Cis regulatory motifs and antisense transcriptional control in the apicomplexan Theileria parva.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the causative pathogen of hepatitis E, a global public health concern. HEV comprises 8 genotypes with a wide host range and geographic distribution. This study aims to determine the genetic factors influencing the molecular adaptive changes of HEV open reading frames (ORFs) and...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Baha S,Behloul N,Liu Z,Wei W,Shi R,Meng J

更新日期：2019-10-29 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:Genome-wide association studies have revealed associations between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and phenotypes such as disease symptoms and drug tolerance. To address the small sample size for rare variants, association studies tend to group gene or pathway level variants and evaluate the effect on...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Hasegawa T,Kojima K,Kawai Y,Misawa K,Mimori T,Nagasaki M

更新日期：2016-09-21 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:Carboxylesterase is a multifunctional superfamily and ubiquitous in all living organisms, including animals, plants, insects, and microbes. It plays important roles in xenobiotic detoxification, and pheromone degradation, neurogenesis and regulating development. Previous studies mainly used Dipteran Drosophi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yu QY,Lu C,Li WL,Xiang ZH,Zhang Z

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Codon usage analysis has been a classical topic for decades and has significances for studies of evolution, mRNA translation, and new gene discovery, etc. While the codon usage varies among different members of the plant kingdom, indicating the necessity for species-specific study, this work has mostly been ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Feng C,Xu CJ,Wang Y,Liu WL,Yin XR,Li X,Chen M,Chen KS

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Ion Torrent PGM is a popular benchtop sequencer that shows promise in replacing conventional Sanger sequencing as the gold standard for mutation detection. Despite the PGM's reported high accuracy in calling single nucleotide variations, it tends to generate many false positive calls in detecting inserti...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yeo ZX,Wong JC,Rozen SG,Lee AS

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein Disulfide Isomerases are thiol oxidoreductase chaperones from thioredoxin superfamily with crucial roles in endoplasmic reticulum proteostasis, implicated in many diseases. The family prototype PDIA1 is also involved in vascular redox cell signaling. PDIA1 is coded by the P4HB gene. While forced chan...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kajihara D,Hon CC,Abdullah AN,Wosniak J Jr,Moretti AIS,Poloni JF,Bonatto D,Hashimoto K,Carninci P,Laurindo FRM

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pantoea ananatis is found in a wide range of natural environments, including water, soil, as part of the epi- and endophytic flora of various plant hosts, and in the insect gut. Some strains have proven effective as biological control agents and plant-growth promoters, while other strains have been implicate...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： De Maayer P,Chan WY,Rubagotti E,Venter SN,Toth IK,Birch PR,Coutinho TA

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human zinc finger protein 191 (ZNF191) is a member of the SCAN domain family of Krüppel-like zinc finger transcription factors. ZNF191 shows 94% identity to its mouse homologue zinc finger protein 191(Zfp191), which is the most highly conserved among the human-mouse SCAN family member orthologues pairs. ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li J,Chen X,Gong X,Liu Y,Feng H,Qiu L,Hu Z,Zhang J

更新日期：2009-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single-cell (sc) sequencing performs unbiased profiling of individual cells and enables evaluation of less prevalent cellular populations, often missed using bulk sequencing. However, the scale and the complexity of the sc datasets poses a great challenge in its utility and this problem is further exacerbate...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kumar N,Golhar R,Sharma KS,Holloway JL,Sarangi S,Neuhaus I,Walsh AM,Pitluk ZW

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:gammadelta T cells differ from alphabeta T cells with regard to the types of antigen with which their T cell receptors interact; gammadelta T cell antigens are not necessarily peptides nor are they presented on MHC. Cattle are considered a "gammadelta T cell high" species indicating they have an increased pr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Herzig CT,Lefranc MP,Baldwin CL

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short noncoding RNAs (approximately 22 nucleotides in length) that play important roles in colorectal cancer (CRC) progression through silencing gene expression. Numerous dysregulated miRNAs simultaneously participate in the process of colon cancer development. However, the detailed me...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen WS,Chen TW,Yang TH,Hu LY,Pan HW,Leung CM,Li SC,Ho MR,Shu CW,Liu PF,Yu SY,Tu YT,Lin WC,Wu TT,Tsai KW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is involved in several chronic inflammatory diseases including periodontitis, which causes loss of the gingival tissue and alveolar bone supporting the teeth. We have previously shown that tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) induces PGE2 synthesis in gingival fibroblasts. In this s...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Båge T,Lindberg J,Lundeberg J,Modéer T,Yucel-Lindberg T

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing evidence has shown that circular RNAs (circRNAs) are involved in neurodegenerative disorders, but their roles in neurological toxoplasmosis are yet to know. This study examined miRNA and circRNA expressions in mouse brain following oral infection with T. gondii Pru strain. RESULTS:Total RNA extra...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhou CX,Ai K,Huang CQ,Guo JJ,Cong H,He SY,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Modern broiler chickens exhibit very rapid growth and high feed efficiency compared to unselected chicken breeds. The improved production efficiency in modern broiler chickens was achieved by the intensive genetic selection for meat production. This study was designed to investigate the genetic alterations a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kong BW,Hudson N,Seo D,Lee S,Khatri B,Lassiter K,Cook D,Piekarski A,Dridi S,Anthony N,Bottje W

