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Also, following the same templates in molecular cloning may acquire new AMP classes with potent antimicrobial effects that could widen drug design in new anti-infective drugs.Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacilli Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb); most TB patients are infected with strains of Mtb sensitive to first-line drugs (DS-TB), but in the last years has been increased the presence of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). HLA class II (HLA-II) is expressed on antigen-presenting cells and reported the association between HLA alleles and DS-TB in the Mexican population. We studied HLA-II + CD16+ monocytes frequency and its relation with a pro-inflammatory profile during DS-TB versus MDR-TB, both before as in response to anti-tuberculosis treatment. Peripheral blood was obtained from MDR-TB at the basal time (before use of therapy), 1, 3, and 8 months of anti-TB therapy (moTBt), whereas DS-TB at basal and 1 and 6 moTBt. Our data showed that contrary to DS-TB, MDR-TB patients have decreased the frequency of HLA-II + monocytes and increased the pro-inflammatory CD16+ monocytes from basal time until 8 moTBt. Similarly, only MDR-TB patients still have a high plasma level of IFN-γ and TNF pro-inflammatory cytokines for a long-time, and although MDR-TB patients showed an increased level of the soluble form of TIM3 and GAL9 at baseline, those molecules decreased as a response to anti-TB therapy. Finally, our data indicated that MDR-TB displayed DRB1*04 allele, suggesting an association between the infection by multidrug-resistance Mtb strain and the presence of the DRB1*04 allele in Mexican TB patients.A growing body of research suggests that perception and cognition are affected by fluctuating bodily states. For example, the rate of information sampling is coupled with cardiac phases. However, the benefits of such spontaneous coupling between bodily oscillations and decision-making remains unclear. Here, we studied the role of the cardiac cycle in information sampling by testing whether sequential information sampling phase-locked to systolic or diastolic parts of the cardiac cycle impacts the rate of information gathering and processing. To this aim, we employed a modified Information Sampling Task, a standard measure of the rate of information gathering before reaching a decision, in which the onset of new information delivery in each trial was coupled either to cardiac systole or diastole. Information presented within cardiac systole did not significantly modulate the information processing in a manner that would produce clear behavioral changes. However, we found evidence suggesting that higher interoceptive awareness increased accuracy, especially in the costly version of the task, when new information was sequentially presented at systole. Overall, our results add to a growing body of research on body-brain interactions and suggest that our internal bodily rhythms (i.e., heartbeats) and our awareness of them can interact with the way we process the noisy world around us.Plant photobodies are the membrane-less organelles (MLOs) that can be generated by protein-protein interactions between active form of phytochrome B (phyB) and phytochrome-interacting factors (PIFs). These organelles regulate plant photomorphogenesis. In this study, we developed two chimeric proteins with fluorescent proteins, phyB fused to EGFP and PIF6 fused to mCherry, and investigated their exogenous expression in mammalian cells by confocal fluorescence microscopy. Results showed that irradiation with diffused 630-nm light induced formation and subsequent increase in sizes of the MLOs. The assembly and disassembly of the photo-inducible MLOs in the mammalian cell cytoplasm obeyed the laws inherent in the concentration-dependent phase separation of biopolymers. The sizes of MLOs formed from phyB and PIF6 in mammalian cells corresponded to the sizes of the so-called "early" photobodies in plant cells. These results suggested that the first step for the formation of plant photobodies might be based on the light-dependent liquid-liquid phase separation of PIFs and other proteins that can specifically interact with the active form of phyB. The developed chimeric proteins in principle can be used to control the assembly and disassembly of photo-inducible MLOs, and thereby to regulate various intracellular processes in mammalian cells.Disulfiram is a promising repurposed drug that, combining with radiation and chemotherapy, exhibits effective anticancer activities in several preclinical models. The cellular metabolites of disulfiram have been established, however, the intracellular targets of disulfiram remain largely unexplored. We have previously reported that disulfiram suppresses the coronaviral papain-like proteases through attacking their zinc-finger domains, suggesting an inhibitory function potentially on other proteases with similar catalytic structures. Ubiquitin-specific proteases (USPs) share a highly-conserved zinc-finger subdomain that structurally similar to the papain-like proteases and are attractive anticancer targets as upregulated USPs levels are found in a variety of tumors. Here, we report that disulfiram functions as a competitive inhibitor for both USP2 and USP21, two tumor-related deubiquitinases. In addition, we also observed a synergistic inhibition of USP2 and USP21 by disulfiram and 6-Thioguanine (6TG), a clinical drug for acute myeloid leukemia. PP2 molecular weight Kinetic analyses revealed that both drugs exhibited a slow-binding mechanism, moderate inhibitory parameters, and a synergistically inhibitory effect on USP2 and USP21, suggesting the potential combinatory use of these two drugs for USPs-related tumors. Taken together, our study provides biochemical evidence for repurposing disulfiram and 6TG as a combinatory treatment in clinical applications.This study evaluated the inhibitory potential of various beta-lactamase inhibitors such as mechanism-based inhibitors (MBIs), carbapenems, monobactam, and non-beta-lactam inhibitors against Bla1, a class-A beta-lactamase encoded by Bacillus anthracis. The binding potential of different inhibitors was estimated using competitive kinetic assay, isothermal titration calorimetry, and Biolayer interferometry. We observed that tazobactam has better inhibition among other MBIs with a characteristics inhibition dissociation constant of 0.51 ± 0.13 μM. Avibactam was also identified as good inhibitor with an inhibition efficiency of 0.6 ± 0.04 μM. All the MBIs (KD = 1.90E-04 M, 2.05E-05 M, 3.55E-04 M for clavulanate, sulbactam and tazobactam) showed significantly better binding potential than carbapenems (KD = 1.02E-03 M, 2.74E-03 M, 1.24E-03 M for ertapenem, imipenem and biapenem respectively). Molecular dynamics simulations were carried out using Bla1-inhibitor complexes to understand the dynamics and stability. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was carried out by taking various substrates and inhibitors, and later it was followed by cell viability assay.