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Alpha-hemoglobin-stabilizing protein (AHSP) in hemolysis,elevated liver enzyme,and low platelet (HELLP) syndrome,intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and fetal death
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Emanuelli M Sartini D Rossi V Corradetti A Landi B Vianna CR Giannubilo S Tranquilli AL 《Cell stress & chaperones》2008,13(1):67-71
Objective Alpha hemoglobin-stabilizing protein (AHSP) inhibits the production of reactive oxygen species in various cells, including
erythrocytes. Reduced AHSP can mean reduced protection from stressors. Our objective was to investigate whether AHSP is involved
in the response to stress in pregnancy.
Study design Placentas were collected from normal term pregnancies (n = 10) and pregnancies complicated by HELLP (n = 10), intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR; n = 10) or fetal death (IUFD; n = 6). AHSP messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein were determined using real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
and Western blot, respectively. All statistical analyses were performed by using the GraphPad Prism Software. Differences
were considered significant at p < 0.05.
Results Placental AHSP mRNA level in HELLP (4.16E10−4 ± 1.77) and IUFD (4.19E10−4 ± 3.37) were significantly decreased compared with controls (28.47E10−4 ± 14.86; p < 0.01), whereas levels in the IUGR group (7.55E10−4 ± 6.4) showed a trend toward being lower but the difference did not reach statistical significance. Western blot analysis
results indicate a no significant increase of ASHP protein in the HELLP syndrome group and a significant decrease in the IUFD
group compared with controls. There was no significant difference between the IUGR and control groups.
Conclusion ASHP mRNA expression in the placenta is decreased in complicated pregnancies, and it may be involved in the pathogenic mechanisms
leading to the adverse pregnancy outcome.
This paper was presented as a poster at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine; San Francisco,
CA, USA, February 5–10, 2007.
Monica Emanuelli and Davide Sartini contributed equally to this paper. 相似文献
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Water conductance of the cuticular membrane (CM) of mature sweet cherry fruit (Prunus avium L. cv. Sam) was investigated by monitoring water loss from segments of the outer pericarp excised from the cheek of the fruit.
Segments consisted of epidermis, hypodermis and several cell layers of the mesocarp. Segments were mounted in stainless-steel
diffusion cells with the mesocarp surface in contact with water, while the outer cuticular surface was exposed to dry silica
(22 ± 1 °C). Conductance was calculated by dividing the amount of water transpired per unit area and time by the difference
in water vapour concentration across the segment. Conductance values had a log normal distribution with a median of 1.15 × 10−4 m s−1 (n=357). Transpiration increased linearly with time. Conductance remained constant and was not affected by metabolic inhibitors
(1 mM NaN3 or 0.1 mM carbonylcyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone) or thickness of segments (range 0.8–2.8 mm). Storing fruit (up to 42 d, 1 °C) used as a source of
segments had no consistent effect on conductance. Conductance of the CM increased from cheek (1.16 ± 0.10 × 10−4 m s−1) to ventral suture (1.32 ± 0.07 × 10−4 m s−1) and to stylar end (2.53 ± 0.17 × 10−4 m s−1). There was a positive relationship (r2=0.066**; n=108) between conductance and stomatal density. From this relationship the cuticular conductance of a hypothetical astomatous
CM was estimated to be 0.97 ± 0.09 × 10−4 m s−1. Removal of epicuticular wax by stripping with cellulose acetate or extracting epicuticular plus cuticular wax by dipping
in CHCl3/methanol increased conductance 3.6- and 48.6-fold, respectively. Water fluxes increased with increasing temperature (range
10–39 °C) and energies of activation, calculated for the temperature range from 10 to 30 °C, were 64.8 ± 5.8 and 22.2 ± 5.0 kJ
mol−1 for flux and vapour-concentration-based conductance, respectively.
