糖、糖、“糖”——什么是糖?

糖类是自然界中最常见的一类生物分子,但是糖类因不同的人群可以有三种不同的理解.一是科学上的糖类,二是生活中的糖类,三是作为甜味剂的"糖"类.因为甜味是一个生理上的感觉,凡能与甜味受体相互作用的均是甜味剂,其中有些是糖的"糖",也有不是糖的"糖".     

糖蛋白质组学的信息学资源和方法

糖基化修饰是生物体内最常见、最重要的蛋白质翻译后修饰之一.哺乳动物体内超过50%的蛋白质都会发生糖基化修饰.糖蛋白广泛分布于各种组织的细胞膜表面,执行着重要的生物学功能.随着高通量、高灵敏度和高分辨率的蛋白质组学时代的来临,许多基于串级质谱技术解析糖链结构的生物数据库和分析软件也亦应运而生.本文综述了目前文献中最常用的糖类生物信息学资源,包括各种糖蛋白的数据库以及质谱解析糖类的相关工具和新技术、新方法.     

糖组学:全面了解生命基础的重要一环

<正>糖类物质是组成生物体的基本物质之一,在各种生命活动中发挥着重要作用.目前还没有一种生命体能离开糖类物质而存在,糖类不仅是细胞能量的主要来源,而且在细胞的构建、细胞的生物合成和细胞生命活动的调控中,均扮演着重要的角色.糖组学是从分析和破解一个生物或一个细胞特定阶段全部糖类物质所含信息的角度入手,研究糖类物质的分子结构、微观不均一性、表达调控、与识别分子的相互作用和功能多样性以及其与疾病之间关     

“细胞中的元素和化合物”的教学建议

1教材分析 本节内容主要包括组成细胞的元素,组成细胞的化合物,检测生物组织中的糖类、脂肪和蛋白质。其教学目标为：简述组成细胞的主要元素,说出构成细胞的最基本元素是碳;认同生命的物质性：尝试检测生物组织中的糖类、脂肪和蛋白质,探讨细胞中主要化合物的种类。     

糖类的生物信息学资源

生物信息学在推动遗传学和蛋白质科学的研究领域中,已发挥了举足轻重的作用.相比较而 言,糖科学产生的信息还比较有限,随着人们对糖类分子的关注,糖生物学的发展也出现新 的契机,其信息正在飞速地增长.对已经获得的糖类相关知识进行系统整合就显得越来越有 必要,许多研究型数据库和免费工具已应运而生,并且数目在不断扩大,正成为科学工作者 非常便利的工具.但到目前为止,许多数据库或者网络预测工具在文献中很少提及或难以找 到,给研究者带来了不少的麻烦.部分原因是数据库资源本身数据不断在更新,人机界面也 变得越方便和人性化,另外就是人们对于这些新型的研究工具了解较少.这篇综述介绍了 目前网络上最常用的糖类生物信息学资源,包括糖的一级结构,分析测试数据、构象,酶, 凝集素,糖蛋白等方面的各种数据库.     

寡糖对JAK-STAT信号转导通路的调节机制

寡糖类化合物对细胞因子的JAK-STAT信号转导途径具有免疫抑制作用.进一步研究寡糖类化合物对JAK-STAT信号转导途径的影响,对研究和开发寡糖类免疫调节药物具有重受意义.     

肿瘤相关糖基结合蛋白Galectin-3及其治疗性配体

糖类参与细胞间黏附、细胞与胞外基质黏附、细胞间特异性识别等过程.Galectin-3是哺乳动物体内存在的非酶类蛋白质,其结构上保守的碳水化合物识别结构域能优先与β-半乳糖苷类结构结合,参与生理生化反应.含有半乳糖苷或类似结构的物质,包括化学修饰糖类、功能多肽、天然改性糖类,作为galectin-3的配体,能不同程度地干预糖基和蛋白质的相互作用,抑制在肿瘤生长、侵袭和转移中具有重要作用的细胞间识别和黏附等过程.     

