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Fast and Reliable Prediction of Noncoding Rnas
Fast and reliable prediction of noncoding RNAs Stefan Washietl*, Ivo L. Hofacker*, and Peter F. Stadler*†‡ *Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Biology, University of Vienna, Wa¨hringerstrasse 17, A-1090 Wien, Austria; and †Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Ha¨rtelstrasse 16-18, D-04107 Leipzig, Germany Communicated by Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, December 14, 2004 (received for review November 2, 2004) We report an efficient method for detecting functional RNAs. The served noncoding elements in mammalian (or, more generally, approach, which combines comparative sequence analysis and vertebrate) genomes, and it must be expected that a significant structure prediction, already has yielded excellent results for a fraction of them are functional RNAs. small number of aligned sequences and is suitable for large-scale Possible candidates, however, have been identified only spo- genomic screens. It consists of two basic components: (i) a measure radically so far (19, 21), simply because there are no reliable tools for RNA secondary structure conservation based on computing a to scan multiple sequence alignments for functional RNAs. The consensus secondary structure, and (ii) a measure for thermody- most widely used program QRNA (22), which has been success- namic stability, which, in the spirit of a z score, is normalized with fully used to identify ncRNAs in bacteria (23) and yeast (24), is respect to both sequence length and base composition but can be not suitable for screens of large genomes. QRNA is limited to calculated without sampling from shuffled sequences. Functional pairwise alignments, and its reliability is low, especially if the RNA secondary structures can be identified in multiple sequence evolutionary distance of the two sequences lies outside of the alignments with high sensitivity and high specificity. -
Comparing Tools for Non-Coding RNA Multiple Sequence Alignment Based On
Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 26, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ES Wright 1 1 TITLE 2 RNAconTest: Comparing tools for non-coding RNA multiple sequence alignment based on 3 structural consistency 4 Running title: RNAconTest: benchmarking comparative RNA programs 5 Author: Erik S. Wright1,* 6 1 Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) 7 * Corresponding author: Erik S. Wright ([email protected]) 8 Keywords: Multiple sequence alignment, Secondary structure prediction, Benchmark, non- 9 coding RNA, Consensus secondary structure 10 Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 26, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ES Wright 2 11 ABSTRACT 12 The importance of non-coding RNA sequences has become increasingly clear over the past 13 decade. New RNA families are often detected and analyzed using comparative methods based on 14 multiple sequence alignments. Accordingly, a number of programs have been developed for 15 aligning and deriving secondary structures from sets of RNA sequences. Yet, the best tools for 16 these tasks remain unclear because existing benchmarks contain too few sequences belonging to 17 only a small number of RNA families. RNAconTest (RNA consistency test) is a new 18 benchmarking approach relying on the observation that secondary structure is often conserved 19 across highly divergent RNA sequences from the same family. RNAconTest scores multiple 20 sequence alignments based on the level of consistency among known secondary structures 21 belonging to reference sequences in their output alignment. Similarly, consensus secondary 22 structure predictions are scored according to their agreement with one or more known structures 23 in a family. -
U4 Small Nuclear RNA Dissociates from a Yeast Spliceosome And
