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以海藻酸钠为唯一碳源,从天然腐烂海带中筛选得到一株高效褐藻胶降解菌株53#,经形态学观察和16S rRNA鉴定,确定为类芽孢杆菌Paenibacillus agaridevorans。采用正交试验方法,以pH、温度、NaCl浓度和海藻酸钠初始浓度为影响因素,对该菌株的产酶条件进行优化,得到53#菌的最佳产酶条件：pH=8,25℃,NaCl浓度15 g/L,海藻酸钠初始浓度15 g/L。在最佳产酶条件下,褐藻胶裂解酶最大酶活可达390.53±17.32U/mL。筛选得到的类芽孢杆菌Paenibacillus agaridevorans 53#具有易于培养、产酶速度快和酶活力高等优点,能够实现褐藻胶的高效糖化,在褐藻生产生物乙醇领域具有潜在利用价值。

以玉米秸秆为原料,在300、450℃和600℃下裂解得到3种生物炭,通过批处理实验讨论了溶液初始p H值和裂解温度对玉米秸秆及其生物炭吸附Cr（Ⅵ）的影响,并用吸附动力学模型和等温吸附模型对实验结果进行拟合。结果表明：对于同种吸附材料而言,溶液初始p H值越低,玉米秸秆及其生物炭对Cr（Ⅵ）的吸附量越大;当溶液初始p H值为3或5时,对Cr（Ⅵ）的吸附性能大小顺序为：玉米秸秆〉生物炭300℃〉生物炭450℃〉生物炭600℃;当溶液初始p H=1时,对Cr（Ⅵ）的吸附性能大小顺序为：生物炭300℃〉玉米秸秆〉生物炭450℃〉生物炭600℃,且生物炭300℃对Cr（Ⅵ）的最大吸附量约为141.24 mg·g-1。可见,溶液初始p H值越低,生物炭的裂解温度越低,越有利于生物炭对Cr（Ⅵ）的吸附。

以小麦秸秆为原材料，在300℃下缺氧裂解3、6、8 h制备生物炭，比较了3种生物炭的产率、pH值、灰分以及C、H、N元素含量，表征了300℃、6 h生物炭的表面形态，并用其作为修复材料，对大港油田的石油污染土壤进行修复。结果表明，随裂解时间的延长，生物炭产率下降，pH值升高，灰分含量增加，H/C值下降，但产率、pH值、灰分和H/C值都是从3h到6h差异显著，6h到8h差异不显著。C元素含量先升高后下降。石油污染土壤经生物炭修复14 d和28 d后，总石油烃降解率分别为45.48％和46.88％，均显著高于对照组。修复14 d后土壤中的萘、苊、苯并[a]蒽、屈、苯并[b]荧蒽、苯并[k]荧蒽、苯并[a]芘、茚并[1,2,3-cd]芘也都有不同程度的下降，其中苯并[a]芘含量下降幅度达98.18％，其他几种PAH的降解率也都高于对照组，28 d后这些PAH的含量又有上升趋势。这说明小麦秸秆裂解时间对生物炭的性质有影响；300℃、6 h生物炭可以用来修复石油污染的土壤。

The piRNA machinery is known for its role in mediating epigenetic silencing of transposons. Recent studies suggest that this function also involves piRNA-guided cleavage of transposon-derived transcripts. As many piRNAs also appear to have the capacity to target diverse mRNAs, this raises the intriguing possibility that piRNAs may act extensively as siRNAs to degrade specific mRNAs. To directly test this hypothesis, we compared mouse PIWI （MI- WI）-associated piRNAs with experimentally identified cleaved mRNA fragments from mouse testes, and observed cleavage sites that predominantly occur at position 10 from the 5＇ end of putative targeting piRNAs. We also noted strong biases for U and A residues at nucleotide positions 1 and 10, respectively, in both piRNAs and mRNA frag- ments, features that resemble the pattern of piRNA amplification by the ＇ping-pong＇ cycle. Through mapping of MIWI-RNA interactions by CLIP-seq and gene expression profiling, we found that many potential piRNA-targeted mRNAs directly interact with MIWI and show elevated expression levels in the testes of Miwi catalytic mutant mice. Reporter-based assays further revealed the importance of base pairing between piRNAs and mRNA targets and the requirement for both the slicer activity and piRNA-loading ability of MIWI in piRNA-mediated target repression. Importantly, we demonstrated that proper turnover of certain key piRNA targets is essential for sperm formation. Together, these findings reveal the siRNA-like function of the piRNA machinery in mouse testes and its central requirement for male germ cell development and maturation.

