若干蛇毒蛋白的结构生物学研究

以本研究组较有研究特色的五种蛇毒蛋白家族为线索,简要综述了蛇毒金属蛋白酶、蛇毒丝氨酸蛋白酶、蛇毒crisp蛋白、蛇毒磷脂酶A2及蛇毒神经毒素等蛋白家族有关结构生物学研究的结果、现状及进展.强调了蛇毒蛋白研究中蛇毒糖蛋白的结构生物学研究、超高分辨率晶体学研究及与蛇毒蛋白相关的复合物结构生物学研究的重要性.     

烧结铁矿中FeO含量对其在富氢高炉中还原行为的影响

Japan started the national project “COURSE 50” for CO₂ reduction in the 2000s. This project aimed to establish novel technologies to reduce CO₂ emissions with partially utilization of hydrogen in blast furnace-based ironmaking by 30% by around 2030 and use it for practical applications by 2050. The idea is that instead of coke, hydrogen is used as the reducing agent, leading to lower fossil fuel consumption in the process. It has been reported that the reduction behavior of hematite, magnetite, calcium ferrite, and slag in the sinter is different, and it is also considerably influenced by the sinter morphology. This study aimed to investigate the reduction behavior of sinters in hydrogen enriched blast furnace with different mineral morphologies in CO–CO₂–H₂ mixed gas. As an experimental sample, two sinter samples with significantly different hematite and magnetite ratios were prepared to compare their reduction behaviors. The reduction of wustite to iron was carried out at 1000, 900, and 800°C in a CO–CO₂–H₂ atmosphere for the mineral morphology-controlled sinter, and the following findings were obtained. The reduction rate of smaller amount of FeO led to faster increase of the reduction rate curve at the initial stage of reduction. Macro-observations of reduced samples showed that the reaction proceeded from the outer periphery of the sample toward the inside, and a reaction interface was observed where reduced iron and wustite coexisted. Micro-observations revealed three layers, namely, wustite single phase in the center zone of the sample, iron single phase in the outer periphery zone of the sample, and iron oxide-derived wustite FeO and iron, or calcium ferrite-derived wustite 'FeO' and iron in the reaction interface zone. A two-interface unreacted core model was successfully applied for the kinetic analysis of the reduction reaction, and obtained temperature dependent expressions of the chemical reaction coefficients from each mineral phases.     

Mg和La对Ca–Ti 处理钢中夹杂物演变和组织的影响

The evolution of inclusions and the formation of acicular ferrite (AF) in Ca–Ti treated steel was systematically investigated after Mg and La addition. The inclusions in the molten steel were Ca–Al–O, Ca–Al–Mg–O, and La–Mg–Ca–Al–O after Ca, Mg, and La addition, respectively. The type of oxide inclusion in the final quenched samples was the same as that in the molten steel. However, unlike those in molten steel, the inclusions were Ca–Al–Ti–O + MnS, Ca–Mg–Al–Ti–O + MnS, and La–Ca–Mg–Al–Ti–O + MnS in Mg-free, Mg-containing, and La-containing samples, respectively. The inclusions distributed dispersedly in the La-containing sample. In addition, the average size of the inclusions in the La-containing sample was the smallest, while the number density of inclusions was the highest. The size of effective inclusions (nucleus of AF formation) was mainly in the range of 1–3 μm. In addition, the content of ferrite side plates (FSP) decreased, while the percentage of AF increased by 16.2% due to the increase in the number of effective inclusions in the La-containing sample in this study.     

