abstract：:The replication of the genome is a highly organized process, both spatially and temporally. Although a lot is known on the composition of the basic replication machinery, how its activity is regulated is mostly unknown. Several chromatin properties have been proposed as regulators, but a potential role of the nuclear ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Heinz KS,Casas-Delucchi CS,Török T,Cmarko D,Rapp A,Raska I,Cardoso MC

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex carbohydrates of plants are the main food sources of animals and microbes, and serve as promising renewable feedstock for biofuel and biomaterial production. Carbohydrate active enzymes (CAZymes) are the most important enzymes for complex carbohydrate metabolism. With an increasing number of plant and plant-as...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhang H,Yohe T,Huang L,Entwistle S,Wu P,Yang Z,Busk PK,Xu Y,Yin Y

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in secondary metabolites such as RiPPs (ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides) is increasing worldwide. To facilitate the research in this field we have updated our mining web server. BAGEL4 is faster than its predecessor and is now fully independent from ORF-calling. Gene clusters...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： van Heel AJ,de Jong A,Song C,Viel JH,Kok J,Kuipers OP

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:ComplexContact (http://raptorx2.uchicago.edu/ComplexContact/) is a web server for sequence-based interfacial residue-residue contact prediction of a putative protein complex. Interfacial residue-residue contacts are critical for understanding how proteins form complex and interact at residue level. When receiving a pa...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zeng H,Wang S,Zhou T,Zhao F,Li X,Wu Q,Xu J

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The small subunit ribosomal RNA gene (16S rRNA) has been successfully used to catalogue and study the diversity of prokaryotic species and communities but it offers limited resolution at the species and finer levels, and cannot represent the whole-genome diversity and fluidity. To overcome these limitations, we introd...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rodriguez-R LM,Gunturu S,Harvey WT,Rosselló-Mora R,Tiedje JM,Cole JR,Konstantinidis KT

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological networks play increasingly important roles in omics data integration and systems biology. Over the past decade, many excellent tools have been developed to support creation, analysis and visualization of biological networks. However, important limitations remain: most tools are standalone programs, the majo...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhou G,Xia J

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical simulations of protein flexibility remain computationally expensive, especially for large proteins. A few years ago, we developed a fast method for predicting protein structure fluctuations that uses a single protein model as the input. The method has been made available as the CABS-flex web server and appli...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kuriata A,Gierut AM,Oleniecki T,Ciemny MP,Kolinski A,Kurcinski M,Kmiecik S

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins perform biological functions through cascading interactions with each other by forming protein complexes. As a result, interactions among proteins, called protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are not completely free from selection constraint during evolution. Therefore, the identification and analysis of PPI c...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kwon D,Lee D,Kim J,Lee J,Sim M,Kim J

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are highly dynamic molecules, whose function is intrinsically linked to their molecular motions. Despite the pivotal role of protein dynamics, their computational simulation cost has led to most structure-based approaches for assessing the impact of mutations on protein structure and function relying upon sta...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rodrigues CH,Pires DE,Ascher DB

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Advancement in the field of computational research has made it possible for the in silico methods to offer significant benefits to both regulatory needs and requirements for risk assessments, and pharmaceutical industry to assess the safety profile of a chemical. Here, we present ProTox-II that incorporates molecular ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Banerjee P,Eckert AO,Schrey AK,Preissner R

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:HotSpot Wizard is a web server used for the automated identification of hotspots in semi-rational protein design to give improved protein stability, catalytic activity, substrate specificity and enantioselectivity. Since there are three orders of magnitude fewer protein structures than sequences in bioinformatic datab...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sumbalova L,Stourac J,Martinek T,Bednar D,Damborsky J

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations generate a wealth of information related to the dynamics of proteins. If properly analyzed, this information can lead to new insights regarding protein function and assist wet-lab experiments. Aiming to identify interactions between individual amino acid residues and the r...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Serçinoglu O,Ozbek P

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing availability of multi-omic platforms poses new challenges to data analysis. Joint visualization of multi-omics data is instrumental in better understanding interconnections across molecular layers and in fully utilizing the multi-omic resources available to make biological discoveries. We present here P...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hernández-de-Diego R,Tarazona S,Martínez-Mira C,Balzano-Nogueira L,Furió-Tarí P,Pappas GJ Jr,Conesa A

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterns in biological sequences frequently signify interesting features in the underlying molecule. Many tools exist to search for well-known patterns. Less support is available for exploratory analysis, where no well-defined patterns are known yet. PatScanUI (https://patscan.secondarymetabolites.org/) provides a hig...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Blin K,Wohlleben W,Weber T

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Initially identified as a factor involved in tyrosine kinase receptor signaling, Grb10-interacting GYF protein 2 (GIGYF2) has later been shown to interact with the 5' cap-binding protein 4EHP as part of a translation repression complex, and to mediate post-transcriptional repression of tethered reporter mRNAs. A curre...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Amaya Ramirez CC,Hubbe P,Mandel N,Béthune J

