The PRC2.1 subcomplex opposes G1 progression through regulation of CCND1 and CCND2 by Adam D Longhurst, Kyle Wang, Harsha Garadi Suresh, Mythili Ketavarapu, Henry N Ward, Ian R Jones, Vivek Narayan, Frances V Hundley, Arshia Zernab Hassan, Charles Boone, Chad L Myers, Yin Shen, Vijay Ramani, Brenda J Andrews, David P Toczyski

“…We found that PRC2.1 (MTF2), but not PRC2.2 (JARID2), was critical for promoting H3K27me3 deposition at CpG islands genome-wide and in promoters. This included the CpG islands in the promoter of the CDK4/6 cyclins CCND1 and CCND2, and loss of MTF2 lead to upregulation of both CCND1 and CCND2. …”
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Effects of reproductive technologies and SPF status on some physiological and behavioral characteristics in rats with arterial hypertension (ISIAH strain) by D. S. Ragaeva, T. O. Abramova, I. N. Rozhkova, E. Yu. Brusentsev, E. V. Kalinichenko, T. N. Igonina, S. Ya. Amstislavsky

“…On the other hand, assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are widely used in modern medicine for human infertility treatment as well as for genome resource banking. In the present study, a comparison of body weight, blood pressure (BP) and behavior in the «elevated plus maze» (EPM) test was made between three groups of ISIAH (inherited stress induced arterial hypertension) rats: a group of animals that were born and raised in a conventional animal facility and two groups from an SPF animal facility (one with animals born naturally and another with animals resulting from ART). …”
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N7-methylguanosine modification in cancers: from mechanisms to therapeutic potential by Qihui Wu, Xiaodan Fu, Guoqian Liu, Xiaoyun He, Yimin Li, Chunlin Ou

“…On one hand, m7G modification-associated modulate tumour progression and affect malignant biological characteristics, including sustained proliferation signalling, resistance to cell death, activation of invasion and metastasis, reprogramming of energy metabolism, genome instability, and immune evasion. This suggests that they may be novel therapeutic targets for cancer treatment. …”
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Re-evaluation of mastodon material from Oregon and Washington, USA, Alberta, Canada, and Hidalgo and Jalisco, Mexico by Alton C. Dooley Jr, Chris Widga, Brittney E. Stoneburg, Christopher Jass, Victor M. Bravo-Cuevas, Andrew Boehm, Eric Scott, Andrew T. McDonald, Mark Volmut

“…The Alberta specimen referred to M. pacificus is the same tooth found to have a Pliocene divergence time from M. americanum based on mitochondrial genome data from a previous study, suggesting a deep divergence time between the two taxa. …”
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PGC-1α activation to enhance macrophage immune function in mycobacterial infections. by Joel R Frandsen, Zhihong Yuan, Brahmchetna Bedi, Zohra Prasla, Seoung-Ryoung Choi, Prabagaran Narayanasamy, Ruxana T Sadikot

“…Mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) is a protein essential for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genome stability, integrity, and metabolism. Both PGC-1α and TFAM regulate mitochondrial biogenesis and activity, and their disruption is linked to inflammatory signaling and altered macrophage function. …”
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Learning with semantic ambiguity for unbiased scene graph generation by Shanjin Zhong, Yang Cao, Qiaosen Chen, Jie Gong

“…Our approach is evaluated on widely-used datasets, including Visual Genome and Generalized Question Answering, both with over 100,000 images, providing rich visual contexts for scene graph model evaluation. …”
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Comparison of Procleix Ultrio Elite and Procleix Ultrio NAT Assays for Screening of Transfusion Transmitted Infections among Blood Donors in India by Rahul Chaurasia, Diptiranjan Rout, Shamsuz Zaman, Kabita Chatterjee, Hem Chandra Pandey, Abhishek Kumar Maurya

“…NAT combines the advantages of direct and highly sequence-specific detection of viral genomes. We analysed the performance of newer Procleix Ultrio Elite (PUE) and Procleix Ultrio assay (PUA) for the screening of the viral markers in our donor population. …”
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Identification and expression analysis of the ZF-HD gene family in castor by XU Xingyuan, HUANG Fenglan, ZHANG Chunlan, ZHU Mengyang, CUI Zhiyu, LIU Peng

“…[Methods] Based on the whole genome data of castor, ZF-HD genes were identified, and bioinformatics and expression analysis under abiotic stress were carried out. …”
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The mevalonate pathway contributes to breast primary tumorigenesis and lung metastasis by Javier Conde, Isabel Fernández‐Pisonero, L. Francisco Lorenzo‐Martín, Rocío García‐Gómez, Berta Casar, Piero Crespo, Xosé R. Bustelo

“…HMGCR, but not HMGCS1, is also important for the extravasation and subsequent fitness of breast cancer cells in the lung parenchyma. Genome‐wide expression analyses revealed that HMGCR influences the expression of gene signatures linked to proliferation, metabolism, and immune responses. …”
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Inheritance patterns of male asexuality in hybrid males of a water frog Pelophylax esculentus by Marie Doležálková-Kaštánková, Dmitrij Dedukh, Veronika Labajová, Eleonora Pustovalova, Lukáš Choleva

