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Arina L. Maltseva Marina A. Varfolomeeva Roman V. Ayanka Elizaveta R. Gafarova Egor A. Repkin Polina A. Pavlova Alexei L. Shavarda Natalia A. Mikhailova Andrei I. Granovitch 《Ecology and evolution》2021,11(16):11134
Divergence of ecological niches in phylogenetically closely related species indicates the importance of ecology in speciation, especially for sympatric species are considered. Such ecological diversification provides an advantage of alleviating interspecies competition and promotes more efficient exploitation of environmental resources, thus being a basis for ecological speciation. We analyzed a group of closely related species from the subgenus Neritrema (genus Littorina, Caenogastropoda) from the gravel‐bouldery shores. In two distant sites at the Barents and Norwegian Sea, we examined the patterns of snail distribution during low tide (quantitative sampling stratified by intertidal level, presence of macrophytes, macrophyte species, and position on them), shell shape and its variability (geometric morphometrics), and metabolic characteristics (metabolomic profiling). The studied species diversified microbiotopes, which imply an important role of ecological specification in the recent evolution of this group. The only exception to this trend was the species pair L. arcana / L. saxatilis, which is specifically discussed. The ecological divergence was accompanied by differences in shell shape and metabolomic characteristics. Significant differences were found between L. obtusata versus L. fabalis and L. saxatilis / L. arcana versus L. compressa both in shell morphology and in metabolomes. L. saxatilis demonstrated a clear variability depending on intertidal level which corresponds to a shift in conditions within the occupied microhabitat. Interestingly, the differences between L. arcana (inhabiting the upper intertidal level) and L. compressa (inhabiting the lower one) were analogous to those between the upper and lower fractions of L. saxatilis. No significant level‐dependent changes were found between the upper and lower fractions of L. obtusata, most probably due to habitat amelioration by fucoid macroalgae. All these results are discussed in the contexts of the role of ecology in speciation, ecological niche dynamics and conservatism, and evolutionary history of the Neritrema species. 相似文献
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Done Bogdan Khatri Purvesh Done Arina Draghici Sorin 《IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics / IEEE, ACM》2010,7(1):91-99
The correct interpretation of many molecular biology experiments depends in an essential way on the accuracy and consistency of the existing annotation databases. Such databases are meant to act as repositories for our biological knowledge as we acquire and refine it. Hence, by definition, they are incomplete at any given time. In this paper, we describe a technique that improves our previous method for predicting novel GO annotations by extracting implicit semantic relationships between genes and functions. In this work, we use a vector space model and a number of weighting schemes in addition to our previous latent semantic indexing approach. The technique described here is able to take into consideration the hierarchical structure of the Gene Ontology (GO) and can weight differently GO terms situated at different depths. The prediction abilities of 15 different weighting schemes are compared and evaluated. Nine such schemes were previously used in other problem domains, while six of them are introduced in this paper. The best weighting scheme was a novel scheme, n2tn. Out of the top 50 functional annotations predicted using this weighting scheme, we found support in the literature for 84 percent of them, while 6 percent of the predictions were contradicted by the existing literature. For the remaining 10 percent, we did not find any relevant publications to confirm or contradict the predictions. The n2tn weighting scheme also outperformed the simple binary scheme used in our previous approach. 相似文献
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Ferrer B Bermúdez-Silva FJ Bilbao A Alvarez-Jaimes L Sanchez-Vera I Giuffrida A Serrano A Baixeras E Khaturia S Navarro M Parsons LH Piomelli D Rodríguez de Fonseca F 《The Biochemical journal》2007,408(1):97-104
FgFtr1 and FgFtr2 are putative iron permeases, and FgFet1 and FgFet2 are putative ferroxidases of Fusarium graminearum. They have high homologies with iron permease ScFtr1 and ferroxidase ScFet3 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at the amino acid level. The genes encoding iron permease and ferroxidase were localized to the same chromosome in the manner of FgFtr1/FgFet1 and FgFtr2/FgFet2. The GFP (green fluorescent protein)-fused versions of FgFtr1 and FgFtr2 showed normal functions when compared with FgFtr1 and FgFtr2 in an S. cerevisiae system, and the cellular localizations of FgFtr1 and FgFtr2 in S. cerevisiae depended on the expression of their putative ferroxidase partners FgFet1 and FgFet2 respectively. Although FgFtr1 was found on the plasma membrane when FgFet1 and FgFtr1 were co-transformed in S. cerevisiae, most of the FgFtr1 was found in the endoplasmic reticulum compartment when co-expressed with FgFet2. Furthermore, FgFtr2 was found on the vacuolar membrane when FgFet2 was co-expressed. From the two-hybrid analysis, we confirmed the interaction of FgFtr1 and FgFet1, and the same result was found between FgFtr2 and FgFet2. Iron-uptake activity also depended on the existence of the respective partner. Finally, the FgFtr1 and FgFtr2 were found on the plasma and vacuolar membrane respectively, in F. graminearum. Taken together, these results strongly suggest that FgFtr1 and FgFtr2 from F. graminearum encode the iron permeases of the plasma membrane and vacuolar membrane respectively, and require their specific ferroxidases to carry out normal function. Furthermore, the present study suggests that the reductive iron-uptake system is conserved from yeast to filamentous fungi. 相似文献
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Jacobs M Togbe D Fremond C Samarina A Allie N Botha T Carlos D Parida SK Grivennikov S Nedospasov S Monteiro A Le Bert M Quesniaux V Ryffel B 《Microbes and infection / Institut Pasteur》2007,9(5):623-628
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is critical and non-redundant to control Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and cannot be replaced by other proinflammatory cytokines. Overproduction of TNF may cause immunopathology, while TNF neutralization reactivates latent and chronic, controlled infection, which is relevant for the use of neutralizing TNF therapies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 相似文献
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Mielgo A Brondani V Landmann L Glaser-Ruhm A Erb P Stupack D Günthert U 《Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death》2007,12(11):2051-2061
The transmembrane receptor CD44 conveys important signals from the extracellular microenvironment to the cytoplasm, a phenomena
known as “outside-in” signaling. CD44 exists as several isoforms that result from alternative splicing, which differ only
in the extracellular domain but yet exhibit different activities. CD44 is a binding partner for the membrane-cytoskeleton
cross-linker protein ezrin. In this study, we demonstrate that only CD44 standard (CD44s) colocalizes and interacts with the
actin cross-linkers ezrin and moesin using well-characterized cell lines engineered to express different CD44 isoforms. Importantly,
we also show that the association CD44s-ezrin-actin is an important modulator of Fas-mediated apoptosis. The results highlight
a mechanism by which signals from the extracellular milieu regulate intracellular signaling activities involved in programmed
cell death.
