小鼠早期胚胎肢体发育中的视黄酸诱导的视黄酸代谢

给怀孕10 d的小鼠胃灌流视黄酸(100 mgRA/kg体重)6和24 h后,对视黄酸合成酶基因Raldh2和代谢酶基因Cyp26a1,Cyp26b1在胚胎肢体的表达进行了分析.Cyp26a1和Cyp26b1在灌流6 h,表达增加;灌流24 h,表达恢复到正常水平.Raldh2在此时间段表达降低.这些结果提示:在小鼠早期胚胎肢体发育中,存在视黄酸诱导的视黄酸代谢.     

hKv4.3基因5'非翻译区序列S160功能分析

hKv4.3基因是形成瞬时外向钾电流Ito的主要分子基础, 它在心脏和神经细胞中大量表达, 但在其它组织中则未见大量表达. 为了研究hKv4.3表达在基因水平的调节, 将hKv4.3基因的5'非翻译区的一段序列(+2~+160, 称之为S160)克隆到报告质粒中, 进行瞬时表达. 发现S160对hKv4.3基因的启动子和SV40的启动子都有强烈的抑制作用, 没有方向特异性, 但却有位置特异性. 经删除突变分析, 在S160片段中发现了一个抑制元件S(GAGGGGTTAA), 它位于hKv4.3基因中转录起始位点下游20-30 bp处. 在此基础上, 用RT-PCR方法对mRNA进行定量分析, 初步确认这个抑制元件对蛋白表达的抑制过程是在翻译水平上.     

hKv4.3基因5′非翻译区序列S160功能分析

hKv4.3基因是形成瞬时外向钾电流Ito的主要分子基础,它在心脏和神经细胞中大量表达,但在其它组织中则未见大量表达.为了研究hKv4.3表达在基因水平的调节,将hKv4.3基因的5′非翻译区的一段序列( 2~ 160,称之为S160)克隆到报告质粒中,进行瞬时表达.发现S160对hKv4.3基因的启动子和SV40的启动子都有强烈的抑制作用,没有方向特异性,但却有位置特异性.经删除突变分析,在S160片段中发现了一个抑制元件S(GAGGGGTTAA),它位于hKv4.3基因中转录起始位点下游20~30bp处.在此基础上,用RT-PCR方法对mRNA进行定量分析,初步确认这个抑制元件对蛋白表达的抑制过程是在翻译水平上.     

hKv4.3基因5＇非翻译区序列S160功能分析

hKv4.3基因是形成瞬时外向钾电流Ito的主要分子基础,它在心脏和神经细胞中大量表达,但在其它组织中则未见大量表达。为了研究hKv4.3表达在基因水平的调节,将hKv4.3基因的5＇非翻译区的一段序列（＋2～＋160,称之为S160）克隆到报告质粒中,进行瞬时表达。发现S160对hKv4.3基因的启动子和SV40的启动子都有强烈的抑制作用,没有方向特异性,但却有位置特异性。经删除突变分析,在S160片段中发现了一个抑制元件S（GAGGGGTTAA）,它位于hKv4.3基因中转录起始位点下游20～30 bp处。在此基础上,用RT-PCR方法对mRNA进行定量分析,初步确认这个抑制元件对蛋白表达的抑制过程是在翻译水平上。     

Pt/C催化剂的硅钼酸电化学修饰

通过电化学循环伏安法将硅钼酸修饰到Pt/C催化剂表面, 比较了硅钼酸修饰对Pt/C催化剂上CO、甲醇及乙醇电氧化反应的影响. CO消除伏安测试结果表明, 用硅钼酸修饰后的Pt/C催化剂上吸附的CO的起始氧化电势和峰电势, 与修饰前相比分别降低了80和60 mV, 表明修饰后Pt/C催化剂的抗CO性能有明显提高. 对于甲醇的电氧化反应, 硅钼酸的修饰不仅提高了甲醇电氧化的电流密度, 而且降低了甲醇的起始氧化电势, 促进了中间氧化产物的脱除；而在乙醇的电氧化反应中, 硅钼酸修饰虽对Pt/C催化剂上乙醇的起始氧化电势没有影响, 但能增加乙醇电氧化的电流密度.     

