Regulating the structure of bacterial cellulose by altering the expression of bcsD using CRISPR/dCas9 / 生物工程学报

Gluconacetobacter xylinus is a primary strain producing bacterial cellulose (BC). In G. xylinus, BcsD is a subunit of cellulose synthase and is participated in the assembly process of BC. A series of G. xylinus with different expression levels of the bcsD gene were obtained by using the CRISPR/dCas9 technique. Analysis of the structural characteristics of BC showed that the crystallinity and porosity of BC changed with the expression of bcsD. The porosity varied from 59.95%-84.05%, and the crystallinity varied from 74.26%-93.75%, while the yield of BC did not decrease significantly upon changing the expression levels of bcsD. The results showed that the porosity of bacterial cellulose significantly increased, while the crystallinity was positively correlated with the expression of bcsD, when the expression level of bcsD was below 55.34%. By altering the expression level of the bcsD gene, obtaining BC with different structures but stable yield through a one-step fermentation of G. xylinus was achieved.

Effect of hongjintian decoction on serum MDA, SOD, NGF, MBP and BFGF levels of exercise-induced fatigue athletes / 中国生化药物杂志

Objective To investigate the effect of Hongjintian decoction on the levels of serum MDA , SOD, NGF, MBP and bFGF of physical fatigue athletes.Methods 40 students of physical education college were randomly divided into experimental group and control group, 20 cases in each group.After the end of sport, the experimental group were given Hongjintian decoction, and control group were given sugar water, the levels of serum MDA, SOD, NGF, MBP and BFGF in two groups were detected.ResuIts Compared with control group, the level of MDA in experimental group was lower(P<0.05), and the level of SOD was higher (P<0.05); NGF and BFGF levels were higher in experimental group(P<0.05), MBP level was lower (P<0.05).ConcIusion Hongjintian decoction can significantly reduce serum MDA, MBP levels, increase serum SOD, NGF and BFGF levels of physical fatigue athletes.

Effect of medicinal charcoal tablets combined with blood purification on renal function, inflammatory mediators, oxygenation index and intestinal barrier function in patients of postoperative severe abdominal infection / 中国生化药物杂志

Objective To investigate the effect of medicinal charcoal tablets combined with blood purification therapy on on renal function, inflammatory mediators, oxygenation index and intestinal barrier function in patients postoperative severe abdominal infection.Methods 65 cases with severe abdominal infection from the hospital were selected and randomly divided into control group (32 cases) and experiment group (33 cases) by random digital table method.The control group were treated by clinical routine therapy and experiment group were treated on the basis of control group with medicinal charcoal tablets combined with blood purification therapy.The renal function, inflammatory mediators, oxygenation index, intestinal barrier function and efficacy were tested.ResuIts Compared with control group after treatment, the renal function of serum creatinine (Scr), blood urea nitrogen (BUM), uric acid (UA) levels were lower (P<0.05), the inflammatory mediators of tumor necrosis factor α(TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) levels were lower (P<0.05), the oxygenation index (OI) was higher(P<0.05), the intestinal barrier function indicators of plasma diamine oxidase (DAO) and endotoxin of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were lower (P<0.05), the total efficiency were higher (χ2 =3.91, P<0.05) in experimental group.ConcIusion The medicinal charcoal tablets combined with blood purification could effectively improve renal function, reduce inflammatory mediators levels, improve intestinal barrier function, and increase oxygenation index in patients with severe abdominal infection, which has a good clinical curative effect for postoperative severe abdominal infection .

Studies on Purification and Some Properties of Antifungal Compounds in ZK-I Fermentation / 微生物学通报

ZK-I belongs to Bacillus sp.and shown strong antagonistic abilities to Saccharomyces cerevisiae and several plant pathogens,such as phytophthora sp,and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.vasinfectum etc.,in this paper,we reported the purification of the antifungal substances and some properities of antifungal compounds.After acid precipitation,silica gel chromatography,C_(18) reversed-phase silica gel chromatogra- phy,we obtained four compounds and knew their peaks were all single by HPLC testing,Combined with MS and HPLC,we concluded that they are the homologous series of compounds,A is jiean-peptide A and the others were confirmed to the analog of Jiean-peptide A in struc- ture.