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Nucleic Acids Res ; 51(D1): D88-D100, 2023 01 06.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36318256

RESUMEN

Chromatin regulators (CRs) regulate epigenetic patterns on a partial or global scale, playing a critical role in affecting multi-target gene expression. As chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) data associated with CRs are rapidly accumulating, a comprehensive resource of CRs needs to be built urgently for collecting, integrating, and processing these data, which can provide abundant annotated information on CR upstream and downstream regulatory analyses as well as CR-related analysis functions. This study established an integrative CR resource, named CRdb (http://cr.liclab.net/crdb/), with the aim of curating a large number of available resources for CRs and providing extensive annotations and analyses of CRs to help biological researchers clarify the regulation mechanism and function of CRs. The CRdb database comprised a total of 647 CRs and 2,591 ChIP-seq samples from more than 300 human tissues and cell types. These samples have been manually curated from NCBI GEO/SRA and ENCODE. Importantly, CRdb provided the abundant and detailed genetic annotations in CR-binding regions based on ChIP-seq. Furthermore, CRdb supported various functional annotations and upstream regulatory information on CRs. In particular, it embedded four types of CR regulatory analyses: CR gene set enrichment, CR-binding genomic region annotation, CR-TF co-occupancy analysis, and CR regulatory axis analysis. CRdb is a useful and powerful resource that can help in exploring the potential functions of CRs and their regulatory mechanism in diseases and biological processes.


Asunto(s)
Cromatina , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Genómica , Humanos , Cromatina/genética , Bases de Datos Factuales , Genoma , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 51(D1): D280-D290, 2023 01 06.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36318264

RESUMEN

Super-enhancers (SEs) are cell-specific DNA cis-regulatory elements that can supervise the transcriptional regulation processes of downstream genes. SEdb 2.0 (http://www.licpathway.net/sedb) aims to provide a comprehensive SE resource and annotate their potential roles in gene transcriptions. Compared with SEdb 1.0, we have made the following improvements: (i) Newly added the mouse SEs and expanded the scale of human SEs. SEdb 2.0 contained 1 167 518 SEs from 1739 human H3K27ac chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) samples and 550 226 SEs from 931 mouse H3K27ac ChIP-seq samples, which was five times that of SEdb 1.0. (ii) Newly added transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) in SEs identified by TF motifs and TF ChIP-seq data. (iii) Added comprehensive (epi)genetic annotations of SEs, including chromatin accessibility regions, methylation sites, chromatin interaction regions and topologically associating domains (TADs). (iv) Newly embedded and updated search and analysis tools, including 'Search SE by TF-based', 'Differential-Overlapping-SE analysis' and 'SE-based TF-Gene analysis'. (v) Newly provided quality control (QC) metrics for ChIP-seq processing. In summary, SEdb 2.0 is a comprehensive update of SEdb 1.0, which curates more SEs and annotation information than SEdb 1.0. SEdb 2.0 provides a friendly platform for researchers to more comprehensively clarify the important role of SEs in the biological process.


Asunto(s)
Bases de Datos Genéticas , Elementos de Facilitación Genéticos , Animales , Humanos , Ratones , Cromatina/genética , Regulación de la Expresión Génica , Factores de Transcripción/genética , Factores de Transcripción/metabolismo
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Plant Biotechnol J ; 2024 Apr 09.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38593377

RESUMEN

Fusarium head blight (FHB) and the presence of mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) pose serious threats to wheat production and food safety worldwide. DON, as a virulence factor, is crucial for the spread of FHB pathogens on plants. However, germplasm resources that are naturally resistant to DON and DON-producing FHB pathogens are inadequate in plants. Here, detoxifying bacteria genes responsible for DON epimerization were used to enhance the resistance of wheat to mycotoxin DON and FHB pathogens. We characterized the complete pathway and molecular basis leading to the thorough detoxification of DON via epimerization through two sequential reactions in the detoxifying bacterium Devosia sp. D6-9. Epimerization efficiently eliminates the phytotoxicity of DON and neutralizes the effects of DON as a virulence factor. Notably, co-expressing of the genes encoding quinoprotein dehydrogenase (QDDH) for DON oxidation in the first reaction step, and aldo-keto reductase AKR13B2 for 3-keto-DON reduction in the second reaction step significantly reduced the accumulation of DON as virulence factor in wheat after the infection of pathogenic Fusarium, and accordingly conferred increased disease resistance to FHB by restricting the spread of pathogenic Fusarium in the transgenic plants. Stable and improved resistance was observed in greenhouse and field conditions over multiple generations. This successful approach presents a promising avenue for enhancing FHB resistance in crops and reducing mycotoxin contents in grains through detoxification of the virulence factor DON by exogenous resistance genes from microbes.

