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    Self-incompatibility response induced by calcium increase in sperm of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis [Cell Biology] (2012)
    National Academy of Sciences
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-14
    Description: Many hermaphroditic organisms possess a self-incompatibility system to avoid self-fertilization. Recently, we identified the genes responsible for self-sterility in a hermaphroditic primitive chordate (ascidian), Ciona intestinalis: sperm-side polycystin 1-like receptors s-Themis-A/B and egg-side fibrinogen-like ligands on the vitelline coat (VC) v-Themis-A/B. Here, we investigated the sperm behavior and intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in response to self/nonself-recognition. We found that sperm motility markedly decreased within 5 min after attachment to the VC of self-eggs but not after attachment to the VC of nonself-eggs and that the apparent decrease in sperm motility was suppressed in low Ca2+ seawater. High-speed video analysis revealed that sperm detached from the self-VC or stopped motility within 5 min after binding to the self-VC. Because s-Themis-B contains a cation channel domain in its C terminus, we monitored sperm [Ca2+]i by real-time [Ca2+]i imaging using Fluo-8H-AM (AAT Bioquest, Inc.). Interestingly, we found that sperm [Ca2+]i rapidly and dramatically increased and was maintained at a high level in the head and flagellar regions when sperm interacted with the self-VC but not when the sperm interacted with the nonself-VC. The increase in [Ca2+]i was also suppressed by low-Ca2+ seawater. These results indicate that the sperm self-recognition signal triggers [Ca2+]i increase and/or Ca2+ influx, which elicits a self-incompatibility response to reject self-fertilization in C. intestinalis.
    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General
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    Transport of peptide-MHC class II complexes in developing dendritic cells (2000)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2000-04-25
    Description: Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC II) molecules capture peptides within the endocytic pathway to generate T cell receptor (TCR) ligands. Immature dendritic cells (DCs) sequester intact antigens in lysosomes, processing and converting antigens into peptide-MHC II complexes upon induction of DC maturation. The complexes then accumulate in distinctive, nonlysosomal MHC II+ vesicles that appear to migrate to the cell surface. Although the vesicles exclude soluble lysosomal contents and antigen-processing machinery, many contain MHC I and B7 costimulatory molecules. After arrival at the cell surface, the MHC and costimulatory molecules remain clustered. Thus, transport of peptide-MHC II complexes by DCs not only accomplishes transfer from late endocytic compartments to the plasma membrane, but does so in a manner that selectively concentrates TCR ligands and costimulatory molecules for T cell contact.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Turley, S J -- Inaba, K -- Garrett, W S -- Ebersold, M -- Unternaehrer, J -- Steinman, R M -- Mellman, I -- AI-13013/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI-34098/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI-39672/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Apr 21;288(5465):522-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cell Biology and Section of Immunobiology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, Post Office Box 208002, New Haven, CT 06520-8002, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10775112" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antibodies, Monoclonal ; *Antigen Presentation ; Antigens, CD/immunology/metabolism ; Antigens, CD86 ; B-Lymphocytes/immunology/metabolism ; Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic/pharmacology ; Biological Transport ; Cell Membrane/immunology/metabolism ; Cells, Cultured ; Dendritic Cells/*immunology/*metabolism ; Endocytosis ; Endosomes/immunology/metabolism ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/immunology/metabolism ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/immunology/*metabolism ; Kinetics ; Ligands ; Lipopolysaccharides/immunology ; Lysosomes/immunology/metabolism ; Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology/metabolism ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C3H ; Muramidase/immunology/*metabolism ; Peptide Fragments/immunology/*metabolism ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism ; Thiazoles/pharmacology ; Thiazolidines
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    The draft genome of Ciona intestinalis: insights into chordate and vertebrate origins (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-12-14
    Description: The first chordates appear in the fossil record at the time of the Cambrian explosion, nearly 550 million years ago. The modern ascidian tadpole represents a plausible approximation to these ancestral chordates. To illuminate the origins of chordate and vertebrates, we generated a draft of the protein-coding portion of the genome of the most studied ascidian, Ciona intestinalis. The Ciona genome contains approximately 16,000 protein-coding genes, similar to the number in other invertebrates, but only half that found in vertebrates. Vertebrate gene families are typically found in simplified form in Ciona, suggesting that ascidians contain the basic ancestral complement of genes involved in cell signaling and development. The ascidian genome has also acquired a number of lineage-specific innovations, including a group of genes engaged in cellulose metabolism that are related to those in bacteria and fungi.