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Transport in Plants and in Root Nodules
DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT PATHWAYS IN PISUM SATIVUM ROOT NODULES by Cherish A. Warner A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the University of Delaware in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences Fall 2018 © 2018 Cherish A. Warner All Rights Reserved DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED TRANSPORT PATHWAYS IN PISUM SATIVUM ROOT NODULES by Cherish A. Warner Approved: __________________________________________________________ E. Fidelma Boyd, Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences Approved: __________________________________________________________ John Pelesko, Ph.D. Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Approved: __________________________________________________________ Douglas J. Doren, Ph.D. Interim Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education I certify that I have read this dissertation and that in my opinion it meets the academic and professional standard required by the University as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Signed: __________________________________________________________ D. Janine Sherrier, Ph.D. Professor in charge of dissertation I certify that I have read this dissertation and that in my opinion it meets the academic and professional standard required by the University as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Signed: __________________________________________________________ Jeffrey L. Caplan, Ph.D. Member of dissertation committee I certify that I have read this dissertation and that in my opinion it meets the academic and professional standard required by the University as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Signed: __________________________________________________________ Diane Herson, Ph.D. Member of dissertation committee I certify that I have read this dissertation and that in my opinion it meets the academic and professional standard required by the University as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. -
United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,766,866 Center Et Al
USOO5766866A United States Patent (19) 11 Patent Number: 5,766,866 Center et al. 45) Date of Patent: Jun. 16, 1998 54 LYMPHOCYTE CHEMOATTRACTANT Center, et al. The Journal of Immunology. 128:2563-2568 FACTOR AND USES THEREOF (1982). 75 Inventors: David M. Center. Wellesley Hills; Cruikshank, et al. The Journal of Immunology, William W. Cruikshank. Westford; 138:3817-3823 (1987). Hardy Kornfeld, Brighton, all of Mass. Cruikshank, et al., The Journal of Immunology, 73) Assignee: Research Corporation Technologies, 146:2928-2934 (1991). Inc., Tucson, Ariz. Cruikshank, et al., EMBL Database. Accession No. M90301 (21) Appl. No.: 580,680 (1992). 22 Filed: Dec. 29, 1995 Cruikshank. et al. The Journal of Immunology, 128:2569-2574 (1982). Related U.S. Application Data Rand, et al., J. Exp. Med., 173:1521-1528 (1991). 60 Division of Ser. No. 480,156, Jun. 7, 1995, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 354,961, Dec. 13, 1994, Harlow (1988) Antibodies, a laboratory manual. Cold Spring which is a continuation of Ser. No. 68,949, May 21, 1993, Harbor Laboratory, 285, 287. abandoned. Waldman (1991) Science. vol. 252, 1657-1662. (51) Int. Cl. ....................... G01N 33/53; CO7K 1700; CO7K 16/00: A61K 45/05 Hams et al. (1993) TIBTECH Feb. 1993 vol. 111, 42-44. 52 U.S. Cl. ......................... 424/7.24; 435/7.1; 435/7.92: 435/975; 530/350:530/351; 530/387.1: Center, et al. (Feb. 1995) "The Lymphocyte Chemoattractant 530/388.23: 530/389.2: 424/85.1: 424/130.1 Factor”. J. Lab. Clin. Med. 125(2):167-172. -
Iron Transport Across Symbiotic Membranes of Nitrogen-Fixing Legumes
International Journal of Molecular Sciences Review Iron Transport across Symbiotic Membranes of Nitrogen-Fixing Legumes David A. Day 1,* and Penelope M. C. Smith 2 1 College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia 2 School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3083, Australia; [email protected] * Correspondence: David.Day@flinders.edu.au Abstract: Iron is an essential nutrient for the legume-rhizobia symbiosis and nitrogen-fixing bac- teroids within root nodules of legumes have a very high demand for the metal. Within the infected cells of nodules, the bacteroids are surrounded by a plant membrane to form an organelle-like structure called the symbiosome. In this review, we focus on how iron is transported across the symbiosome membrane and accessed by the bacteroids. Keywords: legumes; nitrogen fixation; symbiosomes; iron 1. Introduction Iron is an essential nutrient for cell function and plants have developed specialised mechanisms for mobilising, absorbing and storing the metal. Cellular iron homeostasis is important because iron is toxic when present in excess. Symbiotically grown legumes have a particularly high requirement for iron and low iron severely retards their growth and their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen [1,2]. Legumes form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria (rhizobia) that enables the plants to utilize atmospheric nitrogen for growth. Infection of the legume root by rhizobia Citation: Day, D.A.; Smith, P.M.C. results in the formation of specialized organs called nodules that provide the microaerobic Iron Transport across Symbiotic conditions required for operation of the bacterium’s nitrogenase enzyme. -
