Microbial transformation of ginsenoside Rb1 by Rhizopus stolonifer and Curvularia lunata

Of 49 microbial strains screened for their capabilities to transform ginsenoside Rb₁, Rhizopus stolonifer and Curvularia lunata produced four key metabolites: 3-O-[-d-glucopyranosyl-(1,2)--d-glucopyranosyl]- 20-O-[-d-glucopyranosyl]-3,12, 20(S)-trihydroxydammar-24-ene (1), 3-O-[-d-glucopyranosyl-(1,2)--d- glucopyranosyl]-20-O-[-d-glucopyranosyl]-3,12, 20(S)-trihydroxydammar-24-ol (2), 3-O-[-d-gluco- pyranosyl-(1,2)--d-glucopyranosyl]-3, 12, 20(S)-trihydroxydammar-24-ene (3), and 3-O--d-glucopyranosyl-3, 12, 20(S)-trihydroxydammar-24-ene (4), identified by TOF-MS, ¹H- and ¹³C-NMR spectral data. Metabolites 1, 3 and 4 were from the incubation with R. stolonifer, and 1 and 2 from the incubation with C. lunata. Compound 2 was identified as a new compound.     

植保网络应用技术初步研究

ASP(Active Server Pages动态服务器网页）是Microsoft公司1997年推出的,WINDOWS面向WEB特征的,功能强大而成熟一种技术。2000年以来,笔对其应用于植保网络化、可视化与自动化方面作了一些探讨与开发,建立了我省第一个植保专业网站,网址www.fizb.com。阐述了植保在互联网上的初步应用研究。     

大黄素提高HeLa细胞对三氧化二砷促凋亡敏感性的研究

活性氧(reactive oxygen species,ROS)在三氧化二砷(arsenic trioxide,As2O3)诱导肿瘤细胞凋亡中扮演重要角色。本研究用一种天然蒽醌类物质——大黄素(emodin)作为提高HeLa细胞ROS水平的手段,考察其对As2O3促凋亡敏感性的影响,并探究可能涉及的信号传导机制。结果显示大黄素10μmol／L提高ROS并增加了HeLa细胞在As2O32μmol／L作用下的凋亡率,对正常成纤维细胞却无影响。该联合作用可以促进HeLa细胞线粒体跨膜电位降低;抑制转录因子NF-κB激活。本研究提示：大黄素通过提高ROS介导凋亡信号传导的增强和生存信号传导的抑制,增加HeLa细胞对As2O3促凋亡的敏感性。     

Rapid tau aggregation and delayed hippocampal neuronal death induced by persistent thrombin signaling

Tau hyperphosphorylation, leading to self-aggregation, is widely held to underlie the neurofibrillary degeneration found in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies. However, it is unclear exactly what environmental factors may trigger this pathogenetic tau hyperphosphorylation. From several perspectives, the coagulation serine protease, thrombin, has been implicated in AD and activates several different protein kinase pathways but has not previously been shown how it may contribute to AD pathogenesis. Here we report that nanomolar thrombin induced rapid tau hyperphosphorylation and aggregation in murine hippocampal neurons via protease-activated receptors, which was followed by delayed synaptophysin reduction and apoptotic neuronal death. Mechanistic study revealed that a persistent thrombin signaling via protease-activated receptor 4 and prolonged downstream p44/42 mitogenactivated protein kinase activation are at least in part responsible. These results pathogenetically linked thrombin to subpopulations of AD and other tauopathies associated with cerebrovascular damage. Such knowledge may be instrumental in transforming therapeutic paradigms.     

Simulating structural and thermodynamic properties of carcinogen-damaged DNA

A pair of stereoisomeric covalent adducts to guanine in double-stranded DNA, derived from the reaction of mutagenic and tumorigenic metabolites of benzo[a]pyrene, have been well characterized structurally and thermodynamically. Both high-resolution NMR solution structures and an array of thermodynamic data are available for these 10S (+)- and 10R (-)-trans-anti -[BP]-N(2)-dG adducts in double-stranded deoxyoligonucleotides. The availability of experimentally well-characterized duplexes containing these two stereoisomeric guanine adducts provides an opportunity for evaluating the molecular mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann surface area (MM-PBSA) method for computing thermodynamic properties from molecular dynamics ensembles. We have carried out 3-ns molecular dynamics simulations, using NMR solution structures as the starting models for the 10S (+)- and 10R (-)-trans-anti-dG adducts in a DNA duplex 11-mer using AMBER 6.0. We employed the MM-PBSA method to compute the free energies, enthalpies, and entropies of the two adducts. Our complete thermodynamic analysis agrees quite well with the full experimental thermodynamic characterization of these adducts, showing essentially equal stabilities of the two adducts. We also calculated the nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) distances from the molecular dynamics trajectories, and compared them against the experimental NMR-derived NOE distances. Our results showed that the simulated structures are in good agreement with the NMR experimental NOE data. Furthermore, the molecular dynamics simulations provided new structural and biological insights. Specifically, the puzzling observation that the BP aromatic ring system in the 10S (+)-trans-anti-dG adduct is more exposed to the aqueous solvent than the 10R (-)-trans-anti-dG adduct, is rationalized in terms of the adduct structures. The structural and thermodynamic features of these stereoisomeric adducts are also discussed in relation to their reported low susceptibilities to nucleotide excision repair.     

G蛋白、蛋白激酶C和Na+-H+交换在内皮素-1诱导培养心肌细胞肥大反应中的作用

内皮素-1(ET-1)是一种强的生长因子,并诱导心肌细胞肥大反应.在本实验中,我们探讨了G蛋白、蛋白激酶C(PKC)和Na+-H+交换在ET-1诱导的培养新生大鼠心肌细胞肥大反应中的作用.ET-1(10-10～10-7 mol/L)促进3H-亮氨酸掺入,增加细胞蛋白质的含量和心肌细胞的表面积,且呈剂量依赖性,它们的EC50分别为5.2×10-10,5.2×10-10和7.3×10-10mol/L.用蛋白激酶C(PKC)抑制剂,Staurosporin(2 nmol/L)预处理心肌细胞,可完全阻断ET-1诱导的心肌细胞的这些肥大反应,而蛋白激酶C激动剂,佛波醇酯(PMA)(10-8～10-6mol/L)呈剂量依赖性促进心肌细胞的肥大反应.用Na+-H+交换抑制剂,氨氯吡咪(10-4mol/L)预处理心肌细胞,可抑制ET-1诱导的心肌细胞肥大反应,但不影响PMA诱导的心肌细胞肥大反应.百日咳毒素(150ng/ml)预处理心肌细胞,可明显抑制ET-1诱导的心肌细胞肥大反应.这些结果提示,ET-1诱导的培养新生大鼠心肌细胞肥大反应是与百日咳毒素敏感的G蛋白相耦联,蛋白激酶C和Na+-H+交换可能在ET-1诱导的心肌细胞肥大反应中是重要的细胞内信使转导途径.     

紫外线辐射对柑桔过氧化物酶活性和电频率特性的影响

介绍了紫外线辐照柑桔后,柑桔过氧化物酶活性等生理参量和电学频率特性等物理参量随贮藏时间变化的实验结果,并对结果作了简单分析。结果表明：适当剂量的紫外辐照,可以降低柑桔的过氧化物酶活性,使柑桔电学频率特性等保持贮藏初期的特点,延缓柑桔内部结构和所含成分的变化,具有一定的保鲜效果。