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Yu JK Satou Y Holland ND Shin-I T Kohara Y Satoh N Bronner-Fraser M Holland LZ 《Nature》2007,445(7128):613-617
The organizer of the vertebrate gastrula is an important signalling centre that induces and patterns dorsal axial structures. Although a topic of long-standing interest, the evolutionary origin of the organizer remains unclear. Here we show that the gastrula of the cephalochordate amphioxus expresses dorsal/ventral (D/V) patterning genes (for example, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), Nodal and their antagonists) in patterns reminiscent of those of their vertebrate orthlogues, and that amphioxus embryos, like those of vertebrates, are ventralized by exogenous BMP protein. In addition, Wnt-antagonists (for example, Dkks and sFRP2-like) are expressed anteriorly, whereas Wnt genes themselves are expressed posteriorly, consistent with a role for Wnt signalling in anterior/posterior (A/P) patterning. These results suggest evolutionary conservation of the mechanisms for both D/V and A/P patterning of the early gastrula. In light of recent phylogenetic analyses placing cephalochordates basally in the chordate lineage, we propose that separate signalling centres for patterning the D/V and A/P axes may be an ancestral chordate character. 相似文献
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Hiroaki Iwasa Shakhawoat Hossain Yutaka Hata 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2018,75(10):1773-1787
Human genome has ten genes that are collectedly called Ras association domain family (RASSF). RASSF is composed of two subclasses, C-RASSF and N-RASSF. Both N-RASSF and C-RASSF encode Ras association domain-containing proteins and are frequently suppressed by DNA hypermethylation in human cancers. However, C-RASSF and N-RASSF are quite different. Six C-RASSF proteins (RASSF1–6) are characterized by a C-terminal coiled-coil motif named Salvador/RASSF/Hippo domain, while four N-RASSF proteins (RASSF7–10) lack it. C-RASSF proteins interact with mammalian Ste20-like kinases—the core kinases of the tumor suppressor Hippo pathway—and cross-talk with this pathway. Some of them share the same interacting molecules such as MDM2 and exert the tumor suppressor role in similar manners. Nevertheless, each C-RASSF protein has distinct characters. In this review, we summarize our current knowledge of how C-RASSF proteins play tumor suppressor roles and discuss the similarities and differences among C-RASSF proteins. 相似文献
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Genome-wide association study identifies two susceptibility loci for exudative age-related macular degeneration in the Japanese population 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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Yasuda K Miyake K Horikawa Y Hara K Osawa H Furuta H Hirota Y Mori H Jonsson A Sato Y Yamagata K Hinokio Y Wang HY Tanahashi T Nakamura N Oka Y Iwasaki N Iwamoto Y Yamada Y Seino Y Maegawa H Kashiwagi A Takeda J Maeda E Shin HD Cho YM Park KS Lee HK Ng MC Ma RC So WY Chan JC Lyssenko V Tuomi T Nilsson P Groop L Kamatani N Sekine A Nakamura Y Yamamoto K Yoshida T Tokunaga K Itakura M Makino H Nanjo K Kadowaki T Kasuga M 《Nature genetics》2008,40(9):1092-1097
We carried out a multistage genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese individuals, with a total of 1,612 cases and 1,424 controls and 100,000 SNPs. The most significant association was obtained with SNPs in KCNQ1, and dense mapping within the gene revealed that rs2237892 in intron 15 showed the lowest Pvalue (6.7 x 10(-13), odds ratio (OR) = 1.49). The association of KCNQ1 with type 2 diabetes was replicated in populations of Korean, Chinese and European ancestry as well as in two independent Japanese populations, and meta-analysis with a total of 19,930 individuals (9,569 cases and 10,361 controls) yielded a P value of 1.7 x 10(-42) (OR = 1.40; 95% CI = 1.34-1.47) for rs2237892. Among control subjects, the risk allele of this polymorphism was associated with impairment of insulin secretion according to the homeostasis model assessment of beta-cell function or the corrected insulin response. Our data thus implicate KCNQ1 as a diabetes susceptibility gene in groups of different ancestries. 相似文献
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Spontaneous collective motion, as in some flocks of bird and schools of fish, is an example of an emergent phenomenon. Such phenomena are at present of great interest and physicists have put forward a number of theoretical results that so far lack experimental verification. In animal behaviour studies, large-scale data collection is now technologically possible, but data are still scarce and arise from observations rather than controlled experiments. Multicellular biological systems, such as bacterial colonies or tissues, allow more control, but may have many hidden variables and interactions, hindering proper tests of theoretical ideas. However, in systems on the subcellular scale such tests may be possible, particularly in in vitro experiments with only few purified components. Motility assays, in which protein filaments are driven by molecular motors grafted to a substrate in the presence of ATP, can show collective motion for high densities of motors and attached filaments. This was demonstrated recently for the actomyosin system, but a complete understanding of the mechanisms at work is still lacking. Here we report experiments in which microtubules are propelled by surface-bound dyneins. In this system it is possible to study the local interaction: we find that colliding microtubules align with each other with high probability. At high densities, this alignment results in self-organization of the microtubules, which are on average 15?