细胞动力学研究进展与展望

细胞是生命活动的最小单元,其功能可塑性及动力学特征是维系生命个体健康及物种繁衍的重要保证.在分子水平,细胞可塑性与动力学特征受遗传学及表观遗传学的调控.随着基因组计划的顺利完成及我们对细胞增殖重要蛋白质作用网络生物化学特征研究的成功实施,表示细胞重要生命活动过程中功能分子的动力学特征及其调控机制显得日益重要.组建中国科学技术大学细胞动力学实验室旨在纳米尺度揭示细胞重要生命活动全过程的详尽全息分子调控机制.在过去的几年中,已取得了动点蛋白质网络研究的阶段性进展,动点蛋白复合物组分剖析、功能评估、蛋白质作用动力学及可塑性研究等方面均取得了具有特色的成绩.目前,拟在纳米尺度评估动点组装的时空动力学调控机制.相信在未来的日子里,细胞动力学实验室的创新性成果能够综合集成,并为人口与健康领域的重大命题提供相关的解答方案与技术平台.     

非整倍体和人类生殖健康

非整倍体即染色体数目异常,发生于生殖细胞则可能导致不育不孕、自发流产和先天出生缺陷.精子非整倍体发生率为5%～7%,卵子非整倍体发生率为22%～90%;在早期自然流产中,非整倍体率高达50%.绝大多数临床上常见的非整倍体患儿的异常染色体来自卵子(母亲),而且母亲减数分裂I同源染色体不分离是除13和18号染色体以外的各种常见染色体非整倍体的主要原因.母亲的年龄是迄今唯一被证实的与生殖细胞非整倍体发生密切相关的流行病学因素,减数分裂遗传重组(频率和位点分布)异常可能是导致减数分裂I同源染色体不分离的主要细胞学和遗传学因素,减数分裂前最后一次DNA复制时cohesin复合体的加载及其之后的维持异常则可能是引起减数分裂染色体不分离的分子生物学因素.减数分裂遗传重组和cohesin复合体的加载均发生于女性胚胎发育的8～30周,而非整倍体卵子的形成多发生在35岁以上的女性,因此我们认为导致非整倍体卵子形成的\"罪恶种子\"早在35年前即已埋下,随着女性年龄增大,其体内保障染色体精确分离的保护机制如纺锤体聚合检验点被\"磨损\"削弱,而最终导致减数分裂时染色体分离异常.未来的研究应着重探讨遗传重组改变的原因、机理及如何导致减数分裂染色体不分离,了解卵母细胞中cohesin复合体、纺锤体聚合检验点的功能是否随女性年龄增大而减弱及其生物学机制,从而为有效防止非整倍体的发生、减少人类生殖相关非整倍体疾病的发生提供理论基础.     

核磁共振波谱研究蛋白质三维结构及功能

文中总结了中国科学技术大学生命科学学院核磁共振波谱实验室十多年来的工作.我们的研究主要集中于研究人和其他真核生物基因表达调控相关蛋白质以及细胞连接处相关蛋白质.在这两个体系中许多蛋白质与人类健康及疾病相关,有的可能是潜在的药物作用靶标.我们主要关注用核磁共振波谱方法研究蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用的结构基础.核磁共振适合研究在接近生理条件下的分子相互作用,特别是适合研究低亲和力的瞬态的复合物.它可以提供蛋白质相互作用界面,复合物结构,以及蛋白质相互识别过程动力学的信息.文中给出了一些例子.我们也研究蛋白质内部动力学,包括皮秒-纳秒时间尺度,与毫秒-微秒时间尺度的动力学.与圆二色谱及荧光光谱结合,核磁共振可以详细表征蛋白质的折叠与去折叠.文中给出的核磁共振应用的最后一个例子是用计算机虚拟筛选,核磁筛选,我们发现了一个人的双功能的磷酸酶的一种新类型的抑制剂,并研究了该抑制剂对细胞功能的影响.这一策略有可能用于早期药物的发现.     

An Analysis of Catherine＇s Character——Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte＇s only novel, was published in December of 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. The book did not gain immediate success, but it is now thought one of the finest novels in the English language. Catherine is the key character of this masterpiece, because everybody and everything center on her though she had a short life. We can understand this masterpiece better if we know Catherine well.     

