The EH1 motif in metazoan transcription factors.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bixin or annatto is a commercially important natural orange-red pigment derived from lycopene that is produced and stored in seeds of Bixa orellana L. An enzymatic pathway for bixin biosynthesis was inferred from homology of putative proteins encoded by differentially expressed seed cDNAs. Some activities we...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cárdenas-Conejo Y,Carballo-Uicab V,Lieberman M,Aguilar-Espinosa M,Comai L,Rivera-Madrid R

更新日期：2015-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cadmium (Cd) is a serious heavy metal (HM) soil pollutant. To alleviate or even eliminate HM pollution in soil, environmental-friendly methods are applied. One is that special plants are cultivated to absorb the HM in the contaminated soil. As an excellent economical plant with ornamental value and sound ada...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang MQ,Bai ZY,Xiao YF,Li Y,Liu QL,Zhang L,Pan YZ,Jiang BB,Zhang F

更新日期：2019-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Burkholderia cenocepacia is an opportunistic pathogen causing life-threatening infections in patients with cystic fibrosis. The bacterium survives within macrophages by interfering with endocytic trafficking and delaying the maturation of the B. cenocepacia-containing phagosome. We hypothesize that B. cenoce...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tolman JS,Valvano MA

更新日期：2012-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein effectors of pathogenicity are instrumental in modulating host immunity and disease resistance. The powdery mildew pathogen of grasses Blumeria graminis causes one of the most important diseases of cereal crops. B. graminis is an obligate biotrophic pathogen and as such has an absolute requirement to...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pedersen C,Ver Loren van Themaat E,McGuffin LJ,Abbott JC,Burgis TA,Barton G,Bindschedler LV,Lu X,Maekawa T,Wessling R,Cramer R,Thordal-Christensen H,Panstruga R,Spanu PD

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Marine diatoms constitute a major component of eukaryotic phytoplankton and stand at the crossroads of several evolutionary lineages. These microalgae possess peculiar genomic features and novel combinations of genes acquired from bacterial, animal and plant ancestors. Furthermore, they display both DNA meth...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rogato A,Richard H,Sarazin A,Voss B,Cheminant Navarro S,Champeimont R,Navarro L,Carbone A,Hess WR,Falciatore A

更新日期：2014-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wild sugarcane Saccharum spontaneum plants vary in ploidy, which complicates the utilization of its germplasm in sugarcane breeding. Investigations on cold tolerance in relation to different ploidies in S. spontaneum may promote the exploitation of its germplasm and accelerate the improvement of sugarcane va...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang H,Wang T,Yu X,Yang Y,Wang C,Yang Q,Wang X

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compared to other ascomycetes, the barley powdery mildew pathogen Blumeria graminis f.sp. hordei (Bgh) has a large genome (ca. 120 Mbp) that harbors a relatively small number of protein-coding genes (ca. 6500). This genomic assemblage is thought to be the result of numerous gene losses, which likely represen...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kusch S,Ahmadinejad N,Panstruga R,Kuhn H

更新日期：2014-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicotiana attenuata (coyote tobacco) is an ecological model for studying plant-environment interactions and plant gene function under real-world conditions. During the last decade, large amounts of genomic, transcriptomic and metabolomic data have been generated with this plant which has provided new insight...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Brockmöller T,Ling Z,Li D,Gaquerel E,Baldwin IT,Xu S

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Determination of genome-wide DNA methylation is significant for both basic research and drug development. As a key epigenetic modification, this biochemical process can modulate gene expression to influence the cell differentiation which can possibly lead to cancer. Due to the involuted biochemical mechanism...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tian Q,Zou J,Tang J,Fang Y,Yu Z,Fan S

更新日期：2019-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) is a key enzyme of the phenylpropanoid pathway that catalyzes the deamination of phenylalanine to trans-cinnamic acid, a precursor for the lignin and flavonoid biosynthetic pathways. To date, PAL genes have been less extensively studied in gymnosperms than in angiosperms. Ou...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bagal UR,Leebens-Mack JH,Lorenz WW,Dean JF

