Experimental Study on Heartwood Formation and Development of Red Sandalwood by Grafting

Red sandalwood（ Pterocarpus santalinus） is the most precious species of Pterocarpus,and the long maturity period of its heartwood is an important factor limiting its development. The 1-year-old plants of P. macarocarpus were chosen as the rootstocks to graft red sandalwood with single-bud scions of 1-year-old shoots in spring. The 5-month survival rate reached over 80%,and the grafted plants grew well. Moreover,the grafting significantly promoted the formation and development of the heartwood of red sandlawood. At 18 ^（th） month after grafting,compared with the seedling plants,the diameter of heartwood was increased by 82. 8% and 29. 6%,respectively,and the ratio of heartwood increased by 64. 8% and 29. 6%,respectively. The propagation technology had outstanding practical value and scientific significance,which has not been reported at home and abroad.

卡非佐米治疗多发性骨髓瘤的耐药机制研究进展

治疗多发性骨髓瘤(multiple myeloma,MM)的药物主要以蛋白酶体抑制剂(proteasome inhibitors,PIs)、免疫调节剂(immunomodulatory drugs,IMiDs)为主。近年来包括CD38单抗、CAR-T细胞治疗以及其他一些新药的使用,显著提高了MM患者的治疗疗效,改善了患者的生存期。其中PIs仍然是MM治疗的基本药物。卡非佐米(carfilzomib,CFZ)作为新一代的PIs,相较于硼替佐米(bortezomib,BTZ)以及伊沙佐米(ixazomib,IXZ),由于其治疗机制的不同,更多地使用于复发难治性MM(relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma,RRMM)以及耐药MM的患者,且其疗效已被大量数据证实。但随着卡非佐米的临床应用,部分患者出现耐药现象。本文将根据近些年对于卡非佐米耐药的研究,从自噬水平、药物代谢、蛋白酶体结构及数量、基因的修饰、细胞代谢5个方面分析卡非佐米的耐药机制,并据此给出可能的新的治疗方案。根据上述新的治疗方案有望增强卡非佐米的疗效,减少耐药现象的出现,延长患者的生存时间。

Effect of Soil p H on the Growth,Photosynthesis and Mineral Element Content in Own-Rooted Saplings and Grafted Saplings of Blueberry

The adaptation of blueberry to higher soil p H is poor. To explore the effect and probable mechanism of the adaptation of grafted blueberry( Vaccinium spp.) saplings to the soil environment with higher p H value. We took three types of saplings,( i) own-rooted Wufanshu( V. bracteatum),an economical shrub belonging to the same genus and family with blueberry,also known as oriental blueberry,( ii) own-rooted‘Sharpblue',a southern highbush blueberry( V. corymbosum) cultivar,and( iii) grafted-bluebedrry as experimental materials,which were grown in quartz sand medium for 90 d,irrigated with nutrient solution of three levels of p H values,respectively,i. e. p H 4. 6,p H 5. 8 and p H7. 0. Results showed that root development,shoot growth and dry biomass accumulation of grafted blueberry were significantly better than those of own-rooted blueberry grown in higher p H medium; compared with own-rooted blueberry saplings,leaf chlorophyll content,chlorophyll a/b ratio,chlorophyll fluorescence chemical efficiency and photosynthetic efficiency of grafted blueberry saplings grown in higher p H medium were all significantly improved. Results also showed that mineral element content of leaves,especially Mg and Fe elemental content of grafted blueberry was significantly higher than that of own-rooted blueberry saplings grown in higher p H media. Grafting-propagation of blueberry saplings taking Wufanshu as rootstock significantly enhanced the adaptation of blueberry to soil environment with higher p H value.

Analyses on the Overall Codon Usage Pattern in Fish Rhabdovirus

The codon usage bias and the base compositions in the available 49 complete fish rhabdovirus genome sequences were investigated. The high correlation between GC12% and GC3% suggested that mutational pressure rather than natural selection was the main factor determining the codon usage and base component in fish rhabdovirns, most of the spots lying below the expected curve （ ENC vs GC3% ） also suggested that codon usage bias in these 49 genomes was influenced by mutational pressure in codon usage pattern. Through PCA analysis based on RSCU, all ORFs in the 49 fish rhabdoviurs genomes were clustered into two parts, and this result showed that hosts played a role in codon usage pattern of fish rhabdovirns genomes. Further, comparison between SVCV, INHV, VHSV and their hosts suggested the effect of natural host on the codon usage pattern took part in the evolution process of fish rhabdovirns. This study represents the most comprehensive analysis to date for fish rhabdovirus eodon usage patterns.

