In vitro selection of RNA molecules that bind specific ligands.

Subpopulations of RNA molecules that bind specifically to a variety of organic dyes have been isolated from a population of random sequence RNA molecules. Roughly one in 10(10) random sequence RNA molecules folds in such a way as to create a specific binding site for small ligands.     

修饰染色质的蛋白质复合物

早期观点认为，真核细胞染色体是一种静止结构，它将DNA包装成比染色质水平更高的结构，足以抑制基因表达。最近10年以来，人们对真核染色体的认识发生了改变。真核染色体被描绘成能够进行短暂休息的动态细胞器官，能够调节基因组遗传信息的流动。染色质结构发生改变是若干蛋白质复合物作用的结果。目前已发现多种蛋白质复合物，     

Selection of single-stranded DNA molecules that bind and inhibit human thrombin.

Aptamers are double-stranded DNA or single-stranded RNA molecules that bind specific molecular targets. Large randomly generated populations can be enriched in aptamers by in vitro selection and polymerase chain reaction. But so far single-stranded DNA has not been investigated for aptamer properties, nor has a target protein been considered that does not interact physiologically with nucleic acid. Here we describe the isolation of single-stranded DNA aptamers to the protease thrombin of the blood coagulation cascade and report binding affinities in the range 25-200 nM. Sequence data from 32 thrombin aptamers, selected from a pool of DNA containing 60 nucleotides of random sequence, displayed a highly conserved 14-17-base region. Several of these aptamers at nanomolar concentrations inhibited thrombin-catalysed fibrin-clot formation in vitro using either purified fibrinogen or human plasma.     

Cloning of cDNAs for cellular proteins that bind to the retinoblastoma gene product

The E7 transforming protein of human papilloma virus-16 binds to the retinoblastoma gene product (pRb) through a nine-amino-acid segment of E7 (21-29). This segment of E7 is homologous to the pRb-binding domains of the simian virus 40 large T and adenovirus E1A transforming proteins. Each of these viral transforming proteins bind to the same region of pRb. To isolate cellular proteins that interact with this viral protein-binding domain on pRb, we used recombinant pRb to screen a human complementary DNA expression library. Two cDNAs were isolated that encode retinoblastoma binding proteins (RBP-1 and RBP-2). We report here that these RBP genes exist in separate loci and produce discrete messenger RNAs. The predicted amino-acid sequence of these genes showed no homology to known proteins, but both RBPs contain the pRb binding motif conserved between E7, large T and E1A14. In vitro expression of the RBP cDNAs yielded proteins that specifically bound to pRb. Recombinant E7 protein, the E7 21-29 peptide and the homologous RBP-1 peptide inhibited RBP-pRb binding. Mutations introduced into the putative pRb-binding segment in RBP-1 impaired its binding activity. These studies indicate that the cellular RBP-1, RBP-2 and viral E7 proteins interact with pRb through similar domains.     

HPV 58型E7蛋白特异结合多肽的筛选及分析

 利用M13噬菌体展示技术筛选HPV 58型E7蛋白特异性结合12肽,对这些多肽的序列比对分析得出其共有序列,同时通过BLASTP序列对比分析获得能与E7结合的内源蛋白.利用GST-E7融合表达蛋白为正筛靶分子,GST蛋白为负筛靶分子进行4轮的正负亲和筛选,经过ELISA活性鉴定获得71株阳性克隆,通过DNA测序和序列分析,得到2个能与E7蛋白发生特异性结合的共有序列NHXXANPQQXPQ和TMGFTAPRF-PHY.通过BLASTP分析所有71个多肽在体内的同源蛋白,它们能为对E7蛋白的致癌机理研究提供方向.     

化工原理教学应注意的几个问题

本文从分析化工专业化工原理课程的特点以及高职院校学生的现状入手,针对存在的问题,从教学内容的组织、教学方法的选择、教学手段的运用等几个方面对化工原理教学改革进行了探讨,力求培养符合高等职业教育目标的人才.     

人类磷酸泛酰巯基乙胺结合蛋白新基因的分离和鉴定

在对AD293和HEK293进行差减杂交以探索两者在吸附和凋亡特性上的差异时,从AD293的高表达文库中分离得到一段新的cDNA片段.从人类胎脑文库克隆得到该基因,全长2 745 bp,编码的蛋白含518个氨基酸,被预测为磷酸泛酰巯基乙胺结合蛋白.该基因在染色体上定位于2p22.3,包含8个外显子.该cDNA编码的蛋白序列含有一个凋亡抑制蛋白5结构域,外皮蛋白重复片段和铜结合辛肽重复片段.RT-PCR分析显示该基因在人类正常组织和癌组织中广泛表达,但在癌组织中表达量相对较低,提示其可能对细胞凋亡有抑制作用.该基因在进化过程中高度保守.