Nearly five decades after the third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)in 1978,which launched the historic reform and opening up policy that transformed China,the CPC hel...Nearly five decades after the third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)in 1978,which launched the historic reform and opening up policy that transformed China,the CPC held another third plenary session that promises to be potentially as consequential.The resolution passed on 18 July during the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC calls for comprehensively deepening reforms,thus paving the way for the country to march towards the final goal of a developed and prosperous country.展开更多
Arthrospira platensis is an economically important cyanobacterium; and it has been used widely in food and pharmaceutical industries. The phycocyanin(PC) from A. platensis is extremely valuable in medicine and molecul...Arthrospira platensis is an economically important cyanobacterium; and it has been used widely in food and pharmaceutical industries. The phycocyanin(PC) from A. platensis is extremely valuable in medicine and molecular biology due to its antioxidation and anti-tumoring activity and applicability as fluorescence protein tag. In present study, two recombinant plasmids, one contained the phycocyanobilin(PCB)-producing genes(hox1 and pcyA) while the other contained the phycobiliprotein gene(cpcB) and the lyase gene(either cpcS/U or cpcT), were constructed and synchronically transferred into E. coli in order to test the the activities of relevant lyases for catalysing PCB addition to CpcB during synthesizing fluorescent PC holo-β-subunit(β-PC) of A. platensis. As was evidenced by the fluorescence emitted at a peak specific for PC, CpcB was successfully synthesized in E. coli, to which co-expressed PCBs attached though at a relatively low efficiency. The results showed that the attachment of PCBs to CpcB were carried out mainly by co-expressed CpcS/U but CpcB also showed some autocatalytic activity. Currently, no CpcT activity was detected in this E. coli expression system. Further studies will be conducted to improve the efficiency of fluorescent PC synthesis in E. coli.展开更多
文摘Nearly five decades after the third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)in 1978,which launched the historic reform and opening up policy that transformed China,the CPC held another third plenary session that promises to be potentially as consequential.The resolution passed on 18 July during the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC calls for comprehensively deepening reforms,thus paving the way for the country to march towards the final goal of a developed and prosperous country.
基金supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (2008ZX08001-004)
文摘Arthrospira platensis is an economically important cyanobacterium; and it has been used widely in food and pharmaceutical industries. The phycocyanin(PC) from A. platensis is extremely valuable in medicine and molecular biology due to its antioxidation and anti-tumoring activity and applicability as fluorescence protein tag. In present study, two recombinant plasmids, one contained the phycocyanobilin(PCB)-producing genes(hox1 and pcyA) while the other contained the phycobiliprotein gene(cpcB) and the lyase gene(either cpcS/U or cpcT), were constructed and synchronically transferred into E. coli in order to test the the activities of relevant lyases for catalysing PCB addition to CpcB during synthesizing fluorescent PC holo-β-subunit(β-PC) of A. platensis. As was evidenced by the fluorescence emitted at a peak specific for PC, CpcB was successfully synthesized in E. coli, to which co-expressed PCBs attached though at a relatively low efficiency. The results showed that the attachment of PCBs to CpcB were carried out mainly by co-expressed CpcS/U but CpcB also showed some autocatalytic activity. Currently, no CpcT activity was detected in this E. coli expression system. Further studies will be conducted to improve the efficiency of fluorescent PC synthesis in E. coli.
