根癌农杆菌介导的金边狗牙根遗传转化条件的优化

为建立根癌农杆菌(Agrobacterium tumefaciens,菌(L.)Pers.]最佳遗传转化体系,以葡萄糖醛酸糖苷酶(GUS)基因的瞬间表达率为指标,从愈伤组织继代时间、根癌农杆菌侵染时间、负压条件及光照时间等方面进行了筛选.结果表明,根癌农杆菌介导的金边狗牙根最佳的转化体系是:以继代培养2周的愈伤组织为起始材料,根癌农杆菌介导感染10 min,经负压处理(抽拉20次)并在全光条件下共培养转化.     

利用gfp报告基因优化农杆菌介导的水稻遗传转化

为提高农杆菌介导的水稻遗传转化效率,以晚粳97为转化材料,绿色荧光蛋白gfp基因为报告基因,采用正交试验L9(33)对影响农杆菌介导水稻的遗传转化因子进行优化。通过观察愈伤组织荧光表达情况,分析菌液浓度、共培养温度与共培养时间对农杆菌转化水稻的影响。结果表明,在OD660值为0.1、共培养21℃～23℃黑暗条件下,农杆菌与水稻愈伤共培养72 h,最有利于水稻的遗传转化,该条件下晚粳97愈伤组织荧光表达率达到70.9%。     

农杆菌介导GUS基因对多年生黑麦草转化的研究

通过检测愈伤组织中GUS基因的瞬间表达,研究农杆菌LBA4404/pCAMBIA1301介导多年生黑麦草的转化体系。通过对多年生黑麦草瞬间表达率的比较,确立了其遗传转化的最佳优化条件。研究发现,多年生黑麦草不同品种的转化率在25%~45%之间变化。多年生黑麦草遗传转化最佳优化条件是预培养10d的胚性愈伤组织、浓度为0.5~0.8OD的农杆菌菌液以及2d共培养时间。在共培养基中添加100μmol/L乙酰丁香酮能有效地提高植物瞬间表达率。两种侵染处理方法比较结果为滤纸滴加法比浸泡法更优。转化后对愈伤组织的干燥处理能抑制农杆菌过度繁殖,能改善愈伤状态,有利于提高转化率。     

农杆菌介导佛手遗传转化主要影响因素的研究

采用根癌农杆菌介导的佛手叶盘转化法,在建立转海藻糖合酶基因(TPS)佛手体系过程中,对影响农杆菌转化频率的各种因素进行了研究。结果表明,佛手叶盘需在黑暗条件下MT培养基上预培养2-3d,与农杆菌共培养3d较合适;农杆菌菌液浓度OD600约为0.6-0.8,感染时间20min;抑制农杆菌生长的抗生素浓度以头孢霉素(Cef)250mgL-1和羧苄青霉素(Cb)250mgL-1且延迟筛选时间4d最好;共培养基中添加100μmol/L乙酰丁香酮(AS)和400mgL-1半胱氨酸(L-Cys)对佛手遗传转化有明显的促进作用。经GUS报告基因和PCR技术检测,初步证实TPS基因已整合到佛手基因组中,且GUS报告基因瞬时表达率为5.9%。     

大豆胚尖遗传转化体系优化及抗逆基因GmPK转化研究

采用GUS基因瞬时表达检测方法,通过正交试验以AS浓度、侵染菌液OD值、侵染时间、共培养时间和恢复培养时间5个因素在4个水平上进行分析,优化了农杆菌介导的大豆胚尖遗传转化体系,并在此基础上进行了抗逆基因GmPK的遗传转化。结果表明,采用共培养培养基中添加100μmol/L AS、侵染菌液OD600值0.9、侵染15h、共培养5d和恢复培养3d的转化条件最佳,GUS阳性率达74.59%,经PCR及RT-PCR进一步验证获得了转基因阳性植株。利用优化的最佳条件进行抗逆基因GmPK的转化,炼苗移栽成活的再生植株经PCR及PCR-Southern blotting验证,初步证明外源基因已经整合至大豆基因组,转化率为0.6%。     

优良大麦品种花30幼胚遗传转化体系的优化

以大麦花培基因型花30的幼胚为外植体,设置不同的培养基类型、不同激素配比及碳源,研究其对幼胚愈伤组织诱导及绿苗分化的影响,以此建立和优化一个适于优良大麦品种遗传转化的高效组织培养体系。结果表明:在N6、MS和B5的组合改良培养基下,以蔗糖为碳源,附加2mg/L 2,4-D、1mg/L ABA时,有最高的愈伤组织诱导率,且愈伤质量最好。Cu2+的添加具有抑制幼胚直接发芽成苗和改善愈伤组织质量的双重功效。添加2mg/L 6-BA对愈伤组织的分化效果比较理想。为了提高农杆菌介导转化大麦外源基因的瞬时表达率和优化遗传转化体系,利用花30幼胚产生的愈伤组织为受体材料,通过检测GUS基因的瞬时表达情况,研究了农杆菌介导的大麦遗传转化中菌液的浓度、侵染时间以及共培养天数对遗传转化的影响,结果表明:当菌液浓度OD600=0.5的条件下,侵染15min,共培养2d表现出最佳的GUS瞬时表达率。     

