三种蜘蛛粗毒对NG108—15细胞电压门控钠通道的抑制作用

利用小鼠神经细胞瘤×大鼠神经胶质细胞的杂交细胞NG108-15,通过全细胞记录(whole-cellrecording)模式的膜片钳技术,检验了虎纹捕鸟蛛(Selenocosmia huwena)、海南捕鸟蛛(Selenocosmia hainana)和广西大疣蛛(Macrothele guangxiasp)的粗毒对NG108-15细胞膜上电压门控TTX敏感型钠电流和延迟整流钾电流的作用.结果表明,三种蜘蛛粗毒对外向延迟整流钾电流没有明显作用,但对TTX敏感型的快钠电流表现出较强的抑制效应.抑制效应呈量效关系.三种粗毒抑制钠电流的EC     

ASK1 physically interacts with COI1 and is required for male fertility inArabidopsis

Jasmonates are a new class of plant hormones that play important roles in plant development and plant defense. TheCOI1 gene was previously shown to be required for jasmonate-regulated plant fertility and defense. We demonstrated for the first time that COI1 interacts with theArabidopsis SKP1-LIKE1 (ASK1) to form a complex that is required for jasmonate action inplanta. Functional analysis by antisense strategy showed thatASK1 is involved in male fertility.     

ASK1 physically interacts with COI1 and is required for male fertility in Arabidopsis

Jasmonates are a new class of plant hormones that play important roles in plant development and plant defense. The COI1 gene was previously shown to be required for jasmonate-regulated plant fertility and defense. We demonstrated for the first time that COI1 interacts with the Arabidopsis SKP1-LIKE1 (ASK1) to form a complex that is required for jasmonate action in planta. Functional analysis by antisense strategy showed that ASK1 is involved in male fertility.     

Gramene: a resource for comparative grass genomics

Gramene (http://www.gramene.org) is a comparative genome mapping database for grasses and a community resource for rice. Rice, in addition to being an economically important crop, is also a model monocot for understanding other agronomically important grass genomes. Gramene replaces the existing AceDB database ‘RiceGenes’ with a relational database based on Oracle. Gramene provides curated and integrative information about maps, sequence, genes, genetic markers, mutants, QTLs, controlled vocabularies and publications. Its aims are to use the rice genetic, physical and sequence maps as fundamental organizing units, to provide a common denominator for moving from one crop grass to another and is to serve as a portal for interconnecting with other web-based crop grass resources. This paper describes the initial steps we have taken towards realizing these goals.     

Light-induced enzyme system leading to pigmentation.

Alpha-Chymotrypsin was light sensitized by acylating with cis-cinnamoyl ester, a substrate interconvertible to the trans form by ultraviolet (UV) light. The degree of acylation by this method was complete leaving no residual activity of the enzyme. Upon UV irradiation the inhibited enzyme regained about 70% of its original activity, thereby adding light-sensitiveness to the proteolytic enzyme. In seeking a photographic application of the light-sensitized enzyme, a pigmenting enzyme was incorporated with it. The coupled enzyme system was shown to exhibit a light signal in the form of dark pigment slurry.