PLS3 predicts poor prognosis in pancreatic cancer and promotes cancer cell proliferation via PI3K/AKT signaling

Plastin-3 plays a key role in cancer cell proliferation and invasion, but its prognostic value in pancreatic cancer (PACA) remains poorly defined. In this study, we show that PLS3 messenger RNA is overexpressed in PACA tissue compared with normal tissue. We accumulated 207 cases of PACA specimens to perform immunohistochemical analysis and demonstrated that PLS3 levels correlate with T-classification (p < .001) and pathology (p < .001). Furthermore, overall survival rates (p < .001) in tumors with high PLS3 expression were poor, as assessed through Kaplan–Meier survival analysis. PLS3 was found to be an independent prognostic factor for PACA through multivariate Cox regression analysis. Moreover, we found that PLS3 enhances the proliferation and invasion of tumor cells as assessed through Cell Counting Kit-8, wounding healing assays, and Transwell assays. The upregulation of PLS3 also led to enhanced phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase/protein kinase B signaling in PACA cells. These data suggest that PLS3 is a biomarker to estimate PACA progression and represents a molecular target for PACA therapy.     

A Study on Size Hierachies of Individuals OF Elymus nutans Population under Different Densities

The size hierachies of a perennial grass population, Elymus nutans, which distributes throghout the subalpine meadow has been studied. A two-year experiment was designed to include seven treatments of different densities and measurements of inequality and distributions of individual mass of the population at different harvest time from 1987 to 1989. Individual mass under each of the seven treatments did not reveal a normal or lognormal distribution. No skewness values smaller than 0.5 occurred in our 48 sets of data, which implied that the distribution of the indiciduals of E. nutans population at any density skewed to small individuals. This result emphasized an evidence that there were differences between perennial grasses and annual grasses in responding to intraspecies competition. Size inequality did not increase with increasing population densities. This however, was not in concert with the results of experiments from others. Size inequality, on the other hand, was wore prominent in the period of vegetative growth than in the period of maturity.     

黄酮类化合物抗肿瘤研究进展

黄酮类化合物是广泛存在于自然界中的一类多酚化合物,有许多潜在的药用价值,抗肿瘤活性是其研究热点之一。其抗肿瘤作用主要表现在抑制细胞增殖、诱导细胞凋亡、干预信号转导、影响细胞周期、影响血管生成、克服肿瘤细胞多药耐药性等方面。文中就黄酮类化合物抗肿瘤作用的研究进展进行综述。     

Distinct eRF3 requirements suggest alternate eRF1 conformations mediate peptide release during eukaryotic translation termination

Organisms that use the standard genetic code recognize UAA, UAG, and UGA as stop codons, whereas variant code species frequently alter this pattern of stop codon recognition. We previously demonstrated that a hybrid eRF1 carrying the Euplotes octocarinatus domain 1 fused to Saccharomyces cerevisiae domains 2 and 3 (Eo/Sc eRF1) recognized UAA and UAG, but not UGA, as stop codons. In the current study, we identified mutations in Eo/Sc eRF1 that restore UGA recognition and define distinct roles for the TASNIKS and YxCxxxF motifs in eRF1 function. Mutations in or near the YxCxxxF motif support the cavity model for stop codon recognition by eRF1. Mutations in the TASNIKS motif eliminated the eRF3 requirement for peptide release at UAA and UAG codons, but not UGA codons. These results suggest that the TASNIKS motif and eRF3 function together to trigger eRF1 conformational changes that couple stop codon recognition and peptide release during eukaryotic translation termination.     

一株拮抗真菌的蛇足石杉内生细菌分离鉴定及培养条件优化

从蛇足石杉(Huperzia serrata)叶片中分离到一株对小麦赤霉(Fusarium graminearum)等多种植物病原真菌有强拮抗作用的内生细菌 H-6.通过形态和培养特性观察、生理生化实验及 16S rDNA 序列分析,初步鉴定该茵属于伯克霍尔德属,命名为 Burkholderia sp.H-6.同时还对该菌培养条件进行了优化,得出马铃薯浸出液中添加 2.5%的甘露醇和 0.1% NaNO3 有利于细胞生长和抑菌活性的产生,最适培养温度为 28℃.最佳初始 pH4.0.     

家兔早期胚胎细胞发育能力的研究

本文利用胚泡注射法制作嵌合体对家兔交配后96,120和144小时的ICM细胞的发育能力进行了研究。供体胚胎取自青紫兰灰免,受体胚胎取自新西兰白兔,结果表明96和120小时供胚的ICM细胞与96小时受胚胚泡组合后均能参与发育,形成嵌合兔,144小时者未获得嵌合体。由于120小时的ICM细胞发育的2只表型为雄性的嵌合兔,其中1只不育,其性腺和外周血核型表明不育兔为xx/xy性嵌合,性腺中有处于不同发育程度的卵巢和精细管,外周血含xx和xy两种核型。本实验结果首次证明家兔交配后120小时胚泡的ICM细胞仍具有参与嵌合体发育的能力。它不仅能参与体细胞的分化,并具有形成生殖细胞的能力。交配后144小时胚泡的ICM细胞其发育能力似乎已发生了局限。     

口蹄疫病毒受体研究进展

口蹄疫病毒感染宿主细胞的第一步是病毒与被感染细胞表面的某种受体结合,在这种受体的介导下,病毒颗粒才能进入细胞内。细胞受体是决定口蹄疫病毒宿主特异性和组织特异性的主要因素之一。口蹄疫病毒受体的研究对于揭示口蹄疫病毒的致病免疫机理具有重要价值。就近年来已发现的αvβ1、αvβ3、αvβ6、αvβ8四种整联蛋白和硫酸乙酰肝素受体作一综述。