Fun read on new findings - also you'll find out why (all/only) orange cats are mostly male

The Secret of Orange Cats Finally Uncovered After 60-Year Search

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-secret-of-orange-cats-finally-uncovered-after-60-year-search

#Science #Cats #NonCoding #DNA #Genetics

The Secret of Orange Cats Finally Uncovered After 60-Year Search

After 60 years of searching, geneticists have finally identified the gene behind the marmalade coloration in domestic cats.

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When infected by a #virus, some #bacteria use a #reversetranscriptase to convert a small #noncoding #RNA to a long #DNA concatemer, called “nearly endless ORF” (neo) which is transcribed and then translated into a repetitive protein that shutdowns the cellular processes. Nice discovery published in the #Science journal by two American teams from #NewYork and #Cambridge. Link to the perspective article in the same issue: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads3638
Another chapter in our current RNA Review series:
Uciel Chorostecki, Nicolás Bologna, Federico Ariel discuss how various #noncoding #RNAs influence plant interactions with the environment
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2023114400
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Read on to learn how Zhang et al. determined that conserved #noncoding sequences correlate with distant #gene contacts!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13465
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Jian-Ying Wang at University of Maryland MedSchool and NIA and co-workers show that the small noncoding vault RNA2-1 disrupts gut epithelial #barrier function via interaction with #RNA-binding protein HuR.

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embr.202254925

Vault RNAs (vtRNAs) are small #noncoding RNAs, and their levels increase in intestinal mucosa from patients with #IBD vtRNA2-1 disrupts intestinal epithelial barrier function by decreasing intercellular junctions via interaction with HuR.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12132 My first whole-#genome paper, and the first genome of a #carnivorousplant - the #bladderwort, #Utricularia .. the smallest reliably assembled #angiosperm genome so far at ~100 #megabases - see our update on the genome in #PNAS at https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1702072114 Lots of #polyplody and limited #noncoding #DNA
Architecture and evolution of a minute plant genome - Nature

The genome of the carnivorous bladderwort plant Utricularia gibba is described here; despite having undergone at least three rounds of whole-genome duplication, its genome is unusually small and virtually devoid of intergenic DNA.

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