Caspase 3-specific cleavage of ubiquitin-specific peptidase 48 enhances drug-induced apoptosis in AML by Zhanglin Zhang, Xiang Lin, Yaling Yang, Xuemei Wang, Yi Wang, Xianbao Huang, Miao Hong, Wei Gao, Hua He, M. James You, Yi Yang, Guangyao Kong

“…However, the mechanism by which drugs regulate deubiquitinase is not clear. Here, we identified ubiquitin-specific peptidase 48 (USP48), a member of the ubiquitin-specific protease family highly expressed in various tumors, as a specific substrate for the activated caspase-3. …”
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Cancer vaccines compensate for the insufficient induction of protective tumor-specific immunity of CD3 bispecific antibody therapy by Sjoerd H van der Burg, Marjolein Sluijter, Thorbald van Hall, Jim Middelburg, Kristel Kemper, Janine Schuurman, Gaby Schaap, Katy Lloyd, Vitalijs Ovcinnikovs

“…Induction of long-lasting tumor-specific immunity might therefore improve therapeutic efficacy, but has not been studied in detail yet for CD3 bsAbs. Here, we examined multiple combination strategies aiming to improve survival rates in solid tumors and, simultaneously, install endogenous immunity capable of protection to tumor rechallenge.Methods Two syngeneic mouse tumor models were employed: The immunologically “cold” B16F10 melanoma and the immunologically “hot” MC38.TRP1 colon carcinoma model. …”
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Progenitor effect in the spleen drives early recovery via universal hematopoietic cell inflation by Takao Yogo, Hans Jiro Becker, Takaharu Kimura, Satoshi Iwano, Takahiro Kuchimaru, Atsushi Miyawaki, Tomomasa Yokomizo, Toshio Suda, Atsushi Iwama, Satoshi Yamazaki

“…Clinically, the initial hematopoiesis in the post-transplantation period is critical, necessitating strategies to accelerate hematopoietic recovery. Here, we uncovered the spatiotemporal dynamics of early active hematopoiesis, “hematopoietic cell inflation,” using a highly sensitive in vivo imaging system. …”
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Fast perceptual learning induces location-specific facilitation and suppression at early stages of visual cortical processing by Yajie Wang, Zhe Qu, You Wang, Mingze Sun, Mengting Mao, Yulong Ding

“…Although location specificity is generally considered as a hallmark of visual PL, it remains unclear whether it involves both facilitation of trained locations and suppression of untrained locations. Here we developed a novel experimental design to investigate the cognitive neural mechanism of location specificity of fast PL. …”
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Identification of <i>ZmSNAC06</i>, a Maize NAC Family Transcription Factor with Multiple Transcripts Conferring Drought Tolerance in <i>Arabidopsis</i> by Fei Wang, Yong Chen, Ruisi Yang, Ping Luo, Houwen Wang, Runze Zhang, Wenzhe Li, Ke Yang, Xinlong Xu, Zhuanfang Hao, Xinhai Li

“…NAC transcription factors play a crucial role in responding to various abiotic stresses in plants. Here, we identified a maize NAC transcription factor, <i>ZmSNAC06</i>, between drought-tolerant and drought-sensitive inbred lines through RNA-seq analysis and characterized its function in <i>Arabidopsis</i>. …”
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MADS-box encoding gene Tunicate1 positively controls maize yield by increasing leaf number above the ear by Yan Li, Jian Wang, Shuyang Zhong, Qiang Huo, Qun Wang, Yunlu Shi, Hangqin Liu, Jiacheng Liu, Yang Song, Xiaojian Fang, Zhongwei Lin

“…However, increasing the number of leaves above the ear to strengthen the source and improve maize yield remains challenging in modern maize breeding. Here, we clone the causative gene of the quantitative trait locus (QTL) associated with the number of leaves above the ear. …”
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Accounting for differences between crops and regions reduces estimates of nitrate leaching from nitrogen-fertilized soils by Yan Wang, Yihong Liu, Longlong Xia, Hiroko Akiyama, Xinli Chen, Ji Chen, Yunying Fang, Tony Vancov, Yongfu Li, YuanZhi Yao, Dianming Wu, Bing Yu, Scott X. Chang, Yanjiang Cai

