Genomic analyses of pneumococci reveal a wide diversity of bacteriocins - including pneumocyclicin, a novel circular bacteriocin.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Engrailed Homology 1 (EH1) motif is a small region, believed to have evolved convergently in homeobox and forkhead containing proteins, that interacts with the Drosophila protein groucho (C. elegans unc-37, Human Transducin-like Enhancers of Split). The small size of the motif makes its reliable identifi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Copley RR

更新日期：2005-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-translational glycosylation of the flagellin protein is relatively common among Gram-negative bacteria, and has been linked to several phenotypes, including flagellar biosynthesis and motility, biofilm formation, host immune evasion and manipulation and virulence. However to date, despite extensive phys...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： De Maayer P,Cowan DA

更新日期：2016-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Larval developmental patterns are extremely varied both between and within phyla, however the genetic mechanisms leading to this diversification are poorly understood. We assembled and compared the developmental transcriptomes for two sea biscuit species (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) with differing patterns of...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Armstrong AF,Grosberg RK

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diversification on the basis of utilization is a hallmark of Beta vulgaris (beet), as well as other crop species. Often, crop improvement and management activities are segregated by crop type, thus preserving unique genome diversity and organization. Full interfertility is typically retained in crosses betwe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Galewski P,McGrath JM

更新日期：2020-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Decapods are an order of crustaceans which includes shrimps, crabs, lobsters and crayfish. They occur worldwide and are of great scientific interest as well as being of ecological and economic importance in fisheries and aquaculture. However, our knowledge of their biology mainly comes from the group which i...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Nong W,Chai ZYH,Jiang X,Qin J,Ma KY,Chan KM,Chan TF,Chow BKC,Kwan HS,Wong CKC,Qiu JW,Hui JHL,Chu KH

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thousands of intragenic long interspersed element 1 sequences (LINE-1 elements or L1s) reside within genes. These intragenic L1 sequences are conserved and regulate the expression of their host genes. When L1 methylation is decreased, either through chemical induction or in cancer, the intragenic L1 transcri...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wanichnopparat W,Suwanwongse K,Pin-On P,Aporntewan C,Mutirangura A

更新日期：2013-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salinity is an abiotic stress that negatively affects soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] seed yield. Although a major gene for salt tolerance was identified and consistently mapped to chromosome (Chr.) 3 by linkage mapping studies, it does not fully explain genetic variability for tolerance in soybean germplas...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Do TD,Vuong TD,Dunn D,Clubb M,Valliyodan B,Patil G,Chen P,Xu D,Nguyen HT,Shannon JG

更新日期：2019-04-25 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:Evolution leaves an imprint in species through genetic change. At the molecular level, evolutionary changes can be explored by studying ratios of nucleotide substitutions. The interplay among molecular evolution, derived phenotypes, and ecological ranges can provide insights into adaptive radiations. Caecili...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Torres-Sánchez M,Gower DJ,Alvarez-Ponce D,Creevey CJ,Wilkinson M,San Mauro D

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next-Generation Sequencing has revolutionized our approach to ancient DNA (aDNA) research, by providing complete genomic sequences of ancient individuals and extinct species. However, the recovery of genetic material from long-dead organisms is still complicated by a number of issues, including post-mortem D...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Schubert M,Ginolhac A,Lindgreen S,Thompson JF,Al-Rasheid KA,Willerslev E,Krogh A,Orlando L

更新日期：2012-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salmonella enterica is a significant foodborne pathogen, which can be transmitted via several distinct routes, and reports on acquisition of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are increasing. To better understand the association between human Salmonella clinical isolates and the potential environmental/animal re...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pornsukarom S,van Vliet AHM,Thakur S

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant hospital pathogen, particularly due to the dissemination of highly multidrug resistant isolates. Genome data have revealed that A. baumannii is highly genetically diverse, which correlates with major variations seen at the phenotypic level. Thus far, comparative genom...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Eijkelkamp BA,Stroeher UH,Hassan KA,Paulsen IT,Brown MH

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Typhoid fever is an acute systemic infection of humans caused by Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi). In chronic carriers, the bacteria survive the harsh environment of the gallbladder by producing biofilm. The phenotype of S. Typhi biofilm cells is significantly different from t...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chin KCJ,Taylor TD,Hebrard M,Anbalagan K,Dashti MG,Phua KK

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The technological revolution in next-generation sequencing has brought unprecedented opportunities to study any organism of interest at the genomic or transcriptomic level. Transcriptome assembly is a crucial first step for studying the molecular basis of phenotypes of interest using RNA-Sequencing (RNA-Seq)...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Huang X,Chen XG,Armbruster PA

更新日期：2016-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cultivated watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus] is an important agriculture crop world-wide. The fruit of watermelon undergoes distinct stages of development with dramatic changes in its size, color, sweetness, texture and aroma. In order to better understand the genetic and m...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo S,Liu J,Zheng Y,Huang M,Zhang H,Gong G,He H,Ren Y,Zhong S,Fei Z,Xu Y

