Between Knowledge And Technology: Patenting Methods,Rethinking Materiality

How does the law construe certain things and activities as knowledge that can become the object of intellectual property? When we look at the quantitative trends in recent patenting activities—more people patenting many more things—we tend to view that, in part, as an effect of the law's ability to construe new kinds of innovation (software, genetic sequences, etc.) in ways that conform to established legal concepts of patentable invention. The assumption is that what changes is not the shape of the box called invention, but the objects that are made to fit that box. But in fact while new technologies produce new innovations, the very concept of invention has not just expanded but undergone substantial qualitative change. The wave of inventive activity associated with the industrial revolution led to an unprecedented reliance on patenting, but as the law articulated ways to protect those inventions, it also took their emblematic form—the machine—as the template for the legal concept of invention. Analogously, the recent reinterpretations of patent law to enable the protection of living organism and biological entities have challenged and modified the traditional machine-inspired concept of invention, initiating a trend toward a more developmental one. The information-based inventions discussed here may elicit a reconceptualization of invention in yet another way.     

古蔺牛皮茶树种质资源性状初步研究

为开展四川重要茶树种质资源古蔺牛皮茶种质资源的收集、保存与评价工作,在古蔺牛皮茶树资源中选取了具代表性的8种不同类型茶树(Ⅰ~Ⅷ类)作为研究对象,并对其植物学特征、生物学特性及主要生化成分进行了观测。结果表明:供试茶树在形态特征、遗传和品质性状等方面,表现出较丰富的多样性。其种群多为灌木,树姿半开张状;芽叶绿色,茸毛中等,叶为椭圆形,叶尖渐尖;花多为中花型,花柱3~4裂;果实多为球形和肾形,种子多为球形,主要表现出栽培型茶树性状。古蔺牛皮茶春梢的生化成分含量较丰富,其茶多酚含量为(19.71±0.39)%~(30.16±0.22)%,游离氨基酸总量为(2.20±0.11)%~(4.88±0.12)%,咖啡碱含量为(3.45±0.17)%~(4.41±0.09)%。结合主要生化成分含量、酚/氨值和儿茶素组分等可推论,Ⅴ、Ⅵ类适制红茶,其他类型则适制绿茶。综合供试茶树的形态和生化成分含量特征,初步鉴定供试的牛皮茶树分属茶组植物分类系统中的秃房茶和茶,Ⅴ和Ⅵ类茶树较为原始,其他类型则进化程度较高。供试茶树中存在具育种价值的资源,其中Ⅴ类和Ⅵ类可作为高儿茶素含量的育种材料,Ⅱ类可作为选育优质绿茶品种的育种材料。     

东海哈氏仿对虾的数量分布和生长特性研究

根据1986－1990年和1997－2001年对东海26°00′－ 33°00′N,127°00′E以西海域拖虾调查资料,共测定哈氏仿对虾样品9468尾,对哈氏仿对虾的数量分布和生长特性进行研究。结果表明,东海哈氏仿对虾的平均渔获率为458.7/g•h,其中31°00′－ 33°00′N海域最高,达到990.9/g•h,高峰期出现在秋季。主要分布在20－60m水深海域,适温范围10－24℃,适盐范围30－34,为广温广盐性虾类。周年雌虾明显多于雄虾,雌雄性比为1：0.62。雌虾个体也大于雄虾,雌虾周年平均体长和平均体重分别为71.6mm,5.0g;雄虾为57.9mm,2.3g,最大值出现在5－7月,最小值出现在9－10月。繁殖期5－9月,繁殖盛期6－7月。周年出现两次快速生长期,第一次在10-12月,其相对增长率雌虾为9.3%－17.5%,雄虾为7.9%－13.9%,第二次在翌年4－7月,雌、雄虾的相对增长率分别为4.3%－13.8%和6.2%。为合理利用该资源,宜在捕捞群体平均体长、平均体重最小值出现阶段进行保护,以提高其经济效益和生态效益。     

小麦高分子量麦谷蛋白亚基序列及其结构与加工品质的关系

高分子量麦谷蛋白亚基（high molecular weight glutenin subunit,HMW-GS）是小麦种子贮藏蛋白的主要成分,其组成、含量和结构直接影响小麦面粉面筋的弹展性,决定着小麦的加工品质。本文主要对小麦HMW-GS的序列、结构和亚基之间组合形式做了详细的综述,并较系统地讨论了HMW-GS的结构和组成、特点等与面粉的加工品质之间的关系以及如何从定性和定量两方面来影响面粉的加工品质。     

