重金属胁迫对泥蚶(Tegillarca granosa)能量代谢酶转录水平的研究

利用PCR扩增技术,从泥蚶的cDNA文库中克隆出了ATP合酶F1-β亚基基因。FOF1-ATP合酶是生物体能量代谢的重要合成酶,ATP合酶F1-β亚基是其重要组成部分。序列分析结果表明,泥蚶的ATP合酶F1-β亚基全长1944bp,包括5′端非翻译区(5′-UTR)序列246bp,3′端非翻译区(3′-UTR)序列126bp和1572bp的开放阅读框序列(ORF),编码523个氨基酸,预测分子量大小和等电点分别为54.13kDa和4.73。在重金属镉、铜、铅胁迫下,检测ATP合酶F1-β亚基和精氨酸激酶基因在转录水平的调控变化。     

泥蚶(Tegillarca granosa)精氨酸激酶的基因克隆与表达

利用PCR扩增技术,从泥蚶的cDNA文库中克隆出了精氨酸激酶(arginine kinase)基因,并进行了原核表达.精氨酸激酶是调节能量代谢的重要酶类,在无脊椎动物体内能量平衡过程中起重要作用.结果表明,泥蚶的精氨酸激酶全长1601bp,包括5'非翻译区(5'-UTR)序列332bp,3'非翻译区(3'-UTR)序列...     

蛋白核小球藻(Chlorella pyrenoidosa) Rubisco活化酶基因的克隆与表达分析

采用RACE技术克隆了单细胞绿藻蛋白核小球藻820Rubisco活化酶基因(rca)序列,并用荧光定量PCR方法研究了rca和Rubisco小亚基基因(rbcS)的表达规律。结果获得了1703bp的rcacDNA序列,包括66bp的5’非翻译区、1242bp的开放阅读框和395bp的3’非翻译区。序列比较和分析表明该蛋白核小球藻rca序列与其它绿藻的同源性高达78%—85%;偏好使用以G/C/T结尾的密码子;推测的RCA蛋白等电点和分子量分别为8.44和45.71kDa。荧光定量PCR结果表明随光照时间增加rca与rbcS转录表达逐渐降低;不同盐度处理下rbcS的mRNA量变化不大,而rca在37.5盐度下表达量为25盐度的2.69倍;1.0—3.0mmol/L水杨酸处理rca与rbcS表达均降低。     

南移养殖刺参(Apostichopus japonicus)原肌球蛋白基因的原核表达研究

本研究克隆和表达了刺参原肌球蛋白(Tropomyosin,TRP)基因,进一步研究刺参再生过程中重要分子的功能.结果表明,TRP基因序列总长为1203bp,5 ′非翻译区为105bp,3 ′非翻译区为240bp,该序列包含一个855bp的开放阅读框(open reading frame,ORF),编码284个氨基酸,分子量为33.27kDa,等电点为4.56.利用Escherichia coli对TRP进行了体外重组表达,在1mmol/L IPTG和37℃条件下诱导,能产生分子质量约为38kDa的重组蛋白,Western blot证明重组TRP与鼠抗刺参原肌球蛋白的多克隆抗体能特异性结合.     

翘嘴鲌(Culter alburnus)TMEM-57基因的克隆、组织表达和单核苷酸多态性分析

采用RT-PCR和快速扩增cDNA末端(rapid amplification of cDNA ends,RACE)技术首次克隆了翘嘴鲌TMEM-57蛋白基因的cDNA全序列,该序列全长为2822bp,其中5′-UTR区93bp,3′-UTR区731bp,开放阅读框(open reading frame,ORF)为1998bp,编码665个氨基酸。NJ法系统进化分析将同科或属中TMEM-57基因分成一个分支,表现出种属间的高度保守性。利用荧光定量PCR(qPCR)技术检测了不同组织的表达量,发现在卵巢中表达量最高,其次为心脏和脑。用直接测序法对TMEM-57基因部分区段单核苷酸多态性(SNP)进行了检测,寻找到11个新的SNP位点。     

