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1.
Human λ light chain locus: Organization and DNA sequences of three genomicJ regions 总被引:14,自引:0,他引:14
Evidence for the genomic organization of human lambda light chain joining (J) region gene segments is presented. A mouse J probe was used in Southern hybridizations to localize joining region sequences in a cosmid clone containing the genomic cluster of six human lambda constant (C) region gene segments. The results of these hybridizations suggest the presence of at least one J gene segment upstream from each constant region gene segment. The DNA sequences indicate that the human JI, J2, and J3 gene segments have consensus nonamer and heptamer sequences, proposed to be involved in V-J joining, are capable of encoding the known amino acid sequences for the respective J peptides, and have a sequence which could give functional RNA splice site at the end of their coding regions. Our data show that a single functional J is located 1.3 or 1.6 kb upstream of each of the C gene segments known to encode the Mcg, Kern– Oz–, and Kern–Oz+ isotypes. Therefore, the gene organization of this region of the human lambda locus is J1 CI -J2C2-J3C3. The DNA sequences ofJ
1,J
2, andJ
3 presented in this paper establish that a singleJ
gene segment precedes each expressed C gene segment, and support a model for the evolution of the human JC clusters where JICI andJ2C2-J3C3. arose from different ancestral JC units. 相似文献
2.
Josiane Szpirer et Philippe Brachet 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1970,108(1):78-92
Summary This work deals with the ability of phage 80 to provide defective mutants of with their missing functions.
Functions Involved in Recombination. As shown by others, the Int mechanism of 80 cannot excise prophage . However, 80 efficiently excises recombinants from tandem dilysogens, using its Ter mechanism. Likewise, the nonspecific mechanism Red is interchangeable between 80 and .
Maturation of DNA by 80. The Ter recombinants excised by 80 from tandem dilysogens are packaged into a 80 protein coat. This contrasts with the fact, already mentionned by Dove, that 80 is extremely inefficient for packaging phage superinfecting a -lysogen. The latter result is also found when the helper phage is a hybrid with the left arm of (80hy4 or 80hy41 — see Fig. 1). However, the maturation of the superinfecting is much more efficient if the 80hy used as a helper has the att-N region of (like 80hy1). Conversely a with the att-N region of 80 (hy6 — see Fig. 1) is packaged more efficiently by 80 or 80hy4 than by 80hy1. It is suggested that the maturation of chromosome superinfecting an immune cell requires a recombination with the helper phage.
Vegetative Functions. Among the replicative functoons O and P, the latter only can be supplied by 80. That N mutants are efficiently helped by 80 does not tell that 80 provides the defective with an active N product; the chromosomes are simply packaged into a 80 coat. This shows that 80 is unable to switch on the late genes of . That neither 80 nor any of the 80hy tested can provide an active N product is shown in a more direct way by their complete failure to help N
-r14; this phage carries a polar mutation which makes the expression of genes O and P entirely N-dependant. The maturation of a N
- by 80 contrasts with the fact that mutants affected in late genes (A, F or H) are not efficiently helped by 80. This suggests that the products coded by these genes are not interchangeable between 80 and , and that packaging of DNA into 80 coats is possible but inhibited when late proteins are present in the cell.
Activation of the Late Genes. Among the im
80
h
+
hybrids tested, only 80hy41 is able to switch on the late genes of a N defective mutant. This hybrid differs from the other hybrids studied here, by the fact that it has the Q-S-R region of (see Fig. 1). The results are consistant with the view that the product of Q gene is sufficient for activating the late genes of a DNA. N would thus control the expression of late genes only indirectly by controlling the expression of gene Q (Couturier & Dambly have independantly reached the same conclusion, 1970). Furthermore the failure of 80 and of the 80hy1 and 80hy4 to activate the late genes of would imply that these phages are unable to provide an Q product active on the chromosome Reciprocally, switches on the late genes of prophage 80hy41, but not of prophages 80hy1 and 80hy4. This suggests that the initiation of late genes expression takes place at a main specific site located in the Q-S-R region of the chromosome. The expression of the late genes would thus be sequential, and proceed through the left arm only when steaky ends cohere. Similar conclusions were reached independantly by Toussaint (1969) and by Herskowitz and Signer (1970).
