Small RNA in the nucleus: the RNA-chromatin ping-pong

RNA Isolation (Small RNA Extraction). Fatemeh Mehrpooyan*

Ping pong in the pore

Getting to the inner circle ontiguity between the ER and the nuclear envelope means nuclear membrane proteins have a direct shot to their target. In fact, inner nuclear membrane (INM) proteins were thought to need only to diffuse to the nucleus, pass through the nuclear pore, and then be retained by nuclear-localized binding partners. But new results suggest a more active process. Suraj Saksena...

Small interfering RNA; principles, applications and challenges--

Gene silencing using RNAi (RNA interference), has recently been used as a successful laboratory technique in determining the function and control of gene expression and provides a wide range of applications in molecular biology and gene therapy. RNAi is a method of suppressing gene expression. In this direction, a single-stranded RNA molecule of about 21–23 nucleotides, called siRNA (small inte...

Attack the ‘ping-pong’ protocol without eavesdropping

Qing-yu Cai Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, People’s Republic of China Bostr .. om and Felbinger [1] have presented a ping-pong communication protocol which allows the information transferred in a deterministic secure manner. The security of this ping-pong protocol is based on an entangled pair of qubits. And the proof of the case of e...

proceed via the Ping-Pong mechanism

Acyl-transfer catalysed by y-glutamyltranspeptidase from bovine kidney was studied using y-Land y-D-Glu-p-nitroanilide as the donor and GlyGly as the acceptor. The transfer of the y-Glu group to GlyGly was shown to be accompanied by transfer of the y-Glu group to water (hydrolysis). The results were compared with acyl-transfer catalysed by the representative serine protease, a-chymotrypsin. The...