牙龈卟啉菌脂多糖诱生的IL—1,TNF和PGE的骨吸收活性

牙龈卟啉菌脂多糖（Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ）作用于人外周血单个核细胞或人牙龈组织细胞后,能诱导此等细胞分别产生ＩＬ－１、ＴＮＦ和ＰＧＥ。经原子吸收光谱分析后证实,所诱生的ＩＬ－１、ＴＮＦ和ＰＧＥ均具有使大鼠头盖骨脱钙的作用,消炎痛未能阻断该骨吸收活性。ＰＧＥ的骨吸收活性最强,ＩＬ－１和ＴＮＦ的骨吸收活性相似。Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ也能直接作用于大鼠头盖骨,使钙离子释放量明显增加,但该活性能被消炎痛所阻断。研究结果表明,Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ可直接或间接地通过ＩＬ－１、ＴＮＦ和ＰＧＥ等发挥强大的骨吸收作用,故Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ是牙周炎时牙槽骨吸收的主要因素之一     

牙龈紫质单胞菌内毒素对成纤维细胞和牙龈组织的侵入及损害

应用免疫组化方法证实５６０％的成年人牙周炎（ＡＰ）患者的牙龈组织的成纤维细胞中存在牙龈紫质单胞菌内毒素（Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ）,正常的牙龈组织样本无一例阳性。以免疫胶金技术发现Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ在５ｍｉｎ内即能侵入体外培养的小鼠成纤维细胞,至６０ｍｉｎ时可在细胞核内检出Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ。Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ检测阳性的小鼠成纤维细胞和ＡＰ患者牙龈组织的成纤维细胞的可出现相似的内质网扩张、膜旁核糖体颗粒脱落、线粒体的外膜或嵴消失等超微结构病变。实验结果表明,Ｐｇ－ＬＰＳ是ＡＰ的主要致病因子之一。     

脑啡肽对大鼠海马神经细胞IL-6基因表达的影响

本文研究了大鼠海马内微量注射甲硫－脑啡肽（Ｍ－ＥＮＫ）对海马细胞的白细胞介素－６（Ｉｎｔｅｒｌｅｕｋｉｎ－６,ＩＬ－６）基因表达的影响。大鼠双侧海马内微量注射细菌内毒素脂多糖各１μｌ（ＬＰＳ,浓度：５０ｎｇ／ｍｌ）,于９０ｍｉｎ后用原位杂交技术检测到海马结构ＩＬ－６的基因表达,以齿状回颗粒细胞层显著。当海马内预先注射Ｍ－ＥＮＫ（每侧１μｌ,浓度：１０μｇ／μｌ）,３０ｍｉｎ后再给予脂多糖则未见ＩＬ－６基因表达。结果表明Ｍ－ＥＮＫ及ＬＰＳ可影响脑内ＩＬ－６的基因表达,在中枢调节机体免疫功能中,ＩＬ－６可能具有重要作用。     

由细菌产生的新型生物高分子材料——具新型结构的聚羟基脂肪酸酯PHAs简介

许多微生物能产生聚－β－羟基丁酸酯（PHB）,与淀粉一样作为细胞内的能量和碳源储存物。另外在一定条件下,细菌还可积累具不同结构的单体的共聚松。由荧光假单胞菌Pseudomonas积累的PHAs的结构单元可以是多种多样的。碳链长度可在6－14之间,可由各种饱和的和不饱和的3－羟基脂肪酸组成的。P．oleovorans以正烷烃、正烷基酯或正烷醇为基质,得到的PHAs是以结构单元长度与基质相同的3－羟基脂肪酯为主要组成部分的无视共聚物。含有高达九个碳原子测链的PHAs已可由P.oleovorans利用正烷烃和脂肪酸来合成。P.oleovorans利用1－烯烃或烯酸可合成倒链具不饱和健的聚－β－羟基烷烯酯。通过改变基质中正坡泛与1－烯径的比例,PHAs的不饱和度可由0增加到50％。当以1－辛烯和1－癸烯为碳源时,所得的聚酯主要由β－羟基脂肪酯组成,而链端则是不饱和的β－羟基烷烯酯,侧链可由丙基变化到庚基。最近的研究表明,在生物合成过程中还可在PHAs的侧基上引入部分含Br、Cl、CN的苯基的官能团,或在PHAs合成过程中,可进行β－氧化形成含3－羟酰基的中间产物和再次对脂肪酸进行生物合成。P．oleovorans的这种可将官能团引入聚合物分子链中的特征．为聚合物进行剪裁提供了可能性。     

