Saverimuttu, SCC;
Kramarz, B;
Rodríguez-López, M;
Garmiri, P;
Attrill, H;
Thurlow, KE;
Makris, M;
... Lovering, RC; + view all
(2021)
Gene Ontology curation of the blood-brain barrier to improve the analysis of Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases.
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, 2021
10.1093/database/baab067.
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Abstract
The role of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases is still the subject of many studies. However, those studies using high-throughput methods have been compromised by the lack of Gene Ontology (GO) annotations describing the role of proteins in the normal function of the BBB. The GO Consortium provides a gold-standard bioinformatics resource used for analysis and interpretation of large biomedical data sets. However, the GO is also used by other research communities and, therefore, must meet a variety of demands on the breadth and depth of information that is provided. To meet the needs of the Alzheimer's research community we have focused on the GO annotation of the BBB, with over 100 transport or junctional proteins prioritized for annotation. This project has led to a substantial increase in the number of human proteins associated with BBB-relevant GO terms as well as more comprehensive annotation of these proteins in many other processes. Furthermore, data describing the microRNAs that regulate the expression of these priority proteins have also been curated. Thus, this project has increased both the breadth and depth of annotation for these prioritized BBB proteins. Database URLhttps://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Gene Ontology curation of the blood-brain barrier to improve the analysis of Alzheimer's and other neurological diseases |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/database/baab067 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab067 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Pre-clinical and Fundamental Science |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10137514 |
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