Fast approximate matching of binary codes with distinctive bits

Although the distance between binary codes can be computed fast in Hamming space, linear search is not practical for large scale datasets. Therefore attention has been paid to the efficiency of performing approximate nearest neighbor search, in which hierarchical clustering trees （HCT） are widely used. However, HCT select cluster centers randomly and build indexes with the entire binary code, this degrades search performance. In this paper, we first propose a new clustering algorithm, which chooses cluster centers on the basis of relative distances and uses a more homogeneous partition of the dataset than HCT has to build the hierarchical clustering trees. Then, we present an algorithm to compress binary codes by extracting distinctive bits according to the standard deviation of each bit. Consequently, a new index is proposed using compressed binary codes based on hierarchical decomposition of binary spaces. Experiments conducted on reference datasets and a dataset of one billion binary codes demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our method.

Human Cytomegalovirus Influences Host circRNA Transcriptions during Productive Infection

Human cytomegalovirus(HCMV)is a double-strand DNA virus widely infected in human.Circular RNAs(circ RNAs)are non-coding RNAs with most functions of which keep unknown,and the effects of HCMV productive infection on host circ RNA transcriptions remain unclear.In this study,we profiled 283 host circ RNAs that significantly altered by HCMV productive infection in human embryonic lung fibroblasts(HELF)by RNA deep sequencing and bioinformatics analysis.Among these,circ SP100,circ MAP3 K1,circ PLEKHM1,and circ TRIO were validated for their transcriptions and sequences.Furthermore,characteristics of circ SP100 were investigated by RT-q PCR and northern blot.It was implied that circ SP100 was produced from the sense strand of the SP100 gene containing six exons.Kinetics of circ SP100 and SP100 m RNA were significantly different after infection:circ SP100 levels increased gradually along with infection,whereas SP100 m RNA levels increased in the beginning and dropped at 24 h post-infection(hpi).Meanwhile,a total number of 257 proteins,including 10 HCMV encoding proteins,were identified potentially binding to cytoplasmic circ SP100 by RNA antisense purification(RAP)and mass spectrometry.Enrichment analysis showed these proteins were mainly involved in the spliceosome,protein processing,ribosome,and phagosome pathways,suggesting multiple functions of circ SP100 during HCMV infection.

Human cytomegalovirus miR-US5-1 inhibits viral replication by targeting Geminin mRNA

Viruses commonly create favorable cellular conditions for their survival through multiple mechanisms. Micro RNAs(mi RNAs), which function as post-transcriptional regulators, are utilized by human cytomegalovirus(HCMV) in its infection and pathogenesis. In the present study, the DNA replication inhibitor Geminin(GMNN) was identified to be a direct target of hcmv-mi R-US5-1. Overexpression of hcmv-mi R-US5-1 could block the accumulation of GMNN during HCMV infection, and the decrease of GMNN expression caused by hcmv-mi R-US5-1 or GMNN specific si RNA reduced HCMV DNA copies in U373 cells. Meanwhile, ectopic expression of hcmv-mi R-US5-1 and consequent lower expression of GMNN influenced host cell cycle and proliferation. These results imply that hcmv-mi R-US5-1 may affect viral replication and host cellular environment by regulating expression kinetics of GMNN during HCMV infection.

Human cytomegalovirus RNA2.7 inhibits RNA polymeraseⅡ(PolⅡ)Serine-2 phosphorylation by reducing the interaction between PolⅡand phosphorylated cyclin-dependent kinase 9(pCDK9)

Human cytomegalovirus(HCMV)is a ubiquitous pathogen belongs to betaherpesvirus subfamily.RNA2.7 is a highly conserved long non-coding RNA accounting for more than 20%of total viral transcripts.In our study,functions of HCMV RNA2.7 were investigated by comparison of host cellular transcriptomes between cells infected with HCMV clinical strain and RNA2.7 deleted mutant.It was demonstrated that RNA polymeraseⅡ(PolⅡ)-dependent host gene transcriptions were significantly activated when RNA2.7 was removed during infection.A145 nt-in-length motif within RNA2.7 was identified to inhibit the phosphorylation of PolⅡSerine-2(PolⅡS2)by reducing the interaction between PolⅡand phosphorylated cyclin-dependent kinase 9(pCDK9).Due to the loss of PolⅡS2 phosphorylation,cellular DNA pre-replication complex(pre-RC)factors,including Cdt1 and Cdc6,were significantly decreased,which prevented more cells from entering into S phase and facilitated viral DNA replication.Our results provide new insights of HCMV RNA2.7 functions in regulation of host cellular transcription.

