黄果龙葵和龙葵染色体制片优化及核型分析

该实验以黄果龙葵和龙葵的根尖为实验材料,进行不同的预处理、固定和解离,确定出各种材料适合于核型分析的制片方法。结果表明:龙葵于15℃条件下经0.05%秋水仙素预处理2.5h,固定后用1mol/L HCl酸解后,染色观察,得到的染色体分散,易于染色体计数和形态观察。用此方法对黄果龙葵和龙葵进行核型分析,结果发现:黄果龙葵和龙葵都属于小型染色体,黄果龙葵为四倍体,核型公式为K(4n)=48=4sm+44m,核型不对称系数为56.22%,属于2B核型。龙葵为六倍体,核型公式为K(6n)=72=72m,核型不对称系数为55.89%,属于1B核型。     

动物用芽孢杆菌微生态制剂中蜡样芽孢杆菌的分离及安全性

【背景】芽孢杆菌是仅次于乳酸菌常用于微生态制剂中的菌种,然而部分芽孢杆菌微生态制剂规范不严,应用存在安全隐患。【目的】调查我国在售动物用芽孢杆菌微生态制剂中蜡样芽孢杆菌携带情况,揭示蜡样芽孢杆菌应用的潜在风险。【方法】对微生态制剂预处理,选择性筛选分离蜡样芽孢杆菌,通过全基因组测序测绘细菌毒素基因谱与耐药基因谱,细胞计数试剂盒-8法测定菌株对细胞的毒性,利用微量肉汤稀释法确定菌株耐药值。【结果】从50份微生态制剂产品中筛选分离得到23株蜡样芽孢杆菌群细菌,它们对氨苄西林、林可霉素和泰妙菌素3种抗生素均耐药,主要毒力基因nhe、hbl、cytK、ces的检出率分别为100%、30%、39%和4%,分离株均有溶血性且39%菌株产生热稳定毒素,不同菌株对非洲绿猴肾细胞呈现出不同程度的毒性。【结论】微生态制剂来源的蜡样芽孢杆菌毒性与耐药性严重,携带毒素基因与耐药基因广泛,多株菌株呈高细胞毒性且产生热稳定毒素。芽孢杆菌微生态制剂存在安全性问题,应加强对蜡样芽孢杆菌的质量安全监管力度,规范微生态制剂的市场秩序,杜绝安全隐患。     

水葱和香蒲叶经济性状对模拟增温和CO2浓度倍增的响应

气候变化是国际社会共同关注的环境问题,植物对气候变化的响应反映了植物应对气候变化的生长和生存策略。叶经济性状与植物对资源的获取、利用和储存直接相关,并且受到温度条件和CO₂浓度的显著影响。该文采用人工环境控制系统封顶式生长室研究广布湿地植物水葱(Scirpus validus)和香蒲(Typha orientalis)的叶经济性状对模拟增温(现行环境温度+2 ℃)和CO₂浓度倍增(增至850 μmol·mol^-1)的响应。结果表明:(1)增温处理下,水葱净光合速率、氮含量和磷含量显著降低,但其胞间CO₂浓度和比叶重显著增加; CO₂浓度倍增处理下,水葱胞间CO₂浓度和净光合速率均显著降低,但比叶重显著增加。(2)增温处理下香蒲的比叶重显著增加,而氮含量和磷含量显著降低; 香蒲的光合参数、氮含量和磷含量在CO₂浓度倍增处理下均显著降低,而比叶重显著增加。(3)水葱的比叶重、氮含量、磷含量、净光合速率、气孔导度、胞间CO₂浓度与主成分分析的两个环境变量相关; 而香蒲的经济性状均与两个环境变量相关,表明这些经济性状在香蒲响应增温和CO₂浓度变化过程中发挥重要作用。(4)除碳含量外,水葱和香蒲的其他经济性状参数包括净光合速率、气孔导度、蒸腾速率、胞间CO₂浓度、氮含量、磷含量和比叶重均在响应增温和CO₂浓度倍增过程中发挥重要作用。总体而言,该研究结果反映了水葱和香蒲在功能性状上对增温和CO₂浓度倍增的响应策略。两种植物的光合能力和养分含量在两种处理下虽然均受到显著的抑制作用,但是其抗逆能力升高,表明增温和CO₂浓度升高不利于水葱和香蒲的生长。     

Oncogenicity of DNA in vivo: Tumor induction with expression plasmids for activated H-ras and c-myc

