泰国生物产业发展现状和趋势分析

泰国是农产品生产和出口大国,政府十分重视生物产业的发展,通过建立高层管理机构、出台优惠政策、制定发展规划,在生物农业、生物医药和生物能源等产业方面取得了较好的进展。未来泰国将更加重视政府指导作用,进一步完善法规建设,加大人才引进力度,实施产业优惠政策,加强生物资源和知识产权保护,重点发展生物农业、生物医药和生物能源产业。     

生命奥妙无穷 工程创造无限——评《生命科学与工程》

<正>我国政府于2009年5月讨论并原则通过了《促进生物产业加快发展的若干政策》,指出必须抓住世界生物科技革命和产业革命的机遇,将生物产业培育成为我国高技术领域的支柱产业。以生物医药、生物农业、生物能源、生物制造和生物环保产业为重点,大力发展现代生物产业。     

生物医药产业发展态势与对策

当今许多国家政府已经把生物医药产业作为新的经济增长点来培育,通过采取不同政策和措施加速生物医药产业的发展。在我国政府相关利好政策的鼓励刺激和资金扶持下,我国生物医药产业有望加快走出经济危机的低谷,迎来快速发展期;在政府的引导下,构建生物产业技术创新战略联盟,推进资源整合和优势互补;多个高科技生物医药产业园区建设蓬勃,形成和集聚了一批具有较强实力的创新型企业,有力地带动了全国生物医药产业的发展和技术创新能力的提高。我国生物医药产业发展的重点要在产学研结合、前沿生物技术方面、市场准入政策和规范市场竞争秩序,以及高素质人才队伍的建设方面有所突破。根据市场导向,国家出台和制定相应的产业发展规划和政策,鼓励生物产业发展,加快国家生物医药产业基地建设;制定有关优惠政策,鼓励生物技术企业多种渠道和形式解产业发展资金问题;建立生物医药产业资源共享的机制,加强沟通与公共平台建设;发挥龙头企业的作用,支持大企业的收购兼并;加强相关法律法规建设,完善生物安全法和知识产权制度等一些措施来应对我国生物产业的快速发展。     

生物产业十二五规划成型2万亿蛋糕待分

国家发改委副主任张晓强向媒体表示：“有关部门正在联合编制《生物产业发展“十二五”规划》,以进一步加强生物产业自主创新能力建设,推动生物技术的产业化、集群化和国际化发展,使其成为我国经济社会发展新的重要支柱产业。”据透露,未来我国生物产业将重点发展生物医药、生物农业、生物能源、生物环保、生物服务外包五大方面;     

中国工业生物技术发展态势分析与展望

现代生物技术逐渐进入大规模产业化阶段,全球生物经济快速发展,工业生物技术作为生物经济的支柱,支撑生物制造、生物能源、生物农业、生物医药、生物环保和生物服务等产业发展。分析和展现了中国近期在工业生物技术领域基础研究、应用研究、技术转化与产业发展方面取得的进展和成就,反映了中国工业生物技术发展的现状与趋势,并提出了未来发展的挑战与机遇。     

《生物产业技术》征稿简则

《生物产业技术》（CN11—5606／Q,ISSN1674—0319,邮发代号80-627）立足生物产业,关注技术进步,面向生物农业、生物医药、生物制造、生物能源以及生物环保等领域的技术研发、工业生产、市场营销以及经营管理等环节,     

《生物产业技术》征稿简则

《生物产业技术》（CN11—5606／Q,ISSN1674—0319,邮发代号80—627）立足生物产业,关注技术进步,面向生物农业、生物医药、生物制造、生物能源以及生物环保等领域的技术研发、工业生产、市场营销以及经营管理等环节,     

加拿大生物科技及产业发展现状及特点

加拿大生物技术产业发展迅速,已成为该国第二大高技术产业,生物技术公司数目、从业人数居世界第2位,主要聚集于魁北克、安大略、卑诗省三省,其中生物医药、生物农业、生物能源、纳米技术是其优势领域。加拿大政府通过制订生物技术策略、完善管理体制、提高公立科研机构研究水平、加强宏观指导和政策性调控、强化风险投资等措施保障生物科学和产业的发展。     

《生物产业技术》征稿启事

<正>《生物产业技术》(BiotechnologyBusiness)是中国生物工程学会会刊,是由化学工业出版社、中国生物工程学会、国投生物科技投资有限公司联合主办的技术信息类期刊,于2005年7月创刊。本刊立足生物产业,关注技术进步,面向生物医药、生物农业、生物制造、生物能源以及生物环保等领域的技术研发、产业化生产,报道产业发展的相关政策、产品和市场信息,探究生物技术研发和产业的发展趋势所在,沟通企业     

