Publications by authors named "Yi-Zhou Yang"

Woody bamboos (Bambusoideae) are renowned for its polyploidy and rare flowering. is one of the bamboo species with the highest chromosome count (104) in the subfamily and has the highest heterozygosity of all sequenced bamboo genomes so far. Compared with other bamboo species, it can efficiently utilize exogenous hormones to regulate flowering, providing valuable insights into the hormonal regulation of bamboo flowering.

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Disrupting microtubule dynamics has emerged as a promising strategy for cancer therapy. Novel trimethoxyanilino-substituted pyrimidine and quinazoline derivatives were designed and synthesized to serve as potent microtubule-inhibiting agents with anti-proliferative activity. Compound 2k demonstrates high efficacy against B16-F10 cancer cells at low nanomolar concentrations, with an IC of 0.

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Plant virus-derived vectors are rapid and cost-effective for protein expression and gene functional studies in plants, particularly for species that are difficult to genetically transform. However, few efficient viral vectors are available for functional studies in Asteraceae plants. Here, we identified a potyvirus named zinnia mild mottle virus (ZiMMV) from common zinnia (Zinnia elegans Jacq.

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Polyploidy (genome duplication) is a pivotal force in evolution. However, the interactions between parental genomes in a polyploid nucleus, frequently involving subgenome dominance, are poorly understood. Here we showcase analyses of a bamboo system (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) comprising a series of lineages from diploid (herbaceous) to tetraploid and hexaploid (woody), with 11 chromosome-level de novo genome assemblies and 476 transcriptome samples.

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Plant rhabdoviruses heavily rely on insect vectors for transmission between sessile plants. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms of insect attraction and transmission of plant rhabdoviruses. In this study, we used an arthropod-borne cytorhabdovirus, Barley yellow striate mosaic virus (BYSMV), to demonstrate the molecular mechanisms of a rhabdovirus accessory protein in improving plant attractiveness to insect vectors.

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Recently, reverse genetics systems of plant negative-stranded RNA (NSR) viruses have been developed to study virus-host interactions. Nonetheless, genetic rescue of plant NSR viruses in both insect vectors and monocot plants is very limited. Northern cereal mosaic virus (NCMV), a plant cytorhabdovirus, causes severe diseases in cereal plants through transmission by the small brown planthopper (SBPH, Laodelphax striatellus) in a propagative manner.

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The brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens), the small brown planthopper (SBPH, Laodelphax striatellus), and the white-backed planthopper (WBPH, Sogatella furcifera) are problematic insect pests and cause severe yield losses through phloem sap-sucking and virus transmission. Barley yellow striate mosaic virus (BYSMV), a plant cytorhabdovirus, has been developed as versatile expression platforms in SBPHs and cereal plants. However, bio-safe overexpression vectors based on recombinant BYSMV (rBYSMV) remain to be developed and applied to the three kinds of planthoppers.

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Casein kinase 1 (CK1) family members are conserved Ser/Thr protein kinases that regulate important developmental processes in all eukaryotic organisms. However, the functions of CK1 in plant immunity remain largely unknown. (BYSMV), a plant cytorhabdovirus, infects cereal crops and is obligately transmitted by the small brown planthopper (SBPH; ).

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Carbon catabolite repression 4 (CCR4) is a conserved mRNA deadenylase regulating posttranscriptional gene expression. However, regulation of CCR4 in virus infections is less understood. Here, we characterized a pro-viral role of CCR4 in replication of a plant cytorhabdovirus (BYSMV).

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Aim: The programmed death 1/programmed death 1 ligand (PD-1/PD-L1) pathway can decrease the immune clearance effects of antigen-presenting cells and T lymphocytes to promote immune evasion of cervical cancer cells. However, the effects of this pathway on cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) progression and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) metastasis are not clear. We herein investigated whether human papillomavirus infection could affect PD-1 and PD-L1 expression in CIN, and whether their expression is associated with CIN progression and SCC metastasis.

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Shang ke hui zuan (Collected Compilation of Traumatology) written by Hu Ting-guang, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, is a comprehensive traumatology book, which records 16 manual reduction pictures with a five-word verse in each one and 9 seven-word verses in Chapter 3 supplementing the former and vice versa. Vivid pictures and brief verses matched with each other are convenient to imitate and recite, and play a vital role in promotion of inheritance and transmission of manual reduction technique on traumatology.

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