The statistical distribution of nucleic acid similarities.

On the statistical significance of nucleic acid similarities

When evaluating sequence similarities among nucleic acids by the usual methods, statistical significance is often found when the biological significance of the similarity is dubious. We demonstrate that the known statistical properties of nucleic acid sequences strongly affect the statistical distribution of similarity values when calculated by standard procedures. We propose a series of models...

The nucleic acid of African Horse-Sickness Virus

Cellular Morphology and Immunologic Properties of Escherichia coli Treated With Antimicrobial Antisense Peptide Nucleic Acid

  Background & Objectives: Antisense peptide nucleic acids (PNA) that target growth essential genes show potent bactericidal properties without cell lysis. We considered the possibility that whether PNA treatment influence the bacteria total nucleic acids content and apply approach to develop a new delivery system to Dendritic cells (DCs). DCs are the most potent antigen presenting cells in th...

Accurate statistical model of comparison between multiple sequence alignments

Comparison of multiple protein sequence alignments (MSA) reveals unexpected evolutionary relations between protein families and leads to exciting predictions of spatial structure and function. The power of MSA comparison critically depends on the quality of statistical model used to rank the similarities found in a database search, so that biologically relevant relationships are discriminated f...

Synthesis of Nitrogen Functional Derivatives of 5-substituted-6-azauracil as one of the Four Nucleobases in the Nucleic Acid of RNA

3-Arylhydrazono-2,4-dioxo-4-phenylbutanoateshave been prepared by the coupling of benzoylpyruvate with aryldiazonium chlorides.Reactions ofthe 3-arylhydrazono-2,4-dioxo-4-phenylbutanoateswith 1-aminoguanidine, semicarbazide, and thiosemicarbazidegave5-substituted 2-imino-6-azauracil (3a),6-azauracil (3b), and 2-thio-6-azauracil (3c), respectively. The analytical data of these compounds - IR, 1H...