A Novel Real-time Fluorescence Mutant-allele-specific Amplification Method for Rapid Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis

Current methods for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis are time-consuming and complicated. We aimed at development of one-step real-time fluorescence mutant-allele-specific amplification (MASA) method for rapid SNP analysis. The method is a marriage of two technologies: MASA primers for target DNA and a double-stranded DNA-selective fluorescent dye, SYBR Green I. Genotypes are separated according to the different threshold cycles of the wild-type and mutant primers. K-rar oncogene was used as a target to validate the feasibility of the method. The experimental results showed that the different genotypes can be clearly discriminated by the assay. The real-time fluorescence MASA method will have an enormous potential for fast and reliable SNP analysis due to its simplicity and low cost.     

麦饭石对香烟诱发蚕豆根尖细胞微核的抑制作用

研究了中华麦饭石浸液对香烟烟雾水溶物引起的蚕豆根尖细胞微核率的影响。结果表明，中华麦饭石浸液能显著降低由香烟烟雾水溶物引起的微核率，可能具有减轻由吸烟引起遗传损伤的作用。此外对上述结果的意义进行了讨论。     

实时荧光等位基因特异性扩增法快速检测K-ras癌基因点突变

将荧光定量PCR技术与等位基因特异性扩增(Allele specific amplification, ASA)方法相结合, 发展了一种可以快速检测基因点突变的实时荧光等位基因特异性扩增(Real-time ASA)方法. 将该法用于检测K-ras癌基因第12位密码子发生的点突变, 分别采用针对其不同点突变方式(GAT, GTT, CGT)设计的突变型引物对待测样品进行ASA, 只有突变型样品能被顺利扩增出双链DNA产物, 该产物才能与双链DNA染料SYBR Green Ⅰ结合, 发出荧光信号从而被检测到. 用该法检测31例结肠癌组织中的K-ras癌基因点突变, 其中有15例样品检出为突变型. Real-time ASA法可检测到样品中含量为1/1000的突变型基因, 具有灵敏、快速、简便、安全、高通量和低成本等优点, 可望用于大量临床样本的点突变筛查.     

锌指蛋白ZNF191(243~368)突变体I323W和R327W与寡聚核苷酸作用的荧光光谱

利用PCR方法对锌指蛋白ZNF191(243~368)的Ile323和Arg327进行定点突变, 成功地获得了突变体蛋白ZNF191(243~368) I323W和R327W; 并利用荧光光谱研究了锌指蛋白和它的突变体蛋白ZNF191(243~368)I323W和ZNF191(243~368) R327W与寡聚核苷酸的相互作用. 以溴化乙锭(EB)为荧光探针, 考察了I323W和R327W的突变对锌指蛋白ZNF191(243~368)结合寡聚核苷酸的影响.并计算了锌指蛋白突变体I323W和R327W与DNA的结合常数K_Z. 讨论了可能的结合模式.     

谢晓亮院士研发出单细胞测序新技术

人类、草莓、蜜蜂、鸡和大鼠等许多生物体都已经进行过DNA测序。如果说测序个别物种具有挑战性,那么测序单个细胞的DNA无疑更难。为了获得足够的DNA进行测序,通常需要数以千计或甚至数以百万计的细胞。而找出哪种突变存在于哪种细胞     

模型多肽Trp-Cage折叠形成机制的研究进展

蛋白质折叠是目前结构生物学领域的核心问题之一, 理解蛋白质结构折叠机制及其与生物功能之间的相互关系一直是生命科学家非常重要的研究内容, 并且该研究受到越来越多不同学科领域研究工作者的高度重视. 蛋白质大多数在数十毫秒、微秒或几秒内完成自我折叠过程, 但其折叠过程中所发生的分子结构精细转变却在纳秒甚至更短时间尺度内完成. 由于其折叠时间分辨率的限制, 目前无论是从常规实验还是理论计算角度对其研究都存在一定的难度. 本文首先概述了蛋白质折叠研究在实验和理论模拟方面存在的一些问题,然后以结构典型且可快速折叠的人工设计多肽Trp-cage为例,主要对其折叠过渡温度、折叠形成模型及其肽链上关键氨基酸残基在折叠过程中的作用三个方面进行了详细讨论, 综述了模型多肽Trp-cage的折叠动力学行为分别在实验和理论模拟方面的研究进展. 最后就如何有效化解蛋白质残基间相互作用网络进而降低其折叠机制的复杂性提出了一些新的建议, 不仅有助于阐明该迷你蛋白Trp-cage快速折叠、稳定形成的驱动力成因, 而且也能为蛋白质折叠机制研究和多肽设计提供有益参考.     

欧盟碳价波动的结构突变特性检验

选取EU ETS第二阶段碳排放权配额EUA和核证减排量CER的现货和期货价格,运用递归OLS残差检验和CUSUM平方检验考察了欧盟碳价的动态变化路径,发现碳价序列具有明显的结构突变特征;进一步利用Bai-Perron方法检验了碳价发生结构突变的次数和时点,发现碳价在样本期内发生了两次结构突变,美国"次贷危机"、欧债危机和碳排放权配额过量是导致碳价发生结构突变的最主要原因。研究结果对我国构建碳金融体系、相关企业参与碳金融交易,以及相关部门监管碳交易市场,具有重要的启示作用。     

Exponentially modified Gaussian relevance to the distributions of translocation events in nanopore-based single molecule detection

Nanopore technique plays an important role in single molecule detection, which illuminates the properties of an individual molecule by analyzing the blockage durations and currents. However, the traditional exponential function is lack of efficiency to describe the distributions of blockage durations in nanopore experiments. Herein, we introduced an exponentially modified Gaussian （EMG） function to fit the duration histograms of both simulated events and experimental events. In comparison with the traditional exponential function, our results demonstrated that the EMG provides a better fit while covers the entire range of the distributions. In particular, the fitted parameters of EMG could be directly used to discriminate the sequence length of the oligonucleotides at single molecule level.     

MARKOV SKELETON PROCESS IN PERT NETWORKS

In this article, we investigate Programming Evaluation and Review Technique networks with independently and generally distributed activity durations. For any path in this network, we select all the activities related to this path such that the completion time of the sub-network （only consisting of all the related activities） is equal to the completion time of this path. We use the elapsed time as the supplementary variables and model this sub-network as a Markov skeleton process, the state space is related to the subnetwork structure. Then use the backward equation to compute the distribution of the sub-network＇s completion time, which is an important rule in project management and scheduling.     

Energy spectrum of multi-radiation of X-rays in a low energy Mather-type plasma focus device

The multi-radiation of X-rays was investigated with special attention to their energy spectrum in a Mather-type plasma focus device （operated with argon gas）. The analysis is based on the effect of anomalous resistances. To study the energy spectrum, a four-channel diode X-ray spectrometer was used along with a special set of filters. The filters were suitable for detection of medium range X-rays as well as hard X-rays with energy exceeding 30 keV. The results indicate that the anomalous resistivity effect during the post pinch phase may cause multi-radiation of X-rays with a total duration of 300 ± 50 ns. The significant contribution of Cu-Kα was due to the medium range X-rays, nonetheless, hard X-rays with energies greater than 15 keV also participate in the process. The total emitted X-ray energy in the forms of Cu-K and Cu-K/3 was around 0.14 ± 0.02 （J/Sr） and 0.04 ±0.01 （J/Sr）, respectively. The total energy of the emitted hard X-ray （〉 15 keV） was around 0.12± 0.02 （J/Sr）.