酶促反应制备壳寡糖及壳寡糖分析

用壳聚糖酶降解法对壳聚糖进行降解制备壳低聚糖,研究了温度、pH、底物浓度、脱乙酰度、反应时间对酶促反应的影响。对酶解产物进行HPLC分析,用Bio—Gel P-4柱对酶解产物进行初步分离。结果表明,壳聚糖酶降解壳聚糖的最适温度为45℃,pH为6．0,最适底物质量分数为6％,脱乙酰度越高酶解反应所得产物的数均相对分子质量越小,24h后酶解反应达到平衡,酶解产物壳寡糖水溶性极好。P-4柱分离得到聚合度20以上,10～20,10以下3种壳寡糖。     

壳聚糖酶基因在解脂耶氏酵母中的表达及重组酶性质研究

为构建高效表达壳聚糖酶工程菌株,以Microbacteriumsp.基因组为模板扩增壳聚糖酶基因,目的基因与表达载体pINA1317连接构建重组质粒,重组质粒NotⅠ酶切线性化后转化解脂耶氏酵母Y.liPolytica Po1h。所得结果为PCR扩增得到约1000bp的特异性片段,序列分析表明含有壳聚糖酶全长基因,开放阅读框801bp,编码266个氨基酸残基。转化子酶活力为10.4U/mL,是原菌株酶活力的3.15倍。重组蛋白经DEAE-Sepharose FF分离纯化,达到电泳纯,SDS-PAGE显示单一条带,分子量约41kDa。重组酶反应最适温度为45℃,最适pH为5.6,Km和Vmax分别是0.926mg/mL和6.15U/mL。质谱分析酶解产物主要为三糖和五糖。实现了壳聚糖酶在解脂耶氏酵母中的分泌表达,为壳聚糖酶的工业化生产奠定了理论基础。     

不结球白菜叶片壳聚糖酶的理化特性研究

通过不结球白菜叶片壳聚糖酶对壳聚糖的降解,研究了温度、pH、时间及金属离子等对此壳聚糖酶的影响。结果表明,壳聚糖酶的最适温度为45℃,最适pH为5.5,酶促反应速度在6 h内达到最大值;Mn2 和Cu2 对壳聚糖酶促反应分别起到促进和抑制的作用。经薄板层析分析证实,壳聚糖酶降解壳聚糖为低聚物。     

高产壳聚糖酶菌株的筛选和发酵产酶条件研究

为探讨专一性地降解甲壳质或壳聚糖的甲壳质酶或壳聚糖酶 ,从采集的土样中分离到 4株产壳聚糖酶能力较强的菌株 ,经摇瓶复筛 ,菌株YJ0 2产酶能力最强。对其发酵产酶条件的研究结果表明其产酶最适培养基组分为 (% ,w/v) :粉末壳聚糖 2 .0 ,葡萄糖 0 .1,NH4NO3 1.0 ,酵母提取物 0 .5 ,K2 HPO40 .0 7,KH2 PO40 .0 3 ,NaCl0 .5 ,MgSO4·7H2 O 0 .0 5 ,起始 pH 6.0。最适产酶培养条件是 :5 0 0mL三角烧瓶装瓶量为 15 0mL ,2 .0 % (v/v)接种量 ,3 0℃ ,15 0r/min培养 72h。在最适产酶培养条件下 ,72h时菌株YJ0 2发酵液中壳聚糖酶活力可达到 17.0 4U/mL。     

产甲壳素酶菌株的发酵条件、酶的分离纯化及酶学性质研究

利用甲壳素为唯一碳源从土壤中筛选得到1株产甲壳素酶活力较高的菌株HD002,初步鉴定其为Massilia属。确定菌株产甲壳素酶的最适培养基组成为(g/L):(NH4)2SO45,K2HPO40.7,KH2PO40.3,MgSO4.7H2O 1,胶体甲壳素10;最适产酶培养条件为:培养基起始pH值6.0,培养时间192 h,发酵液酶活力达1.314 U/mL。采用70%饱和度硫酸铵盐析、DEAE-Sepharose F.F阴离子交换层析、Sephadex G-75凝胶过滤层析对该甲壳素酶进行纯化,SDS-PAGE证明达到电泳纯。该甲壳素酶的分子量为60.2 kDa,最适反应温度为55℃,最适反应pH值为5.0,Cu2+和Fe3+对酶活力有明显的抑制作用,Ca2+和Na+对酶活力有明显的促进作用。     

