EGFR配体生物学效应的多样性

表皮生长因子受体（epidermal growth factor receptor, EGFR）的配体作为一类重要的信号分子参与了细胞功能的调节,并且和机体发育、器官形成、组织修复与稳态维持,以及疾病的发生密切相关。虽然这些信号分子具有序列和结构上的相似性,但由于这些信号分子结构上的细微差异以及它们受体信号传导上的复杂性,造成了这些信号分子（配体）生物学效应的多样性。目前,从结构和机制上,对于单个信号分子的生物学效应已有较为深入的研究,但这些信号分子之间以及信号分子与受体之间的调控网络较为复杂,并且这种调控网络对信号的精细、有序和多样化转导至关重要。本文对EGFR配体的结构及配体生物学效应多样性的分子机制进行回顾,并对未来的研究方向提出展望。     

世界竹子清单更新

编研世界竹子清单(World Checklist of Bamboos,WCB)是竹学的一项基础性工作。文中更正了2016年由世界禾草权威英国皇家植物园——Kew园领衔出版的World Checklist of Bamboos and Rattans竹子部分统计数据,实际为1665种,而非其自述的1642种;持续汇集全球竹种,时间更新至2018年底,WCB(2018)已禀赋计130个竹属,包含1700个竹种。     

络合型含铁材料对砷胁迫下水稻生理生化特性及砷累积的影响

土壤重金属与农产品质量息息相关.本研究通过设置砷胁迫条件下水稻种植盆栽试验,分析络合型含铁材料不同施用时期和不同施用量对水稻SPAD值、抗氧化酶(SOD、POD、CAT)活性以及水稻砷吸收、累积的影响.结果表明,砷胁迫对水稻SOD、POD、CAT活性有着不同程度的抑制作用,添加络合型含铁材料可以降低水稻MDA含量,缓解砷对水稻光合作用和SOD、POD、CAT活性的抑制;同时能减少水稻对土壤砷的吸收和累积.与移栽前添加络合型含铁材料相比,选择水稻孕穗期前添加络合型含铁材料,水稻砷吸收的抑制效果较好;水稻植株地上部砷含量与络合型含铁材料的添加浓度呈显著负相关,孕穗期前添加0.2 g·kg-1络合型含铁材料对水稻植株砷的吸收抑制效果最好,水稻植株地上部砷含量降低59.22%.     

不同抗性泡核桃对褐斑病病原菌侵染的生理生化响应北大核心CSCD

以抗病和感病泡核桃无性系为实验材料,人工接种褐斑病病原菌后测定不同时期叶片中保护酶活性、总酚、类黄酮、叶绿素含量等相关生理生化指标,探讨不同抗性泡核桃响应褐斑病病原菌侵染的生理生化差异。结果表明:(1)接种病原菌后,感病无性系64叶片带菌率随着侵染时间的增加而升高,且显著高于抗病无性系199(P<0.05)。(2)抗病无性系199和感病无性系64叶片的SOD、POD、CAT、APX和PPO活性随着侵染时间均呈现先升高后降低的变化趋势,其中SOD、POD和APX活性均在16 d时达到最大值;与较感病无性系相比,接种后抗病无性系的POD和APX活性较强;在接种前期(1~16 d),感病无性系PPO活性高于抗病无性系,后期(16~34 d)CAT活性也较抗病无性系高。(3)抗病无性系叶片叶绿素含量始终高于感病无性系;抗病无性系MDA含量在接种后无明显变化,而感病无性系先增加后降低,其细胞膜脂过氧化较重。(4)两个无性系叶片可溶性蛋白和可溶性糖含量变化较平缓,且差异不显著,在接种后期(34 d)有升高的趋势;接种5 d以后,感病无性系叶片类黄酮和总酚含量始终显著高于抗病无性系。研究发现,泡核桃抗病无性系叶片带菌率较低,较难受到侵染,并且通过提高POD和APX活性以及积累较多叶绿素、可溶性蛋白和可溶性糖来应对病原菌侵染引起的氧化胁迫,抑制病原菌的繁殖,从而提高其抗病能力。     

我国典型湿热地区变质烟用香精中腐败微生物的多样性分析

【背景】烟用香精是卷烟生产中的重要辅料,有些香精,特别是剩余的加料香精在运输和储存等过程中可能污染微生物,引起腐败变质发生。【目的】分析变质烟用香精中腐败微生物的群落多样性,确定引起加料香精变质的主要腐败微生物。【方法】采用稀释平板法,对我国典型湿热地区云南、福建和广西三地变质加料香精样品中的污染细菌、霉菌或酵母进行分离,分析其16S rRNA、ITS或26S rRNA基因序列,并通过反证试验确定引起变质的主要腐败微生物。【结果】所考察3个典型湿热地区变质加料香精存在不同程度的细菌、霉菌或酵母污染,其中细菌污染最为普遍。分离的76株污染细菌分布在2门4纲5目10科15属,细菌的群落多样性比较丰富,其中雷尔氏菌属(Ralstonia)、柠檬酸杆菌属(Citrobacter)、肠杆菌属(Enterobacter)及芽孢杆菌属(Bacillus)是优势菌群;9株霉菌分布在子囊菌门(Ascomycota)的3纲6属,每个属分离到1-2株霉菌;42株酵母分布在子囊菌门的6个属,其中毕赤酵母属(Pichia)、细枝钩酵母菌属(Wickerhamomyces)及酵母菌属(Saccharomyces)是优势菌群。云南和福建两地样品的细菌菌群组成明显多于广西,广西样品的霉菌菌群组成以及福建样品的酵母菌群组成均分别多于其余两地。反证试验结果显示,柠檬酸杆菌属、肠杆菌属、芽孢杆菌属、雷尔氏菌属和毕赤酵母属是引起烟用加料香精变质的主要腐败微生物。【结论】变质加料香精中污染微生物菌群组成及腐败微生物确定的研究将有助于我国湿热地区香精香料中污染微生物的控制和腐败变质的预防。     

