These varying combinations lead to the generation of slightly different proteins known
as isoforms, which can end up functioning differently from each other.
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Not exact matches
Oocytes contain a high concentration of an oocyte - specific
isoform of p63 which plays a key role
as a quality control factor in causing infertility.
In those cells the Esrp1 and Esrp2 proteins enforce epithelial - specific splicing
isoforms for hundreds of different genes,
as Carstens and his team have shown in studies since 2009.
These changes in mitochondria - and calcium - related markers occurred without any changes in the myosin heavy chain
isoform composition of these muscles,
as assessed by quantitative PCR (qPCR)(data not shown).
Adding to the documented complexity of IL - 15 — related activity, multiple
isoforms and splice variants of IL - 15Rα exist
as both membrane - bound and soluble forms that can either inhibit or potentiate IL - 15 biological activity (29 — 33).
Although the current study demonstrates that loss of IL - 15Rα promotes this phenotype, future studies are needed to determine the roles of specific IL - 15Rα
isoforms in muscle,
as well
as the associations of additional IL15RA polymorphisms in muscle phenotypes in humans.
According to the C. elegans nomenclature, we suggest to rename W01A8.1
as Cel - plin - 1 (
isoform a, b, and c) and proteins Cel - PLIN - 1 (
isoform a, b, and c).
The GFP - tagged
isoform a (plasmid pCK28 -LCB- PW01A8.1:: W01A8.1 (a) synth:: gfp:: unc - 54 3 ′ UTR -RCB--RRB- was constructed by synthesizing the W01A8.1 a sequence with modified codons to allow protection from CRISPR / Cas9 targeted sgRNA and prepared
as a GeneArt ® Strings ™ DNA Fragment from Invitrogen (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, California, USA) and cloned using GeneArt ® Seamless Cloning System (Invitrogen) into pPD95.75 (NeoR).
(D) Diagrammatic image of four transcript
isoforms that were detected
as alternative splice variants resulting from a SNP in the 2nd intron of bsl1 - 2.
This figure depicts how the expression of the longer transcript in this gene becomes less dominant
as PMI increases, and,
as a consequence, the abundance of the different
isoforms tends to converge
As a proxy for splicing alteration, we computed the Shannon's entropy on the relative abundance of a gene's alternative splicing
isoforms (Methods)-- higher values corresponding to more stochastic production of alternative
isoforms.
The usage of a major
isoform across tissues and biological conditions has been reported
as a general characteristic of genes38, 39, and has lead to extensive debate on the physiological relevance of regulated alternative splicing39.
Calculate
isoform ratios for each gene: For a gene G, with k
isoforms I, the splicing ratio is defined
as:
Because the polyT repeat is reported
as the key variant to define TOMM40 clades A and B, 12 we used this marker and APOE
isoform information to perform analyses based on phylogenetic groups
as described by Roses et al. 12 Haplotype phase was estimated using PHASE software.22 The phylogeny, which represents the evolutionary relatedness of the haploytpes, was estimated using neighbor - joining with 10 000 bootstrapping replicates in the CLC DNA workbench (CLC bio, Aarhus, Denmark)(Supplemental Figure 3; http://neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/Pages/cruchaga2011.aspx).
The ΔN
isoforms of p63 may also serve
as stem cell markers in a variety of epithelial cell types, including endometrium [30], cervix [31], breast [32], prostate [33], and in stratified squamous epithelium [21,34].
This could be interpreted
as UNC - 7L and UNC - 9 forming heteromeric channels, with ion selectivity properties that are influenced by both
isoforms (
as this dictates the rectification of Gj0), but Vj gating properties dominated by UNC - 7L (
as this dictates the shape of the Gj ∞ plot).
In contrast, the ΔNp73
isoforms act
as dominant negative inhibitors and can even promote cell immortalization [44].
It also suggests that in unc - 9 mutants, the native UNC - 7
isoforms expressed in motor neurons (
as detected by previous analysis of total UNC - 7 expression) are insufficient to properly localize AVB - expressed UNC - 7S:: GFP (that is, UNC - 7 in motor neurons does not substitute for UNC - 9 in localizing AVB - expressed UNC - 7S).
Polycistronic cassettes that contained the KLF4L
isoform had more robust initiation of reprogramming (evaluated by an alkaline phosphatase - positive assay)
as well
as stabilization (Nanog - GFP reporter activation and silencing of factor - linked mCherry).
Cortisone is produced by the action of 11β - hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11β - HSD), an enzyme with two
isoforms, the first of which, 11β - hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase I (11β - HSD I) catalyzes cortisone into cortisol, enabling rapid supply of the active hormone
as needed.
Rimando A. Pterostilbene
as a new natural product agonist for the peroxisome proliferators - activated receptor alpha
isoform.