中药提取物声敏剂在声动力治疗动脉粥样硬化中的应用

目前, 动脉粥样硬化引起的心血管疾病发生率越来越高, 除昂贵的介入和搭桥治疗术外, 寻求一种简单、有效且经济的治疗方法至关重要. 声动力治疗是一种无创、安全的治疗方式, 其在动脉粥样硬化治疗中的应用很有前景. 声动力治疗中使用的药物为声敏剂, 是影响其疗效的主要因素之一. 研究人员一直致力于探讨不同种类声敏剂所带来的声动力效果在动脉粥样硬化治疗中起到的不同作用. 近年来, 在声敏剂的筛选研究中发现, 中药提取物有很大的潜在声敏剂价值. 简要总结了目前对声动力治疗机制及大黄素、姜黄素及其衍生物和金丝桃素作为声敏剂在声动力治疗动脉粥样硬化中的相关进展.     

Expression of the SOD gene from Trichoderma harzianum in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Superoxide dismutases are metalloproteins which play a major role in defense against oxygen radicalmediated toxicity in aerobic organisms. Such proteins are important endogeneity cytoprotection factor involving defence. A 751-bp full-length cDNA sequence of an SOD gene was isolated from the Trichoderma harzianum. The full-length cDNA of the SOD gene consists of one 465-bp open reading frame nucleotide, which encodes a 15.7-kDa polypeptide consisting of 154 amino acid residues. Sequence analysis revealed that SOD gene has more than 72%-86% amino acid sequence homology with those of other fungi. The SOD gene was integrated into the genomic DNA of pYES2 by insertion into a single site for recombination, yielding the recombinant pYES2-SOD. SOD expressed by pYES2-SOD was induced by galactose. We test whether SOD could offer abiotic stress resistance when it was introduced into yeast ceils. A transgenic yeast harboring T. harzianum SOD was generated under the control of a constitutively expressed GAL promoter. The results indicated that SOD yeast transformants had significantly higher resistance to salt and drought stress.