基于氨基酸和二肽组成的蛋白质四级结构分类研究

基于最近邻居算法,从蛋白质一级序列出发,利用蛋白质序列氨基酸组成、二肤组成以及混合组成方法对蛋白质单聚体、二聚体、三聚体、四聚体、五聚体、六聚体和八聚体进行分类研究。结果表明:采用二肽组成编码方法的预洲效果最好,Jackknife检验和独立测试集检验的总体预测精度分别达到90.83%和95.48%,比相同数据集上基于伪氨基酸组成和组分耦合预测的方法提高了12和15个百分点;特别是对于五聚体蛋白,预测精度分别提高了90和50个百分点;说明二肽组成对于蛋白质四级结构分类研究是一种非常有效的特征提取方法。     

单链尿激酶型纤溶酶原激活物的结构和性质

单链尿激酸型纤溶酶原激活物(scuPA)是一种丝氨酸蛋白酶,由411个氨基酸组成单一多肽链结构,是尿激酶的前体形式。它可特异地激活血栓局部的纤溶酶而启动纤溶系统,并与组织型纤溶酶原激活物(tPA)有协同作用,是一种有广泛前途的溶栓物质。     

粘虫核型多角体病毒包涵体蛋白的性质及其对几种肿瘤细胞生长的抑制作用

SDS-PAG电泳分析表明粘虫核型多角体病毒(Leucaia separata Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus,简称LsNPV)的包涵体蛋白由几种多肽组成,其中分子量为32kD的主带为多角体的主要结构多肽。经Sephaceyl S-200柱层析纯化后分析了其氨基酸组成,证明此包涵体蛋白是一种以疏水氨基酸为主要组成的特异性蛋白。我们发现32kD蛋白对Hela、HLAMP、HICAM等三种肿瘤细胞的生长有不同程度的抑制,用~3H-TdR标记核酸合成代谢的Hela细胞的放射活性证实了这种观察。     

动物贮食行为及其生态意义

动物贮存食物，以调节食物的时空分布，度过食物缺乏期。贮食行为是一种特化的采食行为。现已发现上百种鸟类和哺乳类动物贮存食物。植食动物贮藏植物繁殖体，促进了植物的扩散。于是，植物与贮食动物形成了一种协同进化关系。这种关系是自然界互惠关系（ｍｕｔｕａｌｉｓｍ）的一种类型。     

重组人肝细胞生成素的纯化及活性研究

人肝细胞生成素 ( human hepatopoietin,h HPO)是一种新型肝再生调控因子 .在大肠杆菌中表达的的重组 h HPO( rh HPO)是以包涵体的形式存在的 ,其表达量为菌体总蛋白的 2 0 % .包涵体经各种溶液洗涤后 ,用 8mol/L尿素裂解 ,裂解上清经凝胶过滤、复性和离子交换柱层析得到电泳纯的 rh HPO,经还原型 SDS- PAGE测定其分子量为 1 5k D.纯化 rh HPO的 N端氨基酸序列与其c DNA推导序列完全一致 ;纯化产物的氨基酸组成分析结果亦与 rh HPO氨基酸组成的理论值吻合 .生物学活性研究表明 ,rh HPO在体外具有刺激原代培养肝细胞增殖作用     

灵长类动物的食物分享行为

食物分享是灵长类动物的一种重要社会交往行为,主要发生在成体-幼体间和成体-成体之间。本文从这两个方面对灵长类动物食物分享的行为表现、特点以及功能进行总结,着重比较了无亲缘关系的成年个体间食物分享的互惠解释和骚扰解释。通过对以上内容的综合分析,进一步提出了食物分享行为的未来研究方向以及对人类合作行为演化的启示。     

粘虫核型多角体病毒包涵体蛋白的性质及其对几种肿瘤细胞生长的抑…

ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧ电泳分析表明粘虫核型多角体病毒的包涵体蛋白由几种多肽组成,其中分子量为３２ｋＤ的主带为多角体的主要结构多钛,经Ｓｅｐｈａｃｅｙｌ Ｓ－２０柱层析纯化后分析了其氨基酸组成,证明此包涵全蛋白是一种疏水氨基酸为主要组成的特异性蛋白。我们发现３２ｋＤ蛋白对Ｈｅｌａ,ＨＬＡＭＰ、ＨＩＣＡＭ等三种肿瘤细胞的生长有不同程序的抑制,用＾３Ｈ－ＴｄＲ标记核酸合成代谢的Ｈｅｌａ细胞的放射活性证实了这种观     

