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Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic systemic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). Methionine aminopeptidase 1 (MtMET-AP1) is a hydrolase that mediates the necessary post-translational N-terminal methionine excision (NME) of peptides during protein synthesis, which is necessary for bacterial proliferation and is a potential target for the treatment of tuberculosis. Based on the functional characteristics of MtMET-AP1, we developed an enzymatic activated near-infrared fluorescent probe DDAN-MT for rapid, highly selective, and real-time monitoring of endogenous MtMET-AP1 activity in M. tuberculosis. Using the probe DDAN-MT, a visually high-throughput screening technique was established, which obtained three potential inhibitors (GSK-J4 hydrochchloride, JX06, and lavendustin C) against MtMET-AP1 from a 2560 compounds library. More importantly, these inhibitors could inhibit the growth of M. tuberculosis H37Ra especially (MICs < 5 µM), with low toxicities on intestinal bacteria strains and human cells. Therefore, the visual sensing of MtMET-AP1 was successfully performed by DDAN-MT, and MtMET-AP1 inhibitors were discovered as potential antituberculosis agents.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis , Tuberculosis , Humanos , Antituberculosos/farmacología , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/metabolismo , Colorantes Fluorescentes , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Aminopeptidasas/metabolismoRESUMEN
In order to explore practical ways to test the eco-efficiency of low-carbon tourism and its drivers in Jiangsu Province, this paper empirically tests the effects of selected driving variables on the eco-efficiency of low-carbon tourism using a spatial lag model. It measures the eco-efficiency of low-carbon tourism in 13 prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu Province based on a modified two-stage network SBM model. According to the direct effect test results, per capita tourism income (PTI) had the most significant effect on the eco-efficiency of low-carbon tourism, with an impact coefficient of 0.5437, environmental pollution governance (EPG) had the second most significant effect, energy consumption intensity (ECI) and carbon emission intensity (CEI) had adverse effects with effect coefficients of - 0.3815 and - 0.4415, respectively, and R&D input intensity (RDII) had the slightest effect on the eco-efficiency of low-carbon tourism, with an impact coefficient of - 0.0836. According to indirect effect test results, RDII has the most significant positive effect with a coefficient of 0.3848, PTI has the second most significant adverse effect on the eco-efficiency of low-carbon tourism with a coefficient of - 0.3245, ECI has the third most significant adverse effect with a coefficient of - 0.2567, EPG has the fourth largest positive effect with a coefficient of 0.2162, and CEI has the slightest adverse effect with an impact coefficient of - 0.2147.
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Carbono , Turismo , Carbono/análisis , Contaminación Ambiental , Ciudades , Eficiencia , Desarrollo Económico , ChinaRESUMEN
In order to explore the effective evaluation method of environmental pollution treatment effect in China's coal mine subsidence areas, based on the literature review and analysis of current situation, combined with the reality of environmental pollution treatment (EPT) in China's coal mine subsidence areas, this paper selected four categories, including a total of 21 evaluation indicators, and drew lessons from the latest research results in relevant fields to construct the spatial niche suitability model of comprehensive evaluation of environmental pollution treatment effect in coal mine subsidence area. Taking the collapse area of Xinglongzhuang coal mine of Yanzhou energy as an example, the comprehensive evaluation and application of environmental pollution treatment effect in coal mine subsidence area were studied. It is found that the environmental pollution treatment effect of the mining area has increased from moderate pollution (level III) in 2012 to mild pollution (level I) in 2020 within 9 years. The environmental pollution treatment effect has a rapid improvement relatively, but its growth rate has decreased year by year since 2016, and the environmental pollution indicator is still at a high level. Therefore, environmental pollution treatment in the subsidence area is still a long-term task of Dongtan coal mine. The research results of this paper provide an effective quantitative analysis method for the evaluation of environmental pollution treatment effect in coal mine subsidence area, which is conducive to the continuous improvement of environmental pollution treatment effect in mining area.
