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Presepsin as a biomarker of bacterial translocation and an indicator for the prescription of probiotics in cirrhosis

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World Journal of Hepatology 2024年第5期16卷 822-831页

作者： Irina Efremova Roman Maslennikov Elena Poluektova Oleg Medvedev Anna Kudryavtseva George Krasnov Maria Fedorova Filipp Romanikhin Maria Zharkova Oxana Zolnikova Gyunay Bagieva Vladimir Ivashkin Department of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology and HepatologySechenov UniversityMoscow 119435Russia Department of Scientific Scientific Community for the Promotion of the Clinical Study of the Human MicrobiomeMoscow 119435Russia Department of Pharmacology Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityMoscow 119192Russia Department of Post-Genomic Research Laboratory Engelhardt Institute of Molecular BiologyRussian Academy of SciencesMoscow 119991Russia

BACKGROUND The gut–liver axis and bacterial translocation are important in cirrhosis,but there is no available universal biomarker of cellular bacterial translocation,for which presepsin may be a candidate.AIM To evaluate the relationship of the blood presepsin levels with the state of the gut microbiota in cirrhosis in the absence of obvious infection.METHODS This study included 48 patients with Child–Pugh cirrhosis classes B and C and 15 healthy controls.The fecal microbiome was assessed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing.Plasma levels of presepsin were measured.A total of 22 patients received a probiotic(Saccharomyces boulardii)for 3 months.RESULTS Presepsin levels were higher in patients with cirrhosis than in healthy individuals[342(91-2875)vs 120(102-141)pg/mL;P=0.048].Patients with elevated presepsin levels accounted for 56.3%of all included patients.They had lower levels of serum albumin and higher levels of serum total bilirubin and overall severity of cirrhosis as assessed using the Child–Pugh scale.Patients with elevated presepsin levels had an increased abundance of the main taxa responsible for bacterial translocation,namely Bacilli and Proteobacteria(including the main class Gammaproteobacteria and the minor taxa Xanthobacteraceae and Stenotrophomonas),and a low abundance of bacteria from the family Lachnospiraceae(including the minor genus Fusicatenibacter),which produce short-chain fatty acids that have a positive effect on intestinal barrier function.The presepsin level directly correlated with the relative abundance of Bacilli,Proteobacteria,and inversely correlated with the abundance of Lachnospiraceae and Propionibacteriaceae.After 3 months of taking the probiotic,the severity of cirrhosis on the Child–Pugh scale decreased significantly only in the group with elevated presepsin levels[from 9(8-11)to 7(6-9);P=0.004],while there were no significant changes in the group with normal presepsin levels[from 8(7-8)to 7(6-8);P=0.123].A high level of presepsin before the prescription of the probiotic was an

关键词： Dysbiosis Gut Intestinal permeability Leaky gut Gut-liver axis Liver Microbiota

Association analysis of genetic variants in critical patients with COVID-19 and validation in a Chinese population

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Virologica Sinica 2024年第2期39卷 347-350页

作者： Yi Yin Yi Zhang Lelin Sun Shuqiang Wang Yong Zeng Bo Gong Lulin Huang Yongquan He Zhenglin Yang Center for Natural Products Research Chengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610213China Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Disease Gene Study Center for Medical GeneticsDepartment of Laboratory MedicineSichuan Academy of Medical Sciences&Sichuan Provincial People's HospitalUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu610072China Research unit for Blindness Prevention of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences(2019RU026) Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences&Sichuan Provincial People's HospitalUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu610072China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing100049China Infectious Disease Department Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences&Sichuan Provincial People's HospitalUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu610072China Department of Ophthalmology Sichuan Provincial People's HospitalUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChengdu610072China

Dear Editor,Genome-wide association studies(GWASs)have reported a genetic association between certain populations and the severity of COVID-19.In severe patients,changes in the locus 3p21.31(including SLC6A20,LZTFL1,CCR9,FYCO1,CXCR6,and XCR1)are associated with COVID-19 hospitalization(Ellinghaus et al.,2020).Moreover,variations in 9p34.2 region(including genes related to the ABO blood grouping)can affect both susceptibility and severity of COVID-19;in particular,individuals with blood group A may have an increased risk of COVID-19 infection,while those with blood group O may have a protective effect(Ellinghaus et al.,2020;Shelton et al.,2021).

