小麦HMW-GS 1Bx14基因特异标记体系的建立

比较1Bx14及其它已知HMW-GS基因的启动子和编码区,根据其不同点设计出1Bx14基因特异扩增引物。以8种已知HMW-GS组成的小麦DNA为模板进行PCR扩增。结果表明：具有1Bx14亚基的品种扩增出1条400bp左朽特异条带。结合该特异标记和已报道的1Dx5特异标记对2个F2杂交群体进行检测,从184个F2单株中筛选出111个同时含有1Bx14和1Dx5基因的单株。该研究结果可为种质鉴定和亚基整合育种提供参考。     

SCAR标记技术鉴别榆黄蘑品种

为了建立一套基于DNA分子标记技术快速鉴定榆黄蘑菌株的有效方法,本研究通过对生产上常用的16个榆黄蘑菌株进行SRAP多态性分析,从榆黄蘑2号菌株中扩增获得了一个片段长为537bp的特异片段,将其克隆、测序并设计引物,成功转化为稳定的SCAR标记。试验结果表明,利用该特异SCAR标记,能在1d时间内准确鉴定出榆黄蘑2号菌株。由此可见,SCAR分子标记是一种快速、稳定、准确鉴定榆黄蘑菌株的新方法。     

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。     

黄独遗传多样性研究

采用ISSR标记技术研究了我国14个黄独样品的遗传多样性.从55条简单重复序列引物中筛选出9条多态性引物,共扩增出70条带,其中67条多态性带,多态性比率为95.71%,平均每条引物扩增出7.8条带.黄独原变种内Nei s基因多样性(h)为0.294 9,有效等位基因数(Ne)为1.491 1,Shannon多样性指数(I)为0.444 8.种水平h为0.326 3,Ne为1.552 9,I为0.488 3.基因分化系数(Gst)为0.782 1,基因流(Nm)为0.139 3.聚类分析表明来自海南省和台湾省的样品与我国内陆的样品较早分离.据此可将来自我国内陆的样品分为5组.ISSR聚类分析基本上支持依据形态特征对黄独变种的划分.同时实验结果也表明,云南可能是黄独在我国的分化中心.     

小麦低分子量谷蛋白亚基基因5′侧翼保守序列染色体组特异性DNA变异的分析及验证

根据33个低分子量麦谷蛋白亚基(LMW-GS)基因5′侧翼序列的相似性进行聚类分析, 可将其划分成8个类群, 这与基于N末端推导氨基酸序列进行的类群划分结果完全一致. 序列比对发现, 各类群基因5′侧翼保守序列间存在DNA多态性, 共发现34个多态性位点, 其中18个为潜在单核苷酸多态性位点(SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms). 除1个LMW-GS类群之外, 其余7个类群的5′侧翼序列均具有类群特异性DNA变异位点. 根据类群间的DNA多态性对这7个类群设计了特异引物, 利用普通小麦(Triticum aestivum L.)品种中国春及其第1同源群双端体系对其进行染色体定位分析, 揭示了1AS, 1BS和1DS上分别有第2, 1和4类群. 对PCR产物的克隆测序进一步验证了不同染色体组上的LMW-GS基因类群间5′侧翼序列具有特异性. 这些结果表明, LMW-GS基因的编码区及其5′侧翼保守序列可能是协调进化的. 本文报道的7对引物可对7类LMW-GS基因的完整编码区进行特异扩增, 因而能在小麦复杂的遗传背景下有目的地对某一类LMW-GS基因进行分离克隆, 这有助于弄清单个LMW-GS对小麦品质的贡献. 同时, 在小麦育种中, 这些标记对于有效地选择与品质密切相关的LMW-GS组分有一定应用价值.     

油菜单显性核雄性不育基因的分子标记

以陕西省杂交油菜研究中心选育的单显性核不育油菜分离群体为材料,利用集群分离法（BSA）对该油菜单显性核不育基因进行了RAPD分析。在随机选取的300个10碱基随机引物中,引物S243（5′CTATGCCGAC3′）在可育集团与不育集团间扩增出特异而可重复的1．5kb的多态性片段OPU-031500,而在细胞质雄性不育和其它核不育类型油菜中均未扩增出上述特异性片段,从而确证此RAPD标记OPU-031500。片段是与甘蓝型油菜单显性核不育基因连锁的。将该多态性片段克隆并测序,发现其序列与拟南芥的一段DNA序列高度同源。根据同源序列及测序结果设计两对特异引物（P1／P2和P3／P4）,引物P3／P4在可育系中可扩增到约1．5kb的单一特异片断,而在不育系中无带,从而将RAPD标记转化为稳定可靠的SCAR标记。     

