三种淋巴瘤细胞CD52抗原呈现稳定性研究及其应用

评估淋巴瘤细胞MC/CAR、HUT78和RAMOS的CD52抗原呈现稳定性,并比较三种细胞用于抗CD52单抗活性检测中的优劣性。采用免疫荧光法检测淋巴瘤细胞MC/CAR、HUT78和RAMOS的CD52抗原呈现率,分析MC/CAR、HUT78和RAMOS传代培养5~20代CD52抗原呈现稳定性。分别以MC/CAR、HUT78和RAMOS作为抗CD52单抗结合活性和补体依赖细胞毒性的靶细胞进行检测,并比较其优劣性。结果显示,MC/CAR、RAMOS和HUT78的CD52抗原呈现率分别为95.5%、63.2%和38.3%。MC/CAR传代培养5~20代CD52抗原呈现率均大于90%。RAMOS传代培养5~13代CD52抗原呈现率介于60%~67%,第14~15代CD52抗原呈现率介于50%~60%,第16~20代细胞CD52抗原呈现率介于40%~50%。HUT78传代培养5~20代CD52抗原呈现率介于26.7%~38.9%。淋巴瘤细胞MC/CAR在抗CD52单抗的结合活性检测中呈现出更好的剂量依赖曲线。淋巴瘤细胞RAMOS在抗CD52单抗的补体依赖细胞毒性检测中呈现出更好的剂量效应曲线。CD52抗原呈现率方面MC/CAR>RAMOS>HUT78。结果表明,MC/CAR更适用于抗CD52单抗的结合活性的检测,RAMOS适用于抗CD52单抗的补体依赖细胞毒性检测。     

干旱胁迫对宁夏枸杞生长及果实糖分积累的影响

文章研究不同干旱胁迫下宁夏枸杞生长及果实糖分积累的变化规律,为宁夏枸杞在干旱地区高产栽培提供参考依据。采用盆栽控水试验,设置正常灌水、轻度干旱、中度干旱和重度干旱处理,研究了干旱胁迫对宁夏枸杞植株生长、生物量分配以及果实糖分积累的影响。结果表明：干旱抑制宁夏枸杞新稍、果实、株高和地径的生长：随着干旱程度加剧,根和茎中干物质分配率逐渐升高,而枝条、叶和果实中干物质分配率大幅降低;轻度干旱有利于果实发育过程中果糖的积累,中度和重度干旱胁迫则不利于成熟期果糖和蔗糖积累;干旱胁迫明显降低成熟期转化酶、蔗糖磷酸合成酶（SPS）和蔗糖合成酶（SS）的活性;果实发育过程中果糖的含量与SPS和转化酶活性存在极显著相关。可见,在果实发育期,土壤含水量为田间持水量55％以上,能促进宁夏枸杞果实中糖分积累,有效提高果实品质。     

上海大莲湖退渔还湖工程水环境改善效果

于2010年4月-2011年2月逐月对上海大莲湖退渔还湖生态修复工程跟踪调查与监测,对工程前后大莲湖水环境理化指标进行分析比较,评估工程修复之后大莲湖水环境的改善效果.生态修复区内TP、TN、NO3--N、NH4+-N和COD比工程区外对照点分别降低了62.5％、72.2％、92.9％、63.3％和8.9％,溶解氧提高了11.1％,叶绿素a、浮游植物丰度和浮游植物生物量分别比工程区外降低了47.7％、15.3％和48.0％;生态修复工程区综合水质标识指数达到国家Ⅲ类水标准,而工程区外为Ⅳ类水;出水水质明显优于进水水质.修复工程区浮游植物区系得到良好改善,水生态系统具备了一定的自净能力.     

