The Effect of cdk-5 Overexpression and Overactivation on Tau Hyperphosphorylation in Cultured N2a Cells

Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are one of the neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer‘s disease (AD) and abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau is the major protein of NFTs. It was reported that cyclin-dependent kinase5 (Cdk-5) could phosphorylate tau at most AD-related epitopes in vivo. In this study, we investigated the effect of cdk-5 overexpression on tau hyperphosphorylation in neuroblastoma N2a cells. We demonstrated that overexpression of cdk-5 whieh rcsul-ted in a 3.5-fold Cdk-5 activation in the transfected cells induced a dramatic increase in phosphorylation of tau at several phosphorylation sites. Overexpression of cdk-5 led to a reduced staining with antibody Tau-1 and an enhanced staining with antibody PHF-1, suggesting hyperphosphorylation of tau at Ser199/202 and Ser396/404 sites. It implies that in vitro overexpression of cdk-5 leads to Cdk-5 overactivation and tau hyperphosphorylation may be the underline mechanism.     

Spatial Memory Deficit and Tau Hyperphosphorylation Induced by Inhibiting PP2A in Rat Brain

Hyperphosphorylation of Tau in Alzheimer＇s disease （AD） brain appears to be caused by a down-regulation of protein phospbatase 2A （PP2A）. In this study, we selectively inhibited PP2A by injection of okadaic acid （OA） into the Meynert nucleus basalis of rats and found that 0.4 pmol of OA injeetion induced approximately 60% inhibition of PP2A 24 h after injection, 13% inhibition 48 h after injection and no obvious inhibition 72 h after injection. Hyperphosphorylation of Tau at Ser-198/ Ser-199/Ser-202 and Ser-396/Ser-404 and spatial memory deficit of rats were induced 24 h after 0. d prnol of OA injection. This study suggests that a dowreregulation of PP2A may underlie almormal hyperphosphorylation of cytoskeletal proteins leading to neurofibrillary degeneration in AD.     

OA诱导大鼠基底核Ach降低及τ蛋白过度磷酸化

研究了磷酸酯酶(proteinphosphatase,PP)对胆碱能神经元功能的影响,将PP抑制剂岗田酸(okadaic acid,OA)注入大鼠双侧Meynert基底核,并经免疫印迹检测r(tau)蛋白磷酸化程度、经微渗透结合HL,PC检测Ach、经Morris水迷宫检测大鼠的空间记忆能力,结果发现,Meynert基底核注射OA后,Ach水平降低,τ蛋白在Sei-198／Sei-199／Set-202,Ser-396／Ser-404位点发生过度磷酸化,并伴有大鼠空间记忆障碍,本研究结果提示PP活性降低可能参与了神经元纤维缠结形成、胆碱能神经元功能及认知功能障碍,在AD发病机制中起重要作用。     

The generalized inverse of singular integral operators on an open arc and its applications

After choosing weight functions suitably, we define a Banach spaceH _ω ^μ (L) and discuss the generalized inverse of singular integral operators on an open arc. Using the generalized inverse, we obtain the solutions for the following singular integral equation

Mouse Karyotype Obtained by Combining DAPI Staining with Image Analysis

In this study, mitotic metaphase chromosomes in mouse were identified by a new chromosome fluorescence banding technique combining DAPI staining with image analysis. Clear 4＇, 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole （DAPI） multiple bands like （J-hands could be produced in mouse. The Meta- Morph software was then used to generate linescans of pixel intensity for the banded chromosomes from short arm to long arm. These linescans were sufficient not only to identify each individual chromosome but also analyze the physical sites of bands in chromosome. Based on the results, the clear and accurate karyotype of mouse metaphase chromosomes was established. The technique is therefore considered to he a new method for cytological studies of mouse.     

Binary Sequences from a Pair of Elliptic Curves

A family of binary sequences were constructed by using an elliptic curve and its twisted curves over finite fields. It was shown that these sequences possess ＂good＂ cryptographie properties of 0-1 distribution, long period and large linear complexity. The results indicate that such se quences provide strong potential applications in cryptography.     