Soil inorganic carbon storage pattern in China

Soils with pedogenic carbonate cover about 30% (3.44 × 10⁶ km²) of China, mainly across its arid and semiarid regions in the Northwest. Based on the second national soil survey (1979–1992), total soil inorganic carbon (SIC) storage in China was estimated to be 53.3±6.3 PgC (1 Pg=10¹⁵ g) to the depth investigated to 2 m. Soil inorganic carbon storages were 4.6, 10.6, 11.1, and 20.8 Pg for the depth ranges of 0–0.1, 0.1–0.3, 0.3–0.5, and 0.5–1 m, respectively. Stocks for 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, and 1 m of depth accounted for 8.7%, 28.7%, 49.6%, and 88.9% of total SIC, respectively. In contrast with soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, which is highest under 500–800 mm yr⁻¹ of mean precipitation, SIC storage peaks where mean precipitation is <400 mm yr⁻¹. The amount and vertical distribution of SIC was related to climate and land cover type. Content of SIC in each incremental horizon was positively related with mean annual temperature and negatively related with mean annual precipitation, with the magnitude of SIC content across land cover types showing the following order: desert, grassland >shrubland, cropland >marsh, forest, meadow. Densities of SIC increased generally with depth in all ecosystem types with the exception of deserts and marshes where it peaked in intermediate layers (0.1–0.3 m for first and 0.3–0.5 m for latter). Being an abundant component of soil carbon stocks in China, SIC dynamics and the process involved in its accumulation or loss from soils require a better understanding.     

Integrating Horizontal Gene Transfer and Common Descent to Depict Evolution and Contrast It with “Common Design”1

ABSTRACT. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and common descent interact in space and time. Because events of HGT co‐occur with phylogenetic evolution, it is difficult to depict evolutionary patterns graphically. Tree‐like representations of life's diversification are useful, but they ignore the significance of HGT in evolutionary history, particularly of unicellular organisms, ancestors of multicellular life. Here we integrate the reticulated‐tree model, ring of life, symbiogenesis whole‐organism model, and eliminative pattern pluralism to represent evolution. Using Entamoeba histolytica alcohol dehydrogenase 2 (EhADH2), a bifunctional enzyme in the glycolytic pathway of amoeba, we illustrate how EhADH2 could be the product of both horizontally acquired features from ancestral prokaryotes (i.e. aldehyde dehydrogenase [ALDH] and alcohol dehydrogenase [ADH]), and subsequent functional integration of these enzymes into EhADH2, which is now inherited by amoeba via common descent. Natural selection has driven the evolution of EhADH2 active sites, which require specific amino acids (cysteine 252 in the ALDH domain; histidine 754 in the ADH domain), iron‐ and NAD⁺ as cofactors, and the substrates acetyl‐CoA for ALDH and acetaldehyde for ADH. Alternative views invoking “common design” (i.e. the non‐naturalistic emergence of major taxa independent from ancestry) to explain the interaction between horizontal and vertical evolution are unfounded.     

草莓高效离体叶片再生体系的建立

以草莓'明宝(Meiho)'和'红颊(Benihope)'的叶片为外植体,研究了不同基本培养基、暗培养时间、植物生长调节剂、叶龄、不同放置方式对其不定芽再生的影响.结果表明:各品种叶片不定芽离体再生的最佳条件不同.'明宝'叶片的最佳不定芽再生培养基为MS+2.5 mg/L TDZ+0.1 mg/L IBA+0.1 mg/L 2,4-D,叶片再生的最佳叶龄为30～40 d,再生率可达82.8%;'红颊'叶片的最佳不定芽再生培养基为MS+2.0 mg/L TDZ+0.1 mg/L IBA+0.1 mg/L 2,4-D,叶片再生的最佳叶龄在10～20 d,再生率可达79.8%.2个品种叶片暗培养14 d可以提高不定芽再生率;叶片正放比反放再生效果好;添加8 mg/L AgNO3和1 000 mg/L活性炭可有效提高再生率.     

挂榜山小鲵早期胚胎发育初步观察

2005年1～2月,在Nikon体视镜下对挂榜山小鲵的早期胚胎发育过程进行了观察,对不同发育时期进行了数码拍照。根据胚胎发育的外部形态及典型特征将挂榜山小鲵早期胚胎发育过程分为21个时期。在水温6．5～10℃的条件下,受精卵历时1134h孵化出膜,初孵幼鲵全长约16．50mm。