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Sam Mathew Giyoung Shin Minsu Shon Hyungdon Yun 《Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering》2013,18(1):1-7
Recently, ω-transaminases have been increasingly used to synthesize amine compounds by reductive amination of prochiral ketones which are of high pharmacological significance. However, the conventional methods for evaluating these enzymes are time consuming and have often been regarded as a bottle neck in developing these enzymes as industrial biocatalysts. In the past few years, several high throughput screening methods have been developed for fast evaluation and identification of ω-transaminase. This review summarizes the various methodologies developed for rapidly screening ω-transaminases. 相似文献
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Lakshmi K Matukumalli John J Grefenstette David L Hyten Ik-Young Choi Perry B Cregan Curtis P Van Tassell 《BMC bioinformatics》2006,7(1):468-7
Background
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as defined here are single base sequence changes or short insertion/deletions between or within individuals of a given species. As a result of their abundance and the availability of high throughput analysis technologies SNP markers have begun to replace other traditional markers such as restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs or microsatellite) markers for fine mapping and association studies in several species. For SNP discovery from chromatogram data, several bioinformatics programs have to be combined to generate an analysis pipeline. Results have to be stored in a relational database to facilitate interrogation through queries or to generate data for further analyses such as determination of linkage disequilibrium and identification of common haplotypes. Although these tasks are routinely performed by several groups, an integrated open source SNP discovery pipeline that can be easily adapted by new groups interested in SNP marker development is currently unavailable. 相似文献4.
John P. Hanifin Karen T. Stewart Peter Smith Roger Tanner Mark Rollag George C. Brainard 《Chronobiology international》2013,30(1-2):251-268
Early studies on rodents indicated that the long‐wavelength portion of the spectrum (orange‐ and red‐appearing light) could influence circadian and neuroendocrine responses. Since then, both polychromatic and analytic action spectra in various rodent species have demonstrated that long‐wavelength light is very weak, if not entirely inactive, for regulating neurobehavioral responses. Since testing of monochromatic light wavelengths above 600 nm is uncommon, many researchers have assumed that there is little to no effect of red light on the neuroendocrine or circadian systems. The aims of the following studies were to test the efficacy of monochromatic light above 600 nm for melatonin suppression in hamsters and humans. Results in hamsters show that 640 nm monochromatic light at 1.1×1017 photons/cm2 can acutely suppress pineal melatonin levels. In normal healthy humans, equal photon density exposures of 1.9×1018 photons/cm2 at 460, 630, and 700 nm monochromatic light elicited a significant melatonin suppression at 460 nm and small reductions of plasma melatonin levels at 630 and 700 nm. These findings are discussed relative to the possible roles of classical visual photoreceptors and the recently discovered intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells for circadian phototransduction. That physiology, and its potential for responding to red light, has implications for domestic applications involving animal care, the lighting of typical human environments, and advanced applications such as space exploration. 相似文献
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Functional interactions between the p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) and the Trk receptors were demonstrated several years ago, but their mechanistic basis remains uncertain. In this issue of Neuron, Wehrman et al. provide a three-dimensional structure of the full TrkA ectodomain complexed to NGF and examine the possibility of a ternary p75NTR-NGF-TrkA complex. 相似文献
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Randomized clinical trials of HIV prevention in high-risk populations of women often assume that all participants have similar exposure to HIV. However, a substantial fraction of women enrolled in the trial may have no or low exposure to HIV. Our objective was to estimate the proportion of women exposed to HIV throughout a hypothetical high-risk study population.Methods
A stochastic individual-based model was developed to simulate the sexual behavior and the risk of HIV acquisition for a cohort of sexually active HIV-uninfected women in high HIV prevalence settings. Key behavior and epidemic assumptions in the model were based on published studies on HIV transmission in South Africa. The prevalence of exposure, defined as the proportion of women who have sex with HIV-infected partner, and HIV incidence were evaluated.Results
Our model projects that in communities with HIV incidence rate of 1 per 100 person years, only 5-6% of women are exposed to HIV annually while in communities with an HIV incidence of 5 per 100 person years 20-25% of women are exposed to HIV. Approximately 70% of the new infections are acquired from partners with asymptomatic HIV.Conclusions
Mathematical models suggest that a high proportion of women enrolled in HIV prevention trials may be unexposed to HIV even when incidence rates are high. The relationship between HIV exposure and other risk factors should be carefully analyzed when future clinical trials are planned. 相似文献8.
