title: WERAM: a database of writers, erasers and readers of histone acetylation and methylation in eukaryotes.
abstract: In this work, we developed a database WERAM (http://weram.biocuckoo.org/) for histone acetyltransferases, histone deacetylases, histone methyltransferases, histone demethylases and acetyl- or methyl-binding proteins, which catalyze, remove and recognize histone acetylation and methylation sites as 'writers', 'erasers' and 'readers', and synergistically determine the 'histone code'. From the scientific literature, we totally collected over 580 experimentally identified histone regulators from eight model organisms, including Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Arabidopsis thaliana, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Saccharomyces cerevisiae We also collected ∼900 site-specific regulator-histone relations from the eight species. According to the experimental evidence, known histone regulators were classified into distinct families. To computationally detect more proteins in eukaryotes, we constructed hidden Markov model (HMM) profiles for histone regulator families. For families without HMM profiles, we also conducted orthologous searches. Totally, WERAM database contained more than 20 thousand non-redundant histone regulators from 148 eukaryotes. The detailed annotations and classification information of histone regulators were provided, together with site-specific histone substrates if available.
authors: Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
authors: Yang
authors: 0000-0002-9403-6869
authors: Y
authors: Xu
authors: Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
authors: Shuang
authors: S
authors: Zhang
authors: Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
authors: Shaofeng
authors: S
authors: Lin
authors: Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
authors: Yaping
authors: Y
authors: Guo
authors: Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
authors: Wankun
authors: W
authors: Deng
authors: Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
authors: Ying
authors: Y
authors: Zhang
authors: Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China xueyu@hust.edu.cn.
authors: Yu
authors: 0000-0002-9403-6869
authors: Y
authors: Xue
mesh_terms: D000107:Acetylation; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000378:metabolism*; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism*; D008745:Methylation; D064878:Web Browser
chemical_list: D006657:Histones