硅烷Y9669改性湿固化聚氨酯热熔胶的研制

以4,4′-二苯基甲烷二异氰酸酯(MDI)、聚醚多元醇(N-210)和聚己二酸己二醇酯(PHA)为主要原料,控制R=n(-NCO)/n(-OH)=2.0,制得PUR(湿固化聚氨酯热熔胶)的预聚体;然后以不同的硅烷偶联剂[如Y9669(N-苯基-γ-氨丙基三甲氧基硅烷)、KH-550和KH-560等]作为PUR中部分端-NCO基的封端剂,制备SPUR(硅烷化PUR)。结果表明:Y9669是较理想的封端剂,能使SPUR的剪切强度增加37.23%;SPUR的硬度、热稳定性能随Y9669封端率增加而增大;SPUR的剪切强度随Y9669封端率增加呈先升后降态势,并且在Y9669封端率为20%时相对最大(17.73 MPa)。     

Characterization of promoters in Escherichia coli and application for xylitol synthesis

Promoters are the most important tools to control and regulate the gene expression in synthetic biology and met-abolic engineering. The expression of target genes in Escherichia coli is usually control...     

Visco-Elastic properties of blends of crystalline polymers possessing a weak phase coupling. Studies on blends of poly(ethylene) and poly(oxymethylene)

The investigations reported in this paper aimed at evaluating the impact of a weak interfacial strength on visco-elastic properties in multiphase polymer blends both in the linear and nonlinear deformation regime. Blends of poly(ethylene) and poly(oxymethylene) were used as model systems. The particular choice of the components of the blend was based on the fact that the two components are incompatible, possess strong interfacial energies and thus narrow and weak interfacial layers, and finally that their individual visco-elastic properties are within the same order of magnitude. This allows to evaluate the contributions of the phase boundaries to the visco-elastic properties in a transparent way. We investigated the visco-elastic properties of blends of various compositions by analyzing the stress-strain behavior, the dynamical torsional behavior as well as by determinating their cyclic stress-strain behavior. The experimental finding is that most of the properties studied vary linearly with the composition and are not influenced by the weakness of the interfacial strength–contrary to the expectation. An exception is the elongation at break which varies nonlinearly with the composition and which shows a minimum value at intermediate compositions. The impact of a weak phase coupling on visco-elastic properties is thus rather limited.     

聚乳酸耐热改性的研究

研究了一种耐热聚乳酸,并对其进行了红外光谱、示差扫描量热分析、热重分析、X-射线衍射、热收缩及断裂强力等测试。同样条件下,这种耐热聚乳酸的热收缩率是普通聚乳酸的1/4,耐热性有了明显改善,强力略有提高。     

Reassembled biosynthetic pathway for large-scale carbohydrate synthesis: alpha-Gal epitope producing "superbug"

A metabolic pathway engineered Escherichia coli strain (superbug) containing one plasmid harboring an artificial gene cluster encoding all the five enzymes in the biosynthetic pathway of Galalpha l,3Lac through galactose metabolism has been developed. The plasmid contains a lambda promoter, a c1857 repressor gene, an ampicillin resistance gene, and a T7 terminator. Each gene was preceded by a Shine - Dalgarno sequence for ribosome binding. In a reaction catalyzed by the recombinant E. coli strain, Galalpha 1,3Lac trisaccharide accumulated at concentrations of 14.2 mM (7.2 gL(-1)) in a reaction mixture containing galactose, glucose, lactose, and a catalytic amount of uridine 5'-diphosphoglucose. This work demonstrates that large-scale synthesis of complex oligosaccharides can be achieved economically and efficiently through a single, biosynthetic pathway engineered microorganism.     

过表达嘌呤合成途径关键酶基因对重组酿酒酵母菌株生产cAMP的影响

研究了环磷酸腺苷(cAMP)合成途径中的3个关键酶基因(磷酸核糖焦磷酸合成酶基因PRS1和PRS3、磷酸核糖焦磷酸氨基转移酶基因ADE4、腺苷酸激酶基因ADK1)过量表达对重组酿酒酵母(Saccharomyces cerevisiae)发酵向胞外分泌cAMP的影响,利用酿酒酵母游离型质粒YEplac195和磷酸甘油酸激酶PGK的强启动子PGK1p及终止子PGK1t构建含PRS1, PRS3, ADE4和ADK1的单基因表达载体,分别转入cAMP生产菌GA125,通过摇瓶发酵实验考察重组菌株与对照菌株的生长、cAMP生产及胞外腺嘌呤消耗情况. 结果表明,在外加腺嘌呤条件下,与对照菌株相比,PRS1, PRS3和ADE4基因过表达菌株的cAMP产量分别提高4.17%, 9.03%和6.06%,而ADK1过表达菌株的cAMP产量降低3.85%.     

