产植酸酶菌株的筛选及其植酸酶基因的克隆

从土壤中筛选到产植酸酶活性较高的烟曲霉菌株WY-2,其植酸酶最适pH为5.5,最适温度为55℃。通过对烟曲霉WY-2植酸酶基因进行PCR扩增,获得了一个1.5kb大小的特异性产物,将其克隆到载体pMD18-T中。测序结果分析表明,该基因片段含有植酸酶基因完整的阅读框架(ORF),基因全长1459bp,其中包含一个61bp的内含子,编码465个氨基酸,有7个潜在的糖基化位点,5′端有一编码26个氨基酸的信号肽序列。该基因与已报道的烟曲霉ATCC34625植酸酶基因有91%同源性,编码的氨基酸序列同源性为91%。     

柔嫩艾美耳球虫地克株利抗药株与敏感株孢子化卵囊的蛋白质差异分析

利用双向电泳技术,对本实验室诱导保存的柔嫩艾美耳球虫地克株利抗药株与敏感株的蛋白质表达图谱进行差异比较和分析,发现两者之间差异有5个蛋白质斑点,利用MALDI_TOF_TOF质谱技术对其中4个差异明显的蛋白质斑点进行分析鉴定,获得4个明确的肽质量指纹图谱,通过在NCBInr数据库中检索分析,确定了其中2个蛋白质分别为球虫子孢子表面抗原TA4和热休克蛋白Hsp70 ,另外两种为真核细胞的功能蛋白。上述蛋白的鉴定将对球虫的抗药性产生机理和柔嫩艾美耳球虫地克株利抗药株的分子标志物提供了研究方向。     

丹参冠瘿组织高产株系选择和丹参酮的产生

丹参(Salvia miltiorrhiza)是治疗心血管系统疾病的重要中草药。前文我们已报道了丹参冠瘿组织培养的部分研究结果^[1].利用根癌农杆菌(Agrobacterium tumefaciens)Ti 质粒转化产生的冠瘿组织进行高产株系选择的研究还很少,本文报道丹参冠瘿组织高产株系选择和丹参酮产生的研究结果。     

L-精氨酸产生菌诱变育种的研究

以谷氨酸棒杆菌(Corynebacterium glutam icum)ATCC138761为诱变出发菌株,经紫外线(UV)和亚硝基胍(NTG)逐级诱变处理和选育,获得一株能够积累L-精氨酸的菌株UN100-12(SGr,AEr)。在以葡萄糖为碳源、以硫酸铵为氮源的培养基中直接发酵4d,产酸可达16.6 g/L,并具有较好的遗传稳定性。     

木聚糖酶高产菌株的诱变*

出发菌株Aspergillus niger M1经过紫外线诱变得到一株木聚糖酶活力提高30％的突变株A．niger J506。木聚糖酶谱带检测发现,突变株成熟发酵液中有3种类型的木聚糖酶,而出发菌株中只有两种。经过正交试验得出突变株产酶的最佳发酵条件为：主碳源浓度4％、麸皮与玉米芯的比例为5：5、葡萄糖浓度0．1％、草酸铵浓度2．0％,培养基初始pH为5．0,250mL三角瓶的装液量为100mL。     

根瘤菌选育研究进展

生物固氮是一个全球性的战略课题,其中豆科植物与根瘤菌共生固氮一直是生物固氮研究的焦点。该文从菌株选育的角度,通过对比总结国内外根瘤菌选育方法的研究进展,详细阐述了各种育种方法在根瘤菌选育过程中的应用和优缺点,指出筛选周期过长和筛选技术低效是当前研究中的限制问题,并进一步对选育工作的前景进行了展望。     

Strain in the galago facial skull

Little experimental work has been directed at understanding the distribution of stresses along the facial skull during routine masticatory behaviors. Such information is important for understanding the functional significance of the mammalian circumorbital region. In this study, bone strain was recorded along the dorsal interorbit, postorbital bar, and mandibular corpus in Otolemur garnettii and O. crassicaudatus (greater galagos) during molar chewing and biting. We determined principal-strain magnitudes and directions, compared peak shear-strain magnitudes between various regions of the face, and compared galago strain patterns with similar experimental data for anthropoids. This suite of analyses were used to test the facial torsion model (Greaves [1985] J Zool (Lond) 207:125-136; [1991] Zool J Linn Soc 101:121-129; [1995] Functional morphology in vertebrate paleontology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p 99-115). A comparison of galago circumorbital and mandibular peak strains during powerful mastication indicates that circumorbital strains are very low in magnitude. This demonstrates that, as in anthropoids, the strepsirhine circumorbital region is highly overbuilt for countering routine masticatory loads. The fact that circumorbital peak-strain magnitudes are uniformly low in both primate suborders undermines any model that emphasizes the importance of masticatory stresses as a determinant of circumorbital form, function, and evolution. Preliminary data also suggest that the difference between mandibular and circumorbital strains is greater in larger-bodied primates. This pattern is interpreted to mean that sufficient cortical bone must exist in the circumorbital region to prevent structural failure due to nonmasticatory traumatic forces. During unilateral mastication, the direction of epsilon(1) at the galago dorsal interorbit indicates the presence of facial torsion combined with bending in the frontal plane. Postorbital bar principal-strain directions during mastication are oriented, on average, very close to 45 degrees relative to the skull's long axis, much as predicted by the facial torsion model. When chewing shifts from one side of the face to the other, there is a characteristic reversal or flip-flop in principal-strain directions for both the interorbit and postorbital bar. Although anthropoids also exhibit an interorbital reversal pattern, peak-strain directions for this clade are opposite those for galagos. The presence of such variation may be due to suborder differences in relative balancing-side jaw-muscle force recruitment. Most importantly, although the strain-direction data for the galago circumorbital region offer support for the occurrence of facial torsion, the low magnitude of these strains suggests that this loading pattern may not be an important determinant of circumorbital morphology.     

