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Siedow JN 《Photosynthesis research》2002,72(2):125-130
Charles F. Yocum has been a leader in the applications of biochemical techniques to the resolution and reconstitution of Photosystem
II. His formal science education began as an undergraduate in biochemistry at Iowa State University and continued with graduate
work in photosynthesis, first at the Illinois Institute of Technology and later at Indiana University. Following postdoctoral
work at Cornell University, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan where he has remained throughout his academic
career. Charlie's contributions to a biochemical understanding of photosynthesis, particularly Photosystem II have been considerable,
but most notably include his initial isolation of the first highly active oxygen-evolving particle from higher plant chloroplasts,
the well-known and widely utilized `BBY particles'. In the aftermath of that isolation, Charlie's research further resolved
these particles into ever finer and simpler, but active, Photosystem II complexes. In addition, Charlie's research has provided
significant insight into the roles of both Cl− and Ca2+ as required cofactors in photosynthetic oxygen evolution.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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We honor here Thomas (Tom) Roosevelt Punnett, Jr. (May 25, 1926–July 4, 2008), who was a pioneer of Biology, particularly
of biochemistry of plants and algae, having specialized in photosynthesis under Robert Emerson of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. He did exciting work on regulation and control of various metabolic reactions. He was an innovator and
raconteur par excellence, and he prized critical thinking. His enthusiasm for basic science questions was matched by his grasp
of their “real-world” implications. His last project was a patent for anaerobic sewage treatment that he hoped would lead to solution of waste disposal and energy creation world wide, including
the clean-up of Lake Erie, where he had sailed as a boy. On the personal side, he had a strong sense of morality and a great
wit and humor. 相似文献
3.
《Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences》2000,31(2):287-313
In this paper the scientific trajectory of Spanish influential biochemist Alberto Sols (1917–1989) is presented in comparative perspective. His social and academic environment, his research training under the Cori's in the US in the early 1950s and his works when coming back to Spain to develop his own scientific career are described in order to present the central argument of this paper on his path from physiological research to research on enzymatic regulation. Sols' main contributions were both scientific and academic. He and his collaborators not only contributed to biological knowledge on the biochemistry of metabolic regulation but to the active reception of biochemistry in the Spanish academia and to update of Spanish medical education. 相似文献
4.
Richard Bellon 《Journal of the history of biology》2001,34(1):51-82
During the 1840s and the 1850s botanist Joseph Hooker developeddistinct notions about the proper characteristics of aprofessional
man of science. While he never articulated theseideas publicly as a coherent agenda, he did share his opinionsopenly in letters
to family and colleagues; this privatecommunication gives essential insight into his and his X-Clubcolleagues' public activities.
The core aspiration of Hooker'sprofessionalization was to consolidate men of science into adutiful and centralized community
dedicated to nationalwell-being. The nation in turn owed the scientific community forits ministration. When the government
bestowed funds and statuson men of science it was rewarding science – not purchasing it. His proposed reforms were piecemeal,
immediate, and above allpractical. He harbored no taste for vast millenariantransformation, and rested his conception of scientificprofessionalism
upon a respectable High Victorian foundation ofpatronage and pillars of duty, reciprocity, intimacy, andinequality. The process
of professionalization he envisioned wasas much shrewd compromise between existing interests as avindication of principle.
His power and prestige from themid-1850s onward gave him considerable ability to carry out hisreform program, although his
general success did occasion someundesired consequences for the status of natural-historypursuits.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Raphael Chijioke Njoku 《Dialectical Anthropology》2007,31(1-3):45-64
It is difficult to completely understand the life history of an intellectual excluding an understanding of his family upbringing
and formative years. Family upbringing and childhood environment, often the less known part of a life history, play crucial
roles in shaping the ideas and values individuals espouse in their adult life. Notwithstanding, this paper is not concerned
with Don C. Ohadike’s childhood. It rather focuses on the professional career of our able historian – that is the part of
his life as revealed by his most outstanding published writings. Ohadike’s published works contain a wellspring of idioms
that tell much about his values, quality of mind, and his mission as an African historian. Ohadike was a humanist, an African
patriot, and a nationalist crusader. His entire philosophy centered on safeguarding his African identity in an emergent world
of cultural imperialism.
The funds for this research were provided by a NEH-funded fellowship at the Schomburg Center, New York in the Spring of 2007.
I owe a lot of gratitude to Professor John McLeod and Dean Blaine Hudson for granting me the extra incentives to pursue my
research in New York. While all errors and misinterpretations are mine, I wish to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers
for Journal of Dialectical Anthropology for their perspective comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper. 相似文献
6.
