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30; 95% CI 1.09-10.04). By contrast, there were no deaths among the six patients who began ART within 8 weeks after the initiation of antituberculous therapy. Age, tobacco use, not being on ART, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, sputum smear positivity, and CD4+ T cell count ≤50 cells/µl predict those patients at high risk of death among HIV-infected patients with PTB, and the time of initiating ART after the initiation of antituberculous therapy is also important for prognosis.Xylanases have great attention to act as a potential role in agro-industrial processes. In this study, production, characterization, and fruit juice application of novel xylanase from thermophilic Geobacillus vulcani GS90 (GvXyl) were performed. GvXyl was purified via acetone precipitation and gel-filtration chromatography. The results showed that GvXyl had 1,671.4 U/mg of specific activity and optimally worked at pH 8 and 55°C. It was also active in a wide pH (3-9) and temperature (30-90ºC) ranges. GvXyl was highly stable at 90ºC and relatively stable at pH 3-9. The kinetic parameters of GvXyl were obtained as Km , Vmax , and kcat ; 10.2 mg/ml, 4,104 µmol min-1 mg-1 , and 3,542.6 s-1 , respectively. GvXyl had higher action than commercial xylanase in fruit juice enrichment. These results revealed that GvXyl might possess a potential influence in fruit juice processing because of its high specific activity and great thermal stability. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS Polysaccharides include starch, pectin, and hemicellulose create problems by lowering fruit juice quality in beverages. To overcome this problem, various clarification processes might be applied to natural fruit juices. Even though chemicals are widely used for this purpose, recently enzymes including xylanases are preferred for obtaining high-quality products. In this study, we reported the production and biochemical characterization of novel thermostable xylanase from thermophilic G. Honokiol research buy vulcani GS90 (GvXyl). Also, apple and orange juice enrichment were performed with the novel xylanase to increase the quality in terms of yield, clarity, and reducing sugar substance. The improved quality features of apple and orange juices with GvXyl was then compared to commercially available β-1,4-xylanase. The results revealed that GvXyl might possess a potential influence in fruit juice processing because of its high specific activity and great thermal stability.Cecropin A, as an antimicrobial peptide (AMP), is possible to use in medical and agricultural fields as a new and safe biocontrol agent. Therefore, it is highly necessary to find a cost-effective and scalable approach to generate a large scale of it. In this research, the Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain ATCC 15834 was used to transfer the Cecropin A gene to the Nicotiana tabacum. After confirmation of transgenic hairy roots, the antibacterial activity of purified Cecropin A peptide was measured using the agar gel diffusion method. Successful transforming of Cecropin A was confirmed at the RNA and protein levels in hairy root cells using RT-PCR and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), respectively. The highest Cecropin A amount was detected in line 4 of the transgenic lines using ELISA in comparison with the nontransgenic line. Subsequently, the antimicrobial activity of Cecropin A extracted from line 4 showed the highest inhibition activity against Aspergillus niger. Besides, this activity was stable against Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and Candida albicans pathogens after 7 days. The recombinant production of Cecropin A AMP had a yield of 63.81 μg/g of fresh weight. According to a significant yield, this system can be used to produce the Cecropin A peptide for pharmacological and food science applications.

In the presence of ascorbic acid, the degradation of acylated (sinapic, ferulic and p-coumaric acid derivatives of cyanidin-3-xylosylglucosylgalactoside) and non-acylated anthocyanins of black carrot extract (BCE) encapsulated in liposomes was studied. BCEs (0.2% and 0.4% w/w) were encapsulated in liposomes using different lecithin concentrations (1%, 2% and 4% w/w).

The liposomes were prepared with particle diameters of less than 50 nm and zeta potentials of about -21.3 mV for extract-containing liposomes and -27.7 mV for control liposomes. The encapsulation efficiency determined using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) showed that increasing lecithin levels increased the efficiency to 59% at the same extract concentration. The concentrations of total anthocyanins and individual anthocyanins were determined for ascorbic acid (0.1% w/w)-degraded extract and liposomes (containing 0.2% w/w extract). Anthocyanin quantification of both liposomal and extract samples was performed by HPLC using cyanidin-3-O-glucoside chloride as standard. Five anthocyanins in the extract and encapsulated liposomes were quantified during 24 h (0-24 h) cyanidin-3-xylosylglucosylgalactoside 1.0-0.51 and 0.82-0.58 mg g

, cyanidin-3-xylosylgalactoside 2.5-1.1 and 2.2-1.7 mg g

, cyanidin-3-xylosyl(sinapoylglucosyl)galactoside 0.51-0.14 and 0.35-0.28 mg g

, cyanidin-3-xylosyl(feruloylglucosyl)galactoside 1.37-0.41 and 1.06-0.98 mg g

, and cyanidin-3-xylosyl(coumaroylglucosyl)galactoside 0.28-0.08 mg g

for extract and 0.27-0.26 mg g

for liposomes, respectively.

This study demonstrates the potential beneficial effect of liposomal encapsulation on individual, particularly acylated, anthocyanins after addition of ascorbic acid during a storage time of 24 h.

This study demonstrates the potential beneficial effect of liposomal encapsulation on individual, particularly acylated, anthocyanins after addition of ascorbic acid during a storage time of 24 h.

It remains unclear whether and how the isolated rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (iRBD)-related metabolic pattern (RBDRP) changes with disease progression in iRBD.

To examine longitudinal changes in RBDRP expression in iRBD patients and to explore trajectories of relative metabolic activities of individual brain regions constituting RBDRP.

In this cohort study, 25 iRBD patients (mean age [±standard deviation], 69.2 ± 5.3 years; 12 [48%] patients were men) and 24 age-matched healthy controls were included. The patients underwent at least two

F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography scans at baseline and at the 2-year and/or 4-year follow-ups. We measured the RBDRP expression of the patients and controls which was validated by reproduction in a separate iRBD cohort (n = 13).

At baseline, the RBDRP expression discriminated iRBD patients from healthy controls. However, the RBDRP expression z scores tended to decrease over time in the patients, especially with longer follow-ups, and this tendency was observed even in patients with high-risk of phenoconversion.