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Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain hydrocarbons by marine sulphate-reducing bacteria 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Kniemeyer O Musat F Sievert SM Knittel K Wilkes H Blumenberg M Michaelis W Classen A Bolm C Joye SB Widdel F 《Nature》2007,449(7164):898-901
The short-chain hydrocarbons ethane, propane and butane are constituents of natural gas. They are usually assumed to be of thermochemical origin, but biological formation of ethane and propane has been also observed. Microbial utilization of short-chain hydrocarbons has been shown in some aerobic species but not in anaerobic species of bacteria. On the other hand, anaerobic utilization of short-chain hydrocarbons would in principle be expected because various anaerobic bacteria grow with higher homologues (> or =C(6)). Indeed, chemical analyses of hydrocarbon-rich habitats with limited or no access of oxygen indicated in situ biodegradation of short-chain hydrocarbons. Here we report the enrichment of sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) with such capacity from marine hydrocarbon seep areas. Propane or n-butane as the sole growth substrate led to sediment-free sulphate-reducing enrichment cultures growing at 12, 28 or 60 degrees C. With ethane, a slower enrichment with residual sediment was obtained at 12 degrees C. Isolation experiments resulted in a mesophilic pure culture (strain BuS5) that used only propane and n-butane (methane, isobutane, alcohols or carboxylic acids did not support growth). Complete hydrocarbon oxidation to CO2 and the preferential oxidation of 12C-enriched alkanes were observed with strain BuS5 and other cultures. Metabolites of propane included iso- and n-propylsuccinate, indicating a subterminal as well as an unprecedented terminal alkane activation with involvement of fumarate. According to 16S ribosomal RNA analyses, strain BuS5 affiliates with Desulfosarcina/Desulfococcus, a cluster of widespread marine SRB. An enrichment culture with propane growing at 60 degrees C was dominated by Desulfotomaculum-like SRB. Our results suggest that diverse SRB are able to thrive in seep areas and gas reservoirs on propane and butane, thus altering the gas composition and contributing to sulphide production. 相似文献
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In Thomas Thomson's System of chemistry of 1802 Bergman and Scheele are actually considered as creators of the analytical concept of an element. With regard to this, a detailed investigation of the work of Bergman and Scheele shows that Thomson's statement contains mistakes as well as inadmissable simplifications and generalizations. It is correct, however, that Bergman in 1774–1777 specifically anticipated in essential aspects the analytical element concept proposed by Lavoisier in 1787–1789. 相似文献
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Churchill GA Airey DC Allayee H Angel JM Attie AD Beatty J Beavis WD Belknap JK Bennett B Berrettini W Bleich A Bogue M Broman KW Buck KJ Buckler E Burmeister M Chesler EJ Cheverud JM Clapcote S Cook MN Cox RD Crabbe JC Crusio WE Darvasi A Deschepper CF Doerge RW Farber CR Forejt J Gaile D Garlow SJ Geiger H Gershenfeld H Gordon T Gu J Gu W de Haan G Hayes NL Heller C Himmelbauer H Hitzemann R Hunter K Hsu HC Iraqi FA Ivandic B Jacob HJ Jansen RC Jepsen KJ Johnson DK Johnson TE Kempermann G 《Nature genetics》2004,36(11):1133-1137
The goal of the Complex Trait Consortium is to promote the development of resources that can be used to understand, treat and ultimately prevent pervasive human diseases. Existing and proposed mouse resources that are optimized to study the actions of isolated genetic loci on a fixed background are less effective for studying intact polygenic networks and interactions among genes, environments, pathogens and other factors. The Collaborative Cross will provide a common reference panel specifically designed for the integrative analysis of complex systems and will change the way we approach human health and disease. 相似文献
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Leendertz FH Ellerbrok H Boesch C Couacy-Hymann E Mätz-Rensing K Hakenbeck R Bergmann C Abaza P Junglen S Moebius Y Vigilant L Formenty P Pauli G 《Nature》2004,430(6998):451-452
Infectious disease has joined habitat loss and hunting as threats to the survival of the remaining wild populations of great apes. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about the causative agents. We investigated an unusually high number of sudden deaths observed over nine months in three communities of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Ta? National Park, Ivory Coast. Here we report combined pathological, cytological and molecular investigations that identified Bacillus anthracis as the cause of death for at least six individuals. We show that anthrax can be found in wild non-human primates living in a tropical rainforest, a habitat not previously known to harbour B. anthracis. Anthrax is an acute disease that infects ruminants, but other mammals, including humans, can be infected through contacting or inhaling high doses of spores or by consuming meat from infected animals. Respiratory and gastrointestinal anthrax are characterized by rapid onset, fever, septicaemia and a high fatality rate without early antibiotic treatment. Our results suggest that epidemic diseases represent substantial threats to wild ape populations, and through bushmeat consumption also pose a hazard to human health. 相似文献
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Kobasa D Takada A Shinya K Hatta M Halfmann P Theriault S Suzuki H Nishimura H Mitamura K Sugaya N Usui T Murata T Maeda Y Watanabe S Suresh M Suzuki T Suzuki Y Feldmann H Kawaoka Y 《Nature》2004,431(7009):703-707
The 'Spanish' influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the most devastating outbreak of infectious disease in recorded history. At least 20 million people died from their illness, which was characterized by an unusually severe and rapid clinical course. The complete sequencing of several genes of the 1918 influenza virus has made it possible to study the functions of the proteins encoded by these genes in viruses generated by reverse genetics, a technique that permits the generation of infectious viruses entirely from cloned complementary DNA. Thus, to identify properties of the 1918 pandemic influenza A strain that might be related to its extraordinary virulence, viruses were produced containing the viral haemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) genes of the 1918 strain. The HA of this strain supports the pathogenicity of a mouse-adapted virus in this animal. Here we demonstrate that the HA of the 1918 virus confers enhanced pathogenicity in mice to recent human viruses that are otherwise non-pathogenic in this host. Moreover, these highly virulent recombinant viruses expressing the 1918 viral HA could infect the entire lung and induce high levels of macrophage-derived chemokines and cytokines, which resulted in infiltration of inflammatory cells and severe haemorrhage, hallmarks of the illness produced during the original pandemic. 相似文献
