肌酸激酶在低浓度脲溶液中失活也非二聚体解聚所致

本文用兔肌肌酸激酶(MM)和兔脑肌酸激酶(BB)杂化的方法;研究了肌酸激酶在脲溶液中的解聚情况.结果表明在低浓度的脲溶液中二聚体没有或者很少解聚,而此时酶已经失去大部分或全部活性.因此可以认为在低浓度脲溶液中酶的失活也非二聚体解聚所致,进一步支持了酶分子活性部位柔性的观点.     

人肌肌酸激酶在SDS溶液中失活与构象变化的比较研究

应用紫外差吸收光谱、荧光发射光谱、ＣＤ先谱等监测手段,研究了ＳＤＳ溶液滴定人肌肌酸激酶时的构象与活力变化的关系。结果表明酶的活力丧失先于以紫外差吸收先谱、荧先发射谱和巯基暴露数目所监测到的构象变化。ＳＤＳ滴定时引起的酶的荧光发射光谱的变化在低滴定度阶段随着ＳＤＳ滴定量的增加,荧光强度下降,发射峰位红移,当ＳＤＳ浓度达到２．１ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ时,荧光强度增大,继续增加ＳＤＳ滴定量,荧光强度又降低,发射峰位红移直至终态。紫外差吸收光谱随着ＳＤＳ溶液的加入,２８１ｎｍ．２８７ｎｍ和２９２ｎｍ的负差吸收峰增大。ＣＤ光谱结果表明在本实验所用的ＳＤＳ浓度范围内,ＳＤＳ对人肌肌酸激酶的二级结构几乎没有影响。上述结果支持了酶的活性部位构象柔性的观点。     

人肌肌酸激酶胍变性时的失活与构象变化的比较研究

应用二阶导数光谱、紫外差吸收光谱和荧光光谱等监测手段,研究了人肌肌酸激酶在盐酸胍溶液中的构象变化。二阶导数光谱结果表明,若以6M盐酸胍中肌酸激酶酪氨酸残基的暴露程度为100％,则天然酶酪氨酸残基的暴露程度只有2％。而紫外差吸收光谱和荧光光谱的变化与兔肌肌酸激酶的结果相似。比较不同胍浓度下人肌肌酸激酶的失活与构象变化,表明酶的失活先于构象变化。同时还测定了不同浓度胍溶液中人肌酶的失活与构象变化的速度常数。结果表明以几种方法测定的构象变化均为单相的一级过程,而酶的失活却呈现了由快慢两相组成的一级反应过程。比较同浓度胍溶液中的失活速度与构象变化速度,发现酶失活的快相反应速度常数比构象变化的速度常数大1—2个数量级,慢相速度常数与构象变化速度常数相近。上述结果进一步支持了酶的活性部位构象柔性的观点。     

氨基酰化酶在LDS溶液中的失活与去折叠的比较研究

氨基酰化酶在阴离子去污剂十二烷基硫酸溶液中的失活与去折叠的研究结果表明,在低浓度的ＬＤＳ溶液中变性时,以荧光和紫外差吸收方法监测的酶分子构象尚未发生明显变化,而酶的活力已经大部分或几乎全部丧失。当ＬＤＳ浓度达１．６ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ时,此时酶分子的构象变化才达到最大程度。在实验使用的ＬＤＳ的浓度范围内,用远紫外ＣＤ光谱监测的二级结构没有发生明显的变化。     

氨基酰化酶在LDS溶液中的失活与去折叠的比较研究

氨基酰化酶在阴离子去圬剂十二烷基硫酸锂（ＬＤＳ）溶液中的失活与去折叠的研究结果表明,在低浓度的ＬＤＳ溶液（０．６ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ）中变性时,以荧光和紫外差吸收方法监测的酶分子构象尚未发生明显变化。而酶的活力已经大部分或几乎全部丧失。当ＬＤＳ浓度达１．６ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ时,此时酶分子的构象变化才达到最大程度,在实验使用的ＬＤＳ的浓度范围内,用远紫外ＣＤ光谱监测的二级结构没有发生明显的变化。从上述研究结果,可以认为含锌氨基酰化酶的活性部位也具有相对的柔性。     

猪心乳酸脱氢酶(H_4)在盐酸胍变性过程中失活与内源荧光变化速度的比较

本文比较了大然乳酸脱氢酶和硫酸铵稳定的乳酸脱氢酶在盐酸胍性过程式中失活与内源荧光的变化速度.酶失活表现为三相反应,即极快相,其速度常数用停流装置也无法测定;快相和慢相,1M胍变性时,此二相的一级反应速度常数分别为2.7×10~(-3)秒~(-1)和4.17×10~(-4)秒~(-1).在2M硫酸铵存在条件下,用2M胍更性时,快相和慢相的一极反应速度常数分别为6.16×10~(-3)秒~(-1)和1.88×10~(-3)秒~(-1).内源荧光强度的变化表现为二相反应,即极快相,相当酶失活的极快相,但变化幅度远小于酶失活的变化幅度;快相,相当于酶失活的快相,其速度常数为失活速度常数的1/3倍.上述结果表明,类似肌酸激酶,乳酸脱氢酶的失活速度快于酶分子整体构象的变化,相对于整个酶分子来说,活性中心的构象变化对变性剂更加敏感.     

