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Takashi Okada Andrew S. Catanach Susan D. Johnson Ross A. Bicknell Anna M. Koltunow 《Sexual plant reproduction》2007,20(4):199-211
Asexual seed formation (apomixis) in Hieracium aurantiacum occurs by mitotic embryo sac formation without prior meiosis in ovules (apomeiosis), followed by fertilization-independent
embryo and endosperm development. Sexual reproduction begins first in Hieracium ovules with megaspore mother cell (MMC) formation. Apomixis initiates with the enlargement of somatic cells, termed aposporous
initial (AI) cells, near sexual cells. AI cells grow towards sexually programmed cells undergoing meiosis, which degrade as
the dividing nuclei of AIs obscure and displace them. Following Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of an aneuploid Hieracium aurantiacum apomict, a somaclonal mutant designated “loss of apomeiosis 1” (loa1) was recovered, which had significantly lost the ability to form apomictic seed. Maternal apomictic progeny were rare and
low levels of germinable seedlings were primarily derived from meiotically derived eggs. Cytological analysis revealed defects
in AI formation and function in loa1. Somatic cells enlarged some distance away from sexual cells and unlike AI cells, these expanded away from sexual cells without
nuclear division. Surprisingly, many accumulated callose in the walls, a marker associated with meiotically specified cells.
These defective AI (DAI) cells only had partial sexual identity as they failed to express a marker reflecting entry to meiosis
that was easily detected in MMCs and they ultimately degraded. DAI cell formation did not lead to a compensatory increase
in functional sexual embryo sacs, as collapse of meiotic embryo sacs was prevalent in the aneuploid somaclonal mutant. Positional
cues that are important for AI cell differentiation, growth and fate may have been disrupted in the loa1 mutant and this is discussed.
The authors Takashi Okada, Andrew S. Catanach and Susan D. Johnson made equal contributions to the data. 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.
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The foodborne pathogen Bacillus cereus can form biofilms on various food contact surfaces, leading to contamination of food products. To study the mechanisms of
biofilm formation by B. cereus, a Tn5401 library was generated from strain UW101C. Eight thousand mutants were screened in EPS, a low nutrient medium. One mutant
(M124), with a disruption in codY, developed fourfold less biofilm than the wild-type, and its defective biofilm phenotype was rescued by complementation.
Addition of 0.1% casamino acids to EPS prolonged the duration of biofilms in the wild-type but not codY mutant. When decoyinine, a GTP synthesis inhibitor, was added to EPS, biofilm formation was decreased in the wild-type but
not the mutant. The codY mutant produced three times higher protease activity than the wild-type. Zymogram and SDS-PAGE data showed that production
of the protease (∼130 kDa) was repressed by CodY. Addition of proteinase K to EPS decreased biofilm formation by the wild-type.
Using a dpp-lacZ fusion reporter system, it was shown that that the B. cereus CodY can sense amino acids and GTP levels. These data suggest that by responding to amino acids and intracellular GTP levels
CodY represses production of an unknown protease and is involved in biofilm formation. 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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Heparan sulfate proteoglycans play a vital role in signaling of various growth factors in both Drosophila and vertebrates. In Drosophila, mutations in the tout
velu (ttv) gene, a homolog of the mammalian EXT1 tumor suppressor gene, leads to abrogation of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) biosynthesis. This impairs distribution and signaling
activities of various morphogens such as Hedgehog (Hh), Wingless (Wg), and Decapentaplegic (Dpp). Mutations in members of
the exostosin (EXT) gene family lead to hereditary multiple exostosis in humans leading to bone outgrowths and tumors. In this study, we provide
genetic and biochemical evidence that the human EXT1 (hEXT1) gene is conserved through species and can functionally complement the ttv mutation in Drosophila. The hEXT1 gene was able to rescue a ttv null mutant to adulthood and restore GAG biosynthesis. 相似文献
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To elucidate the physiological adaptation of Escherichia coli due to cra gene knockout, a total of 3,911 gene expressions were investigated by DNA microarray for continuous culture. About 50 genes
were differentially regulated for the cra mutant. TCA cycle and glyoxylate shunt were down-regulated, while pentose phosphate (PP) pathway and Entner Doudoroff (ED)
pathway were up-regulated in the cra mutant. The glucose uptake rate and the acetate production rate were increased with less acetate consumption for the cra mutant. To identify the genes controlled by Cra protein, the Cra recognition weight matrix from foot-printing data was developed
and used to scan the whole genome. Several new Cra-binding sites were found, and some of the result was consistent with the
DNA microarray data. The ED pathway was active in the cra mutant; we constructed cra.edd double genes knockout mutant to block this pathway, where the acetate overflowed due to the down-regulation of aceA,B and icd gene expressions. Then we further constructed cra.edd.iclR triple genes knockout mutant to direct the carbon flow through the glyoxylate pathway. The cra.edd.iclR mutant showed the least acetate production, resulting in the highest cell yield together with the activation of the glycolysis
pathway, but the glucose consumption rate could not be improved.
