内质网体中FKBP23与BiP特异性结合

FKBP23是1998年在小鼠的内质网体(endoplasmic reticulum, ER)中发现的一个FKBP家族的蛋白质. 它由一个N端的肽脯氨酰顺反异构酶(peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase, PPIase)结构域和一个C端的含有钙离子结合功能的结构域组成. 文中在大肠杆菌中克隆表达并纯化了小鼠FKBP23与谷胱甘肽转硫酶(glutathione S-transferase, GST)的融合蛋白GST-FKBP23及内质网体中热激蛋白70(heat shock protein 70, Hsp 70)的成员BiP(immunoglobulin binding protein)的融合蛋白GST-BiP, 并用Factor Xa因子酶切制备游离的FKBP23及BiP. 将结合在还原型谷胱甘肽-Sepharose 4B凝胶上的两种融合蛋白分别交叉地亲和吸附克隆制备的两种游离蛋白, 经免疫印迹证实FKBP23与BiP特异性结合. 进而再用克隆的FKBP23与内质网体蛋白提取液进行上述实验, 进一步证实了FKBP23可与内质网体中天然的BiP结合. 这是首次发现哺乳动物内质网体中肽脯氨酰顺反异构酶的家族成员与分子伴侣(molecular chaperone)的主要成员热激蛋白70具有相互结合的作用.     

An Almost—Poisson Structure for Autoparallels on Riemann—Cartan Spacetime

An almost-Poisson bracket is constructed for the regular Hamiltonian formulation of autoparallels on Riemann-Cartan spacetime, which is considered to be the motion trajectory of spinless particles in the space. This bracket satisfies the usual properties of a Poisson bracket except for the Jacobi identity. There does not exist a usual Poisson structure for the system although a special Lagrangian can be found for the case that the contracted torsion tensor is a gradient of a scalar field and the traceless part is zero. The almost-Poisson bracket is decomposed into a sum of the usual Poisson bracket and a “Lie-Poisson“ bracket, which is applied to obtain a formula for the Jacobiizer and to decompose a non-Hamiltonian dynamical vector field for the system. The almost-Poisson structure is also globally formulated by means of a pseudo-symplectic two-form on the cotangent bundle to the spacetime manifold.     

复合式蝎形引物实时定量检测端粒酶延伸产物

针对端粒酶延伸产物中靶基因序列的特殊性,开发了一种可产生荧光的复合式蝎形引物,该引物的5'端带有可特异性检测靶基因的探针序列,PCR阻断剂将其与引物序列连接.当复合式蝎形引物延伸,探针序列与同一分子内的靶基因杂交,荧光信号产生.运用该技术,建立了定量检测端粒酶延伸产物的实时荧光PCR方法.该法可在快速PCR循环条件下,对0.15～1.50×10³ amol/μL范围内的样品进行定量检测,线性相关系数R²=0.9992.该法操作简便,无需PCR后额外的检测步骤.