14个蝴蝶兰品种遗传关系的ISSR分析

采用ISSR分子标记技术对14个蝴蝶兰品种进行品种间遗传关系的研究。利用14个筛选的引物共扩增出179条带,其中多态性条带147条,多态性条带比率(PPB)为82%。品种之间的遗传相似系数范围在0.734~0.936间,说明部分蝴蝶兰品种间存在显著的遗传分化。14个引物组合可区分所有14个品种,并且检测到20条品种特异性条带,这些品种特异条带可用来鉴定供试蝴蝶兰中的10个品种。因此,ISSR分子标记能有效地进行蝴蝶兰品种鉴定。UPGMA聚类分析表明,14个品种可聚为2类,聚类情况与花色特征比较一致,但与花色的划分结果不完全相同,这可能是由于品种间杂交引起的。本文也论讨了ISSR分析结果对蝴蝶兰育种的指导意义。     

肉质色不同萝卜遗传多样性的SSR分子标记分析

利用微卫星(SSR)标记技术,从600对SSR引物中筛选86对扩增条带清晰的引物,检测了来自我国不同地区37个肉质不同颜色萝卜品种的遗传多样性。86对引物共扩增到976个条带,每对引物扩增出2～17个条带,平均为10.7个,其中多态性条带892个,多态性条带比例为91.39%;共检测出753个基因型,每对引物检测2～20个基因型,平均8.7个,其中有效基因型443.99,有效基因型比例为58.96%;Shannon多态性指数变幅为0.44～2.77,平均1.76。当相似系数为0.81时,可将供试萝卜分成3类,第I类包括6份白色肉质萝卜,第II类包括3份红色肉质萝卜和6份白色肉质萝卜,第III类包括22份红色肉质萝卜。各红色肉质萝卜品种间的遗传相似系数有97%大于0.80,而各白色肉质萝卜品种间的遗传相似系数有91%大于0.80。红色肉质萝卜遗传多样性略低于白色肉质萝卜,红色肉质萝卜与白色肉质萝卜间平均相似系数为0.83,说明不同肉色的萝卜间亲缘关系较密切,在分类上红色肉质萝卜可能是白色萝卜的一个变种。     

引进海岛棉种质的SSR遗传多样性分析

利用95对SSR分子标记对56份海岛棉种质进行遗传多样性分析,其中33份来自于俄罗斯,5份来自埃及,2份来自美国,1份来自阿尔巴尼亚,8份来自我国新疆,7份来自我国云南、江苏等地。结果表明,95对SSR引物在56个海岛棉品种中共测出了384个等位基因,其中多态性等位基因296个,占77.1%。每对引物等位基因变幅是2~9个,平均为4.1个。基因多样性指数(H)在0.035~2.931之间,平均为0.879。Shannon信息指数(I)在0.090~4.417之间,平均为1.363。各指数的趋势一致。95对SSR引物的多态性信息含量PIC变幅为0.035~0.926,平均为0.698。56份海岛棉品种两两间的相似系数在0.585~0.952之间,主要集中在0.6~0.8之间,占整个数据的97%,平均遗传相似系数为0.7。从整体上来看,56份海岛棉的遗传相似系数较高,从聚类图上可以看出,以遗传距离为0.69为标准,56份海岛棉品种可分为4类。第1类主要是前苏联海岛棉为主的27份品种,其中来自埃及的吉扎77和来自美国的派字棉以及中239都归到了这一类。第2类较复杂,但主要是以来自新疆的6份海岛棉和来自埃及的吉扎系列的4份为主。第3类包括8个品种,主要是来自于前苏联的6个品种、来自于新疆的巴3116和河北的冀B91-45。第4类只有来自于前苏联的L-8007,独自成一类。研究结果表明SSR作为一种共显性标记,尤为适用于海岛棉及其亲本的系谱分析及鉴定。因而,SSR标记技术可以为海岛棉育种实践工作中的亲本选配,提供可靠的分子水平上的依据。     

14个蝴蝶兰品种遗传关系的ISSR分析

采用ISSR分子标记技术对14个蝴蝶兰品种进行品种间遗传关系的研究。利用14个筛选的引物共扩增出179条带,其中多态性条带147条,多态性条带比率（PPB）为82％。品种之间的遗传相似系数范围在0．734—0．936间,说明部分蝴蝶兰品种间存在显著的遗传分化。14个引物组合可区分所有14个品种,并且检测到20条品种特异性条带,这些品种特异条带可用来鉴定供试蝴蝶兰中的10个品种。因此,ISSR分子标记能有效地进行蝴蝶兰品种鉴定。UPGMA聚类分析表明,14个品种可聚为2类,聚类情况与花色特征比较一致,但与花色的划分结果不完全相同,这可能是由于品种间杂交引起的。本文也论讨了ISSR分析结果对蝴蝶兰育种的指导意义。     

