抗真菌肽对真菌作用机制研究进展

20 世纪 90 年代初, Iijima 等从麻蝇幼虫血淋巴分离出一种具有抗真菌活性、能抑制 C.albicans 生长的蛋白质 . 到目前为止,已发现 150 多种肽具有抗真菌的特性,随着被发现的抗真菌肽数目不断增多,人们对抗真菌肽的抗真菌机理也进行了大量的研究,抗真菌肽对真菌的作用方式主要有：阻止、破坏真菌细胞壁的合成;与膜作用,在质膜上形成孔洞,使重要的内容物外泄;与真菌细胞内线粒体、核酸大分子等重要细胞器相互作用;最终导致真菌的死亡 .     

一株耐锌真菌CTB430-1分离鉴定及其富集特性

从某锌尾砂坝土壤中筛选分离、纯化得到一株对锌具有较强抗性的菌株,命名为CTB430-1.对菌株进行形态观察、生理生化试验,采用ITS基因序列分析并构建系统发育树,鉴定该菌为黄曲霉（Aspergillus flavus）.研究其对Zn（Ⅱ）抗性和富集特性.结果表明：Zn（Ⅱ）对该菌株的最低抑菌浓度为800 mg/L;菌株对Zn（Ⅱ）的富集量在250 mg/L时达到最大,为40.37 mg/g;采用扫描和透射电镜观察富集前后菌丝体表面形态和内部结构变化,表明Zn（Ⅱ）毒害作用可能导致生长中菌丝表面结构破坏,CTB430-1富集Zn（Ⅱ）由表面吸附和胞内富集两部分组成.     

Changes in the pattern of protein synthesis during differentiation of the Ascomycete Sphaerostilbe repens

The vegetative mycelium of Sphaerostilbe repens Berkeley and Broome (strain CBS 275-60) gives rise, within 48 h, to aggregated organs composed of coremia and rhi-zomorphs. Developmental changes in polypeptide patterns were studied by one- and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis after cells had been induced to undergo synchronized differentiation. One-dimensional gel electrophoresis revealed only minor changes during the morphogenesis. Of the 300 polypeptides resolved by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, nearly 12% either increased or decreased during coremium and rhizomorph differentiation. Some polypeptides appeared to be unique to one or the other of the cell preparations and represented apparent qualitative differences. During the first 24 h of differentiation, about 20 polypeptide spots appeared, 6 were enhanced, 4 were reduced and 32 disappeared. Over the next 24 h changes in the population of proteins were less marked: 14 new proteins were revealed and 9 increased in intensity while 15 declined and 9 were no longer detectable. Five proteins which were present at a significant level only during the first stages of differentiation, may therefore, putatively be designated as aggregation-specific polypeptides.     

内生真菌对花生残茬腐解及土壤酚酸含量的影响

土壤中花生残茬是导致连作障碍的原因之一。为了探讨施加内生真菌Phomopsis liquidambari(B3)对加速花生残茬腐解、改善连作花生土壤环境、缓解花生连作障碍的作用及其可能机理,通过向土壤中添加花生(Archis hypogaea)残体,利用盆栽试验探讨了施加B3对花生残茬腐解率、土壤部分酚酸物质和酶活性的影响。结果表明:与CK相比,在萌发期和苗期,添加B3处理显著加快残茬腐解,提高纤维素木质素降解率,增加土壤中对羟基苯甲酸、香草酸和香豆酸的含量;在花生整个生育期,施加B3显著调节了土壤中漆酶、锰过氧化物酶(Manganese peroxidase,Mn P)、木质素过氧化物酶(Lignin peroxidase,Li P)和多酚氧化酶(Polyphenol oxidase,PPO)活性的动态变化,这种变化有利于花生残茬快速腐解和酚酸类化感物质的及时转化。开花期之后施加B3处理土壤酚酸含量显著降低,花生荚果增产19.9%。实时定量PCR结果表明内生真菌B3在土壤中30 d内可以被检测,并对复杂多样的酚酸类物质具有广谱高效的降解能力。由此说明,施加内生真菌B3可以显著加快连作土壤中花生残茬腐解,进而通过减少土壤酚酸含量来缓解由残茬腐解引起的连作障碍。     

