朊病毒疾病

朊病毒是一种蛋白性质的感染颗粒,它能引起动物的一类大脑功能紊乱疾病:可传染海绵样脑病(TSE)。本文就朊病毒、朊病毒引起的疾病、牛海绵样脑病(BSE)及BSE能否传给人类进行一些讨论。     

朊粒蛋白正常生理功能研究进展

作为多种神经退行性疾病致病源的朊粒蛋白（PrP^c）是机体内一种正常表达蛋白,其生理功能在神经系统、铜代谢、抗氧化机制、细胞信号转导、细胞凋亡,以及核酸代谢等诸多方面都得到不同形式的表现,本文分类介绍其各种相关功能的研究进展以及研究的思路与方法。     

朊粒蛋白PrP~(Sc)寡聚体的形成与跨膜毒性

朊粒蛋白(prionprotein,PrP)传染致病机制一直是朊粒(prion)研究领域的焦点.由正常型朊粒蛋白(PrPC)向致病型朊粒蛋白(PrPSc)的转变是致病的关键步骤.本文综述了近年来PrPC向PrPSc转变的结构变化特征、PrPSc由单体形成寡聚体的组装机制、以及PrPSc寡聚体的跨膜机制与细胞毒性间的关系等方面的研究进展.     

全长朊粒蛋白淀粉样纤维引发细胞毒性的机制研究

目的 朊病毒病(prion disease)是一类由朊粒蛋白(PrP)发生错误折叠、聚集形成致病性的PrP^Sc导致的具有高致死率的神经退行性疾病。本文在细胞和动物水平开展了PrP纤维诱导内源PrP聚集和毒性机制的研究。方法 通过超速离心结合蛋白质免疫印迹实验检测PrP聚集；通过氧化压力实验，使用Annexin V-FITC/PI双染检测细胞凋亡；运用细胞超薄切片技术检测细胞线粒体形态；在动物水平，分离新生小鼠的前额叶，进行横断切片培养，在脑片上接种PrP纤维。结果 PrP纤维种子可以诱导内源PrP聚集，PrP纤维可以诱导细胞内氧化压力升高和细胞凋亡，PrP纤维可以引起线粒体损伤，PrP纤维可以诱导小鼠前额叶内源PrP聚集。结论 本文在细胞和动物水平证实体外组装的PrP淀粉样纤维具有细胞毒性和潜在的感染性。     

朊蛋白复制与疯牛病的传播

编辑老师:您(们)好!我是一名高中生,在学习中遇到一些问题得不到解决,因此向贵刊求教。我在一些资料上看到有关介绍朊病毒的材料,基本上都是简单地介绍这类病毒的特别结构和复制增殖方式的。但在对其复制的方式上却存在两种不同的说法。例如贵刊在2002年第37卷第3期第54页的一段材料中说朊病毒的遗传信息存在于其宿主的DNA中,它的复制过程符合遗传的中心法则中遗传信息由核酸到蛋白质的传递和表达过程。但是在贵刊2002年37卷的第6期第52页和第12期第35页的两则材料中,又指出朊病毒的复制倍增不是以核酸为模板,而是从朊病毒自身蛋白质为模…     

与朊毒体相关的鱼类朊蛋白研究概况

疯牛病(mad cow disease),即牛传染性海绵状脑病(bovine transmissible spongiform encephalopathy,BSE)的俗称,是一种慢性消耗性、致死性、中枢神经系统退行性疾病。疯牛病被认为与朊毒体(Prion)有关,朊毒体是由正常朊蛋白(Prion protein,或者PrPC)发生构象改变后形成的异常蛋白(PrPSc)。疯牛病的发生引起了世界各国政府和科学界的高度重视,PrP的起源及其功能研究已成为研究热点。鱼类PrP相关蛋白的研究正在展开中,由于鱼类PrP相关蛋白与朊蛋白的结构相似,鱼类感染TSE类似病存在理论上的风险。本文全面地综述了疯牛病的概况、朊毒体的特性、朊毒体与哺乳动物朊蛋白、鱼类PrP相关蛋白(PrP1、PrP2和PrP3)及鱼类其他PrP相关蛋白的研究情况,为国内水生动物PrP相关蛋白研究提供参考。     

着丝粒和动粒

真核生物的染色体具有用于将2条臂分开的着丝粒结构.在着丝粒的外侧,具有与纺锤体直接相连的结构——动粒.着丝粒是一个复杂的DNA-蛋白质复合结构,是真核生物细胞分裂的轮毂;动粒是着丝粒在行使轮毂(调控中心)作用时赖以与细胞分裂“拉力器”(纺锤体)相啮合的动力支撑点.     

