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Jenni N Weeks Cristi L Galindo Kenneth L Drake Garry L Adams Harold R Garner Thomas A Ficht 《BMC microbiology》2010,10(1):167
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Quorum sensing is a communication system that regulates gene expression in response to population density and often regulates virulence determinants. Deletion of the luxR homologue vjbR highly attenuates intracellular survival of Brucella melitensis and has been interpreted to be an indication of a role for QS in Brucella infection. Confirmation for such a role was suggested, but not confirmed, by the demonstrated in vitro synthesis of an auto-inducer (AI) by Brucella cultures. In an effort to further delineate the role of VjbR to virulence and survival, gene expression under the control of VjbR and AI was characterized using microarray analysis. 相似文献2.
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Interspecific hybrids of frogs of the genus Xenopus result in sterile hybrid males and fertile hybrid females. Previous work has demonstrated a dramatic asymmetrical pattern of misexpression in hybrid males compared to the two parental species with relatively few genes misexpressed in comparisons of hybrids and the maternal species (X. laevis) and dramatically more genes misexpressed in hybrids compared to the paternal species (X. muelleri). In this work, we examine the gene expression pattern in hybrid females of X. laevis × X. muelleri to determine if this asymmetrical pattern of expression also occurs in hybrid females. 相似文献3.
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Histone protein synthesis is essential for cell proliferation and required for the packaging of DNA into chromatin. In animals, histone proteins are provided by the expression of multicopy replication-dependent histone genes. Histone mRNAs that are processed by a histone-specific mechanism to end after a highly conserved RNA hairpin element, and lack a poly(A) tail. In vertebrates and Drosophila, their expression is dependent on HBP/SLBP that binds to the RNA hairpin element. We showed previously that these cis and trans acting regulators of histone gene expression are conserved in C. elegans. Here we report the results of an investigation of the histone mRNA 3' end structure and of histone gene expression during C. elegans development. 相似文献4.
Marjan De Mey Jo Maertens Gaspard J Lequeux Wim K Soetaert Erick J Vandamme 《BMC biotechnology》2007,7(1):34
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Nowadays, the focus in metabolic engineering research is shifting from massive overexpression and inactivation of genes towards the model-based fine tuning of gene expression. In this context, the construction of a library of synthetic promoters of Escherichia coli as a useful tool for fine tuning gene expression is discussed here. 相似文献5.
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Shin-Young Hong Pil Joon Seo Moon-Sik Yang Fengning Xiang Chung-Mo Park 《BMC plant biology》2008,8(1):112
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The wild grass species Brachypodium distachyon (Brachypodium hereafter) is emerging as a new model system for grass crop genomics research and biofuel grass biology. A draft nuclear genome sequence is expected to be publicly available in the near future; an explosion of gene expression studies will undoubtedly follow. Therefore, stable reference genes are necessary to normalize the gene expression data. 相似文献8.
Katina I Spanier Florian Leese Christoph Mayer John K Colbourne Don Gilbert Michael E Pfrender Ralph Tollrian 《BMC molecular biology》2010,11(1):50
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The planktonic microcrustacean Daphnia pulex is among the best-studied animals in ecological, toxicological and evolutionary research. One aspect that has sustained interest in the study system is the ability of D. pulex to develop inducible defence structures when exposed to predators, such as the phantom midge larvae Chaoborus. The available draft genome sequence for D. pulex is accelerating research to identify genes that confer plastic phenotypes that are regularly cued by environmental stimuli. Yet for quantifying gene expression levels, no experimentally validated set of internal control genes exists for the accurate normalization of qRT-PCR data. 相似文献9.
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Shuo Wei Charles A Whittaker Guofeng Xu Lance C Bridges Anoop Shah Judith M White Douglas W DeSimone 《BMC evolutionary biology》2010,10(1):211
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Members of the disintegrin metalloproteinase (ADAM) family play important roles in cellular and developmental processes through their functions as proteases and/or binding partners for other proteins. The amphibian Xenopus has long been used as a model for early vertebrate development, but genome-wide analyses for large gene families were not possible until the recent completion of the X. tropicalis genome sequence and the availability of large scale expression sequence tag (EST) databases. In this study we carried out a systematic analysis of the X. tropicalis genome and uncovered several interesting features of ADAM genes in this species. 相似文献13.
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F. Puspasari O.K. Radjasa A.S. Noer Z. Nurachman Y.M. Syah M. van der Maarel L. Dijkhuizen Š. Janeček D. Natalia 《Journal of applied microbiology》2013,114(1):108-120
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The aims were to isolate a raw starch–degrading α‐amylase gene baqA from Bacillus aquimaris MKSC 6.2, and to characterize the gene product through in silico study and its expression in Escherichia coli.Methods and Results
A 1539 complete open reading frame of a starch–degrading α‐amylase gene baqA from B. aquimaris MKSC 6·2 has been determined by employing PCR and inverse PCR techniques. Bioinformatics analysis revealed that B. aquimaris MKSC 6.2 α‐amylase (BaqA) has no starch‐binding domain, and together with a few putative α‐amylases from bacilli may establish a novel GH13 subfamily most closely related to GH13_1. Two consecutive tryptophans (Trp201 and Trp202, BaqA numbering) were identified as a sequence fingerprint of this novel GH13 subfamily. Escherichia coli cells produced the recombinant BaqA protein as inclusion bodies. The refolded recombinant BaqA protein degraded raw cassava and corn starches, but exhibited no activity with soluble starch.Conclusions
A novel raw starch–degrading B. aquimaris MKSC 6.2 α‐amylase BaqA is proposed to be a member of new GH13 subfamily.Significance and Impact of the Study
This study has contributed to the overall knowledge and understanding of amylolytic enzymes that are able to bind and digest raw starch directly. 相似文献16.
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CBL1 is a calcium sensor that regulates drought, cold and salt signals in Arabidopsis. Overexpression of CBL1 gene in Arabidopsis and in Ammopiptanthus mongolicus showed different tolerant activities. We are interested in understanding the molecular mechanism of the upstream region of the CBL1 gene of A. mongolicus (AmCBL1). We investigated and characterized the promoter of the AmCBL1 gene, for promoters play a very important role in regulating gene expression in eukaryotes. 相似文献17.
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Yanping Han Jingfu Qiu Zhaobiao Guo He Gao Yajun Song Dongsheng Zhou Ruifu Yang 《BMC microbiology》2007,7(1):96
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Environmental modulation of gene expression in Yersinia pestis is critical for its life style and pathogenesis. Using cDNA microarray technology, we have analyzed the global gene expression of this deadly pathogen when grown under different stress conditions in vitro. 相似文献19.