Hans Lehrach

on IDEAL Article DEFOG: A Practical Scheme for Deciphering Families of Genes (2009)

Tania Fuchs, Barbora Malecova, Chaim Linhart, Roded Sharan, Miriam Khen, Dmitry Shmulevich, ...

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Monte Carlo analysis of an ODE Model of the Sea Urchin Endomesoderm Network (2009)

Kühn, Clemens, Wierling, Christoph, Kühn, Alexander, Klipp, Edda, Panopoulou, Georgia, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Abstract Background Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) control the differentiation, specification and function of cells at the genomic level. The levels of interactions within large GRNs are of enormous...

In silicoidentification of a core regulatory network of OCT4 in human embryonic stem cells using an integrated approach (2009)

Chavez, Lukas, Bais, Abha S, Vingron, Martin, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James, Herwig, Ralf

Abstract Background The transcription factor OCT4 is highly expressed in pluripotent embryonic stem cells which are derived from the inner cell mass of mammalian blastocysts. Pluripotency and self...

Identification of novel transcriptional regulators involved in macrophage differentiation and activation in U937 cells (2009)

Baek, Young-Sook, Haas, Stefan, Hackstein, Holger, Bein, Gregor, Hernandez-Santana, Maria, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Abstract Background Monocytes and macrophages play essential role in innate immunity. Understanding the underlying mechanism of macrophage differentiation and the identification of regulatory...

Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Networks: A Comparative Study (2009)

Hendrik Hache, Hans Lehrach, Ralf Herwig

Reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks has been an intensively studied topic in bioinformatics since it constitutes an intermediate step from explorative to causative gene expression...

ConsensusPathDB--a database for integrating human functional interaction networks (2009)

Kamburov, Atanas, Wierling, Christoph, Lehrach, Hans, Herwig, Ralf

ConsensusPathDB is a database system for the integration of human functional interactions. Current knowledge of these interactions is dispersed in more than 200 databases, each having a specific...

GeNGe: systematic generation of gene regulatory networks (2009)

Hache, Hendrik, Wierling, Christoph, Lehrach, Hans, Herwig, Ralf

Summary: The analysis of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is a central goal of bioinformatics highly accelerated by the advent of new experimental techniques, such as RNA interference. A battery of...

Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Networks: A Comparative Study (2009)

Hendrik Hache, Hans Lehrach, Ralf Herwig

Reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks has been an intensively studied topic in bioinformatics since it constitutes an intermediate step from explorative to causative gene expression...

Transcriptome analysis by strand-specific sequencing of complementary DNA (2009)

Parkhomchuk, Dmitri, Borodina, Tatiana, Amstislavskiy, Vyacheslav, Banaru, Maria, Hallen, Linda, Krobitsch, Sylvia, ...

High-throughput complementary DNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is a powerful tool for whole-transcriptome analysis, supplying information about a transcript's expression level and structure. However, it is...

Deeply conserved chordate noncoding sequences preserve genome synteny but do not drive gene duplicate retention (2009)

Hufton, Andrew L., Mathia, Susanne, Braun, Helene, Georgi, Udo, Lehrach, Hans, Vingron, Martin, ...

Animal genomes possess highly conserved cis-regulatory sequences that are often found near genes that regulate transcription and development. Researchers have proposed that the strong conservation of...

The molecular basis of genistein-induced mitotic arrest and exit of self-renewal in embryonal carcinoma and primary cancer cell lines (2008)

Regenbrecht, Christian RA, Jung, Marc, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James

Abstract Background Genistein is an isoflavonoid present in soybeans that exhibits anti-carcinogenic properties. The issue of genistein as a potential anti-cancer drug has been addressed in some...

Sequencing and genotypic analysis of the triosephosphate isomerase (TPI1) locus in a large sample of long-lived Germans (2008)

Ralser, Markus, Nebel, Almut, Kleindorp, Rabea, Krobitsch, Sylvia, Lehrach, Hans, Schreiber, Stefan, ...

Abstract Background Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) is a central and conserved glycolytic enzyme. In humans, TPI is encoded by a single gene on 12p13, and associated with a rare genetic disorder, TPI...

High-throughput mammalian two-hybrid screening for protein-protein interactions using transfected cell arrays (2008)

Fiebitz, Andrea, Nyarsik, Lajos, Haendler, Bernard, Hu, Yu-Hui, Wagner, Florian, Thamm, Sabine, ...

Abstract Background Most of the biological processes rely on the formation of protein complexes. Investigation of protein-protein interactions (PPI) is therefore essential for understanding of...

Early vertebrate whole genome duplications were predated by a period of intense genome rearrangement (2008)

Hufton, Andrew L., Groth, Detlef, Vingron, Martin, Lehrach, Hans, Poustka, Albert, Panopoulou, Georgia

Researchers, supported by data from polyploid plants, have suggested that whole genome duplication (WGD) may induce genomic instability and rearrangement, an idea which could have important...

A Global View of Gene Activity and Alternative Splicing by Deep Sequencing of the Human Transcriptome (2008)

Sultan, Marc, Schulz, Marcel H., Hugues, Richard, Magen, Alon, Klingenhoff, Andreas, Scherf, Matthias, ...

The functional complexity of the human transcriptome is not yet fully elucidated. We report a high-throughput sequence of the human transcriptome from a human embryonic kidney and a B cell line. We...

Age-related transcriptional changes in gene expression in different organs of mice support the metabolic stability theory of aging (2008)

Brink, Thore C., Demetrius, Lloyd, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James A.

Individual differences in the rate of aging are determined by the efficiency with which an organism transforms resources into metabolic energy thus maintaining the homeostatic condition of its cells...

High-throughput mammalian two-hybrid screening for protein-protein interactions using transfected cell arrays (2008)

Fiebitz, Andrea, Nyarsik, Lajos, Haendler, Bernard, Hu, Yu-Hui, Wagner, Florian, Thamm, Sabine, ...

Background Most of the biological processes rely on the formation of protein complexes. Investigation of protein-protein interactions (PPI) is therefore essential for understanding of cellular...

Control of early fate decisions in human ES cells by distinct states of TGFβ pathway activity (2008)

Greber, Boris, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James

The mechanisms controlling self-renewal versus lineage commitment in human embryonic stem (hES) cells are not well understood. Nonetheless, current knowledge suggests a crucial role for TGFβ...

Early vertebrate whole genome duplications were predated by a period of intense genome rearrangement (2008)

Hufton, Andrew L., Groth, Detlef, Vingron, Martin, Lehrach, Hans, Poustka, Albert J., Panopoulou, Georgia

Researchers, supported by data from polyploid plants, have suggested that whole genome duplication (WGD) may induce genomic instability and rearrangement, an idea which could have important...

ConsensusPathDB—a database for integrating human functional interaction networks (2008)

Kamburov, Atanas, Wierling, Christoph, Lehrach, Hans, Herwig, Ralf

ConsensusPathDB is a database system for the integration of human functional interactions. Current knowledge of these interactions is dispersed in more than 200 databases, each having a specific...

Regulation of muscle development by DPF3, a novel histone acetylation and methylation reader of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex (2008)

Lange, Martin, Kaynak, Bogac, Forster, Ulrike B., Tönjes, Martje, Fischer, Jenny J., Grimm, Christina, ...

Chromatin remodeling and histone modifications facilitate access of transcription factors to DNA by promoting the unwinding and destabilization of histone–DNA interactions. We present DPF3, a new...

Using hippocampal microRNA expression differences between mouse inbred strains to characterise miRNA function (2008)

Parsons, Michael J., Grimm, Christina H., Paya-Cano, Jose L., Sugden, Karen, Nietfeld, Wilfried, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) are short, single-stranded, noncoding RNAs that are involved in the regulation of protein-coding genes at the level of messenger RNA (mRNA). They are involved in the regulation of...

A catabolic block does not sufficiently explain how 2-deoxy-d-glucose inhibits cell growth (2008)

Ralser, Markus, Wamelink, Mirjam M., Struys, Eduard A., Joppich, Christian, Krobitsch, Sylvia, Jakobs, Cornelis, ...

The glucose analogue 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2-DG) restrains growth of normal and malignant cells, prolongs the lifespan of C. elegans, and is widely used as a glycolytic inhibitor to study metabolic...

Sequencing and genotypic analysis of the triosephosphate isomerase (TPI1) locus in a large sample of long-lived Germans (2008)

Ralser, Markus, Nebel, Almut, Kleindorp, Rabea, Krobitsch, Sylvia, Lehrach, Hans, Schreiber, Stefan, ...

Background Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) is a central and conserved glycolytic enzyme. In humans, TPI is encoded by a single gene on 12p13, and associated with a rare genetic disorder, TPI...

The molecular basis of genistein-induced mitotic arrest and exit of self-renewal in embryonal carcinoma and primary cancer cell lines (2008)

Regenbrecht, Christian R. A., Jung, Marc, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James

Background Genistein is an isoflavonoid present in soybeans that exhibits anti-carcinogenic properties. The issue of genistein as a potential anti-cancer drug has been addressed in some papers, but...

Stemming cancer : functional genomics of cancer stem cells in solid tumors (2008)

Regenbrecht, Christian R. A., Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) were discovered about 15 years ago in hematopoietic cancers. Subsequently, cancer stem cells were discovered in various solid tumors. Based on parallels with normal stem...

Molecular characterisation of signalling pathways in cancer stem cells (2008)

Regenbrecht, C. R. A., Wete, Y., Jodicke, A., Hugel, R., Walden, P., Jung, M., ...

Al-Hajj et al. (2003) were the first to identify and prospectively isolate a minority subpopulation of cells from human solid tumours that contained all of the in vivo tumour-forming abilities. The...

Characterizing the mouse ES cell transcriptome with Illumina sequencing (2008)

Rosenkranz, Ruben, Borodina, Tatiana, Lehrach, Hans, Himmelbauer, Heinz

Large datasets generated by Illumina sequencing are ideally suited to transcriptome characterization. We generated 3,052,501 27-mer reads from F1 mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell cDNA. Using the ELAND...

Regulation of muscle development by DPF3, a novel histone acetylation and methylation reader of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex (2008)

Lange, Martin, Kaynak, Bogac, Forster, Ulrike B., Tönjes, Martje, Fischer, Jenny J., Grimm, Christina, ...

Chromatin remodeling and histone modifications facilitate access of transcription factors to DNA by promoting the unwinding and destabilization of histone–DNA interactions. We present DPF3, a new...

Dynamic rerouting of the carbohydrate flux is key to counteracting oxidative stress (2007)

Ralser, Markus, Wamelink, Mirjam M, Kowald, Axel, Gerisch, Birgit, Heeren, Gino, Struys, Eduard A, ...

Abstract Background Eukaryotic cells have evolved various response mechanisms to counteract the deleterious consequences of oxidative stress. Among these processes, metabolic alterations seem to play...

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Matthias Steinfath, Henrik Seidel, Hans Lehrach, Uwe Radelof, John O'brien

Automated image analysis for array hybridization experiments

IXDB, an Integrated Database for Genomic Data (2007)

Ulf Leser, Robert Wagner, Hans Lehrach, Hugues Roest Crollius

The generation of physical maps at the chromosomal scale and at a resolution sufficient for large scale sequencing requires more data, experiments and resources than can be produced by a single...

Gene expression variation in Down's syndrome mice allows prioritization of candidate genes (2007)

Sultan, Marc, Piccini, Ilaria, Balzereit, Daniela, Herwig, Ralf, Saran, Nidhi G, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Abstract Background Down's syndrome (DS), or trisomy 21, is a complex developmental disorder that exhibits many clinical signs that vary in occurrence and severity among patients. The molecular...

Silencing of core transcription factors in human EC cells highlights the importance of autocrine FGF signaling for self-renewal (2007)

Greber, Boris, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James

Abstract Background Despite their distinct origins, human embryonic stem (hES) and embryonic carcinoma (hEC) cells share a number of similarities such as surface antigen expression, growth...

A global view of gene expression in lithium and zinc treated sea urchin embryos: new components of gene regulatory networks (2007)

Poustka, Albert J, Kühn, Alexander, Groth, Detlef, Weise, Vesna, Yaguchi, Shunsuke, Burke, Robert D, ...

Abstract Background The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus has recently been sequenced because it is a major model system for the study of gene regulatory networks. Embryonic...

Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometric Analysis of DNA on Microarrays (2007)

Kepper, Pamela, Reinhardt, Richard, Dahl, Andreas, Lehrach, Hans, Sauer, Sascha

Background: Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry is a powerful tool in biomolecule analysis with a wide range of application possibilities, including genotyping of...

Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometric Analysis of DNA on Microarrays (2007)

Kepper, Pamela, Reinhardt, Richard, Dahl, Andreas, Lehrach, Hans, Sauer, Sascha

Background: Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry is a powerful tool in biomolecule analysis with a wide range of application possibilities, including genotyping of...

Conserved molecular portraits of bovine and human blastocysts as a consequence of the transition from maternal to embryonic control of gene expression (2007)

Adjaye, James, Herwig, Ralf, Brink, Thore C., Herrmann, Doris, Greber, Boris, Sudheer, Smita, ...

The present study investigated mRNA expression profiles of bovine oocytes and blastocysts by using a cross-species hybridization approach employing an array consisting of 15,529 human cDNAs as probe,...

Nodal signaling activates differentiation genes during zebrafish gastrulation (2007)

Bennett, James D., Joubin, Katherine, Cheng, Simon, Aanstad, Pia, Herwig, Ralf, Clark, Matthew, ...

Nodal signals induce mesodermal and endodermal progenitors during vertebrate development. To determine the role of Nodal signaling at a genomic level, we isolated Nodal-regulated genes by expression...

Quantitative PCR based expression analysis on a nanoliter scale using polymer nano-well chips (2007)

Dahl, Andreas, Sultan, Marc, Jung, Alexander, Schwartz, Regine, Lange, Matthias, Steinwand, Michael, ...

The analysis of gene expression is an essential element of functional genomics. Expression analysis is mainly based on DNA microarrays due to highly parallel readout and high throughput. Quantitative...

A bile acid-like steroid modulates Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan through nuclear receptor signaling (2007)

Gerisch, Birgit, Rottiers, Veerle, Li, Dongling, Motola, Daniel L., Cummins, Carolyn L., Lehrach, Hans, ...

Broad aspects of Caenorhabditis elegans life history, including larval developmental timing, arrest at the dauer diapause, and longevity, are regulated by the nuclear receptor DAF-12. Endogenous...

Silencing of core transcription factors in human EC cells highlights the importance of autocrine FGF signaling for self-renewal (2007)

Greber, Boris, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James

Background Despite their distinct origins, human embryonic stem (hES) and embryonic carcinoma (hEC) cells share a number of similarities such as surface antigen expression, growth characteristics,...

Oligonucleotide fingerprinting of arrayed genomic DNA sequences using LNA-modified hybridization probes (2007)

Liu, Jian-Ping, Drungowski, Mario, Nyarsik, Lajos, Schwartz, Regine, Lehrach, Hans, Herwig, Ralf, ...

Recently, we established a robust method for the detection of hybridization events using a DNA microarray deposited on a nanoporous membrane. Here, in a follow-up study, we demonstrate the...

Ataxin-2 interacts with the DEAD/H-box RNA helicase DDX6 and interferes with P-bodies and stress granules (2007)

Nonhoff, Ute, Ralser, Markus, Welzel, Franziska, Piccini, Ilaria, Balzereit, Daniela, Yaspo, Marie-Laure, ...

Tight control of translation is fundamental for eukaryotic cells, and deregulation of proteins implicated contributes to numerous human diseases. The neurodegenerative disorder spinocerebellar ataxia...

Exploring the limits and losses in MALDI sample preparation of attomole amounts of peptide mixtures (2007)

Nordhoff, Eckhard, Lehrach, Hans, Gobom, Johan

We have used a non-contact piezo-electric liquid dispensing workstation to transfer 200 pL aliquots of both a sample solution containing 12 peptides, each at a concentration of 5 or 50 fmol/μL, and...

A global view of gene expression in lithium and zinc treated sea urchin embryos: new components of gene regulatory networks (2007)

Poustka, Albert J., Kühn, Alexander, Groth, Detlef, Weise, Vesna, Yaguchi, Shunsuke, Burke, Robert D., ...

Background The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus has recently been sequenced because it is a major model system for the study of gene regulatory networks. Embryonic expression...

Genomic organization of transcriptomes in mammals: coregulation and cofunctionality (2007)

Purmann, Antje, Toedling, Joern, Schueler, Markus, Carninci, Piero, Lehrach, Hans, Hayashizaki, Yoshihide, ...

In studies of their transcriptional activity, genomes have shown a high order of organization. We assessed the question of how genomically neighboring genes are transcriptionally coupled across...

Gene expression variation in Down's syndrome mice allows prioritization of candidate genes (2007)

Sultan, Marc, Piccini, Ilaria, Balzereit, Daniela, Herwig, Ralf, Saran, Nidhi G., Lehrach, Hans, ...

Background Down's syndrome (DS), or trisomy 21, is a complex developmental disorder that exhibits many clinical signs that vary in occurrence and severity among patients. The molecular mechanisms...

Resources, standards and tools for systems biology (2007)

Wierling, Christoph, Herwig, Ralf, Lehrach, Hans

Modelling and simulation techniques are valuable tools for the understanding of complex biological systems. The design of a computer model necessarily has many diverse inputs, such as information on...

TLR2 has a detrimental role in mouse transient focal cerebral ischemia (2007)

Ziegler, Gina, Harhausen, Denise, Schepers, Claudia, Hoffmann, Olaf, Röhr, Christina, Prinz, Vincent, ...

A significant up-regulation of Toll-like-receptor (TLR) mRNAs between 3 and 48 h reperfusion time after induction of transient focal cerebral ischemia for 1 h was revealed by applying global gene...

Dynamic rerouting of the carbohydrate flux is key to counteracting oxidative stress (2007)

Ralser, Markus, Wamelink, Mirjam M., Kowald, Axel, Gerisch, Birgit, Heeren, Gino, Struys, Eduard A., ...

Background Eukaryotic cells have evolved various response mechanisms to counteract the deleterious consequences of oxidative stress. Among these processes, metabolic alterations seem to play an...

Resources, standards and tools for systems biology (2007)

Wierling, Christoph, Herwig, Ralf, Lehrach, Hans

Modelling and simulation techniques are valuable tools for the understanding of complex biological systems. The design of a computer model necessarily has many diverse inputs, such as information on...

Analytical model of peptide mass cluster centres with applications (2006)

Wolski, Witold E, Farrow, Malcolm, Emde, Anne-Katrin, Lehrach, Hans, Lalowski, Maciej, Reinert, Knut

Abstract Background The elemental composition of peptides results in formation of distinct, equidistantly spaced clusters across the mass range. The property of peptide mass clustering is used to...

Cell array-based intracellular localization screening reveals novel functional features of human chromosome 21 proteins (2006)

Hu, Yu-Hui, Warnatz, Hans-Jörg, Vanhecke, Dominique, Wagner, Florian, Fiebitz, Andrea, Thamm, Sabine, ...

