Bta-miR-365-3p-targeted FK506-binding protein 5 participates in the AMPK/mTOR signaling pathway in the regulation of preadipocyte differentiation in cattle

Chen Mengdi,Zhang Congcong,Wu Zewen,Guo Siwei,Lv Wenfa,Song Jixuan,Hao Beibei,Bai Jinhui,Zhang Xinxin,Xu Hongyan,Xia Guangjun 아세아·태평양축산학회 2024 Animal Bioscience Vol.37 No.7

Objective: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous non-coding RNAs that can play a role in the post-transcriptional regulation of mammalian preadipocyte differentiation. However, the precise functional mechanism of its regulation of fat metabolism is not fully understood.Methods: We identified bta-miR-365-3p, which specifically targets the 3′ untranslated region (3′UTR) of the FK506-binding protein 5 (FKBP5), and verified its mechanisms for regulating expression and involvement in adipogenesis.Results: In this study, we found that the overexpression of bta-miR-365-3p significantly decreased the lipid accumulation and triglyceride content in the adipocytes. Compared to inhibiting bta-miR-36 5-3p group, overexpression of bta-miR-365-3p can inhibit the expression of adipocyte differentiation-related genes <i>C/EBPα</i> and <i>PPARγ</i>. The dualluciferase reporter system further validated the targeting relationship between bta-miR-365-3p and FKBP5. FKBP5 mRNA and protein expression were detected by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction and Western blot. Overexpression of bta-miR-365-3p significantly down-regulated FKBP5 expression, while inhibition of bta-miR-365-3p showed the opposite, indicating that bta-miR-365-3p negatively regulates FKBP5. Adenosine 5′-monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase/mammalian target of rapamycin (AMPK/mTOR) signaling pathway is closely related to the regulation of cell growth and is involved in the development of bovine adipocytes. In this study, overexpression of bta-miR-365-3p significantly inhibited mRNA and protein expression of <i>AMPK, mTOR</i>, and <i>SREBP1</i> genes, while the inhibition of bta-miR-365-3p expression was contrary to these results. Overexpression of FKBP5 significantly upregulated <i>AMPK, mTOR</i>, and <i>SREBP1</i> gene expression, while inhibition of FKBP5 expression was contrary to the above experimental results.Conclusion: In conclusion, these results indicate that bta-miR-365-3p may be involved in the AMPK/mTOR signaling pathway in regulating Yanbian yellow cattle preadipocytes differentiation by targeting the <i>FKBP5</i> gene. Objective: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous non-coding RNAs that can play a role in the post-transcriptional regulation of mammalian preadipocyte differentiation. However, the precise functional mechanism of its regulation of fat metabolism is not fully understood. Methods: We identified bta-miR-365-3p, which specifically targets the 3′ untranslated region (3′UTR) of the FK506-binding protein 5 (FKBP5), and verified its mechanisms for regulating expression and involvement in adipogenesis. Results: In this study, we found that the overexpression of bta-miR-365-3p significantly decreased the lipid accumulation and triglyceride content in the adipocytes. Compared to inhibiting bta-miR-36 5-3p group, overexpression of bta-miR-365-3p can inhibit the expression of adipocyte differentiation-related genes C/EBPα and PPARγ. The dualluciferase reporter system further validated the targeting relationship between bta-miR365-3p and FKBP5. FKBP5 mRNA and protein expression were detected by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction and Western blot. Overexpression of bta-miR-365- 3p significantly down-regulated FKBP5 expression, while inhibition of bta-miR-365-3p showed the opposite, indicating that bta-miR-365-3p negatively regulates FKBP5. Adenosine 5′-monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase/mammalian target of rapamycin (AMPK/ mTOR) signaling pathway is closely related to the regulation of cell growth and is involved in the development of bovine adipocytes. In this study, overexpression of bta-miR-365- 3p significantly inhibited mRNA and protein expression of AMPK, mTOR, and SREBP1 genes, while the inhibition of bta-miR-365-3p expression was contrary to these results. Overexpression of FKBP5 significantly upregulated AMPK, mTOR, and SREBP1 gene expression, while inhibition of FKBP5 expression was contrary to the above experimental results. Conclusion: In conclusion, these results indicate that bta-miR-365-3p may be involved in the AMPK/mTOR signaling pathway in regulating Yanbian yellow cattle preadipocytes differentiation by targeting the FKBP5 gene.

