不同光强下红松幼树光合作用和营养物质含量的季节模式

一、前言原始红松林下幼树生长缓慢,死亡率高,若干文献通过与桦木林光照和水热条件的对比观察,认为光是影响生长的主要原因。但同时也发现,在植物一切代谢活动最旺盛的生长季(6—9月),上述二种林下的光强(lx)     

瘤胃降解粗纤维产甲烷的厌氧真菌与甲烷菌共培养物的分离鉴定

【目的】本试验从瘤胃中分离鉴定降解粗纤维产甲烷的厌氧真菌与甲烷菌共培养物,为深入探究甲烷菌对厌氧真菌代谢途径的影响及相关调节机制奠定基础。【方法】利用厌氧滚管技术从荷斯坦奶牛瘤胃内容物中分离厌氧真菌与甲烷菌共培养物,通过形态学观察和DAPI染色以及甲烷菌16S rRNA基因序列分析方法分别对厌氧真菌及甲烷菌进行鉴定。【结果】从荷斯坦奶牛瘤胃中共分离到28株厌氧真菌与甲烷菌共培养物。共培养物中的厌氧真菌均为单中心菌株,分别属于Piromyces,Neocallimastix和Caeomyces属,所占百分比为53.57%,42.86%及3.57%。甲烷菌16S rRNA基因序列分析结果表明,共培养物中的甲烷菌均为甲烷短杆菌。本研究共获得四种不同的厌氧真菌与甲烷菌组合,分别为Piromyces/类Methanobrevibacter olleyae菌株,Neocallimastix/类Methanobrevibacter olleyae菌株,Neocallimastix/类Methanobrevibacter thaueri菌株及Caecomyces/类Methanobrevibacter olleyae菌株,分别占总数的53.57%,39.29%,3.57%及3.57%。【结论】分离得到的28株厌氧真菌和甲烷菌共培养物中,占优势的为具有丰富丝状假根的厌氧真菌Piromyces和Neocallimastix以及类Methanobrevibacter olleyae属的甲烷短杆菌。本研究为进一步研究瘤胃内厌氧真菌与甲烷菌相互代谢关系奠定基础。     

Testing the responses of four wheat crop models to heat stress at anthesis and grain filling

Higher temperatures caused by future climate change will bring more frequent heat stress events and pose an increasing risk to global wheat production. Crop models have been widely used to simulate future crop productivity but are rarely tested with observed heat stress experimental datasets. Four wheat models (DSSAT‐CERES‐Wheat, DSSAT‐Nwheat, APSIM‐Wheat, and WheatGrow) were evaluated with 4 years of environment‐controlled phytotron experimental datasets with two wheat cultivars under heat stress at anthesis and grain filling stages. Heat stress at anthesis reduced observed grain numbers per unit area and individual grain size, while heat stress during grain filling mainly decreased the size of the individual grains. The observed impact of heat stress on grain filling duration, total aboveground biomass, grain yield, and grain protein concentration (GPC) varied depending on cultivar and accumulated heat stress. For every unit increase of heat degree days (HDD, degree days over 30 °C), grain filling duration was reduced by 0.30–0.60%, total aboveground biomass was reduced by 0.37–0.43%, and grain yield was reduced by 1.0–1.6%, but GPC was increased by 0.50% for cv Yangmai16 and 0.80% for cv Xumai30. The tested crop simulation models could reproduce some of the observed reductions in grain filling duration, final total aboveground biomass, and grain yield, as well as the observed increase in GPC due to heat stress. Most of the crop models tended to reproduce heat stress impacts better during grain filling than at anthesis. Some of the tested models require improvements in the response to heat stress during grain filling, but all models need improvements in simulating heat stress effects on grain set during anthesis. The observed significant genetic variability in the response of wheat to heat stress needs to be considered through cultivar parameters in future simulation studies.     

An alternative-exon database and its statistical analysis

We compiled a comprehensive database of alternative exons from the literature and analyzed them statistically. Most alternative exons are cassette exons and are expressed in more than two tissues. Of all exons whose expression was reported to be specific for a certain tissue, the majority were expressed in the brain. Whereas the length of constitutive exons follows a normal distribution, the distribution of alternative exons is skewed toward smaller ones. Furthermore, alternative-exon splice sites deviate more from the consensus: their 3' splice sites are characterized by a higher purine content in the polypyrimidine stretch, and their 5' splice sites deviate from the consensus sequence mostly at the +4 and +5 positions. Furthermore, for exons expressed in a single tissue, adenosine is more frequently used at the -3 position of the 3' splice site. In addition to the known AC-rich and purine-rich exonic sequence elements, sequence comparison using a Gibbs algorithm identified several motifs in exons surrounded by weak splice sites and in tissue-specific exons. Together, these data indicate a combinatorial effect of weak splice sites, atypical nucleotide usage at certain positions, and functional enhancers as an important contribution to alternative-exon regulation.     

