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Hidden
Jewel (Mar 22) The selected
paper"demonstrates that about 93% of small proteins
(<100 residues) have a structurally strongly related
partner in a different fold class." Identified by Andras
Fiser (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States)
for Faculty of
1000, comprising over 1600 leading scientists.
Sequencing of nuclear genes supports
traditional views of the evolutionary relationships between
jawed vertebrates, including the basal position of
cartilaginous fishes. This is inconsistent with results from
mitochondrial gene analysis.
This study presents the first algorithm,
Oriscan, to predict eukaryotic replication origins and
examines the structure of the origins and evolutionary
conservation of origin sequences at the nucleotide level in
several Saccharomyces species.
Knockout experiments in mice demonstrate
that Dppa3/ Pgc7/ Stella is an essential maternal factor that
regulates development of early cleavage stage embryos but is
not required for germ cell specification.
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