Rice metallothionein-like protein (rgMT) shows characteristics of a three-section pattern composed of two highly conserved cysteine rich (CR) domains in the terminals and a spacer without cysteine (cys) residues in th...Rice metallothionein-like protein (rgMT) shows characteristics of a three-section pattern composed of two highly conserved cysteine rich (CR) domains in the terminals and a spacer without cysteine (cys) residues in the center of the molecule. In this paper, the two CR domains and the spacer region were modeled by the distance geometry and homology methods separately. For the CR domains, twenty random models were generated for each cys combination based on the constraint conditions of CXC (C represents cys, X represents any amino acid other than cys), and CXXC motifs and a metal-sulfur chelating cluster. Four models for the N-terminal and two for C-terminal CR domain containing metal chelating structures formed by different combinations of cys were selected from 900 possible conformations. The GOR method was used to predict the secondary structure of the spacer region and its model was built by the homology method. After three parts of the protein were modeled, they were connected to form a three-dimensional structure model of rgMT. The whole conformation showed that rgMT could form two independent metal-sulfur chelating structures connected by a spacer peptide, without a structural or energy barrier for them to form two independent metal-chelating clusters just as mammalian metallothionein (MT) proteins. As all plant metallothionein-like (MT-L) proteins have the same primary structural characteristic, two CR domains connected by a spacer region, and many have the same cys arrangement pattern as rgMT, the three-dimensional structure model of rgMT will provide an important reference for the structural study of other plant MT-L proteins.展开更多
With the progress of plant genome research, more than 50 plant metallothionein_like (MT_L) genes have been found, but only several MT_L proteins have been detected and no experimental structural information for MT_L p...With the progress of plant genome research, more than 50 plant metallothionein_like (MT_L) genes have been found, but only several MT_L proteins have been detected and no experimental structural information for MT_L proteins has been reported so far. Since detailed knowledge of the protein tertiary structure is required to understand its biological function, a method is needed to determine the structure of these proteins. In this study, the structural data of known mammal MT was used to determine the interatomic distance constraints of the CXC and CXXC motifs and the metal_sulfur chelating cluster. Then several possible MT conformations were predicted using a distance geometry algorithm. The statistical analysis was used to select those with much lower target function values and lower conformation energies as the predicted tertiary structural models of the cysteine_rich (CR) domains of these proteins. A suitable prediction method for modeling the CR domain of the plant MT_L protein was constructed. The accurately predicted result for the known structure of an MT protein from blue crab suggests that this method is practicable. The tertiary structures of CR domains of rape MT_L protein LSC54 was then modeled with this method.展开更多
目的:通过CT三维重建对中国辽宁汉族成人下颌骨进行测量,分析不同垂直骨面型之间的差异。方法:使用VG Studio 2.2 MAX软件对106例(低角29例、均角47例、高角30例)辽宁汉族成人CT扫描数据进行三维颅骨提取,并在三维颅骨模型上测量下颌骨...目的:通过CT三维重建对中国辽宁汉族成人下颌骨进行测量,分析不同垂直骨面型之间的差异。方法:使用VG Studio 2.2 MAX软件对106例(低角29例、均角47例、高角30例)辽宁汉族成人CT扫描数据进行三维颅骨提取,并在三维颅骨模型上测量下颌骨的三维坐标;使用WinEDMA1.0.1软件对不同垂直骨面型成人的下颌骨做形状差异性分析并对差异进行bootstrap非参数检验。结果:欧几里得几何距离矩阵分析显示,辽宁不同垂直骨面型汉族成人的下颌骨按高角、均角、低角的顺序,下颌升支相对与整个下颌体由短变长,而下颌骨水平部的垂直高度由长变短。其主要差异集中在下颌骨升支,差异均有统计学意义。结论:辽宁地区不同垂直骨面型成人的下颌骨形态差异显著,在正畸治疗方案设计中应充分考虑该差异性。展开更多
The mean Hausdorff distance, though highly applicable in image registration, does not work well on partial matching images. An improvement upon traditional Hausdorff-distance-based image registration method is propose...The mean Hausdorff distance, though highly applicable in image registration, does not work well on partial matching images. An improvement upon traditional Hausdorff-distance-based image registration method is proposed, which consists of the following two aspects. One is to estimate transformation parameters between two images from the distributions of geometric property differences instead of establishing explicit feature correspondences. This procedure is treated as the pre-registration. The other aspect is that mean Hausdorff distance computation is replaced with the analysis of the second difference of generalized Hausdorff distance so as to eliminate the redundant points. Experimental results show that our registration method outperforms the method based on mean Hausdorff distance. The registration errors are noticeably reduced in the partial matching images.展开更多
