Publications by authors named "Yazhou Yi"

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  • Immunity and flowering in rice are energy-intensive processes, and the study reveals how the E3 ligase IPI1 regulates both through distinct mechanisms.
  • IPI1 prevents the degradation of the E3 ligase APIP6 without using its own E3 ligase activity, which in turn helps in degrading APIP6's targets through the ubiquitin-proteasome system.
  • Additionally, IPI1 directly ubiquitinates OsELF3-1 and OsELF3-2, leading to their degradation and causing IPI1 knockout plants to flower early but lose resistance to rice blast disease.
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  • - The study focuses on the differing exonuclease activities of bacterial RecJ and archaeal RecJs, highlighting that while bacterial RecJ only has 5'→3' activity on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA), archaea like Methanocaldococcus jannaschii have both 5' and 3' exonucleases (MjRecJ1 and MjRecJ2).
  • - An important part of the research discusses the structural reasons why MjRecJ2 does not interact with GINS, a component critical for DNA replication, due to overlap in their interaction surfaces.
  • - The crystal structure analysis reveals that MjRecJ2 has a shorter substrate binding area compared to bacterial RecJ,
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Alternative splicing (AS) plays a crucial role in regulating gene expression, function, and diversity. However, limited reports exist on the identification and comparison of AS in Eastern and Western pigs. Here, we analyzed 243 transcriptome data from eight tissues, integrating information on transcription factors (TFs), selection signals, splicing factors (SFs), and quantitative trait loci (QTL) to comprehensively study alternative splicing events (ASEs) in pigs.

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The crustacean hyperglycemic hormone (CHH) is a multifaceted neuropeptide instrumental in regulating carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, reproduction, osmoregulation, molting, and metamorphosis. Despite its significance, there is a dearth of research on its metabolic impact on the gills and epidermis-key organs in osmoregulation and molting processes. This study employed CHH dsRNA injections to silence CHH gene expression in followed by a metabolomic analysis of the gills and epidermis using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

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  • The FarmGTEx project aims to create a public database of genetic variants in livestock to connect genetic differences with physical traits, benefiting both animal breeding and human health research.
  • The pilot phase, PigGTEx, involved analyzing 5,457 RNA-sequencing and 1,602 whole-genome sequencing samples from pigs, leading to the development of a genotype imputation panel and associations between millions of genetic variants and transcriptomic traits across 34 different tissues.
  • The study highlights the tissue-specific regulatory effects of these variants, revealing molecular mechanisms affecting 207 complex pig traits while also demonstrating the relevance of pigs as models for understanding human gene expression and genetic regulation.
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Viruses are ubiquitous in the oceans, exhibiting high abundance and diversity. Here, we systematically analyze existing genomic sequences of marine prokaryotes to compile a Marine Prokaryotic Genome Dataset (MPGD, consisting of over 12,000 bacterial and archaeal genomes) and a Marine Temperate Viral Genome Dataset (MTVGD). At least 40% of the MPGD genomes contain one or more proviral sequences, indicating that they are lysogens.

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Phages are prevalent in diverse environments and play major ecological roles attributed to their tremendous diversity and abundance. Among these viruses, transposable phages (TBPs) are exceptional in terms of their unique lifestyle, especially their replicative transposition. Although several TBPs have been isolated and the life cycle of the representative phage Mu has been extensively studied, the diversity distribution and ecological functions of TBPs on the global scale remain unknown.

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Previous studies have reported that the endogenous melatonin level is positively associated with the quality and yield of milk of cows. In the current study, a total of 34,921 SNPs involving 1,177 genes were identified in dairy goats by using the whole genome resequencing bulked segregant analysis (BSA) analysis. These SNPs have been used to match the melatonin levels of the dairy goats.

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Haploid production by outcrossing with inducers is one of the key technologies to revolutionize breeding. A promising approach for developing haploid inducers is by manipulating centromere-specific histone H3 (CENH3/CENPA). GFP-tailswap, a CENH3-based inducer, induces paternal haploids at around 30% and maternal haploids at around 5% (ref.

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The basal levels of salicylic acid (SA) vary dramatically among plant species. In the shoot, for example, rice contains almost 100 times higher SA levels than Arabidopsis. Despite its high basal levels, neither the biosynthetic pathway nor the biological functions of SA are well understood in rice.

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Polyamines have been discovered for hundreds of years and once considered as a class of phytohormones. Polyamines play critical roles in a range of developmental processes. However, the molecular mechanisms of polyamine signaling pathways remain poorly understood.

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Electroencephalogram (EEG) has shown a useful approach to produce a brain-computer interface (BCI). One-dimensional (1-D) EEG signal is yet easily disturbed by certain artifacts (a.k.

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