Chromosomes and Gene Expression

Chromosomes and Gene Expression

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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Decapping factor Dcp2 controls mRNA abundance and translation to adjust metabolism and filamentation to nutrient availability

    Anil Kumar Vijjamarri, Xiao Niu ... Alan G Hinnebusch
    The yeast mRNA decapping enzyme Dcp1/Dcp2 repressses many genes whose products are required on poor carbon or nitrogen sources in nutrient-replete cells by mRNA decapping and degradation or translational repression, adding post-transcriptional controls to the transcriptional repression of these functions.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Mitotic chromosomes scale to nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio and cell size in Xenopus

    Coral Y Zhou, Bastiaan Dekker ... Rebecca Heald
    A combination of in vivo and in vitro approaches using Xenopus eggs and embryos reveals how dimensions of mitotic chromosomes scale with decreasing cell size and increasing nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio during early embryogenesis.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Identification of epigenetic modulators as determinants of nuclear size and shape

    Andria C Schibler, Predrag Jevtic ... Tom Misteli
    Chromatin modifiers shape nuclear morphology.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Neuroscience

    Neural circuit-wide analysis of changes to gene expression during deafening-induced birdsong destabilization

    Bradley M Colquitt, Kelly Li ... Michael S Brainard
    Large-scale gene expression analysis of the songbird brain identifies the molecular and cellular features of vocal motor circuits that are altered by the loss of hearing.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Gene Expression: Listen and learn

    Sarah E London
    In songbirds, deafening leads to changes in gene expression which have now been mapped at the single-cell level across the neural circuit involved in song production.
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    Harvard Medical School, United States
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    National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
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