A tale of two functions: enzymatic activity and translational repression by carboxyltransferase.

abstract：:The GenBank((R))sequence database incorporates publicly available DNA sequences of >55 000 different organisms, primarily through direct submission of sequence data from individual laboratories and large-scale sequencing projects. Most submissions are made using the BankIt (Web) or Sequin programs and accession number...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Benson DA,Karsch-Mizrachi I,Lipman DJ,Ostell J,Rapp BA,Wheeler DL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) leader RNA, which contains double-stranded regions due to inverted repeats, was shown to activate the dsRNA-dependent enzymes associated with the interferon system. HIV-1 leader RNA produced in vitro using SP6 RNA polymerase was characterized using probes for antisense and sense-...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： SenGupta DN,Silverman RH

更新日期：1989-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIP) are a family of plant enzymes for which a unique activity was determined: rRNAN-glycosidase at a specific universally conserved position, A4324in the case of rat ribosomes. Recently we have shown that the RIP from Saponaria officinalis have a much wider substrate specificity: they ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Barbieri L,Valbonesi P,Bonora E,Gorini P,Bolognesi A,Stirpe F

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adequate supply of nucleotides is essential for DNA replication and DNA repair. Moreover, inhibition of TTP synthesis can cause cell death by a poorly characterized mechanism called thymine-less death. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the genes encoding thymidylate synthetase (CDC21) and thymidylate kinase (C...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Toussaint M,Dionne I,Wellinger RJ

更新日期：2005-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenbase (www.xenbase.org), the model organism database for Xenopus laevis and X. (Silurana) tropicalis, is the principal centralized resource of genomic, development data and community information for Xenopus research. Recent improvements include the addition of the literature and interaction tabs to gene catalog page...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bowes JB,Snyder KA,Segerdell E,Jarabek CJ,Azam K,Zorn AM,Vize PD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformations of supercoiled (sc) DNA and linear DNA bound to polylysine (PL)-coated mica were investigated by scanning force microscopy (SFM) in solution. From the polymer statistical analysis of linear DNA, we could distinguish between re-arrangements or trapping of the DNA on the surface. Conditions of re-arran...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bussiek M,Mücke N,Langowski J

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Polynucleotides containing adenosine and 8-azidoadenosine or inosine and 8-azidoinosine residues have been prepared from mixtures of nucleoside diphosphates using polynucleotide phosphorylase from Escherichia coli. These copolymers can form complexes with polyuridylic or polycytidylic acids respectively. Single strand...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cartwright IL,Hutchinson DW

更新日期：1980-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genome-wide analyses have elucidated the extent of alternative splicing (AS) in mammals, often focusing on comparisons of splice isoforms between differentiated tissues. However, regulated splicing changes are likely to be important in biological transitions such as cellular differentiation, or response to envi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bland CS,Wang ET,Vu A,David MP,Castle JC,Johnson JM,Burge CB,Cooper TA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several mono-, di-, tetra-, penta- and nonaribozymes were developed. These multitarget-ribozymes were targeted to cleave HIV-1 env RNA at up to nine different conserved sites. Each multitarget-ribozyme consisted of a chain of up to nine hammerhead motifs, each flanked by a different targeting sequence. The multitarget...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chen CJ,Banerjea AC,Harmison GG,Haglund K,Schubert M

更新日期：1992-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Several plasmids which direct the expression of human interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) cDNA in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under the transcriptional control of the 3-phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) promoter have been constructed. Up to 25 x 10(6) units per liter culture of biologically active IFN-gamma are synthesize...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Derynck R,Singh A,Goeddel DV

更新日期：1983-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:One-Block CYRCA is an automated procedure for identifying multiple-block alignments from single block queries (http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/blocks/OneCYRCA). It is based on the LAMA and CYRCA block-to-block alignment methods. The procedure identifies whether the query blocks can form new multiple-block alignments (bl...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Frenkel-Morgenstern M,Singer A,Bronfeld H,Pietrokovski S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method of determining the number of superhelical turns of a covalently-closed plasmid DNA is described. It relies on the determination of the hyperchromicity, and hence the proportion of unstacked basepairs, of a partially heat-denatured sample which co-migrates during electrophoresis with nicked circular dupl...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dougherty G,Koller T

更新日期：1982-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, prokaryotic riboswitches have been identified that regulate transcription in response to change of the concentration of secondary messengers. The ZMP (5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide (AICAR))-sensing riboswitch from Thermosinus carboxydivorans is a transcriptional ON-switch that is involved in ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Binas O,Schamber T,Schwalbe H

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:New transcripts generated by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) are generally processed in order to form mature mRNAs. Two key processing steps include a precise cleavage within the 3' end of the pre-mRNA, and the subsequent polymerization of adenosines to produce the poly(A) tail. In yeast, these two functions are performed ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Guéguéniat J,Dupin AF,Stojko J,Beaurepaire L,Cianférani S,Mackereth CD,Minvielle-Sébastia L,Fribourg S

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to short DNA sequence motifs, yet their binding specificities alone cannot explain how certain TFs drive a diversity of biological processes. In order to investigate the factors that control the functions of the pleiotropic TF STAT3, we studied its genome...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hutchins AP,Diez D,Takahashi Y,Ahmad S,Jauch R,Tremblay ML,Miranda-Saavedra D