壳寡糖和壳聚糖酶水解特性的薄层色谱分析

建立了聚合度2～10的壳寡糖的薄层层析分析(TLC)方法,在异丙醇∶水∶氨水=60∶30∶4的展开体系中,各壳寡糖可以得到很好的分离,各单体间比移值(Rf)差异明显,无拖尾现象。通过对比TLC法与高效液相色谱(HPLC)法分析壳寡糖单体的效果,得出TLC法具有快速、有效、方便的优点,可以作为定性分析壳寡糖单体纯度的方法。采用本实验室制备的壳聚糖酶对3种不同脱乙酰度的壳聚糖和DP2～6的壳寡糖进行水解,采用TLC法对水解产物进行分析。实验结果表明,随着壳聚糖脱乙酰度的降低,其酶水解产物的糖链延长。该壳聚糖酶不能水解DP2～4的壳寡糖,对DP5～6的壳寡糖水解速率缓慢。通过对该壳聚糖酶作用特点分析,表明该酶可作用于GlcN-GlcN糖苷键,而不能水解Glc-NAc-GlcNAc糖苷键。     

吸附交联法和包埋法固定壳聚糖酶的比较研究

采用吸附交联和包埋法对假单胞菌(Pseudomonas)CUY8产壳聚糖酶进行固定,并对游离壳聚糖酶和2种固定化酶的特性进行比较。游离壳聚糖酶的最佳pH值为5.0,最佳温度为55℃;采用吸附交联方法所获得的壳聚糖酶的最佳pH值为4.0,最佳温度65℃;采用包埋法获得的壳聚糖酶的最佳pH值为5.5,最佳温度为35℃。壳聚糖游离酶,吸附壳聚糖酶和交联壳聚糖酶的米氏常数依次分别为1.92 mg/mL,14.71 mg/mL和5.91 mg/mL;半衰期为18 d,45 d和37 d。实验结果显示,采用吸附交联法所得的壳聚糖酶的半衰期是最长的。     

烟曲霉产壳聚糖酶液体发酵条件研究

以烟曲霉(Aspergillus fumigatus)为出发菌,通过选择适合的培养条件,筛选出产壳聚糖酶的菌株。实验结果表明,烟曲霉是良好的产壳聚糖酶出发菌。烟曲霉液体发酵产壳聚糖酶最适培养基组成为:壳聚糖1%,KH2PO40.06%,尿素0.2%,(NH4)2SO40.1%,MgSO40.012%,20%土豆汁3%,NaCl 0.05%。在pH 5.0、温度28℃、摇床转速120 r/min培养条件下振荡培养3 d,烟曲霉产壳聚糖酶的能力最强,达25.1 U/mL。     

产壳聚糖酶菌株发酵条件优化及壳聚糖酶的分离纯化研究

从土壤中筛选得到一株产壳聚糖酶菌株P003,对其进行了发酵条件优化.结果表明其最适发酵培养条件为:(NH4)2SO42.0%,粉末壳聚糖1.0%,葡萄糖0.1%,K2HPO40.07%,KH2PO40.03%,NaCl 0.5%,MgSO4·7H2O 0.05%,酵母提取物0.3%,调pH至5.0;2.0%接种量,500 mL三角瓶装液量为150 mL,32℃下150 r/min摇床培养96 h,在此条件下菌株发酵液的壳聚糖酶活力达108 u/mL.采用硫酸铵分级盐析、离子交换层析和凝胶过滤层析等方法,从菌株的发酵液中分离出了分子质量为30.5 ku的壳聚糖酶.     

产壳聚糖酶菌株选育及培养条件优化

以假单胞菌Y8．0为出发菌株,分别通过亚硝基胍(NTG),Co^60,UV(紫外)诱变,采用透明圈法筛选,获得了产壳聚糖酶较好的突变菌株假单胞菌Y8,其所产酶活力达到3．0U／mL,酶活力提高近6倍,并具有较好的遗传稳定性。3种诱变方法中,UV诱变效果最好。对假单胞菌Y8产壳聚糖酶培养条件进行研究,得到1个比较优化的培养条件为：pH值6．5,温度32℃,壳聚糖3g／L,酵母膏0．3％,培养时间3d。不同金属离子及不同诱导物对酶合成的影响表明：Fe^2 ,Mg^2 激活作用显著。而Zn^2 ,Mn^2 则具有一定的抑制作用,壳聚糖和氨基葡萄糖对壳聚糖酶的产生都有较好的诱导作用。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.