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Read TD Peterson SN Tourasse N Baillie LW Paulsen IT Nelson KE Tettelin H Fouts DE Eisen JA Gill SR Holtzapple EK Okstad OA Helgason E Rilstone J Wu M Kolonay JF Beanan MJ Dodson RJ Brinkac LM Gwinn M DeBoy RT Madpu R Daugherty SC Durkin AS Haft DH Nelson WC Peterson JD Pop M Khouri HM Radune D Benton JL Mahamoud Y Jiang L Hance IR Weidman JF Berry KJ Plaut RD Wolf AM Watkins KL Nierman WC Hazen A Cline R Redmond C Thwaite JE White O Salzberg SL Thomason B Friedlander AM Koehler TM Hanna PC 《Nature》2003,423(6935):81-86
Bacillus anthracis is an endospore-forming bacterium that causes inhalational anthrax. Key virulence genes are found on plasmids (extra-chromosomal, circular, double-stranded DNA molecules) pXO1 (ref. 2) and pXO2 (ref. 3). To identify additional genes that might contribute to virulence, we analysed the complete sequence of the chromosome of B. anthracis Ames (about 5.23 megabases). We found several chromosomally encoded proteins that may contribute to pathogenicity--including haemolysins, phospholipases and iron acquisition functions--and identified numerous surface proteins that might be important targets for vaccines and drugs. Almost all these putative chromosomal virulence and surface proteins have homologues in Bacillus cereus, highlighting the similarity of B. anthracis to near-neighbours that are not associated with anthrax. By performing a comparative genome hybridization of 19 B. cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis strains against a B. anthracis DNA microarray, we confirmed the general similarity of chromosomal genes among this group of close relatives. However, we found that the gene sequences of pXO1 and pXO2 were more variable between strains, suggesting plasmid mobility in the group. The complete sequence of B. anthracis is a step towards a better understanding of anthrax pathogenesis. 相似文献
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A two-dimensional steady-sate analysis of semi-infinite brittlecrack growth at a constant subcritical rate in an unboundedfully-coupled thermoelastic solid under mixed-mode thermomechanicalloading is made. The loading consists of normal and shear tractionsand heat fluxes applied as point sources (line loads in theout-of-plane direction). A related problem is solved exactly in an integral transformspace, and robust asymptotic forms used to reduce the originalproblem to a set of integral equations. The equations are partiallycoupled and exhibit operators of both Cauchy and Abel types,yet can be solved analytically. The temperature change field at a distance from the moving crackedge is then constructed, and its dominant term is found tobe controlled by the imposed heat fluxes. The role of this termis, indeed, enhanced if the heat fluxes serve to render thecrack as a net heat source/sink for the solid, as opposed tobeing a transmitter of heat across its plane. More generally,the influence of the thermoelastic coupling on this field, aswell as other functions, is found to increase with crack speed. 相似文献
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Amita Gupta Alexei Yu Ganin Parmanand Sharma Vikrant Agnihotri LM Belova KV Rao Mikhail E Kozlov AA Zakhidov RH Baughman 《Pramana》2002,58(5-6):1051-1059
We present studies of novel nanocomposites of BiNi impregnated into the structure of opals as well as inverse opals. Atomic force microscopy and high resolution elemental analyses show
a highly ordered structure and uniform distribution of the BiNi filler in the matrix. These BiNi-based nanocomposites are
found to exhibit distinct ferromagnetic-like ordering with transition temperature of about 675 K. As far as we know there
exists no report in literature on any BiNi compound which is magnetic. 相似文献
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Genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi reveals adaptations to the marine environment 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Moran MA Buchan A González JM Heidelberg JF Whitman WB Kiene RP Henriksen JR King GM Belas R Fuqua C Brinkac L Lewis M Johri S Weaver B Pai G Eisen JA Rahe E Sheldon WM Ye W Miller TR Carlton J Rasko DA Paulsen IT Ren Q Daugherty SC Deboy RT Dodson RJ Durkin AS Madupu R Nelson WC Sullivan SA Rosovitz MJ Haft DH Selengut J Ward N 《Nature》2004,432(7019):910-913
Since the recognition of prokaryotes as essential components of the oceanic food web, bacterioplankton have been acknowledged as catalysts of most major biogeochemical processes in the sea. Studying heterotrophic bacterioplankton has been challenging, however, as most major clades have never been cultured or have only been grown to low densities in sea water. Here we describe the genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi, a member of the marine Roseobacter clade (Fig. 1), the relatives of which comprise approximately 10-20% of coastal and oceanic mixed-layer bacterioplankton. This first genome sequence from any major heterotrophic clade consists of a chromosome (4,109,442 base pairs) and megaplasmid (491,611 base pairs). Genome analysis indicates that this organism relies upon a lithoheterotrophic strategy that uses inorganic compounds (carbon monoxide and sulphide) to supplement heterotrophy. Silicibacter pomeroyi also has genes advantageous for associations with plankton and suspended particles, including genes for uptake of algal-derived compounds, use of metabolites from reducing microzones, rapid growth and cell-density-dependent regulation. This bacterium has a physiology distinct from that of marine oligotrophs, adding a new strategy to the recognized repertoire for coping with a nutrient-poor ocean. 相似文献
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Willem de Haan Yolande AL Pijnenburg Rob LM Strijers Yolande van der Made Wiesje M van der Flier Philip Scheltens Cornelis J Stam 《BMC neuroscience》2009,10(1):101-12
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Although a large body of knowledge about both brain structure and function has been gathered over the last decades, we still have a poor understanding of their exact relationship. Graph theory provides a method to study the relation between network structure and function, and its application to neuroscientific data is an emerging research field. We investigated topological changes in large-scale functional brain networks in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) by means of graph theoretical analysis of resting-state EEG recordings. EEGs of 20 patients with mild to moderate AD, 15 FTLD patients, and 23 non-demented individuals were recorded in an eyes-closed resting-state. The synchronization likelihood (SL), a measure of functional connectivity, was calculated for each sensor pair in 0.5–4 Hz, 4–8 Hz, 8–10 Hz, 10–13 Hz, 13–30 Hz and 30–45 Hz frequency bands. The resulting connectivity matrices were converted to unweighted graphs, whose structure was characterized with several measures: mean clustering coefficient (local connectivity), characteristic path length (global connectivity) and degree correlation (network 'assortativity'). All results were normalized for network size and compared with random control networks. 相似文献
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