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<正>Gaseous nitrogen(N2)makes up 78%of the earth’s atmosphere;its incorporation into a wide range of biological macromolecules molecules,such as nucleic acids and amino acids,makes it an essential part of all life on earth.However,as nitrogen gas is inert,it remains unavailable to most organisms,including plants.Thus,in order to be useful for fertilizer production,gaseous nitrogen needs first to be 相似文献
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Li Qiqiong Hu Jielun Nie Qixing Chang Xiao Fang Qingying Xie Junhua Li Haishan Nie Shaoping 《中国科学:生命科学英文版》2021,64(1):117-132
Diabetes mellitus is a serious threat to human health. Cyclocarya paliurus(Batal.) Iljinskaja(C. paliurus) is one of the traditional herbal medicine and food in China for treating type 2 diabetes, and the C. paliurus polysaccharides(CP) were found to be one of its major functional constituents. This research aimed at investigating the hypoglycemic mechanism for CP. It was found that CP markedly attenuated the symptoms of diabetes, and inhibited the protein expression of Bax, improved the expression of Bcl-2 in pancreas of diabetic rats, normalized hormones secretion and controlled the inflammation which contributed to the regeneration of pancreatic β-cell and insulin resistance. CP treatment increased the beneficial bacteria genus Ruminococcaceae UCG-005 which was reported to be a key genus for protecting against diabetes, and the fecal short-chain fatty acids levels were elevated.Uric metabolites analysis showed that CP treatment helped to protect with the diabetes by seven significantly improved pathways closely with the nutrition metabolism(amino acids and purine) and energy metabolism(TCA cycle), which could help to build up the intestinal epithelial cell defense for the inflammation associated with the diabetes. Our study highlights the specific mechanism of prebiotics to attenuate diabetes through multi-path of gut microbiota and host metabolism. 相似文献
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Woo KL 《Molecular biotechnology》2003,24(1):69-88
New precolumn derivatizing reagents for analysis of amino acids by HPLC—butylisothiocyanate (BITC) and benzylisothiocyanate
(BZITC)—reacted quantitatively with 22 standard amino acids and the amino acids in the acid hydrolysate of food and protein
standard, bovine serum albumin (BSA), at 40°C for 30 min to yield butylthiocarbamyl (BTC) amino acids and at 50°C for 30 min
to yield benzylthiocarbammyl (BZTC) amino acids. BTC and BZTC amino acids were successfully separated in 35 min on the reversed-phase
Nova-Pak C18 column (30 cm × 3.9 mm, 4 μm). The optimum wavelengths for determination of BTC and BZTC derivatives were 240
nm and 246 nm, respectively. Analysis of the results obtained with BSA and food samples as BTC and BZTC derivatives showed
good agreement with those determined as ion-exchange chromatography and data presented in the literature. The advantage of
BITC reagent over the phenylisothiocyanate (PITC) and BZITC was that it had high volatility, so the excess reagent and by-products
were easily removed in about 10 min, compared to about 1 h in the PITC and BZITC reagents. In the BTC and BZTC derivatives,
cystine and cysteine were determined separately, but in the PTC amino acids derivatized with PITC reagent they were resolved
into single peak. 相似文献
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Yi ZHANG Wei WANG Jin-rong GAO Li YE Xiao-nan FANG Ying-chun ZENG Zheng-hui WU Ying-long SHE Lin-bai YE 《Virologica Sinica》2007,22(1):1-7
SARS-CoV is a newly discovery pathogen causing severe acute respiratory problems. It has been established that the S protein in this pathogen plays an important rule in the adsorption and penetration of SARS-CoV into the host cell by interaction with the ACE2 receptor. To determinant which functional motif of the S protein was involved in the interaction with ACE2, seven truncated S proteins deleted from the N or C terminal were obtained by an E.coli expression system and purified by column chroma-tography to homogeneity. Each truncated S protein was fixed on to the well of an ELISA plate and an interaction was initiated with the ACE2 protein. The adsorption were quantified by ELISA, and the results indicated that amino acids from 388 to 496 of the S protein was responsible for the interaction with the ACE2 receptor, and the interaction could be completely disrupted by an antibody specific to these amino acids. Deletions adjacent to this domain did not appear to have a significant impact on the interaction with ACE2, suggesting that the S protein of SARS-CoV could be developed as a vaccine to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV. 相似文献
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Hanwen Li Jinqiang Nian Shuang Fang Meng Guo Xiahe Huang Fengxia Zhang Qing Wang Jian Zhang Jiaoteng Bai Guojun Dong Peiyong Xin Xianzhi Xie Fan Chen Guodong Wang Yingchun Wang Qian Qian Jianru Zuo Jinfang Chu Xiaohui Ma 《遗传学报》2022,49(5):469-480
