抗真菌蛋白Rs—AFPs基因在大肠杆菌中的表达

将抗真菌蛋白Ｒｓ－ＡＦＰ１和Ｒｓ－ＡＦＰ２全长ｃＤＮＡ插入表达质粒ｐＥＴ－２２ｂ／ＮｃｏＩ＋ＳａｃＩ位点,构建成融合蛋白表达载体ｐＲＡＦ１和ｐＲＡＦ２．将不含信号肽编码序列的Ｒｓ－ＡＦＰ１和Ｒｓ－ＡＦＰ２ｃＤＮＡ分别插入ｐＥＴ－２２ｂ／Ｎｃｏｌ＋Ｓａｃｌ和ｐＥＴ－２２ｂ／Ｎｄｅｌ＋ＳａｃＩ位点,构建成不含信号肽序列的融合蛋白表达载体ｐＲＡＦ３、ｐＲＡＦ４和非融合蛋白表达载体ｐＲＡＦ５和ｐＲＡＦ６．将构建的上述各种表达载体转化Ｅ．ｃｏｌｉＢＬ２１,挑菌落培养,ＩＰＴＧ诱导,使Ｒｓ－ＡＦＰｓ基因得到表达,并用体外抑菌试验检测表达产物的活性,结果表明,各种表达载体的表达产物均具有不同程度的抑菌活性,其中,ｐＲＡＦ３和ｐＲＡＦ４表达产物的抑菌活性较明显．     

抗品胚抗原单链抗休基因在家蚕细胞和幼虫中的表达

将抗癌胚抗原（ＣＥＡ）单链抗体基因插入家蚕杆状病毒转移载体ｐＢａｃＰＡＫ－Ｈｉｓ,与修饰的家蚕核型多角体病毒Ｂｍ－ＢａｃＰＡＫ ＤＮＡ共转染家蚕细胞,经同源重组得到含有在多角体蛋白基因启动子控制下的抗ＣＥＡ ＳｃＦｖ基因的重组病毒Ｂｍ－ＢａｃＳｃＦｖ。用重组病毒分别感染家蚕细胞和幼虫,在两者中均得到了高效表达,产物分子量为２８ｋＤ,前者占细胞总蛋白的６％,后者为０．３ｍｇ／蚕。目的基因在家蚕细胞和     

抗癌胚抗原单链抗体基因在家蚕细胞和幼虫中的表达

将抗癌胚抗原（ＣＥＡ）单链抗体基因插入家蚕杆状病毒转移载体ｐＢａｃＰＡＫＨｉｓ, 与修饰的家蚕核型多角体病毒ＢｍＢａｃＰＡＫＤＮＡ共转染家蚕细胞, 经同源重组得到含有在多角体蛋白基因启动子控制下的抗ＣＥＡＳｃＦｖ 基因的重组病毒ＢｍＢａｃＳｃＦｖ。用重组病毒分别感染家蚕细胞和幼虫, 在两者中均得到了高效表达, 产物分子量为２８ｋＤ, 前者占细胞总蛋白的６ ％ , 后者为０ ．３ ｍｇ／ 蚕。目的基因在家蚕细胞和幼虫中表达产物经Ｎｉ２＋ＩＤＡＳｅｐｈａｒｏｓｅ６Ｂ亲和柱纯化, 前者纯度可达９０％ 以上, 后者纯度较低; 纯化后的融合蛋白具有ＣＥＡ 结合活力, 其亲和常数分别为５ ．４×１０８／ｍｏｌ·Ｌ－ １ 和２．３ ×１０８／ｍｏｌ·Ｌ－１ , 略低于其亲本单抗Ｅ７Ｂ１０ ２．７ ×１０９／ｍｏｌ·Ｌ－ １ 。     

猪生长激素基因在杆状病毒载体系统中的表达

通过对猪生长激素（ｐＧＨ）基因的ｃＤＮＡ进行测序,得到ｐＧＨｃＤＮＡ的全序列,并与Ｓｅｅｂｕｒｇ等报道的序列进行了比较和讨论。然后利用具人工合成启动子和多角体蛋白ＸＩＶ启动子的转移载体质粒ｐＳＸＩＶＶＩ＾＋Ｘ３／４构建出含ｐＧＨ基因的重组质粒ｐＸ３／４－ｐＧＨ。将ｐＸ３／４－ｐＧＨ与致死缺失型线性化ＡｃＭＮＰＶ－ＯＣＣ＾－ＤＮＡ共转染Ｓｆ９细胞,构建出既能形成多角体又能表达ｐＧＨ基因的苜蓿丫纹夜蛾     