Evolutionary Divergence and Functions of the Human Interleukin (IL) Gene Family Chad Brocker,1 David Thompson,2 Akiko Matsumoto,1 Daniel W
UPDATE ON GENE COMPLETIONS AND ANNOTATIONS Evolutionary divergence and functions of the human interleukin (IL) gene family Chad Brocker,1 David Thompson,2 Akiko Matsumoto,1 Daniel W. Nebert3* and Vasilis Vasiliou1 1Molecular Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences Program, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA 2Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA 3Department of Environmental Health and Center for Environmental Genetics (CEG), University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45267–0056, USA *Correspondence to: Tel: þ1 513 821 4664; Fax: þ1 513 558 0925; E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Date received (in revised form): 22nd September 2010 Abstract Cytokines play a very important role in nearly all aspects of inflammation and immunity. The term ‘interleukin’ (IL) has been used to describe a group of cytokines with complex immunomodulatory functions — including cell proliferation, maturation, migration and adhesion. These cytokines also play an important role in immune cell differentiation and activation. Determining the exact function of a particular cytokine is complicated by the influence of the producing cell type, the responding cell type and the phase of the immune response. ILs can also have pro- and anti-inflammatory effects, further complicating their characterisation. These molecules are under constant pressure to evolve due to continual competition between the host’s immune system and infecting organisms; as such, ILs have undergone significant evolution. This has resulted in little amino acid conservation between orthologous proteins, which further complicates the gene family organisation. Within the literature there are a number of overlapping nomenclature and classification systems derived from biological function, receptor-binding properties and originating cell type. -
Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Cnidarian-Algal Associations
AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jodi A. Schwarz for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on October 18, 2002. Title: Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Cnidarian-Algal Associations Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Virginia M. Weis Intracellular symbioses between cnidarians and dinoflagellates from the genus Symbiodinium are widespread throughout the marine environment. These associations are ecologically significant, especially in tropical waters where symbiotic interactions between corals and Symbiodinium culminate in the formation of limestone reefs. This thesis focuses on cellular and molecular aspects of the symbiosis, specifically the initiation of the symbiosis and characterization of a host gene, sym32, that is believed to function in the symbiosis. Sym32 was originally identified as a differentially expressed protein in symbiotic vs. aposymbiotic individuals of the sea anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima. Based on its deduced amino acid sequence, sym32 belongs to a family of cell adhesion proteins that play roles in cell recognition in a diverse array of organisms. Chapter 2 examines the process by which a new cnidarian host acquires its first symbionts. Larvae of the scleractinian coral Fungia scutaria, which are initially aposymbiotic, acquired symbionts while feeding. Symbionts that entered the larval gastric cavity with food were subsequently taken into host gastrodermal cells by phagocytosis. Chapter 3 describes immunolocalization of sym32 in A. elegantissima tentacles. In aposymbiotic tentacles, sym32 was localized to vesicles within the host gastrodermal cells. Symbiotic tentacles lacked sym32-containing vesicles. Instead, sym32 was present among the membranes that enclose the symbionts within host cells. Western blots of proteins fromSymbiodiniumrevealed a 45/48kD doublet that cross-reacts with anti-sym32 antiserum. -
Human and Murine IL-16 Conservation of Structure And
Conservation of Structure and Function Between Human and Murine IL-16 Joseph Keane, John Nicoll, Sue Kim, David M. H. Wu, William W. Cruikshank, William Brazer, Barbara Natke, Yujun Zhang, This information is current as David M. Center and Hardy Kornfeld of September 30, 2021. J Immunol 1998; 160:5945-5954; ; http://www.jimmunol.org/content/160/12/5945 Downloaded from References This article cites 42 articles, 17 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/content/160/12/5945.full#ref-list-1 Why The JI? Submit online. http://www.jimmunol.org/ • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision • No Triage! Every submission reviewed by practicing scientists • Fast Publication! 4 weeks from acceptance to publication *average by guest on September 30, 2021 Subscription Information about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: http://jimmunol.org/subscription Permissions Submit copyright permission requests at: http://www.aai.org/About/Publications/JI/copyright.html Email Alerts Receive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at: http://jimmunol.org/alerts The Journal of Immunology is published twice each month by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc., 1451 Rockville Pike, Suite 650, Rockville, MD 20852 Copyright © 1998 by The American Association of Immunologists All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0022-1767 Online ISSN: 1550-6606. Conservation of Structure and Function Between Human and Murine IL-161,2 Joseph Keane,3 John Nicoll,3 Sue Kim, David M. H. Wu, William W. Cruikshank,4 William Brazer, Barbara Natke, Yujun Zhang, David M. Center, and Hardy Kornfeld5 IL-16 is a proinflammatory cytokine that signals via CD4, inducing chemotactic and immunomodulatory responses of CD41 lymphocytes, monocytes, and eosinophils. -