大黄鱼(Larimichthys crocea)Tristetraprolin基因的克隆与功能分析

Tristetraprolin (TTP)是广泛存在于真核生物的RNA结合蛋白。TTP通过促进mRNA降解或抑制翻译在转录后水平抑制炎症因子表达,是炎症性疾病的潜在治疗靶点。采用RACE技术获取了大黄鱼(Larimichthys crocea) TTP (命名为LcTTP) cDNA的全长序列。LcTTP全长cDNA 1 508 bp,包括77 bp的5′-非编码区(5’-UTR)、183 bp的3’-UTR和1 248 bp的开放阅读框(ORF),编码418个氨基酸残基。推导的LcTTP理论分子量44 897.78 Da,预测等电点pI 8.37;哺乳动物TTP的重要功能结构域:N-端核输出序列(NES)、中央串联锌指结构域(TZF)、C-端NOT1-结合结构域(NOT1-BD)也在LcTTP中保守存在;系统发育分析显示LcTTP和其他脊椎动物TTP聚为一支,并与哺乳动物ZFP36家族其他成员ZFP36L1、ZFP36L2和ZFP36L3的进化支分离。组织表达特异性分析显示检测的9个组织均表达LcTTP mRNA,但不同组织间表达水平差异大,其中肌肉组织表达水平最高。大黄鱼头肾细胞系...     

泥蚶(Tegillarca granosa)血红蛋白基因(Tg-HbIIA)克隆、分析及免疫表达研究

通过已构建的泥蚶血液cDNA文库,克隆得到泥蚶Tg-HbIIA基因全长cDNA序列,对其进行生物信息学、组织表达及免疫相关分析。结果表明,泥蚶Tg-HbIIA cDNA全长731bp,包含63bp5′非编码区(5′-UTR),246bp3′非编码区(3′-UTR),开放阅读框450bp,编码150个氨基酸;其氨基酸序列与毛蚶(Scapharca kagoshimensis)和不等壳毛蚶(Scapharca inaequivalvis)的序列有较高的同源性,分别达到89%和88%;对其结构预测显示该蛋白具有血红蛋白功能域,含有10个潜在血红素结合位点。qRT-PCR检测结果显示:泥蚶不同组织部位中,Tg-HbIIA mRNA在血液表达量最大,其次为外套膜和鳃,表达量最低的是肝胰脏;在副溶血弧菌(Vibrio parahaemolyticu)、脂多糖、肽聚糖刺激后,泥蚶血液Tg-HbIIA mRNA表达量显著上调,表明Tg-HbIIA在贝类抗菌免疫防御中可能起重要作用,而Tg-HbIIA对不同致病因子免疫反应的灵敏度和表达时序存在一定差异。     

大黄鱼cGAS-like基因isofrom X1的克隆鉴定及在感染刺激隐核虫后的表达变化

cGAS(cyclic GMP-AMP synthase)基因是近几年来新发现的先天免疫中一个新型的信号分子。作者基于大黄鱼(Larimichthys crocea)基因组信息,用cDNA末端快速扩增(RACE)技术在鳃组织中克隆鉴定了cGAS基因cDNA全长序列:包含1个231 bp的5′端-非翻译区(5′-UTR)、207 bp的3′-UTR和1 488 bp的开放阅读框(ORF),命名为Lc-cGAS-like X1。该基因编码1个由495个氨基酸残基组成的多肽,预测的分子量(Mw)大小为56.57kDa,理论等电点(pI)为9.45;序列分析表明其预测的蛋白无信号肽,第115～431位氨基酸序列为Mab-21功能域,第470～492位氨基酸序列为跨膜结构域。基因组全长3 153 bp,包含8个外显子和7个内含子,所有内含子的剪切特点都符合GT-AG规则。同源比对结果显示:Lc-cGAS-likeX1与鱼类cGAS的相似性大于66%,与高等脊椎动物的相似性较低。系统进化分析表明Lc-cGAS-like X1与鱼类cGAS聚成一支。荧光定量PCR(qPCR)检测显示Lc-cGAS基因(X1/X2两种剪切体)在大黄鱼9种组织中均有表达,其中在鳃中的表达量最高;刺激隐核虫感染后,大黄鱼免疫器官头肾中Lc-cGASmRNA分别在刺激隐核虫幼虫感染阶段和滋养体脱落阶段出现了极显著上调(P0.01);解毒器官肝脏中分别在滋养体脱落阶段和细菌感染阶段出现极显著上调变化(P0.01)。本研究结果暗示大黄鱼cGAS基因参与了大黄鱼感染刺激隐核虫的免疫防御过程,为进一步了解鱼类cGAS基因的多样化功能提供参考。     

