Syntaxin蛋白对神经母瘤细胞分化的影响及机制研究

Syntaxin是特异性地分布在神经细胞突触前质膜上的一种多结构域蛋白,它是细胞质膜融合的关键性蛋白,但Syntaxin在神经细胞分化过程中的作用尚未阐明。本实验旨在探讨Syntaxin蛋白对神经母瘤细胞分化的影响及其影响机制。通过在小鼠的神经母瘤细胞（N2a）中过表达不同的Syntaxin蛋白突变体,统计细胞的分化率、突起分支数和突起总长度等参数,来观察Syntaxin蛋白及其突变体对神经细胞分化的影响。通过实验结果得知Syntaxin蛋白促进神经母瘤细胞分化的作用位点在其氨基端的Habc结构域,主要影响细胞的分化突起数目和突起总长度,对细胞分化率无显著作用。     

Complexin蛋白对神经母瘤细胞分化的影响及机制研究

目的:探讨Complexin蛋白对神经母瘤细胞分化的影响及机制。方法:采用神经母瘤细胞(N2a)作为实验材料,在其中过表达Complexin蛋白以及其突变体后,利用激光共聚焦显微镜拍照并利用Image J软件对N2a细胞的分化比率、突起数量以及突起生长长度进行统计学分析。结果:在N2a细胞中过表达Cpx蛋白后,细胞分化率比对照组(即转染空白对照质粒)增加约2倍。Cpx1-86和Cpxpoorclamp突变体可促进N2a细胞的分化,而Cpx27-134突变体对N2a细胞分化无明显影响。随着时间的延长,过表达野生型Cpx蛋白和其N端缺失突变体都不能显著增加细胞突起的数量;但在转染4天后,过表达野生型Cpx蛋白能显著增加分化细胞的突起长度,而其N端缺失突变体不能引起突起长度的增加。结论:Complexin蛋白主要通过其N端序列促进神经母瘤细胞(N2a)的分化,增加分化后突起的长度,但对突起数量没有明显影响。     

普通烟草和粉蓝烟草体细胞杂种植株后代的育性研究

普通烟草(Nicotiana.tabacum)和粉蓝烟草（N.glauca）叶肉原生质体融合获得种间体细胞杂种植株,其当代育性很低,但株系间稍有差异。杂种植株自交系（SC）随着自交世代的增加,染色体数目变化不大,正常花粉粒的比率增加,育性提高。体细胞杂种植株的回交系(BC)随着回交世代的递增,染色体数目减少,直至接近回交亲本的染色体数,育性趋向正常。高度雄性不育的植株染色体数目稳定,回交仍保持高度的不育。其育性低的主要原因之一是雄性器官退化。     

三种眼镜蛇毒镇痛作用的实验研究

目的研究3种蛇毒即N.siamensis、N.naja和N.atra的镇痛效果。方法采用热板法、醋酸致小鼠扭体法和1%甲醛致小鼠舔足法建立3种疼痛模型,于腹腔注射N.siamensis、N.naja和N.atra后不同时间点测量小鼠第1次舔足时间、扭体次数和注射甲醛后舔足总时间,比较各时间点测量值的差异。结果热板法小鼠疼痛模型组,于腹腔注射N.Atra、N.naja和N.siamensis后第6~10h之间能明显提高小鼠疼痛阈值;醋酸致小鼠扭体法模型组与对照组相比,腹腔注射N.siamensis(10μg/kg)、N.naja(10μg/kg)和N.atra(10μg/kg)后明显减少扭体次数;1%甲醛致炎法小鼠模型组,于腹腔注射N.naja(10μg/kg)后在第Ⅰ时相能明显降低小鼠舔足时间,注射N.siamensis(5μg/kg)和N.atra(5μg/kg)后在第Ⅱ时相能明显降低小鼠舔足时间。结论小鼠腹腔注射N.siamensis、N.naja和N.Atra后无论对热刺激还是化学刺激引起的疼痛都有明显镇痛作用,特点是起效较慢但持续时间长。     

草鱼×赤眼鳟F1与其亲本遗传性状的比较研究

采用生物统计方法,对草鱼、赤眼鳟及其杂种一代（草♀×赤♂、草♂×赤♀）的１０ 个数量性状进行统计分析,结果显示草♂×赤♀杂种的性状表现了明显的趋父性遗传,而草♀×赤♂杂种则表现了明显的趋母性遗传．用杂种指数衡量,在所测量的７ 个性状中,有５ 个偏向草鱼,只有体长／体高和脊椎骨数２ 个性状偏向赤眼鳟．这表明草鱼与赤眼鳟的杂交后代（Ｆ１）数量性状遗传受草鱼遗传因子的影响较大．     

