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Molecular processes in iron and zinc homeostasis and their modulation for biofortification in rice

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Journal of Integrative Plant biology 2018年第12期60卷 1181-1198页

作者： Yuta Kawakami Navreet K.Bhullar Plant biotechnology Department of Biology ETH Zurich

More than a billion people suffer from iron or zinc deficiencies globally. Rice(Oryza sativa L.) iron and zinc biofortification; i.e., intrinsic iron and zinc enrichment of rice grains, is considered the most effective way to tackle these deficiencies. However, rice iron biofortification, by means of conventional breeding, proves difficult due to lack of sufficient genetic variation. Meanwhile,genetic engineering has led to a significant increase in the iron concentration along with zinc concentration in rice grains. The design of impactful genetic engineering biofortification strategies relies upon vast scientific knowledge of precise functions of different genes involved in iron and zinc uptake, translocation and storage. In this review, we present an overview of molecular processes controlling iron and zinc homeostasis in rice. Further,the genetic engineering approaches adopted so far to increase the iron and zinc concentrations in polished rice grains are discussed in detail, highlighting the limitations and/or success of individual strategies. Recent insight suggests that a few genetic engineering strategies are commonly utilized for elevating iron and zinc concentrations in different genetic backgrounds, and thus, it is of great importance to accumulate scientific evidence for diverse genetic engineering strategies to expand the pool of options for biofortifying farmer-preferred cultivars.

关键词： Molecular processes in iron and zinc homeostasis and their modulation for biofortification in rice Zn

Transcriptional regulation of adult neural stem/progenitor cells: tales from the subventricular zone

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Neural Regeneration Research 2020年第10期15卷 1773-1783页

作者： Giancarlo Poiana Roberta Gioia Serena Sineri Silvia Cardarelli Giuseppe Lupo Emanuele Cacci Department of Biology and Biotechnology "C.Darwin" Sapienza University of Rome

In rodents,well characterized neurogenic niches of the adult brain,such as the subventricular zone of the lateral ventricles and the subgranular zone of the hippocampus,support the maintenance of neural/stem progenitor cells(NSPCs)and the production of new neurons throughout the lifespan.The adult neurogenic process is dependent on the intrinsic gene expression signatures of NSPCs that make them competent for self-renewal and neuronal differentiation.At the same time,it is receptive to regulation by various extracellular signals that allow the modulation of neuronal production and integration into brain circuitries by various physiological stimuli.A drawback of this plasticity is the sensitivity of adult neurogenesis to alterations of the niche environment that can occur due to aging,injury or disease.At the core of the molecular mechanisms regulating neurogenesis,several transcription factors have been identified that maintain NSPC identity and mediate NSPC response to extrinsic cues.Here,we focus on REST,Egr1 and Dbx2 and their roles in adult neurogenesis,especially in the subventricular zone.We review recent work from our and other laboratories implicating these transcription factors in the control of NSPC proliferation and differentiation and in the response of NSPCs to extrinsic influences from the niche.We also discuss how their altered regulation may affect the neurogenic process in the aged and in the diseased brain.Finally,we highlight key open questions that need to be addressed to foster our understanding of the transcriptional mechanisms controlling adult neurogenesis.

关键词： adult neurogenesis aging extracellular signaling gene regulation neural stem/progenitor cells transcription factors

Metabolism and immunity in breast cancer

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Frontiers of Medicine 2021年第2期15卷 178-207页

作者： Deyu Zhang Xiaojie Xu Qinong Ye department of Medical Molecular biology Beijing Institute of BiotechnologyBeijing 100850China

Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies that seriously threaten women’s health.In the process of the malignant transformation of breast cancer,metabolic reprogramming and immune evasion represent the two main fascinating characteristics of cancer and facilitate cancer cell proliferation.Breast cancer cells generate energy through increased glucose metabolism.Lipid metabolism contributes to biological signal pathways and forms cell membranes except energy generation.Amino acids act as basic protein units and metabolic regulators in supporting cell growth.For tumor-associated immunity,poor immunogenicity and heightened immunosuppression cause breast cancer cells to evade the host’s immune system.For the past few years,the complex mechanisms of metabolic reprogramming and immune evasion are deeply investigated,and the genes involved in these processes are used as clinical therapeutic targets for breast cancer.Here,we review the recent findings related to abnormal metabolism and immune characteristics,regulatory mechanisms,their links,and relevant therapeutic strategies.

