Cloning and expression of daunorubicin biosynthesis genes from Streptomyces peucetius and S. peucetius subsp. caesius.

Genes for the biosynthesis of daunorubicin (daunomycin) and doxorubicin (adriamycin), important antitumor drugs, were cloned from Streptomyces peucetius (the daunorubicin producer) and S. peucetius subsp. caesius (the doxorubicin producer) by use of the actI/tcmIa and actIII polyketide synthase gene probes. Restriction mapping and Southern analysis of the DNA cloned in a cosmid vector established that the DNA represented three nonoverlapping regions of the S. peucetius subsp. caesius genome. These three regions plus an additional one that hybridized to the same probes are present in the S. peucetius genome, as reported previously (K. J. Stutzman-Engwall and C. R. Hutchinson, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:3135-3139, 1989). Functional analysis of representative clones from some of these regions in S. lividans, S. peucetius ATCC 29050, S. peucetius subsp. caesius ATCC 27952, and two of its blocked mutants (strains H6101 and H6125) showed that many of the antibiotic production genes reside in the region of DNA represented by the group IV clones. This conclusion is based on the production of epsilon-rhodomycinone, a key intermediate of the daunorubicin pathway, in certain S. lividans transformants and on the apparent complementation of mutations that block daunorubicin biosynthesis in strains H6101 and H6125. Some of the transformants of strains 29050, 27952, and H6125 exhibited substantial overproduction of epsilon-rhodomycinone and daunorubicin.     

超声心动图与血浆BNP、和肽素、hs-CRP对慢性心力衰竭患者心功能的评估价值分析

目的:研究超声心动图与血浆脑钠肽(BNP)、和肽素及超敏C反应蛋白(hs-CRP)对慢性心力衰竭(CHF)患者心功能的评估价值。方法:将我院从2017年3月～2020年3月收治的100例CHF患者纳入研究。将其按照美国纽约心脏病协会(NYHA)分级标准分成Ⅰ级33例,Ⅱ级21例,Ⅲ级25例,Ⅳ级21例。对所有患者均进行超声心动图检查,分析相关参数的差异。检测并对比所有患者血浆BNP、和肽素以及hs-CRP水平。采用Pearson相关性分析超声心动图相关参数与血浆BNP、和肽素及hs-CRP水平的关系。结果:心功能分级Ⅰ～Ⅳ级患者的左室射血分数(LVEF)呈逐渐降低趋势,而左房内径(LAD)及左室舒张末期内径(LVEDD)均呈逐渐升高趋势(P0.05),血浆BNP、和肽素及hs-CRP水平均呈逐渐升高趋势(P0.05)。经Pearson相关性分析可得:CHF患者LVEF与血浆BNP、和肽素及hs-CRP均呈负相关(r=-0.621、-0.534、-0.635,P0.05),而LAD、LVEDD与血浆BNP、和肽素及hs-CRP均呈正相关(r=0.582、0.602、0.511,r=0.547、0.592、0.615,P0.05)。结论:超声心动图及血浆BNP、和肽素、hs-CRP用于评估CHF患者心功能均效果显著,且联合检测具有协同互补的作用,实现对CHF患者病情严重程度更为精准的评估。     

荷叶离褶伞子实体化学成分

本文对祁连山野生荷叶离褶伞Lyophyllum decastes子实体的化学成分和生物活性进行研究。采用硅胶色谱、高效液相色谱等多种方法进行分离纯化得到8个化合物,通过MS、NMR和电子圆二色谱 （ECD）等方法确定了化学结构,其中有4个为聚炔类化合物。化合物1作为天然产物系首次报道,其相绝对构型是通过比较ECD的方法确定。对所得聚炔类化合物应用细胞模型进行抗氧化活性（CAA）指标检测,化合物1-4均呈现一定抗氧化活性,其中化合物1的抗氧化活性最强,其EC₅₀为(24.73±6.12)μmol/L。聚炔类化合物1-4为荷叶离褶伞首次报道成分,可作为祁连山野生荷叶离褶伞HPLC-DAD化学表征参考化合物。     

Non-targeted mutagenesis of unirradiated lambda phage in Escherichia coli host cells irradiated with ultraviolet light

