HBc蛋白与NIRF蛋白细胞外相互作用鉴定

构建原核表达质粒pGST-HBc,真核表达质粒pFLAG-NIRF,表达并纯化GST-HBc蛋白,表达FLAG-NIRF蛋白,利用GST pull down技术鉴定HBc与NIRF蛋白的相互作用。利用PCR技术分别扩增HBc编码框和NIRF基因全长,并将其分别插入到原核表达载体pGEX-4T-1和真核表达载体p3*FLAG-CMV-10中,构建出pGST-HBc及pFLAG-NIRF。pFLAG-NIRF转染HEK293,培养48 h,收获前10 h加入MG132抑制蛋白酶体,收获细胞,经NP40裂解后离心收集上清pGST-HBc转化BL21(DE3)细菌,优化培养条件使GST-HBc在上清中大量表达,然后用GST4Bgel亲合纯化该蛋白,结合有GST-HBc蛋白与含FLAG-NIRF的细胞上清孵育后,离心收集GST 4Bgel,经洗脱液洗脱后蛋白电泳,western blotting分析。构建了pGST-HBc及pFLAG-NIRF,在上清中成功表达GST-HBc并纯化该蛋白,在细胞中成功表达FLAG-NIRF,GST pull down结果显示两者存在体外相互结合。HBc与NIRF能够在细胞外发生相互结合。     

电离辐射诱导的DNA双链断裂

利用γ射线和不同ＬＥＴ的碳离子幅照小鼠Ｂ１６黑色素瘤细胞、Ｈｅｌａ细胞、Ｖ７９中国仓鼠肺细胞和人肝癌ＳＭＭＣ－７７２１细胞的ＤＮＡ,采用脉冲场凝电泳结合荧光扫描技术研究了ＤＮＡ双链断裂（ＤＳＢ）片段的分布。结果发现ＤＳＢ片段是非随机分布的,而且这种分布与ＤＮＡ序列有关。原因可能在于沉积的能量直接或间接沿ＤＮＡ链迁移,链上相对较弱的化学键优先产生反应,并最终导致链的断裂,从而引起断裂的不均匀分布。     

NAG7基因转染HNE1细胞后下调蛋白质的鉴定及其意义(英文)

NAG7基因是我室克隆的与鼻咽癌相关的肿瘤抑制候选基因 .将NAG7编码框的cDNA片段克隆至pGEM3.1(+ )的表达载体 ,经脂质体转染入HNE1细胞 ,经G4 18筛选 ,并运用PCR技术证实 .建立含NAG7基因稳定转染的细胞系 ,抽提细胞总蛋白质 ,双向凝胶电泳分离蛋白质 ,对表达下调的蛋白质点进行质谱分析 ,获得的肽质指纹经SWISS PROT数据库分析以鉴定蛋白质点 .鉴定出的 7个下调蛋白质包括纤溶酶原、收缩蛋白、Ras 相关蛋白Rab 36及ARF 相关蛋白等 .通过对蛋白质性质和功能的分析 ,发现这些蛋白质参与了细胞信号的转导、蛋白质的转运及细胞代谢等众多事件 .因此 ,NAG7基因很可能是通过介导这些蛋白质的表达下调而发挥其功能     

Salt marshes: biological controls of food webs in a diminishing environment

This essay reviews two important topics in coastal ecology: the work on the relative role of bottom–up and top–down controls in natural communities and the loss of wetlands worldwide. In salt marshes and other coastal wetlands, bottom–up and top–down mechanisms of control on natural communities are pervasive. Bottom–up effects through nutrient supply may propagate to upper trophic levels via better food quality, or indirectly by altering water and sediment quality. Top–down control by consumers alters lower trophic levels through consumption of primary producers, and indirectly by trophic cascades in which higher predators feed on grazers. The combined forcing of bottom–up and top–down controls govern assemblages of species in natural communities, mediated by physical and biogeochemical factors. Although there is much information about biological controls of coastal food webs, more information is needed. Even more important is that large losses of wetland are occurring along coastlines worldwide due to a variety of economic and social activities including filling, wetland reclamation, and sediment interception. Such losses are of concern because these wetlands provide important functions, including export of energy-rich material to deeper waters, nursery and stock habitats, shoreline stabilization, and intercept land-derived nutrients and contaminants. These important functions justify conservation and restoration efforts; barring such efforts, we will find it increasingly difficult to find coastal wetlands where we can continue to gain further understanding of ecology and biogeochemistry and lack the aesthetic pleasure these wetlands provide to so many of us.     

