肠道微生物与大肠癌相关性的研究进展

越来越多的研究表明,肠道微生物可以影响大肠癌的发生发展。例如,产肠毒素脆弱拟杆菌、具核梭杆菌等已被证实与晚期的大肠癌和患者生存率降低相关。肠道微生物变化可以导致肠道稳态破坏,菌群数量以及类别的变化会导致宿主产生复杂的病理生理反应过程,促进大肠癌的发生发展。因此需要研究肠道微生物如何破坏肠道屏障、介导物质代谢、产生炎症因子及激活信号转导通路以及如何造成肠道微生物生态失调从而加速疾病进程。通过研究肠道微生物与大肠癌之间的相互作用,可以对大肠癌的早期诊断、治疗和预后有所帮助。本文就目前肠道微生物与大肠癌相关机制和前沿治疗的研究现状作一综述。     

间歇式轴向压应力对组织工程骨种子细胞的黏附增殖与成骨分化促进作用的研究

目的探究间歇式轴向压应力对组织工程骨种子细胞黏附、增殖与成骨分化能力的影响。 方法构建表达绿色荧光蛋白的兔骨髓间充质干细胞（rBMSCs）作为示踪种子细胞,运用旋转细胞培养仪将松质骨支架和种子细胞共培养7 d获得组织工程骨（TEB）,实验组在第7 ~ 14天施加大小10 N、频率1 Hz、4 h/d的间歇式轴向压应力刺激,对照组常规培养,14 d后胰酶消化法获取两组种子细胞并比较其黏附、增殖和成骨分化能力。采用两组独立样本t检验进行统计学分析。 结果（1）流式细胞术显示rBMSCs被成功提取分离。（2）倒置荧光显微镜及扫描电镜显示TEB中种子细胞与支架相容性良好。（3）活体荧光成像系统及扫描电镜显示应力刺激组种子细胞的生长状况要优于非应力刺激组,前者平均荧光密度及细胞数/500倍视野均大于后者,差异均具有统计学意义（平均荧光密度：（3.75±0.34）×10⁸ vs （2.91±0.22）×10⁸,t = 2.90,P = 0.04;细胞数/500倍视野：30.50±4.43 vs 21.00±5.13,t = 3.14,P = 0.01）。（4）细胞黏附实验显示,应力刺激组种子细胞的75%细胞贴壁时间短于非应力刺激组,两组时间分别为（3.00±0.41）h、（13.33±1.70）h,差异具有统计学意义（t = 8.20,P < 0.01）,前者的最终细胞贴壁率高于后者（99.97%±0.34% vs 85.83%±1.18%）,差异具有统计学意义（t = 11.31,P < 0.01）。（5）CCK-8检测显示,在培养第48 ~ 96 h,应力刺激组种子细胞的增殖能力优于非应力刺激组,将两者的450 nm吸光度值在第48小时（0.49±0.02、0.40±0.02）、72 h（0.76±0.07、0.64±0.04）和96 h（1.58±0.07、1.34±0.13）分别进行比较,差异均具有统计学意义（t = 5.15、2.57、2.86,P均< 0.01）。（6）在成骨诱导14 d后,应力刺激组种子细胞的ALP和Ca结节染色阳性率要强于非应力刺激组：两组ALP染色阳性率分别为26.73%±4.56%、16.68% ± 3.89%,差异具有统计学意义（t =3.33,P = 0.03）;两组Ca结节染色阳性率分别为41.81%±3.56%、27.40% ± 2.35%,差异具有统计学意义（t = 3.68,P = 0.02）。 结论间歇性轴向压应力可促进组织工程骨种子细胞的黏附、增殖与成骨分化。     

夜间低温对番茄幼苗磷素吸收及转运的影响

以‘辽园多丽’番茄幼苗为试材,采用营养液栽培模式,以夜温15℃为对照,对夜间低温(6℃)影响番茄幼苗磷素吸收及转运过程的因素进行研究。结果显示:(1)夜间低温胁迫导致番茄幼苗根系活力受到显著抑制。(2)夜间低温条件下,番茄幼苗根系中酸性磷酸酶活性无明显变化,而其地上部酸性磷酸酶活性增强,且以叶片中活性增加较大。(3)夜间低温胁迫使根系中磷酸盐转运蛋白基因LePT1和LePT2的相对表达量较对照增加,地上部磷酸盐转运蛋白基因LePT1的表达受到抑制,且叶片中受到的抑制作用更显著。(4)夜间低温胁迫处理营养液中剩余磷素含量始终多于对照;其番茄幼苗地下部和地上部中磷素绝对含量均下降,且叶片比茎的下降幅度更大。(5)夜间低温胁迫使番茄幼苗伤流强度下降,伤流液中磷素含量随着处理天数的增加而增加,在处理第9天时极显著高于对照。研究表明,夜间低温导致番茄幼苗根系活力降低,诱导植株中磷酸盐转运蛋白基因LePT1的表达下调以及伤流强度降低,从而引起磷素由茎向叶片中的转运过程受到明显抑制。     