Understanding the Intracellular Niche in Cnidariansymbiodinium Symbioses: Parasites Lead the Way J.A
UNDERSTANDING THE INTRACELLULAR NICHE IN CNIDARIANSYMBIODINIUM SYMBIOSES: PARASITES LEAD THE WAY J.A. Schwarz To cite this version: J.A. Schwarz. UNDERSTANDING THE INTRACELLULAR NICHE IN CNIDARIANSYMBIO- DINIUM SYMBIOSES: PARASITES LEAD THE WAY. Vie et Milieu / Life & Environment, Obser- vatoire Océanologique - Laboratoire Arago, 2008, pp.141-151. hal-03246111 HAL Id: hal-03246111 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03246111 Submitted on 2 Jun 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. VIE ET MILIEU - LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT, 2008, 58 (2): 141-151 UNDERSTANDING THE INTRACELLULAR NICHE IN CNIDARIAN- SYMBIODINIUM SYMBIOSES: PARASITES LEAD THE WAY J. A. SCHWARZ Biology Department, Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA [email protected] SYMBIOSIS ABSTRACT. – Most scleractinian corals and many other cnidarians host intracellular photosyn- CORAL CNIDARIAN thetic dinoflagellate symbionts. The symbionts contribute to host metabolism and skeletogene- SYMBIODINIUM sis to such extent that this symbiosis is well recognized for its contribution in creating the coral PHAGOCYTOSIS reef ecosystem. However, the significance of this animal-microeukaryote association as the only HOST-MICROBE INTERACTION widespread infection of animal cells by a mutualistic microeukaryote has yet to be explored. -
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Mohammad Saghir Khan l Almas Zaidi Javed Musarrat Editors Microbes for Legume Improvement SpringerWienNewYork Editors Dr. Mohammad Saghir Khan Dr. Almas Zaidi Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Muslim University Fac. Agricultural Sciences Fac. Agricultural Sciences Dept. Agricultural Microbiology Dept. Agricultural Microbiology 202002 Aligarh 202002 Aligarh India India [email protected] [email protected] Prof. Dr. Javed Musarrat Aligarh Muslim University Fac. Agricultural Sciences Dept. Agricultural Microbiology 202002 Aligarh India [email protected] This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machines or similar means, and storage in data banks. Product Liability: The publisher can give no guarantee for all the information contained in this book. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. # 2010 Springer-Verlag/Wien Printed in Germany SpringerWienNewYork is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.at Typesetting: SPI, Pondicherry, India Printed on acid-free and chlorine-free bleached paper SPIN: 12711161 With 23 (partly coloured) Figures Library of Congress Control Number: 2010931546 ISBN 978-3-211-99752-9 e-ISBN 978-3-211-99753-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-211-99753-6 SpringerWienNewYork Preface The farmer folks around the world are facing acute problems in providing plants with required nutrients due to inadequate supply of raw materials, poor storage quality, indiscriminate uses and unaffordable hike in the costs of synthetic chemical fertilizers. -
Chicken IL-17F: Identification and Comparative Expression Analysis In
Developmental and Comparative Immunology 38 (2012) 401–409 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Developmental and Comparative Immunology journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/dci Chicken IL-17F: Identification and comparative expression analysis in Eimeria-infected chickens Woo H. Kim a, Jipseol Jeong a, Ae R. Park a, Dongjean Yim a, Yong-Hwan Kim a, Kwang D. Kim b, ⇑ Hong H. Chang c, Hyun S. Lillehoj d, Byung-Hyung Lee e, Wongi Min a, a College of Veterinary Medicine & Research Institute of Life Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea b Division of Applied Life Science (BK21), PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea c Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea d Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Animal and Natural Resources Institute, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA e Daesung Microbiological Laboratory, Samdong, Uiwangsi, Gyeonggido 437-815, Republic of Korea article info abstract Article history: Interleukin-17F (IL-17F) is a proinflammatory cytokine, which plays an important role in gut homeosta- Received 10 July 2012 sis. A full-length chicken IL-17F (chIL-17F) cDNA with a 510-bp coding region was identified from ConA- Revised 8 August 2012 activated chicken splenic lymphocytes. ChIL-17F shares 53% amino acid sequence identity with the pre- Accepted 8 August 2012 viously described chicken IL-17 (chIL-17A) and 38–43% with mammalian homologues. The locus harbor- Available online 24 August 2012 ing chIL-17 and chIL-17F displayed inverted order compared to those of mammals. -
