Formation of lipoperoxide in isolated sciatic nerve by chinoform-ferric chelate.

Effects of chinoform and chinoform-ferric chelate on formation of lipoperoxide in isolated sciatic nerve were investigated. Free chinoform did not increase the lipoperoxide level, while chinoform-ferric chelate significantly increased it. Assuming that the lipoperoxide formed denatures the associated protein in the nerve, the effect of chinoform-ferric chelate could explain, at least partly, the demyelination of nerve tissues caused by massive doses of chinoform.     

Reactivation by glycerol and ethylene glycol of inactivated delta-aminolevulinic acid synthetase of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides.

Reactivation effects by glycerol and ethylene glycol of inactivated ALA synthetase of R. spheroids were observed. Accompanying the reactivation of the inactivated enzyme, Km value for PLP decreased to levels similar to those of the freshly prepared enzyme.     

Increase of collagen synthesis in pulmonary arteries of monocrotaline-treated rats

Collagen synthesis in the pulmonary artery in animals with pulmonary hypertension was studied using monocrotaline-treated rats as a model. Incorporation of 14C-lateled proline into collagenase-digestible protein in the pulmonary artery was found to be 4-5 times higher in monocrotaline-treated rats than in control rats.     

Fringe is a glycosyltransferase that modifies Notch

Notch receptors function in highly conserved intercellular signalling pathways that direct cell-fate decisions, proliferation and apoptosis in metazoans. Fringe proteins can positively and negatively modulate the ability of Notch ligands to activate the Notch receptor. Here we establish the biochemical mechanism of Fringe action. Drosophila and mammalian Fringe proteins possess a fucose-specific beta1,3 N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity that initiates elongation of O-linked fucose residues attached to epidermal growth factor-like sequence repeats of Notch. We obtained biological evidence that Fringe-dependent elongation of O-linked fucose on Notch modulates Notch signalling by using co-culture assays in mammalian cells and by expression of an enzymatically inactive Fringe mutant in Drosophila. The post-translational modification of Notch by Fringe represents a striking example of modulation of a signalling event by differential receptor glycosylation and identifies a mechanism that is likely to be relevant to other signalling pathways.     

“经济数学”课程教学模式改革实践与分析评估 3

以促进学生的全面发展和潜能开发为目标的"经济数学"课程教学模式改革,在"三个一工程"实践中,分别实施了分层教学、学生任选教师教学、分层+任选教师的教学模式;通过对不同教学模式的实践及效果评价,分析总结了不同教学模式在人才培养中的作用与意义,提出了提高教学质量的教学模式及其改进措施.     

谐波小波样本熵与HMM模型的轴承故障模式识别

根据谐波小波分解非平稳振动信号优良特性与隐马尔科夫(HMM)模型的时序模式分类能力,提出了一种基于谐波小波样本熵与HMM模型结合的轴承故障模式识别方法.该方法首先利用谐波小波对轴承各个状态故障信号进行分解,进而由谐波小波三维时频网格图的频率层数特征计算合理的样本熵维数和阈值,依次提取轴承振动信号各层的样本熵构成特征向量序列;然后将序列前120组输入HMM模型中进行训练得到对应故障模型,剩余80组进行测试与识别,通过对比对数似然估计概率输出值确定轴承故障类型.实验通过与BP和RBF神经网络模型进行不同训练组数的正确识别率对比,验证了该组合方法具有识别准确率高,稳定性强的优点.     

The DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 13

Chromosome 13 is the largest acrocentric human chromosome. It carries genes involved in cancer including the breast cancer type 2 (BRCA2) and retinoblastoma (RB1) genes, is frequently rearranged in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, and contains the DAOA locus associated with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. We describe completion and analysis of 95.5 megabases (Mb) of sequence from chromosome 13, which contains 633 genes and 296 pseudogenes. We estimate that more than 95.4% of the protein-coding genes of this chromosome have been identified, on the basis of comparison with other vertebrate genome sequences. Additionally, 105 putative non-coding RNA genes were found. Chromosome 13 has one of the lowest gene densities (6.5 genes per Mb) among human chromosomes, and contains a central region of 38 Mb where the gene density drops to only 3.1 genes per Mb.