关键词： breast cancer metabolism immunity cancer stem cells

RNA silencing movement in plants

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Journal of Integrative Plant biology 2016年第4期58卷 328-342页

作者： Glykeria Mermigka Frdric Verret Kriton Kalantidis department of biology University of Crete Institute of Molecular biology and biotechnology Foundation for Research and Technology

Multicellular organisms, like higher plants, need to coordinate their growth and development and to cope with environmental cues. To achieve this, various signal molecules are transported between neighboring cells and distant organs to control the fate of the recipient cells and organs. RNA silencing produces cell non-autonomous signal molecules that can move over short or long distances leading to the sequence specific silencing of a target gene in a well defined area of cells or throughout the entire plant,respectively. The nature of these signal molecules, the route of silencing spread, and the genes involved in their production, movement and reception are discussed in this review. Additionally, a short section on features of silencing spread in animal models is presented at the end of this review.

关键词： Cell non-autonomous post-transcriptional gene silencing RNA interference short range silencing spread systemic silencing plant RNA silencing transcriptional gene silencing

Anti-tubercular peptides:A quest of future therapeutic weapon to combat tuberculosis

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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine 2016年第11期9卷 1001-1012页

作者： Ameer Khusro Chirom Aarti Paul Agastian Research department of Plant biology and biotechnology Loyola College

Tuberculosis(TB) is a symbolic menace to mankind,infecting almost one third of the world's populace and causing over a million mortalities annually.Mycobacterium tuberculosis(M.tuberculosis) is the key pathogen of TB that invades and replicates inside the host's macrophage.With the emerging dilemma of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis(MDR-TB) and extensivelydrug resistant tuberculosis(XDR-TB),the exigency for developing new TB drugs is an obligation now for worldwide researchers.Among the propitious antimycobacterial agents examined in last few decades,anti-tubercular peptides have been substantiated to be persuasive with multiple advantages such as low immunogenicity,selective affinity to bacterial negatively charged cell envelopes and most importantly divergent mechanisms of action.In this review,we epitomized the current advances in the anti-tubercular peptides,focusing the sources and highlighting the mycobactericidal mechanisms of promising peptides.The review investigates the current anti-tubercular peptides exploited not only from human immune cells,human non-immune cells,bacteria and fungi but also from venoms,cyanobacteria,bacteriophages and several other unplumbed sources.The anti-tubercular peptides of those origins are also known to have unique second non-membrane targets within M.tuberculosis.The present context also describes the several cases that manifested the severe side effects of extant antiTB drugs.The downfall,failure to reach clinical trial phases,inept to MDR- or XDR-TB and severe complications of the currently available anti-tubercular drugs accentuate the imperative necessity to develop efficacious drugs from adequate anti-tubercular peptides.Keeping in view of the emerging trends of drug resistant M.tuberculosis globally and unexampled mycobactericidal characteristics of peptides,the anti-tubercular peptides of varied origins can be used as a potential weapon to eradicatc TB in future by developing new therapeutic drugs.

关键词： Anti-tubercular peptides Mycobacterium tuberculosis Therapeutic drugs Tuberculosis

Host-pathogen interaction after infection of Galleria mellonella with the filamentous fungus Beauveria bassiana

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Insect Science 2020年第5期27卷 1079-1089页

作者： Lidiia Vertyporokh Monika Hutas-Stasiak Iwona Wojda Faculty of biology and biotechnology Department of ImmunobiologyInstitute of Biology and BiochemistryMaria Curie-Sklodowska UniversityAkademicka 19LublinPoland Faculty of biology and biotechnology Department of Comparative Anatomy and AnthropologyInstitute of Biology and BiochemistryMaria Curie-Sklodowska UniversityAkademicka 19LublinPoland

The filamentous fungus Beauveria bassiana is a natural pathogen of the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella.Infection with this fungus triggered systemic immune response in G.mellonella;nevertheless,the infection was lethal if spores entered the insect hemocel.We observed melanin deposition in the insect cuticle and walls of air bags,while the invading fungus interrupted tssue continuity.We have shown colonization of muscles,air bags,and finally colonization and complete destruction of the fat body-the main organ responsible for the synthesis of defense molecules in response to infection.This destruction was probably not caused by simple fungal growth,because the fat body was not destroyed during colonization with a human opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans.This may mean that the infecting fungus is able to destroy actively the insect's fat body as part of its virulence mechanism.Finally,we were unable to reduce the extremely high virulence of B.bassiana against G.mellonella by priming of larvae with thermally inactivated fungal spores.

