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Abstract: Inbreeding avoidance and asymmetric competition over resources have both been identified as factors favoring the evolution of sex-biased dispersal. It has also been recognized that sex-specific costs of dispersal would select for sex-biased dispersal, but there is little quantitative information on this aspect. In this paper we explore (i) the quantitative relationship between cost-asymmetry and a bias in dispersal, (ii) the influence of demographic stochasticity on this effect, and (iii) how inbreeding and cost-asymmetry interact in their effect on sex-specific dispersal. We adjust an existing analytical model to account for sex-specific costs of dispersal. Based on numerical calculations we predict a severe bias in dispersal already for small differences in dispersal costs. We corroborate these predictions in individual-based simulations, but show that demographic stochasticity generally leads to more balanced dispersal. In combination with inbreeding, cost asymmetries will usually determine which of the two sexes becomes the more dispersive.
Abstract: Understanding the causes and consequences of dispersal is a prerequisite for the effective management of natural populations. Rather than treating dispersal as a fixed trait, it should be considered a plastic process that responds to both genetic and environmental conditions. Here, we consider how the ambient temperature experienced by juvenile Erigone atra, a spider inhabiting crop habitat, influences adult dispersal. This species exhibits 2 distinct forms of dispersal, ballooning (long distance) and rappelling (short distance). Using a half-sib design we raised individuals under 4 different temperature regimes and quantified the spiders' propensity to balloon and to rappel. Additionally, as an indicator of investment in settlement, we determined the size of the webs build by the spiders following dispersal. The optimal temperature regimes for reproduction and overall dispersal investment were 20 °C and 25 °C. Propensity to perform short-distance movements was lowest at 15 °C, whereas for long-distance dispersal it was lowest at 30 °C. Plasticity in dispersal was in the direction predicted on the basis of the risks associated with seasonal changes in habitat availability; long-distance ballooning occurred more frequently under cooler, spring-like conditions and short-distance rappelling under warmer, summer-like conditions. Based on these findings, we conclude that thermal conditions during development provide juvenile spiders with information about the environmental conditions they are likely to encounter as adults and that this information influences the spider's dispersal strategy. Climate change may result in suboptimal adult dispersal behavior, with potentially deleterious population level consequences.
Abstract: From a conservation point of view, species- tolerances towards disturbance are often generalised and lack reference to spatial scales and underlying processes. In order to investigate how average typical species react to habitat fragmentation and disturbance, we adopted a multi-species approach to address occupancy patterns of five specialised dune arthropods (butterflies Hipparchia semele, Issoria lathonia; grasshopper Oedipoda caerulescens; spiders Alopecosa fabrilis, Xysticus sabulosus) in recently fragmented coastal dune habitats which are subjected to varying levels and modes of local disturbance, i.e. trampling by cattle or people. Occupancy patterns were assessed during two successive years in 133 grey dune fragments of the Flemish coastal dunes (Belgium, France). By treating species as a random factor in our models, emphasis was placed on generalisations rather than documenting species-specific patterns. Our study demonstrates that deteriorating effects of local disturbance on arthropod incidence cannot be interpreted independent of its landscape context, and appear to be more severe when patch area and connectivity decrease. When controlled for patch area and trampling intensity, the probability of species occupancy in poorly connected patches is higher under cattle trampling than under recreation. Incidences additionally decrease with increasing intensity of cattle trampling, but increases with trampling by tourists. This study provides evidence of mode- and landscape-dependent effects of local disturbance on species occupancy patterns. Most importantly, it demonstrates that trampling of sensitive dune fragments will lead to local and metapopulation extinction in landscapes where trampling occurs in a spatially autocorrelated way, but that the outcome (spatial patterns) varies in relation to disturbance mode, indicating that effects of disturbance cannot be generalised.
Asymptomatische Bakteriurie (ABU) stellt eine bakterielle Infektion der Harnblase über einen langen Zeitraum dar, die häufig von Escherichia coli hervorgerufen wird, ohne dass typische Symptome einer Harnwegsinfektion auftreten. Um die Charakteristika von ABU E. coli Isolaten genauer zu untersuchen, wurden die Geno- und Phänotypen von 11 ABU-Isolaten verglichen. Außerdem wurden in mehreren aufeinanderfolgenden in vivo-Reisolaten des Modell-ABU Stammes 83972 die Veränderungen im Transkriptom, Proteom und Genom während einer langfristigen Persistenz in der menschlichen Blase charakterisiert. Schließlich wurde der Effekt des menschlichen Wirtes auf die bakterielle Adaptation durch einen Vergleich von in vitro- mit in vivo-kultivierten Stämmen abgeschätzt. ABU-Isolate stellt eine heterogene Gruppe von Organismen dar. Diese können den vier phylogenetischen Hauptgruppen von E. coli sowie unterschiedlichen klonalen Gruppen zugeordnet werden. Dementsprechend unterscheiden sie sich erheblich bezüglich der Zusammensetzung des Genomes, der Genomgröße und auch der Ausstattung mit UPEC-typischen Virulenz-assoziierten Genen. Multi-Lokus-Sequenz-Typisierung legt nahe, dass bestimmte ABU Stämme sich durch Genomreduktion aus UPEC Stämmen entwickelt haben, die eine Harnwegsinfektion mit