Shortly after the initial detection of western flower thrips (WFT), Frankiniella occidentalis (Pergande), in Australia during 1993 a resistance management strategy based on the alternation of chemical groups was implemented. This study aimed to verify this strategy by field testing α-cypermethrin against WFT with and without chemical alternation. Up to 114 times α-cypermethrin resistance (at LC50) was detected and resistance increased with and without chemical alternation; however, chemical alternation did significantly reduce numbers of thrips compared with a nonalternation strategy. Resistance has the potential to undermine the sustainable use of those chemicals to which there is no current detectable resistance. Consequently, chemicals with a high frequency and level of resistance against WFT need to be identified through monitoring and quickly eliminated from WFT chemical control recommendations. 相似文献
The effects of the strobilurin fungicides Juwel, Juwel Top and Amistar on the deoxynivalenol contamination of winter wheat was studied in field experiments. In general, the application of strobilurins during stem elongation and inflorescence emergence of wheat resulted in increased deoxynivalenol contents in kernels as compared with the untreated control. This stimulating effect can be reversed by a following azole fungicide applied within a time period of one week during the stages of flowering. 相似文献
We have determined the nucleotide sequence of a 1,200-base pair (bp)
genomic fragment that includes the kappa-chain constant-region gene (C
kappa) from two species of native Australian rodents, Rattus leucopus
cooktownensis and Rattus colletti. Comparison of these sequences with each
other and with other rodent C kappa genes shows three surprising features.
First, the coding regions are diverging at a rate severalfold higher than
that of the nearby noncoding regions. Second, replacement changes within
the coding region are accumulating at a rate at least as great as that of
silent changes. Third, most of the amino acid replacements are localized in
one region of the C kappa domain--namely, the carboxy-terminal "bends" in
the alpha-carbon backbone. These three features have previously been
described from comparisons of the two allelic forms of C kappa genes in R.
norvegicus. These data imply the existence of considerable evolutionary
constraints on the noncoding regions (based on as yet undetermined
functions) or powerful positive selection to diversify a portion of the
constant-region domain (whose physiological significance is not known).
These surprising features of C kappa evolution appear to be characteristic
only of closely related C kappa genes, since comparison of rodent with
human sequences shows the expected greater conservation of coding regions,
as well as a predominance of silent nucleotide substitutions within the
coding regions.
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It is often difficult to identify the ‘who, when, and where’ of advances in medicine and surgery because it's a rare advance indeed (such as the use of digitalis by William Withering) that can be clearly related to the astuteness of one person at one time and place. 相似文献
The method of Hidden Markov Models is used to allow for unequal and unknown
evolutionary rates at different sites in molecular sequences. Rates of
evolution at different sites are assumed to be drawn from a set of possible
rates, with a finite number of possibilities. The overall likelihood of
phylogeny is calculated as a sum of terms, each term being the probability
of the data given a particular assignment of rates to sites, times the
prior probability of that particular combination of rates. The
probabilities of different rate combinations are specified by a stationary
Markov chain that assigns rate categories to sites. While there will be a
very large number of possible ways of assigning rates to sites, a simple
recursive algorithm allows the contributions to the likelihood from all
possible combinations of rates to be summed, in a time proportional to the
number of different rates at a single site. Thus with three rates, the
effort involved is no greater than three times that for a single rate. This
"Hidden Markov Model" method allows for rates to differ between sites and
for correlations between the rates of neighboring sites. By summing over
all possibilities it does not require us to know the rates at individual
sites. However, it does not allow for correlation of rates at nonadjacent
sites, nor does it allow for a continuous distribution of rates over sites.
It is shown how to use the Newton-Raphson method to estimate branch lengths
of a phylogeny and to infer from a phylogeny what assignment of rates to
sites has the largest posterior probability. An example is given using
beta-hemoglobin DNA sequences in eight mammal species; the regions of high
and low evolutionary rates are inferred and also the average length of
patches of similar rates.
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The anthrax toxin of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis consists of three distinct proteins, one of which is the anthrax lethal factor (LF). LF is a gluzincin Zn‐dependent, highly specific metalloprotease with a molecular mass of ~90 kDa that cleaves most isoforms of the family of mitogen‐activated protein kinase kinases (MEKs/MKKs) close to their amino termini, resulting in the inhibition of one or more signaling pathways. Previous studies on the crystal structures of uncomplexed LF and LF complexed with the substrate MEK2 or a MKK‐based synthetic peptide provided structure‐activity correlations and the basis for the rational design of efficient inhibitors. However, in the crystallographic structures, the substrate peptide was not properly oriented in the active site because of the absence of the catalytic zinc atom. In the current study, docking and molecular dynamics calculations were employed to examine the LF‐MEK/MKK interaction along the catalytic channel up to a distance of 20 Å from the zinc atom. This residue‐specific view of the enzyme‐substrate interaction provides valuable information about: (i) the substrate selectivity of LF and its inactivation of MEKs/MKKs (an issue highly important not only to anthrax infection but also to the pathogenesis of cancer), and (ii) the discovery of new, previously unexploited, hot‐spots of the LF catalytic channel that are important in the enzyme/substrate binding and interaction. 相似文献
Myelin basic protein peptide 83–99 (MBP83–99) is the most immunodominant epitope playing a significant role in the multiple
sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. Many peptide analogues, linear or cyclic have been designed
and synthesized based on this segment in order to inhibit the experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, the best well-known
animal model of MS. In this study, the solution structural motif of MBP83–99 has been performed using 2D 1H-NMR spectroscopy in dimethyl sulfoxide. A rather extended conformation, along with the formation of a well defined α-helix
spanning residues Val87–Phe90 is proposed, as no long-range NOE are presented. Moreover, the residues of MBP peptide that are important for T-cell receptor
recognition are solvent exposed. The spatial arrangement of the side chain all over the sequence of our NMR based model exhibits
great similarity with the solid state model, while both TCR contacts occupy the same region in space. 相似文献
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the etiological cause of the coronavirus disease 2019, for which no effective antiviral therapeutics are available. The SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) is essential for viral replication and constitutes a promising therapeutic target. Many efforts aimed at deriving effective Mpro inhibitors are currently underway, including an international open-science discovery project, codenamed COVID Moonshot. As part of COVID Moonshot, we used saturation transfer difference nuclear magnetic resonance (STD-NMR) spectroscopy to assess the binding of putative Mpro ligands to the viral protease, including molecules identified by crystallographic fragment screening and novel compounds designed as Mpro inhibitors. In this manner, we aimed to complement enzymatic activity assays of Mpro performed by other groups with information on ligand affinity. We have made the Mpro STD-NMR data publicly available. Here, we provide detailed information on the NMR protocols used and challenges faced, thereby placing these data into context. Our goal is to assist the interpretation of Mpro STD-NMR data, thereby accelerating ongoing drug design efforts.