Systems & Computational Biology
- Subgenomic RNA profiling suggests novel mechanism in coronavirus gene regulation and host adaption
CORONATATOR, developed to analyze the subgenomic RNA of coronavirus, was applied on large number of sequencing data sets from coronaviruses, and shed light on viral gene regulation.
- The value of genotype-specific reference for transcriptome analyses in barley
We demonstrate in this study that using a common reference genome may lead to loss of genotype-specific information in the assembled Reference Transcript Dataset (RTD) and the generation of erroneous, incomplete, or misleading transcriptomics analysis results in barley.
- Profiles of telomeric repeats in Insecta reveal diverse forms of telomeric motifs in Hymenopterans
A bioinformatic pipeline for telomeric repeat motif detection was applied to 129 insect species and identified diverse forms of telomeric motifs in Hymenopterans, including canonical 5-bp, novel 8- and 9-bp forms, suggesting extraordinary evolutionary fluidity of telomeric repeat in Hymenopterans.
- Conserved exchange of paralog proteins during neuronal differentiation
Paralog proteins promote fine tuning of protein complexes. The author identified a specific paralog signature conserved across vertebrate neuronal differentiation. Altering the ratio of SEC23 paralogs in the COPII complex influences neuronal differentiation in a opposite way.
- Proteomic landscape of SARS-CoV-2– and MERS-CoV–infected primary human renal epithelial cells
Translatome and proteome analyses of human proximal and distal tubular cells during coronavirus infection reveal distinctive host cell response patterns important for viral replication and renal pathology.
- Cis-regulatory hubs: a new 3D model of complex disease genetics with an application to schizophrenia
Genes and their regulatory elements are organized in neurons within 3D networks which model functional structures and explain schizophrenia genetic etiology.
- Cap analysis of gene expression reveals alternative promoter usage in a rat model of hypertension
Cap analysis of gene expression (CAGE) tag sequencing from left ventricles of a rat model of hypertension identifies genes that use alternative promoters in a disease condition.
- Mammalian splicing divergence is shaped by drift, buffering in trans, and a scaling law
This study globally investigates the allelic splicing pattern in multiple tissues of an F1 hybrid mouse and reveals the underlying driving forces shaping such tissue-dependent splicing divergence.
- Temporal and sequential order of nonoverlapping gene networks unraveled in mated female Drosophila
Mating triggers successive waves of temporal transcriptomic changes within independent gene networks in female Drosophila, suggesting a recruitment of interconnected modules that vanish in late life.
- Existence of log-phase Escherichia coli persisters and lasting memory of a starvation pulse
The authors characterize the growth condition dependence of survival of bacteria exposed to lethal antibiotics for a week. 1-h starvation pulse is shown to cause an increase in survival for days.