Mono-allelic epigenetic regulation of polycistronic transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II in Trypanosoma brucei by Rudo Kieft, Laura Cliffe, Haidong Yan, Robert J. Schmitz, Stephen L. Hajduk, Robert Sabatini

“…ABSTRACT Unique for a eukaryote, protein-coding genes in trypanosomes are arranged in polycistronic transcription units (PTUs). This genome arrangement has led to a model where Pol II transcription of PTUs is unregulated and changes in gene expression are entirely post-transcriptional. …”
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Epigenetic alterations of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 gene in the adipose tissue of patients with primary aldosteronism by Yoshimichi Takeda, Masashi Demura, Mitsuhiro Kometani, Shigehiro Karashima, Daisuke Aono, Seigo Konishi, Shin-ichi Horike, Makiko Meguro-Horike, Takashi Yoneda, Yoshiyu Takeda

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The Mla pathway promotes Vibrio cholerae re-expansion from stationary phase by Deborah R. Leitner, Franz G. Zingl, Alexander A. Morano, Hailong Zhang, Matthew K. Waldor

“…Whole genome sequencing revealed that mlaE suppressors inactivated flagellar biosynthesis. …”
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An Enigmatic Wild Passerine Mortality Event in the Eastern United States by Sabrina S. Greening, Julie C. Ellis, Nicole L. Lewis, David B. Needle, Cristina M. Tato, Susan Knowles, Valerie Shearn-Bochsler, Jaimie L. Miller, Daniel A Grear, Jeffrey M. Lorch, David S. Blehert, Caitlin Burrell, Lisa A. Murphy, Erica A. Miller, C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, Andrea J. Ayala, W. Kelley Thomas, Joseph L. Sevigny, Lawrence M. Gordon, Tessa Baillargeon, Lusajo Mwakibete, Megan Kirchgessner, Christine L. Casey, Ethan Barton, Michael J. Yabsley, Eman Anis, Roderick B. Gagne, Patrice Klein, Cindy Driscoll, Chelsea A. Sykes, Robert H. Poppenga, Nicole M. Nemeth

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N-of-1 medicine by Peter Wang, Qiao Ying Leong, Ni Yin Lau, Wei Ying Ng, Siong Peng Kwek, Lester Tan, Shang-Wei Song, Kui You, Li Ming Chong, Isaiah Zhuang, Yoong Hun Ong, Nigel Foo, Xavier Tadeo, Kirthika Senthil Kumar, Smrithi Vijayakumar, Yoann Sapanel, Marlena Natalia Raczkowska, Alexandria Remus, Agata Blasiak, Dean Ho

“…The fields of precision and personalised medicine have led to promising advances in tailoring treatment to individual patients. Examples include genome/molecular alteration-guided drug selection, single-patient gene therapy design and synergy-based drug combination development, and these approaches can yield substantially diverse recommendations. …”
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RIP mutated ITS genes in populations of Ophiocordyceps sinensis and their implications for molecular systematics by Yi Li, Lan Jiang, Ke Wang, Hai-Jun Wu, Rui-Heng Yang, Yu-Jing Yan, Kathryn E. Bushley, David L. Hawksworth, Zujian Wu, Yi-Jian Yao

“…The coexistence of diverged ITS paralogs in a single genome was previously shown by amplifying the ITS region from mono-ascospore isolates using specific primers designed for different ITS paralog groups. …”
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National antibiotic consumption is strongly related to the prevalence of antibiotic resistance across bacterial clades by Stilianos Louca

“…Here, I examine the prevalence of 155 antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in 300,209 bacterial genomes, from non-clinical non-human-associated terrestrial environments at over 9,600 locations in 44 countries. …”
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First isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19 patient of North East India by Aniruddha Jakharia, Biswajyoti Borkakoty, Sumi Pait, Gautam Baruah, Rahul Hazarika, Dipankar Biswas

“…Phylogenetic analyses of the whole genome sequences of the SARS-CoV-2 isolate (EPI_ISL_2501532 | 2020-05-19) showed monophyletic clade G and lineage B.1.1.…”
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De novo biosynthesis of quercetin in Yarrowia Lipolytica through systematic metabolic engineering for enhanced yield by Yuxing Dong, Wenping Wei, Mengfan Li, Tao Qian, Jiayun Xu, Xiaohe Chu, Bang-Ce Ye

