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1.
The origin of Q-independent derivatives of phage lambda 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
Kim Kaiser 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1980,179(3):547-554
Summary qsr (Q-independent) phages are characterised by the replacement of the region of the genome that contains Q, S, R, and the late gene promoter, PR, with host-derived DNA that codes for functions analogous to those deleted. Restriction endonuclease analysis and DNA/DNA hybridisation methods have been used to show that p4 and qin A 3, two such Q-independent phages, are the product of recombination between and a defective lambdoid prophage (the qsr prophage) located at an as yet unidentified site in the E. coli K 12 chromosome. The qsr prophage is distinct from the defective lambdoid prophage Rac (Kaiser and Murray 1979). In the E. coli K 12 strain AB1157 from which qsr phages cannot be generated, the qsr prophage has suffered an internal deletion. That the qsr prophage appears not to carry a full complement of essential late genes suggests one explanation for its apparently defective nature. 相似文献
2.
-Thrombin is a trypsin-like serine proteinase involved in blood coagulation and wound repair processes. Thrombin interacts with many macromolecular substrates, cofactors, cell-surface receptors, and blood plasma inhibitors. The three-dimensional structure of human -thrombin shows multiple surface exosites for interactions with these macromolecules. We used these coordinates to probe the interaction of thrombin's active site and two exosites, anion-binding exosite-I and -II, with the blood plasma serine proteinase inhibitors (serpins) antithrombin (AT), heparin cofactor II (HC), and protein C inhibitor (PCI). Heparin, a widely used anticoagulant drug, accelerates the rate of thrombin inhibition by AT, PCI, and HC. Thrombin Quick II is a dysfunctional thrombin mutant with a Gly 226 Val substitution in the substrate specificity pocket. We found that thrombin Quick II was inhibited by HC, but not by AT or PCI. Molecular modeling studies suggest that the larger Val side chain protrudes into the specificity pocket, allowing room for the smaller P1 side chain of HC (Leu) but not the larger P1 side chain of AT and PCI (both with Arg). T
–-Thrombin and thrombin Quick I (Arg 67 Cys) are both altered in anion-binding exosite-I, yet bind to heparin-Sepharose and can be inhibited by AT, HC, and PCI in an essentially normal manner in the absence of heparin. In the presence of heparin, inhibition of these altered thrombins by HC is greatly reduced compared to both AT and PCI. -Thrombin with chemically modified lysines in both anion-binding exosite-I and -II has no heparin accelerated thrombin inhibition by either AT or HC. Thrombin lysine-modified in the presence of heparin has protected residues in anion-binding exosite-II and the loss of heparin-accelerated inhibition by HC is greater than that by AT. Collectively, these results suggest differences in serpin reactive site recognition by thrombin and a more complicated mechanism for heparin-accelerated inhibition by HC compared to either AT or PCI.Abbreviations used: AT, antithrombin; HC, heparin cofactor II; PCI, protein C inhibitor; serpin(s), serine proteinase inhibitor(s); FPRck, D-Phe-Pro-Arg-chloromethyl ketone; FPLck, D-Phe-Pro-Leu-chloromethyl ketone; HEPES, (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid); SDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; HNP, 20mM HEPES, 150mM NaCl, 0.1% (w/v) poly(ethyleneglycol) (Mr = 8000) buffer atpH 7.4; Unp-PLPT, unprotected pyridoxal 5phosphate modified-thrombin; HPPLPT, heparin-protected pyridoxal 5phosphate modifiedthrombin. 相似文献
3.
Internal pH (pHi) was determined inEmiliania huxleyi (Lohmann) using the probe 2,7-bis-(2-carboxyethyl)-5(and-6)carboxyfluoresceinacetoxymethylester (BCEF-AM) and digital imaging microscopy. The probe BCECF-AM was taken up and hydrolysed to the free acid by the cells. A linear relationship was established between pHi and the 490/450 fluorescence ratio of BCECF-AM over the pH range 6.0 to 8.0 using the ionophore nigericin. Two distinct pH domains were identified within the cell, the cytoplasmic domain (approx. pH 7.0) and the chloroplast domain (approx. pH 8.0). The average pHi was 7.29 (±0.11) for cells in the presence of 2 mM HCO
3
–
. In the absence of HCO
3
–
the pHi was decreased by 0.8 pH unit. The importance of these changes in pHi is considered in relation to inorganic-carbon uptake.Abbreviations AM
acetoxymethylester
- BCECF
2,7-bis-(2-carboxyethyl)-5(and-6)carboxyfluorescein
- Hepes
4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazine ethanesulfonic acid
- pHi
intracellular pH 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.
