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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2009-12-17
    Description: Using next-generation sequencing technology alone, we have successfully generated and assembled a draft sequence of the giant panda genome. The assembled contigs (2.25 gigabases (Gb)) cover approximately 94% of the whole genome, and the remaining gaps (0.05 Gb) seem to contain carnivore-specific repeats and tandem repeats. Comparisons with the dog and human showed that the panda genome has a lower divergence rate. The assessment of panda genes potentially underlying some of its unique traits indicated that its bamboo diet might be more dependent on its gut microbiome than its own genetic composition. We also identified more than 2.7 million heterozygous single nucleotide polymorphisms in the diploid genome. Our data and analyses provide a foundation for promoting mammalian genetic research, and demonstrate the feasibility for using next-generation sequencing technologies for accurate, cost-effective and rapid de novo assembly of large eukaryotic genomes.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951497/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951497/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Ruiqiang -- Fan, Wei -- Tian, Geng -- Zhu, Hongmei -- He, Lin -- Cai, Jing -- Huang, Quanfei -- Cai, Qingle -- Li, Bo -- Bai, Yinqi -- Zhang, Zhihe -- Zhang, Yaping -- Wang, Wen -- Li, Jun -- Wei, Fuwen -- Li, Heng -- Jian, Min -- Li, Jianwen -- Zhang, Zhaolei -- Nielsen, Rasmus -- Li, Dawei -- Gu, Wanjun -- Yang, Zhentao -- Xuan, Zhaoling -- Ryder, Oliver A -- Leung, Frederick Chi-Ching -- Zhou, Yan -- Cao, Jianjun -- Sun, Xiao -- Fu, Yonggui -- Fang, Xiaodong -- Guo, Xiaosen -- Wang, Bo -- Hou, Rong -- Shen, Fujun -- Mu, Bo -- Ni, Peixiang -- Lin, Runmao -- Qian, Wubin -- Wang, Guodong -- Yu, Chang -- Nie, Wenhui -- Wang, Jinhuan -- Wu, Zhigang -- Liang, Huiqing -- Min, Jiumeng -- Wu, Qi -- Cheng, Shifeng -- Ruan, Jue -- Wang, Mingwei -- Shi, Zhongbin -- Wen, Ming -- Liu, Binghang -- Ren, Xiaoli -- Zheng, Huisong -- Dong, Dong -- Cook, Kathleen -- Shan, Gao -- Zhang, Hao -- Kosiol, Carolin -- Xie, Xueying -- Lu, Zuhong -- Zheng, Hancheng -- Li, Yingrui -- Steiner, Cynthia C -- Lam, Tommy Tsan-Yuk -- Lin, Siyuan -- Zhang, Qinghui -- Li, Guoqing -- Tian, Jing -- Gong, Timing -- Liu, Hongde -- Zhang, Dejin -- Fang, Lin -- Ye, Chen -- Zhang, Juanbin -- Hu, Wenbo -- Xu, Anlong -- Ren, Yuanyuan -- Zhang, Guojie -- Bruford, Michael W -- Li, Qibin -- Ma, Lijia -- Guo, Yiran -- An, Na -- Hu, Yujie -- Zheng, Yang -- Shi, Yongyong -- Li, Zhiqiang -- Liu, Qing -- Chen, Yanling -- Zhao, Jing -- Qu, Ning -- Zhao, Shancen -- Tian, Feng -- Wang, Xiaoling -- Wang, Haiyin -- Xu, Lizhi -- Liu, Xiao -- Vinar, Tomas -- Wang, Yajun -- Lam, Tak-Wah -- Yiu, Siu-Ming -- Liu, Shiping -- Zhang, Hemin -- Li, Desheng -- Huang, Yan -- Wang, Xia -- Yang, Guohua -- Jiang, Zhi -- Wang, Junyi -- Qin, Nan -- Li, Li -- Li, Jingxiang -- Bolund, Lars -- Kristiansen, Karsten -- Wong, Gane Ka-Shu -- Olson, Maynard -- Zhang, Xiuqing -- Li, Songgang -- Yang, Huanming -- Wang, Jian -- Wang, Jun -- R01 HG003229/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HG003229-05/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2010 Jan 21;463(7279):311-7. doi: 10.1038/nature08696. Epub 2009 Dec 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20010809" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Algorithms ; Animals ; China ; Conserved Sequence/genetics ; Contig Mapping ; Diet/veterinary ; Dogs ; Evolution, Molecular ; Female ; Fertility/genetics/physiology ; Genome/*genetics ; *Genomics ; Heterozygote ; Humans ; Multigene Family/genetics ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics ; Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/genetics ; Sequence Alignment ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Synteny/genetics ; Ursidae/classification/*genetics/physiology
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2008-08-15
    Description: Furin is one of seven proprotein convertase family members that promote proteolytic maturation of proproteins. It is induced in activated T cells and is reported to process a variety of substrates including the anti-inflammatory cytokine transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta1 (refs 2-4), but the non-redundant functions of furin versus other proprotein convertases in T cells are unclear. Here we show that conditional deletion of furin in T cells allowed for normal T-cell development but impaired the function of regulatory and effector T cells, which produced less TGF-beta1. Furin-deficient T regulatory (Treg) cells were less protective in a T-cell transfer colitis model and failed to induce Foxp3 in normal T cells. Additionally, furin-deficient effector cells were inherently over-active and were resistant to suppressive activity of wild-type Treg cells. Thus, our results indicate that furin is indispensable in maintaining peripheral tolerance, which is due, at least in part, to its non-redundant, essential function in regulating TGF-beta1 production. Targeting furin has emerged as a strategy in malignant and infectious disease. Our results suggest that inhibiting furin might activate immune responses, but may result in a breakdown in peripheral tolerance.