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann Christine Römermann Valério DePatta Pillar Thomas Kudernatsch Anton Fischer 《Folia Geobotanica》2010,45(2):111-124
The current study tested the assumption that floristic and functional diversity patterns are negatively related to soil nitrogen content. We analyzed 20 plots with soil N-contents ranging from 0.63% to 1.06% in a deciduous forest near Munich (Germany). To describe species adaptation strategies to different nitrogen availabilities, we used a plant functional type (PFT) approach. Each identified PFT represents one realized adaptation strategy to the current environment. These were correlated, next to plant species richness and evenness, to soil nitrogen contents. We found that N-efficient species were typical for low soil nitrogen contents, while N-requiring species occur at high N-contents. In contrast to our initial hypotheses, floristic and functional diversity measures (number of PFTs) were positively related to nitrogen content in the soil. Every functional group has its own adaptation to the prevailing environmental conditions; in consequence, these functional groups can co-exist but do not out-compete one another. The increased number of functional groups at high N-contents leads to increased species richness. Hence, for explaining diversity patterns we need to consider species groups representing different adaptations to the current environmental conditions. Such co-existing ecological strategies may even overcome the importance of competition in their effect on biodiversity. 相似文献
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The major maize seed storage proteins, zeins, are deficient in lysine and tryptophan content, which contribute to the poor
nutritional quality of corn. Whether through the identification of mutations or genetic engineering, kernels with reduced
levels of zein proteins have been shown to have increased levels of lysine and tryptophan. It has been hypothesized that these
increases are due to the reduction of lysine-poor zeins and a pleiotropic increase in the lysine-rich non-zein proteins. By
transforming maize with constructs expressing chimeric double-stranded RNA, kernels derived from stable transgenic plants
displayed significant declines in the accumulation of both 19- and 22-kD α-zeins, which resulted in higher lysine and tryptophan
content than previously reported for kernels with reduced zein levels. The observation that lysine and tryptophan content
is correlated with the protein levels measured in transgenic maize kernels is consistent with the hypothesis that a pleiotropic
increase in non-zein proteins is contributing to an improved amino acid balance. In addition, a large increase in accumulation
of free amino acids, consisting predominantly of asparagine, asparate and glutamate, was observed in the zein reduction kernels. 相似文献
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《中国实验动物学报》2017,(2)
目的检测High Five昆虫细胞系对BALB/c裸鼠致瘤性情况,以确保其作为疫苗生产细胞株的安全性。方法将裸鼠随机分为5组,分别为High Five基础细胞库细胞试验组、High Five最高限制代次细胞试验组、HEp-2细胞阳性对照组、CEF细胞阴性对照组和不作任何处理的空白对照组,用细胞悬液背部皮下接种裸鼠。3周和12周后对裸鼠解剖及病理组织学检查,其是否有肿瘤形成。结果阳性对照HEp-2细胞组裸鼠接种后3周注射部位形成结节,病理组织学检查为鳞状细胞癌;阴性对照CEF细胞组和High Five细胞组均无结节形成,接种后12周经解剖用病理组织学检查,均无肿瘤形成。结论基础代次和最高限制代次High Five细胞均不具有致瘤性,可安全地应用于疫苗生产。 相似文献
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Peter Jackson 《BMJ (Clinical research ed.)》1973,1(5848):263-264
One hundred obstetric patients were studied for evidence of puerperal thromboembolic disease. Only one case of deep vein thrombosis was detected in patients thought to be in a “high risk” category because of age or operative intervention. Clinical findings were unreliable compared with measurements of 125I-labelled fibrinogen uptake. Doppler ultrasound flow detection proved a simple screening technique but produced no abnormal findings in this series. 相似文献
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RNA binding proteins (RBPs) and RNA interaction is an emerging topic in molecular biology. Many reports showed that such interactions contribute to many cellular processes as well as disease development. Several standard in vitro and in vivo methods were developed to fulfill the needs of this RBP–RNA interaction study to explore their biological functions. However, these methods have their limitations in terms of throughput. In this review, we emphasize two important high throughput methods to studying RBP–RNA interactions, affinity purification and protein microarray. These methods have recently become robust techniques regarding their efficiency in systematically analyzing RBP–RNA interactions. Here, we provide technique overviews, strategies and applications of these methods during biological research. Although these technologies are just beginning to be explored, they will be most important methods in this study. 相似文献
