Calculated distortions of duplex DNA by a cis, syn cyclobutane thymine dimer are unaffected by a 3' TpA step.

abstract：:We report the isolation of a novel human POU domain encoding gene named RDC-1. The POU domain of the RDC-1 encoded protein is highly related to the POU domain potentially encoded by the rat brain-3 sequence and to that of the Drosophila I-POU protein; outside of the POU region, RDC-1 is unrelated to any previously cha...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Collum RG,Fisher PE,Datta M,Mellis S,Thiele C,Huebner K,Croce CM,Israel MA,Theil T,Moroy T

更新日期：1992-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon infection of Escherichia coli by bacteriophage Qβ, the virus-encoded β-subunit recruits host translation elongation factors EF-Tu and EF-Ts and ribosomal protein S1 to form the Qβ replicase holoenzyme complex, which is responsible for amplifying the Qβ (+)-RNA genome. Here, we use X-ray crystallography, NMR spect...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Gytz H,Mohr D,Seweryn P,Yoshimura Y,Kutlubaeva Z,Dolman F,Chelchessa B,Chetverin AB,Mulder FA,Brodersen DE,Knudsen CR

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Riboswitches are important gene regulatory elements frequently encountered in bacterial mRNAs. The recently discovered nadA riboswitch contains two similar, tandemly arrayed aptamer domains, with the first domain possessing high affinity for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+). The second domain which comprises t...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Chen H,Egger M,Xu X,Flemmich L,Krasheninina O,Sun A,Micura R,Ren A

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) A2 is a multi-tasking protein that acts in the cytoplasm and nucleus. We have explored the possibility that this protein is associated with telomeres and participates in their maintenance. Rat brain hnRNP A2 was shown to have two nucleic acid binding sites. In the pr...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Moran-Jones K,Wayman L,Kennedy DD,Reddel RR,Sara S,Snee MJ,Smith R

更新日期：2005-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5'-cap of spliceosomal small nuclear RNAs, some small nucleolar RNAs and of telomerase RNA was found to be hypermethylated in vivo. The Trimethylguanosine Synthase 1 (TGS1) mediates this conversion of the 7-methylguanosine-cap to the 2,2,7-trimethylguanosine (m(3)G)-cap during maturation of the RNPs. For mammalian...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Monecke T,Dickmanns A,Ficner R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobically-regulated nirB promoter was used to express heterologous genes in Escherichia coli. Under anaerobic conditions the promoter was able to express tetanus toxin fragment C at approximately 20% total cell protein (tcp) and the Bordetella pertussis antigen pertactin at greater than 30% tcp. These levels a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Oxer MD,Bentley CM,Doyle JG,Peakman TC,Charles IG,Makoff AJ

更新日期：1991-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA helicases are motor proteins that catalyze the unwinding of double-stranded DNA into single-stranded DNA using the free energy from ATP hydrolysis. Single molecule approaches enable us to address detailed mechanistic questions about how such enzymes move processively along DNA. Here, an optical method has been dev...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Fili N,Mashanov GI,Toseland CP,Batters C,Wallace MI,Yeeles JT,Dillingham MS,Webb MR,Molloy JE

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic oligonucleotides were used to introduce mutations into the lacPUV5 promoter. Four mutations were obtained at positions -13, -14, and -15, with respect to the transcriptional start site. The effects of these mutations were measured in vivo and the results are discussed with respect to the consensus sequence a...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Munson LM,Mandecki W,Caruthers MH,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1984-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The PriA protein was identified in Escherichia coli as a factor involved in the replication of extrachromosomal elements such as bacteriophage phiX174 and plasmid pBR322. Recent data show that PriA plays an important role in chromosomal replication, by promoting reassembly of the replication machinery during reinitiat...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Polard P,Marsin S,McGovern S,Velten M,Wigley DB,Ehrlich SD,Bruand C

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene trapping is a method of generating murine embryonic stem (ES) cell lines containing insertional mutations in known and novel genes. A number of international groups have used this approach to create sizeable public cell line repositories available to the scientific community for the generation of mutant mouse str...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Nord AS,Chang PJ,Conklin BR,Cox AV,Harper CA,Hicks GG,Huang CC,Johns SJ,Kawamoto M,Liu S,Meng EC,Morris JH,Rossant J,Ruiz P,Skarnes WC,Soriano P,Stanford WL,Stryke D,von Melchner H,Wurst W,Yamamura K,Young SG,

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced 14 introns from the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila and include these in an analysis of the 27 intron sequences available from seven T. thermophila protein-encoding genes. Consensus 5' and 3' splice junctions were determined and found to resemble the junctions of other nuclear pre-mRNA introns. Uniqu...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Csank C,Taylor FM,Martindale DW

更新日期：1990-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Although secondary structure predictions of an individual RNA sequence have been widely used in a number of sequence analyses of RNAs, accuracy is still limited. Recently, we proposed a method (called 'CentroidHomfold'), which includes information about homologous sequences into the prediction of the secondary structu...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Hamada M,Yamada K,Sato K,Frith MC,Asai K

