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Abstract
Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are conserved molecular chaperones that are upregulated following exposure to environmental stress and during aging. The mechanisms underlying the aging process are only beginning to be understood. The beneficial effects of Hsps on aging revealed in mild stress and overexpression experiments suggest that these proteins are part of an important cell protection system rather than being unspecific molecular chaperones. Among the Hsps families, small Hsps have the greatest influence on aging and the modulation of their expression during aging in Drosophila suggest that they are involved in pathways of longevity determination.
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Affiliation(s)
- Geneviève Morrow
- Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Genetics, Department of Medicine and CREFSIP, Université Laval, Pavillon C.E. Marchand, Ste-Foy, Que., Canada G1K 7P4
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Michaud S, Morrow G, Marchand J, Tanguay RM. Drosophila small heat shock proteins: cell and organelle-specific chaperones? PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR AND SUBCELLULAR BIOLOGY 2002; 28:79-101. [PMID: 11908067 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-56348-5_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Sébastien Michaud
- Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Genetics, Department of Medicine, Pavillon Marchand, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada
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- I F Zhimulev
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Guzov VM, Unnithan GC, Chernogolov AA, Feyereisen R. CYP12A1, a mitochondrial cytochrome P450 from the house fly. Arch Biochem Biophys 1998; 359:231-40. [PMID: 9808765 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1998.0901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Eukaryotic P450 proteins are membrane proteins found predominantly in the endoplasmic reticulum. In vertebrates, several biosynthetic P450s are found in mitochondria as well. We cloned three putative insect mitochondrial P450s from larval house fly cDNA. These P450s are members of a new P450 family, CYP12. The CYP12 proteins are most closely related to the mammalian mitochondrial P450 of the CYP11, CYP24, and CYP27 families. The most abundant cDNA, CYP12A1, was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. NADPH-dependent reduction of CYP12A1 was rapid and efficient with the bovine mitochondrial proteins adrenodoxin reductase and adrenodoxin as electron transfer partners. In contrast, house fly microsomal NADPH cytochrome P450 reductase reduced CYP12A1 only poorly. In a reconstituted system with the bovine mitochondrial electron donors, CYP12A1 metabolized a variety of insecticides and other xenobiotics, but did not metabolize ecdysteroids, juvenoids, or fatty acids. Subcellular localization of CYP12A1 by immunogold histochemistry established the mitochondrial nature of this protein. CYP12A1 mRNA levels are constitutively higher in an insecticide-resistant strain than in a susceptible strain, and this trait maps to chromosome II in the house fly, where the constitutive overexpression of the pesticide-metabolizing microsomal CYP6A1 also maps. Multiple mitochondrial P450s have evolved in insects and may play a role in the metabolism of xenobiotics in addition to their possibly ancestral functions in steroidogenesis.
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- V M Guzov
- Department of Entomology and Center for Toxicology, University of Arizona, Forbes 410, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
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Rogulski KR, Cartwright IL. Multiple interacting elements delineate an ecdysone-dependent regulatory region with secondary responsive character. J Mol Biol 1995; 249:298-318. [PMID: 7783195 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Within the 2.2 kb region between hsp23 and gene 1 of the small heat shock gene locus 67B1 of Drosophila melanogaster, an approximately 1 kb perturbation of the chromatin architecture has previously been observed to occur in response to the steroid hormone ecdysone. Transient expression assays in hormonally-responsive Drosophila tissue culture cells utilizing hsp70-lacZ chimeric reporter constructs revealed the presence of ecdysone-dependent regulatory sequences in this hsp23-gene 1 intergenic region. The analysis delimited five functional segments: three core regions which were completely encompassed within the region of chromatin perturbation, and two gene-proximal regions which appear to be functionally equivalent under some circumstances. None of the delineated regions was capable of stimulating expression independently, while sub-maximal expression was obtained when combinations of two or three regions were monitored. This requirement for multiple DNA segments to drive maximal transcription suggested that cooperative interactions between the regions were essential for full hormonal responsiveness. Unexpectedly, no binding of the ecdysone receptor was detectable within any of the delineated regions, implying the involvement of multiple non-receptor factors in the observed hormonal responsiveness. The ecdysone-dependent activation of reporter constructs driven by these sequences showed a significant time lag and was coupled with a marked sensitivity to low concentrations of cycloheximide. The data obtained strongly suggest that the cis-acting elements delimited within the hsp23-gene 1 intergenic region respond to ecdysone in a secondary manner, presumably by requiring interaction with the product(s) of primary ecdysone-responsive genes.
