X射线激光器捕捉到蛋白质分子的超快动态

近日,美国威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校的生物物理学家、能源部下属SLAC国家加速器实验室部门负责人Marius Schmidt率领的国际研究团队,用X射线激光器以慢动作的形式展示了一个光敏性生物分子的快速动态。"人们能够在这一技术的基础上,以原子水平的空间分辨率和超快时间分辨率制作纳米世界的电影,"Schmidt说道。研究人员将PYP光敏黄蛋白(photoactive yellow protein)作为模式系统。PYP是一种蓝光     

高速数字通信用SAW(声表面波)滤波器

近年来,数字通信一直努力在给定的无线电频带内尽量提高传输信号的比特速率。多层调制的正交调幅(QAM)可以满足这一要求,具有很高的波谱效率,且调制电平层次越多,谱效率越高。但这种调制方式对系统中使用的几乎所有元器件都提出了高要求。特别是为了降低误比特率,对频谱形成滤波器的要求很     

离子阱中热库诱导退相干的控制

对单个囚禁离子在热库作用下的退相干的控制问题进行了研究.本文提出的控制方法是基于消除自由哈密顿技术和脉冲重聚技术的结合.前者是利用一个经典大失谐激光场作用于囚禁离子来实现的,而后者是利用一系列的激光π脉冲来实现的.解析与数值表明,应用这种控制方法可以有效消除量子退相干且比纯粹应用脉冲重聚技术要好.     

与HBV X蛋白相互作用的细胞蛋白的筛选及其鉴定

参考GenBank核苷酸序列库中的HBV的核苷酸序列设计合成了一对对应于HBx基因的引物，从原发性肝癌(hepatocellular carcinoma，HCC)患者的血清中提取HBV基因组DNA作为模板，扩增HBx编码区并测定了核苷酸序列．将该编码区克隆到酵母双杂交系统的诱饵蛋白表达载体pGBKT7中，转入酵母细胞AH109，进行表型鉴定．然后通过Mating实验从已制备好用于酵母双杂交系统的肝cDNA表达文库中筛选与HBx相互作用的细胞蛋白，并用体外免疫共沉淀实验进一步验证．研究表明，分离得到的与HBx基因编码的蛋白相互作用的4种新的细胞蛋白，分别是醛缩酶B、C8α亚基、一种丝氨酸蛋白酶Hepsin和一种未知蛋白．     

An Anti-Control Scheme for Spiral under Lorenz Chaotic Signals

The Fitzhugh-Nagumo (FHN) equation is used to generate spiral and spatiotemporal chaos. The weak Lorenz chaotic signal is imposed on the system locally and globally. It is found that for the right chaotic driving signal,spiral and spatiotemporal chaos can be suppressed. The simulation results also show that this anti-control scheme is effective so that the system emerges into the stable states quickly after a short duration of chaotic driving (about 50 time units) and the continuous driving keeps the system in a homogeneous state.     

Pseudo-Spin Model for the Cytoskeletal Microtubule Surface

Due to the inherent symmetry structures and the electric properties in the microtubule (MT), we treat the MT as a one-dimensional ferroelectric system and describe the nonlinear dynamics of dimer electric dipoles in one protofilament of the MT by virtue of the double-well potential. Consequently, the physical problem has been mapped onto the pseudo-spin system, and the mean-field approximation has been taken to obtain some physical results, including the expression for the phase transition temperature Tc and the estimated value of Tc (=312 K).     

用光来操纵活性生物分子

 现在展示在你面前的照片是一个红血球细胞(图1上)以及它被拉伸而变形的情形(图1下)。这是奥斯汀德克萨斯大学的一个研究组进行的研究细胞弹性的实验。他们用激光作工具,利用光进入细胞时产生的对细胞的作用力使细胞拉长,拉伸程度与激光的强度有关。由于细胞被癌病侵害后其弹性会发生改变,用这个办法能够筛选出有病细胞的数量。德克萨斯大学的这个实验也成功地证明了,如果一束激光照到一个完整的生物细胞上,在光进入细胞时对细胞有一个与进入方向相反的作用力,在光射出细胞时对细胞有一个与射出方向相同的作用力。那么这力是怎样产生的呢?其原理实际上并不很深奥。     

RO-heparin Inhibits L-Selectin-mediated Neutrophils Adhesion to Vascular Endothelium Under Flow Conditions

Introduction Migrationandrecruitmentofleukocytesfromblood toinflammatorylesionsitesaresequentiallyregulated byadhesionmoleculesandtheirreceptors[1].These lectinfamilyplaysamajorroleininitiatingattachement ofneutrophilstotheactivatedendothelium.P selectin,…     

Fusion Proteins Cpn10-E^rns with Properties of Generating CSFV-Neutralized Antibodies

IntroductionClassical swine fever(CSF), included in the listA of the Office International des Epizooties(OIE), is ahighly contagious disease of domestic pigs and is con-sidered as the mostharmful disease occurring in pigs allover the world[1]. Outbreaks o…     

Suppression of Chaos and Phase Locking in Two Coupled Nonidentical Neurons under Periodic Input

Dynamical behaviour of two coupled neurons with at least one of them being chaotic is presented. Bifurcation diagrams and Lyapunov exponents are calculated to diagnose the dynamical behaviour of the coupled neurons with the increasing coupling strength. It is found that when the coupling strength increases, a chaotic neuron can be controlled by the coupling between neurons. At the same time, phase locking is studied by the maxima of the differences of instantaneous phases and average frequencies between two coupled neurons, and the inherent connection of phase locking and the suppression of chaos is formulated. It is observed that the onset of phase locking is closely related to the suppression of chaos. Finally, a way for suppression of chaos in two coupled nonidentical neurons under periodic input is suggested.