更新日期：2011-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) is one of the most important fruit trees cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas. However, a lack of transcriptomic and genomic information hinders our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying fruit set and fruit development in litchi. Shading during early fru...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li C,Wang Y,Huang X,Li J,Wang H,Li J

更新日期：2013-08-14 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:Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) are widely-used as experimental animals in biomedical research and are closely related to other laboratory macaques, such as cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis), and to humans, sharing a last common ancestor from about 25 million years ago. Although rhesus monkeys have be...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kim DS,Huh JW,Kim YH,Park SJ,Lee SR,Chang KT

更新日期：2010-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：MOTIVATION:Deciphering gene interaction networks (GINs) from time-course gene expression (TCGx) data is highly valuable to understand gene behaviors (e.g., activation, inhibition, time-lagged causality) at the system level. Existing methods usually use a global or local proximity measure to infer GINs from a single dat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liu Q,Song R,Li J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Characterizing large genomic variants is essential to expanding the research and clinical applications of genome sequencing. While multiple data types and methods are available to detect these structural variants (SVs), they remain less characterized than smaller variants because of SV diversity, complexity,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： English AC,Salerno WJ,Hampton OA,Gonzaga-Jauregui C,Ambreth S,Ritter DI,Beck CR,Davis CF,Dahdouli M,Ma S,Carroll A,Veeraraghavan N,Bruestle J,Drees B,Hastie A,Lam ET,White S,Mishra P,Wang M,Han Y,Zhang F,Stankie

更新日期：2015-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have become widely used as molecular markers in plant genetic studies due to their abundance, high allelic variation at each locus and simplicity to analyze using conventional PCR amplification. To study plants with unknown genome sequence, SSR markers from Expressed Sequence T...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ponyared P,Ponsawat J,Tongsima S,Seresangtakul P,Akkasaeng C,Tantisuwichwong N

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cottonseed is one of the most important raw materials for plant protein, oil and alternative biofuel for diesel engines. Understanding the complex genetic basis of cottonseed traits is requisite for achieving efficient genetic improvement of the traits. However, it is not yet clear about their genetic archit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Du X,Liu S,Sun J,Zhang G,Jia Y,Pan Z,Xiang H,He S,Xia Q,Xiao S,Shi W,Quan Z,Liu J,Ma J,Pang B,Wang L,Sun G,Gong W,Jenkins JN,Lou X,Zhu J,Xu H

更新日期：2018-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Auxin plays a critical role in inducing adventitious rooting in many plants. Indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) is the most widely employed auxin for adventitious rooting. However, the molecular mechanisms by which auxin regulate the process of adventitious rooting are less well known. RESULTS:The RNA-Seq data ana...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li SW,Shi RF,Leng Y,Zhou Y

更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:'Systems-wide' approaches such as microarray RNA-profiling are ideally suited to the study of the complex overlapping responses of plants to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, commercial microarrays are only available for a limited number of plant species and development costs are so substantial as to be ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Davey MW,Graham NS,Vanholme B,Swennen R,May ST,Keulemans J

更新日期：2009-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcription factors (TFs) play essential roles during plant development and response to environmental stresses. However, the relationships among transcription factors, cis-acting elements and target gene expression under endo- and exogenous stimuli have not been systematically characterized. RESULTS:Here,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chow CN,Chiang-Hsieh YF,Chien CH,Zheng HQ,Lee TY,Wu NY,Tseng KC,Hou PF,Chang WC

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene, is lethal. In contrast, dystrophin-deficient mdx mice recover due to effective regeneration of affected muscle tissue. To characterize the molecular processes associated with regeneration, we compared gene expression levels in hin...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Turk R,Sterrenburg E,de Meijer EJ,van Ommen GJ,den Dunnen JT,'t Hoen PA

更新日期：2005-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genomic architecture of adaptive traits remains poorly understood in non-model plants. Various approaches can be used to bridge this gap, including the mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) in pedigrees, and genetic association studies in non-structured populations. Here we present results on the geno...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Prunier J,Pelgas B,Gagnon F,Desponts M,Isabel N,Beaulieu J,Bousquet J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compromised intestinal barrier (CIB) has been associated with many enteropathies, including colorectal cancer (CRC) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). We hypothesized that CIB could lead to increased host-derived contents including epithelial cells into the gut, change its physio-metabolic properties, and...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jiang P,Lai S,Wu S,Zhao XM,Chen WH

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Panax notoginseng (Burk) F.H. Chen is important medicinal plant of the Araliacease family. Triterpene saponins are the bioactive constituents in P. notoginseng. However, available genomic information regarding this plant is limited. Moreover, details of triterpene saponin biosynthesis in the Panax species ar...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Luo H,Sun C,Sun Y,Wu Q,Li Y,Song J,Niu Y,Cheng X,Xu H,Li C,Liu J,Steinmetz A,Chen S

更新日期：2011-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome-scale metabolic models (GSMM) integrating transcriptomics have been widely used to study cancer metabolism. This integration is achieved through logical rules that describe the association between genes, proteins, and reactions (GPRs). However, current gene-to-reaction formulation lacks the stoichiome...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Marín de Mas I,Torrents L,Bedia C,Nielsen LK,Cascante M,Tauler R

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00