Epigenetically Mediated Pathogenic Effects of Phenanthrene on Regulatory T Cells by Jing Liu, Luhua Zhang, Lisa C. Winterroth, Marco Garcia, Shannon Weiman, Jillian W. Wong, John B. Sunwoo, Kari C. Nadeau

“…These findings present a mechanism by which exposure to AhR-ligands mediates human T cell responses and begins to elucidate the relationship between environmental exposures, immune modulation, and initiation of human disease.…”
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Genetic coupling of enhancer activity and connectivity in gene expression control by Helen Ray-Jones, Chak Kei Sung, Lai Ting Chan, Alexander Haglund, Pavel Artemov, Monica Della Rosa, Luminita Ruje, Frances Burden, Roman Kreuzhuber, Anna Litovskikh, Eline Weyenbergh, Zoï Brusselaers, Vanessa Xue Hui Tan, Mattia Frontini, Chris Wallace, Valeriya Malysheva, Leonardo Bottolo, Elena Vigorito, Mikhail Spivakov

“…Jointly, our findings suggest an inherent genetic coupling of enhancer activity and connectivity in gene expression control relevant to human disease and highlight the regulatory role of genetically determined chromatin boundaries.…”
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Human ACE2 transgenic pigs are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 and develop COVID-19-like disease by Long Fung Chau, Simon Lillico, Tanja Opriessnig, Rosemary Blake, Luc Tardy, Chen-Hsuin Lee, Scott Maxwell, Claire Warren, Elizabeth Thornton, Catherine L. Mclaughlin, Gerry McLachlan, Christine Tait-Burkard, Sarah Fletcher, Stephen Anderson, Sharon Brown, Louise Gibbard, Thomas Tzelos, Dawn MacMillan-Christensen, J. Kenneth Baillie, David A. Dorward, David J. Griffiths, Finn Grey

“…Pigs are increasingly recognized as valuable models for human disease due to their genetic, anatomical, physiological, and immunological similarities to humans, and they present a more ethically viable alternative to non-human primates. …”
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Spatiotemporal transcriptome and scRNA sequencing analysis reveals that IKFZ1‐mediated microglia underlies a therapy for intracerebral hemorrhage by Wenqiao Qiu, Jie Tian, Gao Mou, Lili Guo, Tao Xu, Wei Liu, Jianwei Zhu, Yi Zhang, Xiaolin Hou, Yao Xie, Huan Xiong, Xinda Li, Yangyang Wang, Mingjun Gao, Anguo Wu, Longyi Chen, Jie Mei, Lulin Huang, Ruxiang Xu

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Hippocampal Atrophy in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients without Major Neuropsychiatric Manifestations by Shuang Liu, Yuqi Cheng, Yueyin Zhao, Aiyun Lai, Zhaoping Lv, Zhongqi Xie, Bibhuti Upreti, Xiangyu Wang, Xiufeng Xu, Chunrong Luo, Hongjun Yu, Baoci Shan, Lin Xu, Jian Xu

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Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling identifies feline fibrosarcoma as clinically amenable model for aggressive sarcoma subtypes by Mikiyo Weber, Daniel Fuchs, Amiskwia Pöschel, Erin Beebe, Zuzana Garajova, Armin Jarosch, Laura Kunz, Witold Wolski, Lennart Opitz, Franco Guscetti, Mirja C. Nolff, Enni Markkanen

“…In conclusion, this detailed landscape provides a rich resource to identify target candidates and therapeutic vulnerabilities within and across species and supports feline FSA as relevant models for the human disease.…”
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Seasonal activity patterns of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus in the United States by Lars Eisen

“…Knowledge of seasonal activity patterns of human-biting life stages of tick species serving as vectors of human disease agents provides basic information on when during the year humans are most at risk for tick bites and tick-borne diseases. …”
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Marigold: a machine learning-based web app for zebrafish pose tracking by Gregory Teicher, R. Madison Riffe, Wayne Barnaby, Gabrielle Martin, Benjamin E. Clayton, Josef G. Trapani, Gerald B. Downes

