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The composition of the gut microbiota is in constant flow under the influence of factors such as the diet, ingested drugs, the intestinal mucosa, the immune system, and the microbiota itself. Natural variations in the gut microbiota can deteriorate to a state of dysbiosis when stress conditions rapidly decrease microbial diversity and promote the expansion of specific bacterial taxa. The mechanisms underlying intestinal dysbiosis often remain unclear given that combinations of natural variations and stress factors mediate cascades of destabilizing events. Oxidative stress, bacteriophages induction and the secretion of bacterial toxins can trigger rapid shifts among intestinal microbial groups thereby yielding dysbiosis. A multitude of diseases including inflammatory bowel diseases but also metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes type II are associated with intestinal dysbiosis. The characterization of the changes leading to intestinal dysbiosis and the identification of the microbial taxa contributing to pathological effects are essential prerequisites to better understand the impact of the microbiota on health and disease. 相似文献
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Edouard T Montagner A Dance M Conte F Yart A Parfait B Tauber M Salles JP Raynal P 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2007,64(13):1585-1590
Activating and inactivating mutations of SHP-2 are responsible, respectively, for the Noonan (NS) and the LEOPARD (LS) syndromes.
Clinically, these developmental disorders overlap greatly, resulting in the apparent paradox of similar diseases caused by
mutations that oppositely influence SHP-2 phosphatase activity. While the mechanisms remain unclear, recent functional analysis
of SHP-2, along with the identification of other genes involved in NS and in other related syndromes (neurofibromatosis-1,
Costello and cardio-facio-cutaneous syndromes), strongly suggest that Ras/MAPK represents the major signaling pathway deregulated
by SHP-2 mutants. We discuss the idea that, with the exception of LS mutations that have been shown to exert a dominant negative
effect, all disease-causing mutations involved in Ras/MAPK-mediated signaling, including SHP-2, might lead to enhanced MAPK
activation. This suggests that a narrow range of MAPK signaling is required for appropriate development. We also discuss the
possibility that LS mutations may not simply exhibit dominant negative activity.
Received 30 November 2006; received after revision 8 February 2007; accepted 13 March 2007 相似文献
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Lahaye T Koch T Fröhlich B Fattori M Metz J Griesmaier A Giovanazzi S Pfau T 《Nature》2007,448(7154):672-675
Symmetry-breaking interactions have a crucial role in many areas of physics, ranging from classical ferrofluids to superfluid (3)He and d-wave superconductivity. For superfluid quantum gases, a variety of new physical phenomena arising from the symmetry-breaking interaction between electric or magnetic dipoles are expected. Novel quantum phases in optical lattices, such as chequerboard or supersolid phases, are predicted for dipolar bosons. Dipolar interactions can also enrich considerably the physics of quantum gases with internal degrees of freedom. Arrays of dipolar particles could be used for efficient quantum information processing. Here we report the realization of a chromium Bose-Einstein condensate with strong dipolar interactions. By using a Feshbach resonance, we reduce the usual isotropic contact interaction, such that the anisotropic magnetic dipole-dipole interaction between 52Cr atoms becomes comparable in strength. This induces a change of the aspect ratio of the atom cloud; for strong dipolar interactions, the inversion of ellipticity during expansion (the usual 'smoking gun' evidence for a Bose-Einstein condensate) can be suppressed. These effects are accounted for by taking into account the dipolar interaction in the superfluid hydrodynamic equations governing the dynamics of the gas, in the same way as classical ferrofluids can be described by including dipolar terms in the classical hydrodynamic equations. Our results are a first step in the exploration of the unique properties of quantum ferrofluids. 相似文献
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Morelli G Song Y Mazzoni CJ Eppinger M Roumagnac P Wagner DM Feldkamp M Kusecek B Vogler AJ Li Y Cui Y Thomson NR Jombart T Leblois R Lichtner P Rahalison L Petersen JM Balloux F Keim P Wirth T Ravel J Yang R Carniel E Achtman M 《Nature genetics》2010,42(12):1140-1143
Plague is a pandemic human invasive disease caused by the bacterial agent Yersinia pestis. We here report a comparison of 17 whole genomes of Y. pestis isolates from global sources. We also screened a global collection of 286 Y. pestis isolates for 933 SNPs using Sequenom MassArray SNP typing. We conducted phylogenetic analyses on this sequence variation dataset, assigned isolates to populations based on maximum parsimony and, from these results, made inferences regarding historical transmission routes. Our phylogenetic analysis suggests that Y. pestis evolved in or near China and spread through multiple radiations to Europe, South America, Africa and Southeast Asia, leading to country-specific lineages that can be traced by lineage-specific SNPs. All 626 current isolates from the United States reflect one radiation, and 82 isolates from Madagascar represent a second radiation. Subsequent local microevolution of Y. pestis is marked by sequential, geographically specific SNPs. 相似文献
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Yun BW Feechan A Yin M Saidi NB Le Bihan T Yu M Moore JW Kang JG Kwon E Spoel SH Pallas JA Loake GJ 《Nature》2011,478(7368):264-268
