Integrative analysis of metabolite and transcriptome reveals the biosynthetic pathway and candidate genes for iridoid glycoside biosynthesis in Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora (Pen... by Ke Rao, Ke Rao, Siyu Liu, Siyu Liu, Xiaohui Tang, Guofu Jia, Shaohua Yang, Chaoxiang Ren, Chaoxiang Ren, Jin Pei, Jin Pei

“…Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora (Pennell) D.Y.Hong (N. scrophulariiflora) is an important wild medicinal plant that belongs to the Plantaginaceae family. Its main active ingredients, picroside I (P-I) and picroside II (P-II), possess anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and antibacterial properties. …”
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The effect of differences in the third domain of the glycoprotein E of tick-borne encephalitis virus of the Far Eastern, Siberian and European subtypes on the binding of recombinan... by I. K. Baykov, A. L. Matveev, L. A. Emelianova, G. B. Kaverina, S. E. Tkachev, N. V. Tikunova

“…Using Western blot analysis and surface plasmon resonance, it was shown that ch14D5 antibody has the highest affinity (KD= 1.7±0.5 nM) for the D3 domain of the TBEV of the “Sofjin-Ru” strain belonging to the Far Eastern subtype of the virus. …”
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Power of emperor in Russian legal discourse of second half of 19th– early 20th centuries: justification and options for interpretation by I. G. Adoneva, Yu. V. Druzhinina

“…For state scholars closely associated with Western jurisprudence, who shared its values, it was important to emphasize the belonging of the Russian Empire to the European world, where a skeptical view of the Russian monarchy remained. …”
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Cerebellar lipid dysregulation in SCA3: A comparative study in patients and mice by Alexandra F. Putka, Varshasnata Mohanty, Stephanie M. Cologna, Hayley S. McLoughlin

“…Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is the most common dominantly inherited ataxia and belongs to the family of nine diseases caused by a polyglutamine expansion in the disease-causing protein. …”
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A strain of Talaromyces assiutensis provides multiple protection effects against insect pests and a fungal pathogen after endophytic settlement in soybean plants by Li Sui, Yang Lu, Ke Cheng, Yifan Tian, Zhiming Liu, Zhao Xie, Zhengkun Zhang, Qiyun Li

“…Its pathogenicity towards five insect pests belonging to Lepidoptera and Hemiptera, as well as the effect of temperature on its growth and pathogenicity against insects were measured. …”
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The Construction of Heterothallic Strains of <i>Komagataella kurtzmanii</i> Using the I-SceI Meganuclease by Daria D. Sokolova, Philipp I. Akentyev, Kristina O. Petrova, Lyudmila V. Lyutova, Aleksei A. Korzhenkov, Irek I. Gubaidullin, Stepan V. Toshchakov, Dmitry G. Kozlov

“…The methylotrophic yeast <i>Komagataella kurtzmanii</i> belongs to the group of homothallic fungi that are able to spontaneously change their mating type by inversion of chromosomal DNA in the MAT locus region. …”
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Host genetics and gut microbiota influence lipid metabolism and inflammation: potential implications for ALS pathophysiology in SOD1G93A mice by Elena Niccolai, Leandro Di Gloria, Maria Chiara Trolese, Paola Fabbrizio, Simone Baldi, Giulia Nannini, Cassandra Margotta, Claudia Nastasi, Matteo Ramazzotti, Gianluca Bartolucci, Caterina Bendotti, Giovanni Nardo, Amedeo Amedei

“…Our results revealed strain-specific differences in GM composition and functions, particularly in the abundance of taxa belonging to Erysipelotrichaceae and the levels of short and medium-chain fatty acids in fecal samples. …”
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A Five-Year Retrospective Study of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreaks in Southern Africa, 2014 to 2018 by Elliot Mpolokang Fana, Sununguko Wata Mpoloka, Melvin Leteane, LaToya Seoke, Kelebogile Masoba, Mokganedi Mokopasetso, Aobakwe Rapharing, Tshephang Kabelo, Patricia Made, Joseph Hyera

“…SAT1 viruses were from topotypes I and III, SAT2 viruses belonged to topotypes I, II, III, and IV, and SAT3 viruses were of topotypes I and II. …”
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Exploring DNA methylation, telomere length, mitochondrial DNA, and immune function in patients with Long-COVID by Andrea Polli, Lode Godderis, Dries S. Martens, Madhura Shekhar Patil, Jolien Hendrix, Arne Wyns, Jente Van Campenhout, Emma Richter, Lara Fanning, Olivia Vandekerckhove, Eveline Claeys, Wim Janssens, Natalie Lorent

“…One-hundred and twenty-seven patients (35.4%) belonged to at least one cluster. The bigger cluster included PEM, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and pain (n = 57). …”
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Genomic changes during the evolution of the Coxiella genus along the parasitism-mutualism continuum by Santos-Garcia, Diego, Morel, Olivier, Henri, Hélène, El Filali, Adil, Buysse, Marie, Noël, Valérie, McCoy, Karen D., Gottlieb, Yuval, Klasson, Lisa, Zenner, Lionel, Duron, Olivier, Vavre, Fabrice

“…We sequenced two new Coxiella-LE genomes from Dermacentor marginatus (CLEDm) and Ornithodoros maritimus (CLEOmar) ticks, the latter belonging to the C. burnetii lineage. Using these newly sequenced Coxiella-LEs and 43 Coxiellaceae genomes, we conducted comparative genomic and phylogenomic analyses to increase our knowledge of C. burnetii pathogenicity and the emergence of Coxiella-LEs. …”
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Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of pathogens isolated from clinical specimens at a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh, 2020–2023 by Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Fahim Alam Nobel, Saiful Islam, Amiyo Haider, Mohammad Nasir Uddin, Mohammod Johirul Islam

