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Concentration quenching in chlorophyll-alpha and relation to functional charge transfer in vivo.

Chlorophyll-alpha in ordinary solvents exhibits concentration quenching. Dimeric chlorophyll is reasonably well confirmed as the quenching species, by a critical reanalysis of available data on concentration dependence and on spectral features, in ordinary solvents, and in several analogous quenching environments. This quenching in the dimer in vitro is somewhat less firmly analyzed as due to a new fast internal conversion. Much peripheral evidence supports transient charge transfer as the cause of internal conversion. The same evidence points to a strong similarity to functional charge transfer in vivo. I suggest that inability to extract P680 may be due to its conversion to a form resembling P700 by addition of water. A number of straightforward experiments are suggested to test these proposals. In particular, it is desirable to test for the existence of a vibronic perturbation (from a higher npi* state) in the dimer, as an alternative to charge transfer for explaining the "observed" internal conversion. Such a vibronic cause would raise interesting problems for phototrap function in vivo.

Chlorophyll

The structured interview and questionnaire methods of assessing coronary-prone behavior in male and female college students.

Several self-report measures of type A behavior were compared with the Rosenman and Friedman structured interview method of assessment in male and female college students. The student version of the Jenkins Activity Survey was found to correlate relatively weakly with the interview for both males and females, while scales derived from the Gough and Thurstone inventories showed moderate correlations with interview typing for both sexes. A brief scale derived from a recent reanalysis of the Framingham study correlated with the interview appreciably greater for females than for males. In all, these data suggest the need for caution in using only paper-and-pencil tests to assess type A behavior.

Adolescent

Resolution of block neutralization test curves into components of the foot-and-mouth disease virus system.

Classic neutralization studies by Fazekas de St. Groth and Webster (8) on mixtures of influenza viruses and mixtures of rabbit antisera are reinterpreted in terms of a percentage contaminant in the stock used for the dilution series. A very small amount of a different virus changes the shape of quantal assay curves considerably, but even a large amount of a different antiserum has negligible effect on the shape and merely shifts the curve along the serum dilution axis. These conclusions are the reverse of the authors, who only considered an absolute amount of another component in all dilution tubes. An artificial mixture of 2.7 percent O8 in O1 foot-and-mouth disease virus strains was tested against anti-O1 serum assaying in suckling mice. The small amount of O8 virus greatly altered the shape of the neutralization curve in the direction expected from the reanalysis of the influenza literature data. Results from artificial mixtures are used to explain what were hitherto anomalously broad neutralization curves for some other foot-and-mouth disease strains given by Booth et al. (1) Many of the virus stocks studied can now be postulated as a natural mixture of related virus strains. In fact, the O1 and O8 stocks used might also be of themselves mixtures. These virus strains also exhibit still a further test complication in that the virus-antibody reaction appeared to shift away from complexes on dilution immediately prior to assay.

Antigen-Antibody Reactions

Bone fluoride concentrations associated with fluoridated drinking water.

Recently published bone fluoride values from Iowa are very high compared to earlier reports, suggesting an increase in fluoride intake. Reanalysis of the Iowa specimens shows levels one-fourth those reported by the Iowa laboratory indicating an error in the original report. Seventeen bone specimens, collected from long-term residents of Rochester, New York, drinking 1 ppm F- water, had a mean value of 2085 +/- 270 ppm F- on an ashed-weight basis. This value is not significantly different from that predicted by the data of Zipkin et al. in 1958. These data, therefore, do not support the contention that there has been an increase in fluoride intake.

Bone and Bones

Network-based integration of metabolomics data from large-scale repositories.

