携带HCV核心蛋白原核表达质粒与真核表达质粒的减毒伤寒沙门菌诱导小鼠免疫应答之比较

丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)核心蛋白是丙肝疫苗的重要候选抗原,然而,该蛋白因具有免疫调控作用而影响免疫应答的诱导。构建了HCV核心蛋白的两种表达质粒,一种是体内激活型原核表达质粒pZW-C,另一种是真核表达质粒pCI-C。将该两种质粒转化减毒鼠伤寒沙门菌SL7207,得到重组菌SL7207/pZW-C和SL7207/pCI-C,分别将重组菌口服接种小鼠,检测小鼠的免疫应答,结果发现:①SL7207/pCI-C免疫鼠的CD3 CD4 T细胞持续降低,而SL7207/pZW-C免疫鼠的CD3 CD4 T细胞无明显改变;②SL7207/pCI-C免疫只诱导低水平抗HCV核心蛋白抗体,加强免疫对抗体阳转率及抗体水平无明显影响,而SL7207/pZW-C免疫组所有小鼠均产生较高水平的抗核心蛋白抗体。③SL7207/pCI-C免疫鼠脾细胞的体外增殖活性、细胞毒性T细胞活性以及加强免疫对细胞免疫应答的增强作用均明显不及SL7207/pZW-C免疫鼠。结果提示:携带真核表达质粒pCI-C的沙门菌因在小鼠细胞内表达天然形式(结构以及磷酸化修饰)的HCV核心蛋白,可能通过对T细胞的免疫抑制作用而弱化免疫应答。而以携带原核表达质粒pZW-C的沙门菌免疫可避免这一问题,并具有接种方便,成本低廉等优点,从而可望作为基于HCV核心蛋白为靶抗原的HCV疫苗的候选免疫方式。     

杂色鲍鳃的显微与亚显微结构

本文采用光镜和电镜方法,研究了杂色鲍（Haliotis diversicolor）鳃的显微和亚显微结构。结果表明,杂色鲍的鳃为一对不等大的双栉状鳃,各鳃由鳃轴和两侧列生的状鳃叶组成,鳃叶上皮为单层上皮组织结构,细胞类型主要为：纤毛细胞、立方细胞、腺细胞;鳃轴上皮为鳃叶上皮的延伸,亦是单层上皮组织,细胞类型主要有：纤毛细胞、微绒毛立方细胞和腺细胞等;鳃叶远轴端游离缘表皮之下,含有几丁质杆支撑的血腔,血腔内可见血细胞及未分化的间充质细胞,血腔之间有平滑肌纤维束和疏松结缔组织,疏松结缔组织内含胶原纤维、纤维细胞、成纤维细胞、脂肪细胞及未分化的间充质细胞等;鳃轴的皮下组织也含有几丁质杆、平滑肌纤维、疏松结缔组织及其间的血腔结构。     

An aminoglycoside microarray platform for directly monitoring and studying antibiotic resistance

Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to human health. Since resistance to the aminoglycoside class of antibiotics is most commonly caused by enzymatic modification, we developed a high-throughput microarray platform for directly assaying resistance enzyme activity on aminoglycosides. After modification, the array can be hybridized with the therapeutic target, a bacterial rRNA A-site mimic, to study the effect that modification has on binding. Such studies will help identify important factors that contribute to high-affinity recognition of therapeutic targets and low-affinity recognition of and modification by resistance enzymes. This platform may also be useful for screening chemical libraries to discover new antibiotics that evade resistance.     

Salivaricin P, One of a Family of Two-Component Antilisterial Bacteriocins Produced by Intestinal Isolates of Lactobacillus salivarius

Lactobacillus salivarius DPC6005, a porcine intestinal isolate, produces a two-component bacteriocin, salivaricin P, with homology to ABP-118 produced by a human probiotic L. salivarius strain. Indeed, molecular characterization revealed that while the peptides Sln1 and ABP-118α are identical, their companion peptides (Sln2 and ABP-118β, respectively) differ by two amino acids. This observation suggests that two-component bacteriocins may be a common feature of intestinal L. salivarius strains.     

一种简捷的分离杜鹃花类菌根真菌的方法

目的：简化杜鹃花类菌根真菌的分离方法,快速得到菌株。方法：选择并改良马丁氏-孟加拉红培养基,调整其pH值约为5．0,0．3～0．5cm根段平铺于平板中培养分离菌株,培养条件为25℃黑暗培养12～15d。结果：得到了菌落特征有明显差异的9种类型138个菌根真菌菌株,其中7类菌株在人工条件下回接云锦杜鹃形成了菌根结构。结论：实验证明改良的分离方法操作简单快捷,是杜鹃花类菌根真菌分离的一种可靠方法。     

云锦杜鹃夏季气体交换和水分利用效率日变化

云锦杜鹃净光合速率和气孔导度日变化曲线为"双峰"型,光合效率午间明显降低,主要由非气孔限制引起。表观量子效率和实际光化学效率的降低是非气孔限制形成和发展的深层原因。蒸腾速率的日变化为"单峰型",午间最高。水分利用效率早晚较高、午间较低。净光合速率、蒸腾速率、气孔导度和水分利用效率分别与一些环境因子的相关性达到0.01或0.05显著水平。利用多元逐步回归方法分别得到了净光合速率、胞间CO2浓度、蒸腾速率、气孔导度和水分利用效率与环境因子的最优方程。     

An in vitro biofilm model system to facilitate study of microbial communities of the human oral cavity

