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Nine white-rot fungal strains were screened for biodecolourization of brilliant green, cresol red, crystal violet, congo red
and orange II. Dichomitus squalens, Phlebia fascicularia and P. floridensis decolourized all of the dyes on solid agar medium and possessed better decolourization ability than Phanerochaete chrysosporium when tested in nitrogen-limited broth medium. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (2002) 28, 201–203 DOI: 10.1038/sj/jim/7000222
Received 12 July 2001/ Accepted in revised form 22 October 2001 相似文献
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S Patyar R Joshi DS Prasad Byrav A Prakash B Medhi BK Das 《Journal of biomedical science》2010,17(1):21
Resistance to conventional anticancer therapies in patients with advanced solid tumors has prompted the need of alternative
cancer therapies. Moreover, the success of novel cancer therapies depends on their selectivity for cancer cells with limited
toxicity to normal tissues. Several decades after Coley's work a variety of natural and genetically modified non-pathogenic
bacterial species are being explored as potential antitumor agents, either to provide direct tumoricidal effects or to deliver
tumoricidal molecules. Live, attenuated or genetically modified non-pathogenic bacterial species are capable of multiplying
selectively in tumors and inhibiting their growth. Due to their selectivity for tumor tissues, these bacteria and their spores
also serve as ideal vectors for delivering therapeutic proteins to tumors. Bacterial toxins too have emerged as promising
cancer treatment strategy. The most potential and promising strategy is bacteria based gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy.
Although it has shown successful results in vivo yet further investigation about the targeting mechanisms of the bacteria are required to make it a complete therapeutic approach
in cancer treatment. 相似文献
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Phylogenetic evidence for horizontal transmission of group I introns in the nuclear ribosomal DNA of mushroom-forming fungi 总被引:7,自引:3,他引:4
Group I introns were discovered inserted at the same position in the
nuclear small-subunit ribosomal DNA (nuc-ssu-rDNA) in several species of
homobasidiomycetes (mushroom-forming fungi). Based on conserved intron
sequences, a pair of intron-specific primers was designed for PCR
amplification and sequencing of intron-containing rDNA repeats. Using the
intron-specific primers together with flanking rDNA primers, a PCR assay
was conducted to determine presence or absence of introns in 39 species of
homobasidiomycetes. Introns were confined to the genera Panellus,
Clavicorona, and Lentinellus. Phylogenetic analyses of nuc-ssu-rDNA and
mitochondrial ssu-rDNA sequences suggest that Clavicorona and Lentinellus
are closely related, but that Panellus is not closely related to these. The
simplest explanation for the distribution of the introns is that they have
been twice independently gained via horizontal transmission, once on the
lineage leading to Panellus, and once on the lineage leading to Lentinellus
and Clavicorona. BLAST searches using the introns from Panellus and
Lentinellus as query sequences retrieved 16 other similar group I introns
of nuc-ssu-rDNA and nuclear large-subunit rDNA (nuc-lsu-rDNA) from fungal
and green algal hosts. Phylogenetic analyses of intron sequences suggest
that the mushroom introns are monophyletic, and are nested within a clade
that contains four other introns that insert at the same position as the
mushroom introns, two from different groups of fungi and two from green
algae. The distribution of host lineages and insertion sites among the
introns suggests that horizontal and vertical transmission, homing, and
transposition have been factors in intron evolution. As distinctive,
heritable features of nuclear rDNAs in certain lineages, group I introns
have promise as phylogenetic markers. Nevertheless, the possibility of
horizontal transmission and homing also suggest that their use poses
certain pitfalls.
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Rosemary J Redfield Wendy A Findlay Janine Bossé J Simon Kroll Andrew DS Cameron John HE Nash 《BMC evolutionary biology》2006,6(1):82-15
Background
Many bacteria can take up DNA, but the evolutionary history and function of natural competence and transformation remain obscure. The sporadic distribution of competence suggests it is frequently lost and/or gained, but this has not been examined in an explicitly phylogenetic context. Additional insight may come from the sequence specificity of uptake by species such as Haemophilus influenzae, where a 9 bp uptake signal sequence (USS) repeat is both highly overrepresented in the genome and needed for efficient DNA uptake. We used the distribution of competence genes and DNA uptake specificity in H. influenzae 's family, the Pasteurellaceae, to examine the ancestry of competence. 相似文献16.
