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Cristina Ramo Juan A. Amat Leif Nilsson Vincent Schricke Mariano Rodríguez-Alonso Enrique Gómez-Crespo Fernando Jubete Juan G. Navedo José A. Masero Jesús Palacios Mathieu Boos Andy J. Green 《PloS one》2015,10(10)
The unusually high quality of census data for large waterbirds in Europe facilitates the study of how population change varies across a broad geographical range and relates to global change. The wintering population of the greylag goose Anser anser in the Atlantic flyway spanning between Sweden and Spain has increased from 120 000 to 610 000 individuals over the past three decades, and expanded its wintering range northwards. Although population sizes recorded in January have increased in all seven countries in the wintering range, we found a pronounced northwards latitudinal effect in which the rate of increase is higher at greater latitudes, causing a constant shift in the centre of gravity for the spatial distribution of wintering geese. Local winter temperatures have a strong influence on goose numbers but in a manner that is also dependent on latitude, with the partial effect of temperature (while controlling for the increasing population trend between years) being negative at the south end and positive at the north end of the flyway. Contrary to assumptions in the literature, the expansion of crops exploited by greylag geese has made little contribution to the increases in population size. Only in one case (expansion of winter cereals in Denmark) did we find evidence of an effect of changing land use. The expanding and shifting greylag population is likely to have increasing impacts on habitats in northern Europe during the course of this century. 相似文献
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Takeda Y Nystoriak MA Nieves-Cintrón M Santana LF Navedo MF 《American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology》2011,301(6):H2285-H2294
Ca(+) sparklets are subcellular Ca(2+) signals produced by the opening of sarcolemmal L-type Ca(2+) channels. Ca(2+) sparklet activity varies within the sarcolemma of arterial myocytes. In this study, we examined the relationship between Ca(2+) sparklet activity and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) accumulation and release in cerebral arterial myocytes. Our data indicate that the SR is a vast organelle with multiple regions near the sarcolemma of these cells. Ca(2+) sparklet sites were located at or <0.2 μm from SR-sarcolemmal junctions. We found that while Ca(2+) sparklets increase the rate of SR Ca(2+) refilling in arterial myocytes, their activity did not induce regional variations in SR Ca(2+) content or Ca(2+) spark activity. In arterial myocytes, L-type Ca(2+) channel activity was independent of SR Ca(2+) load. This ruled out a potential feedback mechanism whereby SR Ca(2+) load regulates the activity of these channels. Together, our data suggest a model in which Ca(2+) sparklets contribute Ca(2+) influx into a cytosolic Ca(2+) pool from which sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca(2+)-ATPase pumps Ca(2+) into the SR, indirectly regulating SR function. 相似文献
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Yuansha Chen Peter Bystricky Jacob Adeyeye Pinaki Panigrahi Afsar Ali Judith A Johnson CA Bush JG MorrisJr OC Stine 《BMC microbiology》2007,7(1):20
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In V. cholerae, the biogenesis of capsule polysaccharide is poorly understood. The elucidation of capsule structure and biogenesis is critical to understanding the evolution of surface polysaccharide and the internal relationship between the capsule and LPS in this species. V. cholerae serogroup O31 NRT36S, a human pathogen that produces a heat-stable enterotoxin (NAG-ST), is encapsulated. Here, we report the covalent structure and studies of the biogenesis of the capsule in V. cholerae NRT36S. 相似文献45.
Phosphorylation of Cav1.2 on S1928 uncouples the L‐type Ca2+ channel from the β2 adrenergic receptor 下载免费PDF全文
Tommaso Patriarchi Hai Qian Valentina Di Biase Zulfiquar A Malik Dhrubajyoti Chowdhury Jennifer L Price Erik A Hammes Olivia R Buonarati Ruth E Westenbroek William A Catterall Franz Hofmann Yang K Xiang Geoffrey G Murphy Chao‐Ye Chen Manuel F Navedo Johannes W Hell 《The EMBO journal》2016,35(12):1330-1345
Agonist‐triggered downregulation of β‐adrenergic receptors (ARs) constitutes vital negative feedback to prevent cellular overexcitation. Here, we report a novel downregulation of β2AR signaling highly specific for Cav1.2. We find that β2‐AR binding to Cav1.2 residues 1923–1942 is required for β‐adrenergic regulation of Cav1.2. Despite the prominence of PKA‐mediated phosphorylation of Cav1.2 S1928 within the newly identified β2AR binding site, its physiological function has so far escaped identification. We show that phosphorylation of S1928 displaces the β2AR from Cav1.2 upon β‐adrenergic stimulation rendering Cav1.2 refractory for several minutes from further β‐adrenergic stimulation. This effect is lost in S1928A knock‐in mice. Although AMPARs are clustered at postsynaptic sites like Cav1.2, β2AR association with and regulation of AMPARs do not show such dissociation. Accordingly, displacement of the β2AR from Cav1.2 is a uniquely specific desensitization mechanism of Cav1.2 regulation by highly localized β2AR/cAMP/PKA/S1928 signaling. The physiological implications of this mechanism are underscored by our finding that LTP induced by prolonged theta tetanus (PTT‐LTP) depends on Cav1.2 and its regulation by channel‐associated β2AR. 相似文献
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Andrew JG Simpson 《Genome biology》2000,1(1):reports411.1-reports4112
A meeting report of the sessions on human, eukaryotic and bacterial genome sequencing at the American Society for Microbiology and Institut Pasteur joint conference: Genomes 2000 International Conference on Microbial and Model Genomes, Paris, April 11-15, 2000 相似文献
