耐盐基因转化蓝藻Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942研究

将从极端耐盐的假单胞杆菌中克隆得到的3个基因，即转录调控因子基因，NADH脱氢酶Ⅱ基因和磷酸甘油磷酸酯酶基因转入淡水蓝藻Synechococcus sp.PCC 7942中，使受体藻对NaCl的耐受性从低于2．5％显著提高到4．5％，进一步证明了这3个基因确定与生物的耐盐性密切相关。本实验为进一步培育耐盐经济作物奠定了基础。     

假单胞菌(Pseudomonas sp.cn 4902)甘露醇-1-磷酸脱氢酶基因克隆及表达

参照几种生物的甘露醇—1—磷酸脱氢酶基因(mtl D)的序列设计引物，以极端耐盐的假单胞菌(Pseudomonas sp．cn 4902)的总DNA为模板，采用PCR扩增、构建重组高效表达载体以及生物信息学研究等方法，进行基因克隆、表达及功能定性等研究。结果表明，克隆获得一长为1149bp的基因。经蛋白质保守区域研究，初步判别该基因为mtl D结构基因。将该基因与pBV220质粒构建成高效表达原核重组载体pBH。SDS—PAGE电泳表明，含pBH的转化子产生特异的、分子量约为41kD的蛋白带，表达量约占菌体可溶性蛋白6．7％。转化子的耐盐水平比对照提高了约1／5。在含0．9mol／L NaCl的液体培养基中，转化子培养24h后其生物量约是对照的10．2倍，甘露醇含量约是对照的4．1倍。可见，假单胞菌的甘露醇—1—磷酸脱氢酶基因是一个重要的耐盐相关基因，该基因已在GenBank登记，代号为AY112696。     

沼泽红假单胞菌(Rhodopseudomonas palustris)核酮糖-1,5-二磷酸羧化酶/氧化酶基因克隆及其在大肠杆菌中的表达

核酮糖-1,5-二磷酸羧化酶/氧化酶(RubisCO)(EC4.1.139)是光合细菌通过卡尔文循环固定二氧化碳的关键酶。本文采用PCR方法,从沼泽红假单胞菌株No.9中克隆到RubisCO基因(cbbM)序列(该序列已提交GenBank,登录号:GU061327)。采用同源建模法,建立了该RubisCO蛋白的三维结构模型,预测其活性位点。将cbbM基因亚克隆到表达载体pTV118N上,构建表达质粒pTV-CBBM,转化大肠杆菌BL21(DE3),获得表达菌株BL21(DE3)/pTV-CBBM,该菌株经IPTG诱导表达后,进行SDS-PAGE检测。采用气相色谱法测定破菌上清中的RubisCO酶活。结果表明:①cbbM基因编码461个氨基酸,与沼泽红假单胞菌株DCP3和DH1的RubisCO蛋白序列相似性分别为98%和99%;②推测沼泽红假单胞菌No.9中RubisCO蛋白的活性中心由Asn112、Lys192、Asp194、Glu195、His288、Arg289、His322、Gly424、Ser369、Gly370和Gly394等氨基酸残基组成;③重组蛋白分子量约为50kDa左右,与预测相符;④破菌上清中的RubisCO酶比活高于原始菌株中的酶活,说明目的基因在大肠杆菌中得到了有效表达。     

6-磷酸山梨醇脱氢酶(gutD)基因克隆、测序和表达

本研究根据6-磷酸山梨醇脱氢酶基因(gutD)两端序列设计引物，以假单胞杆菌(Pseudonmonas XM)的总DNA为模板通过PCR的方法克隆gutD基因并进行序列分析，将克隆得到的gutD基因与原核表达载体pBV220连接并转化大肠杆菌(Escherichia coli)JM101后检测其蛋白表达及菌株生长耐盐性。     

海洋聚磷菌中核苷二磷酸激酶基因的克隆及序列分析

以海洋聚磷菌Halomonas YSR-3的总DNA为模板，用PCR法扩增核苷二磷酸激酶基因，将扩增片段克隆到pGM．T载体，转化Escherichia coli TOP10菌株，经蓝白斑筛选、菌落PCR得到阳性克隆，测序后对序列进行Blast比对分析。得到的基因序列长度为420bp，翻译后的序列与Loktanella vestfoldensis SKA53，Jannaschia sp．CCS1，Roseobacter sp．CCS2的核苷二磷酸激酶蛋白序列相似性分别为89％，86％，85％。     

