bop基因及其上游启动子的克隆与表达

应用重组PCR的方法，直接从盐沼盐杆菌(Halobactrium salinarium)S9的基因组DNA上扩增到了编码细菌视紫红质(bacteriorhodopsin)的基因——bop基因及其启动子部分(1196bp)，并将其克隆到表达载体pXLNovR后，在宿主菌株中得到了表达．测序结果表明，扩增得到的片段与NCBI数据库中的bop基因及启动子的序列完全相同，且其表达产物的分子量与野生型BR蛋白的分子量一致，并且在568nm处表现出BR蛋白特征吸收峰．本方法与其他方法(如逆转录PCR，建立基因文库后从中调取等方法)相比具有操作简便，成功率高的优点．     

Thermofield dynamics and Casimir effect for fermions

A generalization of the Bogoliubov transformation is developed to describe a space compactified fermionic field. The method is the fermionic counterpart of the formalism introduced earlier for bosons [Phys. Rev. A 66 (2002) 052101], and is based on the thermofield dynamics approach. We analyze the energy-momentum tensor for the Casimir effect of a free massless fermion field in a d-dimensional box at finite temperature. As a particular case the Casimir energy and pressure for the field confined in a three-dimensional parallelepiped box are calculated. It is found that the attractive or repulsive nature of the Casimir pressure on opposite faces changes depending on the relative magnitude of the edges. We also determine the temperature at which the Casimir pressure in a cubic box changes sign and estimate its value when the edge of the cube is of the order of the confining lengths for baryons.     

Perturbed beta–gamma systems and complex geometry

We consider the equations, arising as the conformal invariance conditions of the perturbed curved beta–gamma system. These equations have the physical meaning of Einstein equations with a B-field and a dilaton on a Hermitian manifold, where the B-field 2-form is imaginary and proportional to the canonical form associated with Hermitian metric. We show that they decompose into linear and bilinear equations and lead to the vanishing of the first Chern class of the manifold where the system is defined. We discuss the relation of these equations to the generalized Maurer–Cartan structures related to BRST operator. Finally we describe the relations of the generalized Maurer–Cartan bilinear operation and the Courant/Dorfman brackets.     

Instabilities in thermal gravity with a cosmological constant

It is shown that in quantum gravity at finite temperature, the effective potential evaluated in the tadpole approximation can have a local minimum below a certain critical temperature. However, when the leading higher order thermal loop corrections are included, one finds that no static solution exists at high temperature.     

A Novel Approach for Introducing Bio-Materials Into Cells

A novel approach was developed to introduce biological materials into cells for gene transfection and gene therapy applications. The method is based on the technique of electrospraying bio-materials into cells. A prototype apparatus was constructed for a feasibility study. The features of the gene transfector include: (1) A dual-capillary assembly to spray suspensions of biological materials. The outer capillary provided sheathing liquid that controlled the charge level on individual particles without altering the properties of suspensions. (2) An air–CO₂ gas mixture was used for suppressing possible corona discharge and kept the same gas composition as those in incubators. (3) The designed chamber enabled the spray to operate at reduced pressure for increasing sprayed particle velocity. In the feasibility study, both suspensions of plasmid and plasmid-coated gold particles were used. The plasmid used was the commercially available Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein gene. COS-1 cells were used as the target and the liquid media was evacuated immediately prior to the spraying process. Electrospraying was conducted at ambient pressure and the duration was no more than 2 min. After the spray transfection, the media was immediately replaced and the cell samples were returned to the incubator for 36 h. Transgene expression was detected by cellular fluorescence. This technology promises to have great potential for gene transfection and therapy studies.     

