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Short-term variability of airway caliber-a marker of asthma? 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Chantale Diba Cheryl M Salome Helen K Reddel C William Thorpe Brett Toelle Gregory G King 《Journal of applied physiology》2007,103(1):296-304
Variability in airway caliber is a characteristic feature of asthma. Previous studies reported that the variability in respiratory system impedance (Zrs), measured by the forced oscillation technique during several minutes of tidal breathing, is increased in asthma and may be a marker of inherent instability of the airways. The aims of this study were to determine if short-term variability in impedance correlates with peak expiratory flow (PEF) variability or airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). The SD of log-transformed impedance (lnZrsSD) was measured as a marker of short-term variability and compared with the diurnal variability of PEF over 2 wk in 28 asthmatic and 7 nonasthmatic subjects and with AHR to histamine in a cohort of 17 asthmatic and 82 nonasthmatic subjects. In addition, lnZrsSD was measured in eight nonasthmatic subjects before and after methacholine challenge in the upright and supine positions. There were no significant differences in lnZrsSD between asthmatic and nonasthmatic subjects (P = 0.68). Furthermore, in asthmatic subjects, lnZrsSD did not correlate with diurnal variability of PEF (rs = -0.12 P = 0.54) or with AHR to histamine (r = 0.10, P = 0.71). Neither methacholine challenge nor supine posture caused any significant change in lnZrsSD. We conclude that our findings do not support previous reports about the utility of short-term variability of impedance. Our findings suggest that, using standard methods for forced oscillometry, impedance variability does not provide clinically useful information about the severity of asthma. 相似文献
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Low KO Mahadi NM Rahim RA Rabu A Abu Bakar FD Murad AM Illias RM 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》2011,38(9):1587-1597
Direct transport of recombinant protein from cytosol to extracellular medium offers great advantages, such as high specific
activity and a simple purification step. This work presents an investigation on the potential of an ABC (ATP-binding cassette)
transporter system, the hemolysin transport system, for efficient protein secretion in Escherichia coli (E. coli). A higher secretory production of recombinant cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase) was achieved by a new plasmid design
and subsequently by optimization of culture conditions via central composite design. An improvement of at least fourfold extracellular
recombinant CGTase was obtained using the new plasmid design. The optimization process consisted of 20 experiments involving
six star points and six replicates at the central point. The predicted optimum culture conditions for maximum recombinant
CGTase secretion were found to be 25.76 μM IPTG, 1.0% (w/v) arabinose and 34.7°C post-induction temperature, with a predicted
extracellular CGTase activity of 68.76 U/ml. Validation of the model gave an extracellular CGTase activity of 69.15 ± 0.71 U/ml,
resulting in a 3.45-fold increase compared to the initial conditions. This corresponded to an extracellular CGTase yield of
about 0.58 mg/l. We showed that a synergistic balance of transported protein and secretory pathway is important for efficient
protein transport. In addition, we also demonstrated the first successful removal of the C-terminal secretion signal from the transported fusion protein by thrombin proteolytic cleavage. 相似文献
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Nur Athirah Yusof Noor Haza Fazlin Hashim Travis Beddoe Nor Muhammad Mahadi Rosli Md Illias Farah Diba Abu Bakar Abdul Munir Abdul Murad 《Cell stress & chaperones》2016,21(4):707-715
The ability of eukaryotes to adapt to an extreme range of temperatures is critically important for survival. Although adaptation to extreme high temperatures is well understood, reflecting the action of molecular chaperones, it is unclear whether these molecules play a role in survival at extremely low temperatures. The recent genome sequencing of the yeast Glaciozyma antarctica, isolated from Antarctic sea ice near Casey Station, provides an opportunity to investigate the role of molecular chaperones in adaptation to cold temperatures. We isolated a G. antarctica homologue of small heat shock protein 20 (HSP20), GaSGT1, and observed that the GaSGT1 mRNA expression in G. antarctica was markedly increased following culture exposure at low temperatures. Additionally, we demonstrated that GaSGT1 overexpression in Escherichia coli protected these bacteria from exposure to both high and low temperatures, which are lethal for growth. The recombinant GaSGT1 retained up to 60 % of its native luciferase activity after exposure to luciferase-denaturing temperatures. These results suggest that GaSGT1 promotes cell thermotolerance and employs molecular chaperone-like activity toward temperature assaults. 相似文献
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Nadiawati Alias Nor Muhammad Mahadi Abdul Munir Abdul Murad Farah Diba Abu Bakar Nik Azmi Nik Mahmood Rosli Md Illias 《World journal of microbiology & biotechnology》2009,25(4):561-572
A gene encoding endochitinase from Trichoderma virens UKM-1 was cloned and expressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3). Both the endochitinase gene and its cDNA sequences were obtained. The endochitinase gene encodes 430 amino acids
from an open reading frame comprising of 1,690 bp nucleotide sequence with three introns. The endochitinase was expressed
as soluble and active enzyme at 20°C when induced with 1 mM IPTG. Maximum activity was observed at 4 h of post-induction time.
