STUDIES ON HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION OF Rhizobium meliloti nifA GENE AND OXYGEN SENSITIVITY OF ITS PRODUCT

When the R. meliloti (Rm) nifA'-lacZ fusion-carrying plasmids were introduced intothe strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, R. trifolii and R. astragalus, β-galactosidaseactivity was demonstrated. However, activity was not induced by microaerobiosis. Further-more, R. meliloti nifA'-lacZ fusion was also not expressed in the nodule bacteroids ofR. trifolii and R. astragalus. We speculate that some factor(s) important for the inductionof Rm nifA presumed to be the fixLJ regulatory system would not be operative in thesebacteria. Experiments using R. meliloti nifH'-lacZ/ K. Pneumoniae nifH'-lacZ fusion and theconstitutive Rm nifA system to test the nifA-dependent expression of nifH'-lacZ underaerobic and microaerobic conditions in E. coli were performed. The inhibition of the RmnifA activation of nifH'-lacZ expression in the bacteria grown in the aerobic conditionwas shown. Assays on the Rm nifA-m RNA produced by the constitutive Rm nifA in E.coli under aerobic and microaerobic conditions with the cloned ni     

泊洛沙姆F127和丹皮酚对GMO液晶相变的影响

对GMO/H₂O, GMO/F-127/H₂O和GMO/paeonol/H₂O三种体系的液晶特性进行了考察, 结合粘度及偏光纹理绘制相图, 运用“drying”方法的原理鉴别了反相胶束和立方相液晶, 并采用临界堆积参数p值理论探讨水溶性和脂溶性物质引起液晶相变的机理. 结果表明水溶性泊洛沙姆F127可使层状液晶区域变宽, 立方相液晶区域变窄|脂溶性丹皮酚可使层状液晶和立方相液晶区域变窄, 反相六角相液晶变宽. 本研究通过对单油酸甘油酯(GMO)液晶特征的研究, 为其作为载体的应用提供了理论基础.