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The Δ32 mutation at the CCR5 locus is a well-studied example of natural selection acting in humans. The mutation is found principally in Europe and western Asia, with higher frequencies generally in the north. Homozygous carriers of the Δ32 mutation are resistant to HIV-1 infection because the mutation prevents functional expression of the CCR5 chemokine receptor normally used by HIV-1 to enter CD4+ T cells. HIV has emerged only recently, but population genetic data strongly suggest Δ32 has been under intense selection for much of its evolutionary history. To understand how selection and dispersal have interacted during the history of the Δ32 allele, we implemented a spatially explicit model of the spread of Δ32. The model includes the effects of sampling, which we show can give rise to local peaks in observed allele frequencies. In addition, we show that with modest gradients in selection intensity, the origin of the Δ32 allele may be relatively far from the current areas of highest allele frequency. The geographic distribution of the Δ32 allele is consistent with previous reports of a strong selective advantage (>10%) for Δ32 carriers and of dispersal over relatively long distances (>100 km/generation). When selection is assumed to be uniform across Europe and western Asia, we find support for a northern European origin and long-range dispersal consistent with the Viking-mediated dispersal of Δ32 proposed by G. Lucotte and G. Mercier. However, when we allow for gradients in selection intensity, we estimate the origin to be outside of northern Europe and selection intensities to be strongest in the northwest. Our results describe the evolutionary history of the Δ32 allele and establish a general methodology for studying the geographic distribution of selected alleles. 相似文献
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Novembre FJ de Rosayro J Nidtha S O'Neil SP Gibson TR Evans-Strickfaden T Hart CE McClure HM 《Journal of virology》2001,75(3):1533-1539
To investigate the pathogenicity of a virus originating in a chimpanzee with AIDS (C499), two chimpanzees were inoculated with a plasma-derived isolate termed human immunodeficiency virus type 1(NC) (HIV-1(NC)). A previously uninfected chimpanzee, C534, experienced rapid peripheral CD4(+) T-cell loss to fewer than 26 cells/microl by 14 weeks after infection. CD4(+) T-cell depletion was associated with high plasma HIV-1 loads but a low virus burden in the peripheral lymph node. The second chimpanzee, C459, infected 13 years previously with HIV-1(LAV), experienced a more protracted course of peripheral CD4(+) T-cell loss after HIV-1(NC) inoculation, resulting in fewer than 200 cells/microl by 96 weeks postinoculation. The quantities of viral RNA in the plasma and peripheral lymph node from C459 were below the lower limits of detection prior to inoculation with HIV-1(NC) but were significantly and persistently increased after superinfection, with HIV-1(NC) representing the predominant viral genotype. These results show that viruses derived from C499 are more pathogenic for chimpanzees than any other HIV-1 isolates described to date. 相似文献
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A combination DNA and attenuated simian immunodeficiency virus vaccine strategy provides enhanced protection from simian/human immunodeficiency virus-induced disease 下载免费PDF全文
Amara RR Patel K Niedziela G Nigam P Sharma S Staprans SI Montefiori DC Chenareddi L Herndon JG Robinson HL McClure HM Novembre FJ 《Journal of virology》2005,79(24):15356-15367
Among the most effective vaccine candidates tested in the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)/macaque system, live attenuated viruses have been shown to provide the best protection from challenge. To investigate if preimmunization would increase the level of protection afforded by live attenuated SIVmac239Deltanef (Deltanef), macaques were given two priming immunizations of DNA encoding SIV Gag and Pol proteins, with control macaques receiving vector DNA immunizations. In macaques receiving the SIV DNA inoculation, SIV-specific cellular but not humoral responses were readily detectable 2 weeks after the second DNA inoculation. Following boosting with live attenuated virus, control of Deltanef replication was superior in SIV-DNA-primed macaques versus vector-DNA-primed macaques and was correlated with higher levels of CD8+/gamma-interferon-positive and/or interleukin-2-positive cells. Challenge with an intravenous inoculation of simian/human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) strain SHIV89.6p resulted in infection of all animals. However, macaques receiving SIV DNA as the priming immunizations had statistically lower viral loads than control animals and did not develop signs of disease, whereas three of seven macaques receiving vector DNA showed severe CD4+ T-cell decline, with development of AIDS in one of these animals. No correlation of immune responses to protection from disease could be derived from our analyses. These results demonstrate that addition of a DNA prime to a live attenuated virus provided better protection from disease following challenge than live attenuated virus alone. 相似文献
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Asensio JL; Canada FJ; Bruix M; Gonzalez C; Khiar N; Rodriguez-Romero A; Jimenez-Barbero J 《Glycobiology》1998,8(6):569-577
The specific interaction of hevein with GlcNAc-containing oligosaccharides
has been analyzed by1H-NMR spectroscopy. The association constants for the
binding of hevein to a variety of ligands have been estimated from1H-NMR
titration experiments. The association constants increase in the order
GlcNAc-alpha(1-->6)-Man < GlcNAc < benzyl-beta-GlcNAc <
p-nitrophenyl-beta-GlcNAc < chitobiose < p-
nitrophenyl-beta-chitobioside < methyl-beta-chitobioside <
chitotriose. Entropy and enthalpy of binding for different complexes have
been obtained from van't Hoff analysis. The driving force for the binding
process is provided by a negative DeltaH0which is partially compensated by
negative DeltaS0. These negative signs indicate that hydrogen bonding and
van der Waals forces are the major interactions stabilizing the complex.
