L’image de mode au service du sujet féminin, vers une nouvelle mascarade ?

Cette recherche analyse les représentations du genre dans les séries mode de la presse magazine féminine. Prenant pour repères théoriques les sociologies du corps et de la mode ; ces travaux convoquent des méthodologies empruntées aux sciences de l’information et de la communication pour l’étude des dispositifs médiatiques. Ils interrogent les procédés de défigement des stéréotypes féminins, et mettent au jour une pluralité de représentations contournant les attentes normatives concernant l’expression de la féminité. L’interaction entre corps, vêtements et contexte dans l’imagerie de la mode témoigne d’une réappropriation du langage du corps par les modèles féminins, manipulant une nouvelle mascarade.This research examines representations of gender in the fashion pages of women’s magazines. With reference to the sociology of fashion and of the body, this work primarily uses methodologies drawn from the field of media studies and communication science to examine the process through which female stereotypes are broken, exposing a plurality of representations and challenging the normative expectations for the expression of femininity. The interaction between body, clothes, and context in fashion pictures shows a re-appropriation of discourses of the body by female models, leading to a new deception

Le stéréotypage médiatique du genre féminin

Cet article a pour vocation d’ouvrir une nouvelle perspective quant aux fonctions du procédé de stéréotypage dans les messages médiatiques à l’adresse d’un public féminin. Mobilisant la sémiologie des indices pour produire une étude en production des images de mode présentées dans trois titres de presse magazine féminine française, cette analyse tend à introduire le rôle d’amorce du stéréotype dans le contrat de lectorat et propose son utilisation stratégique, non plus pour une énonciation aliénante quant aux représentations du genre mais pour une négociation du genre mettant en scène une nouvelle forme de mascarade.Cet article a pour vocation d’ouvrir une nouvelle perspective quant aux fonctions du procédé de stéréotypage dans les messages médiatiques à l’adresse d’un public féminin. Mobilisant la sémiologie des indices pour produire une étude en production des images de mode présentées dans trois titres de presse magazine féminine française, cette analyse tend à introduire le rôle d’amorce du stéréotype dans le contrat de lectorat et propose son utilisation stratégique, non plus pour une énonciation aliénante quant aux représentations du genre mais pour une négociation du genre mettant en scène une nouvelle forme de mascarade

Fashion pictures and women pictures in French women magazine: normatives parades or strategic masquerade?

This article proposes to study the fashion pictures within a representative sample of French women magazines. Based on the method of “sémiologie des indices”, used to analyze a corpus of woman’s body and fashion staged, this paper addresses the issue of new functions granted to the stereotyping process. Starting to the assumption of a contract between audience and media, this analysis shows that the gender stereotype may be prescribed, up to a caricature of the womanhood, to the female readers identified as co-producers of the media discourse. Demonstrating both the co-existence of a plurality of gender representations in its pictures and their variability, this work proposes the concept of strategic masquerade to apprehend the possible new functions for the process of gender stereotyping in media

A synthetic biology approach for consistent production of plant-made recombinant polyclonal antibodies against snake venom toxins

Antivenoms developed from the plasma of hyperimmunized animals are the only effective treatment available against snakebite envenomation but shortage of supply contributes to the high morbidity and mortality toll of this tropical disease. We describe a synthetic biology approach to affordable and cost-effective antivenom production based on plant-made recombinant polyclonal antibodies (termed pluribodies). The strategy takes advantage of virus superinfection exclusion to induce the formation of somatic expression mosaics in agroinfiltrated plants, which enables the expression of complex antibody repertoires in a highly reproducible manner. Pluribodies developed using toxin-binding genetic information captured from peripheral blood lymphocytes of hyperimmunized camels recapitulated the overall binding activity of the immune response. Furthermore, an improved plant-made antivenom (plantivenom) was formulated using an in vitro selected pluribody against Bothrops asper snake venom toxins and has been shown to neutralize a wide range of toxin activities and provide protection against lethal venom doses in mice.Fil: Julve Parreño, Jose Manuel. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Huet, Estefanía. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Fernández del Carmen, Asun. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Segura, Alvaro. Universidad de Costa Rica; Costa RicaFil: Venturi, Micol. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Gandía, Antoni. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Pan, Wei-Song. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Albaladejo, Irene. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Forment, Javier. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Pla, Davinia. Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia; EspañaFil: Wigdorovitz, Andrés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria. Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas. Instituto de Genética; ArgentinaFil: Calvete, Juan J.. Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia; EspañaFil: Gutiérrez, Carlos. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; EspañaFil: Gutiérrez, José María. Universidad de Costa Rica; Costa RicaFil: Granell, Antonio. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; EspañaFil: Orzáez, Diego. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia; Españ

A One Pot, One Step, Precision Cloning Method with High Throughput Capability

Current cloning technologies based on site-specific recombination are efficient, simple to use, and flexible, but have the drawback of leaving recombination site sequences in the final construct, adding an extra 8 to 13 amino acids to the expressed protein. We have devised a simple and rapid subcloning strategy to transfer any DNA fragment of interest from an entry clone into an expression vector, without this shortcoming. The strategy is based on the use of type IIs restriction enzymes, which cut outside of their recognition sequence. With proper design of the cleavage sites, two fragments cut by type IIs restriction enzymes can be ligated into a product lacking the original restriction site. Based on this property, a cloning strategy called ‘Golden Gate’ cloning was devised that allows to obtain in one tube and one step close to one hundred percent correct recombinant plasmids after just a 5 minute restriction-ligation. This method is therefore as efficient as currently used recombination-based cloning technologies but yields recombinant plasmids that do not contain unwanted sequences in the final construct, thus providing precision for this fundamental process of genetic manipulation