根癌农杆菌介导里氏木霉转化体系的建立和条件优化

目的:采用根癌农杆菌介导的转化方法实现丝状真菌里氏木霉的遗传转化,并优化转化条件.方法:构建含潮霉素抗性基因(hph)的双元载体pCAM-hph后,转化根癌农杆菌LBA4404获得转化菌株.将根癌农杆菌的转化菌株和里氏木霉的分生孢子共培养后在含100μg/mL潮霉素的抗性平板上筛选里氏木霉转化子,并采用PCR扩增和序列测定对转化子中的插入片段进行了分析.结果:使用根癌农杆菌介导的转化方法转化里氏木霉,每106个分生孢子可获得25.8个转化子.最佳的转化条件为:农杆菌初始浓度为OD660约为0.8,孢子数为106个,共培养时间为48h,pH为5.0～5.5,培养温度为28℃.结论:建立了根癌农杆菌介导的里氏木霉转化方法,并获得了最佳的转化条件.     

农杆菌介导韭菜遗传转化相关因素的研究

以"汉中冬韭"韭菜品种为试验材料,用含有pCAMBIA3301质粒的根癌农杆菌菌株EHA105对影响韭菜遗传转化效率的多种因素进行研究。结果表明,诱导40 d的愈伤组织,GUS基因瞬时表达率达到93%,且最适宜于不定芽的分化;当乙酰丁香酮(AS)的浓度为100μmol/L时,愈伤的GUS表达率达到91%,植株再生率为7.9%,AS浓度增加时其值也不会增加;菌液OD600值为0.6侵染10 min时,与其他组合相比,外植体受伤程度小,GUS表达率及再生率最高;侵染后的愈伤共培养3 d后,农杆菌生长较少,GUS表达率为91.1%,而再生率达到7.2%,为最佳的共培养时间。通过试验得到韭菜遗传转化因素的最佳条件,为今后的遗传转化提供一些参考。     

黄瓜‘新津春四号’遗传转化体系的建立

对根癌农杆菌介导‘新津春四号’黄瓜(Cucumbis sativus L.)遗传转化的影响因素进行了研究。结果表明,黄瓜叶片适宜的潮霉素(Hygromycin,Hyg)筛选浓度为40 mg L-1;500 mg L-1羧苄青霉素(Carbenicillin,Carb)可有效抑菌。预培养2 d有利于转化;共培养2 d有利于提高转化频率并避免农杆菌的过度生长;添加150μmol/L乙酰丁香酮(Acetosyringone,AS),农杆菌浸染液pH5.7、浓度0.8,浸染时间8 min为最佳遗传转化条件。再生植株经gus基因的瞬时表达检测及PCR检测证明hpt基因已成功转化。     

蝴蝶兰花瓣瞬时转化体系建立

蝴蝶兰花器官中基因功能的研究受遗传转化效率低和遗传转化周期长的制约,而花瓣瞬时表达体系是一种快速分析基因功能的有效手段。该研究以蝴蝶兰‘大辣椒’花瓣和萼片为实验材料,通过农杆菌介导的瞬时转化方法,分析了侵染的菌液浓度、侵染时间、乙酰丁香酮浓度和共培养时间等4个因素对β-葡糖醛酸酶(GUS)报告基因表达效率的影响,以探寻其瞬时表达的最佳条件;并将查尔酮合成酶(chalcone synthase,CHS)基因RNAi干扰载体瞬时转化蝴蝶兰花瓣,共培养3d后观察转化材料中花色表型以及色素的变化,并利用半定量RT-PCR来检测CHS基因转录水平的表达。结果表明:(1)农杆菌菌液OD600为0.6、侵染时间60s,在重悬液中添加150μmol/L乙酰丁香酮,共培养3d,GUS瞬时表达率最高(85.01%)。(2)转基因蝴蝶兰花瓣颜色明显变淡,色素含量降低。(3)半定量PCR检测表明,CHS基因的转录活性相比于对照组显著降低。该实验成功的在蝴蝶兰花器官中建立了一种快速基因功能验证方法,为后期蝴蝶兰基因功能研究和育种工作提供技术支持。     

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.