湖南白背飞虱前期迁入种群中小尺度虫源地及降落机制

湖南是白背飞虱(Sogatella furcifera(Horváth))南北往返的必经之路和主害区。明确白背飞虱前期(至5月20日)迁入种群的中小尺度虫源地和降落机制,对实现精细化异地预测至关重要。择出2012年湖南稻区白背飞虱前期迁入种群的上灯峰日,用新一代中尺度数值预报模式WRF(Weather Rsearch and Forecast)做三维轨迹分析,明确虫源地分布,并对其迁飞过程进行多因素的时空动态分析。结果表明:(1)2012年湘西白背飞虱迁入虫源主要来自越南北部、广西西南部,少量来自广西东南部与广东南部。湘东南、湘中迁入虫源主要来自广东南部、广西东南部,少部分来自海南。此外,每年4月下旬与5月上旬我国南部盛行西南气流,湘东南位置偏东,加之南岭山脉的阻挡,该区迁入峰次与迁入量较湘西较少。(2)低空急流为白背飞虱的北迁提供了运载气流,锋面气旋与切变线等天气尺度系统以及强烈上升气流带来的降水、低温屏障与下沉气流是湖南稻区白背飞虱集中迫降的3个直接因素;(3)白背飞虱前期迁入种群在湖南的主要落点基本沿湘西武陵山区至湘南雪峰山区一带以及"湘桂走廊"东端分布,地形是导致湘西降虫发生频率高、迁入量大的主要因素。由于山体阻塞与地面摩擦形成的小型垂直环流、夜间山风的作用及山谷间的峡谷风可导致白背飞虱的集中降落,较大的灯诱峰次主要位于谷地或者是山体的迎风坡。     

Intracerebral transplantation of foetal neural stem cells improves brain dysfunction induced by intracerebral haemorrhage stroke in mice

Intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) can lead to secondary insults and severe neurological deficits. Transplantation of neural stem cells (NSCs) was suggested as an alternative to improve ICH-induced neurological dysfunction. The present study aimed at investigating the therapeutic role and long-term survival of foetal NSCs and potential role of foetal NSCs-produced factors in ICH. Our results demonstrated that foetal NSCs could differentiate into neural axons and dendrites and astrocytes in both in vitro and in vivo conditions, demonstrated by positive double or triple staining with Hoechst, neuronal specific nuclear protein, neurofilaments and glial fibrillary acidic protein. Intracerebral transplantation of foetal NSCs 3 days after ICH induction by intrastriatal administration of bacterial collagenase could improve the functional performance in the limb-placing test and shorten the duration of the recovery from ICH-induced neural disorders. The foetal NSCs may also produce neurotrophic and/or neuroprotective factors during culture, because the culture medium alone could partially improve functional performance. Thus, our data suggest that the foetal NSCs may be one of the therapeutic candidates for ICH.     

Expression and interaction of small heat shock proteins (sHsps) in rice in response to heat stress

The inherent immobility of rice (Oryza sativa L.) limited their abilities to avoid heat stress and required them to contend with heat stress through innate defense abilities in which heat shock proteins played important roles. In this study, Hsp26.7, Hsp23.2, Hsp17.9A, Hsp17.4 and Hsp16.9A were up-regulated in Nipponbare during seedling and anthesis stages in response to heat stress. Subsequently, the expressing levels of these five sHsps in the heat-tolerant rice cultivar, Co39, were all significantly higher than that in the heat-susceptible rice cultivar, Azucena. This indicated that the expressive level of these five sHsps was positively related to the ability of rice plants to avoid heat stress. Thus, the expression level of these five sHsps can be regarded as bio-markers for screening rice cultivars with different abilities to avoid heat stress. Hsp18.1, Hsp17.9A, Hsp17.7 and Hsp16.9A, in the three rice cultivars under heat stress were found to be involved in one protein complex by Native-PAGE, and the interactions of Hsp18.1 and Hsp 17.7, Hsp18.1 and Hsp 17.9A, and Hsp17.7 and Hsp16.9A were further validated by yeast 2-hybridization. Pull down assay also confirmed the interaction between Hsp17.7 and Hsp16.9A in rice under heat stress. In conclusion, the up-regulation of the 5 sHsps is a key step for rice to tolerate heat stress, after that some sHsps assembled into a large hetero-oligomeric complex. In addition, through protein–protein interaction, Hsp101 regulated thiamine biosynthesis, and Hsp82 homology affected nitrogen metabolism, while Hsp81-1 were involved in the maintenance of sugar or starch synthesis in rice plants under heat stress. These results provide new insight into the regulatory mechanism of sHsps in rice.     

