Table of Contents: Abstracts

As of March 15, 1997

Combination of Metal Ions Makes an Improved Ribozyme System
Naoki Sugimoto and Tatsuo Ohmichi

Influence of Electrostatic Mutations on Conformation and Thermal Denaturation Parameters of Apo Calmodulin
I. Protasevich, B. Ranjbar, V.Lobachov, A. Makarov R. Gilli, C. Briand D. Lafitte and J. Haiech

Analysis of Structural Environment of Amino Acids That Alter in vitro Protein Stability
Boojala V B Reddy and Sunando Datta

The Regioselective Effect of Zwitterionic DNA Substitutions on DNA Alkylation
F.-X. Chen, P. Dange, G. Liang and B. Gold

Breather Mechanism of DNA TATA-Box Recognition
Sergey N. Volkov

The Study of the Stability of Watson-Crick Nucleic Acids Base Pairs in Water and Dimethyl Sulfoxide: Computer Simulation by Monte Carlo Method
V. I. Danilov, N. V. Zheltovsky, O. N. Slyusarchuk and J. L. Alderfer

Simulation of Base and "Model" Amino Acids Complexes in DMSO by Monte Carlo Method
V. I. Danilov, O. V. Mikhaleva, O. N. Slyusarchuk, J. L. Alderfer and V. I. Poltev

DNA Kinking as Imaged with a New High-Resolution AFM
Mensur Dlakic, Rodney E. Harrington, Wenhai Han and Stuart M. Lindsay

NMR Studies of the Anticancer Drug Pepleomycin and its Complexes with DNA
Janet Caceres-Cortes, Andrew H.-J. Wang, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Kenji Ikudome and Isao Saito

Probing G·U Mismatches in RNA Fragments Using 15N NMR
Xiaohu Zhang, Barbara L. Gaffney and Roger A. Jones

A New High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscope for Imaging Biomolecules in Fluids
S.M. Lindsay, Wenhai Han and Tianwei Jing

Studies on the Interaction of Nonintercalating Drugs with Parallel-Stranded DNA: Differential Effects of Netropsin and Related Lexitropsins
Ingo Förtsch, Christoph Zimmer, Thomas M. Jovin and J. William Lown

Modulation of the Stability of a DNA Triple Helix by Interaction with Minor Groove-Binding Ligands
Ingo Förtsch, Christoph Zimmer and Holger Schütz

DNA-Intercalator Interaction Measurements Using Surface Plasmon Resonance
G. Bischoff, W.-V. Meister, C. Bohley, S. Hoffman, E. Birch-Hirschfeld and R. Bischoff

Mobility and Diffusion of a Polymer Chain in a Dynamic Matrix
Udayan Mohanty

DNA Bending is an Essential Component for the Site Specific Recognition by DNA Binding Domain of Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
Akhilesh K. Nagaich, Rodney E. Harrington and Ettore Appella

Inherent DNA Duplex Curvature Determined from 1.5 ps Molecular Dynamics Simulations for a Series of TATA-promoter Mutants and Comparison with Experimental Physical and Biological Observations
Osmar Norberto de Souza and Rick L. Ornstein

DNA Stress Induced by the TATA-box Binding Protein
Anne LeBrun, Richard Lavery and Zippora Shakked

Structural Studies on Minor Groove Binder: DNA Interactions
J. William Lown

Conformational Flexibility of Voltage Gated Dihydropyridine Sensitive Calcium Channel: Molecular Dynamics Simulation
V. Kothekar and D. Gupta

Intercalation of Ethidium Bromide into Short DNA Hairpins: Effect of Hairpin-Hairpin Dimerization
Olga F. Borisova and Anna K. Shchyolkina

A Double Stranded RNA Binding Protein
A.G. Gabrielian, K.A. Bakuntz and R.A. Zakharian

Prediction of Bendability and Curvature in Genomic DNA
Andrei Gabrielian, Kristian Vlahovicek and Sandor Pongor

Conformational NMR-Analysis of the Principal Neutralizing Determinant of the HIV-1 Envelope Protein gp120
Alexander M. Andrianov and Afanasii A. Akhrem

Spatial Structure Model of the Fragment Ala-Ser-Thr-Thr-Thr-Asn-Tyr-Thr Responsible for Binding the HIV Envelop Prrotein gp120 to T4 Receptor of T4 Cells
Alexander M. Andrianov and Afanasii A. Akhrem

NMR Structure of a Tetrad Forming Oligonucleotide HIV Inhibitor
Naijie Jing, Xiaolian Gao and Michael E. Hogan

Ab Initio Quantum Mechanics Analysis of C-H...O/N Hydrogen Bonding and Implications for Modeling Enzymes and Nucleic Acids
Rick L. Ornstein

DNA Separation by Polymer Micelle Capillary Electrophoresis
Chunhung Wu and Benjamin Chu

Periodical Recurrence of Translation Pause Sites in mRNA and Standard Sizes of Protein Sequence Segments and Independently Folding Domains
C. Makhoul and E. N. Trifonov

Structural Variability of the A-DNA in Crystals of CCCGCGGG
Lucy Malinina, Luzimar Gonzaga-Fernandes, Nuria Verdaguer, Lourdes Campos, Juan A.Subirana and Dmitry Pyshnyi

Conformational Behavior Of CGG Triplet Repeats That Are Associated With Fragile X Syndrome
Xuening Huang and Xiaolian Gao

Insight Into the Stabilization of A-DNA From Molecular Dynamics Simulations Performed in Aqueous Solvent in the Presence of Cobalt Hexaamine or Ethanol
Thomas E. Cheatham III and Peter A. Kollman

How Does Metalloprotein Oxidation State Affect Structure, Dynamics and Function?
Thomas C. Pochapsky

Satellite Tobacco Ringspot Virus RNA in Sympton Reduction in Tobacco Ringspot Virus-Infected Plants
N. I. Imthurn, K. L. Tessitore and G. A. Prody

Environmental Influences on DNA Curvature
David W. Ussery and Alex Bolshoy

Extraction of Nucleosome DNA Sequence Pattern by Match Resonance Analysis
Ilya Ioshikhes, Lev Lvovsky and Edward N. Trifonov

