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Three magnesium ions (Mg(2+)), named Mg1 (in Mid domain), Mg2 and Mg3 (both in PIWI domain), located at the small RNA binding domain of Argonaute (Ago) protein, are important for sequence-specific miRNA-target interactions. Such conjunction between the Ago protein and miRNA raises the question: How do Mg(2+) ions participate in the recognition process of miRNA by Ago or its target. Furthermore, it is still unclear whether the Mg(2+) ions contribute to the local or global stability of the miRNA complex. In this work, we have performed a series of 16 independent molecular dynamic simulations (MD) to characterize the functions of Mg(2+), hydration patterns and the conformational events involved in the miRNA-target interactions. The cross correlation analysis shows that Mg1 and Mg2 significantly enhance a locally cooperated movement of the PAZ, PIWI and Mid domains with the average correlation coefficient of ~0.65, producing an "open-closed" motion (rotation Angle, 46.5°) between the PAZ and PIWI domains. Binding of Mg3 can globally stabilize the whole Ago protein with the average RMSD of ~0.34 ?, compared with the systems in absence of Mg3 (average RMSD?=?~0.43 ?). Three structural water molecules surrounding the Mg(2+)-binding regions also stabilize these ions, thus facilitating the recognition of miRNA to its target. In addition, the thermodynamic analysis also verifies the positive contribution of all three Mg(2+) to the binding of miRNA to Ago, as well as the importance Mg2 plays in the cleavage of the miRNA targets. 相似文献
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Zhenqiang Su Hong Fang Huixiao Hong Leming Shi Wenqian Zhang Wenwei Zhang Yanyan Zhang Zirui Dong Lee J Lancashire Marina Bessarabova Xi Yang Baitang Ning Binsheng Gong Joe Meehan Joshua Xu Weigong Ge Roger Perkins Matthias Fischer Weida Tong 《Genome biology》2014,15(12)
Background
Gene expression microarray has been the primary biomarker platform ubiquitously applied in biomedical research, resulting in enormous data, predictive models, and biomarkers accrued. Recently, RNA-seq has looked likely to replace microarrays, but there will be a period where both technologies co-exist. This raises two important questions: Can microarray-based models and biomarkers be directly applied to RNA-seq data? Can future RNA-seq-based predictive models and biomarkers be applied to microarray data to leverage past investment?Results
We systematically evaluated the transferability of predictive models and signature genes between microarray and RNA-seq using two large clinical data sets. The complexity of cross-platform sequence correspondence was considered in the analysis and examined using three human and two rat data sets, and three levels of mapping complexity were revealed. Three algorithms representing different modeling complexity were applied to the three levels of mappings for each of the eight binary endpoints and Cox regression was used to model survival times with expression data. In total, 240,096 predictive models were examined.Conclusions
Signature genes of predictive models are reciprocally transferable between microarray and RNA-seq data for model development, and microarray-based models can accurately predict RNA-seq-profiled samples; while RNA-seq-based models are less accurate in predicting microarray-profiled samples and are affected both by the choice of modeling algorithm and the gene mapping complexity. The results suggest continued usefulness of legacy microarray data and established microarray biomarkers and predictive models in the forthcoming RNA-seq era.Electronic supplementary material
The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13059-014-0523-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献3.
