Unraveling virus identity by detection of depleted probes with capillary electrophoresis

With the emergence of new viral infections and pandemics, there is a need to develop faster methods to unravel the virus identities in a large number of clinical samples. This report describes a virus identification method featuring high throughput, high resolution, and high sensitivity detection of viruses. Identification of virus is based on liquid hybridization of different lengths of virus-specific probes to their corresponding viruses. The probes bound to target sequences are removed by a biotin–streptavidin pull-down mechanism and the supernatant is analyzed by capillary electrophoresis. The probes depleted from the sample appear as diminished peaks in the electropherograms and the remaining probes serve as calibrators to align peaks in different capillaries. The virus identities are unraveled by a signal processing and peak detection algorithm developed in-house. Nine viruses were used in the study to demonstrate how the system works to unravel the virus identity in single and double virus infections. With properly designed probes, the system is able to distinguish closely related viruses. The system takes advantage of the high resolution feature of capillary electrophoresis to resolve probes that differ by length. The method may facilitate virus identity screen from more candidate viruses with an automated 4-color DNA sequencer.     

材料化学课程线上教学初探

2020新年伊始,新冠肺炎突然来袭,为了防止聚集性感染,教育部提出了"停课不停教、停课不停学"的要求。地方普通高校学生的自律性、自觉性及能动性差别十分明显,这样的学情对如何有效开展化学专业的线上教学工作提出了更大的挑战。本文以材料化学课程线上教学为例,介绍地方普通高校化学专业线上教学工作的开展情况。针对教学过程中遇到的各种问题和采用的应对方案,探讨线上教学过程中的注意事项。希望本文能为地方普通高校化学专业线上教学工作提供有益的参考。     

Bacteriophage and impurity carryover and total organic carbon release during extended protein A chromatography

In the biopharmaceutical industry, column chromatography residuals are routinely assessed by the direct measurement of mock eluates. In this study, we evaluated virus and other impurity carryover between protein A cycles and the feasibility of using a total organic carbon (TOC) analyzer to monitor for column impurity leakage as a correlate for actual measured carryover in mock eluates. Commercial process intermediates were used in scaled down studies of two protein A media, ProSep A (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA) and MabSelect SuRe (GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden). The chromatography system was programmed to run up to 200 normal load/elution cycles with periodic blank cycles to measure protein and phage carryover, and water flush cycles to measure TOC release. Sustained phage carryover was evident in each study. Carryover and TOC release was lowest in the case where cleaning was most stringent (50 mM NaOH/0.5 M Na₂SO₄ with MabSelect SuRe). The TOC analysis at this time does not appear to be a viable practical means of measuring impurity carryover; direct measurements in mock eluates appears to be more predictive of column performance.     

Recyclable,non-leaching antimicrobial magnetic nanoparticles

Recyclable antimicrobial magnetic nanoparticles, Fe₃O₄@P(St-co-AcQAC), were prepared through surfactantfree seeded emulsion polymerization involving a polymerizable, hydrophobic quaternary ammonium compound (QAC). These antimicrobial magnetic nanoparticles demonstrated excellent antimicrobial activities against both Grampositive and Gram-negative bacteria, and can be reused for multiple times.     

Relation of structure to performance characteristics of monolithic and perfusive stationary phases

Commercially available polymer-based monolithic and perfusive stationary phases were evaluated for their applicability in chromatography of biologics. Information on bed geometry, including that from electron microscopy (EM), was used to interpret and predict accessible volumes, binding capacities, and pressure drops. For preparative purification of biologics up to at least 7 nm in diameter, monoliths and perfusive resins are inferior to conventional stationary phases due to their low binding capacities (20–30 g/L for BSA). For larger biologics, up to several hundred nanometers in diameter, calculations from EM images predict a potential increase in binding capacity to nearly 100 g/L. The accessible volume for adenovirus calculated from the EM images matched the experimental value. While the pores of perfusive resins are essentially inaccessible to adenovirus under binding conditions, under non-adsorbing conditions the accessible intrabead porosity is almost as large as the interbead porosity. Modeling of breakthrough curves showed that the experimentally observed slow approach to full saturation can be explained by the distribution of pore sizes.     

定量微板核酸杂交检测乙型肝炎患者血清中HBVDNA及其临床意义

采用定量微板核酸杂交技术检测448例肝病患者血清中HBVDNA含量.结果显示:其阳性率和病毒含量HBsAg(+)、HBeAg(+)、抗-HBc(+)组>HBsAg(+)、抗-HBe(+)、抗-HBc(+)组>抗-HBs(+)、抗-HBe(+)、抗-HBc(+)组(P<0.05,P<0.01).血清HBVDNA含量与黄疸程度及转氨酶的高低无关.血清HBVDNA含量高低,阳性率大小与临床型的严重程度呈一定的相关性,从而指导临床诊断和治疗.     

茶毛虫核型多角体病毒DNA性质的研究

本文报道了对茶毛虫核型多角体病毒蒙山株系(EpNPV-M)核酸性质研究的结果。EpNPV-M含双链DNA分子,含量为6.85μgDNA/mgPIB,提纯的DNA具典型的紫外线吸收特性,琼脂糖凝胶电泳证明DNA分子是大小均一的。DNA的(G+C)％为36.6,限制性片段积加法测得该DNA分子量为75.61×10~6道尔顿,109.57Kb,电镜法测得DNA分子长度为35.8μm,相当于分子量为74.1×10~6道尔顿,107.4Kb.电镜观察证实该病毒含有一些超螺旋环状DNA分子。建立了三种限制性内切酶对该DNA的酶切图谱。三种酶的酶解片断数为:EcoRI,27个;BglⅡ,15个;BamHI,9个。     

核酸分子杂交检测黄瓜花叶病毒

为检测黄瓜花叶病毒的存在,应用Northernblot,将提取的黄瓜花叶病毒RNA样品,经甲醛变性凝胶电泳分离,使RNA解离成单链,然后用上行毛细管转移法,将凝胶上的单链RNA片段转移到尼龙膜上.经适当洗涤、干燥后,在烤箱中80℃保温2h,用于杂交.以带有黄瓜花叶病毒目的片段的细菌质粒制备DNA探针,用放射性同位素32P标记探针DNA,100℃变性处理用于杂交的探针,然后进行杂交.结果表明,在杂交膜上显示与特异性探针结合的阳性RNA条带,检测到了黄瓜花叶病毒的存在.     

斜纹夜蛾NPV-DNA限制性内切酶分析及多角体蛋白的某些理化性质

斜纹夜蛾NPV-DNA经限翩性内切酶EooRI和BamHI完全消化,分别产生22条和15条片断,测得DNA平均分子量为75.26×10~5道尔顿。多角体蛋白经超离心,Sepharose 6B柱层析纯化,PAGE为一条均匀带;高碘酸-schiff反应阳性,多角体蛋白含有多糖;多角体蛋经显示酸性类脂的Niles兰染色呈阴性。     

Criteria for Feller transition functions

This paper presents some conditions for the minimal Q-function to be a Feller transition function, for a given q-matrix Q. We derive a sufficient condition that is stated explicitly in terms of the transition rates. Furthermore, some necessary and sufficient conditions are derived of a more implicit nature, namely in terms of properties of a system of equations (or inequalities) and in terms of the operator induced by the q-matrix. The criteria lead to some perturbation results. These results are applied to birth-death processes with killing, yielding some sufficient and some necessary conditions for the Feller property directly in terms of the rates. An essential step in the analysis is the idea of associating the Feller property with individual states.