abstract：:Living organisms are usually exposed to various DNA damaging agents so the mechanisms to detect and repair diverse DNA lesions have developed in all organisms with the result of maintaining genome integrity. Defects in DNA repair machinery contribute to cancer, certain diseases, and aging. Therefore, conserving the ge...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Gimenez E,Manzano-Agugliaro F

更新日期：2017-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum L.) breeding programs aim to develop later maturing cultivars for extending early spring grazing in Western Canada. Plant maturity is a complex genetic trait, and little is known about genes associated with late maturity in this species. An attempt was made using RNA-Seq to prof...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Zeng F,Biligetu B,Coulman B,Schellenberg MP,Fu YB

更新日期：2017-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquitous exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor (ED), has raised concerns for both human and ecosystem health. Epigenetic factors, including microRNAs (miRNAs), are key regulators of gene expression during cancer. The effect of BPA exposure on the zebrafish epigenome remains poorly characterized. Zebr...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Renaud L,Silveira WAD,Hazard ES,Simpson J,Falcinelli S,Chung D,Carnevali O,Hardiman G

更新日期：2017-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. An ALS drug, Riluzole, has been shown to induce two different anticancer effects on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In light of this finding, we explore the relationship between ALS and cancer, especially for HCC, from the molecular biological v...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Taguchi YH,Wang H

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnaportheoryzae is a devastating plant pathogen, which has a detrimental impact on rice production worldwide. Despite its agronomical importance, some newly-emerging pathotypes often overcome race-specific disease resistance rapidly. It is thus desirable to develop a novel strategy for the long-lasting resistance of...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Zhu L,Zhu J,Liu Z,Wang Z,Zhou C,Wang H

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (Lamiaceae) is the source of the well-known traditional Chinese medicine "HuangQin" (Radix Scutellariae). Natural sources of S. baicalensis are rapidly declining due to high market demand and overexploitation. Moreover, the commercial products of Radix Scutellariae have often been found ...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Jiang D,Zhao Z,Zhang T,Zhong W,Liu C,Yuan Q,Huang L

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:There are major differences between Yorkshire (lean-type) and Wannanhua pig (fat-type) in terms of growth performance and meat quality. Long intergenic noncoding RNAs (lincRNAs) are a class of regulators that are involved in numerous biological processes and widely identified in many species. However, the role of linc...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Zou C,Li S,Deng L,Guan Y,Chen D,Yuan X,Xia T,He X,Shan Y,Li C

更新日期：2017-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the primary objectives of plant biotechnology is to increase resistance to abiotic stresses, such as salinity. Salinity is a major abiotic stress and increasing crop resistant to salt continues to the present day as a major challenge. Salt stress disturbs cellular environment leading to protein misfolding, affe...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Villarino GH,Hu Q,Scanlon MJ,Mueller L,Bombarely A,Mattson NS

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Adiponectin plays an important role in energy homeostasis and metabolism in mammalian adipose tissue. In this study, the relationship between adiponectin gene (ADIPOQ) haplotypes and variation in growth and carcass traits in New Zealand (NZ) Romney lambs was investigated using General Linear Models (GLMs). Eight haplo...

journal_title：Genes

authors： An Q,Zhou H,Hu J,Luo Y,Hickford JGH

更新日期：2017-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We employed Illumina 450 K Infinium microarrays to profile DNA methylation (DNAm) in neuronal nuclei separated by fluorescence-activated sorting from the postmortem orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) of heroin users who died from heroin overdose (N = 37), suicide completers (N = 22) with no evidence of heroin use and from con...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Kozlenkov A,Jaffe AE,Timashpolsky A,Apontes P,Rudchenko S,Barbu M,Byne W,Hurd YL,Horvath S,Dracheva S

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic isolated populations have features that may facilitate genetic analyses and can be leveraged to improve power of mapping genes to complex traits. Our aim was to test the extent to which a population with a former history of geographic isolation and religious endogamy, and currently with one of the highest fert...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Somers M,Olde Loohuis LM,Aukes MF,Pasaniuc B,de Visser KCL,Kahn RS,Sommer IE,Ophoff RA

更新日期：2017-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In genome analysis, k-mer-based comparison methods have become standard tools. However, even though they are able to deliver reliable results, other algorithms seem to work better in some cases. To improve k-mer-based DNA sequence analysis and comparison, we successfully checked whether adding positional resolution is...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Sievers A,Bosiek K,Bisch M,Dreessen C,Riedel J,Froß P,Hausmann M,Hildenbrand G

更新日期：2017-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) is an herbaceous multipurpose legume grown in hot and humid countries as a pulse, vegetable (leaves and pods), or root tuber crop depending on local consumption preferences. In addition to its different nutrient-rich edible parts which could contribute to food and nutritional ...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Wong QN,Tanzi AS,Ho WK,Malla S,Blythe M,Karunaratne A,Massawe F,Mayes S

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:n/a. ...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Gu S,Xue Q,Liu Q,Xiong M,Wang W,Zhang H

更新日期：2017-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:MDM4, an essential negative regulator of the P53 tumor suppressor, is frequently overexpressed in cancer cells that harbor a wild-type P53. By a mechanism based on alternative splicing, the MDM4 gene generates two mutually exclusive isoforms: MDM4-FL, which encodes the full-length MDM4 protein, and a shorter splice va...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Bardot B,Toledo F

更新日期：2017-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA plays complex roles in normal health and disease and is becoming an important target for therapeutic intervention; accordingly, therapeutic strategies that modulate RNA function have gained great interest over the past decade. Antisense oligonucleotides (AOs) are perhaps the most promising strategy to modulate RNA...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Imbert M,Dias-Florencio G,Goyenvalle A

更新日期：2017-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers can be categorized into two groups: those whose frequency increases with age, and those resulting from errors during mammalian development. The first group is linked to DNA replication through the accumulation of genetic mutations that occur during proliferation of developmentally acquired stem cells that give...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Vassilev A,DePamphilis ML

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed RNA editing is an approach to reprogram genetic information at the RNA level. We recently introduced a novel guideRNA that allows for the recruitment of human ADAR2 to manipulate genetic information. Here, we show that the current guideRNA design is already able to recruit another human deaminase, ADAR1,...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Heep M,Mach P,Reautschnig P,Wettengel J,Stafforst T

更新日期：2017-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Grouper is one of the favorite sea food resources in Southeast Asia. However, the outbreaks of the viral nervous necrosis (VNN) disease due to nervous necrosis virus (NNV) infection have caused mass mortality of grouper larvae. Many aqua-farms have suffered substantial financial loss due to the occurrence of VNN. To b...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Kim JO,Kim JO,Kim WS,Oh MJ

更新日期：2017-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Keratin-associated proteins (KAPs) are structural components of wool and hair fibers. To date, eight high glycine/tyrosine KAP (HGT-KAP) families have been identified in humans, but only three have been identified in sheep. In this study, the putative ovine homolog of the human KAP22-1 gene (KRTAP22-1) was amplified u...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Li S,Zhou H,Gong H,Zhao F,Wang J,Liu X,Luo Y,Hickford JG

更新日期：2017-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin receptor 2A (HTR2A) is an important signalling factor implicated in cognitive functions and known to be associated with schizophrenia. The biological significance of HTR2A in schizophrenia remains unclear as molecular analyses including genetic association, mRNA expression and methylation studies have report...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Cheah SY,Lawford BR,Young RM,Morris CP,Voisey J

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of studies have focused on identifying molecular biomarkers, including microRNAs (miRNAs) to aid in the diagnosis and prognosis of the most common subtypes of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma and Follicular Lymphoma. NHL is difficult to diagnose and treat with many cases becomin...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Bradshaw G,Sutherland HG,Haupt LM,Griffiths LR

更新日期：2016-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse environmental exposures in pregnancy can significantly alter the development of the fetus resulting in impaired child neurodevelopment. Such exposures can lead to epigenetic alterations like DNA methylation, which may be a marker of poor cognitive, motor and behavioral outcomes in the infant. Here we review st...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Hodyl NA,Roberts CT,Bianco-Miotto T

更新日期：2016-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The histone-like nucleoid structuring protein (H-NS) has played a key role in shaping the evolution of Shigella spp., and provides the backdrop to the regulatory cascade that controls virulence by silencing many genes found on the large virulence plasmid. H-NS and its paralogue StpA are present in all four Shigella sp...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Picker MA,Wing HJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biallelic PIGT variants were previously reported in seven patients from three families with Multiple Congenital Anomalies-Hypotonia Seizures Syndrome 3 (MCAHS3), characterized by epileptic encephalopathy, hypotonia, global developmental delay/intellectual disability, cerebral and cerebellar atrophy, craniofacial dysmo...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Skauli N,Wallace S,Chiang SC,Barøy T,Holmgren A,Stray-Pedersen A,Bryceson YT,Strømme P,Frengen E,Misceo D

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:While the clinical benefit of proteasome inhibitors (PIs) for multiple myeloma (MM) treatment remains unchallenged, dose-limiting toxicities and the inevitable emergence of drug resistance limit their long-term utility. Disease eradication is compromised by drug resistance that is either present de novo or therapy-ind...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Malek E,Kim BG,Driscoll JJ