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of the flap endonuclease FEN1 has been observed in a variety of cancer types and is a marker for poor prognosis. To better understand the cellular consequences of FEN1 overexpression we utilized a model of its Saccharomyces cerevisiae homolog, RAD27. In this system, we discovered that flap endonuclease ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Becker JR,Gallo D,Leung W,Croissant T,Thu YM,Nguyen HD,Starr TK,Brown GW,Bielinsky AK

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymine DNA glycosylase (TDG) is a DNA repair enzyme that excises a variety of mismatched or damaged nucleotides (nts), e.g. dU, dT, 5fC and 5caC. TDG is shown to play essential roles in maintaining genome integrity and correctly programming epigenetic modifications through DNA demethylation. After locating the lesion...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Da LT,Yu J

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are approximately 22 nucleotide (nt) long and play important roles in post-transcriptional regulation in both plants and animals. In animals, precursor (pre-) miRNAs are ∼70 nt hairpins produced by Drosha cleavage of long primary (pri-) miRNAs in the nucleus. Exportin-5 (XPO5) transports pre-miRNAs ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sheng P,Fields C,Aadland K,Wei T,Kolaczkowski O,Gu T,Kolaczkowski B,Xie M

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpressed in colon carcinoma-1 (OCC-1) is one of the earliest annotated long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in colorectal cancer (CRC); however, its function remains largely unknown. Here, we revealed that OCC-1 plays a tumor suppressive role in CRC. OCC-1 knockdown by RNA interference promotes cell growth both in vitro...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lan Y,Xiao X,He Z,Luo Y,Wu C,Li L,Song X

更新日期：2018-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:By putting heterologous genomic regulatory systems into contact, chromosome addition lines derived from interspecific or intergeneric crosses allow the investigation of transcriptional regulation in new genomic environments. Here, we report the transcriptional and epigenetic adaptation of stably inherited alien maize ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dong Z,Yu J,Li H,Huang W,Xu L,Zhao Y,Zhang T,Xu W,Jiang J,Su Z,Jin W

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Base excision repair (BER), which is initiated by DNA N-glycosylase proteins, is the frontline for repairing potentially mutagenic DNA base damage. The NTHL1 glycosylase, which excises DNA base damage caused by reactive oxygen species, is thought to be a tumor suppressor. However, in addition to NTHL1 loss-of-function...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Limpose KL,Trego KS,Li Z,Leung SW,Sarker AH,Shah JA,Ramalingam SS,Werner EM,Dynan WS,Cooper PK,Corbett AH,Doetsch PW

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted modulation of gene expression represents a valuable approach to understand the mechanisms governing gene regulation. In a therapeutic context, it can be exploited to selectively modify the aberrant expression of a disease-causing gene or to provide the target cells with a new function. Here, we have establish...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mlambo T,Nitsch S,Hildenbeutel M,Romito M,Müller M,Bossen C,Diederichs S,Cornu TI,Cathomen T,Mussolino C

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen with a relatively large genome, and has been shown to routinely lose genomic fragments during environmental selection. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms that promote chromosomal deletion are still poorly understood. In a recent study, we showed that by del...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Shen M,Zhang H,Shen W,Zou Z,Lu S,Li G,He X,Agnello M,Shi W,Hu F,Le S

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-coding RNA regulatory elements are important for viral replication, making them promising targets for therapeutic intervention. However, regulatory RNA is challenging to detect and characterise using classical structure-function assays. Here, we present in cell Mutational Interference Mapping Experiment (in cell M...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Smyth RP,Smith MR,Jousset AC,Despons L,Laumond G,Decoville T,Cattenoz P,Moog C,Jossinet F,Mougel M,Paillart JC,von Kleist M,Marquet R

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome editing using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) predominantly induces non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), which generates random insertions or deletions, whereas homology-directed repair (HDR), which generates precise recombination products, is ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kato-Inui T,Takahashi G,Hsu S,Miyaoka Y

更新日期：2018-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to many endogenous and exogenous agents can give rise to DNA alkylation, which constitutes a major type of DNA damage. Among the DNA alkylation products, alkyl phosphotriesters have relatively high frequencies of occurrence and are resistant to repair in mammalian tissues. However, little is known about how t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wu J,Wang P,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative first exons diversify the transcriptomes of eukaryotes by producing variants of the 5' Untranslated Regions (5'UTRs) and N-terminal coding sequences. Accurate transcriptome-wide detection of alternative first exons typically requires specialized experimental approaches that are designed to identify the 5' ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Qin Z,Stoilov P,Zhang X,Xing Y

