穿心莲内酯类成分积累与生物合成的调控研究进展

穿心莲是我国重要的南药之一,其主要活性成分穿心莲内酯类成分具有清热解毒、抗菌消炎等功效,在抗HIV病毒、抗血栓、保肝等方面具有显著效果。由于其人工合成困难,通过栽培调控或育种方法增强穿心莲体内内酯类成分的生物合成对提升穿心莲药材质量具有重要意义。为给相关研究提供参考,该文综述了穿心莲内酯类成分积累与植物发育的关系,栽培措施和环境因子对穿心莲内酯类成分积累的影响,以及近十年来国内外在穿心莲内酯类成分的生物合成及其分子调控机制等方面取得的研究进展,并提出了未来在以增强穿心莲内酯类成分生物合成和提高穿心莲内酯类成分积累为目标的研究中需重点关注的3个方面:(1)深入解析穿心莲内酯的生物合成通路及关键基因的功能,从分子水平上阐明穿心莲内酯类成分积累的机制;(2)结合分子生物学方法和作物栽培学理论深入研究穿心莲生长发育与产量和质量形成的规律及相互关系;(3)揭示穿心莲内酯生物合成的信号调控网络。     

乙酰穿心莲内酯的制备及其抑菌活性和化感作用比较研究

用乙酸酐对穿心莲内酯进行乙酰化,得乙酰穿心莲内酯,比较研究了乙酰穿心莲内酯和穿心莲内酯对部分细菌、霉菌、酵母和植物病原菌的抑菌活性以及对小麦、萝卜、青菜和黄瓜等农作物的化感作用.结果发现:乙酰穿心莲内酯对少数参试菌的抑制活性比穿心莲内酯弱,但对大多数菌的抑制活性比穿心莲内酯强,尤其是在较高浓度下,乙酰穿心莲内酯对枯草芽孢杆菌(Bacillus subtilis)、黑根霉菌(Rhigopus nigricans)、苹果酵母菌B13(Sour-dough starterB13)和辣椒晚疫病菌(Phytophthora capsici)的抑制活性明显强于穿心莲内酯;两者对参试植物种子萌发及幼苗根长和苗高均表现不同程度的"低促高抑"作用趋势.     

穿心莲ent-柯巴基焦磷酸合酶基因的克隆与生物信息学分析

旨在克隆穿心莲CPS的编码基因,并进行序列分析.通过RT-PCR和cDNA末端快速扩增的技术从穿心莲叶片中获得目的基因;并利用生物信息学的方法对其编码蛋白进行功能分析.结果显示,获得了全长2 499 bp的cDNA序列,编码一个833aa的蛋白.序列同源性比较表明,该蛋白与野甘草、咖啡等其他植物来源的CPS具有较高的同源性.保守功能结构域分析显示,该蛋白包含一个富含Asp残基的植物萜类合酶的共有保守功能域“DXDD”,归属于萜类生物合成酶Ⅰ类超级家族和顺式聚异戊二烯焦磷酸合酶超级家族.初步推测克隆得到了穿心莲CPS的编码基因(命名为ApCPS,GenBank登录号为JN216843.1).     

病毒诱导基因沉默鉴定穿心莲内酯生物合成关键酶ApCPS功能

该研究采用病毒诱导基因沉默技术(VIGS),以生长到第8片真叶期的穿心莲植株为实验材料,沉默参与穿心莲内酯生物合成的ent-柯巴基焦磷酸合酶基因(ApCPS),用半定量和荧光定量PCR检测病毒诱导沉默后ApCPS及其上游基因的表达,用HPLC法检测ApCPS沉默后穿心莲内酯的积累变化,同时检测茉莉酸甲酯(MeJA)处理后ApCPS及上游基因的表达,以全面分析穿心莲内酯代谢以及ApCPS在穿心莲内酯生物合成中的作用机制,验证其在植物体内的功能。结果显示:(1)ApCPS基因被成功沉默,基因表达显著下调,进而引起上游牻牛儿基牻牛儿基焦磷酸合成酶基因(GGPS)的表达下调,而3-羟-3-甲基戊二酰辅酶A还原酶基因(HMGR)和1-脱氧木酮糖-5-磷酸合成酶基因(DXS)的表达未受影响。(2)ApCPS基因沉默15d后穿心莲内酯积累量显著下降,表明ApCPS是穿心莲内酯生物合成关键酶基因,且能够负反馈影响上游基因表达。(3)茉莉酸甲酯(MeJA)显著诱导ApCPS及上游基因HMGR、DXS和GGPS的表达,表明穿心莲内酯生物合成基因受到MeJA的广泛调控。该研究首次使用VIGS证明ApCPS参与到穿心莲内酯生物合成,为利用该技术鉴定穿心莲内酯生物合成途径中其他基因功能奠定了基础。     