“…We designed a kaempferol biosynthetic pathway by integrating multiple-copy fusion enzyme expression modules, F3H-(GGGGS)2-FLS, into the genome with an optimized linker (GGGGS)2 to enhance kaempferol production from naringenin. …”
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A Case of 17q21.31 Microduplication and 7q31.33 Microdeletion, Associated with Developmental Delay, Microcephaly, and Mild Dysmorphic Features by Adrian Mc Cormack, Juliet Taylor, Leah Te Weehi, Donald R. Love, Alice M. George

“…Analysis has shown that low-copy repeats (LCRs) have allowed chromosome regions throughout the genome to become hotspots for nonallelic homologous recombination to take place. …”
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GutBugDB: a web resource to predict the human gut microbiome-mediated biotransformation of biotic and xenobiotic molecules by Usha Longwani, Ashok K. Sharma, Aditya S. Malwe, Shubham K. Jaiswal, Vineet K. Sharma

“…This database is constructed using metabolic proteins from 690 gut bacterial genomes and 363,872 protein enzymes assigned with their EC numbers (with representative Expasy ID and domains present). …”
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Discovery of paradoxical genes: reevaluating the prognostic impact of overexpressed genes in cancer by Dequan Liu, Lei Liu, Xiangyu Che, Guangzhen Wu

“…Analyzing The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) confirmed the widespread presence of paradoxical genes, and KEGG analysis revealed their role in regulating tumor metabolism. …”
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A Mathematical Model for DNA Damage and Repair by Philip S. Crooke, Fritz F. Parl

“…In cells, DNA repair has to keep up with DNA damage to maintain the integrity of the genome and prevent mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. …”
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State of the art and new directions using DNA and other molecular markers in forensic entomology by David Haymer

“…Beginning with the use of single mitochondrial genes, the range of DNA-based markers available to forensic entomologists has grown to include a wide variety of individual mitochondrial and nuclear genes, and has further expanded to include the analysis of whole genomes and transcriptomes. The use of these new sets of markers has significantly enhanced the ability of forensic entomologists to identify insects associated with human cadavers and to provide improved estimates of the time elapsed since death, commonly referred to as the postmortem interval (PMI), along with other valuable information for crime scene investigations. …”
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High-Resolution Microscopy to Learn the Nuclear Organization of the Living Yeast Cells by Renjie Wang, Aiwen Huang, Yan Wang, Pengxin Mei, He Zhu, Qianqian Chen, Sankui Xu

“…The spatial organization of the nucleus is a key determinant in all genome activities. However, the accurate measurement of the nuclear organization is still technically challenging. …”
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Pitfalls in Genetic Testing for Consanguineous Pediatric Populations by Maha Saleh, Samantha Colaiacovo, Melanie P. Napier, Asuri N. Prasad, C. Anthony Rupar, Chitra Prasad

“…Our case further supports the recent American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recommendation of WES as a first or second-tier test for patients with developmental delay, particularly in a population where the chances of dual diagnosis is high.…”
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ELOE: A WEB APPLICATION FOR ESTIMATION OF GENE TRANSLATION ELONGATION EFFICIENCY by V. S. Sokolov, B. S. Zuraev, S. A. Lashin, Yu. G. Matushkin

“…In addition, the program identifies preferential codons in a genome and defines the distribution of stability of potential secondary structures in 5′ and 3′ regions of mRNA. …”
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Sex and neo-sex chromosome evolution in beetles. by Ryan Bracewell, Anita Tran, Kamalakar Chatla, Doris Bachtrog

“…We generated a whole-chromosome assembly of Tribolium confusum, which has a neo-sex chromosome, and utilize eleven additional beetle genomes to reconstruct karyotype evolution across Coleoptera. …”
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Lake salinization on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau alters viral community composition and lifestyles by Yuan-Guo Xie, Yan-Ling Qi, Zhen-Hao Luo, Yan-Ni Qu, Jian Yang, Shi-Qiang Liu, Hai-long Yang, Dan-Wei Xie, Zimeng Wang, Hong-Chen Jiang, Zheng-Shuang Hua

“…These shifts are mirrored in the prokaryotic communities, with Alphaproteobacteria and their infecting temperate viruses, notably Casadabanvirus, becoming more prevalent in higher salinity zones. Viral genomes encode genes associated with osmotic stress adaptation, DNA recombination, and nutrient transport, which may facilitate host adaptation to saline stress. …”
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Machine learning and multi-omics in precision medicine for ME/CFS by Katherine Huang, Brett A. Lidbury, Natalie Thomas, Paul R. Gooley, Christopher W. Armstrong

“…In this review, we explore how machine learning and multi-omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) can transform precision medicine in ME/CFS research and healthcare. …”
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