An Improved method of Two Stage Linear Discriminant Analysis

( Yarui Chen ),( Xin Tao ),( Congcong Xiong ),( Jucheng Yang ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2018 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.12 No.3

The two-stage linear discrimination analysis (TSLDA) is a feature extraction technique to solve the small size sample problem in the field of image recognition. The TSLDA has retained all subspace information of the between-class scatter and within-class scatter. However, the feature information in the four subspaces may not be entirely beneficial for classification, and the regularization procedure for eliminating singular metrics in TSLDA has higher time complexity. In order to address these drawbacks, this paper proposes an improved two-stage linear discriminant analysis (Improved TSLDA). The Improved TSLDA proposes a selection and compression method to extract superior feature information from the four subspaces to constitute optimal projection space, where it defines a single Fisher criterion to measure the importance of single feature vector. Meanwhile, Improved TSLDA also applies an approximation matrix method to eliminate the singular matrices and reduce its time complexity. This paper presents comparative experiments on five face databases and one handwritten digit database to validate the effectiveness of the Improved TSLDA.

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of the Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris Strains Affecting Cabbages in China Revealed by MLST and Rep-PCR Based Genotyping

Guo Chen,Congcong Kong,Limei Yang,Mu Zhuang,Yangyong Zhang,Yong Wang,Jialei Ji,Zhiyuan Fang,Honghao Lv 한국식물병리학회 2021 Plant Pathology Journal Vol.37 No.5

Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) is the causal agent of black rot for cruciferous vegetables worldwide, especially for the cole crops such as cabbage and cauliflower. Due to the lack of resistant cabbage cultivars, black rot has brought about considerable yield losses in recent years in China. Understanding of the pathogen features is a key step for disease prevention, however, the pathogen diversity, population structure, and virulence are largely unknown. In this study, we studied 50 Xcc strains including 39 Xcc isolates collected from cabbage in 20 regions across China, us- ing multilocus sequence genotyping (MLST), repetitive DNA sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR), and pathogenicity tests. For MLST analysis, a total of 12 allelic profiles (AP) were generated, among which the largest AP was AP1 containing 32 strains. Further cluster analysis of rep-PCR divided all strains into 14 DNA groups, with the largest group DNA I comprising of 34 strains, most of which also belonged to AP1. Inoculation tests showed that the representative Xcc strains collected from diverse regions performed differential virulence against three brassica hosts compared with races 1 and 4. Interestingly, these results indicated that AP1/DNA I was not only the main pathotype in China, but also a novel group that differed from the previously reported type races in both genotype and virulence. To our knowledge, this is the first extensive genetic diversity survey for Xcc strains in China, which provides evidence for cabbage resistance breeding and opens the gate for further cabbage-Xcc interaction studies.

The Design of System about Cow Activity Based on SVM

Weizheng Shen,Congcong Chen,Shuang Zheng,Shanjun He,Mingda Li 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Smart Home Vol.9 No.3

In view of the cow extensive farming, which lacks modern management tools, the cow estrus determine are often laid off. In this paper, a cow behavioral characteristic is designed. The system collects X, Y, Z axis acceleration data through triaxial accelerometer ADXL345, by ZigBee wireless network and RS485 sent to the information center, it’s based on the support vector of binary tree to classify their behavior. The result shows, the algorithm for cow’s stationary and moving classification accuracy was 93.26%, a slight and sharp motion accuracy was 84.81%, It provides an effective basis in judging cows in heat or in physical abnormalities. That system contributes to the refinement of cows feeding and health culture,and has great significance for the stable and healthy development of the dairy industry.

