Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

March 24, 2023

Systematic review of marine environmental DNA metabarcoding studies: toward best practices for data usability and accessibility

Meghan M. Shea, Jacob Kuppermann, Megan P. Rogers, Dustin Summer Smith, Paul Edwards, Alexandria B. Boehm

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14993 PubMed 36992947

March 13, 2023

Relationship between ferroptosis and mitophagy in cardiac ischemia reperfusion injury: a mini-review

Cuihua Liu, Zunjiang Li, Botao Li, Wei Liu, Shizhong Zhang, Kuncheng Qiu, Wei Zhu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14952 PubMed 36935924

March 29, 2023

Gram-negative ESKAPE bacteria bloodstream infections in patients during the COVID-19 pandemic

María Dolores Alcántar-Curiel, Manuel Huerta-Cedeño, Ma Dolores Jarillo-Quijada, Catalina Gayosso-Vázquez, José Luis Fernández-Vázquez, María Luisa Hernández-Medel, Manuelita Zavala-Pineda, Miguel Ángel Morales-Gil, Verónica Alejandra Hernández-Guzmán, Manuel Ismael Bolaños-Hernández, Silvia Giono-Cerezo, José Ignacio Santos-Preciado

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15007 PubMed 37013147

March 17, 2023

Roles of cuproptosis-related gene DLAT in various cancers: a bioinformatic analysis and preliminary verification on pro-survival autophagy

Qinjing Yang, Shuangshuang Zeng, Wei Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15019 PubMed 36949759

March 2, 2023

Biocontrol endophytes Bacillus subtilis R31 influence the quality, transcriptome and metabolome of sweet corn

Mingwei Shao, Yanhong Chen, Qingyou Gong, Shuang Miao, Chunji Li, Yunhao Sun, Di Qin, Xiaojian Guo, Xun Yan, Ping Cheng, Guohui Yu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14967 PubMed 36883062

March 17, 2023

Ferroptosis-dependent breast cancer cell-derived exosomes inhibit migration and invasion of breast cancer cells by suppressing M2 macrophage polarization

Chenghao Yi, Shilong Wu, Qianyu Duan, Lei Liu, Li Li, Yonghui Luo, Anan Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15060 PubMed 36949762

March 28, 2023

The modulatory effects of gut microbes and metabolites on blood–brain barrier integrity and brain function in sepsis-associated encephalopathy

Zhaoying Li, Fangxiang Zhang, Meisha Sun, Jia Liu, Li Zhao, Shuchun Liu, Shanshan Li, Bin Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15122 PubMed 37009158

March 31, 2023

miR-126 promotes M1 to M2 macrophage phenotype switching via VEGFA and KLF4

Xinyang Shou, Yimin Wang, Qingyu Jiang, Jun Chen, Qiang Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15180 PubMed 37020848

March 10, 2023

Screening plant growth-promoting bacteria from the rhizosphere of invasive weed Ageratina adenophora for crop growth

Yun Xia, Hongbo Zhang, Yu Zhang, Yuyu Zhang, Jiani Liu, Robert Seviour, Yunhong Kong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15064 PubMed 36923499

March 8, 2023

In vitro and in silico evaluations of actinomycin X₂and actinomycin D as potent anti-tuberculosis agents

Kamal Ahmad Qureshi, Faizul Azam, Muhammad Qaiser Fatmi, Mahrukh Imtiaz, Dinesh Kumar Prajapati, Pankaj Kumar Rai, Mariusz Jaremko, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Gamal Osman Elhassan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14502 PubMed 36935926

March 28, 2023

High expression of six-transmembrane epithelial antigen of prostate 3 promotes the migration and invasion and predicts unfavorable prognosis in glioma

Langmei Deng, Shuangshuang Zeng, Qiaoli Yi, Liying Song

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15136 PubMed 37009153

March 13, 2023

Characterization of viral pathogens associated with symptomatic upper respiratory tract infection in adults during a low COVID-19 transmission period

