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 | Using non-homogeneous models of nucleotide substitution to identify host shift events: application to... | Fig4: Non-homogeneous models of influenza evolution. All model trees are unrooted. The real root is assumed to lie somewhere along the avian branches, however, its position is irrelevant since stationary evolution of the virus in the avian host is being assumed....Bottom Line: The viruses later diverged into the classical swine and human H1N1 influenza lineages around 1913-1915.The last common ancestor of human strains dates from February 1917 to April 1918.This would suggest that the virus was introduced into humans sometime between... | dos Reis M, Hay AJ, Goldstein RA - J. Mol. Evol. (2009) |
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 | Sequencing and comparative genome analysis of two pathogenic Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies: genome... | pone-0020519-g007: Comparison of the capsule biosynthesis loci in S. gallolyticus ATCC 43143, S. pasteurianus ATCC 43144 and S. gallolyticus UCN34.The 3′ regions with sequence similarity are shaded with light gray background. The direction of the arrows represents the coding...Bottom Line: We have also predicted putative cell-surface associated proteins that could play a role in adherence to host tissues, leading to persistent infections causing sub-acute and chronic diseases in humans.This study showed evidence that the S. gallolyticus still... | Lin IH, Liu TT, Teng YT, Wu HL, Liu YM, Wu KM, et al. - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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 | Unveiling the roles of the glutathione redox system in vivo by analyzing genetically modified mice. | Figure 2: Oxidative conversion of the sulfhydryl group and its reversibility in cells. Other than disulfide, the sulfhydryl group forms three oxidation states: sulfenic, sulfinic, and sulphonic acid. Sulenic acid can be reduced back to sulfhydryl by reductases but forms...Bottom Line: Two enzymes, γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase and glutathione synthetase, constitute the de novo synthesis machinery, while glutathione reductase is involved in the recycling of oxidized glutathione.Animals in which genes responsible for glutathione metabolism... | Fujii J, Ito JI, Zhang X, Kurahashi T - J Clin Biochem Nutr (2011) |
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 | HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) to treat Epstein-Barr virus-driven lymphoma. | fig1: Simvastatin inhibits the interaction of LFA-1 with ICAM-1 on B cells. Epstein–Barr virus-transformed B cells express LFA-1 and ICAM-1 adhesion molecules on their surface (A). Simvastatin binds to the I-domain of LFA-1, inducing a conformational change that...Bottom Line: These same statins inhibit NF-kappaB activation in the cells and induce apoptosis of transformed B cells.Studies in severe combined immunodeficiency mice show that simvastatin delays the development of EBV-lymphomas in these animals.These statins might be considered... | Cohen JI - Br. J. Cancer (2005) |
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 | Bone lengthening with extra-articular arthrodesis of the hip using external fixation. | Fig4: Stretching exercises program—basic postures and sleeping positionsBottom Line: Clinical review indicated a significant improvement in physical function and psychological well-being.Complications were more frequent in patients older than 14 years (P = 0.034) as was a higher maturation index (P = 0.021).No additional operations were required... | Mesa PA - Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr (2008) |
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 | Transforming growth factor-beta production and myeloid cells are an effector mechanism through which... | fig10: Proposed model of negative immunoregulatory circuit of CTL-mediated tumor immunosurveillance mediated by TGF-β, myeloid cells, IL-13, and CD1d-restricted T cells, probably NKT cells. Tumor antigen (glycolipid) presented by antigen-presenting cells via the...Bottom Line: Here we present evidence for the effector elements in this suppressive pathway.Further, blocking TGF-beta or depleting Gr-1+ cells in vivo prevented the tumor recurrence, implying that TGF-beta made by a CD11b+ Gr-1+ myeloid cell, in an IL-13 and CD1d-restricted... | Terabe M, Matsui S, Park JM, Mamura M, Noben-Trauth N, et al. - J. Exp. Med. (2003) |
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 | Dissecting eukaryotic translation and its control by ribosome density mapping. | fig1: The number of ribosomes bound to an mRNA reflects the interplay between initiation, elongation and termination. The arrow thickness represents the relative rate constants for initiation (concave arrowheads), elongation (closed arrowheads) and termination (open...Bottom Line: We tested specific predictions from the current model for translational control of GCN4 expression in yeast and found that ribosomes were differentially associated with the uORFs elements and coding region under different growth conditions, consistent with... | Arava Y, Boas FE, Brown PO, Herschlag D - Nucleic Acids Res. (2005) |