An Online Learning Model of Mobile User Preference Based on Context Quantification

Yancui Shi,Congcong Xiong,Jucheng Yang,Yarui Chen,Jianhua Cao 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Hybrid Information Techno Vol.8 No.9

In mobile network, the mobile user has the strict requirement for the performance of accessing the information. In order to provide the personalized service for mobile user timely and accurately, an online learning model of mobile user preference based on context quantification is proposed. In the model, a context quantification method is proposed, which can enhance the accuracy of learned mobile user preference; and the sliding window and the online extreme leaning machine (O-ELM) are introduced to realize the online learning. Firstly, it needs to judge whether the mobile user preference is affected by the context through analyzing the mobile user behaviors. Secondly, the context is quantified according to the context relevancy and the context similarity. And then, the sliding window is employed to select the samples that need to be learned when updating the mobile user preference. Finally, O-ELM is employed to learn the mobile user preference. The experimental results show that the proposed method surpasses the existing methods in the performance.

Highly efficient separation of uranium from wastewater by in situ synthesized hydroxyapatite modified coal fly ash composite aerogel

Siqi Huang,Congcong Chen,Zhibo Zhao,Lingyi Jia,Yong Zhang 한국공업화학회 2023 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.118 No.-

In this work, hydroxyapatite (HAP) was in situ synthesized on coal fly ash (CFA) to prepare hydroxyapatitemodified coal fly ash composite aerogel (HCFAA). The maximum removal efficiency and capabilityof uranium(VI) on HCFAA were 97.6 % and 205.7 mg g1, respectively, which was much higher than thoseof CFA (83.6 % and 59.1 mg g1) (pH = 3.0, m/V = 1.0 g/L and T = 298 K). The desorption efficiency of uranium(VI) by HCFAA was even more than 80 % after five cycles, demonstrating that the introduction ofHAP had improved uranium(VI) removal performances. Pseudo-second-order and Langmuir models werefitted better with the experimental data, indicating the uranium(VI) removal process was a homogeneousmonolayer chemisorption. Meanwhile, the uranium(VI) removal efficiency for HCFAA in actual wastewaterwas higher to 80.6 % and uranium(VI) could even be completely separated from actual wastewaterby HCFAA during dynamic adsorption (m = 50 mg, V = 400 mL, C0 = 10 mg/L), further illustrating that theintroduction of HAP was an available method to modify CFA. Characterizations results demonstrated thaturanium(VI) was successfully immobilized on HCFAA through ion exchange, dissolution-precipitationand surface complexation. In conclusion, HCFAA was a prospective adsorbent for uranium(VI) separationin practical application.

Toward efficient broad-spectrum UV absorption of carbon dots: Facile preparation, performance characterization and its application as UV absorbers

Jiemin Qiu,Weihao Ye,Congcong Chen,Zhiqiang Xu,Chaofan Hu,Jianle Zhuang,Hanwu Dong,Bingfu Lei,Guangqi Hu,Yingliang Liu 한국공업화학회 2023 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.117 No.-

UV absorbers are sustainable substances that inhibit the ultraviolet (UV) radiative degradation of polymers. In previous reports, the as-prepared carbon dots (CDs) possess only an absorption band at UVA(320–400 nm). To achieve broad-spectrum UV absorption (200–400 nm), increasing the concentrationof the CDs solution becomes common. However, a high concentration solution seriously affects the lighttransmittance due to its heavy yellow color. Furthermore, the promising organic UV absorbers cannotachieve broad-spectrum UV absorption. In this work, we initially synthesized three-component watersolublecarbon dots (OP–CDs), which delivers an excellent UV absorption (98 % UVA and 100 % UVB atthe concentration of 1.7 102 mg/mL; 99 % transmittance in visible light). Moreover, OP–CDs exhibitoutstanding stability at high temperatures and different pH. With the corporation of OP–CDs and polyvinylalcohol (PVA), a high-performance UV-shielding film was formed, leading to enhanced broadspectrumUV shielding performance and improved mechanical properties, resistance of photocatalyticactivity and anti-UV aging ability compared with pure PVA film. Notably, the PVA film remains hightransparency with the addition of OP–CDs. The study suggests that the corporation of OP–CDs and polymersis effective in anti-UV degradation.

