编码ATR的胞外区基因cDNA的克隆、测序及表达

目的克隆并在大肠杆菌中表达编码炭疽毒素受体(anthrax toxin receptor,简称ATR)的胞外区基因。方法收集CHO-K1细胞,提取其总RNA,经反转录成单链cDNA,以此为模板PCR扩增出编码ATR胞外区基因,将该基因克隆入载体pUC19中,测序正确后,亚克隆入表达载体pMal-c2x中进行表达。结果利用所设计的引物扩增出完整的编码ATR胞外区基因。以大肠杆菌为宿主在IPTG的诱导下获得表达,激光薄层扫描显示表达蛋白占总蛋白的39%。结论获得了编码ATR胞外区基因cDNA及其原核表达产物,为进一步研究炭疽毒素致病机理和炭疽病的防治奠定了基础。     

野木瓜注射液对大鼠外周痛觉信息传导的影响

对完整Wistar大鼠模型,应用微电极细胞外记录技术,观察了在坐骨神经处分别加入10%,25%,50%,75%和95%的野木瓜注射液前后,电刺激大鼠坐骨神经诱发的脊髓背角广动力范围神经元放电活动的变化.结果表明:野木瓜注射液在坐骨神经处加药时能降低大鼠脊髓背角广动力范围神经元的诱发放电频率和幅度(P0.05),并具有浓度依赖性,这与野木瓜注射液对离体背根神经节细胞产生的效应是一致的.野木瓜注射液可以在外周水平上阻滞痛觉信息的传导,这可能是其产生镇痛作用的原因之一.     

Automatic Spike Sorting Based on Robust Clustering

The collected spikes from extracellular recordings usually contain noisy data and outliers, which make it difficult to separate them. A method for spike sorting based on robust clustering is proposed to deal with the problem. The clustering method combines the advantage of fuzzy clustering and robust statistical estimators. The number of dusters is obtained by fuzzy cluster validity. In order to reduce the influence of outliers, the validity index is calculated using the weighting intra-cluster distances. The proposed method is suitable to separate neural spikes in the presence of noisy data and outfiers. The experiment on real data shows its performance.     

不同曝气强度下MBR污泥混合液可滤性分析

研究了曝气强度对膜-生物反应器（MBRs）污泥混合液的可滤性的影响．2套MBRs采用曝气强度分别为500L/h及100L／h恒流出水模式连续运行60d,应用污泥混合液过滤装置测定污泥混合液的可滤性．结果表明：过高的曝气强度将恶化污泥混合液的可滤性,增加膜污染速率;曝气强度的增加将导致污泥混合液上清液中相对分子质量大于10000的溶解性微生物代谢产物（SMP）浓度增加,此部分大分子有机物浓度的增加恶化了污泥混合液的可滤性;曝气强度大于500L／d也将导致污泥絮体中1～10um细小颗粒和胞外聚合物（EPS）含量的增加．     

低温活性污泥 EPS 特性及其对污泥沉降性能影响试验研究

以长春市某污水处理厂初沉池出水为原水在实验室进行了低温污水处理模拟试验,研究了低温活性污泥 EPS 特性及其对污泥沉降性能的影响。试验温度控制在15℃、13℃、11℃、9℃、7℃、5℃、3℃,7个温度下,在处理效果稳定的条件下,检测分析了活性污泥中胞外聚合物（EPS）、沉淀性能,研究了其变化规律并探讨了相关性。研究表明活性污泥中 EPS 的含量随温度的降低而减少,而 EPS 中的多糖含量则随之升高,导致活性污泥的沉降性能也随温度降低而变差。     

