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He L, Qi W, Tang SM, Cao HW, Jiang YW. [Study on risk factors of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection among health workers in medical institutions]. Zhonghua Lao Dong Wei Sheng Zhi Ye Bing Za Zhi 2024; 42:96-101. [PMID: 38403416 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn121094-20230803-00273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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Objective: To understand the infection status of mycobacterium tuberculosis among health workers in tuberculosis designated medical institutions and explore the risk factors of infection. Methods: From September 2021 to June 2022, a questionnaire survey was conducted among health workers in relevant departments of 4 tuberculosis designated medical institutions by cluster stratified sampling, including the implementation of hospital infection control measures in medical institutions and occupational exposure of medical staff to mycobacterium tuberculosis. Peripheral blood interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) and lung imaging examination were performed to determine the mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Factors with statistical significance in univariate analysis were included in multivariate logistic regression to analyze the risk factors of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Results: A total of 657 people completed the lung imaging examination and questionnaire, of which 654 people had peripheral blood IGRAs detection, and the latent infection rate of tuberculosis was 39.45% (258/654) . Univariate analysis showed that age, sex, marital status, economic income, occupational category, professional title, length of service, and other variables had statistical significances in tuberculosis latent infection (P<0.05) . In terms of personal health status, there were statistically significant differences in the distribution of health workers in terms of their tuberculosis history, tuberculosis history of their immediate family members, previous tuberculin skin test (TST) (P<0.05) . Multivariate analysis showed that there were four risk factors related to tuberculosis, including professional title (X(1)) , years of tuberculosis related works (X(2)) , tuberculosis history (X(3)) and previous TST (X(4)) . The regression equation of the probability of tuberculosis among health workers was y=-1.920+0.246X(1)+0.046X(2)+1.231X(3)+0.478X(4). Conclusion: The latent infection rate of tuberculosis among health workers in tuberculosis designated medical institutions is high. It is necessary to strengthen the management of infection control, carry out regular screening, enhance the self-protection awareness of health workers, and reduce their exposure to mycobacterium tuberculosis and infection risk.
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- L He
- Department of Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenyang 110000, China
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- Department of Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shenyang 110000, China
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Cao HW, Zhang JD, Wang W, Xu QZ. [Prevalence of frailty and associated factors among kidney transplant recipients]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi 2023; 103:1531-1537. [PMID: 37246002 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112137-20221104-02307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Objective: To investigate the prevalence of frailty among kidney transplant recipients and to analyze the influential factors of frailty after kidney transplantation. Methods: We retrospectively included 201 kidney transplant recipients who were followed up in the Department of Urology, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University from November 2020 to May 2022. We investigated the prevalence of frailty based on the Fried Frailty Scale (including unexpected shrinking, slow walking speed, poor grip strength, low physical activity, and exhaustion). Then the logistic regression model and CART decision tree model were established separately to explore the influential factors of frailty after kidney transplantation. Results: Frail kidney transplant recipients accounted for 25.9% (n=52) of all participants. The age [M (Q1, Q3)] of the frailty group was higher than that of the non-frailty group, and the median ages of the two groups were 57(49, 62) and 46(38, 56) (P<0.001); the males accounted for 51.9% (n=27) and 62.4% (n=93), respectively. There was no significant difference in gender composition (P=0.244). Among the five components of Fried Frailty Scale, the incidence of unexpected shrinking was the lowest (19.4%, 39/201). In the frailty group, the frailty combination with the highest incidence was slow walking speed+low physical activity+exhaustion, which was 19.2% (10/52). The logistic regression model showed that advanced age (OR=1.062, 95%CI: 1.005-1.123), history of acute rejection (OR=16.776, 95%CI: 2.288-123.028), increased neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) (OR=2.096, 95%CI: 1.158-3.792), and comorbidity (OR=10.600, 95%CI: 1.828-61.482) were risk factors for frailty among kidney transplant recipients, and high serum albumin level (OR=0.623, 95%CI: 0.488-0.795) was a protective factor. The CART decision tree grew in three layers with four terminal nodes, and three explanatory variables were screened out: serum albumin, NLR, and age. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the logistic regression model were 87.1% (95%CI: 82.5%-91.7%), 69.2% (95%CI: 54.7%-80.9%), and 93.3% (95%CI: 87.7%-96.6%), respectively. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) of the logistic regression model was 0.951 (95%CI: 0.923-0.978). The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the CART decision tree model were 91.0% (95%CI: 87.0%-95.0%), 82.7% (95%CI: 69.2%-91.3%), and 94.0% (95%CI: 88.5%-97.0%), respectively. The AUC of the CART decision tree model was 0.883 (95%CI: 0.819-0.948). Conclusions: The prevalence of frailty among kidney transplant recipients in this study is 25.9%. Advanced age, history of acute rejection, low serum albumin level, increased NLR, and comorbidity are likely to be associated with the long-term frailty among kidney transplant recipients.
