钙调素在IAA和6-BA诱导绿豆下胚轴原生质体膨大过程中的含量变化

含钙培养液和含激素培养液中的绿豆下胚轴原生质体在培养30min时分别检测到钙调素（CaM）峰,在含钙培养液中加入IAA或6-8ACaM含量急剧降低,这与先前的试验结果即45Ca2 积累增多和体积膨大正好对应。异博定（verapamil）、LaCl3、EGTA或W7可使激素 CaCl2处理的CaM含量不同程度地回升,甚至接近或超过对照的水平。而A23187处理或K 、Zn2 等代替Ca2 则使CaM含量保持在与激素处理相似的低水平。这也与先前观察到的45Ca2 积累和体积的变化相对应。表明钙调素在IAA和6-8A诱导绿豆下胚轴原生质体膨大过程中的境与Ca2 共同起着调节作用。     

钙-钙调素在零下低温诱导毛白杨扦插苗抗冻性中的作用

以零下低温锻炼和结合效应剂(CaCl2、钙离子螯合剂EGTA、钙离子通道阻断剂LaCl3或钙调素拮抗剂CPZ)处理的低温锻炼下的毛白杨(Populus tomentosa)扦插苗为试材,对其体内丙.醛(M D A)及钙调素(CaM)含量,超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)、过氧化物酶(POD)及线粒体腺苷三磷酸酶(Ca2 -ATPase)活性,以及幼苗的半致死温度(LT50)分别进行测定.结果表明,低温锻炼不仅在一定程度上提高了幼苗 CaM含量,SOD、POD和线粒体Ca2 -ATPase活性,降低了MDA含量和幼苗半致死温度;而且减小了低温胁迫所引起的SOD、POD、线粒体Ca2 -ATPase活性和CaM含量的下降程度以及MDA的增加幅度,促进了胁迫后恢复过程中SOD、POD、线粒体Ca2 -ATPase活性和CaM水平的迅速回升以及MDA的下降.在低温锻炼的同时,用CaCl2处理能加强低温锻炼的效果,但这种效应可被EGTA、LaCl3或CPZ处理抑制.经或未经CaCl2处理的低温锻炼后,幼苗中CaM含量的增加有助于SOD、POD和线粒体Ca2 -ATPase活性的提高,进而对幼苗抗冻性的提高有明显的促进作用.看来,Ca2 -CaM信号系统可能参与了SOD、POD和线粒体Ca2 -ATPase活性的调节和抗冻性的低温诱导.     

盐胁迫下氯丙嗪和LaCl_3对稻苗K~ 、Na~ 、Cl~-吸收转运的影响

研究了氯丙嗪 (CPZ)和LaCl3 预处理阻碍Ca2 ·CaM信使系统传导后 ,盐胁迫下稻苗体内Na 、K 和Cl-含量及吸收转运的变化 ,结果表明 :CPZ和LaCl3 预处理后 ,盐胁迫下稻苗对K /Na 的选择性吸收下降 ,致使稻苗K 含量减少、Na 含量增加 ,Na /K 比值显著增加 ;并且稻苗地上部Cl-含量也显著增加。盐胁迫处理稻苗 2d后解除盐胁迫 ,改用蒸馏水培养 ,在蒸馏水中加入CPZ或LaCl3 时 ,稻苗中含有较高的Na ,即CPZ和LaCl3 抑制稻苗将体内Na 排出体外的能力。上述结果表明 ,盐胁迫下 ,Ca2 ·CaM信使系统可能参与稻苗对K 、Na 和Cl-的吸收转运以适应盐胁迫     

Ca2+和钙调素对H2O2诱导的玉米幼苗耐热性的调控

外源H2O2预处理提高了玉米幼苗内源H2O2的含量和钙调素(CaM)活性,缓解了高温处理过程中CaM活性的下降,增加了玉米幼苗在高温胁迫下的存活率.H2O2诱导的玉米幼苗耐热性的形成可被外源Ca2 处理所加强,被Ca2 螯合剂EGTA、质膜Ca2 通道阻塞剂La3 、胞内Ca2 通道阻断剂RR(钌红),以及CaM抑制剂CPZ(氯丙嗪)和TFP(三氟拉嗪)所抑制,表明Ca2 和CaM参与了H2O2诱导的玉米幼苗耐热性形成的调控.     