Abstract Background Trisomy of human chromosome 21 (Chr21) results in Down's syndrome, a complex developmental and neurodegenerative disease. Molecular analysis of Down's syndrome, however, poses a...

The bovine IGF2 gene is differentially methylated in oocyte and sperm DNA (2006)

Gebert, Claudia, Wrenzycki, Christine, Herrmann, Doris, Gröger, Daniela, Reinhardt, Richard, Hajkova, Petra, ...

The insulin-like growth factor 2 gene (IGF2) encodes an essential growth factor and is imprinted in various mammalian species. Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) are often located within CpG...

The bovine IGF2 gene is differentially methylated in oocyte and sperm DNA (2006)

Gebert, Claudia, Wrenzycki, Christine, Herrmann, Doris, Gröger, Daniela, Reinhardt, Richard, Hajkova, Petra, ...

The insulin-like growth factor 2 gene (IGF2) encodes an essential growth factor and is imprinted in various mammalian species. Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) are often located within CpG...

Analysis of Oct4-dependent transcriptional networks regulating self-renewal and pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells (2006)

Babaie, Yasmin, Herwig, Ralf, Greber, Boris, Brink, Thore C., Wruck, Wasco, Groth, Detlef, ...

The POU domain transcription factor OCT4 is a key regulator of pluripotency in the early mammalian embryo and is highly expressed in the inner cell mass of the blastocyst. Consistent with its...

Fibroblast growth factor 2 modulates transforming growth factor ß signaling in mouse embryonic fibroblasts and human ESCs (hESCs) to support hESC self-renewal (2006)

Greber, Boris, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James

Fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) is known to promote self-renewal of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). In addition, it has been shown that transforming growth factor ß (TGFß) signaling is...

Expression profiling of drug response-from genes to pathways (2006)

Herwig, Ralf, Lehrach, Hans

Understanding individual response to a drug—what determines its efficacy and tolerability—is the major bottleneck in current drug development and clinical trials. Intracellular response and...

Profiling humoral autoimmune repertoire of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients and development of a disease-associated protein chip (2006)

Horn, Sabine, Lueking, Angelika, Murphy, Derek, Staudt, Alexander, Gutjahr, Claudia, Schulte, Kirsten, ...

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a myocardial disease characterized by progressive depression of myocardial contractile function and ventricular dilatation. Thirty percent of DCM patients belong to...

Cell array-based intracellular localization screening reveals novel functional features of human chromosome 21 proteins (2006)

Hu, Yu-Hui, Warnatz, Hans-Jörg, Vanhecke, Dominique, Wagner, Florian, Fiebitz, Andrea, Thamm, Sabine, ...

Background Trisomy of human chromosome 21 (Chr21) results in Down's syndrome, a complex developmental and neurodegenerative disease. Molecular analysis of Down's syndrome, however, poses a particular...

Recent advances of protein microarrays (2006)

Hultschig, Claus, Kreutzberger, Jürgen, Seitz, Harald, Konthur, Zoltán, Büssow, Konrad, Lehrach, Hans

Technological innovations and novel applications have greatly advanced the field of protein microarrays. Over the past two years, different types of protein microarrays have been used for serum...

Age-specific hormonal decline is accompanied by transcriptional changes in human sebocytes in vitro (2006)

Makrantonaki, Evgenia, Adjaye, James, Herwig, Ralf, Brink, Thore C., Groth, Detlef, Hultschig, Claus, ...

The importance of hormones in endogenous aging has been displayed by recent studies performed on animal models and humans. To decipher the molecular mechanisms involved in aging we maintained human...

Arabidopsis PDK1: identification of sites important for activity and downstream phosphorylation of S6 kinase (2006)

Otterhag, Lotta, Gustavsson, Niklas, Alsterfjord, Magnus, Pical, Christophe, Lehrach, Hans, Gobom, Johan, ...

The Arabidopsis thaliana protein kinase AtPDK1 was identified as a homologue of the mammalian 3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 (PDK1), which is involved in a number of physiological...

Triose phosphate isomerase deficiency is caused by altered dimerization–not catalytic inactivity–of the mutant enzymes (2006)

Ralser, Markus, Heeren, Gino, Breitenbach, Michael, Lehrach, Hans, Krobitsch, Sylvia

Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by various mutations in the gene encoding the key glycolytic enzyme TPI. A drastic decrease in TPI activity and an...

An efficient and economic enhancer mix for PCR (2006)

Ralser, Markus, Querfurth, Robert, Warnatz, Hans-Jörg, Lehrach, Hans, Yaspo, Marie-Laure, Krobitsch, Sylvia

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become a fundamental technique in molecular biology. Nonetheless, further improvements of the existing protocols are required to broaden the applicability of PCR...

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms: analysis by mass spectrometry (2006)

Sauer, Sascha, Reinhardt, Richard, Lehrach, Hans, Gut, Ivo G.

Matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry has evolved as a powerful method for analyzing nucleic acids. Here we provide protocols for genotyping single-nucleotide...

Analysis of NOD2-mediated Proteome Response to Muramyl Dipeptide in HEK293 Cells (2006)

Weichart, Dieter, Gobom, Johan, Klopfleisch, Sina, Häsler, Robert, Gustavsson, Niklas, Billmann, Susanne, ...

NOD2, a cytosolic receptor for the bacterial proteoglycan fragment muramyl dipeptide (MDP), plays an important role in the recognition of intracellular pathogens. Variants in the bacterial sensor...

Analytical model of peptide mass cluster centres with applications (2006)

Wolski, Witold E., Farrow, Malcolm, Emde, Anne-Katrin, Lehrach, Hans, Lalowski, Maciej, Reinert, Knut

Background The elemental composition of peptides results in formation of distinct, equidistantly spaced clusters across the mass range. The property of peptide mass clustering is used to calibrate...

Proteome Science BioMed Central Methodology Analytical model of peptide mass cluster centres with applications (2006)

Witold E Wolski, Malcolm Farrow, Anne-katrin Emde, Hans Lehrach

© 2006 Wolski et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

Transformation and other factors of the peptide mass spectrometry pairwise peak-list comparison process (2005)

Wolski, Witold E, Lalowski, Maciej, Martus, Peter, Herwig, Ralf, Giavalisco, Patrick, Gobom, Johan, ...

Abstract Background: Biological Mass Spectrometry is used to analyse peptides and proteins. A mass spectrum generates a list of measured mass to charge ratios and intensities of ionised peptides,...

Dissection of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Transcriptome Using Genome-Wide cDNA Microarrays (2005)

Christine M. Costello, Nancy Mah, Robert Häsler, Philip Rosenstiel, Georg H. Waetzig, Andreas Hahn, ...

cDNA analysis of colonic samples from patients with Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis suggests substantial differences in pathophysiology between the two diseases.

Dissection of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Transcriptome Using Genome-Wide cDNA Microarrays (2005)

Christine M. Costello, Nancy Mah, Robert Häsler, Philip Rosenstiel, Georg H. Waetzig, Andreas Hahn, ...

Background The differential pathophysiologic mechanisms that trigger and maintain the two forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn disease (CD), and ulcerative colitis (UC) are only partially...

Structural genomics of human proteins – target selection and generation of a public catalogue of expression clones (2005)

Büssow, Konrad, Scheich, Christoph, Sievert, Volker, Harttig, Ulrich, Schultz, Jörg, Simon, Bernd, ...

Abstract Background The availability of suitable recombinant protein is still a major bottleneck in protein structure analysis. The Protein Structure Factory, part of the international structural...

Primary differentiation in the human blastocyst : comparative molecular portraits of inner cell mass and trophectoderm cells (2005)

Adjaye, James, Huntriss, John, Herwig, Ralf, BenKahla, Alia, Brink, Thore C., Wierling, Christoph, ...

The primary differentiation event during mammalian development occurs at the blastocyst stage and leads to the delineation of the inner cell mass (ICM) and the trophectoderm (TE). We provide the...

Subnanoliter enzymatic assays on microarrays (2005)

Angenendt, Philipp, Lehrach, Hans, Kreutzberger, Jürgen, Glökler, Jörn

Many areas of research today are based on enzymatic assays most of which are still performed as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays in microtiter plates. The demand for highly parallel screening of...

In vitro recombination cloning of entire cDNA libraries in Arabidopsis thaliana and its application to the yeast two-hybrid system (2005)

Bürkle, Lukas, Meyer, Svenja, Dortay, Hakan, Lehrach, Hans, Heyl, Alexander

In the postgenomic era many experiments rely on the availability of transcript sequence for cloning. As these clones usually originate from cDNA libraries, the quality of these libraries is crucial....

Structural genomics of human proteins – target selection and generation of a public catalogue of expression clones (2005)

Büssow, Konrad, Scheich, Christoph, Sievert, Volker, Harttig, Ulrich, Schultz, Jörg, Simon, Bernd, ...

Background The availability of suitable recombinant protein is still a major bottleneck in protein structure analysis. The Protein Structure Factory, part of the international structural genomics...

Dissection of the inflammatory bowel disease transcriptome using genome-wide cDNA microarrays (2005)

Costello, Christine M., Mah, Nancy, Häsler, Robert, Rosenstiel, Philip, Waetzig, Georg H., Hahn, Andreas, ...

Background The differential pathophysiologic mechanisms that trigger and maintain the two forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn disease (CD), and ulcerative colitis (UC) are only partially...

High throughput identification of potential arabidopsis mitogen-activated protein kinases substrates (2005)

Feilner, Tanja, Hultschig, Claus, Lee, Justin, Meyer, Svenja, Immink, Richard G. H., Koenig, Andrea, ...

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are universal and highly conserved signal transduction modules in eucaryotes, including plants. These protein phosphorylation cascades link...

Towards the proteome of the marine bacterium Rhodopirellula baltica: mapping the soluble proteins (2005)

Gade, Dörte, Theiss, Dorothea, Lange, Daniela, Mirgorodskaya, Ekaterina, Lombardot, Thierry, Glöckner, Frank Oliver, ...

The marine bacterium Rhodopirellula baltica, a member of the phylum Planctomycetes, has distinct morphological properties and contributes to remineralization of biomass in the natural environment. On...

High heterogeneity within the ribosomal proteins of the Arabidopsis thaliana 80S ribosome (2005)

Giavalisco, Patrick, Wilson, Daniel, Kreitler, Thomas, Lehrach, Hans, Klose, Joachim, Gobom, Johan, ...

Proteomic studies have addressed the composition of plant chloroplast ribosomes and 70S ribosomes from the unicellular organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii But comprehensive characterization of...

Proteome analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation-time of flight mass spectrometry (2005)

Giavalisco, Patrick, Nordhoff, Eckhard, Kreitler, Thomas, Klöppel, Klaus-Dieter, Lehrach, Hans, Klose, Joachim, ...

In the present study we show results of a large-scale proteome analysis of the recently sequenced plant Arabidopsis thaliana. On the basis of a previously published sequential protein extraction...

Comparison of PCR-based mutation detection methods and application for identification of mouse Sult1a1 mutant embryonic stem cell clones using pooled templates (2005)

Greber, Boris, Tandara, Helena, Lehrach, Hans, Himmelbauer, Heinz

Reverse genetic approaches to generate mutants of model species are useful tools to assess functions of unknown genes. Recent work has demonstrated the feasibility of such strategies in several...

Mouse splice mutant generation from ENU-treated ES cells — a gene-driven approach (2005)

Greber, Boris, Lehrach, Hans, Himmelbauer, Heinz

Mutant mice are important for elucidating mammalian gene functions and for modeling human disease phenotypes. In recent years, chemical mutagenesis has become an increasingly popular method to...

A proteomic method for the analysis of changes in protein concentrations in response to systemic perturbations using metabolic incorporation of stable isotopes and mass spectrometry (2005)

Gustavsson, Niklas, Greber, Boris, Kreitler, Thomas, Himmelbauer, Heinz, Lehrach, Hans, Gobom, Johan

While several techniques exist for assessing quantitative differences among proteomes representing different cell states, methods for assessing how these differences are mediated are largely missing....

Mouse protein arrays from a TH1 cell cDNA library for antibody screening and serum profiling (2005)

Gutjahr, Claudia, Murphy, Derek, Lueking, Angelika, Koenig, Andrea, Janitz, Michal, O'Brien, John, ...

The mouse is the premier genetic model organism for the study of disease and development. We describe the establishment of a mouse T helper cell type 1 (TH1) protein expression library that provides...

Detection of Angiotensin II in Supernatants of Stimulated Mononuclear Leukocytes by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time-of-Flight/Time-of-Flight Mass Analysis (2005)

Jankowski, Vera, Vanholder, Raymond, Van Der Giet, Markus, Henning, Lars, Tölle, Markus, Schönfelder, Gilbert, ...

Angiotensin II (Ang II) is the major vasoactive component of the renin-angiotensin system. Several components of the renin-angiotensin system have been demonstrated in different tissues. Whereas the...

Alternative pathways as mechanism next term for the negative effects associated with overexpression of superoxide dismutase (2005)

Kowald, Axel, Lehrach, Hans, Klipp, Edda

One of the most important antioxidant enzymes is superoxide dismutase (SOD), which catalyses the dismutation of superoxide radicals to hydrogen peroxide. The enzyme plays an important role in...

Profiling of alopecia areata autoantigens based on protein microarray technology (2005)

Lueking, Angelika, Huber, Otmar, Wirths, Christopher, Schulte, Kirsten, Stieler, Karola M., Blume-Peytavi, Ulrike, ...

Protein biochips have a great potential in future parallel processing of complex samples as a research tool and in diagnostics. For the generation of protein biochips, highly automated technologies...

The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome (2005)

Sudbrak, Ralf, Beck, Alfred, Heitmann, Katja, Hennig, Steffen, Klages, Sven, Kosiura, Anna, ...

The human X chromosome has a unique biology that was shaped by its evolution as the sex chromosome shared by males and females. We have determined 99.3% of the euchromatic sequence of the X...

The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome (2005)

Sudbrak, Ralf, Beck, Alfred, Heitmann, Katja, Hennig, Steffen, Klages, Sven, Kosiura, Anna, ...

The human X chromosome has a unique biology that was shaped by its evolution as the sex chromosome shared by males and females. We have determined 99.3% of the euchromatic sequence of the X...

Nanoflow liquid chromatography coupled to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry: Sample preparation, data analysis, and application to the analysis of complex peptide mixtures (2005)

Mirgorodskaya, Ekaterina, Braeuer, Corina, Fucini, Paola, Lehrach, Hans, Gobom, Johan

We report the development of a robust interface for off-line coupling of nano liquid chromatography (LC) to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) and its...

Nanoflow liquid chromatography coupled to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry: Sample preparation, data analysis, and application to the analysis of complex peptide mixtures (2005)

Mirgorodskaya, Ekaterina, Braeuer, Corina, Fucini, Paola, Lehrach, Hans, Gobom, Johan

We report the development of a robust interface for off-line coupling of nano liquid chromatography (LC) to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation-mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) and its...

Method for qualitative comparisons of protein mixtures based on enzyme-catalyzed stable-isotope incorporation (2005)

Mirgorodskaya, Ekaterina, Wanker, Erich E., Otto, Albrecht, Lehrach, Hans, Gobom, Johan

Determining which proteins are unique among one or several protein populations is an often-encountered task in proteomics. To this purpose, we present a new method based on trypsin-catalyzed...

Towards the proteome of the marine bacterium Rhodopirellula baltica: mapping the soluble proteins (2005)

Gade, Dörte, Theiss, Dorothea, Lange, Daniela, Mirgorodskaya, Ekaterina, Lombardot, Thierry, Glöckner, Frank Oliver, ...

The marine bacterium Rhodopirellula baltica, a member of the phylum Planctomycetes, has distinct morphological properties and contributes to remineralization of biomass in the natural environment. On...

Matrix Metalloproteinases of Epithelial Origin in Facial Sebum of Patients with Acne and their Regulation by Isotretinoin (2005)

Papakonstantinou, Eleni, Aletras, Alexios J., Glass, Evelyn, Tsogas, Panagiotis, Dionyssopoulos, Alexander, Adjaye, James, ...

Acne vulgaris is a skin disorder of the sebaceous follicles, involving hyperkeratinization and perifollicular inflammation. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) have a predominant role in inflammatory...

An integrative approach to gain insights into the cellular function of human ataxin-2 (2005)

Ralser, Markus, Albrecht, Mario, Nonhoff, Ute, Lengauer, Thomas, Lehrach, Hans, Krobitsch, Sylvia

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by a trinucleotide expansion in the SCA2 gene, encoding a polyglutamine stretch in the gene product ataxin-2...

Ataxin-2 and huntingtin interact with endophilin-A complexes to function in plastin-associated pathways (2005)

Ralser, Markus, Nonhoff, Ute, Albrecht, Mario, Lengauer, Thomas, Wanker, Erich E., Lehrach, Hans, ...

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by an expanded trinucleotide repeat in the SCA2 gene, encoding a polyglutamine stretch in the gene product...

Genome projects and the functional-genomic era (2005)

Sauer, Sascha, Konthur, Zoltan, Lehrach, Hans

The problems we face today in public health as a result of the - fortunately - increasing age of people and the requirements of developing countries create an urgent need for new and innovative...

Miniaturization in functional genomics and proteomics (2005)

Sauer, Sascha, Lange, Bodo M. H., Gobom, Johan, Nyarsik, Lajos, Seitz, Harald, Lehrach, Hans

Proteins are the key components of the cellular machinery responsible for processing changes that are ordered by genomic information. Analysis of most human proteins and nucleic acids is important in...

Bacterial protein microarrays for identification of new potential diagnostic markers for Neisseria meningitidis infections (2005)

Steller, Sigrid, Angenendt, Philipp, Cahill, Dolores J., Heuberger, Sigrid, Lehrach, Hans, Kreutzberger, Jürgen

Neisseria meningitidis is the most common cause of meningitis and causes epidemic outbreaks. One trait of N. meningitidis, which is associated with most of the currently recognized virulence...

Identification and functional analysis of CITED2 mutations in patients with congenital heart defects (2005)

Sperling, Silke, Grimm, Christina H., Dunkel, Ilona, Mebus, Siegrun, Sperling, Hans-Peter, Ebner, Arno, ...

Recent reports have demonstrated that mice lacking the transcription factor Cited2 die in utero showing various cardiac malformations. We present for the first time functionally relevant mutations of...

A human protein-protein interaction network : a resource for annotating the proteome (2005)

Stelzl, Ulrich, Worm, Uwe, Lalowski, Maciej, Haenig, Christian, Brembeck, Felix H., Goehler, Heike, ...

Protein-protein interaction maps provide a valuable framework for a better understanding of the functional organization of the proteome. To detect interacting pairs of human proteins systematically,...

Transformation and other factors of the peptide mass spectrometry pairwise peak-list comparison process (2005)

Wolski, Witold E., Lalowski, Maciej, Martus, Peter, Herwig, Ralf, Giavalisco, Patrick, Gobom, Johan, ...

Background: Biological Mass Spectrometry is used to analyse peptides and proteins. A mass spectrum generates a list of measured mass to charge ratios and intensities of ionised peptides, which is...

