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Design for building an electric drive into a Orlican VSO-10 Gradient glider
Vančo, Miroslav ; Juračka, Jaroslav (referee) ; Sklenář, Filip (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with the design of building electric propulsion (FES) into an Orličan VSO-10 Gradient glider. The introduction is focused on problem statement with main challenges of building electric propulsion into gliders. The research section is devoted to current situation on the market of gliders with overview of the propulsion systems and their basic parameters. The most appropriate configuration of the propulsion system is selected, based on performance calculations, regulations, and requirements. For final configuration, installation into the glider construction is designed, with respect to actual regulations. In the last part, cost of propulsion and installation is calculated.
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FeS cluster assembly in cytosol of Trichomonas vaginalis
Stojanovová, Darja ; Tachezy, Jan (advisor) ; Šuťák, Róbert (referee)
Iron-sulfur (FeS) cluster assembly is extensively studied in model organisms, e.g. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Homo sapiens, and more recently in Trypanosoma brucei. However, little is known about FeS assembly in divergent anaerobic organisms such as Trichomonas vaginalis, which parasites in the human urogenital tract. This parasitic protist possesses anaerobic form of mitochondria, the hydrogenosome, in which some component of FeS cluster assembly machinery (ISC) has been identified, whereas the cytosolic CIA pathway has not been studied so far. Our work deals mainly with TvIscU, a component of ISC pathway, and T. vaginalis CIA pathway. We suggest that both hydrogenosomal and cytosolic FeS cluster assembly pathways of this parasite differ from typical models. We examined possible ISC-CIA relationship. Next, we found homologues for several key components involved CIA machinery, namely Nbp35, Cfd1, Nar1, Cia1 and Cia2. However, we did not identify any homologous proteins to Tah18, Dre2 and Mms19. We expressed identified proteins with HA-tag and localized them by cell fractionation and immunofluorescence microscopy in T. vaginalis. Finally, we immunoprecipitated two Cfd1 paralogues, TvCfd1A and TvCfd1B to search for their interacting partners. The results suggest that these two paralogues interact with...
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Functional study of the SUF pathway in the cell of Monocercomonoides exilis and Paratrimastix pyriformis
Zelená, Marie ; Hampl, Vladimír (advisor) ; Verner, Zdeněk (referee)
The synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters is an essential cellular process, which depends on complex biosynthetic pathways. In model eukaryotes, these pathways are the ISC pathway in the mitochondria and the CIA pathway in the cytosol. A recent genome and transcriptome analysis showed, that an amitochondriate protist Monocercomonoides exilis lacks the canonical ISC pathway, which has been replaced by a bacterial SUF pathway. A close free-living relative of M. exilis, Paratrimastix pyriformis possesses a mitochondrion-related organelle, yet also possesses a SUF pathway instead of ISC. The acquisition of the SUF pathway has been suggested as the primordial cause for mitochondrial loss in M. exilis, which is the first documented eukaryotic organism without a mitochondrion. The SUF pathway has been the subject of numerous studies in bacteria, however, its role as the core provider of iron-sulfur clusters for eukaryotic cells has been reported in merely a handful of eukaryotes and was based predominantly on genomic data. This thesis focuses on the putative ATPase SufC and the putative scaffold protein SufB. Both proteins were successfully produced in recombinant forms. SufC has been found to possess ATPase activity in vitro, which was increased upon interaction with SufB. The conditions for theATPase...
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FeS cluster assembly in cytosol of Trichomonas vaginalis
Stojanovová, Darja ; Tachezy, Jan (advisor) ; Šuťák, Róbert (referee)
Iron-sulfur (FeS) cluster assembly is extensively studied in model organisms, e.g. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Homo sapiens, and more recently in Trypanosoma brucei. However, little is known about FeS assembly in divergent anaerobic organisms such as Trichomonas vaginalis, which parasites in the human urogenital tract. This parasitic protist possesses anaerobic form of mitochondria, the hydrogenosome, in which some component of FeS cluster assembly machinery (ISC) has been identified, whereas the cytosolic CIA pathway has not been studied so far. Our work deals mainly with TvIscU, a component of ISC pathway, and T. vaginalis CIA pathway. We suggest that both hydrogenosomal and cytosolic FeS cluster assembly pathways of this parasite differ from typical models. We examined possible ISC-CIA relationship. Next, we found homologues for several key components involved CIA machinery, namely Nbp35, Cfd1, Nar1, Cia1 and Cia2. However, we did not identify any homologous proteins to Tah18, Dre2 and Mms19. We expressed identified proteins with HA-tag and localized them by cell fractionation and immunofluorescence microscopy in T. vaginalis. Finally, we immunoprecipitated two Cfd1 paralogues, TvCfd1A and TvCfd1B to search for their interacting partners. The results suggest that these two paralogues interact with...
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