Protein aggregation as primary and characteristic cell reaction to various stresses

Ehrlich carcinoma and EL-4 thymoma ascites cells were subjected in vitro to heat shock, ATP depletion, oxidative stress, Ca²⁺ overlading and iodoacetamide treatment. After the transient stresses, Triton (X-100)-insoluble TIS) fractions were isolated from the cells and analysed by electrophoresis and immunoblotting. All stresses used caused rapid aggregation of cell proteins. This was manifested in a signficant rise in protein content in the TIS fractions. The protein increase was mostly due to and increase in the insolubility of actin, 57 kDa protein of intermediate filaments, 70 kDa heat shock protein (HSP 70), and some specific proteins whose insolubilization was a characteristic sign for each type of cell injury. Different survival rates in the cell lines after either stress corrlated well with differences in their TIS protein accretion. Possible mechanisms for stress-induced protein aggregation and its relationship with cell viability are suggested.     

Extraordinary levels of cadmium and zinc in a marine sponge,Tedania charcoti Topsent: inorganic chemical defense agents

The Antarctic marine spongeTedania charcoti has been shown to contain extraordinarily high natural concentrations of cadmium and zinc, which have in turn been correlated to the ability of the crude ethanol extract to modulate protein phosphorylation in chicken forebrain and to inhibit the growth of several test bacteria.     

A METHOD FOR REDUCING YARN HAIRINESS AT RING SPINNING

In order to improve the quality of yarn,a research was carried out at ring spinning.A modifiedtraveller has been used to reduce the yarn hairiness vastly.According to the statistical analysis ofthe data,it was found that the geometrical shape of travellers is the key factor affecting the yarnhairiness at ring spinning.     

有机颜料晶体行为和颜色性能的关系——Ⅰ.联苯胺系黄色颜料

合成了系列联苯胺系黄色双偶氮颜料。采用X-射线粉末衍射枝术考察了它们的晶体行为,并关联了其颜色性能。发现C.I.颜料黄14和63为异质同晶体,C.I.颜料黄17存在同质多晶现象。测色结果表明:颜料的晶体行为对颜料的颜色性能具有重大影响。     

有机颜料晶体行为和颜色性能的关系——Ⅱ.汉沙黄系列有机颜料

合成了五个汉沙黄颜料品种,选择系列有机溶剂进行重结晶,通过X-射线粉末衍射技术考察了它们的晶体行为,关联了它们颜色性能。发现C.I.颜料黄1和经甲苯处理的C.I.颜料黄5互为异质同晶体,C.I.颜料黄4和C.I.颜料黄5均存在同质异晶现象,其中β-C.I.颜料黄4及γ、δ-C.I.颜料黄5三种晶型还未见有文献报道。结果表明,有机颜料晶体形态的变化将直接影响颜料的颜色性能。     

水平井注蒸汽传热和传质分析

利用质量守恒、动量守恒和能量守恒的原理.推导了水平井注蒸汽过程中.水平井段内汽液两相变质量流的数学模型,并用数值解的方法计算了水平段内蒸汽质量传递和热量传递的规律.结果表明,在注汽参数一定的情况下.水平井段各处吸入蒸汽数量和热量并不相等.蒸汽压力沿井筒变化不大.但干度变化较大.一定完井条件和油藏条件下.随注汽参数的改变。会有三种情形发生:(1)蒸汽只能达到水平井的上半部而不能到达井底;(2)蒸汽刚好到达水平井的井底;(3)蒸汽到达井底后仍有剩余.为了充分利用水蒸汽.因此.必须保证蒸汽注入参数、井结构和油层的互相协调.提出了通过布孔来实现水平井均匀吸汽的建议.并提出了布孔设计方法.     

The variety of thermal conduction resulting from segmented degree of heat source body and its bearing on temperature change

The differences of thermal conduction and its temperature-varying track of the heat source body at various structural environments have been studied. Hypothetically , geologic heat source body is cut successively into several segregative bodies with a fixed cubage . With the segmented number increasing , the conductive surface area of heat source body begins to get larger, which separately is similar to the heat geologic body in different tectonic zones that has a various enclosed coefficient . Finite-element simulation result shows that the thermal conduction speed of spreading from the heat source body to its wall rock is slow→higher→ highest, when heat source bodies are situated respectively at compressive, shear and tensile deformation zones, corresponding rates of their temperature drop are low→ higher→ highest . Research indicates that the temperature ' s dropping rate of heat source body has an inverse relationship with enclosed coefficient η for different structural zones . This result can explain the tectono-physicochemical reason of magmatite evolution and its. difference .     

Mutational effect of the “- 35” element of sorghumpsbA gene promoter

Mutations of the first position T and the third position G in TTGACA, the " - 35" element of sorghum psbA gene promoter, were induced using chemically synthesized 20 nt oligonucleotide primer. Three mutants were produced: ATTACA, GTGACA, and ATGACA. Then the protein binding affinity of the mutants and the wild type sorghum psbA gene promoter was tested in a spinach chloroplast protein extract system. Gel retardation assay of the wild type showed a strong protein-binding band. On the other hand, the protein-binding band of the mutant resulting from single base mutation, ATGACA or GTGACA, showed reduced intensity, while that of the mutant resulting from double base mutation, ATTACA, showed increased intensity. It is thus shown that the " - 35" element plays an important role in controlling the binding between psbA gene promoter and the specific chloroplast proteins; mutation of a single base may exert a substantial influence on the binding affinity.