High throughput identification of potential Arabidopsis mitogen-activated protein kinases substrates (2005)

Tanja Feilner, Claus Hultschig, Justin Lee, Svenja Meyer, Andrea Koenig, ...

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are universal and highly conserved signal transduction modules in eucaryotes, including plants. These protein phosphorylation cascades link...

Original Article (2005)

James Adjaye, John Huntriss, Ralf Herwig, Alia Benkahla, Thore Brink, Claus Hultschig, ...

The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located on the World Wide Web at:

Ataxin-2 and huntingtin interact with endophilin-A complexes to function in plastin-associated pathways (2005)

Ralser, Markus, Nonhoff, Ute, Albrecht, Mario, Lengauer, Thomas, Wanker, Erich E., Lehrach, Hans, ...

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by an expanded trinucleotide repeat in the SCA2 gene, encoding a polyglutamine stretch in the gene product...

Retroelement Dynamics and a Novel Type of Chordate Retrovirus-like Element in the Miniature Genome of the Tunicate Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Volff,Jean-Nicolas, Lehrach,Hans, Reinhardt,Richard, Chourrout,Daniel

Retrotransposable elements have played an important role in shaping eukaryotic DNA, and their activity and turnover rate directly influence the size of genomes. With approximately 15,000 genes within...

d-matrix – database exploration, visualization and analysis (2004)

Seelow, Dominik, Galli, Raffaello, Mebus, Siegrun, Sperling, Hans-Peter, Lehrach, Hans, Sperling, Silke

Abstract Background Motivated by a biomedical database set up by our group, we aimed to develop a generic database front-end with embedded knowledge discovery and analysis features. A major focus was...

Cross-species hybridisation of human and bovine orthologous genes on high density cDNA microarrays (2004)

Adjaye, James, Herwig, Ralf, Herrmann, Doris, Wruck, Wasco, BenKahla, Alia, Brink, Thore C, ...

Abstract Background Cross-species gene-expression comparison is a powerful tool for the discovery of evolutionarily conserved mechanisms and pathways of expression control. The usefulness of cDNA...

Cross-species hybridisation of human and bovine orthologous genes on high density cDNA microarrays (2004)

Adjaye,James, Herwig,Ralf, Herrmann,Doris, Wruck,Wasco, BenKahla,Alia, Brink,Thore C., ...

Background Cross-species gene-expression comparison is a powerful tool for the discovery of evolutionarily conserved mechanisms and pathways of expression control. The usefulness of cDNA microarrays...

d-matrix – database exploration, visualization and analysis (2004)

Seelow,Dominik, Galli,Raffaello, Mebus,Sigrun, Sperling,Hans-Peter, Lehrach,Hans, Sperling,Silke

Background Motivated by a biomedical database set up by our group, we aimed to develop a generic database front-end with embedded knowledge discovery and analysis features. A major focus was the...

Ligation detection reaction-TaqMan procedure for single nucleotide polymorphism detection on genomic DNA (2004)

Borodina,Tatiana A., Lehrach,Hans, Soldatov,Aleksey V.

In this article, we describe a genotyping approach applicable to both individual and multiplexed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis, based on a ligation detection reaction (LDR) performed...

Seeing better through a MIST : evaluation of monoclonal recombinant antibody fragments on microarrays (2004)

Angenendt,Philipp, Wilde,Jeannine, Kijanka,Gregor, Baars,Sabine, Cahill,Dolores J., Kreutzberger,Jürgen, ...

Automation is the key approach for genomewide and proteomewide screening of function and interaction. Especially for proteomics, antibody microarrays are a useful tool for massive parallel profiling...

Hypervariable and highly divergent intron–exon organizations in the chordate Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Edvardsen,Rolf B., Lerat,Emmanuelle, Maeland,Anne Dorthea, Flåt,Mette, Tewari,Rita, Jensen,Marit F., ...

Oikopleura dioica is a pelagic tunicate with a very small genome and a very short life cycle. In order to investigate the intron–exon organizations in Oikopleura, we have isolated and characterized...

A protein interaction network links GIT1, an enhancer of huntingtin aggregation, to Huntington's Disease (2004)

Goehler,Heike, Lalowski,Maciej, Stelzl,Ulrich, Waelter,Stephanie, Stroedicke,Martin, Worm,Uwe, ...

Analysis of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is a valuable approach for characterizing proteins of unknown function. Here, we have developed a strategy combining library and matrix yeast...

Automated solid-phase extraction for purification of single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping products prior to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometric analysis (2004)

Sauer,Sascha, Kepper,Pamela, Smyra,Anett, Dahl,Andreas, Ferse,Falk-Thilo, Lehrach,Hans, ...

In this article, we describe the application of a novel micro elution solid-phase extraction method for purification of short stretches of DNA products of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) prior...

Hox cluster disintegration with persistent anteroposterior order of expression in Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Seo,Hee-Chan, Edvardsen,Rolf Brudvik, Maeland,Anne Dorthea, Bjordal,Marianne, Jensen,Marit Flo, Hansen,Anette, ...

Tunicate embryos and larvae have small cell numbers and simple anatomical features in comparison with other chordates, including vertebrates. Although they branch near the base of chordate...

Multiplexed real-time PCR using universal reporters (2004)

Rickert,Andreas M., Lehrach,Hans, Sperling,Silke

Real-time quantitative PCR is a sensitive and accurate method for gene expression studies (1). The detection chemistries of all real-time PCR procedures are based on one of two principles for...

Multiplexed hybridizations of positively charge-tagged peptide nucleic acids detected by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (2004)

Bauer,Oliver, Guerasimova,Anna, Sauer,Sascha, Thamm,Sabine, Steinfath,Matthias, Herwig,Ralf, ...

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a novel class of DNA analogues in which the entire sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by a pseudopeptide counterpart. Owing to its neutral character and the consequent...

A catalog of human cDNA expression clones and its application to structural genomics (2004)

Büssow, Konrad, Quedenau, Claudia, Sievert, Volker, Tischer, Janett, Scheich, Christoph, Seitz, Harald, ...

Abstract We describe here a systematic approach to the identification of human proteins and protein fragments that can be expressed as soluble proteins in Escherichia coli . A cDNA expression library...

A catalog of human cDNA expression clones and its application to structural genomics (2004)

Büssow,Konrad, Quedenau,Claudia, Sievert,Volker, Tischer,Janett, Scheich,Christoph, Seitz,Harald, ...

We describe here a systematic approach to the identification of human proteins and protein fragments that can be expressed as soluble proteins in Escherichia coli. A cDNA expression library of 10,825...

Transcript level alterations reflect gene dosage effects across multiple tissues in a mouse model of Down Syndrome (2004)

Kahlem,Pascal, Sultan,Marc, Herwig,Ralf, Steinfath,Matthias, Balzereit,Daniela, Eppens,Barbara, ...

Human trisomy 21, which results in Down syndrome (DS), is one of the most complicated congenital genetic anomalies compatible with life, yet little is known about the molecular basis of DS. It is...

A first generation physical map of the medaka genome in BACs essential for positional cloning and clone-by-clone based genomic sequencing (2004)

Khorasani,Maryam Zadeh, Hennig,Steffen, Imre,Gabriele, Asakawa,Shuichi, Palczewski,Stefanie, Berger,Anja, ...

In order to realize the full potential of the medaka as a model system for developmental biology and genetics, characterized genomic resources need to be established, culminating in the sequence of...

On the origin of the chordate central nervous system : expression of onecut in the sea urchin embryo (2004)

Poustka,Albert J., Kühn,Alexander, Radosavljevic,Vesna, Wellenreuther,Ruth, Lehrach,Hans, Panopoulou,Georgia

We identified a transcription factor of the onecut class in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus that represents an ortholog of the mammalian gene HNF6, the founding member of the onecut...

Large-scale expression screening by automated whole-mount in situ hybridization (2004)

Quiring,Rebecca, Wittbrodt,Beate, Henrich,Thorsten, Ramialison,Mirana, Burgtorf,Carola, Lehrach,Hans, ...

Gene expression profiling is an important component of functional genomics. We present a time and cost efficient high-throughput whole-mount in situ technique to perform a large-scale gene expression...

Refinement of single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping methods on human genomic DNA: amplifluor allele-specific polymerase chain reaction versus ligation detection reaction-TaqMan (2004)

Rickert,Andreas M., Borodina,Tatiana A., Kuhn,Eckehard J., Lehrach,Hans, Sperling,Silke

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have proven to be powerful genetic markers for a variety of genetic applications, e.g., association studies leading to dissection of both monogenetic and...

A European focus on proteomics (2004)

Spahn, Christian MT, Lehrach, Hans, Jungblut, Peter R

A report on the First International Symposium of the Austrian Proteomics Platform, Seefeld, Austria, 26-29 January 2004.

A European focus on proteomics (2004)

Spahn,Christian M., Lehrach,Hans, Jungblut,Peter R.

A report on the First International Symposium of the Austrian Proteomics Platform, Seefeld, Austria, 26-29 January 2004.

Cell-free protein expression and functional assay in nanowell chip format (2004)

Angenendt,Philipp, Nyarsik,Lajos, Szaflarski,Witold, Glokler,Joern, Nierhaus,Knud H., Lehrach,Hans, ...

The expression and characterization of large protein libraries requires high-throughput tools for rapid and cost-effective expression and screening. A promising tool to meet these requirements is...

Cell-free protein expression and functional assay in nanowell chip format (2004)

Angenendt,Philipp, Nyarsik,Lajos, Szaflarski,Witold, Glökler,Jörn, Nierhaus,Knud H., Lehrach,Hans, ...

The expression and characterization of large protein libraries requires high-throughput tools for rapid and cost-effective expression and screening. A promising tool to meet these requirements is...

Cell-free protein expression and functional assay in nanowell chip format (2004)

Angenendt,Philipp, Nyarsik,Lajos, Szaflarski,Witold, Glökler,Jörn, Nierhaus,Knud H., Lehrach,Hans, ...

The expression and characterization of large protein libraries requires high-throughput tools for rapid and cost-effective expression and screening. A promising tool to meet these requirements is...

Integrated and sequence-ordered BAC and YAC-based physical maps for the rat genome (2004)

Krzywinski,Martin, Wallis,John, Goesele,Claudia, Bosdet,Ian, Chiu,Readman, Graves,Tina, ...

As part of the effort to sequence the genome of Rattus norvegicus, we constructed a physical map comprised of fingerprinted bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from the CHORI-230 BAC...

Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution (2004)

Gibbs,Richard A. ..., Himmelbauer,Heinz, Lehrach,Hans ..., Collins,Francis

The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report here the genome...

The genomic sequence and comparative analysis of the rat major histocompatibility complex (2004)

Hurt,Peter, Walter,Lutz, Sudbrak,Ralf, Klages,Sven, Mueller,Ines, Shiina,Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Integrated and sequence-ordered BAC and YAC-based physical maps for the rat genome (2004)

Krzywinski,Martin, Wallis,John, Goesele,Claaudia, Bosdet,Ian, Chiu,Readman, Graves,Tina, ...

As part of the effort to sequence the genome of Rattus norvegicus, we constructed a physical map comprised of fingerprinted bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from the CHORI-230 BAC...

A comparison of oligonucleotide and cDNA-based microarray systems (2004)

Mah,Nancy, Thelin,Anders, Lu,Tim, Nikolaus,Susanna, Kuhbacher,Tanja, Gurbuz,Yesim, ...

Large-scale public data mining will become more common as public release of microarray data sets becomes a corequisite for publication. Therefore, there is an urgent need to clarify whether data from...

A comparison of oligonucleotide and cDNA-based microarray systems (2004)

Mah,Nancy, Thelin,Anders, Lu,Tim, Nikolaus,Susanna, Kuehbacher,Tanja, Gurbuz,Yesim, ...

Large-scale public data mining will become more common as public release of microarray data sets becomes a corequisite for publication. Therefore, there is an urgent need to clarify whether data from...

Immunomics in inflammatory rheumatic diseases (2004)

Konthur,Zoltan, Adolph,Kenneth W., Burguera,G., Sternjak,A., Forster,Alan, Lehrach,Hans, ...

Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are characterized by autoantibodies to different autoantigenic proteins. Using proteomic 2D immunoblots, we identified a new 40 kDa autoantigen...

Genexpressionsanalyse komplexer klinischer Phänotypen mittels cDNS-Arrays - Gene Expression Profiling of Complex Clinical Phenotypes using cDNA-Arrays (2004)

Von Heydebreck,Anja, Sperling,Silke, Kaynak,Bogac, Lehrach,Hans, Vingron,Martin

In a genome-wide gene expression study, normal and congenitally malformed human hearts were examined using cDNA arrays. Statistical and bioinformatic methods were used in order to identify tissue-...

Genexpressionsanalyse komplexer klinischer Phänotypen mittels cDNSArrays - Gene Expression Profiling of Complex Clinical Phenotypes using cDNA-Arrays (2004)

Heydebreck,Anja Von, Sperling,Silke, Kaynak,Bogac, Lehrach,Hans, Vingron,Martin

Zusammenfassung: In einer genomweiten Genexpressionsstudie wurden normale und fehlgebildete menschliche Herzen mittels cDNS-Arrays untersucht. Statistische und bioinformatische Methoden wurden...

Chip-Technologie als Werkzeug in der Systembiologie (2004)

Lehrach,Hans, Nietfeld,Wilfried, Falter,Claudia

Das Genom, die Umwelt und einige zufällige Ereignisse sind die drei Hauptkomponenten, die den Phänotyp eines Organismus bestimmen. In diesem Sinne kann in der Biologie Leben als eine Art...

GOblet: a platform for Gene Ontology annotation of anonymous sequence data (2004)

Groth,Detlef, Lehrach,Hans, Hennig,Steffen

GOblet is a comprehensive web server application providing the annotation of anonymous sequence data with Gene Ontology (GO) terms. It uses a variety of different protein databases (human, murines,...

A comparison of oligonucleotide and cDNA-based microarray systems (2004)

Mah, Nancy, Thelin, Anders, Lu, Tim, Nikolaus, Susanna, Kuhbacher, Tanja, Gurbuz, Yesim, ...

Large-scale public data mining will become more common as public release of microarray data sets becomes a corequisite for publication. Therefore, there is an urgent need to clarify whether data from...

Cell-free protein expression and functional assay in nanowell chip format (2004)

Angenendt, Philipp, Nyarsik, Lajos, Szaflarski, Witold, Glokler, Joern, Nierhaus, Knud H., Lehrach, Hans, ...

The expression and characterization of large protein libraries requires high-throughput tools for rapid and cost-effective expression and screening. A promising tool to meet these requirements is...

The genomic sequence and comparative analysis of the rat major histocompatibility complex (2004)

Hurt, Peter, Walter, Lutz, Sudbrak, Ralf, Klages, Sven, Mueller, Ines, Shiina, Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Immunomics in inflammatory rheumatic diseases (2004)

Konthur, Zoltan, Adolph, Kenneth W., Burguera, G., Sternjak, A., Forster, Alan, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are characterized by autoantibodies to different autoantigenic proteins. Using proteomic 2D immunoblots, we identified a new 40 kDa autoantigen...

Integrated and sequence-ordered BAC and YAC-based physical maps for the rat genome (2004)

Krzywinski, Martin, Wallis, John, Goesele, Claaudia, Bosdet, Ian, Chiu, Readman, Graves, Tina, ...

As part of the effort to sequence the genome of Rattus norvegicus, we constructed a physical map comprised of fingerprinted bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from the CHORI-230 BAC...

Genexpressionsanalyse komplexer klinischer Phänotypen mittels cDNSArrays - Gene Expression Profiling of Complex Clinical Phenotypes using cDNA-Arrays (2004)

Heydebreck, Anja Von, Sperling, Silke, Kaynak, Bogac, Lehrach, Hans, Vingron, Martin

Zusammenfassung: In einer genomweiten Genexpressionsstudie wurden normale und fehlgebildete menschliche Herzen mittels cDNS-Arrays untersucht. Statistische und bioinformatische Methoden wurden...

Cell-free protein expression and functional assay in nanowell chip format (2004)

Angenendt, Philipp, Nyarsik, Lajos, Szaflarski, Witold, Glökler, Jörn, Nierhaus, Knud H., Lehrach, Hans, ...

The expression and characterization of large protein libraries requires high-throughput tools for rapid and cost-effective expression and screening. A promising tool to meet these requirements is...

Genexpressionsanalyse komplexer klinischer Phänotypen mittels cDNS-Arrays - Gene Expression Profiling of Complex Clinical Phenotypes using cDNA-Arrays (2004)

Von Heydebreck, Anja, Sperling, Silke, Kaynak, Bogac, Lehrach, Hans, Vingron, Martin

In a genome-wide gene expression study, normal and congenitally malformed human hearts were examined using cDNA arrays. Statistical and bioinformatic methods were used in order to identify tissue-...

Cross-species hybridisation of human and bovine orthologous genes on high density cDNA microarrays (2004)

Adjaye, James, Herwig, Ralf, Herrmann, Doris, Wruck, Wasco, BenKahla, Alia, Brink, Thore C., ...

Background Cross-species gene-expression comparison is a powerful tool for the discovery of evolutionarily conserved mechanisms and pathways of expression control. The usefulness of cDNA microarrays...

Seeing better through a MIST : evaluation of monoclonal recombinant antibody fragments on microarrays (2004)

Angenendt, Philipp, Wilde, Jeannine, Kijanka, Gregor, Baars, Sabine, Cahill, Dolores J., Kreutzberger, Jürgen, ...

Automation is the key approach for genomewide and proteomewide screening of function and interaction. Especially for proteomics, antibody microarrays are a useful tool for massive parallel profiling...

Cell-free protein expression and functional assay in nanowell chip format (2004)

Angenendt, Philipp, Nyarsik, Lajos, Szaflarski, Witold, Glökler, Jörn, Nierhaus, Knud H., Lehrach, Hans, ...

The expression and characterization of large protein libraries requires high-throughput tools for rapid and cost-effective expression and screening. A promising tool to meet these requirements is...

Multiplexed hybridizations of positively charge-tagged peptide nucleic acids detected by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (2004)

Bauer, Oliver, Guerasimova, Anna, Sauer, Sascha, Thamm, Sabine, Steinfath, Matthias, Herwig, Ralf, ...

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a novel class of DNA analogues in which the entire sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by a pseudopeptide counterpart. Owing to its neutral character and the consequent...

Ligation detection reaction-TaqMan procedure for single nucleotide polymorphism detection on genomic DNA (2004)

Borodina, Tatiana A., Lehrach, Hans, Soldatov, Aleksey V.

In this article, we describe a genotyping approach applicable to both individual and multiplexed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis, based on a ligation detection reaction (LDR) performed...

A catalog of human cDNA expression clones and its application to structural genomics (2004)

Büssow, Konrad, Quedenau, Claudia, Sievert, Volker, Tischer, Janett, Scheich, Christoph, Seitz, Harald, ...

We describe here a systematic approach to the identification of human proteins and protein fragments that can be expressed as soluble proteins in Escherichia coli. A cDNA expression library of 10,825...

