简介:目的:观察Kozak序列(+4G)对稳定转染的人淀粉样前体蛋白(hAPP751)-EGFP融合真核表达载体在CHO细胞中表达的影响,为APP的水解代谢研究提供细胞模型。方法:分别将含Kozak序列(+4G)和不含Kozak序列的hAPP751全长基因片段亚克隆入pEGFP-N1表达载体,得到pEGFP-hAPP751(+4G)和pEGFP-hAPP751重组质粒,转染CHO细胞,通过G418筛选稳定转染细胞株,再用倒置荧光显微镜挑取绿色荧光强的细胞进行亚克隆,并观察融合蛋白的表达强度和细胞定位,最后用EGFP抗体通过Western印迹检测融合蛋白。结果:PCR、酶切和测序证明将含Kozak序列(+4G)和不含Kozak序列的hAPP751全长基因片段分别连入了真核表达载体pEGFP-N1中;荧光显微镜下观察pEGFP-hAPP751(+4G)稳定转染细胞的细胞膜和细胞质产生较强的绿色荧光,其中在细胞质中成不均匀颗粒状分布,Western印迹检测到相对分子质量约156000的融合表达蛋白,与预期相符;pEGFP-hAPP751转染细胞,其绿色荧光十分微弱且在整个细胞均匀分布,Western印迹检测到相对分子质量约26000的EGFP,但检测不到预期的hAPP751-EGFP融合表达蛋白。结论:Kozak序列(+4G)可以明显促进hAPP751的表达,获得稳定转染且高水平融合表达hAPP751-EGFP的细胞株。
简介:G-proteincoupledreceptors(GPCRs)representoneofthemostimportantclassesofdrugtargetsforpharmaceuticalindustryandplayimportantrolesincellularsignaltransduction.PredictingthecouplingspecificityofGPCRstoG-proteinsisvitalforfurtherunderstandingthemechanismofsignaltransductionandthefunctionofthereceptorswithinacell,whichcanprovidenewcluesforpharmaceuticalresearchanddevelopment.Inthisstudy,thefeaturesofaminoacidcompositionsandphysiochemicalpropertiesofthefull-lengthGPCRsequenceshavebeenanalyzedandextracted.Basedonthesefeatures,classifiershavebeendevelopedtopredictthecouplingspecificityofGPCRstoG-proteinsusingsupportvectormachines.Thetestingresultsshowthatthismethodcouldobtainbetterpredictionaccuracy.
简介:目的:构建4E—BPl及其T37A、T46A、$65A、T70A突变体4E—BPl-4A基因表达的重组慢病毒载体,研究其对胃癌HGC27细胞生长的影响。方法:PCR扩增4E—BPl基因及其突变体aE—BPl-4A基因并克隆到pCDH载体,构建成pCDH-4E—BPl、pCDit一4E—BPl—4A,将其-9包装载体共转染293T细胞,包装成Lenti-4E—BPl及Lenti-4E—BPl—4A重组慢病毒载体,将此慢病毒感染胃癌HGC27细胞,Western印迹鉴定病毒载体介导的4E—BPl、4E~BPl—4A蛋白的表达,MTT、克隆形成和软琼脂方法研究过量表达4E—BPl、4E—BPl—4A对胃癌HGC27细胞生长的影响。结果:包装成Lenti-4E—BPl及Lenti-4E—BPl—4A重组慢病毒载体,并将此慢病毒载体感染胃癌HGC27细胞;MTT、克隆形成、软琼脂实验表明过量表达4E—BP!可抑制胃癌HGC27细胞的生长,过量表达4E—BP!一4A时抑制效果更明显。结论:构建了4E—BPl、4E—BPI-4A的重组慢病毒表达载体,在胃癌HGC27细胞中过量表达4E—BPl可抑制细胞生长,过量表达4E—BPl-4A的抑制效果更明显。
简介:Mammaliancelltotipotencyisasubjectthathasfascinatedscientistsforgenerations.AlonglastingquestionwhethersomeofthesomaticcellsretainstotipotencywasansweredbythecloningofDollyattheendofthe20thcentury.Thedawnofthe218thasbroughtforwardgreatexpectationsinharnessingthepoweroftotipotentcyinmedicine.Throughstemcellbiology,itispossibletogenerateanypartsofthehumanbodybystemcellengineering.Considerableresourceswillbedevotedtoharnesstheuntappedpotentialsofstemcellsintheforeseeablefuturewhichmaytransformmedicineasweknowtoday.Atthemolecularlevel,totipotencyhasbeenlinkedtoasingulartranscriptionfactoranditsexpressionappearstodefinewhetheracellshouldbetotipotent.NamedOct4,itcanactivateorrepresstheexpressionofvariousgenes.Curiously,verylittleisknownaboutOct4beyonditsabilitytoregulategeneexpression.ThemechanismbywhichOct4specifiestotipotencyremainsentirelyunresolved.Inthisreview,wesummarizerethestructureandfunctionofOct4andaddresstoOct4functioninmaintainingtotipotencyorpluripotencyofembryonicstemcels.
