Improvement of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for equine herpesvirus type 4 by using a synthetic-peptide 24-mer repeat sequence of glycoprotein G as an antigen     

Hiroshi BANNAI  Manabu NEMOTO  Koji TSUJIMURA  Takashi YAMANAKA  Ken MAEDA  Takashi KONDO 《The Journal of veterinary medical science / the Japanese Society of Veterinary Science》2016,78(2):309-311

To increase the sensitivity of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for equine herpesvirus type 4 (EHV-4) that uses a 12-mer peptide of glycoprotein G (gG4-12-mer: MKNNPIYSEGSL) [4], we used a longer peptide consisting of a 24-mer repeat sequence (gG4-24-mer: MKNNPIYSEGSLMLNVQHDDSIHT) as an antigen. Sera of horses experimentally infected with EHV-4 reacted much more strongly to the gG4-24-mer peptide than to the gG4-12-mer peptide. We used peptide ELISAs to test paired sera from horses naturally infected with EHV-4 (n=40). gG4-24-mer ELISA detected 37 positive samples (92.5%), whereas gG4-12-mer ELISA detected only 28 (70.0%). gG4-24-mer ELISA was much more sensitive than gG4-12-mer ELISA.  相似文献   

One-way control of FWA imprinting in Arabidopsis endosperm by DNA methylation   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kinoshita T  Miura A  Choi Y  Kinoshita Y  Cao X  Jacobsen SE  Fischer RL  Kakutani T 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2004,303(5657):521-523

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Effects of bud scales and gibberellins on dormancy of in vitro cultured Japanese pear leaf buds     

Teruhisa Yotsuya  Takao Ichii  Minoru Sawano  Tetsu Nakanishi  Takeshi Ozaki 《Scientia Horticulturae》1984,24(2):177-184

Leaf buds of Japanese pear were collected in early June and early November and regarded as summer and winter dormant buds, respectively. Bud explants with and without scales were prepared from each of them, and cultured in vitro for 75 days at 25°C with 14 h photoperiod, on a medium either without growth regulators, or supplied with BA and GAs (GA₃ and GA₄₊₇), singly or in combination.When either BA or GA₄₊₇ was contained in the medium, bud expansion occurred. Thereafter, summer dormant buds grew into shoots in the presence of BA, while winter dormant buds, although they swelled profusely, remained in a rosette. In the presence of BA, GA₄₊₇ markedly stimulated shoot elongation of summer dormant buds, but GA₃ did not. In winter dormant buds, GA₄₊₇ not only failed to stimulate shoot elongation, but also interfered with the BA-induced swelling described above.The presence of bud scales delayed expansion of summer dormant buds, while it had little effect on winter dormant buds. The delaying effect of scales on expansion of summer buds was effectively removed by application of GA₄₊₇ to the medium.  相似文献   

Germline mutations in genes within the MAPK pathway cause cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rodriguez-Viciana P  Tetsu O  Tidyman WE  Estep AL  Conger BA  Cruz MS  McCormick F  Rauen KA 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2006,311(5765):1287-1290

Cardio-facio-cutaneous (CFC) syndrome is a sporadic developmental disorder involving characteristic craniofacial features, cardiac defects, ectodermal abnormalities, and developmental delay. We demonstrate that heterogeneous de novo missense mutations in three genes within the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway cause CFC syndrome. The majority of cases (18 out of 23) are caused by mutations in BRAF, a gene frequently mutated in cancer. Of the 11 mutations identified, two result in amino acid substitutions that occur in tumors, but most are unique and suggest previously unknown mechanisms of B-Raf activation. Furthermore, three of five individuals without BRAF mutations had missense mutations in either MEK1 or MEK2, downstream effectors of B-Raf. Our findings highlight the involvement of the MAPK pathway in human development and will provide a molecular diagnosis of CFC syndrome.  相似文献   

The muscle protein Dok-7 is essential for neuromuscular synaptogenesis     

Okada K  Inoue A  Okada M  Murata Y  Kakuta S  Jigami T  Kubo S  Shiraishi H  Eguchi K  Motomura M  Akiyama T  Iwakura Y  Higuchi O  Yamanashi Y 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2006,312(5781):1802-1805

The formation of the neuromuscular synapse requires muscle-specific receptor kinase (MuSK) to orchestrate postsynaptic differentiation, including the clustering of receptors for the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Upon innervation, neural agrin activates MuSK to establish the postsynaptic apparatus, although agrin-independent formation of neuromuscular synapses can also occur experimentally in the absence of neurotransmission. Dok-7, a MuSK-interacting cytoplasmic protein, is essential for MuSK activation in cultured myotubes; in particular, the Dok-7 phosphotyrosine-binding domain and its target in MuSK are indispensable. Mice lacking Dok-7 formed neither acetylcholine receptor clusters nor neuromuscular synapses. Thus, Dok-7 is essential for neuromuscular synaptogenesis through its interaction with MuSK.  相似文献   

Reliability in somatic cell count measurement of clinical mastitis milk using DeLaval cell counter     

