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Structural relatedness of lysis proteins from colicinogenic plasmids and icosahedral coliphages 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
The host-lysis-inducing functions of phi X174 protein E and MS2 protein L
were recently shown to reside on the N-terminal and C-terminal halves of
the two respective lysis proteins. In the present study it is shown that
the small lysis proteins encoded in various colicinogenic plasmids share
local sequence similarities and certain structural characteristics with the
essential peptides of their coliphage-coded counterparts. Despite their
dissimilar sizes and origins, it is suggested that the colicinogenic lysis
proteins are functionally analogous and evolutionarily related to those of
icosahedral single- stranded DNA and RNA phages.
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Cecilia PC Soh Alastair SR Donald James Feeney Walter TJ Morgan Winifred M Watkins 《Glycoconjugate journal》1989,6(3):319-332
The tetrasaccharides GalNAcß1-4[NeuAc2-3]Galß1-4Glc and GalNAcß1-4[NeuAc2-3]Galß1-4GlcNAc were synthesised by enzymic transfer of GalNAc from UDP-GalNAc to 3-sialyllactose (NeuAc2-3Galß1-4Glc) and 3-sialyl-N-acetyllactosamine (NeuAc2-3Galß1-4GlcNAc). The structures of the products were established by methylation and1H-500 MHz NMR spectroscopy. In Sda serological tests the product formed with 3-sialyl-N-acetyllactosamine was highly active whereas that formed with 3-sialyllactose had only weak activity. 相似文献
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Phillip A Patten Russell J Howard Willem PC Stemmer 《Current opinion in biotechnology》1997,8(6):724-733
DNA shuffling is a practical process for directed molecular evolution which uses recombination to dramatically accelerate the rate at which one can evolve genes. Single and multigene traits that require many mutations for improved phenotypes can be evolved rapidly. DNA shuffling technology has been significantly enhanced in the past year, extending its range of applications to small molecule pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical proteins, gene therapy vehicles and transgenes, vaccines and evolved viruses for vaccines, and laboratory animal models. 相似文献
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Simon Gravel Fouad Zakharia Andres Moreno-Estrada Jake K. Byrnes Marina Muzzio Juan L. Rodriguez-Flores Eimear E. Kenny Christopher R. Gignoux Brian K. Maples Wilfried Guiblet Julie Dutil Marc Via Karla Sandoval Gabriel Bedoya The Genomes Project Taras K. Oleksyk Andres Ruiz-Linares Esteban G. Burchard Juan Carlos Martinez-Cruzado Carlos D. Bustamante 《PLoS genetics》2013,9(12)
There is great scientific and popular interest in understanding the genetic history of populations in the Americas. We wish to understand when different regions of the continent were inhabited, where settlers came from, and how current inhabitants relate genetically to earlier populations. Recent studies unraveled parts of the genetic history of the continent using genotyping arrays and uniparental markers. The 1000 Genomes Project provides a unique opportunity for improving our understanding of population genetic history by providing over a hundred sequenced low coverage genomes and exomes from Colombian (CLM), Mexican-American (MXL), and Puerto Rican (PUR) populations. Here, we explore the genomic contributions of African, European, and especially Native American ancestry to these populations. Estimated Native American ancestry is in MXL, in CLM, and in PUR. Native American ancestry in PUR is most closely related to populations surrounding the Orinoco River basin, confirming the Southern America ancestry of the Taíno people of the Caribbean. We present new methods to estimate the allele frequencies in the Native American fraction of the populations, and model their distribution using a demographic model for three ancestral Native American populations. These ancestral populations likely split in close succession: the most likely scenario, based on a peopling of the Americas thousand years ago (kya), supports that the MXL Ancestors split kya, with a subsequent split of the ancestors to CLM and PUR kya. The model also features effective populations of in Mexico, in Colombia, and in Puerto Rico. Modeling Identity-by-descent (IBD) and ancestry tract length, we show that post-contact populations also differ markedly in their effective sizes and migration patterns, with Puerto Rico showing the smallest effective size and the earlier migration from Europe. Finally, we compare IBD and ancestry assignments to find evidence for relatedness among European founders to the three populations. 相似文献
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Eva Veronesi Frank Antony Simon Gubbins Nick Golding Alison Blackwell Peter PC. Mertens Joe Brownlie Karin E. Darpel Philip S. Mellor Simon Carpenter 《PloS one》2013,8(8)
