Search Results - "Owens, Nick D L"
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Membrane potential drives the exit from pluripotency and cell fate commitment via calcium and mTOR
Published in Nature communications (05-11-2022)“…Transitioning from pluripotency to differentiated cell fates is fundamental to both embryonic development and adult tissue homeostasis. Improving our…”
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Author Correction: Membrane potential drives the exit from pluripotency and cell fate commitment via calcium and mTOR
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Activation of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Dampens the Severity of Inflammatory Skin Conditions
Published in Immunity (Cambridge, Mass.) (19-06-2014)“…Environmental stimuli are known to contribute to psoriasis pathogenesis and that of other autoimmune diseases, but the mechanisms are largely unknown. Here we…”
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Developmentally dynamic changes in DNA methylation in the human pancreas
Published in BMC genomics (03-06-2024)“…Development of the human pancreas requires the precise temporal control of gene expression via epigenetic mechanisms and the binding of key transcription…”
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Maternal pluripotency factors initiate extensive chromatin remodelling to predefine first response to inductive signals
Published in Nature communications (19-09-2019)“…Embryonic development yields many different cell types in response to just a few families of inductive signals. The property of signal-receiving cells that…”
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High-resolution analysis of gene activity during the Xenopus mid-blastula transition
Published in Development (Cambridge) (01-05-2014)“…The Xenopus mid-blastula transition (MBT) marks the onset of large-scale zygotic transcription, as well as an increase in cell cycle length and a loss of…”
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Chromosome 20p11.2 deletions cause congenital hyperinsulinism via the loss of FOXA2 or its regulatory elements
Published in European journal of human genetics : EJHG (01-07-2024)“…Persistent congenital hyperinsulinism (HI) is a rare genetically heterogeneous condition characterised by dysregulated insulin secretion leading to…”
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Efficient high-throughput sequencing of a laser microdissected chromosome arm
Published in BMC genomics (28-05-2013)“…Genomic sequence assemblies are key tools for a broad range of gene function and evolutionary studies. The diploid amphibian Xenopus tropicalis plays a pivotal…”
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Expression of ribosomopathy genes during Xenopus tropicalis embryogenesis
Published in BMC developmental biology (26-10-2016)“…Because ribosomes are ubiquitously required for protein production, it was long assumed that any inherited defect in ribosome manufacture would be…”
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Disrupted β-cell-specific gene silencing causes congenital hyperinsulinism
Published in Nature genetics (01-11-2022)“…Genome sequencing and analysis of public epigenomic data enabled the identification of disease-causing variants in a non-coding regulatory region of hexokinase…”
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A large pseudoautosomal region on the sex chromosomes of the frog Silurana tropicalis
Published in Genome biology and evolution (01-01-2013)“…Sex chromosome divergence has been documented across phylogenetically diverse species, with amphibians typically having cytologically nondiverged…”
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Chemical Detection Using the Receptor Density Algorithm
Published in IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part C, Applications and reviews (01-11-2012)“…This paper describes the application of the receptor density algorithm, an artificial immune system, as used to detect chemicals from data provided by various…”
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Measuring Absolute RNA Copy Numbers at High Temporal Resolution Reveals Transcriptome Kinetics in Development
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (26-01-2016)“…Transcript regulation is essential for cell function, and misregulation can lead to disease. Despite technologies to survey the transcriptome, we lack a…”
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Elucidation of T cell signalling models
Published in Journal of theoretical biology (07-02-2010)“…A potential mechanism that allows T cells to reliably discriminate pMHC ligands involves an interplay between kinetic proofreading, negative feedback and a…”
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Innate Immune Response and Off-Target Mis-splicing Are Common Morpholino-Induced Side Effects in Xenopus
Published in Developmental cell (12-03-2018)“…Antisense morpholino oligomers (MOs) have been indispensable tools for developmental biologists to transiently knock down (KD) genes rather than to knock them…”
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Non-coding variants disrupting a tissue-specific regulatory element in HK1 cause congenital hyperinsulinism
Published in Nature genetics (01-11-2022)“…Gene expression is tightly regulated, with many genes exhibiting cell-specific silencing when their protein product would disrupt normal cellular function 1 …”
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Primate-specific ZNF808 is essential for pancreatic development in humans
Published in Nature genetics (01-12-2023)“…Identifying genes linked to extreme phenotypes in humans has the potential to highlight biological processes not shared with all other mammals. Here, we report…”
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Genetic links between ovarian ageing, cancer risk and de novo mutation rates
Published in Nature (London) (19-09-2024)“…Human genetic studies of common variants have provided substantial insight into the biological mechanisms that govern ovarian ageing 1 . Here we report…”
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Chromatin accessibility and transcription factor binding through the perspective of mitosis
Published in Transcription (19-10-2020)“…Chromatin accessibility is generally perceived as a common property of active regulatory elements where transcription factors are recruited via DNA-specific…”
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The Innate Immune Response of Frog Embryos to Antisense Morpholino Oligomers Depends on Developmental Stage, GC Content and Dose
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