细胞间线粒体转运的研究进展

线粒体是真核生物能量代谢的重要细胞器,是细胞进行氧化磷酸化生成ATP的主要场所.他参与完成细胞能量代谢、维持离子浓度梯度、传递细胞凋亡信号等生理功能.阿尔茨海默病、帕金森病、心肌梗塞等疾病与线粒体功能异常相关.近年来发现,由创伤或炎症造成脑、心脏、肺缺氧时在细胞间会发生线粒体转移.线粒体转移,作为一种进化上保守的现象可能与神经降解、心血管疾病等相关.     

Progranulin: A conductor of receptors orchestra,a chaperone of lysosomal enzymes and a therapeutic target for multiple diseases

Progranulin (PGRN), a widely expressed glycoprotein with pleiotropic function, has been linked to a host of physiological processes and diverse pathological states. A series of contemporary preclinical disease models and clinical trials have evaluated various therapeutic strategies targeting PGRN, highlighting PGRN as a promising therapeutic target. Herein we summarize available knowledge of PGRN targeting in various kinds of diseases, including common neurological diseases, inflammatory autoimmune diseases, cancer, tissue repair, and rare lysosomal storage diseases, with a focus on the functional domain-oriented drug development strategies. In particular, we emphasize the role of extracellular PGRN as a non-conventional, extracellular matrix bound, growth factor-like conductor orchestrating multiple membrane receptors and intracellular PGRN as a chaperone/co-chaperone that mediates the folding and traffic of its various binding partners.     

非洲猪瘟研究进展

非洲猪瘟是由非洲猪瘟病毒感染家猪或野猪后引发的一种急性、烈性传染病,主要通过病猪及其周围环境传播,蜱是中间宿主。1921年该病首次暴发于非洲肯尼亚,2018年8月传入我国,目前已有24个省级行政区发生疫情。非洲猪瘟病毒主要经呼吸道和消化道进入猪体内,感染靶细胞主要是单核-巨噬细胞,目前受体还不明确。非洲猪瘟病毒是单分子双链DNA病毒,长度为170~190kb,编码150~200种蛋白,包括多种免疫调控蛋白,可以抵抗机体免疫。非洲猪瘟病毒疫苗研究较多,包括灭活疫苗、减毒疫苗、亚单位疫苗和基因疫苗等,但迄今这些疫苗都不能保护家猪免受非洲猪瘟病毒感染。今后需要对非洲猪瘟病毒及其发病机制做详细系统的研究,为开发有效防治方案提供资料。     

微生态制剂防治儿童感染性腹泻的有效性评价

目的对微生态制剂防治儿童感染性腹泻的有效性和安全性进行分析研究。方法选取2017年3月到2018年3月间我院收治的132例感染性腹泻患儿为研究对象,依据随机数字表法分为对照组(n=66)与观察组(n=66)。对照组患儿施以常规药物防治,观察组患儿应用益生菌进行防治。对两组患儿的治疗效果、腹泻持续时间、治疗后病情、血常规与肝功能情况进行比较分析。结果观察组患儿治疗总有效率(96.97%)明显高于对照组(86.36%)。观察组患儿腹泻持续时间为(2.41±1.08)d,明显少于对照组的(3.67±1.89)d。观察组患儿治疗3 d后腹泻频率≤2次/d的发生率为24.24%,低于对照组的60.61%。观察组患儿治疗后脱水发生率为3.03%,低于对照组的22.73%。观察组患儿血常规与肝功能水平明显高于对照组,差异均有统计学意义(P0.05)。结论在儿童感染性腹泻中应用微生态制剂有助于提高治疗效果,缩短腹泻持续时间,促进大便恢复正常,且具有较高的安全性,可有效促进患儿康复。     

微生态制剂在胃肠道疾病中的临床应用

微生态制剂(microbial ecological agents, MEA)是利用益生菌及其代谢产物而制成的一种药物制剂。MEA主要是通过补充有益的微生物来重建人体肠道内的菌群平衡,以治疗多种胃肠道疾病。现就近年来MEA在胃肠道中的作用机制,以及在防治炎症性肠病、与抗生素相关的腹泻、幽门螺杆菌感染和慢性肝病等疾病中的临床应用作一概述,为更好地开发和利用MEA治疗疾病奠定基础。     

Impact of deforestation on the abundance,diversity, and richness of Culex mosquitoes in a southwest Cameroon tropical rainforest

Deforestation is a major threat to biodiversity but little data exist on how deforestation in real‐time affects the overall mosquito species community despite its known role in the transmission of diseases. We compared the abundance and diversity of Culex mosquitoes before and after deforestation along a gradient of three different anthropogenic disturbance levels in a tropical rainforest in southwestern Cameroon. The collections were conducted in unlogged forest (January, 2016), selectively logged forest (January, 2017), and within a young palm plantation (October, 2017) using net traps, sweep nets, resting traps, and dipping for immature stages in water bodies. Mosquitoes were morphologically identified to subspecies, groups, and species. A total of 2,556 mosquitoes was collected of which 1,663 (65.06%) belong to the genus Culex, (n=427 (25.68%) in the unlogged forest; n=900 (54.12%) in the selectively logged forest; and n=336 (20.2%) in the young palm plantation) with a significant difference among the habitats. Diversity and richness of mosquitoes varied significantly among habitats with the highest values found in the selectively logged forest (H=2.4; DS=0.87; S=33) and the lowest value in the unlogged forest (H=1.37; DS=0.68; S=13). The results of this study showed that deforestation affects the abundance and diversity of Culex mosquitoes and favors the invasion of anthropophilic mosquitoes. Higher mosquito abundance and diversity in the selectively logged forest than in the pristine forest is notable and some explanations for these differences are discussed.     

