abstract：BACKGROUND:Stress responses provide valuable models for deciphering the transcriptional networks controlling the adaptation of the cell to its environment. We analyzed the transcriptome response of yeast to toxic concentrations of selenite. We used gene network mapping tools to identify functional pathways and transcri...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Salin H,Fardeau V,Piccini E,Lelandais G,Tanty V,Lemoine S,Jacq C,Devaux F

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alu repetitive elements are the abundant sequences in human genome. Diversity of DNA sequences of these elements makes difficult the construction of theoretical patterns of Alu repeats cleavage by restriction endonucleases. We have proposed a method of restriction analysis of Alu repeats sequences in silico....

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Abdurashitov MA,Tomilov VN,Chernukhin VA,Degtyarev SKh

更新日期：2008-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Short non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) perform their cellular functions in ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes, which are also essential for maintaining the stability of the ncRNAs. Depletion of individual protein components of non-coding ribonucleoprotein (ncRNP) particles by RNA interference (RNAi) may therefore aff...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Aftab MN,He H,Skogerbø G,Chen R

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The colonial cyanobacterium Microcystis proliferates in a wide range of freshwater ecosystems and is exposed to changing environmental factors during its life cycle. Microcystis blooms are often toxic, potentially fatal to animals and humans, and may cause environmental problems. There has been little invest...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Frangeul L,Quillardet P,Castets AM,Humbert JF,Matthijs HC,Cortez D,Tolonen A,Zhang CC,Gribaldo S,Kehr JC,Zilliges Y,Ziemert N,Becker S,Talla E,Latifi A,Billault A,Lepelletier A,Dittmann E,Bouchier C,de Marsac NT

更新日期：2008-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural contamination and anthropogenic pollution of soils are likely to be major determinants of functioning and survival of keystone invertebrate taxa. Soil animals will have both evolutionary adaptation and genetically programmed responses to these toxic chemicals, but mechanistic understanding of such is...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Owen J,Hedley BA,Svendsen C,Wren J,Jonker MJ,Hankard PK,Lister LJ,Stürzenbaum SR,Morgan AJ,Spurgeon DJ,Blaxter ML,Kille P

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tumor angiogenesis is a highly regulated process involving intercellular communication as well as the interactions of multiple downstream signal transduction pathways. Disrupting one or even a few angiogenesis pathways is often insufficient to achieve sustained therapeutic benefits due to the complexity of a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Chen Y,Wei T,Yan L,Lawrence F,Qian HR,Burkholder TP,Starling JJ,Yingling JM,Shou J

更新日期：2008-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selenium (Se) is a trace element that occurs in proteins in the form of selenocysteine (Sec) and in tRNAs in the form of selenouridine (SeU). Selenophosphate synthetase (SelD) is required for both utilization traits. However, previous research also revealed SelDs in two organisms lacking Sec and SeU, suggest...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhang Y,Turanov AA,Hatfield DL,Gladyshev VN

更新日期：2008-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retrogenes are processed copies of other genes. This duplication mechanism produces a copy of the parental gene that should not contain introns, and usually does not contain cis-regulatory regions. Here, we computationally address the evolutionary origin of promoter and other cis-regulatory regions in retrog...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bai Y,Casola C,Betrán E

更新日期：2008-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leishmania (L) are intracellular protozoan parasites that are able to survive and replicate within the harsh and potentially hostile phagolysosomal environment of mammalian mononuclear phagocytes. A complex interplay then takes place between the macrophage (MPhi) striving to eliminate the pathogen and the pa...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Guerfali FZ,Laouini D,Guizani-Tabbane L,Ottones F,Ben-Aissa K,Benkahla A,Manchon L,Piquemal D,Smandi S,Mghirbi O,Commes T,Marti J,Dellagi K

更新日期：2008-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studying mitochondrial (mt) genomics has important implications for various fundamental areas, including mt biochemistry, physiology and molecular biology. In addition, mt genome sequences have provided useful markers for investigating population genetic structures, systematics and phylogenetics of organisms...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li MW,Lin RQ,Song HQ,Wu XY,Zhu XQ

更新日期：2008-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements are selfish genetic sequences which only occasionally provide useful functions to their host species. In addition, models of mobile element evolution assume a second type of selfishness: elements of different families do not cooperate, but they independently fight for their survival in ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Marco A,Marín I

更新日期：2008-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The superior temporal gyrus (STG), which encompasses the primary auditory cortex, is believed to be a major anatomical substrate for speech, language and communication. The STG connects to the limbic system (hippocampus and amygdala), the thalamus and neocortical association areas in the prefrontal cortex, a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bowden NA,Scott RJ,Tooney PA

更新日期：2008-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Affymetrix GeneChip typically contains multiple probe sets per gene, defined as sibling probe sets in this study. These probe sets may or may not behave similar across treatments. The most appropriate way of consolidating sibling probe sets suitable for analysis is an open problem. We propose the Analysis of...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li H,Zhu D,Cook M