charakteristischen Symptomen auslösen konnten. Folglich erlaubt die hohe Genomplastizität von E. coli keine generalisierte Betrachtung einzelner Isolate eines Klons. Genomreduktion über Punktmutationen, Genom-Reorganisation und Deletionen resultierte in der Inaktivierung einiger Gene, die für einige UPEC Virulenz-Faktoren kodieren. Dies stützt die Vorstellung, dass eine verminderte bakterielle Aktivierung der Entzündung der Wirtsschleimhaut den Lebensstil von ABU (bei diesen E. coli-)Isolaten fördert. Genregulation und genetische Diversität sind Strategien, die es Bakterien ermöglichen unter sich fortlaufend ändernden Bedingungen zu leben bzw. zu überleben. Um die anpassungsbedingten Veränderungen bei einem langfristigen Wachstum in der Blase zu untersuchen, wurden aufeinanderfolgende Reisolate, denen eine langfristige in vivo-Kolonisierung im menschlichen Wirt beziehungsweise eine in vitro-Kultivierung vorausgegangen ist, im Hinblick auf Veränderungen Genexpression und Genomorganisation analysiert. In diesem Zusammenhang konnte gezeigt werden, dass E. coli in der Lage ist, seine metabolischen Netzwerke verschiedenen Wachstumsbedingungen anzupassen und individuelle bakterielle Kolonisierungsstrategien entwickeln kann. Transkriptom- und Proteom-Analysen zeigten verschiedene metabolische Strategien zur Nährstoffbeschaffung und Energieproduktion bei untersuchten in vivo-Reisolaten vom Stamm 83972, die es ihnen ermöglichen, den Wirt zu kolonisieren. Das Zurückgreifen auf D-Serin, Deoxy- und Ribonucleoside sowie die bidirektionale Umwandlung zwischen Pentose und Glucuronat waren hoch-regulierte Stoffwechselwege, die die in vivo-Reisolate mit zusätzlicher Energie für ein effizientes Wachstum in der Blase versorgen. Zudem wurden in dieser Studie die Netzwerke für eine Reaktion auf Abwehrmechanismen des Wirtes erforscht: Erstmals wurde hier die Rolle der Klasse-III-Alkoholdehydrogenase AdhC, bekannt durch ihre Bedeutung bei der Entgiftung von Stickstoffmonoxid, bei der Wirtsantwort während einer asymptomatischen Bakteriurie gezeigt. Aufeinanderfolgende in vivo- und in vitro-Reisolate vom Stamm 83972 wurden ebenfalls bezüglich ihrer Genomstruktur analysiert. Einige Veränderungen in der Genomstruktur der aufeinanderfolgenden Reisolate, die von einer humanen Kolonisierungsstudie stammen, implizieren die Bedeutung einer Interaktion der Bakterien mit dem Wirt bei der Mikroevolution der Bakterien. Dagegen war die Genomstruktur von Reisolaten eines langfristigen in vitro-Kultivierungsexperiments, bei dem sich der Stamm 83972 ohne Wirtskontakt vermehrt hat, nicht von Veränderungen betroffen. Das legt nahe, dass die Immunantwort eine Genomplastizität fördert und somit eine treibende Kraft für den ABU Lebensstil und die Evolution im Harnwegstrakt ist.
Abstract: Intensification of land-use in agricultural landscapes is responsible for a decline of biodiversity which provide important ecosystem services like pest-control. Changes in landscape composition may also induce behavioural changes of predators in response to variation in the biotic or abiotic environment. By controlling for environmentally confounding factors, we here demonstrate that the orb web spider Araneus diadematus alters its web building behaviour in response to changes in the composition of agricultural landscapes. Thereby, the species increases its foraging efficiency (i.e. investments in silk and web asymmetry) with an increase of agricultural land-use at intermediate spatial scales. This intensification is also related to a decrease in the abundance of larger prey. A negative effect of landscape properties at similar spatial scales on spider fitness was recorded when controlling for relative investments in capture thread length. This study consequently documents the web building flexibility in response to changes in landscape composition, possibly due to changes in prey availability.
1. Species assemblages of naturally disturbed habitats are governed by the prevailing disturbance regime. Consequently, stochastic flood events affect river banks and the inhabiting biota. Predatory arthropods occupy predominantly river banks in relation to specific habitat conditions. Therefore, species sorting and stochastic processes as induced by flooding are supposed to play important roles in structuring riparian arthropod assemblages in relation to their habitat preference and dispersal ability. 2. To ascertain whether assemblages of spiders and carabid beetles from disturbed river banks are structured by stochastic or sorting mechanisms, diversity patterns and assemblage-wide trait-displacements were assessed based on pitfall sampling data. We tested if flooding disturbance within a lowland river reach affects diversity patterns and trait distribution in both groups. 3. Whereas the number of riparian spider species decreased considerably with increased flooding, carabid beetle diversity benefited from intermediate degrees of flooding. Moreover, regression analyses revealed trait-displacements, reflecting sorting mechanisms particularly for spiders. Increased flooding disturbance was associated with assemblage-wide increases of niche breadth, shading and hygrophilic preference and ballooning propensity for spider (sub)families. Trait patterns were comparable for Bembidiini carabids, but were less univocal for Pterostichini species. Body size decreased for lycosid spiders and Bembidiini carabids with increased flooding, but increased in linyphiid spiders and Pterostichini carabids. 4. Our results indicate that mainly riparian species are disfavoured by either too high or too low degrees of disturbance, whereas eurytopic species benefit from increased flooding. Anthropogenic alterations of flooding disturbance constrain the distribution of common hygrophilous species and/or species with high dispersal ability, inducing shifts towards less specialized arthropod assemblages. River banks with divergent degrees of flooding impact should be maintained throughout dynamic lowland river reaches in order to preserve typical riparian arthropod assemblages.