简介:东方田鼠(Microtusfortis)分布于我国东北、西北、华中、华南17个省区,在韩国及俄罗斯也见报道.国内对该鼠的5个亚种,即指名亚种(M.f.fortis)(西北)、东北亚种(M.f.pelliecus)、辽宁亚种(M.f.dolichocephalus)、长江亚种(M.f.calamorum)和福建亚种(M.f.fujianensis)(华南),作过一般生物学描述[1],对于东方田鼠研究得较多的是长江亚种,60年代有人对该种动物的生态学特点进行了报道,近期对洞庭湖区东方田鼠的种群动态、繁殖特性、迁移行为也有系列研究[2],特别是该种动物具有对日本血吸虫天然抗感染性,引起了学术界的广泛兴趣,本研究通过对人工繁殖的东方田鼠的细胞遗传学的观察,了解该种动物的染色体数目的范围、染色体核型以及染色体G带特征.
简介:Microarrayhasbecomeapopularbiotechnologyinbiologicalandmedicalresearch.However,systematicandstochasticvariabilitiesinmicroarraydataareexpectedandunavoidable,resultingintheproblemthattherawmeasurementshaveinherent"noise"withinmicroarrayexperiments.Currently,logarithmicratiosareusuallyanalyzedbyvariousclusteringmethodsdirectly,whichmayintroducebiasinterpretationinidentifyinggroupsofgenesorsamples.Inthispaper,astatisticalmethodbasedonmixedmodelapproacheswasproposedformicroarraydataclusteranalysis.TheunderlyingrationaleofthismethodistopartitiontheobservedtotalgeneexpressionlevelintovariousvariationscausedbydifferentfactorsusinganANOVAmodel,andtopredictthedifferentialeffectsofGV(genebyvariety)interactionusingtheadjustedunbiasedprediction(AUP)method.ThepredictedGVinteractioneffectscanthenbeusedastheinputsofclusteranalysis.Weillustratedtheapplicationofourmethodwithageneexpressiondatasetandelucidatedtheutilityofourapproachusinganexternalvalidation.
简介:Annotationsofcompletegenomesequencessubmitteddirectlyfromsequencingprojectsarediverseintermsofannotationstrategiesandupdatefrequencies.Theseinconsistenciesmakecomparativestudiesdifficult.Toallowrapiddataprepara-tionofalargenumberofcompletegenomes,automationandspeedareimpor-tantforgenomere-annotation.Hereweintroduceanopen-sourcerapidgenomere-annotationsoftwaresystem,Restauro-G,specializedforbacterialgenomes.Restauro-Gre-annotatesagenomebysimilaritysearchesutilizingtheBLAST-LikeAlignmentTool,referringtoproteindatabasessuchasUniProtKB,NCBInr,NCBICOGs,Pfam,andPSORTb.Re-annotationbyRestauro-Gachievedover98%accuracyformostbacterialchromosomesincomparisonwiththeoriginalmanuallycuratedannotationofEMBLreleases.Restauro-GwasdevelopedinthegenericbioinformaticsworkbenchG-languageGenomeAnalysisEnvironmentandisdistributedathttp://restauro-g.iab.keio.ac.jp/undertheGNUGeneralPublicLicense.