Received: 23 March 2000 / Accepted: 28 July 2000 相似文献
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Borgwardt N Culik BM 《Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology》1999,169(2):100-106
Open-flow oxygen and carbon dioxide respirometry was used in Neumünster Zoo (Germany) to examine the energy requirements
of six Asian small-clawed otters (Amblonyx cinerea) at rest and swimming voluntarily under water. Our aim was to compare their energy requirements with those of other warm-blooded
species to elucidate scale effects and to test whether the least aquatic of the three otter species differs markedly from
these and its larger relatives. While at rest on land (16 °C, n = 26), otters (n = 6, mean body mass 3.1 ± 0.4 kg) had a respiratory quotient of 0.77 and a resting metabolic rate of 5.0 ± 0.8 Wkg−1(SD). This increased to 9.1 ± 0.8 Wkg−1 during rest in water (11–15 °C, n = 4) and to 17.6 ± 1.4 Wkg−1 during foraging and feeding activities in a channel (12 °C, n = 5). While swimming under water (n = 620 measurements) in an 11-m long channel, otters preferred a speed range between 0.7 ms−1 and 1.2 ms−1. Transport costs were minimal at 1 ms−1 and amounted to 1.47 ± 0.24 JN−1 m−1 (n = 213). Metabolic rates of small-clawed otters in air were similar to those of larger otter species, and about double those
of terrestrial mammals of comparable size. In water, metabolic rates during rest and swimming were larger than those extrapolated
from larger otter species and submerged swimming homeotherms. This is attributed to high thermoregulatory costs, and high
body drag at low Reynolds numbers.
Accepted: 21 December 1998 相似文献
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Nigel J. Adams Berry Pinshow Leonard Z. Gannes 《Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology》1997,167(6):444-450
We used tritium-labeled water to measure total body water, water influx (which approximated oxidative water production) and
water efflux in free-flying tippler pigeons (Columba livia) during flights that lasted on average 4.2 h. At experimental air temperatures ranging from 18 to 27 °C, mean water efflux
by evaporation and excretion [6.3 ± 1.3 (SD) ml · h−1, n = 14] exceeded water influx from oxidative water and inspired air (1.4 ± 0.7 ml · h−1, n = 14), and the birds dehydrated at 4.9 ± 0.9 ml · h−1. This was not significantly different from gravimetrically measured mass loss of 6.2 ± 2.1 g · h−1 (t = 1.902, n = 14, P>0.05). This flight-induced dehydration resulted in an increase in plasma osmolality of 4.3 ± 3.0 mosmol · kg−1 · h−1 during flights of 3–4 h. At 27 °C, the increase in plasma osmolality above pre-flight levels (ΔP
osm = 7.6±4.29 mosmol · kg−1 · h−1, n = 6) was significantly higher than that at 18 °C (ΔP
osm = 0.83±2.23 mosmol · kg−1 · h−1, (t = 3.43, n = 6, P < 0.05). Post-flight haematocrit values were on average 1.1% lower than pre-flight levels, suggesting plasma expansion. Water
efflux values during free flight were within 9% of those in the one published field study (Gessaman et al. 1991), and within
the range of values for net water loss determined from mass balance during wind tunnel experiments (Biesel and Nachtigall
1987). Our net water loss rates were substantially higher than those estimated by a simulation model (Carmi et al. 1992) suggesting
some re-evaluation of the model assumptions is required.
Accepted: 8 April 1997 相似文献
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Herbert R. L. Drouin 《European biophysics journal : EBJ》1999,28(7):600-604
A new ion-selective liquid membrane microelectrode, based on the neutral carrier 1,1′-bis(2,3-naphtho-18-crown-6), is described
that shows the dependence of EMF on the activity of divalent putrescine cations a
Put, with the linear slope s
Put = 26 ± 3 mV/decade (mean ± SD, N = 18), in the range 10−4–10−1 M at 25 ± 1 °C. Values of potentiometric putrescine cation selectivity coefficients of logK
Pot
Put
j
(mean ± SD, N) are obtained by the separate solution method for the ions K+ (1.0 ± 0.4, 10), Na+ (−1.2 ± 0.4, 8), Ca2+ (−2.3 ± 0.5, 10) and Mg2+ (−2.5 ± 0.5, 7). The microelectrode can be applied for the direct analysis of the activities of free divalent putrescine
cations in the range 5 × 10−4 to 10−1 M in an extracellular ionic environment. Established analytical methods, e.g. high performance liquid chromatography, determine
the total concentration of the derivatives of free and bound putrescine.
