Surgical quality is critical in cancer treatment,as it not only determines the radical resection of the primary tumor but also allows expedited postoperative recovery and early continuation of adjuvant therapy.Postope...Surgical quality is critical in cancer treatment,as it not only determines the radical resection of the primary tumor but also allows expedited postoperative recovery and early continuation of adjuvant therapy.Postoperative complications are valuable met-rics for assessing surgical quality.In gastric and colorectal cancer surgeries,postoperative complications substantially postpone patients'recovery and,in extreme cases,pose life-threatening risks[1].展开更多
Heterosis and polyploidy have an overwhelming influence on plant evolution.Recently,polyploid rice hybrids have been used to breed new rice varieties because they combine the advantages of both heterosis and polyploid...Heterosis and polyploidy have an overwhelming influence on plant evolution.Recently,polyploid rice hybrids have been used to breed new rice varieties because they combine the advantages of both heterosis and polyploidy.In this study,we generated six rice lines:autotetraploid rice hybrids and their autotetraploid parents,diploid donors,and hybrids of the diploid donors.To investigate the molecular mechanism controlling the effects of both hybridization and polyploidization,we performed bisulfite and RNA sequencing on young panicles at the pollen meiosis stage to compare the DNA metabolomes and transcriptomes among the six rice lines.The hybrids lines were hypermethylated compared to their corresponding parents and the autotetraploid lines showed globally increased DNA methylation of their transposable elements compared to the diploid donors.The alteration in DNA methylation level corresponded to the differential gene expressions among the rice genotypes,suggesting that methylation changes induced by polyploidization and hybridization may affect gene expression.Groups of gene candidates were identified that may be associated with heterosis and polyploidy.Our results provide DNA information that can be used to investigate epigenetic modification during heterosis and polyploidy in rice.展开更多
Nitrogen-containing organic pollutants(quinoline,pyridine and indole)are widely distributed in coking wastewater,and bioaugmentation with specific microorganisms may enhance the removal of these recalcitrant pollutant...Nitrogen-containing organic pollutants(quinoline,pyridine and indole)are widely distributed in coking wastewater,and bioaugmentation with specific microorganisms may enhance the removal of these recalcitrant pollutants.The bioaugmented system(group B)was constructed through inoculation of two aromatics-degrading bacteria,Comamonas sp.Z1(quinoline degrader)and Acinetobacter sp.JW(indole degrader),into the activated sludge for treatment of quinoline,indole and pyridine,and the non-bioaugmented activated sludge was used as the control(group C).Both groups maintained high efficiencies(>94%)for removal of nitrogen-containing organic pollutants and chemical oxygen demand(COD)during the long-term operation,and group B was highly effective at the starting period and the operation stage fed with raw wastewater.High-throughput sequencing analysis indicated that nitrogen-containing organic pollutants could shape the microbial community structure,and communities of bioaugmented group B were clearly separated from those of non-bioaugmented group C as observed in non-metric multidimensional scaling(NMDS)plot.Although the inoculants did not remain their dominance in group B,bioaugmentation could induce the formation of effective microbial community,and the indigenous microbes might play the key role in removal of nitrogen-containing organic pollutants,including Dokdonella,Comamonas and Pseudoxanthomonas.Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States(PICRUSt)analysis suggested that bioaugmentation could facilitate the enrichment of functional genes related to xenobiotics biodegradation and metabolism,probably leading to the improved performance in group B.This study indicated that bioaugmentation could promote the removal of nitrogen-containing organic pollutants,which should be an effective strategy for wastewater treatment.展开更多
Traditional photothermal agents of indocyanine green(ICG)have poor stability,short circulation time,and poor brain permeability due to the blood–brain barrier(BBB),greatly impairing their therapeutic efficacy in glio...Traditional photothermal agents of indocyanine green(ICG)have poor stability,short circulation time,and poor brain permeability due to the blood–brain barrier(BBB),greatly impairing their therapeutic efficacy in glioblastoma(GBM).Herein,we develop a novel kind of SiNPs-based nanoprobes to bypass the BBB for photothermal therapy of GBM.Typically,the SiNPs-based nanoprobes are composed of the particle itself,the BBB-targeting ligand of glucosamine(G),and the therapeutic agent of ICG.We demonstrate that the as-synthesized nanoprobes could cross the BBB through glucose transporter-1(GLUT1)-mediated transcytosis,followed by accumulation at GBM tissues in mice.Compared with free ICG,G-ICG-SiNPs show stronger stability(for example,the fluorescence intensity of G-ICG-SiNPs loaded with the same dose of ICG decays by 34.6%after 25 days of storage,while the fluorescence intensity of ICG decays by 99.5%under the same conditions).Furthermore,the blood circulation time of G-ICG-SiNPs increases by about 17.3-fold compared with their ICG counterparts.After injection of the therapeutic agents into the GBM-bearing mice,GBM-surface temperature rises to 45.3℃in G-ICG-SiNPs group after 5-min 808 nm irradiation but climbs only to 36.1℃in equivalent ICG group under the identical conditions,indicating the superior photothermal effects of GICG-SiNPs in vivo.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U20A20371)the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(D171100006517004)+3 种基金Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals’Youth Program(QML20191103)Clinical Medicine Plus X-Young Scholars Project,Peking Universitythe Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universitiesthe Science Foundation of Peking University Cancer Hospital。
文摘Surgical quality is critical in cancer treatment,as it not only determines the radical resection of the primary tumor but also allows expedited postoperative recovery and early continuation of adjuvant therapy.Postoperative complications are valuable met-rics for assessing surgical quality.In gastric and colorectal cancer surgeries,postoperative complications substantially postpone patients'recovery and,in extreme cases,pose life-threatening risks[1].
