Restriction endonucleases HindII and TaqI cleave DNA with mismatched nucleotides within their recognition sequences.

abstract：:The rabbit homolog to the locus control region (LCR) of the human beta-like globin gene cluster was isolated, and long segments containing the DNase I hypersensitive sites (HS) were sequenced. The order and spacing of HS4, HS3, HS2 and HS1 are conserved between rabbit and human. Alignment of these sequences with their...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hardison R,Xu J,Jackson J,Mansberger J,Selifonova O,Grotch B,Biesecker J,Petrykowska H,Miller W

更新日期：1993-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for increasing the transient level of expression of transfected DNA in cultured Drosophila cells have been examined. Here we show that cells exposed to the steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone for 48h prior to transfection show an 4 to 5 fold increase in the levels of expression of transfected DNA. By analysis, ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sinclair JH,Bryant LA

更新日期：1987-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision DNA repair is mechanistically conserved across all kingdoms of life. In prokaryotes, this multi-enzyme process requires six proteins: UvrA-D, DNA polymerase I and DNA ligase. To examine how UvrC locates the UvrB-DNA pre-incision complex at a site of damage, we have labeled UvrB and UvrC with differ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hughes CD,Wang H,Ghodke H,Simons M,Towheed A,Peng Y,Van Houten B,Kad NM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The class II genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) encode a family of cell surface glycoproteins that present processed antigen to the T cell receptor. Class II genes are regulated coordinately, responding to both immunologic and developmental signals. Conserved sequence elements 5' to class II genes hav...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hasegawa SL,Sloan JH,Reith W,Mach B,Boss JM

更新日期：1991-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissection of RNA editing mechanisms in PHYSARUM: mitochondria has been hindered by the absence of a soluble in vitro system. Based on our studies in isolated mitochondria, insertion of non-encoded nucleotides into PHYSARUM: mitochondrial RNAs is closely linked to transcription. Here we have fractionated mitochond...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Cheng YW,Gott JM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzo[c]phenanthrene dihydrodiol epoxide (B[c] PhDE) is well known as an important environmental chemical carcinogen that preferentially modifies DNA in adenine residues. However, the molecular mechanism by which B[c]PhDE induces tumorigenesis is not fully understood. In this report, we demonstrate that DNA mismatch r...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wu J,Zhu BB,Yu J,Zhu H,Qiu L,Kindy MS,Gu L,Seidel A,Li GM

更新日期：2003-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the DNaseI sensitivity of chromatin from the rat albumin and alpha-fetoprotein genes in the fetal liver (which synthesizes albumin and alpha-fetoprotein), adult liver (which synthesizes albumin), fetal yolk sac (which synthesizes alpha-fetoprotein), and adult kidney (which synthesizes neither). Active...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kunnath L,Locker J

更新日期：1985-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons (IFNs) are a family of multifunctional proteins involved in immune activation, regulation of cell growth and antiviral response. They exert their functions by induction of several IFN-stimulated genes, including IFN regulatory factors (IRFs), a family of transcriptional regulators. One of these factors, IR...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Koenig Merediz SA,Schmidt M,Hoppe GJ,Alfken J,Meraro D,Levi BZ,Neubauer A,Wittig B

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of the 2'-hydroxyl-group of ribonucleotides is found in all major classes of RNA in eukaryotes and is one of the most abundant posttranscriptional modifications of stable RNAs. In spite of intense studies, the multiple functions of RNA 2'-O-methylation are still not understood. One major obstacle in the fi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Aschenbrenner J,Marx A

更新日期：2016-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA is ideally suited for in vitro evolution experiments, because a single RNA molecule possesses both genotypic (replicable sequence) and phenotypic (selectable shape) properties. Using systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX), we found a single 58-nt aptamer sequence that assumes two structu...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Huang Z,Pei W,Han Y,Jayaseelan S,Shekhtman A,Shi H,Niu L

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed efficient methods for creating artificial transposons and inserting these transposons into plasmid targets in vitro, primarily for the purpose of DNA mapping and sequencing. A novel plasmid has been engineered to convert virtually any DNA sequence, or combination of sequences, into an artificial tran...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Devine SE,Boeke JD

更新日期：1994-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The regions of the polypeptide chain immediately preceding or following an α-helix are known as Nt- and Ct cappings, respectively. Cappings play a central role stabilizing α-helices due to lack of intrahelical hydrogen bonds in the first and last turn. Sequence patterns of amino acid type preferences have been derived...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Segura J,Oliva B,Fernandez-Fuentes N

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA primase has been partially purified from wheat germ. This enzyme, like DNA primases characterized from many procaryotic and eucaryotic sources, catalyses the synthesis of primers involved in DNA replication. However, the wheat enzyme differs from animal DNA primase in that it is found partially associated with a D...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Laquel P,Castroviejo M,Litvak S

更新日期：1990-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Various oligonucleotides containing 8-methylguanine (m8G) have been synthesized and their structures and thermodynamic properties investigated. Introduction Of M8G into DNA sequences markedly stabilizes the Z conformation under low salt conditions. The hexamer d(CGC[M8G]CG)2 exhibits a CD spectrum characteristic of th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sugiyama H,Kawai K,Matsunaga A,Fujimoto K,Saito I,Robinson H,Wang AH