“…Out of 2068 isolates, 644 (31.1 %) were gram-positive and 1424 (68.9 %) were gram-negative bacteria. Isolates belonged to males (55.3 %) and females (44.7 %). The most common gram-negative bacterial isolates were Pseudomonas spp. (33.9 %) and Escherichia coli (23.4 %), whereas the most common isolates of gram-positive bacteria were Staphylococcus spp. (15.8 %) and Streptococcus spp. (12.2 %). …”
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Study of soil cover of Veronica spuria L. populations in Ile Alatau mountains, Kazakhstan by Yerkebulan Balkybek, Bekzat Tynybekov, Kanat Kulymbet, Ussen Kurmanbay, Zoya Umirbayeva, Zinat Nurakyn, Assiya Myltykbayeva, Alibek Ydyrys, Murat Toktar

“…The article studies the natural conditions of soils of Kimasar, Big Almaty and Kaskelen gorges belonging to the Ile Alatau mountain range. From the received soil samples the types of soils, morphological features of soils, amounts of nutrient elements (mobile nitrogen, mobile phosphorus, mobile potassium), humus content, reaction of soil medium (pH), carbon content in soil layers (CO2), mobile forms of heavy metals (Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb), sum of salts in soils (salt composition) and mechanical composition of soils were determined. …”
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Comparing rumen fluid collection methods on fermentation profile and microbial population in lactating dairy cows by N. Pathak, H. Guan, P. Fan, H. Sultana, K. Arriola, A. Oyebade, C. Nino de Guzman, M. Malekkhahi, K.C. Jeong, D. Vyas

“…The majority of sequences obtained with microbiome analysis belonged to Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Cyanobacteria, regardless of the rumen fluid collection method. …”
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Longitudinal non-targeted metabolomic profiling of urine samples for monitoring of kidney transplantation patients by Ihsan Yozgat, Ulkem Cakır, Muhittin Abdulkadir Serdar, Sevgi Sahin, Osman Ugur Sezerman, Emirhan Nemutlu, Ahmet Tarik Baykal, Mustafa Serteser

“…These distinctive metabolites mainly belonged to lipid, fatty acid, and amino acid categories. …”
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Description of a new Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) (Ixodida: Argasidae) tick species from Pakistan by Abid Ali, Mehran Khan, Muhammad Numan, Abdulaziz Alouffi, Mashal M. Almutairi, Ronel Pienaar, Minique H. de Castro, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Ben J. Mans, Ala Tabor

“…Phylogenetic analyses of the full-length mitochondrial genome and the 18S and 28S ribosomal RNA genes, combined with pairwise nucleotide comparisons of cox1, cox2, atp8, atp6, cox3, nad3, nad5, nad4, nad4L, nad6, cytb, nad1, nad2, 12S rDNA, 16S rDNA, 18S rDNA and 28S rDNA further support that the new species belongs to the Pavlovskyella subgenus, clustering with O. tholozani, Ornithodoros verrucosus and Ornithodoros tartakovskyi.…”
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SFMHANet: Surface Fitting Constrained Multidimensional Hybrid Attention Network for Aero-Optics Thermal Radiation Effect Correction by Yu Shi, ShanLin Niu, Lei Wang, Liang Ye, YaoZong Zhang, HanYu Hong

“…First, according to the characteristics of the aero-optics thermal radiation bias field belonging to low frequency, we initially estimate the aero-optics thermal radiation bias field using biharmonic spline interpolation surface fitting based on wavelet decomposition. …”
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Alterations in the social-conditioned place preference and density of dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area in Clsnt2-KO mice by I. N. Rozhkova, S. V. Okotrub, E. Yu. Brusentsev, K. E. Uldanova, E. A. Chuyko, V. A. Naprimerov, T. V. Lipina, T. G. Amstislavskaya, S. Ya. Amstislavsky

“…This study aims to evaluate the social-conditioned place preference as well as density of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), which belongs to the brain reward system, in the males of the Clstn2-KO strain using wild type C57BL/6J males as controls. …”
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Genetic Analysis of Undiagnosed Juvenile GM1-Gangliosidosis by Microarray and Exome Sequencing by Ahmed Bouhouche, Houyam Tibar, Yamna Kriouale, Mohammed Jiddane, Imane Smaili, Naima Bouslam, Ali Benomar, Mohamed Yahyaoui, Elmostafa El Fahime

“…Here, we present three patients belonging to a consanguineous Moroccan family with a GM1-gangliosidosis with unusual clinical onset and atypical radiological presentation that had eluded diagnosis for over a decade. …”
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Phylogenetic and pangenomic analyses of members of the family <i>Micrococcaceae</i> related to a plant-growth-promoting rhizobacterium isolated from the rhizosphere of potato (<i>S... by S. Yu. Shchyogolev, G. L. Burygin, L. A. Dykman, L. Yu. Matora

“…According to the AAI &gt; 65 % criterion, members of the genus Arthrobacter and several other genera belonging to the class Actinomycetes, with a very wide geographical and ecological range of sources of isolation, should be placed into the same genus as Kocuria. …”
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The Paradox of Averroes by Nur S. Kirabaev

“…The most famous names of philosophers: Ibn Sina (980-1037) is better known in Europe as Avicenna and Ibn Rushd (1126-1198) as Averroes. These thinkers belonged to the school of Eastern Peripateticism. Eastern Peripateticism or Eastern Aristotelianism are terms that denote one of the directions of Arab-Muslim philosophy of the Middle Ages. …”
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