高原兔肝脏火器伤后GSH、SOD和MDA变化特点及意义

目的:探讨在高原环境下兔肝脏火器伤后全血谷胱甘肽(GSH)含量、血清超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)活力和丙二醛(MDA)含量的动态变化规律。方法:144只新西兰大白兔随机分为平原肝脏火器伤组(A组)、初入高原肝脏火器伤组(B组)、适应高原肝脏火器伤组(C组),各组又细分为伤后0.5、2、6、12、24、48、72h和正常对照组,每组6只。在不同海拔环境下成功建立肝脏火器伤模型后,分别于各时间点采集血液标本,检测全血GSH含量、血清SOD活力和MDA含量。结果:①兔肝脏火器伤后与正常组比较,伤后GSH含量、SOD活力早期略有升高,以后逐渐下降,到达低谷后逐渐恢复。而MDA在伤后持续升高,12h达峰值(P<0.01),继而进行性下降,72h仍高于正常。②初入高原组与平原组比较,GSH含量、SOD活力早期升高及以后到达低谷和MDA到达峰值水平(P<0.01),初入高原组更显著。③适应高原组与平原组比较,GSH含量、SOD活力降低幅度(P<0.05)和MDA升高程度,适应高原组更显著。结论:肝脏火器伤破坏了体内氧化与抗氧化之间的平衡,尤其在高原缺氧环境下更为明显,提示氧自由基可能参与肝脏火器伤后机体的病理生理过程。     

Endoplasmic Reticulum-associated Inactivation of the Hormone Jasmonoyl-l-Isoleucine by Multiple Members of the Cytochrome P450 94 Family in Arabidopsis

The plant hormone jasmonate (JA) controls diverse aspects of plant immunity, growth, and development. The amplitude and duration of JA responses are controlled in large part by the intracellular level of jasmonoyl-l-isoleucine (JA-Ile). In contrast to detailed knowledge of the JA-Ile biosynthetic pathway, little is known about enzymes involved in JA-Ile metabolism and turnover. Cytochromes P450 (CYP) 94B3 and 94C1 were recently shown to sequentially oxidize JA-Ile to hydroxy (12OH-JA-Ile) and dicarboxy (12COOH-JA-Ile) derivatives. Here, we report that a third member (CYP94B1) of the CYP94 family also participates in oxidative turnover of JA-Ile in Arabidopsis. In vitro studies showed that recombinant CYP94B1 converts JA-Ile to 12OH-JA-Ile and lesser amounts of 12COOH-JA-Ile. Consistent with this finding, metabolic and physiological characterization of CYP94B1 loss-of-function and overexpressing plants demonstrated that CYP94B1 and CYP94B3 coordinately govern the majority (>95%) of 12-hydroxylation of JA-Ile in wounded leaves. Analysis of CYP94-promoter-GUS reporter lines indicated that CYP94B1 and CYP94B3 serve unique and overlapping spatio-temporal roles in JA-Ile homeostasis. Subcellular localization studies showed that CYP94s involved in conversion of JA-Ile to 12COOH-JA-Ile reside on endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In vitro studies further showed that 12COOH-JA-Ile, unlike JA-Ile, fails to promote assembly of COI1-JAZ co-receptor complexes. The double loss-of-function mutant of CYP94B3 and ILL6, a JA-Ile amidohydrolase, displayed a JA profile consistent with the collaborative action of the oxidative and the hydrolytic pathways in JA-Ile turnover. Collectively, our results provide an integrated view of how multiple ER-localized CYP94 and JA amidohydrolase enzymes attenuate JA signaling during stress responses.     

Induction of a Stress Protein in Developing Cell Cultures of the Rat Cerebellum

Abstract: We examined the ability of developing cere-bellar cell cultures to synthesize a 71,000 MW stress protein (SP71) in response to heat shock and Cd²⁺ treatment. The induction of SP71 synthesis appeared to be dependent on both the age of the culture and the stressor used. Heat shock induced SP71 synthesis in freshly prepared cells and in cell cultures at each age examined, whereas Cd²⁺ was effective only in cultures at 7 days of age and older. These findings are discussed with reference to the development of various cell types in these cultures.     

