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Publisher: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Date: 02-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-09-0100
DOI: 10.1111/J.1529-8817.2011.01052.X
Abstract: The red algal order Bangiales has been revised as a result of detailed regional studies and the development of expert local knowledge of Bangiales floras, followed by collaborative global analyses based on wide taxon s ling and molecular analyses. Combined analyses of the nuclear SSU rRNA gene and the plastid RUBISCO LSU (rbcL) gene for 157 Bangiales taxa have been conducted. Fifteen genera of Bangiales, seven filamentous and eight foliose, are recognized. This classification includes five newly described and two resurrected genera. This revision constitutes a major change in understanding relationships and evolution in this order. The genus Porphyra is now restricted to five described species and a number of undescribed species. Other foliose taxa previously placed in Porphyra are now recognized to belong to the genera Boreophyllum gen. nov., Clymene gen. nov., Fuscifolium gen. nov., Lysithea gen. nov., Miuraea gen. nov., Pyropia, and Wildemania. Four of the seven filamentous genera recognized in our analyses already have generic names (Bangia, Dione, Minerva, and Pseudobangia), and are all currently monotypic. The unnamed filamentous genera are clearly composed of multiple species, and few of these species have names. Further research is required: the genus to which the marine taxon Bangia fuscopurpurea belongs is not known, and there are also a large number of species previously described as Porphyra for which nuclear SSU ribosomal RNA (nrSSU) or rbcL sequence data should be obtained so that they can be assigned to the appropriate genus.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2008
DOI: 10.1016/J.YMPEV.2007.12.016
Abstract: A number of molecular studies of the Corallinales, a calcified order of the red algae, have used the conservative nSSU gene to investigate relationships within the order. However interspecific variation at this locus is low for closely related species, limiting resolution of recently erged groups. In this study, we obtained psbA sequence data from specimens of the order from New Zealand that had been identified according to current taxonomic criteria. We compared phylogenetic analyses based on psbA with those based on nSSU for the same dataset, and also analysed nSSU sequences of the New Zealand material with nSSU sequences of Corallinales taxa from other parts of the world. Our study shows that psbA has considerable potential as a marker for this group, being easily lified and considerably more variable than nSSU. Combined analyses using both markers provide significant support for relationships at both distal and terminal nodes of the analysis. Our analysis supports the monophyly of all three families currently defined in Corallinales: the Sporolithaceae, Hapalidiaceae and Corallinaceae, and indicates cryptic speciation in Mesophyllum and Spongites.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2000
Publisher: Portland Press Ltd.
Date: 25-01-2000
DOI: 10.1042/BJ3450503
Abstract: The epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC) regulates Na+ absorption in epithelial tissues including the lung, colon and sweat gland, and in the distal nephrons of the kidney. When Na+-channel function is disrupted, salt and water homoeostasis is affected. The cytoplasmic regions of the Na+-channel subunits provide binding sites for other proteins to interact with and potentially regulate Na+-channel activity. Previously we showed that a proline-rich region of the α subunit of the Na+ channel bound to a protein of 116 kDa from human lung cells. Here we report the identification of this protein as human Nedd4, a ubiquitin-protein ligase that binds to the Na+-channel subunits via its WW domains. Further, we show that WW domains 2, 3 and 4 of human Nedd4 bind to the α, β and γ Na+-channel subunits but not to a mutated β subunit. In addition, when co-expressed in Xenopus oocytes, human Nedd4 down-regulates Na+-channel activity.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2006
DOI: 10.2216/05-26.1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-1990
DOI: 10.1017/S095026880004824X
Abstract: Sera from 141 infants aged 0–12 months were examined for IgG antibodies to HHV-6, HSV, CMV, VZV and EBV and for HHV-6 specific IgM. Following the decline in maternal antibody, antibody to HHV-6 was found to rise by 5–6 months and approached the level found in adults by 11–12 months. In contrast the antibody rates for the other herpesviruses were much slower to rise, especially in the case of CMV and EBV. HHV-6 IgM antibodies were detected mainly in age groups showing a rapid rise in antibody to HHV-6. HHV-6-IgM was not detected in 235 cord blood s les. The data suggest that HHV-6 infection is acquired horizontally, at a very early age in Western Australia.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1999
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 12-1988
Abstract: Human herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6) was isolated from the peripheral blood lymphocytes of a patient infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Antibodies to this herpes virus were found to be widespread among adults and children in Western Australia. Co-infection studies indicated that HIV replication was inhibited by the presence of HHV-6.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-1994
