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Microscopic objects, including biological material, can be remotely manipulated with tightly focused beams of infrared laser light. The use of optical traps, or 'optical tweezers', holds great promise for noninvasive micromanipulation and mechanical measurement in cell biology. Optical tweezers are the 'tractor beams' of today's technology. 相似文献
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MSI and MSII made on ribosome in idling step of protein synthesis 总被引:56,自引:0,他引:56
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神经科学家一直在努力寻找意识的神经相关活动。本文提出了一个包含两种意识神经相关活动的理论框架。觉性意识是主观的经验和感觉。而评估性意识则是认知系统中普遍存在的信息,可以用来进行推理、演讲和高级行为控制。通过信号检测理论可以对觉性意识和评估性意识的神经相关活动进行区分。认知神经科学领域的最新发现为两种意识神经相关活动理论提供了证据支持。 相似文献
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Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Warnecke F Luginbühl P Ivanova N Ghassemian M Richardson TH Stege JT Cayouette M McHardy AC Djordjevic G Aboushadi N Sorek R Tringe SG Podar M Martin HG Kunin V Dalevi D Madejska J Kirton E Platt D Szeto E Salamov A Barry K Mikhailova N Kyrpides NC Matson EG Ottesen EA Zhang X Hernández M Murillo C Acosta LG Rigoutsos I Tamayo G Green BD Chang C Rubin EM Mathur EJ Robertson DE Hugenholtz P Leadbetter JR 《Nature》2007,450(7169):560-565
From the standpoints of both basic research and biotechnology, there is considerable interest in reaching a clearer understanding of the diversity of biological mechanisms employed during lignocellulose degradation. Globally, termites are an extremely successful group of wood-degrading organisms and are therefore important both for their roles in carbon turnover in the environment and as potential sources of biochemical catalysts for efforts aimed at converting wood into biofuels. Only recently have data supported any direct role for the symbiotic bacteria in the gut of the termite in cellulose and xylan hydrolysis. Here we use a metagenomic analysis of the bacterial community resident in the hindgut paunch of a wood-feeding 'higher' Nasutitermes species (which do not contain cellulose-fermenting protozoa) to show the presence of a large, diverse set of bacterial genes for cellulose and xylan hydrolysis. Many of these genes were expressed in vivo or had cellulase activity in vitro, and further analyses implicate spirochete and fibrobacter species in gut lignocellulose degradation. New insights into other important symbiotic functions including H2 metabolism, CO2-reductive acetogenesis and N2 fixation are also provided by this first system-wide gene analysis of a microbial community specialized towards plant lignocellulose degradation. Our results underscore how complex even a 1-microl environment can be. 相似文献
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Water or ice?--the challenge for invertebrate cold survival 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
Block W 《Science progress》2003,86(PT 1-2):77-101
The ecophysiology of cold tolerance in many terrestrial invertebrate animals is based on water and its activity at low temperatures, affecting cell, tissue and whole organism functions. The normal body water content of invertebrates varies from 40 to 90% of their live weight, which is influenced by water in their immediate environment, especially in species with a water vapour permeable cuticle. Water gain from, or loss to, the surrounding atmosphere may affect animal survival, but under sub-zero conditions body water status becomes more critical for overwinter survival in many species. Water content influences the supercooling capacity of many insects and other arthropods. Trehalose is known to maintain membrane integrity during desiccation stress in several taxa. Dehydration affects potential ice nucleators by reducing or masking their activity and a desiccation protection strategy has been detected in some species. When water crystallises to ice in an animal it greatly influences the physiology of nearby cells, even if the cells remain unfrozen. A proportion of body water remains unfrozen in many cold hardened invertebrates when they are frozen, which allows basal metabolism to continue at a low level and aids recovery to normal function when thawing occurs. About 22% of total body water remains unfrozen from calculations using differential scanning calorimetry (compared with ca 19% in food materials). The ratio of unfrozen to frozen water components in insects is 1:4 (1:6 for foods). Such unfrozen water may aid recovery of freezing tolerant species after a freezing exposure. Rapid changes in cold hardiness of some arthropods may be brought about by subtle shifts in body water management. It is recognised that cold tolerance strategies of many invertebrates are related to desiccation resistance, and possibly to mechanisms inherent in insect diapause, but the role of water is fundamental to them all. Detailed experimental studies are needed to provide information which will allow a more complete and coherent understanding of the behaviour of water in biological systems and aid the cryopreservation of a wide range of biological material. 相似文献
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A fusion protein required for vesicle-mediated transport in both mammalian cells and yeast 总被引:102,自引:0,他引:102
D W Wilson C A Wilcox G C Flynn E Chen W J Kuang W J Henzel M R Block A Ullrich J E Rothman 《Nature》1989,339(6223):355-359
A protein sensitive to N-ethylmaleimide catalyses the fusion of transport vesicles with Golgi cisternae in a mammalian cell-free system. By cloning and sequencing its gene from Chinese hamster ovary cells and by use of in vitro assays, we show that this fusion protein is equivalent to the SEC18 gene product of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, known to be essential for vesicle-mediated transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus. The mechanism of vesicular fusion is thus highly conserved, both between species and at different stages of transport. 相似文献
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Block BA Teo SL Walli A Boustany A Stokesbury MJ Farwell CJ Weng KC Dewar H Williams TD 《Nature》2005,434(7037):1121-1127
Electronic tags that archive or transmit stored data to satellites have advanced the mapping of habitats used by highly migratory fish in pelagic ecosystems. Here we report on the electronic tagging of 772 Atlantic bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic Ocean in an effort to identify population structure. Reporting electronic tags provided accurate location data that show the extensive migrations of individual fish (n = 330). Geoposition data delineate two populations, one using spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico and another from the Mediterranean Sea. Transatlantic movements of western-tagged bluefin tuna reveal site fidelity to known spawning areas in the Mediterranean Sea. Bluefin tuna that occupy western spawning grounds move to central and eastern Atlantic foraging grounds. Our results are consistent with two populations of bluefin tuna with distinct spawning areas that overlap on North Atlantic foraging grounds. Electronic tagging locations, when combined with US pelagic longline observer and logbook catch data, identify hot spots for spawning bluefin tuna in the northern slope waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Restrictions on the time and area where longlining occurs would reduce incidental catch mortalities on western spawning grounds. 相似文献