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Varying environmental conditions and energetic demands can affect habitat use by predators and their prey. Anthropogenic habitats provide an opportunity to document both predation events and foraging activity by prey and therefore enable an empirical evaluation of how prey cope with trade‐offs between starvation and predation risk in environments of variable foraging opportunities and predation danger. Here, we use seven years of observational data of peregrine falcons Falco peregrinus and shorebirds at a semi‐intensive shrimp farm to determine how starvation and predation risk vary for shorebirds under a predictable variation in foraging opportunities. Attack rate (mean 0.1 attacks/hr, equating 1 attack every ten hours) was positively associated with the total foraging area available for shorebirds at the shrimp farm throughout the harvesting period, with tidal amplitude at the adjacent mudflat having a strong nonlinear (quadratic) effect. Hunt success (mean 14%) was higher during low tides and declined as the target flocks became larger. Finally, individual shorebird vigilance behaviors were more frequent when birds foraged in smaller flocks at ponds with poorer conditions. Our results provide empirical evidence of a risk threshold modulated by tidal conditions at the adjacent wetlands, where shorebirds trade‐off risk and rewards to decide to avoid or forage at the shrimp farm (a potentially dangerous habitat) depending on their need to meet daily energy requirements. We propose that semi‐intensive shrimp farms serve as ideal “arenas” for studying predator–prey dynamics of shorebirds and falcons, because harvest operations and regular tidal cycles create a mosaic of foraging patches with predictable food supply. In addition, the relatively low hunt success suggests that indirect effects associated with enhanced starvation risk are important in shorebird life‐history decisions. 相似文献
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Petra Leidinger Christina Backes Stephanie Deutscher Katja Schmitt Sabine C Mueller Karen Frese Jan Haas Klemens Ruprecht Friedemann Paul Cord St?hler Christoph JG Lang Benjamin Meder Tamas Bartfai Eckart Meese Andreas Keller 《Genome biology》2013,14(7):R78
Background
Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia but the identification of reliable, early and non-invasive biomarkers remains a major challenge. We present a novel miRNA-based signature for detecting AD from blood samples.Results
We apply next-generation sequencing to miRNAs from blood samples of 48 AD patients and 22 unaffected controls, yielding a total of 140 unique mature miRNAs with significantly changed expression levels. Of these, 82 have higher and 58 have lower abundance in AD patient samples. We selected a panel of 12 miRNAs for an RT-qPCR analysis on a larger cohort of 202 samples, comprising not only AD patients and healthy controls but also patients with other CNS illnesses. These included mild cognitive impairment, which is assumed to represent a transitional period before the development of AD, as well as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. miRNA target enrichment analysis of the selected 12 miRNAs indicates an involvement of miRNAs in nervous system development, neuron projection, neuron projection development and neuron projection morphogenesis. Using this 12-miRNA signature, we differentiate between AD and controls with an accuracy of 93%, a specificity of 95% and a sensitivity of 92%. The differentiation of AD from other neurological diseases is possible with accuracies between 74% and 78%. The differentiation of the other CNS disorders from controls yields even higher accuracies.Conclusions
The data indicate that deregulated miRNAs in blood might be used as biomarkers in the diagnosis of AD or other neurological diseases. 相似文献49.
Chromosomal DNA from 23 closely related, pathogenic strains of Escherichia
coli was digested and probed for the insertion sequences IS1, IS2, IS4,
IS5, and IS30. Under the assumption that elements residing in DNA
restriction fragments of the same apparent length are identical by descent,
parsimony analysis of these characters yielded a unique phylogenetic tree.
This analysis not only distinguished among bacterial strains that were
otherwise identical in their biochemical characteristics and enzyme
electrophoretic mobilities, but certain aspects of the topology of the tree
were consistent across several unrelated insertion elements. The
distribution of IS elements was then reexamined in light of the inferred
phylogenetic relationships to investigate the biological properties of the
elements, such as rates of insertion and deletion, and to discover apparent
recombinational events. The analysis shows that the pattern of distribution
of insertion elements in the bacterial genome is sufficiently stable for
epidemiological studies. Although the rate of recombination by conjugation
has been postulated to be low, at least two such events appear to have
taken place.
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Homologues of glucosephosphate isomerase (GPI, EC 5.3.1.9) were purified to
homogeneity and kinetically characterized from Mytilus edulis and Isognomon
alatus, two bivalve molluscs experiencing contrasting thermal environments.
The enzyme isolated from I. alatus functions at warmer temperatures (25-35
C) than GPI from M. edulis, a species that inhabits colder marine littoral
habitats (5-20 C). The former exhibits apparent first-order (with respect
to substrate) catalytic rate constants (Vmax/KM) in vitro that become
progressively greater than the mussel enzyme as the assay temperature is
raised. Apparent zero-order catalytic rate constants (Vmax) are relatively
less differentiated. Catalytic efficiency, defined as the rate at which a
catalytic event occurs in either reaction direction for reference standard
states (substrate concentrations), is greater for the enzyme from the
tropical species (I. alatus) at all realistic combinations of temperature
and substrate concentration except for the lowest temperatures and highest
substrate concentrations, where the GPI from the boreal/temperate M. edulis
is more efficient. This pattern of catalytic divergence appears to be due
primarily to differentiation in Vmax/KM. These results and other published
data are reviewed and shown to be inconsistent with claims that adaptation
of enzymes to higher cell temperatures requires a loss in catalytic
efficiency.
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