S-type anion channel activity, which promotes stomatal closure and improves anti-fungal immunity in plants, is directly regulated through phosphorylation by a kinase of the chitin receptor complex.
Analysis of a large Kenyan dataset may resolve previously conflicting studies by identifying polymorphisms which interact to modify the risk of cerebral malaria.
Functional analyses provide evidence for a complex Nod factor signalling where NFRe is necessary for maintaining an optimal symbiotic signalling in the susceptible root zone, and initiation of nodule primordia on the expanding root system.
Joshua T Washington, Katelyn R Cavender ... Patricia J Moore
The maintenance DNA methyltransferase DNMT1 is required for the transition of spermatogonia to spermatocytes both during larval testis development and adult sperm replenishment in the insect Oncopeltus fasciatus.
A genome-organizing protein that is present only in the olfactory system of mice has been found to orchestrate changes in the relative numbers of different odor-sensing neurons on the basis of how active these neurons are.
Rebeca San Martin, Priyojit Das ... Rachel Patton McCord
Age-stratified comparisons of gene expression in progeria patient fibroblasts reveals disruption of mesenchymal lineage pathways and points to a deficit in chondrogenic commitment in early development and a depletion of the mesenchymal lineage stem cell pool.
Olga Ibañez-Solé, Alex M Ascensión ... Ander Izeta
An increase in transcriptional noise generally assumed to characterize aged cells and tissues is shown to derive instead from technical and biological issues that underlie single-cell RNA sequencing experiments.
