INTRODUCTION: Isoprenoids are amongst the most abundant and diverse biological molecules and are involved in a broad range of biological functions. Functional understanding of their biosynthesis is thus key in many fundamental and applicative fields, including systems biology, me...
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (Bt), a key commensal of the human gut microbiota, exhibits robust capacity to degrade dietary polysaccharides via carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). However, the exact spatial distribution and the functional coordination of these enzymes remain poor...
Pericyte loss is an early and critical event in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy (DR), yet the molecular mechanisms underlying pericyte dysfunction remain incompletely understood. Using single-cell RNA sequencing, we generated a retinal cellular overview comprising 18,926 cells from...
Cross-talk among downstream regulatory networks of genome mutations has been the major hypothetical mechanism underlying poor prognosis and low-responsive rates for targeted therapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). By applying a causal inference-based mutation-upstream-of-the-metabolom...