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Kato H, Nemoto K, Shimizu M, Abe A, Asai S, Ishihama N, Matsuoka S, Daimon T, Ojika M, Kawakita K, Onai K, Shirasu K, Yoshida M, Ishiura M, Takemoto D, Takano Y, Terauchi R. Recognition of pathogen-derived sphingolipids in Arabidopsis. Science 2022; 376:857-860. [PMID: 35587979 DOI: 10.1126/science.abn0650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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In plants, many invading microbial pathogens are recognized by cell-surface pattern recognition receptors, which induce defense responses. Here, we show that the ceramide Phytophthora infestans-ceramide D (Pi-Cer D) from the plant pathogenic oomycete P. infestans triggers defense responses in Arabidopsis. Pi-Cer D is cleaved by an Arabidopsis apoplastic ceramidase, NEUTRAL CERAMIDASE 2 (NCER2), and the resulting 9-methyl-branched sphingoid base is recognized by a plasma membrane lectin receptor-like kinase, RESISTANT TO DFPM-INHIBITION OF ABSCISIC ACID SIGNALING 2 (RDA2). 9-Methyl-branched sphingoid base is specific to microbes and induces plant immune responses by physically interacting with RDA2. Loss of RDA2 or NCER2 function compromised Arabidopsis resistance against an oomycete pathogen. Thus, we elucidated the recognition mechanisms of pathogen-derived lipid molecules in plants.
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- H Kato
- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami 024-0003, Japan
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- Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami 024-0003, Japan
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- Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami 024-0003, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako 351-0198, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.,Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako 351-0198, Japan.,Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.,Iwate Biotechnology Research Center, Kitakami 024-0003, Japan
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Onai K, Morishita M, Kaneko T, Tabata S, Ishiura M. Natural transformation of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1: a simple and efficient method for gene transfer. Mol Genet Genomics 2003; 271:50-9. [PMID: 14639476 DOI: 10.1007/s00438-003-0953-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2003] [Accepted: 10/29/2003] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Proteins derived from the thermophilic cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1, which performs plant-type oxygenic photosynthesis, are suitable for biochemical, biophysical and X-ray crystallographic studies. We found that T. elongatus displays natural transformation, and we established a simple and efficient protocol for transferring exogenous DNAs into the organism's genome. We obtained transformants directly on selective agar plates without having to amplify them prior to plating. We constructed several targeting vectors that enabled us to insert exogenous DNAs into specific sites without disrupting endogenous genes and operons. We also developed a new selectable marker gene for T. elongatus by optimizing the codons of the gene encoding a kanamycin nucleotidyltransferase derived from the thermophilic bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus. This synthetic gene enabled us to select transformants as kanamycin-resistant colonies on agar plates at 52 degrees C. Optimization of the conditions for natural transformation resulted in a transformation efficiency of up to 1.7 x 10(3) transformants per microg of DNA. The exogenous DNAs were integrated stably into the targeted sites of the T. elongatus genome via homologous recombination by double crossovers.
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- K Onai
- Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Furo, Chikusa, 464-8602 Nagoya, Japan
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Recombinant phage particles carrying the thymidine kinase (TK) gene of herpes simplex virus type 1, coprecipitated with calcium phosphate, efficiently transformed mouse Ltk- cells to the TK+ phenotype. The conditions necessary to achieve high efficiency of transfer of the TK gene by phage particle-mediated gene transfer were investigated. Of the parameters examined, the pH of the buffer used for coprecipitation of phage particles with calcium phosphate, the length of time of coprecipitation, and the length of the adsorption period were found to alter the transfer efficiency significantly. The optimal pH was 6.87 at 25 degrees C. The other optimal values for these parameters were as follows: coprecipitation time, 7 to 20 min; adsorption time, 18 to 30 h. Treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide, glycerol, or sucrose did not enhance gene transfer. The optimal conditions yielded about 1 transformant per 10(5) phage particles per 10(6) cells without carrier DNA. An increase in the dosage of phage particles, up to at least 5 x 10(7) phage particles per 100-mm dish, resulted in a linear increase in the number of transformants. Addition of carrier phage, up to 10(10) phage particles per dish, did not significantly affect the number of transformants.
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- M Ishiura
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444, Japan
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Taniguchi Y, Yamaguchi A, Hijikata A, Iwasaki H, Kamagata K, Ishiura M, Go M, Kondo T. Two KaiA-binding domains of cyanobacterial circadian clock protein KaiC. FEBS Lett 2001; 496:86-90. [PMID: 11356188 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)02408-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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kaiABC, a gene cluster, encodes KaiA, KaiB and KaiC proteins that are essential to circadian rhythms in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942. Kai proteins can interact with each other in all possible combinations. This study identified two KaiA-binding domains (C(KABD1) and C(KABD2)) in KaiC at corresponding regions of its duplicated structure. Clock mutations on the two domains and kaiA altered the strength of C(KABD)-KaiA interactions assayed by the yeast two-hybrid system. Thus, interaction between KaiA and KaiC through C(KABD1) and C(KABD2) is likely important for circadian timing in the cyanobacterium.
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- Y Taniguchi
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
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Hitomi K, Okamoto K, Daiyasu H, Miyashita H, Iwai S, Toh H, Ishiura M, Todo T. Bacterial cryptochrome and photolyase: characterization of two photolyase-like genes of Synechocystis sp. PCC6803. Nucleic Acids Res 2000; 28:2353-62. [PMID: 10871367 PMCID: PMC102721 DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.12.2353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Photolyase is a DNA repair enzyme that reverses UV-induced photoproducts in DNA in a light-dependent manner. Recently, photolyase homologs were identified in higher eukaryotes. These homologs, termed crypto-chromes, function as blue light photoreceptors or regulators of circadian rhythm. In contrast, most bacteria have only a single photolyase or photolyase-like gene. Unlike other microbes, the chromosome of the cyanobacterium SYNECHOCYSTIS: sp. PCC6803 contains two ORFs (slr0854 and sll1629) with high similarities to photolyases. We have characterized both genes. The slr0854 gene product exhibited specific, light-dependent repair activity for a cyclo-butane pyrimidine dimer (CPD), whereas the sll1629 gene product lacks measurable affinity for DNA in vitro. Disruption of either slr0854 or sll1629 had little or no effect on the growth rate of the cyanobacterium. A mutant lacking the slr0854 gene showed severe UV sensitivity, in contrast to a mutant lacking sll1629. Phylogenetic analysis showed that sll1629 is more closely related to the cryptochromes than photolyases. We conclude that sll1629 is a bacterial cryptochrome. To our knowledge, this is the first description of a bacterial cryptochrome.