Received: 20 December 1998 / Revised version: 7 May 1999 / Accepted: 27 May 1999 相似文献
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Using the voltage/current clamp technique in the whole-cell configuration, we studied the role of the highly tetraethylammonium
(TEA) -sensitive component of integral potassium current in the generation of high-frequency tonic impulsation by rat retinal
ganglion cells (RGCs). Application of 0.5 mM TEA led to a decrease in the frequency of evoked tonic impulsation by RGCs by
63% (from 55 ± 10 sec–1 in the control to 26 ± 5 sec–1 in the presence of the blocker; n = 11). In this case, the duration of single action potentials at the level of 50% their amplitude increased by 64% (from
1.1 ± 0.1 to 1.8 ± 0.1 msec; n = 11), the rate of repolarization decreased by 54% (from −101 ± 9 to −46 ± 5 mV/msec; n = 11), and the amplitude of afterhyperpolarization dropped by 62% (from −16 ± 2 to −6 ± 2 mV; n = 11). Upon the action of 0.5 mM TEA, the amplitude of the integral potassium current in RGCs decreased; the current component
sensitive to the above blocker was equal to 0.41 ± 0.05 nA (n = 6), while the respective value in the control was 1.62 ± 0.14 nA (n = 12). Thus, a moderate (on average, by 25%) decrease in the amplitude of the above potassium current significantly influenced
the characteristics of impulse activity generated by RGCs. The TEA-sensitive component of the current was similar to the Kv3.1/Kv3.2
potassium current described earlier. The obtained data are indicative of the key role of the highly TEA-sensitive component
of the potassium current (passed probably via Kv3.1/Kv3 channels) in high-frequency tonic activity generated by RGCs. 相似文献
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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) enables the topographical structure of cells and biological materials to be resolved under
natural (physiological) conditions, without fixation and dehydration artefacts associated with imaging methods in vacuo. It
also provides a means of measuring interaction forces and the mechanical properties of biomaterials. In the present study,
AFM has been applied for the first time to the study of the mechanical properties of a natural adhesive produced by a green
plant cell. Swimming spores of the green alga Enteromorpha linza (L.) J. Ag. (7–10 μm) secrete an adhesive glycoprotein which provides firm anchorage to the substratum. Imaging of the adhesive in its
hydrated state revealed a swollen gel-like pad, approximately 1 μm thick, surrounding the spore body. Force measurements revealed
that freshly released adhesive has an adhesion strength of 173 ± 1.7 mN m−1 (mean ± SE; n=90) with a maximum value for a single adhesion force curve of 458 mN m−1. The adhesive had a compressibility (equivalent to Young's modulus) of 0.54 × 106 ± 0.05 × 106 N m−2 (mean ± SE; n=30). Within minutes of release the adhesive underwent a progressive `curing' process with a 65% reduction in mean adhesive
strength within an hour of settlement, which was also reflected in a reduction in the average length of the adhesive polymer
strands (polymer extension) and a 10-fold increase in Young's modulus. Measurements on the spore surface itself revealed considerably
lower adhesion-strength values but higher polymer-extension values than the adhesive pad, which may reflect the deposition
of different polymers on this surface as a new cell wall is formed. The study demonstrates the value of AFM to the imaging
of plant cells in the absence of fixation and dehydration artefacts and to the characterisation of the mechanical properties
of plant glycoproteins that have potential utility as adhesives.
