By subtractive screening of a library made from mRNA of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated mouse B lymphocytes we isolated cDNA-clones encoding the ribosomal protein L7. Human L7 mRNA was cloned from activated T-lymphocytes. Although no specific function of L7 in the translation apparatus is known as yet, it should be a critical one as indicated by its high degree of structural conservation du...

To test whether the promoters of two immediate-early genes from frog virus 3 were similar in nucleotide sequence, we have cloned and sequenced an immediate-early gene encoding an infected-cell mRNA of 489 kilodaltons (ICR489) and have shown that the protein product of this gene is approximately 46 kilodaltons. The 5' and 3' ends of the transcripts from this gene, as determined by mung bean nucl...

Inflammatory responses in eucaryotic cells are often associated with oscillations in the nuclear-cytoplasmic translocation of the transcription factor NF-kB. In most laboratory realizations, the oscillations are triggered by a cytokine stimulus. We use a mathematical model to show that an oscillatory external stimulus can synchronize the NF-kB oscillations into states where the ratios of the in...

Hybridoma antibodies directed against quaternary structural epitopes of the type 1 fimbrial adhesin of Escherichia coli or against D-mannose, the sugar determinant in the complementary host cell receptor, prevented the attachment of mannose-sensitive E. coli to various eucaryotic cells. Passive intraperitoneal administration of the fimbria-specific or D-mannose-specific antibodies protected mic...

Regular nucleosome arrays in eucaryotic chromosomes are punctuated at specific locations, such as active promoters and replication origins, by apparently nucleosome-free sites, also called nuclease-hypersensitive, or exposed, regions. The -400-base pair-exposed region within simian virus 40 (SV40) chromosomes is present in approximately 20% of the chromosomes in lytically infected cells and enc...

It is well-known that the protein-coding regions of DNA sequences exhibit a period-3 behavior due to codon structure. These regions are often identified with the help of techniques such as the windowed DFT. It has been demonstrated in the past that identification of the period-3 regions helps in predicting the gene locations, and in fact allows the prediction of specific exons within the genes ...

Despite the enormous progress in understanding the process of bacterial pathogenesis and interactions of pathogens with eucaryotic cells the infectious diseases still remain the main cause of human premature deaths. It is now recognized that Helicobacter pylori infects about half of the world's population. Based on results of clinical studies the World Health Organization has assigned H. pylori...