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Physiological and pathological functions of circular RNAs in the nervous system

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第2期19卷 342-349页

作者： Min Zhou Shi Li Chuan Huang school of life sciences Chongqing UniversityChongqingChina

Circular RNAs(circRNAs)are a class of covalently closed single-stranded RNAs that are expressed during the development of specific cells and *** play crucial roles in physiological and pathological processes by sponging microRNAs,modulating gene transcription,controlling the activity of certain RNA-binding proteins,and producing functional peptides.A key focus of research at present is the functionality of circRNAs in the nervous system and several advances have emerged over the last 2 ***,the precise role of circRNAs in the nervous system has yet to be comprehensively *** this review,we first summarize the recently described roles of circRNAs in brain development,maturity,and ***,we focus on the involvement of circRNAs in various diseases of the central nervous system,such as brain cancer,chronic neurodegenerative diseases,acute injuries of the nervous system,and neuropathic pain.A better understanding of the functionality of circRNAs will help us to develop potential diagnostic,prognostic,and therapeutic strategies to treat diseases of the nervous system.

关键词： Alzheimer’s disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis brain development circRNAs neuropathic pain Parkinson’s disease

Impact of tourism on the vigilance behavior of the Cyprus rock agama(Laudakia cypriaca)

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Integrative Zoology 2024年第3期19卷 577-583页

作者： Artur GOLAWSKI Iris CHARALAMBIDOU Sylwia GOLAWSKA Faculty of sciences Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and HumanitiesSiedlcePolandand Department of life sciences School of Life and Health SciencesUniversity of NicosiaNicosiaCyprus

Escape behavior is a common antipredator strategy among wild ***,we investigated the effect of four factors on the vigilance behavior of the endemic Cyprus rock agama(Laudakia cypriaca).Flight initiation distance(FID,the minimum distance to which an observer can approach a lizard before it flees)was measured in relation to the type of location(tourist *** area),the observer’s starting distance,air temperature,and substrate *** collected data for 39 agamas in tourist areas and 34 of these lizards in nontourist *** a whole,the mean starting distance was 10.5 m and the FID was 3.6 *** average substrate temperature was 34.0℃ and the average air temperature 29.6℃.Only the type of area affected the agamas’escape decisions with FID being 1.8 m shorter in tourist areas than in nontourist areas(2.7 m vs.4.5 m).This is probably due to the habituation of lizards to the presence of humans in the former *** study shows that tourism strongly affects the behavior of lizards,which may have consequences for the functioning of the *** can increase the safety of lizards by creating a human shield to deter *** the tourist season is over,lizards may become more vulnerable to predators.

关键词： anthropogenic disturbance flight initiation distance lizards tourism vigilance behavior

PRRSV degrades MDA5 via dual autophagy receptors P62 and CCT2 to evade antiviral innate immunity

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Virologica Sinica 2024年第2期39卷 264-276页

作者： Ruiqi Sun Yanyu Guo Lilin Zhang Huixia Zhang Boxuan Yin Xiaoyang Li Changyan Li Liu Yang Lei Zhang Zexing Li Jinhai Huang school of life sciences Tianjin UniversityTianjin300072China

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus(PRRSV)is a major economically devastating pathogen that has evolved various strategies to evade innate *** of antiviral interferon largely promotes PRRSV immunoevasion by utilizing cytoplasmic melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5(MDA5),a receptor that senses viral *** this study,the downregulated transcription and expression levels of porcine MDA5 in PRRSV infection were observed,and the detailed mechanisms were *** found that the interaction between P62 and MDA5 is enhanced due to two factors:the phosphorylation modification of the autophagic receptor P62 by the upregulated kinase CK2αand the K63 ubiquitination of porcine MDA5 catalyzed by the E3 ubiquitinase TRIM21 in PRRSV-infected *** a result of these modifications,the classic P62-mediated autophagy is ***,porcine MDA5 interacts with the chaperonin containing TCP1 subunit 2(CCT2),which is enhanced by PRRSV *** interaction promotes the aggregate formation and autophagic clearance of MDA5-CCT2-nsp3 independently of *** summary,enhanced MDA5 degradation occurs in PRRSV infection via two autophagic pathways:the binding of MDA5 with the autophagy receptor P62 and the aggrephagy receptor CCT2,leading to intense innate immune *** research reveals a novel mechanism of immune evasion in PRRSV infection and provides fundamental insights for the development of new vaccines or therapeutic strategies.

