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1.
Scheffer C. G. Tseng 《Molecular biology reports》1996,23(1):47-58
The corneal epithelium is known to have a rapid self-renewing capacity. The major advance in the field of cornead epithelial cell biology in the last decade is the establishment of the location of corneal epithelial stem cells at the limbus, i.e., the junctional zone between the cornea and the conjunctiva. This concept has helped explain several experimental and clinical paradoxes, produced a number of important clinical applications, and spawned many other research studies. This unique enrichment of epithelial stem cells at a site anatomically separated from their transient amplifying cells makes the ocular surface an ideal model to study the regulation of epithelial stem cells. The present review includes data from more recent studies and lays out other areas for future investigation, especially with respect to the role of apoptosis and cytokine dialogue between limbal epithelial stem cells and their stromal microenvironment.Abbreviations EGF
epidermal growth factor
- EGFR
epidermal growth factor receptor
- bFGF
basic fibroblast growth factor
- HGF
hepatocyte growth factor
- IGF-I
insulin-like growth factor type I
- IL-1
interleukin 1
- K3 or K12
keratin type 3 or 12
- KGF
keratinocyte growth factor
- LIF
leukemia inhibitory factor
- PDGF
platelet-derived growth factor
- PKC
protein kinase C
- TGF-
transforming growth factor-
- TGF-
transforming growth factor-
- TPA
phorbol ester tumor promoting agents 相似文献
2.
Masayoshi Sawaki Eiji Kita Keiichi Mikasa Mitsuru Konishi Mikikazu Kumimatsu Shuzo Kashiba Nobuhiro Narita 《Biotherapy》1993,6(1):51-61
The therapeutic effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) against intramuscular infection withPseudomonas aeruginosa in cyclophosphamide (CY)-treated mice was analyzed by measuring plasma levels of amyloid P-component (APC) and proinflammatory cytokine levels. CY (100mg/kg) treatment of mice significantly suppressed plasma concentrations of APC and tumor-necrosis factor- (TNF-) following infection withP. aeruginosa, in associated with enhanced susceptibility of the treated mice to this bacterium. A 4-day treatment of CY-treated mice with recombinant human G-CSF (rhG-CSF) increased resistance of CY-treated mice, together with the marked restoration of APC and TNF- productions. The capacity to produce interleukin 1- and TNF- of peritoneal macrophages and also that to produce IL-6 of spleen cells were significantly enhanced by thein vivo administration of rhG-CSF in CY-treated mice. These results indicate that G-CSF may increase the functions of monocytes/macrophages directly or indirectlyin vivo. Therefore, the therapeutic effect of rhG-CSF seems to consist of not only increases in the number and functions of neutrophills but also enhancement of monocyte/macrophage functions.Abbreviations rhG-CSF
recombinant human granulocyte-colony stimulating factor
- PMNs
polymorphonuclear leukocytes
- CY
cyclophosphamide
- HBSS
Hanks' balanced salt solution
- APC
amyloid P-component
- IEP
immunoelectrophoresis
- CFU
colony-forming units
- TNF-
tumor-necrosis factor-
- d IL
interleukin 相似文献
3.
An extensive phylogenetic analysis of the nicotinic-acetylcholine-receptor subunit gene family has been performed by cladistic and phenetic methods. The conserved parts of amino acid sequences have been analyzed by CLUSTAL V and PHYLIP software. The structure of the genes was also taken in consideration. The results show that a first gene duplication may have occurred before the appearance of Bilateria. Three subfamilies then appeared: I-the neuronal -bungarotoxin binding-site subunits (7, 8); III-the neuronal nicotinic subunits (2–6, 2–4), which also contain the muscle acetylcholine-binding subunit (1); and IV—the muscle non- subunits (1, , ). The Insecta subunits (subfamily II) could be orthologous to family III and IV. Several tissular switches of expression from neuron to muscle and the converse can be inferred from the extant expression of subunits and the reconstructed trees. The diversification of the neuronal nicotinic subfamily begins in the stem lineage of chordates, the last duplications occurring shortly before the onset of the mammalian lineage. Such evolution parallels the increase in complexity of the cholinergic systems.Abbreviations -Bgt
-bungarotoxin
- ACh
acetylcholine
- MP
maximum of parsimony
- MYA
million years ago
- NJ
neighbor-joining
- nAChR
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
Correspondence to: N. Le Novère 相似文献
4.
