1 Introduction Metallothioneins (MTs) are a family of low-molecular weight heavy metal binding proteins, unique in their high cystein content. MTs are ubiquitously distributed in the eukaryote from yeast to human. It ...1 Introduction Metallothioneins (MTs) are a family of low-molecular weight heavy metal binding proteins, unique in their high cystein content. MTs are ubiquitously distributed in the eukaryote from yeast to human. It is an experimental model emphasized during researching gene expression and regulation of animal cells. In order to provide inducible regulatory elements for transgenosis livestock, we cloned bovine MT genes. At least four members of bovine MT family have been discovered. In this note, one gene (bMTc) of展开更多
Bicoid is one of the important Drosophila maternal genes involved in the control of embryo polarity and larvae segmentation. To clone and characterize the rice bicoid-related genes, one cDNA clone, Rb24 (EMBL accessio...Bicoid is one of the important Drosophila maternal genes involved in the control of embryo polarity and larvae segmentation. To clone and characterize the rice bicoid-related genes, one cDNA clone, Rb24 (EMBL accession number: AJ2771380), was isolated by screening of rice unmature seed cDNA library. Sequence analysis indicates that Rb24 contains a putative amino acid sequence, which is homologous to unique 8 amino acids sequence within Drosophila bicoid homeodomain (50% identity, 75% similarity) and involves a lys-9 in putative helix 3. Northern blot analysis of rice RNA has shown that this sequence is expressed in a tissue-specific manner. The transcript was detected strongly in young panicles, but less in young leaves and roots. This results are further confirmed with paraffin section in situ hybridization. The signal is intensive in rice globular embryo and located at the apical tip of the embryo, then, along with the development of embryo, the signal is getting reduced and transfers into both sides of embryo. The existence of bicoid-related sequence in rice embryo and the similarity of polar distribution of bicoid and Rb24 mRNA in early embryo development may implicates a conserved maternal regulation mechanism of body axis presents in Drosophila and in rice.展开更多
Computational gene structure prediction, which is valuable for finding new genes and understanding the composition of genomes, plays a very important role in various kinds of genome projects. For eukaryotic gene struc...Computational gene structure prediction, which is valuable for finding new genes and understanding the composition of genomes, plays a very important role in various kinds of genome projects. For eukaryotic gene structures, however, the prediction accuracy of existing methods is still limited. This paper presents a method of pre-dicting eukaryotic gene structures based on multilevel opti-mization. The complicated problem of predicting gene structure in eukaryotic DNA sequence containing multiple genes can be decomposed into a series of sub-problems at several levels with decreasing complexity, including the gene level (single-exon gene, multi-exon gene), the element level (exon, intron, etc.), and the feature level (functional site sig-nals, codon usage preference, etc.). On the basis of this de-composition, a multilevel model for the prediction of complex gene structures is created by a multilevel optimization proc-ess, in which the models dealing with sub-problems at low complexity level are first optimized respectively, and then optimally combined together to form models for those sub-problems at higher complexity level. Based on the multi-level model, a dynamic programming algorithm is designed to search for optimal gene structures from DNA sequences, and a new program GeneKey (1.0) for the prediction of eu-karyotic gene structures is developed. Testing results with widely used datasets demonstrate that the prediction accura-cies of GeneKey (1.0) at the nucleotide level, exon level and gene level are all higher than that of the well known program GENSCAN. A web server of GeneKey(1.0) is available at http://infosci.hust.edu.展开更多