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- K Hitomi
- Radiation Biology Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Iwasaki H, Williams SB, Kitayama Y, Ishiura M, Golden SS, Kondo T. A kaiC-interacting sensory histidine kinase, SasA, necessary to sustain robust circadian oscillation in cyanobacteria. Cell 2000; 101:223-33. [PMID: 10786837 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80832-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Both regulated expression of the clock genes kaiA, kaiB, and kaiC and interactions among the Kai proteins are proposed to be important for circadian function in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942. We have identified the histidine kinase SasA as a KaiC-interacting protein. SasA contains a KaiB-like sensory domain, which appears sufficient for interaction with KaiC. Disruption of the sasA gene lowered kaiBC expression and dramatically reduced amplitude of the kai expression rhythms while shortening the period. Accordingly, sasA disruption attenuated circadian expression patterns of all tested genes, some of which became arrhythmic. Continuous sasA overexpression eliminated circadian rhythms, whereas temporal overexpression changed the phase of kaiBC expression rhythm. Thus, SasA is a close associate of the cyanobacterial clock that is necessary to sustain robust circadian rhythms.
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- H Iwasaki
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
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Nishiwaki T, Iwasaki H, Ishiura M, Kondo T. Nucleotide binding and autophosphorylation of the clock protein KaiC as a circadian timing process of cyanobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:495-9. [PMID: 10618446 PMCID: PMC26691 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.1.495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A negative feedback control of kaiC expression by KaiC protein has been proposed to generate a basic oscillation of the circadian clock in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942. KaiC has two P loops or Walker's motif As, that are potential ATP-/GTP-binding motifs and DXXG motifs conserved in various GTP-binding proteins. Herein, we demonstrate that in vitro KaiC binds ATP and, with lower affinity, GTP. Point mutation by site-directed mutagenesis of P loop 1 completely nullified the circadian rhythm of kaiBC expression and markedly reduced ATP-binding activity. Moreover, KaiC can be autophosphorylated in vitro. These results suggest that the nucleotide-binding activity of KaiC plays important roles in the generation of circadian oscillation in cyanobacteria.
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- T Nishiwaki
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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A circadian clock, with physiological characteristics similar to those of eukaryotes, functions in the photosynthetic prokaryote, cyanobacteria. The molecular mechanism of this clock has been efficiently dissected using a luciferase reporter gene that reports the status of the clock. A circadian clock gene cluster, kaiABC, has been cloned via rhythm mutants of cyanobacterium, Synechococcus, and many clock mutations mapped to the three kai genes. Although kai genes do not share any homology with clock genes so far identified in eukaryotes, analysis of their expression suggests that a negative feedback control of kaiC expression by KaiC generates the circadian oscillation and that KaiA functions as a positive factor to sustain this oscillation. BioEssays 22:10-15, 2000.
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- T Kondo
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan.
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Classical research on the circadian rhythms of plants helped to demonstrate that all living organisms utilize circadian clocks to adapt their day-night cycles and that the clock is the basis for photoperiodic time measurements. Molecular models for the circadian oscillator have now been elucidated in Drosophila, Neurospora, mice and cyanobacteria. All share a similar feedback structure, but key proteins in each of the oscillators are different. A plant clock model has yet to be proposed, but clock mutants of Arabidopsis are expected to reveal key proteins in the mechanism. Here we discuss how a self-sustained oscillation is established in eukaryotic and prokaryotic models, and the polyphyletic evolution of these clock systems.
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- T Kondo
- The Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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The kai gene cluster, which is composed of three genes, kaiA, kaiB and kaiC, is essential for the generation of circadian rhythms in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942. Here we demonstrate the direct association of KaiA, KaiB and KaiC in yeast cells using the two-hybrid system, in vitro and in cyanobacterial cells. KaiC enhanced KaiA-KaiB interaction in vitro and in yeast cells, suggesting that the three Kai proteins were able to form a heteromultimeric complex. We also found that a long period mutation kaiA1 dramatically enhanced KaiA-KaiB interaction in vitro. Thus, direct protein-protein association among the Kai proteins may be a critical process in the generation of circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria.
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- H Iwasaki
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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Ishiura M, Kutsuna S, Aoki S, Iwasaki H, Andersson CR, Tanabe A, Golden SS, Johnson CH, Kondo T. Expression of a gene cluster kaiABC as a circadian feedback process in cyanobacteria. Science 1998; 281:1519-23. [PMID: 9727980 DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5382.1519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 498] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Cyanobacteria are the simplest organisms known to have a circadian clock. A circadian clock gene cluster kaiABC was cloned from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus. Nineteen clock mutations were mapped to the three kai genes. Promoter activities upstream of the kaiA and kaiB genes showed circadian rhythms of expression, and both kaiA and kaiBC messenger RNAs displayed circadian cycling. Inactivation of any single kai gene abolished these rhythms and reduced kaiBC-promoter activity. Continuous kaiC overexpression repressed the kaiBC promoter, whereas kaiA overexpression enhanced it. Temporal kaiC overexpression reset the phase of the rhythms. Thus, a negative feedback control of kaiC expression by KaiC generates a circadian oscillation in cyanobacteria, and KaiA sustains the oscillation by enhancing kaiC expression.
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- M Ishiura
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan.
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Kutsuna S, Kondo T, Aoki S, Ishiura M. A period-extender gene, pex, that extends the period of the circadian clock in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:2167-74. [PMID: 9555901 PMCID: PMC107145 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.8.2167-2174.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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We cloned the pS1K1 plasmid in the process of apparently "complementing" a circadian clock mutant of cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942, SP22, which has a 22-h period (T. Kondo, N. F. Tsinoremas, S. S. Golden, C. H. Johnson, S. Kutsuna, and M. Ishiura, Science 266:1233-1236, 1994). Sequence analysis revealed that SP22 did not have a mutation in the genomic DNA segment carried on pS1K1, and the sp22 mutation was later found in a recently cloned new clock gene, kaiC. Therefore, the period-extender gene pex that was carried on pS1K1 was a suppressor gene for the sp22 mutation. The pex gene encoded a protein of 148 amino acid residues. No meaningful homologs were found in DNA or protein databases including the Synechocystis genome database. The pex gene was transcribed from 129 and 164 bp upstream of the translation initiation codon as 0.6-kb transcripts. The Pex protein was detected as a fusion protein with a molecular mass of 15 kDa by the epitope tag fusion method using a c-Myc epitope tag. Disruption of the pex gene in wild-type cells shortened the period of the rhythms by 1 h, although it did not affect other properties of the rhythms, whereas its overexpression extended the period by 3 h with a concomitant reduction in the amplitude of the rhythms. In various clock mutants examined, overexpression caused arrhythmicity. Thus, Pex is likely to function as a modifier of the circadian clock in Synechococcus.
