Diversity of the cell-wall associated genomic island of the archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whilst being closely related to the model actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2), S. lividans 66 differs from it in several significant and phenotypically observable ways, including antibiotic production. Previous comparative gene hybridization studies investigating such differences have used low-density...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lewis RA,Laing E,Allenby N,Bucca G,Brenner V,Harrison M,Kierzek AM,Smith CP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression profiling studies of mastitis in ruminants have provided key but fragmented knowledge for the understanding of the disease. A systematic combination of different expression profiling studies via meta-analysis techniques has the potential to test the extensibility of conclusions based on singl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Genini S,Badaoui B,Sclep G,Bishop SC,Waddington D,Pinard van der Laan MH,Klopp C,Cabau C,Seyfert HM,Petzl W,Jensen K,Glass EJ,de Greeff A,Smith HE,Smits MA,Olsaker I,Boman GM,Pisoni G,Moroni P,Castiglioni B,Cremon

更新日期：2011-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The numerous classes of repeats often impede the assembly of genome sequences from the short reads provided by new sequencing technologies. We demonstrate a simple and rapid means to ascertain the repeat structure and total size of a bacterial or archaeal genome without the need for assembly by directly anal...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Williams D,Trimble WL,Shilts M,Meyer F,Ochman H

更新日期：2013-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two-component systems (TCSs) are modular and diverse signalling pathways, involving a stimulus-responsive transfer of phosphoryl groups from transmitter to partner receiver domains. TCS gene and domain organisation are both potentially informative regarding biological function, interaction partnerships and m...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Williams RH,Whitworth DE

更新日期：2010-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Host-specific environmental factors induce changes in Bacillus anthracis gene transcription during infection. A global transcription regulator, CodY, plays a pivotal role in regulating central metabolism, biosynthesis, and virulence in B. anthracis. In this study, we utilized RNA-sequencing to assess changes...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kim SK,Jung KH,Chai YG

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:BAC-based physical maps provide for sequencing across an entire genome or a selected sub-genomic region of biological interest. Such a region can be approached with next-generation whole-genome sequencing and assembly as if it were an independent small genome. Using the minimum tiling path as a guide, specif...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Feltus FA,Saski CA,Mockaitis K,Haiminen N,Parida L,Smith Z,Ford J,Staton ME,Ficklin SP,Blackmon BP,Cheng CH,Schnell RJ,Kuhn DN,Motamayor JC

更新日期：2011-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:About 6 million Americans suffer from heart failure and 70% of heart failure cases are caused by myocardial infarction (MI). Following myocardial infarction, increased cytokines induce two major types of macrophages: classically activated macrophages which contribute to extracellular matrix destruction and a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Y,Yang T,Ma Y,Halade GV,Zhang J,Lindsey ML,Jin YF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drought is a lifestyle disease. Plant metabolomics has been exercised for understanding the fine-tuning of the potential pathways to surmount the adverse effects of drought stress. A broad spectrum of morphological and metabolic responses from seven Triticeae species including wild types with different droug...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ullah N,Yüce M,Neslihan Öztürk Gökçe Z,Budak H

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the predominant usage of short-read sequencing to date, most bacterial genome sequences reported in the last years remain at the draft level. This precludes certain types of analyses, such as the in-depth analysis of genome plasticity. RESULTS:Here we report the finalized genome sequence of the envir...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Pfeiffer F,Zamora-Lagos MA,Blettinger M,Yeroslaviz A,Dahl A,Gruber S,Habermann BH

更新日期：2018-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important cereal crop for dryland areas in the United States and for small-holder farmers in Africa. Natural variation of sorghum grain composition (protein, fat, and starch) between accessions can be used for crop improvement, but the genetic controls are still un...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Rhodes DH,Hoffmann L Jr,Rooney WL,Herald TJ,Bean S,Boyles R,Brenton ZW,Kresovich S

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies show that galanin neurons in ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO-Gal) are essential for sleep regulation. Here, we explored the transcriptional regulation of the VLPO-Gal neurons in sleep by comparing their transcriptional responses between sleeping mice and those kept awake, sacrificed at ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guo X,Gao X,Keenan BT,Zhu J,Sarantopoulou D,Lian J,Galante RJ,Grant GR,Pack AI

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nucleoli, including their proteomes, of higher eukaryotes have been extensively studied, while few studies about the nucleoli of the lower eukaryotes - protists were reported. Giardia lamblia, a protist with the controversy of whether it is an extreme primitive eukaryote or just a highly evolved parasite...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Feng JM,Yang CL,Tian HF,Wang JX,Wen JF

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) causes a multisystemic disease responsible for severe losses in salmon aquaculture. Better understanding of factors that explain variations in resistance between individuals and families is essential for development of strategies for disease control. To approach this, we...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jørgensen SM,Afanasyev S,Krasnov A

更新日期：2008-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transmembrane β-barrel proteins are a special class of transmembrane proteins which play several key roles in human body and diseases. Due to experimental difficulties, the number of transmembrane β-barrel proteins with known structures is very small. Over the years, a number of learning-based methods have b...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tran Vdu T,Chassignet P,Sheikh S,Steyaert JM

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Short non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) perform their cellular functions in ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes, which are also essential for maintaining the stability of the ncRNAs. Depletion of individual protein components of non-coding ribonucleoprotein (ncRNP) particles by RNA interference (RNAi) may therefore aff...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Aftab MN,He H,Skogerbø G,Chen R

