Morphological and biochemical characterization of the trypanosomatids Crithidia desouzai and Herpetomonas anglusteri

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina M. Motta ◽  
Antonio M. Sole Cava ◽  
Paulo M. F. Silva ◽  
João E. Fiorini ◽  
Maurílio J. Soares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biochemical Characterization ◽  
Similarity Index ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Electrophoretic Study ◽  
Monophyletic Cluster ◽  
Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Unique Event ◽  
Enzyme Systems ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase

Two species of trypanosomatids, Crithidia desouzai and Herpetomonas anglusteri, were recently isolated from Diptera in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Crithidia species was found to harbor bacterium-like endosymbionts in the cytoplasm. To biochemically characterize these two species of trypanosomatids, and to try to verify the evolutionary meaning of the presence of endosymbionts, an electrophoretic study was undertaken whereby the two species were compared with eight other species in the same family. Horizontal 12.5% starch gel electrophoresis was used to resolve the isozymes of eight enzyme systems: acid phosphatase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, hexokinase, malate dehydrogenase, malic enzyme, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, phosphoglucose isomerase, and phosphoglucomutase. Ten other enzyme systems were assayed without yielding any reproducible activity. The isozymes observed were conservatively interpreted as being due to the activity of 44 different alleles. All species studied differed in at least one enzyme system. The phenetic (Jaccard similarity index, UPGMA grouping) analysis produced a tree in which the species of Crithidia and Herpetomonas clustered separately, forming monophyletic groupings. All the endosymbiont-bearing species formed a monophyletic cluster, indicating that the presence of bacterium-like endosymbionts may be a synapomorphy of that group, and may represent, therefore, a unique event in the evolution of the genus.

Biochemical characterization of Tunisian grapevine varieties

OENO One ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Ferjani Ben Abdallah ◽  
Farhat Chibani ◽  
Asma Fnayou ◽  
Abdelwahed Ghorbel ◽  
Jean-Michel Boursiquot
Keyword(s):  
Biochemical Characterization ◽  
Biochemical Study ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Banding Patterns ◽  
Enzyme Systems ◽  
Mother Plants ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Biochemical Identification ◽  
Berry Colour

<p style="text-align: justify;">61 tunisian autochton grapevine varieties have been collected for biochemical identification. Isozymes analysis with starch gel electrophoresis technique was used to confirn or to cancel random denominations awarded to the majority of these local varieties. In our conditions, concentrated plant extracts were obtained from vigorous donnant canes newly cut off from selected mother plants during automn. These allowed us to dispose of rigorously interpretable isozyme banding patterns of GPI and PGM systems and to overcome difficulties often related to the use of PGM system. The study of GPII and PGM enzyme systems allowed us to classify the autochton accessions into 16 different groups from which 5 groups containing only 2 or 3 varieties.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, the study of AAT and peroxydase enzyme systems has shown stable and legible isozyme banding patterns allowing to discriminate between equivalent accessions such as Sakasly and Kahli (two black local vines very similar), 3 varieties of Bidh Hamem (Bidh Hamem, Bidh Hamem Rafraf and Bidh Hamem Sfax), and 2 varieties of Bezzoul Kelba Bidha (Sfax and Gabes). In addition, certain varieties having for longtime the same denominations were characterized. A case of point the 4 varieties Khalt meaning mixture (Bouchemma, Abiedh, Mdaouer and Souche 1) and the 3 varieties of Arich (Ahmar, Dressée, and Jerba) were proved to be completely different from each other. In the same way, Bezzoul Khadem has been differed from Hemri variety. The complementary use of berry colour allowed to discriminate between Saouadi, Khdhiri and Jebbi varieties and to subdivise the remainig groups into sub-groups.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The study of GPI, PGM, AAT and peroxydase isozyme banding patterns in combination with berry colour has led to establish a classification of the 61 autochton varieties into 37 groups including 26 varieties definitely differentiated through the results of this biochemical study.</p>

Enzyme variation in Eimeria species of the chicken

Parasitology ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. Shirley
Keyword(s):  
Species Differences ◽  
Eimeria Species ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Glucose Phosphate ◽  
Parasite Stage ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Biochemical Identification ◽  
Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase ◽  
First Time

A method for the biochemical identification of protozoa belonging to the genus Eimeria is described for the first time. Starch gel electrophoresis of the enzymes lactate dehydrogenase, glucose phosphate isomerase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from parasite extracts revealed both intra- and inter-species differences when 11 strains representative of 6 species of Eimeria were examined. Oocysts were the most accessible parasite stage for investigation but sporozoites and merozoites of an embryo-adapted strain of E. tenella were also examined for enzyme activity.

scholarly journals Inheritance of ADH, 6-PGDH, PGM, and SKDH in Allium fistulosum L.