鲎制剂中的抗内毒素因子

鲎阿米巴细胞中存在许多能与细菌内毒素发生相互作用的物质。本文主要阐鲎抗脂多糖（ＬＰＳ）因子（ＬＡＬＦ）、内毒素结合蛋白－蛋白酶抑制物（ＬＥＢＰ－ＰＩ）及鲎结合素等的分子生物学特性及其与内毒素相互作用及其机理,以及动物试验抗内毒素作用的结果。     

LAK细胞中一种自由基清除剂——SLP的分离纯化与抗体制备

ＳＯＤ样蛋白（ＳＯＤ－ｌｉｋｅ ｐｒｏｔｅｉｎ,ＳＬＰ）是从ＬＡＫ 细胞中发现的一种具有自由基清除功能的蛋白．为阐明ＳＬＰ的生化特性和确定其蛋白序列或基因序列,采用ＤＥＡＥ－Ｓｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅ ＦＦ层析从ＬＡＫ 细胞中得到部分纯化的ＳＬＰ,并采用ＩＥＦ等电聚焦电泳,活性染色,将含有活性蛋白的胶条直接免疫Ｂａｌｂ／ｃ 小鼠,制备抗血清并筛选得到多株有中和ＳＬＰ清除自由基活性的单克隆抗体．Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ ｂｌｏｔ结果表明ＳＬＰ分子量约为６７ ｋＤ,并测得ｐＩ约为４．２．     

脂多糖诱导人外周血单核细胞产生粒细胞集落刺激因子

用聚蔗糖－泛影葡胺分离液从正常人新鲜抗凝的外周血中分离出单核细胞。在组织培养条件下以大肠杆菌脂多糖（ＬＰＳ）诱导单核细胞,使其产生人粒细胞集落刺激因子（ｈＧ－ＣＳＦｍＲＮＡ和ｈＧ－ＣＳＦ。不同时间取出经诱导的细胞和培养上清液,分别用逆转录－合酶链反应（ＲＴ－ＰＣＲ）方法和双单克隆抗体ＥＬＩＳＡ夹心法检测细胞的转录产物和表达产物。结果表明：加入ＬＰＳ后的第４到第１２小时,单核细胞内有显著量ｈＧ－ＣＳ     

蚯蚓体内一种纤溶酶原激活剂(e-PA)的部分性质研究

从赤子爱胜蚓（Ｅｉｓｅｎｉａｆａｅｔｉｄａ）中纯化出的一种纤溶酶原激活剂（ｅ－ＰＡ）在纤维蛋白平板上可表现出三种活性,分别记为：ＣＦＰｇ,ｕＣＦＰｇ和ｕＣＦ．为更好了解各种活性与ｅ－ＰＡ的纤溶能力的关系,考察了在ＳＤＳ和不同抑制剂存在下各种活性的变化．结果表明,ＳＤＳ可以增强ＣＦＰｇ活性且使得ｅ－ＰＡ变得对一些抑制剂更敏感;ｌｅｕｐｅｐｔｉｎ,ｃｈｙｍｏｓｔａｔｉｎ,ｐｅｐｓｔａｔｉｎ,ａｐｒｏ－ｔｉｎｉｎ,ｐｈｅｎｙｌｍｅｔｈｙｌｓｕｌｆｏｎｙｌｆｌｕｏｒｉｄｅ（ＰＭＳＦ）和ｄｉｔｈｉｏｔｈｒｅｉｔｏｌ（ＤＴＴ）对ｕＣＦ没有影响;ｐｅｐ－ｓｔａｔｉｎ能增强ＣＦＰｇ和ｕＣＦＰｇ活性,Ｅ－６４（一种巯基抑制剂）能增强ｕＣＦＰｇ和ｕＣＦ活性．这些现象说明不能简单将ｅ－ＰＡ归结为丝氨酸蛋白酶或巯基蛋白酶．此外又以纤溶酶原为底物,分析了ｅ－ＰＡ在体外降解天然蛋白质的肽键特异性,结果表明：ｅ－ＰＡ可以切割碱性氨基酸,小的中性氨基酸及Ｍｅｔ的羧基端,同时ｅ－ＰＡ确能将纤溶酶原切割为纤溶酶;这一结论为ｅ－ＰＡ有可能成为新型溶栓药物提供了生化基础．     

