中国毛白杨根癌土壤杆菌的类型和对土壤杆菌素敏感性的研究

从我国北方8个毛白杨根癌病发病苗圃分离到根癌土壤杆菌(Agrobacterlum tume[actena)8株。经质粒型、生物型、寄主范匿和对土壤秆菌素agfocin 84和D286的敏感性测定,证明5株系nopaline质粒型,其中生物I型2株,生物|I型2株,I—II中间型1株,3株系agroplne质粒型,其中生物I型2株,生物II型1株。所有分离菌株均系宽寄主群,其中1株经回接能侵染单子叶植物美人蕉(Canna inaiea),水仙(Narcissus)和吊兰(Chlorophytum)。分离菌株中,5株nopaIine质粒型菌榫对土壤杆菌素84敏感,3株agropine质粒和3株生物I型nopali 质粒菌株对土壤杆菌素])286敏感。在温室中,合并使用两种土壤杆菌素产生菌——放射土壤杆菌(A．Radiobaccer)K84和D286的菌体悬浮液,预浸毛白杨和向目荚幼苗根部 或与致病的毛白杨根癌土壤杆菌共接种枝茎,降低根瘟病诱发率达94％以上。表明放射土壤扦菌K84和D286可以控制毛白杨根癌病。     

农杆菌介导的苏云金杆菌抗虫基因cryIA(b)和cryIA(c)在水稻中的遗传转化及蛋白表达

通过农杆菌介导法用含有抗潮霉素和GUS基因的双元载体将杀虫结晶蛋白基因cryIA(b)和cryIA(c)导入到籼、粳稻幼穗愈伤组织中,然后经过在含有不同浓度潮霉素的培养基上进行数次筛选,获得一批Bt转基因株。经PCR、Southern杂交及Western印迹分析证实此二基因已整合进水稻中,饲虫试验结果表明,转基因株具有100%杀虫率。     

抗腺苷酸激酶单克隆抗体的制备及鉴定

克隆了6株稳定分泌抗腺苷酸激酶(Adenylate kinase,AK)单克隆抗体的杂交瘤细胞株,并鉴定或测定了其中3株细胞所分泌抗体的亚型和分子量.通过测定抗体和固相及均相抗原的结合能力,发现McAb3D3与固定化及溶液中腺苷酸激酶的亲和常数分别为8.4×10⁸和7.0×10~4(mol·L^-1)^-1,而McAb4D8与固定化及溶液中腺苷酸激酶的亲和常数分别为9.6×10⁸和3.9×10⁶(mol·L.¹)^-1McAb3D3和McAb4D8与不同存在形式抗原之间亲和常数如此大的差别,说明这2个抗体更适合与固定化腺苷酸激酶的结合.由于蛋白质分子常因吸附在酶标板上而发生部分变性,所以用间接ELISA方法筛选出的单克隆抗体McAb3D3和McAb4D8可能是针对部分变性腺苷酸激酶分子的.这2种抗腺苷酸激酶单克隆抗体的制备及鉴定为我们进一步将其用于蛋白质折叠机制的研究奠定了基础.     

