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Qu Z, Zheng Y, Wu S, Bing Y, Sun Z, Zhu S, Li W, Zou X. Two Omics Methods Expose Anti-Depression Mechanism of Raw and Vinegar-Baked Bupleurum Scorzonerifolium Willd. Chem Biodivers 2024; 21:e202301733. [PMID: 38217462 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202301733] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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Bupleurum scorzonerifolium willd. (BS) and its vinegar-baked product (VBS) has been frequently utilized for depression management in clinical Chinese medicine. This paper aims to elucidate the antidepressant mechanism of BS and VBS from the perspectives of metabonomics and gut microbiota. A rat model of depression was established by CUMS combined with feeding alone to evaluate the antidepressant effects of BS and VBS. UPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS-based metabolomics and 16S rRNA sequencing of rat feces were applied and the correlation of differential metabolic markers and intestinal floras was analyzed. The result revealed that BS and VBS significantly improved depression-like behaviors and the levels of monoamine neurotransmitters in CUMS rats. There were 27 differential endogenous metabolites between CUMS and normal rats, which were involved in 8 metabolic pathways. Whereas, BS and VBS could regulate 18 and 20 metabolites respectively, wherein fifteen of them were shared metabolites. On the genus level, BS and VBS could regulate twenty-five kinds of intestinal floras in CUMS rats, that is, they increased the abundance of beneficial bacteria and decreased the abundance of harmful bacteria. In conclusion, both BS and VBS exert excellent antidepressant effects by regulating various metabolic pathways and ameliorating intestinal microflora dysfunction.
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- Zhongyuan Qu
- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin, 150076, China
- Engineering Research Center on Natural Antineoplastic Drugs, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Commerce, Ha Er Bin Shi, 150076, China
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- Engineering Research Center on Natural Antineoplastic Drugs, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Commerce, Ha Er Bin Shi, 150076, China
- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN19RH, UK
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Zhao Y, Yang C, Liu Y, Qin M, Sun J, Liu G. Effects of sodium ferulate for injection on anticoagulation of warfarin in rats in vivo. BMC Complement Med Ther 2024; 24:87. [PMID: 38355450 PMCID: PMC10865636 DOI: 10.1186/s12906-024-04389-2] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Herb-drug interactions may result in increased adverse drug reactions or diminished drug efficacy, especially for drugs with a narrow therapeutic index such as warfarin. The current study investigates the effects of sodium ferulate for injection (SFI) on anticoagulation of warfarin from aspects of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in rats and predicts the risk of the combination use. METHODS Rats were randomly divided into different groups and administered single- or multiple-dose of warfarin (0.2 mg/kg) with or without SFI of low dose (8.93 mg/kg) or high dose (26.79 mg/kg). Prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) were detected by a blood coagulation analyzer, and international normalized ratio (INR) values were calculated. UPLC-MS/MS was conducted to measure concentrations of warfarin enantiomers and pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated by DAS2.0 software. RESULTS The single-dose study demonstrated that SFI alone had no effect on coagulation indices, but significantly decreased PT and INR values of warfarin when the two drugs were co-administered (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01), while APTT values unaffected (P > 0.05). Cmax and AUC of R/S-warfarin decreased but CL increased significantly in presence of SFI (P < 0.01). The multiple-dose study showed that PT, APTT, INR, and concentrations of R/S-warfarin decreased significantly when SFI was co-administered with warfarin (P < 0.01). Warfarin plasma protein binding rate was not significantly changed by SFI (P > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS The present study implied that SFI could accelerate warfarin metabolism and weaken its anticoagulation intensity in rats.
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- Yue Zhao
- Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, The Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Harbin, 150086, P.R. China
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- College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, P.R. China
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, The Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Harbin, 150086, P.R. China
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, The Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Harbin, 150086, P.R. China
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- College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, 150086, P.R. China
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, The Heilongjiang Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Harbin, 150086, P.R. China.
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Li T, Sun G, Yu L, Zhou K. HRBUST-LLPED: A Benchmark Dataset for Wearable Low-Light Pedestrian Detection. Micromachines (Basel) 2023; 14:2164. [PMID: 38138333 PMCID: PMC10745713 DOI: 10.3390/mi14122164] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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Detecting pedestrians in low-light conditions is challenging, especially in the context of wearable platforms. Infrared cameras have been employed to enhance detection capabilities, whereas low-light cameras capture the more intricate features of pedestrians. With this in mind, we introduce a low-light pedestrian detection (called HRBUST-LLPED) dataset by capturing pedestrian data on campus using wearable low-light cameras. Most of the data were gathered under starlight-level illumination. Our dataset annotates 32,148 pedestrian instances in 4269 keyframes. The pedestrian density reaches high values with more than seven people per image. We provide four lightweight, low-light pedestrian detection models based on advanced YOLOv5 and YOLOv8. By training the models on public datasets and fine-tuning them on the HRBUST-LLPED dataset, our model obtained 69.90% in terms of AP@0.5:0.95 and 1.6 ms for the inference time. The experiments demonstrate that our research can assist in advancing pedestrian detection research by using low-light cameras in wearable devices.
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin University of Science and Technology, No. 52 Xuefu Road, Nangang District, Harbin 150080, China; (T.L.)