INTRODUCTION: Public metabolomics data repositories such as MetaboLights and Metabolomics Workbench host rapidly growing volumes of raw data, processed results, and metadata. As data deposition becomes a prerequisite for funding and publication, there is an increasing need for tools that enable integration and joint reanalysis of datasets across studies to maximise reuse and reproducibility. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to enable large-scale integrative meta-analysis of public metabolomics data, exploiting harmonised metabolite annotations to identify robust multi-study metabolite and pathway signatures and to provide global visual overviews of repository content. METHODS: We developed a network-based integration framework operating at both the study (dataset) level and the metabolite or pathway level. Metabolite-level meta-networks integrate studies with shared biological context using co-occurrences of differential metabolites represented as bipartite graphs. Study-level networks compare observed metabolites for overall repository exploration. Networks can be explored interactively using a dedicated Python Dash app available at https://github.com/EloisaRL/Metabolomic-data-analysis-app/tree/main . RESULTS: As an example, the approach was applied to six COVID-19 plasma datasets from MetaboLights generated using LC-MS and NMR. Ten metabolites were identified as differential in at least three studies, including consistently up-regulated pyroglutamic acid, in agreement with the literature. Pathway-level networks provided an overview of shared biological processes across studies. A global network of 1,181 studies in Metabolomics Workbench demonstrated clustering by assay coverage and associated metadata, as expected. CONCLUSION: Network-based integration of harmonised metabolomics data enables robust cross-study analyses and highlights the critical importance of standardised annotation pipelines. Such approaches enhance the reuse, reproducibility, and impact of public metabolomics datasets, accelerating biological discovery.

Metabolomics

Computer analysis of left ventricular dynamic geometry in man.

Analysis of left ventricular performance in 20 normal patients was undertaken using biplane cineangiography and a semiautomatic computer image processing system. The analysis included evaluation of volumes, ejection fraction, regional shortening, patterns of ejection and filling and, when simultaneous left ventricular pressure was recorded stroke work, stroke power, wall stress and internal myocardial work. All of these data were calculated from digitized images stored permanently on digital magnetic tape, and can be reproduced without reanalysis of the cine film. Normal left ventricular function is described by an end-diastolic volume index of 82 +/- 3 ml, an ejection fraction of 60 +/- 2 percent, left ventricular mass index of 97 +/- 6 g/m2, peak first derivative of volume (dV/dt) of 485 +/- 28 ml/sec, anterior shortening of 48 +/- 2.3 percent, inferior shortening of 33 +/- 1.7 percent, lateral shortening of 29 +/- 1.5 percent, anterior mean shortening velocity (Vcf, in percent of end-diastolic length [L]/sec) of 1.5 +/- 0.1 L/sec, inferior Vcf of 1.1 +/- 0.06 L/sec and lateral Vcf of 0.94 +/- 0.2 L/sec, stroke work of 1.33 +/- 0.21 joules, mean stroke power of 3.7 +/- 0.62 joules/sec, integrated left ventricular pressure (tension-time index) of 2,866 +/- 340 mm Hg-sec, and integrated stress (stress-time index) of 7,260 +/- 765 (X 10(3)) dynes sec/cm2. Internal myocardial work was calculated from the strain energy. More internal work was expended in circumferential than logitudinal shortening (circumferential, 0.69 +/- 0.1 joules; longitudinal, 0.41 +/- 0.08, P less than 0.01), because hoop stress was greater than meridian stress (hoop, 201 +/- 20 dynes/cm3 X 10(3); meridian, 126 +/- 13, P less than 0.001). This analysis of left ventricular performance provides a reliable means for identifying abnormal ventricular function and may be more sensitive than any one measurement alone. The use of digital image processing makes this complex functional analysis of left ventricular performance feasible.

Adult

Robust error-minimization in the genetic code across physicochemical metrics and variant codes: A graph-theoretic analysis in GF(2)6.

