Identification of SLC35A1 as an essential host factor for the transduction of multi-serotype recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors by Xiujuan Zhang, Siyuan Hao, Zehua Feng, Kang Ning, Cagla Aksu Kuz, Shane McFarlin, Donovan Richart, Fang Cheng, Ander Zhang-Chen, Richenda McFarlane, Ziying Yan, Jianming Qiu

“…We confirmed that SLC35A1 knockout (KO) significantly decreased rAAV5 transduction to a level lower than that observed in KIAA0319L or TM9SF2 KO cells. …”
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Ucp1 Ablation Improves Skeletal Muscle Glycolytic Function in Aging Mice by Jin Qiu, Yuhan Guo, Xiaozhen Guo, Ziqi Liu, Zixuan Li, Jun Zhang, Yutang Cao, Jiaqi Li, Shuwu Yu, Sainan Xu, Juntong Chen, Dongmei Wang, Jian Yu, Mingwei Guo, Wenhao Zhou, Sainan Wang, Yiwen Wang, Xinran Ma, Cen Xie, Lingyan Xu

“…In this study, it is showed that UCP1 knockout (KO) mice characterized deteriorated brown adipose tissue (BAT) function in aging, yet their glucose homeostasis is sustained and energy expenditure is increased, possibly compensated by improved inguinal adipose tissue (iWAT) and muscle functionality compared to age‐matched WT mice. …”
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PCSK9-antibodies fail to block PCSK9-induced inflammation in macrophages and cannot recapitulate protective effects of PCSK9-deficiency in experimental myocardial infarction by Simon Rauterberg, Simon Rauterberg, Carmen Härdtner, Jennifer Hein, Paola Schrepf, Remi Peyronnet, Christoph Koentges, Tamara A. Vico, Carolin Ehlert, Bianca Dufner, Diana Lindner, Constantin von zur Mühlen, Dennis Wolf, Dirk Westermann, Ingo Hilgendorf, Alexander von Ehr

“…This study investigates the impact of PCSK9 on heart function post-MI and evaluates the effects of PCSK9 inhibition via Alirocumab.MethodsWe used PCSK9 knockout (KO) mice and wildtype (WT) mice and in vivo treatment with Alirocumab to analyze cardiac function and survival post-MI induced by permanent ligation of the left anterior descending artery. …”
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The Effect of FOXA3 Overexpression on Hepatocyte Differentiation and Liver Regeneration in a Fah cKO Mouse ModelSummary by Shao Li, Chupeng Ou, Jiajun Zhang, Min Zeng, Kangyan Liang, Qing Peng, Yi Gao

“…Moreover, a Fah conditional knockout mouse model (Fah cKO mice) was constructed using the CRISPR-Cas9 method and treated with RF3 spheroids for transplantation. …”
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NCAPD3 promotes diffuse large B-cell lymphoma progression through modulating SIRT1 expression in an H3K9 monomethylation-dependent manner by Tiange Lu, Juan Yang, Yiqing Cai, Mengfei Ding, Zhuoya Yu, Xiaosheng Fang, Xiangxiang Zhou, Xin Wang

“…Meanwhile, the classical transcription-activated marker, H3K4 trimethylation, was found globally upregulated after NCAPD3 knockout, suggesting that NCAPD3 might participate in chromatin remodeling and transcription regulation. …”
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Unravelling nonclassical beam damage mechanisms in metal-organic frameworks by low-dose electron microscopy by Xiaoqiu Xu, Liwei Xia, Changlin Zheng, Yikuan Liu, Dongyang Yu, Jingjing Li, Shigui Zhong, Cuiyu Li, Huijun Song, Yunzhou Liu, Tulai Sun, Yonghe Li, Yu Han, Jia Zhao, Qiang Lin, Xiaonian Li, Yihan Zhu

“…Based on these observations, potential alternative mechanisms including reversible radiolysis and radiolysis-enhanced knock-on displacement are proposed, which account for their respective dynamic crystalline-to-amorphous interconversion and site-specific ligand knockout events occurring during continuous beam radiation. …”
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Cardiomyocyte-specific Piezo1 deficiency mitigates ischemia-reperfusion injury by preserving mitochondrial homeostasis by Honglin Xu, Xin Chen, Shangfei Luo, Jintao Jiang, Xianmei Pan, Yu He, Bo Deng, Silin Liu, Rentao Wan, Liwen Lin, Qiaorui Tan, Xiaoting Chen, Youfen Yao, Bin He, Yajuan An, Jing Li