“…Zebrafish embryos and larvae are ideal for such applications because they are spawned in large clutches, develop rapidly, feature a relatively simple nervous system, and have orthologs to many human disease genes. However, existing software for video-based behavioral analysis can be incompatible with recordings that contain dynamic backgrounds or foreign objects, lack support for multiwell formats, require expensive hardware, and/or demand considerable programming expertise. …”
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Genetic context modulates aging and degeneration in the murine retina by Olivia J. Marola, Michael MacLean, Travis L. Cossette, Cory A. Diemler, Amanda A. Hewes, Alaina M. Reagan, Jonathan Nyandu Kanyinda, Daniel A. Skelly, Gareth R. Howell

“…These data predicted human disease-relevant changes in WSB and NZO strains. …”
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Production of antibodies and antibody fragments containing non-natural amino acids in Escherichia coli by Jacquelyn Blake-Hedges, Dan Groff, Wilson Foo, Jeffrey Hanson, Elenor Castillo, Miao Wen, Diana Cheung, Mary Rose Masikat, Jian Lu, Young Park, Nina Abi Carlos, Hans Usman, Kevin Fong, Abigail Yu, Sihong Zhou, Joyce Kwong, Cuong Tran, Xiaofan Li, Dawei Yuan, Trevor Hallam, Gang Yin

“…Therapeutic bioconjugates are emerging as an essential tool to combat human disease. Site-specific conjugation technologies are widely recognized as the optimal approach for producing homogeneous drug products. …”
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Aspirin inhibits proteasomal degradation and promotes α-synuclein aggregate clearance through K63 ubiquitination by Jing Gao, Yang Liu, Chenfang Si, Rui Guo, Shouqiao Hou, Xiaosong Liu, Houfang Long, Di Liu, Daichao Xu, Zai-Rong Zhang, Cong Liu, Bing Shan, Christoph W. Turck, Kaiwen He, Yaoyang Zhang

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Medicinal plants with neuroprotective potential in East African countries: A systematic review by Ibe Michael Usman, Ekom Monday Etukudo, Elna Owembabazi, Wusa Makena, Augustine Oviosun, Makeri Danladi, Vivian Ojiakor, Patrick Maduabuchi Aja, Emeka Anyanwu, Yanurkis Duranones Rosales, Mario Edgar Fernandez Diaz, Josiah Ifie, Ismahil Adekunle Adeniyi, Ilemobayo Victor Fasogbon, Victor Bassey Archibong

“…Background: The use of plant-derived natural compounds in the management of various human disease conditions has gained lots of attention in recent times; hence, the present study examined medicinal plants with neuroprotective potential in East Africa and their mechanism of action. …”
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Time-Qualified Patterns of Variation of PPARγ, DNMT1, and DNMT3B Expression in Pancreatic Cancer Cell Lines by Valerio Pazienza, Francesca Tavano, Massimo Francavilla, Andrea Fontana, Fabio Pellegrini, Giorgia Benegiamo, Vincenzo Corbo, Fabio Francesco di Mola, Pierluigi Di Sebastiano, Angelo Andriulli, Gianluigi Mazzoccoli

“…In conclusion, PPARG and DNMTs expression is characterized by different time-qualified patterns in cell lines derived from human PC, and this heterogeneity could influence cell phenotype and human disease behaviour.…”
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Clinically relevant orthotopic pancreatic cancer models for adoptive T cell transfer therapy by Gregory B. Lesinski, Chrystal M. Paulos, Maggie Phillips, Jacklyn Hammons, Isaac Karpovsky, Zaid Mahdi, Natalie K. Horvat, Megan M. Wyatt, Margaret A. Hall, Cameron J. Herting, Richard A. Moffitt

