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Planta ; 251(1): 20, 2019 Nov 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31781986

RESUMO

MAIN CONCLUSION: Certain apple cultivars accumulate to high levels in their nectar and stigma exudate an acidic chitinase III protein that can protect against pathogens including fire blight disease causing Erwinia amylovora. To prevent microbial infections, flower nectars and stigma exudates contain various antimicrobial compounds. Erwinia amylovora, the causing bacterium of the devastating fire blight apple disease, is the model pathogen that multiplies in flower secretions and infects through the nectaries. Although Erwinia-resistant apples are not available, certain cultivars are tolerant. It was reported that in flower infection assay, the 'Freedom' cultivar was Erwinia tolerant, while the 'Jonagold' cultivar was susceptible. We hypothesized that differences in the nectar protein compositions lead to different susceptibility. Indeed, we found that an acidic chitinase III protein (Machi3-1) selectively accumulates to very high levels in the nectar and the stigma exudate of the 'Freedom' cultivar. We show that three different Machi3-1 alleles exist in apple cultivars and that only the 5B-Machi3-1 allele expresses the Machi3-1 protein in the nectar and the stigma exudate. We demonstrate that the 5B-Machi3-1 allele was introgressed from the Malus floribunda 821 clone into different apple cultivars including the 'Freedom'. Our data suggest that MYB-binding site containing repeats of the 5B-Machi3-1 promoter is responsible for the strong nectar- and stigma exudate-specific expression. As we found that in vitro, the Machi3-1 protein impairs growth and biofilm formation of Erwinia at physiological concentration, we propose that the Machi3-1 protein could partially protect 5B-Machi3-1 allele containing cultivars against Erwinia by inhibiting the multiplication and biofilm formation of the pathogen in the stigma exudate and in the nectar.


Assuntos
Quitinases/metabolismo , Erwinia amylovora/fisiologia , Flores/metabolismo , Malus/enzimologia , Malus/microbiologia , Doenças das Plantas/microbiologia , Exsudatos de Plantas/metabolismo , Néctar de Plantas/metabolismo , Alelos , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Biofilmes/efeitos dos fármacos , Biofilmes/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Quitinases/química , Resistência à Doença , Erwinia amylovora/efeitos dos fármacos , Erwinia amylovora/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas/efeitos dos fármacos , Malus/efeitos dos fármacos , Malus/genética , Especificidade de Órgãos , Proteínas de Plantas/química , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Regiões Promotoras Genéticas/genética , RNA Mensageiro/genética , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Nicotiana/genética
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J Bacteriol ; 188(9): 3409-11, 2006 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16621836

RESUMO

We previously proposed that lambdoid phages change their insertion specificity by adapting their integrases to sequences found in secondary attachment sites. To test this model, we quantified recombination between partners that carried sequences from secondary attachment sites catalyzed by wild-type and by mutant integrases with altered specificities. The results are consistent with the model, and indicate differential core site usage in excision and integration.


Assuntos
Sítios de Ligação Microbiológicos/fisiologia , Bacteriófago lambda/fisiologia , Sítios de Ligação Microbiológicos/genética , Bacteriófago lambda/enzimologia , Integrases/genética , Integrases/metabolismo , Mutação , Recombinação Genética , Integração Viral
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Yeast ; 22(8): 669-76, 2005 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16032762

RESUMO

Three yeast strains capable of utilizing methanol as sole carbon and energy source were isolated. Two were classified as Candida boidinii, while the third belonged in the genus Pichia. From these three strains, four alcohol oxidases genes were identified and the sequences of the coding regions were determined: one from each Candida boidinii (aox0673 and aox0680) and two from Pichia sp. 159 (aoxA and aoxB). Methanol induces both alcohol oxidases in Pichia sp. 159: the levels of aoxA and aoxB mRNA reach about 100% and 300%, respectively, of that of his4 mRNA. aoxA, but not aoxB, is expressed at a low level in the presence of glucose. The newly described alcohol oxidases have proper dinucleotide binding sites and PTS1-like C-terminal tripeptides, identified as important elements for peroxisomal localization.


