兵豆萌发过程中初生根皮层细胞的细胞周期活动的动态分析

观察了兵豆 (LensculinarisMedic.)初生根原皮层组织的细胞周期在其种子萌发过程中时间和空间上的动态变化。免疫组织化学和细胞学证据表明 ,原皮层细胞分别在种子吸胀大约 13h和 17h开始DNA复制和细胞分裂。最早进行DNA复制和细胞分裂的细胞位于远基端 1mm附近 ,但这些分裂细胞的DNA复制是在种子成熟过程中完成的 ,而不是在萌发后。第一个细胞周期的激活样式表明 ,这些细胞并不同步激活 ,而是依次进入细胞周期 ,且进入的次序与自身在根尖中的相对位置有关。在兵豆初生根原皮层组织中 ,邻近位置上的细胞的细胞周期同步化程度较高。     

值得注意的细胞周期调节蛋白

细胞周期调节蛋白在细胞周期的G_1期和S期交界处开始合成,S期结束后消失。细胞内定位在核内,又称分裂细胞核抗原。细胞周期调节蛋白含量与细胞分裂状况直接有关。细胞周期调节蛋白为细胞DNA复制所必须,是DNA聚合酶δ的活化蛋白。因此细胞周期调节蛋白对于真核生物DNA复制的调控及细胞分裂具有重要意义,值得重视。     

预浸和发芽过程中番茄种子细胞核的倍性变化

用细胞流检仪（ｆｌｏｗｃｙｔｏｍｅｔｅｒ）检测番茄种子细胞核倍性水平时发现：当年成熟的番茄种子胚细胞核ＤＮＡ绝大多数为２Ｃ水平,胚乳细胞核则为３Ｃ水平,说明成熟番茄种子细胞一般休止停留在Ｇ１期。同时我们也发现极少量的胚和胚乳细胞核分别为４Ｃ和６Ｃ水平,说明这些细胞已经进行了ＤＮＡ内复制。供试番茄种子浸种后１２ｈ左右完成吸水过程,２ｄ后胚根可突破种皮发芽。随着种子吸水过程的完成,胚根尖部分细胞开始进入ＤＮＡ复制期（Ｓ期）,而且此类细胞的数量增加迅速,一直到种子发芽。番茄胚根尖细胞进入４Ｃ的数量的多少与种子萌发时期有明显相关,４Ｃ／２Ｃ比率越大说明越接近发芽。渗控处理可以增加番茄种子胚根细胞４Ｃ／２Ｃ比率,因而明显提高种子的发芽速率。结果还表明;渗控处理的番茄种子再度干燥后４Ｃ／２Ｃ比率不变,这说明干燥可以固定细胞周期。     

用ribozyme抑制增殖细胞核抗原的表达对HaLa细胞增殖的影响

增殖细胞核抗原(PCNA)是DNA聚合酶δ的辅助蛋白,它是细胞染色体DNA复制所必需的。人工设计的ribozyme具有可特异地切割PCNA mRNA的性质,将此ribozyme的自修剪体内表达质粒导入HeLa细胞,从细胞总RNA中分离相应部分能在体外切割靶RNA片段,证明此表达质粒在细胞内能表达出有活性的ribozyme分子。与对照相比,导入ribo-zyme表达质粒的HeLa细胞进入S期的时间从12 h推迟到20 h,而突变ribozyme的对照表明反义抑制对细胞进入S期的影响较小(推迟到15 h)。证明该ribozyme能有效抑制He-La细胞DNA复制,同时亦证明PCNA对于细胞DNA复制及细胞周期进程的重要性。     

脱落酸对绿豆下胚轴不定根发生的影响

以10^-4 mol/L脱落酸(ABA)处理绿豆种子24 h,在幼苗下胚轴长6 cm时,切除根部作为插条,研究ABA对插条不定根发生及插条基部细胞周期时相的影响。结果表明,ABA可促进下胚轴插条不定根发生,增加生根数和生根范围;ABA提高插条基部细胞色氨酸转氨酶、吲哚丙酮酸脱羧酶和吲哚乙醛脱氢酶的比活性,增加吲哚乙酸含量,同时进入细胞周期S期的基部细胞数目增加,促进DNA合成,有利于不定根的发生。     

生理条件下的S期检查点

细胞周期检查点在细胞遭遇DNA损伤因子的攻击或遇到营养缺乏等不利因素作用时,能够暂时阻止或减慢细胞周期的进程,是细胞在长期进化中发展起来的抵御DNA损伤的重要机制.不仅如此,最近的研究表明,在正常生理条件下,存在一种S期检查点,对DNA复制的速度进行调控.从分子水平而言,这种调控作用可能是通过一系列细胞周期调控蛋白如ATR、9-1-1复合体、Chk1、Cdc25A和CDK2等的作用来实现的.这种调节作用对细胞至关重要,它使DNA复制速度不致于过快,从而减少复制过程中发生错误的几率,维护基因组的稳定性.     

