高温菌研究进展

高温菌是一类特殊的极端环境生物。本文简要从高温菌生态、耐热性、基因组等方面综述了高温菌的研究进展。     

大鼠Shh-N融合蛋白的表达、纯化及功能研究

为了获得重组Sonic hedgehog N端蛋白（Shh-N）并研究其功能,应用PCR技术扩增Shh-N cDNA,然后克隆至原核表达质粒中,转化E.coli后获得表达菌株, 经1 mmol/L IPTG诱导高效表达出带有His-tag的融合蛋白,其中大部分为可溶性蛋白,少量为包涵体.用His-tag特异性结合树脂纯化可溶性融合蛋白,经SDS-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳鉴定为单一区带,凝胶自动扫描分析表明,Shh-N的纯度达85%以上.纯化后的Shh-N在成纤维生长因子8(FGF₈)的协同作用下,能诱导神经前体细胞（NPC）向酪氨酸羟化酶阳性神经元（TH⁺）发育.在此基础上可以诱导不同类型的人类干细胞定向分化为多巴胺(DA)神经元,从而为临床治疗帕金森病（PD）提供充足的供体细胞.     

硅处理对甜瓜采后POD、PAL和呼吸强度的影响

以厚皮甜瓜玉金香作为实验材料,研究硅处理对甜瓜玉金香采后POD、PAL活性和呼吸强度的影响。实验表明:(1)不同硅剂处理对甜瓜玉金香的伤害差异很大,纳米硅对甜瓜玉金香不造成任何伤害;正硅酸乙酯即使在很低的浓度下(25mmol·L-1),也能造成产品严重伤害;硅酸钠在100mmol·L-1时可造成轻度的易恢复性伤害。(2)100mmol·L-1硅酸钠处理能显著提高甜瓜玉金香POD和PAL的活性,降低其呼吸强度。(3)200mmol·L-1纳米硅处理能降低甜瓜玉金香的呼吸强度,而对POD和PAL的活性无影响。(4)纳米氧化硅和硅酸钠处理后可明显提高表皮硅含量,且气孔部位硅含量有一个高峰;剖面接近表皮部位,硅含量也有一个高峰。     

太原市土壤中汞污染及成因研究

由于在城市的生产和生活等活动中长期排放含Hg的废弃物,致使城市土壤中的Hg含量越来越多,城市土壤的Hg污染越来越重,它所产生的危害已经引起人们的关注。本文通过对太原市不同地点的土壤中Hg含量进行监测,阐明了太原市土壤中Hg元素的含量、分布特征及其形成的原因,从而为太原市土壤Hg污染防治提供参考依据。     

半圈养条件下东北虎繁殖期的行为时间分配

1998年 10月～ 2 0 0 0年 10月在黑龙江东北虎林园 ,采用随机取样法和瞬时扫描取样法对繁殖期东北虎的行为进行了研究。结果表明 ,在繁殖期的不同阶段东北虎的行为发生较大的变化。在发情交配期雌雄虎的时间分配相似 (P >0 0 5 ) ,均将最多的时间用于运动 ,用于休息的时间较少 ,用于发情交配和其它行为的时间较多。雌虎在妊娠期较多的时间用于休息和运动 ,取食、站立、社会和其它行为的时间均较少 ;产仔期最多的时间用于休息 ,其次是运动 ,用于产仔和其它行为的时间较多 ,用于取食的时间最少 ;哺乳期最多的时间用于休息 ,其次是哺乳和运动 ,用于取食和其它行为的时间较少。活动规律方面 ,各种行为在强度、出现和持续的时间上存在较大差异。单因素方差分析表明 ,在繁殖期的不同阶段雌性东北虎的休息和运动存在极显著差异 (P <0 0 0 1) ,取食存在显著差异 (P <0 0 5 ) ,只有其它行为不存在显著差异(P >0 0 5 )。 10 0日龄内幼虎用于休息的时间最多 ,其次是运动和取食 ,其它行为的时间最少。     

兔抗人NESTIN抗血清的制备与鉴定(简报)

