Identification and interrogation of combinatorial histone modifications.

abstract：:Sertoli cells are central and essential coordinators of spermatogenesis. Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that miRNAs participate in the regulation of Sertoli cell growth. However, the functions and the regulatory mechanisms of miRNAs in Sertoli cells of domestic animals remain largely unknown. Here we report th...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Luo H,Peng F,Weng B,Tang X,Chen Y,Yang A,Chen B,Ran M

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Some candidate genes have been robustly reported to be associated with complex traits, such as the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene on body mass index (BMI), and the fibroblast growth factor 5 (FGF5) gene on blood pressure levels. It is of interest to know whether an environmental factor (E) can attenuate or...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Lin WY,Lin YS,Chan CC,Liu YL,Tsai SJ,Kuo PH

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Melastoma malabathricum is an important medicinal and landscape plant that is globally distributed in temperate and subtropical regions. However, available genomic information for the entire Melastomataceae family is notably limited. In view of the application potential of floral parts in secondary metabolite extracti...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zheng T,Lin Y,Wang L,Lin Q,Lin X,Chen Z,Lin Z

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Tumor stem cells play important roles in the survival, proliferation, metastasis and recurrence of tumors. We aimed to identify new prognostic biomarkers for lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) based on the cancer stem cell theory. Methods:RNA-seq data and relevant clinical information were downloaded from ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Liao Y,Xiao H,Cheng M,Fan X

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:For all organisms promoting protein homeostasis is a high priority in order to optimize cellular functions and resources. However, there is accumulating evidence that aging leads to a collapse in protein homeostasis and widespread non-disease protein aggregation. This review examines these findings and discusses the p...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： David DC

更新日期：2012-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational methylation of H3 lysine 36 (H3K36) is an important epigenetic marker that majorly contributes to the functionality of the chromatin. This mark is interpreted by the cell in several crucial biological processes including gene transcription and DNA methylation. The homeostasis of H3K36 methylation is...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zaghi M,Broccoli V,Sessa A

更新日期：2020-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common irregular heart rhythm which influence approximately 1-2% of the general population. As a potential factor for ischemic stroke, AF could also cause heart failure. The mechanisms behind AF pathogenesis is complex and remains elusive. As a new category of non-coding RNAs (ncRN...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Jiang S,Guo C,Zhang W,Che W,Zhang J,Zhuang S,Wang Y,Zhang Y,Liu B

更新日期：2019-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cereals are a staple food for many people around the world; however, they are also a major dietary source of toxic metal(loid)s. Many agricultural regions throughout the world are contaminated with toxic metal(loid)s, which can accumulate to high levels in the grains of cereals cultivated in these regions, posing seri...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Deng F,Yu M,Martinoia E,Song WY

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are recognized as an important class of regulatory molecules involved in a variety of biological functions. However, the regulatory mechanisms of long non-coding genes expression are still poorly understood. The characterization of the genomic features of lncRNAs is crucial to get insigh...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Abou Alezz M,Celli L,Belotti G,Lisa A,Bione S

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodent models have been extensively used to investigate the cause and mechanisms behind Alzheimer's disease. Despite many years of intensive research using these models we still lack a detailed understanding of the molecular events that lead to neurodegeneration. Although zebrafish lack the complexity of advanced cogn...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Newman M,Ebrahimie E,Lardelli M

更新日期：2014-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is an RNA virus that is often associated with respiratory disease in cattle. MicroRNAs have been proposed as indicators of exposure to respiratory pathogens. The objective of this study was to identify microRNAs in cattle that had been challenged with a non-cytopathic field strain of...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Taxis TM,Bauermann FV,Ridpath JF,Casas E

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental exposures vary by timing, severity, and frequency and may have a number of deleterious effects throughout the life course. The period of in utero development, for example, is one of the most crucial stages of development during which adverse environmental exposures can both alter the growth and developme...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Maccani MA,Knopik VS

更新日期：2012-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:People want to live long, healthy lives. Previous surveys suggest very limited interest in much longer lifespans, but we show that stipulating good health changes responses to favor longer lives by an order of magnitude. Advances in aging research hold out hope for greatly slowed aging with associated good health. Und...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Donner Y,Fortney K,Calimport SR,Pfleger K,Shah M,Betts-LaCroix J

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:For datasets of gastric cancer collected by TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) and GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus) repositories, we applied a bioinformatics approach to obtain expression data for the ISLR (immunoglobulin superfamily containing leucine-rich repeat) gene, which is highly expressed in gastric cancer tissues an...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Li S,Zhao W,Sun M

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) interacting with target RNAs play essential roles in RNA metabolism at the post-transcription level. Perturbations of RBPs can accelerate cancer development and cause dysregulation of the immune cell function and activity leading to evade immune destruction of cancer cells. However, few stu...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Hu G,Jiang Q,Liu L,Peng H,Wang Y,Li S,Tang Y,Yu J,Yang J,Liu Z

