WEIGHTING OF LINEAR PLOTS IN ENZYME KINETICS

IF the rates of an enzyme-catalysed reaction are equally weigh-ted in least-squares analysis,the corresponding reciprocalrates 1/ should be given weights of ,where is the cal-culated rate,in order to give the same sum of squares as forthe untransformed Michaelis-Menten equation.However,theseweights are functions of the parameter values and thereforecannot be treated as constants in partial differentiation withrespect to the parameters.Consequently,linear regressionwith these wieghts does not give the same parameter estimatesas non-linear regression of the untransformed equation.Theerror can be exactly corrected by using weights of in thelinear regression.     

KINETICS OF THE IRREVERSIBLE MODIFICATION OF ENZYME ACTIVITY IN A SYSTEM OF COUPLED ENZYME ASSAY (Ⅰ)——ONLY PRIMARY ENZYME MODIFIED BY REAGENT Y

Kinetic equations are derived for the substrate reaction during simultaneous irreversible modification of enzyme activity for systems using coupled enzyme assay. It has been shown that the method proposed previously by Tsou for determining the irreversible inhibition constants can also be used in the present situation. Moreover, the criteria proposed to distinguish between different inhibition types are also applicable.     

FRACTALS OF HYBRID ORBITALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN THE ENZYME MODELS

An enzyme is a kind of protein with catalytic activity and long chain,and its structure andshape are determined by the hybridized state of atomic orbital.The fractal dimension(D_f)isclosely related to the hybridization,e.g.D_f=2ln2/ln[2(1+α/(1-α))]for the spa type,where a denotes the fraction of the s orbital in the hybridized molecular orbital.Thisrelationship and the five fractal theorems introduced by the present paper play an importantrole in the investigations of the model of imitative enzyme.     

STUDIES ON THE MECHANISM OF CARCINOGENESIS(IX)——DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF PROLIFERATING AND TISSUE-SPECIFIC ENZYME GENES-DURING HEPATOCARCINOGENESIS

With cDNA fragments of CPSI, OCT and ACT as probes, dot and Northern blot analyses of poly(A)+-RNA from rat liver with different pathological lesions during carcinogenesis induced by di-ethylnitrosamine were conducted. It was shown that the level of mRNA of tissue-specific enzymes, CPSI and OCT decreased while that of the proliferating enzyme ACT mRNA increased, and the alteration was correlated with the degree of pathological changes in each case. The relative changes in the mRNA level of these enzymes during hepatocarcinogenesis were correlated with that of enzyme activities. Implication of these findings in the mechanism of carcinogenesis in terms of cell proliferation and differentiation was discussed.     

RAPID DETERMINATION OF L-GLUTAMIC ACID WITH AN ENZYME REACTOR OF L-GLUTAMIC DECARBOXYLASE IMMOBILIZED ON ION EXCHANGE RESIN

1. INTRODUCTION L-Glutamate is present in many physiological fluids and pays an important role in amino acid biosynthesis and metabolism. Usually, the determination of L-Glutamate acid is based on a chromatographic technique [1], but the method is unsuitable for the rapid analysis of large numbers of samples. The applications of immobilized enzymes in analytical chemistry have been stimulated because of their well-known advantages [2~8]. The key problem of their applications is the immob…     

EFFECT OF HYDRATION ON THE THERMAL STABILITY OF ENZYME

The thermal stability of New Zealand culture rabbit muscle aldolase wasinvestigated by differential scanning calorimetry in the water content range0.23-3.70 g water per g protein.The experimental results showed that at watercontents below 0.47g/g,an endothermic peak was observed and at water contentsabove 0.57g/g,an endothermic and an exothermic peak were both observed on DSCthermogram.Thermal denaturation result of the enzyme and the relationshipbetween two transition temperatures and water contents were first reported inthis paper.Up to now we have not seen any similar reports concerning theexothermic transition.     

