光照混菌培养应用研究进展

光合细菌与其他微生物在光照条件下混合培养是近年来的研究热点。综述了光照混菌培养的特点和目前光照混菌培养在水体净化、生物制氢和高价值物质生产方面的应用,并对影响混合菌株生长代谢与繁殖的因素做了总结。分析表明菌株之间存在的相互协同共生作用能促进微生物的生长繁殖,使底物被充分利用,提高物质产率。光照混菌培养工艺简单、成本较低,在水体净化、生物制氢、高价值物质生产方面的应用具有相当好的效果。在影响因素中对混合培养影响最大的因素是菌株接种量、接种比和培养基pH。在总结光照混菌培养应用现存不足的基础上,对其发展前景作出展望。     

微生物法去除水中氯苯类化合物的研究进展

氯苯类化合物是水环境污染中的主要污染物之一, 本文主要介绍了目前国内外微生物法处理水中氯苯类化合物的最新研究成果, 包括氯苯类化合物的微生物好氧降解、厌氧降解、共代谢、生物活性炭以及生物处理工艺等, 并展望了该领域今后的研究方向。     

微生物法去除水中氯苯类化合物的研究进展

氯苯类化合物是水环境污染中的主要污染物之一,本文主要介绍了目前国内外微生物法处理水中氯苯类化合物的最新研究成果,包括氯苯类化合物的微生物好氧降解、厌氧降解,共代谢、生物活性炭以及生物处理工艺等,并展望了该领域今后的研究方向.     

污水生物处理中的噬菌体及其功能研究进展

污水生物处理是一种利用微生物分解污水中的污染物、实现污水净化的方法。噬菌体是侵染细菌的病毒,在污水生物处理系统中广泛存在,它们能够特异性地控制微生物菌群,影响污水处理效果和调控污泥性状。因此,研究污水生物处理中噬菌体的分布及其功能具有重要意义。本文介绍了不同污水生物处理中噬菌体的分布,简要分析了噬菌体分离、培养与鉴定方法及其优缺点,详细总结了噬菌体在污水生物处理中的功能,包括:(1)调节微生物群落结构,影响污水处理效果;(2)作为环境监测的指示生物;(3)控制病原菌、污泥膨胀、污泥发泡和膜污染;(4)减少污泥产量,重点分析了影响噬菌体功能的因素,探讨了污水生物处理中噬菌体功能应用存在的问题及其解决方法,最后对噬菌体未来应用的发展方向进行了展望,以期为污水生物处理技术和工艺的开发与应用提供参考,促进污水处理健康发展。     

分解玉米赤霉烯酮菌株的分离、鉴定及其产酶特征

【目的】从发酵食品材料中筛选出对玉米赤霉烯酮(ZEN)有分解作用的微生物,研究其分解效率及产酶特征并进行菌种鉴定。【方法】利用添加ZEN毒素类似物(PL)的固体培养基对25种发酵食品材料进行初筛,获得毒素类似物耐受菌株,经过用ZEN复筛,得到高效分解ZEN的细菌。用高效液相色谱法(HPLC)分析培养物残留ZEN,评价菌株对ZEN的分解效率。初步分析该菌株产纤维素酶、木聚糖酶及β-葡萄糖苷酶的特性。通过微生物形态学、分子生物学方法进行菌种鉴定,确定该菌的系统分类学地位。【结果】从发酵食品材料中筛选出一株分解ZEN的菌株BF-B-3,经初步鉴定该菌株为枯草芽孢杆菌(Bacillus subtilis)。其ZEN分解率达62.48%,测定该菌产纤维素酶、木聚糖酶及β-葡萄糖苷酶活力分别为160.38、84.51和4.14 U/mL。【结论】枯草芽孢杆菌属于饲用微生物,生物安全性高,所分离到的枯草芽孢杆菌疑似株(Bacillus subtilis)BF-B-3菌株,可作为具有分解ZEN功能的益生菌使用,具有较好的应用前景。     

生物浸矿反应器中的微生物种群结构及其中可培养微生物的特征

【目的】本文旨在了解生物浸矿反应器中的微生物种群结构及其中可培养微生物的特征。【方法】通过构建微生物冶金反应器中矿浆原样的16S rRNA基因文库,测定16S rRNA基因序列,分析矿浆中种群结构。同时在不同培养条件下,对样品进行富集培养,分离获得纯菌株;并对各个菌株的16S rRNA基因序列,生理生化特征及对不同矿物的氧化能力进行了分析。【结果】研究中所选生物浸矿反应器中主要的微生物物种有细菌:Leptospirillum sp.,Sulfobacillus sp.,Acidithiobacillus sp.,Spingomonas sp.及古菌Sulfolobus sp.,Ferroplasma sp.等菌属。同时分离出5株纯菌株,这些菌分别与Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans,Acidithiobacillus caldus,Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans,Leptospirillum ferriphilum,Sulfobacillus thermosul fidooxidans相似。分离获得的菌株具有氧化硫或二价铁和不同硫化矿的能力。【结论】生物浸矿反应器是个微生物种类相对简单的生境,利用非培养和培养技术全面地了解生物浸矿体系中的微生物群落及其生理、浸矿特性,有利于洞察生物浸矿过程中微生物种群结构,强化控制种群组成及浸矿活性,从而提高生物湿法冶金的效率。     

