Sentences with phrase «factor gene family»
Additional gene duplication and divergence in eumetazoans further increased transcription factor gene family number, which in general are 2 to 34 times larger in eumetazoans than in Amphimedon.
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M. J. Bertram et al., Identification of a gene that reverses the immortal phenotype of a subset of cells and is a member of a novel family of transcription factor - like genes.
«Fibroblast growth factor receptor inhibitors are new therapies being developed in clinical trials for patients whose cancer cells have genetic alterations in this family of genes,» says Roychowdhury, a member of the OSUCCC — James Translational Therapeutics Program.
Unlike other autoimmune disorders with associated risk factors, APECED is clearly caused by a mutation in a single gene, based on analyses of affected families.
The researchers — from the universities of Exeter, Puerto Rico and Pennsylvania — believe the cause is a mixture of their genes and other factors such as age, sex and family size.
Affected family members, the group found, had inherited one or two defective copies of ZIC3, a previously unknown gene that appears to code for a transcription factor — a protein that switches other genes on or off.
A faulty gene that causes insulin resistance may be a causative factor in nearly half of all families with obesity, a new study suggests.
Recent studies showed that low oxygen conditions increase levels of a family of proteins known as HIFs, or hypoxia - inducible factors, that turn on hundreds of genes, including one called NANOG that instructs cells to become stem cells.
«The most intriguing of these genes is FGFRL1, which has a cluster of amino acid substitutions unique to giraffe that are located in the part of the protein that binds fibroblast growth factors — a family of regulators involved in regulating many processes including embryo development,» Cavener said.
In a series of cell - based studies, they showed that it both blocked a family of iron - containing, oxygen - sensing enzymes called hypoxia - inducible factor prolyl - hydroxylases (HIF - PHD) and, critically, protected neurons by activating genes that protect them from oxidative stress.
Dillin's team then screened 15 other genes from the forkhead family — transcriptional factors important to development and possibly longevity, to which the gene for daf - 16 belongs — to see if any of them were necessary to increase longevity after dietary restriction.
Specifically, this mutation, which likely occurred very early in evolution after the separation of our group from that of sea anemones, affected a gene of the Fgfr (fibroblast growth factor receptors) family.
Professor Michael Lisanti, from The University of Manchester — part of Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We know that high breast density can greatly increase a woman's breast cancer risk as well as other factors such as aging, family history and presence of mutations in genes such as BRCA 1 and BRCA 2.
She studies how genetic factors correlate with disease in populations, as well as looking for links between genes and disease predisposition in families.
They also identify factors that may be involved in duck host immune response to avian virus infection, including the avian and mammalian - defensin gene families.
Members of a family that includes the apoptosis regulator APAF1 (apoptotic - protease - activating factor 1), mammalian NOD - LRR proteins (also known as NACHT - LRR proteins or CATERPILLERs) and plant disease - resistance gene products.
In 1984, he moved to the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan), where his research group continued to study the regulation of interferon genes and discovered the interferon - regulatory - factor family of transcription factors.
In the absence of Wnt signaling, we found that Tcf factors associate with proteins of the Groucho family of transcriptional repressors to repress target gene transcription.
According to their study, published in the current issue of the journal Cell, these genes — from the Wnt family — interact with another set of previously identified growth factors to induce limb formation in chick embryos.
Activation of the UPR induces the production of a family of basic leucine zipper - containing transcription factors that activate transcription of genes encoding functions to reduce the protein - folding load and increase the protein folding capacity of the ER.
The researchers found that patients from MODY3 families had one of several different mutations in the gene for hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 alpha (HNF -1-alpha) but healthy subjects had normal copies of the gene.
«What we're seeing may not only be happening in limbs, but the action of these two families of growth factors could be very important for the genesis of a wide range of organs in the body,» said Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory at Salk and the principal author of the Cell paper.
The presence of a cluster of aggregation - factor - related genes in the Amphimedon genome indicates that allorecognition could be under the control of a multigene family.
2018-03-06 - New publication Characterization of the human RFX transcription factor family by regulatory and target gene analysis.
Recently, some other cytokines (such as tumor necrosis factor) or chemical drugs were also found to up - regulate several IFN - inducible gene family members (including RIG - G) through production of type I IFNs (37, 38), further indicating that the induction of RIG - G by ATRA in NB4 cells was tightly related with an IFNα autocrine pathway.
NPR1 Differentially Interacts with Members of the TGA / OBF Family of Transcription Factors That Bind an Element of the PR - 1 Gene Required for Induction by Salicylic Acid
DAXX associates with RelB, a transcription factor of the NF - κB family that directly controls the expression of numerous apoptosis - and autophagy - relevant genes, including tumor suppressor protein kinases DAPK1 / 3 [1; 2].
