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Summary. 2H-Pyran-2-ones 1 were transformed with various hydrazines into (E)- or (Z)-α,β-didehydro-α-amino acid (DDAA) derivatives 4 (and 7) containing a highly substituted pyrazolyl moiety attached at the β-position. With heterocyclic hydrazines, the products 4 were accompanied also by decarboxylated enamines E-6. In order to separate (E/Z)-mixtures of acids, they were transformed to the corresponding methyl esters 9 and 10 by the application of diazomethane. Catalytic hydrogenation under high pressures with Pd/C as a catalyst resulted in the formation
of racemic alanine derivatives 11.
Received January 29, 2002 Accepted May 27, 2002 Published online December 18, 2002
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ID="*" Dedicated with deep respect to Professor Waldemar Adam on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
Acknowledgements We thank the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia for the financial support (P0-0503-103).
Dr. B. Kralj and Dr. D. Žigon (Center for Mass Spectroscopy, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia) are gratefully
acknowledged for the mass measurements.
Authors' address: Prof. Marijan Kočevar, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana,
Slovenia, E-mail: marijan.kocevar@uni-lj.si 相似文献
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TNFalpha and TNFbeta, or linfotoxin (LTalpha), are two molecules playing an important role in inflammation. Their genes map on Chromosome 6, between the HLA class II and class I loci. Polymorphisms in, or near, TNF genes have been associated with susceptibility to several autoimmune diseases. Studies of TNF genes in celiac disease (CD) have presented contradictory results. We have assessed the role of TNFalpha and linfotoxin alpha (TNFbeta) in CD and their relative value as CD markers in addition to the presence of DQ2. The TNFA -308 polymorphism and the polymorphism at the first intron of the LTA gene were typed in CD patients and healthy controls and the results were correlated with the presence of DQ2. Significant differences were found in genotype and allele frequencies for the TNFA and LTA genes between CD patients and controls, with an increase in the presence of the TNFA*2 and LTA*1 alleles in CD patients. These differences increase when DQ2-positive CD patients and DQ2-positive controls are compared. In DQ2-positive individuals, allele 2 (A) in position -308 of the promoter of TNFA and allele 1 (G) of the NcoI RFLP in the first intron of LTA are additional risk markers for CD. 相似文献
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Heike Helmholz Blair D. Johnston Christiane Ruhnau Andreas Prange 《Hydrobiologia》2010,645(1):223-234
Scyphozoan medusae are very successful foragers which occasionally occur in high abundances in boreal waters and may impact
many different groups in the marine ecosystem by means of a variety of toxins. A rainbow trout gill cell line, RTgill-W1,
was tested for its suitability as quantitative indicator of the cytotoxicity of Cyanea capillata and Aurelia aurita; the major scyphozoan species in the North and Baltic seas. Cultures of rainbow trout gill cells were exposed to whole venoms
extracted from fishing tentacles and oral arms at increasing protein concentrations. The venom caused detachment, clumping
and lysis of cells, as well as a drop in vitality, in a dose-dependent manner. Morphological changes in the cells were evident
within 1 h after venom addition. The damage to gill cells was quantified by measuring the metabolic activity of the cells
by means of the fluorescence of resorufin derived from the nonfluorescent substrate, resazurin. In general, a decrease in
the metabolic activity of the cells was detected at a venom (protein) concentration above 2.0 μg ml−1 (corresponding to 0.2 μg 104 cells−1), and a total loss of activity was observed above 40.0 μg ml−1 (corresponding to 4.0 μg 104 cells−1). C. capillata venoms had increased cytotoxic activity as compared to A. aurita venoms at the same concentration. Cnidocyst extracts from oral arms of A. aurita induced an 85% loss of gill cell viability at concentrations of 0.2 μg 104 cells−1, whereas crude venoms from fishing tentacles reduced cell viability by 18% at the same concentration. Gel electrophoresis
of the venoms indicated that these consist of a large number of proteins in a fairly wide size range, from 6 to 200 kDa, including
some that are the same size as those found in cubomedusae. It also appears that larger (i.e., older) medusae have more complex
venoms and, in some cases, more potent venoms than smaller animals. 相似文献
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Root segments from seedlings of Panax ginseng produced adventitious roots directly when cultured on 1/2 MS solid medium lacking NH4NO3 and containing 3.0 mg l−1 IBA. Using this adventitious root formation, we developed rapid and efficient transgenic root formation directly from adventitious
