CCCH zinc finger proteins contain one to six tandem CCCH motifs composed of three cysteine and one histidine residues and have been widely found in eukaryotes. Plant CCCH proteins control a wide range of developmental and adaptive processes through D...
Zinc-finger proteins, a superfamily of proteins with a typical structural domain that coordinates a zinc ion and binds nucleic acids, participate in the regulation of growth, development, and stress adaptation in plants. Most zinc fingers are C2H2-ty...
Background: CCCH zinc finger proteins (OsC3Hs) are a class of transcriptional regulators that play important roles in plant development and stress responses. Although their functional significance has been widely studied in model species, comprehensi...
The zinc finger proteins make up a significant part of the proteome and perform a huge variety of functions in the cell. The CCCH-type zinc finger proteins have gained attention due to their unusual ability to interact with RNA and thereby control di...
CCCH-type zinc finger proteins play an important role in multiple biotic and abiotic stresses. More and more reports about CCCH functions in plant development and stress responses have appeared over the past few years, focusing especially on tandem C...
CCCH zinc finger proteins play critical roles in plant growth, development and stress responses. Here, 56 CCCH genes were identified in Morus alba. These genes displayed wide variation in coding sequence (456–6318 bp) and protein length (151&nd...
CCCH zinc finger proteins (ZFPs) function mainly as RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and play a central role in the mRNA metabolism. Over twenty seven CCCH-ZFPs are encoded in the genome of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, the causative a...
Chinese cabbage (Brassica campestris) is an economically important leaf vegetable crop worldwide. Mounting studies have shown that cysteine-cysteine-cysteine-histidine (CCCH) zinc-finger protein genes are involved in various plant growth and developm...
The pollen grains produced by flowering plants are vital for sexual reproduction. Previous studies have shown that two CCCH-type zinc-finger protein genes in Brassica campestris, BcMF30a and BcMF30c, are involved in pollen development. Due to their p...
The membrane-less organelles in cytoplasm that are presented as cytoplasmic foci were successively identified. Although multiple CCCH zinc-finger proteins have been found to be localized in cytoplasmic foci, the relationship between their specific lo...
CCCH-type zinc finger proteins (ZFP) are a large family of proteins that play various important roles in plant growth and development; however, the functions of most proteins in this family are uncharacterized. In this study, a CCCH-type ZFP, AaZFP3,...
CCCH zinc finger proteins are members of the zinc finger protein family, and are known to participate in the regulation of development and stress responses via the posttranscriptional regulation of messenger RNA in animals and yeast. However, the mol...
CCCH is a zinc finger family with a typical CCCH-type motif which performs a variety of roles in plant growth and development and responses to environmental stressors. However, the information about this family has not been reported for Osmanthus fra...
Poplar is not only an important woody plant, but also a model species for molecular plant studies. We identified PagGRF11 (pAxG07Gg0005700), a homolog of the Arabidopsis AtGRF1 (AT4G37740) and AtGRF2 (AT2G22840) gene. We transformed the poplar clone...
CCCH zinc finger proteins are a large protein family and are classified as either tandem CCCH zinc finger (TZF) or non-TZF proteins. The roles of TZF genes in several plants have been well determined, whereas the functions of many non-TZF genes in pl...
Despite increasing reports on the function of CCCH zinc finger proteins in plant development and stress response, the functions and molecular aspects of many non-tandem CCCH zinc finger (non-TZF) proteins remain uncharacterized. AtC3H59/ZFWD3 is an A...
The CCCH zinc-finger protein contains a typical C3H-type motif widely existing in plants, and it plays an important role in plant growth, development, and stress responses. In this study, a CCCH zinc-finger gene, GhC3H20, was isolated and thoroughly...
Pitaya (Hylocereus polyrhizus) is cultivated in a broad ecological range, due to its tolerance to drought, heat, and poor soil. The zinc finger proteins regulate gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels, by interacting w...
Salinity causes widespread crop loss and prompts plants to adapt through changes in gene expression. In this study, we aimed to investigate the function of the non-tandem CCCH zinc-finger (non-TZF) protein gene AtC3H3 in response to salt stress in Ar...
Seventeen singlet excited states of ethylene have been calculated via time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) with the CAM-B3LYP functional and the geometries of 11 excited states were optimized successfully. The local vibrational mode theor...
As a class of highly dynamic organelles, lipid droplets (LDs) are involved in numerous physiological functions, and the changes in polarity of LDs are closely related to a variety of diseases. In this work, we developed two polarity-sensitive fluores...
The quest for improved heterogeneous catalysts often leads to sophisticated solutions, which are expensive and tricky to scale up industrially. Herein, the effort to upgrade the existing inorganic nonmetallic materials has seldom been prioritized by...
Cork oak (Quercus suber) is a species native to Mediterranean areas and its adaptation to the increasingly prevalent abiotic stresses, such as soil salinization, remain unknown. In sequence with recent studies on salt stress response in the leaf, it...
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in women globally. Chemotherapies, targeted therapies, and immunotherapies in the treatment of cervical cancer are usually accompanied by effective and adverse effects. Therefore, finding other eff...
Arginine-rich Tandem Zinc Finger (RR-TZF) proteins make up a plant-specific superfamily that participates in plant development, while their roles in cotton fiber development remain to be explored. In this study, we identified an RR-TZF protein-coding...