Abbreviations: Aβ, amyloid β - peptide; AD, Alzheimer's disease; ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Ambra1, activating molecule in Beclin -1-regulated autophagy; AMPK, AMP - activated protein kinase; APP, amyloid precursor protein; AR, androgen receptor; Atg, autophagy - related; AV, autophagic vacuole; Bcl, B - cell lymphoma; BH3, Bcl - 2 homology 3; CaMKKβ, Ca2 + - dependent protein kinase kinase β; CHMP2B, charged multivesicular body protein 2B; CMA, chaperone - mediated autophagy; 2 ′ 5 ′ ddA, 2 ′, 5 ′ - dideoxyadenosine; deptor, DEP - domain containing mTOR - interacting protein; DRPLA, dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy; 4E - BP1, translation initiation factor 4E - binding protein - 1; Epac, exchange protein directly activated by cAMP; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; ERK1 / 2, extracellular - signal - regulated kinase 1/2; ESCRT, endosomal sorting complex required for transport; FAD, familial AD; FDA, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; FIP200, focal adhesion kinase family - interacting protein of 200 kDa; FoxO3, forkhead box O3; FTD, frontotemporal dementia; FTD3, FTD linked to chromosome 3; GAP, GTPase - activating protein; GR, guanidine retinoid; GSK3, glycogen synthase kinase 3; HD, Huntington's disease; hiPSC, human induced pluripotent stem cell; hVps, mammalian vacuolar protein sorting homologue; IKK, inhibitor of nuclear factor κB kinase; IMPase, inositol monophosphatase; IP3R, Ins (1,4,5) P3 receptor; I1R, imidazoline - 1 receptor; JNK1, c - Jun N - terminal kinase 1; LC3, light chain 3; LD, Lafora disease; L - NAME, NG - nitro - L - arginine methyl ester; LRRK2, leucine - rich repeat kinase 2; MIPS, myo - inositol -1-phosphate synthase; mLST8, mammalian lethal with SEC13 protein 8; MND, motor neuron disease; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; mTORC, mTOR complex; MVB, multivesicular body; NAC, N - acetylcysteine; NBR1, neighbour of BRCA1 gene 1; NOS, nitric oxide synthase; p70S6K, ribosomal protein S6 kinase - 1; PD, Parkinson's disease; PDK1, phosphoinositide - dependent kinase 1; PE, phosphatidylethanolamine; PI3K, phosphoinositide 3 - kinase; PI3KC1a, class Ia PI3K; PI3KC3, class III PI3K; PI3KK, PI3K - related protein kinase; PINK1, PTEN - induced kinase 1; PKA, protein kinase A; PLC, phospholipase C; polyQ, polyglutamine; PS, presenilin; PTEN, phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted from chromosome 10; Rag, Ras - related GTP - binding protein; raptor, regulatory - associated protein of mTOR; Rheb, Ras homologue enriched in brain; rictor, rapamycin - insensitive companion of mTOR; SBMA, spinobulbar muscular atrophy; SCA, spinocerebellar ataxia; SLC, solute carrier; SMER, small - molecule enhancer of rapamycin; SMIR, small - molecule inhibitor of rapamycin; SNARE, N - ethylmaleimide - sensitive factor - attachment protein receptor; SOD1, copper / zinc superoxide dismutase 1; TFEB, transcription factor EB; TOR, target of rapamycin; TSC, tuberous sclerosis complex; ULK1, UNC -51-like kinase 1; UVRAG, UV irradiation resistance - associated gene; VAMP, vesicle - associated membrane protein; v - ATPase, vacuolar H + - ATPase; Vps, vacuolar protein sorting
The octopus genome contains around 1,800 C2H2 zinc finger transcription factors, the second largest gene family so far discovered in animals (olfactory receptor genes in elephants are the largest at around 2,000).
Other gene families that were dramatically expanded in the octopus include zinc finger transcription factors, which are mainly expressed in embryonic and nervous tissues and are thought to play roles in development.
17 / Jun / 2013 Although a family history of Alzheimer's disease is a primary risk factor for the devastating neurological disorder, mutations in only three genes — the amyloid precursor protein and presenilins 1 and 2 — have been established as causative for inherited, early - onset Alzheimer's, accounting for about half of such cases.
Any woman who's already in a high - risk group (based on gene mutations, a strong family history of breast cancer, or other factors) should have an MRI along with her yearly mammogram.
Sure I would love to loose the weight and have a Beach Body I can be proud of... but when you factor in my Hypothyroidism and my family «Fat» genes... I'm stuck!
The recent recognition that de novo lipogenesis might have relevance for lipid homeostasis in skeletal muscle stems from the realization that Sterol regulatory element binding protein - 1c (SREBP - 1c), a member of the family of transcription factors that regulate the expression of genes involved in lipid storage in liver and adipose tissue, is also present in skeletal muscle at a level close to that observed in the liver, 41,42... [M] ost fascinating are the very recent demonstrations that glucose alone (in the absence of insulin) can stimulate de novo lipogenesis in skeletal muscle cells....
The greatest risk factors for Alzheimer's are older age, having a family history of Alzheimer's and carrying the APOE - e4 gene.»
Genes, family, environment, and many other factors determine how much each of us eats.
A gene family that is involved in development, the zinc - finger transcription factors, is also highly expanded in octopuses.
The second problem is that the environmental factors examined in the studies usually cited as evidence for gene - environment interactions — for example, high family conflict (Bergeman, Plomin, McClearn, Pedersen, & Friberg, 1988), low socioeconomic status (Cloninger, Sigvardsson, Bohman, & von Knorring, 1982), or criminal parents (Mednick, Gabrielli, & Hutchings, 1987)-- can not account for differences between siblings reared together.
STAT6 is part of the STAT family of transcription factors, its phosphorylation in response to cytokines and growth factors activates the transcription of many genes involved in the immune system such as interleukin 4 (IL - 4).
Although an interaction was established between the type of care (institutional vs. family) and genetic moderation factors, with a protective factor of the 5HTT / allele genotype for high scores on attachment disorganisation in institutionalized children, the authors noted that it is not clear if genetic factors can protect some children in adverse environments or if the experience of being raised in these environments can alter the expression of the gene.