Papers by Cornelia Hooper
PubMed, 1987
The development of a haemopoietic tissue and the time when colony-forming cells in it formed dete... more The development of a haemopoietic tissue and the time when colony-forming cells in it formed detectable colonies were studied with in vivo spleen colony-forming units (CFUs) and in vitro high-proliferation-potential colony-forming cells (HPP CFC). Cells that form colonies first are developmentally more mature than those doing so later. Marrow containing mature spleen colony-forming cells formed fewer cells in the femora of recipients than that which contained early colony-forming cells. The growth curve of developmentally early high-proliferation potential-colony-forming cells was steeper than that of later cells. The time period before colony-formation occurs is a property of the colony-forming cell and is not due to regulatory mechanisms in the animal or to regulatory cells in the haemopoietic stroma.
Advances in Plant Omics and Systems Biology Approaches, 2021
In eukaryotic organisms, subcellular protein location is critical in defining protein function an... more In eukaryotic organisms, subcellular protein location is critical in defining protein function and understanding sub-functionalization of gene families. Some proteins have defined locations, whereas others have low specificity targeting and complex accumulation patterns. There is no single approach that can be considered entirely adequate for defining the in vivo location of all proteins. By combining evidence from different approaches, the strengths and weaknesses of different technologies can be estimated, and a location consensus can be built. The Subcellular Location of Proteins in Arabidopsis database ( http://suba.live/ ) combines experimental data sets that have been reported in the literature and is analyzing these data to provide useful tools for biologists to interpret their own data. Foremost among these tools is a consensus classifier (SUBAcon) that computes a proposed location for all proteins based on balancing the experimental evidence and predictions. Further tools analyze sets of proteins to define the abundance of cellular structures. Extending these types of resources to plant crop species has been complex due to polyploidy, gene family expansion and contraction, and the movement of pathways and processes within cells across the plant kingdom. The Crop Proteins of Annotated Location database ( http://crop-pal.org/ ) has developed a range of subcellular location resources including a species-specific voting consensus for 12 plant crop species that offers collated evidence and filters for current crop proteomes akin to SUBA. Comprehensive cross-species comparison of these data shows that the sub-cellular proteomes (subcellulomes) depend only to some degree on phylogenetic relationship and are more conserved in major biosynthesis than in metabolic pathways. Together SUBA and cropPAL created reference subcellulomes for plants as well as species-specific subcellulomes for cross-species data mining. These data collections are increasingly used by the research community to provide a subcellular protein location layer, inform models of compartmented cell function and protein-protein interaction network, guide future molecular crop breeding strategies, or simply answer a specific question-where is my protein of interest inside the cell?
SUBA (http://suba.live/) is the central resource for Arabidopsis protein subcellular location dat... more SUBA (http://suba.live/) is the central resource for Arabidopsis protein subcellular location data. Proteins have specific functions and locations within the plant cell. They generate or are themselves products important for plant growth and response. Protein subcellular location and the proximity relationship of proteins are important clues to function within the metabolic household. Subcellular location can be determined by fluorescent protein tagging or mass spectrometry detection in subcellular purifications and by prediction using protein sequence features. SUBA provides a subcellular data query platform, protein sequence BLAST alignment, a high confidence subcellular locations reference standards and analytic tools.
The compendium of crop Proteins with Annotated Locations (cropPAL) is a comprehensive collection ... more The compendium of crop Proteins with Annotated Locations (cropPAL) is a comprehensive collection of subcellular location annotation for proteins of hordeum vulgare (barley), triticum aestivum (wheat), oryza sativa (rice) and zea mays (corn) derived from published experimental localization studies and precompiled bioinformatic predictions. A user-friendly search interface is provided on the http://crop-pal.org/ web server.
ePlant was introduced in 2017 for exploring large Arabidopsis thaliana data sets from the kilomet... more ePlant was introduced in 2017 for exploring large Arabidopsis thaliana data sets from the kilometre to nanometre scales. In the past four years we have used the ePlant framework to develop ePlants for 15 agronomically-important species: maize, poplar, tomato, Camelina sativa, soybean, potato, barley, Medicago truncatula, eucalyptus, rice, willow, sunflower, Cannabis sativa, wheat and sugarcane. We also updated the interface to improve performance and accessibility, and added two new views to the Arabidopsis ePlant – the Navigator and Pathways viewers. The former shows phylogenetic relationships between homologs in other species and their expression pattern similarities, with links to view data for those genes in the respective ePlants. The latter shows Plant Reactome metabolic reactions. We also describe new Arabidopsis data sets including single cell RNA-seq data from roots, and how to embed ePlant eFP expression pictographs into any web page.