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements constitute a significant fraction of plant genomes. The PIF/Harbinger superfamily includes DNA transposons (class II elements) carrying terminal inverted repeats and producing a 3 bp target site duplication upon insertion. The presence of an ORF coding for the DDE/DDD transposase, requi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Grzebelus D,Lasota S,Gambin T,Kucherov G,Gambin A

更新日期：2007-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a large family of endogenous, non-coding RNAs, about 22 nucleotides long, which regulate gene expression through sequence-specific base pairing with target mRNAs. Extensive studies have shown that miRNA expression in the skin changes remarkably during distinct stages of the hair cycle ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yuan C,Wang X,Geng R,He X,Qu L,Chen Y

更新日期：2013-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression mainly through translational repression of target mRNA molecules. More than 2700 human miRNAs have been identified and some are known to be associated with disease phenotypes and to display tissue-specific patterns of expression. ME...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wake C,Labadorf A,Dumitriu A,Hoss AG,Bregu J,Albrecht KH,DeStefano AL,Myers RH

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The process of alternative splicing provides a unique mechanism by which eukaryotes are able to produce numerous protein products from the same gene. Heightened variability in the proteome has been thought to potentiate increased behavioral complexity and response flexibility to environmental stimuli, thus c...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lang AS,Austin SH,Harris RM,Calisi RM,MacManes MD

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is the model organism that serves as a reference for studies in algal genomics and physiology. It is of special interest in the study of the evolution of regulatory pathways from algae to higher plants. Additionally, it has recently gained attention as a potential source for bio-fue...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Romero-Campero FJ,Perez-Hurtado I,Lucas-Reina E,Romero JM,Valverde F

更新日期：2016-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromosome 17q21.31 contains a common inversion polymorphism of approximately 900 kb in populations with European ancestry. Two divergent MAPT haplotypes, H1 and H2 are described with distinct linkage disequilibrium patterns across the region reflecting the inversion status at this locus. The MAPT H1 haploty...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： de Jong S,Chepelev I,Janson E,Strengman E,van den Berg LH,Veldink JH,Ophoff RA

更新日期：2012-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sand fly saliva plays an important role in blood feeding and Leishmania transmission as it was shown to increase parasite virulence. On the other hand, immunity to salivary components impedes the establishment of infection. Therefore, it is most desirable to gain a deeper insight into the composition of sali...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hostomská J,Volfová V,Mu J,Garfield M,Rohousová I,Volf P,Valenzuela JG,Jochim RC

更新日期：2009-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small insertions and deletions (InDels) constitute the second most abundant class of genetic variants and have been found to be associated with many traits and diseases. The present study reports on the detection and characterisation of about 883 K high quality InDels from the whole-genome analysis of severa...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Boschiero C,Gheyas AA,Ralph HK,Eory L,Paton B,Kuo R,Fulton J,Preisinger R,Kaiser P,Burt DW

更新日期：2015-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A fundamental requirement for genomic studies is the availability of genetic material of good quality and quantity. The desired quantity and quality are often hard to obtain when target DNA is composed of complex mixtures of relatively short DNA fragments. Here, we sought to develop a method to representativ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shoaib M,Baconnais S,Mechold U,Le Cam E,Lipinski M,Ogryzko V

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The tropical green-lipped mussel Perna viridis is a common biomonitor throughout the Indo-Pacific region that is used for environmental monitoring and ecotoxicological investigations. However, there is limited molecular data available regarding this species. We sought to establish a global transcriptome data...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Leung PT,Ip JC,Mak SS,Qiu JW,Lam PK,Wong CK,Chan LL,Leung KM

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most microbial eukaryotes are uncultivated and thus poorly suited to standard genomic techniques. This is the case for Polykrikos lebouriae, a dinoflagellate with ultrastructurally aberrant plastids. It has been suggested that these plastids stem from a novel symbiosis with either a diatom or haptophyte, but...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gavelis GS,White RA,Suttle CA,Keeling PJ,Leander BS

更新日期：2015-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the underlying genetic structure of human populations is of fundamental interest to both biological and social sciences. Advances in high-throughput genotyping technology have markedly improved our understanding of global patterns of human genetic variation. The most widely used methods for col...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Maróti Z,Boldogkői Z,Tombácz D,Snyder M,Kalmár T

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondary structure in the target is a property not usually considered in software applications for design of optimal custom oligonucleotide probes. It is frequently assumed that eliminating self-complementarity, or screening for secondary structure in the probe, is sufficient to avoid interference with hybr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ratushna VG,Weller JW,Gibas CJ

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genomic organisation of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) varies greatly between different vertebrates. In mammals, the classical MHC consists of a large number of linked genes (e.g. greater than 200 in humans) with predominantly immune function. In some birds, it consists of only a small number...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sambrook JG,Figueroa F,Beck S

更新日期：2005-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cadmium (Cd) is a severe detrimental environmental pollutant. To adapt to Cd-induced deleterious effects, plants have evolved sophisticated defence mechanisms. In this study, a genome-wide transcriptome analysis was performed to identify the mechanisms of Cd tolerance using two barley genotypes with distinct...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cao F,Chen F,Sun H,Zhang G,Chen ZH,Wu F

更新日期：2014-07-19 00:00:00