Background: Diabetic kidney disease (DKD), one of the main complications of diabetes mellitus (DM), has become a frequent cause of end-stage renal disease. A clinically convenient, non-invasive approach for monitoring the development of DKD would benefit the overall life quality of patients with DM and contribute to lower medical burdens through promoting preventive interventions.
Methods: We utilized 5hmC-Seal to profile genome-wide 5-hydroxymethylcytosines in plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA).
Host defense systems can invade viral infection through immune responses and cellular metabolism. Recently, many studies have shown that cellular metabolism can be reprogrammed through N -methyladenosine (m A) modifications during viral infection. Among of them, methyltransferase like-14 enzyme (METTL14) plays an important role in m A RNA modification, yet its antiviral function still remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the 1920s, Dr Otto Warburg first suggested the significant difference in energy metabolism between malignant cancer cells and adjacent normal cells. Tumor cells mainly adopt the glycolysis as energy source to maintain tumor cell growth and biosynthesis under aerobic conditions. Investigation on energy metabolism pathway in cancer cells has aroused the interest of cancer researchers all around the world.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSix new triterpenoids (1-6) and 22 known analogues (7-28), were separated from the aerial parts of Anchusa italica Retz., a traditional Uygur medicine for treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the Xinjiang region, China. The possible effects of compounds 1-28 on hypoxia/reoxygenation (H/R) induced cardiomyocytes injury were assayed, and compounds 4, 6-17, 21-22 and 26-28 showed significant protective effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKidney-type glutaminase (KGA), catalyzing the hydrolysis of glutamine to glutamate for energy supply, is over-expressed in many cancers and has been regarded as a new therapeutic target for cancers. Physapubescin I was isolated from the fruits of the edible herb Physalis pubescens L., commonly named as "husk tomato or hairy groundcherry", and was predicted to be a potential KGA inhibitor through structure-based virtual ligand screening.
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