5—HT和NA增强大鼠骶髓后连合核神经元甘氨酸门控Cl^—通道电流由蛋白激...

用制霉菌素穿孔膜片钳方法研究５－ＨＴ和ＮＡ对急性分离的大鼠骶髓后连合核神经元甘氨酸门控氯离子通道电流（ＩＧｌｙ）的调控作用及其胞内机制。发现：（１）５－ＨＴ激活与非胰岛激活蛋白（ＩＡＰ）敏感型Ｇ蛋白偶联的５－ＨＴ２受体亚型,激活磷脂酶Ｃ（ＰＬＣ）,增加甘油二酯（ＤＡＧ）的生成。ＤＡＧ增强不依赖Ｃａ＾２＋的新型ＰＫＣ（ｎＰＫＣ）的活性,从而增强ＩＧｌｙ;（２）ＮＡ激活与ＩＡＰ敏感型Ｇ蛋白偶联的α２受     

蛋白激酶抑制剂噬菌体的构建和功能研究

人工合成编码ｃＡＭＰ信赖蛋白激酶（ｃＡＰＫ）的热稳定抑制剂第５－２４位氨基酸「ＰＫＩ（５－２４）」的ＤＮＡ片段,并将之克隆到ｐｈａｇｅ ｄｉｓｐｌａｙ载体ｆｄ－ｔｅｔ－ＤＯＧ１使中,使ＰＫＩ（５－２４）以融合于ｇ３ｐ蛋白的形式展示了噬菌体是到了ＰＫＩ噬菌体,蛋白激酶抑制活性测定表达ＰＫＩ噬菌体可有铲地抑制ＣＡＰＫ的活性。结合实验结果显示ＰＫＩ噬菌体能与固相化小鼠ＣＡＰＫ催化亚基α（Ｈｉｓ６－ｍＣα     

蛋白激酶C对大鼠缺血海马突触体谷氨酸摄取的调控作用

采用大鼠海马脑片体外缺血模型,观察海马突触体内蛋白激酶Ｃ（ＰＫＣ）活性的变化,以及这种变化对突触体谷氨酸（ＧＬＵ）摄取的影响。结果显示：海马脑片体外“缺血”１０ｍｉｎ,其突触体内ＰＫＣ活性基本不变,而缺血３０ｍｉｎ,突触体内ＰＫＣ活性显著上升（Ｐ＜０．０１,ｎ＝６）;非Ｎ－甲基－Ｄ－天门冬氨酸（ＮＭＤＡ）受体拮抗剂ＤＮＱＸ有效地抑制ＰＫＣ活性的同时,可降低胞外ＧＬＵ的堆积,而ＮＭＤＡ受体阻断剂ＡＰ＿５无作用。进一步实验证明,ＰＫＣ激动剂ＰＤＢ浓度依赖性地抑制突触体对３Ｈ－ＧＬＵ的摄取（ＩＣ５０＝１３１±１０μｍｏｌ／Ｌ）,此抑制作用可由ＰＫＣ抑制剂Ｈ－７（１００μｍｏｌ／Ｌ）抵消。提示脑缺血诱发ＧＬＵ堆积的作用机理可能是：脑缺血引发钙内流导致ＧＬＵ过量释放,ＧＬＵ又通过突触前非ＮＭＤＡ受体激活ＰＫＣ,抑制其自身摄取,正反馈性加重胞外ＧＬＵ的堆积。     

C5a受体的作用位点及信号传导

Ｃ５ａＲ（ＣＤ８８）属Ｇ蛋白偶联／ＳＴＲ超家族超成员,它至少具两个配体结合位蹼：一个位于Ｎ末端,另一个可能为第二细胞外环上的Ｇｌｕ＾１９９。Ｃ末端和第三胞浆内环与Ｇ蛋白偶联。与Ｃ５ａＲ偶联的Ｇ蛋白有Ｇｉα２、Ｇｉα３、Ｇ１６和Ｇｚ,已知涉及的信号传导通路为ＰＩ－ＰＬＣ、Ｒａｓ／Ｒａｆ／ＭＡＰＫ、ｃＡＭＰ。Ｃ５ａＲ分子及基因结构已阐明,各功能位点,信号传导还有待深入研究。     

