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The Pristionchus pacificus genome provides a unique perspective on nematode lifestyle and parasitism
Dieterich C Clifton SW Schuster LN Chinwalla A Delehaunty K Dinkelacker I Fulton L Fulton R Godfrey J Minx P Mitreva M Roeseler W Tian H Witte H Yang SP Wilson RK Sommer RJ 《Nature genetics》2008,40(10):1193-1198
Here we present a draft genome sequence of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus, a species that is associated with beetles and is used as a model system in evolutionary biology. With 169 Mb and 23,500 predicted protein-coding genes, the P. pacificus genome is larger than those of Caenorhabditis elegans and the human parasite Brugia malayi. Compared to C. elegans, the P. pacificus genome has more genes encoding cytochrome P450 enzymes, glucosyltransferases, sulfotransferases and ABC transporters, many of which were experimentally validated. The P. pacificus genome contains genes encoding cellulase and diapausin, and cellulase activity is found in P. pacificus secretions, indicating that cellulases can be found in nematodes beyond plant parasites. The relatively higher number of detoxification and degradation enzymes in P. pacificus is consistent with its necromenic lifestyle and might represent a preadaptation for parasitism. Thus, comparative genomics analysis of three ecologically distinct nematodes offers a unique opportunity to investigate the association between genome structure and lifestyle. 相似文献
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Activation of mammalian oocytes by intracellular injection of calcium 总被引:29,自引:0,他引:29
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Hillier LW Graves TA Fulton RS Fulton LA Pepin KH Minx P Wagner-McPherson C Layman D Wylie K Sekhon M Becker MC Fewell GA Delehaunty KD Miner TL Nash WE Kremitzki C Oddy L Du H Sun H Bradshaw-Cordum H Ali J Carter J Cordes M Harris A Isak A van Brunt A Nguyen C Du F Courtney L Kalicki J Ozersky P Abbott S Armstrong J Belter EA Caruso L Cedroni M Cotton M Davidson T Desai A Elliott G Erb T Fronick C Gaige T Haakenson W Haglund K Holmes A Harkins R Kim K Kruchowski SS Strong CM Grewal N Goyea E 《Nature》2005,434(7034):724-731
Human chromosome 2 is unique to the human lineage in being the product of a head-to-head fusion of two intermediate-sized ancestral chromosomes. Chromosome 4 has received attention primarily related to the search for the Huntington's disease gene, but also for genes associated with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, polycystic kidney disease and a form of muscular dystrophy. Here we present approximately 237 million base pairs of sequence for chromosome 2, and 186 million base pairs for chromosome 4, representing more than 99.6% of their euchromatic sequences. Our initial analyses have identified 1,346 protein-coding genes and 1,239 pseudogenes on chromosome 2, and 796 protein-coding genes and 778 pseudogenes on chromosome 4. Extensive analyses confirm the underlying construction of the sequence, and expand our understanding of the structure and evolution of mammalian chromosomes, including gene deserts, segmental duplications and highly variant regions. 相似文献
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Fynbo HO Diget CA Bergmann UC Borge MJ Cederkäll J Dendooven P Fraile LM Franchoo S Fedosseev VN Fulton BR Huang W Huikari J Jeppesen HB Jokinen AS Jones P Jonson B Köster U Langanke K Meister M Nilsson T Nyman G Prezado Y Riisager K Rinta-Antila S Tengblad O Turrion M Wang Y Weissman L Wilhelmsen K Aystö J;ISOLDE Collaboration 《Nature》2005,433(7022):136-139
In the centres of stars where the temperature is high enough, three alpha-particles (helium nuclei) are able to combine to form 12C because of a resonant reaction leading to a nuclear excited state. (Stars with masses greater than approximately 0.5 times that of the Sun will at some point in their lives have a central temperature high enough for this reaction to proceed.) Although the reaction rate is of critical significance for determining elemental abundances in the Universe, and for determining the size of the iron core of a star just before it goes supernova, it has hitherto been insufficiently determined. Here we report a measurement of the inverse process, where a 12C nucleus decays to three alpha-particles. We find a dominant resonance at an energy of approximately 11 MeV, but do not confirm the presence of a resonance at 9.1 MeV (ref. 3). We show that interference between two resonances has important effects on our measured spectrum. Using these data, we calculate the triple-alpha rate for temperatures from 10(7) K to 10(10) K and find significant deviations from the standard rates. Our rate below approximately 5 x 10(7) K is higher than the previous standard, implying that the critical amounts of carbon that catalysed hydrogen burning in the first stars are produced twice as fast as previously believed. At temperatures above 10(9) K, our rate is much less, which modifies predicted nucleosynthesis in supernovae. 相似文献
