对分子置换法中积分半径选取方法的探讨

通过对晶胞中帕特逊向量的统计分布的研究,从理论上阐述了根据模型结构单元的线度确定旋转函数的积分半径这种作法的合理性,并且指出了估算积分半径取值范围的具体方法,以及自身旋转函数与交叉旋转函数的积分半径取值范围的区别。经过我们将此方法应用于酚胰岛素Ｂ链羰端六肽胰岛素的旋转函数求解,计算结果证实了这种积分半径的估算方法的可靠性。     

脱落酸对植物线粒体膜生物物理特性的影响

采用１,６－二苯基－１,３,５－已三乙烯（ＤＰＨ）荧光偏振法和中性红法分别研究了脱落酸（ＡＢＡ）对玉米黄化芽及大豆子叶离体线粒体膜的微粘度（η）、表面电位（ψ）等生物物理特性的影响。结果表明：ＡＢＡ有降低线粒体膜的微粘度及提高线粒体膜的表面电位作用,并导致呼吸速率升高,呼吸控制和氧化磷酸化偶联下降。ＡＢＡ对线粒体膜微粘度的作用具有浓度饱和效应;ＡＢＡ对线粒体膜表面电位的提高作用,因植物不同而有差异,对玉米的作用要大于对大豆的。追踪线粒体Ａ（３５０）值的变化,还证实,ＡＢＡ提高了大豆线粒体的Ａ（３５０）值,即导致大豆线粒体的相互聚集（ａｇｇｒｅｇａｔｉｏｎ）。     

大鼠颈上神经节烟碱电流的整流及失敏

在培养的新生大鼠颈上神经节交感神经元标本上,用全细胞膜片钳技术研究了烟碱型乙酰胆碱受体（ｎＡＣｈＲ）通道的整流及失敏现象。烟碱激动剂引起的全细胞电流在膜电位为负值时随膜电位呈线性改变,而在膜电位达＋６０ｍＶ时仍不出现外向电流,表现出强烈的内向整流。ｎＡＣｈＲ通道电流存在失敏现象,即持续恒压喷射激动剂所引起的全细胞电流随时间呈指数衰减,不能保持在峰值水平,失敏随激剂浓度呈量效关系,膜电位的超极化也加     

Structure of the growing telomeres of Trypanosomes

We have developed a method for the molecular cloning of DNA adjacent to chromosome ends (telomeres). A recombinant DNA clone obtained from the telomeres of the protozoan Trypanosoma brucei contains large stretches of the repeat (CCCTAA)n. This repeat is flanked by a larger subtelomeric repeat (29 bp in one case). These repeats account for the presence of large DNA stretches not cut by restriction enzymes downstream of telomeric VSG genes. All telomeres analyzed thus far (more than 30) grow by approximately 6 bp per trypanosomal division and contract by occasional large deletions. Our results suggest that growth is due mainly to addition of CCCTAA units.     

Phenobarbital enhances 2',5'-oligoadenylate synthesis in rat liver nuclei

Treatment of rats with phenobarbital for three days greatly increases the activity of 2,5 oligoadenylate synthetase in liver nuclei. Analysis of 2',5'-oligoadenylates synthesized in vitro showed that nuclei from both phenobarbital-treated and control rats synthesized 2',5'-oligoadenylates ranging from di- to hexamers. However, nuclei from drug treated rats showed a two fold increase in trimer and tetramer synthesis and a three-four fold increase in longer chained oligoadenylates. There was no change in the nuclear 2'-phosphodiesterase activity as the result of phenobarbital treatment, This activity remained low in nuclei from either the treated or the control rats. To our knowledge, this is the first report on phenobarbital affecting the liver 2',5'-oligoadenylate system.     

Comparative Cytochrome Oxidase and Superoxide Dismutase Analyses on Strains of Azotobacter vinelandii and Other Related Free-Living Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria

Quantitative N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD) oxidase and superoxide dismutase (SOD) analyses were performed on representative organisms of the family Azotobacteraceae. Azotobacter vinelandii, Azotobacter chroococcum, Azotobacter paspali, and Derxia gummosa exhibited high quantitative TMPD oxidase activities, and their extracts possessed very active and electrophoretically homogeneous (single gel band) Fe-type SODs. Azomonas macrocytogenes extracts had similar single Fe-type SODs, and their cells exhibited no TMPD-dependent cytochrome oxidase activity. Nitrogen-fixing cells of Beijerinckia indica, Beijerinckia derxii, and Beijerinckia mobilis exhibited minimal TMPD oxidation capabilities (rates equivalent to the TMPD autooxidation reaction), and these extracts also possessed very active SODs but only of the Mn metallotype.     

Purification and properties of a plasmid-encoded 2,4-dichlorophenol hydroxylase

2,4-Dichlorophenol hydroxylase, an enzyme involved in the bacterial degradation of the herbicide 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate (2,4-D) was purified from two bacterial strains that harbored the same 2,4-D plasmid, pJP4. The purified enzymes (Mr 224 000) from the two transconjugants were indistinguishable; they contained FAD and were composed of non-identical subunits, Mr 67 000 and 45 000, respectively. Various substituted phenols were hydroxylated, using either NADH or NADPH. The amino acid composition of the native enzyme was determined.     

Long-term superfusion of rat pituitary cells: interaction of 17 beta-estradiol with pulses of gonadotropin-releasing hormone on luteinizing hormone release

In a series of four experiments, the temporal development of acute inhibitory and delayed stimulatory effects of 17 beta-estradiol (E) on luteinizing hormone (LH) release by superfused rat anterior pituitary cells pulsed with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) was studied. Dispersed anterior pituitary cells from ovariectomized rats were cultured on Bio-Beads for 3 days and then placed in columns and superfused for up to 24 hr. During superfusion, the cells were exposed to GnRH pulses (3 X 10(-9) M, one 6-min pulse/hr). Cells treated with E (3 X 10(-10) M) either before (only 24 hr prior to superfusion) or before and during superfusion released significantly (P less than 0.05) more LH in response to the first few pulses of GnRH than cells treated with diluent. In contrast, cells treated with E only during superfusion initially released less GnRH-induced LH than cells treated with diluent. In a subsequent experiment, the inhibitory effect of E reached a maximum by 1.5 hr (P less than 0.01), and then gradually disappeared after 4.5 hr. Cells superfused simultaneously with E and fixed "low"-dose GnRH (5 X 10(-10) M) pulses did not exhibit enhanced LH responses with time to that dose of GnRH. However, E-superfused cells responded more than diluent-superfused cells to subsequent stimulation with a higher-dose GnRH pulse. Superfusion of cells with E for 16.5 hr in the absence of GnRH pulses also did not increase release of LH to low-dose (5 X 10(-10) M) pulses of GnRH, yet did cause a transitory increase to subsequent high-dose (10(-8) M) GnRH pulses. In conclusion, these results demonstrate the direct biphasic inhibitory then stimulatory effects of E on GnRH-induced LH release by superfused rat anterior pituitary cells. Expression of the stimulatory effect of E is related to the dose of GnRH.     

宁夏引黄灌区春小麦的生态条件分析及其改善途径

本文系统分析了影响宁夏引黄灌区春小麦生产的生态条件,从作物品种、黄河肥水、土壤肥力与盐渍化、气候等方面分析了小麦与生态环境的关系,提出小麦与生态环境的平衡失调是限制灌区小麦生产潜力的关键问题,对最隹施用化肥量、合理灌溉定额及改善小麦生态环境、实现高产稳产等进行了探讨。