High Aspect Ratio (L/D) Riser Viv Prediction Using Wake Oscillator Model

A two-dimensional (2-D) vortex-induced vibration (VIV) prediction model for high aspect ratio (LID) riser subjected to uniform and sheared flow is studied in this paper. The nonlinear structure equations are considered. The near wake dynamics describing the fluctuating nature of vortex shedding is modeled using classical van der Pol equation. A new approach was applied to calibrate the empirical parameters in the wake oscillator model. Compared the predicted results with the experimental data and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) results. Good agreements are observed. It can be concluded that the present model can be used as simple computational tool in predicting some aspects of VIV of long flexible structures. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

High refractive index TiO2 film deposited by electron beam evaporation

The well known 'crystal seed' theory is first applied in this work to prepare TiO2 film: a high refractive index rutile TiO2 film is grown by electron beam evaporation on the rutile seed formed by 1100 degrees C annealing. The average n is larger than 2.4, by far the highest in all the authors' TiO2 films. The films are characterised by optical properties, microstructure and surface morphologies. It is found that the refractive index shows positive relation with the crystal structure, grain size, and packing density and roughness of the film. The film has lower density of granularity and nodule defects on the surface than those of the film deposited by magnetron sputtering. The result shows attractive application in complex filter and laser coatings.

Molecular characterization of L-amino acid oxidase from king cobra venom

An L-amino acid oxidase from Ophiophagus hannah snake venom (Oh-LAAO) was purified by successive gel filtration, ion-exchange and heparin chromatography. Oh-LAAO did not induce platelet aggregation; however, it had potent inhibitory activity on platelet a

Identification of one intron loss and phylogenetic evolution of Dfak gene in the Drosophila melanogaster species group

Intron loss and its evolutionary significance have been noted in Drosophila. The current study provides another example of intron loss within a single-copy Dfak gene in Drosophila. By using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), we amplified about 1.3 kb fragment spanning intron 5-10, located in the position of Tyr kinase (TyK) domain of Dfak gene from Drosophila melanogaster species group, and observed size difference among the amplified DNA fragments from different species. Further sequencing analysis revealed that D. melanogaster and D. simulans deleted an about 60 bp of DNA fragment relative to other 7 Drosophila species, such as D. elegans, D. ficusphila, D. biarmipes, D. takahashii, D. jambulina, D. prostipennis and D. pseudoobscura, and the deleted fragment located precisely in the position of one intron. The data suggested that intron loss might have occurred in the Dfak gene evolutionary process of D. melanogaster and D. simulans of Drosophila melanogaster species group. In addition, the constructed phylogenetic tree based on the Dfak TyK domains clearly revealed the evolutionary relationships between subgroups of Drosophila melanogaster species group, and the intron loss identified from D. melanogaster and D. simulans provides a unique diagnostic tool for taxonomic classification of the melanogaster subgroup from other group of genus Drosophila.

Molecular cytogenetic detection of paternal chromosome fragments in allogynogenetic gibel carp, Carassius auratus gibelio Bloch

In gynogenesis, sperm from related species activates egg and embryonic development, but normally does not contribute genetically to the offspring. In gibel carp, Carassius auratus gibelio Bloch, however, gynogenetic offspring often show some phenotypes apparently derived from the heterologous sperm donor. This paternal effect of allogynogenesis is outstanding in an artificial clone F produced by cold treatment of clone E eggs after insemination with blunt-nose black bream (Megaloabrama amblycephala Yin) sperm. Karyotype analysis revealed 5-15 supernumerary microchromosomes in different individuals of clone F in addition to 156 normal chromosomes inherited from the maternal clone E. A painting probe was prepared from the microdissected microchromosomes, and used to investigate the origin of these microchromosomes. Strong positive signals were detected on each microchromosomes of clone F and on 4 pairs of chromosomes in blunt-nose black bream, whereas no signals were detected on the chromosomes of clone E. This result indicates that some paternal chromosome fragments of blunt-nose black bream have been incorporated into the artificial clone F. Therefore, the manipulation of allogynogenesis may provide a unique method to transfer DNA between diverse species for fish breeding.

