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Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonococcus) is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes gonorrhoea-a sexually transmitted disease. This gonococcus has progressively developed resistance to most of the available antimicrobials. Only a few countries around the world have been able to run extensive surveillance programmes on gonococcal infection and antimicrobial resistance, raising a global concern. Thus, this review focuses on the mechanisms of resistance to recommended antimicrobials in the past and present time. The approaches by the scientific community in the development of novel technologies such as whole-genome sequencing to predict antimicrobial resistance, track gonococcal transmission, as well as, introduce new therapeutics like Solithromycin, Zoliflodacin, and Gepotidacin were also discussed.Decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209), a member of a major group of brominated flame retardants, is detected in aquatic environments at considerable levels and induces physiological and toxic effects on aquatic plants. In this study, the physiological responses induced by and the toxic effects of BDE-209 at different concentrations (0, 0.2, 0.5 and 1.0 mg L-1) in Lythrum salicaria were examined. OJIP transient curves indicated that BDE-209 treatment negatively affected photosystem II (PSII) grouping. Additionally, the results showed that BDE-209 inhibited seedling development and elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS), phosphorylated histone H2AX (γ-H2AX), malondialdehyde (MDA) levels and antioxidative enzyme activities in the roots and shoots of L. salicaria. The results revealed that BDE-209 exposure contributed to ROS accumulation, which was considered as the probable toxicity mechanism. The current results provided an insight into the development of L. salicaria with high BDE-209 tolerance.A novel surface plasmon resonance-based P-gp ligand screening system (SPR-PLSS) combined with lentiviral particle (LVP) stabilization strategy was constructed to screen out potential P-gp inhibitors from natural products. Firstly, we constructed LVPs with high and low expression levels of P-gp. The LVPs can ensure the natural conformation of P-gp based on the principle that LVPs germinated from packaging cells will contain cell membrane fragments and P-gp they carry. Then the LVPs with high P-gp expression for active channel and LVPs with low P-gp expression for reference channel were immobilized on CM5 chip respectively. The affinity detection was thus carried out with the signal reduction on the two channels. The P-gp inhibitors, Valspodar (Val) and cyclosporin (CsA), as positive compounds, were detected to characterize the chip's activity, and the KD of Val and CsA were 14.09 μM and 16.41 μM, respectively. Forty compounds from natural product library were screened using the SPR CM5 chip, and magnolol (Mag), honokiol (Hon), and resveratrol (Res) were screened out as potential P-gp ligands, showing a significant response signal. This work presented a novel P-gp ligand screening system based on LVP-immobilized biosensor to rapidly screen out P-gp ligands from natural product library. Compared with traditional cell experiments which the screening time may take up to several days, our method only takes several hours. Furthermore, this study has also provided solid evidences to support that some complicated membrane proteins would apply to the lentivirus-based SPR screening system.In this study, hydrodynamic chromatography coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry has been evaluated for the simultaneous determination of dissolved and nanoparticulate species of gold and silver. Optimization of mobile phase was carried out with special attention to the column recovery of the different species and the resolution between them. Addition of 0.05 mM penicillamine to the mobile phase allowed the quantitative recovery of ionic gold and gold nanoparticles up to 50 nm, whereas 1 mM penicillamine was necessary for quantitative recovery of ionic silver and silver nanoparticles up to 40 nm. The resolution achieved between ionic gold and 10-nm gold nanoparticles was 0.7, whereas it ranged between 0.31 and 0.93 for ionic silver and 10-nm silver nanoparticles, depending on the composition of mobile phase. Best-case mass concentration detection limits for gold and silver species were 0.05 and 0.75 μg L-1, respectively. The developed methods allowed the simultaneous detection of nanoparticulate and dissolved species of gold and silver in less than 10 min. G140 order Size determination and quantification of gold and silver species were carried out in different dietary supplements, showing good agreement with the results obtained by electron microscopy and total and ultrafiltrable contents, respectively. Due to the attainable resolution, the quality of the quantitative results is affected by the relative abundance of nanoparticulate and dissolved species of the element and the size of the nanoparticles if present.The evolution of tRNA multigene families remains poorly understood, exhibiting unusual phenomena such as functional conversions of tRNA genes through anticodon shift substitutions. We improved FlyBase tRNA gene annotations from twelve Drosophila species, incorporating previously identified ortholog sets to compare substitution rates across tRNA bodies at single-site and base-pair resolution. All rapidly evolving sites fell within the same metal ion-binding pocket that lies at the interface of the two major stacked helical domains. We applied our tRNA Structure-Function Mapper (tSFM) method independently to each Drosophila species and one outgroup species Musca domestica and found that, although predicted tRNA structure-function maps are generally highly conserved in flies, one tRNA Class-Informative Feature (CIF) within the rapidly evolving ion-binding pocket-Cytosine 17 (C17), ancestrally informative for lysylation identity-independently gained asparaginylation identity and substituted in parallel across tRNAAsn paralogs at least once, possibly multiple times, during evolution of the genus. In D. melanogaster, most tRNALys and tRNAAsn genes are co-arrayed in one large heterologous gene cluster, suggesting that heterologous gene conversion as well as structural similarities of tRNA-binding interfaces in the closely related asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase (AsnRS) and lysyl-tRNA synthetase (LysRS) proteins may have played a role in these changes. A previously identified Asn-to-Lys anticodon shift substitution in D. ananassae may have arisen to compensate for the convergent and parallel gains of C17 in tRNAAsn paralogs in that lineage. Our results underscore the functional and evolutionary relevance of our tRNA structure-function map predictions and illuminate multiple genomic and structural factors contributing to rapid, parallel and compensatory evolution of tRNA multigene families.