The mechanical properties of young stems of Aristolochia macrophylla Lam. and Aristolochia brasiliensis Mart. et Zucc. were studied during elongation growth and primary differentiation. Data for the modulus of elasticity, for
the viscoelastic behaviour caused by longitudinal tension and for the shear modulus resulting from torsion around a longitudinal
axis were related to the underlying structural changes by quantitative analysis of stem anatomy, tissue distribution, ultrastructure,
and cell wall biochemistry. The orientation of cellulose microfibrils was determined by light microscopy and small-angle X-ray
diffraction, and the lignin content was determined by thioglycolic acid derivatization and spectroscopic quantification. It
was demonstrated that the increase in stability during early development is due to the complementary effects of increase in
cell wall material, lignification, and cellulose microfibril alignment. A detailed micromechanical model, considering internal
prestresses, is proposed to explain the characteristic biphasic stress-strain behaviour as well as the strain-hardening observed.
Received: 22 March 1999 / Accepted 9 September 1999 相似文献
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The matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of proteases capable of degrading various components of the extracellular
matrix (ECM). Among them, the membrane type MMP–1 (MT1–MMP) has been shown to participate in the activation of MMP gelatinase
A (GelA), suggesting that they may function together in development and pathogenesis. Here, we have investigated the spatiotemporal
expression profiles of Xenopus laevis MT1–MMP and GelA genes during thyroid-hormone-dependent metamorphosis. We have focused our studies on two organs: (1) the
intestine, which undergoes first the degeneration of the tadpole epithelium through apoptosis and then the development of
adult epithelium and other tissues, and (2) the tail, which completely resorbs through programmed cell death. We show that
both MT1–MMP and GelA are upregulated in the intestine and tail when both organs undergo metamorphosis. Within the organs,
MT1–MMP and GelA are coexpressed in the connective tissues during both natural and thyroid-hormone-induced metamorphosis.
In addition, MT1–MMP (but not GelA) is also expressed in the longitudinal muscle cells of the metamorphosing intestine. These
results suggest that MT1–MMP and GelA function together in the ECM degradation or remodeling associated with metamorphosis
and that MT1–MMP has additional GelA–independent roles in the development of adult longitudinal muscle in the intestine.
This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
NIH. T. Hasebe and H. Matsuda were supported in part by JSPS (NIH) fellowships. 相似文献
8.
Hieracium is a member of the Asteraceae family, and contains sexual species in addition to apomictic species that reproduce by apospory
and produce seed without fertilization. A homologue of the floral organ-identity gene DEFICIENS (DEF) was isolated from an apomictic line of Hieracium piloselloides (Vill.) following differential display between mature ovules and those initiating autonomous embryogenesis. The gene termed
HPDEF has 93% amino acid identity with GDEF2, a DEF homologue isolated from Gerbera hybrida (D. Yu et al., 1999, Plant J. 17: 51–62), another member of the Asteraceae. In-situ analysis showed that early in floral
development HPDEF is expressed in stamen and petal primordia, indicating expected B-function activity, according to the ABC model of floral
organ identity (J. L. Bowman et al., 1991, Development 112: 1–20; E. S. Coen and E. M. Meyerowitz, 1991, Nature 353: 31–37).
However, HPDEF expression was also observed in ovule primordia and expression continued in developing ovules until anthesis, indicating
that this gene may have a role in ovule development. Expression of HPDEF was not detected in megaspore mother cells, or in sexual or aposporous embryo sacs. In sexual Hieracium, HPDEF was uniformly expressed throughout the ovule integument until anthesis. In most ovules of the apomict, however, HPDEF expression was transiently down-regulated in a specific zone in the chalazal region where cells initiating aposporous embryo
sac formation differentiate. Uniform low-level HPDEF expression was subsequently observed prior to anthesis in ovules from sexual and apomictic plants. HPDEF may be down-regulated as a consequence of apomictic initiation and/or its down-regulation may facilitate progression of apomictic
events.
Received: 15 September 1999 / Accepted: 12 October 1999 相似文献
9.
Abscisic acid and hydraulic conductivity of maize roots: a study using cell- and root-pressure probes 总被引:31,自引:0,他引:31
Using root- and cell-pressure probes, the effects of the stress hormone abscisic acid (ABA) on the water-transport properties
of maize roots (Zea mays L.) were examined in order to work out dose and time responses for root hydraulic conductivity. Abscisic acid applied at
concentrations of 100–1,000 nM increased the hydraulic conductivity of excised maize roots both at the organ (root Lpr: factor of 3–4) and the root cell level (cell Lp: factor of 7–27). Effects on the root cortical cells were more pronounced
than at the organ level. From the results it was concluded that ABA acts at the plasmalemma, presumably by an interaction
with water channels. Abscisic acid therefore facilitated the cell-to-cell component of transport of water across the root
cylinder. Effects on cell Lp were transient and highly specific for the undissociated (+)-cis-trans-ABA. The stress hormone ABA facilitates water uptake into roots as soils start drying, especially under non-transpiring conditions,
when the apoplastic path of water transport is largely excluded.