Dayanidhi Sarkar and Khandaker Al Zaid Siddiquee have contributed equally. 相似文献
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An Arabidopsis deletion mutant was fortuitously identified from the alpha population of T-DNA insertional mutants generated
at the University of Wisconsin Arabidopsis Knockout Facility. Segregation and reciprocal crosses indicated that the mutant
was a gametophytic pollen sterile mutant. Pollen carrying the mutation has the unusual phenotype that it is viable, but cannot
germinate. Thus, the mutant was named pollen germination defective mutant 1 (pgd1), based on the pollen phenotype. Flanking sequences of the T-DNA insertion in the pgd1 mutant were identified by thermal asymmetric interlaced (TAIL) PCR. Sequencing of bands from TAIL PCR revealed that the T-DNA
was linked to the gene XLG1, At2g23460, at its downstream end, while directly upstream of the T-DNA was a region between At2g22830 and At2g22840, which
was 65 genes upstream of XLG1. Southern blotting and genomic PCR confirmed that the 65 genes plus part of XLG1 were deleted in the pgd1 mutant. A 9,177 bp genomic sequence containing the XLG1 gene and upstream and downstream intergenic regions could not rescue the pgd1 pollen phenotype. One or more genes from the deleted region were presumably responsible for the pollen germination defect
observed in the pgd1 mutant. Because relatively few mutations have been identified that affect pollen germination independent of any effect on
pollen viability, this mutant line provides a new tool for identification of genes specifically involved in this phase of
the reproductive cycle. 相似文献
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Arabidopsis thaliana is gradually gaining significance as a model for wood and fiber formation.revolute/ifl1 is an important mutant in this respect. To better characterize the fiber system of therevolute/ifl1 mutant, we grew plants of two alleles (rev-9 in Israel andrev-1 in the USA) and examined the fiber system of the inflorescence stems using both brightfield and polarized light. Microscopic
examination of sections of plants belonging to the two different alleles clearly revealed that, contrary to previous views,
in 18 (13 in Israel and 5 in Ohio) out of 30 stems (20 in Israel and 10 in Ohio) the mutant produced the primary wavy fiber
system of the inflorescence stems. Our findings are further supported by the fact that fibers are seen in the figures published
in other studies of the mutant even when it was stated that there were no fibers. The impression of a total lack of the wavy
band of fibers is in many cases just a result of poorly lignified secondary walls. This specific gene that reduces lignification
in fibers is of great significance for biotechnological developments for the paper industry and thus for the global economy
and ecology. We propose thatrevoluta, the first name given to this mutant (Talbert and others 1995), is more appropriate thanifl1.
