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Subcellular localization of DNA-binding protein BA by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
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Nonhistone protein BA has been shown to decrease in amount in the chromatin of growth- stimulated normal rat liver (Yeoman et al. 1975. Cancer Res. 35:1249-1255) and in mitogen-stimulated normal human lymphocytes (Yeoman et al. 1976. Exp. Cell Res. 100:47- 55.). Subsequently, protein BA was purified and was shown to prefer to bind to double- stranded A-T-rich DNAs (Catino et al. 1978. Biochemistry. 17:983-987.). Immunization of rabbits with highly purified protein BA has resulted in the production of a specific antibody. A specific immunoreactivity for chromosomal protein BA has been demonstrated by immunoelectrophoresis and double antibody immunoprecipitation analysis with rabbit anti-BA immunoglobulin and IgG fractions. Light microscope examination of normal rat liver crysections by the indirect immunofluorescence procedure has demonstrated a cytoplasmic as well as a nuclear localization for protein BA with a pronounced perinucleolar fluorescence. Immunoelectron microscopy employing the peroxidase antiperoxidase method of antigen localization has confirmed the immunofluorescence data and has show a heterochromatin localization for protein BA. The relationship of the localization of protein BA to gene control in quiescent cells or to configurations of heterochromatin as well as the marked reduction in the amounts of protein BA which occur in stimulated growth states remains to be defined. 相似文献
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Maize endosperm ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase SHRUNKEN2 and BRITTLE2 subunit interactions 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
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ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) represents a key regulatory step in polysaccharide synthesis in organisms ranging from bacteria to plants. Higher plant AGPs are complex in nature and are heterotetramers consisting of two similar but distinct subunits. How the subunits are assembled into enzymatically active polymers is not yet understood. Here, we address this issue by using naturally occurring null mutants of the Shrunken2 (Sh2) and Brittle2 (Bt2) loci of maize as well as the yeast two-hybrid expression system. In the absence of the maize endosperm large AGP subunit (SH2), the BT2 subunit remains as a monomer in the developing endosperm. In contrast, the SH2 protein, in the absence of BT2, is found in a complex of 100 kD. A direct interaction between SH2 and BT2 was proven when they were both expressed in yeast. Several motifs are essential for SH2:BT2 interaction because truncations removing the N or C terminus of either subunit eliminate SH2:BT2 interactions. Analysis of subunit interaction mutants (sim) also identified motifs essential for protein interactions. 相似文献
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Leila Choucha‐Snouber Caroline Aninat Laurent Grsicom Geoffrey Madalinski Céline Brochot Paul Emile Poleni Florence Razan Christiane Guguen Guillouzo Cécile Legallais Anne Corlu Eric Leclerc 《Biotechnology and bioengineering》2013,110(2):597-608
In this article, we present a liver–kidney co‐culture model in a micro fluidic biochip. The liver was modeled using HepG2/C3a and HepaRG cell lines and the kidney using MDCK cell lines. To demonstrate the synergic interaction between both organs, we investigated the effect of ifosfamide, an anticancerous drug. Ifosfamide is a prodrug which is metabolized by the liver to isophosforamide mustard, an active metabolite. This metabolism process also leads to the formation of chloroacetaldehyde, a nephrotoxic metabolite and acrolein a urotoxic one. In the biochips of MDCK cultures, we did not detect any nephrotoxic effects after 72 h of 50 µM ifosfamide exposure. However, in the liver–kidney biochips, the same 72 h exposure leads to a nephrotoxicity illustrated by a reduction of the number of MDCK cells (up to 30% in the HepaRG‐MDCK) when compared to untreated co‐cultures or treated MDCK monocultures. The reduction of the MDCK cell number was not related to a modification of the cell cycle repartition in ifosfamide treated cases when compared to controls. The ifosfamide biotransformation into 3‐dechloroethylifosfamide, an equimolar byproduct of the chloroacetaldehyde production, was detected by mass spectrometry at a rate of apparition of 0.3 ± 0.1 and 1.1 ± 0.3 pg/h/biochips in HepaRG monocultures and HepaRG‐MDCK co‐cultures respectively. Any metabolite was detected in HepG2/C3a cultures. Furthermore, the ifosfamide treatment in HepaRG‐MDCK co‐culture system triggered an increase in the intracellular calcium release in MDCK cells on contrary to the treatment on MDCK monocultures. As 3‐dechloroethylifosfamide is not toxic, we have tested the effect of equimolar choloroacetaldehyde concentration onto the MDCK cells. At this concentration, we found a quite similar calcium perturbation and MDCK nephrotoxicity via a reduction of 30% of final cell numbers such as in the ifosfamide HepaRG‐MDCK co‐culture experiments. Our results suggest that ifosfamide nephrotoxicity in a liver–kidney micro fluidic co‐culture model using HepaRG‐MDCK cells is induced by the metabolism of ifosfamide into chloroacetaldehyde whereas this pathway is not functional in HepG2/C3a‐MDCK model. This study demonstrates the interest in the development of systemic organ–organ interactions using micro fluidic biochips. It also illustrated their potential in future predictive toxicity model using in vitro models as alternative methods. