超临界流体中酶催化的研究进展

阐述了充当反应介质的超临界流体、固定化酶的载体以及反应温度和压力对超临界流体中酶催化反应的影响 ,并介绍了超临界流体中酶催化反应在工业上的应用现状和发展前景。     

超临界流体技术制备生物柴油进展及前景

超临界流体技术制备生物柴油不使用催化剂,生产过程清洁环保,是极具发展潜力的绿色可再生能源生产技术。本文首先简述超临界流体的特点及其用于生物柴油制备的物理、化学基础;其次详细分析超临界流体技术制备生物柴油的过程中反应温度、反应压力、醇油摩尔比、低碳醇种类、水、脂肪酸、反应器及反应形式等工艺控制条件对反应的影响和原因,并介绍超临界流体制备生物柴油中的过程强化方法和技术经济性。尽管超临界流体制备生物柴油具有原料适应性好、投资和运行成本低、生产过程清洁等优点,但存在反应条件苛刻、甲醇用量高等问题,从工业化角度指出使用廉价废弃油脂原料降成本、调节原料酸值降低反应苛刻度、连续化和大型化是超临界流体制备生物柴油技术的重点提升方向。     

超临界甲醇酯交换法制备生物柴油研究进展

超临界甲醇法制备生物柴油是动、植物油脂与超临界甲醇发生酯交换反应生成脂肪酸甲酯的工艺。与传统的酸、碱催化法以及酶催化法等技术相比,超临界酯交换反应具有不需要催化剂、反应速度快、产物分离简单等突出特点。缺点在于反应温度和压力条件不够温和,对设备要求较高,操作费用可观。如何从系统工程的角度发挥其优点、克服缺点,则是未来该项技术能否实现工业化应用的关键。回顾了该技术的研究进展,重点对过程的影响因素进行了分析讨论。     

非水相体系酶催化反应研究进展

非水相酶催化反应是酶催化反应中的一个重要方面。非水相溶剂通常可增加底物溶解度,减少水相中的副反应,加快生物催化的速率和效率,在药物及药物中间体和食品等方面具有较大的应用价值。以下探讨了非水相体系对酶活力及酶促反应速率的影响因素,并阐述酶的化学修饰、固定化及定点突变对酶活力的影响,进一步分析无溶剂系统、反胶束、超临界流体及离子液体的不同溶剂体系对酶反应速率及催化效率的影响。此外,还列举一些非水相酶催化反应的应用实例。     

超声波和相转移催化下的Reimer—Tiemann反应

本文研究了超声波和相转移催化剂在Ｒｅｉｍｅｒ—Ｔｉｅｍａｎｎ反应中的应用,提出了超声波和相转移催化下Ｒｅｉｍｅｒ—Ｔｉｅｍａｎｎ反应的机理。研究结果表明：在超声波和相转移催化剂的共同作用下,二氯卡宾形成十分迅速,羟基苯甲醛产率显著提高,反应时间成倍缩短。     

生物转化中的逆胶囊酶催化

作为生物催化剂的酶以其催化力强、范围广、专一性高,适合于温和条件、水溶液和低底物浓度中催化等特点而得到广泛应用。酶固定化技术的发展使酶催化的工业应用范围更为广阔,但酶促反应需要以水为反应介质,若反应物难溶于水或反应本身要求不能有大量水存在(如酯化反应),则传统的酶反应就难于实现。这些因素限制了酶在工业上的应用。     

南极假丝酵母脂肪酶B在离子液体/超临界流体体系中的稳定性模拟

脂肪酶在离子液体/超临界流体体系中的结构稳定性是影响其活性的重要因素。本文采用分子动力学方法分别研究了南极假丝酵母脂肪酶B(CALB)在离子液体CYPHOS IL-201/极性超临界流体CHF_3两相体系和离子液体CYPHOS IL-201/非极性超临界流体CO_2两相体系中的结构稳定性,揭示影响CALB结构稳定性的因素。研究结果表明,在超临界CHF_3中,CHF_3破坏蛋白维持α螺旋结构的氢键是蛋白结构不稳定的主要原因;在超临界CO_2中,CALB蛋白的结构紧密性降低,有序二级结构发生了变化,导致稳定性下降。离子液体和两种超临界流体均形成了两相体系,蛋白处于离子液体相中,离子液体不溶于超临界流体,但超临界流体部分进入离子液体相,降低了离子液体相的黏度。其中,相比于CYPHOS IL-201/CO_2体系,CYPHOS IL-201/CHF_3体系的黏度降低多。在离子液体CYPHOS IL-201与超临界流体(CHF_3、CO_2)形成的两相体系中,离子液体CYPHOS IL-201具有保护蛋白结构的作用,使CALB蛋白结构更加稳定。     

