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We previously reported that two parasitic wasps, Anagyrus sawadai Ishii and Leptomastix dactylopii Howard, are strongly attracted to (2,4,4-trimethyl-2-cyclohexenyl)methyl butyrate (cyclolavandulyl butyrate, CLB), a cyclization product of the sex pheromone of the Japanese mealybug, Planococcus kraunhiae (Kuwana). These wasps attacked more P. kraunhiae in the presence of CLB in our field experiments. In the present study, we showed that these CLB-attracted wasps parasitized and suppressed the mealybug population increase in field persimmon orchards, which would lead to reducing mealybug damage on commercial products. Although many attractants for natural enemies are reported, compounds such as CLB that suppress pest population growth in fields are scarce. Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, this is currently the only example to demonstrate that the “non-natural” enemy that does not typically attack the pest under natural conditions can be enrolled in biological control by using its attractant. 相似文献
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Inui M Suda M Kimura S Yasuda K Suzuki H Toda H Yamamoto S Okino S Suzuki N Yukawa H 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2008,77(6):1305-1316
A recombinant butanol pathway composed of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 genes, thiL, hbd, crt, bcd-etfB-etfA, and adhe1 (or adhe) coding for acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase (THL), β-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase (HBD), 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase
(CRT), butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase (BCD), butyraldehyde dehydrogenase (BYDH), and butanol dehydrogenase (BDH), under the tac promoter control was constructed and was introduced into Escherichia coli. The functional expression of these six enzymes was proved by demonstrating the corresponding enzyme activities using spectrophotometric,
high performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography analyses. The BCD activity, which was not detected in E. coli previously, was shown in the present study by performing the procedure from cell extract preparation to activity measurement
under anaerobic condition. Moreover, the etfA and etfB co-expression was found to be essential for the BCD activity. In the case of BYDH activity, the adhe gene product was shown to have higher specificity towards butyryl-CoA compared to the adhe1 product. Butanol production from glucose was achieved by the highly concentrated cells of the butanologenic E. coli strains, BUT1 with adhe1 and BUT2 with adhe, under anaerobic condition, and the BUT1 and BUT2 strains were shown to produce 4 and 16-mM butanol with 6- and 1-mM butyrate
as a byproduct, respectively. This study reports the novel butanol production by an aerobically pregrown microorganism possessing
the genes of a strict anaerobe, Clostridium acetobutylicum. 相似文献
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The maT clade of transposons is a group of transposable elements intermediate in sequence and predicted protein structure to mariner and Tc transposons, with a distribution thus far limited to a few invertebrate species. We present evidence, based on searches of publicly available databases, that the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae has several maT-like transposons, which we have designated as CbmaT elements, dispersed throughout its genome. We also describe two additional transposon sequences that probably share their evolutionary history with the CbmaT transposons. One resembles a fold back variant of a CbmaT element, with long (380-bp) inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) that show a high degree (71%) of identity to CbmaT1. The other, which shares only the 26-bp ITR sequences with one of the CbmaT variants, is present in eight nearly identical copies, but does not have a transposase gene and may therefore be cross mobilised by a CbmaT transposase. Using PCR-based mobility assays, we show that CbmaT1 transposons are capable of excising from the C. briggsae genome. CbmaT1 excised approximately 500 times less frequently than Tcb1 in the reference strain AF16, but both CbmaT1 and Tcb1 excised at extremely high frequencies in the HK105 strain. The HK105 strain also exhibited a high frequency of spontaneous induction of unc-22 mutants, suggesting that it may be a mutator strain of C. briggsae. 相似文献
