海藻提取物环氧加酶-2 抑制活性研究

系统采集中国沿海10种代表性海藻,进行有效成分提取与粗分;利用昆虫杆状病毒表达系统克隆人COX-2基因,并在昆虫Spodoptera frugiperda(sf9)细胞中表达获得COX-2蛋白;以花生四烯酸为底物,通过测定前列腺素PGE2的生成浓度,测定海藻不同部位对COX-2酶的抑制活性.结果表明,萱藻(Scytosiphon lomentarius)乙醇提取物、鼠尾藻(Sargassum thunbergii)和刺松藻(Codium fragile)乙酸乙酯相、松节藻(Rhodomela conferroides)正丁醇相表现出良好的COX-2酶抑制活性(质量浓度为10μg/mL时,抑制率大于50%).首次对上述海藻进行COX-2酶抑制活性研究,其中萱藻乙醇提取物、鼠尾藻和刺松藻乙酸乙酯相、松节藻正丁醇相表现出良好的COX-2抑制活性.     

海水养殖污染区鱼肝EROD酶活力分析

对马銮湾和宝珠屿海域网箱养殖的美国红鱼 (Sciaenopsocellatus)肝脏微粒体EROD酶活性测定发现 ,马銮湾样品中的EROD酶活性 [0 .0 0 2 1U/(mg·蛋白质 ) ]大大低于宝珠屿海域样品EROD酶活性 [0 .0 0 63U/(mg·蛋白质 ) ],表明马銮湾水体受多环芳烃 (PAHs)的污染比宝珠屿海域受PAHs污染更轻微 .     

Volume Transport through the Tsushima Straits Estimated from Sea Level Difference

The relations between the volume transport and the sea level difference across the Tsushima Straits have been investigated using current data provided by ADCP mounted on the ferry Camellia, plying between Hakata and Pusan. Empirical formulas to deduce the volume transports using the sea level differences across the eastern and western channels are proposed, considering the seasonal variation of the vertical current structure. The interannual variation of volume transport through the Tsushima Straits for 37 years from 1965 to 2001 is estimated using the empirical formulas. The total volume transport through the Tsushima Straits, averaged for 37 years, is 2.60 Sv and those of the eastern and western channels are 1.13 Sv and 1.47 Sv, respectively. The total volume transport through the Tsushima Straits tends to decrease with a roughly 15 year variation until 1992, then begins to increase.     

Tidal Currents in the Tsushima Straits Estimated from ADCP Data by Ferryboat

Tidal currents in the Tsushima Straits have been analyzed using measurements obtained since February 1997 by an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) mounted on the ferryboat Camellia. Tidal current constituents (M ₂, S ₂, K ₁, O ₁) are dominant among the ten tidal current constituents (Q ₁, O ₁, P ₁, K ₁, N ₂, M ₂, S ₂, K ₂, MSf, Mf), and generally 1.4–2.1 times stronger at the western channel of the straits than those at the eastern channel. The ratio between amplitude of M ₂, S ₂, K ₁ and O ₁ averaged along the ferryboat track is 1:0.45:0.59:0.51. The major axis directions of tidal current ellipses are generally SW to NE, exceptionally in the vicinity of the Tsushima Islands. Approaching the Tsushima Islands from the Korean Peninsula side, the major axis gradually rotates clockwise. At the western channel, the M ₂ and K ₁ constituents change the rotation direction of current vectors from clockwise to counterclockwise at about 90–130 m depth. The contributions of the tidal currents to the mean kinetic energy and the mean eddy kinetic energy along the ferryboat track are, on average, 0.56 and 0.71, respectively. This suggests that tidal current activities are generally more dominant than the mean current activities and much more dominant than eddy activities. The only region where the eddy activities are comparable to the tidal current activities is located on the east side of the Tsushima Islands. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Estimation of the minimum food requirement using the respiration rate of medusa of Aurelia aurita in Sihwa Lake

