黄芪和党参提取物的抗氧化活性研究

采用分光光度法测定不同产地黄芪、党参醇提取物的抗氧化性,并对它们清除自由基能力进行比较.结果显示,甘肃渭源、陇西、吉林舒兰、山西浑源黄芪醇提取物的DPPH自由基清除率依次为:21.38%、13.53%、35.09%和20.18%,表明不同产地的黄芪的抗氧化活性差异明显;陕西凤县、南郑、山西陵川党参醇提取物的DPPH自由基清除率依次为:17.56%、9.87%和8.03%,表明不同产区的党参抗氧化活性存在一定的差异;黄芪、党参提取物清除DPPH自由基的IC50分别是0.24和0.85 mg·mL-1,即黄芪提取物清除自由基能力大于党参提取物.     

黄河三角洲莱州湾柽柳低效次生林质效等级评价

以黄河三角洲莱州湾柽柳次生灌木生态林为对象,选取林分生长和土壤理化性状等24项指标,采用综合因子法研究柽柳林低效的主要影响因子和低效林划分的主要参数.结果表明: 柽柳树木生长指标与反映土壤质量状况的主要指标相关性不明显,仅依据树木的生长状况不能反映柽柳林的低效程度,需采用树木生长和土壤改良指标来综合判断.土壤含盐量、林龄、土壤含水量、单株地上茎和叶生物量及地径是反映低效柽柳林分质效高低的主要指示因子,其次为土壤容重、孔隙度及土壤养分特征.莱州湾柽柳低效林可划分为生长潜力型、轻度低质型、中度低效型、中度低质低效型和重度低质低效型5大类型.依据聚类分析的类平均值探讨了其林分特征、低效原因及经营改造方法.     

Strategic assay deployment as a method for countering analytical bottlenecks in high throughput process development: Case studies in ion exchange chromatography

High throughput approaches to facilitate the development of chromatographic separations have now been adopted widely in the biopharmaceutical industry, but issues of how to reduce the associated analytical burden remain. For example, acquiring experimental data by high level factorial designs in 96 well plates can place a considerable strain upon assay capabilities, generating a bottleneck that limits significantly the speed of process characterization. This article proposes an approach designed to counter this challenge; Strategic Assay Deployment (SAD). In SAD, a set of available analytical methods is investigated to determine which set of techniques is the most appropriate to use and how best to deploy these to reduce the consumption of analytical resources while still enabling accurate and complete process characterization. The approach is demonstrated by investigating how salt concentration and pH affect the binding of green fluorescent protein from Escherichia coli homogenate to an anion exchange resin presented in a 96‐well filter plate format. Compared with the deployment of routinely used analytical methods alone, the application of SAD reduced both the total assay time and total assay material consumption by at least 40% and 5%, respectively. SAD has significant utility in accelerating bioprocess development activities. © 2012 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Biotechnol. Prog., 2012     

Multicriteria Bayesian Analysis of Lower Trophic Level Uncertainties and Value of Research in Lake Erie

Human activities have severely disrupted the Lake Erie ecosystem. Recent changes in the structure of the lower trophic level associated with exotic species invasions and reduced nutrient loading have created ecological uncertainties for fisheries management. Decisions that naïvely assume certainty may be different and suboptimal compared to choices that consider uncertainty. Here we illustrate how multiobjective Bayesian decision analysis can recognize the multiple goals of management in evaluations of the effect of ecological uncertainties on management and the value of information from ecological research. Value judgments and subjective probabilities required by the decision analysis were provided by six Lake Erie fishery agency biologists. The Lake Erie Ecological Model was used to project the impacts of each combination of management actions and lower trophic level parameter values. The analysis shows that explicitly considering lower trophic level uncertainties can alter decisions concerning Lake Erie fishery harvests. Of the research projects considered, investigation of goby predation of zebra mussels (Dreissena sp.) and lakewide estimation of secondary production appear to have the greatest expected value for fisheries management. We also find that changes in the weights assigned to management goals affects decisions and value of information more than do changes in probability judgments.     

Optimization of the chiral separation of some 2-arylpropionic acids on an avidin column by modeling a combined response

The enantiomeric separation of some nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs was investigated on an avidin column. An experimental design approach (central composite design) was used to evaluate the effects of three method parameters (pH, concentration of organic modifier, and buffer concentration) on the analysis time and the resolution, as well as to model these responses. This revealed that the organic modifier concentration and sometimes the pH are significant parameters to control because of their influence on both analysis time and resolution. Furthermore, the central composite design results were combined in a multicriteria decision-making approach in order to obtain a set of optimal experimental conditions leading to the most desirable compromise between resolution and analysis time.     

白喉毒素E154位突变及生物活性评价

在量子化学计算的基础上,结合目前关于白喉毒素结构与功能的研究状况,选择把白喉毒素催化区的第154位谷氨酸分别突变为天冬氨酸和精氨酸,研究此处电荷性质的改变对生物活性的影响.通过基因定点突变方法制备这两个突变体基因,并在大肠杆菌表达系统中获得高效表达,在此基础上对它们的生物活性进行了评价.结果表明,与重组野生型白喉毒素相比,突变体E154D的整体动物毒性和细胞毒性略有增加,而E154R的毒性下降.     

