Transcriptional Regulation of Telomeric Expression Sites and Antigenic Variation in Trypanosomes.

abstract：:Thyroid gland presents a wide spectrum of tumours derived from follicular cells that range from well differentiated, papillary and follicular carcinoma (PTC and FTC, respectively), usually carrying a good prognosis, to the clinically aggressive, poorly differentiated (PDTC) and undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma (UTC)...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Soares P,Lima J,Preto A,Castro P,Vinagre J,Celestino R,Couto JP,Prazeres H,Eloy C,Máximo V,Sobrinho-Simões M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After completion of the human genome, genome-wide association studies were conducted to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cancer initiation and progression. Most of the studies identified SNPs that were located outside the coding region, and the odds ratios were too low to implement in cl...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Verma M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the recent years, glyoxalase pathway has been an active area of research in both human and plants. This pathway is reported to confer stress tolerance in plants, by modulating the glutathione homeostasis to achieve detoxification of a potent cytotoxic and mutagenic compound, methylglyoxal. The microRNAs (miRNAs) ar...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Tripathi A,Chacon O,Singla-Pareek SL,Sopory SK,Sanan-Mishra N

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of action of a huge amount of agents on biological systems is still unknown. One example where more questions than answers exist is covered by the term electromagnetic fields (EMF). Use of wireless communication, e.g. mobile phones, has been escalated in the last few years. Due to this fact, a lot of discussi...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Blankenburg M,Haberland L,Elvers HD,Tannert C,Jandrig B

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, understanding the regulatory behavior of cells has been pursued through independent analysis of the transcriptome or the proteome. Based on the central dogma, it was generally assumed that there exist a direct correspondence between mRNA transcripts and generated protein expressions. However, recent st...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Haider S,Pal R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nature, microbes do not exist in isolation but co-exist in a variety of ecological and biological environments and on various host organisms. Due to their close proximity, these microbes interact among themselves, and also with the hosts in both positive and negative manners. Moreover, these interactions may modula...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Ang KS,Lakshmanan M,Lee NR,Lee DY

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascomycete Trichoderma reesei is used for the production of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes in industrial scale. The interplay of the transactivator Xyr1 and the repressor Cre1 mainly regulates the expression of these enzymes. During induc-ing conditions, such as in the presence of sophorose, the transcription o...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Mello-de-Sousa TM,Rassinger A,Derntl C,Poças-Fonseca MJ,Mach RL,Mach-Aigner AR

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inheritance of genetic material requires that chromosomes segregate faithfully during cell division. Failure in this process can drive to aneuploidy phenomenon. Kinetochores are unique centromere macromolecular protein structures that attach chromosomes to the spindle for a proper movement and segregation. A unique ty...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Valdivia MM,Hamdouch K,Ortiz M,Astola A

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms that are capable of live and adapt in hostile habitats of different environmental factors such as extremes temperature, salinity, nutrient availability and pressure are known as extremophiles. Exposure to xenobiotic compounds is global concern influencing the world population as a health hazard. Hence t...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Shukla AK,Singh AK

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The important role of non coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in the cell has made their identification a critical issue in the biological research. However, traditional approaches such as PT-PCR and Northern Blot are costly. With recent progress in bioinformatics and computational prediction technology, the discovery of ncRNAs has ...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Wang C,Wei L,Guo M,Zou Q

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a membrane-bound, 170 kDa, protein tyrosine kinase that plays an important role in tumorigenesis. The EGFR gene, which is composed of over 168 kb of sequence, including a 123-kb first intron, is frequently amplified and rearranged in malignant gliomas leading to the expre...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Fenstermaker RA,Ciesielski MJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic disorders are a clinically diverse group of conditions caused by gain, loss or re-orientation of a genomic region containing dosage-sensitive genes. One class of genomic disorder is caused by hemizygous deletions resulting in haploinsufficiency of a single or, more usually, several genes. For example, the hete...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： O'Driscoll M

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of complete human and other metazoan genome sequences has greatly facilitated positioning and analysis of various genomic functional elements, with initial emphasis on coding sequences. However, complete functional maps of sequenced eukaryotic genomes should include also positions of all non-coding re...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Nikolaev LG,Akopov SB,Chernov IP,Sverdlov ED

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women outlive men, but life expectancy is not influenced by hormone replacement (estrogen + progestin) therapy. Estrogens appear to protect brain, cardiovascular tissues, and bone from aging. Estrogens regulate genes directly through binding to estrogen receptors alpha and beta (ERalpha and ERbeta) that are ligand-act...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Klinge CM