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To organize data resulting from the phenotypic characterization of a library of 30,000 T-DNA enhancer trap (ET) insertion lines of rice (Oryza sativa L cv. Nipponbare), we developed the Oryza Tag Line (OTL) database (http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/OryzaTagLine/). OTL structure facilitates forward genetic search for sp...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Larmande P,Gay C,Lorieux M,Périn C,Bouniol M,Droc G,Sallaud C,Perez P,Barnola I,Biderre-Petit C,Martin J,Morel JB,Johnson AA,Bourgis F,Ghesquière A,Ruiz M,Courtois B,Guiderdoni E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed DNA modification in a HapII site (CCGG) present in the major intron of the discontinuous rabbit beta-globin gene. In most somatic tissues, including erythroid and non-erythroid tissues, about 50% of the DNA is resistant to cleavage at this site by HapII, though 100% cleavage is found with the isoschiz...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Waalwijk C,Flavell RA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation Initiator of Short 5' UTR (TISU) is a unique regulatory element of both transcription and translation initiation. It is present in a sizable number of genes with basic cellular functions and a very short untranslated region (5' UTR). Here, we investigated translation initiation from short 5' UTR mRNAs with...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Elfakess R,Sinvani H,Haimov O,Svitkin Y,Sonenberg N,Dikstein R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cells are, in general, poor recipients of foreign DNA, which has severely hampered the cloning of genes by direct phenotypic correction of deficient human cell lines after DNA mediated gene transfer. In this communication a methodology is presented which largely circumvents this problems. The method relies on th...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Belt PB,Jongmans W,de Wit J,Hoeijmakers JH,van de Putte P,Backendorf C

更新日期：1991-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethidium causes the cleavage of DNA via a light and oxygen dependent process. Using covalently closed circular DNA as a substrate, the saturation kinetics and the dependence on superhelical density of the cleavage indicate that intercalated ethidium is mainly responsible for nicking DNA. Superoxide dismutase has littl...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Deniss IS,Morgan AR

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluoropyrimidines, such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), are used extensively in cancer therapy. In the cell, 5-FU is metabolized to 5-fluorodeoxyuridylate (5-FdUMP), a tight binding covalent inhibitor of thymidylate synthase (TS). In order to create 5-FdUMP resistant enzymes to protect chemosensitive normal cells and furthe...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Landis DM,Gerlach JL,Adman ET,Loeb LA

更新日期：1999-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify variable numbers of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci has become widely used in genetic typing. Unfortunately, preferential amplification of small allelic products relative to large allelic products may result in incorrect or ambiguous typing in a heterozygous sample. The ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Demers DB,Curry ET,Egholm M,Sozer AC

更新日期：1995-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring RNAs are known to exhibit a high degree of modularity, whereby specific structural modules (or motifs) can be mixed and matched to create new molecular architectures. The modular nature of RNA also affords researchers the ability to characterize individual structural elements in controlled syntheti...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Mitchell C,Polanco JA,DeWald L,Kress D,Jaeger L,Grabow WW

更新日期：2019-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are induced in Saccharomyces cerevisiae when this yeast is grown in the presence of oleate, and are repressed when glucose is supplied as the carbon source. Concomitant with this is an induction/repression of peroxisomal beta-oxidation enzymes. We are investigating the transcriptional control of acyl-CoA o...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Wang TW,Lewin AS,Small GM

更新日期：1992-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of non-coding RNA genes largely depends on their secondary structure and the interaction with other molecules. Thus, an accurate prediction of secondary structure and RNA-RNA interaction is essential for the understanding of biological roles and pathways associated with a specific RNA gene. We present web...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Seemann SE,Menzel P,Backofen R,Gorodkin J

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation plays an important role in many biological processes. Existing epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) have successfully identified aberrantly methylated genes in many diseases and disorders with most studies focusing on analysing methylation sites one at a time. Incorporating prior biological inform...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ruan P,Shen J,Santella RM,Zhou S,Wang S

更新日期：2016-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations help us to understand the molecular origins of diseases. Researchers, therefore, both publish and seek disease-relevant mutations in public databases and in scientific literature, e.g. Medline. The retrieval tends to be time-consuming and incomplete. Automated screening of the literature is more efficient. W...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Rebholz-Schuhmann D,Marcel S,Albert S,Tolle R,Casari G,Kirsch H

更新日期：2004-01-02 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：:Natural antisense transcripts are at least partially complementary to their sense transcripts. Cis-Sense/Antisense pairs (cis-SAs) have been extensively characterized and known to play diverse regulatory roles, whereas trans-Sense/Antisense pairs (trans-SAs) in animals are poorly studied. We identified long trans-SAs ...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Li JT,Zhang Y,Kong L,Liu QR,Wei L

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-quadruplexes (G4s) are non-canonical nucleic acids secondary structures that form within guanine-rich strands of regulatory genomic regions. G4s have been extensively described in the human genome, especially in telomeres and oncogene promoters; in recent years the presence of G4s in viruses has attracted increasing...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Ruggiero E,Richter SN

更新日期：2018-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The human thrombopoietin (TPO) gene, which codes for the principal cytokine involved in platelet maturation, shows a peculiar alternative splicing of its last exon, where an intra-exonic 116 nt alternative intron is spliced out in a fraction of its mRNA. To characterize the molecular mechanism underlying this alternat...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Romano M,Marcucci R,Baralle FE

更新日期：2001-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin D receptor mediates the signal of 1 alpha, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 by binding to vitamin D responsive elements in DNA as a homodimer or as a heterodimer composed of one vitamin D receptor subunit and one retinoid X receptor subunit. We have mapped the dimerization interfaces of the vitamin D receptor that i...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Nishikawa J,Kitaura M,Imagawa M,Nishihara T

更新日期：1995-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An algorithm is presented which compares two restriction maps, yielding a measure of distance between the maps and relating the maps by an alignment. This new algorithm finds the minimum weighted sum of genetic events required to convert one map into the other, where the genetic events are the appearance/disappearance...

journal_title：Nucleic acids research

authors： Waterman MS,Smith TF,Katcher HL

更新日期：1984-01-11 00:00:00