LncRNA structural characteristics in epigenetic regulation

C Wang, L Wang, Y Ding, X Lu, G Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
The rapid development of new generation sequencing technology has deepened the
understanding of genomes and functional products. RNA-sequencing studies in mammals …

Revisiting the pathoetiology of multiple sclerosis: has the tail been wagging the mouse?

MK Sen, MSM Almuslehi, PJ Shortland… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is traditionally considered an autoimmune-mediated demyelinating
disease, the pathoetiology of which is unknown. However, the key question remains whether …

A comprehensive review of the imbalance classification of protein post-translational modifications

L Dou, F Yang, L Xu, Q Zou - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) play significant roles in regulating protein structure,
activity and function, and they are closely involved in various pathologies. Therefore, the …

DDIT4 and associated lncDDIT4 modulate Th17 differentiation through the DDIT4/TSC/mTOR pathway

F Zhang, G Liu, D Li, C Wei, J Hao - The Journal of Immunology, 2018 - journals.aai.org
Inflammation that complicates many autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS),
has been correlated to abnormal differentiation of Th17 cells. However, the reasons that …

EZH2 RIP-seq identifies tissue-specific long non-coding RNAs

Y Wang, Y Xie, L Li, Y He, D Zheng, P Yu… - Current gene …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) catalyzes histone methylation at H3
Lys27, and plays crucial roles during development and diseases in numerous systems. Its …

Identifying diseases-related metabolites using random walk

Y Hu, T Zhao, N Zhang, T Zang, J Zhang, L Cheng - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background Metabolites disrupted by abnormal state of human body are deemed as the
effect of diseases. In comparison with the cause of diseases like genes, these markers are …

Ontological function annotation of long non-coding RNAs through hierarchical multi-label classification

J Zhang, Z Zhang, Z Wang, Y Liu, L Deng - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are an enormous collection of
functional non-coding RNAs. Over the past decades, a large number of novel lncRNA genes …

MAPK pathway and B cells overactivation in multiple sclerosis revealed by phosphoproteomics and genomic analysis

E Kotelnikova, NA Kiani, D Messinis… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Dysregulation of signaling pathways in multiple sclerosis (MS) can be analyzed by
phosphoproteomics in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). We performed in vitro …

Measuring disease similarity and predicting disease-related ncRNAs by a novel method

Y Hu, M Zhou, H Shi, H Ju, Q Jiang, L Cheng - BMC medical genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background Similar diseases are always caused by similar molecular origins, such as
diasease-related protein-coding genes (PCGs). And the molecular associations reflect their …

Application of multilayer network models in bioinformatics

Y Lv, S Huang, T Zhang, B Gao - Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Multilayer networks provide an efficient tool for studying complex systems, and with current,
dramatic development of bioinformatics tools and accumulation of data, researchers have …