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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

The origin of human chromosome 2 analyzed by comparative chromosome mapping with a DNA microlibrary [PDF]

, 1994
Fluorescencein situ hybridization (FISH) of microlibraries established from distinct chromosome subregions can test the evolutionary conservation of chromosome bands as well as chromosomal rearrangements that occurred during primate evolution and will ...
Cremer, Thomas, Senger, G., Wienberg, Johannes, Claussen, U., Horsthemke, B., Arnold, N., Lüdecke, H. J., Jauch, Anna, Lengauer, Christoph   +8 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

X chromosome dosage and presence of SRY shape sex-specific differences in DNA methylation at an autosomal region in human cells

Biology of Sex Differences, 2018
Background Sexual dimorphism in DNA methylation levels is a recurrent epigenetic feature in different human cell types and has been implicated in predisposition to disease, such as psychiatric and autoimmune disorders. To elucidate the genetic origins of
Bianca Ho, Keelin Greenlaw, Abeer Al Tuwaijri, Sanny Moussette, Francisco Martínez, Elisa Giorgio, Alfredo Brusco, Giovanni Battista Ferrero, Natália D. Linhares, Eugênia R. Valadares, Marta Svartman, Vera M. Kalscheuer, Germán Rodríguez Criado, Catherine Laprise, Celia M. T. Greenwood, Anna K. Naumova   +15 more
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Variable patterns of Y chromosome homology in Akodontini rodents (Sigmodontinae): a phylogenetic signal revealed by chromosome painting

, 2012
The Akodontini is the second most speciose tribe of sigmodontine rodents, one of the most diverse groups of neotropical mammals. Molecular phylogenetic analyses are discordant regarding the interrelationships of genera, with low support for some clades ...
Ventura, Karen, Yassuda, Yatiyo, Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm A.   +2 more
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The heterodimeric amino acid transporters (HAT) of the SLC7/SLC3 family: A structure−function relationships and relevance to human pathology

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Heterodimeric amino acid transporters consist of SLC7 and SLC3 family proteins arranged in a conserved structural organization. They regulate nutrient transport across cell membranes, supporting essential cellular functions. These transporters also contribute to xenobiotic/drug uptake and distribution.
Mariafrancesca Scalise, Tiziano Mazza, Raffaella Scanga, Lara Console, Michele Galluccio, Cesare Indiveri   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Mouse Y Chromosome by Single-Molecule Sequencing With Y Chromosome Enrichment

Frontiers in Genetics, 2020
Since human and mouse Y chromosomes contain repeated sequences, it is difficult to determine the precise sequences and analyze the function of individual Y chromosome genes. Therefore, the causes of many diseases and abnormalities related to Y chromosome
Yuki Yano, Tomoki Chiba, Hiroshi Asahara, Hiroshi Asahara   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An investigation of Y chromosome incorporations in 400 species of Drosophila and related genera. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2018
Y chromosomes are widely believed to evolve from a normal autosome through a process of massive gene loss (with preservation of some male genes), shaped by sex-antagonistic selection and complemented by occasional gains of male-related genes.
Eduardo G Dupim, Gabriel Goldstein, Thyago Vanderlinde, Suzana C Vaz, Flávia Krsticevic, Aline Bastos, Thadeo Pinhão, Marcos Torres, Jean R David, Carlos R Vilela, Antonio Bernardo Carvalho   +10 more
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Cytomolecular identification of individual wheat-wheat chromosome arm associations in wheat-rye hybrids [PDF]

, 2013
Chromosome pairing in the meiotic metaphase I of wheatrye hybrids has been characterized by sequential genomic and fluorescent in situ hybridization allowing not only the discrimination of wheat and rye chromosomes, but also the identification of the
Megyeri, Mária, Molnár, István, Molnár-Láng, Márta   +2 more
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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