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Y Cheng X Ren A SP Gowda Y Shan L Zhang Y-S Yuan R Patel H Wu K Huber-Keener J W Yang D Liu T E Spratt J-M Yang 《Cell death & disease》2013,4(7):e731
Sirtuin 3 (Sirt3), a major mitochondrial NAD+-dependent deacetylase, targets various mitochondrial proteins for lysine deacetylation and regulates important cellular functions such as energy metabolism, aging, and stress response. In this study, we identified the human 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase 1 (OGG1), a DNA repair enzyme that excises 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG) from damaged genome, as a new target protein for Sirt3. We found that Sirt3 physically associated with OGG1 and deacetylated this DNA glycosylase and that deacetylation by Sirt3 prevented the degradation of the OGG1 protein and controlled its incision activity. We further showed that regulation of the acetylation and turnover of OGG1 by Sirt3 played a critical role in repairing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) damage, protecting mitochondrial integrity, and preventing apoptotic cell death under oxidative stress. We observed that following ionizing radiation, human tumor cells with silencing of Sirt3 expression exhibited deteriorated oxidative damage of mtDNA, as measured by the accumulation of 8-oxoG and 4977 common deletion, and showed more severe mitochondrial dysfunction and underwent greater apoptosis in comparison with the cells without silencing of Sirt3 expression. The results reported here not only reveal a new function and mechanism for Sirt3 in defending the mitochondrial genome against oxidative damage and protecting from the genotoxic stress-induced apoptotic cell death but also provide evidence supporting a new mtDNA repair pathway. 相似文献
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This paper looked at the leaf architecture characteristics of Vachellia tortilis to determine if either there is or not an effect of the tropic line on plants. Vachellia tortilis leaves were sampled along a national road (N1) in Limpopo province. Sampling points were set 10 km apart away from the Tropic of Capricon in opposite directions. Leaf morphology revealed that leaves of V. tortilis are bipinnately compound with alternate arrangement. The venation pattern of the pinnules was eucamptodromus and brochidodromous with imperfect reticulation. Areoles were imperfect and pentagonal or irregular in shape. 相似文献
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Tallury SP Hilu KW Milla SR Friend SA Alsaghir M Stalker HT Quandt D 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》2005,111(7):1229-1237
Section Arachis is the largest of nine sections in the genus Arachis and includes domesticated peanut, A. hypogaea L. Most species are diploids (x=10) with two tetraploids and a few aneuploids. Three genome types have been recognized in this section (A, B and D), but
the genomes are not well characterized and relationships of several newly described species are uncertain. To clarify genomic
relationships in section Arachis, cytogenetic information and molecular data from amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and the trnT-F plastid region were used to provide an additional insight into genome composition and species relationships. Cytogenetic
information supports earlier observations on genome types of A. cruziana, A. herzogii, A. kempff-mercadoi and A. kuhlmannii but was inconclusive about the genome composition of A. benensis, A. hoehnei, A. ipaensis, A. palustris, A. praecox and A. williamsii. An AFLP dendrogram resolved species into four major clusters and showed A. hypogaea grouping closely with A. ipaensis and A. williamsii. Sequence data of the trnT-F region provided genome-specific information and showed for the first time that the B and D genomes are more closely related
to each other than to the A genome. Integration of information from cytogenetics and biparentally and maternally inherited
genomic regions show promise in understanding genome types and relationships in Arachis. 相似文献
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Prafulla Aryal Firdaus Abd-Wahab Giovanna Bucci Mark SP Sansom Stephen J Tucker 《Channels (Austin, Tex.)》2015,9(1):44-49
