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Doris Bachtrog 《BMC evolutionary biology》2008,8(1):334
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Adaptive protein evolution is common in several Drosophila species investigated. Some studies point to very weak selection operating on amino-acid mutations, with average selection intensities on the order of N e s ~ 5 in D. melanogaster and D. simulans. Species with lower effective population sizes should undergo less adaptation since they generate fewer mutations and selection is ineffective on a greater proportion of beneficial mutations. 相似文献2.
Hongxing Sun Guangzhi Xu Hongdan Zhan Huan Chen Zongtao Sun Bing Tian Yuejin Hua 《BMC microbiology》2010,10(1):319
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Deinococcus radiodurans accumulates high levels of manganese ions, and this is believed to be correlated with the radiation resistance ability of this microorganism. However, the maintenance of manganese ion homeostasis in D. radiodurans remains to be investigated. 相似文献3.
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Conventional cell culture studies have been performed on 2D surfaces, resulting in flat, extended cell growth. More relevant studies are desired to better mimic 3D in vivo tissue growth. Such realistic environments should be the aim of any cell growth study, requiring new methods for culturing cells in vitro. Cell biology is also tending toward miniaturization for increased efficiency and specificity. This paper discusses the application of a self-assembling peptide-derived hydrogel for use as a 3D cell culture scaffold at the microscale. 相似文献4.
Konstantinos P Exarchos Themis P Exarchos Georgios Rigas Costas Papaloukas Dimitrios I Fotiadis 《BMC bioinformatics》2011,12(1):142
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In peptides and proteins, only a small percentile of peptide bonds adopts the cis configuration. Especially in the case of amide peptide bonds, the amount of cis conformations is quite limited thus hampering systematic studies, until recently. However, lately the emerging population of databases with more 3D structures of proteins has produced a considerable number of sequences containing non-proline cis formations (cis-nonPro). 相似文献5.
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Escherichia coli RecA plays a crucial role in recombinational processes, the induction of SOS responses and mutagenic lesion bypasses. It has also been demonstrated that RecA protein is indispensable when it comes to the reassembly of shattered chromosomes in γ-irradiated Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known. Moreover, some functional differences between E. coli and D. radiodurans RecA proteins have also been shown. 相似文献6.
Marina?V?Omelchenko Yuri?I?Wolf Elena?K?Gaidamakova Vera?Y?Matrosova Alexander?Vasilenko Min?Zhai Michael?J?Daly Eugene?V?Koonin Kira?S?Makarova
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Thermus thermophilus and Deinococcus radiodurans belong to a distinct bacterial clade but have remarkably different phenotypes. T. thermophilus is a thermophile, which is relatively sensitive to ionizing radiation and desiccation, whereas D. radiodurans is a mesophile, which is highly radiation- and desiccation-resistant. Here we present an in-depth comparison of the genomes of these two related but differently adapted bacteria. 相似文献7.
Dieter Maier Anja C Nagel Helena Gloc Angelika Hausser Sabrina J Kugler Irmgard Wech Anette Preiss 《BMC developmental biology》2007,7(1):74
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Protein Kinase D (PKD) is an effector of diacylglycerol-regulated signaling pathways. Three isoforms are known in mammals that have been linked to diverse cellular functions including regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, motility and secretory transport from the trans-Golgi network to the plasma membrane. In Drosophila, there is a single PKD orthologue, whose broad expression implicates a more general role in development. 相似文献8.
Erynn A Lucas Stephen J Billington Petteri Carlson David J McGee B Helen Jost 《BMC microbiology》2010,10(1):270
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Arcanobacterium haemolyticum is an emerging bacterial pathogen, causing pharyngitis and more invasive infections. This organism expresses an unusual phospholipase D (PLD), which we propose promotes bacterial pathogenesis through its action on host cell membranes. The pld gene is found on a genomic region of reduced %G + C, suggesting recent horizontal acquisition. 相似文献9.
Katina I Spanier Florian Leese Christoph Mayer John K Colbourne Don Gilbert Michael E Pfrender Ralph Tollrian 《BMC molecular biology》2010,11(1):50
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The planktonic microcrustacean Daphnia pulex is among the best-studied animals in ecological, toxicological and evolutionary research. One aspect that has sustained interest in the study system is the ability of D. pulex to develop inducible defence structures when exposed to predators, such as the phantom midge larvae Chaoborus. The available draft genome sequence for D. pulex is accelerating research to identify genes that confer plastic phenotypes that are regularly cued by environmental stimuli. Yet for quantifying gene expression levels, no experimentally validated set of internal control genes exists for the accurate normalization of qRT-PCR data. 相似文献10.
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The phytopathogenic fungus Diplodia seriata, whose genome remains unsequenced, produces severe infections in fruit trees (fruit blight) and grapevines. In this crop is recognized as one of the most prominent pathogens involved in grapevine trunk disease (or grapevine decline). This pathology can result in the death of adult plants and therefore it produces severe economical losses all around the world. To date no genes or proteins have been characterized in D. seriata that are involved in the pathogenicity process. In an effort to help identify potential gene products associated with pathogenicity and to gain a better understanding of the biology of D. seriata, we initiated a proteome-level study of the fungal mycelia and secretome. 相似文献11.
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Lipocalins are a large and diverse family of small, mostly extracellular proteins implicated in many important functions. This family has been studied in bacteria, invertebrate and vertebrate animals but little is known about these proteins in plants. We recently reported the identification and molecular characterization of the first true lipocalins from plants, including the Apolipoprotein D ortholog AtTIL identified in the plant model Arabidopsis thaliana. This study aimed to determine its physiological role in planta. 相似文献12.
