脱硫创新霉素对E.coli BT色氨酸途径酶合成的阻遏作用

<正> 将E.coli BT(Trp~-)从阻遏条件转入去阻遏条件培养时,加入脱硫创新霉素,测定药物对色氨酸途径酶(ASase和TSase)合成的阻遏作用。实验结果证明:脱硫创新霉素的抗菌作用机制和创新霉素一样是阻遏色氨酸途径酶的生物合成。其50%的阻遏浓度为4—5μm,和创新霉素相似。实验结果也说明,创新霉素结构中的噻喃环对阻遏作用不是必要的,     

诱导子在红豆杉细胞培养生产紫杉醇中的应用研究进展

诱导子作为一种调控植物次生代谢产物生物合成的重要手段,用于红豆杉(Taxus)细胞培养生产紫杉醇的研究效果显著。本文分别就生物诱导子和非生物诱导子促进紫杉醇生物合成及其可能的作用机制进行了综述。     

微生物次级代谢的调节(续)

九、次级代谢调节中的诱导作用当微生物生长达到平衡后,即“无限制的”生长期(营养期)之后,由于特定营养成份减少而停止急剧生长,进入有限的生长期——繁殖期,此时次级代谢才开始进行。因为在营养期一般不出现催化次级代谢的酶,所以可以认为在这个转换期中发生了次级代谢酶的诱导或解阻遏。下面,谈谈已经搞清楚了的诱导效应物的     

诱导子在红豆杉细胞培养生产紫杉醇中的应用研究进展

诱导子作为一种调控植物次生代谢产物生物合成的重要手段,用于红豆杉(Taxus)细胞培养生产紫杉醇的研究效果显著。本文分别就生物诱导子和非生物诱导子促进紫杉醇生物合成及其可能的作用机制进行了综述。     

茉莉酸甲酯对紫杉醇生物合成的诱导作用

本文采用分裂素自养型中国红豆杉细胞株 ,研究了在细胞悬浮培养过程中茉莉酸甲酯 ( MJ)对紫杉醇生物合成的诱导作用。结果表明 ,以乙醇为 MJ助溶剂时 ,MJ的诱导作用以剂量为 2 0 0 μmol/L于继代培养开始时加入为最佳 ,此时紫杉醇产量较对照组提高 71.2 %。以吐温为 MJ助溶剂时 ,MJ的诱导作用以剂量为 10μmol/L于继代培养 d2 0加入为最佳 ,此时紫杉醇产量较对照组提高 2 80 .7%。此外 ,本文对 MJ的诱导作用机理进行了探讨。     

酵母菌磷脂酰肌醇(PI)的生物合成及其重要的生理学功能

本文对近年来在酵母菌磷脂酰肌醇 (PI)生物合成 ,PI与酵母菌信号传导的相互关系 ,PI在酵母菌耐浓度酒精中的作用和PI在酵母菌胞外酶分泌解阻遏中的作用等方面最新研究进展进行了较为全面的讨论。     

产紫青霉中β-葡萄糖醛酸苷酶的诱导表达

针对产紫青霉(Penicillium purpurogenum)Li-3发酵生产β-葡萄糖醛酸苷酶存在的碳代谢阻遏现象,研究β-葡萄糖醛酸苷酶的高效诱导表达策略。在发酵条件优化的基础上,建立了新的产酶诱导工艺:葡萄糖的初始质量浓度5 g/L,在葡萄糖耗尽时加入20%诱导剂(10 g/L GL+1.2%Tween80)进行诱导,每24 h添加1次诱导剂,诱导72 h后立即转到40℃摇床发酵48 h。采用该工艺进行发酵,菌体出现了"二次生长"现象,比酶活从647.99 U/mL提高至2 356 U/mL,提高了近3倍。     

