2-aminopurine as a fluorescent probe of DNA conformation and the DNA–enzyme interface

AC Jones, RK Neely - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2015 - cambridge.org
Nearly 50 years since its potential as a fluorescent base analogue was first recognized, 2-
aminopurine (2AP) continues to be the most widely used fluorescent probe of DNA structure …

[图书][B] Organophosphorus Chemistry: Volume 35

CD Hall, N Bricklebank, J Van De Grampel, M Migaud… - 2006 - books.google.com
Organophosphorus Chemistry provides a comprehensive annual review of the literature.
Coverage includes phosphines and their chalcogenides, phosphonium salts, low …

Enhanced spontaneous DNA twisting/bending fluctuations unveiled by fluorescence lifetime distributions promote mismatch recognition by the Rad4 nucleotide …

S Chakraborty, PJ Steinbach, D Paul, H Mu… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Rad4/XPC recognizes diverse DNA lesions including ultraviolet-photolesions and
carcinogen-DNA adducts, initiating nucleotide excision repair. Studies have suggested that …

A bend, flip and trap mechanism for transposon integration

ER Morris, H Grey, G McKenzie, AC Jones… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Cut-and-paste DNA transposons of the mariner/Tc1 family are useful tools for genome
engineering and are inserted specifically at TA target sites. A crystal structure of the mariner …

Photophysical and structural properties of the fluorescent nucleobase analogues of the tricyclic cytosine (tC) family

S Preus, K Kilså, LM Wilhelmsson… - Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Fundamental insight into the unique fluorescence and nucleobase-mimicking properties of
the fluorescent nucleobase analogues of the tC family is not only vital in explaining the …

Site-selective probing of cTAR destabilization highlights the necessary plasticity of the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein to chaperone the first strand transfer

J Godet, C Kenfack, F Przybilla, L Richert… - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein (NCp7) is a nucleic acid chaperone required during reverse
transcription. During the first strand transfer, NCp7 is thought to destabilize cTAR, the (−) …

Observation of unpaired substrate DNA in the flap endonuclease-1 active site

L David Finger, N Patel, A Beddows, L Ma… - Nucleic Acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The structure-and strand-specific phosphodiesterase flap endonuclease-1 (FEN1), the
prototypical 5′-nuclease, catalyzes the essential removal of 5′-single-stranded flaps …

Site-selective monitoring of the interaction of the SRA domain of UHRF1 with target DNA sequences labeled with 2-aminopurine

VJ Greiner, L Kovalenko, N Humbert, L Richert… - Biochemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
UHRF1 plays a central role in the maintenance and transmission of epigenetic modifications
by recruiting DNMT1 to hemimethylated CpG sites via its SET and RING-associated (SRA) …

Whether 2-aminopurine induces incorporation errors at the DNA replication? A quantum-mechanical answer on the actual biological issue

OO Brovarets', H Pérez-Sánchez - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we consider the mutagenic properties of the 2-aminopurine (2AP), which has
intrigued molecular biologists, biophysicists and physical chemists for a long time and been …

Cooperative cluster formation, DNA bending and base-flipping by O 6 -alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase

I Tessmer, M Melikishvili, MG Fried - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract O 6-Alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (AGT) repairs mutagenic O 6-alkylguanine
and O 4-alkylthymine adducts in DNA, protecting the genome and also contributing to the …