采用高分子介导精子作载体制备转基因泥鳅

为探讨树形高分子介导精子载体技术产生转基因动物,将泥鳅精子与具有标记基因LacZ的pCH110重组质粒和树形高分子在保存液内孵育,经DNA原位杂交检测发现树形高分子介导下精子携事外源DNA的效率得到较大的提高,将捕获了外源DNA的精子,再与泥鳅卵进行体外人工受精。由此发育的鱼苗经PCR和LacZ组织化学检测,获得了高比例的转基因泥鳅,外源基因LacZ在泥鳅幼苗头部得到了明显表达。     

精子作载体的转基因鱼研究

本文报道了以精子为载体将美洲拟蝶抗冻蛋白基因导入罗非鱼卵,构建转基因鱼的方法,此法简单易行。斑点杂文和ＳｏｕｔｈｅｒｎＢｌｏｔ杂交结果表明,外源基因的整合率为１８．１％,与其它方法构建转基因鱼的外源基因整合率相近。     

水稻精细胞差异表达基因RSG6的克隆和初步研究

用水稻 (Oryza sativa L.)精细胞优势表达克隆BF475207为探针,筛选水稻精细胞cDNA文库,得到一全长为1 176 bp的序列,其开放读码框编码281个氨基酸,与已知蛋白质无明显同源性,属于一新发现的基因,GenBank登录号为AF442490.Southern杂交显示该基因可能含有内含子.RT-PCR结果显示该基因在根、叶、二细胞花粉、成熟花粉、授粉子房和精细胞中均有表达,但在精细胞中的表达量要高得多,是精细胞差异表达基因.将此基因命名为RSG6 (rice sperm gene 6).将RSG6的编码区克隆到表达载体pQE30上,构建重组质粒.在大肠杆菌M15中表达出N端融合了6×His的融合蛋白.用纯化的融合蛋白免疫家兔,制得高效价、高特异性的抗体.     

水稻精细胞差异表达基因RSG6的克隆和初步研究

用水稻 (OryzasativaL .)精细胞优势表达克隆BF4 75 2 0 7为探针 ,筛选水稻精细胞cDNA文库 ,得到一全长为1176bp的序列 ,其开放读码框编码 2 81个氨基酸 ,与已知蛋白质无明显同源性 ,属于一新发现的基因 ,GenBank登录号为AF4 4 2 4 90。Southern杂交显示该基因可能含有内含子。RT_PCR结果显示该基因在根、叶、二细胞花粉、成熟花粉、授粉子房和精细胞中均有表达 ,但在精细胞中的表达量要高得多 ,是精细胞差异表达基因。将此基因命名为RSG6 (ricespermgene 6 )。将RSG6的编码区克隆到表达载体pQE30上 ,构建重组质粒。在大肠杆菌M15中表达出N端融合了 6×His的融合蛋白。用纯化的融合蛋白免疫家兔 ,制得高效价、高特异性的抗体     

Methods for Precisely Localized Transfer of Cells or DNA into Early Postimplantation Mouse Embryos

Manipulation and culture of early mouse embryos is a powerful yet largely under-utilized technology enhancing the value of this model system. Conversely, cell culture has been widely used in developmental biology studies. However, it is important to determine whether in vitro cultured cells truly represent in vivo cell types. Grafting cells into embryos, followed by an assessment of their contribution during development is a useful method to determine the potential of in vitro cultured cells. In this study, we describe a method for grafting cells into a defined site of early postimplantation mouse embryos, followed by ex vivo culture. We also introduce an optimized electroporation method that uses glass capillaries of known diameter, allowing precise localization and adjustment of the number of cells receiving exogenous DNA with both high transfection efficiency and low cell death. These techniques, which do not require any specialized equipment, render experimental manipulations of the gastrulation and early organogenesis-stage mouse embryo possible, allowing analysis of commitment in cultured cell subpopulations and the effect of genetic manipulations in situ on cell differentiation.     