The standard genetic code reduces the impact of point mutations, but the robustness of this property across physicochemical metrics, naturally occurring variant codes, and codon-reassignment mechanisms remains incompletely quantified. Embedding the 64 codons in GF(2)6 represents the hypercube Q6 as a coordinate-dependent subgraph of the encoding-independent single-nucleotide mutation graph H(3,4), and enables continuous &#x3c1;-interpolation between the two. Under a quartet-pattern shuffle null (n=10,000), the standard code is significantly low-cost across four established, code-independent physicochemical distance metrics with partially overlapping content (Grant ham p=0.0062; Miyata p<0.001; Woese polar requirement p=0.003; Kyte-Doolittle hydropathy p=0.001), and the signal strengthens monotonically as &#x3c1; moves Q6&#x2192;H(3,4). A structure-aware sensitivity analysis under the alignment-derived ProtSub matrix (Jia & Jernigan 2021) yields the most extreme percentile of any measure tested (p=0.0004; all five p-values pass Bonferroni at &#x3b1;=0.05). Across the 27 NCBI translation tables, near-optimality is preserved: 11 of 12 informative-distance variants retain top-5% placement after BH-FDR correction. Natural codon reassignments avoid disrupting codon-family connectivity: under the encoding-independent H(3,4) adjacency, observed events are topology-breaking at relative risk 0.32 versus the candidate landscape (permutation p&#x2264;10-4). The H(3,4) result is stable by construction; the Q6 decomposition is representation-specific and fails to show depletion under 8 of 24 base-to-bit encodings, so we report H(3,4) as the primary test and Q6 as a sensitivity. Event-level conditional-logit modelling shows that topology avoidance and local physicochemical cost provide complementary, only weakly correlated signal (rs=0.15), and that topology adds explanatory value beyond physicochemistry under both Q6 and encoding-independent H(3,4) adjacency. Retrospective reanalysis of nine genome-recoding datasets is consistent with codon-family topology operating as an evolutionary-trajectory constraint distinct from acute engineering fitness. The contribution is the second axis: code evolution is jointly constrained by physicochemical smoothness and codon-family topological integrity, and these two constraints are partly independent.

Codon reassignment

Discordant neoplasms in monozygotic twins with a germline RECQL5 variant.

RECQL5 is a member of the RecQ helicase family involved in DNA replication, homologous recombination, and maintenance of genomic stability. While germline pathogenic variants in other RecQ helicases cause established cancer predisposition syndromes, the role of RECQL5 in human cancer susceptibility remains uncertain. We report monozygotic adolescent twins with distinct tumors: dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor in one twin and Burkitt lymphoma in the other. Clinical genome sequencing was initially nondiagnostic, but reanalysis identified a rare heterozygous nonsense variant in RECQL5 (NM_004259.7:c.2698C>T, p.(Gln900Ter)), present in both twins and their unaffected mother. The variant is predicted to undergo nonsense-mediated mRNA decay or produce a truncated protein lacking the C-terminal SRI (Set2-Rpb1 interacting) domain, which mediates interaction with RNA polymerase II. However, tumor sequencing data were not available to evaluate loss of heterozygosity or second somatic events. Given the unaffected carrier parent, lack of tumor molecular confirmation, and the biological heterogeneity of the tumors, a causal relationship for this variant cannot be established. This case highlights the challenges of interpreting rare germline variants in genes with emerging but incompletely characterized disease associations. Although the available evidence is insufficient to establish a definitive causal relationship, the identification of a shared loss-of-function RECQL5 variant in monozygotic twins with distinct tumors is noteworthy and adds to the limited clinical evidence suggesting a potential role for RECQL5 in cancer susceptibility. Additional functional studies, tumor-based analyses and the accumulation of well-characterized clinical cases will be essential to determine whether RECQL5 contributes to hereditary cancer predisposition.

Adolescent

Metadomain and metaloop genome interactions in mammalian T cells.

Recent studies have advanced understanding of chromosomal organization and its role in gene regulation, yet most analyses focus on short-range interactions (<2 Mb), limiting insight into broader architecture. The relationships between topologically associating domains (TADs), sub-TAD loops, cross-TAD interactions, and chromosomal compartmentalization remain poorly understood. Here, using high-resolution Hi-C analysis, we identify extensive multi-megabase and interchromosomal interactions (metaloops) in T lymphocytes that organize into meta-TAD associations (metadomains). These metaloops connect distal promoters and regulatory elements of genes functionally important in T cells, including Ctla4, Ikzf2, Il2ra, Ets1, and Foxo1. Reanalysis of mouse and human datasets confirms their reproducibility and dependence on superenhancers. Genome-wide clustering reveals three distinct interchromosomal hubs, including a superenhancer-enriched hub linked to T cell-specific gene activation. Integrative analysis of regulatory genomics data identifies factors associated with short- versus long-range interactions. This study introduces a broadly applicable computational framework and reveals features of T cell genome organization.

