In silico acquirement of the accurate residue details of protein on chromatographic media is a bottleneck in protein chromatography separation and purification. Here we developed a novel approach by coupling with H/D exchange and nuclear magnetic resonance to observe hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL) unfolding behavior adsorbed on cation exchange media (SP Sepharose FF). Analysis of 1D 1H-NMR shows that protein unfolding accelerated H/D exchange rate, leading to more loss of signal of amide hydrogen owing to exposure of residues and the more unfolding of protein. Analysis of two-dimensional hydrogen-hydrogen total correlation spectroscopy shows that lysozyme lost more signals and experienced great unfolding during its adsorption on media surface. However, for several distinct fragments, the protection degrees varied, the adsorbed lysozyme lost more signal intensity and was less protected at disorder structures (coil, bend, and turn), but was comparatively more protected against exchange at secondary structure domains (α-helix, β-sheet). Finally, the binding site was determined by electrostatic calculations using computer simulation methods in conjunction with hydrogen deuterium labeled protein and NMR. This study would help deeply understand the microscopic mechanism of protein chromatography and guide the purposely design of chromatographic process and media. Moreover, it also provide an effective tool to study the protein and biomaterials interaction in other applications.
Adsorption ; Amides ; Cations ; Computer Simulation ; Deuterium ; Hydrogen ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Muramidase ; chemistry ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Unfolding ; Proteins ; chemistry

Objective To investigate the polymorphism of human cytomegalovirus（HCMV）UL146 gene in clinical strains,and to evaluate its clinical diagnostic and therapeutic value of gene.Methods The UL146 gene of clinical strains was examined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction（Q-PCR）or general polymerase chain reaction（PCR）.Positive samples of PCR amplification were sequenced and analyzed.Results High variability of UL146 gene was found among 28 HCMV strains.According to phylogenetic analysis,all sequences of UL146 in clinical strains could be divided into three types and four subtypes.Chemokine ELRCXC region was highly conserved in all sequences.Conclusion HCMV-UL146 genes showed a high degree of polymorphism,and its encoded chemokine ELRCXC region was highly con-served.The relationship between HCMV-UL146 gene′s polymorphism and different clinical symptoms of HCMV infection was unclear.

Objective: To investigate the impact of improved AHA cardiovascular health behavior score (CHS) on short-time systemic blood pressure variability (SBPV) in elder population.
Methods: A total of 2464 participants ≥ 60 years from 3 hospitals of Kailuan area were taken for cohort study. The participants had no cardiovascular disease, not taking anti-psychotic drug, Parkinson treatment drug, anti-depression drug and analgesic drug within 2 weeks. All participants received 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) and the 24-hour, day-time, night-time SBPV were deifned by the standard deviation of 24-hour, day-time, night-time systolic blood pressure. The influence of CHS on SBPV was studied by multi-linear regression analysis. Improved cardiovascular health behavior and factors implied as changing the vegetable intake amount to salt amount by American Humane Association, 2010; boundary of BMI based on《Guidelines for prevention of overweight and obesity in Chinese adults》; status of exercise was deifed as the ideal status: ≥80 min/week, general status: < 80 min/week and bad status: no exercise.
Results: Finally, 1812 participants were recruited for survey and they were divided into 3 groups according to improved CHS: Group①, CHS (0-4) points,n=56, Group②, CHS (5-9) pointsn=1600 and Group③, CHS (10-14) points,n=156. The 24-hour SBPV in Groups①,②and③were 16.02 mmHg, 14.91 mmHg and 13.18 mmHg; day-time SBPV were 15.42 mmHg, 14.50 mmHg and 13.22 mmHg; night-time SBPV were 12.68 mmHg, 11.44 mmHg and 10.16 mmHg, allP<0.05. Multi-linear regression analysis indicated that with adjusted confounding factors, with 1 point of CHS elevation, the 24 hour-, day-time, night-time SBPV would reduce for 0.20 mmHg, 0.19 mmHg and 0.37 mmHg respectively, allP<0.05.
Conclusion: CHS was negatively related to short-time SBPV in elder population.

Alzheimer′s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that requires medication to improve patient symptoms, but there is an individual difference in the efficacy. In this paper, the correlation between single nucleotide polymorphism and the drug efficacy of Alzheimer′s disease (AD) in the past 20 years was searched through the databases of China National Knowledge Infrastructure, VIP Database, Wanfang Database, Pubmed, Springer Link and Cochrane Library with key words of Alzheimer′s disease, drug efficacy, single nucleotide polymorphism. The correlation between AD drug efficacy difference and gene single nucleotide polymorphism was reviewed, including ABCA1, ApoE, ChAT, CHRNA7, IL-6, A2M, CYP2D6, BChE, 5HT2a, PON-1 and ESR1 genes, so as to provide a reference basis for clinicians to select drugs in the treatment of AD.

