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Individuals with pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome exhibit various connective tissue pathologies associated with dysregulated extracellular matrix homeostasis. PEX glaucoma is a common, aggressive form of open-angle glaucoma resulting from the deposition of fibrillary material in the conventional outflow pathway. mTOR inhibitor However, the molecular mechanisms that drive pathogenesis and genetic risk remain poorly understood. PEX glaucoma-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms are located in, and affect activity of the promoter of LOXL1-AS1, a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA). lncRNAs regulate a host of biological processes, and when dysregulated, contribute to disease. Here we report that LOXL1-AS1 localizes to the nucleus where it selectively binds to the mRNA processing protein, heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein-L (hnRNPL). Both components of this complex are critical for the regulation of global gene expression in ocular cells, making LOXL1-AS1 a prime target for investigation in PEX syndrome and glaucoma. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email journals.permissions@oup.com.In artificial engineered systems, nitrification is a key reaction that accounts for the removal of biological nitrogen. Recently, a single microbe capable of oxidizing ammonia to nitrate, known as a complete ammonia oxidizer (comammox), has been discovered. Although the abundance and diversity of comammox Nitrospira in engineered systems have been identified through molecular-based approaches, the enrichment and isolation of comammox Nitrospira remains a challenge. Therefore, the aim of this study was to enrich comammox Nitrospira from nitrifying granules, which were used to increase the efficiency of biological nitrogen removal in wastewater treatment plants. We sought to accomplish this through the use of a fixed-bed continuous feeding bioreactor. Fluorescence in situ hybridization, 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and qPCR of functional genes were utilized to monitor the growth of nitrifiers including comammox Nitrospira. Cloning of comammox amoA genes identified amoA phylogeny of enriched comammox Nitrospira. This work is an example demonstrating that continuous supply of low ammonium concentrations alongside biomass carriers is effective in cultivating comammox Nitrospira from engineered systems. © FEMS 2020.OBJECTIVE We retrospectively analyzed the incidence and localization of venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing chemotherapy for advanced germ cell tumor and separately evaluated the risk factors for venous thromboembolism development before and during chemotherapy. METHODS We included 121 patients treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy between 2005 and 2018. Venous thromboembolism was defined as venous thrombosis diagnosed using radiological imaging with or without thromboembolic symptoms. We analyzed the clinical parameters for identifying the possible venous thromboembolism risk factors. Khorana score was used to calculate the venous thromboembolism risk. RESULTS Thirteen patients showed prechemotherapy venous thromboembolism and 13 developed venous thromboembolism during chemotherapy. The most common venous thromboembolism was deep vein thrombosis (10 patients), followed by inferior vena cava thrombus (eight patients) and pulmonary thrombus (six patients). Compared to the group without venous thril journals.permissions@oup.com.Reductive catalysis with earth-abundant metals is currently of increasing importance and shows potential in replacing precious metal catalysis. In this work, we revealed catalytic hydroboration and hydrosilylation of ketones and aldehydes achieved by a structurally defined manganese(ii) coordination polymer (CP) as a precatalyst under mild conditions. The manganese-catalysed methodology can be applied to a range of functionalized aldehydes and ketones with turnover numbers (TON) of up to 990. Preliminary results on the regioselective catalytic hydrofunctionalization of styrenes by the Mn-CP catalyst are also presented.P-Rhodamines were accessed by implementing a robust three step sequence consisting of (i) addition of m-metallated anilines to dichlorophosphine oxides, (ii) selective dibromination, and (iii) cyclization of the diaryllithium reagents derived from the dibromides to form the dihydroacridophosphine core of P-rhodamines. A modified route was developed to produce non-symmetric P-rhodamines. A library of prepared P-rhodamines provides first insight into dependence of fluorophore properties on the structure of P-rhodamines. A P-rhodamine with highest batochromic shifts and quantum yields in the class was identified.Combinatorial cyclization of hundreds to thousands of random linear peptides by structurally diverse chemical linkers offers access to large macrocyclic compound libraries. A bottleneck in the development of such libraries is the preparation of large numbers of short random linear peptides. Herein, we present a tag-based strategy that is not dependent on a throughput-limiting chromatographic purification step and thus enables parallel production of short peptides. In brief, peptides are synthesized on solid phase as conjugates with a disulfide-linked Cys-Gly-Arg-Trp tetra-peptide tag. The charged arginine residue in the tag allows for purification of the peptides by diethyl ether-precipitation and the tryptophan allows for quantification of the product by absorption measurement. Addition of a reducing agent releases the short peptides from the tag. The released sulfhydryl group in the peptide can readily be used for cyclization of the peptide library with bis-electrophilic linker reagents.The enzymatic-assisted signal amplification of DNA sensors is rarely applied in living cells due to the difficulties in protein delivery. In this study, we have proposed a biomineralization-based DNA nanoprobe to transport nucleases and DNA sensors for enzyme-assisted imaging of microRNA in living cells.In this work, we report the first use of a salen-based hypercrosslinked polymer-supported Pd catalyst to carry out C-H halogenation. This catalyst can effectively catalyze C-H bromination and chlorination even better than its homogeneous counterpart Pd(OAc)2. It also showed excellent reusability without loss of catalytic activity for ten cycles. A broad substrate scope was explored and moderate to excellent yields were obtained.