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  1. Article: Human long noncoding RNA,

    John, Kristen / Huntress, Ian / Smith, Ethan / Chou, Hsuan / Tollison, Tammy S / Covarrubias, Sergio / Crisci, Elisa / Carpenter, Susan / Peng, Xinxia

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2024  

    Abstract: Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a newer class of noncoding transcripts identified as key regulators of biological processes. Here we aimed to identify novel lncRNA targets that play critical roles in major human respiratory viral infections by ... ...

    Abstract Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a newer class of noncoding transcripts identified as key regulators of biological processes. Here we aimed to identify novel lncRNA targets that play critical roles in major human respiratory viral infections by systematically mining large-scale transcriptomic datasets. Using bulk RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis, we identified a previously uncharacterized lncRNA, named virus inducible lncRNA modulator of interferon response (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2024.03.25.586578
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  2. Article ; Online: Inferring environmental transmission using phylodynamics: a case-study using simulated evolution of an enteric pathogen.

    Dawson, Daniel / Rasmussen, David / Peng, Xinxia / Lanzas, Cristina

    Journal of the Royal Society, Interface

    2021  Volume 18, Issue 179, Page(s) 20210041

    Abstract: Indirect (environmental) and direct (host-host) transmission pathways cannot easily be distinguished when they co-occur in epidemics, particularly when they occur on similar time scales. Phylodynamic reconstruction is a potential approach to this problem ...

    Abstract Indirect (environmental) and direct (host-host) transmission pathways cannot easily be distinguished when they co-occur in epidemics, particularly when they occur on similar time scales. Phylodynamic reconstruction is a potential approach to this problem that combines epidemiological information (temporal, spatial information) with pathogen whole-genome sequencing data to infer transmission trees of epidemics. However, factors such as differences in mutation and transmission rates between host and non-host environments may obscure phylogenetic inference from these methods. In this study, we used a network-based transmission model that explicitly models pathogen evolution to simulate epidemics with both direct and indirect transmission. Epidemics were simulated according to factorial combinations of direct/indirect transmission proportions, host mutation rates and conditions of environmental pathogen growth. Transmission trees were then reconstructed using the phylodynamic approach SCOTTI (structured coalescent transmission tree inference) and evaluated. We found that although insufficient diversity sets a lower bound on when accurate phylodynamic inferences can be made, transmission routes and assumed pathogen lifestyle affected pathogen population structure and subsequently influenced both reconstruction success and the likelihood of direct versus indirect pathways being reconstructed. We conclude that prior knowledge of the likely ecology and population structure of pathogens in host and non-host environments is critical to fully using phylodynamic techniques.
    MeSH term(s) Epidemics ; Phylogeny ; Probability
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-09
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2156283-0
    ISSN 1742-5662 ; 1742-5689
    ISSN (online) 1742-5662
    ISSN 1742-5689
    DOI 10.1098/rsif.2021.0041
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  3. Article: Pre-challenge gut microbial signature predicts RhCMV/SIV vaccine efficacy in rhesus macaques.

    Brochu, Hayden N / Smith, Elise / Jeong, Sangmi / Carlson, Michelle / Hansen, Scott G / Tisoncik-Go, Jennifer / Law, Lynn / Picker, Louis J / Gale, Michael / Peng, Xinxia

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2024  

    Abstract: Background: RhCMV/SIV vaccines protect ∼59% of vaccinated rhesus macaques against repeated limiting-dose intra-rectal exposure with highly pathogenic SIVmac239M, but the exact mechanism responsible for the vaccine efficacy is not known. It is becoming ... ...

