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Sattley WM Madigan MT Swingley WD Cheung PC Clocksin KM Conrad AL Dejesa LC Honchak BM Jung DO Karbach LE Kurdoglu A Lahiri S Mastrian SD Page LE Taylor HL Wang ZT Raymond J Chen M Blankenship RE Touchman JW 《Journal of bacteriology》2008,190(13):4687-4696
Despite the fact that heliobacteria are the only phototrophic representatives of the bacterial phylum Firmicutes, genomic analyses of these organisms have yet to be reported. Here we describe the complete sequence and analysis of the genome of Heliobacterium modesticaldum, a thermophilic species belonging to this unique group of phototrophs. The genome is a single 3.1-Mb circular chromosome containing 3,138 open reading frames. As suspected from physiological studies of heliobacteria that have failed to show photoautotrophic growth, genes encoding enzymes for known autotrophic pathways in other phototrophic organisms, including ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (Calvin cycle), citrate lyase (reverse citric acid cycle), and malyl coenzyme A lyase (3-hydroxypropionate pathway), are not present in the H. modesticaldum genome. Thus, heliobacteria appear to be the only known anaerobic anoxygenic phototrophs that are not capable of autotrophy. Although for some cellular activities, such as nitrogen fixation, there is a full complement of genes in H. modesticaldum, other processes, including carbon metabolism and endosporulation, are more genetically streamlined than they are in most other low-G+C gram-positive bacteria. Moreover, several genes encoding photosynthetic functions in phototrophic purple bacteria are not present in the heliobacteria. In contrast to the nutritional flexibility of many anoxygenic phototrophs, the complete genome sequence of H. modesticaldum reveals an organism with a notable degree of metabolic specialization and genomic reduction. 相似文献
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Evidence of independent gene duplications during the evolution of archaeal and eukaryotic family B DNA polymerases 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Eukaryotes and archaea both possess multiple genes coding for family B DNA
polymerases. In animals and fungi, three family B DNA polymerases, alpha,
delta, and epsilon, are responsible for replication of nuclear DNA. We used
a PCR-based approach to amplify and sequence phylogenetically conserved
regions of these three DNA polymerases from Giardia intestinalis and
Trichomonas vaginalis, representatives of early-diverging eukaryotic
lineages. Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic and archaeal paralogs
suggests that the gene duplications that gave rise to the three replicative
paralogs occurred before the divergence of the earliest eukaryotic
lineages, and that all eukaryotes are likely to possess these paralogs. One
eukaryotic paralog, epsilon, consistently branches within archaeal
sequences to the exclusion of other eukaryotic paralogs, suggesting that an
epsilon-like family B DNA polymerase was ancestral to both archaea and
eukaryotes. Because crenarchaeote and euryarchaeote paralogs do not form
monophyletic groups in phylogenetic analysis, it is possible that archaeal
family B paralogs themselves evolved by a series of gene duplications
independent of the gene duplications that gave rise to eukaryotic paralogs.
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Jeroen CW Rijk Ad ACM Peijnenburg Peter JM Hendriksen Johan M Van Hende Maria J Groot Michel WF Nielen 《BMC veterinary research》2010,6(1):44
Background
Within the European Union the use of growth promoting agents in animal production is prohibited. Illegal use of natural prohormones like dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is hard to prove since prohormones are strongly metabolized in vivo. In the present study, we investigated the feasibility of a novel effect-based approach for monitoring abuse of DHEA. Changes in gene expression profiles were studied in livers of bull calves treated orally (PO) or intramuscularly (IM) with 1000 mg DHEA versus two control groups, using bovine 44K DNA microarrays. In contrast to controlled genomics studies, this work involved bovines purchased at the local market on three different occasions with ages ranging from 6 to 14 months, thereby reflecting the real life inter-animal variability due to differences in age, individual physiology, season and diet. 相似文献14.
Recently, a group of diplomonads has been found to use a genetic code in
which TAA and TAG encode glutamine rather than termination. To survey the
distribution of this characteristic in diplomonads, we sought to identify
TAA and TAG codons at positions where glutamine is expected in genes for
alpha-tubulin, elongation factor-1 alpha, and the gamma subunit of
eukaryotic translation initiation factor-2. These sequences show that the
variant genetic code is utilized by almost all diplomonads, with the genus
Giardia alone using the universal genetic code. Comparative phylogenetic
analysis reveals that the switch to this genetic code took place very early
in the evolution of diplomonads and was likely a single event. Termination
signals and downstream untranslated regions were also cloned from three
Hexamita genes. In all three of these genes, the predicted TGA termination
codon was found at the expected position. Interestingly, the untranslated
regions of these genes are high in AT. This is incongruent with the coding
regions, which are comparatively GC-rich.