Summary Soluble lead salts and a number of lead-containing minerals catalyze the formation of oligonucleotides from nucleoside 5-phosphorimidazolides. The effectiveness of lead compounds correlates strongly with their solubility. Under optimal conditions we were able to obtain 18% of pentamer and higher oligomers from ImpA. Reactions involving ImpU gave smaller yields.Abbreviations A
adenosine
-
U
uridine
-
Im
imidazole
-
MeIm
1-methyl-imidazole
-
EDTA
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
-
pA
adenosine 5-phosphate
-
pU
uridine 5-phosphate
-
Ap
adenosine cyclic 2:3-phosphate
-
ATP
adenosine 5-triphosphate
-
AppA
P1,P2-diadenosine 5-diphosphate
-
pNp (N = A,U)
nucleotide 2(3), 5-diphosphate
-
ImpA
adenosine 5-phosphoreimidazolide
-
ImpU
uridine 5-phosphorimidazolide
-
A
2pA
adenylyl-[25]-adenosine
-
A
3pA
adenylyl-[35]-adenosine
-
pA
2pA
5-phospho-adenylyl-[25]-adenosine
-
pA
3pA
5-phospho-adenylyl-[35]-adenosine
-
pUpU
5-phospho-uridylyl-uridine
-
pApU
5-phospho-adenylyl-uridine
-
pUpA
5-phospho-uridylyladenine
-
(pA)n (n, 2,3,4,)
oligoadenylates with 5 terminal phosphate
-
ImpApA
5-phosphorimidazolide of adenylyl adenosine
-
(pA)
5+
pentamer and higher oligoadenylates with 5 terminal phosphate
-
(Ap)nA (n = 2,3,4)
oligoadenylates without terminal phosphates
In the following we do not specify the nature of the internucleotide linkageIn the following we do not specify the nature of the internucleotide linkage 相似文献
5.
Each cryptomonad strain contains only a single spectroscopic type of biliprotein. These biliproteins are isolated as 50000 kDa '2 complexes which carry one bilin on the and three on the subunit. Six different bilins are present on the cryptomonad biliproteins, two of which (phycocyanobilin and phycoerythrobilin) also occur in cyanobacterial and rhodophytan biliproteins, while four are known only in the cryptomonads. The subunit is encoded on the chloroplast genome, whereas the subunits are encoded by a small nuclear multigene family. The subunits of all cryptomonad biliproteins, regardless of spectroscopic type, have highly conserved amino acid sequences, which show > 80% identity with those of rhodophytan phycoerythrin subunits. In contrast, cyanobacteria and red algal chloroplasts each contain several spectroscopically distinct biliproteins organized into macromolecular complexes (phycobilisomes). The data on biliproteins, as well as several other lines of evidence, indicate that the cryptomonad biliprotein antenna system is primitive and antedates that of the cyanobacteria. It is proposed that the gene encoding the cryptomonad biliprotein subunit is the ancestral gene of the gene family encoding cyanobacterial and rhodophytan biliprotein and subunits.Abbreviations Chl
chlorophyll
- CER
chloroplast endoplasmic reticulum
- SSU rRNA
small subunit ribosomal RNA 相似文献
6.
Toshikazu Oki Akihiro Yoshimoto Tatsuo Ogasawara Seiji Sato Akira Takamatsu 《Archives of microbiology》1976,107(2):183-187
The occurrence of adenosine 5-triphosphate-3-diphosphate-synthesizing activity was detected in five strains of actinomycetes; Streptomyces morookaensis, Streptomyces aspergilloides, Streptomyces hachijoensis, Actinomyces violascens and Streptoverticillium septatum, out of 825 strains of actinomycetes, bacteria, fungi and imperfecti. Purine nucleotide pyrophosphotransferase were extracellularly excreted associating with the cell growth, and were purified partially or to apparent homogeniety from the culture filtrate. The enzymes are a monomeric protein with a molecular weight of 18000–26000 and synthesize adenosine, guanosine and inosine 5-phosphate (mono, di or tri)-3-diphosphate such as pApp, ppApp, pppApp, pGpp, ppGpp, pppGpp and pppIpp by transferring a pyrophosphoryl group from the 5-position of ATP, dATP and pppApp to the 3-position of purine nucleotides in the presence of a divalent cation and in alkaline state.Abbreviations pppApp
adenosine 5-triphosphate 3-diphosphate
- ppApp
adenosine 5-diphosphate 3-diphosphate
- pApp
adenosine 5-monophosphate 3-diphosphate
- pppGpp
guanosine 5-triphosphate 3-diphosphate 相似文献
7.
