大蹼铃蟾(Bombina maxima)皮肤新型血小板活性蛋白及信号转导的研究

通过对两栖类动物大蹼铃蟾（B朋b了na勿日对朋）皮肤分泌物及匀浆物的分离，纯化，从其碱性组分中得到了全新的三叶因子多肤（BIn－－TFFZ）和膜联蛋白H相关蛋白（BAIIRP），它们分别具有诱导或抑制人血小板活化的全新功能。以血小板膜糖蛋白GPVI受体激动剂stejnulxin为对照，研究了Bm一TFFZ活化人血小板的信号传导途径。哺乳动物的三叶因子（TFF）蛋白的主要功能在于通过修复粘膜损伤，维持粘膜层的完整。它们在肿瘤抑制及癌症侵润方面也有一定程度的作用。我们从两栖类动物大蹼铃蟾皮肤分泌物分离，纯化而得到了一个全新的三叶因子多肤（Bm一TFFZ）。它是单亚基蛋白，表观分子量为13000，并具有全新的诱导人血小板活化的功能，我们研究了其诱导人血小板活化的活性的量效关系。它对血小板的激活涉及血小板整合素a：Ibp3的活化，Bm一TFFZ可诱导经阿斯匹林及三磷酸腺昔"双磷酸酶（Apyrase）处理的血小板的聚集，表明B，TFFZ的活性不依赖于血小板的ADP及血栓嗯烷A2（TXAZ）的自泌正反馈。F工TC标记的B爪一TFFZ蛋白能与血小板膜结合。通过专一性药理学抑制剂的研究，我们初步排除了Bm一TFFZ蛋白作用于血小板膜已知的G一蛋白偶联受体（如ADP，TXAZ及血小板活化因子受体）的可能性。以血小板GPVI激动剂stejnulxin为对照，我们仔细研究了Bm一TFFZ蛋白刺激血小板后的信号传导分子事件，发现其酪氨酸磷酸化图谱明显不同于血小板GPVI激动剂5tejnu1X如，尤其是磷脂酶CYZ并不磷酸化。因此，我们认为Bm一TFFZ蛋白激活血小板的信号传导通路是活化磷脂酶C，并刺激胞内钙离子的释放，活化血小板伪：。p3，进而导致血小板的聚集。从Bm－－TFFZ蛋白的cDNA克隆序列推知它由104个氨基酸组成，含有两个三叶因子结构域，与人TFFZ和非洲爪蟾xPZ序列中相同的氨基酸分别占28％及34％。为了确定两栖类的三叶因子蛋白具有诱导人血小板活化的功能，我们仔细地研究了整个分离纯化过程中所有组份的血小板聚集活性并比较了它们的相对活性差异。Bm一TFFZ是第一个来自两栖类动物的血小板激动剂，也是我们第一个报道的具有诱导血小板聚集活性的三叶因子多肤。·我们还通过阴离子交换，凝胶过滤和阳离子交换层析，从大蹼铃蟾皮肤匀浆物中纯化了一个表观分子量为33kD。的单链蛋白。N一末端序列比较分析显示，该·蛋白与来自非洲爪蟾、红色原鸡和人膜联蛋白H的N一末端序列相同的氨基酸分别占70％、64％和56％。该蛋白具有以钙依赖的方式抑制专一性血小板膜糖蛋白VI（GPVI）受体激动剂-Stejnu1Xin诱导洗涤人血小板聚集的生物学功能，最大抑制率达48％。结合其N一末端序列搜索结果及其活性的钙依赖性，推测该蛋白是与膜联蛋白H相关的一类蛋白质。