Production of β‐galactosidase from recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown on lactose

Improved productivity and costs reduction in fermentation processes may be attained by using flocculating cell cultures. The production of extracellular heterologous β‐galactosidase by recombinant flocculating Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, expressing the lacA gene (coding for β‐galactosidase) of Aspergillus niger under the ADHI promotor and terminator in a bioreactor was studied. The effects of lactose concentration and yeast extract concentration on β‐galactosidase production in a semi‐synthetic medium were analysed. The extracellular β‐galactosidase activity increased linearly with increasing initial lactose concentrations (5–150 g dm^?3). β‐Galactosidase production also increased with increased yeast extract concentration. During the entire fermentation, no accumulation of the hydrolysed sugars, glucose and galactose, was observed. The catabolic repression of the recombinant strain when cultured in a medium containing equal amounts of glucose and galactose was confirmed. In complete anaerobiosis, the fermentation of lactose resulted in a very slow fermentation pattern with lower levels of β‐galactosidase activity. The bioreactor operation together with optimisation of culture conditions (lactose and yeast extract concentration) led to a 21‐fold increase in the extracellular β‐galactosidase activity produced when compared with preliminary Erlenmeyer fermentations. Copyright © 2004 Society of Chemical Industry     

双亚型(H3/H1)流感病毒血凝素基因真核表达质粒的构建及其在HeLa细胞中的表达

目的构建双亚型(H3/H1)流感病毒血凝素(HA)基因真核表达质粒,并在HeLa细胞中进行表达。方法通过PCR分别改造流感病毒H1亚型HA1和H3亚型HA基因片段,在融合片段间引入(G4S)3柔性linker和口蹄疫病毒2A蛋白linker。采用DNAstar结合生物信息学软件InsightⅡ分析后,对其空间构象进行模拟。将H1HA1-H3HA融合基因片段克隆至真核表达载体pVAX1 CMV启动子下游。通过脂质体法转染HeLa细胞,RT-PCR法检测转染细胞中目的基因mRNA的转录,间接免疫荧光检测转染细胞中目的蛋白的表达。结果表达双亚型(H3/H1)流感病毒血凝素基因的重组真核表达质粒pVAX1-H3HA-H1HA1经酶切和测序证明构建正确。转染重组质粒的HeLa细胞可检测到目的基因mRNA的转录和目的蛋白的表达。结论已成功构建了真核表达质粒pVAX1-H3HA-H1HA1,并可在HeLa细胞中正确转录与表达,为H3、H1亚型流感病毒双价核酸疫苗的研究奠定了基础。     

HBsAg/GM-CSF融合蛋白的克隆及其在毕赤酵母中的表达

目的在毕赤酵母中表达HBsAg/GM-CSF融合蛋白。方法利用PCR扩增HBsAg和GM-CSF基因,通过15个氨基酸的连接肽将两个片段连接,获得融合基因S-GM,克隆入酵母穿梭质粒pPIC9K中。将重组质粒9K-S-GM电转化毕赤酵母后,G418筛选,甲醇诱导,HBsAg/GM-CSF融合蛋白表达。经SDS-PAGE检测表达水平,Western blot检测表达产物特异性。结果PCR扩增的片段与预期大小一致,HBsAg/GM-CSF融合蛋白在毕赤酵母中获得了表达。Western blot检测,该融合蛋白同时具有HBsAg和GM-CSF的特异性。结论该融合蛋白的获得为提高乙肝疫苗的免疫原性奠定了科学基础。     

Covalent immobilization of nisin on multi-walled carbon nanotubes: superior antimicrobial and anti-biofilm properties

Despite unique and useful properties of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) such as high strength and a low synthesis cost, their weak antimicrobial property hampers their use as an antimicrobial material. Herein, we demonstrate that the immobilization of nisin, a natural and inexpensive antimicrobial peptide, with poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG(1000)) as a linker significantly enhanced the antimicrobial and anti-biofilm properties of MWNTs. The MWNT-nisin composite showed up to 7-fold higher antimicrobial property than pristine MWNTs against Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis. Moreover, the MWNT-nisin composite had a dramatically improved capability to prevent biofilm formation both on a deposited film and in suspension. In particular, the MWNT-nisin deposit film exhibited a 100-fold higher anti-biofilm property than the MWNT deposit film. Further, it has been shown that PEG and nisin are covalently attached to MWNTs with excellent stability against leaching. We envision that our novel MWNT-nisin composite can serve as an effective and economical antimicrobial material.     

Rapid synthesis of new DNMT inhibitors derivatives of procainamide

DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) are responsible for DNA methylation, an epigenetic modification involved in gene regulation. Families of conjugates of procainamide, an inhibitor of DNMT1, were conceived and produced by rapid synthetic pathways. Six compounds resulted in potent inhibitors of the murine catalytic Dnmt3A/3L complex and of human DNMT1, at least 50 times greater than that of the parent compounds. The inhibitors showed selectivity for C5 DNA methyltransferases. The cytotoxicity of the inhibitors was validated on two tumour cell lines (DU145 and HCT116) and correlated with the DNMT inhibitory potency. The inhibition potency of procainamide conjugated to phthalimide through alkyl linkers depended on the length of the linker; the dodecane linker was the best.