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- Audisio, Paolo, et al.
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Fauna Europaea : Coleoptera 2 (excl. series Elateriformia, Scarabaeiformia, Staphyliniformia and superfamily Curculionoidea)
- 2015
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Ingår i: Biodiversity Data Journal. - : Pensoft Publishers. - 1314-2836 .- 1314-2828. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. This represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education. Coleoptera represent a huge assemblage of holometabolous insects, including as a whole more than 200 recognized families and some 400,000 described species worldwide. Basic information is summarized on their biology, ecology, economic relevance, and estimated number of undescribed species worldwide. Little less than 30,000 species are listed from Europe. The Coleoptera 2 section of the Fauna Europaea database (Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga and Polyphaga excl. the series Elateriformia, Scarabaeiformia, Staphyliniformia and the superfamily Curculionoidea) encompasses 80 families (according to the previously accepted family-level systematic framework) and approximately 13,000 species. Tabulations included a complete list of the families dealt with, the number of species in each, the names of all involved specialists, and, when possible, an estimate of the gaps in terms of total number of species at an European level. A list of some recent useful references is appended. Most families included in the Coleoptera 2 Section have been updated in the most recent release of the Fauna Europaea index, or are ready to be updated as soon as the FaEu data management environment completes its migration from Zoological Museum Amsterdam to Berlin Museum fur Naturkunde.
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- Barbera, Stefano, et al.
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The small GTPase Rab5c is a key regulator of trafficking of the CD93/Multimerin-2/1 integrin complex in endothelial cell adhesion and migration
- 2019
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Ingår i: Cell Communication and Signaling. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1478-811X. ; 17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BackgroundIn the endothelium, the single-pass membrane protein CD93, through its interaction with the extracellular matrix protein Multimerin-2, activates signaling pathways that are critical for vascular development and angiogenesis. Trafficking of adhesion molecules through endosomal compartments modulates their signaling output. However, the mechanistic basis coordinating CD93 recycling and its implications for endothelial cell (EC) function remain elusive.MethodsHuman umbilical vein ECs (HUVECs) and human dermal blood ECs (HDBEC) were used in this study. Fluorescence confocal microscopy was employed to follow CD93 retrieval, recycling, and protein colocalization in spreading cells. To better define CD93 trafficking, drug treatments and transfected chimeric wild type and mutant CD93 proteins were used. The scratch assay was used to evaluate cell migration. Gene silencing strategies, flow citometry, and quantification of migratory capability were used to determine the role of Rab5c during CD93 recycling to the cell surface.ResultsHere, we identify the recycling pathway of CD93 following EC adhesion and migration. We show that the cytoplasmic domain of CD93, by its interaction with Moesin and F-actin, is instrumental for CD93 retrieval in adhering and migrating cells and that aberrant endosomal trafficking of CD93 prevents its localization at the leading edge of migration. Moreover, the small GTPase Rab5c turns out to be a key component of the molecular machinery that is able to drive CD93 recycling to the EC surface. Finally, in the Rab5c endosomal compartment CD93 forms a complex with Multimerin-2 and active 1 integrin, which is recycled back to the basolaterally-polarized cell surface by clathrin-independent endocytosis.ConclusionsOur findings, focusing on the pro-angiogenic receptor CD93, unveil the mechanisms of its polarized trafficking during EC adhesion and migration, opening novel therapeutic opportunities for angiogenic diseases.
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- Dorigo, Tommaso, et al.
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Toward the end-to-end optimization of particle physics instruments with differentiable programming
- 2023
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Ingår i: Reviews in Physics. - 2405-4283. ; 10
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The full optimization of the design and operation of instruments whose functioning relies on the interaction of radiation with matter is a super-human task, due to the large dimensionality of the space of possible choices for geometry, detection technology, materials, data-acquisition, and information-extraction techniques, and the interdependence of the related parameters. On the other hand, massive potential gains in performance over standard, “experience-driven” layouts are in principle within our reach if an objective function fully aligned with the final goals of the instrument is maximized through a systematic search of the configuration space. The stochastic nature of the involved quantum processes make the modeling of these systems an intractable problem from a classical statistics point of view, yet the construction of a fully differentiable pipeline and the use of deep learning techniques may allow the simultaneous optimization of all design parameters. In this white paper, we lay down our plans for the design of a modular and versatile modeling tool for the end-to-end optimization of complex instruments for particle physics experiments as well as industrial and medical applications that share the detection of radiation as their basic ingredient. We consider a selected set of use cases to highlight the specific needs of different applications.
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