南移养殖仿刺参（StichopusjaponicusSelenka）铁蛋白基因的克隆及表达特征分析

采用cDNA文库、RACE、荧光定量PCR和Westernblot技术,克隆了南移养殖仿刺参铁蛋白基因的全长序列,并对其表达特征进行了研究。结果表明,南移养殖仿刺参铁蛋白cDNA全长1222bp,包括187bp的5’UTR;513bp的3’UTR和编码173个氨基酸残基的522bp的开放阅读框。诸如铁结合序列标签和铁调...     

浙江枝吻纽虫(Dendrorhynchus zhejiangensis) 热休克蛋白70基因克隆与表达特征研究

采用同源克隆和cDNA末端快速扩增技术(RACE)克隆了浙江枝吻纽虫热休克蛋白70(DzHSP70)基因全长cDNA序列,并利用荧光定量PCR方法,分析了该基因在重金属胁迫下的表达特征。结果表明,DzHSP70cDNA全长2827bp,包括294bp的5’UTR、628bp的3’UTR和编码634个氨基酸残基的1905bp的开放阅读框。HSP70家族的3个签名序列以及细胞质特异性调控基序EEVD等特征元件在DzHSP70中高度保守。重金属离子Fe3+、Pb2+和Cd2+均可上调该基因的表达,其中Pb2+的毒理效应最强。研究结果表明DzHSP70可能参与了机体对于重金属的解毒过程。     

曼氏无针乌贼(Sepiella maindroni)-肌动蛋白基因的 cDNA 全长克隆与序列分析

采用RT-PCR和快速扩增cDNA末端(rapid amplification of cDNA ends, RACE)技术首次克隆了曼氏无针乌贼?-肌动蛋白基因的 cDNA 全序列, 该序列全长为 2000bp, 由长 197bp 的 5’非翻译区(untranslated region, UTR), 669bp 的 3’非翻译区, 和 1134bp 的开放阅读框(open reading frame, ORF)组成。阅读框共编码 377 个氨基酸, 推算的分子量约为 42.0kDa, 理论等电点为 5.16。曼氏无针乌贼-actin 氨基酸序列中 Ile12、Ser172、Ser174、Gln223、His227、Ile231、Gly232、Ser320、Glu328、 Thr360等10个氨基酸残基具有特异性, 以及2个特殊的氨基酸残基位点和2个软体动物特有的氨基酸残基。曼氏无针乌贼?-actin 氨基酸序列与软体动物、节肢动物、脊椎动物的相似性高达 97%。NJ法系统进化分析显示曼氏无针乌贼首先与软体动物聚在一起, 然后与节肢动物聚在一起, 再与鱼类、两栖类、哺乳类聚在一起。     

厚壳贻贝(Mytilus coruscus)金属硫蛋白MT-10:cDNA克隆、结构分析及铜离子胁迫下的表达

近年来我国沿海海域重金属污染日趋严重,软体动物尤其是双壳贝类响应重金属污染胁迫的研究发展成为目前的研究热点。金属硫蛋白是一类广泛存在于生物体内富含半胱氨酸(Cys)的小分子蛋白,具有结合金属离子的能力,能有效调节生物体细胞内的金属离子平衡,具有清除自由基,重金属解毒的功能,关于厚壳贻贝MT蛋白的研究尚未见报道。本文首次利用RT-PCR和c DNA末端快速扩增技术克隆了厚壳贻贝MT-10蛋白c DNA全长(Mc-MT-10),其包含101bp的5′UTR区,108bp的3′UTR区以及222bp的ORF区,编码73个氨基酸。经比对发现Mc-MT-10富含Cys,且具有9个软体动物中常见的CXC结构以及CKCXXXCXCX结构,系统进化树中同科或属中MT-10聚合成一个分支,显示出高度保守性。采用Q-PCR技术分析了MT-10 mRNA在Cu~(2+)胁迫下厚壳贻贝外套膜及消化腺中表达变化,结果表明Mc-MT-10 mRNA在Cu~(2+)胁迫下两种组织中的表达量急剧升高,说明Cu~(2+)能够诱导Mc-MT-10 mRNA的表达,并且表现出诱导具有阈值性特点。研究结果可为深入研究厚壳贻贝MT蛋白的功能奠定基础,为厚壳贻贝抗重金属污染新品种选育提供数据支持。     

海湾扇贝组织蛋白酶L基因编码区的克隆和分析

通过cDNA末端快速扩增技术(RACE),从海湾扇贝(Argopecten irradians)中克隆得到了组织蛋白酶L基因(AiCL)的编码区全长,为1095 bp,推测编码364个氨基酸.经比对与分析发现蛋白序列中存在4个组织蛋白酶L活性位点保守氨基酸:Q164,C170,H309,N329;6个极为保守的半胱氨酸...     