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China
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- Department of Urology, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China
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- Health Check-up Center, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China
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Cao HW, Zhao YN, Liu XS, Rono JK, Yang ZM. A metal chaperone OsHIPP16 detoxifies cadmium by repressing its accumulation in rice crops. Environ Pollut 2022; 311:120058. [PMID: 36041567 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Cadmium (Cd) is an environmentally polluted toxic heavy metal and seriously risks food safety and human health through food chain. Mining genetic potentials of plants is a crucial step for limiting Cd accumulation in rice crops and improving environmental quality. This study characterized a novel locus in rice genome encoding a Cd-binding protein named OsHIPP16, which resides in the nucleus and near plasma membrane. OsHIPP16 was strongly induced by Cd stress. Histochemical analysis with pHIPP16::GUS reveals that OsHIPP16 is primarily expressed in root and leaf vascular tissues. Expression of OsHIPP16 in the yeast mutant strain ycf1 sensitive to Cd conferred cellular tolerance. Transgenic rice overexpressing OsHIPP16 (OE) improved rice growth with increased plant height, biomass, and chlorophyll content but with a lower degree of oxidative injury and Cd accumulation, whereas knocking out OsHIPP16 by CRISPR-Cas9 compromised the growth and physiological response. A lifelong trial with Cd-polluted soil shows that the OE plants accumulated much less Cd, particularly in brown rice where the Cd concentrations declined by 11.76-34.64%. Conversely, the knockout oshipp16 mutants had higher levels of Cd with the concentration in leaves being increased by 26.36-35.23% over the wild-type. These results suggest that adequate expression of OsHIPP16 would profoundly contribute to Cd detoxification by regulating Cd accumulation in rice, suggesting that both OE and oshipp16 mutant plants have great potentials for restricting Cd acquisition in the rice crop and phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated wetland soils.
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- Hong Wei Cao
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Institute of Agricultural Facilities and Equipment, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, 210014, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
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Feng SJ, Liu XS, Cao HW, Yang ZM. Identification of a rice metallochaperone for cadmium tolerance by an epigenetic mechanism and potential use for clean up in wetland. Environ Pollut 2021; 288:117837. [PMID: 34329044 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Revised: 07/09/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal that initiates diverse chronic diseases through food chains. Developing a biotechnology for manipulating Cd uptake in plants is beneficial to reduce environmental and health risks. Here, we identified a novel epigenetic mechanism underlying Cd accumulation regulated by an uncharacterized metallochaperone namely Heavy Metal Responsive Protein (HMP) in rice plants. OsHMP resides in cytoplasm and nucleus, dominantly induced by Cd stress and binds directly to Cd ions. OsHMP overexpression enhanced the rice growth under Cd stress but accumulated more Cd, whereas knockout or knockdown of OsHMP showed a contrasting effect. The enhanced Cd accumulation in the transgenic lines was confirmed by a long-term experiment with rice growing at the environmentally realistic Cd concentration in soil. The bisulfite sequencing and chromatin immunoprecipitation assessments revealed that Cd stress reduced significantly the DNA methylation at CpG (Cytosine-Guanine) and histone H3K9me2 marks in the upstream of OsHMP. By identifying a couple of mutants defective in DNA methylation and histone modification (H3K9me2) such as Osmet1 (methylatransfease1) and Ossdg714 (kryptonite), we found that the Cd-induced epigenetic hypomethylation at the region was associated with OsHMP overexpression, which consequently led to Cd detoxification in rice. The causal relationship was confirmed by the GUS reporter gene coupled with OsHMP and OsMET1 whereby OsMET1 repressed directly the OsHMP expression. Our work signifies that expression of OsHMP is required for Cd detoxification in rice plants, and the Cd-induced hypomethylation in the specific region is responsible for the enhanced OsHMP expression. In summary, this study gained an insight into the epigenetic mechanism for additional OsHMP expression which consequently ensures rice adaptation to the Cd-contaminated environment.