更新日期：2012-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adjuvant Radiotherapy (RT) after surgical removal of tumors proved beneficial in long-term tumor control and treatment planning. For many years, it has been well concluded that radio-sensitivities of tumors upon radiotherapy decrease according to the sizes of tumors and RT models based on Poisson statistics ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang JY,Niemierko A,Yang MQ,Deng Y

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile genetic sequences that randomly propagate within their host's genome. This mobility has the potential to affect gene transcription and cause disease. However, TEs are technically challenging to identify, which complicates efforts to assess the impact of TE insertions on...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kvikstad EM,Piazza P,Taylor JC,Lunter G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Eucalyptus is one of the most important sources of industrial cellulose. Three species of this botanical group are intensively used in breeding programs: E. globulus, E. grandis and E. urophylla. E. globulus is adapted to subtropical/temperate areas and is considered a source of high-quality cellulose; E. gr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Salazar MM,Nascimento LC,Camargo EL,Gonçalves DC,Lepikson Neto J,Marques WL,Teixeira PJ,Mieczkowski P,Mondego JM,Carazzolle MF,Deckmann AC,Pereira GA

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Species of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus harbour three replication origins in their single circular chromosome that are synchronously initiated during replication. RESULTS:We demonstrate that global gene expression in two Sulfolobus species is highly biased, such that early replicating genome regions are more...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Andersson AF,Pelve EA,Lindeberg S,Lundgren M,Nilsson P,Bernander R

更新日期：2010-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HSP90 proteins are essential molecular chaperones involved in signal transduction, cell cycle control, stress management, and folding, degradation, and transport of proteins. HSP90 proteins have been found in a variety of organisms suggesting that they are ancient and conserved. In this study we investigate ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen B,Zhong D,Monteiro A

更新日期：2006-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Of the hundreds of Vibrio cholerae serogroups, O1 and O139 are the main epidemic-causing ones. Although non-O1/non-O139 serogroups rarely cause epidemics, the possibility exists for strains within them to have pathogenic potential. RESULTS:We selected 25 representative strains within 16 V. cholerae serogrou...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li Z,Lu X,Wang D,Liang WL,Zhang J,Li J,Xu J,Pang B,Kan B

更新日期：2019-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Yarrowia lipolytica is an oleaginous ascomycete yeast that stores lipids in response to limitation of nitrogen. While the enzymatic pathways responsible for neutral lipid accumulation in Y. lipolytica are well characterized, regulation of these pathways has received little attention. We therefore sought to c...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pomraning KR,Kim YM,Nicora CD,Chu RK,Bredeweg EL,Purvine SO,Hu D,Metz TO,Baker SE

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Haloquadratum walsbyi represents up to 80% of cells in NaCl-saturated brines worldwide, but is notoriously difficult to maintain under laboratory conditions. In order to establish the extent of genetic diversity in a natural population of this microbe, we screened a H. walsbyi enriched metagenomic fosmid lib...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Martin-Cuadrado AB,Pašić L,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2015-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of acute or recent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections is important for detecting outbreaks and devising timely public health interventions for interruption of transmission. Epidemiological investigations and chemistry-based laboratory tests are 2 main approaches that are available for identifi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lara J,Teka M,Khudyakov Y

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phenomena such as incomplete lineage sorting, horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and subsequent sub- and neo-functionalisation can result in distinct local phylogenetic relationships that are discordant with species phylogeny. In order to assess the possible biological roles for these subdivisions, t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zamani N,Russell P,Lantz H,Hoeppner MP,Meadows JR,Vijay N,Mauceli E,di Palma F,Lindblad-Toh K,Jern P,Grabherr MG

