Structure of nitric oxide synthase oxygenase dimer with pterin and substrate

Crystal structures of the murine cytokine-inducible nitric oxide synthase oxygenase dimer with active-center water molecules, the substrate L-arginine (L-Arg), or product analog thiocitrulline reveal how dimerization, cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin, and L-Arg binding complete the catalytic center for synthesis of the essential biological signal and cytotoxin nitric oxide. Pterin binding refolds the central interface region, recruits new structural elements, creates a 30 angstrom deep active-center channel, and causes a 35 degrees helical tilt to expose a heme edge and the adjacent residue tryptophan-366 for likely reductase domain interactions and caveolin inhibition. Heme propionate interactions with pterin and L-Arg suggest that pterin has electronic influences on heme-bound oxygen. L-Arginine binds to glutamic acid-371 and stacks with heme in an otherwise hydrophobic pocket to aid activation of heme-bound oxygen by direct proton donation and thereby differentiate the two chemical steps of nitric oxide synthesis.     

Microstructure investigations of ball milled materials

HREM and FEG TEM were emphasized and extensively used to follow the most subtle changes in the structure and composition of ball-milled Cu, Fe-Cu, and thermally decomposed Fe60Cu40. Some significant results are obtained and summarized as follows: HREM shows that the deformation of ball-milled copper proceeds mainly by twinning and shear bands (SBs) formation. The nano-grains formed during ball milling (BM) contain a high density of dislocations. The grain boundaries (GBs) of nanocrystalline (NC) Cu prepared by BM are ordered, curved, and strained, but disordering, lattice distortion, and nanovoids in local regions were frequently observed. Nanoscale composition analysis on mechanically alloyed Fe16Cu84 shows that the average Fe content in both the interior of grains and the GBs is close to the designed composition, which proves that a supersaturated solid solution has really formed. However, the Fe content is rather inhomogeneous between the larger and smaller grains, which infers the inhomogeneous mixing of Fe and Cu during mechanical alloying (MA). NC structure and the mechanical force-enhanced fast diffusion are the reasons of the formation of supersaturated solid solutions in immiscible systems with positive enthalpy of mixing. HREM observations carried out with the thermally decomposed Fe60Cu40 solid solution show that the Nishiyama (N-W) or Kurdyumov-Sachs (K-S) orientation relationships exist between alpha-Fe and Cu. Energy dispersive X-ray spectra (EDXS) results show that the Cu content in these alpha-Fe grains reaches as high as 9.5 at.% even after heating to 1,400 degrees C, which is even higher than the maximum solubility of Cu in gamma-Fe at 1,094 degrees C.     

Concomitant activation of MEK-1 and Rac-1 increases the proliferative potential of thyroid epithelial cells, without affecting their differentiation

Activating point mutations in the Ras oncogene occur in a large number of human tumors, especially of epithelial origin. In thyroid follicular cells, ectopic expression of oncogenic H-Ras results in growth factor-independent proliferation, loss of differentiation and tumor formation in nude mice. In fibroblasts concomitant activation of the MAP kinase cascade and the small GTPase Rac-1 leads to full malignant transformation. We have tested the effects of these key downstream mediators of Ras in thyroid epithelial cells, by stably expressing either a constitutively active form of MEK-1 (MEK(deltaN3/S218E/S222D)), a constitutively active form of Rac-1 (Val12-Rac), or both. While the activation of one molecule or the other results in a weak phenotype, concomitant activation of both MEK-1 and Rac-1 in thyroid cells leads to growth factor-independent proliferation, morphological transformation and anchorage-independent growth. However, in contrast to Ras-transformed thyroid cells, the ones expressing the constitutively active forms of MEK-1 and Rac-1 maintain their differentiate phenotype and fail to form tumors when injected into nude mice. Thus, in thyroid epithelial cells, concomitant activation of MEK-1 and Rac-1 can reproduce only a subset of the Ras-induced effects and is not sufficient to cause full malignant transformation. Significantly, Ras-mediated increased proliferation and loss of differentiation can be dissociated in these cells.     