Nitrogen is an essential macronutrient for all living organisms and is critical for crop productivity and quality.In higher plants, inorganic nitrogen is absorbed through roots and then assimilated into amino acids by the highly conserved glutamine synthetase/glutamine:2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase(GS/GOGAT) cycle.How nitrogen metabolism and nitrogen starvation responses of plants are regulated remains largely unknown. Previous studies revealed that mutations in the rice ABNORMAL CYTOKININ RES... 相似文献
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Plants naturally produce cyanide (CN) which is maintained at low levels in their cells by a process of rapid assimilation. However, high concentrations of environmental CN associated with activities such as industrial pollution are toxic to plants. There is thus an interest in increasing the CN detoxification capacity of plants as a potential route to phytoremediation. Here, Arabidopsis seedlings overexpressing the Pseudomonas fluorescens β-cyanoalanine nitrilase pinA were compared with wild-type and a β-cyanoalanine nitrilase knockout line (△Atnit4) for growth in the presence of exogenous CN. After incubation with CN, +PfpinA seedlings had increased root length, increased fresh weight, and decreased leaf bleaching compared with wild-type, indicating increased CN tolerance. The increased tolerance was achieved without an increase in β-cyanoalanine synthase activity, the other enzyme in the cyanide assimilation pathway, suggesting that nitrilase activity is the limiting factor for cyanide detoxification. Labeling experiments with [^13C] KCN demonstrated that the altered CN tolerance could be explained by differences in flux from CN to Asn caused by altered β-cyanoalanine nitrilase activity. Metabolite profiling after CN treatment provided new insight into downstream metabolism, revealing onward metabolism of Asn by the photorespiratory nitrogen cycle and accumulation of aromatic amino acids. 相似文献
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《亚洲两栖爬行动物研究(英文版)》2018,(4)
Poikilothermic animals living in high-altitude environments can be greatly affected by the anaerobic metabolism and lactate recycling, which are catalyzed by an enzyme called lactate dehydrogenase(LDH). However, the function and possible regulatory mechanisms of their anaerobic glycolysis remained elusive. We compared the difference in LDH between a native high-altitude(4 353 m) lizard, Phrynocephalus erythrurus, and a closely related species, Phrynocephalus przewalskii that lives in intermediate altitude environment(1 400 m). The activity of LDH, the concentration of lactate, the distribution of isoenzyme, and the mRNA amounts of Ldh-A and Ldh-B were determined. In cardiac muscle, the lactate-forming activity of P. erythrurus in LDH was higher than of P. przewalskii LDH at all three temperatures tested(10 °C, 25 °C and 35 °C), while lactate-oxidation activity of LDH was significantly different between the two species only at 25 °C and 35 °C. In skeletal muscle, both lactate-forming and lactate-oxidation rates of P. erythrurus were lower than that of P. przewalskii. There was a higher proportion of H subunit and a significantly higher expression of Ldh-B, with a concomitant decrease of lactate concentration in P. erythrurus. These results indicate that P. erythrurus may have a strong potential for anaerobic metabolism, which is likely adapted to the hypoxic environment at high altitudes. Furthermore, P. erythrurus is capable of oxidizing more lactate than P. przewalskii. The Ldh-A cDNA of the two species consists of a 999 bp open reading frame(ORF), which encodes 332 amino acids, while Ldh-B cDNA consists of a 1 002 bp ORF encoding 333 amino acids. LDHA has the same amino acid sequence between the two species, but three amino acid substitutions(V12 I, N21 S and N318 K) were observed in LDHB. Structure analysis of LDH indicated that the substitutions of residues Val12 and Asp21 in P. erythrurus could be responsible for the highaltitude adaptation. The LDH characteristics of LDH in P. erythrurus suggest unique adaptation strategies of anaerobic metabolism in hypoxia and cold environments at high altitudes for poikilothermic animals. 相似文献
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Xue Wen Changlian Peng Houcheng Zhou Zhifang Lin Guizhu Lin Shaowei Chen Ping Li 《植物学报(英文版)》2006,48(9):1047-1053
