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Emile CL. Marnette Harm Houweling Herman Van Dam Jan Willem Erisman 《Biogeochemistry》1993,23(2):119-144
The chemical composition of surface waters of two Dutch moorland pools and of incident precipitation, was monitored from 1982
to 1990. For this period, sulfur and water budgets were calculated using a hydrochemical model developed for well-mixed non-stratifying
lakes. Total atmospheric deposition of S decreased significantly after 1986 at both locations. A model describing the sulfur
budget in terms of input, output and reduction/oxidation processes predicted a fast decrease of pool water SO4
2− concentrations after a decrease of atmospheric input. However, SO4
2− concentrations in the surface water was lowered only slightly or remained constant. Apparently a source within the lake caused
the unexpectedly high SO4
2− concentrations. The possible supply of SO4
2− from the sediment through regulation by (K-)Al-SO4 containing minerals or desorption of SO4
2− from positively charged surfaces in the sediment was evaluated. Solubility calculations of pore water with respect to alunite,
basaluminite and jurbanite indicated that SO4
2− concentration was not regulated by these minerals. It is suggested here (1) that desorption of SO4
2− from peaty sediments may account for the estimated SO4
2− supply provided that the adsorption complex is periodically recharged by partial oxidation of the upper bottom sediments
and (2) that because of exposure of a part of the pool bottom to the atmosphere during dry summers and subsequent oxidation
of reduced S, the amount of SO4
2− may be provided which complements the decreasing depositional SO4
2− input. In future research these two mechanisms need to be investigated. 相似文献
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Sulfate reduction and S-oxidation in a moorland pool sediment 总被引:3,自引:2,他引:1
In an oligotrophic moorland pool in The Netherlands, S cycling near the sediment/water boundary was investigated by measuring (1) SO4
2– reduction rates in the sediment, (2) depletion of SO4
2– in the overlying water column and (3) release of35S from the sediment into the water column. Two locations differing in sediment type (highly organic and sandy) were compared, with respect to reduction rates and depletion of SO4
2– in the overlying water.Sulfate reduction rates in sediments of an oligotrophic moorland pool were estimated by diagenetic modelling and whole core35SO4
2– injection. Rates of SO4
2– consumption in the overlying water were estimated by changes in SO4
2– concentration over time in in situ enclosures. Reduction rates ranged from 0.27–11.2 mmol m–2 d–1. Rates of SO4
2– uptake from the enclosed water column varied from –0.5, –0.3 mmol m–2 d–1 (November) to 0.43–1.81 mmol m–2 d–1 (July, August and April). Maximum rates of oxidation to SO4
2– in July 1990 estimated by combination of SO4
2– reduction rates and rates of in situ SO4
2– uptake in the enclosed water column were 10.3 and 10.5 mmol m–2 d–1 at an organic rich and at a sandy site respectively.Experiments with35S2– and35SO4
2– tracer suggested (1) a rapid formation of organically bound S from dissimilatory reduced SO4
2– and (2) the presence of mainly non SO4
2–-S derived from reduced S transported from the sediment into the overlying water. A35S2– tracer experiment showed that about 7% of35S2– injected at 1 cm depth in a sediment core was recovered in the overlying water column.Sulfate reduction rates in sediments with higher volumetric mass fraction of organic matter did not significantly differ from those in sediments with a lower mass fraction of organic matter.Corresponding author 相似文献
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MARTIN CLÉMENT CAROLINE CHAMBERLAND JACQUELINE PÉRODIN RICHARD LEDUC GAÉTAN GUILLEMETTE EMANUEL ESCHER 《Journal of receptor and signal transduction research》2013,33(5-6):417-433
Several models of activation mechanisms were proposed for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), yet no direct methods exist for their elucidation. The availability of constitutively active mutants has given an opportunity to study active receptor conformations within acceptable limits using models such as the angiotensin II type 1 (AT1)1 receptor mutant N111G-hAT1 which displays an important constitutive activity. Recently, by using methionine proximity assay, we showed for the hAT1 receptor that TMD III, VI, and VII form the ligand-binding pocket of the C-terminal amino acid of an antagonistic AngII analogue. In the present contribution, we investigated whether the same residues would also constitute the ligand-binding contacts in constitutively activated mutant (CAM) receptors. For this purpose, the same Met mutagenesis strategy was carried out on the N111G double mutants. Analysis of 43 receptors mutants in the N111G-hAT1 series, photolabeled and CNBr digested, showed that there were only subtle structural changes between the wt-receptor and its constitutively active form. 相似文献
