Suppressible P-element alleles of the vestigial locus in Drosophila melanogaster

Summary A series of P-element insertion mutations at one site in the vestigial (vg) locus was tested for cytotype dependent effects on vg expression. The mutant phenotypes for four P-element vg alleles were suppressed when the alleles were stabilized in the P-cytotype. The suppression was observed whenever repressor-producing P-elements were present in the genome. Genetic and molecular analysis indicated that the suppression is not due to excision or other irreversible alterations of the inserts. The results are consistent with a model in which somatic P-element repressor binding to the ends of P-element inserts can modify the effects of these inserts on target gene expression.     

PRKAA1和UNC5CL基因位点多态性与胃癌的相关性研究

目的:研究PRKAA1和UNC5CL基因位点多态性与胃癌发病的关系。方法:以我院2014年1月~2016年12月收治的90例胃癌患者为观察组,选择同期在我院进行治疗的90例胃炎患者作为对照组。提取分析患者的全血DNA样品,对其PRKAA1和UNC5CL基因位点基因分型进行检测,并进行组间比较。结果:(1)与对照组比较,观察组PRKAA1基因的rs13361707位点的CC型基因出现频率、rs10074991位点的GG基因出现频率、rs10036575位点的TT基因出现频率均显著高于对照组,rs10036575位点的CT+CC基因出现频率显著低于对照组,差异均具有统计学意义(P0.05)。(2)观察组UNC5CL基因的rs2294693、rs742494位点的各基因分型的出现频率与对照组间比较差异无统计学意义(P0.05)。结论:胃癌患者的发病与PRKAA1基因多态性表达有一定的相关性,当rs13361707位点为CC型、rs10074991位点为GG型、rs10036575位点为TT型时,胃癌的发病率增加,当rs10036575位点为CT+CC型时,胃癌发病率降低。而胃癌患者的发病与UNC5CL基因位点多态性表达无明显相关性。     

川西獐牙菜SmDL7H基因原核表达及组织表达

该研究根据川西獐牙菜转录组信息获得7-脱氧马钱子酸羟化酶(SmDL7H)基因的全长cDNA序列,对该基因进行同源克隆、生物信息学分析,并构建原核表达载体、转化大肠杆菌、进行原核表达和组织特异性表达分析,以探讨川西獐牙菜裂环烯醚萜合成途径中关键酶7-脱氧马钱子酸羟化酶(SmDL7H)基因的功能,为研究裂环烯醚萜类化合物合成途径奠定基础。结果表明:(1)成功克隆了川西獐牙菜SmDL7 H基因(GenBank登录号为MH243070);SmDL7 H基因开放阅读框为1 554bp,编码517个氨基酸,相对分子质量为59.5kD,等电点9.02;生物信息学预测SmDL7 H基因编码蛋白无信号肽。(2)多序列比对及进化树分析显示,SmDL7 H编码的蛋白与滇龙胆、长春花、金银花等植物的DL7 H基因编码的蛋白具有较高相似性。(3)将SmDL7 H基因连接到pET-28a原核表达载体,转化大肠杆菌Rosetta(DE3),用0.1mol/L IPTG于25℃诱导12h,原核表达分析发现在59.5kD处有目的蛋白出现,表明与之前预测的蛋白大小一致。(4)荧光定量PCR分析显示,SmDL7 H基因在川西獐牙菜叶、茎、花、根、愈伤组织中均有表达,其中在叶片中表达量最高,在根中表达量最低。     

噬菌体T7基因6.5和6.7的克隆及其缺失变种的构建

 用适当的限制性内切酶,将噬菌体T7基因6.5和6.7从整个噬菌体T7基因组中分离出来,插入到质粒pBR322中去,转化E.Coli HMS174,筛选出这两个基因的成功克隆。运用同样手段,从整个噬菌体T7基因组中分离出含有部分基因6编码序列,而不含基因6.5和6.7编码序列的T7DNA片段,插入到pBR322的衍生质粒中去,转化Ecoli C1757,再用含有基因6和基因7的双突变噬菌体T7去感染这一转化菌,通过同源交叉而得到缺失基因6.5和6.7的噬菌体T7缺失变种。这种噬菌体只能在载有噬菌体T7基因6.5和6.7,或者只载有基因6.7质粒的寄主中增殖。通过噬菌体结构蛋白电泳分析证明,这种噬菌体丢失了野生型菌体T7所具有的两条结构蛋白带。     

