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A Novel DNA-Binding Protein Bound to the Mitochondrial Inner Membrane Restores the Null Mutation of Mitochondrial Histone Abf2p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1 下载免费PDF全文
Jae Hyoung Cho Sang Jin Ha Ling Rong Kao Timothy L. Megraw Chi-Bom Chae 《Molecular and cellular biology》1998,18(10):5712-5723
The yeast mitochondrial HMG-box protein, Abf2p, is essential for maintenance of the mitochondrial genome. To better understand the role of Abf2p in the maintenance of the mitochondrial chromosome, we have isolated a multicopy suppressor (YHM2) of the temperature-sensitive defect associated with an abf2 null mutation. The function of Yhm2p was characterized at the molecular level. Yhm2p has 314 amino acid residues, and the deduced amino acid sequence is similar to that of a family of mitochondrial carrier proteins. Yhm2p is localized in the mitochondrial inner membrane and is also associated with mitochondrial DNA in vivo. Yhm2p exhibits general DNA-binding activity in vitro. Thus, Yhm2p appears to be novel in that it is a membrane-bound DNA-binding protein. A sequence that is similar to the HMG DNA-binding domain is important for the DNA-binding activity of Yhm2p, and a mutation in this region abolishes the ability of YHM2 to suppress the temperature-sensitive defect of respiration of the abf2 null mutant. Disruption of YHM2 causes a significant growth defect in the presence of nonfermentable carbon sources such as glycerol and ethanol, and the cells have defects in respiration as determined by 2,3,5,-triphenyltetrazolium chloride staining. Yhm2p may function as a member of the protein machinery for the mitochondrial inner membrane attachment site of mitochondrial DNA during replication and segregation of mitochondrial genomes. 相似文献
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Alignment of RNA secondary structures is important in studying functional RNA motifs. In recent years, much progress has been made in RNA motif finding and structure alignment. However, existing tools either require a large number of prealigned structures or suffer from high time complexities. This makes it difficult for the tools to process RNAs whose prealigned structures are unavailable or process very large RNA structure databases. 相似文献44.
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The effects of selective ibotenate lesions of the complete hippocampus (CHip), the hippocampal ventral pole (VP), or the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in male rats were assessed on several measures related to energy regulation (i.e., body weight gain, food intake, body adiposity, metabolic activity, general behavioral activity, conditioned appetitive responding). The testing conditions were designed to minimize the nonspecific debilitating effects of these surgeries on intake and body weight. Rats with CHip and VP lesions exhibited significantly greater weight gain and food intake compared with controls. Furthermore, CHip-lesioned rats, but not rats with VP lesions, showed elevated metabolic activity, general activity in the dark phase of the light-dark cycle, and greater conditioned appetitive behavior, compared with control rats without these brain lesions. In contrast, rats with mPFC lesions were not different from controls on any of these measures. These results indicate that hippocampal damage interferes with energy and body weight regulation, perhaps by disrupting higher-order learning and memory processes that contribute to the control of appetitive and consummatory behavior. 相似文献
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Basal bodies are freed from cilia and transition into?centrioles to organize centrosomes in dividing cells. A mutually exclusive centriole/basal body existence during cell-cycle progression has become a widely accepted principle. Contrary to this view, we?show here that cilia assemble and persist through?two meiotic divisions in Drosophila spermatocytes. Remarkably, all four centrioles assemble primary cilia-centriole complexes that transit from the plasma membrane encased in a packet of membrane, recruit centrosomal material into microtubule-organizing centers, and persist at the spindle poles through division. Thus, spermatocyte centrioles organize centrosomes and cilia simultaneously at cell division. These findings challenge the prevailing view that cilia antagonize cell-cycle progression and raise the possibility that cilium retention at cell division may occur in diverse organisms and cell types. 相似文献
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Abstract A methanotrophic nitrifying consortium was previously obtained from a humisol which showed CH4 -dependent nitrification. Although the methanotroph could not be obtained in pure culture, three other members of the consortium have been isolated: An obligately methylotrophic Methylobacillus (Is-1) which grows only on CH3 OH and does not nitrify; a Pseudomonas (Is-2) which grows on Is-1 culture filtrate and produces NO2 − , NO3 − and N2 O from NH2 OH, and NO3 − from NO2 − ; and a second Pseudomonas (Is-3) which produces NO3 − from NH4 + or NO2 − , and N2 O from NH2 OH. A model is proposed for the trophic relations and nitrogen transformations in the consortium which may apply to some natural systems. 相似文献
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Olfactory memory: the long and short of it 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
It has been proposed that memory for odors does not have a short-term (or
working) memory system. The distinction between short- and long- term
memory in other sensory modalities has been generally supported by three
main lines of evidence: capacity differences between the proposed systems,
evidence of differential coding, and differential memory losses in
neuropsychological patients. The present paper examines these issues in an
effort to establish a similar distinction for the memory of olfactory
stimuli. Each of these lines of evidence is examined in relation to the
literature on olfactory memory. Based on this examination, it seems that
there is at least preliminary support from each of these lines of evidence
to advocate a distinction between a long- and short-term memory for
olfactory stimuli. Emphasis is placed upon the qualitative similarity of
olfactory memory to other memory systems. This similarity is further
highlighted through an examination of the literature pertinent to serial
position effects in memory for olfactory stimuli.
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