Expression of three neuropeptide genes (SfEH, SfETH, and SfCCAP) in response to insecticide stress on the white-backed planthopper Sogatella furcifera (Hemiptera: Delphacidae)

Long Gui-yun,Wang Zhao,Yang Jia-peng,Tang Chen-hong,Jin Dao-Chao,Yang Hong,Zhou Cao,Yang Xi-bin 한국응용곤충학회 2023 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.26 No.3

Insect neuropeptides are involved in many important developmental processes. Here, we cloned three neuro peptide genes (SfEH, SfETH, and SfCCAP) from Sogatella furcifera (Horváth) and analyzed the relative expression levels of these genes through Real-time Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) during different developmental stages and in different wing types of S. furcifera following exposure to sublethal concentrations (LC 10 and LC 25 ) of methylaminoavermectin benzoate. The results revealed that the three neuropeptide genes (SfEH, SfETH, and SfCCAP) of S. furcifera contained open reading frame sequences of 222, 636, and 408 bp, encoding 73, 211, and 135 amino acids, respectively. Moreover, the expression of SfEH and SfETH reached its peak on day 3 of the 5 th instar nymph stage, while the SfCCAP expressed pinnacle on 40 min after eclosion. Furthermore, the relative expression levels of the three genes were in the following order: SfEH, short-winged female > long-winged female > long-winged male; SfETH, long-winged female > short-winged female > longwinged male; and SfCCAP, short-winged female > long-winged male > short-winged female. Upon calculating the relative expression of the three peptide genes after 24 and 48 h of treatment with sublethal concentrations of methylaminoavermectin benzoate, it was found that the relative mRNA expression levels of SfEH and SfETH declined upon LC 10 treatment but increased upon LC 25 treatment. Meanwhile, the relative mRNA expression level of SfCCAP declined upon both LC 10 and LC 25 treatments. This result will help us understand the effects of pesticides on insect growth and development at the molecular level.

The Evolution of Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis in a High Volume Center: The Eastern Perspective

( Jeffrey Samuel Co ),( Chih-chi ),( Wang ),( Chih-che Lin ),( Chee-chien Yong ),( Chao Long Chen ) 대한간학회 2020 춘·추계 학술대회 (KASL) Vol.2020 No.1

Aims: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) has been a growing indication for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in Asia but certain medical, ethical and psycho-social issues question its appropriateness. Reports on long-term outcomes of LDLT for ALD are also scarce and so our aim was to report our center’s experience for the past 15 years and how LDLT has evolved to be the treatment of choice for end-stage liver disease secondary to ALD in a high volume center. Methods: A total of 1,384 consecutive LDLT was performed from January 2003 to August 2016 at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and 87 patients had a pre-operative diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) with or without hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This group was systematically matched with non-ALD (NALD) patients in a ratio of 1:2 using equiprobability method. Overall patient survival was compared using Kaplan-Meier analysis, and incidences of post-transplant De novo malignancy and alcohol relapse were described. Results: Patient demographics were comparable, as well as preoperative and intra-operative data. Of the 87 patients in the ALD group, 26 (30%) had concomitant HCC. Median follow- up for this study was 50 months. Overall patient survival at 1, 3 and 5 years for ALD were 98%, 97% and 92% respectively, while the NALD group had similar survival rates (P =0.282). The rate for De novo malignancy was 6% while that for recidivism was 7% despite only 76% of the patients meeting the 6 months abstinence rule. Conclusions: Results from our center show that LDLT for ALD has comparable short and longterm outcomes when compared to NALD, and the close relationship between donor and recipient seems to positively affect alcohol relapse rate and patient compliance to medication.

Perspectives on Liver Transplantation - Innovation, Education and Beyond

Chao-Long Chen 대한외과학회 2016 대한외과학회 학술대회 초록집 Vol.2016 No.11

Cr(VI) Resistance and Removal by Indigenous Bacteria Isolated from Chromium-Contaminated Soil

( Dong Yan Long ),( Xian Jin Tang ),( Kuan Cai ),( Guang Cun Chen ),( Chao Feng Shen ),( Ji Yan Shi ),( Ling Gui Chen ),( Ying Xu Chen ) 한국미생물 · 생명공학회 2013 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.23 No.8

