The characterization of aluminium — alanine complex

The potentiometric titration curves and computer modelling studies indicated that aluminium complexes with alanine at-C00^– moiety and also altered the proton affinity at⁺NH₃ and-CH₃ moiety.²⁷Al NMR spectra broadening also confirmed the interaction.     

Evaluation of the alleviative role of Chlorella vulgaris and Spirulina platensis extract against ovarian dysfunctions induced by monosodium glutamate in mice

Microalgae provide a wealthy natural resource of bioactive compounds, which have many biological activities. Monosodium glutamate is a food additive that acts either as food preservatives or as tastiness enhancer. It was confirmed that monosodium glutamate poses a serious responsibility in the pathogenesis of anovulatory infertility. Therefore, the idea of this research was directed to reveal efficiency of Chlorella vulgaris and Spirulina platensis extracts against the ovarian dysfunction resulted due to monosodium glutamate consumption. Adult female albino mice were gavages orally monosodium glutamate alone or with either Chlorella vulgaris or Spirulina platensis aqueous extracts for 28?days. Female mice were subjected to superovulation to study the oocytes nuclear maturation stages. Histological and quantitative investigation was carried on ovaries. Biochemical assessment to measure the sex hormones level and ovarian enzymatic antioxidants was done. In addition, ovarian antioxidant mRNA genes were determined using quantitative PCR and Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase was used as an internal control. The result revealed that monosodium glutamate reduced the oocytes quality and maturation rate, while, both algae improve the oocyte quality and maturation rate than in monosodium glutamate group. Chlorella vulgaris and Spirulina platensis improved the monosodium glutamate ovarian tissue histological alteration, sex hormones content and raised the ovarian enzymatic antioxidants level. In addition, monosodium glutamate markedly diminished the Glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase and catalase mRNA expressions, However, Chlorella vulgaris or Spirulina platensis upregulated the expression of genes close to control. In conclusion, Chlorella vulgaris and Spirulina platensis showed potential alleviative role against the monosodium glutamate ovarian dysfunction.     

吡咯喹啉醌合成及生产工艺研究进展

吡咯喹啉醌(pyrroloquinoline quinone, PQQ)是继烟酰胺和核黄素之后发现的第三类氧化还原酶辅因子,普遍存在于生物体中参与呼吸链电子传递,具有促进线粒体产生、清除自由基、增强细胞代谢和预防心肌损伤等生理功能,在医药、食品和农业领域具有广泛的应用前景。微生物发酵法是PQQ生产的主要方式,解析PQQ生物合成途径及其调控机制,通过代谢工程选育短周期、高产量的生产菌是PQQ工业化的研究方向之一。本文综述了PQQ的合成途径、高产菌株选育以及微生物发酵生产与分离纯化的研发工作,为深入阐释PQQ的生物合成机制和工业化生产菌株的选育提供参考。     

龙眼肉干制过程氨基酸组分分析

利用氨基酸自动分析仪分别测定加工前后的龙眼肉中的总氨基酸和游离氨基酸含量。结果,干制前后龙眼肉的氨基酸种类没有差别,但含量有明显差别,多数氨基酸的含量在干制后明显下降。结论:除丙氨酸和甲硫氨酸外,干制后的龙眼肉中的总氨基酸和游离氨基酸含量比干制前有明显下降,其中以碱性、酸性氨基酸含量的下降尤其显著。该差异可能是由于干制过程中发生美拉德反应造成的。     

Facile synthesis,physiochemical characterization and bio evaluation of sulfadimidine capped cobalt nanoparticles

Due to their less expensive, environment friendly nature, and their natural abundance of cobalt have attained more significant attention for the synthesis of cobalt nanoparticles. In the present study, we report the facile synthesis of cobalt nanoparticles using a straight forward chemical reduction approach of cobalt chloride with sodium borohydride and capping of sulfadimidine. sulfadimidine has strong capping eligibility on the surface of nanoparticles due to its chemical stability and is an applicable as stabilizer due to the existence of an amine bond. The as-synthesized sulfadimidine stabilized cobalt nanoparticles (Co-SD NPs) were characterized by using various spectroscopic and microscopic analysis like UV–Visible spectroscopy (UV–Vis), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), High-Resolution Transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The XRD analysis exhibited the triclinic crystal structure of the as-synthesized cobalt nanoparticles and FT-IR analysis confirmed the capping of sulfadimidine via monodentate interaction. The HR-TEM analysis displayed the size of the cobalt nanoparticles approximately 3–5 nm. The antibacterial properties of the sulfadimidine stabilized cobalt nanoparticles (Co-SD NPs) were tested against various bacterial strains such as Klebsiella pneumonia (KP), Escherichia coli (EC) and Pseudomonas syringae (PS) by using agar disc diffusion approach. The results of sulfadimidine capped cobalt nanoparticles displayed the enhanced biological properties against the tested gram-negative bacteria.     

云南野生稻资源及其保护

云南野生稻生态类型丰富,且具有抗白叶枯病、抗稻瘟病、耐旱、耐寒等栽培稻不具有或已经消失的遗传基因,是水稻品种改良的优良基因库。然而,随着人类社会经济活动对生态环境影响的加剧,这一宝贵的战略性生物资源正面临着快速消失的危险。为了加强云南野生稻资源的保护,近年来,我们对云南野生稻资源开展了原生境保护(物理隔离方式和主流化方式)及非原生境保护(种质库、种质圃、细胞库和DNA库)等保护技术研究,明确了各种保护方法的优缺点和适用性,保护了云南野生稻的多样性和丰富度,为改良栽培稻储备了丰富的基因源。