关键词： Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus(PRRSV) nsp3 Autophagy MDA5

The autophagy protein Atg9 functions in glia and contributes to parkinsonian symptoms in a Drosophila model of Parkinson’s disease

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第5期19卷 1150-1155页

作者： Shuanglong Yi Linfang Wang Margaret S.Ho Shiping Zhang school of life Science and Technology ShanghaiTech UniversityShanghaiChina College of life sciences University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor deficits,dopaminergic neuron loss,and brain accumulation ofα-synuclein aggregates called Lewy *** in protein degradation pathways,such as autophagy,has been demonstrated in neurons as a critical mechanism for eliminating protein aggregates in Parkinson’s ***,it is less well understood how protein aggregates are eliminated in glia,the other cell type in the *** the present study,we show that autophagy-related gene 9(Atg9),the only transmembrane protein in the autophagy machinery,is highly expressed in Drosophila glia from adult *** from immunostaining and live cell imaging analysis reveal that a portion of Atg9 localizes to the trans-Golgi network,autophagosomes,and lysosomes in ***9 is persistently in contact with these *** glial atg9 reduces the number of omegasomes and autophagosomes,and impairs autophagic substrate *** suggests that glial Atg9 participates in the early steps of autophagy,and hence the control of autophagic ***,loss of glial atg9 induces parkinsonian symptoms in Drosophila including progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons,locomotion deficits,and glial *** findings identify a functional role of Atg9 in glial autophagy and establish a potential link between glial autophagy and Parkinson’s *** results may provide new insights on the underlying mechanism of Parkinson’s disease.

关键词： Atg9 autophagy glia Parkinson’s disease

The IDD Transcription Factors:Their Functions in Plant Development and Environmental Response

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Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 2024年第1期93卷 63-79页

作者： Jing Liu Defeng Shu Zilong Tan Mei Ma Huanhuan Yang Ning Guo Shipeng Li Dayong Cui school of life sciences Qilu Normal UniversityJinan250200China school of life sciences Shandong Normal UniversityJinan250014China

INDETERMINATE-DOMAIN proteins(IDDs)are a plant-specific transcription factor family characterized by a conserved ID domain with four zinc finger *** studies have demonstrated that IDDs coordinate a diversity of physiological processes and functions in plant growth and development,including floral transition,plant architecture,seed and root development,and hormone *** this review,we especially summarized the latest knowledge on the functions and working models of IDD members in Arabidopsis,rice,and maize,particularly focusing on their role in the regulatory network of biotic and abiotic environmental responses,such as gravity,temperature,water,and *** these mechanisms underlying the function of IDD proteins in these processes is important for improving crop yields by manipulating their ***,the review offers valuable insights into the functions and mechanisms of IDD proteins in plants,providing a foundation for further research and potential applications in agriculture.

关键词： INDETERMINATE DOMAIN flowering time root development shoot gravitropism plant immunity hormonal signaling environmental responses

Tributyltin causes generational neurodevelopmental toxicity and the protective effect of folic acid in zebrafish

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Journal of Environmental sciences 2024年第3期137卷 615-625页

作者： Haoxing Cai Naying Zheng Chen Tang Yuxuan Zhang Zhenghong Zuo Chengyong He State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology School of Life SciencesFaculty of Medicine and Life SciencesXiang’an Hospital of Xiamen UniversityXiamen UniversityXiamen 361005China

Tributyltin(TBT),a common organotin environmental pollutant,may pose a threat to human development during critical early-life *** aimed to assess the neurodevelopmental intergenerational toxicity of early-life exposure to TBT and the protective effect of DNA methyl donor folic acid(FA).Specifically,after early-life exposure(1–21 days postfertilization,dpf)to TBT(0,1,10 and 100 ng/L),zebrafish(Danio rerio)were cultured in clean medium until sexual *** exposed females were mated with unexposed males to produce embryos(F1).The F1 generation were cultured(4–120 hours post-fertilization,hpf)with and without 1 mmol/L *** neurotoxic effects of early-life TBT exposure for zebrafish and their offspring(F1)were significantly enhanced anxiety and reduced aggression,decreased gene expression of DNA methyltransferase in the brain and increased serotonin levels in the ***,the intergenerational neurodevelopmental toxicity,as manifested in the F1 generation,was attenuated by FA *** summary,early-life TBT exposure led to intergenerational neurodevelopmental deficits in zebrafish,and DNA methyl donors had a protective effect on F1 neurodevelopment,which can inform the prevention and treatment of intergenerational neurotoxicity due to organotin pollutants.