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2758057/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2758057/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pesu, Marko -- Watford, Wendy T -- Wei, Lai -- Xu, Lili -- Fuss, Ivan -- Strober, Warren -- Andersson, John -- Shevach, Ethan M -- Quezado, Martha -- Bouladoux, Nicolas -- Roebroek, Anton -- Belkaid, Yasmine -- Creemers, John -- O'Shea, John J -- Z99 EY999999/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2008 Sep 11;455(7210):246-50. doi: 10.1038/nature07210.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch, National Institute for Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. pesum@mail.nih.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18701887" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigens, CD/immunology ; Antigens, CD4/immunology/metabolism ; Autoimmunity/immunology ; Colitis/immunology ; Furin/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Immune Tolerance/*immunology ; Immunologic Memory/immunology ; Integrin alpha Chains/immunology ; Lymphocyte Activation/immunology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; T-Lymphocytes/cytology/*enzymology/*immunology ; Thymus Gland/cytology/immunology ; Transforming Growth Factor beta1/biosynthesis/genetics/immunology
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2009-05-01
    Description: Mice deficient in the Polycomb repressor Bmi1 develop numerous abnormalities including a severe defect in stem cell self-renewal, alterations in thymocyte maturation and a shortened lifespan. Previous work has implicated de-repression of the Ink4a/Arf (also known as Cdkn2a) locus as mediating many of the aspects of the Bmi1(-/-) phenotype. Here we demonstrate that cells derived from Bmi1(-/-) mice also have impaired mitochondrial function, a marked increase in the intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species and subsequent engagement of the DNA damage response pathway. Furthermore, many of the deficiencies normally observed in Bmi1(-/-) mice improve after either pharmacological treatment with the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine or genetic disruption of the DNA damage response pathway by Chk2 (also known as Chek2) deletion. These results demonstrate that Bmi1 has an unexpected role in maintaining mitochondrial function and redox homeostasis and indicate that the Polycomb family of proteins can coordinately regulate cellular metabolism with stem and progenitor cell function.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721521/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4721521/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Jie -- Cao, Liu -- Chen, Jichun -- Song, Shiwei -- Lee, In Hye -- Quijano, Celia -- Liu, Hongjun -- Keyvanfar, Keyvan -- Chen, Haoqian -- Cao, Long-Yue -- Ahn, Bong-Hyun -- Kumar, Neil G -- Rovira, Ilsa I -- Xu, Xiao-Ling -- van Lohuizen, Maarten -- Motoyama, Noboru -- Deng, Chu-Xia -- Finkel, Toren -- R00 AG032356/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- Z01 HL005012-11/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 May 21;459(7245):387-92. doi: 10.1038/nature08040. Epub 2009 Apr 29.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Translational Medicine Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19404261" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylcysteine/pharmacology ; Animals ; Antioxidants/pharmacology ; Checkpoint Kinase 2 ; *DNA Damage/genetics ; Female ; Male ; Mice ; Mitochondria/*metabolism ; Nuclear Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Oxidation-Reduction/drug effects ; Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/deficiency/genetics ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism ; Repressor Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Stem Cells/cytology/drug effects/metabolism ; Thymus Gland/cytology/drug effects
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    Publication Date: 2012-11-13
    Description: Active dendrites provide neurons with powerful processing capabilities. However, little is known about the role of neuronal dendrites in behaviourally related circuit computations. Here we report that a novel global dendritic nonlinearity is involved in the integration of sensory and motor information within layer 5 pyramidal neurons during an active sensing behaviour. Layer 5 pyramidal neurons possess elaborate dendritic arborizations that receive functionally distinct inputs, each targeted to spatially separate regions. At the cellular level, coincident input from these segregated pathways initiates regenerative dendritic electrical events that produce bursts of action potential output and circuits featuring this powerful dendritic nonlinearity can implement computations based on input correlation. To examine this in vivo we recorded dendritic activity in layer 5 pyramidal neurons in the barrel cortex using two-photon calcium imaging in mice performing an object-localization task. Large-amplitude, global calcium signals were observed throughout the apical tuft dendrites when active touch occurred at particular object locations or whisker angles. Such global calcium signals are produced by dendritic plateau potentials that require both vibrissal