生物学标志在产肠毒素性大肠埃希菌同源克隆鉴定中的应用

目的研究多方法、多生物学标志在产肠毒素性大肠埃希菌同源克隆鉴定中的作用。方法在毒力基因检测和分型基础上，首次采用质粒分析法结合多位点酶电泳法，对ＥＴＥＣ同源克隆进行了综合研究。结果７个毒力基因型的２０６株散发ＥＴＥＣ菌株经质粒图谱分型后，共可分成９３个质粒型，有１４０株ＥＴＥＣ具有独特的基因型；进一步用多位点酶电泳分型，２０６株ＥＴＥＣ可被分成１４８个ＥＴ型，３种方法综合，共有１９０株ＥＴＥＣ具有独特的基因型。结论多方法、多生物学标志在同源克隆鉴定中能提供更多、更可靠的信息。     

紫癜性肾炎患儿肠道菌群变化及临床意义研究

背景目前国内外关于过敏性紫癜（HSP）患儿肠道菌群变化的研究数量有限,且尚未见关于紫癜性肾炎（HSPN）患儿疾病早期肠道菌群变化的相关报道。目的 探讨HSPN患儿肠道菌群的变化及其在疾病发生、发展中的作用。方法 于2019年7—9月选取郑州大学第一附属医院儿科收治的37例HSP初治患儿作为试验组,另外同时选取12例健康志愿儿童作为对照组;并对HSPN患儿随访6个月,根据有无肾损伤进一步分为无肾损伤试验亚组13例和肾损伤试验亚组24例。收集HSP患儿与健康儿童的一般资料及粪便标本,应用高通量测序技术对所有研究对象的肠道菌群进行测序及分析,采用Alpha多样性（Shannon指数、Chao1指数、ACE指数）分析探讨样本内的微生物群落的丰度和多样性,通过主坐标分析（PCoA）来探究不同组别间群落结构的差异,利用线性判别分析及影响因子（LEfSe）分析找到组间差异显著的物种。结果 Alpha多样性分析显示,三组研究对象Shannon指数、Chao1指数、ACE指数比较,差异均无统计学意义（P>0.05）。PCoA显示,三组研究对象肠道菌群群落结构均有差异（P<0.05）;Adon...     

分子标记在医学蠕虫遗传多态性研究中的应用

医学蠕虫引起的人兽共患寄生虫病严重危害人类健康。对医学蠕虫进行遗传多态性研究,不仅可以了解其种群的生物学特性和遗传结构,而且有助于揭示它们如何适应寄生环境,从而有助于对寄生虫病流行规律的认识,加深对寄生虫病精准防控的理解。随着分子生物学的发展,DNA条形码、简单序列重复、单核苷酸多态性标记等分子标记已被广泛应用于研究寄生虫个体间及群体间的遗传关系,揭示寄生虫种群的遗传变异、物种的起源进化等。本文对目前常用的三类分子标记在医学蠕虫遗传多态性研究中的应用进行系统综述,以期为相关研究奠定基础。     

A new HPLC fluorimetric method to monitor urinary delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA-U) levels in workers exposed to lead

Summary A new sensitive HPLC method for the determination of urinary delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA-U) was used to evaluate the relationship between blood-lead (Pb-B) and ALA-U levels in male workers exposed to lead. The differences between the ALA-U levels determined by this method (ALAU-HP) and by a colorimetric method (ALA-U-CL) are discussed. The HPLC method gave values similar to the ALA-U-CL values at high ALA-U level. However, at low blood-lead levels (58 ± 22 g/l, n = 23), the mean ALA-U-HP level corrected by urinary creatinine level was one-third of the corrected ALA-UCL level (0.83 ± 0.14 and 2.4 ± 0.5 mg/g creatinine, respectively). A significant increase of the mean corrected ALA-U-HP level was observed at 162 ± 22 g/l Pb-B (P < 0.05, n = 26), while that of ALA-UCL was observed at 245 ± 30 g/l Pb-B (P < 0.01, n = 37). The regression equation based on the logistic model fitted well to the relationship data between the Pb-B level and the percentage of the subjects with corrected ALA-U-HP above the cut-off point (1.12 mg/g creatinine) and the expected Pb-B level for 50% response was 270 g/l Pb-B, while it did not fit well to the relationship data between Pb-B level and the percentage of the subjects with corrected ALAU-CL above the cut-off point (3.5 mg/g creatinine). The maximum responses for the two sets of corrected ALA-U levels were both observed at 625 ± 25 g/l. The corrected ALA-U level by HPLC method seems to be a useful indicator for biological monitoring of exposure to lead at low levels (< 400 g/l Pb-B = health-based biological limit, WHO) as well as high ones.     

Historical evolution,overview, and therapeutic manipulation of co-stimulatory molecules

Co-stimulatory molecules are key mediators in the regulation of immune responses and knowledge of its different families, structure, and functions has improved in recent decades. Understanding the role of co-stimulatory molecules in pathological processes has allowed the development of strategies to modulate cellular functions. Currently, modulation of co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory molecules has been applied in clinical applications as therapeutic targets in diseases and promising results have been achieved.     

