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Tarttelin EE Fransen MP Edwards PC Hankins MW Schertler GF Vogel R Lucas RJ Bellingham J 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2011,68(22):3713-3723
Photoreception by vertebrates enables both image-forming vision and non-image-forming responses such as circadian photoentrainment.
Over the recent years, distinct non-rod non-cone photopigments have been found to support circadian photoreception in diverse
species. By allowing specialization to this sensory task a selective advantage is implied, but the nature of that specialization
remains elusive. We have used the presence of distinct rod opsin genes specialized to either image-forming (retinal rod opsin)
or non-image-forming (pineal exo-rod opsin) photoreception in ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) to gain a unique insight into this problem. A comparison of biochemical features for these paralogous opsins in two model
teleosts, Fugu pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes) and zebrafish (Danio rerio), reveals striking differences. While spectral sensitivity is largely unaltered by specialization to the pineal environment,
in other aspects exo-rod opsins exhibit a behavior that is quite distinct from the cardinal features of the rod opsin family.
While they display a similar thermal stability, they show a greater than tenfold reduction in the lifetime of the signaling
active Meta II photoproduct. We show that these features reflect structural changes in retinal association domains of helices
3 and 5 but, interestingly, not at either of the two residues known to define these characteristics in cone opsins. Our findings
suggest that the requirements of non-image-forming photoreception have lead exo-rod opsin to adopt a characteristic that seemingly
favors efficient bleach recovery but not at the expense of absolute sensitivity. 相似文献
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James P. Garnett Daniela Braun Alex J. McCarthy Matthew R. Farrant Emma H. Baker Jodi A. Lindsay Deborah L. Baines 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2014,71(23):4665-4673
Hyperglycaemia as a result of diabetes mellitus or acute illness is associated with increased susceptibility to respiratory infection with Staphylococcus aureus. Hyperglycaemia increases the concentration of glucose in airway surface liquid (ASL) and promotes the growth of S. aureus in vitro and in vivo. Whether elevation of other sugars in the blood, such as fructose, also results in increased concentrations in ASL is unknown and whether sugars in ASL are directly utilised by S. aureus for growth has not been investigated. We obtained mutant S. aureus JE2 strains with transposon disrupted sugar transport genes. NE768(fruA) exhibited restricted growth in 10 mM fructose. In H441 airway epithelial-bacterial co-culture, elevation of basolateral sugar concentration (5–20 mM) increased the apical growth of JE2. However, sugar-induced growth of NE768(fruA) was significantly less when basolateral fructose rather than glucose was elevated. This is the first experimental evidence to show that S. aureus directly utilises sugars present in the ASL for growth. Interestingly, JE2 growth was promoted less by glucose than fructose. Net transepithelial flux of d-glucose was lower than d-fructose. However, uptake of d-glucose was higher than d-fructose across both apical and basolateral membranes consistent with the presence of GLUT1/10 in the airway epithelium. Therefore, we propose that the preferential uptake of glucose (compared to fructose) limits its accumulation in ASL. Pre-treatment with metformin increased transepithelial resistance and reduced the sugar-dependent growth of S. aureus. Thus, epithelial paracellular permeability and glucose transport mechanisms are vital to maintain low glucose concentration in ASL and limit bacterial nutrient sources as a defence against infection. 相似文献
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Jaeger E Webb E Howarth K Carvajal-Carmona L Rowan A Broderick P Walther A Spain S Pittman A Kemp Z Sullivan K Heinimann K Lubbe S Domingo E Barclay E Martin L Gorman M Chandler I Vijayakrishnan J Wood W Papaemmanuil E Penegar S Qureshi M;CORGI Consortium Farrington S Tenesa A Cazier JB Kerr D Gray R Peto J Dunlop M Campbell H Thomas H Houlston R Tomlinson I 《Nature genetics》2008,40(1):26-28
We mapped a high-penetrance gene (CRAC1; also known as HMPS) associated with colorectal cancer (CRC) in the Ashkenazi population to a 0.6-Mb region on chromosome 15 containing SCG5 (also known as SGNE1), GREM1 and FMN1. We hypothesized that the CRAC1 locus harbored low-penetrance variants that increased CRC risk in the general population. In a large series of colorectal cancer cases and controls, SNPs near GREM1 and SCG5 were strongly associated with increased CRC risk (for rs4779584, P = 4.44 x 10(-14)). 相似文献