Ce travail a été réalisé dans le cadre du contrat d'association Euratom-U. L. B. 007-61-10 ABIB et avec l'aide du Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale Collective. 相似文献
Ce travail a été réalisé dans le cadre du contrat d'association Euratom-U. L. B. 007-61-10 ABIB et avec l'aide du Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale Collective. 相似文献
3.
J. F. W. Nuboer P. J. Moed 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》1983,151(3):353-358
Summary Increment threshold measurements in wild rabbits give rise to spectral sensitivity curves that are unimodal or bimodal in nature, depending on the background luminance. We propose a model that explains the shape of these curves on the basis of synergistic and antagonistic interaction of blue cones (max = 425 nm), green cones (max = 523 nm) and rods (max = 498 nm). 相似文献
4.
Steven R. King Michael A. Krolewski Sandra L. Marvo Paul J. Lipson Kay L. Pogue-Geile Jae Hoon Chung S. Richard Jaskunas 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1982,186(4):548-557
Summary The nucleotide sequences involved in the illegitimate recombination of four recombinants between bacteriophage DNA and pBR322 in E. coli (TA6, KA3, TA1R, and KA7) were determined. Each resulted from recombination between regions of homology of 10 to 13 base pairs. The presence of a recA
+ allele was found to stimulate recombination between DNA and pBR322 approximately 10-fold. TA6, KA3, and KA7 were isolated in the presence of a recA
+ allele and therefore, may have been generated by the recA recombination system. However, TA1R was isolated in a recA mutant, and was presumably generated by a different recombination system. The possibility that it was generated by DNA gyrase is discussed. Two recombination events were required to form KA7, which may indicate that it also was generated by DNA gyrase. 相似文献
5.
Carol Burck James A. Shapiro Bernhard Hauer 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1984,194(1-2):340-342
Summary A pCM2 replicon derived by an N– deletion from ::Tn9 which carries the imm434 immunity region is incompatible with some (but not all) IncP-1 plasmids. The imm pCM1 replicon does not show the same incompatibility behavior. 相似文献
6.
Akihiro Kibe Kazunori Shimada Yasuyuki Takagi 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1979,168(3):293-298
Summary Hybrid ColE1 plasmids called ColE1-cos-guaA or ColE1-cos-gal can be efficiently transduced into various E. coli K-12 cells through packaging into phage particles. Using these plasmids, repair of ultraviolet-light (UV) damaged ColE1 DNAs was studied in various UV sensitive E. coli K-12 mutants. (1) The host mutations uvrA and uvrB markedly reduced host-cell reactivation of UV-irradiated ColE1-cos-guaA. (2) Pre-existing hybrid ColE1 plasmids had no effect on the frequency of phage-mediated transduction of another differentially marked hybrid ColE1 DNAs. (3) ColE1-cos-guaA and ColE1-cos-gal DNAs could temporarily but not stably co-exist in E. coli K-12 recA cells. (4) The presence of ColE1-cos-gal in uvrB cells promoted the repair of super-infected UV-irradiated ColE1-cos-guaA about 7-fold. (5) The same ColE1-cos-gal plasmid in a uvrB recA double mutant did not have this promoting effect. These results indicate that the effect of resident hybrid ColE1 plasmids is manifested by the host recA
+ gen function(s) and suggest that ColE1 plasmid itself provides no recA
+-like functions. 相似文献
7.
G. H. Jacobs J. F. Deegan II J. Neitz B. P. Murphy K. V. Miller R. L. Marchinton 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》1994,174(5):551-557
Electroretinogram (ERG) flicker photometry was used to study the spectral mechanisms in the retinas of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and fallow deer (Dama dama). In addition to having a rod pigment with maximum sensitivity (max) of about 497 nm, both species appear to have two classes of photopic receptors. They share in common a short-wavelength-sensitive cone mechanism having max in the region of 450–460 nm. Each also has a cone having peak sensitivity in the middle wavelengths, but these differ slightly for the two species. In white-tailed deer the max of this cone is about 537 nm; for the fallow deer the average max value for this mechanism was 542 nm. Deer resemble other ungulates and many other types of mammal in having two classes of cone pigment and, thus, the requisite retinal basis for dichromatic color vision.Abbreviations ERG
electroretinogram
- LWS
long wavelength sensitive
- MWS
middle wavelength sensitive
- SWS
short wavelength sensitive 相似文献
8.
