Bacteriophage T4 RNA ligase: preparation of a physically homogeneous, nuclease-free enzyme from hyperproducing infected cells.

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：:Comprehensive understanding of structure and recognition properties of regulatory nucleic acid elements in real time and atomic level is highly important to devise efficient therapeutic strategies. Here, we report the establishment of an innovative biophysical platform using a dual-app nucleoside analog, which serves ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Nuthanakanti A,Ahmed I,Khatik SY,Saikrishnan K,Srivatsan SG

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) reveals nanometer scale details of hydrated DNA but the interpretation of the images is controversial because of substrate artifacts and the lack of a theory for image contrast. We demonstrate that we have overcome these problems by identifying five DNA samples by their STM images a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Jeffrey AM,Jing TW,DeRose JA,Vaught A,Rekesh D,Lu FX,Lindsay SM

更新日期：1993-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase III enzymes cleave double stranded (ds)RNA. This is an essential step for regulating the processing of mRNA, rRNA, snoRNA and other small RNAs, including siRNA and miRNA. Arabidopsis thaliana encodes nine RNase III: four DICER-LIKE (DCL) and five RNASE THREE LIKE (RTL). To better understand the molecular functio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Charbonnel C,Niazi AK,Elvira-Matelot E,Nowak E,Zytnicki M,de Bures A,Jobet E,Opsomer A,Shamandi N,Nowotny M,Carapito C,Reichheld JP,Vaucheret H,Sáez-Vásquez J

更新日期：2017-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The positive role of PARP1 in regulation of various nuclear DNA transactions is well established. Although a mitochondrial localization of PARP1 has been suggested, its role in the maintenance of the mitochondrial DNA is currently unknown. Here we investigated the role of PARP1 in the repair of the mitochondrial DNA i...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Szczesny B,Brunyanszki A,Olah G,Mitra S,Szabo C

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA dodecamers have been designed with two cytosines on each end and intervening A and T stretches, such that the oligomers have fully complementary A:T base pairs when aligned in the parallel orientation. Spectroscopic (UV, CD and IR), NMR and molecular dynamics studies have shown that oligomers having the sequences ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Parvathy VR,Bhaumik SR,Chary KV,Govil G,Liu K,Howard FB,Miles HT

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplexes are dynamic structures folded in G-rich single-stranded DNA regions. These structures have been recognized as a potential nucleic acid based mechanism for regulating multiple cellular processes such as replication, transcription and genomic maintenance. So far, their transcriptional role in vivo during ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： David AP,Margarit E,Domizi P,Banchio C,Armas P,Calcaterra NB

更新日期：2016-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:7,8-Dihydro-8-oxo-deoxyguanosine (8oxodG) is a highly premutagenic DNA lesion due to its ability to mispair with adenine. Schizosaccharomyces pombe lacks homologs for relevant enzymes that repair 8oxodG, which suggests that this lesion could be persistent and must be tolerated. Here we show that SpPol4, the unique Pol...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sastre-Moreno G,Sánchez A,Esteban V,Blanco L

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free extract of yeast nuclei that can specifically transcribe cloned yeast 5S rRNA genes has been developed. Optima for transcription of 5S rDNA were determined and conditions of extract preparation leading to reproducible activities and specificities established. The major in vitro product has the same size an...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： van Keulen H,Thomas DY

更新日期：1982-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermine-DNA complexes have been examined by small-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering as well as by circular dichroism studies. Condensed complexes are building up below a critical ionic strength. We have found that at one and the same ionic strength condensed complexes having two different supramolecular structure...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Becker M,Misselwitz R,Damaschun H,Damaschun G,Zirwer D

更新日期：1979-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete DNA sequence of pO157, the large virulence plasmid of EHEC strain O157:H7 EDL 933, is presented. The 92 kb F-like plasmid is composed of segments of putative virulence genes in a framework of replication and maintenance regions, with seven insertion sequence elements, located mostly at the boundaries of t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Burland V,Shao Y,Perna NT,Plunkett G,Sofia HJ,Blattner FR

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of temperature and primer concentration on oligonucleotide-primed transcription has been studied using the separated strands of a well-defined natural DNA as template. Results were similar to those obtained in the homopolymer-directed model systems. At high temperature and excess primer concentration mainly...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Van Kreijl CF,Beelen RH,Borst P

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short, non-protein coding RNAs that direct the widespread phenomenon of post-transcriptional regulation of metazoan genes. The mature approximately 22-nt long RNA molecules are processed from genome-encoded stem-loop structured precursor genes. Hundreds of such genes have been experimentally val...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gerlach D,Kriventseva EV,Rahman N,Vejnar CE,Zdobnov EM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To confirm the activity of an initial small molecule 'hit compound' from an activity screening, one needs to probe the structure-activity relationships by testing close analogs. The multi-fingerprint browser presented here (http://dcb-reymond23.unibe.ch:8080/MCSS/) enables one to rapidly identify such close analogs am...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Awale M,Reymond JL

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-Actinomycin D interaction has been studied by resonance Raman effect using DNA as chromophore. First, the resonance Raman spectra of DNA obtained with a U.V. excitation at wavelengths of 300 nm and 280 nm are presented. The main Raman hands are assigned to the convenient nucleic bases by comparison with the sp...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chinsky L,Turpin PY

