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Ubiquitination, an essential post-transcriptional modification (PTM), plays a vital role in nearly every biological process, including development and growth. Despite its functions in plant reproductive development, its targets in rice panicles remain unclear. In this study, we used proteome-wide profiling of lysine ubiquitination in rice (O. sativa ssp. indica) young panicles. We created the largest ubiquitinome dataset in rice to date, identifying 1638 lysine ubiquitination sites on 916 unique proteins. We detected three conserved ubiquitination motifs, noting that acidic glutamic acid (E) and aspartic acid (D) were most frequently present around ubiquitinated lysine. Enrichment analysis of Gene Ontology (GO) annotations and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways of these ubiquitinated proteins revealed that ubiquitination plays an important role in fundamental cellular processes in rice young panicles. Interestingly, enrichment analysis of protein domains indicated that ubiquitination was enriched on a variety of receptor-like kinases and cytoplasmic tyrosine and serine-threonine kinases. Furthermore, we analyzed the crosstalk between ubiquitination, acetylation, and succinylation, and constructed a potential protein interaction network within our rice ubiquitinome. Moreover, we identified ubiquitinated proteins related to pollen and grain development, indicating that ubiquitination may play a critical role in the physiological functions in young panicles. Taken together, we reported the most comprehensive lysine ubiquitinome in rice so far, and used it to reveal the functional role of lysine ubiquitination in rice young panicles.
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Acetylation , Lysine/metabolism , Oryza/metabolism , Plant Proteins/metabolism , Protein Interaction Maps , Protein Processing, Post-Translational , Proteome/metabolism , Ubiquitin/metabolism , UbiquitinationABSTRACT
Objective To observe the efficacy of the photon therapeutic apparatus on wound healing .Methods Totally 60 patients who had received the operation for their ischial tuberosity cysts were randomly divided into observation group and control group ,30 cases each in each group .The control group received conventional dressing change .The observation group received con-ventional treatment on the basis of the application of photon therapeutic apparatus for adjuvant therapy ,2 times a day ,7 days a course of treatment .Both of groups had the same other treatment and nursing care .The clinical efficacy of the two groups was ob-served .Results After the 4 and 7 days of treatment ,the observation group was superior to the control group on pain level ,content of extravasate(P< 0 .05) .The healing time of observation group was less than control group(P< 0 .01) .Conclusion The photon therapy is effective in the treatment of wound healing of patients with ischial tuberosity cysts after operation .
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Objective:To observe the effectiveness of photon therapeutic instrument combined with magnesium sulfate on puerperants with hemorrhoids.Methods: Sixty eight puerperants cases with hemorrhoids were chosen and randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, each with 34 cases. In the control group, Mayinglong hemorrhoids suppository was used on the hemorrhoids. While in the observation group patients were given photon therapeutic instrument combined with magnesium sulfate on the hemorrhoids. The curative effectiveness, the scores of pain, breastfeeding rates were compared between the two groups.Results: After one course of treatment, the treatment effect of observation group was 91.18%, which was higer than control group that was 82.35%, the difference was statistically significant(x2=4.086,P<0.05). After one course of treatment, the scores of pain in observation group was lower than that in control group, the difference was statistically significant(t=2.773,P<0.05). During the four months of postpartum, the breastfeeding rates in observation group was higher than that in control group, the difference was statistically significant(x2=4.403,P<0.05).Conclusion: Treating by photon therapeutic instrument combined with magnesium sulfate on puerperants with hemorrhoids, can increase treatment effect, reduce the severity of pain, and enhance breastfeeding rates, is worthy of clinic application.
