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  1. Obesity and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are well-known risk factors of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The lipid-rich environment enhances the proliferation and metastasis abilities of tumor cells. Pre...

    Authors: Yanjie Tan, Yi Jin, Xiang Wu and Zhuqing Ren

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:24

    Content type: Research article

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  2. The BACE1 antisense transcript (BACE1-AS) is a conserved long noncoding RNA (lncRNA). The level of BACE1-AS is significantly increased and the level of the BACE1 mRNA is slightly increased in subjects with AD....

    Authors: Fan Li, Yun Wang, Hui Yang, Yingying Xu, Xiaoyan Zhou, Xiao Zhang, Zhaohong Xie and Jianzhong Bi

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:23

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  3. Hexaploid wheat is an important cereal crop that has been targeted to enhance grain micronutrient content including zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe). In this direction, modulating the expression of plant transporters i...

    Authors: Shivani Sharma, Gazaldeep Kaur, Anil Kumar, Varsha Meena, Jaspreet Kaur and Ajay Kumar Pandey

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:22

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  4. The current study aimed to investigate the effects of miR-32-5p on cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) that were induced with high levels of glucose; we also aimed to identify the potential mechanisms involved in the re...

    Authors: Jie Shen, Wanhong Xing, Rui Liu, Yiying Zhang, Chunhong Xie and Fangqi Gong

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:21

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  5. The original article [1] contains three erroneous mentions of usage of a restriction enzyme—BstZ17I—in the Methods section as displayed in the following sentences.

    Authors: Neftali Vazquez, Lilia Sanchez, Rebecca Marks, Eduardo Martinez, Victor Fanniel, Alma Lopez, Andrea Salinas, Itzel Flores, Jesse Hirschmann, Robert Gilkerson, Erin Schuenzel, Robert Dearth, Reginald Halaby, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse and Megan Keniry

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:20

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:3

  6. Many miRNA functions have been revealed to date. Single miRNAs can participate in life processes by regulating more than one target gene, and more than one miRNA can also simultaneously act on one target mRNA....

    Authors: Zhiwei Zhu, Yueyue Ma, Yuan Li, Zhixue Cheng, Huifeng Li, Lihuan Zhang, Dongmei Xu and Pengfei Li

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:19

    Content type: Research article

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  7. The original article [1] contains an error whereby Fig. 7 displays incorrect results; the correct version of Fig. 7 can be viewed ahead in this Correction article and should be considered in place of the origi...

    Authors: Dong-Ying Zhang, Bing-Jian Wang, Min Ma, Kun Yu, Qing Zhang and Xi-Wen Zhang

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:18

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:17

  8. Receptor-interacting serine-threonine kinase 3 (RIPK3)-mediated necroptosis has been implicated in the progression of myocardial infarction (MI), but the underlying mechanisms, particularly whether microRNAs (...

    Authors: Dong-Ying Zhang, Bing-Jian Wang, Min Ma, Kun Yu, Qing Zhang and Xi-Wen Zhang

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:17

    Content type: Research article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:18

  10. Lectins have come a long way from being identified as proteins that agglutinate cells to promising therapeutic agents in modern medicine. Through their specific binding property, they have proven to be anti-ca...

    Authors: Kshema Thakur, Tarnjeet Kaur, Manpreet Kaur, Rachna Hora and Jatinder Singh

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:15

    Content type: Research article

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  12. With the availability of genome sequences, gene expression analysis of jute has drawn considerable attention for understanding the regulatory mechanisms of fiber development and improving fiber quality. Gene e...

    Authors: Md. Sabbir Hossain, Rasel Ahmed, Md. Samiul Haque, Md. Monjurul Alam and Md. Shahidul Islam

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:13

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  13. Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) function in guiding 2′-O-methylation and pseudouridylation of ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) and small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). In recent years, more and more snoRNAs have been found to play ...

    Authors: Bo Wu, Lei Huang, Wujie Qiu, Xiao Liu, Yawen Shen, Yiping Lu, Zonglin Yang, Xinmei Li, Bin Cui, Shidong Xu, Huili Qiao, Reng Qiu, Lunguang Yao, Yunchao Kan and Dandan Li

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:12

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  14. Camels possess the characteristics of salt- and drought-resistances, due to the long-time adaption to the living environment in desert. The camel resistance research on transcriptome is rare and deficient, esp...