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polypeptides recognized by a monoclonal antibody against calf thymus DNA polymerase alpha (secreted from a hybridoma CL22 -2- 42B , Nucleic Acids Res. (1982) 10, 4703-4713) were identified by the immunoblot method as the large polypeptides of the partially-purified 10S DNA polymerase alpha fraction. Using an immun...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Masaki S,Tanabe K,Yoshida S

更新日期：1984-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a cell-free chromatin assembly system derived from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which efficiently packages DNA into minichromosomes in a reaction dependent on exogenous core histones and an ATP-regenerating system. Both supercoiled and relaxed plasmid DNA serve as templates for nucleosomal loading i...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rodríguez-Campos A,Koop R,Faraudo S,Beato M

更新日期：2004-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A lac promotor mutant was constructed by filling in the protruding ends of the HpaII site located within the lac promotor. The mutation, named M42, is a two base pair insertion that changes the distance between the -10 and -35 regions from 18 to 20 residues. The activity of the mutant promotor measured in vivo is 15% ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mandecki W,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1982-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A search of sequence information in the GenBank files shows that tracts of 15-30 contiguous purines are greatly overrepresented in all eukaryotic species examined, ranging from yeast to human. Such an overabundance does not occur in prokaryotic sequences. The large increase in the number of oligopurine tracts cannot b...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Behe MJ

更新日期：1995-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human 2'-5' oligoadenylate synthetase-1 (OAS1) is central in innate immune system detection of cytoplasmic double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) and promotion of host antiviral responses. However, the molecular signatures that promote OAS1 activation are currently poorly defined. We show that the 3'-end polyuridine sequence of ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Vachon VK,Calderon BM,Conn GL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA lengths in the structural repeat units of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) and chicken erythrocyte chromatin were compared by analyzing the sizes of DNA fragments produced after treatment of nuclei with staphylococcal nuclease. The repeat length of CHO chromatin (173 +- 4 BP) is about 20 base pairs (BP) smaller than th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rill RL,Nelson DA,Oosterhof DK,Hozier JC

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conserved segments in DNA or protein sequences are strong candidates for functional elements and thus appropriate methods for computing them need to be developed and compared. We describe five methods and computer programs for finding highly conserved blocks within previously computed multiple alignments, primarily fo...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Stojanovic N,Florea L,Riemer C,Gumucio D,Slightom J,Goodman M,Miller W,Hardison R

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A very mild and efficient procedure has been developed for the preparation of C-5 substituted deoxyuridines. The substituent carries a masked primary aliphatic amino group. These compounds are readily converted into their phosphoramidites and can be used to prepare oligonucleotides carrying one or more aliphatic amino...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Haralambidis J,Chai M,Tregear GW

更新日期：1987-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of 41 histone homologous clones from an isogenic gene library of Drosophila melanogaster showed that non-histone fragments interrupt the histone repetitive clusters at several sites. Long (L) and short (S) forms of the repeating units are distinguished by the insertion of 240 bp into the spacer between H1 and...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Matsuo Y,Yamazaki T

更新日期：1989-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IIS restriction endonuclease BtsCI (GGATG 2/0) is a neoschizomer of FokI (GGATG 9/13) and cleaves closer to the recognition sequence. Although M.BtsCI shows 62% amino acid sequence identity to M.FokI, BtsCI and FokI restriction endonucleases do not share significant amino acid sequence similarity. BtsCI belongs t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Too PH,Zhu Z,Chan SH,Xu SY

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed RNA editing (SDRE) is a strategy to precisely alter genetic information within mRNAs. By linking the catalytic domain of the RNA editing enzyme ADAR to an antisense guide RNA, specific adenosines can be converted to inosines, biological mimics for guanosine. Previously, we showed that a genetically encod...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Montiel-González MF,Vallecillo-Viejo IC,Rosenthal JJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) is a primary target for anti-AIDS drugs. Structures of HIV-1 RT, usually determined at approximately 2.5-3.0 A resolution, are important for understanding enzyme function and mechanisms of drug resistance in addition to being helpful in the design of RT inhibitors. Despite hundreds of ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bauman JD,Das K,Ho WC,Baweja M,Himmel DM,Clark AD Jr,Oren DA,Boyer PL,Hughes SH,Shatkin AJ,Arnold E

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CD spectra of twelve DNA restriction fragments ranging in size from 12 to 360 base pairs are reported. Since the sequences of these fragments are known, it is possible to calculate their CD spectra from a set of nearest neighbor contributions derived from a combination of synthetic polydeoxyribonucleotides. While ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hillen W,Goodman TC,Wells RD

更新日期：1981-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We show how to speed up sequence alignment algorithms of the type introduced by Needleman and Wunsch (and generalized by Sellers and others). Faster alignment algorithms have been introduced, but always at the cost of possibly getting sub-optimal alignments. Our modification results in the optimal alignment still bein...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Fickett JW

更新日期：1984-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression profiling has gradually become a routine procedure for disease diagnosis and classification. In the past decade, many computational methods have been proposed, resulting in great improvements on various levels, including feature selection and algorithms for classification and clustering. In this study,...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ren X,Wang Y,Zhang XS,Jin Q

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of action of regulated promoters is largely determined by kinetic parameters which govern the interaction between promoters and proteins involved in induction and repression of transcription. To gain insight into the interplay between positively and negatively acting transcriptional regulators, in this case A...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lutz R,Lozinski T,Ellinger T,Bujard H

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00