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Open AccessLATS2 degradation promoted fibrosis damage and rescued by vitamin K3 in lupus nephritis
Lupus nephritis (LN) is the most common complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The limited treatment options for LN increase the economic burdens on patients. Because fibrotic progression leads to...
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Open AccessIdentification and characterization of a new geminivirus from soybean plants and determination of V2 as a pathogenicity factor and silencing suppressor
Soybean is one of the four major crops in China. The occurrence of viruses in soybean causes significant economic losses.
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Open AccessA rapid, simple, and highly efficient method for VIGS and in vitro-inoculation of plant virus by INABS applied to crops that develop axillary buds and can survive from cuttings
Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) is one of the most convenient and powerful methods of reverse genetics. In vitro-inoculation of plant virus is an important method for studying the interactions between viru...
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Open AccessA novel dephosphorylation targeting chimera selectively promoting tau removal in tauopathies
Intraneuronal accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau is a hallmark pathology shown in over twenty neurodegenerative disorders, collectively termed as tauopathies, including the most common Alzheimer’s disease...
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Open AccessHeparanase overexpression impedes perivascular clearance of amyloid-β from murine brain: relevance to Alzheimer’s disease
Defective amyloid-β (Aβ) clearance from the brain is a major contributing factor to the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Aβ clearance is mediated by macrophages, enzymatic degradation, perivascular...
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Open AccessIdentification and functional analyses of host factors interacting with the 17-kDa protein of Barley yellow dwarf virus-GAV
Barley yellow dwarf viruses (BYDVs) cause significant economic losses on barley, wheat, and oats worldwide. 17-kDa protein (17K) of BYDVs plays a key role in viral infection in plants, whereas the underlying r...
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Open AccessFpCzf14 is a putative C2H2 transcription factor regulating conidiation in Fusarium pseudograminearum
C2H2 zinc finger transcription factors such as FlbC and Msn2, have broad regulatory roles in fungal growth and conidiation. In the present study, we cloned and characterized a C2H2 zinc finger transcription facto...
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First report of sweet potato feathery mottle virus infecting Amaranthus blitum in China
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Open AccessThe bZIP transcription factor FpAda1 is essential for fungal growth and conidiation in Fusarium pseudograminearum
Fusarium pseudograminearum is an important pathogen of Fusarium crown rot and Fusarium head blight, which is able to infect wheat and barley worldwide, causing great economic losses. Transcription factors (TFs) o...
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Open AccessPosterior basolateral amygdala to ventral hippocampal CA1 drives approach behaviour to exert an anxiolytic effect
The basolateral amygdala (BLA) and ventral hippocampal CA1 (vCA1) are cellularly and functionally diverse along their anterior–posterior and superficial-deep axes. Here, we find that anterior BLA (aBLA) and po...
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Open AccessIdentification of cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus P4.9 as a possible movement protein
Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus (CCYV) is a bipartite cucurbit-infecting crinivirus within the family Closteroviridae. The crinivirus genome varies among genera. P4.9 is the first protein encoded by CCYV RNA2. P...
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Open AccessSET SUMOylation promotes its cytoplasmic retention and induces tau pathology and cognitive impairments
PP2A is a major regulator of tau phosphorylation, which is principally regulated by an endogenous nuclear protein inhibitor 2 of PP2A (I2PP2A), also named SET. However, how SET is post-translationally regulated a...
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Open AccessDevelopment of a GFP expression vector for Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus
Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus (CCYV), a bipartite crinivirus, causes chlorotic leaf spots and yellowing symptoms on cucurbit leaves. We previously developed an infectious clone of CCYV. Limited work has been c...
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Open AccessTransgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plants expressing a hairpin RNAi construct of a nematode Rs-cps gene exhibit enhanced resistance to Radopholus similis
Burrowing nematodes (Radopholus similis) cause severe harm in many agronomic and horticultural crops and are very difficult to manage. Cathepsin S is one of the most important cysteine proteinases and plays key r...
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Open AccessNetwork and role analysis of autophagy in Phytophthora sojae
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism in eukaryotes with roles in development and the virulence of plant fungal pathogens. However, few reports on autophagy in oomycete species have been published...
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Open AccessTranscriptome analysis of Cucumis sativus infected by Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus
Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus (CCYV) is a recently reported bipartite crinivirus that causes chlorotic leaf spots and yellowing symptoms on the leaves of cucurbit plants. The virus–...
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Open AccessMagnetoresistance of the ferromagnetic nanocontacts fabricated by electrodeposition
A “T” shaped micro-gap was fabricated by mechanical polishing between two Cu film electrodes on the surface of single-sided bonded copper. A nano-gap was then fabricated in the prepared micro-gap by resistance...