Conformational heterogeneity and bubble dynamics in single bacterial transcription initiation complexes.

abstract：:Gut-enriched Krüppel-like factor (GKLF or KLF4) is a pleiotropic (activating and repressive) transcription factor. This study characterizes the mechanisms of transactivation by GKLF. Using a GAL4 fusion assay, the activating domain of murine GKLF was localized to the 109 amino acid residues in the N-terminus. Site-dir...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Geiman DE,Ton-That H,Johnson JM,Yang VW

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:The tumor suppressor p53 is a sequence-specific transcription factor, which regulates the expression of target genes involved in different stress responses. To understand p53's essential transcriptional functions, unbiased analysis of its DNA-binding repertoire is pivotal. In a genome-wide tiling ChIP-on-chip approach...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Smeenk L,van Heeringen SJ,Koeppel M,van Driel MA,Bartels SJ,Akkers RC,Denissov S,Stunnenberg HG,Lohrum M

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A vexing difficulty of the RNA world hypothesis is how RNA molecules of significant complexity could ever have evolved given their susceptibility to degradation. One way degradation might have been reduced is through low temperature. Here we report that truncated and fragmented derivatives of the hairpin ribozyme can ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Vlassov AV,Johnston BH,Landweber LF,Kazakov SA

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the DNA duplex as a supramolecular scaffold is an established approach for the assembly of chromophore aggregates. In the absence of detailed structural insight, the characterization of thus assembled oligochromophores is, today, largely based on solution-phase spectroscopy. Here, we describe the crystal st...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Probst M,Aeschimann W,Chau TT,Langenegger SM,Stocker A,Häner R

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant viruses ubiquitously mediate the induction of miR168 trough the activities of viral suppressors of RNA silencing (VSRs) controlling the accumulation of ARGONAUTE1 (AGO1), one of the main components of RNA silencing based host defence system. Here we used a mutant Tombusvirus p19 VSR (p19-3M) disabled in its main...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Várallyay É,Oláh E,Havelda Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple myeloma, the second most frequent hematologic tumor after lymphomas, is an incurable cancer. Recent sequencing efforts have identified the ribonuclease DIS3 as one of the most frequently mutated genes in this disease. DIS3 represents the catalytic subunit of the exosome, a macromolecular complex central to th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Segalla S,Pivetti S,Todoerti K,Chudzik MA,Giuliani EC,Lazzaro F,Volta V,Lazarevic D,Musco G,Muzi-Falconi M,Neri A,Biffo S,Tonon G

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterovirus 71 (EV71) 3Dpol is an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) that plays the central role in the viral genome replication, and is an important target in antiviral studies. Here, we report a crystal structure of EV71 3Dpol elongation complex (EC) at 1.8 Å resolution. The structure reveals that the 5'-end gu...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Shi W,Ye HQ,Deng CL,Li R,Zhang B,Gong P

更新日期：2020-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cartilage matrix is composed of characteristic components including type II collagen, aggrecan and link protein. In this paper, we report two DNA elements that regulate the link protein gene. Using transient transfection assays with link protein gene constructs in chondrocytes, chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rhodes C,Yamada Y

更新日期：1995-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The APOBEC3 proteins are unique to mammals. Many inhibit retrovirus infection through a cDNA cytosine deamination mechanism. HIV-1 neutralizes this host defense through Vif, which triggers APOBEC3 ubiquitination and degradation. Here, we report an APOBEC3F-like, double deaminase domain protein from three artiodactyls:...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jónsson SR,Haché G,Stenglein MD,Fahrenkrug SC,Andrésdóttir V,Harris RS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4'-Acylated thymidines represent a new class of DNA chain terminators, since they have been shown to act as post-incorporation chain-terminating nucleotides despite the presence of a free 3'-hydroxyl group. Here, we describe the action of the 4'-acetyl- (MeTTP) and 4'-propanoylthymidine 5'-triphosphate (EtTTP) on HIV-...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Marx A,Amacker M,Stucki M,Hübscher U,Bickle TA,Giese B

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ymf39 is a conserved hypothetical protein-coding gene found in mitochondrial genomes of land plants and certain protists. We speculated earlier, based on a weak sequence similarity between Ymf39 from a green alga and the atpF gene product from Bradyrhizobium, that ymf39 might code for subunit b of mitochondrial F(0)F(...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Burger G,Lang BF,Braun HP,Marx S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage DNA packaging motors translocate their genomic DNA into viral heads, compacting it to near-crystalline density. The Bacillus subtilis phage 29 has a unique ring of RNA (pRNA) that is an essential component of its motor, serving as a scaffold for the packaging ATPase. Previously, deletion of a three-base ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Harjes E,Kitamura A,Zhao W,Morais MC,Jardine PJ,Grimes S,Matsuo H

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) maintains the expression of cellular memory genes during development, while leukemic MLL fusion proteins aberrantly maintain expression of hematopoietic stem cell program genes such as HOXA9 to cause leukemia. However, the molecular mechanism of gene activation is unclear. Here we show tha...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Okuda H,Kawaguchi M,Kanai A,Matsui H,Kawamura T,Inaba T,Kitabayashi I,Yokoyama A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TERC is an RNA component of telomerase. However, TERC is also ubiquitously expressed in most human terminally differentiated cells, which don't have telomerase activity. The function of TERC in these cells is largely unknown. Here, we report that TERC enhances the expression and secretion of inflammatory cytokines by ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Liu H,Yang Y,Ge Y,Liu J,Zhao Y

