蓝斑核对上呼吸道阻力肌—颏舌肌功能的影响

本实验在３８只经氨基甲酸乙酯麻醉的健康家兔上进行,观察了电、化学刺激蓝斑核（ＬＣ）对颏舌肌功能的影响。结果如下：（１）长串电脉冲刺激蓝斑核使颏舌肌肌电活动明显增强,表现为长吸性肌电积分幅度升高,膈肌亦出现与颏舌肌同步的肌电活动增强。（２）ＬＣ内微量注射胞体兴奋剂谷氨酸钠,也引起明显的颏舌肌和膈肌肌电活动增强。（３）上述电、化学刺激的区域对照和盐水对照实验,均未出现有意义的肌电改变。提示：电、化学刺激ＬＣ可特异性增强上呼吸道阻力肌──颏舌肌的紧张性活动,具有减小上呼吸道阻力的作用,这对于某些上呼吸道阻塞性疾病发病机制的研究可能具有重要的意义。     

A green and effective method for the determination of metalaxyl enantiomers in tobacco and soil by supercritical fluid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

We reported a new methodology for the stereoselective determination of metalaxyl enantiomers in tobacco and soil. The QuEChERS (quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe) method was used for the extraction and clean-up of the tobacco and soil samples. Separation of the metalaxyl enantiomers was performed on an ACQUITY UPC2 Trefoil CEL1 chiral column coupled with supercritical fluid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (SFC-MS/MS), and the run time was only 5 minutes. Under the optimized conditions, the recoveries for the enantiomers were between 78.2% and 93.3% with intraday relative standard deviations (RSDs) ranging from 1.1% to 5.4%. The limit of detection (LOD) for the enantiomers in tobacco and soil varied from 0.005 to 0.007 mg/kg, and the limit of quantitation (LOQ) ranged from 0.017 to 0.020 mg/kg. In this method, only a small amount of methanol was consumed to obtain a rapid stereoselective separation. This proposed method showed good accuracy and precision and might be suitable for fast enantioselective determination of metalaxyl in food and environmental samples. The developed method was further validated by application to the analysis of authentic samples.     

Interaction between GAMs and Mean Flow Shear During SMBI Injection into HL-2A Tokamak

Plasma Physics Reports - The interactions among geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs), mean flow, and mean flow shear were investigated using Langmuir probe arrays under periodic supersonic molecular beam...     

Decoy engineering of the receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase StPBS1 to defend against virus infection in potato

Potato virus Y (PVY) is an important pathogen of potato (Solanum tuberosum). Although the PBS1–RPS5 immune system is well documented in Arabidopsis thaliana, it has not been reported in potato. In Arabidopsis, the bacterial effector AvrPphB cleaves AtPBS1 to trigger an immune response. Here, we show that the AvrPphB-triggered immune response is mediated by StPBS1, a close homologue of AtPBS1 in potato. However, downstream signalling of StPBS1 was mediated by unknown resistance (R) proteins other than potato orthologues of AtRPS5 and HvPBR1, which is important for HvPBS1 signalling in barley. Immune signalling of StPBS1 is mediated by the AvrPphB C-terminal cleavage domain and an STKPQ motif, in contrast to AtPBS1-mediated immunity in which both AvrPphB cleavage fragments and an SEMPH motif are essential. The cleavage sequence of AvrPphB in StPBS1 was replaced with that of the PVY NIa-Pro protease to obtain StPBS1^NIa. StPBS1^NIa overexpression potato displayed stronger immunity to PVY infection than did the StPBS1 transgenic lines. StPBS1^NIa was cleaved at the expected target site by NIa-Pro protease from PVY. Thus, we characterized the function of StPBS1 in potato immunity and provide a biotechnology control method for PVY via transformation of decoy-engineered StPBS1^NIa.     

植物钾营养高效分子遗传机制

钾是植物生长发育所必需的矿质营养元素之一。不同种类植物的钾营养效率存在差异, 已有证据表明这种差异是受遗传基因控制的。植物细胞依靠细胞膜上的各种钾转运体和通道蛋白吸收和转运钾离子, 这些膜蛋白的活性调控是植物钾营养效率调控的关键和基础。本文对植物钾营养高效性状分子遗传机制以及相关基因的分子功能和调控机制的研究进展进行了简要评述, 并讨论了改善作物钾营养高效性状的可能途径。     