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Minas de Carbón , Minas de Carbón/métodos , Contaminación Ambiental/análisis , Carbón Mineral/análisis , China , Monitoreo del Ambiente/métodosRESUMEN
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which is a major threat to global public health. Currently, ß-lactam antibiotics are rarely used in the treatment of TB, since Mtb naturally expresses ß-lactamase (Blac) which renders Mtb resistant to such antibiotics due to ß-lactam cleavage. Fortunately, antibiotic resistance can be overcome when ß-lactam antibiotics are combined with a Blac inhibitor. With the current research, a near-infrared fluorescent probe LXMB was developed for the real-time detection and imaging of endogenous Blac activity in Mtb. Furthermore, a high-throughput screening platform was established using LXMB to screen Blac inhibitors from herbal medicines. Guided by the visual bioassay, Tannic acid was isolated from Galla Chinensis as a potential Blac inhibitor and was further evaluated in combination with several ß-lactam antibiotics which resulted in an enhanced inhibitory effect toward M. tuberculosis H37Ra. Finally, LXMB was used to label live M. tuberculosis H37Ra phagocytosed within macrophages. Consequently, LXMB was a useful fluorescent tool to explore the mechanism of drug resistance based on Blac and can assist in the development of new tuberculosis treatments.
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Técnicas Biosensibles , Mycobacterium tuberculosis , Tuberculosis , Antibacterianos/farmacología , Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico , Colorantes Fluorescentes , Ensayos Analíticos de Alto Rendimiento , Humanos , Taninos , Tuberculosis/tratamiento farmacológico , Inhibidores de beta-Lactamasas/farmacología , Inhibidores de beta-Lactamasas/uso terapéutico , beta-Lactamasas , beta-Lactamas/farmacologíaRESUMEN
At present, the emerging drug-resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) against existing frontline drugs has prompted the development of novel anti-tuberculosis agents based on new targets. Activity of the bifunctional enzyme, glucosamine-1-phosphate acetyltransferase activity and N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GlmU) is essential for biosynthesis of the mycobacterium cell wall components and has been proposed as a potential drug target for therapeutic interventions. On the basis of the high-throughput screening of the GlmU AT inhibitor, an extract of Euphorbia ehracteolata displayed a significant inhibitory effect among 49 tested herbal medicines. Using the bioassay-guided separation, an aromatic diterpenoid ebractenoid F was identified as a GlmU AT inhibitor (IC50: 4.608 µg mL-1). Inhibition kinetics showed that ebractenoid F acted as a competitive inhibitor for substrate acetyl-CoA and an uncompetitive inhibitor for substrate GlcN-1-P. Ala434 was deduced to be the key active residue for the interaction between ebractenoid F and GlmU. Furthermore, ebractenoid F displayed an anti-mycobacterial effect against M. tb H37Ra with a minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 12.5 µg mL-1 along with an inhibitory effect on the formation of biofilm and a synergistic effect with isoniazid against M. tb H37Ra. Above all, a GlmU inhibitor was identified from E. ehracteolata and is proposed to be a potential therapeutic anti-tumberculosis agent.
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Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) is one kind of persistent organic pollutants. In previous study, we found that PFOS induced autophagy-dependent lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) in hepatocytes, and siRNA against lysosomal permease spinster 1 (SPNS1) relieved PFOS-induced LMP. However, whether and how SPNS1 functioned as the link between autophagy and LMP was still not defined. In this study, we constructed a stable cell line expressing high levels of SPNS1. We found that SPNS1 interacted specifically with α-tubulin of tyrosinated isotype by pull-down assay. After treatment with PFOS, the level of tyrosinated α-tubulin was autophagy-dependently decreased. SPNS1-tyrosinated α-tubulin interaction was disrupted subsequently, which led to LMP eventually. We also found that stable high-expression of SPNS1 in hepatocytes accelerated lysosomal acidification, and deteriorated PFOS-induced LMP. This study pointed out that SPNS1-tyrosinated α-tubulin interaction mediated the cross-talk between autophagy and LMP induced by PFOS, shedding new light on the mechanism of PFOS hepatotoxicity.