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear factor I (NFI) is a site-specific DNA binding protein required for the replication of adenovirus type 2 DNA in vitro and in vivo. To study sequence requirements for the interaction of NFI with DNA, we have measured the binding of the protein to a variety of synthetic sites. Binding sites for NFI (FIB sites) we...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gronostajski RM

更新日期：1987-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:VA RNA(I) is a non-coding adenoviral transcript that counteracts the host cell anti-viral defenses such as immune responses mediated via PKR. We investigated potential alternate secondary structure conformations within the PKR-binding domain of VA RNA(I) using site-directed mutagenesis, RNA UV-melting analysis and enz...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wahid AM,Coventry VK,Conn GL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA editing by adensosine deaminases is a widespread mechanism to alter genetic information in metazoa. In addition to modifications in non-coding regions, editing contributes to diversification of protein function, in analogy to alternative splicing. However, although splicing programs respond to external signals, fa...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Balik A,Penn AC,Nemoda Z,Greger IH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alternative proliferating-cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)-loader CTF18-RFC forms a stable complex with DNA polymerase ε (Polε). We observed that, under near-physiological conditions, CTF18-RFC alone loaded PCNA inefficiently, but loaded it efficiently when complexed with Polε. During efficient PCNA loading, CTF18-RFC ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Fujisawa R,Ohashi E,Hirota K,Tsurimoto T

更新日期：2017-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We identify a new subgroup of Type I Restriction-Modification enzymes that modify cytosine in one DNA strand and adenine in the opposite strand for host protection. Recognition specificity has been determined for ten systems using SMRT sequencing and each recognizes a novel DNA sequence motif. Previously characterized...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Morgan RD,Luyten YA,Johnson SA,Clough EM,Clark TA,Roberts RJ

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:PUF proteins, named for Drosophila Pumilio (PUM) and Caenorhabditis elegans fem-3-binding factor (FBF), recognize specific sequences in the mRNAs they bind and control. RNA binding by classical PUF proteins is mediated by a characteristic PUM homology domain (PUM-HD). The Puf1 and Puf2 proteins possess a distinct arch...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Qiu C,Dutcher RC,Porter DF,Arava Y,Wickens M,Hall TMT

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The topoisomerase I (TOP1) inhibitor irinotecan triggers cell death by trapping TOP1 on DNA, generating cytotoxic protein-linked DNA breaks (PDBs). Despite its wide application in a variety of solid tumors, the mechanisms of cancer cell resistance to irinotecan remains poorly understood. Here, we generated colorectal ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Meisenberg C,Ashour ME,El-Shafie L,Liao C,Hodgson A,Pilborough A,Khurram SA,Downs JA,Ward SE,El-Khamisy SF

更新日期：2017-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteroduplexes between the viral DNA of phiX174 and DNA from the replicative form (RF) of phage G4 were examined by electron microscopy. The single Eco RI site of G4-RF was utilized as a physical marker by preparing the heteroduplexes from the denatured, linear DNA obtained by restricting G4-RF with Eco RI endonucleas...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Smiley BL,Warner RC

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of components essential to chromosome structure and behaviour remains a vibrant area of study. We have previously shown that invadolysin is essential in Drosophila, with roles in cell division and cell migration. Mitotic chromosomes are hypercondensed in length, but display an aberrant fuzzy appearance....

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rao SG,Janiszewski MM,Duca E,Nelson B,Abhinav K,Panagakou I,Vass S,Heck MM

更新日期：2015-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5',7-methylguanosine cap is a quintessential feature of RNA polymerase II-transcribed RNAs, and a textbook aspect of co-transcriptional RNA processing. The cap is bound by the cap-binding complex (CBC), canonically consisting of nuclear cap-binding proteins 1 and 2 (NCBP1/2). Interest in the CBC has recently renewed...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dou Y,Kalmykova S,Pashkova M,Oghbaie M,Jiang H,Molloy KR,Chait BT,Rout MP,Fenyö D,Jensen TH,Altukhov I,LaCava J

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A new series of DNA bis-intercalators is reported in which acridine moieties are connected by rigid and extended pyridine-based linkers of varied length. Cross-linking of DNA by bis-intercalation is inferred from the unwinding and folding of linear DNA induced by the compounds; after ligation and removal of the bis-in...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Annan NK,Cook PR,Mullins ST,Lowe G

更新日期：1992-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Work from a number of laboratories has indicated that the TATA box sequence can act as a basal promoter element not only for RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) transcription, but also for transcription by RNA polymerase III (RNAP III). We previously reported that, in the absence of other cis-acting elements, the canonical TA...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wang Y,Jensen RC,Stumph WE

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand how potential for G-quadruplex formation might influence regulation of gene expression, we examined the 2 kb spanning the transcription start sites (TSS) of the 18 217 human RefSeq genes, distinguishing contributions of template and nontemplate strands. Regions both upstream and downstream of the TSS are...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Eddy J,Maizels N

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing of the 3'-untranslated region of the CCT8 gene of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans revealed that the CCT8 coding region overlaps 13 bp with the coding region of the convergently orientated TRP1 gene. The same overlap was found in three strains with different genetic backgrounds. 3'-RACE was used to dete...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gerads M,Ernst JF

更新日期：1998-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Primer design is a fundamental technique that is widely used for polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Although many methods have been proposed for primer design, they require a great deal of manual effort to generate feasible and valid primers, including homology tests on off-target sequences using BLAST-like tools. That ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kim H,Kang N,Chon KW,Kim S,Lee N,Koo J,Kim MS

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00