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The synthesis of Asn-tRNAAsn in most prokaryotes uses an indirect aminoacylation pathway involving a non-discriminating aspartyl-synthetase (ND-AspRS) and a glutamine amidotransferase (GatCAB). This was recently implicated as an adaptive mistranslation mechanism for antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but it remains poorly understood. We report an accessible liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method with unparalleled chemical specificity, sensitivity, and quantification over the current assays to enable the direct analysis and drug screening campaigns of this pathway. Through this method, we show that the mycobacterial ND-AspRS stimulates the glutaminase activity of GatCAB. We further uncover novel glutaminase activity of the synthetase. These biological insights help better understand the indirect aminoacylation biology and allude to new roles beyond protein translation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Plant nutrient acquisition strategies drive soil processes and vegetation performance, but their effect on the soil microbiome remains poorly understood. This knowledge is important to predict the shifts in microbial diversity and functions to increasing changes in vegetation traits under global change. Here we documented the topsoil microbiomes of 145 boreal and temperate terrestrial sites in the Baltic region that broadly differed in vegetation type and nutritional traits, such as mycorrhizal types and symbiotic nitrogen-fixation. We found that sites dominated by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) vegetation harbor relatively more AM fungi, bacteria, fungal saprotrophs, and pathogens in the topsoil compared with sites dominated by ectomycorrhizal (EM) plants. These differences in microbiome composition reflect the rapid nutrient cycling and negative plant-soil feedback in AM soils. Lower fungal diversity and bacteria-to-fungi ratios in EM-dominated habitats are driven by monodominance of woody vegetation as well as soil acidification by EM fungi, which are associated with greater diversity and relative abundance of carbohydrate-active enzymes. Our study suggests that shifts in vegetation related to global change and land use may strongly alter the topsoil microbiome structure and function. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Women who conceive at 35 years of age or older, commonly known as advanced maternal age, have a higher risk of facing parturition complications and their children have an increased risk of developing diseases later in life. LKynurenine However, the immunological mechanisms underlying these pathological processes have yet to be established. To fill this gap in knowledge, using a murine model and immunophenotyping, we determined the effect of advanced maternal age on the main cellular branch of adaptive immunity, T cells, at the maternal-fetal interface and in the offspring. We report that advanced maternal age impaired the process of labor at term, inducing dystocia and delaying the timing of delivery. Advanced maternal age diminished the number of specific pro-inflammatory T-cell subsets (Th1CD4+IFNγ+, CD8+IFNγ+, and Th9CD4+IL9+), as well as CD4+ regulatory T cells (CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ T cells), at the maternal-fetal interface prior to term labor. Advanced maternal age also altered fetal growth and survival of the offspring in early life. In addition, infants born to advanced age mothers had alterations in the T-cell repertoire but not in CD71+ erythroid cells (CD3-CD71+TER119+). This study provides insight into the immune alterations observed at the maternal-fetal interface of advanced aged mothers and their offspring. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Current models of axon guidance within the Central Nervous system (CNS) involve the presentation of environmental cues to navigating growth cones. The surrounding and target tissues present a variety of ligands that either restrict or promote growth, thus providing pathfinding instructions to developing axons. Recent findings show that RGMb, a GPI anchored extracellular protein present on retinal ganglion cells, downregulates Wnt3a signaling by lowering LRP5 levels at the membrane surface. When RGMb is phosphorylated by the extracellular tyrosine kinase VLK, phosphorylated RGMb (p-RGMb) is internalized and carries LRP5 towards intracellular compartments. In the eye, a dorsal-high ventral-low gradient of VLK generates a dorsal-low ventral-high gradient of LRP5 that modulates Wnt3a signaling. These molecules, which are all expressed by individual RGCs, generate Wnt-signal gradients along the dorso-ventral axis of the retina, resulting in differential axon growth which in turn regulates proper retino-tectal/collicular map formation. This pathway represents a regulatory mechanism whereby extracellular phosphorylation generates what may be the first example of a unique self-guiding mechanism that affects neuronal-target connections independent of paracrine signals from the surrounding target tissue. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.BACKGROUND The aim of this experimental rat study was to investigate the potential inflammatory effects of periodontitis on cardiac left ventricular tissue and the therapeutic activity of melatonin on these effects. METHODS Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into three groups control, experimental periodontitis (Ep) and Ep-Melatonin (Ep-Mel). Experimental periodontitis was induced by placing and maintaining 3.0 silk ligatures at a sub-peri marginal position on the left and right mandibular first molars for five weeks. Afterward, following the removal of ligatures, melatonin (10 mg/body weight) to Ep-Mel group, and vehicle (saline) to Ep and control groups were administered intraperitoneally for fourteen days. On the first day of the eighth week, mandibular and cardiac left ventricular tissue samples were obtained following the euthanasia of the rats in all groups. Alveolar bone loss measurements were made on histological and micro-computed tomographic slices. Cardiac tissue levels of malonyl-aldehyde (MDA), glutathione (GSH), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) and Cardiac Troponin-T (TnT) were evaluated by appropriate biochemical methods. RESULTS Measurements made on the histological and micro-computed tomographic slices showed that melatonin significantly limits the ligature induced periodontal tissue destruction (p0.05). CONCLUSION Melatonin might be regarded as an important supportive therapeutic agent to reduce the early degenerative changes and possible hypertrophic remodeling at cardiac left ventricular tissues provoked by periodontitis-related bacteria and/or periodontal inflammation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.