185例儿童急性白血病流式细胞术免疫分型研究

目的:探讨儿童急性白血病流式细胞术免疫分型的意义。方法:采用流式细胞术三色荧光标记技术和CD45/SSC双参数散点图设门,检测185例儿童急性白血病的免疫表型,对抗原表达情况进行分析。结果:流式细胞术免疫分型和FAB分型的符合率为89.19%。185例儿童急性白血病中,ALL为121例,占AL的65.41%,B-ALL为113例,主要表达B系的CD19(99.12%)、CD22(98.13%)、CD79a(96.19%)、CD10(86.73%)。T-ALL占8例;主要表达CD5(100%)、CD7(100%)、cCD3(100%)、CD8(87.5%)。AML为47例,占25.41%,主要表达CD33(93.62%)、CD15(78.72%)、CD64(76.6%)、MPO(76.6%)、CD13(74.47%)。在B-ALL,AML,T-ALL中,敏感性最高的抗体分别是CD19,CD33,CD5和CD7,特异性最强的抗体分别是CD79a,MPO,cCD3。AMLL为17例,占9.19%,其中B/M为9例,T/B为5例,T/M为3例。My十-ALL为54例,占ALL的44.63%,表达的髓系抗原为CD13、CD15、CD33、CD64。Ly+-AML为18例,占AML的38.30%,表达的淋系抗原为CD19、CD4、CD7。系列非相关抗原CD34的表达率为67.57%,HLA-DR的表达率为85.41%,CD38的表达率为80.59%,TdT的表达率为62.59%。结论:流式细胞术免疫分型在白血病分型中起重要作用,是FAB分型的补充和修正,提高了儿童急性白血病诊断的准确率有必要进一步加强流式细胞术免疫分型的标准化工作。     

Polygonum melihae sp. nov. (Polygonaceae) from inner west Anatolia,Turkey

Polygonum melihae Gemici & Kit Tan sp. nov. (Polygonaceae), a local endemic of inner west Anatolia is described as a species new to science and illustrated by photographs. The closest affinities are with P. afyonicum and P. setosum. Morphological characteristics and information about ecology and distribution are provided and the three taxa are compared. Dissimilarities with two Greek endemics, P. papillosum and P. idaeum, are also mentioned.     

CRISPR/Cas基因编辑系统在原核微生物细胞工厂构建中的开发与应用

随着能源和环境问题的日益突出,化学品以及燃料的合成方式正逐渐由传统的化学法合成转变为以细菌为基础的生物炼制过程,其中最关键问题是需要开发出合适的基因工程工具用于构建相应的产品生产菌株。成簇的规律间隔短回文重复序列(Clusteredregularlyinterspacedshortpalindromic repeats,CRISPR)/CRISPR相关蛋白(CRISPR-associated proteins,Cas)系统是一种存在于细菌和古细菌中的免疫系统,能够用于抵御病毒和外源质粒的入侵,近年来被开发成为一种高效、便捷、精确的基因编辑工具,显示出巨大的应用潜力。本文立足于CRISPR/Cas系统的原理与最新分类,结合实例综述了CRISPR/Cas基因编辑系统在原核微生物细胞工厂构建中的建立与优化策略,以及主要的应用方向,并探讨该系统所面临的主要问题并提出了一些可行的解决方案。     

YPED:An Integrated Bioinformatics Suite and Database for Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics Research

We report a significantly-enhanced bioinformatics suite and database for proteomics research called Yale Protein Expression Database(YPED) that is used by investigators at more than 300 institutions worldwide. YPED meets the data management, archival, and analysis needs of a high-throughput mass spectrometry-based proteomics research ranging from a singlelaboratory, group of laboratories within and beyond an institution, to the entire proteomics community. The current version is a significant improvement over the first version in that it contains new modules for liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry(LC–MS/MS) database search results, label and label-free quantitative proteomic analysis, and several scoring outputs for phosphopeptide site localization. In addition, we have added both peptide and protein comparative analysis tools to enable pairwise analysis of distinct peptides/proteins in each sample and of overlapping peptides/proteins between all samples in multiple datasets. We have also implemented a targeted proteomics module for automated multiple reaction monitoring(MRM)/selective reaction monitoring(SRM) assay development. We have linked YPED's database search results and both label-based and label-free fold-change analysis to the Skyline Panorama repository for online spectra visualization. In addition, we have built enhanced functionality to curate peptide identifications into an MS/MS peptide spectral library for all of our protein database search identification results.     

Microvesicles-mediated communication between endothelial cells modulates,endothelial survival,and angiogenic function via transferring of miR-125a-5p

Endothelial cells (ECs) released microvesicles (EMVs) could modulate the functions of target cells by transferring their microRNAs (miRs). We have reported that miR-125a-5p protected EC function. In this study, we determined whether EMVs provided beneficial effects on ECs by transferring miR-125a-5p. Human brain microvessel ECs were transfected with miR-125a-5p mimic or miR-125a-5p short hairpin RNA to obtain miR-125a-5p overexpressing ECs and miR-125a-5p knockdown ECs, and their derived EMVs. For the functional study, ECs or hypoxia/reoxygenation injured ECs were coincubated with various EMVs. The survival and angiogenic function of ECs were measured. Western blot and quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) were used for measuring the levels of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), phosphorylation-Akt (p-Akt)/Akt, p-endothelial nitric oxide synthase (p-eNOS), cleaved caspase-3, and miR-125a-5p. PI3K inhibitor was used for pathway analysis. EMVs promoted the proliferation, migration, and tube formation ability of ECs, and alleviated the apoptotic rate of ECs. These effects were associated by an increase in p-Akt/Akt and p-eNOS, and a decrease in cleaved caspase-3 could be abolished by LY294002. Overexpression or downregulation of miR-125a-5p in EMVs promoted or inhibited those effects of EMVs. EMVs could enhance the survival and angiogenic function of ECs via delivering miR-125a-5p to modulate the expression of PI3K/Akt/eNOS pathway and caspase-3.