阿尔巴斯白绒山羊KAP6家族cDNA的特征分析

在构建内蒙古阿尔巴斯白绒山羊次级毛囊兴盛期皮肤组织cDNA文库的基础上,随机挑取636个克隆从5’端开始测序,对序列进行特征分析。分析结果表明有41个ESTs与绵羊KAP6-1基因同源性大于95％,且期望值小于1e-10,进一步分析可被分为6个Qusters。从每个Cluster中挑取一个全长cDNA序列,其核苷酸序列和预测编码的蛋白质序列表明AY310753与绵羊KAP6-1最为相似、AY310750差别最大,AY310751和AY310752在编码区分别缺少36个的核苷酸或12个的氨基酸。     

盐生杜氏藻(Dunaliella salina)cDNA文库构建及功能基因筛选

采用Qiagen公司的植物总RNA提取技术、Clontech公司的CreatorTM技术平台以及SMARTTM技术进行cDNA文库构建.从杜氏藻中提取出了高质量的总RNA,通过PowerScript反转录酶反转录杜氏藻的总RNA,采用LD-PCR、酶处理等方法对cDNA进行等比例扩增、纯化,同时使用CHROMA SPIN-400柱子将cDNA分段化,最后将长片段连入pDNR-LIB质粒,1.5 kV,25 μ F电转化大肠杆菌JM109,得到含1.5×106个克隆子的原始文库,滴度为1.5×106cfu ml-1.结合酶切和PCR,对该文库的质量进行了鉴定和统计,文库的平均片段插入长度为1.5kb.采用烯醇酶和UDP葡萄糖脱氢酶的EST作为同源探针,对文库中的功能基因进行筛选,并采用放射性原位杂交法,对扩增文库进行了初筛和复筛,得到了含这两条基因全编码序列的cDNA,烯醇酶为1.8kb,UDP葡萄糖脱氢酶为1.9kb,为今后对该种进行大规模功能基因组学研究奠定基础.     

Design of selective substrates of proteinase 3 using combinatorial chemistry methods

In this study, chemical synthesis of the selective chromogenic/fluorogenic substrates for proteinase 3 is described. The substrates’ sequence was obtained using combinatorial chemistry methods. Deconvolution of the tripeptide library against proteinase 3 with general formula ABZ-X₃-X₂-X₁-ANB-NH₂ yielded the active sequence. Selected peptide was further modified on its C terminus to investigate the impact of chromophore moiety modification on enzyme-substrate interaction. To determine specificity, activity of selected substrates was characterized against proteinase 3 and neutrophil elastase. Finally, the peptide ABZ-Tyr-Tyr-Abu-ANB-NH₂ displayed the highest value of specificity constant (k_cat/K_M = 189 × 10³ M⁻¹ s⁻¹) for proteinase 3. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first short peptide that undergoes selective proteolysis by proteinase 3 and displays no significant hydrolysis in the presence of human neutrophil elastase and cathepsin G.     

Identification of a novel 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase from the soil metagenome

4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) is a Fe(II)-dependent, non-heme oxygenase that converts 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate to homogentisate. Essential cofactors, such as plastoquinone and tocopherol, are produced by HPPD-dependent anabolic pathways in plants. To isolate a novel hppd using culture-independent method, a cosmid metagenomic library was constructed from soil in Korea. Screening of Escherichia coli metagenomic libraries led to the identification of a positive clone, YS103B, producing dark brown pigment in Luria-Bertani medium supplemented with l-tyrosine. In vitro transposon mutagenesis of YS103B showed that the 1.3 kb insert was sufficient to produce the hemolytic brown pigment. Sequence analysis of YS103B disclosed one open reading frame encoding a 41.4 kDa protein with the well-conserved prokaryotic oxygenase motif of the HPPD family of enzymes. The HPPD-specific β-triketone herbicide, sulcotrione, inhibited YS103B pigmentation. The recombinant protein expressed in E. coli generated homogentisic acid. Thus, we present the successful heterologous expression of a previously uncharacterized hppd gene from an uncultured soil bacterium.     

家蝇cDNA文库的构建

自Ｂｏｍａｎ小组 (Ｓｔｅｉｎｅｒ ,1981)从惜古比天蚕(Ｈｙａｌｏｐｈｏｒａｃｅｃｒｏｐｉａ)中分离、纯化出第一种抗菌肽天蚕素以来 ,人们已在昆虫和其他无脊椎动物中发现了 170多种抗菌肽 (Ｌｏｗｅｎｂｅｒｇｅｒｅｔａｌ ,1999)。目前 ,人们不仅搞清楚了多数抗菌肽的氨基酸序列、结构和功能特点 ,而且还对一些抗菌肽的基因进行了克隆 (陈留存和王金星 ,1999)。我们以家蝇为材料 ,分离、纯化出了抗菌肽 ,在此基础上 ,构建了经过诱导的家蝇ｃＤＮＡ文库 ,以克隆其基因。1　材料和方法1 1　实验材料家蝇 (Ｍｕｓｃａｄｏｍｅｓｔｉｃａ)…     

Microcloning of maize chromosome 9 by using a flow-sorting technique

We constructed a chromosome 9 lambda DNA library from flow-sorted maize chromosomes. Approximately 3 million maize chromosome 9 were collected with high purity by flow cytometric sorting of chromosomes isolated from an oat-maize chromosome 9 addition line based on the cytogram of fluorescent pulse area versus fluorescent pulse width. Chromosome 9 DNA was partially digested withBamH I, dephosphorylated, and ligated with arms ofBamH I-digested lambda DASH vector (Stratagene). A total of 2.0×10⁶ independent recombinants with an average insert size of 15 kb were obtained. For a 99% probability that every sequence of chromosome 9 is represented in at least one chimeric phage, 5.6×10⁴ cloned fragments are needed. This library covers the entire maize chromosome 9. Hybridizing cloned fragments with labeled maize genomic DNA showed that the high, middle, or low copy number DNA sequences presented in the different phage clones. This individual chromosome library is useful in plant genome mapping and gene isolation.     

盐地碱蓬GST基因的克隆、序列分析及其表达特征

从盐地碱蓬 (Suaedasalsa)幼苗的cDNA文库中克隆到一个 0 .9kb的全长cDNA ,同源性分析表明该全长cDNA与已报告的大豆 (Glycinemax)GST基因相应序列的同源性达 5 5 % ,可能编码由 2 35个氨基酸组成的谷胱甘肽转移酶 (glutathioneS transferase ,GST)。Southern杂交结果证明GST基因在碱蓬基因组中可能有至少两个以上的拷贝 ;Northern杂交结果表明 ,4 0 0mmol/L的NaCl处理 4 8h ,幼叶中GSTmRNA的表达量是对照的 2～ 3倍 ,说明碱蓬中GST基因受盐诱导     

香菇顺式调控元件的克隆及其序列分析*

应用顺式调控元件探测载体G221构建了一个香菇Lentinula edodes基因组文库。G221为大肠杆菌-酿酒酵母穿梭载体,含有一个由酵母Cyc1基因基本启动子控制的lacZ标记基因,能以转录增强活性筛选香菇DNA片段。用这个基因组文库转化酵母菌,获得了一批lacZ阳性转化子。对其中表达较强的阳性转化子进行质粒抽提和双酶切鉴定,筛选到50个香菇顺式调控元件DNA片段。对其中部分片段进行了测序,并对其中一个序列进行了序列分析,鉴别了该序列上的几个与转录相关的特征序列。该研究也探讨了利用酵母表达系统克隆香菇顺式调控元件的可行性。