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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The in vitro and in vivo characterization of cell-loaded immobilization devices is an important challenge in cell encapsulation technology for the long-term efficacy of this approach. In the present paper, alginate-poly-l-lysine-alginate (APA) microcapsules containing erythropoietin (Epo)-secreting C2C12 myoblasts have been elaborated, characterized, and tested both in vitro and in vivo. High mechanical and chemical resistance of the elaborated microcapsules was observed. Moreover, the in vitro cultured encapsulated cells released 81.9 +/- 8.2 mIU/mL/24 h (by 100 cell-loaded microcapsules) by day 7, reaching the highest peak at day 21 (161.7 +/- 0.9 mIU/mL/24 h). High and constant hematocrit levels were maintained over 120 days after a single subcutaneous administration of microcapsules and lacking immunosuppressive protocols. No major host reaction was observed. On the basis of the results obtained in our study, cell encapsulation technology might be considered a suitable therapeutic strategy for the long-term delivery of biologically active products, such as Epo. 相似文献
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Volodina Olga V. Anuchina Arina A. Zainitdinova Milyausha I. Evtushenko Nadezhda A. Lavrov Alexander V. Smirnikhina Svetlana A. 《Biochemistry. Biokhimii?a》2022,87(5):464-471
Biochemistry (Moscow) - Gene editing allows to make a variety of targeted changes in genome, which can potentially be used to treat hereditary human diseases. Despite numerous studies in this area,... 相似文献
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IL-12Rβ1 deficiency in two of fifty children with severe tuberculosis from Iran, Morocco, and Turkey
Boisson-Dupuis S El Baghdadi J Parvaneh N Bousfiha A Bustamante J Feinberg J Samarina A Grant AV Janniere L El Hafidi N Hassani A Nolan D Najib J Camcioglu Y Hatipoglu N Aydogmus C Tanir G Aytekin C Keser M Somer A Aksu G Kutukculer N Mansouri D Mahdaviani A Mamishi S Alcais A Abel L Casanova JL 《PloS one》2011,6(4):e18524
Background and Objectives
In the last decade, autosomal recessive IL-12Rβ1 deficiency has been diagnosed in four children with severe tuberculosis from three unrelated families from Morocco, Spain, and Turkey, providing proof-of-principle that tuberculosis in otherwise healthy children may result from single-gene inborn errors of immunity. We aimed to estimate the fraction of children developing severe tuberculosis due to IL-12Rβ1 deficiency in areas endemic for tuberculosis and where parental consanguinity is common.Methods and Principal Findings
We searched for IL12RB1 mutations in a series of 50 children from Iran, Morocco, and Turkey. All children had established severe pulmonary and/or disseminated tuberculosis requiring hospitalization and were otherwise normally resistant to weakly virulent BCG vaccines and environmental mycobacteria. In one child from Iran and another from Morocco, homozygosity for loss-of-function IL12RB1 alleles was documented, resulting in complete IL-12Rβ1 deficiency. Despite the small sample studied, our findings suggest that IL-12Rβ1 deficiency is not a very rare cause of pediatric tuberculosis in these countries, where it should be considered in selected children with severe disease.Significance
This finding may have important medical implications, as recombinant IFN-γ is an effective treatment for mycobacterial infections in IL-12Rβ1-deficient patients. It also provides additional support for the view that severe tuberculosis in childhood may result from a collection of single-gene inborn errors of immunity. 相似文献20.
Beck CR McKenzie BC Hashim AB Harris RC Zanuzdana A Agboado G Orton E Béchard-Evans L Morgan G Stevenson C Weston R Mukaigawara M Enstone J Augustine G Butt M Kim S Puleston R Dabke G Howard R O'Boyle J O'Brien M Ahyow L Denness H Farmer S Figureroa J Fisher P Greaves F Haroon M Haroon S Hird C Isba R Ishola DA Kerac M Parish V Roberts J Rosser J Theaker S Wallace D Wigglesworth N Lingard L Vinogradova Y Horiuchi H Peñalver J Nguyen-Van-Tam JS 《PloS one》2011,6(12):e29249