BACKGROUND It is well known in Huntington's disease that cytosine-adenine-guanine expansion and age at study entry are predictive of the timing of motor diagnosis. The goal of this study was to assess whether additional motor, imaging, cognitive, functional, psychiatric, and demographic variables measured at study entry increased the ability to predict the risk of motor diagnosis over 12 years....

background: aberrant methylation of cytosine-guanine dinucleotide islands leads to inactivation of tumor suppressor genes in breast cancer. tumor suppressor genes are unmethylated in normal tissue and often become hypermethylated during tumor formation, leading to gene silencing. we investigated the association between e-cadherin ( cdh1) and estrogen receptor-α (esrα) gene promoter methylation ...

In the present work, the substituent effect on the strength of H-bonds in the guanine – cytosine base pair was studied when the substituents are connected to the guanine base through a phenyl ring. In this study, guanine was substituted in the H8 and H9 positions by electron donating (ED) and electron withdrawing (EW) groups mediated by a phenyl ring in the gas phase. The calculations were perf...

The results of geometry optimisation of possible Watson-Crick-like pairs of 2,6-diamino-4-oxy-5-formamidopyrimidine (fapy-adenine) or 4,6-diamino-5-formamidopyrimidine (fapy-guanine) were presented. In the absence of the external field the fapy-adenine is able to form pairs with all four canonical nucleic acid bases. However, pairs with guanine, cytosine and thymine the most stable are. Thus, t...

Proton magnetic resonance was used to study the interactions between nucleosides and phosphate monoanion in dimethyl sulfoxide. Ribose was able to form two mutually exclusive 1:1 complexes involving either OH3' and OH5' or OH3' and OH2' as hydrogen bond donor groups. Deoxyribose could form only one of these complexes. A specific interaction of phosphate with the base moiety of nucleosides was o...

Nuclei from isolated nerve cells were sampled by microdissection. The content and composition of the nuclear RNA was studied and compared with that of the cytoplasmic RNA of Deiters' nerve cells of rabbits. Analyses were made of control nerve cells and of cells in which an enhanced RNA and protein production had been induced by chemical means, tricyano-amino-propene, for 60 minutes. The nuclear...

The type 1 ribosome inactivating protein from Momordica balsamina (MbRIP1) has been shown to interact with purine bases, adenine and guanine of RNA/DNA. We report here the binding and structural studies of MbRIP1 with a pyrimidine base, cytosine; cytosine containing nucleoside, cytidine; and cytosine containing nucleotide, cytidine diphosphate. All three compounds bound to MbRIP1 at the active ...

APOBEC3B (A3B) is a cytosine deaminase that converts to uracil in single-stranded DNA. Cytosine-to-thymine and cytosine-to-guanine base substitution mutations trinucleotide motifs (APOBEC mutational signatures) were found various cancers including lymphoid hematological malignancies such as multiple myeloma A3B has been shown be an enzymatic source of those cancers. Although the importance bein...

Epigenetics, specifically DNA methylation, allows for the estimation of animal age from blood or remotely sampled skin. This multi-tissue epigenetic clock uses 110 longitudinal samples 34 Navy bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), identifying 195 cytosine-phosphate-guanine sites associated with chronological aging via cross-validation one individual left out in each fold (R2 = 0.95). With a...