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- Sheng Jun Feng
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China; The State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Laboratory of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, 311300, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
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Rono JK, Le Wang L, Wu XC, Cao HW, Zhao YN, Khan IU, Yang ZM. Identification of a new function of metallothionein-like gene OsMT1e for cadmium detoxification and potential phytoremediation. Chemosphere 2021; 265:129136. [PMID: 33276998 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.129136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Revised: 11/07/2020] [Accepted: 11/25/2020] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Cadmium (Cd) is a biologically non-essential and toxic heavy metal leaking to the environment via natural emission or anthropogenic activities, thereby contaminating crops and threatening human health. Metallothioneins (MTs) are a group of metal-binding proteins playing critical roles in metal allocation and homeostasis. In this study, we identified a novel function of OsMT1e from rice plants. OsMT1e was dominantly expressed in roots at all developmental stages and, to less extent, expressed in leaves at vegetative and seed filling stages. OsMT1e was mainly targeted to the nucleus and substantially induced by Cd exposure. Expression of OsMT1e in a yeast Cd-sensitive strain ycf1 conferred cellular tolerance to Cd, even though the ycf1 + OsMT1e cells accumulated more Cd than the control cells (ycf1 + pYES2). Both transgenic rice overexpressing (OX) and repressing OsMT1e by RNA interference (RNAi) were developed. Phenotypic analysis revealed that OsMT1e overexpression enhanced the rice growth concerning the increased shoot or root elongation, dry weight and chlorophyll contents, whereas the RNAi lines displayed a sensitive growth phenotype compared to wild-type. Assessment with 0.5, 2 and 10 μM Cd for two weeks revealed that the RNAi lines accumulated less Cd, while the OX lines had an increased Cd accumulation in root and shoot tissues. The contrasting Cd accumulation phenotypes between the OX and RNAi lines were further confirmed by a long-term study with 0.5 μM Cd for one month. Overall, the study unveiled a new function of OsMT1e in rice, which can be potentially used for engineering genotypes for phytoremediation or minimizing Cd in rice crops.