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ adaptation to climate change will be critical for the persistence of many ectotherm species due to their relative lack of dispersal capacity. Climate change is causing increases in both the mean and the variance of environmental temperature, each of which may act as agents of selection on different traits. Imp...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Logan ML,Cox CL

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The multifactorial pathogenesis of coronary atherosclerotic lesion formation has been investigated in a swine model of high cholesterol diet induced atherogenesis and data processed by a systems approach. METHODS:Farm pigs were fed on standard or high cholesterol diet of 8 and 16 weeks duration. Plasma assessm...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Pelosi G,Rocchiccioli S,Cecchettini A,Viglione F,Puntoni M,Parodi O,Capobianco E,Trivella MG

更新日期：2014-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Galápagos Islands are known to have experienced significant drought during the Quaternary. The loss of mesophytic upland habitats has been suggested to underlie the relatively lower endemism of upland compared with lowland plant assemblages. A fossil pollen record spanning the last 26,000 years from an upland bog ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Collins AF,Bush MB,Sachs JP

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs repressing gene expression. They contribute to many physiological processes and pathologies. Consequently, strategies for manipulation of the miRNA pathway are of interest as they could provide tools for experimental or therapeutic interventions. One of such tools could be small chemi...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Brustikova K,Sedlak D,Kubikova J,Skuta C,Solcova K,Malik R,Bartunek P,Svoboda P

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of eusociality ("true sociality") in several insect lineages represents one of the most successful evolutionary adaptations in the animal kingdom in terms of species richness and global biomass. In contrast to solitary insects, eusocial insects evolved a set of unique behavioral and physiological traits ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Søvik E,Bloch G,Ben-Shahar Y

更新日期：2015-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant, misfolded, and mislocalized proteins are often toxic to cells and result in many human diseases. All proteins and their mRNA templates are subject to quality control. There are several distinct mechanisms that control the quality of mRNAs and proteins during translation at the ribosome. mRNA quality control ...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Karamyshev AL,Karamysheva ZN

更新日期：2018-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of non-protein-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in genomes is a crucial task for not only molecular cell biology but also bioinformatics. Secondary structures of ncRNAs are employed as a key feature of ncRNA analysis since biological functions of ncRNAs are deeply related to their secondary structures. Although the...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Okada Y,Saito Y,Sato K,Sakakibara Y

更新日期：2011-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immune response is triggered by pathogen components, like lipopolysaccharides (LPS) of gram-negative bacteria. LPS initiates Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling, which involves mitogen activated protein kinases (MAPK) and nuclear factor kappa B (NFκB) in different pathway branches and ultimately induces infla...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Ostareck DH,Ostareck-Lederer A

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined whether smoking and drinking affect sperm quality and the DNA methylation of the repetitive element LINE-1, MEST, P16, H19, and GNAS in sperm. Semen samples were obtained from 143 male residents in a minority-inhabited district of Guizhou province in southwest China. Quantitative DNA methyla...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Zhang W,Li M,Sun F,Xu X,Zhang Z,Liu J,Sun X,Zhang A,Shen Y,Xu J,Miao M,Wu B,Yuan Y,Huang X,Shi H,Du J

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a poorly prognostic disease currently lacking effective cure. Understanding the molecular mechanism that underlies the initiation and progression of CRPC will provide new strategies for treating this deadly disease. One candidate target is the fibroblast growth fac...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Wang C,Liu Z,Ke Y,Wang F

更新日期：2019-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This review attempts to collate all the studies performed in India or comprising a population originating from India and to find out if there is an association between the HLA (human leucocyte antigen) type of individual and development of Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) subsequent to med...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Shanbhag SS,Koduri MA,Kannabiran C,Donthineni PR,Singh V,Basu S

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of differentially expressed genes is a common task in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) studies. Various methods based on both bulk-cell and single-cell approaches are in current use. Due to the unique distributional characteristics of single-cell data, it is important to compare these methods with rigorous st...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Mou T,Deng W,Gu F,Pawitan Y,Vu TN

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hox genes are major regulators of embryonic development. One of their most conserved functions is to coordinate the formation of specific body structures along the anterior-posterior (AP) axis in Bilateria. This architectural role was at the basis of several morphological innovations across bilaterian evolution. In th...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Merabet S,Galliot B

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The global prevalence of metabolic disorders, such as obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease, is dramatically increasing. Both genetic and environmental factors are well-known contributors to the development of these diseases and therefore, the study of epigenetics can provide additional mechanistic insight. Dietar...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Asif S,Morrow NM,Mulvihill EE,Kim KH

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The arrangement of chromatin within interphase nuclei seems to be caused by topological constraints and related to gene expression depending on tissue and developmental stage. In yeast and animals it was found that homologous and heterologous chromatin association are required to realize faithful expression and DNA re...

journal_title：Frontiers in genetics

authors： Schubert V,Rudnik R,Schubert I

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00