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A Genome-Wide Survey on Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors in Giant Panda
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a critically endangered mammalian species. Studies on functions of regulatory proteins involved in developmental processes would facilitate understanding of specific behavior in giant panda. The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins play essential roles i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212526/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22096504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026878 |
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author | Dang, Chunwang Wang, Yong Zhang, Debao Yao, Qin Chen, Keping |
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description | The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a critically endangered mammalian species. Studies on functions of regulatory proteins involved in developmental processes would facilitate understanding of specific behavior in giant panda. The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins play essential roles in a wide range of developmental processes in higher organisms. bHLH family members have been identified in over 20 organisms, including fruit fly, zebrafish, mouse and human. Our present study identified 107 bHLH family members being encoded in giant panda genome. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that they belong to 44 bHLH families with 46, 25, 15, 4, 11 and 3 members in group A, B, C, D, E and F, respectively, while the remaining 3 members were assigned into “orphan”. Compared to mouse, the giant panda does not encode seven bHLH proteins namely Beta3a, Mesp2, Sclerax, S-Myc, Hes5 (or Hes6), EBF4 and Orphan 1. These results provide useful background information for future studies on structure and function of bHLH proteins in the regulation of giant panda development. |
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spelling | pubmed-32125262011-11-17 A Genome-Wide Survey on Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors in Giant Panda Dang, Chunwang Wang, Yong Zhang, Debao Yao, Qin Chen, Keping PLoS One Research Article The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a critically endangered mammalian species. Studies on functions of regulatory proteins involved in developmental processes would facilitate understanding of specific behavior in giant panda. The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins play essential roles in a wide range of developmental processes in higher organisms. bHLH family members have been identified in over 20 organisms, including fruit fly, zebrafish, mouse and human. Our present study identified 107 bHLH family members being encoded in giant panda genome. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that they belong to 44 bHLH families with 46, 25, 15, 4, 11 and 3 members in group A, B, C, D, E and F, respectively, while the remaining 3 members were assigned into “orphan”. Compared to mouse, the giant panda does not encode seven bHLH proteins namely Beta3a, Mesp2, Sclerax, S-Myc, Hes5 (or Hes6), EBF4 and Orphan 1. These results provide useful background information for future studies on structure and function of bHLH proteins in the regulation of giant panda development. Public Library of Science 2011-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3212526/ /pubmed/22096504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026878 Text en Dang et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Dang, Chunwang Wang, Yong Zhang, Debao Yao, Qin Chen, Keping A Genome-Wide Survey on Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors in Giant Panda |
title | A Genome-Wide Survey on Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors in Giant Panda |
title_full | A Genome-Wide Survey on Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors in Giant Panda |
title_fullStr | A Genome-Wide Survey on Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors in Giant Panda |
title_full_unstemmed | A Genome-Wide Survey on Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors in Giant Panda |
title_short | A Genome-Wide Survey on Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors in Giant Panda |
title_sort | genome-wide survey on basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors in giant panda |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212526/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22096504 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026878 |
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