Due to its high mortality,disability,and recurrence rates,cerebral infarction has a serious impact on the economy and is a physical and psychological burden on patients.1 There is a huge unmet medical need for biomark...Due to its high mortality,disability,and recurrence rates,cerebral infarction has a serious impact on the economy and is a physical and psychological burden on patients.1 There is a huge unmet medical need for biomarkers to predict acute cerebral infarction.Studies have shown that the ischemic damage to neurons,myelin,and glia caused by a stroke leads to the release of the S100 calcium-binding protein beta subunit(S100B)through the blood-brain barrier into the systemic circulation,resulting in an increase in the level of S100B in the peripheral blood.展开更多
Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide.1 The current clinical staging systems cannot adequately predict the prognosis of patients with lung cancer,making it difficult to individuali...Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide.1 The current clinical staging systems cannot adequately predict the prognosis of patients with lung cancer,making it difficult to individualize the clinical treatment of the disease,resulting in poorer outcomes.展开更多
Genic male sterility (GMS) is very useful for hybrid vigor utilization and hybrid seed production. Although a large number of GMS genes have been identified in plants, little is known about the roles of GDSL lipase me...Genic male sterility (GMS) is very useful for hybrid vigor utilization and hybrid seed production. Although a large number of GMS genes have been identified in plants, little is known about the roles of GDSL lipase members in anther and pollen development. Here, we report a maize GMS gene, ZmMs30, which encodes a novel type of GDSL lipase with diverged catalytic residues. Enzyme kinetics and activity assays show that ZmMs30 has lipase activity and prefers to substrates with a short carbon chain. ZmMs30 is specifically expressed in maize anthers during stages 7-9. Loss of ZmMs30 function resulted in defective anther cuticle, irregular foot layer of pollen exine, and complete male sterility. Cytological and lipidomics analyses demonstrate that ZmMs30 is crucial for the aliphatic metabolic pathway required for pollen exine formation and anther cuticle development. Furthermore, we found that male sterility caused by loss of ZmMs30 function was stable in various inbred lines with different genetic background, and that it didn't show any negative effect on maize heterosis and production, suggesting that ZmMs30 is valuable for crossbreeding and hybrid seed production. We then developed a new multi-control sterility system using ZmMs30 and its mutant line, and demonstrated it is feasible for generating desirable GMS lines and valu. able for hybrid maize seed production. Taken together, our study sheds new light on the mechanisms of anther and pollen development, and provides a valuable male-sterility system for hybrid breeding maize.展开更多
文摘Due to its high mortality,disability,and recurrence rates,cerebral infarction has a serious impact on the economy and is a physical and psychological burden on patients.1 There is a huge unmet medical need for biomarkers to predict acute cerebral infarction.Studies have shown that the ischemic damage to neurons,myelin,and glia caused by a stroke leads to the release of the S100 calcium-binding protein beta subunit(S100B)through the blood-brain barrier into the systemic circulation,resulting in an increase in the level of S100B in the peripheral blood.
基金supported in part by a research grant from the Shandong Natural Science Foundation(No.ZR2019MH065).
文摘Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide.1 The current clinical staging systems cannot adequately predict the prognosis of patients with lung cancer,making it difficult to individualize the clinical treatment of the disease,resulting in poorer outcomes.
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFD0100806,2017YFD0102001,2017YFD0101201)the National Transgenic Major Program of China (2018ZX0801006B,2018ZX0800922B)+6 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31771875,31871702)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (06500060FRF-BR-17- 009A,-010Aand -011 A)the "Ten Thousand Plann-National High Level Talents Special Support Plan (for X.W.)the National Key Technology R&D Program of China (2014BAD01B02)and the Beijing Science & Technology Plan Program (Z161100000916013).
文摘Genic male sterility (GMS) is very useful for hybrid vigor utilization and hybrid seed production. Although a large number of GMS genes have been identified in plants, little is known about the roles of GDSL lipase members in anther and pollen development. Here, we report a maize GMS gene, ZmMs30, which encodes a novel type of GDSL lipase with diverged catalytic residues. Enzyme kinetics and activity assays show that ZmMs30 has lipase activity and prefers to substrates with a short carbon chain. ZmMs30 is specifically expressed in maize anthers during stages 7-9. Loss of ZmMs30 function resulted in defective anther cuticle, irregular foot layer of pollen exine, and complete male sterility. Cytological and lipidomics analyses demonstrate that ZmMs30 is crucial for the aliphatic metabolic pathway required for pollen exine formation and anther cuticle development. Furthermore, we found that male sterility caused by loss of ZmMs30 function was stable in various inbred lines with different genetic background, and that it didn't show any negative effect on maize heterosis and production, suggesting that ZmMs30 is valuable for crossbreeding and hybrid seed production. We then developed a new multi-control sterility system using ZmMs30 and its mutant line, and demonstrated it is feasible for generating desirable GMS lines and valu. able for hybrid maize seed production. Taken together, our study sheds new light on the mechanisms of anther and pollen development, and provides a valuable male-sterility system for hybrid breeding maize.
