心肌缺氧对大鼠心肌细胞内游离钙浓度的作用

本实验用ｆｕｒａ－２ 荧光技术研究离体鼠心缺氧期间心肌细胞内游离钙浓度（Ｃａ＾２＋）增加的机制。实验结果为：（１）Ｋｒｅｂｓ－Ｈｅｎｓｅｌｅｉｔ（Ｋ－Ｈ）液缺氧灌流离体鼠心脏引起（Ｃａ＾２＋）先慢后快地增国（２）无钙液氧灌流,仍能引起（Ｃａ蓿玻黾印＃ǎ常┖ǎǎ保薄粒保埃蓿担恚铮欤蹋┑模耍纫喝毖豕嗔鳎ǎ茫幔蓿玻┑谋浠嗨莆薷埔喝毖豕嗔鳎伊秸咭鸬模ǎ茫幔蓿玻┰黾樱飨缘陀?     

巴拉巴按蚊人工交配中雄蚊蚊龄与受精率的关系

自McDaniel和Horsfall(1957)介绍了伊蚊的人工交配法后,许多原来在实验室内不易自然交配,因而无法繁殖的蚊种,已可在室内大量繁殖以供实验研究之用。1966年Esah和Scanlon用人工交配法,在室内饲养巴拉巴按蚊获得成功。国内四川医学院及成都生物制品研究所亦于1976年在室内同时建立了海南白沙巴拉巴按蚊品系。由于工作的需要,我们通过人工交配对该蚊种进行了饲养繁殖。但在多次人工交配中,雌蚊受精率常不一致,有时只有30％左右,有时则可高达80％以上。这种受精率的不稳定是否与雄蚊蚊龄有相应关系?为此,我们用羽化后12天以内不同日龄的雄蚊,分别进行了人工交配,以观察雄蚊日龄与其对雌蚊授精率之间,有无必然的相应关系。     

十三种农田常见步(虫甲)的食性

步科昆虫食性比较复杂,有的种类猎食害虫,有的为害农作物。所以,在天敌昆虫资源调查和开发利用上,有必要查明农田步(虫甲)的种类和它们的食性。鉴于多种步(虫甲)喜土栖而夜出活动,其经济意义难以了解,我们于1980—1981年间,采取室内饲养试验的方法,初步查明13种农田常见步(虫甲)的食性及其猎食对象。现简要报道如下。     

植物蛋白质S-亚硝基化修饰的检测与分析

S-亚硝基化是一种重要的蛋白质翻译后修饰方式, 是指一氧化氮(NO)基团共价连接至靶蛋白特定半胱氨酸残基的自由巯基, 从而形成S-亚硝基硫醇(SNO)的过程。S-亚硝基化修饰广泛存在于各有机体中, 通过改变蛋白质生化活性、稳定性、亚细胞定位以及蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用等机制而调控不同的生物学过程或信号通路。在蛋白质S-亚硝基化检测分析方法中, 最为广泛使用的是生物素转化法(biotin switch assay), 其基本原理是首先封闭未被修饰的自由巯基, 进而将被修饰的SNO基团特异地还原为自由巯基并使用生物素将其特异标记。被生物素标记的半胱氨酸残基(即被修饰位点)可进一步通过蛋白质免疫印迹和/或质谱等方法进行检测分析。该文详细描述了植物蛋白质样品的体内和体外生物素转化法的实验流程, 并对实验过程中的注意事项进行了讨论。     

Induction of the second exopolysaccharide (EPSb) in Rhizobium meliloti SU47 by low phosphate concentrations.

In previous work, Rhizobium meliloti SU47 produced its alternative exopolysaccharide (EPSb [also called EPS II]) only in strains that were genetically altered to activate EPSb synthesis. Here we report that EPSb synthesis is not entirely cryptic but occurred under conditions of limiting phosphate. This was shown in several different exo mutants that are blocked in the synthesis of the normal exopolysaccharide, succinoglycan. In addition, EPSb biosynthetic gene expression was markedly increased by limiting phosphate. An apparent regulatory mutant that does not express alkaline phosphatase activity was unable to produce EPSb under these conditions. A mucR mutant that was previously shown to produce EPSb instead of the normal exopolysaccharide, succinoglycan, was not sensitive to phosphate inhibition of EPSb synthesis. No evidence was found to indicate that exoX, which affects succinoglycan synthesis, had any influence on EPSb synthesis. In contrast to limiting phosphate, limiting nitrogen or sulfur did not stimulate EPSb synthesis as it does succinoglycan.     