All vaccines and other biological products contain contaminating residual DNA derived from the production cell substrate. Whether this residual cell-substrate DNA can induce tumors in vaccine recipients and thus represent a risk factor has been debated for over 50 years without resolution. As a first step in resolving this issue, we have generated expression plasmids for the activated human H-ras oncogene and for the murine c-myc proto-oncogene. Their oncogenic activity was confirmed in vitro using the focus-formation transformation assay. Two strains of adult and newborn immune-competent mice were inoculated with different amounts of either plasmid alone or with a combination of the H-ras and c-myc plasmids. Tumors developed only in mice inoculated with both plasmids and only at the highest amount of DNA (12.5 microg of each plasmid). The NIH Swiss mouse was more sensitive than the C57BL/6 mouse, and newborn animals were more sensitive than adults. Cell lines were established from the tumors. PCR and Southern hybridization analyses demonstrated that both inoculated oncogenes were present in all of the tumor-derived cell lines and that the cells in the tumors were clonal. Western analysis demonstrated that both oncoproteins were expressed in these cell lines. These results demonstrate that cellular oncogenes can induce tumors following subcutaneous inoculation. Such information provides a possible way of evaluating and estimating the theoretical oncogenic risk posed by residual cell-substrate DNA in vaccines.     

两种乳杆菌联用在食蟹猴阴道的定植效率及其毒性分析

研究乳杆菌鼠李糖乳杆菌-格氏乳杆菌联用制剂(LACT)的定植效率, 评估其有效剂量在动物体内的急性和长期毒性。

在食蟹猴中进行2轮阴道定植试验, 通过检测阴道分泌物pH值和清洁度, 并分离鉴定分泌物中的乳杆菌, 确定乳杆菌联用制剂的定植率和定植剂量; 通过单次和多次阴道给药, 检测联用制剂对食蟹猴体质量、食量、生殖器官及生化指标等的影响, 检测联用制剂在体内的急性和长期毒性。

联用制剂在食蟹猴中连续阴道给药5 d后能成功定植, 改善阴道的微生态; 甲硝唑预处理能够提高定植效率和定植时间; 联用制剂对食蟹猴不具有急性和长期的毒性作用。

在动物模型中, 2种乳杆菌联用制剂对细菌性阴道病具有良好的治疗潜质。

     

百日草根尖和花药愈伤组织染色体制片技术

以种子萌发根尖和花药愈伤组织为材料,研究了取样时间、预处理方法对百日草染色体制片的影响。结果表明:根尖上午8:00～9:00,花药愈伤继代3～5d上午9:00～10:00为最佳取样预处理时间;采用三种药剂预处理活体根尖,以4℃下饱和对二氯苯溶液或0.002mol/L的8-羟基喹啉液预处理8h效果最佳,花药愈伤则以饱和对二氯苯溶液预处理6h效果最佳。本实验的预处理温度是固定的,可克服预处理随季节和时间温度的变化而带来的不稳定性,且百日草花药愈伤染色体观察为首次报道。     

Retrotransposons IDEFIX and ZAM are responsible for transposition in Drosophila melanogaster MS strain mutant for the flamenco gene

Transposition activity of Drosophila melanogaster gypsy retrotransposon is controlled by the flamenco locus. Transposition activity of the gypsy, ZAM, Idefix, springer, nomad, rover, Quasimodo, 17.6, 297, and Tirant retrotransposons was investigated in isogenic SS and MS strains of D. melanogaster mutant for the flamenco gene. It has been shown that gypsy, ZAM, and Idefix have different genomic surrounding in the studied strains that evidences to their transposition in these strains.     

转cry1Ab/cry2Aj和G10evo-epsps基因玉米中Bt蛋白的时空表达及抗性评价

【目的】探讨转cry1Ab/cry2Aj和G10evo-epsps基因玉米双抗505-12-5中外源Bt蛋白时空表达规律,对3种主要鳞翅目害虫亚洲玉米螟、黏虫和棉铃虫的抗性进行鉴定,为转基因玉米双抗505-12-5的商业化推广提供科学的数据支撑。【方法】Bt蛋白时空表达规律采用酶联免疫法(ELISA),田间抗虫性和室内抗虫性鉴定分别采用田间人工接虫和离体组织生测方法。【结果】在玉米6~8叶期,Bt含量表现为根心叶茎,分别为517.3、453.8和312.8 ng·g~(-1);大喇叭口期,Bt含量表现为心叶根茎,分别为353.3、281.3和232.9 ng·g~(-1);吐丝期,Bt含量表现为心叶根茎,分别为188.9、114.1和53.6 ng·g~(-1);乳熟期,根、茎和心叶含量相当,分别为178.0、160.3和185.4 ng·g~(-1);繁殖器官中Bt蛋白含量表现为籽粒花丝花粉雄穗,分别为181.3、100.1、95.0和79.8 ng·g~(-1)。室内抗虫性鉴定表明,转基因玉米双抗505-12-5心叶饲喂黏虫24 h,幼虫死亡率低,但48 h后达98.21%;双抗505-12-5心叶、花丝和籽粒饲喂玉米螟,24 h幼虫死亡率分别为87.37%、100%、100%;双抗505-12-5花丝饲喂棉铃虫,24 h幼虫死亡率达80.18%,48 h死亡率为92.45%。田间鉴定结果显示,转基因玉米双抗505-12-5在心叶期和雌穗期对玉米螟、心叶期对黏虫、雌穗期对棉铃虫的抗性均达高抗水平。【结论】转基因玉米双抗505-12-5各器官在不同生育期中均能表达Bt蛋白,尤其在鳞翅目害虫为害的主要时期6~8叶期和吐丝期及乳熟期,易受害器官中Bt蛋白表达量较高。转基因玉米双抗505-12-5田间及室内对3种鳞翅目害虫均表现了显著的抗性效果,具有推广应用的潜力。     