Apoptotic activity of frog Bombina maxima skin albumin

Albumin, the most abundant protein components of blood plasma, is synthesized and secreted by liver cells in vertebrates. Recently, it was demonstrated that frog Bombina maxima albumin is also expressed in skin. Both B. maxima albumins from skin and serum (BmA-skin and BmAserum) have similar biochemical characteristics except that the former contains haem b. Present studies showed that BmA-skin exhibited cytotoxic activity on H9 and C8166 cells. Pretreated with hemin to induce erythroid differentiation, K562 cells lost their resistance to cytotoxicity of BmAskin. After treating cells with BmA-skin for 48 h, 50 percentage cytotoxic concentrations (CC50) of BmA-skin on H9, C8166 and hemin-treated K562 cells were 1.31±0.09, 1.59±0.08 and 2.28±0.06 μM, respectively. The cell death induced by BmA-skin was mediated by apoptosis of the tested cell lines, as demonstrated by nuclear morphological changes, DNA fragmentation and DNA hypodiploidy of apoptosis cells. At BmA-skin concentration of 2 μM, 27.3%, 19.7% and 17.8% of H9, C8166 and hemin-treated K562 cells were found to be apoptotic. In contrast, BmA-serum possessed no cytotoxic and apoptosis-inducing activity on all the cell lines tested, even with concentration used up to 15 μM. These results indicated that bound haem b in BmA-skin contributed significantly to its cytotoxic and apoptosis-inducing activity on the cell lines assayed.

Cloning and sequencing of the phycocyanin gene from Spirulina maxima and its evolutionary analysis (vol 14, pg 307, 2002)

The geneswere cloned for the two apoprotein subunits, alpha and beta, of phycocyanin from the cyanobacterium Spirulina maxima (=Arthrospira maxima) strain F3. The alpha- and beta-subunit gene-coding regions contain 489 bp and 519 bp, respectively. The beta-subunit gene is upstream from the alpha-subunit gene, with a 111-bp segment separating them. Similarities between the alpha-subunits of S. maxima and nine other cyanobacteria were between 58% and 99%, as were those between the beta-subunits. The maximum similarity between the alpha- and beta-subunits from S. maxima was 27%.

Sequence analysis of Arthrospira maxima based on fosmid library

Arthrospira (Spirulina) (Setchell& Gardner) is an important cyanobacterium not only in its nutritional potential but in its special biological characteristics. An unbiased fosmid library of Arthrospira maxima FACHB438 that contains 4300 clones was constructed. The size distribution of insert fragments is from 15.5 to 48.9 kb and the average size is 37.6 kb. The recombination frequency is 100%. Therefore the library is 29.9 equivalents to the Arthrospira genome size of 5.4 Mb. A total of 719 sample clones were randomly chosen from the library and 602 available sequences, which consisted of 307,547 bases, covering 5.70% of the whole genome. The codon usage of A. maxima was not strongly biased. GC content at the first position of codons (46.9%) was higher than the second (39.8%) and the third (45.5%) positions. GC content of the genome was 43.6%. Of these sequences, 287 (47.7%) showed high similarities to known genes, 63 (10.5%) to hypothetical genes and the remaining 252 (41.8%) had no significant similarities. The assigned genes were classified into 22 categories with respect to different biological roles. Remarkably, the high presence of 25 sequences (4.2%) encoding reverse transcriptase indicates the RT gene may have multiple copies in the A. maxima genome and might play an important role in the evolutionary history and metabolic regulation. In addition, the sequences encoding the ATP-binding cassette transport system and the two-component signal transduction system were the second and third most frequent genes, respectively. These genomic features provide some clues as to the mechanisms by which this organism adapts to the high concentration of bicarbonate and to the high pH environment.

Efecto de Epilachna Paenulata Germ. sobre el rendimiento de zapallito redondo de tronco (Cucurbita Maxima Dubch.)

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Maxima, un sistema libre de cálculo simbólico y numérico

Dentro del contexto de las TIC aplicadas a la enseñanza de las matemáticas, se propone la introducción del sistema libre de cálculo simbólico Maxima, inicialmente desarrollado en el MIT. Maxima ofrece a estudiantes, profesores y profesionales un amplio conjunto de herramientas de cálculo, tanto simbólico como numérico, así como capacidades avanzadas de representación gráfica y un lenguaje de programación sencillo de aprender. También se incluyen ejemplos de actividades de aula reales.