朊蛋白相关蛋白Shadoo与朊病毒病

朊病毒病,即传染性海绵状脑病（transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, TSEs）,是一类传染性、致死性神经退行性疾病。在朊病毒病的病理过程中,细胞正常朊蛋白PrP。转化为异常构象的PrP是至关重要的,但是PrP‘的正常生理功能仍不清楚。国外学者利用比较基因组学发现了-个新的朊蛋白相关蛋白-shadoo（Sho）。Sho与PrP。在氨基酸序列和细胞定位的相似性及主要在脑组织表达,使它成为-个非常值得研究的PrP相关蛋白。对Sho可能存在的与PrP。重叠的功能甚至直接相互作用的研究工作,将对今后揭示PrPc正常生理功能以及揭示Pfion病发病机制具有重要现实意义。     

水稻粒型调控相关信号通路的鉴定与解析

水稻是最重要的粮食作物之一,其产量对世界粮食安全影响巨大。提高水稻的产量是育种的永恒主题,也是解决全球人口迅速增长和耕地面积持续下降矛盾的迫切需求。水稻粒型是决定其单株产量的主要因素之一,是受多基因控制的能够稳定遗传的数量性状,由籽粒的粒长、粒宽和粒厚共同决定。籽粒大小由调控母体组织和合子的信号协同控制,与颖壳细胞的增殖和扩张、胚乳的生长发育密切相关。近年来,基于图位克隆和全基因组关联分析技术的发展,对粒型调控机制的的遗传研究逐步深入。大量粒型相关数量性状位点(quantitative trait locus, QTL)被确定,许多粒型相关基因被克隆并进行了功能解析,这些基因大多表现为一因多效,与其他粒型基因共同协调表达,进而构成调控网络。鉴定和解析水稻粒型调控的遗传和分子机制,能为水稻分子设计育种提供新的思路。本文从胚乳发育和颖壳发育视角,概述了水稻籽粒发育的基本过程,以及粒型相关QTL的研究现状,聚焦于近来取得较大进展的G蛋白信号通路、促分裂原活化蛋白激酶(mitogen-activated protein kinase, MAPK)级联、泛素-蛋白酶体途径以及miRNA相关通路在...     

小鼠LAK细胞对粒-单系祖细胞增殖的影响

在小鼠粒单系祖细胞(CFU-GM)集落培养体系中加入LAK细胞能显著增强CFU-GM增殖,LAK∶BMC为8时,CFU-GM数比对照增加194.4%。LAK细胞条件液也有类似co-CSF的活性,单独LAK细胞条件液不能刺激CFU-GM增殖。LAK细胞和BMC共孵育4小时后再进行CFU-GM培养,低浓度LAK细胞仍能增强CFU-GM增殖,而高浓度LAK细胞则显著抑制CFU-GM增殖,LAK∶BMC为8时,CFU-GM仅为对照的27.6%。作者认为小鼠LAK细胞能通过分泌某些co-CSF增强CSF的活力,而LAK细胞对CFU-GM又有接触杀伤的活性。     

草鱼呼肠孤病毒新分离株（GCRV991）的病毒学特性分析

从湖南长沙分离到一株致病性强的草鱼呼肠孤病毒 (GCRV991) ,该病毒能使草鱼CIK ,肥头鲤FHM细胞产生明显的CPE ,对水生动物BF2 ,EPC及哺乳动物BHK ,VERO细胞株不敏感。中和实验显示 ,GCRV873 抗体能有效地中和GCRV991病毒颗粒 ,形成抗原抗体免疫复合物。纯化的病毒核酸与蛋白经SDS PAGE分离 ,分别呈现 11条清晰的核酸带及 5条主要与 2条微量结构多肽图谱 ,其核酸蛋白分子量大小与GCRV873 相近似。该毒株基因组总分子量为 14.48× 10 6kD ,大小范围是 0 .5 5～ 2 .6 1× 10 6kD ;5条主要与两条微量结构多肽分子量近似值分别为136kD、132kD、6 5kD、43kD、34kD及 138kD、82kD。上述结果提示 ,新分离的GCRV991与GCRV873 具有相似的抗原性     

