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Martina Ferraguti Sergio Magallanes Jéssica Jiménez-Peñuela Josué Martínez-de la Puente Luz Garcia-Longoria Jordi Figuerola Jaime Muriel Tamer Albayrak Staffan Bensch Camille Bonneaud Rohan H. Clarke Gábor Á. Czirják Dimitar Dimitrov Kathya Espinoza John G. Ewen Farah Ishtiaq Wendy Flores-Saavedra László Zsolt Garamszegi Olof Hellgren Dita Horakova Kathryn P. Huyvaert Henrik Jensen Asta Križanauskienė Marcos R. Lima Charlene Lujan-Vega Eyðfinn Magnussen Lynn B. Martin Kevin D. Matson Anders Pape Møller Pavel Munclinger Vaidas Palinauskas Péter L. Pap Javier Pérez-Tris Swen C. Renner Robert Ricklefs Sergio Scebba Ravinder N. M. Sehgal Manuel Soler Eszter Szöllősi Gediminas Valkiūnas Helena Westerdahl Pavel Zehtindjiev Alfonso Marzal 《Global Ecology and Biogeography》2023,32(5):809-823
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The increasing spread of vector-borne diseases has resulted in severe health concerns for humans, domestic animals and wildlife, with changes in land use and the introduction of invasive species being among the main possible causes for this increase. We explored several ecological drivers potentially affecting the local prevalence and richness of avian malaria parasite lineages in native and introduced house sparrows (Passer domesticus) populations.Location
Global.Time period
2002–2019.Major taxa studied
Avian Plasmodium parasites in house sparrows.Methods
We analysed data from 2,220 samples from 69 localities across all continents, except Antarctica. The influence of environment (urbanization index and human density), geography (altitude, latitude, hemisphere) and time (bird breeding season and years since introduction) were analysed using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) and random forests.Results
Overall, 670 sparrows (30.2%) were infected with 22 Plasmodium lineages. In native populations, parasite prevalence was positively related to urbanization index, with the highest prevalence values in areas with intermediate urbanization levels. Likewise, in introduced populations, prevalence was positively associated with urbanization index; however, higher infection occurred in areas with either extreme high or low levels of urbanization. In introduced populations, the number of parasite lineages increased with altitude and with the years elapsed since the establishment of sparrows in a new locality. Here, after a decline in the number of parasite lineages in the first 30 years, an increase from 40 years onwards was detected.Main conclusions
Urbanization was related to parasite prevalence in both native and introduced bird populations. In invaded areas, altitude and time since bird introduction were related to the number of Plasmodium lineages found to be infecting sparrows. 相似文献3.
Renata Novakova Jana Bistakova Dagmar Homerova Bronislava Rezuchova Lubica Feckova Jan Kormanec 《DNA sequence》2004,15(3):188-195
We cloned a new polyketide gene cluster, aur2, in Streptomyces aureofaciens CCM3239. Sequence analysis of the 9531-bp DNA fragment revealed 10 open reading frames, majority of which showed high similarity to the previously characterized type II polyketide synthase (PKS) genes. An unusual feature of the aur2 cluster is a disconnected organization of minimal PKS genes; ACP is located apart from the genes for ketosynthases KSalpha and KSbeta. The aur2 gene cluster was disrupted in S. aureofaciens CCM3239 by a homologous recombination, replacing the four genes (aur2A, E, F, G) including ketosynthase KSalpha, with antibiotic resistance marker gene. The disruption did not affect growth and differentiation, and disrupted strain produced spores with wild-type grey-pink pigmentation. The biochromatographic analysis of the culture extracts from S. aureofaciens wild type and aur2-disrupted strains did not reveal any difference in the pattern of antibacterial compounds. 相似文献
