The study of transcription remains one the centerpieces modern biology with implications in settings from development to metabolism evolution disease. Precision measurements using a host different techniques including fluorescence and sequencing readouts have raised bar for what it means quantitatively understand transcriptional regulation. In particular our understanding simplest genetic circu...

Extreme instability of pyrimidine motif triplex DNA at physiological pH severely limits its use for artificial control of gene expression in vivo. Stabilization of the pyrimidine motif triplex at physiological pH is therefore of great importance in improving its therapeutic potential. To this end, isothermal titration calorimetry interaction analysis system and electrophoretic mobility shift as...

Two cycloaddition strategies are described that lead to various chroman spiroketals from assorted exocyclic enol ethers. Unlike conventional thermodynamic ketalization strategies, the stereochemical outcome for this approach is determined by a kinetic cycloaddition reaction. Thus, the stereochemical outcome reflects the olefin geometry of the starting materials along with the orientation of the...

Dicationic sandwich complexes containing thiophene, 2-methylthiophene7 2,5-dimethylthiophene, and tetramethylthiophene react with ammonia to give salts of the formula [(ring)Ru(SC4R4NH2)lX where ring = CsMe6 or cymene. The thiophene, 2-methylthiophene, and 2,5-dimethylthiophene complexes undergo C-S cleavage to give iminium-thiolato derivatives. In the case of the 2,5-dimethylthiophene complex,...