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Alteration in crossbridge kinetics caused by mutations in actin 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
The generation of force during muscle contraction results from the interaction of myosin and actin. The kinetics of this force generation vary between different muscle types and within the same muscle type in different species. Most attention has focused on the role of myosin isoforms in determining these differences. The role of actin isoforms has received little attention, largely because of the lack of a suitable cell type in which the myosin isoform remains constant yet the actin isoforms vary. An alternative approach would be to examine the effect of actin mutations, however, most of these cause such gross disruption of muscle structure that mechanical measurements are impossible. We have now identified two actin mutations which, despite involving conserved amino acids, can assemble into virtually normal myofibrils. These amino-acid changes in actin significantly affect the kinetics of force generation by muscle fibres. One of the mutations is not in the putative myosin-binding site, demonstrating the importance of long-range effects of amino acids on actin function. 相似文献
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Mills RE Walter K Stewart C Handsaker RE Chen K Alkan C Abyzov A Yoon SC Ye K Cheetham RK Chinwalla A Conrad DF Fu Y Grubert F Hajirasouliha I Hormozdiari F Iakoucheva LM Iqbal Z Kang S Kidd JM Konkel MK Korn J Khurana E Kural D Lam HY Leng J Li R Li Y Lin CY Luo R Mu XJ Nemesh J Peckham HE Rausch T Scally A Shi X Stromberg MP Stütz AM Urban AE Walker JA Wu J Zhang Y Zhang ZD Batzer MA Ding L Marth GT McVean G Sebat J Snyder M Wang J Ye K Eichler EE Gerstein MB Hurles ME Lee C McCarroll SA 《Nature》2011,470(7332):59-65
Genomic structural variants (SVs) are abundant in humans, differing from other forms of variation in extent, origin and functional impact. Despite progress in SV characterization, the nucleotide resolution architecture of most SVs remains unknown. We constructed a map of unbalanced SVs (that is, copy number variants) based on whole genome DNA sequencing data from 185 human genomes, integrating evidence from complementary SV discovery approaches with extensive experimental validations. Our map encompassed 22,025 deletions and 6,000 additional SVs, including insertions and tandem duplications. Most SVs (53%) were mapped to nucleotide resolution, which facilitated analysing their origin and functional impact. We examined numerous whole and partial gene deletions with a genotyping approach and observed a depletion of gene disruptions amongst high frequency deletions. Furthermore, we observed differences in the size spectra of SVs originating from distinct formation mechanisms, and constructed a map of SV hotspots formed by common mechanisms. Our analytical framework and SV map serves as a resource for sequencing-based association studies. 相似文献
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Changes in climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and fire regimes have been occurring for decades in the global boreal forest, with future climate change likely to increase fire frequency--the primary disturbance agent in most boreal forests. Previous attempts to assess quantitatively the effect of changing environmental conditions on the net boreal forest carbon balance have not taken into account the competition between different vegetation types on a large scale. Here we use a process model with three competing vascular and non-vascular vegetation types to examine the effects of climate, carbon dioxide concentrations and fire disturbance on net biome production, net primary production and vegetation dominance in 100 Mha of Canadian boreal forest. We find that the carbon balance of this region was driven by changes in fire disturbance from 1948 to 2005. Climate changes affected the variability, but not the mean, of the landscape carbon balance, with precipitation exerting a more significant effect than temperature. We show that more frequent and larger fires in the late twentieth century resulted in deciduous trees and mosses increasing production at the expense of coniferous trees. Our model did not however exhibit the increases in total forest net primary production that have been inferred from satellite data. We find that poor soil drainage decreased the variability of the landscape carbon balance, which suggests that increased climate and hydrological changes have the potential to affect disproportionately the carbon dynamics of these areas. Overall, we conclude that direct ecophysiological changes resulting from global climate change have not yet been felt in this large boreal region. Variations in the landscape carbon balance and vegetation dominance have so far been driven largely by increases in fire frequency. 相似文献
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Ellis PJ Peckham G Smith SD Houghton JT Morgan CG Rodgers CD Williamson EJ 《Nature》1970,228(5267):139-143
This article describes the temperature profiles through the atmosphere that are being obtained from the radiometer on Nimbus 4. 相似文献
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