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Lung cancer is the most common cancer which contributes to the majority of death caused by cancer where non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for approximately 85%. To treat NSCLC, STAT3 has been identified as a target with therapeutic potential. The neobavaisoflavone (NBIF) is one of the flavonoids of traditional Chinese medicine Psoralea corylifolial.

Human NSCLC cell lines, PC-9, H460 and A549, were applied to determine NBIF's antiproliferative effects through cell viability and colony formation detection. The effect of NBIF on cell apoptosis was determined through Flow cytometry-based assay. Western blotting was used in this study to confirm the levels of P-STAT3 and Bcl-2 and Bax which are apoptotic proteins.

It was observed that NBIF could decrease the cell viability and migration and induce apoptosis in human NSCLC cell lines dose-dependently. Levels of P-STAT3, as well as the downstream signals of STAT3 pathway, were downregulated, suggesting that the tumor-suppression effects of NBIF might be related to the inhibition of STAT3 signaling. Furthermore, NBIF could contribute to the upregulation of BAX and downregulation of BCL2.

NBIF might perform the anti-NSCLC efficacy as a result of the inhibition on STAT3 pathway. Besides, our work suggests that NBIF could provide therapeutic alternatives for NSCLC.

NBIF might perform the anti-NSCLC efficacy as a result of the inhibition on STAT3 pathway. Besides, our work suggests that NBIF could provide therapeutic alternatives for NSCLC.

The spread of COVID-19 has become growing cause of mortalities over the globe since its major outbreak in December 2019. The scientific and medical communities are rallying to study different strains and probable mutations to develop more rapid and reliable molecular diagnostic tests and possible therapeutic approaches for SARSCoV-2.

In the first section, following the introductory part, we shed light on structural and pathogenic features of SARS-CoV-2 and risk factors related to age, gender, neonatal and comorbidities. The next section summarizes the current diagnostic tests for COVID-19 such as nucleic acid and computed tomography (CT) techniques with further emphasizing on emerging diagnostic approaches for COVID-19.

Further, we also review the ongoing therapeutic practices which can block virus-host interaction, cease viral proliferation or inhibit hyperbolic host immune response with subsections on drug therapy, cell therapy, immunotherapy and herbal medicines which are being used for the possible treatment of patients.

Among the different promising drugs, remdesivir by inhibiting the RNA dependent RNAPolymerase activity gives much better results including declined viral load and quick lung tissue recovery. The long lasting repercussions of COVID-19 have also been discussed at the end. In this review, we have also critically discussed the progress in several vaccines that are under development.

