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BS Sabna Thankappan Bency Mahendran Ramasamy Muthusamy Gayathri Femil selta Daniel Raja Angayarkanni Jayaraman 《Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins》2021,13(4):993-1004
Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins - Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and is produced by irreversible decarboxylation of... 相似文献
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Michael Garton Carles Corbi-Verge Yuan Hu Satra Nim Nadya Tarasova Brad Sherborne Philip M. Kim 《Proteins》2019,87(3):236-244
Peptide-based therapeutics are an alternative to small molecule drugs as they offer superior specificity, lower toxicity, and easy synthesis. Here we present an approach that leverages the dramatic performance increase afforded by the recent arrival of GPU accelerated thermodynamic integration (TI). GPU TI facilitates very fast, highly accurate binding affinity optimization of peptides against therapeutic targets. We benchmarked TI predictions using published peptide binding optimization studies. Prediction of mutations involving charged side-chains was found to be less accurate than for non-charged, and use of a more complex 3-step TI protocol was found to boost accuracy in these cases. Using the 3-step protocol for non-charged side-chains either had no effect or was detrimental. We use the benchmarked pipeline to optimize a peptide binding to our recently discovered cancer target: EME1. TI calculations predict beneficial mutations using both canonical and non-canonical amino acids. We validate these predictions using fluorescence polarization and confirm that binding affinity is increased. We further demonstrate that this increase translates to a significant reduction in pancreatic cancer cell viability. 相似文献
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Anderson O. Lobo Erica F. Antunes Mariana BS Palma Cristina Pacheco‐Soares Vladimir J. Trava‐Airoldi Evaldo J. Corat 《Cell biology international》2010,34(4):393-398
Monolayer formation of SaOS‐2 (human osteoblast‐like cells) was observed on VACNT (vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes) scaffolds without purification or functionalization. The VACNT were produced by a microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition on titanium surfaces with nickel or iron as catalyst. Cell viability and morphology studies were evaluated by LDH (lactate dehydrogenase) release assay and SEM (scanning electron microscopy), respectively. The non‐toxicity and the flat spreading with monolayer formation of the SaOs‐2 on VACNT scaffolds surface indicate that they can be used for biomedical applications. 相似文献
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The genetic basis of inbreeding avoidance in house mice 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Sherborne AL Thom MD Paterson S Jury F Ollier WE Stockley P Beynon RJ Hurst JL 《Current biology : CB》2007,17(23):2061-2066
Animals might be able to use highly polymorphic genetic markers to recognize very close relatives and avoid inbreeding. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is thought to provide such a marker because it influences individual scent in a broad range of vertebrates. However, direct evidence is very limited. In house mice (Mus musculus domesticus), the major urinary protein (MUP) gene cluster provides another highly polymorphic scent signal of genetic identity that could underlie kin recognition. We demonstrate that wild mice breeding freely in seminatural enclosures show no avoidance of mates with the same MHC genotype when genome-wide similarity is controlled. Instead, inbreeding avoidance is fully explained by a strong deficit in successful matings between mice sharing both MUP haplotypes. Single haplotype sharing is not a good guide to the identification of full sibs, and there was no evidence of behavioral imprinting on maternal MHC or MUP haplotypes. This study, the first to examine wild animals with normal variation in MHC, MUP, and genetic background, demonstrates that mice use self-referent matching of a species-specific polymorphic signal to avoid inbreeding. Recognition of close kin as unsuitable mates might be more variable across species than a generic vertebrate-wide ability to avoid inbreeding based on MHC. 相似文献
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Priest Pot is an example of the abundant ponds that, collectively, contribute crucially to species diversity. Despite extensive
biological study, little has been reported about the physical framework that supports its ecological richness. This article
elucidates the physical character of Priest Pot’s water column and thus that of similar water bodies. Vertical thermal microstructure
profiles were recorded during summer 2003 and analyzed alongside concurrent meteorological data. During summer stratification,
the thermal structure appeared to be dominated by surface heat fluxes. Surface wind stress, limited by sheltering vegetation,
caused turbulent overturns once a surface mixed layer was present but appeared to contribute little to setting up the thermal
structure. Variations in full-depth mean stratification occurred predominantly over seasonal and ∼5-day time scales, the passage
of atmospheric pressure systems being posited as the cause of the latter. In the uppermost ∼0.5 m, where the stratification
varied at subdaily time scales, turbulence was active (sensu Ivey and Imberger 1991) when this layer was mixed, with dissipation
values ε ∼ 10−8 m2 s−3 and vertical diffusivity KZ = 10−4 — 10−6 m2 s−1. Where the water column was stratified, turbulence was strongly damped by both buoyancy and viscosity, and KZ was an order of magnitude smaller. Vertical transport in the mixed layer occurred via many small overturns (Thorpe scale
r.m.s. and maximum values were typically 0.02 m and 0.10 m, respectively), and seston were fully mixed through the water column. 相似文献
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Sherborne Neil Miller Joel C. Blyuss Konstantin B. Kiss Istvan Z. 《Journal of mathematical biology》2018,76(3):755-778
Journal of Mathematical Biology - This paper introduces a novel extension of the edge-based compartmental model to epidemics where the transmission and recovery processes are driven by general... 相似文献
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The immunophenotype of HT29 human colon cancer cells implanted into severe combined immunodeficient mice was assessed in primary
tumours and their metastases in the lungs using an indirect immunohistochemical method. After primary tumours were surgically
removed, the metastases were given time to develop, thus paralleling the clinical situation. While vimentin was negative in
both primary and secondary tumours, E-cadherin was present as membrane-bound labelling in the primary tumours only. Whereas
the markers p53, MIB1, PCNA and CEA were consistently positive in both primary and metastatic tumours, CD44 variant 6 and
CA125 were negative in metastases but positive in the primary tumours. There was a significant increase in the percentage
of cells labelled for p53 in the primary tumours compared with the metastases. For the proliferation markers, there was no
significant difference in labelling between primary tumours and metastases for MIB1. Of the cytokeratins examined, CK 20 gave
the strongest and most consistent reaction in both primary and secondary tumours. The results indicate that, for certain immunohistochemical
markers, results are the same in both primary tumours and metastases. Hence, in these cases, antigens that are expressed on
the primary tumour as well as on the metastases can serve as target molecules for immunologically based forms of treatment
of metastases.
This revised version was published online in November 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Comparisons of the molecular evolutionary process at rbcL and ndhF in the grass family (Poaceae) 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
We examine rate heterogeneity among evolutionary lineages of the grass
family at two plasmid loci, ndhF and rbcL, and we introduce a method to
determine whether patterns of rate heterogeneity are correlated between
loci. We show both that rates of synonymous evolution are heterogeneous
among grass lineages and that are heterogeneity is correlated between loci
at synonymous sites. At nonsynonymous sites, the pattern of rate
heterogeneity is not correlated between loci, primarily due to an aberrant
pattern of rate heterogeneity at nonsynonymous sites of rbcL. We compare
patterns of synonymous rate heterogeneity to predictors based on the
generation time effect and the speciation rate hypotheses. Although there
is some evidence for generation time effects, neither generation time
effects nor speciation rates appear to be sufficient to explain patterns of
rate heterogeneity in the grass plastid sequences.
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