A new study reports a necessary role in male sex determination for the X-linked gene SDX.Remarkably,scrutiny reveals that SDX evolved long after the male-determining gene SRY,raising the question of how a new gene cou...
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) generate energy mainly by aerobic glycolysis, with glutamine oxidation in the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle providing additional ATP required for survival.1,2,3 During the exit fr...
Missense mutations in Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2(LRRK2)cause the majority of familial and some sporadic forms of Parkinson’s disease(PD).The hyperactivity of LRRK2 kinase induced by the pathogenic mutations underli...
Several developmental stages of spermatogenesis are transcriptionally quiescent which presents major challenges associated with the regulation of gene expression. Here we identify that the zygotene to pachytene transi...
The authors are grateful to Dr. Tanya Paull (University of Texas, USA) and Dr. Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna (FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation, Italy) for kindly providing the ATM plasmids; to Dr. Junjie Chen (MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) for kindly providing NBSI KO HeLa cells and to Dr. Jessica Tamanini for editing the manuscript prior to submission. This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (grant number 2017YFA0503900) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 81621063, 81530074, 31570812 and 81720108027), and the Shenzhen Municipal Commission of Science and Technology Innovation (grant numbers JCYJ20160427104855100 and JCYJ201708180924S0901).
Linker histone HI is a master regulator of higher order chromatin structure, but its involvement in the DNA damage response and repair is unclear. Here, we report that linker histone H1.2 is an essential regulator of ...
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFA0500902 and 2017YFA0103803), the National Basic Research Program of China (2015CB943003), National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant (81471502, 31771651, 31471228), Excellent Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Scientific Committee(grant BK20150047), and Innovative and Entrepreneurial Program of Jiangsu Province. We thank Jingdi Hu (Shanghai Biotechnology Corporation, Shanghai, China) for smalt RNA analysis.
Dear Editor, PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are germ cell-specific small non-coding RNAs that are essential for silenc- ing transposable elements. Substantial efforts in the past decade have led to an understanding...
Acknowledgments We thank S Huang and J He at Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) for assistance with data collection; H Deng and J Liu at the center for Biomedical Analysis of Tsinghua University for MS analysis; L Li and A Jiang at Peking University for pro- viding the incubator. We acknowledge the Tsinghua University Branch of China National Center for Protein Sciences Beijing for providing the facility support. This work was funded by Projects of International Cooperation and Exchanges of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31420103906), the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2015CB910200) and State Key Program of the National Natural Science of China (31130063 and 31421001) to JC; the National Natural Science Foundation of Chi- na (91217305 and 91017010) to HG.
Peptide-mediated cell-to-cell signaling has crucial roles in coordination and definition of cellular functions in plants. Peptide-receptor matching is important for understanding the mechanisms underlying peptide-medi...
Acknowledgments We are grateful to the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center for the T-DNA insertion lines used in these studies. We also thank Wendy Chen for reading and commenting on the manuscript and Zeping Cai for providing transgenic plant seeds carrying pSHR::N- LS-YFP, pSCR: :NLS-YFP, or pWOXS: :NLS- YFP. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31470380, 31530005, and 91317311 to JL).
RGF1, a secreted peptide hormone, plays key roles in root meristem development in Arabidopsis. Previous studies indicated that a functional RGF1 needs to be sulfated at a tyrosine residue by a tyrosylprotein sulfotran...
Centrosomes are required for efficient cell cycle progression mainly by orchestrating microtubule dynamics and facilitating G1/S and G2/M transitions. However, the role of centrosomes in S-phase progression is largely...
We thank Chuanmao Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhang and Jingyan Fu for TPX-2 antibody and NEDD1 plasmids; Masatoshi Takeichi and Wenxiang Meng for the ct-tubulin-pCAsalGFP plasmid. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30971433, 31171283) and the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program; 2010CB833705).
Formation of a bipolar spindle is indispensable for faithful chromosome segregation and cell division. Spindle integrity is largely dependent on the centrosome and the microtubule network. Centrosome protein Cep57 can...