Claudin-11 regulates immunological barrier formation and spermatogonial proliferation through stem cell factor by Taichi Sugawara, Kayoko Sonoda, Nattapran Chompusri, Kazuhiro Noguchi, Seiji Okada, Mikio Furuse, Tomohiko Wakayama

“…Defective spermatogenesis in Cldn11-deficient mice was not restored on a recombination activating gene 2 (Rag2) knockout background lacking mature T and B lymphocytes. …”
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Diabetes Is Associated with Increased Autoreactivity of Mannan-Binding Lectin by Esben Axelgaard, Jakob Appel Østergaard, Steffen Thiel, Troels Krarup Hansen

“…After 24 weeks, fluorescently labelled recombinant MBL was injected intravenously in diabetic MBL knockout mice after which the distribution was investigated using in vivo fluorescence imaging. …”
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Identification of Binding Partners of Deafness-Related Protein PDZD7 by Haibo Du, Rui Ren, Panpan Chen, Zhigang Xu, Yanfei Wang

“…Unexpectedly, Cadm1 knockout mice show normal hearing threshold, which might be explained by the possible compensation by its homologs that are also expressed in the inner ear. …”
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Ly6E on tumor cells impairs anti-tumor T-cell responses: a novel mechanism of tumor-induced immune exclusion by Lan Hailin, Chen Yiting, Wu Yue, Li Lijun, Zhang Renlu, Chen Yunhan, Zhu Yanyang, Zhang Qiuyu

“…The enhanced anti-tumor effect of Ly6E knockout in tumor cells was dependent on T cell response and formed long-lasting memory. …”
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MUC2 expression modulates immune infiltration in colorectal cancer by Christophe M. Raynaud, Ayesha Jabeen, Eiman I. Ahmed, Eiman I. Ahmed, Satanay Hubrack, Apryl Sanchez, Shimaa Sherif, Ahmad A. Al-Shaibi, Bernice Lo, Bernice Lo, Jessica Roelands, Davide Bedognetti, Davide Bedognetti, Wouter Hendrickx, Wouter Hendrickx

“…In HT-29 cells, MUC2 knockout increased immune infiltration, while in LS-174T cells, compensatory expression of other mucins (MUC6, MUC5B) maintained the barrier. …”
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Skeletal Muscle-Specific CPT1 Deficiency Elevates Lipotoxic Intermediates but Preserves Insulin Sensitivity by Wanchun Shi, Siping Hu, Wenhua Wang, Xiaohui Zhou, Wei Qiu

“…Objective. By specific knockout of carnitine palmitoyl transferase 1b (CPT1b) in skeletal muscles, we explored the effect of CPT1b deficiency on lipids and insulin sensitivity. …”
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CD276 regulates the immune escape of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma through CXCL1–CXCR2 induced NETs by Yu Liang, Shuang Chen, Zhi Chen, Fang Peng, Qianwen Liu, Gan Xiong, Caihua Zhang, Maosheng Cheng, Rongsong Ling, Demeng Chen, Qimin Zhou

“…In vivo, we established a 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide (4NQO)-induced CD276 knockout (CD276wKO) and K14cre; CD276 conditional knockout (CD276cKO) mouse model of ESCC to study the functional role of CD276 in ESCC. …”
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Astrocytic NLRP3 cKO mitigates depression-like behaviors induced by mild TBI in mice. by Hui-Tao Miao, Jun Wang, Jing-Jing Shao, Rong-Xin Song, Wen-Guang Li, Jian-Kai Sun, Shi-Yan Jia, Dong-Xue Zhang, Xiao-Ming Li, Jian-Yong Zhao, Li-Min Zhang

“…Notably, under mild TBI conditions, astrocyte-specific NLRP3 exhibited greater neuroprotective effects in female knockout mice compared to males. Conclusion: Astrocyte NLRP3 knockout demonstrated a protective mechanism in mice subjected to mild TBI, possibly attributed to the inhibition of pyroptosis through the NLRP3 signaling pathway in astrocytes.…”
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Deletion of bZIP Transcription Factor <i>PratfA</i> Reveals Specialized Metabolites Potentially Regulating Stress Response in <i>Penicillium raistrickii</i> by Anxin Zhang, Shu Zhang, Xinran Xu, Wen-Bing Yin

“…In this study, we purposefully altered <i>PratfA</i>, a crucial regulator associated with oxidative stress in <i>Penicillium raistrickii</i> CGMCC 3.1066. After the knockout of <i>PratfA</i>, a novel polyketide (PK) raistrilide A (<b>1</b>) and the known nonribosomal peptide (NRP) tunicoidine (<b>2</b>) subsequently disappeared. …”
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P-cadherin-dependent adhesions are required for single lumen formation and HGF-mediated cell protrusions during epithelial morphogenesis by Sydnie K. Tran, Jessanne Y. Lichtenberg, Corinne E. Leonard, Jessica R. Williamson, Hazel R. Sterling, Grace K. Panek, Amanda H. Pearson, Santiago Lopez, Christopher A. Lemmon, Daniel E. Conway, Priscilla Y. Hwang

