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Repeated evolution of an acetate-crossfeeding polymorphism in long-term populations of Escherichia coli 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Six out of 12 independent replicate populations of Escherichia coli
maintained in long-term glucose-limited continuous culture for up to
approximately 1,750 generations evolve polymorphisms maintained by acetate
crossfeeding. In all cases, the acetate-crossfeeding phenotype is
associated with semiconstitutive overexpression of acetyl CoA synthetase,
which allows for the enhanced uptake of low levels of exogenous acetate.
Mutations in the 5' regulatory region of the acetyl CoA synthetase locus
are responsible for all the acetate crossfeeding phenotypes found. These
changes were either transposable-element insertions or a single T-->A
nucleotide substitution at position -93 relative to the acs gene
translation start site.
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Nitric oxide synthase in filariae: demonstration of nitric oxide production by embryos in Brugia malayi and Acanthocheilonema viteae 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
The radical gas nitric oxide (NO) is synthesized by nitric oxide synthase (NOS) from l-arginine and molecular oxygen. Nitric oxide is an important signaling molecule in invertebrate and vertebrate systems. Previously we have shown that NOS is localized to more tissues in Brugia malayi than has been reported in Ascaris suum. In this paper, we analyze the distribution of NOS in Acanthocheilonema viteae, a filarial nematode that differs from B. malayi in that A. viteae females release microfilariae without a sheath. A. viteae is also one of a few filarial parasites without the Wolbachia intracellular endosymbiont. By use of a specific antibody, NOS was demonstrated in extracts of A. viteae and Dirofilaria immitis. The localization pattern of NOS in A. viteae was similar to that seen in B. malayi, with the enzyme localized to the body wall muscles of both sexes, developing spermatozoa, intrauterine sperm, and early embryos. By use of DAF-2, a fluorescent indicator specific for nitric oxide, the embryos of B. malayi and A. viteae were demonstrated to produce NO ex utero. The near identical staining patterns seen in A. viteae and B. malayi argue that NO is not produced by Wolbachia, nor is it produced by the nematodes in response to the infection. Localization of NOS to the sperm of filarial nematodes suggests a role for NO during fertilization as has been described for sea urchin and ascidian fertilization. Demonstration of the activity of embryonic NOS supports our earlier hypothesis that NO is a signaling molecule during embryogenesis in filarial nematodes. 相似文献
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Background
Extensive focus is placed on the comparative analyses of consensus genotypes in the study of West Nile virus (WNV) emergence. Few studies account for genetic change in the underlying WNV quasispecies population variants. These variants are not discernable in the consensus genome at the time of emergence, and the maintenance of mutation-selection equilibria of population variants is greatly underestimated. The emergence of lineage 1 WNV strains has been studied extensively, but recent epidemics caused by lineage 2 WNV strains in Hungary, Austria, Greece and Italy emphasizes the increasing importance of this lineage to public health. In this study we explored the quasispecies dynamics of minority variants that contribute to cell-tropism and host determination, i.e. the ability to infect different cell types or cells from different species from Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data of a historic lineage 2 WNV strain.Results
Minority variants contributing to host cell membrane association persist in the viral population without contributing to the genetic change in the consensus genome. Minority variants are shown to maintain a stable mutation-selection equilibrium under positive selection, particularly in the capsid gene region.Conclusions
This study is the first to infer positive selection and the persistence of WNV haplotype variants that contribute to viral fitness without accompanying genetic change in the consensus genotype, documented solely from NGS sequence data. The approach used in this study streamlines the experimental design seeking viral minority variants accurately from NGS data whilst minimizing the influence of associated sequence error. 相似文献24.
