A new pentaketide derivative, penilactonol A (1), and two new hydroxyphenylacetic acid derivatives, (2'R)-stachyline B (2) and (2'R)-westerdijkin A (3), together with five known metabolites, bisabolane-type sesquiterpenoids 4-6 and meroterpenoids 7 and 8, were isolated from the solid culture of a marine alga-associated fungus Penicillium chrysogenum LD-201810. Their structures were elucidated based on extensive spectroscopic analyses, including 1D/2D NMR and high resolution electrospray ionization mass spectra (HRESIMS). The absolute configurations of the stereogenic carbons in 1 were determined by the (Mo2(OAc)4)-induced circular dichroism (CD) and comparison of the calculated and experimental electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra, while the absolute configuration of the stereogenic carbon in 2 was established using single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Compounds 2 and 3 adapt the 2'R-configuration as compared to known hydroxyphenylacetic acid-derived and O-prenylated natural products. The cytotoxicity of 1-8 against human carcinoma cell lines (A549, BT-549, HeLa, HepG2, MCF-7, and THP-1) was evaluated. Compound 3 exhibited cytotoxicity to the HepG2 cell line with an IC50 value of 22.0 μM. Furthermore, 5 showed considerable activities against A549 and THP-1 cell lines with IC50 values of 21.2 and 18.2 μM, respectively.The present study aimed to explore the added value of managers' and employee representatives' agreement in risk perception and awareness in explaining the management of more 'subjective' psychosocial risks as compared to the more 'objective' traditional OSH risks. The general assumption tested was whether the added value of agreement in risk perception and awareness between these parties would be larger for psychosocial risk management as compared to traditional OSH risk management. European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-1) data were used from 7226 enterprises in which both managers and employee representatives were interviewed. Answers by employee representatives and managers to mirror questions on risk perception and awareness were used as independent variables, and answers to questions on risk management by the manager were used as dependent variables. Polynomial regression with response surface analysis was used. Differences in risk perception and awareness between managers and employee representatives explained more variance in psychosocial risk management as compared to more traditional OSH risk management. The implications of these findings and the importance of 'social dialogue' particularly in the case of psychosocial risk management as opposed to general OSH management are discussed.A new crAss-like genome encoding diversity-generating retroelement (DGR) was found in the fecal virome of a healthy volunteer. The genome of the phage referred to as the crAssphage LMMB, belonged to the candidate genus I of the AlphacrAssvirinae subfamily. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/ly333531.html The DGR-cassette of the crAssphage LMMB contained all the essential elements the gene encoding reverse transcriptase (RT), the target gene (TG) encoding the tail-collar fiber protein, and variable and template repeats (VR and TR) with IMH (initiation of mutagenic homing) and IMH* sequences at the 3'-end of the VR and TR, respectively. Architecture of the DGR-cassette was TG-VR(IMH)-TR(IMH*)-RT and an accessory variable determinant (avd) was absent from the cassette. Analysis of 91 genomes and genome fragments from genus I of the AlphacrAssvirinae showed that 15 (16%) of the genomes had DGRs with the same architecture as the crAssphage LMMB, while 66 of the genomes contained incomplete DGR-cassettes or some elements of the DGR.In this paper, the full tracking problem in aircraft system identification and control is presented. Time domain output error method with maximum likelihood principle was used to perform system identification. The linear quadratic regulator (LQR)-based approach has been used for solving aviation full tracking problems in aviation. It has been shown that the generalized nonlinear LQR control is able to handle such problems even in case of inaccurate measurements and in the presence of moderate disturbances provided that the model of an aircraft is properly identified.Various sulfonamide derivatives are intensively studied as anticancer agents owing to their inhibitory activity against human tumor-associated carbonic anhydrase isoforms. In this work, different synthetic procedures for the series of 1,3,5-triazinyl-aminobenzenesulfonamide conjugates with amino acids, possessing polar uncharged, negatively charged, and hydrophobic side chain, were studied and optimized with respect to the yield/purity of the synthesis/product as well as the time of synthetic reaction. These procedures were compared to each other via characteristic HPLC-ESI-DAD/QTOF/MS analytical product profiles, and their benefits as well as limitations were discussed. For new sulfonamide derivatives, incorporating s-triazine with a symmetric pair of polar and some less-polar proteinogenic amino acids, inhibition constants (KIs) against four human carboanhydrases (hCAs), namely cytosolic hCA I, II, transmembrane hCA IV, and the tumor-associated, membrane-bound hCA IX isoforms, were computationally predicted applying various methods of the advanced statistical analysis. Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analysis indicated an impressive KI ratio (hCA II/hCA IX) 139.1 and hCA IX inhibition constant very similar to acetazolamide (KI = 29.6 nM) for the sulfonamide derivative disubstituted with Gln. The derivatives disubstituted with Ser, Thr, and Ala showed even lower KIs (8.7, 13.1, and 8.4 nM, respectively).We recently described a cytotoxic CD8+ T lymphocyte (CTL) vaccine platform based on the intramuscular (i.m.) injection of DNA eukaryotic vectors expressing antigens of interest fused at the C-terminus of HIV-1 Nefmut, i.e., a functionally defective mutant that is incorporated at quite high levels into exosomes/extracellular vesicles (EVs). This system has been proven to elicit strong CTL immunity against a plethora of both viral and tumor antigens, as well as inhibit both transplantable and orthotopic tumors in mice. However, a number of open issues remain regarding the underlying mechanism. Here we provide evidence that hindering the uploading into EVs of Nefmut-derived products by removing the Nefmut N-terminal fatty acids leads to a dramatic reduction of the downstream antigen-specific CD8+ T-cell activation after i.m. injection of DNA vectors in mice. This result formally demonstrates that the generation of engineered EVs is part of the mechanism underlying the in vivo induced CD8+ T-cell immunogenicity. Gaining new insights on the EV-based vaccine platform can be relevant in view of its possible translation into the clinic to counteract both chronic and acute infections as well as tumors.