葎草性别相关SRAP分子标记的鉴定

葎草是一种研究雌雄异株植物性别分化分子机制的理想材料。本研究以葎草雌、雄基因池为模板,采用序列相关扩增多态性(SRAP)分子标记技术筛选与性别相关的分子标记,从256对引物组合中筛选出了50对可以稳定扩增出特异条带的引物组合,聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳结果显示,50对引物组合共扩增出671条带,247条呈现多态性,多态率为36.81%。后以葎草5个雄性单株、5个雌性单株为材料,采用琼脂糖凝胶电泳对引物组合me15+em11,me14+em16,me13+em12和me7+em10扩增结果再次进行验证,结果表明尽管扩增条带有所不同,但是雌、雄性特异条带是比较稳定的。对本研究中获得性别相关特异条带进行克隆、测序及染色体定位,将会有助于研究葎草性染色体演化的分子机制。     

菠菜性别相关的ISSR标记

菠菜为雌雄异株植物,用CTAB法提取其雌、雄株成株幼嫩叶片DNA,分别构建雌、雄株DNA池,以之为模板,用已优化的ISSR体系扩增,在74条ISSR引物中,I62扩增出一条约1 200 bp雌性连锁标记,回收纯化该特异扩增片段,将其连接于pUCm-T载体,转化进大肠杆菌JM109菌株,并检测及测序。回收克隆和测序后发现该片段全长1 176 bp,富含AT,AT占57.0%。根据测序结果设计1对25 bp的特异引物将这个雌性连锁的ISSR标记转化为稳定性和特异性更好的SCAR标记。该特异引物对随机选取的雌雄菠菜单株进行PCR扩增,在雌株中均有1 176 bp的特异条带,而雄株中均无。此特异条带的获得为菠菜性别相关基因的克隆奠定基础。     

RAPD及SRAP两种分子标记技术对苦瓜杂交种纯度的鉴定分析

以F1代苦瓜杂交种如玉11号及其亲本为材料,利用RAPD及SRAP两种分子标记技术对这3种苦瓜基因组DNA进行比较分析,以获得该杂交种及其亲本（或母本）差异目的基因片段。经过多次对该3种苦瓜叶片DNA提取,PCR扩增及其PCR产物的琼脂糖凝胶电泳分析,在供试的46个RAPD引物及121对SRAP引物中,筛选出1个RAPD引物及1对SRAP引物能区分该苦瓜杂交种及其母本种子,通过进一步验证分析,证明该两种分子标记的特异引物可作为如玉11号苦瓜杂交种子的纯度鉴定之用。     

分子标记辅助选择不同甜瓜性别植株

运用A和G基因鉴定甜瓜的性别类型,为甜瓜其他性状的分子标记辅助育种提供方法。根据已发表的甜瓜CmACS-7(A基因)与WIP1+Gyno-hAT(G基因)基因结构设计PCR引物,对47个重组自交系群体家系及14份甜瓜材料进行检测验证。引物CmACS-7扩增产物在383 bp进行酶切,基因型为AA不能被酶切,扩增产物均被酶切的为基因型aa,酶切位点可分辨共显性基因型;针对WIP1+Gyno-hAT基因结构设计2对引物同时扩增,扩增条带197 bp和184 bp区别G(g)基因基因型。利用自主设计的引物可用于甜瓜苗期筛选雌雄异花同株、全雌系、雄全同株和完全花植株的分子标记辅助选择育种。     

青花菜SRAP-PCR体系优化与品种分子鉴定

本试验对青花菜基因组DNA的SRAP-PCR体系中主要影响因子Mg2+、dNTPs和引物浓度进行了优化。结果表明,反应体系中适宜浓度为Mg2+1.5-3.0mmol/L,dNTPs0.4mmol/L,引物0.25-0.50μmol/L(模板DNA约20ng,16μL反应体系)。运用优化的反应体系,对20个青花菜品种进行分子鉴定,从10个引物组合中筛选到7个多态性引物组合,获得60个多态性位点,平均每个引物组合在供试品种中产生8.6个多态性位点,鉴别品种数4.3个。双引物组合me1/em6与me2/em9可以区分所有供试材料。     

菠菜性别相关 EST-SSR 标记的开发及应用

为了明确菠菜EST序列中SSR的总体特点,开发菠菜EST-SSR引物;为利用EST-SSR引物进行菠菜性别相关特异序列的克隆奠定基础,本文从NCBI上获得1093条EST,利用在线软件SSRIT检测所含SSR序列,并进行分析。共检索出68条SSR序列,分布于64条EST中,检出率为6.22%,包括22种重复基元。其中二核苷酸重复基元的EST-SSR占主导地位,占总SSR数目的32.3%。利用在线引物设计软件Primer3.0设计了7对EST-SSR引物,在适合的PCR反应体系下,分别以雌、雄菠菜DNA基因组为模板,对设计的EST-SSR引物进行筛选,结果显示以EST序列HS097148设计的一对引物从菠菜雌雄基因组中扩增出一条雄性特异的条带,表明通过菠菜EST-SSR引物获得菠菜性别相关特异序列是可行的。     