关键词： Beauveria bassiana greater wax moth host-pathogen interaction insect body colonization insect immune response white muscardine

Phytochemistry, anti-asthmatic and antioxidant activities of Anchomanes difformis(Blume) Engl. leaf extract

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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2016年第3期6卷 225-231页

作者： Ovuakporie-Uvo Oghale Mac Donald Idu department of Plant biology and biotechnology University of Benin

Objective: To study the phytochemistry, anti-asthmatic and antioxidant activities of the aqueous leaf extract of Anchomanes difformis(Blume) Engl.(A. difformis) and to verify claims of use in folk medicine.Methods: For anti-asthmatic activity, male and female guinea pigs with average body weight of(451.4 ± 118.1) g were divided into six groups of six animals each. Group 1served as control(distilled water); Group 2 was administered with salbutamol(reference drug) only; Group 3 served as ovalbumin sensitized group, Group 4, 5 and 6 were treated with A. difformis extract at doses of 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg, respectively. Described methods were used to test fluid viscosity, fluid volume and quantitative phytochemistry analysis. Absorbance was read using a UV–Vis spectrophotometer and results computed in percentage. Total antioxidant assays [2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl(DPPH) and lipid peroxidation assay], were carried out using reported procedures.Results: The anti-asthmatic evaluation showed that protection from asthma of the animals in Group 6(400 mg/kg, 32.7%) were similar to that in Group 2(salbutamol, 33.0%).Excised trachea was free of mucus secretion in Group 5(200 mg/kg) as was observed in the control group. Fluid volume increase in Groups 3 and 6 indicated mucus secretion.DPPH radical scavenging activity of extract was effective as ascorbic acid which served as standard at 20 mg/m L. But, the extract elicited low lipid peroxidation activity compared with the reference(tocopherol) at concentrations tested.Conclusions: A. difformis aqueous leaf extract is safe and possesses positive antiasthmatic and antioxidant activities as claimed by traditional herbal practitioners in Delta State.

关键词： Anti-asthmatic Anti-oxidant Phytochemistry Anchomanes difformis

In vitro assessment on medicinal properties and chemical composition of Michelia nilagirica bark

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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2017年第9期7卷 782-790页

作者： Babu Venkatadri Ameer Khusro Chirom Aarti Marimuthu Ragavan Rameshkumar Paul Agastian Research department of Plant biology and biotechnology Loyola College department of Microbiology and biotechnology Presidency College (Autonomous)

Objective: To outline the antibacterial, antioxidant, a-glucosidase inhibition and anticancer properties of Michelia nilagirica(M. nilagirica) bark extract.Methods: The antibacterial activity of bark extracts against human pathogens was assessed by disc diffusion assay. Phytochemical screening, total phenols, flavonoids content, antioxidant and a-glucosidase inhibition properties of bark extracts were investigated by standard methods. In vitro anticancer activity of ethyl acetate extract at various concentrations was observed against Hep G2 cells using MTT [3-(4, 5-dimethyl thiazol-2 yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide] assay. The presence of diverse bioactive constituents in the ethyl acetate extract was identified using FT-IR and GC–MS analysis.Results: Ethyl acetate extract was found to be the promising agent against human pathogens tested. The ethyl acetate extracts showed the presence of various phytochemicals and comprised the substantial content of phenolics and flavonoids. The ethyl acetate extract showed better antioxidant activities and also revealed remarkable reducing power ability and a-glucosidase inhibition property. The dose dependent assay of extract showed remarkable cancer cell death with IC_(50) value of(303.26 ± 2.30) mg/m L. FTIR and GC–MS results indicated the presence of major bioactive constituents in the ethyl acetate extract of M. nilagirica bark.Conclusions: Revealing the first report on in vitro biological properties and chemical composition analysis of M. nilagirica bark extract, our study implied that this plant could be of great importance in food and pharmaceutical industries.

关键词： Antibacterial Antioxidant Anticancer Bark extract Michelia nilagirica

Hyperglycemia in acute ischemic stroke: physiopathological and therapeutic complexity

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Neural Regeneration Research 2022年第2期17卷 292-299页

作者： Federica Ferrari Antonio Moretti Roberto Federico Villa Department of Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory of Pharmacology and Molecular Medicine of Central Nervous SystemUniversity of PaviaVia FerrataPaviaItaly

Diabetes mellitus and associated chronic hyperglycemia enhance the risk of acute ischemic stroke and lead to worsened clinical outcome and increased mortality. However, post-stroke hyperglycemia is also present in a number of non-diabetic patients after acute ischemic stroke, presumably as a stress response. The aim of this review is to summarize the main effects of hyperglycemia when associated to ischemic injury in acute stroke patients, highlighting the clinical and neurological outcomes in these conditions and after the administration of the currently approved pharmacological treatment, i.e. insulin. The disappointing results of the clinical trials on insulin(including the hypoglycemic events) demand a change of strategy based on more focused therapies. Starting from the comprehensive evaluation of the physiopathological alterations occurring in the ischemic brain during hyperglycemic conditions, the effects of various classes of glucose-lowering drugs are reviewed, such as glucose-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, DPP-4 inhibitors and sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors, in the perspective of overcoming the up-to-date limitations and of evaluating the effectiveness of new potential therapeutic strategies.

关键词： acute ischemic stroke diabetes mellitus DPP-4 inhibitor glucose-like peptide-1 receptor agonist hyperglycemia hypoglycemia insulin physiopathology sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor