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Suppressor analysis suggests a multistep, cyclic mechanism for protein secretion in Escherichia coli. 总被引:9,自引:4,他引:5
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The sec/prl gene products catalyze the translocation of precursor proteins from the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli. Recessive, conditionally lethal mutant alleles of these genes (sec mutations) cause a generalized defect in protein secretion; dominant suppressor mutant alleles (prl mutations) restore export of precursor proteins with altered signal sequences. In prl strains, a precursor protein with a defective signal sequence can be selectively targeted to the suppressor gene product. When a precursor LacZ hybrid protein is used, the targeted prl protein is inactivated by the large, toxic hybrid molecule, a result termed suppressor-directed inactivation (SDI). Using SDI, two different secretion-related complexes can be generated: a pretranslocation complex that contains a hybrid protein with an unprocessed signal sequence, and a translocation complex in which the hybrid protein is jammed in transmembrane orientation with the signal sequence cleaved. Additional Sec proteins that are contained within, and thus sequestered by, each of these complexes can be identified when their functional levels are lowered using the conditional lethal sec mutations. Results of this genetic analysis suggest a multistep pathway for protein secretion in which the translocation machinery assembles on demand. 相似文献
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Coordinate regulation of phospholipid biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: pleiotropically constitutive opi1 mutant. 总被引:24,自引:12,他引:12
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Phospholipid metabolism in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae opi1 mutant, which excretes inositol and is constitutive for the biosynthetic enzyme inositol-1-phosphate synthase (M. Greenberg, P. Goldwasser, and S. Henry, Mol. Gen. Genet. 186:157-163, 1982), was examined and compared to that of a wild-type strain. In wild-type S. cerevisiae, the phospholipid composition and the relative rates of synthesis of individual phospholipids change in response to the availability of exogenous supplies of soluble phospholipid precursors, particularly inositol. The opi1 mutant, in contrast, displays a relatively invariant phospholipid composition, and its pattern of phospholipid synthesis does not change in response to exogenous phospholipid precursors. Phosphatidylinositol synthase was not found to be regulated in either wild-type or opi1 cells. In wild-type cells, phosphatidylserine synthase and the phospholipid N-methyltransferases are coordinately repressed in response to a combination of inositol and choline. However, in opi1 cells these activities are expressed constitutively. These results suggest that the gene product of the OPI1 locus participates in the coordinate regulation of phospholipid synthesis. 相似文献
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Michael D Hughes Erilda Kapllani Ashlynn E Alexander Robert D Burk Alan R Schoenfeld 《Cancer cell international》2007,7(1):13
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Mutational inactivation of the von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene has been linked to hereditary as well as sporadic clear cell renal carcinomas. The product of the VHL gene, pVHL, acts to target hypoxia-inducible factor alpha (HIF-α) subunits for ubiquitination and subsequent degradation. Using an RNA interference approach to lower levels of HIF-2α in two different renal cell lines that lack functional pVHL, we have tested the contribution of HIF-2α toward cellular pVHL activities. 相似文献5.
