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... Transcriptional regulator PRD1-BF-1-RIZ1 homology (PR) domain containing protein-16 (PRDM16) has a fundamental function in maintaining energy homeostasis and regulating glucose and lipid metabolism, which are responsible for the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, the impact of genetic variation of PRDM16 gene on T2D risk remains to be investigated. Thus, we evaluated the possible assoc ...
reportergenes, etc ; Escherichia coli; gel electrophoresis; Show all 3 Subjects
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... Amino acid transport systems perform important physiological functions; their role should certainly be considered in microbial production of amino acids. Typically, in the context of metabolic engineering, efforts are focused on the search for and application of specific amino acid efflux pumps. However, in addition, importers can also be used to improve the industrial process as a whole. In this ...
reportergenes, etc ; panicles; rice; transcription (genetics); Show all 4 Subjects
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... Panicle development is an important determinant of the grain number in rice. A thorough characterization of the molecular mechanism underlying panicle development will lead to improved breeding of high‐yielding rice varieties. Frizzy Panicle (FZP), a critical gene for panicle development, is regulated by OsBZR1 and OsARFs at the transcriptional stage. However, the translational modulation of FZP h ...
reportergenes, etc ; RNA replication; luciferase; mutants; plasmids; viruses; Show all 6 Subjects
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... To investigate the role of PRRSV nonstructural proteins (nsps) in viral RNA replication and transcription, we generated a cDNA clone of PRRSV strain NCV1 carrying the nanoluciferase (nluc) gene under the control of the transcription regulatory sequence 6 (TRS6) designated as pNCV1-Nluc. Cells transfected with the pNCV1-Nluc DNA plasmid produced an infectious virus and high levels of luciferase act ...
reportergenes, etc ; Kluyveromyces marxianus; centromeres; cytotoxicity; plasmids; recombinases; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The Cre-loxP system produces structural variations, such as deletion, duplication, inversion and translocation, at specific loci and induces chromosomal rearrangements in the genome. To achieve chromosomal rearrangements in Kluyveromyces marxianus, the positions and sequences of centromeres were identified in this species for the first time. Next, a Cre-loxP system was established in K. marxianus. ...
reportergenes, etc ; Brassica napus; DNA; excision; tomatoes; toxicity; transgenes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Meganucleases are rare cutting enzymes that can generate DNA modifications and are part of the plant genome editing toolkit although they lack versatility. Here, we evaluated the use of two meganucleases, I-SceI and a customized meganuclease, in tomato and oilseed rape. Different strategies were explored for the use of these meganucleases. The activity of a customized and a I-SceI meganucleases wa ...
reportergenes, etc ; chlorides; hydrochloric acid; moieties; retinoic acid receptors; retinoids; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Tetrafluoro-λ⁶-sulfane (tetrafluorosulfanyl, SF₄) compounds possess unique properties, including a linear structure and high electronegativity. Here, to investigate the utility of the trans-SF₄ moiety as a structural element of bioactive compounds, we designed and synthesized novel retinoids containing a trans-SF₄-alkynyl group as a linear linker. The radical addition reaction of aryltetrafluorosu ...
reportergenes, etc ; Danio rerio; embryotoxicity; retinoic acid; teratogenicity; teratogens; toxicology; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Retinoids are newly detected compounds in aquatic ecosystems associated with cyanobacterial water blooms. Their potential health risks are only scarcely described despite numerous detections of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and its derivatives in the environment. Besides the known teratogen ATRA there is only little or no information about their potency and namely their effects in vivo. We charac ...
reportergenes, etc ; fluorescence; humans; luciferase; risk; thyroid function; thyroid hormones; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Dechloranes are a group of halogenated flame retardants with a basic bicyclo[2.2.1]heptene, including Dechlorane Plus (DP), Dechlorane 602 (Dec 602), Dechlorane 603 (Dec 603) and Dechlorane 604 (Dec 604). A few epidemiological investigations and animal experiments have shown that DP exhibited thyroid-interfering effects. In the present study, we investigated whether DP and three other dechloranes ...
reportergenes, etc ; Arabidopsis; biochemistry; gene expression; genomics; introns; lint cotton; trichomes; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Plant trichomes are specialized epidermal cells that protect plants from insects and pathogens. In Arabidopsis, epidermal hairs decrease as internodes increase in height, with only few epidermal hairs produced on the sepals abaxial surface of the early flowers. TRIPTYCHON (TRY) is known to be a negative regulator of epidermal hair development in Arabidopsis, suppressing the formation of ectopic ep ...
reportergenes, etc ; bioassays; hydrochars; hydrothermal carbonization; polychlorinated biphenyls; sewage sludge; toxicity; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The suitability of the AhR reporter gene bioassays to screen the presence of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/furans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (dl-PCBs) in sewage sludge (SL) and related hydrochar (HC) was here investigated. Samples of SL obtained from six WWTPs were processed by hydrothermal carbonization to obtain the resultant HCs and both tested with DR-CALUX® bioass ...
reportergenes, etc ; auxins; cold stress; cultivars; flowering; fruit set; fruits; temperature; tomatoes; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Poor fruit set and growth are known to be caused by temperature stress in tomato cultivation. We focused on the effect of short-term temperature stress on each day during the five days before anthesis. The relationship between temperature stress and auxin-related factors was investigated using an experimental tomato cultivar, Micro-Tom expressing the auxin reporter DR5::GUS as a model system. Whil ...