The removal of toxic Cr(VI) by microorganisms is a promising approach for Cr(VI) pollution remediation. In the present study, four indigenous bacteria, named LY1, LY2, LY6, and LY7, were isolated from Cr(VI)-contaminated soil. Among the four Cr(VI)-resistant isolates, strain LY6 displayed the highest Cr(VI)-removing ability, with 100 mg/l Cr(VI) being completely removed within 144 h. It could effectively remove Cr(VI) over a wide pH range from 5.5 to 9.5, with the optimal pH of 8.5. The amount of Cr(VI) removed increased with initial Cr(VI) concentration. Data from the time-course analysis of Cr(VI) removal by strain LY6 followed first-order kinetics. Based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence, strain LY6 was identified as Pseudochrobactrum asaccharolyticum, a species that had never been reported for Cr(VI) removal before. Transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis further confirmed that strain LY6 could accumulate chromium within the cell while conducting Cr(VI) removal. The results suggested that the indigenous bacterial strain LY6 would be a new candidate for potential application in Cr(VI) pollution bioremediation.

Genome sequencing and analysis of Kloeckera apiculata strain 34-9, a biocontrol agent against postharvest pathogens in citrus

Chao-an Long,Kai Chen,Xiaoping Yang,Feng Zheng 한국유전학회 2017 Genes & Genomics Vol.39 No.1

Kloeckera apiculata, as the anamorphic state of Hanseniaspora uvarum from the Ascomycota phylum, plays an important role in the inhibition of fungal diseases in plants and spontaneous wine fermentation. This study was performed to sequence and analyze the whole genome of K. apiculata strain 34-9; This analysis provides further genomic features and assists functional research. The complete genome was determined using an Illumina HiSeq 2000 system applying paired-end and mate-pair methods to construct four reads libraries. The data assembly of all the reads resulted in a total genome size of 8.1 Mb, including 106 contigs, which were assembled into 41 scaffolds with a 31.95 % G?C content and a 234X sequence coverage. The performance of the gene prediction and functional annotation revealed that 2724 of 3786 protein- coding genes matched the KOG database, and 1127 genes were classified into GO categories. Further genome features analyses found 1066 microsatellite sites, 71 tRNAs, 3 rRNAs and 3 microRNAs in the genomic DNA. A prediction of the metabolic pathways identified potentially crucial genes for explaining the phenylalanine pathway involved in biocontrol. Comparisons with the typical yeasts Lachancea thermotolerans, Kluyveromyces lactis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed the particularity and difference of K. apiculata strain 34-9. The genome alignments among Hanseniaspora vineae T02/19AF, K. apiculata DSM 2768 and 34-9 indicated numerous homologous regions distributed over the genomes between strain DSM2768 and 34-9. A SSR analysis identified that mono- and tri- nucleotide repeat types were more abundant in all six types, likely affecting the evolution of K. apiculata.

Fault diagnosis method for rolling bearing based on VMD and improved SVM optimized by METLBO

Chao Tan,Long Yang,Haoran Chen,Liang Xin 대한기계학회 2022 JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Vol.36 No.10

Vibration signal processing and classification are critical for bearing fault diagnosis. In this study, a hybrid framework based on multi-envelopment teaching-learning-based optimization (METLBO) was proposed by combining parameters optimized variational mode decomposition (VMD) and improved support vector machines (ISVM). First, the average value of minimum enveloping entropy was considered the objective function of the optimizer, and the optimal parameters of VMD were obtained through METLBO optimization. Next, these optimal parameters were adopted to decompose the fault signal into intrinsic modal functions (IMFs). For ensuring fault feature robustness, the eigenvectors were formed by the energy and envelope entropy of IMFs. Finally, the ISVM model was established for training and testing by adding an input layer to the SVM to perform soft thresholding on input data. METLBO was adopted to determine the optimal soft threshold values of features and hyper-parameters of ISVM. The experimental comparison analysis revealed the effectiveness of the proposed method for bearing fault diagnosis.

