NGS-based identification and tracing of microsatellite instability from minute amounts DNA using inter-Alu-PCR.

abstract：:Homologous recombination is essential for the preservation of genome stability, thereby preventing cancer. The recombination protein RAD51 drives DNA strand exchange, which requires the assembly, rearrangement and disassembly of a RAD51 filament on DNA, coupled to ATP binding and hydrolysis. This process is facilitate...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Holthausen JT,van Loenhout MT,Sanchez H,Ristic D,van Rossum-Fikkert SE,Modesti M,Dekker C,Kanaar R,Wyman C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in immunoglobulin µ-binding protein 2 (Ighmbp2) cause distal spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (DSMA1), an autosomal recessive disease that is clinically characterized by distal limb weakness and respiratory distress. However, despite extensive studies, the mechanism of disease-causing mutations remains elusive...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lim SC,Bowler MW,Lai TF,Song H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria core RNA polymerase (RNAP) must associate with a sigma factor to recognize promoter sequences. Promoters recognized by the sigma(54) (or sigma(N)) associated RNA polymerase are unique in having conserved positions around -24 and -12 nucleotides upstream from the transcriptional start site. Using DNA microarra...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhao K,Liu M,Burgess RR

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Co-option of cis-regulatory modules has been suggested as a mechanism for the evolution of expression sites during development. However, the extent and mechanisms involved in mobilization of cis-regulatory modules remains elusive. To trace the history of non-coding elements, which may represent candidate ancestral cis...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sanges R,Hadzhiev Y,Gueroult-Bellone M,Roure A,Ferg M,Meola N,Amore G,Basu S,Brown ER,De Simone M,Petrera F,Licastro D,Strähle U,Banfi S,Lemaire P,Birney E,Müller F,Stupka E

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is common knowledge that conserved residues evolve slowly. We challenge generality of this central tenet of molecular biology by describing the fast evolution of a conserved nucleotide position that is located in the overlap of two open reading frames (ORFs) of polyomaviruses. The de novo ORF is expressed through e...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lauber C,Kazem S,Kravchenko AA,Feltkamp MC,Gorbalenya AE

更新日期：2015-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed ribosomal frameshifting provides a mechanism to decode information located in two overlapping reading frames by diverting a proportion of translating ribosomes into a second open reading frame (ORF). The result is the production of two proteins: the product of standard translation from ORF1 and an ORF1-ORF2...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Henderson CM,Anderson CB,Howard MT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Base specificity in the interaction of ethidium with double stranded synthetic RNA homopolymers has been studied by means of spectroscopic (UV-visible absorption and fluorescence), microcalorimetric and dilatometric techniques. The results show a strong base specificity in this interaction, the association constant wi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Babayan Y,Manzini G,Xodo LE,Quadrifoglio F

更新日期：1987-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We show herein the transcription of a processed gene that originated from a spliced transcript. Recently, we isolated the human and murine homologues of the yeast chromatin protein, SPT4. The Supt4h gene is spliced normally from five exons encoded by chromosome 11. Here we show that a related sequence on chromosome 10...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chiang PW,Zhang R,Stubbs L,Zhang L,Zhu L,Kurnit DM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of two symmetric bis-benzimidazole compounds, 2,2-bis-[4'-(3"-dimethylamino-1"-propyloxy)phenyl]-5,5-bi-1H-benzimidazole and its piperidinpropylphenyl analog, to the minor groove of DNA, have been studied by DNA footprinting, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) methods and molecular dynamics simulations in exp...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bailly C,Chessari G,Carrasco C,Joubert A,Mann J,Wilson WD,Neidle S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genotoxic stress induces alternative splicing of the oncogene MDM2 generating MDM2-ALT1, an isoform attributed with tumorigenic properties. However, the mechanisms underlying this event remain unclear. Here we explore MDM2 splicing regulation by utilizing a novel minigene that mimics endogenous MDM2 splicing in respon...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Comiskey DF Jr,Jacob AG,Singh RK,Tapia-Santos AS,Chandler DS

更新日期：2015-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:CAG repeats occur predominantly in the coding regions of human genes, which suggests their functional importance. In some genes, these sequences can undergo pathogenic expansions leading to neurodegenerative polyglutamine (poly-Q) diseases. The mutant transcripts containing expanded CAG repeats possibly contribute to ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kiliszek A,Kierzek R,Krzyzosiak WJ,Rypniewski W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we examined the role of cellular vitamin C in genotoxicity of carcinogenic chromium(VI) that requires reduction to induce DNA damage. In the presence of ascorbate (Asc), low 0.2-2 microM doses of Cr(VI) caused 10-15 times more chromosomal breakage in primary human bronchial epithelial cells or lung fibroblasts. D...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Reynolds M,Stoddard L,Bespalov I,Zhitkovich A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides a large suite of online resources for biological information and data, including the GenBank® nucleic acid sequence database and the PubMed® database of citations and abstracts published in life science journals. The Entrez system provides search and re...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sayers EW,Beck J,Bolton EE,Bourexis D,Brister JR,Canese K,Comeau DC,Funk K,Kim S,Klimke W,Marchler-Bauer A,Landrum M,Lathrop S,Lu Z,Madden TL,O'Leary N,Phan L,Rangwala SH,Schneider VA,Skripchenko Y,Wang J,Ye J,

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The multi-protein complex WRAD, formed by WDR5, RbBP5, Ash2L and Dpy30, binds to the MLL SET domain to stabilize the catalytically active conformation required for histone H3K4 methylation. In addition, the WRAD complex contributes to the targeting of the activated complex to specific sites on chromatin. RbBP5 is cent...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mittal A,Hobor F,Zhang Y,Martin SR,Gamblin SJ,Ramos A,Wilson JR