NO通过水杨酸(SA)或者茉莉酸(JA)信号途径介导真菌诱导子对粉葛悬浮细胞中葛根素生物合成的促进作用

一氧化氮(NO)是近年来发现对植物细胞次生代谢产物合成具有调控作用的一种新型信号分子. 为了研究NO对植物细胞次生代谢调控的信号转导机理, 考查了在真菌诱导子作用下粉葛悬浮细胞中NO, 水杨酸(SA), 茉莉酸(JA)及葛根素含量的变化情况. 试验结果表明, 真菌诱导子可以诱发粉葛细胞的NO迸发、SA合成和葛根素含量增加, 但细胞中JA水平未发生明显变化. NO猝灭剂cPITO可以阻断真菌诱导子对粉葛细胞中SA和葛根素合成的促进作用, 说明NO是介导真菌诱导子诱发粉葛细胞中葛根素和SA生物合成所必需的上游信号分子. 在缺乏SA积累能力的NahG转基因粉葛细胞中, 真菌诱导子虽然不能促进SA积累, 但仍然可以诱发NO迸发和葛根素生物合成, 并且促进细胞中JA的合成积累. cPITO可以抑制真菌诱导子对NahG转基因粉葛细胞中JA合成的诱导作用, 说明JA是作用于NO下游的信号分子. JA合成抑制剂IBU和NDGA可以抑制外源NO对NahG转基因粉葛细胞中葛根素生物合成的促进作用, 说明NO依赖JA诱发NahG转基因粉葛细胞中葛根素的生物合成. 外源SA处理可以显著降低真菌诱导子对NahG转基因粉葛细胞中JA合成的促进作用, 并逆转IBU和NDGA对NO和真菌诱导子诱发葛根素合成的抑制作用, 说明SA可以抑制细胞中JA的生物合成; 而且当JA合成受到抑制时, SA可以替代JA介导NO和真菌诱导子对葛根素合成的促进作用. 由于真菌诱导子可以促进野生型粉葛细胞中SA的生物合成, 我们推测在野生型粉葛细胞中, 真菌诱导子可能通过诱发SA合成积累抑制了其对细胞中JA合成的促进作用, NO可能主要通过SA信号途径介导真菌诱导子对细胞中葛根素生物合成的促进作用. 而在SA积累受阻的NahG转基因粉葛细胞中, NO则通过激活JA的生物合成并依赖JA信号途径介导真菌诱导子促进粉葛细胞中葛根素的生物合成.     

从无血清连续培养细胞株大量提纯组织型纤溶酶原激活剂

人黑色素瘤细胞无血清连续培养,并运用高效诱导剂,从而快速、大量地获得了含组织型纤溶酶原激活剂(t-PA) 水平较高的培液。经免疫亲和层析、sephadex G-150 凝胶过滤,培液中t-PA得以快速有效地纯化。纯化t—PA为单链形式,分子量67kd,比活性达186,667Iu／mg.从1L培液中可得0．36mg t—PA。以wHO标准t—PA抗体作免疫鉴定,纯化t—PA与标准t-PA免疫性相同。单链t—PA经纤溶酶作用转变为由重链(35kd)和轻链(31kd)组成的双链t—PA。纯化的人黑色素瘤细胞t—PA已成功地用于溶解家兔动脉血栓。     

铜绿假单胞菌及L型诱导巨噬细胞凋亡的实验研究

目的研究铜绿假单胞菌（PA）及L型诱导巨噬细胞凋亡的能力,比较二者的差异。方法用生物素断端标记（TUNEL）法检测PA及L型感染巨噬细胞2、4、8、12、16和20h后各时间段的细胞凋亡率,Giemsa染色观察细胞凋亡情况,硝酸还原酶法检测培养液中一氧化氮（NO）的浓度变化。结果 PA及L型能诱导巨噬细胞发生凋亡,与对照组比较差异有统计学意义（P〈0.05）;L型诱导细胞的凋亡率弱于原菌（P〈0.05）;PA及L型感染组培养液NO浓度较对照组明显升高（P〈0.05）。结论 PA及L型可诱导巨噬细胞发生凋亡,L型较其原型诱导细胞凋亡的能力弱,NO可能在巨噬细胞凋亡中发挥一定作用。PA及L型可通过诱导巨噬细胞凋亡,发挥致病作用。     