天然植物多糖分离纯化技术研究现状和进展

植物多糖因具有抗肿瘤、增强免疫、抗氧化等功效而备受关注,多糖的分离纯化是多糖结构和生物活性研究的首要前提。本文系统介绍了传统的水提醇沉法以及酶提取法、超声波辅助提取法、超临界流体萃取法、超高压提取技术微波辅助提取法和双水相萃取等新技术,对其分离原理、处理方式和效果进行分析比较和综述;从物理分离方式、分子间作用力及化学性质分离的角度,综述植物粗多糖分离和纯化方法及途径,为天然植物中多糖的分离纯化和综合利用提供参考。     

真菌生物量指示剂麦角固醇的分离及测定方法*

麦角固醇作为真菌细胞膜的重要组成成分,结构稳定,可作为真菌生长的指示物质。综述了表征真菌生物量的麦角固醇的分离及测定方法,其中麦角固醇的萃取方法有传统的皂化回流法、快速物理萃取、超声波萃取、超临界流体萃取等,测定方法有高效液相色谱法、气相色谱-质谱法、液相色谱-质谱法、薄层色谱法等。并对这些方法的应用及在堆肥过程中运用麦角固醇估计真菌生物量的可行性进行了展望。     

生物催化剂立体选择性的基因工程改造

野生型生物催化剂对于其天然底物通常具有较好的反应活性和选择性,但生物催化剂在有机合成中应用时多数情况下是非天然底物,这就要求对野生型生物催化剂进行改造,以提高其对非天然底物的反应活性、稳定性和选择性(包括区域选择性和立体选择性)。以下根据酶催化剂的类型总结了近几年来通过基因工程改变生物催化剂的立体选择性的最新进展,盼望起到抛砖引玉的作用,以此促进我国在这一领域的快速发展。     

Steroid-binding proteins in follicular fluid and peripheral plasma from pigs, cows and sheep

No unusual steroid-binding proteins that might react with the oocyte or its investments could be detected in follicular fluid. Corticosteroid-binding globulin occurred in follicular fluid from pigs, sheep and cows, and sex hormone-binding globulin occurred in follicular fluid from sheep and cows. The bulk of the steroid in follicular fluid is bound to albumin with low affinity, indicating that steroid molecules can readily be released, and oestrogen can react with the oocyte and granulosa cells in a manner analogous to that demonstrated for target cells bathed with interstitial fluid. Pigs lack a sex-hormone binding globulin in blood plasma and, hence, in follicular fluid. Because no proteins exist in follicular fluid that would compete with antibodies to bind steroids, direct radioimmunoassay of follicular steroids appears to be a valid technique.     

Hemolytic function of opsonizing proteins of earthworm's coelomic fluid

Synthetic 2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate copolymer particles (HEMA) can be opsonized in the coelomic fluid of Eisenia foetida earthworms. The incomplete coelomic fluid (i.e. the coelomic fluid after incubation with HEMA particles) exerts a lower level of hemolytic activity compared to complete coelomic fluid. The decreased hemolysis can be compensated by the addition of isolated opsonins. On the other hand, isolated opsonins do not possess direct hemolytic capacity. It can be suggested that at least one of the isolated opsonins is involved in the hemolytic process. These results support the hypothesized cooperation of humoral and cellular mechanisms in earthworm defence.     

Fluid secretion by in vitro preparations of the Malpighian tubules of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria

In vitro preparations of locust Malpighian tubules can conveniently be made by a new technique in which the alimentary canal to which the tubules attach is removed from the insect and set up in Ringer's solution under liquid paraffin. Such Malpighian tubules will secrete a fluid iso-osmotic to the bathing fluid at a steady rate of about 1 to 2 nl min^?1 for some hours. The secreted fluid is rich in potassium ions, the lumen is at a potential positive to that of the bathing solution, and the rate of secretion can be controlled by changing the potassium concentration of the bathing fluid. It seems likely, therefore, that an active transport of potassium drives secretion ny locust Malpighian tubules. The secreted fluid contains an elevated concentration of phosphate ions. The Malpighian tubules will secrete at a high rate in a chloride-free phosphate-based solution. The rate of fluid secretion can be increased by treatment with cyclic AMP but 5-hydroxytryptamine has no such effect.     

Analysis of the Distribution of Magnetic Fluid inside Tumors by a Giant Magnetoresistance Probe

Magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH) therapy uses the magnetic component of electromagnetic fields in the radiofrequency spectrum to couple energy to magnetic nanoparticles inside tumors. In MFH therapy, magnetic fluid is injected into tumors and an alternating current (AC) magnetic flux is applied to heat the magnetic fluid- filled tumor. If the temperature can be maintained at the therapeutic threshold of 42°C for 30 minutes or more, the tumor cells can be destroyed. Analyzing the distribution of the magnetic fluid injected into tumors prior to the heating step in MFH therapy is an essential criterion for homogenous heating of tumors, since a decision can then be taken on the strength and localization of the applied external AC magnetic flux density needed to destroy the tumor without affecting healthy cells. This paper proposes a methodology for analyzing the distribution of magnetic fluid in a tumor by a specifically designed giant magnetoresistance (GMR) probe prior to MFH heat treatment. Experimental results analyzing the distribution of magnetic fluid suggest that different magnetic fluid weight densities could be estimated inside a single tumor by the GMR probe.     