苜蓿根瘤菌多拷贝固氮基因启动子对根瘤发育的抑制

以荧光素酶基因作为报道基因研究苜蓿根瘤菌nif/fix基因在根瘤发育过程中的激活,发现多拷贝的nifHDK启动子和fixABCX启动子抑制根瘤的发育和固氮活性,与nifA突变型的表型相同.用β-半乳糖苷酶基因作为报道基因得到同样的结果。但是低拷贝的nifHDK启动子或fixABCX启动子对根瘤发育和固氮活性没有影响。固氮基因启动子的多拷贝抑制效应进一步说明nifA产物除了作为共生固氮基因转录的正调节因子外,对根瘤的发育也有作用。     

一种细胞色素P4502C8基因多态-CYP2C8.3的结构和功能

细胞色素P450超级家族在代谢众多的外源性化学物质方面发挥重要的作用.细胞色素P4502C8是人体肝脏中主要负责代谢抗癌药物紫杉醇的酶,它至少负责代谢5%的临床药物.细胞色素P450 2C8的基因多态性与用药个体化有着密切的关系.CYP2C8.3是常见的P450 2C8的基因多态之一,其发生了双点突变,分别是R139K...     

Pt-Mo2C/GC催化甲醇氧化的现场电化学-红外光谱研究

应用离子交换法制备了40%Pt在Mo2C/GC上的电催化剂.X射线衍射(XRD)显示,Pt在Mo2C载体上有较好的分散度,平均粒径为3 nm.循环伏安、计时电位测试表明,酸性溶液中,Pt-Mo2C/GC具有良好的甲醇氧化性能.其催化甲醇氧化的起始电位比Pt/C的负移了90 mV.这一优异性能与Pt和载体Mo2C之间的协同作用有关.现场红外光谱电化学测量显示,甲醇在Pt/C电极氧化的中间产物是桥式吸附COB和线性吸附COL,而在Pt-Mo2C/GC电极则未检测到有害中间产物CO,其氧化终产物均为CO2.     

带红系增强子的人βE-珠蛋白基因在转基因小鼠中的表达

本文以我国人中常见的异常血红蛋白E(HbE,β26Glu→Lys,G→A)的β珠蛋白基因为外源基因,用显微注射法制备了人βE-基因的转基因小鼠系。得到的一只整合有16拷贝5′HS2βE重组体的转基因小鼠具有典型的转基因小鼠特征。证实人βE-基因在转基因鼠中的高水平表达需有红系特异性增强子(5′HS2)的存在;说明5′HS2结构对异常珠蛋白基因(βE-)在转基因鼠中的表达也具有明显的增强作用。单一位点整合过多5′HS2βE拷贝平均表达水平(12.1％)明显低于较少拷贝整合的平均表达水平(79.7％),对其发生机制进行了讨论。βE-珠蛋白肽链在转基因鼠中可形成新的血红蛋白四聚体。     

Rif-orf13编码的细胞色素P450催化利福霉素生物合成过程中C34a位的羟化反应（英文）

利福霉素生物合成途径在经历了二十余年的研究之后,仍然没有得到完全阐明.其中C34a甲基的氧化脱除是利福霉素成熟过程中的必需反应步骤,但是催化这一步骤的酶尚未鉴定;推测可能是利福霉素生物合成基因簇编码的某个细胞色素P450催化了这一步骤.选取利福霉素生物合成基因簇中功能尚未确证的P450基因rif-orf0、rif-orf4和rif-orf13在变铅青链霉菌中进行异源表达和底物喂养实验,发现表达了rif-orf13的链霉菌能够将16-脱甲基-34a-脱氧利福霉素W (1)转化为16-脱甲基利福霉素W (2).将rif-orf13在大肠杆菌BL21 (DE3)中进行诱导表达,利用纯化的Orf13蛋白进行体外酶催化反应,发现Orf13能够将底物1羟化为产物2.结合前人的基因敲除研究,认为rif-orf13是编码34a-脱氧利福霉素W羟化酶的基因,其在胞内的功能可以被另一个负责C12-C29双键氧化断裂的P450基因rif-orf5替代.     