作物光合、蒸腾与水分高效利用的试验研究 总被引:54,自引:6,他引:48
通过田间试验,对作物光合、蒸腾、气孔行为及其影响因素进行了研究。结果表明,光合与蒸腾的非线性关系可以用抛物线方程表述,其中光合速率最高时的蒸腾速率为临界值,超出该值即为奢侈蒸腾,干旱处理的临界值较低,通过合适的调控措施,抑制奢侈蒸腾并不影响光合生产,综合分析光合速率、蒸腾速率与气孔导度的关系,气孑L导度大于0.12mol·m-2·s-1,实施提高气孔阻力并抑制蒸腾的措施,既节约水分又促进光合作用,增加产量.光合速率基本上随光合有效辐射的增加而提高,并有光饱和点存在,水分条件影响叶片光合作用达到饱和的早晚,干旱处理的光饱和点远远低于湿润处理,强光需要水分充足相耦合,才能充分发挥光能利用率,蒸腾与辐射的线性关系十分显著。从光合有效辐射入手,在光合有效辐射大于1000μmol·m-2·s-1时实施措施,既可大大降低蒸腾,又可改善光合,节水增产效果不言而喻。 相似文献
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生态环境需水量研究进展 总被引:15,自引:1,他引:14
主要从概念、分类以及计算方法等方面论述了生态环境需水量的国内外研究动态.目前.国外对生态环境需水量的研究主要集中在河流方面,并已形成一套比较成熟的计算方法体系;国内则主要集中于水资源缺乏的西北内陆河流域和黄河、海滦河流域的陆地和河流方面的研究.总的来说,国内外对生态环境需水量的研究已经取得了一定的成果,但仍然存在着许多尚待进一步研究的问题:(1)强化生态环境需水量的基础理论(概念、分类和计算方法等)研究;(2)加强对生态环境需水量的内在与外在影响因素及保障生态环境需水量的途径与措施等方面的研究;(3)拓展生态需水量的应用性研究等。 相似文献
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Tong W Harris S Cao X Fang H Shi L Sun H Fuscoe J Harris A Hong H Xie Q Perkins R Casciano D 《Mutation research》2004,549(1-2):241-253
A robust bioinformatics capability is widely acknowledged as central to realizing the promises of toxicogenomics. Successful application of toxicogenomic approaches, such as DNA microarray, inextricably relies on appropriate data management, the ability to extract knowledge from massive amounts of data and the availability of functional information for data interpretation. At the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), we are developing a public microarray data management and analysis software, called ArrayTrack. ArrayTrack is Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment (MIAME) supportive for storing both microarray data and experiment parameters associated with a toxicogenomics study. A quality control mechanism is implemented to assure the fidelity of entered expression data. ArrayTrack also provides a rich collection of functional information about genes, proteins and pathways drawn from various public biological databases for facilitating data interpretation. In addition, several data analysis and visualization tools are available with ArrayTrack, and more tools will be available in the next released version. Importantly, gene expression data, functional information and analysis methods are fully integrated so that the data analysis and interpretation process is simplified and enhanced. ArrayTrack is publicly available online and the prospective user can also request a local installation version by contacting the authors. 相似文献
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The wealth of knowledge imbedded in gene expression data from DNA microarrays portends rapid advances in both research and clinic. Turning the prodigious and noisy data into knowledge is a challenge to the field of bioinformatics, and development of classifiers using supervised learning techniques is the primary methodological approach for clinical application using gene expression data. In this paper, we present a novel classification method, multiclass Decision Forest (DF), that is the direct extension of the two-class DF previously developed in our lab. Central to DF is the synergistic combining of multiple heterogenic but comparable decision trees to reach a more accurate and robust classification model. The computationally inexpensive multiclass DF algorithm integrates gene selection and model development, and thus eliminates the bias of gene preselection in crossvalidation. Importantly, the method provides several statistical means for assessment of prediction accuracy, prediction confidence, and diagnostic capability. We demonstrate the method by application to gene expression data for 83 small round blue-cell tumors (SRBCTs) samples belonging to one of four different classes. Based on 500 runs of 10-fold crossvalidation, tumor prediction accuracy was approximately 97%, sensitivity was approximately 95%, diagnostic sensitivity was approximately 91%, and diagnostic accuracy was approximately 99.5%. Among 25 genes selected to distinguish tumor class, 12 have functional information in the literature implicating their involvement in cancer. The four types of SRBCTs samples are also distinguishable in a clustering analysis based on the expression profiles of these 25 genes. The results demonstrated that the multiclass DF is an effective classification method for analysis of gene expression data for the purpose of molecular diagnostics. 相似文献
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H Hong L Xu J Liu WD Jones Z Su B Ning R Perkins W Ge K Miclaus L Zhang K Park B Green T Han H Fang CG Lambert SC Vega SM Lin N Jafari W Czika RD Wolfinger F Goodsaid W Tong L Shi 《PloS one》2012,7(9):e44483