更新日期：2008-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) causes a multisystemic disease responsible for severe losses in salmon aquaculture. Better understanding of factors that explain variations in resistance between individuals and families is essential for development of strategies for disease control. To approach this, we...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Jørgensen SM,Afanasyev S,Krasnov A

更新日期：2008-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Housekeeping (HK) genes are ubiquitously expressed in all tissue/cell types and constitute a basal transcriptome for the maintenance of basic cellular functions. Partitioning transcriptomes into HK and tissue-specific (TS) genes relatively is fundamental for studying gene expression and cellular differentiat...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhu J,He F,Song S,Wang J,Yu J

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression profiling is a promising approach to better estimate patient prognosis; however, there are still unresolved problems, including little overlap among similarly developed gene sets and poor performance of a developed gene set in other datasets. RESULTS:We applied a gene sets approach to develo...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Kim SY,Kim YS

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing evidence suggests that overlapping genes are much more common in eukaryotic genomes than previously thought. In this study we identified and characterized the overlapping genes in a set of 13,484 pairs of human-mouse orthologous genes. RESULTS:About 10% of the genes under study are overlapping ge...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Sanna CR,Li WH,Zhang L

更新日期：2008-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Duplication, followed by fixation or random loss of novel genes, contributes to genome evolution. Particular outcomes of duplication events are possibly associated with pathogenic life histories in fungi. To date, differential gene gain and loss have not been studied at genomic scales in fungal pathogens, de...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Powell AJ,Conant GC,Brown DE,Carbone I,Dean RA

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The response of the trout, O. mykiss, head kidney to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or active and attenuated infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV and attINHV respectively) intraperitoneal challenge, 24 and 72 hours post-injection, was investigated using a salmonid-specific cDNA microarray. RESU...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： MacKenzie S,Balasch JC,Novoa B,Ribas L,Roher N,Krasnov A,Figueras A

更新日期：2008-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Arsenic is a carcinogen that is known to induce cell transformation and tumor formation. Although studies have been performed to examine the modulation of signaling molecules caused by arsenic exposure, the molecular mechanisms by which arsenic causes cancer are still unclear. We hypothesized that arsenic al...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Posey T,Weng T,Chen Z,Chintagari NR,Wang P,Jin N,Stricker H,Liu L

更新日期：2008-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp., is one of the most important food and forage legumes in the semi-arid tropics because of its drought tolerance and ability to grow on poor quality soils. Approximately 80% of cowpea production takes place in the dry savannahs of tropical West and Central Africa, mostly b...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Timko MP,Rushton PJ,Laudeman TW,Bokowiec MT,Chipumuro E,Cheung F,Town CD,Chen X

更新日期：2008-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diversity in rates of gene expression is essential for basic cell functions and is controlled by a variety of intricate mechanisms. Revealing general mechanisms that control gene expression is important for understanding normal and pathological cell functions and for improving the design of expression system...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Moshonov S,Elfakess R,Golan-Mashiach M,Sinvani H,Dikstein R

更新日期：2008-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the sequence of the Plasmodium falciparum genome and several global mRNA and protein life cycle expression profiling projects now completed, elucidating the underlying networks of transcriptional control important for the progression of the parasite life cycle is highly pertinent to the development of n...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Young JA,Johnson JR,Benner C,Yan SF,Chen K,Le Roch KG,Zhou Y,Winzeler EA

更新日期：2008-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Musa species (Zingiberaceae, Zingiberales) including bananas and plantains are collectively the fourth most important crop in developing countries. Knowledge concerning Musa genome structure and the origin of distinct cultivars has greatly increased over the last few years. Until now, however, no large-scale...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Lescot M,Piffanelli P,Ciampi AY,Ruiz M,Blanc G,Leebens-Mack J,da Silva FR,Santos CM,D'Hont A,Garsmeur O,Vilarinhos AD,Kanamori H,Matsumoto T,Ronning CM,Cheung F,Haas BJ,Althoff R,Arbogast T,Hine E,Pappas GJ Jr,Sas

更新日期：2008-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Populus includes poplars, aspens and cottonwoods, which will be collectively referred to as poplars hereafter unless otherwise specified. Poplars are the dominant tree species in many forest ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere and are of substantial economic value in plantation forestry. Poplar h...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ralph SG,Chun HJ,Cooper D,Kirkpatrick R,Kolosova N,Gunter L,Tuskan GA,Douglas CJ,Holt RA,Jones SJ,Marra MA,Bohlmann J

更新日期：2008-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the genome sequences of Euphausiacea (krill) although these crustaceans are abundant components of the pelagic ecosystems in all oceans and used for aquaculture and pharmaceutical industry. This study reports the results of an expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing project from differe...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： De Pittà C,Bertolucci C,Mazzotta GM,Bernante F,Rizzo G,De Nardi B,Pallavicini A,Lanfranchi G,Costa R

