Structure of a Pancreatic ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channel

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纳米银的抗菌特性及对多重耐药菌株的抗菌作用

【目的】利用革兰氏阴性细菌、革兰氏阳性细菌和真菌的模式菌株分析纳米银的抗菌特性,并评价纳米银对多重耐药菌株的抗菌作用。【方法】利用生物法合成的纳米银,以微量肉汤法测定3种标准菌株的最小抑菌浓度(MIC)和最小杀菌浓度(MBC),并计算MBC/MIC比值。用系列浓度的纳米银处理3株标准菌株后经平板计数法绘制时间-杀菌曲线。采用菌落平板计数法测定了纳米银对3种标准菌株的"抗生素后效应"(post-antibiotic effect,PAE),最后在生物安全II级实验室测定纳米银对临床分离的多重耐药菌株的抗菌作用。【结果】用生物法合成了粒径5–30 nm的纳米银,zeta电位为–19.5 m V。该纳米银制剂对3种标准菌株的时间-杀菌曲线均表现为时间依赖型抗菌作用。纳米银对大肠杆菌和白色念珠菌"抗生素后效应"随着浓度增加而增加,对金黄色葡萄球菌无明显"抗生素后效应"。纳米银对3种标准菌株的MIC值和MBC值均在1.00–4.00μg/m L之间;对3株人源性多重耐药菌MIC值在6.00–26.00μg/m L之间,MBC值在1.00–32.00μg/m L之间;对14株动物源性多重耐药菌MIC值在4.00–10.00μg/m L之间,MBC值在8.00–16.00μg/m L之间。纳米银对所有测试菌株的MBC/MIC值均小于2。【结论】纳米银是一种时间依赖型的抗菌剂,有不同程度的"抗生素后效应",对人源和动物源性多重耐药菌有杀菌作用。     

华北平原冬小麦农田蒸散量

以华北平原冬小麦农田为研究对象,采用涡度相关技术和热红外遥感技术,研究了不同环境条件下土壤含水量与农田蒸散量及作物冠层温度的关系.结果表明,冬小麦在农田郁闭(LAI≥3)、晴天和土壤相对含水量低于田间持水量65%的情况下,蒸发比值日变化正午前后出现相对较低且平稳的变化趋势.在晴天情况下,农田潜热通量与作物冠层温度日变化和季节变化均呈极显著的非线性相关关系,而冠气温差、农田相对蒸散量则与0～100 cm土层的土壤相对含水量密切相关.以13:30～14:00的平均冠层温度值T_c、日最高气温T_{a max}和日净辐射总量Rn_d为统计数据,确立了冬小麦农田日蒸散量ET_d （mm）估算简化模式参数.     

三峡库区消落带植被NPP估算——基于机器学习优化CASA模型

三峡库区蓄水后,其生态效应受到广泛关注。消落带植被固碳量作为衡量库区生态系统健康状态的重要指标,对库区碳循环与生态净化具有重要意义。针对消落带不同高程植被接受光照的时间有所差异,且受河流水位变化影响,传统的CASA模型在计算消落带植被固碳量时,存在对植物的光能利用率计算不够精确等问题。以三峡库区香溪河陡坡消落带为研究区域,提出了一种耦合RBFNN模型（Radial Basis Function Neural Network）与CASA模型（Carnegie-Ames-Stanford approach）的新方法（RBF-CASA）。基于RBFNN建立环境影响因子模型,借助高程数据及植被指数等特征计算适合消落带区域的环境影响因子。结合CASA模型中温度和水分胁迫因子,提高植被在像元尺度上的净初级生产力（Net Primary Productivity,NPP）的估算精度,并对反演结果进行验证。模型验证结果显示：RBF-CASA模型估算值与观测值的决定系数（Coefficient of determination, R²）为0.730（P<0.01, n=32）。对比原始CASA模型,平均绝对误差（Mean absolute error, MAE）降低10.991,均方根误差（Root mean square error, RMSE）降低了23.861,相对均方根误差（Relative root mean square error, RRMSE）降低5.10%,平均绝对百分误差（Mean absolute percentage error, MAPE）降低1.12%。使用提出的RBF-CASA模型在库区水位落干期（7-8月份）进行固碳量估算,结果表明：NPP月均值在66.234-134.144g C/m²之间,NPP随着高程的增加呈现起伏变化,其总量在150-155m之间达到峰值,均值在170m以上区域最高。在2021年9月植被NPP均值为35.883g C/m²,2022年9月植被NPP均值为25.964g C/m²,由于降雨量减少、长江水位下降,在2021-2022年间植被恢复情况较差。研究结果可为库区碳循环、生态净化及生态修复等决策提供科学依据。     