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Ross MT Grafham DV Coffey AJ Scherer S McLay K Muzny D Platzer M Howell GR Burrows C Bird CP Frankish A Lovell FL Howe KL Ashurst JL Fulton RS Sudbrak R Wen G Jones MC Hurles ME Andrews TD Scott CE Searle S Ramser J Whittaker A Deadman R Carter NP Hunt SE Chen R Cree A Gunaratne P Havlak P Hodgson A Metzker ML Richards S Scott G Steffen D Sodergren E Wheeler DA Worley KC Ainscough R Ambrose KD Ansari-Lari MA Aradhya S Ashwell RI Babbage AK Bagguley CL Ballabio A Banerjee R Barker GE Barlow KF 《Nature》2005,434(7031):325-337
The human X chromosome has a unique biology that was shaped by its evolution as the sex chromosome shared by males and females. We have determined 99.3% of the euchromatic sequence of the X chromosome. Our analysis illustrates the autosomal origin of the mammalian sex chromosomes, the stepwise process that led to the progressive loss of recombination between X and Y, and the extent of subsequent degradation of the Y chromosome. LINE1 repeat elements cover one-third of the X chromosome, with a distribution that is consistent with their proposed role as way stations in the process of X-chromosome inactivation. We found 1,098 genes in the sequence, of which 99 encode proteins expressed in testis and in various tumour types. A disproportionately high number of mendelian diseases are documented for the X chromosome. Of this number, 168 have been explained by mutations in 113 X-linked genes, which in many cases were characterized with the aid of the DNA sequence. 相似文献
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A map of human genome sequence variation containing 1.42 million single nucleotide polymorphisms 总被引:69,自引:0,他引:69
Sachidanandam R Weissman D Schmidt SC Kakol JM Stein LD Marth G Sherry S Mullikin JC Mortimore BJ Willey DL Hunt SE Cole CG Coggill PC Rice CM Ning Z Rogers J Bentley DR Kwok PY Mardis ER Yeh RT Schultz B Cook L Davenport R Dante M Fulton L Hillier L Waterston RH McPherson JD Gilman B Schaffner S Van Etten WJ Reich D Higgins J Daly MJ Blumenstiel B Baldwin J Stange-Thomann N Zody MC Linton L Lander ES Altshuler D;International SNP Map Working Group 《Nature》2001,409(6822):928-933
We describe a map of 1.42 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) distributed throughout the human genome, providing an average density on available sequence of one SNP every 1.9 kilobases. These SNPs were primarily discovered by two projects: The SNP Consortium and the analysis of clone overlaps by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. The map integrates all publicly available SNPs with described genes and other genomic features. We estimate that 60,000 SNPs fall within exon (coding and untranslated regions), and 85% of exons are within 5 kb of the nearest SNP. Nucleotide diversity varies greatly across the genome, in a manner broadly consistent with a standard population genetic model of human history. This high-density SNP map provides a public resource for defining haplotype variation across the genome, and should help to identify biomedically important genes for diagnosis and therapy. 相似文献
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Zhang J Benavente CA McEvoy J Flores-Otero J Ding L Chen X Ulyanov A Wu G Wilson M Wang J Brennan R Rusch M Manning AL Ma J Easton J Shurtleff S Mullighan C Pounds S Mukatira S Gupta P Neale G Zhao D Lu C Fulton RS Fulton LL Hong X Dooling DJ Ochoa K Naeve C Dyson NJ Mardis ER Bahrami A Ellison D Wilson RK Downing JR Dyer MA 《Nature》2012,481(7381):329-334
Retinoblastoma is an aggressive childhood cancer of the developing retina that is initiated by the biallelic loss of RB1. Tumours progress very quickly following RB1 inactivation but the underlying mechanism is not known. Here we show that the retinoblastoma genome is stable, but that multiple cancer pathways can be epigenetically deregulated. To identify the mutations that cooperate with RB1 loss, we performed whole-genome sequencing of retinoblastomas. The overall mutational rate was very low; RB1 was the only known cancer gene mutated. We then evaluated the role of RB1 in genome stability and considered non-genetic mechanisms of cancer pathway deregulation. For example, the proto-oncogene SYK is upregulated in retinoblastoma and is required for tumour cell survival. Targeting SYK with a small-molecule inhibitor induced retinoblastoma tumour cell death in vitro and in vivo. Thus, retinoblastomas may develop quickly as a result of the epigenetic deregulation of key cancer pathways as a direct or indirect result of RB1 loss. 相似文献