Cold stress negatively affects maize (Zea mays L.) growth, development and yield. Metabolic adjustments contribute to the adaptation of maize under cold stress. We show here that the transcription factor INDUCER OF CBF EXPRESSION 1 (ZmICE1) plays a prominent role in reprogramming amino a...

Background: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilms exhibit high levels of drug resistance and cause nosocomial infections in humans, thus posing a sustainable global health threat. This underscores the critical need to develop novel antibiofilm therapeutics with high efficacy...

Candida albicans, a World Health Organization critical-priority fungal pathogen, represents the predominant cause of candidemia. Therapeutic failure is sometimes driven by antifungal tolerance, a phenotype distinct from resistance, whose underlying mechanisms remain incompletely defined....

Chemical pollution is a major concern for freshwater ecosystems, but the impact and mechanisms of chemical stressors on communities are barely understood. Pollution stress beyond natural homeostatic capacities can trigger succession of tolerant species within a community, enhancing the overall co...

Butyrate, one of the most abundant microbial-derived metabolites in the gut, is important in regulating intestinal homeostasis. In this study, we used untargeted global metabolomics to landscape the intestinal epithelial cellular metabolites changed by butyrate treatment.

Increasing soil salinization poses a severe threat to global agricultural production. Quercetin, a natural compound known to effectively alleviate abiotic stress, has an unclear molecular regulatory mechanism in enhancing soybean salt tolerance. To investigate its mechanism of action, this study ...

Zhuyu pill (ZYP) is a traditional Chinese medicine prescription composed of two drugs, Coptis chinensis Franch. and Tetradium ruticarpum (A. Jussieu) T. G. Hartley, and is commonly used in the clinical treatment of diseases of the digestive system. However, the mechanism underly...

The pathogenic mechanisms of many diseases are well understood at the molecular level, but there are prevalent diseases associated with pathogenic signaling, such as diabetes and chronic inflammatory disorders, where our understanding is more limited. Here we report that pathogenic signaling supp...