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Interspecific hybridizations were carried out between the two tetraploidsElymus caucasicus andE. longearistatus, and 23 tetraploids and hexaploids ofElymus containing SH, SY, SYH, and SYW genomes and representing various geographical regions. Meiotic pairing was studied in the two target species and their hybrids. It is concluded from this study that (i) interspecific hybridization is fairly easy to perform although strong reproductive barriers exist between the species; (ii)Elymus caucasicus andE. longearistatus are allotetraploids, and share the diverged SY genomes; (iii) the divergence of SY genomes is correlated with the geographic distance between theElymus spp. studied. 相似文献
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Raymond Delpech V Ihara M Coddou C Matsuda K Sattelle DB 《Invertebrate neuroscience : IN》2003,5(1):29-35
Nereistoxin (NTX), a natural neurotoxin from the salivary glands of the marine annelid worm Lumbriconereis heteropoda, is highly toxic to insects. Its synthetic analogue, Cartap, was the first commercial insecticide based on a natural product. We have used voltage-clamp electrophysiology to compare the actions of NTX on recombinant nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nicotinic AChRs) expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes following nuclear injection of cDNAs. The recombinant nicotinic AChRs investigated were chicken 7, chicken 42 and the Drosophila melanogaster/chicken hybrid receptors SAD/2 and ALS/2. No agonist action of NTX (0.1–100 M) was observed on chicken 7, chicken 42 and the Drosophila/chicken hybrid nicotinic AChRs. Currents elicited by ACh were reduced in amplitude by NTX in a dose-dependent manner. The toxin was slightly more potent on recombinant Drosophila/vertebrate hybrid receptors than on vertebrate homomeric (7) or heteromeric (42) nicotinic AChRs. Block by NTX of the chicken 7, chicken 42 and the SAD/2 and ALS/2 Drosophila/chicken hybrid receptors is in all cases non-competitive. Thus, the site of action on nicotinic AChRs of NTX, to which the insecticide Cartap is metabolised in insects, differs from that of the major nicotinic AChR-active insecticide, imidacloprid. 相似文献
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Jacques Raymond Brahim Mimouni Jean-Louis Azanza 《Plant Systematics and Evolution》1994,193(1-4):69-79
The seed storage globulins from sixHelianthus and four hybrids were studied using mono and bidimensional gel SDS electrophoresis (+ 2 mercaptoethanol). The polypeptide composition of each subunit was determined. Different pairs are specifically expressed according to the species studied. Three typical patterns were discriminated. All the studied species exhibit five subunits: two of them are expressed in all the species (11 and 22). The subunit corresponding to the 11 pair is present inH. petiolaris and in the three populations ofH. annuus studied. The 2b2 pair is common toH. annuus andH. argophyllus. H. petiolaris presents two specific 2a2 and 44 pairs andH. annuus a specific 33 pair. InH. argophyllus 11 33 or 44 are never observed but are replaced by 13 and 31 pairs. Some globulins, poorly represented, are of forms but present chains of higher molecular weights (in the range 54–56 kDa). Expressing variations in the banding patterns between these species by the use of a similarity index reveals complete identity between the three populations ofH. annuus. Identity between the twoH. petiolaris studied is also observed.H. annuus andH. argophyllus appear to be closer to each other thanH. petiolaris concerning the seed storage globulins. 相似文献
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Structures of mitochondrial bc
1 complex have been reported based on four different crystalforms by three different groups. In these structures, the extrinsic domain of the Rieske [2Fe–2S]protein, surprisingly, appeared at three different positions: the c
1 position, where the [2Fe–2S]cluster exists in close proximity to the heme c
1; the b position, where the [2Fe–2S] clusterexist in close proximity to the cytochrome b; and the intermediate position where the[2Fe–2S] cluster exists in between c
1 and b positions. The conformational changes betweenthese three positions can be explained by a combination of two rotations; (1) a rotation of theentire extrinsic domain and (2) a relative rotation between the cluster-binding fold and thebase fold within the extrinsic domain. The hydroquinone oxidation and the electron bifurcationmechanism at the QP binding pocket of the bc
1 complex is well explained using theseconformational changes of the Rieske [2Fe–2S] protein. 相似文献