海洋细菌CAZymes的研究进展

多糖是大型藻类、浮游植物和微生物的主要成分,多糖降解产物是海洋有机物的主要来源.碳水化合物活性酶(carbohydrate-active enzymes,CAZymes)是负责糖类化合物降解、修饰及生成糖苷键的功能酶系,是糖类物质代谢通路中的基本功能单元.多数异养细菌都具备一套完善的碳水化合物活性酶编码系统,它们是参与...     

糖类及其衍生物的抗肿瘤作用

糖类不仅本身具有抗肿瘤等多种生物活性,同时发现其经过修饰后的衍生物也具有独特的作用.糖类及其衍生物抗肿瘤活性的研究已成为生物化学和医学领域的前沿,对寻找新型糖类抗肿瘤药物有重要的意义.     

Alpha-Beta Technology买下β-葡聚糖受体结合性糖类的经营权

Alpha-Beta Technology Inc.(Worcester,MA)不久将拥有两个最新生物技术领域的专有权.这两个领域是治疗性糖类和巨噬细胞的操作.该公司已从Brigham妇女医院(Boston,MA)买下生产一种医用糖类的专利技术.这种糖能与巨噬细胞表面的β-葡聚糖受体相结合,从而激活免疫系统.公司希望能利用这项技术来研制一些能与β-葡聚糖受体结合从而选择性地启动或者关闭免疫系统的糖类.研制出来的药物将能完全地提高机体对感染的早期防御.潜在的应用范围包括感染性疾病、免疫系统失常、真菌感染以及革兰氏阳     

5 S and 5.8 S ribosomal RNA sequences and protist phylogenetics

More than 100 5 S 5.8 S rRNA sequences from protists, including fungi, are known. Through a combination of quantitative treeing and special consideration of "signature' nucleotide combinations, the most significant phylogenetic implications of these data are emphasized. Also, limitations of the data for phylogenetic inferences are discussed and other significant data are brought to bear on the inferences obtained. 5 S sequences from red algae are seen as the most isolated among eukaryotics. A 5 S sequence lineage consisting of oomycetes, euglenoids, most protozoa, most slime molds and perhaps dinoflagellates and mesozoa is defined. Such a lineage is not evident from 5.8 S rRNA or cytochrome c sequence data. 5 S sequences from Ascomycota and Basidiomycota are consistent with the proposal that each is derived from a mycelial form with a haploid yeast phase and simple septal pores, probably most resembling present Taphrinales. 5 S sequences from Chytridiomycota and Zygomycota are not clearly distinct from each other and suggest that a major lineage radiation occurred in the early history of each. Qualitative biochemical data clearly supports a dichotomy between an Ascomycota-Basidiomycota lineage and a Zygomycota-Chytridiomycota lineage.     

Chromosome Numbers and Karyotype Analysis of 9 Species in Hydrocharitaceae

The present paper reports the chromosome numbers and karyotypes in 9 species of 5 genera from China. It is found that all these analysed species are diploid. The karyotypes of most species are made of m and sm and of a few of st chromosomes. These are grouped into four types, 1A, 2A and 1B, 2B. Blyxa is the most primitive, and Hydrilla is the most advanced.     

The marine viromes of four oceanic regions

Viruses are the most common biological entities in the marine environment. There has not been a global survey of these viruses, and consequently, it is not known what types of viruses are in Earth's oceans or how they are distributed. Metagenomic analyses of 184 viral assemblages collected over a decade and representing 68 sites in four major oceanic regions showed that most of the viral sequences were not similar to those in the current databases. There was a distinct “marine-ness” quality to the viral assemblages. Global diversity was very high, presumably several hundred thousand of species, and regional richness varied on a North-South latitudinal gradient. The marine regions had different assemblages of viruses. Cyanophages and a newly discovered clade of single-stranded DNA phages dominated the Sargasso Sea sample, whereas prophage-like sequences were most common in the Arctic. However most viral species were found to be widespread. With a majority of shared species between oceanic regions, most of the differences between viral assemblages seemed to be explained by variation in the occurrence of the most common viral species and not by exclusion of different viral genomes. These results support the idea that viruses are widely dispersed and that local environmental conditions enrich for certain viral types through selective pressure.     

