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Pathways to extinction start long before the death of the last individual. However, causes of early stage population declines and the susceptibility of small residual populations to extirpation are typically studied in isolation. Using validated process-explicit models, we disentangle the ecological mechanisms and threats that were integral in the initial decline and later extinction of the woolly mammoth. We show that reconciling ancient DNA data on woolly mammoth population decline with fossil evidence of location and timing of extinction requires process-explicit models with specific demographic and niche constraints, and a constrained synergy of climatic change and human impacts. Validated models needed humans to hasten climate-driven population declines by many millennia, and to allow woolly mammoths to persist in mainland Arctic refugia until the mid-Holocene. Our results show that the role of humans in the extinction dynamics of woolly mammoth began well before the Holocene, exerting lasting effects on the spatial pattern and timing of its range-wide extinction.The intellectualization and complication of existing self-shaping materials are limited by the inseparable monotonic relationship between their deformation rate and deformation degree (i.e., a higher deformation rate is accompanied by a high deformation degree). This causes that they can only deform from 2D to 3D states. Here, a simple yet versatile strategy to decouple the monotonic correlation between the deformation rate and deformation degree of self-shaping hydrogels is presented for achieving complex deformations from 2D to temporary 3D to 3D (2D-to-4D). It is demonstrated that when the gradient hydrogels prepared by photopolymerization possess dense polymer networks, the local regions with a high deformation rate can exhibit a low deformation degree. The resulting hydrogels can thus deform in a novel 2D-to-4D mode under external stimuli. During the deformation, they first transform into the temporary shapes induced by the local deformation rate difference, and then transform into the final shapes determined by the local deformation degree difference. Through controlling the ultraviolet irradiation direction and time to precisely program the local gradients of self-shaping hydrogels, they can be designed to produce various unprecedented yet controllable 2D-to-4D shape evolutions on demand, such as transformable origami, sequential gesture actions in finger-guessing games, mobile octopuses, time switch, etc.The front cover artwork is provided by Dr. Javier Segarra-Martí (University of Valencia, Spain) and Prof. Michael J. Bearpark (Imperial College London, UK). The image shows the ultrafast photoionisation of DNA canonical nucleobase cytosine and the slower ionization process in non-canonical base isocytosine embedded within a DNA backbone. Read the full text of the Article at 10.1002/cphc.202100402.To discover new anticancer agents, two series of thiosemicarboxamide derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their antiproliferative activity against human cancer cells in vitro. Most target compounds (especially 3f, 3g, and 3h) exhibit potent antiproliferative activity against HeLa cells. Importantly, compound 3h, bearing a 4-methylphenyl substituent at N position of thiourea moiety, has significant and broad-spectrum inhibitory activities against cancer cells (HepG2, HeLa, MDA-MB231, A875, and H460 cells) with low IC50 values ( less then 5.0 μM) and shows low toxicity to normal LO2 and MRC-5 cells. Further studies show that compound 3h exerts high inhibitory activity in cancer cells by inducing the G2/M-phase arrest of cancer cells. Collectively, this study presents compound 3h as a new entity for the development of cell cycle arrest inducers for the treatment of cancer.Excessive manganese (Mn) exposure can cause nerve damage and mitochondrial dysfunction, which may involve defects in mitochondrial dynamics. Resveratrol (RSV) exerts a wide range of beneficial effects via activation of sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) and thus may positively impact Mn-induced mitochondrial damage through the regulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator 1-alpha (PGC-1α) by SIRT1. In this study, we investigated the molecular mechanisms by which RSV alleviates the nerve injury and mitochondrial fragmentation caused by Mn in C57 BL/6 mice. Our results demonstrated that RSV activated the deacetylase activity of SIRT1 and protected against the surge of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species, the loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, and the attenuation of ATP caused by Mn. RSV, therefore, inhibits mitochondrial fragmentation and safeguards neural cells. Increased deacetylase activity led to a reduction in the acetylation of PGC-1α, which directly regulates DRP1 expression by binding to the DRP1 promoter. The resultant attenuation of DRP1-mediated mitochondrial fragmentation in RSV-pretreated mice was abolished by the addition of the SIRT1 inhibitor EX527. Taken together, these findings indicate that RSV alleviates Mn-induced mitochondrial dysfunction mediated by DRP1 by modulating the SIRT1/PGC-1α signaling pathway.CD28, one of the co-stimulatory molecules, has a pivotal role in T cell activation, and its expression is strictly regulated in normal T cells. Gain-of-function genetic alterations involving CD28 have been frequently observed in adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL). These abnormalities, such as CD28 fusions and copy number variations, may not only confer continuous, prolonged, and enhanced CD28 signaling to downstream pathways, but also induce overexpression of the CD28 protein. In this study, 120 ATLL cases were examined by immunohistochemistry for CD28 and its ligands CD80 and CD86, and their expression on tumor cells was semi-quantitatively evaluated. CD28 was overexpressed in 55 (46%) cases and CD80 or CD86 (CD80/CD86) was infrequently overexpressed in 12 (11%). Compared with non-overexpressers, CD28 overexpressers showed a higher frequency of CD28 genetic alterations and had an increased number of CD80/CD86-positive non-neoplastic cells infiltrating tumor microenvironment. In the entire ATLL patient cohort, CD28 overexpressers showed a significantly poorer overall survival (OS), compared to non-overexpressers (P=0.001). The same was true for a subgroup who were treated with multidrug regimens with or without mogamulizumab. CD28 overexpression had no prognostic impact in the group who received allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. On multivariate analysis for OS, CD28 overexpression was selected as an independent risk factor. These results suggest ATLL patients with CD28 overexpression have more aggressive clinical course and are more refractory to treatment with multidrug chemotherapy. CD28 overexpression appear to be a novel unfavorable prognostic marker in ATLL patients, and further prospective studies are warranted to establish its prognostic significance.

