The PHYTOCHROME C photoreceptor gene mediates natural variation in flowering and growth responses of Arabidopsis thaliana

Light has an important role in modulating seedling growth and flowering time. We show that allelic variation at the PHYTOCHROME C (PHYC) photoreceptor locus affects both traits in natural populations of A. thaliana. Two functionally distinct PHYC haplotype groups are distributed in a latitudinal cline dependent on FRIGIDA, a locus that together with FLOWERING LOCUS C explains a large portion of the variation in A. thaliana flowering time. In a genome-wide scan for association of 65 loci with latitude, there was an excess of significant P values, indicative of population structure. Nevertheless, PHYC was the most strongly associated locus across 163 strains, suggesting that PHYC alleles are under diversifying selection in A. thaliana. Our work, together with previous findings, suggests that photoreceptor genes are major agents of natural variation in plant flowering and growth response.     

Epigenetic remodeling in colorectal cancer results in coordinate gene suppression across an entire chromosome band

We report a new mechanism in carcinogenesis involving coordinate long-range epigenetic gene silencing. Epigenetic silencing in cancer has always been envisaged as a local event silencing discrete genes. However, in this study of silencing in colorectal cancer, we found common repression of the entire 4-Mb band of chromosome 2q.14.2, associated with global methylation of histone H3 Lys9. DNA hypermethylation within the repressed genomic neighborhood was localized to three separate enriched CpG island 'suburbs', with the largest hypermethylated suburb spanning 1 Mb. These data change our understanding of epigenetic gene silencing in cancer cells: namely, epigenetic silencing can span large regions of the chromosome, and both DNA-methylated and neighboring unmethylated genes can be coordinately suppressed by global changes in histone modification. We propose that loss of gene expression can occur through long-range epigenetic silencing, with similar implications as loss of heterozygosity in cancer.     

基于变差系数法的水污染物总量分配模型

在考虑排污权公平准则的基础上,将数学领域的变差系数概念引入环境领域,选取与水污染物排放量紧密相关的各项指标,并利用各项指标的变差系数来度量各个区域的社会、经济和环境等客观因素发展的不平衡,同时应用相关系数法确定各项指标权重,建立了一种新的基于变差系数加权和的水污染物总量优化分配模型,并将该模型应用于汉江水源地汉中市的水污染物COD总量分配中。实验结果表明:该优化模型能够考虑各区域之间的差异,缩小各区域间总量分配的不均衡,是一种更具公平性和可行性的分配方法。     

孙村煤矿五级安全隐患排查治理运作实践

详细介绍了山东新汶矿区孙村煤矿生产过程中如何引用五级安全隐患排查治理方法,使煤矿安全隐患治理从简单的经验管理转变为可操作的制度管理,从而保证了煤矿安全生产的做法。     

A new combination in Penstemon (Scrophulariaceae)

Field and herbarium studies of Penstemon cyananthus Hook. ssp. longiflorus Pennell suggest that this taxon be elevated to species rank.       

Suppression of in vitro haematopoiesis following human immunodeficiency virus infection

Viral infections are frequently associated with haematological disorders. Abnormalities including leukopenia, anaemia and thrombocytopenia are commonly observed in patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or the AIDS-related complex (ARC). The underlying cause of these haematological abnormalities is poorly understood. We report here that bone marrow progenitors isolated from AIDS or ARC patients are responsive to recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (rGM-CSF) and recombinant erythropoietin. Antibodies present in the serum of patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), however, could suppress the growth of these progenitors, but not the growth of progenitors from HIV seronegative controls. A component of this immune-mediated suppression appears to be antibodies directed towards the envelope glycoprotein (gp120) of HIV.     

FeCl3与30% H2O2对醇的催化氧化

以FeCl3为催化剂,环境友好的30%H2O2为氧化剂,研究了对甲氧基苯甲醇的催化氧化,考察了影响反应的各种因素,实现了最优条件下其他醇的催化氧化.结果表明,用30%H2O2氧化醇时,FeCl3是较好的催化剂,在温和条件下,一系列醇都可被氧化成相应的羰基化合物.     

虚拟企业伙伴选择的多目标方法新探

虚拟企业成功的关键是能否选择出理想的合作伙伴。在分析虚拟企业理想伙伴基本特征的基础上 ,抽象归纳出选择理想合作伙伴应考虑的主要因素 ,对多目标决策方法加以适度改进 ,给出了选择理想合作伙伴的一种新方法。对多目标中的效益型指标、成本型指标、区间型指标及固定型指标分别进行标准化 ,根据标准化后的最优点和最劣点 ,求出各方案的密切值 ,由密切值的大小来选择最终合作伙伴。     

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.