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Physiol Plant ; 176(3): e14353, 2024.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38801018

RESUMEN

Environmental factors, such as temperature and moisture, and plant factors, such as seed position on the mother plant, can affect seed viability and germination. However, little is known about the viability and germination of seeds in different positions on the mother plant after burial in soil under natural environmental conditions. Here, diaspores from three positions on a compound spike and seeds from two/three positions in a diaspore of the invasive diaspore-heteromorphic annual grass Aegilops tauschii were buried at four depths for more than 2 years (1-26 months) under natural conditions and viability and germination monitored monthly. Viability of seeds in each diaspore/seed position decreased as burial depth and duration increased and was associated with changes in soil temperature and moisture. Germination was highest at 2 cm and lowest at 10 cm soil depths, with peaks and valleys in autumn/spring and winter/summer, respectively. Overall, seeds in distal diaspore and distal seed positions had higher germination percentages than those in basal diaspore and basal seed positions, but basal ones lived longer than distal ones. Chemical content of fresh diaspores/seeds was related to diaspore/seed position effects on seed germination and viability during burial. We conclude that seeds in distal diaspores/seed positions have a 'high risk' strategy and those in basal positions a 'low risk' strategy. The two risk strategies may act as a bet-hedging strategy that spreads risks of germination failure in the soil seed bank over time, thereby facilitating the survival and invasiveness of A. tauschii.


Asunto(s)
Germinación , Poaceae , Semillas , Suelo , Germinación/fisiología , Semillas/fisiología , Semillas/crecimiento & desarrollo , Poaceae/fisiología , Poaceae/crecimiento & desarrollo , Suelo/química , Especies Introducidas , Temperatura , Estaciones del Año , Ambiente
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Chem Rev ; 122(18): 14679-14721, 2022 09 28.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35980039

RESUMEN

With the rapid development of optoelectronic fields, electrochromic (EC) materials and devices have received remarkable attention and have shown attractive potential for use in emerging wearable and portable electronics, electronic papers/billboards, see-through displays, and other new-generation displays, due to the advantages of low power consumption, easy viewing, flexibility, stretchability, etc. Despite continuous progress in related fields, determining how to make electrochromics truly meet the requirements of mature displays (e.g., ideal overall performance) has been a long-term problem. Therefore, the commercialization of relevant high-quality products is still in its infancy. In this review, we will focus on the progress in emerging EC materials and devices for potential displays, including two mainstream EC display prototypes (segmented displays and pixel displays) and their commercial applications. Among these topics, the related materials/devices, EC performance, construction approaches, and processing techniques are comprehensively disscussed and reviewed. We also outline the current barriers with possible solutions and discuss the future of this field.


Asunto(s)
Dispositivos Electrónicos Vestibles , Electrónica
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BMC Cardiovasc Disord ; 24(1): 286, 2024 May 30.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38816686

