Epigenetic asymmetry of imprinted genes in plant gametes

Plant imprinted genes show parent-of-origin expression in seed endosperm, but little is known about the nature of parental imprints in gametes before fertilization. We show here that single differentially methylated regions (DMRs) correlate with allele-specific expression of two maternally expressed genes in the seed and that one DMR is differentially methylated between gametes. Thus, plants seem to have developed similar strategies as mammals to epigenetically mark imprinted genes.     

A New Discipline of Science-The Study of Open Complex Giant System and Its Methodology

This paper introduces the conception of open complex giant system and the methodology for dealing with the system, with stress on its profound significance in development of science and technology. The authors conclude that the reductionism underlying the exact science is not suitable to open complex giant system, and the only feasible alternative is the meta-synthetic engineering from the qualitative to the quantitative.     

脉冲等离子体气相合成氮化硼的研究

以Ｂ２Ｏ３粉扩ＮＨ３为原料，用脉冲等离子体反应器合成ＢＮ，所得产品经Ｘ射线衍射，红外光谱分析表明，产品中除含六方氮化硼外，还含有少量立方氮化硼，生产工艺简单。     

Theoretical design for a class of chaotic stream cipher based on nonlinear coupled feedback

1.INTRODUCTION Inordertoimprovethesecurityofchaosencryption system,wecaniteratethechaossystem.Themore chaossystemiterates,themorecomplexitbecomes, andthemoresecurethecorrespondingchaosencryp tionsystembecomes.Zhouetal[1]proposedaclassof chaoticsequencegeneratorinwhichthelinearseg mentnumberincreasedwiththeiterationnumberex ponentially.Withtheincreaseoftheiterationnum ber,thesecurityofthesystemincreaseswhilethe rateofencoding/decodingdecreases.Inaddition,the phase spacegraphhassomedefe…     

Regulation of cellulose synthesis in Acetobacter xylinum by cyclic diguanylic acid

Cellulose is the most abundant renewable carbon resource on earth and is an indispensable raw material for the wood, paper, and textile industries. A model system to study the mechanism of cellulose biogenesis is the bacterium Acetobacter xylinum which produces pure cellulose as an extracellular product. It was from this organism that in vitro preparations which possessed high levels of cellulose synthase activity were first obtained in both membranous and soluble forms. We recently demonstrated that this activity is subject to a complex multi-component regulatory system, in which the synthase is directly affected by an unusual cyclic nucleotide activator enzymatically formed from GTP, and indirectly by a Ca (2+) -sensitive phosphodiesterase which degrades the activator. The cellulose synthase activator (CSA) has now been identified as bis-(3' 5')-cyclic diguanylic acid (5'G3'p5'G3'p) on the basis of mass spectroscopic data, nuclear magnetic resonance analysis and comparison with chemically synthesized material. We also report here on intermediary steps in the synthesis and degradation of this novel circular dinucleotide, which have been integrated into a model for the regulation of cellulose synthesis.