IMG: the Integrated Microbial Genomes database and comparative analysis system.

abstract：:An improved contact hybridization technique for the analysis of labelled RNA species is presented. The method combines high sensitivity of detection with the high resolution of polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and should be especially useful for the characterization of transient RNA precursor molecules. Its applicat...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Burckhardt J,Telford J,Birnstiel ML

更新日期：1979-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific guanine-rich regions in human genome can form higher-order DNA structures called G-quadruplexes, which regulate many relevant biological processes. For instance, the formation of G-quadruplex at telomeres can alter cellular functions, inducing apoptosis. Thus, developing small molecules that are able to bind ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Di Leva FS,Novellino E,Cavalli A,Parrinello M,Limongelli V

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the epithelial specificity of the human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) enhancer pointed out an important role of nuclear factor I (NFI). In epithelial cells, NFI proteins are derived from the NFI-C gene and referred to as NFI/CTF. In contrast, fibroblasts, where the enhancer is inactive, express h...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Apt D,Liu Y,Bernard HU

更新日期：1994-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct sequencing of DNA generated by the polynucleotide chain reaction, via the incorporation of phosphorothioate nucleotides and followed by treatment with an alkylating reagent that cleaves specifically at the phosphorothioate positions, is described. The Taq polymerase used in the amplification reaction incorp...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Nakamaye KL,Gish G,Eckstein F,Vosberg HP

更新日期：1988-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential genes are genes that are indispensable to support cellular life. These genes constitute a minimal gene set required for a living cell. We have constructed a Database of Essential Genes (DEG), which contains all the essential genes that are currently available. The functions encoded by essential genes are con...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhang R,Ou HY,Zhang CT

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of massively parallel sequencing technology has revolutionized microbial profiling, allowing the unprecedented comparison of microbial diversity across time and space in a wide range of host-associated and environmental ecosystems. Although the high-throughput nature of such methods enables the detection...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Amir A,Zeisel A,Zuk O,Elgart M,Stern S,Shamir O,Turnbaugh PJ,Soen Y,Shental N

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli transcription of individual genes generally requires concomitant translation, and thus the decay of mRNAs cannot be studied without the complication of translation. Here we have used T7 RNA polymerase to transcribe in vivo lacZ genes carrying ribosome binding sites of variable efficiency. We show t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chevrier-Miller M,Jacques N,Raibaud O,Dreyfus M

更新日期：1990-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The helical twist of poly d(A-s4T) was determined from the periodicity of the cleavage patterns of the double stranded polydeoxynucleotide adsorbed on calcium phosphate and found to be 14 bp per turn. Both cleavage patterns and 31P NMR spectra indicate a mononucleotide structure rather than an alternating B DNA like p...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bökemeier W,Lezius AG

更新日期：1986-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA fragment d(GCGAAAGCT), known to adopt a stable mini-hairpin structure in solution, has been crystallized in the space group I4(1)22 with the unit-cell dimensions a = b = 53.4 A and c = 54.0 A, and the crystal structure has been determined at 2.5 A resolution. The four nucleotide residues CGAA of the first half o...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sunami T,Kondo J,Kobuna T,Hirao I,Watanabe K,Miura K,Takénaka A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the splicing process, spliceosomal snRNAs undergo numerous conformational rearrangements that appear to be catalyzed by proteins belonging to the DEAD/H-box superfamily of RNA helicases. We have cloned a new RNA helicase gene, designated DBP2 (DEAH-boxprotein), homologous to the Schizosaccaromyces pombe cdc28(+...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Imamura O,Saiki K,Tani T,Ohshima Y,Sugawara M,Furuichi Y

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin organization and epigenetic markers influence splicing, though the magnitudes of these effects and the mechanisms are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that linker histone H1.5 influences mRNA splicing. We observed that linker histone H1.5 binds DNA over splice sites of short exons in human lung fibrobla...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Glaich O,Leader Y,Lev Maor G,Ast G

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Codon usage bias is a universal feature of all genomes. Although codon usage has been shown to regulate mRNA and protein levels by influencing mRNA decay and transcription in eukaryotes, little or no genome-wide correlations between codon usage and mRNA levels are detected in mammalian cells, raising doubt on the sign...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Yang Q,Lyu X,Zhao F,Liu Y

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication of the genome is a highly organized process, both spatially and temporally. Although a lot is known on the composition of the basic replication machinery, how its activity is regulated is mostly unknown. Several chromatin properties have been proposed as regulators, but a potential role of the nuclear ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Heinz KS,Casas-Delucchi CS,Török T,Cmarko D,Rapp A,Raska I,Cardoso MC

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA polymerase III recognizes and pauses at its terminator, an oligo(dT) tract in non-template DNA, terminates 3' oligo(rU) synthesis within this sequence, and releases the RNA. The pol III subunit Rpc11p (C11) mediates RNA 3'-5' cleavage in the catalytic center of pol III during pausing. The amino and carboxyl region...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Iben JR,Mazeika JK,Hasson S,Rijal K,Arimbasseri AG,Russo AN,Maraia RJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Backscattering interferometry (BSI) has been used to successfully monitor molecular interactions without labeling and with high sensitivity. These properties suggest that this approach might be useful for detecting biomarkers of infection. In this report, we identify interactions and characteristics of nucleic acid pr...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Adams NM,Olmsted IR,Haselton FR,Bornhop DJ,Wright DW

