植物源草酸氧化酶筛选及应用潜力评价

以44科88种植物叶片为酶源,检测出具有OXO活性的植物34科60种,其中OXO比活力较高(>0.02U/mg protein且>0.2U/g·fw)的有30种。为评估酶法清除动物体内草酸的可能性,研究了松果菊、白花败酱、草珊瑚、白鹤灵芝和甘草的OXO性质。结果表明,5种植物OXO都具有极强的酸、热稳定性;松果菊、白鹤灵芝和白花败酱OXO活性不受胃蛋白酶、NaCl和CaCl₂抑制,具有较好的应用潜力;甘草OXO活性不受NaCl和CaCl₂抑制,但受胃蛋白酶降解;而草珊瑚OXO受NaCl、CaCl₂及胃蛋白酶抑制。     

外源有机质对土壤中菲的增强固定作用

从吸附、解吸、可萃取态残留变化3个方面,研究了外源有机质对粘壤土、砂粉土和粉壤土中菲的增强固定作用.外源有机质为有机商品肥和泥炭.结果表明,施加外源有机质后,供试土壤对菲的吸附等温线仍呈线性,分配作用为土壤吸附菲的主导机制.有机商品肥或泥炭能显著促进供试土样对菲的吸附.施加同量的外源有机质,土壤吸附菲的K_d值的增加幅度与土壤有机碳含量(f_oc)成正比,表明土壤的f_oc越大,外源有机质对菲吸附的促进效果越好.解吸实验表明,施加外源有机商品肥或泥炭能够抑制土壤中菲的解吸,解吸量显著低于原土.经64 d培养,施加外源有机质的3种土壤中的可萃取态残留菲含量降低;由于泥炭的有机质含量高于有机商品肥,施加泥炭的土样中可萃取态残留菲的降幅更大;原土的f_oc越高,外源有机质对菲可萃取性的抑制效果越明显.可见,施加外源有机质可增强土壤中菲的吸附固定、抑制其解吸、并降低其可萃取态残留.     

Epidemiological Profile of Cryptococcal Meningitis Patients in Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil

Cryptococcosis is a major opportunistic mycosis which has meningitis as its most frequent clinical presentation and can be fatal in the absence of antifungal therapy. The aetiological agents are Cryptococcus neoformans, which affects mainly immunocompromised subjects, and C. gattii, the aetiologic agent for cryptococcosis in healthy individuals. A recent outbreak of cryptococcosis on Vancouver Island, Canada, raised the level of concern about the epidemiology of this disease. In Brazil, between 1980 and 2002, six per cent of AIDS patients had cryptococcosis in course at the time of diagnosis. To identify the profile of cryptococcal meningitis patients in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil, a retroactive study was realized using data from patients registered at Laboratório Central de Saúde Pública IPB-LACEN/RS from 2000 to 2005. Most of the patients were men (77.12%), Caucasian (83.5%), median age between thirty and thirty-nine years old (46.24%) and HIV positive (95%).     

Resampling-based empirical Bayes multiple testing procedures for controlling generalized tail probability and expected value error rates: focus on the false discovery rate and simulation study

This article proposes resampling-based empirical Bayes multiple testing procedures for controlling a broad class of Type I error rates, defined as generalized tail probability (gTP) error rates, gTP (q,g) = Pr(g (V(n),S(n)) > q), and generalized expected value (gEV) error rates, gEV (g) = E [g (V(n),S(n))], for arbitrary functions g (V(n),S(n)) of the numbers of false positives V(n) and true positives S(n). Of particular interest are error rates based on the proportion g (V(n),S(n)) = V(n) /(V(n) + S(n)) of Type I errors among the rejected hypotheses, such as the false discovery rate (FDR), FDR = E [V(n) /(V(n) + S(n))]. The proposed procedures offer several advantages over existing methods. They provide Type I error control for general data generating distributions, with arbitrary dependence structures among variables. Gains in power are achieved by deriving rejection regions based on guessed sets of true null hypotheses and null test statistics randomly sampled from joint distributions that account for the dependence structure of the data. The Type I error and power properties of an FDR-controlling version of the resampling-based empirical Bayes approach are investigated and compared to those of widely-used FDR-controlling linear step-up procedures in a simulation study. The Type I error and power trade-off achieved by the empirical Bayes procedures under a variety of testing scenarios allows this approach to be competitive with or outperform the Storey and Tibshirani (2003) linear step-up procedure, as an alternative to the classical Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) procedure.     

真菌共祖起源的分子证据

以真菌界、动物界和植物界中的19种各类生物作为代表,从具有进化速率不同区段结构的核糖体核酸基因大亚基全序列的C3、C9及C11三个高度保守区段中鉴定出了4条真菌所共有的核苷酸序列,亦即真菌界所特有的核苷酸序列。从其保守区段C5中鉴定出了1条子囊菌门所特有的保守序列;从保守区段C7中鉴定出了1条担子菌门所特有的保守序列。研究结果为各类真菌起源于一个共同祖先提供了分子证据。用于研究的美味石耳的核糖体核酸基因大亚基全序列是由本实验室所提供;其他18种核糖体核酸基因大亚基全序列来自GenBank。     