Received: 26 February 2000 / Accepted: 17 August 2000 相似文献
10.
Increased transglutaminase activity was associated with IL-6 release in cultured human gingival fibroblasts exposed to dental cast alloys 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Summary. Molecular mechanisms underlying gingival and periodontal inflammation caused by dental alloys are still poorly understood.
Recently, it has been demonstrated that tissue transglutaminase can be involved in inflammatory cell response. The aim of
this study was to evaluate effects of exposure to orthodontic materials on transglutaminase in cultured human gingival fibroblasts.
The incubation with Ni–Ti heat-activated (T3) or Ni–Ti super-elastic (T4), and with Ni–Cr–Co (T2) alloys produced respectively
2.5-fold and 8-fold increases in IL-6 release compared with control cultures. Transglutaminase activity was significantly
increased in cells exposed to T3 and T4 alloys (about 170% of control; p < 0.05), where it was mainly localized close to inner part of cell membrane. The exposure to T3 and T4 specimens significantly
up-regulated also tTG expression compared with control cultures. These data first show an association between IL-6 release
and tissue transglutaminase increases, suggesting that TGase-mediated reactions may play a major role in periodontal inflammation. 相似文献
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Using cellular automata images and pseudo amino acid composition to predict protein subcellular location 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Summary. The avalanche of newly found protein sequences in the post-genomic era has motivated and challenged us to develop an automated
method that can rapidly and accurately predict the localization of an uncharacterized protein in cells because the knowledge
thus obtained can greatly speed up the process in finding its biological functions. However, it is very difficult to establish
such a desired predictor by acquiring the key statistical information buried in a pile of extremely complicated and highly
variable sequences. In this paper, based on the concept of the pseudo amino acid composition (Chou, K. C. PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Genetics, 2001, 43: 246–255), the approach of cellular automata image is introduced to cope with this problem. Many important features,
which are originally hidden in the long amino acid sequences, can be clearly displayed through their cellular automata images.
One of the remarkable merits by doing so is that many image recognition tools can be straightforwardly applied to the target
aimed here. High success rates were observed through the self-consistency, jackknife, and independent dataset tests, respectively. 相似文献
12.
Summary. 3-Hydroxynorvaline (HNV; 2-amino-3-hydroxypentanoic acid), a microbial L-threonine analogue, is toxic to mammalian cells and
displays antiviral properties. In view of this, we investigated the toxicity and/or potential teratogenicity of HNV in developing
chicken and mouse embryos. HNV was administered to chicken embryos (in ovo; dose 75–300 μmole/egg; 48 h post-incubation) and pregnant Hanover NMRI mice (per os; total dose 900–1800 mg/kg body mass; gestation days 7–9). Control animals received sterile saline solutions. Harvested embryos
(chicken embryos, 10 days post-incubation; mouse embryos; gestation day 18) were fixed in glutaraldehyde and stereomicroscopically
inspected for signs of dysmorphogenesis. Body mass, body and toe length and mortality of chicken embryos, and the body mass
and mortality of mouse embryos were recorded. HNV exposure significantly increased the incidence of embryotoxic (growth retardation,
toxic mortality) and congenital defects in both chicken and mouse embryos. All the observed effects were dose-dependent. In
conclusion, HNV is an embryotoxic and teratogenic compound, which caused significant developmental delay and congenital defects
in developing chicken and mouse embryos. 相似文献
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Arriagada C Dagnino-Subiabre A Caviedes P Armero JM Caviedes R Segura-Aguilar J 《Amino acids》2000,18(4):363-373
Summary. Aminochrome was found to be toxic in a mouse-derived neuronal cell line (CNh). The effect was concentration dependent (10–150
μM). The issue whether aminochrome toxicity involves glutamate transmission was studied with several glutamate receptors antagonists.
