1.A Preliminary Study on the Formulation of Prescriptions of Dermatological Preparations for External Use
Rong XIAO ; Liping LUO ; Yuansheng XIAO
China Pharmacy 1991;0(02):-
The therapeutic effects of dermatological preparations for external use are not only dependent on its peculiar pharmacological action of the basis but also closely related to many factors, such as drug concentrations, types of preparation, excipients etc. On the basis of extensively reading the relevant literatures and of author's practical experiences, the above affected faetors were discussed preliminarily.
2.Compositional Variability and MutationSpectra of Monophyletic SARS-CoV-2 Clades
Teng XUFEI ; Li QIANPENG ; Li ZHAO ; Zhang YUANSHENG ; Niu GUANGYI ; Xiao JINGFA ; Yu JUN ; Zhang ZHANG ; Song SHUHUI
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics 2020;18(6):648-663
COVID-19 and its causative pathogen SARS-CoV-2 have rushed the world into a stag-gering pandemic in a few months, and a global fight against both has been intensifying. Here, we describe an analysis procedure where genome composition and its variables are related, through the genetic code to molecular mechanisms, based on understanding of RNA replication and its feed-back loop from mutation to viral proteome sequence fraternity including effective sites on the replicase-transcriptase complex. Our analysis starts with primary sequence information, identity-based phylogeny based on 22,051 SARS-CoV-2 sequences, and evaluation of sequence variation patterns as mutation spectra and its 12 permutations among organized clades. All are tailored to two key mechanisms: strand-biased and function-associated mutations. Our findings are listed as follows: 1) The most dominant mutation is C-to-U permutation, whose abundant second-codon-position counts alter amino acid composition toward higher molecular weight and lower hydropho-bicity, albeit assumed most slightly deleterious. 2) The second abundance group includes three negative-strand mutations (U-to-C, A-to-G, and G-to-A) and a positive-strand mutation (G-to-U) due to DNA repair mechanisms after cellular abasic events. 3) A clade-associated biased muta-tion trend is found attributable to elevated level of negative-sense strand synthesis. 4) Within-clade permutation variation is very informative for associating non-synonymous mutations and viral pro-teome changes. These findings demand a platform where emerging mutations are mapped onto mostly subtle but fast-adjusting viral proteomes and transcriptomes, to provide biological and clinical information after logical convergence for effective pharmaceutical and diagnostic applica-tions. Such actions are in desperate need, especially in the middle of the War against COVID-19.