TY - JOUR A1 - Dornelas, Maria A1 - Antão, Laura H. A1 - Moyes, Faye A1 - Bates, Amanda E. A1 - Magurran, Anne E. A1 - Adam, Dušan A1 - Akhmetzhanova, Asem A. A1 - Appeltans, Ward A1 - Arcos, José Manuel A1 - Arnold, Haley A1 - Ayyappan, Narayanan A1 - Badihi, Gal A1 - Baird, Andrew H. A1 - Barbosa, Miguel A1 - Barreto, Tiago Egydio A1 - Bässler, Claus A1 - Bellgrove, Alecia A1 - Belmaker, Jonathan A1 - Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro A1 - Bett, Brian J. A1 - Bjorkman, Anne D. A1 - Błażewicz, Magdalena A1 - Blowes, Shane A. A1 - Bloch, Christopher P. Bloch A1 - Bonebrake, Timothy C. A1 - Boyd, Susan A1 - Bradford, Matt A1 - Brooks, Andrew J. A1 - Brown, James H. A1 - Bruelheide, Helge A1 - Budy, Phaedra A1 - Carvalho, Fernando A1 - Castañeda-Moya, Edward A1 - Chen, Chaolun Allen A1 - Chamblee, John F. A1 - Chase, Tory J. A1 - Siegwart Collier, Laura A1 - Collinge, Sharon K. A1 - Condit, Richard A1 - Cooper, Elisabeth J. A1 - Cornelissen, J. Hans C. A1 - Cotano, Unai A1 - Crow, Shannan Kyle A1 - Damasceno, Gabriella A1 - Davies, Claire H. A1 - Davis, Robert A. A1 - Day, Frank P. A1 - Degraer, Steven A1 - Doherty, Tim S. A1 - Dunn, Timothy E. A1 - Durigan, Giselda A1 - Duffy, J. Emmett A1 - Edelist, Dor A1 - Edgar, Graham J. A1 - Elahi, Robin A1 - Elmendorf, Sarah C. A1 - Enemar, Anders A1 - Ernest, S. K. Morgan A1 - Escribano, Rubén A1 - Estiarte, Marc A1 - Evans, Brian S. A1 - Fan, Tung-Yung A1 - Turini Farah, Fabiano A1 - Loureiro Fernandes, Luiz A1 - Farneda, Fábio Z. A1 - Fidelis, Alessandra A1 - Fitt, Robert A1 - Fosaa, Anna Maria A1 - Franco, Geraldo Antonio Daher Correa A1 - Frank, Grace E. A1 - Fraser, William R. A1 - García, Hernando A1 - Cazzolla Gatti, Roberto A1 - Givan, Or A1 - Gorgone-Barbosa, Elizabeth A1 - Gould, William A. A1 - Gries, Corinna A1 - Grossman, Gary D. A1 - Gutierréz, Julio R. A1 - Hale, Stephen A1 - Harmon, Mark E. A1 - Harte, John A1 - Haskins, Gary A1 - Henshaw, Donald L. A1 - Hermanutz, Luise A1 - Hidalgo, Pamela A1 - Higuchi, Pedro A1 - Hoey, Andrew A1 - Van Hoey, Gert A1 - Hofgaard, Annika A1 - Holeck, Kristen A1 - Hollister, Robert D. A1 - Holmes, Richard A1 - Hoogenboom, Mia A1 - Hsieh, Chih-hao A1 - Hubbell, Stephen P. A1 - Huettmann, Falk A1 - Huffard, Christine L. A1 - Hurlbert, Allen H. A1 - Ivanauskas, Natália Macedo A1 - Janík, David A1 - Jandt, Ute A1 - Jażdżewska, Anna A1 - Johannessen, Tore A1 - Johnstone, Jill A1 - Jones, Julia A1 - Jones, Faith A. M. A1 - Kang, Jungwon A1 - Kartawijaya, Tasrif A1 - Keeley, Erin C. A1 - Kelt, Douglas A. A1 - Kinnear, Rebecca A1 - Klanderud, Kari A1 - Knutsen, Halvor A1 - Koenig, Christopher C. A1 - Kortz, Alessandra R. A1 - Král, Kamil A1 - Kuhnz, Linda A. A1 - Kuo, Chao-Yang A1 - Kushner, David J. A1 - Laguionie-Marchais, Claire A1 - Lancaster, Lesley T. A1 - Lee, Cheol Min A1 - Lefcheck, Jonathan S. A1 - Lévesque, Esther A1 - Lightfoot, David A1 - Lloret, Francisco A1 - Lloyd, John D. A1 - López-Baucells, Adrià A1 - Louzao, Maite A1 - Madin, Joshua S. A1 - Magnússon, Borgþór A1 - Malamud, Shahar A1 - Matthews, Iain A1 - McFarland, Kent P. A1 - McGill, Brian A1 - McKnight, Diane A1 - McLarney, William O. A1 - Meador, Jason A1 - Meserve, Peter L. A1 - Metcalfe, Daniel J. A1 - Meyer, Christoph F. J. A1 - Michelsen, Anders A1 - Milchakova, Nataliya A1 - Moens, Tom A1 - Moland, Even A1 - Moore, Jon A1 - Moreira, Carolina Mathias A1 - Müller, Jörg A1 - Murphy, Grace A1 - Myers-Smith, Isla H. A1 - Myster, Randall W. A1 - Naumov, Andrew A1 - Neat, Francis A1 - Nelson, James A. A1 - Nelson, Michael Paul A1 - Newton, Stephen F. A1 - Norden, Natalia A1 - Oliver, Jeffrey C. A1 - Olsen, Esben M. A1 - Onipchenko, Vladimir G. A1 - Pabis, Krzysztof A1 - Pabst, Robert J. A1 - Paquette, Alain A1 - Pardede, Sinta A1 - Paterson, David M. A1 - Pélissier, Raphaël A1 - Peñuelas, Josep A1 - Pérez-Matus, Alejandro A1 - Pizarro, Oscar A1 - Pomati, Francesco A1 - Post, Eric A1 - Prins, Herbert H. T. A1 - Priscu, John C. A1 - Provoost, Pieter A1 - Prudic, Kathleen L. A1 - Pulliainen, Erkki A1 - Ramesh, B. R. A1 - Ramos, Olivia Mendivil A1 - Rassweiler, Andrew A1 - Rebelo, Jose Eduardo A1 - Reed, Daniel C. A1 - Reich, Peter B. A1 - Remillard, Suzanne M. A1 - Richardson, Anthony J. A1 - Richardson, J. Paul A1 - van Rijn, Itai A1 - Rocha, Ricardo A1 - Rivera-Monroy, Victor H. A1 - Rixen, Christian A1 - Robinson, Kevin P. A1 - Rodrigues, Ricardo Ribeiro A1 - de Cerqueira Rossa-Feres, Denise A1 - Rudstam, Lars A1 - Ruhl, Henry A1 - Ruz, Catalina S. A1 - Sampaio, Erica M. A1 - Rybicki, Nancy A1 - Rypel, Andrew A1 - Sal, Sofia A1 - Salgado, Beatriz A1 - Santos, Flavio A. M. A1 - Savassi-Coutinho, Ana Paula A1 - Scanga, Sara A1 - Schmidt, Jochen A1 - Schooley, Robert A1 - Setiawan, Fakhrizal A1 - Shao, Kwang-Tsao A1 - Shaver, Gaius R. A1 - Sherman, Sally A1 - Sherry, Thomas W. A1 - Siciński, Jacek A1 - Sievers, Caya A1 - da Silva, Ana Carolina A1 - da Silva, Fernando Rodrigues A1 - Silveira, Fabio L. A1 - Slingsby, Jasper A1 - Smart, Tracey A1 - Snell, Sara J. A1 - Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A. A1 - Souza, Gabriel B. G. A1 - Souza, Flaviana Maluf A1 - Souza, Vinícius Castro A1 - Stallings, Christopher D. A1 - Stanforth, Rowan A1 - Stanley, Emily H. A1 - Sterza, José Mauro A1 - Stevens, Maarten A1 - Stuart-Smith, Rick A1 - Suarez, Yzel Rondon A1 - Supp, Sarah A1 - Tamashiro, Jorge Yoshio A1 - Tarigan, Sukmaraharja A1 - Thiede, Gary P. A1 - Thorn, Simon A1 - Tolvanen, Anne A1 - Toniato, Maria Teresa Zugliani A1 - Totland, Ørjan A1 - Twilley, Robert R. A1 - Vaitkus, Gediminas A1 - Valdivia, Nelson A1 - Vallejo, Martha Isabel A1 - Valone, Thomas J. A1 - Van Colen, Carl A1 - Vanaverbeke, Jan A1 - Venturoli, Fabio A1 - Verheye, Hans M. A1 - Vianna, Marcelo A1 - Vieira, Rui P. A1 - Vrška, Tomáš A1 - Vu, Con Quang A1 - Vu, Lien Van A1 - Waide, Robert B. A1 - Waldock, Conor A1 - Watts, Dave A1 - Webb, Sara A1 - Wesołowski, Tomasz A1 - White, Ethan P. A1 - Widdicombe, Claire E. A1 - Wilgers, Dustin A1 - Williams, Richard A1 - Williams, Stefan B. A1 - Williamson, Mark A1 - Willig, Michael R. A1 - Willis, Trevor J. A1 - Wipf, Sonja A1 - Woods, Kerry D. A1 - Woehler, Eric J. A1 - Zawada, Kyle A1 - Zettler, Michael L. T1 - BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene JF - Global Ecology and Biogeography N2 - Motivation The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time. These data enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblages using a broad range of metrics. BioTIME is being developed as a community-led open-source database of biodiversity time series. Our goal is to accelerate and facilitate quantitative analysis of temporal patterns of biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Main types of variables included The database contains 8,777,413 species abundance records, from assemblages consistently sampled for a minimum of 2 years, which need not necessarily be consecutive. In addition, the database contains metadata relating to sampling methodology and contextual information about each record. Spatial location and grain BioTIME is a global database of 547,161 unique sampling locations spanning the marine, freshwater and terrestrial realms. Grain size varies across datasets from 0.0000000158 km2 (158 cm2) to 100 km2 (1,000,000,000,000 cm2). Time period and grain BioTIME records span from 1874 to 2016. The minimal temporal grain across all datasets in BioTIME is a year. Major taxa and level of measurement BioTIME includes data from 44,440 species across the plant and animal kingdoms, ranging from plants, plankton and terrestrial invertebrates to small and large