产甘油假丝酵母胞浆3-磷酸甘油脱氢酶基因（CgGPD）功能分析

【目的】从高产甘油生产菌株产甘油假丝酵母（Candida glycerinogenes）基因组中克隆了NAD+依赖3-磷酸甘油脱氢酶编码基因（CgGPD），但是该基因及其上游调控序列具体的功能还是未知的。本文研究了CgGPD基因及其上游调控序列的功能。【方法】本文以酿酒酵母（Saccharomyces cerevisiae）及其渗透压敏感型突变株为宿主，构建3种不同的酵母表达载体导入酵母细胞，研究了不同酵母转化子在渗透压胁迫条件下CgGPD基因表达对细胞的耐高渗透压胁迫应答及其细胞的甘油合成能力的影响。【结果】实验结果表明无论是以来源于S. cerevisiae 的TPI启动子还是来源于CgGPD基因的启动子，过量表达CgGPD基因的转化子均能够显著加速葡萄糖消耗速度和提高甘油合成能力，在gpd1/gpd2突变株中表达CgGPD基因能够消除细胞对外界高渗透压的敏感性，同时转化子胞内甘油大量积累。【结论】CgGPD基因在野生型酵母S. cerevisiae W303-1A表达显著提高细胞的甘油合成能力，在gpd/1gpd2突变株中能够互补GPD1基因的功能，CgGPD基因表达受渗透压诱导 调控。     

A Short Period of Mannitol Stress but Not LiCl Stress Led to Global Translational Repression in Plants

In plant cells, high salinity stress induces rapid inhibition of general protein synthesis. In this study, we found that treatment with mannitol, but not lithium stress, led to rapid global translational repression, suggesting that a rapid response at the level of translation might be induced by the osmotic but not the ionic components of salinity stress.     

Senescence in cut carnation flowers: Temporal and physiological relationships among water status, ethylene, abscisic acid and membrane permeability

Changes in water status, membrane permeability, ethylene production and levels of abscisic acid (ABA) were measured during senescence of cut carnation flowers ( Dianthus caryophyllus L. cv. White Sim) in order to clarify the temporal sequence of physiological events during this post-harvest period. Ethylene production and ABA content of the petal tissue rose essentially in parallel during natural senescence and after treatment of young flowers with exogenous ethylene, indicating that their syntheses are not widely separated in time. However, solute leakage, reflecting membrane deterioration, was apparent well before the natural rise in ethylene and ABA had begun. In addition, there were marked changes in water status of the tissue, including losses in water potential (ψ_w), and turgor (ψ_p), that preceded the rise in ABA and ethylene. As senescence progressed, ψ_w continued to decline, but ψ_p returned to normal levels. These temporal relationships were less well resolved when senescence of young flowers was induced by treatment with ethylene, presumably because the time-scale had been shortened. Thus changes in membrane permeability and an associated water stress in petal tissue appear to be earlier symptoms of flower senescence than the rises in ABA or ethylene. These observations support the contention that the climacteric-like rise in ethylene production is not the initial or primary event of senescence and that the rise in ABA titre may simply be a response to changes in water status.     

