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Soil-borne fungal pathogen, Fusarium oxysporum causes major economic losses by inducing necrosis and wilting symptoms in many crop plants. Management of fusarium wilt is achieved mainly by the use of chemical fungicides which affect the soil health and their efficiency is often limited by pathogenic variability. Hence understanding the nature of interaction between pathogen and host may help to select and improve better cultivars. Current research evidences highlight the role of oxidative burst and antioxidant enzymes indicating that ROS act as an important signaling molecule in banana defense response against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense. The role of jasmonic acid signaling in plant defense against necrotrophic pathogens is well recognized. But recent studies show that the role of salicylic acid is complex and ambiguous against necrotrophic pathogens like Fusarium oxysporum, leading to many intriguing questions about its relationship between other signaling compounds. In case of banana, a major challenge is to identify specific receptors for effector proteins like SIX proteins and also the components of various signal transduction pathways. Significant progress has been made to uncover the role of defense genes but is limited to only model plants such as Arabidopsis and tomato. Keeping this in view, we review the host response, pathogen diversity, current understanding of biochemical and molecular changes that occur during host and pathogen interaction. Developing resistant cultivars through mutation, breeding, transgenic and cisgenic approaches have been discussed. This would help us to understand host defenses against Fusarium oxysporum and to formulate strategies to develop tolerant cultivars. 相似文献
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Ghosh S Dungdung SR Chowdhury ST Mandal AK Sarkar S Ghosh D Das N 《Free radical biology & medicine》2011,51(10):1893-1902
Chronic arsenic exposure causes oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in the liver and brain. The ideal treatment would be to chelate arsenic and prevent oxidative stress. meso-2,3-Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) is used to chelate arsenic but its hydrophilicity makes it membrane-impermeative. Conversely, quercetin (QC) is a good antioxidant with limited clinical application because of its hydrophobic nature and limited bioavailability, and it is not possible to solubilize these two compounds in a single nontoxic solvent. Nanocapsules have emerged as a potent drug delivery system and make it feasible to incorporate both hydrophilic and lipophilic compounds. Nanoencapsulated formulations with QC and DMSA either alone or coencapsulated in polylactide-co-glycolide [N(QC+DMSA)] were synthesized to explore their therapeutic application in a rat model of chronic arsenic toxicity. These treatments were compared to administration of quercetin or DMSA alone using conventional delivery methods. Both nanoencapsulated quercetin and nanoencapsulated DMSA were more effective at decreasing oxidative injury in liver or brain compared to conventional delivery methods, but coencapsulation of quercetin and DMSA into nanoparticles had a marked synergistic effect, decreasing liver and brain arsenic levels from 9.5 and 4.8μg/g to 2.2 and 1.5μg/g, respectively. Likewise, administration of coencapsulated quercetin and DMSA virtually normalized changes in mitochondrial function, formation of reactive oxygen species, and liver injury. We conclude that coencapsulation of quercetin and DMSA may provide a more effective therapeutic strategy in the management of arsenic toxicity and also presents a novel way of combining hydrophilic and hydrophobic drugs into a single delivery system. 相似文献
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Ghosh D Choudhury ST Ghosh S Mandal AK Sarkar S Ghosh A Saha KD Das N 《Chemico-biological interactions》2012,195(3):206-214
Toxic outcome of chemical therapeutics as well as multidrug resistance are two serious phenomena for their inacceptance in cancer chemotherapy. Antioxidants like curcumin (Cur) have gained immense importance for their excellent anticarcinogenic activities and minimum toxic manifestations in biological system. However, Cur is lipophilic and thus following oral administration hardly appears in blood indicating its potential therapeutic challenge in cancer therapy. Nanocapsulated Cur has been used as a drug delivery vector to focus the effectiveness of these vesicles against hepatocellular carcinoma. The theme of work was to evaluate effectiveness in oral route of polylactide co-glycolide (PLGA) Nanocapsulated curcumin (Nano Cur) against diethylnitrosamine (DEN) induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in rat. Nano Cur of average diameter 14nm and encapsulation efficiency of 78% were prepared. Fourier Transform Infra Red (FTIR) analysis