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Rick PD; Hubbard GL; Kitaoka M; Nagaki H; Kinoshita T; Dowd S; Simplaceanu V; Ho C 《Glycobiology》1998,8(6):557-567
The polysaccharide chains of enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) consist
of linear trisaccharide repeat units with the structure -->3)-
alpha-d-Fuc4NAc-(1-->4)-beta-d-ManNAcA-(1-->
4)-alpha-d-GlcNAc-(1-->, where Fuc4NAc is 4-acetamido-4,
6-dideoxy-d-galactose, ManNAcA is N - acetyl-d- mannosaminuronic acid, and
GlcNAc is N -acetyl-d-glucosamine. The major form of ECA (ECAPG) consists
of polysaccharide chains that are believed to be covalently linked to
diacylglycerol through phosphodiester linkage; the phospholipid moiety
functions to anchor molecules in the outer membrane. The ECA trisaccharide
repeat unit is assembled as a polyisoprenyl-linked intermediate which has
been tentatively identified as Fuc4NAc-ManNAcA-GlcNAc-
pyrophosphorylundecaprenol (lipid III). Subsequent chain-elongation
presumably occurs by a block-polymerization mechanism. However, the
identity of the polyisoprenoid carrier-lipid has not been established.
Accordingly, the current studies were conducted in an effort to
structurally characterize the polyisoprenyl lipid-carrier involved in ECA
synthesis. Isolation and characterization of the lipid carrier was
facilitated by the accumulation of a ManNAcA-GlcNAc-
pyrophosphorylpolyisoprenyl lipid (lipid II) in mutants of Salmonella
typhimurium defective in the synthesis of TDP-Fuc4NAc, the donor of Fuc4NAc
residues for ECA synthesis. Analyses of lipid II preparations by fast atom
bombardment tandem mass spectroscopy (FAB-MS/MS) resulted in the
identification of the lipid-carrier as the 55-carbon polyisoprenyl alcohol,
undecaprenol. These analyses also resulted in the identification of a novel
glycolipid which copurified with lipid II. FAB-MS/MS analyses of this
glycolipid revealed its structure to be 1,2-diacyl- sn
-glycero-3-pryophosphoryl-GlcNAc-ManNAcA (DGP- disaccharide). An
examination of purified ECAPGby phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy confirmed that the polysaccharide chains are linked to
diacylglycerol through phosphodiester linkage. Thus, DGP-disaccharide does
not appear to be an intermediate in ECAPGsynthesis. Nevertheless, although
the available evidence clearly indicate that lipid II is a precursor of
DGP-disaccharide, the function of this novel glycolipid is not yet known,
and it may be an intermediate in the biosynthesis of a molecule other than
ECAPG.
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角质形成细胞生长因子(KGF)在喉粘膜良性、癌前及恶性病变中的mRNA水平分析 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
利用原位杂交的方法检测KGFmRNA在正常喉粘膜上皮(N)、慢性非特异性炎症(IF)、不典型增生(DYS)及鳞癌(SCC)中的转录水平,探讨KGF在喉粘膜良性及恶性病变中的分布和可能的作用。结果表明,KGFmRNA不仅在间质中的成纤维细胞中表达,少量的炎细胞及血管内皮细胞中亦表达,而且从N、IF、DYS到SCC、KGFmRNA转录水平逐渐增强;上皮细胞及肿瘤性上皮细胞不表达KGFmRNA,KGFmRNA在分化差的SCC周围间质中表达较分化好的SCC周围间质增多。结论:KGF在上皮与间充质细胞的交互作用中发挥着重要的作用,对维持喉粘膜正常结构、代谢及喉癌的发生发展具有重要意义。 相似文献
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A genome survey of Moniliophthora perniciosa gives new insights into Witches' Broom Disease of cacao
Jorge MC Mondego Marcelo F Carazzolle Gustavo GL Costa Eduardo F Formighieri Lucas P Parizzi Johana Rincones Carolina Cotomacci Dirce M Carraro Anderson F Cunha Helaine Carrer Ramon O Vidal Raíssa C Estrela Odalys García Daniela PT Thomazella Bruno V de Oliveira Acássia BL Pires Carolina S Maria Rio Marcos Renato R Araújo Marcos H de Moraes Luis AB Castro Karina P Gramacho Marilda S Gonçalves José P Moura Neto Aristóteles Góes Neto Luciana V Barbosa Mark J Guiltinan Bryan A Bailey Lyndel W Meinhardt Julio CM Cascardo Gonçalo AG Pereira 《BMC genomics》2008,9(1):1-25
