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Domains are of unparalleled technological importance as they are used for information storage and for electronic, magnetic and optical switches. They are an essential property of any ferroic material. Three forms of ferroic order are widely known: ferromagnetism, a spontaneous magnetization; ferroelectricity, a spontaneous polarization; and ferroelasticity, a spontaneous strain. It is currently debated whether to include an ordered arrangement of magnetic vortices as a fourth form of ferroic order, termed ferrotoroidicity. Although there are reasons to expect this form of order from the point of view of thermodynamics, a crucial hallmark of the ferroic state--that is, ferrotoroidic domains--has not hitherto been observed. Here ferrotoroidic domains are spatially resolved by optical second harmonic generation in LiCoPO4, where they coexist with independent antiferromagnetic domains. Their space- and time-asymmetric nature relates ferrotoroidics to multiferroics with magnetoelectric phase control and to other systems in which space and time asymmetry leads to possibilities for future applications. 相似文献
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A cis-acting regulatory mutation causes premature hair graying and susceptibility to melanoma in the horse 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Rosengren Pielberg G Golovko A Sundström E Curik I Lennartsson J Seltenhammer MH Druml T Binns M Fitzsimmons C Lindgren G Sandberg K Baumung R Vetterlein M Strömberg S Grabherr M Wade C Lindblad-Toh K Pontén F Heldin CH Sölkner J Andersson L 《Nature genetics》2008,40(8):1004-1009
In horses, graying with age is an autosomal dominant trait associated with a high incidence of melanoma and vitiligo-like depigmentation. Here we show that the Gray phenotype is caused by a 4.6-kb duplication in intron 6 of STX17 (syntaxin-17) that constitutes a cis-acting regulatory mutation. Both STX17 and the neighboring NR4A3 gene are overexpressed in melanomas from Gray horses. Gray horses carrying a loss-of-function mutation in ASIP (agouti signaling protein) had a higher incidence of melanoma, implying that increased melanocortin-1 receptor signaling promotes melanoma development in Gray horses. The Gray horse provides a notable example of how humans have cherry-picked mutations with favorable phenotypic effects in domestic animals. 相似文献
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Maria Pasztoi Agnes Bonifacius Joern Pezoldt Devesha Kulkarni Jana Niemz Juhao Yang René Teich Janina Hajek Fabio Pisano Manfred Rohde Petra Dersch Jochen Huehn 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2017,74(15):2839-2850
Adaptive immunity critically contributes to control acute infection with enteropathogenic Yersinia pseudotuberculosis; however, the role of CD4+ T cell subsets in establishing infection and allowing pathogen persistence remains elusive. Here, we assessed the modulatory capacity of Y. pseudotuberculosis on CD4+ T cell differentiation. Using in vivo assays, we report that infection with Y. pseudotuberculosis resulted in enhanced priming of IL-17-producing T cells (Th17 cells), whereas induction of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) was severely disrupted in gut-draining mesenteric lymph nodes (mLNs), in line with altered frequencies of tolerogenic and proinflammatory dendritic cell (DC) subsets within mLNs. Additionally, by using a DC-free in vitro system, we could demonstrate that Y. pseudotuberculosis can directly modulate T cell receptor (TCR) downstream signaling within naïve CD4+ T cells and Tregs via injection of effector molecules through the type III secretion system, thereby affecting their functional properties. Importantly, modulation of naïve CD4+ T cells by Y. pseudotuberculosis resulted in an enhanced Th17 differentiation and decreased induction of Foxp3+ Tregs in vitro. These findings shed light to the adjustment of the Th17-Treg axis in response to acute Y. pseudotuberculosis infection and highlight the direct modulation of CD4+ T cell subsets by altering their TCR downstream signaling. 相似文献
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Becker-Heck A Zohn IE Okabe N Pollock A Lenhart KB Sullivan-Brown J McSheene J Loges NT Olbrich H Haeffner K Fliegauf M Horvath J Reinhardt R Nielsen KG Marthin JK Baktai G Anderson KV Geisler R Niswander L Omran H Burdine RD 《Nature genetics》2011,43(1):79-84
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetically heterogeneous autosomal recessive disorder characterized by recurrent infections of the respiratory tract associated with the abnormal function of motile cilia. Approximately half of individuals with PCD also have alterations in the left-right organization of their internal organ positioning, including situs inversus and situs ambiguous (Kartagener's syndrome). Here, we identify an uncharacterized coiled-coil domain containing a protein, CCDC40, essential for correct left-right patterning in mouse, zebrafish and human. In mouse and zebrafish, Ccdc40 is expressed in tissues that contain motile cilia, and mutations in Ccdc40 result in cilia with reduced ranges of motility. We further show that CCDC40 mutations in humans result in a variant of PCD characterized by misplacement of the central pair of microtubules and defective assembly of inner dynein arms and dynein regulatory complexes. CCDC40 localizes to motile cilia and the apical cytoplasm and is required for axonemal recruitment of CCDC39, disruption of which underlies a similar variant of PCD. 相似文献