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In plants, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) can trigger a silencing signal that may spread within a tissue to adjacent cells or even systemically to other organs. Movement of the signal is initially limited to a few cells, but in some cases the signal can be amplified and travel over larger distances. How far silencing...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： de Felippes FF,Ott F,Weigel D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported binding preference of human hnRNP protein A1 for the 3'-splice site of some introns (Swanson and Dreyfuss (1988) EMBO J. 7, 3519-3529; Mayrand and Pederson (1990) Nucleic Acids Res. 18, 3307-3318) was tested by assaying in vitro the binding of purified recombinant A1 protein (expressed in bacteria) to syn...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Buvoli M,Cobianchi F,Biamonti G,Riva S

更新日期：1990-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermodynamics of 13 hybridization reactions between 10 base DNA sequences of design 5'-ATGCXYATGC-3' with X, Y = A, C, G, T and their complementary PNA and DNA sequences were determined from isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) measurements at ambient temperature. For the PNA/DNA hybridization reactions, the bi...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Schwarz FP,Robinson S,Butler JM

更新日期：1999-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the sequences of five additional human U2 pseudogenes which are very similar to the U2.13 pseudogene reported previously [Van Arsdell et al. (1981) Cell 26, 11-17]. All six U2 pseudogenes preserve the 5' end of the mature U2 snRNA sequence, and all six are flanked by nearly perfect direct repeats that diffe...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Van Arsdell SW,Weiner AM

更新日期：1984-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance and complexity of total poly(A)+RNA of human normal unstimulated lymphocytes, PHA-stimulated and leukemic lymphocytes were examined using the cDNA-poly(A)+ RNA hybridization technique. It was found that in both PHA-stimulated and leukemic lymphocytes the complexity of total poly(A)+RNA is strongly reduce...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Torelli G,Ferrari S,Donelli A,Cadossi R,Ferrari S,Bosi P,Torelli U

更新日期：1981-12-21 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：:Cells internalized synthetic oligonucleotides (oligos) in culture. The hybridization of these molecules to target RNA in the living cell was subsequently detected and characterized after fixation of the cells, with or without previous detergent extraction. Hybridized oligo was distinguished from free oligo in the cell...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Politz JC,Taneja KL,Singer RH

更新日期：1995-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The higher order structure of the functionally important 530 loop in Escherichia coli 16S rRNA was studied in mutants with single base changes at position 517, which significantly impair translational fidelity. The 530 loop has been proposed to interact with the EF-Tu-GTP-aatRNA ternary complex during decoding. The re...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Van Ryk DI,Dahlberg AE

更新日期：1995-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a novel mechanism of gene regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis where the protein Rv1222 inhibits transcription by anchoring RNA polymerase (RNAP) onto DNA. In contrast to our existing knowledge that transcriptional repressors function either by binding to DNA at specific sequences or by binding to RNAP,...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rudra P,Prajapati RK,Banerjee R,Sengupta S,Mukhopadhyay J

更新日期：2015-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated from a single human liver cDNA library two clones which are highly homologous (78% over the coding region) to the major phenobarbital-inducible P450 from rat (P450IIB1). This is the first direct demonstration of the presence of the P450IIB gene subfamily in humans. This subfamily is much less extensiv...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Miles JS,Spurr NK,Gough AC,Jowett T,McLaren AW,Brook JD,Wolf CR

更新日期：1988-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free extracts employed as chromatin assembly systems contain a myriad of proteins, polyanions and nucleic acids. The roles of ATP, MgCl2 and other cofactors in the catalysis of nucleosome formation by the Xenopus laevis oocyte S-150 have yet to be established unequivocally. In this study we examine the influence ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sekiguchi JM,Kmiec EB

更新日期：1992-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Synonymous codon usage significantly impacts translational and transcriptional efficiency, gene expression, the secondary structure of both mRNA and proteins, and has been implicated in various diseases. However, population-specific differences in codon usage biases remain largely unexplored. Here, we present a web se...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hodgman MW,Miller JB,Meurs TE,Kauwe JSK

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of phylogenetically conserved secondary structure has been important in the development of models for the secondary structure of structural RNAs. In this paper, we apply this type of analysis to several families of informational RNAs to evaluate its usefulness in developing secondary structure models for mRNA...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Browner MF,Lawrence CB

更新日期：1985-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the faeD gene of Escherichia coli and the amino acid sequence of its product is presented. The faeD product is an outer membrane protein required for transport of K88ab fimbrial subunits across the outer membrane. The protein is synthesized as a precursor containing a signal peptide, and the...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mooi FR,Claassen I,Bakker D,Kuipers H,de Graaf FK

更新日期：1986-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly repetitive DNA sequence from tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus/hornorum) has been cloned and sequenced. It is a tandemly arrayed sequence of 237 bp and constitutes 7% of the fish genome. The copy number of the repeat is approximately 3 x 10(5) per haploid genome. DNA sequence analysis of 7 cloned repeats revea...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wright JM

更新日期：1989-07-11 00:00:00