关键词： patients protective

HvMPK4 phosphorylates HvWRKY1 to enhance its suppression of barley immunity to powdery mildew fungus

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Journal of Genetics and Genomics 2024年第3期51卷 313-325页

作者： Pengya Xue Ling Zhang Renchun Fan Yanan Li Xinyun Han Ting Qi Lifang Zhao Deshui Yu Qian-Hua Shen State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering Institute of Genetics and Developmental BiologyInnovation Academy for Seed DesignChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions College of Advanced Agricultural SciencesUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100049China Department of Nutritional Sciences&Toxicology University of CaliforniaBerkeleyCA 94720USA Lushan Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of ScienceJiujiangJiangxi 332900China

Mitogen-activated protein kinase(MAPK)cascades play important roles in disease resistance in model plant species.However,the functions of MAPK signaling pathways in crop disease resistance are largely unknown.Here we report the function of HvMKK1-HvMPK4-HvWRKY1 module in barley immune system.HvMPK4 is identified to play a negative role in barley immune response against Bgh,as virus-induced gene silencing of HvMPK4 results in enhanced disease resistance whilst stably overexpressing HvMPK4 leads to super-susceptibility to Bgh infection.Furthermore,the barley MAPK kinase HvMKK1 is found to specifically interact with HvMPK4,and the activated HvMKK1^(DD) variant specifically phosphorylates HvMPK4 in vitro.Moreover,the transcription factor HvWRKY1 is identified to be a downstream target of HvMPK4 and phosphorylated by HvMPK4 in vitro in the presence of HvMKK1^(DD).Phosphorylation assay coupled with mutagenesis analyses identifies S122,T284,and S347 in HvWRKY1 as the major residues phosphorylated by HvMPK4.HvWRKY1 is phosphorylated in barley at the early stages of Bgh infection,which enhances its suppression on barley immunity likely due to enhanced DNA-binding and transcriptional repression activity.Our data suggest that the HvMKK1-HvMPK4 kinase pair acts upstream of HvWRKY1 to negatively regulate barley immunity against powdery mildew.

关键词： Barley MPK4 WRKY1 Phosphorylation Disease resistance Powdery mildew

Cytokine Profiling in Influenza A Virus and Staphylococcal(Co-)infections

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Infectious Microbes & Diseases 2022年第4期4卷 161-167页

作者： Lea A.Tölken Antje D.Paulikat Fabian Cuypers Sebastian B.Skorka Sven Hammerschmidt Nikolai Siemens Department of Molecular Genetics and infection biology Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional GenomicsCenter for Functional Genomics of MicrobesUniversity of GreifswaldGreifswaldGermany

Influenza A virus and Staphylococcus aureus are common causative agents of pneumonia.Co-infections with these two pathogens frequently occur and are characterized,among others,by higher morbidity and mortality due to hyper-inflammation of the lungs.Here,we aimed to profile systemic and local cytokine composition at early acute stages of pneumonia in amurinemodel.Allmice recovered from single influenza A virus and/or staphylococcal infections.In contrast,co-infections led to a severe clinical outcome.While distinct cytokine patterns were detected in lungs of single-pathogen-infected animals,co-infections combined both virus-and bacteria-driven responses.However,analyses of infected human primarymonocytic cells as well as bronchial epithelial cells did not reflectmurine profiles.Based on infectious dose,mainly bacteria-driven responses were noted.The impact of single cells to cytokine composition of the lungs and translation of murine studies to humans remains uncertain and warrants further studies.

关键词： influenza A virus Staphylococcus aureus co-infection cytokines

Efficient antibody evasion but reduced ACE2 binding by the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.640.2

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Cellular & Molecular Immunology 2022年第9期19卷 1067-1069页

作者： Prerna Arora Amy Kempf Inga Nehlmeier Luise Graichen Sebastian Schulz Anne Cossmann Alexandra Dopfer-Jablonka Martin S.Winkler Hans-Martin Jäck Georg M.N.Behrens Stefan Pöhlmann Markus Hoffmann infection biology unit German Primate CenterKellnerweg 437077GöttingenGermany Faculty of biology and Psychology Georg-August-University GöttingenWilhelmsplatz 137073GöttingenGermany Division of Molecular Immunology Department of Internal Medicine 3Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-NürnbergGlückstraße 691054ErlangenGermany Department for Rheumatology and Immunology Hannover Medical SchoolCarl-Neuberg-Straße 130625HannoverGermany German Centre for infection Research(DZIF) Partner Site Hannover-BraunschweigHannoverGermany Centre for Individualised infection Medicine(CiiM) HannoverGermany Department of Anesthesiology University of Göttingen Medical CenterGöttingenGeorg-August University of GöttingenRobert-Koch-Straße 4037075GöttingenGermany

