稻虱跗煽的个体发生研究：卵的形成和胚胎发育

捻翅目昆虫是胎生的,胚胎发育和孵化均在母体血腔内进行。稻虱跗蝇Elenchinus japonicus属捻翅目,跗煽科,寄生于白背稻虱、褐稻虱和灰稻虱。本文报道稻虱跗煽卵的形成各阶段：1)雌虫体内无典型的卵巢,所有卵在母体体腔内同步发育和成熟。最早发现的原卵是包囊干细胞,在雌幼虫血腔内。2)每个包囊细胞内含256个姐妹细胞,其中有一个细胞分化成卵母细胞,其余的成为营养细胞。3)成熟卵为椭圆形,大小为95-100X40-50μm。其胚胎发育过程按顺序包括：卵裂、胎盘形成、胚带分节、附肢形成和胚胎背合等阶段。稻虱跗蛔行单胚生殖。     

tRNA(adenine-1-)-methyltransferase from Thermus thermophilus HB8

tRNA(adenine-1-)-methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.36) was isolated from the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus strain HB8. The specific activity of the enzyme is about 50 000 and the yield of activity more than 20%. The method of isolation consists of five steps and is valid for isolation of mg quantities of the enzyme. The purified protein preparation is practically homogeneous in SDS-gel electrophoresis, the position of the protein band corresponds to a molecular weight of 25 000. By gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 the molecular weight of the native protein was found to be 70 000. These data allow to suggest a subunit structure of the enzyme. The enzyme is highly thermostable and is most active at 80 degrees C. The only activity of the enzyme is to methylate A58 in the T psi X loop of tRNA.     

粘虫的年龄—发育期结构生命表

在23℃下用玉米嫩叶饲养幼虫,组建了粘虫的年龄-发育期结构生命表。这种生命表考虑到种群内个体发育进度的差异并包括雄性成虫。根据生命表资料计算的粘虫种群主要参数是：净繁殖率R_O= l55.88,内禀增长率r_m=0.1120,平均世代长度T=45.08天。讨论了年龄-发育期结沟生命表方法和传绕生命表方法的主要差别及各自的优缺点,比较了用这两种方法得到的粘虫种群的主要参数值。     

日本松干蚧性信息素光学异构体的引诱活性

对合成的日本松干蚧Matscoccus matsumurse(kuwana)性信息素4、6、10、12-四甲基-反2、反4-十三碳二烯-7-酮1所有四个光学活性异构体,进行了诱虫活性测定和林间诱捕试验。结果表明,只有6R、10R-4、6、10、12-四甲基-反2 反4-十三碳二烯-7-酮对日本松干蚧雄成虫具有强烈引诱活性,被确定为该虫天然性信息素的绝对构型。     

白蚁翅面微刻点的扫描电镜观察：堆砂白蚁属、楹白蚁属和原白蚁属

用扫描电镜观察了3种木白蚁(平阳堆砂白蚁Cryptotermes pingyangensis、叶额堆砂白蚁C.Havilandi和侧角楹白蚁Incisistermes laterangularis)和2种草白蚁(东方原白蚁Hodotermopsis orientalis和尤氏原白蚁H.Yui的翅面微刻点。微刻点类型有：乳突：基部宽5.0-20.6μm,长3.0-19.7μm,翅面中央密度可达2070-3375乳突mm²;瘤状突起：基部直径15.0-58.6μm,翅面中密度282-356突起/mm²;粉刺状突起：基部直径2.4-4.8μm。此外,还发现有长11一57μm的毛。同种白蚁的前、后翅和翅的背、腹面之间,微刻点类型没有明显的差异。最后初步讨论了白蚁翅面微刻点的分类学和生物学意义。     

Retinoids increase the incorporation of D-[3H]galactose into epidermal glycoproteins

All-trans retinoic acid increased the incorporation of D-[³H]galactose into particulate and soluble glycoproteins in the epidermis of cultured pig skin slices nearly two-fold. Increased incorporation of D-[³H]galactose was not blocked by tunicamycin. This effect was specific for D-[³H]galactose since the incorporation of D-[³H]glucosamine and L-[¹⁴C]leucine into epidermal glycoproteins was unaffected by all-trans retinoic acid. All-trans retinoic acid and 13-cis retinoic acid had quantitatively similar effects on D-[³H]galactose incorporation. All-trans retinyl acetate and an aromatic retinoic acid analogue (‘Etretinate’) were less effective. SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and fluorography showed increased incorporation of D-[³H]galactose into all epidermal glycoproteins in the presence of all-trans retinoic acid. There was no evidence for synthesis of new glycoproteins such as mucins.     

Purification and properties of tRNA(adenine-1)-methyltransferase from rat liver.

An S-adenosylmethionine-dependent tRNA(adenine-1)-methyltransferase has been purified 8,000-fold from rat liver. This preparation gives a single band on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and is stable in long term storage. The enzyme has a molecular weight of approximately 95,000. The single methylating capacity of this adenine-1 methyltransferase, using Escherichia coli tRNA2Glu, is methylation of the invariant adenine in the GTpsiC loop. The methylation reaction is dependent on added cation with 20 to 40 mM putrescine being most effective. The Km for S-adenosylmethionine was found to be 0.3 micron, while the Ki for the product inhibitor S-adenosylhomocysteine was 0.85 micron. The Km for tRNAMetf is 12 nM while that for tRNAGlu2 is 33 nM.     

