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A highly conserved nuclear gene for low-level phylogenetics: elongation factor-1 alpha recovers morphology-based tree for heliothine moths 总被引:8,自引:2,他引:6
Cho S; Mitchell A; Regier JC; Mitter C; Poole RW; Friedlander TP; Zhao S 《Molecular biology and evolution》1995,12(4):650-656
Molecular systematists need increased access to nuclear genes. Highly
conserved, low copy number protein-encoding nuclear genes have attractive
features for phylogenetic inference but have heretofore been applied mostly
to very ancient divergences. By virtue of their synonymous substitutions,
such genes should contain a wealth of information about lower-level
taxonomic relationships as well, with the advantage that amino acid
conservatism makes both alignment and primer definition straightforward. We
tested this postulate for the elongation factor-1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) gene
in the noctuid moth subfamily Heliothinae, which has probably diversified
since the middle Tertiary. We sequenced 1,240 bp in 18 taxa representing
heliothine groupings strongly supported by previous morphological and
allozyme studies. The single most parsimonious gene tree and the
neighbor-joining tree for all nucleotides show almost complete concordance
with the morphological tree. Homoplasy and pairwise divergence levels are
low, transition/transversion ratios are high, and phylogenetic information
is spread evenly across gene regions. The EF-1 alpha gene and presumably
other highly conserved genes hold much promise for phylogenetics of
Tertiary age eukaryote groups.
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AV Shevchenko IG Budzanivska TP Shevchenko VP Polischuk D Spaar 《Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection》2013,46(2):139-146
The work was focused on the investigation of possible dependencies between the development of viral infection in plants and the presence of high heavy metal concentrations in soil. Field experiments have been conducted in order to study the development of systemic tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) infection in Lycopersicon esculentum L. cv. Miliana plants under effect of separate salts of heavy metals Cu, Zn and Pb deposited in soil. As it is shown, simultaneous effect of viral infection and heavy metals in tenfold maximum permissible concentration leads to decrease of total chlorophyll content in experiment plants mainly due to the degradation of chlorophyll a. The reduction of chlorophyll concentration under the combined influence of both stress factors was more serious comparing to the separate effect of every single factor. Plants' treatment with toxic concentrations of lead and zinc leaded to slight delay in the development of systemic TMV infection together with more than twofold increase of virus content in plants that may be an evidence of synergism between these heavy metal's and virus' effects. Contrary, copper although decreased total chlorophyll content but showed protective properties and significantly reduced amount of virus in plants. 相似文献
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Amandine Maréchal Andrew M. Hartley Thomas P. Warelow Brigitte Meunier Peter R. Rich 《BBA》2018,1859(9):705-711
Redox and CO photolysis FTIR spectra of yeast cytochrome c oxidase WT and mutants are compared to those from bovine and P. denitrificans CcOs in order to establish common functional features. All display changes that can be assigned to their E242 (bovine numbering) equivalent and to weakly H-bonded water molecules. The additional redox-sensitive band reported at 1736?cm?1 in bovine CcO and previously assigned to D51 is absent from yeast CcO and couldn't be restored by introduction of a D residue at the equivalent position of the yeast protein. Redox spectra of yeast CcO also show much smaller changes in the amide I region, which may relate to structural differences in the region around D51 and the subunit I/II interface. 相似文献
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Inskeep WP Macur RE Hamamura N Warelow TP Ward SA Santini JM 《Environmental microbiology》2007,9(4):934-943
