硝化抑制剂DCD、 DMPP对褐土氮总矿化速率和硝化速率的影响

采用15N库稀释-原位培养法研究了硝化抑制剂DCD、DMPP对华北盐碱性褐土氮总矿化速率和硝化速率的影响.试验在山西省运城市种植玉米的盐碱性土壤上进行,设单施尿素、尿素+DCD、尿素+DMPP 3个处理.结果表明:施肥后2周,DCD、DMPP分别使氮总矿化速率和氮总硝化速率减少了25.5％、7.3％和60.3％、59.1％,DCD对氮总矿化速率的影响显著高于DMPP,两者对氮总硝化速率的影响无显著差异;而在施肥后7周,不同硝化抑制剂对氮总硝化速率的影响存在差异.施肥后2周,3个处理的土壤氮总矿化速率和硝化速率分别是施肥前的7.2 ～10.0倍和5.5 ～21.5倍;NH4+和NO3-消耗速率分别是施肥前的9.1 ～12.2倍和5.1 ～8.4倍,这是由氮肥对土壤的激发效应所致.硝化抑制剂使氮肥更多地以NH4+形式保持在土壤中,减少了NO3-的积累.土壤氮总矿化速率和总硝化速率受硝化抑制剂的抑制是N2O减排的主要原因.     

不同利用方式对红壤坡地微生物多样性和硝化势的影响

采集了中国科学院桃源农业生态试验站红壤坡地农田、自然恢复林和茶园土壤样品,采用末端限制性酶切片段长度多态性分析(T.RFLP)技术分析土壤细菌、古菌、氨氧化细菌(AOB)和氨氧化古菌(AOA)的多样性,采用好气培养法测定不同土壤的硝化势,研究不同土地利用方式对微生物多样性和硝化势的影响.结果表明:土壤AOB和AOA多样性指数差异不显著,且在3种不同土地利用方式中呈现相同的趋势,均为农田=茶园>自然恢复林;通过RDA分析发现,不同利用方式造成土壤理化性状的改变是影响土壤AOA和AOB群落结构的主要原因;好气培养法测得不同土壤硝化势农田最高,茶园次之而自然恢复林最低;相关性分析显示,硝化势与细菌16S rRNA、AOA和AOB amoA基因多样性指数呈显著正相关,其中与AOA amoA基因关系最为密切;总体来说,红壤坡地不同利用方式改变了土壤细菌、古菌、AOA和AOB的多样性,土壤AOB和AOA积极参与了土壤的硝化过程,且AOA在氨氧化微生物群落生态功能中占有重要地位,AOA比AOB与硝化势的关系更为密切.     

南美白对虾养殖底泥中氨氧化细菌与氨氧化古菌多态性分析

【目的】本研究皆在了解虾养殖底泥中氨氧化细菌与氨氧化古菌群落多态性。【方法】以功能基因为基础,构建氨氧化细菌(AOB)与氨氧化古菌(AOA)的氨单加氧酶α亚基基因(amoA)克隆文库。利用限制性片段长度多态性(Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism,RFLP)技术将克隆文库阳性克隆子进行归类分析分成若干个可操作分类单元(Operational Taxa Units,OTUs)。【结果】通过序列多态性分析,表明AOB amoA基因克隆文库中所有序列都属于变形杆菌门β亚纲(β-Proteobacteria)中的亚硝化单细胞菌属(Nitrosomonas)及Nitrosomonas-like,未发现亚硝化螺旋菌属(Nitrosospira)。AOA amoA基因克隆文库中只有一个OTU序列属于未分类的古菌(Unclassified-Archaea),其余序列都属于泉古菌门(Crenarchaeote)。AOA群落结构单一且存在一个绝对优势类群OTU3,其克隆子数目占克隆文库的57.45%。AOB和AOA amoA基因克隆文库分别包括13个OTUs和9个OTUs,其文库覆盖率分别为73.47%和90.43%。AOB amoA基因克隆文库的Shannon-Wiener指数、Evenness指数、Simpson指数、Richness指数均高于AOA。【结论】虾养殖塘底泥中存在氨氧化古菌的amoA基因,且多态性低于氨氧化细菌,表明氨氧化古菌在虾养殖塘底泥的氮循环中可能具有重要的作用。     