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 | Mechanisms for vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 activation of ERK1/2 during leukocyte transendothelial... | pone-0026706-g005: Mechanisms for VCAM-1 activation of ERK1/2 in HMVEC-L.Treatment of HMVEC-L cells overnight with 10ng/ml TNF-α induced VCAM-1 expression (data not shown). A) Confluent monolayers of TNF-α-treated HMVEC-Ls were nontreated (NT) or treated with 27 µg/ml anti-VCAM-1...Bottom Line: VCAM-1 signaling, which occurs through endothelial cell NADPH oxidase, protein kinase Cα (PKCα), and protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B), activates endothelial cell ERK1/2.Inhibition of these signals blocked VCAM-1 activation of ERK1/2, indicating that... | Abdala-Valencia H, Berdnikovs S, Cook-Mills JM - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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 | CLPM: a cross-linked peptide mapping algorithm for mass spectrometric analysis. | Figure 14: The locations of H-369 (yellow) and deoxyuridines (green) within the NS3h crystal structure are in close proximity. H-369 is located within domain 2, and protrudes into the channel where the oligonucleotide binds near the 5' end. A peptide (364–372: HLIFCHSK)...Bottom Line: Due to the complexities of the mass spectrometric data of crosslinked proteins, new software is required to analyze the resulting products of these studies.We designed a Cross-Linked Peptide Mapping (CLPM) algorithm which takes advantage of all of the information... | Tang Y, Chen Y, Lichti CF, Hall RA, Raney KD, et al. - BMC Bioinformatics (2005) |
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 | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon components contribute to the mitochondria-antiapoptotic effect of fine... | Figure 8: Hypothetic model for the mechanism of the antiapoptotic effect of PM2.5. Exposure of bronchial epithelial cells to PM2.5, leads to particles endocytosis and PAH desorption. Then, intracellular PAH can target and activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR)....Bottom Line: Conversely, a 4 hour-pretreatment with PM2.5 prevent mitochondria-driven apoptosis triggered by broad spectrum inducers (A23187, staurosporine and oligomycin) by reducing the mitochondrial transmembrane potential loss, the subsequent ROS production, phosphatidylserine... | Ferecatu I, Borot MC, Bossard C, Leroux M, et al. - Part Fibre Toxicol (2010) |
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 | Multivalent HA DNA vaccination protects against highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza infection in chickens... | pone-0002432-g003: Immune protection conferred against lethal challenge of A/Vietnam/1203/2004 in mice 68 weeks after vaccination.Mice were immunized with 15 µg total of either the 10 HA as in Fig. 2A, legend and Materials and Methods, 5 HA (Set 1) as in Fig. 2B, legend and...Bottom Line: The ability to contain its spread in chickens would reduce this threat and help maintain the capacity for egg-based vaccine production.CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: DNA vaccines offer a generic approach to influenza virus immunization applicable to multiple animal... | Rao S, Kong WP, Wei CJ, Yang ZY, Nason M, et al. - PLoS ONE (2008) |
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 | The effect of surface wave propagation on neural responses to vibration in primate glabrous skin. | pone-0031203-g007: Waveform distortion as a function of distance from the locus of stimulation.A. Traces of traveling waves produced by a noise stimulus (low- and high- frequency cut-offs of 300 and 600 Hz, respectively) measured 1, 8 and 16 mm away from the locus of stimulation....Bottom Line: The resulting delay in neural activation across locations does not substantially blur the temporal patterning in simulated populations of afferents for frequencies less than 200 Hz, which has important implications about how vibratory frequency is encoded in... | Manfredi LR, Baker AT, Elias DO, Dammann JF, et al. - PLoS ONE (2012) |
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 | Trichloridobis(ethyl-diphenyl-phosphine)(tetra-hydro-furan)-molybdenum(III). | Fap1: The molecular structure of the title compound showing the atomic numbering scheme. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 50% probability level. For clarity, all H atoms and the minor component of the disorder have been omitted.Bottom Line: In the mononuclear title compound, [MoCl(3)(C(4)H(8)O)(C(14)H(15)P)(2)], obtained by the reaction of trichloro-tris-(tetra-hydro-furan)-molybdenum(III) and ethyl-diphenyl-phosphine in tetra-hydro-furan (THF) solution, the Mo(III) atom is six-coordinated by... | Kruczyński T, Pikies J, Ponikiewski L - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2010) |
