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† Ken-ichiro Fukuchi †Tauni Ohman Nocthao Dang Anetta C. Smith ‡Clement E. Furlong George M. Martin 《Journal of neurochemistry》1996,66(5):2201-2204
Abstract: P19 is a C3H mouse-derived line of multipotent embryonic carcinoma cells that differentiate into neural cells. P19 cell clones overexpressing the three major forms of β-amyloid precursor protein from their cDNA constructs were established. Unlike a previous study in which P19-derived neurons had a limited α-secretase activity, all of these clones produced significant amounts of secreted β-amyloid precursor protein. When treated with retinoic acid, these transformed lines differentiated into neurons and survived better than did nontransformed parental P19 cells. Furthermore, P19-derived neurons survived better in medium conditioned by the transformed P19 line, and survival was reduced by immunoabsorption with an antibody to β-amyloid precursor protein. These results suggest neurotrophic effects of secreted β-amyloid precursor protein and contrast with a previous report in which overexpression of a full-length cDNA for β-amyloid precursor protein led to degeneration of P19-derived neurons. Western blot analysis suggested that this difference might result from different levels of expression of putative neurotoxic C-terminal fragments of β-amyloid precursor protein; moreover, P19-derived neurons differ from P19 stem cells in the processing of these C-terminal fragments. 相似文献
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Kaczmarek Z Surma M Adamski T Jezowski S Madajewski R Krystkowiak K Kuczyńska A 《Journal of applied genetics》2002,43(1):33-42
Barley doubled haploids covering a wide range of malting quality, along with their parental cultivars and F2, F3 hybrids, were investigated in six environments (three locations, two years) to study the genotype-environment (G x E) interaction structure and the influence of environments on additive, dominance and epistatic gene effects. Grain and malt characters, such as 1000-grain weight, percentage of plump kernels, malt extract yield, protein content, Kolbach index and malt fine-coarse difference (FCD), were measured. Main effects for genetic parameters were estimated and regression analysis was used to explain the interaction of gene effects with environments. The results show that additive effects had the greatest interaction with environments for all the analysed traits, but only for malt characters this interaction was linear. Interaction of dominance effects was much lower and only in the case of 1000-grain weight, protein content and Kolbach index it proved to be significant. The results suggest that effects of heterozygous loci are more stable in contrasting environments than effects of homozygous loci. 相似文献
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Bocianowski J Chełkowski J Kuczyńska A Wiśniewska H Surma M Adamski T 《Journal of applied genetics》2003,44(3):355-360
Thirty doubled haploid (DH) lines of barley derived from F(1) of a cross between the six-rowed cultivar Pomo and two-rowed cultivar Maresi were examined for susceptibility to Fusarium seedling blight (SB) and head blight (FHB), measured by mycotoxin (nivalenol) content of kernels. RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) polymorphism was analysed by using 53 decamer primers. Amplification products (APs) were 200 bp up to 2000 bp in size on average 5.7 per primer and the total number of APs was 284, 51.06% of which were polymorphic. Only 32 APs differentiated the examined DH lines - 19 APs for nivalenol content of kernels and 13 for seedling resistance. DH lines segregated with continuous distribution of resistance to FHB and SB. At the seedling stage all DH lines exhibited lower susceptibility than parental cultivars, but in the adult stage only two lines (MP 2 and MP 7) appeared to be more resistant to FHB, i.e. accumulated in kernels a lower amount of mycotoxin than cultivars Maresi and Pomo. 相似文献
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Serum soluble Fas ligand (sFasL) in patients with primary squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Kozlowski M Kowalczuk O Sulewska A Dziegielewski P Lapuc G Laudanski W Niklinska W Chyczewski L Niklinski J Laudanski J 《Folia histochemica et cytobiologica / Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Histochemical and Cytochemical Society》2007,45(3):199-204
Esophageal carcinomas have been shown to express Fas ligand (FasL) and down-regulate Fas to escape from host immune surveillance. Circulating soluble FasL (sFasL) has been suggested to provide protection from Fas-mediated apoptosis. The aim of this study was to assess serum sFasL levels in esophageal cancer. The pretreatment levels of sFasL in the serum of 100 patients with esophageal squamous cell cancer and 41 healthy volunteers were determined by ELISA. Probability of survival was calculated according to the method of Kaplan-Meier. The prognostic influence of high and low level of sFasL was analyzed with the log-rank test. The mean serum level of sFasL in patients with esophageal cancer was significantly higher than that in healthy donors (1.567+/-1.786 vs 0.261+/-0.435, p<0.0001). The levels of serum sFasL were significantly higher in advanced stages (II vs IV p<0.034; III vs IV p<0.041; except II vs III p=0.281), patients with lymph node (N0 vs N1 p<0.0389) or distant (M0 vs. M1 p<0.0388) metastases and significantly lower in patients with well differentiated tumors (G1 vs G2 p<0.0272). The serum levels of soluble FasL were not related to gender, age, tumor size, T-stage, tobacco smoking and history of chronic alcohol intake. The survival difference between pretreatment high and low level of sFasL in surgery and chemio- and/or radiotherapy group was not statistically significant (p=0.525; p=0.840). Our results indicate that elevated serum sFasL levels might be associated with a disease progression in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. 相似文献