NOESY NMR experiments in water solution provided 475 accurate protein
proton-proton distance constraints after employing the MARDIGRAS program.
In addition, 15 unambiguous protein/carbohydrate NOEs were detected. All
the experimental constraints were used in a refinement protocol including
restrained molecular dynamics in order to determine the highly refined
solution conformation of this protein- carbohydrate complex. With regard to
the NMR structure of the free protein, no important changes in the protein
nOe's were observed, indicating that carbohydrate-induced conformational
changes are small. The average backbone rmsd of the 20 refined structures
was 0.055 nm, while the heavy atom rmsd was 0.116 nm. It can be deduced
that both hydrogen bonds and van der Waals contacts confer stability to the
complex. A comparison of the three-dimensional structure of hevein in
solution to those reported for wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and hevein
itself in the solid state has also been performed. The polypeptide
conformation has also been compared to the NMR-derived structure of a
smaller antifungical peptide, Ac-AMP2.
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IV Zlatkin M Schneider FJ de Bruijn LJ Forney PhD 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》1996,17(3-4):219-227
Culturable bacteria from the deep subsurface (179 m) at Cerro Negro, New Mexico were isolated and characterized. The average number of viable aerobic bacteria was estimated to be 5×105g–1 of sediment, but only about 0.1% of these could be recovered on agar medium when incubated under aerobic conditions. Of 158 strains isolated from this depth, 92 were characterized by cellular fatty acid profiles (FAME), 36 by analysis of partial 16S rDNA sequences, and 44 by rep-PCR genome fingerprint analysis using three different sets of oligonucleotide primers (REP, BOX, or ERIC). These analyses showed the majority of isolates (67%) were Gram-positive bacteria and primarily members of genera with a high %G+C DNA. The remaining isolates were -subdivisionProteobacteria (19%) and members of the flavobacteria group (14%). The diversity indices based on these different methods of characterization were very high suggesting this subsurface habitat harbors a highly diverse microbial community. 相似文献
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Multiple viral determinants contribute to pathogenicity of the acutely lethal simian immunodeficiency virus SIVsmmPBj variant. 总被引:17,自引:11,他引:6 下载免费PDF全文
F J Novembre P R Johnson M G Lewis D C Anderson S Klumpp H M McClure V M Hirsch 《Journal of virology》1993,67(5):2466-2474
Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) induces an immunodeficiency syndrome similar to human AIDS. Although the disease course of SIV-induced immunodeficiency is generally measured in months to years, a disease syndrome that results in death in 5 to 14 days has been described in pig-tailed macaques infected with the SIVsmmPBj (PBj) strain. The purpose of this study was to derive an acutely lethal PBj molecular clone in order to study viral genes involved in pathogenesis. Six infectious molecular clones were generated; acutely fatal disease was induced by experimental inoculation of pig-tailed macaques with virus stocks derived from either of two clones, PBj6.6 or PBj14.6. Molecular chimeras were constructed by exchange of regions of the genome of PBj6.6 and a nonlethal, related clone, SIVsmH4. Only a chimera expressing the PBj genome under the control of a SIVsmH4 long terminal repeat induced death soon after inoculation. These studies suggest that multiple viral genes of PBj are critical for development of acute disease. More specifically, the env gene but not the long terminal repeat PBj was required for acute disease induction; however env must act in concert with another gene(s) of the PBj genome. 相似文献
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Phylogenetic reconstruction of the Drosophila obscura group, on the basis of mitochondrial DNA 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
We have constructed restriction-site maps of the mtDNAs in 13 species and
one subspecies of the Drosophila obscura group. The traditional division of
this group into two subgroups (affinis and obscura) does not correspond to
the phylogeny of the group, which shows two well- defined clusters (the
Nearctic affinis and pseudoobscura subgroups) plus a very heterogeneous set
of anciently diverged species (the Palearctic obscura subgroup). The mtDNA
of Drosophila exhibits a tendency to evolve toward high A+T values. This
leads to a "saturation" effect that (1) begets an apparent decrease in the
rate of evolution as the time since the divergence of taxa increases and
(2) reduces the value that mtDNA restriction analysis has for the
phylogenetic reconstruction of Drosophila species that are not closely
related.
