A Cap-Optimized mRNA Encoding Multiepitope Antigen ESAT6 Induces Robust Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses Against .

Tuberculosis is a deadly bacterial disease and the second most common cause of death from monoinfectious diseases worldwide. Comprehensive measures taken by health authorities in various countries in recent decades have saved tens of millions of lives, but the number of new cases of this infection has been steadily increasing in the last few years and already exceeds 10 million new cases annually. The development of new vaccines against tuberculosis is a priority area in the prevention of new cases of the disease.

The Translatome Map: RNC-Seq vs. Ribo-Seq for Profiling of HBE, A549, and MCF-7 Cell Lines.

Gene expression is a tightly regulated process that involves multiple layers of control, including transcriptional, post-transcriptional, and translational regulation. To gain a comprehensive understanding of gene expression dynamics and its functional implications, it is crucial to compare translatomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data. The two most common analysis methods, Ribo-seq and RNC-Seq, were used to analyze the translatome of the same sample, whose datasets were downloaded from the TranslatomeDB database.

The human proteome size as a technological development function.

Changes in information on the number of human proteoforms, post-translational modification (PTM) events, alternative splicing (AS), single-amino acid polymorphisms (SAP) associated with protein-coding genes in the neXtProt database have been retrospectively analyzed. In 2016, our group proposed three mathematical models for predicting the number of different proteins (proteoforms) in the human proteome. Eight years later, we compared the original data of the information resources and their contribution to the prediction results, correlating the differences with new approaches to experimental and bioinformatic analysis of protein modifications.

Diverse viral cas genes antagonize CRISPR immunity.

Prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas immunity is subverted by anti-CRISPRs (Acrs), which inhibit Cas protein activities when expressed during the phage lytic cycle or from resident prophages or plasmids. Acrs often bind to specific cognate Cas proteins, and hence inhibition is typically limited to a single CRISPR-Cas subtype. Furthermore, although acr genes are frequently organized together in phage-associated gene clusters, how such inhibitors initially evolve has remained unclear.

Alzheimer's disease protective allele of modulates neuronal excitability through lipid-droplet-mediated neuron-glia communication.

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have identified a plethora of risk loci. However, the disease variants/genes and the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. For a strong AD-associated locus near (), we tied an AD protective allele to a role of neuronal CLU in promoting neuron excitability through lipid-mediated neuron-glia communication.