• Media accountability and journalists: to whom do Spanish professionals feel responsible?

  Chaparro Domínguez, María Ángeles; Suárez Villegas, Juan Carlos; Rodríguez Martínez, Ruth (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  This paper analyses to whom Spanish journalists feel responsible. To achieve this objective, we sent out a survey to Spanish journalists to ascertain their opinion on this question. The journalists’ point of view was then ...
• Multi-hop communication in the uplink for LPWANs

  Barrachina Muñoz, Sergio; Bellalta, Boris; Adame, Toni; Bel, Albert (Elsevier, 2017)

  Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) have arisen as a promising communication technology for supporting Internet of Things (IoT) services due to their low power operation, wide coverage range, low cost and scalability. ...
• Obesity is associated with shorter telomeres in 8 year-old children

  Clemente Batalha Pardal, Diana, 1990-; Maitre, Léa; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Chatzi, Leda; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Fossati, Serena; Grazuleviciene, Regina; Gützkow, Kristine B.; Lepeule, Johanna; Martens, Dries S.; McEachan, Rosemary R.C.; Meltzer, Helle Margrete; Petraviciene, Inga; Slama, Rémy; Tamayo-Uria, Ibon; Urquiza, José M.; Vafeiadi, Marina, 1983-; Wright, John; Nawrot, Tim S.; Vrijheid, Martine (Nature Research, 2019)

  Telomere length is considered a biomarker of biological aging. Shorter telomeres and obesity have both been associated with age-related diseases. To evaluate the association between various indices of obesity with leukocyte ...
• The Suv420h histone methyltransferases regulate PPAR-γ and energy expenditure in response to environmental stimuli

  Pedrotti, Simona; Caccia, Roberta; Neguembor, Maria Victoria; García Manteiga, José Manuel; Ferri, Giulia; Palma, Clara de; Canu, Tamara; Giovarelli, Matteo; Marra, Paolo; Fiocchi, Amleto; Molineris, Ivan; Raso, Michele; Sanvito, Francesca; Doglioni, Claudio; Esposito, Antonio; Clementi, Emilio; Gabellini, Davide (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019)

  Obesity and its associated metabolic abnormalities have become a global emergency with considerable morbidity and mortality. Epidemiologic and animal model data suggest an epigenetic contribution to obesity. Nevertheless, ...
• Controlled ploidy reduction of pluripotent 4n cells generates 2n cells during mouse embryo development

  Frade, João; Nakagawa, Shoma; Cortes, Paola; Di Vicino, Umberto; Romo Saladrigas, Neus, 1982-; Lluis Viñas, Frederic; Cosma, Maria Pia, 1970- (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019)

  Cells with high ploidy content are common in mammalian extraembryonic and adult tissues. Cell-to-cell fusion generates polyploid cells during mammalian development and tissue regeneration. However, whether increased ploidy ...
• Differential metabolic activity and discovery of therapeutic targets using summarized metabolic pathway models

  Çubut, Cankut; Hidalgo, Marta R.; Amadoz, Alicia; Rian, Kinza; Salavert, Francisco; Pujana, Miguel Angel; Mateo, Francesca; Herranz Ors, Carmen, 1992-; Carbonell-Caballero, Jose; Dopazo, Joaquín (Nature Research, 2019)

  In spite of the increasing availability of genomic and transcriptomic data, there is still a gap between the detection of perturbations in gene expression and the understanding of their contribution to the molecular ...
• HARE: supporting efficient uplink multi-hop communications in self-organizing LPWANs

  Vázquez, Toni Adame; Barrachina Muñoz, Sergio; Bellalta, Boris; Bel, Albert (MDPI, 2018)

  The emergence of low-power wide area networks (LPWANs) as a new agent in the Internet of Things (IoT) will result in the incorporation into the digital world of low-automated processes from a wide variety of sectors. The ...
• Reconstruction of protein domain evolution using single-cell amplified genomes of uncultured choanoflagellates sheds light on the origin of animals

  López Escardó, David, 1988-; Grau Bové, Xavier; Guillaumet-Adkins, Amy; Gut, Marta; Sieracki, Michael E.; Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki (Royal Society, 2019)

  Understanding the origins of animal multicellularity is a fundamental biological question. Recent genome data have unravelled the role that co-option of pre-existing genes played in the origin of animals. However, there ...
• Super-resolution microscopy reveals how histone tail acetylation affects DNA compaction within nucleosomes in vivo

  Otterstrom, Jason; Castells García, Àlvaro, 1991-; Vicario, Chiara; Gómez García, Pablo; Cosma, Maria Pia, 1970-; Lakadamyali, Melike (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Chromatin organization is crucial for regulating gene expression. Previously, we showed that nucleosomes form groups, termed clutches. Clutch size correlated with the pluripotency grade of mouse embryonic stem cells and ...
• Nucleosome Dynamics: a new tool for the dynamic analysis of nucleosome positioning

  Buitrago, Diana; Codó, Laia; Illa, Ricard; Jorge, Pau de; Battistini, Federica; Flores, Oscar; Bayarri, Genis; Royo, Romina; Pino, Marc del; Heath, Simon; Hospital, Adam; Gelpí, Josep Lluís; Brun-Heath, Isabelle; Orozco, Modesto (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  We present Nucleosome Dynamics, a suite of programs integrated into a virtual research environment and created to define nucleosome architecture and dynamics from noisy experimental data. The package allows both the ...
• GNE genotype explains 20% of phenotypic variability in GNE myopathy

  Pogoryelova, Oksana; Wilson, Ian J.; Mansbach, Hank; Argov, Zohar; Nishino, Ichizo; Lochmüller, Hanns (Wolters Kluwer (LWW), 2019)

