Evidence that the Upf1-related molecular motor scans the 3'-UTR to ensure mRNA integrity.

abstract：:Methylation of CpG motifs in DNA is involved in the control of gene expression and in several other epigenic effects. It suppresses also the immuno-stimulation properties of bacterial or viral DNAs that contain CPGS: However, effects of methylation on the DNA structure and dynamics are not clear. Here we carried out a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Derreumaux S,Chaoui M,Tevanian G,Fermandjian S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramolecular RNA cross-links were induced within the large ribosomal subunit of E. coli by mild ultraviolet irradiation. Regions of the 23S RNA previously implicated in interactions with ribosomal-bound tRNA were then specifically excised by addressed cleavage using ribonuclease H, in conjunction with synthetic comp...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mitchell P,Osswald M,Schueler D,Brimacombe R

更新日期：1990-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroid hormone receptor alpha (THRA or c-erbA-1) gene belongs to a family of genes which encode nuclear receptors for various hydrophobic ligands such as steroids, vitamin D, retinoic acid and thyroid hormones. These receptors are composed of several domains important for hormone-binding, DNA-binding, dimerizatio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Laudet V,Begue A,Henry-Duthoit C,Joubel A,Martin P,Stehelin D,Saule S

更新日期：1991-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the ability of a cationic planar chromophore, ethidium bromide, to intercalate into a short, defined triple helix. Using UV absorption, fluorescence spectroscopy and a gel retardation assay we demonstrate that ethidium bromide is able to bind to a triple helix with a lower affinity than to the corresp...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mergny JL,Collier D,Rougée M,Montenay-Garestier T,Hélène C

更新日期：1991-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The irradiation of native or unmodified yeast tRNA(Phe) by short wavelength UV light (260 nM) results in an intramolecular crosslink that has been mapped to occur between C48 in the variable loop and U59 in the T loop. Photo-reversibility of the crosslink and the absence of fluorescent photo adducts suggest that the c...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Behlen LS,Sampson JR,Uhlenbeck OC

更新日期：1992-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair is initiated by two different damage recognition subpathways, global genome repair (GGR) and transcription-coupled repair (TCR). In GGR, XPC detects DNA lesions and recruits TFIIH via interaction with the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of TFIIH subunit p62. In TCR, an elongating form of RNA...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Okuda M,Nakazawa Y,Guo C,Ogi T,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2017-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of thymidine kinase in fungi, which normally lack this enzyme, will greatly aid the study of DNA metabolism and provide useful drug-sensitive phenotypes. The herpes simplex virus type-1 thymidine kinase gene ( tk ) was expressed in Neurospora crassa. tk was expressed as a fusion to N.crassa arg-2 regula...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sachs MS,Selker EU,Lin B,Roberts CJ,Luo Z,Vaught-Alexander D,Margolin BS

更新日期：1997-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary structure of V4, the largest variable area of eukaryotic small subunit ribosomal RNA, was re-examined by comparative analysis of 3253 nucleotide sequences distributed over the animal, plant and fungal kingdoms and a diverse set of protist taxa. An extensive search for compensating base pair substitutions...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wuyts J,De Rijk P,Van de Peer Y,Pison G,Rousseeuw P,De Wachter R

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) by the Y-family DNA polymerases Polη, Polι and Polκ, mediated via interaction with proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), is a crucial pathway that protects human cells against DNA damage. We report that Polη has three PCNA-interacting protein (PIP) boxes (PIP1, 2, 3) that contribut...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Masuda Y,Kanao R,Kaji K,Ohmori H,Hanaoka F,Masutani C

更新日期：2015-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion/deletion (indel) is one of the most common methods of protein sequence variation. Recent studies showed that indels could affect their flanking regions and they are important for protein function and evolution. Here, we describe the Indel Flanking Region Database (IndelFR, http://indel.bioinfo.sdu.edu.cn), w...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhang Z,Xing C,Wang L,Gong B,Liu H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisulfite genomic sequencing is the most widely used technique to analyze the 5-methylation of cytosines, the prevalent covalent DNA modification in mammals. The process is based on the selective transformation of unmethylated cytosines to uridines. Then, the investigated genomic regions are PCR amplified, subcloned a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Tusnády GE,Simon I,Váradi A,Arányi T

更新日期：2005-01-13 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：:CENP-A and CENP-B are major components of centromeric chromatin. CENP-A is the histone H3 variant, which forms the centromere-specific nucleosome. CENP-B specifically binds to the CENP-B box DNA sequence on the centromere-specific repetitive DNA. In the present study, we found that the CENP-A nucleosome more stably re...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Fujita R,Otake K,Arimura Y,Horikoshi N,Miya Y,Shiga T,Osakabe A,Tachiwana H,Ohzeki J,Larionov V,Masumoto H,Kurumizaka H

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated as the cause of cumulative damage to DNA, proteins and lipids that can ultimately result in cell death. A common problem when measuring oxidative DNA damage has been the introduction of modifications in the native state of the molecule by many DNA isolation methods. W...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Milano J,Day BJ

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the wild-type p53 tumor suppressor gene has been found to play an important role in the regulation of cellular proliferation and differentiation. In addition, in many transformed cells and primary tumors, the gene has undergone allelic deletions and mutant forms of the p53 gene are expressed at elevated ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Reisman D,Rotter V

