abstract：:Non-coding genetic variants/mutations can play functional roles in the cell by disrupting regulatory interactions between transcription factors (TFs) and their genomic target sites. For most human TFs, a myriad of DNA-binding models are available and could be used to predict the effects of DNA mutations on TF binding....

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Martin V,Zhao J,Afek A,Mielko Z,Gordân R

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:PrankWeb is an online resource providing an interface to P2Rank, a state-of-the-art method for ligand binding site prediction. P2Rank is a template-free machine learning method based on the prediction of local chemical neighborhood ligandability centered on points placed on a solvent-accessible protein surface. Points...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jendele L,Krivak R,Skoda P,Novotny M,Hoksza D

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Our web server, PIZSA (http://cospi.iiserpune.ac.in/pizsa), assesses the likelihood of protein-protein interactions by assigning a Z Score computed from interface residue contacts. Our score takes into account the optimal number of atoms that mediate the interaction between pairs of residues and whether these contacts...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Roy AA,Dhawanjewar AS,Sharma P,Singh G,Madhusudhan MS

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Immune Epitope Database Analysis Resource (IEDB-AR, http://tools.iedb.org/) is a companion website to the IEDB that provides computational tools focused on the prediction and analysis of B and T cell epitopes. All of the tools are freely available through the public website and many are also available through a RE...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dhanda SK,Mahajan S,Paul S,Yan Z,Kim H,Jespersen MC,Jurtz V,Andreatta M,Greenbaum JA,Marcatili P,Sette A,Nielsen M,Peters B

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing application of gene expression profiling demands powerful yet user-friendly bioinformatics tools to support systems-level data understanding. NetworkAnalyst was first released in 2014 to address the key need for interpreting gene expression data within the context of protein-protein interaction (PPI) netwo...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhou G,Soufan O,Ewald J,Hancock REW,Basu N,Xia J

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:As more and more high-throughput data has been produced by next-generation sequencing, it is still a challenge to classify RNA transcripts into protein-coding or non-coding, especially for poorly annotated species. We upgraded our original coding potential calculator, CNCI (Coding-Non-Coding Index), to CNIT (Coding-No...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Guo JC,Fang SS,Wu Y,Zhang JH,Chen Y,Liu J,Wu B,Wu JR,Li EM,Xu LY,Sun L,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:MS²PIP is a data-driven tool that accurately predicts peak intensities for a given peptide's fragmentation mass spectrum. Since the release of the MS²PIP web server in 2015, we have brought significant updates to both the tool and the web server. In addition to the original models for CID and HCD fragmentation, we hav...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gabriels R,Martens L,Degroeve S

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in genomic sequencing have enormous potential to revolutionize personalized medicine, however distinguishing disease-causing from benign variants remains a challenge. The increasing number of human genome and exome sequences available has revealed areas where unfavourable variation is removed through purifyin...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Silk M,Petrovski S,Ascher DB

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:How DNA sequence variation influences gene expression remains poorly understood. Diploid organisms have two homologous copies of their DNA sequence in the same nucleus, providing a rich source of information about how genetic variation affects a wealth of biochemical processes. However, few computational methods have ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chou SP,Danko CG

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA structural complexity and flexibility present a challenge for computational modeling efforts. Experimental information and bioinformatics data can be used as restraints to improve the accuracy of RNA tertiary structure prediction. Regarding utilization of restraints, the fundamental questions are: (i) What is the ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wang J,Williams B,Chirasani VR,Krokhotin A,Das R,Dokholyan NV

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Message-specific translational regulation mechanisms shape the biogenesis of multimeric oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) enzyme in mitochondria from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. These mechanisms, driven mainly by the action of mRNA-specific translational activators, help to coordinate synthesis of OXPHOS cata...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mays JN,Camacho-Villasana Y,Garcia-Villegas R,Perez-Martinez X,Barrientos A,Fontanesi F

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant viruses have extraordinarily large dsDNA genomes, and exceptionally, they encode various components of the translation apparatus, including tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and translation factors. Here, we focused on the elongation factor 1 (EF1) family of viral translational GTPases (trGTPases), using computa...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zinoviev A,Kuroha K,Pestova TV,Hellen CUT

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenotypic adjustments of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are commonly inferred from the analysis of transcript abundance. While mechanisms of transcriptional regulation have been extensively analysed in mycobacteria, little is known about mechanisms that shape the transcriptome by regulating RNA decay rates. The aim o...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Płociński P,Macios M,Houghton J,Niemiec E,Płocińska R,Brzostek A,Słomka M,Dziadek J,Young D,Dziembowski A

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to androgen receptor (AR)-targeted therapies in prostate cancer (PC) is a major clinical problem. A key mechanism of treatment resistance in advanced PC is the generation of alternatively spliced forms of the AR termed AR variants (AR-Vs) that are refractory to targeted agents and drive tumour progression. ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kounatidou E,Nakjang S,McCracken SRC,Dehm SM,Robson CN,Jones D,Gaughan L

