Growth-regulating factors (GRFs) are plant-specific transcription factors with vital roles in multiple biological processes. Although GRFs have been identified in various plant species, a comprehensive analysis of GRF genes in peach (Prunus persica) has not yet been reported. In this study, 10 PpGRF genes distributed on 6 chromosomes were identified in peach genome and their properties were analyzed systematically. Expression pattern analysis suggested that most PpGRFs were preferentially expressed in young tissues. Multiple types of...

Growth-regulating factors (GRFs) are plant-specific transcription factors with vital roles in multiple biological processes. Although GRFs have been identified in various plant species, a comprehensive analysis of GRF genes in peach (Prunus persica) has not yet been reported. In this study, 10 PpGRF genes distributed on 6 chromosomes were identified in peach genome and their properties were analyzed systematically. Expression pattern analysis suggested that most PpGRFs were preferentially expressed in young tissues. Multiple types of...

Rapid economic development and interference by human activities in rapid urbanization regions have caused great land use/land cover change (LUCC), which significantly affects ecosystem functions and services. It is crucial to assess the spatiotemporal evolution of ecosystem service value (ESV) in such regions, especially for the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) in China. In this study, we investigated and predicted the effect of LUCC on the ESV in the GBA from 1990 to 2030...

Global land cover has undergone extensive and rapid changes as a result of human activities and climate change. These changes have had a significant impact on biodiversity, the surface energy balance, and sustainable development. Global land cover data underpins research on the development of earth system models, resource management, and evaluation of the ecological environment. However, there are limitations in the classification detail, spatial resolution, and rapid change monitoring capability of global land cover change...

LncRNAs involve in the autophagy to regulate prostate cancer (PCA) initiation and progression. Therefore, it urges to explore more significant AR-lncRNAs in PCa. mRNA data and clinical information of PCa were achieved from TCGA database, and ARGs were obtained from the HADb. AR-lncRNAs were identified by correlation analysis of DE ARGs and lncRNAs. Univariate Cox regression, LASSO regression, and multivariate Cox regression were used to identify the prognostic AR-lncRNA signature and constructed a risk model....

Community composition of soil nematodes under five fertilization treatments in a paddy rice-upland wheat rotation system. CK: unfertilized control; CF: chemical fertilizer; MCF: pig manure plus chemical fertilizer; SCF: straw plus chemical fertilizer; MSCF: pig manure plus straw plus chemical fertilizer.

Whether hemostatic status was correlated with the diverse types of acute kidney injury in cirrhotic patients is unclear. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between hemostatic markers and the diverse types of acute kidney injury (AKI) in liver cirrhosis. Cirrhotic patients with consecutive treatment at the First Affiliated Hospital of Medicine School, Zhejiang University, were pooled in a cohort. Their demographic and clinical data, biochemistry parameters and hemostatic markers were assessed to identify...

Recent research unveiled that LINC00857 plays a regulatory role in multiple human cancers, such as lung adenocarcinoma and gastric cancer. Nevertheless, the function of LINC00857 in pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) remains unclear. This study concentrates on LINC00857 to discuss the relevant molecular mechanism of this gene in PAAD. Quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) and western blot were implemented for measuring the expressions of RNAs and proteins. Wound healing and Transwell assays were used to...

SCFD1 (sec1 family domain containing 1) was recently shown to function in autophagosome-lysosome fusion, and multiple studies have demonstrated the regulatory impacts of acetylation (a post-translational modification) on macroautophagy/autophagy. Here, we demonstrate that both acetylation- and phosphorylation-dependent mechanisms control SCFD1ʹs function in autophagosome-lysosome fusion. After detecting a decrease in the extent of SCFD1 acetylation under autophagy-stimulated conditions, we found that KAT2B/PCAF catalyzes the acetylation of residues K126 and K515 of SCFD1; we also showed that...

Soil microbiota is associated with plant growth and nutrition. Investigation of plant–soil interaction is essential for revealing the changes of microbial dynamics in the soil. Vegetation types and human activities, such as agriculture, had severely affected soil microbial structure and function. In this study, 16S rRNA were analysed to identify microbial structures in the soil. The total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) in these soil samples were also analysed. TOC and TN in...

Kenaf is one of the most important natural fiber crops worldwide, which aims at harvesting bast fiber. Mining QTL loci of fiber yield and quality traits will facilitate fiber improvement and molecular marker-assisted breeding in kenaf. In this study, Fuhong 952 and Zanyin No. 1 were used as parents to construct two mapping populations, F2 and F2:3, and an evenly distributed genetic linkage map was constructed by re-sequencing. The map contains 2512 contig-tag-SNP markers, and...

To investigate the effect of IL-27 on Th9 differentiation and Th1/Th2 balance. C57BL/6 (B6) mice were treated with ovalbumin to establish an allergic asthma (AA) model and subjected to IL-27 overexpression (OV) and empty vector (EV). Hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining was performed to observe lung tissue inflammation. Flow cytometry was carried out to evaluate the percentage of Th9, Th1, and Th2 cells. The expression of IL-27, IL-27R, IL-9, T-bet, IFN-γ, and IgE was evaluated by quantitative...

