唐菖蒲开花过程中的部分生理生化变化

在唐菖蒲穗状花序上，表现出明显的发育和衰老顺序。分析测定结果表明，由花朵的生长到衰老，蛋白质、糖的含量呈下降的趋势。氨基酸总量、过氧化物酶、超氧化物歧化酶活性以及膜质过氧化产物丙二醛的含量增加。     

Genetic analysis and gene mapping of a dominant presenescing leaf gene <Emphasis Type="Italic">PSL3</Emphasis> in rice (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Oryza sativa</Emphasis> L.)

Leaf senescence as an active process is essential for plant survival and reproduction. However, premature senility is harmful to agricultural production. In this study, a rice mutant, named as psl3 (presescing leaf 3) isolated from EMS-treated Jinhui 10, displays obvious premature senility features both in morphological and physiological level. Genetic analysis showed that mutant trait was controlled by a single dominant gene (PSL3), which was located on rice chromosome 7 between SSR marker c7sr1 and InDel marker ID10 with an interval of 53.5 kb. The result may be useful for the isolation of the PSL3 gene.     

运动、生长激素与衰老

就衰老与机体生长激素的关系、运动促进生长激素分泌的作用出发,结合过量外源性生长激素会导致的副作用,指出运动训练才是延缓衰老、改善老年人体能状况的科学、有效的方法。     

兔子和小鼠不同组织苹果酸脱氢酶活性的研究

本文采用苹果酸脱氢酶(M DH)催化过程中辅酶Ⅰ氧化还原型转化的特征,测定了兔子和小鼠不同组织M DH的比活力和米氏常数(km),比活力在370~1 055单位/m g蛋白之间,km范围为3.57~6.49×1-0 5m o l/L.快速老化小鼠病理模型的km增大10倍,为1.49~5.64×10-4m o l/L.     

Programmed cell death during terminal bud senescence in a sympodial branching tree, Eucommia ulmoides

Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. is a typical sympodial branching tree. The apical bud of the branch ages and dies every year, replaced by the nearby axillary bud in the second year. Structural assays and a series of biochemical analyses were performed to analyze the senescence mechanism in the apical bud. It was revealed that most cells of the apical bud underwent the programmed cell death (PCD) during the senescence: the chromosomes were congregated and the nuclear contents were condensed, as shown by 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) fluorescence. DNA fragmentation was detected during senescence using the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated dUTP nick end in situ labeling (TUNEL) method, coincident with the appearance of a DNA ladder. Moreover, a 20 kD DNase related to fragmentation was found. PCD was initiated first in the young leaves, leaf primordia and peripheral zone cells, then in the central mother cells and initial layer cells in the apical meristem. The terminal buds remain in vegetative growth during senescence, in contrast to buds of many annual plants.     

二苯脲延缓紫萍半叶状体衰老的作用

在长日照条件下,10-7mol/L的二苯脲对紫萍半叶状体就有保绿的作用,10-5～2×10-4mol/L的二苯脲还可以明显地促进叶绿素的合成和干重的增加,提高丝氨酸乙醛酸转氨酶的活性,延缓半叶状体的衰老.实验结果表明,二苯脲本身具有细胞分裂素的活性,能代替内源细胞分裂素起到抗衰老的作用;二苯脲同时也能推迟半叶状体中内源细胞分裂素含量的降低.另外,在培养液中加入外源L-丝氨酸,可以抗拮二苯脲对紫萍半叶状体衰老的延缓作用,说明二苯脲抗衰老的机制类似于其它细胞分裂素.     

细胞分裂素对大豆叶片衰老过程中蛋白激酶基因表达的影响

利用真核生物催化丝氨酸／苏氨酸残基磷酸化的蛋白激酶ＶＩ和Ⅷ保守区设计兼并引物,进行ＲＴ－ＰＣＲ扩增反应,研究大豆叶片衰老过程中蛋白激酶基因表达的变化及外源细胞分裂素处理的作用。结果表明人工合成的细胞分裂素－６ＢＡ预处理很可能在转录水平上正向调节一些蛋白激酶基因的表达,而诱导衰老处理则起负调控作用。     

绿豆子叶衰老过程中线粒体膜对几种氨基酸的透性

采用线粒体膨胀技术就不同衰老程度的绿豆子叶线粒体膜对氨基酸的透性进行了测定，结果表明，随着绿豆子叶的衰老，离体线粒体膜在脯氨酸、丝氨酸和甘氨酸等渗溶液中的膨胀率从２ｄ龄至５ｄ龄子叶逐渐下降，５ｄ龄时，线粒体结构与功能已受到明显破坏，文中对膨胀率下降的原因进行了讨论。     

Rapid senescence induced by overexpression of p53 in NIH3T3 cells

An NIH3T3 cell line which overexpresses temperature-sensitive p53Val135 was constructed by introduction of p53Val135 gene. It exhibited rapidly characteristic morphological and biochemical alterations related to repli-cative senescence when being cultured in 32℃. We suggested that the overexpression of p53 activated probably the onset of senescence in NIH3T3 cells, which induced a rapid cellular senescence.     

Culture in low levels of oxygen enhances in vitro proliferation potential of satellite cells from old skeletal muscles

The proliferation ability of satellite cells (considered the 'stem cells' of mature myofibers) declines with increasing age when cultured under standard cell culture conditions of 21% oxygen. However, actual oxygen levels in the intact myofiber in vivo are an order of magnitude lower. No studies to date have addressed the issue of whether culturing satellite cells from old muscles under more 'physiologic' conditions would enhance their proliferation and/or differentiation ability. Therefore, we analyzed satellite cells derived from 31-month-old rats in standard cultures with 21% O₂ and in lowered (∼3%) O₂. Under the lowered O₂ conditions, we noted a remarkable increase in the percentage of large-sized colonies, activation of cell cycle progression factors, phosphorylation of Akt, and downregulation of the cell cycle inhibitor p27^Kip1. These data suggest that lower O₂ levels provide a milieu that stimulates proliferation by allowing continued cell cycle progression, to result ultimately in the enhanced in vitro replicative life span of the old satellite cells. Such a method therefore provides an improved means for the ex vivo generation of progenitor satellite cell populations for potential therapeutic stem cell transplantation. Received 20 April 2001; received after revision 28 May 2001; accepted 31 May 2001