In 2016-7, The University of Western Australia Library partnered with researchers in the Australi... more In 2016-7, The University of Western Australia Library partnered with researchers in the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology to produce cropPAL2, a database providing the subcellular locations for proteins in crops significant for food production. The project was funded by the Australian National Data Service as part of its High Value Collections program, with the team consisting of computational biologists, software engineers and a librarian. The project involved many hours of manual article evaluation and data extraction by specialists in the plant species included in cropPAL, and the team decided that developing in-house software could make managing the process of article evaluation by multiple people much easier. Key software features were that it prevented assessing the same article twice, simplified finding and adding new articles to the database, provided real-time access by international group members, and the cut and drop function faci...
Springer eBooks, 2021
In eukaryotic organisms, subcellular protein location is critical in defining protein function an... more In eukaryotic organisms, subcellular protein location is critical in defining protein function and understanding sub-functionalization of gene families. Some proteins have defined locations, whereas others have low specificity targeting and complex accumulation patterns. There is no single approach that can be considered entirely adequate for defining the in vivo location of all proteins. By combining evidence from different approaches, the strengths and weaknesses of different technologies can be estimated, and a location consensus can be built. The Subcellular Location of Proteins in Arabidopsis database ( http://suba.live/ ) combines experimental data sets that have been reported in the literature and is analyzing these data to provide useful tools for biologists to interpret their own data. Foremost among these tools is a consensus classifier (SUBAcon) that computes a proposed location for all proteins based on balancing the experimental evidence and predictions. Further tools analyze sets of proteins to define the abundance of cellular structures. Extending these types of resources to plant crop species has been complex due to polyploidy, gene family expansion and contraction, and the movement of pathways and processes within cells across the plant kingdom. The Crop Proteins of Annotated Location database ( http://crop-pal.org/ ) has developed a range of subcellular location resources including a species-specific voting consensus for 12 plant crop species that offers collated evidence and filters for current crop proteomes akin to SUBA. Comprehensive cross-species comparison of these data shows that the sub-cellular proteomes (subcellulomes) depend only to some degree on phylogenetic relationship and are more conserved in major biosynthesis than in metabolic pathways. Together SUBA and cropPAL created reference subcellulomes for plants as well as species-specific subcellulomes for cross-species data mining. These data collections are increasingly used by the research community to provide a subcellular protein location layer, inform models of compartmented cell function and protein-protein interaction network, guide future molecular crop breeding strategies, or simply answer a specific question-where is my protein of interest inside the cell?
Scientific Reports, Jan 18, 2021
The increased diversity and scale of published biological data has to led to a growing appreciati... more The increased diversity and scale of published biological data has to led to a growing appreciation for the applications of machine learning and statistical methodologies to gain new insights. Key to achieving this aim is solving the Relationship Extraction problem which specifies the semantic interaction between two or more biological entities in a published study. Here, we employed two deep neural network natural language processing (NLP) methods, namely: the continuous bag of words (CBOW), and the bi-directional long short-term memory (bi-LSTM). These methods were employed to predict relations between entities that describe protein subcellular localisation in plants. We applied our system to 1700 published Arabidopsis protein subcellular studies from the SUBA manually curated dataset. The system combines pre-processing of full-text articles in a machine-readable format with relevant sentence extraction for downstream NLP analysis. Using the SUBA corpus, the neural network classifier predicted interactions between protein name, subcellular localisation and experimental methodology with an average precision, recall rate, accuracy and F1 scores of 95.1%, 82.8%, 89.3% and 88.4% respectively (n = 30). Comparable scoring metrics were obtained using the CropPAL database as an independent testing dataset that stores protein subcellular localisation in crop species, demonstrating wide applicability of prediction model. We provide a framework for extracting protein functional features from unstructured text in the literature with high accuracy, improving data dissemination and unlocking the potential of big data text analytics for generating new hypotheses. Experimental techniques to characterize proteins at a biochemical, structural and physiological level have improved considerably in the last 25 years providing researchers with the tools necessary to understand protein function at a cellular and an organism level. Combined with detailed functional data, large-scale genome sequencing efforts have also greatly increased the scale of proteomic data available from model and non-model species. However, a major challenge facing researchers today is simply keeping pace with the sheer volume of lowthroughput and high-throughput data being generated. Although scientific publications are used to disseminate research findings to the wider community, manually identifying, curating and collating individual experiments is a time and labour intense process. In addition, the large number of papers published, and the unstructured and versatile format of the content make the data difficult to integrate and analyse. The development of biological databases to curate protein experimental data from published literature have, as a result, become indispensable research tools for researchers. However, manual curation makes it difficult for databases to keep up with the ever-increasing amounts of data being generated. To address these issues, automated and augmented curation systems for extracting protein functional data from scientific literature are becoming increasingly desired. In particular, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques are beginning to be employed for biocuration efforts 1,2 for extracting and organising unstructured biological information into a structured form that is accessible to biologists. Central to these
The dataset is a comprehensive knowledgebase of transport proteins in rice (<i>Oryza sativa... more The dataset is a comprehensive knowledgebase of transport proteins in rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i>), wheat (<em>Tritium aestivum</em>), barley (<em>Hordeum vulgare</em>) and maize (<em>Zea mays</em>) derived from published experimental information and protein metadata. The data is available through a user-friendly search portal: https://croptips.org/
The compendium of crop Proteins with Annotate Locations (cropPAL) is a comprehensive collection o... more The compendium of crop Proteins with Annotate Locations (cropPAL) is a comprehensive collection of subcellular location annotation for proteins of hordeum vulgare (barley), tritium aestivum (wheat), oryza sativa (rice) and zea mays (corn) derived from published experimental localization studies and precompiled bioinformatic predictions. A user-friendly search interface is provided on the cropPAL web server.
