紫甘薯花色苷色素的抑菌作用研究

本文研究了紫甘薯花色苷色素抑制大肠杆菌、金黄色葡萄球菌、啤酒酵母和黑曲霉的作用及机理。结果表明：紫甘薯花色苷色素对大肠杆菌及金黄色葡萄球菌均有抑制作用, 并与其浓度呈正相关, 而对啤酒酵母和黑曲霉无抑制作用。透射电镜观察和大肠杆菌生长曲线表明, 该色素的抑菌作用可能是通过增强细胞膜的通透性, 使细胞异常生长, 抑制对数生长期的细胞分裂, 使细胞质稀薄、细胞解体。SDS-PAGE 分析表明, 紫甘薯花色苷对大肠杆菌蛋白表达影响不明显, 未见特征性条带的消失, 仅对部分蛋白质合成量有影响。     

紫细菌光合机构及光合作用基因的表达调控

紫细菌是研究细菌光合作用的重要生物.介绍了紫细菌光合机构捕光色素蛋白复合体Ⅰ(light-harvestingⅠ)、捕光色素蛋白复合体Ⅱ(1ight-harvesting Ⅱ)和光化学反应中心(reaction center)的结构,并探讨了其光合作用基因的转录调控机制,重点阐述了PpsR/AppA系统对紫细菌光合作用基因的转录调控.     

紫甘薯花色苷色素的抑菌作用研究

本文研究了紫甘薯花色苷色素抑制大肠杆菌、金黄色葡萄球菌、啤酒酵母和黑曲霉的作用及机理.结果表明:紫甘薯花色苷色素对大肠杆菌及金黄色葡萄球菌均有抑制作用,并与其浓度呈正相关,而对啤酒酵母和黑曲霉无抑制作用.透射电镜观察和大肠杆菌生长曲线表明,该色素的抑菌作用可能是通过增强细胞膜的通透性,使细胞异常生长,抑制对数生长期的细胞分裂,使细胞质稀薄、细胞解体.SDS-PAGE分析表明,紫甘薯花色苷对大肠杆菌蛋白表达影响不明显,未见特征性条带的消失,仅对部分蛋白质合成量有影响.     

Spectral diffusion of the lowest exciton component in the core complex from Rhodopseudomonas palustris studied by single-molecule spectroscopy

We have recorded fluorescence-excitation spectra from individual RC–LH1 complexes from Rhodopseudomonas palustris. The spectra feature a few broad bands accompanied by a sharp line at the low-energy side of the spectrum which is ascribed to the lowest exciton state of the BChl a assembly. Recording several fluorescence-excitation spectra from the same individual complex in rapid succession reveals that the linewidth of the lowest exciton transition is determined by spectral diffusion which increases for higher excitation energies.     

Electrostatic effect of surfactant molecules on bacteriochlorophyll a and carotenoid binding sites in the LH1 complex isolated from Rhodospirillum rubrum S1 probed by Stark spectroscopy

The LH1 complexes were isolated from the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum strain S1. They were initially solubilized using LDAO and then purified in the presence of Triton X-100. The purified complexes were then either used directly or following an exchange into LDAO. Stark spectroscopy was applied to probe the electrostatic field around the bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) and carotenoid binding sites in the LH1 complexes surrounded by these two different surfactant molecules. Polarizabilty change () and dipole moment change () upon photoexcitation were determined for the BChl a Q_y band. Both of these parameters show smaller values in the presence of LDAO than in Triton X-100. This indicates that polar detergent molecules, like LDAO, affect the electrostatic environment around BChl a, and modify the nonlinear optical parameters ( and values). The electrostatic field around the BChl a binding site, which is generated by the presence of LDAO, was determined to be |E _L | = ∼3.9 × 10⁵ [V/cm]. Interestingly, this kind of electrostatic effect was not observed for the carotenoid-binding site. The present study demonstrates a unique electrostatic interaction between the polar detergent molecules surrounding the LH1 complex and the Q_y absorption band of BChl a that is bound to the LH1 complex.     

Dynamics of hydration water in deuterated purple membranes explored by neutron scattering

The function and dynamics of proteins depend on their direct environment, and much evidence has pointed to a strong coupling between water and protein motions. Recently however, neutron scattering measurements on deuterated and natural-abundance purple membrane (PM), hydrated in H(2)O and D(2)O, respectively, revealed that membrane and water motions on the ns-ps time scale are not directly coupled below 260 K (Wood et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:18049-18054, 2007). In the initial study, samples with a high level of hydration were measured. Here, we have measured the dynamics of PM and water separately, at a low-hydration level corresponding to the first layer of hydration water only. As in the case of the higher hydration samples previously studied, the dynamics of PM and water display different temperature dependencies, with a transition in the hydration water at 200 K not triggering a transition in the membrane at the same temperature. Furthermore, neutron diffraction experiments were carried out to monitor the lamellar spacing of a flash-cooled deuterated PM stack hydrated in H(2)O as a function of temperature. At 200 K, a sudden decrease in lamellar spacing indicated the onset of long-range translational water diffusion in the second hydration layer as has already been observed on flash-cooled natural-abundance PM stacks hydrated in D(2)O (Weik et al. in J Mol Biol 275:632-634, 2005), excluding thus a notable isotope effect. Our results reinforce the notion that membrane-protein dynamics may be less strongly coupled to hydration water motions than the dynamics of soluble proteins.     

Porcine purple acid phosphatase: heterologous expression, characterization, and proteolytic analysis

Uteroferrin is an iron-binding glycoprotein, which is abundantly synthesized in porcine uterine glandular endometrium and believed to be involved in maternal/fetal iron transport. In the present study, uteroferrin has been cloned and functionally expressed using baculovirus-infected insect host cells Spodoptera frugiperda. The work also addresses the possible role of proteolytic cleavage to facilitate the release of uteroferrin-bound iron. The enzyme secreted in culture medium exhibits a molecular mass and catalytic properties similar to native porcine uteroferrin. The specific activity was estimated at 233 U/mg using p-nitrophenyl phosphate as substrate. Partial cleavage of the enzyme with trypsin resulted in a 1.7-fold enhancement in specific activity and a two-subunit polypeptide as observed in preparations of most mammalian purple acid phosphatases. Digestion with the aspartic protease pepsin resulted in a 2.5-fold enzyme inactivation correlated with the appearance of low molecular weight polypeptide fragments and the release of enzyme-bound iron.     

Evidence for limited species diversity of bacteriochlorophyll b-containing purple nonsulfur anoxygenic phototrophs in freshwater habitats

Thirteen new isolates of bacteriochlorophyll b-containing purple nonsulfur bacteria were isolated from four freshwater habitats using specific enrichment methods including the use of long wavelength filters and extincting dilution of the inoculum. The new isolates were compared with the type strain of Blastochloris viridis, strain DSM 133(T), as regards pigments, morphology, carbon nutrition, and phylogeny. All new isolates were budding bacteria, and phototrophic mass cultures were green, brown, or brown-green in color. The pattern of carbon sources photocatabolized were similar in all strains; however, sugars, both mono- and disaccharides, were widely used by the new isolates while they did not support growth of strain DSM 133(T). Phylogenetic analysis showed all new strains to cluster tightly with the type strain with the exception of one brown-colored strain and a mildly thermophilic strain. The results suggest that in contrast to purple nonsulfur bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll a, those containing bacteriochlorophyll b may not be morphologically or phylogenetically diverse, and group into a tight phylogenetic clade distinct from all other anoxygenic phototrophs.     

紫色土Zn、Cd复合污染生态效应研究

通过盆栽生物试验结合野外典型污染调查,研究紫色土Zn、Cd复合污染对莴笋、蕃茄、甘兰、小麦等的作物效应.结果表明,Zn、Cd复合污染对Zn表现为加和作用,低浓度Cd促进Zn吸收,加重Zn对养分吸收的抑制,加剧Zn的毒害作用;复合效应对Cd表现为竞争作用,高浓度Zn抑制Cd吸收,减轻Cd对养分吸收的抑制,缓解Cd毒性,向土壤添加Zn 500mg·kg^-1为供试盆栽条件下拮抗效应的临界值.