The problem of identifying the minimal gene set required to sustain life is of crucial importance in understanding cellular mechanisms and designing therapeutic drugs. This work d...
Background: Caspases are a family of proteases that have central functions in programmed cell death (apoptosis) and inflammation. Caspases mediate their effects through aspartate-...
A number of medically important disease-causing bacteria (collectively called Gram-negative bacteria) are noted for the extra "outer" membrane that surrounds their cell....
Rong She, Fei Chen 0002, Ke Wang, Martin Ester, Je...
Background: Grouping proteins into sequence-based clusters is a fundamental step in many bioinformatic analyses (e.g., homology-based prediction of structure or function). Standar...
Timothy J. Harlow, J. Peter Gogarten, Mark A. Raga...
Background: Metabolic pathway is a highly regulated network consisting of many metabolic reactions involving substrates, enzymes, and products, where substrates can be transformed...
Lei Chen, Kai-Yan Feng, Yu-Dong Cai, Kuo-Chen Chou...