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Thirty nine clinical isolates of Acinetobacter belonging to six species were tested for resistance to 20 metal ions and their ability to produce -lactamase. Fifty two percent of the strains produced -lactamase. -Lactamase producers and non-producers were almost equally distributed in the different species. A. baumannii was the predominant biotype and was found to be most resistant to metals. Resistance to mercury was prevalent in -lactamase-producing A. baumannii only. Silver resistant strains of A. baumannii produced -lactamase. Sensitivity and resistance to copper and cadium was equally distributed between -lactamase producers and non-producers. -Lactamase-producer and -non-producer strains were uniformly sensitive to cadmium except Acinetobacter genospecies 1. 相似文献
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To characterize the differences between fibrotic myofibroblasts and normal fibroblasts, we studied two differentiation markers: -smooth muscle (SM) actin, a specific marker of myofibroblast differentiation, and -actin, which is overexpressed in the fibrotic tissue. Experiments were performed on fibroblasts isolated from normal pig skin and on subcutaneous myofibroblasts isolated from pig radiation-induced fibrosis. Three culture models were used: cells in monolayers, equivalent dermis, consisting of fibroblasts embedded into a matrix composed of type I collagen, and in vitro reconstituted skin, in which the matrix and containing life fibroblasts were overlaid with keratinocytes. Samples were studied using immunofluorescence and western-blotting. In monolayers cultures, both fibrosis and normal cells expressed -SM actin. Furthermore, similar amounts of -actin protein were found. In these conditions, the resulting alterations in the phenotypes of cells made comparison of cultured fibrotic and normal cells irrelevant. Under the two 3-D culture models, normal fibroblasts no longer expressed -SM actin. They expressed -actin at the basal level. Moreover, the fibrotic myofibroblasts in both 3-D models retained their differentiation features, expressing -SM actin and overexpressing -actin. We found that this normalization was mainly related to the genomic programmation acquired by the cells in the tissue. Cellular motility and microenvironment were also involved, whereas cellular proliferation was not a major factor. Consequently, both three-dimensional models allowed the study of radiation-induced fibrosis in vitro, provided good extrapolations to in vivo conditions and avoided certain of culture artefacts. 相似文献
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In the cotyledons of mustard (Sinapis alba L.) seedlings irradiated from the time of sowing with continuous red light, the photoreversibility of the phytochrome-mediated increase in -amylase activity (EC 3.2.1.2) is lost 36 h after sowing (coupling point). However, the induced increase of -amylase activity cannot be detected before 46 h after sowing (starting point). Density labeling with deuterium oxide shows that the increase of enzyme activity in light and darkness coincides precisely with the synthesis of -amylase protein. Thus, phytochrome mediates an increase of -amylase synthesis de novo. Since there is no turnover detectable by density labeling, it is concluded that -amylase of mustard cotyledons is a physiologically stable enzyme (half-life >5 d). The 10-h time gap between loss of photoreversibility and onset of light-induced -amylase synthesis points to a relatively stable regulatory element within the signal chain (transmitter) which links -amylase synthesis to the primary action of phytochrome. A 12-h lag between the cessation of phytochrome action and the cessation of induced -amylase synthesis indicates a limited lifetime of the transmitter (about 12 h). The effect of this result on the interpretation of the coupling point is discussed.Abbreviations Pr, Pfr
red and far-red absorbing forms of phytochrome 相似文献
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Jacque Topf Huashi Gong Rina Timberg Laurence Mets Itzhak Ohad 《Photosynthesis research》1992,32(1):59-69
