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| Creator | Title | Description | Subject | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F.; Atkins, John F.; Wills, Norma M. | -1 frameshifting at a CGA AAG hexanucleotide site is required for transposition of insertion sequence IS1222 | The discovery of programmed _x0001_1 frameshifting at the hexanucleotide shift site CGA_AAG, in addition to the classical X_XXY_YYZ heptanucleotide shift sequences, prompted a search for instances among eubacterial insertion sequence elements. IS1222 has a CGA_AAG shift site. A genetic analysis re... | Hexanucleotides; Heptanucleotides; Frameshifting | 2004 |
| 2 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F. | Processing of adenovirus 2-induced proteins | Analysis of (35)S-methionine-labeled extracts of adenovirus 2-infected KB cells revealed 22 virus-induced polypeptide components. Most proteins of the virion were easily detected in extracts of whole cells labeled for short periods between 15 and 30 h after infection; however, several virion compone... | Adenoviridae; Viral Proteins; Protein Precursors; Methionine; Mouth Neoplasms | 1973 |
| 3 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F. | Simian virus 40-specific polypeptides in Ad2+ND4- infected cells | A comparison of the proteins synthesized in human cells at late times after infection with adenovirus (Ad2) and with the adeno-simian virus 40 (SV40) hybrid viruses revealed polypeptides of 30,000 and 92,000 molecular weight specific for the hybrid viruses Ad2+ND1 and Ad2+ND4, respectively. Cell-fre... | Molecular Weight; Peptide Biosynthesis; RNA, Messenger; Viral Proteins | 1976 |
| 4 |  | Thomas, Kirk R.; Capecchi, Mario R. | Nonreciprocal exchanges of information between DNA duplexes coinjected into mammalian. cell nuclei | We have examined the mechanism of homologous recombination between plasmid molecules coinjected into cultured mammalian cells. Cell lines containing recombinant DNA molecules were obtained by selecting for the reconstruction of a functional Neor gene from two plasmids that bear different amber mutat... | Animals; Cells, Cultured; DNA Restriction Enzymes; Kinetics | 1985-01 |
| 5 |  | Thomas, Kirk R.; Capecchi, Mario R. | Efficient correction of mismatched bases in plasmid heteroduplexes injected into cultured mammalian cell nuclei. | Heteroduplexes were prepared from two plasmids, pRH4-14/TK and pRH5-8/TK, containing different amber mutations in the neomycin resistance gene (Neor). The Neor gene was engineered to be expressed in both bacterial and mammalian cells. A functional Neor gene conferred kanamycin resistance to bacteria... | Cell Nucleus; Cells, Cultured; Microinjections | 1985-01 |
| 6 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F.; Atkins, John F.; Wills, Norma M. | rRNA-mRNA base pairing stimulates a programmed -1 ribosomal frameshift | Base pairing between the 3' end of 16S rRNA and mRNA is shown to be important for the programmed -1 frameshifting utilized in decoding the Escherichia coli dnaX gene. This pairing is the same as the Shine-Dalgarno pairing used by prokaryotic ribosomes in selection of translation initiators, but for ... | Frameshifting; Escherichia coli; Binding Sites; Base Composition | 1994 |
| 7 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F. | Pattern of protein synthesis in monkey cells infected by simian virus 40 | After infection of several permanent monkey cell lines by simian virus 40 (SV40), four additional protein bands can be detected by simple sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell extracts. These bands appear only after the onset of viral deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) syn... | Monkeys; Simian virus 40; Peptides; DNA, Viral/biosynthesis | 1972 |
| 8 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F.; Atkins, John F. | Frameshifting in gene 10 of bacteriophage T7 | Gene 10 of bacteriophage T7, which encodes the most abundant capsid protein, has two products: a major product, 10A (36 kDa), and a minor product, 10B (41 kDa). 10B is produced by frameshifting into the -1 frame near the end of the 10A coding frame and is incorporated into the capsid. The frameshift... | Frameshifting; Bacteriophage T7; RNA, Viral; Gene Expression | 1991 |
