Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Functional Comparison Between Endogenous and Synthetic Notch Systems The Notch pathway converts receptor-ligand interactions at the cell surface into a transcriptional response in the receiver cell. In recent years, synthetic Notch systems (SynNotch) that respond to different inputs and transduce different transcriptional responses have been engineered. One class of synNotch systems uses antibody-antigen interactions at the cell surface to induce the proteolytic cleavage cascade of the endogenous Notch autoregulatory core and the consequent release of a synNotch intracellular domain (ICD), converting surface antigen detection into a cellular response. However, whereas the activation of endogenous Notch requires ubiquitylation and subsequent endocytosis of the ligand ICD, these synNotch systems do not seem to have such a requirement because the synNotch ligands completely lack an ICD. This observation raises questions about existing models for the Notch activation mechanism. Here, we test how different structural and biochemical factors affect the dependence of endogenous and synthetic Notch activation on ligand ICD. We compare the behavior of antibody-antigen synNotch (aa-synNotch) to that of endogenous Notch, and to a synNotch system that uses induced FKBP-FRB dimerization with rapamycin (ff-synNotch), which still requires a ligand ICD. We found that differences in receptor-ligand affinity, in the identity of the transmembrane domain, or in the presence or absence of extracellular EGF repeats cannot explain the differences in ligand ICD requirement that distinguishes aa-synNotch from endogenous Notch or ff-synNotch. These findings suggest that the aa-SynNotch systems bypass the ligand ICD requirement because antigen-antibody pairs are able to promote other adhesive cell-cell interactions that provide the mechanical tension needed for ligand activation.
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: bioinformatics
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The categories of this paper are: developmental
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The categories of this paper are: toxicology
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The categories of this paper are: physiology
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The categories of this paper are: epidemiology
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The categories of this paper are: evolutionary
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: biophysics
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The categories of this paper are: education
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The categories of this paper are: genomics
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The categories of this paper are: ecology
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The categories of this paper are: genetics
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The categories of this paper are: systems
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The categories of this paper are: plant
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The categories of this paper are: scientific