横断山区四种湍蛙的细胞遗传学研究

通过染色体组型分析,C带(BSG技术)分析及一种简便的Ag-NORs带分析,对四川湍蛙、理县湍蛙、棕点湍蛙和棘皮湍蛙的种间关系、染色体的演化及其性染色体等问题进行了初步探讨。结果表明:(1)四川湍蛙、理县湍蛙和棕点湍蛙之间的亲缘关系较近,而它们与棘皮湍蛙的亲缘关系较远;(2)在近缘种的分化中,染色体结构异染色质的变化和臂间倒位是重要的因素之一,这在小型染色体上表现得尤为突出;(三)四川湍蛙具有在形态上分化很明显的性染色体。C带分析表明,此性染色体主要由常染色质构成,但在其Y染色体的长臂上存在明显的中间C带,推测尚处于性染色体分化的初期阶段。     

Chromosome numbers and reproduction inRubus subgen.Malachobatus

A review of current knowledge of chromosome numbers and modes of reproduction in the genusRubus L. is presented. Chromosome numbers from some species of subg.Malachobatus Focke together with results of crossing experiments are reported for the first time.     

The versatility of proteolytic enzymes

The growing realization of their physiological importance has generated renewed interest in the study of proteolytic enzymes. Modern methods of protein chemistry and molecular biology have revealed new insights into the protein and gene structure of a variety of protein precursors and their processing by limited proteolysis. Examples are given in this review for transmembrane processes and the role of signal peptidases of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic origin, the processing of prohormones and precursors of growth factors, protein components of blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, and of the complement system, and a group of granulocyte proteases, including the mast cell serine proteases. The relationship of homologous domains found in many of these proteases and their zymogens to protein evolution is a recurrent theme of this discussion.     

Syntheses and biological activities of azido ubiquinone derivatives

A general method for the synthesis of azido-ubiquinone derivatives has been developed directly by substituting one hydrogen atom on the benzoquinone ring with an azido group under weakly acidic conditions. The reaction takes several hours and the yield is generally low. The azido-ubiquinone was purified by preparative thin layer chromatography, and identified by NMR, IR and mass spectra. All the synthesized azido-ubiquinone derivatives show partial activity in mediating biological electron transfer in the dark, and show partial or complete inhibition upon photolysis.     

Complement pores in erythrocyte membranes: Analysis of C8/C9 binding required for functional membrane damage

The number of membrane-bound terminal complement proteins (C5b-9) required to generate a functional pore in the human erythrocyte membrane ghost has been determined. Resealed erythrocyte ghost membranes (ghosts) were treated with human complement proteins C5b6, C7, ¹³¹I-C8, and ¹²⁵I-C9 under non-lytic conditions. Following C5b-9 assembly, sucrose-permeant ghosts were separated from C5b-9 ghosts that remained impermeant to sucrose by centrifugation over density barriers formed of 43% (w/v) sucrose. Analysis of ¹³¹I-C8 and ¹²⁵I-C9 bound to sucrose-permeant and sucrose-impermeant subpopulations of C5b-9 ghosts revealed: 1. Sucrose-permeant C5b-9 ghosts show increased uptake of both ¹³¹I-C8 and ¹²⁵I-C9 as compared to ghosts that remain impermeant to sucrose. Ghosts with less than 300 molecules ¹³¹I-C8 bound remain impermeant to sucrose, irrespective of the total C9 input, or, the multiplicity of C9 uptake by membrane C5b-8. 2. In the presence of excess ¹²⁵I-C9, the ratio of ¹²⁵I-C9/¹³¹I-C8 bound to membrane C5b67 is 3.2 ± 0.8 (mean ± 2 S.D.), suggesting an average stoichiometry of 3 C9 per C5b-8. Under these conditions, the ratio of ¹²⁵I-C9/¹³¹I-C8 bound to sucrose-permeant ghosts (3.3 ± 0.7) does not significantly differ from the ratio bound to sucrose-impermeant ghosts (2.9 ± 0.6). 3. With limiting C9 input, the threshold of total C5b-8 uptake required for sucrose permeability increases significantly above 300 per cell when the ratio of bound ¹²⁵I-C9/¹³¹I-C8 is decreased below unity. In the complete absence of C9, 11 700 C5b-8 complexes are bound to sucrose-permeant ghosts. It is concluded that more than 300 C5b-9 complexes must bind to the human erythrocyte to form a sucrose-permeant lesion. Although the binding of one C9 per C5b-8 is critical to the pore-forming activity of these proteins, the binding of additional molecules of C9 to each complex (C9/C8 > 1) does not significantly alter the threshold of total C5b-9 uptake required for lesion formation.     