The human oral cavity is host to a diverse microbiota. Much of what is known about the behaviour of oral microbes derives from studies of individual or several cultivated species, situations which do not totally reflect the function of organisms within more complex microbiota or multispecies biofilms. The number of validated models that allow examination of the role that biofilms play during oral cavity colonization is also limited. The CDC biofilm reactor is a standard method that has been deployed to study interactions between members of human microbiotas allowing studies to be completed during an extended period under conditions where nutrient availability, and washout of waste products are controlled. The objective of this work was to develop a robust in vitro biofilm-model system from a pooled saliva inoculum to study the development, reproducibility and stability of the oral microbiota. By employing deep sequencing of the variable regions of the 16S rRNA gene, we found that the CDC biofilm reactor could be used to efficiently cultivate microbiota containing all six major phyla previously identified as the core saliva microbiota. After an acclimatisation period, communities in each reactor stabilised. Replicate reactors were predominately populated by a shared core microbiota; variation between replicate reactors was primarily driven by shifts in abundance of shared operational taxonomic units. We conclude that the CDC biofilm reactor can be used to cultivate communities that replicate key features of the human oral cavity and is a useful tool to facilitate studies of the dynamics of these communities.     

尼罗罗非鱼traf6基因表达谱及信号转导

肿瘤坏死因子受体相关因子6(TRAF6)是一种重要的接头蛋白,在Toll样受体/白细胞介素-1受体(TLR/IL-1R)超家族所触发的信号通路中起重要作用,与先天性免疫密切相关。文章研究了尼罗罗非鱼(Oreochromis niloticus)traf6的表达模式和初步的功能。在健康鱼中,traf6转录本广泛表达于所有受检组织中,在血液中表达水平最高,在肝脏中最低。在不同的胚胎发育阶段也检测到traf6的表达。在无乳链球菌体内感染后,大多数受检组织中traf6 mRNA的表达量上调。此外,LPS、Poly I:C和S.agalactiae可显著诱导尼罗罗非鱼巨噬细胞traf6的表达。此外,在HEK293T细胞中过表达表明,TRAF6分布于细胞质中,可显著提高NF-κB的活性。免疫共沉淀(Co-IP)实验表明,TRAF6可与IRAK1(白细胞介素-1受体相关激酶1)相互作用,IRAK1在TLR/IL-1R信号通路中也起重要作用。在体内,TLR2、TLR21和TLR13b的过表达可上调traf6 mRNA的表达水平,表明TRAF6参与了TLR2、TLR21和TLR13b介导的信号转导,提示TRAF6在病原体入侵的免疫应答中起重要作用。     

中国小菜蛾群体遗传变异的时空动态

【目的】小菜蛾 Plutella xylostella 是十字花科蔬菜最重要的迁移性害虫之一,在中国越冬区(OR)的群体和季节性繁殖区(SBR)的群体之间具有“源-汇”关系和复合群体的特征。本研究旨在揭示中国小菜蛾群体遗传变异的时空动态,以期进一步阐明该虫的迁移特性及其对区域灾变的影响。【方法】基于已经发表的4组不同采样时间中国小菜蛾 COI 序列(共1 567条)数据,将每个数据集细分为3组:OR群体、SBR群体以及特定采样时间(ST)的群体。对不同组(群体)进行遗传多样性、遗传分化、单倍型相似性和群体演化史的分析。【结果】基于 COI 序列的小菜蛾群体遗传变异分析结果表明,同一采样时间内,OR群体和SBR群体遗传多样性水平相当。虽然SBR群体在单倍型频率上不稳定,导致包含SBR的群体间遗传分化较大,但SBR群体单倍型均能够在同一采样时间的OR群体中找到,或SBR单倍型仅与OR单倍型相差2个碱基以内;SBR群体中单倍型频率在不同年份间变化大,遗传分化最大,而ST群体之间遗传分化的变异水平最低。不同采样时间样品 COI 序列的碱基错配分布图呈现相同的单峰状,且不同采样时间样本主要是由几种相同的单倍型构成。【结论】这些结果表明:迁移是影响中国季节性繁殖区小菜蛾群体遗传变异的主要因素;中国不同区域的小菜蛾群体遗传变异在时间尺度上具有稳定性和相关性。小菜蛾复合群体特征为阐明其季节性迁移特性提供了重要的生态学依据。     

Persistence and stochasticity are key determinants of genetic diversity in plants associated with banded iron formation inselbergs

The high species endemism characteristic of many of the world's terrestrial island systems provides a model for studying evolutionary patterns and processes, yet there has been no synthesis of studies to provide a systematic evaluation of terrestrial island systems in this context. The banded iron formations (BIFs) of south‐western Australia are ancient terrestrial island formations occurring within a mosaic of alluvial clay soils, sandplains and occasional granite outcropping, across an old, gently undulating, highly weathered, plateau. Notably, these BIFs display exceptionally high beta plant diversity. Here, we address the determinants and consequences of genetic diversity for BIF‐associated plant species through a comprehensive review of all studies on species distribution modelling, phylogenetics, phylogeography, population genetics, life‐history traits and ecology. The taxa studied are predominantly narrowly endemic to individual or a few BIF ranges, but some have more regional distributions occurring both on and off BIFs. We compared genetic data for these BIF‐endemic species to other localised species globally to assess whether the unique history and ancestry of BIF landscapes has driven distinct genetic responses in plants restricted to this habitat. We also assessed the influence of life‐history parameters on patterns of genetic diversity. We found that BIF‐endemic species display similar patterns of genetic diversity and structure to other species with localised distributions. Despite often highly restricted distributions, large effective population size or clonal reproduction appears to provide these BIF‐endemic species with ecological and evolutionary resilience to environmental stochasticity. We conclude that persistence and stochasticity are key determinants of genetic diversity and its spatial structure within BIF‐associated plant species, and that these are key evolutionary processes that should be considered in understanding the biogeography of inselbergs worldwide.