supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan of China(No.2018YFA0107802 to Xiaojian Sun,Nos.2018YFA0107200 and 2018YFA0800203 to Lan Wang);the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81470316 and 81670094 to Xiaojian Sun,No.81972339 to Zhe Bao Wu,Nos.81570122 and 81770205 to Jinyan Huang,Nos.81670122 and 81970150 to Lan Wang);the National Research Center for Translational Medicine(Shanghai)grant(No.NRCTM(SH)-2019-05 to Zhe Bao Wu);the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission-Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant(No.20152506 to Xiaojian Sun);Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Program on Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research(No.2019CXJQ01 to Saijuan Chen and Xiaojian Sun);Innovative Research Team of High-level Local Universities in Shanghai(to Weili Zhao and Xiaojian Sun);the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation;the Shanghai Guangci Translational Medical Research Development Foundation.
The Ly-6 and uPAR(LU)domain-containing proteins represent a large family of cell-surface markers.In particular,mouse Ly-6A/Sca-1 is a widely used marker for various stem cells;however,its human ortholog is missing.In ...
supported by the second Tibetan Plateau scientific expedition and research(STEP)program(2019QZKK05010605);the National Natural Science Foundation,China(31772487);funded by the National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Yong Scholars(31625024);the grant(Y229YX5105)from the Key Laboratoryof Zoological Systematics and Evolution,Chinese Academy of Sciences;supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(32070465);Rafael R.Ferrari was supported by the President's International Funding Initiative(2020PB0130);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41761144068).
The halictid genus Lasioglossum,as one of the most species-rich bee groups with persistently contentious subgeneric boundaries,is one of the most challenging bee groups from a systematic standpoint.An enduring questio...
funded by National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFE0202300);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program(CAAS-ZDRW202109);Fundamental Research Funds for Central Non-Profit of Institute of Crop Sciences,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences(S2021ZD03);National Engineering Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding。
Wheat(Triticum aestivum L.)is a staple food crop consumed by more than 30%of world population.Nitrogen(N)fertilizer has been applied broadly in agriculture practice to improve wheat yield to meet the growing demands f...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31970955 and 31700912)。
Dear Editor,In dynamic environments,the memory system of the brain must be able to perceive and process conflicting experiences to reach an adaptive decision.In Drosophila,in contrast to consistent experiences,conflic...
supported by the China Human Proteomics Project (2014DFB30010);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2015AA020104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31071162);the Graduate School of East China Normal University
Human and mouse orthologs are expected to have similar biological functions; however, many discrepancies have also been reported. We systematically compared human and mouse orthologs in terms of alternative splicing p...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31572349, 31272396) to Yuequn Wang;the China Scholarship Council (201406720012) to Xiyang Peng;the Cooperative Innovation Center of Engineering and New Products for Developmental Biology of Hunan Province (2013-448-6);the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF-CRP7-2010-03) to Yunhan Hong
Magnetoreception is essential for magnetic orientation in animal migration. The molecular basis for magnetoreception has re- cently been elucidated in fruitfly as complexes between the magnetic receptor magnetorecept...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31361140364 & 31171562);the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2012AA10A306);The Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program (ASTIP) of CAAS to CX
Eukaryotic Argonaute proteins play primary roles in mi RNA and si RNA pathways that are essential for numerous developmental and biological processes. However, the functional roles of the four Zm AGO1 genes have not y...
We are grateful for support from the US NSF-IOS to G.L.W. (grant no. 1120949), the National Natural Science Foundation of China to S.Y.N. (grant no. 31101405), and the National Transgenic Crop Initiative to G.L.W. (grant no. 2012ZX08009001).
Dear Editor, The ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) is a highly regulated mechanism of intracellular protein degradation in eukaryotes. The UPS comprises three key enzymes: ubiquitin-activating enzyme E1, ubiquitin-...
With the advance of next-generation sequencing techniques, phylogenetic analyses based on genomic data are becoming frequent in plants. However, the efficacy of different methods used to retrieve orthologs for phyloge...
Supported by The Basic Science Research Program through the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Ministry of Education,Science,and Technology(NRF-2011-0008913);Kim IH and Cha MK performed this work during their research sabbatical supported by Paichai University(2014-2015)
AIM: To identify alkyl hydroperoxide reductase subunit C(AhpC) homologs in Bacillus subtilis(B. subtilis) and to characterize their structural and biochemical properties. AhpC is responsible for the detoxification of ...