常压室温等离子体-紫外复合诱变选育β-法尼烯高产菌株

【背景】大肠杆菌(Escherichia coli)由于生长性能优良、遗传背景清楚、遗传操作手段成熟,是合成β-法尼烯的合适生产菌,但其合成β-法尼烯的产量目前仍不能满足工业化生产的需求。【目的】通过诱变筛选技术选育β-法尼烯高产突变株。【方法】采用常压室温等离子体(atmosphericand room temperature plasma,ARTP)诱变技术和紫外线照射对出发菌株大肠杆菌EC-16进行复合诱变,并以异戊烯焦磷酸耐受性为选择压力进行平板初筛,之后进行摇瓶复筛,最后进行发酵罐验证。通过连续多代培养筛选到的高产突变菌株,观察其遗传稳定性。【结果】经复合诱变选育筛选出一株β-法尼烯高产突变株E.coliHVK-9,其产量高达22.1g/L,相比出发菌株提高了168.74%。【结论】采用ARTP-紫外复合诱变,再结合异戊烯焦磷酸抗性筛选的集成方法,使得诱变菌株的正突变率大大提高,可以有效地提高诱变菌株的β-法尼烯产量。突变株HVK-9作为工业化发酵生产菌种具有较好的遗传稳定性,为β-法尼烯的工业化生产和应用奠定了良好的基础。     

脱落酸高产菌的激光诱变筛选

对脱落酸产生菌分别进行了紫外诱变和紫外 -激光复合诱变筛选 ,结果表明紫外 -激光复合诱变正变率较高 ,正变幅度较大。从紫外 -激光复合诱变得到的突变株中筛选到一株遗传性状稳定的高产菌株 ,将其传代 5代 ,各子代发酵脱落酸的平均产量均在 2 .1mg·g-1 以上 ,比原始出发菌株产量提高了 32 %。     

高产不饱和油脂海鞘真菌桔青霉Asc-2-4的诱变选育

诱变育种是获得高产菌株,实现微生物工业化生产油脂的重要措施。以前期获得的高产不饱和油脂菌株桔青霉（Penicillium citrinum）Asc-2-4为出发菌株,利用丙二酸建立快速筛选高产不饱和脂肪酸突变菌的方法,通过紫外线 氯化锂复合诱变得到1株高产油脂突变菌Asc-2-4-1,油脂含量比出发菌株提高了92.98%。经过初步的培养基无机盐优化,其油脂得率和不饱和脂肪酸产量达到了7.10 g/L和3.84 g/L,与Asc-2-4相比,分别提高了84.42%和77.78%。结果表明,通过复合诱变选育技术可选育出高产突变菌株,选育的Asc-2-4-1可望作为产油微生物被开发利用。     

虾青素高产菌株的选育

采用激光（Laser）、紫外线（UV）、亚硝基胍（NTG）及其复合诱变法夫酵母菌,再用高浓度葡萄糖培养基选育经复合诱变的法夫酵母菌。结果表明：与原始出发菌相比,菌株经诱变后其虾青素产量有显著提高,其中复合诱变的是青素产量可达7.26μm/ml。诱变高产菌株遗传稳定性好。     

紫外诱变结合离子束诱变选育辅酶Q_(10)高产菌株

辅酶Q_(10)在医药、食品和化妆品等行业应用广泛。发酵法生产辅酶Q_(10)成本较低,但要实现工业化,需进一步提高菌株的产量。通过诱变方法获取产量和稳定性较为理想的菌株具有较强的现实意义。本文中,笔者以根癌土壤杆菌(Rhizobium radiobacter)为出发菌株,经紫外线和离子束双重诱变,并结合抗性筛选获得3株高产辅酶Q_(10)的菌株K-53、Q-18和Y80-58-2,所得菌株辅酶Q_(10)产量均较稳定,与出发菌株相比产量分别提高了58.7%、64.4%和66.1%,其中Y80-58-2产量达105.8 mg/L。本研究结果对工业化生产辅酶Q_(10)具有一定的帮助。     

常规诱变结合高通量筛选选育可利霉素高产菌株

可利霉素是通过基因工程定向育种技术获得的新型大环内酯类抗生素,是国家一类新药.[目的]为满足工业化生产需要,其工程菌株的发酵水平有待提高.[方法]多种常规诱变技术交替处理和高通量筛选方法选育可利霉素高产菌株,处理方法包括原生质体紫外诱变、DES(硫酸二乙酯)诱变、紫外光复活诱变、缬氨酸抗性筛选和正突变菌株的富集.[结果]高产菌株WSJ-1-7-49-133-82-43的摇瓶生物效价比出发菌株WSJ-1-7-49提高56％,500L中试发酵罐突变菌株效价较出发株高61％.[结论]说明多轮常规诱变育种结合高通量的筛选方法可以用于工业生产菌株的高效筛选.     

