This article presents a community learning model formulated by Engineers Without Borders Colombia with the aim of providing communities with tools to create sustainable productive solutions which have relevancy for members and for potential customers. The goal of this formulation is to promote learning processes that are guided by decisions made by community members to propose sustainable and replicable initiatives. The model applicability is evidenced through a case study devoted to strengthening community-led green businesses in the Guavio Province, Colombia by collecting lessons and conclusions. Ultimately, this collection will prove useful in replicating the learning model in other similar rural communities.
Most living organisms show circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior. These oscillations are generated by endogenous circadian clocks, present in virtually all cells where they control key biological processes. To study peripheral clocks in vivo, we developed an original model, the Rev-Luc mouse to follow noninvasively and longitudinally Rev-Luc oscillations in peripheral clocks using in vivo bioluminescence imaging. We found in vitro and in vivo a robust diurnal rhythm of Rev-Luc, mainly in liver, intestine, kidney and adipose tissues. We further confirmed in vivo that Rev-Luc peripheral tissues are food-entrainable oscillators, not affected by age or sex. These data strongly support the relevance of the Rev-Luc model for circadian studies, especially to investigate in vivo the establishment and the entrainment of the rhythm throughout ontogenesis. We then showed that Rev-Luc expression develops dynamically and gradually, both in amplitude and in phase, during fetal and postnatal development. We also demonstrate for the first time that the immature peripheral circadian system of offspring in utero is mainly entrained by maternal cues from feeding regimen. The prenatal entrainment will also differentially determine the Rev-Luc expression in pups before weaning underlining the importance of the maternal chrononutrition on the circadian system entrainment of the offspring. 相似文献
The autosomal recessive disorder Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, characterized by bone marrow failure and leukemia predisposition, is caused by deficiency of the highly conserved Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond syndrome (SBDS) protein. Here, we identify the function of the yeast SBDS ortholog Sdo1, showing that it is critical for the release and recycling of the nucleolar shuttling factor Tif6 from pre-60S ribosomes, a key step in 60S maturation and translational activation of ribosomes. Using genome-wide synthetic genetic array mapping, we identified multiple TIF6 gain-of-function alleles that suppressed the pre-60S nuclear export defects and cytoplasmic mislocalization of Tif6 observed in sdo1Delta cells. Sdo1 appears to function within a pathway containing elongation factor-like 1, and together they control translational activation of ribosomes. Thus, our data link defective late 60S ribosomal subunit maturation to an inherited bone marrow failure syndrome associated with leukemia predisposition. 相似文献
The metabolism of all-trans- and 9-cis-retinol/ retinaldehyde has been investigated with focus on the activities of human, mouse and rat alcohol dehydrogenase 2
(ADH2), an intriguing enzyme with apparently different functions in human and rodents. Kinetic constants were determined with
an HPLC method and a structural approach was implemented by in silico substrate dockings. For human ADH2, the determined Km values ranged from 0.05 to 0.3 μM and kcat values from 2.3 to 17.6 min−1, while the catalytic efficiency for 9-cis-retinol showed the highest value for any substrate. In contrast, poor activities
were detected for the rodent enzymes. A mouse ADH2 mutant (ADH2Pro47His) was studied that resembles the human ADH2 setup.
This mutation increased the retinoid activity up to 100-fold. The Km values of human ADH2 are the lowest among all known human retinol dehydrogenases, which clearly support a role in hepatic
retinol oxidation at physiological concentrations.
Received 12 October 2006; received after revision 6 December 2006; accepted 8 January 2007 相似文献
Summary By condensing 2:4:5-triamino-6-hydroxy-pyrimidine with dihydroxyacetone (diacetate), diaminoacetone or acetone-1,3-di (p-formylaminobenzoic acid) not the expected 8- or 9-oxymethyl resp. -aminomethyl-pteridines but 8-or 9-methyl-pteridines were obtained. With p-tolyl-d-isoglucosamine not a tetrahydroxybutyl-pteridine but a trihydroxybutyl-pteridine was formed. For an explanation of these results it is supposed that from the dihydro-pteridines formed at first by intramolecular splitting off of H2O or R·NH2 aromatization takes place. 相似文献
Glycosylation constitutes one of the most important posttranslational modifications employed by biological systems to modulate
protein biophysical properties. Due to the direct biochemical and biomedical implications of achieving control over protein
stability and function by chemical means, there has been great interest in recent years towards the development of chemical
strategies for protein glycosylation. Since current knowledge about glycoprotein biophysics has been mainly derived from the
study of naturally glycosylated proteins, chemical glycosylation provides novel insights into its mechanistic understanding
by affording control over glycosylation parameters. This review presents a survey of the effects that natural and chemical
glycosylation have on the fundamental biophysical properties of proteins (structure, dynamics, stability, and function). This
is complemented by a mechanistic discussion of how glycans achieve such effects and discussion of the implications of employing
chemical glycosylation as a tool to exert control over protein biophysical properties within biochemical and biomedical applications.
Received 15 December 2006; received after revision 28 March 2007; accepted 25 April 2007 相似文献
In agglomerative hierarchical clustering, pair-group methods suffer from a problem of non-uniqueness when two or more distances
between different clusters coincide during the amalgamation process. The traditional approach for solving this drawback has
been to take any arbitrary criterion in order to break ties between distances, which results in different hierarchical classifications
depending on the criterion followed. In this article we propose a variable-group algorithm that consists in grouping more
than two clusters at the same time when ties occur. We give a tree representation for the results of the algorithm, which
we call a multidendrogram, as well as a generalization of the Lance andWilliams’ formula which enables the implementation of the algorithm in a recursive
way.
The authors thank A. Arenas for discussion and helpful comments. This work was partially supported by DGES of the Spanish
Government Project No. FIS2006–13321–C02–02 and by a grant of Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 相似文献