基于氨基酸组成分布的蛋白质同源寡聚体分类研究

基于一种新的特征提取方法——氨基酸组成分布,使用支持向量机作为成员分类器,采用“一对一”的多类分类策略,从蛋白质一级序列对四类同源寡聚体进行分类研究。结果表明,在10-CV检验下,基于氨基酸组成分布,其总分类精度和精度指数分别达到了86.22%和67.12%,比基于氨基酸组成成分的传统特征提取方法分别提高了5.74和10.03个百分点,比二肽组成成分特征提取方法分别提高了3.12和5.63个百分点,说明氨基酸组成分布对于蛋白质同源寡聚体分类是一种非常有效的特征提取方法;将氨基酸组成分布和蛋白质序列长度特征组合,其总分类精度和精度指数分别达到了86.35%和67.23%,说明蛋白质序列长度特征含有一定的空间结构信息。     

扁刺蛾核型多角体病毒的形态结构与某些生化特性的测定

扁刺蛾核型多角体病毒是一种单粒包埋型的杆状病毒,在扫描电镜下呈不规则多面体。病毒多角体大小不一致,平均直径为0.59μ。病毒粒子为340×85nm. 经SDS—PAGE分析,病毒的多角体蛋白主带分子量为29500道尔顿;病毒粒子的结构蛋白具有25条多肽,分子量为17.8～69.5×10~4道尔顿。病毒多角体蛋白氨基酸组成中富含Asp和Glu,而His、Cys、Met的含量却很低。病毒DNA的分子量为67.89×10~6道尔顿。     

氨基酸生产、应用方面的进展

<正> 由于地球上一切生命机体的蛋白质都是二十种左右氨基酸组成,氨基酸的重大生物学意义早就引起人们注意。人类及动物营养学研究,发现了一些氨基酸是营养上的必需成份;许多食物的鲜美味与谷氨酸等某些氨基酸相关,使氨基酸与医疗保健和食品工业生产实践挂上了钩,并在这些领域的实践推动下,研究不断深入,不断有新的发现,使目前氨基酸已成为     

Temporal changes of nutrient composition from pollen patty to bee bread with special emphasis on amino and fatty acids composition

Bee bread is prepared from pollen sources and salivary secretions by honey bee workers to serves the nutritional purpose of colony members. However, changes in nutrient composition occurring in bee bread from the pollen sources including pollen patty are poorly understood. We, therefore, examined the nutrient contents of pollen patty, used as source pollen feed of honey bee colony, and bee bread prepared by honey bee from this source at different time interval. Results revealed that amino acid content was increased from pollen patty to bee bread but fatty acid content was decreased. Essential amino acids like valine, lysine, and nonessential amino acids such as proline and alanine increased significantly over time. Among fatty acids, oleic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid decreased significantly from pollen patty to bee bread. Minerals contents in bee bread did not show any significant change during the study period. These changes could be presumably justified due to addition of nectar, honey, gland secretions and also microbial symbionts which remains as a task of further study.     

Molecular characterization of a venom acid phosphatase Acph-1-like protein from the Asiatic honeybee Apis cerana

