Nantes flamboyante, 1380-1530

Ce livre regroupe les contributions du colloque organisé en novembre 2011 par Nicolas Faucherre et Jean-Marie Guillouët à l’université de Nantes. Il est constitué de vingt-deux études qui se concentrent sur les biens matériels, architecturaux et décoratifs datant de cette période de transition entre le Moyen Âge et les Temps modernes, articulées à l’histoire politique d’un espace urbain et provincial en mutation et en essor. L’ambition de cet ouvrage collectif est de définir la « forme de la ..

POTENTIALLY PATHOGENIC FREE-LIVING AMOEBAE IN SOME FLOOD-AFFECTED AREAS DURING 2011 CHIANG MAI FLOOD

SUMMARY The survey was carried out to investigate the presence of potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae (FLA) during flood in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2011. From different crisis flood areas, seven water samples were collected and tested for the presence of amoebae using culture and molecular methods. By monoxenic culture, FLA were detected from all samples at 37 °C incubation. The FLA growing at 37 °C were morphologically identified as Acanthamoeba spp., Naegleria spp. and some unidentified amoebae. Only three samples (42.8%), defined as thermotolerant FLA, continued to grow at 42 °C. By molecular methods, two non-thermotolerant FlA were shown to have 99% identity to Acanthamoeba sp. and 98% identity to Hartmannella vermiformis while the two thermotolerant FLA were identified as Echinamoeba exundans (100% identity) and Hartmannella sp. (99% identity). This first report of the occurrence of FLA in water during the flood disaster will provide information to the public to be aware of potentially pathogenic FLA.RESUMO A pesquisa foi feita para investigar a presença de amebas de vida livre (FLA) durante a inundação em Chiang Mai, Tailândia, ano de 2011. A partir de diferentes áreas de inundação sete amostras de água foram coletadas e testadas para a presença de amebas usando métodos moleculares e de cultura. Através da cultura monoxênica, FLA foi detectada em todas as amostras após incubação a 37 °C. As FLA crescendo a 37 °C foram identificadas morfologicamente como Acanthamoeba spp, Naegleria spp e algumas amebas não determinadas. Somente três amostras (42,8%) definidas como FLA termotolerantes continuaram a crescer a 42 °C. Por métodos moleculares duas FLA termotolerantes tiveram 99% de identidade com a Acanthamoeba sp e 98% de identidade com Hartmannella vermiformis enquanto as duas FLA termotolerantes foram identificadas como Echinamoeba exundans (100% de identidade) e Hartmannella sp (99% de identidade). Este primeiro relato da ocorrência de FLA em águas durante inundações informa ao público que ele deve estar atento de FLA potencialmente patogênica

Liver Enzyme Alterations in HCV-Monoinfected and HCV/HIV-Coinfected Patients

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the most common blood-borne infection in developed countries and co-infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is frequent in individuals with history of injecting drug use (IDU)

Molecular cloning and localization of an abundant novel protein of Plasmodium berghei

Screening of Plasmodium berghei genomic libraries using DNA insert corresponding to the 3′ half of P. falciparum 70-kDa heat shock protein gene identified several abundant clones which represent a novel gene in the parasite. The complete sequence was obtained using an approach based on inverse polymerase chain reaction. Analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence revealed the presence of 19 imperfect repeats of the sequence Gly-Gly-Met-Pro toward the carboxy terminus. Except for the similar sequence repeated seven times in the malarial 70-kDa heat shock protein, the sequence of the cloned gene product is very different. Moreover, the sequence also revealed acidic and basic domains in the protein which are more than 60% similar in sequence to functional domains present in numerous DNA binding transcription factors. A 56-kDa protein was identified by immunoprecipitation from labeled P. berghei extract using antisera raised in mice against gene products expressed in Escherichia coli. The protein is present in all the different life cycle stages of the parasites as revealed by immuno-electron microscopy. © 1993

Further characterization of a 58 kDa Plasmodium berghei phosphoprotein as a cochaperone

Molecular chaperones are important for proper protein folding during protein biogenesis. This report describes a protein from Plasmodium berghei which is 30% identical and 40% similar to a recently described mammalian cochaperone, or heat shock protein 70 interacting protein. The P. berghei cochaperone accumulates throughout the trophozoite stage and decreases during the schizont stage. The stage specific expression is consistent with its presumed role in protein folding or protein-protein interactions. The largest difference between the Plasmodium and mammalian sequences is a more extensive domain of imperfect glycine-glycine-methionine-proline (GGMP) tandem repeats in the parasite\u27s cochaperone sequence. Immunofluorescence studies show that the protein is an abundant cytosolic protein of the parasite. However, antibodies raised against the GGMP repeat domain, which is also found in other parasite chaperones, react with both the parasite and host erythrocyte membrane. The reactivity with the host membrane suggests that the parasite exports molecular chaperones into the infected erythrocyte

expression of members of the heat-shock protein 70 family in the exoerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium berghei and Plasmodium falciparum

Exoerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium berghei cultured in HepG2-A16 hepatoma cells and those of P. falciparum in human hepatocytes transplanted under the kidney capsule of CB-17/ICr scid/scid mice were used to evaluate expression of heat-shock-related stress proteins. Although undetectable in the sporozoites, the expression of proteins similar in sequence of a heat-shock protein of 70 kDa and a glucose-regulated protein of 78 kDa was markedly induced in the hepatic stages of malaria parasites. Expression of these proteins in the exoerythrocytic stages of the malaria parasite warrants a systematic evaluation of their potential role in eliciting cellular immune responses directed against infected hepatocytes. © 1993 Springer-Verlag