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Septic cardiomyopathy is one of the most severe and common complications in patients with sepsis and poses a great threat to their prognosis. However, the potential mechanisms and effective therapeutic drugs need to be explored. The control of cardiac cell death by miRNAs has emerged as a prominent area of scientific interest in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disorders in recent times. In the present investigation, we discovered that overexpression of miR-31-5p prevented LPS-induced damage to H9C2 cells and that miR-31-5p could inhibit BAP1 production by binding to its 3'-UTR. BRCA1-Associated Protein 1 (BAP1) is a ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase. BAP1 upregulation blocked effect of miR-31-5p on H9C2 cell injury. Moreover, BAP1 inhibited the expression of solute carrier family 7 member 11 (SLC7A11) by deubiquitinating histone 2 A (H2Aub) on the promoter of SLC7A11. Furthermore, overexpression of miR-31-5p and downregulation of BAP1 inhibited SLC7A11 mediated ferroptosis. In addition, the downregulation of SLC7A11 reversed the inhibitory effect of miR-31-5p on the expression of myocardial injury and inflammatory factors, and cell apoptosis was reversed. In conclusion, these results indicate that miR-31-5p alleviates malignant development of LPS-induced H9C2 cell injury by targeting BAP1 and regulating SLC7A11 deubiquitination-mediated ferroptosis, which confirmed the protective effect of miR-31-5p on H9C2 cell injury and revealed potential mechanisms that may provide new targets for treatment of septic cardiomyopathy.


Asunto(s)
Sistema de Transporte de Aminoácidos y+ , Cardiomiopatías , Ferroptosis , MicroARNs , Miocitos Cardíacos , Sepsis , Transducción de Señal , Proteínas Supresoras de Tumor , Ubiquitina Tiolesterasa , Ubiquitinación , MicroARNs/genética , MicroARNs/metabolismo , Miocitos Cardíacos/metabolismo , Miocitos Cardíacos/patología , Miocitos Cardíacos/efectos de los fármacos , Ubiquitina Tiolesterasa/genética , Ubiquitina Tiolesterasa/metabolismo , Cardiomiopatías/metabolismo , Cardiomiopatías/genética , Ferroptosis/efectos de los fármacos , Ferroptosis/genética , Animales , Proteínas Supresoras de Tumor/genética , Proteínas Supresoras de Tumor/metabolismo , Sepsis/genética , Sepsis/metabolismo , Línea Celular , Sistema de Transporte de Aminoácidos y+/genética , Sistema de Transporte de Aminoácidos y+/metabolismo , Ratas , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Humanos , Regulación de la Expresión Génica , Lipopolisacáridos/farmacología , Masculino
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 50(D1): D402-D412, 2022 01 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34986601

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Transcription factors (TFs) play key roles in biological processes and are usually used as cell markers. The emerging importance of TFs and related markers in identifying specific cell types in human diseases increases the need for a comprehensive collection of human TFs and related markers sets. Here, we developed the TF-Marker database (TF-Marker, http://bio.liclab.net/TF-Marker/), aiming to provide cell/tissue-specific TFs and related markers for human. By manually curating thousands of published literature, 5905 entries including information about TFs and related markers were classified into five types according to their functions: (i) TF: TFs which regulate expression of the markers; (ii) T Marker: markers which are regulated by the TF; (iii) I Marker: markers which influence the activity of TFs; (iv) TFMarker: TFs which play roles as markers and (v) TF Pmarker: TFs which play roles as potential markers. The 5905 entries of TF-Marker include 1316 TFs, 1092 T Markers, 473 I Markers, 1600 TFMarkers and 1424 TF Pmarkers, involving 383 cell types and 95 tissue types in human. TF-Marker further provides a user-friendly interface to browse, query and visualize the detailed information about TFs and related markers. We believe TF-Marker will become a valuable resource to understand the regulation patterns of different tissues and cells.


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Bases de Datos Genéticas , Neoplasias/genética , Programas Informáticos , Factores de Transcripción/genética , Transcripción Genética , Huesos/química , Huesos/metabolismo , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Colon/química , Colon/metabolismo , Femenino , Regulación de la Expresión Génica , Marcadores Genéticos , Humanos , Internet , Hígado/química , Hígado/metabolismo , Pulmón/química , Pulmón/metabolismo , Masculino , Glándulas Mamarias Humanas/química , Glándulas Mamarias Humanas/metabolismo , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Neoplasias/metabolismo , Neoplasias/patología , Especificidad de Órganos , Próstata/química , Próstata/metabolismo , Factores de Transcripción/clasificación , Factores de Transcripción/metabolismo
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 49(D1): D1431-D1444, 2021 01 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33095866

