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Based on density functional theory and the broken-symmetry approach, the magnetic properties of an azido-Cu(II) complex with isonicotinic acid coligands were studied at the B1LYP/def2-TZVP level. According to the molecular magnetic orbitals and Mulliken spin population analysis, there are strong orbital interactions between the paramagnetic CuII/NiII ions and the bridging azide ligands and isonicotinic ions. The supposedly empty 4s/4p/4d orbitals of the MII ions are found to play an important role in the mechanism of magnetic coupling and are probed using NBO analysis. As the number of unpaired electrons on the MII ions increases, the number of electrons that occupy the empty 4d orbitals with the highest energy and overlap integrals of the magnetic orbitals in the CuIIMII (M = Cu, Ni, Co, Fe, Mn) model complexes increases accordingly, and the magnetic coupling constant gradually decreases. Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is a valuable crop for human consumption and wine production, and is prone to suffering from salinity stress in arid regions or when exposed to low quality irrigation water. A previous study identified a quantitative trait locus (QTL) NaE, containing six High-affinity Potassium Transporter 1 genes, that was associated with shoot Na+ exclusion in grapevine. While HKT1;1 was predicted to be the most likely gene within this QTL to encode for this important salinity tolerance sub-trait, four other HKTs within the QTL remained uncharacterised; VviHKT1;2 encodes a truncated transcript unlikely to form a functional transporter. In this study, two allelic variants for each of VviHKT1;6, VviHKT1;7 and VviHKT1;8 from the heterozygous grapevine variety Cabernet Sauvignon were functionally characterised. Using the Xenopus laevis oocyte heterologous expression system, as well as transient expression in tobacco leaves, we found that the VviHKT1;6 and VviHKT1;7 alleles encoded plasma membrane localised proteins that facilitated significant non-rectifying Na+ transport. Conversely, proteins encoded by the VviHKT1;8 alleles were inwardly-rectifying, weak Na+ transporters that localised to intracellular organelles. Mining of previous RNA-seq gene expression data suggested that VviHKT1;6-8 are weakly expressed in grapevine roots, flower buds, and seeds under normal conditions and different nutrient regimes. We propose that VviHKT1;6 and VviHKT1;7 are likely to have a less significant role in grapevine leaf Na+ exclusion than VviHKT1;1, and that VviHKT1;8 is involved in endomembrane Na+ transport. BACKGROUND The aim of this systematic review with meta-analysis was to determine the change in gait biomechanics after total ankle replacement and ankle arthrodesis for end-stage osteoarthritis. METHODS Electronic databases were searched up until May 2019. Peer-reviewed journal studies including adult participants suffering from end-stage ankle osteoarthritis and reporting pre- and post-operative kinematics, kinetics and spatio-temporal effects of total ankle replacement and ankle arthrodesis during walking were included with a minimum of 12 months follow-up. Seventeen suitable studies were identified and assessed according to methodological and biomechanical qualities. Meta-analysis was performed by calculating the effect size using standard mean differences between pre- and post-operative gait status. FINDINGS Seventeen studies with a total of 883 patients were included. Meta-analysis revealed moderate evidence of an improvement in lower limb kinematics, kinetics and spatio-temporal parameters after total ankle replacement. Moderate evidence indicated an increase in ankle moment, hip range of motion and walking speed after ankle arthrodesis. INTERPRETATION The currently available evidence base of research papers evaluating changes in gait biomechanics after total ankle replacement and ankle arthrodesis is limited by a lack of prospective research, low sample sizes and heterogeneity in the patho-etiology of ankle osteoarthritis. GPCR modulator Following total ankle replacement, improvements were demonstrated for spatio-temporal, kinematic and kinetic gait patterns compared to the pre-operative measures. Improvements in gait mechanics after ankle arthrodesis were limited to walking speed and ankle moment. Increased hip range of motion after ankle arthrodesis could represent a sign of compensation for the lack of ankle motion. The quality of biomolecular simulations critically depends on the accuracy of the force field used to calculate the potential energy of the molecular configurations. Currently, most simulations employ non-polarisable force fields, which describe electrostatic interactions as the sum of Coulombic interactions between fixed atomic charges. Polarisation of these charge distributions is incorporated only in a mean-field manner. In the past decade, extensive efforts have been devoted to developing simple, efficient, and yet generally applicable polarisable force fields for biomolecular simulations. In this review, we summarise the latest developments in accounting for key biomolecular interactions with polarisable force fields and applications to address challenging biological questions. In the end, we provide an outlook for future development in polarisable force fields. Interferon (IFN) plays a central role in regulating host immune response to viral pathogens through the induction of IFN-Stimulated Genes (ISGs). IFN also enhances cellular SUMOylation and ISGylation, though the functional interplay between these modifications remains unclear. Here, we used a system-level approach to profile global changes in protein abundance in SUMO3-expressing cells stimulated by IFNα. These analyses revealed the stabilization of several ISG factors including