固氮鱼腥藻的蛋白水解酶及其部分性质的研究

应用溶菌酶处理,超声破碎细胞,通过差异离心和解离剂处理,将细胞的不同部分分开。以水解α-酪蛋白反应检测蛋白水解酶活性,结果表明,在细胞的可溶部分、内细胞质膜、外膜及胞浆周围区均存在蛋白水解酶活性。异形胞可溶部分的蛋白酶活比营养细胞可溶的蛋白酶活高4—5倍。在固氮条件下,营养细胞可溶性蛋白酶反应最适温度为50—55℃,65℃时,酶活迅速下降。有Ca^2 5mmol／l时,蛋白酶在60℃稳定,无Ca^2 存在下,酶液在60℃预处理10分钟,酶活性丧失80％以上。酶反应的最适pH为8—10。而且氮饥饿之后,培养基的pH值对细胞蛋白酶活水平有明显影响,氮饥饿24小时内,蛋白酶活迅速增加,但在碱性条件下,酶活水平比在中性条件下要高得多。邻菲哕啉对蛋白酶活性有严重的抑制,EDTA仅有轻微抑制,而PMSF对细胞蛋白酶活的抑制作用,与细胞氮饥饿时间有关。     

东湖项圈藻异形胞的分离

异形胞(heterocysts)是丝状固氮蓝藻的一种分化细胞。由于其形态明显区别于其他细胞而引起注意。1966年,Fay和Walsby首次通过French压力室分离了有生活力的蓝藻异形胞。其原理在于利用异形胞和其他营养细胞在细胞壁结构上的差异,使用760apm高压处理引起营养细胞破裂而保留了异形胞。根据同样选择性地破坏营养细胞的原理,随后又产生了     

丝状体蓝藻藻殖段的分化及其调节机制

本文介绍了丝状体蓝藻(亦称蓝细菌) 的藻殖段的分化及其调节机制。藻殖段与正常藻丝体的区别在于细胞形状、细胞内存有气囊和可移动的短而直的藻丝链等。本文对许多环境因子包括光和营养因素等促进或抑制藻殖段的分化进行了讨论;还介绍了念珠藻(Nostoc) ,单歧藻(Tolypothrix) 和眉藻(Calothrix)所具有复杂的细胞发育过程,即具气囊又可移动的藻殖段分化,异形胞分化以及营养细胞的补偿性色适应。这三种细胞类型的适应形成取决于两种不同的光受体系统。藻殖段和异形胞两者的分化可能取决于光合电子传递链;而营养细胞的补偿性色适应则受光敏色素的调节。此外,谷酰胺合成酶合成和活性调节的PII蛋白,在协同藻殖段分化、异形胞分化及营养细胞的补偿色适应中起重要作用。由于蓝藻藻殖段分化及其调节机制是一个新的研究领域,关于它的知识尚不完整,亟待人们加强研究。     

用毛地黄皂苷分离异形胞及其对光合和固氮的某些特性的影响

本文叙述一种从多变鱼腥藻(Anabaena variabilis)中分离异形胞的简易方法。这种新方法是用毛地黄皂苷和甘露醇的 TES 缓冲液处理藻丝,破碎营养细胞,并结合分级离心的方法获得异形胞。所分离异形胞的纯度,在显微镜下观察达到90%左右。当提供 ATP 和Na_2S_2O_4时,能够测到所分离异形胞的固氮活性,其最大速率是5.31毫微克分子 C_2H_2/10~6异形胞/小时,为整体藻丝活性的10%。这种比活性,在4小时内,甚至更长的时间内,保持不变。但是,在氢气下和照光条件下,分离的异形胞缺乏受光促进的固氮活性。分离的异形胞在77°K下波长为430nm 光激发的荧光光谱和完整藻丝的相比,它缺乏属于光合系统Ⅱ的685nm 和695nm 的荧光发射峰,而仅具有光合系统 I 的730nm 荧光发射峰。当提供 DCIP 和抗坏血酸时,被压碎的异形胞能够光还原甲基紫精,其活性为360消耗 O_2的微克分子/毫克叶绿素/小时。上述结果表明用毛地黄皂苷法分离的异形胞具有较完整的 DCIPH_2→MV 的 PSI 活性。     

