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Hepatocellular carcinoma and musculoskeletal system: A narrative literature review

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2024年第15期30卷 2109-2117页

作者： Jelena Jadzic Danijela Djonic Center of Bone biology Faculty of MedicineUniversity of BelgradeBelgrade 11000Serbia

Musculoskeletal alterations in hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)are less common than liver-related ***,they can significantly impact the quality of life and overall prognosis of patients with *** main obstacle in the clinical assessment of HCC-induced musculoskeletal alterations is related to effective and timely diagnosis because these complications are often asym-ptomatic and unapparent during routine clinical *** narrative literature review aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the contem-porary literature related to the changes in the musculoskeletal system in patients with HCC,focusing on its clinical implications and underlying etiopathogenetic *** bone metastases are the most common skeletal alterations associated with HCC,which could be associated with an increased risk of low-trauma bone ***,previous studies reported that osteopenia,sarcopenia,and myosteatosis are associated with poor clinical outcomes in patients with *** though low bone mineral density and sarcopenia are consistently reported as reliable predictors of pretransplantation and post-transplantation mortality in HCC patients,these complications are frequently overlooked in the clinical management of patients with *** together,contemporary literature suggests that a multidisciplinary approach is essential for early recognition and clinical management of HCC-associated musculoskeletal alterations to improve patient *** research into the mechanisms and treatment options for musculoskeletal complications is warranted to enhance our understanding and clinical management of this aspect of HCC.

关键词： Hepatocellular carcinoma Osteopenia Osteoporosis Sarcopenia Bone metastases Bone fragility

Targeting Haemaphysalis longicornis serpin to prevent tick feeding and pathogen transmission

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Insect Science 2024年第3期31卷 694-706页

作者： Tingting Feng Hao Tong Qianqian Zhang Zhihao Ming Zhenyu Song Xia Zhou Jianfeng Dai Institute of biology and Medical Sciences Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Infection and ImmunitySoochow UniversitySuzhouJiangsu ProvinceChina School of biology and Basic Medical Science Suzhou Medical College of Soochow UniversitySuzhouJiangsu ProvinceChina

Serine proteinase inhibitors(serpins),identified from the hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis of China,play significant roles in various animal physiological *** this study,we showed that *** serpins(Hlserpin-a and Hlserpin-b)were induced during blood-feeding in nymph ticks and exhibited anticoagulation activity in *** Hlserpins through RNA interference(RNAi)significantly impaired tick *** of mice with recombinant Hlserpins or passive transfer of Hlserpin antiserum significantly curtails the efficacy of tick ***,the transmission of the Langat virus(LGTV)from ticks to mice witnessed a substantial decrease when Hlserpins were *** findings suggest that inhibiting Hlserpins can hamper tick engorgement and pathogen transmission,indicating the potential of Hlserpins as a vaccine to countertick-borne diseases.

关键词： feeding LGTV serpin TBEV tick

Immune functions of C-type lectins in medical arthropods

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Insect Science 2024年第3期31卷 652-662页

作者： Zhihao Ming Zhiqiang Chen Hao Tong Xia Zhou Tingting Feng Jianfeng Dai Institute of biology and Medical Sciences Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Infection and ImmunitySoochow UniversitySuzhouJiangsu ProvinceChina School of biology and Basic Medical Science Suzhou Medical College of Soochow UniversitySuzhouJiangsu ProvinceChina

C-type lectins(CTLs)are a family of proteins that contain 1 or more carbohydrate-recognition domains(CRDs)and bind to a broad repertoire of ligands in the presence of calcium *** play important roles in innate immune defenses against microorganisms by acting as pattern-recognition receptors(PRRs)for invading pathogens,such as bacteria,viruses,and *** binding to pathogen-associated ligands,CTLs mediate immune responses,such as agglutination,phagocytosis,and the activation of phenol oxidase progenitors,thereby clearing *** are an evolutionarily conserved family found in almost all vertebrates and *** arthropods can acquire and transmit a range pathogens through various approaches,such as bloodsucking,lancing,and parasitism,thus infecting humans and animals with related diseases,some of which can be *** studies have shown that lectins are important components of the arthropod immune system and are essential for the immune responses of arthropods to arthropod-borne *** article reviews the current understanding of the structure,function,and signaling pathways involved in CTLs derived from important medical arthropods.