基金supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Hubei Province(2020BBA032)the Wuhan Science and Technology Major Project “Development and application of polyploid rice”,the Open Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice(Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center)(19KF06)the Youth Grant of Hubei University.
文摘Heterosis and polyploidy have an overwhelming influence on plant evolution.Recently,polyploid rice hybrids have been used to breed new rice varieties because they combine the advantages of both heterosis and polyploidy.In this study,we generated six rice lines:autotetraploid rice hybrids and their autotetraploid parents,diploid donors,and hybrids of the diploid donors.To investigate the molecular mechanism controlling the effects of both hybridization and polyploidization,we performed bisulfite and RNA sequencing on young panicles at the pollen meiosis stage to compare the DNA metabolomes and transcriptomes among the six rice lines.The hybrids lines were hypermethylated compared to their corresponding parents and the autotetraploid lines showed globally increased DNA methylation of their transposable elements compared to the diploid donors.The alteration in DNA methylation level corresponded to the differential gene expressions among the rice genotypes,suggesting that methylation changes induced by polyploidization and hybridization may affect gene expression.Groups of gene candidates were identified that may be associated with heterosis and polyploidy.Our results provide DNA information that can be used to investigate epigenetic modification during heterosis and polyploidy in rice.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31970107 and 51508068)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.DUT19JC17)the Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment,Harbin Institute of Technology(No.QAK201943)。
文摘Nitrogen-containing organic pollutants(quinoline,pyridine and indole)are widely distributed in coking wastewater,and bioaugmentation with specific microorganisms may enhance the removal of these recalcitrant pollutants.The bioaugmented system(group B)was constructed through inoculation of two aromatics-degrading bacteria,Comamonas sp.Z1(quinoline degrader)and Acinetobacter sp.JW(indole degrader),into the activated sludge for treatment of quinoline,indole and pyridine,and the non-bioaugmented activated sludge was used as the control(group C).Both groups maintained high efficiencies(>94%)for removal of nitrogen-containing organic pollutants and chemical oxygen demand(COD)during the long-term operation,and group B was highly effective at the starting period and the operation stage fed with raw wastewater.High-throughput sequencing analysis indicated that nitrogen-containing organic pollutants could shape the microbial community structure,and communities of bioaugmented group B were clearly separated from those of non-bioaugmented group C as observed in non-metric multidimensional scaling(NMDS)plot.Although the inoculants did not remain their dominance in group B,bioaugmentation could induce the formation of effective microbial community,and the indigenous microbes might play the key role in removal of nitrogen-containing organic pollutants,including Dokdonella,Comamonas and Pseudoxanthomonas.Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States(PICRUSt)analysis suggested that bioaugmentation could facilitate the enrichment of functional genes related to xenobiotics biodegradation and metabolism,probably leading to the improved performance in group B.This study indicated that bioaugmentation could promote the removal of nitrogen-containing organic pollutants,which should be an effective strategy for wastewater treatment.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21825402 and 22074101)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China(No.BK20191417)+2 种基金the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2021M692347)the Program for Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professors to the Prof.Yao He,a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(PAPD)the 111 Project,as well as the Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology(NANO-CIC).
文摘Traditional photothermal agents of indocyanine green(ICG)have poor stability,short circulation time,and poor brain permeability due to the blood–brain barrier(BBB),greatly impairing their therapeutic efficacy in glioblastoma(GBM).Herein,we develop a novel kind of SiNPs-based nanoprobes to bypass the BBB for photothermal therapy of GBM.Typically,the SiNPs-based nanoprobes are composed of the particle itself,the BBB-targeting ligand of glucosamine(G),and the therapeutic agent of ICG.We demonstrate that the as-synthesized nanoprobes could cross the BBB through glucose transporter-1(GLUT1)-mediated transcytosis,followed by accumulation at GBM tissues in mice.Compared with free ICG,G-ICG-SiNPs show stronger stability(for example,the fluorescence intensity of G-ICG-SiNPs loaded with the same dose of ICG decays by 34.6%after 25 days of storage,while the fluorescence intensity of ICG decays by 99.5%under the same conditions).Furthermore,the blood circulation time of G-ICG-SiNPs increases by about 17.3-fold compared with their ICG counterparts.After injection of the therapeutic agents into the GBM-bearing mice,GBM-surface temperature rises to 45.3℃in G-ICG-SiNPs group after 5-min 808 nm irradiation but climbs only to 36.1℃in equivalent ICG group under the identical conditions,indicating the superior photothermal effects of GICG-SiNPs in vivo.
