Liang-Hu Qu

The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions (2007)

Merchant, Sabeeha S., Prochnik, Simon E., Vallon, Olivier, Harris, Elizabeth H., Karpowicz, Steven J., Witman, George B., ...

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga whose lineage diverged from land plants over 1 billion years ago. It is a model system for studying chloroplast-based photosynthesis, as well as...

The Chlamydomonas genome reveals the evolution of key animal and plant functions. (2007)

Merchant, Sabeeha S, Prochnik, Simon E, Vallon, Olivier, Harris, Elizabeth H, Karpowicz, Steven J, Witman, George B, ...

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga whose lineage diverged from land plants over 1 billion years ago. It is a model system for studying chloroplast-based photosynthesis, as well as...

The Schizosaccharomyces pombe mgU6-47 gene is required for 2′-O-methylation of U6 snRNA at A41

Zhou, Hui, Chen, Yue-Qin, Du, Yan-Ping, Qu, Liang-Hu

Through a computer search of DNA databases, we have identified the homologs of the mgU6-47 snoRNA gene from the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the fly Drosophila melanogaster and human. The three...

Seven Novel Methylation Guide Small Nucleolar RNAs Are Processed from a Common Polycistronic Transcript by Rat1p and RNase III in Yeast

Qu, Liang-Hu, Henras, Anthony, Lu, Yong-Jun, Zhou, Hui, Zhou, Wei-xin, Zhu, Yuan-Qi, ...

Through a computer search of the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the coding sequences of seven different box C/D antisense small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) with the structural hallmarks...

A novel gene organization: intronic snoRNA gene clusters from Oryza sativa

Liang, Dan, Zhou, Hui, Zhang, Peng, Chen, Yue-Qin, Chen, Xiao, Chen, Chun-Long, ...

Based on the analysis of structural features and conserved elements, 27 novel snoRNA genes have been identified from rice. All of them belong to the C/D box-containing snoRNA family except for one...

The high diversity of snoRNAs in plants: identification and comparative study of 120 snoRNA genes from Oryza sativa

Chen, Chun-Long, Liang, Dan, Zhou, Hui, Zhuo, Min, Chen, Yue-Qin, Qu, Liang-Hu

Using a powerful computer-assisted analysis strategy, a large-scale search of small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) genes in the recently released draft sequence of the rice genome was carried out. This...

Plant snoRNA database

Brown, John W. S., Echeverria, Manuel, Qu, Liang-Hu, Lowe, Todd M., Bachellerie, Jean-Pierre, Hüttenhofer, Alexander, ...

The Plant snoRNA database (http://www.scri.sari.ac.uk/plant_snoRNA/) provides information on small nucleolar RNAs from Arabidopsis and eighteen other plant species. Information includes sequences,...

Identification of 20 microRNAs from Oryza sativa

Wang, Jia-Fu, Zhou, Hui, Chen, Yue-Qin, Luo, Qing-Jun, Qu, Liang-Hu

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are present in both plant and animal kingdoms and represents a growing family of non-coding RNAs. These tiny RNAs act as small guides and direct negative regulations usually in the...

A novel experimental approach for systematic identification of box H/ACA snoRNAs from eukaryotes

Gu, Ai-Di, Zhou, Hui, Yu, Chun-Hong, Qu, Liang-Hu

Box H/ACA snoRNAs represent an abundant group of small non-coding RNAs mainly involved in the pseudouridylation of rRNAs and/or snRNAs in eukaryotes and Archaea. In this study, we describe a novel...

Genome-wide analyses of two families of snoRNA genes from Drosophila melanogaster, demonstrating the extensive utilization of introns for coding of snoRNAs

HUANG, ZHAN-PENG, ZHOU, HUI, HE, HUA-LIANG, CHEN, CHUN-LONG, LIANG, DAN, QU, LIANG-HU

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are an abundant group of noncoding RNAs mainly involved in the post-transcriptional modifications of rRNAs in eukaryotes. In this study, a large-scale genome-wide...

Phylogeny, evolution, and biogeography of Asiatic Salamanders (Hynobiidae)

Zhang, Peng, Chen, Yue-Qin, Zhou, Hui, Liu, Yi-Fei, Wang, Xiu-Ling, Papenfuss, Theodore J., ...

We sequenced 15 complete mitochondrial genomes and performed comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analyses to study the origin and phylogeny of the Hynobiidae, an ancient lineage of living...

snoSeeker: an advanced computational package for screening of guide and orphan snoRNA genes in the human genome

Yang, Jian-Hua, Zhang, Xiao-Chen, Huang, Zhan-Peng, Zhou, Hui, Huang, Mian-Bo, Zhang, Shu, ...

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) represent an abundant group of non-coding RNAs in eukaryotes. They can be divided into guide and orphan snoRNAs according to the presence or absence of antisense...

