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Description: To facilitate studies of the yeast proteome, we cloned 5800 open reading frames and overexpressed and purified their corresponding proteins. The proteins were printed onto slides at high spatial density to form a yeast proteome microarray and screened for their ability to interact with proteins and phospholipids. We identified many new calmodulin- and phospholipid-interacting proteins; a common potential binding motif was identified for many of the calmodulin-binding proteins. Thus, microarrays of an entire eukaryotic proteome can be prepared and screened for diverse biochemical activities. The microarrays can also be used to screen protein-drug interactions and to detect posttranslational modifications.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhu, H -- Bilgin, M -- Bangham, R -- Hall, D -- Casamayor, A -- Bertone, P -- Lan, N -- Jansen, R -- Bidlingmaier, S -- Houfek, T -- Mitchell, T -- Miller, P -- Dean, R A -- Gerstein, M -- Snyder, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Sep 14;293(5537):2101-5. Epub 2001 Jul 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11474067" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Elucidating the transcribed regions of the genome constitutes a fundamental aspect of human biology, yet this remains an outstanding problem. To comprehensively identify coding sequences, we constructed a series of high-density oligonucleotide tiling arrays representing sense and antisense strands of the entire nonrepetitive sequence of the human genome. Transcribed sequences were located across the genome via hybridization to complementary DNA samples, reverse-transcribed from polyadenylated RNA obtained from human liver tissue. In addition to identifying many known and predicted genes, we found 10,595 transcribed sequences not detected by other methods. A large fraction of these are located in intergenic regions distal from previously annotated genes and exhibit significant homology to other mammalian proteins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bertone, Paul -- Stolc, Viktor -- Royce, Thomas E -- Rozowsky, Joel S -- Urban, Alexander E -- Zhu, Xiaowei -- Rinn, John L -- Tongprasit, Waraporn -- Samanta, Manoj -- Weissman, Sherman -- Gerstein, Mark -- Snyder, Michael -- P50 HG02357/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Dec 24;306(5705):2242-6. Epub 2004 Nov 11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15539566" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Digital production, transmission and storage have revolutionized how we access and use information but have also made archiving an increasingly complex task that requires active, continuing maintenance of digital media. This challenge has focused some interest on DNA as an attractive target for information storage because of its capacity for high-density information encoding, longevity under easily achieved conditions and proven track record as an information bearer. Previous DNA-based information storage approaches have encoded only trivial amounts of information or were not amenable to scaling-up, and used no robust error-correction and lacked examination of their cost-efficiency for large-scale information archival. Here we describe a scalable method that can reliably store more information than has been handled before. We encoded computer files totalling 739 kilobytes of hard-disk storage and with an estimated Shannon information of 5.2 x 10(6) bits into a DNA code, synthesized this DNA, sequenced it and reconstructed the original files with 100% accuracy. Theoretical analysis indicates that our DNA-based storage scheme could be scaled far beyond current global information volumes and offers a realistic technology for large-scale, long-term and infrequently accessed digital archiving. In fact, current trends in technological advances are reducing DNA synthesis costs at a pace that should make our scheme cost-effective for sub-50-year archiving within a decade.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672958/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3672958/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goldman, Nick -- Bertone, Paul -- Chen, Siyuan -- Dessimoz, Christophe -- LeProust, Emily M -- Sipos, Botond -- Birney, Ewan -- 088151/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2013 Feb 7;494(7435):77-80. doi: 10.1038/nature11875. Epub 2013 Jan 23.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD, UK. goldman@ebi.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23354052" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Citrullination is the post-translational conversion of an arginine residue within a protein to the non-coded amino acid citrulline. This modification leads to the loss of a positive charge and reduction in hydrogen-bonding ability. It is carried out by a small family of tissue-specific vertebrate enzymes called peptidylarginine deiminases (PADIs) and is associated with the development of diverse pathological states such as autoimmunity, cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, prion diseases and thrombosis. Nevertheless, the physiological functions of citrullination remain ill-defined, although citrullination of core histones has been linked to transcriptional regulation and the DNA damage response. PADI4 (also called PAD4 or PADV), the only PADI with a nuclear localization signal, was previously shown to act in myeloid cells where it mediates profound chromatin decondensation during the innate immune response to infection. Here we show that the expression and enzymatic activity of Padi4 are also induced under conditions of ground-state pluripotency and during reprogramming in mouse. Padi4 is part of the pluripotency transcriptional network, binding to regulatory elements of key stem-cell genes and activating their expression. Its inhibition lowers the percentage of pluripotent cells in the early mouse embryo and significantly reduces reprogramming efficiency. Using an unbiased proteomic approach we identify linker histone H1 variants, which are involved in the generation of compact chromatin, as novel PADI4 substrates. Citrullination of a single arginine residue within the DNA-binding site of H1 results in its displacement from chromatin and global chromatin decondensation. Together, these results uncover a role for citrullination in the regulation of pluripotency and provide new mechanistic insights into how citrullination regulates chromatin compaction.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Christophorou, Maria A -- Castelo-Branco, Goncalo -- Halley-Stott, Richard P -- Oliveira, Clara Slade -- Loos, Remco -- Radzisheuskaya, Aliaksandra -- Mowen, Kerri A -- Bertone, Paul -- Silva, Jose C R -- Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena -- Nielsen, Michael L -- Gurdon, John B -- Kouzarides, Tony -- 092096/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 101050/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 101861/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- AI099728/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- G1001690/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- England -- Nature. 2014 Mar 6;507(7490):104-8. doi: 10.1038/nature12942. Epub 2014 Jan 26.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK [2]. ; 1] The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK [2] Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden [3]. ; 1] The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK [2] Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. ; 1] The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK [2] EMBRAPA Dairy Cattle Research Center, Juiz de Fora, Brazil [3] Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK. ; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. ; 1] Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK [2] Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK. ; Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. ; 1] European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK [2] Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK [3] Genome Biology and Developmental Biology Units, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. ; 1] The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK [2] Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK. ; Department of proteomics, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Blegdamsvej 3b, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark. ; 1] The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK [2] Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24463520" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉

Description: Blood cells derive from hematopoietic stem cells through stepwise fating events. To characterize gene expression programs driving lineage choice, we sequenced RNA from eight primary human hematopoietic progenitor populations representing the major myeloid commitment stages and the main lymphoid stage. We identified extensive cell type-specific expression changes: 6711 genes and 10,724 transcripts, enriched in non-protein-coding elements at early stages of differentiation. In addition, we found 7881 novel splice junctions and 2301 differentially used alternative splicing events, enriched in genes involved in regulatory processes. We demonstrated experimentally cell-specific isoform usage, identifying nuclear factor I/B (NFIB) as a regulator of megakaryocyte maturation-the platelet precursor. Our data highlight the complexity of fating events in closely related progenitor populations, the understanding of which is essential for the advancement of transplantation and regenerative medicine.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254742/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254742/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chen, Lu -- Kostadima, Myrto -- Martens, Joost H A -- Canu, Giovanni -- Garcia, Sara P -- Turro, Ernest -- Downes, Kate -- Macaulay, Iain C -- Bielczyk-Maczynska, Ewa -- Coe, Sophia -- Farrow, Samantha -- Poudel, Pawan -- Burden, Frances -- Jansen, Sjoert B G -- Astle, William J -- Attwood, Antony -- Bariana, Tadbir -- de Bono, Bernard -- Breschi, Alessandra -- Chambers, John C -- BRIDGE Consortium -- Choudry, Fizzah A -- Clarke, Laura -- Coupland, Paul -- van der Ent, Martijn -- Erber, Wendy N -- Jansen, Joop H -- Favier, Remi -- Fenech, Matthew E -- Foad, Nicola -- Freson, Kathleen -- van Geet, Chris -- Gomez, Keith -- Guigo, Roderic -- Hampshire, Daniel -- Kelly, Anne M -- Kerstens, Hindrik H D -- Kooner, Jaspal S -- Laffan, Michael -- Lentaigne, Claire -- Labalette, Charlotte -- Martin, Tiphaine -- Meacham, Stuart -- Mumford, Andrew -- Nurnberg, Sylvia -- Palumbo, Emilio -- van der Reijden, Bert A -- Richardson, David -- Sammut, Stephen J -- Slodkowicz, Greg -- Tamuri, Asif U -- Vasquez, Louella -- Voss, Katrin -- Watt, Stephen -- Westbury, Sarah -- Flicek, Paul -- Loos, Remco -- Goldman, Nick -- Bertone, Paul -- Read, Randy J -- Richardson, Sylvia -- Cvejic, Ana -- Soranzo, Nicole -- Ouwehand, Willem H -- Stunnenberg, Hendrik G -- Frontini, Mattia -- Rendon, Augusto -- 082961/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 082961/Z/07/Z/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 084183/Z/07/Z/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 095908/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 100140/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- C45041/A14953/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- FS/12/27/29405/British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom -- MC_UP_0801/1/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MR/J011711/1/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MR/K006584/1/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- MR/K023489/1/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- RG/09/012/28096/British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom -- RG/09/12/28096/British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom -- RP-PG-0310-1002/British Heart Foundation/United Kingdom -- RP-PG-0310-1002/Department of Health/United Kingdom -- WT091310/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- WT098051/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Sep 26;345(6204):1251033. doi: 10.1126/science.1251033.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. ; Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University, 6525 GA Nijmegen, Netherlands. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. ; Sanger Institute-EBI Single-Cell Genomics Centre, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK. ; Department of Haematology, University College London Cancer Institute, London WC1E 6DD, UK. The Katharine Dormandy Haemophilia Centre and Thrombosis Unit, Royal Free NHS Trust, London NW3 2QG, UK. ; CHIME Institute, University College London, Archway Campus, London NW1 2DA, UK. Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. ; Centre for Genomic Regulation and University Pompeu Fabra, 08002 Barcelona, Spain. ; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, DuCane Road, London W12 0HS, UK. Ealing Hospital NHS Trust, Southall, Middlesex UB1 3HW, UK. ; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. ; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. ; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia. ; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Hematology, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, Netherlands. ; Assistance Publique-Hopitaux de Paris, INSERM U1009, 94805 Villejuif, France. ; Biomedical Research Centre, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. ; Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. ; The Katharine Dormandy Haemophilia Centre and Thrombosis Unit, Royal Free NHS Trust, London NW3 2QG, UK. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge B2 0QQ, UK. ; Department of Haematology, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College Academic Health Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, London W12 0HS, UK. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, Genetics and Molecular Medicine Division, St Thomas' Hospital, King's College, London SE1 7EH, UK. ; School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK. ; Department of Oncology, Addenbrooke's Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK. Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0RE, UK. ; National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. ; School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS2 8DZ, UK. ; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. ; European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. Genome Biology and Developmental Biology Units, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK. ; Department of Haematology, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK. ; Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. ; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. ar506@cam.ac.uk mf471@cam.ac.uk. ; Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0PT, UK. Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK. ar506@cam.ac.uk mf471@cam.ac.uk.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25258084" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