During the last several years, high-density genotyping SNP arrays have facilitated genome-wide association studies (GWAS) that successfully identified common genetic variants associated with a variety of phenotypes. However, each of the identified genetic variants only explains a very small fraction of the underlying genetic contribution to the studied phenotypic trait. Moreover, discordance observed in results between independent GWAS indicates the potential for Type I and II errors. High reliability of genotyping technology is needed to have confidence in using SNP data and interpreting GWAS results. Therefore, reproducibility of two widely genotyping technology platforms from Affymetrix and Illumina was assessed by analyzing four technical replicates from each of the six individuals in five laboratories. Genotype concordance of 99.40% to 99.87% within a laboratory for the sample platform, 98.59% to 99.86% across laboratories for the same platform, and 98.80% across genotyping platforms was observed. Moreover, arrays with low quality data were detected when comparing genotyping data from technical replicates, but they could not be detected according to venders' quality control (QC) suggestions. Our results demonstrated the technical reliability of currently available genotyping platforms but also indicated the importance of incorporating some technical replicates for genotyping QC in order to improve the reliability of GWAS results. The impact of discordant genotypes on association analysis results was simulated and could explain, at least in part, the irreproducibility of some GWAS findings when the effect size (i.e. the odds ratio) and the minor allele frequencies are low. 相似文献
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Shi L Tong W Su Z Han T Han J Puri RK Fang H Frueh FW Goodsaid FM Guo L Branham WS Chen JJ Xu ZA Harris SC Hong H Xie Q Perkins RG Fuscoe JC 《BMC bioinformatics》2005,6(Z2):S11
Background
Microarray-based measurement of mRNA abundance assumes a linear relationship between the fluorescence intensity and the dye concentration. In reality, however, the calibration curve can be nonlinear.Results
By scanning a microarray scanner calibration slide containing known concentrations of fluorescent dyes under 18 PMT gains, we were able to evaluate the differences in calibration characteristics of Cy5 and Cy3. First, the calibration curve for the same dye under the same PMT gain is nonlinear at both the high and low intensity ends. Second, the degree of nonlinearity of the calibration curve depends on the PMT gain. Third, the two PMTs (for Cy5 and Cy3) behave differently even under the same gain. Fourth, the background intensity for the Cy3 channel is higher than that for the Cy5 channel. The impact of such characteristics on the accuracy and reproducibility of measured mRNA abundance and the calculated ratios was demonstrated. Combined with simulation results, we provided explanations to the existence of ratio underestimation, intensity-dependence of ratio bias, and anti-correlation of ratios in dye-swap replicates. We further demonstrated that although Lowess normalization effectively eliminates the intensity-dependence of ratio bias, the systematic deviation from true ratios largely remained. A method of calculating ratios based on concentrations estimated from the calibration curves was proposed for correcting ratio bias.Conclusion
It is preferable to scan microarray slides at fixed, optimal gain settings under which the linearity between concentration and intensity is maximized. Although normalization methods improve reproducibility of microarray measurements, they appear less effective in improving accuracy.9.
Shi L Tong W Fang H Scherf U Han J Puri RK Frueh FW Goodsaid FM Guo L Su Z Han T Fuscoe JC Xu ZA Patterson TA Hong H Xie Q Perkins RG Chen JJ Casciano DA 《BMC bioinformatics》2005,6(Z2):S12
Background
The acceptance of microarray technology in regulatory decision-making is being challenged by the existence of various platforms and data analysis methods. A recent report (E. Marshall, Science, 306, 630–631, 2004), by extensively citing the study of Tan et al. (Nucleic Acids Res., 31, 5676–5684, 2003), portrays a disturbingly negative picture of the cross-platform comparability, and, hence, the reliability of microarray technology.Results
We reanalyzed Tan's dataset and found that the intra-platform consistency was low, indicating a problem in experimental procedures from which the dataset was generated. Furthermore, by using three gene selection methods (i.e., p-value ranking, fold-change ranking, and Significance Analysis of Microarrays (SAM)) on the same dataset we found that p-value ranking (the method emphasized by Tan et al.) results in much lower cross-platform concordance compared to fold-change ranking or SAM. Therefore, the low cross-platform concordance reported in Tan's study appears to be mainly due to a combination of low intra-platform consistency and a poor choice of data analysis procedures, instead of inherent technical differences among different platforms, as suggested by Tan et al. and Marshall.Conclusion
Our results illustrate the importance of establishing calibrated RNA samples and reference datasets to objectively assess the performance of different microarray platforms and the proficiency of individual laboratories as well as the merits of various data analysis procedures. Thus, we are progressively coordinating the MAQC project, a community-wide effort for microarray quality control.10.
Hong H Dragan Y Epstein J Teitel C Chen B Xie Q Fang H Shi L Perkins R Tong W 《BMC bioinformatics》2005,6(Z2):S5