LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES IN XANTHIUM INDUCED BY GIBBERELLIC ACID

One application of gibberellic acid (GA₃) to Xanthium shoots resulted in an initial large stimulation, followed by inhibition, of internode elongation. After presumed translocation of the hormone from the locus of its application to the stem apex several morphological changes were observed. There was a significant increase in number of mitotic figures in the apical meristem and a twofold increase in volume of the apical dome. With time, the rate of leaf production was accelerated about 1.8 times. The phyllotaxis of leaf primordia initiated under the influence of GA:, changed from a (2, 3) contact parastichy pattern in control shoot to a (3, 5) pattern. Final petiole length was smaller than the control, and the absolute rate of lamina expansion decreased under prolonged treatment. Gibberellic acid had a pronounced effect on leaf morphology. GA_a induced the development of lanceolate leaves instead of typical deltoid leaves. The reduction in leaf area coincided with a 32% reduction in the average area of epidermal cells. Plastochron changes were correlated with anatomical and morphological changes during the course of leaf development.     

不同抗性泡核桃对褐斑病病原菌侵染的生理生化响应北大核心CSCD

以抗病和感病泡核桃无性系为实验材料,人工接种褐斑病病原菌后测定不同时期叶片中保护酶活性、总酚、类黄酮、叶绿素含量等相关生理生化指标,探讨不同抗性泡核桃响应褐斑病病原菌侵染的生理生化差异。结果表明:(1)接种病原菌后,感病无性系64叶片带菌率随着侵染时间的增加而升高,且显著高于抗病无性系199(P<0.05)。(2)抗病无性系199和感病无性系64叶片的SOD、POD、CAT、APX和PPO活性随着侵染时间均呈现先升高后降低的变化趋势,其中SOD、POD和APX活性均在16 d时达到最大值;与较感病无性系相比,接种后抗病无性系的POD和APX活性较强;在接种前期(1~16 d),感病无性系PPO活性高于抗病无性系,后期(16~34 d)CAT活性也较抗病无性系高。(3)抗病无性系叶片叶绿素含量始终高于感病无性系;抗病无性系MDA含量在接种后无明显变化,而感病无性系先增加后降低,其细胞膜脂过氧化较重。(4)两个无性系叶片可溶性蛋白和可溶性糖含量变化较平缓,且差异不显著,在接种后期(34 d)有升高的趋势;接种5 d以后,感病无性系叶片类黄酮和总酚含量始终显著高于抗病无性系。研究发现,泡核桃抗病无性系叶片带菌率较低,较难受到侵染,并且通过提高POD和APX活性以及积累较多叶绿素、可溶性蛋白和可溶性糖来应对病原菌侵染引起的氧化胁迫,抑制病原菌的繁殖,从而提高其抗病能力。     

我国典型湿热地区变质烟用香精中腐败微生物的多样性分析

【背景】烟用香精是卷烟生产中的重要辅料,有些香精,特别是剩余的加料香精在运输和储存等过程中可能污染微生物,引起腐败变质发生。【目的】分析变质烟用香精中腐败微生物的群落多样性,确定引起加料香精变质的主要腐败微生物。【方法】采用稀释平板法,对我国典型湿热地区云南、福建和广西三地变质加料香精样品中的污染细菌、霉菌或酵母进行分离,分析其16S rRNA、ITS或26S rRNA基因序列,并通过反证试验确定引起变质的主要腐败微生物。【结果】所考察3个典型湿热地区变质加料香精存在不同程度的细菌、霉菌或酵母污染,其中细菌污染最为普遍。分离的76株污染细菌分布在2门4纲5目10科15属,细菌的群落多样性比较丰富,其中雷尔氏菌属(Ralstonia)、柠檬酸杆菌属(Citrobacter)、肠杆菌属(Enterobacter)及芽孢杆菌属(Bacillus)是优势菌群;9株霉菌分布在子囊菌门(Ascomycota)的3纲6属,每个属分离到1-2株霉菌;42株酵母分布在子囊菌门的6个属,其中毕赤酵母属(Pichia)、细枝钩酵母菌属(Wickerhamomyces)及酵母菌属(Saccharomyces)是优势菌群。云南和福建两地样品的细菌菌群组成明显多于广西,广西样品的霉菌菌群组成以及福建样品的酵母菌群组成均分别多于其余两地。反证试验结果显示,柠檬酸杆菌属、肠杆菌属、芽孢杆菌属、雷尔氏菌属和毕赤酵母属是引起烟用加料香精变质的主要腐败微生物。【结论】变质加料香精中污染微生物菌群组成及腐败微生物确定的研究将有助于我国湿热地区香精香料中污染微生物的控制和腐败变质的预防。     