穿心莲

<正>相传达摩祖师跋山涉水从印度来到中国弘扬佛法,遍历我国的大江南北。一日,达摩祖师及其弟子游历到广东岭南地区时,救了一名被蛇咬伤的老农。后来,老农将达摩留下的草药种子种植在自家后山上,并用这种草药为附近的村民治病。中医五行学说认为苦入心,而这种草药只要你含入一小片它的叶子,马上就可以感受到那种刻骨铭心的苦,像是直入你的心中,故后人又称为穿心莲。穿心莲为爵床科植物穿心莲     

利用大孔树脂同时制备穿心莲内酯和脱水穿心莲内酯

采用大孔吸附树脂色谱法,以不同体积分数乙醇水溶液进行洗脱,分离富集穿心莲内酯和脱水穿心莲内酯,并配以HPLC进行同步监控.结果表明,穿心莲中这2种主要有效成分分别得到了富集.40%乙醇水溶液洗去目标物以外的杂质后,45%乙醇洗脱液中富含穿心莲内酯,含量为46.99%,55%乙醇洗脱液中富含脱水穿心莲内酯,含量为79.74%.     

穿心莲中的三个二萜酸盐

从穿心莲（Andrographis paniculata Nees.)水溶性部位分离得到3个新的二萜酸盐：穿心莲酸镁，穿心莲酸二钠和穿心莲酸二钾葡萄糖甙，同时，首次从穿心莲中分得鸟瞟呤核苷，尿嘧啶核苷，6－epiharpagide,procumbide，三色堇黄苷和芹菜素－7－氧－葡萄糖甙。通过波谱解析和化学方法确定了它们的结构。     

铜胁迫对穿心莲幼苗生长及生理特性的影响

通过对盆栽穿心莲(Andrographis paniculata)幼苗浇灌Cu SO4溶液实验,研究外施Cu2+对穿心莲幼苗的生理特性和药效成分含量的影响。结果显示,外施Cu2+对穿心莲幼苗的生长、生理生化指标和穿心莲内酯、脱水穿心莲内酯的含量均有显著影响。当Cu SO4溶液浓度超过6.25 mmol/L时,Cu2+能显著抑制穿心莲幼苗株高、叶长、叶宽的增长,且随胁迫时间的延长和Cu2+浓度的增大抑制作用增强;穿心莲叶片中超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)活性和丙二醛(MDA)含量均随Cu2+浓度增大和胁迫时间的延长而升高,当Cu SO4溶液浓度达到12.5 mmol/L且胁迫20 d和30 d时,叶片中SOD活性达到对照组的168.3%和171.18%;过氧化物酶(POD)、过氧化氢酶(CAT)活性则随Cu2+浓度的增大呈先升高后下降的趋势;当外施Cu SO4溶液浓度大于1.25 mmol/L时,与对照相比,穿心莲药效成分穿心莲内酯和脱水穿心莲内酯的含量均显著降低(P0.05)。研究结果表明,外施Cu SO4溶液浓度高于6.25 mmol/L时,能显著影响穿心莲幼苗的生理特性和有效成分含量,从而降低穿心莲药材的产量和质量。     

莲芝消炎胶囊中脱水穿心莲内酯质控标准的研究

以脱水穿心莲内酯为指标,线性关系,精密度、重现性、回收率为评价标准,建立莲芝消炎胶囊中脱水穿心莲内酯的RP-HPLC法的测定条件和方法,以制定莲芝消炎胶囊的质量标准。采用ODS-C18柱(YMC-peackDOS-A,A303-S-5μm,250×4.6 mm),流动相为甲醇-水(6∶4),体积流量1 mL/min,灵敏度0.005,检测波长为254 nm,柱温30℃,分离度>1,样品液达到基线分离、峰形对称,脱水穿心莲内酯的保留时间在15 min左右,其主峰两侧不存在杂质峰,完全符合含量测定要求。结果表明PR-HPLC法适用于莲芝消炎胶囊中脱水穿心莲内酯质量标准的制定,从分析多批莲芝消炎胶囊中脱水穿心莲内酯含量测定的数据得出,每粒胶囊(0.5 g)中脱水穿心莲内酯的含量控制在≥10 mg为宜。     

