FBX 2006 Activation

FBX 2006 Activation

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FBX is a proprietary file format (.fbx) developed by Kaydara and owned by Autodesk since 2006. It is used to provide interoperability between digital content creation applications. FBX is also part of Autodesk Gameware, a series of video gamemiddleware.

FBX is a proprietary file format (.fbx) developed by Kaydara and owned by Autodesk® since 2006. It is used to provide interoperability between digital content creation applications. FBX is also part of Autodesk Gameware, a series of video gamemiddleware.

As of early 2005 plans called for the initial FBX-T Radar to be available in CY 2005. Contract options for two additional FBX-T radars will be exercised in FY 2005. These additional radars will be integrated into the BMDS as Block 2006 and Block 2008 assets. Evolving radar configurations will use additional algorithms and provide enhanced capabilities to support the BMDS. Beginning in FY 2006 the Forward Based Radar initiative will provide for continued sensor evolution to improve the capabilities for a BMDS configuration(s) for Block 2008 and beyond.

Three forward deployed radars will be developed and deployed to protect the United States from Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and medium range threats. The forward deployed radars will deliver an initial search and track capability at the beginning of fiscal year 2006. Discrimination enhancements will be added in late 2006.

A U.S. military mobile BMD radar (AN/TPY-2, i.e., "X-Band Radar") was deployed in June 2006 to the. ASDF Shariki Sub-base in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. A new detachment, consisting of a small team of military service members and contractors who will operate and maintain the Forward Based X-Band Radar Transportable (FBX-T) system, was honored during an activation ceremony 26 September 2006 at Camp Shariki in Aomori Pref., hosted by Brig. Gen. John E. Seward, commanding general of 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command of the U.S. Army Pacific Command. The FBX-T radar is designed to provide early detection and tracking of ballistic missile threats while providing a key element to the layered defense strategy. The radar is a defensive system with no offensive capability and will fall under the command and control of the 94th AAMDC, which is based at Fort Shafter, Hi. The command officially joined USARPAC in Oct. 2005.

Mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells, and the cells of the embryonic inner cell mass (ICM) from which mouse ES cells are derived, are pluripotent. According to recent consensus, pluripotency describes a cell's ability to give rise to all of the cells of an embryo and adult(Solter, 2006). Studies over the past few years have revealed the role that transcription factor networks and epigenetic processes play in the maintenance of ES cell pluripotency(Niwa et al., 2000; Mitsui et al., 2003; Chambers et al., 2003; Boyer et al., 2005; Niwa et al., 2005; Boyer et al., 2006). Among the findings to have emerged from these studies is that the functions of these transcription factors depend on the stage of development of a pluripotent cell, indicating that these factors function in combination with other processes (Sieweke and Graf,1998). The activity of these transcription factors also depends on the accessibility of their target genes, which are made more or less accessible by the modification of their DNA, histones, or chromatin structure(Jaenisch and Bird, 2003). In this review, I discuss new insights into how transcription factor networks maintain mouse ES cell pluripotency and how these factors interface with epigenetic processes to control the pluripotency and differentiation of mouse ES cells.

Traditionally, pluripotency has often been defined as the ability to generate all cell types of an embryo apart from the trophectoderm (the precursor to the bulk of the embryonic part of the placenta)(Bioani and Schöler,2006). This is because an earlier analysis of chimeric mouse embryos, produced by the injection of ICM cells and ES cells into 8-cell embryos or blastocysts, had shown that ICM cells are excluded from the trophectoderm lineage (Beddington and Robertson, 1989). However, it has subsequently been found that the ICM does still possess the ability to differentiate into the trophectoderm lineage (Pierce et al., 1988),as do ES cells under particular culture conditions(Niwa et al., 2005). Therefore, in this review, I define pluripotency as the ability to generate all cell types, including the trophectoderm, without the self-organizing ability to generate a whole organism [see also Solter(Solter, 2006) for similar definitions of these terms].

As mentioned above, ES cell pluripotency is maintained during self-renewal by the prevention of differentiation and the promotion of proliferation. For mouse ES cells, Lif is a key factor that prevents differentiation. Lif belongs to the interleukin-6 cytokine family and binds to a heterodimeric receptor consisting of the Lif-receptor β and gp130 (Il6st - Mouse Genome Informatics). This binding results in the activation of the canonical Jak/Stat(Janus kinase signal transducer and activator of transcription) pathway. It has been reported that Stat3 activation is essential and sufficient to maintain the pluripotency of mouse ES cells(Niwa et al., 1998; Matsuda et al., 1999), and that c-Myc is a candidate target of Stat3(Cartwright et al., 2005).