We examined the respiration rate of Aurelia aurita medusae at 20 °C and 28 °C to evaluate minimum metabolic demands of medusae population in Sihwa Lake, Korea during summer. While weight specific respiration rates of medusae were constant and irrespective to the wet weight (8?C220 g), they significantly varied in respect to temperatures (p<0.001, 0.11±0.03 mg C g^?1 of medusa d^?1 at 20°C and 0.28±0.11 mg C g^?1 of medusa d^?1 at 28 °C in average, where Q ₁₀ value was 2.62). The respiration rate of medusae was defined as a function of temperature (T, °C) and body weight (W, g) according to the equation, R=0.13×2.62^(T-20)/10 W ^0.93. Population minimum food requirement (PMFR) was estimated from the respiration rate as 15.06 and 4.86 mg C m^?3 d^?1 in June and July, respectively. During this period, increase in bell diameter and wet weight was not significant (p=1 in the both), suggesting that the estimated PMFR closely represented the actual food consumption in the field. From July to August, medusae grew significantly at 0.052 d-1, thus the amount of food ingested by medusae population in situ was likely to exceed the PMFR (1.27 mg C m^?3 d^?1) during the period. In conclusion, the medusae population of higher density during June and July had limited amount of food, while those of lower in July and August ingested enough food for growth.     

Estimation of benthic respiration parameters from field data

Seasonal benthic respiration rate observations from Chesapeake Bay and the Patuxent estuary have been used to determine the benthic decay coefficient. Non-linear parameter estimation procedures were employed to delineate the optimal values and associated confidence intervals for the microbial decay and macrofaunal respiration parameters. The results demonstrate that microbial decay of organic detritus on the bottom is a long-term process with a yearly averaged decay coefficient of around k = 0·0056 day^?1 ($\text{τ =}\text{1}\text{k}\text{= 180}\text{day}$).     

5种海水养殖鱼类幼鱼的耗氧率及窒息点

为鱼类苗种运输和养殖过程中溶解氧的科学调控提供理论依据,采用密闭式呼吸实验法探究了20、25和30 ℃水温下豹纹鳃棘鲈Plectropomus leopardus、驼背鲈Cromileptes altivelis、棕点石斑鱼Epinephelus fuscoguttatus、赤点石斑鱼Epinephelus akaara和珍珠龙胆石斑鱼5种海水养殖鱼类幼鱼(体重范围为53.6～84.5 g)的耗氧率和窒息点。结果表明:在盐度为30的条件下,5种海水养殖鱼类幼鱼的耗氧率和窒息点均随水温的升高而升高。同水温下的耗氧率,豹纹鳃棘鲈为最高, 20、25和30 ℃水温下分别为0.15、0.21和0.31 mg/(g·h);珍珠龙胆石斑鱼为最低,20、25和30 ℃水温下分别为0.08、0.15和0.16 mg/(g·h)。同水温下窒息点,驼背鲈为最高, 20、25和30 ℃水温下分别为1.00、1.12和1.21 mg/L ;珍珠龙胆石斑鱼为最低, 20、25和30 ℃水温下分别为0.19、0.24和0.25 mg/L。     

Volume Transport Variability Southeast of Okinawa Island Estimated from Satellite Altimeter Data

A nine-year-long record of the northeastward volume transport (NVT) in the region southeast of Okinawa Island from 1992 to 2001 was estimated by an empirical relation between the volume transport obtained from the ocean mooring data and the sea surface height anomaly difference across the observation line during 270 days from November 2000. The NVT had large variations ranging from −10.5 Sv (1 Sv ≡ 10⁶ m³s⁻¹) to 30.0 Sv around its mean of 4.5 Sv with a standard deviation of 5.5 Sv. This large variation was accompanied by mesoscale eddies from the east, having a pronounced period from 106 to 160 days. After removal of the eddy, NVT was found to fluctuate from 2 Sv to 12 Sv with a quasi-biennial period.     

Community respiration/production and bacterial activity in the upper water column of the central Arctic Ocean