revealed that there is no chemical interaction between drug and the polymer. Three i.p. injections of the chemical hepatocarcinogen DEN at 15days interval causes hepatotoxicity, the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), lipid peroxidation, decrease in plasma membrane microviscosity and depletion of antioxidant enzyme levels in liver. Nano Cur (weekly oral treatment for 16weeks at 20mg/kg b.wt) in DEN induced HCC rats exerted significant protection against HCC and restored redox homeostasis in liver cells. Nanocapsulated Cur caused cancer cell apoptosis as visualized by ApoBrdU analysis. Histopathological analysis confirmed the pathological improvement in the liver. Nano Cur was found to be a potential formulation in oral route in combating the oxidative damage of hepatic cells and eliminating DEN induced hepatocellular cancer cells in rat whereas identical amount of free Cur treatment was found almost ineffective. 相似文献
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Uppu Venkateswara Prasad Vimjam Swarupa Sthanikam Yeswanth Pasupuleti Santhosh Kumar Easambadi Siva Kumar Kalikiri Mahesh Kumar Reddy Yellapu Nanda Kumar Vangavaragu Jhansi Rani Abhijit Chaudhary Potukuchi Venkata Gurunadha Krishna Sarma 《Bioinformation》2014,10(2):81-86
Staphylococcus aureus a natural inhabitant of nasopharyngeal tract mainly survives as biofilms and possess complete Krebs cycle
which plays major role in its pathogenesis. This TCA cycle is regulated by Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) we have earlier cloned,
sequenced (), expressed and characterized this enzyme from S. aureus ATCC12600. We have observed only one type of
IDH in all the strains of S. aureus which dictates the flow of carbon thereby controlling the virulence and biofilm formation, this
phenomenon is variable among bacteria. Therefore in the present study comparative structural and functional analysis of IDH was
undertaken. As the crystal structure of S. aureus IDH was not available therefore using the deduced amino sequence of complete
gene the 3D structure of IDH was built in Modeller 9v8. The PROCHECK and ProSAweb analysis showed the built structure was
close to the crystal structure of Bacillus subtilis. This structure when superimposed with other bacterial IDH structures exhibited
extensive structural variations as evidenced from the RMSD values correlating with extensive sequential variations. Only 24%
sequence identity was observed with both human NADP dependent IDHs (PDB: 1T09 and 1T0L) and the structural comparative
studies indicated extensive structural variations with an RMSD values of 14.284Å and 10.073Å respectively. Docking of isocitrate to
both human IDHs and S. aureus IDH structures showed docking scores of -11.6169 and -10.973 respectively clearly indicating
higher binding affinity of isocitrate to human IDH. HM067707相似文献
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Hanumanthu Prasanna Lakshmi Sthanikam Yeswanth Uppu Venkateswara Prasad Dudipeta Vasu Vimjam Swarupa Pasupuleti Santhosh Kumar Mangamoori Lakshmi Narasu Potukuchi Venkata Gurunadha Krishna Sarma 《Bioinformation》2013,9(4):169-173
Glucose-6-phosphate (G-6-P) formation in Staphylococcus aureus is catalysed by glucokinase (glkA) gene under high glucose
concentration leading to upregulation of various pathogenic factors; therefore the present study is aimed in the cloning and
characterization of glk A gene from S. aureus ATCC12600. The glk A gene was cloned in the Sma I site of pQE 30, sequenced
(Accession number: ) and expressed in E. coli DH5α. The recombinant glk A expressed from the resultant glk A 1 clone
was purified using nickel metal chelate chromatography, the pure enzyme gave single band in SDS-PAGE with molecular weight
of 33kDa. The rglk A showed very high affinity to glucose Km 5.1±0.06mM with Hill coefficient of 1.66±0.032mM. Analysis of
glucokinase sequence of S. aureus showed presence of typical ATP binding site and ROK motif CNCGRSGCIE. Sequentially and
phylogenetically S. aureus glk A exhibited low identity with other bacterial glk A and 21% homology with human glucokinase
(GCK). Functionally, S. aureus glk A showed higher rate of G-6-P formation compared to human GCK which may have profound
role in the pathogenesis. JN645812相似文献
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Axten JM Medina JR Blackledge CW Duquenne C Grant SW Bobko MA Peng T Miller WH Pinckney T Gallagher TF Kulkarni S Lewandowski T Van Aller GS Zonis R Ward P Campobasso N 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2012,22(12):4028-4032
A new class of PDF inhibitor with potent, broad spectrum antibacterial activity is described. Optimization of blood stability and potency provided compounds with improved pharmacokinetics that were suitable for in vivo experiments. Compound 5c, which has robust antibacterial activity, demonstrated efficacy in two respiratory tract infection models. 相似文献