Strain difference in the micronucleus test

The Collaborative Study Group for the Micronucleus Test, a task group of the Environmental Mutagen Society of Japan, has earlier addressed the question of sex difference as a source of variation in the micronucleus test. Strain difference, another issue in test protocols requiring urgent clarification, was selected as the subject of the second study. Male mice of strains Slc: ddY (ddY), CRJ: CD-1(ICR) (CD-1), Slc: BDF₁ (BDF₁), and ms: Hal (ms) were treated with 6 different chemicals chosen from various classes of micronucleus inducers: colchicine, 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene, ethyl methanesulfonate, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea, 6-mercaptopurine, and potassium chromate. All 4 strains gave positive results with all 6 chemicals, although ms tended to show the highest responses. ddY and CD-1 were low responders, while BDF₁ was intermediate between ms and the other two. Although ms seemed superior to the other strains, its high responses became manifest mostly at high dose levels. ms was not always the most sensitive strain; it responded moderately to ethyl methanesulfonate. Also the background level of micronucleated polychromatic erythrocytes was the highest in ms, but this did not explain the apparent high sensitivity of this strain. Despite the strain differences, it can be concluded that any of the other strains used seems to suffice as a tester for the micronucleus test.     

Strain transfer through the aortic valve

The complex structural organization of the aortic valve (AV) extracellular matrix (ECM) enables large and highly nonlinear tissue level deformations. The collagen and elastin (elastic) fibers within the ECM form an interconnected fibrous network (FN) and are known to be the main load-bearing elements of the AV matrix. The role of the FN in enabling deformation has been investigated and documented. However, there is little data on the correlation between tissue level and FN-level strains. Investigating this correlation will help establish the mode of strain transfer (affine or nonaffine) through the AV tissue as a key feature in microstructural modeling and will also help characterize the local FN deformation across the AV sample in response to applied tissue level strains. In this study, the correlation between applied strains at tissue level, macrostrains across the tissue surface, and local FN strains were investigated. Results showed that the FN strain distribution across AV samples was inhomogeneous and nonuniform, as well as anisotropic. There was no direct transfer of the deformation applied at tissue level to the fibrous network. Loading modes induced in the FN are different than those applied at the tissue as a result of different local strains in the valve layers. This nonuniformity of local strains induced internal shearing within the FN of the AV, possibly exposing the aortic valve interstitial cells (AVICs) to shear strains and stresses.     

BSD: the Biodegradative Strain Database

The Biodegradative Strain Database (BSD) is a freely-accessible, web-based database providing detailed information on degradative bacteria and the hazardous substances that they degrade, including corresponding literature citations, relevant patents and links to additional web-based biological and chemical data. The BSD (http://bsd.cme.msu.edu) is being developed within the phylogenetic framework of the Ribosomal Database Project II (RDPII: http://rdp.cme.msu.edu/html) to provide a biological complement to the chemical and degradative pathway data of the University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (UM-BBD: http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu). Data is accessible through a series of strain, chemical and reference lists or by keyword search. The web site also includes on-line data submission and user survey forms to solicit user contributions and suggestions. The current release contains information on over 250 degradative bacterial strains and 150 hazardous substances. The transformation of xenobiotics and other environmentally toxic compounds by microorganisms is central to strategies for biocatalysis and the bioremediation of contaminated environments. However, practical, comprehensive, strain-level information on biocatalytic/biodegradative microbes is not readily available and is often difficult to compile. Similarly, for any given environmental contaminant, there is no single resource that can provide comparative information on the array of identified microbes capable of degrading the chemical. A web site that consolidates and cross-references strain, chemical and reference data related to biocatalysis, biotransformation, biodegradation and bioremediation would be an invaluable tool for academic and industrial researchers and environmental engineers.     

Strain typing in the genus Lactobacillus

1. Introduction, 63
2. Techniques used for strain typing in the genus Lactobacillus , 63
3. Applications of strain typing in the genus Lactobacillus , 64,
4. Future prospects, 65
5. References, 65