The Schizosaccharomyces pombe mgU6-47 gene is required for 2′-O-methylation of U6 snRNA at A41

Zhou, Hui, Chen, Yue-Qin, Du, Yan-Ping, Qu, Liang-Hu

Through a computer search of DNA databases, we have identified the homologs of the mgU6-47 snoRNA gene from the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the fly Drosophila melanogaster and human. The three...

Seven Novel Methylation Guide Small Nucleolar RNAs Are Processed from a Common Polycistronic Transcript by Rat1p and RNase III in Yeast

Qu, Liang-Hu, Henras, Anthony, Lu, Yong-Jun, Zhou, Hui, Zhou, Wei-xin, Zhu, Yuan-Qi, ...

Through a computer search of the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the coding sequences of seven different box C/D antisense small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) with the structural hallmarks...

A novel gene organization: intronic snoRNA gene clusters from Oryza sativa

Liang, Dan, Zhou, Hui, Zhang, Peng, Chen, Yue-Qin, Chen, Xiao, Chen, Chun-Long, ...

Based on the analysis of structural features and conserved elements, 27 novel snoRNA genes have been identified from rice. All of them belong to the C/D box-containing snoRNA family except for one...

The high diversity of snoRNAs in plants: identification and comparative study of 120 snoRNA genes from Oryza sativa

Chen, Chun-Long, Liang, Dan, Zhou, Hui, Zhuo, Min, Chen, Yue-Qin, Qu, Liang-Hu

Using a powerful computer-assisted analysis strategy, a large-scale search of small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) genes in the recently released draft sequence of the rice genome was carried out. This...

Plant snoRNA database

Brown, John W. S., Echeverria, Manuel, Qu, Liang-Hu, Lowe, Todd M., Bachellerie, Jean-Pierre, Hüttenhofer, Alexander, ...

The Plant snoRNA database (http://www.scri.sari.ac.uk/plant_snoRNA/) provides information on small nucleolar RNAs from Arabidopsis and eighteen other plant species. Information includes sequences,...

Identification of 20 microRNAs from Oryza sativa

Wang, Jia-Fu, Zhou, Hui, Chen, Yue-Qin, Luo, Qing-Jun, Qu, Liang-Hu

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are present in both plant and animal kingdoms and represents a growing family of non-coding RNAs. These tiny RNAs act as small guides and direct negative regulations usually in the...

A novel experimental approach for systematic identification of box H/ACA snoRNAs from eukaryotes

Gu, Ai-Di, Zhou, Hui, Yu, Chun-Hong, Qu, Liang-Hu

Box H/ACA snoRNAs represent an abundant group of small non-coding RNAs mainly involved in the pseudouridylation of rRNAs and/or snRNAs in eukaryotes and Archaea. In this study, we describe a novel...

Genome-wide analyses of two families of snoRNA genes from Drosophila melanogaster, demonstrating the extensive utilization of introns for coding of snoRNAs

HUANG, ZHAN-PENG, ZHOU, HUI, HE, HUA-LIANG, CHEN, CHUN-LONG, LIANG, DAN, QU, LIANG-HU

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are an abundant group of noncoding RNAs mainly involved in the post-transcriptional modifications of rRNAs in eukaryotes. In this study, a large-scale genome-wide...

Phylogeny, evolution, and biogeography of Asiatic Salamanders (Hynobiidae)

Zhang, Peng, Chen, Yue-Qin, Zhou, Hui, Liu, Yi-Fei, Wang, Xiu-Ling, Papenfuss, Theodore J., ...

We sequenced 15 complete mitochondrial genomes and performed comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analyses to study the origin and phylogeny of the Hynobiidae, an ancient lineage of living...

snoSeeker: an advanced computational package for screening of guide and orphan snoRNA genes in the human genome

Yang, Jian-Hua, Zhang, Xiao-Chen, Huang, Zhan-Peng, Zhou, Hui, Huang, Mian-Bo, Zhang, Shu, ...

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) represent an abundant group of non-coding RNAs in eukaryotes. They can be divided into guide and orphan snoRNAs according to the presence or absence of antisense...

Genomewide Analysis of Box C/D and Box H/ACA snoRNAs in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Reveals an Extensive Organization Into Intronic Gene Clusters

Chen, Chun-Long, Chen, Chong-Jian, Vallon, Olivier, Huang, Zhan-Peng, Zhou, Hui, Qu, Liang-Hu

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga, the lineage of which diverged from that of land plants >1 billion years ago. Using the powerful small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) mining platform to...

Stress-induced tRNA-derived RNAs: a novel class of small RNAs in the primitive eukaryote Giardia lamblia

Li, Yan, Luo, Jun, Zhou, Hui, Liao, Jian-You, Ma, Li-Ming, Chen, Yue-Qin, ...

Giardia lamblia is an early diverging and evolutionarily successful protozoan as it can enter into a dormant cyst stage from a vegetative trophozoite. During dormant stage, its metabolic rate...