Enhanced Pockels effect in GaN/AlxGa1-xN superlattice measured by polarization-maintaining fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Six-period 4 nm GaN/10 nm AlxGa1-xN superlattices with different Al mole fractions x were prepared on (0001) sapphire substrates by low-temperature metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The linear electro-optic (Pockels) effect was studied by a polarization-maintaining fiber-optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer system with an incident light wavelength of 1.55 mu m. The measured electro-optic coefficients, gamma(13)=5.60 +/- 0.18 pm/V, gamma(33)=19.24 +/- 1.21 pm/V (for sample 1, x=0.3), and gamma(13)=3.09 +/- 0.48 pm/V, gamma(33)=8.94 +/- 0.36 pm/V (for sample 2, x=0.1), respectively, are about ten times larger than those of GaN bulk material. The enhancement effect in GaN/AlxGa1-xN superlattice can be attributed to the large built-in field at the interfaces, depending on the mole fraction of Al. (C) 2007 American Institute of Physics.

Pseudospin in Si delta-doped InAlAs/InGaAs/InAlAs single quantum well

Magneto-transport measurements have been carried out on double/single-barrier-doped In0.52Al0.48As/In0.53Ga0.47As/In0.52Al0.48As quantum well samples from 1.5 to 60 K in an applied magnetic field up to 13 T. Beating Shubnikov-de Haas oscillation is observed for the symmetrically double-barrier-doped sample and demonstrated due to a symmetric state and an antisymmetric state confined in two coupled self-consistent potential wells in the single quantum well. The energy separation between the symmetric and the antisymmetric states for the double-barrier-doped sample is extracted from experimental data, which is consistent with calculation. For the single-barrier-doped sample, only beating related to magneto-intersubband scattering shows up. The pesudospin property of the symmetrically double-barrier-doped single quantum well shows that it is a good candidate for fabricating quantum transistors. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Pockels effect in GaN/Al-x,Gal(1-x)N superlattice with different quantum structures - art. no. 69841G

The linear electro-optic (Pockels) effect of wurtzite gallium nitride (GaN) films and six-period GaN/AlxGa1-xN superlattices with different quantum structures were demonstrated by a polarization-maintaining fiber-optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer system with an incident light wavelength of 1.55 mu m. The samples were prepared on (0001) sapphire substrate by low-temperature metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The measured coefficients of the GaN/AlxGa1-xN superlattices are much larger than those of bulk material. Taking advantage of the strong field localization due to resonances, GaN/AlxGa1-xN SL can be proposed to engineer the nonlinear responses.

