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Understanding invisible work, thus, leads us to consider different constitutive relevancies. In turn, these serve to specify established concepts in STS, such as 'controversy,' to better distinguish the day-to-day conduct of natural science from that of politics or law.Backgrounds and Aims Klebsiella pneumoniae represents the most common opportunistic pathogen contributing to Klebsiella pneumonia in hospital-acquired infections. Klebsiella pneumonia has a rapidly progressive clinical course and multi-drug resistant (MDR). Identification of the effective biochemical markers is crucial for improving early diagnosis and treatment of Klebsiella pneumonia. The aims of our study are to 1) investigate the expression of β-Defensin-2(rβD2), IL-22, IL-22R1 and IL-10R2 in Klebsiella pneumonia-infected rats and 2) their association with the histological grades of Klebsiella pneumonia.Methods and Materials Fifty specific pathogen free (SPF) male SD rats were randomly divided into two groups control group (treated with normal saline) and pneumonia group (treated with K. pneumoniae). All animals were sacrificed 1 h, 12 h, 1 d, 3 d, 5 d post infection. The severity and property of pneumonia was evaluated by histopathologic observation and pathogen identification. The mRNA expression of rβD2, IL-22, IL-22R1 and IL-10R2 was measured by RT-qPCR assay. The expression of rβD2 in rat lung tissue was determined by Western blot analysis, and the level of IL-22 in rat serum was determined by ELISA.Results Histopathologic examination and bacterial counting of lung tissues confirmed the successful establishment of rat pneumonia model. The gene expression of rβD2, IL-22, IL-22R1 and IL-10R2 in pneumonia rats were significantly higher than those in healthy control mice (P  less then  0.05). The expression of rβD2 was correlated with histological grades of Klebsiella pneumonia and the level of IL-22. RT-qPCR results showed that the peak expression of IL-22R1 appeared earlier than IL-10R2 in rat pneumonia model.Conclusions The expression of rβD2 and IL-22 was increased significantly at early stage in rat Klebsiella pneumonia model, suggesting that IL-22 and rβD2 might serve as potential biomarkers for the early diagnosis of Klebsiella pneumonia.Background The long-term survival after lung transplantation (LTx) is often limited by the development of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD). Increased oxidative stress has been found to occur in chronic lung allograft dysfunction because of several risk factors, e.g. immunological factors or drug related factors. The aim of this study was to investigate the anti-oxidative effect of the receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) inhibitor nintedanib on immunologically induced oxidative stress and on drug induced oxidative stress.Methods In-vivo studies were used for investigation of immunologically induced oxidative stress Immunohistochemistry of transglutaminase-2 (TGM-2) was used to figure out a potential anti-oxidative effect of receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor nintedanib in a rat model of allogeneic left LTx. In-vitro studies were used for investigation of drug induced oxidative stress Cell viability assay, 2'7'-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFDA) and immunofluorescence of transglutaminase-2 were diodulatory effect in the treatment of chronic lung allograft dysfunction.Myosins are among the most fascinating enzymes in biology. As extremely allosteric chemomechanical molecular machines, myosins are involved in myriad pivotal cellular functions and are frequently sites of mutations leading to disease phenotypes. Human β-cardiac myosin has proved to be an excellent target for small-molecule therapeutics for heart muscle diseases, and, as we describe here, other myosin family members are likely to be potentially unique targets for treating other diseases as well. Selleckchem CX-5461 The first part of this review focuses on how myosins convert the chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis into mechanical movement, followed by a description of existing therapeutic approaches to target human β-cardiac myosin. The next section focuses on the possibility of targeting nonmuscle members of the human myosin family for several diseases. We end the review by describing the roles of myosin in parasites and the therapeutic potential of targeting them to block parasitic invasion of their hosts. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Biochemistry, Volume 89 is June 22, 2020. Please see http//www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.Cryptochromes are blue-light receptors that mediate photoresponses in plants. The genomes of most land plants encode two clades of cryptochromes, CRY1 and CRY2, which mediate distinct and overlapping photoresponses within the same species and between different plant species. Photoresponsive protein-protein interaction is the primary mode of signal transduction of cryptochromes. Cryptochromes exist as physiologically inactive monomers in the dark; the absorption of photons leads to conformational change and cryptochrome homooligomerization, which alters the affinity of cryptochromes interacting with cryptochrome-interacting proteins to form various cryptochrome complexes. These cryptochrome complexes, collectively referred to as the cryptochrome complexome, regulate transcription or stability of photoresponsive proteins to modulate plant growth and development. The activity of cryptochromes is regulated by photooligomerization; dark monomerization; cryptochrome regulatory proteins; and cryptochrome phosphorylation, ubiquitination, and degradation. Most of the more than 30 presently known cryptochrome-interacting proteins are either regulated by other photoreceptors or physically interacting with the protein complexes of other photoreceptors. Some cryptochrome-interacting proteins are also hormonal signaling or regulatory proteins. These two mechanisms enable cryptochromes to integrate blue-light signals with other internal and external signals to optimize plant growth and development. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Plant Biology, Volume 71 is April 29, 2020. Please see http//www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.