Search Results - "Jose, Marco V."
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Natural History of DNA-Dependent DNA Polymerases: Multiple Pathways to the Origins of DNA
Published in Viruses (01-03-2023)“…One of the major evolutionary transitions that led to DNA replacing RNA as the primary informational molecule in biological systems is still the subject of an…”
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A Proposal for the RNAome at the Dawn of the Last Universal Common Ancestor
Published in Genes (11-09-2024)“…From the most ancient RNAs, which followed an RNY pattern and folded into small hairpins, modern RNA molecules evolved by two different pathways, dubbed…”
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A Proposal of the Ur-RNAome
Published in Genes (29-11-2023)“…It is widely accepted that the earliest RNA molecules were folded into hairpins or mini-helixes. Herein, we depict the 2D and 3D conformations of those…”
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Genomic signatures in viral sequences by in-frame and out-frame mutual information
Published in Journal of theoretical biology (21-08-2016)“…In order to understand the unique biology of viruses, we use the Mutual Information Function (MIF) to characterize 792 viral sequences comprising 458 viral…”
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Multivariate Entropy Characterizes the Gene Expression and Protein-Protein Networks in Four Types of Cancer
Published in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) (28-02-2018)“…There is an important urgency to detect cancer at early stages to treat it, to improve the patients' lifespans, and even to cure it. In this work, we…”
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How to eliminate taeniasis/cysticercosis: porcine vaccination and human chemotherapy (Part 2)
Published in Theoretical biology and medical modelling (26-02-2019)“…The application of effective vaccines against pig cysticercosis and mass chemotherapy against pig cysticercosis and human taeniasis have shown the feasibility…”
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On the Uniqueness of the Standard Genetic Code
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (13-02-2017)“…In this work, we determine the biological and mathematical properties that are sufficient and necessary to uniquely determine both the primeval RNY (purine-any…”
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Peptidyl Transferase Center and the Emergence of the Translation System
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (25-04-2017)“…In this work, the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the ancestral Peptidyl Transferase Center (PTC) built by concatamers of ancestral sequences of tRNAs was…”
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Evolution of transfer RNA and the origin of the translation system
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Flow of Information during an Evolutionary Process: The Case of Influenza A Viruses
Published in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) (01-08-2013)“…The hypothesis that Mutual Information (MI) dendrograms of influenza A viruses reflect informational groups generated during viral evolutionary processes is…”
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Is it possible that cells have had more than one origin?
Published in BioSystems (01-04-2021)“…Cells occupy a prominent place in the history of life in Earth. The central role of cellular organization can be understood by the fact that “cellular life” is…”
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Novel gene signatures for stage classification of the squamous cell carcinoma of the lung
Published in Scientific reports (01-03-2021)“…The squamous cell carcinoma of the lung (SCLC) is one of the most common types of lung cancer. As GLOBOCAN reported in 2018, lung cancer was the first cause of…”
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Scaling properties and symmetrical patterns in the epidemiology of rotavirus infection
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (29-10-2003)“…This paper makes use of epidemiological data on rotavirus infection in young children admitted to hospital in Melbourne, Australia from 1977 to 2000. Several…”
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Origin of the 16S Ribosomal Molecule from Ancestor tRNAs
Published in Journal of molecular evolution (01-06-2021)“…We tested the hypothesis that concatemers of ancestral tRNAs gave rise to the 16S ribosomal RNA. We built an ancestral sequence of proto-tRNAs that showed a…”
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Origin and Evolution of RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase
Published in Frontiers in genetics (20-09-2017)“…RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRp) are very ancient enzymes and are essential for all viruses with RNA genomes. We reconstruct the origin and evolution of…”
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From RNA to DNA: Insights about the transition of informational molecule in the biological systems based on the structural proximity between the polymerases
Published in BioSystems (01-08-2021)“…Structural relations in an evolutionary context of polymerases is crucial to gain insights into the transition from an RNA world to a Ribonucleoprotein world…”
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Anticipation of ventricular tachyarrhythmias by a novel mathematical method: Further insights towards an early warning system in implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Published in PloS one (01-10-2020)“…Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) are the most effective therapy to terminate malignant ventricular arrhythmias (VA) and therefore to prevent…”
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Neutral evolution test of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and its implications in the binding to ACE2
Published in Scientific reports (22-09-2021)“…As the SARS-CoV-2 has spread and the pandemic has dragged on, the virus continued to evolve rapidly resulting in the emergence of new highly transmissible…”
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Identity Elements of tRNA as Derived from Information Analysis
Published in Origins of life and evolution of biospheres (01-03-2018)“…The decipherment of the tRNA’s operational code, known as the identity problem, requires the location of the sites in the tRNA structure that are involved in…”
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The Ancient History of Peptidyl Transferase Center Formation as Told by Conservation and Information Analyses
Published in Life (Basel, Switzerland) (05-08-2020)“…The peptidyl transferase center (PTC) is the catalytic center of the ribosome and forms part of the 23S ribosomal RNA. The PTC has been recognized as the…”
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