Driving Precision Medicine through Proteomics and Metabolomics - 12th Central and Eastern European Proteomic Conference (CEEPC), Bucharest,Romania

As Romanians prepared to celebrate 100 years of the '‘Great Unification of 1918?' which united all provinces into one Romania, the 12^th Central and Eastern European Proteomic Conference (CEEPC) jointly with the 39^th Anniversary of the Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology '‘N. Simionescu’' (ICBP-NS), held their inaugural meeting at the Romanian Academy in Bucharest – a national forum of highest scientific recognition. With an exciting theme entitled, ‘Advances in Proteomics and Progress in Precision Medicine’, delegates gathered to debate Precision medicine’s revolution in diagnosis and treatment, which now accounts for predictive, preventative, and targeted treatment strategies with informed decisions according to individual’s unique clinical, molecular and genetic profile. Proteomics has a pivotal role to play in furthering precision health and medicine for the benefit of mankind. To this end, CEEPC continues to drive advances in proteomics, metabolomics, and diseases as well as raising awareness of pressing global humanitarian and health-care issues including mental health diseases, aging, chronic diseases, global epidemics and environmental issues. Today, CEEPC is a well-recognized major annual conference with a focused vision and a highly valued ideology as it continues to propagate scientific, medical and proteomic collaborations whilst expanding as more Eastern European countries prepare to join.     

Cold chain and virus‐free oral polio booster vaccine made in lettuce chloroplasts confers protection against all three poliovirus serotypes

To prevent vaccine‐associated paralytic poliomyelitis, WHO recommended withdrawal of Oral Polio Vaccine (Serotype‐2) and a single dose of Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine (IPV). IPV however is expensive, requires cold chain, injections and offers limited intestinal mucosal immunity, essential to prevent polio reinfection in countries with open sewer system. To date, there is no virus‐free and cold chain‐free polio vaccine capable of inducing robust mucosal immunity. We report here a novel low‐cost, cold chain/poliovirus‐free, booster vaccine using poliovirus capsid protein (VP1, conserved in all serotypes) fused with cholera non‐toxic B subunit (CTB) expressed in lettuce chloroplasts. PCR using unique primer sets confirmed site‐specific integration of CTB‐VP1 transgene cassettes. Absence of the native chloroplast genome in Southern blots confirmed homoplasmy. Codon optimization of the VP1 coding sequence enhanced its expression 9–15‐fold in chloroplasts. GM1‐ganglioside receptor‐binding ELISA confirmed pentamer assembly of CTB‐VP1 fusion protein, fulfilling a key requirement for oral antigen delivery through gut epithelium. Transmission Electron Microscope images and hydrodynamic radius analysis confirmed VP1‐VLPs of 22.3 nm size. Mice primed with IPV and boosted three times with lyophilized plant cells expressing CTB‐VP1co, formulated with plant‐derived oral adjuvants, enhanced VP1‐specific IgG1, VP1‐IgA titres and neutralization (80%–100% seropositivity of Sabin‐1, 2, 3). In contrast, IPV single dose resulted in <50% VP1‐IgG1 and negligible VP1‐IgA titres, poor neutralization and seropositivity (<20%, <40% Sabin 1,2). Mice orally boosted with CTB‐VP1co, without IPV priming, failed to produce any protective neutralizing antibody. Because global population is receiving IPV single dose, booster vaccine free of poliovirus or cold chain offers a timely low‐cost solution to eradicate polio.     

Domain-specific Quantification of Prion Protein in Cerebrospinal Fluid by Targeted Mass Spectrometry

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Highlights

• •Targeted mass spectrometry assay to quantify prion protein (PrP) in spinal fluid.
• •Precise measurement of PrP peptide concentration across protein domains.
• •Peptides are uniformly decreased in symptomatic prion disease patients.
• •Assay applicable to humans and preclinical species for drug development.

     

Quantitative Microproteomics Based Characterization of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System of a Mouse Model of Krabbe Disease

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• •Quantitative microproteomics to study the CNS and PNS of the Twitcher mouse.
• •10plex TMT experiments on corpus callosum, motor cortex and sciatic nerves extracts.
• •More than 400 proteins groups deregulated between Twitcher and wildtype mice.
• •New insights into the molecular mechanisms of Krabbe disease.