DNA序列编码的研究进展

DNA计算的可靠性和精确度与编码设计的优劣密切相关。随着DNA计算的发展以及DNA计算研究的进一步深入,对编码的要求也越来越高。围绕如何保证理想的生化反应和解的成功提取问题,人们提出了各种各样的约束条件和评价模型,本文简述了DNA编码的原理,综述了当前DNA序列编码的方法,最后分析了DNA编码设计中存在的问题,并对编码设计的未来发展进行了展望。     

海南岛尖峰岭热带森林中几种雀形目鸟的移动

从 2 0 0 0年 5月— 2 0 0 2年 3月 ,用网捕 -环志法和固定样点法研究海南岛尖峰岭几种雀形目鸟的移动和行为。共调查样点 4 89个 ,记录到鸟类 137种。张网 6 4 2 6网小时 ,环志 4 1种 4 2 8只鸟。 8种 2 9只鸟被回收 32次 ,总回收率为 7 5 %。棕颈钩嘴鹛 (Pomatorhinusruficollis)、灰眶雀鹛 (Alcippemorrisonia)等 6种鸟活动高度多在 3m以下 ;白喉冠鹎 (Alophoixuspallidus)在 3 1～ 10 0m活动最频繁 ;银胸丝冠鸟 (Serilophuslu natus)活动高度在 3m以上。灰眶雀鹛的个体移动距离最大 ,为 115 0m ;银胸丝冠鸟平均移动距离最长 ,为6 5 0m。尖峰岭热带森林林下鸟以食虫鸟为主 ,食虫鸟移动的平均距离为 4 4 2 3m (n =2 7) ;而白喉冠鹎等食果鸟大多在环志点附近活动。鸟类移动的平均距离与植被类型有关 :在热带山地雨林原始林中的移动距离最大 ,为 6 86 5m (n =13) ;在热带常绿季雨林中的移动距离最小 ,为 89 6m (n =5 ) ;两者之间存在极显著差异(F3 ,2 8=5 0 5 ,P <0 0 1)。鸟类移动的平均距离与翅长显著相关 (r =0 84 ,P <0 0 5 ) ,但与体重相关不显著(r=0 79,P >0 0 5 )。尖峰岭热带森林林下食虫鸟的活动范围较大 ,要保护好海南岛热带森林林下鸟 ,保存海南岛连片的大面积森林非常重要。     

冷应激小鼠十二指肠5-羟色胺免疫活性细胞的免疫组织化学研究(英文)

采用ABC(avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex)免疫组织化学方法,观察冷应激小鼠十二指肠内5-羟色胺免疫反应阳性(5-HTIR)细胞的形态、分布位置及数量。结果显示:冷应激小鼠十二指肠内5-HTIR细胞主要分布于肠上皮细胞间,细胞形态多样,除圆形和锥形外,还具有条形和梭形。冷应激小鼠十二指肠内5-HTIR细胞数量(3.83±1.29)与对照组小鼠十二指肠内5-HTIR细胞数量(2.37±1.10)有显著差异(P=0.000)。分析表明,冷应激对小鼠十二指肠5-HTIR细胞的分布具有一定影响。     

Diabetic encephalopathy‐related depression: experimental evidence that insulin and clonazepam restore antioxidant status in rat brain

There is increasing evidence suggesting that oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of many chronic and degenerative conditions such as diabetic encephalopathy and depression. Considering that diabetic rats and mice present higher depressive‐like behaviour when submitted to the forced swimming test and that treatment with insulin and/or clonazepam is able to reverse the behavioural changes of the diabetic rats, the present work investigated the antioxidant status, specifically total antioxidant reactivity and antioxidant potential of insulin and clonazepam, as well as the effect of this drugs upon protein oxidative damage and reactive species formation in cortex, hippocampus and striatum from diabetic rats submitted to forced swimming test. It was verified that longer immobility time in diabetic rats and insulin plus clonazepam treatment reversed this depressive‐like behaviour. Moreover, data obtained in this study allowed to demonstrate through different parameters such as protein carbonyl content, 2′7′‐dichlorofluorescein oxidation, catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase assay, total radical‐trapping antioxidant potential and total antioxidant reactivity that there is oxidative stress in cortex, hippocampus and striatum from diabetic rats under depressive‐like behaviour and highlight the insulin and/or clonazepam effect in these different brain areas, restoring antioxidant status and protein damage. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

NDV CN株对几种人肿瘤细胞的杀伤作用及其机理的分析

本文研究了NDV-CN株对5株不同的人肿瘤细胞的体外杀伤作用。结果表明5株肿瘤细胞对NDV-CN敏感,于感染早期出现细胞收缩变圆,失去贴壁性,感染第5天时细胞存活率低于10％。其中尤以HEP3B细胞最敏感。但NDV-CN株对人二倍体细胞2BS有弱杀伤性。病毒感染早期可检测到感染细胞中有病毒核酸的复制、感染细胞表面有病毒蛋白的表达,脑浆内有病毒粒子存在。NDV-CN株主要诱导HEP3B及T24细胞产生凋亡,主要诱导Hep2、Hela及A549细胞产生坏死。     

