Selfish operons: the evolutionary impact of gene clustering in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

abstract：:Vertebrate neural crest cells are embryonic neuroepithelial cells that undergo an epithelial-mesenchymal transition, migrate throughout the embryo and form a wide variety of derivatives, including peripheral neurons and glia, pigment cells, and craniofacial cartilage, bone and teeth. Neural crest cell evolution and el...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Baker CV

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleomorphs are the vestigial nuclear genomes of eukaryotic algal cells now existing as endosymbionts within a host cell. Molecular investigation of the endosymbiont genomes has allowed important insights into the process of eukaryote/eukaryote cell endosymbiosis and has also disclosed a plethora of interesting genet...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Gilson PR,Maier UG,McFadden GI

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription is the first step in gene expression, and its regulation underlies multicellular development and the response to environmental changes. Most studies of transcriptional regulation have focused on the recruitment of RNA polymerase to promoters. However, recent work has shown that, for many promoters, post-...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Wade JT,Struhl K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of synapse formation and plasticity in the developing and adult brain underlies a complex interplay of intrinsic genetic programs and extrinsic factors. Recent research identified microRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small non-coding RNAs, as a new functional layer in this regulatory network. Within only a fe...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Siegel G,Saba R,Schratt G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of complete genome sequence information and estimates of mRNA abundances have begun to reveal causes of both silent and protein sequence evolution. Translational selection appears to explain patterns of synonymous codon usage in many prokaryotes as well as a number of eukaryotic model organisms (with t...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Akashi H

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has solidified the concept of transcription factors as major players in controlling cell identity and provided a tractable tool to study how somatic cell identity can be dismantled and pluripotency established. A number of landmark studies have established hallma...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Apostolou E,Stadtfeld M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human genome is replete with interspersed repetitive sequences derived from the propagation of mobile DNA elements. Three families of human retrotransposons remain active today: LINE1, Alu, and SVA elements. Since 1988, de novo insertions at previously recognized disease loci have been shown to generate highly pen...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Babatz TD,Burns KH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of single-cell sequencing has been revolutionary to the field of cancer genomics. Perfectly suited to capture cancer's heterogeneous nature, single-cell analyses provide information bulk sequencing could never hope to uncover. Many mechanisms of cancer have yet to be fully understood, and single-cell approa...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Tsoucas D,Yuan GC

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal growth cones (GCs) steer in response to extrinsic cues using mechanisms that include local protein synthesis. This adaptive form of gene regulation occurs with spatial precision and depends on subcellular mRNA localisation. Recent genome-wide studies have shown unexpectedly complex and dynamically changing mRNA...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Jung H,O'Hare CM,Holt CE

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are concentrated in nuclear foci called PcG bodies. Although some of these foci are due to the tendency of PcG binding sites in the genome to occur in linear clusters, distant PcG sites can contact one another and in some cases congregate in the same PcG body when they are repressed. Expe...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Pirrotta V,Li HB

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following neurulation, neural crest cells emerge from the neural tube and undergo extensive migrations. At the onset of migration, multipotent stem cells exist within the neural crest population. Eventually, these assume one of a number of possible fates, ranging from neurons and glia of the peripheral nervous system ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Bronner-Fraser M

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to reprogram cell lineage specification through the activity of master regulatory transcription factors has transformed disease modeling, drug screening, and cell therapy for regenerative medicine. Recent advances in the engineering of synthetic transcription factors to modulate endogenous gene expression ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Black JB,Gersbach CA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineering cancer-associated mutations into the mouse germline is an important tool for biological studies of growth control and tumorigenesis. Tractable models of many human cancers now exist in which the initiating genetic lesions have been elucidated and, in some instances, where the cooperating lesions are also k...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Weiss B,Shannon K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of self-splicing introns in cyanobacteria has given renewed interest to the question of whether introns may have been present in the ancestor of all living things. The properties of introns in genes of bacteria and bacteriophages are discussed in the context of their possible origin and biological...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Shub DA

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloning of large DNAs as yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) holds the promise of greatly expanding the scope of physical genomic mapping. Recent improvements in YAC clone libraries and their screening, as well as in the analysis of YAC-cloned DNA, are beginning to fulfill the potential of this system. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Burke DT