Tadashi II Masayuki Kubota Satoshi Okuda Takashi Hirano Mamoru Ohashi 《Glycoconjugate journal》1995,12(2):162-172
Negative-ion fast atom bombardment tandem mass spectrometry has been used in the characterization of non-, mono-, di- and trisulfated disaccharides from heparin and heparan sulfate. The positional isomers of the sulfate group of monosulfated disaccharides were distinguished from each other by negative-ion fast atom bombardment tandem mass spectra, which provide an easy way of identifying the positional isomers. This fast atom bombardment collision induced dissociation mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry technique was also applied successfully to the characterization of di- and trisulfated disaccharides.Abbreviations FABMS
fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry
- CID
collision induced dissociation
- MIKE
mass analysed ion kinetic energy
- MS/MS
mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry
- HPLC
high performance liquid chromatography
- UA
d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid
- CS
chondroitin sulfate
- DS
dermatan sulfate
- HA
hyaluronan
- Hep
heparin
- HS
heparan sulfate
- UA(14) GlcNAc
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-4-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-d-glucose
- UA(14)GlcNAc6S
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-4-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-d-glucose
- UA2S(14)GlcNAc
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-4-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-d-glucose
- UA2S(14)GlcNAc6S
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-4-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-d-glucose
- UA(14)GlcN6S
2-amino-2-deoxy-4-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-d-glucose
- UA2S(14)GlcN
2-amino-2-deoxy-4-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-d-glucose
- UA2S(14)GlcN6S
2-amino-2-deoxy-4-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-d-glucose
- UA(14)GlcNS
2-deoxy-2-sulfamino-4-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-d-glucose
- UA(14)GlcNS6S
2-deoxy-2-sulfamino-4-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-d-glucose
- UA2S(14)GlcNS
2-deoxy-2-sulfamino-4-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-d-glucose
- UA2S(14)GlcNS6S
2-deoxy-2-sulfamino-4-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-d-glucose
- UA(13)GalNAc
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(-d-Gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-d-galatose
- UA(13)GalNAc4S
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-4-O-sulfo-d-galactose
- UA(13)GalNAc6S
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-d-galactose
- UA2S(13)GalNAc
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-d-galactose
- UA2S(13)GalNAc4S
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-4-O-sulfo-d-galactose
- UA2S(13)GalNAc6S
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(2-O-sulfo--d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-6-O-sulfo-d-galactose
- UA(13)GalNAcDiS
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-4,6-di-O-sulfo-d-galactose
- UA(13)GlcNAc
2-acetamido-2-deoxy-3-O-(-d-gluco-4-enepyranosyluronic acid)-d-glucose. 相似文献
8.
Bacterial infections in the immunocompromized host cause considerable mortality, and even the recently developed antimicrobial strategies often fail to cure these infections, especially in granulocytopenic patients. Cytokines and hematopoietic growth factors have been shown to stimulate host defense mechanismsin vitro andin vivo. We discuss the possible role of the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1, tumor necrosis factor-, interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 as modulators of host resistance to bacterial infections. Interleukin-1 has been shown effective in various animal models of potentially lethal bacterial infection, even during severe granulocytopenia. The protective mechanism of interleukin-1 may be mediated via downregulation of cytokine receptors and cytokine production, and via induction of acute phase proteins. Moreover, in subacute and chronic infections interleukin-1 interferes with microbial outgrowth, via mechanisms that have only been partially elucidated.Abbreviations G-CSF
granulocyte colony-stimulating factor
- M-CSF
monocyte colony-stimulating factor
- GM-CSF
granulocyte-monocyte colony-stimulating factor
- IFN-
interferon-gamma
- IL
interleukin
- LAK
lymphokine-activated killer
- LPS
lipopolysaccharide
- TNF
tumor necrosis factor 相似文献
9.