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Yasuhiko Asada Yoshio Kimura Masaaki Kuwahara Akira Tsukamoto Kazuo Koide Atsuhiro Oka Mitsuru Takanami 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》1988,29(5):469-473
Summary A ligninase gene has been cloned from a Phanerochaete chrysosporium genomic DNA library. Nucleotide sequencing of the gene has revealed that the ligninase structural gene contains 1116 bp of the protein-encoding sequence, of which 84 bp encode the signal peptide. The protein-encoding sequence is interrupted by eight introns which conform to the universal G-T/A-G splicing rule observed for the 3 and 5 intron boundaries. The putative eukaryotic regulatory sequences, i.e. CAAT and TATA box-like sequences, are present in the 5 flanking region. 相似文献
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Ivor P. B. Tittawella 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1976,145(2):223-226
Summary By using rifampicin to increase the rate of and synthesis in a heterodiploid strain of E. coli carrying the mutation rif
pr (Km7), which codes for a rifampicin sensitive RNA polymerase to which the drug binds weakly, and the dominant mutation rif
D
R
, which codes for a rifampicin resistant RNA polymerase, the concentration of these subunits in the cell was increased 1.6 fold. Measurements made after removal of rifampicin from the cells showed that the excess and subunits did not reduce the rate of their own synthesis below normal. 相似文献
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-Crystallin is the major and most abundant lens protein present in the eye lens of lower vertebrates such as amphibian and piscine species. To facilitate structural characterization of-crystallins isolated from the lens of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana), a cDNA mixture was synthesized from the poly(A)+mRNA isolated from fresh eye lenses. cDNA encoding-crystallin was then amplified using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based on two primers designed according to the relatively conserved N- and C-terminal sequences of known-crystallins from teleostean fishes. PCR-amplified product corresponding to-crystallin isoforms was obtained, which was then subcloned in pUC18 vector and transformed intoEscherichia coli strain JM109. Plasmids containing amplified-crystallin cDNAs were purified and prepared for nucleotide sequencing by the dideoxynucleotide chain-termination method. Sequencing several clones containing DNA inserts of about 0.54 kb revealed the presence of two isoforms with an open reading frame of 534 base pairs, covering two-crystallins each with a deduced protein sequence of 177 amino acids including the translation-initiating methionine. These-crystallins of pI 6.364 and 6.366 contain a low-methionine content of 2.81%, in contrast to 11–16% obtained for those-crystallins with high-methionine content from most teleostean lenses. Pairwise sequence comparison of bullfrog-crystallins with those published sequences of-crystallins from carp, shark,Xenopus and anotherRana frog, bovine, and human lenses indicates that there is only 46–63% sequence similarity among these species, revealing that amphibians possess a very complex and heterogeneous group of-crystallins even from closely related species ofRana frogs. The sequence analysis and comparison of various isoforms of the frog-crystallin family provide a firm basis for identifying these lens proteins as members of a multigene family more complex than that reported for mammalian-crystallins. 相似文献
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Glycosylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications and it is clear that the single step of -1,4-galactosylation is performed by a family of -1,4-galactosyltransferases (4-GalTs) and that each member of this family may play a distinct role in different tissues and cells. In this study, we characterized the gene expression of six 4-GalTs in mouse testis and analyzed the changes of galactosylation of testis glycoproteins during postnatal development. Northern blot analysis revealed that 4-GalT-I and 4-GalT-IV were expressed mainly in newborn mouse testis and that the expression of 4-GalT-II increased markedly and persisted at the highest levels in adult mouse testis. The expression of 4-GalT-III and 4-GalT-V, however, remained relatively at low levels during mouse testicular development. In contrast, the expression of 4-GalT-VI was undetectable in mouse testis. The gene expression of 4-GalT-II in mouse testis was further analyzed by in situ hybridization due to its unique expression pattern. Strong hybridization signals were detected in the seminiferous tubules and the expression varied among the different stages of spermatogenic differentiation. The distinct gene expression patterns of 4-GalTs in mouse testis could affect the differential galactosylation of testis glycoproteins, as revealed by lectin histochemistry analysis. 相似文献
