中国东部地区黑葡萄穗霉(Stachybotrys chartarum)菌多样性分析及其生态位研究

黑葡萄穗霉能产生多种毒素, 严重影响人类健康和生活, 因而受到了科学界广泛关注。从中国东部地区不同生境中, 采集261份样品, 分离获得丝孢菌13属33种, 其中黑葡萄穗霉1142株, 对其菌株资源多样性和生态位进行研究, 目的是为我国防控黑葡萄穗霉病提供理论指导和资源支持。结果表明: 黑葡萄穗霉在纸片、墙壁、石棉板和石膏板中分布较广, 其优势度分别为91%、90%、91%和89%; 不同生境中其分布数量和丰富度各不相同, 物种丰富度最大的是土壤, 最小的为石膏板和空气; 生态位宽度为4.5138, 属于广生态位种; 不同生境中其群落相似性系数也各不相同, 石膏板和墙壁相似性系数最大为0.7964; 与G7黑乌刺霉菌生态位重叠指数最大为0.8989, 与其他种类生态位重叠指数较低。黑葡萄穗霉菌在我国东部地区广泛存在, 其生态分布、发生规律与生境中纤维素、钙质和湿度有密切关系。     

Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies of CD19 CAR T cell in human leukaemic xenograft models with dual-modality imaging

In recent years, chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T)-cell therapy has shown great potential in treating haematologic disease, but no breakthrough has been achieved in solid tumours. In order to clarify the antitumour mechanism of CAR T cell in solid tumours, the pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) investigations of CD19 CAR T cell were performed in human leukaemic xenograft mouse models. For PK investigation, we radiolabelled CD19 CAR T cell with ⁸⁹Zr and used PET imaging in the CD19-positive and the CD19-negative K562-luc animal models. For PD evaluation, optical imaging, tumour volume measurement and DNA copy-number detection were performed. Unfortunately, the qPCR results of the DNA copy number in the blood were below the detection limit. The tumour-specific uptake was higher in the CD19-positive model than in the CD19-negative model, and this was consistent with the PD results. The preliminary PK and PD studies of CD19 CAR T cell in solid tumours are instructive. Considering the less efficiency of CAR T-cell therapy of solid tumours with the limited number of CAR T cells entering the interior of solid tumours, this study is suggestive for the subsequent CAR T-cell design and evaluation of solid tumour therapy.     

基于野外观测检验动物廊道选址模型的准确性——以白头叶猴为例

廊道构建是减少栖息地破碎化负面影响的重要策略之一。目前，已经有许多模型用于动物廊道的选址，而"选址模型是否能准确预测动物迁移的实际发生位置"一直是保护生物学最为关注的问题。最小成本路径模型（LCP）和条件最小成本廊道模型（CMTC）是两种较为常用的廊道选址模型。以白头叶猴（Trachypithecus leucocephalus）为目标物种，分别运用LCP和CMTC模拟生成白头叶猴迁移廊道，将模拟结果与野外观测廊道进行对比，检验两种方法的准确性。结果表明：与野外观测实际廊道相比，LCP模型模拟结果的完全准确率为46.7%，部分准确率为20%，完全不准确率为33.3%；CMTC模型模拟结果的完全准确率为26.7%，其余73.3%为部分准确，无完全不准确的结果；总体上看，CMTC廊道的准确率较LCP高，因而CMTC模型模拟白头叶猴实际迁移廊道位置的准确性优于LCP模型。输入"源"要素类型、阻力面栅格尺度设定、栖息地土地利用类型变化以及动物迁移行为复杂性4个因素是影响该模拟结果准确性的主要原因。     

玉米ZmNPR1基因的克隆及表达分析

该研究从玉米高抗自交系D863F中克隆了ZmNPR1基因(GenBank登录号为MH619241)的gDNA和cDNA序列,开放阅读框长1 866 bp,编码621个氨基酸,相对分子质量67.61 kD,等电点为5.46。系统进化树比对表明,玉米ZmNPR1蛋白和高粱SbNPR1蛋白的亲缘关系较近,相似性高达97%。实时荧光定量PCR结果表明,ZmNPR1在叶片中能够被水稻黑条矮缩病毒诱导并显著上调表达。同时ZmNPR1在玉米叶片、茎、根、雄穗、雌穗以及花丝中均有表达,在雌穗和叶片中的表达量较高。研究表明,ZmNPR1可能在玉米粗缩病抗病过程中起着重要作用。     

QTL editing confers opposing yield performance in different rice varieties

Grain yield is one of the most important and complex trait for genetic improvement in crops; it is known to be controlled by a number of genes known as quantitative trait loci(QTLs). In the past decade, many yield-contributing QTLs have been identified in crops.However, it remains unclear whether those QTLs confer the same yield performance in different genetic backgrounds. Here, we performed CRISPR/Cas_9-mediated QTL editing in five widely-cultivated rice varieties and revealed that the same QTL can have diverse, even opposing, effects on grain yield in different genetic backgrounds.     

SIMLR: A Tool for Large‐Scale Genomic Analyses by Multi‐Kernel Learning

SIMLR (S ingle‐cell I nterpretation via M ulti‐kernel L eaR ning), an open‐source tool that implements a novel framework to learn a sample‐to‐sample similarity measure from expression data observed for heterogenous samples, is presented here. SIMLR can be effectively used to perform tasks such as dimension reduction, clustering, and visualization of heterogeneous populations of samples. SIMLR was benchmarked against state‐of‐the‐art methods for these three tasks on several public datasets, showing it to be scalable and capable of greatly improving clustering performance, as well as providing valuable insights by making the data more interpretable via better a visualization. SIMLR is available on https://github.com/BatzoglouLabSU/SIMLR GitHub in both R and MATLAB implementations. Furthermore, it is also available as an R package on http://bioconductor.org