| 9 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F.; Weiss, Robert B. | Efficient shine- Dalgarno sequence but not translation is necessary for LacZ mRNA stability in Escherichia coli | The 5' ends of many bacterial transcripts are important in determining mRNA stability. A series of Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence changes showed that the complementarity of the SD sequence to the anti-SD sequence of 16S rRNA correlates with lacZ mRNA stability in Escherichia coli. Several initiation c... | Protein Biosynthesis; Ribosomes; Escherichia coli; Shine-Dalgarno Sequence | 1994 |
| 10 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F.; Atkins, John F.; Tuohy, Therese M. | Uninterrupted translation through putative 12-nucleotide coding gap in sequence of carA: business as usual | Previous work of others reported an untranslated stretch of 12 nucleotides in the 5' coding sequence of carA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. However, N-terminal protein sequencing of carA-lacZ translational fusions shows that these 12 nucleotides are normally translated in a continuous triplet manner, ... | Base Sequence; Protein Biosynthesis; Sequence Deletion | 1994 |
| 11 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F. | Cell-free synthesis of herpes simplex virus proteins | Polyribosomes isolated from herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-1)-infected cells have been used to program a eucaryotic cell-free translation system. At least 10 HSV-specific polypeptides, with apparent molecular weights of 25,000 to 160,000, are synthesized by wild-type HSV-infected polyribosomes. Po... | Viral Proteins; Herpes Simplex; Peptide Biosynthesis; Thymidine Kinase | 1977 |
| 12 |  | Liew, Michael; Erali, Maria; Page, Sam; Hillyard, David R.; Wittwer, Carl T. | Hepatitis C genotyping by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography | Determination of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype for infected patients increasingly has become accepted as the standard of care. Genotype assignment helps in assessing disease prognosis and assists in establishing the appropriate duration of treatment. The great genetic diversity of HCV, with 1... | Base Sequence; 5' Untranslated Regions; Genotype; Hepacivirus; Molecular Sequence Data | 2004-01 |
| 13 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F.; Baranov, Pavel V.; Atkins, John F. | Expression levels influence ribosomal frameshifting at the tandem rare arginine codons AGG_AGG and AGA_AGA in Escherichia coli | ABSTRACT: The rare codons AGG and AGA comprise 2% and 4%, respectively, of the arginine codons of Escherichia coli K-12, and their cognate tRNAs are sparse. At tandem occurrences of either rare codon, the paucity of cognate aminoacyl tRNAs for the second codon of the pair facilitates peptidyl-tRNA... | Gene expression; Frameshifting; E. coli; Arginine codons | 2005 |
| 14 |  | Poulter, Charles Dale | CaaX proteases, Afc1p and Rce1p, have overlapping but distinct substrate specificities | Many proteins that contain a carboxyl-terminal CaaX sequence motif, including Ras and yeast a-factor, undergo a series of sequential posttranslational processing steps. Following the initial prenylation of the cysteine, the three C-terminal amino acids are proteolytically removed, and the newly fo... | Proteins; Enzymes; Hydrophobic | 2000 |
| 15 |  | Lopansri, Bert; Stoddard, Gregory J.; Hobbs, Maurine R.; Granger, Donald Lee | Elevated plasma phenylalanine in severe malaria and implications for pathophysiology of neurological complications. | Cerebral malaria is associated with decreased production of nitric oxide and decreased levels of its precursor, l-arginine. Abnormal amino acid metabolism may thus be an important factor in malaria pathogenesis. We sought to determine if other amino acid abnormalities are associated with disease sev... | Dystonia; Phenylalanine Hydroxylase; Tyrosine | 2006-06-01 |
| 16 |  | Thomas, Kirk R.; Capecchi, Mario R. | Location of crossovers during gene targeting with insertion and replacement vectors. | Gene targeting was used to introduce nonselectable genetic changes into chromosomal loci in mouse embryo-derived stem cells. The nonselectable markers were linked to a selectable marker in both insertion- and replacement-type vectors, and the transfer of the two elements to the Hprt locus was assaye... | Genetic Vectors; Molecular Sequence Data; Restriction Mapping | 1993-04 |
