In this study,we isolated starches from non-traditional sources,including quinoa,lentil,arrowhead,gorgon fruit,sorghum,chickpea,proso millet,and purple potato and investigated their morphology,physicochemical,and func...
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In this study,we isolated starches from non-traditional sources,including quinoa,lentil,arrowhead,gorgon fruit,sorghum,chickpea,proso millet,and purple potato and investigated their morphology,physicochemical,and functional *** differences in starch particle morphology,swelling power,solubility,syneresis,crystalline pattern,and pasting viscosity were observed among the starches from these nontraditional ***,all these isolated starches had unique properties because of their characteristic distinct granules when seen under scanning electron microscopy(SEM).The amylose content of the isolated starches shown significant difference(P<0.05),and the values ranged between 11.46%and 37.61%.Results demonstrated that the isolated starches contained between 79.82%to 86.56%starch,indicating that the isolated starches had high purity.X-ray diffraction(XRD)patterns of starches isolated from sorghum,proso millet,quinoa,purple potato,and gorgon fruit presented A-type diffraction pattern;while lentil seeds,arrowhead,and chickpea starches presented C-type diffraction ***,these results will promote the development of products based on starch isolated from non-traditional starches.
Cell packs a lot of genetic and regulatory information through a structure known as chromatin,*** is wrapped around histone proteins and is tightly packed in a remarkable *** express a gene in a specific coding region...
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Cell packs a lot of genetic and regulatory information through a structure known as chromatin,*** is wrapped around histone proteins and is tightly packed in a remarkable *** express a gene in a specific coding region,the chromatin would open up and DNA loop may be formed by interacting enhancers and ***,the mediator and cohesion complexes,sequence-specific transcription factors,and RNA polymerase Ⅱ are recruited and work together to elaborately regulate the expression *** is in pressing need to understand how the information,about when,where,and to what degree genes should be expressed,is embedded into chromatin structure and gene regulatory *** to large consortia such as Encyclopedia of DNA Elements(ENCODE) and Roadmap Epigenomic projects,extensive data on chromatin accessibility and transcript abundance are available across many tissues and cell *** rich data offer an exciting opportunity to model the causal regulatory ***,we will review the current experimental approaches,foundational data,computational problems,interpretive frameworks,and integrative models that will enable the accurate interpretation of regulatory ***,we will discuss the efforts to organize,analyze,model,and integrate the DNA accessibility data,transcriptional data,and functional genomic regions *** believe that these efforts will eventually help us understand the information flow within the cell and will influence research directions across many fields.
The development of high-throughput (HTP) technologies such as transcriptomics (microarrays) and proteomics has made a revolution in the medical industry. PNNL is developing a systems biology computational framework us...
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The development of high-throughput (HTP) technologies such as transcriptomics (microarrays) and proteomics has made a revolution in the medical industry. PNNL is developing a systems biology computational framework using a problem-solving environment called bioinformatics Resource Manager (BRM) that automates routine data-merging and data-mining methods, and provides seamless linkage to data visualization tools. The BRM is designed to be operated by biologists looking for greater insights into their experimental results. BRM uses Remote Method Invocation (RMI) to launch several external data analysis tools, including NCBI's PubMed, the Conserved Domain Architectural Retrieval Tool (CDART) and the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST). PQuad is a proteomics visualization tool that combines DNA or RNA sequence and proteomics data at multiple resolutions. It enables visualization of the data at the chromosome, gene and sequence levels.
Background: The study of protein subcellular localization (PSL) is important for elucidating protein functions involved in various cellular processes. However, determining the localization sites of a protein through w...
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Background: The study of protein subcellular localization (PSL) is important for elucidating protein functions involved in various cellular processes. However, determining the localization sites of a protein through wet-lab experiments can be time-consuming and labor-intensive. Thus, computational approaches become highly desirable. Most of the PSL prediction systems are established for single-localized proteins. However, a significant number of eukaryotic proteins are known to be localized into multiple subcellular organelles. Many studies have shown that proteins may simultaneously locate or move between different cellular compartments and be involved in different biological processes with different roles. Results: In this study, we propose a knowledge based method, called KnowPredsite, to predict the localization site(s) of both single-localized and multi-localized proteins. Based on the local similarity, we can identify the "related sequences" for prediction. We construct a knowledge base to record the possible sequence variations for protein sequences. When predicting the localization annotation of a query protein, we search against the knowledge base and used a scoring mechanism to determine the predicted sites. We downloaded the dataset from ngLOC, which consisted of ten distinct subcellular organelles from 1923 species, and performed ten-fold cross validation experiments to evaluate KnowPred site's performance. The experiment results show that KnowPredsite achieves higher prediction accuracy than ngLOC and Blast-hit method. For singlelocalized proteins, the overall accuracy of KnowPredsite is 91.7%. For multi-localized proteins, the overall accuracy of KnowPred site is 72.1%, which is significantly higher than that of ngLOC by 12.4%. Notably, half of the proteins in the dataset that cannot find any Blast hit sequence above a specified threshold can still be correctly predicted by KnowPredsite. Conclusion: KnowPredsite demonstrates the power of identifying re
Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA, are creating computing environments for biologists that seamlessly integrate collections of data and co...
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, WA, are creating computing environments for biologists that seamlessly integrate collections of data and computational resources. MeDICi is an evolving middleware platform for building complex, high-performance analytical applications. MIF components are constructed using Java programming interfaces that support inter-component communication using asynchronous messaging. Local components execute inside the MIF container. Remote components create distributed solutions and integrate with non-Java code. Mule provides the MIF container environment. MIF extends the Mule interface to make component and pipeline construction easier and to create an encapsulation device for component creation. The MIF interface is agnostic of the underlying Java messaging platform. This allows deployments to configure MIF applications using technologies that meet individual quality-of-service requirements.
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the largest class of cell-surface receptor proteins with important functions in signal transduction and often serve as therapeutic drug targets. With the rapidly growing public ...
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Disrupted In Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is considered a multifunctional protein implicated in various signaling pathways with neurological relevant outcomes, with the Disrupted In Schizophrenia 1/Activating Transcription...
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The metabolic landscape of cancer greatly influences antitumor immunity, yet it remains unclear how organ-specific metabolites in the tumor microenvironment influence immunosurveillance. We found that accumulation of ...
The metabolic landscape of cancer greatly influences antitumor immunity, yet it remains unclear how organ-specific metabolites in the tumor microenvironment influence immunosurveillance. We found that accumulation of primary conjugated and secondary bile acids (BAs) are metabolic features of human hepatocellular carcinoma and experimental liver cancer models. Inhibiting conjugated BA synthesis in hepatocytes through deletion of the BA-conjugating enzyme bile acid-CoA:amino acid N-acyltransferase (BAAT) enhanced tumor-specific T cell responses, reduced tumor growth, and sensitized tumors to anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (anti-PD-1) immunotherapy. Furthermore, different BAs regulated CD8+ T cells differently;primary BAs induced oxidative stress, whereas the secondary BA lithocholic acid inhibited T cell function through endoplasmic reticulum stress, which was countered by ursodeoxycholic acid. We demonstrate that modifying BA synthesis or dietary intake of ursodeoxycholic acid could improve tumor immunotherapy in liver cancer model systems.
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