穿心莲内酯恢复突变型p53野生型功能的作用及机制研究

目的 p53是人体内重要的肿瘤抑制因子,但在人类肿瘤中因高频突变而失去抑癌功能。突变型p53 (mutant p53,mutp53)可促进肿瘤的发生、发展和转移。由于在肿瘤细胞中通常有较高表达,mutp53已成为区别于正常细胞的一个特异性抗肿瘤靶点。本研究旨在探索穿心莲内酯的抗肿瘤作用机制,为寻找靶向mutp53的抗肿瘤化合物提供理论依据。方法 构建可以快速筛选具有恢复mutp53下游转录因子的荧光素酶系统,观察穿心莲内酯对H1299-p53 R273H-PUMAluciferase和H1299-p53R175H-PUMA-luciferase细胞中PUMA基因的表达情况;采用免疫荧光实验,检测穿心莲内酯对HT29(R273H)和SK-BR-3 (R175H)细胞中mutp53的表达影响;采用免疫印迹实验进一步观察穿心莲内酯恢复了mutp53肿瘤细胞中p53下游靶蛋白PUMA、p21、Noxa的表达;随后采用MTT和流式细胞分析,检测穿心莲内酯对肿瘤细胞增殖和凋亡的影响;此外,还通过si RNA敲低Hsp70表达后,研究穿心莲内酯对mutp53下游基因的重激活作用。结果 穿心莲内酯可以...     

Investigation of the mechanism of temperature sensitivity of the electroreceptors of ampullae of lorenzini

In experiments on Black Sea skates (Raja clavata), the potential of the receptor epithelium of the ampullae of Lorenzini and spike activity of single nerve fibers connected to them were investigated during electrical and temperature stimulation. Usually the potential within the canal was between 0 and –2 mV, and the input resistance of the ampulla 250–400 k. Heating of the region of the receptor epithelium was accompanied by a negative wave of potential, an increase in input resistance, and inhibition of spike activity. With worsening of the animal's condition the transepithelial potential became positive (up to +10 mV) but the input resistance of the ampulla during stimulation with a positive current was nonlinear in some cases: a regenerative spike of positive polarity appeared in the channel. During heating, the spike response was sometimes reversed in sign. It is suggested that fluctuations of the transepithelial potential and spike responses to temperature stimulation reflect changes in the potential difference on the basal membrane of the receptor cells, which is described by a relationship of the Nernst's or Goldman's equation type.I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. I. M. Sechenov, Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Pacific Institute of Oceanology, Far Eastern Scientific Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 67–74, January–February, 1980.     

Testing of one of the hypotheses of the inheritance of human fingerprints

A hypothesis claiming that the total phenotypes of finger patterns are controlled by three independent two-allele loci A, L and W with the complete dominance in each was analysed in this work. By means of the population genetics methods, non-accordance of the hypothesis examined to the observed distributions of total phenotypes A, L, W, AL, LW, ALW was revealed on the material of five populations (3060 men). On the basis of the segregation analysis method applied to 210 complete families (the total number of children-532), the hypothesis of one-locus heredity with the complete dominance of total phenotypes A and W was rejected, the reliability of this conclusion being 0.999 and 0.95, respectively. The hypothesis of the L pattern being genetically controlled by one locus with the complete dominance gave, when examined, the contradictory results, due to monomorphism of the character.     

Possible mechanisms of implementation of toxic potential of lipopolysaccharides of pathogenic bacteria

The significance of variability of biological properties of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) is discussed in the paper within the pathogenesis of infectious process. On the basis of an analysis of published data and of results of independent research of two microorganisms (Yersinia pestis and Francisella tularensis) a conclusion is made on that a biologically inert LPS form (with a weak cytokine-inducing ability, apirogenicity and non-toxicity etc.) is typical of highly pathogenic bacteria. It is suggested that the above phenomenon is biologically expedient. Presumably, the inert LPS transforms to the active form inside a sensitive host and, according to an infection stage, each of them being functionally significant. It is the inert status of LPS that enables the pathogens, at the initial stages, to surmount freely the humoral and cell barriers of host. As the infection progressively aggravates and the proliferation of bacteria modifies itself due to LPS micro- and macroorganisms, its chemical structure and biopolymer conformation change. Both modification mechanisms enhance the LPS toxic potential. In case of a sensitive host, such variations transform the biologically inert LPS into a toxically active form with its function of endotoxin being realized. There is no LPS modification in a host insensitive to such infection, which entails either recovery or prolonged persistence of the pathogen inside the microorganism.     

Non-Productive Binding of Substrates as One of Aspects of Substrate Specificity of Cholinesterases of Different Origin

Taking into account the phenomenon of non-productive binding of substrate, kinetic parameters of hydrolysis of acetylcholine (ACh) and its 13 derivatives with different structures of ammonium group by cholinesterase (ChE) of human erythrocytes, ChE of horse blood serum, and ChE of optic ganglia of the Pacific squid Todarodes pacificus are determined. A dependence is revealed of values of parameters of their enzymatic hydrolysis and parameters of the non-productive binding on the substrate structure and ChE nature. Effects of salts, LiCl, NaCl, KCl, MgCl₂, CaCl₂ and BaCl₂, on various kinetic parameters, including parameters of the non-productive binding of substrate, of enzymatic hydrolysis of iodides of ACh and N-acetoxyethylene-N-ethylpiperidinium under action of horse blood serum ChE are studied. Addition of the salts to the reaction mixture produced different effects on values of the catalytic center activity (a _c) and the Michaelis constant (K _M), depending on the cation nature and the substrate structure. At the same time, values of the a _c/K _M ratio that characterize to a degree the substrate affinity to the enzyme are equal to each other for two substrates differing in structure, regardless of the presence and nature of the studied cations. Parameters of the non-productive binding of N-acetoxyethylene-N-ethylpiperidinium iodide also depended on the salt nature; however, in that case, a question arises as to the correctness of the comparative analysis, when at determinations of the parameters the non-productive binding of ACh is ignored.     

