大肠杆菌的AcrAB-To1C多药外排泵及其调控研究进展

多药外排泵造成了细菌的多种药物的耐药现象,这对感染性疾病的防治提出了挑战.对于多药外排泵的研究不仅使人们认识细菌耐药性机制,而且为细菌耐药性的防治提供思路.大肠杆菌AcrAB-To1C外排泵系统的结构和调控机制研究取得了一些新进展,这为病原菌的相关研究提供了参考,本文对其进行了综述.     

革兰氏阴性菌多药外排泵MacAB-TolC的功能与结构

病原菌日益增长的多药耐药性已成为人类健康和生命的主要威胁之一。多药外排泵介导的药物主动外排是细菌产生耐药性的主要原因之一，给感染性疾病的防治带来了极大挑战。深入研究多药外排泵，了解其作用机制，揭示药物结合位点，可以为临床抗感染治疗提供新思路。在革兰氏阴性菌中，一些多药外排泵形成跨越细菌胞外被膜的三联复合物。MacAB-TolC是普遍存在于革兰氏阴性菌中的ABC家族三联外排泵，在近些年逐渐被关注。本文综述了关于MacAB-TolC外排泵的功能与结构研究以及相应抑制剂研发方面的进展。MacAB-TolC外排泵的底物种类多样，包含抗生素、毒力因子以及代谢产物。本文据此将MacAB-TolC外排泵的功能归纳为3类：耐药功能、病理功能和生理功能，并对相应功能分别进行了阐述。在结构研究方面，本文总结了MacAB-TolC外排泵单个组分的晶体结构和组装完全的MacAB-TolC三联外排泵的冷冻电镜单颗粒结构，并对结构数据所揭示的MacAB-TolC外排泵发挥功能的机制进行了论述。最后，本文介绍了MacAB-TolC外排泵抑制剂的最新研究进展，指出解析MacAB-TolC的原位结构，以及MacB结合底...     

RND家族外排泵及其与微生物群体感应系统的相互关系

抗生素耐药性一直是细菌病害防治的难题,药物外排泵过量表达是细菌耐药性形成的重要机制之一。在革兰氏阴性细菌中,RND(Resistance-nodulation-cell division)家族外排泵在耐药性中发挥着重要作用,近年来的研究表明,依赖于小分子信号物质进行调控的群体感应系统与RND外排泵家族之间存在紧密的相互作用关系。本文在介绍RND家族外排泵的结构、转运机理和群体感应系统的类型及调控方式的基础上,剖析了群体感应系统对RND外排泵的调控机理以及RND外排泵对群体感应系统信号分子转运的影响。深入研究RND家族外排泵与群体感应系统之间的相互依赖、相互制约关系有利于阐明RND家族外排泵的调控机理,并有可能为克服微生物耐药性问题提供新的思路。     

外排泵介导鲍曼不动杆菌耐药性的研究进展

目的鲍曼不动杆菌的多重耐药性问题日趋严重,该菌外膜上外排泵过表达是导致其耐药性的重要机制。详尽地研究多药外排泵的机制以及寻找阻断其功能的外排泵抑制剂,将为多耐药鲍曼不动杆菌的治疗开辟新的路径。本文就近年来鲍曼不动杆菌外排泵的研究现状进行综述,着重描述多药外排泵RND家族的耐药谱特征及其表达调控机制,同时,还阐述了MFS和MATE家族外排泵的研究进展。     

细菌耐多药外排泵的研究进展

近年来,由于抗生素的不合理及广泛使用,全球多重耐药菌和广泛耐药菌不断出现。关于细菌耐药机制中外排泵及生物膜形成的研究越来越受关注。研究发现,外排泵与生物膜形成有密切联系,不同细菌的不同外排泵对生物膜形成的影响各异,而生物膜形成又影响外排泵基因表达。本文就细菌耐多药外排泵的研究进展进行综述。     

