Gene therapy is a technique that currently under expansion and development. Recent advances in genetic medicine have paved the way for broader range of therapies laid groundwork next-generation technologies. A terminally substituted difluorene-diester Schiff Base calix[4]arene has been studied this work as possible nanovector to be used gene therapy. Changes luminescent behavior calixarene macr...

The term polymerase has been applied to the deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate-polymerizing enzyme isolated from Escherichia coli (1). Enzymes with similar activity have been purified from regenerating rat liver (2) and calf thymus gland (3). An ample and varied supply of such polymerases is desirable for studies on the mechanism of deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis. The present work describes a pa...

A new gene (POLL), has been identified encoding the novel DNA polymerase lambda and mapped to mouse chromosome 19 and at human chromosome 10. DNA polymerase lambda contains all the critical residues involved in DNA binding, nucleotide binding, nucleotide selection, and catalysis of DNA polymerization and has been assigned to family X based on sequence homology with polymerase beta, lambda, mu, ...

Several mixed ligand Cu(II), Zn(II) complexes using (benzylidenethiourea) (obtained by the condensation of benzaldehyde and thiourea) as the primary ligand and (acetamide or thioacetamide) as an additional ligand were synthesized and characterized analytically and spectroscopically, magnetic susceptibility and molar conductance measurements, as well as by UV-Vis and IR spectroscopy. The interac...

Double diffusion in agarose was employed for the characterization of a soluble nucleoprotein antigen that gave precipitin reactions with sera from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. The soluble antigen that was isolated from calf thymus nuclei was demonstrated by enzyme degradation and ultracentrifugation studies, and by immunologic analysis, to be a complex of deoxyribonucleic acid an...

1. The precipitation of the proteins of calf-thymus nucleohistone and herringsperm nucleoprotamine with the salts of fluorine-containing carboxylic acids has been studied. Pentadecafluoro-octanoate gave a precipitate that could be sedimented almost completely by centrifuging at 2350g for 20min. omega-H-Hexadecafluorononanoate, omega-H-eicosafluoro-undecanoate and dodecyl sulphate gave precipita...

Almost all the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) require metabolic activation to exert their carcinogenic activity. Environmental carcinogen [(3)H] benzo[a]pyrene (BP) is carcinogenic only after its metabolic transformation to a reactive intermediate, which can then bind to cellular macromolecules. Inhibition of dimethylbenz anthracene- (DMBA-) DNA binding generally accompanied inhibition...