Nucleic Acids Research, 2012
Paediatric brain tumours have overtaken leukaemias as the leading cause of cancer- related death ... more Paediatric brain tumours have overtaken leukaemias as the leading cause of cancer- related death in children despite being only half as common. Medulloblastoma (MB), the most common type of malignant paediatric brain tumour, is a heterogeneous group with at least five histological and four molecular subtypes. Despite major progress in the understanding of the genetic and molecular pathogenesis of MB, relapse rate and side effects remain major concerns. The existence of multiple MB subtypes suggests that the current clinical categorisation of two risk stratification groups is inadequate and highlights the need for more tailored therapeutic strategies. The best understood subtype comprises sonic hedgehog (SHH)-dependent MB. Several components of the SHH pathway are viable drug targets that may translate to effective subtype-specific treatment options in the near future. Similarly, subtype-specific targets for clinical intervention are being investigated in other molecular variants of...
Journal of Leukocyte Biology, 2008
Eosinophils contribute to asthmatic airway inflammation by releasing cysteinyl leukotrienes (cysL... more Eosinophils contribute to asthmatic airway inflammation by releasing cysteinyl leukotrienes (cysLT) and other inflammatory mediators, and bradykinin (BK) induces bronchoconstriction in asthmatic patients. The aims of this study were to investigate kinin receptor expression on eosinophils of asthmatic and healthy subjects and to assess the effects of kinin stimulation on eosinophils, which were isolated from peripheral blood of asthmatic (n=27) and healthy subjects (n=14). Kinin B1 and B2 receptors (B1R and B2R, respectively) and mRNA expression were investigated by quantitative confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, and RT-PCR. Intracellular Ca2+ was assessed by live-cell fluorescence confocal microscopy. Production of cysLT and eosinophil migration in response to BK and Lys-des[Arg9]-BK were assessed. Eosinophils expressed kinin B1R and B2R mRNA and proteins. Quantitative immunofluorescence analysis indicated that expression of B1R and B2R proteins was significantly greater in eosino...
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American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, 2011
This study tested the hypothesis that proinflammatory kinin peptides are involved in modulating h... more This study tested the hypothesis that proinflammatory kinin peptides are involved in modulating human dendritic cell (DC) function. Inflammation is accompanied by an increased maturation of DCs and the generation of kinins, particularly Lys-des[Arg 9 ]-bradykinin (Lda-BK). We assessed the role of Lda-BK in the activation and migration of human monocyte-derived DCs (hMo-DCs) matured through the use of LPS, TNF-a 1 IL-1b, or CD40 ligand. Kinin B 1 and B 2 receptor mRNA and protein expression were assessed by confocal microscopy, flow cytometry, and RT-PCR. The effects of Lda-BK on the migration of mature hMo-DCs were assessed in Transwell chambers, whereas the expression of costimulatory molecules and the secretion of IL-12 were assessed by flow cytometry and ELISA, respectively. The expression of the kinin B 1 receptor (B 1 R) was down-regulated during the maturation of hMo-DCs, whereas the expression of B 2 R was unchanged. The B 1 R agonist Lda-BK was not chemotactic for hMo-DCs matured using LPS, TNF-a 1 IL-1b, or CD40 ligand, but Lda-BK enhanced the secretion of IL-12p70 and inhibited the secretion of IL-12p40 by mature hMo-DCs. However, the exposure of hMo-DCs matured with TNF-a 1 IL-1b to Lda-BK for 6 hours decreased subsequent migration in response to Lda-BK, the chemokine CCL19, or Lda-BK combined with CCL19. The expression of B 1 R was increased in hMo-DCs from subjects with asthma compared with subjects without asthma, in keeping with a tendency toward increased in vitro migration of asthmatic hMo-DCs in response to Lda-BK. The increased formation of Lda-BK and the enhanced expression of B 1 R as a consequence of inflammation may alter the migration of mature, antigen-laden DCs to regional lymph nodes in response to CCL19, may modulate the secretion of cytokines by these DCs, and may contribute to the accumulation of mature DCs in the lungs of patients with asthma.
