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| Piacentini Lucia; Laura Fanti; Rodolfo Negri; Valerio Del Vescovo; Alessandro Fatica; Sergio Pimpinelli. |
| HP1 is a well known conserved protein involved in heterochromatin formation and gene silencing in different species including humans1-4. A general model has been proposed for heterochromatin formation and epigenetic gene silencing in different species that implies an essential role for HP1. According to the model, histone methyltransferase enzymes (HMTases) methylate the histone H3 at lysine 9 (H3-MeK9), creating selective binding sites for itself and the chromodomain of HP15. This complex is thought to form a higher order chromatin state that represses gene activity. It has also been found that HP1 plays a role in telomere capping6. Surprisingly, recent data have suggested an association of HP1 in gene activity7-10 but the nature of this interaction is... |
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Palavras-chave: Genetics & Genomics; Molecular Cell Biology. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2687/version/1 |
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| Haoran H. Wang; Mary X. Gao; Sato Kenzo; Kazumitsu Hirai. |
| In all organisms, messenger-directed protein synthesis is catalyzed by ribonucleoprotein particles called ribosomes. A ribosome is typically composed of one small and one large subunit which contain one short (18S) and one long (28S) rRNAs, respectively. Surprisingly, in this study, three similar size rRNAs (18-21S) were revealed in the electrophoresis profile of the total RNAs of tapeworm _Spirometra erinaceiuropaei_. Northern blot analysis shows that one of the three bands belongs to 18S rRNA, and the other two bands are of 28S rRNAs, implying structurally distinct ribosomes in this intermediate animal. Furthermore, similar, but not identical profiles were observed in two other tapeworms _Diphyllobothrium hottai_ and _Diphyllobothrium Nipponkaiizeme_.... |
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Palavras-chave: Genetics & Genomics; Microbiology; Molecular Cell Biology. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/2608/version/2 |
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| Huilei Xu; Avi Ma'ayan. |
| Results from multivariate molecular biological experiments become increasingly complex. Hence, the challenge of projecting high-dimensional data onto few dimensions for effective data visualization is becoming increasingly important in Systems Biology. Effective data visualization can summarize the activity of many variables over time as well as display relationships between variables. Dynamic interactive visualization tools can provide scientists with ways of visually identifying relationship and patterns, and improve communication of results on the web and in presentations. For this, interactive systems with animation have great potential since they add dimensions to static images limited to two dimensions. Interactivity and animation is particularly... |
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Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Molecular Cell Biology; Bioinformatics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3074/version/1 |
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| Jakob Suckale; Michele Solimena. |
| Taken together the Islets of Langerhans form a nutrient sensing network spread throughout the pancreas. They are tightly connected to the source organ - the intestine - and the target organs - liver, muscle, and fat cells. The expression of a unique set of proteins enables [beta] cells, the most frequent islet cell type, to detect elevated blood glucose levels and secrete insulin accordingly. Neighbouring [beta]-cells achieve tighter regulation of glucose-induced insulin secretion by coordination through cell surface proteins. They also adjust their secretory pathway capacity and flow to avoid being damaged. The immediate reaction of the [beta] cell to nutrients is regulated by translational mechanisms, while longer term adaptations involve... |
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Palavras-chave: Molecular Cell Biology. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1724/version/1 |
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| Andy Maloney; Lawrence J. Herskowitz; Steven J. Koch. |
| The molecular motor kinesin-1, an ATPase, and the substrate it walks along, microtubules, are vital components of eukaryotic cells. Kinesin converts chemical energy to linear motion as its two motor domains step along microtubules in a process similar to how we walk. Cells create systems of microtubules that direct the motion of kinesin. This directed motion allows kinesin to transport various cargoes inside cells.

