附丝壳属西藏一新记录种(英文)

武夷附丝壳寄生在冬青属植物的叶上 ,是我国西藏首次报道的附丝壳属种类。     

赣中亚热带森林转换对土壤氮素矿化及有效性的影响

采用原位培养法和时空替代法,对江西中部亚热带常绿阔叶林、天然马尾松林、人工杉木林、人工马褂木林的土壤氮素矿化速率及其有效性进行了比较研究,以探讨森林转换对土壤氮素矿化作用的影响。结果表明：转换前后各森林土壤无机氮库（NH4 -N、NO3--N）及氮素矿化速率(氨化速率、硝化速率)均呈现明显的季节动态,NH4 -N库冬春较大,NO3--N库夏秋较大,氨化速率与硝化速率均以夏秋强烈。森林转换改变了土壤氮素矿化格局,常绿阔叶林转变成马尾松林、杉木林、马褂木林后,土壤年均氨化速率分别降低了110.67%、100.76%、96.20%,而硝化速率提高了54.92%、24.19%、 24.46%;马尾松林年均总净矿化速率与常绿阔叶林相近,杉木林、马褂木林分别降低了24.68%、26.01%;另外,除常绿阔叶林外,马尾松林、杉木林、马褂木林的土壤氮素矿化量都小于植被吸收量。这些研究结果说明亚热带地区常绿阔叶林转换成其它次生林会增加氮素流失的危险性,氮素缺乏会成为这些森林生长的限制因子。     

Activation of α7-nAChRs protects SH-SY5Y cells from 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium-induced apoptotic cell death via ERK/p53 signaling pathway

Epidemiologic studies have shown a reduced risk of developing Parkinson's disease (PD) among cigarette smokers. Nicotine, as a key component in tobacco products, is thought as a possible candidate for action of smoking in neuroprotection. α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (α7-nAChRs) is one of the most abundant nAChRs in the mammalian brain. Although nicotine is thought to exert this protective action by acting on nicotinic receptors, including the α7-nAChRs; the mechanisms underlying how α7-nAChRs protect against dopaminergic neuron loss are highly complex. Using nicotine and a selective α7-nAChR agonist PNU-282987, we first confirmed that their addition to SH-SY5Y cells challenged with 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP⁺) could afford neuroprotection and result in a reduction in apoptotic cell death. Then, we found that the pretreatment with nicotine and PNU-282987 showed the neuroprotective antiapoptotic effects via activating the α7-nAChRs/MAPK/p53 axis. Furthermore, we used RNA interference to silence the expression of α7-nAChRs in SH-SY5Y cells and found that suppressing α7-nAChR expression diminished the antiapoptotic effects of nicotine and PNU-282987, not the toxic effects of MPP⁺. Moreover, α7-nAChR knockdown could only decrease the inhibitory effects of nicotine and PNU-282987 on the phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), not c-Jun amino-terminal kinase and p38. Therefore, our findings indicate the important roles of ERK/MAPK signaling in the neuroprotective effects of α7-nAChRs and suggest that α7-nAChR agonists may be validated as novel treatments for PD.     

The Up-regulation of Carbonic Anhydrase Genes of Bacillus mucilaginosus under Soluble Ca2+ Deficiency and the Heterologously Expressed Enzyme Promotes Calcite Dissolution

Molecular mechanisms and gene regulation are of interest in the area of geomicrobiology in which the interaction between microbes and minerals is studied. This paper focuses on the regulation of the expression of carbonic anhydrase (CA) genes in Bacillus mucilaginosus and the effects of the expression product of the B. mucilaginosus CA gene in Escherichia coli on calcite weathering. Real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) was used to explore the relationship between CA gene expression in B. mucilaginosus and promotion of calcite dissolution under condition of Ca²⁺ deficiency. The results showed that adding calcite to the medium, which lacks Ca²⁺, can up-regulate the expression of the bacterial CA genes to accelerate calcite dissolution for bacterial growth. CA genes from B. mucilaginosus were transferred into E. coli by cloning. We then employed crude enzyme extract from the resultant E. coli strain in calcite dissolution experiments. The enzyme extract promoted calcite dissolution. These findings provide direct evidence for the role of microbial CA on mineral weathering and mineral nutrition release.     

