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A region-based gene association study combined with a leave-one-out sensitivity analysis identifies SMG1 as a pancreatic cancer susceptibility gene

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by Cavin Wong, Fei Chen, Najmeh Alirezaie, Yifan Wang, Adeline Cuggia, Ayelet Borgida, Spring Holter, Tatiana Lenko, Celine Domecq, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative , Gloria M. Petersen, Sapna Syngal, Randall Brand, Anil K. Rustgi, Michele L. Cote, Elena Stoffel, Sara H. Olson, Nicholas J. Roberts, Mohammad R. Akbari, Jacek Majewski, Alison P. Klein, Celia M. T. Greenwood, Steven Gallinger, George Zogopoulos

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Effects of persistent sodium current blockade in respiratory circuits depend on the pharmacological mechanism of action and network dynamics

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by Ryan S. Phillips, Jonathan E. Rubin

The mechanism(s) of action of most commonly used pharmacological blockers of voltage-gated ion channels are well understood; however, this knowledge is rarely considered when interpreting experimental data. Effects of blockade are often assumed to be equivalent, regardless of the mechanism of the blocker involved. Using computer simulations, we demonstrate that this assumption may not always be correct. We simulate the blockade of a persistent sodium current (INaP)... Читать дальше...

Fast uncertainty quantification for dynamic flux balance analysis using non-smooth polynomial chaos expansions

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by Joel A. Paulson, Marc Martin-Casas, Ali Mesbah

We present a novel surrogate modeling method that can be used to accelerate the solution of uncertainty quantification (UQ) problems arising in nonlinear and non-smooth models of biological systems. In particular, we focus on dynamic flux balance analysis (DFBA) models that couple intracellular fluxes, found from the solution of a constrained metabolic network model of the cellular metabolism, to the time-varying nature of the extracellular substrate and product concentrations. Читать дальше...

Toxin production spontaneously becomes regulated by local cell density in evolving bacterial populations

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by Hilje M. Doekes, Rob J. de Boer, Rutger Hermsen

The production of anticompetitor toxins is widespread among bacteria. Because production of such toxins is costly, it is typically regulated. In particular, many toxins are produced only when the local cell density is high. It is unclear which selection pressures shaped the evolution of density-dependent regulation of toxin production. Here, we study the evolution of toxin production, resistance and the response to a cell-density cue in a... Читать дальше...

Reticulon and CLIMP-63 regulate nanodomain organization of peripheral ER tubules

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by Guang Gao, Chengjia Zhu, Emma Liu, Ivan R. Nabi

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an expansive, membrane-enclosed organelle composed of smooth peripheral tubules and rough, ribosome-studded central ER sheets whose morphology is determined, in part, by the ER-shaping proteins, reticulon (RTN) and cytoskeleton-linking membrane protein 63 (CLIMP-63), respectively. Here, stimulated emission depletion (STED) super-resolution microscopy shows that reticulon4a (RTN4a) and CLIMP-63 also regulate... Читать дальше...

Artificially selecting microbial communities: If we can breed dogs, why not microbiomes?

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by Flor I. Arias-Sánchez, Björn Vessman, Sara Mitri

Natural microbial communities perform many functions that are crucial for human well-being. Yet we have very little control over them, and we do not know how to optimize their functioning. One idea is to breed microbial communities as we breed dogs: by comparing a set of microbiomes and allowing the best-performing ones to generate new communities, and so on. Although this idea seems simple, designing such a selection experiment brings with it many decisions with surprising outcomes. Читать дальше...

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Can genomics shed light on the origin of species?

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by Chris D. Jiggins

Evolutionary biologists are increasingly using population genetic variation across genomes to address questions around the origin and ongoing evolution of species. Patterns of differentiation between closely related species are highly variable across the genome, and a wide variety of processes contribute to that variation. There is an emerging pattern of parallelism, whereby different species pairs in groups of related species show similar differentiation patterns across their genomes... Читать дальше...


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