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     

催化动力学光度法测定水中痕量铁

本文研究了ｐｈ５．０的ＨＡｃ－ＮａＡｃ介质中，痕量铁催化过氧化氢氧化紫脲酸的褪色反应，建立了催化动力学光度法测定痕量铁的新方法，方法的线性范围０－０．４０，０．４０－２．０μｇ／２５ｍＬ，检出限为８×１０＾－１１ｇ／ｍＬ，用于水样中痕量铁的测定，结果满意。     

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．     

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…     

Indriect Determination of CTMAB with Sodium Chloride and Ammonium Thiocyanate by Floatation and Separation of Zine

A new method for indirect determination of cetyl-trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTMAB) with NaCl and NH4SCH by floatation and separation of zinc has been studied.The study shows that Zn(Ⅱ） can associate with NH4SCN and CTMAB to form insoluble ternary ion-association complex,and the precipitate can float on the surface of the liquid phase.A good linear relationship is observed between the floatation yield(E%) of Zn(Ⅱ） and the amount of CTMAB.On the ground,CTMAB Can be indirectly determined by determining E% of Zn(Ⅱ）.The results were satisfactory.     

江浙蝮蛇蛇毒蛋白C激活因子基因的克隆及测序

从江浙蝮蛇毒腺中抽提总RNA，RT－PCR进行体外扩增，获得江浙蝮蛇蛇毒蛋白C激活因子基因，克隆至pGEX-5X-3载体中，对3个重组克隆分别作DNA全序列分析，通过遗传密码推导出相应的氨基酸序列，与其它已知的丝氨酸复白酶蛇毒蛋白的氨基酸作比较，其中许多上氨基酸有很强的同源性，该基因的成功克隆，不仅推导出江浙蝮蛇蛇毒蛋白C激活因子的蛋白质序列，也为进一步开展江浙蝮蛇蛇毒蛋白C激活因子蛋白质工程的研究工作打下良好的基础。     

Calculation of the Specific Heats for the Ⅱ—Ⅲ and Ⅱ—Ⅳ Phase transitions in NH4I

This study gives our calculation for the specific heats CVI due to an Ising model using the observed Cp data for the Ⅱ-Ⅲ and Ⅱ-VI phase transitions in NH4I.By fitting to the CP data we determine the values of the critical exponent for the pressure of 0.14GPa(Ⅱ-Ⅲ phase transition)and for the pressures of 0.75,1.35and 1.97 GPa (II-IV phase transition)in NH4I.Our exponent values values are close to the predicted values of the specific heat in a three-dimensional Ising model.Our calculated CVI are in good agreement with the experimental CP for NH4I in most cases.