线粒体蛋白组研究进展

线粒体蛋白组是指在线粒体中出现的所有蛋白质的集合,包括线粒体自身基因组编码的和 由核基因组编码的蛋白质.线粒体作为真核生物的重要细胞器,它参与去除氧化、产生能量和还原 性物质等等一些重要的生命活动过程.这些功能都依赖于线粒体蛋白组中的蛋白河的相互作用.要 对其有一个较为全面的认识,就必须对其蛋白组进行广泛且深入的研究.根据现有的一些研究成 果,对线粒体蛋白组在起源与进化、跨膜运输、研究方法和计算机预测作了简要综述.     

Polypeptide translocation machinery of the yeast endoplasmic reticulum

Proteins enter the secretory pathway by two general routes. In one, the complete polypeptide is made in the cytoplasm and held in an incompletely folded state by chaperoning adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases) such as hsp70. InSaccharomyces cerevisiae, fully synthesized secretory precursors engage the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane by interaction with a set of Sec proteins comprising the polypeptide translocation apparatus (Sec61p, Sec62p, Sec63p, Sec71p, Sec72p). Productive interaction requires displacement of hsp70 from the precursor, a reaction that is facilitated by Ydj1p, a homologue of theEscherichia coli DnaJ protein. Both DnaJ and Ydj1p regulate chaperone activity by stimulating the ATPase activity of their respective hsp70 partners (E. coli DnaK andS. cerevisiae Ssa1p, resepectively). In the ER lumen, another hsp70 chaperone, BiP, binds ATP and interacts with the ER membrane via its contact with a peptide loop of Sec63p. This loop represents yet another DnaJ homologue in that it contains a region of 70 residue similarity to the J box, the most conserved region of the DnaJ family of proteins. In the presence of ATP, under conditions in which BiP can bind to Sec63p, the secretory precursor passes from the cytosol into the lumen through a membrane channel formed by Sec61 p. A second route to the membrane pore that is used by many other secretory precursors, particularly in mammalian cells, requires that the polypeptide engage the ER membrane as the nascent chain emerges from the ribosome. Such cotranslational translocation bypasses the need for certain Sec proteins, instead utilizing an alternate set of cytosolic and membrane factors that allows the nascent chain to be inserted directly into the Sec61p channel.     

Plant grafting and its application in biological research

Grafting is widely used for various aspects of plant biological research. We reviewed grafting methods and graft development processes for herbaceous plants. We introduced also methods of investigating the development of graft union and compatibility, and the application of grafting in understanding translocation of substances and long-distance signaling in plants.     

Overexpression and export of Vibrio anguillarum metalloprotease in Escherichia coli

Vibrio anguillarum metalloprotease, an extracellular zinc metalloprotease involved in the virulence mechanism of Vibrio anguillarum, is synthesized from the empA gene as a 611-residue precursor and naturally secreted via Sec secretion pathway in Vibrio anguillarum. In this study, heterologous expression of the empA gene encoding metalloprotease and export of the recombinant metalloprotease in Escherichia coli were examined. The empA gene was subcloned into pBAD24 with arabinose promoter and sequenced. The sequence encoded a polypeptide (611 amino acids) consisting of four domains: a signal peptide, an N-terminal propeptide, a mature region and a C-terminal propeptide. The empA gene inserted in plasmid pBAD24 was overexpressed in TOP10 strain of E. coli after arabinose induction. The 36kDa polypeptide of the recombinant metalloprotease as the mature protease was further confirmed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting. It was found that recombinant metalloprotease with the EmpA activity and antigenicity was exported into the periplasm of Escherichia coli cells via Sec translocation pathway, whereas it was secreted into extracellular environments in V. anguillarum. The results imply that the expression, export and processing mechanism of the protein in E. coli are similar to those in V. anguillarum.     

浅析伊通河地表水中镉迁移转化的规律

通过近4a对伊通河长春段6个地表水监测断面中重金属镉的研究，结果表明，地表水中镉的含量随流程的增加而增加，年平均含量也在递增。此外，研究区域内，镉以Cd^2＋为主，且镉有接近超标并逐年升高的趋势。     

抗白粉病的小麦-黑麦1BL/1RS易位系99/2439的cDNA文库构建

用pGEMT-easy质粒载体构建了经白粉茵诱导0.5h、1.0h、12h、24h和48h的小麦-黑麦1BL/1RS易位系99/2439叶片cDNA文库1个.文库宿主茵为E. coliDH10B,诱导文库平均插入片段为1kb左右.     

The short C-terminal hydrophilic domain of NhaH Na~ /H~ antiporter from Halobacillus dabanensis with roles in resistance to salt and in pH sensing

The Na /H antiporter plays key roles in maintaining low cytoplasmic Na level and pH homeostasis,while little is known about the Carboxyl-terminal hydrophilic tails of prokaryotic antiporters.In our previous study,the first Na /H antiporter gene nhaH from moderate halophiles was cloned from Halo-bacillus dabanensis D-8 by functional complementation.A topological model suggested that only nine amino acid residues(395PLIKKLGMI403) existed in the hydrophilic C-terminal domain of NhaH.The C-terminal truncated mutant of NhaH was constructed by PCR strategy and designated as nhaH△C.Salt tolerance experiment demonstrated that the deletion of hydrophilic C-terminal nine amino acid resi-dues significantly inhibited the complementation ability of E.coli KNabc,in which three main Na /H antiporters nhaA,nhaB and chaA were deleted.Everted membrane vesicles prepared from E.coli KNabc/nhaH△C decreased both Na /H and Li /H exchange activities of NhaH,and also resulted in an acidic shift of its pH profile for Na ,indicating a critical role of the short C-terminal domain of NhaH antiporter in alkali cation binding/translocation and pH sensing.     

利用小麦5B效应引入外源基因的研究（Ⅰ）易位系的培育

ｄｕｒｕｍ小麦的代换系ｄｉ－ｓｕｂ５Ｄ（５Ｂ）与添加系ｄｉ－ａｄｄｅ４ｔｓ杂交，再用ｄｉ－ｓｕｂ５Ｄ（５Ｂ）进行回交，在自交后代中选育出了易位系１０３２。该易位系染色体数２ｎ＝２８，表现型为非蜡质。这一结果证明了在ｄｕｒｕｍ小麦中也可以利用５Ｂ染色体效应，通过诱发部份同源染色体间的配对，获得易位体。     

植物染色体易位研究进展

本文从染色体易位的发现开始,综述了国内外学者对植物染色体易位的研究进展。主要叙述了应用易位原理来进行育种研究以及其所取得的成果,从而说明易位不仅是一种染色体畸变现象,而且可作为一种研究手段,在对遗传学理论、生物进化、诱变育种等研究中都具有重要的价值。     

In vitro systems in the study of peroxisomal protein import

Our level of understanding of peroxisome biogenesis in comparison with other cellular organelles is rudimentary, yet the fragments of information available indicate that the targeting and import of peroxisomal proteins occur by fundamentally different mechanisms. Genetic studies have identified a number of genes required for peroxisome assembly, but in most cases the functions of the gene products remain unknown. In vitro protein translocation systems have played a prominent role in unravelling the biochemistry of protein translocation into other organelles. This review considers some of the requirements for establishing a bona fide peroxisomal import assay and discusses the findings which have emerged as a result of using such experimental systems.