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
6.
C. C. Wong K. Y. Lam K. W. Chiu 《Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology》1993,163(3):212-218
The extrathyroidal conversion of thyroxine to triiodothyronine in the snake, Elaphe taeniura, has been determined in vitro. The liver, kidney and pancreas are important organs showing significant 5-deiodinase activity. The pancreas has a higher conversion rate (18.5±3.58 pmol·min-1·mg protein-1) than other vertebrate tissues that have been studied. The 5-deiodinase activity is dependent on substrate (thyroxine) concentration, cofactor, i.e. dithioerythritol concentration, temperature, duration of incubation and pH. It is sensitive to iopanoic acid, propylthiouracil, salicylate and propranolol. It is also indicative that the 5-deiodinase activity increased and decreased, respectively, in snakes with experimentally induced hyper- and hypo-thyroidism. These characteristics suggest that snake 5-deiodinase is similar to that of mammals, probably of type I category.Abbreviations ANOVA
analysis of variance
- BSA
bovine serum albumin
- BW
body weight
- cpm
counts per minute
- 5D
5-deiodinase
- DTE
dithioerythritol
- EDTA
ethylenediamine tetraacetate
- IOP
iopanoic acid
-
K
m
Michaelis-Menten constant
- L/D
Light/Dark
- MW
molecular weight
- NRS
normal rabbit serum
- PEG
polyethylene glycol
- %B
percentage of added label found in the pellet
- PTU
propylthiouracil
- RIA
radioimmunoassay
- rT3
3,5,5-triiodothyronine
- SPSS
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
- T3
3,5,3-triiodothyronine
- T4
thyroxine
- TRIS
Tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane
- Tx
thyroidectomized
-
V
max
maximum velocity of enzyme reaction 相似文献
7.
A -carotene oxygenase is described which occurs in the Cyanobacterium Microcystis. It cleaves -carotene and zeaxanthin specifically at the positions 7,8 and 7,8, while echinenone and myxoxanthophyll are not affected. The oxidative cleavage of -carotene leads to the formation of -cyclocitral and crocetindial and that of zeaxanthin to hydroxy--cyclocitral and crocetindial in nearly stoichiometric amounts. Oxidant is dioxygen as has been demonstrated by high incroporation (86%) of 18O2 into -cyclocitral. -Carotene oxygenase is membrane bound, sensitive to sulfhydryl reagents, antioxidants and chelating agents. Iron seems to be an essential part of the enzyme activity. Cofactors necessary for the reaction could not be detected.Abbreviations TLC
thin layer-chromatography
- PIPES
piperazine-N,N-bis-(2-ethanesulfonate) Na
- TES
2{[tris-(hydroxymethyl)-methyl]-amino} ethanesulfonic acid
Dedicated to Professor G. Drews on occasion of his 60th birthday 相似文献
8.
Hiltrud White Claudia Huber Richard Feicht Helmut Simon 《Archives of microbiology》1993,159(3):244-249
Clostridium formicoaceticum grown in the presence of 1 mM molybdate and about 1.5×10-5 mM tungsten (present in the 5 g yeast extract/l of the growth medium) forms two reversible aldehyde oxidoreductases in an activity ratio of about 45:55. The fraction of 45% does not bind to the octyl-Sepharose column, whereas the 55% aldehyde oxidoreductase binds to this column. From cells grown on a synthetic medium without the addition of tungstate only about 2% of the aldehyde oxidoreductase of the crude extract binds to octyl-Sepharose. The enzyme not binding to octyl-Sepharose has been purified as judged by electrophoresis. It is pure after about 50 fold enrichment. According to SDS gel electrophoresis the enzyme consists of identical 100 kD subunits. Based on gel chromatography it seems to be a trimer. Per subunit 0.6 molybdenum, 7 iron, 6.6 acid labile sulphur, about 0.1 pterin-6-carboxylic and <0.05 tungsten have been found. The first 13 amino acids from the amino end show no similarity with the W-containing aldehyde oxidoreductase from the same bacterium. With reduced tetramethylviologen (E0=–550 mV) the new molybdenum containing enzyme can reduce various aliphatic and aromatic acids to aldehydes. The pH optimum is at 6.0. For the dehydrogenation of butyraldehyde a rather broad pH region from pH 6 to 10 shows almost no variation of rate. From 15 different aldehydes acetaldehyde exhibits the highest rate. The Km value for butanal is 0.002 and for propionate 7.0 mM. Compared with the tungsten enzyme the molybdenum enzyme is only moderately oxygen-sensitive.Abbreviations AOR
aldehyde oxidoreductase
- BV
benzylviologen
- MV
methylviologen
- NH2CO-MV
1,1-carbamoylmethylviologen
- TMV
1,1,2,2-tetramethylviologen 相似文献
9.