更新日期：1993-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fos and Jun family of transcription factors contain an invariant sequence motif lysine-cysteine-arginine (KCR) in the highly conserved DNA-binding region. Reduction of the cysteine residue is necessary to facilitate DNA-binding. Here, we examined the potential dual roles of the flanking lysine and arginine residue...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ng L,Forrest D,Curran T

更新日期：1993-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Endonuclease III from Escherichia coli, yeast (yNtg1p and yNtg2p) and human and E.coli endonuclease VIII have a wide substrate specificity, and recognize oxidation products of both thymine and cytosine. DNA containing single dihydrouracil (DHU) and tandem DHU lesions were used as substrates for these repair enzymes. I...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Venkhataraman R,Donald CD,Roy R,You HJ,Doetsch PW,Kow YW

更新日期：2001-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineered nucleases, which incise the genome at predetermined sites, have a number of laboratory and clinical applications. There is, however, a need for better methods for controlled intracellular delivery of nucleases. Here, we demonstrate a method for ligand-mediated delivery of zinc finger nucleases (ZFN) protein...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chen Z,Jaafar L,Agyekum DG,Xiao H,Wade MF,Kumaran RI,Spector DL,Bao G,Porteus MH,Dynan WS,Meiler SE

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The excision of specific DNA sequences from integrated transgenes in insects permits the dissection in situ of structural elements that may be important in controlling gene expression. Furthermore, manipulation of potential control elements in the context of a single integration site mitigates against insertion site i...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jasinskiene N,Coates CJ,Ashikyan A,James AA

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcomeric myosin gene, Myh7b, encodes an intronic microRNA, miR-499, which regulates cardiac and skeletal muscle biology, yet little is known about its transcriptional regulation. To identify the transcription factors involved in regulating Myh7b/miR-499 gene expression, we have mapped the transcriptional start s...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Yeung F,Chung E,Guess MG,Bell ML,Leinwand LA

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allostery is comprehensively studied for natural macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. Here, we present controllable allostery of synthetic DNA nanostructure-enzyme systems. Rational designs of the synthetic allosteric systems are based on an in-depth understanding of allosteric sites with several types ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Yan Q,Wang Y,Shi J,Wei B

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenocysteine (Sec), the 21(st) amino acid in translation, uses its specific tRNA (tRNA(Sec)) to recognize the UGA codon. The Sec-specific elongation factor SelB brings the selenocysteinyl-tRNA(Sec) (Sec-tRNA(Sec)) to the ribosome, dependent on both an in-frame UGA and a Sec-insertion sequence (SECIS) in the mRNA. Th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Itoh Y,Sekine S,Yokoyama S

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Next-generation sequencing allows now the sequencing of small RNA molecules and the estimation of their expression levels. Consequently, there will be a high demand of bioinformatics tools to cope with the several gigabytes of sequence data generated in each single deep-sequencing experiment. Given this scene, we deve...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hackenberg M,Sturm M,Langenberger D,Falcón-Pérez JM,Aransay AM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA triplet repeats, 5'-d(CTG)n and 5'-d(CAG)n, are present in genes which have been implicated in several neurodegenerative disorders. To investigate possible stable structures formed by these repeating sequences, we have examined d(CTG)n, d(CAG)n and d(CTG).d(CAG)n (n = 2 and 3) using NMR and UV optical spectroscopy...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Smith GK,Jie J,Fox GE,Gao X

更新日期：1995-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The engineering of new enzymes that efficiently and specifically modify DNA sequences is necessary for the development of enhanced gene therapies and genetic studies. To address this need, we developed a robust strategy for evolving site-specific recombinases with novel substrate specificities. In this system, recombi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gersbach CA,Gaj T,Gordley RM,Barbas CF 3rd

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tetradecanucleotide U-A-G-C(U-C-G)2G-G-C-Up corresponding to bases 21-34 of a nascent sequence of formylmethionyl tRNA of E. coli has been synthesized by the joining of two combinations of chemically synthesized oligonucleotides: 1) U-A-G-C + U-C-G-U-C-G + G-G-C-Up and 2) U-A-G-C + U-C-G-U + C-G-G-G-C-Up. In reactio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ohtsuka E,Doi T,Uemura H,Taniyama Y,Ikehara M

更新日期：1980-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nematode mitochondria expresses two types of extremely truncated tRNAs that are specifically recognized by two distinct elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) species named EF-Tu1 and EF-Tu2. This is unlike the canonical EF-Tu molecule that participates in the standard protein biosynthesis systems, which basically recognizes al...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Suematsu T,Sato A,Sakurai M,Watanabe K,Ohtsuki T

更新日期：2005-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Since July 1995, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) has maintained RHdb (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/RHdb/RHdb.html ), a public database for radiation hybrid data. Radiation hybrid mapping is an important technique for determining high resolution maps. Recently, CORBA access has been added to Rhdb. The EBI is an Out...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lijnzaad P,Helgesen C,Rodriguez-Tomé P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the 3'-flanking regions required for accurate 3'-end formation of wheat histone H3 mRNA using gene expression in transformed sunflower cells. The introduction of mutations into the conserved sequence AATGGAAATG in the 3'-flanking region of plant histone genes, located 22 bp upstream from the polyadenylatio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ohtsubo N,Iwabuchi M

更新日期：1994-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence requirements for specific and efficient transcription from the 16S/23S rRNA promoter of Sulfolobus shibatae were analysed by point mutations and by cassette mutations using an in vitro transcription system. The examination of the box A-containing distal promoter element (DPE) showed the great importance o...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hain J,Reiter WD,Hüdepohl U,Zillig W

更新日期：1992-10-25 00:00:00