蛋白质的二级结构和mRNA的二级结构的相关性研究

利用置信度为95的特征字研究了蛋白质二级结构以及其对应mRNA二级结构，发现蛋白质二级结构和mRNA二级结构有明显的相关性。规则二级结构α—螺旋，β—折叠以及包含有Turn的边界明显倾向于mRNA二级结构的茎区，而避免出现在环区。     

Messenger RNA for the coat protein of tobacco mosaic virus.

TMV RNA is not an efficient template for translation of the viral coat protein, in spite of containing nucleotide sequences coding for the protein. Efficient translation requires the prior synthesis within infected cells of a smaller RNA carrying only a portion of the information encoded in the whole genome.     

RHD基因转录子的选择性剪切

通过RT-PCR技术分析红系细胞和非红系细胞RHD的转录情况,同时进一步比较不同D表达个体的RHD的转录关系.采用逆转录PCR（RT-PCR）技术检测HL-60,K562,Jurkat,THP-1,胚肺成纤维细胞系（HECF）,10名不同Rh表型个体的网织红细胞（CcDEe 3名,CCDEe 2名,CCDee 2名,CcDee 2名和CCDuee 1名）以及10名不同Rh表型（2 CCDEe,2 CCDee,2 ccDee,2 CcDee,ccDEe和CcDEe）个体的白细胞的RhD mRNA,然后进行cDNA测序分析.结果表明,HL-60,Jurkat,THP-1,胚肺成纤维细胞系（HECF）以及不同Rh表型个体的外周血有核细胞中除网状红细胞外皆不存在RhD mRNA,K562具有一个正常的RHD基因转录本,而不同表型个体的网织红细胞具有复杂的RhD cDNA形式,有的缺少RHD基因的外显子7,有的缺少外显子7～9或外显子4～9,但这些个体都有一个正常形式的RhD mRNA.由此得出结论,选择性剪切使RHD基因的产生多种形式的转录子,但这些不同形式的转录子仅来自红系的血细胞如网织红细胞和K562细胞系,白细胞、单核细胞、T淋巴细胞以及胚肺成纤维细胞都不具有RHD的mRNA.     

Conservation of cytoplasmic poly (A)-containing RNA in mouse and rat.

By comparing the melting temperature of DNA-DNA duplexes between related species, it is shown that total single-copy DNA evolves at a faster rate that DNA which is transcribed into poly (A)-containing RNA. Such a comparison suggests that at least 70% of rat single-copy DNA does not code for protein.     

Messenger RNA targeting of rice seed storage proteins to specific ER subdomains

Rice seeds, a rich reserve of starch and protein, are a major food source in many countries. Unlike the seeds of other plants, which typically accumulate one major type of storage protein, rice seeds use two major classes, prolamines and globulin-like glutelins. Both storage proteins are synthesized on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and translocated to the ER lumen, but are then sorted into separate intracellular compartments. Prolamines are retained in the ER lumen as protein bodies whereas glutelins are transported and stored in protein storage vacuoles. Mechanisms responsible for the retention of prolamines within the ER lumen and their assembly into intracisternal inclusion granules are unknown, but the involvement of RNA localization has been suggested. Here we show that the storage protein RNAs are localized to distinct ER membranes and that prolamine RNAs are targeted to the prolamine protein bodies by a mechanism based on RNA signal(s), a process that also requires a translation initiation codon. Our results indicate that the ER may be composed of subdomains that specialize in the synthesis of proteins directed to different compartments of the plant endomembrane system.     

Messenger RNA from human brain induces drug- and voltage-operated channels in Xenopus oocytes

Sodium channels and receptors to serotonin and kainate were 'transplanted' from human brain into frog oocytes, by isolating messenger RNA from a fetal brain, and injecting it into Xenopus laevis oocytes. The mRNA was translated by the oocyte and induced the appearance of functional receptors and channels in its membrane. This approach renders drug- and voltage-operated channels of the human brain more amenable to detailed study.     

The missing memristor found

Anyone who ever took an electronics laboratory class will be familiar with the fundamental passive circuit elements: the resistor, the capacitor and the inductor. However, in 1971 Leon Chua reasoned from symmetry arguments that there should be a fourth fundamental element, which he called a memristor (short for memory resistor). Although he showed that such an element has many interesting and valuable circuit properties, until now no one has presented either a useful physical model or an example of a memristor. Here we show, using a simple analytical example, that memristance arises naturally in nanoscale systems in which solid-state electronic and ionic transport are coupled under an external bias voltage. These results serve as the foundation for understanding a wide range of hysteretic current-voltage behaviour observed in many nanoscale electronic devices that involve the motion of charged atomic or molecular species, in particular certain titanium dioxide cross-point switches.