更新日期：2008-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microsatellites are highly abundant in eukaryotic genomes but their function and evolution are not yet well understood. Their elevated mutation rate makes them ideal markers of genetic difference, but high levels of unexplained heterogeneity in mutation rates among microsatellites at different genomic locati...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Bagshaw AT,Pitt JP,Gemmell NJ

更新日期：2008-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) play an essential role in genome rearrangement and evolution, and are widely used as an important genetic tool. RESULTS:In this article, we present genetic maps of recently active Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, the simplest form of MGEs, for all sequenced cyanobacteria and ...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Zhou F,Olman V,Xu Y

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Controlling gene expression is fundamental to biological complexity. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an important model for studying principles of gene regulation in multi-cellular organisms. A comprehensive parts list of putative regulatory motifs was yet missing for this model system. In this study,...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Dieterich C,Sommer RJ

更新日期：2008-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequential nature of gel-based marker systems entails low throughput and high costs per assay. Commonly used marker systems such as SSR and SNP are also dependent on sequence information. These limitations result in high cost per data point and significantly limit the capacity of breeding programs to obt...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Mace ES,Xia L,Jordan DR,Halloran K,Parh DK,Huttner E,Wenzl P,Kilian A

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Repeat masking is an important step in the EST analysis pipeline. For new species, genomic knowledge is scarce and good repeat libraries are typically unavailable. In these cases it is common practice to mask against known repeats from other species (i.e., model organisms). There are few studies that investi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Malde K,Jonassen I

更新日期：2008-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:On a single strand of genomic DNA the number of As is usually about equal to the number of Ts (and similarly for Gs and Cs), but deviations have been noted for transcribed regions and origins of replication. RESULTS:The mouse genome is shown to have a segmented structure defined by strand bias. Transcriptio...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Evans KJ

更新日期：2008-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While changes in chromosome number that result in aneuploidy are associated with phenotypic consequences such as Down syndrome and cancer, the molecular causes of specific phenotypes and genome-wide expression changes that occur in aneuploids are still being elucidated. RESULTS:We employed a segmental aneup...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Makarevitch I,Phillips RL,Springer NM

更新日期：2008-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron homeostasis is a key metabolism for most organisms. In many bacterial species, coordinate regulation of iron homeostasis depends on the protein product of a Fur gene. Fur also plays roles in virulence, acid tolerance, redox-stress responses, flagella chemotaxis and metabolic pathways. RESULTS:We conduc...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang Y,Harris DP,Luo F,Wu L,Parsons AB,Palumbo AV,Zhou J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to rapidly map millions of oligonucleotide fragments to a reference genome is crucial to many high throughput genomic technologies. RESULTS:We propose an intuitive and efficient algorithm, titled extreme MApping of OligoNucleotide (xMAN), to rapidly map millions of oligonucleotide fragments to a...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Li W,Carroll JS,Brown M,Liu xS

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An important subfamily of membrane proteins are the transmembrane alpha-helical proteins, in which the membrane-spanning regions are made up of alpha-helices. Given the obvious biological and medical significance of these proteins, it is of tremendous practical importance to identify the location of transmem...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Yang JY,Yang MQ,Dunker AK,Deng Y,Huang X

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small untranslated RNAs (sRNAs) seem to be far more abundant than previously believed. The number of sRNAs confirmed in E. coli through various approaches is above 70, with several hundred more sRNA candidate genes under biological validation. Although the total number of sRNAs in any one species is still un...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Ulvé VM,Sevin EW,Chéron A,Barloy-Hubler F

更新日期：2007-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Armigeres subalbatus is a natural vector of the filarial worm Brugia pahangi, but it rapidly and proficiently kills Brugia malayi microfilariae by melanotic encapsulation. Because B. malayi and B. pahangi are morphologically and biologically similar, the Armigeres-Brugia system serves as a valuable model for...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Aliota MT,Fuchs JF,Mayhew GF,Chen CC,Christensen BM

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Matrix attachment regions (MAR) are the sites on genomic DNA that interact with the nuclear matrix. There is increasing evidence for the involvement of MAR in regulation of gene expression. The unsuitability of experimental detection of MAR for genome-wide analyses has led to the development of computational...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Anthony A,Blaxter M

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements constitute a significant fraction of plant genomes. The PIF/Harbinger superfamily includes DNA transposons (class II elements) carrying terminal inverted repeats and producing a 3 bp target site duplication upon insertion. The presence of an ORF coding for the DDE/DDD transposase, requi...

journal_title：BMC genomics

authors： Grzebelus D,Lasota S,Gambin T,Kucherov G,Gambin A

更新日期：2007-11-09 00:00:00