    Authors: Yu Cao, Dong Zhang and Huanmin Zhou

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:11

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  15. The underlying mechanisms by which probiotic lactic acid bacteria (LAB) enhance the health of the consumer have not been fully elucidated. Verification of probiotic modes of action can be achieved by using sin...

    Authors: Winschau F. Van Zyl, Leon M. T. Dicks and Shelly M. Deane

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:10

    Content type: Methodology article

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  16. Isatis indigotica, a traditional Chinese medicine, produces a variety of active ingredients. However, little is known about the key genes and corresponding expression profiling involved in the biosynthesis pathwa...

    Authors: Renjun Qu, Yujing Miao, Yingjing Cui, Yiwen Cao, Ying Zhou, Xiaoqing Tang, Jie Yang and Fangquan Wang

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:9

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  17. Myocyte enhancer factor 2A (MEF2A) plays an important role in cell proliferation, differentiation and survival. Functional deletion or mutation in MEF2A predisposes individuals to cardiovascular disease mainly...

    Authors: Yujuan Xiong, Lin Wang, Wenyi Jiang, Lihua Pang, Weihua Liu, Aiqun Li, Yun Zhong, Wenchao Ou, Benrong Liu and Shi-ming Liu

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:8

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  18. A major cause of phytoplankton mortality is predation by zooplankton. Strategies to avoid grazers have probably played a major role in the evolution of phytoplankton and impacted bloom dynamics and trophic ene...

    Authors: Sara Harðardóttir, Sylke Wohlrab, Ditte Marie Hjort, Bernd Krock, Torkel Gissel Nielsen, Uwe John and Nina Lundholm

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:7

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  19. Thrips tabaci is a severe pest of onion and cotton. Due to lack of information on its genome or transcriptome, not much is known about this insect at the molecular level. To initiate molecular studies in this ins...

    Authors: Satnam Singh, Mridula Gupta, Suneet Pandher, Gurmeet Kaur, Neha Goel, Pankaj Rathore and Subba Reddy Palli

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:6

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  20. GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) with a TBC (Tre-2/Bub2/Cdc16) domain architecture serve as negative regulators of Rab GTPases. The related crystal structure has been studied and reported by other members of ...

    Authors: Yangyang Jin, Guodong Lin, Yanna Chen, Yinghua Ge, Ruofeng Liang, Jia Wu, Jianqing Chen, Dan Wang, Hengbo Shi, Hui Fei and Zhengbing Lv

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:5

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  21. Woronin bodies are fungal-specific organelles whose formation is derived from peroxisomes. The former are believed to be involved in the regulation of mycotoxins biosynthesis, but not in their damage repair fu...

    Authors: Jun Yuan, Ding Li, Ling Qin, Jiaojiao Shen, Xiaodong Guo, Elisabeth Tumukunde, Mingzhu Li and Shihua Wang

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:4

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  22. Physical exercise can improve brain function by altering brain gene expression. The expression mechanisms underlying the brain’s response to exercise still remain unknown. miRNAs as vital regulators of gene ex...

    Authors: Yanhong Zhao, Anmin Zhang, Yanfang Wang, Shuping Hu, Ruiping Zhang and Shuaiwei Qian

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:3

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  23. Recently different forms of nanographene were proposed as the material with high anticancer potential. However, the mechanism of the suppressive activity of the graphene on cancer development remains unclear. ...

    Authors: Maciej Szmidt, Adrian Stankiewicz, Kaja Urbańska, Sławomir Jaworski, Marta Kutwin, Mateusz Wierzbicki, Marta Grodzik, Beata Burzyńska, Monika Góra, André Chwalibog and Ewa Sawosz

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:2

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  24. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs of approximately 22 nucleotides, highly conserved among species, which modulate gene expression by cleaving messenger RNA target or inhibiting translation. MiRNAs ar...

    Authors: Berna I. G. Kappeler, Luciana C. A. Regitano, Mirele D. Poleti, Aline S. M. Cesar, Gabriel C. M. Moreira, Gustavo Gasparin and Luiz L. Coutinho

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:1

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  25. DNA replication requires contributions from various proteins, such as DNA helicases; in mitochondria Twinkle is important for maintaining and replicating mitochondrial DNA. Twinkle helicases are predicted to a...