“…Also, most male tadpole progeny in two successive backcrossed generations simultaneously eliminated L and R parental genomes, while some progeny produced only one type of sperm. …”
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A Micro-RNA Connection in BRafV600E-Mediated Premature Senescence of Human Melanocytes by Gang Ren, Jingwei Feng, Ila Datar, Aaron H. Yeung, Srinivas Vinod Saladi, Yongqing Feng, Ivana de la Serna, Kam C. Yeung

“…Recent high-throughput-sequencing of the cancer genome has identified oncogenic mutations in BRaf genetic locus as one of the critical events in melanomagenesis. …”
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Prospects for marker-associated selection in tomato <i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L. by A. B. Shcherban

“…A separate chapter is devoted to the use of various types of DNA markers for constructing detailed genetic maps of the specified object, which, along with full-genome sequencing data, can be used to screen for genes responsible for breeding traits. …”
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Comprehensive Cellular Senescence Evaluation to Aid Targeted Therapies by Xiaolan Zhou, Xiaofeng Zhu, Weixu Wang, Jing Wang, Haimei Wen, Yuqi Zhao, Jiayu Zhang, Qiushi Xu, Zhaozhao Zhao, Ting Ni

“…We quantified the cellular senescence states of ~10,000 tumor samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas and examined their associations with targeted drug responses. …”
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Single-cell transcriptomes reveal cell-type-specific and sample-specific gene function in human cancer by Huating Yuan, Xin Liang, Xinxin Zhang, Yu Cao

“…We found that 500 or more cells should be considered in the prediction with scRNA-seq, and that scRNA-seq datasets generated from 10x Genomics platform had a better performance than those from Smart-seq2. …”
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RBM47 is a novel immunotherapeutic target and prognostic biomarker in gliomas by Wei Wei, Yongfu Cao, Xin Lu, Long Wang, Jianbin Li, Guojun Deng, Donghai Li, Limin Xiao

“…Gene Ontology, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes, and Gene Set Variation Analysis indicated that RBM47 is closely related to immunity and inflammation. …”
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Recent Advances in the Pathogenesis of Syndromic Autisms by A. Benvenuto, B. Manzi, R. Alessandrelli, C. Galasso, P. Curatolo

“…Identifying cryptic chromosomal abnormalities by whole genome microarray analysis can increase the understanding of the neurobiological pathways to autism.…”
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Identification of Y-box binding protein 1 as a core regulator of MEK/ERK pathway-dependent gene signatures in colorectal cancer cells. by Karsten Jürchott, Ralf-Jürgen Kuban, Till Krech, Nils Blüthgen, Ulrike Stein, Wolfgang Walther, Christian Friese, Szymon M Kiełbasa, Ute Ungethüm, Per Lund, Thomas Knösel, Wolfgang Kemmner, Markus Morkel, Johannes Fritzmann, Peter M Schlag, Walter Birchmeier, Tammo Krueger, Silke Sperling, Christine Sers, Hans-Dieter Royer, Hanspeter Herzel, Reinhold Schäfer

“…Transcriptional signatures are an indispensible source of correlative information on disease-related molecular alterations on a genome-wide level. Numerous candidate genes involved in disease and in factors of predictive, as well as of prognostic, value have been deduced from such molecular portraits, e.g. in cancer. …”
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GENES DETERMINING THE SYNTHESIS OF LAVONOID AND MELANIN PIGMENTS IN BARLEY by O. Yu. Shoeva, K. V. Strygina, E. K. Khlestkina

“…Since the 1970s, structural genes that encode the enzymes of lavonoid metabolism, as well as regulatory genes that determine the tissue-speciic accumulation of these pigments in grain tissues, as well as in vegetative organs have been identiied and localized in the barley genome. The Ant1 and Ant2 genes, determining the accumulation of anthocyanins in grain pericarp, the Ant28 gene controlling the biosynthesis of proanthocyanidins (condensed tannins) in seed coat, as well as the HvMpc2, HvMyc2 and HvWD40 genes responsible for the accumulation of anthocyanins in the aleurone layer of barley grain have been determined. …”
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Genotyping of HCV RNA Reveals That 3a Is the Most Prevalent Genotype in Mardan, Pakistan by Sajid Ali, Ayaz Ahmad, Raham Sher Khan, Sanaullah Khan, Muhammad Hamayun, Sumera Afzal Khan, Amjad Iqbal, Abid Ali Khan, Abdul Wadood, Taj Ur Rahman, Ali Hydar Baig

“…RNA was extracted from serum and reverse-transcribed to cDNA and the core region of HCV genome was targeted and amplified by multiplex PCR. …”
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Evaluation and Prediction of the HIV-1 Central Polypurine Tract Influence on Foamy Viral Vectors to Transduce Dividing and Growth-Arrested Cells by Sergey Shityakov, Carola Förster, Axel Rethwilm, Thomas Dandekar

“…In this process, the HIV-1 central polypurine tract (cPPT) serves as a primer for plus-strand synthesis to produce a “flap” element and is believed to be crucial for the subsequent double-stranded cDNA formation of all retroviral RNA genomes. In this study, the effects of the lentiviral cPPT element on the FV transduction potential in dividing and growth-arrested (G1/S phase) adenocarcinomic human alveolar basal epithelial (A549) cells are investigated by experimental and theoretical methods. …”
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