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D. Mercanti A. Angelini MT. Ciotti ML. Eboli C. Galli L. Battistini D. Merlo P. Calissano 《Cytotechnology》1993,11(Z1):S117-S119
The neurite outgrowth and adhesion complex (NOAC), isolated from rabbit sera has been dissociated in its major components by reverse-phase chromatography in HPLC by using a C18 column. SDS-PAGE analisys of the active fractions revealed the presence of three major bands of approximately 100, 70 and 50 kDa. Studies on the biological activity of NOAC were carried out on rat cerebellar granule cells. NOAC-cultured cells exhibit a marked resistance to excitotoxic stimuli carried by glutamate. 相似文献
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Molecular evolution of chloroplast DNA sequences 总被引:13,自引:1,他引:12
Comparative data on the evolution of chloroplast genes are reviewed. The
chloroplast genome has maintained a similar structural organization over
most plant taxa so far examined. Comparisons of nucleotide sequence
divergence among chloroplast genes reveals marked similarity across the
plant kingdom and beyond to the cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). Estimates
of rates of nucleotide substitution indicate a synonymous rate of 1.1 x
10(-9) substitutions per site per year. Noncoding regions also appear to be
constrained in their evolution, although addition/deletion events are
common. There have also been evolutionary changes in the distribution of
introns in chloroplast encoded genes. Relative to mammalian mitochondrial
DNA, the chloroplast genome evolves at a conservative rate.
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High nucleotide sequence variation in a region of low recombination in Drosophila simulans is consistent with the background selection model 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
We surveyed nucleotide sequence variation at glucose dehydrogenase (Gld),
in a region of low recombination on chromosome 3R, from a population sample
of Drosophila simulans. The levels of nucleotide variation were
surprisingly high. There was no departure from the expectation of a neutral
model for the level of polymorphism, indicating no evidence of a selective
sweep in this region. There was a significant deficiency of singleton
polymorphisms according to the Fu and Li test, although Tajima and Hudson,
Kreitman, and Aguade (HKA) tests do not provide evidence of a significant
elevation of variation due to balancing selection. Genetic map data for the
D. simulans third chromosome were used to calculate expected values of pi
for Gld under a current model of background selection, varying the values
for the parameter sh (selection coefficient against deleterious mutations).
We show that the recombinational landscape of D. simulans is sufficiently
different from that of D. melanogaster that we expect higher variation
under the background selection model, even when effective population sizes
are assumed to be equal. The data for Gld were tested against the
predictions using computer simulations of the distribution of the number of
segregating sites conditioned on pi. Background selection alone can explain
our observations as long as sh is larger than 0.005 and species-level
effective population size is assumed to be several- fold larger than in D.
melanogaster. Alternatively, the deleterious mutation rate may be smaller
in D. simulans, or balancing selection may be acting nearby, thereby
reducing the effect of background selection.
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Comparative evolutionary analysis of rDNA ITS regions in Drosophila 总被引:17,自引:2,他引:15
Schlotterer C; Hauser MT; von Haeseler A; Tautz D 《Molecular biology and evolution》1994,11(3):513-522
The internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of the ribosomal DNA is generally
considered to be under low functional constraint, and it is therefore often
treated as a typical nonfunctional spacer sequence. We have analyzed the
ITS regions of five species from the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup, two
Drosophila species from outside this group (D. pseudoobscura and D.
virilis), as well as from the more distantly related dipteran fly Musca
domestica. The sequence comparisons show a distinctive
conservation/divergence pattern, indicating that some regions are more
conserved than others. Moreover, secondary-structure calculations indicate
several conserved structural elements within the ITS regions. On the other
hand, a statistical test that allows us to estimate the fraction of sites
that are not under selective constraint suggests that more than half of the
spacer is apparently free to diverge and evolves with a rate that is close
to the neutral rate of sequence evolution in Drosophila. The ITS sequences
can be used to derive a molecular phylogeny for the species under study. We
find that the ITS tree is largely in line with the so-far-known phylogeny
of this group of species, with one difference. The species most distant
within the D. melanogaster subgroup is D. yakuba, rather than D. orena, as
is normally assumed.