肠杆菌科AcrAB多药外排泵分子演化分析

目的：分析肠杆菌科AcrAB多药外排泵的分子演化规律,为多药耐药性病原菌的防治提供基础数据。方法：从NCBI获得肠杆菌科物种AcrAB多药外排泵相关蛋白和核酸序列,采用分析软件,分析肠杆菌科物种AcrAB多药外排泵相关序列。结果：在肠杆菌科各物种AcrA、AcrB和AcrR与大肠埃希氏菌同源性在55%、75%和43%以上。AcrA保守位点分散,在N端和C端较少,在分子一级结构中段较多。AcrB跨膜序列保守性较高,与质子转移相关的三个位点D407、D408和K940以及稳定这三者结构的T978在肠杆菌科完全保守,其一级结构上相邻位点也保守。AcrR序列整体保守性较低,但HTH区域保守性高。与AcrR结合的回文结构及周围序列保守性高,在＂茎＂结构中仅存在一个氨基酸的差异。结论：AcrAB多药外排泵在肠杆菌科中广泛存在,有一定的保守性。分析肠杆菌科AcrAB多药外排泵有助于病原菌多药耐药性的防治。     

细菌多药外排系统的研究进展

目前各种细菌的耐药性问题已引起了科学家们的广泛关注,细菌的多药外排系统是引起细菌多药耐药的主要原因之一。本文着重介绍了与多药耐药相关的两大类多药外排系统(ABC型多药外排系统和次级多药外排系统)各家族成员的结构特点、表达调控和底物范围,以及解决多药外排系统引起耐药性的几项措施。     

胱氨酸/半胱氨酸调控活性氧代谢影响大肠杆菌耐药性

【背景】随着越来越多超级细菌出现和抗生素资源的渐渐枯竭,细菌耐药机制研究愈加重要。【目的】探讨大肠杆菌内源半胱氨酸推动Fenton反应,调控胞内的活性氧水平,从而影响细菌耐药性这一代谢途径。【方法】在贫硫的培养条件下,通过控制外源胱氨酸和抗生素浓度,研究了胱氨酸/半胱氨酸对大肠杆菌耐药性的影响。【结果】较低水平的半胱氨酸使大肠杆菌对抗生素的耐药性增强,RNA-Seq的结果证明了胱氨酸内流对Fur、CysB和SOS的调控作用。LC-MS对外流硫醇的分析显示,细胞会快速将过量内流的半胱氨酸泵出胞外。在抗生素一定浓度范围内,半胱氨酸外排泵AlaE表现出良好的细胞保护作用。【结论】大肠杆菌对不同作用机理抗生素硫酸庆大霉素、氨苄青霉素和诺氟沙星的耐药性均受内源半胱氨酸水平的影响。本文通过研究半胱氨酸调控活性氧代谢对大肠杆菌耐药性的影响,为探讨细菌耐药性机制提供新的理论依据。     

《细胞研究》:抗生素耐药性研究取得进展

<正>细菌的药物抗性是当今全球面临的主要公共健康威胁之一。抗药性相关的机制研究及对策已成为世界卫生组织和各国政府共同关注的问题。日前,中科院生物物理所张凯、赵永芳课题组合作,在抗生素耐药性研究领域取得进展,相关成果发布于《细胞研究》。细菌有多种形式的抗药机制,最普遍的一种机制是利用细胞膜上的多个药物外排泵,将抗生素外排出细胞。大肠杆菌MFS家族的多药物外排蛋白Mdf A是抗药机制研究中的范例,对该蛋白结构的解析有助于深入认识细菌的药物外排机制。张凯课题组成功解析了Mdf A-氯霉素以及     

食源性致病菌耐药机制研究进展

食源性致病菌是危害食品安全与人体健康的关键因素,而细菌耐药性的不断出现与传播,更加剧了食源性致病菌的潜在风险,成为全球普遍关注的公共卫生焦点问题。本文中,笔者首先综述4种主要的细菌耐药机制:降低细胞膜通透性机制、外排泵机制、药物靶标位点突变机制以及酶解作用机制。在此基础之上,系统回顾了常见食源性致病菌耐药机制的研究进展,并对食源性致病菌耐药机制进一步的研究方向进行了展望,以期为食源性致病菌耐药机制的深入研究提供基础资料,为食源性致病菌耐药性风险的控制提供科学依据。     

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.     