对阳江豆豉分离菌株进行多项分类鉴定,并对该菌中性蛋白酶基因克隆和序列分析,预测菌株中性蛋白酶二级结构。采用18SrRNA基因序列鉴定菌株,并以菌株中性蛋白酶的氨基酸序列为基础,应用DNA Star Protean软件对蛋白酶的二级结构进行预测...对阳江豆豉分离菌株进行多项分类鉴定,并对该菌中性蛋白酶基因克隆和序列分析,预测菌株中性蛋白酶二级结构。采用18SrRNA基因序列鉴定菌株,并以菌株中性蛋白酶的氨基酸序列为基础,应用DNA Star Protean软件对蛋白酶的二级结构进行预测。通过形态和18SrRNA基因序列分析,鉴定该菌株为米曲霉Aspergillus oryzae。通过RT-PCR和PCR从菌丝体中克隆了基因序列,与产中性蛋白酶有关的核苷酸序列有2 113bp,推测出634个氨基酸序列。展开更多
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文摘1 Introduction Metallothioneins (MTs) are a family of low-molecular weight heavy metal binding proteins, unique in their high cystein content. MTs are ubiquitously distributed in the eukaryote from yeast to human. It is an experimental model emphasized during researching gene expression and regulation of animal cells. In order to provide inducible regulatory elements for transgenosis livestock, we cloned bovine MT genes. At least four members of bovine MT family have been discovered. In this note, one gene (bMTc) of
文摘Bicoid is one of the important Drosophila maternal genes involved in the control of embryo polarity and larvae segmentation. To clone and characterize the rice bicoid-related genes, one cDNA clone, Rb24 (EMBL accession number: AJ2771380), was isolated by screening of rice unmature seed cDNA library. Sequence analysis indicates that Rb24 contains a putative amino acid sequence, which is homologous to unique 8 amino acids sequence within Drosophila bicoid homeodomain (50% identity, 75% similarity) and involves a lys-9 in putative helix 3. Northern blot analysis of rice RNA has shown that this sequence is expressed in a tissue-specific manner. The transcript was detected strongly in young panicles, but less in young leaves and roots. This results are further confirmed with paraffin section in situ hybridization. The signal is intensive in rice globular embryo and located at the apical tip of the embryo, then, along with the development of embryo, the signal is getting reduced and transfers into both sides of embryo. The existence of bicoid-related sequence in rice embryo and the similarity of polar distribution of bicoid and Rb24 mRNA in early embryo development may implicates a conserved maternal regulation mechanism of body axis presents in Drosophila and in rice.
文摘Computational gene structure prediction, which is valuable for finding new genes and understanding the composition of genomes, plays a very important role in various kinds of genome projects. For eukaryotic gene structures, however, the prediction accuracy of existing methods is still limited. This paper presents a method of pre-dicting eukaryotic gene structures based on multilevel opti-mization. The complicated problem of predicting gene structure in eukaryotic DNA sequence containing multiple genes can be decomposed into a series of sub-problems at several levels with decreasing complexity, including the gene level (single-exon gene, multi-exon gene), the element level (exon, intron, etc.), and the feature level (functional site sig-nals, codon usage preference, etc.). On the basis of this de-composition, a multilevel model for the prediction of complex gene structures is created by a multilevel optimization proc-ess, in which the models dealing with sub-problems at low complexity level are first optimized respectively, and then optimally combined together to form models for those sub-problems at higher complexity level. Based on the multi-level model, a dynamic programming algorithm is designed to search for optimal gene structures from DNA sequences, and a new program GeneKey (1.0) for the prediction of eu-karyotic gene structures is developed. Testing results with widely used datasets demonstrate that the prediction accura-cies of GeneKey (1.0) at the nucleotide level, exon level and gene level are all higher than that of the well known program GENSCAN. A web server of GeneKey(1.0) is available at http://infosci.hust.edu.
文摘对阳江豆豉分离菌株进行多项分类鉴定,并对该菌中性蛋白酶基因克隆和序列分析,预测菌株中性蛋白酶二级结构。采用18SrRNA基因序列鉴定菌株,并以菌株中性蛋白酶的氨基酸序列为基础,应用DNA Star Protean软件对蛋白酶的二级结构进行预测。通过形态和18SrRNA基因序列分析,鉴定该菌株为米曲霉Aspergillus oryzae。通过RT-PCR和PCR从菌丝体中克隆了基因序列,与产中性蛋白酶有关的核苷酸序列有2 113bp,推测出634个氨基酸序列。
