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Tropical Andean forests are highly susceptible to nutrient inputs--rapid effects of experimental N and P addition to an Ecuadorian montane forest.
2012
Tropical regions are facing increasing atmospheric inputs of nutrients, which will have unknown consequences for the structure and functioning of these systems. Here, we show that Neotropical montane rainforests respond rapidly to moderate additions of N (50 kg ha -1 yr -1) and P (10 kg ha -1 yr -1). Monitoring of nutrient fluxes demonstrated that the majority of added nutrients remained in the system, in either soil or vegetation. N and P additions led to not only an increase in foliar N and P concentrations, but also altered soil microbial biomass, standing fine root biomass, stem growth, and litterfall. The different effects suggest that trees are primarily limited by P, whereas some pro…
Megymenum tuberculatum, a new species of Megymenini from Java and a review of distribution of M. brevicorne (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae)
2020
Megymenum tuberculatum Hemala & Kocorek, sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae: Megymeninae: Megymenini) from Java (Indonesia) is described, illustrated and compared with M. brevicorne (Fabricius, 1787). Although the description is based on only one female specimen, the differences in the morphology of head, pronotum, and spermatheca are significant. In addition, M. brevicorne is briefly redescribed and its distribution and biology reviewed along with its first record from Nepal.
A new flatworm species of Temnocephala (Rhabdocoela, Temnocephalidae) ectosymbiont on the freshwater crab Valdivia serrata (Decapoda, Trichodactylida…
2020
A new species of temnocephalan is described from the branchial chambers ofValdivia serratain Colombia asTemnocephala ivandarioisp. nov.The most distinctive characters of the new species are in the cirrus and the epidermal ‘excretory’ syncytial plates. In the present study, the terminology to describe the cirrus of species ofTemnocephalais updated. Comparison between the shape of the cirrus of the temnocephalans associated with trichodactylid crabs is also provided.
DICER- and MMSET-catalyzed H4K20me2 recruits the nucleotide excision repair factor XPA to DNA damage sites
2017
The endoribonuclease DICER facilitates chromatin decondensation during lesion recognition following UV exposure. Chitale and Richly show that DICER mediates the recruitment of the methyltransferase MMSET, which catalyzes the dimethylation of histone H4 at lysine 20 and facilitates the recruitment of the nucleotide excision repair factor XPA.
Dom34 Links Translation to Protein O-mannosylation.
2016
In eukaryotes, Dom34 upregulates translation by securing levels of activatable ribosomal subunits. We found that in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans, Dom34 interacts genetically with Pmt1, a major isoform of protein O-mannosyltransferase. In C. albicans, lack of Dom34 exacerbated defective phenotypes of pmt1 mutants, while they were ameliorated by Dom34 overproduction that enhanced Pmt1 protein but not PMT1 transcript levels. Translational effects of Dom34 required the 5′-UTR of the PMT1 transcript, which bound recombinant Dom34 directly at a CA/AC-rich sequence and regulated in vitro translation. Polysomal profiling revealed that Dom34 stimu…
Effects of muscular dystrophy, exercise and blocking activin receptor IIB ligands on the unfolded protein response and oxidative stress
2016
Protein homeostasis in cells, proteostasis, is maintained through several integrated processes and pathways and its dysregulation may mediate pathology in many diseases including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Oxidative stress, heat shock proteins, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and its response, i.e. unfolded protein response (UPR), play key roles in proteostasis but their involvement in the pathology of DMD are largely unknown. Moreover, exercise and activin receptor IIB blocking are two strategies that may be beneficial to DMD muscle, but studies to examine their effects on these proteostasis pathways are lacking. Therefore, these pathways were examined in the muscle of mdx mice, …
Transcriptional regulation of theNε‐fructoselysine metabolism inEscherichia coliby global and substrate‐specific cues
2020
Thermally processed food is an important part of the human diet. Heat-treatment, however, promotes the formation of so-called Amadori rearrangement products, such as fructoselysine. The gut microbiota including Escherichia coli can utilize these compounds as a nutrient source. While the degradation route for fructoselysine is well described, regulation of the corresponding pathway genes frlABCD remained poorly understood. Here, we used bioinformatics combined with molecular and biochemical analyses and show that fructoselysine metabolism in E. coli is tightly controlled at the transcriptional level. The global regulator CRP (CAP) as well as the alternative sigma factor σ32 (RpoH) contribute…
Emisiones difusas: medidas experimentales y modelización aplicadas a instalaciones de tratamiento de aguas residuales
2015
Los olores emitidos por la actividad rutinaria de una planta de tratamiento de aguas residuales (EDAR) representan una importante fuente de molestia medioambiental que, por lo general, implica la liberación atmosférica de sustancias que causan mal olor y problemas de salud asociados. Actualmente, existe una preocupación pública sobre los olores que se generan con trabajos de tratamiento de residuos. Esta preocupación ha aumentado en la última década debido principalmente a la sobrecarga en las zonas de captación y la invasión de núcleos habitados en torno a instalaciones de tratamiento de aguas residuales (reduciendo los márgenes de seguridad impuestos a éstos). Estas potenciales emisiones …
Modificētu enzīmu dizains proteīnu deglikācijai
2022
Fruktozila peptīdu oksidāzes, pazīstamas arī kā Amadoriāzes, ir enzīmu saime, kas katalizē fruktozilaminoskābju deglikozilāciju. Šī darba mērķis ir novērtēt termālo stabilitāti un enzimātisko aktivitāti Amadoriāzes enzīma mutantiem, C16 un D02, kurus izstrādāja ārvalstu kolēģi, izmantojot skaitļošanas metodes. Darba gaitā tika veikta veikta ekspresija E. coli šūnās un proteīnu attīrīšana, izmantojot šķīdumu hromatogrāfiju. Tika veikta proteīnu analīze, izmantojot biofizikālu un bioķīmisku analīžu metodes - termiskās nobīdes, cirkulārā dihroisma un enzimātiskās aktivitātes testus. Rezultāti uzrādīja termostabilitātes un viršas punktu palielināšanos abiem mutantiem, enzimātiskās aktivitātes u…
New insight into the systematic position of the endemic Madagascan genus Amberiana (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae) using 12S rDNA sequences
2015
The systematic position of the endemic Madagascan genus Amberiana Dist. İs studied using DNA sequences (the mitochondrial 12S rDNA subunit) for the first time. The phylogenetic relationships within the superfamily Pentatomoidea were computed using neighbor-joining, maximum parsimony, minimum evolution, and maximum likelihood methods, as well as Bayesian estimation. All results based on the mtDNA analyses stand in contrast with previous morphological data. The mtDNA analysis showed close relationships of the genus Amberiana to the genus Sehirus (Cydnidae: Sehirinae) and to species of the family Parastrachiidae, whereas the morphology indicated that the genus was a typical representative of t…