PKC、PKA和TPK在血小板激活中的作用

利用~（３２）Ｐ－ＮａＨ_２ＰＯ_４标记猪血小板,然后以ＰＭＡ、凝血酶、ＰＧＥ_１、腺苷等处理,结果表明,随着ＰＭＡ激活ＰＫＣ,血小板发生聚集。３５μｍｏｌ／ＬＰＧＥ_１或１ｍｍｏｌ／ＬｄｂｃＡＭＰ不能抑制５０ｎｍｏｌ／ＬＰＭＡ诱导的血小板聚集,腺苷却能抑制ＰＭＡ诱导的血小板聚集（ＥＣ_（５０）＝０．１ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ）,ｄｂ－ｃＡＭＰ、腺苷都不能抑制１００ｎｍｏｌ／ＬＰＭＡ诱导的４０ｋＤ蛋白磷酸化。ＰＫＡ激活不能抑制ＰＭＡ激活的ＰＫＣ。在ＰＭＡ、凝血酶激活的血小板中,ＰＫＣ、ＴＰＫ都发生激活,４０ｋＤ底物既是ＰＫＣ的底物又是ＴＰＫ的底物,ＰＫＣ和ＴＰＫ在血小板聚集中起着重要的调节作用。     

环六亚甲基双乙酰胺对胃癌不同细胞周期两条信号系…

环六亚甲基双乙酰胺（ＨＭＢＡ）对ＭＧｃ８０－３不同时相细胞内ｃＡＭＰ－ＰＫＡ与ＤＡＧ－ＰＫＣ两大系统不仅具有正负调控作用,而且其作用具有周期特异性。其中Ｇ１期是最敏感的调控时相,与对照组相比,ｃＡＭＰ水平上升１０２．３％,ＰＫＡ活性升高３４８％,ＤＡＧ含量下降５１．４％,ＰＫＣ活性降低３２．３％;次敏感时相为Ｇ２期;Ｍ期基本没受影响,Ｓ期变化规律不同于其他时相。     

PAK株与PA103株绿脓杆菌外毒素结构基因间的差异及其对功能的影响

对ＰＡＫ株的绿脓杆菌外毒素结构基因进行全长核苷酸顺序测定时发现：来源于ＰＡ１０３株和ＰＡＫ株的ＰＥ基因一级结构间存在差异,其中Ｔｈｒ~（１７９）（ＡＣＣ）→Ａｌａ~（１７９）（ＧＣＣ）、Ｓｅｒ~（５１５）（ＡＧＣ）→Ｇｌｙ~（５１５）（ＧＧＣ）,并有１１个同义突变,但变异并不影响白细胞介素２－绿脓杆菌外毒素融合蛋白的ＡＤＰ－核糖基化活性及其细胞毒活性。     

4α－PDD、PMA对去甲肾上腺素促进大鼠腹腔巨噬细胞Ⅰa抗原表达的影响

本文采用Ｃａ~２＋指示剂的分光光谱法测定巨噬细胞（Ｍφ）内Ｃａ~２＋浓度（［Ｃａ~２＋］ｉ）、ＡＰＡＡＰ桥联酶标法检测Ｍφ膜上Ⅰａ抗原的表达,研究肌醇磷脂代谢中第二信使分子甘油二酯（ＤＧ）在去甲肾上腺素（ＮＥ）促进ＭφⅠａ表达效应中的作用,以进一步探讨ＮＥ效应的跨膜信息传递机制。结果表明：蛋白激酶Ｃ（ＰＫＣ）抑制剂４αＰＤＤ（２５μｇ／ｍｌ）虽不影响ＮＥ（１０￣－８ｍｏｌ／Ｌ）升高Ｍφ［Ｃａ￣２＋］ｉ的效应,却显著减弱了ＮＥ促进ＭφⅠａ抗原表达的效应;而ＰＫＣ激动剂ＰＭＡ（１０ｎｍｏｌ／Ｌ）本身促进ＭφⅠａ抗原表达的作用不明显,也不能进一步增强ＮＥ促进ＭφⅠａ抗原表达的效应。结果提示：ＤＧ激活的ＰＫＣ系统也参与了ＮＥ促进ＭφⅠａ抗原表达的信息传递过程,并与另一第二信使分子肌醇－１,４,５－三磷酸（ＩＰ＿３）介导的Ｃａ￣２＋途径协同发挥作用。     

