铜山阿魏和草甸阿魏根的化学成分及其系统分类学意义

从铜山阿魏（ＦｅｒｕｌａｌｉｃｅｎｔｉａｎａＨａｎｄ．Ｍａｚｚ．ｖａｒ．ｔｕｎｓｈａｎｉｃａＳｈａｎｅｔＱ．Ｘ．Ｌｉｕ）和草甸阿魏（Ｆ．ｋｉｎｇｄｏｎｗａｒｄｉＷｏｌｆ）的根的乙醚提取物中共提取分离得１０种化合物,其中化合物９为一新化合物：１（７,８二甲氧基５,６甲二氧基苯）丙基（Ｚ）２甲基１丁烯酸酯。阿魏属的这两种植物分布于该属现代分布区的边缘,但都未检出本属植物的特征成分之一７氧倍半萜类香豆素,且两种植物所含成分较相似且较简单。作者推测存在着这样的可能性,即：和伞形科其他某些属植物一样,阿魏属也起源于中国的西南地区。     

绿色木霉对小球藻细胞壁的酶解作用

【目的】探讨绿色木霉分泌液能否分解小球藻细胞壁。【方法】用海藻酸钠和氯化钙固定绿色木霉,游离绿色木霉和固定化绿色木霉分别培养一段时间,离心培养液,用分光光度计法检测上清液中纤维素酶活性。在上清液中加入浓缩的小球藻悬浮液,用显微镜计数细胞壁破碎的小球藻。【结果】绿色木霉能同时分泌内切葡聚糖酶、外切葡聚糖酶及β-1,4葡萄糖苷酶3种纤维素酶,其中外切葡聚糖酶活性最高。固定化绿色木霉反复使用5次后,分泌的纤维素酶活性能保持到初次的67.4%。市售纤维素酶、游离绿色木霉、固定化绿色木霉初次及第5次分解小球藻细胞壁的效率分别为47.3%、86.5%、81.5%、52.1%。【结论】市售纤维素酶、游离绿色木霉、固定化绿色木霉都能分解小球藻细胞壁,其中固定化绿色木霉因可重复使用,具有潜在的应用前景。     

复合诱变筛选产细胞壁水解酶木霉菌株及产酶条件的优化

利用复合诱变技术 ,筛选到一株产几丁质酶和葡聚糖酶能力较强的绿色木霉菌株(Trichodermaviride)LD 1 8。并对其产酶条件进行了优化 ,发现在麸皮∶诱导物∶麦秸粉 =2∶2∶7的固体培养基上 ,以 4g/L (NH4) 2 SO4为氮源 ,起始pH8 0 ,经 2 5℃培养 72h ,产生的真菌细胞壁水解酶 ,用以溶解食用菌、黑曲霉等丝状菌丝体的细胞壁 ,制备原生质体 ,效果较优。     

HPLC法测定新疆阿魏不同部位阿魏酸的含量

建立新疆阿魏中不同部位阿魏酸的高效液相色谱含量测定方法.采用PLATISIL ODS(250 mm×4.6mm,5μm)色谱柱,甲醇～0.1％冰醋酸水溶液(35∶ 65)为流动相,流速1.0 mL/min,检测波长320 nm,柱温30℃.测得阿魏酸进样量在0.440～5.396μg/mL(r=0.9997)范围内与峰面积有良好的线性关系,平均回收率达97.8％,RSD为1.79％(n=9).新疆阿魏胶、根、茎和叶中的阿魏酸含量分别为0.2600、0.0362、0.0225和0.0275 mg/g,胶中阿魏酸的含量远高于根、茎和叶.该方法简便、准确、重复性好,可用于新疆阿魏中不同部位阿魏酸含量的测定.     