Oxidized hemoglobin forms contribute to NLRP3 inflammasome-driven IL-1β production upon intravascular hemolysis

Damage associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are released form red blood cells (RBCs) during intravascular hemolysis (IVH). Extracellular heme, with its pro-oxidant, pro-inflammatory and cytotoxic effects, is sensed by innate immune cells through pattern recognition receptors such as toll-like receptor 4 and nucleotide-binding domain and leucine rich repeat containing family, pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3), while free availability of heme is strictly controlled. Here we investigated the involvement of different hemoglobin (Hb) forms in hemolysis-associated inflammatory responses.We found that after IVH most of the extracellular heme molecules are localized in oxidized Hb forms. IVH was associated with caspase-1 activation and formation of mature IL-1β in plasma and in the liver of C57BL/6 mice. We showed that ferrylHb (FHb) induces active IL-1β production in LPS-primed macrophages in vitro and triggered intraperitoneal recruitment of neutrophils and monocytes, caspase-1 activation and active IL-1β formation in the liver of C57BL/6 mice. NLRP3 deficiency provided a survival advantage upon IVH, without influencing the extent of RBC lysis or the accumulation of oxidized Hb forms. However, both hemolysis-induced and FHb-induced pro-inflammatory responses were largely attenuated in Nlrp3^?/? mice.Taken together, FHb is a potent trigger of NLRP3 activation and production of IL-1β in vitro and in vivo, suggesting that FHb may contribute to hemolysis-induced inflammation. Identification of RBC-derived DAMPs might allow us to develop new therapeutic approaches for hemolytic diseases.     

硝酸盐供应对玉米侧根生长的影响

以两个玉米(Zea mays L.)自交系478和Wu312为研究材料,采用琼脂培养方法,研究不同浓度NO-3对侧根生长的影响.结果表明,在外部浓度0.01～1.0mmol/L范围内,NO-3供应能显著增加侧根的长度及根生物量.但当NO-3供应超过1.0 mmo1/L后,侧根长度开始下降.当NO-3供应分别在超过5.0(Wu312)与10(478)mmol/L后,侧根密度显著下降.在10 mmol/LNO-3下,Wu312的侧根生长几乎完全被抑制.而478在20 mmol/L时,侧根密度仍可达到其最大值的30%(主根)～50%(胚根).植株地上部全氮及硝酸盐含量随NO-3供应的增加而升高,二者与侧根长度、侧根密度及冠根比的数学函数关系相同.     

Climate change alters temporal dynamics of alpine soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical cycling via earlier snowmelt

Soil microbial communities regulate global biogeochemical cycles and respond rapidly to changing environmental conditions. However, understanding how soil microbial communities respond to climate change, and how this influences biogeochemical cycles, remains a major challenge. This is especially pertinent in alpine regions where climate change is taking place at double the rate of the global average, with large reductions in snow cover and earlier spring snowmelt expected as a consequence. Here, we show that spring snowmelt triggers an abrupt transition in the composition of soil microbial communities of alpine grassland that is closely linked to shifts in soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical pools and fluxes. Further, by experimentally manipulating snow cover we show that this abrupt seasonal transition in wide-ranging microbial and biogeochemical soil properties is advanced by earlier snowmelt. Preceding winter conditions did not change the processes that take place during snowmelt. Our findings emphasise the importance of seasonal dynamics for soil microbial communities and the biogeochemical cycles that they regulate. Moreover, our findings suggest that earlier spring snowmelt due to climate change will have far reaching consequences for microbial communities and nutrient cycling in these globally widespread alpine ecosystems.Subject terms: Metagenomics, Climate-change ecology, Microbial ecology, Biogeochemistry, Soil microbiology     

