Publications by authors named "Zhi-min Li"

L-cysteine is an essential component in pharmaceutical and agricultural industries, and synthetic biology has made strides in developing new metabolic pathways for its production, particularly in archaea with unique O-phosphoserine sulfhydrylases (OPSS) as key enzymes. In this study, we employed database mining to identify a highly catalytic activity OPSS from Acetobacterium sp. (AsOPSS).

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The von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor protein (VHL), an E3 ubiquitin ligase, functions as a critical regulator of the oxygen-sensing pathway for targeting hypoxia-inducible factors. Recent evidence suggests that mammalian VHL may also be critical to the NF-κB signaling pathway, although the specific molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Herein, the roles of mandarin fish ( ) VHL ( VHL) in the NF-κB signaling pathway and mandarin fish ranavirus (MRV) replication were explored.

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Aesthetic education, conveyed through public art courses, serves as a vital form of humanistic literacy education. It represents an effective approach to fostering innovative and creative thinking among college students. In order to effectively analyze the aesthetic education work of 46 universities, an aesthetic education index evaluation system is constructed, involving indicators including faculty strength, curriculum setting, teaching management, artistic practice, and teaching support.

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Introduction: Rhizoctonia solani Kühn is a pathogen causing rice sheath blight (ShB). Ammonium transporter 1 (AMT1) promotes resistance of rice to ShB by activating ethylene signaling. However, how AMT1 activates ethylene signaling remains unclear.

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Background: Radiotherapy or concurrent chemoradiotherapy is the standard treatment for patients with locally advanced or inoperable cervical squamous cell carcinoma and endocervical adenocarcinoma (CESC). However, treatment failure for CESC patients treated with radical radiotherapy still occurs due to local recurrence and distant metastasis. The previous prediction models were focused on all CESC patients, neglecting the prognostic differences under different treatment modalities.

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ATP-dependent energy-consuming enzymatic reactions are widely used in cell-free biocatalysis. However, the direct addition of large amounts of expensive ATP can greatly increase cost, and enzymatic production is often difficult to achieve as a result. Although a polyphosphate kinase (PPK)-polyphosphate-based ATP regeneration system has the potential to solve this challenge, the generally poor thermal stability of PPKs limits the widespread use of this method.

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The construction and design of pyrotechnics with superior performance is not only a task of great significance but also a tremendous challenge. In this regard, we present the syntheses of novel green primary colors pyrotechnics (red, green, and blue light-generating pyrotechnics) by employing 4-chloro-3,5-dinitropyrazole (CDNP) as a multifunctional raw material. CDNP contains a flame enhancer, oxygen-rich functional group, and nitrogen heterocyclic combustibles, which contribute to the high performance of the pyrotechnics.

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Combining the advantages of energetic heterocycles to achieve high-energy insensitive explosives is a significant challenge. Herein, based on high-energy tetrazole rings and highly stable 1,3,4-oxadiazole rings, a series of novel nitrogen rich energetic compounds 5-9 were successfully constructed. The related compounds were fully characterized by EA, FT-IR, NMR, DSC, and MS, and compounds 6-9 were further confirmed by X-ray single crystal diffraction.

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α-Ketoglutarate decarboxylase is a crucial enzyme in the tricarboxylic acid cycle of cyanobacteria, catalyzing the non-oxidative decarboxylation of α-ketoglutarate to produce succinate semialdehyde and CO. The decarboxylation process is reliant on the cofactor of thiamine diphosphate. However, this enzyme's biochemical and structural properties have not been well characterized.

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To seek new high energetic materials, N-methylene-C-bridged nitrogen-rich heterocycle 1-((4,5-diamino-4-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)methyl)-1-1,2,4-triazol-3,5-diamine (DATMTDA) (2) was first synthesized, and two copper coordination compounds ([Cu(OH)(ClO)(HO)(DATMTDA)](ClO)·12HO (3) and [Cu(OH)(ClO)(DATMTDA)](ClO)(NO) (4)) based on 2 were formed by introducing different anions. These compounds were characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The crystal structures of compounds 3 and 4 are similar and crystallize in monoclinic systems with the 2/ space group, while the central copper atoms show different coordination behaviors.