Analysis of Male Sterility-Related Proteins of Young Panicle in Rice （Oryza sativa L. ） by Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis

For searching out male sterility-related proteins (polypeptides) in rice (Oryza sativa L.), we examined the difference of panicle protein (polypeptides) between hybrid rice (Wujin2A/R168, Wujin5A/R988) and their parents (male-sterile line Wujin2A, Wujin5A, and restorer line R168, R988) at the formation stage of pollen mother cell by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE). The results revealed that the 2-DE polypeptide maps were similar among these experimental materials. A small group of polypeptides were disappeared in 2-DE polypeptide maps of male-sterile line (Wujin2A, Wujin5A) by comparing to restorer line (R168, R988) and the first filial (F₁) generation (Wujin2A/R168, Wujin5A/R988). The isoelectric points of these polypeptides were pI 5.8–6.5 molecular, weight 42.7×10³−66.2×10³. Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30340079) and the Science and Technology Key Research Foundation of the Education Ministry of China (03109) Biography: HU Yao-jun (1960-), male Ph. D candidate, research direction: molecular cytogenetics.     

Improved Authenticated Multi-Key Agreement Protocol

Zhou et al give an attack on Ham＇s modified authenticated multi-key agreement protocol, and give a protocol that can prevent the unknown key-share attack. The paper points out that the protocol is vulnerable to a concatenation attack. This paper proposes an improved authenticated multi-key agreement protocol which shows how to make Harn＇s protocol more secure by modifying the signature and verification. And this protocol can escape the concatenation attack.     

Point-tree structure genetic programming method for discontinuous function’s regression

A new point-tree data structure genetic programming (PTGP) method is proposed. For the discontinuous function regression problem, the proposed method is able to identify both the function structure and discontinuities points simultaneously. It is also easy to be used to solve the continuous function’s regression problems. The numerical experiment results demonstrate that the point-tree GP is an efficient alternative way to the complex function identification problems. Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (60173046) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (2002AB040) Biography: Xiong Sheng-wu (1966-), male, Associate professor, research direction: evolutionary computing, parallel computing.     

Asymptotic normality of multi-dimension quasi maximum likelihood estimate in generalized linear models with adaptive design

0Introduction Considerthemodel:y=h(x′β)+e wherey=y(1)y(q),h(t)=h(1)(t)h(q)(t),e=e(1)e(q),h(i),i=1,2,…,qisaknownboundedinjection:Rq→R1,h′isapositive matrixwith h(i)(t)tjasits(i,j)elementj=1,2,…,q,t=(t1,t2,…,tq),thepartialderivativesof2thorderofhexistandcontinuous.eistherandomerror.βisthep×1unknowparameterandxiisthefixedknownp×qmatrix,i=1,…,n,η=x′βiscalledpredictor,andthismodeliscalledgeneralizedlinearmodel.Supposetheindependentobservationsy1,…,ynaregetfromq dimensionrespons…     

Verifiable （ t, n） Threshold Signature Scheme Based on Elliptic Curve

Based on the difficulty of solving the ECDLP (elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem) on the finite field, we present a (t, n) threshold signature scheme and a verifiable key agreement scheme without trusted party. Applying a modified elliptic curve signature equation, we get a more efficient signature scheme than the existing ECDSA (ellipticcurve digital signature algorithm) from the computability and security view. Our scheme has a shorter key, faster computation, and better security.     

HCV感染通过Erk信号的激活上调PTTG1的表达

 为探讨丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)感染导致肝细胞癌发生的分子机制,利用前期研究建立的体外HCV细胞培养体系,将HCV JFH-1 RNA转染CD81-Huh7细胞,确定能够获得感染性HCV后,收集HCV转染后10,50,100和150d的细胞,采用Real time PCR及Western Blot法检测不同时间点细胞内垂体瘤转化基因1(PTTG1)基因和蛋白水平的表达情况,同时检测总MAPK/Erk1/2,磷酸化Erk1/2(p-Erk1/2)蛋白的表达。随后,用干扰素抑制HCV的感染,再检测PTTG1及MAPK/Erk1/2的表达情况,以及用MAPK/Erk抑制剂(PD98059)阻断MAPK/Erk 1/2的磷酸化后,检测PTTG1的表达情况。结果显示,HCV转染的细胞与未转染细胞比较,PTTG1的mRNA和蛋白表达均显著增加,p-Erk1/2蛋白显著升高(P＜0.05);抑制HCV感染显著降低PTTG1的表达和MAPK/Erk1/2的磷酸化(P＜0.05);MAPK/Erk1/2抑制剂显著降低了PTTG1基因和蛋白的表达(P＜0.05)。体外HCV感染可以导致MAPK/Erk信号通路的磷酸化,进一步导致原癌基因PTTG1的表达增加,这可能是慢性HCV感染导致HCV相关性肝细胞癌发生的分子机制之一。     