PloS one, 2014
Medulloblastoma is the most common form of malignant paediatric brain tumour and is the leading c... more Medulloblastoma is the most common form of malignant paediatric brain tumour and is the leading cause of childhood cancer related mortality. The four molecular subgroups of medulloblastoma that have been identified - WNT, SHH, Group 3 and Group 4 - have molecular and topographical characteristics suggestive of different cells of origin. Definitive identification of the cell(s) of origin of the medulloblastoma subgroups, particularly the poorer prognosis Group 3 and Group 4 medulloblastoma, is critical to understand the pathogenesis of the disease, and ultimately for the development of more effective treatment options. To address this issue, the gene expression profiles of normal human neural tissues and cell types representing a broad neuro-developmental continuum, were compared to those of two independent cohorts of primary human medulloblastoma specimens. Clustering, co-expression network, and gene expression analyses revealed that WNT and SHH medulloblastoma may be derived from d...
Stem Cells and Development, 2010
Human embryonic stem cell-derived neural stem cells (hESC-NSCs) are an attractive cell type for s... more Human embryonic stem cell-derived neural stem cells (hESC-NSCs) are an attractive cell type for studying aspects of brain development and pathology. To develop the full potential of this model system, it is important to establish a reliable methodology for the manipulation of gene expression in hNSCs. To address this issue, we used an adenoviral vector with a CMV promoter-driven green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter gene (Ad5-GFP). We optimized conditions for Ad5-GFP infection and assessed the efficiency of infection of whole and dissociated embryonic stem cell (ESC)-derived neurospheres as well as the effect of adenoviral vectors on cell surface marker expression, proliferation, and differentiation potential. Our results demonstrate that most neurosphere cells ( approximately 70%) express the coxsackie and adenovirus receptor and can be infected with Ad5. More specifically, the CD133+ hESC-NSC population could be infected more efficiently than the CD133 population and both populations expressed GFP at high levels. At low multiplicity of infection (MOI &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt; 25), the virus had no significant effect on stem cell marker expression (CD133 and Nestin), cell survival, cell proliferation rate, or differentiation potential. This model system provides a practical new approach to study human NSC function in the context of neurodegenerative and neoplastic disorders.
International Immunopharmacology, 2007
Kinins have been implicated in the pathophysiology of asthma and activation of kinin receptors st... more Kinins have been implicated in the pathophysiology of asthma and activation of kinin receptors stimulates neutrophil chemotaxis. However, the expression of kinin receptors on neutrophils of asthmatic subjects has not been assessed. The aim of this study was to compare the expression of kinin B(1) and B(2) receptor mRNA and proteins in neutrophils of asthmatic and non-asthmatic subjects, and to assess whether inhaled corticosteroid treatment may influence expression of the kinin receptors. Neutrophils were isolated from peripheral blood of asthmatic (n=27) and non-asthmatic subjects (n=14). The presence of kinin B(1) and B(2) receptor protein on neutrophils was confirmed by immunolabeling with specific antibodies followed by immunoperoxidase, immunofluorescence and FACS detection. Kinin B(1) and B(2) receptor mRNA expression was assessed by RT-PCR. Quantitative image analysis of fluorescence immunolabeled neutrophils showed no differences in kinin B(1) or B(2) receptor protein expression between asthmatic and non-asthmatic subjects. Similarly, quantitative real time RT-PCR analysis demonstrated no differences in expression of mRNA for the kinin B(1) or B(2) receptors between asthmatic and non-asthmatic subjects. However, B(1) receptor mRNA expression was significantly lower in asthmatic subjects using &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; or =2000 microg of inhaled corticosteroid per day (p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;0.05) and B(1) receptor protein levels also tended to be lower in these subjects. Corticosteroids may have a beneficial anti-inflammatory effect in asthma by down-regulating B(1) receptor expression on neutrophils, thereby decreasing the migration of these inflammatory cells into the airways.
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