组蛋白乙酰化在二烯丙基二硫诱导MGC803细胞分化中的作用

探讨二烯丙基二硫(DADS)诱导人胃癌MGC803细胞分化过程中组蛋白乙酰化状态的改变情况。运用形态学方法及成瘤实验观察DADS诱导MGC803细胞分化,应用Western印迹观察DADS诱导MGC803细胞分化与其调控细胞组蛋白乙酰化水平和相关p21WAF1的关系。形态学观察结果显示,30mg/LDADS处理MGC803细胞24h后,细胞异型性明显减少,且经裸鼠成瘤实验证实,处理后的细胞均未在裸鼠体内形成肿瘤;Western印迹显示,30mg/LDADS处理细胞12h后,其组蛋白H3乙酰化程度明显升高,与未处理组比较增加了38%(P<0.05);H4乙酰化程度无明显改变。用15、30、60mg/LDADS处理细胞12、24h后,p21WAF1均较对照组升高,以30mg/LDADS处理24h升高最显著。研究结果表明,DADS可诱导MGC803细胞分化,其作用可能与增加核组蛋白乙酰化水平及p21WAF1表达有关。     

甘蓝和青花菜杂种小孢子培养

对甘蓝(Brassicaoleraceavar.capitata)×青花菜(Brassicaoleraceavar.italica)的20个杂种及相应的父母本进行游离小孢子培养,并对影响甘青杂种小孢子胚胎发生的主要因子进行探讨,适于小孢子培养的培养基为1/2NLN,附加0.5mgL-1NAA、0.05mgL-1BA、5mgL-1AgNO3、0.2mgL-12,4-D和0.1mgL-1活性炭。结果有14个杂种能产生胚状体,诱导率70%;不同杂种间小孢子胚胎发生频率存在很大差异,最高的是绿洲808×夏宝,平均每蕾16.2个胚。诱导杂种胚状体发生的最佳时期是小孢子单核靠边期至双核期,34℃热激2d有利于小孢子细胞对称分裂。在含糖170gL-1的液体培养基中培养3d,添加低糖(含糖110gL-1)的培养液,可显著提高出胚率。     

再生胰腺提取物诱导人羊膜间充质干细胞定向分化为胰岛素分泌细胞

利用天然生物诱导剂大鼠再生胰腺提取物(Rgenerating pancreatic extract,RPE)定向诱导人羊膜间充质干细胞(Human amniotic mesenchymal stem cells,hAMSCs)向胰岛素分泌细胞分化。切除大鼠60%胰腺刺激胰腺再生,而后制备RPE,以终浓度为20 mg/L的RPE诱导hAMSCs。实验通过形态学鉴定、双硫腙染色、免疫荧光分析、RT-PCR基因检测和高糖刺激胰岛素分泌等实验鉴定细胞诱导结果。实验结果显示P3代hAMSCs经RPE诱导后形态变化明显,诱导15 d后细胞呈簇状生长,经双硫腙染色可见棕红色细胞团;免疫荧光染色结果显示诱导细胞呈胰岛素阳性表达;RT-PCR实验证明诱导细胞阳性表达人胰岛相关基因Pdx1和insulin;高糖刺激实验证明培养液中有胰岛素成分产生,且分泌量随刺激时间的延长先增加而后趋于稳定。实验结果表明hAMSCs在体外经RPE诱导可以分化为胰岛素分泌细胞。     

脂肪细胞分化差异表达基因与其染色体所在遗传图位置的相关性分析

在脂肪细胞分化过程中,有约1／3表达的基因被诱导或抑制。通过分析3T3－L1脂肪细胞分化差异表达基因在染色体遗传图上的位置,对共同表达诱导或抑制的基因群体的调控与它们在染色体遗传图上的位置分布的关系进行分析。结果显示这些共同调控的基因除拥有共同的转录调控因子外,未发现在染色体的位置上和它们的共同调控有相关性。     

