Objective Cytokine responses to activation of innate immunity differ between individuals,yet the genomic and tissue-specific transcriptomic determinants of inflammatory responsiveness are not well understood. We hypot...Objective Cytokine responses to activation of innate immunity differ between individuals,yet the genomic and tissue-specific transcriptomic determinants of inflammatory responsiveness are not well understood. We hypothesized that tissue-specific mRNA and long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) induction differs between individuals with divergent evoked inflammatory responses.展开更多
Introduction:Although many studies have shown the vast potential of circulating tumor cells(CTCs)detection in cancer diagnosis and prognosis,our understanding of their clinical significance is still far from complete....Introduction:Although many studies have shown the vast potential of circulating tumor cells(CTCs)detection in cancer diagnosis and prognosis,our understanding of their clinical significance is still far from complete.A major obstacle arises from the lack of well-established tumor or tissue-specific markers to detect CTCs by immunocytochemical staining after immunomagnetic enrichment(IE).Methods:We have established the utility of cytokeratin 20(CK20),a gastrointestinal tract specific marker,for the specific detection and identification of colorectal cancer(CRC)CTCs.This breakthrough was successfully validated in spike-in experiments using CRC cell line models followed by a pilot study which recruited 32 metastatic CRC patients,25 benign colorectal diseases patients and 27 normal subjects.Results:CK20-positive CTCs were detected in 90%metastatic CRC patients but not in benign colorectal diseases patients and normal subjects using this refined assay.Conclusions:These impressive results have laid the foundation for further development of CK20-positive CTCs as a promising marker in diagnosis,prognostication and treatment monitoring of metastatic CRC.展开更多
Surgical resection,chemotherapy,and radiation are the standard therapeutic modalities for treating cancer.These approaches are intended to target the more mature and rapidly dividing cancer cells.However,they spare th...Surgical resection,chemotherapy,and radiation are the standard therapeutic modalities for treating cancer.These approaches are intended to target the more mature and rapidly dividing cancer cells.However,they spare the relatively quiescent and intrinsically resistant cancer stem cells(CSCs)subpopulation residing within the tumor tissue.Thus,a temporary eradication is achieved and the tumor bulk tends to revert supported by CSCs'resistant features.Based on their unique expression profile,the identification,isolation,and selective targeting of CSCs hold great promise for challenging treatment failure and reducing the risk of cancer recurrence.Yet,targeting CSCs is limited mainly by the irrelevance of the utilized cancer models.A new era of targeted and personalized anti-cancer therapies has been developed with cancer patient-derived organoids(PDOs)as a tool for establishing pre-clinical tumor models.Herein,we discuss the updated and presently available tissue-specific CSC markers in five highly occurring solid tumors.Additionally,we highlight the advantage and relevance of the threedimensional PDOs culture model as a platform for modeling cancer,evaluating the efficacy of CSC-based therapeutics,and predicting drug response in cancer patients.展开更多
Three lactoproteins （α-Sl-casein, β-lactoglobulin, and β-casein） promotors were cloned, sequenced and compared relative luciferase expression. The results showed that the promotor activity of bovine α-S1-casein ...Three lactoproteins （α-Sl-casein, β-lactoglobulin, and β-casein） promotors were cloned, sequenced and compared relative luciferase expression. The results showed that the promotor activity of bovine α-S1-casein gene was the best, and would be used to produce pharmaceutically and medically important proteins in the mammary gland of transgenic animals and also for the construction of an inducible eukaryotic expression vector.展开更多
A regulon refers to a group of genes regulated by a transcription factor binding to regulatory motifs to achieve specific biological functions.To infer tissue-specific gene regulons in Arabidopsis,we developed a novel...A regulon refers to a group of genes regulated by a transcription factor binding to regulatory motifs to achieve specific biological functions.To infer tissue-specific gene regulons in Arabidopsis,we developed a novel pipeline named InferReg.InferReg utilizes a gene expression matrix that includes 3400 Arabidopsis transcriptomes to make initial predictions about the regulatory relationships between transcription factors(TFs)and target genes(TGs)using co-expression patterns.It further improves these anticipated interactions by integrating TF binding site enrichment analysis to eliminate false positives that are only supported by expression data.InferReg further trained a graph convolutional network with 133 transcription factors,supported by ChIP-seq,as positive samples,to learn the regulatory logic between TFs and TGs to improve the accuracy of the regulatory network.To evaluate the functionality of InferReg,we utilized it to discover tissue-specific regulons in 5 Arabidopsis tissues:flower,leaf,root,seed,and seedling.We ranked the activities of regulons for each tissue based on reliability using Borda ranking and compared them with existing databases.The results demonstrated that InferReg not only identified known tissue-specific regulons but also discovered new ones.By applying InferReg to rice expression data,we were able to identify rice tissue-specific regulons,showing that our approach can be applied more broadly.We used InferReg to successfully identify important regulons in various tissues of Arabidopsis and Oryza,which has improved our understanding of tissue-specific regulations and the roles of regulons in tissue differentiation and development.展开更多
将由家蚕核型多角体病毒IE-1基因启动子控制下的hGM-CSF基因克隆到p igA3GFP载体中,构建了家蚕转基因载体p igA3GFP[IE-GMCSF],利用压力渗透法和精子介导法将其与辅助质粒helper p igA3一起导入家蚕蚕卵,获得产生绿色荧光的家蚕,次代产...将由家蚕核型多角体病毒IE-1基因启动子控制下的hGM-CSF基因克隆到p igA3GFP载体中,构建了家蚕转基因载体p igA3GFP[IE-GMCSF],利用压力渗透法和精子介导法将其与辅助质粒helper p igA3一起导入家蚕蚕卵,获得产生绿色荧光的家蚕,次代产生荧光蚕的比例分别为0.17%,0.15%。将次代荧光蚕与正常蚕交配后代(G1)的荧光蚕个体再相互杂交,连续进行多代选育,获得了稳定遗传的转hGM-CSF基因家蚕品系。展开更多
文摘Objective Cytokine responses to activation of innate immunity differ between individuals,yet the genomic and tissue-specific transcriptomic determinants of inflammatory responsiveness are not well understood. We hypothesized that tissue-specific mRNA and long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) induction differs between individuals with divergent evoked inflammatory responses.