Some aspects of cellulose biosynthesis

The paper is focused on two groups of proteins inevitably important for cellulose biosynthesis in vascular plants. These are cellulose synthases and chitinase-like proteins. Cellulose synthases have been the subject of much research, and current conceptions and recent findings are reviewed in this paper. Severe effects of mutations and expression analysis have recently shown that chitinase-like proteins are crucial components of cellulose biosynthesis. However, understanding of their precise function is missed. Further research is to be prompted by an effective idea on it. I propose that chitinase-like proteins could play a role in the assembly of nascent glucan chains into microfibrills. Therefore, cellulose synthases and chitinase-like proteins are possibly sequential elements of the cellulose biosynthesis.     

Anaerobic bacteria as producers of antibiotics

Anaerobic bacteria are the oldest terrestrial creatures. They occur ubiquitously in soil and in the intestine of higher organisms and play a major role in human health, ecology, and industry. However, until lately no antibiotic or any other secondary metabolite has been known from anaerobes. Mining the genome sequences of Clostridium spp. has revealed a high prevalence of putative biosynthesis genes (PKS and NRPS), and only recently the first antibiotic from the anaerobic world, closthioamide, has been isolated from the cellulose degrading bacterium Clostridium cellulolyticum. The successful genetic induction of antibiotic biosynthesis in an anaerobe encourages further investigations of obligate anaerobes to tap their hidden biosynthetic potential.     

Role of acetate and butyrate in the induction of NADH: rubredoxin oxidoreductase in Clostridium acetobutylicum

Study of the biosynthesis of NADH: rubredoxin oxidoreductase in resting cells of Clostridium acetobutylicum shows that this enzyme is synthesized at a maximal rate in the presence of acetic acid at a concentration of 3 g . l-1 and at pH 4.8. Protons do not play any role in this biosynthesis since no induction is observed in a medium without acetate for the same values of pH. Butyric acid at a concentration of 0.5 g . l-1 gives 50% induction and formic acid, isobutyric acid and propionic acid have no inductive action on NADH: rubredoxin oxidoreductase. These results are confirmed by studies using a dialysis bag. Only a culture against acetic acid at an initial concentration of 2 g . l-1 gives maximal biosynthesis of the enzyme, whereas a culture in which all products of metabolism are eliminated gives an activity which is 80% lower.     

Cellulase biosynthesis during degradation of cellulose derivatives by Thermomonospora curvata

A variety of commercially used cellulose derivatives were compared with crystalline cellulose as substrates for induction of cellulase biosynthesis in the actinomycete Thermomonospora curvata. Cellulase induction during growth on uncoated cellophane was as rapid as that on crystalline cellulose, but on coated cellophanes, induction was delayed. Susceptibility to enzymatic attack determined the inductive potential of the substrate. Cellulose acetate was a poor substrate because of its extreme recalcitrance to attack. With other cellulose derivatives, soluble sugar accumulation caused a transient repression of cellulase biosynthesis, but the ratio of cellobiose (a cellulase inducer) to glucose (a cellulase repressor) was not a controlling factor. Crystalline cellulose yielded the lowest inducer/repressor sugar ratio (1.1:1 compared to 3.8–4.0:1 for cellulose derivatives), but supported the highest cellulase production. Glucose could not repress cellulase biosynthesis in the presence of cellobiose due to the strong preference for uptake of the disaccharide even by glucose-grown cells.     

