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Kondeti Subramanyam K. V. Sailaja Koona Subramanyam D. Muralidhara Rao K. Lakshmidevi 《Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture》2011,105(2):181-192
Plants, when exposed to abiotic or biotic stress, produce several pathogenesis-related proteins to counteract the effects
of stress. Osmotin is one of the important pathogenesis-related proteins induced during several stress conditions. We have
developed improved salt stress tolerant transgenic chilli pepper plants (Capsicum annum L. var. Aiswarya 2103) by ectopic expression of the Nicotiana tabaccum osmotin gene using Agrobacterium
tumefaciens EHA105 as a vector. Four-week-old chilli pepper leaves were used as an explant and A. tumefaciens EHA105 harboring pBINASCOSM plasmid that contains osmotin gene under the control of CaMV 35S promoter and npt II as a selectable marker was used in co-cultivation. Transgene integration and expression were analyzed using molecular,
immunochemical, and biochemical assays. PCR and Southern blot analysis confirmed that osmotin gene has been successfully integrated
into the genome of chilli pepper plants. The osmotin gene was stably segregated and expressed in T2 generation transgenic chilli pepper plants, and it was confirmed by Western blot analysis. Biochemical assays of these putative
transgenic plants revealed enhanced levels of chlorophyll, proline, glycinebetaine, APX, SOD, DHAR, MDHAR, GR, and relative
water content. Yield potential of the putative transgenic chilli pepper plants was evaluated under salinity stress conditions
in a green house. The putative transgenic chilli pepper plants overexpressing the osmotin gene were morphologically similar
to wild-type plants and produced 3.32 kg chilli pepper fruits per plant at 300 mM NaCl concentration. 相似文献
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Incorporation of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor or CD40 ligand enhances immunogenicity of chimeric simian immunodeficiency virus-like particles
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Skountzou I Quan FS Gangadhara S Ye L Vzorov A Selvaraj P Jacob J Compans RW Kang SM 《Journal of virology》2007,81(3):1083-1094
The rapid worldwide spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) mandates the development of successful vaccination strategies. Since live attenuated HIV is not accepted as a vaccine due to safety concerns, virus-like particles (VLPs) offer an attractive safe alternative because they lack the viral genome yet they are perceived by the immune system as a virus particle. We hypothesized that adding immunostimulatory signals to VLPs would enhance their efficacy. To accomplish this we generated chimeric simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) VLPs containing either glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) or CD40 ligand (CD40L) and investigated their biological activity and ability to enhance immune responses in vivo. Immunization of mice with chimeric SIV VLPs containing GM-CSF induced SIV Env-specific antibodies as well as neutralizing activity at significantly higher levels than those induced by standard SIV VLPs, SIV VLPs containing CD40L, or standard VLPs mixed with soluble GM-CSF. In addition, mice immunized with chimeric SIV VLPs containing either GM-CSF or CD40L showed significantly increased CD4(+)- and CD8(+)-T-cell responses to SIV Env, compared to standard SIV VLPs. Taken together, these results demonstrate that the incorporation of immunostimulatory molecules enhances humoral and cellular immune responses. We propose that anchoring immunostimulatory molecules into SIV VLPs can be a promising approach to augmenting the efficacy of VLP antigens. 相似文献
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Vinay Kondeti Ernest Duah Nosayba Al-Azzam Charles K. Thodeti Joshua A. Boyce Sailaja Paruchuri 《PloS one》2013,8(8)
Cysteinyl leukotrienes (cys-LTs) are a group of lipid mediators that are potent bronchoconstrictors, powerful inducers of vascular leakage and potentiators of airway hyperresponsiveness. Cys-LTs play an essential role in asthma and are synthesized as well as activated in mast cells (MCs). Cys-LTs relay their effects mainly through two known GPCRs, CysLT1R and CysLT2R. Although protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms are implicated in the regulation of CysLT1R function, neither the role of PKCs in cys-LT-dependent MC inflammatory signaling nor the involvement of specific isoforms in MC function are known. Here, we show that PKC inhibition augmented LTD4 and LTE4-induced calcium influx through CysLT1R in MCs. In contrast, inhibition of PKCs suppressed c-fos expression as well MIP1β generation by cys-LTs. Interestingly, cys-LTs activated both PKCα and PKCε isoforms in MC. However, knockdown of PKCα augmented cys-LT mediated calcium flux, while knockdown of PKCε attenuated cys-LT induced c-fos expression and MIP1β generation. Taken together, these results demonstrate for the first time that cys-LT signaling downstream of CysLT1R in MCs is differentially regulated by two distinct PKCs which modulate inflammatory signals that have significant pathobiologic implications in allergic reactions and asthma pathology. 相似文献
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KV Thomas 《Biofouling》2013,29(1):73-86
Antifouling paint booster biocides are a group of organic compounds added to antifouling paints to improve their efficacy. They have become prevalent since the requirement for alternative antifouling paints formulations for small boats (< 25 m). This need followed a ban on the use of triorganotin biocides in antifouling paints for small boats, in the late 1980's. Worldwide, around eighteen compounds are currently used as antifouling biocides, viz. benzmethylamide, chlorothalonil, copper pyrithione, dichlofluanid, diuron, fluorofolpet, Irgarol 1051, Sea‐Nine 211, Mancozeb, Polyphase, pyridine‐triphenyl‐borane, TCMS (2,3,5,6‐tetrachloro‐4‐methylsulfonyl) pyridine, TCMTB [2‐(thiocyanomethylthio)benzothia‐zole], Thiram, tolyfluanid, zinc pyrithione (ZPT), ziram and Zineb. Any booster biocide released into the environment is subjected to a complex set of processes. These processes include transport mechanisms, transformation, degradation, cross media partitioning, and bioaccumulation. This paper reviews the fate and behaviour data currently available in the public domain concerning antifouling paint booster biocides. 相似文献