vertebrates. Software format .csv and .SQL. KW - biodiversity KW - global KW - spatial KW - species richness KW - temporal KW - turnover Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-222846 VL - 27 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thorn, Simon A1 - Chao, Anne A1 - Georgiev, Konstadin B. A1 - Müller, Jörg A1 - Bässler, Claus A1 - Campbell, John L. A1 - Jorge, Castro A1 - Chen, Yan-Han A1 - Choi, Chang-Yong A1 - Cobb, Tyler P. A1 - Donato, Daniel C. A1 - Durska, Ewa A1 - Macdonald, Ellen A1 - Feldhaar, Heike A1 - Fontaine, Jospeh B. A1 - Fornwalt, Paula J. A1 - Hernández Hernández, Raquel María A1 - Hutto, Richard L. A1 - Koivula, Matti A1 - Lee, Eun-Jae A1 - Lindenmayer, David A1 - Mikusinski, Grzegorz A1 - Obrist, Martin K. A1 - Perlík, Michal A1 - Rost, Josep A1 - Waldron, Kaysandra A1 - Wermelinger, Beat A1 - Weiß, Ingmar A1 - Zmihorski, Michal A1 - Leverkus, Alexandro B. T1 - Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity JF - Nature Communications N2 - Forests are increasingly affected by natural disturbances. Subsequent salvage logging, a widespread management practice conducted predominantly to recover economic capital, produces further disturbance and impacts biodiversity worldwide. Hence, naturally disturbed forests are among the most threatened habitats in the world, with consequences for their associated biodiversity. However, there are no evidence-based benchmarks for the proportion of area of naturally disturbed forests to be excluded from salvage logging to conserve biodiversity. We apply a mixed rarefaction/extrapolation approach to a global multi-taxa dataset from disturbed forests, including birds, plants, insects and fungi, to close this gap. We find that 757% (mean +/- SD) of a naturally disturbed area of a forest needs to be left unlogged to maintain 90% richness of its unique species, whereas retaining 50% of a naturally disturbed forest unlogged maintains 73 +/- 12% of its unique species richness. These values do not change with the time elapsed since disturbance but vary considerably among taxonomic groups. Salvage logging has become a common practice to gain economic returns from naturally disturbed forests, but it could have considerable negative effects on biodiversity. Here the authors use a recently developed statistical method to estimate that ca. 75% of the naturally disturbed forest should be left unlogged to maintain 90% of the species unique to the area. KW - natural disturbance KW - bird communities KW - forest KW - management KW - beetle KW - conservation KW - windthrow KW - diversity KW - impact KW - fire Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230512 VL - 11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Laura S. M. A1 - Cosentino, Raúl O. A1 - Förstner, Konrad U. A1 - Guizetti, Julien A1 - Wedel, Carolin A1 - Kaplan, Noam A1 - Janzen, Christian J. A1 - Arampatzi, Panagiota A1 - Vogel, Jörg A1 - Steinbiss, Sascha A1 - Otto, Thomas D. A1 - Saliba, Antoine-Emmanuel A1 - Sebra, Robert P. A1 - Siegel, T. Nicolai T1 - Genome organization and DNA accessibility control antigenic variation in trypanosomes JF - Nature N2 - Many evolutionarily distant pathogenic organisms have evolved similar survival strategies to evade the immune responses of their hosts. These include antigenic variation, through which an infecting organism prevents clearance by periodically altering the identity of proteins that are visible to the immune system of the host1. Antigenic variation requires large reservoirs of immunologically diverse antigen genes, which are often generated through homologous recombination, as well as mechanisms to ensure the expression of one or very few antigens at any given time. Both homologous recombination and gene expression are affected by three-dimensional genome architecture