Relationship between the Changes of Acid Phosphatase Activities and Pi -uptake of Tomato Seedlings during Phosphate Starvation

The acid phosphatase activities from roots and both stems and leaves of tomato seedlings all in-creased markedly under phosphate starvation. Phosphate starvation also increased the activities of acid phos-phatase from cell surface of, and released by roots of tomato seedlings. The kinetic analysis of acid phos-phatase of roots of tomato seedlings revealed that phosphate starvation increased the affinity of the enzyme to its substrate. The results also revealed that phosphate starvation had no effect on the optimum pH (pH 4.93) of the acid phosphatase of roots of tomato seedlings. It was also found that molybdate strongly inhibited not only the activities of acid phosphatase but also Pi- uptake rates of tomato seedlings.     

Dopaminergic regulation of theta activity of septohippocampal neuron in the awake rabbit

The effects of dopamine reuptake blocker nomifensine and nonselective antagonist of dopamine receptors haloperidol on the theta rhythmicity of the medial septal neurons and hippocampal EEG were investigated in the rabbit. Bilateral intracerebroventricular infusion of nomifensine (9 micrograms in each ventriculus) produced an increase in both the rate of firing and the theta modulation of medial septal neurons; the theta power of the hippocampal EEG also augmented. The degree of neuronal theta stability (time constant of damping, tao theta) significantly increased. The frequency of rhythmic bursts in the neuronal firing also substantially elevated. The amplitude, regularity and frequency of theta waves in the hippocampal EEG also increased. The antagonist haloperidol (12.5 mg) caused the opposite effect. The theta activity of medial septal neurons and the theta power of the hippocampal EEG decreased after haloperidol injection. Theta rhythmicity of septal neurons significantly diminished, the rate of rhythmic bursts in the neuronal firing also decreased, although not substantially. The theta amplitude and regularity in the hippocampal EEG also decreased. Effects of both drugs built up rapidly and then gradually attenuated. Nomifensine infusion against the background of exposure to haloperidol provoked neither increasing neuronal firing rate, nor elevating theta activity. These finding suggest that dopaminergic system produces activation of the septohippocampal system in situations that require selective attention to functionally important information.     

重组苏云金杆菌ICP基因工程菌研究进展

综述了苏云金杆菌ICP基因及重组ICP工程菌的研究进展,描述了工程菌构建的主要方法,以及目前构建获得的各类ICP工程菌的特点,讨论了ICP工程菌的应用前景和发展方向。     

Enzymes of agmatine degradation and the control of their synthesis in Klebsiella aerogenes.

The degradation of agmatine to succinate by Klebsiella aerogenes occurs in five steps. The enzyme catalyzing the first step, agmatinase, is induced by agmatine. The enzymes catalyzing the second and third steps, putrescine aminotransferase and 4-aminobutyraldehyde dehydrogenase, are induced by putrescine and also by their product, 4-aminobutyrate. The enzymes catalyzing the fourth and fifth steps, 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase and succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase, are induced by 4-aminobutyrate. This compound also serves as gratuitous inducer of the catabolic acetylornithine aminotransferase. The formation of the enzymes responsible for agmatine degradation is regulated not only by induction, but also by catabolite repression and activation by glutamine synthetase.     

Stochastic theory of compartments

The stochastic model of a compartment developed by Thakur, Rescigno and Schafer is discussed without using generating functions. The behavior of the mean and variance of the number of particles present as a function of time is also discussed. We also allow both the input and output to be time dependent.     

Crl Mutants of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Resemble Both Mutants Affecting General Control of Amino Acid Biosynthesis and Omnipotent Translational Suppressor Mutants

Cyocloheximide resistant lethal (crl) mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, defining 22 unlinked complementation groups, are unable to grow at 37 degrees. They are also highly pleiotropic at their permissive temperature of 25 degrees. The mutants are all unable to arrest at the G1 stage of the cell cycle when grown to stationary phase or when starved for a single amino acid, though they do arrest at G1 when deprived of all nitrogen. The crl mutants are also hypersensitive to various amino acid analogs and to 3-aminotriazole. These mutants also "tighten" leaky auxotrophic mutations that permit wild-type cells to grow in the absence of the appropriate amino acid. All of these phenotypes are also exhibited by gcn mutants affecting general control of amino acid biosynthesis. In addition, the crl mutants are all hypersensitive to hygromycin B, an aminoglycoside antibiotic that stimulates translational misreading. The crl mutations also suppress one nonsense mutation which is phenotypically suppressed by hygromycin B. Many crl mutants are also osmotically sensitive. These are phenotypes which the crl mutations have in common with previously isolated omnipotent suppressors. We suggest that the the crl mutations all affect the fidelity of protein translation.     

