Isolation,characterization and application of a species-specific repeated sequence from Haynaldia villosa

A species-specific repeated sequence, pHvNAU62, was cloned from Haynaldia villosa, a wheat relative of great importance. It strongly hybridized to H. villosa, but not to wheat. In situ hybridization localized this sequence to six of seven H. villosa chromosome pairs in telomeric or sub-telomeric regions. Southern hybridization to whea-H. villosa addition lines showed that chromosomes 1V through 6V gave strong signals in ladders while chromosome 7V escaped detection. In addition to H. villosa, several Triticeae species were identified for a high abundance of the pHvNAU62 repeated sequence, among which Thinopyrum bassarabicum and Leymus racemosus produced the strongest signals. Sequence analysis indicated that the cloned fragment was 292 bp long, being AT rich (61%), and showed 67% homology of pSc7235, a rye repeated sequence. Isochizomer analysis suggested that the present repeated sequence was heavily methylated at the cytosine of the CpG dimer in the genome of H. villosa.It was also demonstrated that pHvNAU62 is useful in tagging the introduced 6VS chromosome arm, which confers a resistance gene to wheat powdery mildew, in the segregating generations.     

Physiologic regulation of mixtalol in rape senescence and its yield effects

Physiologic and yield effects of mixtalol at various concentrations sprayed on rape at the anthesis stage were examined. Foliar sprays of 4 and 2 ppm mixtalol significantly increased the chlorophyll content of rape leaves and pods, reduced the accumulation of malondialdehyde and ethylene production, and delayed the degradation of superoxide dismutase and catalase activities of the rape plant. Mixtalol also increased root oxidizability. Meanwhile, the number of branches and pods per plant was increased, and a 10.7% and 8.2% increase of seed yield over the controls was observed with treatments of 4 and 2 ppm mixtalol, respectively. No significant effects from mixtalol were observed on the maturation of plants or on the seed oil content or the erucic acid and glucosinolate content. Total rape oil production increased with 4 and 2 ppm mixtalol significantly by 12.4% and 10.5%, respectively, over the controls.Abbreviations MTL mixtalol - MDA malondialdehyde - TBA thiobarbituric acid - SOD Superoxide dismutase - CAT catalase - TTC tetrazolium     

Cytokinin biochemistry in relation to leaf senescence I. The metabolism of 6-benzylaminopurine and zeatin in oat leaf segments

Journal of Plant Growth Regulation - The metabolism of zeatin and that of 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP) have been compared in oat leaf segments in relation to the markedly differing ability of these...     

与胎儿珠蛋白基因持续表达有关的(A_γδβ)°—地贫纯合子及杂合子的分子鉴别

我们分子鉴别了一个缺失型中国(A_γδβ)°-地贫家系。先证者为这一缺失的纯合子,具有中度贫血症状。家系的另五个成员均为这一缺失的杂合子,其胎儿血红蛋白(HbF)为16—21％,接近或达到HPFH杂合子的HbF水平,并且几乎不表现贫血症状。限制性内切酶图谱分析证明了β-珠蛋白基因簇内的DNA顺序缺失,缺失的5′端点位于Aγ基因IVSⅡ内,3′端点在β-珠蛋白基因下游区远端,距HPFH-2的3′缺失端点上游区约11kb。缺失的总长度约为80kb。本文讨论了这一缺失导致胎儿血红蛋白在成人中持续活跃表达的可能机制。     

用直接测定基因组DNA序列的方法检测β-地中海贫血基因突变

本文报道一种结合聚合酶链反应(PCR)技术直接测定基因组DNA中单考贝基因片段序列的方法,以及利用这种方法测定两例β-地贫纯合子的β珠蛋白基因序到结果。测定出基因点突变,一例为编码子17(A→T)突变纯合子,另一例为编码子69(G→A)突变纯合子。针对上述两个点突变合成寡核苷酸片段,末端标记~(82)P后为探针进行斑点杂交的结果与测序结果一致。     

Triterpenoid saponins from Clinopodium polycephalum.

A new triterpenoid saponin, clinopodiside A, has been isolated from Clinopodium polycephalum. Its structure was established by spectroscopic methods and X-ray diffraction analysis as 3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl(1----6)-[ beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1----4)]-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-olean-11,13(18)-diene-3 beta,16 beta, 23,28-tetrol.     

Formation of substrate and transition-state analogue complexes in crystals of phosphoglucomutase after removing the crystallization salt.

Crystals of phosphoglucomutase, grown in 2.1 M ammonium sulfate, "desalted", and suspended in a 30% polyoxyethylene-8000/1 M glycine solution as described in the accompanying paper [Ray, W. J., Jr., Puvathingal, J. M., Bolin, J. T., Minor, W., Liu, Y., & Muchmore, S. W. (1991) Biochemistry 30 (preceding paper in this issue)], were treated with glucose phosphates to form an equilibrium mixture of the catalytically active substrate/product complexes. However, this treatment extensively fractured the crystals, even when very dilute solutions of glucose phosphates were used. But formation of the desired complexes was achieved, without fracturing, by introducing the glucose phosphates at high salt concentration, where they do not bind significantly to the enzyme, and maintaining their presence during subsequent sulfate-removal steps, in order to obtain essentially uniform binding throughout the crystal at all times. Although this procedure produced unfractured crystals of the catalytically active complexes, an adjustment in water activity was required to prevent the crystals from slowly liquefying in the presence of the added glucose phosphates. After this adjustment, the quality of diffraction-grade crystals subjected to this treatment was not significantly altered. An even larger adjustment in water activity was required to stabilize crystals that had been largely converted into a mixture of vanadate-based transition-state analogue complexes [cf. Ray, W. J., Jr., & Puvathingal, J. M. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 2790-2801] by means of an analogous procedure. The rationale for, and the implications of, this adjustment of water activity are discussed. The phenomenon of lattice-based binding cooperativity also is discussed together with a possible role for such cooperativity in the fracturing of protein crystals during formation of ligand complexes and possible ways to circumvent such fracturing based on the annealing of crystals at fractional saturation. An assay for quantifying the extent of formation of the vanadate-based transition-state analogue complexes in crystals of phosphoglucomutase is described. A solution to problems associated with producing and maintaining a steady-state in treated crystals is discussed within the context of maximizing the fraction of the crystalline enzyme present as a complex with one such inhibitor, glucose alpha-1-phosphate-6-vanadate. One of these problems, achieving a substantial reduction in sulfate concentration, could not be successfully addressed by employing the desalting procedure used to produce the substrate/product complexes, because of reduced diffusional rates in the final solution.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)