水稻抗稻瘟病基因Pi-d(t)1、Pi-b、Pi-ta2的聚合及分子标记选择

冈46B(G46B)是水稻生产应用中的一个农艺性状十分优良的保持系 ,其主要的缺陷是稻瘟病抗性较弱 ,通过对地谷 ,BL-1,Pi-4号等三个分别含抗病基因Pi-d(t)¹、Pi-b、Pi-ta² 的稻瘟病抗性材料与G4-6B聚合杂交 ,并利用抗病基因连锁的分子标记对杂交后代进行辅助选择 ,在聚合杂交的F2代及B1C1代群体中共获得了 15株含Pi-d(t)¹ 、Pi-b、Pi-ta² 等三个抗稻瘟病基因的材料 ,其可能的基因型分别为 :三基因杂合体Pi-d(t)¹ pi-d(t)¹ Pi-bpi-b-Pi-ta² pi-ta²4株 ,双基因杂合体 10株 ,其中Pi-d(t)¹ Pi-d(t)¹ Pi-bpi-b-Pi-ta² pi-ta²6株 ,Pi-d(t)¹ pi-d(t)¹ Pi-bpi-b-Pi-ta² Pi-ta² 3株 ,Pi-d(t)¹ pi-d(t)¹ Pi-bPi-b-Pi-ta² pi-ta² 1株 ,双基因纯合体Pi-d(t)¹ Pi-d(t)¹ Pi-bpi-b-Pi-ta² Pi-ta²仅1株 ,这一研究结果为进一步改良G46B的稻瘟病搞性奠定了基础,同时这一研究结果表明利用分子标记可快速、有效地实现多个抗病基因的聚合,大大提高水稻抗病育种的效率。     

柄杆菌与固氮蓝藻培养I．多态柄杆菌的分离和鉴定

本文报道了鱼腥藻(Anahaena spp.)的一种异常生长现象和从鱼腥藻中分离得到的柄杆菌1017—41株的生物学特性。此菌株除具有柄杆菌特有的形态和发育周期外,还出现分叉状和长的分节状菌体,与已有记载的柄杆菌明显不同,故定为柄杆菌属(Caulobacter)的一个新种,命名为多态柄杆菌(Caulobamr polymorphus nov. sp.)。     

类鼻疽伯克霍尔德致死因子

类鼻疽伯克霍尔德菌是一种胞内感染的革兰阴性杆菌,所导致的疾病称为类鼻疽。迄今为止,还没有针对类鼻疽的疫苗。其致死因子1(BLF1)作为类鼻疽伯克霍尔德菌的重要致病因子,能抑制宿主细胞翻译起始因子e IF4A的解旋酶活性,从而抑制蛋白质合成。BLF1作为e IF4A的抑制剂,有望成为靶向抗肿瘤药物。同时,BLF1具有很强的免疫原性,对其进行结构改造后,可成为类鼻疽疫苗的候选抗原。     

系统聚类分析在细菌全细胞脂肪酸模式识别中的应用

用欧氏距离系数和指数相关系数,结合8种常用的系统聚类算法,对用毛细管柱气相色谱祛绘制的34株莫拉氏菌(Moraxella)及其类属菌和13株嗜肺军团杆菌(Legionella pneumo-phila)的全细胞脂肪酸气相色谱图,进行了聚类分析。比较了欧氏距离系数的8种系统聚类算法所得的聚类树状谱。结果表明,奠拉氏菌与嗜肺军团杆菌可以明确区分。在奠拉氏菌中,我国分离的两个新种与目前该属的主要标准株也能明确区分。两种相似系数中,欧氏距离系数的聚类结果较好;8种系统聚类算法中,最长距离法和类平均法的聚类结果较好。     

云南温泉高温菌的研究VII.腾冲酸性高温温泉中的极端嗜热性芽孢杆菌

从腾冲县4个酸性(pH 3.0—5.0)高温(85--96℃)温泉中分离到16株极端嗜热性芽孢杆菌。经鉴定,10株为嗜热脂肪芽孢杆菌(Bacillus stear6thermophilus),2株(YN86317和YN86326)为高温凝结芽孢杆菌(Bacillus thermoaoagulans sp. Nov.),4株(YN86325、YN86344、YN86344-2和YN86345)为 Baaillus spp.。     