“…Currently, genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) for PDAC are considered a “gold-standard” as they recapitulate many aspects of human disease. However, these models have limitations, including marked tumor variability across individual mice and the cost of colony maintenance.Methods Using flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry, we characterized the immunological features and trafficking patterns of adoptively transferred T cells in orthotopic PDAC (C57BL/6) models using two mouse cell lines, KPC-Luc and MT-5, isolated from C57BL/6 KPC-GEMM (KrasLSL-G12D/+p53−/− and KrasLSL-G12D/+p53LSL-R172H/+, respectively).Results The MT-5 orthotopic model best recapitulates the cellular and stromal features of the TME in the PDAC GEMM. …”
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Search for signals of positive selection of circadian rhythm genes <i>PER1</i>, <i>PER2</i>, <i>PER3</i> in different human populations by A. I. Mishina, S. Y. Bakoev, A. Y. Oorzhak, A. A. Keskinov, Sh. Sh. Kabieva, A. V. Korobeinikova, V. S. Yudin, M. M. Bobrova, D. A. Shestakov, V. V. Makarov, L. V. Getmantseva

“…In addition, many of the selection variants in the PER1, PER2, PER3 genes appear to regulate biological processes that are associated with major modern diseases, including obesity, cancer, metabolic syndrome, bipolar personality disorder, depression, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus, lupus erythematosus, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease, making them extremely interesting targets for further research aimed at identifying the genetic causes of human disease.…”
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Characteristics of TSPO expression in marmoset EAE by Irene Falk, Dragan Maric, Emily Leibovitch, Pascal Sati, Jennifer Lefeuvre, Nicholas J. Luciano, Joseph Guy, Seung-Kwon Ha, David R. Owen, Franklin Aigbirhio, Paul M. Matthews, Daniel S. Reich, Steven Jacobson

“…Thus, marmoset EAE appears to be a clinically relevant model for the study of TSPO in immune dysregulation in human disease. Graphical Abstract…”
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Genomic analysis and antibiotic resistance of a multidrug-resistant bacterium isolated from pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plant sludge by Ningyu Sun, Hu Gao, Xinbo Zhang, Zeyou Chen, Anping Peng

“…Additionally, the N4 genome contained 187 genes associated with human disease and 249 virulence factors, underscoring its potential pathogenicity. …”
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CPEB4 modulates liver cancer progression by translationally regulating hepcidin expression and sensitivity to ferroptosis by M. Eugenia Delgado, Salvador Naranjo-Suarez, Marta Ramírez-Pedraza, Beatriz I. Cárdenas, Carmen Gallardo-Martínez, Alexandra Balvey, Eulalia Belloc, Judit Martín, Mark Boyle, Raúl Méndez, Mercedes Fernandez

“…Limitations of the study include the need for further clinical validation to confirm these preclinical findings in human disease contexts.…”
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Shared mechanisms of enhanced plasmid maintenance and antibiotic tolerance mediated by the VapBC toxin:antitoxin system by Sarah Hollingshead, Gareth McVicker, Maria R. Nielsen, YuGeng Zhang, Giulia Pilla, Rebekah A. Jones, Jonathan C. Thomas, Sarah E. H. Johansen, Rachel M. Exley, Ditlev E. Brodersen, Christoph M. Tang

“…Our findings highlight the links between plasmid maintenance and antibiotic tolerance, both of which can promote the development of antimicrobial resistance.IMPORTANCEOur work addresses two processes, the maintenance of plasmids and antibiotic tolerance; both contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria that cause human disease. Here, we found a single nucleotide change in the vapBC toxin:antitoxin system that stabilizes the large virulence plasmid of Shigella sonnei. …”
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Arbovirus vectors of epidemiological concern in the Americas: A scoping review of entomological studies on Zika, dengue and chikungunya virus vectors. by Reilly Jones, Manisha A Kulkarni, Thomas M V Davidson, RADAM-LAC Research Team, Benoit Talbot

“…<h4>Background</h4>Three arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) causing human disease have been the focus of a large number of studies in the Americas since 2013 due to their global spread and epidemiological impacts: Zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses. …”
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