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The apoptotic machinery as a biological complex system: analysis of its omics and evolution, identification of candidate genes for fourteen major types of cancer, and experimental validation in CML and neuroblastoma

Cinzia Di Pietro* 1 email, Marco Ragusa* 1 email, Davide Barbagallo1 email, Laura R Duro1 email, Maria R Guglielmino1 email, Alessandra Majorana1 email, Rosario Angelica1 email, Marina Scalia1 email, Luisa Statello1 email, Loredana Salito1 email, Luisa Tomasello1 email, Salvo Pernagallo1 email, Salvo Valenti1 email, Vito D'Agostino1 email, Patrizio Triberio1 email, Igor Tandurella1 email, Giuseppe A Palumbo2 email, Piera La Cava2 email, Viviana Cafiso3 email, Taschia Bertuccio3 email, Maria Santagati3 email, Giovanni Li Destri4 email, Salvatore Lanzafame5 email, Francesco Di Raimondo2 email, Stefania Stefani3 email, Bud Mishra6 email and Michele Purrello1 email

1Dipartimento di Scienze BioMediche, Sezione di Biologia Generale, Biologia Cellulare, Genetica Molecolare G Sichel, Unità di Biologia Genomica e dei Sistemi Complessi, Genetica, Bioinformatica, Università di Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy

2Dipartimento di Scienze BioMediche, Sezione di Ematologia, Università di Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy

3Dipartimento di Scienze Ginecologiche e Microbiologiche, Università di Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy

4Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy

5Dipartimento di Anatomia, Patologia Diagnostica, Medicina Legale, Igiene e Sanità Pubblica, Università di Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy

6Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY 10012, USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Medical Genomics 2009, 2:20doi:10.1186/1755-8794-2-20

Published: 30 April 2009

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Gene symbol, name and localization of AM protein-coding genes and AM MIR-coding genes

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GO classification of AM genes. Panel A. General Function of AM protein – encoding genes. Panel B. Biological Processes. Panel C. Molecular Functions. Panel D. Subcellular Localization. Panel E. General Function of AM genes targets of MIRs.

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Experimentally verified MIRs targeting AM genes.

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MIR host genes in AM.

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AM genomics. Panel A. Genome Map of AM Genes. Panel B. Comparison of the genome distribution of AM genes with respect to the other human genes.

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Genome clusters of AM genes in human, chimpanzee, mouse.

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Proteomic features of AM. Panel A. Molecular weight distribution of 548 AM proteins. Panel B. Percentage of post-translational modifications of AM proteins. Panel C. Percentage of metal ions within the tertiary structure of AM proteins.

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Distribution of protein motifs and domains in AM.

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AM genes positional candidates in cancers (data from array-CGH).

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AM transcriptome data.

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AM genes localized in loss- or gain-regions and down or up regulated, respectively.

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Features of AM hubs.

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