Publications by authors named "Li Jiao Sun"

Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) caused by chronic alcohol abuse involves complex processes from steatosis to fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma, posing a global health issue. Bromodomain protein 4 (BRD4) typically serves as a "reader" modulating the functions of transcription factors involved in various biological processes and disease progression. However, the specific mechanisms underlying alcoholic liver injury remain unclear.

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Acute liver injury (ALI) is a complex, life-threatening inflammatory liver disease, and persistent liver damage leads to rapid decline and even failure of liver function. However, the pathogenesis of ALI is still not fully understood, and no effective treatment has been discovered. Recent evidence shows that many circular RNAs (circRNAs) are associated with the occurrence of liver diseases.

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Article Synopsis
  • The study identifies a specific circular RNA, circIRF2, which has decreased levels during liver fibrogenesis but is restored during recovery, suggesting its potential role in liver fibrosis.* -
  • Functional analyses show that increasing circIRF2 helps reduce liver fibrosis and activate healing processes, while reducing it hampers liver injury repair and inflammation resolution.* -
  • The research highlights how methylation modifications impact circIRF2's stability and suggests that circIRF2 could serve as a potential marker or target for treating liver fibrosis.*
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Hepatic fibrosis is an essential pathology of multiple chronicliverdiseases. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of miR-301a-3p in hepatic fibrosis. We found that miR-301a-3p was upregulated in hepatic fibrosis patients and in culture-activated human hepatic stellate cells (HSCs).

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Alternative oxidase (AOX) has a well-established involvement in plant growth and stress tolerance in many studies. In this study, we isolated and characterized the AOX2 from . The Open Reading Frame (ORF) contains 1029 nucleotides and encodes 342 amino acid residues.

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To investigate the protective mechanism of violaxanthin de-epoxidase (VDE) zeaxanthin in under drought and salt-stress conditions, we cloned the entire cDNA sequence of from and generated -overexpression (OE) and -complementation (CE) Arabidopsis plants. The open reading frame of contained 1,446 bp nucleotides and encoded 481 amino acids. The ChVDE showed the highest similarity with those of and .

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