基于简化基因组测序揭示水角的濒危机制

物种的遗传多样性是决定物种适应性和生存能力的关键因素。生境片段化是造成生物多样性丧失的重要因素之一,对植物种群的遗传多样性有着重要影响。水角(Hydrocera triflora)作为一种濒危植物,其遗传多样性状况和濒危机制尚未有报道。该文收集了水角7个种群共计34个样本,利用简化基因组测序技术(RAD-seq)获得了单核苷酸变异位点(SNP)。通过种群遗传多样性和遗传结构的分析,并结合种群历史动态分析和不同气候情景下物种潜在分布区预测,探讨了水角的濒危机制。结果表明:(1)水角遗传多样性较低(H_o=0.156 9、H_e=0.165 4、π=0.186 5),遗传分化系数较高; AMOVA分析表明,遗传变异主要发生在种群内。(2)Mantel检测表明环境距离与遗传距离、地理距离均呈显著正相关,分别为P=0.041 2和P=0.008 2。(3)水角的有效种群大小从全新世中期开始持续下降,与琼北火山群的喷发时间一致。(4)与当代气候相比,虽然在未来气候变化下水角的潜在分布区总面积变动不大,但在高CO₂排放的情景下,大量的高适生区将会丧失并转化为低适生区,特别是位于马来群岛的适生区几乎完全消失。该研究结果表明,生境片段化导致了水角较低的遗传多样性和有效种群大小的持续下降。因此,自身更新能力低以及人为活动干扰、城市化等不利的环境条件是导致其濒危的主要原因。建议加强对水角的就地保护,采用人工授粉等方法提高其基因流以增加其种群的遗传多样性,同时,要着重保护湿地免遭破坏。     

Hybridomas in a bioreactor cascade: modeling and determination of growth and death kinetics

Hybridomas were cultured under steady-state conditions in a series of two continuous stirred-tank reactors (CSTRs), using a serum-free medium. The substrate not completely converted in the first CSTR, was transported with the cells to the second one and very low growth rates, high death rates, and lysis of viable cells were observed in this second CSTR. These conditions are hardly accessible in a single vessel, because such experiments would be extremely time-consuming and unstable due to a low viability. In contrast to what is often observed in literature, kinetic parameters could thus be derived without the neccessity for extrapolation to lower growth rates. Good agreement with literature averages for other hybridomas was found. Furthermore, showing that the reactor series is a valuable research tool for kinetic studies under extreme conditions, the possibility to observe cell death under stable and defined steady-state conditions offers interesting opportunities to investigate apoptosis and necrosis. Additionally, a model was developed that describes hybridoma growth and monoclonal antibody production in the bioreactor cascade on the basis of glutamine metabolism. Good agreement between the model and the experiments was found.Abbreviation MAb Monoclonal antibody Nomenclature C _AConcentration of any (mol m^-3) component A D Dilution rate (s^-1) K _dDeath-rate constant (mol m^-3) K _lLysis-rate constant (mol m^-3) K _sMonod constant (mol m^-3) m Maintenance coefficient (mol cell^-1 s^-1) q Specific consumption (mol cell^-1 s^-1) or production rate t Time (s) X Cell concentration (cell m^-3) Y Yield coefficient (cell mol^-1) Greek symbols _d Specific death rate (s^-1) _l Specific lysis rate (s^-1) of viable cells _net Net specific growth (s^-1) rate _true True specific growth (s^-1) rate     

基于转录组测序分析甜菜夜蛾卵巢细胞离体培养成系进程

【目的】本研究旨在分析甜菜夜蛾Spodoptera exigua蛹卵巢细胞建立细胞系的整个过程,探究细胞由体内到体外培养过程中其基因表达在转录水平的变化,为昆虫体外培养模型的建立提供理论基础。【方法】利用Illumina Hiseq测序平台对甜菜夜蛾蛹卵巢细胞离体培养过程中各阶段的细胞分别进行转录组测序,对获得注释的差异表达基因及其相关信号通路进行分析;通过荧光定量PCR对部分细胞周期相关基因(cycd和cdk4)、调控基因(cdc20,apc1,skp2和mad1)、增殖相关分子标志物(mcm4和pcna)在甜菜夜蛾卵巢细胞离体培养过程中的转录进行验证。【结果】甜菜夜蛾蛹卵巢细胞离体培养过程包括5个阶段:解剖获得离体的卵巢组织,卵巢组织贴壁培养后游离出原代细胞,细胞转化重新具备增殖能力,成功首次传代,以及能够连续传代15代以上建立细胞系。上述5个阶段的细胞经转录组测序、数据组装后共获得46 796条unigenes序列,组装得到序列长度完整性好;转录本unigenes序列拼接长度分布合理,样本碱基Q30均在94%以上。通过KEGG数据库获得注释的unigenes有1 473条,参与细胞过程紧密相关的20条信号通路,其中有92条unigenes在细胞周期信号通路中获得注释。聚类分析表明,在体内处于快速发育状态的卵巢细胞与同样处于增殖状态的细胞系基因表达模式非常接近。原代细胞由短暂停滞生长至成簇细胞的转化关键期,筛选到差异表达基因619个,cdk4在离体培养期表达量显著降低,cycd在细胞转化关键期之后表达量显著升高,cdc20,apc1,skp2和mad1在卵巢组织和细胞系的表达量显著高于原代细胞、转化关键期细胞和首次传代细胞的。从原代细胞至传代后,cycd的表达显著升高8.7倍,显著高于mcm4和pcna的变化水平。【结论】甜菜夜蛾卵巢细胞离体培养过程中5个阶段的细胞转录组测序获得的序列质量符合数据分析的基本要求。筛选获得了甜菜夜蛾蛹卵巢细胞经离体培养过程中的差异表达基因。原代细胞逆转增殖可能与cdk4,cycd,skp2和mad1等细胞周期调控基因表达有关。另外,cycd可作为原代细胞具备传代能力的标志物。     