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in the developed world and despite impressive advances in therapeutic modalities, only a small subset of patients are currently cured. The underlying genetic heterogeneity of cancers clearly plays a crucial role in determining both the clinical course of individual pat...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Pepper C,Norris K,Fegan C

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular phenotypes can critically rely on mono-allelic gene expression. Recent studies suggest that in mammalian cells inter-chromosomal DNA interactions may mediate the decision which allele to activate and which to silence. Here, these findings are discussed in the context of knowledge on gene competition, chromati...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： de Laat W,Grosveld F

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular biological techniques have contributed greatly to the study of vertebrate ocular tissues. The specification of ocular tissues has been shown to be closely related to the expression of transcription factors encoded by genes such as Pax6 and microphthalmia. Lens-specific expression of the delta 1-crystallin ge...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Kodama R,Eguchi G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray technologies enable genome-scale expression measurements. Already proved to be of value for the functional analysis of individual genes and biological processes, the application of expression profiling to disease gene discovery is now growing in importance and practicality. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Meltzer PS

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current dogma holds that genes are the property of individual mammalian cells and partition between daughter cells during cell division. However, and rather unexpectedly, recent research has demonstrated horizontal cell-to-cell transfer of mitochondria and mitochondrial DNA in several mammalian cell culture systems. F...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Berridge MV,McConnell MJ,Grasso C,Bajzikova M,Kovarova J,Neuzil J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly repetitive minisatellites' include the most variable human loci described to date. They have proved invaluable in a wide variety of genetic analyses, and despite some controversies surrounding their practical implementation, have been extensively adopted in civil and forensic casework. Molecular analysis of int...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Armour JA,Jeffreys AJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What determines phenotype is one of the most fundamental questions in biology. Historically, the search for answers had focused on genetic or environmental variants, but recent studies in epigenetics have revealed a third mechanism that can influence phenotypic outcomes, even in the absence of genetic or environmental...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Rakyan VK,Beck S

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past ten years, there has been increasing recognition that cells can acquire genetic variants during cortical development that can give rise to brain malformations as well as nonlesional focal epilepsy. These often brain tissue-specific, de novo variants can result in highly variable phenotypes based on the bur...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Heinzen EL

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has been a spectacular one for Drosophila research. The sequencing and annotation of the Drosophila melanogaster genome has allowed a comprehensive analysis of the first three eukaryotes to be sequenced-yeast, worm and fly-including an analysis of the fly's influences as a model for the study of human di...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Celniker SE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-linked mental retardation (XLMR) is a common cause of moderate to severe intellectual disability in males. XLMR is very heterogeneous, and about two-thirds of patients have clinically indistinguishable non-syndromic (NS-XLMR) forms, which has greatly hampered their molecular elucidation. A few years ago, internation...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Ropers HH

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell and starvation signals are funneled through the phosphorelay to initiate sporulation by activating the transcription regulator SpoOA. Activation of SpoOA leads to synthesis of the transcription factors sigmaF and sigmaE. Substantial advances have been made in our understanding of the signal circuitry of the ...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Piggot PJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) with Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc has been described as 'direct' reprogramming in contrast to reprogramming via nuclear transfer. Interestingly, recent studies have suggested that the conversion process itself includes transient up-regulation and down-regulation of h...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Ruetz T,Kaji K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All bovine chromosomes are now represented by a syntenic group, a linkage map and at least one in situ hybridization. Almost 1,000 loci are mapped, about 300 of which are coding sequences useful for comparative mapping and evolutionary inference. Economically important loci are beginning to appear on bovine linkage ma...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Womack JE,Kata SR

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epigenetic imprinting mechanism that is based on a gamete-specific methylation imprint restricts expression of a subset of mammalian genes to one parental chromosome. Recent results suggest that imprints may act only indirectly to induce monoallelic expression of coding genes. Instead, atypical non-coding RNAs appe...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Sleutels F,Barlow DP,Lyle R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of new genes involved in muscle disorders has dramatically changed the traditional clinical classification of the large and heterogeneous group of the muscular dystrophies. Results obtained in recent years by positional candidate cloning have demonstrated the role of the sarcolemma and of the nuclear en...

journal_title：Current opinion in genetics & development

authors： Toniolo D,Minetti C

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00