The chemical composition, mineral elements, vitamins, free fatty acids and amino acid content of the edible red alga Gracilaria lemaneiformis Bory, grown in the sea near Nan'ao island, Guangdong Province, were analyzed in the present study. Gracilaria lemaneiformis Bory showed a total sugar content of 14.65%. The protein content was 21%, of which approximately 41% was determined to be essential amino acids (EAA). The major amino acid components were glutamic acid, leucine, arginine, and alanine. Of the EAA assayed, methionine and cysteine appeared to be the most limiting amino acids compared with the EAA pattern provided by Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. The total lipids content was 0.87% and comprised a high composition of unsaturated fatty acids (61%), mainly as linoleic acid and oleic acid, and a little amount of polyunsaturated fatty acid; palmitic acid was the main component (39%) of saturated acids. Relatively high levels of vitamin C, iodine, phosphorus, and zinc were also present in G. lemaneiformis. The nutritional composition between G. lemaneiformis and Nostoc flagelliforme, a rare alga that is widely eaten in Chinese society, was compared. The results suggest that N. flagelliforme can be substituted for by G. lemaneiformis, not only because of their similar shape, but also because of their approximate nutritional composition. Gracilaria lemaneiformis may possibly serve as a potential healthy food in human diets in the future. 相似文献
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野生植物云木香的营养成分 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
The analysis of nutrients in Aucklandia lappa Decne.showed that there were mineral elements,fiber,proteins,carbohydrates and vitamins including β-carotene,and at least 17 kind of amino acids.In which,the amount of total sugar,Glu,VB2 and calcium is relatively high.It provided the basic data for utilization of the wild plants. 相似文献
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Identifying the subcellular localization of proteins is particularly helpful in the functional annotation of gene products. In this study, we use Machine Learning and Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) techniques to examine and characterize amino acid sequences of human proteins localized in nine cellular compartments. A dataset of 3,749 protein sequences representing human proteins was extracted from the SWISS-PROT database. Feature vectors were created to capture specific amino acid sequence characteristics. Relative to a Support Vector Machine, a Multi-layer Perceptron, and a Naive Bayes classifier, the C4.5 Decision Tree algorithm was the most consistent performer across all nine compartments in reliably predicting the subcellular localization of proteins based on their amino acid sequences (average Precision=0.88; average Sensitivity=0.86). Furthermore, EDA graphics characterized essential features of proteins in each compartment. As examples, proteins localized to the plasma membrane had higher proportions of hydrophobic amino acids; cytoplasmic proteins had higher proportions of neutral amino acids; and mitochondrial proteins had higher proportions of neutral amino acids and lower proportions of polar amino acids. These data showed that the C4.5 classifier and EDA tools can be effective for characterizing and predicting the subcellular localization of human proteins based on their amino acid sequences. 相似文献
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Masakazu Hirasawa ;Jatindra N. Tripathy ;Ramasamy Somasundaram ;Michael K. Johnson ;Megha Bhalla ;James R Allen ;David B. Knaff 《植物生理学报》2009,(3):407-415
A series of site-directed mutants of the ferredoxin-dependent spinach nitrite reductase has been characterized and several amino acids have been identified that appear to be involved in the interaction of the enzyme with ferredoxin. In a complementary study, binding constants to nitrite reductase and steady-state kinetic parameters of site-directed mutants of ferredoxin were determined in an attempt to identify ferredoxin amino acids involved in the interaction with nitrite reductase. The results have been interpreted in terms of an in-silico docking model for the 1:1 complex of ferredoxin with nitrite reductase. 相似文献
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Complete nucleotide sequence and genome organization of tobacco mosaic virus isolated from Viciafaba
Based on reported TMV-U1 sequence, primers were designed and fragments covering the entire genome of TMV broad bean strain (TMV-B) were obtained with RT-PCR. These fragments were cloned and sequenced and the 5' and 3' end sequences of genome were confirmed with RACE. The complete sequence of TMV-B comprises 6 395 nucleotides (nt) and four open reading frames, which correspond to 126 ku (1 116 amino acids), 183 ku (1 616 amino acids), 30 ku (268 amino acids) and 17.5 ku proteins (159 amino acids). The complete nucleotide sequence of TMV-B is 99.4% identical to that of TMV-U1. The two virus isolates share the same sequence of 5', 3' non-coding region and 17.5 K ORF, and 6, 1 and 3 amino acid changes are found in 126 K protein, 54 K protein and 30 K protein, respectively. The possible mechanism on the infection of TMV-B in Vicia faba is discussed. 相似文献
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Asechi M Kurauchi I Tomonaga S Yamane H Suenaga R Tsuneyoshi Y Denbow DM Furuse M 《Amino acids》2008,34(1):55-60
Summary. Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of L-serine was shown to have sedative and hypnotic effects on neonatal chicks
under acute stressful conditions. To clarify the central mechanism of these effects of L-serine, two experiments were done.