In the present work we show that concanavalin A (Con A)-activated cells are competent to suppress polyclonal antibody responses induced by different polyclonal B-cell activators. Such an effect does not seem to be mediated by cytotoxic killer cells nor by overactivation, suggesting, therefore, that true suppressor cells are responsible for the phenomenon. The dose of Con A required for induction of these suppressor cells was found to exceed 2 μg/ml. Irradiation of the suppressor cell population abrogated their inhibitory capacity and no evidence of genetic restriction between effector and responding cells was found. Suppression affects cell proliferation, which suggests that, in our system, suppressor cells act directly on antibody-forming cell precursors by halting their proliferation and/or production of antibody. 相似文献
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John R. Birge John Drogosz Izak Duenyas 《Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal》1998,10(4):407-430
In this paper, we consider how a company that has the flexibility to produce two substitutable products would determine optimal capacity levels and prices for these products in a single-period problem. We first consider the case where the firm is a price taker but can determine optimal capacity levels for both products. We then consider the case where the firm can set the price for one product and the optimal capacity level for the other. Finally, we consider the case where capacity is fixed for both products, but the firm can set prices. For each case, we examine the sensitivity of optimal prices and capacities to the problem parameters. Finally, we consider the case where each product is managed by a product manager trying to maximize individual product profits rather than overall firm profits and analyze how optimal price and capacity decisions are affected. 相似文献
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Previous studies of the immunoregulatory activity of thymocytes from SJL/J mice have shown loss of suppressor activity for the antibody response by 24 weeks of age with appearance of helper activity. At the same time, suppressor cells developed which inhibit the generation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). We now show a similar pattern of helper and suppressor activity in MRL/Mp mice. Presence of the lpr/lpr genotype significantly accelerated the onset of these changes in thymocyte activity. A similar pattern of thymocyte activity was not detected in C57B1/6 mice. In aged MRL-lpr mice, evidence of increased suppressor cell activity for the CTL response could be demonstrated in spleen, and the suppressor was sensitive to treatment with anti-thy 1.2 + complement. The magnitude of the deficiency in the CTL response in MRL-lpr mice was greater than could be accounted for by suppressor cell activity alone. Measurement of the frequency of CTL precursors (CTLP), the yield of CTL per CTLP, and the ability to produce and to respond to interleukin 2 (IL-2) indicated that a drop in CTLP frequency, subnormal generation of IL-2, and probably an intrinsic defect in the responsiveness of MRL-lpr CTLP to IL-2 was contributing to the defective CTL response. We were not able to link suppressor T cells with reduced responsiveness to IL-2. Ageing involves different patterns of change in immunoregulatory T-cell subsets in different strains of mice, depending on their genetic constitution. The general implications of this conclusion for prediction of immune dysfunction with age in genetically distinct members of an outbred population are discussed. 相似文献
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Alginate biosynthetic enzymes in mucoid and nonmucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa: overproduction of phosphomannose isomerase, phosphomannomutase, and GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase by overexpression of the phosphomannose isomerase (pmi) gene. 总被引:6,自引:6,他引:6
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I S-Correia A Darzins S K Wang A Berry A M Chakrabarty 《Journal of bacteriology》1987,169(7):3224-3231
The specific activities of phosphomannose isomerase (PMI), phosphomannomutase (PMM), GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase (GMP), and GDP-mannose dehydrogenase (GMD) were compared in a mucoid cystic fibrosis isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and in two spontaneous nonmucoid revertants. In both revertants some or all of the alginate biosynthetic enzymes we examined appeared to be repressed, indicating that the loss of the mucoid phenotype may be a result of decreased formation of sugar-nucleotide precursors. The introduction and overexpression of the cloned P. aeruginosa phosphomannose isomerase (pmi) gene in both mucoid and nonmucoid strains led not only to the appearance of PMI levels in cell extracts several times higher than those present in the wild-type mucoid strain, but also in higher PMM and GMP specific activities. In extracts of both strains, however, the specific activity of GMD did not change as a result of pmi overexpression. In contrast, the introduction of the cloned Escherichia coli manA (pmi) gene in P. aeruginosa caused an increase in only PMI and PMM activities, having no effect on the level of GMP. This suggests that an increase in PMI activity alone does not induce high GMP activity in P. aeruginosa. The heterologous overexpression of the P. aeruginosa pmi gene in the E. coli manA mutant CD1 led to the appearance in cell extracts of not only PMI activity but also GMP activity, both of which are normally undetectable in extracts of CD1. We discuss the implications of these results and propose a mechanism by which overexpression of the P. aeruginosa pmi gene can cause an elevation in both PMM and GMP activities. 相似文献