Catalytic fast pyrolysis （CFP） of Kraft lignins with HZSM-5 zeolite for producing aromatics was investigated using analytical pyrolysis methods. Two Kraft lignins were fast pyrolyzed in the absence and presence of HZSM-5 in a Curie-point pyrolyzer. Without the catalyst, fast pyrolysis of lignin predominantly produced phenols and guaiacols that were derived from the subunits of lignin. However, the presence of HZSM-5 changed the product distribution dramatically. As the SiO2/ A1203 ratio of HZSM-5 decreased from 200 to 25 and the catalyst-to-lignin ratio increased from 1 to 20, the lignin- derived oxygenates progressively decreased to trace and the aromatics increased substantially. The aromatic yield increased considerably as the pyrolysis temperature increased from 500~C to 650~C, but then decreased with yet further increase of pyrolysis temperature. Under optimal reaction conditions, the aromatic yields were 2.0 wt.% and 5.2 wt.% for the two lignins that had effective hydrogen indexes of 0.08 and 0.35.

It has been a long-standing enigma which scramblase causes phosphati- dylserine residues to be exposed on the surface of apoptotic cells, thereby facilitating the phagocytic recogni- tion, engulfment and destruction of apoptotic corpses. In a recent paper in Science, Nagata and coworkers reveal that the scramblases Xkr8 and its C. elegans ortholog, CED-8, are activated by caspase cleavage in apoptotic cells.

When two-dimensional graphene is exfoliated from three-dimensional highly oriented pyrolytic graphite （HOPG）, ripples or corrugations always exist due to the intrinsic thermal fluctuations. Surface-grown graphenes also exhibit wrinkles, which are larger in dimension and are thought to be caused by the difference in thermal expansion coefficients between graphene and the underlying substrate in the cooling process after high temperature growth. For further characterization and applications, it is necessary to transfer the surface-grown graphenes onto dielectric substrates, and other wrinkles are generated during this process. Here, we focus on the wrinkles of transferred graphene and demonstrate that the surface morphology of the growth substrate is the origin of the new wrinkles which arise in the surface-to-surface transfer process; we call these morphology- induced wrinkles. Based on a careful statistical analysis of thousands of atomic force microscopy （AFM） topographic data, we have concluded that these wrinkles on transferred few-layer graphene （typically 1-3 layers） are determined by both the growth substrate morphology and the transfer process. Depending on the transfer medium and conditions, most of the wrinkles can be either released or preserved. Our work suggests a new route for graphene engineering involving structuring the growth substrate and tailoring the transfer process.

DROSHA and its partner DGCR8 form a heterotrimeric complex named Microprocessor, which is essential for microRNA biogenesis. A recent study by Kwon et al. in Cell reveals the structure of a DROSHA construct in complex with the C-terminal region of DGCR8, thereby unveiling the topology and interactions between components of the Microprocessor and insights into its ＇ruler＇-based cleavage activity and function.

Herein, a facile strategy for the synthesis of sandwich pyrolyzed bacterial cellulose（PBC）/graphene oxide（GO） composite was reported simply by utilizing the large-scale regenerated biomass bacterial cellulose as precursor. The unique and delicate structure where three-dimensional interconnected bacterial cellulose（BC） network embedded in two-dimensional GO skeleton could not only work as an effective barrier to retard polysulfide diffusion during the charge/discharge process to enhance the cyclic stability of the Li–S battery, but also offer a continuous electron transport pathway for the improved rate capability.As a result, by utilizing pure sulfur as cathodes, the Li–S batteries assembled with PBC/GO interlayer can still exhibit a capacity of nearly 600 mAh·g^-1 at 3C and only 0.055% capacity decay per cycle can be observed over 200 cycles. Additionally, the cost-efficient and environmentfriendly raw materials may enable the PBC/GO sandwich interlayer to be an advanced configuration for Li–S batteries.

Twenty-four-month-old male C57BU6 mice with low serum testosterone levels were used as a late-onset hypogonadism （LOH） animal model for examining the effects of velvet antler polypeptide （VAP） on sexual function and testosterone synthesis. These mice received VAP for 5 consecutive weeks by daily gavage at doses of 100, 200, or 300 mg kg-1 body weight per day （n = 10 mice per dose）. Control animals （n = 10） received the same weight-based volume of vehicle. Sexual behavior and testosterone levels in serum and interstitial tissue of testis were measured after the last administration of VAP. Furthermore, to investigate the mechanisms of how VAP affects sexual behavior and testosterone synthesis in vivo, the expression of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein （STAR）, cytochrome P450 cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme （P450scc）, and 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase （3βHSD） in Leydig cells was also measured by immunofluorescence staining and quantitative real-time PCR. As a result, VAP produced a significant improvement in the sexual function of these aging male mice. Serum testosterone level and intratesticular testosterone （ITT） concentration also increased in the VAP-treated groups. The expression of STAR, P450scc, and 3β-HSD was also found to be enhanced in the VAP-treated groups compared with the control group. Our results suggested that VAP was effective in improving sexual function in aging male mice. The effect of velvet antler on sexual function was due to the increased expression of several rate-limiting enzymes of testosterone synthesis （STAR, P450scc, and 3β-HSD） and the following promotion of testosterone syothesis in vivo.