卤代烷烃脱卤酶基因在拟南芥中反式失活系统的建立

以细菌Xanthobacter autotrophicus卤代烷烃脱卤酶基因为遗传负选择标记,建立了该基因在拟南芥中反式失活的实验系统,在卤代[烷烃脱卤酶转基因的拟南芥中,有1株表现为转基因失活,离体核run-off转录实验表明为基因转录后沉默（这里特指沉默位点）,用这一转基因沉墨植株与同源转基因高效表达植株（这里特指同源转基因位点）杂交,结果96％的F1代植表现为同源基因反式失活,将F1代植株自交,使部分沉默位点与反式失活的同源转基因位点分离,结果200株子代中有42株表现DhlA活性,158株无DhlA活性,即 dhlA沉默植株与表达植株之比为3．76：1,表明沉默位点是以孟德尔显性因子方式使同源转基因位点反式失活的。     

THE CIRCADIAN RHYTHM OF BIOLUMINESCENCE IN PYROCYSTIS IS NOT DUE TO DIFFERENCES IN THE AMOUNT OF LUCIFERASE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THREE BIOLUMINESCENT MARINE DINOFLAGELLATES

The biochemistry and circadian regulation of luminescence in two Pyrocystis species, P. lunula Hulburt and P. noctiluca Murray et Haeckel, were compared with a well-studied species, Gonyaulax polyedra Stein. All exhibit circadian rhythms and all have similar luciferins and luciferases. However, the Pyrocystis species lack a second protein involved in the reaction in Gonyaulax , the luciferin (substrate) binding protein, which sequesters the luciferin at the cytoplasmic pH and releases it upon acidification, thus controlling the characteristic flashing, which is similar in the three species. More striking is the difference in the circadian regulation of luminescence, which in Gonyaulax involves the daily synthesis and destruction of the two proteins, along with the luminous organelles (scintillons) from which light is emitted, and which are present in all species. In the Pyrocystis species, the amount of luciferase is the same in extracts made during the day and night phases; its circadian regulation in vivo may be attributed to a change in its localization from day to night phase.     

HETEROTROPHY OF FOUR MARINE PHYTOPLANKTERS AT LOW SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS1

Three pelagic marine phytoplankters, Coccolithus huxleyi, Skeletonema costatum, and Thalassiosira ro-tula, and a facultative heterotroph, Cyclotella cryp-tica, have been exposed to three organic substrates, viz, glucose, acetate, and glutamate, at low concentrations (organic carbon 0.25 mg/liter). Experiments were performed in the dark and light and the net assimilation of substrate was measured by using radiocarbon. The dark uptake of carbon dioxide was also determined, together with photosynthesis at near optimum light intensity. The expected heterotrophy was detected with Cyclotella cryptica. Thalassiosira rotula was found to assimilate glutamate at an appreciable rate. In all cases, however, the short-term uptake of carbon dioxide in the dark was the greatest assimilation rate measured. Values are discussed in relation to their ecological significance and it is concluded that heterotrophic survival of these and probably most other algae in the open ocean xuould be impossible unless they were in contact with a high concentration of substrate in the form of particulate matter.     

HETEROTROPHY OF FOUR MARINE PHYTOPLANKTERS AT LOW SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS1

Three pelagic marine phytoplankters, Coccolithus huxleyi, Skeletonema costatum, and Thalassiosira rotula, and a facultative heterotroph, Cyclotella cryptica, have been exposed to three organic substrates, viz, glucose, acetate, and glutamate, at low concentrations (organic carbon 0.25 mg/liter). Experiments were performed in the dark and light and the net assimilation of substrate was measured by using radiocarbon. The dark uptake of carbon dioxide was also determined, together with photosynthesis at near optimum light intensity. The expected heterotrophy was detected with Cyclotella cryptica. Thalassiosira rotula was found to assimilate glutamate at an appreciable rate. In all cases, however, the short-term uptake of carbon dioxide in the dark was the greatest assimilation rate measured. Values are discussed in relation to their ecological significance and it is concluded that heterotrophic survival of these and probably most other algae in the open ocean would be impossible unless they were in contact with a high concentration of substrate in the form of particulate matter.     

FLAGELLAR MOTILITY IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE INCORPORATION OF THE SPERM INTO THE EGG AT FERTILIZATION*

Cinemicrography of sea urchin fertilization reveals that the fertilizing sperm is one of the first sperm to attach to the egg. Just before the cortical reaction the fertilizing sperm ceases motility and then is incorporated into the egg without flagellar beating. The rate of incorporation is 5–11 μm/sec and is constant. Lytechinus pictus sperm rendered immotile by azide treatment can bind to and fertilize eggs but binding, and therefore fertilization, is blocked by azide treatment of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus gametes.     

用FTIR研究SDS对肌酸激酶二级结构的影响

用去卷积付里叶红外光谱（ＦＴＩＲ）研究结果表明在低浓度的ＳＤＳ溶液中,二级结构各组份发生了明显可测的变化,表明酶的活性部位及其附近区域有较多的二级结构。