SDS-PAGE showed that the purified endochitinase exhibited a single band with molecular weight of 42 kDa. Biochemical characterization
of the enzyme displayed a near neutral pH characteristic with an optimum pH at 6.0 and optimum temperature at 50°C. The enzyme
is stable between pH 3.0–7.0 and is able to retain its activity from 30 to 60°C. The presence of Mg2+ and Ca2+ ions increased the enzyme activity up to 20%. The purified enzyme has a strong affinity towards colloidal chitin and low
effect on ethyl cellulose and D-cellubiose which are non-chitin related substrates. HPLC analysis from the chitin hydrolysis
showed the release of (GlcNAc)3, (GlcNAc)2 and GlcNAc, in which (GlcNAc)2 was the main product. 相似文献
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Nyon MP Rice DW Berrisford JM Hounslow AM Moir AJ Huang H Nathan S Mahadi NM Bakar FD Craven CJ 《Journal of molecular biology》2009,385(1):226-15716
Cutinase belongs to a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters and triglycerides. Structural studies on the enzyme from Fusarium solani have revealed the presence of a classic catalytic triad that has been implicated in the enzyme's mechanism. We have solved the crystal structure of Glomerella cingulata cutinase in the absence and in the presence of the inhibitors E600 (diethyl p-nitrophenyl phosphate) and PETFP (3-phenethylthio-1,1,1-trifluoropropan-2-one) to resolutions between 2.6 and 1.9 Å. Analysis of these structures reveals that the catalytic triad (Ser136, Asp191, and His204) adopts an unusual configuration with the putative essential histidine His204 swung out of the active site into a position where it is unable to participate in catalysis, with the imidazole ring 11 Å away from its expected position. Solution-state NMR experiments are consistent with the disrupted configuration of the triad observed crystallographically. H204N, a site-directed mutant, was shown to be catalytically inactive, confirming the importance of this residue in the enzyme mechanism. These findings suggest that, during its catalytic cycle, cutinase undergoes a significant conformational rearrangement converting the loop bearing the histidine from an inactive conformation, in which the histidine of the triad is solvent exposed, to an active conformation, in which the triad assumes a classic configuration. 相似文献
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Yusuf Muhammad Noor Nurul Hidayah Samsulrizal Noor Azah Jema'on Kheng Oon Low Aizi Nor Mazila Ramli Noor Izawati Alias Siti Intan Rosdianah Damis Siti Fatimah Zaharah Mohd Fuzi Mohd Noor Mat Isa Abdul Munir Abdul Murad Mohd Firdaus Mohd Raih Farah Diba Abu Bakar Nazalan Najimudin Nor Muhammad Mahadi Rosli Md. Illias 《Gene》2014
Bacillus lehensis G1 is a Gram-positive, moderately alkalitolerant bacterium isolated from soil samples. B. lehensis produces cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase), an enzyme that has enabled the extensive use of cyclodextrin in foodstuffs, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. The genome sequence of B. lehensis G1 consists of a single circular 3.99 Mb chromosome containing 4017 protein-coding sequences (CDSs), of which 2818 (70.15%) have assigned biological roles, 936 (23.30%) have conserved domains with unknown functions, and 263 (6.55%) have no match with any protein database. Bacillus clausii KSM-K16 was established as the closest relative to B. lehensis G1 based on gene content similarity and 16S rRNA phylogenetic analysis. A total of 2820 proteins from B. lehensis G1 were found to have orthologues in B. clausii, including sodium–proton antiporters, transport proteins, and proteins involved in ATP synthesis. A comparative analysis of these proteins and those in B. clausii and other alkaliphilic Bacillus species was carried out to investigate their contributions towards the alkalitolerance of the microorganism. The similarities and differences in alkalitolerance-related genes among alkalitolerant/alkaliphilic Bacillus species highlight the complex mechanism of pH homeostasis. The B. lehensis G1 genome was also mined for proteins and enzymes with potential viability for industrial and commercial purposes. 相似文献