白色念珠菌分泌型天冬氨酸蛋白酶的纯化与性质

利用硫酸铵分级沉淀和DEAE-Sephacel离子交换层析从白色念珠菌WD27培养液中提纯得到一种蛋白酶,纯化倍数为25.4,收率为5.2％。其活性可被抑胃肽特异抑制,初步鉴定该酶为天冬氨酸蛋白酶。该酶在酸性范围内有水解蛋白活性,最适作用pH为4.0,最适温度为37℃。酶在pH5.0～6.0、45℃以下较稳定,该酶具有较广的底物作用范围,对牛血红蛋白最敏感。酶作用于牛血红蛋白的米氏常数Km为0.814mmol/L。     

The conformational and property space of acetylcholine bound to muscarinic receptors: an entropy component accounts for the subtype selectivity of acetylcholine

The conformational behavior of receptor-bound acetylcholine (ACh) was investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. Based on the great similarity among muscarinic receptors, the study was focused on the human M(1), M(2), and M(5) receptors as previously modeled by us. The results showed that receptor-bound ACh was not frozen in a single preferred conformation but preserved an unexpected fraction of its conformational space. However, there were marked differences between the three receptors since the ligand was mostly trans in the M(1) receptor, equally distributed among trans and gauche conformers in M(2), and exclusively gauche in the M(5); the greater flexibility of M(2)-bound ACh was paralleled by the greater flexibility of the occupied M(2) binding site. By contrast, the property space of receptor-bound ACh, and particularly its virtual (computed, conformation-dependent) lipophilicity, was restricted to relatively narrow ranges optimal for successful interaction. Experimental binding investigations to the individual human M(1), M(2), and M(5) muscarinic receptors showed ACh to have a 10-fold higher affinity for the M(2) compared to the M(1) and M(5) receptors. This selectivity was not confirmed by the calculated binding scores, a fact postulated to be caused by the absence of an entropy component in such binding scores. Indeed, the Shannon entropy of all geometric and physicochemical properties monitored were markedly higher in M(2)-bound ACh compared to M(1)-bound and M(5)-bound ACh. This finding suggests that the selectivity profile of acetylcholine for the M(2) receptor is largely entropy-driven, a fact that might explain the intrinsic difficulty to design subtype-selective muscarinic agonists.     

野生猕猴声行为的研究

本文通过在华南四省区对四个野生种群猕猴声行为的观察和现场录音,对它们的叫声声学特性,行为模式和其它个体对其相应的行为反应进行了定量的分析研究,并得出１１种不同的声行为,这些声行为有相互不同的声学特性,不同的行为模式并引起其它个体相应的行为反应,从而起着通讯的作用。叫声在猕猴的声行为通讯中,一些借助视觉提示,至少以不同的刺激度来“表示”某一类事物,并得到个体间的“共识”有些甚至无需视觉提示而单独传递     

大鳞大马哈鱼垂体生长激素的分离、纯化与鉴定

应用ConA-Sepharose 4B亲和层析、凝胶过滤及离子交换层析等技术从大鳞大马哈鱼(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)垂体中分离纯化了具有生物活性的生长激素(sGH)。用放射受体测定法(RRA)检测sGH组分的生物活性,结果表明纯化的8GH制品具有与兔肝细胞GH受体结合的生物活性。用放射免疫测定法(RIA)和酶联免疫吸附测定法(ELISA)分别检测了另两种垂体激素-催乳激素(PRL)和促性腺激素(GTH)在纯化的sGH制品中的残留量均在0.5％以下。用SDS-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳SDS-PAGE评价sGH制品的电泳纯度并测定了其分子量为22000左右。等电聚焦电泳表明该种鱼GH由等电点分别为6.3和6.6的两种形式的分子组成。     

生命机体危险因子信息特征分析

旨在生命机体与危险因子间建立生命物质信息对话平台,以物质化的信息,或信息化的物质的思维进行理解和推论,建立物质承载信息,信息通过物质的形式传递的思维模式,对生命信息中危险因子的属性、分类以及生命机体对危险因子的识别方式进行分析,从以上两个方面不同角度阐述危险因子与生命机体机制信息的相关互动关系。在分析与解读的过程中,主张建立合乎自然生成逻辑的科学概念,而摒弃一些主观是非逻辑所推导建立起来的概念,还原生命物质和生命过程的本来生物学位置及性质;主张一元化的思考方式和整体性理解生命信息安全控制机制的核心部分。分析结果:就生命信息中危险因子的属性和分类进行了分析,指出危险因子具有生命信息属性和生命安全属性两个属性,依据危险因子物质来源的不同,分外源性和内源性两类,绘出危险因子来源分类汇总图;从机体方面对危险因子识别方式不同,分为PRR识别方式和抗原(样)受体识别方式两类,并绘出危险因子识别方式分类汇总图。综合危险因子的属性、分类和生命机体对危险因子的识别方式,绘制出危险因子与生命机体机制信息的相关互动图,从保守性结构信息、生理产物信息、对机体损伤信息、代谢通路信息、对机体变应信息、精细纯外观构象信息及内在性核心信息7个方面对两者的相互关系进行了引证和分析,进一步阐释了生命信息安全控制机制。