Photoinhibition at chilling temperature

The effects of moderate light at chilling temperature on the photosynthesis of unhardened (acclimated to +18° C) and hardened (cold-acclimated) spinach (Spinacea oleracea L.) leaves were studied by means of fluorescence-induction measurements at 20° C and 77K and by determination of quantum yield of O₂ evolution. Exposure to 550 mol photons·m^-2·s^-1 at +4° C induced a strong photoinhibition in the unhardened leaves within a few hours. Photoinhibition manifested by a decline in quantum yield was characterized by an increase in initial fluorescence (F _o) and a decrease in variable fluorescence (F _v) and in the ratio of variable to maximum fluorescence (F _V/F _M), both at 77K and 20° C. The decline in quantum yield was more closely related to the decrease in the F _V/F _M ratio measured at 20° C, as compared with F _V/F _M at 77K. Quenching of the variable fluorescence of photosystem II was accompanied by a decline in photosystem-I fluorescence at 77K, indicating increased thermal de-excitation of pigments as the main consequence of the light treatment. All these changes detected in fluorescence parameters as well as in the quantum yield of O₂ evolution were fully reversible within 1–3 h at a higher temperature in low light. The fast recovery led us to the view that this photoinhibition represents a regulatory mechanism protecting the photosynthetic apparatus from the adverse effects of excess light by increasing thermal energy dissipation. Long-term cold acclimation probably enforces other protective mechanisms, as the hardened leaves were insensitive to the same light treatment that induced strong inhibition of photosynthesis in unhardened leaves.Abbreviations F ₀ initial fluorescence - F _M maximum fluorescence - F _V variable fluorescence (F _M-F ₀ - PFD photon flux density - PS photosystem     

Influence of acclimation and determination temperature on the oxygen consumption of the brain in two species of anurans

1. 1. The effects of sudden changes by increasing or decreasing the measurement temperature on the oxygen consumption of the brains of Bufo arenarum and Leptodactylus ocellatus were determined.

2. 2. The experiments were carried at in vitro at temperatures which range from 4 to 37°C. The brain was oxygenated and stabilized for 20 min at each of the temperatures to which it was subjected before oxygen consumption measurements were made.

3. 3. A theoretical curve representing the variation of oxygen consumption with temperature was calculated according to the following exponential relationship; for Leptodactylus ocellatus y = 0.408 × 1.07^x and for Bufo arenarum y = 0.389 × 1.065^x.

4. 4. These results were compared with the brain oxygen consumption of animals acclimated to different temperatures, whose oxygen consumption was measured at a fixed temperature. Only Leptodactylus ocellatus had a significantly lower oxygen consumption in a high range of temperatures, indicating thermal compensation, probably to save metabolic reserves.

5. 5. No deterioration of the brain tissue was observed, as several passages from high to low temperatures in the range of 20°–30°C, showed a reversible oxygen consumption in acclimated and non-acclimated Bufo arenarum and Leptodactylus ocellatus.

逆境相关植物锌指蛋白的研究进展

锌是植物必需的营养元素,锌指蛋白因其具有指状结构特征且能结合Zn2 而得名,植物锌指蛋白包含特有的QALGGH保守结构,可能涉及调控植物特有的生物学功能。人们已经从拟南芥(Arabidopsis thaliana)、矮牵牛(Petunia hybrida Vilm)、水稻(Oryza sativa)、大豆(Glycine max)、棉花(Gossypium hirsutum)等植物中克隆了许多编码锌指蛋白的基因,并对其结构及功能进行了研究。利用转基因技术,将一些与逆境胁迫相关的锌指蛋白基因在目标植物中过量表达后,能对植物起到增强抗逆性的作用,说明锌指蛋白在增强植物逆境抗性方面有着广阔的应用前景。     

Growth and leaf production in the tropical palm Euterpe edulis: Light conditions versus developmental constraints