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Proteínas Adaptadoras Transductoras de Señales/metabolismo , Autofagia/efectos de los fármacos , Fluorocarburos/farmacología , Lisosomas/efectos de los fármacos , Proteínas de la Membrana/metabolismo , Tubulina (Proteína)/metabolismo , Western Blotting , Células Hep G2/efectos de los fármacos , Humanos , Espectrometría de Masas , Membranas/efectos de los fármacos , Permeabilidad/efectos de los fármacos , Tirosina/metabolismoRESUMEN
In order to explore the effective method of ecological environment quality evaluation the of environmental pollution treatment of energy consumption emits in industrial parks in China, based on a literature review, 21 evaluation indicators of four types were selected in this paper. With a hierarchical analysis method used to determine the relative weights of each evaluation indicator, and a two-level comprehensive fuzzy evaluation model reconstructed, a comprehensive evaluation study of ecological environment quality was carried out, taking the Nanjing MV Industrial Park as the research object. The evaluation results show that it can be seen that the ecological environment quality of the Nanjing MV Industrial Park has improved in certain degree. The evaluation results are in line with the actual situation, which verifies the validity of the comprehensive fuzzy evaluation model for the comprehensive evaluation of ecological environment quality. The research results have a guiding role for the management practice of environmental pollution in industrial parks and have a significant theoretical support for the government to formulate the ecological environment quality standards and related policies of industrial parks. Graphical Abstract.
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Contaminación Ambiental , Industrias , China , AmbienteRESUMEN
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) can subvert host immune responses and survive in macrophages. Specific Mtb antigens play a critical role in this process. Rv1987, a secretory protein encoded by the gene rv1987 in the region of difference-2 (RD2) of the Mtb genome, is specifically expressed in pathogenic mycobacteria. Our previous work proved that Rv1987 induced a Th2 response in mice and enhanced mycobacterial survival in mouse lungs, but its effect on macrophages, the most important effector immune cell involved in killing Mtb, remains unclear. In this study, we used an M. smegmatis strain overexpressing Rv1987 protein to infect alveolar macrophages and the macrophage cell line RAW264.7 and analyzed the effect of Rv1987 protein on macrophage polarization. Rv1987 induced M2 polarization in macrophages both in vivo and in vitro. The bactericidal ability of these M2 polarized macrophages decreased remarkably, which resulted in the increased survival of bacteria in macrophages. Proteomics, RT-qPCR and western blotting results revealed that the PI3K/Akt1/mTOR signaling pathway was activated in Rv1987-induced M2 macrophages. Meanwhile, the SHIP molecule, a negative regulator of the PI3K/Akt1/mTOR signaling pathway, was significantly downregulated. These results suggest that Rv1987 plays an important role in modulating the host immune response and could be established as a potential drug target.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis , Animales , Macrófagos , Ratones , Fosfatidilinositol 3-Quinasas , Transducción de Señal , Serina-Treonina Quinasas TORRESUMEN
The roots of Euphorbia fischeriana known as "Langdu" in traditional Chinese medicine have been used for the treatment of tuberculosis in China. Through a bioactive phytochemical investigation of the roots of E. fischeriana, 15 diterpenoids were obtained by various chromatographic techniques. On the basis of wide spectroscopic data, including NMR, UV, IR, HR-ESI-MS, ECD and X-ray crystallography, all of the isolated compounds were elucidated to be ent-abietane diterpenoid analogs, including undescribed eupholides A-H and seven known diterpenoids. In the bioassay for anti-tuberculosis, eupholides F-H moderately inhibited the proliferation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra, with the MIC determined to be 50 µM. Furthermore, eupholides G, ent-11α-hydroxyabieta-8(14), 13(15)-dien-16,12α-olide, and jolkinolide F significantly inhibited the lyase activity of human carboxylesterase 2 (HCE 2), with IC50 values of 7.3, 150, and 34.5 nM, respectively.
