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Xing TJ, Zhao KY, Li WT, Wang LJ, Lu FM. [Association between HBV viral load and severity of liver inflammation in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection]. Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi 2023; 31:954-960. [PMID: 37872091 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn501113-20230820-00061] [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: 10/25/2023]
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Objective: To explore the relationship and dynamic changes between virological markers and hepatic pathological damage due to host anti-hepatitis B virus (HBV) immunity in the natural course of disease in chronic HBV infected patients. Methods: Two hundred and thirty-eight adult chronic HBV-infected patients who underwent liver biopsy from January 2016 to June 2022 in Taizhou Hospital, Zhejiang Province, were retrospectively selected. General clinical data such as age, gender, platelets, ALT, AST, albumin, HBV DNA, qHBsAg, HBeAg, and liver pathology diagnostic indexes such as the grade of liver necroinflammation and liver fibrotic stages of the patients were collected. The patients were grouped according to HBeAg status, and subgrouped according to different grades of liver necroinflammation and different HBV DNA loads. Statistical analyses were performed to compare the differences in HBV virologic marker levels between the groups, and the correlation between them and the indicators of hepatic inflammatory injury, such as ALT,AST, and the grade of liver necroinflammation in the patients. Results: The levels of HBV virological markers in HBeAg-positive patients with moderate or higher liver necroinflammatory grade (G≥2) were significantly lower than those with mild (no) liver necroinflammatory grade (G < 2) (P < 0.01); whereas the opposite trend was observed in HBeAg-negative patients, with the levels of HBV DNA, and qHBsAg in the G≥2 subgroup being significantly higher than those in the G < 2 subgroup (P < 0.01). Correspondingly, HBV DNA level and qHBsAg showed weak to moderately strong negative correlation with liver necroinflammatory grade and AST which was an indicator of hepatic inflammatory injury in HBeAg-positive patients (P < 0.05); whereas in HBeAg-negative patients, they showed weak to moderately strong positive correlation with hepatic inflammatory activity and ALT, AST (P < 0.001), in which qHBsAg showed only a weak positive correlation with patients' liver necroinflammatory grade (P = 0.003). Further subgroup analyses of HBeAg-positive patients according to whether the HBV DNA level was > 2×10(6) IU/ml showed weak to moderate negative correlations between HBV virological markers and liver necroinflammatory grade as well as ALT and AST in the subgroup of patients with HBV DNA > 2×10(6) IU/ml (P < 0.05); however, the negative correlation disappeared in patients who were still HBeAg positive and had HBV DNA ≤ 2×10(6) IU/ml. Moreover, HBV DNA and ALT, HBeAg and AST showed moderate positive correlation (P < 0.05). Conclusion: We speculate that the activation of host anti-HBV immunity can efficiently inhibit HBV replication by targeting the infected hepatocytes, but only in the early phase of disease progression in HBeAg positive patients with HBV DNA high (> 2×10(6) IU/ml).
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- T J Xing
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Linhai 317000, China
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- Hepatology Institute, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, the First Hospital of Jiaxing, Jiaxing 314001, China
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- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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- Hepatology Institute, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China Department of Microbiology and Infectious Disease Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China
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Zhao KY, Huang Y. [Discussion on the ALT threshold for initiating treatment of chronic hepatitis B]. Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi 2021; 29:1022-1023. [PMID: 34814401 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn501113-20210823-00420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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- K Y Zhao
- Department of Hepatology, Beijing Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing 102218, China
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- Department of Hepatology, Beijing Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing 102218, China
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Tao HC, Zhao KY, Ding WY, Li JB, Liang P, Wu SC, Wong MH. The level of mercury contamination in mariculture sites at the estuary of Pearl River and the potential health risk. Environ Pollut 2016; 219:829-836. [PMID: 27707601 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.07.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 05/25/2016] [Revised: 07/15/2016] [Accepted: 07/29/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In the present study, the Hg contamination in mariculture sites located at the estuary of Pearl River was to investigate with an attempt to analyse associated health risks of dietary exposure to both total mercury (THg) and methyl mercury (MeHg) in cultured fish and shellfish. The highest total mercury concentration (7.037 ± 0.556 ng L-1) of seawater was observed at Zhuhai Estuary. The Hg concentrations of sediment in Guishan Island were significantly higher (p < 0.05) than in Daya Bay (away from the Pearl River). Besides, the both THg and MeHg levels in sediment at mariculture sites were higher (p < 0.05) than corresponding reference sites. It was attributed to the fact that mariculture activities increased Hg loading and promoted MeHg production. The vertical distribution of Hg in sediment cores demonstrated that mercury methylation mostly occurred at the sediment-water interface. Results of health risk assessments showed that fish consumption would impose a higher risk to children but less to adults, while shellfish produced in the studied area was safe for consumption.
