| Literature DB >> 26586804 |
Jonathan Burns1, Denys Kukushkin2, Kelsi Lindblad3, Xiao Chen3, Nataša Jonoska2, Laura F Landweber4.
Abstract
Ciliated protists exhibit nuclear dimorphism through the presence of somatic macronuclei (MAC) and germline micronuclei (MIC). In some ciliates, DNA from precursor segments in the MIC genome rearranges to form transcriptionally active genes in the mature MAC genome, making these ciliates model organisms to study the process of somatic genome rearrangement. Similar broad scale, somatic rearrangement events occur in many eukaryotic cells and tumors. The <mds_ies_db> (http://oxytricha.princeton.edu/mds_ies_db) is a database of genome recombination and rearrangement annotations, and it provides tools for visualization and comparative analysis of precursor and product genomes. The database currently contains annotations for two completely sequenced ciliate genomes: Oxytricha trifallax and Tetrahymena thermophila.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26586804 PMCID: PMC4702850 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1190
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971