“…Mechanistically, myocardial Piezo1 knockout alleviated intracellular calcium overload to normalize calpain-associated mitochondrial homeostasis. …”
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Macrophage Notch1 signaling modulates regulatory T cells via the TGFB axis in early MASLD by Mengya Zhang, Kun Li, Xiaoxing Huang, Dongqin Xu, Ruobin Zong, Qintong Hu, Xiaoyu Dong, Qinyong Zhang, Chaochen Jiang, Yue Ge, Changyong Li, Jie Ping

“…Methods: A mouse model subjected to a short-term high-fat diet (HFD) to mimic early steatosis, along with liver biopsy samples from patients with simple steatosis, and macrophage-specific Notch1-knockout mice (Notch1M-KO), were used to investigate the role of Tregs in early MASLD and the effect of hepatic macrophage Notch1 signaling on Treg frequency. …”
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Steatohepatitis-induced vascular niche alterations promote melanoma metastasis by Johannes Hoffmann, Julia Schüler, Bianca Dietsch, Sina Wietje Kürschner-Zacharias, Carsten Sticht, Felix A. Trogisch, Maren Schreitmüller, Tinja Baljkas, Kai Schledzewski, Manuel Reinhart, Sebastian A. Wohlfeil, Manuel Winkler, Christian David Schmid, Joerg Heineke, Cyrill Géraud, Sergij Goerdt, Philipp-Sebastian Reiners-Koch, Victor Olsavszky

“…LSEC-specific GATA4 knockout mice (Gata4 LSEC−KO/BL) developing MASH-like liver fibrosis without steatosis via a pathogenic angiocrine switch were included to compare the impact of liver fibrosis versus hepatic steatosis on hepatic melanoma metastasis. …”
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HINT1 suppression protects against age-related cardiac dysfunction by enhancing mitochondrial biogenesis by Michio Sato, Tsuyoshi Kadomatsu, Jun Morinaga, Yuya Kinoshita, Daisuke Torigoe, Haruki Horiguchi, Sumio Ohtsuki, Shuji Yamamura, Ryoko Kusaba, Takanori Yamaguchi, Goro Yoshioka, Kimi Araki, Tomohiko Wakayama, Keishi Miyata, Koichi Node, Yuichi Oike

“…In addition, cardiac aging phenotypes and mitochondrial biogenesis were also analyzed in 25-month-old cardiac-specific Hint1 knockout mice, 24-month-old CAG-Caren Tg mice, and 24-month-old wild-type mice injected with AAV6-Caren. …”
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Unraveling the degradation mechanism of multiple pyrethroid insecticides by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its environmental bioremediation potential by Hui Liu, Wen-Juan Chen, Zeling Xu, Shao-Fang Chen, Haoran Song, Yaohua Huang, Kalpana Bhatt, Sandhya Mishra, Mohamed A. Ghorab, Lian-Hui Zhang, Shaohua Chen

“…Enzyme activity and gene knockout experiments confirmed the pivotal role of estA in pyrethroid biodegradation. …”
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A Series of Novel Alleles of <i>Ehd2</i> Modulating Heading and Salt Tolerance in Rice by Peng Xu, Shulei Hao, Xiaoxia Wen, Guifang Ma, Qinqin Yang, Ling Liu, Galal Bakr Anis, Yingxin Zhang, Lianping Sun, Xihong Shen, Qunen Liu, Daibo Chen, Yongbo Hong, Yuyu Chen, Xiaodeng Zhan, Shihua Cheng, Liyong Cao, Weixun Wu

“…Functional validation through CRISPR/Cas9 knockout and complementation assays confirmed its role in regulating heading. …”
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Macrophage Dvl2 deficiency promotes NOD1-Driven pyroptosis and exacerbates inflammatory liver injury by Xiaoye Qu, Dongwei Xu, Tao Yang, Yizhu Tian, Christopher T. King, Xiao Wang, Mingwei Sheng, Yuanbang Lin, Xiyun Bian, Changyong Li, Longfeng Jiang, Qiang Xia, Douglas G. Farmer, Bibo Ke

“…In a mouse model of oxidative stress-induced liver inflammation, mice with myeloid-specific Dvl2 knockout (Dvl2M−KO) displayed exacerbated ischemia/reperfusion (IR) stress-induced hepatocellular damage with increased serum ALT levels, oxidative stress, and proinflammatory mediators. …”
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Physiological accumulation of lipid droplets in the newborn liver during breastfeeding is driven by TLR4 ligands by Wanderson Ferreira da Silva Júnior, Karen Marques de Oliveira Costa, Hortência Maciel Castro Oliveira, Maísa Mota Antunes, Kassiana Mafra, Brenda Naemi Nakagaki, Pedro Sérgio Corradi da Silva, Júlia Duarte Megale, Sarah Campos de Sales, Douglas Carvalho Caixeta, Mário Machado Martins, Robinson Sabino-Silva, Cristina Maria Pinto de Paula, Luiz Ricardo Goulart, Rafael Machado Rezende, Gustavo Batista Menezes

