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Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh Yves Thierry Barogui Roch Christian Johnson Ange Dodji Dossou Michel Makoutodé Sévérin Y. Anagonou Luc Kestens Fran?oise Portaels 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2010,4(7)
Background
Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Buruli ulcer) is the most widespread mycobacterial disease in the world after leprosy and tuberculosis. How M. ulcerans is introduced into the skin of humans remains unclear, but it appears that individuals living in the same environment may have different susceptibilities.Objectives
This study aims to determine whether frequent contacts with natural water sources, family relationship or the practice of consanguineous marriages are associated with the occurrence of Buruli ulcer (BU).Design
Case control study.Setting
Department of Atlantique, Benin.Subjects
BU-confirmed cases that were diagnosed and followed up at the BU detection and treatment center (CDTUB) of Allada (Department of the Atlantique, Benin) during the period from January 1st, 2006, to June 30th, 2008, with three matched controls (persons who had no signs or symptoms of active or inactive BU) for age, gender and village of residence per case.Main Outcomes Measured
Contact with natural water sources, BU history in the family and the practice of consanguineous marriages.Results
A total of 416 participants were included in this study, including 104 cases and 312 controls. BU history in the family (p<0.001), adjusted by daily contact with a natural water source (p = 0.007), was significantly associated with higher odds of having BU (OR; 95% CI = 5.5; 3.0–10.0). The practice of consanguineous marriage was not associated with the occurrence of BU (p = 0.40). Mendelian disorders could explain this finding, which may influence individual susceptibility by impairing immunity.Conclusion
This study suggests that a combination of genetic factors and behavioral risk factors may increase the susceptibility for developing BU. 相似文献33.
Molecular evolutionary dynamics of cytochrome b in strepsirrhine primates: the phylogenetic significance of third-position transversions 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
DNA sequences of the complete cytochrome b gene are shown to contain robust
phylogenetic signal for the strepsirrhine primates (i.e., lemurs and
lorises). The phylogeny derived from these data conforms to other molecular
studies of strepsirrhine relationships despite the fact that uncorrected
nucleotide distances are high for nearly all intrastrepsirrhine
comparisons, with most in the 15%-20% range. Cytochrome b sequences support
the hypothesis that Malagasy lemuriforms and Afro-Asian lorisiforms each
comprise clades that share a sister- group relationship. A study (Adkins
and Honeycutt 1994) of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COII) gene
placed one Malagasy primate (Daubentonia) at the base of the strepsirrhine
clade, thereby suggesting a diphyletic Lemuriformes. The reanalysis of COII
third- position transversions, either alone or in combination with
cytochrome b third-position transversions, however, yields a tree that is
congruent with phylogenetic hypotheses derived from cytochrome b and other
genetic data sets.
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The effect of relaxed functional constraints on the photosynthetic gene rbcL in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic parasitic plants 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The photosynthetic gene rbcL has been lost or dramatically altered in some
lineages of nonphotosynthetic parasitic plants, but the dynamics of these
events following loss of photosynthesis and whether rbcL has sustained
functionally significant changes in photosynthetic parasitic plants are
unknown. To assess the changes to rbcL associated with the loss of
functional constraints for photosynthesis, nucleotide sequences from
nonparasitic and parasitic plants of Scrophulariales were used for
phylogeny reconstruction and character analysis. Plants in this group
display a broad range of parasitic abilities, from photosynthetic
("hemiparasites") to nonphotosynthetic ("holoparasites"). With the
exception of Conopholis (Orobanchaceae), the rbcL locus is present in all
parasitic plants of Scrophulariales examined. Several holoparasitic genera
included in this study, including Boschniakia, Epifagus, Orobanche, and
Hyobanche, have rbcL pseudogenes. However, the holoparasites Alectra
orobanchoides, Harveya capensis, Harveya purpurea, Lathraea clandestina,
Orobanche corymbosa, O. fasciculata, and Striga gesnerioides have intact
open reading frames (ORFs) for the rbcL gene. Phylogenetic hypotheses based
on rbcL are largely in agreement with those based on sequences of the
nonphotosynthetic genes rps2 and matK and show a single origin of
parasitism, and loss of photosynthesis and pseudogene formation have been
independently derived several times in Scrophulariales. The mutations in
rbcL in nonparasitic and hemiparasitic plants would result in largely
conservative amino acid substitutions, supporting the hypothesis that
functional proteins can experience only a limited range of changes, even in
minimally photosynthetic plants. In contrast, ORFs in some holoparasites
had many previously unobserved missense substitutions at functionally
important amino acid residues, suggesting that rbcL genes in these plants
have evolved under relaxed or altered functional constraints.
