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Abelson murine leukaemia virus transformation involves loss of epidermal growth factor-binding sites 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
Malignant transformation by mammalian RNA sarcoma viruses has previously been shown to involve a reduction in receptor sites for a well characterized 6,000-molecular weight (MW) growth-promoting substance, designated epidermal growth factor (EGF). Although Abelson murine leukaemia virus (AbLV) resembles sarcoma viruses in its ability to transform embryo fibroblasts in cell culture, AbLV induces a rapid B-cell lymphoid leukaemia rather than fibrosarcomas in vivo. The major translational product of AbLV is a highly phosphorylated polyprotein of MW 120,000 which exhibits an associated tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity and probable transforming function. We show here that AbLV transformation resembles transformation by RNA sarcoma viruses with respect to the abolition of EGF-binding sites. EGF binding is restored to control levels following loss of polyprotein expression in morphological revertants of AbLV-transformed clones and remains uninfluenced in cell lines infected with transformation-defective (td) AbLV mutants encoding polyproteins deficient in protein kinase activity. These findings indicate that AbLV transformation involves a polyprotein-associated, tyrosine-specific protein kinase activity which mediates its effect through a mechanism resulting directly or indirectly in the abolition of EGF-binding sites. 相似文献
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Females often mate with several males before producing offspring. Field studies of vertebrates suggest, and laboratory experiments on invertebrates confirm, that even when males provide no material benefits, polyandry can enhance offspring survival. This enhancement is widely attributed to genetic benefits that arise whenever paternity is biased towards males that sire more viable offspring. Field studies suggest that post-mating sexual selection biases fertilization towards genetically more compatible males and one controlled experiment has shown that, when females mate with close kin, polyandry reduces the relative number of inbred offspring. Another potential genetic benefit of polyandry is that it increases offspring survival because males with more competitive ejaculates sire more viable offspring. Surprisingly, however, there is no unequivocal evidence for this process. Here, by experimentally assigning mates to females, we show that polyandry greatly increases offspring survival in the Australian marsupial Antechinus stuartii. DNA profiling shows that males that gain high paternity under sperm competition sire offspring that are more viable. This beneficial effect occurs in both the laboratory and the wild. Crucially, there are no confounding non-genetic maternal effects that could arise if polyandry increases female investment in a particular reproductive event because A. stuartii is effectively semelparous. Our results therefore show that polyandry improves female lifetime fitness in nature. The threefold increase in offspring survival is not negated by a decline in maternal lifespan and is too large to be offset by an equivalent decline in the reproductive performance of surviving offspring. 相似文献
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<正>对采自气候为非限制性因子地区的柳杉树轮稳定碳同位素比 δ13 C进行气候响应分析。用排除法消除大气二氧化碳中δ13C的变化对柳杉树轮δ13C变化的影响后,建立残差年序列RE,并结合西天目山气象站的气象记录,分析了树轮δ13C年序列对气候要素的响应。结果表明:西天目山地区树轮 δ13C的高频振荡与 11、12月最高气温的平均值,1、2、3月降水总和以及6、7月降水总和显著相关,在一定程度上反映了东亚季风对该区的影响大小。可见气候非限制性因子地区树轮稳定碳同位素组成年序列同样可以作为气候变化指针。 相似文献
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Blikstad V Benachenhou F Sperber GO Blomberg J 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2008,65(21):3348-3365
Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) most likely are remnants of ancient retroviral infections. ERVs preserve functions of exogenous
retroviruses to a varying extent, and can be parasites, symbionts or more or less neutral genetic ‘junk’.Their evolution has
two facets, pre- and post-endogenization. Although the two are not clearly separated, the first pertains to retroviral evolution
in general and the second to the fate of repetitive DNA and the evolution of the host organism and its genome. The study of
ERVs provides much material for the understanding of retroviral evolution. This sequence archive reflects the history of successes
and shortcomings of antiviral resistance, but also of strategic evolutionary decisions regarding genome organization and new
gene acquisition. This review discusses retroviral evolution illustrated through HERVs, bioinformatic prerequisites for ERV
studies, the endogenization process and HERV evolution post-endogenization, including relation to disease. (Part of a Multi-author
Review) 相似文献
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Highly efficient cell-mediated gene transfer using non-viral vectors and FuGene6: in vitro and in vivo studies 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Hellgren I Drvota V Pieper R Enoksson S Blomberg P Islam KB Sylvén C 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2000,57(8-9):1326-1333
The present study was undertaken to develop an efficient non-viral gene delivery system for cardiovascular gene therapy. We investigated transfection efficiency and toxic properties of the new transfection reagent, FuGene6, and compared it with two other transfection reagents, Tfx-50 and LipoTaxi. For in vivo experiments, the plasmid was delivered intramuscularly via transplantation of fibroblasts transfected with plasmid and FuGene6. Conditions for efficient gene delivery were initially studied in vitro. Human and rabbit fibroblasts were isolated from skin, cultured and transfected with phVEGF165 or pCMVbeta gal plasmids, coding for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or beta-galactosidase, respectively. The effect of the DNA amount and the DNA:transfection reagent ratio on plasmid uptake were studied. Of the transfection reagents tested, only FuGene6 provided high-efficiency and dose-dependent plasmid transfer both for cell-localised (beta-galactosidase) and secreted (VEGF) gene products. When analysed with an MTT assay, FuGene6 showed no toxicity at low doses. Optimised conditions were applied for in vivo reporter gene delivery. Rabbits were injected intramuscularly with ex vivo-transfected fibroblasts. As in in vitro studies, ex vivo-transfected fibroblasts showed highly efficient gene expression in vivo. Tissue sections were analysed with macrophage-specific immunostaining. No signs of inflammation were seen in the region of fibroblast injection. This study demonstrates that FuGene6 is a highly efficient transfection reagent that may be useful for in vitro non-viral transfection of primary human and rabbit fibroblasts and for in vivo therapeutic non-viral gene delivery. 相似文献
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