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- S Kutsuna
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan
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The cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 exhibited circadian rhythms in complete darkness. To monitor a circadian rhythm of the Synechocystis cells in darkness, we introduced a PdnaK1::luxAB gene fusion (S. Aoki, T. Kondo, and M. Ishiura, J. Bacteriol. 177:5606-5611, 1995), which was composed of a promoter region of the Synechocystis dnaK1 gene and a promoterless bacterial luciferase luxAB gene set, as a reporter into the chromosome of a dark-adapted Synechocystis strain. The resulting dnaK1-reporting strain showed bioluminescence rhythms with a period of 25 h (on agar medium supplemented with 5 mM glucose) for at least 7 days in darkness. The rhythms were reset by 12-h-light-12-h-dark cycles, and the period of the rhythms was temperature compensated for between 24 and 31 degrees C. These results indicate that light is not necessary for the oscillation of the circadian clock in Synechocystis.
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- S Aoki
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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The long-standing supposition that the biological clock cannot function in cells that divide more rapidly than the circadian cycle was investigated. During exponential growth in which the generation time was 10 hours, the profile of bioluminescence from a reporter strain of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus (species PCC 7942) matched a model based on the assumption that cells proliferate exponentially and the bioluminescence of each cell oscillates in a cosine fashion. Some messenger RNAs showed a circadian rhythm in abundance during continuous exponential growth with a doubling time of 5 to 6 hours. Thus, the cyanobacterial circadian clock functions in cells that divide three or more times during one circadian cycle.
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- T Kondo
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-01 Japan
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Prokaryotes have long been thought incapable of expressing circadian (daily) rhythms. Recently, however, such biological 'clocks' have been discovered in several species of cyanobacteria. These endogenous timekeepers control gene expression on a global level in cyanobacteria. Even in cyanobacterial cultures that are growing with average doubling times more rapid than one per 24 h, the circadian clock controls gene expression and cell division. We have isolated mutants of the cyanobacterial circadian pacemaker and are currently characterizing the loci responsible for their altered period phenotypes.
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- C H Johnson
- Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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Tsinoremas NF, Ishiura M, Kondo T, Andersson CR, Tanaka K, Takahashi H, Johnson CH, Golden SS. A sigma factor that modifies the circadian expression of a subset of genes in cyanobacteria. EMBO J 1996. [DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00606.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Tsinoremas NF, Ishiura M, Kondo T, Andersson CR, Tanaka K, Takahashi H, Johnson CH, Golden SS. A sigma factor that modifies the circadian expression of a subset of genes in cyanobacteria. EMBO J 1996; 15:2488-95. [PMID: 8665856 PMCID: PMC450181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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We isolated mutants affected in the circadian expression of the psbAI gene in Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 using a strategy that tags the genomic locus responsible for the mutant phenotype. The search identified one short period (22 h) mutant (M2) and two low amplitude mutants, one of which showed apparent arhythmia (M11) and one that was still clearly rhythmic (M16). We characterized the disrupted locus of the low amplitude but still rhythmic mutant (M16) as the rpoD2 gene, a member of a gene family that encodes sigma70-like transcription factors in Synechococcus. We also inactivated rpoD2 in a number of reporter strains and showed that the circadian expression of some genes is not modified by the loss of this sigma factor. Therefore, we conclude that rpoD2 is a component of an output pathway of the biological clock that affects the circadian expression of a subset of genes in Synechococcus. This work demonstrates a direct link between a transcription factor and the manifestation of circadian gene expression.
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- N F Tsinoremas
- Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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The expression of the dnaK gene in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 was continuously monitored as bioluminescence by an automated monitoring system, using the bacterial luciferase genes (luxAB) of Vibrio harveyi as a reporter of promoter activity. A dnaK-reporting bioluminescent Synechocystis strain was constructed by fusing a promoterless segment of the luxAB gene set downstream of the promoter region of the Synechocystis dnaK gene and introduction of this gene fusion into a BglII site downstream of the ndhB gene in the Synechocystis chromosome. Bioluminescence from this strain was continuously monitored and oscillated with a period of about 22 h for at least 5 days in continuous light. The phase of the rhythm was reset by the timing of the 12-h dark period administered prior to the continuous light. The period of the rhythm was temperature compensated between 25 and 35 degrees C. Thus, the bioluminescence rhythm satisfied the three criteria of circadian rhythms. Furthermore, the abundance of dnaK mRNA also oscillated with a period of about 1 day for at least 2 days in continuous light conditions, indicating circadian control of dnaK gene expression in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.
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- S Aoki
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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We wanted to identify genes that are controlled by the circadian clock in the prokaryotic cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942. To use luciferase as a reporter to monitor gene expression, bacterial luciferase genes (luxAB) were inserted randomly into the Synechococcus genome by conjugation with Escherichia coli and subsequent homologous recombination. The resulting transformed clones were then screened for bioluminescence using a new developed cooled-CCD camera system. We screened approximately 30,000 transformed Synechococcus colonies and recovered approximately 800 clones whose bioluminescence was bright enough to be easily monitored by the screening apparatus. Unexpectedly, the bioluminescence expression patterns of almost all of these 800 colonies clearly manifested circadian rhythmicity. These rhythms exhibited a range of waveforms and amplitudes, and they also showed a variety of phase relationships. We also found bioluminescence rhythms expressed by cyanobacterial colonies in which the luciferase gene set was coupled to the promoters of several known genes. Together, these results indicate that control of gene expression by circadian clocks may be more widespread than expected thus far. Moreover, our results show that screening organisms in which promoterless luciferase genes have been inserted randomly throughout the genome by homologous recombination provides an extremely sensitive method to explore differential gene expression.
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- Y Liu
- Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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To allow continuous monitoring of the circadian clock in cyanobacteria, we previously created a reporter strain (AMC149) of Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 in which the promoter of the psbAI gene was fused to Vibrio harveyi luciferase structural genes (luxAB) and integrated into the chromosome. Northern (RNA) hybridization and immunoblot analyses were performed to examine changes in abundance of the luxAB mRNA, the native psbAI mRNA, and the luciferase protein to determine whether bioluminescence is an accurate reporter of psbAI promoter activity in AMC149. Under constant light conditions, the mRNA abundances of both luxAB and psbAI oscillated with a period of approximately 24 h for at least 2 days. The expression of these two genes following the same pattern: both mRNAs peaked in the subjective morning, and their troughs occurred near the end of the subjective night. The amount of luciferase protein also oscillated with a period of approximately 24 h, and the protein rhythm is in phase with the bioluminescence rhythm. The rhythm of the luciferase mRNA phase-leads the rhythms of luciferase protein and in vivo bioluminescence by several hours. Comparable results were obtained with a short-period mutant of AMC149. Together, these results indicate that the bioluminescence rhythm in AMC149 is due primarily to circadian oscillation of psbAI promoter activity in this cyanobacterium.