基于Landsat的重庆市生态环境质量动态监测及其时空格局演变分析

长江流域是我国重要的生态屏障之一,重庆市作为长江上游最后一道关口,研究其生态质量发展对于有效保护长江流域生态环境具有重要指导意义。基于2011—2021年间的Landsat影像等数据,计算遥感生态指数(Remote sensing based ecological index, RSEI),并采用Sen(Theil-Sen median)趋势分析法和MK(Mann-Kendall)检验研究其变化趋势以及利用Hurst指数模型分析RSEI的持续特征。利用空间转移矩阵和重心迁移模型研究其在空间上分布特征的变化情况,最后使用降水、风速、近地表气温、海拔等辅助数据为影响因素,结合地理探测器进一步探究RSEI变化驱动力,探讨重庆市2011—2021的RSEI空间分布及演变趋势。结果表明：(1)重庆市多年平均RSEI为0.593,使用等间距法将其划分的等级为差、较差、中等、良、优的面积占比分别为2.48%、8.28%、38.32%、41,87%、9.05%。从整体来看重庆市生态质量水平较高,重庆市年际RSEI以显著趋势波动增长。(2)RSEI等级为差的地区空间上主要集中于重庆西部;较差等级主要围绕...     

A replicas placement approach of component services for service-based cloud application

Placement of component service replicas for service-based application (SBA) in cloud environments has become increasingly important. A SBA is usually communication topology-aware, and component service replicas possess stronger data dependency than data replicas; therefore, there are huge amounts of communication between the computer nodes that are used to place component service replicas. Because the conventional methods do not consider the communication topology of component services and the relations between computer nodes, they are not appropriate for placing component service replicas. In this paper, we propose a topological matching-based component service replicas placement method that takes into account not only the topology of SBAs but also the communication performance between different computing nodes. This method first discovers the communication topology of a SBA via multi-scale graph clustering then acquires the topology of computer nodes through spectral clustering. It then places the component service replicas by matching the above two topological structures. Comprehensive experiments are conducted by comparing the performance of our method with those of other methods based on CloudSim simulation software. The results show the effectiveness of our method for improving the performance of SBAs.     

Membrane aggregation and perturbation induced by antimicrobial peptide of S-thanatin

Thanatin, a 21-residue peptide, is an inducible insect peptide. In our previous study, we have identified a novel thanatin analog of S-thanatin, which exhibited a broad antimicrobial activity against bacteria and fungi with low hemolytic activity. This study was aimed to delineate the antimicrobial mechanism of S-thanatin and identify its interaction with bacterial membranes. In this study, membrane phospholipid was found to be the target for S-thanatin. In the presence of vesicles, S-thanatin interestingly led to the aggregation of anionic vesicles and sonicated bacteria. Adding S-thanatin to Escherichia coli suspension would result in the collapse of membrane and kill bacteria. The sensitivity assay of protoplast elucidated the importance of outer membrane (OM) for S-thanatin’s antimicrobial activity. Compared with other antimicrobial peptide, S-thanatin produced chaotic membrane morphology and cell debris in electron microscopic appearance. These results supported our hypothesis that S-thanatin bound to negatively charged LPS and anionic lipid, impeded membrane respiration, exhausted the intracellular potential, and released periplasmic material, which led to cell death.     

Effect of high-salt diet on NO release and superoxide production in rat aorta

Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either a high-salt (HS) diet (4.0% NaCl) or a low-salt (LS) diet (0.4% NaCl) for 3 days. Nitric oxide (NO) and superoxide production were assessed in the thoracic aorta by evaluating the fluorescence signal intensity from 4,5-diaminofluorescein (DAF-2DA) and dihydroethidine, respectively. Methacholine caused increased NO release in the aortas from rats on a LS but not HS diet. The SOD mimetic tempol restored methacholine-induced NO release in aortas from rats on a HS diet. Methacholine also caused superoxide production in the aortas of rats on a HS diet but not in the aortas of rats on a LS diet. Tempol and N(G)-monomethyl-l-arginine eliminated methacholine-induced superoxide production in the aortas of rats on a HS diet. Aortic rings from rats on the HS diet showed impaired methacholine-induced relaxation, which was improved by tempol. Tempol alone caused a NO-dependent relaxation of norepinephrine-precontracted aortas that was significantly greater in the aortas of rats on the HS diet than in vessels from rats on the LS diet. These data suggest that a HS diet impairs endothelium-dependent relaxation via reduced NO levels and increased superoxide production.