At Physiological pH, d(CCG)15 Forms a Hairpin Containing Protonated Cytosines and a Distorted Helix
Adong Yu, Maria D. Barron, Rebecca M. Romero, Mellisa Christy, Barry Gold,
Jianli Dai, Donald M. Gray, Ian S. Haworth and Michael Mitas

The Adenylates of Friedreich's Ataxia d(GAA) Repeats Are Nuclease-Resistant and Predominantly Unstacked: Evidence For a New Helical Single-Stranded DNA Structure
Iang-Shan Suen, Mellisa Christy, Brian McEwen, and Michael Mitas

S-DNA and SI-DNA: Genetic and Biophysical Evidence for Slipped DNA Structures in Disease-Associated Triplet Repeat Instability
Pearson, C. E., Eichler, E. E., Lorenzetti, D., Acharya, S., Kramer, P. R., Kramer, S. F., Nelson, D. L., Zoghbi, H. Y., Fishel, R. A. and Sinden, R. R.

Design And Structural Analysis Of Novel Nucleic Acids Duplexes With Mixed Strand Disposition
Markus W. Germann, James M. Aramini, Bernd W. Kalisch and Johan H. van de Sande

The Helical Structure of d(CCG)n Trinucleotide Repeat DNA Probed by Mechlorethamine Crosslinking and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Rebecca M. Romero, Huai Yong Cheng, Michael Mitas and Ian S. Haworth

Metals, Motifs and Recognition: 5S rRNA Domain Crystal Structure
C.C. Correll, B. Freeborn, P.B. Moore, and T.A. Steitz

Conformation Changes in DNA-peptide Complexes
Hana Votavová and Jaroslav Sponar

Hydration and the Stability of Protein-Protein Complexes
M. C. Strahm and D. M. Soumpasis

Packaging and Dimer Linkage in Retroviral RNA: NMR of a GGAG-tetraloop Substructure of the HIV-1 Packaging Signal
Lucia Pappalardo, Cui Liu, István Pelczer and Philip N. Borer

Comparision of the Dynamics Of Angiogenin and RNase A
Madhusudhan, M.S. and Saraswathi Vishveshwara

Environmentally Dependent Molecular Dynamic Simulations of DNA Using the BMS Nucleic Acid Force Field
David R. Langley

DNA Triplex Stabilization by Cationic Polypeptides
Vladimir N. Potaman, David R. Corey and Richard R. Sinden

Molecular Modelling of Interactions of Acridine Analogs With Double Helical DNA
V. K. Ganesh and D. Velmurugan

1H NMR Investigations of Ion Binding by DNA G-quartets and A-tracts
Nicholas V. Hud and Juli Feigon

E. coli DNA Topoisomerase III is an RNA Topoisomerase
Hui Wang, Russell J. Di Gate and Nadrian C. Seeman

Switching and Looping in i-Motif Structures
J-L Leroy, S. Nonin, X. Han, A. T. Phan, and M. Guéron

DNA Bending by Small Molecules: Studies With Calicheamicin
Aaron A. Salzberg and Peter C. Dedon

Helix -Coil Transitions in DNA Modified by Novel Pt(II) Complexes: A pH Mmelting Study
R. Malathi, G. Natarajan, E. Holler

Molecular Recognition Between DNA And Chiral Intercalative Metalloprobes
K. A.Vickery, A. M. Bonin, P. A. Williams and R. S. Vagg

Effect of Vicinal 2',5' and 3',5'-Phosphodiester Linkages on the Formation of Hairpin DNA
Ravinderjit S. Braich and Masad J. Damha

Association of Branched Oligonucleotides into C-Tetraplexes: 2-Deoxyribose and Arabinose, but not Ribose, Stabilize the C-Tetrad Structure
S. Robidoux, M.J. Damha, K. Gehring and R. Klinck

Selective Association and Antisense Properties of 2',5'-Linked Oligoribonucleotides
M. Wasner, A. Uddin, G. Borkow, D. Arion, M. Parniak and M.J. Damha

Hybridization Properties of Arabinonucleic Acids (ANA) Influence of Stereochemistry at 2' on the Stability of Double and Triple Helices
Anne Noronha and Masad J. Damha

Biophysical Studies and Synthesis of Oligonucleotides Containing a Peptide / Aromatic Backbone
C. J. Wilds, J. F. Lunetta, Y. S. Tsantrizos and M. J. Damha

The Tunable Transmission of the Aromatic Character of the Aglycone Through the Anomeric Effect in C-nucleosides Drives its Own Sugar Conformation: A Thermodynamic Study
I. Luyten, C. Thibaudeau, A. Sandström and J. Chattopadhyaya

What is the Nature of Hydration in the Minor Groove of DNA Duplex? An Investigation by Base-pair Exchange Kinetics and NMR Study
T. V. Maltseva, P. Roselt and J. Chattopadhyaya

Solution Structure of Tandem Oligonucleotide Duplex with two Spatially Adjacent Steroid Residues
A. Yu. Denisov, T. V. Maltseva, A. Sandstrom, D. V. Pyshnyi, E. M. Ivanova, V. F. Zarytova and J. Chattopadhyaya

The Discovery of Intramolecular Stereoelectronic Forces That Drive the Sugar Conformation in Nucleosides and Nucleotides
C. Thibaudeau & J. Chattopadhyaya

Strategies in DNA Sequence Recognition
Richard E. Dickerson, Gye-Won Han, Mary L. Kopka and David S. Goodsell

A Molecular Dynamics Study of a DNA Oligomer Containing the TATA-box Binding Protein Target Sequence
Delphine Flatters, Matthew Young, David L. Beveridge and Richard Lavery

Effects of 5-FU on the Structure, Stability and Dynamics of the U4-U6 snRNA Complex
William H. Gmeiner, Parag V. Sahasrabudhe, Junqu Sun and Jinqian Liu

