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TIGRFAMs and Genome Properties: tools for the assignment of molecular function and biological process in prokaryotic genomesJeremy D Selengut
TIGR, Bioinformatics Department, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 35:D260-4. 2007..The TIGRFAMs and Genome Properties systems can be accessed at http://www.tigr.org/TIGRFAMs and http://www.tigr.org/Genome_Properties...
Three genomes from the phylum Acidobacteria provide insight into the lifestyles of these microorganisms in soilsNaomi L Ward
The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 75:2046-56. 2009....
ProPhylo: partial phylogenetic profiling to guide protein family construction and assignment of biological processMalay K Basu
J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 12:434. 2011..To be its most effective, a phylogenetic profiling algorithm must be able to examine co-occurrences among protein families whose boundaries are uncertain within large homologous protein superfamilies...
Exopolysaccharide-associated protein sorting in environmental organisms: the PEP-CTERM/EpsH system. Application of a novel phylogenetic profiling heuristicDaniel H Haft
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville MD 20850, USA
BMC Biol 4:29. 2006..Detection in some genomes, but not others, may reveal sorting system components by comparison of the phylogenetic profile of the class of sorting signal to that of various protein families...
Genome Properties: a system for the investigation of prokaryotic genetic content for microbiology, genome annotation and comparative genomicsDaniel H Haft
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Bioinformatics 21:293-306. 2005..Compiling such information across microbial genomes improves the functional classification of proteins and provides a valuable resource for comparative genomics...
Genome sequence and identification of candidate vaccine antigens from the animal pathogen Dichelobacter nodosusGarry S A Myers
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Nat Biotechnol 25:569-75. 2007..Screening of these proteins against ovine antisera identified eight immunogenic proteins that are candidate antigens for a cross-protective vaccine...
Unexpected abundance of coenzyme F(420)-dependent enzymes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other actinobacteriaJeremy D Selengut
J Craig Venter Institute, 9704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
J Bacteriol 192:5788-98. 2010..These findings suggest that M. tuberculosis relies heavily on coenzyme F(420) for its redox reactions. This dependence and the cofactor's rarity may make F(420)-related proteins promising drug targets...
Sites Inferred by Metabolic Background Assertion Labeling (SIMBAL): adapting the Partial Phylogenetic Profiling algorithm to scan sequences for signatures that predict protein functionJeremy D Selengut
J, Craig Venter Institute, 9704 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 11:52. 2010..The approach is based on the basic scoring mechanism employed by PPP, namely the use of binomial distribution statistics to optimize sequence similarity cutoffs during searches of partitioned training sets...
Genome sequence and comparative analysis of the model rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoeliiJane M Carlton
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Nature 419:512-9. 2002..This is the first genome sequence of a model eukaryotic parasite, and it provides insight into the use of such systems in the modelling of Plasmodium biology and disease...
Archaeosortases and exosortases are widely distributed systems linking membrane transit with posttranslational modificationDaniel H Haft
J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA
J Bacteriol 194:36-48. 2012..Their target proteins are destined to transit cellular membranes during their biosynthesis, during which most undergo additional posttranslational modifications such as glycosylation...
The TIGRFAMs database of protein familiesDaniel H Haft
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 31:371-3. 2003..The database currently contains over 1600 protein families. TIGRFAMs is available for searching or downloading at www.tigr.org/TIGRFAMs...
TIGRFAMs and Genome Properties in 2013Daniel H Haft
Informatics, J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 41:D387-95. 2013..At present, 4284 models appear in TIGRFAMs, while 628 systems are described by Genome Properties. Content derives both from subsystem discovery work and from biocuration of the scientific literature...
Comparative genomic evidence for a close relationship between the dimorphic prosthecate bacteria Hyphomonas neptunium and Caulobacter crescentusJonathan H Badger
The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
J Bacteriol 188:6841-50. 2006..neptunium genome will provide an important resource for the study of other interesting biological processes including chromosome segregation, polar growth, and cell aging...
Comparative genomics of emerging human ehrlichiosis agentsJulie C Dunning Hotopp
The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, USA
PLoS Genet 2:e21. 2006..These discoveries provide significant insights into the biology of these obligate intracellular pathogens...
New developments in the InterPro databaseNicola J Mulder
EMBL Outstation European Bioinformatics Institute Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 35:D224-8. 2007..ebi.ac.uk/interpro), and for download by anonymous FTP (ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/interpro). The InterProScan search tool is now also available via a web service at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/WSInterProScan.html...
The InterPro Database, 2003 brings increased coverage and new featuresNicola J Mulder
EMBL Outstation European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 31:315-8. 2003..The database is available via a webserver (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro) and anonymous FTP (ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/interpro)...
X-ray crystal structure of the hypothetical phosphotyrosine phosphatase MDP-1 of the haloacid dehalogenase superfamilyEzra Peisach
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 2394, USA
Biochemistry 43:12770-9. 2004..This observation combined with the modeling studies suggests that the target of MDP-1 is most likely a phosphotyrosine in an unknown protein rather than a small sugar-based substrate...
The transcription factor Eyes absent is a protein tyrosine phosphataseTina L Tootle
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Nature 426:299-302. 2003....
