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ISABEL FERNANDES CLÁUDIA PASCOAL HELENA GUIMARÃES RUTE PINTO INÊS SOUSA FERNANDA CÁSSIO 《Freshwater Biology》2012,57(11):2306-2317
1. We investigated the effects of riparian plant diversity (species number and identity) and temperature on microbially mediated leaf decomposition by assessing fungal biodiversity, fungal reproduction and leaf mass loss. 2. Leaves of five riparian plant species were first immersed in a stream to allow microbial colonisation and were then exposed, alone or in all possible combinations, at 16 or 24 °C in laboratory microcosms. 3. Fungal biodiversity was reduced by temperature but was not affected by litter diversity. Temperature altered fungal community composition with species of warmer climate, such as Lunulospora curvula, becoming dominant. 4. Fungal reproduction was affected by litter diversity, but not by temperature. Fungal reproduction in leaf mixtures did not differ or was lower than that expected from the weighted sum of fungal sporulation on individual leaf species. At the higher temperature, the negative effect of litter diversity on fungal reproduction decreased with the number of leaf species. 5. Leaf mass loss was affected by the identity of leaf mixtures (i.e. litter quality), but not by leaf species number. This was mainly explained by the negative correlation between leaf decomposition and initial lignin concentration of leaves. 6. At 24 °C, the negative effects of lignin on microbially mediated leaf decomposition diminished, suggesting that higher temperatures may weaken the effects of litter quality on plant litter decomposition in streams. 7. The reduction in the negative effects of lignin at the higher temperature resulted in an increased microbially mediated litter decomposition, which may favour invertebrate‐mediated litter decomposition leading to a depletion of litter stocks in streams. 相似文献
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Nai-peng Tey Siew-yong Yew Wah-yun Low Lela Su’ut Prachi Renjhen M. S. L. Huang Wen-ting Tong Siow-li Lai 《PloS one》2012,7(12)
Background
Abortion is a serious public health issue, and it poses high risks to the health and life of women. Yet safe abortion services are not readily available because few doctors are trained to provide such services. Many doctors are unaware of laws pertaining to abortion. This article reports survey findings on Malaysian medical students’ attitudes toward abortion education and presents a case for including abortion education in medical schools.Methods and Results
A survey on knowledge of and attitudes toward abortion among medical students was conducted in two public universities and a private university in Malaysia in 2011. A total of 1,060 students returned the completed questionnaires. The survey covered about 90% of medical students in Years 1, 3, and 5 in the three universities. About 90% of the students wanted more training on the general knowledge and legal aspects of abortion, and pre-and post-abortion counseling. Overall, 75.9% and 81.0% of the students were in favor of including in medical education the training on surgical abortion techniques and medical abortion, respectively. Only 2.4% and 1.7% were opposed to the inclusion of training of these two methods in the curriculum. The remaining respondents were neutral in their stand. Desire for more abortion education was associated with students’ pro-choice index, their intention to provide abortion services in future practice, and year of study. However, students’ attitudes toward abortion were not significantly associated with gender, type of university, or ethnicity.Conclusions
Most students wanted more training on abortion. Some students also expressed their intention to provide abortion counseling and services in their future practice. Their desire for more training on abortion should be taken into account in the new curriculum. Abortion education is an important step towards making available safe abortion services to enable women to exercise their reproductive rights. 相似文献73.