The Guinea savanna-forest mosaic of West Africa is particularly rich in animal-dispersed plants. African savannas harbour the richest dung beetle community worldwide. The role of primates and dung beetles in natural plant regeneration and biodiversity maintenance in this ecosystem, however, is still poorly understood. The present study on olive baboons (Papio anubis Lesson 1827, Cercopithecinae) at Comoé National Park (CNP), north-eastern Ivory Coast, revealed that western olive baboon populations differ in several ways from their eastern conspecifics. Baboons are commonly regarded as predators of the seeds of their food plants. In the savanna-forest mosaic of West Africa, however, they are highly frugivorous and are important seed dispersers of a high number of woody plant species that differ in fruit type and seed size. They disperse intact seeds of at least 22% of the woody plant species of the regional plant pool. Their "seed dispersal potential", regarding seed number and seed sizes, is comparable to that of the much larger great apes. Relative to the availability in the regional pool of woody plant species, baboons preferred trees to shrubs and lianas as fruit sources and especially included larger fruit into their diet. Among several morphological fruit traits investigated, fruit type and fruit colour best described whether baboons included a species into their diet, whereas fruit type and seed size best predicted whether baboons predated upon the seeds of a food plant species. Seed size is an important plant fitness trait that can influence several steps between fruiting and the establishment of a plant´s offspring. Seed size can vary considerably within and among individuals of the same species. Primates may select for certain seed sizes within a species for a number of reasons, e.g. to decrease indigestible seed load or to increase pulp intake per fruit. Within eight out of ten plant species investigated, which differed in fruit type, seed number and seed size, olive baboons were selective in fruit choice regarding seed size. Seed size selection by olive baboons seems to be influenced, among other traits, by the amount of pulp rewarded per fruit relative to seed load, which varies with fruit and seed shape. Being a habitat generalist (with a preference for forest habitats) and able to move comparatively long distances, the olive baboon might be especially important for the biodiversity maintenance of distant forest islands. Because most woody plant species at the study site had medium-sized to large fruits and seeds, olive baboons may be crucial for seed dispersal and plant recruitment in this ecosystem. Their importance for seed dispersal of plants with small fruits should not, however, be underrated. Observation of frugivores at a typical "bird-dispersed" tree species showed that classification of seed dispersers on the basis of fruit syndromes alone can be misleading. Olive baboons disperse seeds in their faeces in a clumped manner, which generally is regarded disadvantageous for plants. Yet, seeds from all plant species being naturally present in baboon dung during seasonal peaks of dung beetle activity apparently can be scattered locally by dung beetles. Dung beetle activity at baboon faeces deposited in the two habitats was high, totalling 99 species from 26 genera. The probability and pattern of secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles depend on the structure and composition of the dung beetle community, which, in turn, seems to be strongly determined by vegetation type. I thus expected pronounced differences in secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles between seeds deposited by baboons in the savanna and in the forest. Experiments indicated that compared to seeds dispersed by baboons into the forest, seeds that end up in the savanna generally have a higher probability of (a) being removed by dung beetles, (b) being horizontally scattered by telecoprids, (c) being rapidly removed from the place of primary deposition and (d) being secondarily dispersed over larger distances. In general, savanna plants and plant habitat generalists the seeds of which baboons disperse into the savanna should profit most from secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles.
This thesis deals with the management and analysis of source code, which is represented in XML. Using the elementary methods of the XML repository, the XML source code representation is accessed, changed, updated, and saved. We reason about the source code, refactor source code and we visualize dependency graphs for call analysis. The visualized dependencies between files, modules, or packages are used to structure the source code in order to get a system, which is easily to comprehend, to modify and to complete. Sophisticated methods have been developed to slice the source code in order to obtain a working package of a large system, containing only a specific functionality. The basic methods, on which the visualizations and analyses are built on can be changed like changing a plug-in. The visualization methods can be reused in order to handle arbitrary source code representations, e.g., JAML, PHPML, PROLOGML. Dependencies of other context can be visualized, too, e.g., ER diagrams, or website references. The tool SCAV supports source code visualization and analyzing methods.
Uniparental zygotes with two genomes from the same sex can be established from fertilised oocytes after pronuclear exchange. They contain two maternal (gynogenetic; GG) or paternal (androgenetic; AG) pronuclei and are not competent to develop into viable offspring but they can form blastocysts from which embryonic stem cells (ES cells) can be derived. The developmental potential of uniparental ES cells is not fully investigated. The restricted developmental potential of uniparental cells is cell-intrinsic and probably reflects the different roles maternal and paternal genomes play during development. Following blastocyst injection, both GG and AG ES cells show biased and parent-of-origin-specific chimaera formation. While the in vitro and in vivo neural differentiation potential of GG ES cells is well characterised the neural developmental potential of AG ES cells is less clear. In an earlier study the group of K. John McLaughlin reported that AG and GG ES cell-derived hematopoietic stem cells conveyed long-term, multi-lineage hematopoietic engraftment with no associated pathologies (Eckardt et al., 2007). The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of AG uniparental murine ES cells to differentiate in vitro and in vivo into neural progenitor / stem cells and further into neurons, astro- and oligodendroglia in comparison to GG and biparental (normal fertilised; N) ES cells. Uniparental and biparental ES cells were obtained from K. John McLaughlin’s group and a cell culture system was established to expand uniparental (AG, GG) and biparental N ES cells on murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEF). A multistep-protocol was used to differentiate ES cells towards pan-neural progenitor cells and neuronal and glial cell types (Brüstle et al., 1997). The ability of terminal neural differentiation in vitro was analysed by fluorescence microscopy using neuronal and glial lineage markers. In parallel, eGFP+ AG or N ES cells were injected into blastocysts prior to their transfer into foster mothers. At E12.5 and E14.5, embryos were isolated, forebrains were dissected and by means of fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) eGFP+ donor cells were isolated from chimeric brains. Both eGFP+ donor and corresponding eGFP- blastocyst-derived brain cells were expanded and analyses of differentiation potential and self-renewal capacity were performed. Also, cryosections of E12.5 chimeric brains were analysed for donor contribution to the neuronal lineage by immunofluorescence microscopy. Here it is described that following in vitro differentiation, AG pan-neural progenitor cells have similar abilities to differentiate into neuronal and glial lineages as GG and N pan-neural progenitor cells. In cryosections of E12.5 chimeric brains no differences in brain engraftment and formation of immature neuronal cells between uniparental AG and N donor cells were detected. AG and N ES cell-derived cells isolated from chimeric foetal brains by FACS exhibited similar neurosphere initiating cell frequencies and neural multi-lineage differentiation potential. Therefore, the data of this study suggest that the previously described differences in the in vivo engraftment pattern of uniparental inner cell mass (ICM) cells in foetal brains (Keverne et al., 1996) are not primarily due to limitations in the proliferation or differentiation properties of uniparental neural progenitor cells. The results presented here indicate that AG ES cell-derived neural progenitor / stem cells did not differ from N neural progenitor / stem cells in their self-renewal and their neural multi-lineage differentiation potential. Also AG ES cell-derived cells contributed to developing brains at early foetal developmental stages showing a widespread and balanced distribution in chimeric brains. AG brain cells form neurospheres with self-renewal and neural differentiation capacity similar to N ES cell-derived brain cells. Thus, the data of this study together indicate that the neural developmental potential in vivo and in vitro of AG and N ES cells does not differ.