Characterization of a complex of hemicellulolytic enzymes produced by some strains of the lower fungi.

The effect of different temperatures and pH values on the hydrolysis of xylan by culture fluids of five strains of the lower fungi was determined. Xylan in such natural substrates as straw and corn-cobs was also subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis. The culture filtrate of the most active strain contained, besides xylanolytic enzymes, also cellulolytic, proteolytic and pectinolytic enzymes.     

Multiple roles of glutathione binding-site residues of glutathione s-transferase

This study was designed to characterize residues in the glutathione binding site of AdGSTD4-4 from the mosquito malaria vector Anopheles dirus. The data revealed that Leu33, His38 and His50 each play a role in enzyme catalysis and glutathione binding. The mutants of these three residues also displayed differences in hydrophobic substrate specificity, suggesting that changes in the active site conformation occurred. Differences in conformations was also suggested by protein stability changes. These results indicate that residues in the glutathione binding site are not only important in the catalytic function but also play a role in the structural integrity of the enzyme.     

The effect of different wavelengths of light on polyketide metabolism inAlternaria alternata

The effect of visible light on alternariol content in the moldAlternaria alternata was investigated. When the mold was irradiated with white light at moderate fluence rates the mycelia contained little or no alternariol in comparison with dark controls. This reduction of alternariol content in mycelia was due primarily to blue light, although red light also resulted in a slight decrease. The results show that red light above 700 nm also inhibits alternariol synthesis. The suppressive effect of blue light was fluence rate dependent; however, very low fluence rates also caused inhibition. Growth and conidiation were not affected by the light treatments.     

RNA扩增的研究进展

RNA扩增是伴随着基因芯片技术的应用而发展起来的一项技术,但不仅仅应用于芯片杂交。本文对RNA扩增的技术方法进行了综述,重点介绍了mRNA的线性扩增、指数扩增以及两者相结合的扩增方法以及优缺点,对microRNA的扩增方法也作了介绍,并对将来的发展作了展望。     

Novel application of aniline blue. Fluorescent staining of glycogen and some protein structures

The present study shows that aniline blue can be used as a fluorescent stain for glycogen. The dye is also helpful in tracing pathological and autolytic changes in lysosomes, mitochondria, erythrocytes and nuclei, and it can also be used for demonstrating bacteria in tissue sections and smears. The techniques used are simple, rapid and inexpensive. Spectrophotometric studies on aniline blue solutions have shown that aniline blue fluorescence was enhanced by the addition of certain proteins, or of glycogen to the dye solution. In case of albumen which has the maximum effect, enhancement is dependent upon the albumen-dye ratio. The mechanism of staining is mainly due to self quenching, but there is also an evidence of the presence of hydrophobic reaction.     

Novel application of aniline blue

Summary The present study shows that aniline blue can be used as a fluorescent stain for glycogen. The dye is also helpful in tracing pathological and autolytic changes in lysosomes, mitochondria, erythrocytes and nuclei, and it can also be used for demonstrating bacteria in tissue sections and smears. The techniques used are simple, rapid and inexpensive.Spectrophotometric studies on aniline blue solutions have shown that aniline blue fluorescence was enhanced by the addition of certain proteins, or of glycogen to the dye solution. In case of albumen which has the maximum effect, enhancement is dependent upon the albumen-dye ratio.The mechanism of staining is mainly due to self quenching, but there is also an evidence of the presence of hydrophobic reaction.     

Reductive methods for isotopic labeling of antibiotics

Methods for the reductive methylation of the amino groups of eight different antibiotics using 3HCOH or H14COH are presented. The reductive labeling of an additional seven antibiotics by NaB3H4 is also described. The specific activity of the methyl-labeled drugs was determined by a phosphocellulose paper binding assay. Two quantitative assays for these compounds based on the reactivity of the antibiotic amino groups with fluorescamine and of the aldehyde and ketone groups with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine are also presented. Data on the cellular uptake and ribosome binding of these labeled compounds are also presented.     

Effect of tropane on the cholinoreceptors of the cerebral cortex

Spontaneous electric activity of single neurons of the sensorimotor cortex was recorded extracellularly in experiments on unanesthetized rabbits. During microiontophoretic application of tropane and acetylcholine to the neurons, the response to both the agents was the same. The cells excitable by acetylcholine are also excitable by tropane, while those inhibited by acetylcholine are also inhibited by tropane. The cells that do not respond to acetylcholine are also irresponsive to tropane. The excitatory response pattern to tropane is similar to that of acetylcholine. Under the same conditions of microiontophoretic application, tropane causes less excitation as compared with acetylcholine. Tropane preliminarily applied to the neuron reduces the excitatory effect of acetylcholine. The possible role of agonist-antagonist relations between tropane and acetylcholine in the mechanism of the pharmacological effects of tropane and its derivatives is discussed.     

