壳聚糖钴与牛血清白蛋白相互作用的研究

采用紫外-可见吸收和荧光光谱,研究了壳聚糖钴与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)的相互作用。结果发现:随壳聚糖钴浓度的增加,BSA的紫外-可见吸收光谱表现增色效应和较小的蓝移;壳聚糖钴可以猝灭BSA的内源荧光,其猝灭机理属于静态猝灭。在室温下,壳聚糖钴与BSA的的结合常数KA为2.40×106。     

水溶性壳聚糖与牛血清白蛋白相互作用的研究

采用紫外和荧光光谱研究了水溶性壳聚糖(CS)与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)之间的相互作用。结果表明:随CS浓度的增加,BSA的紫外吸收光谱表现出明显的增色效应和较小的紫移;CS可以猝灭BSA的内源荧光,其猝灭机理是CS与BSA形成复合物的静态猝灭。并且测定了在不同温度下,该反应的结合常数KA分别为6.92×106(298 K),5.01×106(308 K),3.31×106(318 K),CS与BSA以摩尔比1∶1结合。同时采用同步荧光光谱法探讨了CS对BSA构象的影响。     

光谱法研究单硝酸异山梨酯与牛血清白蛋白的相互作用

为研究单硝酸异山梨酯(IM)与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)之间的相互作用,用紫外-可见光谱法和荧光光谱法在优化的实验条件下进行研究。结果表明:IM与BSA形成基态复合物从而猝灭BSA的内源性荧光,猝灭机理为静态猝灭。通过计算得出IM与BSA的结合常数Kb及结合为点数n。根据热力学参数确定了IM和BSA之间的作用力类型主要为静电引力。生成自由能变驻G为负值,表明IM与BSA的作用过程是一个自发过程。同步荧光光谱表明IM对BSA构象产生很微弱的影响,使BSA腔内疏水环境的极性减弱。同步荧光光谱显示两者的结合位点更接近于酪氨酸,两者的结合部位主要位于亚螺旋域ⅢA中。Hill系数nH1,表明IM有正协同作用。为后续硝酸脂类药物的研发和进一步探讨IM在生物体内与蛋白质的作用机制和生物学效应提供了理论依据。     

胶毒素与BSA的相互作用

应用荧光、圆二色和紫外—可见吸收等波谱法研究胶毒素与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)的相互作用。荧光光谱实验结果表明胶毒素主要靠疏水作用与BSA结合, 而对其内源荧光产生猝灭作用,其淬灭方式为静态猝灭, 胶毒素与BSA的结合常数为7.2×103 L/mol。圆二色光谱检测发现, 随着胶毒素浓度的增加, BSA的a-螺旋数量也增加, 当胶毒素浓度为BSA浓度的100倍时, BSA的a-螺旋增加40.1%, 表明胶毒素与BSA的结合改变了BSA的空间构象。     

高良姜素与牛血清白蛋白作用的光谱研究

采用荧光猝灭、同步荧光、三维荧光和圆二色谱,研究高良姜素与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)之间的相互作用。结果表明:高良姜素对BSA有较强的荧光猝灭作用,且为静态猝灭,并计算出不同温度下二者的结合常数(Ka)与结合位点数(n)分别为9.33×10~6L/mol、1.17(290.15 K),2.34×10~6L/mol、1.09(296.15 K),4.57×10~5L/mol、1.01(303.15 K),1.02×10~5L/mol、0.99(310.15 K)。由热力学参数确定它们之间的作用力主要是氢键和范德华力,利用竞争结合实验推断高良姜素的结合位点为BSA疏水空腔的SiteⅠ。同步荧光、三维荧光和圆二色谱显示高良姜素与BSA作用时更靠近色氨酸残基,使其周围的疏水性减弱,而对蛋白α-螺旋结构影响较小。     