Photoinhibition of Photosystem II in unicellular algae in vivo is accompanied by thylakoid membrane energization and generation of a relatively high pH as demonstrated by 14C-methylamine uptake in intact cells. Presence of ammonium ions in the medium causes extensive swelling of the thylakoid membranes in photoinhibited Chlamydomonas reinhardtii but not in Scenedesmus obliquus wild type and LF-1 mutant cells. The rise in pH and the related thylakoid swelling do not occur at light intensities which do not induce photoinhibition. The rise in pH and membrane energization are not induced by photoinhibitory light in C. reinhardtii mutant cells possessing an active Photosystem II but lacking cytochrome b6/f, plastocyanin or Photosystem I activity and thus being unable to perform cyclic electron flow around Photosystem I. In these mutants the light-induced turnover of the D1 protein of Reaction Center II is considerably reduced. The high light-dependent rise in pH is induced in the LF-1 mutant of Scenedesmus which can not oxidize water but otherwise possesses an active Reaction Center II indicating that PS II-linear electron flow activity and reduction of plastoquinone are not required for this process. Based on these results we conclude that photoinhibition of Photosystem II activates cyclic electron flow around Photosystem I which is responsible for the high membrane energization and pH rise in cells exposed to excessive light intensities.Abbreviations cyt b6/f
cytochrome b6/f
- Diuron
3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1 dimethyl urea
- QB
the secondary quinone acceptor of reaction center II
- DNP
2,4,Dinitrophenol
- FCCP
carbonyl cyanide trifluoromethoxy phenylhydrazone
- SDS-PAGE
sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis 相似文献
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Sucrose-regulated expression of a chimeric potato tuber gene in leaves of transgenic tobacco plants 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
Herman Wenzler Gregory Mignery Linda Fisher William Park 《Plant molecular biology》1989,13(4):347-354
Patatin is a family of lipid acyl hydrolases that accounts for 30 to 40% of the total soluble protein in potato tubers. Class-I patatin genes encode 98 to 99% of the patatin mRNA in tubers, but are not normally expressed in other tissues. They are not totally tuber-specific; however, since they can be induced to express at high levels in other tissues under conditions of sink limitation or in explants cultured on medium containing elevated levels of sucrose. To examine the evolution of the mechanisms that regulate patatin gene expression, we introduced a chimeric patatin--glucuronidase (GUS) gene containing 2.5 kb of 5 flanking sequence from the Class-I potato patatin gene PS20 into tobacco plants. The construct was not expressed at significant levels in leaves of juvenile plants or plantlets cultured in vitro, but was expressed at high levels in explants cultured on medium containing 0.3 to 0.4 M sucrose. While there were differences in the expression of the chimeric gene between transgenic tobacco and potato plants, the pattern of sucrose induction was very similar. These results suggest that the mechanism that controls patatin gene expression in potato tubers evolved from a widely distributed mechanism in which gene expression is regulated by the level of available photosynthate. 相似文献
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Ylva Engström Stephan Schneuwly Walter Jakob Gehring 《Development genes and evolution》1992,201(2):65-80
Summary In order to study the regulation of spatial and temporal expression of the homeotic gene Antennapedia (Antp) in Drosophila melanogaster, we have constructed fusion genes which contain Antp sequences linked to the reporter gene lac Z of Escherichia coli. In one case of P-element transformation, a fusion gene construct integrated into the endogenous Antp gene close to one of the two promoters (P1). The spatial expression from the reporter gene in this transformant line, as analysed by the detection of -galactosidase activity, was found to exactly mimic the normal expression from the P1 promoter of the Antp gene. We have used this unique transformant as a tool for studying the expression of the P1 promoter in embryonic, larval and adult development. Parallel lines transformed with the same fusion gene construct did not confer a correct P1 pattern of expression. The position in the genome was, therefore, crucial for the expression pattern of the reporter gene. Experiments aiming at the detection of autoregulatory control of Antp gene expression were designed. The results did not, however, support models of positive or negative autoregulation of P1 expression by Amp protein. 相似文献
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M. E. Jacobs 《Biochemical genetics》1980,18(1-2):65-76
