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Post-fire recovery of Puya raimondii, vegetation and birds in the puna of Huascarán National Park, Perú

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Journal of Mountain Science 2024年第1期21卷 20-32页

作者： Mery L.SUNI Giovana P.VADILLO César ARANA Enoc JARA-PENA Letty SALINAS M.Estela PONCE Paul M.RAMSAY Plant Physiology Laboratory Faculty of Biological SciencesUniversidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosLima 15081Peru Natural History Museum Universidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosLima 15072Peru Applied Phytology Laboratory Faculty of Biological SciencesUniversidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosLima 15081Peru Department of Statistics Faculty of Mathematical SciencesUniversidad Nacional Mayor de San MarcosLima 15081Peru Department of Chemical and biological sciences Universidad de las Américas PueblaSan Andrés Cholula CP Cholula CP 72810Mexico

A large fire of 233 ha in Huascarán National Park in Peru provided an opportunity to compare plant and bird responses in burned and nearby unburned zones of the puna. Heights and live diameters of flagship Puya raimondii rosettes(assigned to four broad developmental phases), plant communities(66 species in 24 families and nine growth forms) and bird communities(77 species in six trophic guilds) were monitored after the fire. Although no mortality was observed, Puya raimondii plants were affected by the fire, losing approximately 60% of their photosynthetic area across all developmental phases, but recovered quickly during the first two years after fire. The comparison of Puya rosette recovery after fire was complicated by the changes in live rosette diameter for unburned plants, which showed plasticity of photosynthetic area linked to seasonal and annual fluctuations in precipitation in this relatively dry environment(decreased by 26% for mature adult plants over the study period). Fire caused an immediate change in the density, biomass and composition of vegetation. Although the species present remained similar, their abundances changed significantly immediately after the fire, with notable reductions in dominant tussock grasses. This provided opportunities for other plants, resulting in higher postfire diversity of plant species, genera, families and growth forms. In turn, the changes in vegetation after fire affected the composition of birds according to their trophic guild. Granivores largely disappeared,generalists were mostly unaffected, and other guilds showed a more complex response. As the vegetation recovered, most displaced birds returned within approximately one year.

关键词： Burning Plant biomass Trophic guilds Andes Giant rosette plants

Rosmarinic acid improves tracheal smooth muscle responsiveness and lung pathological changes in ovalbumin-sensitized rats

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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 2024年第3期14卷 100-105页

作者： Vahideh Abbasnia Mohsen Foadoddini Delaram Eslimi Esfahani Mohammad Reza Khazdair Shahrbanoo Oryan Department of Biology Payame Noor UniversityTehranIran Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center Birjand University of Medical SciencesBirjandIran Department of Animal sciences Faculty of Biological SciencesKharazmi UniversityTehranIran

Objective:To evaluate the effect of rosmarinic acid on tracheal smooth muscle responsiveness and lung pathological changes in ovalbumin-sensitized ***:Rats were randomly divided into six groups:the control group,the asthmatic group,and the asthmatic groups treated with dexamethasone(1 mg/kg;oral gavage)or three doses of rosmarinic acid(0.5,1,and 2 mg/kg;oral gavage).For induction of asthma,rats received intraperitoneal injections and inhalation of *** 21 days,bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and lung samples were collected for histopathological ***,total and differential white blood cell counts were ***:The rosmarinic acid-treated group had significantly lower tracheal smooth muscle responses to methacholine than the asthmatic *** addition,rosmarinic acid reduced white blood cell count and the percentages of eosinophils,monocytes,and neutrophils while increasing the percentage of ***-induced lung pathological changes were significantly improved by treatment with rosmarinic ***:Rosmarinic acid improves tracheal smooth muscle responsiveness and lung pathological changes in ovalbumin-sensitized rats.

关键词： Rosmarinic acid Asthma Ovalbumin Tracheal responsiveness Inflammation White blood cell

A phase separation-fortified bi-specific adaptor for conditional tumor killing

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Science China(Life sciences) 2024年第7期67卷 1385-1397页

作者： Yuyan Liu Yuting Zhu Weifan Xu Pilong Li State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology Frontier Research Center for Biological StructureTsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life SciencesSchool of Life SciencesTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China

A common approach in therapeutic protein development involves employing synthetic ligands with multivalency,enabling sophisticated control of signal *** the emerging concept of liquid-liquid phase separation(LLPS)and its ability to organize cell surface receptors into functional compartments,we herein have designed modular ligands with phase-separation modalities to engineer programmable interreceptor communications and precise control of signal pathways,thus inducing the rapid,potent,and specific apoptosis of tumor *** their simplicity,these“triggers”,named phase-separated Tumor Killers(hereafter referred to as psTK),are sufficient to yield interreceptor clustering of death receptors(represented by DR5)and tumor-associated receptors,with notable features:LLPSmediated robust high-order organization,well-choreographed conditional activation,and broad-spectrum capacity to potently induce apoptosis in tumor *** development of novel therapeutic proteins with phase-separation modalities showcases the power of spatially reorganizing signal *** approach facilitates the diversification of cell fate and holds promising potential for targeted therapies against challenging tumors.

