28 Result(s)
within
**aomiao Zhang
Life Sciences
-
Article
IcmF2 of the type VI secretion system 2 plays a role in biofilm formation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Vibrio parahaemolyticus possesses two distinct type VI secretion systems (T6SS), namely T6SS1 and T6SS2. T6SS1 is predominantly responsible for adhesion to Caco-2 and HeLa cells and for the antibacterial activity...
-
Article
Open AccessClimate of origin shapes variations in wood anatomical properties of 17 Picea species
Variations in hydraulic conductivity may arise from species-specific differences in the anatomical structure and function of the xylem, reflecting a spectrum of plant strategies along a slow-fast resource econ...
-
Article
Cultivar mixtures increase crop yields and temporal yield stability globally. A meta-analysis
Cultivar mixtures have been proposed as a way to increase diversity and thereby improve plant production, but our understanding of the effects of mixing cultivars on crop diseases and resource-use efficiency r...
-
Article
Soil properties and plant diversity co-regulate ecosystem multifunctionality of subalpine primary dark coniferous forest on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Plants and soils are key factors in maintaining ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF). Yet, it remains unclear how climate factors regulate the EMF through soil properties and plant diversity of different plant f...
-
Article
The phase variation between wrinkly and smooth colony phenotype affects the virulence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the causative agent of seafood-associated gastroenteritis, undergoes wrinkly and smooth colony switching on the plate. The wrinkly spreader grew faster, had stronger motility and biofilm ...
-
Article
Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) tolerates soil salinity by regulating salt-tolerance mechanism and resha** rhizosphere microorganisms
Increased soil salinization caused by natural or human activities is the leading cause of soil degradation. Cultivating salt-tolerant crops is an effective way to cope with soil salinity. However, the key sali...
-
Article
Transcriptomic Profiles of Vibrio parahaemolyticus During Biofilm Formation
Vibrio parahaemolyticus, the leading cause of bacterial seafood-associated gastroenteritis, can form biofilms. In this work, the gene expression profiles of V. parahaemolyticus during biofilm formation were inves...
-
Article
Carbon and nutrient limitations of soil microbial metabolism in Quercus aquifolioides forest ecosystems along a precipitation gradient on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
The response of soil microbial metabolic limitation in forest ecosystems to various factors remains poorly understood. The purpose of the study was to reveal the characteristics of microbial metabolic limitati...
-
Article
Open AccessB7-H3 specific CAR-T cells exhibit potent activity against prostate cancer
B7-H3 is an attractive target for immunotherapy because of its high expression across multiple solid tumors, including prostate cancer, and restricted expression in normal tissues. Among various types of tumor...
-
Article
A 5.5-kb LTR-retrotransposon insertion inside phytochrome B gene (CsPHYB) results in long hypocotyl and early flowering in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
The novel spontaneous long hypocotyl and early flowering (lhef) mutation in cucumber is due to a 5551-bp LTR-retrotransposon insertion in CsPHYB gene encoding PHYTOCHROME B, which plays a major role in regulating...
-
Article
Upregulation of Wilms’ Tumor 1 in epicardial cells increases cardiac fibrosis in dystrophic mice
Cardiomyopathy is a primary cause of mortality in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. Mechanistic understanding of cardiac fibrosis holds the key to effective DMD cardiomyopathy treatments. Here we dem...
-
Article
Extracellular enzyme characteristics and microbial metabolic limitation in soil of subalpine forest ecosystems on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Subalpine forest ecosystems are sensitive to climate change, and extracellular enzyme activities and microbial metabolic limitation in soils are influenced by multiple factors including climate. The study aims...
-
Article
Effects of 7 Years of Warming and Straw Application on Soil Bacterial, Fungal, and Archaeal Community Compositions and Diversities in a Crop Field
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether long-term warming and straw application influenced soil microbial community composition and diversity. A 7-year experiment with four treatments, control (CK...
-
Article
Open AccessADAM10-cleaved ephrin-A5 contributes to prostate cancer metastasis
A disintegrin and metalloprotease-10(ADAM10) promotes the metastasis of prostate cancer (PCa), but the specific mechanism is indistinct. Herein, DU145 cell lines with stable overexpression and knockdown of ADA...
-
Article
The Effect of Salinity on Biofilm Formation and c-di-GMP Production in Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a moderately halophilic, salt-requiring organism that exhibits optimal growth at approximately 3% salt. Thus, salinity stress is one of the most important stimuli during its lifecycle. ...
-
Article
Temperature, Moisture, Hyperspectral Vegetation Indexes, and Leaf Traits Regulated Soil Respiration in Different Crop Planting Fields
The purpose of the study was to investigate how the regulatory factors (i.e., temperature, moisture, vegetation indexes, and leaf traits) of soil respiration differed in the different croplands. A field study ...
-
Article
The quorum sensing regulator OpaR is a repressor of polar flagellum genes in Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Vibrio parahaemolyticus possesses two types of flagella: a single polar flagellum (Pof) for swimming and the peritrichous lateral flagella (Laf) for swarming. Expression of Laf genes has previously been reported ...
-
Article
Mycorrhizal and rhizospheric fungal community assembly differs during subalpine forest restoration on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Mycorrhizosphere is the interface between roots and soil where a myriad of microorganisms mediate plant growth, nutrient acquisition and tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, and result in driving ecosystem ...
-
Article
Repair characteristics and time-dependent effects in response to heavy-ion beam irradiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a comparison with X-ray irradiation
Heavy-ion beam (HIB) irradiation has been widely used in microbial mutation breeding. However, a global cellular response to such radiation remains mostly uncharacterised. In this study, we used transcriptomic...
-
Article
Open AccessThe genetic control of leaf allometry in the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris
To maximize photosynthetic efficiency, plants have evolved a capacity by which leaf area scales allometrically with leaf mass through interactions with the environment. However, our understanding of genetic co...
