流感病毒在脂筏上组装与出芽

流感病毒造成的季节性流行性疾病给全世界带来沉重的健康负担.近年来,甲型流感病毒的变种H5N1、H7N9给各国带来了很大危害.流感病毒属于正黏附病毒科,它的遗传物质由多个节段的负链RNA组成,其组装和出芽剪切生殖是一个涉及到多种病毒因子,多步骤、复杂的生化过程.流感病毒会使用宿主的细胞膜上的"脂筏"区域作为病毒出芽位点.首先病毒的两种糖蛋白NA蛋白、HA蛋白会在脂筏区域聚集,造成脂筏区膜变形弯曲,并且发动出芽的过程.接着,流感病毒基质蛋白M1的C端与HA、NA结合,其自身在脂筏区域开始多聚化并使膜向外弯曲形成原始病毒体的内部结构,接着招募病毒的核糖核蛋白复合物(VRNP)与M2蛋白,使组装的过程进一步完成.最后,M2蛋白会富集在原始病毒体的底部,完成膜的剪切和病毒体的释放.     

益生菌抑制致病菌作用的机制研究进展

致病菌引起的各种胃肠道疾病对人类健康造成危害,应用益生菌制剂防治致病菌感染,具有安全和减少耐药性等优点,为控制致病菌感染性疾病提供了新的途径。主要从益生菌与致病菌竞争黏附位点、与致病菌的共聚作用及其产生的抗菌物质三个方面综述益生菌抑制致病菌的作用机制。     

蝙蝠传染病白鼻综合症研究进展

于2006年爆发的蝙蝠传染病白鼻综合症(WNS)使大量的蝙蝠物种面临死亡威胁。研究发现,蝙蝠白鼻综合症是由好寒性真菌锈腐假裸囊子菌(Pseudogymnoascus destructans)引起,通过侵染皮肤表面而使冬眠期蝙蝠表现出一系列异常行为,导致其储存的能量和脂肪提早耗尽,最终死亡。本文对白鼻综合症发病症状、传播规律、致病机理和免疫遗传反应等研究进行了论述,并进一步提出了研究展望。     

Expression and ultrastructural localization of Mint2 in the spinal cord of rats

Mint protein family, as adaptor molecules, contains three members, Mint1, Mint2 and Mint3. Although Mint3 is ubiquitously expressed, Mint1 and Mint2 have been reported to express specifically in neuron. Here we demonstrated Mint1 and Mint2 expression pattern in rat spinal cord. The protein level of Mint2 was found to be higher than that of Mint1 in rat spinal by western blot. In an attempt to know Mint2 distribution in the spinal cord of rat, in situ hybridization was carried out, Mint2 mRNA was showed to be ubiquitously distributed in cervical, thoracic and lumbar sections of rat spinal cord, and high intensive signal was detected in motor neurons. These were further confirmed by fluorescent immunohistochemistry, Mint2 was also found to exist throughout gray matter especially motor neurons where Mint2 was mainly located in perikaryon, however, Mint1 was showed to be relatively lower. By electron microscope, Mint2 was found to be mainly located in vesicles in perikaryon in motor neuron of lumbar section, and at the same time Mint2 was located in axons in myelin and presynaptic terminals. These data suggest that Mint2 may play more important role in spinal cord than the other two family members.     

海南岛巴西橡胶和香蕉cat相关基因的克隆及分析

根据GenBank上已有的植物cat基因序列,设计一对兼并引物。在海南岛采集香蕉、巴西橡胶、黄灯笼辣椒、菠萝、甘蔗、番木瓜等作物的叶片并提取总RNA,反转录成cDNA,PCR进行同源克隆。结果获得了巴西橡胶cat-1和香蕉的cat-2基因,而未获得其它4种作物cat相关基因。序列分析发现,巴西橡胶cat-1和香蕉的cat-2基因开放阅读框(ORF)都为1 479 bp,编码492个氨基酸,GenBank登陆号分别为HQ660587和HQ660588。生物信息学软件分析巴西橡胶CAT-1和香蕉CAT-2蛋白的三级结构分别与Exiguobacteriu Oxidotolerans(PDB code：2j2mA0)和Pseudomonas Syringae(PDB code：1m7sA)相似。构建系统发育树表明巴西橡胶CAT-1与蓖麻CAT-1氨基酸序列(Ricinus communis:XP_002521709.1)同源性最高,为92.1%;香蕉CAT-2与油棕CAT-2氨基酸序列(Elaeis guineensis:ACF06566.1)同源性最高,达90.9%。     

