芽孢杆菌原生质体融合技术

微生物原生质体融合技术是近20年来国内外细胞工程领域的一个研究热点。1972年匈牙利学者Ｆｅｒｅｎｃｚｙ率先进行了微生物原生质体融合的研究[1]。在1976年匈牙利学者Ｆｏｌｄｅｒ和Ａｌｆｏｌｄ则首次报道了用ＰＥＧ或新生态磷酸钙诱导巨大芽孢杆菌(Ｂａｃｉｌｌｕｓｍｅｇａｔｅｒｉｕｍ)种内株间原生质体融合[2];同年法国的Ｓｃｈａｅｆｆｅｒ等也用ＰＥＧ诱导枯草芽孢杆菌(Ｂ.ｓｕｂｔｉｌｉｓ)进行种内株间原生质体融合获得成功[3]。有关芽孢杆菌原生质体融合的研究,在国内直至1981年才见报道[4]。经典改变微生物遗传性状的手段有两…     

Sporulation of Bacilli

Ингибирование обра зования в формирова нии спор ме гатерий было разраб отано дополнение не с рекламой (10^?4M) к культивировани я средних до. Небольш ое коли чество³⁵S-назы вают ам инокислотам или метионин был и добавлены одновре менно и включение их в клето к по оценкам. Было уст ановлено что:

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   Включение обоих³⁵S-ма ркировку аминокисл оты цистеина и метио нина в белок фракции клеток препятствуе т культуры значител ьно ниже чем что в кле тках контроль культ уры. Во время торможе ния и только неисправных спор с низким кальцием со держание, формируют ся.     
   
   

Successful Decoding of Famous Faces in the Fusiform Face Area

What are the neural mechanisms of face recognition? It is believed that the network of face-selective areas, which spans the occipital, temporal, and frontal cortices, is important in face recognition. A number of previous studies indeed reported that face identity could be discriminated based on patterns of multivoxel activity in the fusiform face area and the anterior temporal lobe. However, given the difficulty in localizing the face-selective area in the anterior temporal lobe, its role in face recognition is still unknown. Furthermore, previous studies limited their analysis to occipito-temporal regions without testing identity decoding in more anterior face-selective regions, such as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. In the current high-resolution functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging study, we systematically examined the decoding of the identity of famous faces in the temporo-frontal network of face-selective and adjacent non-face-selective regions. A special focus has been put on the face-area in the anterior temporal lobe, which was reliably localized using an optimized scanning protocol. We found that face-identity could be discriminated above chance level only in the fusiform face area. Our results corroborate the role of the fusiform face area in face recognition. Future studies are needed to further explore the role of the more recently discovered anterior face-selective areas in face recognition.     

Fusiform cells in the cambium of Kalopanax pictus are exclusively mononucleate

While it is generally accepted that most plant cells are mononucleate, it has been argued with some vehemence that fusiform cambial cells can be multinucleate. The controversy has not been resolved since to date, studies by conventional microscopy and transmission electron microscopy have failed to confirm unambiguously whether cambial cells are mononucleate or multinucleate. In this study, semi-thin sections of epoxy-embedded specimens and thick slices of cambial tissues from the hardwood Kalopanax pictus were analysed by confocal laser scanning microscopy. Tangential sections of cambium, regardless of the thickness of the section, are likely to contain portions of cells in several adjacent layers of cells and, at the lower resolution of conventional microscopy, several adjacent cells can appear to be a single cell with more than one nucleus. The higher resolution in the third dimension of confocal microscopy allowed clearly adjacent layers of cells in the cambium to be distinguished and the number of nuclei per cell to be determined. In this tree, the cambial cells were mononucleate in all cases.     

Studies on Biologically Active Substances Formed by Bacilli

The products of several Bacillus strains were investigated on rabbit serum calcium decreasing, oxytocic and toad heart function promoting activities. These products were obtained from the clear supernatant fluid of the culture medium after the cells were removed by centrifugation.

For the production of rabbit serum calcium decreasing substance, Bacillus subtilis K and Bacillus natto No. 8 were found to be usefull, Bacillus megaterium KM, Bacillus cereus var. mycoides and Bacillus subtilis K produced oxytocic principle. Bacillus subtilis K, Bacillus brevis and Bacillus megaterium KM also produced toad heart function promoting factor.

A procedure was developed to obtain the electrophoretically homogenous rabbit serum calcium decreasing substance from culture filtrate of Bacillus subtilis K. The crude substance was obtained as isoelectric precipitate by adjusting the culture filtrate to pH 3.0. The crude substance was purified by gel filtration on a Sephadex G-75 column, isoelectric fractionation and chromatography on DEAE-cellulose column. The purified preparation was shown to be homogenous by Tiselius electrophoresis but was separated into two bands by polyacrylamide electrophoresis. The chemical analysis of this biologically active substance indicated this substance to be a lipoprotein. The substance decreased rabbit serum calcium level about 12% at 6~8hr after intravenous injection (dose; 0.5 mg/kg body weight).