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- K R Rogulski
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio 45267-0524, USA
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Vazquez J, Pauli D, Tissières A. Transcriptional regulation in Drosophila during heat shock: a nuclear run-on analysis. Chromosoma 1993; 102:233-48. [PMID: 8486075 DOI: 10.1007/bf00352397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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We used a nuclear run-on assay as a novel approach to study the changes in transcriptional activity that take place in Drosophila melanogaster during heat shock. In response to a rapid temperature upshift, total transcriptional activity in cultured KC161 cells decreased proportionally to the severity of the shock. After extended stress at 37 degrees C (15 min or more), transcription was severely reduced, and at 39 degrees C most transcription was instantaneously arrested. However, strikingly different responses were observed for individual genes. Transcription of histone H1 genes was severely inhibited even under mild heat shock conditions. Transcription of the actin 5C gene decreased progressively with increasing temperature, while transcription of the core histone genes or of the heat shock cognate genes was repressed only under severe heat shock conditions. Transcriptional activation of the D. melanogaster heat shock genes was also investigated. In unshocked cells, hsp84 was moderately transcribed, while transcriptional activity at the other protein-coding heat shock genes was undetectable (less than 0.2 polymerases per gene). Engaged but paused RNA polymerase molecules were found at the hsp70 and hsp26 genes, but not at the other heat shock genes. The rates of transcription increased with increasing temperature with a peak of expression at around 35 degrees C. At 37 degrees C, induction was less efficient, and no induction was achieved after a rapid shift to 39 degrees C. Increased transcription of the heat shock genes was observed within 1-2 min of heat shock, and maximal rates were reached within 2-5 min. Despite very similar profiles of response, different heat shock genes were transcribed at strikingly different rates, which varied over a 20-fold range. The noncoding heat shock locus 93D was transcribed at a very high rate under non-heat shock conditions, and showed a transcriptional response to elevated temperatures different from that of protein-coding heat shock genes. An estimation of the absolute rates of transcription at different temperatures was obtained.
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- J Vazquez
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Université de Genève, Switzerland
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Major alterations in genetic activity have been observed in every organism after exposure to abnormally high temperatures. This phenomenon, called the heat shock response, was discovered in the fruit fly Drosophila. Studies with this organism led to the discovery of the heat shock proteins, whose genes were among the first eukaryotic genes to be cloned. Several of the most important aspects of the regulation of the heat shock response and of the functions of the heat shock proteins have been unraveled in Drosophila.
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- D Pauli
- Département de Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Université de Genève, Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland
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Rudolph K, Morganelli C, Berger EM. Regulatory elements near the Drosophila hsp 22 gene required for ecdysterone and heat shock induction. DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS 1991; 12:212-8. [PMID: 1868625 DOI: 10.1002/dvg.1020120306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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A transient expression assay was used to localize cis-acting DNA regulatory elements near the Drosophila heat shock protein (hsp) 22 gene, that are involved in heat shock expression and in ecdysterone-induced expression. The results identify a region between positions -320 and -232 that is essential for ecdysterone control, but not for heat-induced expression, and a sequence between -199 and -156, which, when deleted, leads to the loss of heat shock induction. To investigate the function of these DNA sequences, transfection-competition experiments were carried out. The evidence suggests that the DNA regulatory sequences identified by transient expression studies contain binding sites for transacting transcription factors.