黑蕊虎耳草中岩白菜素没食子酸酯类及其对丙型肝炎丝氨酸蛋白酶的抑制作用

研究了黑蕊虎耳草(Saxifraga melanocentra)中岩白菜素衍生物的化学和生物活性,从其地上部分分离纯化得到一个新的岩白菜素没食子酸酯,主要通过1维和2维核磁共振波谱鉴定结构为11-氧-(4-氧甲基没食子酰)岩白菜素[11-O-(4-O-methylgalloyl) bergenin(1)] ,该化合物对丙型肝炎丝氨酸蛋白酶(HCVNS3serine protease)具有抑制活性,其IC50为0.32 mg/mL。     

DEAE-葡聚糖在SHIV病毒TCID50滴定及扩增中的作用

目的 确定DEAE-葡聚糖对CEMx174细胞的半数抑制浓度,明确其在SHIV病毒TCID50滴定及病毒扩增中的促进作用.方法 分别使用含DEAE和无DEAE的DMEM完全培养基测定SHIVchn19p7的TCID50.用无血清DMEM培养基系列稀释DEAE,加入CEMx174细胞,使用cck-8测定细胞破坏率.分别选取DEAE浓度为28.125μg/mL和14.0625μg/mL的无血清DMEM培养基对CEMx174细胞预处理3 h.再加入SHIV-KB9病毒液,定期测定培养上清中的P24水平,同时做正常病毒对照和DEAE-1640对照,比对不同处理下的病毒扩增情况.结果 使用了DEAE后,SHIVchn19p7的TCID50达到了3.16×104TCID50/mL,不使用DEAE,病毒的TCID50测定为阴性.DEAE对CEMx174细胞的IC50为44.85μg/mL.经浓度为28.125μg/mL和14.0625 μg/mL的DEAE预处理后,SHIV-KB9病毒扩增在13 d～17 d达到高峰.而用不含DEAE的1640生长液培养的实验孔在19 d才开始出现阳性反应.结论 高浓度的DEAE对细胞有较强的杀伤作用,低浓度的DEAE对细胞的破坏率较低,并且能显著促进病毒扩增.DEAE在病毒进入细胞的过程中确实起了重要的作用.     

Comprehensive criteria for biodiversity evaluation in conservation planning

In this paper we present the results of a multi-criteria decision analysis used to identify a comprehensive set of criteria for assigning biodiversity value to sites for conservation planning. For effective conservation management, biodiversity value needs to be a composite of biotic and abiotic factors. However, in the reserve design literature, conservation value is assigned with a limited set of metrics usually based on comprehensiveness, representativeness and persistence which may be insufficient at fully capturing biodiversity value. A group of conservation specialists in California, USA, used a multi-criteria decision making framework to elucidate and weight criteria for scoring biodiversity value at sites. A formal model for consensus and negotiation was applied to aggregate individuals’ criteria weights across all group members. The group identified ecological condition, followed by biotic composition as the most important contributors to site conservation value. Long- and short-term threats causing fragmentation and degradation are also important criteria to consider. Key criteria are identified for which further data collection would serve the greatest purpose in prioritizing sites and the role of prioritization criteria in the larger context of systematic conservation planning is discussed. With the recognition that biodiversity value plays an important role in conservation decisions, the criteria presented here represents a comprehensive suite of factors to consider when assigning biodiversity value to sites for conservation planning. These can serve as an encompassing list which other groups can customize for the purpose of biodiversity evaluation for alternative conservation planning contexts.     

Acremonium hansfordii,一中国新记录种及其抗植物病原真菌活性的研究

Acremonium hansfordii是中国一新记录种,在PDA平板上对多种植物病原真菌有很强的抑制作用。通过95%乙醇提取、YPR-Ⅱ型大孔吸附树脂吸附、乙酸乙酯萃取、沸点30-60℃石油醚沉淀等方法从Acremonium hansfordii菌丝体分离纯化出具有抗植物病原真菌活性的化合物枝顶孢素(acremonin),并得到结晶。acremonin对多种植物病原真菌都有抑制作用,其中对苹果腐烂病菌Valsa mali的IC50为0.095μg/mL,热稳定,121℃灭菌30min抑菌活性保留91.9%,pH4-9稳定。     

Isolation and characterization of a novel thermostable non-specific lipid transfer protein-like antimicrobial protein from motherwort (Leonurus japonicus Houtt) seeds

In screening for potent antimicrobial proteins from plant seeds, a novel heat-stable antimicrobial protein, designated LJAMP2, was purified from seeds of the motherwort (Leonurus japonicus Houtt), a medicine herb, with a procedure involving cation exchange chromatography on a CM FF column, and reverse phase HPLCs on C8 column and C18 column. LJAMP2 exhibited a molecular mass of 6.2 kDa determined. Automated Edman degradation determined the partial N-terminal sequence of LJAMP2 to be NH2-AIGCNTVASKMAPCLPYVTGKGPLGGCCGGVKGLIDAARTTPDRQAVCNCLKTLAKSYSG, which displays homology with plant non-specific lipid transfer proteins (nsLTPs). In vitro bioassays showed that LJAMP2 inhibits the growth of a variety of microbes, including filamentous fungi, bacteria and yeast. The growth of three phytopathogenic fungi, Alternaria brassicae, Botrytis maydis, and Rhizoctonia cerealis, are inhibited at 7.5 μM of LJAMP2, whereas Bacillus subtilis is about 15 μM. The IC₅₀ of LJAMP2 for Aspergillus niger, B. maydis, Fusarium oxysporum, Penicillium digitatum and Saccharomyces cerevisiae are 5.5, 6.1, 9.3, 40.0, and 76.0 μM, respectively.     

产高活性抗癌物质的粘细菌的定向筛选

粘细菌是一类复杂的具有多细胞行为的原核生物,属于革兰氏阴性菌。粘细菌能够产生丰富的活性物质,并且具有菌株特异性,为人类不断发现新的活性物质提供了广阔的前景。本文以3株肿瘤细胞系为筛选模型,采用MTT法,对370多株分离的粘细菌及其代谢产物进行定向筛选,获得六株产高活性物质的粘细菌,并根据《伯杰氏细菌鉴定手册》(第八版),初步把这六株菌株归属到属。