M Okushima, D Sugino, Y Kouno, S Nakano, J Miyahara, H Toda, S Kubo, A Matsushiro
{"title":"Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequencing of the Arthrobacter dextranase gene and its expression in Escherichia coli and Streptococcus sanguis.","authors":"M Okushima, D Sugino, Y Kouno, S Nakano, J Miyahara, H Toda, S Kubo, A Matsushiro","doi":"10.1266/jjg.66.173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.66.173","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A bacterial strain, which assimilated dextran and water-insoluble glucan produced by Streptococcus mutans, was isolated from soil. The bacterium produced and secreted potent dextranase activity, which was identified as Arthrobacter sp. and named CB-8. The dextranase was purified and some enzymatic properties were characterized. The enzyme efficiently decomposed the water-insoluble glucan as well as dextran. A gene library from the bacteria was constructed with Escherichia coli, using plasmid pUC19, and clones producing dextranase activity were selected. Based on the result of nucleotide sequencing analysis, it was deduced that the dextranase was synthesized in CB-8 cells as a polypeptide precursor consisting of 640 amino acid residues, including 49 N-terminal amino acid residues which could be regarded as a signal peptide. In the E. coli transformant, the dextranase activity was detected mostly in the periplasmic space. The gene for the dextranase was introduced into Streptococcus sanguis, using an E. coli-S. sanguis shuttle vector that contained the promoter sequence of a gene for glucosyltransferase derived from a strain of S. mutans. The active dextranase was also expressed and accumulated in S. sanguis cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"66 2","pages":"173-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.66.173","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13021921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selective transmission of mitochondrial DNA in heteroplasmic lines for intra- and interspecific combinations in Drosophila melanogaster.","authors":"E T Matsuura, Y Niki, S I Chigusa","doi":"10.1266/jjg.66.197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.66.197","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The transmission of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was investigated in the heteroplasmic lines of Drosophila melanogaster at 19 degrees C and at 25 degrees C. The selective transmission of one type of mtDNA was dependent on the temperature at which the lines were maintained. In heteroplasmic lines for an intraspecific combination induced by germ-plasm transplantation using D. melanogaster as a germ-plasm donor, the proportion of donor mtDNA decreased in four out of five lines examined, the decreasing rate of which being greater at 25 degrees C than at 19 degrees C. Donor mtDNA was lost by the 20th generation at 25 degrees C. For an interspecific combination using D. mauritiana as a germ-plasm donor, the proportion of donor mtDNA increased and endogenous mtDNA was replaced with donor mtDNA at 25 degrees C. But donor mtDNA was almost lost at 19 degrees C by the 14th generation in all four lines examined. Possible mechanisms involved in the temperature-dependent modes of mtDNA transmission are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"66 2","pages":"197-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.66.197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13067628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Factors for activation of the replication origin of the E. coli chromosome].","authors":"T Asai","doi":"10.1266/jjg.66.85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.66.85","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"66 1","pages":"85-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.66.85","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13220899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suppression of the cr-1 mutation in Neurospora crassa.","authors":"S Kore-eda, T Murayama, I Uno","doi":"10.1266/jjg.66.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.66.77","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have cloned a DNA fragment, which hybridized with the adenylate cyclase gene (CYR1) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, from genomic DNA libraries of Neurospora crassa. The cr-1 mutation was able to be suppressed by introducing this DNA fragment on a cosmid vector, judging from recovery of the adenylate cyclase activity and the abnormal morphology.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"66 1","pages":"77-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.66.77","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12992320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the robertsonian polymorphism found in the Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus).","authors":"M Y Wada, H T Imai","doi":"10.1266/jjg.66.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.66.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Karyotypes of 39 Japanese raccoon dogs (NPV) which appeared in the literature and of 7 previously unreported specimens were examined. Thirty four individuals showed the standard karyotype 2K = 26M + 10A + (M)X + (A)Y + Bs (2n = 38 + Bs), where Bs are supernumerary chromosomes. The remaining 11 individuals had 2K = 25M + 12A + XY + Bs (2n = 39 + Bs) and one was 2K = 23M + 16A + XY + Bs (2n = 41 + Bs). The G- and C-banding analyses of both somatic and germ cells revealed that these karyotypes with odd numbers are heterozygous (M/A) for a single Robertsonian rearrangement of chromosomes 2, 5, 6, 8, or 11, and one is M/A heterozygous for three autosomes: 5, 6, and 11.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"66 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.66.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13220896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chromosomal rearrangement In(2)TY and linkage maps of the second chromosome of Drosophila virilis.","authors":"K Tsuno, O Yamaguchi","doi":"10.1266/jjg.66.