Online publication: 7 April 2005 相似文献
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Two cDNAs isolated from Cymodocea nodosa, CnSOS1A, and CnSOS1B encode proteins with high-sequence similarities to SOS1 plant transporters. CnSOS1A expressed in a yeast Na+-efflux mutant under the control of a constitutive expression promoter mimicked AtSOS1 from Arabidopsis; the wild type cDNA did not improve the growth of the recipient strain in the presence of Na+, but a cDNA mutant that expresses a truncated protein suppressed the defect of the yeast mutant. In similar experiments,
CnSOS1B was not effective. Conditional expression, under the control of an arabinose responsive promoter, of the CnSOS1A and CnSOS1B cDNAs in an Escherichia coli mutant defective in Na+ efflux was toxic, and functional analyses were inconclusive. The same constructs transformed into an E. coli K+-uptake mutant revealed that CnSOS1A was also toxic, but that it slightly suppressed defective growth at low K+. Truncation in the C-terminal hydrophilic tail of CnSOS1A relieved the toxicity and proved that CnSOS1A was an excellent
low-affinity K+ and Rb+ transporter. CnSOS1B mediated a transient, extremely rapid K+ or Rb+ influx. Similar tests with AtSOS1 revealed that it was not toxic and that the whole protein exhibited excellent K+ and Rb+ uptake characteristics in bacteria. 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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M. Victoria Delpino Diego J. Comerci Mary Ann Wagner Michel Eschenbrenner Cesar V. Mujer Rodolfo A. Ugalde Carlos A. Fossati Pablo C. Baldi Vito G. DelVecchio 《Archives of microbiology》2009,191(7):571-581
The virB genes coding type IV secretion system are necessary for the intracellular survival and replication of Brucella spp. In this study, extracellular proteins from B. abortus 2308 (wild type, WT) and its isogenic virB10 polar mutant were compared. Culture supernatants harvested in the early stationary phase were concentrated and subjected
to 2D electrophoresis. Spots present in the WT strain but absent in the virB10 mutant (differential spots) were considered extracellular proteins released in a virB-related manner, and were identified by MALDI-TOF analysis and matching with Brucella genomes. Among the 11 differential proteins identified, DnaK chaperone (Hsp70), choloylglycine hydrolase (CGH) and a peptidyl-prolyl
cis–trans isomerase (PPIase) were chosen for further investigation because of their homology with extracellular and/or virulence
factors from other bacteria. The three proteins were obtained in recombinant form and specific monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)
were prepared. By Western blot with these mAbs, the three proteins were detected in supernatants from the WT but not in those
from the virB10 polar mutant or from strains carrying non-polar mutations in virB10 or virB11 genes. These results suggest that the expression of virB genes affects the extracellular release of DnaK, PPIase and CGH, and possibly other proteins from B. abortus. 相似文献
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Brown NF Logue CA Boddey JA Scott R Hirst RG Beacham IR 《Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG》2004,272(2):204-215
Two adjacent genes, bpaA and bpaB, whose products display significant similarity to a number of two-partner secretion (TPS) systems have been identified in Burkholderia pseudomallei strain 08, but are absent from the closely related avirulent species B. thailandensis. They possess a number of sequence features characteristic of TPS systems, including the presence of an NPNGI motif in a region of BpaA which strongly resembles a TPS secretion domain. BpaA is a very large protein (~530 kDa) and contains three repeats, each 600–800-amino acids long. Putative membrane-spanning regions in BpaB were identified through alignment with TpsB family members, and this also revealed an N-terminal extension not found in other TpsB proteins. The bpaA gene was found to be absent from the majority of B. pseudomallei strains. It appears that bpaAB are located within a putative genomic island that is inserted in close proximity to a methionine tRNACAT-encoding gene. Expression of BpaA was undetectable in cells grown in laboratory media. However, owing to the similarity of BpaA to known adhesin molecules, a potential role of BpaA in virulence was investigated in cell culture and in an animal model, but no evidence for such a role was found in these test systems.Communicated by W. Goebel 相似文献
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Stefanie Kimbacher Ingrid Gerstl Branko Velimirov Sylvia Hagemann 《Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG》2009,282(2):165-172
P transposons belong to the eukaryotic DNA transposons, which are transposed by a cut and paste mechanism using a P-element-coded transposase. They have been detected in Drosophila, and reside as single copies and stable homologous sequences in many vertebrate species. We present the P elements Pcin1, Pcin2 and Pcin3 from Ciona intestinalis, a species of the most primitive chordates, and compare them with those from Ciona savignyi. They showed typical DNA transposon structures, namely terminal inverted repeats and target site duplications. The coding
region of Pcin1 consisted of 13 small exons that could be translated into a P-transposon-homologous protein. C. intestinalis and C. savignyi displayed nearly the same phenotype. However, their P elements were highly divergent and the assumed P transposase from C. intestinalis was more closely related to the transposase from Drosophila melanogaster than to the transposase of C. savignyi. The present study showed that P elements with typical features of transposable DNA elements may be found already at the base of the chordate lineage.