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We have investigated the floral ontogeny of Arillastrum, Allosyncarpia, Stockwellia and Eucalyptopsis (of the eucalypt group, Myrtaceae) using scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy. Several critical characters for establishing relationships between these genera and to the eucalypts have been determined. The absence of compound petaline primordia in Arillastrum, Allosyncarpia, Stockwellia and Eucalyptopsis excludes these taxa from the eucalypt clade. Post-anthesis circumscissile abscission of the hypanthium above the ovary in Stockwellia, Eucalyptopsis and Allosyncarpia is evidence that these three taxa form a monophyletic group; undifferentiated perianth parts and elongated fusiform buds are characters that unite Stockwellia and Eucalyptopsis as sister taxa. No floral characters clearly associate Arillastrum with either the eucalypt clade or the clade of Stockwellia, Eucalyptopsis and Allosyncarpia.We gratefully acknowledge Clyde Dunlop and Bob Harwood (Northern Territory Herbarium) for collecting specimens of Allosyncarpia, and Bruce Gray (Atherton) for collecting specimens of Stockwellia. The Australian National Herbarium (CANB) kindly lent herbarium specimens of Eucalyptopsis for examination. This research was supported by a University of Melbourne Research Development Grant to Andrew Drinnan. 相似文献
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Numerous miniature inverted repeat transposable elements (MITEs) are present in the rice genome but their transposition mechanisms
are unknown. In this report, we present evidence that two novel MITE families may have arisen from Mutator-related transposable elements and thus may use a transposition mechanism similar to that of Mutator elements. Two families of novel MITEs, namely, MDM-1 and MDM-2, were identified by searching for MITEs nested with Kiddo, a previously identified MITE family. MDM-1 and MDM-2 bear hallmarks of Mutator elements, such as long terminal inverted repeats (LTIRs), 9-bp target-site duplications (TSDs), and putative transposase
binding sites. Strikingly, the MDM-1 family has a 9-bp terminus identical to that of a rice Mutator-like element (MULE-9) and the MDM-2 family has an 8-bp terminus identical to that of the maize autonomous Mutator element MuDR. A putative transposase homologous to MURA protein is identified for the MDM-2 family. Thus, these two novel MITE families, with a total copy number of several hundred in rice, are designated Mutator-derived MITEs (MDMs). Interestingly, sequence decay analysis of MDM families revealed a number of insertion site duplications (ISDs) in the alignment gaps, and widespread historical nesting
events are proposed to account for the existence of these ISDs. In addition to its value for discovering new MITEs, the nesting
analysis approach used in this study simultaneously identifies MITE insertion polymorphisms. 相似文献
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A genetic transformation system has been developed for callus cells of Crataegus
aronia using Agrobacterium
tumefaciens. Callus culture was established from internodal stem segments incubated on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with
5 mg l−1 Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) and 0.5 mg l−1 6-benzyladenine (BA). In order to optimize the callus culture system with respect to callus growth and coloration, different
types and concentrations of plant growth regulators were tested. Results indicated that the best average fresh weight of red
colored callus was obtained on MS medium supplemented with 2 mg l−1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 1.5 mg l−1 kinetin (Kin) (callus maintenance medium). Callus cells were co-cultivated with Agrobacterium harboring the binary plasmid pCAMBIA1302 carrying the mgfp5 and hygromycin phosphotransferase (hptII) genes conferring green fluorescent protein (GFP) activity and hygromycin resistance, respectively. Putative transgenic calli
were obtained 4 weeks after incubation of the co-cultivated explants onto maintenance medium supplemented with 50 mg l−1 hygromycin. Molecular analysis confirmed the integration of the transgenes in transformed callus. To our knowledge, this
is the first time to report an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system in Crataegus
aronia. 相似文献
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Maofu Li Kaikai Zhu Songling Bai Zhi Liu Tianzhong Li 《Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement》2011,28(2):171-180
Apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) possesses gametophytic self-incompatibility (GSI) which is controlled by S-RNase in the pistil as well as a pollen S-determinant that has not been well characterized. The identification of S-locus F-box brother (SFBB) genes, which are good candidates for the pollen S-determinant in apple and pear, indicated the presence of multiple S-allelic polymorphic F-box genes at the S-locus. In apple, two SFBB gene groups have been described, while there are at least three groups in pear. In this report, we identified five MdSLFB (S-RNase-linked F-box) genes from four different S-genotypes of apple. These genes showed pollen- and S-allele-specific expression with a high polymorphism among S-alleles. The phylogenetic tree suggested that some of them belong to SFBBα or β groups as described previously, while others