Separation of viable from nonviable cells using a discontinuous density gradient

Summary When a suspension containing a mixture of viable and nonviable cells is layered over a dense ficoll-metrizoate solution and centrifuged, most of the viable cells are retained at the interface above the dense solution; whereas most of the nonviable cells are distributed in other fractions. The cells revovered for the interface are capable of subsequent growth in culture.     

Expectations for habitat-adapted symbiosis in a winter annual grass

The habitat-adapted symbiosis hypothesis predicts that the most positive effects of symbiosis are expected in the most stressful sites for a plant host. Stress varies with site characteristics but also during the life cycle of a plant, with winter annuals experiencing the most stress after fall emergence. For Bromus tectorum, fecundity can vary tremendously from a few to thousands of seeds per plant. We used endophytic Sordaria fimicola to test the hypothesis in three sites in western Montana. We hypothesized that the effects of S. fimicola inoculation would be most positive in the most stressful site after fall application. As predicted, the most positive effects on growth and fecundity were observed in the most stressful site after fall application of S. fimicola. However, the effects of treatments varied within and between sites considerably, and are best understood as an example of context-dependency in plant-microbe interactions rather than habitat-adapted symbiosis.     

吉兰-巴雷综合征的研究进展

吉兰-巴雷综合征是一种由于感染等原因所致的自身免疫性多发性神经疾病,主要的感染菌为空肠弯曲杆菌。男性患者多于女性。目前临床较为支持的发病机制为分子模拟理论,临床最主要的两大分类是轴索型及脱髓鞘型。欧美等国家以脱髓鞘型为主,亚洲国家以轴索型为主。另外还有一些在吉兰-巴雷综合征中所占比例较低的临床特殊分型,如:Miller Fisher综合征和咽-颈-臂变异型。吉兰-巴雷综合征最有效的治疗方法为静滴丙种球蛋白与血浆置换,且这两种方法的有效性已有循证医学证据支持。激素治疗目前循证医学证据提示无效,基础支持疗法不可轻视。大部分吉兰-巴雷综合征患者为单相病程,仅极少部分患者可复发。Miller Fisher综合征临床预后较好,高龄、轴索型等预后较差。     

新疆蝗总科区系研究

新疆现有蝗虫１５７种,它们分别隶属于８科６２属。在１５７种蝗虫中,古北种占绝对优势,有１２０种,其次为特有种,有３５种,广布种甚少,仅２种。在古北种中,中亚种最多,其次为泛古北种,而欧洲西伯利亚种、地中海种和东北种均很少。在８个科中,泛古北种在网翅蝗科中占优势,中亚种在班翅蝗科中占优势,斑腿蝗科在蝗总科中是相当大的一个科,在我国也占有很大优势,但在新疆其属种数量却很少。     

Anthracyclines: recent developments in their separation and quantitation

Anthracyclines are among the most widely used anticancer agents. Notwithstanding the large efforts to develop new drugs with a better pharmaceutical profile, daunorubicin, doxorubicin, epirubicin and idarubicin are still the most used in clinical practice. Many efforts are now ongoing to reduce the side effects by using pharmaceutical formulations able to release the drug in the most appropriate way and monitoring the quantity of anthracyclines and their metabolites in the body fluids or tissues frequently and in every patient to maintain the drug concentration within the expected range. This review describes the most recent developments in the separation and quantitation of the above clinically useful drugs, together with their principal metabolites. Some less widely used derivatives will also be considered.     

Are certain life histories particularly prone to local extinction?

Using stochastic simulations and elasticity analysis, we show that there are inherent differences in the risk of extinction between life histories with different demographies. Which life history is the most vulnerable depends on which vital rate varies. When juvenile survival varies semelparous organisms with delayed reproduction are the most vulnerable ones, while a varying developmental rate puts a greater threat to semelparous organisms with rapid development. Iteroparous organisms are the most vulnerable ones when adult survival varies. Generally, we do not expect to observe organisms in nature having variation in vital rates that produce a high risk of extinction. Given the results here we therefore predict that iteroparous organisms should show low variation in adult survival. Moreover, we predict that semelparous organisms should show low variation in juvenile survival and low variation in developmental rate. The effect of temporal correlation on extinction risk is most pronounced in organisms with semelparous life histories.