Several recent ion channel structures have revealed large side portals, or ‘fenestrations’ at the interface between their transmembrane helices that potentially expose the ion conduction pathway to the lipid core of the bilayer. In a recent study we demonstrated that functional activity of the TWIK-1 K2P channel is influenced by the presence of hydrophobic residues deep within the inner pore. These residues are located near the fenestrations in the TWIK-1 structure and promote dewetting of the pore by forming a hydrophobic barrier to ion conduction. During our previous MD simulations, lipid tails were observed to enter these fenestrations. In this addendum to that study, we investigate lipid contribution to the dewetting process. Our results demonstrate that lipid tails from both the upper and lower leaflets can occupy the fenestrations and partially penetrate into the pore. The lipid tails do not sterically occlude the pore, but there is an inverse correlation between the presence of water within the hydrophobic barrier and the number of lipids tails within the lining of the pore. However, dewetting still occurs in the absence of lipids tails, and pore hydration appears to be determined primarily by those side-chains lining the narrowest part of the pore cavity. 相似文献
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Sodium balance determines the extracellular fluid volume and sets arterial blood pressure (BP). Chronically raised BP (hypertension)
represents a major health risk in Western societies. The relationship between BP and renal sodium excretion (the pressure/natriuresis
relationship) represents the key element in defining the BP homeostatic set point. The renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system
(RAAS) makes major adjustments to the rates of renal sodium secretion, but this system works slowly over a period of hours
to days. More rapid adjustments can be made by the sympathetic nervous system, although the kidney can function well without
sympathetic nerves. Attention has now focussed on regulatory mechanisms within the kidney, including extracellular nucleotides
and the P2 receptor system. Here, we discuss how extracellular ATP can control renal sodium excretion by altering the activity
of epithelial sodium channels (ENaC) present in the apical membrane of principal cells. There remains considerable controversy
over the molecular targets for released ATP, although the P2Y2 receptor has received much attention. We review the available data and reflect on our own findings in which ATP-activated
P2Y and P2X receptors make adjustments to ENaC activity and therefore sodium excretion. 相似文献
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Marcel GA van der Heijden Susanne de Bruin Ludo Luckerhoff Richard SP van Logtestijn Klaus Schlaeppi 《The ISME journal》2016,10(2):389-399
Highly diverse microbial assemblages colonize plant roots. It is still poorly understood whether different members of this root microbiome act synergistically by supplying different services (for example, different limiting nutrients) to plants and plant communities. In order to test this, we manipulated the presence of two widespread plant root symbionts, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria in model grassland communities established in axenic microcosms. Here, we demonstrate that both symbionts complement each other resulting in increased plant diversity, enhanced seedling recruitment and improved nutrient acquisition compared with a single symbiont situation. Legume seedlings obtained up to 15-fold higher productivity if they formed an association with both symbionts, opposed to productivity they reached with only one symbiont. Our results reveal the importance of functional diversity of symbionts and demonstrate that different members of the root microbiome can complement each other in acquiring different limiting nutrients and in driving important ecosystem functions. 相似文献
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Oliver Beckstein Ekaterina Ivanova Tian Geng Simone Weyand David Drew Joseph Lanigan David J Sharples Mark SP Sansom So Iwata Colin WG Fishwick A Peter Johnson Alexander D Cameron Peter JF Henderson 《The EMBO journal》2014,33(16):1831-1844
The hydantoin transporter Mhp1 is a sodium‐coupled secondary active transport protein of the nucleobase‐cation‐symport family and a member of the widespread 5‐helix inverted repeat superfamily of transporters. The structure of Mhp1 was previously solved in three different conformations providing insight into the molecular basis of the alternating access mechanism. Here, we elucidate detailed events of substrate binding, through a combination of crystallography, molecular dynamics, site‐directed mutagenesis, biochemical/biophysical assays, and the design and synthesis of novel ligands. We show precisely where 5‐substituted hydantoin substrates bind in an extended configuration at the interface of the bundle and hash domains. They are recognised through hydrogen bonds to the hydantoin moiety and the complementarity of the 5‐substituent for a hydrophobic pocket in the protein. Furthermore, we describe a novel structure of an intermediate state of the protein with the external thin gate locked open by an inhibitor, 5‐(2‐naphthylmethyl)‐L‐hydantoin, which becomes a substrate when leucine 363 is changed to an alanine. We deduce the molecular events that underlie acquisition and transport of a ligand by Mhp1. 相似文献