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- Y Liu
- Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA
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Kondo T, Ishiura M. [Molecular genetic studies on circadian clock of cyanobacteria by bioluminscence reporter]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 1994; 39:2792-802. [PMID: 7855302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- T Kondo
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
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A diverse set of circadian clock mutants was isolated in a cyanobacterial strain that carries a bacterial luciferase reporter gene attached to a clock-controlled promoter. Among 150,000 clones of chemically mutagenized bioluminescent cells, 12 mutants were isolated that exhibit a broad spectrum of periods (between 16 and 60 hours), and 5 mutants were found that show a variety of unusual patterns, including arrhythmia. These mutations appear to be clock-specific. Moreover, it was demonstrated that in this cyanobacterium it is possible to clone mutant genes by complementation, which provides a means to genetically dissect the circadian mechanism.
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- T Kondo
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
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Reproducible circadian rhythms of bioluminescence from individual colonies of cyanobacteria (Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942) has been observed. Phenotypic monitoring of colonies on agar plates will enable us to genetically analyze the molecular mechanism of the circadian clock of cyanobacteria by screening for clock mutants. By the introduction of a bacterial luciferase gene, we previously developed a transformed cyanobacterial strain (AMC149) that expresses luciferase as a bioluminescent reporter of the circadian clock. In liquid culture, AMC149 expresses a rhythm of bioluminescence that displays the same behavior as circadian rhythms in higher eukaryotes. Improvements in the technique for administering the reporter enzyme's substrate (decanal) and a highly sensitive photon-counting camera allow monitoring the bioluminescence of single colonies. Individual colonies on agar plates displayed a rhythmicity which is essentially the same as that previously reported for liquid cultures.
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- T Kondo
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
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Ishiura M. [Molecular genetic analysis of a Japanese family with Fabry disease]. Nihon Rinsho 1993; 51:2286-92. [PMID: 8411704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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A Japanese male patient with Fabry disease who had no activity of the lysosomal hydrolase alpha-galactosidase A (alpha-GalA) and female members of his family were analyzed. We cloned a cDNA encoded the mutant alpha-GalA, determined its nucleotide sequence, and found two nucleotide differences between the mutant and the wild-types cDNAs. The one difference, a C-to-T transition at nucleotide number 118, resulted in an amino acid substitution of Pro-40 by Ser. A transient expression assay demonstrated that this missense mutation was the cause of the deficiency of alpha-GalA activity in the patient. Gene analysis of the patient's family by PCR and subsequent sequencing demonstrated that all females were heterozygotes.
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Kondo T, Strayer CA, Kulkarni RD, Taylor W, Ishiura M, Golden SS, Johnson CH. Circadian rhythms in prokaryotes: luciferase as a reporter of circadian gene expression in cyanobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1993; 90:5672-6. [PMID: 8516317 PMCID: PMC46783 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.12.5672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 326] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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We have used a luciferase reporter gene and continuous automated monitoring of bioluminescence to demonstrate unequivocally that cyanobacteria exhibit circadian behaviors that are fundamentally the same as circadian rhythms of eukaryotes. We also show that these rhythms can be studied by molecular methods in Synechococcus sp. PCC7942, a strain for which genetic transformation is well established. A promoterless segment of the Vibrio harveyi luciferase structural genes (luxAB) was introduced downstream of the promoter for the Synechococcus psbAI gene, which encodes a photosystem II protein. This reporter construction was recombined into the Synechococcus chromosome, and bioluminescence was monitored under conditions of constant illumination following entrainment to light and dark cycles. The reporter strain, AMC149, expressed a rhythm of bioluminescence which satisfies the criteria of circadian rhythms: persistence in constant conditions, phase resetting by light/dark signals, and temperature compensation of the period. Rhythmic changes in levels of the native psbAI message following light/dark entrainment supported the reporter data. The behavior of this prokaryote disproves the dogma that circadian mechanisms must be based on eukaryotic cellular organization. Moreover, the cyanobacterial strain described here provides an efficient experimental system for molecular analysis of the circadian clock.
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- T Kondo
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
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Koide T, Yoshino M, Niwa M, Ishiura M, Shiroishi T, Moriwaki K. The amplified long genomic sequence (ALGS) located in the centromeric regions of mouse chromosomes. Genomics 1992; 13:1186-91. [PMID: 1505952 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(92)90036-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We reported previously that the haploid genome of standard strains of laboratory mice contains approximately 70 copies of an amplified long genomic sequence, designated ALGS, that includes a retroposon of the gene for elongation factor 2 (MER). The length of each repeating unit is more than 60 kb, and the sequence of the unit is highly conserved among the repeats. In the present study, Southern blot analysis of the genomes of wild rodents demonstrated that the ALGS is present in all subspecies of Mus musculus and is abundant in M. spicilegus, whereas it is absent in M. spretus as well as in Rattus and other closely related genera. This result indicates that the amplification occurred after the species differentiation with the genus Mus and at least prior to the differentiation of subspecies of M. musculus. To locate chromosomal positions of the ALGS, in situ hybridization was carried out with laboratory strains and wild mice. It appears that the ALGS is located in the centromeric regions of most chromosomes in laboratory mice, M. musculus and M. spicilegus, whereas no positive signals were observed with M. spretus, in accordance with the results from the Southern blotting analysis.
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- T Koide
- Department of Cell Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Shizuoka-ken, Japan
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Ishiura M. Direct Use of λ Phage Particles for DNA Transfection. Methods Mol Biol 1991; 7:63-80. [PMID: 21416348 DOI: 10.1385/0-89603-178-0:63] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Recent progress in techniques for the transfer of genes into cultured mammalian cells has made possible the isolation of various interesting genes from other mammalian cells, and also the study of the function and the regulation of gene expression of mammalian genes in vivo. Various transfection techniques have been developed: incubation of recipient cells with genes in the presence of diethylaminoethyldextran (see Chapter 3 , this vol.; ref. 1); incubation of the cells with metaphase chromosomes and poly-L-ornithine (2); and incubation of the cells with coprecipitates of calcium phosphate and genetic material, such as DNA ( Chapter 2 ; refs. 3,4), metaphase chromosomes ( Chapter 10 ; ref. 5), and λ phage particles (6,7). Other methods for gene transfer have also been developed: direct injection of DNA into the nuclei of recipient cells (8,9); use of viral vectors ( Chapter 11 - Chapter 15 ; for review, see also ref. 10); fusion of the recipient cells with bacterial spheroplasts (11) or liposomes (10-14); and fusion of cells, mediated by HVJ (Sendai virus), with liposomes (15-17) or reconstituted erythrocyte membrane vesicles (18). The cell membranes of recipient cells have also been rendered permeable to genetic material by electric pulses ( Chapter 5 ; ref. 19) Chapter 11 Chapter 13 15; for review, see also ref. 10); fusion of the recipient cells with bacterial spheroplasts (11) or liposomes (10-14); and fusion of cells, mediated by HVJ (Sendai virus), with liposomes (15-17) or reconstituted erythrocyte membrane vesicles (18). The cell membranes of recipient cells have also been rendered permeable to genetic material by electric pulses ( Chapter 5 ; ref. 19).