Kazuhiro Kawai  Tomohito Hayashi  Yoshio Kiku  Tomoyuki Chiba  Hajime Nagahata  Hidetoshi Higuchi  Tetsu Obayashi  Seigo Itoh  Ken Onda  Sachiko Arai  Reiichiro Sato  Toshio Oshida 《Animal Science Journal》2013,84(12):805-807

Somatic cell counts (SCC) measurements are typically performed using quantitative methods, such as the Breed method (Breed) and the Fossomatic method (FSCC). The DeLaval cell counter (DCC) developed recently is a quantitative somatic cell counter with a low initial cost and superior portability. However, since the DCC was specifically developed for measuring SCC of ≤ 4 × 10⁶ cells/mL milk from bulk tanks or individual cows, its reliability for estimating SCC that exceed this concentration has not yet been clarified. This study therefore examined whether it is possible to accurately measure SCC by diluting milk samples with initial SCC of 4 × 10⁶ cells/mL, as seen in clinical mastitis milk. We collected milk samples from 99 quarters of 99 Holstein cows with clinical mastitis. These milk samples were diluted 10‐fold with saline and thoroughly mixed before performing SCC measurement with the DCC. The correlation coefficients of SCC measured by the FSCC, Breed and DCC methods indicated strong correlations between each pair of methods. The findings showed that DCC can be used to identify bovine clinical mastitis milk and is useful as a quantitative SCC measurement device on farm sites.  相似文献   

Semiochemicals containing lepidopteran sex pheromones: Wonderland for a natural product chemist     

Tetsu Ando  Masanobu Yamamoto 《Journal of Pesticide Science》2020,45(4):191

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中国砂梨7个自交不亲和新基因的分离与测序   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

谭晓风  乌云塔娜  中西テツ  李秀根 《中南林业科技大学学报(自然科学版)》2005,25(4):1-6

S-RNase是配子体自交不亲和植物雌蕊的基因产物,它降解具有相同基因型的花粉mRNA或rRNA,导致植物的自交不亲和.借鉴日本梨S-RNase基因的分析方法,对中国砂梨5个品种的基因组DNA进行PCR-RFLP系统检测和DNA序列分析,从中发现了7个新的S-RNase等位基因,分别命名为S11-RNase、S12-RNase、S13-RNase、S14-RNase、S15-RNase、S16-RNase和S25-RNase基因,其部分序列已登录到GenBank.  相似文献   

Fetal heart rate monitoring from maternal body surface potentials using independent component analysis     

Wenxi CHEN  Xin ZHU  Tetsu NEMOTO  Toshio KOBAYASHI  Toshiyuki SAITO 《Animal Science Journal》2004,75(5):471-478

The fetal heart rate is indispensable for monitoring the health of unborn cattle fetuses. To monitor the fetal heart rate, a method employing independent component analysis (ICA) to extract the fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) from potentials measured on the maternal body surface and composed of a mixture of the maternal ECG (mECG), fECG, baseline drift and noise is described. A mixing of the raw data was simplified using a linear time‐invariant model. To separate the fECG from the mECG, baseline drift, and noise, an ICA strategy was applied, using a hyperbolic tangent as the contrast function and treating mutual information with the minimization principle to find the optimum demixing matrix to derive the fECG from the measured signals. After the feasibility of this method was shown on simulated signals obtained by randomly mixing pure fECG, pure mECG, low frequency sinusoidal drift and noise, real signals from three cloned pregnant Holstein cows with 157, 177 and 224‐day gestation periods were used to verify the separation method. The results show that the fECG, mECG, low‐frequency sinusoidal drift and noise can be clearly segregated in simulations, and that the fECG, mECG, baseline drift and noise can be successfully derived from real signals. The ICA approach has great potential in effectively detecting the fECG from maternal body surface potentials.  相似文献   

Serological survey of leptospirosis in sows with premature birth and stillbirth in Chiba and Gunma prefectures of Japan     

Kazami A  Watanabe H  Hayashi T  Kobayashi K  Ogawa Y  Yamamoto K  Adachi Y 《The Journal of veterinary medical science / the Japanese Society of Veterinary Science》2002,64(8):735-737

In 1996 and 1997, the seroprevalence against Leptospira in parturient sows with premature birth or stillbirth from two herds was investigated. In three out of four sow serum samples obtained in Gunma Prefecture, the antibody titers to Leptospira interrogans serovar copenhageni (M20) were higher than 10,000 (the reciprocal of the serum dilution). Furthermore, the antibody titers to L. interrogans serovar canicola (Hond Utrecht IV) were significantly high in the three sows and the titers ranged from 1,000 to 3,000. In sows obtained in Chiba Prefecture, significantly high antibody titers to serovar copenhageni (M20) were confirmed in eight out of 40 sows, and antibody titers greater than 10,000 in six of them. Significantly high antibody titers to L. interrogans serovar icterohaemorrhagiae (RGA) and L. canicola (Hond Utrecht IV) were confirmed in four and 18 out of the 40 sows, respectively, compared with the titers to the other serovars. These findings may indicate the prevalence of leptospirosis in pig herds in both Gunma and Chiba Prefectures.  相似文献