Bee venom contains a variety of peptides and enzymes, including acid phosphatases. An acid phosphatase has been identified from European honeybee (Apis mellifera) venom. However, although the amino acid sequence is known, no functional information is currently available for bee venom acid phosphatase Acph-1-like proteins. In this study, an Asiatic honeybee (Apis cerana) venom acid phosphatase Acph-1-like protein (AcAcph-1) was identified. The analysis of the predicted AcAcph-1 amino acid sequence revealed high levels of identity with other bee venom acid phosphatase Acph-1-like proteins. Recombinant AcAcph-1 was expressed as a 64-kDa protein in baculovirus-infected insect cells. The enzymatic properties of recombinant AcAcph-1, determined using p-nitrophenyl phosphate (p-NPP) as a substrate, showed the highest activity at 45 °C and pH 4.8. Northern and western blot analyses showed that AcAcph-1 was expressed in the venom gland and was present as a 64-kDa protein in bee venom. In addition, N-glycosylation of AcAcph-1 was revealed by tunicamycin treatment of recombinant virus-infected insect Sf9 cells and by glycoprotein staining of purified recombinant AcAcph-1. Our findings show that AcAcph-1 functions as a venom acid phosphatase. This paper provides the first evidence of the role of a bee venom acid phosphatase Acph-1-like protein.     

Purification and characterization of honey bee vitellogenin

A protocol has been developed for the purification of vitellogenin from the honey bee, Apis mellifera. Purification allows for the first characterization of a vitellogenin from the large order Hymenoptera. Hymenopteran vitellogenins are unusual among insect vitellogenins in that they contain only one type of apoprotein. The honey bee vitellogenin was isolated from hemolymph of honey bee queens by a combination of density gradient ultracentrifugation, ion-exchange chromatography, and affinity chromatography. The native vitellogenin particle is a very high density glycolipoprotein containing approximately 91% protein, 7% lipid, and 2% carbohydrate. Phospholipid and diacylglycerol are the major lipid components. The equilibrium density (1.28 g/ml) is the same as that for Manduca sexta vitellogenin, which contains a much higher proportion of lipid. The covalently bound carbohydrate moiety of the particle is high in mannose. The amino acid composition of vitellogenin is similar to those of vitellogenins from other insect species. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the apoprotein was determined, the first such sequence for any insect vitellogenin. When analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-gel electrophoresis, A. mellifera vitellogenin resolved into a single band with an apparent Mr of 180,000. Gel filtration under reducing and native conditions yielded estimated Mr values of about 300,000.     

Intensification of the interaction of IgG with C1q in the presence of melittin as a possible reason for anaphylaxis under the effect of bee venom

The hydrophilic head of melittin (peptide from bee venom) has the amino acid sequence which is very close to the amino acid sequence of C1q-binding site of the IgG molecule. It was shown, that melittin caused the multiple growth of the interaction of C1q with IgG monoclonal antibody. We assume, that the appearance of melittin in blood causes the spontaneous antigen-independent aggregation of IgG and C1q with the following triggering of the classical pathway of the complement cascade and origin of C3a and C5a components. This can be one of the mechanisms of anaphylaxis as an answer to bee venom.     

A new gene, SRP16, differentially expressed in the spermathecae of honeybee queens (Apis mellifera) related with reproduction status

Honey bee queens have the ability to store sperm in spermathecae for fertilizing eggs throughout their life. To investigate mechanisms for sperm storage in Apis mellifera, we employed suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) to find differentially expressed fragments in spermathecae between virgin queens and newly mated queens. A new gene, named SRP16, was obtained by joining the SSH products with 5′-RACE and 3′-RACE. SRP16 is predicted to encode a 41?kDa protein with 363 amino acid residues. Its expression was found in the spermathecae dominantly in honey bee queens but not in honey bee workers, with the highest expression found in spermathecae of virgin and newly mated queens. SRP16 expression was weak in other tissues of queens other than in the spermathecae and showed no obvious change with reproductive status of queens. The results suggest that SRP16 may play important roles in sperm storage and honey bee reproduction.     

Proteolytic processing of the vitellogenin precursor in the boll weevil,Anthonomus grandis

