Research News

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  IGDB Scientists Revealed the Conserved Novel Mechanism of ERAD Tuning between Plant and Mammals

  Researchers from Dr. XIE Qi’s group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, elucidated the key molecular mechanism of ERAD tuning in plant and found he regulation of UBC32 (or UBE2J1) by HRD1 complex is conserved between plants and mammals .

  22 Jun 2016

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  A Multiprotein Complex Involves in Regulation of Cortical Neuronal Migration

  Researchers in XU Zhiheng’s group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that TGF-β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) played an important role in TGF-β signaling controlled neuronal migration through regulation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) activity.

  15 Jun 2016

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  IGDB Scientists Revealed New Mechanism of Autism Pathogenesis

  The research group led by Dr. ZHANG Yongqing at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that Drosophila mutants of ube3a had excess synaptic boutons and endocytic defects at the neuromuscular junctions, which suggests a previously unknown molecular mechanism of autism pathogenesis.

  15 Jun 2016

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  miR172a, a New Gene Improves Salt Tolerance in Soybean

  The groups of Prof. ZHANG Jinsong and Prof. CHEN Shouyi from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that soybean miR172a improves salt tolerance and can function as a long distance signal.

  02 Jun 2016