Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

The structure, function and evolution of proteins that bind DNA and RNA : Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology : Nature Publishing Group

June 10, 2015

http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v15/n11/full/nrm3884.html

NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY | ANALYSIS
William H. Hudson
& Eric A. Ortlund
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 15, 749–760 (2014) doi:10.1038/nrm3884

Evolution and Functional Impact of Rare Coding Variation from Deep Sequencing of Human Exomes

June 10, 2015

Func. Impact of Rare…Variation from Deep Sequencing…Exomes http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6090/64.abstract Relation to Protein Structural features (eg a-helices)

Science 6 July 2012:
Vol. 337 no. 6090 pp. 64-69
DOI: 10.1126/science.1219240

Evolution and Functional Impact of Rare Coding Variation from Deep Sequencing of Human Exomes

Jacob A. Tennessen1,*,
Abigail W. Bigham2,*,†,
Timothy D. O’Connor1,*,
Wenqing Fu1,
Eimear E. Kenny3,
Simon Gravel3,
Sean McGee1,
Ron Do4,5,
Xiaoming Liu6,
Goo Jun7,
Hyun Min Kang7,
Daniel Jordan8,
Suzanne M. Leal9,
Stacey Gabriel4,
Mark J. Rieder1,
Goncalo Abecasis7,
David Altshuler4,
Deborah A. Nickerson1,
Eric Boerwinkle6,10,
Shamil Sunyaev4,8,
Carlos D. Bustamante3,
Michael J. Bamshad1,2,‡,
Joshua M. Akey1,‡,
Broad GO,
Seattle GO,
on behalf of the NHLBI Exome Sequencing Project

Inferring gene regulatory logic from high-throughput measurements of thousands of systematically designed promoters : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group

June 10, 2015

Segal cites: Measurements of 1000s of…designed promoters
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n6/full/nbt.2205.html Num. binding sites correlated w/ expr., for 1st few #ICSG2015

Recurrent somatic mutations in regulatory regions of human cancer genomes

June 10, 2015

http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3332.html

Unraveling determinants of transcription factor binding outside the core binding site

June 8, 2015

Segal cites: Determinants of TF binding outside the core binding site http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2015/06/05/gr.185033.114.abstract Large-scale measurement of affinity #ICSG2015

Structural insights into mis-regulation of protein kinase A in human tumors

June 8, 2015

Hendrickson cites: Structural insights into mis-regulation of PKA in…tumorshttp://www.pnas.org/content/112/5/1374 SNV stops reg. domain binding #ICSG2015

In other case showed recurring DnaJ–PKA fusion didn’t have coding effect but non-coding effect on promotor

vol. 112 no. 5
1374–1379, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1424206112
Structural insights into mis-regulation of protein kinase A in human tumors

Jonah Cheunga,1,
Christopher Gintera,
Michael Cassidya,
Matthew C. Franklina,
Michael J. Rudolpha,
Nicolas Robineb,
Robert B. Darnellb,c,d, and
Wayne A. Hendricksona,e,1

PLOS Computational Biology: Exploring the Evolution of Novel Enzyme Functions within Structurally Defined Protein Superfamilies

June 7, 2015

Evolution of…Enzyme Functions w/in Structural…Superfamilies http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002403 Most changes involve substrates rather than chemistry

develops functional change matrix…
based on 276 fams

High hopes

June 1, 2015

High hopes http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6192/18.summary Resurgence interest in the medical benefits of #psychedelics. Is it possible to get them without the high?

Similarity network fusion for aggregating data types on a genomic scale : Nature Methods : Nature Publishing Group

June 1, 2015

Similarity #network fusion for aggregating data types http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n3/full/nmeth.2810.html Combines mRNA, miRNA & gene fusions to classify cancer subtypes
http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/SNF/SNF

Found this review

May 31, 2015

Nice graph of seq. machine output v time

http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(15)00340-8