高固氮酶活性的多变鱼腥藻异形胞的分离

多变鱼腥藻(Anabaena variabilis)是具有异形胞的固氮蓝藻。异形胞是由营养细胞分化而来,异形胞一般为营养细胞的5—10%。在有氮培养中营养细胞不分化为异     

四唑（Tetrazolium）对固氮鱼腥藻固氮和氢代谢的影响

固氮鱼腥藻(Anabaena azotica Ley)细胞能还原无色的TTC和NBT分别成为红色或蓝色的甲zan(formazan)沉淀。异形胞还原TTC的速率高于营养细胞。前异形胞及异形胞附近的营养细胞对NBT的还原作用最强。而异形胞对NBT不起还原作用。无论在异形胞形成红色甲zan或在营养细胞形成蓝色甲zan后都抑制固氮酶活性。NBT甲zan对固氮酶活性的抑制作用大于TTC甲zan,因为NBT氧化还原电位低于TTC。TTC和NBT两者都明显地抑制固氮鱼腥藻完整细胞的放氢。因鱼腥藻的放氢是由固氮酶催化的结果。四唑抑制放氢推想是由于它截取了固氮酶催化系统中的电子的缘故。固氮微生物(包括蓝色细菌和根瘤菌)对四唑还原与吸氢酶之间有无相关是一个争论的问题。一些学者认为分离豆科植物体的一些根瘤菌株培养于含有TTC的琼脂培养基,如还原,便可证明这些根瘤菌株能氧化氢;换言之,应用TTC的还原可作为一些根瘤菌的菌落具有吸氢酶的验证。相反,我们发现固氮鱼腥藻还原TTC和NBT之后,都没有影响吸氢的能力。因此,我们推想固氮鱼腥藻对四唑之还原与吸氢酶是没有直接的关系。     

细胞穿膜肽介导蛋白/多肽类药物输送的研究进展

在当前药物研发中,蛋白/多肽类药物占据着重要地位。然而,此类药物大多需进入细胞内才能发挥作用,故细胞摄取率低的问 题成为制约其发展的关键因素。细胞穿膜肽是一类富含精氨酸的短肽,自身具有较强的生物膜穿透能力,可携带多种大分子甚至是纳米 粒入胞。因此,穿膜肽被广泛应用于药物输送,且基于穿膜肽介导药物胞内输送,成为解决蛋白/多肽类药物入胞问题的优选策略。主 要综述穿膜肽介导蛋白/多肽类药物输送用于不同疾病治疗的研究进展。     

合成多肽对结核分枝杆菌的胞内抑制作用

评价合成多肽对人白血病单核巨噬细胞THP-1的毒性和对结核分枝杆菌H37Rv的胞内抑菌作用。通过多肽的不同给药浓度,确定多肽对结核分枝杆菌的最小抑菌浓度(MIC),利用流式细胞术方法和MTT法检测2号肽对细胞THP-1的毒性作用,同时采用CFU方法检测其对H37Rv菌株的胞内抑菌作用。筛选的4条多肽均有抑菌作用,其中2号肽的最小抑菌浓度(MIC)最小,为200μg/m L。2号肽与细胞THP-1作用时,浓度为1 200μg/m L时表现出细胞毒性,与INH细胞毒性无显著差别。对于胞内H37Rv,2号肽抗结核作用具有时间和剂量依赖效应,随给药时间和剂量的增加H37Rv菌落数明显下降。2号肽不仅对巨噬细胞THP-1的毒性小,而且具有较好的抗胞内结核分枝杆菌活性,是一种潜在的抗结核新型药物。     