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dehal, Paramvir -- Satou, Yutaka -- Campbell, Robert K -- Chapman, Jarrod -- Degnan, Bernard -- De Tomaso, Anthony -- Davidson, Brad -- Di Gregorio, Anna -- Gelpke, Maarten -- Goodstein, David M -- Harafuji, Naoe -- Hastings, Kenneth E M -- Ho, Isaac -- Hotta, Kohji -- Huang, Wayne -- Kawashima, Takeshi -- Lemaire, Patrick -- Martinez, Diego -- Meinertzhagen, Ian A -- Necula, Simona -- Nonaka, Masaru -- Putnam, Nik -- Rash, Sam -- Saiga, Hidetoshi -- Satake, Masanobu -- Terry, Astrid -- Yamada, Lixy -- Wang, Hong-Gang -- Awazu, Satoko -- Azumi, Kaoru -- Boore, Jeffrey -- Branno, Margherita -- Chin-Bow, Stephen -- DeSantis, Rosaria -- Doyle, Sharon -- Francino, Pilar -- Keys, David N -- Haga, Shinobu -- Hayashi, Hiroko -- Hino, Kyosuke -- Imai, Kaoru S -- Inaba, Kazuo -- Kano, Shungo -- Kobayashi, Kenji -- Kobayashi, Mari -- Lee, Byung-In -- Makabe, Kazuhiro W -- Manohar, Chitra -- Matassi, Giorgio -- Medina, Monica -- Mochizuki, Yasuaki -- Mount, Steve -- Morishita, Tomomi -- Miura, Sachiko -- Nakayama, Akie -- Nishizaka, Satoko -- Nomoto, Hisayo -- Ohta, Fumiko -- Oishi, Kazuko -- Rigoutsos, Isidore -- Sano, Masako -- Sasaki, Akane -- Sasakura, Yasunori -- Shoguchi, Eiichi -- Shin-i, Tadasu -- Spagnuolo, Antoinetta -- Stainier, Didier -- Suzuki, Miho M -- Tassy, Olivier -- Takatori, Naohito -- Tokuoka, Miki -- Yagi, Kasumi -- Yoshizaki, Fumiko -- Wada, Shuichi -- Zhang, Cindy -- Hyatt, P Douglas -- Larimer, Frank -- Detter, Chris -- Doggett, Norman -- Glavina, Tijana -- Hawkins, Trevor -- Richardson, Paul -- Lucas, Susan -- Kohara, Yuji -- Levine, Michael -- Satoh, Nori -- Rokhsar, Daniel S -- HD-37105/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Dec 13;298(5601):2157-67.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12481130" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Animals ; Apoptosis ; Base Sequence ; Cellulose/metabolism ; Central Nervous System/physiology ; Ciona intestinalis/anatomy & histology/classification/*genetics/physiology ; Computational Biology ; Endocrine System/physiology ; Gene Dosage ; Gene Duplication ; Genes ; Genes, Homeobox ; *Genome ; Heart/embryology/physiology ; Immunity/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Multigene Family ; Muscle Proteins/genetics ; Organizers, Embryonic/physiology ; Phylogeny ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; Proteins/genetics/physiology ; *Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; Species Specificity ; Thyroid Gland/physiology ; Urochordata/genetics ; Vertebrates/anatomy & histology/classification/genetics/physiology
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
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    Dendritic cells exposed to human immunodeficiency virus type-1 transmit a vigorous cytopathic infection to CD4+ T cells (1992)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1992-07-17
    Description: The paucity of virus-laden CD4+ cells in individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) contrasts with the greatly reduced numbers and function of these lymphocytes. A pathway is described whereby dendritic cells carry HIV-1 to uninfected T cells, amplifying the cytopathic effects of small amounts of virus. After exposure to HIV-1, dendritic cells continue to present superantigens and antigens, forming clusters with T cells that are driven to replicate. Infection of the dendritic cells cannot be detected, but the clustered T cells form syncytia, release virions, and die. Carriage of HIV-1 by dendritic cells may facilitate the lysis and loss of antigen specific CD4+ T cells in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cameron, P U -- Freudenthal, P S -- Barker, J M -- Gezelter, S -- Inaba, K -- Steinman, R M -- AI 24775/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- MOI-RR00102/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Jul 17;257(5068):383-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory for Cellular Physiology and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1352913" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/drug therapy/*transmission ; Animals ; Antigen-Presenting Cells/immunology ; CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*immunology/*microbiology ; Cell Separation ; Dendritic Cells/*immunology/*microbiology ; Flow Cytometry ; HIV Core Protein p24/biosynthesis ; HIV Long Terminal Repeat/physiology ; HIV-1/*pathogenicity ; In Vitro Techniques ; Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed ; Mice ; Microscopy, Electron ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Zidovudine/pharmacology
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    Sperm calcineurin inhibition prevents mouse fertility with implications for male contraceptive (2015)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2015-10-03
    Description: Calcineurin inhibitors, such as cyclosporine A and FK506, are used as immunosuppressant drugs, but their adverse effects on male reproductive function remain unclear. The testis expresses somatic calcineurin and a sperm-specific isoform that contains a catalytic subunit (PPP3CC) and a regulatory subunit (PPP3R2). We demonstrate herein that male mice lacking Ppp3cc or Ppp3r2 genes (knockout mice) are infertile, with reduced sperm motility owing to an inflexible midpiece. Treatment of mice with cyclosporine A or FK506 creates phenocopies of the sperm motility and morphological defects. These defects appear within 4 to 5 days of treatment, which indicates that sperm-specific calcineurin confers midpiece flexibility during epididymal transit. Male mouse fertility recovered a week after we discontinued treatment. Because human spermatozoa contain PPP3CC and PPP3R2 as a form of calcineurin, inhibition of this sperm-specific calcineurin may lead to the development of a reversible male contraceptive that would target spermatozoa in the epididymis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Miyata, Haruhiko -- Satouh, Yuhkoh -- Mashiko, Daisuke -- Muto, Masanaga -- Nozawa, Kaori -- Shiba, Kogiku -- Fujihara, Yoshitaka -- Isotani, Ayako -- Inaba, Kazuo -- Ikawa, Masahito -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Oct 23;350(6259):442-5. doi: 10.1126/science.aad0836. Epub 2015 Oct 1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ; Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ; Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ; Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba, 5-10-1 Shimoda, Shizuoka 415-0025, Japan. ; Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ; Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ikawa@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26429887" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    Protein-specific helper T-lymphocyte formation initiated by dendritic cells (1985)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 1985-08-02