Fluorescence-based evaluation of shRNA efficacy

RNA interference is a cellular mechanism regulating levels of mRNAs. It has been widely exploited to knock down specific protein targets. The selected interfering RNA sequence greatly influences its ability to knock down the target. Here we present a method for constructing multiple testing plasmids which express small hairpin RNAs (shRNA) targeting different regions of an mRNA. A simple fluorescence test in cultured cells allows convenient evaluation of mRNA knockdown by many different shRNAs on 96-well plates. We show that software predicted shRNAs have varying efficacies and only 2 of the 7 tested shRNAs significantly knocked down their targets.     

Recent Findings in the Chemistry of Odorants from Four Baccharis Species and Their Impact as Chemical Markers

Baccharis is a widespread genus belonging to the Asteraceae family that includes almost 400 species exclusively from the Americas. Even when studied in detail, the taxonomic classification among species from this genus is not yet fully defined. Within the framework of our study of the volatile composition of the Baccharis genus, four species (B. trimera, B. milleflora, B. tridentata, and B. uncinella) were collected from the ‘Campos de Cima da Serra’ highlands of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The aerial parts were dried and extracted by the simultaneous distillation extraction (SDE) procedure. This is the first time that SDE has been applied to obtain and compare the volatile‐extract composition in the Baccharis genus. Characterization of the volatile extracts allowed the identification of 180 peaks with many coeluting components; these latter being detailed for the first time for this genus. The multivariate statistical analyses allowed separating the volatile extracts of the four populations of Baccharis into two separate groups. The first one included the B. milleflora, B. trimera, and B. uncinella volatile extracts. The three species showed a high degree of similarity in their volatile composition, which was characterized by the presence of high contents of sesquiterpene compounds, in particular of spathulenol. The second group comprised the extract of B. tridentata, which contained α‐pinene, β‐pinene, limonene, and (E)‐β‐ocimene in high amounts.     

Voles on small islands: effects of food limitation and alien predation

Ecosystems of three trophic levels may be bottom-up (by food-plant availability) and/or top-down (by predators) limited. Top-down control might be of greater consequence when the predation impact comes from an alien predator. We conducted a replicated two-factor experiment with field voles (Microtus agrestis) during 2004-2005 on small islands of the outer archipelago of the Baltic Sea, south-west Finland, manipulating both predation impact by introduced American mink (Mustela vison) and winter food supply. In autumn 2004, we live-trapped voles on five islands from which mink had been consistently removed, and on four islands where mink were present, and provided half of these islands with 1.8 kg oats per vole. Body mass of female voles increased as a response to supplementary food, whereas both food supplementation and mink removal increased the body mass of male voles in subsequent spring. During winter, there was a positive effect of supplementary food, but in the subsequent summer, possible positive long-term impacts of food supplementation on field voles were not detected. Mink removal appeared not to affect density estimates of field voles during the winter and summer immediately after food addition. Trapping data from 2004 to 2005 and 2007 suggested, however, that in two out of three summers densities of voles were significantly higher in the absence than in the presence of mink. We conclude that vole populations on small islands in the archipelago of the Baltic Sea are mainly bottom-up limited during winter (outside the growing season of food plants), when food availability is low, and limited by mink predation during summer which slows population growth during the reproductive season of voles.     

白血病相关蛋白16与角蛋白18相互作用的鉴定

目的：验证白血病相关蛋白（LRP）16与角蛋白（KRT）家族成员KRT18之间的相互作用关系。方法：PCR扩增KRT18及其结构域缺失体基因片段,构建KRT18全长及其结构域真核表达载体,通过体外GST pull down实验和体内免疫共沉淀实验验证LRP16/KRT18的相互作用,并鉴定其作用的结构域。结果：构建了KRT18及其结构域重组子,GST pull down实验证明LRP16与KRT18在体外存在相互作用,它们的特异结合区域位于KRT18的C端,KRT18能够与LRP16的C端结构域相互作用;免疫共沉淀实验表明内源性LRP16与KRT18的C端在体内存在特异结合。结论：KRT18与LRP16存在相互作用,为进一步研究KRT18影响LRP16的亚细胞分布及调控LRP16核功能执行的作用机制奠定了基础。