“…CDH3 knockout cells exert lower forces on the surrounding environment compared to wild-type cells, suggesting CDH3 acts as a mechanosensor for stable cell protrusion establishment. …”
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Brain-Specific SNAP-25 Deletion Leads to Elevated Extracellular Glutamate Level and Schizophrenia-Like Behavior in Mice by Hua Yang, Mengjie Zhang, Jiahao Shi, Yunhe Zhou, Zhipeng Wan, Yicheng Wang, Yinghan Wan, Jun Li, Zhugang Wang, Jian Fei

“…We showed that SNAP-25 conditional knockout (cKO) mice exhibited typical schizophrenia-like phenotype. …”
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Circular RNA circFGFR1 Functions as an Oncogene in Glioblastoma Cells through Sponging to hsa-miR-224-5p by Qian Zhang, Shan Chen, Yingwei Zhen, Peng Gao, Zhenyu Zhang, Hao Guo, Yong Wang

“…The effect of circFGFR1 on glioma malignancy is abolished in CXCR4 knockout cells. Then, RIP, RNA pull-down, and luciferase reporter assay results showed that hsa-miR-224-5p directly binds to circFGFR1 and CXCR4 mRNA. …”
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HuR Plays a Positive Role to Strengthen the Signaling Pathways of CD4+ T Cell Activation and Th17 Cell Differentiation by Shiguang Yu, Morgan Tripod, Ulus Atasoy, Jing Chen

“…Here, we used HuR conditional knockout (HuR KO) CD4+ T cells to study mechanisms underlying HuR regulation of T cell activation and differentiation through distinct signaling pathways. …”
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Temporally and Spatially Controlled Age-Related Prostate Cancer Model in Mice by Sen Liu, Keyi Shen, Zixuan Li, Seleste Rivero, Qiuyang Zhang

“…Hereby, we present the prostate-specific temporally and spatially controlled Pten knockout PCa mouse model that can be induced using an adenovirus-based Cre-LoxP system. …”
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The haploid induction ability analysis of various mutation of OsMATL and OsDMPs in rice by Siyi Liang, Qin Wen, Wenyu Lu, Guili Yang, Yingyun Yao, Hairong Cai, Jiafeng Wang, Ming Huang, Hui Wang, Tao Guo

“…Notably, in this study, the HI capacity of OsMATL knockout mutants in indica rice surpassed that of japonica rice knockout mutants, with the proton active site in the third exon exhibiting a higher HIR compared to the first and fourth exons. …”
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Extracellular matrix stiffness regulates colorectal cancer progression via HSF4 by Kangtao Wang, Siyi Ning, Shuai Zhang, Mingming Jiang, Yan Huang, Haiping Pei, Ming Li, Fengbo Tan

“…HSF4 expression increased with higher TNM stages, and its knockout significantly inhibited cell proliferation, migration, and invasion, especially on high-stiffness matrices. …”
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Crop genes modified using CRISPR/Cas system by A. M. Korotkova, S. V. Gerasimova, V. K. Shumny, E. K. Khlestkina

“…In most of these cases, modifications resulted in knockout of the genes such as negative growth and development regulators or negative regulators of plant resistance. …”
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CRISPR/cas9 Allows for the Quick Improvement of Tomato Firmness Breeding by Qihong Yang, Liangyu Cai, Mila Wang, Guiyun Gan, Weiliu Li, Wenjia Li, Yaqin Jiang, Qi Yuan, Chunchun Qin, Chuying Yu, Yikui Wang

“…We generated single and double gene knockout mutants utilizing the tomato genetic transformation system. …”
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HSP60 inhibits DF-1 apoptosis through its mitochondrial signal peptide by Shengliang Cao, Yanlan Li, Lele Chen, Xiaojing Lei, Xiujuan Feng, Yubao Li

“…This suggests that the HSP60 knockout induces apoptosis by up-regulating Caspase 3 and down-regulating Bax expression. …”
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Point Mutations in the folP Gene Partly Explain Sulfonamide Resistance of Streptococcus mutans by W. Buwembo, S. Aery, C. M. Rwenyonyi, G. Swedberg, F. Kironde

“…In contrast, plasmids carrying four other mutations (A46V, E80K, Q122H, and S146G) in folP did not similarly confer any sulfonamide resistance to folP-knockout bacteria. Nevertheless, sulfonamide resistance (MIC = 50 μM) of folP-knockout bacteria transformed with plasmid-encoded folP was much less than the resistance (MIC = 4 mM) expressed by chromosomally-encoded folP. …”
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