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- M Ishiura
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Myodaijicho, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
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During meiotic maturation and early embryonic cycles, the activity of maturation-promoting factor (MPF) cycles in exact correspondence with the mitotic cycles. For the appearance of MPF activity in starfish, protein synthesis is required except in the first meiotic cycle. In order to identify newly synthesized proteins involved in the regulation of MPF activity, we extracted poly(A)+ RNA from starfish eggs, and found that the egg poly(A)+ RNA induced germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) upon injection into immature oocytes of starfish and Xenopus. The molecular size of the poly(A)+ RNA responsible for GVBD was estimated to be approximately 22S by sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Since these characteristics of the starfish egg poly(A)+ RNA are similar to those of cyclin mRNAs from sea urchin and surf clam eggs, we synthesized a 50-mer antisense-cyclin oligonucleotide probe coding for a part of the sea urchin cyclin cDNA and used this to screen starfish RNA. The Northern blot analysis showed that the starfish egg RNA contained cyclin homologous transcripts. Incubation of the starfish egg poly(A)+ RNA and the antisense-cyclin oligonucleotide with RNase H completely destroyed its GVBD-inducing activity. These results indicated that starfish cyclin mRNA was the only poly(A)+ RNA responsible for GVBD. We constructed a starfish egg cDNA library to clone starfish cyclin cDNA. The longest cDNA clone containing 2190 base pairs was sequenced. The longest open reading frame consisted of 395 amino acid residues, and the predicted molecular size was 48 kDa. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences of starfish cyclin with known cyclins indicated that the starfish cyclin belongs to the B-type. Injection of synthetic mRNA of starfish cyclin caused GVBD in immature oocytes of starfish and Xenopus, while injection of synthetic mRNA of human CDC2 had no effect. The Northern blot analysis of starfish RNA extracted at various stages of the meiotic cycles suggested that the starfish cyclin transcript was stored in its polyadenylated form even in immature oocytes and was further polyadenylated at maturation.
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- K Tachibana
- Biological Laboratory, Faculty of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
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Takeya A, Hosomi O, Ishiura M. Complete purification and characterization of alpha-3-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase encoded by the human blood group A gene. J Biochem 1990; 107:360-8. [PMID: 2341371 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a123051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Human alpha-3-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase has been purified 27,000,000-fold from A1 plasma by (NH4)2SO4 fractionation and affinity chromatography on Sepharose 4B, anti-human group O plasma antibodies-Sepharose 4B, and Blue Dextran-Sephadex G-25. A modified procedure in the Sepharose 4B step was developed by batch adsorption and desorption experiments. Cibacron Blue F3G-A, the chromophore of Blue Dextran, was found to bind to the enzyme. UDP is an effective inhibitor of this binding. The pure transferase has an apparent molecular weight of 35,000 as judged by SDS-PAGE in the presence of a reducing agent. The specific activity is 16 pmol/min.ng enzyme, which is comparable to that (30 pmol/min.ng enzyme) of alpha-3-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase from porcine submaxillary glands [Schwyzer and Hill (1977) J. Biol. Chem. 252, 2338-2355]. The apparent Km values for UDP-GalNAc, 2'-fucosyllactose, and lacto-N-fucopentaose I are 13, 270, and 350 microM, respectively. The reaction velocity was found to fall off again at high concentrations of oligosaccharide acceptor substrates. The apparent Ki values for UDP and UDP-galactose are 8.6 and 6.2 microM, respectively. The pure enzyme also catalyzes the transfer of galactose in alpha-linkage to 2'-fucosyllactose though the transfer rate of galactose is much lower than that of N-acetylgalactosamine.
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- A Takeya
- Department of Legal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine
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Ishiura M, Hazumi N, Shinagawa H, Nakata A, Uchida T, Okada Y. RecA-independent high-frequency deletion of recombinant cosmid DNA in Escherichia coli. J Gen Microbiol 1990; 136:69-79. [PMID: 2191081 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-136-1-69] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Segments of DNA were deleted from recombinant cosmid DNAs during propagation in Escherichia coli hosts in liquid culture. DNAs of more than 1000 cosmids propagated in various E. coli hosts were analysed by agarose gel electrophoresis (AGE). The effects of vectors, insert DNAs and host genetic characters on the formation of deletions were examined. The probability of deletion and the pattern of deletion bands observed by AGE differed from clone to clone, and after extensive culture the deletion band patterns remained almost constant during further culture. Most recombinant clones eventually showed deletion during prolonged liquid culture. Mutations in the recA gene of E. coli hosts, including a deletion mutation, did not prevent deletion. Most deletions occurred in the insert portions of cosmid DNAs. Nucleotide sequence analysis of six deletion junctions in test cosmid cMB15 demonstrated that deletions occurred between two short complete direct repeats of about 4-10 bp, irrespective of whether the cosmid was propagated in a recA host or a rec+ host. Some deletions occurred at the same sites either in a recA host or a rec+ host. These results suggest that the deletion events are mainly mediated by a recA-independent recombination system(s) of E. coli host cells.