牛血清白蛋白与地肤提取物N-反式阿魏酰酪胺相互作用研究

地肤别名扫帚苗、扫帚菜、孔雀松等,属藜科地肤属一年生草本植物。地肤幼苗是一种高蛋白、低脂肪并且富含钾元素和胡萝卜素的野生蔬菜,有丰富的营养价值。作为在我国广泛分布的植物,一直以来地肤主要作为传统野菜被食用,对其药用价值却鲜有进一步研究与开发。该研究对地肤采用硅胶柱色谱分离提纯得到N-反式阿魏酰酪胺,利用紫外光谱法和荧光光谱法研究它和牛血清白蛋白(BSA)相互作用的机制,求出了猝灭常数、结合常数及结合位点数。结果表明:N-反式阿魏酰酪胺对BSA具有荧光猝灭作用,其猝灭方式为静态猝灭;N-反式阿魏酰酪胺与BSA有较强的相互作用,可以被蛋白质所储存和运输。该研究结果为进一步开发利用地肤资源、提高地肤的药用价值提供一定的理论基础。     

槐定碱与牛血清白蛋白的相互作用研究

在模拟动物体生理条件下,用荧光猝灭、荧光偏振和紫外-可见吸收光谱法研究了槐定碱与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)结合作用。荧光猝灭数据显示,槐定碱与BSA发生反应生成了新的复合物,属于静态荧光猝灭。求出了不同温度(19、25、31、37℃)下槐定碱与BSA作用的结合常数分别为1.219×106,1.164×106,1.110×106和1.057×106L/mol,由van’tHoff方程式计算槐定碱与BSA反应的热力学参数:焓变ΔH和熵变ΔS值分别为-5.97kJ/mol和96.11J/(mol.K),表明槐定碱与BSA间的作用力以静电引力为主。以华法林和布洛芬(分别为siteI和siteII探针)为标记药物研究槐定碱在BSA上的结合位点,结果表明,槐定碱结合在BSA疏水空腔的siteI位点。     

荷叶中紫云英苷和牛血清白蛋白相互作用的光谱学研究

本文采用荧光光谱法、紫外光谱法研究在生理条件(pH=7.4)下荷叶中紫云英苷(AST)与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)的相互作用。结果表明AST可与BSA结合并通过静态猝灭作用机制对BSA内源性荧光进行猝灭。在温度为298K及308K时,测得其猝灭速率常数(Kq)分别为4.31×1013L/mol/s和3.72×1013L/mol/s;结合常数(Kd)分别为2.009×105L/mol和0.927×105L/mol;结合位点数(n)分别为0.943和0.893。依据298K时测定的反应自由能变(△G0=-30.25kJ/mol),反应焓变(△H0=-59.02kJ/mol)及反应熵变(△S0=-96.54J/mol/K),结果发现AST与BSA间的结合反应可自发进行且其作用力主要表现为氢键和范德华力。此外,根据Frster非辐射能量转移理论得到AST与BSA之间的结合距离(r)为4.13nm,表明非辐射能量可从BSA转移至AST。     

壳寡糖镧配合物的抑菌活性及其与牛血清白蛋白的相互作用

合成了壳寡糖和稀土离子La3+的配合物,利用红外光谱、紫外光谱和差热-热重手段对其结构和性质进行了表征。采用抑菌圈法考察了壳寡糖、壳寡糖-La对革兰氏阳性菌金黄色葡萄球菌和革兰氏阴性菌大肠杆菌的抑菌活性。此外,紫外光谱、荧光光谱和循环伏安曲线法研究壳寡糖-La与牛血清白蛋白(BSA)相互作用。结果表明壳寡糖、壳寡糖-La对两种细菌均具有较强的抑菌活性,且壳寡糖-La的抑菌活性强于壳寡糖;壳寡糖-La使BSA的内源荧光猝灭,猝灭机制为静态猝灭,并计算了室温下壳寡糖-La与BSA的结合常数和结合位点数分别为6.35×104L/mol和1.29。     

秋水仙碱与胰蛋白酶相互作用的光谱性质研究

采用紫外光谱法和荧光光谱法研究了秋水仙碱与牛胰蛋白酶的相互作用。观测到秋水仙碱使胰蛋白酶的特征荧光峰猝灭。SternVolmer猝灭曲线显示,秋水仙碱对胰蛋白酶的荧光猝灭机制属于静态猝灭,猝灭常数Kq为6.60×1012(mol/L)1·s1;秋水仙碱与胰蛋白酶的结合常数为1.06×104L·mol1,结合位点数为1,作用力类型主要为疏水作用力。     

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.