坛紫菜和条斑紫菜的原生质体电融合

用日本岛津公司生产的电融合装置(SSH－2),进行了坛紫菜和条斑紫菜的原生质体融合试验。探讨了不同的电刺激条件、融合缓冲液种类以及蛋白酶的前处理与细胞融台的关系。其结果是,高频电压30一35V,印加时间25—30s;脉冲电压300—350V,印加时间60μs,及添加3m mol／L Ca²⁺、Mg²⁺的融合缓冲液可使融台率达到21—31％。蛋白酶的前处理对细胞融合有明显的效果。融合细胞培养7天后产生细胞壁,4l天长成多细胞团。     

紫菜叶状体细胞的酶法分离及其养殖研究

本文应用生物技术方法,进行紫菜细胞的菜苗和海上养殖已获得成功。用海螺酶将紫菜叶状体细胞分离成单细胞和原生质体,研究了叶状体的不同细胞类型的再生和发育。不同海水比重、不同温度对细胞的分离和培养的影响,并研究了单细胞和原生质体的附着及其海上的养殖。紫菜酶法采苗的成功,将会对传统的紫菜养殖产生根本的变革。     

细叶黄芪叶肉原生质体发育早期细胞核的变化

采用常规超薄切片、放射性同位素标记以及图像处理等技术,对细叶黄芪叶肉原生质体发育早期细胞核内的核仁结构、ＲＮＡ合成和ＤＮＡ合成等活动进行了研究。结果表明,离体培养后４ｈ,核仁体积开始增大,培养３－５天时,其体积增长了４－５倍。同时,颗粒区（Ｇ）与纤维区（ＤＢＣ）的比值明显上升,培养５天时,Ｇ／ＤＦＣ比值增长近８倍。此时,核仁的纤维中心也增多。用放射性同位素标记的研究结果表明,培养后４ｈ,＾３Ｈ－尿     

银杏雌配子体发育及原生质体分离与培养的研究

Results of observation showed that the female gametophyte of Ginkgo biloba was at the coenocytic stage from March 30ty to May 30ty. A density of 6-8 x 10(5) protoplasts/ml with a viability of 87.3% was achieved when the female gametopytes collected from May 8th to 15th were treated with 0.5% cellulase Onzuka R-10, 0.5% Pectolyase for 4-5 hours. The thin-layer liquid Murashige and Tuker medium modified by omitting ammonium ions and supplementing with glutamine 1000 mg/L, Vc 5 mg/L, benzyladenine 1.0 mg/L and naphthaleneacetic acid 3.0 mg/L was used for the protoplast culture and multiple cell colonies were obtained.     

细叶黄芪叶肉原生质体发育早期几种细胞器的变化

在细叶黄芪叶肉原生质体发育早期,细胞器的变化较大。离体培养４ｈ后,线粒体的嵴和基质物质开始增加。培养３－５天后,线粒体的数量增加５倍以上,此时可见大部分线粒体围绕细胞核分布。,在培养２４ｈ后,高尔基体开始发育,它们主要分布在细胞质周边区域。多糖细胞化学染色表明,高尔基体内沉积着大量嗜银物质。培养１天后,粗面内质网开始发育。培养３天时,部分叶绿体边缘出现一些空隙结构。随着叶绿体内膜结构的消失,淀粉粒     

细叶黄芪叶肉原生质体发育早期细胞壁再生的研究

采用透射电镜术、电镜多糖细胞化学染色、细胞壁荧光染色以及香豆素抑制细胞壁再生等方法,对细叶黄芪（Ａｓｔｒａｇａｌｕｓｍ ｅｌｉｌｏｔｏｉｄｅｓ ｖａｒ．ｔｅｎｕｉｓ）叶肉原生质体细胞壁的再生及其化学特点进行了研究。结果表明,离体培养２４ 小时的原生质体表面产生一些突起小泡,有时可见少量纤维组分的形成。培养３ 天时这种纤维组分明显增多。至５ 天时可清楚看到再生壁是由纤维和颗粒构成。六亚甲四胺银染色证明它们都是由多糖组分组成的。另外,培养３６ 小时的原生质体有相互粘连的现象。电镜观察、荧光染色及香豆素处理的研究表明粘连与再生壁的形成有关。根据上述观察结果,对原生质体再生壁的结构及其化学性质等问题进行了讨论     

