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The 36kDa L-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and a 29kDa partial fragment of an ABC transporter ATP-binding protein analogue/multidrug resistance protein homologue (PR2) of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae were tested for their potential as diagnostic antigens. Recombinant LDH was genetically engineered to contain six histidine residues at its C-terminal end, expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to a high degree using Ni(2+)-chelate affinity chromatography. A partial 262 amino acid segment representing the C-terminal end of the PR2 protein was cloned as a glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion protein, expressed in E. coli and purified by urea extraction. Purified recombinant LDH-6xHis and PR2-GST were then reacted with pig sera in immunoblot assays. Our immunoblots showed that both proteins detected anti-M. hyopneumoniae antibodies in field and experimentally infected pig sera but not in any of the SPF control sera. The two proteins were specific for M. hyopneumoniae as they did not react with sera of pigs infected with the closely related Mycoplasma flocculare and Mycoplasma hyorhinis which are frequently isolated in pigs but are not of particular concern.
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PMID:Immunoblot assays using recombinant antigens for the detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae antibodies. 1086 56

Retroprocessed pseudogenes, calmodulin II (psi1, psi2, and psi3 CALMII), psi alpha-tubulin, pi-glutathione S-transferase (psi pi-GST) from rat, lactic acid dehydrogenase (psi LDH) from mouse, and heat shock protein 60 chaperonin (psi HSP60) from Chinese hamster, were examined for their presence in these species by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Pseudogenes of these murine rodents were detected by PCR only in those species in which the genes were originally identified, suggesting that the selected pseudogene of one species arose too recently to be detected in the genomes of the other rodent species. The calculated ages of the rodent pseudogenes ranged from 1.7 Myr (psi alpha-tubulin) to 7.5 Myr (psi3 CALMII) when employing a homologous functional gene of the taxon as a reference in the relative rate test with the mouse or rat as the outgroup. Given the high rate of divergence of the genes of rodents relative to other species, selection of an outgroup with similar mutation rates seems warranted. To justify further the conclusion that the selected pseudogenes were indeed retroprocessed after these three taxa diverged, the presence of the pseudogenes in the genome of different rat species was examined. The existence of psi3 CALMII and psi alpha-tubulin pseudogenes of Rattus norvegicus among species belonging to Rattus sensu stricto is evidence for the common ancestry of this group.
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PMID:Age and detection of retroprocessed pseudogenes in murine rodents. 1173 3

L-lactate dehydrogenase is a crucial enzyme in the process of glycolysis. Here we report the cloning and characterization of another novel lactate dehydrogenase gene, named as LDHAL6A (lactate dehydrogenase A-like 6A), which encodes a 332-amino-acid protein. The LDHAL6A gene consists of seven exons, and is mapped to 11p15.1 by searching the UCSC genomic database. By RT-PCR analysis in various tissues, LDHAL6A was found to be exclusively expressed in human testis. Subcellular localization demonstrated that LDHAL6A protein was located in the cytoplasm when overexpressed in COS7 cells. Furthermore, we found that the recombinant protein GST-LDHAL6A can catalyze the pyruvate convert into the lactate with NADH as its coenzyme. And in the dual luciferase reporter system, expression of LDHAL6A was able to activate transcriptional activities of AP1(PMA).
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PMID:Identification of a novel human lactate dehydrogenase gene LDHAL6A, which activates transcriptional activities of AP1(PMA). 1835 41