巢蛋白(nestin)属Ⅵ类中等纤维蛋白。最初在神经系统发育早期发现有该蛋白的表达。后在正常神经系统中发现仅在未分化的神经前体细胞中有nestin的短暂表达,分化后在神经元和神经胶质细胞中分别被NF(neurofilament,神经丝)和GFAP(Glial fibrillary acidic protein,神经胶质元纤维酸性蛋白)所代替。所以nestin的表达通常被视为神经前体细胞的标志之一。就我们所知,目前商品化nestin的抗体都是鼠抗鼠(克隆Rat401)的抗体,而人鼠之间该蛋白序列的同源性仅为50%左     

Behavioral modification in choice process of Drosophila

Because of its clear genetic and developmental background, diversity of behavioral paradigms and neuroanatomy of the brain, Drosophila has become an important animal model for studying genetic, molecular and cellular bases of learning and memory[1]. Extensive research has explored the visual operant conditioning of Drosophila and related molecular bases[2—8]; recently, researchers began to address cognition-like functions and involved neural substrates[9—11]. In these studies, behavioral ana…     

L-型细菌蛋白表达系统

L-型细胞由于缺乏细胞壁以及具有的其它特殊生物学特性,通过连接合适的信号肽,可以用于许多外源蛋白的可溶性,功能活性形式的分泌表达,表达产物在培养基中,表达的产量依赖于不同的基因序列,载体,宿主和诱导表达条件等因素,此外,L-型细菌还能将具有功能活性的蛋白展示在胞浆膜表面。     

What confines an annual plant to two separate zones along coastal topographic gradients?

We investigated the roles of flooding, salinity, and plant competition in creating a bimodal zonation pattern of the marsh dominant annual plant, Suaeda salsa, along coastal topographic gradients on the Pacific coast of northern China. In two consecutive years, we manipulated salinity and flooding, salinity, and competition for S. salsa seedlings that had been transplanted into the mudflat, the high marsh, and the upland, respectively. S. salsa plants that had been transplanted into the mudflat were completely eliminated in the non-elevated treatments whereas they performed much better in the 10 cm elevated treatments, regardless of salinity treatments. Although the performance of S. salsa transplanted into the high marsh did not differ between the fresh (watered) and the salt (control) treatments, S. salsa seedling emergence in the high marsh was nearly completely inhibited in the salt treatments. In contrast, a large number of S. salsa seedlings did emerge in the fresh treatments. S. salsa transplanted into the upland performed well when neighbors were removed, whereas it appeared to be strongly suppressed when neighbors were present. These data indicated that flooding, salinity, and competition all played a role in determining the zonation pattern of S. salsa. Furthermore, the importance of salinity was found to vary with life-history stage. Based on the results from these field manipulative experiments, we suggest that the marsh plant zonation paradigm may hold true for plant distributions along landscape-scale topographic gradients from mudflats to uplands in general. The relative importance of flooding, salinity, and competition, however, may vary at different elevations within a site and between sites. Handling editor: Pierluigi Viaroli     

Hydrothermal synthesis, crystal structure and magnetic characterization of three hexa-M substituted tungstoarsenates (M = Ni, Zn and Mn)

Three novel hexa-transition-metal complexes substituted tungstoarsenates, [Ni₆(imi)₆(B-α-H₃AsW₉O₃₃)₂]·2H₂O (1), [Zn₆(imi)₆(B-α-H₃AsW₉O₃₃)₂]·2H₂O (2) and [Mn₆(imi)₆(B-α-H₃AsW₉O₃₃)₂]·4H₂O (3) (imi = imidazole), have been synthesized hydrothermally without using any polyoxoanion as precursor and characterized by elemental analyses, IR, TG and X-ray single-crystal diffraction. Compounds 1-3 are isostructural, composed of [B-α-H₃AsW₉O₃₃]¹²⁻ anions and [M₆(imi)₆]¹²⁺ complex cations (M = Ni, Zn and Mn), all M atoms are square pyramidal geometry, and held together to form hexagonal metallocycles by edge-sharing oxygen atoms. In compounds 2 and 3, [M₆(imi)₆(B-α-AsW₉O₃₃)₂] (M = Zn, Mn) segments act as 12-connected nodes to form complicated 3D network via hydrogen-bonding interactions, respectively. Magnetic measurements for 1 show the presence of ferromagnetic interactions within the hexanuclear Ni²⁺ cations.