Assuntos
Oxirredutases do Álcool/genética , Candida/enzimologia , Pichia/enzimologia , Oxirredutases do Álcool/química , Oxirredutases do Álcool/metabolismo , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Candida/classificação , Candida/genética , Proteínas Fúngicas/química , Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Proteínas Fúngicas/metabolismo , Metanol/metabolismo , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Filogenia , Pichia/classificação , Pichia/genética , Análise de Sequência de DNA
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J Autoimmun ; 24(1): 47-54, 2005 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15725576

RESUMO

To evaluate the antigenicity of a peptide representing a part of the second extracellular loop of the human muscarinic acetylcholine receptor 3 (m3AChR) with autoimmune sera from primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) were developed. On the basis of the computer-predicted data, a 16-mer synthetic peptide KRTVPPGECFIQFLSE (KRSE213-228) was produced by solid-phase peptide synthesis. cDNA coding for the KRSE peptide was chemically synthetized and utilized to express the recombinant glutathione S-transferase (GST)-KRSE fusion protein. The immunoreactivities of the two antigens were tested in ELISAs with the sera of 40 pSS patients and 40 healthy controls. The specificity of the reaction was confirmed by inhibition assays and immunoblottings. The pSS sera resulted in significantly higher mean optical densities than those of the healthy controls (KRSE: 0.4149 vs 0.1494, p<0.0001; GST-KRSE 0.4765 vs 0.1764, p<0.0001). The immunological recognition with the recombinant fusion antigen was significantly better than that for the free peptide (p=0.0068). The sensitivities of the assays were 77.5% (KRSE) and 97% (GST-KRSE). The results of the concentration-dependent inhibition assays by the two systems of peptide presentation indicated that the KRSE sequence is specific for pSS sera. This is the first demonstration of the antigenicity of a novel peptide fragment of the human m3AChR in pSS. The analysed peptide could be of diagnostic relevance.


Assuntos
Antígenos/química , Antígenos/imunologia , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/química , Fragmentos de Peptídeos/imunologia , Receptores Muscarínicos/química , Receptores Muscarínicos/imunologia , Síndrome de Sjogren/imunologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Western Blotting , Computadores , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Dados de Sequência Molecular
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Biochem Biophys Res Commun ; 307(3): 503-9, 2003 Aug 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12893250

RESUMO

Two genes expressing 70 kDa heat shock proteins were identified in Cyprinus carpio. The sequence similarities and the intron-interrupted structure of the coding regions indicate that carp Hsc70-1 and Hsc70-2 belong to the Hsp70 cognate subfamily. The expressions of the two hsc70 genes were followed by semi-quantitative RT-PCR. Both genes are expressed under unstressed conditions in a characteristic tissue-specific manner. Inducibility of the response to elevated temperature, cold shock, and Cd treatment was investigated in the liver and muscle, in whole-animal experiments. Both genes were insensitive to or only weakly induced by the stressors, with two exceptions: Cd treatment resulted in an 11-13-fold enhanced induction of hsc70-1 in the liver and cold shock enhanced induction of hsc70-2 in the muscle by 7.5-10-fold.


Assuntos
Carpas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Choque Térmico HSP70/biossíntese , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Cádmio/farmacologia , Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Proteínas de Choque Térmico HSC70 , Proteínas de Choque Térmico HSP70/classificação , Proteínas de Choque Térmico HSP70/genética , Fígado/metabolismo , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Músculos/metabolismo , Especificidade de Órgãos , Filogenia , Isoformas de Proteínas/biossíntese , Isoformas de Proteínas/genética , Alinhamento de Sequência , Temperatura , Distribuição Tecidual
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J Mol Biol ; 329(5): 983-96, 2003 Jun 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12798688

RESUMO

When phage lambda lysogenizes a cell that lacks the primary bacterial attachment site, integrase catalyzes insertion of the phage chromosome into one of many secondary sites. Here, we characterize the secondary sites that are preferred by wild-type lambda and by lambda int mutants with altered insertion specificity. The sequences of these secondary sites resembled that of the primary site: they contained two imperfect inverted repeats flanking a short spacer. The imperfect inverted repeats of the primary site bind integrase, while the 7 bp spacer, or overlap region, swaps strands with a complementary sequence in the phage attachment site during recombination. We found substantial sequence conservation in the imperfect inverted repeats of secondary sites, and nearly perfect conservation in the leftmost three bases of the overlap region. By contrast, the rightmost bases of the overlap region were much more variable. A phage with an altered overlap region preferred to insert into secondary sites with the corresponding bases. We suggest that this difference between the left and right segments is a result of the defined order of strand exchanges during integrase-promoted recombination. This suggestion accounts for the unexpected segregation pattern of the overlap region observed after insertion into several secondary sites. Some of the altered specificity int mutants differed from wild-type in secondary site preference, but we were unable to identify simple sequence motifs that account for these differences. We propose that insertion into secondary sites is a step in the evolutionary change of phage insertion specificity and present a model of how this might occur.


Assuntos
Sítios de Ligação Microbiológicos/fisiologia , Bacteriófago lambda/fisiologia , Integrases/genética , Mutação , Recombinação Genética , Bacteriófago lambda/genética , Variação Genética , Integrases/metabolismo
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