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Bruna Los Marco Preußner Kathrin Eschke Ricardo Martin Vidal Azza Abdelgawad Didrik Olofsson Sandra Keiper Margarida Paulo-Pedro Alica Grindel Stefan Meinke Jakob Trimpert Florian Heyd 《Nucleic acids research》2022,50(12):6769
Antiviral innate immunity represents the first defense against invading viruses and is key to control viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2. Body temperature is an omnipresent variable but was neglected when addressing host defense mechanisms and susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Here, we show that increasing temperature in a 1.5°C window, between 36.5 and 38°C, strongly increases the expression of genes in two branches of antiviral immunity, nitric oxide production and type I interferon response. We show that alternative splicing coupled to nonsense-mediated decay decreases STAT2 expression in colder conditions and suggest that increased STAT2 expression at elevated temperature induces the expression of diverse antiviral genes and SARS-CoV-2 restriction factors. This cascade is activated in a remarkably narrow temperature range below febrile temperature, which reflects individual, circadian and age-dependent variation. We suggest that decreased body temperature with aging contributes to reduced expression of antiviral genes in older individuals. Using cell culture and in vivo models, we show that higher body temperature correlates with reduced SARS-CoV-2 replication, which may affect the different vulnerability of children versus seniors toward severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. Altogether, our data connect body temperature and pre-mRNA processing to provide new mechanistic insight into the regulation of antiviral innate immunity. 相似文献
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Alica Chocholova Andrea Soltysova Gabriel Minarik Iveta Cierna Sabina Sufliarska Beata Mladosievicova 《Nucleosides, nucleotides & nucleic acids》2013,32(5):239-246
Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) is a key component in thiopurine metabolism. There is an insufficient evidence about the distribution of the genotype frequencies of TPMT variants and frequencies of TPMT alleles associated with intermediate and deficient activity in a healthy Slovak population and pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). TPMT variant alleles (*1,*2, *3A, *3B, and *3C) were determined in 114 children treated for IBD and in 281 healthy volunteers. Mutant alleles were present in 9/114 (7.89%) in the IBD patients and in 23/281 (8.19%) of probands. The distribution of the most frequent variants of TPMT gene was similar in a healthy population and patients with IBD. 相似文献
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Martin Hucík Marek Bučko Peter Gemeiner Vladimír Štefuca Alica Vikartovská Marko D. Mihovilovič Florian Rudroff Naseem Iqbal Dušan ChorvátJr. Igor Lacík 《Biotechnology letters》2010,32(5):675-680
Recombinant Escherichia coli cells, over-expressing cyclopentanone monooxygenase activity, were immobilized in polyelectrolyte complex capsules, made
of sodium alginate, cellulose sulfate, poly(methylene-co-guanidine), CaCl2 and NaCl. More than 90% of the cell viability was preserved during the encapsulation process. Moreover, the initial enzyme
activity was fully maintained within encapsulated cells while it halved in free cells. Both encapsulated and free cells reached
the end point of the Baeyer–Villiger biooxidation of 8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-en-3-one to 4,9-dioxabicyclo[4.2.1]non-7-en-3-one
at the same time (48 h). Similarly, the enantiomeric excess above 94% was identical for encapsulated and free cells. 相似文献
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The effect of gamma-radiation (3Gy) on slowly proliferating liver tissue of male rats and their progeny was investigated with respect to induction and duration of latent damage. The irradiation caused latent cytogenetic damage in the liver in irradiated males of the F(0) generation, which manifested itself in different ways during proliferation of hepatocytes induced by partial hepatectomy: a reduced proliferating activity, a higher frequency of chromosomal aberrations and a higher proportion of cells with apoptotic DNA fragments were observed, compared with non-irradiated rats. In the progeny of irradiated males (F(1) and F(2) generation), the latent genome damage manifested itself during regeneration of the liver after partial hepatectomy by similar, but less pronounced changes compared with those seen in irradiated males of the parental generation. This finding gave evidence of the transfer of part of the radiation-induced genome damage from parents to their offspring. Irradiation of F(1) and F(2) progeny of irradiated males (their total radiation load being 3 + 3 and 3 + 0 + 3 Gy, respectively) caused less change as irradiation of progeny of non-irradiated control males (their total radiation load being 0 + 3 and 0 + 0 + 3 Gy, respectively). 相似文献
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Siváková D Lajdová A Basistová Z Cvícelová M Karabová P Blazícek P 《Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht über die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur》2008,66(2):199-209
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that several specific environmental factors and candidate genes influence the human variation in blood pressure. The aim of this study was to investigate variables associated with blood pressure; with a particular emphasis on the differences in insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the human angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), the body composition and the recognized risk factors for atherosclerosis among elderly males and females. A total of 374 participants (174 males and 200 females) aged from 60 to 90 years were recruited from different parts of Slovakia. The elderly were not bed-ridden, nor mentally impaired, they were able to manage their daily activities by themselves. The ACE I/D polymorphism was determined by PCR amplification of the ACE gene sequence. Body composition variables were obtained by bioelectrical impedance analysis, using the BIA 101 soft tissue-body impedance analyzer (Akern, S.r.l.). The subjects were determined to be hypertensive (blood pressure > or = 140/90 mm Hg) or normotensive (blood pressure < or = 140/90 mm Hg ). These two