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Amir Sherman Ravit Eshed Rotem Harel-Beja Galil Tzuri Vitaly Portnoy Shahar Cohen Mor Rubinstein Arthur A. Schaffer Joseph Burger Nurit Katzir Ron Ophir 《TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik》2013,126(2):349-358
The availability of sequence information for many plants has opened the way to advanced genetic analysis in many non-model plants. Nevertheless, exploration of genetic variation on a large scale and its use as a tool for the identification of traits of interest are still rare. In this study, we combined a bulk segregation approach with our own-designed microarrays to map the pH locus that influences fruit pH in melon. Using these technologies, we identified a set of markers that are genetically linked to the pH trait. Further analysis using a set of melon cultivars demonstrated that some of these markers are tightly linked to the pH trait throughout our germplasm collection. These results validate the utility of combining microarray technology with a bulk segregation approach in mapping traits of interest in non-model plants. 相似文献
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Sivan Shamai Ilana Nabiochtchikov Sarah Kraus Sally Zigdon Dina Kazanov Michal Itzhak-Klutch Carmit Eizner Nadir Arber Ravit Geva 《PloS one》2015,10(9)
Background
There are no validated biomarkers that correlate with the prognosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). The CD24 and adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) genes are important in the malignant transformation of gastrointestinal cells. This study examined APC and CD24 genetic polymorphisms and their possible impact on survival of patients with PDA.Methods
Clinical and pathological data as well as blood samples for extracting DNA were obtained for 73 patients with PDA. Real-time PCR assessed genetic variants of APC (I1307K and E1317Q), and four different single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the CD24 gene: C170T (rs52812045), TG1527del (rs3838646), A1626G (rs1058881) and A1056G (rs1058818).Results
The median age at diagnosis was 64 (41–90) years. Thirty-one patients (42.5%) were operable, 16 (22%) had locally advanced disease and 26 (35.5%) had disseminated metastatic cancer. The malignancy-related mortality rate was 84%. Median survival was 14 months (11.25–16.74). Survival was similar for wild-type (WT), heterozygous and homozygous variants of the APC or CD24 genes. The three most frequent CD24 SNP combinations were: heterozygote for A1626G and WT for the rest of the alleles (14% of patients), heterozygote for C170T, A1626G, A1056G and WT for the rest (14% of patients), and heterozygote for C170T, A1056G and WT for the rest (10% of patients). All patients were APC WT. The first two groups were significantly younger at diagnosis than the third group.Conclusions
Specific polymorphisms in the APC and CD24 genes may play a role in pancreatic cancer development. Correlation with survival requires a larger cohort. 相似文献4.
Despite the various processing steps involved in V(D)J recombination, which could potentially introduce many biases in the length distribution of complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3) segments, the observed CDR3 length distributions for complete repertoires are very close to a normal-like distribution. This raises the question of whether this distribution is simply a result of the random steps included in the process of gene rearrangement, or has been optimized during evolution. We have addressed this issue by constructing a simulation of gene rearrangement, which takes into account the DNA modification steps included in the process, namely hairpin opening, nucleotide additions, and nucleotide deletions. We found that the near-Gaussian- shape of CDR3 length distribution can only be obtained under a relatively narrow set of parameter values, and thus our model suggests that specific biases govern the rearrangement process. In both B-cell receptor (BCR) heavy chain and T-cell receptor beta chain, we obtained a Gaussian distribution using identical parameters, despite the difference in the number and the lengths of the D segments. Hence our results suggest that these parameters most likely reflect the optimal conditions under which the rearrangement process occurs. We have subsequently used the insights gained in this study to estimate the probability of occurrence of two exactly identical BCRs over the course of a human lifetime. Whereas identical rearrangements of the heavy chain are highly unlikely to occur within one human lifetime, for the light chain we found that this probability is not negligible, and hence the light chain CDR3 alone cannot serve as an indicator of B-cell clonality. 相似文献
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The MUC1 SEA module is a self-cleaving domain 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
Levitin F Stern O Weiss M Gil-Henn C Ziv R Prokocimer Z Smorodinsky NI Rubinstein DB Wreschner DH 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2005,280(39):33374-33386