sensory input and primary motor cortex activity. These data provide direct evidence of nonlinear dendritic processing of correlated sensory and motor information in the mammalian neocortex during active sensation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Xu, Ning-long -- Harnett, Mark T -- Williams, Stephen R -- Huber, Daniel -- O'Connor, Daniel H -- Svoboda, Karel -- Magee, Jeffrey C -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Dec 13;492(7428):247-51. doi: 10.1038/nature11601. Epub 2012 Nov 11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23143335" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Behavior, Animal/*physiology ; Calcium/metabolism ; Dendrites/*physiology ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Motor Activity/*physiology ; Patch-Clamp Techniques ; Pyramidal Cells/physiology ; Sensation/*physiology ; Signal Transduction
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2014-08-19
    Description: T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) is a haematological malignancy with a dismal overall prognosis, including a relapse rate of up to 25%, mainly because of the lack of non-cytotoxic targeted therapy options. Drugs that target the function of key epigenetic factors have been approved in the context of haematopoietic disorders, and mutations that affect chromatin modulators in a variety of leukaemias have recently been identified; however, 'epigenetic' drugs are not currently used for T-ALL treatment. Recently, we described that the polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) has a tumour-suppressor role in T-ALL. Here we delineated the role of the histone 3 lysine 27 (H3K27) demethylases JMJD3 and UTX in T-ALL. We show that JMJD3 is essential for the initiation and maintenance of T-ALL, as it controls important oncogenic gene targets by modulating H3K27 methylation. By contrast, we found that UTX functions as a tumour suppressor and is frequently genetically inactivated in T-ALL. Moreover, we demonstrated that the small molecule inhibitor GSKJ4 (ref. 5) affects T-ALL growth, by targeting JMJD3 activity. These findings show that two proteins with a similar enzymatic function can have opposing roles in the context of the same disease, paving the way for treating haematopoietic malignancies with a new category of epigenetic inhibitors.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209203/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209203/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ntziachristos, Panagiotis -- Tsirigos, Aristotelis -- Welstead, G Grant -- Trimarchi, Thomas -- Bakogianni, Sofia -- Xu, Luyao -- Loizou, Evangelia -- Holmfeldt, Linda -- Strikoudis, Alexandros -- King, Bryan -- Mullenders, Jasper -- Becksfort, Jared -- Nedjic, Jelena -- Paietta, Elisabeth -- Tallman, Martin S -- Rowe, Jacob M -- Tonon, Giovanni -- Satoh, Takashi -- Kruidenier, Laurens -- Prinjha, Rab -- Akira, Shizuo -- Van Vlierberghe, Pieter -- Ferrando, Adolfo A -- Jaenisch, Rudolf -- Mullighan, Charles G -- Aifantis, Iannis -- 1R01CA105129/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 1R01CA133379/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 1R01CA149655/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 5 T32 CA009161-37/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 5P30CA16087-31/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 5R01CA169784/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 5R01CA173636/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- K99 CA188293/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- K99CA188293/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA014051/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA016087/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA016087-30/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- P30 CA021765/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA105129/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA133379/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA149655/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA173636/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01CA120196/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R37 HD045022/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R37-HD04502/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- U10 CA180820/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U10 CA180827/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U10 CA21115/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U24 CA114737/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2014 Oct 23;514(7523):513-7. doi: 10.1038/nature13605. Epub 2014 Aug 17.