Adrenalectomy enhances the insulin sensitivity of muscle protein synthesis

After confirming that adrenalectomy per se does not affect skeletal muscle protein synthesis rates, we examined whether endogenously produced glucocorticoids modulate the effect of physiological insulin concentrations on protein synthesis in overnight-fasted rats 4 days after either a bilateral adrenalectomy (ADX), ADX with dexamethasone treatment (ADX + DEX), or a sham operation (Sham; n = 6 each). Rats received a 3-h euglycemic insulin clamp (3 mU. min(-1). kg(-1)). Rectus muscle protein synthesis was measured at the end of the clamp, and the phosphorylation states of protein kinase B (Akt), eukaryotic initiation factor 4E-binding protein 1 (4E-BP1), and ribosomal protein S6 kinase (p70(S6K)) were quantitated before and after the insulin clamp. The basal phosphorylation states of Akt, 4E-BP1, and p70(S6K) were similar between ADX and Sham rats. Insulin significantly enhanced the phosphorylation of Akt (P < 0.03), 4E-BP1 (P = 0.003), and p70(S6K) (P < 0.002) in ADX but not in Sham rats. Protein synthesis was significantly greater after insulin infusion in ADX than in Sham rats (P = 0.01). Glucocorticoid replacement blunted the effect of insulin on Akt, 4E-BP1, and p70(S6K) phosphorylation and protein synthesis. In conclusion, glucocorticoid deficiency enhances the insulin sensitivity of muscle protein synthesis, which is mediated by increased phosphorylation of translation initiation-regulatory proteins.     

Unlike insulin, amino acids stimulate p70S6K but not GSK-3 or glycogen synthase in human skeletal muscle

Insulin stimulates muscle glucose disposal via both glycolysis and glycogen synthesis. Insulin activates glycogen synthase (GS) in skeletal muscle by phosphorylating PKB (or Akt), which in turn phosphorylates and inactivates glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3), with subsequent activation of GS. A rapamycin-sensitive pathway, most likely acting via ribosomal 70-kDa protein S6 kinase (p70(S6K)), has also been implicated in the regulation of GSK-3 and GS by insulin. Amino acids potently stimulate p70(S6K), and recent studies on cultured muscle cells suggest that amino acids also inactivate GSK-3 and/or activate GS via activating p70(S6K). To assess the physiological relevance of these findings to normal human physiology, we compared the effects of amino acids and insulin on whole body glucose disposal, p70(S6K), and GSK-3 phosphorylation, and on the activity of GS in vivo in skeletal muscle of 24 healthy human volunteers. After an overnight fast, subjects received intravenously either a mixed amino acid solution (1.26 micromol.kg(-1).min(-1) x 6 h, n = 9), a physiological dose of insulin (1 mU.kg(-1).min(-1) euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp x 2 h, n = 6), or a pharmacological dose of insulin (20 mU.kg(-1).min(-1) euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp x 2 h, n = 9). Whole body glucose disposal rates were assessed by calculating the steady-state glucose infusion rates, and vastus lateralis muscle was biopsied before and at the end of the infusion. Both amino acid infusion and physiological hyperinsulinemia enhanced p70(S6K) phosphorylation without affecting GSK-3 phosphorylation, but only physiological hyperinsulinemia also increased whole body glucose disposal and GS activity. In contrast, a pharmacological dose of insulin significantly increased whole body glucose disposal, p70(S6K), GSK-3 phosphorylation, and GS activity. We conclude that amino acids at physiological concentrations mediate p70(S6K) but, unlike insulin, do not regulate GSK-3 and GS phosphorylation/activity in human skeletal muscle.     