甜瓜抗白粉病基因SRAP分子标记筛选

以感白粉病甜瓜A120和抗白粉病甜瓜A119为亲本构建F2代分离群体,采用BSA和SRAP相结合的方法筛选与甜瓜抗白粉病基因相连锁的分子标记.结果显示,294条SRAP引物中有6条引物在抗病与感病池间表现出多态性;对8个高抗和8个高感单株进行扩增,引物me46em51和me3em6分别在高感单株中扩增出210 bp和205 bp的多态性条带,而高抗单株无此扩增带,与抗病、感病池结果一致.采用JoinMap3.0软件进行连锁分析,两标记与抗白粉病基因的连锁距离分别为18.2 cM和23.4 cM,初步推测本实验中甜瓜白粉病抗性为隐性多基因控制.     

芦笋超雄株STS双分子标记的开发及应用北大核心CSCD

芦笋超雄株的获得是芦笋全雄系育种的关键,但是传统的全雄系材料需要通过杂交后代的分离情况来鉴定,极大增加了育种的周期和成本。因此,设计和开发芦笋超雄株植株性别鉴定标记具有重要的实践价值。本研究首先构建了968株芦笋两性株自交群体。在此基础上,根据Y染色体特异区基因SOFF和X染色体特异区基因WIP2/NTT设计开发了性别鉴定的STS双分子标记YSM和XSM。通过对单株性别鉴定结果表明,该STS双分子标记检测后出现293 bp单一条带的为超雄株,共有58株;出现245 bp单一条带的为雌株,共有550株;而出现245 bp和293 bp双条带的为雄株,共有360株,分别将293 bp和245 bp大小的条带进行测序后发现,两个序列和设计引物所用目的序列一致性均为100%。对开花后鉴定为雄株的418株单株逐一测交,对测交组合F_(1)的雌、雄性鉴定分析,发现有58个测交组合F_(1)全部为雄株,证明他们的父本为超雄株;有360个测交组合F_(1)出现雌雄株分离,证明他们的父本为雄株。这和STS分子标记鉴定结果完全一致,说明本研究的STS双分子标记可以准确鉴定芦笋雌株、雄株及超雄株性别。这为育种者进行芦笋全雄分子标记辅助育种提供了强有力的技术支撑。     

哲罗鲑性别特异性标记筛选

研究通过比对哲罗鲑Hucho taimen (Pallas)基因组草图与虹鳟(Oncorhynchus mykiss)Y染色体序列, 获得哲罗鲑性别相关的候选序列, 并设计3对PCR扩增引物, 以此筛选哲罗鲑性别特异性标记。初步筛选结果显示, 在设计的3对引物中, 引物ST2在雌鱼中无扩增条带, 在雄鱼中有153 bp的扩增条带, 可作为哲罗鲑雄性特异性候选标记。为了消除样本降解及失误等因素导致的条带缺失, 研究以12S rRNA为参照, 采用双重PCR法, 在12S rRNA引物扩增出条带的前提下, 用ST2引物条带的有无来判断性别, 雌鱼为单带, 无ST2引物条带; 雄鱼为双带, 有ST2引物条带。同时为了验证本方法的可靠性, 对已知性别的哲罗鲑48尾雌、雄样本进行了检测, 结果显示该方法遗传性别鉴别准确率为100%。用此标记筛选哲罗鲑雌、雄鱼简单易行, 为哲罗鲑遗传学研究、单性养殖和性别控制育种等研究奠定了基础。     

16份石榴RAPD扩增产物的两种电泳方法检测及其序列特征

本实验以16个石榴品种为实验材料,筛选出10个重复性及多态性均较好的引物进行RAPD分析。分别采用琼脂糖凝胶以及聚丙烯酰胺凝胶(PAGE)电泳检测方法对PCR扩增结果进行检测并对其结果进行比较,结果显示,两种电泳方式均能得到较为清晰的扩增条带,且两种电泳方式获得的条带总数及多态性条带数均有所不同,琼脂糖凝胶电泳方法共检测出76条带,其中有43条为多态性谱带,多态性比率为56.4%;而在PAGE电泳方法共检测出123条谱带,多态性谱带数为87条,多态性比率为70.95%。PAGE电泳方法检测出的条带数约为琼脂糖凝胶电泳方法检测出条带数的1.5倍。基于两种电泳方法所得RAPD标记的多态性位点,利用NYSYS软件计算遗传相似系数,并构建遗传关系聚类图,分析结果显示,石榴遗传多样性丰富,两种电泳方法所得聚类结果大致相同,可以利用RAPD分子标记及两种电泳检测方法对不同数量的石榴进行分子水平的品种鉴定和遗传多样性的分析。同时通过对来自几个引物随机挑选的17个片段进行克隆,测序结果显示17个片段都是对应引物的RAPD扩增产物,其中有3条是编码蛋白的基因片段,表明了RAPD不仅扩增基因组上的非编码蛋白序列,同时也可以扩增编码蛋白的基因片段,这为更好地认识RAPD技术的实质以及促进石榴产业的发展提供了理论依据。     