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA [2] NYU Cancer Institute and Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA [3]. ; 1] Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA [2] Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA [3]. ; 1] Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA [3]. ; 1] Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA [2] NYU Cancer Institute and Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. ; Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA. ; Department of Pathology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA. ; Department of Computational Biology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA. ; Montefiore Medical Center North, Bronx, New York, New York 10467, USA. ; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10065, USA. ; 1] Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 31096, Israel [2] Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem 9103102, Israel. ; Functional Genomics of Cancer Unit, Division of Molecular Oncology, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) San Raffaele Scientific Institute, 20132 Milan, Italy. ; 1] Laboratory of Host Defense, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center (WPI IFReC), Osaka University, 3-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan [2] Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (RIMD), Osaka University, 3-1Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ; Epinova DPU, Immuno-Inflammation Therapy Area, GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Medicines Research Centre, GunnelsWood Road, Stevenage SG1 2NY, UK. ; 1] Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA [2] Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. ; 1] Institute for Cancer Genetics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA [2] Department of Pathology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA [3] Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA. ; 1] Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA [2] Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132549" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Benzazepines/pharmacology ; Epigenesis, Genetic/drug effects ; Histone Demethylases/genetics/*metabolism ; Histones/chemistry/metabolism ; Jumonji Domain-Containing Histone Demethylases/antagonists & ; inhibitors/*metabolism ; Lysine/metabolism ; Methylation/drug effects ; Mice ; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/drug ; therapy/*enzymology/genetics/pathology ; Pyrimidines/pharmacology ; Tumor Suppressor Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-04-28
    Description: NLRs (nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich-repeat-containing receptors; NOD-like receptors) are a class of pattern recognition receptor (PRR) that respond to host perturbation from either infectious agents or cellular stress. The function of most NLR family members has not been characterized and their role in instructing adaptive immune responses remains unclear. NLRP10 (also known as PYNOD, NALP10, PAN5 and NOD8) is the only NLR lacking the putative ligand-binding leucine-rich-repeat domain, and has been postulated to be a negative regulator of other NLR members, including NLRP3 (refs 4-6). We did not find evidence that NLRP10 functions through an inflammasome to regulate caspase-1 activity nor that it regulates other inflammasomes. Instead, Nlrp10(-/-) mice had a profound defect in helper T-cell-driven immune responses to a diverse array of adjuvants, including lipopolysaccharide, aluminium hydroxide and complete Freund's adjuvant. Adaptive immunity was impaired in the absence of NLRP10 because of a dendritic cell (DC) intrinsic defect in emigration from inflamed tissues, whereas upregulation of DC costimulatory molecules and chemotaxis to CCR7-dependent and -independent ligands remained intact. The loss of antigen transport to the draining lymph nodes by a subset of migratory DCs resulted in an almost absolute loss in naive CD4(+) T-cell priming, highlighting the critical link between diverse innate immune stimulation, NLRP10 activity and the immune function of mature DCs.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3340615/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3340615/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Eisenbarth, Stephanie C -- Williams, Adam -- Colegio, Oscar R -- Meng, Hailong -- Strowig, Till -- Rongvaux, Anthony -- Henao-Mejia, Jorge -- Thaiss, Christoph A -- Joly, Sophie -- Gonzalez, David G -- Xu, Lan -- Zenewicz, Lauren A -- Haberman, Ann M -- Elinav, Eran -- Kleinstein, Steven H -- Sutterwala, Fayyaz S -- Flavell, Richard A -- 1 P50 CA121974/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- 5KL2RR024138/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- K08 AI085038/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- K08 AI085038-03/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- K08AI085038/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P30AR053495/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI087630/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01AI087630/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32HL007974/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- UL1 RR024139/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Apr 25;484(7395):510-3. doi: 10.1038/nature11012.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22538615" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptive Immunity/*immunology ; Adjuvants, Immunologic ; Animals ; Antigens/immunology ; Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/deficiency/genetics/immunology/*metabolism ; Caspase 1 ; Cell Movement ; Chemokines/immunology ; Dendritic Cells/cytology/*immunology/metabolism ; Gene Deletion ; Inflammasomes ; Ligands ; Lymph Nodes/immunology ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred BALB C ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer/immunology ; Vaccines/immunology
