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The rate of synonymous substitution in enterobacterial genes is inversely related to codon usage bias 总被引:31,自引:14,他引:31
Genes sequences from Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and other
members of the Enterobacteriaceae show a negative correlation between the
degree of synonymous-codon usage bias and the rate of nucleotide
substitution at synonymous sites. In particular, very highly expressed
genes have very biased codon usage and accumulate synonymous substitutions
very slowly. In contrast, there is little correlation between the degree of
codon bias and the rate of protein evolution. It is concluded that both the
rate of synonymous substitution and the degree of codon usage bias largely
reflect the intensity of selection at the translational level. Because of
the high variability among genes in rates of synonymous substitution,
separate molecular clocks of synonymous substitution might be required for
different genes.
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The influence of sex of broilers and dietary phosphorus (P) level on energy utilization and apparent ileal digestibility of N, P and phytate-P were investigated. The AMEN was determined using 3- and 6-week old broilers, while the apparent ileal digestibility were determined only with 6-week old birds. Sex of broilers had no effect on the AMEN values determined during week 3. During week 6, the AMEN values for male broilers were higher (P?0.01) than those for the females. An interaction (P?0.05) between sex and dietary P level was also observed. AMEN values determined with male broilers were lower in the adequate-P diet compared to those in the low-P diet, whereas no effect of P level was observed in females. Female broilers tended (P?0.10) to have a higher ileal N digestibility than the males, but a significant (P?0.01) sex ×?P level interaction was observed. Males receiving the adequate-P diet had a lower N digestibility than those receiving the low-P diet, whereas the opposite was true in the females. Ileal phytate P degradation in males was higher than in females (0.282 vs. 0.234), but the differences were not significant. Increasing dietary P level increased ileal P digestibility in both the males and females, but the improvements were greater in the females, as indicated by a significant sex × P level interaction. 相似文献
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Bjorn?WH?van Heumen Hennie?MJ?Roelofs René?HM?te Morsche Fokko?M?Nagengast Wilbert?HM?PetersEmail author 《Orphanet journal of rare diseases》2013,8(1):181
Background
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a disease characterized by the development of hundreds to thousands of adenomatous polyps in the colorectum early in life. Virtually all patients with FAP will develop colorectal cancer before the age of 40 to 50 years, unless prophylactic colectomy is performed, which significantly improves their prognosis. The mortality pattern has changed and duodenal cancer now is one of the main cancer-related causes of death in these patients. Practically all patients with FAP develop premalignant duodenal adenomas, which may develop to duodenal cancer in approximately 3-7% of patients. Duodenal cancer in patients with FAP has a poor prognosis. The clinical challenge is to identify patients at high-risk for duodenal carcinoma. Chemoprevention would be desirable to avoid duodenectomy. The main goal of this study is to identify risk markers in normal duodenal mucosa of patients with FAP, that could help identify patients at increased risk for malignant transformation.Methods
Messenger RNA (mRNA) levels of glutathione S-transferase A1 (GSTA1), glutathione S-transferase P1 (GSTP1), KIAA1199, E-cadherin, peroxisome proliferative activated receptor δ (PPARδ), caspase-3, cyclin D1, β-catenin, and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) were measured in duodenal mucosa, using the QuantiGene 2.0 Plex assay. Levels in normal appearing mucosa of patients with FAP (n?=?37) were compared with levels in non-FAP patient controls (n?=?16). In addition, levels before and after treatment with either celecoxib & ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA, n?=?14) or celecoxib & placebo (n?=?13) were evaluated in patients with FAP.Results
mRNA levels of glutathione S-transferase A1 (28.16% vs. 38.24%, p?=?0.008) and caspase-3 (3.30% vs. 5.31%, p?=?0.001) were significantly lower in patients with FAP vs. non-FAP patient controls, respectively. COX-2 mRNA levels in normal duodenal mucosa of patients with FAP were found to be unexpectedly low. None of the potential risk markers was influenced by celecoxib or celecoxib & UDCA.Conclusions
Protection against toxins and carcinogens (GSTA1) and apoptosis (caspase-3) is low in patients with FAP, which could contribute to increased susceptibility for malignant transformation of duodenal mucosa.Trial registration
http://ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT0080874344.
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Human red and green visual pigment genes are X-linked duplicate genes. To
study their evolutionary history, introns 2 and 4 (1,987 and 1,552 bp,
respectively) of human red and green pigment genes were sequenced.