Sequence-Specific Ligands That use Parallel and Antiparallel Side-by-Side Peptide Motifs in Binding to DNA
Anna N. Surovaya, Gunther Burckhardt, Sergei L. Grokhovsky, Eckhard Birch-Hirschfeld, Georgii V. Gursky and Christoph Zimmer

p53-DNA Interactions: DNA Bending and Flexibility
P. Balagurumoorthy, Ettore Appella and Rodney E. Harrington

High Resolution Information on Specific Interactions Between the p53 DNA Binding Domain and DNA Response Elements
A. K. Nagaich, P. Balagurumoorthy, H. Sakamoto, V. B. Zhurkin, G. M. Clore, A. M. Gronenborn, E. Appella and R. E. Harrington

High Sensitivity Pure Nuclear Quadruple Resonance (PQR) in Biopolymers
Dmitri Ivanov and Alfred G. Redfield

NMR Studies on the Slipped-Loop Structure of DNA in Solution
Nikolai B. Ulyanov, Valery I. Ivanov & Thomas L. James

Sequence Specific Recognition in the DNA Minor Groove: X-Ray Structure of the Di-imidazole Lexitropsin Bound to C-A-T-G-G-C-C-A-T-G
Mary L. Kopka, Gye Won Han, Thang Chiu, David S. Goodsell, J.W. Lown & Richard E. Dickerson

The Folding Pathway of a Group II Intron Ribozyme Revealed by Stopped-Flow Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Chemical Modification Footprinting
Peter Zhifeng Qin and Anna Marie Pyle

RNA Pseudoknot From Beet Western Yellow Virus at 1.9 Å Resolution
Li Su, Liqing Chen & Alexander Rich

The Sequence Dependence of Branch Migratory Minima
Weiqiong Sun, Chengde Mao and Nadrian C. Seeman

The Construction of Borromean Rings from DNA
Chengde Mao, Weiqiong Sun and Nadrian C. Seeman

Direct Evidence for Holliday Junction Crossover Isomerization
Xiaojun Li, Hui Wang and Nadrian C. Seeman

The Incorporation of DNA Double Crossovers into DNA Triangles
Xiaoping Yang, Jing Qi, Xiaojun Li and Nadrian C. Seeman

Lengthening Sticky Ends: Not as Easy as it Looks
Furong Liu, Hui Wang and Nadrian C. Seeman

Detection of a B-Form/A-Form Junction in DNA
V.I. Ivanov, L.E. Minchenkova, Gunther Burckhardt, Eckhardt Birch-Hirschfeld, Hartmut Fritzsche and Christoph Zimmer

The Structure and Properties of a Small, Porphyrin-Metallating, DNAzyme
Dipankar Sen and Yingfu Li

DNA Sequence and Three-dimensional Structure
Wilma K. Olson

A Cofactor-Independent DNAzyme for RNA Hydrolysis
Dipankar Sen and C. Ronald Geyer

Manipulation of Curvature in Plasmid DNA Molecules
Nancy C. Stellwagen and Kurt Strutz

Selforganization of Nucleic Acids Visualized by Scanning Force Microscopy
C. Bohley, W.-V. Meister, G. Bischof, R. Bischoff, S. de Bambirra, S. Lindau, S.Kargov, J. Barthel, S. Hoffmann

Possibilities of Triplex-Formation by Short Oligo(deoxy)nucleotide Analogs of Tetrahymena pre-rRNA Fragments

W.-V. Meister, G. Bischoff, R. Bischoff, C. Bohley, S. de Bambirra, E. Birch-Hirschfeld, S. Kargov, S. Hoffmann

Mesogenic 2-Pyridones and 1,2-Diacylhydrazines Modelling Aspects of Recognition and Modulation in Nucleoprotein Replication Systems
C. Bohley, S. Naumann, S. Lindau, S. de Bambirra, W.-V. Meister, S. Hoffmann

Phase-Behavior of Long Alkyl-Chain Nucleobase Derivatives
S. de Bambirra, S. Lindau, G. Bischoff, R. Bischoff, C. Bohley, L. Kovalenko, M. Madre, R. Zhuk, W.-V. Meister, S. Hoffmann

Message-Design Around the ss-Casomorphin Motif within ss-Casein Informational Tracts
W.-V. Meister, F. Adler, E. Birch-Hirschfeld, S. Hoffmann

NMR Studies of the Conserved 43 Nucleotide RNA Domain Found in the Signal Recogniton Particle
Peter Lukavsky, Stefan Behrens, Todd Billeci, Thomas L. James & Uli Schmitz

Energetics and Geometry of Water Clusters and Networks
Bernd U. Ihmels and D. Mario Soumpasis

Modeling DNA Structures: From Local to Superhelical Forms
A. R. Srinivasan and Wilma K. Olson

Computer Simulations of Polynucleosomal DNA Circles
Vsevolod Katritch and Wilma K. Olson

Slipped Loop Structure (SLS) in Symmetrical Deoxynucleotides
E. E.Minyat, E. B.Khomyakova, M. V.Petrova and V. I. Ivanov

Role of Electrostatic Factors in Interaction Between Minor Groove Binders and DNA
A. L. Zhuze, S. L. Grokhovsky, R. V. Brussov, A. M. Nikitin, D. V. Salmanova, A. L. Mikheikin, S. A. Streltsov, T. A. Leinsoo, V. O. Chekhov, G. V. Gursky, R. H. Shafer, and A. S. Zasedatelev

Chromosome Structure and Gene Regulation
K. J. Polach, R. U. Protacio, P. T. Lowary and J. Widom

Triple Helix Formation by (GA)-containing Oligonucleotides: An Asymmetric Sequence Effect
Paola B. Arimondo, Francesca Basolo, Jian-Sheng Sun, Jean-Claude Maurizot, Thérèse Garestier, Claude Hélène

Interactions of Sanguinarine with Polymorphic Structures of Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Suman Das, Anjana Sen, Arghya Ray, Gopinatha Suresh Kumar and Motilal Maiti

Structural and Dynamics Studies of Bacterial Regulatory Proteins
John Cavanagh

Alzheimer Disease Hyperphosphorylated TAU Aggregates Hydrophobically
George C. Ruben, Thomas L. Ciardelli, Inge Grundke-Iqbal, and Khalid Iqbal