The application of gene co-expression network reconstruction based on CNVs and gene expression microarray data in breast cancer

Copy number variations (CNVs) are one type of the human genetic variations and are pervasive in the human genome. It has been confirmed that they can play a causal role in complex diseases. Previous studies of CNVs focused more on identifying the disease-specific CNV regions or candidate genes on these CNV regions, but less on the synergistic actions between genes on CNV regions and other genes. Our research combined the CNVs with related gene co-expression to reconstruct gene co-expression network by using single nucleotide polymorphism microarray datasets and gene microarray datasets of breast cancer, and then extracted the modules which connected densely inside and analyzed the functions of modules. Interestingly, all of these modules’ functions were related to breast cancer according to our enrichment analysis, and most of the genes in these modules have been reported to be involved in breast cancer. Our findings suggested that integrating CNVs and gene co-expressed relations was an available way to analyze the roles of CNV genes and their synergistic genes in breast cancer, and provided a novel insight into the pathological mechanism of breast cancer.     

p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) promotes cholesterol ester accumulation in macrophages through inhibition of macroautophagy

p38 MAPK has been strongly implicated in the development of atherosclerosis, but its role in cholesterol ester accumulation in macrophages and formation of foam cells, an early step in the development of atherosclerosis, has not been investigated. We addressed this issue and made some brand new observations. First, elevated intracellular cholesterol level induced by the exposure to LDL-activated p38 MAPK and activation of p38 MAPK with anisomycin increased the ratio of cholesterol esters over free cholesterol, whereas inhibition of p38 MAPK with SB203580 or siRNA reduced the LDL loading-induced intracellular accumulation of free cholesterol and cholesterol esters in macrophages. Second, exposure to LDL cholesterol inhibited autophagy in macrophages, and inhibition of autophagy with 3-methyladenine increased intracellular accumulation of cholesterol (free cholesterol and cholesterol esters), whereas activation of autophagy with rapamycin decreased intracellular accumulation of free cholesterol and cholesterol esters induced by the exposure to LDL cholesterol. Third, LDL cholesterol loading-induced inhibition of autophagy was prevented by blockade of p38 MAPK with SB203580 or siRNA. Neutral cholesterol ester hydrolase was co-localized with autophagosomes. Finally, LDL cholesterol loading and p38 activation suppressed expression of the key autophagy gene, ulk1, in macrophages. Together, our results provide brand new insight about cholesterol ester accumulation in macrophages and foam cell formation.     

鹤岗矿区生态系统服务价值

生态系统服务与人类福祉有着密切的关系。采用修正后的单位面积生态系统价值当量因子的方法,对鹤岗矿区不同沉陷时期（1993、2000、2013年）9种类型生态系统服务价值进行核算。结果表明：①1993、2000和2013年鹤岗矿区生态系统的总服务价值量分别为2219.21、1025.15和3531.95万元。就生态系统而言,耕地的平均服务价值最高,占平均总价值的189.35%;其次是林地和水域,分别占平均总价值的46.50%和26.83%。②就生态系统服务类别而言,支持功能服务价值最高,平均价值量占平均总价值量的186.67%,其次是调节服务,占45.34%,文化服务占5.73%,供给服务占-137.74%。③1993-2013年,鹤岗矿区生态系统服务价值自西向东递增,这与采煤方向和开采程度差异有关。这种分布趋势主要受由采矿活动引起的土地利用类型、面积及质量变化的影响。④与无考虑空间异质性因素情况相比,1993、2000年鹤岗矿区生态系统服务总价值分别减少了152.96和580.12万元,2013年增加了781.63万元。随煤炭开采,1993-2013年鹤岗矿区采煤沉陷地自然生态环境状况呈现一个由下降到好转的过程。     

Effect of amino acid mutation at position 127 in 3A of a rabbitattenuated foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype Asia1 on viral replication and infection

An amino acid mutation(R127→I) in the 3A non-structural protein of an FMDV serotype Asia1 rabbit-attenuated ZB strain was previously found after attenuation of the virus. To explore the effects of this mutation on viral replication and infection, the amino acid residue isoleucine(I) was changed to arginine(R) in the infectious cDNA clone of the rabbit-attenuated ZB strain by sitedirected mutagenesis, and the R127-mutated virus was rescued. BHK monolayer cells and suckling mice were inoculated with the R127-mutated virus to test its growth property and pathogenicity, respectively. The effects of the R127 mutation on viral replication and virulence were analyzed. The data showed that there was a slight difference in plaque morphology between the R127-mutated and wild-type viruses. The growth rate of the mutated virus was lower in BHK-21 cells and its virulence in suckling mice was also attenuated. This study indicates that the R127 mutation in 3A may play an important role in FMDV replication in vitro and in pathogenicity in suckling mice.