Abstract: The onset of photosynthetic NO3- assimilation in N-limited Chlamydomonas reinhardtii increased the initial extractable activity of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), the key regulatory step of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway. The total activated enzyme activity did not change upon NO3- resupply. The higher activity, therefore, represents activation of existing enzyme. No activation occurred during NH4+ assimilation. Incubation of extracts with DTT reversed the NO3- stimulation of G6PDH activity, indicating that the activation involved redox modulation of G6PDH. Phosphoribulosekinase, an enzyme activated by thioredoxin reduction, was inhibited at the onset of NO3- assimilation. A 2-fold stimulation of O2 evolution and a 70% decrease in the rate of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation accompanied the enzyme activity changes. There was an immediate drop in the NADPH and an increase in NADP upon addition of NO3-, whereas NH4+ caused only minor fluctuations in these pools. The response of C. reinhardtii to NO3- indicates that the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway was activated to oxidize carbon upon the onset of NO3- assimilation, whereas reduction of carbon via the reductive pentose phosphate pathway was inhibited. This demonstrates a possible role for the Fd-thioredoxin system in coordinating enzyme activity in response to the metabolic demands for reducing power and carbon during NO3- assimilation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2003
Publisher: The Korean Society of Phycology
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1071/SB02025
Abstract: Extensive collections of Porphyra from throughout New Zealand since the early 1980s have revealed unexpectedly high ersity within the genus. From small-scale, opportunistic s ling of southern Australian Porphyra, small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (SSU) sequence data confirm the presence in Tasmania of a recently-described species of Porphyra, P. rakiura W.A.Nelson. This is the first report of P. rakiura from outside New Zealand. Analysis of rbcL–rbcS spacer DNA sequence from P. rakiura specimens and from an isotype specimen of P. lucasii Levring confirm that P. rakiura can be distinguished from the P. lucasii isotype at the molecular level as well as morphologically. A Western Australian specimen collected as P. lucasii provides a nuclear SSU sequence that is clearly different (92.1% similar) to that of P. rakiura, and rbcL–rbcS spacer sequence data identical to that of the P. lucasii isotype. Sequence data from the rbcL–rbcS spacer of a herbarium specimen from South Australia initially identified as P. lucasii, but with P. rakiura-like morphology, demonstrate that it is genetically distinct from P. rakiura and place it closer to, but not identical with, the P. lucasii isotype. This challenges the current taxonomic understanding of Porphyra in Australia, and of P. lucasii in particular.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2004
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-05-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1993
DOI: 10.3109/08977199308991591
Abstract: J2E erythroid cells proliferate and differentiate in response to erythropoietin (epo), the red blood cell specific hormone. Using methylcellulose colony assays and suspension cultures we have demonstrated that nearly all the cells stimulated by epo synthesized haemoglobin. To achieve maximum production of haemoglobin J2E cells had to be treated with epo for only 6 h hormone added subsequently did not enhance haemoglobin synthesis. Although virtually all viable J2E cells produced haemoglobin, the cells matured morphologically at different rates. Thus, upon exposure to epo J2E cells become committed to erythroid terminal differentiation but proceed in an asynchronous manner.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.PHYTOCHEM.2012.06.003
Abstract: The coralline algae in the orders Corallinales and Sporolithales (subclass Corallinophycidae), with their high degree of mineralogical variability, pose a challenge to projections regarding mineralogy and response to ocean acidification. Here we relate skeletal carbonate mineralogy to a well-established phylogenetic framework and draw inferences about the effects of future changes in sea-water chemistry on these calcified red algae. A collection of 191 coralline algal specimens from New Zealand, representing 13 genera and 28 species, included members of three families: Corallinaceae, Hapalidiaceae, and Sporolithaceae. While most skeletal specimens were entirely calcitic (range: 73-100 wt.% calcite, mean 97 wt.% calcite, std dev=5, n=172), a considerable number contained at least some aragonite. Mg in calcite ranged from 10.5 to 16.4 wt.% MgCO(3), with a mean of 13.1 wt.