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The pH value of liquid fertilizer is a key factor affecting crop growth, so it is necessary to regulate its pH value. However, the pH regulation system has the characteristics of nonlinearity and time lag, which makes it difficult for the conventiona...

Tea plant trichomes not only contribute to the unique flavor and high quality of tea products but also provide physical and biochemical defenses for tea plants. Transcription factors play crucial roles in regulating plant trichome formation. However,...

The mechanistic/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) plays a master role in cell proliferation and growth in response to insulin, amino acids, energy levels, and oxygen. mTOR can coordinate upstream signals with downstream effectors, including transc...

With the intensification of global environmental pollution and the energy crisis, the new energy EV industry is developing rapidly, and FWID-EV is a popular direction for future vehicle development. For the sake of improving the swing regulate steadi...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disease influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Recent insights have underscored the pivotal role of epigenetic regulation in the pathogenesis and heterogeneity of asthma. This review focuses on k...

Background/Objectives: The membrane protein a disintegrin and metalloproteases (ADAMs) are highly expressed in various human carcinomas and play an important role in cancer characteristics. And among these, ADAM32 is highly expressed in hepatoblastom...

The power unit generates heat during the operation of a ship, and excessive temperature may cause damage to equipment. Therefore, it is necessary to design a cooling system for the multi-working conditions and variable working conditions of a ship to...

(1) Background: Epigenetic mechanisms play a significant role in plant architecture. Histone deacetylases, as crucial epigenetic regulators, shape plant architecture by modifying chromatin structure and regulating gene expression. (2) Methods: This s...

The co-chaperone HspBP1 interacts with members of the hsp70 family, but also provides chaperone-independent functions. We report here novel biological properties of HspBP1 that are relevant to the formation of cytoplasmic stress granules (SGs). SG as...

To enhance the stability and disturbance rejection of wireless charging systems for electric vehicles, we designed a bilateral collaborative control strategy based on BP neural networks, achieving closed-loop constant voltage control for the secondar...

Besides transcription, RNA decay accounts for a large proportion of regulated gene expression and is paramount for cellular functions. Classical RNA surveillance pathways, like nonsense-mediated decay (NMD), are also implicated in the turnover of non...

Tomatoes are annual herbaceous plants of the family Solanaceae. They have very stringent requirements for their growing environment and climate conditions. To precisely control the greenhouse environment for tomato growth, this project designed and i...

The cardiac myosin binding protein-C (cMyBP-C) regulates cross-bridge formation and controls the duration of systole and diastole at the whole heart level. As known, mutations in cMyBP-C increase the cross-bridge number and rate of their cycling, hyp...

SETD8 is a histone methyltransferase that plays pivotal roles in several cellular functions, including transcriptional regulation, cell cycle progression, and genome maintenance. SETD8 regulates the recruitment of 53BP1 to sites of DNA damage by cont...

Microglia, the resident macrophages of the central nervous system, exhibit altered gene expression in response to various neurological conditions. This study investigates the relationship between West Nile Virus infection and microglial senescence, f...

Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is a significant pathogen responsible for porcine circovirus-associated diseases (PCVAD), and it is widely prevalent in pig farms, leading to huge economic losses for the pig industry. Currently, the ability of PCV2 t...

MiRNAs have been found to be involved in the regulation of ovarian function as important post-transcriptional regulators, including regulators of follicular development, steroidogenesis, cell atresia, and even the development of ovarian cancer. In th...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common progressive neurodegenerative disorder, affecting an increasing number of older adults. Despite extensive research, a definitive cure remains elusive. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. leaves (EUOL) have...

The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of bisphenol (BP) exposure on pregnancy and neonatal life. We have (a) determined BP (BPA and BPS) concentration levels in a group of newborns and their mothers; (b) identified factors, habits, a...

Expression of miRNAs in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (NEN) is poorly characterized. We therefore wanted to examine the miRNA expression in Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs), and identify their targets and importance in NET carcinogenesis. miRNA expression in...

The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system is a dynamic network of proteins, which includes cognate ligands, membrane receptors, ligand binding proteins and functional downstream effectors. It plays a critical role in regulating several important ph...

Hypertension (HT) is considered to be a potential risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and has been directly related to pathologies such as obesity and dyslipidemias. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) blocked the renin-angiotensin-a...

In order to solve the problem of insufficient end positioning accuracy due to factors such as gravity and material strength during the inverse solution process of a large hydraulic robotic arm, this paper proposes an inverse solution algorithm based...

The post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression plays an important role in heart development and disease. Cardiac-specific alternative splicing, mediated by RNA-binding proteins, orchestrates the isoform switching of proteins that are essentia...

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are known to be one of the factors that make cancer treatment difficult. Many researchers are thus conducting research to efficiently destroy CSCs. Therefore, we sought to suggest a new target that can efficiently suppress CS...

The GLABROUS1 Enhancer Binding Protein (GeBP) gene family is pivotal in regulating plant growth, development, and stress responses. However, the role of GeBP in Brassica rapa remains unclear. This study identifies 20 BrGeBP genes distributed across 6...

