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Analysis of selected secondary structures of nucleic acids
Skružný, Petr ; Mokrejš, Martin (advisor) ; Drda Morávková, Alena (referee)
This work introduces a database of experimentally verified structures of nucleic acids which were collected from published scientific literature. The database is annotated and the structures are analysed from the perspective of quality and it was found that the experimentally obtained data are not always sufficient - their supporting evidence is often limited and their quality is not convincing. This work also discusses some of the problems, that can be encountered when the structures are experimentally probed. Contents of the database were compared to the RFAM database and despite of its small range it contains 80 new structures. The complete database of 166 structures can be possibly used to optimise software used to predict derived structures of nucleic acids. Furthermore, the work presents several possible ways of improvement of the quality of contained structures.
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Aptamers affecting eIF4F subunits
Kopperová, Dana ; Schierová, Michaela (referee) ; Feketová, Zuzana (advisor)
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4F comprises of three subunits - eIF4A, eIF4G and eIF4E. These subunits play a key role in translation initiation. On its surface eIF4G binds other translation factors. eIF4A is RNA dependent helicase that is crucial for translation initiation. Affinity of eIF4E towards cap is enhanced if it is in complex with eIF4G. Specific molecules with high affinity were prepared by Selex. These molecules that bind various surfaces and different molecules in the cell are called aptamers. Aptamer binding eIF4A inhibits ATP hydrolysis. Activity of eIF4G may be affected by more aptamers but all resulting in translation inhibition. Aptamer binding eIF4E also inhibits translation by hindering cap binding. All of these translation factors may be detected in non-standard values in tumors. Aptamers against these proteins might bring a solution in the tumor treatment.
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Analysis of short Argonaute isoforms from mouse oocytes
Jankele, Radek ; Svoboda, Petr (advisor) ; Petr, Jaroslav (referee)
AnalysisofshortArgonauteisoformsfrommouseoocytes Abstract: Argonaute proteins carrying small RNAs form the conserved core of RNA silencing mechanisms, which repress viruses, mobile genetic elements, and genes in a sequence specific manner. The microRNA (miRNA) pathway is a dominant mammalian RNA silencing mechanism in somatic cells, which post-transcriptionally regulates large fraction of genes and thereby adjusts protein levels. miRNA-guided Argonautes inhibit translation and induce deadenylation of complementary mRNAs, ultimately resulting in their decay. In contrast to RNA interference (RNAi), which employs Argonaute slicer activity to directly cleave perfectly complementary RNAs, an effective miRNA-mediated mRNA repression requires multiple Argonaute-associated protein factors and enzymes. The miRNA pathway has been implicated in many complex biological processes ranging from organogenesis, stress-response to haematopoiesis or cancer. Surprisingly, canonical miRNAs are not essential for oocytes and early embryonic development in mice. Even the most abundant miRNAs present in mouse oocytes are unable to effectively repress target genes. However, RNAi, which shares key enzymes with the miRNA pathway, is highly active in oocytes and early embryos. The cause of miRNA inactivity in mouse oocytes remains...
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Možnosti izolace nukleových kyselin v rostlinných a živočišných matricích
Truong, Thanh Huong
Isolation of nucleic acids is first step in most of molecule diagnosis. Literal abstract deals with various opportunities of nucleic acid isolation is the main part of this bachelor thesis. This work is about the most used methods from the oldest ones to the ones that are used nowadays. It covers methods such as salting in and salting out, chromatography, phenol -- chloroform extraction and isolation with magnetic particles. In the one of three chapters of literal abstract the basis of nucleic acids is described. Inhibitors for separation of nuclein acids are presented in another chapter of literal abstract. Minor part of the bachelor thesis deals with experimental process. The quality of the DNA acquired from various Cannabis sativa matrices are compared at two different weights of 20 mg and 100 mg. Evaluation of the results shows that use of 20mg oves us better quality.
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Analysis of intron sequence variability
Kukačková, Hana ; Provazník, Ivo (referee) ; Kubicová, Vladimíra (advisor)
This bachelor thesis reviews genetic expression, the main characteristics of introns, their importance, and the methodology of their recognition. Practical part focuses on intron variability analysis and conservative sequences searching. In the beginning, there is a structure of nucleic acids with their chemical and physical characteristics reviewed, follow by gene expression description with all steps – transcription, posttranscriptional splicing and translation. Afterwards, there is an analysis of introns importance, introns evolution theories and similarities among different organisms mentioned, follow by some introns recognition methods. Practical part is focused on the initial and terminal regions of introns and conservative dinucleotide sequences verifying. The thesis studies intron – exon and exon – intron boundaries. The last part tries to suggest new potentially conservative sequences – patterns, search for them and check their conservativeness.
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Gene Searching - Web Application
Stiborová, Lucie ; Koutný, Jiří (referee) ; Burgetová, Ivana (advisor)
The aim of my Bachelor's Thesis is to create a user interface and to implement the web application with the genes' searching. This is the educational application when each user has a possibility of entering own nucleotide sequences or selecting a redefined chain. This application has to be able to read, process and decide on the existence of a potential gene. On the base of this simple statistic method the result is given back to the user.
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Web Application for Bioinformatics Education - Genetic Code
Kilián, Martin ; Martínek, Tomáš (referee) ; Burgetová, Ivana (advisor)
This thesis briefly describes basic informations in moleculary biology. Thesis deals with a transfer of information from DNA into RNA through uprotein, are also briefly described the methods and algorithms dealing with the detection of genome. The larger part deals with the recognition cue coded signals and determination of sequences and their subsequent transcription and translation, which demonstration program was needed to create. The final result is s web application as the education system.
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Microarray Data Interpretation
Ludwig, Petr ; Šilhavá, Jana (referee) ; Smrž, Pavel (advisor)
This Bachelor thesis explains the basics of biochip or microarray data interpretation, starting with short introduction to genetics, especially genetic information significance evaluating. The focus was set mainly on the set of scripts transforming and analyzing the sample data. The data used in this thesis are a result of biochip analysis of the Colon Tumor tissues. The secondary result represents disclosing the main marker for this particular type of cancer, the primary result is evaluation of marker significance in the context of signaling pathways. The resulting pathways are sorted by relevance.
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Diagnostics of genom conditioned diseases with the use of micro- and nanoparticles
Mondeková, Věra ; Prášek, Jan (referee) ; Provazník, Ivo (advisor)
The bachelor´s thesis discusses possibilities of viral genome´s detection through use of biosensors, more specifically through use of magnetic particles. The introductory part consists of brief characteristic of viruses, mentioned as originator of genom conditioned diseases, followed by chapters related to selected methods of nucleic acid´s extraction and analysis. The main part is dedicated to magnetic particles. The practical part of thesis deals with possibility of use of biosensors in specific viral pathogen´s detection, selection of biocompatible molecules suitable for magnetic particle modification and description of specific DNA sequence isolation procedure through use of magnetic particles.
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Hardware Acceleration of Algorithms for Approximate String Matching
Nosek, Ondřej ; Kořenek, Jan (referee) ; Martínek, Tomáš (advisor)
Methods for aproximate string matching of various sequences used in bioinformatics are crucial part of development in this branch. Tasks are of very large time complexity and therefore we want create a hardware platform for acceleration of these computations. Goal of this work is to design a generalized architecture based on FPGA technology, which can work with various types of sequences. Designed acceleration card will use especially dynamic algorithms like Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman.
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