Tissue plasminogen activator-mediated fibrinolysis protects against axonal degeneration and demyelination after sciatic nerve injury

Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is a serine protease that converts plasminogen to plasmin and can trigger the degradation of extracellular matrix proteins. In the nervous system, under noninflammatory conditions, tPA contributes to excitotoxic neuronal death, probably through degradation of laminin. To evaluate the contribution of extracellular proteolysis in inflammatory neuronal degeneration, we performed sciatic nerve injury in mice. Proteolytic activity was increased in the nerve after injury, and this activity was primarily because of Schwann cell-produced tPA. To identify whether tPA release after nerve damage played a beneficial or deleterious role, we crushed the sciatic nerve of mice deficient for tPA. Axonal demyelination was exacerbated in the absence of tPA or plasminogen, indicating that tPA has a protective role in nerve injury, and that this protective effect is due to its proteolytic action on plasminogen. Axonal damage was correlated with increased fibrin(ogen) deposition, suggesting that this protein might play a role in neuronal injury. Consistent with this idea, the increased axonal degeneration phenotype in tPA- or plasminogen-deficient mice was ameliorated by genetic or pharmacological depletion of fibrinogen, identifying fibrin as the plasmin substrate in the nervous system under inflammatory axonal damage. This study shows that fibrin deposition exacerbates axonal injury, and that induction of an extracellular proteolytic cascade is a beneficial response of the tissue to remove fibrin. tPA/plasmin-mediated fibrinolysis may be a widespread protective mechanism in neuroinflammatory pathologies.     

Xylem-specific and tension stress-responsive coexpression of KORRIGAN endoglucanase and three secondary wall-associated cellulose synthase genes in aspen trees

In nature, angiosperm trees develop tension wood on the upper side of their leaning trunks and drooping branches. Development of tension wood is one of the straightening mechanisms by which trees counteract leaning or bending of stem and resume upward growth. Tension wood is characterized by the development of a highly crystalline cellulose-enriched gelatinous layer next to the lumen of the tension wood fibers. Thus experimental induction of tension wood provides a system to understand the process of cellulose biosynthesis in trees. Since KORRIGAN endoglucanases (KOR) appear to play an important role in cellulose biosynthesis in Arabidopsis, we cloned PtrKOR, a full-length KOR cDNA from aspen xylem. Using RT-PCR, in situ hybridization, and tissue-print assays, we show that PtrKOR gene expression is significantly elevated on the upper side of the bent aspen stem in response to tension stress while KOR expression is significantly suppressed on the opposite side experiencing compression stress. Moreover, three previously reported aspen cellulose synthase genes, namely, PtrCesA1, PtrCesA2, and PtrCesA3 that are closely associated with secondary cell wall development in the xylem cells exhibited similar tension stress-responsive behavior. Our results suggest that coexpression of these four proteins is important for the biosynthesis of highly crystalline cellulose typically present in tension wood fibers. Their simultaneous genetic manipulation may lead to industrially relevant improvement of cellulose in transgenic crops and trees.Suchita Bhandari and Takeshi Fujino contributed equally to this research.     

Hormonal regulation of tissue plasminogen activator secretion and mRNA levels in rat granulosa cells

Granulosa cells from immature rats produce tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in response to follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) or luteinizing hormone (LH) both in vitro and in vivo. We have used the in vitro system to investigate the level at which the hormonal induction of tPA is regulated. Within 12 h following FSH addition, a dramatic but transient increase in tPA secretion occurs for by 24 h secretion returns to basal levels. This pattern of enzyme induction is similar with LH, but the onset of the increase is delayed. When steady-state tPA mRNA levels are examined after hormone treatment, the results mirror those obtained if one measures enzyme activity; a large increase in tPA mRNA followed by a decrease to basal levels is observed with both hormones, and the lag in induction by LH is also apparent. These results demonstrate that the regulation of tPA activity by gonadotropins occurs at the level of the steady-state concentration of the mRNA. In the presence of cycloheximide, the induction of tPA mRNA by FSH or LH is not greatly affected, indicating that this phase of the response to gonadotropins does not require the synthesis of new protein. However, the decrease in tPA mRNA levels observed 24 h after FSH treatment is affected by cycloheximide, in that the drug delays the reduction in mRNA levels seen with hormone alone.     

Plasmin and the regulation of tissue-type plasminogen activator biosynthesis in human endothelial cells.

