DmTTF, a novel mitochondrial transcription termination factor that recognises two sequences of Drosophila melanogaster mitochondrial DNA.

abstract：:As large-scale re-sequencing of genomes reveals many protein mutations, especially in human cancer tissues, prediction of their likely functional impact becomes important practical goal. Here, we introduce a new functional impact score (FIS) for amino acid residue changes using evolutionary conservation patterns. The ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Reva B,Antipin Y,Sander C

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA structural complexity and flexibility present a challenge for computational modeling efforts. Experimental information and bioinformatics data can be used as restraints to improve the accuracy of RNA tertiary structure prediction. Regarding utilization of restraints, the fundamental questions are: (i) What is the ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wang J,Williams B,Chirasani VR,Krokhotin A,Das R,Dokholyan NV

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Lnc2Meth (http://www.bio-bigdata.com/Lnc2Meth/), an interactive resource to identify regulatory relationships between human long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and DNA methylation, is not only a manually curated collection and annotation of experimentally supported lncRNAs-DNA methylation associations but also a platform t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhi H,Li X,Wang P,Gao Y,Gao B,Zhou D,Zhang Y,Guo M,Yue M,Shen W,Ning S,Jin L,Li X

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces bldA gene, which encodes a tRNA corresponding to a very minor leucine codon, UUA, regulates pleiotropic gene expression which is involved in sporulation and secondary metabolism. The unique structural feature of this tRNA is the lack of GG sequence in dihydrouridine loop (D-loop) that generally is conserv...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ueda Y,Kumagai I,Miura K

更新日期：1992-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA unwinding element (DUE) is a sequence rich in adenine and thymine residues present within the origin region of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic replicons. Recently, it has been shown that this is the site where bacterial DnaA proteins, the chromosomal replication initiators, form a specific nucleoprotein filame...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wegrzyn K,Fuentes-Perez ME,Bury K,Rajewska M,Moreno-Herrero F,Konieczny I

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ymf39 is a conserved hypothetical protein-coding gene found in mitochondrial genomes of land plants and certain protists. We speculated earlier, based on a weak sequence similarity between Ymf39 from a green alga and the atpF gene product from Bradyrhizobium, that ymf39 might code for subunit b of mitochondrial F(0)F(...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Burger G,Lang BF,Braun HP,Marx S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue specificity of mitochondrial tRNA mutations remains largely elusive. In this study, we demonstrated the deleterious effects of tRNAThr 15927G>A mutation that contributed to pathogenesis of coronary artery disease. The m.15927G>A mutation abolished the highly conserved base-pairing (28C-42G) of anticodon ste...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jia Z,Zhang Y,Li Q,Ye Z,Liu Y,Fu C,Cang X,Wang M,Guan MX

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:High-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons (16S-seq) has become a widely deployed method for profiling complex microbial communities but technical pitfalls related to data reliability and quantification remain to be fully addressed. In this work, we have developed and implemented a set of synthetic 16S rRNA...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Tourlousse DM,Yoshiike S,Ohashi A,Matsukura S,Noda N,Sekiguchi Y

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid-liquid phase separation plays an important role in a variety of cellular processes, including the formation of membrane-less organelles, the cytoskeleton, signalling complexes, and many other biological supramolecular assemblies. Studies on the molecular basis of phase separation in cells have focused on protei...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhang Y,Yang M,Duncan S,Yang X,Abdelhamid MAS,Huang L,Zhang H,Benfey PN,Waller ZAE,Ding Y

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eukaryotic Promoter Database (EPD) is an annotated non-redundant collection of eukaryotic POL II promoters, experimentally defined by a transcription start site (TSS). Access to promoter sequences is provided by pointers to positions in the corresponding genomes. Promoter evidence comes from conventional TSS mappi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Schmid CD,Perier R,Praz V,Bucher P

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3'-O-(5'-phosphoryldeoxycytidyl) phosphorothioate and fluorescent 3'-O-(5'-phosphoryldeoxycytidyl) S-bimane phosphorothioate can be ligated to tRNA by T4 RNA ligase. They are also efficient donors for the enzymatic ligation to oligodeoxynucleotides bearing a 3'-cytidine terminus. Cytidine 3',5'-bisphosphate is also a ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cosstick R,McLaughlin LW,Eckstein F

更新日期：1984-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The RDM1 gene encodes a RNA recognition motif (RRM)-containing protein involved in the cellular response to the anti-cancer drug cisplatin in vertebrates. We previously reported a cDNA encoding the full-length human RDM1 protein. Here, we describe the identification of 11 human cDNAs encoding RDM1 protein isoforms. Th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Messaoudi L,Yang YG,Kinomura A,Stavreva DA,Yan G,Bortolin-Cavaillé ML,Arakawa H,Buerstedde JM,Hainaut P,Cavaillé J,Takata M,Van Dyck E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin D receptor mediates the signal of 1 alpha, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 by binding to vitamin D responsive elements in DNA as a homodimer or as a heterodimer composed of one vitamin D receptor subunit and one retinoid X receptor subunit. We have mapped the dimerization interfaces of the vitamin D receptor that i...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Nishikawa J,Kitaura M,Imagawa M,Nishihara T

更新日期：1995-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of Escherichia coli by a bacteriophage T4 regA, gene 44 double mutant leads to about a 7-fold increase in the amount of RNA ligase obtained after infection by wild-type phage. Using cells infected by the double mutant, RNA ligase was purified to homogeneity with a 20% yield. Unlike previous preparations of t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Higgins NP,Geballe AP,Snopek TJ,Sugino A,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sas2p is a histone acetyltransferase implicated in the regulation of transcriptional silencing, and ORC is the six-subunit origin recognition complex involved in the initiation of DNA replication and the establishment of transcriptionally silent chromatin by silencers in yeast. We show here that SAS2 deletion (sas2Del...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zou Y,Bi X

