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In vertebrate development the Dickkopf protein family carries out multiple functions and is represented by at least four different genes with distinct biological activities. In invertebrates such as Drosophila and Caenorhabditis, Dickkopf genes have so far not been identified. Here we describe the identification and characterization of a Dickkopf gene with a deduced amino acid sequence closely related to that of chicken Dkk-3 in the basal metazoan Hydra. HyDkk-3 appears to be the only Dickkopf gene in Hydra. The gene is expressed in the gastric region in nematocytes at a late differentiation stage. In silico searches of EST and genome databases indicated the absence of Dkk genes from the protostomes Drosophila and Caenorhabditis, whereas within the deuterostomes, a Dkk-3 gene could be identified in the genome of the urochordate Ciona intestinalis. The results indicate that at an early stage of evolution of multicellularity Dickkopf proteins have already played important roles as developmental signals. They also suggest that vertebrate Dkk-1, 2 and 4 may have originated from a common ancestor gene of Dkk-3.H. Fedders and R. Augustin contributed equally to this workEdited by D. Tautz 相似文献
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Seishi Kimura Daniel Golani Yukio Iwatsuki Motohiko Tabuchi Tetsuo Yoshino 《Ichthyological Research》2007,54(2):145-159
The Indo-Pacific marine atherinid fishes Atherinomorus forskalii (Rüppell, 1838), Atherinomorus lacunosus (Forster, 1801), and Atherinomorus pinguis (Lacepède, 1803) are redescribed as valid species based on the types and non-type specimens collected throughout the Indo-Pacific.
They are similar to each other chiefly in having a wide midlateral band (almost the same or greater than the midlateral scale
width), large mouth (posterior tip of upper jaw reaching to or beyond a vertical through anterior margin of pupil), and no
distinct tubercle at the posterior end of the dentary. All three species are distinguishable from congeners by those characters.
The three species have long been confused with each other or synonymized erroneously as a single species. Atherinomorus forskalii, known from the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean, differs from Atherinomorus lacunosus and Atherinomorus pinguis in having conspicuous, large endopterygoid teeth, forming obvious tooth ridges. Atherinomorus lacunosus, widely distributed in almost the entire Indo-Pacific, from East Africa to Tonga, north to southern Japan, and south to northern
Australia, differs from Atherinomorus pinguis in having a wider midlateral band (the lower margin reaching to almost the center of the fourth scale row at level of the
anal fin origin vs. the lower margin reaching to the ventral end of the third scale row in Atherinomorus pinguis) and more numerous midlateral scales (40–44 vs. 38–41 in Atherinomorus pinguis). Atherina morrisi Jordan and Starks, 1906, Hepsetia pinguis mineri Nichols and Roemhild, 1951, Pranesus capricornensis Woodland, 1961, Pranesus maculatus Taylor, 1964, and Pranesus pinguis ruppelli Smith, 1965, are regarded as junior synonyms of Atherinomorus lacunosus. Atherinomorus pinguis is also widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific, from East Africa to northern Australia and north to southern Japan.
Atherina pectoralis Valenciennes, 1835, is considered a junior synonym of Atherinomorus pinguis.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic format at 相似文献
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Tashiro Y Kaneko W Sun Y Shibata K Inokuma K Zendo T Sonomoto K 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2011,89(6):1741-1750
We isolated and characterized a d-lactic acid-producing lactic acid bacterium (d-LAB), identified as Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis QU 41. When compared to Lactobacillus coryniformis subsp. torquens JCM 1166 T and L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis JCM 1248 T, which are also known as d-LAB, the QU 41 strain exhibited a high thermotolerance and produced d-lactic acid at temperatures of 50 °C and higher. In order to optimize the culture conditions of the QU 41 strain, we examined
the effects of pH control, temperature, neutralizing reagent, and initial glucose concentration on d-lactic acid production in batch cultures. It was found that the optimal production of 20.1 g/l d-lactic acid was acquired with high optical purity (>99.9% of d-lactic acid) in a pH 6.0-controlled batch culture, by adding ammonium hydroxide as a neutralizing reagent, at 43 °C in MRS
medium containing 20 g/l glucose. As a result of product inhibition and low cell density, continuous cultures were investigated
using a microfiltration membrane module to recycle flow-through cells in order to improve d-lactic acid productivity. At a dilution rate of 0.87 h−1, the high cell density continuous culture exhibited the highest d-lactic acid productivity of 18.0 g/l/h with a high yield (ca. 1.0 g/g consumed glucose) and a low residual glucose (<0.1 g/l)
in comparison with systems published to date. 相似文献