MST1 promotes apoptosis through phosphorylation of histone H2AX

MST1 (mammalian STE20-like kinase 1) is a serine/threonine kinase that is cleaved and activated by caspases during apoptosis. Overexpression of MST1 induces apoptotic morphological changes such as chromatin condensation, but the mechanism is not clear. Here we show that MST1 induces apoptotic chromatin condensation through its phosphorylation of histone H2AX at Ser-139. During etoposide-induced apoptosis in Jurkat cells, the cleavage of MST1 directly corresponded with strong H2AX phosphorylation. In vitro kinase assay results showed that MST1 strongly phosphorylates histone H2AX. Western blot and kinase assay results with a mutant S139A H2AX confirmed that MST1 phosphorylates H2AX at Ser-139. Direct binding of MST1 and H2AX can be detected when co-expressed in HEK293 cells and was also confirmed by an endogenous immunoprecipitation study. When overexpressed in HeLa cells, both the MST1 full-length protein and the MST1 kinase domain (MST1-NT), but not the kinase-negative mutant (MST1-NT-KN), could induce obvious endogenous histone H2AX phosphorylation. The caspase-3 inhibitor benzyloxycarbonyl-DEVD-fluoromethyl ketone (Z-DEVD-fmk) attenuates phosphorylation of H2AX by MST1 but cannot inhibit MST1-NT-induced histone H2AX phosphorylation, indicating that cleaved MST1 is responsible for H2AX phosphorylation during apoptosis. Histone H2AX phosphorylation and DNA fragmentation were suppressed in MST1 knockdown Jurkat cells after etoposide treatment. Taken together, our data indicated that H2AX is a substrate of MST1, which functions to induce apoptotic chromatin condensation and DNA fragmentation.     

黏菌代谢产物及其生物活性的研究进展

黏菌代谢产物的研究显示出其较高的应用价值,并取得了较大的进展。本文综述了从黏菌中分离得到的100余个代谢产物,主要包括:脂肪酸、氨基酸、生物碱、萘醌、芳香族化合物、萜类化合物以及酯或其衍生品等。阐述了其抑菌、抗肿瘤、细胞毒及抗氧化活性,简要介绍了化合物的构效关系,同时对黏菌生物活性的研究方法及生物化学特征进行了总结,分析了不同黏菌类群代谢产物的异同。最后对黏菌代谢产物的研究提出了问题与展望。     

草莓花药培养获得无病毒植株的技术研究

以花粉发育为单核期的花药接种,在MS附加IAA 4ppm、K 2ppm、BA 2ppm的培养基上诱导愈伤组织,并可直接分化出“沙尔普斯”、“红岗利德”、“春香”3个品种的花药植株。稍加调整附加激素成分和浓度,可在“索非亚”、“宝交早生”、“戈雷拉”、“红衣”、“丽红”等品种的花药上直接经愈伤组织分化出植株。其中有“沙尔普斯”、“红岗利德”、“春香”、“宝交早生”、“索非亚”等5个品种的花药植株经过病毒检测确认不带SMoV、SCrV、SMYEV和SVBV4种病毒。对无病毒植株进行了田间对比试验,植株生长势和果实产量都明显超过对照品种。     

Theoretical Insights into Catalytic Mechanism of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1

Protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1), the major arginine asymmetric dimethylation enzyme in mammals, is emerging as a potential drug target for cancer and cardiovascular disease. Understanding the catalytic mechanism of PRMT1 will facilitate inhibitor design. However, detailed mechanisms of the methyl transfer process and substrate deprotonation of PRMT1 remain unclear. In this study, we present a theoretical study on PRMT1 catalyzed arginine dimethylation by employing molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculation. Ternary complex models, composed of PRMT1, peptide substrate, and S-adenosyl-methionine (AdoMet) as cofactor, were constructed and verified by 30-ns MD simulation. The snapshots selected from the MD trajectory were applied for the QM/MM calculation. The typical S_N2-favored transition states of the first and second methyl transfers were identified from the potential energy profile. Deprotonation of substrate arginine occurs immediately after methyl transfer, and the carboxylate group of E144 acts as proton acceptor. Furthermore, natural bond orbital analysis and electrostatic potential calculation showed that E144 facilitates the charge redistribution during the reaction and reduces the energy barrier. In this study, we propose the detailed mechanism of PRMT1-catalyzed asymmetric dimethylation, which increases insight on the small-molecule effectors design, and enables further investigations into the physiological function of this family.     

Analysis of the downstream region of nodD3 P1 promoter by deletion and complementation tests in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Rhizobia specifically interacts with the host, leguminous plants, leading to the formation of nitrogen-fixing root nodules. The Rhizobium genes essential for nodule formation are called nodulation genes (nod or nol). The expression of nod genes requires the presence of host signals, generally flavonoids, and the product of regulatory nodD gene, NodD[1,2]. The expression of nod genes results in the synthesis of Nod factors, which serve as the signal molecules to elicit root cor-tical cells di…