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Quesada V Conde L Villamor N Ordóñez GR Jares P Bassaganyas L Ramsay AJ Beà S Pinyol M Martínez-Trillos A López-Guerra M Colomer D Navarro A Baumann T Aymerich M Rozman M Delgado J Giné E Hernández JM González-Díaz M Puente DA Velasco G Freije JM Tubío JM Royo R Gelpí JL Orozco M Pisano DG Zamora J Vázquez M Valencia A Himmelbauer H Bayés M Heath S Gut M Gut I Estivill X López-Guillermo A Puente XS Campo E López-Otín C 《Nature genetics》2012,44(1):47-52
Here we perform whole-exome sequencing of samples from 105 individuals with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most frequent leukemia in adults in Western countries. We found 1,246 somatic mutations potentially affecting gene function and identified 78 genes with predicted functional alterations in more than one tumor sample. Among these genes, SF3B1, encoding a subunit of the spliceosomal U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP), is somatically mutated in 9.7% of affected individuals. Further analysis in 279 individuals with CLL showed that SF3B1 mutations were associated with faster disease progression and poor overall survival. This work provides the first comprehensive catalog of somatic mutations in CLL with relevant clinical correlates and defines a large set of new genes that may drive the development of this common form of leukemia. The results reinforce the idea that targeting several well-known genetic pathways, including mRNA splicing, could be useful in the treatment of CLL and other malignancies. 相似文献
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The central nervous system (CNS) is considered an immune-privileged organ that maintains an adaptable immune surveillance
system. Dysregulated immune function within the CNS contributes to the development of brain tumor growth, and robust immune
activation results in excessive inflammation. Human lymphocyte antigen-G (HLA-G) proteins with tolerogenic immunoreactivity
have been implicated in various pathophysiological processes including immune surveillance, governing homeostasis and immune
regulation. In this review, we describe the wealth of evidence for the involvement of HLA-G in the CNS under physiological
and pathological conditions. Further, we review regulatory functions that may be applicable as beneficial strategies in the
therapeutic manipulation of immune-mediated CNS immune responses. Additionally, we try to understand how this molecule cooperates
with other CNS-resident cells to maintain normal immune homeostasis, while still facilitating the development of the appropriate
immune responses. 相似文献
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Wiesner T Obenauf AC Murali R Fried I Griewank KG Ulz P Windpassinger C Wackernagel W Loy S Wolf I Viale A Lash AE Pirun M Socci ND Rütten A Palmedo G Abramson D Offit K Ott A Becker JC Cerroni L Kutzner H Bastian BC Speicher MR 《Nature genetics》2011,43(10):1018-1021
Common acquired melanocytic nevi are benign neoplasms that are composed of small, uniform melanocytes and are typically present as flat or slightly elevated pigmented lesions on the skin. We describe two families with a new autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by multiple, skin-colored, elevated melanocytic tumors. In contrast to common acquired nevi, the melanocytic neoplasms in affected family members ranged histopathologically from epithelioid nevi to atypical melanocytic proliferations that showed overlapping features with melanoma. Some affected individuals developed uveal or cutaneous melanomas. Segregating with this phenotype, we found inactivating germline mutations of BAP1, which encodes a ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase. The majority of melanocytic neoplasms lost the remaining wild-type allele of BAP1 by various somatic alterations. In addition, we found BAP1 mutations in a subset of sporadic melanocytic neoplasms showing histological similarities to the familial tumors. These findings suggest that loss of BAP1 is associated with a clinically and morphologically distinct type of melanocytic neoplasm. 相似文献
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Werner E. G. Müller Maximilian Ackermann Shunfeng Wang Meik Neufurth Rafael Muñoz-Espí Qingling Feng Heinz C. Schröder Xiaohong Wang 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2018,75(1):21-32
In this study, the effect of inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) on the initial phase of angiogenesis and vascularization was investigated, applying the HUVEC cell tube formation assay. PolyP is a physiological and high energy phosphate polymer which has been proposed to act as a metabolic fuel in the extracellular space with only a comparably low ATP content. The experiments revealed that polyP accelerates tube formation of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), seeded onto a solidified basement membrane extract matrix which contains polyP-metabolizing alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity. This effect is abolished by co-addition of apyrase, which degrades ATP to AMP and inorganic phosphate. The assumption that ATP, derived from polyP, activates HUVEC cells leading to tube formation was corroborated by experiments showing that addition of polyP to the cells causes a strong rise of ATP level in the culture medium. Finally, we show that at a later stage of cultivation of HUVEC cells, after 3 d, polyP causes a strong enhancement of the expression of the genes encoding for the two major matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) released by endothelial cells during tube formation, MMP-9 and MMP-2. This stimulatory effect is again abrogated by addition of apyrase together with polyP. From these results, we propose that polyP is involved either directly or indirectly in energy supply, via ALP-mediated transfer of energy-rich phosphate under ATP formation. This ATP is utilized for the activation and oriented migration of endothelial cells and for the matrix organization during the initial phases of tube formation. 相似文献