Taxonomy on crane flies in family Tipulidae and Limoniidae (Diptera: Tipuloidea) from Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve,Anhui, China

The paper reports 13 species from Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve,Anhui,China,including a new species and a new subspecies,Tipula (Emodotipula) alexanderi Men,sp.nov.and Nephrotoma impigra anqingensis Men,subsp.nov.The female of Libnotes (Libnotes) pseudonohirai Men,2015 is described and illustrated for the first time.The males of Holorusia henana Yang,1999 and Tipula (Vestiplex)jiangi Yang & Yang,1991 are redescribed and illustrated with new morphological characters.A key to all species is provided.     

Ganodermasides C and D, two new anti-aging ergosterols from spores of the medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lucidum

Two new anti-aging compounds, ganodermasides C and D, were isolated and their structures elucidated. They are novel ergosterols possessing a 4,6,8(14),22-tetraene-3-one unit with unique hydroxylation at C-9. Both of them significantly extended the replicative lifespan of the K6001 yeast strain. Ganodermasides C and D regulated the expression of the gene for UTH1 to prolong the replicative lifespan of yeast.     

苯酚的生物降解基因组成及其调控机制

苯酚的生物降解受多组分的降解基因控制,形成邻位和间位等不同的代谢途径.结合部分实验结果,介绍了邻位和间位代谢系统的基因组成及其作用机制等方面的研究进展,讨论了调节基因在苯酚降解菌中的作用和不同因素对苯酚降解的影响.     

稳定表达人Eps8基因的胶质瘤U251细胞系的建立

应用亚克隆方法构建pEGFP-C3／Eps8真核表达载体,经测序鉴定后,用脂质体进行胶质瘤U251细胞的转染,应用G418筛选出稳定表达pEGFP-C3／Eps8和pEGFP—C3的细胞系,最后通过Western blot和荧光定位证明印娼在U251细胞中过量表达。本实验成功建立了稳定转染Eps8的U251细胞系,为进一步研究Eps8基因在胶质瘤中的功能奠定了良好的实验基础。     

华北丽斑麻蜥食物同化和疾跑速的热依赖性

作者研究山西阳泉丽斑麻蜥(Eremias argus)成体的选择体温、热耐受性及食物同化和疾跑速的热依赖性。选择体温、临界低温和临界高温无显著的两性差异,分别为36·0℃、1·0℃和44·9℃。在实验温度范围内,体温显著影响食物通过时间、日摄食量、日粪尿排量、表观消化系数和同化效率。食物通过时间在26 -34℃范围内随体温升高而缩短,在更高的体温下则延长。蜥蜴在30、32、34和36℃体温下明显摄入较多的食物、排出明显较多的粪尿。34℃和36℃下的表观消化系数和同化效率大于其它更低或更高温度下的对应数值,但这两个变量未因体温变化而呈现清晰的规律性变化。疾跑速在18 -36℃范围内随体温升高而加快,在38℃体温下则减缓。36℃或附近体温最适合疾跑速。疾跑速最适体温接近蜥蜴的选择体温,表明蜥蜴疾跑速的最适温度可能与其选择体温密切相关[动物学报52 (2) : 256 -262 , 2006]。     

Caveolin-1基因沉默促进乳腺上皮细胞ERα36 介导的PI3K/AKT信号通路的激活

Caveolin-1(窖蛋白-1)单倍不足可以促进正常乳腺细胞的早期转化, 与新型雌激素受体亚型ERα36介导的膜始动雌激素信号通路的激活有关, 但是关于其机制并未被研究清楚. 本文利用siRNA技术建立了Caveolin-1低表达而ERα36高表达的稳定传代细胞模型MCF10ACE, 采用基因芯片技术检测了ERα36高表达时雌激素信号通路基因表达谱, 研究了ERα36在雌激素激活的PI3K/AKT信号通路中的作用及其与乳腺细胞转化的关系. 结果表明: (1) Caveolin-1表达降低时可以以雌激素依赖性方式促进ERα36表达增加; (2) ERα36高表达可介导MCF10ACE细胞雌激素抗凋亡信号通路(PI3K/AKT)的激活, 促进其与增殖信号通路MEK/ERK之间的交叉对话, 从而使人乳腺细胞增殖加快, 逐渐转化. 结果提示, Caveolin-1与ERα36相互作用调节膜起始的雌激素信号通路是控制乳腺细胞转化的重要机制.     

