| 1 | Highly pathogenic coronavirus N protein aggravates inflammation by MASP-2-mediated lectin complement pathway overactivation显示文摘Excessive inflammatory responses contribute to the pathogenesis and lethality of highly pathogenic human coronaviruses,but the underlying mechanism remains unclear.In this study,the N proteins of highly pathogenic human coronaviruses,including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus(SARS-CoV),middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus(MERS-CoV)and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2),were found to bind MASP-2,a key serine protease in the lectin pathway of complement activation,resulting in excessive complement activation by potentiating MBL-dependent MASP-2 activation,and the deposition of MASP-2,C4b,activated C3 and C5b-9.Aggravated inflammatory lung injury was observed in mice infected with adenovirus expressing the N protein.Complement hyperactivation was also observed in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients.Either blocking the N protein:MASP-2 interaction,MASP-2 depletion or suppressing complement activation can significantly alleviate N protein-induced complement hyperactivation and lung injury in vitro and in vivo.Altogether,these data suggested that complement suppression may represent a novel therapeutic approach for pneumonia induced by these highly pathogenic coronaviruses. | Ting Gao Lin Zhu Hainan Liu Xiaopeng Zhang Tingting Wang Yangbo Fu Hongzhen Li Qincai Dong Yong Hu Zhang Zhang Jing Jin Zijing Liu Weihong Yang Yaoning Liu Yanwen Jin Kaitong Li Yongjiu Xiao Junli Liu Huailong Zhao Yue Liu Ping Li Jibo Song Lu Zhang Yuwei Gao Sisi Kang Shoudeng Chen Qingjun Ma Xiuwu Bian Wei Chen Xuan Liu Qing Mao Cheng Cao | 2022 | Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy2022，7，10： | 0 |
| 2 | Ultrafast photocarrier and coherent phonon dynamics in type-II Dirac semimetal PtTe2 thin films probed by optical spectroscopy显示文摘We report the ultrafast photocarrier dynamics and coherent phonon excitation in type-II Dirac semimetal platinum ditelluride(PtTe2)thin films via femtosecond(fs)pump-probe spectroscopy at room temperature.Quantitative analysis revealed that the incoherent electronic relaxation consists of two components:a subpicosecond fast relaxation process and a slow component with a time constant of hundreds of picoseconds(ps).Furthermore,the launch of a coherent acoustic phonon(CAP)in the 20 nm film but absence in the 6.8 nm film uncovers the dominant role of temperature gradient in producing a strain wave.The sound velocity and Young’s modulus in the thick PtTe_(2) are determined to be 1.736 km/s and 29.5 GPa,respectively.In addition,the coherent optical phonon(COP)with a frequency of 4.7 THz corresponding to Te atoms out-of-plane A1g vibration has been well resolved in all films,which is ascribed to displacive excitation of coherent phonon(DECP).The observation of a strong probe-wavelength dependent COP amplitude reveals the resonant feature of the optical excitation-induced atomic displacement in PtTe2.Our findings provide deep insight into the excitation and dynamics of CAP and COP as well as the photocarriers’recovery pathway and lifetimes in PtTe_(2).Our study also demonstrates that the COP spectroscopy is a powerful tool to reveal the modulation of frequency-dependent optical constants induced by atomic vibrations,which may find applications in the fields of optoelectronics and ultrafast photonics. | Peng Suo Shengnan Yan Ruihua Pu Wenjie Zhang Di Li Jiaming Chen Jibo Fu Xian Lin Feng Miao Shi-Jun Liang Weimin Liu Guohong Ma | 2022 | Photonics Research2022，10，3： | 0 |
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