Basic structure of DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid: A nucleotide is the basic of polynucleotide chain of DNA and each nucleotide is composed of three components - i) a nitrogenous base, ii) a pentose sugar and iii) a phosphate group. Nitrogen base is attached to the pentose sugar by an N-gl...
Bacteria have evolved diverse mechanisms to fend off predation by bacteriophages. We previously identified the Dnd system, which uses DndABCDE to insert sulfur into the DNA backbone as a double-stranded phosphorothioate (PT) modification, and DndFGH, a r
Nucleic acids are the organic materials present in all organisms in the form of DNA or RNA. These nucleic acids are formed by the combination of nitrogenous bases, sugar molecules and phosphate groups that are linked by different bonds in a series of sequences. The DNA structure defines the ...
Lys-82 points away from the DNA but contributes to the overall positively charged environment of the DNA patch. In addition, Asn-269 of the AAA+ domain and Thr-271 of the AAA+ domain contact the DNA, forming hydrogen bonds with the phosphate groups of C-27 and T-26 of the 3′-...
andpotassium ionsas co-germinants (144–149). MostClostridiaspecies also germinate in response to the compounds listed forB. subtilis, but they can also respond to combinations including glycine,l-lactate,bicarbonate,potassium chloride,sodium phosphateandtaurocholate(a mammalian bile salt)[150–156]....
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In addition, gene-set enrichment analysis of RNA-seq and Ribo-seq expression data was performed on gene sets from the Hallmark collection in the Molecular Signatures Database.7 Sequencing Analysis for Insertion/Deletion Detection The QIAamp DNA mini kit (Qiagen) was used to extract the total ...
Recombinant PfGluPho (0.4 mg/mL) was added to a reaction mixture containing 0.05 M Tris (pH 7.5), 3.3 mM MgCl2, 0.005% Tween 20, 1 mg/mL BSA and the substrates NADP+ (20 mM, Cayman) and glucose 6-phosphate (G6P, 25 mM, Sigma)...
Next, we tested whether the Fz OMEGA system could be harnessed to achieve RNA-guided DNA cleavage in the genome of human cells. We focused on four orthologues (SpuFz1, GtFz1, NlovFz2 and MmeFz2) with in vitro activity and tested their activities in human cells. A plasmid encoding the ...
(AGM). HSPCs in the AGM are heterogeneous in differentiation and proliferative output, but how these intrinsic differences are acquired remains unanswered. Here we discovered that loss of microRNA (miR)-128 in zebrafish leads to an expansion of HSPCs in the AGM with different cell cycle states ...