μm long, into vortices with diameters of around 400?μm. Inside the vortices, the microtubules circulate both clockwise and anticlockwise. On longer timescales, the vortices form a lattice structure. The emergence of these structures, as verified by a mathematical model, is the result of the smooth, reptation-like motion of single microtubules in combination with local interactions (the nematic alignment due to collisions)--there is no need for long-range interactions. Apart from its potential relevance to cortical arrays in plant cells and other biological situations, our study provides evidence for the existence of previously unsuspected universality classes of collective motion phenomena. 相似文献
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This paper proposes a fast initial construction method of the GBDtree. The GDB tree has proper characteristics for management of large amount of 2 or 3 dimensional data. However, the GBDtree needs long initial construction time by originally proposed onebyone insertion method. A fast insertion method has been proposed, but it needs large size of buffer capable to hold index information of all entries. The paper proposes another fast initial construction method. The method requires only limited size of work space (buffer). The experimental results show the initial construction time reduces into a third or a quarter of the onebyone insertion method. The memory efficiency and retrieval efficiency are also improved than the onebyone insertion method. 相似文献
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Thanda Oo OIKE Jiro MIYAMOTO Mitsunori KAWASAKI Hiroshi OHSAWA Yutaka 《重庆邮电大学学报(自然科学版)》2004,16(5):121-128
Texture acquisition of a large scale scene is one of the critical research areas in computer vision and can be used in other application areas such as computer graphics (CG),the intelligent transportation system (ITS) and the 3D geographic information system (GIS). Moreover,to acquire texture without noise (e. g.,a shadow,an obstacle body) is vital for such work. Although obstacles can be removed by using 3D geometric data,shadow elimination is still a difficult problem and strongly required for the CG and ITS community,especially for city modeling and simulation purposes. In this paper,we propose an automatic multiple image fusion technique and an efficient and simple shadow removing technique to retrieve high quality texture images of an urban area. The image fusion can be efficiently achieved by epipolar plane image (EPI) analysis,and the shadow elimination can be successfully carried out by an illumination-independent color clustering technique. The strength of this algorithm is that we can successfully fuse multiple images and eliminate shadows from the fused single image, especially in low dynamic range images,which have proven difficult using previous techniques. 相似文献
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Polar liquid crystalline materials can be used in optical and electronic applications, and recent interest has turned to formation strategies that exploit the shape of polar molecules and their interactions to direct molecular alignment. For example, banana-shaped molecules align their molecular bent within smectic layers, whereas conical molecules should form polar columnar assemblies. However, the flatness of the conical molecules used until now and their ability to flip have limited the success of this approach to making polar liquid crystalline materials. Here we show that the attachment of five aromatic groups to one pentagon of a C(60) fullerene molecule yields deeply conical molecules that stack into polar columnar assemblies. The stacking is driven by attractive interactions between the spherical fullerene moiety and the hollow cone formed by the five aromatic side groups of a neighbouring molecule in the same column. This packing pattern is maintained when we extend the aromatic groups by attaching flexible aliphatic chains, which yields compounds with thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline properties. In contrast, the previously reported fullerene-containing liquid crystals all exhibit thermotropic properties only, and none of them contains the fullerene moiety as a functional part of its mesogen units. Our design strategy should be applicable to other molecules and yield a range of new polar liquid crystalline materials. 相似文献