DNA-backbone Modifications That Affect Duplex Stability
Daniel Barsky, Michael E. Colvin, Gerald Zon, Sergei M. Gryaznov

Dynamical Structure of B-DNA Oligonucleotides Containing Phased A-tracts in Salt Water Solution
M. A. Young and D. L. Beveridge

Molecular Design for DNA Recognition: An Approach Toward Gene-Specific Transcription Inhibition in vivo by Synthetic Ligands
Peter B. Dervan

Evolution of Human and Mouse Dinucleotide Repeat DNA
Pankaj Agarwal, George I. Bell, Gavin Huttley and Michael W. Smith

B-DNA Bending by Cationic Ligands
I.F.Rouzina and V.A. Bloomfield

Self-Assembly of DNA Oligomers with XGG Trinucleotide Repeats
Fu-Ming Chen

Two-domain Structure of the td Intron-encoded Endonuclease I-TevI Correlates with the two-Domain Configuration of the Homing Site
Victoria Derbyshire, Joseph C. Kowalski, John T. Dansereau, Susan Baxter, Charles R. Hauer and Marlene Belfort

IS903 Insertion Specificity: A Distinct Preference for the F Transfer Operon
Wen-Yuan Hu and Keith M. Derbyshire

Mutational Analysis of IS903 Transposase
Norma Tavakoli and Keith Derbyshire

The Investigation of DNA-Protein Interactions by Molecular Mechanics and Protein-DNA Cross-Links Methods. Deliniation of Universal DNA, RNA-Binding and DNA-Binding Motifs
Natalya G.Esipova, Dmitry E.Kamachev, Dmitry A.Kuznetzov, Andrey D.Mirzabekov

Structural Basis For Heterogeneous Kinetics: Reengineering the Hairpin Ribozyme
J. Esteban, N. Walter, G. Kotzorek, J. Heckman, J. Bond and J. Burke

Effects of Different Chemical Groups Covalently Attached to Oligodeoxyribonucleotides as well as the Presence of the Mismatch at these Junctions on the Co-operative Interactions
Abdussalam Adeenah-Zadah and Olga Fedorova

A Theoretical Analysis of Specificity of Nucleic Acid Interactions with Oligonucleotides and Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNAs)
Aleksey Lomakin and Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii

Kinetic Analysis of Specificity of Duplex DNA Targeting by Homopyrimidine PNAs
Vadim V. Demidov, Michael V. Yavnilovich and Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii

Salt Effects on DNA Structure and Dynamics Studied by H1-NMR Spectroscopy
Patrick Furrer, Nick Ulyanov and Tom James

Studies on Direct and Indirect Hydrogen Bonds and the Operator Conformation in the Interaction of the trp Repressor with its Binding Sites
Avital Bareket-Samish, Ilana Cohen and Tali. E. Haran

Computer Modeling of the Ternary Complex of the Lac Repressor, CAP and DNA Loop
Steve Harvey, David Case and Robert K.-Z. Tan

The Role of Water in Complex Formation between Peptides and the MHC Molecule HLA-A2
Wilson S. Meng, Hermann von Grafenstein and Ian S. Haworth

6-Amino-6H-4,5,7,8-Tetrahydroimidazo[4,5-e][1,4]Diazepine-5,8-Dione: A Synthetic Analogue of Azepinomycin as a Transition State-Mimicking Inhibitor of Guanese
Vasanthakumar Rajappan and Ramachandra S. Hosmane

Affinity Reagents For Cross-Linking Hemoglobin: Bis(Phenoxycarbonylethyl)Phosphinic Acid (Bpcep) and Bis(3-Nitrophenoxycarbonylethyl)Phosphinic Acid (Bncep)
S. Prasad Peri, Vishweshwar S. Bhadti, Rong Liang, Ramachandra S. Hosmane and Victor Macdonald

Inhibitors of Glycogen Phosphorylase B: Synthesis, Molecular Modeling, and Biochemical Screening of Analogues of Hydantocodin
Mary W. Mumper, Yankanagouda S. Agasimundin and Ramachandra S. Hosmane

NMR Structure Studies of the Prion Protein
He Liu, Nicolai B. Ulyanov, Shauna Farr-Jones, Hong Zhang, David Donne, Peter Wright, Fred Cohen, Darline Groth, Stanley Prusiner and Thomas L. James

Phosphorothioate and Phosphorodithioate Modifications of Antisense Oligomers: A Structural Comparison by NMR
Todd M. Billeci, Patrick Furrer, Alessandro Donati, Chojiro Kojima, Wojcieh Stec, and Thomas L. James

Induction of Self-ligation of Hairpin Ribozyme RNAs by Freezing and Dehydration
Brian H. Johnston, Svetlana V. Balatskaya and S. A. Kazakov

Antiparallel-Parallel Combination (APC) in DNA: The Formation is Facilitated by Groove Binding Ligand Distamicin A
Elena B. Khomyakova, Anna K. Shchyolkina, Lucy E. Minchenkova, Elvira E. Minyat, Valery I. Ivanov and Tomas M. Jovin

Structural Recognition of DNA by HMG Proteins
Hong Xin, Wenjie Cheng and Neville R. Kallenbach

The Effects of a Mutation in the B Binding Domain of rHMG-1
Susann Taudte, Amy Tam, Wenjie Cheng, Wendy P. Patton, Neville R. Kallenbach

Thermal Unfolding of Chytochrome
C. Leyu Wang and Neville R. Kallenbach

Quantitative Footprinting Studies On Hiv-1 Rna
Christopher Kirk, Jerry Goodisman, Lucia Pappalardo, Philip Borer and James Dabrowiak

Diastereoselectivity Of Nucleolytic Enzymes Towards Phosphorothioate Analogues Of Oligonucleotides
Maria Koziolkiewicz, Marzena Wojcik, Edyta Gendaszewska, Maria Maszewska and Wojciech J. Stec

3D Domain Swapping in an RNA Pseudoknot
Craig E. Kundrot

The High Resolution Crystal Structure of a Guanine Tetraplex
Kathryn Phillips, Zbyzek Dauter, Alaistair Murchie, David Lilley and Ben Luisi

High-Resolution Solution NMR Structure of the Anticancer Drug Cisplatin Bound to its Major Site in Duplex DNA
Andrew Gelasco and Stephen J. Lippard

Analysis of the Interactions of the DNA binding domain of PU.1 by Hydroxyl Radical Footprinting
Petra Groß, Cheryl H. Arrowsmith and Robert B. Macgregor, Jr.

