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Our reviewer felt the molecule builder was easy to use. It is set up for organic molecules. Specialized building modes are available for peptides, nucleotides, and carbohydrates. It is also possible to impose constraints on the molecular geometry. Functions are accessed via a separate window with buttons labeled with abbreviated names. This layout is convenient to use, but not completely self-explanatory. The program is capable of good-quality rendering. At the time of this book s publication, a new three-dimensional graphic user interface called Maestro was under development. 

As the second educt (B), the plasmid ONA with complementary sticky ends is prepared separately. In the first step the isolated plasmid DNA is cut open by a special type of enzyme called restriction endonuclease. It scans along the thread of DNA and recognizes short nucleotide sequences, e.g., CTGCAG, which ate cleaved at a specific site, e.g., between A and G. Some 50 of such enzymes are known and many are commercially available. The ends are then again extended witfa he aid of a terminal transferase by a short sequence of identical nucleotides complementary to the sticky ends of educt (A). 

Figure 7.2 Three helical forms of DNA, each containing 22 nucleotide pairs, shown in both side and top views. The sugar-phosphate backbone is dark the paired nucleotide bases are light, (a) B-DNA, which is the most common form in cells, (b) A-DNA, which is obtained under dehydrated nonphysiological conditions. Notice the hole along the helical axis in this form, (c) Z-DNA, which can be formed by certain DNA sequences under special circumstances. (Courtesy of Richard Feldmann.)...

Ribosomal RNAs characteristically contain a number of specially modified nucleotides, including pseudouridine residues, ribothymidylic acid, and methylated bases (Figure 11.26). The central role of ribosomes in the biosynthesis of proteins is treated in detail in Chapter 33. Here we briefly note the significant point that genetic information in the nucleotide sequence of an mRNA is translated into the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide chain by ribosomes. 

The Pathway of Glycogen Biosynthesis Involves a Special Nucleotide of Glucose (Figure 18-1)... 

Considerable amounts of quenching of the acridone emissions by guanine in the DNA occurred when guanine was close to acridone, which can be applied as a quencher-free probe (no additional quencher is required) for the detection of a special sequence of DNA. The DNA bearing acridone at the C5 position of inner thymidine could distinguish the opposite T-T base mismatch, while enhancement of discrimination ability is needed for the practical use of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing. 

Both the enzymes were prepared by a special technique from the insoluble portion of guinea pig liver mitochondria, and they are quite specific with respect to the requirement of pyridine nucleotide (H9, Hll). However, dehydrogenases catalyzing reaction (25) with NAD as coenzyme have been reported (Mil, S13, T3), thus confirming the importance of the source of the enzyme and the purification procedure employed. 

TLC has similar applications to paper chromatography. The stationary phase is a coating, such as silica gel, on a glass or plastic plate. Depending on the TLC plate used, components may be separated based on differences in molecular weight, charge, or polarity (see Chapter 11). TLC with a 70% isopropyl alcohol mobile phase and a silica gel plate is an effective substitute for paper chromatography separation of amino acids. Nucleotides may be separated on a special silica gel plate and a 20% ethanol (in water) mobile phase. 

A rather new approach for detecting metal ions with very high sensitivity and selectivity utilizes DNAzymes. DNAzymes are a special class of enzymes formed from DNA nucleotides. Compared to proteins and ribozymes, they are more stable, structurally simpler, and therefore cheaper. As DNAzymes often require metal ion cofactors, they are interesting sensing platforms for these metal ions [149]. 

Summarizing, some of the organic dyes, particularly cyanines, are able to form fluorescent aggregates on DNA. Comparing with the dye monomers bound to DNA, the J-aggregates are more sensitive to the concentrations ratio and to DNA nucleotides content. Though these structures can hardly be applied for the routine DNA detection assays, they are rather interesting systems for special studies. 

Tissue culture, more frequently used as cell culture, enables animal and plant cells to be cultured in large numbers by techniques comparable to those used in microbiology but, because of the fragile nature of the cells, does require special cultural conditions. The culture media used must supply all the essential factors for growth, such as a wide range of amino acids, nucleotides, enzyme co-factors as well as indeterminate factors that can only be supplied in special products, e.g. foetal bovine serum. The environmental conditions must be carefully controlled, particularly pH, and this is frequently maintained by culturing in a bicarbonate buffer system and a carbon dioxide saturated atmosphere. 

GCRDb entry is not much more extensive than what is found in the EMBL nucleotide sequence entry from which it is derived. What makes this database useful are not the entries themselves, but the analyses (e.g., multiple alignments, classification into subfamilies) that have been made on the data and that are available from the GCRDb database. It is a good example of a specialized database adding value by offering an analytical view on data that a universal sequence database is unable to provide. 

These plans envision assembling a portfolio of in-licensed drug candidates for which collective development risk is deemed to be relatively low. The idea is to in-license molecules that either are too specialized (small market potential) for large pharma or are not visible to their radar because they come from places like Eastern Europe. These stories are favorites of professional investors, because rNPVs can be calculated with relatively low development risk on the basis of demonstrated clinical utility and/or pipeline diversity. Examples include Dura Pharmaceuticals, who marketed prescription products that treat infectious and respiratory diseases, and Gilead who marketed antiviral nucleotides discovered in the Czech Republic. 

After five cycles of selection and ampHfication, a population of single-stranded DNAs was enriched that catalyzed the Pb +-dependent cleavage at the ribose residue. This intramolecular cleavage activity was transformed into an inter-molecular reaction by separating the 38-nucleotide long catalytic domain from the 21-mer substrate which was cleaved specifically and with high turnover rates. Remarkably, the deoxyribozyme can perform well only with the special DNA/RNA chimeric oHgonucleotide substrate and cannot cleave a pure RNA substrate of the same sequence. 

The selective protection of hydroxyl groups is obviously most frequent in carbohydrate synthesis and, in fact, photosensitive protecting groups have been used to this effect in oligosaccharide synthesis, nucleotide synthesis, and saccharide modification. Here, as well as in other Sections, special attention will be devoted to 2-nitrobenzyl derivatives, whose re-... 

Translation of the information encoded in DNA, expressed as a particular nucleotide sequence, into a protein, expressed as an amino acid sequence, depends on the genetic code. In this code, sequences of three nucleotides (termed a codon) represent one of the 20 amino acids that compose the protein molecule. Because there are 64 codons which can be constructed for the four different bases, and only 20 different amino acids that are coded for, several amino acids may be coded for by more than one codon. There are also three codons, called stop codons, that terminate the transfer of information. Furthermore, although all cells contain the same complement of genes, certain cells (for example, the neurons) have specialized genes that encode specific proteins for the synthesis of specific transmitters. The expression of such genes is under the control of regulatory proteins called transcription factors which control the transcription of mRNAs from the genes they control. 

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