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Biology is tuned to the Earth's diurnal cycle by the circadian clock, a transcriptional/translational negative feedback loop that regulates physiology via transcriptional activation and other post-transcriptional mechanisms. We hypothesize that circadian post-transcriptional regulation might stem from conformational shifts in the intrinsically disordered proteins that comprise the negative arm of the feedback loop to coordinate variation in negative-arm-centered macromolecular complexes. This work demonstrates temporal conformational fluidity in the negative arm that correlates with 24-h variation in physiologically diverse macromolecular complex components in eukaryotic clock proteins. Short linear motifs on the negative-arm proteins that correspond with the interactors localized to disordered regions and known temporal phosphorylation sites suggesting changes in these macromolecular complexes could be due to conformational changes imparted by the temporal phospho-state. Interactors that oscillate in the macromolecular complexes over circadian time correlate with post-transcriptionally regulated proteins, highlighting how time-of-day variation in the negative-arm protein complexes may tune cellular physiology.
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Curr Med Res Opin
September 2025
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA.
Objectives: In ENGAGE, patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) demonstrated improvements in patient-reported depression and life engagement while taking adjunctive brexpiprazole. This analysis aimed to further characterize patient perspectives on the effects of adjunctive brexpiprazole, using patient diary data from ENGAGE, and describe development of a 'word of the day' activity.
Methods: Prior to ENGAGE, word lists describing a 'good,' 'average,' and 'bad' day with depression were generated from semi-structured interviews with patients with MDD.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
September 2025
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: The Maltalep trial in Bangladesh assessed whether single-dose rifampicin (SDR) given 8-12 weeks after bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination was able to prevent excess leprosy cases due to BCG in contacts of newly diagnosed leprosy patients. After previous publication of the two years follow-up results of the trial, we now review the results after five years. Furthermore, to better understand the long-term protective effects of BCG against leprosy, we conduct post-hoc in-depth secondary statistical analyses based on the prospective interventional (randomized) Maltalep trial and a non-interventional (non-randomized) cohort study that was conducted simultaneously in the same project area.
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September 2025
Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, USA; UCSF Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, USA; Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA. Electronic address:
Objective: To determine the effect of adjunctive rose-bengal photodynamic therapy (RB-PDT) in the treatment of fungal, Acanthamoeba, and smear/culture negative infectious keratitis.
Study Design: This international, randomized, double-masked, sham controlled clinical trial, randomizes patients with corneal ulcers in a 1:1 fashion to one of two treatment arms: 1) Topical antimicrobial plus sham RB-PDT or 2) Topical antimicrobial plus RB-PDT.
Main Outcome Measures: The primary outcome was best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) at 6 months.
Tuberc Respir Dis (Seoul)
September 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Background: Although OM-85 may lessen respiratory symptoms and reduce acute exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), its overall effectiveness remains incompletely proven.
Methods: This prospective, observational, single-arm study was conducted at four university hospitals in South Korea from June 2022 to December 2023. Adults with spirometry-confirmed COPD who were prescribed OM-85 were enrolled and followed for six months (3-months treatment, 3-months observation).
Purpose: TrilynX was a randomized, double-blind, phase III study evaluating the addition of xevinapant (an inhibitor of apoptosis proteins inhibitor) or placebo to chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in patients with unresected locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (LA SCCHN).
Methods: Patients with unresected LA SCCHN (oropharynx [p16-negative only], hypopharynx, or larynx) were randomly assigned 1:1 to six cycles of oral xevinapant 200 mg/day or matched placebo (once daily on Days 1-14 of a 21-day cycle) plus CRT for the first three cycles (cisplatin [100 mg/m once on Day 2 of every cycle] plus intensity-modulated radiotherapy [70 Gy; 35 fractions of 2 Gy/day, 5 days/week]). The primary end point was event-free survival (EFS) assessed by the blinded independent review committee.