关键词： Tributyltin Neurodevelopment Intergeneration DNA methylation Folic acid Zebrafish

Shallow sub-lakes are essential for sustaining the successful wintering of waterbirds in Poyang Lake,China

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Avian Research 2024年第2期15卷 219-228页

作者： Mengjie Lu Zhen Zhang Peng Chen Changxin Xu Bin Gao Luzhang Ruan school of life sciences Nanchang UniversityNanchang330031China Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecosystem Change and Biodiversity Center for Watershed EcologyInstitute of Life Science and School of Life SciencesNanchang UniversityNanchang330031China

For migratory waterbirds,the quality of wintering habitat is related to spring migration and successful breeding in the next *** availability of food resources in the habitat is critical and varies within water *** the water-level fluctuations in Poyang Lake have been extremely variable interannually in recent years,the wintering waterbird populations have remained relatively ***,the mechanism of maintaining the stability is worth *** study aimed to compare the distribution of vegetation and herbivorous wa-terbirds in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017,focusing on three shallow sub-lakes and one main lake *** results showed that the emergence of tubers and the growth of Carex *** a continuous food supply and habitat for wintering waterbirds with a gradual decline in the water *** sub-lakes supported almost all of the tuber-eating waterbirds(1.42-1.62×10^(5))and most geese(1.34-1.53×10^(6)).However,the main lake area,covered with Persicaria hydropiper,did not provide adequate and accessible *** resulted in almost no distribution of tuber-eating waterbirds,with only a few geese congregating in early *** results demonstrated that the shallow sub-lakes under human control provided a different environment from the main lake and are key to sustaining the successful wintering of hundreds of thousands of migratory waterbirds in Poyang ***,we recommend refining the anthropogenic management of the shallow sub-lakes to regulate the water level to ensure the carrying capacity of Poyang Lake.

关键词： Anthropogenic management Carrying capacity Seasonal lake Water level Wintering habitat

The influence of wing morphology upon intraspecific divergence in birds: A global study of subspecies richness

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Avian Research 2024年第2期15卷 196-201页

作者： Haiying Fan Weibin Guo Buge Lin Zhiqing Hu Changcao Wang Shaobin Li school of life sciences Jinggangshan UniversityJi’An343009China State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering School of Life SciencesHubei UniversityWuhan430062China College of life Science Yangtze UniversityJingzhou434023China

Since the time of Darwin,subspecies have been recognized as an initial stage in the evolution of ***,the impact of dispersal on subspecies richness in birds globally has received little attention,despite dispersal being a key factor in determining the rate of evolution and playing a significant role in evolutionary ***,it is important to conduct a comprehensive study to address this *** this study,we aimed to assess the association between subspecies richness(measured by the number of subspecies)and dispersal ability(measured by the hand-wing index)on a global scale,using a dataset of over 7000 bird *** results revealed a negative correlation between dispersal ability and the number of subspecies,without any quadratic *** wing is a crucial phenotypic trait for birds,and the concept of subspecies is important in speciation theory and conservation ***,our findings not only enhance our understanding of the association between avian morphological traits and evolutionary divergence but also have implications for the conservation of avian species diversity.

关键词： Dispersal Gene flow Hand-wing index Subspecies richness

Implications of mosquito metabolism on vector competence

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Insect Science 2024年第3期31卷 674-682页

作者： Li Gao Wenxu Yang Jingwen Wang State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering School of Life SciencesFudan UniversityShanghaiChina Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology School of Life SciencesFudan UniversityShanghaiChina

Mosquito-borne diseases(MBDs)annually kill nearly half a million *** to the lack of effective vaccines and drugs on most MBDs,disease prevention relies primarily on controlling *** huge efforts having been put into mosquito control,eco-friendly and sustainable mosquito-control strategies are still lacking and urgently *** mosquito-transmitted pathogens have lost the capacity of de novo nutrition biosynthesis,and rely on their vertebrate and invertebrate hosts for sustenance during the long-term obligate parasitism ***,a better understanding of the metabolic interactions between mosquitoes and pathogens will contribute to the discovery of novel metabolic targets or regulators that lead to reduced mosquito populations or vector *** review summarizes the current knowledge about the effects of mosquito metabolism on the transmission of multiple *** also discuss that research in this area remains to be explored to develop multiple biological prevention and control strategies for MBDs.

关键词： flaviviruses mosquito metabolism Plasmodium vector competence