Delayed time to listing (TTL) for pediatric transplant patients is associated with increased risks of mortality and morbidity. The full range of health disparities, sociodemographic factors, and other barriers associated with delays in listing in the pediatric transplant candidate evaluation process has not been fully examined.

Retrospective chart reviews were conducted for 183 kidney, liver, and heart transplant candidates ages 0-18 who were referred for evaluation during 2012-2015. Demographic information and potential barriers (e g., social/medical factors, financial concerns) were gathered from pre-transplant evaluations and included in a comprehensive model to evaluate mechanisms that explain differences in TTL. Descriptive statistics, logistic regression models, Cox proportional hazards models, and path analysis were used for analyses.

Candidates included 26.8% heart, 33.3% liver, and 39.9% kidney patients. The most common barrier to listing was financial (71.6%), followed by caregiver psychologicting time. There are numerous clinical implications and interventions that are warranted to reduce TTL among pediatric transplant candidates with co-occurring barriers.Geminiviruses constitute the largest group of known plant viruses and cause devastating losses to a wide range of crops and woody plants globally. Mulberry mosaic dwarf-associated virus (MMDaV), identified from Chinese mulberry trees via small RNA-based deep sequencing, is a divergent monopartite geminivirus belonging to the genus Mulcrilevirus of the family Geminiviridae. Previous studies have shown that plants employ multiple layers of defence to protect themselves from geminivirus infection. The interplay between plant and MMDaV is nevertheless less studied. This study presents evidence that MMDaV triggers hypersensitive response (HR)-mediated antiviral defence in Nicotiana benthamiana plants. We show that the RepA protein of MMDaV is engaged in HR-type cell death induction. We find that the RepA mutants with compromised nuclear localization ability impair their capabilities of cell death induction. Virus-induced gene silencing of the key components of the R protein-mediated signalling pathway reveals that down-regulation of the nucleus-targeting NbWRKY1 alleviates the cell death induction activity of RepA. www.selleckchem.com/EGFR(HER).html We further demonstrate that RepA up-regulates the transcript level of NbWRKY1. Furthermore, expression of RepA in N. benthamiana confers plant resistance against two begomoviruses. We propose that plant resistance against RepA can be potentially used to improve plant defence against geminiviruses in crops.Herein, we present a multi-cycle chemoenzymatic synthesis of modified RNA with simplified solid-phase handling to overcome size limitations of RNA synthesis. It combines the advantages of classical chemical solid-phase synthesis and enzymatic synthesis using magnetic streptavidin beads and biotinylated RNA. Successful introduction of light-controllable RNA nucleotides into the tRNAMet sequence was confirmed by gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. The methods tolerate modifications in the RNA phosphodiester backbone and allow introductions of photocaged and photoswitchable nucleotides as well as photocleavable strand breaks and fluorophores.

To assess the comparative cardiovascular and renal effectiveness of SGLT2 inhibitors vs GLP-1-receptor-agonists in routine clinical practice.

Cohort study of nationwide registers from Sweden, Denmark and Norway, 2013-2018, including 87525 new users of SGLT2 inhibitors and 63921 new users of GLP-1-receptor-agonists, analyzed intention-to-treat. Coprimary outcomes, analyzed intention to treat, were major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE; myocardial infarction/stroke/cardiovascular death), heart failure (hospitalization for heart failure/heart failure death) and serious renal events (renal replacement therapy/hospitalization for renal events/death from renal causes).

Use of SGLT2 inhibitors vs GLP-1-receptor-agonists, was associated with higher risk of MACE (adjusted incidence rate 15.2 vs 14.4 events per 1000 person-years; HR 1.07 [95% CI 1.01-1.15]), similar risk of heart failure (6.0 vs 6.0 events per 1000 person-years; HR 1.02 [0.92-1.12]) and lower risk of serious renal events (2.9 vs 4.0 events per 1000 person-years; HR 0.