A new probe for the diagnosis of myotonic muscular dystrophy

Myotonic muscular dystrophy (DM) is the most common muscular dystrophy, affecting adults as well as children. It is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait and is characterized by variable expressivity and late age-of-onset. Linkage studies have established the locus on chromosome 19. In order to identify tightly linked probes for diagnosis as well as to define in detail the DM gene region, chromosome 19 libraries were constructed and screened for restriction fragment length polymorphisms tightly linked to DM. A genomic clone, LDR152 (D19S19), was isolated that is tightly linked to DM; recombination fraction = 0.0 (95% confidence limits 0.0-0.03); lod score, 15.4.     

Formation of a nematic fluid at high fields in Sr3Ru2O7

In principle, a complex assembly of strongly interacting electrons can self-organize into a wide variety of collective states, but relatively few such states have been identified in practice. We report that, in the close vicinity of a metamagnetic quantum critical point, high-purity strontium ruthenate Sr3Ru2O7 possesses a large magnetoresistive anisotropy, consistent with the existence of an electronic nematic fluid. We discuss a striking phenomenological similarity between our observations and those made in high-purity two-dimensional electron fluids in gallium arsenide devices.     

The crystal structure of a T cell receptor in complex with peptide and MHC class II

The crystal structure of a complex involving the D10 T cell receptor (TCR), 16-residue foreign peptide antigen, and the I-Ak self major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecule is reported at 3.2 angstrom resolution. The D10 TCR is oriented in an orthogonal mode relative to its peptide-MHC (pMHC) ligand, necessitated by the amino-terminal extension of peptide residues projecting from the MHC class II antigen-binding groove as part of a mini beta sheet. Consequently, the disposition of D10 complementarity-determining region loops is altered relative to that of most pMHCI-specific TCRs; the latter TCRs assume a diagonal orientation, although with substantial variability. Peptide recognition, which involves P-1 to P8 residues, is dominated by the Valpha domain, which also binds to the class II MHC beta1 helix. That docking is limited to one segment of MHC-bound peptide offers an explanation for epitope recognition and altered peptide ligand effects, suggests a structural basis for alloreactivity, and illustrates how bacterial superantigens can span the TCR-pMHCII surface.     

茄子种子外源激素预处理最优方法的研究

观察了由8种化学物质、2种溶剂、4～8种浓度和4种处理时间组成的数百个预处理方法的实际效果认为,赤霉索(GA_3)是打破茄子种子休眠促进萌发效果最佳的外源激素;丙酮是赤霉素渗入种子的最佳载体;播前用100～200mg/L 赤霉素丙酮溶液浸种24～48小时,是茄子种子尤其是休眠种子预处理的最优方法,可使发芽率由81%提高到96%～100%。发芽势由68%提高到95%～99%.     

水稻粳型亲籼系籼粳型属性的程氏指数鉴定

为了提高鉴定粳型亲籼系籼粳型属性的准确性，用程氏指数鉴定了待测粳型亲籼系及其杂交后代的籼粳型属性。结果表明：用程氏指数鉴定粳型亲籼系的籼粳型属性的结果准确率较高，且年度间和季度间的稳定性好；偏粳型品种与籼型或偏籼型品种杂交，其F1多为籼型和偏籼型。用程氏指数法从15个待测粳型亲籼系中鉴定出1个粳型品系和4个偏粳型品系。另外，秧苗的KClO3抗性可作为鉴定粳型亲籼系籼粳型属性的一个指标，改良程氏指数能提高鉴定粳型亲籼系籼粳型属性的准确性。