EL转染试剂转染食管鳞癌细胞的条件优化

该文探讨了关于EL转染试剂转染Hsa-miR-6743质粒至食管鳞癌细胞转染效果的影响因素.以食管鳞癌细胞株Eca-109、TE-1和Eca-9706为研究对象,GFP标记的Hsa-miR-6743为报告基因,通过倒置荧光显微镜检测荧光信号优化转染试剂和质粒比值.结果表明,食管鳞癌细胞的种类影响EL转染试剂的转染效果,...     

京津唐城市生态系统能值比较

运用能值(emergy)分析方法,以京津冀地区的北京、天津、唐山为研究对象,建立了复合生态系统与可持续发展的能值指标,对3个城市1991～2005年自然环境与社会经济可持续发展状况进行了比较分析.研究结果表明:1991～2005年期间,由于北京、天津的本地资源能值对经济发展的驱动力不足,城市发展对外部输入能值的依赖程度越来越高;北京、天津、唐山社会子系统的能值指标均呈上升趋势,城市居民生活水平和经济发展水平不断提高;北京经济子系统的各项指标均优于天津和唐山,但环境子系统和能值可持续指标体现出,北京的环境压力最大、可持续发展能力低于天津和唐山.在此分析基础上,对北京、天津、唐山的可持续发展提出了几点建议,为制定城市发展策略和产业调整提供科学依据.     

中国不同年代食品动物大肠杆菌耐药性调查研究

收集到20世纪70,80,90年代和2000年食品动物大肠杆菌共326株,对不同年代的大肠杆菌进行耐药性、整合子／基因盒测定,结果表明在过去的30多年里,食品动物大肠杆菌耐药性呈逐渐增长的趋势．从1970～2000年,对青霉素类的耐药率从19．0％增长到81．3％;对四环素类药的耐药率从61．9％～63．5％增长到89．5％～93．1％;对氨基糖甙类的耐药率从0-9．5％增长到5．0％～63．1％,对氟喹诺酮类的耐药率从0％增长到50.2％-53．0％;对磺胺类药的耐药率从11．7％～57．1％增长到77．7％～79．7％;对氯霉素的耐药率从39．7％增长到51．8％．整合子的携带率从20世纪70年代的17．5％增长到2000年的79．1％,其中大多数为I型整合子,也有少数Ⅱ型整合子（90年代为4．4％,2000年为11．8％）．在20世纪70和80年代,大多数I型整合子的基因盒编码aadAI基因,比例分别为72．7％和70．0％．20世纪90年代和2000年基因编码dfrA—aadA的占多数,分别为80．0％和74．7％．近4个世纪以来,细菌的多重耐药谱也逐渐增宽．本项研究给兽医从业者滥用抗菌药提出了警示,同时提出中国动物源细菌耐药性的监测和控制是必要的．     

白藜芦醇通过下调MEK/ERK/c-Jun信号通路抑制H2O2诱导的肺癌细胞增殖

目的:探讨白藜芦醇(Res)是否通过下调ERK激酶/胞外信号调节激酶/原癌基因(MEK/ERK/c-Jun)信号通路抑制小剂量过氧化氢(H2O2)诱导肺癌细胞增殖。方法:采用MTS实验检测小剂量20μM H2O2以及分别加入MEK阻断剂U0126和Res后H2O2对肺癌细胞NCI-H1395增殖的影响,采用Western Blot检测H2O2对ERK1/2和Akt蛋白磷酸化水平以及加入Res后H2O2对MEK、ERK1/2和c-Jun蛋白磷酸化水平的影响。结果:小剂量H2O2对肺癌细胞NCI-H1395具有促增殖作用,H2O2通过活化ERK1/2和Akt蛋白的磷酸化水平促进肺癌细胞NCI-H1395增殖,加入MEK阻断剂U0126后H2O2对肺癌细胞NCI-H1395增殖作用降低(P<0.05)。Res可抑制H2O2诱导的肺癌细胞NCI-H1395增殖,加入Res后,H2O2引起的MEK、ERK1/2和c-Jun蛋白磷酸化水平均降低(P<0.05)。结论:小剂量H2O2对肺癌细胞NCI-H1395具有促增殖作用,Res通过抑制MEK/ERK/c-Jun信号通路来抑制H2O2对肺癌细胞NCI-H1395的促增殖作用,其具体机制还需进一步研究。     

蛋白质组学技术在工业发酵梭菌研究中的应用

介绍了目前应用较广泛的蛋白质组学技术的原理、应用及优缺点;总结了发酵工业中常用的梭菌属细菌;重点阐述了蛋白质组学技术在工业发酵梭状芽孢杆菌研究中的应用,为工业发酵菌种的改良和发酵工艺的优化提供理论依据。最后讨论了今后工业发酵菌种蛋白质组学研究的重点和方向。     

与疾病相关的非同义单核苷酸多态性预测的研究进展

单核苷酸多态性(single nucleotide polymorphism,SNPs),即在基因组水平上由单个核苷酸的变异而引起的DNA序列多态性变化,具体是指在DNA序列中的单个碱基的变异,其是人类基因组变异种最常见的一种。SNP研究最主要的目的就是对人类表型变异遗传学的理解,尤其是关于人类遗传疾病的研究。而非同义单核苷酸多态性(nsSNPs)是SNPs中的一种,主要是指处于编码区会引起翻译后对应氨基酸序列变化的单核苷酸突变。因为nsSNPs可能会对蛋白质的功能造成影响,被认为是造成人类遗传病的主要原因。因此将与疾病相关的nsSNPs从中性的nsSNPs中区分出来是很重要的。本文根据国内外与疾病相关nsSNPs预测的研究,分析了预测中所涉及到的特征属性,总结了对这些特征进行优化的特征选择方法,并概述了在预测过程中使用的各种分类器。     

