Publications by authors named "DeGuang Song"

Virulent Klebsiella oxytoca strains are associated with gut and lung pathologies, yet our understanding of the molecular signals governing pathogenesis remains limited. Here, we characterized a family of K. oxytoca pyrazine and pyrazinone autoinducers and explored their roles in microbial and host signaling.

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Altered human aldo-keto reductase family 1 member C3 (AKR1C3) expression has been associated with poor prognosis in diverse cancers, ferroptosis resistance, and metabolic diseases. Despite its clinical significance, the endogenous biochemical roles of AKR1C3 remain incompletely defined. Using untargeted metabolomics, we identified a major transformation mediated by AKR1C3, in which a spermine oxidation product "sperminal" is reduced to "sperminol.

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Unlabelled: is a symbiotic Gammaproteobacterium that produces diverse natural products that facilitate mutualistic and pathogenic interactions in their nematode and insect hosts, respectively. The interplay between secondary metabolism and symbiosis stage is tuned by various global regulators. An example of such a regulator is the LysR-type protein transcription factor LrhA, which regulates amino acid metabolism and is necessary for virulence in insects and normal nematode progeny production.

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Porcine idiopathic vesicular disease (PIVD), one of several clinically indistinguishable vesicular diseases of pigs, is caused by the emerging pathogen Senecavirus A (SVA). Despite the widespread prevalence of porcine SVA infection, no effective commercial vaccines for PIVD prevention and control are available, due to high costs associated with vaccine testing in pigs, considerable SVA diversity, and SVA rapid evolution. In this study, SVA CH/JL/2022 (OP562896), a novel mutant SVA strain derived from an isolate obtained from a pig farm in Jilin Province, China, was inactivated then combined with four adjuvants, MONTANIDETM GEL02 PR (GEL 02), MONTANIDETM ISA 201 VG (ISA 201), MONTANIDETM IMG 1313 VG N (IMS1313), or Rehydragel LV (LV).

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  • Microorganisms associated with humans can influence our physiology in various ways, but the specific molecular interactions behind these effects are not well understood.
  • Researchers developed a new technology called BASEHIT to explore the interactions between over 500 bacterial strains and thousands of human proteins, uncovering a vast network of host-microbiota interactions.
  • The findings suggest that these interactions may play important roles in areas like immune response, tissue remodeling, and niche colonization, highlighting the complex relationship between human health and our microbiome.
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Orf virus (ORFV), a typical member of the genus Parapoxvirus, Poxvirus family, causes a contagious pustular dermatitis in sheep, goats, and humans. Poxviruses encode a multisubunit DNA-dependent RNA polymerase (vRNAP) that carries out viral gene expression in the host cytoplasm, which is a viral factor essential to poxvirus replication. Due to its vital role in viral life, vRNAP has emerged as one of the potential drug targets.

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Betacoronaviruses, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), exploit the lysosomal exocytosis pathway for egress. However, whether all betacoronaviruses members use the same pathway to exit cells remains unknown. Here, we demonstrated that porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (PHEV) egress occurs by Arl8b-dependent lysosomal exocytosis, a cellular egress mechanism shared by SARS-CoV-2 and MHV.

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  • * Mice lacking the mitochondrial protein MCJ show increased sensitivity to colitis, but this study reveals that their altered gut microbiota can pass on this susceptibility to germ-free mice through fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT).
  • * The research identifies specific microbiota and immune responses, like increased IgA coating on bacteria in MCJ-deficient mice, which may contribute to the progression of IBD, highlighting the potential for microbial biomarkers in predicting ulcerative colitis patient outcomes.
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  • The human body hosts numerous metabolites from various sources such as cells, diet, and microbes, many of which influence G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), vital for cell signaling.
  • A new technology called PRESTO-Salsa allows researchers to test over 300 GPCRs simultaneously in a single well, enabling the screening of 1,041 metabolites for novel interactions.
  • The study utilized PRESTO-Salsa to map microbiome-GPCR interactions, revealing unique patterns of receptor engagement and identifying a specific microbial protease that activates a certain receptor, highlighting the complexity of metabolite-GPCR relationships.
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Contagious ecthyma (Orf), an acute and highly contagious zoonosis, is prevalent worldwide. Orf is caused by Orf virus (ORFV), which mainly infects sheep/goats and humans. Therefore, effective and safe vaccination strategies for Orf prevention are needed.

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The advantage of oncolytic viruses (OV) in cancer therapy is their dual effect of directly killing tumours while prompting anti-tumour immune response. Oncolytic parapoxvirus ovis (ORFV) and other OVs are thought to induce apoptosis, but apoptosis, being the immunogenically inert compared to other types of cell death, does not explain the highly inflamed microenvironment in OV-challenged tumors. Here we show that ORFV and its recombinant therapeutic derivatives are able to trigger tumor cell pyroptosis via Gasdermin E (GSDME).

