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Glebionis coronaria (L.) Cass. ex Spach is a troublesome weed in cereal cropping systems in northern Tunisia. Recently, failures in controlling this weed have been reported by farmers. Field surveys and farmers interviews were conducted to highlight the potential causes of G. coronaria occurrence and the associated yield losses in wheat. Survey results revealed a significant correlation between farmers' awareness of resistance occurrence and cultural practices, mainly sowing date and tillage, while G. coronaria abundance was related to the lack of herbicide rotation and the frequency of ALS-inhibiting herbicide use. High G. coronaria infestations (more than 20 plants/m2) caused a significant decrease in wheat grain yield, reaching almost 75% at a density of 100 plants/m2. Field and pot experiments showed low efficacies of ALS-inhibiting herbicides to control G. coronaria populations. The application of field rates of tribenuron-methyl and mesosulfuron + iodosulfuron failed to control the tested populations, and generally, G. coronaria dry weight increased compared to nontreated ones (potential hormetic effect). These findings were further investigated in two selected resistant populations through tribenuron dose-response experiments, plants from both populations exhibited high resistance factors (greater than 300), surviving up to 16-fold the recommended field dose. This is the first report for G. selleckchem coronaria resistance occurrence to ALS-inhibiting herbicides in Tunisia and the second case worldwide.The development of fast and robust brain-computer interface (BCI) systems requires non-complex and efficient computational tools. The modern procedures adopted for this purpose are complex which limits their use in practical applications. In this study, for the first time, and to the best of our knowledge, a successive decomposition index (SDI)-based feature extraction approach is utilized for the classification of motor and mental imagery electroencephalography (EEG) tasks. First of all, the public datasets IVa, IVb, and V from BCI competition III were denoised using multiscale principal analysis (MSPCA), and then a SDI feature was calculated corresponding to each trial of the data. Finally, six benchmark machine learning and neural network classifiers were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. All the experiments were performed for motor and mental imagery datasets in binary and multiclass applications using a 10-fold cross-validation method. Furthermore, computerized automatic detection of motor and mental imagery using SDI (CADMMI-SDI) is developed to describe the proposed approach practically. The experimental results suggest that the highest classification accuracy of 97.46% (Dataset IVa), 99.52% (Dataset IVb), and 99.33% (Dataset V) was obtained using feedforward neural network classifier. Moreover, a series of experiments, namely, statistical analysis, channels variation, classifier parameters variation, processed and unprocessed data, and computational complexity, were performed and it was concluded that SDI is robust for noise, and a non-complex and efficient biomarker for the development of fast and accurate motor and mental imagery BCI systems.Covalent inhibition has recently gained a resurgence of interest in several drug discovery areas. The expansion of this approach is based on evidence elucidating the selectivity and potency of covalent inhibitors when bound to particular amino acids of a biological target. The unexpected covalent inhibition of heat shock protein 72 (HSP72) by covalently targeting Lys-56 instead of Cys-17 was an interesting observation. However, the structural basis and conformational changes associated with this preferential coupling to Lys-56 over Cys-17 remain unclear. To resolve this mystery, we employed structural and dynamic analyses to investigate the structural basis and conformational dynamics associated with the unexpected covalent inhibition. Our analyses reveal that the coupling of the irreversible inhibitor to Lys-56 is intrinsically less dynamic than Cys-17. Conformational dynamics analyses further reveal that the coupling of the inhibitor to Lys-56 induced a closed conformation of the nucleotide-binding subdomain (NBD) α-helices, in contrast, an open conformation was observed in the case of Cys-17. The closed conformation maintained the crucial salt-bridge between Glu-268 and Lys-56 residues, which strengthens the interaction affinity of the inhibitor nearly identical to adenosine triphosphate (ADP/Pi) bound to the HSP72-NBD. The outcome of this report provides a substantial shift in the conventional direction for the design of more potent covalent inhibitors.Elaeagnus angustifolia (EA) is a medicinal plant used for treating several human diseases in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the outcome of EA extract on HER2-positive breast cancer remains nascent. Thus, we herein investigated the effects of the aqueous EA extract obtained from the flowers of EA on two HER2-positive breast cancer cell lines, SKBR3 and ZR75-1. Our data revealed that EA extract inhibits cell proliferation and deregulates cell-cycle progression of these two cancer cell lines. EA extract also prevents the progression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), an important event for cancer invasion and metastasis; this is accompanied by upregulations of E-cadherin and β-catenin, in addition to downregulations of vimentin and fascin, which are major markers of EMT. Thus, EA extract causes a drastic decrease in cell invasion ability of SKBR3 and ZR75-1 cancer cells. Additionally, we found that EA extract inhibits colony formation of both cell lines in comparison with their matched control. The molecular pathway analysis of HER2 and JNK1/2/3 of EA extract exposed cells revealed that it can block HER2 and JNK1/2/3 activities, which could be the major molecular pathway behind these events. Our findings implicate that EA extract may possess chemo-preventive effects against HER2-positive breast cancer via HER2 inactivation and specifically JNK1/2/3 signaling pathways.Consecutive alkylation of 4-hydroxy-2-thioxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate by CH3I has been investigated to establish regioselectivity of the reaction for reliable design and synthesis of combinatorial libraries. In the first stage, the product of S-methylation-methyl 4-hydroxy-2-(methylthio)quinoline-3-carboxylate was obtained. The subsequent alkylation with CH3I led to the formation of both O- and N-methylation products mixture-methyl 4-methoxy-2-(methylthio)quinoline-3-carboxylate and methyl 1-methyl-2-(methylthio)-4-oxo-1,4-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylate with a predominance of O-methylated product. The structure of synthesized compounds was confirmed by means of elemental analysis, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, LC/MS, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The quantum chemical calculations of geometry and electron structure of methyl 4-hydroxy-2-(methylthio)quinoline-3-carboxylate's anion were carried out. According to molecular docking simulations, the studied compounds can be considered as potent inhibitors of Hepatitis B Virus replication.
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