First, we focused on the glycogenic pathway in which L-serine is converted into pyruvate and finally glucose. I.c.v. administration
of pyruvate (0.84 μmol) did not induce any behavioral and endocrinological changes, while L-serine and glucose triggered sedative
and hypnotic effects. Secondly, the relationship between the sedation by L-serine and the metabolism into other amino acids
which have sedative effects was investigated in the telencephalon and diencephalon. In both brain areas, a dose-dependent
increase was seen in L-serine, although other amino acids were not changed. In the present study, it was concluded that the
sedative action of L-serine was not due to the action of its metabolite pyruvate, or to the action of other amino acids.
Authors’ address: M. Furuse, PhD, Laboratory of Advanced Animal and Marine Bioresources, Graduate School of Bioresource and
Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan 相似文献
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Serum-free culture of rat keratinocytes 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Hirosuke Oku Chikara Kumamoto Tomoyuki Miyagi Takanori Hiyane Junichi Nagata Isao Chinen 《In vitro cellular & developmental biology. Animal》1994,30(8):496-503
Summary Procedures for the serum-free culture of rat keratinocytes have been established. Basal cells prepared from epidermis of newborn
rat were stored in liquid nitrogen and used for primary culture. Among the available media, MCDB 153, developed originally
for human keratinocyte (HK) culture, was the best for the development of serum-free formulation. To grow rat keratinocytes,
bovine serum albumin was arbitrarily substituted for the macromolecule supplements needed for HK culture, i.e. fetal bovine
serum protein or bovine pituitary extract. Qualitative and quantitative adjustment of supplements was thereafter made to support
rapid cell growth. Satisfactory cell growth was achieved in the optimized medium of MCDB 153 supplemented with growth factors
and amino acids: insulin (10 μg/ml), hydrocortisone (0.1 μg/ml), epidermal growth factor (25 ng/ml), calcium chloride (0.2
mM), histidine (0.23 mM), isoleucine (0.05 mM), tryptophane (0.015 mM), threonine (1.25 mM), tyrosine (0.031 mM), alanine (4.08 mM), and albumin (2 mg/ml). This optimized culture system was superior to the original HK culture condition for rapid growth
of rat keratinocytes. Under our condition, cells grew as a monolayer, becoming confluent, but without stratification, and
were passaged 2 to 3 times without any changes in morphology. The serum-free formulation allows us to control more accurately
the concentrations of biomolecules in the medium including lipids and hormones, and therefore will be suitable for the study
focusing on lipid metabolism or hormonal regulation of rat keratinocytes. 相似文献
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Nasir S. A. Malik ;Jose L. Perez ;Madhurababu Kunta ;Joseph M. Patt ;Robert L. Mangan 《Insect Science》2014,21(6):707-716
The effects of biotic and abiotic stresses on changes in amino acids and polyamine levels in Satsuma orange (Citrus unshiu; cultivar Owari) leaves were inves- tigated. Asian citrus psyllids Diaphorina citri (Kuwayama) (ACP) infestation was used to induce biotic stress while a water deficit was imposed to induce abiotic stress. Potted trees were infested by placing 50 psyllids on 3 citrus leaves enclosed in nylon mesh bags for 5 d. A parallel set of plants were kept water stressed by maintaining the soil at 20% water holding capacity for 5 d. Levels of total free amino acids were higher in water stressed and ACP infested leaves. Polyamine putrescine increased in infested leaves but not in water stressed leaves. Proline was the most abundant amino acid and its levels significantly increased by both biotic and abiotic stresses. Proline levels in infested leaves were significantly higher than the water stressed leaves. Histidine, methionine, asparagine, arginine, serine, and leucine levels also increased significantly in infested leaves, but in water stressed leaves only leucine, methionine, and threonine increased. Levels of amino acids, such as tyrosine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, glutamic acid, and alanine, declined in infested leaves. Under water stress asparagine, phenylalanine, serine, and histidine also declined compared to controls. This indicates that while proteolysis occurred under both stresses, metabolic conversion of amino acids was different under the two stresses. In ACP infested leaves some amino acids may be used as feeding material and/or converted into secondary metabolites for defense. 相似文献