人整合素β3亚基毕赤酵母表达载体的构建及鉴定

目前研究表明整合素岛亚基是多种病毒的细胞表面受体,然而整合素岛亚基与不同病毒受体结合蛋白VAP相互作用的分子机制还不完全清楚。为此,设计引物,采用RT-PCR方法扩增人岛亚基包膜外区约2．1kb片段,克隆入毕赤酵母表达载体pPIC3．5K中。双酶切鉴定挑取阳性克隆pPIC3．5Kβ3,测序证实目的基因序列正确。将pPIC3．5K-β3,转化毕赤酵母X-程菌GS115,在浓度为3．0mg／mL的G418选择培养基上,筛选出含有多拷贝目的基因的阳性菌株,PCR可扩增出约2．1kb的目的条带。阳性菌株经1％甲醇诱导表达,Western—blot可在酵母菌体中检测到约80kDa的目的蛋白条带。上述结果表明,成功构建了人整合素角亚基毕赤酵母表达载体,筛选获得多拷贝阳性菌株并成功表达,为进一步研究人整合素岛在病毒感染中的作用及其单克隆抗体的制备奠定基础。     

通过复合菌系获取胞外木聚糖酶策略及其特性研究

为了获得高效木质纤维素复合酶,从秸秆堆肥土壤中经过长期定向驯化,筛选到一组可快速分解秸秆且稳定的复合菌系.该复合系菌系对水稻秸秆具有很强的分解能力,并产生乙酸、丙酸、丁酸等挥发性有机物.分解能力测定和DEEG分析结果表明,复合菌系经长期定向驯化,分解功能和微生物组成稳定.该复合菌系在常温液体静止培养条件下高效分泌胞外木聚糖酶,木聚糖酶活最高可达13.2IU/mL.从复合菌系获取的胞外粗酶液对秸秆具有明显水解糖化能力,经48h水解,玉米秸秆芯和水稻秸秆分别减重21.1％和11.9％,还原糖含量分别为2.4g/L和1.3g/L.     

The neural mechanisms of pain-related affect and memory

The pain experience includes a sensory-discriminative and an emotional-affective components. The affective dimension refers to the unpleasantness or aversion of sensation. The great progress at the genetic, molecular, cellular, and systemic levels on the study of the sensory dimension of pain has been made over past four decades. However, “to consider only the sensory features of pain, and ignore its motivational and affective properties, is to look at only part of the problem and not even the most important part of that”. A line of clinic observations indicate that the patients with chronic pain suffer from much more affective disturbance than pain itself. Obviously, physiological arousal and hypervigilance to pain cause negative affect, such as anxiety, anger, worry, aversion, even tendency of suicide, these negative affective states in turn enhance pain sensation. Today, more and more attention has been paid to the study on mechanisms underlying affective dimension of pain. In order to deepen and expand our understanding of the nature of pain, this review summarizes the main progress and recent findings from our laboratory regarding affective component of pain in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and cell biochemistry.     

The modulus of elasticity of lobster aorta microfibrils

The presence of elastic fibres in the extracellular matrix (ECM) provides physiologically important elastic properties for many tissues. Until recently, microfibrils, one component of the ECM, were thought primarily to serve as a scaffolding on which elastin is deposited during development to form elaunin fibres [1]. The most prominent protein that forms mammalian microfibrils is fibrillin. It is known that mutations in the fibrillin gene cause a heterogenous connective tissue disease called marfan syndrome [2], so information on mechanical properties of microfibrils or their role in tissue function would be useful. Microfibrils are also found in the ECM of some invertebrate tissues, and there is growing evidence that the protein forming the structure is homologous to mammalian fibrillin [3, 4]. It has been shown that the microfibril-based arterial wall of the lobster has viscoelastic properties [5], and we have now utilized this primitive artery to measure the modulus of elasticity of microfibrils. It is similar to that of the rubber-like protein elastin.     

超氧化物歧化酶的亚细胞定位及模拟研究

超氧化物歧化酶(简称SOD)是生物体内一种重要的自由基清除剂,文章综述了SOD研究的一些新进展:外周胞质SOD与细胞外SOD的生理功能及其亚细胞定位以及SOD的模拟研究.