RESPIRATION RESPONSES OF A polA1 AND A tif-1 MUTANT OF ESCHERICHIA COLI TO FAR-ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION*

Abstract— Cessation of respiration in Escherichia coli 60min after far-ultraviolet (254 nm) irradiation is dependent upon the recA and lexA gene products and is regulated by cyclic 3′,5′-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and its receptor protein. Respiration responses to UV irradiation were studied in two E. coli B/r mutants, polA1 and tif-1, both of which express other rec/lex functions (such as mutagenesis) after UV irradiation. The cells were grown on glycerol minimal medium supplemented with required amino acids. After receiving a relatively high UV fluence, the polA1 mutant, deficient in DNA polymer-ase I, showed a respiration shutoff response like the wild type cells. 5-Fluorouracil and rifampin, an inhibitor of initiation of RNA synthesis, did not prevent respiration shutoff in the mutant cells as they did in the wild type cells. Thus, RNA synthesis is not necessary for cessation of respiration in polA1 cells and the process is not an induced one. At lower fluences which did not shut off respiration of polA1 cells, cAMP did not cause a more complete shutoff as it did for the wild type cells. The tif-1 mutant has a modified recA protein, and when unirradiated cells are incubated at 42°C they form filaments, mutate, and show other rec/lex responses. This mutant did not shut off its respiration at either 30 or 42°C, and the response was not modified by cAMP. An E. coli K12 strain, W3110, was also tested for its respiration response to UV. At 52J/m² respiration did not shut off and cAMP had no effect.     

黑苦荞保健茶中重金属的分析评价

采用原子吸收光谱法和原子荧光光度法测定了四川省凉山州某几个品牌黑苦荞保健茶中的重金属铅、镉、铬、无机砷和汞的含量,并以NY/T 1510-2007标准绿色食品麦类制品为依据,对黑苦荞保健茶重金属污染状况进行了分析评价。结果表明,黑苦荞保健茶受重金属元素污染的程度由高到低表现为铅、铬、镉、无机砷和汞,但含量均未超过国家标准规定;黑苦荞叶芽茶和全株茶的重金属污染较为严重,全胚茶未受重金属污染。     

Mutagenicity tests with a permeable mutant of yeast on carcinogens showing false-negative in Salmonella assay

The mutagenicity (Trp+ reversion) of procarcinogens such as N-nitrosodimethylamine, 3,4-benzpyrene and 2-acetylaminofluorene has been detected with the permeable mutant of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae C658-K42. The original strain C658, however, showed a positive response only to N-nitrosodimethylamine with S9 mix. The permeable mutant C658-K42 was employed for mutagenicity tests on 12 carcinogens which had been reported to be non-mutagenic in Salmonella/microsome tests. It was found that phenobarbital, thiourea, 1,2-dimethylhydrazine and 4-aminoantipyrine were mutagenic in the presence of S9 mix. Benzene, o-toluidine and thioacetamide were weakly mutagenic. Negative results were obtained for diethylstilbestrol, safrole, acetamide, urethane and ethionine at the concentrations used. Caprolactam did not show any mutagenic effect on C658-K42 at concentrations up to 20 mg/ml. Sodium azide, which is unlikely to be carcinogenic but is strongly mutagenic in the Ames test, showed a very weak mutagenic effect on C658-K42.     

Partial rescue of the Na+-Ca2+ exchanger (NCX1) knock-out mouse by transgenic expression of NCX1