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The evolution and patterns of selection of genes encoding 10 Drosophila odorant receptors (Or) and the sex pheromone receptor Gr68a were investigated by comparing orthologous sequences across five
to eight ecologically diverse species of Drosophila. Using maximum likelihood estimates of dN/dS ratios we show that all 11 genes sampled are under purifying selection, indicating
functional constraint. Four of these genes (Or33c, Or42a, Or85e, and Gr68a) may be under positive selection, and if so, there is good evidence that 12 specific amino acid sites may be under positive
selection. All of these sites are predicted to be located either in loop regions or just inside membrane spanning regions,
and interestingly one of the two sites in Gr68a is in a similar position to a previously described polymorphism in Gr5a that causes a shift in sensitivity to its ligand trehalose. For three Ors, possible evidence for positive selection was detected along a lineage. These include Or22a in the lineage leading to D. mauritiana and Or22b in the lineage leading to D. simulans. This is of interest in light of previous data showing a change in ligand response profile for these species in the sensory
neuron (ab3A) which expresses both Or22a and Or22b in D. melanogaster. In summary, while the main chemosensory function and/or structural integrity of these 10 Or genes and Gr68a are evolutionarily preserved, positive selection appears to be acting on some of these genes, at specific sites and along
certain lineages, and provides testable hypotheses for further functional experimentation.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
[Reviewing Editor: Dr. David Pollock] 相似文献
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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and Typhimurium are closely related serovars as indicated by >96% DNA sequence identity between shared genes. Nevertheless, S. Typhi is a strictly human-specific pathogen causing a systemic disease, typhoid fever. In contrast, S. Typhimurium is a broad host range pathogen causing only a self-limited gastroenteritis in immunocompetent humans. We hypothesize that these differences have arisen because some genes are unique to each serovar either gained by horizontal gene transfer or by the loss of gene activity due to mutation, such as pseudogenes. S. Typhi has 5% of genes as pseudogenes, much more than S. Typhimurium which contains 1%. As a consequence, S. Typhi lacks several protein effectors implicated in invasion, proliferation and/or translocation by the type III secretion system that are fully functional proteins in S. Typhimurium. SseJ, one of these effectors, corresponds to an acyltransferase/lipase that participates in SCV biogenesis in human epithelial cell lines and is needed for full virulence of S. Typhimurium. In S. Typhi, sseJ is a pseudogene. Therefore, we suggest that sseJ inactivation in S. Typhi has an important role in the development of the systemic infection. 相似文献10.
Alexandre Alonso Alves Lúcio Mauro da Silva Guimarães Agnaldo Rodrigues de Melo Chaves Fábio Murilo DaMatta Acelino Couto Alfenas 《Acta Physiologiae Plantarum》2011,33(5):1831-1839
One of the most important diseases of eucalyptus plantations is caused by the rust fungus Puccinia psidii. While the genetic basis of rust resistance has been addressed recently, little is known about the physiological aspects
of Eucalyptus–P. psidii interaction. In order to fill this gap, we undertook a study investigating the effects of P. psidii infection on photosynthetic processes of two E. urophylla clones with contrasting resistance to the pathogen. Our results show that gas exchange and chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters were virtually unaffected in the resistant clone. In the susceptible clone, photosynthetic rates
were chiefly constrained by biochemical limitations to carbon fixation. Photosynthesis was impaired only in symptomatic tissues
since the reductions in photosynthetic rates were proportional to the diseased leaf area. Rust infection provoked chronic
photoinhibition to photosynthesis in the susceptible clone. Overall, differences in the ability for light capture, use and
dissipation may play a significant role in explaining the clonal differences in Eucalyptus in response to P. psidii infection. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the effect of rust infection on gas exchange and chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters in Eucalyptus. 相似文献
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Makoto Urata Jun Tsuchimoto Kinya Yasui Masaaki Yamaguchi 《Development genes and evolution》2009,219(7):377-382
Deuterostomes comprise a monophyletic group of animals that include chordates, xenoturbellids, and the Ambulacraria, which
consists of echinoderms and hemichordates. The ancestral chordate probably had 14 Hox genes aligned linearly along the chromosome, with the posterior six genes showing an independent duplication compared to
