Sterol metabolism in the opportunistic pathogen <Emphasis Type="Italic">Pneumocystis</Emphasis>: Advances and new insights

Pneumocystis can transiently colonize healthy individuals without causing adverse symptoms, and most people test positive for exposure to this organism early in life. However, it can cause Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP) in people with impaired immune systems and is a major cause of death in HIV/AIDS. Although it has close affinities to the Ascomycetes, Pneumocystis has features unlike those of any single group of fungi. For example, Pneumocystis does not synthesize ergosterol, which is consistent with the inefficacy of amphotericin B and some triazoles in clearing PcP. Pneumocystis sterols include distinct Δ⁷ 24-alkylsterols. Metabolic radiolabeling experiments demonstrated that P. carinii synthesizes sterols de novo. Cholesterol is the most abundant sterol in Pneumocystis; most, if not all, is scavenged from the mammalian host lung by the pathogen. The P. carinii erg7, erg6, and erg11 genes have been cloned, sequenced, and expressed in heterologous systems. The recombinant P. carinii S-adenosyl-l-methionine:C-24 sterol methyl transferase (SAM:SMT) has a preference for lanosterol over zymosterol as substrate, and the enzyme can catalyze the transfer of either one or two methyl groups to the C-24 position of the sterol side chain. Two different sterol compositions were detected among human-derived P. jirovecii; one was dominated by C₂₈ and C₂₉ sterols, and the other had high proportions of higher molecular mass components, notably the C₃₂ sterol pneumocysterol. The latter phenotype apparently represents organisms blocked at 14α-demethylation of the sterol nucleus. These studies suggest that SAM:SMT is an attractive drug target for developing new chemotherapy for PcP.     

新型膨化硝铵硫磺工业炸药的研究

用膨化硝酸铵、硫磺、木粉和柴油作原材料，通过建立工业炸药配方设计及最优化数学模型，得到新型膨化硝胺硫横工业炸药配方。通过几种工业炸药的理论参数和实际爆炸性能的比较，得出新型膨化硝铵硫磺工业炸药具有低的成本和优良的爆炸性能。     

Anisotropic geodesics for live‐wire mesh segmentation

We present an interactive method for mesh segmentation that is inspired by the classical live‐wire interaction for image segmentation. The core contribution of the work is the definition and computation of wires on surfaces that are likely to lie at segment boundaries. We define wires as geodesics in a new tensor‐based anisotropic metric, which improves upon previous metrics in stability and feature‐awareness. We further introduce a simple but effective mesh embedding approach that allows geodesic paths in an anisotropic path to be computed efficiently using existing algorithms designed for Euclidean geodesics. Our tool is particularly suited for delineating segmentation boundaries that are aligned with features or curvature directions, and we demonstrate its use in creating artist‐guided segmentations.     

钢渣的基本性质和道路工程中的利用前景

通过对钢渣及钢渣混合料的物理力学及化学性能分析，对钢渣在公路工程各个方面的应用可能性作了分析与探讨，并针对目前应用中存在的技术经济问题提出了解决的思路与办法。     

苯乙酸合成新工艺

应用氯化钴和低价含硫化合物低压合成四羰基钴盐的技术于氯苄羰化合成苯乙酸的生产工艺中。结果表明甲醇水溶剂系统有利于低压合成四羰基钴盐；氢氧化钙作中和剂使用，要求羰化产物后处理的温度提高，以保证苯乙酸的产率；碱的用量和浓度是影响苯乙酸产率的重要因素。     

含硫化合物在羰基钴盐合成中的应用

研究了利用低价含硫化合物的强配位能力和还原性及它作为助剂催化引发氯化钴的羰化反应的工艺条件，以便在较低的ＣＯ压力下合成四羰基钴盐。对几种常见含硫化合物的引发反应效果进行了对比。结果表明少量的含硫化合物可以引发钴盐的羰化反应，过多的添加则会阻断氯苄羰化反应的催化作用。     

环氧树脂质量对紫外光固化涂料性能的影响

介绍了紫外光(UV)固化涂料基本组成,双酚A环氧树脂质量对环氧丙烯酸酯的合成及对UV涂料性能的影响。     

肾缺血再灌注细胞内钙水平与氧化应激损伤研究

目的 观察肾细胞中游离钙([Ca~(2+)]i)及氧自由基在缺血再灌注损伤过程中的改变情况,探讨二者在再灌注肾损伤中发生作用机制。方法 摘除Wistar大鼠左肾,钳夹右侧肾蒂,建立急性缺血再灌注肾损伤模型,应用Fura-2/AM荧光指示剂测定缺血再灌注大鼠肾细胞内[Ca~(2+)]i浓度的变化,同时测定谷胱甘肽过氧化物酶(GSH-Px)活性、超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)活性和丙二醛(MDA)含量。结果 缺血再灌注不同时期肾细胞内[Ca~(2+)]i浓度均有不同程度增高,与对照组相比差异有显著意义,各实验组SOD活力水平降低,与对照组相比差异有显著意义,MDA生成高于对照组,GSH-Px在再灌注早期活力减弱,明显低于对照组,晚期活力基本恢复。结论 1.缺血再灌注不同时期大鼠肾细胞内[Ca~(2+)]i超载和不同程度的氧化侵袭,在缺血再灌注肾损伤病理过程中起重要作用;2.再灌注时间与肾细胞内[Ca~(2+)]i超载呈正相关,提示再灌注损伤通过不同机制加重细胞钙超载。     

具有纳米结构的TiO_2纤维光催化氧化活性

研究了具有纳米结构,高比表面的锐钛矿TiO2纤维在光催化降解苯酚体系中的氧化性能,发现其活性与P25相当;通过加羟基自由基猝灭剂证实了羟基自由基(HO.)对苯酚降解的贡献;而通过加空穴猝灭剂则观察到明显的空穴(h )效应。并通过K I氧化反应进一步研究了催化剂表面上的空穴效应,结果表明,TiO2纤维上的光生空穴比P25稳定,其空穴量子产率是后者的3.3倍。     

Seeded Crystallization of Leucite

The leucite crystallization kinetics from a hydrothermally derived precursor seeded with nano-crystalline leucite was investigated by X-ray diffraction and non-isothermal differential thermal analysis. The nano-crystalline leucite was prepared by high-energy milling of high-purity leucite powder and the leucite precursor was prepared by the hydrothermal method of silica sol, aluminum nitrate, and potassium nitrate. After the seeds were introduced, the crystallization temperature of the precursor was lowered by 100°C and the transition phase kalsilite did not appear during the crystallization process. When the seeded precursor was heat treated at 700°C, a small amount of cubic leucite was stabilized to room temperature. The seeded precursor showed an exothermic peak between 800° and 920°C under different heating rates. The activation energy for the growth of leucite from the seeded precursor was 256(SD9) kJ/mol.