[HTML][HTML] 9S1R nullomer peptide induces mitochondrial pathology, metabolic suppression, and enhanced immune cell infiltration, in triple-negative breast cancer …

N Ali, C Wolf, S Kanchan, SR Veerabhadraiah… - Biomedicine & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nullomers are the shortest strings of absent amino acid (aa) sequences in a species or
group of species. Primes are those nullomers that have not been detected in the genome of …

[HTML][HTML] Peptide absent sequences emerging in human cancers

GC Tsiatsianis, CSY Chan, I Mouratidis… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Early diagnosis of cancer can significantly improve survival of cancer patients; however
sensitive and highly specific biomarkers for cancer detection are currently lacking for most …

High content analysis technology for evaluating the joint toxicity of sunset yellow and sodium sulfite in vitro

D Qu, Y Gu, L Feng, J Han - Food chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Foods contain various additives that affect our daily lives. At present, food additive safety
evaluation standards are based on the toxicity of single additives, but food additives are …

Significant non-existence of sequences in genomes and proteomes

G Koulouras, MC Frith - Nucleic acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Minimal absent words (MAWs) are minimal-length oligomers absent from a genome or
proteome. Although some artificially synthesized MAWs have deleterious effects, there is still …

[HTML][HTML] kmerDB: a database encompassing the set of genomic and proteomic sequence information for each species

I Mouratidis, FA Baltoumas, N Chantzi… - Computational and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The decrease in sequencing expenses has facilitated the creation of reference genomes
and proteomes for an expanding array of organisms. Nevertheless, no established …

[HTML][HTML] Absent from DNA and protein: genomic characterization of nullomers and nullpeptides across functional categories and evolution

I Georgakopoulos-Soares, O Yizhar-Barnea… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Nullomers and nullpeptides are short DNA or amino acid sequences that are absent from a
genome or proteome, respectively. One potential cause for their absence could be their …

Tools to measure cell health and cytotoxicity using high content imaging and analysis

BS Mandavilli, RJ Aggeler, KM Chambers - High Content Screening: A …, 2018 - Springer
High content screening (HCS)-based multiparametric measurements are very useful in early
toxicity testing and safety assessment during drug development, and useful in evaluating the …

[HTML][HTML] Nullomers and high order nullomers in genomic sequences

D Vergni, D Santoni - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
A nullomer is an oligomer that does not occur as a subsequence in a given DNA sequence,
ie it is an absent word of that sequence. The importance of nullomers in several applications …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of Nullomer-derived peptides 9R, 9S1R and 124R on the NCI-60 panel and normal cell lines

A Alileche, G Hampikian - BMC cancer, 2017 - Springer
Background Nullomer peptides are the smallest sequences absent from databases of
natural proteins. We first began compiling a list of absent 5-amino acid strings in 2006 (1) …

[HTML][HTML] The farther the better: Investigating how distance from human self affects the propensity of a peptide to be presented on cell surface by MHC class I molecules …

D Vergni, R Gaudio, D Santoni - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
More than twenty years ago the reverse vaccinology paradigm came to light trying to design
new vaccines based on the analysis of genomic information in order to select those …