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Dietrich MR 《Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences. Série III, Sciences de la vie》2000,323(12):1139-1146
During the early 20th century the diverse practices of genetics were unified by the concept of the gene. This classical gene was simultaneously a unit of structure, function, mutation, and recombination. Starting in the 1940s, however, the classical gene began to fragment. Today when we speak of a gene for some malady, a regulatory gene, a structural gene, or a gene frequency, it is entirely possible that we are deploying different gene concepts even though we are using the same term. The problem of the gene addresses the fragmentation of the classical gene concept by asking to what extent a comprehensive and unifying gene concept is possible or desirable. Fully comprehensive gene concepts seem untenable today, but, within different disciplinary domains, unifying, but non-comprehensive, gene concepts can be epistemically worthwhile. The problem of the gene persists, however, not because of its epistemic value, but because of its political value. Using both the arguments for newly proposed gene concepts and the historical dispute over the classical gene, I argue that the desirability of gene concepts rests in part on the political ramifications of their deployment and contestation. 相似文献
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近年来,随着基因治疗技术的不断进步,为心肌缺血的治疗开辟了一条全新的途径,并取得了一些令人鼓舞的进展。基因治疗主要包括治疗基因、基因转移载体以及基因导入途径三个方面。基因转移载体又在治疗基因和基因表达之间起着桥梁作用,因此,发展安全、高效的基因转移系统是基因治疗的关键之一。目前用于基因治疗心肌缺血基因转移的载体主要有病毒载体和非病毒载体。下面将就不同载体在心肌缺血的基因治疗中的应用进展进行简要的总结。 相似文献
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Organization of the bacteriophage P1 tail-fibre operon 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
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Recent large-scale studies of evolutionary changes in gene expression among mammalian species have led to the proposal that gene expression divergence may be neutral with respect to organismic fitness. Here, we employ a comparative analysis of mammalian gene sequence divergence and gene expression divergence to test the hypothesis that the evolution of gene expression is predominantly neutral. Two models of neutral gene expression evolution are considered: 1-purely neutral evolution (i.e., no selective constraint) of gene expression levels and patterns and 2-neutral evolution accompanied by selective constraint. With respect to purely neutral evolution, levels of change in gene expression between human-mouse orthologs are correlated with levels of gene sequence divergence that are determined largely by purifying selection. In contrast, evolutionary changes of tissue-specific gene expression profiles do not show such a correlation with sequence divergence. However, divergence of both gene expression levels and profiles are significantly lower for orthologous human-mouse gene pairs than for pairs of randomly chosen human and mouse genes. These data clearly point to the action of selective constraint on gene expression divergence and are inconsistent with the purely neutral model; however, there is likely to be a neutral component in evolution of gene expression, particularly, in tissues where the expression of a given gene is low and functionally irrelevant. The model of neutral evolution with selective constraint predicts a regular, clock-like accumulation of gene expression divergence. However, relative rate tests of the divergence among human-mouse-rat orthologous gene sets reveal clock-like evolution for gene sequence divergence, and to a lesser extent for gene expression level divergence, but not for the divergence of tissue-specific gene expression profiles. Taken together, these results indicate that gene expression divergence is subject to the effects of purifying selective constraint and suggest that it might also be substantially influenced by positive Darwinian selection. 相似文献
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Murata T Bognar AL Hayashi T Ohnishi M Nakayama K Terawaki Y 《Microbiology and immunology》2000,44(11):879-886
We have cloned the Pseudomonas aeruginosa folC gene coding for folylpolyglutamate synthetase-dihydrofolate synthetase, which was located between the trpF and purF loci, and determined the nucleotide sequence of the folC gene and its flanking region. The deduced amino acid sequence of P. aeruginosa FolC was highly homologous to that of Escherichia coli FolC. The cloned gene complemented E. coli folC mutations and was found to encode both folylpolyglutamate synthetase and dihydrofolate synthetase activities. The gene organization around the folC gene in P. aeruginosa was completely conserved with that in E. coli; the accD gene was located upstream of the folC gene, and dedD, cvpA and purF genes followed the folC gene in this order. The gene arrangement and the result of the promoter activity assay suggested that the P. aeruginosa accD and folC genes were co-transcribed. 相似文献
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Role of gene order in developmental control of human gamma- and beta-globin gene expression. 总被引:15,自引:3,他引:12 下载免费PDF全文
To determine the effect of gene order on globin gene developmental regulation, we produced transgenic mice containing two tandemly arranged gamma- or beta-globin or gamma beta- and beta gamma-globin genes linked to a 2.5-kb cassette containing sequences of the locus control region (LCR). Analysis of constructs containing two identical gamma or beta genes assessed the effect of gene order on globin gene expression, while analysis of constructs containing tandemly arranged gamma and beta genes assessed any additional effects of the trans-acting environment. When two gamma genes were tandemly linked to the LCR, expression from the proximal gamma gene was three- to fourfold higher than expression from the distal gamma gene, and the ratio of proximal to distal gene expression remained unchanged throughout development. Similarly, when two beta genes were tandemly linked to the LCR, the proximal beta gene was predominantly expressed throughout development. These results indicate that proximity to LCR increases gene expression, perhaps by influencing the frequency of interaction between the LCR and globin gene promoters. An arrangement where the gamma gene was proximal and the beta gene distal to the LCR resulted in predominant gamma-gene expression in the embryo. When the order was reversed and the gamma gene was placed distally to the LCR, gamma-gene expression in the embryo was still up to threefold higher than expression of the LCR-proximal beta gene. These findings suggest that the embryonic trans-acting environment interacts preferentially with the gamma genes irrespective of their order or proximity to the LCR. We conclude that promoter competition rather than gene order plays the major role in globin gene switching. 相似文献
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基因置换,又称基因替代作用,它指的是遗传信息单向的从一个序列向其同源序列传递的过程。近年来,人们对遗传重组的发生机制、功能及影响有了新的认识,尤其是发现"重组"造成的基因置换远超过以前认识。与遗传重组不同,基因置换有可能改变等位基因频率,搅乱等位基因的组合,降低连锁不平衡的程度,影响核苷酸多样性的即时效应和长期的效应。这些发现有助于去理解基因置换的机制,去探索基因置换对物种进化及遗传多样性更深远的影响,如基因置换对染色体基因结构和功能有哪些影响及基因置换对更深层次的生物进化起什么样的作用等。本文对基因置换进行了综合论述,重点介绍了基因置换的当前发展趋势,并以基因四联子为模型,总结了基因置换事件的推断,并对基因置换的研究前景进行了讨论。 相似文献