昆虫病原菌苏云金芽孢杆菌群(Bacillus thuringiensis Group)的分类

采用形态、生化、血清学的方法对国外引种的15株巳知菌和本国51株未知菌进行了变种的分型研究。结果表明：苏云金芽孢杆菌(Bacillus thuringiensis)作为有益的细菌资源在藏国分布较广。51株菌中属于血清型H1苏云金芽孢杆菌苏云金变种(Baeillus thuringiensisvar. Thuringiensis)有11株,血清型H50-5b苏云金芽孢杆菌蜡螟变种(B．Thur．Var．Galleriae)31株,血清型H4-4b苏云金芽孢杆菌松蜩变种(B.thur. Var. dengrolimut)3株,血清型H4-4a。苏云金芽孢杆菌肯尼亚变种(B. thur. Var kenyae) 5株,同时发现血清型H．苏云金芽孢杆菌玉米螟变种(B. thur var. ostrinia,)一株。玉米螟变种不同于该菌群的巳知菌株,认为是一个新变种。实践证明,利用血清学抗原抗体具有高度特异{生的凝集反应来鉴别苏云垒芽孢杆菌变种,简便,快速,准确。而该群噬菌体却不能作为区分变种的标准。     

我国葡萄根癌土壤杆菌的生化型与质粒类型的初步研究

从我国内蒙古、辽宁、吉林、北京、山东等地采集的49份葡萄冠瘿标本中,分离到根痛土壤杆菌(Agrobacterium tumefactens)67株,经鉴定有生化1型21株,生化II型4株,生化III型42株。葡萄根癌土壤杆菌中以生化ill型占优势。生化111型有97％、生化I型有24％的菌株能使葡萄或向日葵致瘤。鉴定了2S株生化l型和生化[I]型菌株所致冠瘿中的opines,其中有2株生化III型菌株合成nopaline,3株生化III型菌株合成精氨酸,其余菌株合成octopine。     

Effects of some chemopreparations on the causative agents of glanders and melioidosis]

The authors present the results of in vitro determination of the sensitivity of the causative agent of glanders and melioidosis to 8 preparations-5-nitrofuran derivatives, and also to negram and PASK. The most active against M. mallei and Ps. pseudomallei were furazonal and furacrillin; negram was less active. No naturally resistanct strains to furacrylin and furazonal were revealed among the M. mallei and Ps. pseudomallei strains studied.     

Antigenic relatedness between Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei

Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei are causative agents of distinct diseases, namely, melioidosis and glanders, respectively. The two species are very closely related, based on DNA-DNA homology, base sequence of the 16S rRNA, and phenotypic characteristics. Based on the use of polyclonal antisera, B. pseudomallei and B. mallei are also found to be antigenically closely related to one another. We previously reported the production of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against B. pseudomallei antigens; one group was specific for the 200-kDa exopolysaccharide present on the surface of all B. pseudomallei isolates, and the other was specific for the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structure present on more than 95% of the B. pseudomallei tested. In the present study, we showed that the MAbs against 200-kDa antigen of B. pseudomallei cross-reacted with a component present also in some B. mallei isolates (3/6), but the positive immunoblot reaction was noted below the 200-kDa position. On the other hand, none of the six B. mallei isolates reacted with the MAb specific for B. pseudomallei LPS. It was of interest to observe that only the 3 exopolysaccharide-positive B. mallei isolates reacted with a commercial MAb against B. mallei LPS. The data presented suggest that B. mallei can be classified antigenically into two types based on their reactivities with different MAbs, i.e., the presence or absence of exopolysaccharide and the types of lipopolysaccharide. The heterogeneity of the LPS from these two closely related organisms is most likely related to the differences in its O-polysaccharide side chain.     

Burkholderia thailandensis E125 harbors a temperate bacteriophage specific for Burkholderia mallei