抗脂多糖单克隆抗体特性及纯化的研究

用Ｅ．ｃｏｌｉ０１１１：Ｂ４死菌体及其脂多糖（ＬＰＳ）免疫ＢＡＬＢ／Ｃ小鼠,取其脾细胞与ＳＰ２／０细胞融合获得６株稳定分泌抗ＬＰＳ特异性单克隆抗体细胞株,其中一株为ＩｇＧ２ａ类,５株为ＩｇＭ类,轻链均为Ｋ型;染色体数目为９０－９８条;５株ＩｇＭ类单克隆抗体识别５种不同的抗原表位;相对亲和力在１０~８～１０~（１０）之间;１Ｂ１２单抗经ＳｅｐｈａｄｅｘＧ－１５０纯化后,经还原性ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ显示只有７０ＫＤ的重键和２５ＫＤ的轻链。     

LPS介导细胞激活的信号转导：从CD14到p38MAPK通路的研究

近年来对脂多糖（ＬＰＳ）介导细胞激活的信号转导过程已取得实质性进展,ＬＰＳ与血浆ＬＰＳ结合蛋白（ＬＢＰ）结合被运输到单核巨噬细胞表面,与ｍＣＤ１４受体结合起起细胞激活。ＭＡＰＫ参与了ＬＰＳ激活细胞产生肿瘤坏死因子（ＴＮＦ）等活性物质的细胞内信号转导过程。ｐ３８ＭＡＰＫ对ＴＮＦ－α等细胞因子具有重要的调节作用。对ＬＰＳ激活细胞的信号转导研究呆能为治疗内毒素休克提供新的理论和思路。     

Chlorosome lipids from Chlorobium tepidum: characterization and quantification of polar lipids and wax esters

We have extracted polar lipids and waxes from isolated chlorosomes from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum and determined the fatty acid composition of each lipid class. Polar lipids amounted to 4.8 mol per 100 mol bacteriochlorophyll in the chlorosomes, while non-polar lipids (waxes) were present at a ratio of 5.9 mol per 100 mol bacteriochlorophyll. Glycolipids constitute 60 % of the polar lipids while phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, and an aminoglycosphingolipid make up respectively 15, 3, 8 and 12 %. A novel glycolipid was identified as a rhamnose derivative of monogalactosyldiacylglycerol, while the other major glycolipid was monogalactosyldiacylglycerol. Tetradecanoic acid was the major fatty acid in the aminoglycosphingolipid, while the other polar lipids contained predominantly hexandecanoic acid. The chlorosome waxes are esters of unbranched fatty acids and fatty alcohols with 14 or 16 carbon atoms, joined to form molecules with between 28 and 32 carbon atoms. The stoichiometry between lipids and bacteriochlorophyll suggests that much of the chlorosome surface is covered by protein.     

Relationship between the culture medium and the fatty acid composition of diphtheria and non-pathogenic corynebacteria]

The gasochromatic method was applied to the study of the cellular fatty acids composition in diphtheria and nonpathogenic corynebacteria (diphtheroids and psendo diptheria bacillus). Marked differences in the content of unsaturated fatty acids were revealed in them. Thus, palmito leic acid served the preponderant unsaturated fatty acid in Corynebacteria diphtheriae, and unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms (octadeconoic and linoleic)--in nonpathogenic corynebacteria. The mentioned changes permit use this sign as differential. When grown on Loeffler's medium all the corynebacteria under study had a similar fatty acid composition characterized by the prevalence of unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms. On the basis of studying the fatty acid spectrum of the nutrient media used it is supposed that one of the factors determining the revealed dependence of the corynebacterial fatty acid composition on the culture medium was the fatty acid composition of the latter.     

Rapid GC analysis of cellular fatty acids for characterizing Lactobacillus sake and Lact. curvatus strains of meat origin

A rapid procedure based on the gas chromatographic analysis of cellular fatty acids was used to differentiate between strains of Lactobacillus sake and Lact. curvatus isolated from dry salami. All strains had very similar fatty acid profiles except four of them which lacked C19 cycl acid, but neither this feature nor other differences in single fatty acid contents could be successfully correlated with the biochemical discrimination of Lact. sake from Lact. curvatus . When, however, strains were compared on the basis of the total content of fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms divided by that with 16 carbon atoms, a very good correlation with strain characterization by classical methods was achieved. It was concluded that selected cellular fatty acid ratios might be useful for characterizing phylogenetically related strains of lactic acid bacteria.     