appear to be different from SFBBs. In particular, the presence of MdSLFB3 and MdSLFB9 suggested that there are more S-allelic polymorphic F-box gene groups in the S-locus besides α and β. Based on the sequence polymorphism of MdSLFBs, we developed an S-genotyping system for apple cultivars. In addition, we isolated twelve MdSLFB-like genes, which showed pollen-specific expression without S-allelic polymorphism. 相似文献
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Luciana Delgado-Benarroch Barry Causier Julia Weiss Marcos Egea-Cortines 《Planta》2009,229(6):1219-1229
Control of organ size is the product of coordinated cell division and expansion. In plants where one of these pathways is
perturbed, organ size is often unaffected as compensation mechanisms are brought into play. The number of founder cells in
organ primordia, dividing cells, and the period of cell proliferation determine cell number in lateral organs. We have identified
the Antirrhinum FORMOSA (FO) gene as a specific regulator of floral size. Analysis of cell size and number in the fo mutant, which has increased flower size, indicates that FO is an organ-specific inhibitor of cell division and activator of cell expansion. Increased cell number in fo floral organs correlated with upregulation of genes involved in the cell cycle. In Arabidopsis the AINTEGUMENTA (ANT) gene promotes cell division. In the fo mutant increased cell number also correlates with upregulation of an Antirrhinum ANT-like gene (Am-ANT) in inflorescences that is very closely related to ANT and shares a similar expression pattern, suggesting that they may be functional equivalents. Increased cell proliferation
is thought to be compensated for by reduced cell expansion to maintain organ size. In Arabidopsis petal cell expansion is inhibited by the BIGPETAL (BPE) gene, and in the fo mutant reduced cell size corresponded to upregulation of an Antirrhinum BPE-like gene (Am-BPE). Our data suggest that FO inhibits cell proliferation by negatively regulating Am-ANT, and acts upstream of Am-BPE to coordinate floral organ size. This demonstrates that organ size is modulated by the organ-specific control of both general
and local gene networks.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Sushil Kumar Raghvendra Kumar Mishra Anil Kumar Suchi Srivastava Swati Chaudhary 《Planta》2009,230(3):449-458
Pisum sativum L., the garden pea crop plant, is serving as the unique model for genetic analyses of morphogenetic development of stipule,
the lateral organ formed on either side of the junction of leafblade petiole and stem at nodes. The stipule reduced (st) and cochleata (coch) stipule mutations and afila (af), tendril-less (tl), multifoliate-pinna (mfp) and unifoliata-tendrilled
acacia (uni-tac) leafblade mutations were variously combined and the recombinant genotypes were quantitatively phenotyped for stipule morphology
at both vegetative and reproductive nodes. The observations suggest a role of master regulator to COCH in stipule development. COCH is essential for initiation, growth and development of stipule, represses the UNI-TAC, AF, TL and MFP led leafblade-like morphogenetic pathway for compound stipule and together with ST mediates the developmental pathway for
peltate-shaped simple wild-type stipule. It is also shown that stipule is an autonomous lateral organ, like a leafblade and
secondary inflorescence. 相似文献
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Lima FL de Carvalho MA Apolônio AC Bemquerer MP Santoro MM Oliveira JS Alviano CS Farias Lde M 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》2008,35(2):103-110
Aggregatibacter (Actinobacillus) actinomycetemcomitans P7–20 strain isolated from a periodontally diseased patient has produced a bacteriocin (named as actinomycetemcomitin) that is
active against Peptostreptococcus anaerobius ATCC 27337. Actinomycetemcomitin was produced during exponential and stationary growth phases, and its amount decreased until
it disappeared during the decline growth phase. It was purified by ammonium sulphate precipitation (30–60% saturation), and
further by FPLC (mono-Q ionic exchange and Phenyl Superose hydrophobic interaction) and HPLC (C-18 reversed-phase). This bacteriocin
loses its activity after incubation at a pH below 7.0 or above 8.0, following heating for 30 min at 45°C, and after treatment
with proteolytic enzymes such as trypsin, α-chymotrypsin, and papain. Actinomycetemcomitin has a molecular mass of 20.3 KDa
and it represents a new bacteriocin from A. actinomycetemcomitans. 相似文献
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Zhang J Chen R Xiao J Qian C Wang T Li H Ouyang B Ye Z 《Journal of plant research》2007,120(6):671-678
The entire (e) locus of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) controls leaf morphology. Dominant E and recessive e allele of the locus produce pinnate compound and complex reduced leaves. Previous research had indicated that SlIAA9, an Aux/IAA gene, was involved in tomato leaf morphology. Down-regulation of SlIAA9 gene by antisense transgenic method decreased the leaf complex of tomato and converted tomato compound leaves to simple leaves.