Ca2 +对小麦种根及其根毛生长发育的影响

低浓度的CaCl2对小麦种根生长、根毛发生和生长无明显影响,高浓度的CaCl2(0.1 mol/L)对种根和根毛生长有抑制作用,但不影响根毛的发生。Ca2+专一性整合剂EGTA抑制种根生长和根毛的发生及生长,添加一定浓度的外源CaCl2,这种抑制作用可被消除。CaM抑制剂TFP(三氟拉嗪)和CPZ(氯丙嗪)对种根生长、根毛发生和生长均有抑制作用,添加外源CaM可减弱或消除这种抑制作用。     

钙和钙调素对机械刺激诱导的烟草悬浮培养细胞耐热性的调控

机械刺激（mechanical stimulation,MS）可提高烟草悬浮培养细胞的钙调素（calmodulin,CaM）活性,诱导烟草悬浮培养细胞耐热性的形成,外源Ca2＋可加强,而Ca2＋螯合剂EGTA、质膜Ca2＋通道阻塞剂La3＋和胞内Ca2＋通道阻断剂钌红（RR）,以及CaM拮抗剂氯丙嗪（CPZ）和三氟拉嗪（TFP）则削弱这种耐热性的形成。这些暗示Ca2＋和CaM参与MS诱导的烟草悬浮培养细胞耐热性形成的调控。     

IAA和Ca^2＋对绿豆下胚轴切段伸长的影响及其相互关系

0.01 mmol/L IAA可以明显促进绿豆下胚轴切段的伸长,≤0.1 mmol/L CaCl_2也可促进其伸长,但当浓度为0.5 mmol/L时则有抑制作用。低浓度CaCl_2尚能加强IAA对绿豆下胚轴切段伸长的促进作用。Ca~(2+)专一性螯合剂EGTA、Ca~(2+)竞争性抑制剂LaCl_3及CaM拮抗剂CPZ均能抑制IAA促进绿豆下胚轴切段伸长的作用。增加培养介质中CaCl_2浓度可以逆转LaCl_3的抑制效应。     

盐胁迫下氯丙嗪和LaCl3对稻苗K^＋、Na^＋、Cl^—吸收转运的影响

研究了氯丙嗪（CPZ）和LaCl3预处理阻碍Ca^2 。CaM信使系统传导后,盐胁迫下稻苗体内Na^ 、K^ 和Cl^-含量及吸收转运的变化。结果表明：CPZ和LaCl3预处理后,盐胁迫下稻苗对K^ /Na^ 的选择性吸收下降,致使稻苗K^ 含量减少、Na^ 含量增加,Na^ /K^ 比值显著增加;并且稻苗地上部Cl^-含量也显著增加,盐胁迫处理稻苗2d后解除盐胁迫,改用蒸馏水培养,在蒸馏水中加入CPZ或LaCl3时,稻苗中含有较高的Na^ ,即CPZ和LaCl3抑制稻苗将体内Na^ 排出体外的能力,上述结果表明,盐胁迫下,Ca^2 .CaM信使系统可能参与稻苗对K^ 、Na^ 和Cl^-的吸收转运以适应盐胁迫。     

Ca~(2 )对盐胁迫下黄瓜幼苗中CaM、MDA含量和质膜透性的影响(简报)

添加CaCl2可提高黄瓜幼苗中CaM含量,降低MDA（丙二醛）和质膜透性,减轻盐害,添加CaM抑制剂CPZ（氯丙嗪）、TFP（三氟拉嗪）则取得相反效果。添加外源CaM可降低CaM在体内合成,起到降低盐害作用。     

NaCl胁迫下大麦根液泡膜H^＋—ATPase活性、离子吸收与钙的关系

NaCl胁迫 2d ,耐盐大麦 (HordeumvulgareL .cv) (“滩引 2号”)根系液泡膜H _ATPase活性增强 ,H _PPase活性下降。以质膜Ca2 通道抑制剂La3 (1mmol/L)或Ca2 螯合剂EGTA (5mmol/L)处理大麦幼苗 ,抑制了NaCl诱导的液泡膜H _ATPase活性的增强 ,但提高了H _PPase活性 ;用CaM拮抗剂三氟拉嗪 (TFP ,2 0 μmol/L)处理 ,也抑制了液泡膜H _ATPase活性的增强。NaCl胁迫下 ,外加La3 ,TFP或La3 TFP处理 ,使Na 吸收增加 ,K 和Ca2 吸收降低。结果表明 ,NaCl胁迫下 ,液泡膜H _ATPase活性提高和离子吸收的变化可能与Ca_CaM系统有关。     