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- M Ishiura
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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Shiroishi T, Hanzawa N, Sagai T, Ishiura M, Gojobori T, Steinmetz M, Moriwaki K. Recombinational hotspot specific to female meiosis in the mouse major histocompatibility complex. Immunogenetics 1990; 31:79-88. [PMID: 1968049 DOI: 10.1007/bf00661217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The wm7 haplotype of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), derived from the Japanese wild mouse Mus musculus molossinus, enhances recombination specific to female meiosis in the K/A beta interval of the MHC. We have mapped crossover points of fifteen independent recombinants from genetic crosses of the wm7 and laboratory haplotypes. Most of them were confined to a short segment of approximately 1 kilobase (kb) of DNA between the A beta 3 and A beta 2 genes, indicating the presence of a female-specific recombinational hotspot. Its location overlaps with a sex-independent hotspot previously identified in the Mus musculus castaneus CAS3 haplotype. We have cloned and sequenced DNA fragments surrounding the hotspot from the wm7 haplotype and the corresponding regions from the hotspot-negative B10.A and C57BL/10 strains. There is no significant difference between the sequences of these three strains, or between these and the published sequences of the CAS3 and C57BL/6 strains. However, a comparison of this A beta 3/A beta 2 hotspot with a previously characterized hotspot in the E beta gene revealed that they have a very similar molecular organization. Each hotspot consists of two elements, the consensus sequence of the mouse middle repetitive MT family and the tetrameric repeated sequences, which are separated by 1 kb of DNA.
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- T Shiroishi
- Department of Cell Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
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Koide T, Ishiura M, Hazumi N, Shiroishi T, Okada Y, Uchida T. Amplification of a long sequence that includes a processed pseudogene for elongation factor 2 in the mouse. Genomics 1990; 6:80-8. [PMID: 2303263 DOI: 10.1016/0888-7543(90)90450-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Quantitative Southern blotting analysis has demonstrated that mouse cells contain about 70 copies per haploid genome of a DNA sequence related to the gene for elongation factor 2. The restriction maps of seven cosmids that each carry one copy of the EF2-related sequence (MER) and nucleotide sequences of MERs were highly conserved among the cosmids. Data obtained by such analyses suggest that MERs were produced by the integration of one copy of MER derived from poly(A)+ mRNA for EF2 into a specific site in the mouse genome, with subsequent amplification of MER together with its large flanking sequences during the evolution of the mouse. Furthermore, it appears that the size of each repeating unit is more than 60 kb. Analysis by pulse-field gel electrophoresis suggested that multiple copies of a repeating unit of more than 400 kb (or two units) are clustered at a specific site (or each specific site) in the mouse genome.
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- T Koide
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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Koide T, Ishiura M, Iwai K, Inoue M, Kaneda Y, Okada Y, Uchida T. A case of Fabry's disease in a patient with no alpha-galactosidase A activity caused by a single amino acid substitution of Pro-40 by Ser. FEBS Lett 1990; 259:353-6. [PMID: 2152885 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80046-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We analyzed a male patient with Fabry's disease who had no activity of the lysosomal hydrolase alpha-galactosidase A (alpha-GalA) and female members of his family. We cloned a cDNA that encoded the mutant alpha-GalA, determined its nucleotide sequence, and found two nucleotide differences between the mutant and the wild-type cDNAs. Although one difference was silent, the other difference, a C-to-T transition at nucleotide number 118, resulted in an amino acid substitution of Pro-40 by Ser. A transient expression assay demonstrated that this missense mutation was the cause of the deficiency of alpha-GalA activity in the patient. In vitro mutagenesis experiments demonstrated that Pro-40 is critical for the appearance of alpha-GalA activity.
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- T Koide
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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Ishiura M, Ohashi H, Hazumi N, Uchida T, Okada Y. Simplified cosmid vectors for gene transfer to cultured mammalian cells: isolation of the gene for elongation factor 2 from the mouse. Gene 1989; 85:427-33. [PMID: 2628177 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(89)90436-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We constructed a series of cosmid vectors that carry two tandemly arranged lambda cos and mammalian selective markers. We achieved cloning efficiencies of 1-3 x 10(7) and greater than 10(6) colony-forming units per microgram of insert, using a cloned 42-kb BamHI fragment and Sau3AI fragments of 40-50 kb from mouse genomic DNA, respectively. The modified Ca.phosphate coprecipitation method [Ishiura et al., Mol. Cell. Biol. 2 (1982) 607-616] considerably improved the efficiency of gene transfer of cosmids into cultured mammalian cells: when genes encoding thymidine kinase from herpes simplex virus type 1 and aminoglycoside 3'-phosphoribosyltransferase from Tn5 were selected, the efficiencies of gene transfer into mouse L cells were about 10(-6). The mouse genome contains one copy of the functional gene for elongation factor 2 (EF2) per haploid genome and multiple copies of the EF2-related gene. We isolated a cosmid that carried functional full-length mouse EF2 from a cosmid library of L-cell genomic DNA, by colony hybridization and subsequent gene transfer of candidate cosmids into human 143B cells.
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- M Ishiura
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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An efficient procedure for the introduction of recombinant cosmids into cultured mammalian cells consists of the following steps. Cosmids were packaged, in vitro, into lambda phage particles and transduced into Escherichia coli hosts lysogenized with thermo-inducible lambda c Its phage. The introduced cosmids were repackaged into phage particles in the thermo-induced hosts. The efficiency of such in vivo cosmid packaging was further improved by construction of pTC vectors that carried three cohesive end sites (cos) of phage lambda, arrayed in tandem. Two types of cosmids, in almost equal numbers (i.e., cosmids with one cos and cosmids with two cos), were obtained from a cosmid library constructed with pTC vectors. The efficiency of packaging in vivo of cosmids with two cos, was found to be 7-20 times higher than that of corresponding cosmids with only one cos. Use of a high-copy-number derivative of pTCl further improved the phage yield by 20- to 30-fold. The packaged cosmids, which carried the thymidine kinase-encoding gene of herpes simplex virus type 1 as a selective marker, were introduced into mouse Ltk- cells with an efficiency of 10(-5), by the phage transfer method [Ishiura et al., Mol. Cell. Biol. 2 (1982) 607-616].
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- M Ishiura
- National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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Ishiura M, Uchida T, Okada Y. Stability of the transformants obtained by phage particle-mediated gene transfer. Cell Struct Funct 1989; 14:495-9. [PMID: 2529979 DOI: 10.1247/csf.14.495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Recombinant lambda phage DNA, encapsulated in phage particles and coprecipitated with calcium phosphate, efficiently transforms cultured mammalian cells without a requirement for carrier DNA. The present paper analyzes the stability of the transformants obtained by the phage transfer method. lambda phage particles containing recombinant DNA that includes the thymidine kinase (TK) gene of herpes simplex virus type 1 as a selective marker were introduced into Ltk- cells deficient in TK activity, and TK+ transformants were selected in HAT medium. To test the stability of the TK+ phenotype of the transformants, seven individual transformant clones were isolated, cultured in HAT selective medium and then in non-selective medium for various lengths of time. After such culture, transformants were allowed to develop colonies in both selective and non-selective medium. For all seven transformant clones, the numbers of colonies obtained in the two types of medium were almost identical, irrespective of whether or not each transformant clone had been previously cultured for 15 to 50 days in non-selective medium. This result suggests that most transformants obtained by the phage transfer method maintain the TK+ phenotype stably, for at least 50 days, when grown in non-selective medium.
