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    Macromolecular architecture in eukaryotic cells visualized by cryoelectron tomography (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-11-09
    Description: Electron tomography of vitrified cells is a noninvasive three-dimensional imaging technique that opens up new vistas for exploring the supramolecular organization of the cytoplasm. We applied this technique to Dictyostelium cells, focusing on the actin cytoskeleton. In actin networks reconstructed without prior removal of membranes or extraction of soluble proteins, the cross-linking of individual microfilaments, their branching angles, and membrane attachment sites can be analyzed. At a resolution of 5 to 6 nanometers, single macromolecules with distinct shapes, such as the 26S proteasome, can be identified in an unperturbed cellular environment.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Medalia, Ohad -- Weber, Igor -- Frangakis, Achilleas S -- Nicastro, Daniela -- Gerisch, Gunther -- Baumeister, Wolfgang -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Nov 8;298(5596):1209-13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12424373" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Actin Cytoskeleton/chemistry/metabolism/*ultrastructure ; Actins/ultrastructure ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Cell Membrane/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Cell Movement ; Dictyostelium/chemistry/physiology/*ultrastructure ; Endoplasmic Reticulum, Rough/ultrastructure ; Freezing ; *Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Macromolecular Substances ; Microfilament Proteins/*ultrastructure ; Organelles/*ultrastructure ; Peptide Hydrolases/ultrastructure ; *Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex ; Proteome ; Protozoan Proteins/ultrastructure ; Ribosomes/ultrastructure ; Tomography/*methods
    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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    Eta-1 (osteopontin): an early component of type-1 (cell-mediated) immunity (2000)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2000-02-05
    Description: Cell-mediated (type-1) immunity is necessary for immune protection against most intracellular pathogens and, when excessive, can mediate organ-specific autoimmune destruction. Mice deficient in Eta-1 (also called osteopontin) gene expression have severely impaired type-1 immunity to viral infection [herpes simplex virus-type 1 (KOS strain)] and bacterial infection (Listeria monocytogenes) and do not develop sarcoid-type granulomas. Interleukin-12 (IL-12) and interferon-gamma production is diminished, and IL-10 production is increased. A phosphorylation-dependent interaction between the amino-terminal portion of Eta-1 and its integrin receptor stimulated IL-12 expression, whereas a phosphorylation-independent interaction with CD44 inhibited IL-10 expression. These findings identify Eta-1 as a key cytokine that sets the stage for efficient type-1 immune responses through differential regulation of macrophage IL-12 and IL-10 cytokine expression.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ashkar, S -- Weber, G F -- Panoutsakopoulou, V -- Sanchirico, M E -- Jansson, M -- Zawaideh, S -- Rittling, S R -- Denhardt, D T -- Glimcher, M J -- Cantor, H -- AI12184/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI37833/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- CA76176/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Feb 4;287(5454):860-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory for Skeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10657301" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigens, CD44/metabolism ; Granuloma/immunology ; Herpes Simplex/immunology ; Herpesvirus 1, Human/immunology ; Hypersensitivity, Delayed ; Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis ; Interleukin-10/*biosynthesis ; Interleukin-12/*biosynthesis ; Keratitis, Herpetic/immunology ; Listeriosis/immunology ; Lymphocyte Activation ; Macrophages/*immunology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C3H ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Mice, Nude ; Osteopontin ; Phosphorylation ; Receptors, Vitronectin/metabolism ; Sialoglycoproteins/*immunology/metabolism/pharmacology ; T-Lymphocytes/*immunology/metabolism
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    A human genome diversity cell line panel (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-04-17
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cann, Howard M -- de Toma, Claudia -- Cazes, Lucien -- Legrand, Marie-Fernande -- Morel, Valerie -- Piouffre, Laurence -- Bodmer, Julia -- Bodmer, Walter F -- Bonne-Tamir, Batsheva -- Cambon-Thomsen, Anne -- Chen, Zhu -- Chu, J -- Carcassi, Carlo -- Contu, Licinio -- Du, Ruofu -- Excoffier, Laurent -- Ferrara, G B -- Friedlaender, Jonathan S -- Groot, Helena -- Gurwitz, David -- Jenkins, Trefor -- Herrera, Rene J -- Huang, Xiaoyi -- Kidd, Judith -- Kidd, Kenneth K -- Langaney, Andre -- Lin, Alice A -- Mehdi, S Qasim -- Parham, Peter -- Piazza, Alberto -- Pistillo, Maria Pia -- Qian, Yaping -- Shu, Qunfang -- Xu, Jiujin -- Zhu, S -- Weber, James L -- Greely, Henry T -- Feldman, Marcus W -- Thomas, Gilles -- Dausset, Jean -- Cavalli-Sforza, L Luca -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Apr 12;296(5566):261-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11954565" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Biological Specimen Banks ; *Cell Line ; Continental Population Groups/genetics ; DNA/genetics ; Databases, Factual ; Female ; *Genetic Variation ; *Genome, Human ; Haplotypes ; Humans ; Informed Consent ; *Lymphocytes ; Male ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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    Reconstitution of Ca2+-regulated membrane fusion by synaptotagmin and SNAREs (2004)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2004-03-27
