is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria with high GC content. It remains attractive for studying and discovering new antibiotics, antifungals, and chemotherapeutics. genomes can contain more than 30 cryptic and expressed biosynthetic gene clusters (BGC) encoding secondary metabolites.
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July 2024
The post-nutritional intervention modulation of miRNA expression has been previously investigated; however, post-acute dietary-ingestion-related miRNA expression dynamics in individuals with obesity and insulin resistance (IR) are unknown. We aimed to determine the acute effects of protein ingestion from different dietary sources on the postprandial metabolic response, amino acid levels, and circulating miRNA expression in adults with obesity and IR. This clinical trial included adults with obesity and IR who consumed (1) animal-source protein (AP; calcium caseinate) or (2) vegetable-source protein (VP; soy protein isolate).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWorldwide, gastric cancer (GC) is estimated to be the fifth most common type of cancer type in both sexes, ranking sixth for new cases, with >640,850 cases per year, and fourth in terms of mortality rate. Cancer presents numerical and structural alterations in chromosomes, often through gains and losses of regions. In GC, there are multiple genetic alterations, in which those located in cytoband 8q24 have been frequently described; essential genes are present in this cytoband, regulating the homeostasis of crucial biological processes, such as the MYC gene, which induces expression of selective genes to promote cell growth and proliferation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntegrons are genetic elements that store, express and exchange gene cassettes. These elements are characterized by containing a gene that codes for an integrase (I), a cassette integration site (I) and a variable region holding the cassettes. Using bioinformatics and molecular biology methods, a functional integron found in sp.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFour Gram-positive, aerobic, catalase- and oxidase-negative, rod-shaped, motile endophytic bacterial strains, designated NM3R9, NE1TT3, NE2TL11 and NE2HP2, were isolated from the inner tissues (leaf and stem) of and roots of . They were characterized using a polyphasic approach, which revealed that they represent two novel species. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that the species closest to NE2HP2 was DSM 20754 (99.
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August 2023
Microbiol Resour Announc
December 2022
A new plant-associated bacterium, Labrys okinawensis strain LIt4, was isolated from root nodules of wild sp. in Morelos, Mexico. The 6,499,737-bp genome sequence provides opportunities to investigate a new reference strain to add information about the species .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastric cancer (GC) is a common malignancy with the highest mortality rate among diseases of the digestive system, worldwide. The present study of GC alterations is crucial to the understanding of tumor biology and the establishment of important aspects of cancer prognosis and treatment response. In the present study, DNA from Mexican patients with diffuse GC (DGC), intestinal GC (IGC) or non‑atrophic gastritis (NAG; control) was purified and whole‑genome analysis was performed with high‑density arrays.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlasmids are autonomous genetic elements ubiquitously present in bacteria. In addition to containing genetic determinants responsible for their replication and stability, some plasmids may carry genes that help bacteria adapt to different environments, while others without a known function are classified as cryptic. In this work we identified and characterized plasmids from a collection of mesophilic Aeromonas spp.
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June 2021
Background: Burkholderia sensu stricto is comprised mainly of opportunistic pathogens. This group is widely distributed in the environment but is especially important in clinical settings. In Mexico, few species have been correctly identified among patients, most often B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a common and widespread biological assay, and an increasing amount of data is generated with it. In practice, there are a large number of individual steps a researcher must perform before raw RNA-seq reads yield directly valuable information, such as differential gene expression data. Existing software tools are typically specialized, only performing one step-such as alignment of reads to a reference genome-of a larger workflow.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the isolation of bacteria from the L. rhizosphere in northeast Mexico, four strains with similar BOX-PCR patterns were collected. The 16S rRNA gene sequences of all four strains were very similar to each other and that of the type strains of CH34 (98.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFive strains of , a metal-resistant, plant-associated bacterium, were selected for genome sequencing through the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) Phase IV project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhosphate metabolism was studied to determine whether polyphosphate (polyP) pools play a role in the enhanced resistance against Cd and metal-removal capacity of Cd-preadapted (CdPA) . Polyphosphate kinase (PPK), exopolyphosphatase (PPX) and phosphate transporter transcript levels and their activities increased in CdPA cells compared to control (Cnt) cells. K inhibited recombinant Ma-PPK and activated Ma-PPX, whereas divalent cations activated both enzymes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastric (GC) and breast (BrC) cancer are two of the most common and deadly tumours. Different lines of evidence suggest a possible causative role of viral infections for both GC and BrC. Wide genome sequencing (WGS) technologies allow searching for viral agents in tissues of patients with cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study we evaluate the capacity of Virtual Hybridization to identify between highly related bacterial strains. Eight genomic fingerprints were obtained by virtual hybridization for the Bacillus anthracis genome set, and a set of 15,264 13-nucleotide short probes designed to produce genomic fingerprints unique for each organism. The data obtained from each genomic fingerprint were used to obtain hybridization patterns simulating a DNA microarray.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHelicobacter pylori strains are the major risk factor for gastric cancer. Strains vary in their content of disease-associated genes, so genome-wide analysis of cancer-isolated strains will help elucidate their pathogenesis and genetic diversity. We present the draft genome sequence of H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The Virtual Hybridization approach predicts the most probable hybridization sites across a target nucleic acid of known sequence, including both perfect and mismatched pairings. Potential hybridization sites, having a user-defined minimum number of bases that are paired with the oligonucleotide probe, are first identified. Then free energy values are evaluated for each potential hybridization site, and if it has a calculated free energy of equal or higher negative value than a user-defined free energy cut-off value, it is considered as a site of high probability of hybridization.
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