Among the different promising drugs, remdesivir by inhibiting the RNA dependent RNAPolymerase activity gives much better results including declined viral load and quick lung tissue recovery. The long lasting repercussions of COVID-19 have also been discussed at the end. In this review, we have also critically discussed the progress in several vaccines that are under development.Ribosome is a molecular machine that synthesizes all cellular proteins. It also is a target of about half of the clinically used antibiotics. Adaptive chemical modification of ribosomal RNAs residues is one of the ways to provide resistance to certain antibiotics. ML162 manufacturer A curious example of such modification is 2,8-dimethylation of A2503 in 23S rRNA, which induces resistance to phenols, linkosamides, oxazolidinones, pleuromutilins, and certain macrolides. In this article the effect of 2,8-dimethylation of A2503 on conformation and mobility of RNA residues of the 70S E. coli ribosome was investigated employing molecular dynamics simulations method. Significant alterations were detected both in the immediate environment of the 2503 23S rRNA residue and in the nucleotides located deeper in the nascent peptide exit tunnel (NPET), which are known to be involved in signal transmission from the antibiotics bound in the NPET to the peptidyl transferase center. These alterations shift the ribosome towards the A/A, P/P-state from the conformationally different state - P/P, E/E one in our case. link2 The obtained results allow us to conclude that the effect of m2m8A2503 modification involves additional stabilization of the A/A, P/P-state favoring the peptidyl transferase reaction (PTR) contrary to antibiotics that inhibit PTR.Virtual screening of all possible tripeptide analogues of chloramphenicol was performed using molecular docking to evaluate their affinity to bacterial ribosomes. Chloramphenicol analogues that demonstrated the lowest calculated energy of interaction with ribosomes were synthesized. Chloramphenicol amine (CAM) derivatives, which contained specific peptide fragments from the proline-rich antimicrobial peptides were produced. It was demonstrated using displacement of the fluorescent erythromycin analogue from its complex with ribosomes that the novel peptide analogues of chloramphenicol were able to bind bacterial ribosome; all the designed tripeptide analogues and one of the chloramphenicol amine derivatives containing fragment of the proline-rich antimicrobial peptides exhibited significantly greater affinity to Escherichia coli ribosome than chloramphenicol. Correlation between the calculated and experimentally evaluated levels of the ligand efficiencies was observed. In vitro protein biosynthesis inhibition assay revealed, that the RAW-CAM analogue shows activity at the level of chloramphenicol. These data were confirmed by the chemical probing assay, according to which binding pattern of this analogue in the nascent peptide exit tunnel was similar to chloramphenicol.In response to stress, eubacteria reduce the level of protein synthesis and either disassemble ribosomes into the 30S and 50S subunits or turn them into translationally inactive 70S and 100S complexes. link3 This helps the cell to solve two principal tasks (i) to reduce the cost of protein biosynthesis under unfavorable conditions, and (ii) to preserve functional ribosomes for rapid recovery of protein synthesis until favorable conditions are restored. All known genes for ribosome silencing factors and hibernation proteins are located in the operons associated with the response to starvation as one of the stress factors, which helps the cells to coordinate the slowdown of protein synthesis with the overall stress response. It is possible that hibernation systems work as regulators that coordinate the intensity of protein synthesis with the energy state of bacterial cell. Taking into account the limited amount of nutrients in natural conditions and constant pressure of other stress factors, bacterial ribosome should remain most of time in a complex with the silencing/hibernation proteins. Therefore, hibernation is an additional stage between the ribosome recycling and translation initiation, at which the ribosome is maintained in a "preserved" state in the form of separate subunits, non-translating 70S particles, or 100S dimers. The evolution of the ribosome hibernation has occurred within a very long period of time; ribosome hibernation is a conserved mechanism that is essential for maintaining the energy- and resource-consuming process of protein biosynthesis in organisms living in changing environment under stress conditions.Translational GTPases (trGTPases) belong to the family of G proteins and play key roles at all stages of protein biosynthesis on the ribosome. Unidirectional and cyclic functioning of G proteins is ensured by their ability to switch between the active and inactive states due to GTP hydrolysis accelerated by the auxiliary GTPase-activating proteins. Although trGTPases interact with the ribosomes in different conformational states, they bind to the same conserved region, which, unlike in classical GTPase-activating proteins, is represented by ribosomal RNA. The resulting catalytic sites have almost identical structure in all elongation factors suggesting a common mechanism of GTP hydrolysis. However, fine details of the activated state formation and significantly different rates of GTP hydrolysis indicate the existence of distinctive features upon GTP hydrolysis catalyzed by the different factors. Here, we present a contemporary view on the mechanism of GTPase activation and GTP hydrolysis by the elongation factors EF-Tu, EF-G, and SelB based on the analysis of structural, biochemical, and bioinformatics data.Eukaryotic ribosome and cap-dependent translation are attractive targets in the antitumor, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and antiparasitic therapies. Currently, a broad array of small-molecule drugs is known that specifically inhibit protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells. Many of them are well-studied ribosome-targeting antibiotics that block translocation, the peptidyl transferase center or the polypeptide exit tunnel, modulate the binding of translation machinery components to the ribosome, and induce miscoding, premature termination or stop codon readthrough. Such inhibitors are widely used as anticancer, anthelmintic and antifungal agents in medicine, as well as fungicides in agriculture. Chemicals that affect the accuracy of stop codon recognition are promising drugs for the nonsense suppression therapy of hereditary diseases and restoration of tumor suppressor function in cancer cells. Other compounds inhibit aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, translation factors, and components of translation-associated signaling pathways, including mTOR kinase. Some of them have antidepressant, immunosuppressive and geroprotective properties. Translation inhibitors are also used in research for gene expression analysis by ribosome profiling, as well as in cell culture techniques. In this article, we review well-studied and less known inhibitors of eukaryotic protein synthesis (with the exception of mitochondrial and plastid translation) classified by their targets and briefly describe the action mechanisms of these compounds. We also present a continuously updated database (http//eupsic.belozersky.msu.ru) that currently contains information on 370 inhibitors of eukaryotic protein synthesis.This review presents various strategies to fight causative agents of infectious diseases. Species-specific programmable RNA-containing antibiotics open up new possibilities for creating next-generation of personalized drugs based on microbiome editing and can serve as a new tool for selective elimination of pathogenic bacterial species while keeping intact the rest of microbiota. Another promising approach in combating bacterial infections is genome editing using the CRISPR-Cas systems. Expanding knowledge on the molecular mechanisms of innate immunity has been actively used for developing new antimicrobials. However, obvious risks of using antibiotic adjuvants aimed at activation of the host immune system include development of the autoimmune response with subsequent organ damage. To avoid these risks, it is essential to elucidate action mechanisms of the specific ligands and signal molecules used as components of the hybrid antibiotics. Bacteriophage endolysins are also considered as effective antimicrobials against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, metabolically inactive persisters, and microbial biofilms.