Engineering Betalain Biosynthesis in Tomato for High Level Betanin Production in Fruits

Betalains are pigments found in plants of the Caryophyllales order, and include the red-purple betacyanins and the yellow-orange betaxanthins. The red pigment from red beets, betanin, is made from tyrosine by a biosynthetic pathway that consists of a cytochrome P450, a L-DOPA dioxygenase, and a glucosyltransferase. The entire pathway was recently reconstituted in plants that do not make betalains naturally including potato and tomato plants. The amount of betanin produced in these plants was however not as high as in red beets. It was recently shown that a plastidic arogenate dehydrogenase gene involved in biosynthesis of tyrosine in plants is duplicated in Beta vulgaris and other betalain-producing plants, and that one of the two encoded enzymes, BvADHα, has relaxed feedback inhibition by tyrosine, contributing to the high amount of betanin found in red beets. We have reconstituted the complete betanin biosynthetic pathway in tomato plants with or without a BvADHα gene, and with all genes expressed under control of a fruit-specific promoter. The plants obtained with a construct containing BvADHα produced betanin at a higher level than plants obtained with a construct lacking this gene. These results show that use of BvADHα can be useful for high level production of betalains in heterologous hosts. Unlike red beets that produce both betacyanins and betaxanthins, the transformed tomatoes produced betacyanins only, conferring a bright purple-fuschia color to the tomato juice

N-Glycosylation engineering of plants for the biosynthesis of glycoproteins with bisected and branched complex N-glycans

Glycoengineering is increasingly being recognized as a powerful tool to generate recombinant glycoproteins with a customized N-glycosylation pattern. Here, we demonstrate the modulation of the plant glycosylation pathway toward the formation of human-type bisected and branched complex N-glycans. Glycoengineered Nicotiana benthamiana lacking plant-specific N-glycosylation (i.e. β1,2-xylose and core α1,3-fucose) was used to transiently express human erythropoietin (hEPO) and human transferrin (hTF) together with modified versions of human β1,4-mannosyl-β1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GnTIII), α1,3-mannosyl-β1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GnTIV) and α1,6-mannosyl-β1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GnTV). hEPO was expressed as a fusion to the IgG-Fc domain (EPO-Fc) and purified via protein A affinity chromatography. Recombinant hTF was isolated from the intracellular fluid of infiltrated plant leaves. Mass spectrometry-based N-glycan analysis of hEPO and hTF revealed the quantitative formation of bisected (GnGnbi) and tri- as well as tetraantennary complex N-glycans (Gn[GnGn], [GnGn]Gn and [GnGn][GnGn]). Co-expression of GnTIII together with GnTIV and GnTV resulted in the efficient generation of bisected tetraantennary complex N-glycans. Our results show the generation of recombinant proteins with human-type N-glycosylation at great uniformity. The strategy described here provides a robust and straightforward method for producing mammalian-type N-linked glycans of defined structures on recombinant glycoproteins, which can advance glycoprotein research and accelerate the development of protein-based therapeutics

A Recombinant Potato virus Y Infectious Clone Tagged with the Rosea1 Visual Marker (PVY-Ros1) Facilitates the Analysis of Viral Infectivity and Allows the Production of Large Amounts of Anthocyanins in Plants

"This Document is Protected by copyright and was first published by Frontiers. All rights reserved. It is reproduced with permission."[EN] Potato virus Y (PVY) is a major threat to the cultivation of potato and other solanaceous plants. By inserting a cDNA coding for the Antirrhinum majus Rosea1 transcription factor into a PVY infectious clone, we created a biotechnological tool (PVY-Ros1) that allows infection by this relevant plant virus to be tracked by the naked eye with no need for complex instrumentation. Rosea1 is an MYB-type transcription factor whose expression activates the biosynthesis of anthocyanin pigments in a dose-specific and cell-autonomous manner. Our experiments showed that the mechanical inoculation of solanaceous plants with PVY-Ros1 induced the formation of red infection foci in inoculated tissue and solid dark red pigmentation in systemically infected tissue, which allows disease progression to be easily monitored. By using silver nanoparticles, a nanomaterial with exciting antimicrobial properties, we proved the benefits of PVY-Ros1 to analyze novel antiviral treatments in plants. PVY-Ros1 was also helpful for visually monitoring the virus transmission process by an aphid vector. Most importantly, the anthocyanin analysis of infected tobacco tissues demonstrated that PVY-Ros1 is an excellent biotechnological tool for molecular farming because it induces the accumulation of larger amounts of anthocyanins, antioxidant compounds of nutritional, pharmaceutical and industrial interest, than those that naturally accumulate in some fruits and vegetables well known for their high anthocyanin content. 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Evolution of Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals

The science and policy of pharmaceuticals produced and/or delivered by plants has evolved over the past twenty-one years from a backyard remedy to regulated, purified products. After seemingly frozen at Phase I human clinical trials with six orally delivered plant-made vaccines not progressing past this stage over seven years, plant-made pharmaceuticals have made a breakthrough with several purified plant-based products advancing to Phase II trials and beyond. Though fraught with the usual difficulties of pharmaceutical development, pharmaceuticals made by plants have achieved pertinent milestones albeit slowly compared to other pharmaceutical production systems and are now at the cusp of reaching the consumer. Though the current economic climate begs for cautious investment as opposed to trail blazing, it is perhaps a good time to look to the future of plant-made pharmaceutical technology to assist in planning for future developments in order not to slow this technology’s momentum. To encourage continued progress, we highlight the advances made so far by this technology, particularly the change in paradigms, comparing developmental timelines, and summarizing the current status and future possibilities of plant-made pharmaceuticals