植物细胞壁组织化学定位染色方法和技术的比较研究

利用光学和荧光显微镜比较研究几种植物细胞壁组织化学定位染色方法和技术,结果表明：（1）硫酸消化法和硫酸氢黄连素-苯胺兰对染法研究凯氏带,对取材时间和部位要求高,建议两种方法配合使用,可相互印证是否具凯氏带;（2）苏丹7B染色法,蓝色激发光下不染色和硫酸氢黄连素-苯胺兰对染研究细胞壁栓质层3种方法中,不染色蓝色激发光下结果比苏丹7B染色法敏感显色,但苏丹7B染色法在普通光学显微镜下观察较为便捷;（3）木质化细胞壁染色方法中硫酸氢黄连素-苯胺兰对染法比间苯三酚-盐酸染色法易显色观察;（4）甲苯胺兰快速染色细胞壁取代常规苏丹Ⅲ/Ⅳ法,细胞边界和层次更清楚。     

复合诱变筛选变细胞壁水解酶木霉素株及产酶条件的优化

利用复合诱变技术,筛选到一株产几丁质酶和钱聚糖酶能力较强的绿色木霉菌株（Trichodermaviride)LD-18。并对其产酶条件进行了优化,发现在麸皮：诱导物：麦秸粉＝2：2：7的固体培养基上,以4g/L(NH4)2SO4为氮源,起始pH8.0经25摄氏度培养72h,产生的真菌细胞壁水解酶,用以溶解食用菌,黑曲霉等丝状菌丝体的细胞壁,制备原生质体,效果较优。     

禾本科植物微卫星序列的特征分析和比较

微卫星或简单序列重复(simple sequence repeats,SSRs)广泛存在于真核生物的基因组中,是目前最有用的分子标记之一.本研究首次利用全基因序列对4个禾本科植物种,包括二穗短柄草(Brachypodium distachyon)、水稻(Oryza sativa)、高粱(Sorghum bicolor)和玉米(Zea mays)的SSR的类型、丰度(数量)、相对丰度、频率、长度和偏好性等进行了分析和比较.结果表明,禾本科植物中SSR的丰度与基因组大小成正比,而相对丰度与基因组大小相关不显著;三核苷酸和六核苷酸基序类型比其它类型更为丰富;不同物种皆呈现出明显的基序偏好性.总的来讲,除个别例外,禾本科植物的基因组中更倾向于富含A/T的基序.本研究结果为研究禾本科植物的基因组进化和SSR标记的开发提供了有价值的信息.     

链球菌细胞壁和核物质的透射电镜观察

磷钨酸悬滴法负染色的链球菌用透射电镜观察 ,可形象直观地看到细菌的细胞壁和呈环带状的核物质     

染料木素乙酰阿魏酸酯的合成

基于Schotten-Bamann反应原理,以阿魏酸和染料木素为起始原料,首次合成得到两种新化合物:染料木素-7-乙酰阿魏酸酯(即5-羟基-3-(4-羟苯基)-4-羰基-4H-苯并吡喃-7基3-(4-乙酰基-3-甲氧苯基)丙烯酸酯,1)和染料木素-7,4′-二-乙酰阿魏酸酯(即3-{4-[3-(4-乙酰氧基-3-甲氧苯基)丙烯酰氧基]苯基}-5-羟基-4-羰基-4H-苯并吡喃-7基3-(4-乙酰基-3-甲氧苯基)丙烯酸酯,2),对其进行了UV,IR,1H,13C NMR和MS结构表征.     

参与木葡聚糖合成的糖基转移酶基因研究进展

半纤维素多糖木葡聚糖(XyG)存在于大多数植物的初生细胞壁中, 对细胞壁的结构组织和生长发育具有重要的调控作用。XyG在植物进化中存在结构的多样性。该文概述了参与XyG合成的糖基转移酶的最新研究进展, XyG合成需要多种糖基转移酶参与, 这些酶类很可能以蛋白酶复合体的形式存在并发挥作用, XyG的结构和组成的改变对植物的生长发育也产生影响。     

Feruloylation in Grasses： Current and Future Perspectives

In the cell walls of forage grasses, ferulic acid is esterified to arabinoxylans and participates with lignin monomers in oxidative coupling pathways to generate ferulate-polysaccharide-lignin complexes that cross-link the cell wall. The accumulation of ferulates and the cross-linking of arabinoxylans via diferulate esters are hypothesized to function in various processes in plants. The specific roles of arabinoxylan feruloylation as well as the nature, cellular localization, and substrate for arabinoxylans feruloylation of cell walls are reviewed. The various approaches that have been used for assessing the specific roles of feruloylation are described and assessed. I argue that, until recently, the specific role of feruloylation in these various processes has been established largely by indirect experiments and, although these studies reached similar conclusions about the potential importance of wall feruloylation, they suffer from a common problem： namely they depend on correlations between two processes and do not stem from a detailed understanding of the mechanisms of feruloylation. I also argue that the nature of arabinoxylan feruloylation remains uncertain.     