耐盐药蒲公英(Taraxacum officinale Weber)愈伤组织筛选及生理生化特性分析

为获得耐1.5% NaCl的药蒲公英(Taraxacum officinale Weber)愈伤组织, 以药蒲公英叶片外植体为材料诱导愈伤组织。以NaCl为选择因子, 从愈伤组织直接筛选。在选择培养基上, 大部分愈伤组织褐化死亡, 个别褐化死亡的愈伤组织周围有少量新的细胞团长出, 将其转接到新鲜的选择培养基上, 每3周继代一次, 经3个月继代筛选获得了耐1.5% NaCl的药蒲公英细胞团。以普通愈伤组织为对照, 发现随着NaCl浓度升高, 耐盐愈伤组织的相对生长率下降但显著高于对照; 且随着盐胁迫处理时间延长持续升高, 而普通愈伤组织对照几乎停止生长, 说明耐盐愈伤组织具有相对稳定的耐盐性。在蛋白水平上, 耐盐愈伤组织与对照愈伤组织差异明显, SDS-PAGE分析显示: 耐盐愈伤组织比对照多出一条34 kD大小的蛋白带, 且30 kD、18 kD左右的蛋白带明显上调。相同处理条件下耐盐愈伤组织脯氨酸的增加幅度高于对照。盐胁迫条件下, 耐盐愈伤组织的超氧化物歧化酶(Super oxidase dimutase, SOD)、过氧化物酶(Peroxidase, POD)和过氧化氢酶(Catalase, CAT)活性明显高于对照,且随着处理时间的延长和盐浓度的增加呈现升高的趋势, 而对照则呈现先升高后下降的趋势。结果说明耐盐愈伤组织一方面通过小分子有机溶质如脯氨酸的方式调节其渗透平衡, 另一方面还可通过提高抗氧化能力降低盐分造成的次级伤害。积累蛋白也可能是耐盐愈伤组织调节渗透平衡的一种方式。通过生理生化分析确定我们获得的耐盐愈伤组织为耐盐变异体。     

A Plasma Membrane Nanodomain Ensures Signal Specificity during Osmotic Signaling in Plants

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Hydraulic redistribution: limitations for plants in saline soils

Hydraulic redistribution (HR), the movement of water from wet to dry patches in the soil via roots, occurs in different ecosystems and plant species. By extension of the principle that HR is driven by gradients in soil water potential, HR has been proposed to occur for plants in saline soils. Despite the inherent spatial patchiness and salinity gradients in these soils, the lack of direct evidence of HR in response to osmotic gradients prompted us to ask the question: are there physical or physiological constraints to HR for plants in saline environments? We propose that build‐up of ions in the root xylem sap and in the leaf apoplast, with the latter resulting in a large predawn disequilibrium of water potential in shoots compared with roots and soil, would both impede HR. We present a conceptual model that illustrates how processes in root systems in heterogeneous salinity with water potential gradients, even if equal to those in non‐saline soils, will experience a dampened magnitude of water potential gradients in the soil–plant continuum, minimizing or preventing HR. Finally, we provide an outlook for understanding the relevance of HR for plants in saline environments by addressing key research questions on plant salinity tolerance.     

Effect of Hyper-Osmotic Stress On Alanine Content of Leishmania Major Promastigotes

ABSTRACT Earlier studies showed that Leishmania major promastigotes are sensitive to osmotic conditions. A reduction in osmolality caused the cells to shorten and to rapidly release most of their large internal pool of alanine. In this study some effects of hyper-osmotic stress were examined. an increase in osmolality of the culture medium from 308 to 625 mOsm/kg caused only a small decrease in growth rate. When cells grown in the usual culture medium (308 mOsm/kg) were washed, resuspended in iso-osmotic buffer, and subjected to acute hyper-osmotic stress by addition of mannitol, the alanine content increased even in the absence of exogenous substrate. Promastigotes, depleted of alanine by a 5-min exposure to hypo-osmotic conditions, also synthesized alanine when resuspended in iso-osmotic buffer. Washed cells resuspended in iso-osmotic buffer consume their internal pool of alanine under aerobic conditions, Rates of consumption decreased on addition of mannitol, becoming zero at about 440 mOsm/kg. At higher osmolalities, alanine synthesis occurred. to estimate whether proteolysis could account for alanine synthesis in the absence of exogenous substrate, cells that had been grown with [1-¹⁴C]leucine were washed and resuspended under hypo-, iso-, and hyper-osmotic conditions and the amounts of ¹⁴CO₂ and ¹⁴C-labelled peptides released in 1 h were measured. Little proteolysis occurred under these conditions, but the possibility that proteolysis was the source of the alanine increase, observed in response to hyper-osmotic stress, cannot be ruled out.