与圭亚那柱花草不育基因相关的SRAP标记的筛选

本研究旨在筛选与柱花草花粉不育基因相关的特异性分子标记,为今后筛选特异SCAR标记及建立柱花草稳定的雄性不育系提供新的理论基础,为柱花草杂交育种奠定基础。本研究以圭亚那柱花草1979(母本,花粉不育)和热研5号(花粉可育,轮回父本)的30株BC1F1代群体为材料,利用100对SRAP引物组合,筛选出在花粉不育基因池中稳定扩增的2个SRAP标记。经基因池各单株验证和群体单株验证,这2个标记仅在花粉不育个体中出现,表明这2个标记与柱花草花粉不育基因存在一定的连锁关系。     

黄瓜果瘤的遗传及SSR 标记

通过对以荷兰温室无瘤黄瓜(Cucumis sativus )品种Z1和Z3为母本(tutu), 有瘤黄瓜品系东农129为父本(TuTu)的杂交后代F1和F2的统计分析, 结果表明: 在F1代, 2个组合果实都有果瘤, 有果瘤为显性; F2代果实有瘤与无瘤呈现分离, 其比例分别是2.92:1和2.95:1, 表明Tu基因是独立遗传的, 即有瘤(Tu)对无瘤(tu)为显性。为了获得与黄瓜果瘤基因连锁的SSR(simple sequence repeat)标记, 从129×Z3 F2群体中选取有瘤、无瘤单株的DNA各10个, 构建有瘤、无瘤近等基因池。用86对SSR引物在亲本及DNA混合池之间进行筛选, 并对F2群体的75个单株进行验证。筛选得到了5对与果瘤相关的SSR引物, 经MAPMAKER/EXP version 3.0b软件分析, 其中CSWGATT01B、CSWGATT01C、CSCT335和CSWGATT01A四个标记位于同一连锁群上, Tu基因位于这4个标记构建的连锁群中, 具体位置为CSWGATT01C-Tu-CSCT335, 距离两侧标记的遗传距离分别为20.0 cM和14.1 cM。     

抗黄矮病小麦-中间偃麦草易位系基因组可转化人工染色体文库的构建及初步筛选

利用抗黄矮病小麦 -中间偃麦草易位系HW6 4 2的细胞核DNA构建了一个可转化人工染色体 (transformation competentartificialchromosome,TAC)文库 ,文库由 2 .3× 10 6 克隆构成 ,重组率为 90 .4 8% ,平均插入片段大小为 2 2kb左右 ,约覆盖普通小麦单倍体基因组 2 .5倍 ,在该文库中分离得到单拷贝DNA序列的几率约是 95 .77%。文库保存在 2 4块 96孔板中 ,每个孔中约含有 10 0 0个不同的重组克隆 ,可以采用PooledPCR的方法对文库进行筛选。用来源于小麦的简单重复序列 (simplesequencerepeat,SSR)引物wms37扩增中间偃麦草、抗病易位系及感病材料 ,得到一条与抗性共分离的特异条带 ,约 4 5 0bp。将此特异标记条带转化为SCAR(sequencecharacterizedamplifiedregion)标记 ,用于筛选HW6 4 2基因组TAC文库 ,得到 12个阳性克隆。对阳性克隆进行了PCR Southern验证 ,以中间偃麦草基因组总DNA为探针与限制酶HindⅢ消化后的阳性克隆杂交 ,其中 10个阳性克隆分别有 1～ 6条杂交带 ,结果表明 ,这 10个阳性克隆可作为抗黄矮病相关基因筛选的候选克隆     

半滑舌鳎雌性特异AFLP标记CseF783的克隆及其在遗传性别鉴定中的应用

半滑舌鳎性别控制和全雌育种等研究领域中迫切需要一种能够快速鉴定鱼类个体遗传性别的有效方法。文章采用AFLP技术, 利用选择性引物组合(E-ACT/M-CAA)从半滑舌鳎中筛选到一条雌性特异的AFLP标记。对该标记进行二次PCR扩增、琼脂糖凝胶回收、克隆、测序。分析表明, 序列全长为791 bp, 与GenBank中的序列无同源性。以该雌性特异AFLP标记DNA序列为模板, 设计了一对特异的PCR引物, 成功地将其转化为SCAR(Sequence characterized amplified regions)标记, 并在100尾已知性别的半滑舌鳎个体(雌雄各50尾)中进行验证, 结果表明, 该SCAR标记在所有雌性个体中均扩增得到一条长度为324 bp的DNA条带, 而在49尾雄性个体中均扩增不到该DNA条带(有1尾雄性个体例外), 证明该SCAR标记是雌性特异的, 并可用于半滑舌鳎个体遗传性别鉴定。随后, 利用该SCAR标记检测了3日龄半滑舌鳎幼苗, 结果表明, 雌性个体比例为41.7%。     

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.