Selection with two alleles and complete dominance

For a plant selection model with frequency-independent viabilities, fertilities and selfing rates, it is shown that apart from global fixation, for certain parameter combinations a protected polymorphism and facultative fixation (either allele may become fixed according to initial frequencies) may both occur. Facultative fixation requires different selling rates for the dominant and recessive type. Protection of the polymorphism requires resource allocation for male and female function. In this connection the problem of purely genetically caused population extinction is discussed.
For general frequency dependence and regular segregation, the chances for establishment of a completely recessive gene are compared to those of a completely dominant gene. It is proven that the process of establishment of the recessive gene, despite a fitness advantage, may be considerably endangered by drift effects if random mating prevails. The recessive gene may reach the same effectivity in establishment as a dominant gene, only if the recessive homozygote mates exclusively with its own type during the period of establishment.     

Composition and diversity of bird communities in Swedish farmland–forest mosaic landscapes

CapsuleThe amount of forest (at local and landscape scales) and occurrence of residual habitats at the local scale are shown to be the major factors influencing bird community composition in farmland–forest landscapes in central Sweden.

Aims To investigate the importance of local habitat and landscape structure for breeding birds in farmland–forest landscapes in central Sweden.

Methods Breeding birds were censused at 292 points. A detailed habitat mapping was made within 300 m of the points. Within a 300–600 m radius only two major habitats (forests and arable fields) were identified.

Results Cluster analyses of bird communities identified three site types that also differed in habitat composition: (i) partially forested sites in forested landscapes; (ii) heterogeneous sites with residual habitats in mosaic landscapes; and (iii) field-dominated farmland sites in open landscapes. A total of 19 of 25 farmland bird species (restricted to farmland or using both farmland and forest) had the highest abundance in farmland sites with mosaics of forest and farmland, while only six farmland species had the highest abundance in field-dominated sites. The bird community changed from being dominated by farmland species to being dominated by forest species (common in forest landscapes without farmland) at small proportions (10–20%) of forest at the local scale. A major difference in habitat composition between heterogeneous and field-dominated sites was the occurrence of different residual habitats (e.g. shrubby areas and seminatural grasslands). These habitats seemed to influence bird community composition more than land-use, despite covering <10% of the area. Seminatural grasslands were important for bird community composition and species-richness, but grazing seemed to be less important. Among different land-use types, cereal crops were the least preferred fields. Set-asides with tall vegetation and short rotation coppices were positively associated with species-richness of farmland birds.

Conclusion In general, the composition of the landscape was important for bird community composition, although amount and distribution of forests, occurrence of residual habitats and land-use of fields at the local scale had the strongest influence on bird community composition. The possible implications of these patterns for managing farmland–forest landscapes are discussed.     

Chemical constituents from the fruits of Rhus typhina L. and their chemotaxonomic significance

This work describes the isolation and characterization of twenty-nine compounds from the fruits of Rhus typhina L., including eleven flavonoids (1–11), eleven phenols (12–22), two pentacyclic triterpenes (23–24), two organic acids (25–26), one lumichrome (27), one courmarin (28) and one pyrimidine (29) on the basis of their spectroscopic data. Compounds apigenin (1), daidzein (4), orobol (5), 3′, 5, 5′, 7-tetrahydroxyflavanone (6), naringenin (7), butein (8), (-)-catechin (9), quercetin-3-O-α-L-(3″-O-galloyl)-rhamnoside (11), 2-hydroxybenzoic acid (13), 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde (14), vanillin (15), methyl 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate (16), 3,5-dihydroxybenzamide (18), tyrosol (19), caffeic acid (20), 3-(2,4,6-trihydroxyphenyl)-1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-propan-1-one (21), phlorizin (22), friedelin (23), oleanolic acid (24), 4,4-dimethyl-heptanedioic acid (25), anthranilic acid (26), lumichrome (27), scoparone (28) and uracil (29) have not been recorded before in this plant. This is the first report on the occurrence of compounds 4–7, 9, 11, 13–14, 16, 18–21, 25–29 from the genus Rhus. Moreover, the chemotaxonomic significance of these isolated compounds was also summarized.