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocrotaline is a pyrrolizidine alkaloid known to cause toxicity in humans and animals. Its mechanism of biological action is still unclear although DNA crosslinking has been suggested to a play a role in its activity. In this study we found that an active metabolite of monocrotaline, dehydromonocrotaline (DHM), alky...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Pereira TN,Webb RI,Reilly PE,Seawright AA,Prakash AS

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CTCF plays a pivotal role in mediating chromatin interactions, but it does not do so alone. A number of factors have been reported to co-localize with CTCF and regulate CTCF loops, but no comprehensive analysis of binding partners has been performed. This prompted us to identify CTCF loop participants and regulators b...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hu G,Dong X,Gong S,Song Y,Hutchins AP,Yao H

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the human alpha-globin and beta-globin genes are co-regulated in adult life, they achieve the same end by very different mechanisms. For example, a transfected beta-globin gene is expressed in an inducible manner in mouse erythroleukemia (MEL) cells while a transfected alpha-globin gene is constitutively expr...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ren S,Li J,Atweh GF

更新日期：1996-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparisons of proteins show that they evolve through the movement of domains. However, in many cases, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we observed the movements of DNA recognition domains between non-orthologous proteins within a prokaryote genome. Restriction-modification (RM) systems, consisting of a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Furuta Y,Kobayashi I

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small disulfide-bonded proteins (SDPs) are rich sources for therapeutic drugs. Designing drugs from these proteins requires three-dimensional structural information, which is only available for a subset of these proteins. SDPMOD addresses this deficit in structural information by providing a freely available automated...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kong L,Lee BT,Tong JC,Tan TW,Ranganathan S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KRAS is one of the most mutated genes in human cancer. It is controlled by a G4 motif located upstream of the transcription start site. In this paper, we demonstrate that 8-oxoguanine (8-oxoG), being more abundant in G4 than in non-G4 regions, is a new player in the regulation of this oncogene. We designed oligonucleo...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cogoi S,Ferino A,Miglietta G,Pedersen EB,Xodo LE

更新日期：2018-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Diadenosine 5',5'"-P1,P4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A) has been detected in cysts and developing embryos of the brine shrimp Artemia in amounts 10(4)-10(6) times lower than that of the guanine analogue, Gp4G. The unexpectedly high level of Ap4A in dormant cysts of 2.37 pmol/10(6) cells can be reduced to 0.03 pmol/10(6) cells ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： McLennan AG,Prescott M

更新日期：1984-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Several fungal species, representatives of all broad groups like basidiomycetes, ascomycetes and phycomycetes, were examined for the nature of repeated DNA sequences by DNA:DNA reassociation studies using hydroxyapatite chromatography. All of the fungal species tested contained 10-20% repeated DNA sequences. There are...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dutta SK

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptic splice sites are used only when use of a natural splice site is disrupted by mutation. To determine the features that distinguish authentic from cryptic 5' splice sites (5'ss), we systematically analyzed a set of 76 cryptic 5'ss derived from 46 human genes. These cryptic 5'ss have a similar frequency distribut...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Roca X,Sachidanandam R,Krainer AR

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli seryl-tRNA synthetase (SerRS) is a homo-dimeric class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. Each subunit is composed of two distinct domains: the N-terminal domain is a 60 A long, arm-like coiled coil structure built up of two antiparallel alpha-helices, whereas the C-terminal domain, the catalytic core, is a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Vincent C,Borel F,Willison JC,Leberman R,Härtlein M

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of Adenovirus (Ad) DNA replication occurs by a protein-priming mechanism in which the viral precursor terminal protein (pTP) and DNA polymerase (pol) as well as two nuclear DNA-binding proteins from uninfected HeLa cells are required. Biochemical studies on the pTP and DNA polymerase proteins separately hav...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Stunnenberg HG,Lange H,Philipson L,van Miltenburg RT,van der Vliet PC

更新日期：1988-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Gut-enriched Krüppel-like factor (GKLF or KLF4) is a pleiotropic (activating and repressive) transcription factor. This study characterizes the mechanisms of transactivation by GKLF. Using a GAL4 fusion assay, the activating domain of murine GKLF was localized to the 109 amino acid residues in the N-terminus. Site-dir...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Geiman DE,Ton-That H,Johnson JM,Yang VW

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：T:Activator protein 1 (AP-1) is a transcription factor that recognizes two versions of a 7-base pair response element, either 5΄- GAG CA-3΄ or 5΄- GAG CA-3΄ (where M = 5-methylcytosine). These two elements share the feature that 5-methylcytosine and thymine both have a methyl group in the same position, 5-carbon of the...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hong S,Wang D,Horton JR,Zhang X,Speck SH,Blumenthal RM,Cheng X

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA is a sensitive target of chemical carcinogens (Backer and Weinstein (1980) Science 209, 297-299), suggesting that mutations of the mitochondrial genome occur in tumor cells. We examined this point by comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences in four rat tumors with those of normal rat liver. Some novel m...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Taira M,Yoshida E,Kobayashi M,Yaginuma K,Koike K

更新日期：1983-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases of the A and B families, and reverse transcriptases, share a common mechanism for preventing incorporation of ribonucleotides: a highly conserved active site residue obstructing the position that would be occupied by a 2' hydroxyl group on the incoming nucleotide. In the family Y (lesion bypass) polyme...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： DeLucia AM,Grindley ND,Joyce CM

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00