A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

正Dear Editor,In December 2019, a novel human coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe pneumonia(Coronavirus Disease 2019,COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, China(Wu et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020). So far, this virus has spread to all areas of China and even to other countries. The epidemic has caused 67,102 confirmed infections with 1526 fatal cases     

Curcuminoids as inhibitors of thioredoxin reductase: A receptor based pharmacophore study with distance mapping of the active site

Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric that interacts irreversibly forming an adduct with thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), an enzyme responsible for redox control of cell and defence against oxidative stress. Docking at both the active sites of TrxR was performed to compare the potency of three naturally occurring curcuminoids, namely curcumin, demethoxy curcumin and bis-demethoxy curcumin. Results show that active sites of TrxR occur at the junction of E and F chains. Volume and area of both cavities is predicted. It has been concluded by distance mapping of the most active conformations that Se atom of catalytic residue SeCYS498, is at a distance of 3.56 from C13 of demethoxy curcumin at the E chain active site, whereas C13 carbon atom forms adduct with Se atom of SeCys 498. We report that at least one methoxy group in curcuminoids is necessary for interation with catalytic residues of thioredoxin. Pharmacophore of both active sites of the TrxR receptor for curcumin and demethoxy curcumin molecules has been drawn and proposed for design and synthesis of most probable potent antiproliferative synthetic drugs.     

Comparative morphology of the carpel in the Liliaceae: Hewardieae, Petrosavieae, and Tricyrteae

The young pistils in the melanthioid tribes, Hewardieae, Petrosavieae and Tricyrteae, are uniformly tricarpellate and syncarpous. They lack raphide idioblasts. All are multiovulate, with bitegmic ovules. The Petrosavieae are marked by the presence of septal glands and incomplete syncarpy. Tepals and stamens adhere to the ovary in the Hewardieae and the Petrosavieae but not in the Tricyrteae. Two vascular bundles occur in the stamens of the Hewartlieae and Tricyrtis latifolia. Ventral bundles in the upper part of the ovary of the Hewardieae are continuous with compound septal bundles and placental bundles in the lower part. Putative ventral bundles occur in the alternate position in the Tricyrteae and putative placental bundles in the opposite. position in the Petrosavieae. The dichtomously branched stigma in each carpel of the Tricyrteae is supplied by a bifurcated dorsal bundle.     

Enterovirus 71 3C proteolytically processes the histone H3 N-terminal tail during infection

Highlights
1. The N-terminal tail of histone H3 is specifically cleaved during EV71 infection.
2. Viral protease 3C is identified as a protease responsible for proteolytically processing the N-terminal H3 tail.
3. Our finding reveals a new epigenetic regulatory mechanism for Enterovirus 71 in virus-host interactions.     

Detection of EBV and HHV6 in the Brain Tissue of Patients with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis

Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare pediatric neurological disorder, and the exact etiology is not clear. Viral infection may be involved in the pathogenesis of RE, but conflicting results have reported. In this study, we evaluated the expression of both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpes virus (HHV) 6 antigens in brain sections from 30 patients with RE and 16 control individuals by immunohistochemistry. In the RE group, EBV and HHV6 antigens were detected in 56.7% (17/30) and 50% (15/30) of individuals, respectively. In contrast, no detectable EBV and HHV6 antigen expression was found in brain tissues of the control group. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in 20.0% (6/30) of individuals. In particular, a 4-year-old boy had a typical clinical course, including a medical history of viral encephalitis, intractable epilepsy, and hemispheric atrophy. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in neurons and astrocytes in the brain tissue, accompanied by a high frequency of CD8⁺ T cells. Our results suggest that EBV and HHV6 infection and the activation of CD8⁺ T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of RE.     

Perinatal Vertical Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in Ruili,a Town on the Border between China and Myanmar

正Dear Editor,Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus in the family of Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus, is transmitted by the A.aegyptii or A. albopictus mosquito, and causes disease in humans characterized by fever, rash, and arthralgia (Silva and Dermody 2017; Suhrbier 2019). It was first reported in 1953 in Tanzania, and caused only a few outbreaks and sporadic cases in Africa and Asia in last century. However, in the epidemic in 2004, CHIKV acquired mutations that conferred enhanced transmission by the A. albopictus mosquito(Schuffenecker et al. 2006). Since then, it has successively caused outbreaks in Africa, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, the South America, and Europe (Zeller et al. 2016).     

Development of a Novel Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2

In conclusion, the novel visual RT-LAMP assay is a simple, rapid, and sensitive approach for detection of SARS-CoV-2, and it is ready for application in primary care and community hospitals or health care centers, and even patients' own houses in response to the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic because the assay does not require sophisticated equipment and skilled personnel. Furthermore, it is also ready to be used in fields for screening samples from wild animals and environments to facilitate the identification of potential intermediate hosts that mediate the cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from bats to humans.