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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatic 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).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlternative 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo 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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