supported by Jiangsu specially-appointed professor fund(337060046);the Yangzhou University Startup Fund(137012599).
Transgenic plants are extensively utilized in research,enabling scientists to explore gene functions in controlled environments,leading to crops with higher productivity and greater resistance to biotic and abiotic st...
The CRISPR-Cas system,an adaptive immunity system in prokaryotes designed to combat phages and foreign nucleic acids,has evolved into a groundbreaking technology enabling gene knockout,large-scale gene insertion,base ...
The widely used clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats(CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated nuclease(Cas)system is thought to have evolved from IS200/IS605 transposons.TnpB proteins,encoded by one type of IS20...
supported by the National Institutes of Health,USA(Grant Nos.R35GM142917 to Bo Zhang,U24ES026699 to Bo Zhang,R25DA027995 to Bo Zhang,R03AG070474 to Guoyan Zhao,R01NS123571 to Guoyan Zhao,U19NS130607 to Guoyan Zhao,and U24HG012070 to Bo Zhang and Guoyan Zhao);National Institutes of Health,USA.
Efficient and reliable profiling methods are essential to study epigenetics.Tn5,one of the first identified prokaryotic transposases with high DNA-binding and tagmentation efficiency,is widely adopted in different gen...
supported by the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Major Projects(2021ZD0202200);National Natural Science Foundation of China(32171090,81970264);Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(21ZR1482600);2023 Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS。
Most viruses and transposons serve as effective carriers for the introduction of foreign DNA up to 11 kb into vertebrate genomes.However,their activity markedly diminishes with payloads exceeding 11 kb.Expanding the p...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32221005);the Earmarked Fund for CARS(CARS-35);the National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth(32125035);Major Project of Hubei Hongshan Laboratory(2021hszd003)。
Protein-mediated chromatin interactions can be revealed by coupling proximity-based ligation with chromatin immunoprecipitation.However,these techniques require complex experimental procedures and millions of cells pe...
supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFF1000601).
Background:A comprehensive landscape of chromatin states for multiple mammalian tissues is essential for elucidating the molecular mechanism underlying regulatory variants on complex traits.However,the genome-wide chr...
This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFE0202300);the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund,the BBSRC under the Grant Reference BB/P008569/1 to J.G.C.N.V.and E.dL.,and an Erasmus plus training award to L.G.
In eukaryotes,histone acetylation is a major modification on histone N-terminal tails that is tightly connected to transcriptional activation.HDA6 is a histone deacetylase involved in the transcriptional regulation of...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971135)to H.Y.
Dear Editor,Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats(CRISPR)and CRISPR-associated(Cas) systems confer RNA-guided adaptive immunity against invading genetic elements in prokar yotic cells.1 These syste...
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China(31572220,31272633,31201760);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)(2011AA100403);the Shanghai University Knowledge Service Platform(ZF1206).
Tgf2 transposase(Tgf2-TPase),a hAT transposase from goldfish,plays an important role in fish transgenic applications.Previously,the production of the recombinant Tgf2-TPase protein required rigorous fermentation at lo...