Time synchronization and phase shaping of single photons both play fundamental roles in quantum information applications that rely on multi-photon quantum interference.Phase shaping typically requires separate modulat...Time synchronization and phase shaping of single photons both play fundamental roles in quantum information applications that rely on multi-photon quantum interference.Phase shaping typically requires separate modulators with extra insertion losses.Here,we develop an all-optical built-in phase modulator for single photons using a quantum memory.The fast phase modulation of a single photon in both step and linear manner are verified by observing the efficient quantum-memory-assisted Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between two single photons,where the anti-coalescence effect of bosonic photon pairs is demonstrated.The developed phase modulator may push forward the practical quantum information applications.展开更多
Psychological stress causes gut microbial dysbiosis and cancer progression,yet how gut microbiota determines psychological stressinduced tumor development remains unclear.Here we showed that psychological stress promo...Psychological stress causes gut microbial dysbiosis and cancer progression,yet how gut microbiota determines psychological stressinduced tumor development remains unclear.Here we showed that psychological stress promotes breast tumor growth and cancer stemness,an outcome that depends on gut microbiota in germ-free and antibiotic-treated mice.Metagenomic and metabolomic analyses revealed that psychological stress markedly alters the composition and abundance of gut microbiota,especially Akkermansia muciniphila(A.muciniphila),and decreases short-chain fatty acid butyrate.Supplement of active A.muciniphila,butyrate or a butyrateproducing high fiber diet dramatically reversed the oncogenic property and anxiety-like behavior of psychological stress in a murine spontaneous tumor model or an orthotopic tumor model.Mechanistically,RNA sequencing analysis screened out that butyrate decreases LRP5 expression to block the activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway,dampening breast cancer stemness.Moreover,butyrate as a HDAC inhibitor elevated histone H3K9 acetylation level to transcriptionally activate ZFP36,which further accelerates LRP5 mRNA decay by binding adenine uridine-rich(AU-rich)elements of LRP5 transcript.Clinically,fecal A.muciniphila and serum butyrate were inversely correlated with tumoral LRP5/β-catenin expression,poor prognosis and negative mood in breast cancer patients.Altogether,our findings uncover a microbiota-dependent mechanism of psychological stress-triggered cancer stemness,and provide both clinical biomarkers and potential therapeutic avenues for cancer patients undergoing psychological stress.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2020YFA0309500)the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2019B030330001)+5 种基金the Key Project of Science and Technology of Guangzhou(Grant No.2019050001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11822403,62005082,12004120,U20A2074U1801661)the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(Grant No.2018A0303130066)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2020M672681)the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(Grant No.2020A1515110848)。
文摘Time synchronization and phase shaping of single photons both play fundamental roles in quantum information applications that rely on multi-photon quantum interference.Phase shaping typically requires separate modulators with extra insertion losses.Here,we develop an all-optical built-in phase modulator for single photons using a quantum memory.The fast phase modulation of a single photon in both step and linear manner are verified by observing the efficient quantum-memory-assisted Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between two single photons,where the anti-coalescence effect of bosonic photon pairs is demonstrated.The developed phase modulator may push forward the practical quantum information applications.
基金supported by the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82321003)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82273480,82341020,82473131,82373096,82173361)+4 种基金National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFA1104002)Applied Basic Research Planning Project of Liaoning(2023JH2/101600019)Science and technology innovation team project of basic scientific research project of Liaoning Provincial Department of Education(LJ222410161065)the Science and Technology Talent Innovation Support Policy Implementation Program of Dalian-Outstanding young scientific and technological talents(2023RY013)the Shenzhen Bay Laboratory ResearchFunds(SZBL2021080601001toQL).
文摘Psychological stress causes gut microbial dysbiosis and cancer progression,yet how gut microbiota determines psychological stressinduced tumor development remains unclear.Here we showed that psychological stress promotes breast tumor growth and cancer stemness,an outcome that depends on gut microbiota in germ-free and antibiotic-treated mice.Metagenomic and metabolomic analyses revealed that psychological stress markedly alters the composition and abundance of gut microbiota,especially Akkermansia muciniphila(A.muciniphila),and decreases short-chain fatty acid butyrate.Supplement of active A.muciniphila,butyrate or a butyrateproducing high fiber diet dramatically reversed the oncogenic property and anxiety-like behavior of psychological stress in a murine spontaneous tumor model or an orthotopic tumor model.Mechanistically,RNA sequencing analysis screened out that butyrate decreases LRP5 expression to block the activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway,dampening breast cancer stemness.Moreover,butyrate as a HDAC inhibitor elevated histone H3K9 acetylation level to transcriptionally activate ZFP36,which further accelerates LRP5 mRNA decay by binding adenine uridine-rich(AU-rich)elements of LRP5 transcript.Clinically,fecal A.muciniphila and serum butyrate were inversely correlated with tumoral LRP5/β-catenin expression,poor prognosis and negative mood in breast cancer patients.Altogether,our findings uncover a microbiota-dependent mechanism of psychological stress-triggered cancer stemness,and provide both clinical biomarkers and potential therapeutic avenues for cancer patients undergoing psychological stress.