“…However, substantial uncertainties and variabilities in NO3 − leaching factors (LFs) among regions or crops impede accurate assessments of NO3 − leaching. Here we synthesize 2500 field observations worldwide and show that LFs vary by an order of magnitude across regions and crops, primarily driven by hydroclimatic and edaphic conditions rather than N fertilizer management. …”
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Virulence factor discovery identifies associations between the Fic gene family and Fap2+ fusobacteria in colorectal cancer microbiomes by Geicho Nakatsu, Duhyun Ko, Monia Michaud, Eric A. Franzosa, Xochitl C. Morgan, Curtis Huttenhower, Wendy S. Garrett

“…Advances in omics analyses provide an opportunity to profile and identify microbial genomic features that correlate with the cancer-associated bacterial virulence factor Fap2. Here, we analyze genomes of Fusobacterium colon tumor isolates and find that a family of post-translational modification enzymes containing Fic domains is associated with Fap2 positivity in these strains. …”
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Phylogenomic analysis reveals exceptions to the co-evolution of ZAR1 and ZRK immune gene families in plants by Li Yang, Shengyi Liu, M. Eric Schranz, Klaas Bouwmeester

“…All analysed monocot genomes thus far examined, except for the aroid Colocasia esculenta, were previously reported to lack both ZAR1-A and ZRKs. Here we now report other exceptions on the concerted ZAR1-A–ZRKs presence-absence pattern within several early diverging monocot lineages, including the genome of Acorus tatarinowii—a species representing the first branching monocot lineage. …”
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Polydomus karssenii gen. nov. sp. nov. is a dark septate endophyte with a bifunctional lifestyle parasitising eggs of plant parasitic cyst nematodes (Heterodera spp.) by Samad Ashrafi, Jan-Peer Wennrich, Yvonne Becker, Jose G. Maciá-Vicente, Anke Brißke-Rode, Matthias Daub, Torsten Thünen, Abdelfattah A. Dababat, Maria R. Finckh, Marc Stadler, Wolfgang Maier

“…The strains were found to represent a distinct phylogenetic lineage most closely related to Equiseticola and Ophiosphaerella, and Polydomus karssenii (Phaeosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales) is introduced here as a new species representing a monotypic genus. …”
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Protective effect of brain and muscle arnt-like protein-1 against ethanol-induced ferroptosis by activating Nrf2 in mice liver and HepG2 cells by Yanan Zhao, Ranran Zhang, Ziheng Chen, Ziyi Wang, Shuang Guan, Jing Lu

“…Ferroptosis is a newly recognized form of regulated cell death caused by the iron-dependent accumulation of lipid peroxidation. Here we showed that the circadian clock protein BMAL1 in hepatocytes is both necessary and sufficient to protect against ALD by mitigating ferroptosis. …”
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ADMET evaluation in drug discovery: 21. Application and industrial validation of machine learning algorithms for Caco-2 permeability prediction by Dong Wang, Jieyu Jin, Guqin Shi, Jingxiao Bao, Zheng Wang, Shimeng Li, Peichen Pan, Dan Li, Yu Kang, Tingjun Hou

“…We believe that the model developed in this study could represent a reliable tool for assessing Caco-2 permeability during early-stage drug discovery and the chemical transformation rules derived here could provide insights for optimizing Caco-2 permeability. …”
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Synergetic Phase Modulation and N‐Doping of MoS2 for Highly Sensitive Flexible NO2 Sensors by Jiyun Kim, Mengyao Li, Chun‐Ho Lin, Long Hu, Tao Wan, Ayad Saeed, Peiyuan Guan, Zijian Feng, Tushar Kumeria, Jianbo Tang, Dawei Su, Tom Wu, Dewei Chu

“…Abstract Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a promising electronic material owing to its excellent electrochemical features, high carrier mobility at room temperature, and widely tunable electronic properties. Here, through precursor engineering and post‐treatments to tailor their phase and doping, electronic characteristics of MoS2 are significantly modified. …”
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Fire-driven disruptions of global soil biochemical relationships by Guiyao Zhou, Nico Eisenhauer, Zhenggang Du, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Kaiyan Zhai, Miguel Berdugo, Huimin Duan, Han Wu, Shengen Liu, Daniel Revillini, Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Hua Chai, Xuhui Zhou, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo

