Sera from 123 patients with diabetes mellitus of recent onset, 155 patients with diabetes of more than two years'' duration, and 250 normal persons were collected over a period of two and a half years. All sera were tested for neutralizing antibody to Coxsackie virus types B1–6, and a sample was tested for complement-fixing antibody to a number of viral, rickettsial, and mycoplasmal antigens.In diabetics of recent onset no evidence was found of any excess of antibodies to mumps virus or some common respiratory viruses. Insulin-dependent diabetes within three months of onset were found to have higher antibody titres to Coxsackie B virus, particularly of type B4, than either normal subjects or patients with diabetes of longer duration. 相似文献
1. 1. Esterification of 32P1 by illuminated chloroplasts prepared on a sucrose gradient was examined to establish the optimal incubation conditions.
2. 2. The evidence is consistent with phosphorylation being closely coupled to the sum of noncyclic and pseudocyclic electron flow and with the rate of electron flow responding to the availability of electron acceptors.
3. 3. Apparent Km values for ADP and Mg2+ were found to be 40 and 250 μM, respectively. The Km value for Mg2+ was increased by the presence of Ca2+. Two apparent values were observed for P1 at 0.2 and 1.1 mM. Chloroplast damage resulted in increased apparent Km (P1) values.
4. 4. Acceleration of the esterification resulting from the addition of ADP and P1 to the medium indicated that these compounds were able to penetrate to the active site of esterification.
5. 5. Ribose 5-phosphate (Rib-5-P) was shown to inhibit P1 esterification without affecting the apparent Km for ADP or P1. The evidence suggests that Rib-5-P interferes with the uptake of P1, and possibly ADP.
The cytochrome c(3) of Desulfovibrio desulfuricans and that of D. vulgaris were purified to homogeneity as judged by disc gel electrophoresis and by ultracentrifugation. Both cytochromes had an oxidation-reduction potential of -205 +/- 5 mv at pH 7.0 and showed characteristic absorption bands at 525 and 553 nm in the reduced state. The molecular weights of the two cytochromes (calculated from sedimentation and diffusion data) were similar, with values of 13,500 to 14,300 for D. desulfuricans and 13,800 to 14,700 for D. vulgaris. The two cytochromes differed in their electrophoretic properties on Geon and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and did not share a common precipitating antigenic determinant as judged by immunodiffusion data. 相似文献
The high incidence ofCladosporia in the airspora indicates a prolific production of spores. Six species ofCladosporium were sampled over a period of 9 weeks, using dry and wet (mist-laden) air, and over a period of 4 weeks using humid air. Many more spores were released in wet air than in dry air: numbers released in humid air were generally intermediate between those of wet and dry samples. None of the cultures was exhausted of spores at the end of the sampling periods although samples generally decreased in size from the fifth or sixth week onwards. Removal of spores would seem to be conducive to further sporulation provided the substrate is not exhausted. Maximum productivities recorded for the six species (all in mist-laden air) ranged from 730 to 26 100 spores per mg dry weight of mycelium. Differences in the levels of spore production in culture by the six species do not correlate with their individual frequencies in the airspora, indicating that the latter are more dependent on the distribution and substrate relationships of each species. 相似文献
The various contractile and control sites of natural actomyosin gel were studied by comparing the kinetics of ATP hydrolysis with those of gel contraction, measured as an increase in turbidity. Contraction of actomyosin gel seems to require the cooperative reaction of ATP (with Mg) at two different sites. One of these sites catalyzes the hydrolysis of ATP and most probably contributes the driving force for contraction; the binding of ATP to the other site appears to break certain links that retard movement of the gel components. At limiting concentrations of ATP, the rate of contraction seems to depend on the rate of breaking these links as well as on the rate of ATP hydrolysis. But when both sites are saturated, the rate of contraction appears to be limited only by the rate of ATP hydrolysis. In addition to these two contractile sites, there are also two different control sites. At one, the relaxing site, the binding of ATP with Mg inhibits ATP hydrolysis and gel contraction. At the other, the binding of calcium activates contraction by overcoming the inhibitory action of Mg and ATP at the relaxing site. This control system—inhibition by substrate and disinhibition by calcium—can be selectively inactivated by heat and reactivated by dithiothreitol, a disulfide-reducing agent. These observations on the isolated contractile system are discussed in relation to the contraction and relaxation of muscle. 相似文献
In attempting to understand the yield region of the α β transformation in keratins (Astbury and Woods, 1933), we recently proposed a statistical-mechanical model (David and Schor, 1965) which generalized the work done by others on the helix random coil transformation (Zimm and Bragg, 1959; Gibbs and DiMarzio, 1959) (thermal denaturation) to the case of a polypeptide under external tension (Birstein, 1962). We wish now to report the comparison of the quantitative aspects of this model to the observed tension-length isotherms (in the yield region) of Cotswold wool. 相似文献
The guinea pig seminal vesicle epithelium is an androgen-dependent tissue that synthesizes and secretes four major secretory proteins (SVP-1, SVP-2, SVP-3, and SVP-4). Sequencing of near full-length cDNA clones corresponding to the two most abundant mRNAs produced by the seminal vesicle reveals that all four secretory proteins are cleaved from two secretory protein precursors. Amino acid sequences from purified SVP-2 match the central region of the predicted amino acid sequences from the smaller cDNA clone, GP2 (581 nucleotides). Similar analysis demonstrates that the predicted amino acid sequence from the longer cDNA clone, GP1 (1368 nucleotides), codes for the related proteins SVP-3 and SVP-4 as well as SVP-1. The 43.2 kilodalton polyprotein precursor coded by GP1 contains two different sets of 24 amino acid tandemly repeated sequences. The two secretory protein precursors have extensive regions of peptide sequence homology, particularly in regions where protein processing must occur to produce the mature secretory proteins. Analysis of the predicted secondary structure of the two precursor polypeptides revealed a strong correlation between structural features and sites of protein processing. 相似文献
In anoxic salt marsh sediments of Sapelo Island, GA, USA, the vertical distribution of CH4 production was measured in the upper 20 cm of surface sediments in ten locations. In one section of high marsh sediments,
the concentration and oxidation of acetate in sediment porewaters and the rate and amount of14C acetate and14CO2 incorporation into cellular lipids of the microbial population were investigated. CH4 production rates ranged from <1 to 493 nM CH4 gram sediment−1 day−1 from intact subcores incubated under nitrogen. Replacement with H2 stimulated the rate of methane release up to nine fold relative to N2 incubations. Rates of lipid synthesis from CO2 averaged 39.2 ×10−2nanomoles lipid carbon cm3 sediment−1 hr−1, suggesting that CO2 may be an important carbon precursor for microbial membrane synthesis in marsh sediments under anoxic conditions. Qualitative
measurements of lipid synthesis rates from acetate were found to average 8.7 × 10−2 nanomoles. Phospholipids were the dominant lipids synthesized by both substrates in sediment cores, accounting for an average
of 76.6% of all lipid radioactivity. Small amounts of ether lipids indicative of methanogenic bacteria were observed in cores
incubated for 7 days, with similar rates of synthesis for both CO2 and acetate. The low rate of ether lipid synthesis suggests that either methanogen lipid biosynthesis is very slow or that
methanogens represent a small component of total microbial lipid synthesis in anoxic sediments.
present address: The University of Maryland,, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Box 38, Solomons, MD 20688, USA 相似文献