Received: 22 February 2000 / Accepted: 20 April 2000 相似文献
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Using the cell pressure probe, the effects of temperature on hydraulic conductivity (Lp; osmotic water permeability), solute
permeability (permeability coefficient, Ps), and reflection coefficients (σs) were measured on internodes of Chara corallina, Klein ex Willd., em R.D.W.. For the first time, complete sets of transport coefficients were obtained in the range between
10 and 35 °C which provided evidence about pathways of water and solutes as they move across the plasma membrane (water channel
and bilayer arrays). Test solutes used to check for the selectivity of water channels were monohydric alcohols of different
molecular size and shape (ethanol, n-propanol, iso-propanol, and tert-butanol) and heavy water (HDO). Within the limits of accuracy, Q10 values for Lp and for the diffusive water permeability (Pd) were identical (Q10 for Lp = 1.29 ± 0.17 (± SD; n = 15 cells) and Q10 for Pd = 1.25 ± 0.16 (n = 5 cells)). The Q10 values were equivalent to activation energies of Ea = 16.8 ± 6.4 and 16.6 ± 10.0 kJ · mol−1, respectively, which is similar to that of self-diffusion or of viscous flow of water. The Q10 values and activation energies for Ps of the alcohols were significantly larger (ethanol: Q10 = 1.68 ± 0.16, Ea = 37.1 ± 5.9 kJ · mol−1; n-propanol: Q10 = 1.75 ± 0.40, Ea = 43.1 ± 15.3 kJ · mol−1; iso-propanol: Q10 = 2.12 ± 0.42, Ea = 52.2 ± 14.6 kJ · mol−1; tert-butanol: Q10 = 2.13 ± 0.56, Ea = 51.6 ± 17.1 kJ · mol−1; ±SD; n = 5 to 6 cells). Effects of temperature on reflection coefficients were most pronounced. With increasing temperature, σs values of the alcohols decreased and those of HDO increased. The data indicate that water and solutes use different pathways
when crossing the membrane. Ordinary and isotopic water use water channels and the other test solutes use the bilayer array
(composite transport model of membrane). Changes in σs values with temperature were found to be a sensitive measure for the open/closed state of water channels. The decrease of
σs with temperature was theoretically predicted from the temperature dependence of Ps and Lp. Differences between predicted and measured values of σs allowed estimation of the bypass flow (slippage) of solutes through water channels which did not completely exclude test
solutes. The permeability of channels depended on the structure and size of test solutes. It is concluded that water channels
are much less selective than is usually thought. Since water channels represent single-file or no-pass pores, solutes drag
along considerable amounts of water as they diffuse across channels. This results in low overall values of σs. The σs of HDO was extremely low. Its response to temperature was opposite to that for the σs of the alcohols. This suggested a stronger effect of temperature on the hydraulic (osmotic) than on the diffusive water flow
across individual water channels, i.e. a differential sensitivity of different mechanisms to temperature.
Received: 10 October 1996 / Accepted: 2 December 1996 相似文献
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Kabir ME Krishnaswamy S Miyamoto M Furuichi Y Komiyama T 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2011,90(2):553-564
Phage-display and competitive panning elution leads to the identification of minimum-sized antigen binders together with conventional
antibodies from a mouse cDNA library constructed from HM-1 killer toxin neutralizing monoclonal antibody (nmAb-KT). Antigen-specific
altered camelid-like single-domain heavy chain antibody (scFv K2) and a conventional antibody (scFv K1) have been isolated
against the idiotypic antigen nmAb-KT. The objectives of the study were to examine (1) their properties as compared to conventional
antibodies and also (2) their antifungal activity against different pathogenic and non-pathogenic fungal species. The alternative
small antigen-binder, i.e., the single-domain heavy chain antibody, was originated from a conventional mouse scFv phage library
through somatic hyper-mutation while selection against antigen. This single-domain antibody fragment was well expressed in
bacteria and specifically bound with the idiotypic antigen nmAb-KT and had a high stability and solubility. Experimental data
showed that the binding affinity for this single-domain antibody was 272-fold higher (K
d = 1.07 × 10−10 M) and antifungal activity was three- to fivefold more efficient (IC50 = 0.46 × 10−6 to 1.17 × 10−6 M) than that for the conventional antibody (K
d = 2.91 × 10−8 M and IC50 = 2.14 × 10−6 to 3.78 × 10−6 M). The derived single-domain antibody might be an ideal scaffold for anti-idiotypic antibody therapy and the development
of smaller peptides or peptide mimetic drugs due to their less complex antigen-binding site. We expect that such single-domain
synthetic antibodies will find their way into a number of biotechnological or medical applications. 相似文献
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The use of amiloride to uncouple branchial sodium and proton fluxes in the brown trout, Salmo trutta
I. D. Nelson W. T. W. Potts H. Huddart 《Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology》1997,167(2):123-128
Resting proton, ammonium and sodium fluxes in Salmo trutta were 492.6 ± 19.5 (n = 29); 122.9 ± 34.2 (n = 28) and 277.1 ± 18.5 (n = 50) μmol · kg−1 · h−1, respectively. The resting transepithelial potential was found to be composed of three successive potentials, the outermost
averaging −7.36 ± 0.19mV, the second, −14.3 ± 1.4 mV and the third −37 ± 1.7 mV. Amiloride inhibits the proton, ammonium and
