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ArticleScientific reports2017

Conserved intergenic sequences revealed by CTAG-profiling in Salmonella: thermodynamic modeling for function prediction.

Le Tang, Songling Zhu, Emilio Mastriani, Xin Fang, Yu-Jie Zhou, Yong-Guo Li, Randal N Johnston, Zheng Guo, Gui-Rong Liu, Shu-Lin Liu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Le TangSystemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Songling ZhuSystemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Emilio MastrianiSystemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Xin FangSystemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Yu-Jie ZhouSystemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Yong-Guo LiDepartment of Infectious Diseases of First Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Randal N JohnstonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
Zheng GuoCollege of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Gui-Rong LiuSystemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Shu-Lin LiuSystemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
Harbin Medical University · CNUniversity of Calgary · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Highly conserved short sequences help identify functional genomic regions and facilitate genomic annotation. We used Salmonella as the model to search the genome for evolutionarily conserved regions and focused on the tetranucleotide sequence CTAG for its potentially important functions. In Salmonella, CTAG is highly conserved across the lineages and large numbers of CTAG-containing short sequences fall in intergenic regions, strongly indicating their biological importance. Computer modeling demonstrated stable stem-loop structures in some of the CTAG-containing intergenic regions, and substitution of a nucleotide of the CTAG sequence would radically rearrange the free energy and disrupt the structure. The postulated degeneration of CTAG takes distinct patterns among Salmonella lineages and provides novel information about genomic divergence and evolution of these bacterial pathogens. Comparison of the vertically and horizontally transmitted genomic segments showed different CTAG distribution landscapes, with the genome amelioration process to remove CTAG taking place inward from both terminals of the horizontally acquired segment.

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Conserved SequenceDNA, IntergenicNucleotide MotifsRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidEvolution, MolecularGenome, BacterialGenomicsNucleic Acid ConformationPhylogenySalmonellaDNA, Intergenic

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PMID28262684
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