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Anderson BH Kasher PR Mayer J Szynkiewicz M Jenkinson EM Bhaskar SS Urquhart JE Daly SB Dickerson JE O'Sullivan J Leibundgut EO Muter J Abdel-Salem GM Babul-Hirji R Baxter P Berger A Bonafé L Brunstom-Hernandez JE Buckard JA Chitayat D Chong WK Cordelli DM Ferreira P Fluss J Forrest EH Franzoni E Garone C Hammans SR Houge G Hughes I Jacquemont S Jeannet PY Jefferson RJ Kumar R Kutschke G Lundberg S Lourenço CM Mehta R Naidu S Nischal KK Nunes L Ounap K Philippart M Prabhakar P Risen SR 《Nature genetics》2012,44(3):338-342
Coats plus is a highly pleiotropic disorder particularly affecting the eye, brain, bone and gastrointestinal tract. Here, we show that Coats plus results from mutations in CTC1, encoding conserved telomere maintenance component 1, a member of the mammalian homolog of the yeast heterotrimeric CST telomeric capping complex. Consistent with the observation of shortened telomeres in an Arabidopsis CTC1 mutant and the phenotypic overlap of Coats plus with the telomeric maintenance disorders comprising dyskeratosis congenita, we observed shortened telomeres in three individuals with Coats plus and an increase in spontaneous γH2AX-positive cells in cell lines derived from two affected individuals. CTC1 is also a subunit of the α-accessory factor (AAF) complex, stimulating the activity of DNA polymerase-α primase, the only enzyme known to initiate DNA replication in eukaryotic cells. Thus, CTC1 may have a function in DNA metabolism that is necessary for but not specific to telomeric integrity. 相似文献
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X-ray structure of a DNA hairpin molecule 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
We have solved the crystal structure of a synthetic DNA hexadecanucleotide of sequence: C-G-C-G-C-G-T-T-T-T-C-G-C-G-C-G, at 2.1 A resolution, and observed that it adopts a monomeric hairpin configuration with a Z-DNA hexamer stem. In the T4 loop the bases stack with one another and with neighbouring molecules of the crystal, and not with base pairs of their own hexamer stem. Two thymine T10 rings from different molecules stack between the C1-G16 ends of a third and a fourth hairpin helix, in a manner that suggests T-T base 'pairing' and simulates a long, 13-base-pair helix. Although such T-T interactions would not be present in solution, they illustrate a remarkable tendency of thymines for self-association. Purine-purine G-A base pairs are known to exist in the anti-anti conformation with an increase in local helix width; it may be that more serious consideration should be given to the possible existence of pyrimidine-pyrimidine C-T base pairs with decreased local helix width, particularly where several such base pairs occur sequentially. 相似文献
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Chemical reduction of three-dimensional silica micro-assemblies into microporous silicon replicas 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Bao Z Weatherspoon MR Shian S Cai Y Graham PD Allan SM Ahmad G Dickerson MB Church BC Kang Z Abernathy HW Summers CJ Liu M Sandhage KH 《Nature》2007,446(7132):172-175
The carbothermal reduction of silica into silicon requires the use of temperatures well above the silicon melting point (> or =2,000 degrees C). Solid silicon has recently been generated directly from silica at much lower temperatures (< or =850 degrees C) via electrochemical reduction in molten salts. However, the silicon products of such electrochemical reduction did not retain the microscale morphology of the starting silica reactants. Here we demonstrate a low-temperature (650 degrees C) magnesiothermic reduction process for converting three-dimensional nanostructured silica micro-assemblies into microporous nanocrystalline silicon replicas. The intricate nanostructured silica microshells (frustules) of diatoms (unicellular algae) were converted into co-continuous, nanocrystalline mixtures of silicon and magnesia by reaction with magnesium gas. Selective magnesia dissolution then yielded an interconnected network of silicon nanocrystals that retained the starting three-dimensional frustule morphology. The silicon replicas possessed a high specific surface area (>500 m(2) g(-1)), and contained a significant population of micropores (< or =20 A). The silicon replicas were photoluminescent, and exhibited rapid changes in impedance upon exposure to gaseous nitric oxide (suggesting a possible application in microscale gas sensing). This process enables the syntheses of microporous nanocrystalline silicon micro-assemblies with multifarious three-dimensional shapes inherited from biological or synthetic silica templates for sensor, electronic, optical or biomedical applications. 相似文献
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Synthetic lac operator DNA is functional in vivo. 总被引:32,自引:0,他引:32
H L Heyneker J Shine H M Goodman H W Boyer J Rosenberg R E Dickerson S A Narang K Itakura S Lin A D Riggs 《Nature》1976,263(5580):748-752
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R E Dickerson 《Nature》1965,208(5006):139-143
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