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V. J. Rejish Kumar Cini Achuthan N. J. Manju Rosamma Philip I. S. Bright Singh 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》2009,36(3):355-365
A packed bed bioreactor (PBBR) was developed for rapid establishment of nitrification in brackish water hatchery systems in
the tropics. The reactors were activated by immobilizing ammonia-oxidizing (AMONPCU-1) and nitrite-oxidizing (NIONPCU-1) bacterial
consortia on polystyrene and low-density polyethylene beads, respectively. Fluorescence in situ hybridization demonstrated
the presence of autotrophic nitrifiers belong to Nitrosococcus mobilis, lineage of β ammonia oxidizers and nitrite oxidizer Nitrobacter sp. in the consortia. The activated reactors upon integration to the hatchery system resulted in significant ammonia removal
(P < 0.01) culminating to its undetectable levels. Consequently, a significantly higher percent survival of larvae was observed
in the larval production systems. With spent water the reactors could establish nitrification with high percentage removal
of ammonia (78%), nitrite (79%) and BOD (56%) within 7 days of initiation of the process. PBBR is configured in such a way
to minimize the energy requirements for continuous operation by limiting the energy inputs to a single stage pumping of water
and aeration to the aeration cells. The PBBR shall enable hatchery systems to operate under closed recirculating mode and
pave the way for better water management in the aquaculture industry. 相似文献
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Jennifer L Percival-Alwyn Elizabeth England Benjamin Kemp Laura Rapley Nicola HE Davis Grant R McCarthy Jayesh B Majithiya Dominic J Corkill Sarah Welsted Kevin Minton E Suzanne Cohen Matthew J Robinson Claire Dobson Trevor CI Wilkinson Tristan J Vaughan Maria AT Groves Natalie J Tigue 《MABS-AUSTIN》2015,7(1):129-137
Immunization of mice or rats with a "non-self" protein is a commonly used method to obtain monoclonal antibodies, and relies on the immune system''s ability to recognize the immunogen as foreign. Immunization of an antigen with 100% identity to the endogenous protein, however, will not elicit a robust immune response. To develop antibodies to mouse proteins, we focused on the potential for breaking such immune tolerance by genetically fusing two independent T-cell epitope-containing sequences (from tetanus toxin (TT) and diphtheria toxin fragment A (DTA)) to a mouse protein, mouse ST2 (mST2). Wild-type CD1 mice were immunized with three mST2 tagged proteins (Fc, TT and DTA) and the specific serum response was determined. Only in mice immunized with the T-cell epitope-containing antigens were specific mST2 serum responses detected; hybridomas generated from these mice secreted highly sequence-diverse IgGs that were capable of binding mST2 and inhibiting the interaction of mST2 with its ligand, mouse interleukin (IL)-33 (mIL-33). Of the hundreds of antibodies profiled, we identified five potent antibodies that were able to inhibit IL-33 induced IL-6 release in a mast cell assay; notably one such antibody was sufficiently potent to suppress IL-5 release and eosinophilia infiltration in an Alternaria alternata challenge mouse model of asthma. This study demonstrated, for the first time, that T-cell epitope-containing tags have the ability to break tolerance in wild-type mice to 100% conserved proteins, and it provides a compelling argument for the broader use of this approach to generate antibodies against any mouse protein or conserved ortholog. 相似文献
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Fasth AE Snir O Johansson AA Nordmark B Rahbar A Af Klint E Björkström NK Ulfgren AK van Vollenhoven RF Malmström V Trollmo C 《Arthritis research & therapy》2007,9(5):R87-11
Expanded populations of CD4+ T cells lacking the co-stimulatory molecule CD28 (CD4+CD28null T cells) have been reported in several inflammatory disorders. In rheumatoid arthritis, increased frequencies of CD4+CD28null T cells in peripheral blood have previously been associated with extra-articular manifestations and human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection, but their presence in and contribution to joint manifestations is not clear. In the present article we investigated the distribution of CD4+CD28null T cells in the synovial membrane, synovial fluid and peripheral blood of RA patients, and analysed the association with erosive disease and anti-citrullinated protein antibodies. CD4+CD28null T cells were infrequent in the synovial membrane and synovial fluid, despite significant frequencies in the circulation. Strikingly, the dominant TCR-Vbeta subsets of CD4+CD28null T cells in peripheral blood were often absent in synovial fluid. CD4+CD28null T cells in blood and synovial fluid showed specificity for HCMV antigens, and their presence was clearly associated with HCMV seropositivity but not with anti-citrullinated protein antibodies in the serum or synovial fluid, nor with erosive disease. Together these data imply a primary role for CD4+CD28null T cells in manifestations elsewhere than in the joints of patients with HCMV-seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. 相似文献
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Intraspecific DNA sequence variation of the mitochondrial control region of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Intraspecific sequence variation in the D-loop region of mtDNA in white
sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), a relict North American fish species,
was examined in 27 individuals from populations of the Columbia and Fraser
rivers. Thirty-three varied nucleotide positions were present in a
462-nucleotide D-loop sequence, amplified using the polymerase chain
reaction. Bootstrapped neighbor-joining and maximum- parsimony trees of
sequences from 19 haplotypes suggest that the two populations have recently
diverged. This is consistent with the hypothesis that the Columbia River, a
Pleistocene refugium habitat, was the source of founders for the Fraser
River after the last glacial recession. On the basis of a divergence time
of 10-12 thousand years ago, the estimated substitution rate of the white
sturgeon D-loop region is 1.1-1.3 x 10(-7) nucleotides/site/year, which is
comparable to rates for hypervariable sequences in the human D-loop region.