紫杉醇高产菌株的原生质体诱变选育及其遗传变异初探

以紫杉醇产生菌NCEU_1为出发菌株,分别采用紫外线和紫外线与氯化锂复合诱变方法对其原生质体进行诱变,获得了两株高产紫杉醇的突变株———UV4 0 - 1 9和UL50 - 6 ,其紫杉醇产量从出发菌株的314 0 7μg L分别提高至376 38μg L和392 6 3μg L ;同时,又采用RAPD和同工酶技术对出发菌株NCEU_1与两高产株UV4 0 - 1 9和UL50 - 6 间的遗传差异进行了研究。结果表明,出发菌株与诱变菌株之间以及两诱变菌株之间都存在明显差异,为进一步研究与紫杉醇合成相关基因及诱变株产量提高的分子机制奠定了基础     

磷霉素产生菌的定向诱变育种

目的:提高出发菌的磷霉素产量.方法:采用紫外(UV)+亚硝基胍(NTG)复合诱变的方法处理出发菌株(Bacillus fusi-formis),以分别含2.0和2.5mg/mL磷霉素的分离培养基来筛选UV诱变和NTG诱变后的菌株.结果:从大量突变菌中选育出一株高产、稳定的磷霉素生产菌株.当底物浓度为10mg/mL时,其磷霉素产量由1.15mg/mL提高至2.30mg/mL,转化产量提高了100%,转化率提高了10.16%.结论:采用UV+NTG诱变结合含FOM的分离平板进行定向筛选可以获得FOM高产菌株.     

紫外线诱变深黄被孢霉选育花生四烯酸高产菌株

为获得生长活力较强, 产花生四烯酸能力强的菌株, 以微生物油脂产量和花生四烯酸产量为评价指标, 采用2轮紫外线诱变的方法, 利用单因素试验确定紫外线照射时间, 并采用气相色谱分析花生四烯酸含量。试验结果表明: 紫外灯功率20 W, 照射距离30 cm, 照射时间80 s, 其致死率为76.4%。经过诱变及菌种筛选, 获得1株高产菌株Z80s2-109, 其总油脂含量为16 g/L, 花生四烯酸产量为2.34 g/L, 花生四烯酸产量比原始对照菌株提高377%, 并且遗传性能稳定。     

高产DHA破囊壶菌Aurantiochytrium sp. PKU#SW7诱变株的筛选

【目的】对野生菌株Aurantiochytrium sp.PKU#SW7诱变育种,筛选高产DHA突变株。【方法】采用UV诱变和化学药物胁迫筛选方式,以菌株的生物量、油脂产量、DHA产量作为筛选指标,获得高产DHA突变株。【结果】经鉴定获得一株DHA高产突变株PKU#PM003,该菌株传代4次后仍保持较好的遗传稳定性。摇瓶发酵后,PKU#PM003生物量产量高达6.62 g/L,比原始菌株5.95 g/L提高了11.26%,脂肪酸含量高达4.01 g/L,比原始菌株3.18 g/L提高了26.1%,DHA在脂肪酸中所占比例由29.97%增加到33.43%,产量提高了41.01%,油脂突变效果显著。【结论】突变株PKU#PM003可作为性状优良的工业化发酵生产菌种,并在DHA产量提升上仍具有巨大的空间。     

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.     

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     

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.     

鸡传染性法氏囊病病毒研究进展

传染性法氏囊病(Infection bursal disease, IBD)是由鸡传染性法氏囊病毒(Infectious bursal disease virus, IBDV)引起的鸡和火鸡的一种高度接触性传染病,给世界各国的禽养殖业带来了巨大损失.自IBDV发现至今新的变异株不断出现,分子结构的改变导致病毒致病力的改变及宿主对疫苗应答的改变,使得传统的疫苗已不能控制其流行,因此各国学者对其基因组结构和功能进行了广泛深入的研究,并积极研制新型有效的疫苗以达到防治的目的.     

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.     

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).     

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.