Spermatophore Transfer and Subsequent Sperm Development in a Homalorhagid Kinorhynch

The cuticular morphology and precise location of male and female gonopores and penile spines of the homalorhagid kinorhynch Kinorhynchus phyllotropis Brown & Higgins, 1983 are described and illustrated. In this species spermatozoa are transferred from male to female by a spermatophore. This is the first record of the mechanism of sperm transfer in a kinorhynch. The spermatophore is presumably extruded through the male gonopore and directed towards the female by the ductless penile spines. Spermatozoa in the spermatophore are rod-shaped and catenulate. The spermatophore is pressed directly against the cuticular plates of the female, and usually covers the female gonopores. The spermatophore contains a mass of intertwined spermatids and spermatozoa surrounded by clear material covered with a layer of debris. Spermatozoa are found in the female lodged in the seminal receptacle tissue applied to the dorsal aspect of posterior oocytes. There the spermatozoa complete their development. Nuclei change from filiform to geniculate, and oval corpuscles surrounding the nuclei disappear, so that the spermatozoa are seen as densely-packed, polyhedral cells. These observations conform with literature reports of aberrant spermatozoa of unknown origin seen in female Pycnophyes . The fertilization process remains unknown.     

Exosomal Transfer of Vasorin Expressed in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Promotes Migration of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells

Vasorin (VASN) is a type I transmembrane protein that plays important roles in tumor development and vasculogenesis. In this paper, we showed that VASN could be a key mediator of communication between tumor cells and endothelial cells. We confirmed for the first time that HepG2-derived VASN can be transferred to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) via receptor mediated endocytosis of exosomes, at least in part through HSPGs. The HepG2-derived VASN containing exosomes promote migration of recipient HUVECs cells. Our results identify a novel pathway by which a functional protein expressed in tumor cells affects the biological fate of endothelial cells via exosomes.     

Crlz-1 Is Prominently Expressed in Spermatogonia and Sertoli Cells during Early Testis Development and in Spermatids during Late Spermatogenesis

The expression of the Crlz-1 gene in mouse testis, where it was found to be expressed most highly among the tested mouse organs, was analyzed spatiotemporally by employing RT-PCR and in situ hybridization techniques with the aid of immunohistochemistry and/or immunofluorescence methods. In 1-week-old neonatal testis, Crlz-1 was strongly expressed in the spermatogonia and Sertoli cells in its seminiferous cord. In 2- to 3-week-old prepubertal testis, where Sertoli cells cease to proliferate, Crlz-1 expression dropped and remained weakly at the rim layer of seminiferous cords and/or tubules, where spermatogonia are present. In the adult testis at 12 weeks after birth, Crlz-1 was expressed mainly in the spermatids near the lumen of seminiferous tubules. In a further in situ hybridization of Crlz-1 in the 12-week-old adult testis with hematoxylin nuclear counterstaining, Crlz-1 was mainly expressed at step 16 of spermatids between stages VII and VIII of seminiferous tubules as well as in their residual bodies at stage IX of seminiferous tubules.     

Luminescence Resonance Energy Transfer to Study Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins Expressed in Mammalian Cells

Luminescence Resonance Energy Transfer, or LRET, is a powerful technique used to measure distances between two sites in proteins within the distance range of 10-100 Å. By measuring the distances under various ligated conditions, conformational changes of the protein can be easily assessed. With LRET, a lanthanide, most often chelated terbium, is used as the donor fluorophore, affording advantages such as a longer donor-only emission lifetime, the flexibility to use multiple acceptor fluorophores, and the opportunity to detect sensitized acceptor emission as an easy way to measure energy transfer without the risk of also detecting donor-only signal. Here, we describe a method to use LRET on membrane proteins expressed and assayed on the surface of intact mammalian cells. We introduce a protease cleavage site between the LRET fluorophore pair. After obtaining the original LRET signal, cleavage at that site removes the specific LRET signal from the protein of interest allowing us to quantitatively subtract the background signal that remains after cleavage. This method allows for more physiologically relevant measurements to be made without the need for purification of protein.     

铃虫交配过程中精子的转移

统计了棉铃虫交配前后贮精囊、复射精管和精包内真核精子(束)的数量,以此来验证棉铃虫交配过程中是否存在精子回流现象。结果表明,棉铃虫在交配时将复射精管内的精子全部转移至雌蛾体内,不存在精子回流现象。     

Study on Organelle DNA Within the Generative Cell and Sperm Cells in Pharbitis

The organelle DNA in generative cell and its behavior during spermatogenesis in Pharbitis limbata and P. purpurea were observed by epifluorescence microscopy stained with 4',-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI). In these two species, the generative cell is long and thin in which a great amount of cytoplasmic DNA is present. Most pairs of sperm cells are isomorphic, in which one end is obtuse and the other is elongate, but in a few pairs dimorphi sperms are present. The nucleus is located at one end of the cell. A lot of cytoplasmic DNA are distributed randomly throughout the cytoplasm. The size of organelle nucleoids and their fluorescence intensity are different in a sperm cell. The features of generative cell and sperm cell, and behavior of cytoplasmic DNA are similar in P. limbata and P. purpurea. The obvious differences between them are that the size and fluorescence intensity of organelle nucleoids in P. purpurea are respectively smaller and weaker than in P. limbata. The results showed that morning glory has potential of biparental or paternal cytoplasmic in heritance. Isomorphism and dimorphism of sperms, and the relationship between the ratio of nucleus and cytoplasm in sperm cell and the plastid biparental inheritance are discussed.     

