Exploiting post-transcriptional regulation to probe RNA structures in vivo via fluorescence.

abstract：:COMPASS is a method for homology detection and local alignment construction based on the comparison of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). The method derives numerical profiles from given MSAs, constructs local profile-profile alignments and analytically estimates E-values for the detected similarities. Until now, CO...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sadreyev RI,Tang M,Kim BH,Grishin NV

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In flowering plants, RNA editing is a posttranscriptional process that converts specific C to U in organelle mRNAs. Nicotiana tabacum is an allotetraploid species derived from the progenitors of Nicotiana sylvestris and Nicotiana tomentosiformis. These Nicotiana species have been used as a model for understanding the ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Okuda K,Habata Y,Kobayashi Y,Shikanai T

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosomes are the most abundant protein-DNA complexes in eukaryotes that provide compaction of genomic DNA and are implicated in regulation of transcription, DNA replication and repair. The details of DNA positioning on the nucleosome and the DNA conformation can provide key regulatory signals. Hydroxyl-radical foot...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Shaytan AK,Xiao H,Armeev GA,Wu C,Landsman D,Panchenko AR

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA curvature plays a well-characterized role in many transcriptional regulation mechanisms. We present evidence for the conservation of curvature signals in putative regulatory regions of several archaeal and eubacterial genomes. Genes with highly curved upstream regions were identified in orthologous groups, based o...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jáuregui R,Abreu-Goodger C,Moreno-Hagelsieb G,Collado-Vides J,Merino E

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LNA oligonucleotides constitute a class of bicyclic RNA analogues having an exceptionally high affinity for their complementary DNA and RNA target molecules. We here report a novel method for highly efficient isolation of intact poly(A)+ RNA using an LNA-substituted oligo(dT) affinity ligand, based on the increased af...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jacobsen N,Nielsen PS,Jeffares DC,Eriksen J,Ohlsson H,Arctander P,Kauppinen S

更新日期：2004-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have partially purified replicating simian virus 40 (SV40) chromosomes in a form which allows continued DNA synthesis in vitro. We first prepare a soluble DNA-synthesizing system from SV40-infected monkey cells and then sediment the components through a neutral sucrose gradient of extremely low ionic strength. Repl...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Edenberg HJ,Waqar MA,Huberman JA

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NikR is a transcriptional metalloregulator central in the mandatory response to acidity of Helicobacter pylori that controls the expression of numerous genes by binding to specific promoter regions. NikR/DNA interactions were proposed to rely on protein activation by Ni(II) binding to high-affinity (HA) and possibly s...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bahlawane C,Dian C,Muller C,Round A,Fauquant C,Schauer K,de Reuse H,Terradot L,Michaud-Soret I

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe a two-stepped photobiotin-based procedure to enrich a target (canine retinal) cDNA library for tissue specific clones without removing those containing repetitive ( SINE ) elements, despite the presence of these elements in the driver population. In a first hybridization excess SINE elements were hybr...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lin CT,Sargan DR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:YdiV is a negative regulator of cell motility. It interacts with FlhD(4)C(2) complex, a product of flagellar master operon, which works as the transcription activator of all other flagellar operons. Here, we report the crystal structures of YdiV and YdiV(2)-FlhD(2) complex at 1.9 Å and 2.9 Å resolutions, respectively....

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Li B,Li N,Wang F,Guo L,Huang Y,Liu X,Wei T,Zhu D,Liu C,Pan H,Xu S,Wang HW,Gu L

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:31P NMR chemical shifts of the selected mono- and oligonucleotide derivatives, including the compounds with P-N, P-C, P-S bonds and phosphite nucleotide analogues have been presented. The influence of substituents upon 31P chemical shifts has been discussed. The concrete examples of 31P chemical shifts data applicatio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lebedev AV,Rezvukhin AI

更新日期：1984-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:HBV genotypes differ in pathogenicity. In addition, genotype-specific differences in the regulation of transcription and virus replication exist in HBV, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here, we show the presence of a G-quadruplex motif in the promoter of the preS2/S gene; this G-quadruplex is highly conserv...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Biswas B,Kandpal M,Vivekanandan P

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on parameters governing promoter activity and using regulatory elements of the lac, ara and tet operon transcription control sequences were composed which permit the regulation in Escherichia coli of several gene activities independently and quantitatively. The novel promoter PLtetO-1 allows the regulation of ge...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lutz R,Bujard H

更新日期：1997-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) expression is important for proliferation and is elevated in many tumor cells. We previously showed that Sp1 is a major positive regulator of ODC transcription. In this paper we have investigated transcriptional regulation of rat ODC by the closely related factor Sp3. While over-expressio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kumar AP,Butler AP

更新日期：1997-05-15 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：:Mutator-like transposable elements (MULEs) are widespread across fungal, plant and animal species. Despite their abundance and importance as genetic tools in plants, the transposition mechanism of the MULE superfamily was previously unknown. Discovery of the Muta1 element from Aedes aegypti and its successful transpos...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Liu K,Wessler SR