Animals

Tn125-borne blaNDM-1 is decoupled from clonal background in a transcontinental Acinetobacter baumannii ST126/KL14 lineage.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii (CRAB) is a WHO Critical Priority pathogen. The blaNDM-1-carrying ST126/KL14 lineage has been independently reported from Vietnam (2015), Malaysia (2016), the USA (2023-2026), and Costa Rica (2024). Whether these geographically distinct reports represent a single transcontinental clone and through what mechanism blaNDM-1 disseminates has not been formally tested. METHODS: We performed comprehensive whole-genome reanalysis of the Vietnamese sentinel isolate DMS06669_L1 using three nested panels (n&#x2009;=&#x2009;19, n&#x2009;=&#x2009;138, and n&#x2009;=&#x2009;609 Vietnamese A. baumannii genomes) and surveyed 429 plasmids extracted from 99 NDM-1 A. baumannii genomes retrieved from NCBI Pathogen Detection. RESULTS: Four ST126/KL14 isolates share high inter-regional average nucleotide identity (ANI; 99.77-99.92%) but wide intra-clade core-SNP distances (41-731 SNPs, well above the &#x223c;20-40-SNP range typical of single-outbreak transmission clusters) and lack a significant molecular clock, consistent with a related transcontinental lineage rather than a single recent clone. NDM-1 plasmid evolution is statistically uncorrelated with chromosomal sequence type (Spearman &#x3c1;&#x2009;=&#x2009;0.131, P&#x2009;=&#x2009;0.573). At 609-strain population scale, under a fragmentation-aware detection criterion, all 41 blaNDM-1-carrying Vietnamese strains also carry ISAba125, with none carrying blaNDM-1 without it (Fisher exact test; Haldane-Anscombe-corrected OR&#x2009;&#x2248;2.0 &#xd7; 10&#xb3;, 95% CI 1.2 &#xd7; 10&#xb2; to 3.4 &#xd7; 10&#x2074;; P&#x2009;=&#x2009;4.74&#xd7;10&#x207b;&#x2074;&#x2078;; &#x3c6;&#x2009;=&#x2009;0.79). CONCLUSIONS: The blaNDM-1 dissemination pattern in this ST126/KL14 lineage is primarily consistent with Tn125 transposition acting alongside plasmid-borne spread. Standard MLST-based surveillance is insufficient; multi-level genomic monitoring - including chromosomal and plasmid-level detection of the Tn125/ISAba125 unit - is required to track this resistance threat.

A. baumannii

Microduplications of ARID1A and ARID1B cause a novel clinical and epigenetic distinct BAFopathy.

PURPOSE: ARID1A/ARID1B haploinsufficiency leads to Coffin-Siris syndrome, duplications of ARID1A lead to a distinct clinical syndrome, whilst ARID1B duplications have not yet been linked to a phenotype. METHODS: We collected patients with duplications encompassing ARID1A and ARID1B duplications. RESULTS: 16 ARID1A and 13 ARID1B duplication cases were included with duplication sizes ranging from 0.1 to 1.2 Mb (1-44 genes) for ARID1A and 0.9 to 10.3 Mb (2-101 genes) for ARID1B. Both groups shared features, with ARID1A patients having more severe intellectual disability, growth delay, and congenital anomalies. DNA methylation analysis showed that ARID1A patients had a specific methylation pattern in blood, which differed from controls and from patients with ARID1A or ARID1B loss-of-function variants. ARID1B patients appeared to have a distinct methylation pattern, similar to ARID1A duplication patients, but further research is needed to validate these results. Five cases with duplications including ARID1A or ARID1B initially annotated as duplications of uncertain significance were evaluated using PhenoScore and DNA methylation reanalysis, resulting in the reclassification of 2 ARID1A and 2 ARID1B duplications as pathogenic. CONCLUSION: Our findings reveal that ARID1B duplications manifest a clinical phenotype, and ARID1A duplications have a distinct episignature that overlaps with that of ARID1B duplications, providing further evidence for a distinct and emerging BAFopathy caused by whole-gene duplication rather than haploinsufficiency.

