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Molecular phylogeny of the major arthropod groups indicates polyphyly of crustaceans and a new hypothesis for the origin of hexapods 总被引:18,自引:6,他引:12
A phylogeny of the arthropods was inferred from analyses of amino acid
sequences derived from the nuclear genes encoding elongation factor-1 alpha
and the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II using maximum- parsimony,
neighbor-joining, and maximum-likelihood methods. Analyses of elongation
factor-1 alpha from 17 arthropods and 4 outgroup taxa recovered many
arthropod clades supported by previous morphological studies, including
Diplopoda, Myriapoda, Insecta, Hexapoda, Branchiopoda (Crustacea), Araneae,
Tetrapulmonata, Arachnida, Chelicerata, and Malacostraca (Crustacea).
However, counter to previous studies, elongation factor-1 alpha placed
Malacostraca as sister group to the other arthropods. Branchiopod
crustaceans were found to be more closely related to hexapods and myriapods
than to malacostracan crustaceans. Sequences for RNA polymerase II were
obtained from 11 arthropod taxa and were analyzed separately and in
combination with elongation factor-1 alpha. Results from these analyses
were concordant with those derived from elongation factor-1 alpha alone and
provided support for a Hexapoda/Branchiopoda clade, thus arguing against
the monophyly of the traditionally defined Atelocerata (Hexapoda +
Myriapoda).
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Exposure of the outside of the isolated frog skin to a Ringer's solution, made hypertonic by the addition of mannitol, causes a rapid and sustained increase in transepithelial permeability through a structural distortion-a focal blistering-of the "tight" junctions of the outermost living cell layer. [(3)H]ouabain, used as an autoradiographic marker for the Na+-pump (Na+-K+-adenosine triphosphatase), is usually unable to penetrate the frog skin from the outside solution, but when added to a hypertonic mannitol- Ringer's solution in the outside bath it readily penetrates the epithelium, presumably through the opened shunt pathway. Radioautographic analysis of [(3)H]ouabain binding sites revealed that most of ouabain enters from the outside solution binds to the sites on the cell membranes of the stratum spinosum, as was the case when it was applied from the inside bath in an earlier study. The outer living cell layer, the first to be exposed to ouabain, does not appear to be the major site for the Na+-pump, and therefore, is not likely to be responsible for most of the active pumping of Na+. This result demonstrates that previous failure to show a high density of Na+-pump sites on the cells of the outermost layer, when [(3)H]ouabain was applied from the inside solution, was not due to the inability of the marker to reach these cells at a sufficient concentration to reveal all pump sites. These results provide further support for a model of Na+-transport across the frog skin which distributes the active pump step on the inward facing membranes of all living cells. 相似文献
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This report describes a lysozyme expressed at high levels in the stomach of
the hoatzin, the only known foregut-fermenting bird. Evolutionary
comparison places it among the calcium-binding lysozymes rather than among
the conventional types. Conventional lysozymes were recruited as digestive
enzymes twice in the evolution of mammalian foregut fermenters, and these
independently recruited lysozymes share convergent structural changes
attributed to selective pressures in the stomach. Biochemical convergence
and parallel amino acid replacements are observed in the hoatzin stomach
lysozyme even though it has a different genetic origin from the mammalian
examples and has undergone more than 300 million years of independent
evolution.
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The origins of clot rheological behavior associated with network morphology and factor XIIIa-induced cross-linking were studied in fibrin clots. Network morphology was manipulated by varying the concentrations of fibrinogen, thrombin, and calcium ion, and cross-linking was controlled by a synthetic, active-center inhibitor of FXIIIa. Quantitative measurements of network features (fiber lengths, fiber diameters, and fiber and branching densities) were made by analyzing computerized three-dimensional models constructed from stereo pairs of scanning electron micrographs. Large fiber diameters and lengths were established only when branching was minimal, and increases in fiber length were generally associated with increases in fiber diameter. Junctions at which three fibers joined were the dominant branchpoint type. Viscoelastic properties of the clots were measured with a rheometer and were correlated with structural features of the networks. At constant fibrinogen but varying thrombin and calcium concentrations, maximal rigidities were established in samples (both cross-linked and noncross-linked) which displayed a balance between large fiber sizes and great branching. Clot rigidity was also enhanced by increasing fiber and branchpoint densities at greater fibrinogen concentrations. Network morphology is only minimally altered by the FXIIIa-catalyzed cross-linking reaction, which seems to augment clot rigidity most likely by the stiffening of existing fibers. 相似文献
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Overview of microbial biofilms 总被引:13,自引:0,他引:13
Dr JW Costerton 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》1995,15(3):137-140
As the success of this two-issue special section of the Journal of Industrial Microbiology attests, the study of microbial biofilms is truly burgeoning as the uniqueness and the importance of this mode of growth is increasingly recognized. Because of its universality the biofilm concept impacts virtually all of the subdivisions of Microbiology (including Medical, Dental, Agricultural, Industrial and Environmental) and these two issues incorporate contributions from authors in all of these disciplines. Some time ago we reasoned that bacteria cannot possibly be aware (sic) of their precise location, in terms of this spectrum of anthrocentric subspecialties, and that their behavior must be dictated by a standard set of phenotypic responses to environmental conditions in what must seem to them (sic) to be a continuum of very similar aquatic ecosystems. In this overview I will, therefore, stress the common features of microbial biofilms that we should bear in mind as we use this simple universal concept to seek to understand bacterial behavior in literally hundreds of aquatic ecosystems traditionally studied by dozens of subspecies of microbiologists reared in sharply different scientific and academic conventions. 相似文献
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Chun-Chi Liu Chin-Chung Lin Ker-Chau Li Wen-Shyen E Chen Jiun-Ching Chen Ming-Te Yang Pan-Chyr Yang Pei-Chun Chang Jeremy JW Chen 《BMC bioinformatics》2007,8(1):164
Background
Genome-wide identification of specific oligonucleotides (oligos) is a computationally-intensive task and is a requirement for designing microarray probes, primers, and siRNAs. An artificial neural network (ANN) is a machine learning technique that can effectively process complex and high noise data. Here, ANNs are applied to process the unique subsequence distribution for prediction of specific oligos. 相似文献49.
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Basolateral K channels in an insect epithelium. Channel density, conductance, and block by barium
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K channels in the basolateral membrane of insect hindgut were studied using current fluctuation analysis and microelectrodes. Locust recta were mounted in Ussing-type chambers containing Cl-free saline and cyclic AMP (cAMP). A transepithelial K current was induced by raising serosal [K] under short-circuit conditions. Adding Ba to the mucosal (luminal) side under these conditions had no effect; however, serosal Ba reversibly inhibited the short-circuit current (Isc), increased transepithelial resistance (Rt), and added a Lorentzian component to power density spectra of the Isc. A nonlinear relationship between corner frequency and serosal [Ba] was observed, which suggests that the rate constant for Ba association with basolateral channels increased as [Ba] was elevated. Microelectrode experiments revealed that the basolateral membrane hyperpolarized when Ba was added: this change in membrane potential could explain the nonlinearity of the 2 pi fc vs. [Ba] relationship if external Ba sensed about three-quarters of the basolateral membrane field. Conventional microelectrodes were used to determine the correspondence between transepithelially measured current noise and basolateral membrane conductance fluctuations, and ion-sensitive microelectrodes were used to measure intracellular K activity (acK). From the relationship between the net electrochemical potential for K across the basolateral membrane and the single channel current calculated from noise analysis, we estimate that the conductance of basolateral K channels is approximately 60 pS, and that there are approximately 180 million channels per square centimeter of tissue area. 相似文献