Incubation of the cells with aminochrome (150 μM) in the presence of 100 μM of the AMPA an-tagonist, NBQX resulted in an increase of cell survival, from 52 to 73%. However, this protective effect
did not seem to be related to activation of ionotropic glutamate receptors since incubation of CNh cells with 200 μM of glutamate resulted in only 10% decrease of cell survival. However, NBQX was found to inhibit in vitro the autoxidation process. One hundred μM AP-5 did not have any effect on aminochrome toxicity. The toxic effect of aminochrome on CNh cells seems to be dependent
of extracellular activation since addition of dicoumarol, a specific inhibitor of DT-diaphorase, did not affect that toxicity,
which can be explained perhaps by a lack of a transport system for aminochrome into the CNh cells.
Received July 28, 1999, Accepted December 6, 1999 相似文献
14.
Johannsen B 《Amino acids》2005,29(4):307-311
Summary. Radioactive isotopes are uniquely applicable to observe reactions or circuits of reactions at the molecular level without
disturbing the system being studied. The advent of molecular imaging modalities, particularly positron emission tomography
(PET), is a major breakthrough for the visualisation and quantitative assessment of cellular and molecular processes occurring
in living tissues. The recent development of animal PET scanners that offers 2-mm resolution and is tailored to laboratory
rodent models, has made a further great impact on in vivo biochemistry. With these live-imaging modalities at hand, radiotracer-based technologies allow to look directly at biochemical
distribution and interaction processes. Tremendous progress made in radiotracer chemistry, primarily in carbon-11 and fluorine-18
radiochemistry, and in the design of imaging devices strengthens the usefulness of radiotracers in nuclear medicine and drug
research and development and opens exciting opportunities for new applications, e.g., in food science. 相似文献
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Summary. The influence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity on the KCl-evoked amino acid concentrations was investigated by in vivo microdialysis in the striatum in a rat model of excitotoxic lesion. Basal microdialysate levels of amino acids decreased
during the quinolinic acid-induced neurodegeneration process, except for glutamine that increased initially and returned to
control values 30 days after quinolinic acid exposure. KCl-evoked increase of extracellular amino acid concentration was reduced
due to NOS activity in the striatum of both controls and lesioned animals, except for 120 days after quinolinic acid injection.
These changes of amino acid concentrations in microdialysates correlated with the known biochemistry of the consecutive domineered
cell types during the lesion process as revealed by histochemistry for NOS, NADPH-diaphorase, GFAP and isolectin B4. The present
data provide direct evidence that NOS activity can modulate extracellular amino acid concentrations in the striatum not only
under physiological conditions, but also during a pharmacologically induced lesion process and, thus, suggests that nitric
oxide affects neurodegeneration via this pathway.
Received October 20, 1999; Accepted February 25, 2000 相似文献
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Batch cultures of photoautotrophic cell suspensions of Chenopodiumrubrum L., growing in an inorganic medium on CO2 under a daily balanced light–dark regime of 16 : 8 h could be maintained for approximately 100 d without subcultivation.
The long-lived cultures showed an initial cell division phase of 4 weeks, followed by a stationary phase of another 4 weeks,
after which ageing and progressive cell death reduced the number of living cells and the cultures usually expired after another
3–4 weeks. These developmental phases of the cell culture were characterised with respect to photosynthetic performance, dark
respiration, content of phytohormones and capacity of cell division. Cell division of the majority of the cells finished in
the G1- or G0-phase of the cell cycle, caused by a pronounced decline in the endogenous levels of auxin and cytokinins. Supply
of these growth factors to resting cells resulted in resumption of cytokinesis, at least by some of the cells. However, responsiveness
to the phytohomones declined during the stationary phase, and subcultivation was no longer possible beyond day 60 when the
phases of ageing and death commenced. Ageing was characterised by a further decline in the photosynthetic capacity of the
cells, by a climacteric enhancement of dark respiration, but also by a slight increase in the level of IAA and cytokinins
concomitant with a decrease in ethylene. Similarities and differences between the development of batch-cultured photoautotrophic
cells of C. rubrum and that of a leaf are discussed with respect to using the cell culture as a model for a leaf.
Received: 30 April 1999 / Accepted: 21 August 1999 相似文献
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Transgenic Nicotiana tabacum and Arabidopsis thaliana plants overexpressing allene oxide synthase 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Allene oxide synthase (AOS), encoded by a single gene in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh., catalyzes the first step specific to the octadecanoid pathway. Enzyme activity is very low in control plants,
but is upregulated by wounding, octadecanoids, ethylene, salicylate and coronatine (D. Laudert and E.W. Weiler, 1998, Plant
J 15: 675–684). In order to study the consequences of constitutive expression of AOS on the level of jasmonates, a complete
cDNA encoding the enzyme from A. thaliana was constitutively expressed in both A. thaliana and tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). Overexpression of AOS did not alter the basal level of jasmonic acid; thus, output of the jasmonate pathway in the unchallenged
plant appears to be strictly limited by substrate availability. In wounded plants overexpressing AOS, peak jasmonate levels
were 2- to 3-fold higher compared to untransformed plants. More importantly, the transgenic plants reached the maximum jasmonate
levels significantly earlier than wounded untransformed control plants. These findings suggest that overexpression of AOS
might be a way of controlling defense dynamics in higher plants.
