Biochemical Characterization of a GH43 β-Xylosidase from <Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacteroides ovatus</Emphasis>

Cartilage tissue engineering is believed to provide effective cartilage repair post-injuries or diseases. Biomedical materials play a key role in achieving successful culture and fabrication of cartilage. The physical properties of a chitosan/gelatin hybrid hydrogel scaffold make it an ideal cartilage biomimetic material. In this study, a chitosan/gelatin hybrid hydrogel was chosen to fabricate a tissue-engineered cartilage in vitro by inoculating human adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) at both dynamic and traditional static culture conditions. A bioreactor that provides a dynamic culture condition has received greater applications in tissue engineering due to its optimal mass transfer efficiency and its ability to simulate an equivalent physical environment compared to human body. In this study, prior to cell-scaffold fabrication experiment, mathematical simulations were confirmed with a mass transfer of glucose and TGF-β2 both in rotating wall vessel bioreactor (RWVB) and static culture conditions in early stage of culture via computational fluid dynamic (CFD) method. To further investigate the feasibility of the mass transfer efficiency of the bioreactor, this RWVB was adopted to fabricate three-dimensional cell-hydrogel cartilage constructs in a dynamic environment. The results showed that the mass transfer efficiency of RWVB was faster in achieving a final equilibrium compared to culture in static culture conditions. ADSCs culturing in RWVB expanded three times more compared to that in static condition over 10 days. Induced cell cultivation in a dynamic RWVB showed extensive expression of extracellular matrix, while the cell distribution was found much more uniformly distributing with full infiltration of extracellular matrix inside the porous scaffold. The increased mass transfer efficiency of glucose and TGF-β2 from RWVB promoted cellular proliferation and chondrogenic differentiation of ADSCs inside chitosan/gelatin hybrid hydrogel scaffolds. The improved mass transfer also accelerated a dynamic fabrication of cell-hydrogel constructs, providing an alternative method in tissue engineering cartilage.     

壳聚糖膜固定生物活性短肽RGDS的研究

为改善壳聚糖对细胞的特异性吸附,采用水溶性碳二亚胺将生物活性短肽精氨酸-甘氨酸-天冬氨酸-丝氨酸(RGDS)固定到壳聚糖膜的表面,采用X射线光电子能谱检测固定多肽前后的壳聚糖膜表面,发现反应后壳聚糖膜表面氮元素含量增大,Nls和Cls曲线拟合谱中酰胺键增多,表明RGDS短肽已固定到壳聚糖膜的表面;人角膜缘上皮细胞体外培养实验表明,固定RGDS后壳聚糖膜的细胞黏附率有了明显提高,固定RGDS后的壳聚糖膜在角膜组织工程支架等方面有更好的应用潜力。     

Astrophysical S-factors from asymptotic normalization coefficients

S-factors for direct capture reactions can be found at astrophysical energies from asymptotic normalization coefficients which provide the normalization of the tail of the overlap function. For example the overlap for ⁸B → ⁷Be+p defines the S-factor for ⁷Be (p, γ)⁸B. Peripheral transfer reactions offer a technique to determine these asymptotic normalization coefficients. As a test of the technique, the ¹⁶O(³He, d)¹⁷F reaction has been used to determine asymptotic normalization coefficients for transitions to the ground and first excited states of ¹⁷F. The S-factors for ¹⁶O(p, γ)¹⁷F calculated from these ¹⁷F → ¹⁶O+p asymptotic normalization coefficients are found to be in very good agreement with recent measurements. Following the same technique, the ¹⁰B(⁷Be, ⁸B)⁹Be and ¹⁴N(⁷Be, ⁸B)¹³C reactions have been used to measure the asymptotic normalization coefficient for ⁷Be(p, γ)⁸B. This result provides an indirect determination of S ₁₇(0).     

多谱线耦合系统辐射束缚问题的理论处理

提出一种处理多荧光谱线耦合系统辐射束缚问题的理论方法．这里的耦合包括激发态间的碰撞传能和当谱线重叠时对荧光的交叉吸收．首先将描述辐射束缚的Ｈｏｌｓｔｅｉｎ方程扩展为适用于描述多个激发能级且包括交叉耦合项的微分积分方程组，并将其纳入矢量、矩阵的形式．然后直接通过算符运算求解，给出按算符展开的级数解式．最后对级数解进行约化，导出一个只用有限项便可对系统行为进行完整描述的、远较简单截断近似优越的结果．还给出了一个双激发能级系统的计算实例     

Kobalt-katalysiert Cycloadditionen von Alkinen und Nitrilen zu Pyridinen: Ein neuer Zugang zu Pyridoxin (Vitamin B6)

Cobalt-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Alkynes and Nitriles to Pyridines: A New Route to Pyridoxine (Vitamin B₆) A new synthesis of pyridoxine hydrochloride ( 1 ) based on a Co-catalyzed cycloaddition of MeCN with substituted di(2-propynyl) ethers ( 3 and 16 ) is described. The reaction sequences following cycloaddition and leading to 1 involve as key steps the rearrangement f the pyridine-N-oxide 6 to the 3-hydroxypyridine 7 with Ac₂O and a modified Curtius rearrangement of the acid 19 and subsequent diazotation and hydrolysis to the same pyridoxine precursor 7, respectively. The intermediate 7 is transformed to 1 by well-known procedures.