The SARS-CoV-2 spike(S)protein engages ACE2 for cell entry,and the S protein/ACE2 interface is an important target for neutralizing antibodies.In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic,SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged that harbor mutations in the S protein,which confer neutralization resistance and allow viral spread in immunologically nonnaive populations.The most prominent example is the highly mutated Omicron variant,which infects convalescent or vaccinated individuals with unprecedented efficiency[1,2].

关键词： ACE2 harbor neutral

New guidelines for fluorophore application in peroxisome targeting analyses in transient plant expression systems

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Journal of Integrative Plant biology 2019年第7期61卷 884-899页

作者： Christian Falter Nguyen Binh Anh Thu Saugat Pokhrel Sigrun Reumann Plant Biochemistry and infection biology Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology University of Hamburg

Peroxisome research has been revolutionized by proteome studies combined with in vivo subcellular targeting analyses. Yellow and cyan fluorescent protein(YFP and CFP) are the classical fluorophores of plant peroxisome research. In the new transient expression system of Arabidopsis seedlings co-cultivated with Agrobacterium we detected the YFP fusion of one candidate protein in peroxisomes, but only upon co-transformation with the peroxisome marker, CFP-PTS1. The data suggested that the YFP fusion was directed to peroxisomes due to its weak heterodimerization ability with CFP-PTS1,allowing piggy-back import into peroxisomes. Indeed, if co-expressed with monomeric Cerulean-PTS1(mCer-PTS1),the YFP fusion was no longer matrix localized. We systematically investigated the occurrence and extent of dimerization-based piggy-back import for different fluorophore combinations in five major transient plant expression systems. In Arabidopsis seedlings and tobacco leaves both untagged YFP and monomeric Venus were imported into peroxisomes if co-expressed with CFP-PTS1 but not with mCer-PTS1. By contrast, piggy-back import of cytosolic proteins was not observed in Arabidopsis and tobacco protoplasts or in onion epidermal cells for any fluorophore combination at any time point. Based on these important results we formulate new guidelines for fluorophore usage and experimental design to guarantee reliable identification of novel plant peroxisomal proteins.

关键词： transient plant expression systems fluorophore

Sugarcane transcription factor ScWRKY4 negatively regulates resistance to pathogen infection through the JA signaling pathway

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The Crop Journal 2024年第1期12卷 164-176页

作者： Dongjiao Wang Wei Wang Shoujian Zang Liqian Qin Yanlan Liang Peixia Lin Yachun Su Youxiong Que Key Laboratory of Sugarcane biology and Genetic Breeding Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsKey Laboratory of GeneticsBreeding and Multiple Utilization of CropsMinistry of EducationCollege of AgricultureFujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityFuzhou 350002FujianChina National Key Laboratory for Tropical Crop Breeding Institute of Tropical Bioscience and BiotechnologyChinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural SciencesSanya 572024HainanChina

WRKY transcription factors,transcriptional regulators unique to plants,play an important role in defense response to pathogen infection.However,the resistance mechanisms of WRKY genes in sugarcane remain unclear.In the present study,gene ontology(GO)enrichment analysis revealed that WRKY gene family in sugarcane was extensively involved in the response to biotic stress and in defense response.We identified gene ScWRKY4,a classⅡc member of the WRKY gene family,in sugarcane cultivar ROC22.This gene was induced by salicylic acid(SA)and methyl jasmonate(MeJA)stress.Interestingly,expression of ScWRKY4 was down-regulated in smut-resistant sugarcane cultivars but up-regulated in smutsusceptible sugarcane cultivars infected with Sporisorium scitamineum.Moreover,stable overexpression of the ScWRKY4 gene in Nicotiana benthamiana enhanced susceptibility to Fusarium solani var.coeruleum and caused down-regulated expression of immune marker-related genes.Transcriptome analysis indicated suppressed expression of most JAZ genes in the signal transduction pathway.ScWRKY4 interacted with ScJAZ13 to repress its expression.We thus hypothesized that the ScWRKY4 gene was involved in the regulatory network of plant disease resistance,most likely through the JA signaling pathway.The present study depicting the molecular involvement of ScWRKY4 in sugarcane disease resistance lays a foundation for future investigation.