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Conditional loss of PTEN leads to testicular teratoma and enhances embryonic germ cell production 总被引:15,自引:0,他引:15
Kimura T Suzuki A Fujita Y Yomogida K Lomeli H Asada N Ikeuchi M Nagy A Mak TW Nakano T 《Development (Cambridge, England)》2003,130(8):1691-1700
The tumor suppressor gene PTEN, which is frequently mutated in human cancers, encodes a lipid phosphatase for phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-triphosphate [PtdIns(3,4,5)P3] and antagonizes phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase. Primordial germ cells (PGCs), which are the embryonic precursors of gametes, are the source of testicular teratoma. To elucidate the intracellular signaling mechanisms that underlie germ cell differentiation and proliferation, we have generated mice with a PGC-specific deletion of the Pten gene. Male mice that lacked PTEN exhibited bilateral testicular teratoma, which resulted from impaired mitotic arrest and outgrowth of cells with immature characters. Experiments with PTEN-null PGCs in culture revealed that these cells had greater proliferative capacity and enhanced pluripotent embryonic germ (EG) cell colony formation. PTEN appears to be essential for germ cell differentiation and an important factor in testicular germ cell tumor formation. 相似文献
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Isolation and characterization of FliK-independent flagellation mutants from Salmonella typhimurium. 总被引:11,自引:4,他引:7
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A flagellum of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli consists of three structural parts, a basal body, a hook, and a filament. Because the fliK mutants produce elongated hooks, called polyhooks, lacking filament portions, the fliK gene product has been believed to be involved in both the determination of hook length and the initiation of the filament assembly. In the present study, we isolated two mutants from S. typhimurium which can form flagella even in the absence of the fliK gene product. Flagellar structures were fractionated from these suppressor mutants and inspected by electron microscopy. The suppressor mutants produced polyhook-filament complexes in the fliK mutant background, while they formed flagellar structures apparently indistinguishable from those of the wild-type strain in the fliK+ background. Genetic and sequence analyses of the suppressor mutations revealed that they are located near the 3'-end of the flhB gene, which has been believed to be involved in the early process of the basal body assembly. On the basis of these results, we discuss the mechanism of suppression of the fliK defects by the flhB mutations and propose a hypothesis on the export switching machinery of the flagellar proteins. 相似文献
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Control of mRNA processing and decay in prokaryotes 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
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We show that temperature-sensitive mutations in dnaZ, the gene for the gamma subunit of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, can be suppressed by mutations in the dnaN gene, which encodes the beta subunit. These results support a direct physical interaction of these two subunits during polymerase assembly or function. The suppressor phenotype is also sensitive to modulation by the dnaA genotype. Since dnaA is organized in an operon with dnaN, and dnaA is a regulatory gene of this operon, we propose that the dnaA effect on suppression can best be explained by modulation of suppressor dnaN levels. 相似文献
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Summary A suppressor mutation of a temperature-sensitive mutant of ribosomal protein L24 (rplX19) was mapped close to the lon gene by genetic analysis and was shown to affect protease LA. The degradation and the synthesis rates of individual ribosomal proteins were determined. Proteins L24, L14, L15 and L27 were found to be degraded faster in the original rplX19 mutant than in the rplX19 mutant containing the suppressor mutation. Other ribosomal proteins were either weakly or not at all degraded in both mutants. Temperature-sensitive growth was also suppressed by the overproduction of mutant protein L24 from a plasmid. Our results suggest that (1) either free ribosomal proteins or proteins bound to abortive assembly precursors are highly susceptible to the lon gene product and (2) the mutationally altered protein L24 can still function at the nonpermissive growth temperature of the mutant, if it is present in sufficient amounts. 相似文献
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Mechanism studies of suppressor-gene action 总被引:5,自引:1,他引:4