Efficient starvation therapy with three-pathway blocking in combination with PTT/CDT for TME reversal and tumor apoptosis

Mengchao Ding,Xiaoying Kong,Weiyan Chen,Lei Yan,He Huang,Zunzhou Lv,Peng Jiang,Ali Mu,Congcong Huang,Jinsheng Shi 한국공업화학회 2022 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Vol.110 No.-

Single cancer starvation therapy (ST) strategy can’t achieve satisfactory anti-tumor effect, mainly due tothe diversified nutritional sources of tumor cells. Herein, CuS@Axitinib-SiO2@2-Deoxy-D-glucose(2-DG)-CaCO3-RGD nanoparticles (CADCR NPs) were prepared for three-pathway blocking for efficient starvationtherapy as well as reinforced photothermal therapy (PTT) and chemodynamic therapy (CDT). AfterCADCR NPs were targeted to tumor cells, CaCO3 was ruptured in the acidic environment, releasingCa2+ to chelate glutamine and cutting off the glutamine metabolic pathway of the tumor. 2-DG was alsoreleased from mesoporous SiO2 and restrained the glycolytic pathway of tumor cells. In addition, underthe thermal stimulus of near-infrared irradiation, axitinib was released from CuS NPs, which inhibited theproliferation of tumor blood vessels, ultimately inhibiting the aerobic respiratory pathway of tumor cells. Interestingly, CADCR NPs also showed potential to reshape the tumor microenvironment (TME) and promotedthe transformation of macrophages from M2 to M1 type, increasing the expression of CD8+ T cellsin the tumor site. In conclusion, CADCR NPs achieve severe tumor starvation by simultaneously interferingwith three energy metabolic pathways, and further enhance tumor treatment with the aid of PTT,CDT, and TME improvement, which exhibits great potential for clinical cancer therapy.

Small molecule natural compound agonist of SIRT3 as a therapeutic target for the treatment of intervertebral disc degeneration

Jianle Wang,Majid Nisar,Chongan Huang,Xiangxiang Pan,Dongdong Lin,Gang Zheng,Haiming Jin,Deheng Chen,Naifeng Tian,Qianyu Huang,Yue Duan,Yingzhao Yan,Ke Wang,Congcong Wu,Jianing Hu,Xiaolei Zhang,Xiangy 생화학분자생물학회 2018 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.50 No.-

Oxidative stress-induced mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in the pathogenesis of intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). Sirtuin 3 (SIRT3), a sirtuin family protein located in mitochondria, is essential for mitochondrial homeostasis; however, the role of SIRT3 in the process of IVDD has remained elusive. Here, we explored the expression of SIRT3 in IVDD in vivo and in vitro; we also explored the role of SIRT3 in senescence, apoptosis, and mitochondrial homeostasis under oxidative stress. We subsequently activated SIRT3 using honokiol to evaluate its therapeutic potential for IVDD. We assessed SIRT3 expression in degenerative nucleus pulposus (NP) tissues and oxidative stressinduced nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs). SIRT3 was knocked down by lentivirus and activated by honokiol to determine its role in oxidative stress-induced NPCs. The mechanism by which honokiol affected SIRT3 regulation was investigated in vitro, and the therapeutic potential of honokiol was assessed in vitro and in vivo. We found that the expression of SIRT3 decreased with IVDD, and SIRT3 knockdown reduced the tolerance of NPCs to oxidative stress. Honokiol (10 μM) improved the viability of NPCs under oxidative stress and promoted their properties of anti-oxidation, mitochondrial dynamics and mitophagy in a SIRT3-dependent manner. Furthermore, honokiol activated SIRT3 through the AMPKPGC- 1α signaling pathway. Moreover, honokiol treatment ameliorated IVDD in rats. Our study indicated that SIRT3 is involved in IVDD and showed the potential of the SIRT3 agonist honokiol for the treatment of IVDD.