Background: Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of genes in prokaryotic genomes of probable horizontal origin. GIs are disproportionately associated with microbial adaptations of m...
Morgan G. I. Langille, William W. L. Hsiao, Fiona ...
Background: Pancreatic beta-cells are the target of an autoimmune attack in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). This is mediated in part by cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)-1β an...
Najib Naamane, Jacques van Helden, Decio L. Eiziri...
Background: PDZ domains mediate protein-protein interactions involved in important biological processes through the recognition of short linear motifs in their target proteins. Tw...
Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and genes that exhibit presence/absence variation have provided informative marker sets for bacterial and viral genotyping. Iden...
Erin P. Price, John Inman-Bamber, Venugopal Thiruv...
Background: Ornithine decarboxylase antizymes are proteins which negatively regulate cellular polyamine levels via their affects on polyamine synthesis and cellular uptake. In vir...