宏基因组学二代测序技术在感染性呼吸系统疾病病原体诊断中的应用进展

呼吸系统感染发病率高,早期明确感染的病原体是提高治愈率、降低死亡率的关键.目前病原体培养仍是临床病原学诊断的主要方式,但其敏感性低、耗时较长,不利于早期诊断和治疗.宏基因组学测序技术具有覆盖病原体广泛、快速、无偏倚、无需特异性扩增的优势,在鉴定罕见、混合感染、免疫抑制患者感染和常规检测方法难以检测到病原体的诊断中有较高...     

Same but different–Scale up and numbering up in electrobiotechnology and photobiotechnology

Facing energy problems, there is a strong demand for new technologies dealing with the replacement of fossil fuels. The emerging fields of biotechnology, photobiotechnology and electrobiotechnology, offer solutions for the production of fuels, energy, or chemicals using renewable energy sources (light or electrical current e.g. produced by wind or solar power) or organic (waste) substrates. From an engineering point of view both technologies have analogies and some similar challenges, since both light and electron transfer are primarily surface‐dependent. In contrast to that, bioproduction processes are typically volume dependent. To allow large scale and industrially relevant applications of photobiotechnology and electrobiotechnology, this opinion first gives an overview over the current scales reached in these areas. We then try to point out the challenges and possible methods for the scale up or numbering up of the reactors used. It is shown that the field of photobiotechnology is by now much more advanced than electrobiotechnology and has achieved industrial applications in some cases. We argue that transferring knowledge from photobiotechnology to electrobiotechnology can speed up the development of the emerging field of electrobiotechnology. We believe that a combination of scale up and numbering up, as it has been shown for several photobiotechnological reactors, may well lead to industrially relevant scales in electrobiotechnological processes allowing an industrial application of the technology in near future.     

Development of genome-wide insertion and deletion markers for maize,based on next-generation sequencing data

Background

Insertions and deletions (indels) are the most abundant form of structural variation in all genomes. Indels have been increasingly recognized as an important source of molecular markers due to high-density occurrence, cost-effectiveness, and ease of genotyping. Coupled with developments in bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms enable the discovery of millions of indel polymorphisms by comparing the whole genome sequences of individuals within a species.

Results

A total of 1,973,746 unique indels were identified in 345 maize genomes, with an overall density of 958.79 indels/Mbp, and an average allele number of 2.76, ranging from 2 to 107. There were 264,214 indels with polymorphism information content (PIC) values greater than or equal to 0.5, accounting for 13.39 % of overall indels. Of these highly polymorphic indels, we designed primer pairs for 83,481 and 29,403 indels with major allele differences (i.e. the size difference between the most and second most frequent alleles) greater than or equal to 3 and 8 bp, respectively, based on the differing resolution capabilities of gel electrophoresis. The accuracy of our indel markers was experimentally validated, and among 100 indel markers, average accuracy was approximately 90 %. In addition, we also validated the polymorphism of the indel markers. Of 100 highly polymorphic indel markers, all had polymorphisms with average PIC values of 0.54.

Conclusions

The maize genome is rich in indel polymorphisms. Intriguingly, the level of polymorphism in genic regions of the maize genome was higher than that in intergenic regions. The polymorphic indel markers developed from this study may enhance the efficiency of genetic research and marker-assisted breeding in maize.

Electronic supplementary material

The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1797-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

Carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism during batch culture of a human lymphoblastoid cell line,BTSN6

This work presents data on the carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism of a lymphoblastoid cell line producing an IgG1 antibody. In static culture, it was observed that lactate levels were significantly lowered when the cells were cultured on galactose as a carbon source. The use of carbohydrate substitution may be useful in lowering lactate levels, if it is established that this component is toxic to the cells. In addition, carbohydrate substitution may be used to modify glycosylation patterns and hence pharmacokinetic properties of glycoproteins.The amino acids glutamine and tryptophan were shown to be limiting in batch culture on this medium (DR, a 1:1 mixture of DMEM and RPMI, with 4mM glutamine). Amino acids produced included alanine, proline and glutamate. Serine was consumed to exhaustion, which was followed by a depletion of extracellular glycine. Amino acid metabolism, specific antibody productivity and specific growth rate were shown to be functions of the inoculation density in stirred flask culture. The results have implications for the design of media for both low and high density antibody manufacture by these cell lines.     

Protist Biodiversity and Biogeography in Lakes From Four Brazilian River–Floodplain Systems

The biodiversity and biogeography of protists inhabiting many ecosystems have been intensely studied using different sequencing approaches, but tropical ecosystems are relatively under‐studied. Here, we sampled planktonic waters from 32 lakes associated with four different river–floodplains systems in Brazil, and sequenced the DNA using a metabarcoding approach with general eukaryotic primers. The lakes were dominated by the largely free‐living Discoba (mostly the Euglenida), Ciliophora, and Ochrophyta. There was low community similarity between lakes even within the same river–floodplain. The protists inhabiting these floodplain systems comprise part of the large and relatively undiscovered diversity in the tropics.