A preliminary pharmacophylogenetic study of Solanaceae medicinal plants containing tropane alkaloids / 中国中药杂志

The Solanaceae plants distributed in China belong to 105 species and 35 varietas of 24 genera. Some medicinal plants of Solanaceae are rich in tropane alkaloids(TAs), which have significant pharmacological activities. In this paper, the geographical distribution, chemical components, traditional therapeutic effect, pharmacological activities, and biosynthetic pathways of TAs in Solanaceous plants were summarized. Besides, the phylogeny of medicinal plants belonging to Solanaceae was visualized by network diagram. Fourteen genera of Solanaceae plants in China contain TAs and have medical records. TAs mainly exist in Datura, Anisodus, Atropa, Physochlaina, and Hyoscyamus. The TAs-containing species were mainly concentrated in Southwest China, and the content of TAs was closely related to plant distribution area and altitude. The Solanaceae plants containing TAs mainly have antispasmodic, analgesic, antiasthmatic, and antitussive effects. Modern pharmacological studies have proved the central sedative, pupil dilating, glandular secretion-inhibiting, and anti-asthma activities of TAs. These pharmacological activities provide a reasonable explanation for the traditional therapeutic efficacy of tropane drugs. In this paper, the geographical distribution, chemical components, traditional therapeutic effect, and modern pharmacological activities of TAs-containing species in Solanaceae were analyzed for the first time. Based on these data, the genetic relationship of TAs-containing Solanaceae species was preliminarily discussed, which provided a scientific basis for the basic research on TAs-containing solanaceous species and was of great significance for the development of natural medicinal plant resources containing TAs.

Homology Comparison of White Spot Syndrome Baculovirus (WSSV) from Penaeid shrimp / 中国病毒学

Homology of three WSSV isolates, which were sampled from r epresentative maritime space of China: Tanghai isolate (Bo Bay of China), Ningbo isolate (East China Sea), Shenzhen isolate (South China Sea) was compared. Both of the genome RFLP patterns and the characteristic structural proteins SDS-PAG E electrophero grams showed that they were quite same. It suggested that they were the same ki nd of WSSV virus that caused explosive epidemic diseases of shrimps (EEDS) throu ghout southern and northern China. The same large PCR products achieved when usi ng the PCR primers from RV－PJ＝PRDV (P. japonicus, Japan) and WSBV＝PmNOBII I(P.monodon Taiwan, China) respectively to amplify the genome from P.chine nsis (Tanghai, China) with high fidelity Taq Polymerase. The sequence identiti es of WSSV from P. chinensis with those from RV－PJ＝PRDV (P.japonicus, Japan) and WSBV＝PmNOBIII (P.monodon Taiwan, China) are 97% and 100% respect ively, the results provided additional evidence that WSSV reported in different parts of the Asian and Pacific regions maybe quite the same or just different va riants of the same virus.