山西省榛属植物居群的SSR遗传多样性研究

利用9对SSR引物对山西省平榛(Corylus heterophylla Fisch)和毛榛(C.mandshurica Maxim.et Rupr.)野生居群、欧榛(C.avellana L.)和平欧杂种榛(C.heterophylla Fisch.×C.avellana L.)的人工栽培居群,共205个样本进行PCR扩增,共扩增出172个等位基因。每个位点的等位基因数为5~18个,平均等位基因数为12.5个。居群观测杂合度(Ho)和预期杂合度(He)的变化范围分别为0.395~0.665和0.778~0.906,表明榛属植物遗传多样性较高,其中平欧杂种榛的遗传多样性最高(He=0.867,I=2.271),毛榛遗传多样性最低(He=0.825,I=2.006)。不同物种居群间遗传分化系数FST=0.106,平均基因流Nm=2.609,表明居群间的遗传分化水平较低。各居群在大多数位点上偏离Hardy-Weinberg平衡,主要原因是人工选择或近交所致。分子方差分析(AMOVA)表明,遗传变异主要发生在物种居群内。NJ聚类结果显示毛榛和平榛多数个体聚在各自居群内,平欧杂种榛和欧榛个体交互混合组成一小支后再与平榛聚在一起,表明平欧杂种榛与欧榛、平榛的亲缘关系较近,而毛榛与其它3种榛属植物的亲缘关系较远。本研究还分析讨论了山西省榛属植物居群具有较高遗传多样性的原因,并提出了野生榛子的保护利用策略。     

Cloning and morphological properties of Nicgl;CYCD3;1 gene in genetic tumors from interspecific hybrid of N. langsdorffii and N. glauca

Plant genetic tumors represent neoplastic growths, which arise spontaneously in hybrid plants without apparent external induction. To understand the molecular nature of unregulated cell proliferation, a cyclin D cDNA clone encoding a cyclin D of 1104bp was isolated from a genetic tumor and designated Nicgl;CYCD3;1 gene. DNA gel blot analysis suggested that there are two copies of Nicgl;CYCD3;1 in the genetic tumors. Northern analysis showed that this gene had the highest expression level in genetic tumor compared to Nicotiana glauca, N. langsdorffii and hybrid plants. Plant morphology of hybrid plant was an intermediate between N. glauca and N. langsdorffii and was altered in the genetic tumors. The cell cycle distribution in N. glauca was G0/G1, 90.59; S, 0.60; G2/M, 8.81; in N. langsdorffii it was G 0/G1, 86.22; S, 6.90; G2/M, 6.88; in hybrid plants it was G 0/G1, 96.40; S, 1.79; G2/M, 1.81; and in genetic tumors G 0/G1, 74.70; S, 2.35; G2/M, 22.94. These data provide new insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic tumor formation from interspecific hybrid between N. langsdorffii and N. glauca.     

Indole-3-acetic Acid Synthesis in Tumorous and Nontumorous Species of Nicotiana

The synthesis of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in the enzyme extracts of Nicotiana glauca, Nicotiana langsdorffii, their F1 hybrid, their amphidiploid hybrid, and the nontumorous mutant of the hybrid was investigated. Tryptamine, a possible precursor of IAA biosynthesis in Nicotiana tabacum, was not found in the callus tissue of N. glauca, N. langsdorffii, and their F1 hybrid.

In petiole slices, the synthesis of IAA progressively increased during 5 hours of incubation in [¹⁴C]tryptophan. The rate of synthesis was about equal in the hybrid and N. langsdorffii but lower in N. glauca on either a cell or fresh weight basis. It was also found that tryptophan was about 25 times more efficient than tryptamine in promoting synthesis of IAA in petiole slices.

It was found that indoleacetaldehyde oxidase, indoleacetaldehyde reductase, and tryptophan aminotransferase activities were present in all of the species examined; however, tryptophan decarboxylase activity was not found. The tryptophan aminotransferase activity in N. glauca, N. langsdorffii, and the nontumorous mutant required α-ketoglutaric acid and pyridoxal 5-phosphate whereas the addition of pyridoxal 5-phosphate seemed not to increase the enzyme activity in tumor plants.

The tryptophan aminotransferase in the amphidiploid hybrid was partially purified by acetone precipitation. The enzyme activity had a temperature optimum at 49 C and a pH optimum at 8.9. It is suggested that there is an indolepyruvic acid pathway in the synthesis of IAA in the Nicotiana species examined.