Cytokine polymorphisms and histologic expression in autopsy studies: contribution of TNF-alpha and TGF-beta 1 to the pathogenesis of autoimmune-associated congenital heart block

Although Abs to SSA/Ro-SSB/La are necessary for the development of congenital heart block (CHB), the low frequency suggests that fetal factors are contributory. Because CHB involves a cascade from inflammation to scarring, polymorphisms of the TNF-alpha promoter region and codons 10 and 25 of the TGF-beta gene were evaluated in 88 children (40 CHB, 17 rash, 31 unaffected siblings) and 74 mothers from the Research Registry for Neonatal Lupus (NL). Cytokine expression was assessed in autopsy material from two fetuses with CHB. Significantly increased frequency of the -308A (high-producer) allele of TNF-alpha was observed in all NL groups compared with controls. In contrast, the TGF-beta polymorphism Leu(10) (associated with increased fibrosis) was significantly higher in CHB children (genotypic frequency 60%, allelic frequency 78%) than unaffected offspring (genotypic frequency 29%, p = 0.016; allelic frequency 56%, p = 0.011) and controls, while there were no significant differences between controls and other NL groups. For the TGF-beta polymorphism, Arg(25), there were no significant differences between NL groups and controls. In fetal CHB hearts, protein expression of TGF-beta, but not TNF-alpha, was demonstrated in septal regions, extracellularly in the fibrous matrix, and intracellularly in macrophage infiltrates. Age-matched fetal hearts from voluntary terminations expressed neither cytokine. TNF-alpha may be one of several factors that amplify susceptibility; however, the genetic studies, backed by the histological data, more convincingly link TGF-beta to the pathogenesis of CHB. This profibrosing cytokine and its secretion/activation circuitry may provide a novel direction for evaluating fetal factors in the development of a robust animal model of CHB as well as therapeutic strategies in humans.     

减毒活疫苗中逆转录酶活性检测

逆转录酶 (RT)是目前发现的所有逆转录病毒的一个重要标志 ,凡是逆转录病毒均携带逆转录酶 ,逆转录酶活性的测定可以反映出制品中是否有逆转录病毒的污染 ,不受病毒基因序列的影响。采用PCR法进行逆转录酶活性检测方法 ,以整个生活周期中无DNA过程的MS2RNA为模板 ,设计一对引物 ,在逆转录系统中加入待检样品 ,经过RT PCR扩增后 ,放大检测对象物进行观察 ,从而了解制品中是否存在逆转录酶的污染 ,继而间接推测其是否污染逆转录病毒。对不同生物制品厂家生产的减毒活疫苗的逆转录酶活性进行检测 ,发现在一些疫苗里有逆转录酶活性阳性。     

Penicillin-binding proteins in Streptococcus agalactiae: a novel mechanism for evasion of immune clearance

Group B streptococci (GBS) remain the most significant bacterial pathogen causing neonatal sepsis, pneumonia and meningitis in the USA despite CDC-recommended chemoprophylaxis strategies for preventing infection. To cause infection pathogens such as GBS must evade recognition and clearance by the host's immune system. Strategies for avoidance of opsonization and phagocytic killing include elaboration of antiopsonophagocytic capsules and surface proteins. During screening for mutants of GBS that were attenuated for virulence in a neonatal rat sepsis model, we identified a mutant with a transposon insertion in the ponA gene. ponA encodes an extra-cytoplasmic penicillin-binding protein PBP1a, a newly identified virulence trait for GBS that promotes resistance to phagocytic killing independent of capsular polysaccharide. Complementation analysis in vivo and in vitro confirmed that the altered phenotypes observed in the mutant were due to the transposon insertion in ponA. Deletion of PBP1a does not affect C3 deposition on GBS suggesting that mechanism by which PBP1a protects GBS from phagocytic killing is distinct from the antiopsonic activity of capsular polysaccharide. This is the first report describing expression of an antiphagocytic surface protein by GBS and represents a novel mechanism for evasion of immune recognition and clearance that may explain the decreased virulence observed in Gram-positive bacterial species for penicillin-binding protein mutants.     