“…Finally, we investigated the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling in fat storage using knockout mice and cell-specific deletion strategies. …”
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DNA hypomethylation-mediated upregulation of GADD45B facilitates airway inflammation and epithelial cell senescence in COPD by Yuan Zhan, Qian Huang, Zhesong Deng, Shanshan Chen, Ruonan Yang, Jiaheng Zhang, Yating Zhang, Maocuo Peng, Jixing Wu, Yiya Gu, Zhilin Zeng, Jungang Xie

“…The effects of GADD45B on inflammation and senescence were investigated via constructing cell model with siRNA transfection or overexpression lentivirus infection and animal model with Gadd45b knockout. Targeted bisulfite sequencing was performed to probe the influence of DNA methylation in GADD45B expression in COPD. …”
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Effective gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy achieved with minimal lentiviral genomic integrations by Lucas Tricoli, Sunetra Sase, Julia L. Hacker, Vi Pham, Maxwell Chappell, Laura Breda, Stephanie N. Hurwitz, Naoto Tanaka, Carlo Castruccio Castracani, Amaliris Guerra, Zhongqi Hou, Lars Schlotawa, Karthikeyan Radhakrishnan, Matthew Hogenauer, Aoife Roche, John Everett, Frederic Bushman, Peter Kurre, Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, Laura A. Adang, Adeline L. Vanderver, Stefano Rivella

“…Three-month-old Arsa-knockout (KO) MLD mice transplanted with Arsa-KO bone marrow (BM) cells transduced with 0.6 VCN of EA1 demonstrated behavior and CNS histology matching wild-type (WT) mice. …”
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Neuronal guidance factor Sema3A inhibits neurite ingrowth and prevents chondrocyte hypertrophy in the degeneration of knee cartilage in mice, monkeys and humans by Shishu Huang, Dashuang Gao, Zhenxia Li, Hongchen He, Xi Yu, Xuanhe You, Diwei Wu, Ze Du, Jiancheng Zeng, Xiaojun Shi, Qinshen Hu, Yong Nie, Zhong Zhang, Zeyu Luo, Duan Wang, Zhihe Zhao, Lingli Li, Guanglin Wang, Liping Wang, Zongke Zhou, Di Chen, Fan Yang

“…Sema3A has a protective effect on cartilage degradation, validated by the organoid culture in vitro and confirmed in chondrocyte-specific Sema3A conditional knockout mice. We demonstrated that Sema3A is a key molecule in maintaining cartilage homeostasis from chondrocyte hypertrophy via activating the PI3K pathway. …”
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Epithelial NSD2 maintains FMO‐mediated taurine biosynthesis to prevent intestinal barrier disruption by Yue Xu, Xiuying Xiao, Chunxiao Ma, Ziyi Wang, Wenxin Feng, Hanyu Rao, Wei Zhang, Ningyuan Liu, Rebiguli Aji, Xiangjun Meng, Wei‐Qiang Gao, Li Li

“…Clinical databases of IBD patients were analysed to investigate whether NSD2 expression is reduced in the occurrence of IBD. NSD2‐knockout mice were generated to further investigate the role of NSD2 in IBD. …”
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Helicobacter pylori infection promotes M1 macrophage polarization and gastric inflammation by activation of NLRP3 inflammasome via TNF/TNFR1 axis by Xiao Fei, Sihai Chen, Leyan Li, Xinbo Xu, Huan Wang, Huajing Ke, Cong He, Chuan Xie, Xidong Wu, Jianping Liu, Yong Xie, Nonghua Lu, Yin Zhu, Nianshuang Li

“…Bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) from wild-type (WT), Nlrp3-knockout (KO) and Tnfr1-KO mice were infected with H. pylori. …”
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Studying the Oncolytic Activity of <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i> Strains Against Hepatoma, Glioma, and Pancreatic Cancer <i>In Vitro</i> and <i>In Vivo</i> by Anna N. Tsapieva, Alexander N. Chernov, Nadezhda V. Duplik, Anastasiya O. Morozova, Tatiana A. Filatenkova, Mariia A. Suvorova, Elena Egidarova, Elvira S. Galimova, Kseniya Bogatireva, Alexander N. Suvorov

“…This study aimed to investigate the oncolytic efficacy of <i>S. pyogenes</i> GUR and its M protein knockout mutant, <i>S. pyogenes</i> strain GURSA1, which was genetically constructed to minimize overall toxicity, against mouse hepatoma 22A, pancreatic cancer PANC02, and human glioma U251 cells, both <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i>, using the C57BL/6 mouse model. …”
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