关键词： arthropod C-type lectin innate immunity vector-borne disease

Two H3K36 methyltransferases differentially associate with transcriptional activity and enrichment of facultative heterochromatin in rice blast fungus

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aBIOTECH 2024年第1期5卷 1-16页

作者： Mengting Xu Ziyue Sun Huanbin Shi Jiangnan Yue Xiaohui Xiong Zhongling Wu Yanjun Kou Zeng Tao Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Molecular biology of Crop Pathogens and Insects Institute of BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhou 310058China State Key Lab of Rice biology and Breeding China National Rice Research InstituteHangzhou 310021China

Di-and tri-methylation of lysine 36 on histone H3(H3K36me2/3)is catalysed by histone methyltransferase Set2,which plays an essential role in transcriptional *** there is a single H3K36 methyltransferase in yeast and higher eukaryotes,two H3K36 methyltransferases,Ash1 and Set2,were present in many filamentous ***,their roles in H3K36 methylation and transcriptional regulation remained *** with methods of RNA-seq and ChIP-seq,we revealed that both Ash1 and Set2 are redundantly required for the full H3K36me2/3 activity in Magnaporthe oryzae,which causes the devastating worldwide rice blast ***1 and Set2 distinguish genomic H3K36me2/3-marked regions and are differentially associated with repressed and activated transcription,***,Ash1-catalysed H3K36me2 was co-localized with H3K27me3 at the chromatin,and Ash1 was required for the enrichment and transcriptional silencing of H3K27me3-occupied *** the different roles of Ash1 and Set2,in H3K36me2/3 enrichment and transcriptional regulation on the stress-responsive genes,they differentially respond to various stresses in ***,we reveal a novel mechanism by which two H3K36 methyltransferases catalyze H3K36me2/3 that differentially associate with transcriptional activities and contribute to enrichment of facultative heterochromatin in eukaryotes.

关键词： Ash1 Facultative heterochromatin H3K36me2/3 Magnaporthe oryzae Set2 Transcriptional regulation

Oxygen is an essential gasotransmitter directly sensed via protein gasoreceptors

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Animal Models and Experimental Medicine 2024年第2期7卷 189-193页

作者： Savani Anbalagan Faculty of biology Institute of Molecular Biology and BiotechnologyAdam Mickiewicz UniversityPoznańPoland

The current restrictive criteria for gasotransmitters exclude oxygen(O_(2))as a gasotransmitter in *** this manuscript,I propose a revision of gasotransmitter criteria to include O_(2) per se as a signaling molecule and'essential gasotransmitter'for *** revision would enable us to search for protein-based O_(2)-binding sensors(gasoreceptors)in all cells in the brain or other tissues rather than specialized tissues such as the carotid body or *** microorganisms have protein-based O_(2)-binding sensors or gasoreceptors such as DosP or FixL or FNR with diverse signaling domains,then eukaryotic cells must also have O_(2)-binding sensors or *** as there are proteinbased receptor(s)for nitric oxide(GUCY1A,GUCY1B,CLOCK,NR1D2)in cells of diverse tissues,it is reasonable to consider that there are protein-based receptors for O_(2) in cells of diverse tissues as *** mammals,O_(2) must be acting as a gasotransmitter or gaseous signaling molecule via protein-based gasoreceptors such as androglobin that very likely mediate acute sensing of O_(2).Accepting O_(2) as an essential gasotransmitter will enable us to search for gasoreceptors not only for O_(2) but also for other nonessential gasotransmitters such as hydrogen sulfide,ammonia,methane,and *** will also allow us to investigate the role of environment-derived metal ions in acute gas(or solute)sensing within and between ***,accepting O_(2) per se as a signaling molecule acting via gasoreceptors will open up the field of gasocrinology.