During the stepping process, the kinesin motor domains bind and unbind from their binding sites on the microtubules. Binding and unbinding rates of biomolecules are highly dependent on hydration and exclusion of water from the binding interface. Osmotic stress will likely strongly affect the binding and... |
| Tipo: Poster |
Palavras-chave: Molecular Cell Biology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4469/version/3 |
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| Gregory Fairn; Sergio Grinstein. |
| We used genetically-encoded fluorescent probes to visualize the distribution of phosphatidylserine (PS) in live S. cerevisiae. The majority of the PS was found to reside in the cytosolic leaflet of the plasma membrane. Remarkably, PS was polarized, accumulating in bud necks, the bud cortex and the tips of mating projections. Polarization required vectorial delivery of PS-enriched secretory and recycling vesicles. Rapid dissipation of the PS gradient is prevented by the slow diffusion of lipids along the plasmalemmal inner leaflet, estimated by photobleaching recovery measurements to be over an order of magnitude slower than in mammalian cells. In mutants lacking PS-synthase the absence of PS was associated with, and likely responsible for impaired... |
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Palavras-chave: Microbiology; Molecular Cell Biology. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4232/version/1 |
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| Andy Maloney; Lawrence J. Herskowitz; Steven J. Koch. |
| We show here the effects of heavy-hydrogen water (^2^H~2~O) and heavy-oxygen water (H~2~^18^O) on the gliding speed of microtubules on kinesin-1 coated surfaces. Increased fractions of isotopic waters used in the motility solution decreased the gliding speed of microtubules by a maximum of 21% for heavy-hydrogen and 5% for heavy-oxygen water. We discuss possible interpretations of these results and the importance for future studies of water effects on kinesin and microtubules. We also discuss the implication for biomolecular devices incorporating molecular motors. |
| Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Molecular Cell Biology. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/7004/version/1 |
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| Tiefeng You; I. C. Baianu. |
| The soybean-derived products are among the most important agricultural products in the USA and the world. Conventional analytical methods for soybean composition analysis are both time consuming and costly. Faster and less expensive methods are required for most practical applications. To improve the accuracy, reliability and sensitivity of NIR, major advancements in instrumentation, as well as, data analysis / calibration methodology are required. Novel NIR instruments, such as DA-NIR and FT-NIR spectrometers developed in recent years have the potential for improving significantly the quantification of soybean composition at a reasonable cost. We present representative calibrations and data for intact soybean composition analysis obtained at the... |
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Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Chemistry; Developmental Biology; Genetics & Genomics; Molecular Cell Biology; Bioinformatics; Plant Biology. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6253/version/1 |
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| Kai Wang; Shile Zhang; Jessica Weber; David Baxter; David J. Galas. |
| The discovery of microRNAs (miRNAs) as a new class of regulators of gene expression has triggered an explosion of research, but has left many unanswered questions about how this regulation works and how it is integrated with other regulatory mechanisms. A number of miRNAs have been found to be present in blood plasma and other body fluids of humans and mice in surprisingly high concentrations. This observation was unexpected in two respects: first, the fact that these molecules are present at all outside the cell at significant concentrations; and second, that these molecules appear to be stable outside of the cell. In light of this it has been suggested that the biological function of miRNAs may also extend outside of the cell and mediate cell-cell... |
| Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Molecular Cell Biology. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3718/version/1 |
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| Günter Klambauer; Karin Schwarzbauer; Andreas Mayr; Sepp Hochreiter. |
| Next generation sequencing (NGS) are these days one of the key technologies in biology. NGS' cost effectiveness and capability of finding the smallest variations in the genome makes them increasingly popular. For studies aiming at genome assembly, differences in read count statistics do not affect the outcome. However, these differences bias the outcome if the goal is to identify structural DNA characteristics like copy number variations (CNVs). Thus a normalization step must removed such random read count variations subsequently read counts from different experiments are comparable. Especially after normalization the commonly used assumption of Poisson read count distribution in windows on the chromosomes is more justified. Strong deviations of... |
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Palavras-chave: Genetics & Genomics; Molecular Cell Biology; Bioinformatics. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4710/version/1 |
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