Methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) occur as undesirable waste products in carbon-based fuel productions. Bothgases are major greenhouse gases with CH4 being much more potent than CO2. For this reason, excess CH4 f...
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Methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) occur as undesirable waste products in carbon-based fuel productions. Bothgases are major greenhouse gases with CH4 being much more potent than CO2. For this reason, excess CH4 from varioussources is often flared into CO2 rather than releasing the CH4 into the atmosphere, however, some CH4 is still emitteddue to the inefficiency of flare combustion. We have explored how natural microbial communities can be manipulatedinto consuming both CH4 and CO2 from a gas stream and converting the gases into microbial biomass. Natural seawaterwas enriched with inorganic nutrients and injected with a continuous gas stream containing CH4 (4.7% v/v) and CO2(1% v/v) over a period of several days, either in the dark or in the light. Microbial communities established thatcontained methanotrophic bacteria consuming CH4, and cyanobacteria and microalgae consuming CO2. The measureof chemotaxonomic markers revealed that the growth of phototrophs increased greatly only in the light with an earlydominance by cyanobacteria later overtaken by microalgae, and that the growth of methanotrophs increased greatlyonly in the dark. The microbial communities were characterized using near-full-length 16S/18S rrna gene ampliconsequencing with the Nanopore technology. In the incubated cultures, the microbial diversity was drastically lower ascompared to the natural communities. The most abundant microalgae were green algae belonging to Picochlorum,Tetraselmis, Chlamydomonas, and Nannochloris, and the most abundant cyanobacteria were related to Geitlerinemasp. PCC 7105, Symphothece sp. PCC 7002 and Cyanobium sp. PCC 6307 (based on the SILVA reference database).Methylomicrobium and Methylobacter were the most abundant methanotrophs in the dark-incubated cultures, whereasMethylomonas methanica was identified as the single methanotroph with notable abundance under light ***, for optimal CH4 and CO2 consumption it may be necessary to physically separate
Crisis management effectiveness relies mainly on the quality of the distributed human organization deployed for saving lives, limiting damage and reducing risks. Organizations set up in this context are not always pre...
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nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)is a serious threat to public health,but its underlying mechanism remains poorly *** screening important genes using Gene Importance Calculator(GIC)we developed previously,riboso...
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nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)is a serious threat to public health,but its underlying mechanism remains poorly *** screening important genes using Gene Importance Calculator(GIC)we developed previously,ribosomal modification protein rimK-like family member A(RIMKLA)was predicted as one essential gene but its functions remained largely *** current study determined the roles of RIMKLA in regulating glucose and lipid *** expression was reduced in livers of human and mouse with *** RIMKLA overexpression ameliorated steatosis and hyperglycemia in obese ***-specific RIMKLA knockout aggravated high-fat diet(HFD)-induced dysregulated glucose/lipid metabolism in ***,RIMKLA is a new protein kinase that phosphorylates betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase 1(BHMT1)at threonine 45(Thr45)*** phosphorylation at Thr45 and activation,BHMT1 eliminated homocysteine(Hcy)to inhibit the activity of transcription factor activator protein 1(AP1)and its induction on fatty acid synthase(FASn)and cluster of differentiation 36(CD36)gene transcriptions,concurrently repressing lipid synthesis and uptake in ***45 to alanine(T45A)mutation inactivated BHMT1 to abolish RIMKLA’s repression on Hcy level,AP1 activity,FASn/CD36 expressions,and lipid ***1 overexpression rescued the dysregulated lipid metabolism in RIMKLA-deficient *** summary,RIMKLA is a novel protein kinase that phosphorylates BHMT1 at Thr45 to repress lipid synthesis and *** obese condition,inhibition of RIMKLA impairs BHMT1 activity to promote hepatic lipid deposition.
Leishmania parasites alternate between hosts, facing environmental changes that demand rapid gene expression adaptation. Lacking canonical rna polymerase II promoters, transcription in these eukaryotes is polycistroni...
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It is now well known that non-codingrnas(ncrnas),rather than protein-coding transcripts,are the preponderant rna ***,particularly micrornas(mirnas),long non-codingrnas(lncrnas),and circular rnas(circrnas),are widely...
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It is now well known that non-codingrnas(ncrnas),rather than protein-coding transcripts,are the preponderant rna ***,particularly micrornas(mirnas),long non-codingrnas(lncrnas),and circular rnas(circrnas),are widely appreciated as pervasive regulators of multiple cancer hallmarks such as proliferation,apoptosis,invasion,metastasis,and genomic *** recent discoveries in cancer therapy,resistance to chemotherapy,radiotherapy,targeted therapy.
Osteoarthritis(OA) is the most prevalent joint disorder occurring with articular cartilage degradation. It includes a switch from an articular to a growth plate chondrocyte phenotype. Here, we investigated the histone...
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Osteoarthritis(OA) is the most prevalent joint disorder occurring with articular cartilage degradation. It includes a switch from an articular to a growth plate chondrocyte phenotype. Here, we investigated the histone modification profiles and found significant H3K27me3 loss in OA, which led to disease-associated gene expression. Surprisingly, these genes were occupied by both H3K27me3 and H3K4me3 in normal chondrocytes, showing a poised bivalent state. Furthermore, we observed the derepression of similar bivalent genes in growth plate chondrocytes. Finally, a KDM6B inhibitor GSK-J4 prevented the H3K27me3 loss and cartilage damage in the rat OA model. Our results reveal an inherited bivalent epigenetic signature on developmental genes that makes articular chondrocytes prone to hypertrophy and contributes to a promising epigenetic therapy for OA.
Cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, and cardiomyopathy, persist as a leading global cause of death. Current treatment options have inherent limitations, particularly in terms of cardi...
Cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, and cardiomyopathy, persist as a leading global cause of death. Current treatment options have inherent limitations, particularly in terms of cardiac regeneration due to the limited regenerative capacity of adult human hearts. The transplantation of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes(PSC-CMs) has emerged as a promising and potential solution to address this challenge. This review aims to summarize the latest advancements and prospects of PSC-CM transplantation(PCT), along with the existing constraints, such as immune rejection and engraftment arrhythmias, and corresponding solutions. Encompassing a comprehensive range from fundamental research findings and preclinical experiments to ongoing clinical trials, we hope to offer insights into PCT from bench to bedside.
Correction to:Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy https://***/10.1038/s41392-024-01914-0,published online 08 August 2024 In the process of collating the raw data,the authors noticed one inadvertent mistake in sup...
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Correction to:Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy https://***/10.1038/s41392-024-01914-0,published online 08 August 2024 In the process of collating the raw data,the authors noticed one inadvertent mistake in supplementaryfigure 9f after online publication of the ***β-actin in supplementaryfigure 9d was repeatedly inserted asβ-actin(upper)in supplementaryfigure *** correct data and corresponding original image are provided as *** correction does not affect the keyfindings(the existing published results or the discussion).The original article has been corrected.
To the Editor:Since the outbreak in December 2019,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)has infected>2.4 billion people worldwide,resulting in>4.9 million *** understand the pathogenesis of ...
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To the Editor:Since the outbreak in December 2019,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)has infected>2.4 billion people worldwide,resulting in>4.9 million *** understand the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection,single-cell rna-sequencing(scrna-seq)profiles of peripheral blood mononuclear cells(PBMCs)have been constructed in coronavirus disease-2019(COVID-19)patients at different disease stages.
Structural alignments of Ribonucleic acid (rna) sequences solved by the Sankoff algorithm are computationally expensive and often require constraints to be used in practice. Modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) con...
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