脂多糖诱导的肿瘤坏死因子(LITAF)生物学功能研究进展

脂多糖诱导的肿瘤坏死因子(LPS-induced TNF-α,LITAF),又称p53诱导基因7或溶酶体/晚期内体小膜内在蛋白。早期研究认为,p53蛋白的164~170位氨基酸肽段导入到人体单核细胞后可抑制LITAF的表达。近期研究发现,LITAF在LPS诱导的单核细胞或巨噬细胞中作为炎症细胞因子TNF-α的转录激活剂起作用,进而引发炎症。典型的LITAF结构域包含N-端的CXXC区、25个氨基酸长的疏水区和C-端的(H)XCXXC区。当机体受到LPS刺激后,LITAF疏水区结合到胞膜上,将N-端和C-端的CXXC区域连接在一起,形成紧密结合的Zn2+结构,此结构域诱导LITAF蛋白和STAT6(B)蛋白形成复合体进入细胞核,与TNF-α的启动子结合进而激活细胞因子TNF-α的转录表达,内源性增强机体清除肿瘤细胞或入侵病原的能力。该文就LITAF的结构和生物学功能的研究进展进行概述。     

虾夷扇贝铜锌超氧化物歧化酶基因的克隆与转录表达特性分析

利用RACE和克隆等方法得到了虾夷扇贝铜锌超氧化物歧化酶(Cu/Zn-SOD)基因全长cDNA序列,该序列全长1 064 bp,5′和3′非编码区(UTR)分别为61 bp和541 bp,开放阅读框(ORF)462 bp,编码153个氨基酸和一个终止密码子.分析发现,此氨基酸序列含有形成二硫键的两个半胱氨酸残基以及4个铜结合位点、4个锌结合位点,与已知的Cu/Zn-SOD结构相似,与其它物种同源性较高.进行虾夷扇贝组织分布及发育过程中不同时期的实时荧光定量监测,发现鳃中Cu/Zn-SOD基因mRNA相对表达量最高,肾次之,血淋巴中最低;不同发育阶段Cu/Zn-SOD表达量变化明显,其中受精卵和早期D形幼体两个时期表达量相对较高.     

虾夷扇贝β-actin基因的克隆和序列分析

为进一步研究虾夷扇贝功能基因的表达调控。利用SMART cDNA文库构建试剂盒成功构建了健康虾夷扇贝外套膜和肾脏两种组织的cDNA文库。对随机选取的4009个克隆进行5′端测序,比对,筛选出1条β肌动蛋白同源序列,对此EST序列两端进行扩增、测序,得到肌动蛋白基因cDNA全长序列。肌动蛋白基因cDNA全长1536bp(不包括polyA),5′端非编码区84bp,3′端非翻译区321bp,阅读框1131bp,编码377个氨基酸。在基因组DNA中,该基因被一个内含子分为两段,内含子位于第41和第42个氨基酸之间,长度为1498bp。系统发育分析显示该肌动蛋白属于β类型。本研究得到的虾夷扇贝β-肌动蛋白基因可以被用于作为定量某种虾夷扇贝mRNA的标准,这为继续研究虾夷扇贝其它功能基因,及其分子生物的进一步研究、促进其他相关分子发育和系统进化研究奠定了基础。     

虾夷扇贝的多态性微卫星座位

虾夷扇贝(Patinopectenyessoensis),为冷水性贝类,是世界最重要的养殖经济贝类之一。原产于俄罗斯千岛群岛的南部水域,日本北海道及本洲北部。中国80年代初从日本引种,并开始养殖,目前已经在黄海北部形成规模化和产业化养殖,其中以大连长海养殖规模最大,近10年来创造出了数十亿     

虾夷扇贝精子的超微结构

用扫描和透射电镜研究了虾夷扇贝(Patinopecten yessoensis)精子的超微结构.虾夷扇贝精子为典型的原生型,全长50μm左右,头部长约3 μm.精子主要由头部、中段和尾部三部分组成.头部顶体突出,呈倒"V"形;顶体下方为精核,电子密度较高且占头部大部分,具有核前窝(anterior nuclear fossa)、核后窝(posterior nuclear fossa)和植入窝(implantation fossa);4～5个近圆形的线粒体围绕着中心粒复合体形成精子的中段.尾部细长,尾部鞭毛横切面为典型的"9 2"结构.     