Purification and properties of the ATP: adenylylsulphate 3′-phosphotransferase from Chlamydomonas reinhardii 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
APS-kinase (ATP: adenylylsulphate 3-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.25) has been purified from the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardii, strain CW 15 by means of chromatofocussing and affinity chromatography. The isolated protein showed an apparent molecular mass of 44,000 upon sodium dodecylsulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The transfer of phosphate groups from ATP onto APS required a pH of 6.8, the presence of Mg2+ ions and a reducing thiol. Its catalytical activity was destroyed by sulphhydryl group inhibitors (phenyl-mercuri compounds, dithiopyridine) and alkylating reagents.The purified enzyme attained a V
max of 360 pkat under optimal reaction conditions declining to v
limit of 260 pkat in the presence of excess substrate APS. This sensitivity towards changes in substrate concentrations was parallelled by a high affinity and specificity: apparent K
m APS: 2 · 10-6 mol · l-1, and K
m ATP: 7 · 10-6 mol · l-1. The enzyme was found specific for ATP, d-ATP and CTP, while UTP, ITP and GTP showed marginal activity. The Hill coefficients suggested 4 binding sites for APS and 1 for ATP. Excessive APS resulted in a negative slope indicating 3 inhibiting sites of the substrate.Abbreviations APS
Adenosine 5-phosphosulphate
- dATP
2-deoxyadenosine 5-triphosphate
- p-CMB
p-chloromercuribenzoate
- DTE
dithioerythritol
- DTT
dithiothreitol
- -MSH
-mercaptoethanol
- PAPS
3-phosphoadenosine 5-phosphosulphate
- PAP
3-phosphoadenosine 5-phosphate
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulphate
This work is part of a dissertation submitted by H. G. J., Bochum 1982 相似文献
10.
Takenori Miyamoto Diego Restrepo Edward J. Cragoe Jr. John H. Teeter 《The Journal of membrane biology》1992,127(3):173-183
Summary Olfactory receptor neurons enzymatically dissociated from channel catfish olfactory epithelium were depolarized transiently following dialysis of IP3 or cAMP (added to the patch pipette) into the cytoplasm. Voltage and current responses to IP3 were blocked by ruthenium red, a blocker of an IP3-gated Ca2+-release channel in sarcoplasmic reticulum. In contrast, the responses to cAMP were not blocked by extracellularly applied ruthenium red, nor by l-cis-diltiazem or amiloride and two of its derivatives. The current elicited by cytoplasmic IP3 in neurons under voltage clamp displayed a voltage dependence different from that of the cAMP response which showed marked outward rectification. A sustained depolarization was caused by increased cytoplasmic IP3 or cAMP when the buffering capacity for Ca2+ of the pipette solution was increased, when extracellular Ca2+ was removed or after addition of 20–200 nm charibdotoxin to the bathing solution, indicating that the repolarization was caused by an increase in [Ca
i
] that opened Ca2+-activated K+ channels. The results suggest that different conductances modulated by either IP3 or cAMP are involved in mediating olfactory transduction in catfish olfactory receptor neurons and that Ca2+-activated K+ channels contribute to the termination of the IP3 and cAMP responses.Abbreviations ATP
adenosine 5-triphosphate
- BAPTA
(bis-(o-aminophenoxy)-ethane-N-N-N-N)-tetraacetic acid
- cAMP
adenosine cyclic 3,5-monophosphate
- cGMP
guanosine cyclic 3,5-monophosphate
- CTX
charybdotoxin
- DCB
3,4-dichlorobenzamil
- EDTA
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
- EGTA
ethylenglycol-bis-(b-aminoethyl)-N-N-N-N-tetraacetic acid
- HEPES
N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N-2-ethanesulfonic acid
- IP3
inositol-1,4,5-triphosphate
- NMDG
N-methyl-d-glucamine
We would like to thank the Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd., for their gift of l-cis-diltiazem. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants DC00566 and BRSG S07RR05825. 相似文献
11.
