supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32172503 and 32260721);the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province,China(2023J01069);the State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops,China(SKL2022001);the Innovation Fund of Fujan Agriculture and Forestry University,China(KFB23014A);the Undergraduate Training Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Fujian Province,China(S202210389101).
Genetic pest control strategies based on precise sex separation and only releasing sterile males can be accomplished by site-specific genome editing.In the current study,we showed that the mutation of single-allele Px...
funded by grant no.031B0548 in the frame of the program"Crop plants of the future"from the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung to A.T.;funded by the Investissement d’Avenir program of the French National Agency of Research for the project GENIUS(ANR-11-BTBR-0001_GENIUS).
In plants and mammals,non-homologous end-joining is the dominant pathway to repair DNA doublestrand breaks,making it challenging to generate knock-in events.In this study,we identified two groups of exonucleases from ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.82070115,81770198,81870149,81970121,and 8142100);the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant Nos.2019YFA0110803,2019YFA0110802,2019YFA0110204,and 2016YFA0100600);the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission Grant(Grant No.19JCZDJC33000);the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences(Grant Nos.2017-I2M-2-001,2017-I2M-B&R-04,and 2019-I2M-1-006).
A series of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats(CRISPR)-CRISPR associated protein 9(Cas9)systems have been engineered for genome editing.The most widely used Cas9 is SpCas9 from Streptococcus pyo...
Italian Association for Cancer Research(AIRC)under IG 2020-ID.25110 project;POR Campania FESR 2014/2020(Project SATIN);Progetto MISE(F/050011/02/X32)–P.I.Fernando Gianfrancesco;funding from the European Calcified Tissue Society(ECTS)and the Italian Society for Osteoporosis,Mineral Metabolism and Skeletal Diseases(SIOMMMS)。
Paget’s disease(PDB)is a late-onset bone remodeling disorder with a broad spectrum of symptoms and complications.One of the most aggressive forms is caused by the P937R mutation in the ZNF687 gene.Although the geneti...
supported by the Major Scientific Research Tasks for Scientific and Technological Innovation Projects of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(CAAS-ZDRW202006);the National Transgenic Breeding Project(2018ZX08010-10B);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(ASTIP-IAS05).
Efficient and stable expression of foreign genes in cells and transgenic animals is important for gain-of-function studies and the establishment of bioreactors.Safe harbor loci in the animal genome enable consistent o...
the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0105103,2021YFA0805903);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81941004,32170542);2020 Research Program of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City(202002011);Major Science and Technology Projects of Hainan Province(ZDKJ2021030);Key Research&Development Program of Hainan Province(ZDYF2021SHFZ052);Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2019347);Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST(YESS20200024);Biological Resources Progaramme,Chinese Academy of Sciences(KFJBRP-017-57);Key Research&Development Program of Bioland Laboratory(Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory)(2018GZR110104004);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2020M682943);Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province,China(2019A030317010,2020B1212060052,2021B1212040016,2021A1515011110);Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou,China(202007030003);Research Unit of Generation of Large Animal Disease Models,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences(2019-I2M-5-025)。
Inducible expression systems are indispensable for precise regulation and in-depth analysis of biological process.Binary Tet-On system has been widely employed to regulate transgenic expression by doxycycline.Previous...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(81670893,82121003);Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province(2021JDZH0031);Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences(2019-I2M-5-032)。
Mutations in serologically defined colon cancer autoantigen protein 8(SDCCAG8)were first identified in retinal ciliopathy families a decade ago with unknown function.To investigate the pathogenesis of SDCCAG8-associat...
Tai Hung Fai Charitable Foundation-Edwin S H Leong Research Programme for Parkinson’s Disease;The Henry G.Leong Endowed Professorship in Neurology;The Donation Fund for Neurology Research;Health and Medical Research Fund(HMRF),Food and Health Bureau,Hong Kong S.A.R.
Mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 gene (LRRK2) are one of the most frequent genetic causes of both familial and sporadic Parkinson’s disease (PD). Mounting evidence has demonstrated pathological similarit...
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFE0126500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81861138013,81501105,31730034);Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection,Shenzhen Science Technology and Innovation Commission(JCYJ20170411152419928 and JCYJ20180508152240368);Beijing Municipal Science&Technology Commission(Z151100003915118)to B.L.,W.G.;K.P.Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Science(NO.XDB32030200)to HH.We acknowledge funding from Hållstens forskningsstiftelse,Swedish Research Council,Swedish Brain foundation,Swedish Alzheimer foundation,Margaretha af Ugglas Foundation,Sonja Leikrans donation,China Scholarship Council and H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019#860035(R.J.,M.S.,S.T.,J.W.,B.W.and P.N.).We thank Takaomi Saido and Takashi Saito at RIKEN Center for Brain Science,Japan for providing the App knock-in mice to Department of Neurobiology,Care Sciences and Society,Division of Neurogeriatrics,Karolinska Institutet.We thank Dr.P.Davies(Albert Einstein College of Medicine,Bronx,NY)for antibodies Alz-50,and MC-1,Dr.Jianzhi Wang(Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University&Technology,Wuhan,Hubei)for APP/PS1 mice frozen brain sections,Dr.Chuanzhou Li and Dr.Hao Li(Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University&Technology,Wuhan,Hubei)for P301 mice frozen brain sections,Dr.Mengchao Cui(College of Chemistry,Beijing Normal University,Beijing)for P301 mice paraffin brain sections,and Xaomin Wang(Capital Medical University,Beijing)for 5×FAD mice frozen brain sections.We thank the Imaging Core Facility,the Technology Center for Protein Sciences(Tsinghua University)for assistance on confocal imaging and Imaris software data analysis.We also thank Dr.Yichang Jia(School of Medicine,Tsinghua University,Beijing)for the discussion of gene editing strategy and Dr.Guhan Nagappan for manuscript discussion and editing.CRISPR/Cas9 manipulation was done by a CRO company(Beijing Biocytogen Co.,Ltd).
A major obstacle in Alzheimer’s disease(AD)research is the lack of predictive and translatable animal models that reflect disease progression and drug efficacy.Transgenic mice overexpressing amyloid precursor protein...
supported by grants from the National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (81771028 and 317771593);Medical Health Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang (2021KY891);Medical Health Science and Technology Major Project of Hangzhou (Z20200046)。
Development of the secondary palate displays molecular heterogeneity along the anterior-posterior axis;however, the underlying molecular mechanism remains largely unknown. MSX1 is an anteriorly expressed transcription...