subgroups of males and females did not differ significantly in their mean ages. As expected, the hypertensive subjects of both sexes showed significantly higher mean values in systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), in body mass index (BMI), and in the mean values of their plasma glucose and extracellular water (ECW). The genotype distribution and allele frequencies in the whole sample (D = 0.5474, I = 0.4526) fell within the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The frequency of the deleterious D allele in the normotensive (0.5532) and hypertensive (0.5516) subjects was not significantly different. The ACE I/D genotypes did not associate either with the systolic (p = 0.836) or diastolic BP (p = 0.629). From the other variables that may induce differences in blood pressure, a statistical effect was detected for glucose, Na/K, and Apo A1/ApoB ratios and physical activity on SBP, and for ApoA1, physical activity, BMI and total cholesterol on DBP. 相似文献
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Hydrobiologia - This paper presents data on the diversity of cyanobacteria and algae of nine gravel pit lakes situated within the city boundaries of Bratislava, W Slovakia. During more than 30... 相似文献
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Barták Miloš Hájek Josef Morkusová Jana Skácelová Kateřina Košuthová Alica 《Acta Physiologiae Plantarum》2018,40(10):177
In this study, we investigated responses of the Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI), and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to gradual dehydration of several Antarctic lichen species (chlorolichens: Xanthoria elegans, Rhizoplaca melanophthalma, Physconia muscigena, cyanolichen: Leptogium puberulum), and a Nostoc commune colony from fully wet to a dry state. The gradual loss of physiological activity during dehydration was evaluated by chlorophyll fluorescence parameters. The experimental lichen species differed in thallus color, and intrathalline photobiont. In the species that did not exhibit color change with desiccation (X. elegans), NDVI and PRI were more or less constant (mean of 0.25, ??0.36, respectively) throughout a wide range of thallus hydration status showing a linear relation to relative water content (RWC). In contrast, the species with apparent species-specific color change during dehydration exhibited a curvilinear relation of NDVI and PRI to RWC. PRI decreased (R. melanophthalma, L. puberulum), increased (N. commune) or showed a polyphasic response (P. muscigena) with desiccation. Except for X. elegans, a curvilinear relation was found between the NDVI response to RWC in all species indicating the potential of combined ground research and remote sensing spectral data analyses in polar regions dominated by lichen flora. The chlorophyll fluorescence data recorded during dehydration (RWC decreased from 100 to 0%) revealed a polyphasic species-specific response of variable fluorescence measured at steady state—Fs, effective quantum yield of photosystem II (ΦPSII), and non-photochemical quenching (qN). Full hydration caused an inhibition of ΦPSII in N. commune while other species remained unaffected. The dehydration-dependent fall in ΦPSII was species-specific, starting at an RWC range of 22–32%. Critical RWC for ΦPSII was around 5–10%. Desiccation led to a species-specific polyphasic decrease in Fs and an increase in qN indicating the involvement of protective mechanisms in the chloroplastic apparatus of lichen photobionts and N. commune cells. In this study, the spectral reflectance and chlorophyll fluorescence data are discussed in relation to the potential of ecophysiological processes in Antarctic lichens, their resistance to desiccation and survival in Antarctic vegetation oases. 相似文献
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Klassen T Davis C Goldman A Burgess D Chen T Wheeler D McPherson J Bourquin T Lewis L Villasana D Morgan M Muzny D Gibbs R Noebels J 《Cell》2011,145(7):1036-1048
Ion channel mutations are an important cause of rare Mendelian disorders affecting brain, heart, and other tissues. We performed parallel exome sequencing of 237 channel genes in a well-characterized human sample, comparing variant profiles of unaffected individuals to those with the most common neuronal excitability disorder, sporadic idiopathic epilepsy. Rare missense variation in known Mendelian disease genes is prevalent in both groups at similar complexity, revealing that even deleterious ion channel mutations confer uncertain risk to an individual depending on the other variants with which they are combined. Our findings indicate that variant discovery via large scale sequencing efforts is only a first step in illuminating the complex allelic architecture underlying personal disease risk. We propose that in?silico modeling of channel variation in realistic cell and network models will be crucial to future strategies assessing mutation profile pathogenicity and drug response in individuals with a broad spectrum of excitability disorders. 相似文献
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Elhottová D Kristůfek V Frouz J Nováková A Chronáková A 《Antonie van Leeuwenhoek》2006,89(3-4):459-463
Viable microorganisms were found in Miocene lacustrine clays of the cypris formation excavated from 200-m below the surface as spoil during open-cast brown coal mining (Sokolov Brown Coal Basin, North-Western Bohemia, Czech Republic). Both saprotrophic microfungi of the genera Penicillium, Verticillium, Cladosporium and Aspergillus as well as heterotrophic bacteria were isolated from an intact sediment cores. Heterotrophic bacteria were classified by the MIS Sherlock System as representatives of genera Nocardiopsis, Arthrobacter, Micrococcus, Kocuria, Rothia, Clavibacter, Bacillus, Paenibacillus, Brevibacillus, Microbacterium, Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas. A bacterium found among the strains had an atypical fatty acids profile enriched by branched fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acid (18:36) and gave no MIS Sherlock match. Phospholipid fatty acids analysis indicates a relatively high (535 pmol g−1) but inhomogeneously distributed viable microbial biomass. Fatty acids analyses of non-fractioned lipids (representing viable, storage and dead biomass; 8390 pmol g−1) detected rich and homogenous profiles with fungal, bacterial and actinomycetal markers but no protozoan and algal fatty acids markers. 相似文献