In Drosophila melanogaster, the chitinous microfibrils arising from the tips of the epidermal villi in adult cuticles remain irregular and loose in the mutant ebony (which fails in cuticular incorporation of -alanine) but closely knit and regular in normal flies. Addition of -alanine to cuticles from which nonchitinous materials have been removed with alkali converts the loose arrangement of the microfibrils to a compact and sharply delineated arrangement. -alanine also accelerates tyrosinase-catalyzed oxidation of N-acetyldopamine by reacting with the oxidized product of the reaction to produce an orange-red complex. Similarly, -alanine accelerates oxidation of N-acetyldopamine when these two substances are added to fluids from the hemocoel, to lead to tanning instead of normal blackening. These findings may help explain why -alanine induces tanning while inhibiting melanization in insects.This study was supported by Grant GM-18680 from the National Institutes of Health. 相似文献
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Dr. J. Keller R. Gerber B. J. Del Tito Jr. D. Vannicolo E. J. Arcuri 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》1990,6(3):199-206
Summary The major leftward early promoter of phage p
L, has frequently been used to drive expression of heterologous genes inEscherichia coli.p
L is typically maintained fully repressed by the lambda cl protein. When induction of heterologous protein synthesis is desired, one of several potential mechanisms of destroying cl function is employed and the expression of the foreign gene commences. One method of derepressingp
L involves exposing cells to nalidixic acid, which results in the activation of RecA protein and the subsequent RecA-mediated proteolytic cleavage of cl. Activated RecA also mediates the cleavage of theE. coli LexA protein, resulting in induction of the SOS regulon (at least 15E. coli genes, includingrec A). We have examined the effect of two chromosomal mutations on the productivity of nalidixic acid inductions. One of the tested mutations (recA o) increased the intracellular concentration of RecA prior to induction; the other (lexAind–) resulted in a mutated lexA protein insensitive to RecA-mediated cleavage. These mutations were introduced into a strain carrying acl+ defective lysogen. Synthesis of two heterologous proteins, human 1-antitrypsin and a fusion protein partially derived from thePlasmodium falciparum circumsporozooite surface antigen, was examined in the wild-type and mutant strains. The maximum -1 antitrypsin concentration achieved was improved by 50% when therecA o strain was used rather than the wild type; however; only smaller changes (20% or less) in the maximum concentration of the malaria fusion protein wer observed. Use of thelexAind– strain resulted in a decrease in the maximum concentration attained for both heterologous products. 相似文献
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Dong-Uk Kim Seung-Kiel Park Kyung-Sook Chung Myung-Un Choi Hyang-Sook Yoo 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1996,252(1-2):20-32
ASchizosaccharomyces pombe homolog of mammalian genes encoding G protein subunits,gpb1
+, was cloned by the polymerase chain reaction using primer pairs that correspond to sequences conserved in several G genes of other species followed by screening of genomic and cDNA libraries. Thegpb1 gene encodes 317 amino acids that show 47% homology with human G
1 and G
2 and 40% homology withSaccharomyces cerevisiae G protein. Disruption of thegpb1 gene indicated that this gene is not required for vegetative cell growth. However,gpb1-disrupted haploid cells mated and sporulated faster than wild-type cells, both in sporulation (MEA) and in complex medium (YE): when examined 23 h after transfer to sporulation medium, 35% ofgpb1-disrupted haploid pairs had undergone conjugation and sporulation, whereas only 3–5% of wild-type haploid pairs had done so. Overexpression of thegpb1 gene suppressed this facilitated conjugation and sporulation phenotype ofgpb1-disrupted cells but did not cause any obvious effect in wild-type cells. Co-disruption of one of the twoS. pombe G-subunit genes,gpa2, in thegpb1-disrupted cells did not change the accelerated conjugation and sporulation phenotype of thegpb1
– cells. However, co-disruption of theras1 gene abolished thegpb1