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With the study of human diseases and biological processes increasing, a large number of non-coding variants have been identified and facilitated. The rapid accumulation of genetic and epigenomic information has resulted in an urgent need to collect and process data to explore the regulation of non-coding variants. Here, we developed a comprehensive variation annotation database for human (VARAdb, http://www.licpathway.net/VARAdb/), which specifically considers non-coding variants. VARAdb provides annotation information for 577,283,813 variations and novel variants, prioritizes variations based on scores using nine annotation categories, and supports pathway downstream analysis. Importantly, VARAdb integrates a large amount of genetic and epigenomic data into five annotation sections, which include 'Variation information', 'Regulatory information', 'Related genes', 'Chromatin accessibility' and 'Chromatin interaction'. The detailed annotation information consists of motif changes, risk SNPs, LD SNPs, eQTLs, clinical variant-drug-gene pairs, sequence conservation, somatic mutations, enhancers, super enhancers, promoters, transcription factors, chromatin states, histone modifications, chromatin accessibility regions and chromatin interactions. This database is a user-friendly interface to query, browse and visualize variations and related annotation information. VARAdb is a useful resource for selecting potential functional variations and interpreting their effects on human diseases and biological processes.


Asunto(s)
Enfermedad de Alzheimer/genética , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/genética , Variación Genética , Genoma Humano , Sitios de Carácter Cuantitativo , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Enfermedad de Alzheimer/patología , Cromatina , Ensamble y Desensamble de Cromatina , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/metabolismo , Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2/patología , Elementos de Facilitación Genéticos , Humanos , Internet , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Polimorfismo de Nucleótido Simple , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas , Programas Informáticos
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 49(D1): D55-D64, 2021 01 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33125076

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Accessible chromatin is a highly informative structural feature for identifying regulatory elements, which provides a large amount of information about transcriptional activity and gene regulatory mechanisms. Human ATAC-seq datasets are accumulating rapidly, prompting an urgent need to comprehensively collect and effectively process these data. We developed a comprehensive human chromatin accessibility database (ATACdb, http://www.licpathway.net/ATACdb), with the aim of providing a large amount of publicly available resources on human chromatin accessibility data, and to annotate and illustrate potential roles in a tissue/cell type-specific manner. The current version of ATACdb documented a total of 52 078 883 regions from over 1400 ATAC-seq samples. These samples have been manually curated from over 2200 chromatin accessibility samples from NCBI GEO/SRA. To make these datasets more accessible to the research community, ATACdb provides a quality assurance process including four quality control (QC) metrics. ATACdb provides detailed (epi)genetic annotations in chromatin accessibility regions, including super-enhancers, typical enhancers, transcription factors (TFs), common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), risk SNPs, eQTLs, LD SNPs, methylations, chromatin interactions and TADs. Especially, ATACdb provides accurate inference of TF footprints within chromatin accessibility regions. ATACdb is a powerful platform that provides the most comprehensive accessible chromatin data, QC, TF footprint and various other annotations.


Asunto(s)
Cromatina/genética , Biología Computacional/métodos , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Programas Informáticos , Cromatina/metabolismo , Secuenciación de Nucleótidos de Alto Rendimiento , Humanos , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Análisis de Secuencia de ADN , Diseño de Software , Navegador Web
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Brief Bioinform ; 21(4): 1411-1424, 2020 07 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31350847

