Publications by authors named "Bianzhi Liu"

Aeromonas hydrophila is a significant pathogen in the field of fish farming, resulting in substantial financial losses for the aquaculture industry. As the pathogen's resistance to commercially available antibiotics continues to rise, the identification of novel antimicrobial strategies becomes increasingly crucial. This study aims to explore the modulatory impact of gsk-3β (Glycogen synthase kinase-3β) on the intrinsic immunity against Aeromonas hydrophila in zebrafish, with the objective of uncovering a new avenue for enhancing fish antimicrobial activity through gene editing.

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The Hippo-YAP signaling pathway plays a central role in many biological processes such as regulating cell fate, organ size, and tissue growth, and its key components are spatiotemporally expressed and posttranslationally modified during these processes. Neddylation is a posttranslational modification that involves the covalent attachment of NEDD8 to target proteins by NEDD8-specific E1-E2-E3 enzymes. Whether neddylation is involved in Hippo-YAP signaling remains poorly understood.

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Immune defense functions of silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) have shown obvious evolutionary divergence. MiRNAs participate in the fine regulation of immune function. However, the evolutionary adaptation of miRNAs in the regulation of immune defense function is still poorly understood in silver carp and bighead carp.

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Retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs) signaling pathways are required to be tightly controlled to initiate host innate immune responses. Fish mitochondrial antiviral signaling (mavs) is a key determinant in the RLR pathway, and its ubiquitination is associated with mavs activation. Here, we identified the zebrafish E3 ubiquitin ligase Speckle-type BTB-POZ protein (spop) negatively regulates mavs-mediated the type I interferon (IFN) responses.

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In this study, we screened the expression stability of six reference genes (, , , , , and ) in hybrid yellow catfish ( = 6), considering the SBM levels, sampling time points, and different tissues. Four different statistical programs, BestKeeper, NormFinder, Genorm, and Delta Ct, combined with a method that comprehensively considered all results, were used to evaluate the expression stability of these reference genes systematically. The results showed that SBM levels significantly impacted the expression stability of most of the reference genes studied and that this impact was time-, dose-, and tissue-dependent.

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Objectives: To investigate the presence and transfer of the oxazolidinone/phenicol resistance gene optrA and identify the genetic elements involved in the horizontal transfer of the optrA gene in Streptococcus suis.

Methods: A total of 237 S. suis isolates were screened for the presence of the optrA gene by PCR.

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Bighead carp () and silver carp () are closely related species in the subfamily within , and they are also two of the four most important pond-cultured fish species in China. The ability to resist some diseases often differs significantly in silver carp and bighead carp during fishery production. However, the evolutionary divergence of the immune defense functions in these two species is still not understood at the molecular level.

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The evolutionary divergence of the immune defense functions in bighead carp (A. nobilis) and silver carp (H. molitrix) is still not understood at the molecular level.

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The data presented in this paper are related to the research article entitled "Transcriptome profiling of developing spleen tissue and discovery of immune-related genes in grass carp ()" (Li et al. 2016) [1]. Please refer to this article for interpretation of the data.

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Grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella is an important freshwater aquaculture species. However, studies regarding transcriptomic profiling of developing spleen tissue in the grass carp are lacking. Here, the transcriptome sequencing from the spleen tissue of one-year-old (cis1) and three-year-old (cis3) grass carp was performed using Illumina paired-end sequencing technology.

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Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is one of the most important aquacultured species of the family Cyprinidae, and breeding this species for disease resistance is becoming more and more important. However, at the genome or transcriptome levels, study of the immunogenetics of disease resistance in the common carp is lacking. In this study, 60,316,906 and 75,200,328 paired-end clean reads were obtained from two cDNA libraries of the common carp spleen by Illumina paired-end sequencing technology.

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