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Elrasheid AH Kheirelseid Kah Hoong Chang John Newell Michael J Kerin Nicola Miller 《BMC molecular biology》2010,11(1):12
Background
Gene expression analysis has many applications in cancer diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic care. Relative quantification is the most widely adopted approach whereby quantification of gene expression is normalised relative to an endogenously expressed control (EC) gene. Central to the reliable determination of gene expression is the choice of control gene. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a panel of candidate EC genes from which to identify the most stably expressed gene(s) to normalise RQ-PCR data derived from primary colorectal cancer tissue. 相似文献32.
Coregulation of beta-galactoside uptake and hydrolysis by the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana 下载免费PDF全文
Regulation of the beta-galactoside transport system in response to growth substrates in the extremely thermophilic anaerobic bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana was studied with the nonmetabolizable analog methyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside (TMG) as the transport substrate. T. neapolitana cells grown on galactose or lactose accumulated TMG against a concentration gradient in an intracellular free sugar pool that was exchangeable with external galactose or lactose and showed induced levels of beta-galactosidase. Cells grown on glucose, maltose, or galactose plus glucose showed no capacity to accumulate TMG, though these cells carried out active transport of the nonmetabolizable glucose analog 2-deoxy-D-glucose. Glucose neither inhibited TMG uptake nor caused efflux of preaccumulated TMG; rather, glucose promoted TMG uptake by supplying metabolic energy. These data show that beta-D-galactosides are taken up by T. neapolitana via an active transport system that can be induced by galactose or lactose and repressed by glucose but which is not inhibited by glucose. Thus, the phenomenon of catabolite repression is present in T. neapolitana with respect to systems catalyzing both the transport and hydrolysis of beta-D-galactosides, but inducer exclusion and inducer expulsion, mechanisms that regulate permease activity, are not present. Regulation is manifest at the level of synthesis of the beta-galactoside transport system but not in the activity of the system. 相似文献
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Defining a minimal cell: essentiality of small ORFs and ncRNAs in a genome-reduced bacterium 下载免费PDF全文
Verónica Lloréns‐Rico Francis J O'Reilly Judith AH Wodke E Besray Unal Eva Yus Sira Martínez Robert J Nichols Tony Ferrar Ana Vivancos Arne Schmeisky Jörg Stülke Vera van Noort Anne‐Claude Gavin Peer Bork Luis Serrano 《Molecular systems biology》2015,11(1)
Identifying all essential genomic components is critical for the assembly of minimal artificial life. In the genome-reduced bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, we found that small ORFs (smORFs; < 100 residues), accounting for 10% of all ORFs, are the most frequently essential genomic components (53%), followed by conventional ORFs (49%). Essentiality of smORFs may be explained by their function as members of protein and/or DNA/RNA complexes. In larger proteins, essentiality applied to individual domains and not entire proteins, a notion we could confirm by expression of truncated domains. The fraction of essential non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) non-overlapping with essential genes is 5% higher than of non-transcribed regions (0.9%), pointing to the important functions of the former. We found that the minimal essential genome is comprised of 33% (269,410 bp) of the M. pneumoniae genome. Our data highlight an unexpected hidden layer of smORFs with essential functions, as well as non-coding regions, thus changing the focus when aiming to define the minimal essential genome. 相似文献
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Martijn AH Oude Voshaar Peter M ten Klooster Erik Taal Eswar Krishnan Mart AFJ van de Laar 《Arthritis research & therapy》2012,14(2):R47-7
Introduction
Patient-reported physical function is an established outcome domain in clinical studies in rheumatology. To overcome the limitations of the current generation of questionnaires, the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) project in the USA has developed calibrated item banks for measuring several domains of health status in people with a wide range of chronic diseases. The aim of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt the PROMIS physical function item bank to the Dutch language and to pretest it in a sample of patients with arthritis.Methods
The items of the PROMIS physical function item bank were translated using rigorous forward-backward protocols and the translated version was subsequently cognitively pretested in a sample of Dutch patients with rheumatoid arthritis.Results
Few issues were encountered in the forward-backward translation. Only 5 of the 124 items to be translated had to be rewritten because of culturally inappropriate content. Subsequent pretesting showed that overall, questions of the Dutch version were understood as they were intended, while only one item required rewriting.Conclusions
Results suggest that the translated version of the PROMIS physical function item bank is semantically and conceptually equivalent to the original. Future work will be directed at creating a Dutch-Flemish final version of the item bank to be used in research with Dutch speaking populations. 相似文献35.