NaCl胁迫对棉花种子萌发和幼苗生长的伤害

采用盐化土壤盆栽方法,选择耐盐性较强品种枝棉３号和耐盐性较弱品种泗棉２号,研究了盐分对棉花（Ｇｏｓｓｙｐｉｕｍ ｈｉｒｓｕｔｕｍ Ｌ．）种子萌发、出苗和幼苗生长的伤害。结果表明,在－０．５５和－１．１０ＭＰａ盐分胁迫下,对棉花伤害起决定性作用的因子是Ｎａ＾＋。２００ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ ＮａＣｌ胁迫下,枝棉３号种子萌发时电导率上升幅度和子叶ＣＡＴ下降幅度均显著小于泗棉２号。１００和２００ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ Ｎａ     

大肠杆菌SLT—IIvB基因的克隆和表达

采用聚合酶链式反应（ＰＣＲ）,从大肠杆菌Ｏ１３８基因组ＤＮＡ中分别扩增出志贺菌样毒素ＩＩ型变体Ｂ的结构序列和包括信号肽的全序列两段基因,定向克隆进表达载体质粒ｐＹＡ３３３４（ａｓｄ＾＋）的ＥｃｏＲＩ、ＢａｍＨＩ位点之间,构建成重组表达质粒。在大肠杆菌Ｘ６２１２（△ａｓｄ）筛选出重组质粒ｐＢ０和ｐＢ１后,经中间宿主Ｘ３７３０转化过渡,再导入△ａｓｄ△ｃｙａ△ｃｒｐ减毒鼠伤寒沙门氏菌Ｘ４５５０,构建成     

中国牛朊病毒基因的克隆和序列分析

从中国牛外周血中分离淋巴细胞,提取基因组DNA.用所设计引物以聚合酶链式反应扩增出不致病的朊病毒蛋白(PrP~c)基因,并克隆到pGEM-Teasy Vector.序列分析表明所克隆的牛PrP~c的片段大小为795bp,包含了牛朊病毒基因的完整编码区序列.该基因无内含子,同国外报道的已知序列完全相同.     

INFECTION,GROWTH, AND COMMUNITY-LEVEL CONSEQUENCES OF A DIATOM PATHOGEN IN A SONORAN DESERT STREAM1

We describe effect of a pathogen that spread through a dense, rapidly growing, benthic diatom community during two infection periods (February and mid-April 1991) in Sycamore Creek, Arizona. Infected areas appeared as gray rings within a matrix of healthy diatom growth and spread rapidly, eventually covering all benthic substrata and causing algal sloughing (within 2 wk in February and 1 wk in April). Examination of algal material with transmission electron microscopy revealed the presence of invasive bacteria within diatom cells from infected areas, suggesting a pathogenic bacterium as the most probable cause of this phenomenon. Infected area supported lower chlorophyll a concentrations and contained higher percentages of diatom cells with fragmented or reduced chloroplasts than uninfected areas. Spread of the pathogen appeared to be linked most strongly with diatom densities. The infection spread most rapidly in April, when cell densities were highest, and decimated all diatom species populations. The February infection was more species-specific in its action, affecting large motile and rosetteforming taxa more strongly than small, adnate diatoms. This latter group likely resided at the base of communities and may have been buffered from pathogen transfer by mucilage and/or dentrital particles. Consequently, relative abundance of small, adnate diatom taxa increased in algal communities as a result of the February infection. Pathogen-induced alteration of diatom species composition and abundance should influence primary production in this ecosystem and affect the dynamics of organisms that exploit algae as a resource.     