Infrared Spectroscopy of (dA)·(dT) Polymers at High Pressure
M.-C. Lin, P. Eid, P. T. T. Wong and R. B. Macgregor, Jr.

Working Towards an Optimized Library of Routines for the Analysis and Reconstruction of Nucleic Acid Structure
Xiangjun Lu and Wilma K. Olson

Influence of Stretching Deformations on DNA Structure
Konstantin Kosikov, Andrey Gorin, Victor Zhurkin and Wilma Olson

Gaussian-Chain Model For Interphase Chromosomes
Joseph Y. Ostashevsky

DNA-Modified Electrodes: New Tools in Molecular Recognition, Detection of DNA Damage and Analysis of Environmental Pollutants
E. Palecek, M.Fojta, M. Tomschik, F. Jelen, V. Vetterl, L. Havran and V. Stankova

Modeling of DNA-polyamine Interactions by Cobalt Amine Complexes
Andrew Parkinson and Alison Rodger

Genome Sequence Analysis: A Pointer Towards Triplex-mediated cis Regulation of Gene Expression
Sowmya Raghavan, Pradeep K. Burma and Samir K. Brahmachari

Crystal Structures of DNA Targets of the E2 Protein from Bovine Papillomavirus-1
H. Rozenberg, D. Rabinovich, F. Frolow, R. H. Hegde and Z. Shakked

The Crystal Complex of Tetrameric PheRS and Cognate tRNA: The Pattern of Recognition
Mark Safro, Yehuda Goldgur, Lidia Mosyak, Ludmila Reshetnikova, Valentina Ankilova, Olga Lavrik, Svetlana Khodyreva

Proline Is An Artificial Protein Folding Chaperone
D. Samuel and Chin Yu

New Single Molecule Approaches to Genomic Analaysis: Optical Mapping
Schwartz, D.C., Anantharaman, T., Cai, W., Clarke, V., Delobette, S., Dimalanta, E., Edington, J., Giacalone, J., Hiort, C., Hu, X., Huff, E., Jing, J., Lai, Z., Lee, E., Mishra, B., Murti, J. R., Porter, B., Qi, R., Rabbah, R., Ramanathan, A., Reed, J., Samad, A., Shenker, A., Skiadas, Y., Tankhoveya, K., Wang, W. and Lin, J.

Quantitative Gel Studies of the Dimer Linkage Site of Hiv
Michael Shubsda, Jerry Goodisman, Philip Borer and James Dabrowiak

Genetic Control of Microsatellite Instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
E. A. Sia, R. J. Kokoska, M. Dominska, P. Greenwell, M. Wierdl and T. D. Petes

Conformational Changes in Fluoromethemoglobin S and Fluoromethemoglobin A Probed by Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Spectroscopy
L. Sokolov, K. Sheffield and I. Mukerji

AMBER4.1/PME simulations of the "Hagerman" sequences d[G5-{GA4T4C}2-C5] and d[G5-{GT4A4C}2-C5]
Dennis Sprous, Matthew A. Young and David L. Beveridge

The AMBER4.1 Force Field Favors B-DNA Pucker in 75% Methanol:TIP3P Water (v/v) and in Straight TIP3P Water
Dennis Sprous, Kevin J. McConnell and David L. Beveridge

Kinetic Study of a (T,C)-motif Triple Helix Formation by Biomolecular Interaction Analysis Technology: a Comparative Solution and Biosensor-Based Study
Jian-sheng Sun, Thérèse Garestier and Claude Hélène

Establishing in vitro Assays for IS903 Transposition
Valeri J. Thomson and Keith Derbyshire

Left-handed Kind Conformation of Polypeptide Chain in the DNA Minor Groove
Vladimir G.Tumanyan, Dmitry A.Kuznetsov and Natalya G.Esipova

Raman Spectroscopy as a Probe of DNA Minor-Groove Binding: The Complex of a High-Mobility-Group Domain (hSRY) and its Target DNA
James M. Benevides, Michael A. Weiss and George J. Thomas, Jr.

Oligodeoxyribonucleotide N3-P5' Phosphoramidate Duplexes Have A-Helix Conformations And Can Serve As Decoys In Binding The HIV-1 Rev Protein
W. David Wilson, Daoyuan Ding, C. Ted Rig, Sergei M. Gryaznov and David H. Lloyd

Interaction of DNA Bases and Base Pairs with Various Metal Cations (Li+ Na+, K+, Rb+, Cs+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+, Cu+, Ag+, Au+, Zn2+, Cd2+, and Hg2+): ab initio MP2 Calculations and Nonadditivity of the Interaction
Jaroslav V. Burda, Jirí Sponer, Jerzy Leszczynski and Pavel Hobza

CD and NMR Studies on a La3+ Binding Nucleated Synthetic EF Peptide
Youxiang Gong, Jianxin Yang, Andrew J. Bierzynski and Neville R. Kallenbach

Theoretical Study on Structure, Dynamics and Properties of DNA Bases and Base Pairs
Pavel Hobza, Jirí Sponer and Vladimír Spirko

DNA Supercoiling Alters Calicheamicin g1I Activation by Glutathione
William A. LaMarr and Peter C. Dedon

The Iso-Competition Point For Multivalent: Univalent Cation Binding To DNA
Anzhi Z. Li, Haiyan Huang and Kenneth A. Marx

Comparison Of Theoretical And Experimental Melting Curves Of The Yeast Genome And Simulation Of Individual Yeast Chromosome Melting Using The Program Meltsim
J. W. Bizzaro, Kenneth A. Marx and R.D. Blake

MELTSIM, A Windows Program for Simulating the Thermal Dissociation of Polymeric DNAs
R. D. Blake, J. W. Bizzaro, John Knowles, Gary Day, Jonathan Blake and Kenneth A. Marx

Refinements of Thermodynamic Parameters Associated With Helix-Coil Transitions of Polymeric DNAs
D. Blake and Scott G. Delcourt

Studies of the Dynamics of Adenine Amino Protons in DNA by 15N-Labeling and Heteronuclear NMR Spectroscopy
Ryszard Michalczyk and Irina M. Russu

Modeling DNA Replication Intermediates
Roy, D., Hingerty, B.E. and Broyde, S.

