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BACKGROUND: Hericium erinaceus, also known as lion's mane mushroom, is a widely distributed edible and medicinal fungus in Asian countries. H. erinaceus harbors diverse bioactive metabolites with anticancer, immunomodulating, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antihypertensive, antidiabetic and neuroprotective properties. Although the chemical synthesis processes of these bioactive metabolites are known, the biosynthetic processes remain unknown. RESULTS: In this study, we obtained the transcriptomes of six H. erinaceus strains using next-generation RNA sequencing and investigated the characteristics of the transcriptomes and biosynthesis of bioactive compounds, especially polysaccharides. The transcriptomes ranged in size from 46.58 to 58.14 Mb, with the number of unigenes ranging from 20,902 to 37,259 across the six H. erinaceus strains. Approximately 60% of the unigenes were successfully annotated by comparing sequences against different databases, including the nonredundant (NR), Gene Ontology (GO), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), clusters of orthologous groups for eukaryotic complete genomes (KOG) and Swiss-Prot databases. Most of the transcripts were putatively involved in signal transduction, carbohydrate metabolism, translation, transport and catabolism, and amino acid metabolism. Genes involved in polysaccharide biosynthesis were identified, and these genes encoded phosphoglucomutase (PGM), glucose phosphate isomerase (PGI), UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase (UGP), glycoside hydrolase family proteins, glycosyltransferase family proteins and other proteins. Moreover, the putative pathway for the intracellular polysaccharide biosynthesis of H. erinaceus was analyzed. Additionally, the open reading frames (ORFs) and simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were predicted from the transcriptome data of the six strains. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the present study may facilitate the discovery of polysaccharide biosynthesis processes in H. erinaceus and provide useful information for exploring the secondary metabolites in other members of the Basidiomycetes genus.
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The peritoneal metastasis-associated phosphatase of regenerating liver-3 (PRL-3) is upregulated in gastric cancer. The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/RAC serine/threonine-protein kinase (AKT) signaling pathway acts downstream of PRL-3 in gastric cancer. However, the exact PRL-3 signaling mechanisms are poorly understood. The present study investigated whether PRL-3 facilitates the peritoneal metastasis of gastric cancer via the PI3K/AKT pathway in vivo and in vitro. Nude mouse models of peritoneal metastasis were established using SGC7901/PRL-3 cell lines. The results confirmed that the invasion and migration abilities of SGC7901/PRL-3 cells were significantly increased in these models. Furthermore, western blotting demonstrated that the expression of p-AKT, matrix metallopeptidase-2 (MMP-2) and -9 proteins increased in SGC7901/PRL-3 cells. These effects were suppressed in SGC7901 cell lines when PI3K was inhibited by LY294002. Furthermore, tumors derived from the peritoneal injection of SGC7901/PRL-3 cells were significantly smaller when the cells were grown in the presence of LY249002, compared with cells grown in its absence. These results indicated that targeted inhibition of the PI3K/AKT signaling pathway decreased the effects of PRL-3 on metastasis in vivo. Collectively, the results of the present study indicated that PRL-3 acts via the PI3K/AKT pathway to promote peritoneal metastasis and invasion of gastric cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.
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This paper reported the synergistic effect of KT and IAA, and the effects of age of seedlings, length of hypocotyls, nitrogen contents and NH(+)(4)-N/TN ratio on the induction of female flowers in derooted seedlings of Cucumis sativus L. for the establishment of an efficient system for the induction of female flowers. When cultured on MS basal medium supplemented with KT 3.0 mg/L and IAA 0.01 mg/L, an induction rate of 28% was obtained for the 7-day-old derooted seedlings with 1/2 hypocotyl, 12% and 26% higher than when cultured with KT 3.0 mg/L alone and IAA 0.01 mg/L alone, respectively, while no female flowers was formed on the control medium, which indicates that KT and IAA have an evident synergistic effect on the induction of female flowers. Experiment was done with N concentration of 60-90 mmol/L or with NH(+)(4)-N/TN ratio of 12.5%-50% (total N kept at 80 mmol/L), with lengths of hypocotyls of 0-4/4, and with different ages of seedlings of 5-8-day-old, the highest induction rate of 40%, 48% and 57% for female flowers was achieved on medium of N 80 mmol/L (NH(+)(4)-N/TN 37.5%), from seedlings with 1/4 hypocotyl and from the treatment using 6-day-old seedlings respectively.