Bladder cancer (BLCA) is a prevalent cancer with high case-fatality rates and a substantial economic burden worldwide. Understanding its molecular underpinnings to guide clinical management is crucial. Ferroptosis, a recently described non-apoptotic form of cell death, is initiated by the lethal accumulation of iron-dependent lipid peroxidation products.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA growing number of studies reveal that alternative splicing (AS) is associated with tumorigenesis, progression, and metastasis. Systematic analysis of alternative splicing signatures in renal cancer is lacking. In our study, we investigated the AS landscape of kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) and identified AS predictive model to improve the prognostic prediction of KIRC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent years, pseudorabies virus (PRV) variants have resulted in an epidemic in swine herds and huge economic losses in China. Therefore, it is essential to develop an efficacious vaccine against the spread of PRV variants. Here, the triple-gene-deletion virus and the triple-gene-deletion plus gC virus were constructed by homologous recombination (HR).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTripartite motif (TRIM) proteins are a multifunctional E3 ubiquitin ligase family that participates in various cellular processes. Recent studies have shown that TRIM proteins play important roles in regulating host-virus interactions through specific pathways, but their involvement in response to rabies virus (RABV) infection remains poorly understood. Here, we identified that several TRIM proteins are upregulated in mouse neuroblastoma cells (NA) after infection with the rabies virus using RNA-seq sequencing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntratumor heterogeneity (ITH) of bladder cancer (BLCA) contributes to therapy resistance and immune evasion affecting clinical prognosis. The molecular and cellular mechanisms contributing to BLCA ITH generation remain elusive. It is found that a TM4SF1-positive cancer subpopulation (TPCS) can generate ITH in BLCA, evidenced by integrative single cell atlas analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRabies virus (RABV) is a single-stranded negative-sense RNA virus belonging to the family and genus, which is highly neurotropic and can infect almost all warm-blooded animals, including humans. Autophagy and apoptosis are two evolutionarily conserved and genetically regulated processes that maintain cellular and organismal homeostasis, respectively. Autophagy recycles unnecessary or dysfunctional intracellular organelles and molecules in a cell, whereas apoptosis eliminates damaged or unwanted cells in an organism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a type of kidney cancer that is both common and aggressive, with a rising incidence in recent decades. Hypoxia is a key factor that plays a vital role in the tumorigenesis and metastasis of malignancy. However, the precise mechanisms of hypoxia driving ccRCC progression were not totally uncovered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe genotyping of Campylobacter coli was done using three methods, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), Sau-polymerase chain reaction (Sau-PCR), and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis assay of flagellin gene (fla-DGGE) and the characteristics of these assays were compared. The results showed that a total of 53 strains of C. coli were isolated from chicken and duck samples in three markets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRabies remains a great threat to public health worldwide. So far, the mechanism of rabies virus (RABV) infection is not fully understood, and there is no effective treatment for rabies. Identifying more host restriction factors of RABV will spur the development of novel therapeutic interventions against rabies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRabies, a highly fatal zoonotic disease, is a significant global public health threat. Currently, the pathogenic mechanism of rabies has not been fully elucidated, and no effective treatment for rabies is available. Increasing evidence shows that the tripartite-motif protein (TRIM) family of proteins participates in the host's regulation of viral replication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProstate cancer (PCa) is the most common malignant tumor with a high global incidence in males. The mechanism underlying PCa progression is still not clear. This study observed that NRP1 was highly expressed in PCa and associated with poor prognosis in PCa patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: The ability to distinguish between Klebsiella pneumoniae strains is critical for outbreak investigations. A new typing method, intergenic region polymorphism analysis (IRPA), was developed, validated, and the discriminatory power was determined by comparison with multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) in this study.
Methods And Results: This method is based on the idea that every IRPA locus (polymorphic fragment of intergenic regions present in one strain but not in other strains or different fragment sizes in other strains) could divide strains into different genotypes.
Campylobacter is regarded as the leading cause of zoonotic diseases and Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) is one of the predominant pathogenic species. To track C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn order to provide more phylogenetic information of Campylobacter coli in large-scale epidemiological investigation, this work was undertaken to develop a novel genotyping method based on amplified intergenic locus polymorphism (AILP), by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE; using SmaI enzymes) as control. Eleven pairs of primers were selected to type C. coli strains for this purpose.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProstate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent malignancies in adult males. However, PCa is resistant to multi-kinase inhibitors-based anti-angiogenic therapies, and the mechanism and effective targeting thereof remains unclear. In this study, single-cell and bulk-transcriptomic datasets analysis revealed that KIAA1199, a hyaluronic acid (HA) binding protein, was involved in glycolysis, hypoxia and angiogenesis pathways.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRabies is an important zoonotic disease caused by the rabies virus (RABV). Currently, no effective treatment is available for this condition. The prevention and control of rabies mainly depend on effective vaccination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: State-of-art non-invasive diagnosis processes for bladder cancer (BLCA) harbour shortcomings such as low sensitivity and specificity, unable to distinguish between high- (HG) and low-grade (LG) tumours, as well as inability to differentiate muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) and non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). This study investigates a comprehensive characterization of the entire DNA methylation (DNAm) landscape of BLCA to determine the relevant biomarkers for the non-invasive diagnosis of BLCA.
Methods: A total of 304 samples from 224 donors were enrolled in this multi-centre, prospective cohort study.
Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is one of the most lethal and aggressive human malignancies, with no effective treatment currently available. The Hippo tumor suppressor pathway is highly conserved in mammals and plays an important role in carcinogenesis. TAZ is one of major key effectors of the Hippo pathway.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Denticleless E3 ubiquitin protein ligase homolog (DTL) has been reported to be an important regulator for tumorigenesis and progression. Nonetheless, the biological functions and molecular mechanisms of DTL in BCa remain elusive.
Methods: We implemented integrative bioinformatics analysis to explore the diagnostic and prognostic values of DTL based on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), ArrayExpress, and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases.