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Adaptive Responses of Tropical Crops: A Multi‐Scale Omics Integrated Perspective

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Tropical crops integrate genomic, morphological, physiological, and ecological adaptations to thrive under extreme and variable environments. This review highlights how natural selection, domestication, and breeding shape stress resilience, resource‐use strategies, and productivity in sugarcane, banana, cassava, rubber and oil palm, offering new routes
Peilin Wang, Chenhui Li, Dongjiao Wang, Qibin Wu, Zhen Zeng, Huiming Guo, Han Cheng, Songbi Chen, Hongxing Cao, Hongmei Cheng, Jianghui Xie, Youxiong Que   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Squalene synthase as a target for Chagas disease therapeutics.

PLoS Pathogens, 2014
Trypanosomatid parasites are the causative agents of many neglected tropical diseases and there is currently considerable interest in targeting endogenous sterol biosynthesis in these organisms as a route to the development of novel anti-infective drugs.
Na Shang, Qian Li, Tzu-Ping Ko, Hsiu-Chien Chan, Jikun Li, Yingying Zheng, Chun-Hsiang Huang, Feifei Ren, Chun-Chi Chen, Zhen Zhu, Melina Galizzi, Zhu-Hong Li, Carlos A Rodrigues-Poveda, Dolores Gonzalez-Pacanowska, Phercyles Veiga-Santos, Tecia Maria Ulisses de Carvalho, Wanderley de Souza, Julio A Urbina, Andrew H-J Wang, Roberto Docampo, Kai Li, Yi-Liang Liu, Eric Oldfield, Rey-Ting Guo   +23 more
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MicroRNA‐Seq Analysis Reveals a Critical Role for miR‐222 in Bovine Intramuscular Adipogenesis via the DDIT4/mTORC1 Axis

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Schematic diagram illustrating how miR‐222 promotes bovine intramuscular adipogenesis by targeting DDIT4 to activate the mTORC1 signaling pathway. ABSTRACT Intramuscular fat (IMF) is a key determinant of beef quality, particularly with respect to tenderness, flavor, and juiciness.
Jianbing Tan, Liang Qiu, Zhenghai Zhou, Zhipeng Zhang, Nanfei Wang, Jiangang Hao, Linsen Zan, Wucai Yang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chitin Synthase, a Fungal Glycosyltransferase that Is a Valuable Antifungal Target

CHIMIA, 2011
During the last 30 past years, more life-threatening fungal infections have appeared due to the increasing frequency of patients with weakened immune systems.
Jean-Bernard Behr
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Use of Clotrimazole in Finfish Aquaculture: Mechanistic Insights, Limitations, and Future Directions for Antifungal Therapy

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
This review critically evaluates clotrimazole as a potential antifungal for finfish aquaculture, highlighting strong mechanistic and in vitro efficacy against aquatic mycoses alongside major gaps in in vivo evidence, toxicokinetics, residue safety, and environmental risk, outlining priorities for responsible therapeutic development and regulatory ...
Arya Sen, Debashri Mondal, Thangapalam Jawahar Abraham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inhibition of sterol biosynthesis in animal cells by 14 alpha-hydroxymethyl sterols.

Journal of Lipid Research, 1980
The chemical syntheses of a number of 14 alpha-hydroxymethyl sterols and 14 alpha -hydroxymethyl-15 alpha-hydroxysterols and their derivatives have been pursued to permit evaluation of their activity in the inhibition of sterol biosynthesis in animal ...
G J Schroepfer, Jr, E J Parish, R A Pascal, Jr, A A Kandutsch   +3 more
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Status and future of recombinant adeno‐associated virus vector manufacturing

Biotechnology Progress, EarlyView.
Abstract Sixty years of adeno‐associated virus (AAV) research illustrates a trajectory marked by basic science exploration, iterative innovation, persistent challenges, a number of clinical setbacks, as well as commercial therapeutic triumphs. This continual evolution has led to recombinant AAV (rAAV) becoming a cornerstone of modern gene therapy ...
Frank Agbogbo, David Dismuke
wiley   +1 more source

Sterol methyltransferase a target for anti-amoeba therapy: towards transition state analog and suicide substrate drug design

Journal of Lipid Research, 2017
Ergosterol biosynthesis pathways essential to pathogenic protozoa growth and absent from the human host offer new chokepoint targets. Here, we present characterization and cell-based interference of Acanthamoeba spp sterol 24-/28-methylases (SMTs) that ...
Medhanie E. Kidane, Boden H. Vanderloop, Wenxu Zhou, Crista D. Thomas, Emilio Ramos, Ujjal Singha, Minu Chaudhuri, W. David Nes   +7 more
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Fungal Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms, Drivers, and Global Clinical Burden

ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fungal antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing concern for world health caused by an increase in multidrug‐resistant infections, an increase in environmental reservoirs, and the ineffectiveness of current antifungal treatments. Fungal infections continue to be largely excluded from AMR initiatives while causing over 1.6 million deaths ...
Bikash Baral
wiley   +1 more source

Sterol Biosynthesis Pathway as Target for Anti-trypanosomatid Drugs

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2009
Sterols are constituents of the cellular membranes that are essential for their normal structure and function. In mammalian cells, cholesterol is the main sterol found in the various membranes.
Wanderley de Souza, Juliany Cola Fernandes Rodrigues   +1 more
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