sodium fluxes in a dose-dependent manner at concentrations of 0.5 mmol · 1−1 and 0.1 mmol · l−1, but at 0.01 mmol · l−1, proton and ammonium fluxes remained at control levels whilst the sodium was reduced to 70.59 ± 7.29 μmol · kg−1 · h−1. The trans-epithelial potential was effected in a bi-phasic manner by 0.5 mmol · l−1 amiloride. An initial hyperpolarisation of ca. 6 mV was followed by a sustained depolarisation of ca. 14 mV (towards zero)
which persisted until the amiloride was washed off the gill. The initial hyperpolarisation was thought to reflect a rapid
inhibition of a positive inward sodium current and the subsequent depolarisation was due to the inhibition of a positive outward
current (proton) which would abolish the transepithelial potential. However, at 0.01 mmol · l−1 only the hyperpolarisation was seen, due to the inhibition of only the inward sodium current. Acetazolamide (0.1 mmol · l−1) was found to have no significant effect on the proton, ammonium and sodium fluxes. These results indicate that the proton
and sodium fluxes across the gill of the freshwater trout are not tightly linked. While this suggests that the trout gill
resembles the model of Ehrenburg et al. (1985) of sodium uptake in frog skin, the apical potentials measured in the pavement
epithelial cell(s) are too low to account for sodium uptake unless the activity of the sodium in the cells is very low.
Accepted: 8 August 1996 相似文献
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In this study, sludge was taken from a municipal wastewater treatment plant that contained a nearly equal number of archaeal
amoA genes (5.70 × 106 ± 3.30 × 105 copies mg sludge−1) to bacterial amoA genes (8.60 × 106 ± 7.64 × 105 copies mg sludge−1) and enriched in three continuous-flow reactors receiving an inorganic medium containing different ammonium concentrations:
2, 10, and 30 mM NH4+–N (28, 140, and 420 mg N l−1). The abundance and communities of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) in enriched nitrifying
activated sludge (NAS) were monitored at days 60 and 360 of the operation. Early on, between day 0 and day 60 of reactor operation,
comparative abundance of AOA amoA genes to AOB amoA genes varied among the reactors depending on the ammonium levels found in the reactors. As compared to the seed sludge, the
number of AOA amoA genes was unchanged in the reactor with lower ammonium level (0.06 ± 0.04 mgN l−1), while in the reactors with higher ammonium levels (0.51 ± 0.33 and 0.25 ± 0.10 mgN l−1), the numbers of AOA amoA genes were deteriorated. By day 360, AOA disappeared from the ammonia-oxidizing consortiums in all reactors. The majority
of the AOA sequences from all NASs at each sampling period fell into a single AOA cluster, however, suggesting that the ammonium
did not affect the AOA communities under this operational condition. This result is contradictory to the case of AOB, where
the communities varied significantly among the NASs. AOB with a high affinity for ammonia were present in the reactors with
lower ammonium levels, whereas AOB with a low affinity to ammonia existed in the reactors with higher ammonium levels. 相似文献
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Ten accessions belonging to the Brassica oleracea subspecies alba and rubra, and to B. oleracea var. sabauda were used in this study. Protoplasts were isolated from leaves and hypocotyls of in vitro grown plants. The influence of selected factors on the yield, viability, and mitotic activity of protoplasts immobilized
in calcium alginate layers was investigated. The efficiency of protoplast isolation from hypocotyls was lower (0.7 ± 0.1 × 106 ml−1) than for protoplasts isolated from leaf mesophyll tissue (2 ± 0.1 × 106 ml−1). High (70–90%) viabilities of immobilized protoplasts were recorded, independent of the explant sources. The highest proportion
of protoplasts undergoing divisions was noted for cv. Reball F1, both from mesophyll (29.8 ± 2.2%) and hypocotyl (17.5 ± 0.3%)
tissues. Developed colonies of callus tissue were subjected to regeneration and as a result plants from six accessions were
obtained. 相似文献
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J. B. K. Leonard J. F. Norieka B. Kynard S. D. McCormick 《Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology》1999,169(4-5):287-295
To assess the energetics of migration in an anadromous fish, adult American shad (Alosa sapidissima) were swum in a large respirometer at a range of speeds (1.0–2.3 body lengths (BL) s−1, 13–24 °C). Metabolic rate (MO2) was logarithmically related to swimming speed (Bl s−1; r
2 = 0.41, slope = 0.23 ± 0.037) and tailbeat frequency (beats × min−1; r
2 = 0.52, slope = 0.003 ± 0.0003). Temperature had a significant effect on metabolic rate (r
2 = 0.41) with a Q10 of 2.2. Standard metabolic rate (SMR), determined directly after immobilization with the neuroblocker gallamine triethiodide,
ranged from 2.2–6.2 mmolO2 kg−1 h−1 and scaled with mass (W) such that SMR = 4.0 (±0.03)W0.695(±0.15). Comparison of directly determined and extrapolated SMR suggests that swimming respirometry provides a good estimate of SMR
in this species, given the differences in basal activity monitored by the two methods. Overall, American shad metabolic rates
(MO2 and SMR) were intermediate between salmonids and fast-swimming perciforms, including tunas, and may be a result of evolutionary
adaptation to their active pelagic, schooling life history. This study demonstrates variability in metabolic strategy among
anadromous fishes that may be important to understanding the relative success of different migratory species under varying
environmental conditions.
