pH梯度对平板膜中单体菌紫质分子光电响应的影响

利用重组技术把单体bR包入DMPC脂质囊泡中,通过吸收光谱和圆二色谱的测定,证明bR在囊泡中仍以单体存在。同时测定了外界pH梯度对单体bR脂质囊泡BLM光电响应的影响,观察到pH值当内池大于外池其差值超过2时就可产生光电响应信号极性的反转,并对此结果作了一定的讨论。     

pH对菌紫质分子的旋转运动和光电响应的影响

用闪光诱导瞬间二向色性方法测量了不同pH条件下的菌紫质分子在脂质囊泡中的旋转扩散运动.在人工平扳膜(BLM)系统中测量了不同pH条件下菌紫质分子的光电响应.在pH3至8.3的范围内没有明显观察到菌紫质分子在膜中旋转运动上的差别.pH低于3时,菌紫质分子旋转运动受到影响;pH高于11时,观察不到旋转扩散运动.在BLM系统中测量了pH2到pH11范围内菌紫质分子的光电响应信号,随着pH的增加,无论紫膜碎片还是单体菌紫质分子的光电响应逐渐由照光后快速正信号并快速衰减及撤光时的快速负信号并逐渐衰减变成慢的正信号.pH高于9.4时,单体菌紫质分子的光电响应信号由正变负,pH高于11时,观察不到信号.     

细菌视紫红质的两种光电微分响应及其机制

利用MATLAB软件对细菌视紫红质 (BR)膜光电器件的脉冲响应实验数据进行拟合 ,得到器件的冲激响应函数。据此用SIMULINK模块构造出了反映BR光电器件特性的仿真系统。利用此系统对不同间断光入射BR光电器件时的输出响应信号进行了仿真计算。通过分析得出结论 :以前所描述的微分响应 (发生在毫秒到秒的时间量级 ,在光打开时产生一个正脉冲 ,在光关掉时产生一个负脉冲 )并非BR分子固有的特性 ,部分是由于测量电路引起的。BR分子本身特性引起的微分响应是发生在微秒时间量级 ,而且在光打开时产生一个负脉冲 ,在光关掉时产生一个正脉冲。对这两种微分响应产生的机制分别进行了探讨     

铜／封口膜／酰化紫膜LB膜／氧化铟锡型菌紫质光电池的光电特性

ＲＨ５７％的ＡＰＭＬＢＦ构制的Ｃｕ／Ｐａｒａｆｉｌｍ／ＡＰＭＬＢＦ／ＩＴＯ型ＢＲ光电池具有的光电响应能力随ＡＰＭＬＢＦ暗适应程度增加而增大,光适应后趋于稳定。光电响应信号的大小随被光照的截面减小而变小;不同引线输出的信号极性与质子泵运相一致。结果认为这种光电池可用于进一步构制光电池组以模拟视网膜的某些功能。     

用实验方法反转原肠胚外胚层细胞的极性(英文)

过去的工作指出,在紧密连接形成的时候,紧密连接本身也经历了极性化的过程,而且这一过程在时间上和囊胚腔的出现和扩张是相互关连的。为了进一步探讨紧密连接的极性化和外胚层细胞极性之间的关系,进行了原肠胚外胚层细胞内外反转的实验,结合扫描和透射电镜的观察,指出反转后的外胚层细胞表面发生了明显的变化,在原来没有紧密连接的内层细胞的外缘形成了发育完善的紧密连接。内外反转的这一实验操作,使外胚层细胞和内外环境的关系发生了变化。很可能外胚层细胞的极性先发生了反转,然后影响紧密连接在新的向外的一极形成。     

电极性能激发细胞培养物形态发生吗?