The BMP7 gene is involved in the growth and development of hair follicles but its regulation mechanism is unclear. We studied the regulation mechanism of the BMP7 promoter by cloning the proximal promoter of BMP7 for bioinformatics analysis. A series...

Insecure attachment and difficulties in regulating anger have both been put forward as possible explanations for emotional dysfunction in borderline personality (BP). This study aimed to test a model according to which the influence of attachment on...

Gene expression profiles are powerful tools for investigating mechanisms of plant stress tolerance. Betula platyphylla (birch) is a widely distributed tree, but its drought-tolerance mechanism has been little studied. Using RNA-Seq, we identified 291...

Phytochrome-interacting factors (PIFs) are transcription factors with the basic helix–loop–helix (bHLH) domain. As integration factors between different signal pathways, members of the PIF protein family regulate many aspects of plant gro...

ZIP (zinc-regulated transporters, iron-regulated transporter-like protein) family plays an important role in organism Zn balance. This research identified the promoter regions of ZIP3 and ZIP8, two members of ZIP family, from a freshwater teleost yel...

Zip family proteins are involved in the control of zinc (Zn) ion homeostasis. The present study cloned the promoters and investigated the transcription responses and protein subcellular localizations of three LIV-1 subfamily members (zip10, zip13, an...

It is important to explore the regulatory mechanism of phosphorus homeostasis in fish, which help avoid the risk of P toxicity and prevent P pollution in aquatic environment. The present study obtained the full-length cDNA sequences and the promoters...

Research Highlights: This study identified the cell cycle genes in birch that likely play important roles during the plant’s growth and development. This analysis provides a basis for understanding the regulatory mechanism of various cell cycle...

The CUP-SHAPED COTYLEDON 2 (CUC2) gene, which is negatively regulated by microRNA164 (miR164), has been specifically linked to the regulation of leaf margin serration and the maintenance of phyllotaxy in model plants. However, few studies have invest...

L-type voltage-gated Ca2+ channels (CaV1.2 and CaV1.3, called CaV) interact with the Ca2+ sensor proteins, calmodulin (CaM) and Ca2+ binding Protein 1 (CaBP1), that oppositely control Ca2+-dependent channel activity. CaM and CaBP1 can each bind to th...

Intracellular calcium ion content is tightly regulated for the maintenance of cellular functions and cell survival. Calbindin-D9k (CaBP-9k) is responsible for regulating the distribution of cytosolic free-calcium ions. In this study, we aimed to inve...

Translation initiation in eukaryotes is regulated at several steps, one of which involves the availability of the cap binding protein to participate in cap-dependent protein synthesis. Binding of eIF4E to translational repressors (eIF4E-binding prote...

NACs (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC2) are plant-specific transcription factors that play diverse roles in various plant developmental processes. In this study, we identified the NAC gene family in birch (Betula pendula) and further analyzed the function of B...

Myosin binding protein C (MyBP-C) is a multi-domain protein that participates in the regulation of muscle contraction through dynamic interactions with actin and myosin. Three primary isoforms of MyBP-C exist: cardiac (cMyBP-C), fast skeletal (fsMyBP...

Taraxacum kok-saghyz is a model species for studying natural rubber biosynthesis because its root can produce high-quality rubber. Small rubber particle protein (SRPP), a stress-related gene to multiple stress responses, involves in natural rubber bi...

Human epidemiological studies have statistically localized a multitude of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for blood pressure (BP). However, their potential pathogenic mechanisms causing hypertension remain mysterious. To fill this void, we utilized co...

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) regulators play an important role in multiple biological and pathological processes of radioiodine refractory papillary thyroid cancer (RR-PTC). However, the function of m6A regulators in differentiation of RR-PTC remains unc...

Calbindin-D9k (CaBP-9k) binds calcium with high affinity and regulates the distribution of free calcium in the cytoplasm. The expression of CaBP-9k is detected primarily in intestine that is vitamin D target tissue, and accumulates in the enterocytes...

The GLABROUS1 enhancer-binding protein (GeBP) gene family encodes a typical transcription factor containing a noncanonical Leucine (Leu-)-zipper motif that plays an essential role in regulating plant growth and development, as well as responding to v...

The GLABROUS1 enhancer-binding protein (GeBP) gene family, a plant-specific class of transcriptional regulators, is involved in multiple biological processes, including the formation of trichomes, plant growth, and environmental adaptation. However,...

The rubber elongation factor (REF) is the most abundant protein in the latex of Hevea brasiliensis, which is closely related to natural rubber biosynthesis. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the transcriptional regulation mechanism of HbREF1...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related fatalities globally, related to inflammatory and gut microbiota imbalance. Brassica rapa L. polysaccharide (BP) is a functional compound, which is utilized by the gut microbiota to regulate immunity...

Adrenergic receptors (AR) play a vital role in cardiovascular system regulation. The ADRB2 gene, encoding the β2-AR receptor, has genetic variability potentially impacting blood pressure (BP) regulation. Evidence for such associations has been i...

Natural soluble antagonist and decoy receptor on the surface of the cell membrane are evolving as crucial immune system regulators as these molecules are capable of recognizing, binding, and neutralizing (so-called inhibitors) their targeted ligands....