地衣芽孢杆菌碱性蛋白酶的研究 Ⅰ.碱性蛋白酶高产菌的筛选及产酶条件初探

从成都佳丰食品厂等处采集的样品中平板分离初筛到124株碱性蛋白酶产生菌,进一步复筛出一株高产,且稳定的碱性蛋白酶产生菌株B．L．JF-ld,初步鉴定为地衣穿孢杆菌（Bacilluslicheniformis）。该菌的最适产酶条件为：培养基（％）为麦芽糖7．5,酵母膏3,NaCl0．5,K2HPO4·3H2O0．53,NaHPO4·2H2O0．03,Na2CO30．056,MnSO4l×10－4mol／L,pH8．7,通气量为（1：0．5）～（1：1）（v／v）,37℃发酵40h,酶活力单位高达7180U／ml。     

从万古霉素抗性突变体中筛选碱性纤维素酶高产菌株

以芽胞杆菌 Ｘ—６ 为出发菌株,经甲基磺酸乙酯（ Ｅ Ｍ Ｓ） 和紫外线（ Ｕ Ｖ） 复合诱变,选育万古霉素抗性突变体。研究结果表明,抗药性突变株碱性羧甲基纤维素酶（ Ｃ Ｍ Ｃａｓｅ） 产量提高的正变率和正变幅度明显高于非抗药性菌株。从抗性突变株中获得 Ｅ Ｖ２３ 菌株,其产酶活力比出发株 Ｘ—６ 提高３２０ ％ ,酶活力达３５３ｕ／ ｍｌ。     

嗜碱性芽孢杆菌碱性蛋白酶的研究II.诱变株选育及产酶条件

嗜碱性的短小芽孢杆菌R115(Alkaliphilic Bacillus pumilus)经0．4mg／ml亚硝基胍和0.4μg／ml利福平处理,获得一株具有高产稳产碱性蛋白酶的变异株(B45),产酶活力由2803μ／ml提高到6000u／ml(28℃测定),该诱变株的最适产酶条件为起始pH10．5-11．0,温度30—35℃,培养时间52—54b。0．4-0．6％K2HPO4．可增加酶的产量。     

水产源芽胞杆菌的分离鉴定及生物学功能分析

筛选具有较好生物学功能的芽胞杆菌(Bacillus),用以改善池塘养殖过程饲料等有机物降解、抑制水体中的病原菌,对从健康养殖鱼虾塘水体中分离的菌株,进行生化试验和16S rDNA序列分子鉴定;通过产酶、耐酸、耐高温试验,抑菌试验以及安全性试验研究分离菌株的生物学功能。试验共筛选出8株细菌,经生化试验及16S rDNA序列的分子鉴定,确定菌株ZHX17、ZHX18、ZHX31为贝莱斯芽胞杆菌（Bacillus velezensis）,菌株ZHX14、ZHX15为地衣芽胞杆菌（Bacillus licheniformis）、菌株NSX4、NSX7、NSX9为枯草芽胞杆菌（Bacillus subtilis）。试验结果表明,8株芽胞杆菌均具有较强的耐酸、耐高温特性,其中3株贝莱斯芽胞杆菌具有较强的分泌淀粉酶、纤维素酶、蛋白酶的能力,抑菌效果好于其他5株芽胞杆菌。安全性试验结果表明,8株芽胞杆菌对草鱼、罗非鱼相对安全。8株芽胞杆菌同时具备分泌淀粉酶、纤维素酶和蛋白酶3种胞外酶的能力,其中贝莱斯芽胞杆菌具有较强的病原菌抑菌能力,可以作为病原拮抗益生菌做进一步研究。     

