Search Results - "Punta, Marco"
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Challenges in homology search: HMMER3 and convergent evolution of coiled-coil regions
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-07-2013)“…Detection of protein homology via sequence similarity has important applications in biology, from protein structure and function prediction to reconstruction…”
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The InterPro protein families database: the classification resource after 15 years
Published in Nucleic acids research (28-01-2015)“…The InterPro database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/) is a freely available resource that can be used to classify sequences into protein families and to…”
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PredictProtein--an open resource for online prediction of protein structural and functional features
Published in Nucleic acids research (01-07-2014)“…PredictProtein is a meta-service for sequence analysis that has been predicting structural and functional features of proteins since 1992. Queried with a…”
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Genomic and Transcriptomic Determinants of Therapy Resistance and Immune Landscape Evolution during Anti-EGFR Treatment in Colorectal Cancer
Published in Cancer cell (08-07-2019)“…Despite biomarker stratification, the anti-EGFR antibody cetuximab is only effective against a subgroup of colorectal cancers (CRCs). This genomic and…”
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Density Peak clustering of protein sequences associated to a Pfam clan reveals clear similarities and interesting differences with respect to manual family annotation
Published in BMC bioinformatics (12-03-2021)“…The identification of protein families is of outstanding practical importance for in silico protein annotation and is at the basis of several bioinformatic…”
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Improved disorder prediction by combination of orthogonal approaches
Published in PloS one (11-02-2009)“…Disordered proteins are highly abundant in regulatory processes such as transcription and cell-signaling. Different methods have been developed to predict…”
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The rough guide to in silico function prediction, or how to use sequence and structure information to predict protein function
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-10-2008)“… [...]although higher sequence similarity increases confidence in function annotation transfer, there is no threshold that can be considered safe. [...]in…”
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Extreme intratumour heterogeneity and driver evolution in mismatch repair deficient gastro-oesophageal cancer
Published in Nature communications (16-01-2020)“…Mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) gastro-oesophageal adenocarcinomas (GOAs) show better outcomes than their MMR-proficient counterparts and high immunotherapy…”
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DPCfam: Unsupervised protein family classification by Density Peak Clustering of large sequence datasets
Published in PLoS computational biology (19-10-2022)“…Proteins that are known only at a sequence level outnumber those with an experimental characterization by orders of magnitude. Classifying protein regions…”
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Microenvironmental niche divergence shapes BRCA1-dysregulated ovarian cancer morphological plasticity
Published in Nature communications (25-09-2018)“…How tumor microenvironmental forces shape plasticity of cancer cell morphology is poorly understood. Here, we conduct automated histology image and spatial…”
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Natively unstructured regions in proteins identified from contact predictions
Published in Bioinformatics (15-09-2007)“…Motivation: Natively unstructured (also dubbed intrinsically disordered) regions in proteins lack a defined 3D structure under physiological conditions and…”
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The Immunogenic Potential of Recurrent Cancer Drug Resistance Mutations: An In Silico Study
Published in Frontiers in immunology (08-10-2020)“…Cancer somatic mutations have been identified as a source of antigens that can be targeted by cancer immunotherapy. In this work, expanding on previous…”
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Homologue structure of the SLAC1 anion channel for closing stomata in leaves
Published in Nature (London) (28-10-2010)“…The plant SLAC1 anion channel controls turgor pressure in the aperture-defining guard cells of plant stomata, thereby regulating the exchange of water vapour…”
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Protein family annotation for the Unified Human Gastrointestinal Proteome by DPCfam clustering
Published in Scientific data (01-06-2024)“…Technological advances in massively parallel sequencing have led to an exponential growth in the number of known protein sequences. Much of this growth…”
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T-cell receptor determinants of response to chemoradiation in locally-advanced HPV16-driven malignancies
Published in Frontiers in oncology (03-01-2024)“…The effect of chemoradiation on the anti-cancer immune response is being increasingly acknowledged; however, its clinical implications in treatment responses…”
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Crystal structure of a potassium ion transporter, TrkH
Published in Nature (London) (17-03-2011)“…The TrkH/TrkG/KtrB proteins mediate K + uptake in bacteria and probably evolved from simple K + channels by multiple gene duplications or fusions. Here we…”
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Driver mutations in GNAQ and GNA11 genes as potential targets for precision immunotherapy in uveal melanoma patients
Published in Oncoimmunology (31-12-2023)“…Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common ocular malignancy in adults. Nearly 95% of UM patients carry the mutually exclusive mutations in the homologous genes…”
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Protein Folding Rates Estimated from Contact Predictions
Published in Journal of molecular biology (06-05-2005)“…Folding rates of small single-domain proteins that fold through simple two-state kinetics can be estimated from details of the three-dimensional protein…”
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MetalDetector: a web server for predicting metal-binding sites and disulfide bridges in proteins from sequence
Published in Bioinformatics (15-09-2008)“…The web server MetalDetector classifies histidine residues in proteins into one of two states (free or metal bound) and cysteines into one of three states…”
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Author Correction: Extreme intratumour heterogeneity and driver evolution in mismatch repair deficient gastro-oesophageal cancer
Published in Nature communications (29-01-2020)“…An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper…”
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