Knowledge: gene expression
See Also:
- science → biology → cell biology → cell cycle
- science → biology → developmental biology
- science → biology → genetics → genomics
Links
- Regulation of Gene Expression
http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/pub/regulation.html - Overview of different aspects of gene expression, including transcription, chromatin modification, and analysis of whole genomes, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, USA.
- Eukaryotic Gene Expression Problem Set
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/molecular_bio/problem_sets/mol_genetics_of_eukaryotes/eukaryotes.... - Multiple choice questions about post-transcriptional modification of RNA, promoters, and nuclear RNA processing. From: University of Arizona, USA 1997.
- Ribosomes
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/R/Ribosomes.html - Explanation of how the information encoded in mRNA is translated into a polypeptide. Includes differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes by John W. Kimball, now retired from Harvard College.
- Role of the Ribosome
http://cellbio.utmb.edu/cellbio/ribosome.htm - Illustrated explanation of the ribosomal protein synthesis by Gwen V. Childs, University of Texas, Galveston, TX.
- Molecular Genetics Webtext
http://opbs.okstate.edu/~melcher/MG/FMG01.html - An online textbook on chromosomes, principles of genetic engineering, basic molecular genetics and experimental methods.
- Genomes to Life
http://doegenomestolife.org/ - The US Department of Energy at Oak Ridge program for research in moleular biology: goals and results.
- Mammary Genome Anatomy Project
http://mammary.nih.gov/ - Forum to integrate various aspects of mammary gland biology, including cellular and developmental aspects, and to promote collaborations and the exchange of ideas, knowledge and resources at NIH, Maryland.
- Biochemistry of Nucleic Acids
http://oregonstate.edu/instruction/bb492/general/schedule.html - Lecture notes on nucleic acid structure, DNA replication and repair, the genetic code and translation, as well as cancer genes, from Oregon State University, USA 2003.
- Alternative Splicing
http://www.exonhit.com/alternativesplicing/ - Resource for intervention in the key steps in post-translocation regulatory process, with analysis tools and implications in pathologies. Maintained by Exonhit Therapeutics SA, Paris, France.
- Gene Expression: Transcription
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/T/Transcription.html - Resource for transcription events during gene formation including schematic diagrams.
- Genome-Wide Expression
http://web.wi.mit.edu/young/expression/home.html - Report on a project to analyze the transcriptional regulatory circuitry of the yeast cell. From the Young Lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
- Anatomy of a Comparative Gene Expression Study
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jbuhler/research/array/ - Clear explanation of the process of comparing the gene expression in two cell populations or tissue samples by fluorescent microarray technique.
- Serial Analysis of Gene Expression
http://www.sagenet.org/ - Explanation of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), a method for analysis of gene expression patterns.
- Gene Expression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_expression - Article in Wikipedia.
- 3'UTR
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%27_UTR - Wikipedia article on the untranslated regions at the ends of mRNA.
- Alternative Splicing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing - Wikipedia article on the process in eukaryotes in which the splicing process of a pre-mRNA can lead to different ripe mRNA molecules and therefore to different proteins.
- Enhancer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhancer - Wikipedia article on enhancers, short pieces of DNA which bind to trans-acting factors to enhance transcription levels of genes.
- Epigenetics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics - Wikipedia article on processes that lead to inheritance that is not reflected in the sequences of the nuclear DNA.
- Exon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exon - Wikipedia article on regions in genes that are expressed in mature mRNA and in proteins.
- Intron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intron - Wikipedia article on sections of genes that are eliminated by splicing in the formation of mature mRNA and therefore not expressed as proteins.
- Expressed Sequence Tag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressed_sequence_tag - Wikipedia article: EST are short sub-sequences of genes, used in mRNA sequencing and in construction of DNA microarrays.
- Gene Regulation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulation - Wikipedia article on the mechanisms that regulate gene expression.
- Gene Regulatory Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulatory_network - Wikipedia article on the mathematical modelling of gene expression as a network.
- Genetic Code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code - Wikipedia article on the relationship between the nucleic acid base sequence and the corresponding polypeptide amino acid sequence.
- Imprinting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_%28genetics%29 - Wikipedia article on the suppressing of genes by chemical modification, depending on which parent they were received from.