Event-Triggered Media Stream Bandwidth Adjustment in IoT-Based Home Networks

Chao-Yu Hsu,Chin-Lin Hu,Kun-Sheng Huang,Yung-Hui Chen,Jiun-Long Huang 한국통신학회 2020 한국통신학회 APNOMS Vol.2020 No.09

As the coming maturity of Internet of Things, many home-networked devices with various sensors are deployed in residential environments. It is important to accommodate many devices that compete for bandwidth allocation to transmit data inwards and outwards through a certain home network domain. This paper proposes a novel mechanism which can adjust media stream qualities and transmission bandwidth allocations to different devices. This mechanism is agile against dynamic changes of data workload and finite network resources between inside and outside of a home network. Practical demonstration exhibits that the effects are able to maintain differentiated media transfer services in IoT-based home networks.

Development of Penicillium italicum-Specific Primers for Rapid Detection among Fungal Isolates in Citrus

( Kai Chen ),( Zhonghuan Tian ),( Fatang Jiang ),( Chao-an Long ) 한국미생물생명공학회(구 한국산업미생물학회) 2019 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.29 No.6

Blue mold in citrus is caused by Penicillium italicum. In this study, the P. italicum-specific primers were developed for rapid detection based on the conserved genes RPB1 and RPB2 among Penicillium genomes. The two primer pairs RPB1-a and RPB1-b proved to be specific to detect P. italicum. The PCR assay among 39 fungal isolates and the colonial, pathogenic morphologies and molecular methods validated the specificity and reliability of these two primer pairs. This report provided a method and P. italicum-specific primers, which might greatly contribute to citrus postharvest industry.

Computational modeling of buried blast-induced ground motion and ground subsidence

Zhang, Zhi-Chao,Liu, Han-Long,Pak, Ronald Y.S.,Chen, Yu-Min Techno-Press 2014 Geomechanics & engineering Vol.7 No.6

To complement the method of field-scale seismic ground motion simulations by buried blast techniques, the application and evaluation of the capability of a numerical modeling platform to simulate buried explosion-induced ground motion at a real soil site is presented in this paper. Upon a layout of the experimental setup at a level site wherein multiple charges that were buried over a large-diameter circle and detonated in a planned sequence, the formulation of a numerical model of the soil and the explosives using the finite element code LS-DYNA is developed for the evaluation of the resulting ground motion and surface subsidence. With a compact elastoplastic cap model calibrated for the loess soils on the basis of the site and laboratory test program, numerical solutions are obtained by explicit time integration for various dynamic aspects and their relation with the field blast experiment. Quantitative comparison of the computed ground acceleration time histories at different locations and induced spatial subsidence on the surface afterwards is given for further engineering insights in regard to the capabilities and limitations of both the numerical and experimental approaches.

Assessing the role of everolimus in reducing hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after living donor liver transplantation for patients within the UCSF criteria

Ashok Thorat,Long-Bin Jeng,Horng-Ren Yang,Chun-Chieh Yeh,Shih-Chao Hsu,Te-Hung Chen,Kin-Shing Poon 한국간담췌외과학회 2017 Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery Vol.21 No.4

Backgrounds/Aims: The protective effect of everolimus (EVR) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients who receive liver transplantation in terms of reducing the recurrence has not been sufficiently investigated in clinical trials. In this second stage of our ongoing study, we intend to analyze the effects of EVR as an immunosuppressant, when it is started in the early phase after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), on HCC recurrence in patients with HCC within the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) criteria. Methods: From January 2011 to June 2013, a total of 250 patients underwent LDLT for HCC at our institute. The patients with HCC within the UCSF criteria were included in the study and divided in two groups depending upon the postoperative immunosuppression. Group A: HCC patients that received EVR+TAC based immunosuppressive regimen (n=37). Group B: HCC patients that received standard TAC based immunosuppressive regimen without EVR (n=29). The target trough level for EVR was 3 to 5 ng/ml while for TAC it was 8-10 ng/ml. Results: For group A patients, the mean trough level of the EVR was 3.47±1.53 ng/ml (range, 1.5-11.2) with a daily dose of 1.00±0.25 mg/day. For group A and B, the average TAC trough levels were 6.97±3.98 ng/ml (range, 2.50 to 11.28 ng/ml) and 6.93±2.58 (range, 2-16.30), respectively. The 1-year, 3-year and 4-year overall survival achieved for Group A patients was 94.95%, 86.48% and 86.48%, respectively while for Group B patients it was 82.75%,68.96%, and 62.06%, respectively (p=0.0217). Conclusions: EVR use in liver transplant recipients in the early stage after transplantation reduces the HCC recurrence rates in HCC patients within the UCSF criteria.