鱼腥藻PCC7120基因组中一个影响异形胞发育和图式形成的新区域

以Tn5 10 87b诱变鱼腥藻PCC712 0 ,筛选不能利用氮气生长、异形胞图式发生变化的突变株。突变株 # 180 1经缺氮诱导 2 4h后无异形胞形成 ,48h后沿藻丝形成少量成熟异形胞 ,占藻细胞总数比例为 2 .8% ,其异形胞发育速度和形成频率均与野生型有显著区别。以ClaⅠ酶切该突变株总DNA、自环化后以电泳冲法转化大肠杆菌 ,回收带有插入位点两侧DNA片段的转座子Tn5 10 87b。经测序确定转座子位于未知功能基因alr0 0 99第 14 8和 14 9碱基之间。为证明突变性状确由alr0 0 99内的插入突变引起而不是由于其他二次突变 ,通过同源双交换将含新霉素抗性基因的C .K2片段定向插入基因组中alr0 0 99的EcoRV位点 ,获得重构的鱼腥藻突变株DR2 14 ,其表型与原突变株 # 180 1相同。以上结果表明alr0 0 99或其下游基因是鱼腥藻PCC712 0基因组中与异形胞发育和图式形成相关的一个新区域。     

异形胞分化相关基因在点形念珠藻厚壁孢子中的转录表达

点形念珠藻(Nostoc punctiforme)ATCC29133是一种丝状固氮蓝藻,能分化产生异形胞、厚壁孢子、藻殖段等细胞类型。异形胞是一种提供微氧条件以进行固氮作用的特化细胞,厚壁孢子是在逆境下产生的能耐受干旱、冰冻等恶劣环境的细胞1。与异形胞相似,厚壁孢子的外被也具有多糖和糖脂成分2,3。厚壁孢子在某些蓝藻藻丝       

Identification of the protein producing transmembrane diffusion pores in the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01

The outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 is permeable to saccharides of molecular weights lower than about 6000. Triton X-100/EDTA-soluble outer membrane proteins were fractionated by ion-exchange chromatography in the presence of Triton X-100 and EDTA, and the protein contents of the various fractions analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Each of the major protein bands present in the Triton X-100/EDTA soluble outer membrane was separated from one another. Adjacent fractions were pooled, concentrated and extensively dialyzed to reduce the Triton X-100 concentration. Vesicles were reconstituted from lipopolysaccharide, phospholipids and each of these dialyzed fractions, and examined for their ability to retain [¹⁴C]sucrose. Control experiments indicated that the residual levels of Triton X-100 remaining in the dialyzed fractions had no effect on the formation or permeability to saccharides of the reconstituted vesicles. It was concluded that a major outer membrane polypeptide with an apparent weight of 35 000 is a porin, responsible for the size-dependent permeability of the outer membrane.     

Lens glycoproteins: biosynthesis in cultured epithelial cells of bovine lens.

1. Radioactivity from [3H]glucosamine is rapidly incorporated into cellular fractions of lens epithelial cells cultured in vitro. The incorporated isotope appears largely in glycoproteins of the cell surface that are exposed to trypsin and are released into a soluble form by proteolysis of intact cells. Glycoproteins are also secreted by cultured cells and can be recovered in the culture fluids. Sodium dodecysulphate-polyacrylamide gell electrophoresis shows that a range of glycoproteins with apparent molecular weights from approximately 14000 to 120000 are present. The relationships of these glycoproteins to collagen and the non-collagenous glycoproteins of lens basement membranes are discussed. 2. A plasma membrane fraction obtained from non-trypsinised lens epithelial cells contains one major glycoprotein of apparent molecular weight 120000. A major non-glycosylated polypeptide of molecular weight about 38000 detectable by Bloemendal et al. (1972) in plasma membranes of differentiated lens fibre cells was not prominent in lens epithelial cell membranes. 3. Examination of lens basement membranes extracted in various ways failed to reveal major glycoproteins of low molecular weight. Higher molecular weight glycoproteins, some of them related to collagen, were present.     

Comparative studies of pig platelet membrane proteins

The proteins and glycoproteins of pig platelet membranes have been studied using gel electrophoretic techniques. A nomenclature is suggested from the apparent molecular weights estimated by one-dimensional electrophoresis. Isoelectric focusing showed that the majority of the proteins are in the 4.0-7.0 pH range. Subunits have been inferred from oligoproteins by two-dimensional, reduced-nonreduced, electrophoresis techniques. High resolution two dimensional electrophoresis combining isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl sulphate allows the observations of 60 polypeptide bands. An identification of some of those bands based on a correlation from reported human blood platelet membrane proteins is presented for comparison.     