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2013; 110: 597–608. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 相似文献
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Xavier Didelot David W Eyre Madeleine Cule Camilla LC Ip M Azim Ansari David Griffiths Alison Vaughan Lily O'Connor Tanya Golubchik Elizabeth M Batty Paolo Piazza Daniel J Wilson Rory Bowden Peter J Donnelly Kate E Dingle Mark Wilcox A Sarah Walker Derrick W Crook Tim E A Peto Rosalind M Harding 《Genome biology》2012,13(12):R118
Background
The control of Clostridium difficile infection is a major international healthcare priority, hindered by a limited understanding of transmission epidemiology for these bacteria. However, transmission studies of bacterial pathogens are rapidly being transformed by the advent of next generation sequencing.Results
Here we sequence whole C. difficile genomes from 486 cases arising over four years in Oxfordshire. We show that we can estimate the times back to common ancestors of bacterial lineages with sufficient resolution to distinguish whether direct transmission is plausible or not. Time depths were inferred using a within-host evolutionary rate that we estimated at 1.4 mutations per genome per year based on serially isolated genomes. The subset of plausible transmissions was found to be highly associated with pairs of patients sharing time and space in hospital. Conversely, the large majority of pairs of genomes matched by conventional typing and isolated from patients within a month of each other were too distantly related to be direct transmissions.Conclusions
Our results confirm that nosocomial transmission between symptomatic C. difficile cases contributes far less to current rates of infection than has been widely assumed, which clarifies the importance of future research into other transmission routes, such as from asymptomatic carriers. With the costs of DNA sequencing rapidly falling and its use becoming more and more widespread, genomics will revolutionize our understanding of the transmission of bacterial pathogens. 相似文献16.
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Contrasting levels of DNA polymorphism at the autosomal and X-linked visual color pigment loci in humans and squirrel monkeys 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The X-linked color pigment (opsin) locus is known to be highly polymorphic
in the squirrel monkey and other New World monkeys. To see whether this is
also the case for the autosomal (blue) opsin locus, we obtained 32 squirrel
monkey and 30 human blue opsin gene sequences. No amino acid polymorphism
was found in either the squirrel monkey sample or the human sample,
contrary to the situation at the X-linked opsin locus. This sharp contrast
in the level of polymorphism might be due to differences in gene expression
between the autosomal and the X-linked loci. At the X-linked locus,
heterozygote advantage can occur because, owing to X-inactivation, the two
alleles in a heterozygote are expressed in different cone cells, producing
two types of cone cell, whereas at the autosomal locus, heterozygote
advantage cannot occur because the two alleles in a heterozygote are
expressed in the same cone cells, producing only one type of cone cell
(i.e., phenotypically a homozygote). From the sequence data, the levels of
nucleotide diversity (pi, i.e., the number of nucleotide differences per
site) are estimated: for the human sample, pi = 0.00% per nondegenerate
site, 0.00% per twofold degenerate site, and 0.04% per fourfold degenerate
site in the coding regions and 0.01% per site in intron 4; for the squirrel
monkey sample, pi = 0.00% per nondegenerate site, 0.00% per twofold
degenerate site, and 0.15% per fourfold degenerate site in the coding
regions and 0.17% per site in intron 4. The blue opsin genes from the
common and pygmy chimpanzees, the gorilla, the capuchin, and the howler
monkey were also sequenced. Features critical to the function of the opsin
are well conserved in all known mammalian sequences. However, the
interhelical loops are, on average, actually more conservative than the
transmembrane helical regions. In addition, these sequence data and those
from some other genes indicate that the common and pygmy chimpanzees are
not closely related, their divergence data being from one third to one half
the date of the human-chimpanzee divergence.