Production of the virus‐like particles of nipah virus matrix protein in Pichia pastoris as diagnostic reagents
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Narcisse MS Joseph Kok Lian Ho Beng Ti Tey Chon Seng Tan Norazizah Shafee Wen Siang Tan 《Biotechnology progress》2016,32(4):1038-1045
The matrix (M) protein of Nipah virus (NiV) is a peripheral protein that plays a vital role in the envelopment of nucleocapsid protein and acts as a bridge between the viral surface and the nucleocapsid proteins. The M protein is also proven to play an important role in production of virus‐like particles (VLPs) and is essential for assembly and budding of NiV particles. The recombinant M protein produced in Escherichia coli assembled into VLPs in the absence of the viral surface proteins. However, the E. coli produced VLPs are smaller than the native virus particles. Therefore, the aims of this study were to produce NiV M protein in Pichia pastoris, to examine the structure of the VLPs formed, and to assess the potential of the VLPs as a diagnostic reagent. The M protein was successfully expressed in P. pastoris and was detected with anti‐myc antibody using Western blotting. The VLPs formed by the recombinant M protein were purified with sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation, high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and Immobilized Metal Affinity Chromatography (IMAC). Immunogold staining and transmission electron microscopy confirmed that the M protein assembled into VLPs as large as 200 nm. ELISA revealed that the NiV M protein produced in P. pastoris reacted strongly with positive NiV sera demonstrating its potential as a diagnostic reagent. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 32:1038–1045, 2016 相似文献
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CL Davidson 《BMJ (Clinical research ed.)》1998,316(7138):1163
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Chien Wei Ooi Beng Ti Tey Siew Ling Hii Arbakariya Ariff Ho Shing Wu John Chi Wei Lan Ruey Shin Juang Siti Mazlina Mustapa Kamal Tau Chuan Ling 《Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering》2009,14(6):811-818
An aqueous two-phase purification process was employed for the recovery of Burkholderia pseudomallei lipase from fermentation broth. The partition behavior of B. pseudomallei lipase was investigated with various parameters such as phase composition, tie-line length (TLL), volume ratio (VR), sample loading, system pH, and addition of neutral salts. Optimum conditions for the purification of lipase were obtained
in polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000-potassium phosphate system using TLL of 42.2% (w/w), with VR of 2.70, and 1% (w/w) NaCl
addition at pH 7 for 20% (w/w) crude load. Based on this system, the purification factor of lipase was enhanced to 12.42 fold,
with a high yield of 93%. Hence, the simplicity and effectiveness of aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) in the purification
of lipase were proven in this study. 相似文献
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Serruys P Grines C Stone G Garcia E Kiemeney F Morice M Sousa J Hamm C Costantini C Probst P Rutsch W Penn I Fernandez-Aviles F Vandormael M Bartorelli A Bilodeau L Eijgelshoven M 《International journal of cardiovascular interventions》1998,1(1):19-27
Preliminary experience with primary stenting in myocardial infarction has suggested a greater benefit in clinical outcome than has been obtained with direct balloon angioplasty. However, subacute thrombosis (SAT) remains a limitation for this new mode of therapy. In the BENESTENT II Pilot and main trials, the incidence of SAT with the heparin-coated Palmaz-Schatz stent was only 0.15%. Therefore, as a preamble to a large randomized trial, the feasibility and safety of the use of the Heparin-Coated Palmaz-Schatz trade mark Stent in Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) was tested in 101 patients enrolled between April and September 1996 in 18 clinical centres. In 101 stent-eligible AMI patients, as dictated by protocol, a heparin-coated stent was implanted. The primary objectives were to determine the in-hospital incidence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE: death, MI, target lesion revascularization) and bleeding complications, while the secondary objectives were the procedural success rate and the MACE, the restenosis and reocclusion rates at 6.5 months. Stent implantation (n 3 129 stents) was successful in 97 patients of the 101 who were included in this trial. During their hospital stay, two patients died and no patient experienced re-infarction, ischaemia prompting re-PTCA or CABG. Four patients suffered a bleeding complication, three major and one minor, of whom three required surgical repair. At 210 days follow-up, 81% of the patients were event free. At 6.5 months restenosis was documented in 18% of the 88 patients who underwent follow-up angiography, including three total occlusions. The results, both with respect to QCA and the occurrence of MACE, compare favourably with studies using elective stenting in both stable and unstable angina patients. As a result of this pilot study, a large randomized trial comparing direct balloon angioplasty with direct stenting in 900 patients with AMI was initiated in December 1996. 相似文献
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Evolution of the Adh locus in the Drosophila willistoni group: the loss of an intron, and shift in codon usage 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
We report here the DNA sequence of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene (Adh)
cloned from Drosophila willistoni. The three major findings are as follows:
(1) Relative to all other Adh genes known from Drosophila, D. willistoni
Adh has the last intron precisely deleted; PCR directly from total genomic
DNA indicates that the deletion exists in all members of the willistoni
group but not in any other group, including the closely related saltans
group. Otherwise the structure and predicted protein are very similar to
those of other species. (2) There is a significant shift in codon usage,
especially compared with that in D. melanogaster Adh. The most striking
shift is from C to U in the wobble position (both third and first
position). Unlike the codon-usage-bias pattern typical of highly biased
genes in D. melanogaster, including Adh, D. willistoni has nearly 50% G + C
in the third position. (3) The phylogenetic information provided by this
new sequence is in agreement with almost all other molecular and
morphological data, in placing the obscura group closer to the melanogaster
group, with the willistoni group farther distant but still clearly within
the subgenus Sophophora.
