Proteins, as the fundamental macromolecules of life, play critical roles in various biological processes. Recent advancements in intelligent protein function prediction methods leverage sequences, structures, and biomedical literature data. Among them, function prediction methods for protein sequences remain an enduring and popular research direction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2024
Tissue segmentation of individual magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a fundamental step in building accurate head models for brain stimulation. In nonhuman primates (NHPs), due to limited sample size, site variability, and sub-optimal image quality, it is challenging to automate the tissue segmentation process. To overcome these challenges, we leveraged a recent transfer-learning framework for brain extraction and developed an automatic segmentation tool, DeepSeg, a U-Net model for NHP MRI data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe environment in which fish reside markedly shapes the composition of their gut microbiome. However, the precise mechanisms by which the assembly process of fish gut microbiota adapts to diverse habitat conditions remain largely uncharted, especially in the case of invasive tilapia, renowned for its remarkable adaptability to environmental changes. In this study, we employed high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing to explore the gut microbiome of redbelly tilapia from three distinct habitats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCross-user variability is a well-known challenge that leads to severe performance degradation and impacts the robustness of practical myoelectric control systems. To address this issue, a novel method for myoelectric recognition of finger movement patterns is proposed by incorporating a neural decoding approach with unsupervised domain adaption (UDA) learning. In our method, the neural decoding approach is implemented by extracting microscopic features characterizing individual motor unit (MU) activities obtained from a two-stage online surface electromyogram (SEMG) decomposition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProtein function prediction is crucial in several key areas such as bioinformatics and drug design. With the rapid progress of deep learning technology, applying protein language models has become a research focus. These models utilize the increasing amount of large-scale protein sequence data to deeply mine its intrinsic semantic information, which can effectively improve the accuracy of protein function prediction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Our study aimed to investigate the correlation between the microstructural changes of medial prefrontal cortex (m-PFC) and white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients by Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI).
Methods: We retrospectively collected 68 patients, including 47 patients with WMHs and 21 age matched controls. WMHs patients were divided into with MCI (n = 30) and without MCI group (n = 17).
Med Biol Eng Comput
February 2025
Electrohysterogram (EHG) is an electrophysiological signal describing uterine contractions that can be non-invasively measured on maternal abdominal surface. This signal contains vital physiological and pathological information for assessing delivery abnormalities, such as preterm birth. However, extracting information that effectively characterizes the association with abnormal delivery from the weak EHG signal is challenging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCarotenoids play indispensable roles in the ripening process of fleshy fruits. Capsanthin is a widely distributed and utilized natural red carotenoid. However, the regulatory genes involved in capsanthin biosynthesis remain insufficient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (anti-NMDARE) is a prevalent type of autoimmune encephalitis caused by antibodies targeting the NMDAR's GluN1 subunit. While significant progress has been made in elucidating the pathophysiology of autoimmune diseases, the immunological mechanisms underlying anti-NMDARE remain elusive. This study aimed to characterize immune cell interactions and dysregulation in anti-NMDARE by leveraging single-cell multi-omics sequencing technologies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the increasing availability of large-scale multimodal neuroimaging datasets, it is necessary to develop data fusion methods which can extract cross-modal features. A general framework, multidataset independent subspace analysis (MISA), has been developed to encompass multiple blind source separation approaches and identify linked cross-modal sources in multiple datasets. In this work, we utilized the multimodal independent vector analysis (MMIVA) model in MISA to directly identify meaningful linked features across three neuroimaging modalities-structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), resting state functional MRI and diffusion MRI-in two large independent datasets, one comprising of control subjects and the other including patients with schizophrenia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong persistent luminescence (PersL) materials have revolutionized many fields of optoelectronics and photonics due to their applications in anticounterfeiting, information encryption, and in vivo bioimaging. Here, we reported a novel PersL crystal prepared by the heterovalent doping of Sb into perovskite tetragonal phase RbCdCl, comparing with the pristine non-perovskite orthorhombic phase analogue without PersL property. Surprisingly, under the UV light irradiation, the title crystals concurrently exhibit green ultralong PersL (>2400 s), high photoluminescence quantum yield (49.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGenomics Proteomics Bioinformatics
December 2024
Multiplexing across donors has emerged as a popular strategy to increase throughput, reduce costs, overcome technical batch effects, and improve doublet detection in single-cell genomic studies. To eliminate additional experimental steps, endogenous nuclear genome variants are used for demultiplexing pooled single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data by several computational tools. However, these tools have limitations when applied to single-cell sequencing methods that do not cover nuclear genomic regions well, such as single-cell assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with sequencing (scATAC-seq).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Biochim Biophys Sin (Shanghai)
September 2024
The mechanisms underlying tissue repair in response to damage have been one of main subjects of investigation. Here we leverage the wound-induced hair neogenesis (WIHN) models in adult mice to explore the correlation between degree of damage and the healing process and outcome. The multimodal analysis, in combination with single-cell RNA sequencing help to explore the difference in wounds of gentle and heavy damage degrees, identifying the potential role of toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) in sensing the injury and regulating the immune reaction by promoting the migration of γδT cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhen fields lack consensus standard methods and accessible ground truths, reproducibility can be more of an ideal than a reality. Such has been the case for functional neuroimaging, where there exists a sprawling space of tools and processing pipelines. We provide a critical evaluation of the impact of differences across five independently developed minimal preprocessing pipelines for functional magnetic resonance imaging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The research on plant leaf morphology is of great significance for understanding the development and evolution of plant organ morphology. As a relict plant, the leaf morphology typically exhibits bifoliate and peltate forms. However, throughout its long evolutionary history, Ginkgo leaves have undergone diverse changes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDrought-induced 19 (Di19) protein plays critical biological functions in response to adversity as well as in plant growth and development. Exploring the role and mechanism of in abiotic stress responses is of great significance for improving plant tolerance. In this study, six genes were identified in the common bean ( L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACS Infect Dis
September 2024
Methicillin-resistant (MRSA) has become a serious threat to human public health and global economic development, and there is an urgent need to develop new antimicrobial agents. Flavonoids are the largest group of plant secondary metabolites, and the anti- and anti-MRSA activities of flavonoids have now been widely reported. The aim of this Review is to describe plant-derived flavonoid active ingredients and their effects and mechanisms of inhibitory activity against MRSA in order to provide insights for screening novel antimicrobial agents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlorfenicol, a widely used veterinary antibiotic, has now been frequently detected in various water environments and human urines, with high concentrations. Accordingly, the ecological risks and health hazards of florfenicol are attracting increasing attention. In recent years, antibiotic exposure has been implicated in the disruption of animal glucose metabolism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF, a new species from the dry-hot valley of the Jinsha River in the Yunnan province, China, is described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to and in having glabrescent old branches, absent stipels, 3-foliolate leaves, and adaxially puberulent leaflets, while it differs from the latter two in having often paniculate inflorescences, obviously white standard, not incurved sickle keel, larger narrowly oblique legumes, and longer legume beak. The complete chloroplast genome of this new species is 149,073 bp in length and exhibits a typical quadripartite structure.
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