荧光光谱分析家蝇幼虫抗菌肽与大肠杆菌染色体DNA作用机理

利用荧光光谱方法研究了家蝇幼虫抗菌肽MDL-1与大肠杆菌染色体DNA的相互作用,并以溴化乙锭为荧光探针,考察了抗菌肽MDL-1结合大肠杆菌DNA的作用方式,探讨其作用模式,即：抗菌肽MDL-1与大肠杆菌DNA骨架的磷酸基团通过静电引力结合,使抗菌肽MDL-1和DNA的空间结构都发生变化,抗菌肽MDL-1进一步与DNA双螺旋的沟槽结合,然后抗菌肽MDL-1以嵌入或部分嵌入方式与DNA相互作用,计算出抗菌肽MDL-1与DNA的结合常数和成键位点数。本试验从分子水平上研究抗菌肽与细菌DNA的作用模式和结构特征,对深入了解抗菌肽的作用机理极为重要。     

Enthalpies Estimation of Formation of Monosubstituted Alkanes by Interaction Potential Index

The interaction potential index IPI(X) of 16 kinds of substituents X (X=OH, SH, NH₂, Br, Cl, I, NO₂, CN, CHO, COOH, CH₃, CH=CH₂, C≡CH, Ph, COCH₃, COOCH₃) were proposed, which are derived from the experimental enthalpies of formation Δ_fH^?(g) values of monosubstituted straight-chain alkanes. Based on the IPI(X) and polarizability effect index, a simple and effective model was constructed to estimate the Δ_fH^?(g) values of monosubstituted alkanes RX (including the branched derivatives). The present model takes into account not only the contributions of the alkyl R and the substituent X, but also the contribution of the interaction between R and X. Its stability and prediction ability was confirmed by the results of leave-one-out method. Compared with previous reported studies, the obtained equation can be used to estimate enthalpies of formation for much more kinds of monosubstituted alkanes with less parameters. Thus, it is recommended for the calculation of the Δ_fH^?(g) for the RX.     

抗癌药物4'-O-(α-L-夹竹桃糖基)柔红霉素与小牛胸腺DNA相互作用的荧光光谱法

在pH=7.4的Tris-HCl介质中,利用荧光光谱和紫外吸收光谱法,研究了一种新型蒽环类抗癌药物柔红霉素衍生物(4′-O-(α-L-夹竹桃糖基)柔红霉素,ODNR)与小牛胸腺DNA(ctDNA)的相互作用。 通过离子强度的影响、KI荧光猝灭实验和单双链ctDNA作用的比较实验,分析了ODNR与ctDNA的相互作用模式。 结果表明,ODNR通过嵌插方式与ctDNA发生作用。 ctDNA对ODNR的荧光有明显的猝灭作用,其机理属于静态猝灭。 通过Scatchard方程求得不同温度下的结合常数和结合位点数,由热力学参数确定分子间作用力为疏水作用,也可能存在静电作用。     

1,2,5-硒二唑嘧啶衍生物ASPO的合成及抗氧化与抗肿瘤活性

合成了5-氨基-[1,2,5]硒二唑[3,4-d]嘧啶-7-酮(ASPO), 研究了其抗氧化与抗肿瘤活性, 并初步阐述了其作用机制. 结果表明, ASPO具有良好的抗氧化活性, 可抑制溶液中1,1-二苯基-2-苦基肼(DPPH)和2,2-联氮-二(3-乙基-苯并噻唑-6-磺酸)二铵盐(ABTS)自由基的形成, 并呈剂量效应. 此外, ASPO能有效抑制5种肿瘤细胞的生长, 其中, A-375黑色素瘤细胞对ASPO具有良好的敏感性, 其IC₅₀值为14.1 μg/mL. 对作用机制的研究发现, ASPO处理可诱导肿瘤细胞中 Sub-G1 凋亡峰的累积、 染色质固缩及凋亡小体的形成, 说明诱导细胞凋亡是 ASPO发挥抗肿瘤活性的主要机制. 进一步利用光谱滴定和黏度实验研究了ASPO与CT-DNA的相互作用, 发现ASPO以沟面结合方式与CT-DNA结合, 表明ASPO可能通过与DNA相互作用而触发肿瘤细胞凋亡通路.     

Luminescence Studies on Interaction of an Isoquinoline Alkaloid with Calf Thymus DNA in Aqueous Medium and on Solid Substrate

The interaction of calf thymus DNA(ctDNA) with berberine(Ber) was systematically investigated via UV-Vis, fluorescence and phosphorescence spectroscopies in aqueous solution and on solid substrate. The very weak fluorescence intensity of Ber at 525 nm in aqueous solution can be greatly enhanced by ctDNA. The UV-Vis spectrum shows that Ber could bind with DNA by intercalation. In addition, strong fluorescence of Ber alone could be observed on filter paper substrate and can be quenched by ctDNA effectively, and the increase of fluorescence polarization of Ber on the filter paper implies the intercalation binding. Ber emits phosphorescence at 619 nm in the presence of thallium(I) acetate. The lifetime of Ber increased from 38.4 ms to 43.4 ms with the increase of ctDNA. The increase of lifetime is possibly attributed to the increase of rigidity of Ber after its intercalating into the ctDNA base pairs. This explanation is also augmented by the anionic quenching results. Ber behaves as a typical intercalating agent into ctDNA.The intrinsic binding constant between Ber and ctDNA is (1.84?0.12)?10⁴ L/mol and n=0.16.     

