Flash codes are used to handle decoding and encoding of digital information to flash memory devices. The performance of a flash code is usually evaluated using the write deficiency metric. This paper introduces the K-Partition Flash Code (KPFC) with BIFCbased sharing and explores some of its variants KPFC is a coding scheme that involves a sharing mechanism within partitions of a flash memory b...

Studies of protein-protein interactions deep in organs and in whole mammals have been hindered by a lack of genetically encoded fluorescent probes in near-infrared region for which mammalian tissues are the most transparent. We have used a near-infrared fluorescent protein iRFP engineered from a bacterial phytochrome as the template to develop an in vivo split fluorescence complementation probe...

embryogenesis, the ventral telencephalon (VT) plays a major role in the early development of these tracts. First, two populations of pioneer neurons allow corticothalamic (CTA) and thalamocortical axons (TCA) to enter the VT. Secondly, the VT forms a permissive corridor which guides TCAs through the MGE. Finally, thalamortical and corticothalamic axons guide each other once they have met in the...

The Short Vegetative Phase (SVP) gene is a key regulator for floral transition and development. Although SVP-like genes have been identified characterized in many plant species, their orthologs bamboo not characterized. In this study, one SVP homolog was isolated from lei based on the P. edulis transcriptome database designated as PvSVP2. Phylogenetic analysis showed that PvSVP2 closely related...

An abiding issue has been parsing out the cellular impact of multiple Gβ and Gγ subtypes. In an article in this Cell Systems, Masuho et al. use a system developed to probe how distinct Gβγ combinations respond GPCR stimulation adopt trafficking itineraries cell. Since their discovery, subunits have suffered shadow more famous partners Gα heterotrimeric G proteins. Even now, we often refer them ...

The assembly of the sarcomere of cross-striated muscle involves a plethora of transcription factors, signalling and structural proteins and requires their coordinate interplay in order to construct this uniquely regular structure. Its early upregulation in muscle precursor cells during embryonic development and in activated satellite cells upon skeletal muscle damage render the protein Xin an i...

The sliding clamp protein PCNA is a key controller of multiple processes in DNA and chromatin metabolism, regulating replication, repair and chromatin assembly through interaction with a huge number of partner proteins (Fig 1). In many of these transactions, the partners bind via a conserved PCNA-interacting peptide or PIP, first identified in CDKN1/p21. Sequential and competitive binding of th...