P0 protein of cotton leafroll dwarf virus-atypical isolate is a weak RNA silencing suppressor and the avirulence determinant that breaks the cotton Cbd gene-based resistance

Cotton blue disease (CBD) is the most important disease present in cotton crops in South America and cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV) is the causal agent. The disease has been controlled by sowing cotton varieties resistant to CLRDV. However, in the 2009/10 growing season, an outbreak due to an atypical CLRDV isolate (CLRDV-at) occurred in northwest Argentina. Although CLRDV and CLRDV-at genomes are very closely related, the symptoms they produce in cotton plants are quite different. P0 is the most divergent protein between the isolates and in CLRDV is a silencing suppressor protein. This work characterized the silencing suppressor activity of the P0 protein encoded by CLRDV-at (P0^CL-at) and evaluated its role in Cbd-resistance break in cotton plants. It was demonstrated that P0^CL-at, despite having a mutation in the consensus of the F-box-like motif, was able to suppress local RNA silencing, but displayed lower activity than P0^CL. P0^CL and P0^CL-at showed no differences in the interaction with Gossypium hirsutum SKP1 orthologue (GSK1) and Nicotiana benthamiana SKP1 and both P0 proteins triggered destabilization of ARGONAUTE1. However, when the ability to enhance PVX symptoms was evaluated, P0^CL-at was shown to be a weaker pathogenicity factor than P0^CL in N. benthamiana. Interestingly, trans-expressed P0^CL-at enabled CLRDV to systemically infect CBD-resistant plants, and a chimeric CLRDV-P0^CL-at infectious clone succeeded in establishing infection in CBD-resistant cotton varieties with symptoms resembling those produced by CLRDV-at. These results strongly suggest that P0^CL-at is the avirulence (Avr) determinant involved in breaking cotton Cbd gene-based resistance.     

Effects of different NS genes of avian influenza viruses and amino acid changes on pathogenicity of recombinant A/Puerto Rico/8/34 viruses

To examine the effects of the NS1 and NEP genes of avian influenza viruses (AIVs) on pathogenicity in mice, we generated recombinant PR8 viruses containing 3 different NS genes of AIVs. In contrast to the reverse genetics-generated PR8 (rPR8) strain and other recombinant viruses, the recombinant virus rPR8-NS(0028), which contained the NS gene of A/chicken/KBNP-0028/2000 (H9N2) (0028), was non-pathogenic to mice. The novel single mutations of 0028 NS1 to corresponding amino acid of PR8 NS1, G139D and S151T increased the pathogenicity of rPR8-NS(0028). The replacement of the PL motifs (EPEV or RSEV) of pathogenic recombinant viruses with that of 0028 (GSEV) did not reduce the pathogenicity of the viruses. However, a recombinant virus with an EPEV-grafted 0028 NS gene was more pathogenic than rPR8-NS(0028) but less than rPR8. The lower pathogenicity of rPR8-NS(0028) might be associated with the lower virus titer and IFN-β level in the lungs of infected mice, and be attributed to G139, S151 and GSEV-PL motif of NS1 gene of 0028. In conclusion we defined new amino acid residues of NS1 related to mice pathogenicity and the presence of pathogenic NS genes among low pathogenic AIVs may encourage continuous monitoring of their mammalian pathogenicity.     

猪链球菌蛋白表面展示系统的构建及展示蛋白的初步观察

为构建猪链球菌(Streptococcus suis)蛋白表面展示系统,本研究通过序列分析,确定猪链球菌的LPxTG蛋白及其信号肽(SP)和胞壁锚定基序(CWA),通过PCR扩增Peno-SP、GFP、CWA的DNA片段并融合,构建强启动子Peno控制表达编码SP-GFP-CWA融合蛋白的DNA片段,将该重组DNA片段连接pSET2载体,获得蛋白表面展示质粒,转化猪链球菌,构建得到以GFP为报告蛋白的猪链球菌蛋白表面展示系统。结果显示,利用猪链球菌的10个LPxTG蛋白及其SP和CWA序列,构建了10个含有Peno-SP-GFP-CWA融合片段的重组pSET2表面蛋白展示质粒pSsPSD1至pSsPSD10,分别转化猪链球菌05ZYH33,PCR鉴定显示其中7个转化猪链球菌。采用western blot初步检测其展示蛋白,结果显示,7个转化阳性菌株均能有效表达GFP蛋白,以成熟GFP条带为指标,均表现出了一定的外源GFP表面展示水平,分别命名为SsPSD1、SsPSD2、SsPSD4、SsPSD7-SsPSD10,其中SsPSD1、SsPSD4、SsPSD8和SsPSD9表面展示水平相对较好,在猪链球菌表面展示外源蛋白方面具有很好的潜力。本研究首次尝试建立猪链球菌蛋白表面展示系统,为猪链球菌表面递呈外源蛋白或抗原提供了新的策略。     

3D-MOTIF Method and Its Application to Microscale Topography

The 2D motif method is a surface characterization method promising to separate roughness and waviness from a profile and is adopted by ISO,so is meaningful to extend this method to 3D.Vincent's watershed algorithm is employed for the generation of 3D-motif.A smallest area selecting criteria is proposed for the use of clearing the small motifs which are concerned as noise.As there are no manipulating factors as 2D-method,a multi-scale analysis is employed based on area and depth criteria,the use of depth criteria is to prevent the combination of two adjacent motifs if there is a significant peak on the border of them.Finally the surface of C(100) are analyzed by the presented method,the texture of this surface has been characterized.     

