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tained during surgical procedures.

It is necessary to improve the feasibility of NGS in clinical practice. To improve NGS feasibility, turnaround time must be shortened, and larger samples must be obtained during surgical procedures.

Oral isotretinoin is the first-line treatment of severe nodular acne. However, patients presenting ineffective or poor effective to oral isotretinoin are still a clinical problem, and its molecular genetic mechanisms remain unclear.

To compare the transcriptome profiles of isotretinoin-effective and isotretinoin-ineffective severe acne vulgaris patients and analyze the potential physiological roles to better understand the mechanisms of isotretinoin efficacy differences.

Peripheral blood of 43 patients with severe acne was collected before treatment. After 8-week isotretinoin, patients presented effective and ineffective to isotretinoin treatment were selected and their pretreatment peripheral blood was analyzed. High-throughput sequencing was used to detect gene expression profiles. see more Gene Ontology and KEGG were used to perform functional annotation and pathway enrichment analysis.

Ten acne patients (3 male and 7 female, age 31±9.2) presented effectiveness by oral isotretinoin and 10 acne patients (4 mloring individualized therapy for acne patients.Geothermal springs are essentially unaffected by environmental conditions aboveground as they are continuously supplied with subsurface water with little variability in chemistry. Therefore, changes in their microbial community composition and function, especially over a long period, are expected to be limited but this assumption has not yet been rigorously tested. Toward closing this knowledge gap, we applied whole metagenome sequencing to 17 water samples collected between 2010 and 2016 from the Thermopyles sulfur-rich geothermal springs in central Greece. As revealed by 16S rRNA gene fragments recovered in the metagenomes, Epsilonproteobacteria-related operational taxonomic units (OTUs) dominated most samples and grouping of samples based on OTU abundances exhibited no apparent seasonal pattern. Similarities between samples regarding functional gene content were high, with all samples sharing >70% similarity in functional pathways. These community-wide patterns were further confirmed by analysis of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), which showed that novel species and genera of the chemoautotrophic Campylobacterales order dominated the springs. These MAGs carried different pathways for thiosulfate or sulfide oxidation coupled to carbon fixation pathways. Overall, our study showed that even in the long term, functions of microbial communities in a moderately hot terrestrial spring remain stable, presumably driving the corresponding stability in community structure.Bacterial dormancy is a valuable strategy to endure unfavourable conditions. The term 'persister' has been coined for cells that tolerate antibiotic treatments due to reduced cellular activity. The type I toxin-antitoxin system tisB/istR-1 is linked to persistence in Escherichia coli, because toxin TisB depolarizes the inner membrane and causes ATP depletion. Transcription of tisB is induced upon activation of the SOS response by DNA-damaging drugs. However, translation is repressed both by a 5' structure within the tisB mRNA and by RNA antitoxin IstR-1. This tight regulation limits TisB production to SOS conditions. Deletion of both regulatory RNA elements produced a 'high persistence' mutant, which was previously assumed to depend on stochastic SOS induction and concomitant TisB production. Here, we demonstrate that the mutant generates a subpopulation of growth-retarded cells during late stationary phase, likely due to SOS-independent TisB accumulation. Cell sorting experiments revealed that the stationary phase-derived subpopulation contains most of the persister cells. Collectively our data show that deletion of the regulatory RNA elements uncouples the persister formation process from the intended stress situation and enables the formation of TisB-dependent persisters in an SOS-independent manner.

Cancer cachexia is a debilitating metabolic syndrome contributing to cancer death. Organs other than the muscle may contribute to the pathogenesis of cancer cachexia. This work explores new mechanisms underlying hepatic alterations in cancer cachexia.

We used transcriptomics to reveal the hepatic gene expression profile in the colon carcinoma 26 cachectic mouse model. We performed bile acid, tissue mRNA, histological, biochemical, and western blot analyses. Two interventional studies were performed using a neutralizing interleukin 6 antibody and a bile acid sequestrant, cholestyramine. Our findings were evaluated in a cohort of 94 colorectal cancer patients with or without cachexia (43/51).

In colon carcinoma 26 cachectic mice, we discovered alterations in five inflammatory pathways as well as in other pathways, including bile acid metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, and xenobiotic metabolism (normalized enrichment scores of -1.97, -2.16, and -1.34, respectively; all Padj<0.05). The hepatobiliary tran9±1.834μM, P=0.026) and were strongly correlated to systemic inflammation (taurochenodeoxycholic acid and C-reactive protein ρ=0.36, Padj=0.017).

We show alterations in bile acid metabolism and hepatobiliary secretion in cancer cachexia. In this context, we demonstrate the contribution of systemic inflammation to the impairment of the hepatobiliary transport system and the role played by bile acids in the hepatic inflammation. This work paves the way to a better understanding of the role of the liver in cancer cachexia.

We show alterations in bile acid metabolism and hepatobiliary secretion in cancer cachexia. In this context, we demonstrate the contribution of systemic inflammation to the impairment of the hepatobiliary transport system and the role played by bile acids in the hepatic inflammation. This work paves the way to a better understanding of the role of the liver in cancer cachexia.In eukaryotic cells, Rab GTPases and the retromer complex are important regulators of intracellular protein transport. However, the mechanistic relationship between Rab GTPases and the retromer complex in relation to filamentous fungal development and pathogenesis is unknown. In this study, we used Magnaporthe oryzae, an important pathogen of rice and other cereals, as a model filamentous fungus to dissect this knowledge gap. Our data demonstrate that the core retromer subunit MoVps35 interacts with the Rab GTPase MoYpt7 and they colocalize to the endosome. Without MoYpt7, MoVps35 is mislocalized in the cytoplasm, indicating that MoYpt7 plays an important role in the recruitment of MoVps35. We further demonstrate that the expression of an inactive MoYpt7-DN (GDP-bound form) mutant in M. oryzae mimicks the phenotype defects of retromer cargo-sorting complex (CSC) null mutants and blocks the proper localization of MoVps35. In addition, our data establish that MoVps17, a member of the sorting nexin family, is situated at the endosome independent of retromer CSC but regulates the sorting function of MoVps35 after its recruitment to the endosomal membrane by MoYpt7.