    Description: We investigated the effect of synaptotagmin I on membrane fusion mediated by neuronal SNARE proteins, SNAP-25, syntaxin, and synaptobrevin, which were reconstituted into vesicles. In the presence of Ca2+, the cytoplasmic domain of synaptotagmin I (syt) strongly stimulated membrane fusion when synaptobrevin densities were similar to those found in native synaptic vesicles. The Ca2+ dependence of syt-stimulated fusion was modulated by changes in lipid composition of the vesicles and by a truncation that mimics cleavage of SNAP-25 by botulinum neurotoxin A. Stimulation of fusion was abolished by disrupting the Ca2+-binding activity, or by severing the tandem C2 domains, of syt. Thus, syt and SNAREs are likely to represent the minimal protein complement for Ca2+-triggered exocytosis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tucker, Ward C -- Weber, Thomas -- Chapman, Edwin R -- GM 56827/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 66313/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- MH 61876/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Apr 16;304(5669):435-8. Epub 2004 Mar 25.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15044754" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; Calcium/*metabolism ; *Calcium-Binding Proteins ; Exocytosis ; Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer ; Lipid Bilayers ; Lipids/analysis ; Liposomes/chemistry/metabolism ; *Membrane Fusion ; Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Membrane Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Mice ; Mutation ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Qa-SNARE Proteins ; R-SNARE Proteins ; Rats ; Synaptic Vesicles/chemistry/metabolism ; Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25 ; Synaptotagmin I ; Synaptotagmins
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    Genetic structure of human populations (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-12-21
    Description: We studied human population structure using genotypes at 377 autosomal microsatellite loci in 1056 individuals from 52 populations. Within-population differences among individuals account for 93 to 95% of genetic variation; differences among major groups constitute only 3 to 5%. Nevertheless, without using prior information about the origins of individuals, we identified six main genetic clusters, five of which correspond to major geographic regions, and subclusters that often correspond to individual populations. General agreement of genetic and predefined populations suggests that self-reported ancestry can facilitate assessments of epidemiological risks but does not obviate the need to use genetic information in genetic association studies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rosenberg, Noah A -- Pritchard, Jonathan K -- Weber, James L -- Cann, Howard M -- Kidd, Kenneth K -- Zhivotovsky, Lev A -- Feldman, Marcus W -- GM28428/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Dec 20;298(5602):2381-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular and Computational Biology, 1042 West 36th Place DRB 289, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. noahr@usc.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12493913" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Africa South of the Sahara ; Algorithms ; Alleles ; Americas ; Analysis of Variance ; Asia ; Cluster Analysis ; Europe ; Gene Frequency ; Genetic Drift ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease ; *Genetic Variation ; *Genetics, Medical ; *Genetics, Population ; Genotype ; Geography ; Heterozygote ; Humans ; Language ; Microsatellite Repeats ; Middle East ; Pacific Islands ; Probability ; Risk Factors
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    Chemical constraints governing the origin of metabolism: the thermodynamic landscape of carbon group transformations under mild aqueous conditions (2002)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: The thermodynamics of organic chemistry under mild aqueous conditions was examined in order to begin to understand its influence on the structure and operation of metabolism and its antecedents. Free energies (deltaG) were estimated for four types of reactions of biochemical importance carbon-carbon bond cleavage and synthesis, hydrogen transfer between carbon groups, dehydration of alcohol groups, and aldo-keto isomerization. The energies were calculated for mainly aliphatic groups composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The energy values showed (1) that generally when carbon-carbon bond cleavage involves groups from different functional group classes (i.e., carboxylic acids, carbonyl groups, alcohols, and hydrocarbons), the transfer of the shared electron-pair to the more reduced carbon group is energetically favored over transfer to the more oxidized carbon group, and (2) that the energy of carbon-carbon bond transformation is primarily determined by the functional group class of the group that changes oxidation state in the reaction (i.e., the functional group class of the group that donates the shared electron-pair during cleavage, or that accepts the incipient shared electron-pair during synthesis). In contrast, the energy of hydrogen transfer between carbon groups is determined by the functional group class of both the hydrogen-donor group and the hydrogen-acceptor group. From these and other observations we concluded that the chemistry involved in the origin of metabolism (and to a lesser degree modern metabolism) was strongly constrained by (1) the limited redox-based transformation energy of organic substrates that is readily dissipated in a few energetically favorable irreversible reactions; (2) the energy dominance of a few transformation half-reactions that determines whether carbon-carbon bond transformation (cleavage or synthesis) is energetically favorable (deltaG 〈 -3.5 kcal/mol), reversible (deltaG between +/-3.5 kcal/mol), or unfavorable (deltaG 〉 +3.5 kcal/mol); and (3) the dependence of carbon group transformation energy on the functional group class (i.e., oxidation state) of participating groups that in turn is contingent on prior reactions and precursors in the synthetic pathway.