Effect of conditioning polarization of soma of giant neurons of mollusks on the mechanism of action-potential generation

To ascertain the properties of an excitable membrane of the soma of giant neurons of mollusks, experiments were carried out to study the effect of conditioning shift of the membrane potential on the mechanism of action-potential generation. The effect of conditioning was assessed from changes in the action-potential curve and its first derivative, as well as from the curve of transmembrane currents under voltage clamp conditions. It was found that a change in membrane potential evokes at least two reactions which have opposite effects on the mechanism of generation of action potentials. These reactions evidently have different time characteristics. One of these does not differ notably from the reaction recorded for other excitable structures, and is manifested in the activation (with hyperpolarization) or inactivation (with depolarization) of the mechanism generating action potentials. The other reaction contributes either to an increase (with depolarization) or a decrease (with hyperpolarization) in the efficiency of this mechanism. Conditioning polarization also has a marked effect on the system responsible for repolarization of the membrane during generation of action potentials. This effect is manifested in a change in the reaction of this system to tetraethylammonium ions. The specific membrane systems sustaining excitability and reacting to changes in the strength of the membrane's electrical field were found to be very inert. After a shift in the potential to a given stable level a rearrangement, lasting sometimes tens of seconds, takes place in the membrane.A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 91–99, January–February, 1970.     

Shapes of curves of pH-dependence of reactions

A simple case is considered in which the rate of a two-step reaction depends on pH because the intermediate formed in the first step has to gain (or lose) a proton before it can react in the second step, and in which the rate-determining step therefore changes with pH. The curves of reaction rate against pH are shown to be symmetrical, and the sharpest peak possible has a width at half its height of 1.53pH units, i.e. of 2log(3+2 radical2). Any particular curve for this situation proves to be identical with a curve that could be generated for the pH-dependence of a single-step reaction in which the rate is proportional to the concentration of a particular ionic form of a reactant. Curves for the latter situation, however, can have forms impossible for the former case in which the rate-determining step changes, but only if the protonations that activate and deactivate the reactant are co-operative. The peak can then become even sharper, and its width at half its height can fall to 1.14pH units, i.e. to 2log(2+ radical3).     

六种藓类植物茎的比较解剖学研究

通过对6种藓类植物,即褶叶青藓(Brachythecium salebrosum(Web.et Mohr.)B.S.G.)、湿地匐灯藓(Plagiomnium acutum(Lindb.)Kop.)、侧枝匐灯藓(Plagiomnium maximoviczii(Lindb.)Kop.)、大凤尾藓(Fissidensnobilis Griff.)、大羽藓(Thuidium cymbifolium(Doz.et Molk.)B.S.G.)和大灰藓(Hypnum plumaeforme Wils.)嫩茎和老茎的石蜡切片和显微观察发现,同一藓类植株的嫩茎和老茎,茎结构稳定,不同种藓类植物茎横切面具有不同特征.植物体茎横切面形状、表层细胞的层数、细胞大小和细胞壁厚薄、皮层细胞大小和形状、中轴的有无以及比例等特征可以作为藓类植物的分科分类依据之一.     

A quantitative estimation of degree of purity of preparations of subcellular structures

A method of mathematical treatment of the results of the analysis of enzymic activity of fractions has been suggested, allowing a quantitative estimation of both the degree of purity of fractions and the yield. Using this method the preparation of mitochondria, microsomes and lysosomes have been characterized. The method may also be used to elucidate the localization of some, not strictly organelle-specific enzymes of different subcellular structures.     

Features of Egg Cells of Living Representatives of Ancient Families of Ferns

Examination of two species of osmundaceous ferns, two speciesof marattialean, and one dipterid, all representative of fernswith a long fossil history, has shown that the egg cells possessnumerous large amyloplasts. The nuclei of these egg cells alsoproduce no vesicular or sheet-like protrusions during maturation.In these respects the egg cells of the ferns examined differsharply from those of more recent ferns such as Pteridium andDryopteris. The significance of these findings is discussed. Egg cells, amyloplast, Macroglossum, Todea, Osmunda, Dipteris