1.Ginkgo biloba extract down-regulates TLR4/NLRP3 signaling to protect airway inflammation in COPD rats
Ying Pan ; Xueni Mo ; Gerui Wang ; Yuqing Feng ; Fang Xie ; Meiling Mao ; Tingting Wei ; Jing Xiang ; Lianjian Huang ; Fanbo Wei ; Yibao Yang
Acta Universitatis Medicinalis Anhui 2025;60(10):1833-1838
Objective:
To explore the regulatory effects of ginkgo biloba extract on airway inflammatory injury and Toll⁃like receptor 4(TLR4)/nucleotide⁃binding oligomerization domain⁃containing 3(NLRP3) pathway in rats with vided into four groups : the normal control group ,
Methods:
Thirty⁃six male SD rats were selected and randomly divided into four groups : the normal control group , the model group , the prednisone treatment group , and the ginkgo biloba extract treatment group , with 9 rats in each group. Except for the normal control group , the COPD rat mod⁃els in the other groups was constructed by intratracheal instillation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) combined with ciga⁃rette smoke exposure. After successful modeling , the rats were continuously administered drugs for 12 weeks , fol⁃lowed by sampling. The general conditions and respiratory symptoms of the rats were observed. The pathological changes of lung tissues were observed by hematoxylin⁃eosin (HE) staining technique ; the mRNA and protein ex⁃pression levels of TLR4 , tumor necrosis factor⁃α (TNF⁃α ) , interleukin⁃1β (IL⁃1β) and NLRP3 in rat lung tissueswere detected by real⁃time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT⁃qPCR) and Western blot.
Results:
Com⁃pared with the normal control group , the lung tissues of rats in the model group were significantly damaged , and the protein and mRNA expression of TLR4 , TNF⁃α , IL⁃1β , and NLRP3 increased ( P < 0. 05 ) . Compared with the model group , lung tissue damage was reduced in the prednisone group and the ginkgo biloba extract group , and TLR4 , TNF⁃α , IL⁃1β , NLRP3 protein and mRNA expression decreased (P < 0. 05) .
Conclusion
Ginkgo biloba airway inflammatory response by inhibiting the TLR4/NLRP3 signaling pathway.
2.Progress in the application of deep learning in prognostic models for non-small cell lung cancer
Ruikang ZHONG ; Jinghua LI ; Ximing LIN ; Xueni FANG ; Kaiwen HU ; Tian ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2024;31(09):1345-1350
Non-small cell lung cancer is one of the cancers with the highest incidence and mortality rate in the world, and precise prognostic models can guide clinical treatment plans. With the continuous upgrading of computer technology, deep learning as a breakthrough technology of artificial intelligence has shown good performance and great potential in the application of non-small cell lung cancer prognosis model. The research on the application of deep learning in survival and recurrence prediction, efficacy prediction, distant metastasis prediction, and complication prediction of non-small cell lung cancer has made some progress, and it shows a trend of multi-omics and multi-modal joint, but there are still shortcomings, which should be further explored in the future to strengthen model verification and solve practical problems in clinical practice.
3.Talaketides A-G,linear polyketides with prostate cancer cytotoxic activity from the mangrove sediment-derived fungus Talaromyces sp.SCSIO 41027
Chunmei CHEN ; Xueni WANG ; Wenxuan FANG ; Jiaqi LIANG ; Jian CAI ; Dehua YANG ; Xiaowei LUO ; Chenghai GAO ; Xiangxi YI ; Yonghong LIU ; Xuefeng ZHOU
Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines (English Ed.) 2024;22(11):1047-1056
Seven novel linear polyketides,talaketides A-G(1-7),were isolated from the rice media cultures of the mangrove sed-iment-derived fungus Talaromyces sp.SCSIO 41027.Among these,talaketides A-E(1-5)represented unprecedented unsaturated lin-ear polyketides with an epoxy ring structure.The structures,including absolute configurations of these compounds,were elucidated through detailed analyses of nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR)and high-resolution mass spectrometry(HR-MS)data,as well as elec-tronic custom distributors(ECD)calculations.In the cytotoxicity screening against prostate cancer cell lines,talaketide E(5)demon-strated a dose-dependent inhibitory effect on prostate cancer PC-3 cell lines,with an IC50 value of 14.44 μmol·L-1.Moreover,com-pound 5 significantly inhibited the cloning formation of PC-3 cell lines and arrested the cell cycle in S-phase,ultimately inducing ap-optosis.These findings indicate that compound 5 may serve as a promising lead compound for the development of a potential treat-ment for prostate cancer.
4.Cloning and expression of human GABARAP and preparation of anti-GABARAP antibodies.
Xueni LI ; Liang HAN ; Fang WANG ; Sersur NG ; Hui ZHANG ; Zhijie CHANG
Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2008;24(2):245-249
GABARAP, a microtuble-associated protein, is identified to interact with GABAA receptor. Anchoring of the GABAA receptor to GABARAP helps to cluster the receptor at the synaptic termini and to mediate fast synaptic transmission. GABARAP may mediate interaction of gephyrin with the GABAA receptor to stabilize clusters by forming multimeric structures. Furthermore, GABARAP and gephyrin may play more of a role in receptor sorting and transport to the cell surface than in anchoring to the cytoplasm, because at inhibitory synapses GABARAP appears to associate with transport vesicles rather than the cell surface. The association of GABARAP with NSF (N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor), a protein involved in intracellular vesicle transport, supports this hypothesis. We cloned cDNA encoding full-length human GABARAP by nested PCR and inserted it into eukaryon expression vector pcDNA6HA and GST fusion protein expression vector pGEX4T2. The recombinant plasmid pGEX4T2-hGABARAP was transformed into E. coli BL21, from which GST-hGABARAP fusion protein was purified after IPTG induction by affinity chromatography with glutathione Sepharose-4B column. The antiserum against GABARAP was generated by immunizing rabbits with the purified GST-hGABARAP and was purified with GST-hGABARAP coupled NHS-activated Sepherose 4 column. The purified polyclonal antibody was effective for Western blotting and immunostaining. The hGABARAP was located both in the cytoplasm and nucleus with an abundant distribution around the peripheral nucleus.
Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
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biosynthesis
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genetics
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immunology
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Animals
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Antibodies
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blood
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immunology
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Antibodies, Monoclonal
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biosynthesis
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genetics
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immunology
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Cloning, Molecular
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Escherichia coli
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genetics
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metabolism
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Glutathione Transferase
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biosynthesis
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genetics
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Humans
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Immunization
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Microtubule-Associated Proteins
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biosynthesis
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genetics
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immunology
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Rabbits
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins
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biosynthesis
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genetics
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immunology


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