World Community Grid posts a news on Joint Evolutionary Trees 2 (JET2), a new large-scale method to predict protein-protein interfaces based on sequence and structure information.

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A novel computational approach of coevolution analysis allowed us to reconstruct the protein-protein interaction network of the Hepatitis C Virus at the residue resolution. For the first time, coevolution analysis of an entire viral genome was realized. Champeimont R, Laine E, Hu S-W, Penin F, Carbone A. Coevolution analysis of Hepatitis C virus genome to identify the structural and functional dependency network of viral proteins. Scientific Reports.

The team of Diatom Functional Genomics just published a paper describing how marine diatoms efficiently attune acclimation responses in highly variable ocean environments. L.Taddei*, G.R. Stella*, A. Rogato, B. Bailleul, A.E. Fortunato, R. Annunziata, R. Sanges, M. Thaler, B. Lepetit, J. Lavaud, M. Jaubert, G. Finazzi, J.P. Bouly, A. Falciatore. Multi-signal control of expression of the LHCX protein family in marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum.  Journal Experimental Botany, in press.

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We achieved the complete reconstruction of genome history in a model yeast genus, providing a granular view of genome evolution linking gene content, chromosome rearrangements and protein divergence into a single evolutionary framework.

N Vakirlis, Sarilar V, G Drillon, A Fleiss, N Agier, J-P Meyniel, L Blanpain, A Carbone, H Devillers, K Dubois, A Gillet-Markowska, S Graziani, Nguyen H-V, M Poirel, C Reisser, J Schott, J Schacherer, I Lafontaine, B Llorente, C Neuvéglise and Fischer G. Reconstruction of ancestral chromosome architecture and gene repertoire reveals principles of genome evolution in a model yeast genus. Genome Research (2016).

A.E. Fortunato, M. Jaubert, J.P. Bouly, M. Thaler and A. Falciatore from the Diatom Functional Genomics team in collaboration with J.S. Bernardes (Statistical Genomics and Biological Physics), A. Carbone (Analytical Genomics) and other international collaborators published on The Plant Cell the paper “Diatom Phytochromes Reveal the Existence of Far-Red-Light-Based Sensing in the Ocean.”  Full text paper.

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E.Laine and A.Carbone just published a new large-scale method to predict protein-protein interfaces based on sequence and structure information - Joint Evolutionary Trees 2 (JET2). It is the first time that a method highlights, with such a precision, information on distinguished binding sites, possibly overlapping each other.

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Interview of the German National Radio to A.Carbone, where she gives some highlights on protein-protein interactions.