Genistein inhibits human TNF-α-induced porcine endothelial cell adhesiveness for human monocytes and natural killer cells

Cellular immune response is a major barrier to xenotransplantation. Human tumor necrosis factor-α (hTNF-α) possesses cross-species activity and directly amplifies the immune rejection via the upregulation of adhesion molecules on porcine endothelium. We investigated the role of protein tyrosine phosphorylation in the induction of expression of E-sclectin and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), and the augmentation of adhesion of human peripheral blood monocytes (PBMo) and natural killer cells (PBNK), after rhTNF-α-stimulation of porcine aortic endothelial cells (PAEC) in vitro, rhTNF-α-increased adhesiveness of PAEC for both PBMo and PBNK was dose-dependently reduced by pretreatment of PAEC with the selective protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) inhibitor genistein. The inhibitory effect occurred at the early time of PAEC activation triggered by rhTNF-α, and was completely reversible. PTK activity assay indicated that genistein also suppressed rhTNF-α stimulated activation of protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) in PAEC in a dose-dependent manner. Flow cytometric analysis showed that genistein inhibited the upregulation of E-selectin and VCAM-1 by rhTNF-α. These results suggest that PTKs may regulate the expression of E-selectin and VCAM-1 on PAEC and the adherence of PBMo and PBNK induced by rhTNF-α. Moreover, dietary genistein, used as an adhesion antagonist, may contribute to managing the cell-mediated rejection in the clinical application.     

病毒微生物农药生产新工艺

本文综述了病毒微生物农药生产的新工艺,即应用昆虫培养细胞产生病毒微生物农药。同时还介绍了昆虫细胞培养基、培养方法和核多角体病毒生产的工艺过程。也指出应用昆虫培养细胞生产病毒存在的问题。     

Age-related differences in the effect of in vivo administration of indomethacin on hemopoietic cell lineages of the spleen and bone marrow of mice

During 21 days of indomethacin treatment, erythroid cells in the spleens of both young adult and older mice, and in the bone marrow of young adult mice, were increased significantly early, in treatment, relative to age-matched control organs, and remained high throughout treatment. During drug exposure, the numbers of myeloid cells in young adult bone marrow, but not spleen, were reduced, but in older mice these cells were elevated in both organs. Lymphoid cells in the young adult and older mouse spleens decreased and increased, respectively, during treatment, but were unchanged and decreased, respectively, in the bone marrow of young adult and older mice. Monocytemacrophage cells in the spleen were elevated but unchanged in the bone marrow of both age groups. During 14 days of indomethacin treatment of houng adult mice, the proportions of precursor cells in DNA synthesis of only the splenic erythroid lineage were increased. Thus, the major hemopoietic lineages in both the bone marrow and spleen are affected by exposure to indomethacin in a time-dependent and age-dependent manner. For all lineages studied, those of the bone marrow were least disturbed, and/or were first to recover, even during continued drug exposure.     

酵母菌营养体与子囊孢子的区分法

本文提出了酵母菌营养体与子囊孢子的简易、快速区分方法。     

蝙蝠葛碱增强博莱霉素A5对肿瘤细胞的毒性

应用增殖抑制方法发现,无生长抑制作用的0.5mg ·L~(-1)的蝙蝠葛碱(Dau)使博莱霉素A_5单独对小鼠肉瘤S-180V细胞作用的I_(C50)值从2.1mg·L~(-1)降低到1.3mg·L~(-1),无抑制作用的1 mg·L~(-1) Dau使博莱霉素A_5单独对人喉癌HEP2细胞作用的I_(C50) 值从0.33 mg·L~(-1)降低到0.1 mg·L~(-1).克隆形成法证明:无细胞毒性的10 mg·L~(-1)的Dau明显增强博莱霉素A_5对HEP2细胞毒性.TFP法证实,有一定生长抑制作用的Dau对HEP2细胞内活化钙调素有影响.结果表明:蝙蝠葛碱有一定的增强博莱霉素A_5对肿瘤细胞的毒性.     