Accepted: 3 March 1999 相似文献
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The carbon-flux via algal bloom events involves bacteria as an important mediator. The present study, carried out during the
spring inter-monsoon month of April 2008 onboard CRV Sagar Manjusha-06 in the Eastern Arabian Sea, addresses the bloom-specific
flow of carbon to bacteria via chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM). Eleven stations monitored were located in the
coastal, shelf and open-ocean areas off Ratnagiri (16°59′N, 73°17′E), Goa (15°30′N, 73°48′E) and Bhatkal (13°58′N, 74°33′E)
coasts. Visible bloom of “saw-dust” color in the Ratnagiri shelf were microscopically examined and the presence of cyanobacteria
Trichodesmium erythraeum and T. thieabautii with cell concentrations as high as 3.05 × 106 trichomes L−1 was recorded. Total bacterial counts (TBC) varied between 94.09 × 108 cells L−1 in the bloom to 1.34 × 108 cells L−1 in the non-bloom area. Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) concentrations averaged 2.27 ± 3.02 m−1 (absorption coefficient 325 nm) in the bloom to 0.28 ± 0.07 m−1 in the non-bloom waters respectively. CDOM composition varied from a higher molecular size with lower aromaticity in the
bloom to lower molecular size and increased aromaticity in the non-bloom areas respectively. Strong positive relationship
of TBC with Chlorophyll a (R
2 = 0.65, p < 0.01) and CDOM concentrations (R
2 = 0.8373, p = 0.01) in the bloom area indicated hydrolysis and/or uptake of CDOM by bacteria. Absorption by mycosporine-like amino acid
palythene (λ
max = 360 nm) was recorded in the filtrate of bloom. Morphotypes of Trichodesmium-associated bacteria revealed a higher frequency of Gram-positive rods. The role of bacteria in relation to changing CDOM
nature and as a factor in affecting oxygen content of the water column is discussed in context of the Arabian Sea. 相似文献
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The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris has been used for the expression of many proteins. However, limitations such as protein degradation and aggregation became
obvious when secreting heterologous protein-recombinant human consensus interferon-α mutant. Here, we investigate the effect
of induction temperature on the yield and stability of interferon mutant expressed by P. patoris with buffered complex medium. The best results in terms of interferon mutant bioactivity and specific bioactivity were obtained
when the microorganism was induced at 15°C, which were 2.91 × 108 ± 0.3 × 108 and 2.26 × 108 ± 0.23 × 108 IU mg−1, respectively. At the same time, the cells grew fast owing to high AOX1-specific activity, and interferon mutant expression
level reached 1.23 g l−1, which was almost 30 times higher than that in the flask. Also, the proteolytic degradation of interferon mutant was inhibited
completely because of lower protease bioactivity probably due to a reduced cell death rate at lower temperatures as well as
protection of yeast extract and peptone in complex medium. In addition, interferon mutant aggregation was repressed significantly
by the addition of Tween-80, and a specific bioactivity of 7.35 × 108 ± 0.56 × 108 IU mg−1 was obtained. These results should be applicable to other low-stability recombinant proteins expressed in P. pastoris. 相似文献
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Cell density and fatty acid (FA) content of Pavlova lutheri and Chaetoceros muelleri were analysed in a continuous algal production system (250-L bags) with reduced diameter. The cell density and FA content
and composition in the algal production system were determined in replicate bags over a period of 5 weeks. The results showed
that the cell density and essential FAs increased during the experiment for both species. After 5 weeks the mean cell numbers
had increased to 6.0 ± 0.3 × 106 cells mL−1 in the P. lutheri bags and 6.0 ± 0.4 × 106 cells mL−1 in the C. muelleri bags. The content of total FAs increased significantly (p < 0.05) in all of the bags during the experiment. At the end of the experiment the mean total FA content were 2.7 ± 0.3 pg cell−1 in the P. lutheri bags and 1.8 ± 0.1 pg cell−1 in the C. muelleri bags. Maximum total FA content registered was 3.0 pg cell−1 in one of the P. lutheri bags. The content of the essential FAs (ARA, EPA, DHA) increased over time in both of the species. At the end of the experiment