    Keywords: Life Sciences (General)
    Type: Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life (ISSN 0169-6149); Volume 32; 4; 333-57
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    Micromere lineages in the glossiphoniid leech Helobdella (2002)
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: In leech embryos, segmental mesoderm and ectoderm arise from teloblasts by lineages that are already relatively well characterized. Here, we present data concerning the early divisions and the definitive fate maps of the micromeres, a group of 25 small cells that arise during the modified spiral cleavage in leech (Helobdella robusta) and contribute to most of the nonsegmental tissues of the adult. Three noteworthy results of this work are as follows. (1) The c"' and dm' clones (3d and 3c in traditional nomenclature) give rise to a hitherto undescribed network of fibers that run from one end of the embryo to the other. (2) The clones of micromeres b" and b"' (2b and 3b in traditional nomenclature) die in normal development; the b" clone can be rescued to assume the normal c" fate if micromere c" or its clone are ablated in early development. (3) Two qualitative differences in micromere fates are seen between H. robusta (Sacramento) and another Helobdella sp. (Galt). First, in Helobdella sp. (Galt), the clone of micromere b" does not normally die, and contributes a subset of the cells arising exclusively from c" in H. robusta (Sacramento). Second, in Helobdella sp. (Galt), micromere c"' makes no definitive contribution, whereas micromere dm' gives rise to cells equivalent to those arising from c"' and dm' in H. robusta (Sacramento).
    Keywords: Life Sciences (General)
    Type: Development (Cambridge, England) (ISSN 0950-1991); Volume 129; 3; 719-32
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    Prebiotic Synthesis of Autocatalytic Products From Formaldehyde-Derived Sugars as the Carbon and Energy Source (2003)
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    Publication Date: 2019-07-18
    Description: Our research objective is to understand and model the chemical processes on the primitive Earth that generated the first autocatalytic molecules and microstructures involved in the origin of life. Our approach involves: (a) investigation of a model origin-of-life process named the Sugar Model that is based on the reaction of formaldehyde- derived sugars (trioses and tetroses) with ammonia, and (b) elucidation of the constraints imposed on the chemistry of the origin of life by the fixed energies and rates of C,H,O-organic reactions under mild aqueous conditions. Recently, we demonstrated that under mild aqueous conditions the Sugar Model process yields autocatalytic products, and generates organic micropherules (2-20 micron dia.) that exhibit budding, size uniformity, and chain formation. We also discovered that the sugar substrates of the Sugar Model are capable of reducing nitrite to ammonia under mild aqueous conditions. In addition studies done in collaboration with Sandra Pizzarrello (Arizona State University) revealed that chiral amino acids (including meteoritic isovaline) catalyze both the synthesis and specific handedness of chiral sugars. Our systematic survey of the energies and rates of reactions of C,H,O-organic substrates under mild aqueous conditions revealed several general principles (rules) that govern the direction and rate of organic reactions. These reactivity principles constrain the structure of chemical pathways used in the origin of life, and in modern and primitive metabolism.
    Keywords: Life Sciences (General)
    Type: Exobiology P.I. Symposium; Aug 25, 2003 - Aug 29, 2003; Toronto; Canada
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