    Description: Antibody responses to hapten-polypeptide conjugates require peptide-specific helper T cells. The latter can be primed in tissue culture by providing small numbers of dendritic cells. Primed, irradiated helper T cells then induce B-cell growth and differentiation in the apparent absence of dendritic cells. Both stages of the antibody response--the induction of helper T lymphoblasts by dendritic cells and the delivery of help from T to B cell--occur in discrete cell aggregates that can be isolated by velocity sedimentation. If helper T blasts revert to smaller "memory" lymphocytes, dendritic cells again are needed to initiate the antibody response.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Inaba, K -- Steinman, R M -- AI 13013/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- CA 30198/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1985 Aug 2;229(4712):475-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3160115" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antibody Formation ; Antigen-Presenting Cells/*physiology ; B-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Cell Adhesion ; Haptens/immunology ; Immunologic Memory ; In Vitro Techniques ; Macrophages/physiology ; Mice ; Proteins/*immunology ; Spleen/*cytology/physiology ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/*physiology
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    X-ray scattering study of interfacial roughness correlation in Mo/Si multilayers fabricated by ion beam sputtering (2000)
    [S.l.] : American Institute of Physics (AIP)
    Journal of Applied Physics 87 (2000), S. 7255-7260 
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    ISSN: 1089-7550
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Specular and diffuse x-ray scattering are used to probe the mesoscopic structure of interfaces within two 30-period Mo/Si superlattices, grown on silicon and glass substrates by ion beam sputtering. The data are evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively on the basis of a distorted-wave Born approximation, which includes a correlating behavior of interface roughness in both the lateral and vertical directions. Different initial conditions of the substrate's surface result in distinguishable characters of roughness replications in the direction of growth. The average value, lateral correlation and fractal dimension of roughness are found to be different in the two samples, which leads to differences in the reflective properties of multilayer mirrors. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.372977
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    Development of a cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) marker linked to pungency in pepper (2005)
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Plant breeding 124 (2005), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1439-0523
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: The complete tack of pungency in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is controlled by a single recessive gene (c). To develop a molecular marker linked to the C locus, two segregating F2 populations (TM2 and TF2) derived from crosses between occasionally pungent and non-pungent peppers in C. annuum were used. Using the RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA) technique in combination with a bulked segregation analysis, two RAPD markers, OPD20-800 and OPY09-800, were obtained. Of the two markers, the more closely linked marker. OPY09-800, was converted into a codominant CAPS (cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence) marker using data from the alignment of the two allelic sequences. This CAPS marker was linked to the C locus (3.6 cM in the TF2 population), and polymorphism was detected among accessions within C. annuum. This marker might be helpful for the selection of a c gene in backcross and progeny tests in a conventional breeding system.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0523.2005.01101.x
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    Anthraniloyl ATP, a fluorescent analog of ATP, as a substrate for dynein ATPase and flagellar motility
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 274 (1989), S. 209-215 
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    ISSN: 0003-9861
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0003-9861(89)90432-3
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    Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic studies of pink color chromoprotein from Pleurotus salmoneostramineus L. Vass. (1997)
    Copenhagen : International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
    Acta crystallographica 53 (1997), S. 335-336 
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    ISSN: 1399-0047
    Source: Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: A chromoprotein from Pleurotus salmoneostramineus L. Vass. has been purified and crystallized. The needle-shaped crystal has monoclinic space group C2 with the cell dimensions of a = 118.5, b= 59.7,0 c = 31.8 Å and β = 114°. The crystal diffracts to 1.8 Å resolution with a synchrotron radiation X-ray source.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0907444996014424
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