Adenosine 5-phosphosulfate sulfotransferase (APSSTase) was purified over 2700-fold to homogeneity from the thalli of the marine macroalgaPorphyra yezoensis Ueda (Rhodophyta), using a combination of ammonium sulfate precipitation, hydrophobic chromatography, anion-exchange chromatography and gel-filtration. The native Mr measured by gel-filtration was 350 000. The subunit Mr was estimated to be 43 000 by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. In addition, APSSTase had a relatively broad pH optimum of pH 9.0–9.8 with a peak at pH 9.5. The apparentK
m value for adenosine 5-phosphosulfate (APS) was 2.1 M, when dithiothreitol was acceptor substrate. 3-Phosphoadenosine 5-phosphosulfate and inosine 5-phosphosulfate could not substitute for APS as a sulfate donor. The enzyme utilized several organic thiols as acceptor substrates (artificial substrates): dithiothreitol (apparentK
m = 1.5 mM) and dithioerythritol (apparentK
m = 1.5 mM) gave the highest activity, and appreciable activity was also obtained usingl-glutathione (reduced form) which exhibited slight substrate inhibition (apparentK
m = 0.6 mM; the initial velocity was maximal at 3.0–4.0 mM). While APSSTase was markedly unstable in vitro: the half-life for activity loss at 25°C and pH 9.5 was about 8 min, the instability was decreased in the presence of a relatively high concentration of Na2SO4 or (NH4)2SO4, and in the presence of APS or its analogs (AMP and -methylene-APS). Most of the thiols, with the sole exception of glutathione, were found to inactivate APSSTase irreversibly. The thiol-mediated inactivation was completely inhibited by the high concentration of Na2SO4, and by the analogs of APS.Abbreviations APS
adenosine 5-phosphosulfate
- APSSTase
adenosine 5-phosphosulfate sulfotransferase
- -m-APS
-methylene-adenosine 5-phosphosulfate
- DTT
dithiothreitol
- IPS
inosine 5-phosphosulfate
- PAPS
3-phosphoadenosine 5-phosphosulfate
We wish to thank Mr. I. Kashiwase, Mr. Y. Endo and Mr. Y. Mimura, School of Fisheries Sciences, Kitasato University, for their technical assistance in this study. The research described in this paper was partly supported by the Kitasato Research Grant (H5-9 and H6-13 to N.K.). 相似文献
12.
Comparative effects of sorbitol and sucrose as main carbon energy sources in micropropagation of apricot 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
Grazia Marino Gianpaolo Bertazza Eugenio Magnanini Annie Doro Altan 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》1993,34(3):235-244
In vitro proliferation and rooting capacity of San Castrese and Portici apricots (Prunus armeniaca L.) were tested on modified MS medium enriched with varying growth regulator concentrations and sucrose (58.4 mM) or sorbitol (116.8 mM) as main carbon energy sources. The interaction of proliferation and rooting media was also studied.Proliferation of both cultivars was proportional to benzyladenine (BA) concentration and enhanced with sorbitol media. However, 8.8 M BA was often associated with hyperhydricity, particularly when shoots were grown on sucrose media. Newly proliferated shoots elongated better on sorbitol media. The positive influence of sorbitol on proliferation and shoot growth was not due to osmotic effects. Moreover, sorbitol showed a positive carryover effect in hastening rooting of Portici. By contrast, when transferred to sorbitol rooting media, the shoots of both cultivars generally showed low rooting, with short, thick roots.Up to 70% of the plantlets that produced roots in sucrose media enriched with indolebutyric acid were successfully acclimatized when they were dipped in a benomyl (0.075% w/v) suspension before being transplanted with care being taken to prevent over-wetting of soil.Abbreviations BA
6-benzyladenine
- IBA
indolebutyric acid
- GA3
gibberellic acid
- SEM
standard error of mean 相似文献
13.