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L. Horakova R. J. Schaur P. Balgavy G. Egger 《Redox report : communications in free radical research》2013,18(5):369-372
Stobadine, a pyridoindole derivative which has been synthesized in search of new antiarrhytmic drugs, was able to interact with alpha-diphenyl-beta-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH.) a stable free radical. Its scavenging potential was in the same order of magnitude as that of well known strong antioxidants. The scavenging effect of antioxidants tested increased in the order: stobadine, ascorbic acid, trolox, cysteine. Stobadine exerted a scavenging effect also towards alkoxyl radicals in a nonpolar solvent in the canthaxantin bleaching test. In this test stobadine was more effective than trolox. 相似文献
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Leyi Gong Xiaochun Han Tania Silva Yun-Chou Tan Bindu Goyal Parch Tivitmahaisoon Alejandra Trejo Wylie Palmer Heather Hogg Alam Jahagir Muzaffar Alam Paul Wagner Karin Stein Lubov Filonova Brad Loe Ferenc Makra David Rotstein Lubica Rapatova David Goldstein 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2013,23(12):3565-3569
A novel series of indole/indazole-aminopyrimidines was designed and synthesized with an aim to achieve optimal potency and selectivity for the c-Jun kinase family or JNKs. Structure guided design was used to optimize the series resulting in a significant potency improvement. The best compound (17) has IC50 of 3 nM for JNK1 and 20 nM for JNK2, with greater than 40-fold selectivity against other kinases with good physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties. 相似文献
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Dana Horakova Robert Zivadinov Bianca Weinstock-Guttman Eva Havrdova Jun Qu Miriam Tama?o-Blanco Darlene Badgett Michaela Tyblova Niels Bergsland Sara Hussein Laura Willis Jan Krasensky Manuela Vaneckova Zdenek Seidl Petra Lelkova Michael G. Dwyer Ming Zhang Haoying Yu Xiaotao Duan Tomas Kalincik Murali Ramanathan 《PloS one》2013,8(1)
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To investigate the associations of environmental MS risk factors with clinical and MRI measures of progression in high-risk clinically isolated syndromes (CIS) after the first demyelinating event.Methods
We analyzed 211 CIS patients (age: 28.9±7.8 years) enrolled in the SET study, a multi-center study of high-risk CIS patients. Pre-treatment samples were analyzed for IgG antibodies against cytomegalovirus (anti-CMV), Epstein Barr virus (EBV) early nuclear antigen-1 (EBNA-1), viral capsid antigen (VCA), early antigen-diffuse (EA-D), 25 hydroxy-vitamin D3 and cotinine levels and HLA DRB1*1501 status. The inclusion criteria required evaluation within 4 months of the initial demyelinating event, 2 or more brain MRI lesions and the presence of two or more oligoclonal bands in cerebrospinal fluid. All patients were treated with interferon-beta. Clinical and MRI assessments were obtained at baseline, 6, 12, and 24 months.Results
The time to first relapse decreased and the number of relapses increased with anti-CMV IgG positivity. Smoking was associated with increased number and volume of contrast-enhancing lesions (CEL) during the 2-year period. The cumulative number of CEL and T2 lesions during the 2-year period was greater for individuals in the highest quartile of anti-EBV VCA IgG antibodies. The percent loss of brain volume was increased for those in the highest quartile of with anti-EBV VCA IgG antibodies.Conclusions
Relapses in CIS patients were associated with CMV positivity whereas anti-EBV VCA positivity was associated with progression on MRI measures, including accumulation of CEL and T2 lesions and development of brain atrophy. 相似文献7.
