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Chuya Shinzato Konstantin Khalturin Jun Inoue Yuna Zayasu Miyuki Kanda Mayumi Kawamitsu Yuki Yoshioka Hiroshi Yamashita Go Suzuki Noriyuki Satoh 《Molecular biology and evolution》2021,38(1):16
The genus Acropora comprises the most diverse and abundant scleractinian corals (Anthozoa, Cnidaria) in coral reefs, the most diverse marine ecosystems on Earth. However, the genetic basis for the success and wide distribution of Acropora are unknown. Here, we sequenced complete genomes of 15 Acropora species and 3 other acroporid taxa belonging to the genera Montipora and Astreopora to examine genomic novelties that explain their evolutionary success. We successfully obtained reasonable draft genomes of all 18 species. Molecular dating indicates that the Acropora ancestor survived warm periods without sea ice from the mid or late Cretaceous to the Early Eocene and that diversification of Acropora may have been enhanced by subsequent cooling periods. In general, the scleractinian gene repertoire is highly conserved; however, coral- or cnidarian-specific possible stress response genes are tandemly duplicated in Acropora. Enzymes that cleave dimethlysulfonioproprionate into dimethyl sulfide, which promotes cloud formation and combats greenhouse gasses, are the most duplicated genes in the Acropora ancestor. These may have been acquired by horizontal gene transfer from algal symbionts belonging to the family Symbiodiniaceae, or from coccolithophores, suggesting that although functions of this enzyme in Acropora are unclear, Acropora may have survived warmer marine environments in the past by enhancing cloud formation. In addition, possible antimicrobial peptides and symbiosis-related genes are under positive selection in Acropora, perhaps enabling adaptation to diverse environments. Our results suggest unique Acropora adaptations to ancient, warm marine environments and provide insights into its capacity to adjust to rising seawater temperatures. 相似文献
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Astrocytes with previous chronic exposure to amyloid β‐peptide fragment 1–40 suppress excitatory synaptic transmission 下载免费PDF全文
Hiroyuki Kawano Kohei Oyabu Hideaki Yamamoto Kei Eto Yuna Adaniya Kaori Kubota Takuya Watanabe Ayumi Hirano‐Iwata Junichi Nabekura Shutaro Katsurabayashi Katsunori Iwasaki 《Journal of neurochemistry》2017,143(6):624-634
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Lee do K Kim Y Park KS Yang JW Kim K Ha NJ 《Journal of biochemistry and molecular biology》2007,40(6):881-887
It is a hot clinical issue whether newly approved antimicrobial agents such as daptomycin, linezolid, quinupristin/dalfopristin (synercid) and tigecycline are active enough to be used for infections caused by vancomycin resistant bacteria. We performed susceptibility tests for mupirocin, which is in widespread clinical use in Korea, and four new antimicrobials, daptomycin, linezolid, quinupristin/dalfopristin and tigecycline, against vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium isolated from Korean patients in 1998 and 2005 to evaluate and compare the in vitro activity of these antimicrobials. Among these agents, quinupristin/dalfopristin, which is rarely used in hospitals in Korea, showed relatively high resistance to several vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) isolated in 2005. Likewise, daptomycin, linezolid and tigecycline have not yet been in clinical use in Korea. However, our results showed that most of the 2005 VRE isolates were already resistant to linezolid and daptomycin (highest minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) value >100 microg/ml). Compared with the other four antimicrobial agents tested in this study, tigecycline generally showed the greatest activity against VRE. However, four strains of 2005 isolates exhibited resistance against tigecycline (MIC >12.5 microg/ml). Almost all VRE were resistant to mupirocin, whereas all E. faecium isolated in 1998 were inhibited at concentrations between 0.8 to approximately 1.6 microg/ml. In conclusion, resistances to these new antimicrobial agents were exhibited in most of VRE strains even though these new antibiotics have been rarely used in Korean hospitals. 相似文献
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Small Maf compound mutants display central nervous system neuronal degeneration,aberrant transcription,and Bach protein mislocalization coincident with myoclonus and abnormal startle response 下载免费PDF全文
Katsuoka F Motohashi H Tamagawa Y Kure S Igarashi K Engel JD Yamamoto M 《Molecular and cellular biology》2003,23(4):1163-1174
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Ryunosuke Ohkawa Hann Low Nigora Mukhamedova Ying Fu Shao-Jui Lai Mai Sasaoka Ayuko Hara Azusa Yamazaki Takahiro Kameda Yuna Horiuchi Peter J. Meikle Gerard Pernes Graeme Lancaster Michael Ditiatkovski Paul Nestel Boris Vaisman Denis Sviridov Andrew Murphy Alan T. Remaley Dmitri Sviridov Minoru Tozuka 《Journal of lipid research》2020,61(12):1577