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY, Nov. 1991, p. 5571-5577 Vol. 11, No. 11 0270-7306/91/115571-07$02.00/0 Copyright C) 1991, American Society for Microbiology U4 Small Nuclear RNA Dissociates from a Yeast Spliceosome and Does Not Participate in the Subsequent Splicing Reaction SHYUE-LEE YEAN AND REN-JANG LIN* Department of Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1095 Received 16 April 1991/Accepted 19 August 1991 U4 and U6 small nuclear RNAs reside in a single ribonucleoprotein particle, and both are required for pre-mRNA splicing. The U4/U6 and U5 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins join Ul and U2 on the pre-mRNA during spliceosome assembly. Binding of U4 is then destabilized prior to or concomitant with the 5' cleavage-ligation. In order to test the role of U4 RNA, we isolated a functional spliceosome by using extracts prepared from yeast cells carrying a temperature-sensitive allele ofprp2 (rna2). The isolated prp2A spliceosome contains U2, U5, U6, and possibly also I11 and can be activated to splice the bound pre-mRNA. U4 RNA does not associate with the isolated spliceosomes and is shown not to be involved in the subsequent cleavage-ligation reactions. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the role of U4 in pre-mRNA splicing is to deliver U6 to the spliceosome. Splicing of introns from nuclear pre-mRNAs occurs by mRNA in a spliceosome (19, 22). This prp2A spliceosome is two cleavage-ligation (transesterification) reactions. The first functional, since it can be activated to splice if supplemented reaction is a cleavage at the 5' splice site and the formation with splicing factors and ATP. -
Genome Sequencing Unveils a Regulatory Landscape of Platelet Reactivity
ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23470-9 OPEN Genome sequencing unveils a regulatory landscape of platelet reactivity Ali R. Keramati 1,2,124, Ming-Huei Chen3,4,124, Benjamin A. T. Rodriguez3,4,5,124, Lisa R. Yanek 2,6, Arunoday Bhan7, Brady J. Gaynor 8,9, Kathleen Ryan8,9, Jennifer A. Brody 10, Xue Zhong11, Qiang Wei12, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision (TOPMed) Consortium*, Kai Kammers13, Kanika Kanchan14, Kruthika Iyer14, Madeline H. Kowalski15, Achilleas N. Pitsillides4,16, L. Adrienne Cupples 4,16, Bingshan Li 12, Thorsten M. Schlaeger7, Alan R. Shuldiner9, Jeffrey R. O’Connell8,9, Ingo Ruczinski17, Braxton D. Mitchell 8,9, ✉ Nauder Faraday2,18, Margaret A. Taub17, Lewis C. Becker1,2, Joshua P. Lewis 8,9,125 , 2,14,125✉ 3,4,125✉ 1234567890():,; Rasika A. Mathias & Andrew D. Johnson Platelet aggregation at the site of atherosclerotic vascular injury is the underlying patho- physiology of myocardial infarction and stroke. To build upon prior GWAS, here we report on 16 loci identified through a whole genome sequencing (WGS) approach in 3,855 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) participants deeply phenotyped for platelet aggregation. We identify the RGS18 locus, which encodes a myeloerythroid lineage-specific regulator of G-protein signaling that co-localizes with expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) signatures for RGS18 expression in platelets. Gene-based approaches implicate the SVEP1 gene, a known contributor of coronary artery disease risk. Sentinel variants at RGS18 and PEAR1 are associated with thrombosis risk and increased gastrointestinal bleeding risk, respectively. Our WGS findings add to previously identified GWAS loci, provide insights regarding the mechanism(s) by which genetics may influence cardiovascular disease risk, and underscore the importance of rare variant and regulatory approaches to identifying loci contributing to complex phenotypes. -
Experimental Eye Research 129 (2014) 93E106
Experimental Eye Research 129 (2014) 93e106 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Experimental Eye Research journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/yexer Transcriptomic analysis across nasal, temporal, and macular regions of human neural retina and RPE/choroid by RNA-Seq S. Scott Whitmore a, b, Alex H. Wagner a, c, Adam P. DeLuca a, b, Arlene V. Drack a, b, Edwin M. Stone a, b, Budd A. Tucker a, b, Shemin Zeng a, b, Terry A. Braun a, b, c, * Robert F. Mullins a, b, Todd E. Scheetz a, b, c, a Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA b Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA c Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA article info abstract Article history: Proper spatial differentiation of retinal cell types is necessary for normal human vision. Many retinal Received 14 September 2014 diseases, such as Best disease and male germ cell associated kinase (MAK)-associated retinitis pigmen- Received in revised form tosa, preferentially affect distinct topographic regions of the retina. While much is known about the 31 October 2014 distribution of cell types in the retina, the distribution of molecular components across the posterior pole Accepted in revised form 4 November 2014 of the eye has not been well-studied. To investigate regional difference in molecular composition of Available online 5 November 2014 ocular tissues, we assessed differential gene expression across the temporal, macular, and nasal retina and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)/choroid of human eyes using RNA-Seq. -