文摘Introduction:Although many studies have shown the vast potential of circulating tumor cells(CTCs)detection in cancer diagnosis and prognosis,our understanding of their clinical significance is still far from complete.A major obstacle arises from the lack of well-established tumor or tissue-specific markers to detect CTCs by immunocytochemical staining after immunomagnetic enrichment(IE).Methods:We have established the utility of cytokeratin 20(CK20),a gastrointestinal tract specific marker,for the specific detection and identification of colorectal cancer(CRC)CTCs.This breakthrough was successfully validated in spike-in experiments using CRC cell line models followed by a pilot study which recruited 32 metastatic CRC patients,25 benign colorectal diseases patients and 27 normal subjects.Results:CK20-positive CTCs were detected in 90%metastatic CRC patients but not in benign colorectal diseases patients and normal subjects using this refined assay.Conclusions:These impressive results have laid the foundation for further development of CK20-positive CTCs as a promising marker in diagnosis,prognostication and treatment monitoring of metastatic CRC.
文摘Surgical resection,chemotherapy,and radiation are the standard therapeutic modalities for treating cancer.These approaches are intended to target the more mature and rapidly dividing cancer cells.However,they spare the relatively quiescent and intrinsically resistant cancer stem cells(CSCs)subpopulation residing within the tumor tissue.Thus,a temporary eradication is achieved and the tumor bulk tends to revert supported by CSCs'resistant features.Based on their unique expression profile,the identification,isolation,and selective targeting of CSCs hold great promise for challenging treatment failure and reducing the risk of cancer recurrence.Yet,targeting CSCs is limited mainly by the irrelevance of the utilized cancer models.A new era of targeted and personalized anti-cancer therapies has been developed with cancer patient-derived organoids(PDOs)as a tool for establishing pre-clinical tumor models.Herein,we discuss the updated and presently available tissue-specific CSC markers in five highly occurring solid tumors.Additionally,we highlight the advantage and relevance of the threedimensional PDOs culture model as a platform for modeling cancer,evaluating the efficacy of CSC-based therapeutics,and predicting drug response in cancer patients.
基金Supported by the Innovation Team Project of Northeast Agricultural University (CXT005-1-2)
文摘Three lactoproteins （α-Sl-casein, β-lactoglobulin, and β-casein） promotors were cloned, sequenced and compared relative luciferase expression. The results showed that the promotor activity of bovine α-S1-casein gene was the best, and would be used to produce pharmaceutically and medically important proteins in the mammary gland of transgenic animals and also for the construction of an inducible eukaryotic expression vector.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32270712)the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(2019CFA014).
文摘A regulon refers to a group of genes regulated by a transcription factor binding to regulatory motifs to achieve specific biological functions.To infer tissue-specific gene regulons in Arabidopsis,we developed a novel pipeline named InferReg.InferReg utilizes a gene expression matrix that includes 3400 Arabidopsis transcriptomes to make initial predictions about the regulatory relationships between transcription factors(TFs)and target genes(TGs)using co-expression patterns.It further improves these anticipated interactions by integrating TF binding site enrichment analysis to eliminate false positives that are only supported by expression data.InferReg further trained a graph convolutional network with 133 transcription factors,supported by ChIP-seq,as positive samples,to learn the regulatory logic between TFs and TGs to improve the accuracy of the regulatory network.To evaluate the functionality of InferReg,we utilized it to discover tissue-specific regulons in 5 Arabidopsis tissues:flower,leaf,root,seed,and seedling.We ranked the activities of regulons for each tissue based on reliability using Borda ranking and compared them with existing databases.The results demonstrated that InferReg not only identified known tissue-specific regulons but also discovered new ones.By applying InferReg to rice expression data,we were able to identify rice tissue-specific regulons,showing that our approach can be applied more broadly.We used InferReg to successfully identify important regulons in various tissues of Arabidopsis and Oryza,which has improved our understanding of tissue-specific regulations and the roles of regulons in tissue differentiation and development.
文摘将由家蚕核型多角体病毒IE-1基因启动子控制下的hGM-CSF基因克隆到p igA3GFP载体中,构建了家蚕转基因载体p igA3GFP[IE-GMCSF],利用压力渗透法和精子介导法将其与辅助质粒helper p igA3一起导入家蚕蚕卵,获得产生绿色荧光的家蚕,次代产生荧光蚕的比例分别为0.17%,0.15%。将次代荧光蚕与正常蚕交配后代(G1)的荧光蚕个体再相互杂交,连续进行多代选育,获得了稳定遗传的转hGM-CSF基因家蚕品系。