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Kalay E Yigit G Aslan Y Brown KE Pohl E Bicknell LS Kayserili H Li Y Tüysüz B Nürnberg G Kiess W Koegl M Baessmann I Buruk K Toraman B Kayipmaz S Kul S Ikbal M Turner DJ Taylor MS Aerts J Scott C Milstein K Dollfus H Wieczorek D Brunner HG Hurles M Jackson AP Rauch A Nürnberg P Karagüzel A Wollnik B 《Nature genetics》2011,43(1):23-26
Functional impairment of DNA damage response pathways leads to increased genomic instability. Here we describe the centrosomal protein CEP152 as a new regulator of genomic integrity and cellular response to DNA damage. Using homozygosity mapping and exome sequencing, we identified CEP152 mutations in Seckel syndrome and showed that impaired CEP152 function leads to accumulation of genomic defects resulting from replicative stress through enhanced activation of ATM signaling and increased H2AX phosphorylation. 相似文献
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Thomae AW Baltin J Pich D Deutsch MJ Ravasz M Zeller K Gossen M Hammerschmidt W Schepers A 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2011,68(22):3741-3756
In eukaryotes, binding of the six-subunit origin recognition complex (ORC) to DNA provides an interactive platform for the
sequential assembly of pre-replicative complexes. This process licenses replication origins competent for the subsequent initiation
step. Here, we analyze the contribution of human Orc6, the smallest subunit of ORC, to DNA binding and pre-replicative complex
formation. We show that Orc6 not only interacts with Orc1–Orc5 but also with the initiation factor Cdc6. Biochemical and imaging
experiments reveal that this interaction is required for licensing DNA replication competent. Furthermore, we demonstrate
that Orc6 contributes to the interaction of ORC with the chaperone protein HMGA1a (high mobility group protein A1a). Binding
of human ORC to replication origins is not specified at the level of DNA sequence and the functional organization of origins
is poorly understood. We have identified HMGA1a as one factor that might direct ORC to AT-rich heterochromatic regions. The
systematic analysis of the interaction between ORC and HMGA1a revealed that Orc6 interacts with the acidic C-terminus of HMGA1a
and also with its AT-hooks. Both domains support autonomous replication if targeted to DNA templates. As such, Orc6 functions
at different stages of the replication initiation process. Orc6 can interact with ORC chaperone proteins such as HMGA1a to
facilitate chromatin binding of ORC and is also an essential factor for pre-RC formation. 相似文献
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Stöck M Lamatsch DK Steinlein C Epplen JT Grosse WR Hock R Klapperstück T Lampert KP Scheer U Schmid M Schartl M 《Nature genetics》2002,30(3):325-328
Green toads are common in the Palaearctic region, where they have differentiated into several taxa. The toads exist with variable amounts of ploidy, similar to other anuran species or reptiles. In vertebrate biology, the very rare occurrence of triploidy is coupled with infertility or unisexuality, or requires the coexistence of individuals of different ploidy in a reproductive community. The reproduction of naturally occurring triploids has been reported to occur only through parthenogenesis, gynogenesis or hybridogenesis. The bisexual reproduction of pure triploids has been considered to be impossible because of the problem of equally distributing three chromosome sets in meiosis. Here we report geographically isolated populations of green toads (Bufo viridis complex) that are all-triploid and reproduce bisexually. 相似文献
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Variation characteristics of soil respiration fluxes in four types of grassland communities under different precipitation intensity 总被引:11,自引:0,他引:11
DONG Yunshe QI Yuchun LIU Jiyuan GENG Yuanbo Manfred Domroes YANG Xiaohong & LIU Lixin . Institute of Geographical Sciences Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China . Department of Geography Mainz University D- Mainz Ger- many 《科学通报(英文版)》2005,50(6):583-591
In the global carbon cycle studies, terrestrial ecosys- tem has become one of the greatest uncertain ecosystems in the current carbon cycle studies owing to the complex- ity of its underlying surface and intense disturbance of anthropogenic activities[1], hence depth studies of it serveas a key in seeking for the “missing carbon sinks” of at-mosphere. In the terrestrial ecosystem, soil organic carbonreservoir is an important component of carbon reservoir inthe system, its carbon … 相似文献