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Echinococcus granulosus is the causative parasite of hydatid disease in humans and represents a significant public health problem within endemic foci in all major continents of the world. This report gives a detailed set of instructions whereby four trained individuals can examine 15–20 dogs per hour for the presence of this organism. The procedure permits the baseline determination of the prevalence of this parasite within any specific population of dogs and also allows the periodic examination of the same animals to determine if recommended preventive and control measures for hydatid disease are being followed by sheep and dog owners in any region where the parasite is known to occur. 相似文献
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Mutants of avian myelocytomatosis virus with smaller gag gene-related proteins have an altered transforming ability 总被引:31,自引:0,他引:31
Avian myelocytomatosis virus strain MC29 is a replication-defective avian oncovirus which in newborn chickens causes myelocytomatosis and liver and kidney tumours. In vitro infection of bone marrow cells gives rise to colonies of transformed macrophage-like cells, and cloned viruses is also capable of transforming fibroblasts. The genome of MC29 contains cellular sequences which are closely related to those in other defective leukaemia viruses with similar transforming spectra. Consequently, these cellular sequences have been postulated to represent a new oncogene which has been designated mac, for macrophage transformation. MC29-transformed cells contain a gag gene-related protein of a 110,000 molecular weight (MW) (p110), which by tryptic peptide analysis has been shown to be a fusion product comprised of a gag gene-derived sequences and sequences which are presumed to be coded by the adjacent mac gene. These findings suggest that this protein may be implicated in transformation by MC29. We now describe three mutants of MC29 and synthesize smaller gag gene-related proteins. These mutants have an altered ability to transform bone marrow cells but not fibroblasts. This demonstrates for the first time a direct involvement of the p110 protein of MC29 in transformation. 相似文献
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Mice heterozygous for mutation in Atm,the gene involved in ataxia-telangiectasia,have heightened susceptibility to cancer 总被引:11,自引:0,他引:11
Spring K Ahangari F Scott SP Waring P Purdie DM Chen PC Hourigan K Ramsay J McKinnon PJ Swift M Lavin MF 《Nature genetics》2002,32(1):185-190
Ataxia-telangiectasia is characterized by radiosensitivity, genome instability and predisposition to cancer. Heterozygous carriers of ATM, the gene defective in ataxia-telangiectasia, have a higher than normal risk of developing breast and other cancers. We demonstrate here that Atm 'knock-in' (Atm-Delta SRI) heterozygous mice harboring an in-frame deletion corresponding to the human 7636del9 mutation show an increased susceptibility to developing tumors. In contrast, no tumors are observed in Atm knockout (Atm(+/-)) heterozygous mice. In parallel, we report the appearance of tumors in 6 humans from 12 families who are heterozygous for the 7636del9 mutation. Expression of ATM cDNA containing the 7636del9 mutation had a dominant-negative effect in control cells, inhibiting radiation-induced ATM kinase activity in vivo and in vitro. This reduces the survival of these cells after radiation exposure and enhances the level of radiation-induced chromosomal aberrations. These results show for the first time that mouse carriers of a mutated Atm that are capable of expressing Atm have a higher risk of cancer. This finding provides further support for cancer predisposition in human ataxia-telangiectasia carriers. 相似文献
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Palopoli MF Rockman MV TinMaung A Ramsay C Curwen S Aduna A Laurita J Kruglyak L 《Nature》2008,454(7207):1019-1022
Heritable variation is the raw material for evolutionary change, and understanding its genetic basis is one of the central problems in modern biology. We investigated the genetic basis of a classic phenotypic dimorphism in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Males from many natural isolates deposit a copulatory plug after mating, whereas males from other natural isolates?including the standard wild-type strain (N2 Bristol) that is used in most research laboratories?do not deposit plugs. The copulatory plug is a gelatinous mass that covers the hermaphrodite vulva, and its deposition decreases the mating success of subsequent males. We show that the plugging polymorphism results from the insertion of a retrotransposon into an exon of a novel mucin-like gene, plg-1, whose product is a major structural component of the copulatory plug. The gene is expressed in a subset of secretory cells of the male somatic gonad, and its loss has no evident effects beyond the loss of male mate-guarding. Although C. elegans descends from an obligate-outcrossing, male?female ancestor, it occurs primarily as self-fertilizing hermaphrodites. The reduced selection on male?male competition associated with the origin of hermaphroditism may have permitted the global spread of a loss-of-function mutation with restricted pleiotropy. 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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INTERMEDIUM-C, a modifier of lateral spikelet fertility in barley, is an ortholog of the maize domestication gene TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Ramsay L Comadran J Druka A Marshall DF Thomas WT Macaulay M MacKenzie K Simpson C Fuller J Bonar N Hayes PM Lundqvist U Franckowiak JD Close TJ Muehlbauer GJ Waugh R 《Nature genetics》2011,43(2):169-172
The domestication of cereals has involved common changes in morphological features, such as seed size, seed retention and modification of vegetative and inflorescence architecture that ultimately contributed to an increase in harvested yield. In barley, this process has resulted in two different cultivated types, two-rowed and six-rowed forms, both derived from the wild two-rowed ancestor, with archaeo-botanical evidence indicating the origin of six-rowed barley early in the domestication of the species, some 8,600-8,000 years ago. Variation at SIX-ROWED SPIKE 1 (VRS1) is sufficient to control this phenotype. However, phenotypes imposed by VRS1 alleles are modified by alleles at the INTERMEDIUM-C (INT-C) locus. Here we show that INT-C is an ortholog of the maize domestication gene TEOSINTE BRANCHED 1 (TB1) and identify 17 coding mutations in barley TB1 correlated with lateral spikelet fertility phenotypes. 相似文献