Ahlert Schmidt 《Planta》1976,130(3):257-263
Summary Adenosine-5-phosphosulfate (APS) sulfotransferase was purified 25-fold from spinach (Spinacea oleracea L.) leaves by Sephadex-G-200 gel filtration and chromatography on DEAE-cellulose. Enzyme activity was stabilized with 0.05 M Tris-HCl pH 8.0 containing 10 mM mercaptoethanol (ME), 10 mM MgCl2, and 30% glycerol. The molecular weight of the APS-sulfotransferase was estimated by gel filtration to be about 110,000 daltons. The enzyme is specific for the sulfonucleotide APS; PAPS is not a sulfur donor for this reaction. The apparent Km for APS was found to be 13 M. The enzyme activity was determined with dithioerythritol (DTE) as acceptor, which has an apparent Km of 0.6 mM. Glutathione can substitute for DTE; other thiols such as mercaptoethanol and cysteine are less effective. The APS-sulfotransferase activity is inhibited by 5-AMP, which increases the Km for APS but does not change Vmax, suggesting a competetive inhibition. Reduced methylviologen cannot substitute for a thiol in the spinach enzyme system. Thus it seems that assimilatory APS-sulfotransferase from spinach is different from the dissimilatory APS-reductase from Desulfovibrio or Thiobacillus, where methylviologen can be used as the electron donor.Abbreviations APS
Adenosine-5-phosphosulfate
- PAPS
3-Phosphoadenosine-5-phosphosulfate
- DTE
1,4-Dithioerythritol
- BAL
2,3-Dimercaptopropanol
- ME
Mercaptoethanol 相似文献
14.
Summary The self-condensation of 2(3)-O-glycyl esters of adenosine, adenosine-5-(O-methylphosphate) and P1, P2-diadenosine-5-pyrophosphate in 6.2 mM solutions at pH 8.0 and -5°C in the presence of 12.5 mM poly(U) yields approximately 3 times as much diketopiperazine as reactions without poly(U). As the concentration of 2(3)-O-(glycyl)-P1, P2-diadenosine-5-pyrophosphate is decreased from 6.2 mM to 1.5 mM the yield of diketopiperazine in the presence of poly(U) decreases slightly from 6.6% to 5.2%, whereas, in the absence of poly(U) the yield of diketopiperazine decreases substantially from 2.4% to 0.75%. The enhanced yield of diketopiperazine that is attributed to the template action of poly(U) is temperature dependent and is observed only at temperatures below 10°C (5°C to -5°C) for 6.2 mM 2(3)-O-(glycyl)-adenosine-5-(O-methylphosphate) and below 23°C (15°C to -5°C) for 6.2 mM 2(3)-O-(glycyl)-P1, P2-diadenosine-5-pyrophosphate. The absence of a template effect at high temperatures is attributed to the melting of the organized helices. The hydrolysis half-lives at pH 8.0 and -5°C of 2(3)-O-(glycyl)-adenosine, 2(3)-O-(glycyl)-adenosine-5-(O-methylphosphate), 2(3)-O-(glycyl)-P1, P2-diadenosine-5-pyrophosphate, and 5-O-(glycyl)-adenosine in the presence of poly(U) are substantially larger than their half-lives in the absence of poly(U). The condensation of 2(3)-O-(glycyl)-adenosine yields 5% of 5-O-(glycyl)-adenosine in the presence of poly(U) compared to 0.7% in the absence of poly(U).Abbreviations DKP
diketopiperazine
- (gly)2
glycylglycine
- (gly)3
glycylglycylglycine
- AppA-gly
2(3)-O-(glycyl)-P1, P2-diadenosine-5-pyrophosphate
- MepA-gly
2(3)-O-(glycyl)-adenosine-5-(O-methylphosphate)
- Ado-2(3)-gly
2(3)-O-(glycyl)-adenosine
- Ado-5-gly
5-O-(glycyl)-adenosine
- Boc-gly
N-tert-butyloxycarbonylglycine
- AppA
P1, P2-diadenosine-5-pyrophosphate
- MepA
adenosine-5-(O-methylphosphate)
- AppA-Boc-gly
2(3)-O-(Boc-glycyl)-P1, P2-diadenosine-5-pyrophosphate
- Ado-5-Boc-gly
5-O-(Boc-glycyl)-adenosine
- Ado-2(3)-Boc-gly
2(3)-O-(Boc-glycyl)-adenosine 相似文献
15.