Intraspecific hybridization and its bearing on chromosome evolution inVicia narbonensis (Fabaceae)

Nine accessions ofVicia narbonensis, considered to be the wild progenitor of faba bean (Vicia faba), were investigated to ascertain the nature and extent of intraspecific karyotypic polymorphism. The chromosome complements resolved into four distinct types (A, B, C, D), and the meiotic data of F₁ hybrids (A × B, B × C, A × C) revealed that alteration in chromosome morphology is the result of segmental interchanges. The interchange complexes indicate that the parents differ from each other by 1 to 2 interchanges. It is also evident that karyotype B, and not A as previously reported, is the normal karyotype of the species, and A and C are single homozygotes for unequal interchange. The comparative karyomorphology of the parents and the hybrids, and of two interchange heterozygotes of four chromosomes each in F₁ hybrids of A × C shows that the chromosomes involved in the single interchange homozygotes (A, C) are not common and the breaks in both interchanges occurred in short and long arms of the involved chromosomes. Identification of the interchanged chromosomes in the complements and the frequency of ring and chain quadrivalents in the heterozygotes enabled location of the breakpoints. The present results provide probably the first example indicating that interchange homozygosity (A) is not only firmly established but also has enabled the species to spread further by adapting to a wide range of habitats. — The genetic relationships between A and D are very different. All seven chromosome pairs in D could be distinguished from A, and for that matter, B and C as well. From the meiotic pairing properties it is also amply clear that genome D is well differentiated from A and possibly B, and C, and deserves special status.     

Milling energy requirement of the aneuploid stocks of common wheat,including alien addition lines

Summary Aneuploid stocks, which included Triticum aestivum/alien, disomic, chromosome addition lines, wheat/alien, ditelosomic, chromosome addition lines, and the available aneuploids of Chinese Spring wheat, were used to locate genes that influence milling energy requirement (ME). Genes that affected ME were found on all seven homoeologous chromosome groups. The addition of complete wheat chromosomes 1B, 1D, 2A, 2D, 5B, 6B, 7B and 7D increased ME. Positive effects were also found in specific chromosome arms: 1BS, 2DS, 5AS, 5BS and 6BL. Wheat chromosome 3B conditioned low ME and the gene(s) responsible was located on the short arm. Other negative effects were attributed to wheat chromosome arms 4BL, 4DL, 5DS and 6DS. Alien chromosome additions that conferred high ME included 2H, 5H, 6H and 7H of barley, Hordeum vulgare and 2R, 2R, 4R, 4RL, 6R, 6RL and 7RL of rye, Secale cereale. Those that conferred a low ME included 1H ^ch of H. chilense, and 6u and 7u of Aegilops umbellulata, 5R and 5RS of S. cereale and 5R ^m and 5R ^mS of S. montanum. Although the control of ME is polygenic, there is a major effect of genes located on the short arms of homoeologous group 5 chromosomes.     

Occlusion in 47,XXY (Klinefelter syndrome) men.

Occlusal morphology of permanent dentitions in 29 men with a 47,XXY chromosome complement (Klinefelter syndrome) was determined from dental casts. The results showed that a relatively frequent occlusal anomaly was mesial molar occlusion. Incisal open bite was also more common than in controls. Based on the present and previous observations of occlusal anomalies in various sex chromosome anomaly groups and normal controls, it is suggested that the presence of the Y chromosome in the genome is at least as important as the X chromosome for the development of harmonious occlusal morphology. The tendency towards sexual dimorphism in occlusal phenotype might result from a differential effect of the X and Y chromosomes on cellular activity which leads to different growth patterns.     

Organization and chromosomal localization ofβ-tubulin genes inLeishmania donovani

The genomic organization and chromosomal location of theβ-tubulin isogenes inLeishmania donovani promastigotes has been studied by nucleic acid hybridization techniques using a cloned β-tubulin gene. We have cloned aβ-tubulin gene fragment, 3.3 kbp long, from genomic DNA ofLeishmania donovani using a heterologousβ-tubulin DNA as probe. Restriction maps of this clone have been prepared. It has been estimated that there are approximately 11–15 copies of theβ-tubulin genes per haploid genome. The majority of these isogenes are arranged in a tandem repeat with a length of 3.5 kbp on a single chromosome. In addition a few dispersed gene copies at different chromosomal loci were detected by pulse field gradient gel electrophoresis. Part of the internal coding region of the gene has been sequenced to confirm the identity of theβ-tubulin clone and is found to be nearly identical to that ofLeishmania mexicana amazonensis.