Anthropogenic activities frequently result in both rapidly changing environments and translocation of species from their native ranges (i.e., biological invasions). Empirical studies suggest that many factors associated with these changes can lead to complex genetic patterns, particularly among invasive populations. However, genetic complexities and factors responsible for them remain uncharact...

Despite the lack of biochemical information, all available in silico metabolic models of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 consider NADP as the only cofactor accepted by the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases. Because the Entner-Doudoroff pathway is the main glycolytic route in this bacterium, determining how much NADH and NADPH are produced in the reaction catalyzed by these enzymes is very important ...

The relationships among six species of the Amiota taurusata Takada, Beppu, & Toda (Diptera: Drosophilidae) species group were investigated based on DNA sequence data of the mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2 ( ND2) gene, using three species of the genus Amiota as outgroups. A mitochondrial gene, cytochrome c oxidase I ( COI), can be used to discriminate between species of the taurusata ...

We have studied complex I (NADH-ubiquinone reductase) defects of the mitochondrial respiratory chain in 2 infants who died in the neonatal period from 2 different neurological forms of severe neonatal lactic acidosis. Specific and marked decrease in complex I activity was documented in muscle, liver, and cultured skin fibroblasts. Biochemical characterization and study of the genetic origin of ...

In [ l ] low concentrations of Tinopal AN, (1,l-bis(3,N-5-dimethylbenzoxazol-2-y1)methine p-toluene sulphonate), which is present in the optical brightener Uvitex AN (Ciba-Geigy Ltd) [2], inhibited the aerobic respiration of Paracoccus denitrificans. Using inverted membrane vesicles of P. denitrifcans [I], this inhibition was shown to occur in the NADH dehydrogenase (EC 1.66.99.3) region of the...

Anaerobes can obtain the entire cell's ATP by glycolysis and remove resulting reducing power by fermentation. There is a delicate balance in redox status to obtain a maximal growth of these cells, and the conditions to change redox fluxes can induce kinds of changes in metabolism. The fundamental knowledge on sensing redox status and coupling redox signals with fermentation pathways is essentia...

A large-type sexannulate leech species, Orobdella ibukifukuyamai sp. nov. , from Kii-Oshima Island, Japan, is described based on morphologic and molecular data. Phylogenetic analyses using nuclear 18S rRNA, 28S histone H3, mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, tRNA Cys Met 12S Val 16S Leu NADH dehydrogenase 1 markers showed that O. formed a clade with the okanoi Nakano, 2016 yamaneae oc...

The membrane-bound NADH dehydrogenase (E.C. 1.6.99.3) has been solubilized by sodium deoxycholate treatment of membranes and purified 75 fold by column chromatography on Sephadex G-150 and DEAE cellulose in the presence of sodium cholate. The native enzyme has an apparent molecular mass (M r) of 97 000, containing polypeptides of Mr of about 15 000. The pH optimum was at 7.5. The enzyme was spe...

Phylogenetic relationships among salamandrids of the "true" salamander clade are investigated using 2019 aligned base positions (713 parsimony informative) of 20 mitochondrial DNA sequences from the genes encoding ND1 (subunit one of NADH dehydrogenase), tRNA(Ile), tRNA(Gln), tRNA(Met), ND2, tRNA(Trp), tRNA(Ala), tRNA(Asn), tRNA(Cys), tRNA(Tyr), and COI (subunit I of cytochrome c oxidase), plus...