Literature Highlights Archive

Date Highlighted	Title	Reference	Link
November 2006	Solid-phase translation and RNA protein fusion: a novel approach for folding quality control and direct immobilization of proteins using anchored mRNA	Manish Biyani, Yuzuru Husimi and Naoto Nemoto Nucleic Acids Research, 2006, Vol. 00, No. 00	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/gkl771v1/p>
October 2006	Dynamic assembly of primers on nucleic acid templates	Nicole A. Leal, Makoto Sukeda,and Steven A. Benner Nucleic Acids Res. published 28 September 2006, 10.1093/nar/gkl625 Open Access	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/gkl625v2?ct=ct
October 2006	Controlling activation of the RNA-dependent protein kinase by siRNAs using site-specific chemical modification	Sujiet Puthenveetil, Landon Whitby, Jin Ren, Kevin Kelnar, Joseph F. Krebs, and Peter A. Beal Nucleic Acids Res. published 18 September 2006, 10.1093/nar/gkl464 Open Access	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/gkl464v1?ct=ct
September 2006	Chemical synthesis of oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing the Dewar valence isomer of the (6-4) photoproduct and their use in (6-4) photolyase studies	Junpei Yamamoto, Kenichi Hitomi, Takeshi Todo,æand Shigenori Iwai Nucleic Acids Res. published 26 August 2006, 10.1093/nar/gkl572 Open Access	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/gkl572v1?ct=ct
August 2006	IPyrene binary probes for unambiguous detection of mRNA using time-resolvedƒZ fluorescence spectroscop	Angel A. Marti, Xiaoxu Li, Steffen Jockusch, Zengmin Li, BinduƒZRaveendra, Sergey Kalachikov, James J. Russo, Irina Morozova, Sathyanarayanan V. Puthanveettil, Jingyue Ju, and Nicholas J. Turro Nucleic Acids Res. 2006;ƒZ 34(10): p. 3161-3168 Open Access	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/34/10/3161
August 2006	Widespread siRNA "off-target" transcript silencing mediated by seed region sequence complementarity	Aimee L. Jackson, Julja Burchard, Janell Schelter, B. Nelson Chau, Michele Cleary, Lee Lim, and Peter S. Linsley RNA. 2006;ƒZ 12(7): p. 1179-1187 Open Access	http://www.rnajournal.org/cgi/content/short/rna.25706v1
July 2006	Formation of N-branched oligonucleotides as by-products in solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis	Cazenave C, Bathany K, Rayner B Oligonucleotides 16 (2): 181-185 2006	http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/oli.2006.16.181 (PDF)
June 2006	Improvement of an Unusual Twin-Arginine Transporter Leader Peptide by a Codon-Based Randomization Approach	Olga Monroy-Lagos, Xavier Soberon, Paul Gaytan, and Joel Osuna Appl. Envir. Microbiol. 2006;ƒZ 72(5): p. 3797-3801	http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/72/5/3797
June 2006	Electron trap for DNA-bound repair enzymes: A strategy for DNA-mediated signaling	Eylon Yavin, Eric D. A. Stemp, Valerie L. OêShea, Sheila S. David, and Jacqueline K. Barton PNAS; March 7, 2006; vol. 103; no. 10; 3610-3614ƒZ	http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/10/3610
May 2006	Tumor Targeting by an Aptamer	Arian J. Hicke, Andrew W. Stephens, Ty Gould, Ying-Fon Chang, Cynthia K. Lynott, James Heil, Sandra Borkowski, Christoph-Stephan Hilger, Gary Cook, Stephen Warren, and Paul G. Schmidt J Nucl Med. 2006;ƒZ 47(4): p. 668-678	http://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/4/668?ck=nck
April 2006	Molecular beacons with intrinsically fluorescent nucleotides	Angel A. Marti, Steffen Jockusch, Zengmin Li, Jingyue Ju, and Nicholas J. Turro Nucleic Acids Res. 2006; 34(6): p. e50	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/6/e50?ct
March 2006	Pyrrolo-C as a fluorescent probe for monitoring RNA secondary structure formation	Rebecca A. Tinsley and Nils G. Walter RNA, DOI: 10.1261/rna.2165806	http://www.rnajournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/rna.2165806v1
March 2006	Novel thermostable Y-family polymerases: applications for the PCR amplification of damaged or ancient DNAs	John P. McDonald, Ashley Hall, Didier Gasparutto, Jean Cadet, Jack Ballantyne, and Roger Woodgate Nucleic Acids Res. 2006;ƒZ 34(4): p. 1102-1111	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/34/4/1102
February 2006	Examining Ty3 Polypurine Tract Structure and Function by Nucleoside Analog Interference	Chandravanu Dash, John P. Marino, and Stuart F. J. Le Grice Pedersen J. Biol. Chem. 2006; 281(5): p. 2773-2783	http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/281/5/2773?ct
January 2006	Easily denaturing nucleic acids derived from intercalating nucleic acids: thermal stability studies, dual duplex invasion and inhibition of transcription start	Vyacheslav V. Filichev, Birte Vester, Lykke H. Hansen, and Erik B. Pedersen Nucl. Acids Res. 2005 33: 7129-7137.	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/22/7129?etoc
December 2005	Color-blind fluorescence detection for four-color DNA sequencing	Ernest K. Lewis, Wade C. Haaland, Freddy Nguyen, Daniel A. Heller, Matthew J. Allen, Robert R. MacGregor, C. Scott Berger, Britain Willingham, Lori A. Burns, Graham B. I. Scott, Carter Kittrell, Bruce R. Johnson, Robert F. Curl and Michael L. Metzker PNAS, April 12,2005, vol.102, no. 15,5346-535	http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/102/15/5346
November 2005	Recognition of CG inversions in DNA triple helices by methylated 3H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-2(7H)-one nucleoside analogues.	Rohan T. Ranasinghe, David A. Rusling, Vicki E. C. Powers, Keith R. Fox and Tom Brown Chemical Communications, 2005,ƒZ(20),ƒZ2555 - 2557.	http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/CC/article.asp?doi=b502325d
October 2005	Triplex-induced recombination and repair in the pyrimidine motif.	Jennifer M. Kalish, Michael M. Seidman, Daniel L. Weeks, and Peter M. Glazer Nucl. Acids Res. 2005 33: 3492-3502.	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/33/11/3492
September 2005	Direct selection of trans-acting ligase ribozymes by in vitro compartmentalization.	M. Levy, K.E. Griswold, and A.D. Ellington RNA, 2005, rna.2121705	http://www.rnajournal.org/cgi/content/abstract/rna.2121705v1
August 2005	tRNA-linked molecular beacons for imaging mRNAs in the cytoplasm of living cells	Musa M. Mhlanga1, Diana Y. Vargas, Cindy W. Fung, Fred Russell Kramer and Sanjay Tyagi 1902-1912 Nucleic Acids Research, 2005, Vol. 33, No. 6	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/33/6/1902
July 2005	DNA microarrays on a dendron-modified surface improve significantly the detection of single nucleotide variations in the p53 gene	Soon Jin Oh, et al Nucl. Acids Res. 2005 33: e90.	http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/33/10/e90
June 2005	Investigating HIV-1 Polypurine Tract Geometry via Targeted Insertion of Abasic Lesions in the(-)-DNA Template and (+)-RNA Primer	Hye Young Yi-Brunozzi and Stuart F. J. Le Grice J. Biol. Chem. 2005; 280(20): p. 20154-20162	http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/280/20/20154?ct