JCI table of contents: March 23, 2009
...ers, at San Raffaele-Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy, has now provided evidence that LVs are substantially less likely to cause insertional mutagenesis and tumors than gamma-RVs. Further, they found that modifying an element (known as the LTR) of both LVs and gamma-RVs such that it is self-inactivatin...Evolution of human genome's 'guardian' gives people unique protections from DNA damage
...sponse elements in 14 vertebrate and non-vertebrate species. The study included researchers from the National Institute for Cancer Research (Molecular mutagenesis Unit, Department of Translational Oncology) in Genoa, Italy, and the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics Chromosome Stability Group of the National Insti...Marco Romano, MD Joins Chiltern as Medical Director, Europe
...versity of Genova and a post-graduate degree in Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Milan. Dr Romano co-authored several scientific papers on mutagenesis and cancerogenesis, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of chemical compounds and glutathione metabolism. Dr. Romano will be located in the company...Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA in Sperm, Genetic Damage Could Pass to Offspring
...ist as irreversible changes in the genetic composition of off-spring.' said Carole Yauk, Ph.D., lead author of the study and research scientist in the mutagenesis Section of Health Canadas Environmental and Occupational Toxicology Division. 'We have known that mothers who smoke can harm their fetuses, and here w...Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA
...nstability may be the contributing factors to the pattern of mutations observed in the study, according to the authors. They conclude, "The cumulative mutagenesis data suggest that infants exposed transplacentally to AZT may be at increased risk for cancer as they age." In the first of the two human studie...Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA
...e published in April 2007 in a special issue of Environmental and Molecular mutagenesis that examines the latest research on DNA damage and potential health risks ...rved in the study, according to the authors. They conclude, "The cumulative mutagenesis data suggest that infants exposed transplacentally to AZT may be at increas...Elusive Step In DNA Mutation Uncovered By Researchers
...chain of events to an abnormally high rate of cell division – the result is cancer. "We set out to explore the elementary processes that lead to mutagenesis and eventually cancer," said Uzi Landman, director of the Center for Computational Materials Science and Regents' professor and Callaway chair of phys...Depression May Be A Risk Factor For Cancer Initiation
...he base modifications due to oxidative stress is 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG). It has been reported that this oxidative DNA damage indicates both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, and has been considered to be useful in estimating cancer risk. Owing to these findings, the formation of 8-OH-dG seems to be a va...Structural biology scores with protein snapshot
...he active site looks nothing like any other kinase active site it's a unique architecture," Sanders said. The researchers also performed exhaustive mutagenesis studies in which they characterized mutations at each amino acid in DAGK and used the data to map the active site of the enzyme onto the structure. Th...Forced evolution: Can we mutate viruses to death?
...er values will lead to this delocalization. A competing theory is that a mutagenesis drug may eradicate a virus or bacterial population by reducing the fitness ...like the new model, drug designers looking to create pills to induce lethal mutagenesis couldn't say for certain under what parameter ranges the drugs really worke...Biomarkers allow doctors to match therapy to patient
...be regulated at a molecular level by specific genes. To identify these genes involved in cell growth, they used a functional screen based on insertion mutagenesis with mouse retroviruses. This unique approach in human solid tumor cells took more than a decade of painstaking work. Some of the seven genes the ...Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features methods to screen genomes and analyze evolution
...bor Protocols ( www.cshprotocols.org/TOCs/toc4_08.dtl ) highlights a method for screening the mouse genome using ENU mutagenesis. The method, "Mouse mutagenesis Using N -ethyl- N -nitrosourea (ENU)," was submitted by Monica Justice and colleagues from the Baylor College of Medicine http://www.bcm.edu/db/db_f...Scientists unravel the genetic coding of the pea
...s for both basic science and for crop improvement. TILLING is an alternative to Agrobacterium-based techniques, and uses EMS (ethane methyl sulfonate) mutagenesis coupled with a gene-specific detection of single-nucleotide mutations. This reverse genetic strategy can be applied to all types of organisms and can ...Environmental epigenetics has potential for preventing and treating disease
...expression that are inherited without changing the sequence of DNA. An article publishing in the January 2008 issue of Environmental and Molecular mutagenesis examines some of the epigenetic mechanisms linked to disease, and explores how they occur and their significance in understanding, treating and preven...Biophysical Society announces winners of 2008 Minority Travel Awards
...ynaptotagmin I that Contributes to Differential Transmitter Release. Kerrick, Nevels, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Site-Directed mutagenesis of the Bt Toxin Cyt1A for Intramolecular Distance Determination by FRET. Joseph Sabat, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Proximal Ligand Swi...'Jumping genes' could make for safer gene delivery system