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Type E botulinum neurotoxin is produced byClostridium botulinum along with a neurotoxin binding protein which helps protect the neurotoxin from adversepH, temperature, and proteolytic conditions. The neurotoxin binding protein has been purified as a 118-kDa protein. Secondary structure content of the neurotoxin binding protein as revealed by far-UV circular dichroism spectroscopy was 19% -helix, 50%-sheets, 28% random coils, and 3%-turns. This compared to 22% -helix, 44%-sheets, 34% random coils, and no-turns of the type E botulinum neurotoxin. The complex of the two proteins revealed 25%-helix, 45%-sheets, 27% random coils, and 3%-turns, suggesting a significant alteration at least in the-helical folding of the two proteins upon their interaction. Tyrosine topography is altered considerably (28%) when the neurotoxin and its binding protein are separated, indicating strong interaction between the two proteins. Gel filtration results suggested that type E neurotoxin binding protein clearly complexes with type E neurotoxin. The interaction is favored at lowpH as indicated by an initial binding rate of 8.4 min–1 atpH 5.7 compared to 4.0 min–1 atpH 7.5 as determined using a fiber optic-based biosensor. The neurotoxin and its binding protein apparently are of equivalent antigenicity, as both reacted equally on enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to polyclonal antibodies raised against the toxoid of their complex. 相似文献
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Rudolf Geyer Silvia Diabaté Hildegard Geyer Hans-Dieter Klenk Heiner Niemann Stephan Stirm 《Glycoconjugate journal》1987,4(1):17-32
Fowl plague virus, strain Dutch, was metabolically labeled withd-[2-3H]mannose, or withd-[6-3H]glucosamine, and the small subunit (HA2; 0.8 mg in total) of the viral hemagglutinin was isolated by preparative sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. After proteolytic digestion, the radioactive oligosaccharides were sequentially liberated from the glycopeptides by treatment with different endo--N-acetylglucosaminidases and with peptide:N-glycosidase or, finally, by hydrazinolysis. In this manner, four groups of glycans could be obtained by consecutive gel filtrations and were subfractionated by HPLC. The structures of the individual oligosaccharides were analyzed by micromethylation, by acetolysis or by digestion with exoglycosidases. The major species amongst the high mannose glycans at Ans-406 of the viral glycopolypeptide were found to be Man1-2Man1-3(Man1-2Man1-6)Man1-6(Man1-2Man1-2Man1-3)Man1-4GlcNac1-4GlcNAc and Man1-3(Man1-2Man1-6)Man1-6(Man1-2Man1-2Man1-3)Man1-4GlcNAc1-4GlcNAc, while the complex glycans at Asn-478 are predominantly GlcNAc1-2Man1-3(GlcNAc1-2Man1-6)Man1-4GlcNAc1-4GlcNAc (lacking, in part, one of the outerN-acetylglucosamine residues) and GlcNAc1-2Man1-3(Gal1-4GlcNAc1-2Man1-6)Man1-4GlcNAc1-4GlcNAc.Abbreviation BSA
bovine serum albumin
- endo D (F,H)
endo--N-acetyl-d-glucosaminidase D (F,H)
- HA
hemagglutinin (HA1, large subunit of HA
- HA2
small subunit
- FPV
fowl plague virus
- PNGase F
peptide:N-glycosidase F
- SDS
sodium dodecylsulfate 相似文献
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The kinetics and temperature dependencies of development and relaxation of light-induced absorbance changes caused by deepoxidation of violaxanthin to antheraxanthin and zeaxanthin (Z; peak at 506 nm) and by light scattering (S; peak around 540 nm) as well as of nonphotochemical quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence (NPQ) were followed in cotton leaves. Measurements were made in the absence and the presence of dithiothreitol (DTT), an inhibitor of violaxanthin deepoxidase. The amount of NPQ was calculated from the Stern-Volmer equation. A procedure was developed to correct gross AS (Sg) for absorbance changes around 540 nm that are due to a spectral overlap with Z. This protocol isolated the component which is caused by light-scattering changes alone (Sn). In control leaves, the kinetics and temperature dependence of the initial rate of rise in Sn that takes place upon illumination, closely matched that of Z. Application of DTT to leaves, containing little zeaxanthin or antheraxanthin, strongly inhibited both Sn and NPQ, but DTT had no inhibitory effect in leaves