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Abasic (AP) sites, the most common DNA lesions are frequently associated with double strand breaks (DSBs) and can pose a block to the final ligation. In many prokaryotes, nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) repair of DSBs relies on a two-component machinery constituted by the ring-shaped DNA-binding Ku that recruits the ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： de Ory A,Carabaña C,de Vega M

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:PRMT5 is an arginine methyltransferase that accounts for the vast majority of the symmetric methylation in cells. PRMT5 exerts its function when complexed with MEP50/WDR77. This activity is often elevated in cancer cells and correlates with poor prognosis, making PRMT5 a therapeutic target. To investigate the PRMT5 si...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gao G,Zhang L,Villarreal OD,He W,Su D,Bedford E,Moh P,Shen J,Shi X,Bedford MT,Xu H

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome biogenesis (RiBi) is an extremely energy intensive process that is critical for gene expression. It is thus highly regulated, including through the tightly coordinated expression of over 200 RiBi genes by positive and negative transcriptional regulators. We investigated RiBi regulation as cells initiated meio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cheng Z,Brar GA

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel system for efficient and specific targeted delivery of large nucleic acids to and into cells. Plasmid DNA and core histones were assembled to chromatin by salt gradient dialysis and subsequently connected to bispecific antibody derivatives (bsAbs) via a nucleic acid binding peptide bridge. The result...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Killian T,Buntz A,Herlet T,Seul H,Mundigl O,Längst G,Brinkmann U

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An elongation cycle of a transcribing RNA polymerase (RNAP) usually consists of multiple kinetics steps, so there exist multiple kinetic checkpoints where non-cognate nucleotides can be selected against. We conducted comprehensive free energy calculations on various nucleotide insertions for viral T7 RNAP employing al...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Long C,E C,Da LT,Yu J

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Next-generation sequencing technologies have made it possible to carry out transcriptome analysis at the single-cell level. Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data provide insights into cellular dynamics, including intercellular heterogeneity as well as inter- and intra-cellular fluctuations in gene expression tha...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kubo M,Nishiyama T,Tamada Y,Sano R,Ishikawa M,Murata T,Imai A,Lang D,Demura T,Reski R,Hasebe M

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In most cells, transcriptionally inactive heterochromatin is preferentially localized in the nuclear periphery and transcriptionally active euchromatin is localized in the nuclear interior. Different cell types display characteristic chromatin distribution patterns, which change dramatically during cell differentiatio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bergqvist C,Niss F,Figueroa RA,Beckman M,Maksel D,Jafferali MH,Kulyté A,Ström AL,Hallberg E

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeric regions of the genome are inherently difficult-to-replicate due to their propensity to generate DNA secondary structures and form nucleoprotein complexes that can impede DNA replication fork progression. Precisely how cells respond to DNA replication stalling within a telomere remains poorly characterized, l...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jørgensen SW,Liberti SE,Larsen NB,Lisby M,Mankouri HW,Hickson ID

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial genomics has revolutionized our understanding of the microbial tree of life; however, mapping and visualizing the distribution of functional traits across bacteria remains a challenge. Here, we introduce AnnoTree-an interactive, functionally annotated bacterial tree of life that integrates taxonomic, phyloge...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mendler K,Chen H,Parks DH,Lobb B,Hug LA,Doxey AC

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-stranded DNA-binding proteins (SSBs) support DNA replication by protecting single-stranded DNA from nucleolytic attack, preventing intra-strand pairing events and playing many other regulatory roles within the replisome. Recent developments in single-molecule approaches have led to a revised picture of the repl...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Spenkelink LM,Lewis JS,Jergic S,Xu ZQ,Robinson A,Dixon NE,van Oijen AM

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are the most abundant class of post-transcriptional regulators and have been well studied in Gram-negative bacteria. Little is known about the functions and mechanisms of sRNAs in high GC Gram-positive bacteria including Mycobacterium and Streptomyces. Here, we performed an in-d...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mai J,Rao C,Watt J,Sun X,Lin C,Zhang L,Liu J

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF2 mRNA-binding protein 1 (IMP1) is a key regulator of messenger RNA (mRNA) metabolism and transport in organismal development and, in cancer, its mis-regulation is an important component of tumour metastasis. IMP1 function relies on the recognition of a diverse set of mRNA targets that is mediated by the combinator...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dagil R,Ball NJ,Ogrodowicz RW,Hobor F,Purkiss AG,Kelly G,Martin SR,Taylor IA,Ramos A

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes of intermediary metabolism are often reported to have moonlighting functions as RNA-binding proteins and have regulatory roles beyond their primary activities. Human serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) is essential for the one-carbon metabolism, which sustains growth and proliferation in normal and tumour c...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Guiducci G,Paone A,Tramonti A,Giardina G,Rinaldo S,Bouzidi A,Magnifico MC,Marani M,Menendez JA,Fatica A,Macone A,Armaos A,Tartaglia GG,Contestabile R,Paiardini A,Cutruzzolà F

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple pathways counteract DNA replication stress to prevent genomic instability and tumorigenesis. The recently identified human SDE2 is a genome surveillance protein regulated by PCNA, a DNA clamp and processivity factor at replication forks. Here, we show that SDE2 cleavage after its ubiquitin-like domain generat...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rageul J,Park JJ,Jo U,Weinheimer AS,Vu TTM,Kim H