Pim van Hooft Herbert HT Prins Wayne M Getz Anna E Jolles Sipke E van Wieren Barend J Greyling Paul D van Helden Armanda DS Bastos 《BMC evolutionary biology》2010,10(1):106
Background
The Y-chromosomal diversity in the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) population of Kruger National Park (KNP) is characterized by rainfall-driven haplotype frequency shifts between year cohorts. Stable Y-chromosomal polymorphism is difficult to reconcile with haplotype frequency variations without assuming frequency-dependent selection or specific interactions in the population dynamics of X- and Y-chromosomal genes, since otherwise the fittest haplotype would inevitably sweep to fixation. Stable Y-chromosomal polymorphism due one of these factors only seems possible when there are Y-chromosomal distorters of an equal sex ratio, which act by negatively affecting X-gametes, or Y-chromosomal suppressors of a female-biased sex ratio. These sex-ratio (SR) genes modify (suppress) gamete transmission in their own favour at a fitness cost, allowing for stable polymorphism. 相似文献17.
Parent presence, delayed dispersal, and territory acquisition in the Seychelles warbler 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The presence of parents in the natal territory may play an important,but often overlooked, role in natal dispersal and the consequentacquisition of a territory. Living with parents in a territorymay confer a fitness advantage to subordinates through, forexample, the nepotistic behavior of the parents or indirectbenefits gained by helping to raise nondescendent kin. Whena parent is replaced by a stepparent, such advantages are reducedor disappear and, as a result, subordinates may disperse. Subordinatesthat disperse after parent replacement may be constrained intheir timing of dispersal, which could have negative fitnessconsequences. In the cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler,we show that when a parent was naturally replaced or experimentallyremoved and subsequently replaced by a stepparent from outsidethe territory, subordinates were more likely to disperse thanwhen both parents remained in the natal territory. Furthermore,subordinates dispersing from territories in which one or bothparents had been replaced were less likely to acquire a breederposition than subordinates dispersing when both parents werestill on the natal territory. Our findings suggest that thepresence of parents in the natal territory may promote delayeddispersal and facilitate the eventual acquisition of a breederposition outside the natal territory. Our results support theidea that the prolonged parental care, which long-lived speciesare able to provide, may have selected for family living. 相似文献
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Repeated evolution of an acetate-crossfeeding polymorphism in long-term populations of Escherichia coli 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Six out of 12 independent replicate populations of Escherichia coli
maintained in long-term glucose-limited continuous culture for up to
approximately 1,750 generations evolve polymorphisms maintained by acetate
crossfeeding. In all cases, the acetate-crossfeeding phenotype is
associated with semiconstitutive overexpression of acetyl CoA synthetase,
which allows for the enhanced uptake of low levels of exogenous acetate.
Mutations in the 5' regulatory region of the acetyl CoA synthetase locus
are responsible for all the acetate crossfeeding phenotypes found. These
changes were either transposable-element insertions or a single T-->A
nucleotide substitution at position -93 relative to the acs gene
translation start site.
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Background
Extensive focus is placed on the comparative analyses of consensus genotypes in the study of West Nile virus (WNV) emergence. Few studies account for genetic change in the underlying WNV quasispecies population variants. These variants are not discernable in the consensus genome at the time of emergence, and the maintenance of mutation-selection equilibria of population variants is greatly underestimated. The emergence of lineage 1 WNV strains has been studied extensively, but recent epidemics caused by lineage 2 WNV strains in Hungary, Austria, Greece and Italy emphasizes the increasing importance of this lineage to public health. In this study we explored the quasispecies dynamics of minority variants that contribute to cell-tropism and host determination, i.e. the ability to infect different cell types or cells from different species from Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data of a historic lineage 2 WNV strain.Results
Minority variants contributing to host cell membrane association persist in the viral population without contributing to the genetic change in the consensus genome. Minority variants are shown to maintain a stable mutation-selection equilibrium under positive selection, particularly in the capsid gene region.Conclusions
This study is the first to infer positive selection and the persistence of WNV haplotype variants that contribute to viral fitness without accompanying genetic change in the consensus genotype, documented solely from NGS sequence data. The approach used in this study streamlines the experimental design seeking viral minority variants accurately from NGS data whilst minimizing the influence of associated sequence error. 相似文献20.
In an isolated population of Drosophila melanogaster on Ishigaki Island the
chromosomal distribution of several retrotransposons, including copia, 412,
297, 17.6, I, and jockey elements, was examined by in situ hybridization.
In this population the cosmopolitan inversion, In(2L)t, is known to exist
in high frequency. One major haplotype concerning the occupied sites of the
transposable elements was identified in the In(2L)t-carrying chromosomes.
This haplotype is suggested to be the ancestral one. The age of the
inversion in this local population was estimated to be 1,400 generations.
The transposition rates of these elements were estimated based on the age
of the inversion and the number of the elements lost and gained. The
excision rates were in the range from 9.13 x 10(-5) to 2.25 x 10(-4) per
site per generation. They were similar each other in the copia-like
elements as well as in the LINE-like elements. The rate was higher in the
copia-like elements than in the LINE-like elements. Insertions occurred in
the range from 6.79 x 10(-4) to 9.05 x 10(-4) per element per generation.
It is herein shown that both insertions and excisions occurred at a
significantly higher rate in this population than in the laboratory.
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