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Many bacteria use extracellular signals to communicate and coordinate social activities, a process referred to as quorum sensing. Many quorum signals have significant hydrophobic character, and how these signals are trafficked between bacteria within a population is not understood. Here we show that the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa packages the signalling molecule 2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4-quinolone (pseudomonas quinolone signal; PQS) into membrane vesicles that serve to traffic this molecule within a population. Removal of these vesicles from the bacterial population halts cell-cell communication and inhibits PQS-controlled group behaviour. We also show that PQS actively mediates its own packaging and the packaging of other antimicrobial quinolines produced by P. aeruginosa into vesicles. These findings illustrate that a prokaryote possesses a signal trafficking system with features common to those used by higher organisms and outlines a novel mechanism for delivery of a signal critical for coordinating group behaviour in P. aeruginosa. 相似文献
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Genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi reveals adaptations to the marine environment 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Moran MA Buchan A González JM Heidelberg JF Whitman WB Kiene RP Henriksen JR King GM Belas R Fuqua C Brinkac L Lewis M Johri S Weaver B Pai G Eisen JA Rahe E Sheldon WM Ye W Miller TR Carlton J Rasko DA Paulsen IT Ren Q Daugherty SC Deboy RT Dodson RJ Durkin AS Madupu R Nelson WC Sullivan SA Rosovitz MJ Haft DH Selengut J Ward N 《Nature》2004,432(7019):910-913
Since the recognition of prokaryotes as essential components of the oceanic food web, bacterioplankton have been acknowledged as catalysts of most major biogeochemical processes in the sea. Studying heterotrophic bacterioplankton has been challenging, however, as most major clades have never been cultured or have only been grown to low densities in sea water. Here we describe the genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi, a member of the marine Roseobacter clade (Fig. 1), the relatives of which comprise approximately 10-20% of coastal and oceanic mixed-layer bacterioplankton. This first genome sequence from any major heterotrophic clade consists of a chromosome (4,109,442 base pairs) and megaplasmid (491,611 base pairs). Genome analysis indicates that this organism relies upon a lithoheterotrophic strategy that uses inorganic compounds (carbon monoxide and sulphide) to supplement heterotrophy. Silicibacter pomeroyi also has genes advantageous for associations with plankton and suspended particles, including genes for uptake of algal-derived compounds, use of metabolites from reducing microzones, rapid growth and cell-density-dependent regulation. This bacterium has a physiology distinct from that of marine oligotrophs, adding a new strategy to the recognized repertoire for coping with a nutrient-poor ocean. 相似文献
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Yokoyama S Woods SL Boyle GM Aoude LG MacGregor S Zismann V Gartside M Cust AE Haq R Harland M Taylor JC Duffy DL Holohan K Dutton-Regester K Palmer JM Bonazzi V Stark MS Symmons J Law MH Schmidt C Lanagan C O'Connor L Holland EA Schmid H Maskiell JA Jetann J Ferguson M Jenkins MA Kefford RF Giles GG Armstrong BK Aitken JF Hopper JL Whiteman DC Pharoah PD Easton DF Dunning AM Newton-Bishop JA Montgomery GW Martin NG Mann GJ Bishop DT Tsao H Trent JM Fisher DE Hayward NK Brown KM 《Nature》2011,480(7375):99-103
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Schmutz J Wheeler J Grimwood J Dickson M Yang J Caoile C Bajorek E Black S Chan YM Denys M Escobar J Flowers D Fotopulos D Garcia C Gomez M Gonzales E Haydu L Lopez F Ramirez L Retterer J Rodriguez A Rogers S Salazar A Tsai M Myers RM 《Nature》2004,429(6990):365-368
As the final sequencing of the human genome has now been completed, we present the results of the largest examination of the quality of the finished DNA sequence. The completed study covers the major contributing sequencing centres and is based on a rigorous combination of laboratory experiments and computational analysis. 相似文献
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The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 5 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Schmutz J Martin J Terry A Couronne O Grimwood J Lowry S Gordon LA Scott D Xie G Huang W Hellsten U Tran-Gyamfi M She X Prabhakar S Aerts A Altherr M Bajorek E Black S Branscomb E Caoile C Challacombe JF Chan YM Denys M Detter JC Escobar J Flowers D Fotopulos D Glavina T Gomez M Gonzales E Goodstein D Grigoriev I Groza M Hammon N Hawkins T Haydu L Israni S Jett J Kadner K Kimball H Kobayashi A Lopez F Lou Y Martinez D Medina C Morgan J Nandkeshwar R Noonan JP Pitluck S Pollard M Predki P 《Nature》2004,431(7006):268-274
Chromosome 5 is one of the largest human chromosomes and contains numerous intrachromosomal duplications, yet it has one of the lowest gene densities. This is partially explained by numerous gene-poor regions that display a remarkable degree of noncoding conservation with non-mammalian vertebrates, suggesting that they are functionally constrained. In total, we compiled 177.7 million base pairs of highly accurate finished sequence containing 923 manually curated protein-coding genes including the protocadherin and interleukin gene families. We also completely sequenced versions of the large chromosome-5-specific internal duplications. These duplications are very recent evolutionary events and probably have a mechanistic role in human physiological variation, as deletions in these regions are the cause of debilitating disorders including spinal muscular atrophy. 相似文献
