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Plant Physiol ; 161(4): 1615-33, 2013 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23391577

RESUMO

Grass cell wall properties influence food, feed, and biofuel feedstock usage efficiency. The glucuronoarabinoxylan of grass cell walls is esterified with the phenylpropanoid-derived hydroxycinnamic acids ferulic acid (FA) and para-coumaric acid (p-CA). Feruloyl esters undergo oxidative coupling with neighboring phenylpropanoids on glucuronoarabinoxylan and lignin. Examination of rice (Oryza sativa) mutants in a grass-expanded and -diverged clade of BAHD acyl-coenzyme A-utilizing transferases identified four mutants with altered cell wall FA or p-CA contents. Here, we report on the effects of overexpressing one of these genes, OsAt10 (LOC_Os06g39390), in rice. An activation-tagged line, OsAT10-D1, shows a 60% reduction in matrix polysaccharide-bound FA and an approximately 300% increase in p-CA in young leaf tissue but no discernible phenotypic alterations in vegetative development, lignin content, or lignin composition. Two additional independent OsAt10 overexpression lines show similar changes in FA and p-CA content. Cell wall fractionation and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry experiments isolate the cell wall alterations in the mutant to ester conjugates of a five-carbon sugar with p-CA and FA. These results suggest that OsAT10 is a p-coumaroyl coenzyme A transferase involved in glucuronoarabinoxylan modification. Biomass from OsAT10-D1 exhibits a 20% to 40% increase in saccharification yield depending on the assay. Thus, OsAt10 is an attractive target for improving grass cell wall quality for fuel and animal feed.


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Aciltransferases/metabolismo , Metabolismo dos Carboidratos , Parede Celular/enzimologia , Ácidos Cumáricos/metabolismo , Oryza/citologia , Oryza/enzimologia , Proteínas de Plantas/metabolismo , Acetil-CoA C-Aciltransferase/metabolismo , Ácidos Cumáricos/química , DNA Bacteriano/genética , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento , Regulação da Expressão Gênica de Plantas , Testes Genéticos , Genoma de Planta/genética , Glucose/metabolismo , Padrões de Herança/genética , Lignina/metabolismo , Mutagênese Insercional/genética , Mutação/genética , Oryza/genética , Oryza/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Penicillium/metabolismo , Fenótipo , Filogenia , Folhas de Planta/metabolismo , Análise de Componente Principal , Solubilidade , Ácido Trifluoracético/metabolismo
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J Arthroplasty ; 23(5): 707-13, 2008 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18534523

RESUMO

This study analyzed the initial experience with computer-assisted navigation for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in a community hospital. One hundred TKAs performed with a navigation system were compared with 100 performed conventionally. Component alignment results, measured by computed tomography, were grouped as good, fair, poor, or extremely poor, based on deviation from the surgical goal. More navigated knees were classified as good (sagittal, 78%-93%; coronal, 98%; axial, 78%-85%) compared with conventional (sagittal, 47%-64%; coronal, 91%; axial, 89%-90%). Outliers were reduced both in number and severity with navigation. Additional time required to navigate diminished with experience, although improved component alignment was observed from the initial cases. Navigation resulted in improved alignment, with minimal time cost, and is a useful tool for TKA for the community surgeon.


Assuntos
Artroplastia do Joelho/métodos , Hospitais Comunitários , Articulação do Joelho/cirurgia , Avaliação de Resultados em Cuidados de Saúde , Cirurgia Assistida por Computador/métodos , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Artroplastia do Joelho/economia , Artroplastia do Joelho/instrumentação , Análise Custo-Benefício , Educação Médica Continuada , Feminino , Fêmur/cirurgia , Humanos , Prótese do Joelho , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Ajuste de Prótese , Amplitude de Movimento Articular , Cirurgia Assistida por Computador/economia , Tíbia/cirurgia
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Front Microbiol ; 4: 50, 2013.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23508965

RESUMO

Marine subsurface environments such as deep-sea sediments, house abundant and diverse microbial communities that are believed to influence large-scale geochemical processes. These processes include the biotransformation and mineralization of numerous petroleum constituents. Thus, microbial communities in the Gulf of Mexico are thought to be responsible for the intrinsic bioremediation of crude oil released by the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. While hydrocarbon contamination is known to enrich for aerobic, oil-degrading bacteria in deep-seawater habitats, relatively little is known about the response of communities in deep-sea sediments, where low oxygen levels may hinder such a response. Here, we examined the hypothesis that increased hydrocarbon exposure results in an altered sediment microbial community structure that reflects the prospects for oil biodegradation under the prevailing conditions. We explore this hypothesis using metagenomic analysis and metabolite profiling of deep-sea sediment samples following the DWH oil spill. The presence of aerobic microbial communities and associated functional genes was consistent among all samples, whereas, a greater number of Deltaproteobacteria and anaerobic functional genes were found in sediments closest to the DWH blowout site. Metabolite profiling also revealed a greater number of putative metabolites in sediments surrounding the blowout zone relative to a background site located 127 km away. The mass spectral analysis of the putative metabolites revealed that alkylsuccinates remained below detection levels, but a homologous series of benzylsuccinates (with carbon chain lengths from 5 to 10) could be detected. Our findings suggest that increased exposure to hydrocarbons enriches for Deltaproteobacteria, which are known to be capable of anaerobic hydrocarbon metabolism. We also provide evidence for an active microbial community metabolizing aromatic hydrocarbons in deep-sea sediments of the Gulf of Mexico.

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