Breast cancer metastasis remains the leading cause of mortality in patients,yet its mechanisms are poorly understood.A recent Cell paper highlights the pivotal role of the proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9...
Adenomatouspolyposis coli(APC)is akey tumor suppressor gene playing a central role in the Wnt signaling pathway throughβ-catenin down-regulation.1 APC germline pathogenic variants are associated with familial adenoma...
BACKGROUND The prevalence of germline pathogenic variants in high hereditary risk breast and/or ovarian cancer patients and unaffected subjects referred for testing is an unmet need in low and middle-income countries....
The specification of germ cells in zebrafish mostly relies on an inherited mechanism by which localized maternal determinants,called germ plasm,confer germline fate in the early embryo.Extensive studies have partially...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFA0912900 to Q.Ma);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070870 to Q.Ma,32070644,32293190,and 32293191 to J.Xu);the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2021A1515010758 to Q.Ma,2024A1515011285 to J.Xu);the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Genomics(2023B1212060054 to Q.Ma);the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Synthetic Genomics(ZDSYS201802061806209 to Q.Ma);the Shenzhen Institute of Synthetic Biology Scientific Research Program(ZTXM20200008 and DWKF20210003 to Q.Ma);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB0480000 to Q.Ma);the National Institutes of Health(R35GM136665 to E.Matunis);the Guangzhou Key Research and Development Program(2023B03J1347 to J.Xu).
In adult gonads,disruption of somatic sexual identity leads to defective gametogenesis and infertility.However,the underlying mechanisms by which somatic signals regulate germline cells to achieve proper gametogenesis...
Germline genetics of high penetrance such as BRCA genes,mutations might be sufficient for carcinogenesis,but this only explains fewer than 10%of cancers.We assume that most cancers are the result of germline mutations...
supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from JSPS(15K07127 to AK and MK).
A basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor,figα,is one of the earliest marker genes of oocyte differentiation in vertebrates.In the present study,we made figαknockout medaka by CRISPR/Cas9,expecting aborted progr...
funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation(Agencia Estatal de Investigacion),co-funded by FEDER funds-a way to build Europe-[PID2020-112595RB-I00(LV)];Instituto de Salud Carlos Ⅲ(CIBERONC CB16/12/00234);Government of Catalonia(AGAUR 2021SGR01112,CERCA Program for institutional support);Marie Sktodowska-Curie Individual Fellow ship(No.897064(NG-A));Scientific Foundation"Asociacion Espanola Contra el Cancer"[AECC Investigador contract(MT)].
Germline activating variants in WWP1,which encodes an E3 ubiquitin ligase that antagonizes PTEN tumor suppressive function,have been proposed as an alternative mechanism of PTEN inactivation in PTEN-hamartoma-tumor sy...
funded by the Laoshan Laboratory(No.LSKJ202203202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32270539,31922013,31961123002);the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2020JQ13);Royal Society/NSFC International Exchanges Cost Share Project(IEC\NSFC\201024);National Institutes of Health(P40OD010964);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(202141004).
Genomes are incredibly dynamic within diverse eukaryotes and programmed genome rearrangements(PGR)play important roles in generating genomic diversity.However,genomes and chromosomes in metazoans are usually large in ...
Using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats(CRISPR)-based molecular tools,scientists are engineering-as they are also doing with plants.-animals with advantageous traits,like disease resistance and...