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Frequent somatic mutations in MAP3K5 and MAP3K9 in metastatic melanoma identified by exome sequencing 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Stark MS Woods SL Gartside MG Bonazzi VF Dutton-Regester K Aoude LG Chow D Sereduk C Niemi NM Tang N Ellis JJ Reid J Zismann V Tyagi S Muzny D Newsham I Wu Y Palmer JM Pollak T Youngkin D Brooks BR Lanagan C Schmidt CW Kobe B MacKeigan JP Yin H Brown KM Gibbs R Trent J Hayward NK 《Nature genetics》2012,44(2):165-169
We sequenced eight melanoma exomes to identify new somatic mutations in metastatic melanoma. Focusing on the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase kinase kinase (MAP3K) family, we found that 24% of melanoma cell lines have mutations in the protein-coding regions of either MAP3K5 or MAP3K9. Structural modeling predicted that mutations in the kinase domain may affect the activity and regulation of these protein kinases. The position of the mutations and the loss of heterozygosity of MAP3K5 and MAP3K9 in 85% and 67% of melanoma samples, respectively, together suggest that the mutations are likely to be inactivating. In in vitro kinase assays, MAP3K5 I780F and MAP3K9 W333* variants had reduced kinase activity. Overexpression of MAP3K5 or MAP3K9 mutants in HEK293T cells reduced the phosphorylation of downstream MAP kinases. Attenuation of MAP3K9 function in melanoma cells using siRNA led to increased cell viability after temozolomide treatment, suggesting that decreased MAP3K pathway activity can lead to chemoresistance in melanoma. 相似文献
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Le Goff C Morice-Picard F Dagoneau N Wang LW Perrot C Crow YJ Bauer F Flori E Prost-Squarcioni C Krakow D Ge G Greenspan DS Bonnet D Le Merrer M Munnich A Apte SS Cormier-Daire V 《Nature genetics》2008,40(9):1119-1123
Geleophysic dysplasia is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by short stature, brachydactyly, thick skin and cardiac valvular anomalies often responsible for an early death. Studying six geleophysic dysplasia families, we first mapped the underlying gene to chromosome 9q34.2 and identified five distinct nonsense and missense mutations in ADAMTSL2 (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin repeats-like 2), which encodes a secreted glycoprotein of unknown function. Functional studies in HEK293 cells showed that ADAMTSL2 mutations lead to reduced secretion of the mutated proteins, possibly owing to the misfolding of ADAMTSL2. A yeast two-hybrid screen showed that ADAMTSL2 interacts with latent TGF-beta-binding protein 1. In addition, we observed a significant increase in total and active TGF-beta in the culture medium as well as nuclear localization of phosphorylated SMAD2 in fibroblasts from individuals with geleophysic dysplasia. These data suggest that ADAMTSL2 mutations may lead to a dysregulation of TGF-beta signaling and may be the underlying mechanism of geleophysic dysplasia. 相似文献
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Matsushita H Vesely MD Koboldt DC Rickert CG Uppaluri R Magrini VJ Arthur CD White JM Chen YS Shea LK Hundal J Wendl MC Demeter R Wylie T Allison JP Smyth MJ Old LJ Mardis ER Schreiber RD 《Nature》2012,482(7385):400-404
Cancer immunoediting, the process by which the immune system controls tumour outgrowth and shapes tumour immunogenicity, is comprised of three phases: elimination, equilibrium and escape. Although many immune components that participate in this process are known, its underlying mechanisms remain poorly defined. A central tenet of cancer immunoediting is that T-cell recognition of tumour antigens drives the immunological destruction or sculpting of a developing cancer. However, our current understanding of tumour antigens comes largely from analyses of cancers that develop in immunocompetent hosts and thus may have already been edited. Little is known about the antigens expressed in nascent tumour cells, whether they are sufficient to induce protective antitumour immune responses or whether their expression is modulated by the immune system. Here, using massively parallel sequencing, we characterize expressed mutations in highly immunogenic methylcholanthrene-induced sarcomas derived from immunodeficient Rag2(-/-) mice that phenotypically resemble nascent primary tumour cells. Using class I prediction algorithms, we identify mutant spectrin-β2 as a potential rejection antigen of the d42m1 sarcoma and validate this prediction by conventional antigen expression cloning and detection. We also demonstrate that cancer immunoediting of d42m1 occurs via a T-cell-dependent immunoselection process that promotes outgrowth of pre-existing tumour cell clones lacking highly antigenic mutant spectrin-β2 and other potential strong antigens. These results demonstrate that the strong immunogenicity of an unedited tumour can be ascribed to expression of highly antigenic mutant proteins and show that outgrowth of tumour cells that lack these strong antigens via a T-cell-dependent immunoselection process represents one mechanism of cancer immunoediting. 相似文献
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MA Deardorff M Bando R Nakato E Watrin T Itoh M Minamino K Saitoh M Komata Y Katou D Clark KE Cole E De Baere C Decroos N Di Donato S Ernst LJ Francey Y Gyftodimou K Hirashima M Hullings Y Ishikawa C Jaulin M Kaur T Kiyono PM Lombardi L Magnaghi-Jaulin GR Mortier N Nozaki MB Petersen H Seimiya VM Siu Y Suzuki K Takagaki JJ Wilde PJ Willems C Prigent G Gillessen-Kaesbach DW Christianson FJ Kaiser LG Jackson T Hirota ID Krantz K Shirahige 《Nature》2012,489(7415):313-317
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