% MgCO(3) (std dev=1.1, n=172). The genera Mesophyllum and Lithophyllum were especially variable. Growth habit, too, was related to mineralogy: geniculate coralline algae do not generally contain any aragonite. Mg content varied among coralline families: the Corallinaceae had the highest Mg content, followed by the Sporolithaceae and the Hapalidiaceae. Despite the significant differences among families, variation and overlap prevent the use of carbonate mineralogy as a taxonomic character in the coralline algae. Latitude (as a proxy for water temperature) had only a slight relationship to Mg content in coralline algae, contrary to trends observed in other biomineralising taxa. Temperate magnesium calcites, like those produced by coralline algae, are particularly vulnerable to ocean acidification. Changes in biomineralisation or species distribution may occur over the next few decades, particularly to species producing high-Mg calcite, as pH and CO(2) dynamics change in coastal temperate oceans.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-07-2023
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1071/SB09033
Abstract: The phylogenetic relationships of Porphyra collected from the Falkland Islands have been examined using molecular data from two loci, the plastid rbcL gene and the nuclear nSSU gene, in conjunction with morphological observations. Nine species have been distinguished, belonging to four distinct lineages within the Bangiales, differing from one another by 16–137 substitutions in the rbcL gene. One species is closely related to P. lissima, a north Atlantic taxon, three are resolved in a clade that includes several species from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, as well as P. umbilicalis, whereas four others are more closely related to Southern Ocean species, including P. cinnamomea, P. virididentata and several as yet unnamed taxa from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Three species, one of which we identify as P. columbina, appear to be widely distributed in the Southern Ocean, with representatives on the Falkland Islands and on islands of the Australian and New Zealand subantarctic.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-08-2008
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-1990
Abstract: We have previously reported the isolation of HHV-6 from saliva s les. Because these isolations were made in PHA-stimulated lymphocytes from healthy adults, which may occasionally contain endogenous HHV-6, it was desirable to repeat this work using cord blood lymphocytes. In this study 18 isolations of viruses provisionally characterized as HHV-6 were made from 19 saliva s les by centrifugally enhanced inoculation into PHA-stimulated cord blood lymphocytes. HHV-6 was not found in 10 pernasal aspirates, 50 endocervical swabs, or 30 male urethral swabs. It is concluded that HHV-6 is usually present in the saliva of most adults and that this affords a possible explanation of the high infection rate with this virus in young children.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2001
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-03-2015
DOI: 10.1111/JPY.12288
Abstract: Coralline red algae from the New Zealand region were investigated in a study focused on documenting regional ersity. We present a multi-gene analysis using sequence data obtained for four genes (nSSU, psaA, psbA, rbcL) from 68 s les. The study revealed cryptic ersity at both genus and species levels, confirming and providing further evidence of problems with current taxonomic concepts in the Corallinophycidae. In addition, a new genus Corallinapetra novaezelandiae gen. et sp. nov. is erected for material from northern New Zealand. Corallinapetra is excluded from all currently recognized families and orders within the Corallinophycidae and thus represents a previously unrecognized lineage within this subclass. We discuss rank in the Corallinophycidae and propose the order Hapalidiales.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 08-1994
Abstract: Extraction of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CW-15 cells by rapid freezing and thawing demonstrates that the in vivo activity of the algal glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) is inhibited by the presence of light and activated in the dark, whereas phosphoribulosekinase (PRK) is light activated and inhibited in the dark. The effects of darkening are reversed by incubation with dithiothreitol (DTT) and mimicked by chemical oxidants, indicating that, as in higher plants, reduction via the ferredoxin-thioredoxin system likely regulates these enzymes. The two enzymes varied in their sensitivity to reduction the inclusion of 0.5 mM DTT during extraction inhibited G6PDH, whereas PRK required treatment with 40 mM DTT for 1 h to reach maximum activation. The activation change for both enzymes was nearly complete within the 1st min after cells were transferred between light and dark, but the level of activation was relative to the incident light at low intensities G6PDH activity decreased with increasing light, whereas PRK became more active. The reductive inhibition of G6PDH saturated at very low light, whereas PRK activation kinetics closely followed the increase in photosynthetic oxygen evolution. These results indicate that light-driven redox modulation of G6PDH and PRK is more than an on/off switch, but acts to optimize the reduction and oxidation of carbon in the chloroplast in accordance with the supply of electrons.
Location: New Zealand
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