Phylogenetic analysis of the chloroplast genome for Magnolia liliflora (Magnoliaceae), an endemic species to China

Magnolia liliflora is commonly called lily magnolia and its buds are used as the herbal medicine; it is an endemic species to China. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of M. liliflora has been presented and annotated. The whole chloroplast (cp) genome is 158,177 bp in size, which exhibits a large single-copy region (LSC) of 88,134 bp, a small single-copy region (SSC) of 19,876 bp and two inverted-repeat regions (IRs) 25,706 bp in each one. The overall nucleotide composition is: 30.0% of A, 30.9% of T, 19.9% C, and 19.2% G, with the GC content of the chloroplast genome 39.1%. The cp genome of M. liliflora contains 129 genes, which includes 86 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 35 transfer RNA (tRNAs), and 8 ribosome RNA (rRNAs). The maximum-likelihood (ML) tree result showed that M. liliflora is closely related to two Magnoliaceae family species of M. dealbata and M. glaucifolia in phylogenetic relationship. This complete chloroplast genomes will be useful for medicinal study in the future

Visible-wavelength pulsed lasers with low-dimensional saturable absorbers

The recent renaissance in pulsed lasers operating in the visible spectral region has been driven by their significant applications in a wide range of fields such as display technology, medicine, microscopy, material processing, and scientific research. Low-dimensional nanomaterials as saturable absorbers are exploited to create strong nonlinear saturable absorption for pulse generation at visible wavelengths due to their absorption peaks located in visible spectral region. Here we provide a detailed overview of visible-wavelength pulsed lasers based on low-dimensional nanomaterials, covering the optical properties and various integration strategies of these nanomaterials saturable absorbers, and their performance from solid-state as well as fiber pulsed lasers in the visible spectral range. This emerging application domain will undoubtedly lead to the rapid development of visible pulsed lasers

Enhanced precipitation of cyanide from electroplating wastewater via self-assembly of bimetal cyanide complex

Abstract A novel and cost-effective technology has been developed to enhance cyanide (CN) removal from electroplating wastewater. In this process, CN and Zn wastewater was proportionally mixed with Ni wastewater at a controlled pH for precipitation. As a result, 99% of CN and 85% of Zn were removed from the simulated test. Characterizations of XRD and FTIR displayed that CN and Zn removals were attributed to the formation of ZnNi bimetal cyanide complex. When this method was applied to the treatment of CN and Zn electroplating wastewater, 75% of CN and 100% of Zn were synchronously removed by forming a mixture of ZnNi bimetal cyanide complex and NiZnOH. Furthermore, mechanism analyses showed that CN first transformed into Ni(CN)42-, then precipitated into bimetal cyanide complex. This work revealed that the presented strategy is an effective approach for the purification of both cyanide and heavy metal from electroplating wastewater

Additional file 2: Figure S2. of The role of cytoplasmic p57 in invasion of hepatocellular carcinoma

p57 downregulation can not affects the mRNA level of p-cofilin in HCC cell lines. Reverse transcription PCR analysis of BEL7402-shNC, BEL7402-shp57, SMMC7721-shNC and SMMC7721-shp57 cells