Whole genome sequencing of Nontuberculous Mycobacterium (NTM) isolates from sputum specimens of co-habiting patients with NTM pulmonary disease and NTM isolates from their environment.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Association mapping approaches are dependent upon discovery and validation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). To further association studies in Anopheles gambiae we conducted a major resequencing programme, primarily targeting regions within or close to candidate genes for insecticide resistance. RE...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wilding CS,Weetman D,Steen K,Donnelly MJ

更新日期：2009-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial genomes possess varying GC content (total guanines (Gs) and cytosines (Cs) per total of the four bases within the genome) but within a given genome, GC content can vary locally along the chromosome, with some regions significantly more or less GC rich than on average. We have examined how the GC co...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bohlin J,Snipen L,Hardy SP,Kristoffersen AB,Lagesen K,Dønsvik T,Skjerve E,Ussery DW

更新日期：2010-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tea is one of the most popular non-alcoholic beverages worldwide. However, the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, is difficult to culture in vitro, to transform, and has a large genome, rendering little genomic information available. Recent advances in large-scale RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) provide a fast, cost-eff...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Shi CY,Yang H,Wei CL,Yu O,Zhang ZZ,Jiang CJ,Sun J,Li YY,Chen Q,Xia T,Wan XC

更新日期：2011-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant class of small single-stranded non-coding RNA molecules ranging from 18 to 24 nucleotides. They negatively regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level and play key roles in many biological processes, including skeletal development and cartilage maturation. In...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Desjardin C,Vaiman A,Mata X,Legendre R,Laubier J,Kennedy SP,Laloe D,Barrey E,Jacques C,Cribiu EP,Schibler L

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homologous recombination is the key process that generates genetic diversity and drives evolution. SPO11 protein triggers recombination by introducing DNA double stranded breaks at discreet areas of the genome called recombination hotspots. The hotspot locations are largely determined by the DNA binding spec...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Smagulova F,Brick K,Pu Y,Sengupta U,Camerini-Otero RD,Petukhova GV

更新日期：2013-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As crucial markers in identifying biological elements and processes in mammalian genomes, CpG islands (CGI) play important roles in DNA methylation, gene regulation, epigenetic inheritance, gene mutation, chromosome inactivation and nuclesome retention. The generally accepted criteria of CGI rely on: (a) %G+...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yu N,Guo X,Zelikovsky A,Pan Y

更新日期：2017-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Synthetic systems that use positive feedback have been developed to control human disease vectors and crop pests. The tTAV system, which has been deployed in several insect species, relies on a positive feedback circuit that can be inhibited via dietary tetracycline. Although insects carrying tTAV fail to su...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bryk J,Reeves RG,Reed FA,Denton JA

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small bioinformatics databases, unlike institutionally funded large databases, are vulnerable to discontinuation and many reported in publications are no longer accessible. This leads to irreproducible scientific work and redundant effort, impeding the pace of scientific progress. RESULTS:We describe a Web-...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tan TW,Xie C,De Silva M,Lim KS,Patro CP,Lim SJ,Govindarajan KR,Tong JC,Choo KH,Ranganathan S,Khan AM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max) is an excellent predictor of chronic disease morbidity and mortality risk. Guidelines recommend individuals undertake exercise training to improve VO2max for chronic disease reduction. However, there are large inter-individual differences between exercise training responses...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Williams CJ,Williams MG,Eynon N,Ashton KJ,Little JP,Wisloff U,Coombes JS

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Segmental duplications (SDs) are not evenly distributed along chromosomes. The reasons for this biased susceptibility to SD insertion are poorly understood. Accumulation of SDs is associated with increased genomic instability, which can lead to structural variants and genomic disorders such as the Williams-B...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ebert G,Steininger A,Weißmann R,Boldt V,Lind-Thomsen A,Grune J,Badelt S,Heßler M,Peiser M,Hitzler M,Jensen LR,Müller I,Hu H,Arndt PF,Kuss AW,Tebel K,Ullmann R

更新日期：2014-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to the high morbidity and mortality of fulminant hepatitis, early diagnosis followed by early effective treatment is the key for prognosis improvement. So far, little is known about the gene expression changes in the early stage of this serious illness. Identification of the genes related to the very ear...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen F,Zhu HH,Zhou LF,Li J,Zhao LY,Wu SS,Wang J,Liu W,Chen Z

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is a gamma coronavirus that severely affects the poultry industry worldwide. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), a subset of non-coding RNAs with a length of more than 200 nucleotides, have been recently recognized as pivotal factors in the pathogenesis of viral infections...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li H,Cui P,Fu X,Zhang L,Yan W,Zhai Y,Lei C,Wang H,Yang X

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our previous study had proved that nigericin could reduce colorectal cancer cell proliferation in dose- and time-dependent manners by targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling. To better elucidate its potential anti-cancer mechanism, two pancreatic cancer (PC) cell lines were exposed to increasing concentrations of ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Xu Z,Shen J,Hua S,Wan D,Chen Q,Han Y,Ren R,Liu F,Du Z,Guo X,Shi J,Zhi Q

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aging is affected by genetic and environmental factors, and cigarette smoking is strongly associated with accumulation of senescent cells. In this study, we wanted to identify genes that may potentially be beneficial for cell survival in response to cigarette smoke and thereby may contribute to development o...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Voic H,Li X,Jang JH,Zou C,Sundd P,Alder J,Rojas M,Chandra D,Randell S,Mallampalli RK,Tesfaigzi Y,Ryba T,Nyunoya T