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Parent presence, delayed dispersal, and territory acquisition in the Seychelles warbler 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The presence of parents in the natal territory may play an important,but often overlooked, role in natal dispersal and the consequentacquisition of a territory. Living with parents in a territorymay confer a fitness advantage to subordinates through, forexample, the nepotistic behavior of the parents or indirectbenefits gained by helping to raise nondescendent kin. Whena parent is replaced by a stepparent, such advantages are reducedor disappear and, as a result, subordinates may disperse. Subordinatesthat disperse after parent replacement may be constrained intheir timing of dispersal, which could have negative fitnessconsequences. In the cooperatively breeding Seychelles warbler,we show that when a parent was naturally replaced or experimentallyremoved and subsequently replaced by a stepparent from outsidethe territory, subordinates were more likely to disperse thanwhen both parents remained in the natal territory. Furthermore,subordinates dispersing from territories in which one or bothparents had been replaced were less likely to acquire a breederposition than subordinates dispersing when both parents werestill on the natal territory. Our findings suggest that thepresence of parents in the natal territory may promote delayeddispersal and facilitate the eventual acquisition of a breederposition outside the natal territory. Our results support theidea that the prolonged parental care, which long-lived speciesare able to provide, may have selected for family living. 相似文献
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In an isolated population of Drosophila melanogaster on Ishigaki Island the
chromosomal distribution of several retrotransposons, including copia, 412,
297, 17.6, I, and jockey elements, was examined by in situ hybridization.
In this population the cosmopolitan inversion, In(2L)t, is known to exist
in high frequency. One major haplotype concerning the occupied sites of the
transposable elements was identified in the In(2L)t-carrying chromosomes.
This haplotype is suggested to be the ancestral one. The age of the
inversion in this local population was estimated to be 1,400 generations.
The transposition rates of these elements were estimated based on the age
of the inversion and the number of the elements lost and gained. The
excision rates were in the range from 9.13 x 10(-5) to 2.25 x 10(-4) per
site per generation. They were similar each other in the copia-like
elements as well as in the LINE-like elements. The rate was higher in the
copia-like elements than in the LINE-like elements. Insertions occurred in
the range from 6.79 x 10(-4) to 9.05 x 10(-4) per element per generation.
It is herein shown that both insertions and excisions occurred at a
significantly higher rate in this population than in the laboratory.
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Two soluble glycosyltransferases glycosylate less efficiently in vivo than their membrane bound counterparts 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Zhu G; Allende ML; Jaskiewicz E; Qian R; Darling DS; Worth CA; Colley KJ; Young WW Jr 《Glycobiology》1998,8(8):831-840
Many Golgi glycosyltransferases are type II membrane proteins which are
cleaved to produce soluble forms that are released from cells. Cho and
Cummings recently reported that a soluble form of alpha1, 3-
galactosyltransferase was comparable to its membrane bound counterpart in
its ability to galactosylate newly synthesized glycoproteins (Cho,S.K. and
Cummings,R.D. (1997) J. Biol. Chem., 272, 13622-13628). To test the
generality of their findings, we compared the activities of the full length
and soluble forms of two such glycosyltransferases, ss1,4
N-Acetylgalactosaminyltransferase (GM2/GD2/ GA2 synthase; GalNAcT) and beta
galactoside alpha2,6 sialyltransferase (alpha2,6-ST; ST6Gal I), for
production of their glycoconjugate products in vivo . Unlike the full
length form of GalNAcT which produced ganglioside GM2 in transfected cells,
soluble GalNAcT did not produce detectable GM2 in vivo even though it
possessed in vitro GalNAcT activity comparable to that of full length
GalNAcT. When compared with cells expressing full length alpha2,6-ST, cells
expressing a soluble form of alpha2,6-ST contained 3-fold higher
alpha2,6-ST mRNA levels and secreted 7-fold greater alpha2,6-ST activity as
measured in vitro , but in striking contrast contained 2- to 4-fold less of
the alpha2,6-linked sialic acid moiety in cellular glycoproteins in vivo .
In summary these results suggest that unlike alpha1,3-galactosyltransferase
the soluble forms of these two glycosyltransferases are less efficient at
glycosylation of membrane proteins and lipids in vivo than their membrane
bound counterparts.
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Don?Simone?DalyEmail author Amanda?M?White Susan?M?Varnum Kevin?K?Anderson Richard?C?Zangar 《BMC bioinformatics》2005,6(1):17