The leaf morphology of these transgenic lines was similar with leaf morphology of tomato entire mutant. In this paper, we report that a single-base deletion mutation in the coding region of SlIAA9 gene results in tomato entire mutant phenotypes. 相似文献
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The extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruber inhabits saltern crystallizer ponds worldwide, together with the square archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi. Cultures of Salinibacter have been shown to convert up to 20% of the glycerol added to a not previously characterized overflow product. We here identify
this product of incomplete glycerol oxidation by Salinibacter as dihydroxyacetone. Genomic information suggests that H. walsbyi possesses an efficient uptake system for dihydroxyacetone, and we show here that dihydroxyacetone is indeed metabolized by
Haloquadratum cultures, as well as by the heterotrophic prokaryotic community of the saltern crystallizer ponds in Eilat, Israel, dominated
by Haloquadratum-like cells. In the absence of glycerol, Salinibacter also takes up dihydroxyacetone. Degradation of glycerol, produced in hypersaline lakes as an osmotic solute by the green
alga Dunaliella salina may thus involve dihydroxyacetone as an intermediate, which can then be taken up by different types of heterotrophs present
in the environment. 相似文献
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Karen A. Silverman Revati A. Koratkar Linda D. Siracusa Arthur M. Buchberg 《Mammalian genome》2003,14(2):119-129
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We recently identified the Modifier of Min 2 (Mom2) locus. Mom2 is a new modifier of intestinal tumorigenesis that resulted from a spontaneous mutation in a B6 Apc
Min/+ mouse. The presence of one resistant Mom2
R allele results in a significant reduction in small intestinal polyp number and colon polyp incidence in Apc
Min/+ mice. Through linkage analysis, we previously localized Mom2 to a 14-cM region on mouse Chromosome (Chr) 18, distal to the Apc gene. This region is syntenic with human Chr 18q, which frequently undergoes loss of heterozygosity (LOH) in several human cancers, including colorectal cancer. Residing in this region are the Madh2 and Madh4 genes, which have both been implicated in human colorectal cancer. Based on meiotic recombinations within the Mom2 region in the derivation of our congenic animals, we have narrowed the location of the Mom2 locus and excluded Madh2, Madh4, and Madh7, as well as Mbd1, Mbd2, Dcc, and Tcf4, as candidates for the Mom2 gene. 相似文献
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Recently, the prenyltransferase SirD was found to be responsible for the O-prenylation of tyrosine in the biosynthesis of sirodesmin PL in Leptosphaeria maculans. In this study, the behavior of SirD towards phenylalanine/tyrosine and tryptophan derivatives was investigated. Product
formation has been observed with 12 of 19 phenylalanine/tyrosine derivatives. It was shown that the alanine structure attached
to the benzene ring and an electron donor, e.g., OH or NH2, at its para-position are essential for the enzyme activity. Modifications were possible both at the side chain and the benzene ring.