EFFECT OF TRANSMEMBRANE Ca~(2+) GRADIENT ON CONFORMATION AND ENZYME ACTIVITY OF RECONSTITUTED ADENYLATE CYCLASE

Adenylate cyclase from bovine brain cortex was reconstituted into asolectin liposomes with (500-fold) or without transmembrane Ca~(2+) gradient. The enzyme activity of four types of proteoliposomes (the active center of enzyme exposing outside) was compared. The highest adenylate cyclase activity was observed in the vesicles with outside lower Ca~(2+)concentration (≈10~(-6) mol/L, similar to thephysiological condition). If the transmembrane Ca~(2+) gradient was in the inverse direction (i.e. outside higher Ca~(2+) concentration, 0.5 mmol/L), a lowest enzymatic activity would appear. The difference in enzymatic activity between the two types of proteoliposomes could be diminished following the addition of Ca~(2+) ionophore A23187. Proteoliposomes without transmembrane Ca~(2+) gradient exhibited intermediate activities.The conformation difference of adenylatecyclases in the above-mentioned proteoliposomes was also detected by measuring intrinsic fluorescence and fluorescence quenching with KI.     

ALTERATION IN CHROMATIN CONFORMATION OF PROLIFERATING AND DIFFERENTIATING ENZYME GENES IN NORMAL MOUSE LIVER AND ASCITES HEPATOMA CELLS AND ITS RELATION TO THE GENE EXPRESSION OF ENZYMES

Nuclei from the normal mouse liver were partially digested with micrococcal nuclease, followed by DNA extraction, agarose gel clectrophoresis and dot blot hybridization with ~(32)P-labeled cDNA probes of CPS_1 and ACT complex, It was clearly shown that the CPS_1 genes were distributed on the monomer, dimer. and trimer of nucleosomes, while the genes coding for ACT complex were distributed on the condensed oligonucleosomes. An opposite manner of distribution of CPS_1 and ACT complex genes was, however, noted in the case of ascites hepatoma cells, in which the specific activity of ACT was 13 times higher than that in the normal liver, while that of CPS_1 was remarkably reduced. Similar patterns of change in mRNA level of CPS_1 and ACT complex were observed in the normal mouse liver and ascites hepatoma cells, indicating a close relationship between chromatin structure and gene expression of these enzymes.     

CHARACTERISTICS OF ISOTOPE COMPOSITION OF GASIFORM HYDROCARBON AND IDENTIFICATION OF COAL-TYPE GAS

The natural gas which forms in the course of the formation of coal in the coal-series stra-ta is called the coal-type gas. It is an important genetic type of combustible gas. This papertakes the isotope composition of carbon and hydrogen as a key factor to make an approachto the identification of the coal-type gas and the oil-type gas. According to the isotope com-position of methane carbon and hydrogen, we have divided the natural gases in differentplaces into biogas, coal gas, oil-type gas and coal-type gas. There is a mixed gas area bet-ween the coal-type gas and the oil-type gas. The conditions for the formation of the areaare comparatively complex. The overmature oil-type gas overlies the coal-type gas in distri-bution. According to our studies on oil-gas areas in the Sichuan basin and Eerdos basin,we come to know that the coal-type gas in these basins has an isotope composition of highercarbon. Its mathematic expression of δ~(13)C_1-R_0 is δ~(13)C_1‰ = 8.641 lgR_0-32. 8, representing a mod-el o     

POSSIBLE CAUSES OF COUNTERCLOCKWISE LOOP OF TROPICAL CYCLONES

The counterclockwise loop of a moving tropical cyclone in the model atmosphere is clearly shown in the numerical experiment by six sets of time integrations over periods longer than seven days in terms of a barotropical quasi-geostrophic model containing terms of environmental heating and dissipation. Numerical investigation is performed of the dependence of the abnormal path stability upon the computational domain size and the disturbance of the heat source, initial value and iterative precision, indicating that this type of path is a stabler form of motion for the cyclone in the model atmosphere. And the possible causes are presented.     