产壳聚糖酶菌株选育及培养条件优化

以假单胞菌Y8．0为出发菌株,分别通过亚硝基胍(NTG),Co^60,UV(紫外)诱变,采用透明圈法筛选,获得了产壳聚糖酶较好的突变菌株假单胞菌Y8,其所产酶活力达到3．0U／mL,酶活力提高近6倍,并具有较好的遗传稳定性。3种诱变方法中,UV诱变效果最好。对假单胞菌Y8产壳聚糖酶培养条件进行研究,得到1个比较优化的培养条件为：pH值6．5,温度32℃,壳聚糖3g／L,酵母膏0．3％,培养时间3d。不同金属离子及不同诱导物对酶合成的影响表明：Fe^2 ,Mg^2 激活作用显著。而Zn^2 ,Mn^2 则具有一定的抑制作用,壳聚糖和氨基葡萄糖对壳聚糖酶的产生都有较好的诱导作用。     

白骨壤铜锌超氧化物歧化酶基因片段的克隆与序列分析

以红树植物白骨壤(Avicennia marina)基因组DNA为模板，根据超氧化物歧化酶基因保守序列设计特异引物进行PCR扩增，得到特异基因片段。回收该基因片段，与pMD18-T载体连接,并转化到感受态大肠杆菌ER2566细胞，获得铜锌超氧化物歧化酶基因片段的克隆。序列分析表明白骨壤铜锌超氧化物歧化酶基因片段含4个外显子和3个内含子，编码78个氨基酸,与水稻、玉米、红薯和白杨相应氨基酸序列的同源性分别为83．3％，84．6％，84．6％和87．2％。     

宁波沿海陆源排污口假单胞菌属(Pseudomonas)分布特点

采用高通量454焦磷酸测序方法对宁波沿海2个重点排污口、8个一般排污口的20个站位水样进行分析, 得到2011年3月、5月、8月、10月份各排污口假单胞菌属的分布情况。结果表明, 宁波沿海陆源排污口中存在较多的假单胞菌属。在检出的假单胞菌属中, 维罗纳假单胞菌(Pseudomonas veronii)和莓实假单胞菌(Pseudomonas fragi)的含量相对较多, 分别占56.72%、13.904%; 排污口中假单胞菌属的数量存在季节性差异, 3月份、5月份假单胞菌的数量相对较多, 8月份和10月份较少, 推测与季节性温度变化有关; 假单胞菌属的含量与排污口的主要污染物有关, 氨氮含量较高的排污口假单胞菌属的含量更高。     

闽南—台湾浅滩滩上升流区拮抗菌的初步研究

研究了闽南－台湾浅滩上升流区海洋拮抗菌的生态分布、种类组成及其抗菌活性。结果表明：在该海区海水中拮抗菌占总异养菌数的１．２～９．４％，沉积物中则点４．３～１５．６％；拮抗菌的分布具有明显的季节变化，夏季拮抗菌的丰度大于其他季节，属的组成也较复杂多样。在所分离的拮抗菌中，有６株拮抗菌对多种试验菌株有不同程度的抑制能力，被鉴定为假单胞菌属、孤菌属、黄杆菌属和无色杆菌属。作者讨论了海洋拮抗菌的时空分布与     

异硫氰酸苄酯(BITC)防污损效果研究──对3种海洋细菌的抑菌作用

异硫氰酸苄酯（ＢＩＴＣ）的抑菌试验表明：ＢＩＴＣ对３种海洋细菌（假单胞菌Ｐｓｅｕｄｏｍｏｎａｓｓｐ．Ｔ１０８株,假单胞菌Ｐｓｅｕｄｏｍｏｎａｓ．ｓｐ．Ｅ２０４株和异单胞菌Ａｌｔｅｒｍｏｎａｓ．ｓｐ．Ｅ１１３株）的完全抑制浓度分别为４．０,１．０和２．０ｍｇ／Ｌ,５０％抑制该３种海洋细菌生长（相对生长率）的浓度分别为２．６７,０．３７和０．４４ｍｇ／Ｌ。     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

Assessing the Validity of Seismo-Acoustic Predictor Equations for Obtaining Seabed and Sub-Surface Sediment Physical Properties

