Cyanidin-3-glucoside, a natural product derived from blackberry, exhibits chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic activity

Epidemiological data suggest that consumption of fruits and vegetables has been associated with a lower incidence of cancer. Cyanidin-3-glucoside (C3G), a compound found in blackberry and other food products, was shown to possess chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic activity in the present study. In cultured JB6 cells, C3G was able to scavenge ultraviolet B-induced *OH and O2-* radicals. In vivo studies indicated that C3G treatment decreased the number of non-malignant and malignant skin tumors per mouse induced by 12-O-tetradecanolyphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) in 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene-initiated mouse skin. Pretreatment of JB6 cells with C3G inhibited UVB- and TPA-induced transactivation of NF-kappaB and AP-1 and expression of cyclooxygenase-2 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha. These inhibitory effects appear to be mediated through the inhibition of MAPK activity. C3G also blocked TPA-induced neoplastic transformation in JB6 cells. In addition, C3G inhibited proliferation of a human lung carcinoma cell line, A549. Animal studies showed that C3G reduced the size of A549 tumor xenograft growth and significantly inhibited metastasis in nude mice. Mechanistic studies indicated that C3G inhibited migration and invasion of A549 tumor cells. These finding demonstrate for the first time that a purified compound of anthocyanin inhibits tumor promoter-induced carcinogenesis and tumor metastasis in vivo.     

禽致病性大肠杆菌毒力基因多重PCR方法的建立和应用

【目的】建立禽致病性大肠杆菌(Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli,APEC)黏附相关基因、侵袭及毒素相关基因、抗血清存活相关基因及铁转运相关基因的多重PCR方法,实现禽致病性大肠杆菌毒力基因的简便、快速检测。【方法】根据GenBank公布的基因序列,设计合成18对特异性引物,通过条件优化,建立四组多重PCR体系,并通过模板倍比稀释检测各组多重PCR的灵敏性。利用多重PCR检测100株APEC毒力基因的分布,验证多重PCR方法的可行性。【结果】根据PCR扩增片段大小判定,上述四组多重PCR体系均能同时扩增出该组中的各个毒力基因,且灵敏度分别为:103CFU、103CFU、105CFU、105CFU细菌和1ng、1ng、10ng、10ng DNA。100株APEC的毒力因子检测结果显示,多重PCR和单基因PCR结果一致。【结论】建立的四组多重PCR方法能够简便、快速地检测禽致病性大肠杆菌的毒力基因,可用于毒力基因的鉴定以及流行病学调查。     

鸟枪脂组学研究进展及其应用

继基因组学之后,针对各种代谢物的组学研究蓬勃兴起,鸟枪脂组学(shotgun lipidom ics)作为脂类研究的重要新兴手段,在创立和初期发展的过程中便已经展示出惊人的潜力,随着相关技术的进一步完善和发展,必将成为系统生物学的组成部分,在生物医学的研究和应用中发挥难以替代的重要作用。鸟枪脂组学利用质谱技术对全部或单一脂类及其相关分子进行系统分析,研究其改变对生物体所产生的作用并探讨其作用机制。传统脂类分析中的瓶颈问题在以电喷射离子质谱为基础的脂组学方法出现后获得了突破,使脂类分析进入高通量、高精度和高效能的时代。脂类在生物体内分布广泛、种类众多,并且与人类疾病密切相关。将脂组学分析方法运用于疾病相关的特异脂类标志物的发现并揭示其在疾病发生发展等复杂过程中的作用,可能为疾病的诊断治疗提供新的思路和策略。     

New species of alderfly genus Sialis (Megaloptera: Sialidae) from China and Vietnam,with a key to species of Sialis from Asia

The alderfly genus Sialis is the most species‐rich group of the family Sialidae. However, discovery of new Sialis species is becoming difficult because of previous good faunal exploration. In this paper, we describe two new Sialis species from the southern part of East Asia, S. australis and S. jiyuni, based on materials from historical and recent collections. These two species are closely related to the insular species S. kumejimae and are among the early diverged species within Sialis. Presently, 32 species of Sialis are recorded from Asia. A key to all the Sialis species from Asia is provided.     