Multiplex PCR for simultaneous detection of enterococcal genes vanA and vanB and staphylococcal genes mecA, ileS-2 and femB

The experimental transfer of the vanA gene cluster from Enterococcus faecalis to Staphylococcus aureus has raised fears about the occurrence of such genetic transfer in clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant staphylococci. Recently, infections by a S. aureus strain carrying the enterococcal vancomycin resistance vanA gene cluster were reported. The possible emergence and dissemination of these strains is a serious health threat and makes optimization of prevention strategies and fast detection methods absolutely necessary. In the present study, we developed a PCR protocol for simultaneous detection of enterococcal vanA and vanB genes , the staphylococcal methicillin and mupirocin resistance markers mecA and ileS-2, and identification of S. aureus. As no vancomycin-resistant S. aureus isolates were available for our study, we used mixtures of enterococcal and staphylococcal colonies that harbored the different resistance markers to show that these genes could be detected simultaneously. This protocol could be used to facilitate the detection and identification of predictable S. aureus or methicillin-resistant strains carrying vanA or vanB.     

脂质组学分析方法进展及其在癌症研究中的应用

脂质占人体内源性代谢物的一半以上,种类繁多,结构复杂,因而具有多种生物功能,与多种生命活动密切相关。脂质组学是代谢组学分支的新兴学科,它可以通过比较不同生理状态下脂质含量的变化,寻找代谢通路中关键的脂质生物标志物,最终揭示脂质在各种生命活动中的作用机制。随着质谱技术的进步,脂质组学在疾病脂类生物标志物的识别、疾病诊断、药物作用机制的研究等方面已展现出广泛的应用前景。本文主要就脂质组学近几年的分析方法进展及其在癌症中的最新应用进行了综述。     

Evolutionary relationships among aquatic anamorphs and teleomorphs: Lemonniera, Margaritispora, and Goniopila

The hypothesis that similar conidial morphologies in aquatic hyphomycetes are a result of convergent evolution was tested using molecular sequence data. Cladistic analyses were performed on partial sequences of 28S rDNA of seven species of Lemonniera, one species of Margaritispora and one species of Goniopila. Lemonniera has tetraradiate conidia with long arms, whereas Margaritispora and Goniopila have typically globose (isodiametric) conidia, with short conical protuberances in a stellate or quadrangular arrangement. Lemonniera and Margaritispora have phialidic conidiogenesis and both produce dark, minute sclerotia in culture whereas Goniopila has holoblastic conidiogenesis and does not produce sclerotia in culture. Goniopila produces a microconidial phialidic synanamorph in culture. All three genera have schizolytic conidial secession. Molecular analyses demonstrate that Lemonniera species are placed in two distinct clades: one within Leotiomycetes; the other within Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes. Margaritispora is placed with Lemonniera species within Leotiomycetes. Goniopila and Lemonniera pseudofloscula are placed within Dothideomycetes. No morphological character was entirely congruent with the molecular derived phylogeny. This suggests that for the group of species studied, conidial shape is not a reliable indicator of phylogeny but more likely the result of convergent evolution in response to the aquatic environment.     

Probing the Drosophila retinal determination gene network in Tribolium (II): The Pax6 genes eyeless and twin of eyeless

The Pax6 genes eyeless (ey) and twin of eyeless (toy) are upstream regulators in the retinal determination gene network (RDGN), which instructs the formation of the adult eye primordium in Drosophila. Most animals possess a singleton Pax6 ortholog, but the dependence of eye development on Pax6 is widely conserved. A rare exception is given by the larval eyes of Drosophila, which develop independently of ey and toy. To obtain insight into the origin of differential larval and adult eye regulation, we studied the function of toy and ey in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. We find that single and combinatorial knockdown of toy and ey affect larval eye development strongly but adult eye development only mildly in this primitive hemimetabolous species. Compound eye-loss, however, was provoked when ey and toy were RNAi-silenced in combination with the early retinal gene dachshund (dac). We propose that these data reflect a role of Pax6 during regional specification in the developing head and that the subsequent maintenance and growth of the adult eye primordium is regulated partly by redundant and partly by specific functions of toy, ey and dac in Tribolium. The results from embryonic knockdown and comparative protein sequence analysis lead us further to conclude that Tribolium represents an ancestral state of redundant control by ey and toy.