皂甙研究: 糖链的作用

本文收集了近年来一些有关皂甙的分子结构和生物活性的研究结果，较系统地总结了皂甙中糖链的结构对其生物活性的影响，并提出了糖链在这类物质中的生物学意义的问题。     

铷的生物必需性及人体健康效应

综述了铷的生物必需性及其对人体的健康效应,包括：铷的生物学研究简史,铷的营养必需性,铷的生理功能和生物学作用,人体的铷摄入量。参考文献45篇。     

A review of advances and new developments in the analysis of biological volatile organic compounds

Biological volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are interlinked to biological metabolism and bacterial populations localized on the surfaces of biological samples. The characteristics of biological VOCs at different physiological status or metabolism phases are various, which contain crucial bio-information. In this review, the significance of the study of biological VOCs was introduced, and crucial techniques greatly influencing the investigation were summarized and reviewed including efficient sampling, suitable analytical and bio-information distillation techniques. From the preliminary identification of biological VOC components to the interpretation of biological VOC characteristics is a great improvement in this field, which would provide more abundant bio-information during biological metabolism. Owing to complicated biological VOC compositions, any single sampling or bio-information distillation method could not obtain complete biological VOCs and interpret the biological VOC characteristics, and would result in the loss of effective bio-information. The combination of some suitable sampling and bio-information distillation techniques for the study of biological VOCs and the related bio-information will be a novel trend in the future.     

饮用水生物稳定影响因素、控制指标及测定方法研究进展

饮用水生物稳定性是近年来水处理领域的研究热点。论文对影响饮用水生物稳定性的若干因素进行了探讨,分析比较了生物可同化有机碳(AOC)和生物可降解溶解性有机碳(BDOC)等化学指标作为饮用水生物稳定性控制指标的优缺点,对AOC和BDOC分析测定方法进行了阐述比较,并详细论述了这些分析监测方法的研究进展。论文还探讨了饮用水生物稳定性中磷限制因子的作用。     

Evaluating chemical structure similarity as an indicator of cellular growth inhibition

Chemical variations of small compounds are commonly used to probe biological systems and potentially discover lead-like compounds with selective target activity. Molecular probes are either generated by synthesis or acquired through directed searches of commercially available compound libraries. The data generated when testing the probes in various biological systems constitutes a structure/activity analysis. The ability to detect variations and classify biological responses requires the analysis of a compound in multiple assays. While the concept of a structure/activity relationship is straightforward, its implementation can vary considerably depending on the biological system under study and the probe library selected for testing. The analysis presented here will focus on the accumulated compound library used to screen for growth inhibition across the National Cancer Institute's panel of 60 tumor cells. The considerable chemical and biological diversity inherent in these data offers an opportunity to establish a quantifiable connection between chemical structure and biological activity. We find that the connection between structure and biological response is not symmetric, with biological response better at predicting chemical structure than vice versa. Structurally and functionally similar compounds can have distinguishable biological responses reflecting different mechanisms of action.     

原位冷冻电子断层扫描的发展及在生物研究方面的应用

对生物大分子复合物的研究和结构分析对于全面了解其功能和生物学意义至关重要. 冷冻电子显微镜在提供生物大分子结构及大分子分布等方面起到重要的作用. 近年来, 冷冻电子显微镜的硬件和软件的发展进一步提高了冷冻电子显微镜的有效性, 使其对各种生物结构、 蛋白质结构的解析更加准确快捷. 但是, 对于生物系统来说, 蛋白质和大分子复合物等均处于复杂的生理环境中, 因此原位检测生物分子的三维结构对于生物体系和结构生物学具有重要意义. 冷冻电子断层扫描作为一种功能强大的技术, 可以无需标记直接通过冷冻样品的固有衬度识别生物大分子的结构, 并且可在原位生理环境中对生物分子进行纳米级分辨率的三维成像. 本文综述了与冷冻电子断层扫描相关的样品制备和数据处理技术, 并总结了冷冻电子断层扫描技术在分离的大分子复合物和整个细胞或组织中的生物学应用.     