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Antineoplásicos Fitogénicos , Euphorbia , Abietanos/farmacología , China , Diterpenos/farmacología , Estructura Molecular , Raíces de PlantasRESUMEN
OBJECTIVES: The hospital environment has been implicated in the enrichment and exchange of pathogens and antibiotic resistance, but its potential in shaping the symbiotic microbial community of hospital staff is unclear. This study was designed to evaluate the alteration of the gut microbiome in medical workers compared to non-medical controls. METHODS: A prospective cross-sectional cohort study was conducted in the intensive care unit (ICU) and other departments of a centre in north-eastern China. Faecal samples of 175 healthy medical workers-short-term (1-3 months) workers (n = 80) and long-term (>1 year) workers (n = 95)-and 80 healthy non-medical controls were analysed using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. The hospital environmental samples (n = 9) were also analysed. RESULTS: The gut microbiomes of medical workers exhibited marked deviations in diversity and alteration in microbial composition and function. Short-term workers showed significantly higher abundances of taxa such as Lactobacillus, Butyrivibrio, Clostridiaceae, Clostridium, Ruminococcus, Dialister, Bifidobacterium, Odoribacter, and Desulfovibrio and lower abundances of Bacteroides and Blautia than the controls. Long-term workers showed higher abundances of taxa such as Dialister, Veillonella, Clostridiaceae, Clostridium, Bilophila, Desulfovibrio, Pseudomonas, and Akkermansia and lower abundances of Bacteroides and Coprococcus than the controls. The medical workers' department (ICU versus non-ICU) and position (resident doctor versus nursing staff) also impacted their gut microbiome. Compared with the non-ICU workers, workers in the ICU showed a significant increase in the abundances of Dialister, Enterobacteriaceae, Phascolarctobacterium, Pseudomonas, Veillonella, and Streptococcus and a marked depletion of Faecalibacterium, Blautia, and Coprococcus. In contrast with the nursing staff, the resident doctors showed a significant increase in Erysipelotrichaceae and Clostridium and a decrease in Bacteroides, Blautia, and Ruminococcus in the gut microbiome. Moreover, we found that the microbiota of hospital environments potentially correlated with the workers' gut microbiota. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings demonstrated structural changes in the gut microbial community of medical workers.
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Microbioma Gastrointestinal , Personal de Salud , Bacterias/clasificación , Estudios de Casos y Controles , China , Estudios Transversales , Disbiosis , Heces , Hospitales , Humanos , Estudios Prospectivos , ARN Ribosómico 16S/genéticaRESUMEN
In order to realize the effective measurement of environmental pollution loss (EPL) caused by waste gas emits from energy consumption in industrial parks, it is built a shadow price model of waste gas emits in this study on the basis of literature review and status analysis. The measurement model is applied to Nanjing MV Industrial Park by using relevant statistical data. It is found that the total environmental pollution loss of waste gas emits from energy consumption in Nanjing MV Industrial Park presents a "U" change trend, which first decreases and then increases. In terms of the composition of environmental pollution loss of waste gas emits, environmental pollution loss caused by SO2 and NO2 stays high, which are the main components of environmental pollution loss and would be the focus of energy conservation and emission reduction in Nanjing MV Industrial Park in the future. The research results provide an effective quantitative analysis method for local government to measure the environmental pollution loss of waste gas emits from energy consumption in industrial parks and to formulate policies for environmental pollution treatment. Graphical abstract.
