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ASCancer Atlas: a comprehensive knowledgebase of alternative splicing in human cancers

Song Wu, Yue Huang, Mochen Zhang, Zheng Gong, Guoliang Wang, Xinchang Zheng, Wenting Zong, Wei Zhao, Peiqi Xing, Rujiao Li, Zhaoqi Liu, Yiming Bao
2022 Nucleic Acids Research  
network, and a suit of multi-scale online analysis tools.  ...  Additionally, a user-friendly web interface was built to enable users to easily browse, search, visualize, analyze, and download all splicing events.  ...  We also appreciate a number of users and two anonymous reviewers for reporting bugs and providing constructive feedback. FUNDING  ... 
doi:10.1093/nar/gkac955 pmid:36318242 pmcid:PMC9825479 fatcat:5rprd3kea5g7pcf4kxpdeer3sq

Widespread germline genetic heterogeneity of human ribosomal RNA genes [article]

Wenjun Fan, Eetu Eklund, Rachel M Sherman, Hester Liu, Stephanie Pitts, Brittany Ford, Rajeshkumar NV, Marikki Laiho
2021 bioRxiv   pre-print
Pairwise alignment of the rRNA coding sequences of these copies showed differences in sequence and length.  ...  We employed whole genome sequencing (WGS) data from the 1000 Genomes Project phase 3 and analyzed variants in 2,504 individuals from 26 populations.  ...  Steven Salzberg for helpful discussions and Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center (MARCC) for access to the high computing resource.  ... 
doi:10.1101/2021.07.21.453267 fatcat:46huzdfpwrao3l3z5pneslh2nu

A real data-based simulation procedure to select an imputation strategy for mixed-type trait data [article]

Jacqueline A. May, Zeny Feng, Sarah J. Adamowicz
2022 bioRxiv   pre-print
Using a reptile dataset comprised of both numerical and categorical trait data, we employed a real data-based simulation strategy to select an optimal imputation method for the dataset.  ...  It also remains to be explored whether the type of genetic data used affects imputation accuracy.  ...  Tyler Elliott for his valuable comments on the manuscript and code. Finally, we thank many researchers who have collected trait and sequence data and made them publicly available.  ... 
doi:10.1101/2022.05.03.490388 fatcat:facyhm62i5hdxio6hxaxixtmkq

GAST proteins evolved through successive conjugation of novel motifs and their sub-functionalization

Ashutosh Kumar, Alka Singh, Pramod Kumar, Ananda K. Sarkar
2019 Plant Physiology  
Here, using a customized workflow, we report genes encoding GAST proteins, identify novel motifs and evolutionary patterns contributing to the subfunctionalization of GAST domains, and explore functional  ...  , and that they might act as signaling molecules in a complex feedback loop.  ...  We thank the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center for Arabidopsis seeds and Shalini Mukherjee, Swati Verma, Archita Singh, and Sandeep Yadav for critical review of the article.  ... 
doi:10.1104/pp.19.00305 pmid:30971449 pmcid:PMC6548256 fatcat:62ey7xwmhzhd3owxgmjbw2febu

CBF transcription factors involved in the cold response of Camellia japonica (Naidong)

Menglong Fan, Rui Zhou, Qinghua Liu, Yingkun Sun
2021 PeerJ  
Using full-length transcriptome data, we identified four CjCBF genes that respond to cold stress and analyzed their evolutionary relationships, domains, and expression patterns.  ...  A yeast two-hybrid assay revealed an interaction between CjCBF1, CjCBF2, and CjCBF5, and subcellular localization confirmed this finding.  ...  MAFFT was used for sequence alignment according to default parameters (FASTA format, auto). The R package ggmsa was used to visualize the sequence alignment.  ... 
doi:10.7717/peerj.12155 pmid:34589310 pmcid:PMC8435204 fatcat:eaedt5ytafeajnxdgabrdiwnbm

Phylogenomics of scorpions reveal contemporaneous diversification of scorpion mammalian predators and mammal-active sodium channel toxins [article]