Shivani M Chidrawar Naeem Khan Y L Tracey Chan Laxman Nayak Paul AH Moss 《Immunity & ageing : I & A》2006,3(1):10-8
Background
Natural killer (NK) cells are cytotoxic lymphocytes that lack CD3 and express variable levels of CD16, CD56 and CD57. In recent years NK cells have been categorised into two major groups based on the level of CD56 expression. This phenotypic classification correlates with functional activity as CD56bright NK cells are the major cytokine producing subset whereas CD56dim NK cells exhibit greater cytotoxic activity. Previous studies have revealed a reduction in total NK cell numbers in association with ageing and this study sought to determine the potential influence of ageing on the number of NK cell subsets within peripheral blood. 相似文献36.
The core domain of retrotransposon integrase in Hordeum: predicted structure and evolution 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Suoniemi A; Tanskanen J; Pentikainen O; Johnson MS; Schulman AH 《Molecular biology and evolution》1998,15(9):1135-1144
Propagation of long terminal repeat (LTR)-bearing retrotransposons and
retroviruses requires integrase (IN, EC 2.7.7.-), encoded by the
retroelements themselves, which mediates the insertion of cDNA copies back
into the genome. An active retrotransposon family, BARE-1, comprises
approximately 7% of the barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare) genome. We
have generated models for the secondary and tertiary structure of BARE-1 IN
and demonstrate their similarity to structures for human immunodeficiency
virus 1 and avian sarcoma virus INs. The IN core domains were compared for
80 clones from 28 Hordeum accessions representative of the diversity of the
genus. Based on the structural model, variations in the predicted, aligned
translations from these clones would have minimal structural and functional
effects on the encoded enzymes. This indicates that Hordeum retrotransposon
IN has been under purifying selection to maintain a structure typical of
retroviral INs. These represent the first such analyses for plant INs.
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van Hoek AH; van Alen TA; Sprakel VS; Hackstein JH; Vogels GD 《Molecular biology and evolution》1998,15(9):1195-1206
The 18S and 5.8S rDNA genes and the internal transcribed spacers ITS-1 and
ITS-2 of ciliates living in the hindgut of frogs, millipedes, and
cockroaches were analyzed in order to study the evolution of intestinal
protists. All ciliates studied here belong to the genus Nycrotherus.
Phylogenetic analysis revealed that these ciliates from a monophyletic
group that includes the distantly related anaerobic free-living
heterotrichous ciliates Metopus palaeformis and Metopus contortus. The
intestinal ciliates from the different vertebrate and invertebrate hosts
are clearly divergent at the level of their rDNA repeats. This argues for
the antiquity of the associations and a predominantly vertical
transmission. This mode of transmission seems to be controlled primarily by
the behavior of the host. The different degrees of divergence between
ciliates living in different strains of one and the same cockroach species
most likely reflect the different geographical origins of the hosts. In
addition, host switches must have occurred during the evolution of
cockroaches, since identical ciliates were found only in distantly related
hosts. These phenomena prevent the reconstruction of potential cospeciation
events.
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Eman A.E. Badr Abd El-Aleem Hassan Abd El-Aleem Samah EL-Ghlban Asmaa AH. Swelm Mahmoud Emara 《Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports》2019
ObjectivesThe prognosis of high-risk patients might be greatly ameliorated using genetic predisposition risk factors. Sympathetic activity and innate immunity related to neuropeptide Y function may be related to dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis. The aim of this study is to detect the correlation between Neuropeptide Y (NPY) SNP rs16147 and its gene expression in chronic kidney disease with and without hypertension.MethodsThis study carried out on 150 subjects who were divided into 3 main groups group (I) 50 CKD patients with hypertension, group (II) 50 CKD patients without hypertension and group (III) 50 healthy individuals. Carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) was measured by Ultrasound. Kidney function test and lipid profile were performed. Genotyping and gene expression of neuropeptide Y (NPY) were performed using real time PCR.ResultsThere was a significant increase in number and percentage of CC genotype and C allele of NPY SNP distribution in CKD patients with and without hypertension when compared to controls. A significant association was found between CC genotype and C allele and the risk of CKD with hypertension with odd ratio 3.26 and 1.77, respectively. There is a significant positive correlation between NPY gene expression level and CIMT among chronic kidney disease patients with highest level of TC, LDLc and CIMT among CC genotype of NPY gene.ConclusionA significant association was found between CC genotype and C allele of NPY at rs16147 with increase NPY gene expression and risk of developing hypertension in CKD. 相似文献
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