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John A. Schneider Rakhi Dandona Shravani Pasupneti Vemu Lakshmi Chuanhong Liao Vijay Yeldandi Kenneth H. Mayer 《PloS one》2010,5(7)
Studies of HIV prevention interventions such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PREP) and circumcision in India are limited. The present study sought to investigate Indian truck-drivers initial commitment to PREP and circumcision utilizing the AIDS Risk Reduction Model. Ninety truck-drivers completed an in-depth qualitative interview and provided a blood sample for HIV and HSV-2 testing. Truck-drivers exhibited low levels of initial commitment towards PREP and even lower for circumcision. However, potential leverage points for increasing commitment were realized in fear of infecting family rather than self, self-perceptions of risk, and for PREP focusing on cultural beliefs towards medication and physicians. Cost was a major barrier to both HIV prevention interventions. Despite these barriers, our findings suggest that the ARRM may be useful in identifying several leverage points that may be used by peers, health care providers and public health field workers to enhance initial commitment to novel HIV prevention interventions in India. 相似文献
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Mridusmita Saikia Ye Fu Mariana Pavon-Eternod Chuan He Tao Pan 《RNA (New York, N.Y.)》2010,16(7):1317-1327
The N1-methyl-Adenosine (m1A58) modification at the conserved nucleotide 58 in the TΨC loop is present in most eukaryotic tRNAs. In yeast, m1A58 modification is essential for viability because it is required for the stability of the initiator-tRNAMet. However, m1A58 modification is not required for the stability of several other tRNAs in yeast. This differential m1A58 response for different tRNA species raises the question of whether some tRNAs are hypomodified at A58 in normal cells, and how hypomodification at A58 may affect the stability and function of tRNA. Here, we apply a genomic approach to determine the presence of m1A58 hypomodified tRNAs in human cell lines and show how A58 hypomodification affects stability and involvement of tRNAs in translation. Our microarray-based method detects the presence of m1A58 hypomodified tRNA species on the basis of their permissiveness in primer extension. Among five human cell lines examined, approximately one-quarter of all tRNA species are hypomodified in varying amounts, and the pattern of the hypomodified tRNAs is quite similar. In all cases, no hypomodified initiator-tRNAMet is detected, consistent with the requirement of this modification in stabilizing this tRNA in human cells. siRNA knockdown of either subunit of the m1A58-methyltransferase results in a slow-growth phenotype, and a marked increase in the amount of m1A58 hypomodified tRNAs. Most m1A58 hypomodified tRNAs can associate with polysomes in varying extents. Our results show a distinct pattern for m1A58 hypomodification in human tRNAs, and are consistent with the notion that this modification fine tunes tRNA functions in different contexts. 相似文献
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Neethu Kamarudheen Sona P. Chacko Catherin A. George Rakhi Chettiparambil Somachandran 《Preparative biochemistry & biotechnology》2020,50(8):842-848
AbstractChromium, ranking the second most among toxic heavy metal pollutants in the world, causing respiratory, cardiovascular and renal problems in human beings is under study herein. We examined the biological remediation of the carcinogenic Cr (VI) polluted soils by indigenous yeast isolates. The total element analysis of the treated sample was determined by Energy Dispersion X-ray Micro Analysis (EDXMA). The sample under study was observed to have a high concentration of 458.29 mgKg?1 Cr (VI), determined by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) and DPC analysis. The most tolerant isolate designated as CSR was used for in vitro and ex-situ bioremediation studies of Cr (VI). The isolate achieved significant bioremediation of 86% in vitro and 75.12% in ex-situ method. The optimal conditions for in vitro bioremediation were found to be 28?°C and a pH of 6. The ITS1, 5.8S rRNA and D1, D2 domain of LSU rRNA gene characterization of the isolate CSR illustrated that it belongs to Ustilago genera. The isolate was deposited in NCBI GenBank as Ustilago sp. CSR (KY284846). Although, Ustilago is generally a pathogenic fungus, our study opens up the scope of using Ustilago spp. for bioremediation of the carcinogenic heavy metal Chromium. 相似文献
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Saikia Banashree Singh Sanjay Debbarma Johni Velmurugan Natarajan Dekaboruah Hariprasanna Arunkumar Kallare P. Chikkaputtaiah Channakeshavaiah 《Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants》2020,26(5):857-869
Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants - The recent global climate change has directly impacted major biotic and abiotic stress factors affecting crop productivity worldwide. Therefore, the... 相似文献