Proton Exchange and Internal Rotation of Cytosine Amino Groups in DNA Double Helices
Irina M. Russu and Ryszard Michalczyk

(CTG)n·(CAG)n and (CGG)n·(CCG)n Triplet Repeats: Unusual Helical Properties and Alternative DNA Secondary Structures
Richard R. Sinden, Paul D. Chastain II, Evan E. Eichler, Stephen D. Levene, David L. Nelson and Christopher E. Pearson

Nonadditivity of Interactions in H-bonded and Stacked Complexes of Nucleic Acid Bases. An Important Contribution, Not Included in the Empirical Potentials
J. Sponer, J.V. Burda, J. Leszczynski and P. Hobza

Molecular Interactions in i-DNA and Z-DNA. A Crystallographic, Quantum-Chemical and Preliminary Empirical Potential Study
J. Sponer, I. Berger, M. Egli, H.A. Gabb, N. Spacková, P. Hobza and A. Rich

Crystal Structure of r(GUAUACA)dC: 3' Double Base Overhangs With Hemiprotonated Trans (dC·dC)+ Base Pairs and Minor Groove A*(G·C) Triplets
Ke Shi, Roopa Biswas, Shome Nath Mitra and Muttaiya Sundaralingam

Side-by-Side Binding of Distamycin A to B-DNA: Crystal Structure of d(GTATATAC)2 - Distamycin Complex With Two Independent Molecules
Shome Nath Mitra, Markus C. Wahl and Muttaiya Sundaralingam

The A-DNA Duplex - How it Differs From B-DNA
Muttaiya Sundaralingam

Crystal Structure of r(CCCIUGGG) with Tandem I·U Wobble Base Pairs-Three Independent Octamer Duplexes
Baocheng Pan, Shome Nath Mitra and Muttaiya Sundaralingam

Effect of the Substitution of Inosine on the Structure of A-tract DNA
Ruth M. Ganunis and Thomas D. Tullius

External Nucleophiles That Induce DNA Cleavage in Conjunction With an Organometallic Complex
Celeste P. Jamison McDaniels and Thomas D. Tullius

Chimeric Homeodomains Reveal the Importance of the N-terminal Arm in Determining the Structural DNA Binding Characteristics of Dfd and Ubx Homeodomains
Richard W. Frazee and Thomas D. Tullius

Base-Triple Interactions in the Triple Helical Domain of Self-Splicing Group I Introns
Martina Lindqvist, Munna Sarkar and Astrid Gräslund

Supercoiled DNA Polyelectrolyte
Marcia O. Fenley, A. H. Boschitsch, Todd R. Quackenbush and Wilma K. Olson

Slow Disproportionation of Duplexes Formed by Ssdna/RNA Targets and Mixed Purine-Pyrimidine Pnas With Lysines in the Backbone
E. Lesnik, F. Hassman, J. Barbeau, K. Teng, K. Weiler, R. Griffey and S. Freier

Function and Mechanism of Type -2 Topoisomerases
Rybenkov V., Vologodskii A., Ullsperger C., Khodursky A., Hildebrandt E., Zechiedrich E.L., Peter B. and Cozzarelli N.R.

Interdomain Interactions and Multivalent Association in Signal Transducing Domains
David Cowburn, David Fushman, Jie Zheng, Quinghong Xu, James McDonnell, Sean Cahill and Rong Xu

DNA Recognition by Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA)
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

Eukaryotic Recombinant Protein Rad51; its Thermal Stability and Complex Formation with Oligo(dT*)
Jong-Moon Kim, Masayuki Takahashi and Seog K. Kim

Binding Mode and Base Specificity of Norfloxacin with DNAs
Gwan-Su Son, Jeong-Ah Yeo, Mi-Sun Kim and Seog K. Kim

Structure-Based Design of Nucleic Acid Binding Ligands
Qi Chen, Irwin D. Kuntz and Richard H. Shafer

Optical Imaging Approach to Study Protein-DNA Interaction and Nuclear Organization in Cultured Living Cells
Han Htun, Julia Brsony and Gordon L. Hager

NMR Strategies for Structure Based Drug Design
Jonathan M. Moore

Solution Structure of an Oligodeoxynucleotide Duplex Containing the Exocyclic Lesion 3, N4-Etheno-2'-deoxycytidine Opposite Deoxyguanosine: Determined by NMR Spectroscopy and Restrained Molecular Dynamics
David Cullinan, Moshe Eisenberg, Arthur P. Grollman and Carlos de los Santos

1H - NMR and Molecular Dynamics Studies of a Model Hexapeptide GRGDTP
R. P. Ojha and A. K. Kulkarni

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the DNA Triplexe D(TG)5.D(CA)5.D(TG)5
R. P. Ojha and R. K. Tiwari

Ligands for DNA and RNA
K. T. Douglas

The DNA Helical Phasing Between Promotes and Regulatory Sites of Escherichia Coli
Vladimir Yu. Shumilov

RNA Splicing, Introns and Biology
Phillip A. Sharp

X-Ray Diffraction Study of Histone Proteins HMfA and HMfB from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Methanothermus Fervidus
Klaas Decanniere, Kathleen Sandman, John N. Reeve and Udo Heinemann

Studies of Sequence-Dependent Tertiary Structure in Supercoiled DNA by Site-specific Recombination
S. D. Levene and H. Tsen