Integrated and sequence-ordered BAC and YAC-based physical maps for the rat genome (2004)

Krzywinski, Martin, Wallis, John, Goesele, Claudia, Bosdet, Ian, Chiu, Readman, Graves, Tina, ...

As part of the effort to sequence the genome of Rattus norvegicus, we constructed a physical map comprised of fingerprinted bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from the CHORI-230 BAC...

A comparison of oligonucleotide and cDNA-based microarray systems (2004)

Mah, Nancy, Thelin, Anders, Lu, Tim, Nikolaus, Susanna, Kuehbacher, Tanja, Gurbuz, Yesim, ...

Large-scale public data mining will become more common as public release of microarray data sets becomes a corequisite for publication. Therefore, there is an urgent need to clarify whether data from...

Hypervariable and highly divergent intron–exon organizations in the chordate Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Edvardsen, Rolf B., Lerat, Emmanuelle, Maeland, Anne Dorthea, Flåt, Mette, Tewari, Rita, Jensen, Marit F., ...

Oikopleura dioica is a pelagic tunicate with a very small genome and a very short life cycle. In order to investigate the intron–exon organizations in Oikopleura, we have isolated and characterized...

Chip-Technologie als Werkzeug in der Systembiologie (2004)

Lehrach, Hans, Nietfeld, Wilfried, Falter, Claudia

Das Genom, die Umwelt und einige zufällige Ereignisse sind die drei Hauptkomponenten, die den Phänotyp eines Organismus bestimmen. In diesem Sinne kann in der Biologie Leben als eine Art...

Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution (2004)

Gibbs, Richard A. ..., Himmelbauer, Heinz, Lehrach, Hans ..., Collins, Francis

The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report here the genome...

A protein interaction network links GIT1, an enhancer of huntingtin aggregation, to Huntington's Disease (2004)

Goehler, Heike, Lalowski, Maciej, Stelzl, Ulrich, Waelter, Stephanie, Stroedicke, Martin, Worm, Uwe, ...

Analysis of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is a valuable approach for characterizing proteins of unknown function. Here, we have developed a strategy combining library and matrix yeast...

GOblet: a platform for Gene Ontology annotation of anonymous sequence data (2004)

Groth, Detlef, Lehrach, Hans, Hennig, Steffen

GOblet is a comprehensive web server application providing the annotation of anonymous sequence data with Gene Ontology (GO) terms. It uses a variety of different protein databases (human, murines,...

Transcript level alterations reflect gene dosage effects across multiple tissues in a mouse model of Down Syndrome (2004)

Kahlem, Pascal, Sultan, Marc, Herwig, Ralf, Steinfath, Matthias, Balzereit, Daniela, Eppens, Barbara, ...

Human trisomy 21, which results in Down syndrome (DS), is one of the most complicated congenital genetic anomalies compatible with life, yet little is known about the molecular basis of DS. It is...

A first generation physical map of the medaka genome in BACs essential for positional cloning and clone-by-clone based genomic sequencing (2004)

Khorasani, Maryam Zadeh, Hennig, Steffen, Imre, Gabriele, Asakawa, Shuichi, Palczewski, Stefanie, Berger, Anja, ...

In order to realize the full potential of the medaka as a model system for developmental biology and genetics, characterized genomic resources need to be established, culminating in the sequence of...

On the origin of the chordate central nervous system : expression of onecut in the sea urchin embryo (2004)

Poustka, Albert J., Kühn, Alexander, Radosavljevic, Vesna, Wellenreuther, Ruth, Lehrach, Hans, Panopoulou, Georgia

We identified a transcription factor of the onecut class in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus that represents an ortholog of the mammalian gene HNF6, the founding member of the onecut...

Large-scale expression screening by automated whole-mount in situ hybridization (2004)

Quiring, Rebecca, Wittbrodt, Beate, Henrich, Thorsten, Ramialison, Mirana, Burgtorf, Carola, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Gene expression profiling is an important component of functional genomics. We present a time and cost efficient high-throughput whole-mount in situ technique to perform a large-scale gene expression...

Refinement of single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping methods on human genomic DNA: amplifluor allele-specific polymerase chain reaction versus ligation detection reaction-TaqMan (2004)

Rickert, Andreas M., Borodina, Tatiana A., Kuhn, Eckehard J., Lehrach, Hans, Sperling, Silke

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have proven to be powerful genetic markers for a variety of genetic applications, e.g., association studies leading to dissection of both monogenetic and...

Multiplexed real-time PCR using universal reporters (2004)

Rickert, Andreas M., Lehrach, Hans, Sperling, Silke

Real-time quantitative PCR is a sensitive and accurate method for gene expression studies (1). The detection chemistries of all real-time PCR procedures are based on one of two principles for...

Automated solid-phase extraction for purification of single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping products prior to matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometric analysis (2004)

Sauer, Sascha, Kepper, Pamela, Smyra, Anett, Dahl, Andreas, Ferse, Falk-Thilo, Lehrach, Hans, ...

In this article, we describe the application of a novel micro elution solid-phase extraction method for purification of short stretches of DNA products of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) prior...

d-matrix – database exploration, visualization and analysis (2004)

Seelow, Dominik, Galli, Raffaello, Mebus, Sigrun, Sperling, Hans-Peter, Lehrach, Hans, Sperling, Silke

Background Motivated by a biomedical database set up by our group, we aimed to develop a generic database front-end with embedded knowledge discovery and analysis features. A major focus was the...

Hox cluster disintegration with persistent anteroposterior order of expression in Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Seo, Hee-Chan, Edvardsen, Rolf Brudvik, Maeland, Anne Dorthea, Bjordal, Marianne, Jensen, Marit Flo, Hansen, Anette, ...

Tunicate embryos and larvae have small cell numbers and simple anatomical features in comparison with other chordates, including vertebrates. Although they branch near the base of chordate...

A European focus on proteomics (2004)

Spahn, Christian M., Lehrach, Hans, Jungblut, Peter R.

A report on the First International Symposium of the Austrian Proteomics Platform, Seefeld, Austria, 26-29 January 2004.

Retroelement Dynamics and a Novel Type of Chordate Retrovirus-like Element in the Miniature Genome of the Tunicate Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Volff, Jean-Nicolas, Lehrach, Hans, Reinhardt, Richard, Chourrout, Daniel

Retrotransposable elements have played an important role in shaping eukaryotic DNA, and their activity and turnover rate directly influence the size of genomes. With approximately 15,000 genes within...

GOblet: a platform for Gene Ontology annotation of anonymous sequence data (2004)

Detlef Groth, Hans Lehrach, Steffen Hennig

GOblet is a comprehensive web server application providing the annotation of anonymous sequence data with Gene Ontology (GO) terms. It uses a variety of different protein databases (human, murines,...

Retroelement Dynamics and a Novel Type of Chordate Retrovirus-Like Elements in the Miniature Genome of the Tunicate Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Volff, Jean-Nicolas, Lehrach, Hans, Reinhardt, Richard, Chourrout, Daniel

Retrotransposable elements have played an important role in shaping eukaryotic DNA, and their activity and turnover rate directly influenced the size of genomes. With approximately 15,000 genes...

Retroelement Dynamics and a Novel Type of Chordate Retrovirus-like Element in the Miniature Genome of the Tunicate Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Volff, Jean-Nicolas, Lehrach, Hans, Reinhardt, Richard, Chourrout, Daniel

Retrotransposable elements have played an important role in shaping eukaryotic DNA, and their activity and turnover rate directly influence the size of genomes. With approximately 15,000 genes within...

Transcript Level Alterations Reflect Gene Dosage Effects Across Multiple Tissues in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome (2004)

Kahlem, Pascal, Sultan, Marc, Herwig, Ralf, Steinfath, Matthias, Balzereit, Daniela, Eppens, Barbara, ...

Human trisomy 21, which results in Down syndrome (DS), is one of the most complicated congenital genetic anomalies compatible with life, yet little is known about the molecular basis of DS. It is...

GOblet: a platform for Gene Ontology annotation of anonymous sequence data (2004)

Groth, Detlef, Lehrach, Hans, Hennig, Steffen

GOblet is a comprehensive web server application providing the annotation of anonymous sequence data with Gene Ontology (GO) terms. It uses a variety of different protein databases (human, murines,...

The Genomic Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Rat Major Histocompatibility Complex (2004)

Hurt, Peter, Walter, Lutz, Sudbrak, Ralf, Klages, Sven, Müller, Ines, Shiina, Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Integrated and Sequence-Ordered BAC- and YAC-Based Physical Maps for the Rat Genome (2004)

Krzywinski, Martin, Wallis, John, Gösele, Claudia, Bosdet, Ian, Chiu, Readman, Graves, Tina, ...

As part of the effort to sequence the genome of Rattus norvegicus, we constructed a physical map comprised of fingerprinted bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from the CHORI-230 BAC...

Versatile Gene-Specific Sequence Tags for Arabidopsis Functional Genomics: Transcript Profiling and Reverse Genetics Applications (2004)

Hilson, Pierre, Allemeersch, Joke, Altmann, Thomas, Aubourg, Sébastien, Avon, Alexandra, Beynon, Jim, ...

Microarray transcript profiling and RNA interference are two new technologies crucial for large-scale gene function studies in multicellular eukaryotes. Both rely on sequence-specific hybridization...

Retroelement Dynamics and a Novel Type of Chordate Retrovirus-Like Elements in the Miniature Genome of the Tunicate Oikopleura dioica (2004)

Volff, Jean-Nicolas, Lehrach, Hans, Reinhardt, Richard, Chourrout, Daniel

Retrotransposable elements have played an important role in shaping eukaryotic DNA, and their activity and turnover rate directly influenced the size of genomes. With approximately 15,000 genes...

Clone-based systematic haplotyping (CSH): A procedure for physical haplotyping of whole genomes (2003)

Burgtorf,Carola, Kepper,Pamela, Hoehe,Margret, Schmitt,Carsten, Reinhardt,Richard, Lehrach,Hans, ...

We present a novel methodology to determine the phase of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on a chromosome, which we term clone-based systematic haplotyping (CSH). The CSH procedure is based on...

Generation, annotation, evolutionary analysis, and database integration of 20,000 unique sea urchin EST clusters (2003)

Poustka,Albert J., Groth,Detlef, Hennig,Steffen, Thamm,Sabine, Cameron,Andrew, Beck,Alfred, ...

Together with the hemichordates, sea urchins represent basal groups of nonchordate invertebrate deuterostomes that occupy a key position in bilaterian evolution. Because sea urchin embryos are also...

A nonredundant human protein chip for antibody screening and serum profiling (2003)

Lueking,Angelika, Possling,Alexandra, Huber,Otmar, Beveridge,Allan, Horn,Martin, Eickhoff,Holger, ...

There is burgeoning interest in protein microarrays, but a source of thousands of nonredundant, purified proteins was not previously available. Here we show a glass chip containing 2413 nonredundant...

Human inter-individual DNA sequence variation in candidate genes, drug targets, the importance of haplotypes and pharmacogenomics (2003)

Hoehe,Margret R., Timmermann,Bernd, Lehrach,Hans

The identification of genes predisposing to human diseases is of paramount importance for understanding the molecular basis of the disease and individually different drug response, and will establish...

Mutant huntingtin promotes the fibrillogenesis of wild-type huntingtin - A potential mechanism for loss of huntingtin function in Huntington's disease (2003)

Busch,Anne, Engemann,Sabine, Lurz,Rudi, Okazawa,Hitoshi, Lehrach,Hans, Wanker,Erich E.

Aggregation of huntingtin (htt) in neuronal inclusions is associated with the development of Huntington's disease (HD). Previously, we have shown that mutant htt fragments with polyglutamine (polyQ)...

Mutant huntingtin promotes the fibrillogenesis of wild-type huntingtin - A potential mechanism for loss of huntingtin function in Huntington's disease (2003)

Busch,Anne, Engemann,Sabine, Lurz,Rudi, Okazawa,Hitoshi, Lehrach,Hans, Wanker,Erich E.

Aggregation of huntingtin (htt) in neuronal inclusions is associated with the development of Huntington's disease (HD). Previously, we have shown that mutant htt fragments with polyglutamine (polyQ)...

A genome-wide transcriptional fingerprint of normal and malformed human hearts (2003)

Kaynak,Bogac, Von Heydebreck,Anja, Mebas,Siegrun, Seelow,Dominic, Vogel,Jan, Sperling,Hans-Peter, ...

Background— We present the first genome-wide cDNA array analysis of human congenitally malformed hearts and attempted to partially elucidate these complex phenotypes. Most congential heart defects,...

3D protein microarrays: Performing multiplex immunoassays on a single chip (2003)

Angenendt,Philip, Glokler,Jörn, Konthur,Zoltán, Lehrach,Hans, Cahill,Dolores J.

The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is typically applied in the format of microtiter plates. To increase throughput and reduce consumption of precious samples, efforts have been made to...

Differential expression of human adipose-tissue genes in obesity-hypertension (2003)

Engeli,S., Baranov,S., Soldatov,A., Lehrach,Hans, Luft,F. C., Sharma,A. M.

Abstract: From the 57th Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research in Association with the Council on Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease

Next generation of protein microarray support materials: Evaluation for protein and antibody microarray applications (2003)

Angenendt,Philipp, Glökler,Jörn, Sobek,Jens, Lehrach,Hans, Cahill,Dolores J.

The performance of protein and antibody microarrays is dependent on various factors, one of which is the use of an appropriate microarray surface for the immobilisation of either protein or antibody...

Expression profiling of human idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (2003)

Grzeskowiak,Rafal, Witt,Henning, Drungowski,Mario, Thermann,Rolf, Hennig,Steffen, Perrot,Andreas, ...

Objective: To investigate the global changes accompanying human dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) we performed a large-scale expression screen using myocardial biopsies from a group of DCM patients with...

Identification of downstream targets of the nodal signaling pathway. (2003)

Bennett,James, Joubin,Kathy, Cheng,Simon, Aanstad,Pia, Lehrach,Hans, Schier,Alexander F.

Nodal signaling is critical for a variety of processes during vertebrate development, including gastrulation and left—right patterning. Although many of the molecules that play a role in the...

Ligation-based synthesis of oligonucleotides with block structure (2003)

Borodina,Tatiana A., Lehrach,Hans, Soldatov,Aleksey V.

We describe here a method for the synthesis of oligonucleotides with block structure (padlock probes, primers for multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and ligation-independent cloning), based...

Automated Gene Ontology annotation for anonymous sequence data (2003)

Hennig,Steffen, Groth,Detlef, Lehrach,Hans

Gene Ontology (GO) is the most widely accepted attempt to construct a unified and structured vocabulary for the description of genes and their products in any organism. Annotation by GO terms is...

Generation of Arabidopsis protein chips for antibody and serum screening (2003)

Kersten,Birgit, Feilner,Tanja, Kramer,A., Wehrmeyer,Silke, Possling,Alexandra, Witt,Iris, ...

Protein array technology has emerged as a new tool to enable ordered screening of proteins for expression and molecular interactions in high throughput. Besides classical solid-phase substrates, such...

MALDI mass spectrometry analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms by photocleavage and charge-tagging (2003)

Sauer,Sascha, Lehrach,Hans, Reinhardt,Richard

High-throughput procedures are an important requirement for future large-scale genetic studies such as genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Matrix-assisted laser desorption/...

New evidence for genome-wide duplications at the origin of vertebrates using an amphioxus gene set and completed animal genomes (2003)

Panopoulou,Georgia, Hennig,Steffen, Groth,Detlef, Krause,Antje, Poustka,Albert J., Herwig,Ralf, ...

The 2R hypothesis predicting two genome duplications at the origin of vertebrates is highly controversial. Studies published so far include limited sequence data from organisms close to the...

Genome-wide array analysis of normal and malformed human hearts (2003)

Kaynak,Bogac, Von Heydebreck,Anja, Mebus,Sigrun, Seelow,Dominik, Hennig,Steffen, Vogel,Jan, ...

Background We present the first genome-wide cDNA array analysis of human congenitally malformed hearts and attempted to partially elucidate these complex phenotypes. Most congential heart defects,...

Characterization of trimethylpsoralen as a mutagen for mouse embryonic stem cells (2003)

Greber,Boris, Lehrach,Hans, Himmelbauer,Heinz

Given a large number of genes with unknown functions in model organisms, collections of mutants are valuable resources for studying gene function. For the mouse, embryonic stem cell technology offers...

Sample preparation protocols for MALDI-MS of peptides and oligonucleotides using prestructured sample supports (2003)

Nordhoff,Eckhard, Schurenberg,Martin, Thiele,Gabriela, Luebbert,Christine, Kloeppel,Klaus-Dieter, Theiss,Dorothea, ...

This contribution provides a set of protocols for MALDI-MS sample preparation of peptides and oligonucleotides on prestructured sample supports. The protocols have been optimized for high detection...

Rapid identification of allergen-encoding cDNA clones by phage display and high-density arrays (2003)

Kodzius,Rimantas, Rhyner,Claudius, Konthur,Zoltan, Buczek,Donald, Lehrach,Hans, Walter,Gerald, ...

We describe a high-throughput, quantitative technology for fast identification of all different clones present in selectively enriched phage surface-displayed cDNA libraries. The strategy is based on...

RA-specific expression profiles and new candidate genes (2003)

Ungethuem,U., Haeupl,T., Koczan,D., Huber,H., Von Helversen,T., Ruiz,Patricia, ...

Objective: To identify rheumatoid arthritis- (RA)-specific profiles of differentially expressed genes. Methods: Synovial tissues from RA and osteoarthritis (OA) patients and from normal joints were...

Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) mrjp gene family: computational analysis of putative promoters and genomic structure of mrjp1, the gene coding for the most abundant protein of larval food (2003)

Malecova,Barbora, Ramser,Juliane, O'Brien,John K., Janitz,Michal, Judova,Jana, Lehrach,Hans, ...

Mrjp1 gene belongs to the honeybee mrjp gene family encoding the major royal jelly proteins (MRJPs), secreted by nurse bees into the royal jelly. In this study, we have isolated the genomic clone...

Extraction of proteins from plant tissues for two-dimensional electrophoresis analysis (2003)

Giavalisco,Patrick, Nordhoff,Eckhard, Lehrach,Hans, Gobom,Joerg, Klose,Joachim

To increase the number of proteins detectable by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) in plants, we present a new procedure for extracting total proteins from plant tissue. This method avoids any...

Comparative and evolutionary analysis of the rhesus macaque extended MHC class II region (2003)

Sudbrak,Ralf, Reinhardt,Richard, Hennig,Steffen, Lehrach,Hans, Gunther,Eberhard, Walter,Lutz

The sequence-based map of a part of the rhesus macaque major histocompatibility complex (MHC) extended class II region is presented. The sequenced region encompasses 67,401 bp and contains the...

3D protein microarrays: Performing multiplex immunoassays on a single chip (2003)

Angenendt, Philip, Glokler, Jörn, Konthur, Zoltán, Lehrach, Hans, Cahill, Dolores J.

The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is typically applied in the format of microtiter plates. To increase throughput and reduce consumption of precious samples, efforts have been made to...