Cystathionine gamma-lyase overexpression inhibits cell proliferation via a H2S-dependent modulation of ERK1/2 phosphorylation and p21Cip/WAK-1

Cystathionine gamma-lyase (CSE) is a key enzyme in the trans-sulfuration pathway. CSE uses L-cysteine as a substrate to produce hydrogen sulfide (H2S). The CSE/H2S system has been shown to play an important role in regulating cellular functions in different systems. In the present study, we used CSE stably overexpressed HEK-293 cells to explore the effect of the CSE/H2S system on cell growth and proliferation. The overexpression of CSE resulted in increases in CSE mRNA levels, CSE proteins, and intracellular H2S production rates, as well as the inhibition of cell proliferation and DNA synthesis. These effects were accompanied by a sustained ERK activation and up-regulation of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21Cip/WAK-1. Blocking the action of ERK with U0126 inhibited the induction of p21Cip/WAK-1, suggesting that ERK activation functions upstream of p21Cip/WAK-1 activation to initiate the CSE overexpression-induced cell growth inhibition. The antiproliferative effect of CSE is likely mediated by endogenously produced H2S because the H2S scavenger methemoglobin (10 microm) significantly decreased the H2S production rate and reversed the antiproliferative effect afforded by CSE. Exogenous H2S (100 microm) also inhibited cell proliferation. However, the other CSE-catalyzed products, ammonium and pyruvate, failed to inhibit cell proliferation. Methemoglobin also abolished the inhibitory effect of exogenous H2S on cell proliferation. Moreover, exogenous H2S induced a sustained ERK and p21Cip/WAK-1 activation. These findings support the hypothesis that endogenously produced H2S may play a fundamental role in cell proliferation and survival.     

中国南方稻田螯蜂二新种：膜翅目：螯蜂科

本文描述采自我国南方稻田的双距螯蜂属２新种：南方双距螯蜂ＧｏｎａｔｏｐｕｓａｕｓｔｒａｌｉｓＸｕｅｔＨｅ,ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．和稻栖双距螯蜂ＧｏｎａｔｏｐｕｓｏｒｙｚａｅｔｏｒａｅＸｕｅｔＨｅ,ｓｐ．ｎｏｖ．。模式标本藏浙江农业大学植物保护系     

中国香菇交配型和基因型的分析

自1987—1990,在长江以南九省(区)采集52个香菇品系,43株制作了孢子印用以检测交配型,又以检测A.B因子位点的等位基因方法测定了担孢子的基因型,保藏了以A_xB_x(或A_xB_y……)标记的标准单核菌丝体,这是建立中国香菇种质库的第一步,将为香菇杂交育种提供有效亲本。结果表明:每一菌株的四个交配型呈随机分配。具有四个交配型的菌株百分率是79%,有二个交配型的香菇菌株百分率是21%。有9个菌株的单核菌丝的基因型从A_1B_1……A_(18)B_(18)不同,A.B因子等位基因差异明显,这些菌株显示了A.B因子的很低的地区性重复频率。本项研究中建立了区分同宗A同宗B以及四个交配型的试验方法,遵循着核移动的规律,这个方法能够重复。     

多毛孢属一个新种——雷州多毛孢

在雷州半岛上的湛江市郊,湖光岩畔,采到一条蔗褐蠹蛾 (Phragmatoecia castaneae Hubner)的僵硬虫尸,有孢梗束丛生。对虫尸及孢梗束进行分离,获得多毛孢属的一个新种,命名为雷州多毛孢(Hirsutella leizhouensis Fang et Tan)。本文报道该菌的形态学特征及其与近似种具疣多毛孢(H. nodulosa Petch)、褐色多毛孢(H. brownorum Mintef)的区别。