Lower Paleozoic oil relationships within Williston Basin, Canada

The Williston Basin is a significant petroleum province, containing oil production zones that include the Middle Cambrian to Lower Ordovician, Upper Ordovician, Middle Devonian, Upper Devonian and Mississippian and within the Jurassic and Cretaceous. The oils of the Williston Basin exhibit a wide range of geochemical characteristics defined as "oil families", although the geochemical signature of the Cambrian Deadwood Formation and Lower Ordovician Winnipeg reservoired oils does not match any "oil family". Despite their close stratigraphic proximity, it is evident that the oils of the Lower Palaeozoic within the Williston Basin are distinct. This suggests the presence of a new "oil family" within the Williston Basin. Diagnostic geochemical signatures occur in the gasoline range chromatograms, within saturate fraction gas chromatograms and biomarker fingerprints. However, some of the established criteria and cross-plots that are currently used to segregate oils into distinct genetic families within the basin do not always meet with success, particularly when applied to the Lower Palaeozoic oils of the Deadwood and Winnipeg Formation.     

Characterization of Ordovician carbonate reservoirs, southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada

The discovery of the prolific Ordovician Red River reservoirs in 1995 in southeastern Saskatchewan was the catalyst for extensive exploration activity which resulted in the discovery of more than 15 new Red River pools. The best yields of Red River production to date have been from dolomite reservoirs. Understanding the processes of dolomitization is, therefore, crucial for the prediction of the connectivity, spatial distribution and heterogeneity of dolomite reservoirs.The Red River reservoirs in the Midale area consist of 3～4 thin dolomitized zones, with a total thickness of about 20 m, which occur at the top of the Yeoman Formation. Two types of replacement dolomite were recognized in the Red River reservoir: dolomitized burrow infills and dolomitized host matrix. The spatial distribution of dolomite suggests that burrowing organisms played an important role in facilitating the fluid flow in the backfilled sediments. This resulted in penecontemporaneous dolomitization of burrow infills by normal seawater. The dolomite in the host matrix is interpreted as having occurred at shallow burial by evaporitic seawater during precipitation of Lake Almar anhydrite that immediately overlies the Yeoman Formation. However, the low δ18O values of dolomited burrow infills (-5.9‰～ -7.8‰, PDB) and matrix dolomites (-6.6‰～ -8.1‰, avg. -7.4‰ PDB) compared to the estimated values for the late Ordovician marine dolomite could be attributed to modification and alteration of dolomite at higher temperatures during deeper burial, which could also be responsible for its 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.7084～0.7088) that are higher than suggested for the late Ordovician seawaters (0.7078～0.7080). The trace amounts of saddle dolomite cement in the Red River carbonates are probably related to "cannibalization" of earlier replacement dolomite during the chemical compaction.     

酿酒酵母氧化应激系统的结构生物学基础

酿酒酵母是目前研究背景最为清楚的单细胞真核生物,迄今已知有78个基因编码的蛋白质直接参与其氧化应激反应.这些蛋白质按照功能可以被分为三大类:感应蛋白、调控蛋白和效应蛋白.我们从效应蛋白出发,沿着硫氧还蛋白系统和谷氧还蛋白系统的电子传递路线,逐一解析了所有关键节点蛋白质的三维结构.结合这些蛋白质的生化性质研究、蛋白质-蛋白质复合物的鉴定和结构解析,以及酵母基因组数据库中日益更新的实验数据,我们已初步建立参与酵母氧化应激反应的效应蛋白在原子分辨率上的相互作用网络.这些研究将为我们理解人类氧化应激反应的作用机理提供重要提示,进而可能用于疾病治疗和抗衰老药物的设计.     

