An interactive graphics program for comparing and aligning nucleic acid and amino acid sequences.

abstract：:We have previously shown that in vivo estradiol-dependent dephosphorylation of MDBP-2-H1 (a member of the histone H1 family) correlates with the loss of in vitro preferential binding to methylated DNA. To study the effects of the phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of MDBP-2-H1 on the expression of the avian vitellogeni...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Bruhat A,Jost JP

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific DNA binding ligand netropsin selectively blocks dA-dT base pairs in clusters containing two or more consecutive thymine residues at the dNAase I cleavage sites of DNA. Using CD and UV absorption measurements it is shown, that at various ratios of netropsin to nucleotide concentrations and even at satuatio...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zimmer C,Luck G,Nüske R

更新日期：1980-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by the giant bacteriophage phiKZ is resistant to host RNA polymerase (RNAP) inhibitor rifampicin. phiKZ encodes two sets of polypeptides that are distantly related to fragments of the two largest subunits of cellular multisubunit RNAPs. Polypeptides of one set are encoded by mid...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Yakunina M,Artamonova T,Borukhov S,Makarova KS,Severinov K,Minakhin L

更新日期：2015-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) comprise a class of small RNAs best known for suppressing transposable elements in germline tissues. The vector mosquito Aedes aegypti encodes seven PIWI genes, four of which are somatically expressed. This somatic piRNA pathway generates piRNAs from viral RNA during infection with cytop...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Joosten J,Miesen P,Taşköprü E,Pennings B,Jansen PWTC,Huynen MA,Vermeulen M,Van Rij RP

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Some human cancers maintain their telomeres using the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) mechanism; a process thought to involve recombination. Different types of recombinational telomere elongation pathways have been identified in yeasts. In senescing yeast telomerase deletion (ter1-Delta) mutants with very s...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Basenko EY,Cesare AJ,Iyer S,Griffith JD,McEachern MJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication origin (oriC) of the Escherichia coli chromosome has been cloned and the region essential for chromosomal replication has been delimited to 245 base pairs. In previous studies the ability of recombinants between oriC and ColE1-type vectors, to transform E. coli polA- strains was used to determine which...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Stuitje AR,Meijer M

更新日期：1983-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The resonance Raman spectrum of native DNA has been obtained using excitation at 257 nm. In a first part, the spectral lines are assigned to the different nucleotide bases which provide the resonance effect. In a second part, the interactions of DNA with basic peptides (Arginine Methylester, Lysine Methylester, Arginy...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Laigle A,Chinsky L,Turpin PY

更新日期：1982-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The HhaI methyltransferase recognizes the sequence GCGC and transfers a methyl group to C5 of the first cytosine residue. All m5C-methyltransferases contain a highly conserved sequence motif called the P-C motif. The cysteine residue of this motif is involved in catalysis by forming a covalent bond with the 6-position...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mi S,Roberts RJ

更新日期：1993-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:After ionising radiation double-strand breaks (dsb) are lethal if not repaired or misrepaired. Cell killing is greatly enhanced by hyperthermia and it is questioned here whether heat not only affects dsb repair capacity but also fidelity in a chromosomal context. dsb repair experiments were designed so as to mainly sc...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： El-Awady RA,Dikomey E,Dahm-Daphi J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide-mediated multiplex genome engineering is an important tool for bacterial genome editing. The efficient application of this technique requires the inactivation of the endogenous methyl-directed mismatch repair system that in turn leads to a drastically elevated genomic mutation rate and the consequent a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Nyerges Á,Csorgő B,Nagy I,Latinovics D,Szamecz B,Pósfai G,Pál C

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermal stabilities of RNA:DNA hybrids are substantially greater than those of DNA:DNA duplexes in aqueous electrolyte solutions containing high concentrations of formamide. Association rates to form DNA:DNA duplexes and DNA:RNA hybrids have been measured in these solvents. There is a temperature range in which DN...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Casey J,Davidson N

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene promoters are enriched in guanine clusters that potentially fold into quadruplex structures. Such quadruplexes were implicated in the regulation of gene expression, plausibly by interacting with transcription factors. We showed previously that homodimers of the myogenic transcription factor MyoD bound in vitro mo...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Shklover J,Weisman-Shomer P,Yafe A,Fry M

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:siRNAs confer sequence specific and robust silencing of mRNA. By virtue of these properties, siRNAs have become therapeutic candidates for disease intervention. However, their use as therapeutic agents can be hampered by unintended off-target effects by either or both strands of the siRNA duplex. We report here that u...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Vaish N,Chen F,Seth S,Fosnaugh K,Liu Y,Adami R,Brown T,Chen Y,Harvie P,Johns R,Severson G,Granger B,Charmley P,Houston M,Templin MV,Polisky B

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Protein Circular Dichroism Data Bank (PCDDB) has been in operation for more than 5 years as a public repository for archiving circular dichroism spectroscopic data and associated bioinformatics and experimental metadata. Since its inception, many improvements and new developments have been made in data display, se...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Whitmore L,Miles AJ,Mavridis L,Janes RW,Wallace BA