protostomes. In contrast, ambulacrarians are characterized by a duplication of the posterior Hox genes, resulting in three genes known as Hox11/13a, Hox11/13b, and Hox11/13c. Here, we isolated 12 Hox genes from the hemichordate Balanoglossus misakiensis and found an extra Hox gene that has not been reported in hemichordates. The extra B. misakiensis gene was suggested to be Hox8 from paralog-characteristic residues in its hexapepetide motif and homeodomain and a comparison with Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Hox genes. Our data suggest that the ancestor of echinoderms and hemichordates may have had a full complement of 12 Hox genes. 相似文献
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Kurtzman CP 《Antonie van Leeuwenhoek》2011,100(3):455-462
Ogataea
parapolymorpha sp. n. (NRRL YB-1982, CBS 12304, type strain), the ascosporic state of Candida
parapolymorpha, is described. The species appears homothallic, assimilates methanol as is typical of most Ogataea species and forms hat-shaped ascospores in asci that become deliquescent. O. parapolymorpha is closely related to Ogataea
angusta and Ogataea
polymorpha. The three species can be resolved from gene sequence analyses but are unresolved from fermentation and growth reactions
that are typically used for yeast identification. On the basis of multiple isolates, O. angusta is known only from California, USA, in association with Drosophila and Aulacigaster flies, O. parapolymorpha is predominantly associated with insect frass from trees in the eastern USA but O. polymorpha has been isolated from various substrates in the USA, Brazil, Spain and Costa Rica. 相似文献
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Perugini LD Murphy JP Marshall D Brown-Guedira G 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》2008,116(3):417-425
Powdery mildew is an important foliar disease in wheat, especially in areas with a cool or maritime climate. A dominant powdery
mildew resistance gene transferred to the hexaploid germplasm line NC99BGTAG11 from T. timopheevii subsp. armeniacum was mapped distally on the long arm of chromosome 7A. Differential reactions were observed between the resistance gene in
NC99BGTAG11 and the alleles of the Pm1 locus that is also located on chromosome arm 7AL. Observed segregation in F2:3 lines from the cross NC99BGTAG11 × Axminster (Pm1a) demonstrate that germplasm line NC99BGTAG11 carries a novel powdery mildew resistance gene, which is now designated as Pm37. This new gene is highly effective against all powdery mildew isolates tested so far. Analyses of the population with molecular
markers indicate that Pm37 is located 16 cM proximal to the Pm1 complex. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers Xgwm332 and Xwmc790 were located 0.5 cM proximal and distal, respectively, to Pm37. In order to identify new markers in the region, wheat expressed sequence tags (ESTs) located in the distal 10% of 7AL that
were orthologous to sequences from chromosome 6 of rice were targeted. The two new EST-derived STS markers were located distal
to Pm37 and one marker was closely linked to the Pm1a region. These new markers can be used in marker-assisted selection schemes to develop wheat cultivars with pyramids of powdery
mildew resistance genes, including combinations of Pm37 in coupling linkage with alleles of the Pm1 locus. 相似文献
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Genome sequence analysis of Xanthomonas
oryzae pv. oryzae has revealed a cluster of 12 ORFs that are closely related to the gum gene cluster of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. The gum gene cluster of X. oryzae encodes proteins involved in xanthan production; however, there is little experimental evidence supporting this. In this
study, biochemical analyses of xanthan produced by a defined set of X. oryzae
gum mutant strains allowed us to preliminarily assign functions to most of the gum gene products: biosynthesis of the pentasaccharide repeating unit for GumD, GumM, GumH, GumK, and GumI, xanthan polymerization
and transport for GumB, GumC, GumE, and GumJ, and modification of the pentasaccharide repeating unit for GumF, GumG, and GumL.
In addition, we found that the exopolysaccharides are essential but not specific for the virulence of X. oryzae.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Sang-Yoon Kim and Jeong-Gu Kim contributed equally to this work. 相似文献
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Muhammad Rizwan Ingrid Miller Fareeha Tasneem Josef Böhm Manfred Gemeiner Ebrahim Razzazi-Fazeli 《Mycotoxin Research》2010,26(3):171-180
Genome sequencing for many important fungi has begun during recent years; however, there is still some deficiency in proteome
profiling of aspergilli. To obtain a comprehensive overview of proteins and their expression, a proteomic approach based on
2D gel electrophoresis and MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry was used to investigate A. ochraceus. The cell walls of fungi are exceptionally resistant to destruction, therefore two lysis protocols were tested: (1) lysis
via manual grinding using liquid nitrogen, and (2) mechanical lysis via rapid agitation with glass beads using MagNalyser.
