苏芸金杆菌浓缩液的保存和不用二甲苯的防腐剂配方

在苏芸金杆菌浓缩商品制剂中,通常含有3—4％的二甲苯以防止芽孢的萌发。除此以外,二甲苯还能防止各种腐生微生物污染,尤其是肠杆菌和真菌。最近,一种用苏芸金杆菌血清型H3a3b制备的称为Futufa的超浓缩液已经问世,其中不含二甲苯,用于防治枞色卷蛾(属鳞     

保藏菌种的先进方法

目前保藏细菌的常用方法有:①根据不同菌种低温保藏,隔双周或隔月移种传代,②在很低的温度下。使微生物细胞快速冻结且保持完整,然后在真空下使水分升华达到干燥,即冻干保存。前种操作简     

用棉籽饼代替花生饼做幼猪蛋白饲料

导言与花生饼相比,棉子饼的总氮含量略低一些,但其蛋白质中的几种主要的必需氨基酸如赖氨酸、蛋氨酸和胱氨酸含量却很高。对于非反刍动物来说,棉子饼应当是理想的蛋白饲料。然而,由于棉子饼中含有棉酚,这是一种有毒的天然多酚物质,因而妨障了它在猪、家禽和兔子饲料中的随意使用。其中,猪对棉酚的毒性尤为敏感。猪食用棉子饼后会导致厌食、呼吸困难、体虚消瘦等症状。人们一直在寻找根除或减少棉饼用于非反刍动物饲料中所导致的棉酚中毒现象,他们分别用不同量的蛋白质、不同质量的蛋白质、含铁添加剂,以及用含微量棉酚的无腺棉子饼等做饲料进行试验,取得了不同程度的进展。在尼日利亚,尽管棉子饼产量很高,由于缺乏信息,故未对其用于猪饲料予以注意。本研究报告确立了棉子饼与花生饼相比,用于断奶后幼猪饲料中的有关参数。     

癌基因产物的第一张肖象

以California大学Berkeley分校Sung-Hou Kim研究组为主发表的文章,被视作为癌基因作用研究上的一个里程碑。Kim及其同事报道了有关ras癌基因家族中的一个成员所编码的一种蛋白质的三维结构。“这是第一个被确定了结构的癌基因蛋白质”,Kim说,“由此提供了认识ras基因生物功能的结构基础”。     

用三种不同方法生产的BT(库斯塔克变种)制剂及其对家蚕的毒力

一前言在微生物杀虫剂中,苏芸金杆菌是最成功的商品制剂。活孢子和足量的σ-內毒素是该产品主要的毒素成分。众所周知,产品的毒力是根据菌株(不同菌株及同一菌株的不同株系)、培养基和生长条件的不同而异(Dulmage and Rhodes,1971)。但是,使用相同菌株在体外和体内条件下的培养物所进行的毒性比较尚未见报道。最近,我们用苏芸金杆菌(简称     

Rapid determination of vapA/vapB genotype in Rhodococcus equi using a differential polymerase chain reaction method

Rhodococcus equi is a facultative pathogen of foals. Infection causes an often fatal pulmonary pneumonia. The organism has also been isolated from pigs, cattle, humans and the environment. Equine virulence has a high positive correlation with the expression of a 17.4 kD polypeptide of unknown function, VapA, the product of the plasmid-encoded vapA gene. More recently an isogene of vapA, referred to as vapB and encoding an 18.2 kDa polypeptide, has been identified among pig and human isolates. The two genes share > 80% sequence identity, yet their host strains apparently exhibit different pathogenicity profiles (for example by reference to virulence in mouse model system and host specificity). In this study, a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique was developed that permits the selective amplification of vapA and vapB. Using this technique the distribution of the two genes among 35 randomly selected isolates of Rhodococcus equi from various animal and environmental sources was determined. Using this technique the genotype of each isolate could be unambiguously assigned as vapA+, vapB+ or vap- (i.e., scoring negative for both vapA and vapB). No isolate scored positive for both vapA and vapB. 100% of equine isolates scored vapA+, confirming the status of vapA as a reliable marker of equine virulence. All three genotypes were found among human isolates; porcine isolates scored either vapB+ or vap- and no vapA+ isolates were present in this sample. Rigorous statistical analysis using the Fisher Exact test confirmed that the high frequency of vapA+ among equine isolates is significant; however the sample size was too small to draw statistically significant conclusions regarding the distribution of genotypes among within other animal groups.