Humans

Sustainability in translational genomics research with undiagnosed patients: What is it, why do we need it, and how do we do it?

PURPOSE: Genomics research enrolling undiagnosed patients can provide answers for one-third of participants, and more can be diagnosed through future reanalysis. The long-term value for participants has raised questions of the sustainability of these studies, but the meaning, goals, and best practices for sustainability remain unclear. METHODS: We conducted semistructured interviews with researchers leading studies enrolling undiagnosed patients in the United States and Canada and used thematic content analysis to summarize key themes. RESULTS: Researchers lacked consensus regarding what sustainability was actually intended to sustain, variably referencing study procedures, personnel, data access, and participant recontact. However, the primary driver of sustainability was widely shared as the perceived obligation to continue to search for answers for undiagnosed participants. Proposed sustainability strategies included diversifying funding sources, developing centralized data infrastructure, and building collaborations across disciplines and institutions. Researchers also emphasized the need to address ethical concerns, to integrate research with clinical care, and for leadership from research funders to guide these efforts. CONCLUSION: Although genomics researchers perceived continued obligations to undiagnosed participants, they also lacked a shared understanding of the goals of sustainability and called for coordinated efforts to develop centralized infrastructure that integrated research and clinical care.

Humans

Genome sequencing reveals the impact of pseudoexons in rare genetic disease.

PURPOSE: Advancements in sequencing technologies have significantly improved clinical genetic testing; yet, the diagnostic yield remains around 30% to 40%. Emerging technologies are now being deployed to address the remaining diagnostic gap. METHODS: We tested whether short-read genome sequencing could increase the diagnostic yield in individuals enrolled into the UCI-GREGoR research study, who had suspected Mendelian conditions and prior inconclusive testing. Two other collaborative research cohorts, focused on aortopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy, consisted of individuals who were undiagnosed but had not undergone harmonized prior testing. RESULTS: We sequenced 353 families (754 participants) and found a molecular diagnosis in 54 (15.3%) of them. Of these diagnoses, 55.5% were previously missed because the causative variants were in regions not originally interrogated. In 5 cases, they were deep intronic variants, all of which led to abnormal splicing and pseudoexons, as directly shown by RNA sequencing. All 5 of these variants had inconclusive spliceAI scores. In 26% of newly diagnosed cases, the causal variant could have been detected by exome sequencing reanalysis. CONCLUSION: Genome sequencing can overcome limitations of clinical genetic testing, such as the inability to call intronic variants. Our findings highlight pseudoexons as a common mechanism via which deep intronic variants cause Mendelian disease.

Humans

Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking.

The potential of the diverse chemistries present in natural products (NP) for biotechnology and medicine remains untapped because NP databases are not searchable with raw data and the NP community has no way to share data other than in published papers. Although mass spectrometry (MS) techniques are well-suited to high-throughput characterization of NP, there is a pressing need for an infrastructure to enable sharing and curation of data. We present Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS; http://gnps.ucsd.edu), an open-access knowledge base for community-wide organization and sharing of raw, processed or identified tandem mass (MS/MS) spectrometry data. In GNPS, crowdsourced curation of freely available community-wide reference MS libraries will underpin improved annotations. Data-driven social-networking should facilitate identification of spectra and foster collaborations. We also introduce the concept of 'living data' through continuous reanalysis of deposited data.

Biological Products

Dietary fibers: their definition and nutritional properties.

Fiber is a variable material with respect to its nutritional qualities depending upon its composition and physical properties. Biological properties possessed by one type of fiber might not be shared by another type. Separate methods are required to describe quantity, composition, and quality of fiber in foods. Fibers can be generally classified into three groups: vegetable fibers, which are highly fermentable with low indigestible residue; brans, which are less fermentable; and chemically purified fibers such as wood cellulose, which are relatively unfermentable. A class of soluble substances including pectins and gums may not be true fibers, but are considered part of the dietary fiber complex because of the similar effects they can elicit in the diet. A major need is the replacement of the crude fiber method, the present official method, which is seriously defective. Since crude fiber values are erratic and poorly related to the true fiber value of food, a second major need is the reanalysis of all foodstuffs by appropriate methods and the replacement of standard tables of food composition. Accomplishment of these purposes will require more support and promotion than is presently being received.