and local DNA accessibility2,3. Factors that link three-dimensional genome architecture, local chromatin conformation and antigenic variation have, to our knowledge, not yet been identified in any organism. One of the major obstacles to studying the role of genome architecture in antigenic variation has been the highly repetitive nature and heterozygosity of antigen-gene arrays, which has precluded complete genome assembly in many pathogens. Here we report the de novo haplotype-specific assembly and scaffolding of the long antigen-gene arrays of the model protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei, using long-read sequencing technology and conserved features of chromosome folding4. Genome-wide chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) reveals a distinct partitioning of the genome, with antigen-encoding subtelomeric regions that are folded into distinct, highly compact compartments. In addition, we performed a range of analyses—Hi-C, fluorescence in situ hybridization, assays for transposase-accessible chromatin using sequencing and single-cell RNA sequencing—that showed that deletion of the histone variants H3.V and H4.V increases antigen-gene clustering, DNA accessibility across sites of antigen expression and switching of the expressed antigen isoform, via homologous recombination. Our analyses identify histone variants as a molecular link between global genome architecture, local chromatin conformation and antigenic variation. KW - histone variants KW - genome architecture KW - single molecule real time (SMRT) KW - brucei genome KW - distance-dependent decay Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-224265 VL - 563 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peter, Stefanie A1 - Bultinck, Jennyfer A1 - Myant, Kevin A1 - Jaenicke, Laura A. A1 - Walz, Susanne A1 - Müller, Judith A1 - Gmachl, Michael A1 - Treu, Matthias A1 - Boehmelt, Guido A1 - Ade, Casten P. A1 - Schmitz, Werner A1 - Wiegering, Armin A1 - Otto, Christoph A1 - Popov, Nikita A1 - Sansom, Owen A1 - Kraut, Norbert A1 - Eilers, Martin T1 - H Tumor cell-specific inhibition of MYC function using small molecule inhibitors of the HUWE1 ubiquitin ligase JF - EMBO Molecular Medicine N2 - Deregulated expression of MYC is a driver of colorectal carcinogenesis, necessitating novel strategies to inhibit MYC function. The ubiquitin ligase HUWE1 (HECTH9, ARF-BP1, MULE) associates with both MYC and the MYC-associated protein MIZ1. We show here that HUWE1 is required for growth of colorectal cancer cells in culture and in orthotopic xenograft models. Using high-throughput screening, we identify small molecule inhibitors of HUWE1, which inhibit MYC-dependent transactivation in colorectal cancer cells, but not in stem and normal colon epithelial cells. Inhibition of HUWE1 stabilizes MIZ1. MIZ1 globally accumulates on MYC target genes and contributes to repression of MYC-activated target genes upon HUWE1 inhibition. Our data show that transcriptional activation by MYC in colon cancer cells requires the continuous degradation of MIZ1 and identify a novel principle that allows for inhibition of MYC function in tumor cells. KW - colorectal cancer KW - HUWE1 KW - MIZ1 KW - MYC KW - ubiquitination KW - cancer KW - digestive system KW - pharmacology KW - drug discovery Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-118132 SN - 1757-4684 VL - 6 IS - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Otto, C. A1 - Schmidt, S. A1 - Kastner, C. A1 - Denk, S. A1 - Kettler, J. A1 - Müller, N. A1 - Germer, C.T. A1 - Wolf, E. A1 - Gallant, P. A1 - Wiegering, A. T1 - Targeting bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) inhibits MYC expression in colorectal cancer cells JF - Neoplasia N2 - The transcriptional regulator BRD4 has been shown to be