In vivo electrical characteristics of human skin, including at biological active points

The aim is to compare the mean values of the in vivo electrical characteristics of bioiogical active points (BAPs) with those of the surrounding human skin. The impedance measurements at BAPs and on the surrounding skin are carried out in vivo on ten young, healthy people. The results of the measurements show that the BAP resistance R_P is smaller, and the capacitance C_P is higher, than the corresponding values for skin, R_S and C_S, respectively, these differences are larger at low frequencies (at f=3 Hz, R_S/R_P=3.19 and C_P/C_S=3.2). The mean values of the impedance measurements at the BAPs are different from those measured on the skin. The dependence of R_P and C_P on the pressing force, in the range of about 1–5 N, for the BAPs, has a smaller slope than that observed for the surrounding skin. An equivalent circuit for the BAPs is proposed that describes sufficiently well the experimental results obtained. These results show that the large dispersion in the observed impedance characteristics of the human body measurements in different body regions can be related to the influence of the BAPs present under the electrodes.     

Double minutes and other chromosomal aberrations in two malignant cell lines of the German cockroach Blattella germanica

Structural anomalies of mitotic chromosomes from two tumorigenic cell lines of the German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is described. Aberrations, such as unpairable marker chromosomes, double minutes, di- and tricentrics, ring chromosomes, tri- and quadriradials, and chromosome and chromatid gaps and breaks, were observed in varying proportions. This study reports that the double minute chromosomes (DMs) are associated with insect tumor cells, similar to the findings in both murine and human tumor cells.     

可溶性gp130和gp130反义核酸对IL-6诱导的靶基因启动子活性的影响

ｇｐ１３０是ＩＬ－６信号转导子，ＩＬ－６介导的信号转导起始于ｇｐ１３０与ＩＬ－６、ＩＬ－６Ｒα形成的复合物。为了研究ｇｐ１３０胞外区的结构与功能，在肝癌细胞ＨｅｐＧ２中建立了检测ＩＬ－６诱导基因表达强弱的方法，并观察了含胞外区全长（５９７个氨基酸）及氨基端３０４个氨基酸残基的ｇｐ１３０突变体，以及ｇｐ１３０反义核酸对ＩＬ－６生物学效应的影响。证明两个突变体和反义核酸均拮抗ＩＬ－６信号，为进一步研究ＩＬ－６受体拮抗剂奠定了基础。     

Mitochondrial DNA in the aquatic fungus Allomyces

Summary The mitochondrial DNA from seven species of the aquatic phycomycete Allomyces has been isolated and characterized by restriction enzyme analysis. Comparison of the mitochondrial DNA restriction enzyme fragmentation patterns showed pronounced differences not only among species but also among four isolates of A. arbuscula. The mitochondrial DNAs range in size from 39 kbp in A. neo-moniliformis to 56 kbp in A. macrogynus.A physical map of the mitochondrial DNA of Allomyces arbuscula strain Costa Rica 21 has been constructed. The genome is circular and has a size of 49.2 kbp. The genes coding for the small and large ribosomal RNAs, cytochrome oxidase subunits 1, 2, and 3, apocytochrome b, and ATPase subunits 6 and 9 were localized in the mitochondria) DNA by heterologous hybridization with specific mitochondria) gene probes from Saccaromyces cerevisiae and Neurospora crassa. Comparison of the gene map of the closely related species Blastocladiella emersonii with that of A. arbuscula indicates a similar gene order in the two organisms.     

Development of a PCR-SSOP approach capable of defining the natural killer cell inhibitory receptor (KIR) gene sequence repertoires

A molecular typing method based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of three different target domains (immunoglobulin domains 1 and 3, and the transmembrane-cytoplasmic domain), followed by hybridisation with 26 digoxigenin-labelled sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes (SSOP) has been established for the polymorphic killer inhibitory receptor (KIR) genes. In addition to identifying the 12 KIR subfamilies, our PCR-SSOP typing approach could also distinguish the putative alleles, NKB1 and NKAT3, that comprise the KIR3DL1 subfamily. Ninety unrelated blood donors and 13 families (52 individuals), including both parents, were subjected to our KIR PCR-SSOP typing approach. All 12 KIR subfamilies, including a 2DS5 variant sequence, were present in the 90 individuals and displayed varied phenotype frequencies: 2DL1 (0.96), 2DL2 (0.31), 2DL3 (0.95), 2DS1 (0.56) 2DS2 (0.51), 2DS3 (0.27), 2DS4 (0.96), 2DS5v (0.35), 3DS1 (0.47), 3DL1 (0.96), 3DL2 (1.0) and 2DL4 (1.0). A total of 23 different KIR phenotypes were defined in this study, and 10 of these were only found on one occasion in one individual, indicating considerable diversity in the KIR phenotype profiles within the Irish population. Most individuals (93%) possessed the complement of inhibitory KIR specificities for the three well-defined HLA-B and -C ligands. An unusual probe pattern for 3DS1 was observed in 3 individuals indicating a variant 3DS1 gene sequence with changes at nucleotide positions 1185-1186, within the cytoplasmic domain. Sequencing analysis revealed a new single nucleotide polymorphism in exon 3 of 3DL1 NKB1(195, G-A) and a 22-bp deletion polymorphism in exon 5 of 2DS4 (nucleotides 777-798 deleted). A number of strong KIR associations were observed, namely 2DL1 with 2DL3, 2DS4 with 3DL1, 2DL2 with 2DS1/2DS2/2DS3, 2DS1 with 2DS3/2DS5v/3DS1, 2DS2 with 2DS3 and 2DS5v with 3DS1. Analysis of the KIR segregation observed in the 13 families confirmed these strong associations and permitted the definition of a number of partial KIR haplotypes, e.g. 2DL2-2DS1-2DS2-2DS3-3DL1. The segregation analysis concluded that at least 3 distinct gene loci encode 2DL1-4 and at least 4 gene loci encode the non-inhibitory KIR2DS1-2DS5. In the case of 3DL1-2 and 3DS1, our data suggests 3 gene loci, one for each subfamily.