Afzal P Syed

ORCID: 0000-0001-6848-6762
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Research Areas
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • interferon and immune responses
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Wireless Communication Networks Research
  • NF-κB Signaling Pathways
  • Coding theory and cryptography
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques

Heidelberg University
2023

German Cancer Research Center
2023

German Center for Diabetes Research
2020-2022

Deutsches Diabetes-Zentrum e.V.
2020-2022

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2020-2022

University of Basel
2013-2020

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2013-2018

Most of what is presently known about how miRNAs regulate gene expression comes from studies that characterized the regulatory effect miRNA binding sites located in 3′ untranslated regions (UTR) mRNAs. In recent years, there has been increasing evidence also bind coding region (CDS), but implication these interactions remains obscure because they have a smaller impact on mRNA stability compared with miRNA-target involve UTRs. Here we show miRNA-complementary are both CDS and 3′-UTRs under...

10.1101/gr.139758.112 article EN cc-by-nc Genome Research 2013-01-18

Abstract Background In recent years, a variety of small RNAs derived from other with well-known functions such as tRNAs and snoRNAs, have been identified. The functional relevance these is largely unknown. To gain insight into the complexity snoRNA processing snoRNA-derived RNAs, we sequence long short that co-precipitate Argonaute 2 protein RNA fragments obtained in photoreactive nucleotide-enhanced crosslinking immunoprecipitation (PAR-CLIP) core snoRNA-associated proteins. Results...

10.1186/gb-2013-14-5-r45 article EN cc-by Genome biology 2013-05-26

MiRNAs are post-transcriptional regulators that contribute to the establishment and maintenance of gene expression patterns. Although their biogenesis decay appear be under complex control, implications miRNA dynamics for processes they regulate not well understood. We derived a mathematical model miRNA-mediated regulation, inferred its parameters from experimental data sets, found describes time-dependent changes in mRNA, protein ribosome density levels measured upon transfection induction....

10.1038/msb.2013.68 article EN cc-by-nc-sa Molecular Systems Biology 2013-01-01

Article19 August 2020Open Access Prevention of dsRNA-induced interferon signaling by AGO1x is linked to breast cancer cell proliferation Souvik Ghosh orcid.org/0000-0003-4152-4460 Computational and Systems Biology, Biozentrum, University Basel, Switzerland Search for more papers this author Joao C Guimaraes Corresponding Author [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-1664-472X Manuela Lanzafame Institute Pathology, Hospital Alexander Schmidt Proteomics Core Facility, Afzal Pasha Syed Beatrice...

10.15252/embj.2019103922 article EN cc-by The EMBO Journal 2020-08-19

Article27 August 2018Open Access Transparent process Single-cell mRNA profiling reveals the hierarchical response of miRNA targets to induction Andrzej J Rzepiela Biozentrum, University Basel and Swiss Institute Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland Search for more papers by this author Souvik Ghosh orcid.org/0000-0003-4152-4460 Jeremie Breda Arnau Vina-Vilaseca orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-5268 Afzal P Syed Andreas Gruber Katja Eschbach Department Biosystems Science Engineering, ETH Zürich,...

10.15252/msb.20188266 article EN cc-by Molecular Systems Biology 2018-08-01

Glucocorticoids such as dexamethasone (Dex) are widely used to treat both acute and chronic inflammatory conditions. They regulate immune responses by dampening cell-mediated immunity in a glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-dependent manner, suppressing the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines chemokines stimulating anti-inflammatory mediators. Despite its evident clinical benefit, mechanistic underpinnings gene regulatory networks transcriptionally controlled GR context-specific manner remain...

10.1016/j.csbj.2022.09.042 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 2022-01-01

The analysis of chromatin features in single cells centers around Tn5 transposase and exploits its activity to simultaneously fragment target DNA integrate adapter sequences choice. This reaction provides a direct readout the assay for transposase-accessible (scATAC-seq) map open loci. However, current limitation is sparse coverage these sites given cell by droplet-based methods. Thus, enhancing improve genomic scATAC-seq or facilitating multi-omics readouts via together with transcriptome...

10.3389/freae.2023.1245879 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Epigenetics and Epigenomics 2023-11-23

Along with the reorganization of epigenetic and transcriptional networks, somatic cell reprogramming brings about numerous changes at level RNA processing. These include expression specific transcript isoforms 3' untranslated regions. A number studies have uncovered processing factors that modulate efficiency process. However, a comprehensive evaluation involvement in mammalian cells is lacking. Here, we used data from large carried out three species, mouse, chimpanzee human, to uncover...

10.1186/s12864-019-5438-2 article EN cc-by BMC Genomics 2019-01-31

MiRNAs are post-transcriptional repressors of gene expression that may additionally reduce the cell-to-cell variability in protein expression, induce correlations between target levels and provide a layer through which targets can influence each other's as 'competing RNAs' (ceRNAs). Here we combined single cell sequencing human embryonic kidney cells two distinct miRNAs was induced over wide range, with mathematical modeling, to estimate Michaelis-Menten (KM)-type constants for hundreds...

10.1101/035097 preprint EN bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2015-12-23

Abstract The analysis of chromatin features in single cells centers around Tn5 transposase and exploits its activity to simultaneously fragment target DNA integrate adapter sequences choice. This reaction provides a direct readout the assay for transposase-accessible (scATAC-seq) map open regions. However, current limitation is sparse coverage loci that are detected given cell by droplet-based methods. Thus, enhancing improve genomic scATAC-seq or facilitating multi-omics readouts via...

10.1101/2023.07.13.548833 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023-07-13
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