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PolyASite v2.0

A consolidated atlas of polyadenylation sites from 3' end sequencing.

Single-cell mRNA profiling reveals the hierarchical response of miRNA targets to miRNA induction

miRNAs are small RNAs that regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally. By repressing the translation and promoting the degradation of target mRNAs, miRNAs may reduce the cell-to-cell variability in protein expression, induce correlations between …

TFAP2A is a component of the ZEB1/2 network that regulates TGFB1-induced epithelial to mesenchymal transition

The transition between epithelial and mesenchymal phenotypes (EMT) occurs in a variety of contexts. It is critical for mammalian development and it is also involved in tumor initiation and progression. Master transcription factor (TF) regulators of …

Differential transcriptional responses to Ebola and Marburg virus infection in bat and human cells

The unprecedented outbreak of Ebola in West Africa resulted in over 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths, underlining the need for a better understanding of the biology of this highly pathogenic virus to develop specific counter strategies. Two …

Global 3' UTR shortening has a limited effect on protein abundance in proliferating T cells

Alternative polyadenylation is a cellular mechanism that generates mRNA isoforms differing in their 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs). Changes in polyadenylation site usage have been described upon induction of proliferation in resting cells, but the …

ISMARA

The Integrated System for Motif Actitivity Response Analysis (ISMARA) is an online tool that models genome-wide expression or ChIP-seq data, in terms of computationally predicted regulatory sites for epigenetic regulators, transcription factors (TFs) and microRNAs (miRNAs).

ISMARA: automated modeling of genomic signals as a democracy of regulatory motifs

Accurate reconstruction of the regulatory networks that control gene expression is one of the key current challenges in molecular biology. Although gene expression and chromatin state dynamics are ultimately encoded by constellations of binding sites …

Pegylated ifn-alpha regulates hepatic gene expression through transient Jak/STAT activation

The use of pegylated interferon-α (pegIFN-α) has replaced unmodified recombinant IFN-α for the treatment of chronic viral hepatitis. While the superior antiviral efficacy of pegIFN-α is generally attributed to improved pharmacokinetic properties, the …