    Authors: Ashley Harman and Christian Barth

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:12

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  26. Oxidative stress is known to be involved in most of the aetiological factors of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Cells that are under oxidative stress may undergo apoptosis. We have previously demonstrated that...

    Authors: Sang-Nee Tan, Sai-Peng Sim and Alan S. B. Khoo

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:15

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  27. NPAS3 encodes a transcription factor which has been associated with multiple human psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. In mice, deletion of Npas3 was found to cause alterations in neurodevelopment, as w...

    Authors: Leiah M. Luoma and Fred B. Berry

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:14

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  28. Glioblastoma (GB) is the most common and aggressive tumor of the brain. Genotype-based approaches and independent analyses of the transcriptome or the proteome have led to progress in understanding the underly...

    Authors: Jean-Michel Lemée, Anne Clavreul, Marc Aubry, Emmanuelle Com, Marie de Tayrac, Jean Mosser and Philippe Menei

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:13

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  29. Ischemia–reperfusion injury has been proven to induce organ dysfunction and death, although the mechanism is not fully understood. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have drawn wide attention with their important ...

    Authors: Lin Lin, Zhengfei Yang, Guanghui Zheng, Yongxun Zhuansun, Yue Wang, Jianguo Li, Rui Chen and Wanchun Tang

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:11

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  30. Brucella melitensis bacteria cause persistent, intracellular infections in small ruminants as well as in humans, leading to significant morbidity and economic loss worldwide. The majority of experiments on the tr...

    Authors: Paola M. Boggiatto, Daniel Fitzsimmons, Darrell O. Bayles, David Alt, Catherine E. Vrentas and Steven C. Olsen

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:10

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  31. Core canonical histones are required in the S phase of the cell cycle to pack newly synthetized DNA, therefore the expression of their genes is highly activated during DNA replication. In mammalian cells, this...

    Authors: Aleksandra Brzek, Marlena Cichocka, Jakub Dolata, Wojciech Juzwa, Daniel Schümperli and Katarzyna Dorota Raczynska

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:9

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  32. Strawberry has received much attention due to its nutritional value, unique flavor, and attractive appearance. The availability of the whole genome sequence and multiple transcriptome databases allows the grea...

    Authors: Yunting Zhang, Xiaorui Peng, Yi Liu, Yali Li, Ya Luo, Xiaorong Wang and Haoru Tang

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:8

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  33. The acquisition of reliable tissue-specific RNA sequencing data from human skin biopsy represents a major advance in research. However, the complexity of the process of isolation of specific layers from fresh-...

    Authors: Silvia Santoro, Ignazio Diego Lopez, Raffaella Lombardi, Andrea Zauli, Ana Maria Osiceanu, Melissa Sorosina, Ferdinando Clarelli, Silvia Peroni, Daniele Cazzato, Margherita Marchi, Angelo Quattrini, Giancarlo Comi, Raffaele Adolfo Calogero, Giuseppe Lauria and Filippo Martinelli Boneschi

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:7

    Content type: Methodology article

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  34. Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Recently, it has been demonstrated that gastric cancer cells display a specific miRNA expression profile, with increasing eviden...

    Authors: Joana Filipa Lima, Joana Carvalho, Inês Pinto-Ribeiro, Carina Almeida, Jesper Wengel, Laura Cerqueira, Céu Figueiredo, Carla Oliveira and Nuno Filipe Azevedo

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:6

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  36. Bicarbonate-based peritoneal dialysis (PD) fluids enhance the migratory capacity and damage-repair ability of human peritoneal mesothelial cells by upregulating AQP1. However, little is known about the underly...

    Authors: Yihui Zhai, Hong Xu, Qian Shen, Franz Schaefer, Claus P. Schmitt, Jing Chen, Haimei Liu, Jialu Liu and Jiaojiao Liu

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:4

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  37. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) RNA-guided adaptive immune systems are found in prokaryotes to defend cells from foreign DNA. CRISPR Cas9 systems have been modified and employ...