The evaluation of acute alcohol impairment is an important basis for evaluating the physiological and psychological status of patients and judging their treatment and nursing measures.There is a large number of research on acute alcohol impairment by foreign researchers,but there are few relevant research reports in China.This article reviews the origin,development and the evaluation tools of acute alcohol impairment in the context of emergency treatment,and summarizing its advantages and disadvantages by comparing the content,evaluation methods,applicable population,reliability and validity of each evaluation tool,in order to provide scientific references for the evaluation,treatment and nursing care of acute alcohol impairment for emergency departments in China.

OBJECTIVETo compare the prevalence of hypertension between low birth weight infant (LBWI) women and non-LBWI women.

METHODSA retrospective cohort study was applied and 3 172 pregnant women giving births during October 1976 to December 2008 in our hospital and underwent physical check-up between 2010 and 2011 at the Kailuan medical group were included and divided into LBWI group and non-LBWI group by the history of LBWI. Prevalence of hypertension was obtained during the follow-up program. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to assess the relative risk of hypertension.

RESULTSA total number of 3 172 women, with an average age of 42.3 years old were divided into LBWI group (n = 147) and non-LBWI group (n = 3 025), with the average birth weights of their infants were 2.31 kg and 3.39 kg, respectively. The prevalence of hypertension from the follow-up program was significantly higher in LBWI group than that in the non-LBWI group (23.8% vs. 16.9%, P < 0.05). After adjustment for other traditional risk factors, the risk of hypertension in LBWI group was 1.60 (95%CI:1.02-2.53) folds higher than that in the non-LBWI group.

CONCLUSIONPrevalence of hypertension in women with LBWI was higher than that in those women without LBWI. History of LBWI seemed to have had an increased risk to develop hypertension.

Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Hypertension ; epidemiology ; Infant, Low Birth Weight ; Logistic Models ; Postpartum Period ; Pregnancy ; Prevalence ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors ; Young Adult

Objective To investigate the role and mechanism of SR8278,a synthetic antagonist of nuclear receptor subfamily 1 group D member 1(NR1D1),in alleviating the structural and functional impairment of the extraorbital lacrimal glands induced by jet lag in mice.Methods Totally 36 healthy wild C57BL/6J mice aged 8-10 weeks were randomly divid-ed into 3 groups(normal group,jet-lag group,and jet-lag+SR8278 group)after adapting to a circadian rhythm chamber under the 12 h light/12 h dark(12 h/12 h LD)cycle for 2 weeks,with 12 mice in each group.Mice in the normal group were fed in a circadian rhythm chamber in a 12 h LD cycle,mice in the jet-lag group were fed in a 12 h/12 h LD cycle with an 8-hour advanced LD schedule,and mice in the jet lag+SR8278 group were fed in a 12 h/12 h LD cycle with an 8-hour advanced LD schedule and received 25 mg·kg-1 SR8278.At the end of 5 days of intervention,locomotor activity,core body temperature and tear secretion of mice in each group were collected,and the weight of lacrimal gland tissues and size of lacrimal gland cells were measured.Immunohistochemical methods were used for histological evaluation of the extraor-bital lacrimal glands in mice.Lacrimal ribonucleic acid(RNA)was extracted for high-throughput RNA-sequencing analysis containing NR1D1,and the obtained transcriptomic data were used for KEGG and GO functional enrichment analysis.Re-sults Compared with the normal group,the jet-lag group had higher daytime activity,lower nighttime activity,higher daytime core body temperature,and lower nighttime core body temperature,with statistically significant differences(all P＜0.05).Compared with the jet-lag group,the jet-lag+SR8278 group had lower daytime activity,higher nighttime activi-ty,lower daytime core body temperature,and higher nighttime core body temperature,with statistically significant differ-ences(all P＜0.05).Compared with the normal group,the jet-lag group showed a decrease in lacrimal gland weight and tear secretion and an increase in size of lacrimal gland cells,with statistical significance(all P＜0.05);compared with the jet-lag group,the jet-lag+SR8278 group had an increase in lacrimal gland weight and tear secretion and a decrease in size of lacrimal gland cells,with statistical significance(all P＜0.05).Compared with the normal group,the jet-lag group showed a higher expression of NR1D1 in the lacrimal gland at night;compared with the jet-lag group,the jet-lag+SR8278 group showed a lower expression of NR1 D1 in the lacrimal gland at night(both P＜0.05).Bioinformatics analysis showed 947 significantly different genes in the jet-lag group and the jet-lag+SR8278 group,of which 43 are significantly upregulated genes,and 904 are significantly downregulated genes.The Notch signaling pathway has the most significant difference.Conclusion SR8278 effectively enhances the tear secretion function of jet-lagged mice by targeting NR1D1 inhibition.This process may be completed through the Notch signaling pathway.