《生物产业技术》征稿启事

正《生物产业技术》(BiotechnologyBusiness)是中国生物工程学会会刊,是由化学工业出版社、中国生物工程学会、国投生物科技投资有限公司联合主办的技术信息类期刊,于2005年7月创刊。本刊立足生物产业,关注技术进步,面向生物医药、生物农业、生物制造、生物能源以及生物环保等领域的技术研发、产业化生产,报道产业发展的相关政策、产品和市场信息,探究生物技术研发和产业的发展趋势所在,沟通企业     

Structure activity studies with xenobiotic substrates using carboxylesterases isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana

Carboxylesterases (CXEs) catalyse the hydrolysis of xenobiotics and natural products radically altering their biological activities. Whereas the substrate selectivity of animal CXEs, such as porcine liver esterase (PLE) have been well studied, the respective enzymes in plants have yet to be defined and their activities determined. Using Arabidopsis thaliana (At) as a source, five representative members of the alpha/beta hydrolase AtCXE family of proteins have been cloned, expressed and the purified recombinant proteins assayed for esterase activity with xenobiotic substrates. Two members, AtCXE5 and AtCXE18 were found to be active carboxylesterases, though AtCXE5 proved to be highly unstable as a soluble protein. AtCXE18 and the previously characterised S-formylglutathione hydrolase from Arabidopsis (AtSFGH) were assayed against a series of esters based on methylumbelliferone in which the acyl moiety was varied with respect to size and conformation. The same series was used to assay crude esterase preparation from Arabidopsis plants and the results compared with those obtained with the commonly used PLE. With straight chain esters, AtCXE18 behaved like PLE, but the Arabidopsis hydrolases proved less tolerant of branched chain acyl components than the mammalian enzyme. While none of the enzyme preparations accurately reflected all the activities determined with crude Arabidopsis protein extracts, the plant enzymes proved more useful than PLE in predicting the hydrolysis of the more sterically constrained esters.     

Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Cvi shows an increased tolerance to photo-oxidative stress and contains a new chloroplastic copper/zinc superoxide dismutase isoenzyme.

A new chloroplastic Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD) isoenzyme was identified in Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Cvi. Genetic analyses indicated that the new isoenzyme was encoded by a Cvi-specific allele of Csd2 that was named Csd2-2. Paraquat treatments of A. thaliana ecotypes Ler and Cvi resulted in higher levels of chloroplastic Cu/Zn-SOD activity in Cvi, suggesting that the Cvi isoenzyme has a higher stability and/or turnover rate than the Ler variant under photo-oxidative conditions. In addition, Cvi showed a higher tolerance to paraquat treatments. Hybrid plant populations expressing Csd2-2 also exhibited an increased tolerance, suggesting that the Cvi isoenzyme is one of the factors that contribute to a better fitness in photo-oxidative stress conditions.     

Post-synthetic modification of plant cell walls by expression of microbial hydrolases in the apoplast

The systematic creation of defined cell wall modifications in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana by expression of microbial hydrolases with known specific activities is a promising approach to examine the impacts of cell wall composition and structure on both plant fitness and cell wall recalcitrance. Moreover, this approach allows the direct evaluation in living plants of hydrolase specificity, which can differ from in vitro specificity. To express genes encoding microbial hydrolases in A. thaliana, and target the hydrolases to the apoplast compartment, we constructed an expression cassette composed of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus 35S RNA promoter, the A. thaliana β-expansin signal peptide, and the fluorescent marker protein YFP. Using this construct we successfully introduced into Colombia-0 plants three Aspergillus nidulans hydrolases, β-xylosidase/α-arabinosidase, feruloyl esterase, acetylxylan esterase, and a Xanthomonas oryzae putative a-L: -arabinofuranosidase. Fusion with YFP permitted quick and easy screening of transformants, detection of apoplastic localization, and protein size confirmation. Compared to wild-type Col-0, all transgenic lines showed a significant increase in the corresponding hydrolytic activity in the apoplast and changes in cell wall composition. Examination of hydrolytic activity in the transgenic plants also showed, for the first time, that the X. oryzae gene indeed encoded an enzyme with α-L: -arabinofuranosidase activity. None of the transgenic plants showed a visible phenotype; however, the induced compositional changes increased the degradability of biomass from plants expressing feruloyl esterase and β-xylosidase/α-arabinosidase. Our results demonstrate the viability of creating a set of transgenic A. thaliana plants with modified cell walls to use as a toolset for investigation of how cell wall composition contributes to recalcitrance and affects plant fitness.     