– phenotype. These results suggest that Gpbl is a negative regulator of conjugation and sporulation that apparently works upstream of Ras1 function inS. pombe. The possible relationship of Gpbl to two previously identified, putative G proteins ofS. pombe is discussed.A preliminary report of this work first appeared in an abstract of the Genetic Society of America, 1993 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting, p. 92 and was presented at the American Association of Cancer special meeting on Cell Signalling and Cancer Treatment, 1993 相似文献
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The lectin affinities of -N-acetyl-d-hexosaminidase (E.C.3.2.1.52) from an acute lymphoblastic leukaemic cell-line (CCRF/CEM), a non-malignant lymphoblastic cell-line (SM1) and normal human fibroblasts were studied for both mature and precursor forms of the enzyme. Four immobilised lectins concanavalin A-Sepharose wheat germ agglutinin-Agarose,Ricinus communis agglutinin I-Agarose,Phaseolus vulgaris erythroagglutinin-Agarose and a column of serotonin-Sepharose were used. The activities of -hexosaminidase from fibroblasts and SM1 cells generally behaved similarly while the CCRF/CEM enzyme exhibited different binding patterns. Differences were also noted between precursor and mature enzyme from each cell type consistent with changes in glycosylation between the precursor form and the mature form appearing in the lysosome. These results suggest that changes in the glycosylation of -hexosaminidase, and possibly other lysosomal enzymes, may be associated with malignancy.Abbreviations Con A
concanavalin A-Sepharose
- RCA-I
Ricinus communis agglutinin I-Agarose
- WGA
wheat germ agglutinin-Agarose
- PHA-E
Phaseolus vulgaris erythroagglutinin-Agarose
- SER
serotonin-Sepharose: non-T
- non-B ALL
non-T, non-B cell acute lyphoblastic leukaemia
- 4-MU-GLcNAc
4-methylumbelliferyl 2-acetamido-2-deoxy--D-glucopyranoside 相似文献
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T. Kumagai Y. Umemura T. Baba M. Iwanaga 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》1990,79(3):369-376
Summary Several sweet potato genotypes were found to lack completely or to have only traces of-amylase in their storage roots. Such genotypes do not increase in sweetness during cooking because, without a sufficient amount of-amylase, the normal hydrolysis of starch to maltose does not occur in the cooking process. In order to study the inheritance of this biochemical variant in the genotype, 41 families were generated. The following conclusions were drawn from analyzing these families. (1) This trait is controlled by one recessive allele (designated-amy) (2) It is inherited in a hexasomic or tetradisomic manner, but not disomically or tetrasomically. This conclusion supports previous cytological data that sweet potato is an autohexaploid or has two identical genomes plus one genome which is somewhat different. (3) The-amy allele appears to exist at a high frequency in cultivated germplasm. (4) Breeding sweet potato for low-amylase activity is relatively easy. New types of sweet potato without normal-amylase activity have great potential for processing and as a staple food. 相似文献
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Seung R. Paik Ken Yokoyama Masasuke Yoshida Toshiko Ohta Yasuo Kagawa William S. Allison 《Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes》1993,25(6):679-684
The ATPase activity of the F1-ATPase from the thermophilic bacterium PS3 is stimulated at concentrations of rhodamine 6G up to about 10 µM where 70% stimulation is observed at 36°C. Half maximal stimulation is observed at about 3 µM dye. At rhodamine 6G concentrations greater than 10 µM, ATPase activity declines with 50% inhibition observed at about 75 µM dye. The ATPase activities of the 33 and 33 complexes assembled from isolated subunits of TF1 expressed inE. coli deleted of theunc operon respond to increasing concentrations of rhodamine 6G nearly identically to the response of TF1. In contrast, the ATPase activities of the 33 and 33 complexes are only inhibited by rhodamine 6G with 50% inhibition observed, respectively, at 35 and 75 µM dye at 36°C. The ATPase activity of TF1 is stimulated up to 4-fold by the neutral detergent, LDAO. In the presence of stimulating concentrations of LDAO, the ATPase activity of TF1 is no longer stimulated by rhodamine 6G, but rather, it is inhibited with 50% inhibition observed at about 30 µM dye at 30°C. One interpretation of these results is that binding of rhodamine 6G to a high-affinity site on TF1 stimulates ATPase activity and unmasks a low-affinity, inhibitory site for the dye which is also exposed by LDAO. 相似文献