Nutritional Alteration of the Fatty Acid Composition of a Thermophilic Bacillus Species

The fatty acid composition of a thermophilic Bacillus sp. was altered by the addition of isobutyrate, isovalerate, alpha-methylbutyrate, leucine, and isoleucine to the growth medium. With isobutyrate, 81% of the fatty acids had 16 carbon atoms and 79% were iso-fatty acids with an even number of carbon atoms. With leucine, 58% of the fatty acids had 15 carbon atoms and 86% were iso-fatty acids with an odd number of carbon atoms. With isoleucine, 72% of the fatty acids had 17 carbon atoms and 88% were anteiso-fatty acids with an odd number of carbon atoms. Thus, by altering the composition of the growth medium, cells were produced in which the majority of the fatty acids had either 15, 16, or 17 carbons and belonged to each of the three groups of branched-chain fatty acids. The wide variation observed in the fatty acid composition makes it unlikely that any specific branched-chain fatty acid is required for vital functions.     

Chemical composition of Azotobacter vinelandii cysts

Cysts of Azotobacter vinelandii ATCC 12837 were germinated by exposure to 3.0 mm ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)-tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane buffer at pH 7.8, and their outer coats (exines) were purified by differential and isopycnic centrifugation. Electron micrographs of exine showed it to consist of multilayers of a three-membered sheet structure whose thickness was 7.0 to 7.5 nm. The inner, less electron-dense layer (intine) was also prepared from cysts by EDTA treatment, centrifugation, concentration, and dialysis. The exine consisted of 32% carbohydrate, 28% protein, 30% lipid, and 3.2% ash, with the ash comprised of 1.62% calcium, 0.02% magnesium, and 0.34% phosphorus. The amino acid composition of exine was similar to that of gram-negative bacterial cell walls. The intine consisted of 44% carbohydrate, 9.1% protein, 37% lipid, and 4.1% ash, with the ash comprised of 2.45% calcium, 0.02% magnesium, and 0.38% phosphorus. The carbohydrates of both exine and intine contained glucose, mannose, xylose, and rhamnose. Glucosamine and galactosamine were found only in the exines. The fatty acids consisted of normal, iso, and anteiso saturated fatty acids with 10 to 18 carbon atoms and mono-unsaturated C(11), C(16), and C(18) fatty acids. The exines contained mostly bound lipid, but intines contained primarily free lipid.     

LIPID COMPOSITION OF OPTIC NERVE MYELIN

Abstract— Myelin was isolated from bovine optic nerves by differential ultracentrifugation and its lipid composition was analysed. Optic nerve myelin contained 76·3 per cent lipid. The major lipids were cholesterol, ethanolamine glycerophosphatides (EGP) and cerebroside. Serine glycerophosphatides (SGP), sphingomyelin and cerebroside sulphate were present in smaller proportions. EGP and SGP contained 34·6 and 0·5 per cent aldehydes. The major fatty aldehydes were palmitaldehyde, stearaldehyde and octadecenaldehyde. The fatty acids of EGP, SGP and choline glycerophosphatides (CGP) were chiefly 16:0, 18:0 and 18:1, with small proportions of 20 and 22 carbon polyunsaturates. The sphingolipids contained predominantly saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids of chain lengths of 20–26 carbon atoms. Optic nerve myelin and white matter myelin resembled one another closely in overall lipid composition and in the fatty acid compositions of their constituent lipids. Optic nerve myelin and white matter myelin are chemically similar membranes, but both of these differ in their lipid composition from spinal root myelin.     

Composition of O-antigenic lipopolysaccharides from Enterobacter cloacae

Analyses have been carried out on lipopolysaccharides (LPS) from 14 strains of Enterobacter cloacae representing different O serotypes. All of the products appeared to have a composition and architecture typical of enterobacterial LPS, but points of interest include the absence of phosphate residues from the core oligosaccharide, the presence of both L-glycero-D-mannoheptose and D-glycero-D-mannoheptose (ratio usually about 4:1), and the presence in lipid A of small amounts of fatty acids with odd numbers of carbon atoms (mainly C13) in addition to tetradecanoic acid and 3-hydroxytetradecanoic acid. Monosaccharides identified as components of polymeric fractions from the LPS were glucose, galactose, mannose, rhamnose, glucosamine, galactosamine, fucosamine, and galacturonic acid. Most polymeric fractions also probably contained an O-acetyl substituent. Closely similar chemotypes found for the polymeric fractions from the LPS of cross-reacting serotypes support the view that these fractions contain the O-antigenic determinants and represent the side chains of the LPS.     

