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Li **n Cheng
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Isolation and characterization of Fe(III)-chelate reductase gene LeFRO1 in tomato
Tomato is a model plant for studying molecular mechanisms of iron uptake and metabolism in strategy I plants (dicots and non-graminaceous monocots). Reduction of ferric to ferrous iron on the root surface is a...
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Cloning and Characterization of a Second form of the Rice Adenine Phosphoribosyl Transferase Gene (OsAPT2) and its Association with TGMS
A rice gene, OsAPT2, which encodes a putative adenine phosphoribosyl transferase (APRT), was cloned and characterized. Analysis of the cDNA and genomic sequences revealed seven exons and six introns in the OsAPT2
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A paracentric inversion suppresses genetic recombination at the FON3 locus with breakpoints corresponding to sequence gaps on rice chromosome 11L
Paracentric inversion is known to inhibit genetic recombination between normal and inverted chromosomal segments in heterozygous arrangements. Insect inversion polymorphisms have been studied to reveal adaptiv...
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Open AccessA rice phenomics study—phenotype scoring and seed propagation of a T-DNA insertion-induced rice mutant population
With the completion of the rice genome sequencing project, the next major challenge is the large-scale determination of gene function. As an important crop and a model organism, rice provides major insights in...
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Production of enantiomerically pure (S)-β-phenylalanine and (R)-β-phenylalanine by penicillin G acylase from Escherichia coli in aqueous medium
A new approach has been developed for the production of enantiomerically pure (S)-β-phenylalanine (S-BPA) and (R)-β-phenylalanine in aqueous medium based on enantioselective acylation and hydrolysis properties of...
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Construction, production, and characterization of recombinant scFv antibodies against methamidophos expressed in Pichia pastoris
Pichia pastoris was used to express a recombinant scFv antibody against methamidophos derived from a recombinant phage-display library. The specific scFv gene was amplified from a positiv...
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Genetic features of a pollen-part mutation suggest an inhibitory role for the Antirrhinum pollen self-incompatibility determinant
Self-incompatibility (SI), an important barrier to inbreeding in flowering plants, is controlled in many species by a single polymorphic S-locus. In the Solanaceae, two tightly linked S-locus genes, S-RNase and S...
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Seed, cutting and air-layering reproductive inefficiency of noxious woody vine Merremia biosiana and its implications for management strategy
Merremia boisiana (Gagnep) van Ooststr. is a noxious fast growing woody vine and is able to grow overtop other plants, causing the death of plants underneath and forming monospecies stand...
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Gadolinium-containing bioparticles as an active entity to promote cell cycle progression in mouse embryo fibroblast NIH3T3 cells
In the present study, we demonstrated that gadolinium-containing particles formed in cell culture medium acted as a biologically active entity to mediate cell cycle progression in NIH3T3 cells. The particles w...
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Cell surface sialic acid inhibits Cx43 gap junction functions in constructed Hela cancer cells involving in sialylated N-cadherin
Numerous studies have shown that changes in the glycan structures of cells correlate with tumorigenesis, however, a casual link between the altered glycan structures and the abnormal GJIC in cancer cells is ra...
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Map** quantitative trait loci for seed size traits in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.)
Seed size traits in soybean—length, width and thickness—and their corresponding ratios—length-to-width, length-to-thickness and width-to-thickness—play a crucial role in determining seed appearance, quality an...
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Rice dehydrin K-segments have in vitro antibacterial activity
Dehydrins are groups of plant proteins that have been shown to response to various environmental stimuli such as dehydration, elevated salinity, and low temperature. However, their roles in plant defense again...
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Association of Dental Fluorosis with Polymorphisms of Estrogen Receptor Gene in Chinese Children
Dental fluorosis (DF) is one of the important performances of endemic fluorosis. Some studies indicated that estrogen receptor (ESR) gene polymorphisms were associated with bone metabolism-related diseases. There...
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Effect of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound on MMP-13 and MAPKs Signaling Pathway in Rabbit Knee Osteoarthritis
We evaluated the effect of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) on MMP-13 and MAPKs expression in rabbit knee osteoarthritis (OA). For this purpose, 18 New Zealand white rabbits were randomly and equally di...
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Identification of microRNA-like RNAs in a plant pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum by high-throughput sequencing
MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNAs of approximately 22 nt with important regulatory roles in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. To date, no miRNAs have been reported in plant pathogenic fungi...
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Molecular characterization of β-lactam-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from Fu River, China
The present study aims to demonstrate the β-lactam resistance phenotypes and genotypes of Escherichia coli isolates from the Fu River in Chengdu, southwestern China. We obtained 108 E. coli isolates from nine sam...
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Human anti-EGFL7 recombinant full-length antibodies selected from a mammalian cell-based antibody display library
Epidermal growth factor-like domain 7 (EGFL7) has been implicated in promoting solid tumor growth and metastasis via stimulating tumor-associated angiogenesis. The advent of antibody display technology (phage,...
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Erratum to: Potent growth-inhibitory effect of TRAIL therapy mediated by double-regulated oncolytic adenovirus on osteosarcoma
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A novel gene IBF1 is required for the inhibition of brown pigment deposition in rice hull furrows
The role of flavonoids as the major red, blue, purple and brown pigments in plants has gained these secondary products a great deal of attention over the years. In this study, we characterized a rice inhibitor fo...
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Transforming growth factor-β1 induces matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression in rat vascular smooth muscle cells via ROS-dependent ERK–NF-κB pathways
Both matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP9) and transforming growth factors-β1 (TGF-β1) are the important factors in the pathogenesis of the aortic aneurysm (AA) and aortic dissection (AD). Recent studies have show...