EFFECT OF nifA PRODUCT ON SUPPRESSION OF Nif~- PHENOTYPE OF gin MUTATION AND CONSTITUTIVE SYNTHESIS OF NITROGENASE IN Klebsiella pneumoniae

This paper describes the role of nifA product on the ammonia regulation of nitrogen fixation in K. pneumoniae. A plasmid carrying nifA gene under the promoter of tetracycline resistance gene was constructed. When this nifA carrying plasmid was introduced into a glnAG mutant, the Nif~-phenotype of this gln mutant was suppressed. Furthermore, when the plasmid was introduced into the wild type and glnAG mutant, derepression of nitrogenase synthesis in ammonia occurred in both strains and the products of nif genes can be detected by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis in the extracts of these ammonia-grown bacterial cells.The constitutive synthesis of nitrogenase in NH_4~ was also demonstrated in free living nitrogen-fixing bacteria, Enterobacter cloacae, when the bacteria received the plasmid carrying nifA gent from K. pneumoniae.     

INFLUENCE OF THERMAL AND NON—THERMAL EFFECTS OF ULTRASOUND ON ISOTHERMS OF PHENOL ON NKAⅡ RESIN

Adsorption equilibrium experiments of phenol on the NKA II resin are separately conducted in the presence and absence of ultrasound at ambient temperature.The isotherm of phenol on the polymer adsorbent in the presence of ultrasonic field is firstly reported.Results indicated that the isotherm of phenol determined in the presence of ultrasound is lower than that in the absence of ultrasound.In addition,experiments also show that the use of ultrasound to the adsorption system of the phenol aqueous solution and NKA Ⅱ resin could cause the rising of the temperature of the system in the order of 6^-C.The effect of ultrasound on the isotherm of the phenol on the NKA Ⅱ resin mostly ascribes to the thermal effect and the non-thermal effect of ultrasonic field.and the role of the later is greater than that of the former.     

GEOCHEMISTRY OF SEDIMENTS AND ENVIRONMENT IN XIHU LAKE OF GREAT WALL STATION OF CHINA, ANTARCTICA

The determined results in this paper, which were obtained by the multielement analysis of the 260 cm-deep core sediments under the water of Xihu Lake in the Great Wall Station area, are as follows: The Cenozoic volcanic rocks around Xihu Lake are the main source of sediments in the lake. The chemical differentiation in very fine particles is still detectable. From the variation of ratios of the Cs/Rb, Br/CI and La/Yb in the clay fraction with depth and from the variation or CaCO_3 contained in the sediments, cation replacing amount in the clay grains and the sediment grain sizes in time, it can be seen that since 3600 a. B. P., there has existed the climatic variation of warm-cold-warm, which embodies the advance and retreat history of the ice sheet in this area.     

CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL CONTENTS OF CHEMICAL ELEMENTS IN PROFILES OF SOME SOIL TYPES IN CHINA AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP

The natural contents of 23 elements in the main soil types in China, the degree of enrichment of those elements and the characteristics of regional differences of the element arrangement are discussed in this paper. Through comparison between the element contents of 10 soils in China and the soils of the world, we have found that it is necessary to consider the equilibrium of the compositions of the soil types, when we try to find out a soil background content of the world or large region. The paper also deals with the concept and model of the regional differential coefficients of the elements. In the end of the paper, we analyse the correlation between 23 elements. The results show that there is a correlation between some elements of different soils in different geographical zones.     

MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF PERMO-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY SECTION OF MEISHAN OF CHANGXING,ZHEJIANG

A hundred and eleven samples were collected from the Permian-Triassic boundarysection of Meishan (31.1°N, 119.7°E) which includes the Changxing Formation of thelate Permian and the Qinglong Formation of early Triassic. The thickness of the sectionis about 60 m. Paleomagnetic results indicate that six normal and reversed polarity zoneswere recorded in the section which all belong to the Illawarra mixed interval. Theboundary of Permo-Triassic lies at 1.2 m (or 2.7 m) above the bottom of normal polarityzone V. The magnetic minerals in the rocks of the lower part of the Changxing Forma-tion mainly are goethite, haematite and titaniferous magnetite while in the upper part ofthe formation are chiefly titanomagnetite and magnetite, goethite is secondary. Magne-tite and haematite as the main magnetic minerals were included in marl and mudstone ofthe Qinglong Formation. Based on the results of the magnetically stable samples thepaleopole position of 50.7°N, 230.3°E was obtained, meanwhile, the paleolatitude     

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PROBLEM OF OCCURRENCE OF THE ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE

Using the truncated-spectrum model of Burger's-Chao Jiping equation, in which thetemperature advection is involved, we investigated the role of three parameters (Ri number, Renumber, Pr number) in occurrence of turbulence. It is shown that the turbulence may oc-cur only in the case of Ri<0.25 and Rc>2π~2. If Pr is too small (Pr = 0.7 for the atmos-phere), then the turbulence may occur only in the case of introducing interaction betweenbasic field and perturbation field or adding "viscosity" to the model. It is emphasized thatthe temperature advection plays an important role in turbulence occurrence. On the parame-ter plane (Ri, Re), the atmospheric motion states can be divided into the O-region (basicstate), the P-region (periodic state), the T-region (chaotic state), and the T-P region (cha-otic-periodic transition state). In fact, this is appropriate. Finally, the physical reason of turbu-lence occurrence is discussed.     

CALCULATION OF THE YOUNG''''S MODULUS OF AN ADSORBED POLYMER LAYER

Polymer layers adsorbed to a surface or in a confined environment often change their mechanical properties. There is even the possibility of solidification of the confined layer. To judge the stiffness of such a layer, we used the Hertz model to calculate the Young's modulus of the polymer layer in the confinement of AFM experiments with silicon nitride tip with a radius of curvature of R≈50 nm and a glass sphere attached to the cantilever R = 5μm. Since there is no visible indentation of the layer in the AFM experiments, the layer is either penetrated very easily, or the indentation is too small to be seen in a force curve. The latter would be the case for a polymer layer with a Young's modulus above 4×108 Pa in case of an experiment with a silicon nitride tip and 4×105 Pa in case of a glass sphere.     

EFFECTS OF CHAIN STRUCTURE OF POLYPYRROLONES ON THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF PYROLYZED POLYPYRROLONES

Three kinds of polypyrrolones (PMDA-DAB, PMDA-TADPE and DEDA-DAB) werepyrolyzed at high temperature in order to study the effect of the chain structure of polypyrro-lones on the electrical properties of the pyrolyzed polymers. Results show that the num-ber of fusing rings in the main chain of polymers has a little effect on the pyrolysis pro-cess, whereas, the ether bond in the main chain plays an important role during pyrolysis.Structure characterizations by elemental analyis, XPS spectra, X-ray diffraction and SEMimages indicate that because the ether bond is easy to break, it is difficult to form largearea planar network. This hampers the formation of the graphite-like structure in thepolypyrrolones containing ether bond even after being pyrolyzed at 1200℃.     

AN ESR STUDY OF ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF NITROBENZENE

By means of a highly sensitive electrolytic cell installed in the ESR cavity, the authors investi-gated in situ the kinetic behavior of the primary electroreduction product (a radical anion) in a sol-vent mixture of water and ethanol over a wide range of pH. For the first time they observed somefurther complex kinetic behaviors of the electroreduction process of nitrobenzene. Through a study ofthe behavior of the radical anion (φ-NO_2~-.) with variations of pH, concentration of nitrobenzene(φ-NO_2) and electroreduction potential, they advanced a reaction scheme of the electroreduction ofnitrobenzene and simulated the experimental curves in order to evaluate the kinetic parameters of thereaction steps concerned.