    Abstract Background: RhCMV/SIV vaccines protect ∼59% of vaccinated rhesus macaques against repeated limiting-dose intra-rectal exposure with highly pathogenic SIVmac239M, but the exact mechanism responsible for the vaccine efficacy is not known. It is becoming evident that complex interactions exist between gut microbiota and the host immune system. Here we aimed to investigate if the rhesus gut microbiome impacts RhCMV/SIV vaccine-induced protection.
    Methods: Three groups of 15 rhesus macaques naturally pre-exposed to RhCMV were vaccinated with RhCMV/SIV vaccines. Rectal swabs were collected longitudinally both before SIV challenge (after vaccination) and post challenge and were profiled using 16S rRNA based microbiome analysis.
    Results: We identified ∼2,400 16S rRNA amplicon sequence variants (ASVs), representing potential bacterial species/strains. Global gut microbial profiles were strongly associated with each of the three vaccination groups, and all animals tended to maintain consistent profiles throughout the pre-challenge phase. Despite vaccination group differences, using newly developed compositional data analysis techniques we identified a common gut microbial signature predictive of vaccine protection outcome across the three vaccination groups. Part of this microbial signature persisted even after SIV challenge. We also observed a strong correlation between this microbial signature and an early signature derived from whole blood transcriptomes in the same animals.
    Conclusions: Our findings indicate that changes in gut microbiomes are associated with RhCMV/SIV vaccine-induced protection and early host response to vaccination in rhesus macaques.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-28
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2024.02.27.582186
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  4. Article ; Online: Orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variability across the Pliocene-Pleistocene glacial intensification.

    Ao, Hong / Liebrand, Diederik / Dekkers, Mark J / Roberts, Andrew P / Jonell, Tara N / Jin, Zhangdong / Song, Yougui / Liu, Qingsong / Sun, Qiang / Li, Xinxia / Huang, Chunju / Qiang, Xiaoke / Zhang, Peng

    Nature communications

    2024  Volume 15, Issue 1, Page(s) 3364

    Abstract: Intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation (iNHG), ~2.7 million years ago (Ma), led to establishment of the Pleistocene to present-day bipolar icehouse state. Here we document evolution of orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon (AWM) ... ...

    Abstract Intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation (iNHG), ~2.7 million years ago (Ma), led to establishment of the Pleistocene to present-day bipolar icehouse state. Here we document evolution of orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon (AWM) variability across the iNHG using a palaeomagnetically dated centennial-resolution grain size record between 3.6 and 1.9 Ma from a previously undescribed loess-palaeosol/red clay section on the central Chinese Loess Plateau. We find that the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene AWM was characterized by combined 41-kyr and ~100-kyr cycles, in response to ice volume and atmospheric CO
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-19
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-024-47274-9
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  5. Article ; Online: Corrigendum to "A novel immune checkpoint siglec-15 antibody inhibits LUAD by modulating mφ polarization in TME" [Pharmacol. Res. 181 (2022) 106269].

    Xiao, Xuejun / Peng, Yan / Wang, Zheyue / Zhang, Louqian / Yang, Tingting / Sun, Yangyang / Chen, Yufeng / Zhang, Wenqing / Chang, Xinxia / Huang, Wen / Tian, Shuning / Feng, Zhenqing / Xinhua, Nabi / Tang, Qi / Mao, Yuan

    Pharmacological research

    2022  Volume 182, Page(s) 106327

    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-27
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Published Erratum
    ZDB-ID 1003347-6
    ISSN 1096-1186 ; 0031-6989 ; 1043-6618
    ISSN (online) 1096-1186
    ISSN 0031-6989 ; 1043-6618
    DOI 10.1016/j.phrs.2022.106327
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  6. Article ; Online: A review for modified Li composite anode

    Yang Xinxia / Peng Yi / Hou Jia / Liu Yifan / Jian Xian

    Nanotechnology Reviews, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1610-

    Principle, preparation and challenge

    2020  Volume 1624

    Abstract: As the most common energy storage technology on the market, lithium-ion batteries are widely used in various industries and have a profound impact on our daily lives, with the characteristics of high voltage, high capacity, good safety performance, and ... ...

    Abstract As the most common energy storage technology on the market, lithium-ion batteries are widely used in various industries and have a profound impact on our daily lives, with the characteristics of high voltage, high capacity, good safety performance, and long cycle life. Lithium metal was first used in the anode of lithium-ion batteries. However, the inherent growth of lithium dendrites and the instability of the SEI film limit the practical application of lithium metal materials. Despite this, lithium metal is still an ideal anode material to meet the growing demands for electronic equipment and electric vehicles due to its extremely high theoretical specific capacity, low density, and the lowest negative electrochemical potential. With the urgent need to develop new energy storage technologies, the research on lithium metal anodes has once again received extensive attention. In this review, the research progress in the modification of composite lithium metal electrode materials is summarized, including lithium/alloy composite electrode, lithium/carbon-based materials composite electrode and artificial SEI film. The possible directions for future development of lithium metal electrode are also prospected.
    Keywords lithium-ion battery ; lithium metal anode ; modification ; Technology ; T ; Chemical technology ; TP1-1185 ; Physical and theoretical chemistry ; QD450-801
    Subject code 540
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher De Gruyter
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article ; Online: Concurrent Asian monsoon strengthening and early modern human dispersal to East Asia during the last interglacial.

