Dimethylations of histone H3 lysine 9 and lysine 27 are important epigenetic marks associated with transcription repression. Here, we identified KIAA1718 （KDM7A） as a novel histone demethylase specific for these two...Dimethylations of histone H3 lysine 9 and lysine 27 are important epigenetic marks associated with transcription repression. Here, we identified KIAA1718 （KDM7A） as a novel histone demethylase specific for these two repressing marks. Using mouse embryonic stem cells, we demonstrated that KIAA1718 expression increased at the early phase of neural differentiation. Knockdown of the gene blocked neural differentiation and the effect was rescued by the wild-type human gene, and not by a catalytically inactive mutant. In addition, overexpression of KIAA1718 accelerated neural differentiation. We provide the evidence that the pro-neural differentiation effect of KDM7A is mediated through direct transcriptional activation of FGF4, a signal molecule implicated in neural differentiation. Thus, our study identified a dual-specificity histone demethylase that regulates neural differentiation through FGF4.展开更多
Objective: To make a systematic assessment on whether the progression of early diabetic renal disease with normotension may be slowed down by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. Methods: Randomized clinica...Objective: To make a systematic assessment on whether the progression of early diabetic renal disease with normotension may be slowed down by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. Methods: Randomized clinical experiments published on MEDLINE from January 1990 to April 1999 and on China Biological Medicine were reviewed for studying the effects of ACE-inhibitors on normotensive patients with early diabetic renal diseases. Based on the inclusion criteria, 10 studies were selected. Their results were combined and analyzed with RevMan3. I software. Results: The pooled effect of urinary microalbumin excretion rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and mean arterial blood pressure were -77.502 mg/24 h (-100.748 to-54.256), -5.002 mmHg [-9.630 to 0.685],-2.949 mmHg (-4.005 to 1.892). -4.284 mmHg (-5.444 to 3.123) respectively. Using clinical albuminuria as the end-point, the pooled odd ratio was 0.27 [95% CI 0.18 0.40]. The sub-group analysis showed that those results had no difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. There was no significant correlation between the pooled effects of urinary micro-albuminuria excretion rate and systolic blood pressure. diastolic blood pressure or mean arterial blood pressure. Conclusion: ACE inhibitors can decline urinary micro-albuminuria excretion rate in normotensive patients with early diabetic renal disease and delay the progression of early diabetic renal disease to clinical albuminuria. These effects may not be dependent on its blood pressure-reduction effect.展开更多
Viral microRNAs are one component of the RNA interference phenomenon generated during viral infection. They were first identified in the Herpesviridae family, where they were found to regulate viral mRNA translation. ...Viral microRNAs are one component of the RNA interference phenomenon generated during viral infection. They were first identified in the Herpesviridae family, where they were found to regulate viral mRNA translation. In addition, prior work has suggested that Kaposi＇s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus （KSHV） is capable of regulating cellular gene transcription by miRNA. We demonstrate that a miRNA, hsvl-mir-H27, encoded within the genome of herpes simplex virus 1 （HSV-1）, targets the mRNA of the cellular transcriptional repressor Kelch-like 24 （KLHL24） that inhibits transcriptional efficiency of viral imme- diate-early and early genes. The viral miRNA is able to block the expression of KLHL24 in cells infected by HSV-1. Our dis- covery reveals an effective viral strategy for evading host cell defenses and supporting the efficient replication and prolifera- tion of HSV- 1.展开更多
We propose the generation of photonic EPR state from quadratic waveguide array. Both the propagation constant and the nonlinearity in the array are designed to possess a periodical modulation along the propagation dir...We propose the generation of photonic EPR state from quadratic waveguide array. Both the propagation constant and the nonlinearity in the array are designed to possess a periodical modulation along the propagation direction.This ensures that the photon pairs can be generated efficiently through the quasi-phase-matching spontaneous parametric down conversion by holding the spatial EPR entanglement in the fashion of correlated position and anticorrelated momentum. The Schmidt number which denotes the degree of EPR entanglement is calculated and it can approach a high value when the number of illuminated waveguide channels and the length of the waveguide array are properly chosen. These results suggest the quadratic waveguide array as a compact platform for engineering photonic quantum states in a high-dimensional Hilbert space.展开更多
基金Supplementary information is linked to the online version of the paper on the Cell Research website.Acknowledgments We thank Anning Lin （The University of Chicago） for the critical reading of the paper, members in the Chen lab for technical help, the cell biology and molecular biology core facilities for confocal study and Q-PCR, and Shanghai Biochip Co Ltd. for microarray analysis. The H3K27me2 antibody was kindly provided by Li Tang （Fudan University） and Thomas Jenuwein （Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, The Vienna Biocenter）. This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China （2007CB957900, 2006CB943902, 2007CB947101, 2008KR0695, 2009CB941100, 2005CB522704）, the Chinese Academy of Sciences （KSCX2-YW-R-04）, the National Natural Science Foundation of China （90919026, 30870538,30623003, 30721065, 30830034, 90919046）, the Shanghai Pujiang Program （0757S11361）, the Shanghai Key Project of Basic Science Research （06DJ14001, 06DZ22032, 08DJ1400501）, and the Council of Shanghai Municipal Government for Science and Technology （088014199）.
