水稻野败型细胞质雄性不育系和其保持系蛋白质多肽的比较研究

应用单向SDS—PAGE结合蛋白质铬银染色技术对水稻野败型细胞质雄性不育系珍汕97A和其保持系的叶绿体、线粒体和细胞质的蛋白质多肽进行了比较研究,发现两系之间存在明显的差异,生殖器官(穗子)上的差异比营养器官(叶片)上的差异更为显著。在成熟穗上,叶绿体可溶性蛋白不育系有25条带,保持系仅16条带,两者间有19个多肽不同;线粒体可溶性蛋白不育系有28条带,保持系比不育系少30.1和21.8KD两个多肽;细胞质可溶性蛋白丙酮沉淀物的水溶性蛋白组分不育系有24条带,保持系为29条带,两系间却有7条多肽存在差别;细胞质可溶性蛋白丙酮沉淀物的SDS-增溶性蛋白组分不育系有18条带,保持系只有11条带,两者间亦有7条多肽出现差异。由此可以看出,水稻野败型CMS表型的表达可能需要较多个基因的启动和关闭,既与叶绿体和线粒体有关,还涉及到核基因组的作用。     

Somatic hybridization between male sterile Nicotiana tabacum and N. glutinosa through protoplast fusion

Summary Protoplasts derived from suspension cultured cells of cytoplasmic male sterile Nicotiana tabacum (N. debneyi cytoplasm) and of fertile N. glutinosa were fused with the aid of polyethylene glycol (PEG). Out of 1,089 colonies developed from PEG-treated protoplasts, 29 restored whole plants.A somatic hybrid plant was selected on the basis of isoelectrofocusing analysis of Fraction I protein in leaves of regenerated plants. A newly created hybrid contained small subunits of both parents but only a N. glutinosa type large subunit.Male sterile character was conserved in a hybrid plant while leaf morphology was intermediate between the parents. By tobacco mosaic virus infection tests, the hybrid's leaves showed resistant symptoms, hypersensitive local lesions, which were due to N. glutinosa nuclear genome expression.Abbreviations PEG Polyethylene glycol - TMV Tobacco mosaic virus     

A method for subgrouping the S-type of CMS forms in maize

Summary Simple correlations were calculated between nine different cms sources (cms-S, -R, -ML, -L, -CA, -EK, -C, -Rb, -T) on the basis of the weighted restoring reactions of 41 inbred lines. The Principal Component Analysis was applied to a 9 × 9 matrix which clearly grouped cytoplasms according to their similarities. The Principal Component I included S, R, ML, L, CA and EK cytoplasms; the Principal Component II contained C and Rb cytoplasms while T-cytoplasms was placed in Principal Component III. This corresponds to the main groupings indicated in the literature (Beckett 1971). However, after varimax rotation of the Principal Components, the S main group, including the 6 tested cytoplasms, fell into 3 subgroups: I.: S, R, ML; II.: L, CA; III.: EK.These data indicate that the Principal Component Analysis can be used to select a limited number of cms sources from the S group, representing the variability of the cytoplasmic gene pool of that group.     

Differences between genetic and physical centromere distances in the case of two genes for male sterility in barley

Summary Linkage studies with thirty translocations (one of the two chromosomes involved being number 4) in relation to msg24 (chromosome 4) and thirteen translocations (one of the two chromosomes involved being number 6) in relation to msg6 (chromosome 6) show without exception close linkage for all combinations tested. The results indicate that both genes are located genetically in or close to the centromere regions of their chromosomes.Cytological analysis of two BTT stocks (balanced tertiary trisomics) ascertained the respective chromosome arms (both msg24 and msg6 on the short arms) and revealed marked differences between genetic and physical centromere distances. The reason is obviously the high content of centromeric heterochromatin occupying both the chromosome arms involved.     

Amino acids in anthers of Milo and in cytoplasmic genetic male sterile sorghums (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) of Indian origin

Summary Amino acid composition of proteins from anthers of milo and Indian origin male steriles were determined. Comparison of amino acid between A and B lines showed lower contents of histidine, threonine, glutamic acid, glycine, leucine and phenylalanine and higher contents of alanine, serine, proline and tyrosine in line A compared to line B. Alanine content in anthers of A lines was more than two fold higher than that in the anthers from B lines. Marked differences in amino acid composition of anthers of A and B lines are suggestive of their involvement in male sterility. Cytoplasmic male steriles of Indian origin M35-1A and M31-2A showed greater similarity but differed from milo, VZM2A and B.     