A genome-wide transcriptional fingerprint of normal and malformed human hearts (2003)

Kaynak, Bogac, Von Heydebreck, Anja, Mebas, Siegrun, Seelow, Dominic, Vogel, Jan, Sperling, Hans-Peter, ...

Background— We present the first genome-wide cDNA array analysis of human congenitally malformed hearts and attempted to partially elucidate these complex phenotypes. Most congential heart defects,...

Next generation of protein microarray support materials: Evaluation for protein and antibody microarray applications (2003)

Angenendt, Philipp, Glökler, Jörn, Sobek, Jens, Lehrach, Hans, Cahill, Dolores J.

The performance of protein and antibody microarrays is dependent on various factors, one of which is the use of an appropriate microarray surface for the immobilisation of either protein or antibody...

Identification of downstream targets of the nodal signaling pathway. (2003)

Bennett, James, Joubin, Kathy, Cheng, Simon, Aanstad, Pia, Lehrach, Hans, Schier, Alexander F.

Nodal signaling is critical for a variety of processes during vertebrate development, including gastrulation and left—right patterning. Although many of the molecules that play a role in the...

Ligation-based synthesis of oligonucleotides with block structure (2003)

Borodina, Tatiana A., Lehrach, Hans, Soldatov, Aleksey V.

We describe here a method for the synthesis of oligonucleotides with block structure (padlock probes, primers for multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and ligation-independent cloning), based...

Clone-based systematic haplotyping (CSH): A procedure for physical haplotyping of whole genomes (2003)

Burgtorf, Carola, Kepper, Pamela, Hoehe, Margret, Schmitt, Carsten, Reinhardt, Richard, Lehrach, Hans, ...

We present a novel methodology to determine the phase of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on a chromosome, which we term clone-based systematic haplotyping (CSH). The CSH procedure is based on...

Mutant huntingtin promotes the fibrillogenesis of wild-type huntingtin - A potential mechanism for loss of huntingtin function in Huntington's disease (2003)

Busch, Anne, Engemann, Sabine, Lurz, Rudi, Okazawa, Hitoshi, Lehrach, Hans, Wanker, Erich E.

Aggregation of huntingtin (htt) in neuronal inclusions is associated with the development of Huntington's disease (HD). Previously, we have shown that mutant htt fragments with polyglutamine (polyQ)...

Mutant huntingtin promotes the fibrillogenesis of wild-type huntingtin - A potential mechanism for loss of huntingtin function in Huntington's disease (2003)

Busch, Anne, Engemann, Sabine, Lurz, Rudi, Okazawa, Hitoshi, Lehrach, Hans, Wanker, Erich E.

Aggregation of huntingtin (htt) in neuronal inclusions is associated with the development of Huntington's disease (HD). Previously, we have shown that mutant htt fragments with polyglutamine (polyQ)...

Extraction of proteins from plant tissues for two-dimensional electrophoresis analysis (2003)

Giavalisco, Patrick, Nordhoff, Eckhard, Lehrach, Hans, Gobom, Joerg, Klose, Joachim

To increase the number of proteins detectable by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) in plants, we present a new procedure for extracting total proteins from plant tissue. This method avoids any...

Comparative and evolutionary analysis of the rhesus macaque extended MHC class II region (2003)

Sudbrak, Ralf, Reinhardt, Richard, Hennig, Steffen, Lehrach, Hans, Gunther, Eberhard, Walter, Lutz

The sequence-based map of a part of the rhesus macaque major histocompatibility complex (MHC) extended class II region is presented. The sequenced region encompasses 67,401 bp and contains the...

Characterization of trimethylpsoralen as a mutagen for mouse embryonic stem cells (2003)

Greber, Boris, Lehrach, Hans, Himmelbauer, Heinz

Given a large number of genes with unknown functions in model organisms, collections of mutants are valuable resources for studying gene function. For the mouse, embryonic stem cell technology offers...

MALDI mass spectrometry analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms by photocleavage and charge-tagging (2003)

Sauer, Sascha, Lehrach, Hans, Reinhardt, Richard

High-throughput procedures are an important requirement for future large-scale genetic studies such as genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Matrix-assisted laser desorption/...

Automated Gene Ontology annotation for anonymous sequence data (2003)

Hennig, Steffen, Groth, Detlef, Lehrach, Hans

Gene Ontology (GO) is the most widely accepted attempt to construct a unified and structured vocabulary for the description of genes and their products in any organism. Annotation by GO terms is...

Generation, annotation, evolutionary analysis, and database integration of 20,000 unique sea urchin EST clusters (2003)

Poustka, Albert J., Groth, Detlef, Hennig, Steffen, Thamm, Sabine, Cameron, Andrew, Beck, Alfred, ...

Together with the hemichordates, sea urchins represent basal groups of nonchordate invertebrate deuterostomes that occupy a key position in bilaterian evolution. Because sea urchin embryos are also...

Genome-wide array analysis of normal and malformed human hearts (2003)

Kaynak, Bogac, Von Heydebreck, Anja, Mebus, Sigrun, Seelow, Dominik, Hennig, Steffen, Vogel, Jan, ...

Background We present the first genome-wide cDNA array analysis of human congenitally malformed hearts and attempted to partially elucidate these complex phenotypes. Most congential heart defects,...

Generation of Arabidopsis protein chips for antibody and serum screening (2003)

Kersten, Birgit, Feilner, Tanja, Kramer, A., Wehrmeyer, Silke, Possling, Alexandra, Witt, Iris, ...

Protein array technology has emerged as a new tool to enable ordered screening of proteins for expression and molecular interactions in high throughput. Besides classical solid-phase substrates, such...

Rapid identification of allergen-encoding cDNA clones by phage display and high-density arrays (2003)

Kodzius, Rimantas, Rhyner, Claudius, Konthur, Zoltan, Buczek, Donald, Lehrach, Hans, Walter, Gerald, ...

We describe a high-throughput, quantitative technology for fast identification of all different clones present in selectively enriched phage surface-displayed cDNA libraries. The strategy is based on...

A nonredundant human protein chip for antibody screening and serum profiling (2003)

Lueking, Angelika, Possling, Alexandra, Huber, Otmar, Beveridge, Allan, Horn, Martin, Eickhoff, Holger, ...

There is burgeoning interest in protein microarrays, but a source of thousands of nonredundant, purified proteins was not previously available. Here we show a glass chip containing 2413 nonredundant...

Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) mrjp gene family: computational analysis of putative promoters and genomic structure of mrjp1, the gene coding for the most abundant protein of larval food (2003)

Malecova, Barbora, Ramser, Juliane, O'Brien, John K., Janitz, Michal, Judova, Jana, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Mrjp1 gene belongs to the honeybee mrjp gene family encoding the major royal jelly proteins (MRJPs), secreted by nurse bees into the royal jelly. In this study, we have isolated the genomic clone...

Sample preparation protocols for MALDI-MS of peptides and oligonucleotides using prestructured sample supports (2003)

Nordhoff, Eckhard, Schurenberg, Martin, Thiele, Gabriela, Luebbert, Christine, Kloeppel, Klaus-Dieter, Theiss, Dorothea, ...

This contribution provides a set of protocols for MALDI-MS sample preparation of peptides and oligonucleotides on prestructured sample supports. The protocols have been optimized for high detection...

Differential expression of human adipose-tissue genes in obesity-hypertension (2003)

Engeli, S., Baranov, S., Soldatov, A., Lehrach, Hans, Luft, F. C., Sharma, A. M.

Abstract: From the 57th Annual Fall Conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research in Association with the Council on Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease

Expression profiling of human idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (2003)

Grzeskowiak, Rafal, Witt, Henning, Drungowski, Mario, Thermann, Rolf, Hennig, Steffen, Perrot, Andreas, ...

Objective: To investigate the global changes accompanying human dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) we performed a large-scale expression screen using myocardial biopsies from a group of DCM patients with...

New evidence for genome-wide duplications at the origin of vertebrates using an amphioxus gene set and completed animal genomes (2003)

Panopoulou, Georgia, Hennig, Steffen, Groth, Detlef, Krause, Antje, Poustka, Albert J., Herwig, Ralf, ...

The 2R hypothesis predicting two genome duplications at the origin of vertebrates is highly controversial. Studies published so far include limited sequence data from organisms close to the...

RA-specific expression profiles and new candidate genes (2003)

Ungethuem, U., Haeupl, T., Koczan, D., Huber, H., Von Helversen, T., Ruiz, Patricia, ...

Objective: To identify rheumatoid arthritis- (RA)-specific profiles of differentially expressed genes. Methods: Synovial tissues from RA and osteoarthritis (OA) patients and from normal joints were...

Human inter-individual DNA sequence variation in candidate genes, drug targets, the importance of haplotypes and pharmacogenomics (2003)

Hoehe, Margret R., Timmermann, Bernd, Lehrach, Hans

The identification of genes predisposing to human diseases is of paramount importance for understanding the molecular basis of the disease and individually different drug response, and will establish...

New Evidence for Genome-Wide Duplications at the Origin of Vertebrates Using an Amphioxus Gene Set and Completed Animal Genomes (2003)

Panopoulou, Georgia, Hennig, Steffen, Groth, Detlef, Krause, Antje, Poustka, Albert J., Herwig, Ralf, ...

The 2R hypothesis predicting two genome duplications at the origin of vertebrates is highly controversial. Studies published so far include limited sequence data from organisms close to the...

Automated Gene Ontology annotation for anonymous sequence data (2003)

Hennig, Steffen, Groth, Detlef, Lehrach, Hans

Gene Ontology (GO) is the most widely accepted attempt to construct a unified and structured vocabulary for the description of genes and their products in any organism. Annotation by GO terms is...

Clone-Based Systematic Haplotyping (CSH): A Procedure for Physical Haplotyping of Whole Genomes (2003)

Burgtorf, Carola, Kepper, Pamela, Hoehe, Margret, Schmitt, Carsten, Reinhardt, Richard, Lehrach, Hans, ...

[Supplemental material is available online at www.genome.org. The following individuals kindly provided reagents, samples, or unpublished information as indicated in the paper: R. Pawlik.] We...

Generation, Annotation, Evolutionary Analysis, and Database Integration of 20,000 Unique Sea Urchin EST Clusters (2003)

Poustka, Albert J., Groth, Detlef, Hennig, Steffen, Thamm, Sabine, Cameron, Andrew, Beck, Alfred, ...

Together with the hemichordates, sea urchins represent basal groups of nonchordate invertebrate deuterostomes that occupy a key position in bilaterian evolution. Because sea urchin embryos are also...

MALDI mass spectrometry analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms by photocleavage and charge-tagging (2003)

Sauer, Sascha, Lehrach, Hans, Reinhardt, Richard

High‐throughput procedures are an important requirement for future large‐scale genetic studies such as genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Matrix‐assisted laser...

Expression profiling of human idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (2003)

Grzeskowiak, Rafal, Witt, Henning, Drungowski, Mario, Thermann, Rolf, Hennig, Steffen, Perrot, Andreas, ...

Objective: To investigate the global changes accompanying human dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) we performed a large-scale expression screen using myocardial biopsies from a group of DCM patients with...

Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington's disease by using an automated filter retardation assay (2002)

Heiser,Volker, Engernann,Sabine, Brocker,Wolfgang, Dunkel,Ilona, Boeddrich,Annett, Waelter,Stefanie, ...

Preventing the formation of insoluble polyglutamine containing protein aggregates in neurons may represent an attractive therapeutic strategy to ameliorate Huntington's disease (HD). Therefore, the...

Construction of a 'unigene' cDNA clone set by oligonucleotide fingerprinting allows access to 25 000 potential sugar beet genes (2002)

Herwig,Ralf, Schulz,Britta, Weisshaar,Bernd, Hennig,Steffen, Steinfath,Matthias, Drungowski,Mario, ...

Access to the complete gene inventory of an organism is crucial to understanding physiological processes like development, differentiation, pathogenesis, or adaptation to the environment. Transcripts...

Simulation of DNA array hybridization experiments and evaluation of critical parameters during subsequent image and data analysis (2002)

Wierling, Christoph K, Steinfath, Matthias, Elge, Thorsten, Schulze-Kremer, Steffen, Aanstad, Pia, Clark, Matthew, ...

Abstract Background Gene expression analyses based on complex hybridization measurements have increased rapidly in recent years and have given rise to a huge amount of bioinformatic tools such as...

Simulation of DNA array hybridization experiments and evaluation of critical parameters during subsequent image and data analysis (2002)

Wierling,Christoph K., Steinfath,Matthias, Elge,Thorsten, Schulze-Kremer,Steffen, Aanstad,Pia, Clark,Matthew, ...

Background: Gene expression analyses based on complex hybridization measurements have increased rapidly in recent years and have given rise to a huge amount of bioinformatic tools such as image...

Toward optimized antibody microarrays: a comparison of current microarray support materials (2002)

Angenend,Philipp, Glökler,Jörn, Murphy,Derek, Lehrach,Hans, Cahil,Dolores J.

With the advent of protein and antibody microarray technology several different coatings and protocols have been published, which may be broadly divided into two types: gel-coated surfaces and plain...

A gene expression map of human chromosome 21 orthologues in the mouse (2002)

Gitton,Yorick, Dahmane,Nadia, Baik,Sonya, I Altaba,Ariel Ruiz, Neidhardt,Lorenz, Scholze,Manuela, ...

The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21 (HSA21) has opened the route for a systematic molecular characterization of all of its genes. Trisomy 21 is associated with Down's syndrome, the most common...

DEFOG: A Practical Scheme for Deciphering Families of Genes (2002)

Fuchs,Tania, Malecova,Barbora, Linhart,Chaim, Sharan,Roded, Khen,Miriam, Herwig,Ralf, ...

We developed a novel efficient scheme, DEFOG (for "deciphering families of genes"), for determining sequences of numerous genes from a family of interest. The scheme provides a powerful means to...

Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington’s disease by using an automated filter retardation assay (2002)

Heiser,Volker, Engemann,Sabine, Bröcker,Wolfgang, Dunkel,Ilona, Boeddrich,Annett, Waelter,Stephanie, ...

Preventing the formation of insoluble polyglutamine containing protein aggregates in neurons may represent an attractive therapeutic strategy to ameliorate Huntington's disease (HD). Therefore, the...

Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington's disease by using an automated filter retardation assay (2002)

Heiser,Volker, Engemann,Sabine, Bröcker,Wolfgang, Dunke,Ilona, Boeddrich,Annett, Waelter,Stephanie, ...

Preventing the formation of insoluble polyglutamine containing protein aggregates in neurons may represent an attractive therapeutic strategy to ameliorate Huntington's disease (HD). Therefore, the...

A Calibration Method That Simplifies and Improves Accurate Determination of Peptide Molecular Masses by MALDI-TOF MS (2002)

Gobom,Johan, Mueller,Martin, Egelhofer,Volker, Theiss,Dorothea, Lehrach,Hans, Nordhoff,Eckhard

The use of delayed ion extraction in MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometry distorts the linear relationship between m/z and the square of the ion flight time (t2) with the consequence that, if a...

Genetic analysis of the mouse brain proteome (2002)

Klose,Joachim, Nock,Christina, Herrmann,Marion, Stühler,Kai, Marcus,Katrin, Blüggel,Martin, ...

Proteome analysis is a fundamental step in systematic functional genomics. Here we have resolved 8,767 proteins from the mouse brain proteome by large-gel two-dimensional electrophoresis. We detected...

Protein Identification by MALDI-TOF-MS Peptide Mapping: A New Strategy (2002)

Egelhofer,Volker, Gobom,Johan, Seitz,Harald, Giavalisco,Patrick, Lehrach,Hans, Nordhoff,Eckhard

A new strategy for identifying proteins by MALDI-TOF-MS peptide mapping is reported. In contrast to current approaches, the strategy does not rely on a good relative or absolute mass accuracy as the...

Generation of minimal protein identifiers of proteins from two-dimensional gels and recombinant proteins (2002)

Schmidt,Frank, Lueking,Angelika, Nordhoff,Eckhard, Gobom,Johan, Klose,Joachim, Seitz,Harald, ...

We describe the technical feasibility and methodology to characterize a protein by a minimal set of structural information generated by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)-mass...

Mutations in DNAH5 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia and randomization of left–right asymmetry (2002)

Olbrich,Heike, Häffner,Karsten, Kispert,Andreas, Völkel,Alexander, Volz,Andreas, Sasmaz,Gürsel, ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD, MIM 242650) is characterized by recurrent infections of the respiratory tract due to reduced mucociliary clearance and by sperm immobility. Half of the affected...

Mutations in DNAH5 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia and randomization of left–right asymmetry (2002)

Olbrich,Heike, Häffner,Karsten, Kispert,Andreas, Völkel,Alexander, Volz,Andreas, Sasmaz,Gürsel, ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD, MIM 242650) is characterized by recurrent infections of the respiratory tract due to reduced mucociliary clearance and by sperm immobility. Half of the affected...

Xdigitise: visualization of hybridization experiments (2002)

Wruck,Wasco, Griffiths,Huw, Steinfath,Matthias, Lehrach,Hans, Radelof,Uwe, O'Brien,John

Xdigitise is a software system for visualization of hybridization experiments giving the user facilities to analyze the corresponding images manually or automatically. Images of the high-density DNA...

Mutations in DNAH5 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia and randomization of left–right asymmetry (2002)

Olbrich,Heike, Häffner,Karsten, Kispert,Andreas, Völkel,Alexander, Volz,Andreas, Sasmaz,Gürsel, ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD, MIM 242650) is characterized by recurrent infections of the respiratory tract due to reduced mucociliary clearance and by sperm immobility. Half of the affected...

Protein Array Technology: The Tool to Bridge Genomics and Proteomics (2002)

Eickhoff,Holger, Konthur,Zoltán, Lueking,Angelika, Lehrach,Hans, Walter,Gerald, Nordhoff,Eckhard, ...

The generation of protein chips requires much more efforts than DNA microchips. While DNA is DNA and a variety of different DNA molecules behave stable in a hybridisation experiment, proteins are...

Haplotypen und die systematische Analyse genetischer Variation: Krankheitsgene, „Drug Targets“ und Pharmakogenomik (2002)

Hoehe,Margret R., Timmermann,Bernd, Lehrach,Hans

Wesentliche Ziele der modernen Genomforschung/ Pharmakogenomik sind die Identifikation von Krankheitsgenen, die Aufklärung der genetischen Variabilität von „Drug Targets“ und ihrer...

Datenanalyse von Biochips: Von der Sequenz zum System (2002)

Herwig,Ralf, Schuchhardt,Johannes, Eickhoff,Holger, Herzel,Hanspeter, Lehrach,Hans

Die Zunahme unserer Kenntnisse über die molekularen Mechanismen u.a. von Wachstums-, Entwicklungs- und Differenzierungsprozessen hat die Grundlagen der molekularen Medizin innerhalb weniger Jahre...

Oligonucleotide fingerprinting including differental cDNA library screning (2002)

Bauer,Oliver, Janitz,Michal, Guerasimova,Anna, Herwig,Ralf, Lehrach,Hans, Radelof,Uwe

This book combines the experience of 225 experts on 900 pages. Scientists worldwide are currently overwhelmed by the ever-increasing number and diversity of genome projects. This handbook is your...