Received: 10 February 2000 / Accepted: 11 March 2000 相似文献
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Egg cells were analysed cytologically during the female receptivity period in maize (Zea mays L., line A 188). Three classes of egg cell were distinguished: type A – small, non-vacuolated cells with a central nucleus;
type B – larger cells with small vacuoles surrounding the perinuclear cytoplasm located in the middle of the cell; type C
– big cells with a large apical vacuole and the mid-basal perinuclear cytoplasm. The less-dense cytoplasm of the vacuolated
egg cells usually contained numerous cup- or bell-shaped mitochondria. The three egg types appear to correspond to three late
stages of egg cell differentiation. The frequencies of each of the three egg types were monitored in developing maize ears
before and after pollination. In young ears, with the silks just extending out of the husks, small A-type cells were found
in about 86% of ovules. Their frequency decreased to about 58% at the optimum silk length, remained unchanged in non-pollinated
ears, and fell to 16% at the end of the female receptivity period. However, after pollination and before fertilisation the
frequency of these cells decreased to about 33%, and the larger vacuolated egg cells (types B and C) prevailed. At various
stages of the receptivity period, pollination accelerated changes in the egg population, increasing the number of ovules bearing
larger, vacuolated egg cells. Experiments with silk removal demonstrated that putative pollination signals act immediately
after pollen deposition and are not species-specific.
Received: 5 February 1999 / Accepted: 28 August 1999 相似文献
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Summary. To date, the majority of therapeutic peptides and proteins have to be administered via parenteral routes, which are painful
and inconvenient. In order to gain sufficient high blood concentrations after oral application, various barriers in the gastrointestinal
tract have to be overcome. Apart from a poor membrane uptake and intense enzymatic degradation, this study will demonstrate
that thiol–disulphide reactions are an underestimated essential part of the presystemic metabolism. Glutathione, integrative
part of the antioxidant defence system in the gastrointestinal tract, may play an important role in the inactivation of orally
given peptides and proteins. In order to verify this hypothesis, desmopressin which bears a single disulphide bond was used
as model peptide drug. Desmopressin was incubated with GSH in various concentrations, and the extent of thiol/disulphide exchange
reactions between the peptide drug and GSH was investigated in dependence on pH and ratio of reactants determined as a function
of time via HPLC, LC-MS and Maldi-Tof-MS analyses.
Results showed that desmopressin is degraded by 1% reduced glutathione at pH 4 and pH 5.5. In presence of 0.01%, 0.1% and
1% of reduced glutathione 6.1%, 19.4% and 52.1% of desmopressin, respectively, were degraded. The masses of the conjugates
after deconvolution measured by liquid chromatography and electrospray ionisation mass spectrometric detection were m/z 1069.67, m/z 1376.50, m/z 1683.40 and m/z 2138. These molecular masses, confirmed by Maldi-Tof-MS analysis, correspond with the masses of conjugates expected in theory.
Under defined conditions, these results reveal that thiol–disulphide exchange reactions have a considerable impact on the
alteration of peptide drugs and proteins. 相似文献
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Sucrose synthase (SS), a key enzyme in plant carbohydrate metabolism, has recently been isolated from Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7119, and biochemically characterized; two forms (SS-I and SS-II) were detected (Porchia et al. 1999, Planta
210: 34–40). The present study describes the first isolation and characterization of a prokaryotic SS gene, susA, encoding SS-II from that strain of Anabaena. A 7 kbp DNA fragment containing an open reading frame (EMBL accession number AJ010639) with about 30–40% amino acid identity
with plant SSs was isolated from an Anabaena subgenomic library. The putative SS gene was demonstrated to encode an SS protein by expression in Escherichia coli. The biochemical properties of the recombinant enzyme were identical to those of the enzyme purified from the cyanobacterial
cells. The deduced amino acid sequence of the Anabaena SS diverged from every plant SS reported. The occurrence of SS in cyanobacteria of different taxonomic groups was investigated.
The enzyme occurs in several filamentous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria but not in two species of unicellular, non-diazotrophic
cyanobacteria.
Received: 5 January 2000 / Accepted: 7 March 2000 相似文献