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Oylum Erkus Victor CL de Jager Maciej Spus Ingrid J van Alen-Boerrigter Irma MH van Rijswijck Lucie Hazelwood Patrick WM Janssen Sacha AFT van Hijum Michiel Kleerebezem Eddy J Smid 《The ISME journal》2013,7(11):2126-2136
Maintenance of a high degree of biodiversity in homogeneous environments is poorly understood. A complex cheese starter culture with a long history of use was characterized as a model system to study simple microbial communities. Eight distinct genetic lineages were identified, encompassing two species: Lactococcus lactis and Leuconostoc mesenteroides. The genetic lineages were found to be collections of strains with variable plasmid content and phage sensitivities. Kill-the-winner hypothesis explaining the suppression of the fittest strains by density-dependent phage predation was operational at the strain level. This prevents the eradication of entire genetic lineages from the community during propagation regimes (back-slopping), stabilizing the genetic heterogeneity in the starter culture against environmental uncertainty. 相似文献
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GUILLAUME TCHERKEZ RUDI SCHÄUFELE SALVADOR NOGUÉS CLÉMENT PIEL ARNOUD BOOM GARY LANIGAN CÉCILE BARBAROUX CATARINA MATA SLIMAN ELHANI DEBBIE HEMMING CHRISTINA MAGUAS DAN YAKIR FRANZ W. BADECK HOWARD GRIFFITHS HANS SCHNYDER JALEH GHASHGHAIE 《Plant, cell & environment》2010,33(6):900-913
While there is currently intense effort to examine the 13C signal of CO2 evolved in the dark, less is known on the isotope composition of day‐respired CO2. This lack of knowledge stems from technical difficulties to measure the pure respiratory isotopic signal: day respiration is mixed up with photorespiration, and there is no obvious way to separate photosynthetic fractionation (pure ci/ca effect) from respiratory effect (production of CO2 with a different δ13C value from that of net‐fixed CO2) at the ecosystem level. Here, we took advantage of new simple equations, and applied them to sunflower canopies grown under low and high [CO2]. We show that whole mesocosm‐respired CO2 is slightly 13C depleted in the light at the mesocosm level (by 0.2–0.8‰), while it is slightly 13C enriched in darkness (by 1.5–3.2‰). The turnover of the respiratory carbon pool after labelling appears similar in the light and in the dark, and accordingly, a hierarchical clustering analysis shows a close correlation between the 13C abundance in day‐ and night‐evolved CO2. We conclude that the carbon source for respiration is similar in the dark and in the light, but the metabolic pathways associated with CO2 production may change, thereby explaining the different 12C/13C respiratory fractionations in the light and in the dark. 相似文献
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MORAIS PAULO AMORIM ANTÓNIO VIEIRA DA SILVA CLÁUDIA RIBEIRO TERESA COSTA SANTOS JORGE AFONSO COSTA HELOÍSA 《Journal of genetics》2015,94(3):509-512
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Jonathan G. Pope Carol L. Vanderlugt Sandra M. Rahbe Howard L. Lipton Stephen D. Miller 《Journal of virology》1998,72(10):7762-7771
We examined the phenotype and function of cells infiltrating the central nervous system (CNS) of mice persistently infected with Theiler’s murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) for evidence that viral antigens are presented to T cells within the CNS. Expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II in the spinal cords of mice infected with TMEV was found predominantly on macrophages in demyelinating lesions. The distribution of I-As staining overlapped that of the macrophage marker sialoadhesin in frozen sections and coincided with that of another macrophage/microglial cell marker, F4/80, by flow cytometry. In contrast, astrocytes, identified by staining with glial fibrillary acidic protein, rarely expressed detectable MHC class II, although fibrillary gliosis associated with the CNS damage was clearly seen. The costimulatory molecules B7-1 and B7-2 were expressed on the surface of most MHC class II-positive cells in the CNS, at levels exceeding those found in the spleens of the infected mice. Immunohistochemistry revealed that B7-1 and B7-2 colocalized on large F4/80+ macrophages/microglia in the spinal cord lesions. In contrast, CD4+ T cells in the lesions expressed mainly B7-2, which was found primarily on blastoid CD4+ T cells located toward the periphery of the lesions. Most interestingly, plastic-adherent cells freshly isolated from the spinal cords of TMEV-infected mice were able to process and present TMEV and horse myoglobin to antigen-specific T-cell lines. Furthermore, these cells were able to activate a TMEV epitope-specific T-cell line in the absence of added antigen, providing conclusive evidence for the