Asia 1型口蹄疫病毒抗原表位突变株的构建及其生物学特性分析

为了研制口蹄疫抗原表位突变标记疫苗,本研究以含有Asia 1型口蹄疫病毒(FMDV)c DNA全长的感染性克隆p Asia 1-FMDV作为骨架,将3D蛋白中第27位氨基酸的H和31位的氨基酸N分别突变成Y和R,从而突变3D蛋白的一个抗原表位,将构建的带有突变表位的重组质粒转染BHK-21细胞,成功拯救出一株突变FMDV。经比较后发现,重组病毒的生物学特性与亲本毒株相似。病毒中和试验结果显示,抗重组病毒的血清与亲本病毒有良好的反应性。Western blotting结果表明重组病毒诱导的抗体能与突变的表位合成肽反应而不与野生型病毒的表位合成肽发生反应,从而区分重组病毒与亲本病毒。综上所述,这株抗原表位突变FMDV有望作为口蹄疫标记疫苗候株进一步评估。     

Effects of weed density on the dispersal of Orius majusculus Reuter (Heteroptera Anthocoridae) within maize

Orius majusculus Reuter (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) is the most common and abundant generalist predator in Spanish maize crops and is sensitive to drastic changes in weed density. We carried out a 2‐year study in the NE Iberian Peninsula to examine the dispersal of O. majusculus in maize plots with moderately high and low weed density. Insects were collected using yellow sticky traps and/or a bug‐vac aspirator. Dispersal was assessed using rubidium as a marker. Dispersal rate of O. majusculus differed between sampling periods, with a maximum between the 16 unfolded leaves (V16) to grain milky (R3) maize growth stages. However, we detected no differences in the distance moved by male and females of O. majusculus from rubidium‐marked areas in plots with moderately high or low weed density suggesting that changes in weed density do not affect the dispersal of O. majusculus within a maize field.     

Genomic regions underlying agronomic traits in linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) as revealed by association mapping OA简

The extreme climate of the Canadian Prairies poses a major challenge to improve yield. Although it is possible to breed for yield per se, focusing on yield‐related traits could be advantageous because of their simpler genetic architecture. The Canadian flax core collection of 390 accessions was genotyped with 464 simple sequence repeat markers, and phenotypic data for nine agronomic traits including yield, bolls per area, 1,000 seed weight, seeds per boll, start of flowering, end of flowering, plant height, plant branching, and lodging collected from up to eight environments was used for association mapping. Based on a mixed model (principal component analysis (PCA) + kinship matrix (K)), 12 significant marker‐trait associations for six agronomic traits were identified. Most of the associations were stable across environments as revealed by multivariate analyses. Statistical simulation for five markers associated with 1000 seed weight indicated that the favorable alleles have additive effects. None of the modern cultivars carried the five favorable alleles and the maximum number of four observed in any accessions was mostly in breeding lines. Our results confirmed the complex genetic architecture of yield‐related traits and the inherent difficulties associated with their identification while illustrating the potential for improvement through marker‐assisted selection.     

细胞角蛋白20 在膀胱癌中的研究进展

膀胱肿瘤是最常见的泌尿系统肿瘤,其中上皮性肿瘤占95%以上,绝大多数为尿路移行上皮细胞癌。膀胱癌的早期症状不 明显,复发率较高,早期诊断和治疗对提高其疗效非常重要。近年来,诊断膀胱肿瘤的新方法不断出现,显著提高了膀胱肿瘤诊断 及预后预测水平。其中,膀胱肿瘤标记物检测已成为膀胱肿瘤的诊断新方法,具有十分重要的临床意义。研究发现,细胞角蛋白20 (cytokeratin 20,CK20)是中间纤维家族成员之一,在正常膀胱组织中特异性表达于伞细胞,在膀胱癌中特异性表达于膀胱移行细 胞癌,其诊断膀胱肿瘤的特异性和灵敏性均较高,且与膀胱肿瘤的临床分级、病理分期和转移均密切相关,因此可作为辅助诊断 膀胱肿瘤的检测标志物及治疗和预后评估指标。本文将就其在膀胱癌中的研究进展综述如下。     

