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WW domain-containing oxidoreductase (WWOX) is highly conserved in both humans and murine. WWOX spans the second most common human chromosomal fragile site, FRA16D, and is commonly inactivated in multiple human cancers. Modeling WWOX inactivation in mice revealed a complex phenotype including postnatal lethality, defects in bone metabolism and steroidogenesis and tumor suppressor function resulting in osteosarcomas. For better understanding of WWOX roles in different tissues at distinct stages of development and in pathological conditions, Wwox conditional knockout mice were generated in which loxp sites flank exon 1 in the Wwox allele. We demonstrated that Cre-mediated recombination using EIIA-Cre, a Cre line expressed in germline, results in postnatal lethality by age of three weeks and decreased bone mineralization resembling total ablation of WWOX as in conventional null mice. This animal model will be useful to study distinct roles of WWOX in multiple tissues at different ages.

The commercial clay modified with zeolite and La 2 O 3 was characterized by thermoprogrammed desorption (t.p.d.) of NH 3 and pyridine adsorption followed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The result showed that the weak Lewis acid plays an important role in the alkylation reaction between olefin and aromatics which obeyed the carbonium ion mechanism. The industrial test was conducted in the 450kt/a industrial PX device at Sinopec Zhenhai Company for removing trace olefins from aromatics. It has been proved that the life cycle of the catalyst was 5.3 times that of the commercial clay. The kinetics formula for deactivation rates was explored and the result showed that the rate of clay was much higher than the catalyst deactivation rate.