青霉素G酰化酶基因Ser177的定点突变

本研究用缺口以链法对肠杆菌青霉素Ｇ酰化酶（ＰＧＡ）基因Ｓｅｒ１７７进行寡核苷酸定点突变。通过ＮＩＰＡＢ（２－硝基－５－苯乙酰胺苯甲酸）试纸法筛选和测序鉴定,获得突变体Ｃｙｓ１７７,Ｇｌｙ１７７,Ａｒｇ１７７和Ａｓｎ１７７。它们的ＰＧＡ活性均已丧失。酶蛋白电泳分析表明突变体蛋白在体内正常表达。推测ＰＧＡ Ｓｅｒ１７７秀可能位于酶底物结合中心,是酶活性所必需,不能被置换。     

Nm23-H1/NDPK-A基因在大肠杆菌中的高效表达及产物纯化的研究

利用聚合酶链反应（ＰＣＲ）技术扩增人二磷酸核苷激酶Ａ亚基（ＮＤＰＫ－Ａ）基因,即ｎｍ２３－Ｈ１／ＮＤＰＫ－Ｋ基因的编码序列,经序列分析后,定向克隆于表达质粒载体ｐＢＶ２２０,在大肠杆菌ＤＨ５α中高效表达出重组人ＮＤＰＫ－Ａ．表达产物为可溶性的非融合蛋白,占菌体总蛋白４２％．斑点ＥＬＩＳＡ法鉴定表明表达产物与ＮＤＰＫ－Ａ标准抗血清呈阳性反应．以ＤＥＡＥ纤维素弱阴离子交换层析、ＣｉｂａｃｒｏｎＢｌｕｅ染料亲和层析结合高效液相排阻色谱技术纯化ｒＮＤＰＫ－Ａ,得纯度为９６．７％的目标蛋白．以反相高效液相色谱法进行酶活性分析,表明纯化的ｒＮＤＰＫ－Ａ能催化ＡＴＰ＋ＵＤＰ＝ＡＤＰ＋ＵＴＰ的反应,比活性为８００Ｕ／ｍｇ蛋白．     

Oviposition by Lobesia botrana is stimulated by sugars detected by contact chemoreceptors

Abstract.  The influence of glucose, fructose and sucrose on oviposition site selection by Lobesia botrana is studied by combining behavioural and electrophysiological experiments. Oviposition choice assays, using surrogate grapes treated with grape berry surface extracts of Vitis vinifera cv. Merlot at different development stages, show that L. botrana females are most stimulated by extracts of mature berries containing the highest concentrations of glucose and fructose. Choice assays reveal that the oviposition response to these sugars is dose-dependant (with a threshold of the applied solution = 10 m m and a maximum stimulation at 1  m ) and that females are more sensitive to fructose than to glucose. Tarsal contact-chemoreceptor sensilla are unresponsive to stimulation with sugars but the ovipositor sensilla contain at least one neurone most sensitive to fructose and sucrose with a threshold of approximately 0.5 m m . Corresponding to the behavioural data, glucose is significantly less stimulatory to sensilla than fructose or sucrose. It is argued that fructose may be of special importance for herbivorous insects exploiting fruit as an oviposition site.     

Log colonization by Ips sexdentatus prevented by increasing host unsuitability signaled by verbenone

Sudden increments of breeding material after windstorms, forest fires, or inappropriate management practices help bark beetles such as Ips sexdentatus Boerner (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) increase in numbers and colonize standing healthy pine trees. Preventing bark beetles from arriving to susceptible trees or logs may have great relevance for bark beetle management. Recent studies have reported inhibition of the aggregation response of I. sexdentatus using verbenone. Two field experiments were conducted to examine the effect of verbenone on the colonization pattern of this beetle. The first experiment tested the combined effect of trans‐conophthorin, a non‐host bark volatile with known repellent effect, and verbenone on Pinus sylvestris L. (Pinaceae) log piles of two sizes, but failed to protect them against I. sexdentatus attack when these two infochemicals were released at low rates. The results of this experiment suggested an interaction with the associated secondary bark beetle Orthotomicus erosus (Wollaston). A second experiment examined the response of I. sexdentatus and O. erosus to log piles that released verbenone at 0, 2, 10, or 40 mg day^?1. Although I. sexdentatus colonization of Pinus nigra Arnold logs was completely prevented at 40 mg day^?1, O. erosus could be found at all tested verbenone release rates. Besides verbenone, O. erosus colonization density and the height from which logs originated were the variables that best explained I. sexdentatus log colonization pattern. In addition, I. sexdentatus and O. erosus were rarely recorded colonizing the same log, and niche breadth analyses suggested that they excluded each other. The role of verbenone in the colonization process and its potential use in the prevention of population buildups of damaging bark beetles such as I. sexdentatus are discussed.     

