Ovomucoid messenger RNA (mRNAom) comprises approximately 8% of the total mRNA in the estrogen-stimulated oviduct. The recombinant plasmid pOM100 contained DNA complementary to the 3' end of mRNAom. DNA complementary to the 5' end of mRNAom was obtained from a partially purified preparation of mRNAom by polymerization by reverse transcriptase in the presence of a restriction fragment primer from...

A series of oligodeoxyribonucleotides and oligoribonucleotides containing single and multiple tricyclo(tc)-nucleosides in various arrangements were prepared and the thermal and thermodynamic transition profiles of duplexes with complementary DNA and RNA evaluated. Tc-residues aligned in a non-continuous fashion in an RNA strand significantly decrease affinity to complementary RNA and DNA, mostl...

We present an analysis of the key steps involved in the DNA-directed assembly of nanoparticles into crystallites and polycrystalline aggregates. Additionally, the rate of crystal growth as a function of increased DNA linker length, solution temperature, and self-complementary versus non-self-complementary DNA linker strands (1- versus 2-component systems) has been studied. The data show that th...

The accuracy of high-fidelity DNA polymerases such as DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment) is governed by conformational changes early in the reaction pathway that serve as fidelity checkpoints, identifying inappropriate template-nucleotide pairings. The fingers-closing transition (detected by a fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based assay) is the unique outcome of binding a correct incomin...

Abstract Background In this paper, a simple, enzyme-free, label-free fluorescence, high sensitivity logic gate hairpin aptasensor was developed for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) detection based on graphene oxide (GO) and PicoGreen dye. Methods Using single-strand deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as input signal fluorescence output signal, if DNA (DNA-L), (DNA-S), ATP were present at the same time, on...

We have analysed DNA from African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV)-infected Nicotiana benthamiana by two-dimensional agarose gel electrophoresis and detected ACMV-specific DNAs by blot-hybridisation. ACMV DNA forms including the previously characterised single-stranded, open-circular, linear and supercoiled DNAs along with five previously uncharacterised heterogeneous DNAs (H1-H5) were resolved. The...

1. Fabrication of devices 2. Lifetime histograms with probe DNA NH2-5’-GGAAAAAAGG-3’ (Device 1) 3. Measurements with probe DNA NH2-5’-GTGAGTTGTT-3’ (Device 2) 4. Lifetime histograms with probe DNA NH2-5’-GTGAGTTGTT-3’ (Device 2) 5. Control experiment with a non-functionalized device 6. Scanning gate microscopy (IV) 7. Control experiments with probe DNA NH2-5’-GGAAAAAAGG-3’ with complementary an...

DNA microarrays are a powerful technology for analysis of gene expression levels within cells. Both the cDNA and oligonucleotide technologies for microarrays are fairly young and are prone to a broad collection of errors and inaccuracies [KYML02]. In this paper we briefly discuss some sources of error and detail a variety of methods for normalizing the data with respect to some of these error s...

Substantial amounts of DNA (at least 25 microgram per cm2) can be stably bound to diazobenzyloxymethyl (DBM)-paper. Complementary RNA will hybridize to the DNA paper almost completely in 24 hours. Using several different conditions of hybridization and washing, the background of RNA bound non-specifically is very low (between 0.01 and 0.02%) and the efficiency of hybridization is very high (75 ...