Understanding the regulatory mechanisms of adipogenesis is essential for preventing obesity. Interleukin-33 (IL-33) has recently attracted increasing attention for its role in adipogenesis. The purpose of this study was to explore the function and regulatory mechanism of IL-33 and its receptor suppression of tumorigenicity 2 (ST2) on adipogenesis.
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December 2023
Understanding the mechanism of adipogenesis is an important basis for improving meat quality traits of livestock. Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is a vital mechanism to regulate the expression of eukaryotic genes. However, how the individual APA functions in adipogenesis remains elusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlternative polyadenylation (APA), including APA that occurs only in the 3' UTR (3' UTR-APA), is an important post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism that leads to distinct 3' UTRs for some genes, increasing the complexity of the transcriptome. The post-transcriptional events regulating the expression of bovine, the C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 14 (CXCL14) gene, remains largely unknown. Here, we find that the bovine CXCL14 gene produces two different lengths of mRNA isoforms due to 3' UTR-APA, and the short and long 3' UTR is 126 bp and 1155 bp, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study investigated changes in leaf abscisic acid (ABA) concentrations and grain ABA concentrations in two maize cultivars and analyzed the following relationships under different water/nitrogen treatments: leaf ABA concentrations and photosynthetic parameters; leaf ABA concentrations and grain ABA concentrations; leaf/grain ABA concentrations and grain-filling parameters; and aldehyde oxidase (AO, EC 1.2.3.
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