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The demand of exploring strategies to enhance chemotherapy drug efficacy and alleviate adverse effects by using natural compounds is increasing. Sinensetin (SIN) is a kind of natural flavonoids with anti-inflammatory activities. However, its protective impact on chemotherapy-induced adverse effects has not been well demonstrated.

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Orf virus (ORFV) causes highly contagious vesiculoulcerative pustular and skin lesions in ruminants like sheep. Developing ORFV-based recombinant vaccine is a potential way to combat Orf disease. Although ORFV could propagate in some kinds of primary cells, the proliferative capacity of primary cells is limited.

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Background: Porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (PHEV), a member of the genus Betacoronavirus, is the causative agent of neurological disease in pigs. No effective therapeutics are currently available for PHEV infection. Resveratrol has been shown to exert neuroprotective and antiviral effects.

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Many members of the genus Betacoronavirus are neurotropic viruses that frequently cause serious harm to humans or animals, including highly neurotropic porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (PHEV). Nevertheless, very few approved treatments exist to combat these viruses. Lysosomotropic trehalose, a widely used, nontoxic, natural disaccharide that can traverse the blood-brain barrier, has been proposed as a potential antiviral agent for use in prevention or treatment of betacoronavirus-associated infections.

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Microbiota-derived metabolites that elicit DNA damage can contribute to colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the full spectrum of genotoxic chemicals produced by indigenous gut microbes remains to be defined. We established a pipeline to systematically evaluate the genotoxicity of an extensive collection of gut commensals from inflammatory bowel disease patients.

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Contagious ecthyma (Orf) is a highly contagious disease caused by Orf virus (ORFV) infection. Orf is prevalent all over the world and, not only affects the healthy development of sheep husbandry, but also threatens human health. However, there are no safe and effective vaccines or drugs for the prevention and treatment of Orf at present.

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Background: Traditionally, vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and other oncolytic viruses (OVs) are thought to kill tumors by inducing apoptosis. However, cell apoptosis leads to immune quiescence, which is incompatible with the ability of OVs to activate the antitumor immune microenvironment. Thus, studying OVs-mediated oncolytic mechanisms is of great importance for the clinical application of OVs.

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Orf virus (ORFV, species Orf virus) belongs to the typical species of the Parapoxvirus genus of the family Poxviridae, which infects sheep, goats, and humans with worldwide distribution. Although outbreaks of Orf have been reported sequentially in several Chinese provinces, the epidemiology of Orf and genetic diversity of ORFV strains still needs to be further characterized. To further reveal the genomic organization of the ORFV-GZ18 and ORFV-CL18 isolates, the complete genome sequences of two recently obtained ORFV isolates were sequenced using the next-generation sequencing technology and analyzed, which had been deposited in the GenBank database under accession number MN648218 and MN648219, respectively.

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The recent novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) outbreak created a severe public health burden worldwide. Unfortunately, the SARS-CoV-2 variant is still spreading at an unprecedented speed in many countries and regions. There is still a lack of effective treatment for moderate and severe COVID-19 patients, due to a lack of understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 life cycle.

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The impacts of individual commensal microbes on immunity and disease can differ dramatically depending on the surrounding microbial context; however, the specific bacterial combinations that dictate divergent immunological outcomes remain largely undefined. Here, we characterize an immunostimulatory Allobaculum species from an inflammatory bowel disease patient that exacerbates colitis in gnotobiotic mice. Allobaculum inversely associates with the taxonomically divergent immunostimulatory species Akkermansia muciniphila in human-microbiota-associated mice and human cohorts.

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Orf virus (ORFV) is a highly epitheliotropic parapoxvirus with zoonotic significance that induces proliferative lesions in the skin of sheep, goats, and humans. Several viral proteins carried by ORFV, including nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) inhibitors, play important roles in hijacking host-associated proteins for viral evasion of the host innate immune response. However, the roles of proteins with unknown functions in viral replication and latent infection remain to be explored.

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Pathogenic fungi reside in the intestinal microbiota but rarely cause disease. Little is known about the interactions between fungi and the immune system that promote commensalism. Here we investigate the role of adaptive immunity in promoting mutual interactions between fungi and host.

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Poxviruses have evolved multiple strategies to modulate host-derived factors to create an optimal environment for viral efficient replication. Our previous study indicated that cyclophilin B (CypB) is a critical factor for ORFV replication in MDBK cells. However, the precise molecular mechanism by which CypB facilitates ORFV replication remains less understood.

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