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Funct Integr Genomics
January 2025
Department of Plant Biotechnology, Tamilnadu Agricultural University, 641003, Coimbatore, India.
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) functions as an inhibitory neurotransmitter which blocks the impulses between nerve cells in the brain. Due to the increasing awareness about the health promoting benefits associated with GABA, it is also artificially synthesized and consumed as a nutritional supplement by people in some regions of the world. Though among the fresh vegetables, tomato fruits do contain a comparatively higher amount of GABA (0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElucidating ancestry-specific structures in admixed populations is crucial for comprehending population history and mitigating confounding effects in genome-wide association studies. Existing methods for elucidating the ancestry-specific structures generally rely on frequency-based estimates of genetic relationship matrix (GRM) among admixed individuals after masking segments from ancestry components not being targeted for investigation. However, these approaches disregard linkage information between markers, potentially limiting their resolution in revealing structure within an ancestry component.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTandem repeats are a highly polymorphic class of genomic variation that play causal roles in rare diseases but are notoriously difficult to sequence using short-read techniques . Most previous studies profiling tandem repeats genome-wide have reduced the description of each locus to the singular value of the length of the entire repetitive locus . Here we introduce a comprehensive database of 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: China implemented a dynamic zero-COVID strategy to curb viral transmission in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This strategy was designed to inhibit mutation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19. This study explores the dynamics of viral evolution under stringent non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) through real-world observations.
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January 2025
Department of Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.
Retroviral genome selection and virion assembly remain promising targets for novel therapeutic intervention. Recent studies have demonstrated that the Gag proteins of Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) and human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) undergo nuclear trafficking, colocalize with nascent genomic viral RNA (gRNA) at transcription sites, may interact with host transcription factors, and display biophysical properties characteristic of biomolecular condensates. In the present work, we utilized a controlled in vitro condensate assay and advanced imaging approaches to investigate the effects of interactions between RSV Gag condensates and viral and nonviral RNAs on condensate abundance and organization.
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