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- Justice Kipkorir Rono
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
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Zhou Y, Cao HW, Ji QH. [Type 3C diabetes mellitus is an important subgroup of diabetes]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2021; 60:9-12. [PMID: 33397015 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20201110-00932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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- Y Zhou
- Department of Endocrinology, Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, Xi'an 710100, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China
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Song Liu X, Feng SJ, Wang MQ, Zhao YN, Cao HW, Rono JK, Yang ZM. OsNHAD is a chloroplast membrane-located transporter required for resistance to salt stress in rice (Oryza sativa). Plant Sci 2020; 291:110359. [PMID: 31928685 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.110359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Revised: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Salt stress is one of the major environmental factors limiting crop productivity. Although physiological and molecular characterization of salt stress response in plants has been the focus for many years, research on transporters for sodium ion (Na+) uptake, translocation and accumulation in plants, particularly in food crops like rice is limited. In this study, we functionally identified an uncharacterized sodium ion transporter named OsNHAD which encodes a putative Na+ ⁄ H+ antiporter in rice. Homology search shows its close relation to the Arabidopsis Na+/H+ antiporter AtNHD1 with 72.74% identity of amino acids. OsNHAD transcripts mainly express in leaves and are induced by Na+ stress. Confocal laser scanning microscopy analysis of OsNHAD::GFP fusion in tobacco leaves shows that OsNHAD resides in the chloroplast envelop. Knock-down of OsNHAD by RNA interference led to increased rice sensitivity to Na+, manifested by stunted plant growth, enhanced cellular damage, reduced PSII activity and changed chloroplast morphology. Mutation of OsNHAD also resulted in accumulation of more Na+ in chloroplasts and in shoots as well, suggesting that OsNHAD is involved in mediating efflux and detoxification of Na+ but does not affect K+ accumulation in plant cells. Complementation test reveals that OsNHAD was able to functionally restore the Arabidopsis mutant atnhd1-1 growth phenotype. These results suggest that OsNHAD possibly mediates homeostasis of sodium ions in the subcellular compartments and tissues of the plants when challenged to salt stress.
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- Xue Song Liu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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Khan IU, Rono JK, Zhang BQ, Liu XS, Wang MQ, Wang LL, Wu XC, Chen X, Cao HW, Yang ZM. Identification of novel rice (Oryza sativa) HPP and HIPP genes tolerant to heavy metal toxicity. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 2019; 175:8-18. [PMID: 30878662 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.03.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2018] [Revised: 03/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/10/2019] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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HPP (heavy metal associated plant protein) and HIPP (heavy metal associated isoprenylated plant protein) are a group of metal-binding metallochaperones playing crucial roles in metal homeostasis and detoxification. Up to now, only few of them have been functionally identified in plants. Here, we identified 54 HPP and HIPP genes in rice genome. Analysis of the transcriptome datasets of the rice genome exposed to cadmium (Cd) revealed 17 HPP/HIPP genes differentially expressed, with 11 being upregulated (>2 fold change, p < 0.05). Comprehensive analysis of transcripts by qRT-PCR showed that both types of genes displayed diverse expression pattern in rice under excess manganese (Mn), copper (Cu) and Cd stress. Multiple genomic analyses of HPPs/HIPPs including phylogenesis, conserved domains and motifs, genomic arrangement and genomic and tandem duplication were performed. To identify the role of the genes, OsHIPP16, OsHIPP34 and OsHIPP60 were randomly selected to express in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) mutants pmrl, cup2, ycf1 and zrc1, exhibiting sensitivity to Mn, Cu, Cd and Zn toxicity, respectively. Complementation test showed that the transformed cells accumulated more metals in the cells, but their growth status was improved. To confirm the functional role, two mutant oshipp42 lines defective in OsHIPP42 expression were identified under metal stress. Under normal condition, no difference of growth between the oshipp42 mutant and wild-type plants was observed. Upon excess Cu, Zn, Cd and Mn, the oshipp42 lines grew weaker than the wild-type. Our work provided a novel source of heavy metal-binding genes in rice that can be potentially used to develop engineered plants for phytoremediation in heavy metal-contaminated soils.