Interactions of the Antiviral Quinoxaline Derivative 9-OH-B220 {2,3-dimethyl-6-(dimethylaminoethyl)-9-hydroxy-6H-indolo-[2,3-b]quinoxaline} with Duplex and Triplex Forms of Synthetic DNA and RNA
Ulrica Sehlstedt, Palok Aich, Jan Bergman, Hans Vallberg, Bengt Nordén and Astrid Gräslund

Covalently Dimerized DNA-Binding Domains of the Phage 434 Repressor: A Novel Protein Framework to Study Protein-DNA Interactions
András Simoncsits and Sándor Pongor

DNA Structures Associated With Class I Expansion of GAA in Friedreich's Ataxia
Cynthia T. McMurray, A. Marquis Gacy, Geoff M. Goellner, Craig Spiro, Roy Dyer, Marci Mikesell, Janet Z. Yao, Aaron J. Johnson, Nenad Juranic, Slobodan Macura, Andrea Richter* and Serge B. Melancon*

Structural Ensemble of a Methylphosphonated-DNA·RNA Hybrid: Analysis of NMR Data
Anwer Mujeeb and Thomas L. James

Impact of pi - sigma* Interactions on the Axial Preference of the Purine vs. Pyrimidine Nucleobase in 2',3'-unsaturated Pentopyranosyl Nucleosides
Janez Plavec, Matjaz Polak and Piet Herdewijn

The Use of Suicide Substrates to Probe the Mechanism of E. coli Topoisomerase I
Camille J. Roche, Chang-Xi Zhu and Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh

Architectural Role of p53 in the Spatial Organization of the DNA Response Element. Computer Modeling and Comparison with Experiment
V. Zhurkin, A. Gorin, E. Appella, R. Harrington, R. Jernigan and S. Durell

Protein-DNA Recognition: A Role for CH...O Interactions in the Major Groove
Y. Mandel-Gutfreund, H. Margalit, R.L. Jernigan and V.B. Zhurkin

Hydration, Electrostatics and Dynamics of the HIV Tar-Tar* RNA Kissing Loops
Chang-Shung Tung and Angel E. García

Aggregation of Guanine Dinucleotides: An Analytical Ultracentrifugation Study
Consuelo Walss, Borries Demeler, Jeffrey C. Hansen and Judith A. Walmsley

Are There Universal Statistical Differences Between Coding and Noncoding DNA?
Ivo Grosse, Hanspeter Herzel, Sergey V. Buldyrev and H. Eugene

Data Mining of Large Gene Datasets Using the Mutual Information Function
Ivo Grosse, Kenneth A. Marx, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Georges Grinstein, Hanspeter Herzel, Pat Hoffman, Anzhi Li, Claudio Meneses and H. Eugene Stanley

Asymmetric Cleavage of Nucleosomal DNA by Calicheamicing1I
Prasad N. Kuduvalli, Craig A. Townsend and Thomas D. Tullius

Relationships between Crystal Packing and Conformation in Crystals of DNA Oligonucleotides
Helen M. Berman, Samuel Engel, Michael Mehnert and John Westbrook

Effects of Histone Acetylation on Nucleosome Structure
E. M. Bradbury, F. Dong, J. Gatewood, S. Usachenko and P. Yau

Structure/Function Relationship of the Insulin-Linked Polymorphic Region: Implications in the Length Polymorphism and Gene Regulation
Paolo Catasti, X. Chen, E. Morton Bradbury and Goutam Gupta

Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of the Conformational Transitions of Complexes of DNA with Ligands Having Several Types of Binding Sites of Different Forms of DNA
Armen T. Karapetian, Genady A. Terzikian, Ara P. Antonian, Pogos O. Vardevanian and Maxim D. Frank-Kamentskii

The Topological Complementarity of the Histone Octamer and DNA in the Nucleosome
Khrapunov S.N., Dragan A.I. and Sivolob A.I.

Structural Characterization of Modified Nucleic Acids
Samuel S. Woodley, Linda Eckel, Charles W. Bailey, Christopher Lawrence and Thomas R. Krugh

Experimental and Computational Strategies for NMR Structure Determination of Troublesome Proteins
F. Y. Luh, S. J. Archer, B. O. Smith, A. R. C. Raine, W. Boucher, S. L. Brenner, P. J. Domaille and E. D. Laue

tRNAAsp-Aspartyl-Trna Synthetase: Two Base-Pairs Make the Difference
D. Moras

Modes of Motions and Mechanisms of Regulation in the Regulatory Domains of pp60 c-Src
Linda Nicholson

Conformational Analysis of a Fourteen Amino Acid Mussel Adhesive Protein Peptide
Marion P. Olivieri, Robert M. Wollman, Emily A. Mysliwiec-Levandusky and James L. Alderfer

Structure of the A-Site of E. Coli 16s rRNA Complexed with an Aminoglycoside Antibiotic
Dominique Fourmy and Joseph D. Puglisi

A Link Between Conformational Change and Ribozyme Specificity in Group II Introns
Anna Marie Pyle

Crystal Structure of an IHF-DNA Complex: A Protein-Induced DNA U-Turn
Phoebe A. Rice, Shu-wei Yang, Kiyoshi Mizuuchi, and Howard Nash

DNA Methylation, X Chromosome Inactivation, and Epigenetic Mechanisms
Arthur D. Riggs, Zhenggang Xiong, Lijun Wang and Jeanne M. LeBon

Interaction of an Anti-HIV-1 Hammerhead Ribozyme With a 17-mer DNA Analog Substrate of HIV-1 gag RNA: A 750 MHz NMR and Computer Experiments
Sarma, Ramaswamy H., Dhingra, M. M., Sarma, Mukti H.,Turner, Christopher J.Setlik, R. F., Shibata, M., Rein, R., Kazim, A. L., Cairo, A. and Ornstein, R. L.