姚虻成功从宿主获得血餐的分子机制初探

在长期的吸血进化过程中，吸血节肢动物在唾液腺中形成了一系列有助于适应吸 血生存的活性物质，这些物质包括血管舒张分子、血小板聚集抑制分子、抗凝血分子 和其它相互作用的分子。此外，为了得到洁净的血液和防止在吸血过程中被病原微生 物感染，吸血节肢动物在其唾液腺中形成了许多防御物质以保护自身和宿主，这些物 质包括抗菌肽和蛋白酶抑制剂等。因此，研究吸血节肢动物的唾液腺重要活性物质和 转录体组学有助于弄清其吸血机制。 姚虻（Tabancus yao Macquart）是我国特有的牛虻，其雌性在产卵前需要吸食大 型哺乳动物的血液以促使卵的发育。我们希望通过对姚虻唾液腺重要活性物质和转录 体组学的研究揭示姚虻成功从宿主获得血餐的分子机制，找到具有药用前景的活性物 质和为控制该虫及其传播的疾病的提供理论基础。 首先，我们对其唾液腺匀浆物活性进行了系统分析，发现姚虻唾液腺匀浆物具有 如下活性：有抗金黄色葡萄球菌活性，并且对大肠杆菌、白色念球菌和枯草杆菌都有 效；能够抑制ADP 诱导的洗涤和富血浆血小板的聚集；能够凝集兔红细胞、能够抑制 丝氨酸蛋白酶对小肽底物的水解、具有对纤维蛋白原的水解活性（金属蛋白酶）、具 有过敏原活性、能够促进肥大细胞脱粒和组氨释放；反复检测而没有发现的活性如下： 磷脂酶A2(PLA2)活性、溶血活性、血浆凝固活性、体外抗补体、血管生长促进与抑制 活性、对小鼠脾细胞因子分泌的促进和抑制活性、抗肿瘤细胞HepG2 的生长活性。 以来源姚虻唾液腺的mRNA为材料，我们成功构建了丰度为1ｘ106的姚虻唾液腺 cDNA文库。通过对400个随机克隆的测序，我们得到了编码23种保守蛋白，44种分泌 蛋白和5种功能未知的蛋白。44种分泌蛋白中比较重要的分别是：20种抗原5相关蛋白、 2种α淀粉酶、2种麦芽糖酶、2种attactins抗菌蛋白以及血管舒张肽、过氧化物酶、 抗菌肽、透明质酸酶、mucin样蛋白和脯氨酸丰富蛋白。另外，一些不知道功能的分 泌肽也被发现,这其中包括四个与Hybomitra bimaculata的分泌肽相似性达47-82%的 多肽，这些信息有助于我们发现牛虻唾液腺活性物质和加快从知道部分氨基酸序列的 蛋白的鉴定速度，加快对姚虻从宿主获得血餐的分子机制的诠释速度。 通过分子筛、高压液相色谱等程序，我们从姚虻唾液腺中得到了一个由55 个氨 基酸组成，分子量为6 kDa，含有3 对二硫键的Kunitz 型丝氨基酸蛋白酶抑制剂TYTI。 该抑制剂与Anemonia sulcata 的蛋白酶抑制剂AsKC3 和SA5II 的成熟肽部分的同源 性达66%；并且该抑制剂，对热相对稳定；对凝乳酶、弹性蛋白酶、凝血酶、胰酶等 都有抑制作用，对胰酶的抑制常数为2.586ｘ10-4M 。 通过分子筛、高压液相色谱等程序，我们从姚虻唾液腺中得到了一分子量为7 kDa，由65 个氨基酸组成且含有3 对二硫键的防御素Taymin，它与长角血蜱的防御素的相 似性达43%，但它的第二个半胱氨酸比长角血蜱的半胱氨酸靠前一个氨基酸。该抗菌 肽对大肠杆菌、金黄色葡萄球菌、枯草芽孢杆菌和白色念球菌的最小抑菌浓度分别是: 160、80、140 和120μg/mL。 通过与分离丝氨酸蛋白酶抑制剂相同的生化分离手段,从姚虻唾液腺中得到一种 红细胞凝集素样活性物质TYML1，其能凝集原始和经胰酶、链霉蛋白酶和弹性蛋白酶 处理的A、B、O 和AB 血型的人、兔、绵羊、大鼠、小鼠、鹌鹑的红细胞, 对链霉蛋 白酶处理的鹌鹑红细胞的凝集效价比正常下降了8 倍；对热、酸、碱处理和蛋白酶降 解稳定；具有Ca2+依赖性，活性能为半乳糖胺和胎球蛋白所完全抑制。 通过分子筛、阴离子交换、高压液相色谱等程序，我们从姚虻唾液腺中分离得到 了一分子量为26 kDa,由234 个氨基酸组成，含有10 个半胱氨酸的血小板聚集抑制剂 Macquaritin-2,它与报道的所有血小板聚集抑制剂均不具有同源性，但是与双翅目昆 虫唾液腺过敏原却有一定的同源性(25%-33%),对其血小板聚集抑制活性研究发现:其 能抑制胰酶、花生四烯酸、Stejnulxin、TMVA、ADP、U46619 等激动剂诱导的血小板 聚集；血小板膜结合试验表明:其能与血小板细胞膜结合,故该血小板聚集抑制剂可能 通过作用血小板上的受体来阻止激动剂诱导血小板聚集。 通过分子筛、阳离子交换、高压液相色谱等程序，我们从姚虻唾液腺中分离得到 分子量为24-30 kDa 的两个血小板聚集抑制剂Macquaritin-3 和Macquaritin-1，它 们的N 端16 个氨基酸分别是V N Y C R L P C R G C D Y H V 和 V A V D Y L G L P G R G Y H V。通过PCR, Macquaritin-3 的核苷酸序列被得到，其推导蛋白的成熟区 和信号肽分别含有232 和23 个氨基酸。利用根据Macquaritin-1 的N 端氨基酸设计 的简并引物扩到含有V A V D Y L G L P 序列的两组核苷酸序列。它们与报道的所有 血小板聚集抑制剂均不具有同源性，但是其与双翅目昆虫的唾液腺抗原5 相关蛋白却 有一定的同源性。将所有血小板抑制剂及其相关序列和通过cDNA 文库筛选得到的抗 原5 相关序列进行分析,发现它们有很高的相似性,这种相似性介于33.3%-93.0%间, 且大部分高于50%。另外，两个血小板聚集抑制剂和一个可能的血小板抑制剂分别处 于这些抗原5 相关蛋白进化树的三个簇中。因此，我们推测这些过抗原5 相关蛋白可 能都具有血小板抑制剂活性。