in which these xanthophylls had already been preformed, showing that the effect of DTT on An and NPQ results solely from the inhibition of violaxanthin deepoxidation. The rates and maximum extents of Sn and NPQ therefore depend on the amount of zeaxanthin (and/or antheraxanthin) present in the leaf. In contrast to the situation during induction, relaxation of Z upon darkening was much slower than the relaxation of Sn and NPQ. The relaxation of Sn and NPQ showed quantitatively similar kinetics and temperature dependencies (Q10=2.4). These results are consistent with the following hypotheses: The increase in lumen-proton concentration resulting from thylakoid membrane energization causes deepoxidation of violaxanthin to antheraxanthin and zeaxanthin. The presence of these xanthophylls is not sufficient to cause Sn or NPQ but, together with an increased lumen-proton concentration, these xanthophylls cause a conformational change, reflected by Sn. The conformational change facilititates nonradiative energy dissipation, thereby causing NPQ. Membrane energization is prerequisite to conformational changes in the thylakoid membrane and resultant nonradiative energy dissipation but the capacity for such changes in intact leaves is quite limited unless zeaxanthin (and/or antheraxanthin) is present in the membrane. The sustained Sn and NPQ levels that remain after darkening may be attributable to a sustained high lumen-proton concentration.Abbreviations A
antheraxanthin
- DTT
dithiothreitol
- F, Fm
chlorophyll fluorescence yield at actual, full closure of the PSII centers
- NPQ
nonphotochemical chlorophyll fluorescence quenching
- PFD
photon flux density
- PSII
photosystem II
- V
violaxanthin
- Z
zeaxanthin
- Sn, Z
spectral absorbance change caused by light-scattering, violaxanthin deepoxidation
We thank Connie Shih for skillful assistance in growing the plants, and for conducting HPLC analyses. A Carnegie Institution Fellowship and a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation to W. B. is gratefully acknowledged. This work was supported in part by Grant No. 89-37-280-4902 of the Competitive Grants Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to O.B. This is C. I. W. — D. P. B. Publication No. 1094. 相似文献
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Folkert Reck Ernst Meinjohanns Matthias Springer Roland Wilkens Johannes A. L. M. Van Dorst Hans Paulsen Gabriele Möller Inka Brockhausen Harry Schachter 《Glycoconjugate journal》1994,11(3):210-216
UDP-GlcNAc: Man1-6R (1-2)-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II (GlcNAc-T II; EC 2.4.1.143) is a key enzyme in the synthesis of complexN-glycans. We have tested a series of synthetic analogues of the substrate Man1-6(GlcNAc1-2Man1-3)Man-O-octyl as substrates and inhibitors for rat liver GlcNAc-T II. The enzyme attachesN-acetylglucosamine in 1-2 linkage to the 2-OH of the Man1-6 residue. The 2-deoxy analogue is a competitive inhibitor (K
i=0.13mm). The 2-O-methyl compound does not bind to the enzyme presumably due to steric hindrance. The 3-, 4- and 6-OH groups are not essential for binding or catalysis since the 3-, 4- and 6-deoxy and -O-methyl derivatives are all good substrates. Increasing the size of the substituent at the 3-position to pentyl and substituted pentyl groups causes competitive inhibition (K
i=1.0–2.5mm). We have taken advantage of this effect to synthesize two potentially irreversible GlcNAc-T II inhibitors containing a photolabile 3-O-(4,4-azo)pentyl group and a 3-O-(5-iodoacetamido)pentyl group respectively. The data indicate that none of the hydroxyls of the Man1-6 residue are essential for binding although the 2- and 3-OH face the catalytic site of the enzyme. The 4-OH group of the Man-O-octyl residue is not essential for binding or catalysis since the 4-deoxy derivative is a good substrate; the 4-O-methyl derivative does not bind. This contrasts with GlcNAc-T I which cannot bind to the 4-deoxy-Man- substrate analogue. The data are compatible with our previous observations that a bisectingN-acetylglucosamine at the 4-OH position prevents both GlcNAc-T I and GlcNAc-T II catalysis. However, in the case of GlcNAc-T II, the bisectingN-acetylglucosamine prevents binding due to steric hindrance rather than to removal of an essential OH group. The 3-OH of the Man1-3 is an essential group for GlcNAc-T II since the 3-deoxy derivative does not bind to the enzyme. The trisaccharide GlcNAc1-2Man1-3Man-O-octyl is a good inhibitor (K
i=0.9mm). The above data together with previous studies indicate that binding of the GlcNAc1-2Man1-3Man- arm of the branched substrate to the enzyme is essential for catalysis.