The gatekeeper function of Nanog might not be restricted to preventing the differentiation of ES cells into primitive endoderm, as it has been reported that Nanog also blocks neuronal differentiation induced by the removal of Lif and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) from serum-free culture(Ying et al., 2003). In addition, Nanog can also reverse mesoderm specification by repressing brachyury, which encodes the mesoderm-specific T-box transcription factor T. This factor directly activates Nanog expression, indicating that negative feedback is involved in the balance between self-renewal and mesodermal differentiation (Suzuki et al., 2006a). Thus, Nanog can block primitive endodermal differentiation, neuronal differentiation and mesodermal differentiation under different culture conditions

Recent findings suggest that the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling pathway plays a pivotal role in promoting the proliferation,survival and/or differentiation of mouse ES cells (see Fig. 3). The deletion of Pten, which encodes a negative regulator of PI3K, in mouse ES cells has been reported to increase ES cell viability and proliferation(Sun et al., 1999), and it has recently been reported that the artificial activation of Akt is sufficient to maintain ES cell self-renewal in the absence of Lif(Watanabe et al., 2006).

Two modulators of the PI3K/Akt pathway are specifically expressed in ES cells, Eras and Tcl1(Fig. 3)(Takahashi et al., 2005). Eras encodes a constitutively active form of a Ras-family small GTPase that activates PI3K to stimulate ES cell proliferation and tumorigenicity after ectopic transplantation in vivo(Takahashi et al., 2003). The Tcl1 gene product augments Akt activation by forming a stable heterodimeric complex with Akt (Teitell,2005). Knockdown of Tcl1 in mouse ES cells impairs self-renewal by inducing differentiation and/or repressing their proliferation(Ivanova et al., 2006; Matoba et al.,2006). However, the molecular mechanisms that direct the expression of Eras and Tcl1 in ES cells have yet to be identified.

The basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor Myc is a wellknown accelerator of the cell cycle, acting via the transcriptional activation of cyclin E expression to promote G1-S transition(Hooker and Hurlin, 2006). Recently, Cartwright et al. (Cartwright et al., 2005) reported that c-Myc is a direct target of Stat3, and that overexpression of a dominant-active form of c-Myc that has a greater stability than the wild-type protein renders the self-renewal of mouse ES cells independent of Lif. By contrast, the overexpression of a dominant-negative form of c-Myc antagonizes mouse ES cell self-renewal and promotes differentiation. These findings suggest that the regulation of the G1-S transition may contribute to the maintenance of pluripotency, which is promoted by the Lif-Stat3 pathway in mouse ES cells(Burdon et al., 2002).

Mouse ES cells that lack Sall4, one of the mouse homologs of the Drosophila homeotic gene spalt that encodes a zinc-finger transcription factor, were recently reported to show reduced proliferation ability (Sakaki-Yumoto et al.,2006). Another study showed that Sall4 interacts with Nanog to activate Sall4 and Nanog(Wu et al., 2006). However, Sall4 expression is not restricted to mouse ES cells, and Nanog is still expressed in Sall4-null ES cells(Sakaki-Yumoto et al., 2006),so the physiological contribution of this positive-feedback loop to the maintenance of pluripotency remains to be confirmed.

Sox2 occupies an important position in the maintenance of the pluripotent transcription factor network (Fig. 4B). As discussed above, Sox2 is known to co-operate with Oct3/4 in activating Oct3/4 target genes (Yuan et al., 1995). To date, ES-specific enhancers that contain binding sites for Oct3/4 and Sox2 have been identified in several genes, including Fgf4 (Yuan et al.,1995), osteopontin (Spp1 - Mouse Genome Informatics)(Botquin et al., 1998), Utf1 (Nishimoto et al.,1999), Fbxo15(Tokuzawa et al., 2003), Nanog (Kuroda et al.,2005; Rodda et al.,2005) and Lefty1(Nakatake et al., 2006). Interestingly, both Oct3/4 and Sox2 possess enhancers that are activated by the Oct3/4-Sox2 complex in a stem-cell-specific manner(Chew et al., 2005; Okumura-Nakanishi et al.,2005; Tomioka et al.,2002). Sox2-null embryos die immediately after implantation (Avilion et al.,2003), and knockdown of Sox2 in mouse ES cells induces differentiation into multiple lineages, including trophectoderm, indicating its functional importance in the maintenance of pluripotency(Ivanova et al., 2006). The generation of Sox2-null ES cells would help to elucidate the precise function of Sox2 and the identification of its target genes, as would also be the case for Oct3/4. 2b1af7f3a8