Impacts of CO2 on the pyrite–kaolinite interaction and the product sintering strength

Interactions between pyrite and silicates are very critical to ash slagging in coal-fired boilers. However, no work has been reported regarding the impacts on such interactions of CO₂, the dominant component in the oxy–fuel combustion gas. This was investigated in the present work by using mixtures of pyrite and kaolinite, a prevailing silicate mineral in coal. Furthermore, the sintering strength of the generated products was also evaluated. The pyrite–kaolinite mixtures were treated on a fixed bed reactor in both N₂ and CO₂ for comparison. The treating temperature was 1050, 1150 and 1250 °C while the reaction time was 3, 6 and 12 min, respectively. The solid products were characterized by techniques such as X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS). Sintering tests of these products were carried out as well. It was found that some interactions between pyrite and kaolinite took place in the N₂ atmosphere. This was evidenced by the formation of iron aluminosilicate and attributed to the effects of water vapor released from kaolinite dehydroxylation. Nevertheless, pyrite–kaolinite interactions in N₂ were limited and had insignificant effects on product sintering strength development. In CO₂, pyrite–kaolinite interactions were significantly enhanced, compared with those in N₂. Although the kaolinite-derived water vapor had some effects, CO₂ was found to play a dominant role. Enhanced pyrite–kaolinite interactions resulted in an increase of eutectic phases. Consequently, the product sintering strength development was greatly elevated. It was further found that, under the conditions investigated, the interactions between pyrite and kaolinite were actually through reactions between FeO, rather than other intermediates, and aluminosilicate. This new finding enabled us to develop the mechanisms for pyrite–kaolinite interactions in N₂ and CO₂.     

A new feature selection method based on symmetrical uncertainty and interaction gain

Defining important information from complex biological data is of great significance in biological study. It is known that the physiological and pathological changes in an organism are usually influenced by molecule interactions. Analyzing biological data by fusing the evaluation of the individual molecules and molecule interactions could induce a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of the organism. This study proposes an Interaction Gain - Recursive Feature Elimination (IG-RFE) method which evaluates the feature importance by combining the relevance between feature and class label and the interaction among features. Symmetrical uncertainty is adopted to measure the relevance between feature and the class label. The average normalized interaction gain of feature f, every other features and the class label is calculated to reflect the interaction of feature f with other features in the feature set F. Based on the combination of symmetrical uncertainty and normalized interaction gain, less important features are removed iteratively. To show the performance of IG-RFE, it was compared with seven efficient feature selection methods, MIFS, mRMR, CMIM, ReliefF, FCBF, PGVNS and SVM-RFE, on eleven public datasets. The experiment results showed the superiority of IG-RFE in accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and stability. Hence, integrating feature individual discriminative ability and the interaction among features could better evaluate feature importance in biological data analysis.     

Pressure-dependent photoluminescence of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots: Critical point of different pressure regimes

High pressure condition can alter and control the electronic structure of semiconductor quantum dots, and therefore provides novel insight for designing optoelectronic devices. Here we report the pressure-dependent photoluminescence (PL) of CdSe/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (QD) in different pressure regimes. The center of the PL spectrum has blue-shift when hydrostatic pressure increases, due to the increasing bulk modulus. However, the shifting rate becomes lower in the higher pressure regime, i.e. above the critical pressure point, mainly due to the interaction between QDs. Accordingly, the lifetimes of PL drop in the low pressure regime, due to the increased pressure-induced trapping states, then increase above the critical pressure point, indicating the interaction between dots likewise. The observed critical pressures for both cases are consistent with each other, and strongly depend on the QD concentration, which forcefully support the aforementioned interaction model.     

Interaction in Binary Mixtures of Gemini Surfactant G12-6-12 and CTAB by NMR

The interaction between N, N′-bis（dimethyldodecyl）-1,6-hexanediammoniumdibromide （G12-6-12） and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide （CTAB） in D20 aqueous medium has been investigated by NMR at 298 K. The G12-6-12 and CTAB are about 0.773 and measured critical micelle concentration （cmc） of 0.668 mmol/L, respectively. The cmc^＊ （cmc of mixture） values are less than CMC^＊ （cmc of ideally mixed solution） in the mixed system, and the interaction parameter βM〈0 at different molar fractions α of G12-6-12 in the mixed systems, but just when α≤0.3, cmc^＊ values are much smaller than CMC^＊, and βM satisfies the relation of ｜βM｜〉｜ln（cmc1/cmc2）｜ （cmcl： cmc of pure G12-6-12 and cmc2： cmc Of pure CTAB）. The results indicate that there exists synergism between G12-6-12 and CTAB, and they can form mixed micelles, which is further proven by 2D NOESY and self-diffusion coefficient D experiments. There are intermolecular cross peaks between G12-6-12 and CTAB in 2D NOESY, and the radius of micelles in mixed solution is bigger than that in G12-6-12 pure solution in D experiments, indicating there are mixed micelles. However, when α〉0.3, we find that cmc^＊≈CMC^＊, βM≈0, obviously, the two surfactants are almost ideal mixing fitting the pseudo-phase separation model and regular solution theory.     

吡虫啉与人血清白蛋白相互作用热力学行为

在模拟人体生理条件下,综合利用荧光光谱、紫外吸收光谱、圆二色谱和分子模拟等方法,研究了吡虫啉(IMI)和人血清白蛋白(HSA)相互作用的热力学行为。荧光光谱和紫外吸收光谱的分析表明：吡虫啉能有效猝灭HSA的内源荧光,猝灭机制为静态猝灭;通过所获取的相互作用热力学参数,可知两者之间的相互作用是一个吉布斯自由能降低的自发过程,且二者之间的主要作用力为氢键和范德华力。位点竞争实验和分子模拟的结果表明：吡虫啉在HSA的主要结合位置为位点?。圆二色谱、同步荧光光谱和三维荧光的分析发现：吡虫啉引起HSA的构象发生改变,其α-螺旋含量降低,无规卷曲含量升高,肽链结构在吡虫啉的作用下有所伸展。