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Changes in ionized calcium were studied in axons isolated from living squid by measuring absorbance of the Ca binding dye Arsenazo III using multiwavelength differential absorption spectroscopy. Absorption changes measured in situ were calibrated in vitro with media of ionic composition similar to axoplasm containing CaEGTA buffers. Calcium loads of 50-2,500 μmol/kg axoplasm were induced by microinjection, by stimulation in 112 mM Ca seawater, or by soaking in choline saline with 1-10 mM Ca. Over this range of calcium loading of intact axoplasm, the ionized calcium in the axoplasm rose about 0.6 nM/μM load. Similar loading in axons preteated with carbonyl cyanide 4- trifluoromethoxyphenylhydrazone (FCCP) to inhibit the mitochondrial proton gradient increased ionized calcium by 5-7 percent of the imposed load, i.e. 93-95 percent of the calcium load was buffered by a process insensitive to FCCP. This FCCP- insensitive buffer system was not saturated by the largest calcium loads imposed, indicating a capacity of at least several millimolar. Treatment of previously loaded axons with FCCP or apyrase plus cyanide produced rises in ionized calcium which could be correlated with the extent of the load. Analysis of results indicated that, whereas only 6 percent of the endogenous calcium in fresh axons is stored in the FCCP-sensitive (presumably mitochondrial) buffer system, about 30 percent of an imposed exogenous load in the range of 50-2,500 μM is taken up by this system. 相似文献
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Watkins JD Siddappa NB Lakhashe SK Humbert M Sholukh A Hemashettar G Wong YL Yoon JK Wang W Novembre FJ Villinger F Ibegbu C Patel K Corti D Agatic G Vanzetta F Bianchi S Heeney JL Sallusto F Lanzavecchia A Ruprecht RM 《PloS one》2011,6(3):e18207
Neutralizing antibodies have been shown to protect macaques against SHIV challenge. However, genetically diverse HIV-1 clades have evolved, and a key question left unanswered is whether neutralizing antibodies can confer cross-clade protection in vivo. The novel human monoclonal antibody HGN194 was isolated from an individual infected with an HIV-1 clade AG recombinant circulating recombinant form (CRF). HGN194 targets an epitope in the third hypervariable loop (V3) of HIV-1 gp120 and neutralizes a range of relatively neutralization-sensitive and resistant viruses. We evaluated the potential of HGN194 to protect infant rhesus monkeys against a SHIV encoding a primary CCR5-tropic HIV-1 clade C envelope. After high-dose mucosal challenge, all untreated controls became highly viremic while all HGN194-treated animals (50 mg/kg) were completely protected. When HGN194 was given at 1 mg/kg, one out of two monkeys remained aviremic, whereas the other had delayed, lower peak viremia. Interestingly, all protected monkeys given high-dose HGN194 developed Gag-specific proliferative responses of both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. To test whether generation of the latter involved cryptic infection, we ablated CD8+ cells after HGN194 clearance. No viremia was detected in any protected monkeys, thus ruling out virus reservoirs. Thus, induction of CD8 T-cell immunity may have resulted from transient "Hit and Run" infection or cross priming via Ag-Ab-mediated cross-presentation. Together, our data identified the HGN194 epitope as protective and provide proof-of-concept that this anti-V3 loop mAb can prevent infection with sterilizing immunity after challenge with virus of a different clade, implying that V3 is a potential vaccine target. 相似文献
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Herman MJ Sontrop Perry D Moerland René van den Ham Marcel JT Reinders Wim FJ Verhaegh 《BMC bioinformatics》2009,10(1):389-22