Clustering gene expression profiles (2002)

Herwig,Ralf, Lehrach,Hans

This book combines the experience of 225 experts on 900 pages. Scientists worldwide are currently overwhelmed by the ever-increasing number and diversity of genome projects. This handbook is your...

Construction and Analysis of a Human-Chimpanzee Comparative Clone Map (2002)

Fujiyama,Asao, Watanabe,Hidemi, Toyoda,Atsushi, Taylor,Todd D., Itoh,Takehiko, Tsai,Shih-Feng, ...

The recently released human genome sequences provide us with reference data to conduct comparative genomic research on primates, which will be important to understand what genetic information makes...

Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington’s disease by using an automated filter retardation assay (2002)

Heiser, Volker, Engemann, Sabine, Bröcker, Wolfgang, Dunkel, Ilona, Boeddrich, Annett, Waelter, Stephanie, ...

Preventing the formation of insoluble polyglutamine containing protein aggregates in neurons may represent an attractive therapeutic strategy to ameliorate Huntington's disease (HD). Therefore, the...

Mutations in DNAH5 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia and randomization of left–right asymmetry (2002)

Olbrich, Heike, Häffner, Karsten, Kispert, Andreas, Völkel, Alexander, Volz, Andreas, Sasmaz, Gürsel, ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD, MIM 242650) is characterized by recurrent infections of the respiratory tract due to reduced mucociliary clearance and by sperm immobility. Half of the affected...

Toward optimized antibody microarrays: a comparison of current microarray support materials (2002)

Angenend, Philipp, Glökler, Jörn, Murphy, Derek, Lehrach, Hans, Cahil, Dolores J.

With the advent of protein and antibody microarray technology several different coatings and protocols have been published, which may be broadly divided into two types: gel-coated surfaces and plain...

Generation of minimal protein identifiers of proteins from two-dimensional gels and recombinant proteins (2002)

Schmidt, Frank, Lueking, Angelika, Nordhoff, Eckhard, Gobom, Johan, Klose, Joachim, Seitz, Harald, ...

We describe the technical feasibility and methodology to characterize a protein by a minimal set of structural information generated by matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)-mass...

A Calibration Method That Simplifies and Improves Accurate Determination of Peptide Molecular Masses by MALDI-TOF MS (2002)

Gobom, Johan, Mueller, Martin, Egelhofer, Volker, Theiss, Dorothea, Lehrach, Hans, Nordhoff, Eckhard

The use of delayed ion extraction in MALDI time-of-flight mass spectrometry distorts the linear relationship between m/z and the square of the ion flight time (t2) with the consequence that, if a...

Protein Identification by MALDI-TOF-MS Peptide Mapping: A New Strategy (2002)

Egelhofer, Volker, Gobom, Johan, Seitz, Harald, Giavalisco, Patrick, Lehrach, Hans, Nordhoff, Eckhard

A new strategy for identifying proteins by MALDI-TOF-MS peptide mapping is reported. In contrast to current approaches, the strategy does not rely on a good relative or absolute mass accuracy as the...

Mutations in DNAH5 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia and randomization of left–right asymmetry (2002)

Olbrich, Heike, Häffner, Karsten, Kispert, Andreas, Völkel, Alexander, Volz, Andreas, Sasmaz, Gürsel, ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD, MIM 242650) is characterized by recurrent infections of the respiratory tract due to reduced mucociliary clearance and by sperm immobility. Half of the affected...

A gene expression map of human chromosome 21 orthologues in the mouse (2002)

Gitton, Yorick, Dahmane, Nadia, Baik, Sonya, I Altaba, Ariel Ruiz, Neidhardt, Lorenz, Scholze, Manuela, ...

The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21 (HSA21) has opened the route for a systematic molecular characterization of all of its genes. Trisomy 21 is associated with Down's syndrome, the most common...

Simulation of DNA array hybridization experiments and evaluation of critical parameters during subsequent image and data analysis (2002)

Wierling, Christoph K., Steinfath, Matthias, Elge, Thorsten, Schulze-Kremer, Steffen, Aanstad, Pia, Clark, Matthew, ...

Background: Gene expression analyses based on complex hybridization measurements have increased rapidly in recent years and have given rise to a huge amount of bioinformatic tools such as image...

Construction of a 'unigene' cDNA clone set by oligonucleotide fingerprinting allows access to 25 000 potential sugar beet genes (2002)

Herwig, Ralf, Schulz, Britta, Weisshaar, Bernd, Hennig, Steffen, Steinfath, Matthias, Drungowski, Mario, ...

Access to the complete gene inventory of an organism is crucial to understanding physiological processes like development, differentiation, pathogenesis, or adaptation to the environment. Transcripts...

DEFOG: A Practical Scheme for Deciphering Families of Genes (2002)

Fuchs, Tania, Malecova, Barbora, Linhart, Chaim, Sharan, Roded, Khen, Miriam, Herwig, Ralf, ...

We developed a novel efficient scheme, DEFOG (for "deciphering families of genes"), for determining sequences of numerous genes from a family of interest. The scheme provides a powerful means to...

Xdigitise: visualization of hybridization experiments (2002)

Wruck, Wasco, Griffiths, Huw, Steinfath, Matthias, Lehrach, Hans, Radelof, Uwe, O'Brien, John

Xdigitise is a software system for visualization of hybridization experiments giving the user facilities to analyze the corresponding images manually or automatically. Images of the high-density DNA...

Genetic analysis of the mouse brain proteome (2002)

Klose, Joachim, Nock, Christina, Herrmann, Marion, Stühler, Kai, Marcus, Katrin, Blüggel, Martin, ...

Proteome analysis is a fundamental step in systematic functional genomics. Here we have resolved 8,767 proteins from the mouse brain proteome by large-gel two-dimensional electrophoresis. We detected...

Protein Array Technology: The Tool to Bridge Genomics and Proteomics (2002)

Eickhoff, Holger, Konthur, Zoltán, Lueking, Angelika, Lehrach, Hans, Walter, Gerald, Nordhoff, Eckhard, ...

The generation of protein chips requires much more efforts than DNA microchips. While DNA is DNA and a variety of different DNA molecules behave stable in a hybridisation experiment, proteins are...

Haplotypen und die systematische Analyse genetischer Variation: Krankheitsgene, „Drug Targets“ und Pharmakogenomik (2002)

Hoehe, Margret R., Timmermann, Bernd, Lehrach, Hans

Wesentliche Ziele der modernen Genomforschung/ Pharmakogenomik sind die Identifikation von Krankheitsgenen, die Aufklärung der genetischen Variabilität von „Drug Targets“ und ihrer...

Datenanalyse von Biochips: Von der Sequenz zum System (2002)

Herwig, Ralf, Schuchhardt, Johannes, Eickhoff, Holger, Herzel, Hanspeter, Lehrach, Hans

Die Zunahme unserer Kenntnisse über die molekularen Mechanismen u.a. von Wachstums-, Entwicklungs- und Differenzierungsprozessen hat die Grundlagen der molekularen Medizin innerhalb weniger Jahre...

Oligonucleotide fingerprinting including differental cDNA library screning (2002)

Bauer, Oliver, Janitz, Michal, Guerasimova, Anna, Herwig, Ralf, Lehrach, Hans, Radelof, Uwe

This book combines the experience of 225 experts on 900 pages. Scientists worldwide are currently overwhelmed by the ever-increasing number and diversity of genome projects. This handbook is your...

Clustering gene expression profiles (2002)

Herwig, Ralf, Lehrach, Hans

This book combines the experience of 225 experts on 900 pages. Scientists worldwide are currently overwhelmed by the ever-increasing number and diversity of genome projects. This handbook is your...

Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington's disease by using an automated filter retardation assay (2002)

Heiser, Volker, Engemann, Sabine, Bröcker, Wolfgang, Dunke, Ilona, Boeddrich, Annett, Waelter, Stephanie, ...

Preventing the formation of insoluble polyglutamine containing protein aggregates in neurons may represent an attractive therapeutic strategy to ameliorate Huntington's disease (HD). Therefore, the...

Mutations in DNAH5 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia and randomization of left–right asymmetry (2002)

Olbrich, Heike, Häffner, Karsten, Kispert, Andreas, Völkel, Alexander, Volz, Andreas, Sasmaz, Gürsel, ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD, MIM 242650) is characterized by recurrent infections of the respiratory tract due to reduced mucociliary clearance and by sperm immobility. Half of the affected...

Construction and Analysis of a Human-Chimpanzee Comparative Clone Map (2002)

Fujiyama, Asao, Watanabe, Hidemi, Toyoda, Atsushi, Taylor, Todd D., Itoh, Takehiko, Tsai, Shih-Feng, ...

The recently released human genome sequences provide us with reference data to conduct comparative genomic research on primates, which will be important to understand what genetic information makes...

Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington's disease by using an automated filter retardation assay (2002)

Heiser, Volker, Engernann, Sabine, Brocker, Wolfgang, Dunkel, Ilona, Boeddrich, Annett, Waelter, Stefanie, ...

Preventing the formation of insoluble polyglutamine containing protein aggregates in neurons may represent an attractive therapeutic strategy to ameliorate Huntington's disease (HD). Therefore, the...

Xdigitise: visualization of hybridization experiments (2002)

Wruck, Wasco, Griffiths, Huw, Steinfath, Matthias, Lehrach, Hans, Radelof, Uwe, O'Brien, John

Xdigitise is a software system for visualization of hybridization experiments giving the user facilities to analyze the corresponding images manually or automatically. Images of the high-density DNA...

Automated image analysis for array hybridization experiments (2001)

Steinfath, Matthias, Wruck, Wasco, Seidel, Henrik, Lehrach, Hans, Radelof, Uwe, O’Brien, John

Motivation: Image analysis is a major part of data evaluation for array hybridization experiments in molecular biology. The program presented here is designed to analyze automatically images from...

X chromosome-specific cDNA arrays: identification of genes that escape from X-inactivation and other applications (2001)

Sudbrak, Ralf, Wieczorek, Georg, Nuber, Ulrike A., Mann, Wolfgang, Kirchner, Roland, Erdogan, Fikret, ...

Mutant alleles are frequently characterized by low expression levels. Therefore, cDNA array-based gene expression profiling may be a promising strategy for identifying gene defects underlying...

The huntingtin interacting protein HIP1 is a clathrin and {alpha}-adaptin-binding protein involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis (2001)

Waelter, Stephanie, Scherzinger, Eberhard, Hasenbank, Renate, Nordhoff, Eckhard, Lurz, Rudi, Goehler, Heike, ...

The huntingtin interacting protein (HIP1) is enriched in membrane-containing cell fractions and has been implicated in vesicle trafficking. It is a multidomain protein containing an N-terminal ENTH...

Geldanamycin activates a heat shock response and inhibits huntingtin aggregation in a cell culture model of Huntington's disease (2001)

Sittler, Annie, Lurz, Rudi, Lueder, Gerhild, Priller, Josef, Hayer-Hartl, Manajit K., Hartl, F. Ulrich, ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with no effective treatment. Geldanamycin is a benzoquinone ansamycin that binds to the heat shock protein Hsp90 and activates...

A sea urchin genome project: Sequence scan, virtual map, and additional resources (2000)

Cameron, R. Andrew, Mahairas, Gregory, Rast, Jonathan P., Martinez, Pedro, Biondi, Ted R., Swartzell, Steven, ...

Results of a first-stage Sea Urchin Genome Project are summarized here. The species chosen was Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, a research model of major importance in developmental and molecular...

An Algorithm for Clustering cDNA Fingerprints (2000)

Erez Hartuv Armin, Armin O. Schmitt, Jörg Lange, Sebastian Meier-ewert, Hans Lehrach, Ron Shamir

this paper have been presented at the Third International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB '99) (Hartuv et al., 1999)

A novel procedure for efficient genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (2000)

Sauer, Sascha, Lechner, Doris, Berlin, Kurt, Lehrach, Hans, Escary, Jean-Louis, Fox, Nick, ...

Due to the surge in interest in using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for genotyping a facile and affordable method for this is an absolute necessity. Here we introduce a procedure that...

Information theoretical probe selection for hybridisation experiments (2000)

Herwig, Ralf, Schmitt, Armin O., Steinfath, Matthias, O’Brien, John, Seidel, Henrik, Meier-Ewert, Sebastian, ...

Motivation: The choice of probes is an important feature of hybridisation experiments. In this paper we present an algorithm that optimises probes with respect to a training set of sequences based on...

Hailey-Hailey disease is caused by mutations in ATP2C1 encoding a novel Ca2+ pump (2000)

Sudbrak, Ralf, Brown, Joanna, Dobson-Stone, Carol, Carter, Simon, Ramser, Juliane, White, Jacqueline, ...

Hailey–Hailey disease (HHD) is an autosomal dominant skin disorder characterized by suprabasal cell separation (acantholysis) of the epidermis. Previous genetic linkage studies localized the gene...

Full flexibility genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms by the GOOD assay (2000)

Sauer, Sascha, Lechner, Doris, Berlin, Kurt, Plançon, Christine, Heuermann, Arno, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Recently a facile method for genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using MALDI mass spectrometry, termed the GOOD assay, was developed. It does not require any purification and is...

Normalization strategies for cDNA microarrays (2000)

Schuchhardt, Johannes, Beule, Dieter, Malik, Arif, Wolski, Eryc, Eickhoff, Holger, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Multiple Arabidopsis thaliana clones from an experimental series of cDNA microarrays are evaluated in order to identify essential sources of noise in the spotting and hybridization process....

Rapid determination of short DNA sequences by the use of MALDI-MS (2000)

Nordhoff, Eckhard, Luebbert, Christine, Thiele, Gabriela, Heiser, Volker, Lehrach, Hans

We have developed a protocol for rapid sequencing of short DNA stretches (15–20 nt) using MALDI-TOF-MS. The protocol is based on the Sanger concept with the modification that double-stranded...

Interspersed repetitive sequence (IRS)-PCR for typing of whole genome radiation hybrid panels (2000)

Himmelbauer, Heinz, Schalkwyk, Leonard C., Lehrach, Hans

The typing of a radiation hybrid (RH) panel is generally achieved using a unique primer pair for each marker. We here describe a complementing approach utilizing IRS–PCR. Advantages of this...

An Algorithm for Clustering cDNAs for Gene Expression Analysis (1999)

Erez Hartuv, Armin Schmitt, Jörg Lange, Sebastian Meier-Ewert, Hans Lehrach, Ron Shamir

We have developed a novel algorithm for cluster analysis that is based on graph theoretic techniques. A similarity graph is defined and clusters in that graph correspond to highly connected...

IXDB, an X chromosome integrated database (1998)

Ulf Leser, Robert Wagner, Andrei Grigoriev, Hans Lehrach, Hugues Roest Crollius

The integrated X chromosome database (IXDB) is a repository for physical mapping data of the human X chromosome. Its current content is the result of a strict integration of data stemming from many...

an X chromosome integrated database (1997)

Ulf Leser, Robert Wagner, Andrei Grigoriev, Hans Lehrach

The integrated X chromosome database (IXDB) is a repository for physical mapping data of the human X chromosome. Its current content is the result of a strict integration of data stemming from many...

Fine-mapping of shotgun template-libraries; an efficient strategy for the systematic sequencing of genomic DNA (1995)

Scholler, Patrik, Karger, Achim E., Meier-Ewert, Sebastian, Lehrach, Hans, Delius, Hajo, Hoheisel, Jörg D.

To test the effectiveness of ordering shotgun DNA- templates prior to sequence analysis, the 450 kb left arm of yeast chromosome XII was randomly subcloned into a phagemid vector. Clones were ordered...

Model for a transcript map of human chromosome 21: isolation of new coding sequences from exon and enriched cDNA libraries (1995)

Yaspo, Marie-Laure, Gellen, Lisa, Mott, Richard, Korn, Bernhard, Nizetic, Dean, Poustka, AnneMarie, ...

The construction of a transcriptional map for human chromosome 21 requires the generation of a specific catalogue of genes, together with corresponding mapping information. Towards this goal, we...

A YAC clone map spanning 7.5 megabases of human chromosome band Xq28 (1994)

Rogner, Ute C., Kioschis, Petra, Wilke, Klaus, Gong, Wellong, Pick, Elke, Dietrich, Alexander, ...

Xq28 has been of special Interest in human genetics because a large number of diseases map to this region. As a step In the molecular analysis of the as yet uncloned disease genes, and as a test for...

Towards high resolution maps of the mouse and human genomes--a facility for ordering markers to 0.1 cM resolution (1994)

Breen, Maria, Deakln, Lisa, Macdonald, Bernard, Miller, Steve, Sibson, Ross, Tarttelln, Emma, ...

982 progeny produced by a mouse Interspecific backcross between C57BL/6 and Mus spretus have been scored for at least 3 markers on each chromosome, completing an anchor map of 78 loci across the...

Distribution of trinucleotide repeat sequences across a 2 Mbp region containing the Huntington's disease gene (1994)

Hummerich, Holger, Baxendale, Sarah, Mott, Richard, F.Kirby, Susan, E.MacDonald, Marcy, Gusella, James, ...

The recent observation that the mutation underlying a number of genetic diseases including fragile sites, FRAXA and FRAXE (associated with mental retardation), myotonic dystrophy, spinal and bulbar...

The detailed characterisation of a 400 kb cosmid walk in the BRCA1 region: identification and localisation of 10 genes including a dual-specificity phosphatase (1994)

A.Jones, Karen, M.Black, Donald, A.Brown, Melissa, L.Griffiths, Beatrice, M.Nicolai, Hans, A.Chambers, Julie, ...

We have produced a detailed physical and transcriptional map of a 400 kb region within the narrowest flanking markers known to contain the hereditary breast and ovarian susceptibility gene, BRCA1....

An integrated YAC-overlap and 'cosmid-pocket' map of the human chromosome 21 (1994)

Nizetic, Dean, Gellen, Lisa, Hamvas, Renata M. J., Mott, Richard, Grigorlev, Andrei, Vatcheva, Radost, ...

We describe here the construction of an ordered clone map of human chromosome 21, based on the identification of ordered sets of YAC clones covering >90% of the chromosome, and their use to...

A zinc-finger gene ZNF141 mapping at 4p16.3/D4S90 is a candidate gene for the Wolf-Hirschhorn (4p-) syndrome (1993)

Tommerup, Niels, Aagaard, Lissi, Lund, Connie L., Boel, Esper, Baxendale, Sarah, Bates, Gillian P., ...

Chromosomal aneusomy is a major cause of reproductive wastage and congenital malformations in man. Zinc finger encoding genes would be good candidates for being involved in the multiple developmental...

A method for the generation of YAC transgenic mice by pronuclear microinjection (1993)

Sched, Andreas, Larin, Zonia, Montoliu, Lluéis, Thies, Edda Thies, Kelsey, Gavin, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) represent the latest generation of vectors which have the great advantage of large insert size. The introduction of YACs into mammalian cells and organisms has...