文摘Rice metallothionein-like protein (rgMT) shows characteristics of a three-section pattern composed of two highly conserved cysteine rich (CR) domains in the terminals and a spacer without cysteine (cys) residues in the center of the molecule. In this paper, the two CR domains and the spacer region were modeled by the distance geometry and homology methods separately. For the CR domains, twenty random models were generated for each cys combination based on the constraint conditions of CXC (C represents cys, X represents any amino acid other than cys), and CXXC motifs and a metal-sulfur chelating cluster. Four models for the N-terminal and two for C-terminal CR domain containing metal chelating structures formed by different combinations of cys were selected from 900 possible conformations. The GOR method was used to predict the secondary structure of the spacer region and its model was built by the homology method. After three parts of the protein were modeled, they were connected to form a three-dimensional structure model of rgMT. The whole conformation showed that rgMT could form two independent metal-sulfur chelating structures connected by a spacer peptide, without a structural or energy barrier for them to form two independent metal-chelating clusters just as mammalian metallothionein (MT) proteins. As all plant metallothionein-like (MT-L) proteins have the same primary structural characteristic, two CR domains connected by a spacer region, and many have the same cys arrangement pattern as rgMT, the three-dimensional structure model of rgMT will provide an important reference for the structural study of other plant MT-L proteins.
文摘With the progress of plant genome research, more than 50 plant metallothionein_like (MT_L) genes have been found, but only several MT_L proteins have been detected and no experimental structural information for MT_L proteins has been reported so far. Since detailed knowledge of the protein tertiary structure is required to understand its biological function, a method is needed to determine the structure of these proteins. In this study, the structural data of known mammal MT was used to determine the interatomic distance constraints of the CXC and CXXC motifs and the metal_sulfur chelating cluster. Then several possible MT conformations were predicted using a distance geometry algorithm. The statistical analysis was used to select those with much lower target function values and lower conformation energies as the predicted tertiary structural models of the cysteine_rich (CR) domains of these proteins. A suitable prediction method for modeling the CR domain of the plant MT_L protein was constructed. The accurately predicted result for the known structure of an MT protein from blue crab suggests that this method is practicable. The tertiary structures of CR domains of rape MT_L protein LSC54 was then modeled with this method.
文摘目的:通过CT三维重建对中国辽宁汉族成人下颌骨进行测量,分析不同垂直骨面型之间的差异。方法:使用VG Studio 2.2 MAX软件对106例(低角29例、均角47例、高角30例)辽宁汉族成人CT扫描数据进行三维颅骨提取,并在三维颅骨模型上测量下颌骨的三维坐标;使用WinEDMA1.0.1软件对不同垂直骨面型成人的下颌骨做形状差异性分析并对差异进行bootstrap非参数检验。结果:欧几里得几何距离矩阵分析显示,辽宁不同垂直骨面型汉族成人的下颌骨按高角、均角、低角的顺序,下颌升支相对与整个下颌体由短变长,而下颌骨水平部的垂直高度由长变短。其主要差异集中在下颌骨升支,差异均有统计学意义。结论:辽宁地区不同垂直骨面型成人的下颌骨形态差异显著,在正畸治疗方案设计中应充分考虑该差异性。
基金Project(61070090)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2012J4300030)supported by the GuangzhouScience and Technology Support Key Projects,China
文摘The mean Hausdorff distance, though highly applicable in image registration, does not work well on partial matching images. An improvement upon traditional Hausdorff-distance-based image registration method is proposed, which consists of the following two aspects. One is to estimate transformation parameters between two images from the distributions of geometric property differences instead of establishing explicit feature correspondences. This procedure is treated as the pre-registration. The other aspect is that mean Hausdorff distance computation is replaced with the analysis of the second difference of generalized Hausdorff distance so as to eliminate the redundant points. Experimental results show that our registration method outperforms the method based on mean Hausdorff distance. The registration errors are noticeably reduced in the partial matching images.