Changes in physical properties of (H2C=C(CH3)CO2CH2CH2NH3)2PbI2Cl2 and (H2C=C(CH3)CO2CH2CH2NH3)2Pb(NO3)2Cl2 (2D) perovskite materials from iodide-based (I-AMP) and nitrate-based (N-AMP) leads were investigated at different durations (days) for variou...
Monocyte chemotactic protein induced protein 3 (MCPIP3) belongs to the Cys–Cys–Cys–His (CCCH)-zinc finger protein family and contains a highly conserved CCCH-zinc finger domain and a Nedd4-BP1 YacP nuclease (NYN) domain. Previous st...
Novel 10-, 15-, and 20-membered oxygen-containing macrocyclic cobalt complexes (3, 4, and 5 respectively) were obtained in moderate combined yield via double nucleophilic substitution of the hexacarbonyldicobalt-coordinated monoyne diol [{Co2(CO)6(μ-...
Ubiquitination is an important environmental stress response, and E3 ubiquitin ligases play a major role in the process. T-DNA insertion mutants of rice, Oscbe1-1, and Oscbe1-2, were identified through the screening of cold stress tolerance at seedli...
The introduction of a switchable function into the structure of a bioactive compound can endow it with unique capabilities for regulating biological activity under the influence of various types of external stimuli, which makes such hybrid compounds...
In the present study, the surface of non-woven polypropylene (NW-PP) fabric was modified to form CN layers using a modified DC-pulsed (frequency: 60 kHz, pulse shape: square) sputtering with a roll-to-roll system. After plasma modification, structura...
The human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) terminase complex is part of DNA-packaging machinery that delivers a unit-length genome into a procapsid. Sequence comparison of herpesvirus homologs allowed us to identify a potential LATLNDIERFL and zinc finger patt...
Vernalization is the process of exposure to low temperatures, which is crucial for the transition from vegetative to reproductive growth of plants. In this study, the global landscape vernalization-related mRNAs and long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) were...
In this contribution, two novel supported and non-supported ruthenium(II) complexes of type [RuCl2(dppme)(NN)] where [dppme is H2C=C(CH2PPh2)2 and NN is N1-(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl)ethane-1,2-diamine] were prepared. The NN co-ligand caused release...
A recombinant Ross River virus (RRV) that contains the fluorescent protein mCherry fused to the non-structural protein 3 (nsP3) was constructed, which allowed real-time imaging of viral replication. RRV-mCherry contained either the natural opal stop...
The aim of this study was to assess the possibility of managing the waste resulting from the corn grain drying process as a biofuel characterized by low energy consumption in the compaction process and to evaluate the quality of the pellets made of t...
This paper presents the results of the evaluation of the energy potential of waste from the process of drying corn grain in the form of corn cobs, damaged grains, corn grain husks, and mixtures of starting materials. A technical and elementary analys...
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of nickel–phosphine complexes, specifically Ni(PH3)2(OCCH2), Ni(PH3)2(H2CCO), Ni(PH3)2(H2CCCH2), Ni(PH3)2(NNCH2), and Ni(PH3)2(η1-H2CNN). Utilizing ETS-NOCV analysis, we explored orbital energy d...
The aging properties of phenol-formaldehyde resin modified by bio-oil (BPF) were analyzed using ultraviolet (UV) weathering. The variations on bonding strength of BPF were measured, and the changes on microstructure, atomic composition and chemical s...
Transcription factors containing a CCCH structure (C3H) play important roles in plant growth and development, and their stress response, but research on the C3H gene family in potato has not been reported yet. In this study, we used bioinformatics to...
The CCCH-type zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) in humans, specifically isoforms ZAP-L and ZAP-S, is a crucial component of the cell’s intrinsic immune response. ZAP acts as a post-transcriptional RNA restriction factor, exhibiting its activi...
The zinc finger protein (ZFP) family is one of plants’ most diverse family of transcription factors. These proteins with finger-like structural domains have been shown to play a critical role in plant responses to abiotic stresses such as droug...
ZRSR2 (zinc finger CCCH-type, RNA binding motif and serine/arginine rich 2) is an essential splicing factor involved in 3′ splice-site recognition as a component of both the major and minor spliceosomes that mediate the splicing of U2-type (maj...
Blossom end enlargement (BEE) is a postharvest deformation that may be related to the influx of photosynthetic assimilates before harvest. To elucidate the mechanism by which BEE occurs, expression marker genes that indicate the physiological conditi...
To date, nickel(II) complexes have not been practically investigated as catalysts in ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of lactide to produce biodegradable poly(lactic acid), which is in demand in biomedicine and industry. In this study, carboxylate c...
Drought and heat are two major stresses predicted to increase in the future due to climate change. Plants exposed to multiple stressors elicit unique responses from those observed under individual stresses. A comparative transcriptome analysis of Lol...
Cold stress is an important factor affecting cattle health, production performance, and reproductive efficiency. Understanding of the potential mechanism underlying genetic adaptation to local environments, particularly extreme cold environment, is l...
Hot pepper is one of the economically important crops in Asia. A large number of gene sequences, including expressed sequence tag (EST) and genomic sequences are publicly available. However, it is still a daunting task to determine gene function due...
Molecular structural disparities between maceral components are intrinsic factors governing their reactivity and physicochemical behaviors during storage and transportation. To investigate the molecular structural differentiation between vitrain and...
In the Arctic zone, where up to 1024 × 1013 kg of organic matter is stored in permafrost-affected soils, soil organic matter consists of about 50% humic substances. Based on the analysis of the molecular composition of humic acids, we assessed the pr...
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