The goal of the work presented in this thesis was to explore the possibilities and limitations of MRI / MRS using an ultra high field of 17.6 tesla. A broad range of specific applications and MR methods, from MRI to MRSI and MRS were investigated. The main foci were on sodium magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging of rodents, magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the mouse brain, and the detection of small amounts of iron labeled stem cells in the rat brain using MRI Sodium spectroscopic imaging was explored since it benefits tremendously from the high magnetic field. Due to the intrinsically low signal in vivo, originating from the low concentrations and short transverse relaxation times, only limited results have been achieved by other researchers until now. Results in the literature include studies conducted on large animals such as dogs to animals as small as rats. No studies performed on mice have been reported, despite the fact that the mouse is the most important laboratory animal due to the ready availability of transgenic strains. Hence, this study concentrated on sodium MRSI of small rodents, mostly mice (brain, heart, and kidney), and in the case of the brain on young rats. The second part of this work concentrated on proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the rodent brain. Due to the high magnetic field strength not only the increasing signal but also the extended spectral resolution was advantageous for such kind of studies. The difficulties/limitations of ultra high field MRS were also investigated. In the last part of the presented work detection limits of iron labeled stem cells in vivo using magnetic resonance imaging were explored. The studies provided very useful benchmarks for future researchers in terms of the number of labeled stem cells that are required for high-field MRI studies. Overall this work has shown many of the benefits and the areas that need special attention of ultra high fields in MR. Three topics in MRI, MRS and MRSI were presented in detail. Although there are significant additional difficulties that have to be overcome compared to lower frequencies, none of the work presented here would have been possible at lower field strengths.
ZnO-based semiconductors were studied by Raman spectroscopy and complementary methods (e.g. XRD, EPS) with focus on semimagnetic alloying with transition metal ions, doping (especially p-type doping with nitrogen as acceptor), and nanostructures (especially wet-chemically synthesized nanoparticles).
Vertebrate and invertebrate visual systems exhibit similarities in early stages of visual processing. For instance, in the human brain, the modalities of color, form and motion are separately processed in parallel neuronal pathways. This basic property is also found in the fly Drosophila melanogaster which has a similar division in color- sensitive and (color blind) motion-sensitive pathways that are determined by two distinct subsets of photoreceptors (the R1-6 and the R7/8 system, respectively). Flies have a highly organized visual system that is characterized by its repetitive, retinotopic organization of four neuropils: the lamina, the medulla, the lobula and the lobula plate. Each of these consists of columns which contain the same set of neurons. In the lamina, axon bundles of six photoreceptors R1-6 that are directed towards the same point in space form columnar structures called cartridges. These are the visual sampling units and are associated with four types of first-order interneuron that receive common input from R1-6: L1, L2, L3 and the amacrine cells (amc, together with their postsynaptic partner T1). They constitute parallel pathways that have been studied in detail at the anatomical level. Little is known, however, about their functional role in processing behaviorally relevant information, e.g. for gaze stabilization, visual course control or the fixation of objects. The availability of a variety of neurogenetic tools for structure-function analysis in Drosophila allowed first steps into the genetic dissection of the neuronal circuitry mediating motion and position detection. In this respect, the choice of the effector turned out to be crucial. Surprisingly, it was found that the clostridial tetanus neurotoxin failed to block mature Drosophila photoreceptor synapses, but caused irreversible damage when expressed during their development. Therefore, the dominant-negative shibire allele shits1 which turned out to be better suited was used for blocking lamina interneurons and thereby analyzing the necessity of the respective pathways. To determine whether the latter were also sufficient for the same behavioral task, the inverse strategy was developed, based on the fact that lamina interneurons express histamine receptors encoded by the ort gene. The specific rescue of ort function in defined channels in an otherwise mutant background allowed studying their sufficiency in a given task. Combining these neurogenetic methods with the optomotor response and object induced orientation behavior as behavioral measures, the aim of the present thesis was to answer the following questions: (a) Which pathways feed into elementary motion detectors and which ones are necessary and/or sufficient for the detection of directional motion? (b) Do pathways exist which specifically mediate responses to unidirectional motion? (c) Which pathways are necessary and/or sufficient for object induced orientation behavior? Some basic properties of the visual circuitry were revealed: The two central cartridge pathways, represented by the large monopolar cells L1 and L2, are key players in motion detection. Under a broad range of stimulatory conditions, the two subsystems are redundant and are able to process motion independently of each other. To detect an impairment when only one of the pathways is intact, one has to drive the system to its operational limits. At low signal to noise ratios, i.e. at low pattern contrast or low background illumination, the L2 pathway has a higher sensitivity. At intermediate pattern contrast, both pathways are specialized in mediating responses to unidirectional motion of opposite stimulus direction. In contrast, neither the L3, nor the amc/T1 pathway is necessary or sufficient for motion detection. While the former may provide position information for orientation, the latter has a modulatory role at intermediate pattern contrast. Orientation behavior turned out to be even more robust than motion vision and may utilize a less sophisticated mechanism, as it does not require a nonlinear comparison of signals from neighboring visual sampling units. The position of objects is processed in several redundant pathways, involving both receptor subsystems. The fixation of objects does not generally require motion vision. However, motion detection improves the fixation of landmarks, especially when these are narrow or have a reduced contrast.