RESUMEN

With the increasing awareness of heterogeneity in cancers, better prediction of cancer prognosis is much needed for more personalized treatment. Recently, extensive efforts have been made to explore the variations in gene expression for better prognosis. However, the prognostic gene signatures predicted by most existing methods have little robustness among different datasets of the same cancer. To improve the robustness of the gene signatures, we propose a novel high-frequency sub-pathways mining approach (HiFreSP), integrating a randomization strategy with gene interaction pathways. We identified a six-gene signature (CCND1, CSF3R, E2F2, JUP, RARA and TCF7) in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) by HiFreSP. This signature displayed a strong ability to predict the clinical outcome of ESCC patients in two independent datasets (log-rank test, P = 0.0045 and 0.0087). To further show the predictive performance of HiFreSP, we applied it to two other cancers: pancreatic adenocarcinoma and breast cancer. The identified signatures show high predictive power in all testing datasets of the two cancers. Furthermore, compared with the two popular prognosis signature predicting methods, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator penalized Cox proportional hazards model and the random survival forest, HiFreSP showed better predictive accuracy and generalization across all testing datasets of the above three cancers. Lastly, we applied HiFreSP to 8137 patients involving 20 cancer types in the TCGA database and found high-frequency prognosis-associated pathways in many cancers. Taken together, HiFreSP shows higher prognostic capability and greater robustness, and the identified signatures provide clinical guidance for cancer prognosis. HiFreSP is freely available via GitHub: https://github.com/chunquanlipathway/HiFreSP.


Asunto(s)
Perfilación de la Expresión Génica , Neoplasias/genética , Algoritmos , Humanos , Pronóstico
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 48(D1): D51-D57, 2020 01 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31665430

RESUMEN

Enhancers are a class of cis-regulatory elements that can increase gene transcription by forming loops in intergenic regions, introns and exons. Enhancers, as well as their associated target genes, and transcription factors (TFs) that bind to them, are highly associated with human disease and biological processes. Although some enhancer databases have been published, most only focus on enhancers identified by high-throughput experimental techniques. Therefore, it is highly desirable to construct a comprehensive resource of manually curated enhancers and their related information based on low-throughput experimental evidences. Here, we established a comprehensive manually-curated enhancer database for human and mouse, which provides a resource for experimentally supported enhancers, and to annotate the detailed information of enhancers. The current release of ENdb documents 737 experimentally validated enhancers and their related information, including 384 target genes, 263 TFs, 110 diseases and 153 functions in human and mouse. Moreover, the enhancer-related information was supported by experimental evidences, such as RNAi, in vitro knockdown, western blotting, qRT-PCR, luciferase reporter assay, chromatin conformation capture (3C) and chromosome conformation capture-on-chip (4C) assays. ENdb provides a user-friendly interface to query, browse and visualize the detailed information of enhancers. The database is available at http://www.licpathway.net/ENdb.


Asunto(s)
Biología Computacional/métodos , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Elementos de Facilitación Genéticos , Genómica/métodos , Animales , Humanos , Ratones , Programas Informáticos , Diseño de Software , Interfaz Usuario-Computador , Navegador Web
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Opt Express ; 29(9): 13359-13372, 2021 Apr 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33985071

RESUMEN

Multispectral imaging plays a significant role in coastal mapping and monitoring applications. For tasks involving the integration of multiple overlapped images, precise co-registration of the multisource satellite images is a crucial preliminary step. However, due to the limited terrestrial area and insufficient landscape features, the traditional methods become less efficient or even invalid in offshore island environments. This study addresses the problem by exploring the feasibility of using bathymetry information for geometric registration of satellite imagery. Instead of using the ground control points (GCPs) or extracting the tie points from the landscape features, the band ratio values are extracted from the multispectral images and are subsequently matched between different images through a correlation-based similarity measure. By searching the optimum correlation within the positioning uncertainty radius, the translation between two satellite images is estimated. Thus, the geometric inconsistency between the multispectral images of different sources and resolutions is effectively reduced. This result is obtained by using the ample bathymetry features without the aid of the GCPs and the in-situ bathymetry data. The experimental results using GeoEye-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat-8 images at Ganquan Island show that for an island setting with a limited terrestrial area, the developed method achieves sub-pixel registration accuracy (less than 2 m) in planimetry. The effect of the nonlinearity and outliers are accounted for using the Spearman correlation measure. The improvement in image alignment enables the integration of multispectral images of different sources and resolutions for producing an accurate and consistent interpretation for coastal comparative and synergistic applications.