Soil inorganic carbon storage pattern in China

Soils with pedogenic carbonate cover about 30% (3.44 × 10⁶ km²) of China, mainly across its arid and semiarid regions in the Northwest. Based on the second national soil survey (1979–1992), total soil inorganic carbon (SIC) storage in China was estimated to be 53.3±6.3 PgC (1 Pg=10¹⁵ g) to the depth investigated to 2 m. Soil inorganic carbon storages were 4.6, 10.6, 11.1, and 20.8 Pg for the depth ranges of 0–0.1, 0.1–0.3, 0.3–0.5, and 0.5–1 m, respectively. Stocks for 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, and 1 m of depth accounted for 8.7%, 28.7%, 49.6%, and 88.9% of total SIC, respectively. In contrast with soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, which is highest under 500–800 mm yr⁻¹ of mean precipitation, SIC storage peaks where mean precipitation is <400 mm yr⁻¹. The amount and vertical distribution of SIC was related to climate and land cover type. Content of SIC in each incremental horizon was positively related with mean annual temperature and negatively related with mean annual precipitation, with the magnitude of SIC content across land cover types showing the following order: desert, grassland >shrubland, cropland >marsh, forest, meadow. Densities of SIC increased generally with depth in all ecosystem types with the exception of deserts and marshes where it peaked in intermediate layers (0.1–0.3 m for first and 0.3–0.5 m for latter). Being an abundant component of soil carbon stocks in China, SIC dynamics and the process involved in its accumulation or loss from soils require a better understanding.     

抗人肝癌单抗片段抗体HAb18F(ab'''')_2的冻干工艺研究

选择适合于HAb18F(ab')2片段抗体的冻干保护剂及其冻干工艺,是确保该生物制品的质量关键之一,对不同种类和不同浓度的保护剂进行了研究,结果表明10%蔗糖对HAb18F(ab')2片段抗体冻干样品的剂型、外观、残水量(<3%)、复溶时间(<10s)、纯度(>95%)及稳定性没有影响。研究优化与保护剂相结合的适用于HAb18F(ab')2片段抗体的最佳冻干工艺,为抗体片段扩大生产提供依据。     

果蝇多线染色体β异染色质区的螺旋结构(简报)

从1973年发现核小体至今,研究者们对染色质纤维结构和这种纤维组织成染色体的方式进行了广泛而深入的研究。由DNA到核小体到30nm染色质纤维几乎公认是按螺旋方式集缩的,但是有关30nm左右染色质纤维如何压缩形成染色体的高层次结构还没有统一的意见。关于这方面的研究目前已有许多模型。其中,Bak等提出的多级螺旋     

Cell surface human alpha-L-fucosidase.

The acid alpha-L-fucosidase is usually found as a soluble component of lysosomes where fucoglycoconjugates are degraded. In the present investigation, we have demonstrated the existence of a cell surface protein with enzymatic alpha-L-fucosidase activity that crossreacts specifically with a rabbit anti-(alpha-L-fucosidase) Ig. By different approaches, this alpha-L-fucosidase, which represents 10-20% of the total cellular fucosidase activity, was detected in all the tested human cells (hemopoietic, epithelial, mesenchymal). Two bands of approximately 43-49 kDa were observed, although theoretical data support the possibility of having the same genetic origin that the known 50 to 55-kDa Mr alpha-L-fucosidase. We speculate about an alternative traffic pathway for the plasma membrane alpha-L-fucosidase to work on the rapid turnover of glycoproteins.