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Fui Chin Chong Wen Siang Tan Dayang Radiah Awang Biak Tau Chuan Ling Beng Ti Tey 《Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences》2009,877(14-15):1561-1567
Nucleocapsid (N) protein of Nipah virus (NiV) is a potential serological marker used in the diagnosis of NiV infections. In this study, a rapid and efficient purification system, HisTrap? 6 Fast Flow packed bed column was applied to purify recombinant histidine-tagged N protein of NiV from clarified feedstock. The optimizations of binding and elution conditions of N protein of NiV onto and from Nickel Sepharose? 6 Fast Flow were investigated. The optimal binding was achieved at pH 7.5, superficial velocity of 1.25 cm/min. The bound N protein was successfully recovered by a stepwise elution with different concentration of imidazole (50, 150, 300 and 500 mM). The N protein of NiV was captured and eluted from an inlet N protein concentration of 0.4 mg/ml in a scale-up immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC) packed bed column of Nickel Sepharose? 6 Fast Flow with the optimized condition obtained from the method scouting. The purification of histidine-tagged N protein using IMAC packed bed column has resulted a 68.3% yield and a purification factor of 7.94. 相似文献
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Chow Yen Mei Tey Beng Ti Mohammad Nordin Ibrahim Arbakariya Ariff Ling Tau Chuan 《Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering》2005,10(3):280-283
Baker’s yeast was disrupted in a 1.4-L stainless steel horizontal bead mill under a continuous recycle mode using 0.3 mm diameter
zirconia beads as abrasive. A single pass in continuous mode bead mill operation liberates half of the maximally released
protein. The maximum total protein release can only be achieved after passaging the cells 5 times through the disruption chamber.
The degree of cell disruption was increased with the increase in feeding rate, but the total protein release was highest at
the middle range of feeding rate (45 L/h). The total protein release was increased with an increase in biomass concentration
from 10 to 50% (w/v). However, higher heat dissipation as a result of high viscosity of concentrated biomass led to the denaturation
of labile protein such as glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH). As a result the highest specific activity of G6PDH was
achieved at biomass concentration of 20% (ww/v). Generally, the degree of cell disruption and total protein released were
increased with an increase in impeller tip speed, but the specific activity of G6PDH was decreased substantially at higher
impeller tip speed (14 m/s). Both the degree of cell disruption and total protein release increased, as the bead loading increased
from 75 to 85% (v/v). Hence, in order to obtain a higher yield of labile protein such as G6PDH, the yeast cell should not
be disrupted at biomass concentration and impeller tip speed higher than 20% (w/v) and 10 m/s, respectively. 相似文献
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AIM: To use ergosterol assay as a rapid tool to assess the extent of fungal contamination in grains and feeds. METHODS AND RESULTS: Ergosterol was extracted from moulds and quantified using a modified method based on Seitz et al. (1977). A good correlation coefficient of 0.9998 was obtained for ergosterol standards and a strong correlation (R(2) = 0 x 9645) was established between the ergosterol content and the growth of Aspergillus niger ATCC 24126. This shows that this assay can be used to estimate fungal growth. The ergosterol contents and amount of carbon dioxide produced in both Control and Myco CURB (brand) liquid-treated corns were measured over 36 days. Ergosterol contents of pelleted pig feeds were also determined. In both experiments, the levels of ergosterol in the control samples were significantly higher than those of the mould-inhibitor-treated samples. CONCLUSIONS: A strong positive correlation (Spearman, Rs = 0 x 7241) was observed between the ergosterol content and the degree of fungal growth. Hence, ergosterol assay can be used as a rapid tool to assess the microbiological status of grains and feeds. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: This study affirms that ergosterol assay is a rapid and accurate tool that can be used for the assessment of the feed quality. 相似文献