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<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the effects on cell proliferation and invasion as well as molecular basis after suppressing EZH2 expression in endometrial carcinoma cells by using siRNAs.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>RT-PCR was used to examine the expression of EZH2 in endometrial carcinoma and their paracancerous tissues. SiRNAs targeting to EZH2 were transfected to endometrial carcinoma cells, and MTT, FACS, and boyden assays were utilized to examine cell proliferation, cell cycle change, and cell invasion. Finally, the molecular mechanisms of EZH2 on cell function alteration were investigated.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Compared with paracancerous tissues, increased expression trend of EZH2 mRNA was showed in endometrial carcinoma tissues. Further, knocking down EZH2 expression inhibited cell growth, cell cycle transition from G1 to S phase, and cell invasion ability. Molecular basis indicated that suppression of EZH2 downregulated the expression of E2F1 and MMP9 and upregulated tumor suppressor p21 expression.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>EZH2 expression is increased in endometrial carcinoma tissues. Knocking down EZH2 expression suppresses the cell growth, cell cycle transition and cell invasion by downregulated E2F1 and MMP9, and upregulated tumor suppressor p21 expression.</p>
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Female , Humans , Cell Line, Tumor , Cell Proliferation , E2F1 Transcription Factor , Metabolism , Endometrial Neoplasms , Genetics , Pathology , Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 Protein , Genes, Tumor Suppressor , Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 , Metabolism , Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 , Genetics , RNA Interference , RNA, Messenger , Genetics , RNA, Small Interfering , TransfectionABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE@#To explore the mechanism of formaldehyde inducing ovarian toxicity in female rats by observing the effect of formaldehyde on the expression of Fas and caspase-8 mRNA, and the activity of caspase-3 and caspase-8 of ovary tissues in female rats.@*METHODS@#Forty female Sprague-Dawley(SD) rats were randomly divided into a control group and 3 formaldehyde groups at different concentrations. The rats in the formaldehyde groups were intraperitoneally injected different doses of formaldehyde (20.0,2.0 and 0.2 mg/kg) continuously for 14 days.After 14 days, all rats were sacrificed and their ovaries were collected for detecting the expression of Fas and caspase-8 mRNA with RT-PCR, the protein expression of Fas with Western blot, and the activities of caspase-8 and caspase-3 with spectrophotometric method.@*RESULTS@#Compared with the control group, the expression of Fas mRNA and its protein and caspase-8 mRNA and the activity of caspase-8 and caspase-3 of ovary tissues in the rats treated with formaldehyde significantly increased with dose (P<0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#The increase of Fas gene expression and the activity of caspase-8 and caspase-3 may be the important mechanism of ovarian toxicity induced by formaldehyde in female rats.
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Animals , Female , Rats , Apoptosis , Genetics , Caspase 3 , Genetics , Metabolism , Caspase 8 , Genetics , Metabolism , Environmental Pollutants , Toxicity , Formaldehyde , Toxicity , Ovary , Metabolism , Pathology , RNA, Messenger , Genetics , Metabolism , Random Allocation , Rats, Sprague-Dawley , fas Receptor , Genetics , MetabolismABSTRACT
Objective To analyze the therapy and prognosis of palindromic ovarian carcinoma. Methods The clinical data of 40 cases of palindromic ovarian carcinoma were reviewed retrospectively. Results After the first surgery, the mean recurrent time of the patients with remained tumors smaller than 2 0 cm was (37 26?11 79) months, and that of the patients with remained tumors larger than 2 0 cm was (7 88?1 49) months. There was a significnat difference in the mean recurrent time between the two groups of the patients with different size of remained tumors(P0 05). Conclusion The recurrence of ovarian cancer was related to the size of remained tumor. Secondary operation plus chemotherapy could improve the short-term survival rate of the patients with palindromic ovarian carcinoma.
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Objective To improve the antenatal diagnosis of placental abruption by ultrasound. Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on 33 placental abruption cases in our hospital between Jan. 1988 and Apr.2003. Results Among 33 cases, 28(84 8%) were found by ultrasound. There were more cases with anterior placental and severe abruption than posterior placenta and mild abruption without symptoms. The sonographic characteristics of placental abruption was dark and low echo area between placenta and uterine wall. Among these cases, mild and mixed echos were detected in 15 cases, partial thickened placenta 6 cases, protruding masses at the edge of placenta or under chorionic plate 8 cases(one case was misdiagnosed as chorioangioma). No signals of blood flow was shown the abruption area of placenta by color Doppler flow image. Conclusion Antenatal sonography has an important role in diagnosing placental abruption.