Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I DNA sequences are a good discriminative marker for phylogenetic studies in crustaceans and especially in amphipoda. In the present study, molecular and morphological data were analyzed to test whether Gammarus lobifer authority and Gammarus balutchi authority which one or two geographically separated but morphologically similar species. The analyses pr...

Abstract Trichinellosis is a zoonosis caused by nematodes of the Trichinella genus, which 10 species have been described. Species identification when larvae found only possible using molecular tools. Meat from pigs and game animals not subjected to veterinary inspection are main sources human infections. The hunting native carnivores prohibited in Chile due conservation issues fact that those f...

Phylogenetic relationships among all described species (total of 5 taxa) of the shrimp genus Penaeus, were examined with nucleotide sequence data from portions of mitochondrial gene and cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI). There are twelve commercial shrimp in the Iranian coastal waters. The reconstruction of the evolution phylogeny of these species is crucial in revealing stock identity that ca...

Although the terminal respiratory chain of Azotobacter has been the subject of several recent studies, the nature of the cytochrome oxidase portion is still somewhat obscure. Repaske (1) partially purified and characterized a soluble succinic dehydrogenase and succinoxidase system from Azotobacter z&elan&i. Wilson and Wilson (2) studied the soluble succinoxidase in Repaske’s preparation and dem...

There is an increasing demand for the development of intermediate biomarkers to assess colon cancer risk. We previously determined that a live cell bioassay, which assesses apoptosis resistance in the nonneoplastic colonic mucosa, detects approximately 50% of patients with colon cancer. A hypothesis-driven biomarker that reflects apoptosis resistance in routine formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded...

The endogenous reactive oxygen species ("ROS") formation is associated with many pathologic states such as inflammatory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, brain and heart ischemic injuries, cancer, and aging. The purpose of this study was to investigate the endogenous sources for "ROS" formation in intact isolated rat hepatocytes, in particular, peroxisomal oxidases, monoamine oxidase, xanth...

Screening subtraction libraries from normal and type II diabetic human skeletal muscle, we identified four different mitochondrially encoded genes which were increased in expression in diabetes. The genes were cytochrome oxidase I, cytochrome oxidase III, NADH dehydrogenase IV, and 12s rRNA, all of which are located on the heavy strand of the mitochondrial genome. There was a 1.5- to 2.2-fold i...

Cytochrome c oxidase from bakers’ yeast contains three mitochondrially made subunits (I to III) which are relatively hydrophobic and four cytoplasmically made subunits (IV to VII) which are relatively hydrophilic (Mason. T. L., Poyton, R. O., Wharton, D. C., and Schatz, G. (1973) J. Biol. Chem. 248, 1346-1354 and Poyton, R. O., and Schatz, G. (1975) J. Biol. Chem. 250, 752-761. In order to expl...