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Minigenes encoding the peptide Met-Arg-Arg have been used to study the mechanism of toxicity of AGA codons proximal to the start codon or prior to the termination codon in bacteria. The codon sequences of the 'mini-ORFs' employed were initiator, combinations of AGA and CGA, and terminator. Both, AGA and CGA are low-us...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cruz-Vera LR,Magos-Castro MA,Zamora-Romo E,Guarneros G

更新日期：2004-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously proposed that the first enzyme for histidine biosynthesis in Salmonellatyphimurium plays a role in regulating expression of the histidine operon and that in order to play this role the enzyme must form a complex with histidyl-tRNA. Among the many observations that led to these conclusions were 1) that re...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Smith O,Meyers MM,Vogel T,Deeley RD,Goldberger R

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and characterized a S. pombe promoter using a functional heterologous gene product assay. Random S. pombe genomic fragments were cloned upstream from the promoterless 'lacZ gene and tested in vivo for their efficiency to promote expression of the beta-galactosidase protein in the fission yeast. An eff...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kudla B,Persuy MA,Gaillardin C,Heslot H

更新日期：1988-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that DNA curvature plays a certain role in gene regulation. The distribution of curved DNA in promoter regions is evolutionarily preserved, and it is mainly determined by temperature of habitat. However, very little is known on the distribution of DNA curvature in termination sites. Our main objective was ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kozobay-Avraham L,Hosid S,Bolshoy A

更新日期：2006-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pathway Tools cellular overview diagram is a visual representation of the biochemical network of an organism. The overview is automatically created from a Pathway/Genome Database describing that organism. The cellular overview includes metabolic, transport and signaling pathways, and other membrane and periplasmic...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Paley SM,Karp PD

更新日期：2006-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Linker histones are an integral component of chromatin but how these proteins promote assembly of chromatin fibers and higher order structures and regulate gene expression remains an open question. Using Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) approaches we find that association of a linker histone with oligonucleoso...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Fang H,Wei S,Lee TH,Hayes JJ

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:HORMA domain-containing proteins (HORMADs) play an essential role in meiosis in many organisms. The meiotic HORMADs, including yeast Hop1, mouse HORMAD1 and HORMAD2, and Arabidopsis ASY1, assemble along chromosomes at early prophase and the closure motif at their C-termini has been hypothesized to be instrumental for ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Yang C,Hu B,Portheine SM,Chuenban P,Schnittger A

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin heavy chain intronic transcriptional enhancer (E mu) is part of a complex cis-regulatory DNA region which has notably been shown to modulate V(D)J rearrangements of associated variable gene segments. We have used recombination substrates comprised of the E mu enhancer together with various lengths o...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Fernex C,Caillol D,Capone M,Krippl B,Ferrier P

更新日期：1994-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A repeated sequence element which is located about 200 nucleotides upstream from the protein-coding portion of the muscle actin gene (probably within a large 5' intron) in the genome of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus has been characterized, and shown to contain the sequence features which indicate that ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Nisson PE,Hickey RJ,Boshar MF,Crain WR Jr

更新日期：1988-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized triple-helix-mediated inhibition of an artificial bacteriophage promoter with respect to relief of inhibition by incoming RNA polymerases that initiate upstream or downstream from the operator sequence. Whereas oligonucleotide-directed triple-helix formation inhibits the test promoter, promoter a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Skoog JU,Maher LJ 3rd

更新日期：1993-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:SplicePort is a web-based tool for splice-site analysis that allows the user to make splice-site predictions for submitted sequences. In addition, the user can also browse the rich catalog of features that underlies these predictions, and which we have found capable of providing high classification accuracy on human s...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Dogan RI,Getoor L,Wilbur WJ,Mount SM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic genome evolves under the dual constraint of maintaining coordinated gene transcription and performing effective DNA replication and cell division, the coupling of which brings about inevitable DNA topological tension. DNA supercoiling is resolved and, in some cases, even harnessed by the genome through ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Tsochatzidou M,Malliarou M,Papanikolaou N,Roca J,Nikolaou C

更新日期：2017-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized the tetradecamer GAGCXGATAACAAG containing a part of the sequence of the lactose operator. A guanine base in the sequence is replaced by the adduct of the carcinogen 2-acetylaminofluorene with guanine. Under the standard conditions of de-protection, the fluorene moiety is lost, leaving behind a gua...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Stöhrer G,Osband JA,Alvarado-Urbina G

更新日期：1983-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured mammalian cells transduced with the Escherichia coli gene, Ecogpt, synthesize the bacterial enzyme xanthine-guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (XGPT) (1). This paper describes a method for measuring XGPT activity in crude cell extracts by following the conversion of 14C-xanthine (X) to 14C-xanthine monophosph...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chu G,Berg P

更新日期：1985-04-25 00:00:00