木瓜营养保健作用研究动态

本文综述了木瓜的生理活性物质－齐墩果酸的药用价值和作用机理以及木瓜药品保健品的研究动态和展望。     

滇西北高原藏区小型兽类体表寄生蚤的生态位特征

为探讨云南西北高原藏区小型兽类体表寄生蚤的生态位特征,根据海拔和地形等自然环境特点,在德钦县选取42个调查样点,划分为5个垂直带,4种生境,采用铗夜法和笼日法捕获小兽,梳捡其体表寄生蚤,运用生态位宽度指数（B_i）和生态位重叠指数（NO）对其生态位特征进行分析。结果：共梳捡寄生蚤1275头,隶属4科9亚科17属33种,其中迪庆额蚤和云南栉眼蚤为优势种,常见种12种,稀有种19种。在海拔资源轴上,B_i值前三分别是特新蚤德钦亚种0.698、棕形额蚤0.690、斯氏新蚤川滇亚种0.667;生境资源轴上,B_i值前三分别是：无值大锥蚤0.630、特新蚤指名亚种0.57、特新蚤德钦亚种0.537;寄主资源轴上,B_i值前三为绒鼠怪蚤0.584、迪庆额蚤0.567、棕形额蚤0.553;多维生态位宽度来看,特新蚤德钦亚种和迪庆额蚤B_i值较大,分别为1.031、1.019。海拔、生境、寄主生态位重叠指数中,有意义的重叠种对分别占比35.6%、39.39%、9.28%;完全不重叠的种对分别占比26.89%、18.56%、51.14%;完全重叠的种对分别占比2.27%、13.26%和0.19%。三种生态因子中,优势种和常见种的生态位宽度值较大,对资源的利用能力和竞争能力较强。不同生态因子的生态位重叠指数格局不同,与资源轴本身有关。有意义的重叠和完全不重叠的种对占比较多,前者多为优势种、常见种、稀有种两两之间重叠,重叠指数越高,竞争关系越激烈;完全不重叠的种对多为稀有种之间,无资源利用竞争关系。总体来说,德钦县小兽体表寄生蚤种类丰富,生态位分化较为均匀,本研究可为该地蚤传疾病的监测防控提供生态学依据。     

Robust and responsive silk ionomer microcapsules

We demonstrate the assembly of extremely robust and pH-responsive thin shell LbL microcapsules from silk fibroin counterparts modified with poly(lysine) and poly(glutamic) acid, which are based on biocompatible silk ionomer materials in contrast with usually exploited synthetic polyelectrolytes. The microcapsules are extremely stable in an unusually wide pH range from 1.5 to 12.0 and show a remarkable degree of reversible swelling/deswelling response in dimensions, as exposed to extreme acidic and basic conditions. These changes are accompanied by reversible variations in shell permeability that can be utilized for pH-controlled loading and unloading of large macromolecules. Finally, we confirmed that these shells can be utilized to encapsulate yeast cells with a viability rate much higher than that for traditional synthetic polyelectrolytes.     

利用简并引物克隆黑莓、树莓肌动蛋白基因片段及表达分析

采用同源克隆法,利用设计的一对肌动蛋白(actin)基因简并引物,从黑莓、树莓和悬钩子杂种3个悬钩子植物品种均得到一条743 bp的actin cDNA片段,推测编码247个氨基酸.序列比对发现,克隆的actin基因推导的氨基酸序列和其他植物的肌动蛋白氨基酸序列具有高度保守性,经数据库搜索后将来自黑莓和树莓品种的actin cDNA片段在GenBank中登录,登录号分别为HQ439558和HQ439559.不同来源的植物actin蛋白系统进化树的聚类结果表明,树莓和悬钩子杂种亲缘关系较为密切.actin基因在3个悬钩子植物品种不同组织中的RT-PCR分析结果表明,其在检测的不同组织中均有一定程度的表达量,可能都属于组成型表达的肌动蛋白基因.研究结果为利用actin基因作为内参进一步研究黑莓和树莓其他基因的丰度奠定基础.     

Diversity of SCCmec elements in methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci clinical isolates

Background

Methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (MR-CoNS) are opportunistic pathogens and serve as a large reservoir of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec). Characterization of SCCmec in MR-CoNS can generate useful information on the mobilization and evolution of this element.