关键词： Disease resistance Expression profile Transcriptome analysis WRKY transcription factors

Host cell entry and neutralisation sensitivity of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.16 lineage

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Cellular & Molecular Immunology 2023年第8期20卷 969-971页

作者： Inga Nehlmeier Amy Kempf Prerna Arora Anne Cossmann Alexandra Dopfer-Jablonka Metodi V.Stankov Sebastian R.Schulz Hans-Martin Jäck Georg M.N.Behrens Stefan Pöhlmann Markus Hoffmann infection biology unit German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate ResearchKellnerweg 437077GöttingenGermany Faculty of biology and Psychology Georg-August-University GöttingenWilhelmsplatz 137073GöttingenGermany Department of Rheumatology and Immunology Hannover Medical SchoolCarl-Neuberg-Straße 130625HannoverGermany German Centre for infection Research(DZIF) Partner Site Hannover-BraunschweigCarl-Neuberg-Straße 130625HannoverGermany Division of Molecular Immunology Department of Internal Medicine 3Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-NürnbergGlückstraße 691054ErlangenGermany Centre for Individualized infection Medicine(CiiM) Feodor-Lynen-Straße 730625HannoverGermany

Despite previous circulation of the highly transmissible and antibody evasive BA.2.75, BQ.1, XBB.1 and XBB.1.5 lineages, the share of infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2 lineage XBB.1.16 has gradually increased in India in early 2023, resulting in XBB.1.16 being the dominating SARS-CoV-2 lineage in India today. Since a similar trend may also take place in other countries and information on the biological properties of the XBB.1.16 lineage is scarce, we conducted a rapid assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB.1.16 lineage with respect to its ability to enter cells and evade neutralisation by antibodies.

关键词： lineage neutral spite

Reduced clinical severity during 2022 Shanghai Spring epidemic of SARS-CoV-2 omicron BA.2 variant infection——an integrated account of virus pathogenicity and vaccination effectiveness

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National Science Review 2024年第4期11卷 24-27页

作者： Xingyue Wu Yao Chen Kangli Cao Yao Shen Xueling Wu Yilin Yang Zhongshu Kuang Qingrun Li Zhenzhen Lu Yichen Jia Mian Shao Guorong Gu Xiangwei Wang Ye Yao Ying Wang Shaodie Chen Zhigao Yu Wei Wei Longfei Ding Lulu Lan Tianwen Gu Xiangyu Long Jian Sun Lingyu Xing Jiayuan Shen Yi Han Yue Luo Sucheng Mu Mengna Lin Xiaoyan Zhang Rong Zeng Jianqing Xu Guoping Zhao Lihong Huang Zhenju Song Department of Emergency Medicine Clinical Center for Bio-Therapy Department of Biostatistics and Department of UrologyShanghai Key Laboratory of Lung Inflammation and Injury Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Shanghai Pudong Hospital Fudan University Department of Pulmonology Renji Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Key Laboratory of Systems biology Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center Fudan University Department of Biostatistics School of Public Health Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety of Ministry of Education and Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity School of Public Health Fudan University Shanghai Institute of Immunology Department of Immunology and Microbiology Shanghai Institute of Virology Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of EducationSchool of Medicine Shanghai Jiao Tong University State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering Fudan Microbiome CenterSchool of Life Sciences Fudan University Bio-Med Big Data Center Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health Chinese Academy of Sciences

The emergence of SARS-Co V-2 variant of concern omicron BA.2 led to high infection incidence rates as well as reduced severity of COVID-19 during the Shanghai Spring epidemic of 2022 [1]. We assessed the role of viral pathogenicity and the effectiveness of inactivated vaccines in a retrospective observational study including 10 258 confirmed COVID-19cases identified between April and June of 2022, from four COVID-19 designated hospitals located in two areas of Shanghai, namely the West Bund and the East Bund, where the populations’ demographic characteristics varied significantly (Table S1, Fig. S1).

关键词： REPLICATION