更新日期：2013-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic admixture is a common caveat for genetic association analysis. Therefore, it is important to characterize the genetic structure of the population under study to control for this kind of potential bias. RESULTS:In this study we have sampled over 800 unrelated individuals from the population of Spain,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gayán J,Galan JJ,González-Pérez A,Sáez ME,Martínez-Larrad MT,Zabena C,Rivero MC,Salinas A,Ramírez-Lorca R,Morón FJ,Royo JL,Moreno-Rey C,Velasco J,Carrasco JM,Molero E,Ochoa C,Ochoa MD,Gutiérrez M,Reina M,Pascual R,

更新日期：2010-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The small airway epithelium (SAE), the cell population that covers the human airway surface from the 6th generation of airway branching to the alveoli, is the major site of lung disease caused by smoking. The focus of this study is to provide quantitative assessment of the SAE transcriptome in the resting st...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hackett NR,Butler MW,Shaykhiev R,Salit J,Omberg L,Rodriguez-Flores JL,Mezey JG,Strulovici-Barel Y,Wang G,Didon L,Crystal RG

更新日期：2012-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial phenotype may be profoundly affected by the physical arrangement of their genes in the genome. The Gram-negative species Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is a major etiologic agent of human periodontitis. Individual clonal types of A. actinomycetemcomitans may exhibit variable virulence and di...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kittichotirat W,Bumgarner R,Chen C

更新日期：2010-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the genome sequences of Euphausiacea (krill) although these crustaceans are abundant components of the pelagic ecosystems in all oceans and used for aquaculture and pharmaceutical industry. This study reports the results of an expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing project from differe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： De Pittà C,Bertolucci C,Mazzotta GM,Bernante F,Rizzo G,De Nardi B,Pallavicini A,Lanfranchi G,Costa R

更新日期：2008-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant-bacteria associations have been extensively studied for their potential in increasing crop productivity in a sustainable manner. Serratia marcescens is a species of Enterobacteriaceae found in a wide range of environments, including soil. RESULTS:Here we describe the genome sequencing and assessment o...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Matteoli FP,Passarelli-Araujo H,Reis RJA,da Rocha LO,de Souza EM,Aravind L,Olivares FL,Venancio TM

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Based on sequence similarity, the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPRs) can be subdivided into several subfamilies, the members of which often share similar ligands. The sequence data provided by the human genome project allows us to identify new GPRs by in silico homology screening, and to predi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wittenberger T,Hellebrand S,Munck A,Kreienkamp HJ,Schaller HC,Hampe W

更新日期：2002-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Foxtail millet [Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.], a crop of historical importance in China, has been adopted as a model crop for studying C-4 photosynthesis, stress biology and biofuel traits. Construction of a high density genetic map and identification of stable quantitative trait loci (QTL) lay the foundat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Fang X,Dong K,Wang X,Liu T,He J,Ren R,Zhang L,Liu R,Liu X,Li M,Huang M,Zhang Z,Yang T

更新日期：2016-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the etiological agent of porcine pleuropneumonia, a respiratory disease which causes great economic losses worldwide. Many virulence factors are involved in the pathogenesis, namely capsular polysaccharides, RTX toxins, LPS and many iron acquisition systems. In order to ide...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Deslandes V,Denicourt M,Girard C,Harel J,Nash JH,Jacques M

更新日期：2010-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studying functional divergences between paralogs that originated from genome duplication is a significant topic in investigating molecular evolution. Genes that exhibit basal level cyclic expression patterns including circadian and light responsive genes are important physiological regulators. Temporal shift...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lu Y,Boswell M,Boswell W,Salinas RY,Savage M,Reyes J,Walter S,Marks R,Gonzalez T,Medrano G,Warren WC,Schartl M,Walter RB

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insertion sequences (IS) are small transposable elements, commonly found in bacterial genomes. Identifying the location of IS in bacterial genomes can be useful for a variety of purposes including epidemiological tracking and predicting antibiotic resistance. However IS are commonly present in multiple copie...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hawkey J,Hamidian M,Wick RR,Edwards DJ,Billman-Jacobe H,Hall RM,Holt KE

更新日期：2015-09-03 00:00:00