高活力碱性淀粉酶菌种的选育及培养条件研究

通过对产碱性淀粉酶芽胞杆菌Ｂ－９５４５进行紫外线、原生质体亚硝基胍复合诱变等反复处理,获得一株具有较高碱性淀粉酶活力的变异株ＰＮ－６。产酶活力从５４０ｕ／ｍｌ提高到７８０ｕ／ｍｌ,确定的最佳培养条件是：ｐＨ８－１０,３０℃培养４８ｈ。从变异株和出发菌株的生长及产酶曲线看到,变异株的生长速度低于出发菌株,其产酶高峰与出发菌株相比略拖后一段时间,但是酶活力要远大于出发菌株。     

耐碱芽胞杆菌木聚糖酶的形成条件及特性

通过碱性选择平板分离到耐碱的芽胞杆菌B－141菌株。该菌在碱性（pH10）条件及木聚糖存在下能产生胞外木聚精酶。该酶最适反应温度为60℃,在60℃以下基本稳定;酶反应的最适pH为3～7,但在碱性条件下稳定,在pH10环境处理60min,仍保持约70％的活性。从TLC分析可知,该酶作用于燕麦木聚糖时,主要产物为大于三体的寡糖。     

产碱性纤维素酶菌株的选育和酶合成基本特性

芽孢杆菌x－6菌株经甲基磺酸乙酯（EMS）和紫外线（UV）复会诱变,从其万古霉素（Vm）抗性突变体中选育获得一突变株EV23,所产生的碱性核甲基纤维素酶（CMCase）酶活力由原来的0．84u／ml提高到3.53u／ml。EV23菌株所产该酶基本为组成性地合成纤维素酶,酶合成明显表现出抗降解物阻遏的特点,以葡萄糖为碳源培养,4％浓度时酶合成水平最高。酶合成效率受菌体生长速率影响较大。在高浓度易代谢基质和三羧酸循环中间物存在下,酶合成将受到一定程度的阻遏。酶合成还与能量代谢有关,探讨了外源ATP、cAMP对     

1株产聚-β-羟基丁酸芽胞杆菌的分离、筛选与鉴定

从浙江省金华市花生地土样中筛选、分离纯化得到1株产聚-β-羟基丁酸编号为PX-95的芽胞杆菌,PHB产量为135.81 mg/L。根据形态特征、生理生化特征初步鉴定为芽胞杆菌属蜡样芽胞杆菌群,16S rDNA序列分析显示PX-95菌株与苏云金芽胞杆菌以及蜡样芽胞杆菌均具有高度同源性,最后采用扩增gyrB（DNA促旋酶B亚单位）基因的方法将其鉴定为苏云金芽胞杆菌（Bacillus thuringiensis）。     

嗜碱芽孢杆菌NTT33产碱性β-甘露聚糖酶发酵条件的研究及高产菌株选育

研究了嗜碱芽孢杆菌（ａｌｋａｌｏｐｈｉｌｉｃＢａｃｌｕｓｓｐ．）ＮＴＴ３３发酵产生胞外碱性β－甘露聚糖酶的条件,其最佳碳源为１％槐豆角,最佳氮源为１％蛋白胨＋０．２％酵母膏,发酵培养３６ｈ产酶量最高（达６１．３υ／ｍＬ）。甘油,葡萄糖,甘露糖等对产酶有强的阻遏作用。该菌株经紫外诱变处理后,采用透明圈法初步筛选出在含葡萄糖和不含葡萄糖的槐豆胶培养基上同时产生透明圈的菌株,进一步测定其产酶进程曲线,最后筛选到一株（ＮＴＴ３３－ｒ６）部分消除葡萄糖代谢阻遏高产β－甘露聚糖酶的菌株,其酶活力比出发菌株提高５０％,,达到９６．３Ｕ／ｍｌ;。     

