刈割对蜈蚣草的砷吸收和植物修复效率的影响

以野生苗移栽的蜈蚣草为试材 ,通过盆栽试验研究了收获次数对蜈蚣草生长、砷吸收和植物修复效率的影响。结果表明 :在 3次收获中 ,随着收获次数的增加 ,不同砷浓度处理之间蜈蚣草生物量的差异逐步缩小 ;不加砷的对照处理中 ,每次收获后的砷吸收速率下降趋势 ,而在 3个加砷处理中 ,第 2次收获和第 3次收获的蜈蚣草的吸砷速率为 6 3～ 75 μg/ (plant· d)、4 4～ 5 5μg/ (plant· d) ,均显著高于第 1次收获时的吸收速率。表明多次收获并没有降低砷的积累速度。由此可见 ,通过适当增加蜈蚣草的收获次数是提高砷修复效率的一种策略     

化学诱变育成优质高产果叶兼用桑树新品种蜀椹1号

以果叶兼用、桑椹产量高、品质优及抗菌核病为育种目标,采用秋水仙碱化学诱变育种方法培育果叶兼用桑树新品种.对塔桑×激7681人工杂交桑种子F1代实生桑幼苗用0.2％秋水仙碱＋2ppm6-BA进行化学诱变处理,选择形态出现变异的单株进行单芽嫁接,从诱变群体中选择出挂果较多的优良单株进行系统培育,育成优质、高产果叶兼用桑树新品种蜀椹1号.经品种比较试验和四川省桑品种区域性试验鉴定表明,新品种蜀椹1号具有树形直立、枝条粗长而多、植株整齐一致、雌花较多、遗传性状稳定等特点.蜀椹1号平均单芽座果数6.38个,平均座果率为86.11％,平均单果质量为3.98 g,平均米条产果量为536.25 g;全年平均产果量18031.75 kg/hm2,比对照大10增产6.47％;可溶性固形物含量（糖度）11.3％;全年平均产叶量31 551.66 kg/hm2,比对照湖桑32号增产13.89％;田间自然感病鉴定蜀椹1号中抗桑椹小粒型菌核病.系中生中熟品种,适合鲜食和加工,是具有应用推广潜力的果叶兼用桑树新品种.     

人参花食用安全性研究

目的:对人参花食用安全性进行毒理学评价.方法:采用大鼠经口急性毒性试验、遗传毒性试验(Ames试验、小鼠骨髓细胞微核试验、小鼠精子畸形试验)、大鼠30 d喂养试验.结果:雌、雄大鼠经口最大耐受剂量(MTD)均大于17.4 g/kg·bw.3项遗传毒性试验结果均为阴性.在大鼠30 d喂养试验中,6.0 g/kg·bw,3.0 g/kg·bw及1.5g/kg· bw 3个剂量组的实验动物均生长发育良好,体重、摄食量、饮水量、血液学、血液生化学、脏器系数及病理组织学相关指标均未见异常变化.结论:人参花属于实际无毒物,未见遗传毒性,长期服用是安全的.     

The Prognostic Value of Global DNA Hypomethylation in Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

Background

Aberrant methylation of the global genome has been investigated as a prognostic indicator in various cancers, but the results are controversial and ambiguous.

Methods and Findings

This meta-analysis presents pooled estimates of the evidence to elucidate this issue. We searched the electronic databases: PubMed, Embase, ISI Web of Science and the Cochrane library (up to August 2013) to identify all of the relevant studies. The association between the level of surrogates'' indexes of genome-wide hypomethylation (LINE-1, Alu and Sat–α) and the overall survival (OS) of cancer patients was examined. In addition, the pooled hazard ratios (HRs) with their 95% confidence interval (95%CI) were calculated to estimate the influences through fixed-effects and random-effects model. Finally, twenty studies with total population of 5447 met the inclusion criteria. The results indicate that the summary HRs for the studies employing LINE-1, Alu, and Sat-α repetitive elements also show that the global DNA hypomethylation have significant desirable effects on the tumour prognostic value. The pooled HRs (and CIs) of LINE-1, Alu and Sat-α were 1.83 (1.38–2.44), 2.00 (1.16–3.45), and 2.92 (1.04–8.25), with a heterogeneity measure index of I² (and p-value) shows of 66.6% (p = 0.001), 57.1% (p = 0.053) and 68.2% (p = 0.076) respectively. The meta-regression and subgroup analysis indicated that the percentage of hypomethylated sample of cancer patients is one source of heterogeneity.

Conclusion

Our meta-analysis findings support the hypothesis that the global DNA hypomethylation is associated with a detrimental prognosis in tumour patients.     

