supported in part by the Nanyang Technological University Internal Funding-Synzyme and Natural Products(SYNC, Singapore);the AcRF Tier 3 funding (MOE2016-T3-1-003, Singapore)
Stress and illness connection is complex and involves multiple physiological systems.Panax ginsengs,reputed for their broad-spectrum“cure-all”effect,are widely prescribed to treat stress and related illnesses.Howeve...
In the published article by Zhou et al.,1 two errors were found in Figure 2c and Figure 3a.In Figure 2c,two labels of abscissa“Norm”and“ATZ”were reversed.In Figure 3a,the scale values of abscissa were not consiste...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant numbers 31571248,31430063,and 31871586).
A key event that follows pathogen recognition by a resistance(R)protein containing an NB-ARC(nucleotide-binding adaptor shared by Apaf-1,R proteins,and Ced-4)domain is hypersensitive response(HR)-type cell death accom...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31972218,31501590,and 31601615);the Program for Talents in Qingdao Agricultural University,China(6631114307);the Independent Innovation of Agricultural Sciences in Jiangsu Province,China(CX(18)3012)。
A number of plant pathogenic species of Phytophthora are known to produce different classes of secretory proteins during interactions with their hosts.Although several small cysteine-rich(SCR)secretory proteins,conser...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81600449);the Nantong Science and Technology Bureau(No.MS22018007 and No.MSZ18130);Six Peak Talents in Jiangsu Province(No.YY-177);the Project of Jiangsu Province Youth Medical Talent Development(No.QNRC2016400);the Project of Nantong Youth Medical Talent Development(No.05).
Objective:Primary biliary cholangitis(PBC)is a chronic progressive cholestatic liver disease.In recent years,researchers have found that cysteine-rich angiogenic inducer 61(Cyr61,also known as CCN1)has a potential rol...
Cysteine-rich polycomb-like(CPP)is a small gene family in plants,which plays key role in plant development and stress response.Although CPP transcription factors have been characterized in several other plant species,...
In flowering plants,the two sperm cells are passive cargo transported into the ovule by pollen tubes (Zhang et al.,2017).Therefore,the precise guidance of pollen tubes is critical for successful double fertilization (...
This study was supported-by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No. 2018CFB301, and No. W J2017M099).
Mechanical ventilation (MV) with large tidal volumes can increase lung alveolar permeability and initiate inflammatory responses, resulting in ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). The mechanisms of the injurious...
The authors would like to thank Prof. Chunyan Wang, for her contributions to the samples collection, as well as thank Cheng Yang for his contributions to the figures revision. This study was supported by the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 2014A030313291, No. 2015A030310027 and No. 2016A030310393), the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Program (No. 2014A020212204), and the Science and Technology Innovation Project of Southern Medical University (QD2014N005).
Cysteine-rich secretory protein 2 (CRISP2) is an important protein in spermatozoa that plays roles in modulating sperm flagellar motility, the acrosome reaction, and gamete fusion. Spermatozoa lacking CRISP2 exhibit...
the China National Natural Science Foundation of Young Scientists(No.31201717);Special Foundation for Young Scientists of Jiangsu Province(No.BK2012365);Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Support Project(No.BE2012748).
Various bio-active substances in amphibian skins play important roles in survival of the amphibians.Many protease inhibitor peptides have been identified from amphibian skins,which are supposed to negatively modulate ...