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin depolymerizing factor (ADF) proteins have growth, development, defense-related and growth regulatory functions in plants. The present study used genome-wide analysis to investigate ADF family genes in tomato. Eleven tomato ADF genes were identified and differential expression patterns were found in different...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Khatun K,Robin AH,Park JI,Kim CK,Lim KB,Kim MB,Lee DJ,Nou IS,Chung MY

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Xeroderma pigmentosum group C (XPC) is a key component of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. Dysfunctional XPC protein may impair NER-mediated DNA repair capacity and further lead to genomic instability and carcinogenesis. Two common nonsynonymous polymorphisms in the XPC gene, Lys939Gln (rs2228001 A > C) a...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Hua RX,Zhu J,Jiang DH,Zhang SD,Zhang JB,Xue WQ,Li XZ,Zhang PF,He J,Jia WH

更新日期：2016-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) transcription factor family is a key transcription factor family and unique to the plant kingdom. It consists of a homeodomain and a leucine zipper that serve in combination as a dimerization motif. The family can be classified into four subfamilies, and these subfamilies partic...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Song A,Li P,Xin J,Chen S,Zhao K,Wu D,Fan Q,Gao T,Chen F,Guan Z

更新日期：2016-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bupleurum falcatum, which belongs to the family Apiaceae, has long been applied for curative treatments, especially as a liver tonic, in herbal medicine. The chloroplast (cp) genome has been an ideal model to perform the evolutionary and comparative studies because of its highly conserved features and simple structure...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Shin DH,Lee JH,Kang SH,Ahn BO,Kim CK

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapeseed contains glucosinolates, a toxic group of sulfur-containing glucosides, which play critical roles in defense against herbivores and microbes. However, the presence of glucosinolates in rapeseed reduces the value of the meal as feed for livestock. We performed association mapping of seed glucosinolate (GS) con...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Qu CM,Li SM,Duan XJ,Fan JH,Jia LD,Zhao HY,Lu K,Li JN,Xu XF,Wang R

更新日期：2015-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigenetics contributes to molecular mechanisms leading to tumor cell transformation and systemic progression of cancer. However, the dynamics of epigenetic remodeling during metastasis remains unexplored. In this context, circulating tumor cells (CTCs) might enable a direct insight into epigenetic mechanisms relevant...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Pixberg CF,Schulz WA,Stoecklein NH,Neves RP

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin influences Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) integration and replication. This review highlights critical host factors that influence chromatin structure and organization and that also impact HIV integration, transcriptional regulation and latency. Furthermore, recent attempts to target chromatin associated...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Agosto LM,Gagne M,Henderson AJ

更新日期：2015-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of chromatin dynamics to the regulation of human disease-associated loci such as the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene has been the focus of intensive experimentation for many years. Recent technological advances in the analysis of transcriptional mechanisms across the en...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Gosalia N,Harris A

更新日期：2015-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It is increasingly recognised that lncRNAs play essential regulatory roles in fundamental biological processes and, consequently, that their dysregulation may contribute to major human diseases, including cancer. Better understanding of lncRNA biology may therefore offer new insights into pathogenetic mechanisms and t...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Pickard MR,Williams GT

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional activation of eukaryotic genes is accompanied, in general, by a change in the sensitivity of promoter chromatin to endonucleases. The structural basis of this alteration has remained elusive for decades; but the change has been viewed as a transformation of one structure into another, from "closed" to ...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Boeger H,Shelansky R,Patel H,Brown CR

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Several transcription factors (TFs) coordinate to regulate expression of specific genes at the transcriptional level. In Arabidopsis thaliana it is estimated that approximately 10% of all genes encode TFs or TF-like proteins. It is important to identify target genes that are directly regulated by TFs in order to under...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Kurihara Y,Makita Y,Kawashima M,Hamasaki H,Yamamoto YY,Matsui M

更新日期：2014-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding (lnc) RNAs serve a multitude of functions in cells. NEAT1 RNA is a highly abundant 4 kb lncRNA in nuclei, and coincides with paraspeckles, nuclear domains that control sequestration of paraspeckle proteins. We examined NEAT1 RNA levels and its function in 3T3-L1 cells during differentiation to adipocyt...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Cooper DR,Carter G,Li P,Patel R,Watson JE,Patel NA

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Overweight and obesity are major problems in today's society, driving the prevalence of diabetes and its related complications. It is important to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the chronic complications in diabetes in order to develop better therapeutic approaches for these conditions. Some of the mos...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Moura J,Børsheim E,Carvalho E

更新日期：2014-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, single-stranded, non-coding RNA molecules that act as post-transcriptional gene regulators. They can inhibit target protein-coding genes, through repressing messenger RNA (mRNA) translation or promoting their degradation. miRNAs were initially found to be originated from nuclear genome an...

journal_title：Genes

authors： Duarte FV,Palmeira CM,Rolo AP

更新日期：2014-09-26 00:00:00