Carboxysomes are extremely efficient microcompartments committed to CO2 fixation due to tailored CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM). In cyanobacteria and some chemoautotrophs, carboxysomes as organelle-like microbodies encapsulate ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) and carbonic anhydrase (CA). Together with active inorganic carbon uptake transporters, carboxysomes accumulate HCO3(-) in the cytoplasm, leading to high efficiency of carbon fixation. Based on the elucidation of structures and functionalities, heterologous production of carboxysomes has been achieved so far. In fact, the genes encoding either vacant carboxysome shell or only interior components have been characterized. This review summarizes the discovery along with types, showcases molecular structures and roles of carboxysomes in CCM, and presents their broad applications in metabolic engineering.
Biological Transport ; Carbon ; metabolism ; Carbon Cycle ; Carbon Dioxide ; metabolism ; Cyanobacteria ; metabolism ; Metabolic Engineering

Adult ; Female ; Humans ; Intestinal Obstruction ; etiology ; therapy ; Postoperative Complications ; etiology ; therapy ; Rectal Neoplasms ; radiotherapy ; surgery

Aged ; Electrocardiography ; Female ; Humans ; Hyperkalemia ; complications ; physiopathology ; Myocardial Ischemia ; etiology

Currently our medical colleges have no uniform competency standards for teachers teaching,and the assessment of teaching ability is vaguely defined.Through the content and effect analysis of foreign teaching competency standards assessment,according to the particularity of medical colleges,and by carding several aspects of the teacher ability content system,the author of the article put forward recommendations of building our medical colleges teacher teaching competency standards and improve medical colleges teachers' teaching ability and level.

Epilepsy is a common disorder of neurological system in children.Inborn errors of metabolism (IEMs) is one of an important etiology of epilepsy.Seizures may be the first and the major presenting feature of IEMs.IEMs are a relatively rare cause of epilepsy,but their recognition and diagnosis is very important because several disorders are treatable.This review will concentrate on diseases where epilepsy is the predominant clinical manifestation and especially where the disease course can be positively influenced by specific metabolic therapies.

Objective To evaluate the clinical factors associated with pathological complete response (pCR) after preoperative neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer.Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on the clinical data of 116 patients with rectal cancer,who underwent neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by radical surgery from January 2009 to December 2012.All patients received pelvic intensity-modulated radiotherapy (50 Gy/25 fractions) with concurrent fluorouracilbased chemotherapy and then underwent radical surgery 4-8 weeks later.The clinical factors associated with pCR or non-pCR were analyzed by Logistic regression.Results Of the 116 patients,20 (17.2％) achieved a pCR after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.The univariate analysis showed that percentage of circumference of the rectal tube invaded by the tumor,preoperative serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) level,T stage,N stage,distance from the anal verge,degree of tumor differentiation,and maximum tumor diameter were associated with pCR or non-pCR after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer.The multivariate analysis revealed that percentage of circumference of the rectal tube invaded by the tumor,preoperative serum CEA level,and T stage were predictive factors for pCR or non-pCR after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer.Conclusions Non-circumferential tumor (percentage of circumference of the rectal tube invaded by the tumor ＜ 75 ％),low CEA level,and early T stage before treatment may be associated with pCR after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer.

Objective To analyze clinical efficacy and safety of left colon and bowel obstruction .Methods 80 cases of left colon and bowel obstruction were divided into the observation group and control group,40 cases in each group.The observation group was given a surgery,and the control group received two surgical treatment,the two groups were taken the statistical analysis of clinical data to compare the clinical efficacy and safety of operation. Results The operative time,hospital stay and surgical blood loss in the observation group was (42.9 ±13.8) min, (9.3 ±2.8)d,(45.9 ±11.7)mL,which in the control group were (58.6 ±17.6)min,(6.8 ±1.5)d,(151.4 ± 19.4)mL,there were statistically significant difference between the two groups(t=25.358,16.128,29.475,all P<0.05);The abdominal abscess,lung infections and wound infection incidence of adverse reactions in the observation group was 7.5 %,10.0%,20.0 %,which in the control group was 17.5 %,2.5%,10.0%,there were statistically significant difference between the two groups (t=4.512,4.336,4.762,all P<0.05).Conclusion The clinical treatment of left colon and bowel obstruction shall promptly conduct a surgery,the role of hospitalization in patients with shorter length to enhance tumor resection rate,and actively improve the quality of life of patients.

Objective To investigate the effect of ademetionine assisted therapy on transferrin ( TRF) , myocardial enzyme spectrum and bilirubin in serum of patients with icterus neonatorum.Methods 86 cases of neonatal jaundice in the hospital were randomly divided into two groups.43 cases in control group were treated with conventional therapy, 43 cases in experimental group were treated by ademetionine.Serum transferrin, myocardial enzymes, serum total bilirubin levels and clinical effects were compared pre-treatment and post-weat ment.ResuIts Compared with control group, the TRF level of experimental group was higher (P<0.05), the level of Aspartate transaminase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine kinase (CK), and CK-MB in experimental group were lower (P<0.05), the total bile acid (TBA), total bilirubin (TBIL) and direct bilirubin (DBIL) in experimental group were lower (P<0.05).The total effective rate in experimental group was significantly higher than that in control group (χ2 =8.53, P<0.05).ConcIusion Ademetionine assisted therapy has a good clinical curative effect and could effectively reduce serum TRF, DBIL and myocardial enzyme spectrum level, which has important significance in the treatment of neonatal jaundice.

Objective Working memory (WM) is one of important cognitive functions.The aim of this study was to investigate spatial distributions of electroencephalographs (EEGs) power during visual WM task,which may provide support for studying the principal frequency band and critical region related to WM.Methods 32-channel EEGs were recorded from 16 healthy subjects while they perform visual WM task.The data came from 240 trials and the original EEGs were preprocessed.Fourier transform was applied to calculate spatial distributions of EEGs power in the δ,θ,α,β,γfrequency bands and the percentage of each band in the total power.Results The percentages of δ,θ,α,β,γbands in the total power were (22.44±0.86)％,(31.88±0.55)％,(24.66±1.43)％,(13.54±0.64)％,(7.47±0.48)％,respectively.The power in the θ band was significantly higher than those in the other bands (paired t-test,P＜0.001).The θ power was focused in the frontal midline region.Conclusions The principal frequency band related to WM was the θ band and the critical region was the frontal region.

Objective:To investigate the expression of multidrug resistance (MDR1) gene and multidrug resistance-associated pro-tein (MRP) gene in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and its relation to histopathological type. Methods:The MDRi and MRP genes were determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in 48 NSCLCspecimens. Results:The positive rates of the MDR1 and MRP gene expression were 62.5％ and 66.7％ respectively in the48 patients. Twenty-one of the 48 NSCLCs (43.8％) expressed both MDR1 and MRP genes. The positive rates of the MRPgene expression in squamous cell carcinoma was significantly higher than those in adenocarcinoma (P＜0.01), and therewas no significant difference in MDR1 gene expression between the two groups (P＞0.05). Conclusion: The MDR1 andMRP gene expressions were both or respectively in the NSCLCs. The incidence of the MRP gene expression in squamous cellcarcinoma was higher than that in adenocarcinoma.