     

Expression analysis of the NgORF13 promoter during the development of tobacco genetic tumors

We investigated the expression pattern of the promoter of Nicotiana glauca (Ng) ORF13 in the hybrids between N. glauca and N. langsdorffii harboring the NgORF13-beta-glucuronidase (GUS) chimeric gene. The promoter of NgORF13 of N. glauca had lower activities than the promoter of RiORF13 of Agrobacterium rhizogenes agropine-type root-inducing (Ri) plasmid. However, the localization of GUS activity in the NgORF13 transgenic plants was similar to that in the RiORF13 transgenic plants. The GUS activity of NgORF13-GUS was high in genetic tumors cultured in vitro or developed spontaneously on F1 plants with aging or by wounding. The GUS activity in tumors was observed in bud primordia, vascular bundles and leaves in the buds. While the activity was lower than in tumors, NgORF13-GUS was also expressed in vascular bundles and the parenchymatous tissues in plants regenerated from tumors. Furthermore, the promoter activity of NgORF13 was induced by wounding and activated by exogenous application of methyl jasmonate. During tumorization, NgORF13 was induced at an early stage and showed expression patterns similar to both NgrolB and NgrolC whose expression were investigated by Nagata et al. (1996) Plant Cell Physiol. 37: 489-498. It is thought that Ngrol genes might be involved in the formation of genetic tumors, and, moreover, NgORF13 might work in cooperation with NgrolB and NgrolC.     

Endogenous cytokinin levels and metabolism of zeatin riboside in genetic tumour tissues and non-tumourous tissues of tobacco

The cytokinin content of stem tissues, primary genetic tumours (excised from 2-month-old plants) and 3-week-old in vitro cultured genetic tumour tissues derived from Nicotiana glauca (Grah.) × langsdorffii (Weinm.) and N. suaveolens (Lehm.) × langsdorffii (Weinm.) hybrids and stem tissues derived from 2-month-old N. suaveolens and N. langsdorffii plants has been analysed by radioimmunoassay. Stem tissues of tumour-prone hybrids contain high cytokinin levels (3–3.7 nmol g⁻¹). This increase is caused mainly by increased levels of cytokinin nucleotides, particularly those of zeatin nucleotide (0.5 nmol g⁻¹) in stem tissues of parent plants and 2.4 nmol g⁻¹ in stem tissues of hybrids). All other tissues contain lower cytokinin levels (0.7–1.7 nmol g⁻¹). Cytokinin bases and ribosides are major compounds in cultured tumour tissues while the nucleotides are dominant cytokinins in all freshly excised tissues from parent plants and their hybrids. In a separate study, the metabolic fate of supplied [³Hj-zeatin riboside. which is inactivated mainly by sidechain cleavage, has been studied. The results collectively suggest that cytokinins may be involved in tumourigenesis.     

Tumor formation and morphogenesis on different Nicotiana sp and hybrids induced by Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA mutants

A series of experiments are presented that have been performed to observe the interactions between Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains mutated in the T-DNA genes involved in indoleacetic acid and cytokinin biosynthesis and several Nicotiana species and hybrids. Infections were induced on leaf cuttings of Nicotiana debneyi, N. knightiana, N. clevelandii, N. bigelovii var bigelovii, N. bigelovii var quadrivalvis, N. glauca, N. langsdorffii, the amphidiploid tumorous hybrid N. glauca × N. langsdorffii, and a nontumorous mutant of it. The effect of deletions of the Ti plasmid varied according to plant genotype. Insertion mutants in iaaM and iaaH suppressed tumor formation in N. langsdorffii, reduced it in N. bigeloviivar quadrivalvis, had no effect in N. glauca and the two amphidiploid hybrids, and promoted tumorigenesis when compared to the wild-type Agrobacterium strain B6S3 in N. bigelovii N. debneyi, and N. knightiana. The same mutations induced shoot formation in N. glauca, increased it in N. debneyi, and suppressed root formation in N. knightiana. On the other hand, an insertion mutation of the isopentenyl transferase gene (ipt-) had no effect in N. bigelovii var quadrivalvis, N. debneyi, the tumorous hybrid, suppressed tumor formation in N. langsdorffii, and inhibited it in N. glauca, the nontumorous hybrid, N. bigelovii var bigelovii, and N. knightiana. Insertion in ipt suppressed shoot formation in the nontumorous hybrid and inhibited it in the nontumorous amphidiploid and N. debneyi, while promoting root formation in N. glauca and N. debneyi. The suggestion of the existence of specific hormone equilibria necessary for the shift to each morphogenetic pattern was supported by experiments with exogenous hormone treatments of three genotypes (N. glauca, N. langsdorffii, and the nontumorous N. glauca × N. langsdorffii).     