电脉冲作用将外源基因导入稀有(鱼句)鲫精子的研究

将稀有鲫 (Gobiocyprisrarus)精子与重组质粒pCAhLFc线性DNA混合温育 ,经电脉冲处理后与卵子受精 ,孵化出苗。从鱼苗中提取DNA ,经PCR检测 ,2 5 .5 %～ 6 6 .7%鱼苗带有外源基因。在显微镜下观察经电脉冲处理过的精子 ,发现其活力有不同程度下降 ,受精率也有不同程度下降 ,说明不同的电脉冲条件对精子有不同程度的损害作用。精子与外源DNA混合温育 ,经电脉冲处理后 ,用DNA外切酶消化后 ,提取精子DNA ,经PCR检测 ,仍有阳性电泳带 ,证明电脉冲可以促使稀有鲫精子摄入外源基因     

DNA Substrates Influence the Recombination Efficiency Mediated by FLP Recombinase Expressed in Mammalian Cells

The FLP recombinase derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae mediates precise site‐specific recombination between a pair of FLP recognition targets (FRTs). Like the Cre/loxP system derived from bacteriophage P1, the FLP/FRT system has recently been applied to gene regulation systems using an FLP‐expressing recombinant adenovirus (rAd) (Nakano et al, Nucleic Acids Res. 29: e40, 2001). In an attempt to improve the FLP/FRT system by altering its DNA substrates, we compared the recombination efficiency among different substrates by a quantitative in vitro assay using FLP expressed in mammalian cells. Unexpectedly, we found that one linearized DNA substrate showed 4‐ to > 20‐fold lower recombination efficiency than other substrates, which phenomenon has not been observed in the Cre/loxP system. The quantitative in vitro assay using truncated DNA substrates suggested that the recombination efficiency seemed to be influenced not only by the linearized position of the substrate, but also by the length between a pair of FRTs. Such substrate preference of FLP expressed in mammalian cells should probably be noted when designing versatile applications of the FLP/FRT system as a gene regulation system in mammalian systems. Fortunately, however, we demonstrated that no substrate preference was observed when using a particular substrate (pCAFNF5) and the preference was reduced when using a certain pair of mutant FRTs (f72), which will also be a promising tool for simultaneous gene regulation in combination with wild‐type FRT.     

Transfer Cells in Suspensur and Endosperm during Early Embryogeny of Vigna sinensis

During early embryogeny, structural differentiation of the suspensor and endosperm can be observed with the formation of cells with wall ingrowths. In the early proembryo stage, wall ingrowths are seen only on the boundary walls of the embryo sac around the proembryo and at the chalazal end. Later, ingrowths appear in the outer walls of the basal suspensor cells and some wall ingrowths also begin to develop in the outer walls of cellular endospermic cells adjacent to the nucellar cap and the inner integumentary tissues. The suspensor appears to remain active throughout the differentiation stages. Two regions can be clearly distinguished in the suspensor: a basal region and a neck region. Wall ingrowths appear to form only in the cells of the basal region. During the development of the cellular endospermic sheath, its cell number and size both increase slightly. Later, these cells rapidly become separated from each other. Those endospermic cells that abut directly onto the integumentary tissues also develop wall ingrowths. In the region of the fluid endosperm, wall ingrowths are especially abundant in the boundary walls on the ventral side of the embryo sac. The possible pathway of nutrient flow to the developing embryo is discussed.     

