To reverse the accelerating degradation of biodiversity and ecosystem services(‘nature’) and climate [1,2], the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will...
To reverse the accelerating degradation of biodiversity and ecosystem services(‘nature’) and climate [1,2], the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold major meetings in 2021. We argue that, as a critical priority, countries need to design and implement integrated national strategies to achieve the goals of the three Rio Conventions (including the UN Convention to Combat Desertification—UNCCD) using spatially explicit analyses and policies. This integration can maximize co-benefits and help manage trade-offs to meet the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). Nature-based solutions (NBS)provide an important framework for such integration.
The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum thrives in radically different host environments in mosquitoes and humans, with only a limited set of transcription factors. The nature of regulatory elements or their ...
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The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum thrives in radically different host environments in mosquitoes and humans, with only a limited set of transcription factors. The nature of regulatory elements or their target genes in the P. falciparum genome remains elusive. Here, we found that this eukaryotic parasite uses an efficient way to maximally use genetic and epigenetic regulation to form regulatory units(RUs) during blood infections. Genes located in the same RU tend to have the same pattern of expression over time and are associated with open chromatin along regulatory elements. To precisely define and quantify these RUs, a novel hidden Markov model was developed to capture the regulatory structure in a genome-wide fashion by integrating expression and epigenetic evidence. We successfully identified thousands of RUs and cross-validated with previous findings. We found more genes involved in red blood cell(RBC) invasion located in the same RU as the Pf AP2-I(AP2-I) transcription factor, demonstrating that AP2-I is responsible for regulating RBC invasion. Our study has provided a regulatory mechanism for a compact eukaryotic genome and offers new insights into the in vivo transcriptional regulation of the P. falciparum intraerythrocytic stage.
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