MUC1, a glycoprotein overexpressed by a variety of human adenocarcinomas, is a type I transmembrane protein (MUC1/TM) that soon after its synthesis undergoes proteolytic cleavage in its extracellular domain. This cleavage generates two subunits, alpha and beta, that specifically recognize each other and bind together in a strong noncovalent interaction. Proteolysis occurs within the SEA module, a 120-amino acid domain that is highly conserved in a number of heavily glycosylated mucin-like proteins. Post-translational cleavage of the SEA module occurs at a site similar to that in MUC1 in the glycoproteins IgHepta and MUC3. However, as in the case of other proteins containing the cleaved SEA module, the mechanism of MUC1 proteolysis has not been elucidated. Alternative splicing generates two transmembrane MUC1 isoforms, designated MUC1/Y and MUC1/X. We demonstrated here that MUC1/X, whose extracellular domain is comprised solely of the SEA module in addition to 30 MUC1 N-terminal amino acids, undergoes proteolytic cleavage at the same site as the MUC1/TM protein. In contrast, the MUC1/Y isoform, composed of an N-terminally truncated SEA module, is not cleaved. Cysteine or threonine mutations of the MUC1/X serine residue (Ser-63) immediately C-terminal to the cleavage site generated cleaved proteins, whereas mutation of the Ser-63 residue of MUC1/X to any other of 17 amino acids did not result in cleavage. In vitro incubation of highly purified precursor MUC1/X protein resulted in self-cleavage. Furthermore, addition of hydroxylamine, a strong nucleophile, markedly enhanced cleavage. Both these features are signature characteristics of self-cleaving proteins, and we concluded that MUC1 undergoes autoproteolysis mediated by an N --> O-acyl rearrangement at the cleavage site followed by hydrolytic resolution of the unstable ester and concomitant cleavage. It is likely that all cleaved SEA module-containing proteins follow a similar route. 相似文献
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The CCAAT binding factor can mediate interactions between CONSTANS-like proteins and DNA 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Ben-Naim O Eshed R Parnis A Teper-Bamnolker P Shalit A Coupland G Samach A Lifschitz E 《The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology》2006,46(3):462-476
CONSTANS-Like (COL) proteins are plant-specific nuclear regulators of gene expression but do not contain a known DNA-binding motif. We tested whether a common DNA-binding protein can deliver these proteins to specific cis-acting elements. We screened for proteins that interact with two members of a subgroup of COL proteins. These COL proteins were Tomato COL1 (TCOL1), which does not seem to be involved in the control of flowering time, and the Arabidopsis thaliana CONSTANS (AtCO) protein which mediates photoperiodic induction of flowering. We show that the C-terminal plant-specific CCT (CO, CO-like, TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1) domain of both proteins binds the trimeric CCAAT binding factor (CBF) via its HAP5/NF-YC component. Chromatin immunoprecipitation demonstrated that TCOL is recruited to the CCAAT motifs of the yeast CYC1 and HEM1 promoters by HAP5. In Arabidopsis, each of the three CBF components is encoded by several different genes that are highly transcribed. Under warm long days, high levels of expression of a tomato HAP5 (THAP5a) gene can reduce the flowering time of Arabidopsis. A mutation in the CCT domain of TCOL1 disrupts the interaction with THAP5 and the analogous mutation in AtCO impairs its function and delays flowering. CBFs are therefore likely to recruit COL proteins to their DNA target motifs in planta. 相似文献
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Ravit Arav-Boger Ran He Chuang-Jiun Chiou Jianyong Liu Lauren Woodard Andrew Rosenthal Lorraine Jones-Brando Michael Forman Gary Posner 《PloS one》2010,5(4)
Background
Artesunate, an artemisinin-derived monomer, was reported to inhibit Cytomegalovirus (CMV) replication. We aimed to compare the in-vitro anti-CMV activity of several artemisinin-derived monomers and newly synthesized artemisinin dimers.Methods
Four artemisinin monomers and two novel artemisinin-derived dimers were tested for anti-CMV activity in human fibroblasts infected with luciferase-tagged highly–passaged laboratory adapted strain (Towne), and a clinical CMV isolate. Compounds were evaluated for CMV inhibition and cytotoxicity.Results
Artemisinin dimers effectively inhibited CMV replication in human foreskin fibroblasts and human embryonic lung fibroblasts (EC50 for dimer sulfone carbamate and dimer primary alcohol 0.06±0.00 µM and 0.15±0.02 µM respectively, in human foreskin fibroblasts) with no cytotxicity at concentrations required for complete CMV inhibition. All four artemisinin monomers (artemisinin, artesunate, artemether and artefanilide) shared a similar degree of CMV inhibition amongst themselves (in µM concentrations) which was significantly less than the inhibition achieved with artemisinin dimers (P<0.0001). Similar to monomers, inhibition of CMV with artemisinin dimers appeared early in the virus life cycle as reflected by decreased expression of the immediate early (IE1) protein.Conclusions
Artemisinin dimers are potent and non-cytotoxic inhibitors of CMV replication. These compounds should be studied as potential therapeutic agents for the treatment of CMV infection in humans. 相似文献8.