Background
Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are the biological vectors of globally significant arboviruses of livestock including bluetongue virus (BTV), African horse sickness virus (AHSV) and the recently emerging Schmallenberg virus (SBV). From 2006–2009 outbreaks of BTV in northern Europe inflicted major disruption and economic losses to farmers and several attempts were made to implicate Palaearctic Culicoides species as vectors. Results from these studies were difficult to interpret as they used semi-quantitative RT-PCR (sqPCR) assays as the major diagnostic tool, a technique that had not been validated for use in this role. In this study we validate the use of these assays by carrying out time-series detection of BTV RNA in two colony species of Culicoides and compare the results with the more traditional isolation of infectious BTV on cell culture.Methodology/Principal Findings
A BTV serotype 1 strain mixed with horse blood was fed to several hundred individuals of Culicoides sonorensis (Wirth & Jones) and C. nubeculosus (Mg.) using a membrane-based assay and replete individuals were then incubated at 25°C. At daily intervals 25 Culicoides of each species were removed from incubation, homogenised and BTV quantified in each individual using sqPCR (Cq values) and virus isolation on a KC-C. sonorensis embryonic cell line, followed by antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). In addition, comparisons were also drawn between the results obtained with whole C. sonorensis and with individually dissected individuals to determine the level of BTV dissemination.Conclusions/Significance
Cq values generated from time-series infection experiments in both C. sonorensis and C. nubeculosus confirmed previous studies that relied upon the isolation and detection of infectious BTV. Implications on the testing of field-collected Culicoides as potential virus vectors by PCR assays and the use of such assays as front-line tools for use in diagnostic laboratories in this role are discussed. 相似文献6.
Muzzio FJ Unger DR Liu M Bramble J Searles J Fahnestock P 《Biotechnology and bioengineering》1999,63(2):185-196
It is shown that cell settling is a key factor affecting the performance of roller bottle bioreactors. The two-dimensional cross-sectional flow at the center of a roller bottle is simulated using a finite difference method, and the settling behavior of cells is simulated using particle dynamics algorithms and validated experimentally using fluorescent particles. The settling behavior of particles in the roller bottle flow is studied using both steady and time dependent rotation rates. Under steady flow conditions the flow is divided into two regions: one where the particles settle to the wall and one where the particles remain suspended indefinitely. The relative size of these two regions depends on the ratio of the settling velocity to the rotation rate of the bottle. For unsteady flows generated by periodic changes of the bottle rotation direction, the settling of cells is accelerated significantly, leading to complete deposition in just a few turns of the bottle. 相似文献
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Phylogenetic relationships were determined for 76 partial P-element
sequences from 14 species of the melanogaster species group within the
Drosophila subgenus Sophophora. These results are examined in the context
of the phylogeny of the species from which the sequences were isolated.
Sequences from the P-element family fall into distinct subfamilies, or
clades, which are often characteristic for particular species subgroups.
When examined locally among closely related species, the evolution of P
elements is characterized by vertical transmission, whereby the P-element
phylogeny traces the species phylogeny. On a broader scale, however, the
P-element phylogeny is not congruent with the species phylogeny. One
feature of P-element evolution in the melanogaster group is the presence of
more than one P-element subfamily, differing by as much as 36%, in the
genomes of some species. Thus, P elements from several individual species
are not monophyletic, and a likely explanation for the incongruence between
P-element and species phylogenies is provided by the comparison of
paralogous sequences. In certain instances, horizontal transfer seems to be
a valid alternative explanation for lack of congruence between species and
P-element phylogenies. The canonical P-element subfamily, which represents
the active, autonomous transposable element, is restricted to D.
melanogaster. Thus, its origin clearly lies outside of the melanogaster
species group, consistent with the earlier conclusion of recent horizontal
transfer.
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Carl PC Chen Chih-Chin Hsu Wen-Lin Yeh Hsiu-Chu Lin Sen-Yung Hsieh Shih-Cherng Lin Tai-Tzung Chen Max JL Chen Simon FT Tang 《Proteome science》2011,9(1):1-10