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Fungal diversity notes 1717–1817: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa
As the continuation of Fungal Diversity Notes series, the current paper is the 16th contribution to this series. A total of 103 taxa from seven classes in Ascomycota and Basidiomycota are included here. Of these ...
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Open AccessElevated Interleukin-37 Associated with Dengue Viral Load in Patients with Dengue Fever
Dengue remains a public health issue worldwide. Similar to chronic infectious diseases, stimulation of cytokine production is not enough to drive immune effector cells for effective virus clearance. One possib...
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Open AccessMetavirome of 31 tick species provides a compendium of 1,801 RNA virus genomes
The increasing prevalence and expanding distribution of tick-borne viruses globally have raised health concerns, but the full repertoire of the tick virome has not been assessed. We sequenced the meta-transcri...
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Siccirubricoccus soli sp. nov., a novel bacterial species isolated from Jiaozi Mountain soil
An isolate of Gram-stain-negative and strictly aerobic bacterium, designated KC 17139T, was isolated from Jiaozi Mountain sample in Yunnan, China. Cells were non-motile cocci to oval, catalase-positive and oxidas...
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Microcella aerolata sp. nov., isolated from electronic waste-associated bioaerosols
A Gram-positive, non-motile, non-spore-forming and short rod-shaped actinomycete strain, designated GA224T, was isolated from electronic waste-associated bioaerosols. The optimal growth conditions for this isolat...
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Fungal diversity notes 1387–1511: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa
This article is the 13th contribution in the Fungal Diversity Notes series, wherein 125 taxa from four phyla, ten classes, 31 orders, 69 families, 92 genera and three genera incertae sedis are treated, demonstrat...
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Growth differentiation factor-15 and lactoferrin immuno-expression in breast cancer: relationship with body iron-status and survival outcome
We aimed to evaluate the expression of growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15) and lactoferrin (Lf) in tumor and their relationship with the body iron-status and overall survival (OS) outcome of patients wit...
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Open AccessA simple and rapid protein purification method based on cell-surface display of SUMO-fused recombinant protein and Ulp1 protease
The development of novel methods for highly efficient protein purification remains a research focus in the biotechnology field because conventional purification approaches, including affinity purification, gel...
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Open AccessSoil pH is the primary factor driving the distribution and function of microorganisms in farmland soils in northeastern China
To understand which environmental factors influence the distribution and ecological functions of bacteria in agricultural soil.
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Fungal diversity notes 1036–1150: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa
This article is the tenth series of the Fungal Diversity Notes, where 114 taxa distributed in three phyla, ten classes, 30 orders and 53 families are described and illustrated. Taxa described in the present st...
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Open AccessRpfC regulates the expression of the key regulator hrpX of the hrp/T3SS system in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris
The Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris recruits the hrp/T3SS system to inject pathogenicity effector proteins into host cells and uses the rpf/DSF cell-cell signaling sy...
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PKM2 knockdown influences SREBP activation and lipid synthesis in bovine mammary-gland epithelial MAC-T cells
The purpose of the article is to evaluate the changes in lipid metabolism in bovine mammary-gland epithelial MAC-T cells after PKM2 knockdown.
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Open AccessAntimicrobial peptide gene BdPho responds to peptidoglycan infection and mating stimulation in oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)
Phormicins belong to defensin family, which are important antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in insects. These AMPs are inducible upon challenging by immune triggers. In the present study, we identified the cDNA of...
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Open AccessGenetic polymorphisms identify in species/biovars of Brucella isolated in China between 1953 and 2013 by MLST
Brucellosis incidence in China is divided into three stages: high incidence (1950s–1960s), decline (1970s–1980s), and re-emergence (1990s–2010s). At the re-emergence stage, Brucellosis incidence grew exponentiall...
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Cloning and characterization of Agp1, the gene encoding the small subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase from wheat and its relatives
ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (AGP) consists of two large (AGP-L) and two small (AGP-S) subunits; it regulates the limiting step in the biosynthesis of starch. Here, we isolated the full-length cDNA sequence o...
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Comparation of the effects of different 5′-untranslated regions (UTRs) on gene expression in HEK293 cells
To evaluate four 5′-UTRs on GFP expression in HEK293T cells.
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Sus scrofa matrix attachment region enhances expression of the PiggyBac system transfected into HEK293T cells
To determine the effects of the Sus scrofa matrix attachment region (SusMAR) on transgene expression in HEK293T cells.
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Long-term effects of heavy metals and antibiotics on granule-based anammox process: granule property and performance evolution
The feasibility of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process to treat synthetic swine wastewater containing antibiotics and heavy metals was studied in this work. Nitrogen removal performance and gran...
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Methylopila henanense sp. nov., a novel methylotrophic bacterium isolated from tribenuron methyl-contaminated wheat soil
A bacterial strain, designated LYBFD3-16A2T, was isolated from tribenuron methyl contaminated wheat soil. Cells were observed to be Gram-negative short rods with a single flagellum. The strain was found to utiliz...
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Simple and Rapid Detection of Salmonella by Direct PCR Amplification of Gene fimW
This study established a simple method of specifically detecting Salmonella species by amplifying fimW gene, which was involved in regulating Salmonella type I fimbriae expression. A pair of primers was designed ...
