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  • 简介:Leptospirosisisrecognizedasthemostwidespreadzoonosiswithaglobaldistribution.Inthisstudy,theantigenicvariationinLeptospirainterrogansandLeptospiraborgpeterseniiisolatedfromhumanurineandfieldratkidneywaspreliminarilyconfirmedbymicroscopicagglutinationtestusingmonoclonalantibodies,andwasfurthersubjectedtoamplificationandidentificationofoutermembranelipoproteinswithstructuralgenevariation.Sequencesimilarityanalysisrevealedthattheseproteinsequences,namelyOmpL1,LipL32andLipL41,showednomorehomologiestooutermembranelipoproteinsofnon-pathogenicLeptospiraandothercloselyrelatedSpirochetes,butshowedastrongidentitywithinL.interrogans,suggestingintra-specificphylogeneticlineagesthatmightbeoriginatedfromacommonpathogenicleptospiralorigin.Moreover,theompL1geneshowedmoreantigenicvariationthanlipL32andlipL41duetolessconservationinsecondarystructuralevolutionwithincloselyrelatedspecies.Phylogenetically,ompL1andlipL41ofthesestrainsgaveaconsiderableproximitytoL.weiliiandL.santarosai.TheompL1geneofL.interrogansclustereddistinctlyfromotherpathogenicandnon-pathogenicleptospiralspecies.ThediversityofompLgeneshasbeenanalyzedanditenvisagedthatsequence-specificvariationsatantigenicdeterminantsiteswouldresultinslowevolutionarychangesalongwithnewserovaroriginationwithincloselyrelatedspecies.Thus,acrucialworkoneffectiverecombinantvaccinedevelopmentandengineeredantibodieswillhopefullymeettosolvethetherapeuticchallenges.

  • 标签: 钩端螺旋体 致病性 脂蛋白 基因 意蕴 进化
  • 简介:Nineshorttandemrepeat(STR)markersontheXchromosome(DXS101,DXS6789,DXS6799,DXS6804,DXS7132,DXS7133,DXS7423,DXS8378,andHPRTB)wereanalyzedinfourpopulationgroups(Mongol,Ewenki,Oroqen,andDaur)fromInnerMongolia,China,inordertolearnaboutthegeneticdiversity,forensicsuitability,andpossiblegeneticaffinitiesofthepopulations.Frequencyestimates,Hardy-Weinbergequilibrium,andotherparametersofforensicinterestwerecomputed.Theresultsrevealedthattheninemarkershaveamoderatede-greeofvariabilityinthepopulationgroups.Mostheterozygosityvaluesfortheninelocirangefrom0.480to0.891,andthereareevidentdifferencesofgeneticvariabilityamongthepopulations.AUPGMAtreeconstructedonthebasisofthegenerateddatashowsverylowgeneticdistancebetweentMongolandHan(Xi’an)populations.Ourresultsbasedongeneticdistanceanalysisareconsistentwiththeresultsofearlierstudiesbasedonlinguisticsandtheimmigrationhistoryandoriginofthesepopulations.TheminisatellitelociontheXchromosomestudiedherearenotonlyusefulinshowingsignificantgeneticvariationbetweenthepop-ulations,butalsoaresuitableforhumanidentitytestingamongInnerMongolianpopulations.

  • 标签: 中国人 内蒙古 遗传距离 遗传多态性 染色体