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Mary Elizabeth G Miranda Yasuhiro Yoshikawa Daria L Manalo Alan B Calaor Noel Lee J Miranda Fumiaki Cho Tetsuro Ikegami Thomas G Ksiazek 《Experimental Animals》2002,51(2):173-179
To describe the transmission pattern of natural infection with Ebola Reston (EBO-R) virus in a breeding colony, the chronological and spatial analysis of mortality during the 1996 EBO-R virus outbreak was done in this study. The EBO-R virus infection among monkeys in the facility was widespread. Over a period of 3 months, 14 out of 21 occupied units were contaminated with antigen positive animals. A large number of wild-caught monkeys were involved in this outbreak suggesting that wild-caught monkeys have a high susceptibility to EBO-R virus infection. In this outbreak, morbidity patterns for individual animal units were very different regardless of the type and size of cages, individual or gang cages. The results suggest that not only the cage size but also poor animal husbandry practices may be risk factors for the spread of EBO-R infection. 相似文献
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Horizontal transmission, vertical inactivation, and stochastic loss of mariner-like transposable elements 总被引:13,自引:5,他引:8
Horizontal transmission has been well documented as a major mechanism for
the dissemination of mariner-like elements (MLEs) among species. Less well
understood are mechanisms that limit vertical transmission of MLEs
resulting in the "spotty" or discontinuous distribution observed in closely
related species. In this article we present evidence that the genome of the
common ancestor of the melanogaster species subgroup of Drosophila
contained an MLE related to the mellifera (honey bee) subfamily. Horizontal
transmission, approximately 3-10 MYA, is strongly suggested by the
observation that the sequence of the MLE in Drosophila erecta is 97%
identical in nucleotide sequence with that of an MLE in the cat flea,
Ctenocephalides felis. The D. erecta MLE has a spotty distribution among
species in the melanogaster subgroup. The element has a high copy number in
D. erecta and D. orena, a moderate copy number in D. teissieri and D.
yakuba, and was apparently lost ("stochastic loss") in the lineage leading
to D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. mauritiana, and D. sechellia. In D.
erecta, most copies are concentrated in the heterochromatin. Two copies
from D. erecta, denoted De12 and De19, were cloned and sequenced, and they
appear to be nonfunctional ("vertical inactivation"). It therefore appears
that the predominant mode of MLE evolution is vertical inactivation and
stochastic loss balanced against occasional reinvasion of lineages by
horizontal transmission.
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The neurotoxins kainic acid and domoic acid are potent agonists at the kainate and alphaamino-5-methyl-3-hydroxyisoxazolone-4-propionate (AMPA) subclasses of ionotropic glutamate receptors. Although it is well established that AMPA receptors mediate fast excitatory synaptic transmission at most excitatory synapses in the central nervous system, the role of the high affinity kainate receptors in synaptic transmission and neurotoxicity is not entirely clear. Kainate and domoate differ from the natural transmitter, L-glutamate, in their mode of activation of glutamate receptors; glutamate elicits rapidly desensitizing responses while the two neurotoxins elicit non-desensitizing or slowly desensitizing responses at AMPA receptors and some kainate receptors. The inability to produce desensitizing currents and the high affinity for AMPA and kainate receptors are undoubtedly important factors in kainate and domoate-mediated neurotoxicity. Mutagenesis studies on cloned glutamate receptors have provided insight into the molecular mechanisms responsible for these unique properties of kainate and domoate. 相似文献
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Intraspecific variation in the response of rice (Oryza sativa L.) to increased CO2 and temperature: growth and yield response of 17 cultivars 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Ziska Lewis H.; Manalo Paz A.; Ordonez Raymond A. 《Journal of experimental botany》1996,47(9):1353-1359
Seventeen rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars of contrasting ecosystemsand origins were exposed to two CO2 concentrations (373 [ambient]and 664 µl l1 CO2 [elevated]) at two differentday/night temperatures (29/21 C and 37/29 C) in glasshousesat the International Rice Research Institute phytotron duringthe dry seasons of 1994 and 1995. Growth at elevated CO2 (asdetermined by total plant biomass at maturity) increased byan average of 70% and 22%, respectively, for all cultivars forgrowth temperatures of 29/21 C and 37/29 C relative to theambient CO2 treatment. At the 29/21 C optimal growth temperature,grain yield increased on average c. 50% with enriched CO2. Incontrast, at the higher growth temperature (37/29 C), grainyield was almost zero, presumably due, in part, to temperature-inducedinfertility (i.e. the percentage of filled spikelets was <1%).Among cultivars, lAC 165, a tropical japonica from Brazil, showedthe largest relative increase in both biomass and grain yield.While the range of responses to increased CO2 and/or temperaturewere quite large (e.g. 10250%) and may not be applicableto field conditions, data indicate that lines are availablewhich could maximize productivity as CO2 concentration increases.Additional work, however, would be needed to identify cultivarswhich would maintain maximum yields in a high CO2, high temperatureenvironment. Key words: Plant growth analysis, experimental design, computational methods, relative growth rate, net assimilation rate 相似文献