Streptococcus mutans Ingbritt was grown in glucose-excess continuous culture to repress the glucose phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system (PTS) and allow investigation of the alternative glucose process using the non-PTS substrate, (3H) 6-deoxyglucose. After correcting for non-specific adsorption to inactivated cells, the radiolabelled glucose analogue was found to be concentrated approximately 4.3-fold intracellularly by bacteria incubated in 100 mM Tris-citrate buffer, pH 7.0. Mercaptoethanol or KCl enhanced 6-deoxyglucose uptake, enabling it to be concentrated internally by at least 8-fold, but NaCl was inhibitory to its transport. Initial uptake was antagonised by glucose but not 2-deoxyglucose. Evidence that 6-deoxyglucose transport was driven by protonmotive force (p) was obtained by inhibiting its uptake with the protonophores, 2,4-dinitrophenol, carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazine, gramicidin and nigericin, and the electrical potential difference () dissipator, KSCN. The membrane ATPase inhibitor, N,N1-dicyclohexyl carbodiimide, also reduced 6-deoxyglucose uptake as did 100 mM lactate. In combination, these two inhibitors completely abolished 6-deoxyglucose transport. This suggests that the driving force for 6-deoxyglucose uptake is electrogenic, involving both the transmembrane pH gradient (pH) and . ATP hydrolysis, catalysed by the ATPase, and lactate excretion might be important contributors to pH.Abbreviations DNP
2,4-dinitrophenol
- CCCP
carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone
- DCCD
N,N1-dicyclohyxyl carbodiimide
- p
protonmotive force
- pH
transmembrane pH gradient
-
transmembrane electrical potential difference 相似文献
10.
Gabriele Möller Folkert Reck Hans Paulsen Kanwal J. Kaur Mohan Sarkar Harry Schachter Inka Brockhausen 《Glycoconjugate journal》1992,9(4):180-190
UDP-GlcNAc: Man3R 2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GlcNAc-T I; EC 2.4.1.101) is the key enzyme in the synthesis of complex and hybrid N-glycans. Rat liver GlcNAc-T I has been purified more than 25,000-fold (M
r 42,000). TheV
max for the pure enzyme with [Man6(Man3)Man6](Man3)Man4GlcNAc4GlcNAc-Asn as substrate was 4.6 µmol min–1 mg–1. Structural analysis of the enzyme product by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy proved that the enzyme adds anN-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) residue in 1–2 linkage to the Man3Man-terminus of the substrate. Several derivatives of Man6(Man3)Man-R, a substrate for the enzyme, were synthesized and tested as substrates and inhibitors. An unsubstituted equatorial 4-hydroxyl and an axial 2-hydroxyl on the -linked mannose of Man6(Man3)Man-R are essential for GlcNAc-T I activity. Elimination of the 4-hydroxyl of the 3-linked mannose (Man) of the substrate increases theK
M 20-fold. Modifications on the 6-linked mannose or on the core structure affect mainly theK
M and to a lesser degree theV
max, e.g., substitutions of the Man6 residue at the 2-position by GlcNAc or at the 3- and 6-positions by mannose lower theK
M, whereas various other substitutions at the 3-position increase theK
M slightly. Man6(Man3)4-O-methyl-Man4GlcNAc was found to be a weak inhibitor of GlcNAc-T I.Abbreviations BSA
Bovine serum albumin
- Bn
benzyl
- Fuc, F
l-fucose
- Gal, G
d-galactose
- GalNAc, GA
N-acetyl-d-galactosamine
- Glc
d-glucose
- GlcNAc, Gn
N-acetyl-d-glucosamine
- HPLC
high performance liquid chromatography
- Man, M
d-mannose
- mco
8-methoxycarbonyl-octyl, (CH2)8 COOOCH3
- Me
methyl
- MES
2-(N-morpholino)ethanesulfonate
- NMR
nuclear magnetic resonance
- PMSF
phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride
- pnp
p-nitrophenyl
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulfate
- T
transferase
- Tal
d-talose
- Xyl
d-xylose;
- {0, 2 + F}
Man6 (GlcNAc2Man3) Man4GlcNAc4 (Fuc6) GlcNAc
- {2, 2}
GlcNAc2Man6 (GlcNAc2Man3) Man4GlcNAc4GlcNAc; M5-glycopeptide, Man6 (Man3) Man6 (Man3) Man4 GlcNAc4GlcNAc-Asn
Enzymes: GlcNAc-transferase I, EC 2.4.1.101; GlcNAc-transferase II, EC 2.4.1.143; GlcNAc-transferase III, EC 2.4.1.144; GlcNAc-transferase IV, EC 2.4.1.145; GlcNAc-transferase V, UDP-GlcNAc: GlcNAc2 Man6-R (GlcNAc to Man) 6-GlcNAc-transferase; GlcNAc-transferase VI, UDP-GlcNAc: GlcNAc6(GlcNAc2) Man6-R (GlcNAc to Man) 4-GlcNAc-transferase; Core 1 3-Gal-transferase, EC 2.4.1.122; 4-Gal-transferase, EC 2.4.1.38; 3-Gal-transferase, UDP-Gal: GlcNAc-R 3-Gal-transferase; blood group i 3-GlcNAc-transferase, EC 2.4.1.149; blood group I 6-GlcNAc-transferase, UDP-GlcNAc: GlcNAc3Gal-R (GlcNAc to Gal) 6-GlcNAc-transferase. 相似文献
11.