更新日期：2019-01-09 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:Most members of the serpin family of proteins are potent, irreversible inhibitors of specific serine or cysteine proteinases. Inhibitory serpins are distinguished from members of other families of proteinase inhibitors by their metastable structure and unique suicide-substrate mechanism. Animal serpins exert...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Francis SE,Ersoy RA,Ahn JW,Atwell BJ,Roberts TH

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a previous genome-wide analysis of FXR binding to hepatic chromatin, we noticed that an extra nuclear receptor (NR) half-site was co-enriched close to the FXR binding IR-1 elements and we provided limited support that the monomeric LRH-1 receptor that binds to NR half-sites might function together with FX...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chong HK,Biesinger J,Seo YK,Xie X,Osborne TF

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endogenous small interfering (esi)RNAs repress mRNA levels and retrotransposon mobility in Drosophila somatic cells by poorly understood mechanisms. 21 nucleotide esiRNAs are primarily generated from retrotransposons and two inverted repeat (hairpin) loci in Drosophila culture cells in a Dicer2 dependent man...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Harrington AW,McKain MR,Michalski D,Bauer KM,Daugherty JM,Steiniger M

更新日期：2017-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Skin and its mucus are known to be the first barrier of defence against any external stressors. In fish, skin wounds frequently appear as a result of intensive culture and also some diseases have skin ulcers as external clinical signs. However, there is no information about the changes produced by the wounds...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Cordero H,Brinchmann MF,Cuesta A,Esteban MA

更新日期：2017-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xanthomonas citri pv. citri (Xcc) is a citrus canker causing Gram-negative bacteria. Currently, little is known about the biological and molecular responses of Xcc to low temperatures. RESULTS:Results depicted that low temperature significantly reduced growth and increased biofilm formation and unsaturated ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Liao JX,Li KH,Wang JP,Deng JR,Liu QG,Chang CQ

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the advent of high-throughput sequencing and the consequent reduction in the cost of sequencing, many organisms have been completely sequenced and most of their genes identified. It thus has become possible to represent whole genomes as ordered lists of gene identifiers and to study the rearrangem...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yue F,Zhang M,Tang J

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The papaya Y chromosome has undergone a degenerative expansion from its ancestral autosome, as a consequence of recombination suppression in the sex determining region of the sex chromosomes. The non-recombining feature led to the accumulation of repetitive sequences in the male- or hermaphrodite-specific re...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Na JK,Wang J,Ming R

更新日期：2014-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many bacteria can deliver pathogenic proteins (effectors) through type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) to eukaryotic cytoplasm, causing host diseases. The inherent property, such as sequence diversity and global scattering throughout the whole genome, makes it a big challenge to effectively identify the full se...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Wang Y,Wei X,Bao H,Liu SL

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With its genome sequence and other experimental attributes, Populus trichocarpa has become the model species for genomic studies of wood development. Wood is derived from secondary growth of tree stems, and begins with the development of a ring of vascular cambium in the young developing stem. The terminal r...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dharmawardhana P,Brunner AM,Strauss SH

更新日期：2010-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A-to-I RNA-editing mediated by ADAR (adenosine deaminase acting on RNA) enzymes that converts adenosine to inosine in RNA sequence can generate mutations and alter gene regulation in metazoans. Previous studies have shown that A-to-I RNA-editing plays vital roles in mouse embryogenesis. However, the RNA-edit...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Qiu S,Li W,Xiong H,Liu D,Bai Y,Wu K,Zhang X,Yang H,Ma K,Hou Y,Li B

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification and classification of highly similar microbial strains is a challenging issue in microbiology, ecology and evolutionary biology. Among various available approaches, gene content analysis is also at the core of microbial taxonomy. However, no threshold has been determined for grouping microorgn...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Tu Q,Lin L

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemical bioavailability is an important dose metric in environmental risk assessment. Although many approaches have been used to evaluate bioavailability, not a single approach is free from limitations. Previously, we developed a new genomics-based approach that integrated microarray technology and regressi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Gong P,Nan X,Barker ND,Boyd RE,Chen Y,Wilkins DE,Johnson DR,Suedel BC,Perkins EJ

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the model legume Medicago truncatula, the near saturation genome-wide Tnt1 insertion mutant population in ecotype R108 is a valuable tool in functional genomics studies. Forward genetic screens have identified many Tnt1 mutants defective in nodule development and symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF). However...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Veerappan V,Jani M,Kadel K,Troiani T,Gale R,Mayes T,Shulaev E,Wen J,Mysore KS,Azad RK,Dickstein R

更新日期：2016-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Boar taint is observed in a high proportion of uncastrated male pigs and is characterized by an unpleasant odor/flavor in cooked meat, primarily caused by elevated levels of androstenone and skatole. Androstenone is a steroid produced in the testis in parallel with biosynthesis of other sex steroids like tes...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Grindflek E,Lien S,Hamland H,Hansen MH,Kent M,van Son M,Meuwissen TH

更新日期：2011-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell lines are an indispensable tool in biomedical research and often used as surrogates for tissues. Although there are recognized important cellular and transcriptomic differences between cell lines and tissues, a systematic overview of the differences between the regulatory processes of a cell line and th...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lopes-Ramos CM,Paulson JN,Chen CY,Kuijjer ML,Fagny M,Platig J,Sonawane AR,DeMeo DL,Quackenbush J,Glass K

更新日期：2017-09-12 00:00:00