Short chain fatty acid inhibition of rat brain Na-K adenosine triphosphatase

The possibility was considered that the sleep-like state seen after injection of short chain fatty acids salts into animals is a result of inhibition of the sodium-potassium activated ATPase. Tris salts of short chain fatty acids inhibited brain Na-K ATPase activity in vitro at concentrations similar to intravenous levels causing narcosis in vivo. The inhibition depended on the logarithm of the concentration of a given acid. The concentration of acid anion which caused 50 per cent inhibition of the enzyme system (I50) was determined for straight and branched chain acids with 4-12 carbon atoms per molecule. The log of I50 concentrations plotted against the number of carbon atoms in the molecule gave a straight line; the inhibitory capacity of an acid increased by a factor of 2.3 for each--CH2--added to the carbon chain. It is suggested that both fatty acid narcosis and the enzyme inhibition result from fatty acid molecules forming an ordered array along the membrane in association with membrane lipids.     

The fatty acid composition of Haemophilus and Pasteurella multocida cells as a phylogenetic marker

When grown on meat-peptone agar with heated blood, different Haemophilus species (H. influenzae, H. parahaemolyticus, H. parasuis, H. pleuropneumoniae), including different H. influenzae serovars (a, b, c, d, e, f), and Pasteurella multocida have identical fatty acid composition, characterized by the prevalence of fatty acids with 16 carbon atoms, constituting about 70% and more of the total number of fatty acids, and a low level of fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms. P. multocida strains cultivated on meat-peptone agar with unheated blood have a greatly increased content of fatty acids with 18 carbon atoms, while the content of fatty acids with 16 carbon atoms is much lower. The identity of fatty acid composition under similar cultivation conditions, together with their similarity in other phenetic signs, is indicative of close phylogenic relationship between bacteria belonging to the genus Haemophilus and P. multocida.     

Anaerobic transformation of alkanes to fatty acids by a sulfate-reducing bacterium,strain Hxd3

Strain Hxd3, an alkane-degrading sulfate reducer previously isolated and described by Aeckersberg et al. (F. Aeckersberg, F. Bak, and F. Widdel, Arch. Microbiol. 156:5-14, 1991), was studied for its alkane degradation mechanism by using deuterium and (13)C-labeled compounds. Deuterated fatty acids with even numbers of C atoms (C-even) and (13)C-labeled fatty acids with odd numbers of C atoms (C-odd) were recovered from cultures of Hxd3 grown on perdeuterated pentadecane and [1,2-(13)C(2)]hexadecane, respectively, underscoring evidence that C-odd alkanes are transformed to C-even fatty acids and vice versa. When Hxd3 was grown on unlabeled hexadecane in the presence of [(13)C]bicarbonate, the resulting 15:0 fatty acid, which was one carbon shorter than the alkane, incorporated a (13)C label to form its carboxyl group. The same results were observed when tetradecane, pentadecane, and perdeuterated pentadecane were used as the substrates. These observations indicate that the initial attack of alkanes includes both carboxylation with inorganic bicarbonate and the removal of two carbon atoms from the alkane chain terminus, resulting in a fatty acid one carbon shorter than the original alkane. The removal of two terminal carbon atoms is further evidenced by the observation that the [1,2-(13)C(2)]hexadecane-derived fatty acids contained either two (13)C labels located exclusively at their acyl chain termini or none at all. Furthermore, when perdeuterated pentadecane was used as the substrate, the 14:0 and 16:0 fatty acids formed both carried the same numbers of deuterium labels, while the latter was not deuterated at its carboxyl end. These observations provide further evidence that the 14:0 fatty acid was initially formed from perdeuterated pentadecane, while the 16:0 fatty acid was produced after chain elongation of the former fatty acid with nondeuterated carbon atoms. We propose that strain Hxd3 anaerobically transforms an alkane to a fatty acid through a mechanism which includes subterminal carboxylation at the C-3 position of the alkane and elimination of the two adjacent terminal carbon atoms.