大量研究报道,离体植物培养物在电场条件下能促进形态发生或胚胎发生(Agricell Report 12:4,1989).Goldsworthy和Rathore曾假设,其余的植物组织培养物在无电控制下失去了天然的等同极性,而一旦外部施加电流时,它们就恢复了此种极性,并有形态发生. 为了检验上述假说,伦敦皇家学院的A.Goldsworthy和M.G.Mina利用一摇摆探     

外电场对叶绿体结构和功能的影响的研究——Ⅲ、外电场诱导菠菜叶绿体ATP合成的增益效应

在重复毫秒级闪光激发下,在测试叶绿体的ms DLE的同时,测定ATP的合成数量,发现外加电场时,ATP合成的数量明显增加,并随着外加电场时间的延长而增加。为外加交变电场诱导的膜电位参与ATP合成这一推论提供了直接证据。     

脉冲激光对细菌视紫红质的瞬态光电荷转移动力学研究

细菌视紫红质（ＢＲ）是一种可进行光能存储与转换的蛋白质分子,在光作用下,能极快地产生电荷分离与电光响应信号。实验采用自制的波长可调的染料激光,在μｓ－ ｍ ｓ时域内对ＢＲ的动态光电响应信号进行了研究,总结了当激发脉冲光波长改变或强度改变时光电压变化的规律,并定性地分析了ＢＲ产生上述现象的机理。     

植物向重力反应中PIN-FORMED介导的生长素极性运输调控

植物的向性,即植物对光或重力等环境刺激信号产生的定向生长反应。在向重力性反应中,植物器官将重力感知为定向环境信号,来控制其器官的生长方向以促进生存。植物激素生长素及其极性运输在植物向重力反应中起着决定性的调控作用。质膜定位的生长素输出蛋白PIN-FORMED(PIN)通过动态的亚细胞极性定位,改变生长素运输的方向以响应环境刺激,由此植物器官间建立的生长素浓度梯度是细胞差异化伸长和器官弯曲的基础,来调控植物的形态建成和生长发育过程。本文主要讨论发生在植物重力感受细胞内早期重力感知和信号转导机制的最新研究进展、PIN介导的生长素极性运输、PIN的极性定位以及质膜蛋白丰度的调控机制等。     

外电场对叶绿体结构和功能的影响的研究——Ⅱ.外电场对叶绿体毫秒延迟发光诱导动力学的影响

外加交变电场,对ms DLE诱导动力学的两个组分有不同的影响。随着光激发时间和暗间隔时间的延长,电场对慢诱导相的增强效应变明显。缬氨霉素(valinomycin)能完全去除外电场对ms DLE的增强效应。     

Extremely fast photoelectric signals from suspensions of broken chloroplasts and of isolated chromatophores

This paper concerns transient photoelectric signals that are observed when a suspension of photosynthetic vesicles is illuminated with flashing light of nonsaturating energy using a pair of electrodes positioned at different depths along the path of the exciting light. With chloroplasts we observed two different types of signals. One rose extremely fast, the rise time (10–90%) was less than 200 ps under excitation with a single pulse from a mode-locked ruby laser, while the other rose more slowly (typically 10 μs). These signals displayed several different properties such as their polarity, kinetics, apparent source impedance, and sensitivity to structural integrity of the chloroplast lamellar system. Experimentally, signal ‘Fast’ could only be induced by very short light pulses (shorter than approx. 60 ns), whereas signal ‘Slow’ appeared only under longer excitation. The detection of signal Fast required special instrumentation, particularly fast preamplifiers with low input capacitance. Our results support the more recent idea that signal Slow did not reflect the primary transmembrane charge separation, as postulated in the earlier literature, but rather lateral movement of charge carriers along the intact lamellar system of chloroplasts. On the other hand, signal Fast may reflect the primary outwardly directed electron transfer across the thylakoid membrane. Its polarity, however, was opposite to that previously postulated to appear in response to this event. For comparison we also studied photoelectric effects in a suspension of structurally more homogeneous chromatophores from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. These vesicles displayed only a signal of the same polarity and similar kinetics as signal Fast from chloroplasts. When the secondary quinone electron acceptor (Q) was chemically reduced, the decay time was shortened from approx. 30 ns to approx. 10 ns. The acceleration to approx. 10 ns is known for the rapid, supposedly transmembrane back-reaction of the primary charge separation. Therefore, we conclude that the electrodes monitor the primary charge separation. There is still the unresolved problem with the polarity of the electric signal which we attribute to an as yet unidentified property of the pick-up system. Because its signal-to-noise ratio under extremely high time resolution is superior to that obtained in flash spectroscopy, signal Fast represents a very good means to measure the spatial separation between the very primary electron carriers in the photosynthetic reaction center.     