重组人GM—CSF基因在昆虫细胞中的表达

利用苜蓿夜蛾核型多角体病毒（ＡｃＮＰＶ）带β－Ｇａｌａｃｔｏｓｉｄａｓｅ基因标记的非融合蛋白基因转移载体ｐＢｌｕｅＢａｃ将人粒细胞巨噬细胞集落刺激因子（ｈＧＭ－ＣＳＦ）基因成功地插入病毒ＡｃＮＰＶ的基因组中．ｈＧＭ－ＣＳＦ基因在感染重组病毒的草地夜蛾（Ｓｐｏｄｏｐｔｅｒａｆｒｕｇｉｐｅｒｄａ）培养细胞Ｓｆ９中得到表达,感染后的Ｓｆ９细胞培养液能刺激人骨髓细胞在体外形成典型的集落,表达水平可达２．７×１０５５ＣＦＵ／ｍｌ。以ｈＧＭ－ＣＳＦ单抗所作的ＷｅｓｔｅｒｎＢｌｏｔｔｉｎｇ表明,表达的ｈＧＭ－ＣＳＦ对是３种糖基化程度不同的产物,分子量分别约为１５ｋｄ,１８ｋｄ和２０ｋｄ。     

家蚕核型多角体病毒egt基因的结构和功能分析

以苜宿银纹夜蛾核型多角体病毒（ＡｃＭＮＰＶ）的ｅｇｔ基因作探针,从家蚕核型多角体病毒镇江株（ＢｍＮＰＶ ＺＪ－８）基因组中克隆了ｅｇｔ基因及其旁侧序列,作了该片段的酶切图谱;测定了ＢｍＮＰＶ ＺＪ－８ｅｇｔ基因序列。与ＡｃＭＮＰＶ的ｅｇｔ基因相比同源性为９５％;基因大小都为１５１８ｂｐ。利用ｅｇｔ基因旁侧序列构建了转移载体ｐＵＤｅｇｔ,以绿色荧色光蛋白基因（ＥＧＦＰ）作报告基因取代ｅｇｔ基因,构建     

甜菜坏死黄脉病毒内蒙分离物RNA3序列分析及编码25kD蛋白基因在大肠杆菌中的表达

以甜菜坏死黄脉病毒（ＢＮＹＶＶ）内蒙分离物的总ＲＮＡ为模板,通过反转录－ＰＣＲ扩增获得ＢＮＹＶＶＲＮＡ３全长ｃＤＮＡ。将其克隆到ｐＧＥＭ－７Ｚｆ（＋）上,得到重组质粒ｐＧＢＹ５６。序列分析结果表明,内蒙分离物ＲＮＡ３基因组全长为１７７５ｎｔ,其中包含３个开放阅读框架,分别编码２５ｋＤ蛋白、４．６ｋＤ蛋白和一种由５９个氨基酸组成的Ｎ蛋白。与法国Ｆ２分离物、德国Ｇ１分离物和日本Ｓ分离物相比,其核苷酸序列的同源性分别为９６．４％、９６．８％和９７．３％。将２５ｋＤ蛋白编码基因克隆到ｐＪＷ２上,构建了该基因的原核表达载体。ＳＤＳ－ＰＡＧＥ和Ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎｂｌｏｔｉｎｇ分析结果表明,２５ｋＤ蛋白基因在Ｅ．ｃｏｌｉＢＬ２１（ＤＥ３）中经温度（４２℃）诱导后,可特异地表达２５ｋＤ蛋白     

用构建的新型BmNPV载体在家蚕高效表达人β-干扰素

构建了家蚕核多角体病毒(Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis virus,BmNPV)新型载体pBm92,该载体将多角体蛋白基因的起始密码ATG改变为ATT,然后在多角体蛋白基因的+12位后连接有5个外源基因的克隆位点。将HulFN-β基因克隆在多角体蛋白基因的+12位后,构建了pBmIFN+12;同时构建了HuIFN－β克隆在－3位后的转移载体pB．mIFN－3。将两种转移载体DNA分别与BmNPV基因组DNA共转染Bm—N细胞。利用重组病毒不产生多角体蛋白的特征,筛选重组病毒。用HuIFN－β基因探针与重组病毒DNA进行杂交鉴定。重组病毒BmIFN+12感染Bm-N细胞,其上清IFN活性为2．0×10⁶Iu／ml,将BmIFN+12注射5龄家蚕虫体,表达水平为5．O×10⁷Iu／ml,是HulFN-β基因克隆在多角体蛋白基因的-3位后获得的重组病毒表达量的2—4倍。构建的新型BmNPv载体能够在家蚕高效地表达HuIFN-β。家蚕虫体生产的rHulFN-β蛋白具有天然HuIFN-β的抗原性。     