Polypeptides of the synaptic membrane antigens D1, D2, and D3

The rat brain synaptic membrane antigens D1, D2, and D3 were labelled by 125I and precipitated by antibodies in a crossed immunoelectrophoresis. The precipitates were stained, scraped off, reduced, and analysed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulphate. The D1 antigen was composed of two polypeptide chains, apparent molecular weights 50 300 and 116 000 D2 of only one polypeptide chain, apparent molecular weight 139 000, and D3 of three polypeptides, apparent molecular weights 14 100, 23 500, and 34 400. Higher apparent molecular weight polypeptides were present in variable amounts in the D3 precipitate, except when the synaptic membrane extracts had been pre-treated with phospholipase D.     

Characterization of chloroplast thylakoid polypeptides in the 32-kDa region: polypeptide extraction and protein phosphorylation affect binding of photosystem II-directed herbicides

In order to distinguish between two photosystem II proteins with apparent molecular weights of about 32 kDa, mild extraction procedures were used to remove several thylakoid membrane components. A 32-kDa protein that stained intensely with Coomassie brilliant blue could be extracted from the thylakoid membranes without removing the 32-kDa herbicide receptor protein, which stained poorly with Coomassie brilliant blue. The nonextracted protein was readily detectable after in vivo polypeptide labeling with [35S]methionine or after in vitro covalent tagging with [14C]azidoatrazine. The procedures used to extract the intensely stained, 32-kDa polypeptide resulted in changes in herbicide-binding characteristics, presumably due to conformational changes in the herbicide-binding environment. Alterations of membrane surface charge by protein phosphorylation also influenced herbicide binding.     

Separation of vesicles of cardiac sarcolemma from vesicles of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum. Comparative biochemical analysis of component activities.

Sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane vesicle fractions were isolated from cardiac microsomes. Separation of sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane markers was documented by a combination of correlative assay and centrifugation techniques. To facilitate the separation, the crude microsomes were incubated in the presence of ATP, Ca2+, and oxalate to increase the density of the sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles. After sucrose gradient centrifugation, the densest subfraction (sarcoplasmic reticulum) contained the highest (K+,Ca2+)-ATPase activity and virtually no (Na2+,K+)-ATPase activity, even when latent (Na+,K+)-ATPase activity was unmasked. In addition, the sarcoplasmic reticulum fraction contained no significant sialic acid, beta receptor binding activity, or adenylate cyclase activity. Sarcolemmal membrane fractions were of low buoyant density. Preparations most enriched in sarcolemmal vesicles contained the highest level of all the other parameters and only about 10% of the (K+,Ca2+)-ATPase activity of the sarcoplasmic reticulum fraction. The results suggest that (Na+,K+)-ATPase, sialic acid, beta-adrenergic receptors, and adenylate cyclase can be entirely accounted for by the sarcolemmal content of cardiac microsomes. Gel electrophoresis of the sarcolemmal and sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane fractions showed distinct bands. Membrane proteins exclusive to each of the fractions were also demonstrated by phosphorylation. Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Cyclic AMP also stimulated phosphorylation of membrane proteins in sarcolemma, but this phosphorylation was mediated by an endogenous protein kinase activity. The apparent molecular weights of these phosphorylated proteins were 165,000, 90,000, 56,000, 24,000, and 11,000. The results suggest that sarcolemma may contain an integral enzyme complex, not present in sarcoplasmic reticulum, that contains beta-adrenergic receptors, adenylate cyclase, cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, and several substrates of the protein kinase.     

Biochemical and immunological characterization of desmoplakins I and II, the major polypeptides of the desmosomal plaque

