A cytological procedure for in vitro chromosome delineation has been studied using human and mouse (Mus musculus) chromosomes. This method, consisting of slide incubation in KMnO4 at 0--5 degrees C for 24 h followed by a short exposure to NaHSO3 (1--3 min) and Giemsa staining, induces extraction of chromatin from human and mouse interphase nuclei and chromosomes. Autoradiography after 3H-ThD incorporation in vitro and cytophotometry confirmed that DNA is removed. Well contour-delineated and non-distorted chromosomes are observed in both species allowing the identification of all human chromosome groups. Contour chromosome delineation and its relationship to chromosome organization is briefly discussed.
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Sci Rep
January 2025
Microbiology Division, Defence Research and Developmental Establishment, Jhansi Road, Gwalior, 474002, India.
Yersinia pestis, a Gram-negative bacterium is the causative agent of the fatal communicable disease plague. The disease had a profound impact on human history. Plague bacteria are usually transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected rat flea.
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January 2025
HHMI, University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
During meiosis, each pair of homologous chromosomes becomes connected by at least one crossover, as required for accurate segregation, and adjacent crossovers are widely separated thereby limiting total numbers. In coarsening models, this crossover patterning results from nascent recombination sites competing to accrue a limiting pro-crossover RING-domain protein (COR) that diffuses between synapsed chromosomes. Here, we delineate the localization dynamics of three mammalian CORs in the mouse and determine their interdependencies.
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January 2025
Institute of Molecular Physiology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518132, China.
Nucleosome is the basic structural unit of the genome. During processes like DNA replication and gene transcription, the conformation of nucleosomes undergoes dynamic changes, including DNA unwrapping and rewrapping, as well as histone disassembly and assembly. However, the wrapping characteristics of nucleosomes across the entire genome, including region-specificity and their correlation with higher-order chromatin organization, remains to be studied.
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January 2025
Department of Botany, Biology Institute, UnB, Brasília, DF, 70910-900, Brazil.
Precursors of microRNAs (pre-miRNAs) are less used in silico to mine miRNAs. This study developed PmiR-Select based on covariance models (CMs) to identify new pre-miRNAs, detecting conserved secondary structural features across RNA sequences and eliminating the redundancy. The pipeline preceded PmiR-Select filtered 20% plant pre-miRNAs (from 38589 to 8677) from miRBase.
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January 2025
Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Background: Mate-pair sequencing detects both balanced and unbalanced structural variants (SVs) and simultaneously informs in relation to both genomic location and orientation of SVs for enhanced variant classification and clinical interpretation, while chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) only reports deletion/duplication. Herein, we evaluated its diagnostic utility in a prospective back-to-back prenatal comparative study with CMA.
Methods: From October 2021 to September 2023, 426 fetuses with ultrasound anomalies were prospectively recruited for mate-pair sequencing and CMA in parallel for prenatal genetic diagnosis.
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