猪和牛轮状病毒的分离与鉴定

应用MA-104细胞、胰蛋白酶处理培养物和旋转培养技术,成功地从患腹泻仔猪和犊牛的粪便样品中,分离到6株猪轮状病毒和4株牛轮状病毒。经形态学、血清学和病毒RNA电泳分析等鉴定,确为典型轮状病毒。经MA-104细胞连续传代,这10株轮状病毒均成为细胞适应毒株,并在该细胞上产生明显的细胞病变。     

天山乌鲁木齐河源一号冰川表面粉尘蓝细菌群落结构及其系统发育

【目的】揭示天山乌鲁木齐河源一号冰川表面粉尘中蓝细菌多样性、群落结构及其系统发育,为科学评价冰川表面及相关环境中功能微生物的地球化学循环作用提供参考依据。【方法】采用两对蓝细菌16S rRNA基因特异引物扩增并构建克隆文库,基于序列相似性归类OTU并统计多样性,代表OTU序列与NCBI、RDP数据库比对后构建系统发育树。【结果】天山一号冰川表面粉尘101个蓝细菌克隆序列基于97%的相似性被划分为12个OTU,shannon多样性指数为1.522,系统发育分析显示主要隶属于颤蓝细菌目(Oscillatoriales)和色球蓝细菌目(Chroococcales)。Oscillatoriales包括席蓝细菌属(Phormidium)、微鞘蓝细菌属(Microcoleus)、伪鱼腥蓝细菌属(Pseudanabaena)和颤蓝细菌属(Oscillatoria)4个属,其中Phormidium占绝对优势,68个克隆序列划分为4个OTU,其它3个属的序列较少。Chroococcales仅有1个克隆,与亚球形管胞蓝细菌(Chamaesiphon subglobosus)亲缘关系很近。此外,发现一号冰川表面粉尘的速效磷、速效钾含量是冰川退缩前沿50 m-500 m距离土壤的2-5倍,硝态氮达到10-20倍,有机质含量达到3-9倍,显著高于冰川前沿环境。【结论】天山一号冰川表面粉尘蓝细菌的多样性指数相对较高,以隶属于Phormidium属的成员占绝对优势,对其生态学作用需进一步深入探究。     

SRC-3与乳腺癌的关系研究进展

类固醇受体辅助活化因子-3(SRC-3)是p160类固醇受体辅助活化因子SRC基因家族的成员,与体内多种肿瘤的形成密切相关。SRC-3不仅可以通过多种信号转导通路参与乳腺癌的发生,还与部分乳腺癌患者产生内分泌药物治疗抵抗的分子机制有关。临床治疗研究中发现,SRC-3和人表皮生长因子受体-2的共同过度表达常预示着乳腺癌患者较差的生存率。因此,SRC-3有望成为抗癌治疗的新靶点,解决目前内分泌治疗的药物抵抗问题,给更多乳腺癌患者带来福音。     

镇江香醋固态发酵醋醅中微生物总DNA提取方法比较

【目的】为了更加全面地分析我国传统固态发酵过程中微生物群落的多样性和演替情况,本文以镇江香醋固态发酵为例,对比研究了11种不同的总DNA提取法对醋醅中总DNA提取的影响。【方法】使用紫外分光光度计法和荧光定量PCR(Realtime Quantitative PCR)测定了不同提取方法得到的醋醅样品总DNA的产量与纯度,采用变性梯度凝胶电泳(DGGE)法对固态发酵中细菌和真菌的多样性进行了分析。【结果】醋醅总DNA得率最高可达93.2±1.5μg/g干醅,细菌总数最高达到1.73×1013 copies.(g干醅)-1,真菌总数最高达到6.49×1012 copies.(g干醅)-1。不同的提取方法对DGGE结果有明显的影响,6种基于SDS裂解的方法所获得的条带较多。【结论】结果表明,液氮研磨+溶菌酶+SDS高盐抽提法(方法3)为最优的醋醅总DNA提取方法。     

紫色红曲霉Mp-21胞内次级代谢产物的分离纯化与活性研究

[目的]紫色红曲霉(Monascus purpureus)Mp-21胞内次级代谢产物的分离纯化与活性研究.[方法]通过综合运用多种色谱分离方法对次级代谢产物进行分离纯化,最后通过多种图谱数据对化合物进行结构的解析与鉴定.对分离纯化得到的单体化合物进行抗氧化与降血糖相关酶抑制活性的测定.[结果]从紫色红曲霉Mp-21胞内...     

