Bordetella pertussis is the bacterial causative agent of whooping cough, a serious respiratory illness. An extensive knowledge on its virulence regulation and metabolism is a key factor to ensure pertussis vaccine manufacturing process robustness. The aim of this study was to refine our ...
Gut microbes have been recognized to convert the human bile acids by deconjugation, dehydroxylation, dehydrogenation and epimerization of the cholesterol core, but the ability to re-conjugate them with amino acids as an additional conversion has only been recently described. These new bile acids ...
This study integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics to analyse the molecular differences in the skin tissues of perennial long wool type (PT-LCG) and seasonal long wool type (ST-LCG) Liaoning cashmere goats to reveal the regulatory mechanisms underlying their differences in cashmere production...
Rapeseed (Brassica napus) is an important oil resource, but its yield can be significantly compro-mised by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (S. sclerotiorum) infection. Due to the lack of rapeseed strains that are highly or completely immune to S. sclerotiorum, enhancing rapeseed resistance through genet...