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Norihiro Shimomura Shigeyuki Murakami Teruyuki Matsumoto Nitaro Maekawa Kozaburo Hasebe 《Mycoscience》2007,48(2):117-121
To obtain a homothallic mutant in Lentinula edodes, basidiospores derived from the common Bmut dikaryon (A1B1mut × A2B1mut) were treated with UV irradiation. Of a total of approximately 5000 monosporous cultures recovered, a single basidiospore
isolate was found to produce the hyphae bearing clamp connections without mating. This mutant strain could form fruit bodies,
and all its single basidiospore isolates developed into colonies with clamp connections. Such homothallic behaviors were transmitted
from the mutant strain to the next generation. During the germination and following hyphal elongation in a single basidiospore
of mutant strain, clamp connections were clearly detected in multicellular hyphae, which contained two nuclei in each cell.
Their clamp connections were morphologically variable, viz., pseudo, abnormal, and true clamps. Amplified fragment length
polymorphism (AFLP) profiles among the basidiospore isolates of mutant strain were identical, indicating that the mutant strain
produced isogenic basidiospore progeny.
Contribution no. 385 from the Tottori Mycological Institute 相似文献
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The S gene region of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is responsible for the expression of surface antigens and includes the ‘a’-determinant
region. Thus, mutation(s) in this region would afford HBV variants a distinct survival advantage, permitting the mutant virus
to escape from the immune system. The aim of this study was to search for mutations of the S gene region in different patient groups infected with genotype D variants of HBV, and to analyse the biological significance of these mutations. Moreover, we investigated S gene mutation inductance among family members. Forty HBV-DNA-positive patients were determined among 132 hepatitis B surface
antigen (HbsAg) carriers by the first stage of seminested PCR. Genotypes and subtypes were established by sequencing of the
amplified S gene regions. Variants were compared with original sequences of these serotypes, and mutations were identified.
All variants were designated as genotype D and subtype ayw3. Ten kinds of point mutations were identified within the S region. The highest rates of mutation were found in chronic hepatitis patients and their family members. The amino acid mutations
125 (M → T) and 127 (T → P) were found on the first loop of ‘a’-determinant. The other consequence was mutation inductance
in a family member. We found some mutations in the S gene region known to be stable and observed that some of these mutations
affected S gene expression. 相似文献
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We isolated several mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. that accumulated less anthocyanin in the plant tissues, but had seeds with a brown color similar to the wild-type.
These mutants were allelic with the anthocyaninless1 (anl1) mutant that has been mapped at 15.0 cM of chromosome 5. We performed fine mapping of the anl1 locus and determined that ANL1 is located between the nga106 marker and a marker corresponding to the MKP11 clone. About 70 genes are located between these
two markers, including three UDP-glucose:flavonoid-3-O-glucosyltransferase-like genes and a glutathione transferase gene (TT19). A mutant of one of the glucosyltransferase genes (At5g17050) was unable to complement the anl1 phenotype, showing that the ANL1 gene encodes UDP-glucose:flavonoid-3-O-glucosyltransferase. ANL1 was expressed in all tissues examined, including rosette leaves, stems, flower buds and roots. ANL1 was not regulated by TTG1. 相似文献
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Nattokinase producing bacterium, B. subtilis YF38, was isolated from douchi, using the fibrin plate method. The gene encoding this enzyme was cloned by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Cytoplasmic
expression of this enzyme in E. coli resulted in inactive inclusion bodies. But with the help of two different signal peptides, the native signal peptide of nattokinase
and the signal peptide of PelB, active nattokinase was successfully expressed in E. coli with periplasmic secretion, and the nattokinase in culture medium displayed high fibrinolytic activity. The fibrinolytic
activity of the expressed enzyme in the culture was determined to reach 260 urokinase units per micro-liter when the recombinant
strain was induced by 0.7 mmol l−1 isopropyl-β-D- thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) at 20°C for 20 h, resulting 49.3 mg active enzyme per liter culture. The characteristic
of this recombinant nattokinase is comparable to the native nattokinase from B. subtilis YF38. Secretory expression of nattokinase in E. coli would facilitate the development of this enzyme into a therapeutic product for the control and prevention of thrombosis diseases. 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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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.
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Sang-Yoon Kim and Jeong-Gu Kim contributed equally to this work. 相似文献