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Dominik Martin-Creuzburg Erik Sperfeld Alexander Wacker 《Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society》2009,276(1663):1805-1814
Empirical data providing evidence for a colimitation of an herbivore by two or more essential nutrients are scarce, particularly in regard to biochemical resources. Here, a graphical model is presented, which describes the growth of an herbivore in a system with two potentially limiting resources. To verify this model, life-history experiments were conducted with the herbivore Daphnia magna feeding on the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus, which was supplemented with increasing amounts of cholesterol either in the presence or the absence of saturating amounts of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). For comparison, D. magna was raised on diets containing different proportions of S. elongatus and the cholesterol- and EPA-rich eukaryotic alga Nannochloropsis limnetica. Somatic and population growth of D. magna on a sterol- and EPA-deficient diet was initially constrained by the absence of sterols. With increased sterol availability, a colimitation by EPA became apparent and when the sterol requirements were met, the growth-limiting factor was shifted from a limitation by sterols to a limitation by EPA. These data imply that herbivores are frequently limited by two or more essential nutrients simultaneously. Hence, the concept of colimitation has to be incorporated into models assessing nutrient-limited growth kinetics of herbivores to accurately predict demographic changes and population dynamics. 相似文献
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Molecular evolutionary dynamics of cytochrome b in strepsirrhine primates: the phylogenetic significance of third-position transversions 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
DNA sequences of the complete cytochrome b gene are shown to contain robust
phylogenetic signal for the strepsirrhine primates (i.e., lemurs and
lorises). The phylogeny derived from these data conforms to other molecular
studies of strepsirrhine relationships despite the fact that uncorrected
nucleotide distances are high for nearly all intrastrepsirrhine
comparisons, with most in the 15%-20% range. Cytochrome b sequences support
the hypothesis that Malagasy lemuriforms and Afro-Asian lorisiforms each
comprise clades that share a sister- group relationship. A study (Adkins
and Honeycutt 1994) of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit II (COII) gene
placed one Malagasy primate (Daubentonia) at the base of the strepsirrhine
clade, thereby suggesting a diphyletic Lemuriformes. The reanalysis of COII
third- position transversions, either alone or in combination with
cytochrome b third-position transversions, however, yields a tree that is
congruent with phylogenetic hypotheses derived from cytochrome b and other
genetic data sets.
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The effect of relaxed functional constraints on the photosynthetic gene rbcL in photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic parasitic plants 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The photosynthetic gene rbcL has been lost or dramatically altered in some
lineages of nonphotosynthetic parasitic plants, but the dynamics of these
events following loss of photosynthesis and whether rbcL has sustained
functionally significant changes in photosynthetic parasitic plants are
unknown. To assess the changes to rbcL associated with the loss of
functional constraints for photosynthesis, nucleotide sequences from
nonparasitic and parasitic plants of Scrophulariales were used for
phylogeny reconstruction and character analysis. Plants in this group
display a broad range of parasitic abilities, from photosynthetic
("hemiparasites") to nonphotosynthetic ("holoparasites"). With the
exception of Conopholis (Orobanchaceae), the rbcL locus is present in all
parasitic plants of Scrophulariales examined. Several holoparasitic genera
included in this study, including Boschniakia, Epifagus, Orobanche, and
Hyobanche, have rbcL pseudogenes. However, the holoparasites Alectra
orobanchoides, Harveya capensis, Harveya purpurea, Lathraea clandestina,
Orobanche corymbosa, O. fasciculata, and Striga gesnerioides have intact
open reading frames (ORFs) for the rbcL gene. Phylogenetic hypotheses based
on rbcL are largely in agreement with those based on sequences of the
nonphotosynthetic genes rps2 and matK and show a single origin of
parasitism, and loss of photosynthesis and pseudogene formation have been
independently derived several times in Scrophulariales. The mutations in
rbcL in nonparasitic and hemiparasitic plants would result in largely
conservative amino acid substitutions, supporting the hypothesis that
functional proteins can experience only a limited range of changes, even in
minimally photosynthetic plants. In contrast, ORFs in some holoparasites
had many previously unobserved missense substitutions at functionally
important amino acid residues, suggesting that rbcL genes in these plants
have evolved under relaxed or altered functional constraints.
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Alternative splicing and protein function 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
AD?Neverov II?Artamonova RN?Nurtdinov D?Frishman MS?GelfandEmail author AA?Mironov 《BMC bioinformatics》2005,6(1):266
Background
Alternative splicing is a major mechanism of generating protein diversity in higher eukaryotes. Although at least half, and probably more, of mammalian genes are alternatively spliced, it was not clear, whether the frequency of alternative splicing is the same in different functional categories. The problem is obscured by uneven coverage of genes by ESTs and a large number of artifacts in the EST data. 相似文献45.