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- K Rudolph
- Department of Biology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
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Vazquez J. Response to heat shock of gene 1, a Drosophila melanogaster small heat shock gene, is developmentally regulated. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1991; 226:393-400. [PMID: 1903835 DOI: 10.1007/bf00260651] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The expression of gene 1, a member of the small heat shock gene family from the Drosophila melanogaster chromosomal locus 67B was studied. In contrast to the other heat shock genes, the response of gene 1 to stress was modulated during development. In the absence of stress, gene 1 was expressed at the beginning of pupation, and at a very low level in adult males. Expression of gene 1 was substantially increased by heat shock in pupae, but was one to two orders of magnitude lower in adults or in embryos. Under the same conditions, hsp70 or hsp26 were induced to similar levels in all stages. This developmental effect could be mimicked in cultured Drosophila cells: expression of gene 1 was stimulated by heat shock in the presence, but not in the absence, of the moulting hormone ecdysterone, while the level of expression of hsp26 and hsp70 in response to heat shock was independent of the presence of the hormone. Thus, the presence and activity of the heat shock transcription factor are not sufficient for the maximal response of gene 1 to stress. These results suggest that the heat shock activator protein requires additional factors, which are developmentally regulated, to activate transcription of gene 1. Furthermore, S1 nuclease mapping analysis revealed several gene 1 mRNA species, which are generated by the use of alternative polyadenylation sites and by the use of differentially regulated transcriptional initiation sites.
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- J Vazquez
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Université de Genève, Switzerland
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Ecdysterone regulatory elements function as both transcriptional activators and repressors. Mol Cell Biol 1991. [PMID: 2005885 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.4.1846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A synthetic, 23-bp ecdysterone regulatory element (EcRE), derived from the upstream region of the Drosophila melanogaster hsp27 gene, was inserted adjacent to the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter fused to a bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). Hybrid constructs were transfected into Drosophila S3 cells and assayed for ecdysterone-inducible CAT expression. In the absence of ecdysterone a tandem pair of EcREs repressed the high constitutive level of CAT activity found after transfection with the parent reporter plasmid alone. After hormone addition very high levels of CAT activity were observed. Insertion of the EcRE pair 3' of the CAT gene also led to high levels of ecdysterone-induced CAT expression, but the repression of high constitutive levels of CAT activity failed to occur. The EcRE-CAT construct was cotransfected with plasmids containing tandem 10-mers or 40-mers of the EcRE but lacking a reporter gene. These additional EcREs led to a reduced level of ecdysterone-induced CAT activity and to an elevation of basal CAT activity in the absence of hormone. The data suggest that the receptor binds to the EcRE in the absence of hormone, blocking basal transcription from a constitutive promoter. In the presence of ecdysterone, receptor-hormone binding to the EcRE leads to greatly enhanced transcription.
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Dobens L, Rudolph K, Berger EM. Ecdysterone regulatory elements function as both transcriptional activators and repressors. Mol Cell Biol 1991; 11:1846-53. [PMID: 2005885 PMCID: PMC359858 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.11.4.1846-1853.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A synthetic, 23-bp ecdysterone regulatory element (EcRE), derived from the upstream region of the Drosophila melanogaster hsp27 gene, was inserted adjacent to the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter fused to a bacterial gene for chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). Hybrid constructs were transfected into Drosophila S3 cells and assayed for ecdysterone-inducible CAT expression. In the absence of ecdysterone a tandem pair of EcREs repressed the high constitutive level of CAT activity found after transfection with the parent reporter plasmid alone. After hormone addition very high levels of CAT activity were observed. Insertion of the EcRE pair 3' of the CAT gene also led to high levels of ecdysterone-induced CAT expression, but the repression of high constitutive levels of CAT activity failed to occur. The EcRE-CAT construct was cotransfected with plasmids containing tandem 10-mers or 40-mers of the EcRE but lacking a reporter gene. These additional EcREs led to a reduced level of ecdysterone-induced CAT activity and to an elevation of basal CAT activity in the absence of hormone. The data suggest that the receptor binds to the EcRE in the absence of hormone, blocking basal transcription from a constitutive promoter. In the presence of ecdysterone, receptor-hormone binding to the EcRE leads to greatly enhanced transcription.
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- L Dobens
- Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
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Arrigo AP, Tanguay RM. Expression of heat shock proteins during development in Drosophila. Results Probl Cell Differ 1991; 17:106-19. [PMID: 1803417 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-46712-0_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Studies on the expression of heat shock proteins during development in Drosophila clearly show that individual Hsps accumulate in a tissue- and developmental stage-specific manner. This is in contrast to their coordinate expression in response to stress. Therefore, the Hsps may play at least two roles, one as housekeeping proteins during development and/or differentiation and the second one in restoring cellular functions after environmental stress. Research in the first two decades following the discovery of the heat shock response have focused on a search for functions in stressed cells. The next few years should bring us further understanding on the role of these fascinating proteins during development in Drosophila as well as in other eukaryotes.