生物化学教学中实用素材的推荐

本文旨在与从事生物化学教学的教师分享几个实用素材,正在学习生物化学的学生亦可直接使用.素材包括多媒体类例如绪论导入歌曲"Biochemistry",ATP合酶工作原理的视频,RCSB PDB蛋白质结构数据库,RasMol分子图像观察软件等;实物类例如DNA双螺旋结构的纸质模型,tRNA一二三级结构的纸质模型等.侧重素材...     

The role of trace elements in radiation protection of plants and animals on radionuclide contaminated territories of Poles'e

The retrospective review and analysis of works on some physiologically active trace elements influence on the radionuclides transfer from soil to plants and with forage to animals are presented. Also reviewed is their radioresistance in the contaminated territories. It is shown that some elements--zinc, manganese, cobalt--being appled to the soil at seeding or spraying plants with aqueous solutions and also in complex compounds are capable of reducing significantly the 90Sr and 137Cs transit to agricultural plants, and with forage--into the animals bodies. We have also shown that trace elements reduce the effects of radiation injury. The mechanisms of the radioprotective action of trace elements are also discussed in the paper.     

Platelet responses promoted by the activation of protein kinase C or the increase of cytosolic Ca2+ are potentiated by adrenaline. Effects of cAMP and staurosporine.

We studied the action of the alpha 2 adrenergic agonist adrenaline on the platelet responses evoked by the activation of protein kinase C or by the ionophore induced increase of cytosolic Ca2+. Both the phorbol ester and ionomycin-induced aggregation are strongly potentiated by adrenaline which per se does not behave as an activating agonist. The potentiation by adrenaline is observed both when added before and after the aggregating agent; in the latter case the effect increases on increasing the delay of adrenaline addition. Adrenaline also reverses the inhibition by cAMP of the PMA (or ionomycin) induced aggregation. It also has a strong potentiating effect (over 100%) on the phorbol ester induced ATP secretion and a weaker effect on the secretion induced by ionomycin. The effect on secretion is visible only when adrenaline is added prior to the stimulus. The inhibition by cAMP of the PMA or ionomycin induced secretion is also counteracted by adrenaline. In no case adrenaline modifies the pattern of platelet phosphoproteins. Ionomycin induces some platelet aggregation also in the presence of the protein kinase inhibitor staurosporine; also this phosphoprotein independent aggregation is strongly stimulated by adrenaline.     

Architectonics of the surface of alveolar macrophages

The architectonics of the alveolar macrophage surface has been investigated in the raster electron microscope. The material is obtained by means of washing from the lungs of intact noninbred white rats and also 24 h after a single intragastric administration of a cancerogenic agent--nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)--in a toxic dose (30 mg/kg). The alveolar macrophages are studied both as a suspension and also after 30 min of cultivation. The preparations are dried in the air and by the critical point method. When the latter method is used, the architectonics of the alveolar macrophage surface is much richer. Nevertheless, the former method also gives enough information. NDMA administration produces a damaging effect on the surface architectonics and on the character of the macrophages spreading over the glass. The morphological characteristics of the changes in the surface architectonics of the alveolar macrophages can be used to estimate the cytotoxic effect of different harmful factors of the environment.     

厦门鼓浪屿百鸟园的植物配置

本文就厦门鼓浪屿日光岩游览区内百鸟园的植物配置作初步探讨,论述其配置的指导思想与特点,并指出不足之处。     

磷酸饥饿时番茄幼苗酸性磷酸酶活性的变化与Pi吸收的关系

磷酸饥饿时,番茄幼苗根部及地上部酸性磷酸酶活性均显著增强,根部细胞表面酸性磷酸酶及根部外泌的酸性磷酸酶活性亦明显提高。动力学分析表明,磷酸饥饿提高了番茄幼苗根部的酸性磷酸酶对其底物的亲和力。另外,磷酸饥饿对番茄幼苗根部酸性磷酸酶活性的最适ｐＨ值没有影响。钼酸对番茄幼苗根部酸性磷酸酶活性有强烈的抑制作用,对番茄幼苗Ｐｉ吸收速率也有十分明显的抑制效果。以上结果表明,磷酸饥饿时,番茄幼苗Ｐｉ吸收的适应性变化可能与根部酸性磷酸酶特别是根部细胞表面酸性磷酸酶及其外泌酸性磷酸酶的参与密切关联。