1株枯草芽胞杆菌的鉴定及其弹性蛋白酶结构研究

鉴定弹性蛋白酶产生菌株EL32,确定该酶的基本结构。采用分子生物学、形态学及生理生化性质对菌株EL32进行鉴定;用硫酸铵沉淀、离子交换层析和分子筛层析纯化酶蛋白;借助肽指纹图谱及酶基因克隆技术研究该酶的一级结构;利用同源建模的方法研究该酶的空间结构。菌株EL32的16S rDNA与枯草芽胞杆菌16S rDNA的同源性达到99%,其菌落呈乳白色,其细胞革兰染色阳性,具有芽胞;发酵葡萄糖试验产酸不产气,明胶水解试验呈阳性,能够水解淀粉,V-P反应呈阳性,鉴定为枯草芽胞杆菌。从菌株BL32发酵液中纯化得到了弹性蛋白酶,SDS-PAGE分析显示其分子量为31 ku。用LTQ-MS测定肽指纹图谱表明该弹性蛋白酶是枯草芽胞杆菌蛋白酶subtilisin,该酶的基因和蛋白质序列与枯草芽胞杆菌蛋白酶subtilisin的同源性都高达99%。菌株EL32弹性蛋白酶的三维结构含有6个α-螺旋,7个扭曲的平行β-折叠以及2个反平行的β-折叠,His、Asp和Ser是其活性中心的关键基团。鉴定了1株产弹性蛋白酶的枯草芽胞杆菌,确定了其弹性蛋白酶是蛋白酶subtilisin,为该枯草芽胞杆菌蛋白酶的应用提供了基础。     

Ectogenesis and the case against the right to the death of the foetus

Ectogenesis, or the use of an artificial womb to allow a foetus to develop, will likely become a reality within a few decades, and could significantly affect the abortion debate. We first examine the implications for Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist analogy, which argues for a woman’s right to withdraw life support from the foetus and so terminate her pregnancy, even if the foetus is granted full moral status. We show that on Thomson’s reasoning, there is no right to the death of the foetus, and abortion is not permissible if ectogenesis is available, provided it is safe and inexpensive. This raises the question of whether there are persuasive reasons for the right to the death of the foetus that could be exercised in the context of ectogenesis. Eric Mathison and Jeremy Davis have examined several arguments for this right, doubting that it exists, while Joona Räsänen has recently criticized their reasoning. We respond to Räsänen’s analysis, concluding that his arguments are unsuccessful, and that there is no right to the death of the foetus in these circumstances.     

On the diversity of the Cladocera in the tropics

The mythical concept of an impoverished tropical cladoceran fauna is refuted. On a planetary scale, around half of the cladoceran species presently known occur exclusively in the tropics-subtropics, often with considerable restriction to particular geographical subzones. On a regional (political) scale, the situation is often unclear because of the continued fragmentary nature of studies, and because political units are not a good basis for biogeographical comparisons. At the finest level of resolution (lake-perlake comparisons), there appears to be an upper limit of c. 50 cladoceran species per individual lake. No significant difference between lakes in the temperate zone and in the tropics could be established here. Daphnia is largely absent from the tropics, but is replaced by more Sidids, Moinids, and Bosminids, such that the average cladoceran community in the limnetic zone of a tropical lake is not characterized by less species but rather by lower population densities. This, in turn, is considered a consequence of higher prevalent predation levels in the tropics.     

Tubular networks in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human,the monkey,the cat and the dog

Summary A tubular network was found in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human, the monkey (Macaca mulatta), the cat and the dog. These tubules are arranged in close groups in the vicinity of the synaptic lamellae and the invaginated dendrites. According to the form, diameter, density of the tubules and to the consistence of the network formed by them one can distinguish at these places an initial type (type I), a transitory (type II) and a vesicular one (type III). In the the type III branching, bizarre forms are frequent. The diameter of all the tubules reaches 500–600 Å, their density and walls being the same as in the synaptic vesicles.Similar networks also occur in the axons of the visual receptor cells of the monkey.

