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Hirschberg D Cederlund E Crosas B Jonsson A Tryggvason S Farrés J Parés X Bergman T Jörnvall H 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2001,58(9):1323-1326
A recent finding of a novel class of retinol-active alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) in frog prompted analysis of this activity in other vertebrate forms. Surprisingly, yet another and still more unrelated ADH was identified in chicken tissues. It was found to be a member of the aldo-keto reductase (AKR) enzyme family, not previously known as an ADH in vertebrates. Its terminal blocking group and the N-terminal segment, not assigned by protein and cDNA structure analysis, were determined by electrospray tandem mass spectrometry after protein isolation by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The N terminus is Acetyl-Ala- and the N-terminal segment contains two consecutive Asn residues. The results establish the new ADH enzyme of the AKR family and show the usefulness of combined gel separation and mass spectrometry in enzyme-characterization. 相似文献
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The ELF4-ELF3-LUX complex links the circadian clock to diurnal control of hypocotyl growth 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Nusinow DA Helfer A Hamilton EE King JJ Imaizumi T Schultz TF Farré EM Kay SA 《Nature》2011,475(7356):398-402
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About 25 per cent of 'hot Jupiters' (extrasolar Jovian-mass planets with close-in orbits) are actually orbiting counter to the spin direction of the star. Perturbations from a distant binary star companion can produce high inclinations, but cannot explain orbits that are retrograde with respect to the total angular momentum of the system. Such orbits in a stellar context can be produced through secular (that is, long term) perturbations in hierarchical triple-star systems. Here we report a similar analysis of planetary bodies, including both octupole-order effects and tidal friction, and find that we can produce hot Jupiters in orbits that are retrograde with respect to the total angular momentum. With distant stellar mass perturbers, such an outcome is not possible. With planetary perturbers, the inner orbit's angular momentum component parallel to the total angular momentum need not be constant. In fact, as we show here, it can even change sign, leading to a retrograde orbit. A brief excursion to very high eccentricity during the chaotic evolution of the inner orbit allows planet-star tidal interactions to rapidly circularize that orbit, decoupling the planets and forming a retrograde hot Jupiter. 相似文献
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Broadhead R Dawe HR Farr H Griffiths S Hart SR Portman N Shaw MK Ginger ML Gaskell SJ McKean PG Gull K 《Nature》2006,440(7081):224-227
The 9 + 2 microtubule axoneme of flagella and cilia represents one of the most iconic structures built by eukaryotic cells and organisms. Both unity and diversity are present among cilia and flagella on the evolutionary as well as the developmental scale. Some cilia are motile, whereas others function as sensory organelles and can variously possess 9 + 2 and 9 + 0 axonemes and other associated structures. How such unity and diversity are reflected in molecular repertoires is unclear. The flagellated protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, causing devastating disease in humans and other animals. There is little hope of a vaccine for African sleeping sickness and a desperate need for modern drug therapies. Here we present a detailed proteomic analysis of the trypanosome flagellum. RNA interference (RNAi)-based interrogation of this proteome provides functional insights into human ciliary diseases and establishes that flagellar function is essential to the bloodstream-form trypanosome. We show that RNAi-mediated ablation of various proteins identified in the trypanosome flagellar proteome leads to a rapid and marked failure of cytokinesis in bloodstream-form (but not procyclic insect-form) trypanosomes, suggesting that impairment of flagellar function may provide a method of disease control. A postgenomic meta-analysis, comparing the evolutionarily ancient trypanosome with other eukaryotes including humans, identifies numerous trypanosome-specific flagellar proteins, suggesting new avenues for selective intervention. 相似文献
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Summary Cultures of washed erythrocytes from rheumatoid arthritis patients and normal subjects were found to incorporate14C-thymidine,suggesting the presence of an L-form. The extent of the incorporation by erythrocytes from rheumatoid patients was more variable than that by erythrocytes from normal subjects, and correlated negatively with IgG measurements and white cell counts performed on the patients' bloods, although not with the clinical activity of the patients. 相似文献
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Homing of a gamma delta thymocyte subset with homogeneous T-cell receptors to mucosal epithelia 总被引:46,自引:0,他引:46
S Itohara A G Farr J J Lafaille M Bonneville Y Takagaki W Haas S Tonegawa 《Nature》1990,343(6260):754-757
In mice gamma delta T-cell populations with distinct T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoires and homing properties have been identified. Diversified populations are found in lymphoid organs and intestinal epithelia. By contrast, the gamma delta T-cells that have been found in the murine skin are homogeneous. They express a TCR consisting of one particular V gamma 5 and one particular V delta 1 chain and seem to originate from early fetal thymocytes. We have now systematically analysed many tissues by immunohistochemistry and TCR gene sequencing aided by the polymerase chain reaction. These studies revealed a second homogeneous gamma delta T-cell subset in epithelia not of the intestine and skin, but of the vagina, uterus and tongue. The TCR expressed by this gamma delta T-cell subset consists of the same V delta 1 chain. Cells that express this particular TCR have previously been shown to be positively selected in the late fetal thymus. 相似文献
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Fernández MR Porté S Crosas E Barberà N Farrés J Biosca JA Parés X 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2007,64(11):1419-1427
ζ-crystallins constitute a family of proteins with NADPH:quinone reductase activity found initially in mammalian lenses but
now known to be present in many other organisms and tissues. Few proteins from this family have been characterized, and their
function remains unclear. In the present work, ζ-crystallins from human and yeast (Zta1p) were expressed, purified and characterized.
Both enzymes are able to reduce ortho-quinones in the presence of NADPH but are not active with 2-alkenals. Deletion of the ZTA1 gene makes yeast more sensitive to menadione and hydrogen peroxide, suggesting a role in the oxidative stress response. The
human and yeast enzymes specifically bind to adenine-uracil rich elements (ARE) in RNA, indicating that both enzymes are ARE-binding
proteins and that this property has been conserved in ζ-crystallins throughout evolution. This supports a role for ζ-crystallins
as trans-acting factors that could regulate the turnover of certain mRNAs.
Received 21 February 2007; received after revision 16 April 2007; accepted 23 April 2007
M. R. Fernández, S. Porté: These authors contributed equally to this work. 相似文献
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Farr AD 《Annals of science》1983,40(2):159-177
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TCP1 complex is a molecular chaperone in tubulin biogenesis. 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
A role in folding of newly translated proteins in the cytosol of eukaryotes has been proposed for t-complex polypeptide-1 (TCP1), although its molecular targets have not yet been identified. Tubulin is a major cytosolic protein whose assembly into microtubules is critical to many cellular processes. Although numerous studies have focused on the expression of tubulin, little is known about the processes whereby newly translated tubulin subunits acquire conformations that enable them to form alpha-beta-heterodimers. We examined the biogenesis of alpha- and beta-tubulin in rabbit reticulocyte lysate, and report here that newly translated tubulin subunits entered a 900K complex in a protease-sensitive conformation. Addition of Mg-ATP, but not nonhydrolysable analogues, released the tubulin subunits as assembly-competent protein with a conformation that was relatively protease-resistant. The 900K complex purified from reticulocyte lysate contained as its major constituent a 58K protein that cross-reacted with a monoclonal antiserum against mouse TCP1. We conclude that TCP1 functions as a cytosolic chaperone in the biogenesis of tubulin. 相似文献