Our Journal's tendency towards the real world in applied linguistics and literary studies should have significant epistemological and methodological consequences in researching the fields. The interest in the real world makes the problems we may have in our everyday lives our 'points of departure' in research. According to my experience of research in our universities throughout their history, ...

Morpholino and phosphorothioate (S-DNA) antisense oligos were compared in both cell-free and in-cell translation systems. In the most stringent test of specificity in the cell-free system, a globin-targeted S-DNA oligo was found to inhibit its target sequence at concentrations of 10 nM and above, but the sequence-specific component of this inhibition dropped below 50% at concentrations of 100 n...

1Department of Rheumatology, Cardiff University and 2Connective Tissue Biology Laboratories, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Jan Bondeson, MD PhD; Shane Wainwright, PhD; Clare Hughes, PhD; Bruce Caterson PhD. This work has been supported by the Arthritis Research Campaign (UK), grants no. W0596, 13172 and 14570. Please address correspondence to: Prof. Bruce Cater...

We have developed a simple system for the analysis of the affinity of anti-bromodeoxyuridine antibodies. The system is based on the anchored oligonucleotides containing 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) at three different positions. It allows a reliable estimation of the reactivity of particular clones of monoclonal anti-bromodeoxyuridine antibodies with BrdU in fixed and permeabilized cells. Usin...

Model t-Bu-SATE pro-dodecathymidines labeled with fluorescein and exhibiting various lipophilicities were evaluated for their uptake by cells in culture. Pro-oligonucleotides with appropriate lipophilicity were found to permeate across the HeLa cell membrane much more extensively than the control phosphorothioate oligo or than the hydrophilic pro-oligos. Fluorescence patterns of internalization...

In the title compound, C14H9ClN2O3, the fused pyridine and isoxazole rings are approximately planar, making a dihedral angle of 1.14 (16)°. The mol-ecule is twisted with the benzene ring and the mean plane through the fused pyridine-isoxazole ring system being inclined to one another by 47.03 (13)°. There is an intra-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond forming an S(6) ring motif. In the crystal, mol-...