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Noor Haza Fazlin Hashim Suhaila Sulaiman Farah Diba Abu Bakar Rosli Md Illias Hidehisa Kawahara Nazalan Najimudin Nor Muhammad Mahadi Abdul Munir Abdul Murad 《Polar Biology》2014,37(10):1495-1505
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are proteins with affinity towards ice and contribute to the survival of psychrophiles in subzero environment. Limited studies have been conducted on how AFPs from psychrophilic yeasts interact with ice. In this study, we describe the functional properties of an antifreeze protein from a psychrophilic Antarctic yeast, Glaciozyma antarctica. A cDNA encoding the antifreeze protein, AFP4, from G. antarctica PI12 was amplified from the mRNA extracted from cells grown at 4 °C. Sequence characterisation of Afp4 showed high similarity to fungal AFPs from Leucosporidium sp. AY30, LeIBP (93 %). The 786-bp cDNA encodes a 261-amino-acid protein with a theoretical pI of 4.4. Attempts to produce the recombinant Afp4 in Escherichia coli resulted in the formation of inclusion bodies (IB). The IB were subsequently denatured and refolded by dilution. Gel filtration confirmed that the refolded recombinant Afp4 is monomeric with molecular mass of ~25 kDa. Thermal hysteresis (TH) and recrystallisation inhibition assays confirmed the function of Afp4 as an antifreeze protein. In the presence of Afp4, ice crystals were modified into hexagonal shapes with TH values of 0.08 °C and smaller ice grains were observed compared with solutions without AFP. Structural analyses via homology modelling showed that Afp4 folds into β-helices with three distinct faces: a, b and c. Superimposition analyses predicted the b-face as the ice-binding surface of Afp4, whereby the mechanism of interaction is driven by hydrophobic interactions and the flatness of surface. This study may contribute towards an understanding of AFPs from psychrophilic yeasts. 相似文献
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Vandecasteele M M S Royer S Belluscio M Berényi A Diba K Fujisawa S Grosmark A Mao D Mizuseki K Patel J Stark E Sullivan D Watson B Buzsáki G 《Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE》2012,(61):e3568
A major challenge in neuroscience is linking behavior to the collective activity of neural assemblies. Understanding of input-output relationships of neurons and circuits requires methods with the spatial selectivity and temporal resolution appropriate for mechanistic analysis of neural ensembles in the behaving animal, i.e. recording of representatively large samples of isolated single neurons. Ensemble monitoring of neuronal activity has progressed remarkably in the past decade in both small and large-brained animals, including human subjects. Multiple-site recording with silicon-based devices are particularly effective because of their scalability, small volume and geometric design. Here, we describe methods for recording multiple single neurons and local field potential in behaving rodents, using commercially available micro-machined silicon probes with custom-made accessory components. There are two basic options for interfacing silicon probes to preamplifiers: printed circuit boards and flexible cables. Probe supplying companies (http://www.neuronexustech.com/; http://www.sbmicrosystems.com/; http://www.acreo.se/) usually provide the bonding service and deliver probes bonded to printed circuit boards or flexible cables. Here, we describe the implantation of a 4-shank, 32-site probe attached to flexible polyimide cable, and mounted on a movable microdrive. Each step of the probe preparation, microdrive construction and surgery is illustrated so that the end user can easily replicate the process. 相似文献