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Identification of Type I and IX Collagens in the Ascidian Ciona intestinalis

2001

Immunohistochemical methods showed that a type I collagen is a component of the tunic of Ciona intestinalis, involved in the encapsulation process. Since the fibril-forming collagen types are characterized by triple helical domain with a highly preserved Gly-Xaa-Yaa repeated sequence, a probe coding the fibril-forming type I collagen of the echinoderm Paracentrotus lividus was used to identify ascidian cDNA clones. Northern blot hybridization established that P. lividus probe cross-hybridizes with a 6 Kb C. intestinalis mRNA isolated from the pharynx. Using the echinodermal type I collagen cDNA as a probe several positive clones were identified. Analysis of sequence and the deduced amino ac…

Expression of silicatein and collagen genes in the marine sponge Suberites domuncula is controlled by silicate and myotrophin

2000

The major skeletal elements in the (Porifera) sponges, are spicules formed from inorganic material. The spicules in the Demospongiae class are composed of hydrated, amorphous silica. Recently an enzyme, silicatein, which polymerizes alkoxide substrates to silica was described from the sponge Tethya aurantia. In the present study the cDNA encoding silicatein was isolated from the sponge Suberites domuncula. The deduced polypeptide comprises 331 amino acids and has a calculated size of Mr 36 306. This cDNA was used as a probe to study the potential role of silicate on the expression of the silicatein gene. For these studies, primmorphs, a special form of aggregates composed of proliferating c…

The Use of DNA Analysis in the Archaeology of Death and Burial

2013

Synthesis of methyl derivatives of linear and angular thienocoumarins and thiopyranocoumarins

1998

New linear and angular thienocoumarins and thiopyranocoumarins were synthesized. The key intermediates were appropriate methyl derivatives of 7-mercaptocoumarin, which were condensed with chloro-ketones or propargyl chloride. Thioethers were cyclized under various conditions in order to determine which methods produced the best yields of the desired thienocoumarins 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 27 and thiopyranocoumarins 28 and 29.

Is “I-DNA” derived from Nuclear DNA ?

1970

On the basis of double radioactive labelling and buoyant density studies, it is concluded that “I-DNA” is not a separate entity from nuclear DNA but may be an artefact derived from it.

DNA as Building Material at the Nanoscale: From Concepts to Software-aided Design

2017

[39] DNA damage induced by ultraviolet and visible light and its wavelength dependence

2000

Publisher Summary DNA damage induced by solar radiation in mammalian cells consists largely of two types of modification: pyrimidine dimers and oxidative modifications. Pyrimidine dimmers that can be subdivided into cyclobutane pyrimidine dimmers, (CPDs) and (6-4) photoproducts are the characteristic and most abundant modifications after direct excitation of DNA, although they can also be formed indirectly by energy transfer from other excited molecules such as carbonyl compounds. Oxidative DNA damage, which includes various pyrimidine and purine modifications, sites of base loss (AP sites), and strand breaks, is generated in only low yield after direct excitation of DNA (except at very sho…

Environmental noise aggravates oxidative DNA damage, granulocyte oxidative burst and nitrate resistance in Ogg1−/− mice

2020

Phylogenetic and biogeographical inferences for Pancratium (Amaryllidaceae), with an emphasis on the Mediterranean species based on plastid sequence …

2012

The phylogenetics and biogeography of Pancratium (Amaryllidaceae) were investigated, with a focus on the Mediterranean and adjacent areas, with the aim of contributing new information towards a better understanding of the evolutionary history of the genus and the taxonomic placement of P. linosae and P. hirtum. To address these questions, we sequenced four plastid DNA markers: the ndhF and rbcL genes, the trnL(UAA)-trnF(GAA) intergenic spacer and the trnL(UAA) intron, analysing them using parsimony, likelihood and Bayesian approaches. The results show that the relationships among the majority of the species are resolved; however, the relationships of one of the major clades of the genus are…

Evolutionary site-number changes of ribosomal DNA loci during speciation: complex scenarios of ancestral and more recent polyploid events.

2015

Genes encoding ribosomal RNA are universal key constituents of eukaryotic genomes, but the number of loci varies between species. We assessed the evolutionary trends in site-number changes of rDNA loci during speciation in a lineage of the cabbage family, characterized by complex scenarios of polyploidy. Our results suggest the existence of constrictions to burst loci amplification in the 5S rDNA family in polyploids and an overall trend to further reduce their number. The 45S rDNA site change in polyploids tells a different story, implying loci amplification in most of the polyploid entities.