Mechanical grinding with mortar and pestle using liquid nitrogen was found to be a more efficient extraction method for our
purpose, resulting in extracts with higher protein content and a clear band pattern in SDS-PAGE. Two-dimensional electrophoresis
gave a complex spot pattern comprising proteins of a broad range of isoelectric points and molecular masses. The most abundant
spots were subjected to mass spectrometric analysis. We could identify 31 spots representing 26 proteins, most of them involved
in metabolic processes and response to stress. Seventeen spots were identified by de novo sequencing due to a lack of DNA
and protein database sequences of A. ochraceus. The proteins identified in our study have been reported for the first time in A. ochraceus and this represents the first proteomic approach with identification of major proteins, when the fungus was grown under submerged
culture. 相似文献
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Studying Pneumocystis has proven to be a challenge from the perspective of propagating a significant amount of the pathogen in a facile manner.
The study of several fungal pathogens has been aided by the use of invertebrate model hosts. Our efforts to infect the invertebrate
larvae Galleria
mellonella with Pneumocystis proved futile since P. murina neither caused disease nor was able to proliferate within G. mellonella. It did, however, show that the pathogen could be rapidly cleared from the host. 相似文献
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Epigenetic modifications of histone play important roles for regulation of cell activity, such as cell division, cell death,
and cell differentiation. A SET domain consisting of about 130 amino acids has lysine methyltransferase activity in the presence
of the cosubstrate S-adenosyl-methionine. More than 60 SET domain-containing proteins have been predicted in various organisms.
One of them, the SMYD family genes which contain a SET domain and a zinc-finger MYND domain are reported to regulate cell
cycle and muscle formation. Here we examined the expression and function of smyd1 and 2 in Xenopus. smyd1 and 2 were expressed in various muscle tissues. While smyd1 expression was observed mainly in cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle, smyd2 expression was done abundantly in skeletal muscle and face region. Moreover, by loss-of-function experiments using antisense
morpholino oligonucleotides, it was suggested that smyd1 and 2 related to muscle cells differentiation. 相似文献
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An experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of phosphorus concentration (1, 4 and 10 mg l−1) and temperature (15 and 25°C) on chlorophyll a (chl a) contents and cell size/volume of green alga Scenedesmus
obliquus and blue green alga Microcystis aeruginosa. Long-term field data from Lake Taihu, a large, shallow eutrophic lake between Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, China, was
also used to evaluate the effect of temperature on the model between chl a and total phosphorus (TP). The chl a content of both algae increased with an increase in phosphorus concentration and temperature. Temperatures showed a significantly
different effect on chl a content of S. obliquus at a phosphorus concentration of 10 mg l−1, whereas there was no significant difference at the two lower phosphorus levels. For M. aeruginosa, temperatures presented significantly different effects on the chl a contents at three phosphorus concentrations. Chl a content of neither alga presented an interaction between the nutrient and the temperature. Long-term field data from Lake
Taihu also indicated that the addition of temperature to the model increased predictability of chl a by TP. The length/diameter and volume of both algae were greater at the lower temperature and phosphorus concentration. Moderate
negative correlations were observed between algal size, volume, and chl a content. Our results suggest that phosphorus concentration and temperature could change chl a contents and size in species-specific algal cells and that temperature should be considered when building the model of TP
and chl a concentration. 相似文献
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Seven cDNA sequences putatively encoding metallothionein (MT) proteins were isolated from peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.). We analyzed the sequences of the deduced amino acids and characterized one of these genes, AhMT2a. Northern blot analysis indicates that the accumulation of AhMT2a mRNA was found in stems, young roots, and young leaves, and AhMT2a mRNA levels were up-regulated by cadmium, copper, ABA, H2O2, and heat shock. The metal-binding properties of the recombinant protein expressed in E. coli was investigated, and the results show that bacteria harboring AhMT2a exhibited increased tolerance to cadmium, copper, and lead, and the metal accumulation was also higher than the controls.
Taken together, our results suggest that the AhMT2a protein might function in both detoxification of heavy metals and scavenging
of reactive oxygen species in peanut.
Published in Russian in Fiziologiya Rastenii, 2007, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 755–762.
The text was submitted by the authors in English. 相似文献