Enzyme products from seven phenylalanine/tyrosine derivatives were isolated and characterized by MS and NMR analyses including
HSQC and HMBC and proven to be O- or N-prenylated derivatives at position C4 of the benzene rings. K
M
values of six selected derivatives were found in the range of 0.10–0.68 mM. Catalytic efficiencies (K
cat/K
M
) were determined in the range of 430–1,110 s−1·M−1 with l-tyrosine as the best substrate. In addition, 7 of 14 tested tryptophan analogs were also accepted by SirD and converted to
C7-prenylated derivatives, which was confirmed by comparison with products obtained from enzyme assays using a 7-dimethylallyltryptophan
synthase 7-DMATS from Aspergillus fumigatus. 相似文献
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Andrew J. Sachs Jamie K. Schwendinger Andy W. Yang Neena B. Haider Arne M. Nystuen 《Mammalian genome》2007,18(11):749-756
The identification of novel mutant alleles is important for understanding critical functional domains of a protein and establishing
genotype:phenotype correlations. The recoil wobbler (rcw) allelic series of spontaneous ataxic mutants and the ENU-induced mutant nmf373 genetically mapped to a shared region of chromosome 10. Their mutant phenotypes are strikingly similar; all have an ataxic
phenotype that is recessive, early-onset, and is not associated with neurodegeneration. In this study we used complementation
tests to show that these series of mutants are allelic to a knockout mutant of Grm1. Subsequently, a duplication of exon 4 and three missense mutations were identified in Grm1: I160T, E292D, and G337E. All mutations occurred within the ligand-binding region and changed conserved amino acids. In the
rcw mutant, the Grm1 gene is expressed and the protein product is properly localized to the molecular layer of the cerebellar cortex. Grm1 is responsible for the generation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3). The inositol second messenger system is the central mechanism for calcium release from intracellular stores in cerebellar
Purkinje cells. Several of the genes involved in this pathway are mutated in mouse ataxic disorders. The novel rcw mutants represent a resource that will have utility for further studies of inositol second-messenger-system defects in neurogenetic
disorders. 相似文献
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Konstantin V. Kiselev Anna V. Turlenko Galina K. Tchernoded Yuri N. Zhuravlev 《Plant cell reports》2009,28(8):1273-1278
It has been shown previously that the rolC gene from Agrobacterium tumefaciens gene was stably and highly expressed in 15-year-old Panax ginseng transgenic cell cultures. In the present report, we analyze in detail the nucleotide composition of the rolC and nptII (neomycin phosphotransferase) genes, which is the selective marker used for transgenic cell cultures of P.
ginseng. It has been established that the nucleotide sequences of the rolC and nptII genes underwent mutagenesis during cultivation. Particularly, 1–4 nucleotide substitutions were found per sequence in the
540 and 798 bp segments of the complete rolC and nptII genes, respectively. Approximately half of these nucleotide substitutions caused changes in the structure of the predicted
gene product. In addition, we attempted to determine the rate of accumulation of these changes by comparison of DNA extracted
from P.
ginseng cell cultures from 1995 to 2007. It was observed that the frequency of nucleotide substitutions for the rolC and nptII genes in 1995 was 1.21 ± 0.02 per 1,000 nucleotides analyzed, while in 2007, the nucleotide substitutions significantly increased
(1.37 ± 0.07 per 1,000 nucleotides analyzed). Analyzing the nucleotide substitutions, we found that substitution to G or to
C nucleotides significantly increased (in 1.9 times) in the rolC and nptII genes compared with P.
ginseng
actin gene. Finally, the level of nucleotide substitutions in the rolC gene was 1.1-fold higher when compared with the nptII gene. Thus, for the first time, we have experimentally demonstrated the level of nucleotide substitutions in transferred
genes in transgenic plant cell cultures. 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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