黄金树B类MADS-box基因表达特征分析

采用同源克隆技术, 从黄金树(Catalpa speciosa)花芽中克隆得到B类MADS-box基因CaspAP3和CaspPI的cDNA序列。序列分析表明, CaspAP3基因cDNA序列的完整开放阅读框(ORF)为696 bp, 编码231个氨基酸残基; CaspPI基因cDNA序列的ORF为639 bp, 编码212个氨基酸残基。蛋白质序列相似性比对和分子系统发生分析表明, CaspAP3属于AP3/DEF进化支, 其C末端包含保守的euAP3基序和PI-derived基序, 而CaspPI聚类于PI/GLO进化支, 其C末端包含保守的PI基序。半定量RT-PCR分析结果表明, CaspAP3和CaspPI基因均仅在花瓣和雄蕊中表达。实时荧光定量PCR分析表明, CaspAP3和CaspPI基因在花瓣和雄蕊原基分化期至成熟期均有表达, 这2个基因在雄蕊中表达高峰出现的时间均早于花瓣; 且花瓣中的CaspAP3和CaspPI基因表达高峰均出现在快速伸长阶段; 这与花瓣和雄蕊的形态发育阶段相吻合。     

Greater soil microbial biomass loss at low frequency of N addition in an Inner Mongolia grassland

低频率的氮添加使内蒙古草原土壤微生物生物量碳出现更大幅度下降 土壤微生物生物量在生物地球化学循环过程中至关重要,是土壤碳固持的前体物质。人为氮输入深刻地改变了草地土壤微生物生物量。然而,传统氮沉降模拟实验仅通过低频率的氮添加进行,与持续高频率的自然氮沉降相比,对土壤微生物生物量的影响可能存在差异。不同频率的氮添加对土壤微生物生物量的影响尚缺乏可靠的数据支撑。本研究通过在不同的氮添加速率(0–50 g N m−2 yr−1)下,控制氮添加频率(每年2次和12次),研究了土壤微生物生物量碳对不同氮添加频率的响应。研究结果表明,在两种氮添加频率下,随着施氮水平的提高,土壤微生物生物量碳逐渐降低。然而,在低施氮频率下,土壤微生物生物量的下降幅度更大,这说明传统的氮添加实验可能高估了氮沉降对土壤微生物生物量的影响。在低施氮频率下,土壤酸化、无机氮积累、碳氮失衡、地下净初级生产力分配减少和真菌细菌比例降低等情况加剧,导致微生物生物量出现较大幅度下降。在未来研究中,为可靠预测氮沉降对草地生态系统土壤微生物功能和碳循环的影响,不仅要考虑氮添加的剂量,还需要考虑氮添加的频率。     

培养乳鼠心肌细胞自发性〔Ca~（2＋）〕_i瞬间变化的实验模型

使用Ｃａ￣（２＋）敏感的荧光指示剂Ｆｕｒａ－２／ＡＭ,对培养的心肌细胞测定细胞内Ｃａ￣（２＋）的瞬间变化。结果为,在一个心搏周期中,经过大约１８０ｍｓ的时间,［Ｃａ￣（２＋）］＿ｉ瞬间变化达到最大值,然后恢复到基线水平（最小值）,经历了２６０ｍｓ。测得平均［Ｃａ￣（２＋）］＿ｉ瞬间变化的最大值及最小值分别为３４６±３８ｎｍｏｌ／Ｌ和１０２±１８ｎｍｏｌ／Ｌ。血管紧张素Ⅱ１００ｎｍｏｌ／Ｌ引起［Ｃａ￣（２＋）］＿ｉ瞬间变化最大值明显增加,但对［Ｃａ￣（２＋）］＿ｉ瞬间变化的基线水平没有明显的影响。ｒｙａｎｏｄｉｎｅ３μｍｏｌ／Ｌ使［Ｃａ￣（２＋）］＿ｉ瞬间变化的幅度明显降低。ＫＣｌ５０ｍｍｏｌ／Ｌ使［Ｃａ￣（２＋）］＿ｉ瞬间变化完全停止,并明显增加［ｃａ￣（２＋）］＿ｉ的基线水平。结果提示,本实验模型可用来观察［Ｃａ￣（２＋）］＿ｉ的瞬间变化。     

Uncialamycin as a novel payload for antibody drug conjugate (ADC) based targeted cancer therapy

Uncialamycin analogs were evaluated as potential cytotoxic agents in an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) approach to treating human cancer. These analogs were synthesized using Hauser annulations of substituted phthalides as a key step. A highly potent uncialamycin analog 3c with a valine-citrulline dipeptide linker was conjugated to an anti-mesothelin monoclonal antibody (mAb) through lysines to generate a meso-13 conjugate. This conjugate demonstrated subnanomolar potency (IC50?=?0.88?nM, H226 cell line) in in vitro cytotoxicity experiments with good immunological specificity to mesothelin-positive lung cancer cell lines. The potency and mechanism of action of this uncialamycin class of enediyne antitumor antibiotics make them attractive payloads in ADC-based cancer therapy.