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated how Escherichia coli ClpXP targets the helicase-nuclease (HsdR) subunit of the bacterial Type I restriction-modification enzyme EcoKI during restriction alleviation (RA). RA is a temporary reduction in endonuclease activity that occurs when Type I enzymes bind unmodified recognition sites on the host g...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Simons M,Diffin FM,Szczelkun MD

更新日期：2014-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF2 mRNA-binding protein 1 (IMP1) is a key regulator of messenger RNA (mRNA) metabolism and transport in organismal development and, in cancer, its mis-regulation is an important component of tumour metastasis. IMP1 function relies on the recognition of a diverse set of mRNA targets that is mediated by the combinator...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dagil R,Ball NJ,Ogrodowicz RW,Hobor F,Purkiss AG,Kelly G,Martin SR,Taylor IA,Ramos A

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The three dimensional crystal structure of T5 5'-3' exonuclease was compared with that of two other members of the 5'-3' exonuclease family: T4 ribonuclease H and the N-terminal domain of Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase I. Though these structures were largely similar, some regions of these enzymes show evidence of si...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Artymiuk PJ,Ceska TA,Suck D,Sayers JR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeal family-B DNA polymerases bind tightly to deaminated bases and stall replication on encountering uracil in template strands, four bases ahead of the primer-template junction. Should the polymerase progress further towards the uracil, for example, to position uracil only two bases in front of the junction, 3'-5...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Richardson TT,Wu X,Keith BJ,Heslop P,Jones AC,Connolly BA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p16 is a key regulator of cellular senescence, yet the drivers of this stable state of proliferative arrest are not well understood. Here, we identify 22 senescence-associated microRNAs (SA-miRNAs) in normal human mammary epithelial cells. We show that SA-miRNAs-26b, 181a, 210 and 424 function in concert to directly r...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Overhoff MG,Garbe JC,Koh J,Stampfer MR,Beach DH,Bishop CL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of a 354 basepair EcoRI-HindIII fragment of plasmid pMB9 which has originally been derived from plasmid pSC101 has been resolved. This fragment contains a promoter for transcription directed towards the EcoRI site. Escherichia coli RNA polymerase binds to a region within the EcoRI-HindIII fragment whi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Pannekoek H,Maat J,van den Berg E,Noordermeer I

更新日期：1980-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The rDNA cluster in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is located 450 kb from the left end and 610 kb from the right end of chromosome XII and consists of approximately 150 tandemly repeated copies of a 9.1 kb rDNA unit. To explore the biological significance of this specific chromosomal context, chromosome XII was split at bot...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kim YH,Ishikawa D,Ha HP,Sugiyama M,Kaneko Y,Harashima S

更新日期：2006-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have modeled local DNA sequence parameters to search for DNA architectural motifs involved in transcription regulation and promotion within the Xenopus laevis ribosomal gene promoter and the intergenic spacer (IGS) sequences. The IGS was found to be shaped into distinct topological domains. First, intrinsic bends s...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Roux-Rouquie M,Marilley M

更新日期：2000-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3'-untranslated region (UTR) of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), which terminates in a tRNA-like structure, functionally substitutes for a poly(A) tail in both plant and animal cells. The addition of the TMV 3'-UTR to chimeric mRNA constructs increases their expression up to 100-fold, increasing both translational effi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gallie DR,Feder JN,Schimke RT,Walbot V

更新日期：1991-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatin structure of yeast ribosomal DNA was analyzed in vivo by crosslinking intact cells with psoralen. We found that in exponentially growing cultures the regions coding for the 35S rRNA precursor fall into two distinct classes. One class was highly accessible to psoralen and associated with nascent RNAs, cha...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dammann R,Lucchini R,Koller T,Sogo JM

更新日期：1993-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play important roles in the post-transcriptional control of RNAs. Identifying RBP binding sites and characterizing RBP binding preferences are key steps toward understanding the basic mechanisms of the post-transcriptional gene regulation. Though numerous computational methods have been dev...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhang S,Zhou J,Hu H,Gong H,Chen L,Cheng C,Zeng J

更新日期：2016-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins that catalyse homologous recombination have been identified in all living organisms and are essential for the repair of damaged DNA as well as for the generation of genetic diversity. In bacteria homologous recombination is performed by the RecA protein, whereas in the eukarya a related protein called Rad51 i...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： McIlwraith MJ,Hall DR,Stasiak AZ,Stasiak A,Wigley DB,West SC

更新日期：2001-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An important problem in genomics is automatically clustering homologous proteins when only sequence information is available. Most methods for clustering proteins are local, and are based on simply thresholding a measure related to sequence distance. We first show how locality limits the performance of such methods by...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Paccanaro A,Casbon JA,Saqi MA

更新日期：2006-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional activity of the p53 tumor suppressor protein is crucial for the regulation of cell growth, apoptosis and tumor progression. The first identified p53 relative, p73, was reported to be monoallelically expressed in normal tissues. In some tumors, loss of heterozygosity was associated with overexpressi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Vikhanskaya F,D'Incalci M,Broggini M

更新日期：2000-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized elongation complexes (ECs) of RNA polymerase from the extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus. We found that complexes assembled on nucleic acid scaffolds are transcriptionally competent at high temperature (50-80 degrees C) and, depending upon the organization of the scaffold, pos...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kashkina E,Anikin M,Tahirov TH,Kochetkov SN,Vassylyev DG,Temiakov D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00