{"title":"Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth Century Mexico ed. by Wil G. Pansters and Benjamin T. Smith (review)","authors":"Aileen Teague","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.a899977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.a899977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"224 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66431788","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}
Latin AmericanistPub Date : 2023-04-12eCollection Date: 2023-01-01DOI: 10.20517/mrr.2023.06
Maria G Alekseeva, Ilya N Dyakov, Kristina K Bushkova, Dilara A Mavletova, Roman A Yunes, Irina N Chernyshova, Ilya A Masalitin, Tatiana A Koshenko, Venera Z Nezametdinova, Valery N Danilenko
{"title":"Study of the binding of ΔFN3.1 fragments of the <i>Bifidobacterium longum</i> GT15 with TNFα and prevalence of domain-containing proteins in groups of bacteria of the human gut microbiota.","authors":"Maria G Alekseeva, Ilya N Dyakov, Kristina K Bushkova, Dilara A Mavletova, Roman A Yunes, Irina N Chernyshova, Ilya A Masalitin, Tatiana A Koshenko, Venera Z Nezametdinova, Valery N Danilenko","doi":"10.20517/mrr.2023.06","DOIUrl":"10.20517/mrr.2023.06","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Aim:</b> This study is mainly devoted to determining the ability of ∆FN3.1 protein fragments of <i>Bifidobacterium</i> (<i>B.</i>) <i>longum</i> subsp. <i>longum</i> GT15, namely two FN3 domains (2D FN3) and a C-terminal domain (CD FN3), to bind to tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). <b>Methods:</b> Fragments of the <i>fn3</i> gene encoding the 2D FN3 and CD FN3 were cloned in <i>Escherichia</i> (<i>E.</i>) <i>coli</i>. In order to assess the binding specificity between 2D FN3 and CD FN3 to TNFα, we employed the previously developed sandwich ELISA system to detect any specific interactions between the purified protein and any of the studied cytokines. The trRosetta software was used to build 3D models of the ∆FN3.1, 2D FN3, and CD FN3 proteins. The detection of polymorphism in the amino acid sequences of the studied proteins and the analysis of human gut-derived bacterial proteins carrying FN3 domains were performed <i>in silico</i>. <b>Results:</b> We experimentally showed that neither 2D FN3 nor CD FN3 alone can bind to TNFα. Prediction of the 3D structures of ΔFN3.1, 2D FN3, and CD FN3 suggested that only ΔFN3.1 can form a pocket allowing binding with TNFα to occur. Polymorphism analysis of amino acid sequences of ΔFN3.1 proteins in <i>B. longum</i> strains uncovered substitutions that can alter the conformation of the spatial structure of the ΔFN3.1 protein. We also analyzed human gut-derived bacterial proteins harboring FN3 domains which allowed us to differentiate between those containing motifs of cytokine receptors (MCRs) in their FN3 domains and those lacking them. <b>Conclusion:</b> Only the complete ∆FN3.1 protein can selectively bind to TNFα. Analysis of 3D models of the 2D FN3, CD FN3, and ΔFN3.1 proteins showed that only the ΔFN3.1 protein is potentially capable of forming a pocket allowing TNFα binding to occur. Only FN3 domains containing MCRs exhibited sequence homology with FN3 domains of human proteins.</p>","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"53 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10688814/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85249900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of Guinea Pigs and Mines: Changing Access to Animal Consumption at Chavín de Huántar (Peru)","authors":"S. Rosenfeld","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Food traditions are created, adapted, and reinvented across space and time. However, when an external source seeks to revitalize and commercialize an ancestral social food it can produce negative effects. In this paper I argue that the economic goals of development programs can collide with cultural traditions, specifically within food landscapes. In this study I describe how a mining company in central Peru developed an economic development project in which they distributed guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) to some families, in order to boost their commercialization, with the goal of helping the community to increase other sources of income. However, these animals were traditionally exchanged within the community and their introduction as a market commodity was not well received. Over time, community members lost a way of making and reproducing social ties through the exchange of guinea pigs.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"62 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44268568","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}
Rodney J. Reynolds, Lorena Rey, Diego Otero-Oyague, A. Zevallos-Morales, Ivonne Carrión, Vanessa Patiño, José F. Parodi, J. Hurst, O. Flores-Flores
{"title":"\"Mi necesidad es mi comida, somos adultos mayores que ya no producimos, pero estamos consumiendo\": Eating citizenship during the first wave of the Peruvian Covid quarantine","authors":"Rodney J. Reynolds, Lorena Rey, Diego Otero-Oyague, A. Zevallos-Morales, Ivonne Carrión, Vanessa Patiño, José F. Parodi, J. Hurst, O. Flores-Flores","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Based on qualitative interviews conducted by a multi-disciplinary team of health researchers with 40 adults over the age of 60 during the first wave of the Covid pandemic in Lima, Peru this article considers what eating might suggest about contemporary Peruvian citizenship as conceptualized by older adults. I argue that the way that older adults have been culturally imagined as vulnerable by the government competes with other identities that these adults would like to claim. How they choose to enact citizenship revolves around food access and availability for themselves and their families. As a result they emerge as a group that can eschew blanket protections through imposed restrictions and so become a public that must be heard, represented and served.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"41 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43786363","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}
Manuela Borzone, J. Buchanan, J. Rausch, Damon Reed, Alexandra Rodríguez Sabogal, M. Bonner, Stephen D. Morris, Aileen Teague, A. Moulton, Eric D. Carter, Quintijn B. Kat