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.66.49","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A chromosomal rearrangement In(2)TY, found in a natural population of Drosophila virilis, was examined cytologically, and its genetical characterization was carried out by the use of some marker isozymes and visible marker loci. From the interspecific hybridization between D. virilis and D. americana or D. texana, we deduced that the origin of In(2)TY was from a member of a closely related species of virilis.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"66 1","pages":"49-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.66.49","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13220898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distorted segregation of the esterase isozyme genotypes in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).","authors":"T Konishi, K Abe, S Matsuura, Y Yano","doi":"10.1266/jjg.65.411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.65.411","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Distorted segregation of the esterase isozyme genotypes was observed in F2 population which was produced from a cross combination between 'Ko A' and 'Mokusekko 3' of barley varieties. After examining the segregation of esterase isozyme genotypes in B1F1 hybrids derived from the reciprocal backcrosses, it was made clear that the distorted segregation was caused by certation between pollens of different genotypes, independent of the female genotypes. Furthermore, the certation was controlled by a newly designated gene, Ga2, at the locus which was linked with the multiocus, Est1, Est2 and Est4, for esterase isozymes at the long arm of chromosome 3. The distorted segregation ratios did not significantly vary among F2 populations derived from F1 hybrids of the same combination which were grown in different years. Mechanically mixed pollens of the parents, however, could not induce the certation.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"65 6","pages":"411-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.65.411","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13243980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fitness and its components in Drosophila melanogaster.","authors":"T Tanaka, T Yamazaki","doi":"10.1266/jjg.65.417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.65.417","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fitness and its components in Drosophila melanogaster were estimated under the homozygous condition. All of these parameters, except for egg-to-adult viability and female fecundity, were measured under interspecific competition with D. hydei. The following results were obtained: (1) Significant genetic variation was detected in fitness, productivity, adult viability, total egg-to-adult viability and female fecundity. (2) Significant correlation was obtained between fitness and productivity (rp = 0.792 for phenotypic correlation, rg = 0.945 for genotypic correlation), between fitness and total egg-to-adult viability (rp = 0.355, rg = 0.395), and between fitness and female fecundity (rp = 0.451, rg = 0.511). (3) There was no significant correlation between total egg-to-adult viability and fecundity (rp = -0.046). The biological implications of the interrelationship between fitness and its components are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"65 6","pages":"417-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.65.417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13283535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transient expression of chimeric CAT genes injected into early embryos of the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori.","authors":"T Tamura, T Kanda, S Takiya, K Okano, H Maekawa","doi":"10.1266/jjg.65.401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.65.401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to establish a transient expression system for genes introduced into early embryos of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, we tested various promoters ligated with CAT reporter genes. The embryos into which we injected supercoiled plasmid DNA of pFb(-860/+10)CAT containing the Bombyx fibroin promoter region ligated to the CAT gene showed a reasonably high CAT activity beginning around 30 h after oviposition. This high activity was observed only when the plasmid was injected before termination of the early nuclear cleavage stage, which was about 8 h after oviposition, but not after this stage. This means that the expression of injected DNA is closely related to the presence of cleavage nuclei in early embryos. Promoters originating from insect genes, like the Bombyx sericin-1 gene, Drosophila hsp70 and Drosophila copia LTR, functioned as strong promoters in the embryos. On the contrary, promoters from mammalian virus genes, such as the SV40 early and Moloney murine leukemia virus LTR genes, functioned as weak promoters. Moreover, linearized DNAs showed no or weak activity of expression in embryos. From these results, we conclude that the silkworm embryo transient expression system is a useful tool for studying the mechanism of regulation of insect genes.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"65 6","pages":"401-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.65.401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13243979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An E. coli promoter that is sensitive to visible light.","authors":"K Nakahigashi, Y Komine, M Watanabe, H Inokuchi","doi":"10.1266/jjg.65.381","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1266/jjg.65.381","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has been discovered that expression of promoter activity can be inhibited by visible light when specific fragments of E. coli DNA are inserted in a vector system designed to assay for promoter activity. These fragments have been located on regions of the E. coli chromosome to which no gene has been assigned to date. The effective wavelength of light that produces this phenomenon has been determined.</p>","PeriodicalId":13120,"journal":{"name":"Idengaku zasshi","volume":"65 5","pages":"381-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1266/jjg.65.381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13328370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}