被部分遮挡的串联光伏组件输出特性

以太阳能电池的电流方程和电路的基本理论为基础,对带有旁路二极管的串联组件在被部分遮挡的情况下的输出过程进行了细致的物理分析,并将其划分为旁路二极管导通和阻断两个阶段,从理论上推导出可以运用分段函数准确描述被部分遮挡的串联光伏组件电流和功率输出特性.对两个串联的光伏组件在非均匀光照下的电流和功率情况进行了实验验证,结果证明了文中所提方法的正确性和可行性:①分段函数法可以对被部分遮挡的带有旁路二极管串联光伏组件的电流和功率输出特性进行准确描述;②传统的MPPT法的基础,即功率输出曲线的单峰性,已经失效,因而有必要对跟踪方法进行改进.     

Design and analysis of generic LBS application developing platform

Location based services is promising due to its novel working style and contents.A software platform is proposed to provide application programs of typical location based services and support new applications developing efficiently. The analysis shows that this scheme is easy implemented, low cost and adapt to all kinds of mobile nework system.     

橡胶颗粒沥青混合料低温抗裂性试验研究

以AC-13级配为基础,将橡胶颗粒代替部分集料掺入混合料中,以低温弯曲试验为评价方法对不同橡胶颗粒掺量下沥青混合料的低温抗裂性进行研究,并引入应变能密度值对混合料的低温抗裂性进行综合评价.试验结果表明:橡胶颗粒沥青混合料试件的破坏微应变均超过2 300,满足冬寒区的技术指标;无论是否掺加橡胶颗粒,随着温度的下降,沥青混合料破坏时的最大弯拉强度增大,弯拉应变降低,劲度模量增大;弯曲应变能密度在胶粒掺量为1%左右时具有较大的弯曲应变能密度值,此时橡胶颗粒沥青混合料具有较好的低温抗裂性.     

A computer generator for randomly layered structures

AcomputergeneratorforrandomlylayeredstructuresYUJia shun1,2,HEZhen hua2(1.TheInstituteofGeologicalandNuclearSciences,NewZealand;2.StateKeyLaboratoryofOilandGasReservoirGeologyandExploitation,ChengduUniversityofTechnology,China)Abstract:Analgorithmisintrod…     

Quantitative trait loci （QTLs） for quality traits related to protein and starch in wheat

Quality traits in wheat （Triticum aestirum L.） were studied by quantitative trait locus （QTL） analysis in a recombinant inbred line （RIL） population, a set of 131 lines derived from Chuan 35050 × Shannong 483 cross （ChSh）. Grains from RILs were assayed for 21 quality traits related to protein and starch. A total of 35 putative QTLs for 19 traits with a single QTL explaining 7.99-40.52% of phenotypic variations were detected on 10 chromosomes, 1D, 2A, 2D, 3B, 3D, 5A, 6A, 6B, 6D, and 7B. The additive effects of 30 QTLs were positive, contributed by Chuan 35050, the remaining 5 QTLs were negative with the additive effect contributed by Shannong 483. For protein traits, 15 QTLs were obtained and most of them were located on chromosomes 1 D, 3B and 6D, while 20 QTLs for starch traits were detected and most of them were located on chromosomes 3D, 6B and 7B. Only 7 QTLs for protein and starch traits were co-located in three regions on chromosomes 1D, 2A and 2D. These protein and starch trait QTLs showed a distinct distribution pattern in certain regions and chromosomes. Twenty-two QTLs were clustered in 6 regions of 5 chromosomes. Two QTL clusters for protein traits were located on chromosomes 1D and 3B, respectively, three clusters for starch traits on chromosomes 3D, 6B and 7B, and one cluster including protein and starch traits on chromosome 1D.     

Markedness and its Interpretation in Language Use

Language markedness is a common phenomenon in languages, and is reflected from hearing, vision and sense, i.e. the variation in the three aspects such as phonology, morphology and semantics. This paper focuses on the interpretation of markedness in language use following the three perspectives, i.e. pragmatic interpretation, psychological interpretation and cognitive interpretation, with an aim to define the function of markedness.