Degradation and conversion of somatostatin in normal and diabetic rats in vivo and in vitro

Plasma somatostatin-like immunoreactivity in the portal and jugular veins of streptozotocin diabetic rats was compared with that in normal control rats. In the diabetic group, somatostatin levels in the portal (p less than 0.05) and jugular (p less than 0.01) veins were both elevated compared with those in the control group. Moreover, the degree of elevation was greater in the jugular vein than in the portal vein. To further investigate the role of the liver in the clearance of somatostatin-28 in vivo, 2 micrograms of somatostatin-28 was administered as a bolus into the external jugular vein of intact and functionally hepatectomized rats. The mean half-time of somatostatin-28 was significantly longer in intact diabetic rats than in controls (p less than 0.05). The functional hepatectomy did not cause a significant difference in the half-time in diabetic rats but made it longer in control rats. These results suggest that the longer half-time of somatostatin-28 in diabetic rats in vivo is due to its slower hepatic clearance. The hepatic clearance of somatostatin-28 and somatostatin-14 was further studied in vitro using a recirculating liver perfusion method. The hepatic clearance of 1.2 nM of either somatostatin-28 or somatostatin-14 was significantly lower in diabetic rats than in controls (p less than 0.01). This indicates that elevated plasma somatostatin levels in diabetic rats are caused at least in part by decreased hepatic clearance of somatostatin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

Production of arsine and methylarsines in soil and in culture

Arsenate, arsenite, monomethylarsonate, and dimethylarsinate were added to different soils, and evolution of gaseous arsenical products was determined over 3 weeks. Arsine was produced in all three soils from all substrates, whereas methylarsine and dimethylarsine were produced only from methylarsonate and dimethylarsinate, respectively. At least three times more arsine than dimethylarsine was produced in soil incubated with dimethylarsinate. Resting cell suspensions of Pseudomonas and Alcaligenes produced arsine as the sole product when incubated anaerobically in the presence of arsenate or arsenite. In all instances, no trimethylarsine was observed, nor could any evidence be shown for the methylation of any arsenical substrate in soil or in culture. It was concluded that reduction to arsine, not methylation to trimethylarsine, was the primary mechanism for gaseous loss of arsenicals from soil.     

Growth and mitogenic effects of arylphorin in vivo and in vitro

In insects, developmental responses are organ- and tissue-specific. In previous studies of insect midgut cells in primary tissue cultures, growth-promoting and differentiation factors were identified from the growth media, hemolymph, and fat body. Recently, it was determined that the mitogenic effect of a Manduca sexta fat body extract on midgut stem cells of Heliothis virescens was due to the presence of monomeric alpha-arylphorin. Here we report that in primary midgut cell cultures, this same arylphorin stimulates stem cell proliferation in the lepidopterans M. sexta and Spodoptera littoralis, and in the beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata. Studies using S. littoralis cells confirm that the mitogenic effect is due to free alpha-arylphorin subunits. In addition, feeding artificial diets containing arylphorin increased the growth rates of several insect species. When tested against continuous cell lines, including some with midgut and fat body origins, arylphorin had no effect; however, a cell line derived from Lymantria dispar fat body grew more rapidly in medium containing a chymotryptic digest of arylphorin.     

Antiplatelet and antithrombotic activities of purpurogallin in vitro and in vivo

Enzymatic oxidation of pyrogallol was efficiently transformed to an oxidative product, purpurogallin (PPG). Here, the anticoagulant activities of PPG were examined by monitoring activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), prothrombin time (PT), and the activities of thrombin and activated factor X (FXa). And, the effects of PPG on expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1 (PAI-1) and tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) were evaluated in tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α activated human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Treatment with PPG resulted in prolonged aPTT and PT and inhibition of the activities of thrombin and FXa, as well as inhibited production of thrombin and FXa in HUVECs. In addition, PPG inhibited thrombin-catalyzed fibrin polymerization and platelet aggregation. PPG also elicited anticoagulant effects in mice. In addition, treatment with PPG resulted in significant reduction of the PAI-1 to t-PA ratio. Collectively, PPG possesses antithrombotic activities and offers a basis for development of a novel anticoagulant. [BMB Reports 2014; 47(7): 376-381]     

Growth and reproduction of Arabidopsis thaliana in relation to storage of starch and nitrate in the wild-type and in starch-deficient and nitrate-uptake-deficient mutants