Although known about and investigated since the late 1970’s, the picture of the basic principles governing inhibitor strengths and the structure-activity relationships of the cysteine protease inhibition mechanism is still very incomplete. Computational approaches can be a very useful tool for investigating such questions, as they allow the inspection of single, specific effects in isolation from all others, in a manner very difficult to achieve experimentally. The ab initio treatments of such large systems like proteins are still not feasible. However, there is a vast number of computational approaches capable of dealing with protein structures with reasonable accuracy. This work presents a summary of theoretical investigations into cysteine protease cathepsin B using a range of methods. We have concentrated on the investigation of cysteine protease inhibition by epoxide- and aziridine-based inhibitors in order to obtain better insight into these important topics. Various model systems are simulated by means of pure quantum mechanical methods and by hybrid (QM/MM) methods. Both approaches provide a static picture. Dynamical effects are then accounted for by additional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, using both classical and QM/MM MD approaches. The quantum mechanical approach was used to study very small model systems consisting only of the electrophilic warhead of the inhibitor (both substitituted and not) and molecular moieties simulating a very simplified protein active site (methylthiolate instead of Cys29 and methylimidazolium instead of His199 residue) and solvent surroundings (two waters or two ammonium ions, in combination with a continuum solvent model). Although simple, such a system provides a good description of the most important interactions involved in the inhibition reaction. It also allows investigation of the influence of the properties of the electrophilic warhead on the reaction rate. Beside the properties of the electrophilic warhead, the protein and solvent environment is also an important factor in the irreversible deactivation of the enzyme active site by the inhibitor. The non-covalent interactions of the inhibitor with the oxyanion hole and other subsites of the enzyme, as well as its interaction with the solvent molecules, need to be explicitly taken into account in the calculations, because of their possible impact on the reaction profile. As molecular modeling methods allow the treatment of such large systems, but lack the possibility of describing covalent interactions, our method of choice was the combined quantum mechanics/molecular modeling approach. By splitting the system into a smaller part that undergoes the bond cleavage/formation process and must be treated quantum mechanically, and a larger part, comprised of the rest of the protein, which could be treated using force fields, we managed to simulate the system at the desired precision. Our investigations concentrated on the role of His199 in the inhibition mechanism as well as on the structure-reactivity relationships between cysteine protease and various inhibitors, yielding new insight into the kinetics, regio- and stereospecificity of the inhibition. In particular, our calculations provide the following insights: i.) an explanation for the regioselectivity of the reaction, and original insight into which interactions affect the stereoselectivity; ii.) a clear model which explains the known structure-activity relationships and connects these effects with the pH-dependency of the inhibition; iii.) our computations question the generally accepted two-step model by showing that substituent effects accelerate the irreversible step to such an extent that the achievement of an equilibrium in the first step is doubtful; iv.) by way of theoretical characterizations of aziridine models, the reasons for similarities and differences in the mode of action of epoxide- and aziridine-based inhibitors are elucidated; and finally, v.) combining our results with experimental knowledge will allow rational design of new inhibitors. To account for dynamical effects as well, molecular dynamics (MD) computations were also performed. In these calculations the potential energy was computed at the force field level. The results not only supported and clarified the QM/MM results, but comparison with previous X-ray structures helped correct existing errors in the available geometrical models and resolved inconsistencies in the weighting of various factors governing the inhibition. In the work the first QM/MM MD calculations on the active site of the cysteine proteases are presented. In contrast to the MD simulations, these calculations used potential energies computed at the QM/MM-level. With the help of these computations we sought to address strongly disputed questions about the reasons for the existence of the active site ion pair and its role in the high activity of the enzyme.
Encoding Redundancy for Task-dependent Optimal Control : A Neural Network Model of Human Reaching
(2008)
The human motor system is adaptive in two senses. It adapts to the properties of the body to enable effective control. It also adapts to different situational requirements and constraints. This thesis proposes a new neural network model of both kinds of adaptivity for the motor cortical control of human reaching movements, called SURE_REACH (sensorimotor unsupervised learning redundancy resolving control architecture). In this neural network approach, the kinematic and sensorimotor redundancy of a three-joint planar arm is encoded in task-independent internal models by an unsupervised learning scheme. Before a movement is executed, the neural networks prepare a movement plan from the task-independent internal models, which flexibly incorporates external, task-specific constraints. The movement plan is then implemented by proprioceptive or visual closed-loop control. This structure enables SURE_REACH to reach hand targets while incorporating task-specific contraints, for example adhering to kinematic constraints, anticipating the demands of subsequent movements, avoiding obstacles, or reducing the motion of impaired joints. Besides this functionality, the model accounts for temporal aspects of human reaching movements or for data from priming experiments. Additionally, the neural network structure reflects properties of motor cortical networks like interdependent population encoded body space representations, recurrent connectivity, or associative learning schemes. This thesis introduces and describes the new model, relates it to current computational models, evaluates its functionality, relates it to human behavior and neurophysiology, and finally discusses potential extensions as well as the validity of the model. In conclusion, the proposed model grounds highly flexible task-dependent behavior in a neural network framework and unsupervised sensorimotor learning.