{"title":"Contributors Page","authors":"Manuela Borzone, J. Buchanan, J. Rausch, Damon Reed, Alexandra Rodríguez Sabogal, M. Bonner, Stephen D. Morris, Aileen Teague, A. Moulton, Eric D. Carter, Quintijn B. Kat","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Throughout his extensive literary career, Jorge Luis Borges contributed to the study of Argentine gauchesca, the nineteenth-century genre about frontier life centered on the life of the gaucho. His essays “La poesía gauchesca” (1928) and “El escritor argentino y la tradición” (1932) criticized the hyperbolic praise nationalist scholars such as Leopoldo Lugones and Ricardo Rojas had bestowed upon José Hernández’s Martín Fierro (1872) on the eve of Argentina’s centennial celebrations at the turn of the twentieth century. In gauchesca, Borges saw problematic characters which prompted questions regarding what type of nation could result from the glorification of violence such as that found in gauchesca.As a result of his criticisms of the genre, Borges’s gaucho short stories “Biografía de Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)” and “El Sur,” are understood as some of the last vestiges of gauchesca, and “El fin” as the coup de grâce that prompted the genre’s death. However, this article proposes a closer examination of these stories and essays to reveal that Borges ends a mode of reading gauchesca, not gauchesca itself, arguing that Borges ultimately offers a generic path forward for future writers of the genre.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"101 - 101 - 102 - 120 - 121 - 154 - 155 - 178 - 179 - 199 - 200 - 218 - 219 - 220 - 221 - 223 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45250184","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":"\"A Tincture Of Madness\": Benjamin Franklin's Printing Network In The Caribbean","authors":"Ralph R. Frasca","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Benjamin Franklin made several attempts to plant a printing partner in Antigua during the mid-eighteenth century. He had many reasons for doing so, including financial gain, extension of his printing empire, promotion of certain workers, a desire to succeed where others had failed, and his moral ambition to disseminate virtue throughout the British colonies. He crafted many of these printing partnerships throughout his life, most of them successful. However, his Antigua venture was perhaps the riskiest and most difficult. This article tells the story of what Franklin did in Antigua, why, and how it fared.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"29 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48300796","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":"Reading Inhumanity Through Depictions of Africans and Their Descendants in the Casta Paintings of New Spain","authors":"Aubrey Hobart","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the eighteenth century, artists in Mexico began producing sets of casta paintings. Depicting nuclear families where each member represents a different caste, these works carried a number of ideological messages; they codified a racialized hierarchy in the colony with white Spaniards at the top, advertised the abundant and exotic resources of the New World, tried to demonstrate that local administrators had control of an orderly society, and were meant to improve the social and economic status of painters.Casta paintings carried a crueler message as well. By representing Africans and their descendants as inclined to violence, deceitful, uncivilized, and close to nature, Mexican artists aided in the normalization of racism and slavery, and discouraged miscegenation. A non-white wife, they warned, was liable to attack her husband, as in the painting De español y negra, nace mulata by Andrés de Islas, or produce visibly dark-skinned children, as in the painting De español y albina, torna atrás by Miguel Cabrera. In short, casta paintings repeatedly indicated, both subtly and overtly, that Africans and their American-born offspring in New Spain were not considered fully human.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"30 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45210091","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":"\"Pedro 'Pete' Augusto del Valle: The Americanization of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Far Right\"","authors":"M. Wright","doi":"10.1353/tla.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article uses the career of Pedro Augusto del Valle as a lens through which to explore Puerto Rican responses to U.S. colonialism, and the islanders' influence on mid-twentieth century domestic politics, both of which are often elided in the literature. Most of the scholarship on Puerto Rico focuses on pro-independence or autonomist figures and movements. In contrast, Del Valle embraced Americanization and American Empire, before becoming an influential figure in the U.S. far right in the mid-twentieth century. Though Del Valle was an outlier, he was not unique. Rather, this study contends that he is one example of a group of Puerto Rican elites and military officers who embraced a white, American, and Christian identity. Moreover, it argues that the omission of these figures from the historical record has produced an overly simplified narrative of the evolution of Puerto Rican nationalism and obscured both Puerto Ricans' contributions to U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and the diverse origins of the U.S. Far Right.","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"67 1","pages":"78 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48384142","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":"Collective Biologies: Healing Social Ills through Sexual Health Research in Mexico by Emily A. Wentzell (review)","authors":"W. Sorensen","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"461 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43799193","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":"Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico by Alan Shane Dillingham (review)","authors":"Eben Levey","doi":"10.1353/tla.2022.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tla.2022.0043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42355,"journal":{"name":"Latin Americanist","volume":"66 1","pages":"463 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47464656","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}