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- M Ishiura
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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Ishiura M, Hazumi N, Koide T, Uchida T, Okada Y. A recB recC sbcB recJ host prevents recA-independent deletions in recombinant cosmid DNA propagated in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1989; 171:1068-74. [PMID: 2536671 PMCID: PMC209703 DOI: 10.1128/jb.171.2.1068-1074.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Segments of DNA are deleted from recombinant cosmid DNAs with high frequency during propagation in standard recA Escherichia coli hosts. An attempt has been made to derive an appropriate strain of E. coli, suitable for cosmid cloning, in which such deletions do not occur. We examined the effects of a series of host recombinational mutations on the deletion process, using six independent recombinant cosmids that carry inserts of mouse, Chinese hamster, or human DNA. Various E. coli host cells carrying the recombinant cosmids were cultured serially in liquid medium, and the recombinant cosmid DNAs were extracted from the host cells and analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis and by gene transfer of the DNAs into cultured mammalian cells. Of the mutations examined, only a recB recC sbcB recJ (or recN) quadruple combination of host mutations prevented the deletion of DNA segments. The recombinant cosmid DNAs propagated in E. coli hosts that carried this combination of mutations were functionally as well as structurally intact. We propose that the recJ (and/or recN) gene is involved in some aspect of the events that lead to deletions of cosmid DNA in a recB recC sbcB genetic background.
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- M Ishiura
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
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Ishiura M, Ohashi H, Uchida T, Okada Y. Efficient simplified cosmid cloning: construction and characterization of cosmid vectors that carry the two cohesive end sites of lambda phages arrayed in tandem. Anal Biochem 1989; 176:117-27. [PMID: 2523674 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(89)90281-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We constructed a series of cosmid vectors that carry the two cohesive end sites (cos) of lambda phage, arrayed in tandem, which enabled us to clone fragments of genomic DNA of up to 50 kb without a vector background. An equimolar mixture of the left and right vector arms of equal length was prepared from the vector DNA, simply by treating the DNA sequentially with three enzymes, restriction enzyme PvuII, alkaline phosphatase, and restriction enzyme BamHI (or BglII), without purification by agarose gel electrophoresis. After phenol extraction and ethanol precipitation, the equimolar mixture of the vector arms, which carried a single cos oriented from left to right, was directly ligated with insert DNA without further manipulation. We established conditions for cosmid cloning, using two kinds of DNA fragment of 40-50 kb, prepared from mouse L cell genomic DNA, as insert DNAs, namely, three cloned BamHI fragments and Sau3AI fragments, size-selected on a sucrose density gradient. The most important parameters affecting the cloning efficiency were the quality of the insert DNA and the molar ratio of the insert and vector arms. We achieved cloning efficiencies of 3.6 X 10(6)-1.3 X 10(7) colony forming units (cfu)/micrograms of insert DNA and 1.7 X 10(5)-1.0 X 10(6) cfu/micrograms of insert DNA, using the cloned BamHI fragments and the Sau3AI fragments, respectively. We examined more than 5000 clones and found that they all contained insert DNA.
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- M Ishiura
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
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Nakanishi T, Kohno K, Ishiura M, Ohashi H, Uchida T. Complete nucleotide sequence and characterization of the 5'-flanking region of mammalian elongation factor 2 gene. J Biol Chem 1988; 263:6384-91. [PMID: 2834376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The hamster elongation factor 2 gene was isolated from genomic libraries of diphtheria toxin- and Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A-resistant cells containing non-ADP-ribosylatable elongation factor 2, and its structure was determined by a combination of restriction endonuclease mapping and DNA sequence analysis. The entire gene is about 6 kilobases long and has 13 exons. Almost all the introns are about 90-200 bases long, except the first and third, which are about 1 kilobase and 400 bases long, respectively. The first exon is processed just after the initiation codon for translation. The promoter of this gene was also characterized. As this gene contains the mutation conferring resistance to diphtheria toxin and P. aeruginosa exotoxin A, introduction of this gene into mammalian cells results in expression of toxin resistance. Using this characteristic, gene expression by deletion mutants of the 5'-flanking region were examined, and results showed that about 60 base pairs upstream of the TATA sequence were most efficient for expression of the elongation factor 2 gene.
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- T Nakanishi
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
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Nakanishi T, Kohno K, Ishiura M, Ohashi H, Uchida T. Complete nucleotide sequence and characterization of the 5'-flanking region of mammalian elongation factor 2 gene. J Biol Chem 1988. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)68797-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Kaneda Y, Uchida T, Kim J, Ishiura M, Okada Y. The improved efficient method for introducing macromolecules into cells using HVJ (Sendai virus) liposomes with gangliosides. Exp Cell Res 1987; 173:56-69. [PMID: 2824224 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(87)90331-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Macromolecules such as DNA and RNA can be entrapped within liposomes associated with gangliosides by reverse-phase evaporation. When these liposomes are incubated with HVJ2 (Sendai virus), they deliver their contents into cultured cells efficiently. More than 95% cells of a Ltk- cell line (thymidine kinase-deficient cells) transiently expressed thymidine kinase activity by thymidine kinase gene transfer using HVJ liposomes with gangliosides. Stable transformants could be obtained efficiently from various cell lines by use of HVJ liposomes containing the neoR gene. The neo+ transformants were obtained at frequencies of about 0.2-1.0, 0.06-0.25, and 0.06-0.1% in monolayers of L, CHO-Kl, and HeLa-S3 cells, respectively. Moreover, in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells which grow in suspension, the frequency was more than 0.01%. On introduction of plasmid pTK4 into Ltk- cells, about 0.5-1.0% TK+ transformants were obtained. Cosmid DNA containing the neoR gene (about 45 kbp) was also introduced into L cells by this method and neo+ transformants were obtained at a frequency of 0.1%. When rat liver mRNA was introduced into L cells by HVJ liposomes with gangliosides, immunoprecipitation studies showed that the L cells secreted rat albumin and some other proteins into the cultured medium. Moreover, using erythrocyte membrane vesicles containing IgM that had been incubated with HVJ empty liposomes with gangliosides, the IgM could be introduced into all the L cells.
