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Yersiniabactin (Ybt) is a hybrid polyketide-nonribosomal complex natural product also known as a siderophore for its iron chelation properties. The native producer of Ybt, Yersinia pestis, is a priority pathogen responsible for the plague in which the siderophore properties of Ybt are used to sequester iron and other metal species upon host infection. Alternatively, the high metal binding properties of Ybt enable a plethora of potentially valuable applications benefiting from metal remediation and/or recovery. For these applications, a surrogate production source is highly preferred relative to the pathogenic native host. In this work, we present a modification to the heterologous Escherichia coli production system established for Ybt biosynthesis. In particular, the multiple plasmids originally used to express the genetic pathway required for Ybt biosynthesis were consolidated to a single, copy-amplifiable plasmid. In so doing, plasmid stability was improved from ~30% to ≥80% while production values maintained at 20-30% of the original system, which resulted in titers of 0.5-3 mg/L from shake flask vessels.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common tumor with high morbidity and mortality. Current specific diagnosis regarding CRC remains complicated and costly, and specific diagnostic biomarkers are lacking.

To find potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for CRC, we screened and analyzed many CRC sequencing data by The Cancer Genome Atlas Program and Gene Expression Omnibus, and validated that CEP55 may be a potential diagnostic biomarker for CRC by molecular cytological experiments and immunohistochemistry, among others.

We found that CEP55 is upregulated in CRC tissues and tumor cells and can promote CRC proliferation and metastasis by activating the p53/p21 axis and that CEP55 mutations in tumor patients result in worse overall survival and disease-free survival time. Besides, we also found that genes, such as CDK1, CCNB1, NEK2, KIF14, CDCA5, and RFC3 were upregulated in tumors, and their mutations would affect the prognosis of CRC patients, but these results await for more experimental evidence.

Our study validates CEP55 as a potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for CRC, and we also provide multiple genes and potential molecular mechanisms that may serve as diagnostic and prognostic markers for CRC.

Our study validates CEP55 as a potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for CRC, and we also provide multiple genes and potential molecular mechanisms that may serve as diagnostic and prognostic markers for CRC.Surface motility, which can be visualized by the movement of live prey organisms, polystyrene microspheres or other inert particles, has been shown to occur in a wide variety of microtubule-filled extensions of the protistan cell surface, although the associated functions remain enigmatic. This article integrates an extensive but poorly known body of literature showing that surface motility, associated with microtubule-filled cell extensions such as flagella, axopodia, actinopodia, reticulopodia, and haptonema, plays a crucial role in protistan prey capture. Surface motility has been most extensively studied in Chlamydomonas where it is responsible for flagella-dependent whole cell gliding motility. The force transduction machinery for gliding motility in Chlamydomonas is intraflagellar transport. Other than in Chlamydomonas, this field has not moved far beyond the descriptive to the mechanistic because of technical challenges associated with many of the protistan organisms that utilize surface motility for prey capture. Fimepinostat cost The purpose of this article is to rekindle interest in the protistan systems that utilize surface motility for prey capture at a time when newly emerging molecular tools for working with protists are poised to reinvigorate a field that has been quiescent too long.Ferroportin (Fpn) is an essential mammalian iron transporter that is negatively regulated by the hormone hepcidin. Our current molecular understanding of Fpn-mediated iron efflux and regulation is limited due to a lack of biochemical, biophysical and high-resolution structural studies. A critical step towards understanding the transport mechanism of Fpn is to obtain sufficient quantities of pure and stable protein for downstream studies. As such, we detail here an expression and purification protocol for mouse Fpn yielding milligram quantities of pure protein. We have generated deletion constructs exhibiting enhanced thermal stability and which retained iron-transport activity and hepcidin responsiveness, providing a platform for further biophysical studies of Fpn.Hypertension (HT) is a prominent cardiovascular risk factor. Although there are various pharmacological treatment choices for this condition, many patients fail to adhere to them, making non-pharmacological options attractive alternatives. Foot reflexology has been proven to decrease blood pressure (BP), but data are limited in patients with stage-2 HT. We conducted a randomized clinical trial to examine the effectiveness of foot reflexology in reducing BP and heart rate (HR). Stage-2 HT patients were enrolled and randomized into the intervention and the control groups (n = 47, each), the former of which underwent foot reflexology during a follow-up visit. Office BP and HR were measured before and at 15 and 30 min after the procedure in the intervention group and after resting in the control group. In the intervention group, systolic BP (SBP), diastolic BP (DBP), and HR at 15 min were significantly lower than at baseline -3.29 mm Hg (95%CI; -5.64 to -0.93), -1.71 mm Hg (95%CI; -3.11 to -0.32), and -1.71 beats per min (bpm; 95%CI; -2.88 to -0.54), respectively. Similar trends were also observed at 30 min. However, when compared with the control group, only the reduction in HR was significant (-4.96 bpm; 95%CI, -9.63 to -0.28). We conclude that foot reflexology was effective in reducing HR in stage-2 HT patients and partially effective in reducing BP.Odontoblast processes are thin cytoplasmic projections that extend from the cell body at the periphery of the pulp toward the dentin-enamel junction. The odontoblast processes function in the secretion, assembly and mineralization of dentin during development, participate in mechanosensation, and aid in dentin repair in mature teeth. Because they are small and densely arranged, their three-dimensional organization is not well documented. To gain further insight into how odontoblast processes contribute to odontogenesis, we used serial section electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstructions to examine these processes in the predentin region of mouse molars and incisors. In molars, the odontoblast processes are tubular with a diameter of ~1.8 μm. The odontoblast processes near the incisor tip are similarly shaped, but those midway between the tip and apex are shaped like plates. The plates are radially aligned and longitudinally oriented with respect to the growth axis of the incisor. The thickness of the plates is approximately the same as the diameter of molar odontoblast processes.