SAMHD1, MxB, GBP1, GBP5, Tetherin/BST2 and members of IFITM, IFIT and IFI families. This process was correlated with enhanced IFNα-induced anti-HIV-1 and HSV-1 activities. Also IFNα upregulated protein ISGylation through increased abundance of E2 conjugating enzyme UBE2L6, and E3 ISG15 ligases TRIM25 and HERC5. Remarkably, TRIM25 depletion blocked SUMO3-dependent protein stabilization in response to IFNα. Our data identify a new mechanism by which SUMO3 regulates ISG product stability and reinforces the relevance of the SUMO pathway in controlling both the expression and functions of the restriction factors and IFN antiviral response. BACKGROUND The inflammation responses and oxidative stress were closely associated with coronary heart disease. We tried to evaluate the effects of multiple stents, long stents and small-diameter stents on inflammation responses and oxidative stress in the elderly patients with long diffuse reocclusions. METHODS The blood samples were obtained after an overnight fast and we evaluated the expression levels of soluble ST2 (sST2), acrolein (ACR), aldosterone (ALD), angiotensin II (Ang II), toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), malondialdehyde (MDA) and high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in the elderly patients with long diffuse reocclusions after multiple stents, long stents, small-diameter stents implanted. RESULTS Levels of sST2, ACR, ALD, Ang II, TLR4, TNF-α, MDA and hs-CRP were remarkably increased (P  less then  0.001) in the elderly patients with long diffuse reocclusions after multiple stents, long stents, small-diameter stents implanted. The multiple stents, long stents and small-diameter stents may promote inflammatory response and oxidative stress, and led to long diffuse reocclusions in the elderly patients. The multiple stents, long stents and small-diameter stents may play the key roles in long diffuse reocclusions of the elderly patients. CONCLUSIONS The inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers could be considered as potential non-invasive diagnostic, predictive, prognostic and therapeutic molecular biomarkers for long diffuse reocclusions in the elderly patients after implantations of multiple stents, long stents and small-diameter stents. Previous studies suggest that upregulated basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) plays a key role in the resistance to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy in glioma. This study reported that anti-VEGF treatment regulated bFGF secretion in a double-edged manner. That is, moderate VEGF neutralization reduced bFGF production, whereas VEGF overblocking enhanced bFGF secretion in glioma cells. Our data provide a new perspective on the treatment of glioma with anti-VEGF, and the underlying mechanism is worthy of further study. A high salt diet (HSD) is among the most important risk factors for many diseases. One mechanism by which HSD aggravates cerebral ischemic injury is independent of blood pressure changes. The direct role of HSD in inflammation after cerebral ischemia is unclear. In this research, after twenty-one days of being fed a high salt diet, permanent focal ischemia was induced in mice via operation. At 12 h and 1, 3 and 5 days postischemia, the effects of HSD on the lesion volume, microglia polarization, aldose reductase (AR) expression, and inflammatory processes were analyzed. We report that in mice, surplus dietary salt promotes inflammation and increases the activation of classical lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced microglia/macrophages (M1). This effect depends on the expression of the AR protein in activated microglia after permanent middle cerebral artery ligation (pMCAL) in HSD mice. The administration of either the AR inhibitor Epalrestat or a p38-neutralizing antibody blocked the polarization of microglia and alleviated stroke injury. In conclusion, HSD promotes polarization in pro-inflammatory M1 microglia by upregulating the expression of the AR protein via p38/MAPK, thereby exacerbating the development of ischemia stroke. Expression of α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) on antigen presenting cells (APCs), such as macrophages and dendritic cells, is now well established. We have shown that GTS-21, a selective α7 nAChR agonist, downregulates APC-dependent CD4+ T cell differentiation into regulatory T cells (Tregs) and effector Th1, Th2 and Th17 cells by inhibiting antigen processing, thereby interfering with antigen presentation. α7 nAChRs on Jurkat human leukemic T cells require functional T cell receptors (TCRs)/CD3 and leukocyte-specific tyrosine kinase to mediate nicotine-induced Ca2+-signaling via Ca2+ release from intracellular stores, and are insensitive to two conventional α7 nAChR antagonists, α-bungarotoxin (α-BTX) and methyllycaconitine (MLA). We investigated the effects of GTS-21, α-BTX and MLA on ovalbumin (OVA)-induced Th cytokine release from spleen cells isolated from OVA-specific TCR transgenic DO11.10 mice. We found that (1) GTS-21 dose-dependently suppresses OVA-induced IFN-γ, IL-4 and IL-17 release, but neither α-BTX nor MLA alone affected the OVA-induced cytokine release. (2) Neither α-BTX nor MLA abolished the suppressive effects of GTS-21 on IFN-γ and IL-17 release from OVA-activated DO11.10 spleen cells. (3) GTS-21 significantly suppressed OVA-induced APC-dependent CD4+ T cell differentiation into Tregs. Neither MLA nor mecamylamine, a non-specific nAChR antagonist, abolished the suppressive effect of GTS-21 on Treg differentiation. These results suggest that α7 nAChRs on APCs involved in cytokine synthesis and T cell differentiation are insensitive to the conventional α7 nAChR antagonists, α-BTX and MLA, and that α7 nAChRs on APCs differ pharmacologically from those in neurons.