Mario Albrecht

Integrating biological data – the Distributed Annotation System (2008)

Jenkinson, Andrew M, Albrecht, Mario, Birney, Ewan, Blankenburg, Hagen, Down, Thomas, Finn, Robert D, ...

Abstract Background The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) is a widely adopted protocol for dynamically integrating a wide range of biological data from geographically diverse sources. DAS continues...

Molecular basis of telaprevir resistance due to V36 and T54 mutations in the NS3-4A protease of the hepatitis C virus (2008)

Welsch, Christoph, Domingues, Francisco S, Susser, Simone, Antes, Iris, Hartmann, Christoph, Mayr, Gabriele, ...

Abstract Background The inhibitor telaprevir (VX-950) of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease NS3-4A has been tested in a recent phase 1b clinical trial in patients infected with HCV genotype 1. This...

Variants in a Novel Epidermal Collagen Gene (COL29A1) Are Associated with Atopic Dermatitis (2007)

Cilla Söderhäll, Ingo Marenholz, Tamara Kerscher, Franz Rüschendorf, Jorge Esparza-Gordillo, Margitta Worm, ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic inflammatory skin disorder and a major manifestation of allergic disease. AD typically presents in early childhood often preceding the onset of an allergic...

GOTax: investigating biological processes and biochemical activities along the taxonomic tree (2007)

Schlicker, Andreas, Rahnenführer, Jörg, Albrecht, Mario, Lengauer, Thomas, Domingues, Francisco S

Abstract We describe GOTax, a comparative genomics platform that integrates protein annotation with protein family classification and taxonomy. User-defined sets of proteins, protein families,...

GOTax: investigating biological processes and biochemical activities along the taxonomic tree (2007)

Schlicker, Andreas, Rahnenführer, Jörg, Albrecht, Mario, Lengauer, Thomas, Domingues, Francisco S

Abstract We describe GOTax, a comparative genomics platform that integrates protein annotation with protein family classification and taxonomy. User-defined sets of proteins, protein families,...

Combining protein structure prediction with experiments and functional information (2006)

Albrecht, Mario

Proteins are key players in all cells of living organisms. In particular, knowledge of the spatial protein structure may give fundamental insights into protein function and disease processes. For...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Diversity and functional plasticity of eukaryotic selenoproteins: Identification and characterization of the SelJ family

Castellano, Sergi, Lobanov, Alexey V., Chapple, Charles, Novoselov, Sergey V., Albrecht, Mario, Hua, Deame, ...

Selenoproteins are a diverse group of proteins that contain selenocysteine (Sec), the 21st amino acid. In the genetic code, UGA serves as a termination signal and a Sec codon. This dual role has...

Mutations in the NB-ARC Domain of I-2 That Impair ATP Hydrolysis Cause Autoactivation1[OA]

Tameling, Wladimir I.L., Vossen, Jack H., Albrecht, Mario, Lengauer, Thomas, Berden, Jan A., Haring, Michel A., ...

Resistance (R) proteins in plants confer specificity to the innate immune system. Most R proteins have a centrally located NB-ARC (nucleotide-binding adaptor shared by APAF-1, R proteins, and CED-4)...

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.

Diversity and functional plasticity of eukaryotic selenoproteins: Identification and characterization of the SelJ family

Castellano, Sergi, Lobanov, Alexey V., Chapple, Charles, Novoselov, Sergey V., Albrecht, Mario, Hua, Deame, ...

Selenoproteins are a diverse group of proteins that contain selenocysteine (Sec), the 21st amino acid. In the genetic code, UGA serves as a termination signal and a Sec codon. This dual role has...

Mutations in the MutSα interaction interface of MLH1 can abolish DNA mismatch repair

Plotz, Guido, Welsch, Christoph, Giron-Monzon, Luis, Friedhoff, Peter, Albrecht, Mario, Piiper, Albrecht, ...

MutLα, a heterodimer of MLH1 and PMS2, plays a central role in human DNA mismatch repair. It interacts ATP-dependently with the mismatch detector MutSα and assembles and controls further repair...

Mutations in the NB-ARC Domain of I-2 That Impair ATP Hydrolysis Cause Autoactivation1[OA]

Tameling, Wladimir I.L., Vossen, Jack H., Albrecht, Mario, Lengauer, Thomas, Berden, Jan A., Haring, Michel A., ...

Resistance (R) proteins in plants confer specificity to the innate immune system. Most R proteins have a centrally located NB-ARC (nucleotide-binding adaptor shared by APAF-1, R proteins, and CED-4)...

An arginine/lysine-rich motif is crucial for VCP/p97-mediated modulation of ataxin-3 fibrillogenesis

Boeddrich, Annett, Gaumer, Sébastien, Haacke, Annette, Tzvetkov, Nikolay, Albrecht, Mario, Evert, Bernd O, ...

Arginine/lysine-rich motifs typically function as targeting signals for the translocation of proteins to the nucleus. Here, we demonstrate that such a motif consisting of four basic amino acids in...

GOTax: investigating biological processes and biochemical activities along the taxonomic tree

Schlicker, Andreas, Rahnenführer, Jörg, Albrecht, Mario, Lengauer, Thomas, Domingues, Francisco S

GOTax, a novel web-based platform that integrates protein annotation with protein family classification and taxonomy, allows for an extensive assessment of functional similarity between proteins and...

Systematic Association Mapping Identifies NELL1 as a Novel IBD Disease Gene

Franke, Andre, Hampe, Jochen, Rosenstiel, Philip, Becker, Christian, Wagner, Florian, Häsler, Robert, ...

Crohn disease (CD), a sub-entity of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is a complex polygenic disorder. Although recent studies have successfully identified CD-associated genetic variants, these...

Variants in a Novel Epidermal Collagen Gene (COL29A1) Are Associated with Atopic Dermatitis

Söderhäll, Cilla, Marenholz, Ingo, Kerscher, Tamara, Rüschendorf, Franz, Esparza-Gordillo, Jorge, Worm, Margitta, ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic inflammatory skin disorder and a major manifestation of allergic disease. AD typically presents in early childhood often preceding the onset of an allergic...

The implications of alternative splicing in the ENCODE protein complement

Tress, Michael L., Martelli, Pier Luigi, Frankish, Adam, Reeves, Gabrielle A., Wesselink, Jan Jaap, Yeats, Corin, ...

Alternative premessenger RNA splicing enables genes to generate more than one gene product. Splicing events that occur within protein coding regions have the potential to alter the biological...

FunSimMat: a comprehensive functional similarity database

Schlicker, Andreas, Albrecht, Mario

Functional similarity based on Gene Ontology (GO) annotation is used in diverse applications like gene clustering, gene expression data analysis, protein interaction prediction and evaluation....

Molecular basis of telaprevir resistance due to V36 and T54 mutations in the NS3-4A protease of the hepatitis C virus

Welsch, Christoph, Domingues, Francisco S, Susser, Simone, Antes, Iris, Hartmann, Christoph, Mayr, Gabriele, ...

Structural analysis of the inhibitor Telaprevir (VX-950) of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) protease NS3-4A shows that mutations at V36 and/or T54 result in impaired interaction with VX-950, explaining...