A single-stranded DNA-binding protein shared by telomeric repeats, the variant surface glycoprotein transcription promoter and the procyclin transcription terminator of Trypanosoma brucei.

abstract：:Tandem repeats in DNA have been under intensive study for many years, first, as a consequence of their usefulness as genomic markers and DNA fingerprints and more recently as their role in human disease and regulatory processes has become apparent. The Tandem Repeats Database (TRDB) is a public repository of informati...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gelfand Y,Rodriguez A,Benson G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimization of primer sequences for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and quantitative PCR (qPCR) and reaction conditions remains an experimental challenge. We have developed a resource, PrimerBank, which contains primers that can be used for PCR and qPCR under stringent and allele-invariant amplification conditions. A...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wang X,Spandidos A,Wang H,Seed B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controllable gene delivery via vector-based systems remains a formidable challenge in mammalian synthetic biology and a desirable asset in gene therapy applications. Here, we introduce a methodology to control the copies and residence time of a gene product delivered in host human cells but also selectively disrupt fr...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Moore R,Spinhirne A,Lai MJ,Preisser S,Li Y,Kang T,Bleris L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified UvrA, UvrB, UvrC, UvrD, PolA and Lig proteins from Escherichia coli have been used to assess the effect of nucleotide excision repair on the conformation of native negatively supercoiled plasmid DNA in an in vitro test system. The analysis of labeled reaction products on specific gel systems suggests that the...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Backendorf C,Olsthoorn R,van de Putte P

更新日期：1989-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Current DNA assembly methods for preparing highly purified linear subassemblies require complex and time-consuming in vitro manipulations that hinder their ability to construct megabase-sized DNAs (e.g. synthetic genomes). We have developed a new method designated 'CasHRA (Cas9-facilitated Homologous Recombination Ass...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhou J,Wu R,Xue X,Qin Z

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of evidence indicate that differences in DNA repair capacity are an important source of variability in cancer risk. However, traditional assays for measurement of DNA repair activity in human samples are laborious and time-consuming. DNA glycosylases are the first step in base excision repair of a variet...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Collini M,Caccia M,Chirico G,Barone F,Dogliotti E,Mazzei F

更新日期：2005-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the mechanism regulating the cellular levels of PNKP, the major kinase/phosphatase involved in the repair of oxidative DNA damage, and find that it is controlled by ATM phosphorylation and ubiquitylation-dependent proteasomal degradation. We discovered that ATM-dependent phosphorylation of PNKP at serines ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Parsons JL,Khoronenkova SV,Dianova II,Ternette N,Kessler BM,Datta PK,Dianov GL

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Originally identified as an RNA polymerase II interactor, Che-1/AATF (Che-1) has now been recognized as a multifunctional protein involved in cell-cycle regulation and cancer progression, as well as apoptosis inhibition and response to stress. This protein displays a peculiar nucleolar localization and it has recently...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sorino C,Catena V,Bruno T,De Nicola F,Scalera S,Bossi G,Fabretti F,Mano M,De Smaele E,Fanciulli M,Iezzi S

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression can occur either before or after transcription. The information for post-transcriptional regulation can lie within the sequence or structure of the RNA transcript and it has been proposed that G-quadruplex nucleic acid sequence motifs may regulate translation as well ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Huppert JL,Bugaut A,Kumari S,Balasubramanian S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been recently reported that the pR plasmid enhances the UV survival in E.coli c600. In order to test whether this function may be expressed also in mammalian cells, LTA (tk- aprt-) mouse cells were cotransformed with pR plasmid DNA and ptk1 plasmid as selectable marker. Tk+ transformants were analyzed for their...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Elli R,Marcucci L,Bosi R,Oppi C,Battaglia PA,Gigliani F

更新日期：1983-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly charged DNA chain may be either in an extended conformation, the coil, or condensed into a highly dense and ordered structure, the toroid. The transition, also called collapse of the chain, can be triggered in different ways, for example by changing the ionic conditions of the solution. We observe individua...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sung B,Leforestier A,Livolant F

更新日期：2016-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Exon trapping is a method to functionally clone expressed sequences from genomic DNA. We have previously developed the vector system pETV-SD2, which contains only a splice donor site (SD) followed by a LacZ gene, allowing trapping of internal exons of human genes by blue-white selection. We now describe the adaptation...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Datson NA,Duyk GM,Van Ommen JB,Den Dunnen JT

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:2'-Deoxyoligonucleotides with 5-fluorocytosine residues incorporated at specific positions of the nucleotide sequence are tools of great potential in the study of the catalytic mechanism by which DNA cytosine methyltransferases methylate the 5-position of DNA cytosine residues in specific sequence contexts. Chemical s...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Schmidt S,Pein CD,Fritz HJ,Cech D

更新日期：1992-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome engineering of human cells plays an important role in biotechnology and molecular medicine. In particular, insertions of functional multi-transgene cassettes into suitable endogenous sequences will lead to novel applications. Although several tools have been exploited in this context, safety issues such as cyto...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Vijaya Chandra SH,Makhija H,Peter S,Myint Wai CM,Li J,Zhu J,Ren Z,D'Alcontres MS,Siau JW,Chee S,Ghadessy FJ,Dröge P

更新日期：2016-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) and their associated Cas proteins comprise a prokaryotic RNA-guided adaptive immune system that interferes with mobile genetic elements, such as plasmids and phages. The type I-E CRISPR interference complex Cascade from Escherichia coli is composed of...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Beloglazova N,Kuznedelov K,Flick R,Datsenko KA,Brown G,Popovic A,Lemak S,Semenova E,Severinov K,Yakunin AF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the mechanistic nature of the Snf2 family protein HARP, mutations of which are responsible for Schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia. Using a single-molecule magnetic tweezers assay, we construct RPA-stabilized DNA bubbles within torsionally constrained DNA to investigate the annealing action of HARP on a ph...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Burnham DR,Nijholt B,De Vlaminck I,Quan J,Yusufzai T,Dekker C