嗜热毛壳菌热稳定脂肪酶基因(Im)的克隆及其在毕赤酵母中的表达

研究从嗜热毛壳菌Chaetomium thermophilum中克隆了一个新的脂肪酶基因(lm).其中DNA序列包含一个由870个碱基构成的开放阅读框,编码289个氨基酸,含有4个内含子,没有信号肽序列.序列提交GenBank,登录号为GU338248.将该基因在毕赤酵母中表达.在甲醇的诱导下,重组蛋白得到了高效表达,第6天的表达量最高,蛋白达到0.428mg/mL,酶活力为19.77U/mg.SDS-PAGE检测该蛋白的分子量为35kDa.该脂肪酶的最适反应温度为60℃,具有热稳定性,在40-80℃热稳定,80℃处理60min仍有65％的相对酶活.该酶最适反应pH值为10.0,在pH 9.0--12.0酶活相对稳定.该酶具有较好的热稳定性和耐碱性,具有良好的工业应用价值.     

水稻纹枯病菌菌核存活力及地下侵染的研究

不同生境下菌核萌发率和影响因子的作用,以及菌核的地下侵染试验结果表明：菌核的萌发率随温度升高而增加,分别组建了菌核萌发率与温度的定量关系式;菌核可多次萌发,室内保存１１年的浪渣菌核仍有１２％的萌发率。首次报道了不同生境下菌核能在土层下侵染水稻表现典型病斑。菌核多次萌发特性和地下侵染能力使防治增加困难。     

Characterization of a novel low molecular weight sucrase from filamentous fungus Termitomyces clypeatus

An extracellular sucrase from the culture filtrate of filamentous basidiomycota Termitomyces clypeatus grown on high sucrose (5%, w/v) was purified by gel filtration chromatography, ion exchange chromatography and HPGPLC. The biochemical properties, molecular weight and conformation of sucrase produced were significantly different from the sucrase earlier purified from sucrose (1%, w/v) medium in the fungus. Purified sucrase was characterized as a low molecular weight protein of 13.5 kDa as approximated by SDS-PAGE and HPGPLC and exhibited predominantly random coil conformation in far-UV CD spectra. The enzyme was optimally active at 47 °C and pH 5.0. K_m and catalytic activity of the enzyme for sucrose were found to be 3.5 mM and 1.06 U/mg/mM, respectively. The enzyme was maximally active towards sucrose than to raffinose and sucrase activity was significantly inhibited by bivalent metal ions and reducing group agents. The results indicated that due to changes in aggregation pattern, molecular organization of purified sucrase, produced in high sucrose medium, was altered and was different from the previously reported enzyme. This is the first report of a sucrase of such low size showing activity.     