生态工程领域微生物菌剂研究进展

阐述了微生物菌剂在生态工程领域的应用范围、效果和国内外的研究状况,总结了目前微生物菌剂研制中菌种的选育方法和常用的几类菌,并通过系统举例介绍了乳酸菌、酵母菌、光合细菌、芽孢杆菌这些常用菌种在污染物处理方面的效果及在废水处理生态工程方面的相关研究进展。同时,阐明了微生物混合培养技术在复合菌剂研究中的重要性,对微生物菌剂的作用机理进行了探讨,指出了目前关于微生物菌剂的研究大多只是集中于应用效果方面,而对作用机理研究得不够深入,以及复合菌系中微生物相互作用和影响的复杂性,并对此提出了一些建议。最后,对微生物菌剂的应用前景进行了展望。     

石油污染海域的微生物群落及烃的降解

目前世界海洋石油污染问题已经严重威胁到海洋生态环境的安全,生物修复是一种处理石油污染的新方法。综述了海洋环境中烃降解微生物生态学方面的一些研究进展,包括探测未培养细菌的新方法、新的分离方法及主要的烃降解菌株的特性,以便努力改进现有分离石油降解菌及石油乳化细菌的方法,同时发现对于石油降解有益的新菌种。     

青海油田微生物采油技术研究

从青海油田地层水中分离培养出4株微生物菌种,对其进行了耐温性、耐盐性等进行了探讨,分析了微生物处理前后原油组份及物性变化情况,并采用岩芯流动试验探讨了微生物的驱油效果。结果表明,这几种微生物菌种均能适应青海油田温度及高矿化度地层环境,作用于原油后对原油中的长链饱和烃类物质有较好的降解作用,能使其分子链变短,并产生有机酸或石油羧酸盐类表面活性剂等低分子物质,使原油的粘度、凝点及蜡含量均出现明显的下降,改善原油的流动性能。提高石油采收率。2口井的现场试验证明,微生物采油具有良好的提高石油采收率的效果和清蜡减阻效果。     

生物活性炭的研究现状

本文总结了生物活性炭(BAC)技术在废水及饮用水处理领域的应用。臭氧(O3)常与生物活性炭联合应用于饮用水源水的处理,并能有效去除水中天然有机物及微量有害物质。生物活性炭工艺将在饮用水处理中有更广阔的应用空间。     

Ectogenesis and the case against the right to the death of the foetus

Ectogenesis, or the use of an artificial womb to allow a foetus to develop, will likely become a reality within a few decades, and could significantly affect the abortion debate. We first examine the implications for Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist analogy, which argues for a woman’s right to withdraw life support from the foetus and so terminate her pregnancy, even if the foetus is granted full moral status. We show that on Thomson’s reasoning, there is no right to the death of the foetus, and abortion is not permissible if ectogenesis is available, provided it is safe and inexpensive. This raises the question of whether there are persuasive reasons for the right to the death of the foetus that could be exercised in the context of ectogenesis. Eric Mathison and Jeremy Davis have examined several arguments for this right, doubting that it exists, while Joona Räsänen has recently criticized their reasoning. We respond to Räsänen’s analysis, concluding that his arguments are unsuccessful, and that there is no right to the death of the foetus in these circumstances.     

On the diversity of the Cladocera in the tropics

The mythical concept of an impoverished tropical cladoceran fauna is refuted. On a planetary scale, around half of the cladoceran species presently known occur exclusively in the tropics-subtropics, often with considerable restriction to particular geographical subzones. On a regional (political) scale, the situation is often unclear because of the continued fragmentary nature of studies, and because political units are not a good basis for biogeographical comparisons. At the finest level of resolution (lake-perlake comparisons), there appears to be an upper limit of c. 50 cladoceran species per individual lake. No significant difference between lakes in the temperate zone and in the tropics could be established here. Daphnia is largely absent from the tropics, but is replaced by more Sidids, Moinids, and Bosminids, such that the average cladoceran community in the limnetic zone of a tropical lake is not characterized by less species but rather by lower population densities. This, in turn, is considered a consequence of higher prevalent predation levels in the tropics.     

Tubular networks in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human,the monkey,the cat and the dog

Summary A tubular network was found in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human, the monkey (Macaca mulatta), the cat and the dog. These tubules are arranged in close groups in the vicinity of the synaptic lamellae and the invaginated dendrites. According to the form, diameter, density of the tubules and to the consistence of the network formed by them one can distinguish at these places an initial type (type I), a transitory (type II) and a vesicular one (type III). In the the type III branching, bizarre forms are frequent. The diameter of all the tubules reaches 500–600 Å, their density and walls being the same as in the synaptic vesicles.Similar networks also occur in the axons of the visual receptor cells of the monkey.