用EST-SSR标记对茶树种质资源的研究

采用16对EST-SSR引物对42份茶树品种资源进行了分析。在这些引物中, 有13对可扩增出清晰条带, 其中10对引物具有多态性, 占76.9%。各多态性引物的PIC值变化范围为0.522~0.866, 平均PIC值为0.730。10对多态性引物共检测到84种等位基因型和74个等位变异, 每对引物可检测到基因型和等位基因数分别为4~12和3~10种。42份供试材料间遗传距离为0.074~0.667, 平均遗传距离为0.363, 说明本实验所测试的材料具有较广的遗传变异。在相似系数为0.55的水平可将这些材料聚为3类, 多数材料包含在第一类中。本研究表明, 利用EST-SSR标记进行茶树资源评价是有效的。     

浙江赤霉病抗性不同的大麦地方品种遗传多样性分析

采用SSR标记方法研究了43份对大麦赤霉病有不同抗性的浙江地方品种的遗传多样性。结果显示29对SSR引物在上述品种中共检测到87个等位基因,每对引物等位基因数在2~9之间,平均为3个;平均多态性信息含量（PIC）为0.3509,平均Shannon指数(I)为0.6951,平均Nei’s基因多样性指数(H)为0.4268。品种间的遗传相似系数变幅为0.082~0.986,平均值为0.467。聚类分析将参试品种分为4大类。浙江省地方品种遗传多样性较高,二棱品种的遗传变异明显高于六棱品种;抗和中抗赤霉病品种的遗传变异也较大。聚类结果与品种来源无任何关系;主成分分析结果与聚类分析结果基本一致。     

30个粳稻品种SSR标记遗传多样性分析

选用分布于水稻12条染色体上的64对SSR引物,对江苏省育成以及日本引进的粳稻品种共30份材料进行遗传多样性分析。结果表明,有50对SSR引物在30个品种间表现为多态性。共检测到140个等位基因,每对引物的等位基因数变幅为2～5个,平均为2．8个。有效等位基因为94．336个,平均为1．887。每个SSR位点的多态性信息量（PIC）变化范围为0．064～0．752,平均为0．410。30个品种间的遗传相似系数变幅为0．386～0．956之间,平均值为0．719,且81．4％的供试品种其遗传相似系数在0．600～0．800之间,亲缘关系较近;以遗传相似系数为原始数据,按UPGMA方法将30个品种划分为3大类群,结合系谱分析结果表明,江苏省育成的水稻品种遗传多样性不够丰富,多数品种间的亲缘关系较近,欲进一步提高江苏省水稻产量还需拓宽亲本选择范围,扩大遗传背景。     

河南大豆遗传多样性的ISSR分析

用ISSR标记技术对10个大豆品种进行遗传多样性分析.从44条随机引物中筛选出8个多态性引物,共扩增出89条带,其中有55条为多态性条带,多态性比率为61.8%,条带大小为220~1 500 bp,平均每个引物可扩增出11条带.Shannon多样性指数评价结果表明,平均多样性指数为0.286 5,观察等位基因数和有效等位基因数分别为1.618和1.300 8;统计分析结果表明,10个品种间的相似系数为0.60~0.75,平均相似系数为0.69;聚类分析结果表明,10个大豆品种可聚成2组:第一组包括豫豆15、豫豆11、豫豆24、周豆12和周豆11;第二组包括豫豆22、周豆13、豫豆6、中作98-3和豫豆26;主成分分析结果支持聚类分析结果.本研究为大豆品种鉴定和种质资源利用奠定了基础.     

中国黄瓜主栽品种SSR遗传多样性分析及指纹图谱构建

应用简单重复序列(SSR)标记对从国内主要黄瓜育种单位征集到的116份生产上主栽品种进行遗传多样性分析。结果表明35对引物共扩增出86个等位基因,每对引物平均扩增出2.46个等位基因,其中有效等位基因占70.99%,平均Shannon’s信息指数为0.639,平均PIC为0.382。116个品种的遗传相似系数(GS)分布在0.5029~0.9797之间。聚类分析结果表明在遗传距离0.25处可将供试材料分为2大类群。第1类共106个品种,可分为5个亚族,主要包括华北密刺型、华南型、日本少刺型这3大类型;第2类包含10个欧洲温室型品种。     

黔南60份茶树种质资源遗传多样性的SSR分析

为探索黔南野生茶树种质资源的遗传多样性,利用SSR分子标记技术,对黔南60份茶树资源进行了DNA遗传多样性分析。结果表明:15对引物均显示多态性,基因多态性百分率为98.64%。15对SSR引物共扩增出147个观测等位基因和73.778 6个有效等位基因,平均每个引物扩增9.8个观测等位基因,4.918 6个有效等位基因。15个通用位点共产生280种基因型,平均每个位点18.7种基因型。遗传多态信息量变异范围为0.123 9~0.926 8,平均0.572 5,平均观测杂合度、平均期望杂合度和平均Shannons信息指数分别为0.470 0、0.602 3、1.464 4。经聚类分析后,60份材料间遗传相似系数在0.205 1~0.863 6之间,以平均遗传相似系数0.477 5为阈值,可将60份种质资源聚为8个类群,其在分子遗传水平上的分类结果与其材料来源分类的结果并不完全一致,而且材料来源地间遗传距离与地理距离不存在显著的相关性,有少部分同一来源的材料分散在各个类群中。研究认为,黔南茶树资源间的遗传差异较大,遗传基础较宽,具有丰富的遗传多样性。     

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.