Many antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) function by disrupting the cell membranes of microbes. While this ability is crucial for their efficacy, it also raises questions about their safety. Specifically, the membrane-disrupting ability could lead to hemolysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFN4-acetylcytidine (ac4C) is a crucial post-transcriptional modification in human mRNA, involving the acetylation of the nitrogen atom at the fourth position of cytidine. This modification, catalyzed by N-acetyltransferases such as NAT10, is primarily found in mRNA's coding regions and enhances translation efficiency and mRNA stability. ac4C is closely associated with various diseases, including cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNucleic Acids Res
January 2025
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most urgent global health threats, especially in the post-pandemic era. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) offer a promising alternative to traditional antibiotics, driving growing interest in recent years. dbAMP is a comprehensive database offering extensive annotations on AMPs, including sequence information, functional activity data, physicochemical properties and structural annotations.
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April 2025
Dyslexia is a complex reading disorder characterized by difficulties in accurate or fluent word recognition, poor spelling, and decoding abilities. These challenges are not due to intellectual, visual, or auditory deficits. The diagnosis of dyslexia is further complicated by symptom variability, influenced by cultural and personal factors.
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January 2025
Post-translational modifications (PTMs) are essential for modulating protein function and influencing stability, activity and signaling processes. The dbPTM 2025 update significantly expands the database to include over 2.79 million PTM sites, of which 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer is a severe illness that significantly threatens human life and health. Anticancer peptides (ACPs) represent a promising therapeutic strategy for combating cancer. In silico methods enable rapid and accurate identification of ACPs without extensive human and material resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rise of antibiotic resistance necessitates effective alternative therapies. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising due to their broad inhibitory effects. This study focuses on predicting the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of AMPs against whom-priority pathogens: ATCC 25923, ATCC 25922, and ATCC 27853.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntiviral peptides (AVPs) have shown potential in inhibiting viral attachment, preventing viral fusion with host cells and disrupting viral replication due to their unique action mechanisms. They have now become a broad-spectrum, promising antiviral therapy. However, identifying effective AVPs is traditionally slow and costly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKinases as important enzymes can transfer phosphate groups from high-energy and phosphate-donating molecules to specific substrates and play essential roles in various cellular processes. Existing algorithms for kinase activity from phosphorylated proteomics data are often costly, requiring valuable samples. Moreover, methods to extract kinase activities from bulk RNA sequencing data remain undeveloped.
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March 2024
RNA modification plays a crucial role in cellular regulation. However, traditional high-throughput sequencing methods for elucidating their functional mechanisms are time-consuming and labor-intensive, despite extensive research. Moreover, existing methods often limit their focus to specific species, neglecting the simultaneous exploration of RNA modifications across diverse species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTuberculosis (TB) is a severe disease caused by that poses a significant threat to human health. The emergence of drug-resistant strains has made the global fight against TB even more challenging. Antituberculosis peptides (ATPs) have shown promising results as a potential treatment for TB.
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December 2023
Inflammation is a biological response to harmful stimuli, aiding in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis. However, excessive or persistent inflammation can precipitate a myriad of pathological conditions. Although current treatments such as NSAIDs, corticosteroids, and immunosuppressants are effective, they can have side effects and resistance issues.
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September 2023
Cervical cancer, a major health concern among women worldwide, is closely linked to human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. This study explores the evolving landscape of HPV molecular epidemiology in Taiwan over a decade (2010-2020), where prophylactic HPV vaccination has been implemented since 2007. Analyzing data from 40,561 vaginal swab samples, with 42.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is a critical global crisis that poses a serious threat to public health, particularly with the rise of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Accurate assessment of drug resistance is essential for appropriate treatment and prevention of transmission of these deadly pathogens. Early detection of drug resistance in patients is critical for providing timely treatment and reducing the spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFungal infections have become a significant global health issue, affecting millions worldwide. Antifungal peptides (AFPs) have emerged as a promising alternative to conventional antifungal drugs due to their low toxicity and low propensity for inducing resistance. In this study, we developed a deep learning-based framework called DeepAFP to efficiently identify AFPs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne of the major challenges in cancer therapy lies in the limited targeting specificity exhibited by existing anti-cancer drugs. Tumor-homing peptides (THPs) have emerged as a promising solution to this issue, due to their capability to specifically bind to and accumulate in tumor tissues while minimally impacting healthy tissues. THPs are short oligopeptides that offer a superior biological safety profile, with minimal antigenicity, and faster incorporation rates into target cells/tissues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn clinical microbiology, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is frequently employed for rapid microbial identification. However, rapid identification of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Escherichia coli based on a large amount of MALDI-TOF MS data has not yet been reported. This may be because building a prediction model to cover all E.
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February 2023
Early diagnosis and treatment can reduce the symptoms of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children, but medical diagnosis is usually delayed. Hence, it is important to increase the efficiency of early diagnosis. Previous studies used behavioral and neuronal data during GO/NOGO task to help detect ADHD and the accuracy differed considerably from 53% to 92%, depending on the employed methods and the number of electroencephalogram (EEG) channels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer is one of the leading diseases threatening human life and health worldwide. Peptide-based therapies have attracted much attention in recent years. Therefore, the precise prediction of anticancer peptides (ACPs) is crucial for discovering and designing novel cancer treatments.
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March 2023
N6-methyladinosine (m6A) modification is the most abundant co-transcriptional modification in eukaryotic RNA and plays important roles in cellular regulation. Traditional high-throughput sequencing experiments used to explore functional mechanisms are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and most of the proposed methods focused on limited species types. To further understand the relevant biological mechanisms among different species with the same RNA modification, it is necessary to develop a computational scheme that can be applied to different species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMatrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) has been used to identify microorganisms and predict antibiotic resistance. The preprocessing method for the MS spectrum is key to extracting critical information from complicated MS spectral data. Different preprocessing methods yield different data, and the optimal approach is unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFcomplex (MABC) has been reported to cause complicated infections. Subspecies identification of MABC is crucial for adequate treatment due to different antimicrobial resistance properties amid subspecies. However, long incubation days are needed for the traditional antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST).
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