基于Gabor滤波器的皮肤纹理图像增强

在疗效化妆品中,常常需要对护肤品的性能和效果进行分析。皮肤纹理的检测是客观衡量疗效化妆品的有效手段。基于计算机视觉技术的皮肤纹理分析,对拍摄的皮肤图像要进行图像预处理,增强图像,为后续的分析提供有效的数据。采用经过微调的定向的Gabor滤波器进行增强图像,通过实验得出Gabor滤波器不仅抑制噪声的效果好,还保留了皮肤图像的整体和局部特征。     

Variability and adaptability of Miscanthus species evaluated for energy crop domestication

A growing body of evidence indicates that second‐generation energy crops can play an important role in the development of renewable energy and the mitigation of climate change. However, dedicated energy crops have yet to be domesticated in order to fully realize their productive potential under unfavorable soil and climatic conditions. To explore the possibility of domesticating Miscanthus crops in northern China where marginal and degraded land is abundant, we conducted common garden experiments at multiple locations to evaluate variation and adaptation of three Miscanthus species that are likely to serve as the wild progenitors of the energy crops. A total of 93 populations of Miscanthus sinensis, Miscanthus sacchariflorus, and Miscanthus lutarioriparius were collected across their natural distributional ranges in China and grown in three locations that represent temperate grassland with cold winter, the semiarid Loess Plateau, and relatively warm and wet central China. Evaluated with growth traits such as plant height, tiller number, tiller diameter, and flowering time, the Miscanthus species showed high levels of genetic variation within and between species. There were significant site × population interactions for almost all traits of M. sacchariflorus and M. sinensis, but not M. lutarioriparius. The northern populations of M. sacchariflorus had the highest establishment rates at the most northern site owing to their strong cold tolerance. An endemic species in central China, M. lutarioriparius, produced not only the highest biomass of the three species but also higher biomass at the Loess Plateau than the southern site near its native habitats. These results demonstrated that the wild species harbored a high level of genetic variation underlying traits important for crop establishment and production at sites that are colder and drier than their native habitats. The natural variation and adaptive plasticity found in the Miscanthus species indicated that they could provide valuable resources for the development of second‐generation energy crops.     

The complex genome and adaptive evolution of polyploid Chinese pepper (Zanthoxylum armatum and Zanthoxylum bungeanum)

Zanthoxylum armatum and Zanthoxylum bungeanum, known as ‘Chinese pepper’, are distinguished by their extraordinary complex genomes, phenotypic innovation of adaptive evolution and species-special metabolites. Here, we report reference-grade genomes of Z. armatum and Z. bungeanum. Using high coverage sequence data and comprehensive assembly strategies, we derived 66 pseudochromosomes comprising 33 homologous phased groups of two subgenomes, including autotetraploid Z. armatum. The genomic rearrangements and two whole-genome duplications created large (~4.5 Gb) complex genomes with a high ratio of repetitive sequences (>82%) and high chromosome number (2n = 4x = 132). Further analysis of the high-quality genomes shed lights on the genomic basis of involutional reproduction, allomones biosynthesis and adaptive evolution in Chinese pepper, revealing a high consistent relationship between genomic evolution, environmental factors and phenotypic innovation. Our study provides genomic resources and new insights for investigating diversification and phenotypic innovation in Chinese pepper, with broader implications for the protection of plants under severe environmental changes.     

The distribution of coastal fish eDNA sequences in the Anthropocene

Aim

Coastal fishes have a fundamental role in marine ecosystem functioning and contributions to people, but face increasing threats due to climate change, habitat degradation and overexploitation. The extent to which human pressures are impacting coastal fish biodiversity in comparison with geographic and environmental factors at large spatial scale is still under scrutiny. Here, we took advantage of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to investigate the relationship between fish biodiversity, including taxonomic and genetic components, and environmental but also socio-economic factors.

Location

Tropical, temperate and polar coastal areas.

Time period

Present day.

Major taxa studied

Marine fishes.

Methods

We analysed fish eDNA in 263 stations (samples) in 68 sites distributed across polar, temperate and tropical regions. We modelled the effect of environmental, geographic and socio-economic factors on α- and β-diversity. We then computed the partial effect of each factor on several fish biodiversity components using taxonomic molecular units (MOTU) and genetic sequences. We also investigated the relationship between fish genetic α- and β-diversity measured from our barcodes, and phylogenetic but also functional diversity.

Results

We show that fish eDNA MOTU and sequence α- and β-diversity have the strongest correlation with environmental factors on coastal ecosystems worldwide. However, our models also reveal a negative correlation between biodiversity and human dependence on marine ecosystems. In areas with high dependence, diversity of all fish, cryptobenthic fish and large fish MOTUs declined steeply. Finally, we show that a sequence diversity index, accounting for genetic distance between pairs of MOTUs, within and between communities, is a reliable proxy of phylogenetic and functional diversity.

Main conclusions

Together, our results demonstrate that short eDNA sequences can be used to assess climate and direct human impacts on marine biodiversity at large scale in the Anthropocene and can further be extended to investigate biodiversity in its phylogenetic and functional dimensions.