Summary The potential of-lactams as intermediates for the access to- and-amino acid-derived peptides is shortly reviewed, with major focus on the technologies developed in our group. The two general strategies lie, on one side, in the oxidative ring expansion of 3-hydroxy-lactams toN-carboxy-amino acid anhydrides or Leuch's anhydrides and subsequent coupling with-amino acid esters and, on the other side, in the nucleophilic ring opening ofN-Boc--lactams. Both approaches have been successfully applied to the synthesis of,-diamino acid,-amino--hydroxy acid, polyhydroxylated-amino acid,,-disubstituted-amino acid,-amino acid,-amino--hydroxy acid and,-disubstituted-amino acid derived peptides. Because of the mild reaction conditions needed for the above transformations and the highly stereoselective procedures employed for the construction of the starting-lactam ring, the whole process allows the production of optically pure final products. 相似文献
12.
Summary A mutant strain of Rhodococcus australis CSIR-236.457 which accumulates 3a-H-4-(3-propionic acid)-5-hydroxy-7a-methylhexahydro-indan-1-one--lactone from cholesterol, stigmasterol and -sitosterol was studied. The product is produced in a 60% molar yield in a dilute black strap molasses medium containing 6–12g/l cholesterol after a 72 hour fermentation period. 相似文献
13.
A coupled circadian oscillator model for the insect photoperiodic clock is described which consists of a hierarchically arranged pacemaker and slave. The pacemaker is self-sustained, temperature compensated, and entrainable by the light cycle; the slave is a damping oscillation receiving entrainment from two sources, from the pacemaker via a coupling factor, and also directly from the light. The damping slave oscillation is seen as the photoperiodic oscillator, equivalent to that proposed earlier by Lewis and Saunders (1987). The present simulations describe the effect of the strength of the coupling factor between hypothetical short- and long-period pacemaker oscillations (modelled on the clock mutants per
sand per
L2in Drosophila melanogaster) and a slave oscillation with a period of about 24 hours. The output is presented in terms of photoperiodic response curves and Nanda-Hamner, or resonance, plots. With a high coupling strength, the pacemakers strongly entrain the slave, but with a low coupling strength the slave's properties are more evident. The model is presented as a possible explanation for recent ovarian diapause data in D. melanogaster clock mutants (Saunders 1990), but also as a more general model for the role of the insect circadian system in seasonal time measurement. 相似文献
14.
We have investigated the activity of CMP-Neu5Ac:Gal\1-3GalNAc -2,3-sialyltransferase (EC 2.4.99.4) in FR3T3 cells transformed by the Ha-ras oncogene in which we have previously demonstrated the higher expression of the -galactosidase -2,6-sialyltransferase (EC 2.4.99.1) [21]. We demonstrate that the presence of the activatedras gene decreases the activity of this specific -2,3-sialyltransferase fourfold. According to the kinetic parameters and to mixing experiments, we can assume that this decreased enzymatic activity reflects a decrease in the number of activeO-glycan -2,3-sialyltransferase polypeptides inras-transformed cells. However, no change in the binding of Peanut agglutinin was observed on the cell surface ofras-transformed FR3T3 suggesting that no change in the sialylation ofO-glycan core 1 appeared in these cells, although the activity of the -2,3-sialyltransferase was decreased.Abbreviations -2,3-ST(O)
CMP-Neu5Ac:Gal1-3GalNAc-R -2,3-sialyltransferase
- -2,3-ST(N/O)
CMP-Neu5Ac:Gal1-3/4GlcNAc-R -2,3-sialyltransferase
- -2,6-ST(N)
CMP-Neu5Ac:Gal1-4GlcNAc-R -2,6-sialyltransferase
- -2,6-ST(O)I
CMP-Neu5Ac:R-GalNAc(1-O)Ser -2,6-sialyltransferase
- -2,6-ST(O)II
CMP-Neu5Ac:Neu5Ac2-3Gal1-3GalNAc-R -2,6-sialyltransferase
- ASFet
asialofetuin
- FR3T3
Fisher rat fibroblast
- FRras
Ha-ras-transfected FR3T3 fibroblasts
- NaCl/Pi
sodium phosphate 10mm, NaCl 0.15m, pH 7.4, buffer
-
pNp
p-nitrophenol 相似文献
15.
