Expression of Aspergillus niger N5-5 in E. coli and purification and identification of products

Due to the feature of high hydrolysis, tannase is widely used in food, beverage, brewing and other fields. However, high cost in producing natural tannase makes it difficult to apply tannase to industry in a large-scale. Microbial expression systems can be used for preparing numerous amount of enzyme at low cost, so in this paper Aspergillus niger N5-5 was expressed using E. coli system. Specific primers were designed based on the Aspergillus niger N5-5 sequence N3 (GenBank, No.: KP677552), and tannase gene tan was promoted to carry 6 His tag and enzyme cutting site which contains NdeI/HindIII using PCR amplification. Then, tannase gene tan was connected to expression vector by NdeI/HindIII enzyme cutting. In this way, recombinant expression vector tan-pET43.1a was formed. Then, the expression vector pET43.1a by NdeI/HindIII enzyme cutting was transformed into E. coli BL21 (DE3) to induce expression of Aspergillus niger N5-5. When the induced fungi were disrupted by the ultrasonic wave, the crude enzyme was extracted and purified by using the IMAC, and then the activity of the crude enzyme and pure enzyme was determined. According to the results of determination of the tannase activity, the tannase activity of the crude enzyme was greatly improved after the crude enzyme was purified, and the specific activity of the pure enzyme was about 8 times of that of the crude enzyme. The results of SDS-PAGE of the pure enzyme showed that the molecular mass of the pure enzyme was about 65 kDa/64–65 kDa, which was consistent with the expected result (64.2 kDa), It can be concluded that the crude enzyme solution was purified successfully. The results of pure enzyme’s protein identification by Western Blotting showed that clear protein bands pro-3 were observed. Molecular mass of clear protein bands pro-3 was about 65 kDa, which was in line with the expected results (64.2 kDa). It can be seen that the aforementioned expression protein could be specifically combined with His tag. It proved expression protein to be a recombinant fusion protein with 6 His tag.     

Molecular Epidemiology of Nontyphoidal Salmonella in Poultry and Poultry Products in India: Implications for Human Health

Human infections with non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) serovars are increasingly becoming a threat to human health globally. While all motile Salmonellae have zoonotic potential, Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium are most commonly associated with human disease, for which poultry are a major source. Despite the increasing number of human NTS infections, the epidemiology of NTS in poultry in India has not been fully understood. Hence, as a first step, we carried out epidemiological analysis to establish the incidence of NTS in poultry to evaluate the risk to human health. A total of 1215 samples (including poultry meat, tissues, egg and environmental samples) were collected from 154 commercial layer farms from southern India and screened for NTS. Following identification by cultural and biochemical methods, Salmonella isolates were further characterized by multiplex PCR, allele-specific PCR, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) PCR and pulse field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). In the present study, 21/1215 (1.73 %) samples tested positive for NTS. We found 12/392 (3.06 %) of tissue samples, 7/460 (1.52 %) of poultry products, and 2/363 (0.55 %) of environmental samples tested positive for NTS. All the Salmonella isolates were resistant to oxytetracycline, which is routinely used as poultry feed additive. The multiplex PCR results allowed 16/21 isolates to be classified as S. Typhimurium, and five isolates as S. Enteritidis. Of the five S. Enteritidis isolates, four were identified as group D Salmonella by allele-specific PCR. All of the isolates produced different banding patterns in ERIC PCR. Of the thirteen macro restriction profiles (MRPs) obtained by PFGE, MRP 6 was predominant which included 6 (21 %) isolates. In conclusion, the findings of the study revealed higher incidence of contamination of NTS Salmonella in poultry tissue and animal protein sources used for poultry. The results of the study warrants further investigation on different type of animal feed sources, food market chains, processing plants, live bird markets etc., to evaluate the risk factors, transmission and effective control measures of human Salmonella infection from poultry products.     

Analysis of rhizobial endosymbionts of Vicia,Lathyrus and Trifolium species used to maintain mountain firewalls in Sierra Nevada National Park (South Spain)

Forest fires lead to the annual disappearance of many natural formations that require the creation of firewall areas. They can be maintained by enriching their pastures with attractive plants for grazing livestock, mainly legumes, which have a high protein content and low dependence on N fertilizers due to their ability to establish nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with rhizobia. In this study, the rhizobia isolated from the nodules of six legumes from the genera Vicia, Lathyrus and Trifolium were analysed in a firewall zone established in Lanjarón (Granada) close to the Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain). The results showed a high genetic diversity of the isolated strains that had 3, 16, 14 and 13 different types of rrs, recA, atpD and glnII genes, respectively. All strains were phylogenetically close to the species from the Rhizobium leguminosarum group, although they were not identified as any of them. The isolated strains belonged to the symbiovars viciae and trifolii but high phylogenetic diversity was found within both symbiovars, since there were 16 and 14 nodC gene types, respectively. Some of these strains clustered with strains isolated in other countries and continents, but others formed atpD, recA, glnII and nodC clusters and lineages only found to date in this study.     

利用DNA ISSR分子标记技术对芍药属植物栽培品种的分类鉴定方法

以利用DNA ISSR分子标记逐级区分品种为主要研究目标,通过ISSR引物的设计与实验筛选,取得了进展。该方法类似于经典的植物形态检索表式的分类策略,不同之处在于利用基因组DNA分子性状作为品种分类的依据,即"ISSR引物结合位点"与"DNA ISSR片段长度差异"的组合信息。该方法不仅可以有效鉴定品种,而且可以很容易地生成富含遗传变异信息的0、1矩阵,通过运算揭示品种间的遗传关系与演化规律。该方法成本低廉、操作便捷,对于建立客观、科学的牡丹及芍药品种分类体系,对于芍药属品种种质资源的保存、评价与合理利用具有重要价值。应该加大支持力度推进其实际应用。     

An unusual new species of the genus Brachypalpus Macquart (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Eastern Asia

Brachypalpus (Brachypalpus) longifacies sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Eastern Asia (Russian Far East and Japan). It differs from other species of the nominative subgenus by several unusual characters, i.e. face in profile weakly convex dorsally and concave ventrally, antennae very elongated, and abdomen with reddish transversal maculae on 2nd tergum (male) or 2nd and 3rd terga (female). A key is given for known species of the subgenus Brachypalpus.LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:634CB6E2-B2C1-40EC-8811-BF3DD4BDE69A     

Phosphoproteomic Approaches to Discover Novel Substrates of Mycobacterial Ser/Thr Protein Kinases

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Highlights

• •Mapping kinase-substrate relationships is vital in discovering new tuberculosis drug targets.
• •LC-MS/MS-based phosphoproteomics expand mycobacterial STPK substrate catalogues.
• •We review and integrate MS-generated datasets on novel candidate substrates.
• •Validation studies are necessary to confirm true physiological substrates of STPKs.

     

水稻稻瘟病拮抗菌L1鉴定及抑菌特性的初步研究

本研究对水稻稻瘟病菌的拮抗菌L1形态、生理生化特性等进行测定, 结果发现其为杆状细胞、革兰氏阳性、菌落不规则有褶皱、好氧生长、颜色较深等, 初步鉴定为枯草芽孢杆菌; 拮抗菌L1培养5 d的发酵液抑菌活性最高, 抑菌率为74.57%; 拮抗菌L1对水稻稻瘟病菌的拮抗活性物质对温度不敏感; 拮抗菌L1的发酵液用硫酸铵梯度沉淀法提取粗蛋白, 在50%~60%硫酸铵饱和度下沉淀的粗蛋白质对水稻稻瘟病菌抑菌效果最好, 平均抑菌半径达0.51 cm。