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Jayne E Rattray Marc Strous Huub JM Op den Camp Stefan Schouten Mike SM Jetten Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté 《Biology direct》2009,4(1):8-16
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The fatty acids of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria contain linearly concatenated cyclobutane moieties, so far unique to biology. These moieties are under high ring strain and are synthesised by a presently unknown biosynthetic pathway. 相似文献52.
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Analysis of heart rate variation (HRV) has become a popular noninvasive tool for assessing the activities of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). HRV analysis is based on the concept that fast fluctuations may specifically reflect changes of sympathetic and vagal activity. It shows that the structure generating the signal is not simply linear, but also involves nonlinear contributions. These signals are essentially non-stationary; may contain indicators of current disease, or even warnings about impending diseases. The indicators may be present at all times or may occur at random in the time scale. However, to study and pinpoint abnormalities in voluminous data collected over several hours is strenuous and time consuming. 相似文献54.
Quantitative assay of senescence-associated beta-galactosidase activity in mammalian cell extracts 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Senescence-associated beta-galactosidase activity is a widely used biomarker for assessing replicative senescence in mammalian cells. This enzymatic activity has generally been measured by staining cells with the chromogenic substrate 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-beta-d-galactopyranoside (X-gal) at pH 6.0, a reaction condition that suppresses lysosomal beta-galactosidase activity sufficiently to ensure that most nonsenescent cells will appear unstained. This article describes a quantitative method for measuring this activity and characterizes the method using extracts from senescent, quiescent, and presenescent human fibroblasts. The assay is capable of detecting relatively subtle changes in activity and confirms previous indications based on staining that confluency and contact inhibition of growth can cause a small increase in the expression of this biomarker. Investigation of the pH dependence of the activity in the cell extracts suggests that the senescent phenotype is correlated with an increase in total beta-galactosidase rather than with a shift in the pH optimum of the enzyme. This assay for measuring senescence-associated changes in beta-galactosidase is suitable for mechanistic studies of senescence regulation in which graduated changes in biomarker expression may be anticipated. 相似文献
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Evolution of transposable elements: an IS10 insertion increases fitness in Escherichia coli 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Strains of Escherichia coli carrying Tn10, a transposon consisting of two
IS10 insertion sequences flanking a segment encoding for a
tetracycline-resistance determinant, gain a competitive advantage in
chemostat cultures. All Tn10-bearing strains that increase in frequency
during competition have a new IS10 insertion that is found in the same
location in the genome of those strains. We mapped, by a gradient of
transmission, the position of the new IS10 insertion. We examined 11
isolates whose IS10 insertion was deleted by recombinational crossing-
over, and in all cases the competitive fitness of the isolates was
decreased. These results show that the IS10-generated insertion increases
fitness in chemostat cultures. We named the insertion fit::IS10 and suggest
that transposable elements may speed the rate of evolution by promoting
nonhomologous recombination between preexisting variations within a genome
and thereby generating adaptive variation.
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Members of the ZFY and ZNF6 gene families have been cloned from species
representing different taxa and different modes of sex determination.
Comparisons of these genes show the ZFY-like and ZNF6 sequences to be
strongly conserved across marsupials, birds, and lepidosaurians. Sequence
analyzed by neighbor-joining indicated that both gene families are
monophyletic with a high bootstrap value. Pairing of sequences from males
and females of nonmammalian species showed there to be no significant
difference between male and female sequences from a single species,
consistent with autosomal locations. The molecular distances between murine
Zfy-1, Zfy-2, and other ZFY-like sequences suggested that Zfy genes have
undergone a period of rapid evolutionary change not seen in human ZFY.
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