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Halder Sourav Acharya Shashank Kou Wenjun Kahrilas Peter J. Pandolfino John E. Patankar Neelesh A. 《Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology》2021,20(3):925-940
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology - Fluoroscopy is a radiographic procedure for evaluating esophageal disorders such as achalasia, dysphasia and gastroesophageal reflux disease. It... 相似文献
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Yang Song Shashank Garg Mohit Girotra Cynthia Maddox Erik C. von Rosenvinge Anand Dutta Sudhir Dutta W. Florian Fricke 《PloS one》2013,8(11)
Clostridium difficile causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea and pseudomembraneous colitis and is responsible for a large and increasing fraction of hospital-acquired infections. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an alternate treatment option for recurrent C. difficile infection (RCDI) refractory to antibiotic therapy. It has recently been discussed favorably in the clinical and scientific communities and is receiving increasing public attention. However, short- and long-term health consequences of FMT remain a concern, as the effects of the transplanted microbiota on the patient remain unknown. To shed light on microbial events associated with RCDI and treatment by FMT, we performed fecal microbiota analysis by 16S rRNA gene amplicon pyrosequencing of 14 pairs of healthy donors and RCDI patients treated successfully by FMT. Post-FMT patient and healthy donor samples collected up to one year after FMT were studied longitudinally, including one post-FMT patient with antibiotic-associated relapse three months after FMT. This analysis allowed us not only to confirm prior reports that RCDI is associated with reduced diversity and compositional changes in the fecal microbiota, but also to characterize previously undocumented post-FMT microbiota dynamics. Members of the Streptococcaceae, Enterococcaceae, or Enterobacteriaceae were significantly increased and putative butyrate producers, such as Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae were significantly reduced in samples from RCDI patients before FMT as compared to post-FMT patient and healthy donor samples. RCDI patient samples showed more case-specific variations than post-FMT patient and healthy donor samples. However, none of the bacterial groups were invariably associated with RCDI or successful treatment by FMT. Overall microbiota compositions in post-FMT patients, specifically abundances of the above-mentioned Firmicutes, continued to change for at least 16 weeks after FMT, suggesting that full microbiota recovery from RCDI may take much longer than expected based on the disappearance of diarrheal symptoms immediately after FMT. 相似文献
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Emrah Celik Mohd.?Hafeez Faridi Vinay Kumar Shashank Deep Vincent?T. Moy Vineet Gupta 《Biophysical journal》2013,105(11):2517-2527
Integrin CD11b/CD18 is a key adhesion receptor that mediates leukocyte migration and immune functions. Leukadherin-1 (LA1) is a small molecule agonist that enhances CD11b/CD18-dependent cell adhesion to its ligand ICAM-1. Here, we used single-molecule force spectroscopy to investigate the biophysical mechanism by which LA1-activated CD11b/CD18 mediates leukocyte adhesion. Between the two distinct populations of CD11b/CD18:ICAM-1 complex that participate in cell adhesion, the cytoskeleton(CSK)-anchored elastic elements and the membrane tethers, we found that LA1 enhanced binding of CD11b/CD18 on K562 cells to ICAM-1 via the formation of long membrane tethers, whereas Mn2+ additionally increased ICAM-1 binding via CSK-anchored bonds. LA1 activated wild-type and LFA1−/− neutrophils also showed longer detachment distances and time from ICAM-1-coated atomic force microscopy tips, but significantly lower detachment force, as compared to the Mn2+-activated cells, confirming that LA1 primarily increased membrane-tether bonds to enhance CD11b/CD18:ICAM-1 binding, whereas Mn2+ induced additional CSK-anchored bond formation. The results suggest that the two types of agonists differentially activate integrins and couple them to the cellular machinery, providing what we feel are new insights into signal mechanotransduction by such agents. 相似文献
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Shashank S. Saini Deepa Teotia Mariam Gaid Debabrata Sircar 《Physiologia plantarum》2019,167(1):64-74
Cell cultures of Asian pear (Pyrus pyrifolia) are known to produce benzoate‐derived biphenyl phytoalexins upon elicitor treatment. Although the downstream pathway for biphenyl phytoalexin biosynthesis is almost known, the upstream route of benzoic acid biosynthesis in pear has not been completely elucidated. In the present work, we report benzaldehyde synthase (BS) activity from yeast extract‐treated cell suspension cultures of P. pyrifolia. BS catalyzes the in vitro conversion of trans‐cinnamic acid to benzaldehyde using a non‐oxidative C2‐side chain cleavage mechanism. The enzyme activity was strictly dependent on the presence of a reducing agent, dithiothreitol being preferred. C2‐side chain shortening of the cinnamic acid backbone resembled the mechanisms catalyzed by 4‐hydroxybenzaldehyde synthase (HBS) activity in Vanilla planifolia and salicylaldehyde synthase (SAS) activity in tobacco and apple cell cultures. A basal BS activity was also observed in the non‐elicited cell cultures. Upon yeast extract‐treatment, a 13‐fold increase in BS activity was observed when compared to the non‐treated control cells. Moreover, feeding of the cell cultures with trans‐cinnamic acid, the substrate for BS, resulted in an enhanced level of noraucuparin, a biphenyl phytoalexin. Comparable accumulation of noraucuparin was observed upon feeding of benzaldehyde, the BS product. The preferred substrate for BS was found to be trans‐cinnamic acid, for which the apparent Km and Vmax values were 0.5 mM and 50.7 pkat mg?1 protein, respectively. Our observations indicate the contribution of BS to benzoic acid biosynthesis in Asian pear via the CoA‐independent and non‐β‐oxidative route. 相似文献
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Jessica M. Gullett Maxime G. Cuypers Christy R. Grace Shashank Pant Chitra Subramanian Emad Tajkhorshid Charles O. Rock Stephen W. White 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2022,298(3)
Fatty acid (FA) transfer proteins extract FA from membranes and sequester them to facilitate their movement through the cytosol. Detailed structural information is available for these soluble protein–FA complexes, but the structure of the protein conformation responsible for FA exchange at the membrane is unknown. Staphylococcus aureus FakB1 is a prototypical bacterial FA transfer protein that binds palmitate within a narrow, buried tunnel. Here, we define the conformational change from a “closed” FakB1 state to an “open” state that associates with the membrane and provides a path for entry and egress of the FA. Using NMR spectroscopy, we identified a conformationally flexible dynamic region in FakB1, and X-ray crystallography of FakB1 mutants captured the conformation of the open state. In addition, molecular dynamics simulations show that the new amphipathic α-helix formed in the open state inserts below the phosphate plane of the bilayer to create a diffusion channel for the hydrophobic FA tail to access the hydrocarbon core and place the carboxyl group at the phosphate layer. The membrane binding and catalytic properties of site-directed mutants were consistent with the proposed membrane docked structure predicted by our molecular dynamics simulations. Finally, the structure of the bilayer-associated conformation of FakB1 has local similarities with mammalian FA binding proteins and provides a conceptual framework for how these proteins interact with the membrane to create a diffusion channel from the FA location in the bilayer to the protein interior. 相似文献
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Shashank R. Joshi Ranjit Mohan Anjana Mohan Deepa Rajendra Pradeepa Anil Bhansali Vinay K. Dhandania Prashant P. Joshi Ranjit Unnikrishnan Elangovan Nirmal Radhakrishnan Subashini Sri Venkata Madhu Paturi Vishnupriya Rao Ashok Kumar Das Tanvir Kaur Deepak Kumar Shukla Viswanathan Mohan for the ICMR– INDIAB Collaborative Study Group 《PloS one》2014,9(5)