Transgenic Potatoes Expressing a Novel Cationic Peptide are Resistant to Late Blight and Pink Rot 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Potato is the world's largest non-cereal crop. Potato late blight is a pandemic, foliar wasting potato disease caused by Phytophthora infestans, which has become highly virulent, fungicide resistant, and widely disseminated. Similarly, fungicide resistant isolates of Phytophthora erythroseptica, which causes pink rot, have also become an economic scourge of potato tubers. Thus, an alternate, cost effective strategy for disease control has become an international imperative. Here we describe a strategy for engineering potato plants exhibiting strong protection against these exceptionally virulent pathogens without deleterious effects on plant yield or vigor. The small, naturally occurring antimicrobial cationic peptide, temporin A, was N-terminally modified (MsrA3) and expressed in potato plants. MsrA3 conveyed strong resistance to late blight and pink rot phytopathogens in addition to the bacterial pathogen Erwinia carotovora. Transgenic tubers remained disease-free during storage for more than 2 years. These results provide a timely, sustainable, effective, and environmentally friendly means of control of potato diseases while simultaneously preventing storage losses. 相似文献
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Contribution of single tryptophan residues to the fluorescence and stability of ribonuclease Sa
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Alston RW Urbanikova L Sevcik J Lasagna M Reinhart GD Scholtz JM Pace CN 《Biophysical journal》2004,87(6):4036-4047
Ribonuclease Sa (RNase Sa) contains no tryptophan (Trp) residues. We have added single Trp residues to RNase Sa at sites where Trp is found in four other microbial ribonucleases, yielding the following variants of RNase Sa: Y52W, Y55W, T76W, and Y81W. We have determined crystal structures of T76W and Y81W at 1.1 and 1.0 A resolution, respectively. We have studied the fluorescence properties and stabilities of the four variants and compared them to wild-type RNase Sa and the other ribonucleases on which they were based. Our results should help others in selecting sites for adding Trp residues to proteins. The most interesting findings are: 1), Y52W is 2.9 kcal/mol less stable than RNase Sa and the fluorescence intensity emission maximum is blue-shifted to 309 nm. Only a Trp in azurin is blue-shifted to a greater extent (308 nm). This blue shift is considerably greater than observed for Trp71 in barnase, the Trp on which Y52W is based. 2), Y55W is 2.1 kcal/mol less stable than RNase Sa and the tryptophan fluorescence is almost completely quenched. In contrast, Trp59 in RNase T1, on which Y55W is based, has a 10-fold greater fluorescence emission intensity. 3), T76W is 0.7 kcal/mol more stable than RNase Sa, indicating that the Trp side chain has more favorable interactions with the protein than the threonine side chain. The fluorescence properties of folded Y76W are similar to those of the unfolded protein, showing that the tryptophan side chain in the folded protein is largely exposed to solvent. This is confirmed by the crystal structure of the T76W which shows that the side chain of the Trp is only approximately 7% buried. 4), Y81W is 0.4 kcal/mol less stable than RNase Sa. Based on the crystal structure of Y81W, the side chain of the Trp is 87% buried. Although all of the Trp side chains in the variants contribute to the unusual positive circular dichroism band observed near 235 nm for RNase Sa, the contribution is greatest for Y81W. 相似文献
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Silverman JM Clos J Horakova E Wang AY Wiesgigl M Kelly I Lynn MA McMaster WR Foster LJ Levings MK Reiner NE 《Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)》2010,185(9):5011-5022
We investigated the properties of leishmania exosomes with respect to influencing innate and adaptive immune responses. Exosomes from Leishmania donovani modulated human monocyte cytokine responses to IFN-γ in a bimodal fashion by promoting IL-10 production and inhibiting that of TNF-α. Moreover, these vesicles were inhibitory with respect to cytokine responses (IL-12p70, TNF-α, and IL-10) by human monocyte-derived dendritic cells. Exosomes from wild-type (WT) L. donovani failed to prime monocyte-derived dendritic cells to drive the differentiation of naive CD4 T cells into IFN-γ-producing Th1 cells. In contrast, vesicles from heat shock protein (HSP)100(-/-) L. donovani showed a gain-of-function and proinflammatory phenotype and promoted the differentiation of naive CD4 lymphocytes into Th1 cells. Proteomic analysis showed that exosomes from WT and HSP100(-/-) leishmania had distinct protein cargo, suggesting that packaging of proteins into exosomes is dependent in part on HSP100. Treatment of C57BL/6 mice with WT L. donovani exosomes prior to challenge with WT organisms exacerbated infection and promoted IL-10 production in the spleen. In contrast, HSP100(-/-) exosomes promoted spleen cell production of IFN-γ and did not adversely affect hepatic parasite burdens. Furthermore, the proparasitic properties of WT exosomes were not species specific because BALB/c mice exposed to Leishmania major exosomes showed increased Th2 polarization and exacerbation of disease in response to infection with L. major. These findings demonstrate that leishmania exosomes are predominantly immunosuppressive. Moreover, to our knowledge, this is the first evidence to suggest that changes in the protein cargo of exosomes may influence the impact of these vesicles on myeloid cell function. 相似文献