Brain capillary guanosine triphosphatase: A distinction from adenosine triphosphatase

Summary Differences in kinetic properties, pH response, sensitivity to ouabain, and disc-acrylamide electrophoresis resolution, are observed when GTP and ATP are used as the substrates, for triphosphohydrolases in isolated rat brain microvessels. In brain parenchyma there are no such differences. It is concluded that substrate-specific GTPase exists in brain microvessels.This work was supported by the research grant No. 214 from ZMNU of Serbia.     

环向约束条件下高强混凝土早期开裂

为研究环向约束条件下高强混凝土早期开裂趋势,在单面干燥条件下应用非接触式混凝土收缩变形测定仪测试了水灰比为0.26,0.31和0.40试件的早期自由收缩变形.通过静压试验测试了试件早期弹性模量发展,通过改进环向约束试验观测了环向约束条件下各试件内部的收缩应力及应力梯度.结果表明,水灰比越小,单面干燥条件下受约束高强混凝土早期开裂危险性越高,开裂发生时间越早;开裂时间、开裂时弹性模量在很大程度上决定了早期开裂特点.     

铜类卡宾催化乙烯环丙烷化反应途径的密度泛函研究

运用密度泛函B3LYP方法研究了过渡金属铜类卡宾与乙烯的环丙烷化反应机理，对3种不同铜的SS试剂CH3CuCHCl2，ClCuCH2Cl及CH3CuCHI2分别与CH2CH2反应的各反应物、中间体、过渡态、产物构型的全部结构几何参数进行了优化，用内禀反应坐标（IRC）计算和频率分析法，对过渡态进行了确定和验证．结果表明，CH3CuCHCl2和CH3CuCHl2与CH2CH2环丙烷化反应按亚甲基转移机理和卡宾金属化机理都可以进行，与锂类卡宾的反应机理相同，而ClCuCH2Cl与CH2CH2环丙烷化反应则更容易按卡宾金属化机理进行。     

DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 18

Chromosome 18 appears to have the lowest gene density of any human chromosome and is one of only three chromosomes for which trisomic individuals survive to term. There are also a number of genetic disorders stemming from chromosome 18 trisomy and aneuploidy. Here we report the finished sequence and gene annotation of human chromosome 18, which will allow a better understanding of the normal and disease biology of this chromosome. Despite the low density of protein-coding genes on chromosome 18, we find that the proportion of non-protein-coding sequences evolutionarily conserved among mammals is close to the genome-wide average. Extending this analysis to the entire human genome, we find that the density of conserved non-protein-coding sequences is largely uncorrelated with gene density. This has important implications for the nature and roles of non-protein-coding sequence elements.     

Familial Parkinson disease gene product, parkin, is a ubiquitin-protein ligase

Autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism (AR-JP), one of the most common familial forms of Parkinson disease, is characterized by selective dopaminergic neural cell death and the absence of the Lewy body, a cytoplasmic inclusion body consisting of aggregates of abnormally accumulated proteins. We previously cloned PARK2, mutations of which cause AR-JP (ref. 2), but the function of the gene product, parkin, remains unknown. We report here that parkin is involved in protein degradation as a ubiquitin-protein ligase collaborating with the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UbcH7, and that mutant parkins from AR-JP patients show loss of the ubiquitin-protein ligase activity. Our findings indicate that accumulation of proteins that have yet to be identified causes a selective neural cell death without formation of Lewy bodies. Our findings should enhance the exploration of the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Parkinson disease as well as in other neurodegenerative diseases that are characterized by involvement of abnormal protein ubiquitination, including Alzheimer disease, other tauopathies, CAG triplet repeat disorders and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.     

The influence of phenobarbital on the glycogen concentration of rat liver

Résumé On a constaté qu'une injection du phénobarbital provoque la diminution de la concentration du glycogène libre de 34% et la diminution du glycogène total de 22,6% seulement 24 h après leur injection. La répétition des injections du phénobarbital diminue le glycogène libre respectivement de 36% et de 28%, le glycogène lié de 46% et de 27%, et le glycogène total de 41% et 24%.     

Brain microvessel hexokinase: Kinetic properties

Summary Kinetic differences between brain capillary and parenchymal hexokinase in the presence of glucose, ATP, fructose, potassium, sodium and different pH were established. Parenchymal hexokinase is more susceptible to glucose inhibition, can tolerate greater variations in the ATP concentration, is inhibited by increasing concentrations of fructose and potassium, and showed greater activity on the lower pH values. The data suggest that in brain parenchyma and endothelial cells of brain microvessels, there are 2 different enzymes with regard to the kinetic properties.     

Selective effect of noradrenaline on superoxide dismutase activity in the brown adipose tissue and liver of the rat

Summary Noradrenaline treatment results in a significant increase of superoxide dismutase activity in the intrascapular brown adipose tissue but not in the liver.     

Zur Massenkultur des insektenpathogenen PilzesBeauveria bassiana (Bals.) Vuill

Summary After incubation for 3 days, a submerged culture containing blastospores ofBeauveria bassiana was mixed with unsterile wheat bran at the ratio of 11 (v/w). The paste was then spread to form a thin layer and stored for 2 weeks at 28 °C. This combination of culture methods resulted in a rich production of the relatively resistant conidia (4.8 × 10¹⁰/cm³ paste medium) which are very suitable in experiments for biological. control of insect pests.