Variation induced by DNA rearrangement in a transgenicBt+CpTI cotton strain

In the development of transgenicBt + CpTI cotton cultivars, one male and female sterile mutant has been found in a homozygous T₄ strain in our laboratory. The mutant plant, as well as its leaves, buds and flowers, is only 1/2–1/3 as large as that of the wild transgenicBt + CpTI bivalant cotton plants. Cytological observation found that the chromosome number of the mutant is 2n = 52; however, there are 4–8 univalents observed in meiosis I of pollen mother cells. Laboratory bioassay indicated that the mutant was highly resistant to bollworm as the wild plants. PCR amplification revealed thatBt andCpTI genes in the mutant were still intactly inserted. However, small deletion of flanked area had been observed in the mutant by Southern blotting analysis. So it is proposed that the mutant phenotype might result from either the DNA deletion or T-DNA transferring in plant genome. No such report has been presented that the rearrangement of chromosome structure in a homozygous transgenic line occurred. Further analysis is ongoing.     

Isolation by phage display and characterization of a single-chain antibody specific for O6-methyldeoxyguanosine

New approaches of making single chain Fv antibodies against O⁶-methyl-2′-deoxyguanosine (O⁶MdG) have been demonstrated by using the phage antibody display system. Using O⁶MdG as an antigen, 21 positive clones were identified by ELISA from this library, one of which, designated H3, specifically binds to O⁶MdG with high affinity. The H3 scFv antibody has an affinity constant (K_aff) of 5.94×10O¹¹(mol/L)^-1. H3 scFv has been successfully used to detect O⁶MdG in DNA hydrolyses from yeast or E. coli cells treated with a DNA methylating agent. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the selection of a specific scFv against DNA adducts. The results demonstrate the potential applications of the phage display technology for the detection of DNA lesions caused by mutagens and carcinogens.     

Applications of14C-AMS in biomedical sciences (Bio-14C-AMS)

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is an ultrasensitive measure for tracing¹⁴C labeled moleculesin vivo or detecting the biomarker for assessment of carcinogenesis. In this review, basic principles, wide applications and new progresses of¹⁴C-bio-AMS are presented. It has been a new advanced tool for measuring the adduction of biologcial molecules with xenobiotics, including carcinogens, drugs, agrochemicals, nicotine, etc. The successful applications have proven the effectiveness of AMS to assessing cancer risk, screening drug toxicity and studying nutrients uptake. In particular, AMS is characterized by measuring xenobiotics at very low dose levels relevant to human environmental exposure. It is sensitive and precise to an attomole (10⁻¹⁸ mole) or less of¹⁴C per mg carbon. Although it has some shortcomings, undoubtedly, AMS possesses an evident merit of high sensitivity and will have widespread applications in the biomedical sciences.     

CpG DNA enhances the immune responses elicited by the DNA vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease virus in guinea pigs

CpG DNA is DNA sequence that has immune stimulatory effects. Several lines of investigation over the past few years indicate that CpG DNA plays an important role in the induction of immune responses to DNA vaccines. In this study, CpG DNA-containing synthetic oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG-ODN) was cloned into the eukaryotic expression plasmid encoding a fusion protein containing b- galactosidase from E. coli and immunogenic epitopes of foot- and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) type O, and the immune responses induced by the plasmid were assayed. The results showed that guinea pigs immunized with the recombinant plasmid containing CpG-ODN generated a higher level of FMDV-neutralizing antibody and a stronger T cell proliferative response and protection against viral challenge than those receiving the plasmid containing no CpG-ODN. Our study demonstrated that it is an effective route to enhance the efficacy of DNA vaccines by inserting exogenous CpG DNA into the plasmids, and the DNA vaccine developed here is a promising candidate to prevent FMDV infection.     

天然植物脓疮草中黄酮类有效成分提取与分离的研究（一）

将脓疮草晾干粉碎后,依次用石油醚、乙醚、70％乙醇水浴加热迥流提取,后两种提取液浓缩后,用乙酸乙酯萃取,经聚酰胺柱层析分离,薄层层析及紫外光谱检查,证明70％乙醇提取液的上清液中含六种黄酮类化合物。     

不同球孢白僵菌菌株DNA的RAPD分析

采用RAPD技术分析了16个球孢白僵菌菌株的遗传分化。由160个随机引物中筛选出27个引物对各菌株进行了PCR扩增。结果表明从16个 孢白僵菌菌株中共获301个RAPD标记,其中多态性标记288个,占95．7％,表明菌株间具有较丰富的遗传多态性,聚类分析把16个球孢白僵菌菌株分为三大类型（1）Blh,,Bgd和Bpy;(3)By7,F-263,RECBb01,B12和B13;（3）B7,B11,Bxs,B6,By2,Bpc和Bzs。菌株DNA多态性与采集地之间有一定的相关性,但与寄主来源,孢子形态和对松墨天牛幼虫的毒力间未表现出明显的相关性。     

不同前处理对胡萝卜汁榨出率等参数的影响

研究表明 ,胡萝卜经过冻融处理后 ,胡萝卜汁的榨出率最高 ;经过蒸汽热烫 2 1min处理后 ,榨汁中的可溶性固形物和胡萝卜素的含量均最高 ;经过蒸汽热烫 30min处理后 ,单位重量的胡萝卜的可溶性固形物和胡萝卜素的榨出率最高 .     

基于区域分块的微内容类网页正文提取技术

通过对微内容类网页正文内容块自动填充的研究，利用网页区域分块技术与HTML的结构特征，提出了一种基于区域分块和内容块自动填充（RAF）的正文提取方法，可用于微内容类网页正文的自动提取，同时运用编程实现提取工具进行实验．结果表明，该方法能够有效、准确地提取微内容类网页的正文信息．     

基于粗糙集的数据挖掘算法的研究

粗糙集理论是一种新的处理模糊和不精确问题的重要数学工具,是一种新的数据挖掘技术。本文主要研究基于粗糙集的数据挖掘的算法在规则提取阶段的应用。