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The Gannan navel orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck cv. Newhall) is one of the most widely planted citrus fruit cultivars in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China. A Gannan navel orange was harvested from an orchard in Yudu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China, in October 2022 (25.

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Two new species of the genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 are reported from Yunnan Province, China: Pseudopoda mingshengi sp. nov. (male, female) and P.

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The enzyme encoded by gene from sp. PCC6803 was reported to function as -acetylornithine aminotransferase, γ-aminobutyric acid aminotransferase, and ornithine aminotransferase, which played important roles in multiple metabolic pathways. Among these functions, -acetylornithine aminotransferase catalyzes the reversible conversion of -acetylornithine to -acetylglutamate-5-semialdehyde with PLP as cofactor, which is a key step in the arginine biosynthesis pathway.

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DDX41 is an intracellular DNA sensor that evokes type I interferon (IFN-I) production via the adaptor stimulator of interferon gene (STING), triggering innate immune responses against viral infection. However, the regulatory mechanism of the DDX41-STING pathway in teleost fish remains unclear. The mandarin fish () is a cultured freshwater fish species that is popular in China because of its high market value.

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Article Synopsis
  • CircSMARCC1, a type of circular RNA, is found to be significantly increased in prostate cancer (PCa) cells and tissues, playing a critical role in tumor growth and spread.* -
  • The study demonstrated that circSMARCC1 enhances the expression of CCL20 by inhibiting miR-1322, activating the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, and facilitating M2 polarization of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), which contributes to PCa progression.* -
  • High levels of circSMARCC1 correlate with increased infiltration of specific TAMs in the tumor microenvironment, suggesting it promotes tumor progression through interactions between cancer cells and macrophages.*
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Background: Eucommia ulmoides leaf (EUL), as a medicine and food homology plant, is a high-quality industrial raw material with great development potential for a valuable economic crop. There are many factors affecting the quality of EULs, such as different drying methods and regions. Therefore, quality and safety have received worldwide attention, and there is a trend to identify medicinal plants with artificial intelligence technology.

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Exploring novel hypergolic fuels for modern space propulsion is highly desired. However, the analysis and understanding of the structure and hypergolic performance at the molecular level are still insufficient. To understand the factors that dictate hypergolicity, we conducted a comparative study on a series of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) characterized by the same topology but with varied ligand structures.

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is an important medicinal plant in China, but there are some limitations in the ecological suitability study, such as incomplete investigation of species distribution, single regionalization modeling, and lack of collaborative evaluation of ecological suitability, and quality suitability. In this study, the maximum entropy model was used to analyze the ecological suitability of under current and future climates. The multi-source chemical information of samples was collected to evaluate the uniformity between quality and ecology.

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Objective: To explore the efficacy and safety of gemcitabine (GEM) combined with cisplatin (DDP) in the treatment of recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).

Methods: A total of 100 patients with recurrent/metastatic NPC treated in the First Affiliated Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China from January 2018 to March 2020 were retrospectively enrolled. Based on different chemotherapy schemes, they were assigned to an observation (Obs) group (DDP + GEM, n = 55) and a control (Con) group [DDP + FU (fluorouracil), n = 45].

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Hypoxia frequently occurs in aquatic environments, especially in aquaculture areas. However, research on the relationship between hypoxic aquatic environments with viral diseases outbreak is limited, and its underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Herein, we demonstrated that hypoxia directly triggers the outbreak of infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV) disease.

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Background: More and more studies have shown that circular RNAs (circRNAs) play a critical regulatory role in many cancers. However, the potential molecular mechanism of circRNAs in prostate cancer (PCa) remains largely unknown.

Methods: Differentially expressed circRNAs were identified by RNA sequencing.

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Rice () production is damaged to a great extent by sheath blight disease (ShB). However, the defense mechanism in rice against this disease is largely unknown. Previous transcriptome analysis identified a significantly induced eukaryotic () after the inoculation of .

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Exosomes are associated with cancer progression, pregnancy, cardiovascular diseases, central nervous system-related diseases, immune responses and viral pathogenicity. However, study on the role of exosomes in the immune response of teleost fish, especially antiviral immunity, is limited. Herein, serum-derived exosomes from mandarin fish were used to investigate the antiviral effect on the exosomes of teleost fish.

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