1994 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Mangum ◽  
Ellen B. Peffley
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dehydrogenase ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Allium Fistulosum ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Shikimate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Enzyme Systems ◽  
Isozyme Loci ◽  
Starch Gel

Horizontal starch gel electrophoresis was used to study the inheritance of isozyme phenotypes of four enzyme systems [alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6-PGDH), phosphoglucomutase (PGM), and shikimate dehydrogenase (SKDH)] in Allium fistulosum L. by monitoring segregations in backcross and F2 progeny. Segregation for most of the polymorphisms fit the expected Mendelian ratios as tested by the chi-square statistic. Three new isozyme loci were defined for onion. Two loci were found for 6-PGDH. Locus one was dimeric with two alleles, and locus two was monomorphic. SKDH was monomeric with two alleles.

Biochemical relationships of the Holarctic vole genera (Clethrionomys, Microtus, and Arvicola (Rodentia: Arvicolinae))

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 1564-1575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F. Nadler ◽  
N. M. Zhurkevich ◽  
Robert S. Hoffmann ◽  
A. I. Kozlovskii ◽  
Ljerka Deutsch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microtus Ochrogaster ◽  
Clethrionomys Gapperi ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Clethrionomys Rufocanus ◽  
Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Interspecific Comparisons ◽  
Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Clethrionomys Rutilus ◽  
Reference Samples

Transferrin (Tf), hemoglobin (Hgb), leucine aminopeptidase (LAP), 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGH), and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) were examined by starch-gel electrophoresis in Holarctic Microtus oeconomus and Clethrionomys rutilus, Siberian Microtus hyperboreus and Clethrionomys rufocanus, and North American Microtus miurus, Microtus ochrogaster, Microtus pennsylvanicus, Arvicola richardsoni, and Clethrionomys gapperi. Thirty alleles of five to seven loci, the number depending on the presence or absence of one or two minor hemoglobin fractions, were identified in these species. Interspecific comparisons were based on the presence of at least one allele shared in common at the various loci. The closest biochemical resemblances occurred between populations of Holarctic M. oeconomus and C. rutilus. Clethrionomys gapperi and C. rutilus were quite similar but C. rufocanus was divergent. Observed resemblances between M. hyperboreus and M. miurus were not strong and do not support the inclusion of the former in the amphiberingian narrow-skulled vole group. Arvicola richardsoni, though seemingly close to M. pennsylvanicus, was quite divergent from all other species of Microtus at the LAP locus and warrants comparison with Palearctic Arvicola. Microtus ochrogaster and M. pennsylvanicus shared many similarities and served as reference samples.

scholarly journals INHERITANCE OF ISOZYMES: DESCRIPTION OF NEW LOCI IN ONIONS ISOZYMES

HortScience ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 269D-269
Author(s):  
Paul D. Mangum ◽  
Ellen B. Peffley
Keyword(s):  
Allium Cepa ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Shikimate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Enzyme Systems ◽  
Isozyme Loci ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Mode Of Inheritance

Horizontal starch gel electrophoresis was used to study the mode of inheritance of isozyme phenotypes of four enzyme systems (ADH, 6-PGDH, PGM, and SKDH) in Allium cepa L. and A. fistulosum L. by monitoring segregations in backcross and F2 progeny. Segregation for most of the polymorphisms fit the expected Mendelian ratios as tested by the chi-square statistic. Three new isozyme loci were defined for onion. 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase was dimeric in structure, with two alleles present at the first locus, while a second locus was monomorphic. Shikimate dehydrogenase was monomeric with two alleles.

Intraspecific genetic variability of isozymes in the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus tomentosus

1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 588-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Zhu ◽  
Kenneth O. Higginbotham ◽  
Bruce P. Dancik ◽  
Stan Navratil
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variability ◽  
Host Selection ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Genetic Similarity ◽  
Ectomycorrhizal Fungus ◽  
Habitat Isolation ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Enzyme Systems ◽  
Forest Regions ◽  
Starch Gel

Mycelial extracts of 43 isolates of Suillus tomentosus (Kauffm.) Singer, Snell & Dick collected from four boreal forest regions in Alberta were subjected to starch gel electrophoresis. A total of 21 bands was resolved from eight different enzyme systems presumably representing 13 loci. Six loci were polymorphic among these isolates. Cluster and principal components analyses demonstrated that intraspecific genetic variability of this fungus existed among and within forest regions. Polymorphic loci of acid phosphatase and alkaline phosphatase exhibited the greatest genetic similarity among the isolates within forest regions. Habitat isolation and host selection could be the major sources of genetic variation among forest regions.

Enzyme variation in the Anopheles gambiae Giles group of species (Diptera: Culicidae)

1978 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Miles
Keyword(s):  
Anopheles Gambiae ◽  
Natural Populations ◽  
Lactic Dehydrogenase ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Malic Dehydrogenase ◽  
Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Anopheles Gambiae Giles ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Glucose 6 Phosphate Dehydrogenase

AbstractThe genotypes of chromosomally-identified individuals from natural populations of the known species of the group of Anopheles gambiae Giles were scored for the enzyme protein structural loci coding for adenylate kinase (Adk), α-naphthyl acetate esterase (Est-1, Est-2, Est-3), glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (Got), α-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (αGpd), hexokinase (Hk), isocitric dehydrogenase (Idh), lactic dehydrogenase (Ldh), ‘leucine’ aminopeptidase (Lap-2), malic enzyme (Me), octanol dehydrogenase (Odh), phosphoglucomutase (Pgm-1, Pgm-2), 6-phosphogluconic dehydrogenase (6-Pgd), phosphohexose isomerase (Phi) and superoxide dismutase (Sod), following starch gel electrophoresis. In the material examined, Est-1, Est-2, Est-3, Got, ldh, Lap-2, Odh, Pgm-1, Pgm-2 and Sod were segregating for two or more alleles; unique alleles at the Est-1, Got and Sod loci produced species-specific phenotypes in A. melas (Theo.), species C and species D, respectively. The further sampling of A. merus Dön, populations supported the presence of a unique SOD phenotype by which this species can also be identified. Of the other enzyme systems examined, no activity following electrophoresis was detected for aldolase and fructose-1,6-diphosphatase, and the resolution of acid and alkaline phosphatase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, malic dehydrogenase and xanthine dehydrogenase was too poor under the particular electrophoretic conditions for genetic analyses of the enzyme phenotypes.

Isozyme Variation in Broom Snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae)

Weed Science ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanglin Hou ◽  
Tracy M. Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Genetic Variability ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Isozyme Analysis ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Enzyme Systems ◽  
Starch Gel ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
Gutierrezia Sarothrae

Broom snakeweed, a perennial rangeland shrub, is highly variable morphologically and can grow under a broad range of environmental conditions. In this study, isozyme analysis using starch gel electrophoresis was used to quantify genetic variability within and among New Mexico populations of broom snakeweed. Eight separate populations of broom snakeweed and one population of threadleaf snakeweed as a comparison were investigated. of the 10 enzyme systems examined, 16 loci were identified in eight populations and two species. Eleven loci were monomorphic in eight populations and two species and five loci were polymorphic in at least one population or species. Genetic variability was large in broom and threadleaf snakeweed populations as determined by isozyme analysis. Genetic variability among broom snakeweed populations was greater than that within populations for the five polymorphic loci. Cluster analysis of genetic distance and identity for the eight populations and two species characterized two major groups. Within broom snakeweed, cluster analysis characterized five groups. The two species shared most common alleles. The genetic variation identified in this research may account for the morphological differences and broad geographical distribution of broom snakeweed.

scholarly journals Identifying Crabapple Cultivars by Isozymes

1995 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. 706-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Marquard ◽  
Charlotte R. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dehydrogenase ◽  
Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Cultivar Identification ◽  
Enzyme System ◽  
Starch Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Shikimate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Polymorphic Region ◽  
Banding Patterns ◽  
Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase ◽  
Starch Gel

Forty-five crabapple (Malus spp.) cultivars were evaluated for 16 isozyme systems by starch gel electrophoresis. Of the 16 systems evaluated, 6 were useful in separating among cultivars. Enzyme systems used to distinguish among the cultivars included alcohol dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase, malate dehydrogenase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, phosphoglucoisomerase, and shikimate dehydrogenase. Each enzyme system produced one well-resolved polymorphic region except for 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, which produced two. Most crabapple selections could be identified when all six enzymes were evaluated. Alcohol dehydrogenase had the most diagnostic banding patterns useful for cultivar identification.

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