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) can bind to homopurine/homopyrimidine sequences of double-stranded DNA targets in a sequence-specific manner and form [PNA]2/DNA triplexes with single-stranded DNA D-loop structures at the PNA binding sites. These D-loop structures have been found to have a capacity to initiate transcripti...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wang G,Xu X,Pace B,Dean DA,Glazer PM,Chan P,Goodman SR,Shokolenko I

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detailed principles of the hierarchical folding of eukaryotic chromosomes have been revealed during the last two decades. Along with structures composing three-dimensional (3D) genome organization (chromatin compartments, topologically associating domains, chromatin loops, etc.), the molecular mechanisms that are ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Kantidze OL,Razin SV

更新日期：2020-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric eukaryotic/archaeal translation initiation factor 2 (e/aIF2) binds initiator methionyl-tRNA and plays a key role in the selection of the start codon on messenger RNA. tRNA binding was extensively studied in the archaeal system. The γ subunit is able to bind tRNA, but the α subunit is required to reach h...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Naveau M,Lazennec-Schurdevin C,Panvert M,Dubiez E,Mechulam Y,Schmitt E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe snap-to-it probes, a novel probe technology to enhance the hybridization specificity of natural and unnatural nucleic acid oligomers using a simple and readily introduced structural motif. Snap-to-it probes were prepared from peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomers by modifying each terminus with a coordinati...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Morgan JR,Lyon RP,Maeda DY,Zebala JA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 transcription factor confers its potent tumor suppressor functions primarily through the regulation of a large network of target genes. The recent explosion of next generation sequencing protocols has enabled the study of the p53 gene regulatory network (GRN) and underlying mechanisms at an unprecedented depth...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sammons MA,Nguyen TT,McDade SS,Fischer M

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Advances in genomic sequencing have enormous potential to revolutionize personalized medicine, however distinguishing disease-causing from benign variants remains a challenge. The increasing number of human genome and exome sequences available has revealed areas where unfavourable variation is removed through purifyin...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Silk M,Petrovski S,Ascher DB

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted delivery of antisense oligonucleotides (ASO) to hepatocytes via the asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGR) has improved the potency of ASO drugs ∼30-fold in the clinic (1). In order to fully characterize the effect of GalNAc valency, oligonucleotide length, flexibility and chemical composition on ASGR binding, we...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Schmidt K,Prakash TP,Donner AJ,Kinberger GA,Gaus HJ,Low A,Østergaard ME,Bell M,Swayze EE,Seth PP

更新日期：2017-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs) are a recently characterized and poorly understood group of membrane proteins that are important in the uptake of endogenous nucleosides required for nucleic acid and nucleoside triphosphate synthesis. Despite their central importance in cellular metabolism and nucleoside a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Sankar N,Machado J,Abdulla P,Hilliker AJ,Coe IR

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:According to recent models, as yet poorly studied architectural proteins appear to be required for local regulation of enhancer-promoter interactions, as well as for global chromosome organization. Transcription factors ZIPIC, Pita and Zw5 belong to the class of chromatin insulator proteins and preferentially bind to ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Zolotarev N,Fedotova A,Kyrchanova O,Bonchuk A,Penin AA,Lando AS,Eliseeva IA,Kulakovskiy IV,Maksimenko O,Georgiev P

更新日期：2016-09-06 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：:The pattern of sites for cleavage mediated by topoisomerase II was determined in 830 kb of cloned DNA from the Drosophila X chromosome, with the objectives of comparing it with mapped structural and functional landmarks and examining if the correlations with such landmarks reported in individual loci can be generalize...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Miassod R,Razin SV,Hancock R

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA methylase has been purified 270-fold from HeLa cell nuclei by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, phosphocellulose, and hydroxyapatite. The enzyme transfers methyl groups from S-adenosyl-L-methionine to cytosine residues in DNA. The sole product of the reaction has been identified as 5-methylcytosine. The enzyme i...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Roy PH,Weissbach A

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available evidence suggests that Mg2+ ions are involved in reactions catalyzed by hammerhead ribozymes. However, the activity in the presence of exclusively monovalent ions led us to question whether divalent metal ions really function as catalysts when they are present. We investigated ribozyme activity in the presen...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Inoue A,Takagi Y,Taira K

更新日期：2004-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mini-exon, a short segment found at the 5' end of trypanosome mRNAs, is contributed by a small RNA, the mini-exon donor (medRNA). In vivo 32P-labeled medRNA, a set of smaller RNAs related to it, and mRNA, were purified from Trypanosoma brucei by hybrid selection and gel electrophoresis. Using RNA fingerprinting an...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Freistadt MS,Cross GA,Branch AD,Robertson HD

更新日期：1987-12-10 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：:DNA binding of heat shock factor 2 (HSF2) is induced during hemin-induced differentiation of human erythroleukemia cell line K562. To identify the transcriptional activation and the regulatory domains of HSF2, we constructed a series of deletion derivatives fused to the yeast GAL4 DNA binding domain and analyzed their...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Yoshima T,Yura T,Yanagi H

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00