长期施加氮肥及氧化钙调节对酸性土壤硝化作用及氨氧化微生物的影响

以长期施加氮肥及添加氧化钙调节的酸性土壤为研究对象,运用定量PCR和DGGE技术,探讨了土壤氨氧化微生物及硝化作用对不同施肥处理及氧化钙调节的响应。长期施化学氮肥导致酸性土壤p H(KCl)值(3.35—3.47)和硝化潜势(0.02—0.14μg NO-2-N g-1土壤h-1)进一步降低,而添加Ca O后土壤酸化得以缓解(p H值4.10—4.46),土壤硝化潜势(0.22—0.34μg NO-2-N g-1土h-1)显著增加。同时,添加Ca O处理对氨氧化古菌(AOA)的群落结构无明显影响,但明显提高了各施肥处理土壤中氨氧化细菌(AOB)的群落多样性,加Ca O处理的土壤中,AOA的数量降低而AOB的数量增加。这些结果表明虽然酸性土壤中AOA在数量和活性上占主导优势,AOB在功能上冗余,但当添加Ca O后,AOA和AOB对环境变化迅速作出响应,并根据其不同的生态位需求重新分配优势地位,二者交替作用共同驱动酸性土壤硝化作用。     

脲酶/硝化抑制剂在黑土和褐土中对尿素氮转化的调控效果

本试验研究脲酶/硝化抑制剂不同组合在黑土和褐土中对尿素水解和硝化作用的调控效果,旨在筛选出适合东北黑土、褐土的高效抑制剂组合。采用室内恒温、恒湿培养试验,以不施氮肥(CK)和施用普通尿素肥料(U)为对照,研究分别添加脲酶抑制剂N-丁基硫代磷酰三胺(NBPT)及其与硝化抑制剂双氰胺(DCD)、3,4-二甲基吡唑磷酸盐(DMPP)、2-氯-6(三氯甲基)-吡啶(CP)、2-氨基-4-氯-6-甲基嘧啶(AM)、3-甲基吡唑(MP)组合制成的6种高效稳定性尿素在黑土和褐土中的尿素水解和氨氧化特征。在培养125 d内分别取土壤样品15次,通过测定2种土壤中尿素态氮、铵态氮和硝态氮含量,及氨氧化作用强度,计算硝化抑制率,确定最适合2种土壤的抑制剂或组合。结果表明: 尿素在黑土和褐土中水解时间约7 d,添加NBPT以及其与不同硝化抑制剂组合均能将尿素水解时间延长21 d以上。与U处理相比,添加抑制剂可显著增加土壤NH₄⁺-N含量,降低NO₃^--N生成量,维持土壤中高NH₄⁺-N含量的时间更久。黑土中,添加硝化抑制剂的处理均能显著抑制土壤硝化作用,有效硝化抑制时间超过125 d;DMPP、CP与NBPT配施使黑土NH₄⁺-N含量提高1.6～1.8倍,培养125 d时其硝化抑制率分别为47.9%和24.1%。褐土中,U处理培养80 d左右基本完成硝化过程,而添加硝化抑制剂使硝化过程延长至少30 d;DCD、DMPP与NBPT配施使土壤NH₄⁺-N含量提高2.1～3.4倍,培养125 d时其硝化抑制率分别为25.3%和23.2%。因此,尿素与NBPT+DMPP和NBPT+DCD制成的高效稳定性尿素分别在黑土和褐土中施用效果最好,其次分别是NBPT+CP和NBPT+DMPP。     

秸秆还田对玉米根际氨氧化微生物群落及红壤硝化潜势的影响

为探讨酸性红壤根际氨氧化微生物群落以及硝化作用对不同秸秆还田处理的响应,基于中国科学院鹰潭红壤生态实验站设置的秸秆还田长期试验平台(9年),采用荧光定量PCR和高通量测序技术,研究不同秸秆还田处理(不施肥(CK);氮磷钾肥(NPK);氮磷钾肥+秸秆(NPKS);氮磷钾肥+秸秆猪粪配施(NPKSM);氮磷钾肥+秸秆生物炭(NPKB))下玉米根际土壤氨氧化古菌(ammonia-oxidizing archaea, AOA)和细菌(ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, AOB)丰度和群落结构的变化,揭示了秸秆还田对根际氨氧化微生物群落结构和硝化潜势(potential nitrification activity, PNA)的影响机制。结果发现：相比CK和NPK处理,秸秆还田显著提高了土壤养分含量和硝化潜势,其中有机碳(SOC)、全氮(TN)、全磷(TP)、速效磷(AP)、速效钾(AK)、硝态氮(NO~-₃-N)和铵态氮(NH~+₄-N)含量显著增加,NPKSM处理对土壤肥力提升效果最佳。AOA的硝化潜势显著高于AOB,表明AOA...     