关键词： phase separation therapeutic proteins receptor-ligand interactions DR5 tumor apoptosis

Symmetry quantification and segmentation in STEM imaging through Zernike moments

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Chinese Physics B 2024年第8期33卷 39-48页

作者： Jiadong Dan Cheng Zhang 赵晓续 N.Duane Loh Department of biological sciences National University of SingaporeSingapore Center for Bioimaging sciences(CBIS) National University of SingaporeSingapore Department of Physics National University of SingaporeSingapore School of Materials Science and Engineering Peking UniversityBeijing 100871China

We present a method using Zernike moments for quantifying rotational and reflectional symmetries in scanning transmission electron microscopy(STEM)images,aimed at improving structural analysis of materials at the atomic *** technique is effective against common imaging noises and is potentially suited for low-dose imaging and identifying quantum *** showcase its utility in the unsupervised segmentation of polytypes in a twisted bilayer TaS_(2),enabling accurate differentiation of structural phases and monitoring transitions caused by electron beam *** approach enhances the analysis of structural variations in crystalline materials,marking a notable advancement in the characterization of structures in materials science.

关键词： scanning transmission electron microscopy(STEM) symmetry segmentation

Macrophage modulation with dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors:A new frontier for treating diabetic cardiomyopathy?

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World Journal of Diabetes 2024年第9期15卷 1847-1852页

作者： Saeed Mohammadi Ahmed Al-Harrasi Natural and Medical sciences Research Center University of NizwaNizwa 616Oman Department of biological sciences and Chemistry University of NizwaNizwa 616Oman

This editorial introduces the potential of targeting macrophage function for diabetic cardiomyopathy(DCM)treatment by dipeptidyl peptidase-4(DPP-4)*** et al studied teneligliptin,a DPP-4 inhibitor used for diabetes management,and its potential cardioprotective effects in a diabetic mouse *** suggested teneligliptin administration may reverse established markers of DCM,including cardiac hypertrophy and compromised *** also inhibited the NLRP3 inflammasome and reduced inflammatory cytokine production in diabetic *** play crucial roles in DCM *** hyperglycemia disturbs the balance between pro-inflammatory(M1)and antiinflammatory(M2)macrophages,favoring a pro-inflammatory state contributing to heart ***,we highlight the potential of DPP-4 inhibitors to modulate macrophage function and promote an anti-inflammatory *** compounds may achieve this by elevating glucagon-like peptide-1 levels and potentially inhibiting the NLRP3 *** studies on teneligliptin in combination with other therapies targeting different aspects of DCM could be suggested for developing more effective treatment strategies to improve cardiovascular health in diabetic patients.

关键词： Diabetic cardiomyopathy Macrophage Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor Teneligliptin NLRP3 inflammasome Glucagon-like peptide-1

The jasmonate pathway promotes nodule symbiosis and suppresses host plant defense in Medicago truncatula

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Molecular Plant 2024年第8期17卷 1183-1203页

作者： Da Guo Jingrui Li Peng Liu Yuzhan Wang Na Cao Xiangling Fang Tao Wang Jiangli Dong College of biological sciences China Agricultural UniversityBeijing 100193China State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience College of Biological SciencesChina Agricultural UniversityBejing 100193China State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-ecosystems College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhou730020China

Root nodule symbiosis(RNs)between legumes and rhizobia is a major source of nitrogen in agricultural *** symbiosis requires precise regulation of plant defense *** role of the defense hormone jasmonic acid(JA)in the immune response has been extensively *** research shows that JA can play either a positive or negative regulatory role in RNS depending on its concentration,but the molecular mechanisms remain to be *** this study,we found that inoculation with the rhizobia Sm1021 induces the JA pathway in Medicago truncatula,and blocking the JA pathway significantly reduces the number of infection *** in the MtMYc2 gene,which encodes a JA signaling master transcription factor,significantly inhibited rhizobia infection,terminal differentiation,and symbiotic cell *** RNA sequencing and chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing,we discovered that MtMYc2 regulates the expression of nodule-specific MtDNF2,MtNAD1,and MtSymCRK to suppress host defense,while it activates MtDNF1 expression to regulate the maturation of MtNCRs,which in turn promotes bacteroid *** importantly,MtMYC2 participates in symbiotic signal transduction by promoting the expression of ***,the MtMYC2-MtiPD3 transcriptional regulatory module is specifically present in legumes,and the Mtmyc2 mutants are susceptible to the infection by the pathogen Rhizoctonia ***,these findings reveal the molecular mechanisms of how the JA pathway regulates RNS,broadening our understanding of the roles of JA in plant-microbe interactions.

