We employ a novel implementation of flux balance analysis to investigate the role of genome structure in the maintenance of metabolic robustness. We propose the hypothesis that the genomic organization of a bacterium ...
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We employ a novel implementation of flux balance analysis to investigate the role of genome structure in the maintenance of metabolic robustness. We propose the hypothesis that the genomic organization of a bacterium buffers its metabolome against random gene deletion. To test this hypothesis, we use a novel implementation of producibility analysis to determine the metabolomic impact of gene deletions in the E. coli iJR904 genome-scale metabolic model. From these results, we determine metabolomic fragility, which we compute as the average number of metabolites knocked out across all gene deletions of a given size in a given nutrient media. We apply this analysis for three deletion window sizes (4000, 8000, 16000 bp) across the length of the E. coli genome. We compare these results to those obtained from several null distributions of permuted genomes to assess the impact of E. coli genome organization on its metabolic robustness. Our results strongly suggest that the arrangement of genes on the E. coli genome buffers metabolite producibility against random gene deletion. Our results have interesting implications for the understanding of metabolic network evolution. Future work includes examining our hypothesis for a wider range of deletion sizes and nutrient environments and extending our results to the metabolic networks of other species.
This systematic literature review explores the application of transformer models in early detection of human depression, encompassing text, audio, and video data modalities. Transformer architectures, notably BERT for...
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The ability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to accurately discriminate between normal and tumorous brain tissues has been promising. The review focuses on the different CNN models, pre-processing methods, data...
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There is still a severe malaria problem worldwide, particularly in regions with limited access to diagnostic tools. It is crucial to develop a system for detecting malaria in blood cells. This paper presents a hybrid ...
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Medical imaging abnormality detection is challenging, but deep learning approaches have shown promise. This paper reviews the current state of the art in deep learning approaches for detecting abnormalities in chest m...
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Enzymes are biocatalysts with vital roles in biological functions and many industrial applications. Diverse enzymes are classified using Enzyme Commission (EC) nomenclature, making differentiation challenging. On the ...
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Cervical cancer has been known as one of the most prevalent medical disorders globally and a leading cause of death. Early detection, particularly through Pap tests, plays a vital role in its prevention. Previous stud...
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Genome-and transcriptome-wide amino acid usage preference across different species is a well-studied phenomenon in molecular evolution,but its characteristics and implication in cancer evolution and therapy remain lar...
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Genome-and transcriptome-wide amino acid usage preference across different species is a well-studied phenomenon in molecular evolution,but its characteristics and implication in cancer evolution and therapy remain largely ***,we analyzed large-scale transcriptome/proteome profiles,such as The Cancer Genome Atlas(TCGA),the Genotype-Tissue Expression(GTEx),and the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium(CPTAC),and found that compared to normal tissues,different cancer types showed a convergent pattern toward using biosynthetically low-cost amino *** a pattern can be accurately captured by a single index based on the average biosynthetic energy cost of amino acids,termed energy cost per amino acid(ECPA).With this index,we further compared the trends of amino acid usage and the contributing genes in cancer and tissue development,and revealed their reversed ***,focusing on the liver,a tissue with a dramatic increase in ECPA during development,we found that ECPA represents a powerful biomarker that could distinguish liver tumors from normal liver samples consistently across 11 independent patient cohorts and outperforms any index based on single *** study reveals an important principle underlying cancer evolution and suggests the global amino acid usage as a system-level biomarker for cancer diagnosis.
Defects in gastric progenitor cell differentiation are associated with various gastric disorders, including atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, and gastric cancer. However, the mechanisms underlying the multili...
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Defects in gastric progenitor cell differentiation are associated with various gastric disorders, including atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, and gastric cancer. However, the mechanisms underlying the multilineage differentiation of gastric progenitor cells during healthy homeostasis remain poorly understood. Here, using a single-cell RNA sequencing method, Quartz-Seq2, we analyzed the gene expression dynamics of progenitor cell differentiation toward pit cell, neck cell, and parietal cell lineages in healthy adult mouse corpus tissues. Enrichment analysis of pseudotime-dependent genes and a gastric organoid assay revealed that EGFR-ERK signaling promotes pit cell differentiation, whereas NF-κB signaling maintains gastric progenitor cells in an undifferentiated state. In addition, pharmacological inhibition of EGFR in vivo resulted in a decreased number of pit cells. Although activation of EGFR signaling in gastric progenitor cells has been suggested as one of the major inducers of gastric cancers, our findings unexpectedly identified that EGFR signaling exerts a differentiation-promoting function, not a mitogenic function, in normal gastric homeostasis.
DNA helicases are motor proteins that play essential roles in DNA replication, repair and recombination. In the replicative hexameric helicase, the fundamental reaction is the unwinding of duplex DNA;however, our unde...
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