朝鲜木本糖料植物考察

根据中朝两国政府文化合作协定,中国科学院外事局在院内组织了糖槭树考察团(四人)于1984年7月中、下旬赴朝鲜民主主义人民共和国考察,得到朝方自然保护联盟中央委员会及其有关部门、单位的热情接待和大力支持,使这次考察获得圆满成功。现仅就朝鲜木本糖料植物的研究概况报道如下:     

adr亚型乙型肝炎病毒DNA的酶切图谱分析

<正> 本文报道以pAT153质粒为载体克隆的adr亚型乙型肝炎病毒(HBV)全基因的限制性内切酶图谱。重组质粒已命名为pHBV-NCl。重组质粒的提取和酶解采用常规方法。限制性内切酶为Bio-Labs公司产品。用Sepharcry S-1000纯化得到的质粒,经电泳鉴定都是完整的超螺旋DNA。经过鉴定其BamHⅠ、XhoⅠ、XbaⅠ、SstⅡ、SphⅠ、BglⅠ、BglⅡ、BstEⅡ、AceⅠ、AvaⅠ、HincⅡ、HpaⅠ等12种酶的21个切口已被定位。其中XhoⅠ、XbaⅠ、SstⅡ、     

Geographical variability of alpha-1-antitrypsin alleles in China: A study on six Chinese populations

Summary Alpha-1-antitrypsin phenotypes of six Chinese Han populations (20°–45°N. latitude) were determined. The frequency of allele M2 increases from North to South China. The north-south change of M2 appears to be mainly at the expense of alleles M1 and M3. Geographical variability of other variants was also observed. In the northern populations, the most common variants are M4 and Etokyo; in the southern populations, Pweishi, a variant which can not be distinguished electrophoretically from Pyasugi. These results form a distribution pattern of alpha-1-antitrypsin alleles in China.     

Modulation of natural killer activity by thymosin alpha 1 and interferon

Summary A single injection of -interferon (-IFN) (30 000 units/mouse), a major biological modifier of natural killer (NK) cytolytic activity, strongly stimulated NK activity in normal mice, as expected, while the same treatment did not statistically alter the NK response in cyclophosphamide (CY)-suppressed animals.We investigated the possibility of thymosin ₁ cooperating with -IFN in boosting NK activity in CY-suppressed animals.The results show that treatment with thymosin ₁ (200 g/kg) for 4 days, followed by a single injection of -IFN 24 h before testing, strongly restored NK activity in CY-suppressed mice. Thymosin ₁ was, moreover, able to accelerate the recovery rate of NK activity in bone marrow reconstituted murine chimeras.Taken together the data support the concept that the synergic effect between thymosin ₁ and -IFN could be the result of effects on differentiation of the NK lineage at different levels.     

Binding of 5-methoxypsoralen to human serum low density lipoproteins

5-methoxypsoralen (5-MOP) binds to human serum low density lipoproteins (LDL) according to a two-step process. Scatchard analysis of the first step yields K = 1.4 × 10⁵ M^?1 and 4 binding sites. It involves the LDL apoprotein. The second step corresponds to a solubilization, in the lipidic core, of ? 45 molecules of 5MOP per LDL molecule. It is accompanied by a large blue shift of the 5MOP fluorescence. The ability of LDL to bind 5MOP and to carry it into various cells may explain some biological effects sometimes encountered during PUVA therapy.     

Characterization of Cholecystokinin from the Human Brain

Human forms of cholecystokinin have not previously been characterized chemically. In this study, we have extracted and purified the predominant molecular form of cholecystokinin present in human cerebral cortex. The peptide was characterized by amino acid analysis, automated peptide sequencing, and fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. It appears to be identical to porcine cholecystokinin-octapeptide, with the sequence of Asp-Tyr(SO3)-Met-Gly-Trp-Met-Asp-Phe(NH2). This structural identity is consistent with the observations that the peptide in human brain and porcine cholecystokinin-octapeptide are recognized similarly by a battery of antisera to porcine cholecystokinin; that they coelute from several chromatographic systems, including gel filtration, ion exchange, and reversed-phase; and that they possess similar biological activities.     

β-decay,Bremsstrahlen, and the origin of molecular chirality

Summary A brief review is presented of the Vester-Ulbricht -decay Bremsstrahlen hypothesis for the origin of optical activity, and of subsequent experiments designed to test it. Certain of our experiments along these lines, begun in 1974 and involving the irradiation of racemic and optically active amino acids in a 61.7 KCi⁹⁰Sr–⁹⁰Y Bremsstrahlen source, have now been completed and are described. After 10.89 years of irradiation with a total Bremsstrahlen dose of 2.5×10⁹ rads, crystallinedl-leucine, norleucine, and norvaline suffered 47.2, 33.6, and 27.4% radiolysis, respectively, but showed no evidence whatsoever of asymmetric degradation.d- andl-Leucine underwent about 48% radiolysis and showed 2.4–2.9% radioracemization. Other samples in solution were too severely degraded to analyze. Probable intrinsic reasons for the failure of the Vester-Ulbricht mechanism to afford asymmetric radiolysis in the present and related experiments involving -decay Bremsstrahlen are enumerated.A portion of this material was presented at the 7th International Conference on the Origins of Life, Mainz, FRG, July 10–15, 1983     

银杏科研的主要成就和展望

前言银杏又名白果,是现存种子植物中最古老的孑遗植物,也是源于我国的特有珍贵树种。学者们一向把它视为植物界的奇珍,在植物分类学、树木学、果树栽培学和古植物学上占有特殊的位置,至今国内外植物学家、地质学家,以及果树栽培学家们,仍对它进行着深入细致的研究。银杏的科学奥秘将逐步被揭开。     

美味侧耳病毒及其生化特性

自美味侧耳(Pleurotus sapidus)子实体中分离到两类病毒颗粒,一是球形,直径为25nm(少数为19、32am);一是杆状,具较深锯齿状亚基,大小为12～14×40～600nm,病毒具核蛋白吸收峰,最大吸收为E257nm,最小为242nm,ISCO蔗糖密度梯度离心中出现3个峰。 病毒具有分子量为44000和22000两条主要衣壳多肽,自子实体中提取到分子量约1.2×10~(?)道尔顿的dsRNA,可能是球形病毒的基因组,病毒与同属真菌糙皮侧耳(P,ostreatus)和德平菇(P,floride)球形病毒之间有血清学关系。     

流行性成人腹泻病人排出成人腹泻轮状病毒的持续时间

成人腹泻轮状病毒(Adult Diarrhoea Rotavirus,简称ADRV)是引起青壮年急性胃肠炎的主要病原之一,1983年至1985年在我国许多地区暴发流行,严重危害着人民健康,至今尚无治疗药物。因此,摸清病人排病毒情况或规律,对及时控制传染源,预防ADRV大量传播有着重要意义。现将本文实验结果报告如下。