Effect of pulsed and reversing electric fields on the orientation of linear and supercoiled DNA molecules in agarose gels

When linear or supercoiled DNA molecules are imbedded in agarose gels and subjected to electric fields, they become oriented in the gel matrix and give rise to an electric birefringence signal. The sign of the birefringence is negative, indicating that the DNA molecules are oriented parallel to the electric field lines. If the DNA molecules are larger than about 1.5 kilobase pairs, a delay is observed before the birefringence signal appears. This time lag, which is roughly independent of DNA molecular weight, decreases with increasing electric field strength. The field-free decay of the birefringence is much slower for the DNA molecules imbedded in agarose gels than observed in free solution, indicating that orientation in the gel is accompanied by stretching. Both linear and supercoiled molecules become stretched, although the apparent change in conformation is much less pronounced for supercoiled molecules. When the electric field is rapidly reversed in polarity, very little change in the birefringence signal is observed for linear or supercoiled DNAs if the equilibrium orientation (i.e., birefringence) had been reached before field reversal. Apparently, completely stretched, oriented DNA molecules are able to reverse their direction of migration with little or no loss of orientation. If the steady-state birefringence had not been reached before the field reversal, complicated orientation patterns are observed after field reversal. Very large, partially stretched DNA molecules exhibit a rapid decrease in orientation at field reversal. The rate of decrease of the birefringence signal in the reversing field is faster than the field-free decay of the birefringence and is approximately equal to the rate of orientation in the field (after the lag period).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

The effects of electric field on the growth of intact seedlings and coleoptile segments ofZea mays L.

The experiments were carried out with 96-h-old intact maize seedlings and 10 mm long coleoptile segments cut 4 mm below the tip. The electric fields were applied longitudinally along the seedlings. The electric field (15 V) caused inhibition of the elongation growth of intact seedlings which was dependent on both the polarity and the duration of the applied voltage. The growth inhibition was greater when the tip of the shoot was positive relative to the roots. The electric field also caused inhibition of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and fusicoccin (FC) induced growth of maize coleoptile segments excised from electrically treated seedlings. IAA-induced growth of coleoptile segments was greater when the tip of the shoot was negative to the roots (not in the case of FC-treated segments and intact seedlings). It was suggested that apart from the changes induced by electric field in transport system of auxin the electric field affected also the activity of plasmalemma proton pump.     

Electric Birefringence of Dilute Agarose Solutions

Abstract

The technique of transient electric birefringence was used to investigate the orientation of agarose solutions in pulsed electric fields. If the agarose was dissolved in deionized water, the sign of the birefringence was positive when the electric field was small, indicating that the agarose molecules were orienting parallel to the electric field lines. The decay of the birefringence was rapid, consistent with the orientation of individual agarose helices. The amplitude of the birefringence, but not the birefringence decay times, increased as the agarose solution aged, suggesting that the helices formed slowly from the sol state. Increasing the amplitude or duration of the pulsed electric field caused additional negative, and then positive, birefringence signals to appear, characterized by much slower rise and decay times, consistent with the formation of aggregates. The slowest decay times ranged from 7.5–9.0 s, suggesting that the aggregates were several microns in size. When agarose was dissolved in dilute Tris buffer instead of deionized water, the fast positive birefringence signal was not observed, suggesting that individual helices were not present in solutions containing dilute buffer.     