Algorithms and software tools for ordering clone libraries: application to the mapping of the genome of Schizosaccharomyces pombe (1993)

Mott, Richard, Grigoriev, Andrei, Maier, Elmar, Hoheisel, Jorg, Lehrach, Hans

A complete set of software tools to aid the physical mapping of a genome has been developed and successfully applied to the genomlc mapping of the fission yeast Schlzosaccharomyces pombe. Two...

Localization of the synovial sarcoma t(X;18)(p11.2;q11.2) breakpoint by fluorescence in situ hybridization (1992)

Knight, Jennifer C., Reeves, Brian R., Kearney, Lyndal, Monaco, Anthony P., Lehrach, Hans, Cooper, Colin S.

A high proportion of synovial sarcomas contain a chromosome translocation t(X;18)(p11.2;q11.2). We have previously used somatic cell hybrids derived from an established cell line, SS255, to map the X...

A novel G protein-coupled receptor kinase gene cloned from 4p16.3 (1992)

Ambrose, Christine, James, Marianne, Barnes, Glenn, Lin, Carol, Bates, Gillian, Altherr, Michael, ...

Within the Huntington's disease (HD) candidate region of 4pl6.3, the D4S127 locus displays strong linkage disequilibrium with the defect and anchors a conserved haplotype found on many HD...

A strategy for the selection of transcribed sequences in the Xq28 region (1992)

Korn, Bernhard, Sedlacek, Zdenek, Manca, Antonella, Kioschis, Petra, Konecki, David, Lehrach, Hans, ...

As an essential step towards an exhaustive analysis of the coding potential of large regions of the genome, we have developed a protocol allowing the rapid isolation of transcripts defmed by...

Molecular cloning and analysis of the fragile X region in man (1991)

Dietrich, Alexander, Kioschis, Petra, Monaco, Anthony P., Gross, Baerbel, Korn, Bernhard, Williams, Sarah V., ...

The fragile X syndrome (FraX), the most common Inherited form of mental retardation, has been located to Xq27.3. As a step In the molecular analysis of this mutation, we have cloned a contiguous 1.8...

W (A or T) sequences as probes and primers suitable for genomic mapping and fingerprinting (1991)

Drmanac, Radoje, Nizetic, Dean, Lennon, Gregory G., Beitverda, Anita, Lehrach, Hans

A limitation to the use of oligonucleotide probes as tools for genetic and physical mapping has been the low hybridization positive frequency obtained by oligonucleotides of sufficient length to...

A novel and rapid method for isolating sequences adjacent to rare cutting sites and their use in physical mapping (1991)

Patel, Ketan, Cox, Roger, Shipley, Janet, Kiely, Fiona, Frazer, Kelly, Cox, David R., ...

We describe a simple PCR based technique which can be used to isolate sequences adjacent to rare cutter sites and can subsequently be employed for the construction of long range physical maps. The...

Mapping irradiation hybrids to cosmid and yeast artificial chromosome libraries by direct hybridization of Alu-PCR products (1991)

Monaco, Anthony P., Lam, Veronica M.S., Zehetner, Günther, Lennon, Gregory G., Douglas, Christal, Nizetic, Dean, ...

A direct hybridization protocol is described for screening cosmid and yeast artificial chromosome libraries with pools of Alu-PCR products from somatic cell or irradiation hybrids. This method...

Control of partial digestion combining the enzymes dam methylase and MboI (1989)

Hoheisel, Jörg D., Nizetic, Dean, Lehrach, Hans

A method is described which allows the preparation of reproducible partial digests without previous establishment of the incubation conditions. It is based on a combined application of dam methylase...

Labelling oligonucleotides to high specific activity (I) (1989)

Craig, Alister G., Nizetic, Dean, Lehrach, Hans

The normal procedure for labelling oligonucleotides radioactively is the use of polynucleotide kinase and γ32P–ATP. However, this has the disadvantage of only introducing one labelled base per...

Mapping of D4S98/S114/S113 confines the Huntington's defect to a reduced physical region at the telomere of chromosome 4 (1988)

Whaley, William L., Michiels, Frank, MacDonald, Marcy E., Romano, Donna, Zimmer, Michael, Smith, Barbara, ...

The dominant gene defect in Huntington's disease (HD) is linked to the DNA marker D4S10, near the telomere of the chromosome 4 short arm. Two other markers, D4S43 and D4S95, are closer, but still...

A long range restriction map of the pseudoautosomal region by partial digest PFGE analysis from the telomere (1988)

Rappold, Gudrun A., Lehrach, Hans

The analysis of partial digestion products extending from the telomere of the human X and Y chromosomes, visualised by hybridisation to a probe located close to the telomere, was used to establish a...

A computer program package for restriction map analysis and manipulation (1986)

Zehetner, Guenther, Lehrach, Hans

Programs for the calculation, storage and analysis of restriction maps derived from the analysis of partial digestion products from end labelled DNA (1,2,3) and their correlation with digestion-and...

Construction and characterization of type II collagen complementary deoxyribonucleic acid dones (1983)

Lukens, Lewis N., Frischauf, Anna Maria, Pawlowski, Philip J., Brierley, George T., Lehrach, Hans

The mRNA for type II collagen was purified from embryonic chick sternum or from purified sternal chondrocytes with guanidine thiocyanate as the extractant. Double-stranded cDNAs to procollagen mRNAs...

A procedure to verify an amino acid sequence which has been derived from a nucleotide sequence: application to the 26S RNA of Semliki Forest virus (1982)

Garoff, Henrik, Riedel, Heimo, Lehrach, Hans

We describe a peptide sequencing procedure which can be used to verify an amino acid sequence which is derived from a nucleotide sequence. One first labels the protein with a 3H- and a 14C-labelled...

Self-assembly of polyglutamine-containing huntingtin fragments into amyloid-like fibrils: Implications for Huntington’s disease pathology

Scherzinger, Eberhard, Sittler, Annie, Schweiger, Katja, Heiser, Volker, Lurz, Rudi, Hasenbank, Renate, ...

Huntington’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyglutamine [poly(Q)] repeat expansion in the first exon of the huntingtin protein. Previously, we showed that...

A sea urchin genome project: Sequence scan, virtual map, and additional resources

Cameron, R. Andrew, Mahairas, Gregory, Rast, Jonathan P., Martinez, Pedro, Biondi, Ted R., Swartzell, Steven, ...

Results of a first-stage Sea Urchin Genome Project are summarized here. The species chosen was Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, a research model of major importance in developmental and molecular...

Inhibition of huntingtin fibrillogenesis by specific antibodies and small molecules: Implications for Huntington's disease therapy

Heiser, Volker, Scherzinger, Eberhard, Boeddrich, Annett, Nordhoff, Eckhard, Lurz, Rudi, Schugardt, Nancy, ...

The accumulation of insoluble protein aggregates in intra and perinuclear inclusions is a hallmark of Huntington's disease (HD) and related glutamine-repeat disorders. A central question is whether...

Huntingtin aggregation monitored by dynamic light scattering

Georgalis, Yannis, Starikov, E. B., Hollenbach, Birgit, Lurz, Rudi, Scherzinger, Eberhard, Saenger, Wolfram, ...

An initial stage of fibrillogenesis in solutions of glutathione S-transferase-huntingtin (GST-HD) fusion proteins has been studied by using dynamic light scattering. Two GST-HD systems with...

Accumulation of Mutant Huntingtin Fragments in Aggresome-like Inclusion Bodies as a Result of Insufficient Protein Degradation

Waelter, Stephanie, Boeddrich, Annett, Lurz, Rudi, Scherzinger, Eberhard, Lueder, Gerhild, Lehrach, Hans, ...

The huntingtin exon 1 proteins with a polyglutamine repeat in the pathological range (51 or 83 glutamines), but not with a polyglutamine tract in the normal range (20 glutamines), form aggresome-like...

UniGene cDNA array-based monitoring of transcriptome changes during mouse placental development

Hemberger, Myriam, Cross, James C., Ropers, Hans-Hilger, Lehrach, Hans, Fundele, Reinald, Himmelbauer, Heinz

The placenta is a highly specialized organ essential for embryonic growth and development. Here, we have applied cDNA subtraction between extraembryonic tissues of early- (day 7.5 of gestation) and...

Statistical evaluation of differential expression on cDNA nylon arrays with replicated experiments

Herwig, Ralf, Aanstad, Pia, Clark, Matthew, Lehrach, Hans

In this paper we focus on the detection of differentially expressed genes according to changes in hybridization signals using statistical tests. These tests were applied to 14 208 zebrafish cDNA...

Interspersed repetitive sequence (IRS)–PCR for typing of whole genome radiation hybrid panels

Himmelbauer, Heinz, Schalkwyk, Leonard C., Lehrach, Hans

The typing of a radiation hybrid (RH) panel is generally achieved using a unique primer pair for each marker. We here describe a complementing approach utilizing IRS–PCR. Advantages of this...

A novel procedure for efficient genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms

Sauer, Sascha, Lechner, Doris, Berlin, Kurt, Lehrach, Hans, Escary, Jean-Louis, Fox, Nick, ...

Due to the surge in interest in using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for genotyping a facile and affordable method for this is an absolute necessity. Here we introduce a procedure that...

Normalization strategies for cDNA microarrays

Schuchhardt, Johannes, Beule, Dieter, Malik, Arif, Wolski, Eryc, Eickhoff, Holger, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Multiple Arabidopsis thaliana clones from an experimental series of cDNA microarrays are evaluated in order to identify essential sources of noise in the spotting and hybridization process....

Rapid determination of short DNA sequences by the use of MALDI-MS

Nordhoff, Eckhard, Luebbert, Christine, Thiele, Gabriela, Heiser, Volker, Lehrach, Hans

We have developed a protocol for rapid sequencing of short DNA stretches (15–20 nt) using MALDI-TOF-MS. The protocol is based on the Sanger concept with the modification that double-stranded...

Full flexibility genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms by the GOOD assay

Sauer, Sascha, Lechner, Doris, Berlin, Kurt, Plançon, Christine, Heuermann, Arno, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Recently a facile method for genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using MALDI mass spectrometry, termed the GOOD assay, was developed. It does not require any purification and is...

RNomics: an experimental approach that identifies 201 candidates for novel, small, non-messenger RNAs in mouse

Hüttenhofer, Alexander, Kiefmann, Martin, Meier-Ewert, Sebastian, O’Brien, John, Lehrach, Hans, Bachellerie, Jean-Pierre, ...

In mouse brain cDNA libraries generated from small RNA molecules we have identified a total of 201 different expressed RNA sequences potentially encoding novel small non-messenger RNA species...

Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington's disease by using an automated filter retardation assay

Heiser, Volker, Engemann, Sabine, Bröcker, Wolfgang, Dunkel, Ilona, Boeddrich, Annett, Waelter, Stephanie, ...

Preventing the formation of insoluble polyglutamine containing protein aggregates in neurons may represent an attractive therapeutic strategy to ameliorate Huntington's disease (HD). Therefore, the...

MALDI mass spectrometry analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms by photocleavage and charge-tagging

Sauer, Sascha, Lehrach, Hans, Reinhardt, Richard

High-throughput procedures are an important requirement for future large-scale genetic studies such as genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Matrix-assisted laser desorption/...

Automated Gene Ontology annotation for anonymous sequence data

Hennig, Steffen, Groth, Detlef, Lehrach, Hans

Gene Ontology (GO) is the most widely accepted attempt to construct a unified and structured vocabulary for the description of genes and their products in any organism. Annotation by GO terms is...

Bacterial Contig Map of the 21q11 Region Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and Abnormal Myelopoiesis in Down Syndrome

Groet, Jürgen, Ives, Jane H., South, Andrew P., Baptista, Pedro R., Jones, Tania A., Yaspo, Marie-Laure, ...

We present a high-resolution bacterial contig map of 3.4 Mb of genomic DNA in human chromosome 21q11–q21, encompassing the region of elevated disomic homozygosity in Down Syndrome-associated...

The Mouse Aire Gene: Comparative Genomic Sequencing, Gene Organization, and Expression

Blechschmidt, Karin, Schweiger, Michal, Wertz, Karin, Poulson, Richard, Christensen, Hoang-My, Rosenthal, Andre, ...

Mutations in the human AIRE gene (hAIRE) result in the development of an autoimmune disease named APECED (autoimmune polyendocrinopathy candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy; OMIM 240300). Previously, we...

A Contiguous 3-Mb Sequence-Ready Map in the S3–MX Region on 21q22.2 Based on High- Throughput Nonisotopic Library Screenings

Hildmann, Thomas, Kong, Xianging, O’Brien, John, Riesselman, Lisa, Christensen, Hoang-My, Dagand, Emilie, ...

Progress in complete genomic sequencing of human chromosome 21 relies on the construction of high-quality bacterial clone maps spanning large chromosomal regions. To achieve this goal, we have...

Panel of Microsatellite Markers for Whole-Genome Scans and Radiation Hybrid Mapping and a Mouse Family Tree

Schalkwyk, Leonard C., Jung, Martin, Daser, Angelika, Weiher, Michael, Walter, Jörn, Himmelbauer, Heinz, ...

To facilitate whole-genome scan experiments, we selected a panel of 128 microsatellite markers on the basis of spacing and polymorphism in the strains DBA/2, BALB/c, AKR, C57BL/6, C57BL/10, A/J, C3H,...

Large-Scale Clustering of cDNA-Fingerprinting Data

Herwig, Ralf, Poustka, Albert J., Müller, Christine, Bull, Christof, Lehrach, Hans, O'Brien, John

Clustering is one of the main mathematical challenges in large-scale gene expression analysis. We describe a clustering procedure based on a sequential k-means algorithm with additional refinements...

Tissue Gene Expression Analysis Using Arrayed Normalized cDNA Libraries

Eickhoff, Holger, Schuchhardt, Johannes, Ivanov, Igor, Meier-Ewert, Sebastian, O'Brien, John, Malik, Arif, ...

We have used oligonucleotide-fingerprinting data on 60,000 cDNA clones from two different mouse embryonic stages to establish a normalized cDNA clone set. The normalized set of 5,376 clones...

An Oligonucleotide Fingerprint Normalized and Expressed Sequence Tag Characterized Zebrafish cDNA Library

Clark, Matthew D., Hennig, Steffen, Herwig, Ralf, Clifton, Sandy W., Marra, Marco A., Lehrach, Hans, ...

The zebrafish is a powerful system for understanding the vertebrate genome, allowing the combination of genetic, molecular, and embryological analysis. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) provide a rapid...

A Human cDNA Expression Library in Yeast Enriched for Open Reading Frames

Holz, Caterina, Lueking, Angelika, Bovekamp, Lara, Gutjahr, Claudia, Bolotina, Natalia, Lehrach, Hans, ...

We developed a high-throughput technique for the generation of cDNA libraries in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae which enables the selection of cloned cDNA inserts containing open reading frames...

Advanced Integrated Mouse YAC Map Including BAC Framework

Schalkwyk, Leonard C., Cusack, Brian, Dunkel, Ilona, Hopp, Martina, Kramer, Markus, Palczewski, Stefanie, ...

Functional characterization of the mouse genome requires the availability of a comprehensive physical map to obtain molecular access to chromosomal regions of interest. Positional cloning remains a...

The Genomic Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Rat Major Histocompatibility Complex

Hurt, Peter, Walter, Lutz, Sudbrak, Ralf, Klages, Sven, Müller, Ines, Shiina, Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Integrated and Sequence-Ordered BAC- and YAC-Based Physical Maps for the Rat Genome

Krzywinski, Martin, Wallis, John, Gösele, Claudia, Bosdet, Ian, Chiu, Readman, Graves, Tina, ...

As part of the effort to sequence the genome of Rattus norvegicus, we constructed a physical map comprised of fingerprinted bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from the CHORI-230 BAC...

New Evidence for Genome-Wide Duplications at the Origin of Vertebrates Using an Amphioxus Gene Set and Completed Animal Genomes

Panopoulou, Georgia, Hennig, Steffen, Groth, Detlef, Krause, Antje, Poustka, Albert J., Herwig, Ralf, ...

The 2R hypothesis predicting two genome duplications at the origin of vertebrates is highly controversial. Studies published so far include limited sequence data from organisms close to the...

Clone-Based Systematic Haplotyping (CSH): A Procedure for Physical Haplotyping of Whole Genomes

Burgtorf, Carola, Kepper, Pamela, Hoehe, Margret, Schmitt, Carsten, Reinhardt, Richard, Lehrach, Hans, ...

We present a novel methodology to determine the phase of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on a chromosome, which we term clone-based systematic haplotyping (CSH). The CSH procedure is based on...

Generation, Annotation, Evolutionary Analysis, and Database Integration of 20,000 Unique Sea Urchin EST Clusters

Poustka, Albert J., Groth, Detlef, Hennig, Steffen, Thamm, Sabine, Cameron, Andrew, Beck, Alfred, ...

Together with the hemichordates, sea urchins represent basal groups of nonchordate invertebrate deuterostomes that occupy a key position in bilaterian evolution. Because sea urchin embryos are also...

A European focus on proteomics

Spahn, Christian MT, Lehrach, Hans, Jungblut, Peter R

A report on the First International Symposium of the Austrian Proteomics Platform, Seefeld, Austria, 26-29 January 2004.

GOblet: a platform for Gene Ontology annotation of anonymous sequence data

Groth, Detlef, Lehrach, Hans, Hennig, Steffen

GOblet is a comprehensive web server application providing the annotation of anonymous sequence data with Gene Ontology (GO) terms. It uses a variety of different protein databases (human, murines,...

Transcript Level Alterations Reflect Gene Dosage Effects Across Multiple Tissues in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome

Kahlem, Pascal, Sultan, Marc, Herwig, Ralf, Steinfath, Matthias, Balzereit, Daniela, Eppens, Barbara, ...

Human trisomy 21, which results in Down syndrome (DS), is one of the most complicated congenital genetic anomalies compatible with life, yet little is known about the molecular basis of DS. It is...

A catalog of human cDNA expression clones and its application to structural genomics

Büssow, Konrad, Quedenau, Claudia, Sievert, Volker, Tischer, Janett, Scheich, Christoph, Seitz, Harald, ...

A systematic approach for identifying human proteins and protein fragments that can be expressed as soluble proteins in Escherichia coli is described.

Versatile Gene-Specific Sequence Tags for Arabidopsis Functional Genomics: Transcript Profiling and Reverse Genetics Applications

Hilson, Pierre, Allemeersch, Joke, Altmann, Thomas, Aubourg, Sébastien, Avon, Alexandra, Beynon, Jim, ...

Microarray transcript profiling and RNA interference are two new technologies crucial for large-scale gene function studies in multicellular eukaryotes. Both rely on sequence-specific hybridization...

Dissection of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Transcriptome Using Genome-Wide cDNA Microarrays

Costello, Christine M, Mah, Nancy, Häsler, Robert, Rosenstiel, Philip, Waetzig, Georg H, Hahn, Andreas, ...

cDNA analysis of colonic samples from patients with Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis suggests substantial differences in pathophysiology between the two diseases.