小黑杨花粉植株H_1株系间变异及其选择利用的研究

小黑杨(Populus xiaohei T.S.Hwang ex C.Wang et Tung)花药离体培养获得单倍体植株,经14年的生长观察,发现花粉植株间表现出明显分离。选出19个株系进行田间比较试验,统计分析,结果发现材积生长差异显著。可从中选出优良株系加以利用,并提出杨树单倍体育种程序。     

Functional and evolutionary relatedness of genes for exopolysaccharide synthesis in Rhizobium meliloti and Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234.

Rhizobium meliloti SU47 and Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 produce distinct exopolysaccharides that have some similarities in structure. R. meliloti has a narrow host range, whereas Rhizobium strain NGR234 has a very broad host range. In cross-species complementation and hybridization experiments, we found that several of the genes required for the production of the two polysaccharides were functionally interchangeable and similar in evolutionary origin. NGR234 exoC and exoY corresponded to R. meliloti exoB and exoF, respectively. NGR234 exoD was found to be an operon that included genes equivalent to exoM, exoA, and exoL in R. meliloti. Complementation of R. meliloti exoP, -N, and -G by NGR234 R'3222 indicated that additional equivalent genes remain to be found on the R-prime. We were not able to complement NGR234 exoB with R. meliloti DNA. In addition to functional and evolutionary equivalence of individual genes, the general organization of the exo regions was similar between the two species. It is likely that the same ancestral genes were used in the evolution of both exopolysaccharide biosynthetic pathways and probably of pathways in other species as well.     

Two genes that regulate exopolysaccharide production in Rhizobium meliloti.

We describe a new Rhizobium meliloti gene, exoX, that regulates the synthesis of the exopolysaccharide, succinoglycan, exoX resembled the psi gene of R. leguminosarum bv. phaseoli and the exoX gene of Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 in its ability to inhibit exopolysaccharide synthesis when present in multiple copies, exoX did not appear to regulate the expression of exoP. The effect of exoX was counterbalanced by another R. meliloti gene, exoF. exoF is equivalent to Rhizobium sp. strain NGR234 exoY and resembles R. leguminosarum bv. phaseoli pss2 in its mutant phenotype and in portions of its deduced amino acid sequence. The effect of exoF on the succinoglycan-inhibiting activity of exoX depended on the relative copy numbers of the two genes. exoX-lacZ fusions manifested threefold-higher beta-galactosidase activities in exoF backgrounds than in the wild-type background. exoX mutants produced increased levels of succinoglycan. However, the exoF gene was required for succinoglycan synthesis even in an exoX mutant background. exoF did not affect the expression of exoP. Strains containing multicopy exoX formed non-nitrogen-fixing nodules on alfalfa that resembled nodules formed by exo mutants defective in succinoglycan synthesis. exoX mutants formed nitrogen-fixing nodules, indicating that, if the inhibition of succinoglycan synthesis within the nodule is necessary for nitrogen fixation, then exoX is not required for this inhibition. We present indirect evidence that succinoglycan synthesis within the nodule is not necessary for bacteroid function.     

中华按蚊在实验室内的自然交配习性

1973年我们在上海曾对宝山县中华按蚊(Anopheles sinensis)进行了室内饲养,通过自然交配繁殖了8代。1975年又对重庆郊区的中华按蚊同样地进行了室内累代饲育。近几年来文献上报道:未经驯化的中华按蚊,在实验室内常规饲养条件下,不易发生自然交配(Oguma和Kanda,1976;潘家复和韩罗珍,1979)。这一报道与我们的经验很不一致。为了弄清引起这种不一致的原因,以便改进饲养工作,我们特别对第一代中华按蚊在实验室内自然交配的某些规律,进行了观察。现将观察结果报告如下。