Regulation of cellulose synthesis in Acetobacter xylinum by cyclic diguanylic acid

Cellulose is the most abundant renewable carbon resource on earth and is an indispensable raw material for the wood, paper, and textile industries. A model system to study the mechanism of cellulose biogenesis is the bacterium Acetobacter xylinum which produces pure cellulose as an extracellular product. It was from this organism that in vitro preparations which possessed high levels of cellulose synthase activity were first obtained in both membranous and soluble forms. We recently demonstrated that this activity is subject to a complex multi-component regulatory system, in which the synthase is directly affected by an unusual cyclic nucleotide activator enzymatically formed from GTP, and indirectly by a Ca (2+) -sensitive phosphodiesterase which degrades the activator. The cellulose synthase activator (CSA) has now been identified as bis-(3' 5')-cyclic diguanylic acid (5'G3'p5'G3'p) on the basis of mass spectroscopic data, nuclear magnetic resonance analysis and comparison with chemically synthesized material. We also report here on intermediary steps in the synthesis and degradation of this novel circular dinucleotide, which have been integrated into a model for the regulation of cellulose synthesis.     

预应力混凝土框架的反复荷载试验及有限元全过程滞回分析

本文进行了有粘结和无粘结预应力混凝土框架的反复荷载试验。结果表明,试件能够形成塑性铰;有粘结框架的耗能量大于无粘结框架,但无粘结框架的残余变形比有粘结框架小:试验后无粘结框架的预应力损失可略去不计,而有粘结框架在塑性铰处的预应力损失则达70%。本文提出的算法实现了预应力框架包括下降段在内的有限元全过程滞回分析,同时也可适用于非预应力框架。     

纵向柱距不等的等高排架在吊车荷载作用下的内力分析

本文提出利用合并排架计算主排架内力问题时,采用“还原分配法”进行计算,其结果排架内力协调。