The null mutation of cardiac Na(+)-Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX1) gene in mice caused death of embryo in utero at embryonic day (ED) 9.0-9.5 and this embryonic lethality appears resulted from abnormal heart development. In the present study, we investigated whether transgenic re-expression of NCX1 in mutant cardiac myocytes could rescue these lethal defects. Transgenic mice expressing the canine NCX1 in a cardiac specific manner were bred into the NCX1 knock-out background but did not prevent the fetal lethality associated with the NCX1 null allele. However, the NCX1 knock-out embryos with an NCX1 transgene survived with heart beatings until ED 10.5 which was one day longer than the survival of the NCX1 knock-out embryos (ED 9.5). At ED 10.5, however, the partially rescued NCX1 embryos might have succumbed to the lack of an organized vasculature in the yolk sacs. The placental labyrinth layer was reduced in size and largely avascular. The transgenic re-expression of NCX1 rescued heart beatings and survived longer, but was still insufficient for the mice to be completely rescued. Importantly, NCX1 was observed to express in the yolk sac and the placenta of wild type mice. The results suggest that defects in extra-embryonic compartments are causal to the lethality, and that NCX1 may play an important role in establishing vascularization in extra-embryonic tissues.     

Improvement of nerve conduction velocity in mutant diabetic mice by aldose reductase inhibitor without affecting nerve myo-inositol content

The sciatic motor nerve conduction velocity of mutant diabetic C57BL/Ks mice was significantly improved from 30.0 +/- 1.4 to 38.0 +/- 4.6 m/s by treatment with the aldose reductase inhibitor 1-[(beta-naphthyl)sulfonyl]hydantoin (30 mg/kg/d) for 2 weeks. The treatment, however, did not cause any significant change in myo-inositol concentration in the sciatic nerve. The results indicate that the ameliorating effect of the aldose reductase inhibitor on nerve conduction velocity in mutant diabetic mice is not due to alteration of myo-inositol content in the nerve.     

LIGHT-DEPENDENT AND LIGHT-INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN GAS BY PHOTOSYNTHESIZING RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM MUTANT C

Abstract. Rhodospirillum rubrum mutant C grew photosynthetically in the light and produced copious amounts of H₂. During light-growth mutant C produced 7.9mmol of H₂ in medium with 9mmol of Na-pyruvate per mg protein. When parent strain R. rubrum S ₁ was grown similarly, these cells only produced a trace amount of H₂. Light-grown mutant C evolved H₂ by H₂-nitrogenase and formic hydrogenlyase. Although both hydrogenases were previously detected in R. rubrum S₁, the activities of the reactions in light-grown mutant C were higher and they operated under different conditions. In the parent strain S₁, the production of nitrogenase was strongly repressed during growth in medium enriched with organic nitrogen and the cells only reduced 0.06 pmol of acetylene per mg protein after 30 min in the light. Under similar conditions, nitrogenase activity measured by the acetylene reduction test in mutant C was 10-fold greater. In addition to nitrogenase, mutant C also produced large amounts of H₂ with formate as an intermediate when the cells were grown with Na-pyruvate. Formic hydrogenlyase in mutant C operated equally well in anaerobic light or dark conditions. The analogous formate oxidation reaction in parent strain S₁ only functioned in the dark. These data, compared with results with R. rubrum S₁ suggested that C was a regulatory mutant. Additional observations suggested that formic hydrogenlyase occurred constitutively in R. rubrum . Pyruvate formate-lyase, however, which produced formate for formic hydrogenlyase, was only detected in the cells after growth in media with Na-pyruvate. The reaction was not formed when R. rubrum was grown in the light in media with dl-malate as the sole carbon substrate.     

Identification of mutant Asp251Gly/Gln307His of cytochrome P450 BM3 for the generation of metabolites of diclofenac, ibuprofen and tolbutamide

The soluble, catalytically self-sufficient cytochrome P450 BM3 from Bacillus megaterium is a good candidate as biocatalyst for the synthesis of drug metabolites. To this end, error-prone polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to generate a library of P450 BM3 mutants with novel activities toward drugs. The double mutant Asp251Gly/Gln307His (A2) with activities towards diclofenac, ibuprofen and tolbutamide was identified by screening with the alkali method. This is based on the detection of NADPH oxidation during enzymatic turnover on whole Escherichia coli cells heterologously expressing the P450 BM3 mutants in the presence of the target substrates. The three drugs screened are marker substrates of human liver cytochromes P450 belonging to the 2C subfamily. Interestingly the mutations Asp251Gly/Gln307His are located on the protein surface and they are not directly involved in substrate binding and turnover. Dissociation constants and K(M) values of mutant A2 for diclofenac, ibuprofen and tolbutamide are in the micromolar range. Catalysis leads to hydroxylations in specific positions, producing 4'-hydroxydiclofenac, 2-hydroxyibuprofen and 4-hydroxytolbutamide, respectively.     