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BMC Cancer ; 21(1): 1128, 2021 Oct 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34670518

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BACKGROUND: Clinically, the coadministration of opioids to enhance antinociception and decrease tolerance has attracted increasing research attention. We investigated the effects of dezocine, a mu- and kappa-opioid receptor agonist/antagonist, on morphine tolerance and explored the involvement of opioid receptor expression in a rat model of bone cancer pain. METHODS: Thermal nociceptive thresholds were measured after the subcutaneous injection of morphine (10 mg/kg) alone or combined with dezocine (10 or 1 mg/kg) for 7 consecutive days. Real-time PCR and western blot analysis were used to examine opioid receptor expression in the periaqueductal gray (PAG) and spinal cord. RESULTS: The analgesic effect was significantly decreased after 4 days of morphine administration. We observed that low-dose dezocine significantly attenuated morphine tolerance without reducing the analgesic effect of morphine. Low-dose dezocine coadministration significantly reversed the downregulated expression of mu (MOR) and delta (DOR) opioid receptors in the PAG and the upregulated expression of kappa (KOR) and DOR in the spinal cord induced by morphine. Moreover, low-dose dezocine coadministered with morphine significantly inhibited KOR expression in both the PAG and spinal cord. CONCLUSIONS: The combination of low-dose dezocine with morphine may prevent or delay the development of morphine tolerance in a rat model of bone cancer pain. The regulation of opioid receptor expression in the PAG and spinal cord may be part of the mechanism.


Asunto(s)
Analgésicos Opioides/farmacología , Compuestos Bicíclicos Heterocíclicos con Puentes/farmacología , Dolor en Cáncer/tratamiento farmacológico , Tolerancia a Medicamentos , Morfina/farmacología , Receptores Opioides/efectos de los fármacos , Tetrahidronaftalenos/farmacología , Analgésicos Opioides/administración & dosificación , Animales , Neoplasias Óseas/complicaciones , Compuestos Bicíclicos Heterocíclicos con Puentes/administración & dosificación , Dolor en Cáncer/metabolismo , Línea Celular Tumoral , Regulación hacia Abajo/efectos de los fármacos , Interacciones Farmacológicas , Quimioterapia Combinada/métodos , Femenino , Calor , Hiperalgesia/fisiopatología , Morfina/administración & dosificación , Dimensión del Dolor/efectos de los fármacos , Umbral del Dolor , Sustancia Gris Periacueductal/metabolismo , Ratas , Ratas Wistar , Receptores Opioides/metabolismo , Receptores Opioides delta/metabolismo , Receptores Opioides kappa/efectos de los fármacos , Receptores Opioides kappa/metabolismo , Receptores Opioides mu/metabolismo , Médula Espinal/metabolismo , Tetrahidronaftalenos/administración & dosificación , Regulación hacia Arriba/efectos de los fármacos
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 47(D1): D235-D243, 2019 01 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30371817

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Super-enhancers are important for controlling and defining the expression of cell-specific genes. With research on human disease and biological processes, human H3K27ac ChIP-seq datasets are accumulating rapidly, creating the urgent need to collect and process these data comprehensively and efficiently. More importantly, many studies showed that super-enhancer-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and transcription factors (TFs) strongly influence human disease and biological processes. Here, we developed a comprehensive human super-enhancer database (SEdb, http://www.licpathway.net/sedb) that aimed to provide a large number of available resources on human super-enhancers. The database was annotated with potential functions of super-enhancers in the gene regulation. The current version of SEdb documented a total of 331 601 super-enhancers from 542 samples. Especially, unlike existing super-enhancer databases, we manually curated and classified 410 available H3K27ac samples from >2000 ChIP-seq samples from NCBI GEO/SRA. Furthermore, SEdb provides detailed genetic and epigenetic annotation information on super-enhancers. Information includes common SNPs, motif changes, expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL), risk SNPs, transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs), CRISPR/Cas9 target sites and Dnase I hypersensitivity sites (DHSs) for in-depth analyses of super-enhancers. SEdb will help elucidate super-enhancer-related functions and find potential biological effects.