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Contaminación Ambiental , Industrias , Residuos IndustrialesRESUMEN
To characterize the diversity and richness and explore the function and structure of swine gut microbiome and resistome in common pig-farming feedlots, we sampled and metagenomic sequenced the feces of pigs from four different industrialized feedlots located in four distant provinces across China. Surprisingly, more than half of the nonredundant genes (1,937,648, 54.3%) in the current catalogue were newly found compared with the previously published reference gene catalogue (RGC) of the pig gut microbiome. Additionally, 16 high-completeness draft genomes were obtained by analyzing the dominant species on each feedlot. Notably, seven of these species often appeared in the human body sites. Despite a smaller number of nonredundant genes, our study identified more antibiotic resistance genes than those available in the RGC. Tetracycline, aminoglycoside, and multidrug resistance genes accounted for nearly 70% of the relative abundance in the current catalogue. Slightly higher sharing ratios were shown between the industrialized feedlot pig gut microbiomes and human gut microbiomes than that between the RGC and human counterpart (14.7% versus 12.6% in genes and 94.1% versus 87.7% in functional groups, respectively). Furthermore, a remarkably high number of the antibiotic resistance proteins (n =141) were identified to be shared by the pig, human, and mouse resistome, indicating the potential for horizontal transfer of resistance genes. Of the antibiotic resistance proteins shared by pigs and humans, 50 proteins were related to tetracycline resistance, and 49 were related to aminoglycoside resistance.IMPORTANCE The gut microbiota is believed to be closely related to many important physical functions in the host. Comprehensive data on mammalian gut metagenomes has facilitated research on host-microbiome interaction mechanisms, but less is known about pig gut microbiome, especially the gut microbiome in industrialized feedlot pigs, compared with human microbiome. On the other hand, pig production, as an important source of food, is believed to exacerbate the antibiotic resistance in humans due to the abuse of antibiotics in pig production in various parts of the world. This study delineates an intricate picture of swine gut microbiome and antibiotic resistome in industrialized feedlots and may provide insight for the pig producing industry.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of most pathogenic microorganisms in the world. Previously, the bifunctional enzyme GlmU with glucosamine-1-phosphate acetyltransferase activity and N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase activity has been suggested as a potential drug target; therefore, discovering compounds targeting GlmU acetyltransferase is necessary. The natural products were tested for inhibition of GlmU acetyltransferase activity. We found that dicumarol exhibited inhibitory effects on GlmU acetyltransferase, with a concentration achieving a 50% inhibition (IC50) value of 4.608 µg/ml (13.7 µM). The inhibition kinetics indicated that dicumarol uncompetitively inhibited acetyl CoA and showed mixed-type inhibition for glucosamine-1-phosphate (GlcN-1-P). The activity of dicumarol against M. tuberculosis H37Ra was evaluated with a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) value of 6.25 µg/ml (18.55 µM) in the Alamar blue assay. Dicumarol also exhibited inhibitory effects on several clinically sensitive M. tuberculosis strains and drug-resistant strains, with a range of MIC value of 6.25 to >100 µg/ml. Dicumarol increased the sensitivity of anti-tuberculosis drugs (isoniazid and rifampicin) when dicumarol was present at a low concentration. The transcriptome and proteome data of M. tuberculosis H37Ra treated by dicumarol showed that the affected genes were associated with cell wall synthesis, DNA damage and repair, metabolic processes, and signal transduction. These results provided the mechanism of dicumarol inhibition against GlmU acetyltransferase and M. tuberculosis and also suggested that dicumarol is a potential candidate for TB treatment.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis bifunctional enzyme GlmU is a novel target for anti-TB drugs and is involved in glycosyl donor UDP-N-acetylglucosamine biosynthesis. Here, we found that TPSA (2-[5-(2-{[4-(2-thienyl)-2-pyrimidinyl]sulfanyl}acetyl)-2-thienyl]acetic acid) was a novel inhibitor for GlmU acetyltransferase activity (IC50: 5.3 µM). The interaction sites of GlmU and TPSA by molecular docking were confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis. TPSA showed an inhibitory effect on Mtb H37Ra growth and intracellular H37Ra in macrophage cells (MIC: 66.5 µM). To investigate why TPSA at a higher concentration (66.5 µM) was able to inhibit H37Ra growth, proteome and transcriptome of H37Ra treated with TPSA were analyzed. The expression of two methyltransferases MRA_0565 (Rv0558) and MRA_0567 (Rv0560c) were markedly increased. TPSA was pre-incubated with purified Rv0558 and Rv0560c in the presence of S-adenosylmethionine (methyl donor) respectively, resulting in its decreased inhibitory effect of GlmU on acetyltransferase activity. The inhibition of TPSA on growth of H37Ra with overexpressed Rv0558 and Rv0560c was reduced. These implied that methyltransferases could modify TPSA. The methylation of TPSA catalyzed by Rv0560c was subsequently confirmed by LC-MS. Therefore, TPSA as a GlmU acetyltransferase activity inhibitor may offer a structural basis for new anti-tuberculosis drugs. TPSA needs to be modified further by some groups to prevent its methylation by methyltransferases.
