DNA polymerase gamma has been purified over 67,500-fold from human trophoblast tissue. Purification was achieved through successive chromatographies on phosphocellulose, DEAE-cellulose, DNA-cellulose, and high pressure gel exclusion through Fractogel TSK HW55. This preparation yielded a specific activity of 81 units/mg of protein using the preferred template-primer, poly (A)-oligo (dT)₁₂₋₁₃. Analysis...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain XS-380, a. heteroallelic
diploid strain, carries six genetically analyzed loci on the left arm of
chromosome VII. Nitrosoguanidine (NMG) at low concentrations was
observed to cause allelic recombination (either mitotic recombination
or gene conversion) of the heteroallelic loci with low lethality.
The NMG-inducible heteroallelic system was used...
Synthesis of total RNA, DNA, and protein was followed in a
haploid yeast auxotroph during starvation for required amino acids
and uracil, and during shift-up and shift-down conditions.
During amino acid starvation, synthesis of macromolecular
constituents was not immediately affected, reflecting the presence
of large intracellular amino acid pools. Under...
The Baculoviridae comprise a diverse group of occluded DNA viruses that contain large double-stranded DNA genomes of 80 - 180 kb and may encode up to 180 gene products. To understand how baculoviruses replicate and process their genomes and the gene products that are involved in these events, a series...
In most environments, ammonia (NH₃) is oxidized to nitrate (NO₃⁻) via the intermediate nitrite (NO₂⁻). This is a microbe-driven process involving phylogenetically distinct types of microorganisms, namely, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and Thaumarchaea (AOA), and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB). Nitrosomonas europaea and Nitrobacter winogradskyi are the best studied AOB and NOB, respectively,...
Pancreatic beta cells produce and release insulin, a vital hormone that regulates blood glucose levels, and their dysfunction contributes to the development of diabetes mellitus. Dietary zinc deficiency and exposure to the toxicant inorganic arsenic have both independently been associated with diabetes, although the effects of their combination on pancreatic...
Previous studies revealed the high incidence of drug resistant
bacteria from foods. In this study, market vegetables were tested
for their contamination with antibiotic resistant (ABR) enteric bacteria. A total of 402 bacterial strains from surface vegetables
(e.g., lettuce) and 321 from root vegetables (e.g., carrots) were
examined for their...