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Biología Computacional/métodos , Bases de Datos Genéticas , Elementos de Facilitación Genéticos , Genómica/métodos , Humanos , Almacenamiento y Recuperación de la Información , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Programas Informáticos , Diseño de Software , Interfaz Usuario-Computador , Navegador Web
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Appl Opt ; 59(13): 4064-4075, 2020 May 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32400682

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Satellite laser altimetry can obtain submeter or even centimeter-level surface elevation information over a large range. However, the laser will inevitably be affected by clouds during transmission through the atmosphere, which seriously affects the accuracy of altimetry. In this paper, based on laser altimetry data, cloud optical depth inversion was realized by using the Fernald method. The influence of clouds on the echo waveform data was analyzed with actual data, and a method of cloud scattering error correction was proposed. The existing error correction methods are mostly based on the results of semi-analytical Monte Carlo simulations. In observations, it is difficult to synchronously obtain the parameters required for simulation, which significantly limits the method. Therefore, a method for correcting the cloud scattering error of satellite laser altimetry data based on an exponential model is also proposed. The experimental results show that when the cloud optical depth is 0-2, the root mean square error of the model is 0.05, which can correct the height measurement deviation caused by the cloud to within 5 cm and improve the availability of the laser height measurement data affected by the cloud scattering.

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J Cell Mol Med ; 23(2): 967-984, 2019 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30421585

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Competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) represent a novel mechanism of gene regulation that may mediate key subpathway regions and contribute to the altered activities of pathways. However, the classical methods used to identify pathways fail to specifically consider ceRNAs within the pathways and key regions impacted by them. We proposed a powerful strategy named ce-Subpathway for the identification of ceRNA-mediated functional subpathways. It provided an effective level of pathway analysis via integrating ceRNAs, differentially expressed (DE) genes and their key regions within the given pathways. We respectively analysed one pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and one myocardial infarction (MI) data sets and demonstrated that ce-Subpathway could identify many subpathways whose corresponding entire pathways were ignored by those non-ceRNA-mediated pathway identification methods. And these pathways have been well reported to be associated with PAH/MI-related cardiovascular diseases. Further evidence showed reliability of ceRNA interactions and robustness/reproducibility of the ce-Subpathway strategy by several data sets of different cancers, including breast cancer, oesophageal cancer and colon cancer. Survival analysis was finally applied to illustrate the clinical application value of the ceRNA-mediated functional subpathways using another data sets of pancreatic cancer. Comprehensive analyses have shown the power of a joint ceRNAs/DE genes and subpathway strategy based on their topologies.


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ARN/genética , Transducción de Señal/genética , Regulación Neoplásica de la Expresión Génica/genética , Humanos , Infarto del Miocardio/genética , Neoplasias/genética , Hipertensión Arterial Pulmonar/genética , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados
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BMC Nephrol ; 20(1): 228, 2019 06 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31221121

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BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure of mercury may induce glomerulonephritis. Clinical and pathological features of mercury-associated glomerulonephritis are not fully clear. This study retrospectively analyzed 35 cases of mercury-associated glomerulonephritis in a single Chinese center. METHODS: Thirty-five patients of mercury-associated glomerulonephritis were enrolled. Clinical data on diagnosis and during follow-up were collected. Plasma anti-phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) antibody, glomerular PLA2R and glomerular IgG subclasses deposition were detected in the cases with membranous nephropathy (MN). RESULTS: Mercury exposure was caused by skin lighting cream (20 patients), mercury-containing pills (9 patients), hair-dyeing agents (4 patients), and unidentified reasons (2 patients). All patients presented with proteinuria and normal renal function. The median of urinary protein was 4.6 (range 1.6~19.7) g/24 h. Twenty-two patients (62.9%) had nephrotic syndrome. Renal histopathology showed minimal change disease (MCD) in 21 patients (60.0%), MN in 13 (37.1%) and focal segmental glomerular sclerosis (FSGS) in 1 patient (2.9%). The proportion of MCD increased along with urinary mercury concentration (P = 0.024). In 13 cases of MN, all patients were negative for plasma anti-PLA2R antibody and glomerular PLA2R antigen. IgG1 (61.5%) and IgG4 (46.2%) deposits were noted along the glomerular capillary loops. Among the 16 patients received mercury detoxification monotherapy, 14 patients received 4.5 ± 2.8 (range 1~12) rounds of regimen and achieved complete remission in 4.5 (range 0.3~23.0) months, 2 patients stayed no remission. CONCLUSIONS: MCD was the most common pathological type of mercury-associated glomerulonephritis, followed by MN. The proportion of MCD increased along with the increase of urinary mercury concentration. Most patients could achieve complete remission after mercury detoxification.


