Amino acids play crucial roles in the MTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin kinase) complex 1 (MTORC1) pathway. However, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Here, we establish a cell-free system to mimic the activation of MTORC1, by which we identify CANX (calnexin) as an essential regulator for leucine-stimulated MTORC1 pathway. CANX translocates to lysosomes after leucine deprivation, and its loss of function renders either the MTORC1 activity or the lysosomal translocation of MTOR insensitive...

Whether combined CsA with androgen therapy was superior to androgen therapy alone in NSAA remains controversial. This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of combined therapy versus androgen therapy for NSAA patients using a meta-analytic approach. An electronic database of PubMed, EmBase, Cochrane library, CNKI, VIP, and Wanfang was systematically searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from their inception to February 2020. The primary endpoint was effective rate, while the secondary endpoints included...

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Staphylococcus aureus can survive within phagocytes. Indeed, we confirm in this study that approximately 10% of population persists in macrophages during S. aureus infection, while the rest are eliminated due to bacteriolysis, which is of particular interest to us. Herein, we observe that the bacteriolysis is an early event accompanied by macrophage death during S. aureus infection. Furthermore, the cell death is significantly accelerated following increased intracellular bacteriolysis, indicating that intracellular bacteriolysis induces cell death....

Extracellular trap (ET) appears as a double-edged sword for the host since it participates in host immune defense by entrapping pathogens, while excessive ET release also contributes to various diseases progression including atherosclerosis, cancer, and autoimmune disorders. A better understanding of ET formation and regulation will be beneficial for developing strategies for infection control and ET-associated disease treatment. There is some evidence indicating that prior infection can enhance extracellular killing. Neutrophils from cancer or sepsis...

In forensic medical examinations, estimating the postmortem interval (PMI) is an important factor. Methamphetamine (MA) is a synthetic stimulant that is commonly abused, and estimation of the PMI after MA abuse has become one of the main tasks in forensic investigation. Microorganisms play a vital role in carrion decomposition. Analysing the bacterial succession patterns can be used as a forensic tool to estimate the PMI. The present study aimed to analyse bacterial succession changes during...

Glioma is one of the leading causes of tumor-related deaths worldwide, but its potential mechanism remains unclear. This study aimed to explore the biological role and potential mechanism of argininosuccinate synthase 1 (ASS1) in glioma. The relative expression levels of ASS1 in glioma specimens and cell lines were calculated by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and Western blotting. The biological functions of ASS1 were demonstrated using the 5-ethynyl-2ʹ-deoxyuridine (EdU) assay, transwell assay, and in...

Groups of sympatric taxa with low inter-specific genetic differentiation, but considerable ecological differences, offer great opportunities to study the dynamics of divergence and speciation. This is the case of ciscoes (Coregonus spp.) in the Laurentian Great Lakes, which are characterized by a complex evolutionary history and are commonly described as having undergone an adaptive radiation. In this study, morphometrics, stable isotopes and transcriptome sequencing were used to study the relationships within the Coregonus artedi complex...

Staphylococcus aureus can survive within phagocytes. Indeed, we confirm in this study that approximately 10% of population persists in macrophages during S. aureus infection, while the rest are eliminated due to bacteriolysis, which is of particular interest to us. Herein, we observe that the bacteriolysis is an early event accompanied by macrophage death during S. aureus infection. Furthermore, the cell death is significantly accelerated following increased intracellular bacteriolysis, indicating that intracellular bacteriolysis induces cell death....

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Glioma is one of the leading causes of tumor-related deaths worldwide, but its potential mechanism remains unclear. This study aimed to explore the biological role and potential mechanism of argininosuccinate synthase 1 (ASS1) in glioma. The relative expression levels of ASS1 in glioma specimens and cell lines were calculated by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and Western blotting. The biological functions of ASS1 were demonstrated using the 5-ethynyl-2ʹ-deoxyuridine (EdU) assay, transwell assay, and in...

Amino acids play crucial roles in the MTOR (mechanistic target of rapamycin kinase) complex 1 (MTORC1) pathway. However, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Here, we establish a cell-free system to mimic the activation of MTORC1, by which we identify CANX (calnexin) as an essential regulator for leucine-stimulated MTORC1 pathway. CANX translocates to lysosomes after leucine deprivation, and its loss of function renders either the MTORC1 activity or the lysosomal translocation of MTOR insensitive...

Whether combined CsA with androgen therapy was superior to androgen therapy alone in NSAA remains controversial. This study aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of combined therapy versus androgen therapy for NSAA patients using a meta-analytic approach. An electronic database of PubMed, EmBase, Cochrane library, CNKI, VIP, and Wanfang was systematically searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from their inception to February 2020. The primary endpoint was effective rate, while the secondary endpoints included...