Summary Serial deletion constructs derived from the 5-flanking regions of the human cardiac - and -myosin heavy chain genes were generated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplifications. Generation of different length chimeric constructs were based on the complete sequence of the human cardiac myosin heavy chain genes [1, 2]. The primers were synthesized with HindIII and BamH1 sites and were linked to any designed nucleotide of the 5 flanking sequence of the myosin heavy chain gene(s). Following the PCR amplification and the site-directed mutagenesis, the PCR products were verified by DNA sequencing and subsequently ligated to the chloramphenical acetyltransferase (pBLCAT3) reporter gene which was restricted with Hind III and BamH1. Neonatal rat cardiocytes were used to assay the promotor activity (i.e. CAT activity) of different lengths of the chimeric constructs of the gene. 相似文献
16.
The rate of CO2- and p-benzoquione-dependent photosynthetic O2 evolution by Anabaena variabilis cells remained unaltered and the rate of O2 uptake observed after switching off the light (endogenous respiration) was enhanced by a factor of 6–8 when the O2 concentration was increased from 200 to 400 M. Photosystem-I-linked O2 uptake and respiration of the cells incubated with ascorbate and N,N,NN-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine was not appreciable influenced by the O2 concentration. 2-Iodo-6-isopropyl-3-methyl-2,4,4-trinitrodiphenyl ether, blocking electron transfer at the plastoquinone level, suppressed O2 evolution and had no influence on endogenous respiration. 2-n-Heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline-N-oxide, an inhibitor of electron transfer between photosystems II and I, as well as the cytochrome-oxidase inhibitors N
3
-
, CN- and NH2OH, caused a 35–50% retardation of endogenous respiration and blocked photosynthetic O2 evolution. The molar ratio of cytochromes b6, f, c-553, aa3 and photosystem-I reaction centers in the isolated membranes equalled approx. 2:1:2:0.7:2. It is inferred that endogenous respiration of A. variabilis cells is inhibited by the light-induced electron flow through both photosystems at the level of the plastoquinone-plastocyanin-oxidoreductase complex.Abbreviations DCMU
3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea
- DNP-INT
2-iodo-6-isopropyl-3-methyl-2,4,4-trinitrodiphenyl ether
- Hepes
4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazine ethansulfonic acid
- TMPD
N,N,NN-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine 相似文献
17.
Summary On t.l.c. plates 125I-cholera toxin binds to a disialoganglioside tentatively identified as GDlb with about 10 times less capacity than to ganglioside GM1. Binding of labeled toxin to both gangliosides was abolished in presence of excess amounts of unlabeled B subunit. Ganglioside extracts from human or pig intestinal mucosa showed toxin binding to gangliosides GM1 and GD1b. In ganglioside-containing lipid monolayers the penetration of the toxin was independent of the ganglioside binding capacity.Abbreviations GM2
Gal-NAc14Gal(3-2NeuAc)14G1c1Cer
- GM1
Gal3Ga1-NAc14Gal(32NeuAc)14G1c11Cer
- GD1a
NeuAc23Ga113Gal-NAc14Gal(32NeuAc)14G1c11Cer
- GD1b
Gall3Gal-NAcl4Gal(32NeuAc82NeuAc)14Glc11Cer
- GT1b
NeuAc23Ga113Ga1-NAcal4Gal(3-2NeuAc82NeuAc)14G1c11Cer
- dpPC
1,2-hexadecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine
- dpPE
1,2-hexadecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine 相似文献
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E. S. Kalyaeva I. S. Sever V. G. Nikiforov O. N. Danilevskaya 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1980,178(3):669-674
Summary As has been shown previously, RNA polymerase subunit ts-mutation rpoC1 results in an overproduction of RNA polymerase subunits at nonpermissive temperature. The mutant enzyme shows low activity in vitro and a sedimentation coefficient 9S which is characteristic of immature core polymerase. In this paper we describe a mutation designated opr1 which suppresses RNA polymerase subunit overproduction. The mutation was found among Ts+ revertants of the Ts double mutant carrying a rpoC1 mutation and a rif-r rpo B251 mutation. Opr1 is closely linked to the original rpo mutations and shows complete trans-dominance. Although opr1 seems to affect RNA polymerase, it does not suppress the accumulation of immature 9S RNA polymerase and does not restore the activity of the RpoC1 mutant enzyme. This and other results of a comparison of strains carrying different combinations of rpoC1, rpoB251 and opr1 mutations suggest that neither inhibition of total RNA and protein synthesis, nor the low RNA polymerase activity in vitro, nor the apparent defects in enzyme maturation, nor the enzyme degradation observed at 42°C are responsible for the overproduction in RpoC1 strains. 相似文献
