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Michael E. Baker. |
11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type-2 (11[beta]-HSD2) regulates the local concentration of cortisol that can activate the glucocorticoid receptor and mineralocorticoid receptor, as well as the concentration of 11-keto-testosterone, the active androgen in fish. Similarly, 17[beta]-HSD2 regulates the levels of testosterone and estradiol that activate the androgen receptor and estrogen receptor, respectively. Interestingly, although human 11[beta]-HSD2 and 17[beta]-HSD2 act at different positions on different steroids, these enzymes are paralogs. Despite the physiological importance of 11[beta]-HSD2 and 17[beta]-HSD2, details of their origins and divergence from a common ancestor are not known. An opportunity to understand their evolution is... |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Cancer; Developmental Biology; Pharmacology; Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4649/version/1 |
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P. Kumar; C. M. Ramakritinan; A. K. Kumaraguru. |
A bacterial strain, designated _Aeromonas sp. kumar_, was isolated from a water sample collected from Red tide Bloom occurred in the region of Gulf of Mannar region, Puthumadam Coast, India and the strain was identified using 16S rRNA based identification. During the sample collection, microbiology analysis was done to study the morphology of the bacteria. Pure culture of strain was maintained through out the study. DNA was isolated and sequenced using 16S rRNA primers. A length of 1452 nucleotide was sequenced and was put in public data base for obtaining accession number. The sequence was studied using MEGA 4, to estimate the evolutionary distances and to construct the Phylogenetic tree. Along with that Regulatory elements and Transcription factors were... |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Ecology; Microbiology; Bioinformatics. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3898/version/1 |
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Olaf Riess; Holm Graessner. |
The INCF Secretariat organized a workshop to focus on the “role of neuroinformatics in the processes of building, evaluating, and using genetic animal models for brain diseases” in Stockholm, December 13–14, 2009. Eight scientists specialized in the fields of neuroinformatics, database, ontologies, and brain disease participated together with two representatives of the National Institutes of Health and the European Union, as well as three observers of the national INCF nodes of Norway, Poland, and the United Kingdom. |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Neuroscience; Bioinformatics. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5909/version/1 |
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Mihail Bota; Larry Swanson. |
The goal of this workshop was to agree on a general strategy for developing a systematic, useful, and scientifically appropriate framework for neuroanatomical nomenclature. The workshop focused on general principles that will serve as a basis for future decisions on implementation strategies. The report discusses the problems arising from the use of different parcellation schemes and use of different terminologies and highlights the need of a universal vocabulary for describing the structural organization of the nervous system. Workshop participants encourage the creation of an International Coordinating Committee for Neuroanatomical Nomenclature and propose short- and long-term goals for such a committee. |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Neuroscience; Bioinformatics; Data Standards. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1780/version/1 |
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Michael E. Baker; David J. Chang. |
The origins of signaling by vertebrate steroids are not fully understood. An important advance was the report that an estrogen-binding steroid receptor [SR] is present in amphioxus, a basal chordate with a similar body plan as vertebrates. To investigate the evolution of estrogen binding to steroid receptors, we constructed a 3D model of amphioxus SR complexed with estradiol. This 3D model indicates that although the SR is activated by estradiol, some interactions between estradiol and human ER[alpha] are not conserved in the SR, which can explain the low affinity of estradiol for the SR. These differences between the SR and ER[alpha] in the steroid-binding domain are sufficient to suggest that another steroid is the physiological regulator of the SR.... |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Cancer; Developmental Biology; Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3316/version/1 |
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Michael E. Baker; Kayla Y. Uh; Paiyuam Asnaashari. |
The serum of Atlantic sea lamprey, a basal vertebrate, contains two corticosteroids, 11-deoxycortisol and deoxycorticosterone. Only 11-deoxycortisol has high affinity [Kd~3 nM] for the corticoid receptor [CR] in lamprey gill cytosol. To investigate the binding of 11-deoxycortisol to the CR, we constructed 3D models of lamprey CR complexed with 11-deoxycortisol and deoxycorticosterone. These 3D models reveal that Leu-220 and Met-299 in lamprey CR have contacts with the 17[alpha]-hydroxyl on 11-deoxycortisol. Lamprey CR is the ancestor of the mineralocorticoid receptor [MR] and glucocorticoid receptor [GR]. Unlike human MR and human GR, the 3D model of lamprey CR finds a van der Waals contact between Cys-227 in helix 3 and Met-264 in helix 5. Mutant... |
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Palavras-chave: Cancer; Developmental Biology; Pharmacology; Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6216/version/1 |
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Anuraj Nayarisseri; Mukesh Yadav; Dowlathabad Muralidhara Rao; Sonam Kukreja; Sheaza Ahmed; Pooja Singh. |
The 3 Dimensional structure of a protein is an expedient for structure based drug design and identifying the conformational epitopes that are foremost for designing the vaccines. Chikungunya (CHIKV) is a heat sensitive RNA virus which causes a viral disease which is transmitted in humans by human-mosquito-human transmission. Disease mostly found in the tropic and subtropical countries mainly in South India and in few other Asian countries. The primary transmission agents of Chikungunya Virus are yellow fever mosquito (_Aedes aegypti_) and forest day mosquito (_Aedes albopictus_). The forest day mosquito bites during day time and hence day time mosquito bite is the main reason for transmission. The main distinctive of the disease is a fever along with an... |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Bioinformatics. |
Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5143/version/1 |
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Qi Wang. |
3DScape is the first plug-in which enables three-
dimensional network visualization in Cytoscape. The extra dimension is useful in accommodating, visualizing, and distinguishing larger networks with multiple crossing connections.
Special features in 3DScape include 3D layout algorithms, mapping onto 3D models and animation effects on a series of expression data. 3DScape is available at http://www.rendware.com |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Bioinformatics. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6094/version/1 |
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Flávio Codeço Coelho; Claudia T. Codeço. |
Mathematical models in Biology are powerful tools for the study and exploration of complex dynamics. Nevertheless, bringing theoretical results to an agreement with experimental observations involves acknowledging a great deal of uncertainty intrinsic to our theoretical representation of a real system.
Proper handling of such uncertainties, is key to the successful usage of models to predict experimental or field observations. This problem has been addressed over the years by many tools for model calibration an parameter estimation. In this article we present a general framework for uncertainty analysis and parameter estimation which is designed to handle uncertainties associated with the modeling of dynamic biological systems... |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Bioinformatics. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/4044/version/1 |
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Tingting Qin; Lam Tsoi; Andrew Lawson; Jim Zheng. |
We developed a Bayesian hierarchical model to identify gene networks based on the similarity score generated from comparing the gene ontology fingerprints of gene pairs. Genes in this network were assumed to have similar biological functions that can be indicated by their ontology fingerprints. Our results indicate that different pathways show consistent score threshold that allow us to distinguish biological relevant gene—gene connections in the network. |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Bioinformatics. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3511/version/1 |
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