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers arise as a result of stepwise accumulation of mutations which may occur at the nucleotide level and/or the gross chromosomal level. Many cancers particularly those of the colon display a form of genomic instability which may facilitate and speed up tumor initiation and development. In few instances, a "mutator...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Abdel-Rahman WM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks are intrinsic, time-tracking systems that bestow upon organisms a survival advantage. Under natural conditions, organisms are trained to follow a 24-h cycle under environmental time cues such as light to maximize their physiological efficiency. The exact timing of this rhythm is established via cell-a...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Okamoto-Uchida Y,Izawa J,Nishimura A,Hattori A,Suzuki N,Hirayama J

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinogenesis involves the inactivation or inhibition of genes that function as tumor suppressors. Deletions, mutations, or epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes can lead to altered growth, differentiation, and apoptosis. DNA methylation and histone modifications are important epigenetic mechanisms of gene r...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Takai N,Narahara H

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence links genomic and epigenomic instability, including multiple fragile sites regions to neuropsychiatric diseases including schizophrenia and autism. Cancer is the only other disease associated with multiple fragile site regions, and genome and epigenomic instability is a characteristic of cancer. Re...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Smith CL,Bolton A,Nguyen G

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human chromosomal fragile sites are specific genomic regions which exhibit gaps or breaks on metaphase chromosomes following conditions of partial replication stress. Fragile sites often coincide with genes that are frequently rearranged or deleted in human cancers, with over half of cancer-specific translocations con...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Dillon LW,Burrow AA,Wang YH

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:The postgenomic era is featured by massive data collection and analyses from various large scale-omics studies. Despite the promising capability of systems biology and bioinformatics to handle large data sets, data interpretation, especially the translation of -omics data into clinical implications, has been...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Heng HH,Horne SD,Chaudhry S,Regan SM,Liu G,Abdallah BY,Ye CJ

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge on the genetics of movement disorders has advanced significantly in recent years. It is now recognized that disorders of the basal ganglia have genetic basis and it is suggested that molecular genetic data will provide clues to the pathophysiology of normal and abnormal motor control. Progress in molecular g...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Oczkowska A,Kozubski W,Lianeri M,Dorszewska J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analytical models usually assume an additive sex effect by treating it as a covariate to identify genetic associations with sex-influenced traits. Their underlying assumptions are violated by ignoring interactions of sex with genetic factors and heterogeneous genetic effects by sex. Methods to deal with the problems a...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Lee C

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling for the multiplicity effect is an essential part of determining statistical significance in large-scale single-locus association genome scans on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). Bonferroni adjustment is a commonly used approach due to its simplicity, but is conservative and has low power for large-s...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Saunders G,Fu G,Stevens JR

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly regenerative adult tissues are supported by rare populations of stem cells that continuously divide to self-renew and generate differentiated progeny. This process is tightly regulated by signals emanating from surrounding cells to fulfill the dynamic demands of the tissue. One of the hallmarks of aging is slow...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Gonen O,Toledano H

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant breeding has been very successful in developing improved varieties using conventional tools and methodologies. Nowadays, the availability of genomic tools and resources is leading to a new revolution of plant breeding, as they facilitate the study of the genotype and its relationship with the phenotype, in parti...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Pérez-de-Castro AM,Vilanova S,Cañizares J,Pascual L,Blanca JM,Díez MJ,Prohens J,Picó B

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laccases (p-diphenol oxidase, EC 1.10.3.2) are blue multicopper oxidases that catalyze the reduction of dioxygen to water, with a concomitant oxidation of small organic substrates. Since the description at the end of the nineteenth century of a factor catalyzing the rapid hardening of the latex of the Japanese lacquer...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Robert V,Mekmouche Y,Pailley PR,Tron T

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation plays vital roles in many fundamental biological processes. Reverse engineering of genome-wide regulatory networks from high-throughput transcriptomic data provides a promising way to characterize the global scenario of regulatory relationships between regulators and their targets. In this r...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Liu ZP

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid (mPTC) is defined by the WHO as a papillary thy-roid cancer measuring 10mm or less in diameter and it is nowadays a topic of intense debate among the members of the medical community due to its apparent "epidemic" rise. Although these tumors follow almost always an indolent clin...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Rodrigues AC,Penna G,Rodrigues E,Castro P,Sobrinho-Simões M,Soares P

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bcl-2 proteins are critical regulators of mitochondrial membrane permeability and the proapoptotic mitochondrial pathway. The family encloses pro- and antiapoptotic factors encoded by over 15 genes, which frequently give rise to alternative splice products. Antiapoptotic, proapoptotic multidomain, and proapoptotic BH3...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Eberle J,Hossini AM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the sequencing of the nuclear genome of Arabidopsis thaliana ten years ago, various large-scale analyses of gene function have been performed in this model species. In particular, the availability of collections of lines harbouring random T-DNA or transposon insertions, which include mutants for almost all of th...

journal_title：Current genomics

authors： Bolle C,Schneider A,Leister D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00