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Improved binary vectors for Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation 总被引:38,自引:0,他引:38
Improved plant transformation vectors were constructed which utilize the pRiHRI origin of replication for highly stable maintenance in Agrobacterium tumefaciens, the ColE1 origin of replication for high copy maintenance in Escherichia coli, and a gentamycin resistance gene as a strong selectable marker for bacteria. Concise T-DNA elements were engineered with border sequences from the TL-DNA of pTiA6, the Tn5 neomycin phosphotransferase gene (npt II) expressed from either CaMV 35S or mannopine synthase (mas) promoters, and the lac Z gene segment from pUC18 as a source of unique restriction sites as well as an insertional inactivation marker for cloned DNA. The order of T-DNA components in all vectors is left border, plant marker cassette, lac Z, and right border, respectively. The prototype vector, pCGN1547, was shown to be very stable in A. tumefaciens strain LBA4404 and to act as an efficient donor of T-DNA in tomato transformation experiments. Use of the other vectors is also described. 相似文献
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Killer toxin K28, a 16 kd protein secreted by the wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain 28, was reversibly bound by a column of Concanavalin A-Sepharose, confirming its glycoprotein nature. HPLC analysis of acid hydrolyzates of K28 toxin as well as Western-blots of -eliminated and/or endo H-treated killer toxin preparations probed with polyclonal -toxin antibodies revealed that the carbohydrate moiety of K28 consists of D-mannose only, which is O-glycosidically linked via Ser/Thr residues to the protein part. The change in gel mobility of K28 after -elimination was caused by a decrease in molecular mass of about 1,800, corresponding to a carbohydrate moiety of 10 mannose residues per killer toxin molecule. 相似文献
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Transforming growth factors 1 and2 (TGF-1 and2), tested in a clonogenic assay against primary cells from human tumors, suppress proliferation to different extents. In nineteen of twenty-six cell cultures, proliferation was < 50% of control with factor at 0.04 or 0.4 nM. Of these, TGF- 2 was more active than TGF-1 in fourteen; and TGF-1 was more active than TGF-2 in five. In seven of the nineteen, proliferation was 0% with one or the other factor. In contrast, cisplatin was much less effective in inhibiting proliferation of some of the same cells even at 1,000 or more times the molar concentration of the factors. Surprisingly, when TGF- 1 and TGF-2 were combined at equal concentrations, the antiproliferative effect of one was cancelled or markedly inhibited by the other. 相似文献
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K. Suzuki M. Ishimoto M. Iwanaga F. Kikuchi K. Kitamura 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》1995,90(6):762-766
The inheritance of seed -amylase inhibitor in the common bean and the genetic relationships among the variants and six arcelin variants in the common bean were investigated by crossing between accessions containing different AI and arcelin variants. All seed proteins in parental, F1 and F2 seeds from the crosses were examined by Western-blot analysis. All F1 seeds gave combined AI banding patterns from parents on the blotting membranes. The segregation of F2 seeds for AI variants indicated that the polypeptides of AI variants were inherited as single co-dominant units. Moreover, AI and arcelin behaved as a single block in crosses, indicating a close linkage relationship between the genes controlling these proteins. 相似文献
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Cyclic stretch induces the release of growth promoting factors from cultured neonatal cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
Ruwhof C van Wamel AE Egas JM van der Laarse A 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》2000,208(1-2):89-98
