Not exact matches
Based on the
transcript sequences, the researchers identified 1,437 new promoters — short DNA sequences where transcription begins —
in or between
genes, on top of the 1,730 promoters they knew of.
Transcripts from 65 percent of the
genes incorporate pieces of DNA from relatively far outside of the
genes or even from one or two other
genes, says molecular biologist and consortium member Tom Gingeras of Affymetrix, a genome technology company
in Santa Clara, Calif..
The discovery that much of the mammalian genome is transcribed,
in some places without gaps (so - called transcriptional «forests»), shines a bright light on this embarrassing plentitude: an order of magnitude more
transcripts than
genes (pp. 1559, 1564, and 1529).
She bred a mouse
in which the antisense
transcript was «knocked down» and the paternal copy of the
gene turned on.
The same agents that damage DNA also damage its sister molecule messenger RNA (mRNA), which ferries
transcripts of the
genes to the tens of thousands of ribosomes
in each cell.
Expression of these
genes appears
in the blood
in the form of specific RNA
transcripts.
Single - cell differential
gene expression analysis revealed a spectrum of known
transcripts, including several linked to cytotoxic and costimulatory function that are expressed at higher levels
in the TEMRA (effector memory T cells expressing CD45RA) subset, which is highly enriched for CD4 - CTLs, compared with CD4 + T cells
in the central memory (TCM) and effector memory (TEM) subsets.
Single - cell RNA sequencing allows researchers to determine the precise nature of the total
gene transcripts, or all of the
genes that are actively expressed
in a particular cell.
«While previous molecular studies have provided simple snapshots of the
gene transcript variations that are associated with the exposure of insects to natural and synthetic chemicals, the genomics approaches used
in this study offer a significantly more complex perspective on the biochemical and physiological processes occurring
in plant - insect interactions,» Schuler said.
The Neurogenomiks research group, linked to the Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience (EHUgroup) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU), has just had a research article published
in the scientific publication Journal of Immunology; it details how they have managed to show that the
gene known as ANKRD55 produces 3 different
transcripts of the messenger RNA, and that the genetic variant associated with MS greatly increases the production of these
transcripts.
Gene expression patterns
in the hippocampus samples were examined using DNA microarrays that measured the expression levels of over 30,000
genes (
transcripts) per sample.
In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers devised a strategy for genome - wide annotation of primary miRNA transcripts, providing extensive new annotations in human and mouse, and shedding light on mechanisms of regulation of microRNA gene expressio
In a study published online
in Genome Research, researchers devised a strategy for genome - wide annotation of primary miRNA transcripts, providing extensive new annotations in human and mouse, and shedding light on mechanisms of regulation of microRNA gene expressio
in Genome Research, researchers devised a strategy for genome - wide annotation of primary miRNA
transcripts, providing extensive new annotations
in human and mouse, and shedding light on mechanisms of regulation of microRNA gene expressio
in human and mouse, and shedding light on mechanisms of regulation of microRNA
gene expression.
A natural process called nonsense - mediated decay, or NMD, provides cells with the ability to detect errors
in the coded RNA messages, called
transcripts, that are copied from DNA when
genes are activated.
Importantly, 25 of the 115
transcripts, shared by EFTF - expressing pluripotent cells and the EF, encode for 15
genes that are both expressed
in retinal stem / progenitor cells and required for normal eye formation
in frogs, fish, mice, or humans (Figure 1C; Table S1).
In order to focus on
genes that share similar biological processes and correlate with the calcification process, the analysis continued for unique up - regulated
gene transcripts and total up - regulated
gene transcripts that were differentially expressed during daytime (437
genes for unique and 1,333 for total), and during night - time (267
genes for unique and 1,171 for total).
Transcript abundances and raw read counts for all annotated S. viridis
genes (v1)
in the wild type compared with bsl1 - 1 mutant inflorescence primordia.
These targets were identified based on the presence of predicted regulator binding sites or experimental regulator binding
in the target promoter, and / or changes
in the target
gene's
transcript levels
in regulator mutant strains.
This is consistent with work
in other systems that showed
transcripts from BR biosynthesis
genes accumulated following loss of BR due to negative feedback regulation (Bancoş et al., 2002; Tanabe et al., 2005; Tanaka et al., 2005).
Imaging Real - Time
Gene Expression
in Living Systems with Single -
Transcript Resolution: Construct Design and Imaging System Setup.
Regulation of
transcript levels of the Arabidopsis cytochrome p450
genes involved
in brassinosteroid biosynthesis
«This way we can link local environmental conditions to microbial
gene - and
transcript profiles and
in the future quickly determine the environmental status of samples of unknown character».
The plan is to analyze the
genes and
gene -
transcripts of microorganisms
in the sea to determine what metabolic processes are active and from this get information on the environmental status.
By comparing the V. carteri germ and somatic cell transcriptomes, Matt and Umen found that the somatic cells had more
transcripts from young, lineage - specific
genes, whereas the germ cells had more
transcripts from ancient
genes that are similar to those expressed
in stem cells from animals and land plants.