High Pressure effects on electrical resistivity and dielectric properties of nanocrystalline SnO2

Nanocrystalline tin oxide (SnO₂) was prepared by chemical precipitation method with different grain sizes. The X-ray diffraction studies showed the structural stability of nanocrystalline SnO₂ under high-pressure. Electrical and dielectric properties were studied on these samples using complex impedance spectroscopy under different hydrostatic pressures. Electrical resistivity and dielectric studies showed a transition in nanocrystalline SnO₂ when it was subjected to high-pressure. The transition pressures obtained from both the resistivity and dielectric measurements agree with each other. The transition pressures were found to increase considerably with the decrease in grain size. Dielectric constant was found to decrease with the reduction of grain size. In order to find whether the transition with pressure is structure- related or not, Raman spectroscopy was done at normal temperature and pressure (NTP) and as a function of pressure at room temperature. Raman modes at NTP showed lines which correspond to tetragonal rutile structure of SnO₂. In situ high-pressure Raman measurements were carried out up to 3.38 GPa. No structural change was found with pressure.     

Nogo-B诱导oxLDL降解与肝癌基因激活

本文基于Hill动力学与Michaelis-Menten方程,建立理论模型研究内质网定位的蛋白Nogo-B诱导调节氧化修饰低密度脂蛋白(oxidized low density lipoprotein(oxLDL))降解与肝癌基因激活.理论模型考虑oxLDL*(降解的oxLDL)-Nogo-B-Yes-associated protein (YAP)通路,研究发现,oxLDL的降解,促进了大量的Lysopho-sphatidic acid (LPA)产生,之后便会提高Hippo信号通路YAP活性,激活了癌基因的表达;经过约5小时Nogo-B表达上调,Nogo-B决定着Nogo-B与Autophagy-related 5 gene(ATG5)的复合体NA,NA调控oxLDL的降解,未降解的oxLDL会诱导Nogo-B表达上调,激活了oxLDL*-Nogo-B-YAP通路,理论结果符合实验结果,并揭示非酒精性脂肪肝病诱发的肝癌的致病机理,可以为设计阻断肝炎向肝癌转变的通路治疗方案提供理论依据.     

从具体例子看惯性流形概念的推广

惯性流形的概念要求所有轨道指数收敛于唯一吸引子[5],这对于很多物理问题,例如sine-Gordon方程是很难满足的[4],本文中给出的人工例子建议了惯性流形的推广形式,这个推广形式去掉了整体吸引子是唯一的预先要求,该推广概念使用于sine-Gordon方程。     

基于纳米ZnO/壳聚糖复合膜DNA电化学传感器用于HIV基因的免标记检测

以室温固相合成法制备纳米ZnO,通过壳聚糖(CHIT)的成膜效应将纳米ZnO固定在玻碳电极(GCE)表面,制得的ZnO/CHIT/GCE电极成为DNA固定和杂交的良好平台。DNA的固定和杂交通过电化学交流阻抗进行表征。以电化学交流阻抗免标记法检测目标DNA,固定于电极表面的DNA探针与目标DNA杂交后使电极表面的电子传递电阻增大,以此作为检测信号可以高灵敏度地测定目标DNA。电化学阻抗谱检测人类免疫缺陷病毒(HIV)基因片段的线性范围为2.0×10-11~2.0×10-6mol/L,检出限为2.0×10-12mol/L。     

Electrochemical biosensor based on nanogold-modified poly-eriochrome black T film for BCR/ABL fusion gene assay by using hairpin LNA probe

A novel electrochemical biosensor is described for detection of breakpoint cluster region gene and a cellular abl (BCR/ABL) fusion gene in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) by using thiolated-hairpin locked nucleic acids (LNA) as the capture probe. The hairpin LNA probe was immobilized on the nanogold (NG)/poly-eriochrome black T (EBT) film-modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE). The immobilized LNA probe could selectively hybridize with its target DNA on LNA/NG/EBT/GCE surface. The immobilization and hybridization of the LNA probe were characterized with cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The hybridization of the immobilized LNA probe with the target DNA was detected by differential pulse voltammetry with the electroactive methylene blue as an indicator. The results indicated this new method has excellent specificity for single-base mismatch and complementary after hybridization, and a high sensitivity. This novel electrochemical biosensor has been used for assay of PCR real sample with satisfactory result.