瘤背石磺的精子结构

用光学显微镜和透射电子显微镜技术研究了瘤背石磺精子的结构特点,分析了其生理生态适应性以及在肺螺亚纲系统演化中的意义。瘤背石磺的精子由头部、中段和末段组成。头部由奶嘴形的顶体和长圆筒状的细胞核构成。顶体包括顶体囊和顶体构架体两部分;两者的内含物都分布均匀,电子密度稍低于细胞核;顶体基部平整,与核前端之间有一空隙,内含物电子密度极低。细胞核由电子密度高的均匀颗粒物质组成,并出现核泡;核的后端有一"杯形"的凹陷,称为核后窝。中段结构复杂,主要包括一对位于核后窝内的中心粒、轴丝、质膜、线粒体及由线粒体衍生的糖原质螺旋体、基质层和类晶体层等。末段由"9 2"结构的轴丝及外包的质膜组成,无糖原质螺旋体和其它线粒体衍生物。比较瘤背石磺精子与肺螺亚纲其它物种的精子结构,我们认为该物种的精子属于"进化型",是一类在进化地位中比基眼目高等的动物。     

Effect of Mg2+ on the Structure and Function of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase

Mg²⁺ in various concentrations was added to purified Rubisco in vitro to gain insight into the mechanism of molecular interactions between Mg²⁺ and Rubisco. The enzyme activity assays showed that the reaction between Rubisco and Mg²⁺ was two order, which means that the enhancement of Rubisco activity was accelerated by low concentration of Mg²⁺ and slowed by high concentration of Mg²⁺. The kinetics constant (K _m) and V _max was 1.91 μM and 1.13 μmol CO₂ mg⁻¹ protein∙min⁻¹, respectively, at a low concentration of Mg²⁺, and 3.45 μM and 0.32 μmol CO₂∙mg⁻¹ protein∙min⁻¹, respectively, at a high concentration of Mg²⁺. By UV absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy assays, the Mg²⁺ was determined to be directly bound to Rubisco; the binding site of Mg²⁺ to Rubisco was 0.275, the binding constants (K _A) of the binding site were 6.33 × 10⁴ and 5.5 × 10⁴ l·mol⁻¹. Based on the analysis of the circular dichroism (CD) spectra, it was concluded that the binding of Mg²⁺ did not alter the secondary structure of Rubisco, suggesting that the observed enhancement of Rubisco carboxylase activity was caused by a subtle structural change in the active site through the formation of the complex with Mg²⁺.     

Anthropometric Cutoff Points for Predicting Chronic Diseases in the Mexican National Health Survey 2000

Objective: To determine optimum anthropometric cutoffs for predicting the likelihood ratios of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HT) in Mexicans. Research Methods and Procedures: Data from a randomly selected, nationally representative health survey (2000) with 11, 730 men [37.4 (± 12.9) years] and 26, 647 women [37.3(± 12.9) years] were assessed for values of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) for predicting DM or HT by receiver operating characteristic curve analyses. Likelihood ratios for DM and HT were calculated, and BMIs or WCs for public‐health screening were developed. Subanalyses included regional data. Results: Likelihood ratios of DM and HT increased from BMI values of 22 to 24 kg/m² in both sexes and with WC values of 75 to 80 cm in men and 70 to 80 cm in women. The best BMI cutoffs for predicting DM were 26.3 to 27.4 kg/m² in men and 27.7 to 28.9 kg/m² in women, with similar values for HT, i.e., 26.2 to 27.0 kg/m² and 27.7 to 28.5 kg/m², for men and women, respectively; WC cutoffs for DM were 93 to 98 cm in men and 94 to 99 cm in women, and cutoffs for HT were 92 to 96 cm and 93 to 96 cm for men and women, respectively. The WC cutoffs had higher sensitivity and specificity than those of BMI. Discussion: The risk for DM and HT starts at lower levels of BMI and WC than those suggested by WHO. WC is a better discriminator than BMI measures for use in public health.     

甘肃国家重点保护野生植物资源保护利用研究

甘肃省分布27种国家重点保护野生植物资源,其中有国家一级保护植物苏铁银杏、红豆杉、水杉、珙桐、光叶珙桐、独叶草等7种,占国家51种的13．73％,国家二级保护植物岷江柏木、秦岭冷杉、大果云杉、巴山榧树、连香树、油樟、红豆树、野大豆、红椿、鹅掌楸、厚朴、凹叶厚朴、西康玉兰、水曲柳、香果树、瓣鳞花、榉树、水青树、喜树、发菜、虫草等21种,占国家202种的10．4％,研究甘肃本地分布的国家级保护植物的分布特点、生物多样性保护的战略对策、利用价值,为保护和利用提供科学依据。     

划分土壤类型的一种新方法--以功能生态学理论为基础

借助功能生态学的理论 ,提出了运用土壤的特征物质 (CM)和特征时间 (CT)区分土壤类型的新方法。通过数学模拟 ,分别计算了灰色森林土和黑钙土的特征物质和特征时间 :当灰色森林土和黑钙土的年凋落物量分别为 5 .5t·hm-2 和 11.2t·hm-2 时 ,它们的CM和CT分别为 133t·hm-2 、80年和 82 0t·hm-2 、6 5 0年。CM和CT的值随着输入土壤的物质量和土壤中分解速度的变化而变化 ,而且受外界环境因素 (包括自然因素和人为因素 )的影响。CT随土壤深度的增加而增大