  Objective: To test the hypothesis that common GNE mutations influence disease severity; using statistical analysis of patient cohorts from different countries. Methods: Systematic literature review identified 11 articles ...
• The mutational landscape of a prion-like domain

  Bolognesi, Benedetta; Faure, Andre J.; Seuma, Mireia; Schmiedel, Jörn M.; Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano; Lehner, Ben, 1978- (Nature Research, 2019)

  Insoluble protein aggregates are the hallmarks of many neurodegenerative diseases. For example, aggregates of TDP-43 occur in nearly all cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, whether aggregates cause ...
• Spatially clustered loci with multiple enhancers are frequent targets of HIV-1 integration

  Lucic, Bojana; Chen, Heng-Chang; Kuzman, Maja; Zorita, Eduard; Wegner, Julia; Minneker, Vera; Wang, Wei; Fronza, Raffaele; Laufs, Stefanie; Schmidt, Manfred; Stadhouders, Ralph; Roukos, Vassilis; Vlahovicek, Kristian; Filion, Guillaume; Lusic, Marina (Nature Research, 2019)

  HIV-1 recurrently targets active genes and integrates in the proximity of the nuclear pore compartment in CD4+ T cells. However, the genomic features of these genes and the relevance of their transcriptional activity for ...
• In-cell identification and measurement of RNA-protein interactions

  Graindorge, Antoine; Pinheiro, Inês; Nawrocka, Anna; Mallory, Allison C.; Tsvetkov, Peter; Gil, Noa; Carolis, Carlo; Buchholz, Frank; Ulitsky, Igor; Heard, Edith; Taipale, Mikko; Shkumatava, Alena (Nature Research, 2019)

  Regulatory RNAs exert their cellular functions through RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). Identifying RNA-protein interactions is therefore key for a molecular understanding of regulatory RNAs. To date, RNA-bound proteins have ...
• A practical guide for mutational signature analysis in hematological malignancies

  Maura, Francesco; Degasperi, Andrea; Nadeu, Ferran; Leongamornlert, Daniel; Davies, Helen; Moore, Luiza; Royo, Romina; Ziccheddu, Bachisio; Puente, Xosé S.; Avet-Loiseau, Herve; Campbell, Peter J.; Nik Zainal, Serena; Campo, Elias; Munshi, Nikhil; Bolli, Niccolò (Nature Research, 2019)

  Analysis of mutational signatures is becoming routine in cancer genomics, with implications for pathogenesis, classification, prognosis, and even treatment decisions. However, the field lacks a consensus on analysis and ...
• Performance assessment technologies for the support of musical instrument learning

  Eremenko, Vsevolod; Morsi, Alia; Narang, Jyoti; Serra, Xavier (2020)

  Recent technological developments are having a significant impact on musical instruments and singing voice learning. A proof is the number of successful software applications that are being used by aspiring musicians in ...
• Advances and applications in the quest for orthologs

  Glover, Natasha; Dessimoz, Christophe; Ebersberger, Ingo; Forslund, Sofia K.; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973-; Huerta Cepas, Jaime; Martin, Maria-Jesus; Muffato, Matthieu; Patricio, Mateus; Pereira, Cecile; Sousa da Silva, Alan; Wang, Yan-Dong; Sonnhammer, Erik; Thomas, Paul D. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Gene families evolve by the processes of speciation (creating orthologs), gene duplication (paralogs), and horizontal gene transfer (xenologs), in addition to sequence divergence and gene loss. Orthologs in particular play ...
• Microbiome and colorectal cancer: Roles in carcinogenesis and clinical potential

  Saus Martínez, Ester; Iraola Guzman, Susana; Willis, Jesse R.; Brunet-Vega, Anna; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (Elsevier, 2019)

  The gastrointestinal tract harbors most of the microbiota associated with humans. In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in assessing the relationships between the gut microbiota and several gut alterations, ...
• Genome sequence of the yeast Saprochaete ingens CBS 517.90

  Hodorová, Viktória; Lichancová, Hana; Zubenko, Stanislav; Sienkiewicz, Karolina; Penir, Sarah Mae U.; Afanasyev, Philipp; Boceck, Dominic; Bonnin, Sarah; Hakobyan, Siras; Smyczynska, Urszula; Zhivkoplias, Erik; Zlatohurska, Maryna; Tralle, Eugeniusz; Frolova, Alina; Pryszcz, Leszek Piotr, 1985-; Brejová, Broňa; Vinař, Tomáš; Nosek, Jozef (American Society for Microbiology, 2019)

  Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the yeast Saprochaete ingens CBS 517.90 was determined by a combination of technologies producing short (HiSeq X; Illumina) and long (MinION; Oxford Nanopore Technologies) reads. The ...
• Genome sequence of flavor-producing yeast saprochaete suaveolens NRRL Y-17571

  Lichancová, Hana; Hodorová, Viktória; Sienkiewicz, Karolina; Penir, Sarah Mae U.; Afanasyev, Philipp; Boceck, Dominic; Bonnin, Sarah; Hakobyan, Siras; Krawczyk, Pawel S.; Smyczynska, Urszula; Zhivkoplias, Erik; Zlatohurska, Maryna; Odrzywolski, Adrian; Tralle, Eugeniusz; Frolova, Alina; Pryszcz, Leszek Piotr, 1985-; Brejová, Broňa; Vinař, Tomáš; Nosek, Jozef (American Society for Microbiology, 2019)

  Saprochaete suaveolens is an ascomycetous yeast that produces a range of fruity flavors and fragrances. Here, we report the high-contiguity genome sequence of the ex-holotype strain, NRRL Y-17571 (CBS 152.25). The nuclear ...

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