Cellulose

Centromeric effect on the degree of nonrandom disjunction in the female Drosophila melanogaster.

From crosses of females possessing a heteromorphic X-chromosome bivalent, FR1/+, the shorter crossover products were recovered on the average more frequently than the longer reciprocals as predicted by Novitski's (1951) hypothesis of nonrandom disjunction (NRD). The present study stemmed from an unexpected result of these crosses. Evidence for a centromeric effect on NRD was obtained, suggested by a negative correlation between the degree of NRD, c, and the distance between the region of exchange and the centromere as inferred from SET's (single exchange tetrads). Studies on sex chromosome systems other than FR1 confirmed these results. An analogous centromeric effect on preferential segregation had been clearly demonstrated in maize (Kikudome 1958, 1959; Rhoades and Dempsey 1966). However, prior to the present investigation, no such effect of the centromere on NRD in Drosophila had been described, although reanalysis of part of the data of Novitski (1951) and Novitski and Sandler (1956) suggests some evidence of a seriation of increasing c values extending from the most distal region of the chromosome toward the centromere. A suggestion that the effect in Drosophila may be related in some way to the time required for chiasma terminalization, i.e., those terminalizing earlier (distally located crossovers) permitting more random disjunction of the chromatids from the asymmetric dyad and those terminalizing later, progressively less random, is considered and rejected since in general the expected pattern of c values for the various double exchange tetrads (DET's) is inconsistent with that prediction and provides evidence suggesting the possibility of reversals, in part, of c values obtained for SET's.

Animals

Biallelic ABCA13 Loss-of-Function Variants in a Child With Neurodevelopmental Delay: A Case Report.

ABCA13 encodes ATP-binding cassette subfamily A member 13, one of the largest members of the ABC transporter family. Rare ABCA13 variants have been reported in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and developmental delay; however, the mode of inheritance remains uncertain, and most published cases have focused on heterozygous variants in the context of a possible dominant or susceptibility model. We report a 5-year-old boy with neurodevelopmental delay, skeletal foot deformities, nonspecific dysmorphic features, convergent strabismus, and behavioral abnormalities. Initial genome sequencing analysis was nondiagnostic. Reanalysis after 6 months identified two rare predicted loss-of-function variants in ABCA13 in trans: c.2510del, p.(Leu837TyrfsTer21), a frameshift variant, and c.12064C>T, p.(Arg4022Ter), a nonsense variant previously reported in a patient with unexplained intellectual disability. The identification of compound heterozygous predicted loss-of-function variants supports the possibility that biallelic disruption of ABCA13 may contribute to neurodevelopmental disease, whereas previously reported heterozygous variants may represent incompletely penetrant risk alleles, susceptibility factors, or candidate findings rather than fully penetrant dominant causes. This case expands the emerging clinical and genetic spectrum associated with ABCA13 and supports further evaluation of a recessive model in patients with intellectual disability and neurodevelopmental delay.

ABCA13

Behavioral marriage therapy. IV. Take two aspirin and call us in the morning.

The Jacobson-Weiss critique of the Gurman-Knudson and Gurman-Kniskern discussions of behavioral marriage therapy (BMT), while scholarly, derives from such a narrow conceptual set that, with only minor exceptions, Jacobson and Weiss have failed basically to comprehend the essence of our theoretical and logical criticisms of BMT. Moreover, a careful reanalysis of the research cited by our critics as evidence for the efficacy of BMT reveals the strength of the empirical foundation of this approach to have been greatly exaggerated. While few of our concerns about a preominantly behavioral approach to marriage therapy have been ameliorated by Jacobson and Weiss' commentary, some success seems to have been achieved in terms of our original purpose: to stimulate critical thinking about the premises and process of marital therapy.

Behavior Therapy