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mouse Genome Database (MGD) focuses on the integration of mapping, homology, polymorphism and molecular data about the laboratory mouse. Detailed descriptions of genes including their chromosomal location, gene function, disease associations, mutant phenotypes, molecular polymorphisms and links to representative s...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Blake JA,Richardson JE,Davisson MT,Eppig JT

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FSSP database presents a continuously updated classification of 3-D protein folds based on an all-against-all comparison of structures currently in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) [Bernstein et al. (1977) J. Mol. Biol., 112, 535- 542]. The database currently contains an extended structural family for each of 600 repre...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Holm L,Sander C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing numbers of proteins, nucleic acids and other molecular entities have been explored as therapeutic targets, hundreds of which are targets of approved and clinical trial drugs. Knowledge of these targets and corresponding drugs, particularly those in clinical uses and trials, is highly useful for facilitating...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zhu F,Han B,Kumar P,Liu X,Ma X,Wei X,Huang L,Guo Y,Han L,Zheng C,Chen Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a pilot study on SAGE on Reed-Sternberg cells we have sequenced 1055 tags representing 701 genes. Screening of the GenBank database resulted in the identification of a corresponding gene or EST for 490 of them. For 211 of the tags no homology could be detected. A major problem of the serial analysis of gene express...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： van den Berg A,van der Leij J,Poppema S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNAs) of B. subtilis at different growth phases are examined for changes in the composition and the methylation of minor constituents. The composition of the tRNAs indicates about equal amounts of adenosine and uridine, and of guanosine and cytidine. About 3-4 residues are present as m...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Singhal RP,Vold B

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer program package has been made available which contains five compound programs written in FORTRAN 10 (for DECsystem-10). Program DATBAS is for storing and improving DNA sequence data, especially those obtained by the sequencing method using M13 phages. Programs NUCDAT and PROTEN are for analyzing DNA/RNA and...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Isono K

更新日期：1984-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The antitumor antibiotic CC-1065 binds in the minor groove of double-stranded DNA, and the cyclopropapyrroloindole (CPI) subunit of the drug alkylates adjacent adenines at their N-3 position. We have attached racemic CPI to oligodeoxyribonucleotides (ODNs) via a terminal phosphorothioate at either the 3'- or 5'-end of...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lukhtanov EA,Podyminogin MA,Kutyavin IV,Meyer RB,Gamper HB

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike most yeast ribosomal protein genes studied so far the genes coding for S24 and L46 are adjacent on the genome. Sequence analysis showed that the two genes are transcribed divergently, their initiation codons being 630 bp apart. Taking the respective ATG translation start sites as reference points, the 5'- end o...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Leer RJ,van Raamsdonk-Duin MM,Kraakman P,Mager WH,Planta RJ

更新日期：1985-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres comprise the protective caps of natural chromosome ends and function in the suppression of DNA damage signaling and cellular senescence. Therefore, techniques used to determine telomere length are important in a number of studies, ranging from those investigating telomeric structure to effects on human disea...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Göhring J,Fulcher N,Jacak J,Riha K

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure is reported of a complex between an ethyl derivative of the minor-groove drug furamidine and the dodecanucleotide duplex d(CGCGAATTCGCG)2, which has been refined to 1.85 A resolution and an R factor of 16.6% for data collected at -173 degreesC. An exceptionally large number (220) of water molecul...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Guerri A,Simpson IJ,Neidle S

更新日期：1998-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cold shock domain is one of the most highly conserved motifs between bacteria and higher eukaryotes. Y-box-binding proteins represent a subfamily of cold shock domain proteins with pleiotropic functions, ranging from transcription in the nucleus to translation in the cytoplasm. These proteins have been investigate...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Arnold A,Rahman MM,Lee MC,Muehlhaeusser S,Katic I,Gaidatzis D,Hess D,Scheckel C,Wright JE,Stetak A,Boag PR,Ciosk R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of the DnaA protein to oriC leads to DNA melting within the DNA unwinding element (DUE) and initiates replication of the bacterial chromosome. Helicobacter pylori oriC was previously identified as a region localized upstream of dnaA and containing a cluster of DnaA boxes bound by DnaA protein with a high affin...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Donczew R,Weigel C,Lurz R,Zakrzewska-Czerwinska J,Zawilak-Pawlik A

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the basic mechanisms of signal transmission in DNA and the origins of the allostery exhibited by systems such as the ternary complex BAMHI-DNA-GRDBD. We found that perturbation information generated by a primary protein binding event travels as a wave to distant regions of DNA following a hopping mechanism...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Balaceanu A,Pérez A,Dans PD,Orozco M

更新日期：2018-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:DEAD-box helicases catalyze the non-processive unwinding of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) at the expense of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis. Nucleotide and RNA binding and unwinding are mediated by the RecA domains of the helicase core, but their cooperation in these processes remains poorly understood. We there...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Samatanga B,Klostermeier D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the replication patterns of ribosomal DNA plasmids in vivo and in vitro using Xenopus eggs. Plasmids carrying different parts of the Xenopus ribosomal DNA sequence were allowed to replicate either in vitro in an egg extract or in vivo after microinjection into unfertilized eggs. The replication interm...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hyrien O,Méchali M

更新日期：1992-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrity and stability of nucleosomes under transcription assay conditions has been found to depend on concentration and ionic environment. Rifamycin AF/013, a commonly used inhibitor of initiation, is particularly effective in destabilisation of nucleosomes. Intact nucleosomes are refractory to transcription by ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Lilley DM,Jacobs MF,Houghton M

更新日期：1979-09-25 00:00:00