天麻种子与兰小菇共生萌发过程中超微结构变化研究*

天麻Ｇａｓｔｒｏｄｉａｅｌａｔａ种子与兰小菇Ｍｙｃｅｎａｏｒｃｈｉｄｉｃｏｌａ的共生萌发试验表明兰小菇可与天麻种子共生促进天麻种子萌发并形成原球茎。菌丝自胚柄端的柄状细胞侵入天麻种子原胚,其分布被限制在天麻原球茎基部的柄状细胞、外皮层细胞和内皮层细胞内,均被电子透明物质和原球茎细胞质膜包围而与原球茎细胞质相隔离。菌丝在外皮层细胞中形成菌丝结,在内皮层细胞中则被消化,形成扁化、衰败的菌丝或菌丝四块。含有衰败菌丝的原球茎细胞可被菌丝重新定殖,新近定殖的菌丝又被原球茎细胞消化。     

天麻种子与兰小菇共生萌发过程中超微结构变化研究

天麻Ｇａｓｔｒｏｄｉａｅｌａｔａ种子与兰小菇Ｍｙｃｅｎａｏｒｃｈｉｄｉｃｏｌａ的共生萌发试验表明兰小菇可与天麻种子共生促进天麻种子萌发并形成原球茎。菌丝自胚柄端的柄状细胞侵入天麻种子原胚,其分布被限制在天麻原球茎基部的柄状细胞、外皮层细胞和内皮层细胞内,均被电子透明物质和原球茎细胞质膜包围而与原球茎细胞质相隔离。菌丝在外皮层细胞中形成菌丝结,在内皮层细胞中则被消化,形成扁化、衰败的菌丝或菌丝四块。含有衰败菌丝的原球茎细胞可被菌丝重新定殖,新近定殖的菌丝又被原球茎细胞消化。     

细胞周期检控点

细胞周期是高度有组织的时序调控过程,受到DNA损伤检控点、DNA复制检控点和纺锤体检控点等细胞周期检控点的精确调控。细胞周期检控点的作用主要是调节细胞周期的时序转换,以确保DNA复制、染色体分离等细胞重要生命活动的高度精确性,并对DNA损伤、DNA复制受阻、纺锤体组装和染色体分离异常等细胞损伤及时做出反应,以防止突变和遗传不稳定的发生。细胞周期检控点的功能缺陷,将导致细胞基因组的不稳定,与细胞癌变密切相关。因此细胞周期检控点对于维持细胞遗传信息的稳定性和完整性以及防止细胞癌变和遗传疾病的发生起着至关重要的作用。     

红砂和霸王种子萌发对干旱与播深条件的响应

红砂(Reaumuria soongorica)和霸王(Zygophyllum xantho xylum)分别是我国西北干旱荒漠区重要的超旱生小灌木和灌木.试验室条件下,研究了两种灌木种子萌发对干旱胁迫(以PEG模拟干旱条件)和播深的响应.干旱胁迫设0、 -0.3、 -0.6、-0.9、-1.2、-1.5、-1.8、-2.1、-2.4、-2.7MPa共10个处理,播深设0、0 .3,0.5,1.0,1.5,2.0,3.0,4.0cm共8个处理.结果显示模拟干旱条件下,供试种的发芽势(3d发芽率)皆从-0.3MPa起即开始显著下降(P<0.05) .发芽率红砂从-0 .9MPa渗透势、霸王从-0.6MPa开始显著降低;种子萌发的最低渗透势阈值红砂和霸王分别为-1.8MPa和-1.5MPa.干旱胁迫对种子胚芽生长有抑制作用,但轻度干旱可促进初生根生长,重度干旱胁迫抑制初生根生长.播深实验表明,红砂和霸王种子均为子叶出土发芽类型 .一般情况下,供试种随播深增加胚芽长度呈增加而初生根呈下降趋势,但霸王在播于土表时初生根生长受到抑制.实验室条件下,达到最大出苗率的播深红砂为0～0.5cm,霸王为0 ～2cm.在适宜条件下,红砂和霸王种子萌发的最低需水量分别为110%和90%,初始萌发时间分别为40h和48h.红砂种子发芽势低(28%)、萌发持续而分散;霸王种子发芽势高(87%) 、萌发整齐.讨论了两种种子发芽对干旱和播深的响应特征及其生态生物学意义.     

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.     

中国植物区系与其它地区区系的联系及其在世界区系中的地位和作用

基于吴征镒将中国全部种子植物３２３８个属的分布区划分为１５个大类型和３４个变型的基础上,简要地讨论了中国植物区系与其它地区区系的联系,以及它在被子植物起源方面的作用。主要论点如下：（１）与热带亚洲区系的联系。这种联系主要通过第７类型（热带亚洲分布）及其５个变型来体现的。本文列举了１０个科,龙脑香料、狭义隐翼科、交让木科、五隔草科、五列木科、肉实树科、心翼果科、八宝树科、兰花蕉科和四数木科,来说明这