Publications by authors named "Mengze Guo"

A novel waikavirus, tentatively named "Pittosporum tobira waikavirus" (PtWV), was identified in Pittosporum tobira plants exhibiting mosaic and ringspot symptoms on foliage in Yunnan, China. The full-length genomic sequence was determined by high-throughput sequencing and rapid amplification of cDNA ends. The genome of PtWV is 12,709 nt in length and has a large open reading frame (ORF) of 11,010 nt, encoding a polyprotein, and a small ORF that encodes a 13.

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Sphaerophysa salsula (Pall.) DC., also known as Yang Liao Pao, belongs to the Leguminosae family and is the only existing species in the Sphaerophysa genus.

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Bean common mosaic virus (BCMV) was detected on common bean () plants showing wrinkled and/or narrow leaves, curling, shrinking and chlorosis of leaves, dwarfing of plants, and mottled pods in Inner Mongolia and named BCMV-22Huhe. Its genome has a size of 10,062 bp and was deposited in GenBank under the accession number OR778613. It is closely related to BCMV-Az (GenBank accession no.

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Article Synopsis
  • Onion plants in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, displayed symptoms of yellow stripes and leaf distortion, and out of 20,000 plants, 140 showed these symptoms.
  • Diagnosis through electron microscopy revealed viral particles indicative of a potyvirus, later confirmed to be the leek yellow stripe virus (LYSV) via RT-PCR and Sanger sequencing.
  • The study involved extracting RNA, amplifying specific gene fragments, cloning, and sequencing, resulting in sequences with a high similarity (99.2%-100%) to known LYSV strains.
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Pneumococcal disease is a serious public health problem worldwide and an important cause of morbidity and mortality among children and adults in developing countries. Although vaccination is among the most effective approaches to prevent and control pneumococcal diseases, approved vaccines have limited protective effects. We developed a pneumococcal protein-polysaccharide conjugate vaccine that is mediated by the noncovalent interaction between biotin and streptavidin.

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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a gram-positive bacterial pathogen causing invasive pneumonia, meningitis, otitis media, and bacteremia. Owing to the current pitfalls of polysaccharide and polysaccharide-conjugate vaccines, protein vaccines are considered promising candidates against pneumonia. Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) and pneumococcal surface adhesin A (PsaA) are virulence proteins showing good immunogenicity and protective effects against S.

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Limited protective effects of commercially available vaccines necessitate the development of novel pneumococcal vaccines. We recently reported a pneumococcal systemic vaccine containing two proteins, Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA of family 1 and 2) and a bacterium-like particle-based pneumococcal mucosal vaccine containing PspA2 and PspA4 fragments, both eliciting broad protective immune responses. We had previously reported that subcutaneous (s.

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Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF-21) has been previously judged as a major metabolic regulator. In this paper, we show that FGF-21 has a potential role in anti-inflammation and immunoregulation. In vivo, treatment with exogenous FGF-21 can alleviate LPS-induced inflammation.

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Recycling is a simple and efficient strategy for improving the peak resolution. In this work, a novel multi-channel recycling counter-current chromatography (CCC) was successfully established and three representative three-channel recycling CCC systems including 1R, 2R, and 3R CCC recycling on one, two, and three channel columns were developed for four typical tanshinones fractions. The results demonstrated that all recycling CCC separations were efficient for the isolation of targeted tanshinones.

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