| 17 |  | Capecchi, Mario R. | Patterns of integration of DNA microinjected into cultured mammalian cells: evidence for homologous recombination between injected plasmid DNA molecules. | We examined the fate of DNA microinjected into nuclei of cultured mammalian cells. The sequence composition and the physical form of the vector carrying the selectable gene affected the efficiency of DNA-mediated transformation. Introduction of sequences near the simian virus 40 origin of DNA replic... | Base Sequence; Cell Line; Genes, Viral; Genetic Vectors; Mice; Microinjections | 1982-11 |
| 18 |  | Capecchi, Mario R. | Reexamination of gene targeting frequency as a function of the extent of homology between the targeting vector and the target locus. | Mutations were targeted to the Hprt locus of mouse embryo-derived stem cells by using 22 different sequence replacement and sequence insertion vectors. The targeting frequency was examined at two sites within the Hprt locus as a function of the extent of homology between the targeting vector and the... | Cell Line; DNA Transposable Elements; Embryo; Exons; Mice | 1992-08-12 |
| 19 |  | Thomas, Kirk R.; Capecchi, Mario R. | High-fidelity gene targeting in embryonic stem cells by using sequence replacement vectors. | Mutations were targeted to the Hprt locus in murine embryonic stem cells by using sequence replacement vectors. When the vector was designed such that the mutated sequences were flanked on both sides by several kilobases of DNA homologous to the target locus, replacement of chromosomal sequences wit... | Drug Resistance; Gene Rearrangement; Gentamicins | 1992-07 |
| 20 |  | Capecchi, Mario R. | Homologous recombination between coinjected DNA sequences peaks in early to mid-S phase. | We have examined the effect of cell cycle position on homologous recombination between plasmid molecules coinjected into synchronized rat fibroblasts. Recombination activity was found to be low in G1 and to rise 10- to 15-fold, peaking in early to mid-S phase. | Cell Line; Kinetics; Plasmids | 1986-06 |
| 21 |  | Gesteland, Raymond F.; Letsou, Anthea; Ivanov, Ivaylo P.; Simin, Karl; Atkins, John F. | Drosophila gene for antizyme requires ribosomal frameshifting for expression and contains an intronic gene for snRNP Sm D3 on the opposite strand | Previously, a Drosophila melanogaster sequence with high homology to the sequence for mammalian antizyme (ornithine decarboxylase antizyme) was reported. The present study shows that homology of this coding sequence to its mammalian antizyme counterpart also extends to a 5* open reading frame (ORF... | Ornithine decarboxylase antizyme; Binding proteins | 1998 |
| 22 |  | Potts, Wayne K. | Major histocompatibility complex heterozygote superiority during coinfection | Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) play a critical role in immune recognition, and many alleles confer susceptibility to infectious and autoimmune diseases. How these deleterious alleles persist in populations is controversial. | Pathogen; MHC; Homozygotes | 2003 |
| 23 |  | Potts, Wayne K.; Granger, Donald Lee | Major histocompatibility complex-dependent susceptibility to Cryptococcus neoformans in mice | To evaluate the role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in the resistance to Cryptococcus neoformans, we conducted infection experiments in MHC-congenic strains of mice. Significant MHC-dependent susceptibility differences were found among homozygotes and heterozygotes. This study is th... | MHC-congenic; Host resistance; Infection | 2003 |
| 24 |  | Zhang, Kang | Molecular and developmental characterization of the heat shock cognate 4 gene of Drosophila melanogaster | The Drosophila heat shock cognate gene 4 (hsc4), a member of the hsp70 gene family, encodes an abundant protein, hsc70, that is more similar to the constitutively expressed human protein than the Drosophila heat-inducible hsp70. Developmental expression revealed that hsc4 transcripts are enriched in... | Embryo, Nonmammalian; Molecular Sequence Data | 1990 |
| 25 |  | Jorgensen, Erik | Multiple transcripts from the Antennapedia gene of Drosophila melanogaster | The structures of four major transcripts from the homeotic gene Antennapedia of Drosophila melanogaster were determined. These transcripts constitute two RNA classes, each class initiating from a unique promoter but sharing 3' exons. Within the shared sequences is a major open reading frame encoding... | Mutations; Sequences ; RNA | 1986 |