Inch by inch, row by row

Bacterial chemotaxis systems have cooperatively interacting clusters of transmembrane receptors and signaling proteins to detect, amplify, integrate and adapt to environmental signals. A recent study provides experimental data to construct a new model of the signaling complex.     

Reactivation by copper of phenolase pre-inactivated by oxalate

The activity of spinach chloroplast phenolase which had been repressed by ammonium oxalate was restored by adding copper. Oxalate appears to bind to the enzyme at a single site, the binding paralleling the inhibition produced at neutral pH. The inhibition of oxalate is due to its binding with copper at the active centre to form an inactive complex, the oxalate moiety of which is releasable when more copper is added. Similar reactivation by copper was obtained with pure mushroom phenolase.     

Anthracenediethanol inhibits lignin degradation by Phanerochaete chrysosporium by competing for oxidation by lignin peroxidase,and not by trapping singlet oxygen

The biodegradation of anthracene-9, 10-diethanol by the ligninolytic fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium, previously though to involve singlet oxygen, is shown to be catalyzed by lignin peroxidases. Veratryl alcohol stimulated the enzymatic degradation of anthracenediethanol, and anthracenediethanol inhibited enzymatic oxidation of veratryl alcohol. Competition for oxidation by lignin peroxidase is suggested as the mechanism of the inhibition of lignin biodegradation by anthracenediethanol and related anthracene derivatives.Abbreviations ADE anthracene-9,10-diethanol - AES anthracene-9,10-bisethanesulfonic acid - DHP dehydrogenative polymerizate - DMF N,N-dimethylformamide - EPX 9,10-endoperoxide of ADE - PMR proton magnetic resonance     

Collagen phagocytosis by fibroblasts is regulated by decorin

Decorin is a small, leucine-rich proteoglycan that binds to collagen and regulates fibrillogenesis. We hypothesized that decorin binding to collagen inhibits phagocytosis of collagen fibrils. To determine the effects of decorin on collagen degradation, we analyzed phagocytosis of collagen and collagen/decorin-coated fluorescent beads by Rat-2 and gingival fibroblasts. Collagen beads bound to gingival cells by alpha2beta1 integrins. Binding and internalization of decorin/collagen-coated beads decreased dose-dependently with increasing decorin concentration (p < 0.001). Inhibition of binding was sustained over 5 h (p < 0.001) and was attributed to interactions between decorin and collagen and not to decorin-collagen receptor interactions. Both the non-glycosylated decorin core protein and the thermally denatured decorin significantly inhibited collagen bead binding (approximately 50 and 89%, respectively; p < 0.05). Mimetic peptides corresponding to leucine-rich repeats 1-3, encompassed by a collagen-binding approximately 11-kDa cyanogen bromide fragment of decorin and leucine-rich repeats 4 and 5, previously shown to bind to collagen, were tested for their ability to inhibit collagen bead binding. Although the synthetic peptide 3 alone exhibited saturable binding to collagen, neither peptides 3 nor 1 and 2 markedly inhibited phagocytosis. Leucine-rich repeat 3 bound to a triple helical peptide containing the alpha2 integrin-binding site of collagen. When collagen beads were co-incubated with peptides 3 and 4, inhibition of collagen phagocytosis (55%) was equivalent to intact native/recombinant core protein. Thus a novel collagen binding domain in decorin acts cooperatively with leucine-rich repeat 4 to mask the alpha2beta1 integrin-binding site on collagen, an important sequence for the phagocytosis of collagen fibrils.     

Separation by capillary electrophoresis followed by dynamic elution

In this study we have explored the behaviour of peptides after capillary electrophoresis (CE) followed by elution under pressure. The use of D2O- rather than H2O-based buffer solutions appears to restrict the diffusion of peptides after CE, resulting in little loss of resolution when peptides are eluted by dynamic flow. In this paper we present results showing that a simple two-step process, involving CE at a low voltage, switching off the power supply, and connecting the fused capillary at the anode end to a syringe pump for dynamic flow, can retain separation characteristics and can be used for the isolation of picomole quantities of peptides for sequence determination.