Carlos Santibanez, Shlomi Aharon, Jesús Ballesteros, Guilherme Gainett, Caitlin Baker, Edmundo González-Santillán, Mark Harvey, Mohamed Hassans, Ali Abu-Almaaty, Shorouk Aldeyarbi, Lionel Monod, Andrés Ojanguren-Affilastro (+4 others)
2022 Zenodo  
Scorpions constitute a charismatic lineage of arthropods and comprise more than 2,500 described species.  ...  Found throughout various tropical and temperate habitats, these predatory arachnids have a long evolutionary history, with a fossil record that began in the Silurian.  ...  Gene trees and multiple sequence alignment were plotted using the extended R package ggmsa v.1.0.2 from ggplot2 v. 3.3.5 (Wickham, 2016) with the function geom_facet.  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5639711 fatcat:ytjl2nz3ivglvjptd46c7n6rrq

Geminiviral genomes encode additional proteins with specific subcellular localizations and virulence function [article]

Pan Gong, Huang Tan, Siwen Zhao, Hao Li, Hui Liu, Yu Ma, Xi Zhang, Junjie Rong, Xing Fu, Rosa Lozano-Duran, Fangfang Li, Xueping Zhou
2021 bioRxiv   pre-print
We prove that the largest of these new ORFs, which we name V3, is required for full viral infection, and that the V3 protein localizes in the Golgi apparatus and functions as an RNA silencing suppressor  ...  Geminivirus-encoded proteins were identified applying a 10-kDa arbitrary threshold; however, it is increasingly clear that small proteins play relevant roles in biological systems, which calls for the  ...  Multiple sequence alignments were constructed by ClustalW and visualized by the R 395 package ggmsa (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggmsa/vignettes/ggmsa.html).  ... 
doi:10.1101/2021.03.01.433473 fatcat:xifce2ri2jcdtgn2pz7opgkvxu

HNRNPH1 destabilizes the G-quadruplex structures formed by G-rich RNA sequences that regulate the alternative splicing of an oncogenic fusion transcript

Tam Vo, Tayvia Brownmiller, Katherine Hall, Tamara L Jones, Sulbha Choudhari, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Katelyn R Ludwig, Natasha J Caplen
2022 Nucleic Acids Research  
analysis of tumor data, long-read sequencing, and minigene studies.  ...  Specifically, HNRNPH1 associates and dissociates from G4-folded RNA faster than the identical sequences in a non-G4 state.  ...  Data Science (BIDS), Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) for the performance of the long-read sequencing and their assistance with the analysis of these data.  ... 
doi:10.1093/nar/gkac409 pmid:35639772 pmcid:PMC9226515 fatcat:ffcfyhijhfhxtgdrt6vv4fqzw4

The S Protein of Group B Streptococcus Is a Critical Virulence Determinant That Impacts the Cell Surface Virulome

Anaamika Campeau, Satoshi Uchiyama, Concepcion Sanchez, Consuelo Sauceda, Victor Nizet, David J. Gonzalez
2021 Frontiers in Microbiology  
These results expand the key roles S protein plays in streptococcal pathogenesis and introduces a new GBS virulence determinant and potential target for therapy development.  ...  In our efforts to expand the knowledge base required for targeted anti-virulence therapies, we identified a GBS homolog for a recently identified virulence determinant of group A Streptococcus, S protein  ...  These alignment of these sequences was visualized via construction of a circular dendrogram (Figure 2B ).  ... 
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.729308 pmid:34721327 pmcid:PMC8551713 fatcat:rribfr4ch5bkxnae7umaiyq3p4

HNRNPH1 destabilizes the G-quadruplex structures formed by G-rich RNA sequences that regulate the alternative splicing of an oncogenic fusion transcript [article]

Tam Vo, Tayvia Brownmiller, Katherine Hall, Tamara L. Jones, Sulbha Choudhari, Ioannis Grammatikakis, Katelyn R. Ludwig, Natasha J. Caplen
2022 bioRxiv   pre-print
analysis of tumor data, long-read sequencing, and minigene studies.  ...  Specifically, HNRNPH1 associates and dissociates from G4-folded RNA faster than the identical sequences in a non-G4 state.  ...  The protein alignments of HNRNPH1, HNRNPH2, and HNRNPF were generated using ggmsa: a visual exploration tool for multiple sequence alignment and associated data (https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/ggmsa).  ... 
doi:10.1101/2022.04.18.488656 fatcat:kjvsnwbsgbhrxamz4ois2x3u3m