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- Y Kaneda
- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Osaka University, Japan
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Miura N, Nakatani Y, Ishiura M, Uchida T, Okada Y. Molecular cloning of a full-length cDNA encoding the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycoprotein of Sendai virus. FEBS Lett 1985; 188:112-6. [PMID: 2991016 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(85)80885-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We cloned a full-length complementary DNA for the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) mRNA of Sendai virus (HVJ) using a synthetic 27-mer as a probe. Nucleotide sequence analysis showed that there is a long open reading frame on the mRNA that encodes a protein of 575 amino acids. The deduced amino acid sequence indicated that only one hydrophobic region sufficiently long to anchor the protein in the membrane and located near the N-terminus (amino acids 35-60). It is suggested that HN protein is oriented with its N-terminus inside the membrane.
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Sugawa H, Uchida T, Yoneda Y, Ishiura M, Okada Y. Large macromolecules can be introduced into cultured mammalian cells using erythrocyte membrane vesicles. Exp Cell Res 1985; 159:410-8. [PMID: 3161750 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4827(85)80014-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Plasmid 6.4 kbp DNA, 14 kbp DNA, lambda phage particles, all of which contained herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) thymidine kinase (TK) gene, or IgM molecules, were mixed with erythrocyte membranes and treated with neutral detergent. The transparent mixture was diluted with phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), followed by centrifugation to collect membrane vesicles containing the large macromolecules. 10-15% of 6.4 kbp, 3% of 14 kbp, 4-7% of the lambda phage particles and 14.5% of IgM were trapped within erythrocyte membrane vesicles. The membrane vesicles containing these molecules were fused with L cells, or rat F2408#20 cells, both of which are deficient in thymidine kinase activity. In each case, transformants were obtained. 2 X 10(5) - 7 X 10(5) phage PFU or 1.5 X 10(6) - 8 X 10(7) DNA molecules were required to obtain one transformant from L cells, but 2-3 X 10(7) phage PFU or 2 X 10(9) - 1 X 10(10) DNA molecules were required for one transformant from rat cells. Number of colonies which transiently expressed TK genes in L cells was also determined by autoradiography. The ratio of stable transformants to colonies positive for transient expression in cells treated with low doses of DNA or lambda phage was 46-68%. The transformation efficiency of human fibroblast cells by pSV2-gpt DNA trapped in erythrocyte membrane vesicles was less than that of L cells by HSV-TK DNA, but almost the same as that of rat cells by HSV-TK DNA.
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Nakanishi M, Uchida T, Sugawa H, Ishiura M, Okada Y. Efficient introduction of contents of liposomes into cells using HVJ (Sendai virus). Exp Cell Res 1985; 159:399-409. [PMID: 2993007 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-4827(85)80013-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The conditions for efficient introduction of the contents of liposomes into cells were examined using fragment A of diphtheria toxin (DA) as a marker; one molecule of DA can kill a cell when introduced into the cytoplasm. Liposomes containing DA (DA liposomes) were toxic to cells treated with HVJ (Sendai virus) at 4 degrees C just before exposure to DA liposomes at 37 degrees C, but were not toxic to untreated cells. This toxicity was temperature-dependent. DA outside of liposomes was not toxic to HVJ-treated cells. Results also showed that liposomes could fuse with HVJ at 37 degrees but not at 4 degrees C and that liposomes preincubated with HVJ at 37 degrees C could associate with cells. DA liposomes preincubated with HVJ at 37 degrees C were highly toxic to cells. This toxicity was dependent on the duration of preincubation with HVJ and the dose of HVJ. When plasmid DNA coded herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase was trapped in liposomes and fused with Ltk- cells with HVJ, the thymidine kinase activity was expressed in about 10% of the cells. These data show that naked liposomes fuse efficiently with cells with HVJ and that the contents of the liposomes can be introduced into the cytoplasm 100-10 000 times more efficiently by treatment of the cells or liposomes with HVJ.
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Recombinant Charon 4A phages accommodating the Herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) thymidine kinase (tk) gene, the ampicillin-resistance (ApR) gene, and the replication origin of pBR322 were constructed. The phage DNA was introduced into mouse Ltk- cells by a free DNA transfer method or phage-mediated DNA transfer method [Ishiura et al., Mol. Cell. Biol. 2 (1982) 607]. Analyses of the physical state of the transferred DNA in the recipient cell genome showed that a DNA fragment as long as 12.7 kb was integrated intact into 67% and less than 40% of the Ltk- transformant cells by phage-mediated DNA transfer and by free DNA transfer, respectively. We also developed a new rapid method for recovery of the transferred gene from the Ltk+ cell into Escherichia coli; the method depends on the fact that the recombinant lambda phage carrying the ApR gene and replication origin of pBR322 transduces lambda-lysogenic bacteria to ApR and is maintained as a plasmid. Using this method the HSV-1 tk gene from one Ltk+ transformant was rapidly and successfully recovered without any rearrangement of the target sequence.
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Mekada E, Kohno K, Ishiura M, Uchida T, Okada Y. Methylamine facilitates demonstration of specific uptake of diphtheria toxin by CHO cell and toxin-resistant CHO cell mutants. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1982; 109:792-9. [PMID: 7159442 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(82)92009-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Ehrlich ascites tumor cell extracts form a gel when warmed to 25 degrees C at pH 7.0 in sucrose solution, and the gel rapidly becomes a sol when cooled to 0 degrees C. This gel-sol transformation was studied quantitatively by determining the volume or the total protein of pellets of gel obtained by low-speed centrifugation. The gelation depended on nucleotide triphosphates, Mg2+, KCl, and a reducing agent. Gelation was inhibited reversibly by 0.5 microM free Ca2+, and 25--50 ng/ml of either cytochalasin B or D, but it was not affected by 10 mM colchicine. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the gel was composed of six major proteins with mol wt greater than 300,000, 270,000, 89,000, 51,000, 48,000, and 42,000 daltons. The last component was identified as cell actin because it had the same molecular weight as muscle actin and bound with muscle myosin and tropomyosin. The role of actin in gelation was studied by use of actin-inhibitors. Gelation was inhibited by a chemically modified subfragment-1 of myosin, which binds with F-actin even in the presence of ATP, and by bovine pancreatic DNase I, which tightly binds with G-actin. Muscle G-actin neutralized the inhibitory effect of DNase I when added at an equimolar ratio to the latter, and it also restored gelation after its inhibition by DNase I. These findings suggest that gelation depends on actin. However, the extracts showed temperature-dependent, cytochalasin-sensitive, and Ca2+-regulated gelation as did the original extracts when the cell actin in the extracts was replaced by muscle actin, suggesting that components other than cell actin might be responsible for these characteristics of the gelation.
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Ishiura M, Shibata-Sekiya K, Kato T, Tonomura Y. A chemically modified subfragment-1 of myosin from skeletal muscle as a novel tool for identifying the function of actomyosin in non-muscle cells. J Biochem 1977; 82:105-15. [PMID: 142764 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a131658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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