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- Irfan Ullah Khan
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
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Liu XS, Feng SJ, Zhang BQ, Wang MQ, Cao HW, Rono JK, Chen X, Yang ZM. OsZIP1 functions as a metal efflux transporter limiting excess zinc, copper and cadmium accumulation in rice. BMC Plant Biol 2019; 19:283. [PMID: 31248369 PMCID: PMC6598308 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-019-1899-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2019] [Accepted: 06/19/2019] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND Metal homeostasis is critical for plant growth, development and adaptation to environmental stresses and largely governed by a variety of metal transporters. The plant ZIP (Zn-regulated transporter, Iron-regulated transporter-like Protein) family proteins belong to the integral membrane transporters responsible for uptake and allocation of essential and non-essential metals. However, whether the ZIP family members mediate metal efflux and its regulatory mechanism remains unknown. RESULTS In this report, we provided evidence that OsZIP1 is a metal-detoxified transporter through preventing excess Zn, Cu and Cd accumulation in rice. OsZIP1 is abundantly expressed in roots throughout the life span and sufficiently induced by excess Zn, Cu and Cd but not by Mn and Fe at transcriptional and translational levels. Expression of OsZIP-GFP fusion in rice protoplasts and tobacco leaves shows that OsZIP1 resides in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and plasma membrane (PM). The yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) complementation test shows that expression of OsZIP1 reduced Zn accumulation. Transgenic rice overexpressing OsZIP1 grew better under excess metal stress but accumulated less of the metals in plants. In contrast, both oszip1 mutant and RNA interference (RNAi) lines accumulated more metal in roots and contributed to metal sensitive phenotypes. These results suggest OsZIP1 is able to function as a metal exporter in rice when Zn, Cu and Cd are excess in environment. We further identified the DNA methylation of histone H3K9me2 of OsZIP1 and found that OsZIP1 locus, whose transcribed regions imbed a 242 bp sequence, is demethylated, suggesting that epigenetic modification is likely associated with OsZIP1 function under Cd stress. CONCLUSION OsZIP1 is a transporter that is required for detoxification of excess Zn, Cu and Cd in rice.
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- Xue Song Liu
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Bioremediation of Soil Contamination, Laboratory of Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology, Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Hangzhou, 311300 China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095 China
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Ren YX, Wang FY, Cao HW. [Nursing care in common breast problems in early breast feeding]. Zhonghua Hu Li Za Zhi 1997; 32:581-3. [PMID: 9496001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Fischbach M, Cao HW, Diez Ibanez M, Tsaconas C, Alouani S, Montandon F, el Baraka M, Padieu P, Dreano M, Chessebeuf-Padieu M. Maintenance of liver function in long term culture of hepatocytes following in vitro or in vivo Ha-rasEJ transfection. Cell Biol Toxicol 1991; 7:327-45. [PMID: 1794108 DOI: 10.1007/bf00124069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Collagenase isolated rat hepatocytes were transfected with liposome encapsulated pEJ (LE-pEJ), a plasmid carrying the human cellular activated Ha-rasEJ oncogene. A proliferative cell line was cloned from these cells transfected in vitro. It secreted per day 0.87 micrograms albumin and 0.32 microgram transferrin per 10(6) cells, and 11.06 nmol free and conjugated bile acids (BA) per mg protein. Also, it metabolized 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF) into N- and ring-hydroxylated metabolites and 2-aminofluorene at rates of 1.50, 9.73, and 1.98 nmol/mg cell protein/24 hr, respectively. Rats were i.v. injected with both LE-pEJ and LE-p17hGHneo carrying the hGH cDNA gene, and secreted hGH in the plasma which induced the synthesis of anti-hGH antibodies. A cell line was cloned from cultures of primary hepatocytes isolated from the liver of transfected rats. After 2 to 3 months in culture, this cell line secreted per day 18.9 micrograms albumin and 11.0 micrograms transferrin per 10(6) cells, 38.75 nmol total BA per mg cell protein, and up to 31 ng hGH per 10(6) cells without cloning hGH recombinant cells. A 24 hr control culture of primary hepatocytes isolated from non transfected rats secreted 25.5 micrograms albumin and 11.7 micrograms transferrin per 10(6) cells, and produced 21.64 nmol total BA and 2.13 nmol N-OH-2-AAF per mg cell protein. Hence, Ha-rasEJ transfection of either hepatocytes in vitro or liver cells in vivo, initiated cell cycles leading to presumptive proliferating hepatocytes which express liver function.
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- M Fischbach
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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