important for the expression of several oncogenes including MYC. Inhibiting of BRD4 has broad antiproliferative activity in different cancer cell types. The small molecule JQ1 blocks the interaction of BRD4 with acetylated histones leading to transcriptional modulation. Depleting BRD4 via engineered bifunctional small molecules named PROTACs (proteolysis targeting chimeras) represents the next-generation approach to JQ1-mediated BRD4 inhibition. PROTACs trigger BRD4 for proteasomale degradation by recruiting E3 ligases. The aim of this study was therefore to validate the importance of BRD4 as a relevant target in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells and to compare the efficacy of BRD4 inhibition with BRD4 degradation on downregulating MYC expression. JQ1 induced a downregulation of both MYC mRNA and MYC protein associated with an antiproliferative phenotype in CRC cells. dBET1 and MZ1 induced degradation of BRD4 followed by a reduction in MYC expression and CRC cell proliferation. In SW480 cells, where dBET1 failed, we found significantly lower levels of the E3 ligase cereblon, which is essential for dBET1-induced BRD4 degradation. To gain mechanistic insight into the unresponsiveness to dBET1, we generated dBET1-resistant LS174t cells and found a strong downregulation of cereblon protein. These findings suggest that inhibition of BRD4 by JQ1 and degradation of BRD4 by dBET1 and MZ1 are powerful tools for reducing MYC expression and CRC cell proliferation. In addition, downregulation of cereblon may be an important mechanism for developing dBET1 resistance, which can be evaded by incubating dBET1-resistant cells with JQ1 or MZ1. KW - Cancer Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-202451 VL - 21 IS - 11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kruse, N. A1 - Shen, B. J. A1 - Arnold, S. A1 - Tony, H. P. A1 - Müller, T. A1 - Sebald, Walter T1 - Two distinct functional sites of human interleukin 4 are identified by variants impaired in either receptor binding or receptor activation N2 - Interleukin 4 (IL-4) exerts a decisive role in the coord.ination of proteelive immune responses against parasites, particularly helminths. A disregulation of ll.r4 function is possibly involved in the genesis of allergic disease states. The search for important amino acid residues in human ll.r4 by mutational analysis of charged invariant amino acid positions identified two distinct functional sites in the 4-helix-bundle protein. Site 1 was marked by amino acid substitutions of the glutamic acid at position 9 in helix A and arginine at position 88 in helix C. Exchanges at both positions led to IL-4 variants deficient in binding to the extracellular domain of the ll.r4 receptor (IL-4ReJ. In parallel, up to 1000-fold increased concentrations of this type of variant were required to induce T -cell proliferation and B-eeil CD23 expression. Site 2 was marked by amino acid exchanges in helix D at positions 121, 124 and 125 (arginine, tyrosine and serine respectively in the wild-type).ß.A variants affected at site 2 exhibited partial agonist activity during T -cell proliferation; however, they still bound with high affinity to IL-4Rex. [The generation of an IL-4 antagonist by replacing tyrosine 124 with aspartic acid has been described before by Kruse et al. (1992) (EMBO }., 11, 3237-3244)]. These findings indicate that IL-4 functions by bind.ing IL-4Rex via site 1 which is constituted by residues on helices A and C. They further suggest that the association of a second, still undetined receptor protein with site 2 in helix D activates the receptor system and generates a transmembrane signal. KW - Biochemie KW - drug design/partial agonists KW - receptor signalling Y1 - 1993 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-62451 ER -