The arsenic (As) drinking water crisis in south and south-east Asia has stimulated intense study of the microbial processes controlling the redox cycling of As in soil-water systems. Microbial oxidation of arsenite is a critical link in the global As cycle, and phylogenetically diverse arsenite-oxidizing microorganisms have been isolated from various aquatic and soil environments. However, despite progress characterizing the metabolism of As in various pure cultures, no functional gene approaches have been developed to determine the importance and distribution of arsenite-oxidizing genes in soil-water-sediment systems. Here we report for the first time the successful amplification of arsenite oxidase-like genes (aroA/asoA/aoxB) from a variety of soil-sediment and geothermal environments where arsenite is known to be oxidized. Prior to the current work, only 16 aroA/asoA/aoxB-like gene sequences were available in GenBank, most of these being putative assignments from homology searches of whole genomes. Although aroA/asoA/aoxB gene sequences are not highly conserved across disparate phyla, degenerate primers were used successfully to characterize over 160 diverse aroA-like sequences from 10 geographically isolated, arsenic-contaminated sites and from 13 arsenite-oxidizing organisms. The primer sets were also useful for confirming the expression of aroA-like genes in an arsenite-oxidizing organism and in geothermal environments where arsenite is oxidized to arsenate. The phylogenetic and ecological diversity of aroA-like sequences obtained from this study suggests that genes for aerobic arsenite oxidation are widely distributed in the bacterial domain, are widespread in soil-water systems containing As, and play a critical role in the biogeochemical cycling of As. 相似文献
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Evidence for contractile protein translocation in macrophage spreading, phagocytosis, and phagolysosome formation 总被引:5,自引:4,他引:1 下载免费PDF全文
Macrophage pseudopodia that surround objects during phagocytosis contain a meshwork of actin filaments and exclude organelles. Between these pseudopodia at the base of developing phagosomes, the organelle exclusion ceases, and lysosomes enter the cell periphery to fuse with the phagosomes. Macrophages also extend hyaline pseudopodia on the surface of nylon wool fibers and secrete lysosomal enzymes into the extracellular medium instead of into phagosomes. To analyze biochemically these concurrent alterations in cytoplasmic architecture, we allowed rabbit lung macrophages to spread on nylon wool fibers and then subjected the adherent cells to shear. This procedure caused the selective release of β-glucoronidase into the extracellular medium and yielded two fractions, cell bodies and isolated pseudopod blebs resembling podosomes, which are plasma-lemma-bounded sacs of cortical cytoplasm. Cytoplasmic extracts of the cell bodies eluted from nylon fibers contained two-thirds less actin-binding protein and myosin, and approximately 20 percent less actin and two-thirds of the other two proteins were accounted for in podosomes. The alterations in protein composition correlated with assays of myosin-associated EDTA-activated adenosine triphosphatase activity, and with a diminution in the capacity of extracts of nylon wool fiber-treated cell bodies to gel, a property dependent on the interaction between actin-binding protein and F-actin. However, the capacity of the remaining actin in cell bodies to polymerize did not change. We propose that actin-binding protein and myosin are concentrated in the cell cortex and particularly in pseudopodia where prominent gelation and syneresis of actin occur. Actin in the regions from which actin-binding protein and myosin are displaced disaggregates without depolymerizing, permitting lysosomes to gain access to the plasmalemma. Translocation of contractile proteins could therefore account for the concomitant differences in organelle exclusion that characterize phagocytosis. 相似文献
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The high‐fidelity replicative DNA polymerases, Pol ε and Pol δ, are generally thought to be poorly equipped to replicate damaged DNA. Direct and complete replication of a damaged template therefore typically requires the activity of low‐fidelity translesion synthesis (TLS) polymerases. Here we show that a yeast replisome, reconstituted with purified proteins, is inherently tolerant of the common oxidative lesion thymine glycol (Tg). Surprisingly, leading‐strand Tg was bypassed efficiently in the presence and absence of the TLS machinery. Our data reveal that following helicase–polymerase uncoupling a switch from Pol ε, the canonical leading‐strand replicase, to the lagging‐strand replicase Pol δ, facilitates rapid, efficient and error‐free lesion bypass at physiological nucleotide levels. This replicase switch mechanism also promotes bypass of the unrelated oxidative lesion, 8‐oxoguanine. We propose that replicase switching may promote continued leading‐strand synthesis whenever the replisome encounters leading‐strand damage that is bypassed more efficiently by Pol δ than by Pol ε. 相似文献
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Parasites exert a selection pressure on their hosts and are accountable for driving diversity within gene families and immune
gene polymorphisms in a host population. The overwhelming response of regulatory T cells during infectious challenges directs