Biosynthesis of isoprenoids in plants: structure of the 2C-methyl-D-erithrytol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Comparison with the bacterial enzymes

The X-ray crystal structure of the 2C-methyl-D-erythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate synthase (MCS) from Arabidopsis thaliana has been solved at 2.3 A resolution in complex with a cytidine-5-monophosphate (CMP) molecule. This is the first structure determined of an MCS enzyme from a plant. Major differences between the A. thaliana and bacterial MCS structures are found in the large molecular cavity that forms between subunits and involve residues that are highly conserved among plants. In some bacterial enzymes, the corresponding cavity has been shown to be an isoprenoid diphosphate-like binding pocket, with a proposed feedback-regulatory role. Instead, in the structure from A. thaliana the cavity is unsuited for binding a diphosphate moiety, which suggests a different regulatory mechanism of MCS enzymes between bacteria and plants.     

Oligogalacturonide-mediated induction of a gene involved in jasmonic acid synthesis in response to the cell-wall-degrading enzymes of the plant pathogen Erwinia carotovora.

Identification of Arabidopsis thaliana genes responsive to plant cell-wall-degrading enzymes of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora led to the isolation of a cDNA clone with high sequence homology to the gene for allene oxide synthase, an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of jasmonates. Expression of the corresponding gene was induced by the extracellular enzymes from this pathogen as well as by treatment with methyl jasmonate and short oligogalacturonides (OGAs). This suggests that OGAs are involved in the induction of the jasmonate pathway during plant defense response to E. carotovora subsp. carotovora attack.     

The plant vacuolar sorting receptor AtELP is involved in transport of NH(2)-terminal propeptide-containing vacuolar proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

Many soluble plant vacuolar proteins are sorted away from secreted proteins into small vesicles at the trans-Golgi network by transmembrane cargo receptors. Cleavable vacuolar sorting signals include the NH(2)-terminal propeptide (NTPP) present in sweet potato sporamin (Spo) and the COOH-terminal propeptide (CTPP) present in barley lectin (BL). These two proteins have been found to be transported by different mechanisms to the vacuole. We examined the ability of the vacuolar cargo receptor AtELP to interact with the sorting signals of heterologous and endogenous plant vacuolar proteins in mediating vacuolar transport in Arabidopsis thaliana. AtELP extracted from microsomes was found to interact with the NTPPs of barley aleurain and Spo, but not with the CTPPs of BL or tobacco chitinase, in a pH-dependent and sequence-specific manner. In addition, EM studies revealed the colocalization of AtELP with NTPP-Spo at the Golgi apparatus, but not with BL-CTPP in roots of transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Further, we found that AtELP interacts in a similar manner with the NTPP of the endogenous vacuolar protein AtALEU (Arabidopsis thaliana Aleu), a protein highly homologous to barley aleurain. We hypothesize that AtELP functions as a vacuolar sorting receptor involved in the targeting of NTPP-, but not CTPP-containing proteins in Arabidopsis.     

拟南芥——一把打开植物生命奥秘大门的钥匙

在过去的20年中,拟南芥作为模式植物广泛用于植物生命科学研究。历时10年的模式植物拟南芥的全基因组测序工作于2000年完成,通过测序获得的拟南芥基因组核苷酸序列全部公布在互联网上,有力地推动了植物生命科学研究向前发展。科学家提出的“2010计划”旨在通过全世界植物科学家的努力,到2010年能够尽可能多地了解拟南芥基因的功能。通过拟南芥研究所获得的信息将有助于人类对控制不同植物复杂生命活动机制的认识。     

A simple, label-free AuNPs-based colorimetric ultrasensitive detection of nerve agents and highly toxic organophosphate pesticide

Here, a simple label-free colorimetric sensing method for organophosphate (OP) nerve agents and pesticide based on catalytic reaction of acetylcholine esterase (AChE) and the aggregation of lipoic acid (LA) capped AuNPs has been established, which is highly sensitive with a limit of detection (LOD) lowered to pM level. In this method, only the AChE hydrolysis product of acetylthiocholine (ATCh), i.e., cationic thiocholine (TCh) can induce the aggregation of LA capped AuNPs along with a distinct color change from red to steel-blue. When OPs as enzyme inhibitors exist, the generation of TCh can be suppressed and the color change of LA capped AuNPs is gradually diminished according to different concentrations of OPs. The feasibility of this method has been demonstrated by sensitive measurement of OP nerve agents and pesticide in a spiked fruit sample with reliable results. This distinct and rapid colorimetric response enables us to readily probe OPs without more technical demand.