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Anne Berna François Bernier Eric Chabrière Mikael Elias Ken Scott Andrew Suh 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2009,66(14):2205-2218
DING proteins, identified mainly by their eponymous N-terminal sequences, are ubiquitous in living organisms. Amongst bacteria,
they are common in pseudomonads, and have been characterised with respect to genetics and structure. They form part of a wider
family of phosphate-binding proteins, with emerging roles in phosphate acquisition and pathogenicity. Many DING proteins have
been isolated in eukaryotes, in which they have been associated with very diverse biological activities, often in the context
of possible signalling roles. Disease states in which DING proteins have been implicated include rheumatoid arthritis, lithiasis,
atherosclerosis, some tumours and tumour-associated cachexia, and bacterial and viral adherence. Complete genetic and structural
characterisation of eukaryotic DING genes and proteins is still lacking, though the phosphate-binding site seems to be conserved.
Whether as bacterial proteins related to bacterial pathogenicity, or as eukaryotic components of biochemical signalling systems,
DING proteins require further study.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Arner P Bernard S Salehpour M Possnert G Liebl J Steier P Buchholz BA Eriksson M Arner E Hauner H Skurk T Rydén M Frayn KN Spalding KL 《Nature》2011,478(7367):110-113
Adipose tissue mass is determined by the storage and removal of triglycerides in adipocytes. Little is known, however, about adipose lipid turnover in humans in health and pathology. To study this in vivo, here we determined lipid age by measuring (14)C derived from above ground nuclear bomb tests in adipocyte lipids. We report that during the average ten-year lifespan of human adipocytes, triglycerides are renewed six times. Lipid age is independent of adipocyte size, is very stable across a wide range of adult ages and does not differ between genders. Adipocyte lipid turnover, however, is strongly related to conditions with disturbed lipid metabolism. In obesity, triglyceride removal rate (lipolysis followed by oxidation) is decreased and the amount of triglycerides stored each year is increased. In contrast, both lipid removal and storage rates are decreased in non-obese patients diagnosed with the most common hereditary form of dyslipidaemia, familial combined hyperlipidaemia. Lipid removal rate is positively correlated with the capacity of adipocytes to break down triglycerides, as assessed through lipolysis, and is inversely related to insulin resistance. Our data support a mechanism in which adipocyte lipid storage and removal have different roles in health and pathology. High storage but low triglyceride removal promotes fat tissue accumulation and obesity. Reduction of both triglyceride storage and removal decreases lipid shunting through adipose tissue and thus promotes dyslipidaemia. We identify adipocyte lipid turnover as a novel target for prevention and treatment of metabolic disease. 相似文献
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Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Kirkby J Curtius J Almeida J Dunne E Duplissy J Ehrhart S Franchin A Gagné S Ickes L Kürten A Kupc A Metzger A Riccobono F Rondo L Schobesberger S Tsagkogeorgas G Wimmer D Amorim A Bianchi F Breitenlechner M David A Dommen J Downard A Ehn M Flagan RC Haider S Hansel A Hauser D Jud W Junninen H Kreissl F Kvashin A Laaksonen A Lehtipalo K Lima J Lovejoy ER Makhmutov V Mathot S Mikkilä J Minginette P Mogo S Nieminen T Onnela A Pereira P Petäjä T Schnitzhofer R Seinfeld JH Sipilä M Stozhkov Y 《Nature》2011,476(7361):429-433
Atmospheric aerosols exert an important influence on climate through their effects on stratiform cloud albedo and lifetime and the invigoration of convective storms. Model calculations suggest that almost half of the global cloud condensation nuclei in the atmospheric boundary layer may originate from the nucleation of aerosols from trace condensable vapours, although the sensitivity of the number of cloud condensation nuclei to changes of nucleation rate may be small. Despite extensive research, fundamental questions remain about the nucleation rate of sulphuric acid particles and the mechanisms responsible, including the roles of galactic cosmic rays and other chemical species such as ammonia. Here we present the first results from the CLOUD experiment at CERN. We find that atmospherically relevant ammonia mixing ratios of 100 parts per trillion by volume, or less, increase the nucleation rate of sulphuric acid particles more than 100-1,000-fold. Time-resolved molecular measurements reveal that nucleation proceeds by a base-stabilization mechanism involving the stepwise accretion of ammonia molecules. Ions increase the nucleation rate by an additional factor of between two and more than ten at ground-level galactic-cosmic-ray intensities, provided that the nucleation rate lies below the limiting ion-pair production rate. We find that ion-induced binary nucleation of H(2)SO(4)-H(2)O can occur in the mid-troposphere but is negligible in the boundary layer. However, even with the large enhancements in rate due to ammonia and ions, atmospheric concentrations of ammonia and sulphuric acid are insufficient to account for observed boundary-layer nucleation. 相似文献
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During the past 20 million years, herbivorous mammals of numerous lineages have evolved hypsodont, or high-crowned, cheek teeth. Hypsodonty is informative ecologically because it is well developed in mammals eating fibrous and abrasive foods that are most abundant in open and generally or seasonally dry environments. Here we report that in the Neogene of Europe mammals with the greatest locality coverages showed an increase in hypsodonty. We used a data set of 209 localities to measure whether large mammals occurring in many fossil localities show a similar increase in hypsodonty to mammals occurring in single or few localities. Taxonomic and morphological groupings show a low average hypsodonty in the early Miocene epoch. From the middle Miocene onwards, only the hypsodonty of commonly found mammals shows a marked increase. Therefore, in the drying Europe of the late Miocene, only increasingly hypsodont mammals may have been able to expand their share of habitats and food resources. These results suggest that the relatively small number of species known from multiple localities are palaeoecologically informative by themselves, irrespective of the rest of the known species. 相似文献