Genomic landscape of drug response reveals mediators of anthelmintic resistance

Stephen R. Doyle, Roz Laing, David Bartley, Alison Morrison, Nancy Holroyd, Kirsty Maitland, Alistair Antonopoulos, Umer Chaudhry, Ilona Flis, Sue Howell, Jennifer McIntyre, John S. Gilleard (+8 others)
2022 Cell Reports  
This gene is within a locus under selection in ivermectin-resistant populations worldwide; expression analyses and functional validation using knockdown experiments support that cky-1 is associated with  ...  Here, we use an in vivo genetic cross between drug-susceptible and multi-drug-resistant strains of Haemonchus contortus in a natural host-parasite system to simultaneously map resistance loci for the three  ...  We also thank Pathogen Informatics and DNA Pipelines (WSI) for their support and expertise and the Biosciences Division at the Moredun Research Institute for expert care and animal assistance.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111522 pmid:36261007 pmcid:PMC9597552 fatcat:3ggw777m55epbk6pijpts3opaq

Uncovering the Role of Hydroxycinnamoyl Transferase in Boosting Chlorogenic Acid Accumulation in Carthamus tinctorius Cells under Methyl Jasmonate Elicitation

Zebo Liu, Xiaofeng Zhu, Ali Mohsin, Huijie Sun, Linxiao Du, Zhongping Yin, Yingping Zhuang, Meijin Guo
2024 International Journal of Molecular Sciences  
Secondly, the transcriptome data revealed 3637 new genes previously unannotated in the Carthamus tinctorius genome and 3653 differentially expressed genes.  ...  The genes involved in the plant signaling pathway and the biosynthesis of CGAs and their precursors showed a general up-regulation, especially the HCT gene family, which ultimately promoted CGA biosynthesis  ...  Additionally, multiple sequence alignment analyses of the amino acid sequence of CtHCT protein and its highly homologous sequences were performed using the ggmsa and ggplot2 packages in R studio software  ... 
doi:10.3390/ijms25052710 pmid:38473957 pmcid:PMC10931740 fatcat:k5q6ziabrve5dj337cladsmncu

Genome-encoded ABCF factors implicated in intrinsic antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive bacteria: VmlR2, Ard1 and CplR [article]

Nozomu Obana, Hiraku Takada, Caillan Crowe-McAuliffe, Mizuki Iwamoto, Artyom A. Egorov, Kelvin J.Y. Wu, Victoriia Murina, Helge Paternoga, Ben I.C. Tresco, Nobuhiko Nomura, Andrew G. Myers, Gemma C. Atkinson (+2 others)
2022 bioRxiv   pre-print
Finally, assisted by our novel tool for detection of upstream open reading frames, we dissect the translational attenuation mechanism that controls the induction of cplR expression upon an antibiotic challenge  ...  We show that CplR contributes to intrinsic pleuromutilin, lincosamide and streptogramin A resistance in Clostridioides, and demonstrate that C. difficile CplR (CDIF630_02847) synergises with the transposon-encoded  ...  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Michael Hall for help with cryo-EM data collection and grid preparation, Farren Isaacs for providing the pRK24 plasmid (Ma et al., 2014)  ... 
doi:10.1101/2022.12.05.519065 fatcat:ukykhh6scffihfcrynrzzralau

The Influenza B Virus Victoria and Yamagata Lineages Display Distinct Cell Tropism and Infection-Induced Host Gene Expression in Human Nasal Epithelial Cell Cultures

Jo L Wilson, Elgin Akin, Ruifeng Zhou, Anne Jedlicka, Amanda Dziedzic, Hsuan Liu, Katherine Z J Fenstermacher, Richard E Rothman, Andrew Pekosz
2023
While ciliated epithelial cells were the dominant cell type infected by both lineages, B/Victoria lineages had a slight preference for MUC5AC-positive cells, and B/Yamagata lineages infected more basal  ...  Finally, while both lineages induced a strong interferon response 48 h after infection of hNEC cultures, the B/Victoria lineages showed a much stronger induction of interferon-related signaling pathways  ...  We gratefully acknowledge all data contributors, i.e., the Authors and their Originating laboratories responsible for obtaining the specimens, and their Submitting laboratories for generating the genetic  ... 
doi:10.3390/v15091956 pmid:37766362 pmcid:PMC10537232 fatcat:n6ouo4kd5jbzdmzrifwwexjq4a