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C.E.H. Dirix G. Hornstra J.G. Nijhuis 《Prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and essential fatty acids》2009,80(4):207-212
To study the potential associations between fetal brain functions and the early essential polyunsaturated fatty acid (ePUFA) status, fetal learning and memory were assessed by repeated habituation rate measurements (HR) in fetuses of 30, 32, 34 or 36 weeks gestational age (GA). HR tests were repeated 10 min later. Both measurements were replicated in a second session at GA 38. Fetal short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) were calculated from these habituation rates and related to concentrations of ePUFAs and their status markers, measured in umbilical artery wall phospholipids. The only relevant associations observed were positive trends (0.010<p<0.050) between STM measured before 38 weeks GA and concentrations of the ePUFA status markers Mead acid and Mead acid+dihomo-Mead acid, and between LTM and levels of Osbond acid, a marker of the n-3 LCPUFA status. Although these weak associations may imply some negative relationships between fetal brain functions and the early ePUFA status, we concluded that physiological differences in the availability of these fatty acids may probably not determine the differences in these primitive brain functions during the third trimester of fetal development. 相似文献
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Trinh XB Tjalma WA Dirix LY Vermeulen PB Peeters DJ Bachvarov D Plante M Berns EM Helleman J Van Laere SJ van Dam PA 《PloS one》2011,6(7):e22469
Introduction
The identification of specific targets for treatment of ovarian cancer patients remains a challenge. The objective of this study is the analysis of oncogenic pathways in ovarian cancer and their relation with clinical outcome.Methodology
A meta-analysis of 6 gene expression datasets was done for oncogenic pathway activation scores: AKT, β-Catenin, BRCA, E2F1, EGFR, ER, HER2, INFα, INFγ, MYC, p53, p63, PI3K, PR, RAS, SRC, STAT3, TNFα, and TGFβ and VEGF-A. Advanced serous papillary tumours from uniformly treated patients were selected (N = 464) to find differences independent from stage-, histology- and treatment biases. Survival and correlations with documented prognostic signatures (wound healing response signature WHR/genomic grade index GGI/invasiveness gene signature IGS) were analysed.Results
The GGI, WHR, IGS score were unexpectedly increased in chemosensitive versus chemoresistant patients. PR and RAS activation score were associated with survival outcome (p = 0.002;p = 0.004). Increased activations of β-Catenin (p = 0.0009), E2F1 (p = 0.005), PI3K (p = 0.003) and p63 (p = 0.05) were associated with more favourable clinical outcome and were consistently correlated with three prognostic gene signatures.Conclusions
Oncogenic pathway profiling of advanced serous ovarian tumours revealed that increased β-Catenin, E2F1, p63, PI3K, PR and RAS –pathway activation scores were significantly associated with favourable clinical outcome. WHR, GGI and IGS scores were unexpectedly increased in chemosensitive tumours. Earlier studies have shown that WHR, GGI and IGS are strongly associated with proliferation and that high-proliferative ovarian tumours are more chemosensitive. These findings may indicate opposite confounding of prognostic versus predictive factors when studying biomarkers in epithelial ovarian cancer. 相似文献4.
TÜNDE TÓTH OTTÓ ZSIROS MIHÁLY KIS GYŐZŐ GARAB LÁSZLÓ KOVÁCS 《Plant, cell & environment》2012,35(12):2075-2086
Despite intense research, the mechanism of Cd2+ toxicity on photosynthesis is still elusive because of the multiplicity of the inhibitory effects and different barriers in plants. The quick Cd2+ uptake in Synechocystis PCC 6803 permits the direct interaction of cadmium with the photosynthetic machinery and allows the distinction between primary and secondary effects. We show that the CO2‐dependent electron transport is rapidly inhibited upon exposing the cells to 40 µm Cd2+ (50% inhibition in ~15 min). However, during this time we observe only symptoms of photosystem I acceptor side limitation and a build of an excitation pressure on the reaction centres, as indicated by light‐induced P700 redox transients, O2 polarography and changes in chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters. Inhibitory effects on photosystem II electron transport and the degradation of the reaction centre protein D1 can only be observed after several hours, and only in the light, as revealed by chlorophyll a fluorescence transients, thermoluminescence and immunoblotting. Despite the marked differences in the manifestations of these short‐ and long‐term effects, they exhibit virtually the same Cd2+ concentration dependence. These data strongly suggest a cascade mechanism of the toxic effect, with a primary effect in the dark reactions. 相似文献
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PETER BOGNER DENYS N. WHEATLEY CSABA BORBLY ATTILA MISETA 《Cell biology international》1996,20(11):741-749
Exchange of erythrocyte intracellular (i/c) K+for extracellular (e/c) Na+in human erythrocytes treated with sub-CMC concentrations of the non-ionic detergent Brij 58 can be stopped by reincubation in serum or albumin containing solutions. The progressive equilibration of the K+contents of detergent-treated human erythrocytes with the incubation medium was reversed by an albumin-mediated withdrawal of detergent molecules from the cell. Re-establishment of near normal [K+] in terms of K+/kg water proceeds in two ways: (i) a metabolism-dependent net accumulation of K+ions; and (ii) a metabolism-independent shrinkage of erythrocytes, this being the more significant factor. 相似文献
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Charlotte Vranken Jochem Deen Lieve Dirix Tim Stakenborg Wim Dehaen Volker Leen Johan Hofkens Robert K. Neely 《Nucleic acids research》2014,42(7):e50