Electric birefringence of dilute agarose solutions

The technique of transient electric birefringence was used to investigate the orientation of agarose solutions in pulsed electric fields. If the agarose was dissolved in deionized water, the sign of the birefringence was positive when the electric field was small, indicating that the agarose molecules were orienting parallel to the electric field lines. The decay of the birefringence was rapid, consistent with the orientation of individual agarose helices. The amplitude of the birefringence, but not the birefringence decay times, increased as the agarose solution aged, suggesting that the helices formed slowly from the sol state. Increasing the amplitude or duration of the pulsed electric field caused additional negative, and then positive, birefringence signals to appear, characterized by much slower rise and decay times, consistent with the formation of aggregates. The slowest decay times ranged from 7.5-9.0 s, suggesting that the aggregates were several microns in size. When agarose was dissolved in dilute Tris buffer instead of deionized water, the fast positive birefringence signal was not observed, suggesting that individual helices were not present in solutions containing dilute buffer.     

Electrohydrodynamic mortality of insects: a plausible mechanism

 An electrohydrodynamic (EHD) system with a point-to-plane electrode, which produced air ions within a strong electric field, was used to study mortalities of pupae, larvae, and adults of Tribolium confusum (TC) and larvae of Plodia interpunctella (PI). The treatments included a neutral air stream, negative ions, positive ions, and the air stream superimposed with ions of either polarity. The negative ions caused the maximum mortality in TC pupae and PI larvae whereas the TC adults were least affected, but the negative ion flux was higher than the positive one at the constant high voltage of the power supply used in the present experiments. The differences in the mean mortalities of the treatment groups were highly significant (P<0.0001). Mortality was primarily attributed to the body fluid losses caused by the electric wind of the EHD system. Mortality and weight loss relationships were linear with negative slopes (r ²=0.52, and r ²=0.98 for TC and PI, respectively). The superimposition of the air stream with either positive or negative ion fluxes increased the survival fractions compared with those of the ion fluxes alone. Received: 27 May 1996 / Accepted: 9 September 1996     

Influence of the voltage polarity on the properties of a nanosecond surface barrier discharge in atmospheric-pressure air

The properties of a surface barrier discharge in atmospheric-pressure air at different polarities of applied voltage were studied experimentally. The influence of the voltage polarity on the spatial structure of the discharge and the electric field in the discharge plasma was determined by means of spectroscopic measurements. It is found that the energy deposited in the discharge does not depend on the voltage polarity and that discharges of positive polarity are more homogenous and the electric fields in them are higher.     

Electroacoustic fusion of millilitre volumes of cells in physiological medium

A technique is described in which erythrocytes suspended in 1.1 ml of 145 mM NaCl, have been fused by electrofusion. The cells in suspension were brought into close contact by setting up a 3 MHz ultrasonic standing wave in a cylindrical cell container. The aluminium foil base of the container served both to transmit ultrasound and as an electrode for electrofusion. The electric pulse was generated by a capacitor discharge system. The electric field strength required to fuse cells increased as the ionic strength of the cell suspending phase increased. Cells in physiological saline fused at an electric field strength of 7.3 kV/cm with a 50 microseconds pulse.     

Determination of the induced ELF electric field distribution in a two layer in vitro system simulating biological cells in nutrient solution

In-vitro studies of biological effects of electromagnetic fields are often conducted with cultured cells either in suspension or grown in a monolayer. In the former case, the exposed medium can be assumed to be homogeneous; however, eventually the cells settle to the bottom of the container forming a two layer system with different dielectric and conductive properties. In the present work the effect of this separation on the electric field distribution is calculated and experimentally measured at selected positions for a commonly used exposure configuration. The settled cell suspension is modeled by a well-defined two layer system placed in a rectangular container with the base of the container parallel to the direction of the magnetic field. Theoretical calculations based on numerical techniques are done for various two layer systems with different conductivities in each layer. The agreement between the theoretical calculations and the experimental measurements is within ± 1.5 mV/m, or 10% of the maximum induced field when the conductivity of the lower layer is ten times that of the upper layer. This result is well within experimental error. When the thickness of one of the layers is small compared to the thickness of the other layer, it is found that the electric field distribution is essentially that of the homogeneous case. The latter situation corresponds to a typical cell exposure condition. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.