Furthermore, the ratio of mean percent nucleotide differences in the D-
loop (2.27%) to that in whole mtDNA (0.54%, as estimated from
restriction-enzyme data) is 4.3, which is similar to the fourfold-to-
fivefold-higher substitution rate estimated for the human D-loop. The high
nucleotide substitution rate of the hypervariable region indicates that the
vertebrate D-loop has potential as a genetic marker in molecular population
studies.
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Catechol 2, 3-dioxygenase is present in several types of bacteria and undergoes degradation of environmental pollutants through
an important key biochemical pathways. Specifically, this enzyme cleaves aromatic rings of several environmental pollutants such
as toluene, xylene, naphthalene and biphenyl derivatives. Hence, the importance of Catechol 2, 3-dioxygenase and its role in the
degradation of environmental pollutants made us to predict the three-dimensional structure of Catechol 2, 3-dioxygenase from
Burkholderia cepacia. The 10ns molecular dynamics simulation was carried out to check the stability of the modeled Catechol 2, 3-
dioxygenase. The results show that the model was energetically stable, and it attains their equilibrium within 2000 ps of production
MD run. The docking of various petroleum hydrocarbons into the Catechol 2,3-dioxygenase reveals that the benzene, O-xylene,
Toluene, Fluorene, Naphthalene, Carbazol, Pyrene, Dibenzothiophene, Anthracene, Phenanthrene, Biphenyl makes strong
hydrogen bond and Van der waals interaction with the active site residues of H150, L152, W198, H206, H220, H252, I254, T255,
Y261, E271, L276 and F309. Free energy of binding and estimated inhibition constant of these compounds demonstrates that they
are energetically stable in their binding cavity. Chrysene shows positive energy of binding in the active site atom of Fe. Except
Pyrene all the substrates made close contact with Fe atom by the distance ranges from 1.67 to 2.43 Å. In addition to that, the above
mentioned substrate except pyrene all other made π-π stacking interaction with H252 by the distance ranges from 3.40 to 3.90 Å.
All these docking results reveal that, except Chrysene all other substrate has good free energy of binding to hold enough in the
active site and makes strong VdW interaction with Catechol-2,3-dioxygenase. These results suggest that, the enzyme is capable of
catalyzing the above-mentioned substrate. 相似文献
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Keshab Chandra Bhuyan G. Achuthan Nair 《Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift》1995,37(8):1005-1015
Four species of pulmonate slugs viz. Milax rusticus, Milax sowerbyi, Milax gagates and Limax tenellus are colonised along the north eastern region of Libya. These slugs are homogeneous in character since they belong to the same class and order. However, their body dimensions were significantly different. Significant positive relationships existed on most of the body dimensions of each species and these relationships were found to be heterogeneous among the four species studied. 相似文献
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Taneli Tirkkonen Jaakko Pakarinen Elina Rintala Terhi Ali-Vehmas Harri Marttila Olli AT Peltoniemi Johanna M?kinen 《Acta veterinaria Scandinavica》2010,52(1):21
Background
Animal mycobacterioses are regarded as a potential zoonotic risk and cause economical losses world wide. M. avium subsp. hominissuis is a slow-growing subspecies found in mycobacterial infected humans and pigs and therefore rapid and discriminatory typing methods are needed for epidemiological studies. The genetic similarity of M. avium subsp. hominissuis from human and porcine origins using two different typing methods have not been studied earlier. The objective of this study was to compare the IS1245 RFLP pattern and MIRU-VNTR typing to study the genetic relatedness of M. avium strains isolated from slaughter pigs and humans in Finland with regard to public health aspects. 相似文献39.
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Saman Rasoul Jan Paul Ottervanger Jan-Henk E Dambrink Menko-Jan de Boer Jan CA Hoorntje AT Marcel Gosselink Felix Zijlstra Harry Suryapranata Arnoud WJ van't Hof 《BMC cardiovascular disorders》2007,7(1):1-7