固定化酵母制备枣酒的条件探讨

本文主要介绍在枣酒酿制中,利用固定化细胞技术,以海藻酸钙为包埋剂,通过添如吐温、甾醇、油酸、棕搁酸提高酵母活性,加快发酵速度,缩短发酵周期。如果胶粒再用明胶与戊二醛交联,可提高胶粒的机械强度,使细胞泄漏减少。连续使用五次,胶粒无开裂现象。     

用酵母双杂合系统筛选与人血小板生成素受体c-Mpl相互作用的蛋白质的初报

血小板生成素（ｔｈｒｏｍ ｂｏｐｏｉｅｔｉｎ, ＴＰＯ）是调节血小板生成最主要的细胞因子,其生物学效应由其受体ｃ－Ｍｐｌ介导．利用酵母双杂合系统（ｔｗ ｏ－ｈｙｂｒｉｄ ｓｙｓｔｅｍ ）筛选与ｃ－Ｍｐｌ相互作用的蛋白质因子,以Ｇａｌ４ ＢＤ融合ｃ－Ｍｐｌ膜内部分ｃＤＮＡ 的ｐＡＳＭＭ 为靶蛋白质粒,筛选了人胎盘ｃＤＮＡ 文库,分离到人波形纤维蛋白（ｖｉｍ ｅｎｔｉｎ）的部分编码序列,首次检测到波形纤维蛋白与ＴＰＯ 受体之间的相互作用,这提示细胞骨架蛋白可能在ＴＰＯ 的信号转导过程中起着重要的作用     

Ventral neural tube cells differentiate into hepatocytes in the chick embryo

A population of ventral neural tube cells has recently been shown to migrate out of the hind brain neural tube via the vagus nerve and contribute to the developing gastrointestinal tract. Since liver is also innervated by the vagus nerve, we sought to determine if these cells also migrate into the liver. Ventral neural tube cells in the caudal hindbrain of chick embryos were tagged with a replication-deficient retroviral vector containing the LacZ gene on embryonic day 2. Embryos were processed for detection of labeled cells on embryonic day 5 and 11. Labeled cells were seen in the liver on both days and identified as hepatocytes. Previously, it was believed that all hepatocytes develop from the gut endoderm. Results of the present study show an additional source for the formation of liver cells. Received 25 August 1998; received after revision 5 November 1998; accepted 5 November 1998     

Roles of the DNA mismatch repair and nucleotide excision repair proteins during meiosis

Numerous proteins are involved in the nucleotide excision repair (NER) and DNA mismatch repair (MMR) pathways. The function and specificity of these proteins during the mitotic cell cycle has been actively investigated, in large part due to the involvement of these systems in human diseases. In contrast, comparatively little is known about their functioning during meiosis. At least three repair pathways operate during meiosis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to repair mismatches that occur as a consequence of heteroduplex formation in recombination. The first pathway is similar to the one acting during postreplicative mismatch repair in mitotically dividing cells, while two pathways are responsible for the repair of large loops during meiosis, using proteins from MMR and NER systems. Some MMR proteins also help prevent recombination between diverged sequences during meiosis, and act late in recombination to affect the resolution of crossovers. This review will discuss the current status of DNA mismatch repair and nucleotide excision repair proteins during meiosis, especially in the yeast S. cerevisiae. Received 21 September 1998; received after revision 23 November 1998; accepted 23 November 1998     

盐法分离低核酸酵母蛋白的机理研究

本文用荧光光谱法研究了不同盐对酵母蛋白质构象的影响,结果表明,盐是降低酵母蛋白分离物的核酸含量的原因之一。通过对盐除核酸过程进行热力学分折,对比离子对水结构和核蛋白稳定性的影响,否定了Damodaran提出的疏水作用机理,证明在维持核蛋白稳定的次级键中,氢键的作用是最主要的;核蛋白的解离并非盐通过改变溶剂的结构而间接作用于核蛋白所致,而应归因于盐与核蛋白的直接作用,特别是盐与核蛋白分子主链的作用。