New crystal forms and amorphous phase of sophoricoside: X-ray structures and characterization.

Sophoricoside, which is an isoflavone glycoside found in many plant species, has recently attracted attention because of its anti-fertility activity. One solvent-free form, two solvatomorphs and an amorphous phase of sophoricoside are reported for the first time. X-ray diffractometry, differential scanning calorimetry, thermal gravimetric analysis and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy were used to characterize the different forms.

[A study of chronic hepatitis B infection superinfected with hepatitis E infection].

Objectives: To compare the influence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection on the replication of hepatitis B virus (HBV) by observing clinical features, the relationship between the number of HBV DNA copies in serum, the degree of hepatic function impairments and prognosis of chronic hepatitis B patients with hepatitis E superinfection.

Methods: One hundred and fifteen chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients and 115 CHB patients with hepatitis E (HE) superinfection were studied and compared. 74 liver tissue biopsy samples of the CHB and 51 of the CHB-HE sufferers were obtained.

[Isolation and characterization of a HCH degradation Sphingomanas sp. stain BHC-A].

An aerobic bacterium was isolated successfully from a long-term contaminated upland field, which was named BHC-A. The bacterium can utilize Hexachlorocycloexane as a sole carbon source and decompose this substance rapidly and completely. According to its physiological & biochemical characters and the homology analysis of its 16S rDNA sequence, this strain was identified as Sphingomonas sp.

[Cloning, expression of the gene of dehydrochlorination of BHC from enrichment and its degradation experiment].

A high effective enrichment that could degrade four isomers of BHC completely was got from the soil polluted by gamma-BHC, but the pure culture was not obtained yet. The 471 bp sequence of linN was amplified from the total DNA of enrichment by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The nucleotide sequence analysis showed that the linN gene had high homology with reported linA up to 99%.