endogenous processing and presentation of virus epitopes within the CNS of persistently infected SJL/J mice.Theiler’s murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) is a picornavirus that induces a lifelong persistent central nervous system (CNS) infection leading to a chronic CNS demyelinating disease when inoculated intracerebrally into susceptible strains of mice. Infected mice develop progressive symptoms of gait disturbance, spastic hind limb paralysis, and urinary incontinence (39), histologically related to perivascular and parenchymal mononuclear cell infiltration and demyelination of white matter tracts within the spinal cord (8, 9, 38). Several lines of evidence have demonstrated that demyelination is immunologically mediated. These include the ability of nonspecific immunosuppression with cyclophosphamide (37), antithymocyte serum (36), and anti-CD4 or anti-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) (14, 16, 63) to inhibit or prevent disease and the ability of TMEV-specific tolerance to prevent induction of disease (28). In the highly susceptible SJL/J mouse strain, current evidence indicates that the myelin damage is initiated by TMEV-specific CD4+ T cells targeting virus antigen (16, 28, 45, 46, 54), while the chronic stage of the disease also involves CD4+ myelin epitope-specific T cells primed via epitope spreading (48). Thus, the immune response itself may be deleterious to CNS function, as exemplified in humans by multiple sclerosis (MS), for which TMEV infection serves as a model.The identity of the cells responsible for initiating and sustaining immune responses in the CNS remains controversial. The CNS lacks normal lymphatic circulation and tissue and is shielded from the systemic circulation by a specialized continuous vascular endothelium (6). There are specialized cells within the CNS with the potential to present antigens to T cells. In vitro, astrocytes (11, 59) and microglia (3, 13), particularly when treated with gamma interferon (IFN-γ), are capable of expressing MHC class II and presenting antigens to T cells. However, studies such as these have relied on the ability to isolate and continuously culture cells from neonatal or embryonic brain and have assumed that such cells are representative of the adult populations in vivo. Antigen presentation by neonatal cells in long-term culture may not faithfully reproduce the in vivo state in adult animals, as the ability of microglia directly isolated from adult rats to present myelin basic protein (MBP) to T-cell lines in vitro was found to differ from that of neonatally derived microglia (12). In addition, studies using allogeneic bone marrow chimeras between strains of mice or rats have generally supported the idea that cells of hematopoietic origin, i.e., microglia and macrophages, are the principal antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in the CNS active during the initiation of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) (20, 22, 50). Although they are much more abundant than microglia, astrocytes are less potent when inducing EAE in chimeras (50).The role of antigen presentation in the CNS during TMEV-induced demyelination has not been addressed directly. We previously showed that a relatively large fraction of the CD4+, but not CD8+, T cells isolated from the spinal cords of TMEV-infected mice expressed high-affinity interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor (IL-2R), a marker of recent T-cell activation. In addition, TMEV-specific CD4+ T cells could be demonstrated in the spinal cord infiltrates of TMEV-infected mice (54). This finding raises the possibility that T cells are locally activated within the target tissue and participate directly in the pathogenesis of disease. Macrophages (5, 41, 56), astrocytes (7, 56), and oligodendroglia (55, 56) in TMEV-infected mice contain virus and conceivably could present viral antigens to pathogenic CD4+ T cells within the CNS. Isolated microglia (34) and astrocytes (17) have been shown to support persistent viral infection in vitro, and astrocytes derived from neonatal mice have been shown to present TMEV to T cells in vitro (2). To examine whether CNS cells present viral antigens and participate in the pathogenesis of TMEV-induced demyelination, the expression of MHC class II and B7 costimulatory molecules was examined in detail. Based on our previous results showing that a large proportion of CD4+ T cells isolated from the CNS of TMEV-infected mice bear markers of recent activation, we also asked if mononuclear cells isolated from the CNS of TMEV-infected mice were capable of presenting viral antigens leading to the functional activation of Th1 lines in vitro. 相似文献
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Michael CW Chan Renee WY Chan Wendy CL Yu Carol CC Ho WH Chui CK Lo Kit M Yuen Yi Guan John M Nicholls JS Malik Peiris 《Respiratory research》2009,10(1):102