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Hu Y, Li C, Zhou R, Song Y, Lv Z, Wang Q, Dong X, Liu S, Feng C, Zhou Y, Zeng X, Zhang L, Wang Z, Di H. The Transcription Factor ZmNAC89 Gene Is Involved in Salt Tolerance in Maize ( Zea mays L.). Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:15099. [PMID: 37894780 PMCID: PMC10606073 DOI: 10.3390/ijms242015099] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2023] [Revised: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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The NAC gene family has transcription factors specific to plants, which are involved in development and stress response and adaptation. In this study, ZmNAC89, an NAC gene in maize that plays a role in saline-alkaline tolerance, was isolated and characterized. ZmNAC89 was localized in the nucleus and had transcriptional activation activity during in vitro experiments. The expression of ZmNAC89 was strongly upregulated under saline-alkaline, drought and ABA treatments. Overexpression of the ZmNAC89 gene in transgenic Arabidopsis and maize enhanced salt tolerance at the seedling stage. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were then confirmed via RNA-sequencing analysis with the transgenic maize line. GO analyses showed that oxidation-reduction process-regulated genes were involved in ZmNAC89-mediated salt-alkaline stress. ZmNAC89 may regulate maize saline-alkali tolerance through the REDOX pathway and ABA signal transduction pathway. From 140 inbred maize lines, 20 haplotypes and 16 SNPs were found in the coding region of the ZmNAC89 gene, including the excellent haplotype HAP20. These results contribute to a better understanding of the response mechanism of maize to salt-alkali stress and marker-assisted selection during maize breeding.
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- Yingying Hu
- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
- Institute of Crop Resources Research, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150086, China
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Germplasm Enhancement, Physiology and Ecology of Food Crops in Cold Region, Engineering Technology Research Center of Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation on Cold land of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; (Y.H.); (C.L.); (R.Z.); (Y.S.); (Z.L.); (Q.W.); (X.D.); (S.L.); (C.F.); (Y.Z.); (X.Z.); (L.Z.)
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Zheng Y, Wu S, Bing Y, Li H, Liu X, Li W, Zou X, Qu Z. A Simple ICT-Based Fluorescent Probe for HOCl and Bioimaging Applications. Biosensors (Basel) 2023; 13:744. [PMID: 37504141 PMCID: PMC10377358 DOI: 10.3390/bios13070744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Over the past few decades, drug-induced liver damage (DILI) has become a serious public health problem due to drug abuse. Among multifarious reactive oxygen species, mounting evidence attests that ClO- has been used as a potential biomarker in DILI. In this work, a new "turn-on" fluorescent probe 1 was designed and synthesized by modifying 4'-hydroxybiphenyl-4-carbonitrile (dye 2) with N, N-dimethylthiocarbamate as a response site for detecting ClO-. Probe 1 displayed a low detection limit (72 nM), fast response time (30 s), wide pH operating range (6-8), great tissue penetration, large Stokes shift (125 nm) and 291-fold fluorescence enhancement at 475 nm in the mapping of ClO-. Probe 1 could trace amounts of exogenous and endogenous ClO- with high sensitivity in MCF-7 cells and HeLa cells. Expectantly, the fluoxetine-induced liver injury model is successfully established, and probe 1 has been used for detecting the fluctuation of ClO- levels in the mouse model of fluoxetine-induced liver injury. All in all, probe 1 with its high specificity, good biological compatibility and liver tissue penetration ability is expected to assist with the early diagnosis of DILI and the clinical screening of various new drugs. We expect that probe 1 could be efficiently used as a powerful molecular tool to predict clinical DILI and explore molecular mechanisms between molecules and disease.
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- Yan Zheng
- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
- Engineering Research Center on Natural Antineoplastic Drugs, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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- Engineering Research Center on Natural Antineoplastic Drugs, Ministry of Education, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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- School of Pharmacy, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China
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Li RT, Yang YJ, Liu WJ, Liang WW, Zhang M, Dong SC, Shu YJ, Guo DL, Guo CH, Bi YD. MsNRAMP2 Enhances Tolerance to Iron Excess Stress in Nicotiana tabacum and MsMYB Binds to Its Promoter. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:11278. [PMID: 37511038 PMCID: PMC10379929 DOI: 10.3390/ijms241411278] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Revised: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Iron(Fe) is a trace metal element necessary for plant growth, but excess iron is harmful to plants. Natural resistance-associated macrophage proteins (NRAMPs) are important for divalent metal transport in plants. In this study, we isolated the MsNRAMP2 (MN_547960) gene from alfalfa, the perennial legume forage. The expression of MsNRAMP2 is specifically induced by iron excess. Overexpression of MsNRAMP2 conferred transgenic tobacco tolerance to iron excess, while it conferred yeast sensitivity to excess iron. Together with the MsNRAMP2 gene, MsMYB (MN_547959) expression is induced by excess iron. Y1H indicated that the MsMYB protein could bind to the "CTGTTG" cis element of the MsNRAMP2 promoter. The results indicated that MsNRAMP2 has a function in iron transport and its expression might be regulated by MsMYB. The excess iron tolerance ability enhancement of MsNRAMP2 may be involved in iron transport, sequestration, or redistribution.
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- Run-Tian Li
- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
- Institute of Crops Tillage and Cultivation, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150086, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin 150025, China
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- Institute of Crops Tillage and Cultivation, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin 150086, China
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