Correction to:Human Cytomegalovirus Influences Host circRNA Transcriptions during Productive Infection

The information of affiliation 1 and 3 was incorrect.The information of affiliations should read as given below.Author information 1 Virology Lab,Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University,Shenyang 110004,China 2 Department of Laboratory,Central Hospital Affiliated to Shenyang Medical College,Shenyang 110024,China.

Dissipative particle dynamics thermostat: a novel thermostat for molecular dynamics simulation of liquid crystals with Gay–Berne potential

The Gay–Berne(GB) model has been proved to be highly successful in the simulation of liquid crystal phases via both molecular dynamics(MD) and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics(NEMD). However, the conventional thermostats used in the simulations of GB systems, such as Nosé–Hoover and Langevin thermostats, have serious shortcomings especially in NEMD simulations. Recently, dissipative particle dynamics(DPD) has established itself as a useful thermostat for soft matter simulations, whereas the application of DPD thermostat in(NE)MD simulations is limited to the spherically isotropic potential models, such as the Lennard–Jones model. Considering the virtues of the DPD thermostat, that is, local, momentum conserved, and Galilean invariant, we extend the DPD thermostat to the non-spherical GB model. It is interesting to find that the translational DPD and rotational DPD thermostats can be used in the GB system independently and both can achieve the thermostatting effects. Also, we compared the performance of the DPD thermostat with other commonly used thermostats in NEMD simulations by investigating the streaming velocity profiles and the dynamics of phase separation in a typical but simple binary GB mixture under shear field. It is revealed that the known virtues of DPD thermostats, such as Galilean invariant, shear velocity profile-unbiased, and unscreened hydrodynamic interactions, are still intact when applying to GB systems. Finally, the appropriate parameters for the DPD thermostat in the GB system are identified for future investigations.

Fusing Carbocycles of Inequivalent Ring Size to a Bis(imino)pyridine-Iron Ethylene Polymerization Catalyst: Distinctive Effects on Activity, PE Molecular Weight, and Dispersity

The 4,6-bis(arylimino)-1,2,3,7,8,9,10-heptahydrocyclohepta[b]quinoline-iron(II)chlorides(aryl=2,6-Me_(2)C_(6)H_(3) Fe1;2,6-Et_(2)C_(6)H_(3) Fe_(2);2,6-i-Pr_(2)C_(6)H_(3) Fe_(3);2,4,6-Me3C_(6)H_(2) Fe4;and 2,6-Et_(2)-4-Me_(2)C_(6)H_(2) Fe_(5))have been prepared in good yield by a straightforward one-pot reaction of 2,3,7,8,9,10-hexahydro-1H-cyclohepta[b]quinoline-4,6-dione,FeCl_(2)·4H_(2)O,and the appropriate aniline in acetic acid.All ferrous complexes have been characterized by elemental analysis and FT-IR spectroscopy.In addition,the structure of Fe_(3) has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction,which showed the iron center to adopt a distorted square pyramidal geometry with the saturated sections of the fused six-and sevenmembered carbocycles to be cis-configured.In combination with either MAO or MMAO,Fe1–Fe5 exhibited exceptionally high activities for ethylene polymerization(up to 15:86×10^(6) g(PE)mol^(−1)(Fe)h^(−1) at 40℃(MMAO)and 9:60×10^(6) g(PE)mol^(−1)(Fe)h^(−1) at 60℃(MAO))and produced highly linear polyethylene(HLPE,Tm≥128℃)with a wide range in molecular weights;in general,the MMAO-promoted polymerizations were more active.Irrespective of the cocatalyst employed,the 2,6-Me_(2)-substituted Fe1 and Fe4 proved the most active while the more sterically hindered 2,6-i-Pr_(2) Fe_(3) the least but afforded the highest molecular weight polyethylene(Mw:65.6–72.6 kg mol^(-1)).Multinuclear NMR spectroscopic analysis of the polymer formed using Fe4/MMAO at 40℃ showed a preference for fully saturated chain ends with a broad bimodal distribution a feature of the GPC trace(Mw/Mn=13:4).By contrast,using Fe4/MAO at 60℃ a vinyl-terminated polymer of lower molecular weight(Mw=14:2 kg mol^(−1))was identified that exhibited a unimodal distribution(Mw/Mn=3:8).Moreover,the amount of aluminoxane cocatalyst employed,temperature,and run time were also found to be influential on the modality of the polymer.