Non-targeted mutagenesis of lambda phage by ultraviolet light is the increase over background mutagenesis when non-irradiated phage are grown in irradiated Escherichia coli host cells. Such mutagenesis is caused by different processes from targeted mutagenesis, in which mutations in irradiated phage are correlated with photoproducts in the phage DNA. Non-irradiated phage grown in heavily irradiated uvr+ host cells showed non-targeted mutations, which were 3/4 frameshifts, whereas targeted mutations were 2/3 transitions. For non-targeted mutagenesis in heavily irradiated host cells, there were one to two mutant phage per mutant burst. From this and the pathways of lambda DNA synthesis, it can be argued that non-targeted mutagenesis involves a loss of fidelity in semiconservative DNA replication. A series of experiments with various mutant host cells showed a major pathway of non-targeted mutagenesis by ultraviolet light, which acts in addition to "SOS induction" (where cleavage of the LexA repressor by RecA protease leads to din gene induction): (1) the induction of mutants has the same dependence on irradiation for wild-type and for umuC host cells; (2) a strain in which the SOS pathway is constitutively induced requires irradiation to the same level as wild-type cells in order to fully activate non-targeted mutagenesis; (3) non-targeted mutagenesis occurs to some extent in irradiated recA recB cells. In cells with very low levels of PolI, the induction of non-targeted mutagenesis by ultraviolet light is enhanced. We propose that the major pathway for non-targeted mutagenesis in irradiated host cells involves binding of the enzyme DNA polymerase I to damaged genomic DNA, and that the low polymerase activity leads to frameshift mutations during semiconservative DNA replication. The data suggest that this process will play a much smaller role in ultraviolet mutagenesis of the bacterial genome than it does in the mutagenesis of lambda phage.     

牛磺酸及微量营养素对大鼠视网膜NOS表达及cGMP含量影响的研究

目的：探讨大鼠补充一定剂量牛磺酸及微量营养素后,能否通过影响视感受器或视中枢ＮＯ合成酶（ＮＯＳ）表达及第二信使（ｃＧＭＰ）合成,影响视觉信号传导。方法：Ｗｉｓｔａｒ大鼠随机分为三组,即对照组（正常饲料组）、实验１组（５倍需要量组）和实验２组（１０倍需要量组）,喂养３周后,每组动物再随机分为光照组和暗适应组（平均照度为３．０３ＬＸ）,以正常饲料喂养７２ｈ,大鼠活杀取样,以放射免疫方法分析ｃＧＭＰ含量     

草莓高效离体叶片再生体系的建立

以草莓'明宝(Meiho)'和'红颊(Benihope)'的叶片为外植体,研究了不同基本培养基、暗培养时间、植物生长调节剂、叶龄、不同放置方式对其不定芽再生的影响.结果表明:各品种叶片不定芽离体再生的最佳条件不同.'明宝'叶片的最佳不定芽再生培养基为MS+2.5 mg/L TDZ+0.1 mg/L IBA+0.1 mg/L 2,4-D,叶片再生的最佳叶龄为30～40 d,再生率可达82.8%;'红颊'叶片的最佳不定芽再生培养基为MS+2.0 mg/L TDZ+0.1 mg/L IBA+0.1 mg/L 2,4-D,叶片再生的最佳叶龄在10～20 d,再生率可达79.8%.2个品种叶片暗培养14 d可以提高不定芽再生率;叶片正放比反放再生效果好;添加8 mg/L AgNO3和1 000 mg/L活性炭可有效提高再生率.     