Florence Danila; Tom Schreiber; Maria Ermakova; Lei Hua; Daniela Vlad; Shuen‐Fang Lo; Yi‐Shih Chen; Julia Lambret‐Frotte; Anna S. Hermanns; Benedikt Athmer; Susanne von Caemmerer; Su‐May Yu; Julian M. Hibberd; Alain Tissier; Robert T. Furbank; Steven Kelly; Jane A. Langdale
reportergenes, etc ; biotechnology; gene expression; genetically modified organisms; rice; somaclonal variation; transgenes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... In biological discovery and engineering research, there is a need to spatially and/or temporally regulate transgene expression. However, the limited availability of promoter sequences that are uniquely active in specific tissue‐types and/or at specific times often precludes co‐expression of multiple transgenes in precisely controlled developmental contexts. Here, we developed a system for use in r ...
reportergenes, etc ; biolistics; centromeres; cultivars; genomics; integrases; introgression; loci; plasmids; soybeans; transgenes; Show all 11 Subjects
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... KEY MESSAGE: Five soybean target lines with recombinase sites at suitable genomic positions were obtained and tested for site-specific gene stacking. For introgression of new transgenic traits to field cultivars, adding new DNA to an existing transgene locus would reduce the number of segregating loci to reassemble back into a breeding line. We described previously an in planta transgene stacking ...
reportergenes, etc ; biocompatible materials; cations; cytotoxicity; depolymerization; gene expression; plasmids; polyethyleneimine; transfection; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Nucleic acids have immense potential for the treatment and prevention of a wide range of diseases, but delivery vehicles are needed to assist with their entry into cells. Polycations can reversibly complex with nucleic acids via ionic interactions to form polyplexes and transport them into cells, but they are still hindered by the need to balance cytotoxicity and delivery effectiveness. In this wo ...
reportergenes, etc ; Cherry virus A; luciferase; nucleotides; phylogeny; viral genome; virology; wheat germ; Show all 8 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: A variety of cis-acting RNA elements with structures in the 5′- or 3′-untranslated region (UTR) of viral genomes play key roles in viral translation. Cherry virus A (CVA) is a member of the genus Capillovirus in the family Betaflexiviridae. It has a positive single-stranded RNA genome of ~ 7400 nucleotides (nt). The length of the CVA 5′-UTR is ~ 100 nt; however, the function of this lo ...
reportergenes, etc ; Achillea millefolium; apoptosis; humans; lung neoplasms; neoplasm cells; research; sesquiterpenoid lactones; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The inhibitory effect of three degraded sesquiterpene lactones, iso-seco-tanapartholide, arteludooicinolide A and millifolide A isolated from Achillea millefolium L., on anti-human lung cancer cells was examined using MTT and reporter gene assays. Millifolide A has significant inhibitory effects on the proliferation of human lung cancer cells probably through inducing cell apoptosis. ...
reportergenes, etc ; adults; gene expression; juveniles; mice; scanners; transient receptor potential vanilloid channels; Show all 7 Subjects
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... To identify TRPV6 expression in the whole mouse with a cellular resolution we took advantage of TRPV6-IRES-Cre knock-in mice crossed with the enhanced ROSA26-τGFP reporter line. In the resulting TRPV6-IC/eR26-τGFP animals, TRPV6-expressing cells are labeled with τGFP. Data were collected from organs prepared from fixed experimental adult and juvenile TRPV6-IC/eR26τGFP and Cre-negative eR26-τGFP co ...
reportergenes, etc ; DNA-binding domains; chromatin; fluorescence microscopy; separation; transcription (genetics); transcriptional activation; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Transcription factors (TFs) consist of a DNA-binding domain and an activation domain (AD) that are frequently considered to be independent and exchangeable modules. However, recent studies report that the physicochemical properties of the AD can control TF assembly at chromatin by driving phase separation into transcriptional condensates. Here, we dissected transcription activation by comparing di ...
reportergenes, etc ; bone formation; bone marrow; breast neoplasms; exosomes; luciferase; metastasis; neoplasm cells; research; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Research on the role of lncRNAs in the process of bone metastasis in breast cancer (BM-BCa) has just begun at an early stage, and an increasing number of lncRNAs have been proved to play a regulatory role in the process of BM-BCa. Our study focused on the balance of osteogenic-osteoclast regulated by lncRNA-SNHG3 in bone metastasis microenvironment. SNHG3 level of clinical tissues and breast cance ...