Nurlan Sandybayev, Vyacheslav Beloussov, Vitaliy Strochkov, Maxim Solomadin, Joanna Granica, Sergey Yegorov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15008 PubMed 36935913

March 27, 2023

m⁶A reader IGF2BP1 accelerates apoptosis of high glucose-induced vascular endothelial cells in a m⁶A-HMGB1 dependent manner

Anru Liang, Jianyu Liu, Yanlin Wei, Yuan Liao, Fangxiao Wu, Jiang Ruan, Junjun Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14954 PubMed 37009154

March 20, 2023

Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA at K-12 schools: comparison to pooled clinical testing data

Sooyeol Kim, Alexandria B. Boehm

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15079 PubMed 36967994

March 6, 2023

Microbial diversity and abundance in loamy sandy soil under renaturalization of former arable land

Audrius Kacergius, Diana Sivojiene

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14761 PubMed 36908818

March 8, 2023

Rapid point-of-care detection of BK virus in urine by an HFman probe-based loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay and a finger-driven microfluidic chip

Yongjuan Zhao, Yi Zeng, Renfei Lu, Zhiying Wang, Xiaoling Zhang, Nannan Wu, Tongyu Zhu, Yang Wang, Chiyu Zhang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14943 PubMed 36915661

March 13, 2023

Evaluation of DNA metabarcoding for identifying fish eggs: a case study on the West Florida Shelf

Mya Breitbart, Makenzie Kerr, Michael J. Schram, Ian Williams, Grace Koziol, Ernst Peebles, Christopher D. Stallings

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15016 PubMed 36935909

March 8, 2023

Mezcal worm in a bottle: DNA evidence suggests a single moth species

Akito Y. Kawahara, Jose I. Martinez, David Plotkin, Amanda Markee, Violet Butterwort, Christian D. Couch, Emmanuel F.A. Toussaint

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14948 PubMed 36915657

March 20, 2023

RNA sequencing-based exploration of the effects of far-red light on microRNAs involved in the shade-avoidance response of D. officinale

Yifan Yang, Yuqiang Qiu, Wei Ye, Gang Sun, Hansheng Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15001 PubMed 36967993

March 3, 2023

MicroRNA expression in apical periodontitis and pulpal inflammation: a systematic review

Zainab Jamal Al Gashaamy, Tiba Alomar, Linah Al-Sinjary, Mohammad Wazzan, Musab Hamed Saeed, Natheer H. Al-Rawi

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14949 PubMed 36890871

March 1, 2023

Unveiling the evolutionary relationships and the high cryptic diversity in Andean rainfrogs (Craugastoridae: Pristimantis myersi group)

Daniela Franco-Mena, Juan M. Guayasamin, Diego Andrade-Brito, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Fernando J.M. Rojas-Runjaic

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14715 PubMed 36879909

March 10, 2023

HNF4G increases cisplatin resistance in lung adenocarcinoma via the MAPK6/Akt pathway

Jiaqi Liang, Guangyin Zhao, Yunyi Bian, Guoshu Bi, Qihai Sui, Huan Zhang, Haochun Shi, Guangyao Shan, Yiwei Huang, Zhencong Chen, Lin Wang, Cheng Zhan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14996 PubMed 36923501

March 10, 2023

LTA4H extensively associates with mRNAs and lncRNAs indicative of its novel regulatory targets

Tianjiao Ren, Song Wang, Bo Zhang, Wei Zhou, Cansi Wang, Xiaorui Zhao, Juan Feng

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14875 PubMed 36923505

March 8, 2023

Surviving without oxygen involves major tissue specific changes in the proteome of crucian carp (Carassius carassius)

Anette Johansen, Bernd Thiede, Jan Haug Anonsen, Göran E. Nilsson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14890 PubMed 36915662

March 13, 2023

Dihydrotanshinone I inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma cells proliferation through DNA damage and EGFR pathway

Linjun Wang, Xiangwei Xu, Dexing Chen, Chenghang Li