Nucleic Acids Research

A novel helper phage that improves phage display selection efficiency by preventing the amplification of phages without recombinant protein
pp. e59-e59(1)
Authors: R. Arjen Kramer; Freek Cox; Marieke van der Horst; Sonja van den Oudenrijn; Pieter C. M. Res; Judith Bia; Ton Logtenberg; John de Kruif

Use of a three-color cDNA microarray platform to measure and control support-bound probe for improved data quality and reproducibility
pp. e60-e60(1)
Authors: Martin J. Hessner; Xujing Wang; Shehnaz Khan; Lisa Meyer; Michael Schlicht; Jennifer Tackes; Milton W. Datta; Howard J. Jacob; Soumitra Ghosh

Precise determination of mitochondrial DNA copy number in human skeletal and cardiac muscle by a PCR-based assay: lack of change of copy number with age
pp. e61-e61(1)
Authors: Francis J. Miller; Franklin L. Rosenfeldt; Chunfang Zhang; Anthony W. Linnane; Phillip Nagley

A novel multiplex quantitative DNA array based PCR (MQDA-PCR) for quantification of transgenic maize in food and feed
pp. e62-e62(1)
Authors: Knut Rudi; Ida Rud; Askild Holck

MALDI mass spectrometry analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms by photocleavage and charge-tagging
pp. e63-e63(1)
Authors: Sascha Sauer; Hans Lehrach; Richard Reinhardt

In vitro analysis of nuclear mRNA export using molecular beacons for target detection
pp. e64-e64(1)
Author: Ralph H. Kehlenbach

An automated microplate-based method for monitoring DNA strand breaks in plasmids and bacterial artificial chromosomes
pp. e65-e65(1)
Authors: Cassandra Rock; Parviz Ayazi Shamlou; M. Susana Levy

Genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms directly from genomic DNA by invasive cleavage reaction on microspheres
pp. e66-e66(1)
Authors: Kakuturu V. N. Rao; Priscilla Wilkins Stevens; Jeff G. Hall; Victor Lyamichev; Bruce P. Neri; David M. Kelso

Structural variations and stabilising modifications of synthetic siRNAs in mammalian cells
pp. 2705-2716(12)
Authors: Frank Czauderna; Melanie Fechtner; Sibylle Dames; Hüseyin Aygün; Anke Klippel; Gijsbertus J. Pronk; Klaus Giese; Jörg Kaufmann

Insight into the mechanism of the peptide-based gene delivery system MPG: implications for delivery of siRNA into mammalian cells
pp. 2717-2724(8)
Authors: Federica Simeoni; May C. Morris; Frederic Heitz; Gilles Divita

Syntheses and structural studies of calix[4]arene–nucleoside and calix[4]arene–oligonucleotide hybrids
pp. 2725-2734(10)
Authors: Su Jeong Kim; Byeang Hyean Kim

Transcriptional regulation of the human MIP-1 promoter by RUNX1 and MOZ
pp. 2735-2744(10)
Authors: Claire A. P. Bristow; Paul Shore

Effect of DNA bases and backbone on 70 holoenzyme binding and isomerization using fork junction probes
pp. 2745-2750(6)
Authors: Mike S. Fenton; Jay D. Gralla

The phage T4 restriction endoribonuclease RegB: a cyclizing enzyme that requires two histidines to be fully active
pp. 2751-2758(8)
Authors: Fakhri Saïda; Marc Uzan; François Bontems

Steric inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 Tat-dependent trans-activation in vitro and in cells by oligonucleotides containing 2-O-methyl G-clamp ribonucleoside analogues
pp. 2759-2768(10)
Authors: Stephen C. Holmes; Andrey A. Arzumanov; Michael J. Gait

Overexpression of FABP7 in Down syndrome fetal brains is associated with PKNOX1 gene-dosage imbalance
pp. 2769-2777(9)
Authors: Ma Francisca Sánchez-Font; Anna Bosch-Comas; Roser Gonzàlez-Duarte; Gemma Marfany

Domain mapping of Escherichia coli RecQ defines the roles of conserved N- and C-terminal regions in the RecQ family
pp. 2778-2785(8)
Authors: Douglas A. Bernstein; James L. Keck

UVA-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers form predominantly at thymine–thymine dipyrimidines and correlate with the mutation spectrum in rodent cells
pp. 2786-2794(9)
Authors: Patrick J. Rochette; Jean-Philippe Therrien; Régen Drouin; Daniel Perdiz; Nathalie Bastien; Elliot A. Drobetsky; Evelyne Sage