the content of EPA (0.6 ± 0.1 pg cell−1) and DHA (0.3 ± 0.0 pg cell−1) were highest in the P. lutheri bags, while ARA (0.1 ± 0.0 pg cell−1) was highest in C. muelleri. EPA and DHA constituted 22% and 11%, respectively, of total FA content in P. lutheri, while ARA constituted 6% of total FA content in C. muelleri. The results from this experiment indicate that flagellates such as P. lutheri perform better in narrow bags with improved light conditions, while diatoms like C. muelleri perform better in wider bags under light limitation. Implications for bivalve hatcheries are discussed. 相似文献
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Miriam Altstein Tal Gabay Orna Ben-Aziz Shai Daniel Irina Zeltser Chaim Gilon 《Invertebrate neuroscience : IN》1999,4(1):0033-0040
The binding of [3H]tyrosyl-PBAN28-33NH2 to pheromone gland membranes of the moth Heliothis peltigera was investigated. The study describes the development of a pheromone biosynthesis-activating neuropeptide (PBAN) radioreceptor
assay and demonstrates the presence of a putative PBAN binding site on the pheromone gland. It also describes synthesis of
a radioligand and optimization of binding conditions with respect to membrane preparation, number of gland equivalents, kinetics
of ligand binding and composition of the binding solution. Binding was found to be optimal when membranes were freshly prepared
from frozen glands, incubated at a concentration of one gland equivalent per reaction tube in the presence of 10 mM HCO3
− ions. Equilibrium of ligand binding was obtained after 20 min. Presence of other components such as NaCl, KCl or SH reagents
did not have any effect on binding. Binding was found to be saturable, with a Kd of 5.73 ± 1.05 × 10−6 M and a Bmax of 1.85 ± 0.22 nmol/mg protein. Binding was effectively displaced by unlabeled PBAN1-33NH2 and PBAN28-33ΝΗ2 with a Ki of 4.3 ± 1.1 × 10−6 M and 4.9 ± 2.6 × 10−6 M, respectively.
Accepted: 4 February 1999 相似文献
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Kerry L. Nicholson Paul R. Krausman Adrian Munguia-Vega Melanie Culver 《European Journal of Wildlife Research》2011,57(6):1151-1163
Spatial and temporal interactions among individual members of populations can have direct applications to habitat management
of mountain lions (Puma concolor). Our objectives were to evaluate home range overlap and spatial/temporal use of overlap zones (OZ) of mountain lions in
Arizona. We incorporated spatial data with genetic analyses to assess relatedness between mountain lions with overlapping
home ranges. We recorded the space use patterns of 29 radio-collared mountain lions in Arizona from August 2005 to August
2008. We genotyped 28 mountain lions and estimated the degree of relatedness among individuals. For 26 pairs of temporally
overlapping mountain lions, 18 overlapped spatially and temporally and eight had corresponding genetic information. Home range
overlap ranged from 1.18% to 46.38% (
[`(x)] = \text24.\text43 \overline x = {\text{24}}.{\text{43}} , SE = 2.96). Male–male pairs were located within 1 km of each other on average, 0.04% of the time, whereas male–female pairs
on average were 3.0%. Two male–male pairs exhibited symmetrical spatial avoidance and two symmetrical spatial attractions
to the OZ. We observed simultaneous temporal attraction in three male–male pairs and four male–female pairs. Individuals from
Tucson were slightly related to one another within the population (n = 13, mean R = 0.0373 ± 0.0151) whereas lions from Payson (n = 6, mean R = −0.0079 ± 0.0356) and Prescott (n = 9, mean R = −0.0242 ± 0.0452) were not as related. Overall, males were less related to other males (n = 20, mean R = −0.0495 ± 0.0161) than females were related to other females (n = 8, mean R = 0.0015 ± 0.0839). Genetic distance was positively correlated with geographic distance (r
2 = 0.22, P = 0.001). Spatial requirements and interactions influence social behavior and can play a role in determining population density. 相似文献
19.
