Steps toward broad-spectrum therapeutics: discovering virulence-associated genes present in diverse human pathogens.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial genomic sequences are known to be variable. Comparative analyses of mitochondrial genomes can reveal the nature and extent of their variation. RESULTS:Draft mitochondrial genomes of 16 Tremella fuciformis isolates (TF01-TF16) were assembled from Illumina and PacBio sequencing data. Mitochondri...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Deng Y,Zhang X,Xie B,Lin L,Hsiang T,Lin X,Lin Y,Zhang X,Ma Y,Miao W,Ming R

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Celiac disease (CD) is caused by an uncontrolled immune response to gluten, a heterogeneous mixture of wheat storage proteins. The CD-toxicity of these proteins and their derived peptides is depending on the presence of specific T-cell epitopes (9-mer peptides; CD epitopes) that mediate the stimulation of HL...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Salentijn EM,Mitea DC,Goryunova SV,van der Meer IM,Padioleau I,Gilissen LJ,Koning F,Smulders MJ

更新日期：2012-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tandem mass spectrometry allows biologists to identify and quantify protein samples in the form of digested peptide sequences. When performing peptide identification, spectral library search is more sensitive than traditional database search but is limited to peptides that have been previously identified. An...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lin YM,Chen CT,Chang JM

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the known importance of somatic cells for oocyte developmental competence acquisition, the overall mechanisms underlying the acquisition of full developmental competence are far from being understood, especially in non-mammalian species. The present work aimed at identifying key molecular signals fro...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Charlier C,Montfort J,Chabrol O,Brisard D,Nguyen T,Le Cam A,Richard-Parpaillon L,Moreews F,Pontarotti P,Uzbekova S,Chesnel F,Bobe J

更新日期：2012-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The antitumor drug daunorubicin exerts some of its cytotoxic effects by binding to DNA and inhibiting the transcription of different genes. We analysed this effect in vivo at the transcriptome level using the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model and sublethal (IC40) concentrations of the drug to...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rojas M,Casado M,Portugal J,Piña B

更新日期：2008-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycosphaerella fijiensis is a ascomycete that causes Black Sigatoka in bananas. Recently, the M. fijiensis genome was sequenced. Repetitive sequences are ubiquitous components of fungal genomes. In most genomic analyses, repetitive sequences are associated with transposable elements (TEs). TEs are dispersed ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Santana MF,Silva JC,Batista AD,Ribeiro LE,da Silva GF,de Araújo EF,de Queiroz MV

更新日期：2012-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fish under intensive culture conditions are exposed to a variety of acute and chronic stressors, including high rearing densities, sub-optimal water quality, and severe thermal fluctuations. Such stressors are inherent in aquaculture production and can induce physiological responses with adverse effects on t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sánchez CC,Weber GM,Gao G,Cleveland BM,Yao J,Rexroad CE 3rd

更新日期：2011-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity, the excessive accumulation of body fat, is a highly heritable and genetically heterogeneous disorder. The complex, polygenic basis for the disease consisting of a network of different gene variants is still not completely known. RESULTS:In the current study we generated a BAC library of the obese-p...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Vogel H,Jähnert M,Stadion M,Matzke D,Scherneck S,Schürmann A

更新日期：2017-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A variety of species and experimental designs have been used to study genetic influences on alcohol dependence, ethanol response, and related traits. Integration of these heterogeneous data can be used to produce a ranked target gene list for additional investigation. RESULTS:In this study, we performed a u...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhao Z,Guo AY,van den Oord EJ,Aliev F,Jia P,Edenberg HJ,Riley BP,Dick DM,Bettinger JC,Davies AG,Grotewiel MS,Schuckit MA,Agrawal A,Kramer J,Nurnberger JI Jr,Kendler KS,Webb BT,Miles MF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In the classification of Mass Spectrometry (MS) proteomics data, peak detection, feature selection, and learning classifiers are critical to classification accuracy. To better understand which methods are more accurate when classifying data, some publicly available peak detection algorithms for Matrix assi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu Q,Sung AH,Qiao M,Chen Z,Yang JY,Yang MQ,Huang X,Deng Y

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dermal papilla cells (DPCs), the "signaling center" of hair follicle (HF), delicately master continual growth of hair in mammals including cashmere, the fine fiber annually produced by secondary HF embedded in cashmere goat skins. Such unparalleled capacity bases on their exquisite character in instructing t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ma S,Wang Y,Zhou G,Ding Y,Yang Y,Wang X,Zhang E,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies on the paper mulberry are mainly focused on the medicated and pharmacology, fiber quality, leaves feed development, little is known about its mechanism of adaptability to abiotic stress. Physiological measurement, transcriptomics and proteomic analysis were employed to understand its response to...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Peng X,Teng L,Yan X,Zhao M,Shen S

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of cancer-related death of men worldwide. There is an urgent need to develop novel biomarkers for PCa prognosis and diagnosis in the post prostate-specific antigen era. Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) play essential roles in many physiological processes and ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cui W,Qian Y,Zhou X,Lin Y,Jiang J,Chen J,Zhao Z,Shen B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to rapidly map millions of oligonucleotide fragments to a reference genome is crucial to many high throughput genomic technologies. RESULTS:We propose an intuitive and efficient algorithm, titled extreme MApping of OligoNucleotide (xMAN), to rapidly map millions of oligonucleotide fragments to a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li W,Carroll JS,Brown M,Liu xS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Harvest index (HI), the ratio of grain yield to total biomass, is considered as a measure of biological success in partitioning assimilated photosynthate to the harvestable product. While crop production can be dramatically improved by increasing HI, the underlying molecular genetic mechanism of HI in rapese...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luo X,Ma C,Yue Y,Hu K,Li Y,Duan Z,Wu M,Tu J,Shen J,Yi B,Fu T

