L-nucleotides

Mutoh, N. Simon, M.L Nucleotide sequence corresponding to five chemotaxis genes in Escherichia coU. J. BacterioL, 165, 161-166 (1986)... 

Lightfoot, D.A., Green, N.K. Cullimore, J.V. (1988). The chloroplast-located glutamine synthetase of Phaseolus vulgaris L. Nucleotide sequence, expression in different organs and uptake into isolated chloroplasts. Plant Molecular Biology 11, 191-202. 

MCKNIGHT, T.D., ROESSNER, C.A., DEVAGUPTA, R SCOTT, A.I., NESSLER, C.L., Nucleotide sequence of a cDNA encoding the vacuolar protein strictosidine synthase from Catharanthus roseus. Nucleic Acids Res., 1990, 18, 4939. 

There are also a few examples of interligand stacking interactions to give complexes of the form [M(L)(nucleotide)], where L is a tt-aromatic base such as bipy, phen, or tryptophanate (Trp ) (Figure 16) 3435,272 Metal-phosphate bonding, rather than bonding direct to the heterocyclic bases, becomes the dominant interaction in these complexes. 

Substitution within a short DNA duplex amenable to Z-form DNA of two contiguous L-nucleotides stabilised the left-handed Z-conformation. The l-nucleotides induced, at low salt concentration, a local left-handed conformation different from the existing Z-DNA, but which contributed to the lower energy required for B- to Z-transition. The role of the 3 -5 exonuclease activity of the tumour suppressor p53 protein has been examined by an in vitro assay in which ODNs were terminated with either p-D or P-l of ddAMP or 3 -thio-ddc (SddC). °° The affinity of the p53 protein was shown to be five-fold lower for P-l nucleotides. 

In the field of origin of life studies Eschenmoser and Kisakurek have discussed the potential biogenic relationship between hexose- and pentose-based nucleic acids, and a paper has appeared from the same group on the base pairing between oligonucleotides comprising pentopyranosyl d- and l- nucleotides. ... 

Joshi PC, Pitsch S, Ferris JP Selectivity of montmorillonite catalyzed prebiotic reactions of D, L-nucleotides. Orig Life Evol Biosph 2007, 37(l) 3-26. 

R15 Robinson, J. L. and Larson, B. L. Nucleotide inhibition of postorotate pyrimidine synthesis pathway enzymes of bovine mammary tissue. J. Dairy Sci., 57, 1410-1413 (1974)... 

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