    Ao, Hong / Ruan, Jiaoyang / Martinón-Torres, María / Krapp, Mario / Liebrand, Diederik / Dekkers, Mark J / Caley, Thibaut / Jonell, Tara N / Zhu, Zongmin / Huang, Chunju / Li, Xinxia / Zhang, Ziyun / Sun, Qiang / Yang, Pingguo / Jiang, Jiali / Li, Xinzhou / Xie, Xiaoxun / Song, Yougui / Qiang, Xiaoke /
    Zhang, Peng / An, Zhisheng

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    2024  Volume 121, Issue 3, Page(s) e2308994121

    Abstract: The relationship between ... ...

    Abstract The relationship between initial
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Africa ; Asia ; Asia, Eastern ; Asian People ; Human Migration ; Weather
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-08
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 209104-5
    ISSN 1091-6490 ; 0027-8424
    ISSN (online) 1091-6490
    ISSN 0027-8424
    DOI 10.1073/pnas.2308994121
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  8. Article ; Online: Phylogeny-guided microbiome OTU-specific association test (POST)

    Caizhi Huang / Benjamin J. Callahan / Michael C. Wu / Shannon T. Holloway / Hayden Brochu / Wenbin Lu / Xinxia Peng / Jung-Ying Tzeng

    Microbiome, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2022  Volume 15

    Abstract: Abstract Background The relationship between host conditions and microbiome profiles, typically characterized by operational taxonomic units (OTUs), contains important information about the microbial role in human health. Traditional association testing ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Background The relationship between host conditions and microbiome profiles, typically characterized by operational taxonomic units (OTUs), contains important information about the microbial role in human health. Traditional association testing frameworks are challenged by the high dimensionality and sparsity of typical microbiome profiles. Phylogenetic information is often incorporated to address these challenges with the assumption that evolutionarily similar taxa tend to behave similarly. However, this assumption may not always be valid due to the complex effects of microbes, and phylogenetic information should be incorporated in a data-supervised fashion. Results In this work, we propose a local collapsing test called phylogeny-guided microbiome OTU-specific association test (POST). In POST, whether or not to borrow information and how much information to borrow from the neighboring OTUs in the phylogenetic tree are supervised by phylogenetic distance and the outcome-OTU association. POST is constructed under the kernel machine framework to accommodate complex OTU effects and extends kernel machine microbiome tests from community level to OTU level. Using simulation studies, we show that when the phylogenetic tree is informative, POST has better performance than existing OTU-level association tests. When the phylogenetic tree is not informative, POST achieves similar performance as existing methods. Finally, in real data applications on bacterial vaginosis and on preterm birth, we find that POST can identify similar or more outcome-associated OTUs that are of biological relevance compared to existing methods. Conclusions Using POST, we show that adaptively leveraging the phylogenetic information can enhance the selection performance of associated microbiome features by improving the overall true-positive and false-positive detection. We developed a user friendly R package POSTm which is freely available on CRAN ( https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=POSTm ). Video Abstract.
    Keywords Association test ; Phylogenetic tree ; Kernel machine regression ; Microbial ecology ; QR100-130
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher BMC
    Document type Article ; Online
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  9. Article ; Online: Engineering c-Met-CAR NK-92 cells as a promising therapeutic candidate for lung adenocarcinoma.

    Peng, Yan / Zhang, Wenqing / Chen, Yufeng / Zhang, Louqian / Shen, Hongyu / Wang, Zheyue / Tian, Shuning / Yang, Xiaohui / Cui, Daixun / He, Yiting / Chang, Xinxia / Feng, Zhenqing / Tang, Qi / Mao, Yuan

    Pharmacological research

    2023  Volume 188, Page(s) 106656

    Abstract: Mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (C-Met) has been acknowledged as a significant therapeutic target for treating lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). However, the potential application of chimeric antigen receptors (CAR)-modified natural killer (NK) cells ... ...