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Plants growing in the natural environment are exposed daily to prolonged periods of high intensity irradiation. Many plant photomorphogenic responses are fully expressed only under prolonged exposures to high irradiances of light. The intensive study of these responses, the “High Irradiance Responses” (HIR) of plant photomorphogenesis, which started about 20 years ago, has been essentially directed—so far—toward the identification of the HIR photoreceptor, or photoreceptors, a problem that has not been satisfactorily and definitively solved, as yet. There is a great deal of evidence in support of the hypothesis that phytochrome, the pigment mediating the redfar red reversible plant photo-responses to low fluences of light, is involved in the photocontrol of the HIR. It seems likely that phytochrome may be the only photomorphogenic receptor responsible for the photocontrol of HIR responses brought about by irradiation at wavelengths longer than 600 nm. Phytochrome is probably also involved in the photocontrol of the HIR effects brought about by irradiation in the 350 to 500 nm region of the spectrum, but it cannot be excluded that other photochemical systems may also be involved. From a theoretical point of view, it does not seem unreasonable that the final expression of an HIR response may involve an interaction between phytochrome and other photochemical systems, with phytochrome probably playing the primary role and being responsible for the control of the activity of the other systems. Numerous “phytochrome only” interpretations (models) of the HIR have been proposed. Some of them have been developed to a fairly high degree of elaboration and have allowed the prediction of at least some of the features of the HIR. These “models,” although not rigorously and completely tested yet, seem to provide a reasonable interpretation for the HIR effects displayed under prolonged far red irradiation and for those HIR responses for which far red is the most effective spectral region. However, they do not provide a satisfactory explanation for the HIR responses for which blue is the most or the only effective spectral region, nor for the high effectiveness of white light. But, in spite of these problems, the “phytochrome only” interpretations of the HIR can be considered more satisfactory than those based on an interaction between phytochrome and other photochemical systems, especially in relation to the fact that the identity of these other photochemical systems has not been defined yet. 相似文献
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Shinsaku Hayashida Kazuyoshi Ohta Perfecto Q. Flor Nobuya Nanri Ichiro Miyahara 《Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry》2013,77(7):1947-1950
1-Pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase was purified and crystallized from Bacillus sphaericus. The crystalline preparation gave a single band on polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis. The molecular weight of the enzyme was determined to be about 100,000 by gel filtration. The enzyme consists of two subunits which are identical in molecular weight (50,000), as judged on SDS slab gel electrophoresis. The enzyme shows an optimum pH of 6.5 to 7.0. Its activity was 8.1 times higher with NADP+ than with NAD +, and the enzyme was stabilized by NADP+. The apparent Km values for l-l-pyrroline-5-carboxylate, NADP+ and NAD+ are 4.2 × 10–5m (with NADP+), 9.5 × 10~6m and 2.5 × IO-3 m, respectively. The enzyme reaction is irreversible. A simple method for the determination of l-ornithine involving ornithine ¿-aminotransferase and 1- pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase from B. sphaericus was developed. A linear relationship was found between the absorbance at 340 nm and the amount of l-ornithine (50 ~ 400 nmol), and between the fluorescence and the amount of l-ornithine (0.2 ~ 10 nmol). 相似文献
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Dana M.WILLIAMS Phat-Tan NGUYEN Kemal CHAN Madeleine KROHN Daniel T.BLUMSTEIN 《动物学报(英文版)》2020,(1):63-70
Animals living around people may modify their antipredator behavior as a function of proximity to humans,and this response has profound implications for whether or not a population can coexist with humans.We asked whether inland blue-tailed skinks Emoia impar modified their individual antipredator behavior as a function of differential exposure to humans.We conducted multiple consecutive flushes and recorded 2 measures of antipredator response:flight initiation distance(FID),the distance from a threatening stimulus at which an individual flees,and distance fled,the distance an individual fled after a flush.We used a multiple model comparison approach to quantify variation in individual escape behavior across multiple approaches and to test for differences in between-individual variation among populations.We found that individuals tolerated closer approach and fled shorter distances at locations with relatively less human disturbance than at locations with medium and high human disturbance,respectively.In addition,skinks living at high human disturbance sites had less variable FIDs than at low human disturbance sites.Two theories may explain these results.Selection against less favorable phenotypes has reduced behavioral variation in urban habitats and behavioral plasticity allows individuals to flexibly adjust their behavioral patterns in response to human disturbance.These results highlight the importance of studying variation within populations,at the individual level,which may better elucidate the impact that human disturbance has on the behavioral composition of populations. 相似文献