    Authors: Neftali Vazquez, Lilia Sanchez, Rebecca Marks, Eduardo Martinez, Victor Fanniel, Alma Lopez, Andrea Salinas, Itzel Flores, Jesse Hirschmann, Robert Gilkerson, Erin Schuenzel, Robert Dearth, Reginald Halaby, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse and Megan Keniry

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:3

    Content type: Methodology article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Molecular Biology 2019 20:20

  38. Glomeruli are excellent pre-determined natural structures for laser micro-dissection. Compartment-specific glomerular gene expression analysis of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded renal biopsies could improve r...

    Authors: Clemens L. Bockmeyer, Juliane Wittig, Karen Säuberlich, Philipp Selhausen, Marc Eßer, Philip Zeuschner, Friedrich Modde, Kerstin Amann and Christoph Daniel

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:2

    Content type: Methodology article

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  39. Messenger RNA (mRNA) represents a small percentage of RNAs in a cell, with ribosomal RNA (rRNA) making up the bulk of it. To isolate mRNA from eukaryotes, typically poly-A selection is carried out. Recently, a...

    Authors: Jacob Fleischmann and Miguel A. Rocha

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2018 19:1

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  41. Cholangiocarcinoma is one of the deadly disease with poor 5-year survival and poor response to conventional therapies. Previously, we found that p27kip1 nuclear-cytoplasmic translocation confers proliferation ...

    Authors: Jun Yang, Yan Liu, Bing Wang, Hongzhen Lan, Ying Liu, Fei Chen, Ju Zhang and Jian Luo

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2017 18:23

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  42. Formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue constitutes a vast treasury of samples for biomedical research. Thus far however, extraction of RNA from FFPE tissue has proved challenging due to chemical RNA–pr...

    Authors: Parisa Amini, Julia Ettlin, Lennart Opitz, Elena Clementi, Alexandra Malbon and Enni Markkanen

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2017 18:22

    Content type: Methodology article

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  43. We have recently reported that cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragments derived from dying cells that circulate in blood are biologically active molecules and can readily enter into healthy cells to activate DNA damage...

    Authors: Gorantla Venkata Raghuram, Deepika Gupta, Siddharth Subramaniam, Ashwini Gaikwad, Naveen Kumar Khare, Malcolm Nobre, Naveen Kumar Nair and Indraneel Mittra

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2017 18:21

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  45. RBM10 is an RNA binding protein involved in message stabilization and alternative splicing regulation. The objective of the research described herein was to identify novel targets of RBM10-regulated splicing. ...

    Authors: Leslie C. Sutherland, Philippe Thibault, Mathieu Durand, Elvy Lapointe, Jose M. Knee, Ariane Beauvais, Irina Kalatskaya, Sarah C. Hunt, Julie J. Loiselle, Justin G. Roy, Sarah J. Tessier, Gustavo Ybazeta, Lincoln Stein, Rashmi Kothary, Roscoe Klinck and Benoit Chabot

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2017 18:19

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  46. Growth arrest specific 2 (gas2) gene is a component of the microfilament system that plays a major role in the cell cycle, regulation of microfilaments, and cell morphology during apoptotic processes. However, li...

    Authors: ChangGeng Yang, Fan Wu, Xing Lu, Ming Jiang, Wei Liu, Lijuan Yu, Juan Tian and Hua Wen

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2017 18:18

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  47. G-quadruplex is a DNA secondary structure that has been shown to play an important role in biological systems. In a previous study, we identified 1998 G-quadruplex-forming sequences using a mouse CpG islands D...

    Authors: Daniyah H. Bay, Annika Busch, Fred Lisdat, Keisuke Iida, Kazunori Ikebukuro, Kazuo Nagasawa, Isao Karube and Wataru Yoshida

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2017 18:17

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  49. The denervated hippocampus provides a proper microenvironment for the survival and neuronal differentiation of neural progenitors. While thousands of lncRNAs were identified, only a few lncRNAs that regulate n...

    Authors: Bingying Deng, Xiang Cheng, Haoming Li, Jianbing Qin, Meiling Tian and Guohua Jin

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2017 18:15

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  50. Along with sodium/calcium (Ca2+) exchangers, plasma membrane Ca2+ ATPases (ATP2Bs) are main regulators of intracellular Ca2+ levels. There are four ATP2B paralogs encoded by four different genes. Atp2b2 encodes t...

    Authors: Rebecca R. Minich, Jin Li and Bruce L. Tempel

    Citation: BMC Molecular Biology 2017 18:14

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