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alpha 1-Proteinase inhibitor (alpha 1-PI), a member of the serineproteinase inhibitor superfamily, has a primary role in controllingneutrophil elastase activity within the mammalian circulation. Severalstudies have indicated that the reactive center region of alpha 1-PI, theamino acid sequence of which is critical to recognition of and binding totarget proteinases, is highly divergent within and among species. Thisappears to be a consequence of accelerated rates of evolution that may havebeen driven by positive Darwinian selection. In order to examine this andother features of alpha 1-PI evolution in more detail, we have isolated andsequenced cDNAs representing alpha 1- PI mRNAs of the mouse species Mussaxicola and Mus minutoides and have compared these with a number of othermammalian alpha 1-PI mRNAs. Relative to other mammalian mRNAs, the extentof nonsynonymous substitution is generally high throughout the alpha 1-PImRNA molecule, indicating greater overall rates of amino acid substitution.Within and among mouse species, the 5'-half of the mRNA, but not the3'-half, has been homogenized by concerted evolution. Finally, the reactivecenter is under diversifying or positive Darwinian selection in muridrodents (rats, mice) and guinea pigs yet is under purifying selection inprimates and artiodactyls. The significance of these findings to alpha 1-PIfunction and the possible selective forces driving evolution of serpins ingeneral are discussed. 相似文献
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R L Pieschl P W Toll D E Leith L J Peterson M R Fedde 《Journal of applied physiology》1992,73(6):2297-2304
To determine the factors responsible for changes in [H+] during and after sprint exercise in the racing greyhound, Stewart's quantitative acid-base analysis was applied to arterial blood plasma samples taken at rest, at 8-s intervals during exercise, and at various intervals up to 30 min after a 402-m spring (approximately 30 s) on the track. [Na+], [K+], [Cl-], [total Ca], [lactate], [albumin], [Pi], PCO2, and pH were measured, and the [H+] was calculated from Stewart's equations. This short sprint caused all measured variables to change significantly. Maximal changes were strong ion difference decreased from 36.7 meq/l at rest to 16.1 meq/l; [albumin] increased from 3.1 g/dl at rest to 3.7 g/dl; PCO2, after decreasing from 39.6 Torr at rest to 27.9 Torr immediately prerace, increased during exercise to 42.8 Torr and then again decreased to near 20 Torr during most of recovery; and [H+] rose from 36.6 neq/l at rest to a peak of 76.6 neq/l. The [H+] calculated using Stewart's analysis was not significantly different from that directly measured. In addition to the increase in lactate and the change in PCO2, changes in [albumin], [Na+], and [Cl-] also influenced [H+] during and after sprint exercise in the running greyhound. 相似文献
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Several fundamental questions remain enigmatic concerning human olfactorysensitivity, including (i) whether detection threshold differences existbetween the two sides of the nose (and, if so, whether such differences areinfluenced by handedness) and (ii) whether bilateral (i.e. binasal)stimulation leads to lower thresholds than unilateral stimulation (and, ifso, whether the degree of facilitation is inversely related to generalolfactory ability). In this study, and well-validated single staircaseprocedure was used to establish bilateral and unilateral detectionthresholds for the cranial nerve I stimulant phenyl ethyl alcohol in 130right- and 33 left-handed subjects. No differences in sensitivity betweenthe left and right sides of the nose were observed in either group.Bilateral thresholds were lower, on average, than unilateral thresholdswhen the latter were categorized in terms of left and right nares. However,the bilateral thresholds did not differ significantly from those of theside of the nose with the lower threshold. Overall smell ability, asmeasured by the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test, didnot interact with any of the test measures. These data imply that (i) theleft and right sides of the nose do not systematically differ in detectionthreshold sensitivity for either dextrals or sinistrals and (ii) if centralintegration of left:right olfactory threshold sensitivity occurs, itseffects do not exceed the function of the better side of the nose. 相似文献
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VLJ Whitehall TD Dumenil DM McKeone CE Bond ML Bettington RL Buttenshaw L Bowdler GW Montgomery LF Wockner BA Leggett 《Epigenetics》2014,9(11):1454-1460
The CpG Island Methylator Phenotype (CIMP) is fundamental to an important subset of colorectal cancer; however, its cause is unknown. CIMP is associated with microsatellite instability but is also found in BRAF mutant microsatellite stable cancers that are associated with poor prognosis. The isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) gene causes CIMP in glioma due to an activating mutation that produces the 2-hydroxyglutarate oncometabolite. We therefore examined IDH1 alteration as a potential cause of CIMP in colorectal cancer. The IDH1 mutational hotspot was screened in 86 CIMP-positive and 80 CIMP-negative cancers. The entire coding sequence was examined in 81 CIMP-positive colorectal cancers. Forty-seven cancers varying by CIMP-status and IDH1 mutation status were examined using Illumina 450K DNA methylation microarrays. The R132C IDH1 mutation was detected in 4/166 cancers. All IDH1 mutations were in CIMP cancers that were BRAF mutant and microsatellite stable (4/45, 8.9%). Unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis identified an IDH1 mutation-like methylation signature in approximately half of the CIMP-positive cancers. IDH1 mutation appears to cause CIMP in a small proportion of BRAF mutant, microsatellite stable colorectal cancers. This study provides a precedent that a single gene mutation may cause CIMP in colorectal cancer, and that this will be associated with a specific epigenetic signature and clinicopathological features. 相似文献
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Jeff A Johnson Heather RL Lerner Pamela C Rasmussen David P Mindell 《BMC evolutionary biology》2006,6(1):65-12