亚硫酸钠处理对与采后竹笋木质化作用有关的细胞壁物质及酶活性的影响

研究了Na2SO3处理对与采后竹笋木质化作用相关的细胞壁物质及其酶活性的影响.结果表明1%Na2SO3处理能显著延缓竹笋组织中多聚半乳糖醛酸酶活性的降低和抑制苯丙氨酸解氨酶活性的上升,因此水溶性果胶含量显著高于对照,硬度、木质素和原果胶含量显著低于对照.但1%Na2SO3处理对纤维素酶、果胶甲酯酶活性和纤维素含量无显著影响.     

Cell wall remodeling under salt stress: Insights into changes in polysaccharides,feruloylation, lignification,and phenolic metabolism in maize

Although cell wall polymers play important roles in the tolerance of plants to abiotic stress, the effects of salinity on cell wall composition and metabolism in grasses remain largely unexplored. Here, we conducted an in-depth study of changes in cell wall composition and phenolic metabolism induced upon salinity in maize seedlings and plants. Cell wall characterization revealed that salt stress modulated the deposition of cellulose, matrix polysaccharides and lignin in seedling roots, plant roots and stems. The extraction and analysis of arabinoxylans by size-exclusion chromatography, 2D-NMR spectroscopy and carbohydrate gel electrophoresis showed a reduction of arabinoxylan content in salt-stressed roots. Saponification and mild acid hydrolysis revealed that salinity also reduced the feruloylation of arabinoxylans in roots of seedlings and plants. Determination of lignin content and composition by nitrobenzene oxidation and 2D-NMR confirmed the increased incorporation of syringyl units in lignin of maize roots. Salt stress also induced the expression of genes and the activity of enzymes enrolled in phenylpropanoid biosynthesis. The UHPLC–MS-based metabolite profiling confirmed the modulation of phenolic profiling by salinity and the accumulation of ferulate and its derivatives 3- and 4-O-feruloyl quinate. In conclusion, we present a model for explaining cell wall remodeling in response to salinity.     

Diferulic and ferulic acid in the cell wall of Avena coleoptiles—Their relationships to mechanical properties of the cell wall

Alkaline hydrolysis liberated ferulic and diferulic acid from polysaccharides of the Avena coleoptile ( Avena sativa L. cv. Victory I) cell walls. The amount of the two phenolic acids bound to cell walls increased substantially at day 4–5 after sowing, when the growth rate of the coleoptile started to decrease. The level of these acids was almost constant from the tip to base in 3-day-old coleoptiles, but increased toward the basal zone in 4- and 5-day-old ones. The ratio of diferulic acid to ferulic acid was almost constant irrespective of coleoptile age and zone. An increase in the amount of ferulic and diferulic acids bound to cell wall polysaccharides correlated with a decrease in extensibility and with an increase in minimum stress-relaxation time and relaxation rate of the cell wall. The level of lignin in the cellulose fraction increased as coleoptiles aged, but this increase did not correlate with changes in mechanical properties of the cell walls. These results suggest that ferulic acid, ester-linked to cell wall polysaccharides, is oxidized to give diferulic acid, which makes the cell wall mechanically rigid by cross-linking matrix polysaccharides and results in limited cell extension growth. In addition, it is probable that the step of feruloylation of cell wall polysaccharides is rate-limiting in the formation of in-termolecular bridges by diferulic acid in Avena coleoptile cell walls.     

Interrelation between Lignin Deposition and Polysaccharide Matrices during the Assembly of Plant Cell Walls

Abstract: The modifications caused by genetic down-regulation of the enzyme cinnamoyl CoA reductase (CCR) from monolignol biosynthetic pathways on tobacco and Arabidopsis thaliana were investigated at the ultrastructural level. A typical result was that the same transformation led to similar abnormality in secondary wall formation of fibres in both plants. The cell wall alterations mainly consisted in an important disorganization and loosening of cellulose microfibrils in the inner part of the S₂ layer. This inability of the transformants to form a coherent cell wall coincided with a lack of synthesis of non-condensed forms of lignin in this disorganized region of the wall, as demonstrated by immunolabelling of lignin subunits. A similar disorganization was observed during fibre wall formation in the differentiating tissues of young Populus and A. thaliana plants. The transitory lack of organization of cellulose microfibrils, also coincided with a depletion in non-condensed forms of lignins. These results suggest that such lignin substructures may be involved in the cohesion of secondary walls during cell wall biogenesis. The mutual influence of the cellulose-hemicellulose environment and monolignol local polymerization is discussed.     

