This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health[Grant R15GM131390 to X.W.,Grant R01CA245294 to M.Z.,and Grant R01AI116610 to K.P.]。
The emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacteria limits the availability of antibiotic choices for treatment and infection control,thereby representing a major threat to human health.The de novo mutation of bacteria...
financial support from Science Foundation Ireland[grant number SFI/12/RC/2273_P2]and Wellcome Trust under a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship[220646/Z/20/Z](A.N.S.);whole,or in part,by the Wellcome Trust[220646/Z/20/Z].
Horizontal gene transfer(HGT)in the microbiome has profound consequences for human health and disease.The spread of antibiotic resistance genes,virulence,and pathogenicity determinants predominantly occurs by way of H...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31470539 and U1805244);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP)(No.2019QZKK0503);the 9th China-Croatia Science and Technology cooperation committee program(No.9–21);supported by the China Scholarship Council(No.201804910668)。
Rapid urbanization has resulted in pervasive occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes(ARGs)in urban aquatic ecosystems.However,limited information is available concerning the ARG profiles and the forces responsible f...
the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant no.2018YFC1406903);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant nos.91851201 and 41476171).
Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria(AAPB)are photoheterotrophic prokaryotes able to use both light and dissolved organic matter as energy sources.Roseicitreum antarcticum ZS2-28^(T)was isolated from intertidal se...
Research in the authors’laboratories was supported in part by research grants from the National Institutes of Health(AT004418,DE020140 to TCH and RRR);the US Department of Defense(OR130096 to JMW);the Scoliosis Research Society(TCH and MJL);the 973 Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology(MOST)of China(#2011CB707906 to TCH);The reported work was also supported in part by The University of Chicago Cancer Center Support Grant(P30CA014599);the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health through Grant Number UL1 TR000430.
With rapid advances in understanding molecular pathogenesis of human diseases in the era of genome sciences and systems biology,it is anticipated that increasing numbers of therapeutic genes or targets will become ava...
supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(2011CB965203)
Safe and efficient gene transfer systems are the basis of gene therapy applications. Non-integrating lentiviral(NIL) vectors are among the most promising candidates for gene transfer tools, because they exhibit high t...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81070735)
AIM: To evaluate the effects of lentivirus-mediated pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) gene transfer performed in treatment of rats with established choroidal neovascularization (CNV), and investigates the mecha...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation(No.30572011);Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2010HQ041)
AIM: To transfect the cat corneal endothelial cells (CECs) with recombinant human β-nerve growth factor gene adeno-associated virus (AAV-β-NGF) and to observe the effect of the expressed β-NGF protein on the p...
supported by the National Transgenic Breeding Project (2014ZX08007-002)
In the present study, follistatin(FST) gene expression vectors with either a bicistronic gene transfer cassette alone, or a bicistron gene cassette carrying a matrix attachment region(MAR) were constructed and transfe...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2011CB965203)to Yue Huang
Activation of B-cells is initiated by the ligation of B-cell receptors by its cognate antigen, inducing a series of signal cascades. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of these important events is a crucial goal f...