Foreign Peptides Expressed in Engineered Chimeric Self Molecules

Quorum sensing (QS) has received significant attention in the past few decades. QS describes population density dependent cell to cell communication in bacteria using diffusible signal molecules. These signal molecules produced by bacterial cells, regulate various physiological processes important for social behavior and pathogenesis. One such process regulated by quorum sensing molecules is the production of a biosurfactant, rhamnolipid. Rhamnolipids are important microbially derived surface active agents produced by Pseudomonas spp. under the control of two interrelated quorum sensing systems; namely las and rhl. Rhamnolipids possess antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties. They are important in motility, cell to cell interactions, cellular differentiation and formation of water channels that Currently, biosurfactants are unable to compete economically with chemically synthesized compounds in the market due to high production costs. Once the genes required for biosurfactant production have been identified, they can be placed under the regulation of strong promoters in nonpathogenic, heterologous hosts to enhance production. The production of rhamnolipids could be increased by cloning both the rhlAB rhamnosyltransferase genes and the rhlRI quorum sensing system into a suitable bacterium such as E. coli or P. putida and facilitate rhamnolipid production. Biosurfactants can also be genetically engineered for different industrial applications assuming there is a strong understanding of both the genetics and the structure-function relationships of each component of the molecule. Genetic engineering of surfactin has already been reported, with recent papers describing the creation of novel peptide structures from the genetic recombination of several peptide synthetases. Recent application of dynamic metabolic engineering strategies for controlled gene expression could lower the cost of fermentation processes by increasing the product formation. Therefore, by integrating a genetic circuit into applications of metabolic engineering the biochemical production can be optimized. Furthermore, novel strategies could be designed on the basis of information obtained from the studies of quorum sensing and biosurfactants produced suggesting enormous practical applications.     

DNA Methylation Occurred around Lowly Expressed Genes of Plastid DNA during Tomato Fruit Development

We have analyzed DNA methylation of plastid DNA from fully ripened red fruits, green mature fruits, and green leaves of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum var. Firstmore). Essentially identical restriction profiles were obtained between chromoplast and chloroplast DNAs by EcoRI digestion. BstNI/EcoRII and HpaII/MspI are pairs of isoschizomers that can discriminate between methylated and unmethylated DNAs. These endonucleases produced different restriction patterns of plastid DNAs from tomato fruits compared to tomato leaves. Moreover, we have found from Southern blots that methylation was not detected in DNA fragments containing certain genes that are actively expressed in chromoplasts, whereas DNA fragments bearing genes that are barely transcribed in chromoplasts are methylated.     

大鳞副泥鳅仔稚鱼消化道黏液细胞分布及发育

利用组织学切片及阿利新蓝-过碘酸雪夫(AB-PAS)组化染色技术对0~50日龄大鳞副泥鳅(Paramisgurnus dabryanus)消化道各段黏液细胞的发育与分布进行显微观察和研究。大鳞副泥鳅黏液细胞分为Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ和Ⅳ4种类型。消化道黏液细胞最早出现在4日龄仔鱼的口咽腔和食道。10~15日龄口咽腔和食道黏液细胞数量快速增长,15~20日龄肠道各型黏液细胞数量显著增长,20日龄后消化道黏液细胞分布广泛。随着仔稚鱼发育,消化道各部黏液细胞主要以Ⅲ和Ⅳ型细胞为主。根据大鳞副泥鳅仔稚鱼消化道黏液细胞的发育特点,5~10日龄和15~20日龄为其消化道功能发育的两个敏感时期,20日龄后消化道功能逐渐发育完善。建议加强对5~20日龄仔稚鱼的日常饲养管理以提高苗种成活率。     

Superoxide Dismutase: A Differentiation Protein Expressed in Uromyces Germlings during Early Appressorium Development

Lamboy, J. S., Staples, R. C., and Hoch H. C. 1995. Superoxide dismutase: A differentiation protein expressed in Uromyces germlings during early appressorium development. Experimental Mycology 19, 284-296. Germlings of the bean rust fungus Uromyces appendiculatus detect penetration sites on the surface of the host leaf by thigmosensing topographical features. Within 2-4 min after the apex of a urediospore germ tube encounters the cuticular lip of a stomate, the germling ceases polarized growth and begins to swell over the aperture. The mechanism by which the cells detect topographical signals is not understood; however, previous experiments indicated that the initiation process does not involve de novo gene expression. In order to detect posttranslational modifications, the protein profiles of induced and noninduced germlings were compared at the earliest stages of appressorium formation, and a 21-kDa differentiation protein was identified by a shift in isoelectric point. The N-terminal amino acid sequence exhibited homology with superoxide dismutase (SOD), and antibodies to a synthetic peptide fragment of the respective sequence recognized cooper/zinc isozymes of SOD in electroblots of native gels. Electroelution of the active enzyme bands and separation by SDS-PAGE indicated that the 21-kDa protein is a component of a tetrameric 85-kDa SOD.