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Alternative splicing and protein function 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
AD?Neverov II?Artamonova RN?Nurtdinov D?Frishman MS?GelfandEmail author AA?Mironov 《BMC bioinformatics》2005,6(1):266
Background
Alternative splicing is a major mechanism of generating protein diversity in higher eukaryotes. Although at least half, and probably more, of mammalian genes are alternatively spliced, it was not clear, whether the frequency of alternative splicing is the same in different functional categories. The problem is obscured by uneven coverage of genes by ESTs and a large number of artifacts in the EST data. 相似文献36.
The components of hard tissues including dentin, enamel, cementum, bone and other calcified deposits, and mature and immature collagen pose problems for identification in routine hematoxylin and eosin (H & E) stained sections. Use of combinations of stains can demonstrate the components of hard tissues and soft tissues distinctly. We assessed the efficacy of the Verde Luz-orange G-acid fuchsin (VOF) stain for differentiating hard and soft connective tissues and compared results with other histochemical staining techniques. Eighty tissue sections comprising developing tooth (30), ossifying fibroma (30) and miscellaneous pathologies (20) expected to contain varying types of calcified tissues were stained with H & E, VOF, and Masson's trichrome (MT). In developing tooth, VOF demonstrated better differentiation of hard tissues, while it was comparable to MT for ossifying fibroma and miscellaneous pathologies. The intensity of staining was greater with VOF than with the other stains studied. VOF stains hard tissue components distinctly and gives good contrast with the surrounding connective tissue. VOF is comparable to MT, but has added advantages including single step staining, rapid and easy procedures, and it distinguishes the maturity of the tissues. 相似文献
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The method of affinity coelectrophoresis was used to study the binding of
nine representative glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-binding proteins, all thought
to play roles in nervous system development, to GAGs and proteoglycans
isolated from developing rat brain. Binding to heparin and non-neural
heparan and chondroitin sulfates was also measured. All nine
proteins-laminin-1, fibronectin, thrombospondin-1, NCAM, L1, protease
nexin-1, urokinase plasminogen activator, thrombin, and fibroblast growth
factor-2-bound brain heparan sulfate less strongly than heparin, but the
degree of difference in affinity varied considerably. Protease nexin-1
bound brain heparan sulfate only 1.8- fold less tightly than heparin
(Kdvalues of 35 vs. 20 nM, respectively), whereas NCAM and L1 bound heparin
well (Kd approximately 140 nM) but failed to bind detectably to brain
heparan sulfate (Kd>3 microM). Four proteins bound brain chondroitin
sulfate, with affinities equal to or a few fold stronger than the same
proteins displayed toward cartilage chondroitin sulfate. Overall, the
highest affinities were observed with intact heparan sulfate proteoglycans:
laminin-1's affinities for the proteoglycans cerebroglycan (glypican-2),
glypican-1 and syndecan-3 were 300- to 1800-fold stronger than its affinity
for brain heparan sulfate. In contrast, the affinities of fibroblast growth
factor-2 for cerebroglycan and for brain heparan sulfate were similar.
Interestingly, partial proteolysis of cerebroglycan resulted in a >400-
fold loss of laminin affinity. These data support the views that (1)
GAG-binding proteins can be differentially sensitive to variations in GAG
structure, and (2) core proteins can have dramatic, ligand-specific
influences on protein-proteoglycan interactions.
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R. D. DRANSFIELD R. BRIGHTWELL J. KIILU M. F. CHAUDHURY D. A. AD ABIE 《Medical and veterinary entomology》1989,3(1):83-95
Seasonal changes in the mean size of tsetse, Glossina pallidipes Austen, as indicated by wing vein length, were monitored during 1983-86 at Nguruman, southwestern Kenya. Changes in size of nulliparous females and wing fray category 1 males were shown to be correlated with the relative humidity 2 months before they were captured. Soil temperature when flies were in the pupal stage had much less effect. Size dependent mortality was demonstrated, with the mean size of flies emerging from pupae significantly less than that of field-caught flies. This mortality must occur at emergence, since there was no evidence of size-dependent mortality once the flies became available to the trap. Size was correlated with density-independent mortality acting on the parent population 2 months previously. It might therefore be possible to use size as an index of the intensity of such mortality. This could be useful when assessing the level of additional mortality required to suppress tsetse populations. 相似文献