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- H C Tao
- Key Laboratory for Heavy Metal Pollution Control and Reutilization, School of Environment and Energy, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Heavy Metal Pollution Control and Reutilization, School of Environment and Energy, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Heavy Metal Pollution Control and Reutilization, School of Environment and Energy, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Heavy Metal Pollution Control and Reutilization, School of Environment and Energy, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, PR China
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- School of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Linan, PR China
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- School of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Linan, PR China
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- Key Laboratory for Heavy Metal Pollution Control and Reutilization, School of Environment and Energy, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, PR China; Consortium on Health, Environment, Education and Research (CHEER), The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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Han ML, Zhao KY. Hydrothermal synthesis, crystal structures, and properties of two Co(II) complexes based on 4-bromoisophthalic acid and N-donor ligands. RUSS J COORD CHEM+ 2012. [DOI: 10.1134/s107032841206005x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Zhao KY. [Discussion of the mechanism of occlusive oviductal sterilization by Bai Dian Fen (a mixture of rhizoma bletillae iodine and phenolic compound]. Shengzhi Yu Biyun 2002; 7:63. [PMID: 12341313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/26/2023]
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Based on the absorbance change of indicators with the concentration of hydrogen ion released from an enzyme-catalyzed reaction, a convenient colorimetric method was established for the assay of acidic phospholipase A2 and glycogen phosphorylase b. Brilliant yellow and bromothymol blue were chosen as indicators for assays of acidic phospholipase A2 and glycogen phosphorylase b by following the absorbance changes at 495 and 615 nm, respectively. The method is simple, sample-saving, sensitive and valid for a wide range of enzyme concentrations. It can be extended for assaying other enzymes catalyzing reactions with hydrogen ion concentration changes.
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- Y Yao
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
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The kinetics of complexing inactivation at identical enzyme and inhibitor concentrations were analyzed and the equations of product generation were derived when the free enzyme concentration is great, larger or smaller than the dissociation constant of inhibitor, K(I). The kinetic constants can be obtained by fitting the derived equations to the progress curve. Numerical examples show that this method is valid and gives satisfactory results.
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- M H Wang
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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The kinetic theory of substrate reaction during the modification of enzyme activity [Duggleby (1986) J. Theor. Biol. 123, 67-80; Wang and Tsou (1990) J. Theor. Biol. 142, 531-549] has been applied to a study of the inactivation kinetics of ribonuclease A by bromopyruvic acid. The results show that irreversible inhibition belongs to a non-competitive complexing type inhibition. On the basis of the kinetic equation of substrate reaction in the presence of the inhibitor, all microscopic kinetic constants for the free enzyme, the enzyme-substrate complex and the enzyme-product complex have been determined. The non-competitive inhibition type indicates that neither the substrate nor the product affects the binding of bromopyruvic acid to the enzyme and that the ionization state of His-119 may be the same in both the enzyme-substrate and the enzyme-product complexes.
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- M H Wang
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, beijing, People's Republic of China
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A method is proposed to determine the kinetic constants of enzyme modification where the condition of [Y0] >> [E0] is not satisfied, which is applicable to both inhibition and activation. This is a simple and rigorous one by which the apparent rate constants can be conveniently calculated, provided that the values of vo, vs, v* and [P]* are experimentally measured. The equations derived for the calculation of the apparent rate constants can be reduced to those obtained when [Y0] >> [E0]. Based on the expressions of the apparent rate constant and the apparent association constant, similar plotting methods can be applied to distinguish between the different competition types for both reversible and irreversible inhibitions.
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- K Y Zhao
- Institute of Biophysics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
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He RQ, Zhao KY, Yan ZZ, Li M. An asynchronous unfolding among molecular different regions of lobster D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and maltotetraose-forming amylase from an Alcaligenes sp. during guanidine denaturation. Biochim Biophys Acta 1993; 1163:315-20. [PMID: 8507670 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4838(93)90168-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Changes in ultraviolet absorbance and intrinsic protein fluorescence of 1,4-alpha-D-glucan maltotetrahydrolase (EC 3.2.1.60) from an Alcaligenes sp. (Gram-negative bacteria 537.1) and D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.12) have been compared with their inactivation during denaturation in guanidinium-Cl solutions. The two enzymes were completely inactivated at GuHCl concentrations less than 0.6 M and this was accompanied by marked absorbance and intrinsic fluorescence changes suggesting exposure of aromatic residues. The changes of the intrinsic fluorescence of the amylase have a relatively constant plateau in emission intensities and maxima at GuHCl concentrations from 0.8-2.0 M, similar to that of muscle GAPDH. The relative activity of the enzyme increased markedly in dilute GuHCl solutions accompanied by very little change of its intrinsic fluorescence at 8 degrees C. The kinetic decrease in emission intensities, excited respectively by 230 nm and 292 nm, was different for the two enzymes. The inactivation was a biphasic process with a fast phase faster than the unfolding rate as measured by fluorescence changes in 0.5 M GuHCl solution. Similar to the inactivation process, changes in intensity of 410 nm NAD fluorescent derivative of GAPDH which is in situ at the active site is also a biphasic process under the same condition. It appears that there may be an unfolding intermediate state of the enzymes and an asynchronous unfolding process among the different regions in the molecules during GuHCl denaturation, this may be due to differences in their flexibility.