猪伪狂犬病综合诊断及分离毒株gE和TK基因遗传变异分析

2012年以来,许多使用gE基因缺失活疫苗免疫过的猪场广泛性出现伪狂犬病毒(PRV)感染,gE抗体阳性率不断升高,伪狂犬典型病例不断增加。2018年3月鲁南地区几个种猪场先后发生疑似伪狂犬病疫情,怀孕母猪流产、产死胎和木乃伊胎,仔猪出现神经症状且死亡率高。通过对病死猪及死胚剖检进行初步诊断,取病料进一步进行病理组织学诊断及病毒分离鉴定。结果显示,病死猪均可见病毒性脑炎、肝细胞变性坏死及淋巴组织坏死等病理变化,在病变的神经元、肝细胞、扁桃体隐窝上皮细胞等细胞核内见红染包涵体。对分离到的4株PRV进行了gE和TK基因的序列测定及遗传变异分析发现,4株PRV的gE和TK核苷酸序列的同源性分别为98.8%~99.3%和98.9%~99.6%,与国内流行毒株其核苷酸序列的同源性分别99.1%~99.7%和98.6%~99.8%,与匈牙利和美国等流行毒株核苷酸序列的同源性分别为97.3%~97.8%和98.8%~99.5%,表明4株分离株高度同源,与国内PRV变异株处在同一分支,而与匈牙利和美国等毒株遗传距离较远。传统疫苗对PRV变异毒株不能提供有效保护,给猪场伪狂犬病的防控和净化工作带来了新的挑战。     

Heat Stress-Induced Disruption of Endothelial Barrier Function Is via PAR1 Signaling and Suppressed by Xuebijing Injection

Increased vascular permeability leading to acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is central to the pathogenesis of heatstroke. Protease-activated receptor 1 (PAR1), the receptor for thrombin, plays a key role in disruption of endothelial barrier function in response to extracellular stimuli. However, the role of PAR1 in heat stress-induced endothelial hyper-permeability is unknown. In this study, we measured PAR1 protein expression in heat-stressed human umbilical venous endothelial cells (HUVECs), investigated the influences of PAR1 on endothelial permeability, F-actin rearrangement, and moesin phosphorylation by inhibiting PAR1 with its siRNA, neutralizing antibody (anti-PAR1), specific inhibitor(RWJ56110), and Xuebijing injection (XBJ), a traditional Chinese medicine used for sepsis treatment, and evaluated the role of PAR1 in heatstroke-related ALI/ARDS in mice by suppressing PAR1 with RWJ56110, anti-PAR1and XBJ. We found that heat stress induced PAR1 protein expression 2h after heat stress in endothelial cells, caused the release of endothelial matrix metalloprotease 1, an activator of PAR1, after 60 or 120 min of heat stimulation, as well as promoted endothelial hyper-permeability and F-actin rearrangement, which were inhibited by suppressing PAR1 with RWJ56110, anti-PAR1 and siRNA. PAR1 mediated moesin phosphorylation, which caused F-actin rearrangement and disruption of endothelial barrier function. To corroborate findings from in vitro experiments, we found that RWJ56110 and the anti-PAR1 significantly decreased lung edema, pulmonary microvascular permeability, protein exudation, and leukocytes infiltrations in heatstroke mice. Additionally, XBJ was found to suppress PAR1-moesin signal pathway and confer protective effects on maintaining endothelial barrier function both in vitro and in vivo heat-stressed model, similar to those observed above with the inhibition of PAR1. These results suggest that PAR1 is a potential therapeutic target in heatstroke.     

Mutasynthesis of pyrrole spiroketal compound using calcimycin 3-hydroxy anthranilic acid biosynthetic mutant

The five-membered aromatic nitrogen heterocyclic pyrrole ring is a building block for a wide variety of natural products. Aiming at generating new pyrrole-containing derivatives as well as to identify new candidates that may be of value in designing new anticancer, antiviral, and/or antimicrobial agents, we employed a strategy on pyrrole-containing compound mutasynthesis using the pyrrole-containing calcimycin biosynthetic gene cluster. We blocked the biosynthesis of the calcimycin precursor, 3-hydroxy anthranilic acid, by deletion of calB1-3 and found that two intermediates containing the pyrrole and the spiroketal moiety were accumulated in the culture. We then fed the mutant using the structurally similar compound of 3-hydroxy anthranilic acid. At least four additional new pyrrole spiroketal derivatives were obtained. The structures of the intermediates and the new pyrrole spiroketal derivatives were identified using LC-MS and NMR. One of them shows enhanced antibacterial activity. Our work shows a new way of pyrrole derivative biosynthetic mutasynthesis.     

Tunable Plasmon-Induced Transparency with Ultra-Broadband in Dirac Semimetal Metamaterials

Plasmonics - We proposed a numerical and theoretical research on the realization of the tunable plasmon-induced transparency (PIT) with ultra-broadband at terahertz frequencies in Dirac semimetal...     

近海海洋生态连通性研究进展

生态连通性是空间生态学和保护生物学的重要概念和研究手段。国外越来越多的研究表明,开展近海海洋生态连通性研究对促进海洋生态系统保护和修复具有十分重要的现实意义。阐述了近海海洋生态连通性的概念与机制,回顾了目前近海海洋连通性的研究进展并分析了存在的问题,总结了近海海洋生态连通性研究的框架和具体方法,最后提出我国开展近海海洋生态连通性研究的建议,以期对今后国内开展海洋生态连通性相关研究工作有所启示。