Growth factors and hormones may play an autocrine/paracrine role in mechanical stress-induced cardiac hypertrophy. Using an in vitro model of mechanical stress, i.e. stretch of cardiomyocytes and cardiac fibroblasts, we tested the involvement of growth factors and hormones in this process.We found that conditioned medium (CM) derived from 4 h cyclicly (1 Hz) stretched cardiomyocytes increased the rate of protein synthesis in static cardiomyocytes by 8 ± 3%. Moreover, CM derived from 2 h stretched fibroblasts increased the rate of protein synthesis in static fibroblasts as well as in static cardiomyocytes by 8 ± 2 and 6 ± 2%, respectively. Analysis of CM using size-exclusion HPLC showed that cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts released at least three factors with MW 10 kD, their quantities being time-dependently increased by stretch. Subsequent analyses using immunoassays revealed that cardiomyocytes released atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF1) being increased by 45 ± 17 and 21 ± 4% upon 4 h of stretch, respectively. Fibroblasts released TGF1 and very low quantity of endothelin-1 (ET-1). The release of TGF1 was significantly increased by 18 ± 4% after 24 h of stretch in fibroblasts. Both cell types released no detectable amount of angiotensin II (Ang II).In conclusion, upon cyclic stretch cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts secrete growth factors and hormones which induce growth responses in cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts in an autocrine/paracrine way. TGF secreted by cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts, and ANP secreted by cardiomyocytes are likely candidates. We found no evidence for the involvement of Ang II and ET-1 in autocrine/paracrine mechanisms between cardiac cell types. 相似文献
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The growth inhibitory activities of 6 endogenous growth inhibitors isolated from light-grown dwarf peas (Pisum sativum cv. Progress No. 9) were examined in the epicotyl of dark-grown seedlings of the same cultivar in the dark in order to examine the possible contribution of these compounds to the growth inhibition brought about by red light. The activities of these natural inhibitors, including two A-2 and A-2 of as yet undetermined structure, were compared with those of synthetic growth retardants and benzyladenine. Samples were applied directly into the epicotyls via a glass capillary tube. In 24-h tests doses for a 25% inhibition (I25) were: A-2, 4.3 × 10-2: cis-xanthoxin, 1.2 × 10-1 ; A-2, 1.6 × 10-1; trans-xanthoxin, 1.2; R,S-dihydromaleimide, 3.5 × 102 and pisatin, 4.0 × 102 nmol plant-1 . In 72-h tests, I25's were: benzyladenine, 1.5; AMO-1618 (ammonium-(5-hydroxycarvacryl)-trimethylchloride piperidine carboxylate), 2.4; R,S-dihydromaleimide, 4.0 × 102 and CCC (chlorocholine chloride), 1.1 × 103 nmol plant-1. -D-Glucosyl-R-dihydromaleimide had no activity at all. Benzyladenine caused the thickening as well as elongation inhibition of the epicotyls of intact plants. The possible involvement of A-2 and in the red light growth inhibition of dwarf peas is discussed.Abbreviations AMO-1618
ammonium-(5-hydroxycarvacryl)-trimethylchloride piperidine carboxylate
- CCC
chlorocholine chloride
- G-DHMD
-D-glucosyl-R-dihydromaleimide
- I25
dose required for a 25% growth inhibition
- R
red light
author for correspondence 相似文献
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The gene encoding 5 3 exonuclease domain-deleted Tfi DNA polymerase, named 5 3 Exo–
Tfi fragment, from Thermus filiformis was expressed in Escherichia coli under the control of the tac promoter on a high-copy plasmid, pJR. The expressed enzyme was purified 27-fold with a 19% yield and a specific activity of 2621 U mg–1 protein. The 5 3 exonuclease domain of Tfi DNA polymerase was removed without significant effect on enzyme activity and stability. PCR conditions for the 5 3 Exo–
Tfi fragment were more tolerant to the buffer composition as compared to the full-length enzyme. 相似文献
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Sarmah Bidyut K. Moore Andrew Tate Walter Molvig Lisa Morton Roger L. Rees David P. Chiaiese Pasquale Chrispeels Maarten J. Tabe Linda M. Higgins T.J.V. 《Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement》2004,14(1):73-82
We describe a robust and reproducible Agrobacterium-mediated chickpea transformation method based on kanamycin selection, and its use to introduce the bean AI1 gene into a desi type of chickpea. Bean AI1 was specifically expressed in the seeds, accumulated up to 4.2% of seed protein and was processed to low molecular weight polypeptides as occurs in bean seeds. The transgenic protein was active as an inhibitor of porcine -amylase in vitro. Transgenic chickpeas containing -AI1 strongly inhibited the development of Callosobruchus maculatus and C. chinensis (Col. : Bruchidae) in insect bioassays. 相似文献