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- R Q He
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
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Seddon AP, Zhao KY, Meister A. Activation of glutamate by gamma-glutamate kinase: formation of gamma-cis-cycloglutamyl phosphate, an analog of gamma-glutamyl phosphate. J Biol Chem 1989; 264:11326-35. [PMID: 2567735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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gamma-Glutamate kinase, the enzyme that catalyzes the first step in the pathway from glutamate to proline, has been postulated to convert glutamate to a gamma-activated form (possibly gamma-glutamyl phosphate), which is reduced by a NADPH-linked reductase to yield glutamate gamma-semialdehyde (in equilibrium with delta 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate). In the present work we found that the kinase, in the absence or presence of the reductase (and in the absence of NADPH), catalyzes stoichiometric formation of 5-oxo-L-proline and Pi from L-glutamate and ATP, but catalyzes hydroxamate formation at only about 10% of the rate of ATP-cleavage. A new substrate of the kinase was found; thus, cis-cycloglutamate (cis-1-amino-1,3-dicarboxycyclohexane), a glutamate analog which cannot cyclize to form an analog of 5-oxoproline, interacts effectively with the kinase. The trans form of cycloglutamate does not interact with the kinase; only the cis form can assume a diequatorial conformation equivalent to the extended conformation of glutamate. cis-Cycloglutamyl phosphate formation was shown and evidence was obtained for formation of an enzyme-ADP-cycloglutamyl phosphate complex. Although cis-cycloglutamyl phosphate is not a reducible substrate of the NADPH-dependent reductase, the findings indicate that it interacts with the reductase. These studies, which elucidate several aspects of the mechanism of the utilization of glutamate for formation of delta 1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate, support the hypothesis that the kinase and reductase function as an enzyme complex. A model is suggested in which gamma-glutamyl phosphate formed on the kinase interacts with the reductase to form a gamma-glutamyl-reductase complex, which is reduced by NADPH to yield glutamate gamma-semialdehyde.
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- A P Seddon
- Department of Biochemistry, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021
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Seddon AP, Zhao KY, Meister A. Activation of Glutamate by γ-Glutamate Kinase: Formation of γ-cis-Cycloglutamyl Phosphate, an Analog of γ-Glutamyl Phosphate. J Biol Chem 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)60468-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Zhao KY. [Analysis of 1,500 cases of psycho-counselling psychology in a general hospital]. Zhonghua Shen Jing Jing Shen Ke Za Zhi 1986; 19:325-8. [PMID: 3582021] [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: 01/06/2023]
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The kinetics of reactivation of diethylphosphorylated acetylcholine esterase by pyridine-2-aldoxime methochloride has been studied using the approach of following the course of the hydrolysis of acetylcholine during the reactivation of the phosphorylated enzyme by the reactivator [Tsou, C.-L. (1965) Acta Biochem. Biophys. Sin. 5, 398-417]. Equations are derived based on the scheme of the formation of a complex between the phosphorylated enzyme and the reactivator and the rate of dissociation of this complex is not necessarily faster than the dephosphorylation and regeneration of the active enzyme. The regenerated enzyme then reacts with the substrate through an acetyl-enzyme intermediate as generally depicted. The equation obtained for product formation during the course of reactivation contains two exponential terms and this is in accord with the experimentally observed biphasic reaction. By making the assumption that the dissociation of the phosphorylated enzyme-reactivator complex is much faster than the dephosphorylation reaction, the above equation can be simplified to a form containing only one exponential term. By following the course of the reactivation reaction with the conventional approach of taking aliquots and assaying for enzyme activity recovery, it would appear likely that one would miss the initial stage of this biphasic reaction.
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Huang XX, Wu AR, Xie BC, Zhao KY, Liu YJ. An investigative analysis of plasma lipid in 535 healthy children. Acta Acad Med Wuhan 1984; 4:127-8. [PMID: 6738985 DOI: 10.1007/bf02857034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Tsou CL, Xu GQ, Zhou JM, Zhao KY. A new fluorescent probe for the study of the allosteric properties of D-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase. Biochem Soc Trans 1983; 11:425-9. [PMID: 6352362 DOI: 10.1042/bst0110425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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