Mitochondrial gene expression and cytoplasmic male sterility in sorghum

Variation in sorghum mitochondrial translation products has enabled fertile (Kafir) cytoplasm to be distinguished from Milo cytoplasmic male sterile cytoplasm and from three alternative sources of cytoplasmic male sterile cytoplasm. Mitochondria from Milo cytoplasm synthesised a 65 000 mol. wt. polypeptide which was not synthesised by those from Kafir cytoplasm. In the cytoplasmic male sterile combination of Kafir nucleus in Milo cytoplasm synthesis of this polypeptide was dramatically increased. Mitochondria from two cytoplasmic male sterile lines (Kafir nucleus in IS1112 cytoplasm and Yellow Feterita nucleus in M35-1 cytoplasm) did not synthesise the 65 000 mol. wt. polypeptide but synthesised additional high molecular weight polypeptides (from 54 000 to 82 000 mol. wt.), the major one being 82 000. Mitochondria from cytoplasm IS1112 were also distinguished by synthesis of an additional 12 000 mol. wt. polypeptide. Mitochondria from the cytoplasmic male sterile line Martin nucleus in 9E cytoplasm synthesised an additional 42 000 mol. wt. polypeptide but did not synthesise a 38 000 mol. wt. polypeptide detected in all other cytoplasms. Immunoprecipitation of mitochondrial translation products with antiserum raised against subunit I of yeast cytochrome oxidase tentatively identified the 38 000 mol. wt. polypeptide as subunit I of sorghum cytochrome oxidase. The 42 000 mol. wt. polypeptide was also immuno-precipitated by this antiserum and thus is probably an altered form of cytochrome oxidase subunit I.Analysis of native mitochondrial DNA by agarose gel electrophoresis revealed the presence of two plasmid-like DNA species of molecular weight 5.3 and 5.7 kb in the cytoplasmic male sterile lines Kafir nucleus in cytoplasm IS1112 and Yellow Feterita nucleus in M35-1 cytoplasm. Thus there is a positive correlation between the synthesis of the 82 000 mol. wt. polypeptide and the presence of the additional DNA species.     

Yeast mitochondrial and cytoplasmic valyl-tRNA synthetases

Yeast mitochondrial tRNA synthetase has been partially purified and chromatographic, catalytic and antigenic properties have been compared to the cytoplasmic homologous enzyme from yeast. No significant differences could be observed between the two enzymes with respect to their behaviour during ammonium sulfate precipitation or in chromatographic separation on DEAE cellulose, hydroxylapatite and Sephadex G 200. The Km of the two enzymes toward tRNAs from yeast mitochondria, yeast cytoplasm or E. coli are pratically identical. The antigenic properties of the two enzymes are very similar; antisera against either the mitochondria or the cytoplasmic enzyme lead to the inhibition of their catalytic properties. The mitochondrial ValRS is formed by a single polypeptide chain whose molecular weight is 125,000 daltons, a value very close to that of the yeast cytoplasmic enzyme.     

About a transmissible influence through several generations in a clone of the rotifer notommata copeus EHR

Over ten years, the individuals of an orthoclone of Notommata copeus gradually lost their sensitivity to photoperiod. This loss is transmissible but reversible in three generations. It is endogenous but not chromosomal. The hypothesis is forwarded that it is induced by external factors, and quite possibly crowding.     

An ecological study of the rare rotifer species Trochosphaera solstitialis (Thorpe 1893) and the first report of the male

An ecological study of the rotifer species Trochosphaera solstitialis (Thorpe, 1893) was conducted for a period of eight months in a temporary pond in eastern Texas, U.S.A. The pond was found to be environmentally stressed and contained large amounts of decomposing vegetation. Physico-chemical factors contributing to the stressed conditions were low dissolved oxygen concentrations, low pH values, high ammonia concentrations, and high color values caused by large concentrations of iron, tannin and lignin. Large concentrations of iron, tannin, and lignin seem to be highly correlated with T. solstitialis populations. Physicochemical conditions probably eliminated predators of the rotifer, such as fish. Males of T. solstitialis were observed which never left the body cavity of the female. Males probably do not feed with an apparent rudimentary digestive system.     

Biochemical differences between cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase allozymes of Drosophila virilis

Two allozymes (MDH^f and MDH^s) of cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase of Drosophila virilis were partially purified and their biochemical properties were compared. MDH^f has a pH optimum of 9.75 and MDH^s one of 9.25 for malate oxidation. Optimal pH for oxaloacetate reduction is 6.75 and 8.0 for MDH^f and MDH^s, respectively. The K_m value for oxaloacetate of MDH^s is approximately twice as that of MDH^f. No differences were found with respect to thermostability and K_m's for malate, NAD⁺, or NADH. These results are discussed in terms of the physiological role of cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenase of D. virilis.This work was supported in part by grants from the Ministry of Education, Japan, Nos. 134050 and 154205.