H. Steiger 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1973,122(4):345-352
Summary
Serratia marcescens HY was cured of two native prophages, and y. Curing occurred after infection with temperate phage , but the cured strains did not become -lysogenic. One of them has been simultaneously cured of both and y. Recognition of cured colonies was based on their loss of immunity towards the respective phage. Whereas plates on the singly cured strains, it does not plate on the doubly cured strain. However, infection of it with leads to a limited phage multiplication, the average burst size being low and only part of the infected cells producing phage at all. The ability of the strain to serve as indicator for can be restored by relysogenization with either or y. In addition, some further relations between , , and y are reported in this paper.Abbreviations moi
multiplicity of infection
- A
absorbance (optical density)
- NB
nutrient broth
- BS
buffered saline
- EMB
eosine methylene blue
- thy
thymine
- leu
leucine
This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The technical help of Miss A. Varela and Mrs. I. Steiger in some experiments is appreciated. 相似文献
16.
Summary Suspensions of endocrine pancreas cells were prepared by shaking collagenase-isolated rat islets of Langerhans in calcium-free buffer. When incubated with 1.0 mM substrate at pH 7.4, the cells split,P
i from 5-AMP at a rate of 87 nmol/h per g DNA, and from-glycerophosphate at a rate of 25 nmol/h per g DNAK
m for 5 AMP was about 54 M. Adenosine or theophylline inhibited the 5-AMP hydrolysis. Homogenization of the cells increased the activity toward 5-AMP by 23% and that toward-glycerophosphate by 115%. Injecting rats with cortisone had no effect on the 5-AMP hydrolysis by whole cells but significantly increased the activity in cell homogenates; the intracellular activity toward 5-AMP was more than doubled by the cortisone treatment. Staining whole islet cells for 5-AMP-splitting activity resulted in a demarcation of the cell periphery in control rats. Cells from cortisone-treated rats showed heavier deposits of reaction product, and their cell periphery did not stand out as clearly. It is suggested that 5-nucleotidase is largely an ectoenzyme in normal rat islet cells. The cells also contain an as yet unidentified intracellular phosphatase that seems to be solely responsible for the increased hydrolysis of 5-AMP in cortisone-treated rats. 相似文献
17.
1. The number and distribution pattern of -adrenergic receptors in the brain have been reported to be species specific. The aim of the present study was to describe binding of the -adrenoceptor ligand [125I]iodocyanopindolol in the brain of the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri), a species which provides an appropriate model for studies of psychosocial stress and its consequences on central nervous processes.2. 125I-Iodocyanopindolol (125ICYP) labeling revealed a high degree of nonspecific binding, which was due mainly to interactions of this ligand with serotonin binding sites. For a quantitative evaluation of 1- and 2-adrenoceptors, serotonin binding sites had to be blocked by 100 M 5HT.3. Binding of the radioligand to 1- and 2-adrenoceptors was characterized using the 1-specific antagonist CGP20712A and the 2-specific antagonist ICI118.551. 1-adrenoceptor binding is present in the whole brain, revealing low receptor numbers in most brain regions (up to 1.5 to 2.7 fmol/mg). A slight enrichment was observed in cortical areas (lateral orbital cortex: 4.0±0.7 fmol/mg) and in the cerebellar molecular layer (8.7±1.0 fmol/mg).4. Competition experiments demonstrated high- and low-affinity binding sites with considerable variations in K
i values for CGP20712A, showing that various affinity states of 1-adrenoceptors are present in the brain (K
i: 0.61 nM to 67.1 M). In the hippocampus, only low-affinity 1-adrenoceptors were detected (K
i: 1.3±0.2 M). Since it is known that 125ICYP labels not only membrane bound but also internalized -adrenoceptors, it can be assumed that the large population of the low-affinity sites represents internalized receptors which may be abundant due to a high sequestration rate.5. High numbers of 2-adrenoceptors are present in only a few brain structures of tree shrews (external layer of the olfactory bulb, 15.8±2.0 fmol/mg; claustrum, 19.3±1.5 fmol/mg; anteroventral thalamic nucleus, 19.4±1.5 fmol/mg; cerebellar molecular layer, 55.0±4.3 fmol/mg). Also for this class of -adrenoceptors, high- and low-affinity binding sites for the 2-selective antagonist ICI118.551 were observed, indicating that 125ICYP labels membrane bound and internalized 2-adrenoceptors. Only in the cerebellar molecular layer was a high percentage of high-affinity 2-adrenoceptors detected (K