海南黄牛HSF1 cDNA全长的克隆与序列分析

目的：根据人、小鼠HSF1cDNA保守区序列设计引物,通过PCR方法扩增海南黄牛HSF1cDNA,并进行序列分析。方法：利用RT-PCR、半巢式PCR以及3＇-RACE技术分段扩增得到了海南黄牛HSF1cDNA序列,测序正确后进行拼接。用DNAMAN 生物信息学软件分析海南黄牛HSF1 cDNA与赫里福德牛、人、小鼠同源性和海南黄牛HSF1蛋白的氨基酸组成、等电点、亲/疏水区等蛋白质性质,并根据各种动物HSF1蛋白绘制进化树。结果：（1）海南黄牛的HSF1 cDNA序列全长为1 993bp,包括150bp的5＇非翻译区,1 578bp的开放阅读框以及264bp（不含poly（A）尾）的3＇非翻译区,编码524个氨基酸,分子量为56.42 kD,等电点（pI）为 4.79。（2）海南黄牛的HSF1 cDNA与赫里福德牛、小鼠和人HSF1 cDNA的同源性分别为98.99 %、81.78 %、87.82 %,相应编码蛋白氨基酸序列的同源性分别为98.86 %、83.84 %、89.06 %,其中N-末端和C-末端高度保守,而中间区域存在缺失或替换。（3）根据氨基酸序列构建不同动物HSF1蛋白的进化树,与采用经典遗传分类法构建的进化树基本一致。结论：首次克隆了海南黄牛 HSF1 cDNA全长,分析表明：海南黄牛HSF1蛋白是亲水性蛋白,在8种动物中,其同源性大于73 %,高度保守。海南黄牛与赫里福德牛HSF1蛋白同源性高达98.86 %,在三聚体化区域、转录调节域和激活域存在6个位点的单氨基酸突变,这些发现为进一步揭示海南黄牛抗热性状形成的分子机制提供了重要依据。     

重组类人胶原蛋白工程菌补料发酵过程建模

对产类人胶原蛋白的重组大肠杆菌Escherichia coli(E. Coli) 的批式和分批-补料培养动力学进行了研究。通过检测发酵过程的基质浓度、菌体量和产物浓度,建立了一组反映发酵的动力学模型,并考虑了非工程菌存在的影响,分析了细胞生长、底物消耗、基因工程产物生成的过程,结果显示该动力学模型可以很好的拟合发酵过程。     

Approaches to stabilization of inter-domain recombination in polyketide synthase gene expression plasmids

Regions of extremely high sequence identity are recurrent in modular polyketide synthase (PKS) genes. Such sequences are potentially detrimental to the stability of PKS expression plasmids used in the combinatorial biosynthesis of polyketide metabolites. We present two different solutions for circumventing intra-plasmid recombination within the megalomicin PKS genes in Streptomyces coelicolor. In one example, a synthetic gene was used in which the codon usage was reengineered without affecting the primary amino acid sequence. The other approach utilized a heterologous subunit complementation strategy to replace one of the problematic regions. Both methods resulted in PKS complexes capable of 6-deoxyerythronolide B analogue biosynthesis in S. coelicolor CH999, permitting reproducible scale-up to at least 5-l stirred-tank fermentation and a comparison of diketide precursor incorporation efficiencies between the erythromycin and megalomicin PKSs. Electronic Publication     

A model of structure and catalysis for ketoreductase domains in modular polyketide synthases

A putative catalytic triad consisting of tyrosine, serine, and lysine residues was identified in the ketoreductase (KR) domains of modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) based on homology modeling to the short chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) superfamily of enzymes. This was tested by constructing point mutations for each of these three amino acid residues in the KR domain of module 6 of the 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS) and determining the effect on ketoreduction. Experiments conducted in vitro with the truncated DEBS Module 6+TE (M6+TE) enzyme purified from Escherichia coli indicated that any of three mutations, Tyr --> Phe, Ser --> Ala, and Lys --> Glu, abolish KR activity in formation of the triketide lactone product from a diketide substrate. The same mutations were also introduced in module 6 of the full DEBS gene set and expressed in Streptomyces lividans for in vivo analysis. In this case, the Tyr --> Phe mutation appeared to completely eliminate KR6 activity, leading to the 3-keto derivative of 6-deoxyerythronolide B, whereas the other two mutations, Ser --> Ala and Lys --> Glu, result in a mixture of both reduced and unreduced compounds at the C-3 position. The results support a model analogous to SDRs in which the conserved tyrosine serves as a proton donating catalytic residue. In contrast to deletion of the entire KR6 domain of DEBS, which causes a loss in substrate specificity of the adjacent acyltransferase (AT) domain in module 6, these mutations do not affect the AT6 specificity and offer a potentially superior approach to KR inactivation for engineered biosynthesis of novel polyketides. The homology modeling studies also led to identification of amino acid residues predictive of the stereochemical nature of KR domains. Finally, a method is described for the rapid purification of engineered PKS modules that consists of a biotin recognition sequence C-terminal to the thioesterase domain and adsorption of the biotinylated module from crude extracts to immobilized streptavidin. Immobilized M6+TE obtained by this method was over 95% pure and as catalytically effective as M6+TE in solution.