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The M.ADP.P(i) state is required for helical order in the thick filaments of skeletal muscle 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
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S Xu J Gu T Rhodes B Belknap G Rosenbaum G Offer H White LC Yu 《Biophysical journal》1999,77(5):2665-2676
The thick filaments of mammalian and avian skeletal muscle fibers are disordered at low temperature, but become increasingly ordered into an helical structure as the temperature is raised. Wray and colleagues (Schlichting, I., and J. Wray. 1986. J. Muscle Res. Cell Motil. 7:79; Wray, J., R. S. Goody, and K. Holmes. 1986. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 226:49-59) interpreted the transition as reflecting a coupling between nucleotide state and global conformation with M.ATP (disordered) being favored at 0 degrees C and M.ADP.P(i) (ordered) at 20 degrees C. However, hitherto this has been limited to a qualitative correlation and the biochemical state of the myosin heads required to obtain the helical array has not been unequivocally identified. In the present study we have critically tested whether the helical arrangement of the myosin heads requires the M.ADP.P(i) state. X-ray diffraction patterns were recorded from skinned rabbit psoas muscle fiber bundles stretched to non-overlap to avoid complications due to interaction with actin. The effect of temperature on the intensities of the myosin-based layer lines and on the phosphate burst of myosin hydrolyzing ATP in solution were examined under closely matched conditions. The results showed that the fraction of myosin mass in the helix closely followed that of the fraction of myosin in the M.ADP.P(i) state. Similar results were found by using a series of nucleoside triphosphates, including CTP and GTP. In addition, fibers treated by N-phenylmaleimide (Barnett, V. A., A. Ehrlich, and M. Schoenberg. 1992. Biophys. J. 61:358-367) so that the myosin was exclusively in the M.ATP state revealed no helical order. Diffraction patterns from muscle fibers in nucleotide-free and in ADP-containing solutions did not show helical structure. All these confirmed that in the presence of nucleotides, the M.NDP.P(i) state is required for helical order. We also found that the spacing of the third meridional reflection of the thick filament is linked to the helical order. The spacing in the ordered M.NDP.P(i) state is 143.4 A, but in the disordered state, it is 144. 2 A. This may be explained by the different interference functions for the myosin heads and the thick filament backbone. 相似文献
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Towards a reporter system to identify regulators of cross-talk between salicylate and jasmonate signaling pathways in Arabidopsis 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Annemart Koornneef Adriaan Verhage Antonio Leon-Reyes Reinier Snetselaar LC Van Loon Corné MJ Pieterse 《Plant signaling & behavior》2008,3(8):543-546
The plant signaling hormones salicylic acid (SA) and jasmonic acid (JA) are regulators of inducible defenses that are activated upon pathogen or insect attack. Cross-talk between SA- and JA-dependent signaling pathways allows a plant to finely tune its response to the attacker encountered. In Arabidopsis, pharmacological experiments revealed that SA exerts a strong antagonistic effect on JA-responsive genes, such as PDF1.2, indicating that the SA pathway can be prioritized over the JA pathway. SA-mediated suppression of the JA-responsive PDF1.2 promoter was exploited for setting up a genetic screen aiming at the isolation of signal transduction mutants that are impaired in this cross-talk mechanism. The PDF1.2 promoter was fused to the herbicide resistance gene BAR to allow for life/death screening of a population of mutagenized transgenic plants. Non-mutant plants should survive herbicide treatment when methyl jasmonate (MeJA) is applied, but suppression of the JA response by SA should be lethal in combination with the herbicide. Conversely, crucial SA/JA cross-talk mutants should survive the combination treatment. SA effectively suppressed the expression of the PDF1.2::BAR transgene. However, suppression of the BAR gene did not result in suppression of herbicide resistance. Hence, a screening method based on quantitative differences in the expression of a reporter gene may be better suited to identify SA/JA cross-talk mutants. Here, we demonstrate that the PDF1.2::GUS reporter will be excellently suited in this respect.Key words: plant defense, salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, cross-talk, mutant screen, Arabidopsis 相似文献