用核酸斑点杂交法比较油桐尺蠖核型多角体病毒与某些昆虫杆状病毒的同源性

有关核型多角体病毒基因同源性的研究报道不多,结果也不甚一致。目前,国内外普遍用SDS-PAGE法分析昆虫杆状病毒结构多肽,以限制性内切酶谱法测定基因组大小,借此区分来自不同宿主的病毒株,和基因组密切相关     

MD Simulations and first principles to evaluate the role of binary Fe–V alloys layer on the radiation resistance in the alpha-iron

Radiation damage in reactor materials caused by the collision of the fast neutrons has a great impact on the reliability and safety of nuclear reactors. The element vanadium has attracted interest in many fields due to its advantageous properties in alloys. Thus, molecular dynamics simulation (MD) and first-principles calculation have been executed here to explore the radiation-resistant properties of five materials adding a layer in the bulk (pure iron and four types of Fe–V alloys containing 10%-40% V). The following results were inferred from these simulations. Firstly, the number of Frenkel pairs (FPs) at the stable quenching stage in the bulk decreases when the Fe–V alloy is added as an anti-radiation layer to the bulk. These benefits are evident for the Fe₈₀V₂₀ and alloy layers with more vanadium. The main reason is that the Fe–V binding energy is greater than the Fe-Fe binding energy, which can make the Primary Knock-On atom (PKA) lose more energy at the Fe–V alloy layer. Secondly, the average value of point-defect, cluster and defect clustered fractions in the bulk of Fe–V alloy is smaller than that in the pure iron at the stable quenching stage, especially for the Fe₈₀V₂₀ alloy.     

湖南湖北两省H6亚型禽流感病毒表面基因的序列分析

2008年至2009年间,在湖南和湖北两省的活禽市场中分离到了14株H6亚型禽流感病毒,为了解这14株病毒之间的分子特征和差异,我们运用PCR和测序鉴定对这14株病毒的NA基因进行了分型,并对其表面基因HA和NA进行序列测定及序列分析.14株H6亚型病毒中,H6N2亚型12株,H6N6亚型2株.序列测定和进化分析结果显示:DK/HN/284的HA基因与其它13株的HA差异性较大,差异性达到19.4%～20.2%,其余13株毒同源性在94.2%～99.9%;N2亚型NA基因的同源性在91.1%～99.9%,差异性比较大;两株N6亚型NA基因同源性为89.5%,差异明显.这些数据表明:不同毒株呈现一定的地域性差异.与我国周边其它地区的H6亚型禽流感毒株序列进行比较发现,只有DK/HN/284的HA基因与香港早期的毒株可能有着共同的来源,其余都与香港和韩国等的毒株有着较大的差异性,并且各个毒株的HA基因上潜在的糖基化位点和受体结合位点也有所不同,这些数据表明,这些毒株表现出明显的异源性.     

Power and phase properties of oscillatory neural responses in the presence of background activity

Natural sensory inputs, such as speech and music, are often rhythmic. Recent studies have consistently demonstrated that these rhythmic stimuli cause the phase of oscillatory, i.e. rhythmic, neural activity, recorded as local field potential (LFP), electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG), to synchronize with the stimulus. This phase synchronization, when not accompanied by any increase of response power, has been hypothesized to be the result of phase resetting of ongoing, spontaneous, neural oscillations measurable by LFP, EEG, or MEG. In this article, however, we argue that this same phenomenon can be easily explained without any phase resetting, and where the stimulus-synchronized activity is generated independently of background neural oscillations. It is demonstrated with a simple (but general) stochastic model that, purely due to statistical properties, phase synchronization, as measured by ‘inter-trial phase coherence’, is much more sensitive to stimulus-synchronized neural activity than is power. These results question the usefulness of analyzing the power and phase of stimulus-synchronized activity as separate and complementary measures; particularly in the case of attempting to demonstrate whether stimulus-synchronized neural activity is generated by phase resetting of ongoing neural oscillations.