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Eight strains of chemoorganotrophic bacteria were isolated from the water column of Lake Hoare, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, using cold enrichment temperatures. The isolates were Alpha-, Beta-, and Gammaproteobacteria and Actinobacteria spp. All isolates grew at 0 degrees C, and all but one grew at subzero temperatures characteristic of the water column of Lake Hoare. Growth temperature optima varied among isolates, but the majority showed optima near 15 degrees C, indicative of cold-active phenotypes. One isolate was truly psychrophilic, growing optimally around 10 degrees C and not above 20 degrees C. Half of the isolates grew at 2% salt while the other half did not, and all but one isolate grew at 2 atm of O(2). Our isolates are the first prokaryotes from the water column of Lake Hoare to be characterized phylogenetically and physiologically and show that cold-active species of at least two major phyla of Bacteria inhabit Lake Hoare. 相似文献
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Jonathan WF Mant Suzanne H Richards FD Richard Hobbs David Fitzmaurice Gregory YH Lip Ellen Murray Miriam Banting Kate Fletcher Joy Rahman Teresa Allan James Raftery Stirling Bryan 《BMC cardiovascular disorders》2003,3(1):1-10
Background
Statins effectively lower blood cholesterol and the risk of cardiovascular death. Immunomodulatory actions, independent of their lipid-lowering effect, have also been ascribed to these compounds. Since macrophages participate in several vascular pathologies, we examined the effect of statin treatment on the survival and differentiation of primary human monocytes.Methods
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from healthy individuals were cultured in the presence or absence of mevastatin. Apoptosis was monitored by annexin V / PI staining and flow cytometry. In parallel experiments, cultures were stimulated with LPS in the presence or absence of mevastatin and the release of IL-1β and IL-1Ra was measured by ELISA.Results
Among PBMCs, mevastatin-treated monocytes were particularly susceptible to apoptosis, which occurred at doses >1 microM and was already maximal at 5 microM. However, even at the highest mevastatin dose used (10 microM), apoptosis occurred only after 24 h of culture, possibly reflecting a requirement for cell commitment to differentiation. After 72 h of treatment the vast majority (>50%) of monocytes were undergoing apoptosis. Stimulation with LPS revealed that mevastatin-treated monocytes retained the high IL-1β output characteristic of undifferentiated cells; conversely, IL-1Ra release was inhibited. Concurrent treatment with mevalonolactone prevented the induction of apoptosis and suppressed both IL-1β and IL-1Ra release in response to LPS, suggesting a rate-limiting role for HMG-CoA reductase in monocyte differentiation.Conclusions
Our findings indicate that statins arrest the functional differentiation of monocytes into macrophages and steer these cells into apoptosis, suggesting a novel mechanism for the vasculoprotective properties of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. 相似文献18.
E?BaptesteEmail author E?Susko J?Leigh D?MacLeod RL?Charlebois WF?Doolittle 《BMC evolutionary biology》2005,5(1):33
Background
Since Darwin's Origin of Species, reconstructing the Tree of Life has been a goal of evolutionists, and tree-thinking has become a major concept of evolutionary biology. Practically, building the Tree of Life has proven to be tedious. Too few morphological characters are useful for conducting conclusive phylogenetic analyses at the highest taxonomic level. Consequently, molecular sequences (genes, proteins, and genomes) likely constitute the only useful characters for constructing a phylogeny of all life. For this reason, tree-makers expect a lot from gene comparisons. The simultaneous study of the largest number of molecular markers possible is sometimes considered to be one of the best solutions in reconstructing the genealogy of organisms. This conclusion is a direct consequence of tree-thinking: if gene inheritance conforms to a tree-like model of evolution, sampling more of these molecules will provide enough phylogenetic signal to build the Tree of Life. The selection of congruent markers is thus a fundamental step in simultaneous analysis of many genes. 相似文献19.
Ouabain-insensitive salt and water movements in duck red cells. II. The role of chloride in the volume response 下载免费PDF全文
This paper describes the effect of external chloride on the typical swelling response induced in duck red cells by hypertonicity or norepinephrine. Lowering chloride inhibits swelling and produces concomitant changes in net movements of sodium and potassium in ouabain-treated cells, which resemble the effect of lowering external sodium or potassium. Inhibition is the same whether chloride is replaced with gluconate or with an osmotic equivalent of sucrose. Since changes in external chloride also cause predictable changes in cell chloride, pH, and water, these variables were systematically investigated by varying external pH along with chloride. Lowering pH to 6.60 does not abolish the response if external chloride levels are normal, although the cells are initially swollen due to the increased acidity. Cells deliberately preswollen in hypotonic solutions with appropriate ionic composition can also respond to norepinephrine by further swelling. These results rule out initial values of cell water, chloride, and pH as significant variables affecting the response. Initial values of the chloride equilibrium potential do have marked effect on the direction and rate of net water movement. If chloride is lowered by replacement with the permeant anion, acetate, E(Cl) is unchanged and a normal response to norepinephrine, which is inhibited by furosemide, is observed. Increasing internal sodium by the nystatin technique also inhibits the response. A theory is developed which depicts that the cotransport carrier proposed in the previous paper (W.F. Schmidt and T.J. McManus. 1977b. J. Gen. Physiol. 70:81-97) moves in response to the net electrochemical potential difference driving sodium and potassium across the membrane. Predictions of this theory fit the data for both cations and anions. 相似文献
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Restriction-map variation with the yellow-achaete-scute region in five populations of Drosophila melanogaster 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
It has been proposed that the degree of recombination for a genomic region
will affect the level of both nucleotide heterozygosity and the density of
transposable elements. Both features of genomic diversity have been
examined in a number of recent reports for regions undergoing relatively
normal levels of recombination in Drosophila melanogaster. In this study
the genomic variation associated with yellow-achaete- scute loci located at
the tip of the X chromosome is examined by six- cutter restriction mapping.
In this region, as usual for regions adjacent to telomeres, crossing-over
is dramatically reduced, and published studies of visible mutants indicate
extremely little restriction-map variation. Eight six-cutter restriction
endonucleases were used to locate sequence variation in 14- and 16.5-kb
regions in 109 lines sampled from North America, Africa, and Europe. The
overall level of heterozygosity is estimated as 0.29%. Nine large
insertions, all presumed to be transposable elements, were observed.
Base-pair heterozygosity appears to be reduced compared with regions having
normal levels of recombination. The estimated heterozygosity is much higher
than reported in earlier studies of restriction-map variation among visible
mutations in the complex. The incidence of large insertions is not elevated
compared with that in other regions of the genome. This suggests that
asymmetric synapsis and exchange is not an important mechanism for the
elimination of transposable elements.
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