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SLAC1 is required for plant guard cell S-type anion channel function in stomatal signalling 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Vahisalu T Kollist H Wang YF Nishimura N Chan WY Valerio G Lamminmäki A Brosché M Moldau H Desikan R Schroeder JI Kangasjärvi J 《Nature》2008,452(7186):487-491
Stomatal pores, formed by two surrounding guard cells in the epidermis of plant leaves, allow influx of atmospheric carbon dioxide in exchange for transpirational water loss. Stomata also restrict the entry of ozone--an important air pollutant that has an increasingly negative impact on crop yields, and thus global carbon fixation and climate change. The aperture of stomatal pores is regulated by the transport of osmotically active ions and metabolites across guard cell membranes. Despite the vital role of guard cells in controlling plant water loss, ozone sensitivity and CO2 supply, the genes encoding some of the main regulators of stomatal movements remain unknown. It has been proposed that guard cell anion channels function as important regulators of stomatal closure and are essential in mediating stomatal responses to physiological and stress stimuli. However, the genes encoding membrane proteins that mediate guard cell anion efflux have not yet been identified. Here we report the mapping and characterization of an ozone-sensitive Arabidopsis thaliana mutant, slac1. We show that SLAC1 (SLOW ANION CHANNEL-ASSOCIATED 1) is preferentially expressed in guard cells and encodes a distant homologue of fungal and bacterial dicarboxylate/malic acid transport proteins. The plasma membrane protein SLAC1 is essential for stomatal closure in response to CO2, abscisic acid, ozone, light/dark transitions, humidity change, calcium ions, hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide. Mutations in SLAC1 impair slow (S-type) anion channel currents that are activated by cytosolic Ca2+ and abscisic acid, but do not affect rapid (R-type) anion channel currents or Ca2+ channel function. A low homology of SLAC1 to bacterial and fungal organic acid transport proteins, and the permeability of S-type anion channels to malate suggest a vital role for SLAC1 in the function of S-type anion channels. 相似文献
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William R. Huss 《Journal of forecasting》1985,4(1):99-107
The prime directive of any regulated electric utility is to provide adequate and reliable electricity supplies to the consuming public at reasonable cost. This requires the continual addition of new generating plants which is based on a long term forecast of energy and peak demand. This study documents the forecasting process used at a southern utility and compares the accuracy of their models to that produced using Holt's exponential smoothing and generalized adoptive filtering. 相似文献
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One approach to study the system-wide organization of biochemistry is to use statistical graph theory. In such heavily simplified methods, which disregard most of the dynamic aspects of biochemistry, one is faced with fundamental questions. One such question is how the chemical reaction systems should be reduced to a graph retaining as much functional information as possible from the original reaction system. In these graph representations, should the edges go between substrates and products, or substrates and substrates, or both? Should vertices represent substances or reactions? Different representations encode different information about the reaction system and affect network measures in different ways. This paper investigates which representation reflects the functional organization of the metabolic system in the best way, according to the defined criteria. Four different graph representations of metabolism (three where the vertices are metabolites, one where the vertices are reactions) are evaluated using data from different organisms and databases. The graph representations are evaluated by comparing the overlap between clusters (network modules) and annotated functions, and also by comparing the set of identified currency metabolites with those that other authors have identified using qualitative biological arguments. It is found that a “substance network”, where all metabolites participating in a reaction are connected, is better than others, evaluated with respect to both the functional overlap between modules and functions and to the number and identity of the identified currency metabolites. 相似文献
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Saikiran K. Sedimbi Thomas Hägglöf Mikael C. I. Karlsson 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2013,70(24):4795-4808
Inflammation serves as the first line of defense in response to tissue injury, guiding the immune system to ensure preservation of the host. The inflammatory response can be divided into a quick initial phase mediated mainly by innate immune cells including neutrophils and macrophages, followed by a late phase that is dominated by lymphocytes. Early in the new millennium, a key component of the inflammatory reaction was discovered with the identification of a number of cytosolic sensor proteins (Nod-like receptors) that assembled into a common structure, the ‘inflammasome’. This structure includes an enzyme, caspase-1, which upon activation cleaves pro-forms of cytokines leading to subsequent release of active IL-1 and IL-18. This review focuses on the role of IL-18 in inflammatory responses with emphasis on autoimmune diseases. 相似文献
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Mostafa Bakhti Shweta Aggarwal Mikael Simons 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2014,71(7):1265-1277
Rapid nerve conduction requires the coating of axons by a tightly packed multilayered myelin membrane. In the central nervous system, myelin is formed from cellular processes that extend from oligodendrocytes and wrap in a spiral fashion around an axon, resulting in the close apposition of adjacent myelin membrane bilayers. In this review, we discuss the physical principles underlying the zippering of the plasma membrane of oligodendrocytes at the cytoplasmic and extracellular leaflet. We propose that the interaction of the myelin basic protein with the cytoplasmic leaflet of the myelin bilayer triggers its polymerization into a fibrous network that drives membrane zippering and protein extrusion. In contrast, the adhesion of the extracellular surfaces of myelin requires the down-regulation of repulsive components of the glycocalyx, in order to uncover weak and unspecific attractive forces that bring the extracellular surfaces into close contact. Unveiling the mechanisms of myelin membrane assembly at the cytoplasmic and extracelluar sites may help to understand how the myelin bilayers are disrupted and destabilized in the different demyelinating diseases. 相似文献