Theodore J. Angelopoulos Rebecca Lewis Thanassis Jamurtas Chris Schumann 《European journal of applied physiology and occupational physiology》1998,77(6):556-559
We characterized the effect of ten days of training on lipid metabolism in 6 [age 37.2 (2.3) years] sedentary, obese [BMI
34.4 (3.0) kg · m−2] males with normal glucose tolerance. An oral glucose tolerance test was performed prior to and at the end of the 10 d of
training period. The duration of each daily exercise session was 40 min at an intensity equivalent to ˜75% of the age predicted
maximum heart rate. Blood measurements were performed after an overnight fast, before and at the end of the 10 d period. Plasma
triacylglycerol was significantly (p < 0.05) reduced following exercise training (2.15 ± 0.29 vs. 1.55 ± 0.28 mmol · l−1). Very low density lipoprotein-triacylglycerol was also significantly (p < 0.05) reduced (1.82 ± 0.3 vs. 1.29 ± 0.29 mmol · l−1). No significant changes in high density lipoprotein-cholesterol were observed as a result of training. Following training
fasting plasma glucose and fasting plasma insulin were significantly reduced [Glucose: 5.9 (0.2) mmol · l−1 vs. 5.3 (0.22) mmol · l−1 (p < 0.05); Insulin 264.3 (53.8) ρ · mol · l−1 vs. 200.9 (30.1) ρ · mol · l−1, p = 0.05]. The total area under the glucose curve during the OGTT decreased significantly (p < 0.05). These preliminary data suggest that short-term exercise, without concomitant loss of body mass, induces favorable
changes in plasma triacylglycerol, and very low density lipoprotein-triacylglycerol and glucose tolerance but has no effect
on high density lipoproteincholesterol.
Accepted: 7 January 1998 相似文献
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Sherri M. Jones Timothy A. Jones Roshni Shukla 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》1997,180(6):631-638
Short-latency vestibular-evoked potentials to pulsed linear acceleration were characterized in the quail. Responses occurred
within 8 ms following the onset of stimuli and were composed of a series of positive and negative peaks. The latencies and
amplitudes of the first four peaks were quantitatively characterized. Mean latencies at 1.0 g ms−1 ranged from 1265 ± 208 μs (P1, N = 18) to 4802 ± 441 μs (N4, N = 13). Amplitudes ranged from 3.72 ± 1.51 μV (P1/N1, N = 18) to 1.49 ± 0.77 μV (P3/N3, N = 16). Latency-intensity (LI) slopes ranged from −38.7 ± 7.3 μs dB−1 (P1, N = 18) to −71.6 ± 21.9 μs dB−1 (N3, N = 15) and amplitude-intensity (AI) slopes ranged from 0.20 ± 0.08 μV dB−1 (P1/N1, N = 18) to 0.07 ± 0.04 μV dB−1 (P3/N3, N = 11). The mean response threshold across all animals was −21.83 ± 3.34 dB re: 1.0 g ms−1 (N = 18). Responses remained after cochlear extirpation showing that they could not depend critically on cochlear activity.
Responses were eliminated by destruction of the vestibular end organs, thus showing that responses depended critically and
specifically on the vestibular system. The results demonstrate that the responses are vestibular and the findings provide
a scientific basis for using vestibular responses to evaluate vestibular function through ontogeny and senescence in the quail.
Accepted: 18 January 1997 相似文献