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular beacons (MBs) have the potential to provide a powerful tool for rapid RNA detection in living cells, as well as monitoring the dynamics of RNA expression in response to external stimuli. To exploit this potential, it is necessary to distinguish true signal from background signal due to non-specific interacti...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rhee WJ,Bao G

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of evidence suggests that genes transcribed by RNA polymerase III exhibit multiple functions within a chromosome. While the predominant function of these genes is the synthesis of RNA molecules, certain RNA polymerase III genes also function as genomic landmarks. Transfer RNA genes are known to exhibit ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Simms TA,Miller EC,Buisson NP,Jambunathan N,Donze D

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Three databases that provide data on transcriptional regulation are described. TRANSFAC is a database on transcription factors and their DNA binding sites. TRRD (Transcription Regulatory Region Database) collects information about complete regulatory regions, their regulation properties and architecture. COMPEL compri...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wingender E,Kel AE,Kel OV,Karas H,Heinemeyer T,Dietze P,Knüppel R,Romaschenko AG,Kolchanov NA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomes in vertebrates are protected at both ends by telomere DNA composed of tandem (TTAGGG)n repeats. DNA replication produces a blunt-ended leading strand telomere and a lagging strand telomere carrying a single-stranded G-rich overhang at its end. The G-rich strand can form G-quadruplex structure in the presen...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kan ZY,Lin Y,Wang F,Zhuang XY,Zhao Y,Pang DW,Hao YH,Tan Z

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolite-responsive RNA pseudoknots derived from prokaryotic riboswitches have been shown to stimulate -1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF), suggesting -1 PRF as a promising gene expression platform to extend riboswitch applications in higher eukaryotes. However, its general application has been hampered by d...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lin YH,Chang KY

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Reversion of T type cytoplasmic male sterility (cmsT) to fertility is correlated with sequence changes in a 1.5 kb AvaI fragment. This 1.5 kb AvaI fragment is composed of 5' flanking sequences of ATPase subunit 6, one complete open reading frame (ORF 13) and part of the another (ORF 25). The sequence of the 1.5 kb Ava...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Qin J,Fauron CM,Brettell RI,Milhous M,Abbott AG

更新日期：1987-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence factor database (VFDB) was set up in 2004 dedicated for providing current knowledge of virulence factors (VFs) from various medical significant bacterial pathogens to facilitate pathogenomic research. Nowadays, complete genome sequences of almost all the major pathogenic microbes have been determined, which ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Yang J,Chen L,Sun L,Yu J,Jin Q

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the virion core of retroviruses, the genomic RNA is tightly associated with nucleocapsid (NC) protein molecules, forming the nucleocapsid structure. NC protein, a highly basic protein with two zinc fingers, is indispensable for RNA dimerization, encapsidation and the initiation of reverse transcription in avian, mu...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lapadat-Tapolsky M,De Rocquigny H,Van Gent D,Roques B,Plasterk R,Darlix JL

更新日期：1993-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicellular organismal development is controlled by a complex network of transcription factors, promoters and enhancers. Although reliable computational and experimental methods exist for enhancer detection, prediction of their target genes remains a major challenge. On the basis of available literature and ChIP-seq...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rödelsperger C,Guo G,Kolanczyk M,Pletschacher A,Köhler S,Bauer S,Schulz MH,Robinson PN

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The web software CHOP was developed to visualize the 'wobbling' in the third codon position of aligned DNA sequences. The simple features of this tool allow users to easily find regions suspected of containing coding sequences (CDSs). The program also allows visualization of the nucleotide diversity between two genomi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ohtsuka M,Horiuchi S,Kulski JK,Kimura M,Inoko H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kluyveromyces lactis gene encoding the general transcription factor IIB (TFIIB) was isolated from a genomic library by complementation of the cold-sensitive phenotype conferred by a mutation in the SUA7 gene, which encodes TFIIB in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. DNA sequence analysis of the KI-SUA7 gene revealed a 357 ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Na JG,Hampsey M

更新日期：1993-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed vectors from bacteriophage lambda and from plasmid pBR322 having a single EcoRI restriction site which is immediately downstream from the lac UV5 promotor. Each vector allows the fusion of a cloned gene to the lac Z gene in a different phase relative to the translation initiation codon of the lac Z...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Charnay P,Perricaudet M,Galibert F,Tiollais P

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Functional Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (F-SNP) database integrates information obtained from 16 bioinformatics tools and databases about the functional effects of SNPs. These effects are predicted and indicated at the splicing, transcriptional, translational and post-translational level. As such, the database h...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lee PH,Shatkay H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of the 356 nucleotide residues of chrysanthemum stunt viroid (CSV) has been determined. Overlapping linear viroid fragments were obtained by partial ribonuclease digestion, radiolabelled in vitro at their 5'-ends, and sequenced using partial enzymic cleavage methods. Of the CSV sequence, 69% is contained ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Haseloff J,Symons RH

更新日期：1981-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Class 3 aldehyde dehydrogenase gene (ALDH-3) is differentially expressed. Expression is either constitutive or xenobiotic inducible via an aromatic hydrocarbon (Ah) receptor-mediated pathway, depending upon the tissue. A series of studies were performed to examine the regulation of rat ALDH-3 basal expression. DNa...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Xie YQ,Takimoto K,Pitot HC,Miskimins WK,Lindahl R

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00