关键词： essential gasotransmitter gasocrine gasoreceptor gasocrinology

m^(6)A modification of plant virus enables host recognition by NMD factors in plants

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Science China(Life Sciences) 2024年第1期67卷 161-174页

作者： Hao He Linhao Ge Yalin Chen Siwen Zhao Zhaolei Li Xueping Zhou Fangfang Li State Key Laboratory for biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests Institute of Plant ProtectionChinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesBeijing 100193China State Key Laboratory of Rice biology Institute of BiotechnologyZhejiang UniversityHangzhou 310029China

N^(6)-methyladenosine(m^(6)A)is the most abundant eukaryotic mRNA modification and is involved in various biological *** evidence has implicated that m^(6)Amodification is an important anti-viral defense mechanism in mammals and plants,but it is largely unknown how m^(6)Aregulates viral infection in *** we report the dynamic changes and functional anatomy of m^(6)Ain Nicotiana benthamiana and Solanum lycopersicum during Pepino mosaic virus(PepMV)infection.m^(6)Amodification in the PepMV RNA genome is conserved in these two *** of the m^(6)Awriters,mRNA adenosine methylase A(MTA),and HAKAI inhibit the PepMV RNA accumulation accompanied by increased viral m^(6)Amodifications,whereas deficiency of these writers decreases the viral RNA m^(6)Alevels but enhances virus *** study reveals that the cytoplasmic YTH-domain family protein NbECT2A/2B/2C as m^(6)Areaders are involved in anti-viral ***-protein interactions indicate that NbECT2A/2B/2C interact with nonsense-mediated mRNA decay(NMD)-related proteins,including NbUPF3 and NbSMG7,but not with NbUPF1.m^(6)Amodification-mediated restriction to PepMV infection is dependent on NMD-related *** findings provide new insights into the functionality of m^(6)Aanti-viral activity and reveal a distinct immune response that NMD factors recognize the m^(6)Areaders-viral m^(6)ARNA complex for viral RNA degradation to limit virus infection in plants.

关键词： m^(6)A Pepino mosaic virus plant defense m^(6)A readers NMD factors

Emerging role of cellular senescence in normal lung development and perinatal lung injury

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Chinese Medical Journal Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 2024年第1期2卷 10-16页

作者： Phyllis A.Dennery Hongwei Yao Department of Molecular biology Cell Biology&BiochemistryDivision of Biology and MedicineBrown UniversityProvidenceRI 02912USA Department of Pediatrics Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown UniversityProvidenceRI 02903USA

Cellular senescence is a status of irreversible growth arrest,which can be triggered by the p53/p21cip1 and p16INK4/Rb pathways via intrinsic and external *** cells are typically enlarged and flattened,and characterized by numerous molecular *** latter consists of increased surfaceome,increased resid-ual lysosomal activity at pH 6.0(manifested by increased activity of senescence-associated beta-galactosidase[SA-𝛽-gal]),senescence-associated mitochondrial dysfunction,cytoplasmic chromatin fragment,nuclear lamin b1 exclusion,telomere-associated foci,and the senescence-associated secretory *** features vary depending on the stressor leading to senescence and the type of *** senescence plays pivotal roles in organismal aging and in the pathogenesis of aging-related ***,senescence can also both promote and inhibit wound healing *** recently report that senescence as a programmed pro-cess contributes to normal lung *** senescence is also observed in Down Syndrome,as well as in premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia and in a hyperoxia-induced rodent model of this ***,this senescence results in neonatal lung *** this review,we briefly discuss the molecular features of *** then focus on the emerging role of senescence in normal lung development and in the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia as well as putative signaling pathways driving ***,we discuss potential therapeutic approaches targeting senescent cells to prevent perinatal lung diseases.