虾夷扇贝过敏原tropomyosin的克隆表达、纯化及免疫学鉴定

从虾夷扇贝(Patinopecten yessoensis)肌肉中提取总RNA,RT-PCR克隆虾夷扇贝中变应原原肌球蛋白的全长基因,根据序列设计带有酶切位点的特异性引物,扩增扇贝tropomyosin的完整开放阅读框,与pET-28a载体连接并转化大肠杆菌Escherichia.coli BL21(DE3),诱导表达后,Ni2+亲和层析柱纯化重组蛋白,Western-blot检测其免疫学活性。经序列测定,该基因含有长度为855bp的开放阅读框,编码284个氨基酸,其在GenBank数据库中的登录号为EU839640。SDS-PAGE检测该重组变应原在大肠杆菌中高效表达36kD的目的蛋白,且重组变应原具有良好的IgE结合活性。研究获得了具有变应原活性的重组虾夷扇贝tropomyosin,为扇贝过敏性疾病的诊断和治疗奠定了基础。       

基于AFLP技术对中国虾夷扇贝群体种质资源的研究

利用AFLP技术对国内较具代表性的5个群体与日本群体虾夷扇贝相比照进行遗传多样性的分析.采用6对引物组合对6个群体178个个体进行扩增,共得到308个位点,6个群体的多态位点比例为62.66% ～69.81%,其中日本群体最高,小长山群体最低,且呈显著性差异;香农氏指数为0.337 ～0.374,其中日本群体最高,小长山群体最低.凌水桥群体与旅顺群体间遗传相似性最高(0.9810),小长山群体与凌水桥群体间遗传相似性最低(0.9641);相对的遗传距离的计算结果与遗传相似性结果一致.数据分析表明养殖方式对虾夷扇贝遗传多样性影响不大.本试验结果为我国虾夷扇贝种质遗传多样性维持、保护和可持续利用提供参考.     

细胞松弛素B诱导虾夷扇贝多倍体初探

Triploid shellfish are useful for aquaculture because of their sterility,superior growth and improved meat quality.Tetraploid are also valuable for 100% producing triploids through mating with diploid.We tested polyploid induction in Japanese scallop,Patinopecten yessoensis,by inhibiting polar body Ⅰ (PB group) and both polar bodyⅠandⅡ (PPB group) in newly fertilized eggs.Cytochalasin B (0.6 mg/L) was applied at 11～22 min post fertilization (PF),and terminated in PB group when polar body Ⅰ was released about 70% in untreated eggs,in PPB group when polar lobe was observed in control group.The treatment and its control were repeated 5～7 times using different pairs of parents.The ploidy was determined by counting chromosome number at embryo stage,and then was detected by flow cytometry (FCM) at larvae stage and juvenile stage.\;In PB group,aneuploid (31.13%),triploid (3.96%),tetraploid (17.46%) and pentaploid (46.65%) embryos were produced,and in PPB groups,pentaploid embryos became higher (56.2%),triploid and tetraploid were 2.42% and 9.11%.At day 3 PF,the larvae showed tetraploid,pentaploid and aneuploid peaks through checking with FCM in PB group,and showed mainly higher pentaploidy peak in PPB groups.However,at day 14 PF diploids were mainly left,sometimes with small triploid peak.It suggested that most tetraploid,aneuploid and pentaploid larvae were died within the first two weeks PF.At three months PF,a few diploid juveniles were harvested in three control groups.Only 12 juvenile scallops were harvested in one of treated group (PB-7),and 11 of them died accidentally,the alive one in treated group was triploid through checking with FCM.     

Ten polymorphic microsatellite loci in the giant scallop (Mizuhopecten yessoensis)

Ten novel microsatellite loci were isolated from giant scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis, and the polymorphisms were examined to estimate genetic variability. The genetic variabilities varied depending on the locus. The number of alleles ranged from two to 17, and the observed and expected heterozygosities ranged from 0.17 to 0.99 and 0.33 to 0.90, respectively. Six loci showed significant Hardy–Weinberg disequilibrium. The high variabilities revealed in this study suggest that microsatellites should prove useful for various genetic investigations.     

臭氧处理海水对扇贝卵的孵化及幼虫生长的影响

主要研究了用臭氧处理海水在经过连续充气曝气12、24h、不经充气曝气的处理水及没经臭氧处理的正常海水,进行海湾扇贝、虾夷扇贝受精卵的孵化和幼虫培育实验。结果表明,海湾扇贝受精卵在经过24h曝气的处理水中孵化率最高为92％,其次为没经过处理的正常海水为76％,曝气12h为16％,没经过曝气的为0;虾夷扇贝受精卵在经过24h曝气的处理水中孵化率最高为88%,其次为没经过处理的正常海水为85％,曝气12h为15％,没经过曝气为0。海湾扇贝幼虫培养在没经过处理的正常海水和经24h曝气的处理水中生长较快,曝气12h较慢;虾夷扇贝幼虫则是没经过处理的正常海水生长最快,其次是经24h曝气的处理水,而曝气12h较慢,成活率方面也表现出一定的差异,从而为臭氧处理海水在贝类育苗上的应用提供一定的指导。     