The ‘Swallow Tail’ Appearance of the Healthy Nigrosome – A New Accurate Test of Parkinson's Disease: A Case-Control and Retrospective Cross-Sectional MRI Study at 3T

There is no well-established in vivo marker of nigral degeneration in Parkinson''s disease (PD). An ideal imaging marker would directly mirror the loss of substantia nigra dopaminergic neurones, which is most prominent in sub-regions called nigrosomes. High-resolution, iron-sensitive, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7T allows direct nigrosome-1 visualisation in healthy people but not in PD. Here, we investigated the feasibility of nigrosome-1 detection using 3T - susceptibility-weighted (SWI) MRI and the diagnostic accuracy that can be achieved for diagnosing PD in a clinical population. 114 high-resolution 3T – SWI-scans were reviewed consisting of a prospective case-control study in 19 subjects (10 PD, 9 controls) and a retrospective cross-sectional study in 95 consecutive patients undergoing routine clinical SWI-scans (>50 years, 9 PD, 81 non-PD, 5 non-diagnostic studies excluded). Two raters independently classified subjects into PD and non-PD according to absence or presence of nigrosome-1, followed by consensus reading. Diagnostic accuracy was assessed against clinical diagnosis as gold standard. Absolute inter- and intra-rater agreement was ≥94% (kappa≥0.82, p<0.001). In the prospective study 8/9 control and 8/10 PD; and in the retrospective study 77/81 non-PD and all 9 PD subjects were correctly classified. Diagnostic accuracy of the retrospective cohort was: sensitivity 100%, specificity 95%, NPV 1, PPV 0.69 and accuracy 96% which dropped to 91% when including non-diagnostic scans (‘intent to diagnose’). The healthy nigrosome-1 can be readily depicted on high-resolution 3T - SWI giving rise to a ‘swallow tail’ appearance of the dorsolateral substantia nigra, and this feature is lost in PD. Visual radiological assessment yielded a high diagnostic accuracy for PD vs. an unselected clinical control population. Assessing the substantia nigra on SWI for the typical ‘swallow tail’ appearance has potential to become a new and easy applicable 3T MRI diagnostic tool for nigral degeneration in PD.     

Outer Membrane Protein U (OmpU) Mediates Adhesion of Vibrio mimicus to Host Cells via Two Novel N-Terminal Motifs

Vibrio mimicus (V.mimicus) is a causative agent of ascites disease in aquatic animals. Our previous studies have demonstrated that the outer membrane protein U (OmpU) from V.mimicus is an immunoprotective antigen with six immunodominant linear B-cell epitopes. Although the N-terminus of OmpU contains potential binding motifs, it remained unclear whether OmpU possesses adhesion function. Here, the adhesive capacity of recombinant OmpU and V.mimicus to epithelioma papulosum cyprinid (EPC) cells was determined by immunofluorescence and adherence assay. The results showed that after co-incubated with rOmpU, an obvious visible green fluorescence could be observed on the EPC cell surface and the nuclei exhibited blue fluorescence; while the control cell surface did not show any signal, only nuclei exhibited blue fluorescence. The average number of wild-type strain adhered to each cell was 32.3 ± 4.5. The average adhesion number of OmpU gene deletion mutant was significantly reduced to 10.8 ± 0.5 (P < 0.01) and restored to 31.3 ± 2.8 by complement strain (P >0.05). Pretreatment of cells with rOmpU reduced the average adhesion number of wild-type strain to 9.7 ± 2.9 (P < 0.01). Likewise, binding was significantly decreased to 8.8 ± 3.2 (P < 0.01) due to blocking role of OmpU antibodies. To determine binding motifs of OmpU, six immunodominant B-cell epitope peptides labeled with FITC were employed in flow cytometry-based binding assay. Two FITC-labeled epitope peptides (aa90-101 and aa173-192) showed strong binding to EPC cells (the fluorescence positive cell rate was 99 ± 0.6% and 98 ± 0.3%, respectively), which could be specifically competed by excess corresponding unlabeled peptides, whereas the remaining four showed a low level of background binding. This is the first demonstration that OmpU possesses adhesion function and its N terminal 90–101 and 173–192 amino acid regions are critical sites for cell surface binding.     

嗜盐微生物在生物医药领域的应用研究进展

近年来抗生素耐药性问题日趋严重,患癌人数也在逐年增加,亟需开发新型药物。嗜盐微生物作为一类特殊的极端环境微生物,具有代谢多样性丰富、营养需求较低和能适应恶劣条件等特点,是发现新型药物的希望。目前,国内外学者已从嗜盐微生物中分离出了多种代谢产物和酶,具有明显的抗菌和/或抗肿瘤等活性。文中综述了嗜盐微生物及其相关产物在抗菌、抗炎、抗肿瘤、抗氧化、生物医学材料以及药物载体等生物医学方面的作用,尤其对近年来在嗜盐微生物中发现的新型抗菌和抗肿瘤物质以及嗜盐微生物特有的代谢产物四氢嘧啶等进行了总结,并对其后续在生物医药领域的开发和产业化应用进行了展望。