Enantioselectivity of the Bioconversion of Chiral Citronellal during the Inhibition of Wheat Seeds Germination
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Citronellal is one of the most prominent monoterpenes present in many essential oils. Low persistence of essential oils as bioherbicides has often been addressed because of the high volatility of these compounds. Bioconversion of citronellal by wheat seeds releases less aggressive and injurious compounds as demonstrated by their diminished germination. We demonstrated that optically pure citronellal enantiomers were reduced to optically pure citronellol enantiomers with retention of the configuration both in isolated wheat embryos and endosperms. Our findings reveal the potential of essential oils as allelopathic agents providing an insight into their mechanism of action and persistence. 相似文献
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Edward Averbukh Michael Halpert Ravit Yanko Lutza Yanko Jacob Peèr Samuel Levinger Allan Flyvbjerg Itamar Raz 《Experimental diabetes research》2000,1(1):39-47
Objective: Octreotide, a somatostatin analogue, has
been shown to prevent angiogenesis in diverse in
vitro models. We evaluated its effect on retinal neovascularization
in vivo, using a neonatal rat retinopathy
model.
Methods: We used, on alternating days, hypoxia
(10% O2) and hyperoxia (50% O2) during the first 14
days of neonatal rats, to induce retinal neovascularization.
Half of the rats were injected subcutaneously
with octreotide 0.7 μg/g BW twice daily. At
day 18 the eyes were evaluated for the presence of
epiretinal and vitreal hemorrhage, neovascularization
and epiretinal proliferation. Octreotide pharmacokinetics
and its effect on serum growth hormone
(GH) and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) were
examined in 28 rats.
Results: Serum octreotide levels were 667 μg/1 two
hours after injection, 26.4 μg/1 after nine hours and
3.2 μg/1 after 14 hours. GH levels were decreased
by 40% (p = 0.002) two hours after injection but
thereafter returned to baseline. IGF-I levels were unchanged
two hours after injection and were elevated
by 26% 14 hours after injection (p = 0.02). Epiretinal
membranes were highly associated with epiretinal
hemorrhages (p < 0.001), while retinal neovascularization
was notably associated with vitreal hemorrhages (p < 0.001).
Conclusions: Twice-daily injections of octreotide
failed to produce sustained decrease in serum GH,
but produced rebound elevation of serum IGF-I.
Accordingly, no statistically significant effect of injections
on retinal pathology was noted. This finding,
however, does not contradict our assumption
that GH suppression may decrease the severity of
retinopathy. 相似文献
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Paula Teper-Bamnolker Nativ Dudai Ravit Fischer Eduard Belausov Hanita Zemach Oded Shoseyov Dani Eshel 《Planta》2010,232(1):179-186
Sprouting of potatoes during storage, due to tuber dormancy release, is associated with weight loss and softening. Sprout-preventing
chemicals, such as chlorpropham (CIPC), can negatively impact the environment and human health. Monthly thermal fogging with
mint (Mentha spicata L.) essential oil (MEO) inhibited sprouting in eight potato cultivars during large-volume 6-month storage: the tubers remained
firm with 38% lower weight loss after 140 days of storage. The sprout-inhibitory action may be nullified: treated tubers washed
with water resumed sprouting within days, with reduced apical dominance. MEO application caused local necrosis of the bud
meristem, and a few weeks later, axillary bud (AX) growth was induced in the same sprouting eye. MEO components analysis showed
that 73% of its content is the monoterpene R-carvone. Tubers treated with synthetic R-carvone in equivalent dose, 4.5 μl l−1, showed an inhibitory effect similar to that of MEO. Surprisingly, 0.5 μl l−1 of MEO or synthetic R-carvone catalyzed AX sprouting in the tuber. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of an essential oil vapor
inducing early sprouting of potato tubers. R-carvone caused visible damage to the meristem membrane at sprout-inhibiting, but not sprout-inducing doses, suggesting different
underlying mechanisms. After 5 days’ exposure to R-carvone, its derivatives transcarveol and neo-dihydrocarveol were found in buds of tubers treated with the inhibitory dose,
suggesting biodegradation. These experiments demonstrate the potential of MEO vapor as an environmentally friendly alternative
to CIPC in stored potatoes and as a research tool for the control of sprouting in plants. 相似文献