Properties of Confined Square-well Fluids using the Gibbs Ensemble Simulation Technique

In this work we have used the extension of the Gibbs ensemble simulation technique to inhomogeneous fluids [Panagiotopoulos, A.Z. (1987) "Adsorption and capillary condensation of fluid in cylindrical pores by Monte Carlo simulation in the Gibbs ensemble", Mol. Phys. , 62 (3), 701-719], which has been applied to adsorption phenomena of confined fluids. Fluid molecules are described by spherical particles interacting via a square-well potential. The fluid is confined in two types of walls: symmetrical (two hard walls) and non-symmetrical (one square-well wall and one hard wall). In order to analyze the behavior of the confined fluid by varying the potential parameters, we evaluated the bulk and confined densities, the internal energies and the density profiles for different supercritical temperatures. A variety of adsorption profiles can be obtained by using this model. The simulation data reported here complements the available simulation data for this system and can be useful in the development of inhomogeneous fluid theories. Since the square-well parameters can be related to real molecules this system can also be used to understand real adsorption systems.     

High resolution R banding in amniotic fluid cells using the BrdU-Hoechst 33258-Giemsa (RBG) technique

Summary While standard Giemsa banding is generally adequate for amniotic fluid chromosome analysis, small deletions, duplications, or translocation breakpoints involving Gnegative bands may be difficult to appreciate. We report a method for producing high resolution R banding in human amniotic fluid cultures using the BrdU-Hoechst 33258-Giemsa (RBG) technique. RBG banding can be useful in confirming and precisely defining structural abnormalities in amniotic fluid cultures.     

Dynamics of fluid accumulation in intestinal segments

Intestinal obstruction occurring in human diseases or produced surgically in animal studies can produce fluid accumulation and intestinal distention. It was found that a quantitative theory for acute intestinal fluid accumulation could be derived and verified for a variety of experimental model systems. The contribution of intestinal secretagogues and distention-induced secretion may augment fluid accumulation in closed loop fluid accumulation experiments in animals. Criteria for stability and decompression of lumen volume were derived.     

Invited review: Active fluid clearance from the distal air spaces of the lung.

Active ion transport drives iso-osmolar alveolar fluid clearance, a hypothesis originally suggested by in vivo studies in sheep 20 yr ago. Over the last two decades, remarkable progress has been made in establishing a critical role for active sodium transport as a primary mechanism that drives fluid clearance from the distal air spaces of the lung. The rate of fluid transport can be increased in most species, including the human lung, by cAMP stimulation. Catecholamine-independent mechanisms, including hormones, growth factors, and cytokines, can also upregulate epithelial fluid clearance in the lung. The new insights into the role of the distal lung epithelium in actively regulating lung fluid balance has important implications for the resolution of clinical pulmonary edema.     

Novel quantitative biosystem for modeling physiological fluid shear stress on cells

The response of microbes to changes in the mechanical force of fluid shear has important implications for pathogens, which experience wide fluctuations in fluid shear in vivo during infection. However, the majority of studies have not cultured microbes under physiological fluid shear conditions within a range commonly encountered by microbes during host-pathogen interactions. Here we describe a convenient batch culture biosystem in which (i) the levels of fluid shear force can be varied within physiologically relevant ranges and quantified via mathematical models and (ii) large numbers of cells can be planktonically grown and harvested to examine the effect of fluid shear levels on microbial genomic and phenotypic responses. A quantitative model based on numerical simulations and in situ imaging analysis was developed to calculate the fluid shear imparted by spherical beads of different sizes on bacterial cell cultures grown in a rotating wall vessel (RWV) bioreactor. To demonstrate the application of this model, we subjected cultures of the bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to three physiologically-relevant fluid shear ranges during growth in the RVW and demonstrated a progressive relationship between the applied fluid shear and the bacterial genetic and phenotypic responses. By applying this model to different cell types, including other bacterial pathogens, entire classes of genes and proteins involved in cellular interactions may be discovered that have not previously been identified during growth under conventional culture conditions, leading to new targets for vaccine and therapeutic development.     

Applications of supercritical fluid extraction and chromatography in forensic science

Supercritical fluid technology is a rapidly expanding analytical technique. Here we give a brief insight into the background of supercritical fluid technology and how supercritical fluid extraction and supercritical fluid chromatography work in analysis. The applications of these two techniques in forensic science are known to be important. The main area of forensic use of supercritical fluid technology is in the sample preparation and separation of drugs of abuse particularly opiates, cannabinoids, cocaine and sedatives. Supercritical fluid technology can be used for both time-of-death-related drug analysis and for obtaining information relating to long term drug abuse. We also give a review of the use of supercritical fluids in two other major forensic areas, fingerprinting and the extraction and separation of explosives from both bombing events and gunshot residues. Overall we show that supercritical fluid technology is fast becoming a major part of forensic investigations and that it is an invaluable analysis technique.