Burkholderia thailandensis is a nonpathogenic gram-negative bacillus that is closely related to Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia pseudomallei. We found that B. thailandensis E125 spontaneously produced a bacteriophage, termed phiE125, which formed turbid plaques in top agar containing B. mallei ATCC 23344. We examined the host range of phiE125 and found that it formed plaques on B. mallei but not on any other bacterial species tested, including B. thailandensis and B. pseudomallei. Examination of the bacteriophage by transmission electron microscopy revealed an isometric head and a long noncontractile tail. B. mallei NCTC 120 and B. mallei DB110795 were resistant to infection with phiE125 and did not produce lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O antigen due to IS407A insertions in wbiE and wbiG, respectively. wbiE was provided in trans on a broad-host-range plasmid to B. mallei NCTC 120, and it restored LPS O-antigen production and susceptibility to phiE125. The 53,373-bp phiE125 genome contained 70 genes, an IS3 family insertion sequence (ISBt3), and an attachment site (attP) encompassing the 3' end of a proline tRNA (UGG) gene. While the overall genetic organization of the phiE125 genome was similar to lambda-like bacteriophages and prophages, it also possessed a novel cluster of putative replication and lysogeny genes. The phiE125 genome encoded an adenine and a cytosine methyltransferase, and purified bacteriophage DNA contained both N6-methyladenine and N4-methylcytosine. The results presented here demonstrate that phiE125 is a new member of the lambda supergroup of Siphoviridae that may be useful as a diagnostic tool for B. mallei.     

Molecular and Physical Characterization of Burkholderia mallei O Antigens

Burkholderia mallei lipopolysaccharide (LPS) has been previously shown to cross-react with polyclonal antibodies raised against B. pseudomallei LPS; however, we observed that B. mallei LPS does not react with a monoclonal antibody (Pp-PS-W) specific for B. pseudomallei O polysaccharide (O-PS). In this study, we identified the O-PS biosynthetic gene cluster from B. mallei ATCC 23344 and subsequently characterized the molecular structure of the O-PS produced by this organism.     

Immunobiological properties of Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei capsular substances

The biopolymer composition, immunotropic and immunogenic properties of the fractions of B. pseudomallei and B. mallei were under study. The first two capsular fractions of these agents were found to be similar in their biopolymer composition that was indicative of their close relations. At the same time the causative agents of glanders proved to have decreased content of high molecular glycoproteids and LPS fragments. In the causative agents of melioidosis, capsular fractions K3 and K4 were characterized by the domination of proteins with a molecular weight of 42-25 kD. Fraction K4 in B. pseudomallei and fraction K1 in B. mallei had pronounced immunosuppressing properties ensuring the protection of encapsulated microbial cells in the body. The biopolymers forming fractions K1, K2, K3 in B. pseudomallei and fraction K2 in B. mallei were characterized by immunomodulating properties.     

Phagocytability of Pseudomonas pseudomallei

Experiments were conducted on the cell culture of macrophages of animals significantly differing by the extent of resistance to melioidosis; the presence of correlation between the extent of the animal natural immunity and the intensity of dying of the microbes in the test system was demonstrated. The causative agent of melioidosis proved to be more resistant to phagocytosis with guinea pig macrophages than E. coli. Ps. aeruginosa and A. mallei. It was impossible to establish any relationship between the efficacy of phagocytosis by animal macrophages and the virulence or morphology of the colonies in the Ps. pseudomallei species.     

Human single-chain Fv antibodies against Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia pseudomallei

Much effort has been devoted to the development of mouse monoclonal antibodies that react specifically with Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia pseudomallei for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes. Our present study focused on the screening of a phage-displayed nonimmune human single-chain Fv (scFv) antibody library against heat-killed B. mallei and B. pseudomallei for the generation of human scFv antibodies specific to the two pathogenic species of bacteria. Using two different panning procedures, we obtained seven different scFv phage antibodies that interacted with the heat-killed whole bacterial cells of B. mallei and B. pseudomallei. Our results demonstrate that panning of a human scFv antibody library against heat-killed whole bacterial cells may provide a valuable strategy for developing human monoclonal antibodies against the highly pathogenic bacteria.     