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptionally non-co-linear (NCL) transcripts can originate from trans-splicing (trans-spliced RNA; 'tsRNA') or cis-backsplicing (circular RNA; 'circRNA'). While numerous circRNAs have been detected in various species, tsRNAs remain largely uninvestigated. Here, we utilize integrative transcriptome sequencing of p...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chuang TJ,Chen YJ,Chen CY,Mai TL,Wang YD,Yeh CS,Yang MY,Hsiao YT,Chang TH,Kuo TC,Cho HH,Shen CN,Kuo HC,Lu MY,Chen YH,Hsieh SC,Chiang TW

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-canonical nucleic acids secondary structures that form within guanine-rich strands of regulatory genomic regions. G4s have been extensively described in the human genome, especially in telomeres and oncogene promoters; in recent years the presence of G4s in viruses has attracted increasing...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ruggiero E,Richter SN

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and meiosis are featured by relatively higher frequent homologous recombination associated with DNA double strand breaks (DSB) repair. Here, we show that Pold3 plays important roles in DSB repair, telomere maintenance and genomic stability of both ESCs and spermatocytes in mice. By attempti...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhou Z,Wang L,Ge F,Gong P,Wang H,Wang F,Chen L,Liu L

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Scalable and cost-effective production of error-free DNA is critical to meet the increased demand for such DNA in the field of biological science. Methods based on 'Dial-out PCR' have enabled the high-throughput error-free DNA synthesis from a microarray-synthesized DNA pool by labeling with retrieval PCR tags, and re...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lim H,Cho N,Ahn J,Park S,Jang H,Kim H,Han H,Lee JH,Bang D

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a rapid fluorescence indicator displacement assay (R-FID) to evaluate the affinity and the selectivity of compounds binding to different DNA structures. We validated the assay using a library of 30 well-known nucleic acid binders containing a variety chemical scaffolds. We used a combination of principal c...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Del Villar-Guerra R,Gray RD,Trent JO,Chaires JB

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemically modified antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) with phosphorothioate (PS) linkages have been extensively studied as research and therapeutic agents. PS-ASOs can enter the cell and trigger cleavage of complementary RNA by RNase H1 even in the absence of transfection reagent. A number of cell surface proteins hav...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wang S,Allen N,Vickers TA,Revenko AS,Sun H,Liang XH,Crooke ST

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Upstream open reading frames (uORFs) latent in mRNA transcripts are thought to modify translation of coding sequences by altering ribosome activity. Not all uORFs are thought to be active in such a process. To estimate the impact of uORFs on the regulation of translation in humans, we first circumscribed the universe ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： McGillivray P,Ault R,Pawashe M,Kitchen R,Balasubramanian S,Gerstein M

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The multi-protein complex WRAD, formed by WDR5, RbBP5, Ash2L and Dpy30, binds to the MLL SET domain to stabilize the catalytically active conformation required for histone H3K4 methylation. In addition, the WRAD complex contributes to the targeting of the activated complex to specific sites on chromatin. RbBP5 is cent...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mittal A,Hobor F,Zhang Y,Martin SR,Gamblin SJ,Ramos A,Wilson JR

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight cell-cycle regulation of the histone H4-K20 methyltransferase PR-Set7 is essential for the maintenance of genome integrity. In mammals, this mainly involves the interaction of PR-Set7 with the replication factor PCNA, which triggers the degradation of the enzyme by the CRL4CDT2 E3 ubiquitin ligase. PR-Set7 is al...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zouaz A,Fernando C,Perez Y,Sardet C,Julien E,Grimaud C

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Approaches to characterize the nucleic acid-binding properties of drugs and druglike small molecules are crucial to understanding the behavior of these compounds in cellular systems. Here, we use a Small Molecule Microarray (SMM) profiling approach to identify the preferential interaction between chlorhexidine, a wide...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Calabrese DR,Zlotkowski K,Alden S,Hewitt WM,Connelly CM,Wilson RM,Gaikwad S,Chen L,Guha R,Thomas CJ,Mock BA,Schneekloth JS Jr

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Sae2 cooperates with the Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 (MRX) complex to initiate resection of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) and to maintain the DSB ends in close proximity to allow their repair. How these diverse MRX-Sae2 functions contribute to DNA damage resistance is not known. Here, we describe mre11 alleles that suppress th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cassani C,Gobbini E,Vertemara J,Wang W,Marsella A,Sung P,Tisi R,Zampella G,Longhese MP

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:UHRF1 plays multiple roles in regulating DNMT1-mediated DNA methylation maintenance during DNA replication. The UHRF1 C-terminal RING finger functions as an ubiquitin E3 ligase to establish histone H3 ubiquitination at Lys18 and/or Lys23, which is subsequently recognized by DNMT1 to promote its localization onto repli...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Li T,Wang L,Du Y,Xie S,Yang X,Lian F,Zhou Z,Qian C

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are helical-repeat proteins that offer a promising scaffold for the engineering of proteins to bind specified RNAs. PPR tracts bind RNA in a modular 1-repeat, 1-nucleotide fashion. An amino acid code specifying the bound nucleotide has been elucidated. However, this code does no...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Miranda RG,McDermott JJ,Barkan A

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00