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South Korea adopted stringent preventive measures against Coronavirus virus disease 2019, resulting in three small and one large outbreaks until January 15, 2022. The fatality rate was 2.5-fold higher during peak transmission periods than in base periods. As new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are continuously emerging, the need for understanding their epidemic potential remains necessary. In South Korea, the epidemiologic data obtained from mass diagnostic testing enabled investigation of the true number of infected cases, exact incidence, and fatality numbers. Analysis found a similarity between estimated infection rates and confirmed cases. This suggested that the number of confirmed cases had an influence on the fatality rate as a quantitative parameter. The fatality rate decreased even as infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants rose. In comparative analysis, the confirmed cases in young people (ages 20-29) increased prior to every outbreak peak and marked the tipping point in infection spread. These results indicate that a high level of SARS-CoV-2 infection in young population drives peak incidence and mortality across all age groups.Tuberculosis (TB) is a life-threatening infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Timely diagnosis and effective treatment are essential in the control of TB. Conventional smear microscopy still has low sensitivity and is unable to reveal the drug resistance of this bacterium. The traditional culture-based diagnosis is time-consuming, since usually the results are available after 3-4 weeks. Molecular biology methods fail to differentiate live from dead M. tuberculosis, while diagnostic immunology methods fail to distinguish active from latent TB. In view of these limitations of the existing detection techniques, in addition to the continuous emergence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB, in recent years there has been an increase in the demand for simple, rapid, accurate and economical point-of-care approaches. This review describes the development, evaluation, and implementation of conventional diagnostic methods for TB and the rapid new approaches for the detection of M. tuberculosis.The coal-degrading ability of microorganisms is essential for the formation of biogenic coalbed methane. The ability to degrade the aromatic compound of coal is more important because it is perceived as the main refractory component for bioconversion. In this paper, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) degrading fungal community (PF) was enriched from produced water using phenanthrene as sole carbon source. The goal was to improve both the microbial structure of the methanogenic microflora and its coal-degrading ability. Two strategies were pursued. The first used coal pretreatment with PF (PP), followed by methane production by methanogenic microflora; the second used methane production directly from coal by mixed culture of PF and methanogenic microflora (PM). The results showed that methane productions of PP and PM increased by 29.40 and 39.52%, respectively. After 7 days of cultivation, the fungal community has been altered in PP and PM, especially for Penicillium the proportions of which were 67.37 and 89.81% higher than that in methanogenic microflora, respectively. Furthermore, volatile fatty acid accumulations increased by 64.21 and 58.15%, respectively. The 13C-NMR results showed that PF addition promoted the transformation of aromatic carbons in coal to carboxyl and carbonyl carbons, which contributed greatly to the production of methane together with oxygen-containing functional groups. These results suggest that methane production can be increased by indigenous PAH-degrading fungi by improving the fermentation of aromatics in coal and the generation of volatile fatty acids. This provided a feasible method for enhancing biomethane generation in the coal seam.As the market size of the cosmetics industry increases, the safety and effectiveness of new products face higher requirements. The marine environment selects for species of micro-organisms with metabolic pathways and adaptation mechanisms different from those of terrestrial organisms, resulting in their natural products exhibiting unique structures, high diversity, and significant biological activities. Natural products are usually safe and non-polluting. Therefore, considerable effort has been devoted to searching for cosmetic ingredients that are effective, safe, and natural for marine micro-organisms. However, marine micro-organisms can be difficult, or impossible, to culture because of their special environmental requirements. Metagenomics technology can help to solve this problem. Moreover, using marine species to produce more green and environmentally friendly products through biotransformation has become a new choice for cosmetic manufacturers. In this study, the natural products of marine micro-organisms are reviewed and evaluated with respect to various cosmetic applications.Coenzyme A (CoA) transferases catalyze reversible transfer of CoA groups from CoA-thioesters to free acids, playing important roles in the metabolism of carboxylic acids in all organisms. An intramolecular CoA transferase, Mesaconyl-CoA C1-C4 CoA transferase (MCT) was identified in the autotrophic CO2 fixation pathway, 3-hydroxypropionic acid cycle of filamentous anoxygenic phototrophs (FAPs). Different from the well-known CoA transferases that catalyze CoA transfer between two distinct substrates, MCT specifically catalyzes the reversible transformation of mesaconyl-C1-CoA to mesaconyl-C4-CoA, a key reaction intermediate for carbon fixation. However, the molecular mechanism of MCT in employing one substrate is enigmatic. Here we determined the crystal structure of MCT from a chlorosome-less FAP Roseiflexus castenholzii at 2.5 Å resolution, and