Forward Genetics
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY, Sept. 1992, p. 3939-3947 Vol. 12, No. 9 0270-7306/92/093939-09$02.00/0 Copyright X 1992, American Society for Microbiology PRP38 Encodes a Yeast Protein Required for Pre-mRNA Splicing and Maintenance of Stable U6 Small Nuclear RNA Levels STEVEN BLANTON, APARNA SRINIVASAN, AND BRIAN C. RYMOND* T. H. Morgan School ofBiological Sciences, University ofKentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0225 Downloaded from Received 7 April 1992/Returned for modification 14 May 1992/Accepted 17 June 1992 An essential pre-mRNA splicing factor, the product of the PRP38 gene, has been genetically identified in a screen of temperature-sensitive mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Shifting temperature-sensitive prp38 cultures from 23 to 37°C prevents the first cleavage-ligation event in the excision of introns from mRNA precursors. In vitro splicing inactivation and complementation studies suggest that the PRP38-encoded factor functions, at least in part, after stable splicing complex formation. The PRP38 locus contains a 726-bp open reading frame coding for an acidic 28-kDa polypeptide (PRP38). While PRP38 lacks obvious structural similarity to previously defined splicing factors, heat inactivation of PRP38, PRP19, or any of the known U6 http://mcb.asm.org/ (or U4/U6) small nuclear ribonucleoprotein-associating proteins (i.e., PRP3, PRP4, PRP6, and PRP24) leads to a common, unexpected consequence: intracellular U6 small nuclear RNA (snRNA) levels decrease as splicing activity is lost. Curiously, U4 snRNA, normally extensively base paired with U6 snRNA, persists in the virtual absence of U6 snRNA. The excision of intervening sequences from eukaryotic ates from the spliceosome (11, 37). -
Domains of Yeast U4 Spliceosomal RNA Required for PRP4 Protein Binding, Snrnp-Snrnp Interactions, and Pre- Mrna Splicing in Vivo
Downloaded from genesdev.cshlp.org on September 27, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Domains of yeast U4 spliceosomal RNA required for PRP4 protein binding, snRNP-snRNP interactions, and pre- mRNA splicing in vivo R6my Bordonn4, Josette Banroques,~, 2 John Abelson, 1 and Christine Guthrie s Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 USA; ~Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 USA U4 small nuclear RNA (snRNA) contains two intramolecular stem-loop structures, located near each end of the molecule. The 5' stem-loop is highly conserved in structure and separates two regions of U4 snRNA that base- pair with U6 snRNA in the U4/U6 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle (snRNP). The 3' stem-loop is highly divergent in structure among species and lies immediately upstream of the binding site for Sm proteins. To investigate the function of these two domains, mutants were constructed that delete the yeast U4 snRNA 5' stem-loop and that replace the yeast 3' stem-loop with that from trypanosome U4 snRNA. Both mutants fail to complement a null allele of the yeast U4 gene. The defects of the mutants have been examined in heterozygous strains by native gel electrophoresis, glycerol gradient centrifugation, and immunoprecipitation. The chimeric yeast-trypanosome RNA does not associate efficiently with U6 snRNA, suggesting that the 3' stem-loop of yeast U4 snRNA might be a binding site for a putative protein that facilitates assembly of the U4/U6 complex. In contrast, the 5' hairpin deletion mutant associates efficiently with U6 snRNA. -
Whole-Exome SNP Array Identifies 15 New Susceptibility Loci for Psoriasis