i for ICI118.551 was 1.8±0.3 nM for 90% of the receptors).6. In conclusion, 1- and 2-adrenoceptor binding can be localized and quantified by in vitro receptor autoradiography in the brains of tree shrews when serotonergic binding sites are blocked. Modulatory effects of long-term psychosocial conflict on the central nervous -adrenoceptor system in male tree shrews are described in the following paper. 相似文献
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Myobacterium avium LM1 was exposed to concentrations of 5-fluorouracil (5FU) that ranged from 0 to 100 g/ml. Growth inhibition was inversely proportional to the concentration of the drug. DNA was extracted from cells grown in medium that contained [14C]5FU, but no carrier. The [14C]DNA was enzymatically hydrolyzed to deoxyribonucleotides, which were separated and fractionated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The isotope was located in 2-deoxycytidine 5-monophosphate (dCMP) and 2-deoxythymidine 5-monophosphate (dTMP), with dCMP containing the majority. There was no radioactivity at the elution times for 5-fluoro-2-deoxyuridine 5-monophosphate or 2-deoxyuridine 5-monophosphate. These results suggested that 5FU was dehalogenated and the uracil moiety ultimately converted into cytosine and thymine deoxyribonucleotides. Cells were grown in [3H]uracil, and [3H]DNA was extracted and analyzed by HPLC. The isotope was found only in the pyrimidine deoxyribonucleotides, with dCMP containing 4.1 times that in dTMP. Thus, it was demonstrated that uracil and dehalogenated 5FU were not directly incorporated into DNA, but rather converted to cytosine and thymine and then incorporated into DNA by a salvage pathway. 相似文献
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Lothar Diers 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1967,100(1):56-62
Summary Up to now Antirrhinum was classified as a typical example for a uniparentalmaternal inheritance of the plastids. However, the findings reported here prove that also the male gametophyte of Antirrhinum may occasionally transmit plastids into the egg. This conclusion is based on genetic experiments involving a form of the plastom mutant prasinizans which is described as gelbgrüne prasinizans. In contrast to all other plastid mutations known in Antirrhinum majus this mutant originated in Sippe 50 is completely viable. In plants containing plastids of this mutant type only, the mutant character is manifested during early growth stages. Cotyledons and first foliage leaves which are initially white or white yellow, slowly turn green and become indistinguishable from normal Sippe 50. Reciprocal crosses of green Sippe 50 with gelbgrüne prasinizans gave few variegated descendants; the others were exclusively plants identical with the maternal parent as far as leaf colour is concerned (Table). The variegated individuals cannot be gene mutants since selfing and crossing experiments showed non-mendelian inheritance. Furthermore it could be ruled out that in the cross Sippe 50 x gelbgrüne prasinizans the three variegated descendants represent spontaneous new plastom mutants because the pale tissue in these plants turned green in the same way as the paternal parent. Because of the typical greening of this mutant and since plastid mutations could be ruled out we have to conclude that plastids were transmitted by the pollen parent into the egg. There these plastids multiplied together with the maternal plastids giving rise to the chimeras after sorting-out of the two plastid types. This interpretation is supported by the observation of mixed cells in tissues where the leaf variegation is finely mosaiced. The results were possible only because the plastids of the pollen parent can be unequivocally recognised. 相似文献
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Summary The absence of the methyl substituent at the 2position of the cyclohexene ring of TCHP enhances the conversion rate as well as the yields of the 3-hydroxy product obtained byStreptomyces natalensis and the 3-keto product obtained byMycobacterium smegmatis.Abbreviations TCHP
1-(2-thienyl)-3-(1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-1-propanone
- TCHP-OH
1-(2-thienyl)-3-(3-hydroxyl-1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-1-propanone
- TCHP-ketone
1-(2-thienyl)-3-(1-cyclohexen-1-yl-3-one)-1-propane
- TMCHP
1-(2-thienyl)-3-(2-methyl-1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-propanone 相似文献