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Jayanta Kumar Nath Minakshi Kalita Anu Saikia Hrishikesh Choudhury D. Khlur B. Mukhim Dandadhar Sarma 《Zeitschrift fur angewandte Ichthyologie》2021,37(2):268-277
The present study provides the first detailed early embryonic development of the Shalyni barb, Pethia shalynius (Yazdani & Talukdar, 1975), a vulnerable cyprinid fish occurring in streams and lentic waters of Meghalaya, northeast India. Induced spawning by synthetic hormone injection in May 2019 was conducted to a pair of mature female and male P. shalynius under controlled conditions in a well-aerated aquarium. Fertilized eggs were spherical, 0.75–0.80 mm (approx.) in diameter, transparent, unpigmented and non-adhesive. A total of 22 developmental stages could be categorized under seven broad periods, viz. the zygote, cleavage, blastula, gastrula, segmentation, pharyngula and hatchling. The first cleavage occurred at 15 min post fertilization (mpf), followed by blastulation at 01:23 hr post-fertilization (hpf), gastrulation at 04:20 hpf, initial somite formation at 07:00 hpf, and pharyngula period at 19:20 hpf, respectively. Embryos hatched between 26–27 hpf and the newly-hatched larvae ranged 2.2–2.5 mm in total length. For naturally-declining populations of this vulnerable fish species, inferences drawn from the present study will help provide a baseline data for its conservation and management, and aid the research fields of developmental biology, biotechnology, molecular biology as well as taxonomy of this species. 相似文献
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Saikia Snigdha Pal Uttariya Kalita Deep Jyoti Rai Avdhesh Kumar Sarma Anupam Kataki Amal Chandra Limaye Anil Mukund 《Molecular biology reports》2021,48(7):5399-5409
Molecular Biology Reports - RUNX1T1 is extensively studied in the context of AML1-RUNX1T1 fusion protein in acute myeloid leukemia. Little is known about the function of RUNX1T1 itself, although... 相似文献
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Geromy G. Moore Jacalyn L. Elliott Rakhi Singh Bruce W. Horn Joe W. Dorner Eric A. Stone Sofia N. Chulze German G. Barros Manjunath K. Naik Graeme C. Wright Kerstin Hell Ignazio Carbone 《PLoS pathogens》2013,9(8)
Aflatoxins are produced by Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus in oil-rich seed and grain crops and are a serious problem in agriculture, with aflatoxin B1 being the most carcinogenic natural compound known. Sexual reproduction in these species occurs between individuals belonging to different vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs). We examined natural genetic variation in 758 isolates of A. flavus, A. parasiticus and A. minisclerotigenes sampled from single peanut fields in the United States (Georgia), Africa (Benin), Argentina (Córdoba), Australia (Queensland) and India (Karnataka). Analysis of DNA sequence variation across multiple intergenic regions in the aflatoxin gene clusters of A. flavus, A. parasiticus and A. minisclerotigenes revealed significant linkage disequilibrium (LD) organized into distinct blocks that are conserved across different localities, suggesting that genetic recombination is nonrandom and a global occurrence. To assess the contributions of asexual and sexual reproduction to fixation and maintenance of toxin chemotype diversity in populations from each locality/species, we tested the null hypothesis of an equal number of MAT1-1 and MAT1-2 mating-type individuals, which is indicative of a sexually recombining population. All samples were clone-corrected using multi-locus sequence typing which associates closely with VCG. For both A. flavus and A. parasiticus, when the proportions of MAT1-1 and MAT1-2 were significantly different, there was more extensive LD in the aflatoxin cluster and populations were fixed for specific toxin chemotype classes, either the non-aflatoxigenic class in A. flavus or the B1-dominant and G1-dominant classes in A. parasiticus. A mating type ratio close to 1∶1 in A. flavus, A. parasiticus and A. minisclerotigenes was associated with higher recombination rates in the aflatoxin cluster and less pronounced chemotype differences in populations. This work shows that the reproductive nature of the population (more sexual versus more asexual) is predictive of aflatoxin chemotype diversity in these agriculturally important fungi. 相似文献
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Imran Ahmad Jay Prakash Thakur Debabrata Chanda Dharmendra Saikia Feroz Khan Shivani Dixit Amit Kumar Rituraj Konwar Arvind Singh Negi Atul Gupta 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2013,23(5):1322-1325
Lipophilic chalcones and their conformationally restricted analogues were synthesized and evaluated for their antitubercular efficacy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv strain. Compounds 16, 24, 25a and 25c were found to be active MIC at 60, 30, 3.5 and 7.5 μg-mL?1. In vitro cytotoxicity of compounds 16, 24, 25a, 25c and 26 in non-cancerous human epithelial kidney cell line (HEK-293) showed that most active compound 25a was approximately 2.85 times selective towards tubercular versus healthy cells whereas compound 24 was found to be 16 times selective. 相似文献