Figure 4D shows
transcript levels for the endogenous NtPOR
gene and the introduced AtChlase and AtRCCR
genes in the transgenic control plant (NT 4.1.3) and transgenic plants exposed to TNT.
This figure depicts how the expression of the longer
transcript in this
gene becomes less dominant as PMI increases, and, as a consequence, the abundance of the different isoforms tends to converge
Disrupting «Silent»
Genes The number of
transcripts appears to exceed the number of mutable loci
in several extensively analyzed segments of the Drosophila genome (34 - 35).
The authors highlight the importance of measuring the variability of
transcript expression and location
in so many cells by using their data to discover
genes with related functions
in the cell.
For example, mutants may be characterized by comparing their
transcript profiles to those obtained
in other experiments querying the effects on
gene expression of many experimental factors including treatments, mutations and pathogen infections.
That study showed a non-monotonic increase
in the abundance of certain
transcripts and suggested that previously silenced
genes were actively transcribed at later post-mortem time points.
For the remaining
genes, all
genes detected at TPM > 1
in at least one of the tissues or cell lines used
in the RNA - seq analysis are classified as «Evidence at
transcript level».
For each
gene, we report the abundance
in «
Transcript Per Million» (TPM) as the sum of the TPM values of all its protein - coding
transcripts.
Together, these form the most complete annotation of immune - related
genes in N. vitripennis to date, and represent one of the first genomic - scale annotations of novel immune - induced
transcripts in Hymenoptera.
All
genes in the classes «Experimental evidence at protein level» or «Experimental evidence at
transcript level» are classified into the first two evidence categories, whereas
genes from the «Inferred from homology», «Predicted», or «Uncertain» classes are classified as «No evidence».
To identify key molecular mediators of the ABL kinases implicated
in the regulation of the ABL1 / ABL2 - dependent pathways, we analyzed the expression of individual
genes for
transcripts altered by loss of the ABL kinases.
Real rates of change can only be determined from actual
transcript numbers, and this gives us the kinetics of
gene expression which we are interested
in.»
We therefore used Cufflinks to generate de novo assemblies from the sequencing reads
in order to identify full length
transcripts for OR and VR
genes [30].
Although the
genes implicated
in these disorders are involved
in a variety of pathways, most of them share a molecular phenotype: high (and often
transcript ‐ specific) expression
in retinal tissue.
Of the remaining features, about 75 % represent single - exon
transcripts, leaving 756 and 847 putatively novel multi-exonic
genes expressed
in the VNO and OM respectively.
Our results revealed that
transcript levels of temporally induced
genes are highly correlated
in individual cells.
OR and V1R
genes typically have coding regions that span a single exon, but we identified 54 OR and 15 V1R
genes where at least one of the reconstructed
transcripts has an intron within the protein coding sequence (as annotated
in Ensembl).
About 30 % of these putative
genes have known protein domains and 80 % lie within
transcripts predicted
in silico.
But
in a recent study, researchers described a balancing act that seems more counterintuitive than most: Bacterial cells prioritize transcription — the process of making RNA
transcripts of
genes as the first step
in protein production — over repairing double - strand breaks
in their DNA.
In 2012, Plessy et al. reported the expression of 955 OR
genes using nanoCAGE, a methodology that captures the 5 ′ end of
transcripts and generates short sequence reads around that region [29].
A few receptor
genes have more than 8 different isoforms (38 VRs and 10 ORs), however
in most of these cases this is due to the presence of several transcription start sites (TSS) or exons that differ
in length by just a few nucleotides, so several of the final
transcripts differ only very slightly (Figure S7B).
RNA - Seq has proven excellence
in providing information about the regulation and
transcript levels of
genes.
Here we present an experimental reannotation of the GENCODE intergenic lncRNA populations
in matched human and mouse tissues that resulted
in novel
transcript models for 3,574 and 561
gene loci, respectively.
For example, cluster 5 of the concise «Time Series», which consists of transiently induced
genes around day 3 of differentiation, similarly to Global Cluster 30, contains the same
transcripts, but
in addition, it also includes T - brachyury, Axin2, Mesp2, Fgf8, Wnt8a, Sp5, Sp8, Follistatin, Mix1 and Lim1.
Furthermore, the levels of
transcripts of two AlkB
genes that protect against the cytotoxicity of methylating agents through repair of the specific DNA lesions generated
in single - stranded DNA, Alkhb3 (alkylation repair homolog 3) and Alkhb8 (alkylation repair homolog 8), was lower
in the IVC males.
Our analysis predicts that the latter participate
in the same biological processes as the known
genes in the corresponding clusters — thus providing a starting point to study the function of poorly characterized
transcripts.
These include: a) Global Clusters that consist of a small, tight subset of
genes that are co-expressed under the entire spectrum of experimental conditions; b) Time Series of
gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clust
gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific
Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clust
Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of
genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of
genes that behave
in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes
in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed
in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any
transcript, or groups of
transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate
genes with various FunGenES database clusters.