抗原变异可使得多种致病微生物易于逃避宿主免疫应答。表达在感染红细胞表面的恶性疟原虫红细胞表面蛋白1（PfPMP1）与感染红细胞、内皮细胞、树突状细胞以及胎盘的单个或多个受体作用，在黏附及免疫逃避中起关键的作用。每个单倍体基因组var基因家族编码约60种成员，通过启动转录不同的var基因变异体为抗原变异提供了分子基础。

疟原虫var基因转换速率变化导致抗原变异[英]／Paul H, Robert P, Christodoulou Z, et al//Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/NP/C8NP00092A

Marine natural products.

介绍了Kirk—Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology（化工技术百科全书）（第五版）电子图书网络版数据库，并对该数据库使用方法和检索途径作出了说明，且结合实例简单地介绍了该数据库的检索方法。

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology数据库介绍及实例

Seaweed is more than the wrap that keeps rice together in sushi. Seaweed biomass is already used for a wide range of other products in food, including stabilising agents. Biorefineries with seaweed as feedstock are attracting worldwide interest and include low-volume, high value-added products and vice versa. Scientific research on bioactive compounds in seaweed usually takes place on just a few species and compounds. This paper reviews worldwide research on bioactive compounds, mainly of nine genera or species of seaweed, which are also available in European temperate Atlantic waters, i.e. Laminaria sp., Fucus sp., Ascophyllum nodosum, Chondrus crispus, Porphyra sp., Ulva sp., Sargassum sp., Gracilaria sp. and Palmaria palmata. In addition, Undaria pinnatifida is included in this review as this is globally one of the most commonly produced, investigated and available species. Fewer examples of other species abundant worldwide have also been included. This review will supply fundamental information for biorefineries in Atlantic Europe using seaweed as feedstock. Preliminary selection of one or several candidate seaweed species will be possible based on the summary tables and previous research described in this review. This applies either to the choice of high value-added bioactive products to be exploited in an available species or to the choice of seaweed species when a bioactive compound is desired. Data are presented in tables with species, effect and test organism (if present) with examples of uses to enhance comparisons. In addition, scientific experiments performed on seaweed used as animal feed are presented, and EU, US and Japanese legislation on functional foods is reviewed.

Bioactive compounds in seaweed: functional food applications and legislation

Fatty acids have been used as qualitative markers to trace or confirm predator-prey relationships in the marine environment for more than thirty years. More recently, they have also been used to identify key processes impacting the dynamics of some of the world's major ecosystems. The fatty acid trophic marker (FATM) concept is based on the observation that marine primary producers lay down certain fatty acid patterns that may be transferred conservatively to, and hence can be recognized in, primary consumers. To identify these fatty acid patterns the literature was surveyed and a partial least squares (PLS) regression analysis of the data was performed, validating the specificity of particular microalgal FATM. Microalgal group specific FATM have been traced in various primary consumers, particularly in herbivorous calanoid copepods, which accumulate large lipid reserves, and which dominate the zooplankton biomass in high latitude ecosystems. At higher trophic levels these markers of herbivory are obscured as the degree of carnivory increases, and as the fatty acids originate from a variety of dietary sources. Such differences are highlighted in a PLS regression analysis of fatty acid and fatty alcohol compositional data (the components of wax esters accumulated by many marine organisms) of key Arctic and Antarctic herbivorous, omnivorous and carnivorous copepod species. The analysis emphasizes how calanoid copepods separate from other copepods not only by their content of microalgal group specific FATM, but also by their large content of long-chain monounsaturated fatty acids and alcohols. These monounsaturates have been used to trace and resolve food web relationships in, for example, hyperiid amphipods, euphausiids and fish, which may consume large numbers of calanoid copepods. Results like these are extremely valuable for enabling the discrimination of specific prey species utilized by higher trophic level omnivores and carnivores without the employment of invasive techniques, and thereby for identifying the sources of energetic reserves. A conceptual model of the spatial and temporal dominance of group-specific primary producers, and hence the basic fatty acid patterns available to higher trophic levels is presented. The model is based on stratification, which acts on phytoplankton group dominance through the availability of light and nutrients. It predicts the seasonal and ecosystem specific contribution of diatom and flagellate/microbial loop FATM to food webs as a function of water column stability. Future prospects for the application of FATM in resolving dynamic ecosystem processes are assessed.

Fatty acid trophic markers in the pelagic marine environment.

The review focuses on sulfated steroids that have been isolated from seaweeds, marine sponges, soft corals, ascidians, starfish, and other marine invertebrates. Sulfur-containing steroids and triterpenoids are sourced from sedentary marine coelenterates, plants, marine sediments, crude oil, and other geological deposits. The review presents the pharmacological profile of sulfated steroids, sulfur-containing steroids, and triterpenoids, which is based on data obtained using the PASS program. In addition, several semi-synthetic and synthetic epithio steroids, which represent a rare group of bioactive lipids that have not yet been found in nature, but possess a high level of antitumor activity, were included in this review for the comparative pharmacological characterization of this class of compounds. About 140 steroids and triterpenoids are presented in this review, which demonstrate a wide range of biological activities. Therefore, out of 71 sulfated steroids, thirteen show strong antitumor activity with a confidence level of more than 90%, out of 50 sulfur-containing steroids, only four show strong antitumor activity with a confidence level of more than 93%, and out of eighteen epithio steroids, thirteen steroids show strong antitumor activity with a confidence level of 91% to 97.4%.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/19/5/240/pdf

Sulfated and Sulfur-Containing Steroids and Their Pharmacological Profile.

Sulfolipids were originally discovered in diatom species, in 1966, by Morris Kates [1–3]. High levels of these sulfolipids have been found in the alga Ochromonas danica (Chrysophyceae, Chrysophyta) where they constitute 15% of total lipids and 3% of the dry weight of heterotrophically grown, stationary-phase cells [4,5]. More recently, sulfolipids have also been identified in more than 30 species of green (Chlorophyceae), brown (Phaeophyceae), and red (Rhodophyceae) freshwater and marine macrophytic algae [6–8] and other microalgal species [9–14]. The presence of sulfolipids in algae, diatoms, and marine invertebrates has been reported in several review articles [15–20].

Separation of sulfur-containing fatty acids from garlic, allium sativum, using serially coupled capillary columns with consecutive nonpolar, semipolar, and polar stationary phases

Four New Derivatives of Trihomononactic Acids from Streptomyces globisporus

Twenty-two long-chain saturated and unsaturated methyl-alkyiketones were identified in the deep-lake invertebrate Acanthogammarus grewingkii from Lake Baikal, Russia. The ketones were in the range of C33 to C40 and ranged from saturated to tetraenoic alkyl chains; all double bonds are cis. The majority of the ketones were isolated and identified by means of TLC, reversed-phase HPLC, MS, 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR. The possible routes of biosynthesis and the function of their unusual ketones are discussed.

The occurrence and structural identification of long-chain unsaturated ketones in the deep-lake invertebrate Acanthogammarus grewingkii

The structures of chlorine-containing sesquiterpenes produced by higher plants and data on the biological activity of some compounds are presented.

Valery M. Dembitsky

Papers

Sulfated and Sulfur-Containing Steroids and Their Pharmacological Profile.

Separation of sulfur-containing fatty acids from garlic, allium sativum, using serially coupled capillary columns with consecutive nonpolar, semipolar, and polar stationary phases

Four New Derivatives of Trihomononactic Acids from Streptomyces globisporus

The occurrence and structural identification of long-chain unsaturated ketones in the deep-lake invertebrate Acanthogammarus grewingkii

Chlorine-Containing Sesquiterpenes of Higher Plants