Faithful expression of a tagged Fugu WT1 protein from a genomic transgene in zebrafish: efficient splicing of pufferfish genes in zebrafish but not mice
pp. 2795-2802(8)
Authors: Colin G. Miles; Lesley Rankin; Shirley I. Smith; Martina Niksic; Greg Elgar; Nicholas D. Hastie

Purification and characterisation of a novel DNA methyltransferase, M.AhdI
pp. 2803-2810(8)
Authors: Phil Marks; John McGeehan; Geoff Wilson; Neil Errington; Geoff Kneale

Using structural motif templates to identify proteins with DNA binding function
pp. 2811-2823(13)
Authors: Susan Jones; Jonathan A. Barker; Irene Nobeli; Janet M. Thornton

Solution structure of the influenza A virus cRNA promoter: implications for differential recognition of viral promoter structures by RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
pp. 2824-2832(9)
Authors: Chin-Ju Park; Sung-Hun Bae; Mi-Kyung Lee; Gabriele Varani; Byong-Seok Choi

SPINE 2: a system for collaborative structural proteomics within a federated database framework
pp. 2833-2838(6)
Authors: Chern-Sing Goh; Ning Lan; Nathaniel Echols; Shawn M. Douglas; Duncan Milburn; Paul Bertone; Rong Xiao; Li-Chung Ma; Deyou Zheng; Zeba Wunderlich; Tom Acton; Gaetano T. Montelione; Mark Gerstein

Integrated functional and bioinformatics approach for the identification and experimental verification of RNA signals: application to HIV-1 INS
pp. 2839-2851(13)
Authors: Horst Wolff; Ruth Brack-Werner; Markus Neumann; Thomas Werner; Ralf Schneider

The role of intercalating residues in chromosomal high-mobility-group protein DNA binding, bending and specificity
pp. 2852-2864(13)
Authors: Janet Klass; Frank V. Murphy IV; Susan Fouts; Melissa Serenil; Anita Changela; Jessica Siple; Mair E. A. Churchill

Tertiary structure base pairs between D- and TC-loops of Escherichia coli tRNA^Leu play important roles in both aminoacylation and editing
pp. 2865-2872(8)
Authors: Xing Du; En-Duo Wang

The Drosophila Corto protein interacts with Polycomb-group proteins and the GAGA factor
pp. 2873-2882(10)
Authors: Juliette Salvaing; Aurore Lopez; Antoine Boivin; Jean S. Deutsch; Frédérique Peronnet

Optimisation of the 10–23 DNAzyme–substrate pairing interactions enhanced RNA cleavage activity at purine–cytosine target sites
pp. 2883-2889(7)
Authors: Murray J. Cairns; Andrew King; Lun-Quan Sun

Experimental and computational analysis of transcriptional start sites in the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus MED4
pp. 2890-2899(10)
Authors: Jörg Vogel; Ilka M. Axmann; Hanspeter Herzel; Wolfgang R. Hess

ZBP-89 represses vimentin gene transcription by interacting with the transcriptional activator, Sp1
pp. 2900-2914(15)
Authors: Xueping Zhang; Iman H. Diab; Zendra E. Zehner

A new member of the MCM protein family encoded by the human MCM8 gene, located contrapodal to GCD10 at chromosome band 20p12.3–13
pp. 2915-2925(11)
Authors: Edward M. Johnson; Yayoi Kinoshita; Dianne C. Daniel

Exploring the repertoire of RNA secondary motifs using graph theory; implications for RNA design
pp. 2926-2943(18)
Authors: Hin Hark Gan; Samuela Pasquali; Tamar Schlick

Specific interactions of distamycin with G-quadruplex DNA
pp. 2944-2951(8)
Authors: Melanie J. Cocco; L. A. Hanakahi; Michael D. Huber; Nancy Maizels

A novel engineered meganuclease induces homologous recombination in yeast and mammalian cells
pp. 2952-2962(11)
Authors: Jean-Charles Epinat; Sylvain Arnould; Patrick Chames; Pascal Rochaix; Dominique Desfontaines; Clémence Puzin; Amélie Patin; Alexandre Zanghellini; Frédéric Pâques; Emmanuel Lacroix

Efficient clustering of large EST data sets on parallel computers
pp. 2963-2974(12)
Authors: Anantharaman Kalyanaraman; Srinivas Aluru; Suresh Kothari; Volker Brendel