The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dimers (NAD)2 obtained by electrochemical reduction of NAD+ are oxidized by adriamycin in anaerobic photocatalyzed reaction yielding NAD+ and 7-deoxyadriamyci-none. Under the same conditions NADH is not oxidized. 相似文献
The Mediterranean evergreen vegetation of Sicily, comprised in the belt of the Quercetea ilicis, occupies a large part of the island. Human intervention (cutting, fire, pasture) has brought about a degradation of the natural vegetation. This study is based on our phytosociological research of the Quercetea ilicis belt on Sicily.
With the ‘habitat comparison’ method, the dynamical relations between the different vegetation units have been defined.
We distinguish the following stages, with reference to their vegetation structure:
a herbaceous stage formed by steppic vegetation, preceded by various types of nitrophilous-ruderal vegetation on abandoned fields;
a garrigue stage dominated by half-shrubs;
a macquis stage with various distinct plant communities, four communities being important in regressive successions, and three in progressive ones;
a woodland and shrub-woodland stage with three different substages: pre-existent forests, present woodlands, and woodlands which tend towards the final, stable stage of vegetation (potential natural vegetation).
The dynamic relationships both in progressive and regressive successions have been synthesized in a scheme. In this scheme we have shown the main stages of the vegetation in their dynamics and we have constructed different series of vegetation types in two altitudinal belts, which are determined by varying environmental conditions of today.
The results also show that in some cases the progressive series follow different pathways than the regressive series, and the final stage of the progressive series is different from the original vegetation.
The fatty-acyl-CoA beta-oxidation (FAO) and catalase activities, as well as membrane fluidity of liver peroxisomes of newborns from normal and clofibrate-treated rats were studied during the recovery period, ie, throughout the first week of postnatal life. In the test animals the enzyme activities, which are significantly higher than controls at birth return to normal levels showing a somewhat different time course with FAO rapidly decreasing to control values within three days but with catalase still higher than controls at day 6. The half-life and degradation rate (Kd) of FAO are identical to those calculated by us for the whole organelles and to those reported by others for total catalase in normal or clofibrate-treated adult animals in the presence of catalase inhibitors. Soluble catalase shows turnover values which are similar though not identical to those of FAO, while total catalase has a very long half-life and a low Kd. Peroxisomal membrane fluidity, as determined by fluorescence anisotropy of 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate (ANS) bound to purified peroxisomal fractions is higher in tests than in controls, recovering normal values within 6 days. Our results demonstrate that liver peroxisomes of rats prenatally exposed to clofibrate return to control conditions within about 1 week. The turnover parameters of enzymes and the membrane fluidity values are discussed in terms of disposal mechanism(s) for the excess of induced peroxisomes. 相似文献
The activity of phospholipid base exchange enzymes has been evaluated in cardiac sarcolemmal membranes from Syrian Golden
hamsters and from a hamster strain (UM-X7.1) characterized by a genetic form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. No choline base
exchange activity and only a little serine base exchange activity were detected, whereas the ethanolamine base exchange enzyme
was found highly active in membranes from both strains. For this reason, the present study is focussed on the ethanolamine
base exchange enzyme. The apparent Km for ethanolamine of ethanolamine base exchange enzyme from Syrian Golden membranes and
from UM-X7.1 strain membranes are 18 and 32 μM, respectively. The specific activity of the sarcolemmal ethanolamine base exchange
enzyme is lower in the UM-X7.1 strain than in Syrian Golden hamsters. The calcium-dependence of the enzyme appears different
when the membranes from the two strains are compared. Indeed, after removal of the membrane-bound divalent cations, comparable
activities are found in both membrane preparations, whereas, upon addition of Ca2+ to the incubation mixtures, the activity of the enzyme is enhanced in the membranes from Syrian Golden strain more than in
those from UM-X7.1 strain. The cholesterol content of sarcolemmal membranes is higher in the cardiomyopathic strain than in
the Syrian Golden hamsters. A possible relation between changes of the membrane lipid composition and of the ethanolamine
base exchange activity is discussed. 相似文献
In order to determine whether differentiated somatic cells maintain genetic totipotency, nuclear transplantations from several differentiated somatic cell types into eggs and oocytes were performed previously in Rana pipiens and Xenopus laevis. The formation of postneurula embryos and tadpoles under the direction of the test nuclei demonstrated their genetic multipotency. In addition, Rana erythrocyte nuclei transplanted to oocytes directed more extensive tadpole development than those injected into eggs. We have extended our studies of the genomic potential of differentiated somatic nuclei from the peripheral blood of Rana pipiens. First, we show that the developmental potential of erythrocyte nuclei injected into oocytes at first meiotic metaphase was greater than those injected into diplotene oocytes. Second, we demonstrate that erythroblast and leukocyte nuclei transplanted to oocytes at first meiotic metaphase promoted more advanced tadpole development than those previously injected into Xenopus eggs. Third, erythrocyte nuclei were more successful in promoting advanced tadpole development compared with erythroblast and leukocyte nuclei. The results show that differentiated somatic nuclei transferred to the cytoplasm of oocytes at first meiotic metaphase display enhanced genomic and developmental potential over those transplanted to diplotene oocytes and eggs, at least for the three nuclear cell types tested from the peripheral blood. 相似文献
In order to characterize the molecular nature of singlet oxygen (1O2) induced mutations in mammalian cells, a SV40-based shuttle vector (pi SVPC13) was treated with singlet oxygen arising from the thermal decomposition of the water-soluble endoperoxide of 3,3'-(1,4-naphthylidene) dipropionate (NDPO2). After the passage of damaged plasmid through monkey COS7 cells, the vector was shuffled into E. coli cells, allowing the screening of supF mutants. The mutation spectrum analysis shows that single and multiple base substitutions arose in 82.5% of the mutants, the others being rearrangements. The distribution of mutations within the supF gene is not random and some hotspots are evident. Most of the point mutations (98.4%) involve G:C base pairs and G:C to T:A transversion was the most frequent mutation (50.8%), followed by G:C to C:G transversion (32.8%). These results indicate that mutagenesis in mammalian cells, mediated by 1O2-induced DNA damage, is targeted selectively at guanine residues. 相似文献