Changes in redox status are a conspicuous feature of immune responses in a variety of eukaryotes, but the associated signalling mechanisms are not well understood. In plants, attempted microbial infection triggers the rapid synthesis of nitric oxide and a parallel accumulation of reactive oxygen intermediates, the latter generated by NADPH oxidases related to those responsible for the pathogen-activated respiratory burst in phagocytes. Both nitric oxide and reactive oxygen intermediates have been implicated in controlling the hypersensitive response, a programmed execution of plant cells at sites of attempted infection. However, the molecular mechanisms that underpin their function and coordinate their synthesis are unknown. Here we show genetic evidence that increases in cysteine thiols modified using nitric oxide, termed S-nitrosothiols, facilitate the hypersensitive response in the absence of the cell death agonist salicylic acid and the synthesis of reactive oxygen intermediates. Surprisingly, when concentrations of S-nitrosothiols were high, nitric oxide function also governed a negative feedback loop limiting the hypersensitive response, mediated by S-nitrosylation of the NADPH oxidase, AtRBOHD, at Cys 890, abolishing its ability to synthesize reactive oxygen intermediates. Accordingly, mutation of Cys 890 compromised S-nitrosothiol-mediated control of AtRBOHD activity, perturbing the magnitude of cell death development. This cysteine is evolutionarily conserved and specifically S-nitrosylated in both human and fly NADPH oxidase, suggesting that this mechanism may govern immune responses in both plants and animals. 相似文献
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Ectopic beta-chain of ATP synthase is an apolipoprotein A-I receptor in hepatic HDL endocytosis 总被引:12,自引:0,他引:12
Martinez LO Jacquet S Esteve JP Rolland C Cabezón E Champagne E Pineau T Georgeaud V Walker JE Tercé F Collet X Perret B Barbaras R 《Nature》2003,421(6918):75-79
The effect of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in protecting against atherosclerosis is usually attributed to its role in 'reverse cholesterol transport'. In this process, HDL particles mediate the efflux and the transport of cholesterol from peripheral cells to the liver for further metabolism and bile excretion. Thus, cell-surface receptors for HDL on hepatocytes are chief partners in the regulation of cholesterol homeostasis. A high-affinity HDL receptor for apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) was previously identified on the surface of hepatocytes. Here we show that this receptor is identical to the beta-chain of ATP synthase, a principal protein complex of the mitochondrial inner membrane. Different experimental approaches confirm this ectopic localization of components of the ATP synthase complex and the presence of ATP hydrolase activity at the hepatocyte cell surface. Receptor stimulation by apoA-I triggers the endocytosis of holo-HDL particles (protein plus lipid) by a mechanism that depends strictly on the generation of ADP. We confirm this effect on endocytosis in perfused rat liver ex vivo by using a specific inhibitor of ATP synthase. Thus, membrane-bound ATP synthase has a previously unsuspected role in modulating the concentrations of extracellular ADP and is regulated by a principal plasma apolipoprotein. 相似文献
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Mammalian genomes contain two main classes of retrotransposons, the well-characterized long and short interspersed nuclear elements, which account for approximately 30% of the genome, and the long terminal repeat (LTR) retrotransposons, which resemble the proviral integrated form of retroviruses, except for the absence of an envelope gene in some cases. Genetic studies confirmed mobility of the latter class of elements in mice, with a high proportion of phenotypic mutations consequent to transposition of the intracisternal A particle (IAP) family of LTR retrotransposons. Using the mouse genome sequence and an efficient ex vivo retrotransposition assay, we identified functional, master IAP copies that encode all the enzymatic and structural proteins necessary for their autonomous transposition in heterologous cells. By introducing mutations, we found that the three genes gag, prt and pol are all required for retrotransposition and identified the IAP gene products by electron microscopy in the form of intracellular A-type particles in the transfected cells. These prototypic elements, devoid of an envelope gene, are the first LTR retrotransposons autonomous for transposition to be identified in mammals. Their high rates of retrotransposition indicate that they are potent insertional mutagens that could serve as safe (noninfectious) genetic tools in a large panel of cells. 相似文献
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Léveillard T Mohand-Saïd S Lorentz O Hicks D Fintz AC Clérin E Simonutti M Forster V Cavusoglu N Chalmel F Dollé P Poch O Lambrou G Sahel JA 《Nature genetics》2004,36(7):755-759
Retinitis pigmentosa is an untreatable, inherited retinal disease that leads to blindness. The disease initiates with the loss of night vision due to rod photoreceptor degeneration, followed by irreversible, progressive loss of cone photoreceptor. Cone loss is responsible for the main visual handicap, as cones are essential for day and high-acuity vision. Their loss is indirect, as most genes associated with retinitis pigmentosa are not expressed by these cells. We previously showed that factors secreted from rods are essential for cone viability. Here we identified one such trophic factor by expression cloning and named it rod-derived cone viability factor (RdCVF). RdCVF is a truncated thioredoxin-like protein specifically expressed by photoreceptors. The identification of this protein offers new treatment possibilities for retinitis pigmentosa. 相似文献
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Meriem El Ghachi Nicole Howe Rodolphe Auger Alexandre Lambion Annick Guiseppi François Delbrassine Guillaume Manat Sophie Roure Sabine Peslier Eric Sauvage Lutz Vogeley Juan-Carlos Rengifo-Gonzalez Paulette Charlier Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx Maryline Foglino Thierry Touzé Martin Caffrey Frédéric Kerff 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2017,74(12):2319-2332
Type 2 phosphatidic acid phosphatases (PAP2s) can be either soluble or integral membrane enzymes. In bacteria, integral membrane PAP2s play major roles in the metabolisms of glycerophospholipids, undecaprenyl-phosphate (C55-P) lipid carrier and lipopolysaccharides. By in vivo functional experiments and biochemical characterization we show that the membrane PAP2 coded by the Bacillus subtilis yodM gene is the principal phosphatidylglycerol phosphate (PGP) phosphatase of B. subtilis. We also confirm that this enzyme, renamed bsPgpB, has a weaker activity on C55-PP. Moreover, we solved the crystal structure of bsPgpB at 2.25 Å resolution, with tungstate (a phosphate analog) in the active site. The structure reveals two lipid chains in the active site vicinity, allowing for PGP substrate modeling and molecular dynamic simulation. Site-directed mutagenesis confirmed the residues important for substrate specificity, providing a basis for predicting the lipids preferentially dephosphorylated by membrane PAP2s. 相似文献