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Biochem Biophys Res Commun
January 2025
Office for West China Institute of Women and Children's Health, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610021, China. Electronic address:
Angiogenesis significantly drives tumor progression, and the functions of vascular endothelial cells are influenced by various factors. Tumor cells are characterized by abnormal sialylation, and their dynamic balance depends on sialyltransferases and sialidases. NEU3 is a plasma membrane-associated sialidase, vital for the regulation of cell surface sialylation.
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December 2024
The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Unlabelled: Understanding how immune history influences influenza immunity is essential for developing effective vaccines and therapeutic strategies. This study examines the antigenic imprinting of influenza hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) using a mouse model with sequential infections by H1N1 virus strains exhibiting substantial antigenic differences in HA. In our pre-2009 influenza infection model, we observed that mice with more extensive infection histories produced higher levels of functional NA-inhibiting antibodies (NAI).
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November 2024
Virology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
Background: To discover effective drugs for treating Influenza (a disease with high annual mortality), large amounts of recombinant neuraminidase (NA) with suitable catalytic activity are needed. However, the functional activity of the full-length form of this enzyme in the bacterial host (as producing cells with a low cost) in a soluble form is limited. Thus, in the present study, a truncated form of the neuraminidase (derived from California H1N1 influenza strain) was designed, then biosynthesized in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3), Shuffle T7, and SILEX systems.
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November 2024
Department of Ecology and Evolution, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Background: For antigenically variable pathogens such as influenza, strain fitness is partly determined by the relative availability of hosts susceptible to infection with that strain compared with others. Antibodies to the hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) confer substantial protection against influenza infection. We asked if a cross-sectional antibody-derived estimate of population susceptibility to different clades of influenza A (H3N2) could predict the success of clades in the following season.
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January 2025
Departamento de Biología Celular, Genética y Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain.
In acute neuroinflammation, microglia activate transiently, and return to a resting state later on. However, they may retain immune memory of such event, namely priming. Primed microglia are more sensitive to new stimuli and develop exacerbated responses, representing a risk factor for neurological disorders with an inflammatory component.
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