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Incorporation of axonally transported glycoproteins into axolemma during nerve regeneration 总被引:14,自引:4,他引:10 下载免费PDF全文
The insertion of axonally transported fucosyl glycoproteins into the axolemma of regenerating nerve sprouts was examined in rat sciatic motor axons at intervals after nerve crush. [(3)H]Fucose was injected into the lumbar ventral horns and the nerves were removed at intervals between 1 and 14 d after labeling. To follow the fate of the “pulse- labeled” glycoproteins, we examined the nerves by correlative radiometric and EM radioautographic approaches. The results showed, first, that rapidly transported [(3)H]fucosyl glycoproteins were inserted into the axolemma of regenerating sprouts as well as parent axons. At 1 d after delivery, in addition to the substantial mobile fraction of radioactivity still undergoing bidirectional transport within the axon, a fraction of label was already associated with the axolemma. Insertion of labeled glycoproteins into the sprout axolemma appeared to occur all along the length of the regenerating sprouts, not just in sprout terminals. Once inserted, labeled glycoproteins did not undergo extensive redistribution, nor did they appear in sprout regions that formed (as a result of continued outgrowth) after their insertion. The amount of radioactivity in the regenerating nerves decreased with time, in part as a result of removal of transported label by retrograde transport. By 7-14 d after labeling, radioautography showed that almost all the remaining radioactivity was associated with axolemma. The regenerating sprouts retained increased amounts of labeled glycoproteins; 7 or 14 d after labeling, the regenerating sprouts had over twice as much of radioactivity as comparable lengths of control nerves or parent axons. One role of fast axonal transport in nerve regeneration is the contribution to the regenerating sprout of glycoproteins inserted into the axolemma; these membrane elements are added both during longitudinal outgrowth and during lateral growth and maturation of the sprout. 相似文献
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Nonrandom location of IS1 elements in the genomes of natural isolates of Escherichia coli 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
We have studied the spatial distribution of IS1 elements in the genomes of
natural isolates comprising the ECOR reference collection of Escherichia
coli. We find evidence for nonrandomness at three levels. Many pairs of IS1
elements are in much closer proximity (< 10 kb) than can be accounted
for by chance. IS1 elements in close proximity were identified by
long-range PCR amplification of the genomic sequence between them. Each
amplified region was sequenced and its map location determined by database
screening of DNA hybridization. Among the ECOR strains with at least two
IS1 elements, 54% had one or more pairs of elements separated by < 10
kb. We propose that this type of clustering is a result of "local hopping,"
in which we assume that a significant proportion of tranposition events
leads to the insertion of a daughter IS element in the vicinity of the
parental element. A second level of nonrandomness is found in strains with
a modest number of IS1 elements that are mapped through the use of inverse
PCR to amplify flanking genomic sequences: in these strains, the insertion
sites tend to be clustered over a smaller region of chromosome than would
be expected by chance. A third level of nonrandomness is observed in the
composite distribution of IS elements across strains: among 20 mapped IS1
elements, none were found in the region of 48-77 minutes, a significant
gap. One region of the E. coli chromosome, at 98 min, had a cluster of IS1
elements in seven ECOR strains of diverse phylogenetic origin. We deduce
from sequence analysis that this pattern of distribution is a result of
initial insertion in the most recent common ancestor of these strains and
therefore not a hot spot of insertion. Analysis using long- range PCR with
primers for IS2 and IS3 also yielded pairs of elements in close proximity,
suggesting that these elements may also occasionally transpose by local
hopping.
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Fitness effects of amino acid replacements in the beta-galactosidase of Escherichia coli 总被引:7,自引:1,他引:6
Two genetic procedures were used to obtain amino acid replacements in the
lacZ-encoded beta-galactosidase in Escherichia coli. Amino acid
replacements could be obtained without regard to their effects on lactase
activity by selecting spontaneous mutations that relieved the strong
polarity of six nonsense mutations. When streaked on MacConkey- lactose
indicator plates, approximately 75% of these mutants gave strong red
lactose-fermenting colonies, and 25% gave white nonfermenting colonies.
Mutants from 11 other nonsense codons were isolated directly using
MacConkey-lactose indicator plates, on which positive color indication
requires only 0.5% of the wildtype lactase activity. Among the total of 17
codons, 25 variant beta-galactosidases were identified using
electrophoresis and thermal denaturation studies. The fitness effects of
these variant beta-galactosidases were determined using competition
experiments conducted with lactose as the sole nutrient limiting the growth
rate in chemostat cultures. Three of the replacements were deleterious, one
was selectively advantageous, and the selective effects of the remaining 21
were undetectable under conditions in which the smallest detectable
selection coefficient was approximately 0.4%/generation.
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Mariko Saito Hitoshi Oshitani Jun Ryan C. Orbina Kentaro Tohma Alice S. de Guzman Taro Kamigaki Catalino S. Demetria Daria L. Manalo Akira Noguchi Satoshi Inoue Beatriz P. Quiambao 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2013,7(4)