Common Structural Elements in Eukaryotic Promoters
Tanja Schätz and Jörg Langowski

A Global Overview of Protein Folds
Dikeos Mario Soumpasis & Martin Christian Strahm

An RNA Bridge in the l N Antitermination Complex Requires Tryptophan-Purine Stacking and Base Flipping
Leila Su, James T. Radek, Patrick Hermanto, Klaas Hallenga, Huifen Chen, Ging Chan, Laua A. Labeots and Michael A. Weiss

Evidence That the DNA A-Tract is Bent and Rigid in Solution Obtained by Time-Resolved Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
Lukasz Milos, Sherri Oslick and Michael A. Weiss

Exploring the Energy Landscape of Proteins: The Temperature Dependence of Dynamics of Ribonuclease H
Arthur G. Palmer, III

Marked Discreteness in Coil-globule Transition of Large DNA Molecules Induced by PEG (Polyethylene Glycol)
Yukiko Matsuzawa and Kenichi Yoshikawa

Stereochemistry of Protein/DNA Interactions
Paul B. Sigler

Structural Investigation of a Binary-Addressed Oligonucleotide System Juxtaposing Pyrene and Perfluoroazide Units by Means of High-Field NMR Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling
Elena V. Bichenkova, Debora S. Marks, Sergei G. Lokhov, Michail I. Dobrikov, Valentin Vlassov and Kenneth T. Douglas

How the TATA Box Selects its Protein Partner
Nina Pastor and Harel Weinstein

A Backward Glance at the Nucleic Acids
Alexander Rich

Structural Studies on the Unstable Triplet Repeats
S.V. Santhana Mariappan, Paolo Catasti, Xian Chen, Louis A. Silks III, Robert K. Moyzis, Larry L. Deavan, E. Morton Bradbury and Goutam Gupta

Simulations of DNA Cyclization by Brownian Dynamics
Alexi Podtelzhnikov and Alexander Vologodskii

DNA Replication in a Crystal: a High Resolution Snapshot of a Polymerase in Action
James Kiefer, Chen Mao and Lorena S. Beese

RNA-Protein Recognition in the HIV Rev-RRE Complex
J.L. Battiste, H. Mao, Thomas J. Tolbert, Kwaku T. Dayie, R.Tan,
R. Sambasiva, L. E. Kay, A.D.Frankel and J.R.Williamson

Molecular-Dynamics Simulation of (dA·dT:dT)6 on Nanosecond Trajectories
S. Yu. Tsybenko, I. A. Il'icheva and V. L. Florentiev

Heterogen Complexes of Ethidium Bromide and Their Role in Stabilization of Helix DNA
Ara P. Antonian, Pogos O.Vardevanian, Genady A. Terzikian,Armen T. Karapetian and Olga F. Borisova

New Methods for the Free Energy Calculation with Implicit Solvent Model
Yury N. Vorobjev and Jan Hermans

Beta-Sheet Assembles DNA's Homo- and Heterologous Quadruplexes
Sergei A. Streltsov, Marina V.Borodina and Tymur E.Semenov

Spectroscopic Studies of the Stability Enhancement of Selective
5-Substituted Cytidine and Hydration on the Conformations of DNA Triple Helices Containing a TTTT Loop
Lou-sing Kan, Ye Fang, Chunli Bai and S. B. Lin

Identification and Characterization of Genomic Nucleosome-Positioning Sequences
Hans R. Widlund, Hui Cao, Stina Simonsson, Elisabet Magnusson, Tomas Simonsson, Peter E. Nielsen, Jason D. Kahn, Donald M. Crothers and Mikael Kubista

GAT(G)-Repeats Form Unstable Nucleosomes
Hui Cao, Hans R. Widlund and Mikael Kubista

Mouse Major Satellite DNA in a Positioned Nucleosome
Hans R. Widlund, Prasad N. Kuduvalli, Thomas D. Tullius and Mikael Kubista

Genome Instability: Structural Basis of Triplet Repeat Expansion and Genetic Disorders
Samir K. Brahmachari, P.S. Sarkar, U. Shaligram, M. Mutsuddi, S. Raghavan, R. Bhandari, S.S.Pataskar, M. Narayan and Quasar, S.P

Analogues of Hoechst 33258 Bind to Transfer RNA with 1:1 Stoichiometry
S.E. Sadat Ebrahimi, Amanda N. Wilton and Kenneth T. Douglas

The Bi-loop, a New General Four-Stranded DNA Motif
Stephen A. Salisbury, Sarah E. Wilson, Harold R. Powell, Olga Kennard, Paolo Lubini, George M. Sheldrick, Nuria Escaja, ElMostafa Alazzouzi, Anna Grandas and Enrique Pedroso

Role of the C-terminal Zinc Finger in the Recognition of Damaged DNA by Fpg, a DNA Repair Enzyme
Serge Smirnov, Carlos de los Santos, Teri Klein, Arthur Grollman and Moises Eisenberg

Structure of Mispairs Formed by 2'-Deoxy-6-Thioguanosine in DNA
Rahul Mitra and B. Montgomery Pettitt

Inhibition of the HIV-1 Integrase by DNA Quadruplexes is Dependent on Their Structure
Rahul Mitra, Sandy Lee, Michael E. Hogan and B. M. Pettitt

Protein Displacement By Sequence-Directed DNA-Binding Molecules: The MERLINTM Assay System for Drug Discovery
Lisa M. Turin, Alka Chawla, Gary P. Schroth and Cynthia A. Edwards

Tet Repressor Binding to Operator DNA and Tetracycline Studied by Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy
C. Krafft, W. Hinrichs, P. Orth, W. Saenger and H. Wefle

Mutational Analysis of Active Site of RNase Bacillus Intermedius (Binase)
N. Struminskaya, G. Yakovlev, G. Moiseev, L. Kipenskaya, L. Znamenskaya, I. Leschinskaya and R. Hartley

Computer Simulation of Codon - Codon Replacements
B. Borstnik

Triple Helical Structures Involving Deoxyinosine: There is a Penalty for Promiscuity
Martin Mills, Jens Völker and Horst H. Klump

Influence of DNA Topology on the Homologous Sequence Search Mediated by RecA Protein of E. Coli
U. Marquardt and J. Chen

The Sep1 Strand Exchange Protein From Saccaromyces Cerevisiae Does Not Promote Strand Exchange Reaction
Z. Zhang and J. Chen

The Topological Linkage of the Kinetoplast Minicricle DNA From Leshimania Tarentolae
W. A. McLaughlin, R. Hanson and J. Chen

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