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 | Helicobacter pylori CagA protein can be tyrosine phosphorylated in gastric epithelial cells. | Figure 5: Amino acid sequences of the tyrosine-phosphorylated 145-kD protein. Amino acid sequences of the three internal segments of the tyrosine-phosphorylated 145-kD protein (145-kD seg-1, -2, and -3) from in vitro sample (the reactant of NCTC11637 and MKN45 cell lysates...Bottom Line: Epithelial cells infected with various H. pylori clinical isolates resulted in generation of tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins ranging from 130 to 145 kD in size that were also induced in vitro by mixing host cell lysate with bacterial lysate.When epithelial... | Asahi M, Azuma T, Ito S, Ito Y, Suto H, Nagai Y, et al. - J. Exp. Med. (2000) |
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 | 7,11,15,28-Tetra-bromo-1,21,23,25-tetra-phenethyl-resorcin[4]arene cavitand-acetone-chloro-form (1/1.31/0.69) at... | Fap3: The molecular structure of the title compound viewed from side-on. Displacement ellipsoids are drawn at the 30% probability level and H atoms, where shown, are drawn as spheres of arbitrary radii. The presence of the residual acetone solvent of crystallization...Bottom Line: Chem.Soc.113, 2167-2172]; however, the lower data acquisition temperature results in an improved refinement model.One half of the resorcin[4]arene cavitand mol-ecule appears in the asymmetric unit; the complete resorcin[4]arene cavitand structure was generated... | McKay MG, Friedrich HB, Howie RA, Maguire GE - Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2009) |
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 | Recognition of the spliceosomal branch site RNA helix on the basis of surface and electrostatic features. | fig1: Sequences of the uBP (a) and ψBP (b) used in the calculations. The sequences and numbering are the same as those in Ref. (2). In both cases, the top strand corresponds to the U2 snRNA fragment, and the bottom strand is that of the intron.Bottom Line: Biol., 9, 958-965] showed that a phylogenetically conserved pseudouridine (psi) residue in the segment of U2 snRNA that pairs with the intron induces a markedly different structure compared with that of its unmodified counterpart.There was no significant difference... | Xu D, Greenbaum NL, Fenley MO - Nucleic Acids Res. (2005) |
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 | straightjacket is required for the synaptic stabilization of cacophony, a voltage-gated calcium channel... | fig4: stj mutants exhibit seizure-like activity. (A–D) Muscle recordings of endogenous CPG activity performed at elevated temperature (36°C) with 1.5 mM Ca2+ for control (A; y w; FRT42Diso), stj1/Df (B; y w eyFLP GMR-lacZ; FRT42Diso stj1/Df(2R)Exel7128), stj2/Df...Bottom Line: However, at the synaptic level, stj larval neuromuscular junctions exhibit approximately fourfold reduction in synaptic release compared with controls stemming from a reduced release probability at these synapses.These defects likely stem from destabilization... | Ly CV, Yao CK, Verstreken P, Ohyama T, Bellen HJ - J. Cell Biol. (2008) |
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 | Global analysis of X-chromosome dosage compensation. | Figure 10: Model for X-chromosome dosage compensation in Drosophila, C. elegans and mouse. X-chromosome transcription is generally upregulated (green arrow). X;AA tissues thus avoid unbalanced expression of X-chromosome genes. In order to avoid overexpression of X-chromosome...Bottom Line: Male germ cells lack MSL complexes, indicating that either germline X-chromosome dosage compensation is MSL-independent, or that germ cells do not carry out dosage compensation.To investigate whether dosage compensation occurs in germ cells, we directly assayed... | Gupta V, Parisi M, Sturgill D, Nuttall R, et al. - J. Biol. (2006) |
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 | Recognition of chiral carboxylic anions by artificial receptors. | f10-ijms-11-03334: N-acetyl-tryptophan binding to a chiral guanidine receptor.Bottom Line: Many problems have to be solved for binding anions.The results obtained in the binding of carboxylic anions by guanidine, secondary ammonium and metal-center have been selected.The last part of this review focuses on chiral recognition of carboxylic anions... | Dieng PS, Sirlin C - Int J Mol Sci (2010) |
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 | Large Genomic Deletions in CACNA1A Cause Episodic Ataxia Type 2. | Figure 2: The pedigrees for the probands, indicated by arrowheads. (*, DNA sample obtained; closed symbol, affected; circle – female; square – male). Genotyping of Patient #444 and her father with 19p markers (from 5′ to 3′, 19S226, 19S1150, polymorphic CAG repeats,...Bottom Line: One deletion involving exons 39 through 47 arose spontaneously.The search for mutations in CACNA1A appears most fruitful in EA patients with interictal nystagmus and onset early in life.The finding of large heterozygous deletions suggests haploinsufficiency... | Wan J, Mamsa H, Johnston JL, Spriggs EL, Singer HS, et al. - Front Neurol (2011) |
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