LINC, the human homologue of an evolutionary conserved complex, regulates the transcription of a set of genes essential during the G2/M transition (Osterloh et al., 2007; Schmit et al., 2007). One component of the LINC core module is LIN-9. LIN-9 is essential for the transcriptional activation of LINC target genes and also promotes differentiation in association with pRB (Gagrica et al., 2004). However, nothing is known about its function in vivo. Histological and molecular analysis revealed that Lin9 is ubiquitously expressed throughout embryonic development and in all examined adult organs. Additionally, Lin9 mRNA is expressed in ES cells and blastocysts. Moreover the analogous distribution of the other LINC components suggested that they all function in the same cells and most likely in the same pathway. To deeper investigate the role of LIN9 in cell cycle and differentiation in vivo, a Lin9 gene trap mouse model (GT) was successfully generated and examined. Heterozygouse Lin9GT/+ mice were inconspicuous and develop normally. However, homozygouse knockout embryos were never obtained. The Lin9GT/GT embryos die at peri-implantation, probably due to a defect in the development of the epiblast, which could be shown with in situ hybridization with specific lineage markers. In vitro, the ICM of Lin9-deficient blastocysts did not develop properly. These data suggest that the loss of Lin9 leads to embryonic lethality at peri-implantation, and indicates that LIN9 is required for proper formation of the epiblast. In parallel, the first conditional Lin9 mouse model based on the Cre-loxP technology was generated. The Lin9fl/fl allele can be deleted by Cre-recombinase, in vivo and in vitro. Therefore an inducible system with Lin9fl/fl mice harboring Cre-ERT2 was established. The MEFs generated from these transgenic mice carried a nearly complete knockout upon induction with tamoxifen. Deletion of LIN9 in MEFs had a major impact upon the cell cycle and growth rates. Specifically, they arrested in G2/M phase and stopped to proliferate. Taken together, I was able to generate a lin9 gene trap and a lin9 conditional knockout mouse model. All results obtained so far demonstrate, that Lin9 is an essential gene for embryonic development and cell cycle control. It will be of great interest to further investigate Lin9-deficiency to gain insights into the mechanism of cell cycle control in early embryonic development and cell differentiation.
The human genome has been sequenced since 2001. Most proteins have been characterized now and with everyday more bioinformatical predictions are experimentally verified. A project is underway to sequence thousand humans. But still, little is known about the evolution of the human proteome itself. Domains and their combinations are analysed in detail but not all of the human domain architectures at once. Like no one before, we have large datasets of high quality human protein-protein-protein interactions and complexes available which allow us to characterize the human proteome with unmatched accuracy. Advanced clustering algorithms and computing power enable us to gain new information about protein interactions without touching a pipette. In this work, the human proteome is analysed at three different levels. First, the origin of the different types of proteins was analysed based on their domain architectures. The second part focuses on the protein-protein interactions. Finally, in the third part, proteins are clustered based on their interactions and non-interactions. Most proteins are built of domains and their function is the sum of their domain functions. Proteins that share the same domain architecture, the linear order of domains are homologues and should have originated from one common ancestral protein. This ancestor was calculated for roughly 750 000 proteins from 1313 species. The relations between the species are based on the NCBI Taxonomy and additional molecular data. The resulting data set of 5817 domains and 32868 domain architectures was used to estimate the origin of these proteins based on their architectures. It could be observed, that new domain architectures are only in a small fraction composed of domains arisen at the same taxon. It was also found that domain architectures increase in length and complexity in the course of evolution and that different organisms like worm, and human share nearly the same amount of proteins but differ in their number of distinct domain architectures. The second part of this thesis focuses on protein-protein interactions. This chapter addresses the question how new evolved proteins form connections within the existing network. The network built of protein-protein interactions was shown to be scale free. Scale free networks, like the internet, consist of few hubs with many connections and many nodes with few connections. They are thought to arise by two mechanisms. First, newly emerged proteins interact with proteins of the network. Second, according to the theory of preferential attachment, new proteins have a higher chance to interact with already interaction rich proteins. The Human Protein Reference Database provides an on in-vivo interaction data based network for human. With the data obtained from chapter one, proteins were marked with their taxon of origin based on their domain architectures. The interaction ratio of proteins of the same taxa compared to all interactions was calculated and higher values than the random model showed for nearly every taxa. On the other hand, there was no enrichment of proteins originated at the taxon of cellular organisms for the node degree found. The node degree is the number of links for this node. According to the theorie of preferential attachment the oldest nodes should have the most interactions and newly arisen proteins should be preferably attached to them not together. Both could not be shown in this analysis, preferential attachment could therefore not be the only explanation for the forming of the human protein interaction network. Finally in part three, proteins and all their interactions in the network are analysed. Protein networks can be divided into smaller highly interacting parts carrying out specific functions. This can be done with high statistical significance but still, it does not reflect the biological significance. Proteins were clustered based on their interactions and non-interactions with other proteins. A version with eleven clusters showed high gene ontology based ratings and clusters related to specific cell parts. One cluster consists of proteins having very few interactions together but many to proteins of two other clusters. This first cluster is significantly enriched with transport proteins and the two others are enriched with extracellular and cytoplasm/membrane located proteins. The algorithm seems therefore well suited to reflect the biological importance behind functional modules. Although we are still far from understanding the origin of species, this work has significantly contributed to a better understanding of evolution at the protein level and has, in particular, shown the relation of protein domains and protein architectures and their preferences for binding partners within interaction networks.
Insight into oxidative stress mediated by nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms in atherosclerosis
(2008)
The principle product of each NOS is nitric oxide. However, under conditions of substrate and cofactor deficiency the enzymes directly catalyze superoxide formation. Considering this alternative chemistry of each NOS, the effects of each single enzyme on key events of atherosclerosis are difficult to predict. Here, we evaluate nitric oxide and superoxide production by all three NOS isoforms in atherosclerosis. ESR measurements of circulating and vascular wall nitric oxide production showed significantly reduced nitric oxide levels in apoE/eNOS double knockout (dko) and apoE/iNOS dko animals but not in apoE/nNOS dko animals suggesting that eNOS and iNOS majorly contribute to vascular nitric oxide production in atherosclerosis. Pharmacological inhibition and genetic deletion of eNOS and iNOS reduced vascular superoxide production suggesting that eNOS and iNOS are uncoupled in atherosclerotic vessels. Though genetic deletion of nNOS did not alter superoxide production, acute inhibition of nNOS showed that nNOS contributes significantly to superoxide production. In conclusion, uncoupling of eNOS occurs in apoE ko atherosclerosis but eNOS mediated superoxide production does not outweigh the protective effects of eNOS mediated nitric oxide production. We show that although nNOS is not a major contributor of the vascular nitric oxide formation, it prevents atherosclerosis development. Acute inhibition of nNOS showed a significant reduction of superoxide formation suggesting that nNOS is uncoupled. The exact mechanism of action of nNOS in atheroprotection is yet to be elucidated. Genetic deletion of iNOS reduced NADPH oxidase activity. Thus, iNOS has both direct and indirect proatherosclerotic effects, as it directly generates both nitric oxide and superoxide simultaneously resulting in peroxynitrite formation and indirectly modulates NADPH oxidase activity. We hypothesize that eNOS is coupled in the disease free regions of the vessel and contributes to nitric oxide generation whereas in the diseased region of the vessel it is uncoupled to produce superoxide (Figure 16). nNOS expressed in the smooth muscle cells of the plaque contributes to the local superoxide generation. iNOS expressed in smooth muscle cells and leukocytes of the plaque generates superoxide and nitric oxide simultaneously to produce the strong oxidant peroxynitrite.
Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococci) are Gram-positive bacteria and commensals of the nasopharyngeal cavity. Besides colonization, pneumococci are responsible for severe local infections such as otitis media, sinusitis and life-threatening invasive diseases, including pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis. The surface of pneumococci is decorated with proteins that are covalently or non-covalently anchored to the cell wall. The most unique group of cell wall associated proteins in pneumococci are the choline-binding proteins (CBPs). PspC, also known as SpsA or CbpA, is a multifunctional choline-binding protein that plays an essential role in pneumococcal pathogenesis by functioning as an adhesin. PspC promotes adherence of pneumococci to mucosal epithelial cells by interacting in a human specific manner with the free secretory component (SC) or to SC as part of the secretory IgA (SIgA) or polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR). PspC also interacts specifically with the soluble complement Factor H. Apparently, PspC uses two different epitopes for binding the soluble host protein Factor H and SC of pIgR. However, the mechanism by which these independent interactions facilitate pneumococcal infections under physiological and host specific conditions have not yet been completely elucidated. This study aims to explore the impact of the PspC interaction with human pIgR (hpIgR) or complement regulator Factor H on pneumococcal virulence. Here the cellular and molecular basis of PspC-mediated adherence to and invasion of host epithelial and endothelial cells was demonstrated. The genetic approach, specific pharmacological inhibitors and immunoblot analysis demonstrated the complexity of the induced signal transduction pathways during PspC-hpIgR mediated pneumococcal uptake by host cells. Inhibition studies with specific inhibitors of actin cytoskeleton and microtubules demonstrated that the dynamics of host cell cytoskeleton are essential for pneumococcal uptake by mucosal epithelial cells. Moreover, this study reports for the first time that the small GTPase Cdc42 is essential for pneumococcal internalization into epithelial cells via the PspC-hpIgR mechanism. In addition, in infection experiments performed in presence of specific inhibitors of PI3-kinase/Akt and protein tyrosine kinase (PTKs), hpIgR-mediated pneumococcal uptake by host cells was significantly blocked. Amongst PTKs the Src kinase pathway, ERK1/2 and JNK pathways were implicated during pneumococcal ingestion by hpIgR expressing cells. In addition, inhibition experiments performed in the presence of individual inhibitors or with a combination of inhibitors suggested the independent activation of PI3-kinase/Akt and Src kinase pathways during pneumococcal infections of hpIgR expressing cells. By employing specific inhibitors and siRNA in cell culture infection experiments it was further demonstrated that pneumococcal endocytosis by host epithelial cells via the PspC-hpIgR mechanism depends on clathrin and dynamin. PspC recruits also Factor H to the pneumococcal cell surface. Consequently, the impact of pneumococcal cell surface bound Factor H on adherence to host cells and the molecular mechanism facilitating the uptake of Factor H bound pneumococci by epithelial cells was investigated. Flow cytometry and immunoblots revealed that S. pneumoniae has evolved the ability to recruit both purified Factor H as well as Factor H from human plasma or serum. Moreover, it was demonstrated that the recruitment of Factor H is independent of the PspC-subtypes and that capsular polysaccharide (CPS) interferes with its recruitment. Factor H bound to pneumococci significantly increased bacterial attachment to and invasion of host epithelial cells including nasopharyngeal cells (Detroit562), lung epithelial cells (A549), and human brain-derived endothelial cells (HBMEC). Blocking experiments demonstrated that bacteria bound Factor H interacts via the heparin binding sites on Factor H with eukaryotic cell surface glycosaminoglycans and that this interaction promotes pneumococcal adherence to host cells. In addition, inhibition studies with mAbs recognizing specifically different short consensus repeats (SCR) of Factor H suggested that SCR 19-20 of Factor H are essential for the pneumococcal interaction with host epithelial cells via Factor H. In the presence of Factor H, attachment of pneumococci to human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) is enhanced. The integrin CD11b/CD18 was identified as the cellular receptor on PMNs. By using pharmacological inhibitors the impact of host cell cytoskeleton and signalling molecules, such as PTKs and PI3-kinase, for Factor H-mediated pneumococcal internalization into eukaryotic cells was shown. Taken together, the results revealed that Factor-H mediated pneumococcal infection requires a concerted role of host epithelial cell surface glycosaminoglycans, integrins and host cell signalling pathways.
Objective: The objective of this study was to study recurrence in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma who after initial therapy consisting of total thyroidectomy and I-131 ablation, were cured defined as a negative TSH-stimulated Tg-levels and a negative I-131 whole body scan (WBS) at the first follow-up after ablation. Methods: Retrospective data for differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients from three university hospitals were pooled. Out of 1993 patients, 526 cured patients were included. All patients received at least one more TSH-stimulated WBS and Tg-measurement within 5 years after initial treatment. Results: 12 patients (2.1%) developed a recurrence after an average interval of 35 months (range: 12-59 months) following administration I-131 ablation. Overall disease-free survival according to the method of Kaplan-Meier was 96.6%. There was no difference in disease-free survival between high- and low-risk patients (p=0.61). Recurrence was first discovered by Tg-measurement during levothyroxin therapy in 7 patients, and by TSH-stimulated Tg-measurement in 5 patients. I-131 WBS did not contribute to the detection of recurrences. Multivariate analysis showed that age TNM-stage (p=0.015) and histology (p=0.032) were independent predictors of disease-free survival. Conclusion: Recurrence is a rare event in patients with DTC who received total thyroidectomy with subsequent I-131 ablation, and who had a negative first follow-up TSH-stimulated I-131 WBS and negative concurrent Tg. In the study population there were no recurrences after more than 5 years of follow-up.