Surprisingly, we found that intron 4 sequences of these two genes are
identical and that the intron 2 sequences differ by only 0.3%. The low
divergences are unexpected because the duplication event producing the two
genes is believed to have occurred before the separation of the human and
Old World monkey (OWM) lineages. Indeed, the divergences in the two introns
are significantly lower than both the synonymous divergence (3.2% +/- 1.1%)
and the nonsynonymous divergence (2.0% +/- 0.5%) in the coding sequences
(exons 1-6). A comparison of partial sequences of exons 4 and 5 of human
and OWM red and green pigment genes supports the hypothesis that the gene
duplication occurred before the human-OWM split. In conclusion, the high
similarities in the two intron sequences might be due to very recent gene
conversion, probably during evolution of the human lineage.
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Background
The chondrichthyan or cartilaginous fish (chimeras, sharks, skates and rays) occupy an important phylogenetic position as the sister group to all other jawed vertebrates and as an early lineage to diverge from the vertebrate lineage following two whole genome duplication events in vertebrate evolution. There have been few comparative genomic analyses incorporating data from chondrichthyan fish and none comparing genomic information from within the group. We have sequenced the complete Hoxa cluster of the Little Skate (Leucoraja erinacea) and compared to the published Hoxa cluster of the Horn Shark (Heterodontus francisci) and to available data from the Elephant Shark (Callorhinchus milii) genome project. 相似文献47.
Nuno A Fonseca Cristina P Vieira Peter WH Holland Jorge Vieira 《BMC evolutionary biology》2008,8(1):200
Background
Although homeobox genes have been the subject of many studies, little is known about the main amino acid changes that occurred early in the evolution of genes belonging to different classes. 相似文献48.
Peter WH Holland 《Genome biology》2000,1(4):reports4017.1-reports40172
A report on the 'Nuclear architecture and control of gene expression' minisymposium at the first meeting of the European Life Scientists Organisation (ELSO), Geneva, Switzerland, September 2-6, 2000. 相似文献
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The consumption of fermented foods contaminated with aflatoxin B1 is linked to aflatoxicosis. Aflatoxicosis is a serious problem in developing countries with environmental conditions appropriate for the biosynthesis of AFB1 byAspergillus flavus andAspergillus parasiticus. In Africa, especially in Ghana and Nigeria, there is a very high risk of liver cancer which is caused by the consumption of AFB1-intoxicated, traditionally fermented maize and sorghum products. It is suggested that one way to diminish this health risk might be the reduction of the AFB1 concentration in foods by bacteria. Especially bacteria used for food fermentation processes are of great importance, with a special emphasis on lactic acid bacteria which are involved in traditionally fermented African foods based on maize and sorghum.Most publications dealing with aflatoxin degradation by microorganisms describe a phosphate buffer test system for the performance of degradation experiments. In contrast to that, a test system based on physiological active bacterial and yeast cells has been developed, to assess food fermentation organisms for their ability to reduce the AFB1 concentration in vitro. The aflatoxin B1 concentration in test samples was quatitatively determined by HPLC.The assessment of lactic acid bacteria originating from different German and other European culture collections only showed a very slight reduction of the AFB1 concentration from 3% to 12%. Screening experiments in which other bacterial genera and lactic acid bacteria, isolated from different African foods have been assessed, in most cases showed the same results. However, some bacterial strains, e.g. strains of the genusBacillus derived from European culture collections and strains of the genusLactobacillus isolated from African foods, caused a release of AFB1 which was chemically bound before to components of the test medium and which therefore could not be extracted with chloroform.A process quite similar to that may happen during food fermentations. Different experiments showed that e.g. cellulose can bind AFB1 very effectively. Cellulose and different other food components are well known to absorb AFB1. During fermentation the cellulose and other AFB1-absorbing components may be degraded and the AFB1 will be released again.The only bacterial strain known as yet which is able to reduce the AFB1 concentration in vitro and in different food comodities isNocardia corynebacteroides (formerFlavobacterium aurantiacum). Nevertheless the mechanism of this AFB1 reduction is actually not well understood, it still has to be investigated. In the meantime several other bacterial strains, presumably from the taxonomic group of theActinomycetes could be proved to be effective reducers of the AFB1 concentration in our in vitro test system. Because as yet no food relevant microorganism could be found, which is able to degrade AFB1, these new strains in general offer the possibility for a genetic modification of food relevant microorganisms. This seems to be the way to come to starter cultures which are able to degrade AFB1 during food fermentations. 相似文献
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