Alanine racemase mutants of Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei and use of alanine racemase as a non-antibiotic-based selectable marker

Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei are category B select agents and must be studied under BSL3 containment in the United States. They are typically resistant to multiple antibiotics, and the antibiotics used to treat B. pseudomallei or B. mallei infections may not be used as selective agents with the corresponding Burkholderia species. Here, we investigated alanine racemase deficient mutants of B. pseudomallei and B. mallei for development of non-antibiotic-based genetic selection methods and for attenuation of virulence. The genome of B. pseudomallei K96243 has two annotated alanine racemase genes (bpsl2179 and bpss0711), and B. mallei ATCC 23344 has one (bma1575). Each of these genes encodes a functional enzyme that can complement the alanine racemase deficiency of Escherichia coli strain ALA1. Herein, we show that B. pseudomallei with in-frame deletions in both bpsl2179 and bpss0711, or B. mallei with an in-frame deletion in bma1575, requires exogenous D-alanine for growth. Introduction of bpsl2179 on a multicopy plasmid into alanine racemase deficient variants of either Burkholderia species eliminated the requirement for D-alanine. During log phase growth without D-alanine, the viable counts of alanine racemase deficient mutants of B. pseudomallei and B. mallei decreased within 2 hours by about 1000-fold and 10-fold, respectively, and no viable bacteria were present at 24 hours. We constructed several genetic tools with bpsl2179 as a selectable genetic marker, and we used them without any antibiotic selection to construct an in-frame ΔflgK mutant in the alanine racemase deficient variant of B. pseudomallei K96243. In murine peritoneal macrophages, wild type B. mallei ATCC 23344 was killed much more rapidly than wild type B. pseudomallei K96243. In addition, the alanine racemase deficient mutant of B. pseudomallei K96243 exhibited attenuation versus its isogenic parental strain with respect to growth and survival in murine peritoneal macrophages.     

A possible pitfall in the identification of Burkholderia mallei using molecular identification systems based on the sequence of the flagellin fliC gene

Amotile Burkholderia mallei and motile Burkholderia pseudomallei display a high similarity with regard to phenotype and clinical syndromes, glanders and melioidosis. The aim of this study was to establish a fast and reliable molecular method for identification and differentiation. Despite amotility, the gene of the filament forming flagellin (fliC) could be completely sequenced in two B. mallei strains. Only one mutation was identified discriminating between B. mallei and B. pseudomallei. A polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism assay was designed making use of the absence of an AvaII recognition site in B. mallei. All seven B. mallei, 12 out of 15 B. pseudomallei and 36 closely related apathogenic Burkholderia thailandensis strains were identified correctly. However, in three B. pseudomallei strains a point mutation at gene position 798 (G to C) disrupted the AvaII site. Therefore, molecular systems based on the fliC sequence can be used for a reliable proof of strains of the three species but not for the differentiation of B. mallei and B. pseudomallei isolates.     

Comparative analysis of total cell protein electrophoregram of pathogenic Burkholderia

Whole-cell proteins of 22 strain of Burkhoderia pseudomallei, including 13 B. mallei, 5 B. cepacia strains and 14 strains of opportunistically pathogenic Pseudomonas defined by 1D SDC-PAAG electrophoresis. Electrophoregrams contained 35 to 45 protein fractions sized 19 to 130 kDa, which were highly reproductive. On the basis of computer-aided comparative analysis of protein patterns the interspecies and intraspecies grouping of studied microorganisms was made. The cluster analysis of the similarity matrix of protein spectra made it possible to allocate two groups of strains at the level of similarity of 78%. Group I was formed by Burkholderia species that previously belonged to the II RNA-DNA homology group of Pseudomonas: B. pseudomallei, B. mallei, B. cepacia. All Pseudomonas species were added to the 2nd Group: P. aeruginosa, P. stutzeri, P. testosterone, P. fluorescens, P. putida, P. mendocina. Four phenons were isolated among the strains of B. pseudomallei and 2 phenons--among the strains of B. mallei at the threshold similarity level (89%). The authors conclude that the comparative analysis of electrophoregrams of whole-cell proteins can be useful in the identification and typing of pathogenic Burkholderia.