细叶黄芪叶肉原生质体发育早期细胞核的变化

采用常规超薄切片,放射性同位素标记以及图像处理等技术,对细叶黄芪叶肉原生质体发育早期细胞核内的核仁结构、RNA合成和DNA合成等活动进行了研究。结果表明,离体培养后4h,核仁体积开始增大,培养3—5天时,其体积增长了4—5倍。同时,颗粒区(G)与纤维区(DFC)的比值明显上升,培养5天时,G/DFC比值增长近8倍。此时,核仁的纤维中心也增多。用放射性同位素标记的研究结果表明,培养后4h,~3H-尿苷开始掺入,培养24h,其掺入值达最高峰,是刚游离原生质体的近10倍。~3H-胸苷的掺入是在培养48h后才开始的,培养96h达到最高峰。另外,在培养24h内的切片样品中看到,部分原生质体细胞核内存在着由一些纤维组分构成的束状结构,即核内包含物(IN)。猜测它们可能与核骨架中纤维组分有关。最后,本文着重对细叶黄芪叶肉原生质体发育早期细胞内发生的各种结构与组分变化及时间进程进行了系统分析,将叶肉原生质体早期发育过程分为三个有序阶段,并对叶肉原生质体脱分化过程中的细胞壁再生和脱分化机制等问题进行了讨论。     

坛紫菜凝集素的糖结合专一性和细胞凝集作用

坛紫菜的磷酸盐缓冲液浸取液,经硫酸铵沉淀和DEAE－Sepharose,SephadexG-100二步层析纯化,获得纯化的坛紫菜凝集素（PHL）。该凝集素能与3种单糖（阿拉伯糖,半乳糖,木糖）及麦芽糖专一性结合,其中与麦芽糖结合最强。细胞凝集实验结果显示,PHL能凝集兔,绵羊及鸡红细胞而不能凝集鸭,鸽子及人血红细胞,PHL还能凝集海洋微藻－绿色巴夫藻和淡水微藻－蛋白核小球藻,它们的凝集活性与藻细胞密度有关。不同状态的细菌和酵母细胞对PHL反应不同,表明随着细胞状态的改变,细胞表面的凝集素受体也随之发生变化。     

应用超滤技术提取坛紫菜多糖的研究

以截留分子量为50 KD的超滤膜对坛紫菜粗多糖提取液进行超滤分离。结果表明,超滤对坛紫菜粗多糖提取液具有较好的脱色效果,脱色率达91.65%。超滤技术能很好地保留坛紫菜粗多糖中的生理活性物质,浓缩了坛紫菜粗多糖提取物,使粗多糖中总糖含量从超滤前的34.95%提高到52.07%,明显提高了坛紫菜粗多糖的糖含量,同时进一步纯化了样品。     

条斑紫菜抗高温和快速生长细胞株系HB的建立及栽培

本文主要应用单细胞培养技术培育紫菜新品系,以建立紫菜细胞工程快速育苗系统。通过酶解技术分离出紫菜叶状体细胞,并进行多克隆,从中获得4个细胞纯系植株(HA,HB,HC,HD)。对该4个细胞株系进行了纯系培养,并对其细胞苗和丝状体的生长速度和抗高温(19℃,21℃,23℃,25℃)性进行了测定。结果显示,HB株系具有较高的抗高温性和最快生长速度。在1998年到2000年间,在江苏省启东县海丰海区对HB株系进行了海上栽培实验,结果显示,实验组的产量高于当地对照组产量,证明了条斑紫菜HB株系不仅具有较高的抗高温性,而且也有较快生长速度。本实验说明应用细胞工程进行条斑紫菜育种是一条很好的快速育种途径。     

玉米原生质体超低温保存后芽和根的分化

植物细胞的超低温保存,已逐步发展成为一个有效的种质保存方法。近年来,随着原生质体再生植株种类的不断增多,禾谷类的主要农作物比如水稻、玉米、小麦等     

坛紫菜藻红蛋白的规模化制备

为了优化坛紫菜粗提工艺以减轻纯化的压力,研究了我国主要经济红藻之一坛紫菜藻红蛋白大规模制备方法。实验采用“溶胀+组织捣碎”法破碎坛紫菜叶状体细胞,对比了多次硫酸铵梯度盐析对破碎液中藻红蛋白的影响,并进一步用羟基磷灰石层析制备藻红蛋白,最后对所得蛋白做了光谱和电泳鉴定。结果表明,经过4次盐析,藻红蛋白吸收光谱纯度达到0.9 (A564/A280),每次的最佳盐析浓度分别为15％、50％、10％和40％;7 kg阴干紫菜经过4次盐析和1次羟基磷灰石层析后可获得507.82 mg藻红蛋白 (A564/A280＞     

坛紫菜中别藻蓝蛋白的纯化及洗脱组分光谱研究

以福建省平潭县坛紫菜(Porphyra haitanensis)为材料,采用硫酸铵分级分离和柱层析法纯化别藻蓝蛋白(APC),并对纯化的条件进行了详细的探讨。研究结果表明:采用30%~35%饱和硫酸铵沉淀、Tris-HC l(pH=8.0)作为洗脱缓冲液、DEAE-Sephadex-A-50作为层析介质,所获得的APC的纯度和回收率分别为3.50和70.2%;SDS-PAGE表明APC有α和β两个亚基,分子量分别为18.9 kD和17.7 kD。因此该方法对于从坛紫菜中快速纯化APC是适合的。采用光谱分析研究柱洗脱组分,结果表明:坛紫菜中含有分子结构为(αβ)6γ的“双峰型”R-PE,含有结构为(αβ)3的R-PC,含有结构为(αβ)3的APC-Ⅱ。     

