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‘Guide and Prejudice’— How Argonautes recognize targets across domains of life

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Argonaute proteins use short nucleic‐acid guides to locate and regulate specific targets across all domains of life. Despite striking diversity—from human gene silencing to bacterial immune defence—all Argonautes share a conserved three‐stage recognition logic: guide‐directed sampling, progressive target pairing with a conformational checkpoint and ...
Jack P. K. Bravo
wiley   +1 more source

A Multi-Level Organization of Semantic Primitives that Enables an Autonomous Design Agent to Learn Model of Interaction with the Environment

, 2007
: The intelligent systems that design in an environment require models of environment. Autonomous learning agents, that start with no models of environment, need to generate models of environment.
Learn Model, Me Nt, Interaction Environment   +2 more
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Structures of mycobacterial 3‐methylcrotonyl‐CoA carboxylase reveal carrier‐domain translocation between catalytic sites

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Mycobacterial 3‐methylcrotonyl‐CoA carboxylase uses a mobile biotin‐carrying domain to shuttle a carboxyl group between two catalytic sites, enabling carboxylation of 3‐methylcrotonyl‐CoA during leucine breakdown. Cryo‐electron microscopy captures the carrier at both sites and reveals an inward loop movement that may prevent futile rebinding to the ...
Ajit Yadav, Bogdan I. Florea, Sebastian Geibel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A framework to identify physiological responses in microarray based gene expression studies: selection and interpretation of biologically relevant genes

, 2008
In whole genome microarray studies major gene expression changes are easily identified, but it is a challenge to capture small, but biologically important, changes.
Boer, J.M., Mariman, E.C.M., Feskens, E.J.M., Bovee-Oudenhoven, I.M.J., Bovee Oudenhoven, I.M., Boer, J.M.A., Keijer, J., Heidema, A.G., Rodenburg, W., Rodenburg, G.C.H., Mariman, E.C.   +10 more
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From junk to function — How weak selection in eukaryotes builds new parts and drives genomic complexity

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
How do genomes gain new functional parts? In eukaryotes, which tend to evolve under weak selection, much of the genome is junk. Palazzo and Qiu borrow the logic of Markov chains to show how non‐functional DNA becomes functional through the appearance of intermediate states, which arise due to epistasis, buffering, and biochemical messiness, allowing ...
Alexander F. Palazzo, Yi Qiu
wiley   +1 more source

Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Circular RNA expression landscapes in myelodysplastic neoplasms: Associations with mutational signatures and disease progression

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In this explorative study, the abundance of circular RNA molecules in bone marrow stem cells was found to be elevated in patients with high‐risk myelodysplastic neoplasms, and to be associated with an increased risk of progression to acute myeloid leukemia.
Eileen Wedge, Morten Tulstrup, Gabriele Todisco, Pedro Moura, Christophe Côme, Jakob Werner Hansen, Jakob Schmidt Jespersen, Balthasar Schlotmann, Maria Creignou, Mette Dahl, Claudia Schöllkopf, Klas Raaschou‐Jensen, Krister Wennerberg, Bo Porse, Joachim Weischenfeldt, Eva Hellström‐Lindberg, Lasse Sommer Kristensen, Kirsten Grønbæk   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hijacking emergency granulopoiesis: Neutrophil ontogeny and reprogramming in cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Neutrophils are highly plastic innate immune cells; their functions in cancer extend beyond the tumour microenvironment. This Review summarises current understanding of neutrophil maturation and heterogeneity and highlights tumour‐induced granulopoiesis as a systemic programme that expands immature, immunosuppressive neutrophils via tumour‐derived ...
Gabriela Marinescu, Yi Feng
wiley   +1 more source

Metastasis on pause: How dormant tumor cells stay hidden within the tumor microenvironment and evade immune surveillance

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Dormant cancer cells can hide in distant organs for years, evading treatment and the immune system. This review highlights how signals from the surrounding tissue and immune environment keep these cells inactive or trigger their reawakening. Understanding these mechanisms may help develop therapies to eliminate or control dormant cells and prevent ...
Kanishka Tiwary, Jose Javier Bravo‐Cordero   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association study on two vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms and vitamin D metabolites in multiple sclerosis

, 2009
BACKGROUND: An association of two single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene, Apal (rs7975232) and Taql (rs731236), with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been reported in a Caucasian population.
Damoiseaux, J.G.M.C., Menheere, P., Smolders, J., Tervaert, J.W., Hupperts, R.   +4 more
core   +1 more source