关键词： Senescence Normal lung development Bronchopulmonary dysplasia Down syndrome Senolytics

A novel deep generative model for mRNA vaccine development: Designing 5′ UTRs with N1-methyl-pseudouridine modification

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Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B 2024年第4期14卷 1814-1826页

作者： Xiaoshan Tang Miaozhe Huo Yuting Chen Hai Huang Shugang Qin Jiaqi Luo Zeyi Qin Xin Jiang Yongmei Liu Xing Duan Ruohan Wang Lingxi Chen Hao Li Na Fan Zhongshan He Xi He Bairong Shen Shuai Cheng Li Xiangrong Song Institute of systems Genetics Department of Critical Care MedicineFrontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular NetworkState Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer CenterWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengdu 610000China Department of Computer Science City University of Hong KongHong Kong 99907China Department of biology Brandeis UniversityBostonMA 02453USA

Efficient translation mediated by the 5'untranslated region(5'UTR)is essential for the robust efficacy of mRNA ***,the N1-methyl-pseudouridine(m1)modification of mRNA can impact the translation efficiency of the 5'*** discovered that the optimal 5'UTR for m1y-modified mRNA(m1y-5'UTR)differs significantly from its unmodified counterpart,high-lighting the need for a specialized tool for designing mly-5'UTRs rather than directly utilizing high-expression endogenous gene 5'*** response,we developed a novel machine learning-based tool,Smart5UTR,which employs a deep generative model to identify superior m1y-5'UTRs in *** tailored loss function and network architecture enable Smart5UTR to overcome limitations inherent in existing *** a result,Smart5UTR can successfully design superior 5'UTRs,greatly benefiting mRNA vaccine ***,Smart5UTR-designed superior 5'UTRs significantly enhanced antibody titers induced by COVID-19 mRNA vaccines against the Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2,surpassing the performance of vaccines using high-expression endogenous gene 5'UTRs.

关键词： mRNA vaccine Machine learning 5'UTR mRNA design Sequence design N1-Methyl-pseudouridine COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2

Comparison of methods for deriving phenotypes from incomplete observation data with an application to age at puberty in dairy cattle

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Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 2024年第2期15卷 535-545页

作者： Melissa A.Stephen Chris R.Burke Jennie E.Pryce Nicole M.Steele Peter R.Amer Susanne Meier Claire V.C.Phyn Dorian J.Garrick DairyNZ Ltd 605 Ruakura RoadHamilton 3240New Zealand AL Rae Centre for Genetics and Breeding-Massey University RuakuraHamilton 3214New Zealand Agriculture Victoria Research AgriBioCentre for AgriBioscienceBundooraVictoria 3083Australia School of Applied systems biology La Trobe UniversityBundooraVictoria 3083Australia AbacusBio DunedinNew Zealand

Background Many phenotypes in animal breeding are derived from incomplete measures,especially if they are challenging or expensive to measure *** include time-dependent traits such as reproductive status,or *** measures for these traits result in phenotypes that are subject to left-,interval-and rightcensoring,where phenotypes are only known to fall below an upper bound,between a lower and upper bound,or above a lower bound *** we compare three methods for deriving phenotypes from incomplete data using age at first elevation(>1 ng/mL)in blood plasma progesterone(AGEP4),which generally coincides with onset of puberty,as an example *** We produced AGEP4 phenotypes from three blood samples collected at about 30-day intervals from approximately 5,000 Holstein–Friesian or Holstein–Friesian×Jersey cross-bred dairy heifers managed in 54 seasonal-calving,pasture-based herds in New *** used these actual data to simulate 7 different visit scenarios,increasing the extent of censoring by disregarding data from one or two of the three *** methods for deriving phenotypes from these data were explored:1)ordinal categorical variables which were analysed using categorical threshold analysis;2)continuous variables,with a penalty of 31 d assigned to right-censored phenotypes;and 3)continuous variables,sampled from within a lower and upper bound using a data augmentation *** Credibility intervals for heritability estimations overlapped across all methods and visit scenarios,but estimated heritabilities tended to be higher when left censoring was *** sires with at least 5 daughters,the correlations between estimated breeding values(EBVs)from our three-visit scenario and each reduced data scenario varied by method,ranging from 0.65 to *** estimated breed effects also varied by method,but breed differences were smaller as phenotype censoring *** Our results indicate that using

关键词： Cattle Gibbs sampler Markov-chain Monte Carlo(MCMC) Puberty