上皮组织特异性表达N-LMP1和CR2转基因猪胚胎成纤维细胞的构建与鉴定

目的 构建上皮组织特异性表达鼻咽癌来源潜伏膜蛋白1（N-LMP1）和人补体受体2（CR2）真核表达载体,转染猪胚胎成纤维细胞并筛选整合有N-LMP1和CR2基因的细胞克隆,为构建与EBV感染相关的猪鼻咽癌模型奠定基础.方法 通过直接合成ED-L2启动子和N-LMP1,从人B淋巴细胞中的RNA经RT-PCR扩增出CR2,将上述3个片段逐个连接到真核表达载体pN1上,构建上皮组织特异性表达N-LMP1和CR2的载体pN1-ED-L2-N-LMP1-CR2;用脂质体转染猪胚胎成纤维细胞,经药物G418 筛选和PCR鉴定阳性克隆.结果 成功构建上皮组织特异性表达N-LMP1和CR2的真核表达载体pN1-ED-L2-N-LMP1-CR2,并成功整合到猪胚胎成纤维细胞的基因组中,获得了整合有目的 基因N-LMP1和CR2的猪胚胎成纤维细胞克隆.结论 获得了上皮组织特异性表达N-LMP1和CR2 的猪胚胎成纤维细胞克隆,为通过细胞核移植方法获得表达N-LMP1和CR2转基因猪提供了供体细胞.     

Genetic and biochemical requirements for chemotaxis to L-proline in Escherichia coli.

Chemotaxis to L-proline was examined by the capillary assay, using a set of Escherichia coli strains bearing well-defined defects in the enzymes of proline transport and utilization. Aspartate taxis was measured as a constitutive, control activity whose receptor and transducer requirements are known. Proline chemotaxis showed a pattern of induction more analogous to that of proline dehydrogenase than of that of proline transport, but chemotaxis to proline was eliminated by mutations eliminating either or both of these activities. No response to proline was observed in the absence of a proline concentration gradient or when succinate was provided as an oxidizable carbon source. These data suggest that the chemotactic response to proline results from a direct impact of proline oxidation on the energy metabolism of the cell.     

癌症基因组测序方案制定的研究进展

癌症的基因组测序对于癌症的预防、诊断、预后、治疗以及基础生物学研究都有巨大的潜在的应用价值,正是由于其方向广泛,所以基因组测序的方案制定对于实现特定的研究目标,就显得尤为重要。同时,了解了基因组测序方案制定的规则,也有助于评估如今快速增长的发表文献的正确性和重要性。主要论述高通量测序技术在癌症基因组测序中的实际应用,并讨论癌症基因组测序在方案设计和方法学上如何调整,才能更好地实现特定的研究目的。     

Helix-destabilizing, beta-branched, and polar residues in the baboon reovirus p15 transmembrane domain influence the modularity of FAST proteins

The fusogenic reoviruses induce syncytium formation using the fusion-associated small transmembrane (FAST) proteins. A recent study indicated the p14 FAST protein transmembrane domain (TMD) can be functionally replaced by the TMDs of the other FAST proteins but not by heterologous TMDs, suggesting that the FAST protein TMDs are modular fusion units. We now show that the p15 FAST protein is also a modular fusogen, as indicated by the functional replacement of the p15 ectodomain with the corresponding domain from the p14 FAST protein. Paradoxically, the p15 TMD is not interchangeable with the TMDs of the other FAST proteins, implying that unique attributes of the p15 TMD are required when this fusion module is functioning in the context of the p15 ecto- and/or endodomain. A series of point substitutions, truncations, and reextensions were created in the p15 TMD to define features that are specific to the functioning of the p15 TMD. Removal of only one or two residues from the N terminus or four residues from the C terminus of the p15 TMD eliminated membrane fusion activity, and there was a direct correlation between the fusion-promoting function of the p15 TMD and the presence of N-terminal, hydrophobic β-branched residues. Substitution of the glycine residues and triserine motif present in the p15 TMD also impaired or eliminated the fusion-promoting activity of the p15 TMD. The ability of the p15 TMD to function in an ecto- and endodomain-specific context is therefore influenced by stringent sequence requirements that reflect the importance of TMD polar residues and helix-destabilizing residues.