...Transposons, or jumping genes, argues Lambert, are a potentially safer way to go. "You lose the infectivity component and you minimize the insertional mutagenesis risk." Techniques for targeting transposon vectors to regions of the genome devoid of cancer genes are being refined. Meanwhile, a key advantage ov...Cigarette smoke alters DNA in sperm, genetic damage could pass to offspring
...ist as irreversible changes in the genetic composition of off-spring.” said Carole Yauk, Ph.D., lead author of the study and research scientist in the mutagenesis Section of Health Canada’s Environmental and Occupational Toxicology Division. “We have known that mothers who smoke can harm their fetuses, and here ...Randomize Gene Sequences with New PCR Mutagenesis Kit
GeneMorph PCR mutagenesis kit produces a unique mutational spectrum Janice Cline Holly Hogrefe Stratagene ...High-Efficiency Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Large Plasmid Vectors
QuikChange XL: a highly versatile kit for site-directed mutagenesis of large plasmids Michael Borns Peter Vaillancourt Holly Hogrefe Jeff Braman Stratagene The QuikChange site-directed mutagenesis kit* characteristically generates mutagenesis efficiencies exceeding 80%...Big Blue Rodent Cell Cultures for Mutagenesis Studies
Rat and mouse embryonic cell lines are useful for in vitro mutagenesis studies Denise L. Wyborski Stratagene Cloning Systems, Inc. The Big Blue rat cell line and the Big Blue transgenic mouse embryonic cell line are useful for in vitro mutagenesis studies. These cell lines are ...Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cisbio Bioassays for Technology Innovation
...e technologies. "The determination of ligand binding affinity has been used to delineate the ligand binding site of GPCRs through a site-directed mutagenesis strategy," says Frost & Sullivan's Dr. Sudeep Basu. "These studies also provide clues to the activation mechanism of the receptors." It is in...The New Green Revolution offers hope to poor farmers and poor consumers
...ty to develop insect-resistant potatoes and sweet potatoes. An Austrian lab is working with researchers in Kenya to transfer technology on cassava mutagenesis and breeding. Cassava is a low-protein, starchy staple in regions where cereal grains cannot be easily grown. Monsanto, Pioneer, Astra-Zeneca and U...Detection of Mutations in the CYP21 Gene Using the DCode System
... the sequence of interest. Site-Directed mutagenesis In order to obtain mutant control sam...he mutant controls were generated by site-directed mutagenesis at the following nucleotide positions: ...d de Vos, W. M., Improved site-directed mutagenesis method using PCR, Nucleic Acids Res., 19 (16):4558...Enjoy a Greater Sense of Security with PCR-Grade Water
...asks to be addressed by the molecular biology field. In order to assign functions to the genes encoded in the enormous amounts of sequence data, mutagenesis methods are of paramount importance. By combining a powerful polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to generate linear expression fragments w...GeneTailor Site-Directed Mutagenesis System from Invitrogen
Description: ...AMAP Multi Site-directed Mutagenesis Kit from MBL International
Description: AMAP Multi Site-directed Mutagenesis Kit Research Focus: other Storage Temperature: -20C Shipping Temperature: dry ice...Site-directed DNA Mutagenesis Service from Yorkshire Bioscience Ltd
Description: Deletions, insertions or substitutions. Mutations in plasmids of size up to 15 kb. Single or multiple mutations...Site-directed Mutagenesis from Exon BioSystems
Description: Any form, any size, any number of mutageneses. ExonBio provides the best service with double sequecing to make sure the success of the mutagenesis....GPS -M Mutagenesis System from New England Biolabs
Description: The GPS-M Mutagenesis System enables you to insert a transposable element of your own design into your target DNA by in vitro transposition. It uses TnsABC* Transposase to insert a Tn7-based transposon randomly into the DNA target. Target DNA may be a plasmid, cosmid, BAC or purified chromoso...Random DNA mutagenesis Service from Yorkshire Bioscience Ltd
Description: We can introduce random mutations to the gene supplied by a customer. Mutated DNA will be then cloned into a vector of choice to obtain a library of the mutated DNA. Mutation frequency can be set to a desired value within 1-20 mutations per kb. Number of clones 106-108. Mutations can be restrict...Bacterial Strain BMH 71-18 mutS, Glycerol Stock (noncompetent) from Promega
Description:...thesized unmethylated strand (1), leading to high mutation efficiencies and making them helpful in such systems as the GeneEditor and Altered Sites II mutagenesis Systems. Both ES1301 and BMH 71-18 mutS are recA+, therefore inserts containing highly repetitive sequences may be unstable. ES1301 is used in the Alt...Bacterial Strain ES1301 mutS, Glycerol Stock (noncompetent) from Promega
Description:...thesized unmethylated strand (1), leading to high mutation efficiencies and making them helpful in such systems as the GeneEditor and Altered Sites II mutagenesis Systems. Both ES1301 and BMH 71-18 mutS are recA+, therefore inserts containing highly repetitive sequences may be unstable. ES1301 is used in the Alt...MUTAN SUPER EXPRESS KM 20 RXN from Takara Mirus Bio
Description:... Takara's Mutan-Super Express Km Kit is designed to achieve site-directed mutagenesis in just one day. It is based on Oligonucleotide-directed Dual Amber (ODA) method, using the advantages of LA (Long and Accurate) PCR....GCpro Taq DNA Polymerase Complete System from GenScript Corporation
Description:...rd PCR application. It is versatile, user-friendly and compatible with all PCR applications such as GC-rich and other complex templates, site-directed mutagenesis as well as TA cloning due to its extendase activity....