    Abstract Mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (C-Met) has been acknowledged as a significant therapeutic target for treating lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). However, the potential application of chimeric antigen receptors (CAR)-modified natural killer (NK) cells targeting c-Met in LUAD is rarely explored. In this study, bioinformatic databases were searched and a tissue microarray (TMA) was enrolled to investigate expression status and prognostic role of c-Met in LUAD. Then, four types of c-Met-CAR structures were designed and prepared. The engineering CAR-NK cells containing c-Met-CARs were transfected, verified and characterized. The tumor-inhibitory role of c-Met-CAR-NK cells was finally evaluated in vitro and in vivo. The results demonstrated that c-Met expression elevated and confirmed that high c-Met expression was significantly associated with unfavorable prognosis in LUAD. Then, C-Met-CAR-NK cells were successfully constructed and DAP10 designed in CAR structure was a favorable stimulator for NK cell activation. CCN4 containing DAP10 co-stimulator exhibited the strongest cytotoxicity compared with other CAR-NK cells. Furthermore, CCN4 cells also exerted the prominent tumor-inhibitory effect on xenograft tumor growth. Collectively, this study suggests that DAP10 is a potent stimulator in CAR structure for NK cell activation, and CCN4-based immunotherapy may represent a promising strategy for the treatment of c-Met-positive LUAD.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Receptors, Chimeric Antigen ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Killer Cells, Natural ; Adenocarcinoma of Lung/genetics ; Adenocarcinoma of Lung/therapy ; Adenocarcinoma of Lung/metabolism ; Lung Neoplasms/genetics ; Lung Neoplasms/therapy ; Lung Neoplasms/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Receptors, Chimeric Antigen
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-11
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1003347-6
    ISSN 1096-1186 ; 0031-6989 ; 1043-6618
    ISSN (online) 1096-1186
    ISSN 0031-6989 ; 1043-6618
    DOI 10.1016/j.phrs.2023.106656
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  10. Article ; Online: Phylogeny-guided microbiome OTU-specific association test (POST).

    Huang, Caizhi / Callahan, Benjamin J / Wu, Michael C / Holloway, Shannon T / Brochu, Hayden / Lu, Wenbin / Peng, Xinxia / Tzeng, Jung-Ying

    Microbiome

    2022  Volume 10, Issue 1, Page(s) 86

    Abstract: Background: The relationship between host conditions and microbiome profiles, typically characterized by operational taxonomic units (OTUs), contains important information about the microbial role in human health. Traditional association testing ... ...

    Abstract Background: The relationship between host conditions and microbiome profiles, typically characterized by operational taxonomic units (OTUs), contains important information about the microbial role in human health. Traditional association testing frameworks are challenged by the high dimensionality and sparsity of typical microbiome profiles. Phylogenetic information is often incorporated to address these challenges with the assumption that evolutionarily similar taxa tend to behave similarly. However, this assumption may not always be valid due to the complex effects of microbes, and phylogenetic information should be incorporated in a data-supervised fashion.
    Results: In this work, we propose a local collapsing test called phylogeny-guided microbiome OTU-specific association test (POST). In POST, whether or not to borrow information and how much information to borrow from the neighboring OTUs in the phylogenetic tree are supervised by phylogenetic distance and the outcome-OTU association. POST is constructed under the kernel machine framework to accommodate complex OTU effects and extends kernel machine microbiome tests from community level to OTU level. Using simulation studies, we show that when the phylogenetic tree is informative, POST has better performance than existing OTU-level association tests. When the phylogenetic tree is not informative, POST achieves similar performance as existing methods. Finally, in real data applications on bacterial vaginosis and on preterm birth, we find that POST can identify similar or more outcome-associated OTUs that are of biological relevance compared to existing methods.
    Conclusions: Using POST, we show that adaptively leveraging the phylogenetic information can enhance the selection performance of associated microbiome features by improving the overall true-positive and false-positive detection. We developed a user friendly R package POSTm which is freely available on CRAN ( https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=POSTm ). Video Abstract.
    MeSH term(s) Computational Biology/methods ; Computer Simulation ; Female ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Microbiota/genetics ; Phylogeny ; Premature Birth
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Video-Audio Media ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2697425-3
    ISSN 2049-2618 ; 2049-2618
    ISSN (online) 2049-2618
    ISSN 2049-2618
    DOI 10.1186/s40168-022-01266-3
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