The smooth muscle pharmacology of maximakinin, a receptor-selective, bradykinin-related nonadecapeptide from the venom of the Chinese toad, Bombina maxima.

Structural homologues of vertebrate regulatory peptides found in defensive skin secretions of anuran amphibians often display enhanced bioactivity and receptor binding when compared with endogenous mammalian peptide ligands. Maximakinin, a novel N-terminally extended bradykinin (DLPKINRKGPRPPGFSPFR) from the skin venom of a Chinese toad (Bombina maxima), displays such activity enhancement when compared with bradykinin but is additionally highly selective for mammalian arterial smooth muscle bradykinin receptors displaying a 50-fold increase in molar potency in this smooth muscle type. In contrast, a 100-fold decrease in molar potency was observed at bradykinin receptors in intestinal and uterine smooth muscle preparations. Maximakinin has thus evolved as a “smart” defensive weapon in the toad with receptor/tissue selective targeting. Natural selection of amphibian skin venom peptides for antipredator defence, through inter-species delivery by an exogenous secretory mode, produces subtle structural stabilisation modifications that can potentially provide new insights for the design of selectively targeted peptide therapeutics.

Kinestatin: a novel bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist peptide from the skin secretion of the Chinese toad, Bombina maxima

We have isolated a novel bradykinin B2-receptor antagonist peptide, kinestatin, from toad (Bombina maxima) defensive skin secretion. Mass spectroscopy established a molecular mass of 931.56 Da and a provisional structure: pGlu-Leu/Ile-Pro-Gly-Leu/Ile-Gly-Pro-Leu/Ile-Arg.amide. The unmodified sequence, -QIPGLGPLRG-, was located at the C-terminus of a 116-amino-acid residue open-reading frame following interrogation of a sequenced B. maxima skin cDNA library database. This confirmed the presence of appropriate primary structural attributes for the observed post-translational modifications present on the mature peptide and established residue 2 as Ile and residues 5/8 as Leu. Kinestatin represents a prototype novel peptide from amphibian skin.

Cloning of maximakinin precursor cDNAs from Chinese toad, Bombina maxima, venom.

Using a novel technique that we have developed for cloning of amphibian skin secretion peptide cDNAs from lyophilized samples, we report here that maximakinin (DLPKINRKGP-bradykinin) is encoded by two different cDNAs, named BMK-1 and BMK-2, containing either four tandem repeat sequences or a single copy. The open reading frames of both precursor cDNAs were found to be 152 and 116 amino acid residues, respectively. These data provide evidence that the structural diversity of peptides in amphibian skin secretions arising from molecular evolutionary events, can be mediated by parallel diversity in encoding mRNAs that in itself may reflect serial gene duplications.

Localized Flux Maxima of Arsenic, Lead, and Iron around Root Apices in Flooded Lowland Rice

In wetland-adapted plants, such as rice, it is typically root apexes, sites of rapid entry for water/nutrients, where radial oxygen losses (ROLs) are highest. Nutrient/toxic metal uptake therefore largely occurs through oxidized zones and pH microgradients. However, the processes controlling the acquisition of trace elements in rice have been difficult to explore experimentally because of a lack of techniques for simultaneously measuring labile trace elements and O2/pH. Here, we use new diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT)/planar optode sandwich sensors deployed in situ on rice roots to demonstrate a new geochemical niche of greatly enhanced As, Pb, and Fe(II) mobilization into solution immediately adjacent to the root tips characterized by O2 enrichment and low pH. Fe(II) mobilization was congruent to that of the peripheral edge of the aerobic root zone, demonstrating that the Fe(II) mobilization maximum only developed in a narrow O2 range as the oxidation front penetrates the reducing soil. The Fe flux to the DGT resin at the root apexes was 3-fold higher than the anaerobic bulk soil and 27 times greater than the aerobic rooting zone. These results provide new evidence for the importance of coupled diffusion and oxidation of Fe in modulating trace metal solubilization, dispersion, and plant uptake.

Apparent metabolizable energy from microalgae spirulina maxima for broiler chickens.

2016