简介:InteractionbetweencytotoxicTlymphocyte-associatedantigen-4(CTLA4,CD152)andB7molecules(B7-1andB7-2)isofimportanceinthecellulareventsoflymphocyte,includingantigen-specificT-cellactivationandinductionofautoreactiveT-cell.WedescribehaerethefirstintroductionofamurinesolubleCTLA4gene,CTLA4Ig,toMm1cells,amacrophagiccellline.CTLA4IgwassuccessfullyexpressedonMm1cellsandtheexpressedCTLA4IgwasfoundtobefunctionallyactiveintheirbindingtoB7moleculesbyflowcytometryandimmunofluorescencestudies.ThebiologicalactivityofCTLA4IgfromthetransfectedMm1cellswasstudiedandshowedinhibitoryactivityonmixedlymphocyteculture.AhighCTLA4Igproducingmacrophagiccelllinewasobtained.AsMm1cellswereregardedasdifficultforgenetransfectionandtherehassofarbeennoreportonexpressionofCTLA4IggeneonMm1cells,theseresultssuggestedthattheCELA4IgexpressingMm1cellscouldbeusefulforanalysisofCTLA4andB8moleculeinteractioninbothmacrophageandT-cell.
简介:Trichosanthin(TCS)isapotentallergentomice.Accordingtoourpreviousexperiments,itcouldbringouttheIgEresponsetoovabumin(OVA)ifTCSwasgivenonedaybeforeOVAimmunization,whileOVAalonecouldnotinduceIgEtoit.Inthiswork,thekineticsofinterleukin4(IL-4)andinterferonγ(IFN-γ)geneexpressioninthemesentericlymphnode(MLN)ofTCS-immunizedmicewasinvestigatedusingasemi-quantitativeRT-PCRmethod.ItindicatedthatTCSinducedsignificantIL-4geneexpressionandthepeaksofIL4geneexpressionwereondayoneafterTCSimmunizationinbothprimaryandsecondaryresponse.Incontrast,theIFN-γgeneexpressionwassuppressed.Furthermor,theIL-4geneexpressioninthesecondaryresponsewaslowerthanthatintheprimaryresponse.ThusthepresenceofIgEmemoryBcellswerestudied.ResultsshowedthattheamountofmatureIgEmRNAarosesignificantlyandrapidlyonedayafterTCSrestimulation,whileintheMLNofthemiceprimed30daysbeforeandwithoutboost,itwasalmostasthesameamountoftheunimmunizedcontrol.ThesefindingssuggesttheexistenceoftheIgEmemoryBcellsinthemiceaftertheprimaryTCSimmunization.
简介:报道了内蒙古白粉菌4个新记录种,分别是寄生在白桦Betulaplatyphylla上的桦木白粉菌Erysiphebetulina、大果榆Ulmusmacrocarpa上的榆白粉菌原变种Erysipheulmivar.ulmi、刺果茶藤Ribesburejense上的醋栗单囊白粉菌Podosphaeramors-uvae和栾树Koelreuteriapaniculata上的栾树叉钩丝壳Sawadaeakoelreuteriae。其中,白桦Betulaplatyphylla和刺果茶蔗子Ribesburejense为上述白粉菌的国内新记录寄主,文中提供了详细的形态描述和线条图。引证标本保存在赤峰学院菌物标本室(CFSZ)。
简介:Asimplemethodtocreateachromosome-specificDNAlibrqaryofrice,includingmicrodissection,amplification,charterizationandcloning,isdescribed.Ricechromosome4fromametaphasecellhasbeenisolatedandamplifiedbytheLinkerAdapterPCR(LA-PCR).ThePCRproductswerelabeledasprobeswithDIG-11-dUTPusingtherandomprimingmethod.SouthernblotanalysiswithricegenomicDNAandspecificRFLPmarkersdemonstratedthatthePCRproductswerederivedfromricechromosome4.Alargelibrarycomprisingover100,000recombinantplasmidmicroclonesfromricechromosome4wasconstructed.Colonyhybridizationshowedthat58%oftheclonescontainedsingleorlow-copysequencesand42%containedrepetitivesequences.ThesizeofinsertsgeneratedbyPCRrangedfrom140bpto500bp.ThismethodwillfacilitatecloningofthespecificchromosomeDNAmarkersandimportantgenesofrice.