Ion channel function of polycystin‐2/polycystin‐1 heteromer revealed by structure‐guided mutagenesis
Mutations in polycystin‐1 (PC1) or polycystin‐2 (PC2) cause autosomal‐dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). We generated a novel gain‐of‐function PC2/PC1 heteromeric ion channel by mutating pore‐blocking residues. Moreover, we demonstrated that PC2 will preferentially assemble with PC1 to form heteromeric complexes when PC1 is co‐expressed ...
Tobias Staudner+7 more
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Epilepsy has many causes and comorbidities affecting as many as 4% of people in their lifetime. Both idiopathic and symptomatic epilepsies are highly heritable, but genetic factors are difficult to characterize among humans due to complex disease ...
Russell J. Ferland+9 more
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Applying Genetic Algorithm for Prioritization of Test Case Scenarios Derived from UML Diagrams [PDF]
Software testing involves identifying the test cases whichdiscover errors in the program. However, exhaustive testing ofsoftware is very time consuming. In this paper, a technique isproposed to prioritize test case scenarios by identifying the critical path clusters using genetic algorithm.
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Active Learning in Genetic Programming: Guiding Efficient Data Collection for Symbolic Regression [PDF]
This paper examines various methods of computing uncertainty and diversity for active learning in genetic programming. We found that the model population in genetic programming can be exploited to select informative training data points by using a model ensemble combined with an uncertainty metric. We explored several uncertainty metrics and found that
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Dissecting the sharp response of a canonical developmental enhancer reveals multiple sources of cooperativity. [PDF]
Developmental enhancers integrate graded concentrations of transcription factors (TFs) to create sharp gene expression boundaries. Here we examine the hunchback P2 (HbP2) enhancer which drives a sharp expression pattern in the Drosophila blastoderm ...
Bragdon, Meghan Dj+10 more
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Tomato: a crop species amenable to improvement by cellular and molecular methods [PDF]
Tomato is a crop plant with a relatively small DNA content per haploid genome and a well developed genetics. Plant regeneration from explants and protoplasts is feasable which led to the development of efficient transformation procedures.
A. Crossway+192 more
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Decoding the dual role of autophagy in cancer through transcriptional and epigenetic regulation
Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation controls autophagy, which exerts context‐dependent effects on cancer: Autophagy suppresses tumorigenesis by maintaining cellular homeostasis or promotes tumor progression by supporting survival under stress. In this “In a Nutshell” article, we explore the intricate mechanisms of the dual function of autophagy ...
Young Suk Yu, Ik Soo Kim, Sung Hee Baek
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Stochastic synchronization of genetic oscillators induced by miRNA [PDF]
We study two important roles of miRNA as stress inducer and synchronizing agent in regulating diffusively coupled genetic oscillators within stochastic formalism and competition between them. We identify optimal value of coupling constant at which the rate of synchronization is strongest, below this value sychronizing activity dominates stress activity,
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Conformational changes in sigma 54 (sigma(54)) and sigma(54)-holoenzyme depend on nucleotide hydrolysis by an activator. We now show that sigma(54) and its holoenzyme bind to the central ATP-hydrolyzing domains of the transcriptional activators PspF and ...
M. Chaney+11 more
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Identification of a novel regulatory mechanism for the disease associated protein, uPAR [PDF]
Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), as determined through a series of statistical association studies collectively known as genome-wide association (GWA) studies, have provided us with a hypothesis free approach for the investigation into ...
Hall, Ian P.+2 more
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