体外筛选对鸡具有免疫刺激活性的CpG寡脱氧核苷酸

分别用有丝分裂原和CpG寡脱氧核苷酸(CpG ODN)对SPF鸡全血，经低速离心分离的外周血单个核细胞(PBMC)和脾脏细胞，用淋巴细胞分离液分离的PBMC和脾脏细胞进行刺激，用^3H-TdR掺入法测定并比较上述鸡免疫细胞在不同培养温度和细胞浓度下的转化效果，从而建立了适用于大批量筛选对鸡具有免疫刺激活性CpG ODN的淋巴细胞转化方法。进一步用该方法筛选自行设计合成的38条ODN.结果表明，用低速离心法分离的鸡PBMC，在细胞含量为10^7mL^-1、37℃、5％CO2条件下，经CpG ODN刺激64～66h后，可以得到稳定的高效转化；不含CpG模体的ODN不具有免疫刺激活性；CpG ODN 10、11和14具有最佳的免疫刺激活性，刺激指数大于10。     

模块表达序列标签技术的建立及相关水稻cDNA阵列的应用

 提出了一种新的表达序列标签制作技术——模块表达序列标签（M EST）技术，利用该技术短时间内分离完成1985条水稻cDNA片段，制备完成相应的水稻cDNA阵列。实验证实：该技术体系能成功分离目的基因，正确检测基因表达丰度的改变，并具备通过对基因群体表达模式的监测以实现对生物学事件的精确描述。M-EST概念是对EST技术的完善和重要补充，运用M-EST技术能有效利用生物信息学知识，加快基因克隆速率，为基因功能的研究提供手段和工具。关键词:     

CpG-DNA的功能及应用前景

在细菌及病毒的 DNA中普遍存在的以及人工合成的非甲基化的 Cp G基序能通过 Toll样受体 9能直接活化 B细胞 ,诱导其增殖并抑制其凋亡 ;能促进免疫球蛋白和 IL -6、IL -1 0以及 IL -1 2等细胞因子分泌 ;增加 MHCII类分子和 B7共刺激分子的表达 ;激活单核巨噬细胞及树突状细胞分泌各种 Th1型细胞因子和趋化因子 ;促进淋巴细胞增殖 ,诱发体液和细胞介导的免疫反应。Cp G-DNA还可以间接活化细胞毒性T细胞 ,促进 Ig G2 a及 Ig M的优势表达 ,从而转换免疫反应的类型 (Th 到 Th ) ,因此 Cp G-DNA作为一类有希望的免疫增强剂在增强疫苗免疫效果和抗感染免疫中都有潜在的应用前景。     

鸡败血支原体pMGA多基因家族及其免疫逸机制的研究进展

pMGA多基因家族主要编码一类黏附素／血凝素蛋白，存在于鸡败血支原体的细胞表面，其主要功能是促进支原体黏附到宿主细胞上。近年来的相关研究发现，编码pMGA的基因数量从32－70不等，主要转录水平上通过（GAA）n 基序的数量改变引发pMGA基因的选择性转录，造成pMGA的抗原发生变异，从而干扰宿主正常免疫功能的发挥，使支原体对宿主产生严重的免疫逃逸。其中，（GAA）n基序已被证实在pMGA基因表达调控中起重要作用，这一三联体重复基序数目的多少直接影响到pMGA基因的ON／OFF不，本文通过对鸡败血支原体pMGA多基因家分子生物学研究进展浅要综述，以提出pMGA基因可能的转录调控机制，这对研究鸡败血支原体的分子致病机理及其免疫机制大有裨益。     

Argentinian potato leafroll virus P0 protein: Novel activities for a previously known suppressor

The potato leafroll virus (PLRV) P0 protein (P0^PL) is a suppressor of RNA silencing. In this study, we showed that P0 protein from an Argentinian isolate of PLRV (P0^PL-Ar) has an additional activity not described for other PLRV or P0 proteins from poleroviruses. Besides reporting that P0^PL-Ar displays both local and systemic silencing suppressor activity, we demonstrated, for the first time, that P0^PL-Ar impedes accumulation of dsRNA-derived siRNAs. We also showed that P0^PL-Ar interacts with Solanum tuberosum SKP1 orthologue (StSKP1) and triggers destabilization of ARGONAUTE 1 (AGO1) and that these actions are mediated by the F-box-like domain. A mutant in the GW/WG motif within the P0^PL-Ar F-box-like motif lost the suppression activity, the interaction with StSKP1 and abolished AGO1 decay. Interestingly, a mutant in the L76/P77 residues within the P0^PL-Ar F-box-like motif, which lost the suppression activity and the interaction with StSKP1, retained the capacity to enable AGO1 decay. Thus, unlike other P0 proteins of previously characterized poleroviruses, P0^PL-Ar seems to have a dual activity, according to the findings of this study. This protein would act at both an upstream and a downstream step of the RNA silencing pathway: upstream of Dicer-like enzyme (DCL)-mediated primary siRNA production and downstream at the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) complex level. Our results contribute to the understanding of the different ways PLRV P0 proteins function as silencing suppressors.