Studies on the E. coli groNB (nusB) gene which affects bacteriophage lambda N gene function 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
C. P. Georgopoulos J. Swindle F. Keppel M. Ballivet R. Bisig H. Eisen 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1980,179(1):55-61
Summary
Escherichia coli mutants, called groNB, which block the growth of bacteriophage at the level of action of the gene N product, have been isolated as survivors at 42°C of bacteria carrying a) the defective prophage bio1 1 i
cI857 H1 or b) the pcR1 plasmid containing the EcoRI immunity fragment of phage cI857. In addition, groNB bacterial mutants have been isolated at 37° C, as large colony formers in the presence of i
cI h
434, i
cI h
, and i
cI h
80 phage. The groNB locus is located at 9 minute of the E. coli genetic map with the order of the neighboring loci being proC tsx groNB purE. Most groNB mutations isolated at 42° C were found to interfere in addition with bacterial growth at low temperatures, since (a) the GroNB phenotypes of growth inhibition and bacterial cold sensitivity cannot be separated by P1 transduction, and (b) some cold resistant revertants simultaneously become Gro+ for growth. Lambda transducing phages carrying the groNB
+ bacterial gene have been isolated. GroNB mutant bacterial lysogenized by the transducing phage acquire the Gro+ phenotype and simultaneously the cold resistant phenotype, suggesting that the groNB mutations are recessive to the wild-type gene. 相似文献
9.
P. H. Heinermann M. A. Ali 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》1989,164(5):707-716
Summary Scotopic visual pigments measured in the creek chub and the white sucker are porphyropsins with mean max values located at 538.3 and 536.5 nm, respectively. There is a shift of the max towards shorter wavelengths during the winter in both of these species coinciding with similar changes in the quality of downwelling light. max is significantly correlated to the P50 and spectrum width of the downwelling light and dissolved oxygen. An analysis of variance shows that there are significant differences between the max values of: fish in the two lakes, fish at different times, the two species at different times and fish in different lakes at different seasons. The offset visual pigments of both species appear to be well adapted to their photic environment in terms of the contrast hypothesis. This improvement of contrast detection is discussed in relation to their feeding habits.Abbreviations max
wavelength at which absorbance is maximum
- P50
wavelength which halves the total number of photons between 400 and 700 nm, a measure of spectral quality
-
PAR
photosynthetically active radiation
-
MSP
microspectrophotometric
-
SE
standard error 相似文献
10.
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
11.
Summary The frequency of mutations in is significantly higher for host cells of a rec
+ or recA
- strain pretreated with N-methyl-N-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (NG) than for untreated control cells. Direct NG treatment of DNA-injected host cells results in about tenfold higher mutation frequency in than NG treatment of host cells alone. Since mutability of is enhanced by UV preirradiation of host cells in the rec
+ strain but not in the recA
- strain, indirect NG mutagenesis is different in mechanism from indirect UV mutagenesis. It is concluded that NG mutagenesis in consists of at least two processes: induction of rec
+-independent mutagenic activity in the host bacterium and production of rec
+-independent mutational damage to intracellular DNA. 相似文献
12.
Summary Previous experiments have shown that mutations in the Ai gene can suppress the growth defect of N
- phages.Many temperature resistant derivatives of phage tsN
9 have been isolated and among these 5 have been found which are Ai
- and have an amber suppressible behaviour.These mutants can help in defining the role of the Ai gene in phage development. 相似文献
13.
The endophytic cyanobacterium, Anabaena azollae, isolated from laboratory cultures of Azolla caroliniana Willd., contains three spectroscopically distinct biliproteins. About 70% of the biliprotein is c-phycocyanin (max 610 nm) and 13% is allophycocyanin (max 647 nm, shoulder 620 nm). A third pigment corresponds to phycoerythrocyanin (max 570 nm, shoulder 590 nm). In very dilute solutions of allophycocyanin, at constant pH and buffer strength, the 647 nm maximum disappears and a single max occurs at 615–620 nm. The 647 nm absorption maximum reappears upon concentrating the dilute solution. Very dilute solutions of phycoerythrocyanin exhibit a broad peak between 570 and 590 nm. Absorption spectra of c-phycocyanin are not significantly altered upon dilution. Fluorescence emission maxima of phycoerythrocyanin, c-phycocyanin, and allophycocyanin occur at 630 nm, 643 nm and 660 nm respectively, using 540 nm excitation. Two subunits, of molecular weight 16,500 () and 20,600 (), are seen in c-phycocyanin upon dissociation with SDS. Dissociation of allophycocyanin and phycoerythrocyanin with SDS yields one sizeclass of subunits, with a molecular weight of about 17,500 for allophycocyanin and 18,000 for phycoerythrocyanin.Contribution No. 684
Offprint requests to: G. A. Peters 相似文献
14.