Lipoproteins play a key role in transport of cholesterol to and from tissues. Recent studies have also demonstrated that red blood cells (RBCs), which carry large quantities of free cholesterol in their membrane, play an important role in reverse cholesterol transport. However, the exact role of RBCs in systemic cholesterol metabolism is poorly understood. RBCs were incubated with autologous plasma or isolated lipoproteins resulting in a significant net amount of cholesterol moved from RBCs to HDL, while cholesterol from LDL moved in the opposite direction. Furthermore, the bi-directional cholesterol transport between RBCs and plasma lipoproteins was saturable and temperature-, energy-, and time-dependent, consistent with an active process. We did not find LDLR, ABCG1, or scavenger receptor class B type 1 in RBCs but found a substantial amount of ABCA1 mRNA and protein. However, specific cholesterol efflux from RBCs to isolated apoA-I was negligible, and ABCA1 silencing with siRNA or inhibition with vanadate and Probucol did not inhibit the efflux to apoA-I, HDL, or plasma. Cholesterol efflux from and cholesterol uptake by RBCs from Abca1+/+ and Abca1−/− mice were similar, arguing against the role of ABCA1 in cholesterol flux between RBCs and lipoproteins. Bioinformatics analysis identified ABCA7, ABCG5, lipoprotein lipase, and mitochondrial translocator protein as possible candidates that may mediate the cholesterol flux. Together, these results suggest that RBCs actively participate in cholesterol transport in the blood, but the role of cholesterol transporters in RBCs remains uncertain. 相似文献
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Smad7 antagonizes transforming growth factor beta signaling in the nucleus by interfering with functional Smad-DNA complex formation 下载免费PDF全文
Zhang S Fei T Zhang L Zhang R Chen F Ning Y Han Y Feng XH Meng A Chen YG 《Molecular and cellular biology》2007,27(12):4488-4499
Smad7 plays an essential role in the negative-feedback regulation of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) signaling by inhibiting TGF-beta signaling at the receptor level. It can interfere with binding to type I receptors and thus activation of receptor-regulated Smads or recruit the E3 ubiquitin ligase Smurf to receptors and thus target them for degradation. Here, we report that Smad7 is predominantly localized in the nucleus of Hep3B cells. The targeted expression of Smad7 in the nucleus conferred superior inhibitory activity on TGF-beta signaling, as determined by reporter assay in mammalian cells and by its effect on zebrafish embryogenesis. Furthermore, Smad7 repressed Smad3/4-, Smad2/4-, and Smad1/4-enhanced reporter gene expression, indicating that Smad7 can function independently of type I receptors. An oligonucleotide precipitation assay revealed that Smad7 can specifically bind to the Smad-responsive element via its MH2 domain, and DNA-binding activity was further confirmed in vivo with the promoter of PAI-1, a TGF-beta target gene, by chromatin immunoprecipitation. Finally, we provide evidence that Smad7 disrupts the formation of the TGF-beta-induced functional Smad-DNA complex. Our findings suggest that Smad7 inhibits TGF-beta signaling in the nucleus by a novel mechanism. 相似文献
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Previously, we found that the growth arrest-specific gene 6 (Gas6) is more highly expressed in germinal vesicle (GV) oocytes than in metaphase II (MII) oocytes using annealing control primer (ACP)-PCR technology. The current study was undertaken to investigate the role of Gas6 in oocyte maturation and fertilization using RNA interference (RNAi). Interestingly, despite the specific and marked decrease in Gas6 mRNA and protein expression in GVs after Gas6 RNAi, nuclear maturation including spindle structures and chromosome segregation was not affected. The only discernible effect induced by Gas6 RNAi was a change in maturation promoting factor (MPF) activity. After parthenogenetic activation, Gas6 RNAi-treated oocytes at the MII stage had not developed further and arrested at MII (90.0%). After stimulation with Sr(2+), Gas6-silenced MII oocytes had markedly reduced Ca(2+) oscillation and exhibited no exocytosis of cortical granules. In these oocytes, sperm penetration occurred during fertilization but not pronucleus (PN) formation. By roscovitine and colcemid treatment, we found that the Gas6 knockdown affected cytoplasmic maturation directly, independent to the changed MPF activity. These results strongly suggest that 1) the Gas6 signaling itself is important to the cytoplasmic maturation, but not nuclear maturation, and 2) the decreased Gas6 expression and decreased MPF activity separately or mutually influence sperm head decondensation and PN formation. 相似文献
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南四湖自然保护区具有较高的生态保护地位和经济价值。研究以南四湖自然保护区1975—2015年8期土地利用类型数据为基础, 借助SPSS、ArcGIS等软件, 分析南四湖自然保护区近40年土地利用变化及其对生态系统服务价值时空分布的影响。结果表明: 1975—2015年水体始终是南四湖自然保护区的优势土地利用类型。40年间未利用地面积减少88.90% (8807.68 hm2), 而水田、草地、旱地、建成区、林地和水体面积分别增加4626.45 hm2、405.06 hm2、1660.67 hm2、401.54 hm2、76.76 hm2和1621.60 hm2。40年间南四湖自然保护区的生态系统服务总价值增加了0.03% (1.13×106 US$), 其中支持服务功能价值减少1.14×107 US$, 文化服务功能价值减少5.61×106 US$, 供给服务功能价值减少2.15×106 US$, 仅调节服务功能价值增加2.02×107 US$。表现在空间上则是自然保护区西侧生态系统服务价值变化较东侧更为明显。导致1975—2015年生态系统服务价值变化的主要影响因子是水体和未利用地面积的改变, 生态系统服务价值与水体面积呈现显著正相关, 与未利用地呈现显著负相关。研究结果能为南四湖自然保护区的土地利用决策提供理论支持。 相似文献
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Zhisheng Zhang Delin Mo Peiqing Cong Zuyong He Fei Ling Anning Li Yuna Niu Xiao Zhao Chunyan Zhou Yaosheng Chen 《Molecular biology reports》2010,37(3):1611-1618
The product of transmembrane and coiled-coil domains 1 (TMCO1) gene is a member of DUF841 superfamily of several eukaryotic proteins with unknown function. The partial DNA sequence of
porcine TMCO1 was first cloned with a pig 567 bp ORF encoding 188 amino acids. By tissues expression analysis, the TMCO1 was found highly expressed in the liver, kidney and heart. The porcine TMCO1 protein was subsequently demonstrated to localize
in the mitochondrion by confocal fluorescence microscopy. This data provides an important basis for conducing further studies
on the functions and regulatory mechanisms underlying the role of TMCO1 gene. 相似文献