Finding finer functions for partially characterized proteins by protein-protein interaction networks

Based on high-throughput data, numerous algorithms have been designed to find functions of novel proteins. However, the effectiveness of such algorithms is currently limited by some fundamental factors, including (1) the low a-priori probability of novel proteins participating in a detailed function; (2) the huge false data present in high-throughput datasets; (3) the incomplete data coverage of functional classes; (4) the abundant but heterogeneous negative samples for training the algorithms; and (5) the lack of detailed functional knowledge for training algorithms. Here, for partially characterized proteins, we suggest an approach to finding their finer functions based on protein interaction sub-networks or gene expression patterns, defined in function-specific subspaces. The proposed approach can lessen the above-mentioned problems by properly defining the prediction range and functionally filtering the noisy data, and thus can efficiently find proteins’ novel functions. For thousands of yeast and human proteins partially characterized, it is able to reliably find their finer functions (e.g., the translational functions) with more than 90% precision. The predicted finer functions are highly valuable both for guiding the follow-up wet-lab validation and for providing the necessary data for training algorithms to learn other proteins.     

PVC基活性炭的制备及其吸附性能的研究Ⅰ——PVC沥青的制备及其预氧化

以PVC树脂为原料,采用两个恒温段的程序升温方法加热脱氯制备PVC沥青,并通过空气预氧化法,对所制备的PVC沥青进行了预氧化处理.实验结果表明,PVC树脂在流速为100 mL/min氮气气氛中,以10℃/min速率程序升温至270℃,恒温脱氯150 min后再程序升温至410℃并恒温芳化120 min,可以制备出脱氯率和得率均较高的PVC沥青.该PVC沥青在300℃温度下,采用空气预氧化法预氧化120min,可获得增重率约为11%,氧化交联度较高、耐热性能较好的预氧化PVC沥青.FT-IR光谱分析结果表明,PVC沥青在预氧化的过程中,主要发生了氧化脱氢、脱水、CO2缩聚交联反应,使沥青形成耐热型的氧桥结构,从而达到预氧化目的.     

代数方法在C语言图形打印问题中的应用

介绍了C语言程序设计中的难点问题——图形打印问题的解决方案，详细论述了如何利用代数方法来解决这一双重循环问题的具体措施。     

Probing met repressor-operator recognition in solution.

The three-dimensional crystal structure of the Escherichia coli methionine repressor, MetJ, complexed with a DNA operator fragment is described in an accompanying article. The complex exhibits several novel features of DNA-protein interaction. DNA sequence recognition is achieved largely by hydrogen-bond contacts between the bases and amino-acid side chains located on a beta-ribbon, a mode of recognition previously hypothesized on the basis of modelling of idealized beta-strands and DNA, and mutagenesis of the Salmonella phage P22 repressors Arc and Mnt. The complex comprises a pair of MetJ repressor dimers which bind to adjacent met-box sites on the DNA, and contact each other by means of a pair of antiparallel alpha-helices. Here we assess the importance of these contacts, and also of contacts that would be made between the C-helices of the protein and DNA in a previous model of the complex, by studying mutations aimed at disrupting them. The role of the carboxy-terminal helix face in operator binding was unclear, but we demonstrate that recognition of operator sequences occurs through side chains in the beta-strand motif and that dimer-dimer interactions are required for effective repression.     

弧焊机器人控制系统

本文介绍一种二级计算机控制的弧焊机器人控制系统。在考虑相邻关节影响的条件下，对弧焊机器人控制系统的硬件电路和控制方法进行了分析和设计．     

程序设计中类的认识和应用

编程是指用程序设计语言来生成能够被计算机识别的系统过程.在编程过程中,随着计算机的发展,人们采用过各种各样的方法,过去基本上采用的是面向过程的程序设计方法,而现在采用的是面向对象的程序设计方法.文中就面向对象程序设计方法中类的概念和应用做了一些讨论.     

体操运动员技术风格个性化形成的主要影响因素

根据运动员的成才特点，阐述了科学选材、运动训练及教练员执教能力对形成运动员技术风格个性化过程中所起的作用。     

Improving the thermal stability of lactate oxidase by directed evolution

Lactate oxidase is used in biosensors to measure the concentration of lactate in the blood and other body fluids. Increasing the thermostability of lactate oxidase can significantly prolong the lifetime of these biosensors. We have previously obtained a variant of lactate oxidase from Aerococcus viridans with two mutations (E160G/V198I) that is significantly more thermostable than the wild-type enzyme. Here we have attempted to further improve the thermostability of E160G/V198I lactate oxidase using directed evolution. We made a mutant lactate oxidase gene library by applying error-prone PCR and DNA shuffling, and screened for thermostable mutant lactate oxidase using a plate-based assay. After three rounds of screening we obtained a thermostable mutant lactate oxidase, which has six mutations (E160G/V198I/G36S/T103S/A232S/F277Y). The half-life of this lactate oxidase at 70 °C was about 2 times that of E160G/V198I and about 36 times that of the wild-type enzyme. The amino acid mutation process suggests that the combined neutral mutations are important in protein evolution. Received 15 September 2006; received after revision 21 October 2006; accepted 2 November 2006     

Heterostructure in ZnO Nano-Tetrapods

1 Introduction 　　Nanoscale science and technology have attracted greatattention since the novel properties become dominant for well-known materials as their sizes reduced to some critical dimension. These properties frequently originate in lattice distortions, structure transformations etc[1]. The variations of size and structure ofnanocrystals lead to the change of their electronic structures. Very recently, nanoscale materials with different electronic structures were utilized in fabricating nanoscale junctions[2]. 　　……