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biocontrol of bacterial pathogens by bacteriophages (phages) represents a promising strategy. Vibrio alginolyticus, a gram-negative bacterium, is a notorious pathogen responsible for the loss of economically important farmed marine animals. To date, few V. alginolyticus phages have been successfully isolated...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luo P,Yun L,Li Y,Tian Y,Liu Q,Huang W,Hu C

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advances in whole genome profiling have revolutionized the cancer research field, but at the same time have raised new bioinformatics challenges. For next generation sequencing (NGS), these include data storage, computational costs, sequence processing and alignment, delineating appropriate statistical measu...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rodriguez BA,Frankhouser D,Murphy M,Trimarchi M,Tam HH,Curfman J,Huang R,Chan MW,Lai HC,Parikh D,Ball B,Schwind S,Blum W,Marcucci G,Yan P,Bundschuh R

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most common forms of cancer associated with the presence of precancerous oral leukoplakia. Given the poor prognosis associated with oral leukoplakia, and the difficulties in distinguishing it from cancer lesions, there is an urgent need to elucidate the molec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Z,Feng X,Liu X,Jiang L,Zeng X,Ji N,Li J,Li L,Chen Q

更新日期：2009-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas is an important fishery resource that is sensitive to temperature fluctuations. Thus, it has evolved a protection mechanism against heat stress by increasing the expression of the gene coding for heat shock protein (HSP) 70 under elevated temperatures. In other animals, h...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu Y,Li L,Huang B,Wang W,Zhang G

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The σ(54) subunit controls a unique class of promoters in bacteria. Such promoters, without exception, require enhancer binding proteins (EBPs) for transcription initiation. Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, a model bacterium for sulfate reduction studies, has a high number of EBPs, more than most sequen...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kazakov AE,Rajeev L,Chen A,Luning EG,Dubchak I,Mukhopadhyay A,Novichkov PS

更新日期：2015-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ocean acidification (OA), a change in ocean chemistry due to the absorption of atmospheric CO2 into surface oceans, challenges biogenic calcification in many marine organisms. Ocean acidification is expected to rapidly progress in polar seas, with regions of the Southern Ocean expected to experience severe O...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Johnson KM,Hofmann GE

更新日期：2017-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The golden birdwing butterfly (Troides aeacus formosanus) is a rarely observed species in Taiwan. Recently, a typical symptom of nuclear polyhedrosis was found in reared T. aeacus larvae. From the previous Kimura-2 parameter (K-2-P) analysis based on the nucleotide sequence of three genes in this isolate, po...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Huang YF,Chen TH,Chang ZT,Wang TC,Lee SJ,Kim JC,Kim JS,Chiu KP,Nai YS

更新日期：2019-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Malaria is the most important parasitic disease in the world with approximately two million people dying every year, mostly due to Plasmodium falciparum infection. During its complex life cycle in the Anopheles vector and human host, the parasite requires the coordinated and modulated expression of diverse s...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bischoff E,Vaquero C

更新日期：2010-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ascomycete fungus Zymoseptoria tritici (synonyms: Mycosphaerella graminicola, Septoria tritici) is a major pathogen of wheat that causes the economically important foliar disease Septoria tritici blotch. Despite its importance as a pathogen, little is known about the reaction of this fungus to light. To ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： McCorison CB,Goodwin SB

更新日期：2020-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhesus macaques serve a critical role in the study of human biomedical research. While both Indian and Chinese rhesus macaques are commonly used, genetic differences between these two subspecies affect aspects of their behavior and physiology, including response to simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infecti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ferguson B,Street SL,Wright H,Pearson C,Jia Y,Thompson SL,Allibone P,Dubay CJ,Spindel E,Norgren RB Jr

更新日期：2007-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dimension reduction is a critical issue in the analysis of microarray data, because the high dimensionality of gene expression microarray data set hurts generalization performance of classifiers. It consists of two types of methods, i.e. feature selection and feature extraction. Principle component analysis ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li GZ,Bu HL,Yang MQ,Zeng XQ,Yang JY

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The accurate determination of the genomic coordinates for a given gene - its gene model - is of vital importance to the utility of its annotation, and the accuracy of bioinformatic analyses derived from it. Currently-available methods of computational gene prediction, while on the whole successful, frequentl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dunne MP,Kelly S

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In understanding the evolutionary process of vertebrates, cyclostomes (hagfishes and lamprey) occupy crucial positions. Resolving molecular phylogenetic relationships of cyclostome genes with gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates) genes is indispensable in deciphering both the species tree and gene trees. However,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Qiu H,Hildebrand F,Kuraku S,Meyer A

更新日期：2011-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood-born miRNA signatures have recently been reported for various tumor diseases. Here, we compared the miRNA signature in Wilms tumor patients prior and after preoperative chemotherapy according to SIOP protocol 2001. RESULTS:We did not find a significant difference between miRNA signature of both groups...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schmitt J,Backes C,Nourkami-Tutdibi N,Leidinger P,Deutscher S,Beier M,Gessler M,Graf N,Lenhof HP,Keller A,Meese E

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HPA axis plays a major role in physiological homeostasis. It is also involved in stress and adaptive response to the environment. In farm animals in general and specifically in pigs, breeding strategies have highly favored production traits such as lean growth rate, feed efficiency and prolificacy at the cos...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sautron V,Terenina E,Gress L,Lippi Y,Billon Y,Larzul C,Liaubet L,Villa-Vialaneix N,Mormède P

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00