The role of elastic interactions, particularly for the self-organized formation of periodically faceted interfaces, was investigated in this thesis for archetype organic-metal interfaces. The cantilever bending technique was applied to study the change of surface stress upon formation of the interface between 3,4,9,10-perylene-tetracarboxylic-dianhydride (PTCDA) and Ag(111). This system is known to form a chemisorptive bonding. Indeed, the sign and the coverage-dependence of the surface stress change are in agreement to models and previous measurements of chemisorptive systems in literature. While the adsorption of molecules into the large domains is associated with a negative, i.e. compressive stress change, the formation of domain boundaries in the molecular layer induces a stress change of opposite sign, increasing the surface stress. The magnitude of the surface stress change of (-0.30 +- 0.10} N/m reflects a relatively weak binding of a PTCDA molecule to each individual single silver atom. It is emphasized, however, that if normalized to the surface stress change per molecule, this value corresponds to a stress change of (-2.2 +- 0.2) eV per molecule which is in the order of the suspected binding energy of this system. Therefore, these experiments reveal elastic interactions to be of significant order of magnitude for this system class. Thereby, they add a new point of view to the understanding of these interfaces. Besides, since the results are in agreement with the well-known properties of this interface, they establish the cantilever bending technique in the field of organic-metal interfaces. The mere existence of a bending of the sample implies an interesting detail for the PTCDA/Ag(111) interface in particular. It is the first experimental evidence for a structural change in the topmost substrate layers upon adsorption of PTCDA on Ag(111). Since such a modification has significant implications for the interpretation of other experimental results, a further investigation with more quantitative structural methods appears necessary. The main focus of this work, however, was on the investigation of the formation of the long-range ordered, self-organized faceted PTCDA/Ag(10 8 7) interface. Reciprocal space maps of this interface were recorded both by spot profile analysis low energy electron diffraction (SPA-LEED) and low energy electron microscopy (LEEM) in selected area LEED mode. Complementary to the reciprocal data, also microscopic real-space LEEM data were used to characterize the morphology of this interface. Six different facet faces ((111), (532), (743), (954), (13 9 5), and (542)) were observed for the preparation path of molecular adsorption on the substrate kept at 550 K. Facet-sensitive dark-field LEEM localized these facets to grow in homogeneous areas of microscopic extensions. If the pristine mesoscopic orientation locally deviates from the average orientation, e.g. in pristine step density, locally different facet types are formed, distorting the otherwise regular mesoscopic pattern. Hence, the original mesoscopic orientation of the substrate strongly determines the degree of order of the faceted surface and the facet species formed. The temperature-dependence of the interface formation was studied in a range between 418 K and 612 K in order to learn more about the kinetics of the process. Additional steeper facets of 27° inclination with respect to the (111) surface were observed in the low temperature regime. Furthermore, using facet-sensitive dark-field LEEM, spatial and size distributions of specific facets were studied for the different temperatures. The nucleation density of the facets did not depend on temperature and can therefore be concluded not to be limited by diffusion. Moreover, the facet dimensions were statistically analyzed. The total island size of the facets follows an exponential distribution, indicating a random growth mode in absence of any mutual facet interactions. While the length distribution of the facets also follows an exponential distribution, the width distribution is peaked, reflecting the high degree of lateral order. This anisotropy is temperature-dependent and occurs starting above 478 K substrate temperature during growth. The peaked distribution indicates the presence of a long-range interaction which leads to the structural order of the self-organized grating. The origin of this long-range interaction was investigated combining three complementary in-situ methods, all providing new insights into the formation of faceted organic-metal interfaces: the cantilever bending technique, high-resolution low energy electron diffraction (SPA-LEED), and microscopy (LEEM). The cantilever bending technique was applied for the first time to a faceting system at all. Below the faceting transition temperature the surface stress change associated with the formation of the PTCDA/Ag(10 8 7) interface resembles in shape and magnitude the one observed for the reference interface PTCDA/Ag(111). But above the transition temperature the absolute surface stress change of (-0.67 +- 0.10) N/m observed for the faceted PTCDA/Ag(10 8 7) interface is considerably larger than for the previous cases. Moreover, the stress change happens in distinguishable stages with a clearly resolvable fine structure of regimes of positive and negative stress changes. These different regimes of surface stress change can be correlated to different stages of the structural phase transition observed by the structural in-situ methods. Thereby, morphological objects (i.e. the facets) are assigned to a specific stress character. Thus, domains of different stress character can be identified on the surface. These stress domains are the prerequisite to apply continuum descriptions of the self-ordering process based on elastic interactions. Hence, the results are the first experimental verification that these continuum descriptions are indeed also applicable to the whole system class of faceting organic-metal interfaces. In conclusion, the results provide strong evidence for elastic interactions being the physical origin of long-range order for this system. In addition, the clear correlation of structural phase transition and surface stress change regimes suggests surface stress to play also an important role for the kinetics of the system. Indeed, the system seems to try to limit the overall stress change during the interface formation by forming facets of positive and negative stress character. Hence, the selection of specific facets could depend on the corresponding stress character. Furthermore, the system seems willing to re-facet at high coverages in order to prevent imperfect domain boundaries which are associated with an increase of surface stress. Finally, template-assisted growth of lateral, heterorganic nanostructures has been explored. Therefore, self-assembled monolayers as a second archetype class of molecules were grown on partially covered PTCDA/Ag(10 8 7) interfaces. Indeed, using standard surface science techniques, the basic principle of this growth scheme was confirmed to be successful.