root segments in P. ginseng. Root segments were co-cultivated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens (GV3101) caring β-glucuronidase (GUS) gene. Putative transgenic adventitious roots were formed directly from root segments on medium with 400 mg l−1 cefotaxime and 50 mg l−1 kanamycin. Kanamycin resistant adventitious roots were selected and proliferated as individual lines by subculturing on medium
with 300 mg l−1 cefotaxime and 50 mg l−1 kanamycin at two weeks subculture interval. Frequency of transient and stable expression of GUS gene was enhanced by acetosyringon (50 mg l−1) treatment. Integration of transgene into the plants was confirmed by the X-gluc reaction, PCR and Southern analysis. Production
of transgenic plants was achieved via somatic embryogenesis from the embryogenic callus derived from independent lines of
adventitious roots. The protocol for rapid induction of transgenic adventitious roots directly from adventitious roots can
be applied for a new Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation protocol in P. ginseng. 相似文献
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Dana Bernátová 《Biologia》2008,63(2):175-176
The paper brings information on an isolated occurrence and morphological characters of Carex × involuta and C. juncella populations in the Vel’ká Fatra Mts. Their presence has been known neither from the territory of Slovakia nor from the whole
Western Carpathians till now. 相似文献
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The lipase Lip2 of the edible basidiomycete, Pleurotus sapidus, is an extracellular enzyme capable of hydrolysing xanthophyll esters with high efficiency. The gene encoding Lip2 was expressed
in Escherichia coli TOP10 using the gene III signal sequence to accumulate proteins in the periplasmatic space. The heterologous expression under
control of the araBAD promoter led to the high level production of recombinant protein, mainly as inclusion bodies, but partially
in a soluble and active form. A fusion with a C-terminal His tag was used for purification and immunochemical detection of
the target protein. This is the first example of a heterologous expression and periplasmatic accumulation of a catalytically
active lipase from a basidiomycete fungus. 相似文献
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Matías Maggi Natalia Damiani Sergio Ruffinengo David De Jong Judith Principal Martín Eguaras 《Experimental & applied acarology》2010,50(3):269-279
We undertook a field study to determine whether comb cell size affects the reproductive behavior of Varroa destructor under natural conditions. We examined the effect of brood cell width on the reproductive behavior of V. destructor in honey bee colonies, under natural conditions. Drone and worker brood combs were sampled from 11 colonies of Apis mellifera. A Pearson correlation test and a Tukey test were used to determine whether mite reproduction rate varied with brood cell
width. Generalized additive model analysis showed that infestation rate increased positively and linearly with the width of
worker and drone cells. The reproduction rate for viable mother mites was 0.96 viable female descendants per original invading
female. No significant correlation was observed between brood cell width and number of offspring of V. destructor. Infertile mother mites were more frequent in narrower brood cells. 相似文献
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Recombinant Zantedeschia aethiopica agglutinin (ZAA) was expressed in Escherichia coli as N-terminal His-tagged fusion. After induction with isopropylthio-β-d-galactoside (IPTG), the recombinant ZAA was purified by metal-affinity chromatography. The purified ZAA protein was applied
in anti-fungal assay and the result showed that recombinant ZAA had anti-fungal activity towards leaf mold (Fulvia fulva), one of the most serious phytopathogenic fungi causing significant yield loss of crops. This study suggests that ZAA could
be an effective candidate in genetic engineering of plants for the control of leaf mold. 相似文献
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Recently, the gene coding for a new beta-glucuronidase enzyme has been identified and cloned from Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus. This is another report of a beta-glucuronidase gene cloned from bacterial species. The ORF Finder analysis of a sequenced
DNA (EMBL, AJ890474) revealed a presence of 1,785 bp large ORF potentially coding for a 594 aa protein. Three protein families
in (Pfam) domains were identified using the Conserved Domain Database (CDD) analysis: Pfam 02836, glycosyl hydrolases family