A Note on the Multifractal Decomposition of Directed Graph Self Similar Sets

We investigated the directed graph self similar sets under some weak overlapping condition. We get the multifractal decomposition formulas for these sets, i. e.,dim Ku^a DimKu^a =f(a), where fis the multifractal spectral function of the directed graph self similar measure. Especially, the results improve that of Edgar and Mauldin to the case which allows certain overlapping.     

Field Emission Characterization of 1D-Nanostructural ZnO Grown at Low Temperature

Ondeu-ctdio rmse nhsaivoen aaltt rwaicdteed b aan gdr-egaatp d neaaln oosft uartctteunrtialon se bmeiccaounse-of their remarkable physical and chemical properties[1 ,2].Amongthose properties ,the highaspect ratio of these materi-als makes them genuine can…     

A Novel Digital Audio Watermarking Scheme in the Wavelet Domain

We present a novel quantization-based digital audio watermarking scheme in wavelet domain. By quantizing a host audio‘s wavelet coefficients (Integer Lifting Wavelet Transform ) and utilizing the characteristics of human auditory system ( HAS), the gray image is embedded using our watermarking method. Experimental results show that the proposed watermarking scheme is inaudible and robust against various signal processing such as noising adding, lossy compression, low pass filtering, re-sampling, and re-quantifying.     

Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of a new manganese 18-metallacrown-6

0　IntroductionThemetalionsinmetallamacrocylesformedbysupramolecularself assemblycantaketrigonal,square planar,andtetrahe dralconfiguration[1 ,2 ] .Metallacrownisaspecialclassofmetalla macrocyle,theyareanalogoustocrownethersinbothstructureandfunctionexceptthatthemetalionsarenowtakingthepositionsofcoordinationatomsincrownether[3,4] .Themetallacrownswithdifferentnumberof [M—N—O]repeatunithavedifferentcavitysizes,suchas 9 MC 3[5 7] ,12 MC 4 [4,8 1 4 ] and 15 MC 5 [1 5] .Thereportedazameta…     

The synthesis of a fluorescent chemosensor containing two thiourea groups and its recognition behavior for dicarboxylate anions

A novel anion receptor 2 bearing anthracene flurophore and thiourea was synthesized and identified by ^1H NMR,MS,IR and elemental analysis. The interaction between receptor 2 and various α,ω-dicarboxylate anions was studied by fluorescence spectrum. The obtained fluorescence data indicate that 1：1 stoichiometry complex is formed between receptor 2 with diferent dicarboxylate anions through a hydrogen-bonging interaction. The selectivity of 2 for recognition of different dicarboxylates deponds on chain length of the anionic species.     

Solid-phase preparation and characterization of Chitosan

0　IntroductionChitosanhasbeenwidelyusedinpharmaceu tical,agriculturalandindustrialfieldbe causeofitsintriguing properties[1 ] .Chemicalmethodstopreparechitosanfromchitinhavebeenbroadlystudiedincludingsolutionmethod ,meltedalkalinemethod,microwavesemi drymethod ,improvedLinelbergmethod ,dissolution precipita tionmethodandsoon ,inwhichalkalinewasallusedasthecatalyst[2 ] .Biologicalmethodwasapromisingwayinthatitproducedlittleenviron mentalpollutionanditsreactionconditionsweremild .However,thism…     

Gomory＇s Method Based on the Objective Equivalent Face Technique

This paper discusses a re-examinatlon of dual methods based on Gomory＇s cutting plane for the solution of the integer programming problem, in which the increment of objection function is allowed as a pivot variable to decide the search direction and stepsize. Meanwhile, we adopt the current equivalent face technique so that lattices are found in the discrete integral face and stronger valid inequalities are acquired easily.