核黄素发酵菌种改造研究进展

核黄素是一种水溶性维生素,与动植物的生长密切相关,人体不能合成核黄素,需从外部摄取,因此核黄素的生产具有重要意义。介绍了核黄素的生产发展历程和产核黄素的微生物种类。对枯草芽孢杆菌的核黄素代谢途径及其诱变育种进行了总结,重点介绍了菌种的基因重组改造方法,主要是提高核黄素操纵子表达以及提高Ru5P和GTP两种前体供应量合成途径通量,介绍了近些年新的改造方法,并对未来的发展方向进行了展望。     

A paracentric inversion suppresses genetic recombination at the <Emphasis Type="Italic">FON3</Emphasis> locus with breakpoints corresponding to sequence gaps on rice chromosome 11L

Paracentric inversion is known to inhibit genetic recombination between normal and inverted chromosomal segments in heterozygous arrangements. Insect inversion polymorphisms have been studied to reveal adaptive processes for maintaining genetic variation. We report the first paracentric inversion in rice (Oryza sativa), which was discovered in our effort to clone the floral organ number gene FON3. Recombination at the FON3 locus on the long arm of chromosome 11 was severely suppressed over a distance of more than 36 cM. An extensive screening among 8,242 F₂ progeny failed to detect any recombinants. Cytological analysis revealed a loop-like structure on pachytene chromosomes, whereas FISH analysis showed the migration of a BAC clone from a distal location to a position closer to the centromere. Interestingly, the locations where the genetic recombination suppression began were coincided with the positions of two physical gaps on the chromosome 11, suggesting a correlation between the physical gaps, the inversion breakpoints. Transposons and retrotransposons, and tandemly arranged members of gene families were among the sequences immediately flanking the gaps. Taken together, we propose that the genetic suppression at the FON3 locus was caused by a paracentric inversion. The possible genetic mechanism causing such a spontaneous inversion was proposed.     

耻垢分枝杆菌中反式翻译报告体系的构建

细菌在翻译过程中,mRNA受到损伤(如缺失终止密码子)时会使翻译提前终止,导致核糖体熄火,细菌自身会启动核糖体拯救途径。由tmRNA-SmpB介导的反式翻译系统是结核分枝杆菌中的核糖体拯救途径,对结核分枝杆菌的生长繁殖有重大影响。为探究分枝杆菌中反式翻译途径的启动及其功能特点,本研究选取耻垢分枝杆菌为实验菌株,分别以mCherry和egfp作为报告基因,通过在报告基因3′端添加大肠埃希菌终止子序列,构建能在菌体中反映反式翻译表达的报告体系,并初步探究该体系中报告基因的动态表达特点。结果显示,相比正常表达mCherry的对照菌株,实验菌株中表达的错误mCherry蛋白很快被水解,菌体颜色均明显浅于前者,增强绿色荧光蛋白(enhanced green fluorescent protein,EGFP)定量检测数据也显示错误EGFP水平显著低于正常表达的EGFP水平,表明两种反式翻译报告体系均构建成功。报告基因的动态表达数据显示,蛋白出现翻译异常时,耻垢分枝杆菌可在蛋白翻译过程中快速启动反式翻译途径,并于40～45h将不成熟错误蛋白完全水解。本研究构建的反式翻译报告体系可为后续开展分枝杆菌反式翻译途径的功能研究及抗结核药物筛选提供帮助。     

Combining Rapid Data Independent Acquisition and CRISPR Gene Deletion for Studying Potential Protein Functions: A Case of HMGN1

CRISPR‐Cas gene editing holds substantial promise in many biomedical disciplines and basic research. Due to the important functional implications of non‐histone chromosomal protein HMG‐14 (HMGN1) in regulating chromatin structure and tumor immunity, gene knockout of HMGN1 is performed by CRISPR in cancer cells and the following proteomic regulation events are studied. In particular, DIA mass spectrometry (DIA‐MS) is utilized, and more than 6200 proteins (protein‐ FDR 1%) and more than 82 000 peptide precursors are reproducibly measured in the single MS shots of 2 h. HMGN1 protein deletion is confidently verified by DIA‐MS in all of the clone‐ and dish‐ replicates following CRISPR. Statistical analysis reveals 147 proteins change their expressions significantly after HMGN1 knockout. Functional annotation and enrichment analysis indicate the deletion of HMGN1 induces histone inactivation, various stress pathways, remodeling of extracellular proteomes, cell proliferation, as well as immune regulation processes such as complement and coagulation cascade and interferon alpha/ gamma response in cancer cells. These results shed new lights on the cellular functions of HMGN1. It is suggested that DIA‐MS can be reliably used as a rapid, robust, and cost‐effective proteomic‐screening tool to assess the outcome of the CRISPR experiments.