Abbreviations: GlcNAc-T I, UDP-GlcNAc:Man1-3R (1-2)-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (EC 2.4.1.101); GlcNAc-T II, UDP-GlcNAc:Man1-6R (1-2)-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II (EC 2.4.1.143); MES, 2-(N-morpholino)ethane sulfonic acid monohydrate. 相似文献
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P. A. Dibrov R. L. Lazarova V. P. Skulachev M. L. Verkhovskaya 《Journal of bioenergetics and biomembranes》1989,21(3):347-357
Addition of Na+ to the K+-loadedVibrio alginolyticus cells, creating a 250-fold Na+ gradient, is shown to induce a transient increase in the intracellular ATP concentration, which is abolished by the Na+/H+ antiporter, monensin. The pNa-supported ATP synthesis requires an additional driving force supplied by endogenous respiration or, alternatively, by a K+ gradient (high [K+] inside). In the former case, ATP formation is resistant to the protonophorous uncoupler. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide and diethylstilbestrol, but not vanadate, completely inhibit Na+ pulse-induced ATP formation. The data agree with the assumption that Na+-ATP-synthase is involved in oxidative phosphorylation inV. alginolyticus. Interrelation of H+ and Na+ cycles in bacteria is discussed.Abbreviations
and
electrochemical gradients of H+ and Na+, respectively
-
transmembrane electric potential difference
- pH, pNa, and pK
concentration gradients of H+, Na+, and K+, respectively
- CCCP
carbonyl cyanidem-chlorophenylhydrazone
- DCCD
N,N-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide
- DES
diesthylstilbestrol
- HQNO
2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinolineN-oxide
- Tricine
N[2-hydroxy-1,1-bis(hydroxymethyl)ethyl]glycine 相似文献
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In this paper we attempt a functional and spectral characterization of the membrane-bound cytochromes involved in respiratory electron transport by membranes from cells of Chloroflexus aurantiacus grown in the dark under oxygen saturated conditions. We conclude that the NADH-dependent respiration is carried out by a branched respiratory chain leading to two oxidases which differ in sensitivity to CN- and CO. The two routes also show a different sensitivity to the ubiquinone analogue, HQNO, the pathway through the cytochrome c oxidase being fully blocked by 5 M HQNO, whereas the alternative one is insensitive to this inhibitor. The cytochrome c oxidase containing branch is composed by at least two c-type haems with E
m 7.0 of +130 and +270 mV ( bands at 550/553 nm and 549 nm, respectively), plus a b-type cytochrome with E
m 7.0 of +50 mV ( band at 561 nm). From this, and previous work, we conclude that respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport components are assembled together and function on a single undifferentiated plasma membrane.Abbreviations HQNO
heptylhydroxy-quinoline-N-oxide
- UHDBT
undecyl-hydroxydioxobenthiazole
- Q/b-c
ubiquinol/cytochrome c oxidoreductase complex
- BChl
bacteriochlorophyll 相似文献
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Folkert Reck Matthias Springer Ernst Meinjohanns Hans Paulsen Inka Brockhausen Harry Schachter 《Glycoconjugate journal》1995,12(6):747-754
UDP-GlcNAc:Man1-3R 1-2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (GlcNAc-T I; EC 2.4.1.101) catalyses the conversion of [Man1-6(Man1-3)Man1-6][Man1-3]Man-O-R to [Man1-6(Man1-3)Man1-6] [GlcNAc1-2Man1-3]Man-O-R (R=1-4GlcNAc1-4GlcNAc-Asn-X) and thereby controls the conversion of oligomannose to complex and hybrid asparagine-linked glycans (N-glycans). GlcNAc-T I also catalyses the conversion of Man1-6(Man1-3)Man-O-octyl to Man1-6(GlcNAc1-2Man1-3)Man-O-octyl. We have therefore tested a series of synthetic analogues of Man1-6(Man1-3)Man-O-octyl as substrates and inhibitors for rat liver GlcNAc-T I. The 2-deoxy and the 3-, 4- and 6-O-methyl derivatives are all good substrates confirming previous observations that the hydroxyl groups of the Man1-6 residue do not play major roles in the binding of substrate to enzyme. In contrast, all four hydroxyl groups on the Man1-3 residue are essential since the corresponding deoxy derivatives either do not bind (2- and 3-deoxy) or bind very poorly (4- and 6-deoxy) to the enzyme. The 2- and 3-O-methyl derivatives also do not bind to the enzyme. However, the 4-O-methyl derivative is a substrate (K