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Antituberculosos/farmacología , Proteínas Bacterianas/antagonistas & inhibidores , Complejos Multienzimáticos/antagonistas & inhibidores , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/efectos de los fármacos , Pirimidinas/farmacología , Tiofenos/farmacología , Animales , Antituberculosos/química , Proteínas Bacterianas/química , Proteínas Bacterianas/genética , Proteínas Bacterianas/metabolismo , Sitios de Unión , Expresión Génica , Cinética , Metilación/efectos de los fármacos , Ratones , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Simulación del Acoplamiento Molecular , Complejos Multienzimáticos/química , Complejos Multienzimáticos/genética , Complejos Multienzimáticos/metabolismo , Mutagénesis Sitio-Dirigida , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/enzimología , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genética , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/crecimiento & desarrollo , Unión Proteica , Conformación Proteica en Hélice alfa , Conformación Proteica en Lámina beta , Dominios y Motivos de Interacción de Proteínas , Proteoma , Pirimidinas/química , Células RAW 264.7 , S-Adenosilmetionina/metabolismo , Tiofenos/química , TranscriptomaRESUMEN
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major hospital-acquired infective pathogen that has developed resistance to many antibiotics. It is imperious to develop novel anti-MRSA drugs to control the emergence of drug resistance. The biosynthesis of cysteine in bacteria is catalyzed by CysE and CysK. CysE was predicted to be important for bacterial viability, it could be a potential drug target. The serine acetyltransferase activity of CysE was detected and its catalytic properties were also determined. CysE homology model was built to investigate interaction sites between CysE and substrate L-Ser or inhibitors by molecular docking. Docking data showed that residues Asp94 and His95 were essential for serine acetyltransferase activity of CysE, which were confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis. Colorimetric assay was used to screen natural products and six compounds which inhibited CysE activity (IC50 ranging from 29.83⯵M to 203.13⯵M) were found. Inhibition types of two compounds 4 (11-oxo-ebracteolatanolide B) and 30 ((4R,4aR)-dihydroxy-3-hydroxymethyl-7,7,10a-trimethyl-2,4,4a,5,6,6a,7,8,9,10,10a,l0b-dodecahydrophenanthro[3,2-b]furan-2-one) on CysE were determined. Compounds 4 and 30 showed inhibitory effect on MRSA growth (MIC at 12.5⯵g/ml and 25⯵g/ml) and mature biofilm. The established colorimetric assay will facilitate further high-throughput screening of CysE inhibitors from different compound libraries. The compounds 4 and 30 may offer structural basis for developing new anti-MRSA drugs.