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Besides Clostridium thermoaceticum and C. formicoaceticum other resting acetogenic clostridia such as C. aceticum and C. thermoautotrophicum and to a lesser extent non-clostridial acetogens such as Butyribacterium methylotrophicum and Eubacterium limosum were able to reduce propionate to propanol at the expense of carbon monoxide or formate. Methylviologen usually increased the reduction rate. Ten M molybdate in the growth medium decreased this capability for C. thermoaceticum but increased it or had no effect for the other organisms. Ten M tungstate in the growth medium increased the aldehyde oxidoreductase activity in all organisms. Crude extracts of C. thermoaceticum cells grown in the presence of 10 M or 1 mM molybdate showed by ELISA the same or even a 4 fold concentration of aldehyde oxidoreductase in the latter case. However, the enzymic activity was very low in both cases. Omission of dithionite in the growth medium diminished the antigen by a factor of about 8. The immunological distance between the enzyme from C. thermoaceticum and C. thermoautotrophicum was rather low but very large to C. formicoaceticum and undeterminably large to the other organisms.Abbreviations Ald-DH
aldehyde dehydrogenase
- AOR
aldehyde oxidoreductase
- CO-DH
carbon-monoxide dehydrogenase
- ELI-SA
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
- FDH
formate dehydrogenase
- MV
methylviologen
- V++
oxidised
- V+.
reduced viologen 相似文献
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The fluorescent calcium-sensitive dye 1-[2-amino-5-(6-carboxyindol-2-yl)-phenoxy]-2-(2-amino-5-methylphenoxy)-ethane-N,N,N,N-tetraacetic acid (indo-1) was loaded by a transplasmalemma pH gradient into filamentous cells and protoplasts of Mougeotia scalaris, such that most of the indo-1 fluorescence originated from the cytoplasm. Incubation of M. scalaris filaments in ethylene glycol-bis(-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N,N-tetraacetic acid (EGTA)-buffered media (-log [Ca2+] (=pCa) 8 versus pCa 3) caused a consistent and significant decrease in the cytoplasmic free [Ca2+]. Pulses of the fluorescence excitation light (UV-A 365 nm, 0.7 s) caused an increase in cytoplasmic free [Ca2+] in M. scalaris that was nearly independent of the external [Ca2+] and of chloroplast dislocation by centrifugation. This calcium flux, highest in UV-A light, compared with blue or red light, probably resulted from a release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores. Increased cytoplasmic [Ca2+] may affect the velocity of chloroplast rotation since UV-A-light-mediated chloroplast movement was faster than in blue or red light. Consistently, the calcium ionophore A23187 and the calcium-channel agonist Bay-K8644 both increased the velocity of the red-light-mediated chloroplast rotation. Based on these and other observations, a Ca2+-induced decrease in cytoplasmic viscosity in Mougeotia is presumed to occur.Abbreviations EGTA
ethylene glycol-bis-(-aminoethyl ether)N,N,N,N-tetraacetic acid
- indo-1
1-[2-amino-5-(6-carboxyindol-2-yl)-phenoxy]-2-(2-amino-5-methylphenoxy)-ethane-N,N,N,Ntetraacetic acid
- pCa
log [Ca2+]
- Pfr
far-red-absorbing form of phytochrome
- Pr
red-absorbing form of phytochrome
- xG
geometric mean
Dedicated to Professor Wolfgang Haupt on the occasion of his 70th birthdayThis paper is part of the Ph.D. thesis of U. Russ at the Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen (FRG). Part of this work has been presented at a meeting on Calcium and intracellular signalling in plants in Plymouth, UK, Dec. 1990We are indebted to Dr. G. Seibold and Dipl. Phys. H. Weintraut for their advice on the technique of microspectrofluorometry and for allowing access to the microspectrophotometric facilities in the Strahlenzentrum der Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, FRG. We thank Mrs. A. Quanz for reliable culture of the algae and evaluation of the videotapes. Bay-K8644 was a generous gift of Bayer AG, Wuppertal, FRG. U. russ was supported by a scholarship according to the Hessisches Graduierten Förderungsgesetz. This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 相似文献