2, triose phosphate isomerase (TIM) barrel domain; Pfam 02837, glycosyl hydrolases family 2, sugar binding domain; and Pfam
00703, glycosyl hydrolases family 2, immunoglobulin-like beta-sandwich domain. To gain more insight into the enzymatic activity,
the domains were used to generate a bootstrapped unrooted distance tree using ClustalX. The calculated distances for two domains,
TIM barrel domain, and sugar-binding domain were comparable and exhibited similarity pattern based on function and thus being
in accordance with recently published works confirming beta-glucuronidase activity of the enzyme. The calculated distances
and the tree arrangement in the case of centrally positioned immonoglobulin-like beta-sandwich domain were somewhat higher
when compared to other two domains but clustering with other beta-glucuronidases was rather clear. Nine proteins, including
beta-glucuronidases, beta-galactosidase, and mannosidase were selected for multiple alignment and subsequent distance tree
creation. 相似文献
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Abdul Ghaffar Sher Afzal Khan Zahid Mukhtar Muhammad Ibrahim Rajoka Farooq Latif 《Molecular biology reports》2011,38(5):3227-3233
We studied heterologous expression of xylanase 11A gene of Chaetomium thermophilum in Pichia pastoris and characterized the thermostable nature of the purified gene product. For this purpose, the xylanase 11A gene of C. thermophilum was cloned in P. pastoris GS115 under the control of AOX1 promoter. The maximum extracellular activity of recombinant xylanase (xyn698: gene with intron) was 15.6 U ml−1 while that of recombinant without intron (xyn669) was 1.26 U ml−1 after 96 h growth. The gene product was purified apparently to homogeneity level. The optimum temperature of pure recombinant
xylanase activity was 70°C and the enzyme retained its 40.57% activity after incubation at 80°C for 10 min. It exhibited quite
lower demand of activation energy, enthalpy, Gibbs free energy, entropy, and xylan binding energy during substrate hydrolysis
than that required by that of the donor, thus indicating its thermostable nature. pH-dependent catalysis showed that it was
quite stable in a pH range of 5.5–8.5. This revealed that gene was successfully processed in P. pastoris and remained heat stable and may qualify for its potential use in paper and pulp and animal feed applications. 相似文献
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Bimal Kumar Ghimire Eun Soo Seong Jung Dae Lim Kweon Heo Myong Jo Kim Ill-Min Chung John A. Juvik Chang Yeon Yu 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2008,95(3):265-274
Efficient transformation of leaf disc-derived callus of Codonopsis lanceolata was obtained using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain LBA4404 harboring a binary vector, pYBI121, that carries the neomycin phosphotransferase (npt II) gene as a selectable marker. The green shoots recovered from agroinfected explants on selection medium (containing 0.1 mg/l
α-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), 1 mg/l 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP), 100 mg/l kanamycin, and 250 mg/l cefotaxime) were rooted
on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 2 mg/l IBA and 10 mg/l kanamycin. To optimize the transformation conditions,
several factors were assessed, including the co-cultivation period, the duration of pre- and post-culture in darkness and
light, the kanamycin concentration, and the Agrobacterium densities. We produced transgenic Codonopsis lanceolata overexpressing γ-tocopherol methyltransferase (γ-TMT) by this protocol. Moreover, the α-tocopherol content of the plants was enhanced by the overexpression of this gene.
Bimal Kumar Ghimire and Eun Soo Seong contributed equally to this work. 相似文献
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Background
Analysis of known protein structures reveals that identical sequence fragments in proteins can adopt different secondary structure conformations. The extent of this conformational diversity is influenced by various factors like the intrinsic sequence propensity, sequence context and other environmental factors such as pH, site directed mutations or alteration of the binding ligands. Understanding the mechanism by which the environment affects the structural ambivalence of these peptides has potential implications for protein design and reliable local structure prediction algorithms. Identification of the structurally ambivalent sequence fragments and determining the rules which dictate their conformational preferences play an important role in understanding the conformational changes observed in misfolding diseases. However, a systematic classification of their intrinsic sequence patterns or a statistical analysis of their properties and sequence context in relation to the origin of their structural diversity have largely remained unexplored. 相似文献16.
