Effect of 5-methylcytosine on the stability of triple-stranded DNA--a thermodynamic study.

abstract：:The sxy (tfoX) gene product is the central regulator of DNA uptake by naturally competent gamma-proteobacteria such as Haemophilus influenzae, Vibrio cholerae and probably Escherichia coli. However, the mechanisms regulating sxy gene expression are not understood despite being key to understanding the physiological ro...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cameron AD,Volar M,Bannister LA,Redfield RJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SynergyFinder (https://synergyfinder.fimm.fi) is a stand-alone web-application for interactive analysis and visualization of drug combination screening data. Since its first release in 2017, SynergyFinder has become a widely used web-tool both for the discovery of novel synergistic drug combinations in pre-clinical mo...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ianevski A,Giri AK,Aittokallio T

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used computer assisted dot matrix and oligonucleotide frequency analyses to identify highly recurring sequence elements of 7-11 base pairs in eukaryotic genes and viral DNAs. Such elements are found much more frequently than expected, often with an average spacing of a few hundred base pairs. Furthermore, the ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bodnar JW,Ward DC

更新日期：1987-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial retrons consist of a reverse transcriptase (RT) and a contiguous non-coding RNA (ncRNA) gene. One third of annotated retrons carry additional open reading frames (ORFs), the contribution and significance of which in retron biology remains to be determined. In this study we developed a computational pipeline ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mestre MR,González-Delgado A,Gutiérrez-Rus LI,Martínez-Abarca F,Toro N

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors are important gene regulators with distinctive roles in development, cell signaling and cell cycling, and they have been associated with many diseases. The ConTra v3 web server allows easy visualization and exploration of predicted transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) in any genomic region ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kreft L,Soete A,Hulpiau P,Botzki A,Saeys Y,De Bleser P

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The high mobility group protein (HMG)-box is a DNA-binding domain found in many proteins that bind preferentially to DNA of irregular structures in a sequence-independent manner and can bend the DNA. We show here that GST-fusion proteins of HMG domains from HMG1 and HMG2 promote a triple-stranded complex formation bet...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Suda T,Mishima Y,Takayanagi K,Asakura H,Odani S,Kominami R

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) with homologous chromosomes is a hallmark of meiosis that is mediated by recombination 'bridges' between homolog axes. This process requires cooperation of DMC1 and RAD51 to promote homology search and strand exchange. The mechanism(s) regulating DMC1/RAD51-ssDNA nucleoprotein...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Shang Y,Huang T,Liu H,Liu Y,Liang H,Yu X,Li M,Zhai B,Yang X,Wei Y,Wang G,Chen Z,Wang S,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction endonuclease Bse634I recognizes and cleaves the degenerate DNA sequence 5'-R/CCGGY-3' (R stands for A or G; Y for T or C, '/' indicates a cleavage position). Here, we report the crystal structures of the Bse634I R226A mutant complexed with cognate oligoduplexes containing ACCGGT and GCCGGC sites, respectiv...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Manakova E,Grazulis S,Zaremba M,Tamulaitiene G,Golovenko D,Siksnys V

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wobble uridine of certain bacterial and mitochondrial tRNAs is modified, at position 5, through an unknown reaction pathway that utilizes the evolutionarily conserved MnmE and GidA proteins. The resulting modification (a methyluridine derivative) plays a critical role in decoding NNG/A codons and reading frame mai...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Moukadiri I,Prado S,Piera J,Velázquez-Campoy A,Björk GR,Armengod ME

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is a central issue to elucidate the new type of molecular recognition accompanied by a global structural change of a molecule upon binding to its targets. Here we investigate the driving force for the binding of R12 (a ribonucleic acid aptamer) and P16 (a partial peptide of a prion protein) during which P16 exhibit...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hayashi T,Oshima H,Mashima T,Nagata T,Katahira M,Kinoshita M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arylsulfatase, produced by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii during sulfur-limited growth, is secreted into the periplasmic space and is readily assayed using a chromogenic substrate. To assess the usefulness of the gene encoding arylsulfatase (ars) as a reporter gene in C. reinhardtii, we have fused the promoter region of th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Davies JP,Weeks DP,Grossman AR

更新日期：1992-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation of cytosine in eukaryotic cells is a common epigenetic modification, which plays an important role in gene expression and thus affects various cellular processes like development and carcinogenesis. The occurrence of 5-methyl-2'-deoxycytosine (5mC) as well as the distribution pattern of this epigenetic...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Huber C,von Watzdorf J,Marx A

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is the etiological agent of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL). The HTLV-1 basic leucine zipper protein (HBZ) is expressed in all cases of ATL and is directly associated with virus pathogenicity. The two isoforms of the HBZ protein are synthesized from antisense messenger RNAs (mRN...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cáceres CJ,Angulo J,Lowy F,Contreras N,Walters B,Olivares E,Allouche D,Merviel A,Pino K,Sargueil B,Thompson SR,López-Lastra M

更新日期：2018-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, two-step method is described for the synthesis of the 5'-pyro- and triphosphate derivatives of 3'-5' ApA, ApG, GpA and GpG. The readily accessible 2'(3')-5' ApA, ApG, GpA and GpG were converted in one step to the corresponding 5'-phosphoramidate derivatives which were then transformed to the 5'-pyro- and tri...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Tomasz J,Simoncsits A,Kajtár M,Krug RM,Shatkin AJ

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated yeast mitochondria incorporate added UTP into RNA. Amongst the products formed are the two rRNAs, 4S RNA and several components presumed to be mRNAs. In omega+ strains (containing an intervening sequence in the 21S rRNA gene) besides mature 21S rRNA a transcript could be detected still containing nucleotide s...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Groot GS,van Harten-Loosbroek N,van Ommen GJ,Pijst HL