We studied developmental and environmental constraints on leaf dynamics, morphology and physiology in the monopodial tropical palm of the Atlantic Forest biome, Euterpe edulis. Plastic responses to light environments in terms of photosynthesis, leaf size, leaf life span, patterns of biomass allocation and growth were analysed. Plants were grown during 14 months in a shade house under four different growth irradiances. Plants of Euterpe edulis were able to adjust leaf demography and biomass allocation in the different light treatments. Leaf life span increased by 100 days with decreasing light levels while the rate of leaf production decreased, consistent with lower electron transport rates. At low light levels, adjustments in biomass allocation to leaf components allowed E. edulis to reduce self-shading and increase light interception. At high light plants allocated more biomass to roots, and the plants exhibited small leaf sizes when leaves were compared using an explicit ontogenetic analysis. Ontogeny constrained the maximum size that each consecutive leaf could achieve, while growth irradiance determined the rate of leaf production and other leaf traits. Consequently, there were both, developmental constraints and environmental determinants influencing leaf demography and morphology in E. edulis. The findings of this ecophysiological and demographic study are relevant to palms growing under natural conditions and help to explain the success of E. edulis in the forest understory and its absence from large gap openings. Our results not only confirm that E. edulis is a shade tolerant species, but also show that palms are able to acclimate to different growing condition as well as trees.     

低温驯化后水椰八角铁甲生理活性物质含量的变化

【目的】分析低温驯化后水椰八角铁甲Octodonta nipae体内各种生理活性物质含量的变化,为揭示水椰八角铁甲耐寒机制提供理论基础。【方法】以25℃处理为对照,将水椰八角铁甲各虫态于12.5, 15, 17.5和20℃驯化处理10 d后,比较其体内的游离水、蛋白质、氨基酸、粗脂肪、甘油和可溶性糖原等生理活性物质含量的变化。【结果】低温驯化显著影响铁甲体内上述物质的含量水平。低温驯化能提高该铁甲体内甘油和游离氨基酸的含量,降低游离水、蛋白质、粗脂肪、可溶性糖原的含量。与对照相比,12.5℃驯化对该铁甲各虫态体内游离水含量存在显著影响(P<0.01);经12.5, 15, 17.5和20.0℃驯化后,该铁甲各虫态体内蛋白质、粗脂肪含量与对照相比均存在显著差异(P<0.01);经125,150和175℃驯化后,该铁甲各虫态体内游离氨基酸含量与对照存在显著差异(P<0.01);经12.5,15.0,17.5和20℃驯化后,该铁甲各虫态（2龄幼虫除外）体内甘油含量与对照相比存在显著差异(P<0.01);12.5, 15.0, 17.5和20℃驯化对除2龄幼虫、蛹和成虫外的铁甲其他各虫态体内可溶性糖原含量存在显著影响。经15.0℃驯化处理后铁甲各虫态体内平均甘油含量最高,比对照25℃的平均甘油含量高出约9.4倍,而经12.5℃驯化处理的虫体内的平均甘油含量仅增加3.5倍。【结论】低温驯化对水椰八角铁甲体内相关生理活性物质含量的影响效能是有限的;水椰八角铁甲可以根据不良的环境条件调节最佳的生理状况,以适应未来的环境和达到最强的适应性。     

Investigating the long‐term legacy of drought and warming on the soil microbial community across five European shrubland ecosystems

We investigated how the legacy of warming and summer drought affected microbial communities in five different replicated long‐term (>10 years) field experiments across Europe (EU‐FP7 INCREASE infrastructure). To focus explicitly on legacy effects (i.e., indirect rather than direct effects of the environmental factors), we measured microbial variables under the same moisture and temperature in a brief screening, and following a pre‐incubation at stable conditions. Specifically, we investigated the size and composition of the soil microbial community (PLFA) alongside measurements of bacterial (leucine incorporation) and fungal (acetate in ergosterol incorporation) growth rates, previously shown to be highly responsive to changes in environmental factors, and microbial respiration. We found no legacy effects on the microbial community size, composition, growth rates, or basal respiration rates at the effect sizes used in our experimental setup (0.6 °C, about 30% precipitation reduction). Our findings support previous reports from single short‐term ecosystem studies thereby providing a clear evidence base to allow long‐term, broad‐scale generalizations to be made. The implication of our study is that warming and summer drought will not result in legacy effects on the microbial community and their processes within the effect sizes here studied. While legacy effects on microbial processes during perturbation cycles, such as drying–rewetting, and on tolerance to drought and warming remain to be studied, our results suggest that any effects on overall ecosystem processes will be rather limited. Thus, the legacies of warming and drought should not be prioritized factors to consider when modeling contemporary rates of biogeochemical processes in soil.