更新日期：2017-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:ETS-domain transcription factors play important roles in controlling gene expression in a variety of different contexts; however, these proteins bind to very similar sites and it is unclear how in vivo specificity is achieved. In silico analysis is unlikely to reveal specific targets for individual family members and ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Boros J,O'Donnell A,Donaldson IJ,Kasza A,Zeef L,Sharrocks AD

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Fortran computer algorithm has been used to analyze the nucleotide sequence of several structural genes. The analysis performed on both coding and complementary DNA strands shows that whereas open reading frames shorter than 100 codons are randomly distributed on both DNA strands, open reading frames longer than 100...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Casino A,Cipollaro M,Guerrini AM,Mastrocinque G,Spena A,Scarlato V

更新日期：1981-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein modification is an extremely important post-translational regulation that adjusts the physical and chemical properties, conformation, stability and activity of a protein; thus altering protein function. Due to the high throughput of mass spectrometry (MS)-based methods in identifying site-specific post-transla...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lu CT,Huang KY,Su MG,Lee TY,Bretaña NA,Chang WC,Chen YJ,Chen YJ,Huang HD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HIV-1 viral infectivity factor (Vif) allows productive infection of non-permissive cells (including most natural HIV-1 targets) by counteracting the cellular cytosine deaminases APOBEC-3G (hA3G) and hA3F. The Vif-induced degradation of these restriction factors by the proteasome has been extensively studied, but l...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mercenne G,Bernacchi S,Richer D,Bec G,Henriet S,Paillart JC,Marquet R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major health problem worldwide. The role played by microRNAs (miRNAs) in HBV replication and pathogenesis is being increasingly recognized. In this study, we found that miR-15b, an important miRNA during HBV infection and hepatocellular carcinoma development, directly binds ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dai X,Zhang W,Zhang H,Sun S,Yu H,Guo Y,Kou Z,Zhao G,Du L,Jiang S,Zhang J,Li J,Zhou Y

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TP63, a member of the p53 gene family gene, encodes the ΔNp63 protein and is one of the most frequently amplified genes in squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) of the head and neck (HNSCC) and lungs (LUSC). Using an epiallelic series of siRNAs with intrinsically different knockdown abilities, we show that the complete loss ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bretz AC,Gittler MP,Charles JP,Gremke N,Eckhardt I,Mernberger M,Mandic R,Thomale J,Nist A,Wanzel M,Stiewe T

更新日期：2016-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Meiotic cells possess surveillance mechanisms that monitor critical events such as recombination and chromosome synapsis. Meiotic defects resulting from the absence of the synaptonemal complex component Zip1 activate a meiosis-specific checkpoint network resulting in delayed or arrested meiotic progression. Pch2 is an...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Herruzo E,Ontoso D,González-Arranz S,Cavero S,Lechuga A,San-Segundo PA

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-DNA recognition is a critical component of gene regulatory processes but the underlying molecular mechanisms are not yet completely understood. Whereas the DNA binding preferences of transcription factors (TFs) are commonly described using nucleotide sequences, the 3D DNA structure is recognized by proteins an...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dror I,Zhou T,Mandel-Gutfreund Y,Rohs R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zar1 was one of the earliest mammalian maternal-effect genes to be identified. Embryos derived from Zar1-null female mice are blocked before zygotic genome activation; however, the underlying mechanism remains unclear. By knocking out Zar1 and its homolog Zar2 in mice, we revealed a novel function of these genes in oo...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rong Y,Ji SY,Zhu YZ,Wu YW,Shen L,Fan HY

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone modifications are fundamental to chromatin structure and transcriptional regulation, and are recognized by a limited number of protein folds. Among these folds are PHD fingers, which are present in most chromatin modification complexes. To date, about 15 PHD finger domains have been structurally characterized,...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Slama P,Geman D

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Key components of the translational apparatus, i.e. ribosomes, elongation factor EF-Tu and most aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, are stereoselective and prevent incorporation of d-amino acids (d-aa) into polypeptides. The rare appearance of d-aa in natural polypeptides arises from post-translational modifications or non-ri...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Achenbach J,Jahnz M,Bethge L,Paal K,Jung M,Schuster M,Albrecht R,Jarosch F,Nierhaus KH,Klussmann S

更新日期：2015-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sug1 and Sug2 are two of six ATPases in the 19S regulatory particle of the 26S proteasome. We have shown previously that these proteins play a non-proteolytic role in the transcription of the GAL genes in yeast. In this study, we probe the requirement for these factors in stress-induced transcription in yeast. It is k...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sulahian R,Sikder D,Johnston SA,Kodadek T

更新日期：2006-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Camptothecin (CPT), a plant alkaloid with antitumor activity, is a specific inhibitor of eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase I. We have previously isolated and characterized a CPT-resistant topoisomerase I isolated from a CPT-resistant human leukemia cell line, CPT-K5. cDNA clones of topoisomerase I were isolated from the CP...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Tamura H,Kohchi C,Yamada R,Ikeda T,Koiwai O,Patterson E,Keene JD,Okada K,Kjeldsen E,Nishikawa K

更新日期：1991-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin modulation at various cis-acting elements is critical for V(D)J recombination during T and B cell development. MARbeta, a matrix-associated region (MAR) located upstream of the T cell receptor beta (TCRbeta) enhancer (Ebeta), serves a crucial role in silencing Ebeta-mediated TCR activation. By DNaseI hyperse...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kaul-Ghanekar R,Jalota A,Pavithra L,Tucker P,Chattopadhyay S

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00