Epithelial cells contain complexes of cytokeratin filaments (tonofilaments) with specific domains of the plasma membrane that appear as symmetric junctions, i.e. desmosomes, or as asymmetric hemi-desmosomes. These regions of filament-membrane-attachment are characterized by 14 to 20 nm thick dense plaques (desmosomal plaque). In isolated desmosome-tonofilament complexes or other desmosomal fractions from various stratified squamous epithelia (e.g. bovine muzzle epidermis and tongue mucosa) desmosomal plaque structures are recognized and show a relatively high resistance to various extraction buffers and detergents. Such fractions enriched in desmosomal plaque material are also enriched in two prominent polypeptide bands of apparent molecular weights 250,000 (desmoplakin I) and 215,000 (desmoplakin II) which appear, on two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, as two distinct polypeptides isoelectric near neutral pH. These two polypeptides are present in almost equimolar amounts and each of them appears as a series of isoelectric variants, including some labeled by [32P]phosphate in tissue slices. The two desmoplakin polypeptides are closely related as shown by tryptic peptide map analysis and are different from keratin-like proteins and other major polypeptides of desmosome-rich fractions. Guinea pig antibodies raised against desmoplakins and specific for these proteins do not cross-react with other desmosomal antigen(s) or constituents of other types of junctions. Using desmoplakin antibodies we have identified desmoplakins as the major constituents of the desmosomal plaques present in epithelial and myocardiac cells of diverse species. The significance of this group of cell type-specific membrane-associated cytoskeletal proteins and their possible cytoskeletal functions are discussed.     

Development-dependent expression of low molecular weight GTP-binding proteins in embryonic chicken brain

Expression of low molecular weight GTP-binding proteins in particulate and soluble fractions of embryonic chicken brain was analysed by SDS-PAGE and incubation of blotted proteins with [alpha-32P]GTP. At least seven GTP-binding proteins with apparent molecular weights between 21 and 29 kDa were demonstrated by this technique in membranes and microsomal fractions, whereas only four species were present in the cytosol. Levels of several small GTP-binding proteins were developmentally regulated in membrane and microsomal fractions, but not in the cytosol of embryonic chicken brain. Major GTP-binding proteins G28 and G26 were strongly increased in microsomal but not in membrane fractions between E6 and hatched chicken brain, whereas the minor protein G24 decreased in both membrane and microsomal fractions over this time. The differential expression of low molecular weight GTP-binding proteins in embryonic chicken brain suggests important roles for these proteins in brain development.     

Purification and characterization of ethylene inducing proteins from cellulysin

Ethylene inducing proteins were partially purified and characterized from the cell wall digesting enzyme mixture, Cellulysin. Purification included binding to Sephacryl S-200, isoelectric focusing, molecular sieving on Sephadex G-75, agarose electrophoresis, and sizing using a Superose 12 column. At least three active proteins were obtained from the Sephadex G-75 fraction that move towards the cathode during nondenaturing agarose electrophoresis. These three protein fractions separated by preparative agarose electrophoresis contain polypeptide patterns that are very similar on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The fractions contain three main Coomassie blue stained bands of about 10, 14, and 18 kilodaltons. Gel filtration of the major fraction on a Superose 12 column yields an active peak with an apparent molecular weight of 27,000. Proteolytic enzymes, in the presence of urea, destroy the ethylene inducing activity. We conclude that the ethylene inducing factor (EIF) that we have isolated from Cellulysin is protein. Similar ethylene inducing factors are present in Cellulase RS. Ethylene inducing components from pectinase, Pectolyase, and Rhozyme do not bind to Sephacryl like EIF from Cellulysin. Thus, the components responsible for the ethylene inducing activity in these latter enzyme preparations differ from that of EIF.     

Distribution of calmodulin and calmodulin-binding proteins in membranes from bovine epididymal spermatozoa

Reproducible concentrations of calmodulin representing approximately 0.1% of the membrane protein were detected in purified plasma membranes from bovine epididymal spermatozoa. When membranes were isolated in the presence of 1 mM EGTA, the amount of calmodulin associated with the plasma membranes was not reduced. Calmodulin-binding proteins were detected in both purified plasma membranes and in a mixed membrane fraction containing both plasma membranes and cytoplasmic droplet membranes. A calcium-dependent, calmodulin-binding protein of apparent molecular weight 123,000 was detected in both fractions. In the presence of 1 mM EDTA, putative calcium-independent calmodulin-binding proteins of apparent molecular weights 93,000, 32,000, 18,000, and 15,000 were detected in the plasma membrane fraction. The 15,000 Mr polypeptide was also present in the mixed membrane fraction but the three proteins of higher molecular weight were reduced or absent in this fraction.