Assigning environmental variables to observed biological changes

A method for assigning environmental variables to observed biological changes in benthic communities is proposed. The approach requires biological and environmental sampling at the same sites. Additionally, a biological gradient or trend such as a change in observed species or a significant change in their relative abundances is necessary in order to connect the biological observations to the environmental measurements. Whether there is a statistical significant correspondence between the environmental measurements and the biological changes is tested after quantifying the biological changes by using the community disturbance index (CDI). Finally, the environmental variables that are most strongly associated with the biological changes are identified, and it is proposed that these are strong candidates as the pollutants responsible for the biological changes observed. However, this cannot be confirmed using the monitored data only. The approach is tested on data collected in monitoring surveys at the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea. The results indicate the method is feasible for assigning environmental variables to observed biological changes.     

脑活素类生物制剂中锰、钴、镍的测定

用火焰原子吸收法直接测定了八种不品牌的脑活素类生物制剂中锰、钴、镍的含量。将七种国产品牌制剂与奥地利脑活素微量元素含量间进行比较,统计结果表明：Ｍｎ,五种差异非常显著,一种差异显著,一种无显著差异,;Ｃｏ,六种差异非常显著,一种无显著差异;     

Current Advances in Aptamer-based Biomolecular Recognition and Biological Process Regulation

The interaction between biomolecules with their target ligands plays a great role in regulating biological functions. Aptamers are short oligonucleotide sequences that can specifically recognize target biomolecules via structural complementarity and thus regulate related biological functions. In the past ten years, aptamers have made great progress in target biomolecule recognition, becoming a powerful tool to regulate biological functions. At present, there are many reviews on aptamers applied in biomolecular recognition, but few reviews pay attention to aptamer-based regulation of biological functions. Here, we summarize the approaches to enhancing aptamer affinity and the advancements of aptamers in regulating enzymatic activity, cellular immunity and cellular behaviors. Furthermore, this review discusses the challenges and future perspectives of aptamers in target recognition and biological functions regulation, aiming to provide some promising ideas for future regulation of biomolecular functions in a complex biological environment.     

微量元素硒与生物体健康

从硒在生物体内的分布、存在形态及代谢,硒的生物学功能,硒缺乏及硒中毒,生物体日需要量等方面阐述了硒与生物体健康的关系。     

Current perspectives on quinazolines with potent biological activities: A review

Quinazoline is a heterocyclic compound having biological activities. It is aromatic in nature having bicyclic structure containing benzene ring and pyrimidine ring. Quinazoline and its derivatives are found to have wide range of biological activities that is anticancer, analgesic, antimicrobial, antihypertensive, anticonvulsant, antimalarial, antitumor, and anti-tubercular activities. The purpose of this review is to highlight the recent researches made by researchers on various biological activities of quinazoline derivatives on different targets.     

Lipidated ras and rab peptides and proteins--synthesis, structure, and function

Chemical biology can be defined as the study of biological phenomena from a chemical approach. Based on the analysis of relevant biological phenomena and their structural foundation, unsolved problems are identified and tackled through a combination of chemistry and biology. Thus, new synthetic methods and strategies are developed and employed for the construction of compounds that are used to investigate biological procedures. Solid-phase synthesis has emerged as the preferred method for the synthesis of lipidated peptides, which can be chemoselectively ligated to proteins of the Ras superfamily. The generated peptides and proteins have solved biological questions in the field of the Ras-superfamily GTPases that are not amendable to chemical or biological techniques alone.     

光敏异构化智能生物开关的进展

引出光敏异构化智能生物开关的概念。介绍了可逆光敏异构化生物物质的机制和特点, 并结合这个领域的研究和发展对其进行了较全面的讨论。探讨了可逆异构化开关物质在光记忆、电化学控制、生物传感器等方面的应用, 并对它的未来前景作出展望。     

New methods for nanotoxicology: synchrotron radiation-based techniques

Nanotoxicology, a new branch of bionanoscience, deals with the study and application of the toxic or biological effects of nanomaterials or nanostructures, and aims to fill gaps in our knowledge of interactions between nano- and biosystems. However, progress in this new discipline largely relies on developing methodology to characterize nanomaterials in biological samples, quantify nanoparticles in living systems, and study their uptake, translocation, biodistribution, location and chemical status in vitro and in vivo, etc. In this review article, we focus on the main features of synchrotron radiation-based methods and their application to the study of the toxicological activities of nanomaterials. Synchrotron radiation-based analytical techniques are shown to provide a potent means for characterizing the toxic or biological behaviors of nanoparticles in biological systems.     