文摘Dimethylations of histone H3 lysine 9 and lysine 27 are important epigenetic marks associated with transcription repression. Here, we identified KIAA1718 （KDM7A） as a novel histone demethylase specific for these two repressing marks. Using mouse embryonic stem cells, we demonstrated that KIAA1718 expression increased at the early phase of neural differentiation. Knockdown of the gene blocked neural differentiation and the effect was rescued by the wild-type human gene, and not by a catalytically inactive mutant. In addition, overexpression of KIAA1718 accelerated neural differentiation. We provide the evidence that the pro-neural differentiation effect of KDM7A is mediated through direct transcriptional activation of FGF4, a signal molecule implicated in neural differentiation. Thus, our study identified a dual-specificity histone demethylase that regulates neural differentiation through FGF4.
文摘Objective: To make a systematic assessment on whether the progression of early diabetic renal disease with normotension may be slowed down by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. Methods: Randomized clinical experiments published on MEDLINE from January 1990 to April 1999 and on China Biological Medicine were reviewed for studying the effects of ACE-inhibitors on normotensive patients with early diabetic renal diseases. Based on the inclusion criteria, 10 studies were selected. Their results were combined and analyzed with RevMan3. I software. Results: The pooled effect of urinary microalbumin excretion rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and mean arterial blood pressure were -77.502 mg/24 h (-100.748 to-54.256), -5.002 mmHg [-9.630 to 0.685],-2.949 mmHg (-4.005 to 1.892). -4.284 mmHg (-5.444 to 3.123) respectively. Using clinical albuminuria as the end-point, the pooled odd ratio was 0.27 [95% CI 0.18 0.40]. The sub-group analysis showed that those results had no difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. There was no significant correlation between the pooled effects of urinary micro-albuminuria excretion rate and systolic blood pressure. diastolic blood pressure or mean arterial blood pressure. Conclusion: ACE inhibitors can decline urinary micro-albuminuria excretion rate in normotensive patients with early diabetic renal disease and delay the progression of early diabetic renal disease to clinical albuminuria. These effects may not be dependent on its blood pressure-reduction effect.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30670094, 30700028)National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB518901, 2011CB504903)
文摘Viral microRNAs are one component of the RNA interference phenomenon generated during viral infection. They were first identified in the Herpesviridae family, where they were found to regulate viral mRNA translation. In addition, prior work has suggested that Kaposi＇s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus （KSHV） is capable of regulating cellular gene transcription by miRNA. We demonstrate that a miRNA, hsvl-mir-H27, encoded within the genome of herpes simplex virus 1 （HSV-1）, targets the mRNA of the cellular transcriptional repressor Kelch-like 24 （KLHL24） that inhibits transcriptional efficiency of viral imme- diate-early and early genes. The viral miRNA is able to block the expression of KLHL24 in cells infected by HSV-1. Our dis- covery reveals an effective viral strategy for evading host cell defenses and supporting the efficient replication and prolifera- tion of HSV- 1.
基金Supported by the State Key Program for Basic Research in China under Grant No.2012CB921802 the National Natural Science Foundations of China under Grant Nos.91321312,11321063 and 11422438
文摘We propose the generation of photonic EPR state from quadratic waveguide array. Both the propagation constant and the nonlinearity in the array are designed to possess a periodical modulation along the propagation direction.This ensures that the photon pairs can be generated efficiently through the quasi-phase-matching spontaneous parametric down conversion by holding the spatial EPR entanglement in the fashion of correlated position and anticorrelated momentum. The Schmidt number which denotes the degree of EPR entanglement is calculated and it can approach a high value when the number of illuminated waveguide channels and the length of the waveguide array are properly chosen. These results suggest the quadratic waveguide array as a compact platform for engineering photonic quantum states in a high-dimensional Hilbert space.