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Zusammenfassung In den Endigungen der Photorezeptorzellen von Mensch, Affe (Macaca mulatta), Katze und Hund kommen aus Tubuli bestehende Komplexe vor. Organellenartig in geschlossenen Gruppen angeordnet, liegen sie in Nähe der synaptischen Lamellen und der invaginierten Dendriten. An diesen Stellen kann man nach Form, Durchmesser, Dichte und Konsistenz der von den Tubuli gebildeten Komplexe drei Typen unterscheiden: 1. einen initialen (Typus I), 2. einen Übergangstypus (Typus II) und 3. einen vesiculären Typus (Typus III). In letzterem kommen häufig verzweigte, bizarre Formen vor. Der Durchmesser sämtlicher Tubuli erreicht 500–600 Å. Ihre Dichte und ihre Wand gleicht denen der synaptischen Vesikel.Ähnliche Komplexe fanden wir auch in den Axonen der Photorezeptorzellen vom Affen.

     

Assessing the Physiological State of the Fucoids from the Barents Sea Littoral by the End of the Polar Night

Methods of amperometry and potentiometric titration were used to follow dark respiration (DR) and apparent photosynthesis (AP) in the fucoids Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol, Fucus vesiculosus L., and F. serratus L. from the Barents Sea littoral by the end of the 40-day-long polar night. The macroalgae were shown to manifest species-specific low rates of photosynthesis and respiration. However, in spite of their low photosynthetic status due to the effects of subzero temperature and prolonged low or zero illumination, the macroalgae have been able to restore DR and AP to the initial level already by the day 9; the ability to restore AP depended on the level of illumination. The study of the changes in the carbonate–bicarbonate system in the light and darkness demonstrated that the macroalgae grown in darkness, in contrast to those grown in twilight, could absorb bicarbonate in darkness; however, they lost this capacity after two-day-long illumination at an irradiance of 7 mol/(m² s). Bicarbonate uptake in darkness and the capacity to restore the systems of photosynthesis and respiration in fucoid cells are discussed in the context of algal energy metabolism under the polar night conditions.     

Arranging the elements of the potassium channel: the T1 domain occludes the cytoplasmic face of the channel

The voltage-gated potassium channel is currently one of the few membrane proteins where functional roles have been mapped onto specific segments of sequence. Although high-resolution structures of the transmembrane portions of three bacterial potassium channels, the tetramerization domain and the cytoplasmic ball are available, their relative spatial arrangement in mammalian channels remains a matter of ongoing debate. Cryo-electron microscopic images of the six transmembrane voltage-gated Kv channel have been reconstructed at up to 18 Å resolution, revealing that the T1 domain tetramerizes and is suspended below the transmembrane segments. However, the resolution of these images is insufficient to reveal the location of the third piece of the puzzle, the inactivating ball domain. We have used the aberrant interactions observed in a series of chimæric channels to establish that an assembled T1 domain restricts access to the cytoplasmic face of the channel, suggesting that the N-terminal ball and chain may be confined in the space between the T1 domain and the transmembrane portion of the channel.     

Separation of the pineal vesicle from the wall of the third ventricle during the post-hatching development of the chicken

Summary According to light- and electron-microscopic observations the pineal organ of the 3-day-old chicken consists of a prominent end vesicle and a tapering parenchymal stalk. During this stage the pineal lumen is in open communication with the third ventricle. However, in the 40-day-old chicken, which still possesses a well-developed end vesicle, the proximal portion of the pineal stalk displays regressive changes leading to local fragmentation. At this stage the pineal stalk is reduced, and the pineal lumen is missing. In 1-year-old chickens the parenchyma of the proximal portion of the stalk is further diminished, and in 3-year-old domestic fowl is completely displaced by bundles of collagenous fibers, only some nerve fibers being present. This post-hatching pineal development may reflect the sequence of changes leading from pineal sense organs to pineal glands.This work was supported by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan     

On the Dependence of the Quadratic Risk of the Classical Predictor and the Prediction-Horizon

When constructing predictors on the basis of the linear model of time series of various indicators often the question arises on the dependence of forecasting accuracy and the changing prediction horizon. The dependency of the quadratic risk of the classical predictor and the time horizon is considered.