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Productos Biológicos/antagonistas & inhibidores , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente a Meticilina/efectos de los fármacos , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente a Meticilina/enzimología , Serina O-Acetiltransferasa/efectos de los fármacos , Serina O-Acetiltransferasa/metabolismo , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Secuencia de Bases , Biopelículas/efectos de los fármacos , Dominio Catalítico , Clonación Molecular , Regulación Bacteriana de la Expresión Génica , Cinética , Staphylococcus aureus Resistente a Meticilina/crecimiento & desarrollo , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Modelos Moleculares , Simulación del Acoplamiento Molecular , Mutagénesis Sitio-Dirigida , Alineación de Secuencia , Serina O-Acetiltransferasa/genéticaRESUMEN
While increasing the total output value, industrial production also increases the scale of three-waste emissions, causing serious environmental pollution. As the environmental pollution loss of energy consumption emits in industrial parks has the characteristics of virtual property, diffusion and amplification, the problem of environmental pollution loss measurement is put forward. In order to explore the effective way to measure the environmental pollution loss of energy consumption emits in industrial parks, on the basis of literature review, by analyzing the classical theory of environmental economics, using the method of shadow price and the combination of input and output, the environmental pollution loss measurement model of energy consumption emits was established and applied to with the actual data of Nanjing MV industrial park, achieving satisfactory result. It provides an effective quantitative analysis method for local government to measure the environmental pollution loss and formulate related policies for environmental pollution control.
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Introduction: Human gut microbiota is believed to be directly or indirectly involved in cardiovascular diseases and hypertension. However, the identification and functional status of the hypertension-related gut microbe(s) have not yet been surveyed in a comprehensive manner. Methods: Here we characterized the gut microbiome in hypertension status by comparing fecal samples of 60 patients with primary hypertension and 60 gender-, age-, and body weight-matched healthy controls based on whole-metagenome shotgun sequencing. Results: Hypertension implicated a remarkable gut dysbiosis with significant reduction in within-sample diversity and shift in microbial composition. Metagenome-wide association study (MGWAS) revealed 53,953 microbial genes that differ in distribution between the patients and healthy controls (false discovery rate, 0.05) and can be grouped into 68 clusters representing bacterial species. Opportunistic pathogenic taxa, such as, Klebsiella spp., Streptococcus spp., and Parabacteroides merdae were frequently distributed in hypertensive gut microbiome, whereas the short-chain fatty acid producer, such as, Roseburia spp. and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, were higher in controls. The number of hypertension-associated species also showed stronger correlation to the severity of disease. Functionally, the hypertensive gut microbiome exhibited higher membrane transport, lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and steroid degradation, while in controls the metabolism of amino acid, cofactors and vitamins was found to be higher. We further provided the microbial markers for disease discrimination and achieved an area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.78, demonstrating the potential of gut microbiota in prediction of hypertension. Conclusion: These findings represent specific alterations in microbial diversity, genes, species and functions of the hypertensive gut microbiome. Further studies on the causality relationship between hypertension and gut microbiota will offer new prospects for treating and preventing the hypertension and its associated diseases.
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Bacterias/clasificación , Disbiosis/microbiología , Microbioma Gastrointestinal/genética , Tracto Gastrointestinal/microbiología , Hipertensión/microbiología , Bacterias/genética , Bacterias/aislamiento & purificación , Heces/microbiología , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Metagenoma/genética , Persona de Mediana Edad , Secuenciación Completa del GenomaRESUMEN
An investigation on the bioactive chemical constituents of the roots of Euphorbia fischeriana has been conducted, with 21 diterpenoids obtained using various chromatographic techniques. On the basis of spectroscopic data analysis, the new compounds were elucidated as four ent-abietane-type diterpenoids (1-4) and four tigliane-type diterpenoids (13-16). Also obtained were eight known ent-abietane (5-12) and five known tigliane (17-21) diterpenoids. The potential antituberculosis effects of these diterpenoids were evaluated using a Mycobacterium smegmatis model. The most potent compound according to the in vitro bioassay used was 17-hydroxyjolkinolide B (12) (MIC 1.5 µg/mL).