Insulation from viral transcriptional regulatory elements enables improvement to hepatoma-specific gene expression from adenovirus vectors

We previously reported that the HS-4 insulator, derived from the chicken beta-globin locus, was able to shield a downstream inducible promoter from viral enhancers or silencers present in the genome of adenovirus vectors. In this study, we constructed two recombinant adenoviruses (Ad) that express an alkaline phosphatase (AP) reporter gene driven by an alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) enhancer/promoter with and without HS-4 insulator (Ad.HS4.AFP-AP and Ad.AFP-AP). The insulated vector, Ad.HS4.AFP-AP, conferred significantly higher AP expression than Ad.AFP-AP in all AFP-producing hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines (HepG2, Hep3B, and HuH7) examined. AP expression from Ad.HS4.AFP-AP was specific to hepatoma cells and barely detectable in AFP-negative tumor cell lines and normal human cells, including human hepatocytes. Intravenous infusion of viral vectors into mice with liver metastasis derived from Hep3B hepatoma cells resulted in AP expression exclusively localized to tumor cells. The number of tumor cells with detectable AP expression was significantly higher in mice infused with Ad.HS4.AFP-AP than in mice that received the non-insulated vector. This study demonstrates that the HS-4 insulator in the context of an Ad vector can increase the activity of the AFP promoter, while maintaining its tumor-specificity in vitro and in vivo. Considering that the anti-tumor activity of oncolytic vectors often depends on the level of pro-apoptotic or suicide gene expression, insulators might be a useful tool to improve the efficacy and specificity of these vectors.     

IRSp53和MIM同源结构域IMD相互作用蛋白质的鉴定

IRSp53(胰岛素受体酪氨酸激酶底物)和MIM(肿瘤转移消失蛋白)的同源结构域(IMD结构域)在IR-Sp53/MIM家族调控肌动蛋白动态变化的过程中起重要作用.IMD结构域具有使肌动蛋白纤维成束的活性,与小分子GTPase家族Racl也存在相互作用.然而,IMD结构域是否存在其它相互作用蛋白并不清楚.本研究利用GST pull down技术结合质谱分析从大鼠小脑中筛选IMD结构域的相互作用蛋白,得到了几个候选蛋白.其中,神经发育中下调蛋白NEDD9与IRSp53及MIM在小脑中存在类似的分布,体外实验进一步证明了两者之间的相互作用,暗示NEDD9是一种新的IMD结构域相互作用蛋白质.     

稗草致病菌——尖角突脐孢菌菌株RAPD指纹图谱的分析

以我国主要稻区的稗草植株上分离的17株尖角突脐孢菌菌株为试验材料,采用改良的SDS法提取其基因组DNA,并运用优化的RAPD分析体系对其进行了分子标记遗传差异研究。从25个随机引物中筛选出20个扩增效果好的引物,对全部试验材料进行了RAPD扩增,共得到239条有效带,其中多态性带229条（占95.8%）。依据扩增结果建立了17株尖角突脐孢菌基因型的DNA指纹图谱并对其进行了有效区分。根据RAPD分析结果计算了菌株间的遗传距离,分析了它们的遗传差异并进行了聚类分析,结果表明,RAPD分子标记技术是能够用于杂草致病菌资源的鉴定的,并可以进一步应用于特定性状的基因标记研究。     

Down-Regulated miR-30a in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Correlated with Tumor Hematogenous Metastasis by Targeting Angiogenesis-Specific DLL4

Background

Endothelial DLL4 plays an important role in controlling of tumor angiogenesis, which is required for tumor invasive growth and metastasis. However, the regulation of DLL4 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) has not yet been systematically elucidated.

Methodology

We performed bioinformatical analysis to explore miRNAs targeting DLL4. miR-30a was selected as a representative to validate its functional association in endothelial cell. Then, the expressions of DLL4 and mature miR-30a from 90 cases of ccRCC and 28 cases of nonmatched adjacent non-tumor tissues were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. Finally, the expression of miR-30a was correlated with DLL4 expression, tumor features (metastatic condition and microvessel density), and patient metastasis-free survival. The univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to select the risk factors associated with hematogenous metastasis, respectively.

Principal Findings

miR-30a negatively regulated DLL4 and inhibited the proliferation and migration of endothelial cells. DLL4 was up-regulated in ccRCC and further increased in hematogenous metastatic cases, while miR-30a was down-regulated in tumor tissues and further decreased in hematogenous metastatic ccRCC (student t test, all p<0.05). Additionally, expression of miR-30a was inversely correlated with expression of DLL4 and microvessel density (linear correlation analysis, both p<0.05). Low-level miR-30a also indicated a higher probability of developing metastasis (log-rank test, p = 0.010). Most importantly, miR-30a expression was an independent predictor of ccRCC hematogenous metastasis by the univariate analysis and binary logistic regression model (both p<0.05).

Conclusions

Down-regulated miR-30a in ccRCC was associated with tumor hematogenous metastasis through increasing microvessel density by targeting angiogenesis-specific DLL4.