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MingGan De-ChengDing Xue-xiaMiao 《Entomologia Sinica》2003,10(3):167-171
To evaluate the role of bacterial symbionts ( Buchnera spp. ) in the black bean aphids ( Aphis craccivora Koch), the aphids were treated with the antibiotic, rifampicin, to eliminate their intracellular symbiotic bacteria. Analysis of protein and amino acid concentration in 7-day-old of aposymbiotic aphids showed that the total protein content per mg fresh weight was significantly reduced by 29 %, but free amino acid titers were increased by 17% . The ratio of the essential amino acids was in general only around 20% essential amino acids in phloem sap of broad bean, whereas it was 44% and 37% in symbiotic and aposymbiotic aphids, respectively,suggesting that the composition of the free amino acids was unbalanced. For example, the essential amino acid,threonine represented 21. 6% of essential amino acids in symbiotic aphids, but it was only 16.7% in aposymbiotic aphids. Likewise, two nonessential amino acids, tyrosine and serine, represented 8.9% and 5.6% of total amino acids in symbiontic aphids, respectively, but they enhanced to 21.1% and 13.6% in aposymbiotic aphids. It seems likely that the elevated free amino acid concentration in aposymbiotic aphids was caused by the limited protein anabolism as the result of the unbalanced amino acid composition. 相似文献
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[Objective] Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571 can fix nitrogen not only as a free-living organism and an associative-symbiotic bacterium by colonizing the root surface of non-leguminous plants, but also as a symbiotic bacterium by interacting with leguminous plant Sesbania rostrata.Due to its ability to grow and fix nitrogen under three conditions, A.caulinodans uses sophisticated chemotaxis signal transduction systems to transform environmental cues into corresponding behavioral responses.Chemotaxis appears crucial for the growth of A.caulinodansin complicated environment and the construction of associative relationship with the plant.However, little is known about the chemotactic pathway of A.caulinodans.Thus, our study aimed to compare the chemotaxis-like genes of A.caulinodans with those of well-studied species.[Methods] NCBI protein BLAST was used for searching sequence similarity with default parameter values against the genomes of A.caulinodans.HMMER3, based on Pfam database, was used for comparative analyses of methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP).[Results] There was a major chemotaxis cluster in A.caulinodans and the CheR methylated MCPs independently of pentapeptide motif.There were 43 MCP homologs containing diverse signal-sensing architectures in A.caulinodans.In addition,cytoplasmic domains of these MCPs were all composed of 38 heptad repeats.[Conclusion] Despite the extremely high homology presented between the chemotactic system of A.caulinodans and those of well-studied species, A.caulinodans shows its own unique characteristics.The classification of these chemotactic pathways by comparative genomics enables us to better understand how A.caulinodansresponds to changes in environment via exquisite signal transductions in chemotaxis system. 相似文献
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《中国科学:生命科学英文版》2008,(12)
PII proteins are a protein family important to signal transduction in bacteria and plants. PII plays a critical role in regulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in cyanobacteria. Through conformation change and covalent modification, which are regulated by 2-oxoglutarate, PII interacts with different target proteins in response to changes of cellular energy status and carbon and nitrogen sources in cyanobacteria and regulates cellular metabolism. This article reports recent progress in PII research in cyanobacteria and discusses the mechanism of PII regulation of cellular metabolism . 相似文献