The soluble proteins of the eggs of the coleopteran insect Anthonomus grandis Boheman, the cotton boll weevil, consist almost entirely of two vitellin types with M_rs of 160,000 and 47,000. We sequenced their N-terminal ends and one internal cyanogen bromide fragment of the large vitellin and compared these sequences with the deduced amino acid sequence from the vitellogenin gene. The results suggest that both the boll weevil vitellin proteins are products of the proteolytic cleavage of a single precursor protein. The smaller 47,000 M vitellin protein is derived from the N-terminal portion of the precursor adjacent to an 18 amino acid signal peptide. The cleavage site between the large and small vitellins at amino acid 362 is adjacent to a pentapeptide sequence containing two pairs of arginine residues. Comparison of the boll weevil sequences with limited known sequences from the single 180,000 M_r honey bee protein show that the honey bee vitellin N-terminal exhibits sequence homology to the N-terminal of the 47,000 M_r boll weevil vitellin. Treatment of the vitellins with an N-glycosidase results in a decrease in molecular weight of both proteins, from 47,000 to 39,000 and from 160,000 to 145,000, indicating that about 10–15% of the molecular weight of each vitellin consists of N-linked carbohydrate. The molecular weight of the deglycosylated large vitellin is smaller than that predicted from the gene sequence, indicating possible further proteolytic processing at the C-terminal of that protein. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

1 This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America.

     

CLONING AND SEQUENCING OF GENE ENCODING HYALURONIDASE FROM THE VENOM OF APIS CERANA CERANA*

Abstract The venomous hyaluronidase (Hya) gene of Chinese honey bee, Apis cerana cerana, was amplified by RT‐PCR from total RNA of venom glands of the worker bees. The full length of its nucleotide is 1164 bp encoding a 387 amino acid polypeptide with predicted molecular weight of 42.6 kD. The alignment of AcHya amino acid sequence with other 6 Hyas shows that AcHya is most closely related to the Hya of European honey bee, A. mellifera, with 91% amino acid identity. It also shares homology with Hya of Dolichovespul amacidata, Polistes annularis, Vespula vulgaris, Lutzomia longipalpis and Homo sapiens (sperm), with 54%., 52%., 46%, 27% and 20% amino acid identity, respectively. A phylogenetic tree of those hyaluronidases was drawn by using GENETYX program, the conservation, the relationship between molecular structure and function of 7 hyaluronidases as above was compared and analysed.     

Cloning, expression, and catalytic mechanism of the low molecular weight phosphotyrosyl protein phosphatase from bovine heart.

The first representative of a group of mammalian, low molecular weight phosphotyrosyl protein phosphatases was cloned, sequenced and expressed in Escherichia coli. Using a 61-mer oligonucleotide probe based on the amino acid sequence of the purified enzyme, several overlapping cDNA clones were isolated from a bovine heart cDNA library. A full-length clone was obtained consisting of a 27-bp 5' noncoding region, an open reading frame encoding the expected 157 amino acid protein, and an extensive 3' nontranslated sequence. The identification of the clone as full length was consistent with results obtained in mRNA blotting experiments using poly(A)+ mRNA from bovine heart. The coding sequence was placed downstream of a bacteriophage T7 promoter, and protein was expressed in E. coli. The expressed enzyme was soluble, and catalytically active and was readily isolated and purified. The recombinant protein had the expected Mr of 18,000 (estimated by SDS-PAGE), and it showed cross-reactivity with antisera that had been raised against both the bovine heart and the human placenta enzymes. The amino acid sequence of the N-terminal region of the expressed protein showed that methionine had been removed, resulting in a sequence identical to that of the enzyme isolated from the bovine tissue, with the exception that the N-terminal alanine of the protein from tissue is acetylated. A kinetically competent phosphoenzyme intermediate was trapped from a phosphatase-catalyzed reaction. Using 31P NMR, the covalent intermediate was identified as a cysteinyl phosphate. By analogy with the nomenclature used for serine esterases, these enzymes may be called cysteine phosphatases.     

Purification and characterization of α-glucosidase in Apis cerana indica

Apis cerana indica foragers were used for the isolation of a full‐length α‐glucosidase cDNA, and for purification of the active nascent protein by low salt extraction of bee homogenates, ammonium sulphate precipitation and diethylaminoethyl‐cellulose and Superdex 200 chromatographies. The molecular mass of the purified protein was estimated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis resolution, and the pH, temperature, incubation, and substrate optima for enzymic activity were determined. Conformation of the purified enzyme as α‐glucosidase was performed by BLAST software homology comparisons between matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectroscopy analysed partial tryptic peptide digests of the purified protein with the predicted amino acid sequences deduced from the α‐glucosidase cDNA sequence.