可口革囊星虫(Phascoloma esculenta)铁结合蛋白基因的研究

根据已报道的铁结合蛋白基因的保守序列设计引物,用cDNA末端快速扩增(RACE)法,成功地从可口革囊星虫体液中获得铁结合蛋白基因的全长序列.结果表明,该基因cDNA全长1017bp,5'-端非编码区为15lbp,3'一非编码区为341bp,开放阅读框长度为525bp(括一个终止密码子),可编码175个氨基酸(GenBank:EU091352).该序列与加洲海兔、皱纹盘鲍、刺参、微小牛蜱、叉尾鲴、非洲爪蟾、小家鼠、人等的铁结合蛋白基因有67%-75%的同源性,而相应的氨基酸同源性为59%-76%.氨基酸相似性为74%*-89%%.分析结果表明,铁结合蛋白基因在动物进化中是高度保守的.     

青蛤(Cyclina sinensis)金属硫蛋白及硫氧还蛋白基因的克隆与表达分析

利用构建的cDNA文库及高通量测序方法,获得金属硫蛋白及硫氧还蛋白基因全长。结果表明,青蛤金属硫蛋白和硫氧还蛋白的cDNA全长分别为776bp和804bp,金属硫蛋白基因编码74个氨基酸,包含7个CXC特征结构;硫氧还蛋白基因编码165氨基酸,包含5个氨基酸构成的活性中心。采用实时定量PCR方法分析了两种基因在Cd2+胁迫下的表达变化,结果显示,金属硫蛋白基因在Cd2+胁迫下6—12hmRNA表达量急剧上升,与对照组有显著性差异(P<0.01)。硫氧还蛋白基因在Cd2+胁迫下mRNA在6h明显升高,在6—24h与对照组出现显著性差异(P<0.05)。说明Cd2+能够诱导青蛤金属硫蛋白和硫氧还蛋白基因表达的时序性升高,二者的转录过程反映了贝类抵御重金属胁迫的分子调控过程。     

大菱鲆免疫球蛋白轻链IgL全长cDNA的分离、鉴定及表达分析

实验采用末端快速扩增(RACE)技术从大菱鲆脾脏cDNA文库中筛选得到了免疫球蛋白轻链IgL的全长cD-NA片段。该序列包含47 bp的5′末端非编码区(5′UTR),738 bp的开放阅读框(ORF)和202 bp 3′UTR,整个开放阅读框编码246个氨基酸。系统发生分析表明大菱鲆IgL基因与五条鰤的IgL基因起源关系最近。RT-PCR分析表明,大菱鲆IgL基因只在正常脾脏、肾脏和头肾组织中表达;IgL在大菱鲆胚胎发育细胞期就已开始表达,在大菱鲆胚胎尾芽期和体节期表达持续增强;在鳗弧菌感染大菱鲆脾脏和头肾早期均检测到IgL基因强烈表达,后期表达逐渐减弱;大菱鲆胚胎细胞(TEC)在用鳗弧菌感染48h后,IgL开始表达。这些结果均表明IgL基因在大菱鲆免疫应答中起着重要作用。     

浙江枝吻纽虫（Dendrorhynchus zhejiangensis）凝溶胶蛋白和肌动蛋白基因的克隆与序列分析

利用已构建的浙江枝吻纽虫cDNA文库,通过PCR技术扩增得到gelsolin和actin基因的全长cDNA序列。其中,gelsolin的cDNA全长1947bp,5′-非翻译区62bp,3′-非翻译区778bp,开放阅读框1107bp,编码369个氨基酸;actin的cDNA全长为1830bp,5′-非翻译区167bp...     

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.     

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.     

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。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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