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A percutaneous pulmonary valve-in-valve (PPVIV) implantation in small surgical tissue valves may be limited due to the valve's initial diameter. Fracturing of the valve's integrity by high-pressure balloons may enhance the diameter and facilitate subsequent PPVIV with a large valve. To the best of our knowledge, the Trifecta® valve seemed not to be accessible for fracturing. We report a case of successful 19-mm Trifecta valve fracturing, followed by PPVIV using a 26-mm Edwards SAPIEN 3 valve in pulmonary position. By repetitively using a high-pressure balloon 5 mm larger than the labeled valve size, we were able to fracture the valve's integrity and implant a 26-mm valve thereafter. Therefore, Trifecta valve appears to be suitable for valve ring fracturing and subsequent PPVIV in certain patients. © 2020 The Authors. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Selectively capturing toxic oxoanions of selenium and arsenic is highly desired for the remediation of hazardous waste. Ionic metal-organic frameworks (iMOFs) especially cationic MOFs (iMOF-C) as ion-exchange materials, featuring aqueous phase stability, present a robust pathway for sequestration of the oxoanions owing to their ability to prevent leaching because of their ionic nature. On account of scarcity of water-stable cationic MOFs, the capture of oxoanions of selenium and arsenic has been a major challenge and has not been investigated using iMOFs. Herein, we demonstrate large scale synthesis of cationic MOF, viz. iMOF-1C that exhibits selective capture of oxoanions of SeVI (SeO4 2- ) and AsV (HAsO4 2- ) in water with a maximum sorption capacity of 100 and 85 mg g-1 , respectively. This represents among the highest uptake capacities observed for selenate oxoanion in MOFs. Further, the ion-exchange mechanism was directly unveiled by single crystal analysis, which revealed variable modes of host-guest binding. © 2020 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.To investigate the prevention of cardiac remodelling and inflammatory immune response after myocardial infarction (MI) via ACEI regulating dendritic cells (DCs), we explored whether the protective effect of ACEI was repressed under hyperlipidemic environment. In vivo, the survival rate and left ventricular function of the mice were recorded on day 7 after MI. Tissue samples of the myocardium, spleen, bone marrow and peripheral blood were assessed for Ang II concentration, inflammatory cytokines and DCs expression. In vitro, DCs were treated with ox-LDL + Ang II, simulating the internal environment of MI in ApoE-/- mice to explore the mechanism involved in the DCs maturation and inflammation. Under hyperlipidemic circumstances, we found that the cardioprotective effect of ACEI was attenuated through regulating DCs maturation and inflammation after MI, affecting survival rate and left ventricular function. Effects of lisinopril on the release of spleen-derived DCs and myocardial infiltration were also reduced under hyperlipidemic conditions. In vitro, immune maturation and inflammation of DCs were further induced by ox-LDL on the basis of Ang II treatment, as indicated by the upregulation of CD83, CD86, and the expressions of cytokines and chemokines. Furthermore, ox-LDL could activate TLR4-MyD88 signalling pathway, promoting IRAK-4 and NF-κB. The present study demonstrated that ACEI reduced the recruitment of DCs to the infarct site, leading to a higher survival rate and improved function. However, this effect was inhibited under hyperlipidemic environment. TLR4-MyD88 signalling pathway may be responsible for the molecular mechanism involved in the immune maturation and inflammation of DCs induced by ox-LDL. © 2020 The Authors. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine published by Foundation for Cellular and Molecular Medicine and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Bladder cancer (BC) is a frequently diagnosed malignancy affecting predominantly adult and elderly populations. It is expected that due to the longer life time, BC will become even more frequent in the future; thus in consequence, it will represent serious health problem of older society part. The treatment of advanced BC is mostly ineffective due to its very aggressive behavior. So far, no effective targeted therapy is used for BC treatment. Phenylbutyrate Here, we found that BC is characterized by lower protein levels of BRM, INI1, and BAF155 main subunits of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex (CRC) which is involved in global control of gene expression and influences various important cellular processes like cell cycle control, apoptosis, DNA repair, etc. Moreover, the expression of SMARCA2, a BRM encoding gene, strongly correlated with BC metastasis and expression of such metabolic genes as PKM2 and PRKAA1. Furthermore, the analysis of T24 and 5637 commonly used BC cell lines revealed different expression levels of metabolic genes including FBP1 gene encoding Frutose-1,6-Bisphosphatase, an enzyme controlling glycolysis flux and gluconeogenesis. The tested BC cell lines exhibited various molecular and metabolic alterations as well as differential glucose uptake, growth rate, and migration potential. We have shown that BRM subunit is involved in the transcriptional control of genes encoding metabolic enzymes. Moreover, we found that the FBP1 expression level and the SWI/SNF CRCs may serve as markers of molecular subtypes of BC. Collectively, this study may provide a new knowledge about the molecular and metabolic BC subtypes which likely will be of high importance for the clinic in the future. © 2020 The Authors. IUBMB Life published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.Multilocus genomic datasets can be used to infer a rich set of information about the evolutionary history of a lineage, including gene trees, species trees, and phylogenetic networks. However, user-friendly tools to run such integrated analyses are lacking, and workflows often require tedious reformatting and handling time to shepherd data through a series of individual programs. Here, we present a tool written in Python-TREEasy-that performs automated sequence alignment (with MAFFT), gene tree inference (with IQ-Tree), species inference from concatenated data (with IQ-Tree and RaxML-NG), species tree inference from gene trees (with ASTRAL, MP-EST, and STELLS2), and phylogenetic network inference (with SNaQ and PhyloNet). The tool only requires FASTA files and nine parameters as inputs. The tool can be run as command line or through a Graphical User Interface (GUI). As examples, we reproduced a recent analysis of staghorn coral evolution, and performed a new analysis on the evolution of the "WGD clade" of yeast.