坛紫菜别藻蓝蛋白α亚基基因的原核表达与鉴定

通过PCR的方法从重组质粒pMD-apcAB中扩增坛紫菜别藻蓝蛋白α亚基基因(apcA),并将其克隆到高效表达外源基因的原核表达质粒pTO-T7。将构建好的质粒导入表达型大肠杆菌BL21(DE3),IPTG诱导表达,并对表达产物进行Western-blot和质谱鉴定。结果显示:apcA全长486bp,表达的α亚基(apcA)为带有原核表达载体T7g10的12个起始氨基酸的融合蛋白,其分子量约为19.7KD。0.5mmol/L的IPTG在37℃诱导6h时,apcA的表达量达到最大,达菌体总蛋白50%以上。Western-blot和质谱鉴定的结果表明获得的融合蛋白为重组坛紫菜别藻蓝蛋白α亚基。     

Partitioning-defective protein 6 (Par-6) activates atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) by pseudosubstrate displacement

Atypical protein kinase C (aPKC) controls cell polarity by modulating substrate cortical localization. Aberrant aPKC activity disrupts polarity, yet the mechanisms that control aPKC remain poorly understood. We used a reconstituted system with purified components and a cultured cell cortical displacement assay to investigate aPKC regulation. We find that aPKC is autoinhibited by two domains within its NH(2)-terminal regulatory half, a pseudosubstrate motif that occupies the kinase active site, and a C1 domain that assists in this process. The Par complex member Par-6, previously thought to inhibit aPKC, is a potent activator of aPKC in our assays. Par-6 and aPKC interact via PB1 domain heterodimerization, and this interaction activates aPKC by displacing the pseudosubstrate, although full activity requires the Par-6 CRIB-PDZ domains. We propose that, along with its previously described roles in controlling aPKC localization, Par-6 allosterically activates aPKC to allow for high spatial and temporal control of substrate phosphorylation and polarization.     

BRAF Drives Synovial Fibroblast Transformation in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Synovial fibroblasts destroy articular cartilage and bone in rheumatoid arthritis, but the mechanism of fibroblast transformation remains elusive. Because gain-of-function mutations of BRAF can transform fibroblasts, we examined BRAF in rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts. The strong gain-of-function mutation, V600R, of BRAF found in melanomas and other cancers was identified in first passage synovial fibroblasts from two of nine rheumatoid arthritis patients and confirmed by restriction site mapping. BRAF-specific siRNA inhibited proliferation of synovial fibroblasts with V600R mutations. A BRAF aberrant splice variant with an intact kinase domain and partial loss of the N-terminal autoinhibitory domain was identified in fibroblasts from an additional patient, and fibroblast proliferation was inhibited by BRAF-specific siRNA. Our finding is the first to establish mechanisms for fibroblast transformation responsible for destruction of articular cartilage and bone in rheumatoid arthritis and establishes a new target for therapeutic intervention.     

α6 Integrin Transactivates Insulin-like Growth Factor Receptor-1 (IGF-1R) to Regulate Caspase-3-mediated Lens Epithelial Cell Differentiation Initiation

The canonical mitochondrial death pathway was first discovered for its role in signaling apoptosis. It has since been found to have a requisite function in differentiation initiation in many cell types including the lens through low level activation of the caspase-3 protease. The ability of this pathway to function as a molecular switch in lens differentiation depends on the concurrent induction of survival molecules in the Bcl-2 and IAP families, induced downstream of an IGF-1R/NFκB coordinate survival signal, to regulate caspase-3 activity. Here we investigated whether α6 integrin signals upstream to this IGF-1R-mediated survival-linked differentiation signal. Our findings show that IGF-1R is recruited to and activated specifically in α6 integrin receptor signaling complexes in the lens equatorial region, where lens epithelial cells initiate their differentiation program. In studies with both α6 integrin knock-out mice lenses and primary lens cell cultures following α6 integrin siRNA knockdown, we show that IGF-1R activation is dependent on α6 integrin and that this transactivation requires Src kinase activity. In addition, without α6 integrin, activation and expression of NFκB was diminished, and expression of Bcl-2 and IAP family members were down-regulated, resulting in high levels of caspase-3 activation. As a result, a number of hallmarks of lens differentiation failed to be induced; including nuclear translocation of Prox1 in the differentiation initiation zone and apoptosis was promoted. We conclude that α6 integrin is an essential upstream regulator of the IGF-1R survival pathway that regulates the activity level of caspase-3 for it to signal differentiation initiation of lens epithelial cells.