characterized the catalytic mechanisms through structural analyses and molecular dynamic simulations. The structure of R. castenholzii MCT consists of a Rossmann fold gnized mechanism for the uncommon intramolecular CoA transfer reaction, which will not only broaden the knowledge on the catalytic mechanisms of CoA transferases, but also contribute to enzyme engineering or biosynthetic applications of the 3-HP cycle for synthesis of fine chemicals and important metabolites.As one of the common physical remains in archaeological discoveries, human bones are important bases for studying the history of human development, which is of great significance for exploring the evolution law of ancient human, reconstructing ancient human society, and tracking the development of human civilization. However, in the process of human bone burial, in addition to being affected by physical and chemical factors, it will also be affected by microorganisms in the buried soil, resulting in a variety of diseases. According to the determination and analysis of the microbial community structure and diversity in the burial soil of Yangguanzhai Site in Gaoling District in Xi'an city, Shaanxi Province, this paper attempts to explore the influence of microorganisms in the burial environment on human bones, in order to provide scientific proof for the microbial prevention and control of bone relics in the archaeological excavation site. For the first time, Illumina NovaSeq high-throughput sequencing technology was used to analyze the microbial community structure in the burial soil. At the phylum level, there were 8 dominant bacteria species in the soil samples of tombs, which were Firmicutes, Actinobacteriota, Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Acidobacteriota, Methylomirabilota, Chloroflexi, Bacteroidota. At the genus level, there were 12 dominant species in the soil samples of tombs, including MIZ17, MND1, Gaiella, oc32, Kroppenstedtia, Halomonas, Bacteroides, Dongia, Faecalibacterium, Nocardioides, Pseudomonas, Pseudonocardia. The overall microorganisms in the soil of Yangguanzhai Cemetery were relatively well-distributed, and the microbial community structure near human bones is the most abundant and diverse. Therefore, it is necessary to take some measures to control microorganisms and protect human bones.Due to recent developments in NGS technologies, genome sequencing is generating large volumes of new data containing a wealth of biological information. Understanding sequenced genomes in a biologically meaningful way and delineating their functional and metabolic landscapes is a first-level challenge. Considering the global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) problem, investments to expand surveillance and improve existing genome analysis technologies are pressing. In addition, the speed at which new genomic data is generated surpasses our capacity to analyze it with available bioinformatics methods, thus creating a need to develop new, user-friendly and comprehensive analytical tools. To this end, we propose a new web application, CABGen, developed with open-source software. CABGen allows storing, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting bioinformatics data in a friendly, scalable, easy-to-use environment and can process data from bacterial isolates of different species and origins. CABGen has three modules Upload Sequences, Analyze Sequences, and Verify Results. Functionalities include coverage estimation, species identification, de novo genome assembly, and assembly quality, genome annotation, MLST mapping, searches for genes related to AMR, virulence, and plasmids, and detection of point mutations in specific AMR genes. Visualization tools are also available, greatly facilitating the handling of biological data. The reports include those results that are clinically relevant. To illustrate the use of CABGen, whole-genome shotgun data from 181 bacterial isolates of different species collected in 5 Brazilian regions between 2018 and 2020 were uploaded and submitted to the platform's modules.More and more studies have shown that understanding microbe-disease associations cannot only reveal the pathogenesis of diseases, but also promote the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases. Because traditional medical experiments are time-consuming and expensive, many computational methods have been proposed in recent years to identify potential microbe-disease associations. K-975 purchase In this study, we propose a method based on heterogeneous network and metapath aggregated graph neural network (MAGNN) to predict microbe-disease associations, called MATHNMDA. First, we introduce microbe-drug interactions, drug-disease associations, and microbe-disease associations to construct a microbe-drug-disease heterogeneous network. Then we take the heterogeneous network as input to MAGNN. Second, for each layer of MAGNN, we carry out intra-metapath aggregation with a multi-head attention mechanism to learn the structural and semantic information embedded in the target node context, the metapath-based neighbor nodes, and the context between them, by encoding the metapath instances under the metapath definition mode. We then use inter-metapath aggregation with an attention mechanism to combine the semantic information of all different metapaths. Third, we can get the final embedding of microbe nodes and disease nodes based on the output of the last layer in the MAGNN. Finally, we predict potential microbe-disease associations by reconstructing the microbe-disease association matrix. In addition, we evaluated the performance of MATHNMDA by comparing it with that of its variants, some state-of-the-art methods, and different datasets. The results suggest that MATHNMDA is an effective prediction method. The case studies on asthma, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) further validate the effectiveness of MATHNMDA.