David Roy Smith Robert W Lee John C Cushman Jon K Magnuson Duc Tran Jürgen EW Polle 《BMC plant biology》2010,10(1):83
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Dunaliella salina Teodoresco, a unicellular, halophilic green alga belonging to the Chlorophyceae, is among the most industrially important microalgae. This is because D. salina can produce massive amounts of β-carotene, which can be collected for commercial purposes, and because of its potential as a feedstock for biofuels production. Although the biochemistry and physiology of D. salina have been studied in great detail, virtually nothing is known about the genomes it carries, especially those within its mitochondrion and plastid. This study presents the complete mitochondrial and plastid genome sequences of D. salina and compares them with those of the model green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Volvox carteri. 相似文献13.
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Filamin is an actin binding protein which is ubiquitous in eukaryotes and its basic structure is well conserved – an N-terminal actin binding domain followed by a series of repeated segments which vary in number in different organisms. D. discoideum is a well established model organism for the study of signalling pathways and the actin cytoskeleton and as such makes an excellent organism in which to study filamin. Ddfilamin plays a putative role as a scaffolding protein in a photosensory signalling pathway and this role is thought to be mediated by the unusual repeat segments in the rod domain. 相似文献15.
Márcia R Soares Agda P Facincani Rafael M Ferreira Leandro M Moreira Julio CF de Oliveira Jesus A Ferro Maria IT Ferro Rogério Meneghini Fábio C Gozzo 《Proteome science》2010,8(1):55
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Citrus canker is a disease caused by Xantomonas citri subsp.citri (Xac), and has emerged as one of the major threats to the worldwide citrus crop because it affects all commercial citrus varieties, decreases the production and quality of the fruits and can spread rapidly in citrus growing areas. In this work, the first proteome of Xac was analyzed using two methodologies, two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D LC) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). 相似文献16.
Ignacio M Soto Valeria P Carreira Juan J Fanara Esteban Hasson 《BMC evolutionary biology》2007,7(1):77
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The rapid evolution of genital morphology is a fascinating feature that accompanies many speciation events. However, the underlying patterns and explanatory processes remain to be settled. In this work we investigate the patterns of intraspecific variation and interspecific divergence in male genitalic morphology (size and shape) in the cactophilic sibling species Drosophila buzzatii and D. koepferae. Genital morphology in interspecific hybrids was examined and compared to the corresponding parental lines. 相似文献17.
Sara Frosth Jannice S Slettemeås Hannah J Jørgensen Øystein Angen Anna Aspán 《Acta veterinaria Scandinavica》2012,54(1):6
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Ovine footrot is a contagious disease with worldwide occurrence in sheep. The main causative agent is the fastidious bacterium Dichelobacter nodosus. In Scandinavia, footrot was first diagnosed in Sweden in 2004 and later also in Norway and Denmark. Clinical examination of sheep feet is fundamental to diagnosis of footrot, but D. nodosus should also be detected to confirm the diagnosis. PCR-based detection using conventional PCR has been used at our institutes, but the method was laborious and there was a need for a faster, easier-to-interpret method. The aim of this study was to develop a TaqMan-based real-time PCR assay for detection of D. nodosus and to compare its performance with culturing and conventional PCR. 相似文献18.
Luciana O Araripe Horácio Montenegro Bernardo Lemos Daniel L Hartl 《BMC evolutionary biology》2010,10(1):385
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Hybrid male sterility (HMS) is a usual outcome of hybridization between closely related animal species. It arises because interactions between alleles that are functional within one species may be disrupted in hybrids. The identification of genes leading to hybrid sterility is of great interest for understanding the evolutionary process of speciation. In the current work we used marked P-element insertions as dominant markers to efficiently locate one genetic factor causing a severe reduction in fertility in hybrid males of Drosophila simulans and D. mauritiana. 相似文献19.
Aims
This work was performed to characterize new secondary metabolites with neuraminidase (NA) inhibitory activity from marine actinomycete strains.Methods and Results
An actinomycete strain IFB‐A01, capable of producing new NA inhibitors, was isolated from the gut of shrimp Penasus orientalis and identified as Streptomyces seoulensis according to its 16S rRNA sequence (over 99% homology with that of the standard strain). Repeated chromatography of the methanol extract of the solid‐substrate culture of S. seoulensis IFB‐A01 led to the isolation of streptoseolactone ( 1 ), and limazepines G ( 2 ) and H ( 3 ). The structures of 1 – 3 were determined by a combination of IR, ESI‐MS, 1D (1H and 13C NMR, and DEPT) and 2D NMR experiments (HMQC, HMBC, 1H‐1H COSY and NOESY). Compounds 1 – 3 showed significant inhibition on NA in a dose‐dependent manner with IC50 values of 3·92, 7·50 and 7·37 μmol l?1, respectively.Conclusions
This is the first report of two new ( 1 and 2 ) and known ( 3 , recovered as a natural product for the first time in the work) NA inhibitors from the marine‐derived actinomycete S. seoulensis IFB‐A01.Significance and Impact of the Study
The three natural NA inhibitors maybe of value for the development of drug(s) necessitated for the treatment of viral infections. 相似文献20.
Marit Frederikke Markussen Bjorbækmo Tor Carlsen Anne Brysting Trude Vrålstad Klaus Høiland Karl Inne Ugland Jozsef Geml Trond Schumacher Håvard Kauserud 《BMC plant biology》2010,10(1):244