To investigate the effect of IL-27 on Th9 differentiation and Th1/Th2 balance. C57BL/6 (B6) mice were treated with ovalbumin to establish an allergic asthma (AA) model and subjected to IL-27 overexpression (OV) and empty vector (EV). Hematoxylin-eosin (HE) staining was performed to observe lung tissue inflammation. Flow cytometry was carried out to evaluate the percentage of Th9, Th1, and Th2 cells. The expression of IL-27, IL-27R, IL-9, T-bet, IFN-γ, and IgE was evaluated by quantitative...

Collaborative geographic analysis can lead to better outcomes but requires complicated interactions among participants, support resources and analytic tools. A process expression with explicit structure and content can help coordinate and guide these interactions. For different geographic problems, the structure and content of collaborative geographic analysis are generally distinct. Since the process structure embodies the pathway of problem-solving and the process content contains the information flow and internal interactions, both the structure and the content...

Abstract Background Large medical centers in urban areas, like Los Angeles, care for a diverse patient population and offer the potential to study the interplay between genetic ancestry and social determinants of health. Here, we explore the implications of genetic ancestry within the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) ATLAS Community Health Initiative—an ancestrally diverse biobank of genomic data linked with de-identified electronic health records (EHRs) of UCLA Health patients (N=36,736). Methods We quantify the...

Additional file 4: Table S8. Associations between genetically inferred ancestry and phecodes within ATLAS while adjusting for SIRE.

Additional file 8: Table S12. Effective sample sizes and effect sizes of correlated phenotypes for chronic nonalcoholic liver disease. Table S13. Role of phecode occurrences for defining cases. Table S14. Summary of methods. Table S15. Comparison of GIA clusters when restricting to unrelated individuals. Table S16. Comparison of genetic ancestry proportions within SIREs when using unrelated individuals.

Abstract Background Large medical centers in urban areas, like Los Angeles, care for a diverse patient population and offer the potential to study the interplay between genetic ancestry and social determinants of health. Here, we explore the implications of genetic ancestry within the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) ATLAS Community Health Initiative—an ancestrally diverse biobank of genomic data linked with de-identified electronic health records (EHRs) of UCLA Health patients (N=36,736). Methods We quantify the...

Gastric cancer is among the most common gastrointestinal malignancies. Recent studies have suggested that bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP2) is related to the development and progression of various cancers. Meanwhile, evidence suggests that BMP2 might lead to epigenetic changes in gastric cancer. Thus, we investigated whether BMP2 plays a role in the development of gastric cancer via epigenetic regulation. Cell viability, colony formation, and cell cycle assays were performed to assess the effect of recombinant human...

As a complement of production-based accounting (PBA), consumption-based accounting (CBA) provides an alternative perspective to understand national emissions and responsibilities for global climate change. Existing studies assessed historical national emissions under CBA. However, how CBA might guide future mitigation under the Paris Agreement goals has not been well understood. By combining global multi-region input-output analysis and the equity principle of ‘equal cumulative per capita emissions’ (ECPCE), this study explores potential implications of CBA for future...

Appropriate timing of flowering is pivotal for tobacco, while chilling stress occurring at the seedling stage often undesirably leads to early flowering. However, the potential mechanism underlying chilling-induced early flowering remains unknown. Here, transcriptome sequencing was performed in tobacco with or without chilling at both seedling and budding stages. Chilling affected the expression of numerous genes at the seedling stage, while these dramatic expression changes were largely eliminated at the budding stage. A small number...

Resembling acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a unique subtype of APL who sharing clinical, morphological, and immunophenotypic features with typical APL, but lacking evidence of PML-RARA fusion gene and usually insensitive to arsenic trioxide (ATO) and all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA). For years, RARA, RARB and RARG rearrangement were found in resembling APL continually. The confirmed partner genes of RARG rearrangement included CPSF6, NUP98, NPM1, PML, and HNRNPC. These patients were a group of resembling APL...

Sucrose transporters (SUCs/SUTs) play crucial roles in apoplast transport and long-distance distribution of sucrose throughout the whole plant. However, whether and how the Arabidopsis AtSUC4 modulates sucrose import from apoplast to cytosol remains unclear. In the present study, we found that AtSUC4 protein was localized to the plasma membrane in the root. Expression of AtSUC4 in roots was gradually induced with the increasing sucrose concentrations (0%, 2%, 4% and 6%). When feeding high concentrations (4%...

The reduction of CO2 into valuable chemicals through electrocatalytic techniques provides a potential strategy to alleviate energy crises and environmental pollution. In this study, 2D M3(THT)2 (M = Fe, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, Pd, THT = 2,3,6,7,10,11-triphenylenehexathiolate) framework as CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) electrocatalysts was investigated by using the density functional method. The results showed that the studied catalysts are stable both thermodynamically and electrochemically. Rh3(THT)2 exhibits the best catalytic performance to produce CH4 with...

Abstract Background BCR-ABL1T315I mutations confer resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Olverembatinib is a new potent BCR-ABL1 TKI with preclinical activity against T315I-mutated CML. In phase 1/2 studies, we explored the safety and efficacy of olverembatinib in Chinese adults with TKI-resistant CML in the chronic phase (CML-CP) and accelerated phase (CML-AP). Methods In the phase 1 study, olverembatinib was orally administered once every other day in 28-day cycles at 11...