Human coronavirus NL63 (HCoV-NL63) is primarily associated with common cold in children, elderly and immunocompromised individuals. Outbreaks caused by HCoV-NL63 are rare. Here we report a cluster of HCoV-NL63 cases with severe lower respiratory tract infection that arose in Guangzhou, China, in 2018. Twenty-three hospitalized children were confirmed to be HCoV-NL63 positive, and most of whom were hospitalized with severe pneumonia or acute bronchitis. Whole genomes of HCoV-NL63 were obtained using next-generation sequencing. Phylogenetic and...

Different from the output-input representation based identification methods of two-block Hammerstein systems, this paper concerns a separate block based parameter estimation method for each block of a two-block Hammerstein CARMA system, without combining the parameters of two parts together. The idea is to consider each block as a subsystem and to estimate the parameters of the nonlinear block and the linear block separately (interactively), by using two least squares algorithms in one recursive step. The...

Human coronavirus NL63 (HCoV-NL63) is primarily associated with common cold in children, elderly and immunocompromised individuals. Outbreaks caused by HCoV-NL63 are rare. Here we report a cluster of HCoV-NL63 cases with severe lower respiratory tract infection that arose in Guangzhou, China, in 2018. Twenty-three hospitalized children were confirmed to be HCoV-NL63 positive, and most of whom were hospitalized with severe pneumonia or acute bronchitis. Whole genomes of HCoV-NL63 were obtained using next-generation sequencing. Phylogenetic and...

Background: Multidrug-resistant bacteria, especially those with high virulence, are an emerging problem in clinical settings. Methods: We conducted a multicentre epidemiological and comparative genomic analysis on the evolution, virulence and antimicrobial resistance of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in patients with bacterial liver abscesses from 2012 to 2016. Results: A total of 477 bacterial isolates were collected. Enterobacteriaceae were the main pathogen (89.3%) with K. pneumoniae (52.4%) predominating followed by Escherichia coli (26.8%). All CRKps (3.2%) were of...

Streptococcus suis (S. suis), more specifically serotype 2, is a bacterial pathogen that threatens the lives of pigs and humans. Like many other pathogens, S. suis exhibits quorum sensing (QS) system-controlled virulence factors, such as biofilm formation that complicates treatment. Therefore, impairing the QS involving LuxS/AI-2 cycle in S. suis, may be a promising alternative strategy for overcoming S. suis infections. In this study, we investigated paeoniflorin (PF), a monoterpenoid glycoside compound extracted from peony,...

The Cenozoic Beibuwan Basin is located along the eastern margin of the Ailao Shan Red River Shear Zone (ASRRSZ). The rifting and inversion processes of this basin provide important clues to the mechanism by which extrusion tectonics drive continental rifting and inversion development. However, the rifting and inversion of this basin remain ambiguous. Here, we employ seismic data, information about the time and displacement of faulting, syn-rift fault and isopach maps to analyse the Cenozoic...

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...

Two episodes of late Neoarchean-early Paleoproterozoic and late Paleoproterozoic garnet-bearing leucogranite, named the Baotou and Jining–Liangcheng garnet-bearing leucogranite are recognized from the Khondalite Belt in the North China Craton. Geochemical studies show that garnet-bearing leucogranite has high Al2O3 content and FeOT/MgO ratio, with a large variation in the CaO content and K2O/Na2O ratio. Additionally, the garnet-bearing leucogranite is enriched in light rare earth elements and large ion lithophile elements and depleted in Nb, Ta, P,...

STING1 (stimulator of interferon response cGAMP interactor 1), the pivotal adaptor protein of CGAS (cyclic GMP-AMP synthase)-STING1 signaling, is critical for type I IFN production of innate immunity. However, excessive or prolonged activation of STING1 is associated with autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Thus, preventing STING1 from over-activation is important to maintain immune homeostasis. Here, we reported that UXT (ubiquitously expressed prefoldin like chaperone), a small chaperone-like protein, was essential to prevent the excessive activation of...

Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) is an industrial fiber crop with significant heterosis and tolerance to abiotic stresses. However, the mechanism underlying heterosis in kenaf under drought conditions is completely unknown. In this study, F1 hybrids were remarkably tolerant to drought stress. Through methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism (MSAP) analysis, we highlighted that total DNA methylation level under drought decreased by 11.2% in F1 and increased by 29.7% and 13.1% in parents CP079 and CP071, respectively. Unlike parents,...

High-density genetic maps are vital for quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, genome assembly, and marker-assisted selection (MAS) in plants. Meanwhile, kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) is an important crop that produces raw fiber to many industries. However, both high-density genetic map construction and QTL identification have been limited in this crop due to insufficient molecular markers. Here, we constructed a high-density genetic linkage map in kenaf via specific-locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq). An F7:8 mapping population...

Additional file 2. The immune related genes that differentially expressed in macrophages after the overexpression of circZNF451.

Additional file 3. The clinical information of 4 patients in whom the exosmes were extracted from the sera before and after surgery.

Additional file 2: Table S3. The 57 PRGs

Additional file 3: Supplemental Table 3. Probes for fluorescence in situ hybridization and RNA pulldown, siRNAs, primers for qRT-PCR and vector construction.

Additional file 5: Supplemental Table 5. The potential circPVT1-interacting proteins in CNE2 cells identified by LC-MS/MS spectrometry after pull-down with the biontin-labeled circPVT1 probe.

Additional file 7: Supplemental Table 7. Proteomic analysis of circPVT1-regulated proteins in CNE2 cells after transfected with the circPVT1overexpression or empty vectors, followed by LC-MS/MS spectrometry.

Additional file 2: Table S2. The rumen microbiota and the presence of quorum sensing molecules.

Additional file 2: Table S2. The rumen microbiota and the presence of quorum sensing molecules.

Additional file 2: Dataset S1. The 130 unique cox1 haplotypes of Oncomelania hupensis from this study including two outgroups

Additional file 9. Table S9: Relative expression levels of 8 selected genes under four different time treatments of 12% PEG6000.

Additional file 4. Table S4. Network statistics of differential metabolites and related genes.

Supplementary Table 1 | Genes associated with risk scores.
Supplementary Table 2 | Expression levels and methylation levels of SNORA71B in gliomas (TCGA Database). Supplementary Table 3 | Fold change values of the 5 methylated snoRNA genes (TCGA Database).
Supplementary Table 4 | Methylation levels of five snoRNAs in gliomas (TCGA Database).
Supplementary Table 5 Clinic-pathological characteristics of 13 glioma patients.

Additional file1: Supplementary excel 1. Detailed clinical features in the two HCC cohorts.

Additional file3: Supplementary excel 3. The correlation analysis between FA scores and lncRNAs in the GSE76427 cohort.