We have investigated the interactions between resource assimilation and storage in rosette leaves, and their impact on the growth and reproduction of the annual species Arabidopsis thaliana. The resource balance was experimentally perturbed by changing (i) the external nutrition, by varying the nitrogen supply; (ii) the assimilation and reallocation of resources from rosette leaves to reproductive organs, by cutting or covering rosette leaves at the time of early flower bud formation, and (iii) the internal carbon and nitrogen balance of the plants, by using isogenic mutants either lacking starch formation (PGM mutant) or with reduced nitrate uptake (NU mutant). When plants were grown on high nitrogen, they had higher concentrations of carbohydrates and nitrate in their leaves during the rosette phase than during flowering. However, these storage pools did not significantly contribute to the bulk flow of resources to seeds. The pool size of stored resources in rosette leaves at the onset of seed filling was very low compared to the total amount of carbon and nitrogen needed for seed formation. Instead, the rosette leaves had an important function in the continued assimilation of resources during seed ripening, as shown by the low seed yield of plants whose leaves were covered or cut off. When a key resource became limiting, such as nitrogen in the NU mutants and in plants grown on a low nitrogen supply, stored resources in the rosette leaves (e.g. nitrogen) were remobilized, and made a larger contribution to seed biomass. A change in nutrition resulted in a complete reversal of the plant response: plants shifted from high to low nutrition exhibited a seed yield similar to that of plants grown continuously on a low nitrogen supply, and vice versa. This demonstrates that resource assimilation during the reproductive phase determines seed production. The PGM mutant had a reduced growth rate and a smaller biomass during the rosette phase as a result of changes in respiration caused by a high turnover of soluble sugars ( Caspar et al. 1986 ; W. Schulze et al. 1991 ). During flowering, however, the vegetative growth rate in the PGM mutant increased, and exceeded that of the wild-type. By the end of the flowering stage, the biomass of the PGM mutant did not differ from that of the wild-type. However, in contrast to the wild-type, the PGM mutant maintained a high vegetative growth rate during seed formation, but had a low rate of seed production. These differences in allocation in the PGM mutant result in a significantly lower seed yield in the starchless mutants. This indicates that starch formation is not only an important factor during growth in the rosette phase, but is also important for whole plant allocation during seed formation. The NU mutant resembled the wild-type grown on a low nitrogen supply, except that it unexpectedly showed symptoms of carbohydrate shortage as well as nitrogen deficiency. In all genotypes and treatments, there was a striking correlation between the concentrations of nitrate and organic nitrogen and shoot growth on the one hand, and sucrose concentration and root growth on the other. In addition, nitrate reductase activity (NRA) was correlated with the total carbohydrate concentration: low carbohydrate levels in starchless mutants led to low NRA even at high nitrate supply. Thus the concentrations of stored carbohydrates and nitrate are directly or indirectly involved in regulating allocation.     

Development and comparison of in vivo and in vitro models for endometritis in cows and mares

In order to investigate pathogenic mechanisms of acute endometritis in cows and mares, we established an in vivo model in both species. Based on the results of an in vitro transmigration system, human recombinant interleukin-8 (rhIL-8; 1.25 microg per mare and 5 microg per cow in 50 ml phosphate-buffered saline) was used to attract polymorphonuclear neutrophil granulocytes (PMNs) into the uteri. Peak numbers of uterine neutrophils were attracted after 6h, in both cows and mares. On average, mares responded more sensitively than cows, with 15 times higher numbers of rhIL-8-attracted uterine neutrophils (72+/-8 x 10(7)cells). In contrast to in vitro studies, in vivo migrated neutrophils (uterine neutrophils) of both species displayed a significantly reduced MHC class I expression. Expression of the CD11a molecule was significantly enhanced on equine uterine neutrophils but downregulated on bovine cells. Compared with untreated autologous peripheral neutrophils, both uterine and in vitro migrated neutrophils showed no alteration of phagocytic capacity. The ability to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) was significantly upregulated in bovine and equine uterine neutrophils. This was also observed after in vitro migration of equine neutrophils, whereas ROS generation by bovine neutrophils was significantly depressed. In summary, the concept of inducing endometritis directly by local application of human interleukin-8 has been reliably successful in cows and mares. The model permits the analysis of PMN migration into the uterus under defined and controlled conditions. The observed differences between cows and mares with respect to phenotypical and functional characteristics of in vivo attracted uterine cells point to species-related features of neutrophil migration. In vitro transmigrated bovine and equine cells partially differ in phenotype and function from uterine neutrophils. Therefore, the in vitro transmigration assay cannot completely represent the in vivo endometritis model described here.