the host immune system to lose the ability to mount parasite specific T cell responses. The underlying idea of this study
is that regulatory single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) can cause significant changes in gene expression in functional immune
genes. We identified and investigated regulatory SNPs in the promoter region of the FOXP3 gene in a group of Gabonese individuals exposed to a variety of parasitic infections. We identified two novel and one promoter
variants in 40 individual subjects. We further validated these promoter variants for their allelic gene expression using transient
transfection assays. Two promoter variants, −794 (C/G) and the other variant −734/−540 (C/T) revealed a significant higher
expression of the reporter gene at basal level in comparison to the major allele. The identification of SNPs that modify function
in the promoter regions could provide a basis for studying parasite susceptibility in association studies. 相似文献
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Cytokine-inducible SRC homology 2 domain protein (CISH) is a suppressor of cytokine signaling that controls interleukin-2
signaling pathway. We investigated the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) -292A>T in 473 Vietnamese hepatitis B virus (HBV)
carriers and 416 healthy controls. CISH variants at -292A>T were associated to HBV infection (Allelic: OR, 1.22 95% CI, 1–1.49; P = 0.04; Recessive: OR, 1.69 95% CI 1.23–2.54; P = 0.007). A gene dose effect for the risk allele -292T was observed (P = 0.04). The level of interleukin 2 and liver enzymes such as alanine transaminase, aspartate transaminase, total bilirubin,
and direct bilirubin were not associated to CISH polymorphism at position -292A>T This study associated the vital role of CISH SNP -292A>T variant to hepatitis B virus infection in a Vietnamese population. 相似文献
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Zea ribosomal repeat evolution and substitution patterns 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Zea and Tripsacum nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS)
sequences were used to evaluate patterns of concerted evolution, rates of
substitutions, patterns of methylation-induced deamination, and structural
constraints of the ITS. ITS pseudogenes were identified by their
phylogenetic position, differences in nucleotide composition, extensive
deamination at ancestral methylation sites, and substitutions resulting in
low-stability secondary RNA structures. Selection was important in shaping
the kinds of polymorphisms and substitutions observed in the ITS. ITS
substitution rates were significantly different among the Zea taxa.
Deamination of cytosines at methylation sites was a potent mutation source,
but selection appeared to maintain high methylation site density throughout
the ribosomal repeat except for the gene promoter. Nucleotide divergence
statistics identified selectively constrained regions at the 5' ends of the
ITS1 and ITS2.
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Loss of phylogenetic information in chorion gene families of Bombyx mori gene conversion 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Regier JC; Weigmann BM; Leclerc RF; Friedlander TP 《Molecular biology and evolution》1994,11(1):72-87
The silkmoth chorion has provided a stimulating model for the study of
evolution and developmental regulation of gene families. Previous attempts
at inferring relationships among chorion sequences have been based on
pairwise comparisons of overall similarity, a potentially problematic
approach. To remedy this, we identified the alignable regions of low
sequence variability and then analyzed this restricted database by
parsimony and neighbor-joining methods. At the deepest level, the chorion
sequence tree is split into two branches, called "alpha" and "beta." Within
each branch, early- and late-expressing genes each constitute monophyletic
groups, while the situation with middle-expressing genes remains uncertain.
The HcB gene family appears to be the most basal beta-branch group, but
this conclusion is qualified because the effect of gene conversion on
branching order is unknown. Previous studies by Eickbush and colleagues
have strongly suggested that ErA, HcA, and HcB families undergo gene
conversion within a gene family, whereas the ErB family does not. The
occurrence of conversion correlates with a particular tree structure;
namely, branch lengths are much greater at the base of the family than at
higher internodes and terminal branches. These observations raise the
possibility that chorion gene families are defined by gene conversion
events (reticulate evolution) rather than by descent with modification
(synapomorphy).
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