Miscellaneous applications of ferrocene‐based peptides/amides

This article provides a critical review of the different applications of ferrocene‐based peptides/amides in biological as well as in non‐biological systems. Ferrocene‐based peptides/amides find many applications in different fields such as materials science, medicine, organic synthesis, bio‐organometallic and biological chemistry, asymmetric catalysis, nonlinear optics, in polymer science as redox active polymers and dendrimers, in molecular recognition as biosensors and in electrochemistry). Extensive research is being done on ferrocene‐based peptides/amides but we will highlight the various applications of ferrocene‐based peptides/amides for the period 2006–2010. The main factors that govern the potential biological and non‐biological applications are an electroactive core, a conjugated linker that can act as a chromophore and lower the oxidation potential of the ferrocene part, an amino acid or peptide derivative that can interact with other molecules via hydrogen bonding or any secondary bonding, and symmetric and asymmetric substitution on the ferrocene moiety. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Electroanalysis of RNA at a Silver Electrode

The behavior of nucleic acids at charged biological interfaces (e.g. membranes) is of great importance in many biological processes. Meanwhile, the electrochemical system serves as a versatile and illuminating model of biological system, which might provide important information on properties and conformation of biomacromolecules. Electrochemical studies on DNA have attracted great interest and contributed a lot to the knowledge of structure-function relationship of DNA. However, up to now, electrochemical researches on RNA were much less explored.     

均三唑并噻二唑:重要的潜在药物结构单元

均三唑并噻二唑是一类重要的稠杂环化合物,其衍生物具有抗菌、消炎、抗肿瘤、抗结核、酶抑制作用、调节植物生长等多种生物活性。本文按照均三唑并噻二唑类化合物呈现的不同生物活性进行分类,综述了近年来该类化合物在上述领域的研究进展。     

Programmable Assembly of DNA-protein Hybrid Structures

DNA is the genetic information carrier for most known living organisms on Earth,while proteins are the functional component that carry out most biological processes.Many natural machineries are DNA-protein hybrid complexes to cooperatively and efficiently conduct sophisticated biological tasks.It has drawn increasing interest to the research field to construct artificial DNA-protein hybrid structures towards a variety of applications including biological studies,nanofabrication,biomedical research,etc.In this regard,here in this report we reviewed the up-to-date progress on making DNA-protein hybrid structures,with a particular focus on DNA nanotechnology-enabled programmable assembly of DNA-protein hybrid structures.     

Five-membered ring systems with one heteroatom: Synthetic routes,chemical reactivity,and biological properties of furan-carboxamide analogues

This review described the synthetic methods, chemical reactivity and biological applications of furan carboxamide compounds. Furan-carboxamides are reported to have important and variable biological properties. The aim of this review is to highlight the chemistry and biological importance of this class of bioactive compounds. The basic sections covers: structure studies, synthetic methods pathways, synthesis of different heterocycles, reactions and biological applications. The reactions mechanisms of the unexpected products are discussed. The present study covers all the published work on the furan-carboxamides until now.     

Synthesis of Anisotropic Hydrogels and Their Applications

Owing to their water‐rich structures, which are similar to those of biological tissues, hydrogels have long been regarded as promising scaffolds for artificial tissues and organs. However, in terms of the structural anisotropy, most synthetic hydrogels are substantially different from biological systems. Synthetic hydrogels are usually composed of randomly oriented three‐dimensional polymer networks whereas biological systems adopt anisotropic structures with hierarchically integrated building units. Such anisotropic structures often play essential roles in biological systems to exhibit particular functions. In this context, anisotropic hydrogels provide an entry point for exploring biomimetic applications of hydrogels. Reflecting these aspects, an increasing number of studies on anisotropic hydrogels have been reported recently. This Minireview highlights the use and perspectives of these anisotropic hydrogels, particularly focusing on their preparation, structures, and applications.