Community metabolism (respiration and production) and bacterial activity were assessed in the upper water column of the central Arctic Ocean during the SHEBA/JOIS ice camp experiment, October 1997–September 1998. In the upper 50 m, decrease in integrated dissolved oxygen (DO) stocks over a period of 124 d in mid-winter suggested a respiration rate of ∼3.3 nM O₂ h⁻¹ and a carbon demand of ∼4.5 gC m⁻². Increase in 0–50 m integrated stocks of DO during summer implied a net community production of ∼20 gC m⁻². Community respiration rates were directly measured via rate of decrease in DO in whole seawater during 72-h dark incubation experiments. Incubation-based respiration rates were on average 3-fold lower during winter (11.0±10.6 nM O₂ h⁻¹) compared to summer (35.3±24.8 nM O₂ h⁻¹). Bacterial heterotrophic activity responded strongly, without noticeable lag, to phytoplankton growth. Rate of leucine incorporation by bacteria (a proxy for protein synthesis and cell growth) increased ∼10-fold, and the cell-specific rate of leucine incorporation ∼5-fold, from winter to summer. Rates of production of bacterial biomass in the upper 50 m were, however, low compared to other oceanic regions, averaging 0.52±0.47 ngC l⁻¹ h⁻¹ during winter and 5.1±3.1 ngC l⁻¹ h⁻¹ during summer. Total carbon demand based on respiration experiments averaged 2.4±2.3 mgC m⁻³ d⁻¹ in winter and 7.8±5.5 mgC m⁻³ d⁻¹ in summer. Estimated bacterial carbon demand based on bacterial productivity and an assumed 10% gross growth efficiency was much lower, averaging about 0.12±0.12 mgC m⁻³ d⁻¹ in winter and 1.3±0.7 mgC m⁻³ d⁻¹ in summer. Our estimates of bacterial activity during summer were an order of magnitude less than rates reported from a summer 1994 study in the central Arctic Ocean, implying significant inter-annual variability of microbial processes in this region.     

南海沉积物图解法和矩值法粒度参数计算及对比

粒度参数是海洋沉积物的基本特征,其计算方法的选择导致粒度参数的差异成为制约沉积物粒度数据同化的主要因素之一.基于传统图解法的基本原理,发展了分段低次线性插值方法用于图解法的粒度参数快速计算,使用该方法和矩法分别计算了南海172个表层沉积物粒级参数,并对2种不同方法计算的结果进行相关性验证.结果表明:2种方法得到的平均粒径、分选系数、偏态和峰态分别呈显著相关,且相关性依次降低.通过与前人的研究结果对比,发现2种方法计算的平均粒径和分选系数相关性较为稳定,基本不受沉积物类型的影响;而偏态和峰态值与沉积物物质组成密切相关,物质组成单一稳定,则相关性较高,反之表现为不相关.因此,在资料整合同化处理过程中应充分考虑2种参数计算结果的差异.     

Effect of agricultural activity on levels of organochlorine pesticides in hard corals, fish and molluscs from the Great Barrier Reef

An organochlorine baseline study of selected corals, fish and molluscs has established that lindane is the only consistently detectable persistent pesticide in Great Barrier Reef organisms sampled. Samples taken during 1976–1977 from twenty reefs between Heron Island and Lizard Island provide evidence from the distribution of lindane that the contamination is related to agricultural usage in the coastal sugar cane growing regions. Consideration is given to the possible mode of transport of lindane to the reef environment. No polychlorinated biphenyls were detected in any of the samples and only scattered samples contained levels of residues other than lindane. Inner marginal shelf reefs of the Great Barrier Reef may be the most pristine environment yet reported for organochlorine pollutants.     

坛紫菜碳酸酐酶基因的克隆、表达及酶活性分析

以坛紫菜丝状体为材料,采用RACE方法获得坛紫菜碳酸酐酶(CA)基因的全长cDNA。该cDNA全长1 081 bp,具有一个825 bp的开放阅读框,可编码274个氨基酸。序列同源性分析显示该cDNA序列推导的氨基酸序列与其他物种的碳酸酐酶具有较高的一致性,其中与条斑紫菜的一致性达到96%。氨基酸序列分析表明该蛋白为β-CA,含有两个CA活性位点,无跨膜结构,可能存在一个信号肽将其定位到叶绿体中,与藻类和细菌聚类。原核诱导表达得到一个72 kDa左右的融合蛋白,酶活测定结果显示此蛋白具有碳酸酐酶活性。该实验对进一步深入研究坛紫菜CA的功能及坛紫菜碳代谢、光合作用等生理过程具有重要的参考价值。     

Distribution depth of the transforming stage larvae of myctophid fishes in the subtropical–tropical waters of the western North Pacific