Characterization of three new chlorophyll-protein complexes

Three new chlorophyll-proteins with electrophoretic mobilities intermediate between those of the P₇₀₀ chl a-protein and the light-harvesting chl a,b-protein complexes are reported and their absorption spectra and polypeptide composition are characterized. Two of these chlorophyll-proteins, bands II_b and II_a, contain approximately equal amounts of chl a and b, have polypeptide compositions similar to that of the light-harvesting chl a,b-protein and probably represent oligomers of the latter complex. The third new chlorophyll-protein contains only chl a and its major polypeptide(s) is in the 42 kd region. Indirect evidence indicates this chlorophyll-protein is associated with the reaction-center of photosystem II.     

In vitro methylation of yeast tRNAAsp by rat brain cortical tRNA-(adenine-1) methyltransferase.

Rat brain cortices from young animals contain large amounts of tRNA (adenine-1)methyltransferase(s). The enzyme(s) can methylate E. coli tRNA and to a lower degree yeast tRNA. Among yeast tRNA species which can be methylated we have selected tRNAAsp as a substrate for the brain enzyme. The digestions of in vitro methylated [Me-3H]-tRNAAsp with pancreatic and/or T1 ribonucleases followed by chromatographies on DEAE-cellulose, 7 M urea, suggested that the methylation of tRNAAsp occurred at a single position within the D-loop. Further digestion of the radioactive oligonucleotide recovered after DEAE-cellulose chromatography by phosphomonoesterase and snake venom phosphodiesterase enzymes followed by bidimensional thin layer chromatography enabled us to determine the location of the adenine residue which becomes methylated by the brain enzyme. This one resulted to be the adenine 14 in the D-loop of yeast tRNAAsp.     

烟蚜为害的经济损失研究

陕西渭北烟草种植区迁飞到烟田的蚜虫有6种,但只有桃蚜Myzus persicae(Sulzer)能够建立种群,造成为害。从烟草旺长开始,按烟株上蚜量和蚜虫分泌蜜露,引起霉菌滋生,污染叶面积的比例分为0、I、II、III、IV级。以未受蚜害的0级为对照,受蚜害的I、II、III、IV级的中上等烟下降分别为6.93%、13.05%、28.51%和30.94%,经济损失率分别为9.86%、23.81%、36.12%和39.59%。化学成分分析表明：I、II、III和IV级烟叶的烟碱含量分别降低10.61%、19.29%、10.61%和25.40%,还原糖分别降低15.04%、19.23%、40.98%和44.86%,蛋白质含量分别提高16.17%、31.99%、37.02%和38.72%。这就表明桃蚜为害既影响烤烟的外观质量、又影响内在品质。1头蚜虫经济损失率＝0.0695%。     

Trisomy 9p with i(9p) and t(9q18p)

Summary The trisomy 9p syndrome in a 2-year-old girl with moderate mental retardation is presented. She has a unique karyotype with a de novo isochromosome 9p and a translocation between 9q and 18p.     

马尾松毛虫蛋白质、核酸酶和羧酸酯酶与耐药性的关系

马尾松毛虫(Dendrolimus Punctatus Walder)幼虫蛋白质含量,羧酸酮酶和多酚氧化酶活力与虫龄大小成正相关;氰戊菊酯处理后,兴奋期的蛋白质含量和羧酸酯酶活力上升,到抑制期均降低到正常虫体的水平,而多酚氧化酶的变动不大。正常虫体中脱氧核糖核酸酶(Dnase)和核糖核酸酶(Rnase)的活力存在差异：Dnase从3-5龄幼虫随虫体增大而上升,到6龄时明显降低;Rnase与虫龄大小成负相关;氰戊菊酯处理后,Dnase便开始下降并低于正常虫体的水平,而Rnase在兴奋期上升,到抑制期下降亦低于正常虫体水平。结果说明,除多酚氧化酶外,蛋白质、核酸酶和羧酸酯酶均与耐药性存在一定的相关性,研制酶的抑制剂具有实用意义。根据毒力测定结果,马尾松毛虫幼虫随虫龄增大而耐药力增加,氰戊菊酯对5龄幼虫是3龄的2.8倍,6龄是4龄的2.3倍。因此,掌握在4龄前进行药物防治是合理的。     

Evidence for the occurrence of calmodulin in the yeasts Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The lectin extracted from Vicia graminea seeds has been purified by conventional techniques but such procedures did not give a satisfactory yield. We describe a new purification which involves 3 steps after obtention of the crude extract. The first step is based on affinity chromatography on con A—Sepharose. Further purification steps were performed on DEAE-Sephacel chromatography and ultrogel AcA₄₄ gel filtration. The homogeneity of the lectin was demonstrated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Purification of the lectin by this new method was less time consuming, the yield was higher and the specific activity increased.     

Interaction of s4U8 region of tRNA Phe with tRNA-(adenine-1-)-methyltransferase from Thermus thermophilus

Photoaffinity labelling of tRNA (adenine-1-)-methyltransferase with an E. coli tRNA(Phe) derivative bearing 4-azidophenylmercuro group attached to s4U residue as well as direct photocross-linking of the native tRNA(Phe) with the enzyme via s4U residue has been studied. Both techniques labelling gave similar results, leading to covalent attachment of tRNA(Phe) to the enzyme within a specific complex. The data obtained indicate unambigously that s4U residue contacts with tRNA (adenine-1-)-methyltransferase within the corresponding specific complex.