Refolding of Cold-Denatured Barstar Induced by Radio-Frequency Heating: A New Method to Study Protein Folding by Real-Time NMR Spectroscopy

The C40A/C82A double mutant of barstar has been shown to undergo cold denaturation above the water freezing point. By rapidly applying radio-frequency power to lossy aqueous samples, refolding of barstar from its cold-denatured state can be followed by real-time NMR spectroscopy. Since temperature-induced unfolding and refolding is reversible for this double mutant, multiple cycling can be utilized to obtain 2D real-time NMR data. Barstar contains two proline residues that adopt a mix of cis and trans conformations in the low-temperature-unfolded state, which can potentially induce multiple folding pathways. The high time resolution real-time 2D-NMR measurements reported here show evidence for multiple folding pathways related to proline isomerization, and stable intermediates are populated. By application of advanced heating cycles and state-correlated spectroscopy, an alternative folding pathway circumventing the rate-limiting cis-trans isomerization could be observed. The kinetic data revealed intermediates on both, the slow and the fast folding pathway.     

Factors relevant for the ruthenium-benzylidene-catalyzed cyclopolymerization of 1,6-heptadyines

Fourteen metathesis initiators that had been designed for use in the living polymerization of diethyl dipropargylmalonate (DEDPM), including the Hoveyda catalyst [RuCl(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)[bond]C(6)H(4))] (1 a), as well as [Ru(CF(3)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)[bond]C(6)H(4))] (1 b), [Ru(CF(3)CF(2)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)[bond]C(6)H(4))] (1 c), [Ru(CF(3)CF(2)CF(2)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)[bond]C(6)H(4))] (1 d), [RuCl(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2,4,5-(MeO)(3)[bond]C(6)H(2))] (2 a), [Ru(CF(3)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2,4,5-(MeO)(3)[bond]C(6)H(2))] (2 b), [Ru(CF(3)CF(2)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2,4,5-(MeO)(3)[bond]C(6)H(2))] (2 c), [Ru(CF(3)CF(2)CF(2)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2,4,5-(MeO)(3)[bond]C(6)H(2))] (2 d), [RuCl(2)(IMes)([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)[bond]C(6)H(4))] (3 a), [Ru(CF(3)COO)(2)(IMes)([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)[bond]C(6)H(4))] (3 b), [RuCl(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)-5-NO(2)[bond]C(6)H(3))] (4 a), [Ru(CF(3)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)-5-NO(2)[bond]C(6)H(3))] (4 b), [Ru(CF(3)CF(2)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)-5-NO(2)[bond]C(6)H(3))] (4 c), and [Ru(CF(3)CF(2)CF(2)COO)(2)(IMesH(2))([double bond]CH-2-(2-PrO)-5-NO(2)[bond]C(6)H(3))] (4 d) (IMes=1,3-dimesitylimidazol-2-ylidene; IMesH(2)=1,3-dimesityl-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene) were prepared. Living polymerization systems could be generated with DEDPM by careful tuning of the electronic nature and steric placement of the ligands. Although 1 a, 2 a, 3 a, 3 b, and 4 a were inactive in the cyclopolymerization of DEDPM, and initiators 1 b-d did not allow any control over molecular weight, initiators 2 b-d and 4 b-d offered access to class VI living polymerization systems. In particular, compounds 2 b and 4 d were superior. The livingness of the systems was demonstrated by linear plots of M(n) versus the number of equivalents of monomer added (N). For initiators 2 b-d and 4 b-d, values for k(p)/k(i) were in the range of 3-7, while 1 b, 1 c, and 1 d showed a k(p)/k(i) ratio of >1000, 80, and 40, respectively. The use of non-degassed solvents did not affect these measurements and underlined the high stability of these initiators. The effective conjugation length (N(eff)) was calculated from the UV/Vis absorption maximum (lambda(max)). The final ruthenium content in the polymers was determined to be 3 ppm.