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Glomerulonefritis/sangre , Glomerulonefritis/orina , Mercurio/sangre , Mercurio/orina , Adulto , China/epidemiología , Femenino , Glomerulonefritis/inducido químicamente , Glomerulonefritis/diagnóstico , Tinturas para el Cabello/efectos adversos , Humanos , Masculino , Mercurio/efectos adversos , Persona de Mediana Edad , Estudios Retrospectivos , Preparaciones para Aclaramiento de la Piel/efectos adversos , Adulto Joven
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J Cell Mol Med ; 22(2): 892-903, 2018 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29154475

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Cardiac hypertrophy (CH) is a common disease that originates from long-term heart pressure overload and finally leads to heart failure. Recently, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have attracted attention because they have broad and crucial functions in regulating complex biological processes. Some studies had found that lncRNAs play vital roles in complex cardiovascular diseases. However, the function and mechanism of lncRNAs in CH have not been elucidated. In our study, to investigate the potential roles of lncRNAs in CH, the Cardiac Hypertrophy-associated LncRNAs-Protein coding genes Network (CHLPN) was constructed by integrating gene microarray re-annotation and subpathway enrichment analyses. After performing random walking with restart in CHLPN, we predicted 21 significant risk lncRNAs, of which 7 (Kis2, 1700110K17Rik, Gm17501, E330017L17Rik, C630043F03Rik, Gm9866 and Ube4bos1) formed a close module with their co-expressed protein-coding genes (PCGs). We found that the module might play crucial roles in the development of CH. In particular, 44 PCGs that were co-expressed with six lncRNAs were enriched in CH-related biological processes and pathways. We also found that some lncRNAs participated in the competitive endogenous RNA cross-talk that might be involved in CH. These results indicate that the functional lncRNAs are related to post-transcriptional regulation and could shed light on a new molecular diagnostic target of CH.


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Cardiomegalia/genética , ARN Largo no Codificante/genética , Animales , Análisis por Conglomerados , Regulación de la Expresión Génica , Redes Reguladoras de Genes , Ratones , ARN Largo no Codificante/metabolismo , ARN Mensajero/genética , ARN Mensajero/metabolismo
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Comput Struct Biotechnol J ; 23: 77-86, 2024 Dec.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38125297

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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), which profiles gene expression at the cellular level, has effectively explored cell heterogeneity and reconstructed developmental trajectories. With the increasing research on diseases and biological processes, scRNA-seq datasets are accumulating rapidly, highlighting the urgent need for collecting and processing these data to support comprehensive and effective annotation and analysis. Here, we have developed a comprehensive Single-Cell transcriptome integration database for human and mouse (SCInter, https://bio.liclab.net/SCInter/index.php), which aims to provide a manually curated database that supports the provision of gene expression profiles across various cell types at the sample level. The current version of SCInter includes 115 integrated datasets and 1016 samples, covering nearly 150 tissues/cell lines. It contains 8016,646 cell markers in 457 identified cell types. SCInter enabled comprehensive analysis of cataloged single-cell data encompassing quality control (QC), clustering, cell markers, multi-method cell type automatic annotation, predicting cell differentiation trajectories and so on. At the same time, SCInter provided a user-friendly interface to query, browse, analyze and visualize each integrated dataset and single cell sample, along with comprehensive QC reports and processing results. It will facilitate the identification of cell type in different cell subpopulations and explore developmental trajectories, enhancing the study of cell heterogeneity in the fields of immunology and oncology.

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