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Chewing lice of the species Docophorulus coarctatus were extracted from museum specimens of their host, the great grey shrike Lanius excubitor, by combing feathers from 36 freshly shot birds (shot between 1962 and 1974), and samples of ten individual lice (five female,
five male) were randomly collected for measurements from each bird. Female lice were bigger than males for all studied measurements
(P < 0.001 in all cases), although the size of both sexes obtained from individual hosts was positively correlated. The overall
size of lice (derived from a principal components analysis) was positively correlated with the overall size of the avian host,
and also with the population density of lice on the individual host. We suggest that variation in louse morphology is due
to differences in selection pressure exerted by each host and by intraspecific competition due to conspecifics. This is, to
the best of our knowledge, the first evidence that Harrison’s rule (parasites on larger host species are often bigger than
those on smaller hosts) not only works in a multispecies comparison but also within a single host–single parasite system as
well. 相似文献
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An Escherichia coli K-12 strain was constructed with a chromosomal deletion (mutSdelta800) in the mutS gene that produced the removal of the C-terminal 53 amino acids which are not present in the MutS crystal structure. This strain has a MutS null phenotype for mutation avoidance, anti-recombination, and sensitivity to cytotoxic agents in a dam mutant background. 相似文献
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One of the major challenges in population biology is the identification of barriers to gene flow and/or secondary contacts
between differentiated entities. The level of genetic differentiation among eight populations of the common voleMicrotus arvalis (Pallas, 1779) around the Biebrza Wetlands, NE Poland was examined by analyzing seven microsatellite loci for 140 voles and
testing for the presence of barriers to gene flow. Overall population differentiation was moderate and significant (F
ST = 0.081,p < 0.001) and there was no correlation between geographical and genetic distances among populations. We found a relatively
high level of genetic variability within the populations studied. This could be explained by male bias in dispersal, a phenomenon
recently found inM. arvalis. Patterns of genetic structure visualized in synthetic genetic maps showed clear gradients along a southeast-northwest axis
across the study area, as well as the presence of a potential barrier to dispersal. The position of a barrier to gene flow
identified using Monmonier’s maximum difference algorithm likely corresponds to humid habitats of the Biebrza Wetlands. These
results suggest that the presence of environmental barriers to gene flow and drift may be responsible for the observed spatial
genetic structure ofM. arvalis in the Biebrza Valley. Institute of Biology, University of Białystok, OEwierkowa 20 B, 15-950 Białystok, Poland, 相似文献
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Anetta Hartlova Lukas Cerveny Martin Hubalek Zuzana Krocova Jiri Stulik 《Microbiology and immunology》2010,54(4):237-245
Pathogenic bacteria have developed various mechanisms to evade host immune defense systems. Invasion of pathogenic bacteria requires interaction of the pathogen with host receptors, followed by activation of signal transduction pathways and rearrangement of the cytoskeleton to facilitate bacterial entry. Numerous bacteria exploit specialized plasma membrane microdomains, commonly called membrane rafts, which are rich in cholesterol, sphingolipids and a special set of signaling molecules which allow entry to host cells and establishment of a protected niche within the host. This review focuses on the current understanding of the raft hypothesis and the means by which pathogenic bacteria subvert membrane microdomains to promote infection. 相似文献
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Homologous recombination prevents methylation-induced toxicity in Escherichia coli 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Methylating agents such as N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) and methyl methane sulfonate (MMS) produce a wide variety of N- and O-methylated bases in DNA, some of which can block replication fork progression. Homologous recombination is a mechanism by which chromosome replication can proceed despite the presence of lesions. The two major recombination pathways, RecBCD and RecFOR, which repair double-strand breaks (DSBs) and single-strand gaps respectively, are needed to protect against toxicity with the RecBCD system being more important. We find that recombination-deficient cell lines, such as recBCD recF, and ruvC recG, are as sensitive to the cytotoxic effects of MMS and MNNG as the most base excision repair (BER)-deficient (alkA tag) isogenic mutant strain. Recombination and BER-deficient double mutants (alkA tag recBCD) were more sensitive to MNNG and MMS than the single mutants suggesting that homologous recombination and BER play essential independent roles. Cells deleted for the polA (DNA polymerase I) or priA (primosome) genes are as sensitive to MMS and MNNG as alkA tag bacteria. Our results suggest that the mechanism of cytotoxicity by alkylating agents includes the necessity for homologous recombination to repair DSBs and single-strand gaps produced by DNA replication at blocking lesions or single-strand nicks resulting from AP-endonuclease action. 相似文献