“…Yet, how soil biogeochemistry and its environmental drivers respond to fire remain virtually unknown globally. Here, we integrate experimental observations and random forest model, and reveal significant divergence in the responses of soil biogeochemical attributes to fire, including soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) contents worldwide. …”
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Fetal and neonatal cardiac tumor diagnosed as Tuberous Sclerosis associated rhabdomyomas resulting from novel pathogenic missense variant detected in TSC2 gene: A case report by Aya Kawasaki, MD, Hidefumi Tonoki, MD, PhD, Osamu Sasaki, MD, PhD, Yoko Matsushita, MD, PhD, Michiko Watari, MD, PhD, Nobuhiro Takahashi, MD, Satoko Fujieda, MD

“…TS is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by the mutations in TSC1 or TSC2 genes. Here we report a case of a patient with a fetal and neonatal cardiac tumor who underwent a genetic analysis for TS after birth. …”
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Adipose tissue-derived microRNA-450a-5p induces type 2 diabetes mellitus by downregulating DUSP10 by Jiaojiao Zhu, Yanting Hou, Wei Yu, Jingzhou Wang, Xiaolong Chu, Xueting Zhang, Huai Pang, Dingling Ma, Yihan Tang, Menghuan Li, Chenggang Yuan, Jianxin Xie, Cuizhe Wang, Jun Zhang

“…In obesity, microRNA levels have been implicated in glucose metabolism disorders and T2DM, although many aspects remain unresolved. Here, we confirmed that visceral adipose tissue and serum microRNA-450a-5p content increased under obesity and T2DM, and it was significantly positively associated with fasting blood glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol, low-density lipoproteins-cholesterol levels of the subjects. …”
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Characterization of a Complex Mixture of Immunomodulator Peptides Obtained from Autologous Urine by Alberto Fragoso, Mérida Pedraza-Jiménez, Laura Espinoza-González, María Luisa Ceja-Mendoza, Hugo Sánchez-Mercado, Gloria Robles-Pérez, Julio Granados, Emilio Medina-Rivero

“…In this sense, it is expected to have the same molecular weight range although the profile of peptide abundance is different. Here, we characterized the peptide profile of three extracts of an immunomodulator obtained from the urine of different volunteers suffering from three different diseases (i.e., allergic rhinitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic rhinopharyngitis), using size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and mass spectrometry (MS). …”
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Preclinical evaluation of the potential PARP-imaging probe [carbonyl-11C]DPQ by Katarína Benčurová, Theresa Balber, Victoria Weissenböck, Lukas Kogler, Joachim Friske, Verena Pichler, Markus Mitterhauser, Marcus Hacker, Cécile Philippe, Marius Ozenil

“…To enable non-invasive monitoring of PARP-1 expression, several PARP-1-targeting positron emission tomography (PET) tracers have been developed. Here, we aimed to preclinically investigate [carbonyl-11C]DPQ as an alternative PARP-1 PET tracer as it features a strongly distinct chemotype compared to the frontrunners [18F]FluorThanatrace and [18F]PARPi. …”
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Late-time Optical and X-Ray Emission Evolution of the Oxygen-rich SN 1996cr by Daniel Patnaude, Kathryn E. Weil, Robert A. Fesen, Dan Milisavljevic, Ralph P. Kraft

“…Thus, continued monitoring of bright and nearby SNe provides valuable clues about both the progenitor structure and its pre-SN evolution. Here we present late-time, multiepoch optical and Chandra X-ray spectra of the core-collapse SN, SN 1996cr. …”
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A model-based factorization method for scRNA data unveils bifurcating transcriptional modules underlying cell fate determination by Jun Ren, Ying Zhou, Yudi Hu, Jing Yang, Hongkun Fang, Xuejing Lyu, Jintao Guo, Xiaodong Shi, Qiyuan Li

“…While current manifold-learning methods provide insights into cell fate by inferring graph-based trajectory at cell level, challenges remain to retrieve interpretable biology underlying the diverse cellular states. Here, we described MGPfactXMBD, a model-based manifold-learning framework and capable to factorize complex development trajectories into independent bifurcation processes of gene sets, and thus enables trajectory inference based on relevant features. …”
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