Ferulic Acid: An Antioxidant Found Naturally in Plant Cell Walls and Feruloyl Esterases Involved in its Release and Their Applications

ABSTRACT

Ferulic acid is the most abundant hydroxycinnamic acid in the plant world and maize bran with 3.1% (w/w) ferulic acid is one of the most promising sources of this antioxidant. The dehydrodimers of ferulic acid are important structural components in the plant cell wall and serve to enhance its rigidity and strength. Feruloyl esterases are a subclass of the carboxylic acid esterases that hydrolyze the ester bond between hydroxycinnamic acids and sugars present in plant cell walls and they have been isolated from a wide range of microorganisms, when grown on complex substrates such as cereal brans, sugar beet pulp, pectin and xylan. These enzymes perform a function similar to alkali in the deesterification of plant cell wall and differ in their specificities towards the methyl esters of cinnamic acids and ferulolylated oligosaccharides. They act synergistically with xylanases and pectinases and facilitate the access of hydrolases to the backbone of cell wall polymers. The applications of ferulic acid and feruloyl esterase enzymes are many and varied. Ferulic acid obtained from agricultural byproducts is a potential precursor for the production of natural vanillin, due to the lower production cost.     

Feruloylation and structure of arabinoxylan in wheat endosperm cell walls from RNAi lines with suppression of genes responsible for backbone synthesis and decoration

Arabinoxylan (AX) is the major component of the cell walls of wheat grain (70% in starchy endosperm), is an important determinant of end‐use qualities affecting food processing, use for animal feed and distilling and is a major source of dietary fibre in the human diet. AX is a heterogeneous polysaccharide composed of fractions which can be sequentially extracted by water (WE‐AX), then xylanase action (XE‐AX) leaving an unextractable (XU‐AX) fraction. We determined arabinosylation and feruloylation of AX in these fractions in both wild‐type wheat and RNAi lines with decreased AX content (TaGT43_2 RNAi, TaGT47_2 RNAi) or decreased arabinose 3‐linked to mono‐substituted xylose (TaXAT1 RNAi). We show that these fractions are characterized by the degree of feruloylation of AX, <5, 5–7 and 13–19 mg bound ferulate (g^?1 AX), and their content of diferulates (diFA), <0.3, 1–1.7 and 4–5 mg (g^?1 AX), for the WE, XE and XU fractions, respectively, in all RNAi lines and their control lines. The amount of AX and its degree of arabinosylation and feruloylation were less affected by RNAi transgenes in the XE‐AX fraction than in the WE‐AX fraction and largely unaffected in the XU‐AX fraction. As the majority of diFA is associated with the XU‐AX fraction, there was only a small effect (TaGT43_2 RNAi, TaGT47_2 RNAi) or no effect (TaXAT1 RNAi) on total diFA content. Our results are compatible with a model where, to maintain cell wall function, diFA is maintained at stable levels when other AX properties are altered.     

细胞壁在植物胚胎发生中的作用

在植物的生长与发育过程中,细胞壁不仅在决定和维持细胞形态方面发挥了重要作用,而且还参与了对细胞生长与分化的调控,这种调控涉及一些细胞壁信号分子,尤其是一些细胞壁水解产物在细胞内和细胞间的转导。现对细胞壁在植物胚胎发生中的作用进行综述。     

植物原生质体的细胞壁再生

细胞壁作为植物细胞重要的组成部分,在决定细胞形状、维持机械支撑、吸收养分等方面发挥重要功能.因此,揭示植物细胞壁合成的调控机制具有重大的生物学意义.基于植物组织水平研究细胞壁的生物合成具有难以控制时间尺度、观察空间狭小等局限性.原生质体作为去除细胞壁的单个细胞是研究细胞壁再生的理想系统.在过去的几十年里报道了大量关于植...