Polyethylenimine-Based Transfection Method as a Simple and Effective Way to Produce Recombinant Lentiviral Vectors

HIV-1-derived lentiviral vectors (LvV) are within the most attractive gene delivery vehicles in the context of both dividing and quiescent cells. LvV is currently produced by the conventional calcium phosphate precipitation method. Nevertheless, this procedure is highly susceptible to variations in pH and impurities, which lead to inconsistencies in LvV production. Here, we present a simple and robust procedure for LvV production using branched 25 kDa polyethylenimine, with a transfection efficiency of over 90% and viral titer yields of about 1 × 10⁷ infective lentiviral particles per milliliter. The procedure outlined is simple, consistent, and as inexpensive as the CaPO₄-based method.     

基于支持向量机方法的HERG钾离子通道抑制剂分类模型

对human ether-a-gō-gō related genes(HERG)钾离子通道(钾通道)抑制剂,计算了表征分子组成、电荷分布、拓扑、几何结构及物理化学性质等特征的1559个分子描述符.采用Fischer Score(F-Score)排序过滤和Monte Carlo模拟退火法相结合从中筛选与HERG钾通道抑制剂分类相关的分子描述符.采用支持向量机(SVM)方法,分别以IC50=1.0、10.0μmol·L-1为分类标准,建立了三个分类预测模型.对367个训练集分子,用五重交叉验证.得到正、负样本的平均预测精度分别为84.8%-96.6%、80.7%-97.7%,其总的平均预测精度为87.1%-97.2%,优于其它文献报道结果.对97个外部测试集分子,所建三个模型的总样本预测精度在67.0%-90.1%之间,接近或优于其它文献报道结果.     

重组质粒pIRES-EGFP-BCL 11B电转染幼稚T细胞的可视化研究

将BCL 11B基因插入pIRES-EGFP构建重组质粒真核表达载体pIRES-EGFP-BCL 11B,采用电转染法将重组质粒转入人幼稚T细胞,转染24 h后,用原子力显微镜(AFM)观察转染前后细胞的表面形态以及生物物理性质的变化.转染72 h后,用CCK-8试剂检测幼稚T细胞的增殖情况.分别对空转的幼稚T细胞组、空载体转染组(pIRES-EGFP naked plasmid)、重组载体转染组(pIRES-EGFP-BCL 11B recombinant vector)、无电转无质粒的幼稚T细胞组进行实验.结果表明,4组幼稚T细胞的体积、高度、半宽度、粗糙度、表面颗粒大小等参数发生了变化,细胞杨氏模量以及细胞硬度也呈现很大变化,CCK-8结果显示,重组质粒pIRES-EGFP-BCL 11B电转染人幼稚T细胞后影响细胞的增殖.     

Determination of ultra trace amount of enrofloxacin by adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry using copper(II) as an intermediate

In this work, a simple and sensitive electroanalytical method was developed for the determination of enrofloxacin (ENRO) by adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry (ADSV) using Cu(II) as a suitable probe. The complex of copper(II) with ENRO was accumulated at the surface of a hanging mercury drop electrode at −0.10 V for 40 s. Then, the preconcentrated complex was reduced and the peak current was measured using square wave voltammetry (SWV). The optimization of experimental variables was conducted by experimental design and support vector machine (SVM) modeling. The model was used to find optimized values for the factors such as pH, Cu(II) concentration and accumulation potential. Under the optimized conditions, the peak current at −0.30 V is proportional to the concentration of ENRO over the range of 10.0-80.0 nmol L⁻¹ with a detection limit of 0.33 nmol L⁻¹. The influence of potential interfering substances on the determination of ENRO was examined. The method was successfully applied to determination of ENRO in plasma and pharmaceutical samples.     

中成药质量稳定性的原子吸收光谱鉴别分析

对全国各地用原子吸收光谱仪测定10批次大活络丸中12种无机元素及建立的指纹图谱,尝试用成分数据分析法、向量相似法和模糊聚类法建立全国无机元素的指纹图谱和中药质量控制标准方法,获得较满意的结果。研究表明,建立无机元素指纹图谱控制中成药中无机元素的质量,具有很好的实用性和可操作性,用于全国各地不同厂家生产的大活络丸无机元素的质量控制是切实可行的。     

支持向量机回归法在近红外光谱测定植物纤维原料中甲氧基含量中的应用

以26个植物纤维原料为实验材料,由20个样品作校正样品,采用径向基核函数方法对纤维原料中甲氧基含量与纤维原料样品近红外光谱进行支持向量机(SVM)回归建模.以所建SVM回归模型对6个纤维原料样品中甲氧基含量进行预测,回归模型的预测结果与采用改良的维伯克法确定的甲氧基含量的相关系数为0.977,预测样本集的标准偏差为0.43.将SVM回归模型的预测效果与PLS回归模型的预测结果进行比较,所建近红外光谱测定植物纤维原料中甲氧基含量的SVM回归模型可用于实际植物纤维原料样品的定量分析,且具有较好的分析效果.     

Exploiting three kinds of interface propensities to identify protein binding sites

Predicting the binding sites between two interacting proteins provides important clues to the function of a protein. In this study, we present a building block of proteins called order profiles to use the evolutionary information of the protein sequence frequency profiles and apply this building block to produce a class of propensities called order profile interface propensities. For comparisons, we revisit the usage of residue interface propensities and binary profile interface propensities for protein binding site prediction. Each kind of propensities combined with sequence profiles and accessible surface areas are inputted into SVM. When tested on four types of complexes (hetero-permanent complexes, hetero-transient complexes, homo-permanent complexes and homo-transient complexes), experimental results show that the order profile interface propensities are better than residue interface propensities and binary profile interface propensities. Therefore, order profile is a suitable profile-level building block of the protein sequences and can be widely used in many tasks of computational biology, such as the sequence alignment, the prediction of domain boundary, the designation of knowledge-based potentials and the protein remote homology detection.     

A note on parameter estimations of panel vector autoregressive models with intercorrelation

This note considers parameter estimation for panel vector autoregressive models with intercorrelation. Conditional least squares estimators are derived and the asymptotic normality is established. A simulation is carried out for illustration.     

一类组合优化函数的若干研究

本文研究了一个组合优化问题.利用组合数论的理论,给出了计算优化函数的一个新方法,并确定了4≤4m≤120时优化函数g(4m,6)的准确值,以及相心的优化向量.