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Lampert FM Matt P Grapow M Lefkovits I Zerkowski HR Grussenmeyer T 《Journal of proteome research》2007,6(11):4458-4468
Most of the biologically relevant data on cardiomyocytes are derived from isolated cells under conditions that are, to some extent, altered compared to the natural milieu of the functional heart. The handling procedure of the dissection, isolation, and short-term culturing induces changes in the cells such that the subsequently measured parameters (among others, the protein synthesis) reflect the actual experimental conduct rather than the intrinsic properties of these terminally differentiated cells. Although it is known that the protein synthetic machinery of isolated cardiomyocytes is operational and functional, the biosynthetic yield of human cardiomyocytes in the natural milieu of the trabeculae remains to be established, with a special emphasis to clarify whether the protein synthesis includes just a limited set of polypeptides or it encompasses all cellular constituents. Knowledge on this issue is a prerequisite for achieving further advances in our understanding of heart remodeling related to hypertrophy in particular, and for attempting interventions leading to repair of damaged heart in general. The experimental system of "organ bath" enables simultaneous registration of contractile forces of portions of cardiac muscle tissue (and other myocyte-containing tissues) and biosynthetic labeling of newly synthesized cellular constituents. The organ bath methodology was adapted for this project such as enabling to measure molecular changes in response to in vitro applied stimuli. Instead of Krebs-Henseleit-solution, as used in classical protocols of organ bath studies, we utilized cell culture media suitable to experimental conditions related to metabolic labeling. Proteome patterns established by performing two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of the extracts from biosynthetically labeled trabeculae revealed that cardiomyocytes synthesize the full spectrum of cellular proteins. Proteomic silver-stain readout was used to obtain samples for spot excisions, as material suitable for mass spectrometric analysis. Protein spots were identified both from the excised spots and also by matching with the in-house- and www-databases (Swiss-Prot/High-Performance Heart). From our findings that protein synthesis in terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes is not confined just to the synthesis of those structures needed for the post-mitotic house-keeping functions, we conclude that this model might serve as a valid experimental system to study and elucidate the effects of various pharmacological compounds under conditions where physiology (contractile forces) and biochemistry (protein synthesis) of intact human heart tissue are monitored simultaneously. 相似文献
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Ruoqi Peng Sriram Sridhar Gaurav Tyagi Jonathan E. Phillips Rosario Garrido Paul Harris Lisa Burns Lorena Renteria John Woods Leena Chen John Allard Palanikumar Ravindran Hans Bitter Zhenmin Liang Cory M. Hogaboam Chris Kitson David C. Budd Jay S. Fine Carla MT. Bauer Christopher S. Stevenson 《PloS one》2013,8(4)
The preclinical model of bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis, used to investigate mechanisms related to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), has incorrectly predicted efficacy for several candidate compounds suggesting that it may be of limited value. As an attempt to improve the predictive nature of this model, integrative bioinformatic approaches were used to compare molecular alterations in the lungs of bleomycin-treated mice and patients with IPF. Using gene set enrichment analysis we show for the first time that genes differentially expressed during the fibrotic phase of the single challenge bleomycin model were significantly enriched in the expression profiles of IPF patients. The genes that contributed most to the enrichment were largely involved in mitosis, growth factor, and matrix signaling. Interestingly, these same mitotic processes were increased in the expression profiles of fibroblasts isolated from rapidly progressing, but not slowly progressing, IPF patients relative to control subjects. The data also indicated that TGFβ was not the sole mediator responsible for the changes observed in this model since the ALK-5 inhibitor SB525334 effectively attenuated some but not all of the fibrosis associated with this model. Although some would suggest that repetitive bleomycin injuries may more effectively model IPF-like changes, our data do not support this conclusion. Together, these data highlight that a single bleomycin instillation effectively replicates several of the specific pathogenic molecular changes associated with IPF, and may be best used as a model for patients with active disease. 相似文献
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Norimah AK H. C. Koo Hamid Jan JM Mohd Nasir MT S. Y. Tan Mahendran Appukutty Nurliyana AR Frank Thielecke Sinead Hopkins M. K. Ong C. Ning E. S. Tee 《PloS one》2015,10(10)