A new chapter for China's public health security——aids offered to Africa to combat Ebola

<正>As one of the most deadly diseases,the outbreak of Ebola virus disease(EVD)is causing panic in West Africa and posing alarms globally.Since the re-emergence of EVD,China authority has been consistently providing support for Africa in its fight against Ebola.On September 16,2014,a laboratory testing team and a medical team,consisting of 59public health experts and medical staffers,were dispatched to assist local hospitals in West African countries to set up lab screening and clinical treatment of EVD(http://www.taiwan.cn/xwzx/Technology/201409/t20140917_7354545.     

The impact of special issues

With support from many authors from many different scientific fields,Zoological Research(ZR)successfully released eight special issues from 2011 to 2014 on various topics,including Animal Ecology and Resources,Animal Genetic Diversity,Development and Evolution,Fish Diversity and Primates and Animal Models of Human Diseases.These special issues strongly align with our aims and scope,which have been     

Book Review书评

由沈阳农业大学王小奇、方红、张治良教授主编的《辽宁甲虫原色图鉴》于2012年由辽宁科学技术出版社出版,以图鉴形式记述了分布于辽宁的鞘翅目昆虫71科829种,其中31个中国新记录种,124个辽宁省新记录种。全书分为两部分,第一部分是甲虫成虫的形态特征,简要概述了甲虫头、胸、腹部的外部形态特征;第二部分是分类,包括成虫的分科检索表和按科排列的各论部分。书     

An Effective Method for Raising Antisera Against β-defensins: Double-copy Protein Expression of mBin1b in E. coli

Defensins are a family of evolutionarily relatedvertebrate antimicrobial peptides with a characteristicβ-sheet-rich fold and a framework of six disulphide-linkedcysteines. The two main defensin subfamilies, α- andβ-defensin, differ in the length of pep…     

Statures in Han populations of China

<正>Dear Editor,Shortly after initiating the"Physical Anthropological Research on Han Chinese"research project,we applied uniform sampling methods as well as methods and instruments of measurement to obtain a complete set of measurements of physical anthropological indicators among Han populations across China.Among these measurements,body stature was a key indicator.Currently,there should be reliable     

基于总体最小二乘法的蛋白质肽链逆运动学拟合

提出一种在给定构象下计算蛋白质多肽链中所有二面角的新方法.通过总体最小二乘法将每 个肽单位中的6个原子拟合为1个肽平面,将连续平面之间包含的角定义为二面角,并以数值实验证明了该方法的有效性.精确的二面角值对很多蛋白质分析方法意义重大,特别是将二面角作为基本结构参数的同源建模法.     

大鼠内细胞团和胎儿神经干细胞构建嵌合体的潜力

嵌合体大鼠是研究人类疾病的重要动物模犁.用囊胚注射法研究了大鼠内细胞团(ICM)和胎儿神经干细胞(FNS)构建嵌合体的潜力.结果发现来自黑色(DA)大鼠第5天(D5)和第6天(D6)囊胚的ICM细胞注入D5 Sprague-Dawley(SD)大鼠囊胚后得到3只嵌合体大鼠:D5 SD大鼠ICM细胞注射入D5 DA囊胚后得到4只嵌合体大鼠:而体外培养的DA或SD人鼠ICM细胞注射后均未能获得嵌合体大鼠.本研究用大鼠胎儿神经干细胞(rFNS)和LacZ转染的rFNS构建嵌介体,未能获得嵌合体人鼠:但在LacZ转染的SD rFNS注射到DA大鼠囊胚后发育来的41只胎儿中,有2只胎儿其组织切片中发现少量LacZ阳性细胞.结果表明DA和SD大鼠ICM具有参与嵌合体发育的潜力,但ICM细胞经体外培养后构建嵌合体的潜力显著F降(P＜0.05);大鼠胎儿神经干细胞构建嵌合体的潜力较低,可能仅具有参与早期胚胎发育的潜力.     

木聚糖酶基因研究进展

半纤维素分解微生物在自然界碳素循环中起着重要作用,半纤维素是植物多糖的重要成分之一。木聚糖则是半纤维素的主要成分。木聚糖酶(EC3.2.1.8)可催化木聚糖的水解,在各种各样的生物体里都发现有木聚糖酶,如细菌、放线菌、真菌。在过去几十年里,有超过100个木聚糖酶基因被克隆进同源或异源宿主中,其目的是为了超表达木聚糖酶和改变它们的特性以适应商业应用。木聚糖酶的应用极其广泛,可用于生物转化、造纸、食品、饲料、能源、纺织等行业。尤其是迫切的环境问题将进一步促进木聚糖酶研究的开展。     

Secretory/releasing proteome-based identification of plasma biomarkers in HBV-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

For successful therapy, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) must be detected at an early stage. Herein, we used a proteomic approach to analyze the secretory/releasing proteome of HCC tissues to identify plasma biomarkers. Serum-free conditioned media (CM) were collected from primary cultures of cancerous tissues and surrounding noncancerous tissues. Proteomic analysis of the CM proteins permitted the identification of 1365 proteins. The enriched molecular functions and biological processes of the CM proteins, such as hydrolase activity and catabolic processes, were consistent with the liver being the most important metabolic organ. Moreover, 19% of the proteins were characterized as extracellular or membrane-bound. For validation, secretory proteins involved in transforming growth factor-β signaling pathways were validated in plasma samples. Alphafetoprotein (AFP), metalloproteinase (MMP)1, osteopontin (OPN), and pregnancy-specific beta-1-glycoprotein (PSG)9 were significantly increased in HCC patients. The overall performance of MMP1 and OPN in the diagnosis of HCC remained greater than that of AFP. In addition, this study represents the first report of MMP1 as a biomarker with a higher sensitivity and specificity than AFP. Thus, this study provides a valuable resource of the HCC secretome with the potential to investigate serological biomarkers. MMP1 and OPN could be used as novel biomarkers for the early detection of HCC and to improve the sensitivity of biomarkers compared with AFP.