连续化,高速化,自动化是提高线材制品在国内外市场竞争力的根本出路

对线材制品从连续化、自动化、高速化等方面与国外企业生产状况进行了分析比较,提出了实现生产过程的连续化、高速化、自动化是发展我国线材制品的必由之路的观点。     

Thermodynamics of inositol hexakisphosphate interaction with human oxyhemoglobin

The interaction of inositol hexakisphosphate (IHP) with oxygenated human adult hemoglobin (Hb) was investigated at 25 degreesC. The affinity of IHP for oxygenated Hb is strongly pH-dependent, and potentiometric measurements of proton uptake and release upon IHP addition have shown that over the range between pH 8.0 and pH 6.0 in oxygenated Hb there are three groups of residues that change their pKa values after IHP addition, likely because of their interaction with negative charges of the heterotropic effector. On the basis of previous calculations on the electrostatic properties of human Hb (Matthew, J. B., Hanania, G. I. H., and Gurd, F. R. N. (1979) Biochemistry 18, 1919-1928; Lee, A. W.-m., Karplus, M., Poyart, C., and Bursaux, E. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 1285-1301), two of these groups might be Val1beta and His143beta, which are located in the beta1beta2 dyad axis, where they have been also proposed to interact with 2,3-diphosphoglycerate, whereas the third group does not appear easily identifiable. Calorimetric measurements of the heat associated with IHP binding at different pH values over the same range indicate that IHP binding is mostly enthalpy-driven at pH < 7 and mostly entropy-driven at pH > 7.     

NdFeB水磁体表面离子镀Cu-Al-In三元仿金

分析了真空离子镀的基本原理，研究了NbFeB永磁合金表面离子镀Cu－Al-In三元仿金合金的新工艺。合金镀层晶粒较小，均匀美观，光泽柔和；合理的工艺条件为：偏压200V，主弧电流5A±0．25A，间距120mm，加热功率11kW，氩气分压1．33Pa～0．0133Pa，时间30min。     

酞菁光敏剂对S180移植瘤的疗效

研究了GaS_4PC,ZnS_2PC两种酞菁在激光照射下对S180肉瘤的疗效,并讨论了其他酞菁光敏剂对癌细胞的杀伤效果。     

Necessary conditions for asymptotic tracking in nonlinear systems

In the literature, it has been shown that if a single-input single-output analytic nonlinear plant 1) has a well-defined relative degree and 2) is minimum-phase, it is possible to achieve asymptotic tracking for an open set of output trajectories containing the origin in C^N [0, ∞), the space of N-times continuously differentiable functions taking values in R. When either of these sufficient conditions is not met, various authors have investigated approximate analytic solutions, discontinuous solutions and solutions for restricted sets of trajectories. In this paper, it is shown that conditions 1) and 2) are necessary for the existence of an analytic compensator which yields asymptotic tracking for an open set of output trajectories. Analogous results are established for multi-input multi-output systems     

制备低硫可膨胀石墨的研究

研究了以过二硫酸铵作氧化剂低硫可膨胀石墨的制备，找到了在较低温度下，制备低硫可膨胀石墨的最佳条件。即过二硫酸铵和石墨的重量比为１５％；反应温度为５５℃；反应时间为４０ｍｉｎ；硫酸浓度为９８％；硫酸与石墨的重量比为４∶１，草酸和硝酸（浓度为６５％）的重量比为７．５％时，所制得的可膨胀石墨含硫量为０．６５％，膨胀容积为２００ｍＬ／ｇ可膨胀石墨。并且，其终端产品柔性石墨具有优良的力学性能和抗氧化性能。     

Identification environment and robust forecasting for nonlinear time series

In this paper, the methods of time series for nonlinearity are briefly surveyed, with particular attention paid to a new test design based on a neural network specification. The proposed integrated expert system contains two main components: an identification environment and a robust forecasting design. The identification environment can be viewed as a integrated dynamic design in which cognitive capabilities arise as a direct consequence of their self-organizational properties. The integrated framework used for discussing the similarities and differences in the nonlinear time series behavior is presented. Moreover, its performance in prediction proves to be superior than the former work. For the investigation of robust forecasting, we perform a simulation study to demonstrate the applicability and the forecasting performance.