We describe the day–night vertical distribution patterns of 18 species or types of myctophid fish larvae at the transforming stage based on discrete depth sampling from the surface down to 1000-m depth in the subtropical–tropical western North Pacific. A total of 551 transforming stage larvae were collected at the 19 sampling stations. Except for the Diaphus species and Notolychnus valdiviae, all of the transforming stage larvae (including genera Benthosema, Bolinichthys, Centrobranchus, Ceratoscopelus, Diogenichthys, Hygophum, Lampanyctus, Lobianchia, Myctophum, Symbolophorus, and Triphoturus) were collected in the lower mesopelagic zone from 600- to 900-m depth during both day and night, showing no diel vertical migration (DVM). On the contrary, the Diaphus species and N. valdiviae larvae undergo DVM during the transforming stage, occurring below 200-m layer during the daytime and migrating up to the upper 150-m layer at night, i.e., they show earlier adaptation to juvenile–adult behaviors. Most myctophid fish larvae are known to undertake substantial ontogenetic vertical migration (OVM) from the epipelagic to mesopelagic zones during their early life stage. Although considerable sampling effort was carried out in this study, transforming larvae, except for the above two migratory ones, were not collected in the epipelagic and upper mesopelagic zones, strongly suggesting that their sinking speed would be high. It would be advantageous for survival to spend their highly vulnerable transforming stage in the lower mesopelagic zone, where predation pressures are lower and physical conditions are more stable than in the upper layers.     

Chorion ultrastructure of some fish eggs from the South-East Atlantic

The chorion ultrastructure of the eggs of some teleost fish from the South-East Atlantic was studied by means of a scanning electron microscope. Photographs of the surface of the chorion of eggs of 17 species are presented. The characteristics of these eggs and their chorion, plus comparisons of the results with those of other authors, are also given.     

Induction of MFO activity in the antarctic fish Pagothenia bernacchii: Preliminary results

The aim of this study was to determine the detoxication capacity and the sensitivity to pollutants of fish living in a pristine environment such as the Antarctic Ocean. Forty specimens of Pagothenia bernacchii collected during the Antarctic summer of 1991–1992 were divided into three groups, and were treated with 10 mg/kg of B(α)P, 50 mg/kg of PCBs and corn oil and sacrificed after 2, 4 and 10 days. The mixed function oxidase activity measured in these fish through the test of BPMO, EROD and BROD activities revealed that both B(α)P and PCBs are effective in inducing this enzyme system. Owing to the slow metabolic rate of this species, related to the low ambient temperature of its natural habitat, the highest level of induction was monitored after 10 days i.e. much later than in fish of temperate seas.     

Mixed-function oxidase activity and conjugating enzymes in two species of antarctic fish

Enzyme activities of phase I and phase II of the hepatic detoxication system were investigated in two species of fish from the Ross Sea in Antarctica. The fish had extremely low phase I enzyme (BPMO and aldrin epoxidase). The reductase regenerating enzyme activities were comparable to those found in fish of temperate seas. Transferases of cytosol showed highest activity in the conjugation of 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (CDNB) and little or no conjugation of other substrates. The GSSG reductase and the glutathione transferase with peroxidase activity (CuOOH substrate) were low; the Sedependent glutathione peroxidase activity was not detectable. Interspecific differences were found for most of the enzymes tested.     

Parasites of the deep-sea fish Mora moro () from the NW Mediterranean Sea and relationship with fish diet and enzymatic biomarkers

Specimens of Mora moro were collected in two seasons and three localities of the Balearic Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea) and parasitological, dietary (to prey-species level), enzymatic and histological data were obtained, alongside with environmental information (T, S, O₂). The relationships among fish parasite load, condition indices, diet, enzymatic activity of muscular acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), intensity of splenic melano-macrophage centres (MMC) and hepatic granulomas were tested. M. moro showed a rich and abundant parasite fauna, and was a new host record for 17 out of the 18 different endoparasite taxa found. Significant differences were detected among locality-season groups, in turn related to different environmental variables, for Anisakidae gen. sp., Anisakis Type II and Tetraphyllidea fam. gen. sp.; thus, they are proposed as potentially useful as biological tags for geographical discrimination of M. moro in the NW Mediterranean Sea. Detailed relationships were found between parasite taxa and prey ingested (e.g. Anisakidae gen. sp. related with meso-bathypelagic crustaceans; Anisakis Type I with benthopelagic squids). Most parasites were linked to samples with highest levels of near-bottom O₂, which is consistent with direct relationships found between near-bottom O₂ and zooplankton biomass in the Balearic Basin. Total parasite abundance and the abundance of Tetraphyllidea fam. gen. sp. showed a significant relationship with the activity of AChE and the abundance of Anisakis Type II with LDH. AChE was associated with hepatosomatic index (HSI) and condition factor (K); LDH with gonadosomatic index (GSI), K and fish total length (TL). LDH activity showed differences among sampling groups. Splenic MMC and hepatic granulomas were not associated with fish parasite load. A positive relationship was found between MMC area and fish TL and LDH activity.