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although an adverse early-life environment has been linked to an increased risk of developing the metabolic syndrome, the molecular mechanisms underlying altered disease susceptibility as well as their relevance to humans are largely unknown. Importantly, emerging evidence suggests that these effects operate...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Emerald BS,Chng K,Masuda S,Sloboda DM,Vickers MH,Kambadur R,Gluckman PD

更新日期：2011-10-16 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bifidobacteria are commonly found as part of the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of a broad range of hosts, where their presence is positively correlated with the host's health status. In this study, we assessed the genomes of thirteen representatives of Bifidobacterium breve, which is not onl...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bottacini F,O'Connell Motherway M,Kuczynski J,O'Connell KJ,Serafini F,Duranti S,Milani C,Turroni F,Lugli GA,Zomer A,Zhurina D,Riedel C,Ventura M,van Sinderen D

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At least 18 replication-dependent histone H2a genes are distributed in 3 Hist gene clusters on different chromosomes of the mouse genome. In this analysis we designed specific PCR primers for each histone H2a transcript and studied the expression levels and patterns using quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR). In ad...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Nishida H,Suzuki T,Ookawa H,Tomaru Y,Hayashizaki Y

更新日期：2005-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of poultry as a global source of protein underpins the chicken genome and associated SNP data as key tools in selecting and breeding healthy robust birds with improved disease resistance. SNPs affecting host peptides involved in the innate defences tend to be rare, but three non-synonymous SNP...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cadwell K,Niranji SS,Armstrong VL,Mowbray CA,Bailey R,Watson KA,Hall J

更新日期：2017-08-18 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:DNA methylation is associated with aberrant gene expression in cancer, and has been shown to correlate with therapeutic response and disease prognosis in some types of cancer. We sought to investigate the biological significance of DNA methylation in lung cancer. RESULTS:We integrated the gene expression pr...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lin SH,Wang J,Saintigny P,Wu CC,Giri U,Zhang J,Menju T,Diao L,Byers L,Weinstein JN,Coombes KR,Girard L,Komaki R,Wistuba II,Date H,Minna JD,Heymach JV

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A systems toxicology investigation comparing and integrating transcriptomic and proteomic results was conducted to develop holistic effects characterizations for the wildlife bird model, Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) dosed with the explosives degradation product 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene (2A-DNT)....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gust KA,Nanduri B,Rawat A,Wilbanks MS,Ang CY,Johnson DR,Pendarvis K,Chen X,Quinn MJ Jr,Johnson MS,Burgess SC,Perkins EJ

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:About 10% of cases of male infertility are due to the presence of microdeletions within the long arm of the Y chromosome (Yq). Despite the large literature covering this critical issue, very little is known about the pathogenic mechanism leading to spermatogenesis disruption in patients carrying these microd...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gatta V,Raicu F,Ferlin A,Antonucci I,Scioletti AP,Garolla A,Palka G,Foresta C,Stuppia L

更新日期：2010-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oceans cover more than 70% of the earth's surface and are critical for the homeostasis of the environment. Among the components of the ocean ecosystem, zooplankton play vital roles in energy and matter transfer through the system. Despite their importance, understanding of zooplankton biodiversity is limited...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Machida RJ,Hashiguchi Y,Nishida M,Nishida S

更新日期：2009-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human neuroblastoma cell line, SH-SY5Y, is a commonly used cell line in studies related to neurotoxicity, oxidative stress, and neurodegenerative diseases. Although this cell line is often used as a cellular model for Parkinson's disease, the relevance of this cellular model in the context of Parkinson's...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Krishna A,Biryukov M,Trefois C,Antony PM,Hussong R,Lin J,Heinäniemi M,Glusman G,Köglsberger S,Boyd O,van den Berg BH,Linke D,Huang D,Wang K,Hood L,Tholey A,Schneider R,Galas DJ,Balling R,May P

更新日期：2014-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:V(D)J recombinations in lymphocytes are essential for immunological diversity. They are also useful markers of pathologies. In leukemia, they are used to quantify the minimal residual disease during patient follow-up. However, the full breadth of lymphocyte diversity is not fully understood. RESULTS:We prop...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Giraud M,Salson M,Duez M,Villenet C,Quief S,Caillault A,Grardel N,Roumier C,Preudhomme C,Figeac M

更新日期：2014-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is clinically defined in terms of motor symptoms. These are preceded by prodromal non-motor manifestations that prove the systemic nature of the disease. Identifying genes and pathways altered in living patients provide new inf...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Calligaris R,Banica M,Roncaglia P,Robotti E,Finaurini S,Vlachouli C,Antonutti L,Iorio F,Carissimo A,Cattaruzza T,Ceiner A,Lazarevic D,Cucca A,Pangher N,Marengo E,di Bernardo D,Pizzolato G,Gustincich S

更新日期：2015-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sugarcane is an important crop worldwide for sugar production and increasingly, as a renewable energy source. Modern cultivars have polyploid, large complex genomes, with highly unequal contributions from ancestral genomes. Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are the single largest components of ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Domingues DS,Cruz GM,Metcalfe CJ,Nogueira FT,Vicentini R,Alves Cde S,Van Sluys MA

更新日期：2012-04-16 00:00:00