m
=2.6mm) and the 6-O-methyl compound is a competitive inhibitor (K
i=0.76mm). We have therefore synthesized various 4- and 6-O-alkyl derivatives, some with reactive groups attached to anO-pentyl spacer, and tested these compounds as reversible and irreversible inhibitors of GlcNAc-T I. The 6-O-(5-iodoacetamido-pentyl) compound is a specific time dependent inhibitor of the enzyme. Four other 6-O-alkyl compounds showed competitive inhibition while the remaining compounds showed little or no binding indicating that the electronic properties of the attachedO-pentyl groups influence binding.Abbreviations GlcNAc-T I
UDP-GlcNAc:Man1-3R 1-2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase I (EC 2.4.1.101)
- GlcNAc-T II
UDP-GlcNAc:Man1-6R 1-2-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase II (EC 2.4.1.143)
- MES
2-(N-morpholino)ethane sulfonic acid monohydrate 相似文献
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Patil Vishwanath Bjørnstad Åsmund Mackey James 《Molecular breeding : new strategies in plant improvement》2003,12(2):169-183
Doubled haploid (DH) progeny from a cross between the scald susceptible barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivar Ingrid and the resistant accession CI 11549 (Nigrinudum) was evaluated for resistance in the pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis (Oudem) J.J. Davis. Two linked and incompletely dominant loci confer resistance CI 11549 against isolate 4004. One is an allele at the complex Rrs1 locus on chromosome 3H close to the centromere; the other is located 22 cM distally on the long arm. The latter locus is designated Rrs4. In BC3-lines into Ingrid from CI 2222 (another Nigrinudum) resistance seems governed by one locus close to the telomeric region of chromosome 7H, probably allelic to Rrs2. In neither case did we find any trace of the recessive gene rh8 reported to be present in Nigrinudum. Various resistance donors of Ethiopian origin designated as Nigrinudum, Jet or Abyssinian were identical to a great extent with respect to markers, but differed in resistance to different isolates of scald or in barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) resistance. The implications for their use as differentials in scald tests and screening of germplasm collections are discussed. 相似文献
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Using immunoperoxidase labeling, we studied the subunit composition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, nAChR, in preparations of the inferior mesenteric ganglion, IMG, of the guinea pig. Antibodies against synthetic peptides corresponding to agonist-binding membrane components of the 3, 4, 5, and 7 nAChR subunits were used. The presence of 3-specific antibodies was revealed on the membranes of about 58% of large neurons and of all small ganglionic cells (means of the greater and smaller diameters of the somata 53.8 ± 1.8 vs 33.6 ± 1.4 m, n = 20, and 14.1 ± 0.5 vs 7.5 ± 0.4 m, n = 50, respectively). Labeled cells of the rostral node were distributed evenly, while those of the caudal node were localized mostly within the regions of branching of the lumbar, colonic, and both hypogastric tracts. Immune labels to the 4 subunit were observed only on the membranes of small ganglionic cells distributed mostly in the region of the internodal commissural tracts. 5-Specific labeling was found on the membranes of about 63% large neurons, whose distribution was similar to that of the 3-labeled units, and on all small cells. Immunoreactivity to the 7 subunit was observed only on the membranes of small cells concentrated around unlabeled large neurons in the region of branching of the intermesenteric, colonic, and both hypogastric tracts. Thus, nAChR in the guinea pig IMG include 3, 4, 5, and 7 subunits. The nAChR with 3 and 5 subunits are localized on the membranes of large ganglionic neurons, whose number and topographical distribution are very close to each other. Our data agree with our results of earlier electrophysiological experiments and are indicative of the crucial role of the 3- and 5-containing nAChR in synaptic transmission via the ganglion under study. The presence of the 4- and 7-containing nAChR was found only on small ganglionic cells (which are, probably, not the relay units) and their processes. 相似文献
