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Polypeptide ligation occurs during post-translational modification of concanavalin A 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Lectins are proteins with multivalent carbohydrate-binding sites, which confer the ability to agglutinate. The seeds of legumes are particularly rich in lectins, for example, concanavalin A (Con A) comprises up to 15% of the protein in the cotyledons of jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) seeds. The amino acid sequences of Con A and several other legume lectins have been partially or fully determined, and comparison of these sequences from different species reveals a circular homology (Fig. 1A); rearrangements within the genome have been suggested to explain this. We report here that the circular homology displayed by Con A is due to a post-translational transposition and ligation within the initial polypeptide. This type of modification has not been reported previously for eukaryotes, although it has been suggested to occur in bacteriophage lambda. 相似文献
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Evolution of microRNA genes by inverted duplication of target gene sequences in Arabidopsis thaliana 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Allen E Xie Z Gustafson AM Sung GH Spatafora JW Carrington JC 《Nature genetics》2004,36(12):1282-1290
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de Bakker PI McVean G Sabeti PC Miretti MM Green T Marchini J Ke X Monsuur AJ Whittaker P Delgado M Morrison J Richardson A Walsh EC Gao X Galver L Hart J Hafler DA Pericak-Vance M Todd JA Daly MJ Trowsdale J Wijmenga C Vyse TJ Beck S Murray SS Carrington M Gregory S Deloukas P Rioux JD 《Nature genetics》2006,38(10):1166-1172
The proteins encoded by the classical HLA class I and class II genes in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are highly polymorphic and are essential in self versus non-self immune recognition. HLA variation is a crucial determinant of transplant rejection and susceptibility to a large number of infectious and autoimmune diseases. Yet identification of causal variants is problematic owing to linkage disequilibrium that extends across multiple HLA and non-HLA genes in the MHC. We therefore set out to characterize the linkage disequilibrium patterns between the highly polymorphic HLA genes and background variation by typing the classical HLA genes and >7,500 common SNPs and deletion-insertion polymorphisms across four population samples. The analysis provides informative tag SNPs that capture much of the common variation in the MHC region and that could be used in disease association studies, and it provides new insight into the evolutionary dynamics and ancestral origins of the HLA loci and their haplotypes. 相似文献
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本文证明了公式β(n)=σ(n-1)+1其中α(n-1)是n-1次多项式微分系统的不为直线的最多条数,βn)是n次多项式微分系统的不变直线的不同斜率的最大个数。这里假设所讨论的多项式系统只有限条不变直线。 相似文献
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Martin MP Qi Y Gao X Yamada E Martin JN Pereyra F Colombo S Brown EE Shupert WL Phair J Goedert JJ Buchbinder S Kirk GD Telenti A Connors M O'Brien SJ Walker BD Parham P Deeks SG McVicar DW Carrington M 《Nature genetics》2007,39(6):733-740
Allotypes of the natural killer (NK) cell receptor KIR3DL1 vary in both NK cell expression patterns and inhibitory capacity upon binding to their ligands, HLA-B Bw4 molecules, present on target cells. Using a sample size of over 1,500 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)+ individuals, we show that various distinct allelic combinations of the KIR3DL1 and HLA-B loci significantly and strongly influence both AIDS progression and plasma HIV RNA abundance in a consistent manner. These genetic data correlate very well with previously defined functional differences that distinguish KIR3DL1 allotypes. The various epistatic effects observed here for common, distinct KIR3DL1 and HLA-B Bw4 combinations are unprecedented with regard to any pair of genetic loci in human disease, and indicate that NK cells may have a critical role in the natural history of HIV infection. 相似文献
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Alter G Heckerman D Schneidewind A Fadda L Kadie CM Carlson JM Oniangue-Ndza C Martin M Li B Khakoo SI Carrington M Allen TM Altfeld M 《Nature》2011,476(7358):96-100
Natural killer (NK) cells have an important role in the control of viral infections, recognizing virally infected cells through a variety of activating and inhibitory receptors. Epidemiological and functional studies have recently suggested that NK cells can also contribute to the control of HIV-1 infection through recognition of virally infected cells by both activating and inhibitory killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs). However, it remains unknown whether NK cells can directly mediate antiviral immune pressure in vivo in humans. Here we describe KIR-associated amino-acid polymorphisms in the HIV-1 sequence of chronically infected individuals, on a population level. We show that these KIR-associated HIV-1 sequence polymorphisms can enhance the binding of inhibitory KIRs to HIV-1-infected CD4(+) T cells, and reduce the antiviral activity of KIR-positive NK cells. These data demonstrate that KIR-positive NK cells can place immunological pressure on HIV-1, and that the virus can evade such NK-cell-mediated immune pressure by selecting for sequence polymorphisms, as was previously described for virus-specific T cells and neutralizing antibodies. NK cells might therefore have a previously underappreciated role in contributing to viral evolution. 相似文献
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All conventional metals are known to possess a three-dimensional Fermi surface, which is the locus in reciprocal space of the long-lived electronic excitations that govern their electronic properties at low temperatures. These excitations should have well-defined momenta with components in all three dimensions. The high-transition-temperature (high-T(c)) copper oxide superconductors have unusual, highly two-dimensional properties above the superconducting transition. This, coupled with a lack of unambiguous evidence for a three-dimensional Fermi surface, has led to many new and exotic models for the underlying electronic ground state. Here we report the observation of polar angular magnetoresistance oscillations in the overdoped superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+delta in high magnetic fields, which firmly establishes the existence of a coherent three-dimensional Fermi surface. Analysis of the oscillations reveals that at certain symmetry points, however, this surface is strictly two-dimensional. This striking form of the Fermi surface topography, long-predicted by electronic band structure calculations, provides a natural explanation for a wide range of anisotropic properties both in the normal and superconducting states. Our data reveal that, despite their extreme electrical anisotropy, the high-T(c) materials at high doping levels can be understood within a framework of conventional three-dimensional metal physics. 相似文献
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Martin MP Gao X Lee JH Nelson GW Detels R Goedert JJ Buchbinder S Hoots K Vlahov D Trowsdale J Wilson M O'Brien SJ Carrington M 《Nature genetics》2002,31(4):429-434
Natural killer (NK) cells provide defense in the early stages of the innate immune response against viral infections by producing cytokines and causing cytotoxicity. The killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) on NK cells regulate the inhibition and activation of NK-cell responses through recognition of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules on target cells KIR and HLA loci are both highly polymorphic, and some HLA class I products bind and trigger cell-surface receptors specified by KIR genes. Here we report that the activating KIR allele KIR3DS1, in combination with HLA-B alleles that encode molecules with isoleucine at position 80 (HLA-B Bw4-80Ile), is associated with delayed progression to AIDS in individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). In the absence of KIR3DS1, the HLA-B Bw4-80Ile allele was not associated with any of the AIDS outcomes measured. By contrast, in the absence of HLA-B Bw4-80Ile alleles, KIR3DS1 was significantly associated with more rapid progression to AIDS. These observations are strongly suggestive of a model involving an epistatic interaction between the two loci. The strongest synergistic effect of these loci was on progression to depletion of CD4(+) T cells, which suggests that a protective response of NK cells involving KIR3DS1 and its HLA class I ligands begins soon after HIV-1 infection. 相似文献