THE EXTRACTABLE AND DIFFUSIBLE AUXIN-AUXIN INHIBITOR LEVEL IN NICOTIANA GLAUCA,NICOTIANA LANGSDORFFII AND THEIR AMPHIDIPLOID HYBRID

The auxin-auxin inhibitor (effective auxin content—EAC)² level of stems and leaves of normal Nicotiana plants (N. glauca, N. langsdorffii and of their spontaneously tumor-producing hybrid) was investigated by the use of the diffusion method into agar blocks and by the wet-ether and wet-alcohol extraction method. In all series, the EAC was tested by the Avena curvature test. Although the Avena curvature produced from extracts and diffusates in these tobacco plants is low, in general there is a consistently greater curvature in the parents (on an average for N. glauca, 6.7° in the diffusion and 6.2° in the extraction tests; for N. langsdorffii, 2.7° in the diffusion and 4.6° in the extraction tests) than in the hybrid (on an average of 0.7° in the diffusion and 2.6° in the extraction tests). This suggests that the question “Why do tumors form in the hybrid?” cannot be answered simply by suggesting that it is a function of excessive auxin. It is known that IAA must be added in high concentrations to aseptic cultures of N. langsdorffii and N. glauca whereas cultures of hybrid tissues do not require such an exogenous auxin supply for growth. This might indicate differences in the availability of IAA for growth of these tissues.     

A comparison of genome modifications leading to genetic and epigenetic tumorous transformation in Nicotiana spp. tissue cultures

A single system is presented, where both genetic and epigenetic control of tumor induction can be studied at the same time. This system is offered by the amphidiploid tumorous hybrid Nicotiana glauca × N. langsdorffii, a nontumorous mutant of it and the nontumorous parent species N. glauca and N. langsdorffii. The aim of the present paper is to compare long-term in vitro cultures of tumorous (genetic and habituated), and nontumorous strains, through the characterization of their genomes according to several physico-chemical parameters. The data reported show that both qualitative and quantitative differences in DNA complexity are correlated with the tumorous transformation. Particularly, a high degree of mismatching between the DNAs of the tumorous and nontumorous hybrids and the lack, in the second genotype (nontumorous), of three DNA peaks in Ag⁺?Cs²SO⁴ analytical ultracentrifugation profile seem to support the hypothesis, suggested in a previous paper, of the presence, in the nontumorous mutant, of a gross chromosomal rearrangement, probably a deletion. Amplification and underreplication of specific sequences also seemed to be correlated with changes from the normal to the tumorous state, highly repetitive sequences being present in higher amounts in the normal strains and in the habituated N. glauca than in the case of the tumorous hybrid. Finally, DNA bound ion contents were found to be strikingly higher in tumorous than in nontumorous tissues. The results are discussed in the frame of the general hypothesis of high somatic genomic plasticity in plants.     

Physiological Comparisons of Pith Callus With Crown-Gall and Genetic Tumors of Nicotiana glauca, N. langsdorffii, and N. glauca-langsdorffii Grown in Vitro. I. Tumor Induction and Proliferation

Agrobacterium tumefaciens B-6 and T-37 strains, inoculated into Nicotiana glauca, N. langsdorffii, and their interspecific hybrid, which forms genetic (spontaneous) tumors as well, initiate amorphous tumors from the B-6 strain and organoid tumors (aberrant roots, stems, and buds) from the T-37 strain. In the hybrid, the critical point was to induce crown gall tumors at the site of wounding and not spontaneous genetic tumors. To succeed, this inoculation had to be made at a very early (5-6 leaf stage of development). It is observed that genetic organoid tumors readily formed at the nodes following flowering or leaf abscission. Furthermore, it was noted that genetic tumor derivatives are obtainable from hybrid pith callus or hybrid seedlings cultured in vitro.     

Nuclear DNA codes for Nicotiana ferredoxin.

Ferredoxin was purified from 10 species of Nicotiana and spinach leaves. Fingerprints showed all to contain five major tryptic peptides. Some of the spinach peptides were different in RF and mobility from the Nicotiana peptides, but none of the Nicotiana ferredoxins had peptides which could distinguish one species of ferredoxin from another. Electrofocusing S-carbaminomethylcysteinyl ferredoxins showed spinach ferredoxin to have a more acidic and N. glutinosa ferredoxin a slightly more acidic isoelectric point than the other 9 Nicotiana species which were alike. Electro-focusing ferredoxin from the hybrid N. glutinosa female times N. glauca male resolved two bands or isozymes of ferredoxin, one corresponding to N. glutinosa, the other to N. glauca, the code for the latter having come from the DNA in the N. glauca pollen used to form the hybrid plant. N. glutinosa ferredoxin does not contain methionine and is different from N. tabacum and N. glauca ferredoxins which contain methionine. The N. glutinosa female times N. glauca male ferredoxin contained one-half the methionine found in N. glauca ferredoxin, thus confirming that some of the genetic information for ferredoxin in the hybrid was originally contained in the nuclear DNA of N. glauca.