TADB 3.0:细菌毒素-抗毒素位点和相关的移动遗传元素的更新数据库
Jiahao Guan1, Yongkui Chen1, Ying-Xian Goh1
1State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Laboratory on Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.
Nucleic acids research
|October 28, 2023
概括
TADB 3.0通过实验和预测数据增强了细菌毒素-抗毒素 (TA) 位置信息. 这个更新的数据库提供了一个大规模的资源,用于研究TA对和它们的移动遗传元素协会在 prokaryotes.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
背景情况:
- 毒素-抗毒素 (TA) 位置是 prokaryotes 中的关键遗传元素.
- 了解TA loci的功能和分布对于微生物研究至关重要.
- 以前的数据库缺乏关于不同类型的TA的全面,最新信息.
研究的目的:
- 为了呈现TADB 3.0,一个更新和扩展的细菌毒素-抗毒素 (TA) 位置的数据库.
- 为实验验证和in silico预测的TA loci提供一个全面的资源.
- 为了促进TA对角色及其与移动遗传元素的相互作用的研究.
主要方法:
- 手动策划和文本挖掘以确定经过实验支持的TA loci.
- 使用TAfinder 2.0工具,在 prokaryotic 基因组中大规模预测TA位点.
- 开发交互式网络可视化来显示TA loci和移动遗传元素关系.
主要成果:
- TADB 3.0包括536个经过实验支持的跨类型I-VIII的TA位点.
- 该数据库包含了211697个在34789个 prokaryotic 基因组中预测的假定 TA 位点.
- 可视化显示了69,019个TA位点和60,898个移动遗传元素之间的关系.
结论:
- TADB 3.0为细菌TA位点研究提供了显著扩展和改进的资源.
- 该数据库支持TA对函数及其基因组背景的分析.
- 增强的数据和可视化有助于理解TA系统的生物角色和移动遗传元素关联.
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