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Sachio Hayashi Takenobu Yoshiyama Norito Fujii Satoru Shinohara 《Biotechnology letters》2000,22(18):1465-1469
A novel syrup containing neofructo-oligosaccharides was produced from sucrose (Brix 70) by whole cells of Penicillium citrinum. The efficiency of fructo-oligosaccharides production was more than 55% and those of the main carbohydrate components, 1-kestose (Fruf 21Fruf 21 Glc), nystose (Fruf 21Fruf 21 Fruf 21 Glc) and neokestose (Fruf 26 Glc12 Fruf), were 22, 14 and 11%, respectively. 相似文献
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Cowburn Richard F. Wiehager Birgitta Trief Ewa Li-Li Mo Sundström Erik 《Neurochemical research》1997,22(12):1437-1442
The neurotoxic fragment corresponding to residues 25-35 of the -amyloid (A) peptide [A-(25-35)] has been shown to exert effects on (+)-[3H]5-methyl-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo[a,d]-cyclohepten-5,10-imine maleate ([3H]MK-801) binding to the cation channel of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. In the present study, we investigated whether the amidated and carboxylic acid C-terminated forms of A-(25-35) [A-(25-35-NH2) and A-(25-35-COOH), respectively] exert effects on other excitatory amino acid receptor and cation channel types in rat cortical membranes. Both A-(25-35-NH2) and A-(25-35-COOH) gave statistically significant dose-dependent inhibitions of [3H]glutamate and [3H]glycine binding to the agonist recognition sites of the NMDA receptor. Ten M A-(25-35-NH2) and A-(25-35-COOH) gave 25% and 20% inhibitions of [3H]glutamate binding and 75% and 70% inhibitions of [3H]glycine binding, respectively. A-(25-35-NH2), but not A-(25-35-COOH), gave a small (ca. 17% at 10 M) statistically significant increase of [3H]amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate ([3H]AMPA) binding. [3H]kainate binding was not significantly affected by either peptide. Similarly, neither peptide affected either the maximal level or EC50 value for calcium stimulation of [3H]nitrendipine binding. It is concluded that A-(25-35) shows slight affinity for the agonist recognition sites of the NMDA receptor, but not for other excitatory amino acid receptor types or for L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels. 相似文献
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In order to test the Methanochondrion concept, uptake of adenine nucleotides in various membrane preparations of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum was studied. The uptake showed properties which are in general interpreted as indicative of a transport mechanism: (i) kinetics in the time range of minutes, (ii) temperature dependence, (iii) substrate specificity and (iv) failure to remove the substrate by extensive washing.However, nucleotide transport as an interpretation of this uptake can definitely be excluded. Not only an exchange mechanism of the mitochondrial type, but also a general exchange or an uniport mechanism was ruled out. In contrast, the nucleotide uptake was shown to be actually a tight and specific binding of ADP and ATP to binding sites at the interior side of the cell membrane. This was conclusively demonstrated in protoplasts obtained from M. thermoautotrophicum cells. In these protoplasts which do not contain internal membranes also nucleotide binding was observed, but only after disruption of the plasma membrane by osmotic lysis, which leads to the exposure of binding sites. 相似文献