黄地老虎颗粒体病毒DNA片段的克隆与颗粒体蛋白基因的定位

用ｐＵＣ１９质粒作载体,克隆了黄地老虎颗粒体病毒（Ａｇｒｏｌｉｓｓｅｇｅｔｕｍｇｒａｎｕｌｏｓｉｓｖｉｒｕｓ,简称ＡｓＧＶ）ＤＮＡＰｓｔＩ－Ｄ．Ｅ．Ｆ．Ｇ．Ｈ．Ｊ．Ｋ．等７个片段。以［￣（３２）Ｐ］－ｄＣＴＰ标记的油桐尺蠖核型多角体病毒（Ｂｕｚｕｒａｓｕｐｐｒｅｓｓａｒｉａｎｕｃｌｃａｒｐｏｌｙｈｅｄｒｏｓｉｓｖｉｒｕｓ简称ＢｓＮＰＶ）多角体蛋白基因为探针,在３７℃条件下对ＡｓＧＶ）颗粒体蛋白基因进行了定位,将其分别定位于ＢｓｌⅡ－Ｓ或ＴＰｓＴＩ－Ａ或Ｂ和ＥｃｉＲＩ－Ａ片段上。     

大鼠甘氨肽α—羟化单氧酶在昆虫细胞中的活性表达

将编码大鼠甘氨肽α－羟化单氧酶（ＰＨＭ）ｃＤＮＡ基因,插入昆虫杆状病毒转移表达载体ｐＢａｃＰＡＫ８,构建成表达质粒ｐＢａｃＰＨＭ２,与修饰的银纹夜蛾核多角体病毒ＢａｃＰＡＫ６线性化ＤＮＡ共转染秋粘虫细胞Ｓｆ２１,通过同源重组,得到在核多角体蛋白基因启动子控制下的ＰＨＭ基因的重组病毒ＢａｃＰＨＭ。用ＢａｃＰＨＭ感染Ｓｆ２１细胞,无血清培养上清在７２小时后检测到酰胺化酶最高活力;用细胞免疫组化法和免疫     

Ectogenesis and the case against the right to the death of the foetus

Ectogenesis, or the use of an artificial womb to allow a foetus to develop, will likely become a reality within a few decades, and could significantly affect the abortion debate. We first examine the implications for Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist analogy, which argues for a woman’s right to withdraw life support from the foetus and so terminate her pregnancy, even if the foetus is granted full moral status. We show that on Thomson’s reasoning, there is no right to the death of the foetus, and abortion is not permissible if ectogenesis is available, provided it is safe and inexpensive. This raises the question of whether there are persuasive reasons for the right to the death of the foetus that could be exercised in the context of ectogenesis. Eric Mathison and Jeremy Davis have examined several arguments for this right, doubting that it exists, while Joona Räsänen has recently criticized their reasoning. We respond to Räsänen’s analysis, concluding that his arguments are unsuccessful, and that there is no right to the death of the foetus in these circumstances.     

On the diversity of the Cladocera in the tropics

The mythical concept of an impoverished tropical cladoceran fauna is refuted. On a planetary scale, around half of the cladoceran species presently known occur exclusively in the tropics-subtropics, often with considerable restriction to particular geographical subzones. On a regional (political) scale, the situation is often unclear because of the continued fragmentary nature of studies, and because political units are not a good basis for biogeographical comparisons. At the finest level of resolution (lake-perlake comparisons), there appears to be an upper limit of c. 50 cladoceran species per individual lake. No significant difference between lakes in the temperate zone and in the tropics could be established here. Daphnia is largely absent from the tropics, but is replaced by more Sidids, Moinids, and Bosminids, such that the average cladoceran community in the limnetic zone of a tropical lake is not characterized by less species but rather by lower population densities. This, in turn, is considered a consequence of higher prevalent predation levels in the tropics.     

Tubular networks in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human,the monkey,the cat and the dog

Summary A tubular network was found in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human, the monkey (Macaca mulatta), the cat and the dog. These tubules are arranged in close groups in the vicinity of the synaptic lamellae and the invaginated dendrites. According to the form, diameter, density of the tubules and to the consistence of the network formed by them one can distinguish at these places an initial type (type I), a transitory (type II) and a vesicular one (type III). In the the type III branching, bizarre forms are frequent. The diameter of all the tubules reaches 500–600 Å, their density and walls being the same as in the synaptic vesicles.Similar networks also occur in the axons of the visual receptor cells of the monkey.

