150 research outputs found
Identifying RNA splicing factors using IFT genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Intraflagellar transport moves proteins in and out of flagella/cilia and it is essential for the assembly of these organelles. Using whole-genome sequencing, we identified splice site mutations in two
IFT
genes,
IFT81
(
fla9
) and
IFT121
(
ift121-2
), which lead to flagellar assembly defects in the unicellular green alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
. The splicing defects in these
ift
mutants are partially corrected by mutations in two conserved spliceosome proteins, DGR14 and FRA10. We identified a
dgr14
deletion mutant, which suppresses the 3′ splice site mutation in
IFT81
, and a frameshift mutant of
FRA10
, which suppresses the 5′ splice site mutation in
IFT121
. Surprisingly, we found
dgr14-1
and
fra10
mutations suppress both splice site mutations. We suggest these two proteins are involved in facilitating splice site recognition/interaction; in their absence some splice site mutations are tolerated. Nonsense mutations in
SMG1
, which is involved in nonsense-mediated decay, lead to accumulation of aberrant transcripts and partial restoration of flagellar assembly in the
ift
mutants. The high density of introns and the conservation of noncore splicing factors, together with the ease of scoring the
ift
mutant phenotype, make
Chlamydomonas
an attractive organism to identify new proteins involved in splicing through suppressor screening.
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Almost sure limit theorems for a stationary normal sequence
AbstractWe prove almost sure limit theorems for the maximum of a stationary normal sequence under some conditions
Local linear m-estimators in null recurrent time series
In this paper, we study a nonlinear cointegration type model Yκ = m(Xκ) + wκ, where {Yκ} and {Xκ} are observed nonstationary processes and {Wκ} is an unobserved stationary process. The process {Xκ} is assumed to be a null-recurrent Markov chain. We apply a robust version of local linear regression smoothers to estimate m(-). Under mild conditions, the uniform weak consistency and asymptotic normality of the local linear M-estimators are established. Furthermore, a one-step iterated procedure is introduced to obtain the local linear M-estimator and the optimal bandwidth selection is discussed. Meanwhile, some numerical examples are given to show that the proposed theory and methods perform well in practice
The asymptotic distribution and Berry--Esseen bound of a new test for independence in high dimension with an application to stochastic optimization
Let be a random sample from a -dimensional
population distribution. Assume that
for some positive constants and . In this paper we introduce
a new statistic for testing independence of the -variates of the population
and prove that the limiting distribution is the extreme distribution of type I
with a rate of convergence . This is much faster
than , a typical convergence rate for this type of extreme
distribution. A simulation study and application to stochastic optimization are
discussed.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AAP527 the Annals of
Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Organization of the human intestine at single-cell resolution
The intestine is a complex organ that promotes digestion, extracts nutrients, participates in immune surveillance, maintains critical symbiotic relationships with microbiota and affects overall healt
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