ARTICLE Received 27 Sep 2014 | Accepted 28 Feb 2015 | Published 9 Apr 2015 | Updated 13 Mar 2018 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7793 OPEN Whole-exome SNP array identifies 15 new susceptibility loci for psoriasis Xianbo Zuo1,2,3,4,5,6,7,*, Liangdan Sun1,2,3,4,5,6,7,*, Xianyong Yin1,2,3,4,5,6,7,*, Jinping Gao1,4,5,6,7,*, Yujun Sheng1,4,5,6,7,*, Jinhua Xu2,4, Jianzhong Zhang8, Chundi He9, Ying Qiu10, Guangdong Wen8, Hongqing Tian11, Xiaodong Zheng1,4,5,6,7, Shengxiu Liu1,4,5,6,7,WenjunWang1,4,5,6,7,WeiranLi1,4,5,6,7,YuyanCheng1,4,5,6,7, Longdan Liu1,4,5,6,7, Yan Chang1,4,5,6,7,ZaixingWang1,4,5,6,7,ZenggangLi1,4,5,6,7,LongnianLi1,4,5,6,7, Jianping Wu1,4,5,6,7,LingFang1,4,5,6,7, Changbing Shen1,4,5,6,7, Fusheng Zhou1,4,5,6,7,BoLiang1,4,5,6,7,Gang Chen1,4,5,6,7,HuiLi1,4,5,6,7, Yong Cui4,5,6,7,AieXu12,XueqinYang13,FeiHao14, Limin Xu15,XingFan1,4,5,6,7, Yuzhen Li16,RinaWu17, Xiuli Wang18, Xiaoming Liu19,MinZheng20, Shunpeng Song21,BihuaJi22, Hong Fang23, Jianbin Yu24,YongxinSun25,YanHui26,FurenZhang11,RongyaYang27,SenYang1,4,5,6,7 & Xuejun Zhang1,2,3,4,5,6,7 Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have reproducibly associated B40 susceptibility loci with psoriasis. However, the missing heritability is evident and the contributions of coding variants have not yet been systematically evaluated. Here, we present a large-scale whole- exome array analysis for psoriasis consisting of 42,760 individuals. -
Expression Profiling of Snornas in Normal Hematopoiesis and AML Wayne A
Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Open Access Publications 2018 Expression profiling of snoRNAs in normal hematopoiesis and AML Wayne A. Warner Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis David H. Spencer Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Maria Trissal Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Brian S. White Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Nichole Helton Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/open_access_pubs Recommended Citation Warner, Wayne A.; Spencer, David H.; Trissal, Maria; White, Brian S.; Helton, Nichole; Ley, Timothy J.; and Link, Daniel C., ,"Expression profiling of snoRNAs in normal hematopoiesis and AML." Blood Advances.2,2. 151-163. (2018). https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/open_access_pubs/7237 This Open Access Publication is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Publications by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Wayne A. Warner, David H. Spencer, Maria Trissal, Brian S. White, Nichole Helton, Timothy J. Ley, and Daniel C. Link This open access publication is available at Digital Commons@Becker: https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/open_access_pubs/7237 REGULAR ARTICLE Expression profiling of snoRNAs in normal hematopoiesis and AML Wayne A. Warner,1,* David H. Spencer,1-3,* Maria Trissal,1 Brian S. White,1,2 Nichole Helton,1 Timothy J. Ley,1-3 and Daniel C. Link1,3 1Division of Oncology, 2McDonnell Genome Institute, School of Medicine, and 3Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University, St. -
Investigation of Host Factors Involved in Legionella Pneumophila Virulence
Investigation of host factors involved in Legionella pneumophila virulence Sze Ying Ong Submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy October 2017 Department of Microbiology and Immunology The University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity Produced on archival quality paper ABSTRACT Legionella pneumophila is an environmental organism that can become accidental bacterial pathogen when inhaled into the lungs of humans. On entering the lungs, L. pneumophila is phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages. However, instead of being removed accordingly by the host immune system, the bacteria rapidly establish a Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV) and replicate intracellularly. The ability to establish the LCV relies on a type IV secretion system, also known as the Dot/Icm system. The Dot/Icm system is essential for virulence and delivers a large repertoire (> 300) of effector proteins into infected host cells. These effector proteins modulate a wide range of host processes such as vesicle trafficking, host protein translation, regulation of GTPases and apoptosis. Despite the phenomenal number (one of the highest among known bacterial pathogens) of effector proteins translocated by L. pneumophila into host cells, effector secretion is not detected until the bacterium contacts a host cell. This is in contrast to other bacterial pathogens such as enteropathogenic Escherichia coli or Salmonella sp., which can be induced to secrete effector proteins via a type III secretion system into liquid bacteriological cultures. The interactions that occur between the host cells and L. pneumophila in order to activate the Dot/Icm system are poorly understood. In this study, we used an RNAi approach to screen for host factors that contribute to Dot/Icm effector protein translocation. -