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Zusammenfassung In den Endigungen der Photorezeptorzellen von Mensch, Affe (Macaca mulatta), Katze und Hund kommen aus Tubuli bestehende Komplexe vor. Organellenartig in geschlossenen Gruppen angeordnet, liegen sie in Nähe der synaptischen Lamellen und der invaginierten Dendriten. An diesen Stellen kann man nach Form, Durchmesser, Dichte und Konsistenz der von den Tubuli gebildeten Komplexe drei Typen unterscheiden: 1. einen initialen (Typus I), 2. einen Übergangstypus (Typus II) und 3. einen vesiculären Typus (Typus III). In letzterem kommen häufig verzweigte, bizarre Formen vor. Der Durchmesser sämtlicher Tubuli erreicht 500–600 Å. Ihre Dichte und ihre Wand gleicht denen der synaptischen Vesikel.Ähnliche Komplexe fanden wir auch in den Axonen der Photorezeptorzellen vom Affen.

     

Assessing the Physiological State of the Fucoids from the Barents Sea Littoral by the End of the Polar Night

Methods of amperometry and potentiometric titration were used to follow dark respiration (DR) and apparent photosynthesis (AP) in the fucoids Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol, Fucus vesiculosus L., and F. serratus L. from the Barents Sea littoral by the end of the 40-day-long polar night. The macroalgae were shown to manifest species-specific low rates of photosynthesis and respiration. However, in spite of their low photosynthetic status due to the effects of subzero temperature and prolonged low or zero illumination, the macroalgae have been able to restore DR and AP to the initial level already by the day 9; the ability to restore AP depended on the level of illumination. The study of the changes in the carbonate–bicarbonate system in the light and darkness demonstrated that the macroalgae grown in darkness, in contrast to those grown in twilight, could absorb bicarbonate in darkness; however, they lost this capacity after two-day-long illumination at an irradiance of 7 mol/(m² s). Bicarbonate uptake in darkness and the capacity to restore the systems of photosynthesis and respiration in fucoid cells are discussed in the context of algal energy metabolism under the polar night conditions.     

Arranging the elements of the potassium channel: the T1 domain occludes the cytoplasmic face of the channel

The voltage-gated potassium channel is currently one of the few membrane proteins where functional roles have been mapped onto specific segments of sequence. Although high-resolution structures of the transmembrane portions of three bacterial potassium channels, the tetramerization domain and the cytoplasmic ball are available, their relative spatial arrangement in mammalian channels remains a matter of ongoing debate. Cryo-electron microscopic images of the six transmembrane voltage-gated Kv channel have been reconstructed at up to 18 Å resolution, revealing that the T1 domain tetramerizes and is suspended below the transmembrane segments. However, the resolution of these images is insufficient to reveal the location of the third piece of the puzzle, the inactivating ball domain. We have used the aberrant interactions observed in a series of chimæric channels to establish that an assembled T1 domain restricts access to the cytoplasmic face of the channel, suggesting that the N-terminal ball and chain may be confined in the space between the T1 domain and the transmembrane portion of the channel.     

Feeding the vertebrate retina from the Cambrian to the Tertiary

The retina of the vertebrate eye is metabolically active and requires nutritive support. During the last 540 million years it has evolved into forms as complicated and nutritionally demanding as those found in avian or primate eyes. Diffusion from the choroid is generally able to supply the metabolic needs of thin retinae. However, when the thickness exceeds the limits of diffusion, structures are needed to supplement the vascular supply from the choroid. These supplemental nutritive devices include the choroidal gland, the falciform process and preretinal vascular plexus of fish, the conus papillaris of lizards, the pecten oculi of birds, the intraretinal vessels of mammals and a few novel systems that remain difficult to classify. These vascular systems are among the most variable features of the vertebrate eye. Here, we review classical and recent findings regarding such retinal nutrition systems, propose a three category classification for them based on histologic origins and speculate on the evolutionary forces which drove their development.     

Observations on the permeability of the choriocapillaris of the eye

Summary The choriocapillaris is a fenestrated capillary bed located posterior to the retinal pigment epithelium. It serves as the main source of supply to the photoreceptors, retinal pigment epithelium, and other cells of the outer retina. The permeability of these capillaries to intravenously injected ferritin (MW — approx. 480,000; mol. diam. 11 nm) was examined in the mouse, rabbit, and guinea pig, each of which is characterized by a different type of retinal vascularization. In all three species, the bulk of the ferritin remained in the capillary lumina, where it appeared to be blocked at the level of the diaphragmed fenestrae. Some ferritin was present in endothelial cell vacuoles. The results confirm previous work on the rat choriocapillaris and indicate that the barrier function of the choriocapillary endothelium is present even among species in which the retinal circulation differs significantly.Supported by NIH grant EY03418