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of signalling pathways converge on p53 to induce different cellular stress responses that aim to promote cell cycle arrest and repair or, if the damage is too severe, to induce irreversible senescence or apoptosis. The differentiation of p53 activity towards specific cellular outcomes is tightly regulat...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Haronikova L,Olivares-Illana V,Wang L,Karakostis K,Chen S,Fåhraeus R

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in single-cell RNA-sequencing techniques reveal the existence of distinct cell subpopulations. Identification of transcription factors (TFs) that define the identity of these subpopulations poses a challenge. Here, we postulate that identity depends on background subpopulations, and is determined by a synergi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Okawa S,Del Sol A

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of the fidelity of gene expression is crucial to understand cell homeostasis. Here we present a highly sensitive method for the systematic Quantification of Rare Amino acid Substitutions (QRAS) using absolute quantification by targeted mass spectrometry after chromatographic enrichment of peptides with miss...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Garofalo R,Wohlgemuth I,Pearson M,Lenz C,Urlaub H,Rodnina MV

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:P53-binding protein 1 (53BP1) mediates DNA repair pathway choice and promotes checkpoint activation. Chromatin marks induced by DNA double-strand breaks and recognized by 53BP1 enable focal accumulation of this multifunctional repair factor at damaged chromatin. Here, we unveil an additional level of regulation of 53B...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Salvador Moreno N,Liu J,Haas KM,Parker LL,Chakraborty C,Kron SJ,Hodges K,Miller LD,Langefeld C,Robinson PJ,Lelièvre SA,Vidi PA

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Uridylation-dependent RNA decay is a widespread eukaryotic pathway modulating RNA homeostasis. Terminal uridylyltransferases (Tutases) add untemplated uridyl residues to RNA 3'-ends, marking them for degradation by the U-specific exonuclease Dis3L2. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Cid1 uridylates a variety of RNAs. In t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chung CZ,Jaramillo JE,Ellis MJ,Bour DYN,Seidl LE,Jo DHS,Turk MA,Mann MR,Bi Y,Haniford DB,Duennwald ML,Heinemann IU

更新日期：2019-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs play important roles in many biological processes. Their aberrant expression can have oncogenic or tumor suppressor function directly participating to carcinogenesis, malignant transformation, invasiveness and metastasis. Indeed, miRNA profiles can distinguish not only between normal and cancerous tissue but...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cantini L,Bertoli G,Cava C,Dubois T,Zinovyev A,Caselle M,Castiglioni I,Barillot E,Martignetti L

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) comprise a class of small RNAs best known for suppressing transposable elements in germline tissues. The vector mosquito Aedes aegypti encodes seven PIWI genes, four of which are somatically expressed. This somatic piRNA pathway generates piRNAs from viral RNA during infection with cytop...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Joosten J,Miesen P,Taşköprü E,Pennings B,Jansen PWTC,Huynen MA,Vermeulen M,Van Rij RP

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippo pathway is involved in tumorigenesis, and its regulation in cytosol has been extensively studied, but its regulatory mechanisms in the nuclear are not clear. In the current study, using a FBS-inducing model following serum starvation, we identified KDM3A, a demethylase of histone H3K9me1/2, as a positive regulat...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wang HY,Long QY,Tang SB,Xiao Q,Gao C,Zhao QY,Li QL,Ye M,Zhang L,Li LY,Wu M

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA can directly bind to purine-rich DNA via Hoogsteen base pairing, forming a DNA:RNA triple helical structure that anchors the RNA to specific sequences and allows guiding of transcription regulators to distinct genomic loci. To unravel the prevalence of DNA:RNA triplexes in living cells, we have established a fast ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sentürk Cetin N,Kuo CC,Ribarska T,Li R,Costa IG,Grummt I

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Six 1',5'-anhydrohexitol uridine triphosphates were synthesized with aromatic substitutions appended via a carboxamide linker to the 5-position of their bases. An improved method for obtaining such 5-substituted hexitol nucleosides and nucleotides is described. The incorporation profile of the nucleotide analogues int...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Renders M,Dumbre S,Abramov M,Kestemont D,Margamuljana L,Largy E,Cozens C,Vandenameele J,Pinheiro VB,Toye D,Frère JM,Herdewijn P

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) engage PIWI proteins to silence transposons and promote germ cell development in animals. In diverse species, piRNA biogenesis occurs near the mitochondrial surface, and involves mitochondrial membrane-anchored factors. In mice, two cytoplasmic PIWI proteins, MIWI and MILI, receive proce...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ding D,Liu J,Dong K,Melnick AF,Latham KE,Chen C

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue specificity of mitochondrial tRNA mutations remains largely elusive. In this study, we demonstrated the deleterious effects of tRNAThr 15927G>A mutation that contributed to pathogenesis of coronary artery disease. The m.15927G>A mutation abolished the highly conserved base-pairing (28C-42G) of anticodon ste...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jia Z,Zhang Y,Li Q,Ye Z,Liu Y,Fu C,Cang X,Wang M,Guan MX

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00