In order to study mutagenesis in mammalian cells, stable mouse L-cell lines were established with multiple copies of a lambda phage vector that contains the supF gene of Escherichia coli as a target for mutagenesis. Rescue of viable phage from high molecular weight mouse cell DNA using lambda in vitro packaging extracts was efficient (5 phage per microgram of cell DNA per copy) and yielded a ne...

P53 tumor suppressor gene, also known as “genome guardian” is mutated in more than half of allkind of cancers. In this study we have investigated the controls of environmental pH for P53 genemutation in point of specific sequence which is prone to mutagenesis. The most probable cancerousmutations occur as point mutations in exons 5-8 of P53 gene. The 175th codon of P53 is the thirdmost mutated ...

Insertional mutagenesis techniques, including transposon- and T-DNA-mediated mutagenesis, are key resources for systematic identification of gene function in the model plant species Arabidopsis thaliana. We have developed a database (http://atidb.cshl.org/) for archiving, searching and analyzing insertional mutagenesis lines. Flanking sequences from approximately 10 500 insertion lines (includi...

Abstract Protein dynamics are often invoked in explanations of enzyme catalysis, but their design has proven elusive. Here we track the role evolution, starting from evolvable and thermostable ancestral protein Anc HLD-RLuc which catalyses both dehalogenase luciferase reactions. Insertion-deletion (InDel) backbone mutagenesis challenged scaffold dynamics. Screening for activities reveals InDel ...

The QuikChangeTM protocol is one of the simplest and fastest methods for site-directed mutagenesis, but introduces mutations at only one site at a time, and requires two HPLC-purified complementary oligonucleotides. Here, we describe that this method can be used with non-overlapping oligonucleotides. By doing this, two separate sites can be mutagenised simultaneously, or money can be saved by u...

The perception and subsequent transduction of environmental signals are primary events in the acclimation of living organisms to changes in their environment. Many of the molecular sensors and transducers of environmental stress cannot be identified by traditional and conventional methods. Therefore, the genomic information has been exploited in a systematic approach to this problem, performing...

Bambara groundnut is a highly nutritious underutilized legume with enormous potential to sustain food security in resource-poor countries. However, its for improvement through conventional breeding (< 2% success rate) limitation due the nature of flowers. Thus, most viable method improving this crop by creating genetic variability induced mutagenesis. The present study was conducted evaluate ra...

METHODS THAT GENERATE BASE SUBSTITUTIONS ...................................... Fragment Mutagenesis followed by Recombination .................................................. Site Mutagenesis of Intact Genomes ....................................... Incorporation of nucleotide analogues ............................. Bisulfte reaction at single-stranded gaps .....................................