更新日期：1981-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrase (IN) protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) catalyzes site-specific cleavage of 2 bases from the viral long terminal repeat (LTR) sequence yet it binds DNA with little DNA sequence specificity. We have previously demonstrated that the C-terminal half of IN (amino acids 154-288) possesses ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Woerner AM,Marcus-Sekura CJ

更新日期：1993-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of several synthetic analogues of d-ApA with Poly U and Poly dT was examined to explore the effects of substituents at phosphorus on binding properties of oligonucleotides. These analogues contained a bulky, lipophilic group (2,2,2-trichloroethoxy or 2,2,2-trichloro-1,1-dimethylethoxy) a small, uncharg...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Letsinger RL,Bach SA,Eadie JS

更新日期：1986-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A putative role for mammalian polynucleotide kinases that possess both 5'-phosphotransferase and 3'-phosphatase activity is the restoration of DNA strand breaks with 5'-hydroxyl termini or 3'-phosphate termini, or both, to a form that supports the subsequent action of DNA repair polymerases and DNA ligases, i.e. 5'-ph...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Karimi-Busheri F,Lee J,Tomkinson AE,Weinfeld M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin C breaks DNA only in the presence of oxygen. Superoxide dismutase has no effect on the reaction but catalase suppresses it. Superoxide also gives rise to breaks in DNA suppressible by both superoxide dismutase and catalase. The hydroxyl radical seems to be the agent responsible for strand cleavage itself. ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Morgan AR,Cone RL,Elgert TM

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TFIIB plays a pivotal role during assembly of the RNA polymerase II transcription preinitiation complex. TFIIB is composed of two domains that engage in an intramolecular interaction that can be disrupted by the VP16 activation domain. In this study, we describe a novel human TFIIB derivative harbouring two point muta...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Glossop JA,Dafforn TR,Roberts SG

更新日期：2004-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation to the host cell environment to efficiently take-over the host cell's machinery is crucial in particular for small RNA viruses like picornaviruses that come with only small RNA genomes and replicate exclusively in the cytosol. Their Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) elements are specific RNA structures th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Andreev DE,Hirnet J,Terenin IM,Dmitriev SE,Niepmann M,Shatsky IN

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ID elements comprise a rodent SINE (short interspersed DNA repetitive element) family that has amplified by retroposition of a few master genes. In order to understand the important factors of SINE amplification, we investigated the transcription of rat ID elements. Three different size classes of ID transcripts, BC1,...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kim J,Kass DH,Deininger PL

更新日期：1995-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gibbs Motif Sampler is a software package for locating common elements in collections of biopolymer sequences. In this paper we describe a new variation of the Gibbs Motif Sampler, the Gibbs Recursive Sampler, which has been developed specifically for locating multiple transcription factor binding sites for multip...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Thompson W,Rouchka EC,Lawrence CE

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional repression of pathogen defense-related genes is essential for plant growth and development. Several proteins are known to be involved in the transcriptional regulation of plant defense responses. However, mechanisms by which expression of defense-related genes are regulated by repressor proteins are po...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kim HS,Park HC,Kim KE,Jung MS,Han HJ,Kim SH,Kwon YS,Bahk S,An J,Bae DW,Yun DJ,Kwak SS,Chung WS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CCG repeats are highly over-represented in exons of the human genome. Usually they are located in the 5' UTR but are also abundant in translated sequences. The CCG repeats are associated with three tri-nucleotide repeat disorders: Huntington's disease, myotonic dystrophy type 1 and chromosome X-linked mental retardati...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kiliszek A,Kierzek R,Krzyzosiak WJ,Rypniewski W

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative structural studies of ribosomes from various organisms keep offering exciting insights on how species-specific or environment-related structural features of ribosomes may impact translation specificity and its regulation. Although the importance of such features may be less obvious within more closely rela...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Khusainov I,Vicens Q,Bochler A,Grosse F,Myasnikov A,Ménétret JF,Chicher J,Marzi S,Romby P,Yusupova G,Yusupov M,Hashem Y

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the DNA sequence surrounding the transcription terminator following rpoC, the gene that codes for the beta' subunit of RNA polymerase in E. coli K12. The 2044 bp sequence obtained contains the distal 335 codons of rpoC followed by a 212 bp non-coding region and a second open reading frame (ORFa) of ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Squires C,Krainer A,Barry G,Shen WF,Squires CL

更新日期：1981-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Current knowledge of parameters affecting RNA stability is very restricted in plants. Here we investigated factors which might contribute to the stability of a particular plant messenger RNA. To this end, insertion and deletion mutants were made in two different exons and an intron of the transcribed region of a well ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Vancanneyt G,Rosahl S,Willmitzer L

更新日期：1990-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the promoters of both the Bax and p21 genes are activated by p53, they differ in the effect on this activation of the POU family transcription factor Brn-3a. Thus, Brn-3a inhibits activation of the Bax promoter by p53 but enhances the ability of p53 to activate the p21 promoter. We demonstrate that repression...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Perez-Sanchez C,Budhram-Mahadeo VS,Latchman DS

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play critical roles in diverse cellular processes; however, their involvement in many critical aspects of the immune response including the interferon (IFN) response remains poorly understood. To address this gap, we compared the global gene expression pattern of primary human hepatocyte...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kambara H,Niazi F,Kostadinova L,Moonka DK,Siegel CT,Post AB,Carnero E,Barriocanal M,Fortes P,Anthony DD,Valadkhan S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00