We demonstrate an approach to optical DNA mapping, which enables near single-molecule characterization of whole bacteriophage genomes. Our approach uses a DNA methyltransferase enzyme to target labelling to specific sites and copper-catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition to couple a fluorophore to the DNA. We achieve a labelling efficiency of ∼70% with an average labelling density approaching one site every 500 bp. Such labelling density bridges the gap between the output of a typical DNA sequencing experiment and the long-range information derived from traditional optical DNA mapping. We lay the foundations for a wider-scale adoption of DNA mapping by screening 11 methyltransferases for their ability to direct sequence-specific DNA transalkylation; the first step of the DNA labelling process and by optimizing reaction conditions for fluorophore coupling via a click reaction. Three of 11 enzymes transalkylate DNA with the cofactor we tested (a readily prepared s-adenosyl-l-methionine analogue). 相似文献
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18S rRNA data indicate that Aschelminthes are polyphyletic in origin and consist of at least three distinct clades 总被引:7,自引:1,他引:6
Winnepenninckx B; Backeljau T; Mackey LY; Brooks JM; De Wachter R; Kumar S; Garey JR 《Molecular biology and evolution》1995,12(6):1132-1137
The Aschelminthes is a collection of at least eight animal phyla,
historically grouped together because the absence of a true body cavity was
perceived as a pseudocoelom. Analyses of 18S rRNA sequences from six
Aschelminth phyla (including four previously unpublished sequences) support
polyphyly for the Aschelminthes. At least three distinct groups of
Aschelminthes were detected: the Priapulida among the protostomes, the
Rotifera-Acanthocephala as a sister group to the protostomes, and the
Nematoda as a basal group to the triploblastic Eumetazoa.
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Chimpanzee fetal G gamma and A gamma globin gene nucleotide sequences provide further evidence of gene conversions in hominine evolution 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
The fetal globin genes G gamma and A gamma from one chromosome of a
chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) were sequenced and found to be closely similar
to the corresponding genes of man and the gorilla. These genes contain
identical promoter and termination signals and have exons 1 and 2 separated
by the conserved short intron 1 (122 bp) and exons 2 and 3 separated by the
more rapidly evolving, larger intron 2 (893 bp and 887 bp in chimpanzee G
gamma and A gamma, respectively). Each intron 2 has a stretch of simple
sequence DNA (TG)n serving possibly as a "hot spot" for recombination. The
two chimpanzee genes encode polypeptide chains that differ only at position
136 (glycine in G gamma and alanine in A gamma) and that are identical to
the corresponding human chains, which have aspartic acid at position 73 and
lysine at 104 in contrast to glycine and arginine at these respective
positions of the gorilla A gamma chain. Phylogenetic analysis by the
parsimony method revealed four silent (synonymous) base substitutions in
evolutionary descent of the chimpanzee G gamma and A gamma codons and none
in the human and gorilla codons. These Homininae (Pan, Homo, Gorilla)
coding sequences evolved at one-tenth the average mammalian rate for
nonsynonymous and one-fourth that for synonymous substitutions. Three
sequence regions that were affected by gene conversions between chimpanzee
G gamma and A gamma loci were identified: one extended 3' of the hot spot
with G gamma replaced by the A gamma sequence, another extended 5' of the
hot spot with A gamma replaced by G gamma, and the third conversion
extended from the 5' flanking to the 5' end of intron 2, with G gamma
replaced here by the A gamma sequence. A conversion similar to this third
one has occurred independently in the descent of the gorilla genes. The
four previously identified conversions, labeled C1-C4 (Scott et al. 1984),
were substantiated with the addition of the chimpanzee genes to our
analysis (C1 being shared by all three hominines and C2, C3, and C4 being
found only in humans). Thus, the fetal genes from all three of these
hominine species have been active in gene conversions during the descent of
each species.
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Dirix C Meersman F MacPhee CE Dobson CM Heremans K 《Journal of molecular biology》2005,347(5):903-909
A range of disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and type II diabetes have been linked to protein misfolding and aggregation. Transthyretin is an amyloidogenic protein which is involved in familial amyloid polyneuropathy, the most common form of systemic amyloid disease. A peptide fragment of this protein, TTR105-115, has been shown to form well-defined amyloid fibrils in vitro. In this study, the stability of amyloid fibrils towards high hydrostatic pressure has been investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Information on the morphology of the species exposed to high hydrostatic pressure was obtained by atomic force microscopy. The species formed early in the aggregation process were found to be dissociated by relatively low hydrostatic pressure (220 MPa), whereas mature fibrils are pressure insensitive up to 1.3 GPa. The pressure stability of the mature fibrils is consistent with a fibril structure in which there is an extensive hydrogen bond network in a tightly packed environment from which water is excluded. The fact that early aggregates can be dissociated by low pressure suggests, however, that hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions are the dominant factors stabilizing the species formed in the early stages of fibril formation. 相似文献
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Ekwere T Ifon Alan LY Pang Warren Johnson Kathleen Cashman Sharon Zimmerman Sumitra Muralidhar Wai-Yee Chan John Casey Leonard Jason Rosenthal 《Cancer cell international》2005,5(1):19