金霉素高产菌的选育及发酵工艺的研究

金霉素是由金色链霉菌产生的一种四环类抗生素,其产生菌经紫外线、氯化锂和金霉素抗性实验等手段获得高产菌株M14-2,并在60m^3罐生产中采用正交实验筛选出的发酵培养基,效价达23200μg／mL,比原菌株提高了15％。     

复合诱变黑曲霉选育β-葡萄糖苷酶高产菌株*

对黑曲霉原生质体进行紫外、ＬｉＣｌ复合诱变,观察诱变后原生质体再生菌落,发现了抱子颜色变异较大的菌株,且其变化与酶产量相关。经发酵筛选,获得卜葡萄糖昔酶活较高菌株,其酶活由出发菌株的１０ｕ／ｍｌ提高到１４．７ｕ／ｍｌ。再对高产突变株进行氮离子注入,酶活又提高２０％（达１７ｕ／ｍｌ）。     

复合诱变黑曲霉选育β-葡萄糖苷酶高产菌株

对黑曲霉原生质体进行紫外、ＬｉＣｌ复合诱变,观察诱变后原生质体再生菌落,发现了抱子颜色变异较大的菌株,且其变化与酶产量相关。经发酵筛选,获得卜葡萄糖昔酶活较高菌株,其酶活由出发菌株的１０ｕ／ｍｌ提高到１４．７ｕ／ｍｌ。再对高产突变株进行氮离子注入,酶活又提高２０％（达１７ｕ／ｍｌ）。     

复合诱变黑曲霉选育β—葡萄糖苷酶高产菌株

对黑曲霉原生质体进行紫外、ＬｉＣｌ复合诱变,观察诱变后原生质体再生菌落,发现了孢子色变异较大的菌株,且其变化与酶产量相关。经发酵筛选,获得β－葡萄糖苷酶活较高菌株,其酶活由出发菌株的１０ｕ／ｍｌ提高到１４．７ｕ／ｍｌ。再对高产突变株进行氮离子注入,酶活又提高２０％（达１７ｕ／ｍｌ）。     

钛离子注入井冈霉素生产菌株的诱变效应

探讨了利用金属Ti 离子注入井冈霉素生产菌的生物学效应,比较了不同的注入能量与注入剂量对菌株突变效果的影响.在注入能量为15 keV,剂量为1.5×1015 个/cm2离子的诱变条件下,筛选到一株井冈霉素高产菌株C3-6,其发酵生产井冈霉素A组分的效价为19 684 μg/mL,比出发菌株提高41.3%.经多次传代实验表明该菌株的遗传稳定性较好.     

紫外诱变选育恩拉霉素高产菌株

本研究采用紫外诱变育种技术对一株产恩拉霉素抗真菌链霉菌(Streptomyces fungicidicus)F110进行了诱变处理,经链霉素抗性、利福霉素B抗性以及双重抗性筛选,共获得了132株抗生素抗性突变株,其中26株突变菌株的恩拉霉素产量与出发菌株相比均有明显提高。摇瓶发酵条件下,突变株SR93的恩拉霉素产量最高可达2 400μg/m L,与出发菌株相比提高了38%。传代结果表明:该突变株产素水平稳定,因此具备较好的开发及工业应用价值。     

电场诱导棘孢小单胞菌原生质体融合

以小诺霉素（Micromomicin,MCR)产生菌棘孢小单胞菌（Micromonosporaechinospora）为出发菌株,诱变筛选得到一株链霉素抗性菌株,抗性菌株的原生质体分别用紫外线照射和热处理致死,通过单亲致死原生质体融合,以链霉素为选择条件选出融合株,经摇瓶发酵并结合薄层层析扫描（ThinLayerCharamotography,TLC）分析,筛得4株MCR百分含量高于亲株的融合子,MCR百分含量达到90％,效价1076u／ml,分别比亲株提高15％和11％。     

常规诱变结合高通量筛选选育可利霉素高产菌株

可利霉素是通过基因工程定向育种技术获得的新型大环内酯类抗生素,是国家一类新药.[目的]为满足工业化生产需要,其工程菌株的发酵水平有待提高.[方法]多种常规诱变技术交替处理和高通量筛选方法选育可利霉素高产菌株,处理方法包括原生质体紫外诱变、DES(硫酸二乙酯)诱变、紫外光复活诱变、缬氨酸抗性筛选和正突变菌株的富集.[结果]高产菌株WSJ-1-7-49-133-82-43的摇瓶生物效价比出发菌株WSJ-1-7-49提高56％,500L中试发酵罐突变菌株效价较出发株高61％.[结论]说明多轮常规诱变育种结合高通量的筛选方法可以用于工业生产菌株的高效筛选.     

选育抗抗生素突变株提高碱性淀粉酶生产能力

本文报道在已获得的碱性淀粉酶生产菌Ｌ－４９的基础上,通过硫酸二乙酯再诱变,经过利福和氨苄青霉素抗性筛选,获得相应的抗性菌株。初始ＰＤ１０条件下,发酵同期４８ｈ,碱性ａ－淀粉酶活力比出发株提高２０％以上。     

低能离子注入在Vc高产菌株选育中的应用

对低能离子注入Ｖｃ生产菌的诱变效应进行研究,结果表明,离子注入ＶＣ生产菌能获得较高的突变率和较广的突变谱,比较了Ｈ、Ｎ、Ａｒ＾＋注入ＶＣ生产菌的差异,确定了最佳诱变剂量。由此筛选出４株ＶＣ高产菌,其糖酸克分子转化率达９４％。目前已通过工业生产试验,并为企业带来显著的经济效益,同时也为工业微生物的选育提供了一条全新的途径。     

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     

Separation of the pineal vesicle from the wall of the third ventricle during the post-hatching development of the chicken

Summary According to light- and electron-microscopic observations the pineal organ of the 3-day-old chicken consists of a prominent end vesicle and a tapering parenchymal stalk. During this stage the pineal lumen is in open communication with the third ventricle. However, in the 40-day-old chicken, which still possesses a well-developed end vesicle, the proximal portion of the pineal stalk displays regressive changes leading to local fragmentation. At this stage the pineal stalk is reduced, and the pineal lumen is missing. In 1-year-old chickens the parenchyma of the proximal portion of the stalk is further diminished, and in 3-year-old domestic fowl is completely displaced by bundles of collagenous fibers, only some nerve fibers being present. This post-hatching pineal development may reflect the sequence of changes leading from pineal sense organs to pineal glands.This work was supported by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan