Geometric and topological features of proteins such as voids, pockets and channels are important for protein functions. We discuss a method for visualizing protein pockets and channels based on orthogonal spheres comp...
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A key component in protein structure prediction is the development of potentials that can discriminate native or near native structures from the wrong ones. Most previously developed statistical potentials are based o...
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BACKGROUND:Adult septic patients with substance abuse disorder (SUD) are at increased risk of poor outcomes, but the impact on adolescents is unknown. We aimed to determine if pre-existing SUD is associated with incre...
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The incongruence between gene trees and species trees is one of the most pervasive challenges in molecular phylogenetics. In this work, a machine learning approach is proposed to overcome this problem. In the machine ...
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide. CVD is known to increase the risk of subsequent neurodegeneration but the mechanism(s) and proteins involved have yet to be elucidated. We previ...
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Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide. CVD is known to increase the risk of subsequent neurodegeneration but the mechanism(s) and proteins involved have yet to be elucidated. We previously showed that myocardial infarction (MI), induced in mice and compared to sham-MI mice, leads to increases in protein aggregation, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in both heart and brain, and changes in proteostatic pathways. In this study, we further investigate the molecular mechanisms altered by induced MI in mice, which were also implicated by proteomics of postmortem human hippocampal aggregates from Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients, vs. age-matched controls (AMC). We utilized intra-aggregate crosslinking to identify protein-protein contacts or proximities, and thus to reconstruct aggregate "contactomes" (nonfunctional interactomes). We used leave-one-out analysis (LOOA) to determine the contribution of each protein to overall aggregate cohesion, and gene ontology meta-analyses of constituent proteins to define critical organelles, processes, and pathways that distinguish AD and/or CVD from AMC aggregates. We identified influential proteins in both AD and CVD aggregates, many of which are associated with pathways or processes previously implicated in neurodegeneration such as mitochondrial, oxidative, and endoplasmic-reticulum stress; protein aggregation and proteostasis; the ubiquitin proteasome system and autophagy; axonal transport; and synapses.
Although entropy and relative entropy (K-L distance) are widely applied in many bioinformatics areas, there is no method given to compute the multispecies gene entropy yet. This paper presents the first multispecies g...
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For the last 10 years, Sin Biota, the information system of the Biota-FAPESP program, has served the community storing and displaying data in maps, and providing a common base for researchers in different areas to com...
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Three-dimensional structures of proteins, experimental or predicted, show us how these molecular machines actually work. With the help of information on disease-related mutations, they can also show us how they malfun...
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Three-dimensional structures of proteins, experimental or predicted, show us how these molecular machines actually work. With the help of information on disease-related mutations, they can also show us how they malfunction in diseases. Such understanding, currently lacking for most human diseases, is an important first step before designing drugs or therapies to cure specific diseases. Here we used homology modeling to model human disease-related proteins, and studied structural characteristics of disease related' mutations and compared them with non synonymous SNPs. 1484 domains from 874 proteins were modeled, and together with experimentally determined structures of 369 domains they provided the structural coverage of 48% of total residues in 1237 human disease proteins. We found that disease-related mutations have statistically significantly preference to form clusters on protein surfaces. In contrast, the non-synonymous SNPs appear to be randomly distributed on the surface. We interpret these results as an indication that disease mutations affect protein-protein interaction interfaces. This interpretation is supported by the analysis of 8 experimentally determined complexes between disease proteins, where disease-related mutations are clearly located in the binding interface of proteins, while SNPs are not. The non-uniform distribution of disease mutations indicates that we can use this feature as guidance in modeling and evaluating human disease proteins and their complexes. We set up a resource for Disease Protein Models (DPM at http://***/DPM>. which can be used for studying the relation between disease and mutation / polymorphism sites in the context of protein 3D structures and complexes.
Single-cell multi-omics is a transformative technology that measures both gene expression and chromatin accessibility in individual cells. However, most studies concentrate on a single tissue and are unable to determi...
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Single-cell multi-omics is a transformative technology that measures both gene expression and chromatin accessibility in individual cells. However, most studies concentrate on a single tissue and are unable to determine whether a gene is regulated by a cis-regulatory element (CRE) in just one tissue or across multiple tissues. We developed Compass for comparative analysis of gene regulation across a large number of human and mouse tissues. Compass consists of a database, CompassDB, and an open-source R software package, CompassR. CompassDB contains processed single-cell multi-omics data of more than 2.8 million cells from hundreds of cell types. Building upon CompassDB, CompassR enables visualization and comparison of gene regulation across multiple tissues. We demonstrated that CompassR can identify CRE-gene linkages specific to a tissue type and their associated transcription factors in real examples.
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