The purpose of the study was to produce an algorithm and surgical procedure for optimum treatment of pedal macrodactyly. Surgery was performed on 27 feet of 26 patients with a mean age of 33 months at the time of surgery (range: 7–108 months). A multi-technique procedure based on the involved elements of the foot (soft tissue, phalanx, or metatarsal, or a combination of these) was adopted. The intermetatarsal width ratio, phalanx spread angle, and metatarsal...

Increasing female age is accompanied by a corresponding fall in her fertility. This decline is influenced by a variety of factors over an individual’s life course including background genetics, local environment and diet. Studying both coding and non-coding RNAs of the embryo could aid our understanding of the causes and/or effects of the physiological processes accompanying the decline including the differential expression of sub-cellular biomarkers indicative of various diseases. The current study is a post-hoc...

Additional file 1. On the orininal data of the study.

The origin and formation of the continental collision-related magmas remain elusive. The volcanic rocks erupted during India-Asia continental collision offer an ideal opportunity to explore their genesis and geodynamic process. Here, we report new zircon U-Pb dating results and Hf isotope, whole-rock element and Sr-Nd isotope data of volcanic rocks in Linzhou Basin, central Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet. These volcanic rocks are mainly comprised of andesites and belong to Dianzhong Formation. The timing of their...

Long-range ordering, while typically understood as a decrease in entropy, can also be driven by increasing system entropy in certain special cases. We demonstrate that artificial spin ice arrays of single-domain nanomagnets can be designed to produce entropy-driven order. We probe thermally active tetris artificial spin ice, known to have a zero point Pauli entropy, both experimentally and through simulations. We find two-dimensional magnetic ordering in one subset of the nanomagnet moments, which we demonstrate...

In forensic medical examinations, estimating the postmortem interval (PMI) is an important factor. Methamphetamine (MA) is a synthetic stimulant that is commonly abused, and estimation of the PMI after MA abuse has become one of the main tasks in forensic investigation. Microorganisms play a vital role in carrion decomposition. Analysing the bacterial succession patterns can be used as a forensic tool to estimate the PMI. The present study aimed to analyse bacterial succession changes during...

Fragmentation is predicted to reduce biodiversity and stability by increasing habitat isolation and impeding dispersal among patches. These effects may manifest at both the interspecific and intraspecific levels, yet few studies have simultaneously explored dispersal effects across levels of organization. We used field mesocosm experiments to examine how habitat isolation (in the form of dispersal rate) alters inter- and intraspecific stability and diversity in local zooplankton communities. We observed effects of increasing dispersal rate at...

The origin and formation of the continental collision-related magmas remain elusive. The volcanic rocks erupted during India-Asia continental collision offer an ideal opportunity to explore their genesis and geodynamic process. Here, we report new zircon U-Pb dating results and Hf isotope, whole-rock element and Sr-Nd isotope data of volcanic rocks in Linzhou Basin, central Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet. These volcanic rocks are mainly comprised of andesites and belong to Dianzhong Formation. The timing of their...

Supplemental Material, original_data for Effectiveness of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Versus Mandibular Advancement Device in Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients With Mandibular Retrognathia: A Prospective Clinical Trial by Haichun Lai, Wei Huang, Wei Chen and Desheng Wang in Ear, Nose & Throat Journal

Individual differences in exploratory behavior have been found across a range of taxa and are thought to contribute to evolutionary fitness. Animals that explore more of a novel environment and visit areas of high predation risk are considered bold, whereas animals with the opposite behavioral pattern are shy. Here, we determined whether this bimodal characterization of bold versus shy adequately captures the breadth of behavioral variation in zebrafish or if there are more than these...

Extracellular trap (ET) appears as a double-edged sword for the host since it participates in host immune defense by entrapping pathogens, while excessive ET release also contributes to various diseases progression including atherosclerosis, cancer, and autoimmune disorders. A better understanding of ET formation and regulation will be beneficial for developing strategies for infection control and ET-associated disease treatment. There is some evidence indicating that prior infection can enhance extracellular killing. Neutrophils from cancer or sepsis...

The purpose of the study was to produce an algorithm and surgical procedure for optimum treatment of pedal macrodactyly. Surgery was performed on 27 feet of 26 patients with a mean age of 33 months at the time of surgery (range: 7–108 months). A multi-technique procedure based on the involved elements of the foot (soft tissue, phalanx, or metatarsal, or a combination of these) was adopted. The intermetatarsal width ratio, phalanx spread angle, and metatarsal...