Hubert J Dolecková-Maresová L Hýblová J Kudlíková I Stejskal V Mares M 《Experimental & applied acarology》2005,35(4):281-291
The stored-product mites are the most abundant and frequent group of pests living on the stored food products in Europe. They endanger public health since they produce allergens and transmit mycotoxin-producing fungi. Novel acaricidal compounds with inhibitory effects on the digestive enzymes of arthropods are a safe alternative to the traditional neurotoxic pesticides used for control of the stored-product pests. In this work, we explored the properties of acarbose, the low molecular weight inhibitor of -amylases (AI), as a novel acaricide candidate for protection of the stored products from infestation by Acarus siro (Acari: Acaridae). In vitro analysis revealed that AI blocked efficiently the enzymatic activity of digestive amylases of A. siro, and decreased the physiological capacity of mites gut in utilizing a starch component of grain flour. In vivo experiments showed that AI suppressed the population growth of A. siro. The mites were kept for three weeks on experimental diet enriched by AI in concentration range of 0.005 to 0.25%. Population growth of A. siro was negatively correlated with the content of AI in the treated diet with a half-population dose of 0.125%. The suppressive effect of AIs on stored-product mites is discussed in the context of their potential application in GMO crops 相似文献
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In Escherichia coli cellular levels of pppGpp and ppGpp, collectively called (p)ppGpp, are maintained by the products of two genes, relA and spoT. Like E. coli, Vibrio cholerae also possesses relA and spoT genes. Here we show that similar to E. coli, V. cholerae ΔrelA cells can accumulate (p)ppGpp upon carbon starvation but not under amino acid starved condition. Although like in E. coli, the spoT gene function was found to be essential in V. cholerae
relA
+ background, but unlike E. coli, several V. cholerae ΔrelA ΔspoT mutants constructed in this study accumulated (p)ppGpp under glucose starvation. The results suggest a cryptic source of
(p)ppGpp synthesis in V. cholerae, which is induced upon glucose starvation. Again, unlike E. coli ΔrelA ΔspoT mutant (ppGpp0 strain), the V. cholerae ΔrelA ΔspoT mutants showed certain unusual phenotypes, which are (a) resistance towards 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole (AT); (b) growth in nutrient
poor M9 minimal medium; (c) ability to stringently regulate cellular rRNA accumulation under glucose starvation and (d) initial
growth defect in nutrient rich medium. Since these phenotypes of ΔrelA ΔspoT mutants could be reverted back to ΔrelA phenotypes by providing SpoT in trans, it appears that the spoT gene function is crucial in V. cholerae.
Part of this work was presented at the International Symposium on Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India, 7–9 March 2007. 相似文献
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Nadiawati Alias Nor Muhammad Mahadi Abdul Munir Abdul Murad Farah Diba Abu Bakar Nik Azmi Nik Mahmood Rosli Md Illias 《World journal of microbiology & biotechnology》2009,25(4):561-572
A gene encoding endochitinase from Trichoderma virens UKM-1 was cloned and expressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3). Both the endochitinase gene and its cDNA sequences were obtained. The endochitinase gene encodes 430 amino acids
from an open reading frame comprising of 1,690 bp nucleotide sequence with three introns. The endochitinase was expressed
as soluble and active enzyme at 20°C when induced with 1 mM IPTG. Maximum activity was observed at 4 h of post-induction time.
SDS-PAGE showed that the purified endochitinase exhibited a single band with molecular weight of 42 kDa. Biochemical characterization
of the enzyme displayed a near neutral pH characteristic with an optimum pH at 6.0 and optimum temperature at 50°C. The enzyme
is stable between pH 3.0–7.0 and is able to retain its activity from 30 to 60°C. The presence of Mg2+ and Ca2+ ions increased the enzyme activity up to 20%. The purified enzyme has a strong affinity towards colloidal chitin and low
effect on ethyl cellulose and D-cellubiose which are non-chitin related substrates. HPLC analysis from the chitin hydrolysis
showed the release of (GlcNAc)3, (GlcNAc)2 and GlcNAc, in which (GlcNAc)2 was the main product. 相似文献
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The reactions of isolates of Phytophthora cactorum, P. nicotianae and P. × pelgrandis to metalaxyl, mancozeb, dimethomorph, streptomycin and chloramphenicol were tested to obtain information about the variability of resistance in these pathogens. Distinct genetic groups showed significant differences in resistance to all tested substances except streptomycin. In response to streptomycin, the growth inhibition rates of distinct groups did not differ significantly. The most remarkable differences were detected in the reactions to chloramphenicol and metalaxyl. Discriminant analysis evaluating the effect of all substances confirmed the differences among the groups, which are in agreement with the differences revealed by earlier DNA analyses. 相似文献