Self-assembly of polyglutamine-containing huntingtin fragments into amyloid-like fibrils: Implications for Huntington’s disease pathology

Scherzinger, Eberhard, Sittler, Annie, Schweiger, Katja, Heiser, Volker, Lurz, Rudi, Hasenbank, Renate, ...

Huntington’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a polyglutamine [poly(Q)] repeat expansion in the first exon of the huntingtin protein. Previously, we showed that...

A sea urchin genome project: Sequence scan, virtual map, and additional resources

Cameron, R. Andrew, Mahairas, Gregory, Rast, Jonathan P., Martinez, Pedro, Biondi, Ted R., Swartzell, Steven, ...

Results of a first-stage Sea Urchin Genome Project are summarized here. The species chosen was Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, a research model of major importance in developmental and molecular...

Inhibition of huntingtin fibrillogenesis by specific antibodies and small molecules: Implications for Huntington's disease therapy

Heiser, Volker, Scherzinger, Eberhard, Boeddrich, Annett, Nordhoff, Eckhard, Lurz, Rudi, Schugardt, Nancy, ...

The accumulation of insoluble protein aggregates in intra and perinuclear inclusions is a hallmark of Huntington's disease (HD) and related glutamine-repeat disorders. A central question is whether...

Huntingtin aggregation monitored by dynamic light scattering

Georgalis, Yannis, Starikov, E. B., Hollenbach, Birgit, Lurz, Rudi, Scherzinger, Eberhard, Saenger, Wolfram, ...

An initial stage of fibrillogenesis in solutions of glutathione S-transferase-huntingtin (GST-HD) fusion proteins has been studied by using dynamic light scattering. Two GST-HD systems with...

Accumulation of Mutant Huntingtin Fragments in Aggresome-like Inclusion Bodies as a Result of Insufficient Protein Degradation

Waelter, Stephanie, Boeddrich, Annett, Lurz, Rudi, Scherzinger, Eberhard, Lueder, Gerhild, Lehrach, Hans, ...

The huntingtin exon 1 proteins with a polyglutamine repeat in the pathological range (51 or 83 glutamines), but not with a polyglutamine tract in the normal range (20 glutamines), form aggresome-like...

UniGene cDNA array-based monitoring of transcriptome changes during mouse placental development

Hemberger, Myriam, Cross, James C., Ropers, Hans-Hilger, Lehrach, Hans, Fundele, Reinald, Himmelbauer, Heinz

The placenta is a highly specialized organ essential for embryonic growth and development. Here, we have applied cDNA subtraction between extraembryonic tissues of early- (day 7.5 of gestation) and...

Statistical evaluation of differential expression on cDNA nylon arrays with replicated experiments

Herwig, Ralf, Aanstad, Pia, Clark, Matthew, Lehrach, Hans

In this paper we focus on the detection of differentially expressed genes according to changes in hybridization signals using statistical tests. These tests were applied to 14 208 zebrafish cDNA...

Interspersed repetitive sequence (IRS)–PCR for typing of whole genome radiation hybrid panels

Himmelbauer, Heinz, Schalkwyk, Leonard C., Lehrach, Hans

The typing of a radiation hybrid (RH) panel is generally achieved using a unique primer pair for each marker. We here describe a complementing approach utilizing IRS–PCR. Advantages of this...

A novel procedure for efficient genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms

Sauer, Sascha, Lechner, Doris, Berlin, Kurt, Lehrach, Hans, Escary, Jean-Louis, Fox, Nick, ...

Due to the surge in interest in using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for genotyping a facile and affordable method for this is an absolute necessity. Here we introduce a procedure that...

Normalization strategies for cDNA microarrays

Schuchhardt, Johannes, Beule, Dieter, Malik, Arif, Wolski, Eryc, Eickhoff, Holger, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Multiple Arabidopsis thaliana clones from an experimental series of cDNA microarrays are evaluated in order to identify essential sources of noise in the spotting and hybridization process....

Rapid determination of short DNA sequences by the use of MALDI-MS

Nordhoff, Eckhard, Luebbert, Christine, Thiele, Gabriela, Heiser, Volker, Lehrach, Hans

We have developed a protocol for rapid sequencing of short DNA stretches (15–20 nt) using MALDI-TOF-MS. The protocol is based on the Sanger concept with the modification that double-stranded...

Full flexibility genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms by the GOOD assay

Sauer, Sascha, Lechner, Doris, Berlin, Kurt, Plançon, Christine, Heuermann, Arno, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Recently a facile method for genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) using MALDI mass spectrometry, termed the GOOD assay, was developed. It does not require any purification and is...

RNomics: an experimental approach that identifies 201 candidates for novel, small, non-messenger RNAs in mouse

Hüttenhofer, Alexander, Kiefmann, Martin, Meier-Ewert, Sebastian, O’Brien, John, Lehrach, Hans, Bachellerie, Jean-Pierre, ...

In mouse brain cDNA libraries generated from small RNA molecules we have identified a total of 201 different expressed RNA sequences potentially encoding novel small non-messenger RNA species...

Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington's disease by using an automated filter retardation assay

Heiser, Volker, Engemann, Sabine, Bröcker, Wolfgang, Dunkel, Ilona, Boeddrich, Annett, Waelter, Stephanie, ...

Preventing the formation of insoluble polyglutamine containing protein aggregates in neurons may represent an attractive therapeutic strategy to ameliorate Huntington's disease (HD). Therefore, the...

MALDI mass spectrometry analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms by photocleavage and charge-tagging

Sauer, Sascha, Lehrach, Hans, Reinhardt, Richard

High-throughput procedures are an important requirement for future large-scale genetic studies such as genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Matrix-assisted laser desorption/...

Automated Gene Ontology annotation for anonymous sequence data

Hennig, Steffen, Groth, Detlef, Lehrach, Hans

Gene Ontology (GO) is the most widely accepted attempt to construct a unified and structured vocabulary for the description of genes and their products in any organism. Annotation by GO terms is...

Bacterial Contig Map of the 21q11 Region Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and Abnormal Myelopoiesis in Down Syndrome

Groet, Jürgen, Ives, Jane H., South, Andrew P., Baptista, Pedro R., Jones, Tania A., Yaspo, Marie-Laure, ...

We present a high-resolution bacterial contig map of 3.4 Mb of genomic DNA in human chromosome 21q11–q21, encompassing the region of elevated disomic homozygosity in Down Syndrome-associated...

The Mouse Aire Gene: Comparative Genomic Sequencing, Gene Organization, and Expression

Blechschmidt, Karin, Schweiger, Michal, Wertz, Karin, Poulson, Richard, Christensen, Hoang-My, Rosenthal, Andre, ...

Mutations in the human AIRE gene (hAIRE) result in the development of an autoimmune disease named APECED (autoimmune polyendocrinopathy candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy; OMIM 240300). Previously, we...

A Contiguous 3-Mb Sequence-Ready Map in the S3–MX Region on 21q22.2 Based on High- Throughput Nonisotopic Library Screenings

Hildmann, Thomas, Kong, Xianging, O’Brien, John, Riesselman, Lisa, Christensen, Hoang-My, Dagand, Emilie, ...

Progress in complete genomic sequencing of human chromosome 21 relies on the construction of high-quality bacterial clone maps spanning large chromosomal regions. To achieve this goal, we have...

Panel of Microsatellite Markers for Whole-Genome Scans and Radiation Hybrid Mapping and a Mouse Family Tree

Schalkwyk, Leonard C., Jung, Martin, Daser, Angelika, Weiher, Michael, Walter, Jörn, Himmelbauer, Heinz, ...

To facilitate whole-genome scan experiments, we selected a panel of 128 microsatellite markers on the basis of spacing and polymorphism in the strains DBA/2, BALB/c, AKR, C57BL/6, C57BL/10, A/J, C3H,...

Large-Scale Clustering of cDNA-Fingerprinting Data

Herwig, Ralf, Poustka, Albert J., Müller, Christine, Bull, Christof, Lehrach, Hans, O'Brien, John

Clustering is one of the main mathematical challenges in large-scale gene expression analysis. We describe a clustering procedure based on a sequential k-means algorithm with additional refinements...

Tissue Gene Expression Analysis Using Arrayed Normalized cDNA Libraries

Eickhoff, Holger, Schuchhardt, Johannes, Ivanov, Igor, Meier-Ewert, Sebastian, O'Brien, John, Malik, Arif, ...

We have used oligonucleotide-fingerprinting data on 60,000 cDNA clones from two different mouse embryonic stages to establish a normalized cDNA clone set. The normalized set of 5,376 clones...

An Oligonucleotide Fingerprint Normalized and Expressed Sequence Tag Characterized Zebrafish cDNA Library

Clark, Matthew D., Hennig, Steffen, Herwig, Ralf, Clifton, Sandy W., Marra, Marco A., Lehrach, Hans, ...

The zebrafish is a powerful system for understanding the vertebrate genome, allowing the combination of genetic, molecular, and embryological analysis. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) provide a rapid...

A Human cDNA Expression Library in Yeast Enriched for Open Reading Frames

Holz, Caterina, Lueking, Angelika, Bovekamp, Lara, Gutjahr, Claudia, Bolotina, Natalia, Lehrach, Hans, ...

We developed a high-throughput technique for the generation of cDNA libraries in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae which enables the selection of cloned cDNA inserts containing open reading frames...

Advanced Integrated Mouse YAC Map Including BAC Framework

Schalkwyk, Leonard C., Cusack, Brian, Dunkel, Ilona, Hopp, Martina, Kramer, Markus, Palczewski, Stefanie, ...

Functional characterization of the mouse genome requires the availability of a comprehensive physical map to obtain molecular access to chromosomal regions of interest. Positional cloning remains a...

The Genomic Sequence and Comparative Analysis of the Rat Major Histocompatibility Complex

Hurt, Peter, Walter, Lutz, Sudbrak, Ralf, Klages, Sven, Müller, Ines, Shiina, Takashi, ...

We have determined the sequence of a 4-Mb interval on rat chromosome 20p12 that encompasses the rat major histocompatibility complex (MHC). This is the first report of a finished sequence for a...

Integrated and Sequence-Ordered BAC- and YAC-Based Physical Maps for the Rat Genome

Krzywinski, Martin, Wallis, John, Gösele, Claudia, Bosdet, Ian, Chiu, Readman, Graves, Tina, ...

As part of the effort to sequence the genome of Rattus norvegicus, we constructed a physical map comprised of fingerprinted bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones from the CHORI-230 BAC...

New Evidence for Genome-Wide Duplications at the Origin of Vertebrates Using an Amphioxus Gene Set and Completed Animal Genomes

Panopoulou, Georgia, Hennig, Steffen, Groth, Detlef, Krause, Antje, Poustka, Albert J., Herwig, Ralf, ...

The 2R hypothesis predicting two genome duplications at the origin of vertebrates is highly controversial. Studies published so far include limited sequence data from organisms close to the...

Clone-Based Systematic Haplotyping (CSH): A Procedure for Physical Haplotyping of Whole Genomes

Burgtorf, Carola, Kepper, Pamela, Hoehe, Margret, Schmitt, Carsten, Reinhardt, Richard, Lehrach, Hans, ...

We present a novel methodology to determine the phase of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on a chromosome, which we term clone-based systematic haplotyping (CSH). The CSH procedure is based on...

Generation, Annotation, Evolutionary Analysis, and Database Integration of 20,000 Unique Sea Urchin EST Clusters

Poustka, Albert J., Groth, Detlef, Hennig, Steffen, Thamm, Sabine, Cameron, Andrew, Beck, Alfred, ...

Together with the hemichordates, sea urchins represent basal groups of nonchordate invertebrate deuterostomes that occupy a key position in bilaterian evolution. Because sea urchin embryos are also...

A European focus on proteomics

Spahn, Christian MT, Lehrach, Hans, Jungblut, Peter R

A report on the First International Symposium of the Austrian Proteomics Platform, Seefeld, Austria, 26-29 January 2004.

GOblet: a platform for Gene Ontology annotation of anonymous sequence data

Groth, Detlef, Lehrach, Hans, Hennig, Steffen

GOblet is a comprehensive web server application providing the annotation of anonymous sequence data with Gene Ontology (GO) terms. It uses a variety of different protein databases (human, murines,...

Transcript Level Alterations Reflect Gene Dosage Effects Across Multiple Tissues in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome

Kahlem, Pascal, Sultan, Marc, Herwig, Ralf, Steinfath, Matthias, Balzereit, Daniela, Eppens, Barbara, ...

Human trisomy 21, which results in Down syndrome (DS), is one of the most complicated congenital genetic anomalies compatible with life, yet little is known about the molecular basis of DS. It is...

A catalog of human cDNA expression clones and its application to structural genomics

Büssow, Konrad, Quedenau, Claudia, Sievert, Volker, Tischer, Janett, Scheich, Christoph, Seitz, Harald, ...

A systematic approach for identifying human proteins and protein fragments that can be expressed as soluble proteins in Escherichia coli is described.

Versatile Gene-Specific Sequence Tags for Arabidopsis Functional Genomics: Transcript Profiling and Reverse Genetics Applications

Hilson, Pierre, Allemeersch, Joke, Altmann, Thomas, Aubourg, Sébastien, Avon, Alexandra, Beynon, Jim, ...

Microarray transcript profiling and RNA interference are two new technologies crucial for large-scale gene function studies in multicellular eukaryotes. Both rely on sequence-specific hybridization...

Dissection of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Transcriptome Using Genome-Wide cDNA Microarrays

Costello, Christine M, Mah, Nancy, Häsler, Robert, Rosenstiel, Philip, Waetzig, Georg H, Hahn, Andreas, ...

cDNA analysis of colonic samples from patients with Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis suggests substantial differences in pathophysiology between the two diseases.

Triose Phosphate Isomerase Deficiency Is Caused by Altered Dimerization–Not Catalytic Inactivity–of the Mutant Enzymes

Ralser, Markus, Heeren, Gino, Breitenbach, Michael, Lehrach, Hans, Krobitsch, Sylvia

Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by various mutations in the gene encoding the key glycolytic enzyme TPI. A drastic decrease in TPI activity and an...

Ataxin-2 Interacts with the DEAD/H-Box RNA Helicase DDX6 and Interferes with P-Bodies and Stress Granules

Nonhoff, Ute, Ralser, Markus, Welzel, Franziska, Piccini, Ilaria, Balzereit, Daniela, Yaspo, Marie-Laure, ...

Tight control of translation is fundamental for eukaryotic cells, and deregulation of proteins implicated contributes to numerous human diseases. The neurodegenerative disorder spinocerebellar ataxia...

A global view of gene expression in lithium and zinc treated sea urchin embryos: new components of gene regulatory networks

Poustka, Albert J, Kühn, Alexander, Groth, Detlef, Weise, Vesna, Yaguchi, Shunsuke, Burke, Robert D, ...

Novel territory-specific markers from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus have been identified using screens for genes that are differentially expressed in lithium-treated embryos, which...

Gene expression variation in Down's syndrome mice allows prioritization of candidate genes

Sultan, Marc, Piccini, Ilaria, Balzereit, Daniela, Herwig, Ralf, Saran, Nidhi G, Lehrach, Hans, ...

RNA from eight Ts65Dn mice (a model of Down syndrome) and eight euploid mice were analysed by real-time PCR to examine inter-individual gene expression levels as a function of trisomy.

A bile acid-like steroid modulates Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan through nuclear receptor signaling

Gerisch, Birgit, Rottiers, Veerle, Li, Dongling, Motola, Daniel L., Cummins, Carolyn L., Lehrach, Hans, ...

Broad aspects of Caenorhabditis elegans life history, including larval developmental timing, arrest at the dauer diapause, and longevity, are regulated by the nuclear receptor DAF-12. Endogenous...

Regulation of muscle development by DPF3, a novel histone acetylation and methylation reader of the BAF chromatin remodeling complex

Lange, Martin, Kaynak, Bogac, Forster, Ulrike B., Tönjes, Martje, Fischer, Jenny J., Grimm, Christina, ...

Chromatin remodeling and histone modifications facilitate access of transcription factors to DNA by promoting the unwinding and destabilization of histone–DNA interactions. We present DPF3, a new...

Early vertebrate whole genome duplications were predated by a period of intense genome rearrangement

Hufton, Andrew L., Groth, Detlef, Vingron, Martin, Lehrach, Hans, Poustka, Albert J., Panopoulou, Georgia

Researchers, supported by data from polyploid plants, have suggested that whole genome duplication (WGD) may induce genomic instability and rearrangement, an idea which could have important...

Interfering with Glycolysis Causes Sir2-Dependent Hyper-Recombination of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Plasmids

Ralser, Markus, Zeidler, Ute, Lehrach, Hans

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is a key metabolic regulator implicated in a variety of cellular processes. It functions as a glycolytic enzyme, a protein kinase, and a metabolic...

A catabolic block does not sufficiently explain how 2-deoxy-d-glucose inhibits cell growth

Ralser, Markus, Wamelink, Mirjam M., Struys, Eduard A., Joppich, Christian, Krobitsch, Sylvia, Jakobs, Cornelis, ...

The glucose analogue 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2-DG) restrains growth of normal and malignant cells, prolongs the lifespan of C. elegans, and is widely used as a glycolytic inhibitor to study metabolic...

ConsensusPathDB—a database for integrating human functional interaction networks

Kamburov, Atanas, Wierling, Christoph, Lehrach, Hans, Herwig, Ralf

ConsensusPathDB is a database system for the integration of human functional interactions. Current knowledge of these interactions is dispersed in more than 200 databases, each having a specific...

GeNGe: systematic generation of gene regulatory networks

Hache, Hendrik, Wierling, Christoph, Lehrach, Hans, Herwig, Ralf

Summary: The analysis of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is a central goal of bioinformatics highly accelerated by the advent of new experimental techniques, such as RNA interference. A battery of...

Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Networks: A Comparative Study

Hache, Hendrik, Lehrach, Hans, Herwig, Ralf

Reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks has been an intensively studied topic in bioinformatics since it constitutes an intermediate step from explorative to causative gene expression...

Age-related transcriptional changes in gene expression in different organs of mice support the metabolic stability theory of aging

Brink, Thore C., Demetrius, Lloyd, Lehrach, Hans, Adjaye, James

Individual differences in the rate of aging are determined by the efficiency with which an organism transforms resources into metabolic energy thus maintaining the homeostatic condition of its cells...

Using hippocampal microRNA expression differences between mouse inbred strains to characterise miRNA function

Parsons, Michael J., Grimm, Christina H., Paya-Cano, Jose L., Sugden, Karen, Nietfeld, Wilfried, Lehrach, Hans, ...

Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) are short, single-stranded, noncoding RNAs that are involved in the regulation of protein-coding genes at the level of messenger RNA (mRNA). They are involved in the regulation of...

Transcriptome analysis by strand-specific sequencing of complementary DNA

Parkhomchuk, Dmitri, Borodina, Tatiana, Amstislavskiy, Vyacheslav, Banaru, Maria, Hallen, Linda, Krobitsch, Sylvia, ...

High-throughput complementary DNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is a powerful tool for whole-transcriptome analysis, supplying information about a transcript's expression level and structure. However, it is...