Ménage-À-Trois: the Amoeba Nuclearia Sp. from Lake Zurich with Its Ecto- and Endosymbiotic Bacteria
Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 2014 Ménage-à-trois: The amoeba Nuclearia sp. from Lake Zurich with its ecto- and endosymbiotic bacteria Dirren, Sebastian ; Salcher, Michaela M ; Blom, J F ; Schweikert, M ; Posch, T Abstract: We present a fascinating triad relationship between a eukaryotic amoeba and its two bac- terial symbionts. The morphological characteristics of the amoeba allowed for a confident assignment to the genus Nuclearia (Opisthokonta, Nucleariidae), but species identification resulted in an ambigu- ous result. Sequence analysis indicated an affiliation to the species N. thermophila, however, several morphological features contradict the original description. Amoebal isolates were cultured for several years with their preferred food source, the microcystin-producing harmful cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens. Symbioses of the amoeba with ecto- and endosymbiotic bacteria were maintained over this period. Several thousand cells of the ectosymbiont are regularly arranged inside a layer of extracellular polymeric substances produced by the amoeba. The ectosymbiont was identified as Paucibacter tox- inivorans (Betaproteobacteria), which was originally isolated by enrichment with microcystins. We found indications that our isolated ectosymbiont indeed contributed to toxin-degradation. The endosymbiont (Gammaproteobacteria, 15-20 bacteria per amoeba) is enclosed in symbiosomes inside the host cytoplasm and represents probably an obligate -
Human Cytokine Response Profiles
Comprehensive Understanding of the Human Cytokine Response Profiles A. Background The current project aims to collect datasets profiling gene expression patterns of human cytokine treatment response from the NCBI GEO and EBI ArrayExpress databases. The Framework for Data Curation already hosted a list of candidate datasets. You will read the study design and sample annotations to select the relevant datasets and label the sample conditions to enable automatic analysis. If you want to build a new data collection project for your topic of interest instead of working on our existing cytokine project, please read section D. We will explain the cytokine project’s configurations to give you an example on creating your curation task. A.1. Cytokine Cytokines are a broad category of small proteins mediating cell signaling. Many cell types can release cytokines and receive cytokines from other producers through receptors on the cell surface. Despite some overlap in the literature terminology, we exclude chemokines, hormones, or growth factors, which are also essential cell signaling molecules. Meanwhile, we count two cytokines in the same family as the same if they share the same receptors. In this project, we will focus on the following families and use the member symbols as standard names (Table 1). Family Members (use these symbols as standard cytokine names) Colony-stimulating factor GCSF, GMCSF, MCSF Interferon IFNA, IFNB, IFNG Interleukin IL1, IL1RA, IL2, IL3, IL4, IL5, IL6, IL7, IL9, IL10, IL11, IL12, IL13, IL15, IL16, IL17, IL18, IL19, IL20, IL21, IL22, IL23, IL24, IL25, IL26, IL27, IL28, IL29, IL30, IL31, IL32, IL33, IL34, IL35, IL36, IL36RA, IL37, TSLP, LIF, OSM Tumor necrosis factor TNFA, LTA, LTB, CD40L, FASL, CD27L, CD30L, 41BBL, TRAIL, OPGL, APRIL, LIGHT, TWEAK, BAFF Unassigned TGFB, MIF Table 1. -
Toxicity and Inflammatory Response of Melamine Cyanurate
Journal of Hong Kong Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences 2017-2018 Volume 15 No 1 & 2 Lessons Learnt from the Melamine Incident of Paediatric Stones: Toxicity and Inflammatory Response of Melamine Cyanurate Mayur Danny I. Gohel1, John Wai-Man Yuen2, Kam-Lun Hon3, Chi-Fai Ng4 1School of Medical & Health Sciences, Tung Wah College, Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong – SAR CHINA. 2School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong –SAR CHINA. 3Department of Paediatrics and 4Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong – SAR CHINA. #Corresponding author: Prof. Mayur Danny I. Gohel, School of Medical & Health Sciences, Tung Wah College, Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Phone: (852) 3190 6680. E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT News regarding drinking milk products contaminated with melamine had gained considerable coverage. The most affected victims had been infants and children with kidney being the most affected organ. There were challenges in detecting and diagnosing renal stones in infants. Paediatric stone disease differs considerably in many aspects from that in adults, with a prevalence of 0.5 cases per 1000 (compared to 70 per 1000 in adults). We attempted to investigate the early cellular events of kidney cells in response to melamine and related lithogenic ions. A two-compartment transwell culture with human kidney cortical WT 9-12 cell line allowed us to investigate the melamine crystals interacting with the apical surface. In response to the clinically relevant ratio of melamine and cyanurate, i.e. 99:1 (v/v), 25% of the cells were destroyed to demonstrate significant disturbance to the tight junction monolayer of cortical epithelium.