不同放牧对滇西北高原泥炭沼泽土壤氨氧化微生物群落的影响

氨氧化由氨氧化细菌(AOB)和氨氧化古菌(AOA)共同执行,是土壤硝化过程的第一步和限速步骤。放牧过程中,动物啃食、排泄和践踏等行为将影响土壤氨氧化微生物群落,但目前关于不同类型放牧对湿地氨氧化微生物群落结构及其多样性的影响尚不清楚。利用Illumina Mise高通量测序技术,对比研究牦牛放牧和藏香猪放养两种放牧类型对泥炭沼泽土壤氨氧化微生物群落结构及其多样性的影响。结果表明,牦牛放牧显著增加土壤容重,显著降低土壤pH、TN、TOC、NH~+_4-N和NO~-_3-N含量;藏香猪放养显著增加土壤NO~-_3-N含量和硝化潜势(PNR)。牦牛放牧显著降低土壤AOA的丰富度和AOB的α多样性,藏香猪放养降低土壤AOA的α多样性和AOB的丰富度。放牧显著降低泉古菌门(Crenarchaeota)的相对丰度。AOA的α多样性与土壤NO~-_3-N含量和PNR呈显著负相关。AOB的α多样性与pH、TOC、TN和NH~+_4-N含量呈显著正相关。放牧影响下土壤pH、TN和NO~-_3-N含量的变化是影响AOA群落结构的主要因素。藏香猪放养对AOA和AOB群落的影响更显著,由放牧引起的土壤环境条件的变化是导致氨氧化微生物群落发生改变的重要因素。     

脲酶／硝化抑制剂对土壤有效态氮、微生物量氮和小麦氮吸收的影响

研究了脲酶抑制剂(NBPT)、硝化抑制剂(DCD)及二者组合在草甸棕壤上施用对尿素态N转化及土壤总有效态N、微生物量N的影响．结果表明,尿素配施NBPT、DCD及抑制剂组合能够增加尿素水解后土壤NH4^+含量2％-53％。显著降低了氧化态N的浓度,抑制了土壤中铵态N的氧化,增加土壤总有效N34％-44％,小麦吸N量增加0．26％-6．79％。其中以脲酶抑制剂与硝化抑制剂组合的效果最明显．抑制剂施用增加了微生物在小麦生长初期对有效态N固持,有利于后期土壤有效态N的矿化．     

硝化抑制剂DCD、DMPP对褐土氮总矿化速率和硝化速率的影响

采用¹⁵N库稀释-原位培养法研究了硝化抑制剂DCD、DMPP对华北盐碱性褐土氮总矿化速率和硝化速率的影响.试验在山西省运城市种植玉米的盐碱性土壤上进行,设单施尿素、尿素+DCD、尿素+DMPP 3个处理.结果表明：施肥后2周,DCD、DMPP分别使氮总矿化速率和氮总硝化速率减少了25.5%、7.3%和60.3%、59.1%,DCD对氮总矿化速率的影响显著高于DMPP,两者对氮总硝化速率的影响无显著差异;而在施肥后7周,不同硝化抑制剂对氮总硝化速率的影响存在差异.施肥后2周,3个处理的土壤氮总矿化速率和硝化速率分别是施肥前的7.2～10.0倍和5.5～21.5倍;NH₄⁺和NO₃^-消耗速率分别是施肥前的9.1～12.2倍和5.1～8.4倍,这是由氮肥对土壤的激发效应所致.硝化抑制剂使氮肥更多地以NH₄⁺形式保持在土壤中,减少了NO₃^-的积累.土壤氮总矿化速率和总硝化速率受硝化抑制剂的抑制是N₂O减排的主要原因.     

不同林龄杉木人工林土壤硝化和反硝化作用

对不同林龄杉木人工林(5、8、21、27和40年生)土壤硝化与反硝化过程及功能微生物丰度进行研究。结果表明: 土壤净硝化速率随林龄的增加波动变化,8、27年生杉木人工林土壤净硝化速率显著低于5、21和40年生。27年生杉木人工林土壤氨氧化古菌(AOA) amoA基因丰度显著低于40年生,其他林龄AOA amoA基因丰度之间无显著差异。不同林龄杉木人工林的氨氧化细菌(AOB) amoA基因丰度、反硝化功能基因丰度以及反硝化潜势均无显著差异。逐步回归分析表明,土壤氨氧化微生物AOA amoA基因丰度受土壤理化性质的影响不显著,土壤总碳和土壤pH是影响AOB丰度的重要因子。反硝化功能基因narG、nirK及nosZ随土壤pH的增加而增加,编码亚硝酸盐还原酶(NIR)的功能基因(nirK、nirS)受土壤总碳的影响。林龄可通过影响AOA amoA基因丰度影响土壤净硝化速率。林龄直接作用于反硝化潜势,或间接影响土壤微生物生物量碳、土壤pH及反硝化功能基因丰度(narG和nirK),进而影响反硝化潜势。相较于反硝化过程,土壤硝化作用及AOA amoA基因丰度对杉木林分发育更加敏感,可适当延长轮伐期以降低土壤硝化作用造成的氮流失风险。     

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).