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Aetiology of Depression: Insights from epidemiological and genetic research Olivera Story-Jovanova Acknowledgments: Financial support for the publication of this thesis by the Department of Epidemiology of the Erasmus MC, is gratefully acknowledged. ISBN: 978-94-6233-909-5 Cover: Concept by Olivera Story-Jovanova, design by Chris van Wolferen-Ketel, photography by Michal Macku. Layout: Gildeprint, Enschede. Printing: Gildeprint, Enschede. © Olivera Story-Jovanova, 2018 For all articles published, the copyright has been transferred to the respective publisher. No part of this thesis may be stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without written permission from the author or, when appropriate, from the publisher. Aetiology of Depression: Insights from epidemiological and genetic research Etiologie van depressie: Inzichten vanuit de epidemiologisch en de genetisch onderzoek Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam op gezag van de rector magnificus Prof. dr. H.A.P. Pols en volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties. De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op 4 April 2018 om 15:30 uur door Olivera Story-Jovanova geboren te Skopje, Macedonia PROMOTIECOMMISSIE Promotor Prof. dr. H. Tiemeier Overige leden Prof. D. Boomsma Prof. K. Berger Prof. C. van Duijn Copromotor Dr. N. Amin Paranimfen Ayesha Sajjad Dina Atlas For my husband, children, sister, parents, grandparents, my parents in law and all you who believed in me. You are a gift of unconditional love, acceptance, joy and wisdom. I am thankful for that! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The research described in this thesis was performed within the frame work of the Rotterdam Study. -
Comparing Tools for Noncoding RNA Multiple Sequence Alignment Based on Structural Consistency
Downloaded from rnajournal.cshlp.org on September 29, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press BIOINFORMATICS RNAconTest: comparing tools for noncoding RNA multiple sequence alignment based on structural consistency ERIK S. WRIGHT Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, USA ABSTRACT The importance of noncoding RNA sequences has become increasingly clear over the past decade. New RNA families are often detected and analyzed using comparative methods based on multiple sequence alignments. Accordingly, a number of programs have been developed for aligning and deriving secondary structures from sets of RNA sequences. Yet, the best tools for these tasks remain unclear because existing benchmarks contain too few sequences belonging to only a small number of RNA families. RNAconTest (RNA consistency test) is a new benchmarking approach relying on the obser- vation that secondary structure is often conserved across highly divergent RNA sequences from the same family. RNAconTest scores multiple sequence alignments based on the level of consistency among known secondary structures belonging to reference sequences in their output alignment. Similarly, consensus secondary structure predictions are scored according to their agreement with one or more known structures in a family. Comparing the performance of 10 popular alignment programs using RNAconTest revealed that DAFS, DECIPHER, LocARNA, and MAFFT created the most structurally consistent alignments. The best consensus secondary structure predictions were generated by DAFS and LocARNA (via RNAalifold). Many of the methods specific to noncoding RNAs exhibited poor scalability as the number or length of input sequences increased, and several programs displayed substantial declines in score as more sequences were aligned.