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Guduru Moulika Sannapureddy Sailaja Jillela Santhosh Vijitha Putluru Bayapu Reddy Kondala Shanthi Latha Gasthi Venkata Chalapathi Busireddy Sudhakar Reddy 《Luminescence》2022,37(7):1073-1077
Calcium boro fluoro zinc phosphate glasses modified using alkali oxide and doped with Nd3+ and Er3+ ions with the chemical composition of 69.5 (B2O3) + 10 (P2O5) + 10 (CaF2) + 5 (ZnO) + 5 (Na2O/Li2O/K2O) + 0.5 (Er2O3/Nd2O3) were prepared using a conventional melt quenching technique. The results of X-ray diffraction patterns indicated the amorphous nature of all the prepared glasses. The visible–near-infrared red (NIR) absorption spectra of these glasses were analyzed systematically. The NIR emission spectra of Er3+ and Nd3+:calcium boro fluoro zinc phosphate glasses showed prominent emission bands at 1536 nm (4I13/2→4I15/2) and 1069 nm (4F3/2→4I11/2) respectively with λexci = 514.5 nm (Ar+ laser) as the excitation source. 相似文献
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Background
The function of proteins is a direct consequence of their three-dimensional structure. The structural classification of proteins describes the ways of folding patterns all proteins could adopt. Although, the protein folds were described in many ways the functional properties of individual folds were not studied.Results
We have analyzed two β-barrel folds generally adopted by small proteins to be looking similar but have different topology. On the basis of the topology they could be divided into two different folds named SH3-fold and OB-fold. There was no sequence homology between any of the proteins considered. The sequence diversity and loop variability was found to be important for various binding functions.Conclusions
The function of Oligonucleotide/oligosaccharide-binding (OB) fold proteins was restricted to either DNA/RNA binding or sugar binding whereas the Src homology 3 (SH3) domain like proteins bind to a variety of ligands through loop modulations. A question was raised whether the evolution of these two folds was through DNA shuffling. 相似文献9.
Yingleong Chan Rany?M. Salem Yu-Han?H. Hsu George McMahon Tune?H. Pers Sailaja Vedantam Tonu Esko Michael?H. Guo Elaine?T. Lim GIANT Consortium Lude Franke George?Davey Smith David?P. Strachan Joel?N. Hirschhorn 《American journal of human genetics》2015,96(5):695-708
Human height is a composite measurement, reflecting the sum of leg, spine, and head lengths. Many common variants influence total height, but the effects of these or other variants on the components of height (body proportion) remain largely unknown. We studied sitting height ratio (SHR), the ratio of sitting height to total height, to identify such effects in 3,545 African Americans and 21,590 individuals of European ancestry. We found that SHR is heritable: 26% and 39% of the total variance of SHR can be explained by common variants in European and African Americans, respectively, and global European admixture is negatively correlated with SHR in African Americans (r2 ≈ 0.03). Six regions reached genome-wide significance (p < 5 × 10−8) for association with SHR and overlapped biological candidate genes, including TBX2 and IGFBP3. We found that 130 of 670 height-associated variants are nominally associated (p < 0.05) with SHR, more than expected by chance (p = 5 × 10−40). At these 130 loci, the height-increasing alleles are associated with either a decrease (71 loci) or increase (59 loci) in SHR, suggesting that different height loci disproportionally affect either leg length or spine/head length. Pathway analyses via DEPICT revealed that height loci affecting SHR, and especially those affecting leg length, show enrichment of different biological pathways (e.g., bone/cartilage/growth plate pathways) than do loci with no effect on SHR (e.g., embryonic development). These results highlight the value of using a pair of related but orthogonal phenotypes, in this case SHR with height, as a prism to dissect the biology underlying genetic associations in polygenic traits and diseases. 相似文献
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Shivaji S Pratibha MS Sailaja B Hara Kishore K Singh AK Begum Z Anarasi U Prabagaran SR Reddy GS Srinivas TN 《Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions》2011,15(1):1-22
Three 16S rRNA gene clone libraries (P1L, P4L and P8L) were constructed using three soil samples (P1S, P4S and P8S) collected
near Pindari glacier, Himalayas. The three libraries yielded a total of 703 clones. Actinobacteria, Firmicutes and Proteobacteria were common to the three libraries. In addition to the above P1L and P8L shared the phyla Acidobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Gemmatimonadetes and Planctomycetes. Phyla Chlamydiae, Chlorobi, Chloroflexi, Dictyoglomi, Fibrobacteres, Nitrospirae, Verrucomicrobia, candidate division SPAM and candidate TM7s TM7a phylum were present only in P1L. Rarefaction analysis indicated that the
bacterial diversity in P4S and P8S soil samples was representative of the sample. Principal component analysis (PCA) revealed
that P1S and P8S were different from P4S soil sample. PCA also indicated that arsenic content, pH, Cr and altitude influence
the observed differences in the percentage of specific OTUs in the three 16S rRNA gene clone libraries. The observed bacterial
diversity was similar to that observed for other Himalayan and non-polar cold habitats. A total of 40 strains of bacteria
were isolated from the above three soil samples and based on the morphology 20 bacterial strains were selected for further
characterization. The 20 bacteria belonged to 12 different genera. All the isolates were psychro-, halo- and alkalitolerant.
Amylase and urease activities were detected in majority of the strains but lipase and protease activities were not detected.
Long chain, saturated, unsaturated and branched fatty acids were predominant in the psychrotolerant bacteria. 相似文献