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The capacity of normal human cells to regulate DNA-repair pathways was examined. Synchronous populations of WI-38 human diploid fibroblasts were used to determine whether base-excision repair was increased as a function of the cell cycle. 2 parameters of the base-excision repair pathway were examined: (1) The induction of the DNA-repair enzyme uracil DNA glycosylase which functions in an initial step in base excision repair: (2) cell-mediated base-excision repair as measured by unscheduled DNA synthesis after exposure to sodium bisulfite or to methyl methanesulfonate. The glycosylase activity was increased 5-fold during cell proliferation; unscheduled DNA synthesis was enhanced 4- to 30-fold in a similar fashion. Equivalent results were observed where repair replication was quantitated using density-gradient analysis in the absence of hydroxyurea. The increase of the activity of the uracil DNA glycosylase and the enhancement of DNA repair occurred prior to the induction of DNA replication. Furthermore, at the maximal stimulation of DNA replication both glycosylase activity and DNA repair had substantially diminished. As the cells entered the second cell cycle, the glycosylase activity was again increased and then was again diminished. These results suggest that human cells actively modulate this DNA-repair pathway. The temporal stimulation of base-excision repair suggests the possibility that a DNA-repair complex may be formed prior to DNA replication to prescreen DNA and thus ensure the transfer of the correct genetic information to daughter cells. 相似文献
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Concerted transpositions of mobile genetic elements coupled with fitness changes in Drosophila melanogaster 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Pasyukova EG; Belyaeva ES; Kogan GL; Kaidanov LZ; Gvozdev VA 《Molecular biology and evolution》1986,3(4):299-312
In an inbred low-activity (LA) strain of Drosophila melanogaster with a low
level of fitness and a complex of inadaptive characters, in situ
hybridization reveals an invariant pattern of distribution of three
copia-like elements (mdg-1, mdg-3, and copia). Rare, spontaneous, multiple
transpositions of mobile elements in the LA strain were shown to be coupled
with a drastic increase of fitness. A changed pattern of various types of
mobile elements was also observed on selecting the LA strain for higher
fitness. High-fitness strains show transpositions of mobile elements to
definite chromosomal sites ("hot spots"). Concerted changes in the location
of three different mobile elements were found to be coupled with an
increase of fitness. The mdg-1 distribution patterns were also examined in
two low-fitness strains independently selected from the high-fitness ones.
Fitness decrease was accompanied by mdg-1 excision from the hot spots of
their location usually detected in the high-fitness strains. The results
suggest the existence of a system of adaptive transpositions of mobile
elements that takes part in fitness control.
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Abstract: Isopod crustaceans are rarely preserved in the fossil record. Herein, an appraisal of the fossil record for the cirolanid isopods is presented. Five genera are briefly discussed, including Bathynomus, Brunnaega, Palaega, Pseudopalaega and Cirolana. A key for the cirolanid genera known to date from the fossil record is provided based mostly on pleotelson characters. From the early Miocene of the Slovak part of the Vienna Basin, Cirolana feldmanni sp. nov. is described being only the fifth fossil Cirolana species known to date and one of the few with preserved appendages. The material exhibits preservation suggesting biphasic moulting; the mode of preservation suggests a rather short time between shedding the posterior and anterior parts of the exoskeleton instead of hours or even days known in extant taxa. As no subsequent transport or physical disturbance was inferred, the specimens can be stated as in situ preservation. From the palaeoecological point of view, it is concluded that Cirolana feldmanni sp. nov. is the first unequivocal fossil deep‐water Cirolana as suggested by the accompanied fauna. 相似文献