关键词： jasmonic acid MYC2 symbiosis defense Medicago truncatula

Reproductive ecology of the black rat (Rattus rattus) in Madagascar: the influence of density-dependent and -independent effects

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Integrative Zoology 2024年第1期19卷 66-86页

作者： Kathryn SCOBIE Soanandrasana RAHELINIRINA Voahangy SOARIMALALA Fehivola Mandanirina ANDRIAMIARIMANANA Corinne RAHAINGOSOAMAMITIANA Toky RANDRIAMORIA Soloandry RAHAJANDRAIBE Xavier LAMBIN Minoarisoa RAJERISON Sandra TELFER School of biological sciences University of AberdeenAberdeenUK Plague Unit Institut Pasteur de MadagascarAntananarivoMadagascar Association Vahatra AntananarivoMadagascar

The black rat(Rattus rattus)poses a severe threat to food security and public health in Madagascar,where it is a major cause of pre-and post-harvest crop losses and an important reservoir for many zoonotic diseases,including ***,ecologically based rodent management(EBRM)strategies have been developed using ecologi-cal information to inform decisions on where and when to target *** could deliver improved health and well-being outcomes in Madagascar if adapted to the local ecological *** data collected from removal studies,we explored spatio-temporal patterns in the breeding activity of the black rat(***)in domestic and agricultural habitats across Madagascar and investigated to what extent these trends are influenced by rainfall and rat *** identified clear spatio-temporal variation in the seasonality of *** *** was highly seasonal both inside and outside of houses,but seasonal trends varied between these two ***-sonal trends were explained,in part,by variation in rainfall;however,the effect of rainfall on reproductive rates did itself vary by season and habitat type.A decline in breeding intensity with increasing rat density was recorded outside of *** has important implications for control,as populations may compensate for removal through increased *** recommend that sustained control initiated before the main breeding season,combined with improved hygiene and adequate rodent-proofing in homes and grain stores,could curtail population growth and reduce pre-and post-harvest losses provided that these measures overcome the compensatory response of rodent populations.

关键词： Madagascar Rattus rattus reproductive ecology rodent control

New insights into nitric oxide biosynthesis underpin lateral root development

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Molecular Plant 2024年第5期17卷 691-693页

作者： Kapuganti Jagadis Gupta Nidhi Yadav Aprajita Kumari Gary J.Loake National Institute for Plant Genome Research Aruna Asaf Ali MargNew Delhi 110070India Institute of Molecular Plant sciences School of Biological SciencesUniversity of EdinburghEH93BF EdinburghUK Centre for Engineering Biology School of Biological SciencesUniversity of EdinburghEH93BF EdinburghUK

In recent years,nitric oxide(NO)has emerged as a key redox signaling molecule in plants functioning in the regulation of key developmental programs and the orchestration of responses to a plethora of environmental cues(Kolbert et al.,2019).The predominant route for the transfer of NO bioactivity is through S-nitrosylation,the addition of an NO moiety to a protein cysteine thiol to form an S-nitrosothiol(Yun et al.,2011).Specificity for this process is established by the structural constraints imposed by tertiary protein structure in gating access to given cysteine redox switches and associated proteins that can either facilitate the addition or removal of the NO moiety at these residues(Umbreen et al.,2018).

关键词： moiety addition redox

A dose-dependent bimodal switch by homologous Aux/IAA transcriptional repressors

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Molecular Plant 2024年第9期17卷 1407-1422页

作者： Hyung-Taeg Cho Minsu Lee Hee-Seung Choi Kwang-Ho Maeng Kyeonghoon Lee Ha-Yeon Lee Anindya Ganguly Hoonyoung Park Chang-Hoi Ho Department of biological sciences Seoul National UniversitySeoulKorea School of Earth and Environmental sciences Seoul National UniversitySeoulKorea Department of Climate and Energy Systems Engineering Ewha Womans UniversitySeoulKorea

Combinatorial interactions between different regulators diversify and enrich the chance of transcriptional regulation in eukaryotic ***,a dose-dependent functional switch of homologous transcriptional repressors has rarely been ***,we show that SHY2,an auxin/indole-3-acetic acid(Aux/IAA)repressor,exhibits a dose-dependent bimodal role in auxin-sensitive root-hair growth and gene transcrip-tion in Arabidopsis,whereas other Aux/lAA homologs consistently repress the auxin *** co-repressor(TOPLESS[TPL])-binding affinity of a bimodal Aux/IAA was lower than that of a consistently re-pressing Aux/*** switch of a single amino acid residue in the TPL-binding motif between the bimodal form and the consistently repressing form switched their TPL-binding affinity and transcriptional and bio-logical roles in auxin *** on these data,we propose a model whereby competition between homologous repressors with different co-repressor-binding affinities could generate a bimodal output at thetranscriptional anddevelopmental levels.

关键词： auxin Aux/IAA dose-dependent regulation root hair transcription TOPLESS(TPL)