Nucleic acid sequencing nucleotide

EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) [33] is a nucleotide sequence database provided from the online host EBl. Release 73 (December, 2002) consists of over 20 million nucleotide sequences with more than 28 billion nucleotides. The information includes sequence name, species, sequence length, promoter, taxonomy, and nucleic acid sequence. 

This chapter describes the chemistry of nucleotides and the m or classes of nucleic acids. Chapter 12 presents methods for determination of nucleic acid primary structure (nucleic acid sequencing) and describes the higher orders of nucleic acid structure. Chapter 13 introduces the molecular biology of recombinant DNA the construction and uses of novel DNA molecules assembled by combining segments from other DNA molecules. 

NUCLEOTIDES AND NUCLEIC ACIDS Abbreviations and symbols for nucleic acids, polynucleotides and their constituents /. Biol. Chem. (1970) 245, 5171-5176 Corrections, J. Biol Chem. (1971) 246, 4894 Abbreviations and symbols for the description of conformations of polynucleotide chains Eur. J. Biochem. (1983) 131, 9-15 Nomenclature for incompletely specified bases in nucleic acid sequences... 

The transfer of genetic information from the level of the nucleic acid sequence of a gene to the level of the amino acid sequence of a protein or to the nucleotide sequence of RNA is termed gene expression. The entire process of gene expression in eucaryotes includes the following steps ... 

Prebiotic self-association was inevitable as well as uniform at the most fundamental level differences are the consequence of higher level organization, i.e., the order rather than the ingredient. Once a nucleic acid sequence had been established and became part of the memory of an organism, it was maintained by the mode of complimentary self reproduction for as long as the species lasted. Again it is the uniform distance of hydrogen bonds that line up the nucleotide bases for accurate reproduction. 

Restriction enzymes allow DNA to be cut at specific sites nucleic acid hybridization allows the detection of specific nucleic acid sequences DNA sequencing can be used to easily determine the nucleotide sequence of a DNA molecule. 

Metal ions are usually required to promote and stabilize functionally active or native conformations of nucleic acids, as well as to mediate nucleic acid-protein interactions. However, metal ions can also cause structural transformation of nncleic acids, or denature their native structures. In addition to structural roles, some metal compounds can indnce cleavage (i.e. scission, fragmentation, or depolymerization) and modification (withont cleavage) of nucleic acids. Metal-nucleic acid interactions can be either nonspecific or dependent on the chemical nature of nucleotide residues, nucleic acid sequence, or secondary and/or tertiary structure of nucleic acids. The specificity of these interactions is dependent... 

Protein synthesis is called translation because information present as a nucleic acid sequence is translated into a different language, the sequence of amino acids in a protein. This complex process is mediated by the coordinated interplay of more than a hundred macromolecules, including mRNA, rRNAs, tRNAs, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and protein factors. Given that proteins typically comprise from 100 to 1000 amino acids, the frequency at vchich an incorrect amino acid is incorporated in the course of protein synthesis must be less than 10 4. Transfer RNAs are the adaptors that make the link betvceen a nucleic acid and an amino acid. These molecules, single chains of about 80 nucleotides, have an L-shaped structure. 

Tsongalis, G.J. Rainey, B.J. Hodges, K.A. READIT a novel technology used in the interrogation of nucleic acid sequences for single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Exp. Mol. Pathol. 2001, 71, 222-225. 

Figure 14.3. (A) Both nucleic acid and protein sequences, as linear polymers, can be represented as strings of English letters. This is, indeed, exactly how they are stored in global, centralized databases of biological data. (B) The genetic code is the system of rules that maps nucleic acid sequences into proteins. Nucleotides are read, ree at a time (as codons ), and converted into a single amino acid by means of tRNAs, specialized adaptor molecules.

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