The interdependence between the seismo-acoustic properties of a marine sediment and its geotechnical/physical parameters has been known for many years, and it has been postulated that this should allow the extraction of geotechnical information from seismic data. Though in the literature many correlations have been published for the surficial layer, there is a lack of information for greater sediment depths. In this article, a desktop study on a synthetic seafloor model illustrates how the application of published near-surface prediction equations to subsurface sediments (up to several tens of meters burial depth) can lead to spurious predictions. To test this further, acoustic and geotechnical properties were measured on a number of sediment core samples, some of which were subjected to loading in acoustically-equipped consolidation cells (oedometers) to simulate greater burial depth conditions. For low effective pressures (representing small burial depths extending to around 10 meters subsurface), the general applicability of established relationships was confirmed: the prediction of porosity, bulk density, and mean grain size from acoustic velocity and impedance appears generally possible for the investigated sedimentary environments. As effective pressure increases through, the observed relationships deviate more and more from the established ones for the near-surface area. For the samples tested in this study, in some instances increasing pressure even resulted in decreasing velocities. There are several possible explanations for this abnormal behavior, including the presence of gas, overconsolidation, or bimodal grain size distribution. The results indicate that an appropriate depth correction must be introduced into the published prediction equations in order to obtain reliable estimates of physical sediment properties for greater subsurface depths.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

Interannual Sea Level Variations and Annual Tides in the Northwestern Pacific

Specific properties of the interannual sea level variations and annual tides in the Northwestern Pacific were studied. Several tide stations were monitored. The monthly mean sea level for the year of 1995 was analyzed at each tide station. A seismic event in 1995, some tectonic activity around the subject area, and the Kuroshio (the oceanic western boundary current) may possibly contaminate results which would have occurred from the astronomical annual tide alone.     

Deep-Sea Sediment Compression Curves: Some Controlling Factors, Spurious Overconsolidation, Predictions, and Geophysical Reproduction

Oedometer tests have been carried out on 70 undisturbed surficial clays (at approximately 250 mm below the mudline), mostly collected by free-fall corers from sites widely scattered throughout the deep-sea North Atlantic. Acoustic measurements were also made, initially on contiguous samples and ultimately on the same sample using a geophysically instrumented oedometer which also collected electrical resistivity data. Apart from those quiescent areas below the carbonate compensation depth, such as north of the West Indies where very fine clays exist, most of the samples are silty clays whose geotechnical-geophysical properties are dependent on the type of clay minerals present (and their ability to take in moisture), the sand-size fraction, and the quantity of carbonate present. Thus the pure clays have high compressibilities which decrease on the addition of coarse particles, while the converse is true for the acoustic parameters, these increasing with the sand fraction. Using the notion of the intrinsic compression line for all samples, and comparison to it of the measured compression curves, it is clear that, contrary to some previously held ideas, most deep-sea clays are normally consolidated; the addition of carbonate has the effect of creating an open, stronger sediment skeleton. Interestingly, where information is available, the variation with depth of a sample's acoustic velocity follows the void ratio pressure relationship of the compression curve. This allows the construction of an in-situ sediment compression curve using the in-situ geophysical observations.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.     

Flow Cytometric Analysis of Coastal Lagoon Bacterioplankton and Picophytoplankton: Fixation and Storage Effects

The effect of different fixation and storage protocols on the flow cytometric (FCM) simultaneous analysis of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in coastal seawater samples (Mediterranean coastal lagoons) was investigated. FCM measurements (cell number, fluorescence and scatter characteristics) were obtained through DAPI staining. Three fixatives [glutaraldehyde (GA), formaldehyde (FA) and paraformaldehyde (PFA)] and two storage (3 months duration) methods (5 °C and −196 °C) were tested. Two dominant populations were detected in studied samples: bacteria and eukaryotic picophytoplankton. Adding fixatives (2% final concentration) appears necessary to obtain FCM exhaustive counts of all the bacteria and phytoplanktonic cells. This was related to the permeation effect of fixatives which allowed a better DAPI staining of the cells. Maximum fluorescence, i.e. optimal staining of the cells was obtained with FA or PFA, and significant lower fluorescences with GA. Fixed samples stored at 5 °C induced rapid cell loss. Only storage in liquid nitrogen of samples fixed with FA or PFA, allows mid-term (≥4 months) preservation of bacteria or picophytoplankton cell numbers, and limited evolution of DAPI-induced fluorescence and scatter characteristics.