海南非洲菊根腐病病原的分离与鉴定

从海南省五指山市非洲菊苗圃,儋州市兰花基地非洲菊苗圃的腐烂病根上采集分离到9个疫霉菌株,经鉴定属于隐地疫霉Phytophthoracryptogea。     

Molecular Biology and Transgenetics of Prion Diseases

Abstract

Considerable progress has been made deciphering the role of an abnormal isoform of the prion protein (PrP) in scrapie of animals and Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome (GSS) of humans. Some transgenic (Tg) mouse (Mo) lines that carry and express a Syrian hamster (Ha) PrP gene developed scrapie 75 d after inoculation with Ha prions; non-Tg mice failed to show symptoms after 500 d. Brains of these infected Tg(HaPrP) mice featured protease-resistant HaPrP^sc, amyloid plaques characteristic for Ha scrapie, and 10⁹ ID₅₀ units of Ha-specific prions upon bioassay. Studies on Syrian, Armenian, and Chinese hamsters suggest that the domain of the PrP molecule between codons 100 and 120 controls both the length of the incubation time and the deposition of PrP in amyloid plaques. Ataxic GSS in families shows genetic linkage to a mutation in the PrP gene, leading to the substitution of Leu for Pro at codon 102. Discovery of a point mutation in the Prp gene from humans with GSS established that GSS is unique among human diseases it is both genetic and infectious. These results have revised thinking about sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, suggesting it may arise from a somatic mutation. These findings combined with those from many other studies assert that PrP^sc is a component of the transmissible particle, and the PrP amino acid sequence controls the neuropathology and species specificity of prion infectivity. The precise mechanism of PrP^& formation remains to be established. Attempts to demonstrate a scrapie-specific nucleic acid within highly purified preparations of prions have been unrewarding to date. Whether transmissible prions are composed only of PrP^sc molecules or do they also contain a second component such as small polynucleotide remains uncertain.     

Predicting the consequences of selecting on PrP genotypes on PrP frequencies,performance and inbreeding in commercial meat sheep populations

Selection programmes based on prion protein (PrP) genotypes are being implemented for increasing resistance to scrapie. Commercial meat sheep populations participating in sire-referencing schemes were simulated to investigate the effect of selection on PrP genotypes on ARR and VRQ allele frequencies, inbreeding and genetic gain in a performance trait under selection. PrP selection strategies modelled included selection against the VRQ allele and in favour of the ARR allele. Assuming realistic initial PrP frequencies, selection against the VRQ allele had a minimal impact on performance and inbreeding. However, when selection was also in favour of the ARR allele and the frequency of this allele was relatively low, there was a loss of up to three to four years of genetic gain over the 15 years of selection. Most loss in gain occurred during the first five years. In general, the rate of inbreeding was reduced when applying PrP selection. Since animals were first selected on their PrP genotype before being selected on the performance trait, the intensity of selection on performance was weaker under PrP selection (compared with no PrP selection). Eradication of the VRQ allele or fixation of the ARR allele within 15 years of selection was possible only with PrP selection targeting all breeding animals.     

Small,highly structured RNAs participate in the conversion of human recombinant PrP(Sen) to PrP(Res) in vitro

We have identified a small, highly structured (shs)RNA that binds human recombinant prion protein (hrPrP) with high affinity and specificity under physiological conditions (e.g. 10% bovine calf serum (BCS), neutral pH, nanomolar concentrations of RNA and hrPrP). We also demonstrate the ability of this shsRNA to form highly stable nucleoprotein complexes with hrPrP and cellular PrP (PrP(C)) from various cell extracts and mammalian brain homogenates. The apparent mass of the nucleoprotein complex is dependent on the molar ratio of hrPrP to RNA during complex formation. The hrPrP in these complexes acquires resistance to degradation by Proteinase K (PK). Other shsRNAs, however, under identical conditions, neither form stable complexes with hrPrP nor do they induce resistance to PK digestion. We also demonstrate that the RNAs in these nucleoprotein complexes become resistant to ribonuclease A hydrolysis. These interactions between shsRNAs and hrPrP suggest possible roles of RNAs in the modulation of PrP structure and perhaps disease development. ShsRNAs that bind to hrPrP with high affinity and induce resistance to PK digestion can be used to develop molecular biology assays for the screening of compounds associated with PrP structure transformation or for drugs that inhibit this process.