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The effects of mispair and nonpair correction in hybrid DNA on base ratios (G + C content) and total amounts of DNA 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Base ratios and total DNA amounts can vary substantially between and within
higher taxa and genera, and even within species. Gene conversion is one of
several mechanisms that could cause such changes. For base substitutions,
disparity in conversion direction is accompanied by an equivalent disparity
in base ratio at the heterozygous site. Disparity in the direction of gene
conversion at meiosis is common and can be extreme. For transitions (which
give purine [R]/pyrimidine [Y] mispairs) and for transversions giving
unlike R/R and Y/Y mispairs in hybrid DNA, this disparity could give slow
but systematic changes in G + C percentage. For transversions giving like
R/R and Y/Y mispairs, it could change AT/TA and CG/GC ratios. From the
extent of correction direction disparity, one can deduce properties of
repair enzymes, such as the ability (1) to excise preferentially the purine
from one mispair and the pyrimidine from the other for two different R/Y
mispairs from a single heterozygous site and (2) to excise one base
preferentially from unlike R/R or Y/Y mispairs. Frame-shifts usually show
strong disparity in conversion direction, with preferential cutting of the
nonlooped or the looped-out strand of the nonpair in heterozygous h-DNA.
The opposite directions of disparity for frame-shifts and their intragenic
suppressors as Ascobolus suggest that repair enzymes have a strong,
systematic bias as to which strand is cut. The conversion spectra of
mutations induced with different mutagens suggest that the nonlooped strand
is preferentially cut, so that base additions generally convert to mutant
and deletions generally convert to wild-type forms. Especially in
nonfunctional or noncoding DNA, this could cause a general increase in DNA
amounts. Conversion disparity, selection, mutation, and other processes
interact, affecting rates of change in base ratios and total DNA.
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Common congenital anomalies: Environmental causes and prevention with folic acid containing multivitamins
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Swapnalee Sarmah James A. Marrs 《Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews》2016,108(3):274-286
Congenital anomalies, congenital defects, or birth defects are significant causes of death in infants. The most common congenital defects are congenital heart defects (CHDs) and neural tube defects (NTDs). Defects induced by genetic mutations, environmental exposure to toxins, or a combination of these effects can result in congenital malformations, leading to infant death or long‐term disabilities. These defects produce significant mortality and morbidity in the affected individuals, and families are affected emotional and financially. Also, society is impacted on many levels. Congenital anomalies may be reduced by dietary supplements of folic acid and other vitamins. Here, we review the evidence for specific roles of toxins (alcohol, cigarette smoke) in causing common severe congenital anomalies like CHDs, NTDs, and ocular defects. We also review the evidence for beneficial effects for dietary supplementation, and highlight gaps in our knowledge, where research may contribute to additional benefits of intervention that can reduce birth defects. Extensive discussion of common severe congenital anomalies (CHDs, NTDs, and ocular defects) illustrates the effects of diet on the frequency and severity of these defects. Birth Defects Research (Part C) 108:274–286, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 相似文献
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Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) is an intermediate-filament (IF) protein that maintains the astrocytes of the Central Nervous
System in Human. This is differentially expressed during serological studies in inflamed condition such as Rheumatoid Arthritis
(RA). Therefore, it is of interest to glean molecular insight using a model of GFAP (49.88 kDa) due to its crystallographic nonavailability.
The present study has been taken into consideration to construct computational protein model using Modeller 9.11.
The structural relevance of the protein was verified using Gromacs 4.5 followed by validation through PROCHECK, Verify 3D,
WHAT-IF, ERRAT and PROVE for reliability. The constructed three dimensional (3D) model of GFAP protein had been scrutinized
to reveal the associated functions by identifying ligand binding sites and active sites. Molecular level interaction study revealed
five possible surface cavities as active sites. The model finds application in further computational analysis towards drug discovery
in order to minimize the effect of inflammation. 相似文献
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M Matsuda A Tazumi S Kagawa T Sekizuka O Murayama JE Moore BC Millar 《BMC veterinary research》2006,2(1):1-4
Background
At present, six accessible sequences of 16S rDNA from Taylorella equigenitalis (T. equigenitalis) are available, whose sequence differences occur at a few nucleotide positions. Thus it is important to determine these sequences from additional strains in other countries, if possible, in order to clarify any anomalies regarding 16S rDNA sequence heterogeneity. Here, we clone and sequence the approximate full-length 16S rDNA from additional strains of T. equigenitalis isolated in Japan, Australia and France and compare these sequences to the existing published sequences.Results
Clarification of any anomalies regarding 16S rDNA sequence heterogeneity of T. equigenitalis was carried out. When cloning, sequencing and comparison of the approximate full-length 16S rDNA from 17 strains of T. equigenitalis isolated in Japan, Australia and France, nucleotide sequence differences were demonstrated at the six loci in the 1,469 nucleotide sequence. Moreover, 12 polymorphic sites occurred among 23 sequences of the 16S rDNA, including the six reference sequences.Conclusion
High sequence similarity (99.5% or more) was observed throughout, except from nucleotide positions 138 to 501 where substitutions and deletions were noted. 相似文献7.
Insect seed predation may vary depending on seed production. The present study considers the hypothesis that the rates of seed predation tend to be smaller in years of higher fruit production. Thus, we monitored the production of fruits and predation of seeds of the palm Syagrus romanzoffiana over 2?years in the Atlantic Forest (Parque Municipal da Lagoa do Peri, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil), between July 2006 and June 2008. Plots of 0.25?m2 were fitted under 20 mother plants and fruits were monthly collected for assessment of abundance and seed predation. There was variation in fruit production between the 2?years and among reproductive plants. Predation rates were high and occurred in the predispersal phase by the Curculionidae Revena rubiginosa Boheman, Anchylorhynchus aegrotus Fahraeus, and Anchylorhynchus variabilis Gyllenhal. Seed predation by these species of Anchylorhynchus is first registered in the present study. In average, about 60% of the seeds monthly produced in the population tend to escape insect predation in year of high or low production, becoming available for recruitment. The predation rate was not related to the amount of fruits produced per reproductive plant. Also, different than expected, there was a positive relation between the rates of seed predation and the total of fruits produced monthly on the plots. Thus, no evidence for the satiation of insect seed predators was found in this study with S. romanzoffiana. 相似文献
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Mokhtarul Haque Rosy Sarmah Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya 《Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology》2018,16(1):227-238
Detection of protein complexes by analyzing and understanding PPI networks is an important task and critical to all aspects of cell biology. We present a technique called PROtein COmplex DEtection based on common neighborhood (PROCODE) that considers the inherent organization of protein complexes as well as the regions with heavy interactions in PPI networks to detect protein complexes. Initially, the core of the protein complexes is detected based on the neighborhood of PPI network. Then a merging strategy based on density is used to attach proteins and protein complexes to the core-protein complexes to form biologically meaningful structures. The predicted protein complexes of PROCODE was evaluated and analyzed using four PPI network datasets out of which three were from budding yeast and one from human. Our proposed technique is compared with some of the existing techniques using standard benchmark complexes and PROCODE was found to match very well with actual protein complexes in the benchmark data. The detected complexes were at par with existing biological evidence and knowledge. 相似文献
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