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- A P Arrigo
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre de Génétique Moléculaire et Cellulaire CNRS-UMR-106, Villeurbanne, France
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Pauli D, Tonka CH, Tissieres A, Arrigo AP. Tissue-specific expression of the heat shock protein HSP27 during Drosophila melanogaster development. J Cell Biol 1990; 111:817-28. [PMID: 1697298 PMCID: PMC2116260 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.111.3.817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The alpha-crystallin-related heat shock (stress) protein hsp27 is expressed in absence of heat shock during Drosophila melanogaster development. Here, we describe the tissue distribution of this protein using an immunoaffinity-purified antibody. In embryos, hsp27 translated from maternal RNA is uniformly distributed, except in the yolk. During the first, second, and early third larval stages, hsp27 expression is restricted to the brain and the gonads. These tissues are characterized by a high level of proliferating cells. In late third instar larvae and early pupae, in addition to the central nervous system and the gonads, all the imaginal discs synthesize hsp27. The disc expression seems restricted to the beginning of their differentiation since it disappears during the second half of the pupal stage: no more hsp27 is observed in the disc-derived adult organs. In adults, hsp27 is still present in some regions of the central nervous system, and is also expressed in the male and female germ lines where it accumulates in mature sperm and oocytes. The transcript and the protein accumulate in oocytes since the onset of vitellogenesis with a uniform distribution similar to that found in embryos. The adult germ lines transcribe hsp27 gene while no transcript is detected in the late pupal and adult brain. These results suggest multiple roles of hsp27 during Drosophila development which may be related to both the proliferative and differentiated states of the tissues.
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- D Pauli
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Perturbation of chromatin architecture on ecdysterone induction of Drosophila melanogaster small heat shock protein genes. Mol Cell Biol 1989. [PMID: 2494432 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.1.332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Alterations in the pattern of DNase I hypersensitivity were observed on ecdysterone-stimulated transcription of Drosophila melanogaster small heat shock protein genes. Perturbations were induced near hsp27 and hsp22, coupled with an extensive domain of chromatin unfolding in the intergenic region between hsp23 and the developmentally regulated gene 1. These regions represent candidates for ecdysterone regulatory interactions.
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Kelly SE, Cartwright IL. Perturbation of chromatin architecture on ecdysterone induction of Drosophila melanogaster small heat shock protein genes. Mol Cell Biol 1989; 9:332-5. [PMID: 2494432 PMCID: PMC362178 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.9.1.332-335.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Alterations in the pattern of DNase I hypersensitivity were observed on ecdysterone-stimulated transcription of Drosophila melanogaster small heat shock protein genes. Perturbations were induced near hsp27 and hsp22, coupled with an extensive domain of chromatin unfolding in the intergenic region between hsp23 and the developmentally regulated gene 1. These regions represent candidates for ecdysterone regulatory interactions.
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- S E Kelly
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Ohio 45267-0524
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Pauli D, Tonka CH, Ayme-Southgate A. An unusual split Drosophila heat shock gene expressed during embryogenesis, pupation and in testis. J Mol Biol 1988; 200:47-53. [PMID: 2454316 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(88)90332-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Gene 2, one of the seven heat shock genes from locus 67B of Drosophila melanogaster, is transcribed into two polyadenylated RNAs having different developmental profiles of expression. The smaller transcript, of about 560 nucleotides, is expressed from mid-embryogenesis to the first two larval stages and again at the beginning of pupation. The larger transcript, 780 nucleotides, contains an additional 5' exon, accounting for its larger size. It is detected in pupae and adults, is male-specific and is localized in the testes. Heat shock does not affect the abundance of these two transcripts but induces the accumulation of a third RNA species of about 2000 nucleotides. This heat-shock RNA has the same cap site as the embryonic transcript, while its 3' portion entirely includes the neighbouring hsp22 gene. It appears, therefore, that in this case, heat shock alters the normal transcription termination process. By contrast to most heat shock genes, gene 2 contains several micro introns. One long open reading frame common to the three transcripts encodes a putative polypeptide of 111 amino acid residues. No homology was found with the other small heat shock genes of locus 67B.
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Affiliation(s)
- D Pauli
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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