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.     

沃森博士谈人体基因解译计划与日本

詹姆斯·沃森(James D WAFSON)是人体基因解译计划负责人.他以1961年肯尼迪总统决定将人类送往月球那样的口气,就该计划的重要性作了如此叙述:"为了彻底搞清具有30亿碱基对的人体遗传基因序列,最终需花去相当于将美国人送抵月球的十分之一左右的费用.但是,基因解译计划对人类生活所     

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations before 2.2 billion years ago

The composition of the Earth's early atmosphere is a subject of continuing debate. In particular, it has been suggested that elevated concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide would have been necessary to maintain normal surface temperatures in the face of lower solar luminosity in early Earth history. Fossil weathering profiles, known as palaeosols, have provided semi-quantitative constraints on atmospheric oxygen partial pressure (pO2) before 2.2 Gyr ago. Here we use the same well studied palaeosols to constrain atmospheric pCO2 between 2.75 and 2.2 Gyr ago. The observation that iron lost from the tops of these profiles was reprecipitated lower down as iron silicate minerals, rather than as iron carbonate, indicates that atmospheric pCO2 must have been less than 10(-1.4) atm--about 100 times today's level of 360 p.p.m., and at least five times lower than that required in one-dimensional climate models to compensate for lower solar luminosity at 2.75 Gyr. Our results suggest that either the Earth's early climate was much more sensitive to increases in pCO2 than has been thought, or that one or more greenhouse gases other than CO2 contributed significantly to the atmosphere's radiative balance during the late Archaean and early Proterozoic eons.     

视觉伺服系统中的最优控制律的探讨

通过建立视觉反馈系统的模型和视觉伺服的公式化模型,对特征信息法作理论公式的推导,讨论线性模型的稳定性和可控性,推导最优控制律．     

ze^z＋λ的动力系统

研究整函数族ｆλ（ｚ）＝ｚｅ＾ｚ＋λ（λ∈Ｃ）的动力系统。方法用Ｂａｋｅｒ研究ｅ＾λｚ所采用的方法。结果与结论设Ｄｐ＝｛λ∈｜ ｆλ（ｚ）有一个ｐ阶的吸性周期点｝,Ｄｐ表示Ｄｐ的一个连通分支。     

间接碘量法误差问题讨论

间接碘量法是常用的氧化还原分析方法之一。本文对引起间接碘量法产生误差的各种原因进行了讨论,推导出不对称电对氧化还原反应计量点电位计算的一般表达式,并提出了改进滴定方法的建议。     

Δ—伪度量族与Menger概率度量空间

引进了Δ－伪度量族概念,研究了Ｍｅｎｇｅｒ概率度量空间与Δ－伪度量族生成空间的关系,证明了每个Ｍｅｎｇｅｒ概率度量空间（Ｅ,Ｆ,Δ）都可由Ｅ上的一个Δ－伪度量族｛ｄλ｝λ∈（０,１）所确定．     

炉温滑模变结构控制系统的研究

针对ＧＪ型光辐射加热炉在对不同材料加热时,其数学模型参数变化范围较大的特点,提出了采用滑模变结构控制代替常规ＰＩＤ控制的方法,并对炉温变结构控制系统进行了仿真研究,研究结果表明,采用变结构控制的炉温控制系统,不仅有很好的动态特性,而且具有较强的鲁棒性,对对象参数摄动具有很好的自适应能力,这将大大增加辐射加热炉的应用范围。