Distribution of lipid-binding regions in human apolipoprotein B-100

The distribution of lipid-binding regions of human apolipoprotein B-100 has been investigated by recombining proteolytic fragments of B-100 with lipids and characterizing the lipid-bound fragments by peptide mapping, amino acid sequencing, and immunoblotting. Fragments of B-100 were generated by digestion of low-density lipoproteins (LDL) in the presence of sodium decyl sulfate with either Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease, pancreatic elastase, or chymotrypsin. Particles with electron microscopic appearance of native lipoproteins formed spontaneously when detergent was removed by dialysis from enzyme digests containing fragments of B-100 and endogenous lipids, or from incubation mixtures of delipidated B-100 fragments mixed with microemulsions of exogenous lipids (cholesteryl oleate and egg phosphatidylcholine). Fractionation of the recombinant particles by isopycnic or density gradient ultracentrifugation yielded complexes similar to native LDL with respect to shape, diameter, electrophoretic mobility, and surface and core compositions. Circular dichroic spectra of these particles showed helicity similar to LDL but a somewhat decreased content of beta-structure. Most of the fragments of B-100 were capable of binding to lipids; 12 were identified by direct sequence analysis and 14 by reaction with antisera against specific sequences within B-100. Our results indicate that lipid-binding regions of B-100 are widely distributed within the protein molecule and that proteolytic fragments derived from B-100 can reassociate in vitro with lipids to form LDL-like particles.     

抗阿特拉津转基因大豆植株后代的遗传分析

本试验用阿特拉津溶液涂抹、荧光诱导动力学检测、分子杂交等方法对抗阿特拉津转基因大豆植株的后代进行了鉴定,在第二代及第三代中检测到了抗性基因的存在,表明从龙葵中得到的此抗阿特拉津 psbA 基因不仅能导人大豆叶绿体基因组中获得表达,而且可以遗传到后代。     

The macrosatellites of the Toulouse goose: the major tandemly repetitive DNA in the toulouse goose genome

This paper examines the principal classes of repetitive DNA of the Toulouse goose (Anser anser) genome. There are four major classes and they are tandem repeats of less than 200 base pairs (bp). The longest repeat (class A) is 190 bp long and starts with a HinfI site. Class B is 43 bp long, commencing with a FokI site. Classes A and B show no extensive homology to DNA sequences held on a current data base (Genbank) but were confirmed to exist as major repeats in another strain of goose, the Emden goose (Anser anser) genome. Classes C and D are 5-bp repeats of 5' GAGAG 3' and 5' GGGAA 3', respectively. The macrosatellites C and D were compared with a current data base (Genbank) and were found to exist in a variety of other organisms as satellites.     

Close association of a DNA replication origin and an ARS element on chromosome III of the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Two dimensional gel electrophoretic techniques were used to locate all functional DNA replication origins in a 22.5 kb stretch of yeast chromosome III. Only one origin was detected, and that origin is located within several hundred bp of an ARS element.     

On the generalization of the Weinbaum-Jiji bioheat equation to microvessels of unequal size; the relation between the near field and local average tissue temperatures

The extensive series of experiments reported in Lemons et al. [1] show that measureable local tissue temperature fluctuations are observed primarily in the vicinity of the 100-500 micron countercurrent vessels of the microcirculation and thus strongly support the basic hypothesis in the new bioheat equation of Weinbaum and Jiji [2] that these countercurrent microvessels are the principal determinants of local blood-tissue heat transfer. However, the detailed temperature profiles in the vicinity of these vessels indicate that large asymmetries in the local temperature field can result from the significant differences in size between the countercurrent artery and vein. Using the superposition techniques of Baish et al. [9], the paper first presents a solution to the classic problem of an unequal countercurrent heat exchanger with heat loss to the far field. This solution is then used to generalize the Weinbaum-Jiji bioheat equation and the conductivity tensor that appears in this equation to vessels of unequal size. An asymptotic analysis has also been developed to elucidate the relationship between the near field temperature of the artery-vein pair and the local average tissue temperature. This analysis is used to rigorously prove the closure approximation relating the local arterial-venous temperature difference and the mean tissue temperature gradient which had been derived in [2] using a more heuristic approach.     

从“湖北光敏感核不育水稻”的未受精子房和花药培养出单倍体植株

采用10种诱导培养基,培养湖北光敏感核不育水稻农垦58品种的未受精子房和花药。共培养未受精子房2790个,获得胚囊愈伤组织17块,最高诱导频率达3.33%,其中2块分化出绿苗。培养花药16740个,获得花药愈伤组织15块,最高诱导频率为0.92%,其中3块分化出苗,2丛白苗,1株绿苗。胚囊植株和花粉植株经根尖染色体检查为单倍体,2n=x=12。实验证明,液体培养、2,4-D0.2-0.5 mg/1、低温预处理对诱导胚囊愈伤组织及花粉愈伤组织的形成具良好效果。     

大叶杨组组间杂交花粉－柱头相互作用的超微结构研究

以大叶杨为母本,分别与小叶杨、欧洲黑杨、响叶杨进行人工杂交,并以大叶杨×大叶杨为对照,观察其花粉与柱头相互作用的超微结构变化。结果表明,大叶杨柱头细胞在授粉前表现生理活跃,含丰富的细胞器,壁外被含分支通道的角质层。接受大叶杨及欧洲黑杨花粉的柱头细胞内部仍有丰富的细胞器,膜结构保存完好。接受小叶杨及响叶杨花粉的柱头细胞衰亡较快,授粉部位沉积厚的胼胝质,细胞内部液泡化,膜结构逐渐消失,细胞质电子密度加大。欧洲黑杨花粉行为与大叶杨花粉行为相似,花粉能迅速萌发,并以短管形式穿入柱头,异常行为罕见。小叶杨及响叶杨花粉萌发后只有半数花粉管能以短管形式进入柱头,其中部分管内沉积胼胝质,另半数花粉管在柱头上表现各种异常行为——扭曲、爬行、肿胀、提前破裂释放内容物及先端沉积胼胝质。由各种花粉在大叶杨柱头上的行为和大叶杨柱头对各种授粉的反应判断,与大叶杨杂交亲和力在柱头阶段表现由强至弱依次是欧洲黑杨、小叶杨、响叶杨。     

除虫菊的染色体数目及其核型

除虫菊(Pyrethrum cinerariifolium Trev.)为菊科小黄菊属多年生宿根草本植物。以花或全草入药。除虫菊的主要有效成分为除虫菊酯和瓜叶除虫菊酯,可用于加工成各种制剂作杀虫剂原料,用以防治日常虫豸(蚊、蝇、虱等)和农业害虫,且对人     

一种纯化细菌有机磷水解酶的简便方法

Cibacron blue T_3GA与溴化氰活化的Sepharose 4B偶联后,产生一种能有效地分离有机磷水解酶的吸附剂。用0.15mol/L MgCl_2溶液从黄杆菌P3—2细胞抽提出的粗酶液通过柱层析分离,即可得到纯化8倍、酶活性回收率为269.4％的纯酶制品。该酶制品用凝胶电泳测是均一的。