Methodology/Principal Findings

Non-repetitive MR-CoNS clinical isolates (n = 84; 39 S. epidermidis, 19 S. haemolyticus, 9 S. hominis, 6 S. capitis, 4 S. warneri, 2 S. cohnii, 2 S. saprophyticus, 1 S. kloosii, 1 S. simulans and 1 S. massiliensis) were collected. All isolates could grow on plates with 4 mg/L cefoxitin and all had mecA as detected by PCR. Strain typing using RAPD and ERIC-PCR revealed that almost all isolates were of different strains. SCCmec typing was performed using multiplex PCR published previously. For isolates in which SCCmec could not be typed, the mec complex classes were determined by additional PCR and the ccr genes were amplified with published or newly-designed primers and then sequenced. SCCmec types were assigned for 63 isolates by multiplex PCR and were assigned for 14 other isolates by PCR targeting mec and ccr. Among 77 isolates with determined SCCmec types, 54 had a single type, including type III (n = 19), IV (n = 14), V (n = 10), II (n = 2), I (n = 1), VIII (n = 1) and five unnamed types (n = 7), while 23 isolates had two types, III+V (n = 12), II+V (n = 8), II+IV (n = 2) or IV+V (n = 1). The five unnamed types were assigned UT1 (class A mec, ccrA1/ccrB4), UT2 (class C1 mec, ccrA4/ccrB4), UT3 (class A mec, ccrA5/ccrB3), UT4 (class C2 mec, ccrA2/ccrB2 plus ccrC1) and UT5 (class A mec, ccrA1/ccrB1 plus ccrC1).

Conclusions/Significance

SCCmec types III, IV and V were prevalent in MR-CoNS and many isolates could harbor more than one type. Several new types of SCCmec were identified, highlighting the great genetic diversity and the need of developing classification schemes for SCCmec in MR-CoNS.     

黑莓杂交后代单株主要生长及结果性状的变异分析

对黑莓(Rubus spp.)6个品种9个杂交组合(‘Chester’בKiowa’、‘Kiowa’בNavaho’、‘Triple Crown’בKiowa’、‘Kiowa’בHull’、‘Triple Crown’בChester’、‘Arapaho’בHull’、‘Navaho’בKiowa’、‘Hull’בKiowa’和‘Kiowa’בKiowa’)的131株后代实生苗的主要生长性状(包括刺密度、叶绿素相对含量、分枝数量、主枝和侧枝的直径以及自然株高)和结实性状(包括结果株数、单株果穗数量、每穗果实数量和单株果实数量)进行了观测,并对这些性状的变异状况进行了比较分析.结果表明:在获得的131株杂交后代单株中,有92株具刺植株和121株结果植株,具刺和结果植株的数量分别占后代总株数的70.23％和92.37％.131株杂交后代刺密度、分枝数量、主枝直径、侧枝直径和自然株高的平均值分别为1.51 cm-1、15.43、1.31 cm、0.74 cm和61.07 cm,变异系数分别为78.81％、52.69％、25.19％、20.27％和38.91％;121株杂交后代结果单株的果穗数量、每穗果实数量和单株果实数量的平均值分别为27.05、4.92和145.98,变异系数分别为67.63％、50.83％和91.20％;在不同杂交组合间后代单株的这些指标变异均较大,且与亲本相比,杂交后代的枝蔓生长量和结果数量退化明显且分离严重.杂交后代叶片叶绿素相对含量(Spad)的平均值为45.36,变异系数仅为1.46％,变异幅度较小且与亲本的差异不明显,说明黑莓叶片叶绿素含量性状的遗传力较高且分离小.在无刺品种‘Triple Crown’与具刺品种‘Kiowa’杂交组合的40株杂交后代单株中具刺单株比例达到90％,且其他具刺亲本杂交组合的后代也多数具刺,表明黑莓的刺性状为显性遗传且具有数量遗传特征.     

大庆油田石油开采对土壤线虫群落的影响

选择大庆油田环境一致的6口油井,研究石油开采干扰对土壤线虫的影响。共鉴定出土壤线虫18科15属。食细菌线虫最多,共15属占总数的49.2%,其次为植物寄生线虫共9属,占30.6%,食真菌线虫4属,占17.6%,杂食/捕食线虫2属,占2.6%。其中优势类群为丝尾垫刃属Filenchus和头叶属Cephalobus,占总数的42.5%。常见类群包括13个属,占总数的51.7%。稀有类群15个属占总数的6.34%。土壤的线虫生活史策略以c-p 2所占比例最大,其次是c-p3和c-p 1类群,受油井开采作业等影响,线虫通过大量繁殖来应对环境的干扰与压力。不同油井线虫总数差异不显著,但所有油井线虫总数比对照明显减少(p<0.001)。不同油井线虫群落结构差异不大,各油井线虫富集指数和结构指数表明所有油井线虫受干扰程度较高,土壤食物网趋于退化。随着采样距离增加,线虫总量差异不显著,但线虫群落的物种数量增加,优势度指数和多样性指数逐渐增加。结果表明油井开采对土壤线虫群落有一定的影响,开采距离对线虫群落结构影响较大。