L-异亮氨酸高产菌定向育种与代谢控制发酵

以L-异亮氨酸产生菌A_(41-3)为出发菌株，经过定向育种和与L-缬氨酸生物合成突变株原生质体融合，从中选育出一株抗α-氨基-β-羟基戊酸、S-（-2-氨基乙基-）-半胱氨酸、乙硫氨酸、异亮氨酸羟肟酸、2-噻唑丙氨酸和红霉素的亮氨酸生物合成缺陷型CN_(69-1)，通过对L-异亮氨酸生物合成代谢控制发酵条件的研究，在含葡萄糖11%，生物素100 μg/L，硫酸铵4.5%，磷酸二氢钾0.3%，硫酸镁0.02%，硫胺素800 μg/L，硫酸亚铁0.004%，硫酸锰0.004%，碳酸钙2%，L-亮氨酸0.02%，pH6.8-7.0培养基中，32 ℃摇瓶发酵72h，可产生L-异亮氨酸23.6g/L。通过定向筛选缬氨酸代谢活性菌株CN_(69-8)，使缬氨酸生物合成量由8.73g/L下降至1.81g/L，L-异亮氨酸生物合成量保持在24g/L左右。在2.000L发酵罐上进行了pH值、通气量、补料等培养条件优化的研究，在适宜条件下，菌株CN_(69-8)发酵44h，L-异亮氨酸生物合成量可达20g/L以上。测定了有关菌株L-异亮氨酸生物合成关键酶苏氨酸脱氢酶、乙酰羟酸合成酶和分枝链氨基酸转氨酶性变化，结果表明，有关关键酶的活性均比出发菌株为高。通过生长谱法确定L-亮氨酸生物合成途径所缺失的酶是异丙基苹果酸脱氢酶。采用732阳离子交换树脂从发酵液中分离提取L-异亮氨酸。研究了发酵液酸化pH值、吸附体积、不同浓度洗脱剂以及单柱吸咐与双柱串联吸咐对L-异亮氨酸分离提取的影响。确定酸化pH值为2.0，以双柱串联吸咐，用0.2mol.L~(-1)氯化铵-0.1 mol.L~(-1)氨水复合洗脱分离的工艺条件，提取总收率可达45%以上。发酵产品经红外光谱，纸层析，比旋光度等项测定证明明是L-异亮氨酸。发酵中试分离提取的总收率可达40%以上，产品经检验确定为L-异亮氨酸，其质量符合《中华人民共和国药典》标准。

维生素C二步混菌发酵中L-山梨糖脱氢酶的研究

以氧化葡萄糖酸杆菌和巨大芽孢杆菌混合培养物的无细胞抽提液建立了Vc二步发酵离体实验系统.反应体系中加入山梨糖在pH7.0,35℃下保温24h，2-酮基-L-古龙酸（2KGA）生成.巨大芽孢杆菌胞外活性物质对离体系统的产酸没有影响，一定量的L-山梨糖脱氢酶可促进产酸.从氧化葡萄糖酸杆菌细胞质中分离纯化出L-山梨糖脱氢酶.L-山梨糖脱氢酶酶活与2KGA的形成呈正相关：L-山梨糖的转化是在细胞内进行的;亲缘关系相差甚远的伴生菌均能促进小菌产酸，且“伴生”效率相近;伴生菌通过促进产酸菌生长和提高其L-山梨糖脱氢酶比活力而提高发酵系统中L-山梨糖脱氢酶总活力，并且通过促进产酸菌合成新的RNA而增强其代谢力，从而促进产酸;通过对不同发酵时间L-山梨糖脱氢酶酶活及2KGA累积量的比较表明，此酶可作为生产上2KGA生成的实时监控的指示酶;环境因子通过提高酶活力促进产酸.

Vc生产用菌中2-酮基-L-古龙酸还原酶的研究

从Vc“二步发酵法”生产用菌[系一株氧化葡萄糖杆菌（小菌）和一株巨大芽孢杆菌（大菌）的混合菌株]的无细胞抽提液中分离纯化了 2-酮基-L-古龙酸还原酶（KGR），测得其分子量为90,000道尔顿；对其动力学性质的研究表明它是一个典型的米-孟氏酶，它对2-KLG作用的K_m为3.42*10~(-3)Mol，最适作用pH和最适作用温度分别为6.5和30℃；其温度敏感程度中等，受40℃温度作用时开始失活，45℃温度作用则立即失活。该酶为混合菌株中小菌的酶。研究了发酵过程中KGR活性和比活的变化情况，发现在发酵开始进行时其活性和比活呈增长趋势，进行一段时间（12小时）之后则保持恒定不变，其变化趋势和发酵液中小菌的浓度变化呈同步关系；它的生物合成不受2-KLG和L-山梨糖的诱导，系小菌的组成酶。