Plasmin inhibited the biosynthesis of tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) antigen by human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) in a dose-dependent manner. The amount of tPA antigen found in the 24-h conditioned medium of cells treated with 100 nM plasmin for 1 h was 20-30% of that in the control group. However, in contrast to tPA, such treatment led to a 3-fold increase in plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI) activity, whereas the amount of PAI type 1 antigen was unchanged. The effects of plasmin on HUVEC were binding- and catalytic activity-dependent and were specifically blocked by epsilon-aminocaproic acid. Microplasmin, which has no kringle domains, was less effective in reducing tPA antigen biosynthesis or enhancing PAI activity in HUVEC. Kringle domains of plasmin affected neither tPA antigen nor PAI activity of the cells. Other proteases including chymotrypsin, trypsin, and collagenase at comparable concentrations did not have a significant effect on the biosynthesis of tPA antigen or PAI activity of HUVEC. Thrombin stimulated the biosynthesis of tPA and PAI-1 antigens by HUVEC. Thrombin also stimulated an increase in the protein kinase activity in HUVEC, whereas plasmin inhibited the protein kinase activity of the cells. It is possible that plasmin regulates the biosynthesis of tPA in HUVEC through the signal transduction pathway involving protein kinase.     

IL-1beta down-regulates tissue-type plasminogen activator by up-regulating low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein in AML 12 cells

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) regulation of tPA in hepatocytes was studied in mouse hepatocyte line AML12. IL-1 induced transient accumulation of tPA mRNA as high as threefold by 2 h after the start of treatment. The cytokine also induced the mRNA for serum amyloid A, a typical acute-phase protein in mice, with more sustained kinetics in a time-dependent manner. In contrast to the induction of mRNA, tPA activity and protein levels in the harvested medium were dramatically diminished by IL-1. IL-1 stimulated the uptake of (125)I-tPA by AML 12. This uptake was inhibited by 39-kDa receptor-associated protein (RAP), but not by the sugar mannan. These results revealed that low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP), which is known to be a receptor for tPA and to be blocked by RAP, was up-regulated by IL-1. We also demonstrated, for the first time, that IL-1 transiently increased the mRNA level of LRP threefold by 30 min after the start of IL-1 treatment of AML 12. The receptor-mediated endocytosis of tPA by hepatocytes may thus play a crucial role in the down-regulation of fibrinolysis during the acute-phase response.     

Biphasic regulation of tissue plasminogen activator activity in ischemic rat brain and in cultured neural cells: essential role of astrocyte-derived plasminogen activator inhibitor-1

In brain, the serine protease tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and its endogenous inhibitor plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) have been implicated in the regulation of various neurophysiological and pathological responses. In this study, we investigated the differential role of neurons and astrocytes in the regulation of tPA/PAI-1 activity in ischemic brain. The activity of tPA peaked transiently and then decreased in cortex and striatum along with delayed induction of PAI-1 in the inflammatory stage after MCAO/reperfusion injury. In cultured primary cells, glutamate stimulation increased tPA activity in neurons but not in other cells such as microglia and astrocytes. With LPS stimulation, a model of neuroinflammatory insults, robust PAI-1 induction was observed in astrocytes but not in neurons and microglia. The upregulation of PAI-1 by LPS in astrocytes was also verified by RT-PCR analysis as well as PAI-1 promoter reporter assay. Lastly, we checked the effects of hypoxia on tPA/PAI-1 activity. Hypoxia increased tPA release from neurons without effects on microglia, while the activity of tPA in astrocyte was decreased consistent with increased PAI-1 activity in astrocyte. Taken together, the results from the present study suggest that neurons are the major source of tPA and that the glutamate-induced stimulated release is mainly governed by neurons in the acute phase. In contrast, the massive up-regulation of PAI-1 in astrocytes during subchronic and chronic inflammatory conditions, leads to decreased tPA activity in the later stages of MCAO. Differential regulation of tPA and PAI-1 in neurons, astrocytes and microglia suggest more attention is required to understand the role of local tPA activity in the vicinity of individual cell types.