The Role of the Oldest Mariculture Farm in Restoration of Stock of the Japanese Scallop Mizuhopecten yessoensis (Jay, 1856) in Posyet Bay, Sea of Japan

The pilot mariculture facility for rearing commercial invertebrates has existed in Minonosok Bay of Posyet Bay, Sea of Japan, since 1971. This bay is one of the few in Primorsky Krai where the risk of destruction of mariculture plantations from the effect of storms is a minimum. The total annually yield of spat of the Japanese scallop varied from 6 to 10 million individuals. Two-thirds of this amount was placed in cages for further rearing, and the rest was seeded on the bottom or passed to other enterprises. From 1972 to 2002 there were 104 million individuals of fitted juveniles (yearlings) and 24 million young-of-the-year seeded on the bottom in coastal water areas of the Primorsky Krai from Minonosok Bay. Thanks to the activity of the mariculture farm (two farms since 1994) in Posyet Bay, the stock of the Japanese scallop, which had been depleted by over-fishing in 1934–1935, was completely restored, and, according to our assumption, the total stock of the Japanese scallop was increased two times in Peter the Great Bay.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Biologiya Morya, Vyshkvartsev, Regulev, Reguleva, Grigorjev, Lebedev.     

烟实夜蛾脂肪酸结合蛋白基因的克隆、序列分析与表达

应用RT-PCR技术,从烟实夜蛾Helicoverpa assulta幼虫脂肪体组织和血细胞总RNA中反转录扩增脂肪酸结合蛋白(fatty-acid binding protein,FABP)基因的cDNA片段,克隆到原核表达载体pGEX-4T-2上,转化大肠杆菌BL21(DE3),用IPTG进行诱导表达并进行检测。结果表明：扩增得到的片段全长399 bp(GenBank登录号为DQ299942),编码132个氨基酸残基,预测分子量15.0 kD,等点电5.83。FABP融合了GST。原核表达后经电泳检测到约41 kD大小的外源蛋白,Western blot检测表明是目的蛋白。     

Development of Microsatellite Markers for Japanese Scallop (Mizuhopecten yessoensis) and Their Application to a Population Genetic Study

Abstract The Japanese scallop (Mizuhopecten yessoensis) is one of the main fishery products in Japan, but with the expansion of culture operations of the Japanese scallop, various problems have been encountered including high mortality, poor growth, poor seed production, and so on. Moreover, there is concern that many years of cultivation may have affected the genetic structure of the scallop population. To approach these problems and concerns, we developed microsatellite markers as a molecular tool for population genetic studies. By using 4 microsatellite markers as well as a mitochondrial marker, we investigated the genetic structure of samples from the islands of Hokkaido (14 populations) and Honshu (Tohoku, 3 populations) in Japan, and south Primorye (4 populations) in Russia. All the populations sampled had high genetic diversity (average expected heterozygosity, 0.7011 to 0.7622; haplotype diversity, 0.6090 to 0.8848), and almost all showed a tendency of homozygote excess, which was significant in 2 populations. Hierarchical analysis of molecular variance tests based on the microsatellite and mitochondrial markers indicated that the 3 geographic regions were genetically divergent from one another, with little evidence of divergence within regions. Homogeneity in allele frequency distributions between natural and cultured scallops and allele frequency stability over a period of 2 decades indicated that the culturing operations have probably not had a substantial effect on the genetic structure of the populations.     

棉卷叶野螟泛素基因的克隆、序列分析及原核表达

本研究用RT-PCR方法,克隆了棉卷叶野螟Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius)泛素基因编码区,GenBank登录号为EU580145。序列分析表明,该编码区长228 bp,编码76个氨基酸,推测的编码蛋白的相对分子质量和等电点分别为8.53 kD和5.83。同源性比较发现,棉卷叶野螟泛素基因与其他10种昆虫泛素基因在氨基酸水平上具有93%以上的相似性。系统发育树显示棉卷叶野螟与斜纹夜蛾Spodoptera litura (Fabricius)遗传距离较近,通过同源建模获得了该棉卷叶野螟基因编码蛋白的理论三维结构。将棉卷叶野螟泛素基因与pET-32a(+)连接,构建原核表达载体pET-32a-ub,经IPTG诱导,棉卷叶野螟泛素基因在大肠杆菌BL21(DE3) 中高效表达。本研究成功克隆了棉卷叶野螟泛素基因的编码区,并经Western blotting分析证明实现了该基因的原核表达,为进一步研究其在该昆虫体内的作用机理奠定了基础。