Impact of host cell line choice on glycan profile

Protein glycosylation is post-translational modification (PTM) which is important for pharmacokinetics and immunogenicity of recombinant glycoprotein therapeutics. As a result of variations in monosaccharide composition, glycosidic linkages and glycan branching, glycosylation introduces considerable complexity and heterogeneity to therapeutics. The host cell line used to produce the glycoprotein has a strong influence on the glycosylation because different host systems may express varying repertoire of glycosylation enzymes and transporters that contributes to specificity and heterogeneity in glycosylation profiles. In this review, we discuss the types of host cell lines currently used for recombinant therapeutic production, their glycosylation potential and the resultant impact on glycoprotein properties. In addition, we compare the reported glycosylation profiles of four recombinant glycoproteins: immunoglobulin G (IgG), coagulation factor VII (FVII), erythropoietin (EPO) and alpha-1 antitrypsin (A1AT) produced in different mammalian cells to establish the influence of mammalian host cell lines on glycosylation.     

GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERGENCE AMONG MORPHOTYPES OF THE ISOPOD EXCIROLANA ON THE TWO SIDES OF THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA

Excirolana braziliensis is a dioecious marine isopod that lives in the high intertidal zone of sandy beaches on both sides of Central and South America. It possesses no larval stage and has only limited means of adult dispersal. Indirect estimates of gene flow have indicated that populations from each beach exchange less than one propagule per generation. Multivariate morphometrics have discovered three morphs of this species in Panama, two of them closely related and found on opposite sides of Central America (“C morph” in the Caribbean and “C′ morph” in the eastern Pacific), the third found predominantly in the eastern Pacific (“P morph”). Though the P and C′ morphs are seldom found on the same beach, they have overlapping latitudinal ranges in the eastern Pacific. A related species, Excirolana chamensis, has been described from the Pacific coast of Panama. Each beach contains populations that remain morphologically and genetically stable, but a single drastic change in both isozymes and morphology has been documented. We studied isozymes and multivariate morphology of 10 populations of E. braziliensis and of one population of E. chamensis. Our objective was to assess the degree of genetic and morphological variation, the correlation of divergence on these two levels of integration, the phylogenetic relationships between morphs, and the possible contributions of low vagility, low gene flow, and occasional extinction and recolonization to the genetic structuring of populations. Genetic distance between the P morph, on one hand, and the other two morphotypes of E. braziliensis, on the other, was as high as the distance between E. braziliensis and E. chamensis. Several lines of evidence agree that E. chamensis and the P morph had diverged from other morphs of E. braziliensis before the rise of the Panama Isthmus separated the C and C′ forms, and that the P morph constitutes a different species. A high degree of genetic differentiation also exists between populations of the same morph. On the isozyme level, every population can be differentiated from every other on the basis of at least one diagnostically different locus, regardless of geographical distance or morphological affiliation. Morphological and genetic distances between populations are highly correlated. However, despite the high degree of local variation, evolution of E. braziliensis as a whole has not been particularly rapid; divergence between the C and C′ morphs isolated for 3 million yr by the Isthmus of Panama is not high by the standard of within-morph differentiation or by comparison with other organisms similarly separated. Alleles that are common in one population may be absent from another of the same morph, yet they appear in a different morph in a separate ocean. The high degree of local differentiation, the exclusive occupation of a beach by one genotype with rare arrival of foreign individuals that cannot interbreed freely with the residents, the genetic stability of populations with infrequent complete replacement by another genetic population, and the sharing by morphs of polymorphisms that are not shared by local populations, all suggest a mode of evolution concentrated in rare episodes of extinction and recolonization, possibly coupled with exceptional events of gene flow that help preserve ancestral variability in both oceans.