侯晨曦：附表1-附表2

本研究基于7个叶绿体DNA片段（cpDNA）和2个核DNA片段（ITS和PZ8）的测序数据,对龙血树柴胡（Bupleurum dracaenoides Huan C.Wang,Z.R.He&H.Sun）8个居群的153个样本进行了遗传多样性和分布式样研究。cpDNA片段分析结果显示：龙血树柴胡在物种水平具有较高的遗传多样性（H_d=0.862;P_i=0.00567）,但居群内遗传多样性低,遗传变异主要存在于居群间,遗传分化显著（F_st=0.959）;而核DNA片段ITS和PZ8的数据分析结果显示,其遗传多样性较低（H_d=0.532,P_i =0.00121和H_d=0.349,P_i=0.00060）,遗传变异主要存在于居群内,居群间仅存在一定程度的遗传分化。中性检验和失配分布分析结果发现龙血树柴胡没有经历过近期种群扩张事件,8个居群的153个样本从遗传成份上可被分为两组。研究结果将为龙血树柴胡的资源保护和发掘提供参考。     

越冬期不同阶段二点委夜蛾越冬幼虫耐寒性变化

【目的】二点委夜蛾Athetis lepigone (Moschler)是我国夏玉米苗期的新害虫,随着耕作制度的改变,二点委夜蛾的发生危害区域和面积逐渐扩大。本研究探讨二点委夜蛾的抗寒能力,为揭示抗寒机理提供理论基础。【方法】分别在越冬期的3个不同阶段,即越冬初期（2012年11月7日）、越冬期（2012年1月20日）和越冬末期（2013年3月5日）,对二点委夜蛾老熟幼虫的体重、过冷却点（supercooling point, SCP）、结冰点（freezing point, FP）、含水量、脂肪和糖原含量进行测定。【结果】过冷却点在这3个时期有显著差异,最低值（-23.16±0.38℃）出现在1月份,最高值（-16.24±1.24℃）出现在越冬初期,结冰点变化趋势与过冷却点一致。通过定量检测发现,虫体鲜重与过冷却点无相关性（r=0.17, P=0.12）;脂肪含量在越冬初期含量最高,而在越冬末期最低;糖原含量在越冬期含量最低;自由水的含量随着过冷却能力升高而降低,随其降低而升高,而结合水含量恰好相反。【结论】二点委夜蛾的抗寒性在越冬期不同阶段出现明显的变化,即随着冬季低温的到来,其抗寒能力逐渐增强,冬季过后又随气温的回升,其抗寒力逐渐减弱。     

MicroRNA-18a Attenuates DNA Damage Repair through Suppressing the Expression of Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated in Colorectal Cancer

Background

miR-18a is one of the most up-regulated miRNAs in colorectal cancers (CRC) based on miRNA profiling. In this study, we examined the functional significance of miR-18a in CRC.

Methods

Expression of miR-18a was investigated in 45 CRC patients. Potential target genes of miR-18a were predicted by in silico search and confirmed by luciferase activity assay and Western blot. DNA damage was measured by comet assay. Gene function was measured by cell viability, colony formation and apoptosis assays.

Results

The up-regulation of miR-18a was validated and confirmed in 45 primary CRC tumors compared with adjacent normal tissues (p<0.0001). Through in silico search, the 3′UTR of Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) contains a conserved miR-18a binding site. Expression of ATM was down-regulated in CRC tumors (p<0.0001) and inversely correlated with miR-18a expression (r = -0.4562, p<0.01). Over-expression of miR-18a in colon cancer cells significantly reduced the luciferase activity of the construct with wild-type ATM 3′UTR but not that with mutant ATM 3′UTR, inferring a direct interaction of miR-18a with ATM 3′UTR. This was further confirmed by the down-regulation of ATM protein by miR-18a. As ATM is a key enzyme in DNA damage repair, we evaluated the effect of miR-18a on DNA double-strand breaks. Ectopic expression of miR-18a significantly inhibited the repair of DNA damage induced by etoposide (p<0.001), leading to accumulation of DNA damage, increase in cell apoptosis and poor clonogenic survival.

Conclusion

miR-18a attenuates cellular repair of DNA double-strand breaks by directly suppressing ATM, a key enzyme in DNA damage repair.