The integumental pigment ofAsellus

Résumé La mélanine intégumentaire du crustacé isopode,Asellus, est un pigment ommochrome, avec des propriétés très semblables à celles de la xanthommatine. Ce pigment existe aussi dans l'intégument dePorcellio et d'autres isopodes, ainsi que du myriapodeIulus.     

Le “Commentaire” d'Hipparque I. La sphère mobile

Résumé L'étude des données écliptiques contenues dans le Commentaire d'Hipparque aux Phénomènes d'Eudoxe et d'Aratos permet de décrire la sphère mobile qui a pu aider Hipparque dans la rédaction de son texte. Le traitement statistique des 165 couples de mesures de longitudes écliptiques, associé à l'utilisation d'une méthode par autocorrélation, conduit à déterminer une fonction d'appareil qui est négligeable, ce qui montre la perfection de l'instrument employé par Hipparque.La présente étude montre qu'Hipparque n'a pas tenu compte, dans le relevé des longitudes au méridien, de l'épaisseur de l'armille. Il a procédé à un arrondi scientifique au demi-degré pour la plupart des lectures, qu'elles soient faites d'un côté ou de l'autre du méridien.La valeur trouvée pour la latitude affichée sur l'instrument correspond parfaitement à celle du nord de l'île de Rhodes et l'obliquité de l'écliptique à celle qu'elle avait au 2^ème siècle avant notre ère. Ce dernier résultat laisse penser qu'Hipparque aurait déterminé avec exactitude l'obliquité de l'écliptique mais que la valeur obtenue ne nous aurait pas été transmise par la tradition écrite. Présenté par O. Pedersen     

Virtual cranial reconstruction of Sahelanthropus tchadensis

Previous research in Chad at the Toros-Menalla 266 fossiliferous locality (about 7 million years old) uncovered a nearly complete cranium (TM 266-01-60-1), three mandibular fragments and several isolated teeth attributed to Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Of this material, the cranium is especially important for testing hypotheses about the systematics and behavioural characteristics of this species, but is partly distorted from fracturing, displacement and plastic deformation. Here we present a detailed virtual reconstruction of the TM 266 cranium that corrects these distortions. The reconstruction confirms that S. tchadensis is a hominid and is not more closely related to the African great apes. Analysis of the basicranium further indicates that S. tchadensis might have been an upright biped, suggesting that bipedalism was present in the earliest known hominids, and probably arose soon after the divergence of the chimpanzee and human lineages.     

解体好氧颗粒污泥修复

考察了加入新的活性污泥使解体好氧颗粒污泥完成修复的可行性.解体好氧颗粒污泥对新加入的活性污泥进行吸附,在各种选择压力特别是水力剪切力作用下和原有颗粒污泥形成一个有机整体.大约3周时间,解体颗粒污泥被完全修复.扫描电镜观察发现,被修复后的颗粒污泥呈现非常规则的结构,微生物相十分致密.在解体颗粒污泥逐渐被修复的过程中,颗粒平均粒径仅从最初的2.8mm增至2.9mm,说明活性污泥在颗粒污泥上的附着主要发生在颗粒的空穴.而颗粒污泥的沉降性能和强度都得到了极大的改善,颗粒沉降速率和完整性系数分别由最初的72m/h和56.8%提高到110m/h和65.8%.新加入的活性污泥除了部分用于修复解体颗粒污泥,其余在选择压力等的作用下形成了新的好氧颗粒污泥.     

Crucial role for DNA ligase III in mitochondria but not in Xrcc1-dependent repair

Mammalian cells have three ATP-dependent DNA ligases, which are required for DNA replication and repair. Homologues of ligase I (Lig1) and ligase IV (Lig4) are ubiquitous in Eukarya, whereas ligase III (Lig3), which has nuclear and mitochondrial forms, appears to be restricted to vertebrates. Lig3 is implicated in various DNA repair pathways with its partner protein Xrcc1 (ref. 1). Deletion of Lig3 results in early embryonic lethality in mice, as well as apparent cellular lethality, which has precluded definitive characterization of Lig3 function. Here we used pre-emptive complementation to determine the viability requirement for Lig3 in mammalian cells and its requirement in DNA repair. Various forms of Lig3 were introduced stably into mouse embryonic stem (mES) cells containing a conditional allele of Lig3 that could be deleted with Cre recombinase. With this approach, we find that the mitochondrial, but not nuclear, Lig3 is required for cellular viability. Although the catalytic function of Lig3 is required, the zinc finger (ZnF) and BRCA1 carboxy (C)-terminal-related (BRCT) domains of Lig3 are not. Remarkably, the viability requirement for Lig3 can be circumvented by targeting Lig1 to the mitochondria or expressing Chlorella virus DNA ligase, the minimal eukaryal nick-sealing enzyme, or Escherichia coli LigA, an NAD(+)-dependent ligase. Lig3-null cells are not sensitive to several DNA-damaging agents that sensitize Xrcc1-deficient cells. Our results establish a role for Lig3 in mitochondria, but distinguish it from its interacting protein Xrcc1.     

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans

Chromatin modifiers regulate lifespan in several organisms, raising the question of whether changes in chromatin states in the parental generation could be incompletely reprogrammed in the next generation and thereby affect the lifespan of descendants. The histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation (H3K4me3) complex, composed of ASH-2, WDR-5 and the histone methyltransferase SET-2, regulates Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan. Here we show that deficiencies in the H3K4me3 chromatin modifiers ASH-2, WDR-5 or SET-2 in the parental generation extend the lifespan of descendants up until the third generation. The transgenerational inheritance of lifespan extension by members of the ASH-2 complex is dependent on the H3K4me3 demethylase RBR-2, and requires the presence of a functioning germline in the descendants. Transgenerational inheritance of lifespan is specific for the H3K4me3 methylation complex and is associated with epigenetic changes in gene expression. Thus, manipulation of specific chromatin modifiers only in parents can induce an epigenetic memory of longevity in descendants.     

柔性衬底上铝背电极制备及相关特性研究

采用射频磁控溅射技术在聚酰亚胺柔性衬底上制备硅基薄膜太阳能电池用铝背电板,研究了不同溅射功率和工作气压条件对铝电极薄膜性能的影响.利用原子力显微镜分析表征了薄膜的表面形貌和粗糙度,薄膜的电学性能和光学性能分别采用四探针测量仪和紫外可见近红外分光光度计进行分析表征.测试结果表明:随着溅射功率的增加,薄膜表面均方根粗糙度迅...     

含有改性混凝土叠合层的T形梁抗裂性能研究

基于8根混凝土倒T形叠合梁受弯试验,研究了钢筋钢纤维自应力混凝土做加固材料层二次浇注到待加固混凝土T形梁,从而形成的叠合梁在负弯矩区的抗裂性能.试验结果表明,仅占叠合梁高13.9%的叠合层将梁的开裂弯矩提高44.9%.同时根据已有理论模型,推导了自应力混凝土叠合T梁后加自应力的求法和负弯矩区正截面抗裂计算公式,其计算结果与试验结果比较吻合.