Brody, Stuart (Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.), and Charles Yanofsky. Mechanism studies of suppressor-gene action. J. Bacteriol. 90:687-695. 1965.-Mutations which change the primary structure of the A protein of the tryptophan synthetase of Escherichia coli can be reversed by allele-specific suppressor mutations. Normally, the suppressors of a particular A mutant lead to the appearance of small amounts of a wild-type-like A protein (su-A protein), in addition to the cross-reacting material antigenically similar to the normal A protein (CRM-A protein). In some cases, the particular ratio of su-A protein to CRM-A protein, indicative of a given suppressor gene, was increased when that suppressor gene was transduced into a different strain, such as a K-12 Hfr stock of E. coli. In these cases, there was a general correlation between an increased ratio and a marked instability of the suppressor gene. However, stable suppressed stocks were isolated in the Hfr strain, which also produced a high proportion of su-A protein. The ratios of su-A protein to CRM-A protein remained relatively constant under conditions of tryptophan repression in three different suppressor stocks, suggesting that the formation of each of the su-A proteins does not involve the interaction of a CRM-A protein with any other cellular constituent. It would appear, then, that the changes in the primary structure of the A protein which lead to the formation of the su-A proteins are determined before or during, but not after, the synthesis of the polypeptide chain. The specificity of amino acid activation was investigated in strains bearing one of the suppressor genes. These studies failed to reveal any significant alteration in the amino acyl ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthetases or the transfer RNA molecules for arginine, glycine, histidine, and tyrosine. 相似文献
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Resident T lymphocytes have been found to exert helper and suppressor regulatory influences with regard to polyclonal activation of murine splenic B lymphocytes elicited by lipopolysaccharide. In the normal adult spleen, only T cell helper influences are exercised over polyclonal B cell activation. This activity is a property of Lyt 1+2- T cells and does not appear to be subject to MHC restriction. Suppressive influence evidently is either latent or it exists at such a low level that its effects are difficult to detect. No regulatory activity can be recovered from the supernatants of T cells, cultured either with or without LPS. However, suppressor T cell function may be evoked by activating splenic T cells with Concanavalin A or by sonicating unstimulated splenic T cells in order to liberate a suppressive potential which is not expressed by these unstimulated cells when intact. The soluble fraction of resident splenic T cell sonicates exerts both helper and suppressor regulatory influences. The soluble helper activity is derived from Lyt l+2- T cells, whereas suppressor activity is generated from Lyt 1-2+ T cells. The suppressive activity of T cell sonicates is not restricted by the MHC gene complex. Helper and suppressor activities contained in splenic T cell sonicates were separated by gel chromatography; the suppressive activity was found to elute with a molecular weight between 68,000 and 84,000 daltons, and the helper activity eluted with a molecular weight between 15,000 and 23,000 daltons. The data indicate that helper and suppressor activities are distinct molecular entities derived from distinct splenic T lymphocyte subpopulations. The possibility that these molecules are precursors to or components of antigen-specific or nonspecific helper and suppressor factors described in the literature is discussed. 相似文献
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W Rouslin 《Archives of biochemistry and biophysics》1977,178(2):408-418
When anaerobically grown Saccharomyces cerevisiae are aerated under conditions which may deplete them of cytoplasmically translated, mitochondrial inner membrane enzyme precursors, they show no immediate decrease in in vivo mitochondrial translational activity compared with cells which have not been so depleted. Similarly, cells depleted of mitochondrially translanted precursors show no immediate decrease in their cytoplasmic translation of mitochondrial inner membrane proteins. These experiments suggest that the synthesis and nonspecific membrane attachment of mitochondrially and cytoplasmically translated inner membrane proteins are not stringently delimited by a prior depletion of inner membrane precursors elaborated by the “other” genetic system. It is thus possible to demonstrate a degree of uncoupling of the activities of the two genetic systems. The oxygen inductions of reduced CoQ cytochrome c reductase (complex III) and of cytochrome c oxidase (complex IV) activities in cells which have been sequentially exposed first to cycloheximide and then to chloramphenicol, or first to chloramphenicol and then to cycloheximide reflect the levels to which specifically integrated, mitochondrial and cytoplasmic precursors of these complexes can accumulate in the absence of concomitant translational activity by the “other” genetic system. These data again suggest the degree to which the translational activities of the two genetic systems can be uncoupled. A detailed study of the inductions of these two complexes in cells exposed first to chloramphenicol shows that the modes of induction of the two complexes are different. Complex III develops approximately 50% of its activity as an expression of a precursor (presumably mitochondrially translated) which is already present in the anaerobic cells, but which requires oxygen-induced cytoplasmic translation for its expression. The remainder of the induced complex III activity appears to require oxygen-induced mitochondrial translation for its expression. There was no analogous anaerobically present component evident during complex IV induction. 相似文献