- Messenger RNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA - Wikipedia article on the RNA that carries information from DNA to protein synthesis.
- Monocistronic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocistronic - Wikipedia article: Messenger RNA that codes for one polypeptide string only.
- Noncoding DNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncoding_DNA - Wikipedia article: sections of DNA that do not contain codes for polypeptide sequences.
- Operon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operon - Wikipedia article: group of genes in primitive organisms that are controlled by one operator and one promoter to be activated together.
- Posttranslational modification
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttranslational_modification - Wikipedia article: chemical modification of polypeptide chains after synthesis.
- Pre-mRNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mRNA - Wikipedia article: RNA string syntesized in the cell nucleus before modification (splicing, polyadenylation) and export to the cytoplasm.
- Promoter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promoter - Wikipedia article: in genetics a sequence located upstream of a gene that enables its translation.
- Protein biosynthesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_biosynthesis - Wikipedia article: summary of the process by which the cell converts the DNA sequence proteins.
- SECIS element
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECIS_element - Wikipedia article: Sequence that directs translation of UGA as selenocysteine insteado of using it as a stop codon.
- Shine-Dalgarno sequence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine-Dalgarno_sequence - Wikipedia article: signals the initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria.
- Signal peptide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_peptide - Wikipedia article: short peptide sequences that direct the post-translational transport of proteins after synthesis.
- Spliceosome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spliceosome - Wikipedia article: particle composed of DNA and peptide chains that effects mRNA splicing in the cell nucleus of eucaryotic cells.
- Splicing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splicing_%28genetics%29 - Wikipedia article: in genetics, the process of removing introns from mRNA in the cell nucleus before export to the cytoplasm and use as master for protein synthesis.
- Transcription
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_%28genetics%29 - Wikipedia article: in genetics the process by which a DNA sequence is converted to a corresponding RNA sequence.
- Translation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_%28genetics%29 - Wikipedia article: in genetics, the process by which ribosomes in the cytoplasm transfer the genetic code from a m-RNA sequence to an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain.
- Transcription Factor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_factor - Proteins that specifically bind to promotor or enhancer regions on DNA and thereby control the transcription of the downstream gene.
- Transfer RNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA - Wikipedia article: small RNA molecules that transport amino acids to their positions on the ribosome during polypeptide synthesis.
- Gene Expression
http://www.gnxp.com - Independent forum for discussion of gene expression.
- Epigenetic inheritance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic_inheritance - Transmission of information from a cell or multicellular organism to its descendants without that information being encoded in the nucleotide sequence of the gene. Wikipedia article.
- European Sequencing of Tobacco
http://www.estobacco.info - A collaboration between Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Ltd and Tobacco Institute of Bergerac to sequence a large number of tobacco genes.
- The Epigenome Network of Excellence
http://www.epigenome-noe.net/ - Network of research groups on heritable changes in gene expression without a change in DNA sequence, funded by the European Union.
- Epigenetics
http://www.cellcentric.co.uk/epigenetics.htm - Article on the site of CellCentric on epigenetics.
- Epigenetic Station
http://www.epigeneticstation.com - With information, protocols and resources about epigenetics and DNA methylation and much advertising.
- Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
http://lis.epfl.ch - Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) creating electronic models of the evolution of gene expression, neural development and similar evolution processes.
- Control of Gene Expression
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/ecb/gene_expression.html - A collection of diagrams illustrating the fundamentals of molecular biology.
- RiboWeb Project
http://helix-web.stanford.edu/ribo3dmodels/index.html - Knowledge base that combines data on the structure of the prokaryotic 30S ribosomal subunit that initiates the translation of mRNA into protein, its function and related links and references.
- 6th International Summer School "Biocomplexity from System to Gene"
http://www.fulton.asu.edu/%7ebioc2007/ - Summaries and reports from a summer school in Istambul, Turkey July 2007.
- Epigenetics Research
http://www.epidna.com - News, jobs, recent literature, lab registry and an ontologically driven database that is updated daily.
- Reportergene
http://reportergene.blogspot.com/ - Information and news related to reporter genes, that are used to monitor activation of genes and groups of genes that are otherwise difficult to follow.
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