马氏珠母贝(Pinctada fucata)组织蛋白酶L基因的克隆与表达分析

根据已构建的溶藻弧菌(Vibro alginolyticus)诱导的马氏珠母贝(Pinctada fucata)血淋巴cDNA差减文库得到的ESTs序列, 应用cDNA末端快速扩增(RACE)技术成功克隆了其组织蛋白酶L基因(PFCatL), 并对其进行了生物信息学分析; 应用实时荧光定量PCR (Real-time PCR)技术, 研究了PFCatL基因在溶藻弧菌刺激前后马氏珠母贝足、外套膜、鳃、闭壳肌等8个组织中的表达变化。结果表明, PFCatL基因cDNA全长2004bp, 其中5′非编码区(5′-UTR)50bp, 3′非编码区(3′-UTR)865bp, 开放阅读框(ORF)1089bp, 编码362个氨基酸, 其分子量计算值(MW)为40.52kDa, 理论等电点(IP)为5.20; 生物信息学分析表明, PFCatL含有16个氨基酸残基组成的信号肽序列以及组织蛋白酶前体抑制功能域I29; Clustalw2多重比对发现PFCatL氨基酸序列在催化三联体Cys-His-Asn、底物结合位点以及二硫键形成相关的半胱氨酸残基位点高度保守; Real-time PCR研究发现, PFCatL在马氏珠母贝各组织中均有表达, 但各组织间的表达量存在差异, 其中以肾和闭壳肌中的表达量最高; 溶藻弧菌感染4h后, 外套膜、鳃以及血淋巴中PFCatL基因的表达较感染前显著上调。     

长石莼(缘管浒苔)(Ulva linza)rbcL全长基因的克隆与序列分析

克隆分离了长石莼(缘管浒苔)光合作用第一关键酶Rubisco大亚基全长基因(rbcL)。首先应用PCR和RT-PCR方法扩增rbcL大片段DNA序列和大片段cDNA序列,结果表明,获得的2个克隆序列完全相同,该rbcL大片段基因不存在内含子。其次应用基因步移方法分别对rbcL基因的5′上游未知序列和3′下游未知序列进行扩增,在此基础上,将3个片段序列进行拼接,获得了rbcL全长基因序列(NCBI登陆号:DQ813497)。序列全长2124bp,其中编码区序列长1425bp,为单外显子基因,编码474个氨基酸;5′非翻译区序列长225bp,转录起始位点为位于翻译起始密码子ATG上游第47个核苷酸G,在距离转录起始位点-9bp—-48bp的范围内有推测的类似原核生物的启动子序列(-10区:TAAAAT、-35区:TTGAAA);3′非翻译区序列长474bp,在距离转译终止密码子TAA下游54—98bp处有一段较长的回文序列,可形成一个22bp的茎结构。密码子偏好性分析结果表明,长石莼(缘管浒苔)rbcL基因偏向使用第三位核苷酸碱基为A和T的密码子。     

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.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

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。     

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.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

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.     

《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》Vol. 33(2014) contents

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