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Delneri D Hoyle DC Gkargkas K Cross EJ Rash B Zeef L Leong HS Davey HM Hayes A Kell DB Griffith GW Oliver SG 《Nature genetics》2008,40(1):113-117
Using competition experiments in continuous cultures grown in different nutrient environments (glucose limited, ammonium limited, phosphate limited and white grape juice), we identified genes that show haploinsufficiency phenotypes (reduced growth rate when hemizygous) or haploproficiency phenotypes (increased growth rate when hemizygous). Haploproficient genes (815, 1,194, 733 and 654 in glucose-limited, ammonium-limited, phosphate-limited and white grape juice environments, respectively) frequently show that phenotype in a specific environmental context. For instance, genes encoding components of the ubiquitination pathway or the proteasome show haploproficiency in nitrogen-limited conditions where protein conservation may be beneficial. Haploinsufficiency is more likely to be observed in all environments, as is the case with genes determining polar growth of the cell. Haploproficient genes seem randomly distributed in the genome, whereas haploinsufficient genes (685, 765, 1,277 and 217 in glucose-limited, ammonium-limited, phosphate-limited and white grape juice environments, respectively) are over-represented on chromosome III. This chromosome determines a yeast's mating type, and the concentration of haploinsufficient genes there may be a mechanism to prevent its loss. 相似文献
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Tarpey PS Raymond FL Nguyen LS Rodriguez J Hackett A Vandeleur L Smith R Shoubridge C Edkins S Stevens C O'Meara S Tofts C Barthorpe S Buck G Cole J Halliday K Hills K Jones D Mironenko T Perry J Varian J West S Widaa S Teague J Dicks E Butler A Menzies A Richardson D Jenkinson A Shepherd R Raine K Moon J Luo Y Parnau J Bhat SS Gardner A Corbett M Brooks D Thomas P Parkinson-Lawrence E Porteous ME Warner JP Sanderson T Pearson P Simensen RJ Skinner C Hoganson G Superneau D Wooster R Bobrow M 《Nature genetics》2007,39(9):1127-1133
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Nicholas AK Khurshid M Désir J Carvalho OP Cox JJ Thornton G Kausar R Ansar M Ahmad W Verloes A Passemard S Misson JP Lindsay S Gergely F Dobyns WB Roberts E Abramowicz M Woods CG 《Nature genetics》2010,42(11):1010-1014
Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH) is a disorder of neurodevelopment resulting in a small brain. We identified WDR62 as the second most common cause of MCPH after finding homozygous missense and frame-shifting mutations in seven MCPH families. In human cell lines, we found that WDR62 is a spindle pole protein, as are ASPM and STIL, the MCPH7 and MCHP7 proteins. Mutant WDR62 proteins failed to localize to the mitotic spindle pole. In human and mouse embryonic brain, we found that WDR62 expression was restricted to neural precursors undergoing mitosis. These data lend support to the hypothesis that the exquisite control of the cleavage furrow orientation in mammalian neural precursor cell mitosis, controlled in great part by the centrosomes and spindle poles, is critical both in causing MCPH when perturbed and, when modulated, generating the evolutionarily enlarged human brain. 相似文献
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Zhang P Tevaarwerk E Park BN Savage DE Celler GK Knezevic I Evans PG Eriksson MA Lagally MG 《Nature》2006,439(7077):703-706
The widely used 'silicon-on-insulator' (SOI) system consists of a layer of single-crystalline silicon supported on a silicon dioxide substrate. When this silicon layer (the template layer) is very thin, the assumption that an effectively infinite number of atoms contributes to its physical properties no longer applies, and new electronic, mechanical and thermodynamic phenomena arise, distinct from those of bulk silicon. The development of unusual electronic properties with decreasing layer thickness is particularly important for silicon microelectronic devices, in which (001)-oriented SOI is often used. Here we show--using scanning tunnelling microscopy, electronic transport measurements, and theory--that electronic conduction in thin SOI(001) is determined not by bulk dopants but by the interaction of surface or interface electronic energy levels with the 'bulk' band structure of the thin silicon template layer. This interaction enables high-mobility carrier conduction in nanometre-scale SOI; conduction in even the thinnest membranes or layers of Si(001) is therefore possible, independent of any considerations of bulk doping, provided that the proper surface or interface states are available to enable the thermal excitation of 'bulk' carriers in the silicon layer. 相似文献