CRISPR-Cas systems adapt “memories” via spacers from viruses and plasmids to develop
adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements. Mature CRISPR RNAs guide CRISPR-…

Research on archaeal extrachromosomal genetic elements (ECEs) has progressed rapidly
in the past decade. To date, over 60 archaeal viruses and 60 plasmids have been isolated. …

In response to viral infection, many prokaryotes incorporate fragments of virus-derived DNA
into loci called clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs). The …

CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated)
systems are widespread in archaea and bacteria, and research on their molecular …

Archaea represents the third domain of life, with the information-processing machineries more
closely resembling those of eukaryotes than the machineries of the bacterial counterparts …

The assignment of orthologous genes between a pair of genomes is a fundamental and
challenging problem in comparative genomics. Existing methods that assign orthologs based on …

Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) inhibits mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)
and induces autophagy and apoptosis in vascular endothelial cells (VECs) that play very …

OBJECTIVE. Prediction of postoperative lung function is important in preoperative evaluation
of patients with lung cancer. Perfusion scintigraphy is the current method to assess the …

G-quadruplex (G4) is one of the most important secondary structures in nucleic acids. Until
recently, G4 RNAs have not been reported in any ribovirus, such as the hepatitis C virus. Our …

Thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing is an important technique in the exploration of
geothermal resources. In this study, a geothermal survey is conducted in Tengchong area of …