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Browsing by Subject "Conserved Sequence"
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Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.
(Science, 2014-12-12)Birds are the most species-rich class of tetrapod vertebrates and have wide relevance across many research fields. We explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 avian species representing all major extant clades. ... -
Conservation, duplication, and loss of the Tor signaling pathway in the fungal kingdom.
(BMC Genomics, 2010-09-23)BACKGROUND: The nutrient-sensing Tor pathway governs cell growth and is conserved in nearly all eukaryotic organisms from unicellular yeasts to multicellular organisms, including humans. Tor is the target of the immunosuppressive ... -
Evolution of networks and sequences in eukaryotic cell cycle control.
(Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2011-12-27)The molecular networks regulating the G1-S transition in budding yeast and mammals are strikingly similar in network structure. However, many of the individual proteins performing similar network roles appear to have unrelated ... -
Finding regulatory DNA motifs using alignment-free evolutionary conservation information.
(Nucleic Acids Res, 2010-04)As an increasing number of eukaryotic genomes are being sequenced, comparative studies aimed at detecting regulatory elements in intergenic sequences are becoming more prevalent. Most comparative methods for transcription ... -
Identification and utilization of arbitrary correlations in models of recombination signal sequences.
(Genome Biol, 2002)BACKGROUND: A significant challenge in bioinformatics is to develop methods for detecting and modeling patterns in variable DNA sequence sites, such as protein-binding sites in regulatory DNA. Current approaches sometimes ... -
Identification of autoantigens recognized by the 2F5 and 4E10 broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibodies.
(J Exp Med, 2013-02-11)Many human monoclonal antibodies that neutralize multiple clades of HIV-1 are polyreactive and bind avidly to mammalian autoantigens. Indeed, the generation of neutralizing antibodies to the 2F5 and 4E10 epitopes of HIV-1 ... -
Myosin VIIA, important for human auditory function, is necessary for Drosophila auditory organ development.
(PLoS One, 2008-05-07)BACKGROUND: Myosin VIIA (MyoVIIA) is an unconventional myosin necessary for vertebrate audition [1]-[5]. Human auditory transduction occurs in sensory hair cells with a staircase-like arrangement of apical protrusions called ... -
Nociceptor-Enriched Genes Required for Normal Thermal Nociception.
(Cell reports, 2016-07)Here, we describe a targeted reverse genetic screen for thermal nociception genes in Drosophila larvae. Using laser capture microdissection and microarray analyses of nociceptive and non-nociceptive neurons, we identified ... -
Prospective estimation of recombination signal efficiency and identification of functional cryptic signals in the genome by statistical modeling.
(J Exp Med, 2003-01-20)The recombination signals (RS) that guide V(D)J recombination are phylogenetically conserved but retain a surprising degree of sequence variability, especially in the nonamer and spacer. To characterize RS variability, we ... -
Structure of HIV-1 gp120 V1/V2 domain with broadly neutralizing antibody PG9.
(Nature, 2011-11-23)Variable regions 1 and 2 (V1/V2) of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) gp120 envelope glycoprotein are critical for viral evasion of antibody neutralization, and are themselves protected by extraordinary sequence diversity ... -
Suppression of CHK1 by ETS Family Members Promotes DNA Damage Response Bypass and Tumorigenesis.
(Cancer discovery, 2015-05)UNLABELLED:The ETS family of transcription factors has been repeatedly implicated in tumorigenesis. In prostate cancer, ETS family members, such as ERG, ETV1, ETV4, and ETV5, are frequently overexpressed due to chromosomal ... -
Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs.
(Science, 2014-12-12)To provide context for the diversification of archosaurs--the group that includes crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds--we generated draft genomes of three crocodilians: Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator), ... -
Three periods of regulatory innovation during vertebrate evolution.
(Science (New York, N.Y.), 2011-08)The gain, loss, and modification of gene regulatory elements may underlie a substantial proportion of phenotypic changes on animal lineages. To investigate the gain of regulatory elements throughout vertebrate evolution, ...