Summary A restriction fragment of DNA carrying the P gene was cloned in the high copy number plasmid RSF2124. Cells harbouring this new plasmid RSF2124/E complement Pam80 phage. A lac promoter-operator region (lacP), produced by EcoRI digestion of plasmid pKB252, was inserted into RSF2124/glE such that induction of the lac promoter by IPTG or lactose leads to increased production of the P gene product. A high amount of P protein in E. coli cells results in a slow inhibition of bacterial DNA synthesis, suggesting that the initiation reaction is blocked by P protein. Synthesis of DNA proceeds normally under these conditions.Nonsuppressing groPA15 mutant bacteria which are unable to support the replication of wild-type (wt), acquire the ability to replicate Pam80 phage but not wt when they are transformed with a plasmid carrying the P gene. When harbouring a plasmid containing the mutant Pamber 80 gene, groPA15 mutants are able to support the replication of wt phage when infected at a high multiplicity. Pam80 phage does not multiply in these cells. 相似文献
15.
Summary Fragments of the E. coli chromosome that carry the dnaB groPB534 or groPB612 alleles have been cloned into a cosmid vector. The resulting recombinant plasmids contained the genes uvrA, groP (B534 or B612), and lexA. Further subcloning into high copy number plasmids, during which the uvrA and lexA genes were removed successively, yielded a groPB534 and groPB612 DNA fragment of about 2.4 kb each. Both fragments contained an overlapping 1.8 kb segment of DNA in which the sites of all restriction enzymes tested were identical. The size of these dnaB gene fragments were further delimited by deletion analysis.In E. coli groPB534 in which wild-type and A mutants do not replicate (Georgopoulos and Herskowitz 1971) phage replication is rescued if the strain contains the groPB534 gene on high copy number plasmids. On the contrary, in E. coli groPB612, which is temperature-sensitive for its groP character, replication of and A is abolished at 30° C if the strain contains the groPB612 recombinant plasmid. On the other hand, replication of B remains unaffected whether or not the groP strains harbor the isogenic dnaB gene-containing plasmid. The results suggest that within the cell not only the quality but also the relative amounts of dnaB and P protein are crucial for phage replication. 相似文献
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Steen Pedersen Solveig V. Reeh Jack Parker Robert J. Watson James D. Friesen Niels P. Fiil 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1976,144(3):339-343
Summary The presence of EF-Tu, RNA polymerase subunit , and EF-G on the dfus-3 genome and EF-Tu, ribosomal proteins L7/L12, and RNA polymerase subunit on the drif
d
18 genome has been confirmed using a two-dimensional gel electrophoresis technique sensitive to changes in isoelectric point and molecular weight. In this system two EF-Tu gene products could not be resolved. Following infection of ultraviolet light-irradiated Escherichia coli with either dfus-3 or drif
d
18, the EF-Tu gene, tufA, near 65 minutes on the genetic map is expressed as 3–4 copies per EF-G molecule. The EF-Tu gene, tufB, near 79 minutes on the genetic map, is expressed at about one-third of this rate. is expressed as 1 copy per EF-G molecule, as 0.14 per EF-G molecule and L7/L12 as 2.5 per EF-G. These figures compare well with the relative amounts found in exponentially-growing cells, in which the ratio of EF-Tu to EF-G is approximately 5. Almost 90% of the total number of proteins (calculated on a molecular weight basis) which theoretically can be encoded on the drif
d
18 have been identified on the two-dimensional gel. 相似文献
17.
C. G. McDonald C. W. Hawryshyn 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》1995,176(2):255-260
To examine the influence of the spectral characteristics of underwater light on spectral sensitivity of the ON and OFF visual pathways, compound action potential recordings were made from retinal ganglion cells of threespine stickleback from different photic regimes. In fish from a red-shifted photic regime (P50 680 nm for downwelling light at 1m), peak sensitivity of both the ON and OFF pathways was limited to long wavelength light (max 600–620). In contrast, the ON pathway of fish from a comparatively blue-shifted (P50 566 nm) photic regime exhibited sensitivity to medium (max 540–560) and long (max 600 nm) wavelengths, while the OFF pathway exhibited peak sensitivity to only medium (max 540 nm) wavelength light. In a third population, where the the ambient light is moderately red-shifted (P50 629 nm), the ON pathway once again exhibited only a long wavelength sensitivity peak at 620 nm, while the OFF pathway exhibited sensitivity to both medium (max 560 nm) and long (max 600–620 nm) wavelength light. These findings suggest that the photic environment plays an integral role in shaping spectral sensitivity of the ON and OFF pathways. 相似文献
18.
