibrillar structures. This notion allowed us to discover additional very short amyloidogenic peptides as well as other aromatic peptide motifs, which can form various assemblies at the nano-scale (including nanotubes, nanospheres, and macroscopic hydrogels with nano-scale order). Other practical utilization of this concept, together with novel β-breakage methods, is their use for the development of novel classes of amyloid formation inhibitors. 相似文献
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鸡胚血液中原始生殖细胞的分离及其培养的研究 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
从孵化48~55小时鸡胚中抽取血液,每只胚胎可获血液2~6μl左右。一步法离心分离原始生殖细胞,可使其浓度由0.1%以下提高到50%以上。将多余血细胞用微量吸管移走后,加入添加10%胎牛血清的TCM—199做为培养基,37.5℃,5%CO2,95%空气,饱和湿度下培养,原始生殖细胞可成活24小时左右。 相似文献
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Phospholipid Methylation and Noradrenaline Exchanges in a Synaptosomal Preparation from the Rat Brain 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Abstract: When synaptosomes from rat brain were incubated with S -adenosylmethionine (10−3 M ), noradrenaline uptake and KCI-stimulated release were decreased. These effects were dependent on MgCl2 , temperature, and incubation time. We have investigated the enzymatic methylation of phosphatidylethanolamine to give phosphatidylcholine. 相似文献
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原始生殖细胞是用做分离和克隆胚胎干细胞的一种新的细胞资源。本研究将30-45日龄的蒙古绵羊胚胎生殖嵴及其临近组织用机械剪碎和胰蛋白酶+EDTA消化处理,添加DMEM(低糖)+10%FBS(犊牛血清)、38.0℃、5%CO2和饱和湿度条件下进行培养。其结果:未加任何细胞生长因子的情况下与其胎儿成纤维细胞共培养的方式也能分离得到类胚胎干细胞集落。这些集落细胞经多次克隆传代具有胚胎干细胞的诸多特征,如:具有连续传代的能力,细胞集落有典型鸟巢状结构,AKP染色呈阳性,核型分析结果染色体正常等。这些表明该细胞具有多能性,是绵羊类ES细胞。 相似文献
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Possible ways of abiotic catalytic synthesis of biologically significant aldopentoses (ribose, xylose, arabinose, lyxose) from elementary substrates, i.e., formaldehyde (FA) and glycolaldehyde (GA) in aqueous solutions are discussed. Conditions in which the process of synthesis of pentoses yields up to 65% relative to the initial concentration of GA: homogeneous borate catalyst NaOH + H3BO3, pH 9, [GA]0 5 mM, [FA]0 50–100 mM have been found. 相似文献
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Low molecular weight liquid hydrocarbons from various sources, could have formed an oil layer covering the primeval ocean (present already 4.0–4.4 × 109 yr ago), preventing water from evaporating into the atmosphere. Water from other sources, precipitated by cold traps at higher altitude in the atmosphere, becomes trapped in the ocean. In a thereby more dry and presumably reducing atmosphere (before 3.9 × 109 yr ago) even more hydrocarbons, as well as reactive molecules will form. An oil layer can possibly act as a dry solvent for reactions, where the reactive molecules can produce monomers and condensing agents. Monomers and eventual polymers formed could become strongly concentrated at the oil-water interface, favouring molecular interactions at high mobility and low dilution, without exposure to the destructive action of UV-light. Increased water leakiness of the oil layer due to accumulation of polar molecules within, would lead to photo-oxidation of liquid hydrocarbons, and subsequent emulsification at the oil-water interface, forming cellular structures. The atmosphere would then have lost its reducing character. 相似文献