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Genetic polymorphism of urine deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I) of mole rats was analyzed by isoelectric focusing in a thin-layer polyacrylamide gel (IEF-PAGE). One hundred and three subterranean mole rats, comprising 13 populations belonging to the four chromosomal species (2n = 52, 54, 58, 60) of the actively speciating Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies in Israel, were tested. The following results were indicated. (i) Spalax DNase I consisted of 6-12 major isozymes. (ii) Four phenotypes (numbers in parentheses) were 1 (92), 1-2 (5), 1-3 (4), and 2 (1). The decreasing order of genetic diversity, He, in the four species was 0.37, 0.13, 0.10, and 0.0 for 2n = 58, 52, 54, and 60, respectively. (iii) Spearman rank correlations and multiple regression analyses indicated associations of allele frequencies and genetic diversity with climatic and vegetation factors. We concluded that (a) climatic selection, either directly or indirectly through plant (i.e., food resources) diversity, plays an important role in DNase genetic differentiation and (b) no gene flow and introgression occur between the recent derivative of speciation (2n = 60) and its ancestor (2n = 58), suggesting the operation of reproductive isolation between both species despite natural hybridization.
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PMID:Genetic polymorphism of urine deoxyribonuclease I isomerases of subterranean mole rats, Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies, in Israel: ecogeographical patterns and correlates. 208 7

Actin in the sperm head of Talpa europaea was observed by immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy. The indirect immunofluorescence technique, using both anti-actin and DNase anti-DNase methods, showed a shining fluorescent band around the sperm head in some spermatozoa, whereas in others the fluorescence was found in the postacrosomal region. Since no labeling was detected in sperms treated with NBD-phallacidin, it is likely that mature mole sperms contain G-actin but not F-actin. The results of electron microscopy indicated the deposition of the anti-actin antibodies in two places in mole spermatozoa: the postacrosomal region and the nuclear segment of the acrosome. In the first case, the actin was localized in the space between the outer surface of the postacrosomal sheath and the plasma membrane; in the second one, the actin was localized in the space between the outer acrosomal membrane and the plasma membrane. The significance of the presence of actin and its role(s) during fertilization are discussed.
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PMID:Immunocytochemical localization of actin in the sperm head of Talpa europaea (Insectivora). 351 5

Thymidylate synthase (5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate:dUMP C-methyltransferase, EC 2.1.1.45) from methotrexate-resistant Streptococcus faecium has a UV absorbance peak at 259 nm and stains with acridine orange because of the presence of RNA on the protein. Material having an absorbance peak at 254 nm, obtained from the enzyme by phenol extraction, is degraded by treatment with pancreatic RNase, T1 RNase, and alkali but is stable to DNase. Dowex-1 chromatography of the pure enzyme yields two polynucleotide fragments in addition to the apoenzyme. As estimated from their absorbance, these fragments contain 4 and 11 mononucleotide residues per mole of enzyme, respectively. In crude extracts, thymidylate synthase is associated with rapidly sedimenting material that is sensitive to RNase. Treatment of crude extracts with RNase, as is done routinely during thymidylate synthase purification, most likely results in the formation of the small polynucleotides found on the enzyme. The RNA is not required for enzyme activity.
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PMID:Association of RNA with thymidylate synthase from methotrexate-resistant Streptococcus faecium. 618 21

Treatment of bovine thyroid with the non-ionic detergent Triton X-100 extracts most of the cell protein and leaves insoluble residue. This Triton-insoluble cytoskeleton consists of five major polypeptides on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels. One of these polypeptides is actin. Based on DNase inhibition assay, 30% of the total actin is associated with the cytoskeleton as the filamentous form. Thyroid actin from the cytoskeleton has been solubilized by dialysis against a low ionic strength buffer at pH 8.0 and purified to homogeneity by a polymerizing-depolymerizing cycle. The overall purification was about 144-fold with a yield of 10%. Bovine thyroid actin is very similar to actins from other tissues on the basis of: (1) comigration with rabbit skeletal muscle actin during gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate, (2) its amino acid composition, which includes about 1 mole of 3-methylhistidine per 42,000 g, (3) its ability to bind and inhibit pancreatic deoxyribonuclease I, and (4) its ability to form 7-8 nm microfilaments which is similar to that of skeletal filamentous actin. Thyroid actin contains beta- and gamma-isoactins, with isoelectric points more alkaline than the alpha-actin of rabbit skeletal muscle.
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PMID:Actin in Triton-insoluble cytoskeleton of thyroid. 628 13

Under some cell culture conditions, recombinant glycoprotein therapeutics expressed in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells lose sialic acid during the course of the culture (Sliwkowski et al., 1992; Munzert et al., 1996). A soluble sialidase of CHO cell origin degrades the expressed recombinant protein and has been shown to be released into the culture fluid as the viability of the cells decreases. To reduce the levels of the sialidase and to prevent desialylation of recombinant protein, a CHO cell line has been developed that constitutively expresses sialidase antisense RNA. Several antisense expression vectors were prepared using different regions of the sialidase gene. Co-transfection of the antisense constructs with a vector conferring puromycin resistance gave rise to over 40 puromycin resistant clones that were screened for sialidase activity. A 5' 474 bp coding segment of the sialidase cDNA, in the inverted orientation in an SV 40-based expression vector, gave maximal reduction of the sialidase activity to about 40% wild-type values. To test if this level of sialidase would lead to increased sialic acid content of an expressed recombinant protein, the 474 antisense clone was employed as a host for expression of human DNase as a model glycoprotein. The sialic acid content of the DNase produced in the antisense cultures was compared with material made in the wild-type parental cell line. About 20-37% increase in sialic acid content, or 0.6-1.1 mole of additional sialic acid out of a total of 3.0 mole on the product, was found on the DNase made in the antisense cell lines.
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PMID:Chinese hamster ovary cells with constitutively expressed sialidase antisense RNA produce recombinant DNase in batch culture with increased sialic acid. 1009 67