Induction of defence gene expression by oligogalacturonic acid requires increases in both cytosolic calcium and hydrogen peroxide in Arabidopsis thaliana

Responses to oligogalacturonic acid (OGA) were determined in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings express-ing the calcium reporter protein aequorin. OGA stimulated a rapid, substantial and transient increase in the concentration of cytosolic calcium ([Ca^2 ]cyt) that peaked after ca. 15 s. This increase was dose-dependent, saturating at ca. 50 μg Gal equiv/ml of OGA. OGA also stimulated a rapid generation of H202. A small, rapid increase in H2O2 content was followed by a much larger oxidative burst, with H2O2 content peaking after ca. 60 min and declining thereafter. Induction of the oxidative burst by OGA was also dose-dependent, with a maximum response again being achieved at ca. 50 μg Gal equiv/mL. Inhibitors of calcium fluxes inhibited both increases in [Ca^2 ]cyt and [H2O2], whereas inhibitors of NADPH oxidase blocked only the oxidative burst. OGA increased strongly the expression of the defence-related genes CHS,GST, PAL and PR-1. This induction was suppressed by inhibitors of calcium flux or NADPH oxidase, indicating that increases in both cytosolic calcium and H2O2 are required for OGA-induced gene expression.     

血管生成抑制因子K4K5 Cdna基因的克隆及其在毕赤酵母中的表达

应用PCR方法,扩增人纤溶酶原cDNA基因中K4K5 cDNA片段,与酵母表达载体pPIC9K重组,获得表达质凿p9kkk-18。该质粒转化毕赤酵母菌GS115,用G418－YPD筛选高拷贝表型,PCR筛选K4K5 cDNA与酵母染色体整全形成的阳性克隆,阳性克隆用甲醇诱导表达。表达产物r-K4K5分子量约21.5kD,占分泌总蛋白80％以上,产物浓度为150－250mg/L。初步纯化产物抑制牛毛细血管内皮（BCE）细胞增殖与鸡胚绒毛尿囊膜（CAM）新生血管生成。     

红树植物内生真菌Penicillium sp.的化学成分

应用各种层析手段,从红树植物内生真菌GT26158菌丝体的甲醇提取物中分离纯化了7个含氮化合物,结合多种波谱方法(ESI-MS,1D-NMR,2D-NMR),它们被鉴定为2′-deoxyuridine(1)、thymidine(2)、2′-deoxyad-enosine(3)、cyclo(tyrosyl-phenylalanyl,4)、serine(5),cyclo(seryl-tryptophyl,6)、alanine(7)。     

Timing the Eastern Asian–Eastern North American Floristic Disjunction: Molecular Clock Corroborates Paleontological Estimates

Sequence data of the chloroplast gene rbcL were used to estimate the time of the well-known eastern Asian–eastern North American floristic disjunction. Sequence divergence of rbcL was examined for 22 species of 11 genera (Campsis, Caulophyllum, Cornus, Decumaria, Liriodendron, Menispermum, Mitchella, Pachysandra, Penthorum, Podophyllum, and Phryma) representing a diverse array of flowering plants occurring disjunctly in eastern Asia and eastern North America. Divergence times of putative disjunct species pairs were estimated from synonymous substitutions, using rbcL molecular clocks calibrated for Cornus. Relative rate tests were performed to assess rate constancy of rbcL evolution among lineages. Corrections of estimates of divergence times for each species pair were made based on rate differences of rbcL between Cornus and other species pairs. Results of these analyses indicate that the time of divergence of species pairs examined ranges from 12.56 ± 4.30 million years to recent (<0.31 million years), with most within the last 10 million years (in the late Miocene and Pliocene). These results suggest that the isolation of most morphologically similar disjunct species in eastern Asia and eastern North America occurred during the global climatic cooling period that took place throughout the late Tertiary and Quaternary. This estimate is closely correlated with paleontological evidence and in agreement with the hypothesis that considers the eastern Asian–eastern North American floristic disjunction to be the result of the range restriction of a once more or less continuously distributed mixed mesophytic forest of the Northern Hemisphere that occurred during the late Tertiary and Quaternary. This implies that in most taxa the disjunction may have resulted from vicariance events. However, long-distance dispersal may explain the disjunct distribution of taxa with low divergence, such as Menispermum.