The genes for the eight subunits of the membrane bound ATP synthase of Escherichia coli 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
F G Hansen J Nielsen E Riise K von Meyenburg 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1981,183(3):463-472
Summary The genes for the eight subunits of the membrane bound ATP synthase of Escherichia coli (Ca++, Mg++ dependent ATPase, EC 3.6.1.3) were mapped through genetic, physical and functional analysis of specialized transducing phages asn (von Meyenburg et al. 1978). The ATP synthase genes, designated atp
1, are located at 83.2 min in a segment of the chromosome between 3.5 and 11.3 kb left (counterclockwise) of the origin of replication oriC. The counterclockwise order of the genes for the eight subunits, the expression of which starts from a control region at 3.5 kb-L, was found to be: a, (c, b, ), , , (, ) which in the notation of Downie et al. (1981) reads atpB (E F H) A G (C D). The analysis was in part based on the isolation of new types of atp (unc, Suc-) mutations. We made use of the fact that specialized transducing phages asn carrying oriC can establish themselves as minichromosomes rendering asnA cells Asn+, and that the resulting Asn+ cells grow slowly if the asn carries part or all of the atp operon. Selecting for fast growing strains mutations were isolated on the asn which either eliminated atp genes or affected their expression (promoter mutations). The relationship between these atp mutations and the cop mutations of Ogura et al. (1980), which also appear to map in front of or within the atp genes, is discussed. 相似文献
19.
Tsunehiro Mukai Kenichi Matsubara Yasuyuki Takagi 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1976,146(3):269-274
Summary Fragments ofEscherichia coli DNA carrying genes for -galactosidase, or for biosynthesis of guanine or biotin were recombined in vitro with dv DNA. The cloned recombinant molecules recovered from transformedE. coli cells consisted of a biologically functional bacterial DNA fragment and, except for dv-bio30-7, two dv monomer units: one of the dv units was used as the insertion site for the bacterial DNA, whereas the other was intact, and seemed to be responsible for the replication of the recombinant plasmid. The process which gives rise to these recombinant molecules at high frequency from mixtures of monomeric dv DNA's and bacterial DNA fragments is discussed. 相似文献
20.
Christina Scha¨ffer Norbert Mu¨ller Pravat K. Mandal Rudolf Christian Sonja Zayni Paul Messner 《Glycoconjugate journal》2000,17(10):681-690
The peptidoglycan, the secondary cell wall polymer (SCWP), and the surface layer (S-layer) glycoprotein are the major glycosylated cell wall components of Paenibacillus alvei
CCM 2051. In this report, the complete structure of the SCWP, its linkage to the peptidoglycan layer, and its physicochemical properties have been investigated. From the combined evidence of chemical and structural analyses together with one- and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the following structure of the SCWP-peptidoglycan complex is proposed:[(Pyr4,6)--D-Manp
NAc-(14)--D-Glcp
NAc-(13)]ñ11-(Pyr4,6)--D-Manp
NAc-(14)--D-Glcp
NAc-(1O)-PO2-O-PO2-(O6)-MurNAc-Each disaccharide unit is substituted by 4,6-linked pyruvic acid residues. Under mild acidic conditions, up to 50% of them are lost, leaving non-substituted ManNAc residues. The anionic glycan chains constituting the SCWP are randomly linked via pyrophosphate groups to C-6 of muramic acid residues of the peptidoglycan layer. 31P NMR reveals two signals that, as a consequence of micelle formation, experience different line broadening. Therefore, their integral ratio deviates significantly from 1:1. By treatment with ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, sodium dodecyl sulfate, and sonication immediately prior to NMR measurement, this ratio approaches unity. The reversibility of this behavior corroborates the presence of a pyrophosphate linker in this SCWP-peptidoglycan complex.In addition to the determination of the structure and linkage of the SCWP, a possible scenario for its biological function is discussed. 相似文献