Protein binding of NADH on chemical preconditioning 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Huber R Büchner M Li H Schlieter M Sperfeld AD Speerfeld AD Riepe MW 《Journal of neurochemistry》2000,75(1):329-335
Chemical preconditioning, an emerging neuroprotective strategy described in recent years, results in preserved energy metabolism during hypoxia via yet unknown mechanisms. The hypoxic increase of NADH content is attenuated by preconditioning. The goal of the present study was to investigate whether attenuation of the hypoxic NADH increase is due to a shift between free and protein-bound NADH. NADH in solution has a fluorescence maximum at 469.2 nm. In untreated mouse hippocampal slices, lambda(control onset) is 456.2 +/- 5.3 nm in CA1 (mean +/- SD; p < 0.01 vs. solution) and 454.6 +/- 6.1 nm in CA3 [p < 0.01 vs. solution, not significant (NS) to lambda(control onset) in CA1]. In slices prepared from animals pretreated in vivo with 20 mg/kg 3-nitropropionate, lambda(preconditioning onset) is 439.2 +/- 5.0 nm (p < 0.001 vs. control) in CA1 and 434.2 +/- 6.4 nm in CA3 (p < 0.001 vs. control; NS to lambda(preconditioning onset) in CA1). In controls, the fluorescence maximum shifts to lambda(control hypoxia) 458.2 +/- 1.3 nm in CA1 (NS vs. onset) and 456.0 +/- 3.6 nm in CA3 (NS vs. onset). On preconditioning with 3-nitropropionate, lambda(preconditioning hypoxia) shifts to 446.4 +/- 4.3 nm in CA1 (p < 0.03 vs. onset) and 438.6 +/- 6.9 nm in CA3 (p < 0.03 vs. onset). Posthypoxic decay of free and protein-bound NADH is diminished after preconditioning. We conclude that the free NADH level is reduced on an increase of hypoxic tolerance by chemical preconditioning. Reduction of free NADH content is maintained during hypoxia after preconditioning. 相似文献
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The components of hard tissues including dentin, enamel, cementum, bone and other calcified deposits, and mature and immature collagen pose problems for identification in routine hematoxylin and eosin (H & E) stained sections. Use of combinations of stains can demonstrate the components of hard tissues and soft tissues distinctly. We assessed the efficacy of the Verde Luz-orange G-acid fuchsin (VOF) stain for differentiating hard and soft connective tissues and compared results with other histochemical staining techniques. Eighty tissue sections comprising developing tooth (30), ossifying fibroma (30) and miscellaneous pathologies (20) expected to contain varying types of calcified tissues were stained with H & E, VOF, and Masson's trichrome (MT). In developing tooth, VOF demonstrated better differentiation of hard tissues, while it was comparable to MT for ossifying fibroma and miscellaneous pathologies. The intensity of staining was greater with VOF than with the other stains studied. VOF stains hard tissue components distinctly and gives good contrast with the surrounding connective tissue. VOF is comparable to MT, but has added advantages including single step staining, rapid and easy procedures, and it distinguishes the maturity of the tissues. 相似文献
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The method of affinity coelectrophoresis was used to study the binding of
nine representative glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-binding proteins, all thought
to play roles in nervous system development, to GAGs and proteoglycans
isolated from developing rat brain. Binding to heparin and non-neural
heparan and chondroitin sulfates was also measured. All nine
proteins-laminin-1, fibronectin, thrombospondin-1, NCAM, L1, protease
nexin-1, urokinase plasminogen activator, thrombin, and fibroblast growth
factor-2-bound brain heparan sulfate less strongly than heparin, but the
degree of difference in affinity varied considerably. Protease nexin-1
bound brain heparan sulfate only 1.8- fold less tightly than heparin
(Kdvalues of 35 vs. 20 nM, respectively), whereas NCAM and L1 bound heparin
well (Kd approximately 140 nM) but failed to bind detectably to brain
heparan sulfate (Kd>3 microM). Four proteins bound brain chondroitin
sulfate, with affinities equal to or a few fold stronger than the same
proteins displayed toward cartilage chondroitin sulfate. Overall, the
highest affinities were observed with intact heparan sulfate proteoglycans:
laminin-1's affinities for the proteoglycans cerebroglycan (glypican-2),
glypican-1 and syndecan-3 were 300- to 1800-fold stronger than its affinity
for brain heparan sulfate. In contrast, the affinities of fibroblast growth
factor-2 for cerebroglycan and for brain heparan sulfate were similar.
Interestingly, partial proteolysis of cerebroglycan resulted in a >400-
fold loss of laminin affinity. These data support the views that (1)
GAG-binding proteins can be differentially sensitive to variations in GAG
structure, and (2) core proteins can have dramatic, ligand-specific
influences on protein-proteoglycan interactions.
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Ulrike Brezina Susanne Kersten Hana Valenta Peter Sperfeld Juliane Riedel Sven Dänicke 《Mycotoxin Research》2013,29(4):221-227
In the literature, it has been shown that the naturally occurring trans-zearalenone (ZEN) is transformed by ultraviolet irradiation to cis-ZEN. However, the practical relevance of this transformation in animal feeding remains unclear. The aim of the present preliminary investigation was to examine the effect of UV-irradiation on the concentration of trans-ZEN in a natural feed matrix at different dry matter contents to simulate the dry and wet feeding techniques usually applied in pig feeding. Four variants, air dry or wet ZEN-contaminated ground maize either irradiated or not were tested and analysed with conventional HPLC-FLD for trans-ZEN changes, which were further examined for cis-ZEN formation by HPLC-MS/MS. In conclusion, it could be shown that, under the investigated wet feed conditions, naturally occurring trans-ZEN was partially converted by ultraviolet irradiation to its cis counterpart. In contrast, the cis/trans isomerization seemed not to be relevant in dry maize. The consequence of this finding for practical liquid feeding systems for pigs requires further investigation. Additionally, an improvement of the analytical method for cis-ZEN determination is needed. 相似文献
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