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Zusammenfassung In den Endigungen der Photorezeptorzellen von Mensch, Affe (Macaca mulatta), Katze und Hund kommen aus Tubuli bestehende Komplexe vor. Organellenartig in geschlossenen Gruppen angeordnet, liegen sie in Nähe der synaptischen Lamellen und der invaginierten Dendriten. An diesen Stellen kann man nach Form, Durchmesser, Dichte und Konsistenz der von den Tubuli gebildeten Komplexe drei Typen unterscheiden: 1. einen initialen (Typus I), 2. einen Übergangstypus (Typus II) und 3. einen vesiculären Typus (Typus III). In letzterem kommen häufig verzweigte, bizarre Formen vor. Der Durchmesser sämtlicher Tubuli erreicht 500–600 Å. Ihre Dichte und ihre Wand gleicht denen der synaptischen Vesikel.Ähnliche Komplexe fanden wir auch in den Axonen der Photorezeptorzellen vom Affen.

     

Assessing the Physiological State of the Fucoids from the Barents Sea Littoral by the End of the Polar Night

Methods of amperometry and potentiometric titration were used to follow dark respiration (DR) and apparent photosynthesis (AP) in the fucoids Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol, Fucus vesiculosus L., and F. serratus L. from the Barents Sea littoral by the end of the 40-day-long polar night. The macroalgae were shown to manifest species-specific low rates of photosynthesis and respiration. However, in spite of their low photosynthetic status due to the effects of subzero temperature and prolonged low or zero illumination, the macroalgae have been able to restore DR and AP to the initial level already by the day 9; the ability to restore AP depended on the level of illumination. The study of the changes in the carbonate–bicarbonate system in the light and darkness demonstrated that the macroalgae grown in darkness, in contrast to those grown in twilight, could absorb bicarbonate in darkness; however, they lost this capacity after two-day-long illumination at an irradiance of 7 mol/(m² s). Bicarbonate uptake in darkness and the capacity to restore the systems of photosynthesis and respiration in fucoid cells are discussed in the context of algal energy metabolism under the polar night conditions.     

Arranging the elements of the potassium channel: the T1 domain occludes the cytoplasmic face of the channel

The voltage-gated potassium channel is currently one of the few membrane proteins where functional roles have been mapped onto specific segments of sequence. Although high-resolution structures of the transmembrane portions of three bacterial potassium channels, the tetramerization domain and the cytoplasmic ball are available, their relative spatial arrangement in mammalian channels remains a matter of ongoing debate. Cryo-electron microscopic images of the six transmembrane voltage-gated Kv channel have been reconstructed at up to 18 Å resolution, revealing that the T1 domain tetramerizes and is suspended below the transmembrane segments. However, the resolution of these images is insufficient to reveal the location of the third piece of the puzzle, the inactivating ball domain. We have used the aberrant interactions observed in a series of chimæric channels to establish that an assembled T1 domain restricts access to the cytoplasmic face of the channel, suggesting that the N-terminal ball and chain may be confined in the space between the T1 domain and the transmembrane portion of the channel.     

Feeding the vertebrate retina from the Cambrian to the Tertiary

The retina of the vertebrate eye is metabolically active and requires nutritive support. During the last 540 million years it has evolved into forms as complicated and nutritionally demanding as those found in avian or primate eyes. Diffusion from the choroid is generally able to supply the metabolic needs of thin retinae. However, when the thickness exceeds the limits of diffusion, structures are needed to supplement the vascular supply from the choroid. These supplemental nutritive devices include the choroidal gland, the falciform process and preretinal vascular plexus of fish, the conus papillaris of lizards, the pecten oculi of birds, the intraretinal vessels of mammals and a few novel systems that remain difficult to classify. These vascular systems are among the most variable features of the vertebrate eye. Here, we review classical and recent findings regarding such retinal nutrition systems, propose a three category classification for them based on histologic origins and speculate on the evolutionary forces which drove their development.     

Observations on the permeability of the choriocapillaris of the eye

Summary The choriocapillaris is a fenestrated capillary bed located posterior to the retinal pigment epithelium. It serves as the main source of supply to the photoreceptors, retinal pigment epithelium, and other cells of the outer retina. The permeability of these capillaries to intravenously injected ferritin (MW — approx. 480,000; mol. diam. 11 nm) was examined in the mouse, rabbit, and guinea pig, each of which is characterized by a different type of retinal vascularization. In all three species, the bulk of the ferritin remained in the capillary lumina, where it appeared to be blocked at the level of the diaphragmed fenestrae. Some ferritin was present in endothelial cell vacuoles. The results confirm previous work on the rat choriocapillaris and indicate that the barrier function of the choriocapillary endothelium is present even among species in which the retinal circulation differs significantly.Supported by NIH grant EY03418