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Ganoderma microsporum immunomodulatory protein induces apoptosis and potentiates mitomycin C‐induced apoptosis in urinary bladder urothelial carcinoma cells 下载免费PDF全文
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The role of site-specific N-glycosylation in secretion of soluble forms of rabies virus glycoprotein 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Wojczyk BS; Stwora-Wojczyk M; Shakin-Eshleman S; Wunner WH; Spitalnik SL 《Glycobiology》1998,8(2):121-130
Rabies virus glycoprotein is important in the biology and pathogenesis of
neurotropic rabies virus infection. This transmembrane glycoprotein is the
only viral protein on the surface of virus particles, is the viral
attachment protein that facilitates virus uptake by the infected cell, and
is the target of the host humoral immune response to infection. The
extracellular domain of this glycoprotein has N- glycosylation sequons at
Asn37, Asn247, and Asn319. Appropriate glycosylation of these sequons is
important in the expression of the glycoprotein. Soluble forms of rabies
virus glycoprotein were constructed by insertion of a stop codon just
external to the transmembrane domain. Using site-directed mutagenesis and
expression in transfected eukaryotic cells, it was possible to compare the
effects of site-specific glycosylation on the cell-surface expression and
secretion of transmembrane and soluble forms, respectively, of the same
glycoprotein. These studies yielded the surprising finding that although
any of the three sequons permitted cell surface expression of full-length
rabies virus glycoprotein, only the N-glycan at Asn319 permitted secretion
of soluble rabies virus glycoprotein. Despite its biological and medical
importance, it has not yet been possible to determine the crystal structure
of the full-length transmembrane form of rabies virus glycoprotein which
contains heterogeneous oligosaccharides. The current studies demonstrate
that a soluble form of rabies virus glycoprotein containing only one sequon
at Asn319 is efficiently secreted in the presence of the N-glycan
processing inhibitor 1-deoxymannojirimycin. Thus, it is possible to purify
a conformationally relevant form of rabies virus glycoprotein that contains
only one N-glycan with a substantial reduction in its microheterogeneity.
This form of the glycoprotein may be particularly useful for future studies
aimed at elucidating the three-dimensional structure of this important
glycoprotein.
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Lam Weng Ngai Chan Pin Jia Ting Ying Ying Sim Hong Jhun Lian Jun Jie Chong Rie Rahman Nur Estya Tan Lorraine Wen Ai Ho Qian Yi Chiam Zhongyu Arora Srishti Lai Hao Ran Ramchunder Sorain J. Peh Kelvin S.-H. Cai Yixiong Chong Kwek Yan 《Ecosystems》2022,25(5):1006-1019
Ecosystems - Functional traits offer generalizability to the prediction of ecosystem processes such as production, and community-weighted mean trait values are increasingly used for such... 相似文献
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Brian E. Ford Bruce Sun James Carpino Elizabeth S. Chapler Jane Ching Yoon Choi Kevin Jhun Jung D. Kim Gregory G. Lallos Rachelle Morgenstern Shalini Singh Sai Theja John J. Dennehy 《PloS one》2014,9(11)
Viruses readily mutate and gain the ability to infect novel hosts, but few data are available regarding the number of possible host range-expanding mutations allowing infection of any given novel host, and the fitness consequences of these mutations on original and novel hosts. To gain insight into the process of host range expansion, we isolated and sequenced 69 independent mutants of the dsRNA bacteriophage Φ6 able to infect the novel host, Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes. In total, we found at least 17 unique suites of mutations among these 69 mutants. We assayed fitness for 13 of 17 mutant genotypes on P. pseudoalcaligenes and the standard laboratory host, P. phaseolicola. Mutants exhibited significantly lower fitnesses on P. pseudoalcaligenes compared to P. phaseolicola. Furthermore, 12 of the 13 assayed mutants showed reduced fitness on P. phaseolicola compared to wildtype Φ6, confirming the prevalence of antagonistic pleiotropy during host range expansion. Further experiments revealed that the mechanistic basis of these fitness differences was likely variation in host attachment ability. In addition, using computational protein modeling, we show that host-range expanding mutations occurred in hotspots on the surface of the phage''s host attachment protein opposite a putative hydrophobic anchoring domain. 相似文献
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Synonymous substitution rates have been shown to vary among evolutionary
lineages of both nuclear and organellar genes across a broad range of
taxonomic groups. In animals, rate heterogeneity does not appear to be
correlated across nuclear and mitochondrial genes. In this paper, we
contrast substitution rates in two plant groups and show that grasses
evolve more rapidly than palms at synonymous sites in a mitochondrial, a
nuclear, and a plastid gene. Furthermore, we show that the relative rates
of synonymous substitution between grasses and palms are similar at the
three loci. The correlation in synonymous substitution rates across genes
is particularly striking because the three genes evolve at very different
absolute rates. In contrast, relative rates of nonsynonymous substitution
are not conserved among the three genes.
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Increases in oxidative stress are thought to be associated with the development of osteoarthritis (OA). Eupatilin, one of the major compounds present in artemisia species, was shown to have both anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory properties. Here, we investigated the in vivo effects of eupatilin on pain severity and cartilage degradation in an experimental rat model of OA, along with the mechanisms of action underlying these effects. Experimental OA was induced via an intra-articular injection of monosodium iodoacetate (MIA), with oral administration of eupatilin initiated on the day of MIA injection. Pain was assessed by measuring the paw withdrawal latency and threshold. Cartilage destruction was analyzed macroscopically and histomorphologically. The effects of eupatilin on mRNA expression were investigated in interleukin-1β (IL-1β)-stimulated human OA chondrocytes. Eupatilin treatment exhibited clear antinociceptive effects, along with an attenuation of cartilage degradation in OA rats. Additionally, the number of osteoclasts present in the subchondral bone region was significantly decreased following eupatilin treatment. Eupatilin reduced the expression of interleukin-1β (IL-1β), interleukin-6 (IL-6), nitrotyrosine and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in cartilage. mRNA levels of matrix metalloproteinase-3 (MMP-3), MMP13, and a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs-5 (ADAMTS-5) were reduced in IL-1β-stimulated human OA chondrocytes, while tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases-1 (TIMP-1) was induced. Phosphorylated protein levels of the c-jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) was reduced by eupatilin. Taken together, these results suggest that eupatilin suppresses oxidative damage and reciprocally enhances extracellular matrix production in articular chondrocytes, making eupatilin a promising therapeutic option for the treatment of OA. 相似文献