三个方便实用的植物表达载体构建与验证

为满足植物功能基因组学研究及转基因安全性需要,本研究根据一些国内外引进或商业化的植物表达载体及其相关元件,构建了3个适合于植物,尤其是单子叶植物转化的表达载体,即p AH006、p WMB022和p WMB025。p AH006载体包含由玉米泛素ubi启动子调控的GUS基因和bar基因的完整T-DNA区域,此区段能够被酶切回收,可用于单子叶植物农杆菌介导转化效率评价及基因枪介导线状DNA转化效果研究;p WMB022载体携带由双35S启动子调控的玉米色素基因Lc和C1,可用作基因枪介导的共转化筛选标记,直观筛选含目标基因转基因材料;p WMB025载体携带由ubi启动子调控的、商业化转基因植物中广泛利用的EPSPS基因,可用于禾谷类作物农杆菌或基因枪介导的遗传转化,载体多克隆位点可通过酶切方式更换目标基因。酶切鉴定结合农杆菌或基因枪介导的小麦幼胚愈伤组织或叶片转化验证此3个载体表明,载体构建正确,其标记基因、可视化基因和报告基因均能正常表达。这3个载体的构建对于小麦等植物转化效率提升、安全型转基因作物获得和植物功能基因组学研究等具有重要意义。     

簇毛麦NBS类R基因相关序列的分子标记开发及其染色体定位

小麦近缘种簇毛麦携带许多尚未克隆的抗病(R)基因。NBS-LRR类型的R基因占已克隆植物R基因的绝大多数,因此,本研究根据NBS-LRR类型R基因的保守序列设计引物,从簇毛麦基因组DNA和cDNA中扩增获得23条相关序列。基于其中5条抗病基因同源序列(RGAs)H-56/d6、H-66/b2和CDS40设计引物,对小麦、簇毛麦、硬-簇双二倍体及其杂种以及已知携带个别簇毛麦染色体或染色体臂的小麦材料进一步进行PCR扩增,结果表明:3对引物均可对簇毛麦、硬-簇双二倍体进行特异扩增;同时,源于序列H-66/b2的引物可对1VL和6VL染色体臂进行特异扩增;源于序列CDS40的引物可在同时携带1VL和2VS或同时携带2VS和4V的小麦材料以及具有6VL的小麦材料中特异扩增,而H-56/d6的引物在携带1VL、2VS、4V和6V染色体臂或染色体的小麦背景中都不能获得目的片段的扩增。这些结果不仅为外源染色体臂在小麦背景中的追踪与鉴定提供了新的分子标记,而且这些标记还与外源染色体或染色体臂上的抗病基因或抗病基因同源物紧密连锁或共分离。     

无饲培养细柄半网菌Hemitrichia calyculata

报道了细柄半网菌在无饲培养条件下的完整生活史过程,描述了孢子萌发、游动胞、黏变形体、原质团及孢囊形成过程中的主要发育特点。结果表明：孢子预处理可以提高萌发率;游动胞鱼形,具有一根较短的鞭毛;黏变形体前缘具有较厚的透明外质,滑动运动方式。原质团属于“发达的中间类型”原质团。     

Enzymatic activities as potential stress biomarkers of two substituted benzene compounds in Propsilocerus akamusi (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Chironomids are a globally distributed family of insects that can serve as biological indicators of environmental pollution. Substituted benzenes are a group of serious environmental pollutants and severely threaten biological and human health. In order to investigate potential stress biomarkers of substituted benzenes, the effects of 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine on superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione S-transferase (GST), carboxylesterase (CarE), acid phosphatase (ACP) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activities of 4th-instar larval Propsilocerus akamusi were investigated. During 48 h exposure to 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine, the larval CAT, SOD, GST and CarE activities responded to 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine in a concentration-and time-dependent way. The ACP and ALP activities of larval P. akamusi responded slowly to 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine, and only the ALP activities were inhibited significantly under the exposure to p-phenylene diamine for 6 and 24 h. These results suggest that CAT, SOD, GST and CarE activities of chironomids can be used as potential stress biomarkers to monitor 4-chlorophenol and p-phenylene diamine pollution.     

Recycling Isolation of Plant DNA,A Novel Method

DNA is one of the most basic and essential genetic materials in the field of molecular biology.To date,isolation of sufficient and good-quality DNA is still a challenge for many plant species,though various DNA extraction methods have been published.In the present paper,a recycling DNA extraction method was proposed.The key step of this method was that a single plant tissue sample was recycled for DNA extraction for up to four times,and correspondingly four DNA precipitations(termed as the 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th DNA sample, respectively) were conducted.This recycling step was integrated into the conventional CTAB DNA extraction method to establish a recycling CTAB method.This modified CTAB method was tested in eight plant species,wheat,sorghum,barley,corn,rice,Brachypodium distachyon,Miscanthus sinensis and tung tree.The results showed that high-yield and good-quality DNA samples could be obtained by using this new method in all the eight plant species.The DNA samples were good templates for PCR amplification of both ISSR and SSR markers.The recycling method can be used in multiple plant species and can be integrated with multiple conventional DNA isolation methods,and thus is an effective and universal DNA isolation method.