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    Publication Date: 2011-09-06
    Description: Sperm and eggs carry distinctive epigenetic modifications that are adjusted by reprogramming after fertilization. The paternal genome in a zygote undergoes active DNA demethylation before the first mitosis. The biological significance and mechanisms of this paternal epigenome remodelling have remained unclear. Here we report that, within mouse zygotes, oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) occurs on the paternal genome, changing 5mC into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC). Furthermore, we demonstrate that the dioxygenase Tet3 (ref. 5) is enriched specifically in the male pronucleus. In Tet3-deficient zygotes from conditional knockout mice, paternal-genome conversion of 5mC into 5hmC fails to occur and the level of 5mC remains constant. Deficiency of Tet3 also impedes the demethylation process of the paternal Oct4 and Nanog genes and delays the subsequent activation of a paternally derived Oct4 transgene in early embryos. Female mice depleted of Tet3 in the germ line show severely reduced fecundity and their heterozygous mutant offspring lacking maternal Tet3 suffer an increased incidence of developmental failure. Oocytes lacking Tet3 also seem to have a reduced ability to reprogram the injected nuclei from somatic cells. Therefore, Tet3-mediated DNA hydroxylation is involved in epigenetic reprogramming of the zygotic paternal DNA following natural fertilization and may also contribute to somatic cell nuclear reprogramming during animal cloning.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gu, Tian-Peng -- Guo, Fan -- Yang, Hui -- Wu, Hai-Ping -- Xu, Gui-Fang -- Liu, Wei -- Xie, Zhi-Guo -- Shi, Linyu -- He, Xinyi -- Jin, Seung-gi -- Iqbal, Khursheed -- Shi, Yujiang Geno -- Deng, Zixin -- Szabo, Piroska E -- Pfeifer, Gerd P -- Li, Jinsong -- Xu, Guo-Liang -- GM078458/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Sep 4;477(7366):606-10. doi: 10.1038/nature10443.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Group of DNA Metabolism, The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21892189" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 5-Methylcytosine/metabolism ; Alleles ; Animals ; *Cellular Reprogramming ; Cytosine/analogs & derivatives/metabolism ; DNA/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; DNA Methylation/genetics ; DNA-Binding Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Dioxygenases/genetics/*metabolism ; Embryo, Mammalian/embryology/metabolism ; Embryonic Development ; *Epigenesis, Genetic ; Female ; Fertility/genetics ; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ; Germ Cells/metabolism ; Male ; Mice ; Octamer Transcription Factor-3/genetics ; Oocytes/cytology/*enzymology/*metabolism ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism ; Zygote/cytology/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2012-08-28
    Description: Cortical-feedback projections to primary sensory areas terminate most heavily in layer 1 (L1) of the neocortex, where they make synapses with tuft dendrites of pyramidal neurons. L1 input is thought to provide 'contextual' information, but the signals transmitted by L1 feedback remain uncharacterized. In the rodent somatosensory system, the spatially diffuse feedback projection from vibrissal motor cortex (vM1) to vibrissal somatosensory cortex (vS1, also known as the barrel cortex) may allow whisker touch to be interpreted in the context of whisker position to compute object location. When mice palpate objects with their whiskers to localize object features, whisker touch excites vS1 and later vM1 in a somatotopic manner. Here we use axonal calcium imaging to track activity in vM1--〉vS1 afferents in L1 of the barrel cortex while mice performed whisker-dependent object localization. Spatially intermingled individual axons represent whisker movements, touch and other behavioural features. In a subpopulation of axons, activity depends on object location and persists for seconds after touch. Neurons in the barrel cortex thus have information to integrate movements and touches of multiple whiskers over time, key components of object identification and navigation by active touch.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443316/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443316/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Petreanu, Leopoldo -- Gutnisky, Diego A -- Huber, Daniel -- Xu, Ning-long -- O'Connor, Dan H -- Tian, Lin -- Looger, Loren -- Svoboda, Karel -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):299-303. doi: 10.1038/nature11321.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22922646" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Axons/metabolism ; Calcium Signaling ; Feedback, Physiological ; Male ; Mice ; Mice, Inbred C57BL ; Motor Cortex/cytology/*physiology ; Motor Neurons/metabolism ; Movement/physiology ; *Neural Pathways ; Physical Stimulation ; Somatosensory Cortex/cytology/*physiology ; Touch/*physiology ; Vibrissae/*physiology
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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