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     

转反义LeETR2基因番茄的表型

转反义LeETR2基因番茄植株的表型与普通番茄有所不同。用乙烯25μL／L处理,转基因番茄能够表现出正常的“三重反应”,但根的伸长和根毛形成受到显著抑制。同时,转基因番茄植株对乙烯处理的偏上生长反应敏感度不及普通番茄,叶柄和花柄的脱落被延迟。这几方面的表型特点并不完全一致,我们推测LeETR2在番茄发育的不同阶段可能发挥不同的功能。     

The NFP locus of Medicago truncatula controls an early step of Nod factor signal transduction upstream of a rapid calcium flux and root hair deformation

Establishment of the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis depends on a molecular dialogue, in which rhizobial nodulation (Nod) factors act as symbiotic signals, playing a key role in the control of specificity of infection and nodule formation. Using nodulation-defective (Nod-) mutants of Medicago truncatula to study the mechanisms controlling Nod factor perception and signalling, we have previously identified five genes that control components of a Nod factor-activated signal transduction pathway. Characterisation of a new M. truncatula Nod- mutant led to the identification of the Nod Factor Perception (NFP) locus. The nfp mutant has a novel phenotype among Nod- mutants of M. truncatula, as it does not respond to Nod factors by any of the responses tested. The nfp mutant thus shows no rapid calcium flux, the earliest detectable Nod factor response of wild-type plants, and no root hair deformation. The nfp mutant is also deficient in Nod factor-induced calcium spiking and early nodulin gene expression. While certain genes controlling Nod factor signal transduction also control the establishment of an arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, the nfp mutant shows a wild-type mycorrhizal phenotype. These data indicate that the NFP locus controls an early step of Nod factor signal transduction, upstream of previously identified genes and specific to nodulation.     

白细胞介素-6在酒精性肝病中的作用

酒精性肝病(alcoholic liver disease,ALD)是由于长期过量饮酒导致肝的内部组织发生炎症损伤的慢性肝病.乙醇及其衍生物在代谢过程中直接或间接诱导引起的肝炎症反应可能是ALD发病的重要机制.然而,该过程内在的细胞分子机制尚不明确.最新研究发现,白细胞介素-6(interleukin-6,IL-6)对...     

Autophagy is involved in regulating influenza A virus RNA and protein synthesis associated with both modulation of Hsp90 induction and mTOR/p70S6K signaling pathway

Influenza A virus (IAV) infection triggers autophagosome formation, but inhibits the fusion of autophagosomes with lysosomes. However, the role of autophagy in IAV replication is still largely unclarified. In this study, we aim to reveal the role of autophagy in IAV replication and the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation. By using autophagy-deficient (Atg7^−/−) MEFs, we demonstrated that autophagy deficiency significantly reduced the levels of viral proteins, mRNA and genomic RNAs (vRNAs) without affecting viral entry. We further found that autophagy deficiency lead to a transient increase in phosphorylation of mTOR and its downstream targets including 4E-BP1 and S6 at a very early stage of IAV infection, and markedly suppressed p70S6K phosphorylation at the late stage of IAV infection. Furthermore, autophagy deficiency resulted in impairment of Hsp90 induction in response to IAV infection. These results indicate that IAV regulates autophagy to benefit the accumulation of viral elements (synthesis of viral proteins and genomic RNA) during IAV replication. This regulation is associated with modulation of Hsp90 induction and mTOR/p70S6K signaling pathway. Our results provide important evidence for the role of autophagy in IAV replication and the mechanisms underlying the regulation.     

Hill coefficient-based stochastic switch-like signal directly governs damage-recovery dynamics in freshwater fish in response to pulse copper

Growing evidence demonstrates that fluctuating metal stressors can have profound impact on the ecophysiological responses in aquatic species. However, how environmental stochasticity affects the complex damage-recovery dynamics in organisms remains difficult to predict. The objective of this paper was to investigate the stochastic behavior in the damage-recovery dynamics in tilapia in response to pulse waterborne copper (Cu). We developed a mathematical framework that allows discrimination between damage and recovery processes in tilapia exposed to designed pulse Cu scenarios. We built deterministic nonlinear models for the damage-recovery dynamics that produce response surfaces describing killing/recovery rate–Cu-pulse interval interactions. Here we showed that the stochastic switching behavior arose from competition among killing, recovery rates, and Cu pulse frequency. This competition resulted in an ultrasensitivity appeared in whole body, gills, muscle, liver, and kidney with Hill coefficients of ≥7, 4, 7, 5, and 5, respectively, at Cu 3 mg L⁻¹, dilution rate 0.05 h⁻¹, and pulse interval 72 h, indicating that a stochastic switch-like response was generated. We argue that the role of gill-associated Hill coefficient as a direct signal of the stochastic switch-like response in the damage-recovery dynamics in response to pulse metal stressor can serve as a sensitive indicator for risk detection in fluctuating environments. Our approach constitutes a general method to identify the stochastic switch-like response for aquatic species exposed to fluctuating metal stressors, which may help to predict and, eventually, expand our understanding of the damage-recovery dynamics. Finally, we implicate that Hill coefficient-based switch-like signal and its damage with hazard response can be linked in an information theoretic framework to handle environmental stochasticity.