天目山山胡椒不同部位内生真菌组成及多样性分析

采用表面消毒法,从浙江天目山野生山胡椒[ Lindera glauca( Sieb.et Zucc.) Blume]的茎、叶和树皮中分离出内生真菌,基于ITS序列分析进行分类鉴定;并以内生真菌的分离率、定殖率、分离频率、多样性指数(H')及相似性系数为指标,分析了山胡椒内生真菌的菌群组成及多样性.结果显示:在26株山胡椒样株的728块组织块中共分离得到328株内生真菌(茎、叶和树皮中分别有161、40和127株);共鉴定出44个分类单元(茎、叶和树皮中各有19、18和28个),其中25个分类单元鉴定到种、17个鉴定到属、2个鉴定到科,ITS序列的GenBank登录号从JF502420至JF502462.在44个分类单元中,有40个分类单元属于子囊菌(310株),存在于山胡椒的各个部位;仅有4个分类单元属于担子菌(18株),且仅存在于茎和树皮中.山胡椒茎、树皮和叶中内生真菌的定殖率分别为65％、60％和15％,分离率分别为0.77、0.61和0.19;叶和树皮中内生真菌的多样性指数均为2.63,远大于茎(H’=1.83).山胡椒内生真菌的优势属为Phomopsis、Paraconiothyrium、Phoma和Colletotrichum,大量存在于叶、茎和树皮中.山胡椒茎与树皮、茎与叶及叶与树皮间内生真菌的相似性系数分别为0.27、0.19和0.18,显示树皮和叶之间以及树皮和茎之间内生真菌的组成极不相似.研究结果表明:山胡椒体内存在大量的内生真菌,其茎、叶和树皮的内生真菌菌群组成具有一定程度的多样性和差异性,且内生真菌的分布具有组织特异性.     

Host thermoregulatory constraints predict growth of an amphibian chytrid pathogen (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)

1. The course and outcome of many wildlife diseases are context-dependent, and therefore change depending on the behaviour of hosts and environmental response of the pathogen.2. Contemporary declines in amphibian populations are widely attributed to chytridiomycosis, caused by the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Despite the thermal sensitivity of the pathogen and its amphibian hosts, we do not understand how host thermal regimes experienced by frogs in the wild directly influence pathogen growth.3. We tested how thermal regimes experienced by the rainforest frog Litoria rheocola in the wild influence pathogen growth in the laboratory, and whether these responses differ from pathogen growth under available environmental thermal regimes.4. Frog thermal regimes mimicked in the laboratory accelerated pathogen growth during conditions representative of winter at high elevations more so than if temperatures matched air or stream water temperatures. By contrast, winter frog thermal regimes at low elevations slowed pathogen growth relative to air temperatures, but not water temperatures.5. The growth pattern of the fungus under frog thermal regimes matches field prevalence and intensity of infections for this species (high elevation winter > high elevation summer > low elevation winter > low elevation summer), whereas pathogen growth trajectories under environmental temperatures did not match these patterns.6. If these laboratory results translate into field responses, tropical frogs may be able to reduce disease impacts by regulating their body temperatures to limit pathogen growth (e.g., by using microhabitats that facilitate basking to reach high temperatures); in other cases, the environment may limit the ability of frogs to thermoregulate such that individuals are more vulnerable to this pathogen (e.g., in dense forests at high elevations).7. Species-specific thermoregulatory behaviour, and interactions with and constraints imposed by the environment, are therefore essential to understanding and predicting the spatial and temporal impacts of this global disease.     

Potential of ligninolytic enzymatic complex produced by white‐rot fungi from genus Trametes isolated from Bulgarian forest soil

Because of the crucial role of ligninolytic enzymes in a variety of industrial processes, the demand for a new effective producer has been constantly increasing. Furthermore, information on enzyme synthesis by autochthonous fungal strains is very seldom found. Two fungal strains producing ligninolytic enzymes were isolated from Bulgarian forest soil. They were identified as being Trametes trogii and T. hirsuta. These two strains were assessed for their enzyme activities, laccase (Lac), lignin peroxidase (LiP) and Mn‐dependent peroxidase (MnP) in culture filtrate depending on the temperature and the type of nutrient medium. T. trogii was selected as the better producer of ligninolytic enzymes. The production process was further improved by optimizing a number of parameters such as incubation time, type of cultivation, volume ratio of medium/air, inoculum size and the addition of inducers. The maximum activities of enzymes synthesized by T. trogii was detected as 11100 U/L for Lac, 2.5 U/L for LiP and 4.5 U/L for MnP after 14 days of incubation at 25°C under static conditions, volume ratio of medium/air 1:6, and 3 plugs as inoculum. Among the supplements tested, 5% glycerol increased Lac activity to a significant extent. The addition of 1% veratryl alcohol had a positive effect on MnP.