Readings for Advanced Molecular Biology, Fall 2009

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Cell Structure, Sept. 4, Chap. 1

Inside a Living Cell, Goodsell, D., Trends in Biological Sciences 16, 203-206 (1991).

The Depletion Attraction:  An Underappreciated Force Driving Cellular Organization, D. Marenduzzo, K. Finan, P. Cook, J. Cell Biol. 175, 681-686 (2006).

Nucleic Acid Structure, Sept. 9, Chap. 2

Helical Repeat of DNA in Solution, J. Wang, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 200-203 (1979).

DNA Flexibility Studied by Covalent Closure of Short Fragments into Circles, D. Shore, J. Langoushi, R. Baldwin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78, 4833-4837 (1981).

Electrophoretic Separations of Large DNA Molecules by Periodic Inversion of the Electric Field, C. Carle, M. Frank, M. Olson, Science 232, 65-68 (1986).  


DNA Synthesis, Sept. 11, Chap. 3

The Localization of Replication Origins on ARS Plasmids in S. cerevisiae, B. Brewer, W. Fangman, Cell 51, 463-471 (1987).

E. coli oriC and the dnaAGene Promoters are Sequestered from dam Methyltransferase Following the Passage of the Chromosomal Replication Fork, Campbell, J., Kleckner, N., Cell 62, 967-979 (1990).


RNA Synthesis, Sept. 16, 18, Chap. 4

Transcription Against an Applied Force, H. Yin, M. Wang, K. Svoboda, R. Landick, S. Block, J. Gelles, Science 270, 1653-1657 (1995).

Promoter unwinding and promoter clearance by RNA polymerase: Detection by single-molecule DNA nanomanipulation Andrey Revyakin, Richard H. Ebright, and Terence R. Strick, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 4778-80 (2004).

Association of RNA Polymerase with Transcribed Regions in Escherichia coli,  J. Wade, K. Struhl, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 17777- 82  (2004).


Noncoding RNAs, RNAi,  and RNA Processing, Sept. 23, Chap. 5

Potent and Specific Genetic Interference by Double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans, A. Fire, S. Xu, M. Montgomery, S. Kostas, S. Driver, C. Mello, Nature 391, 806-811 (1998).

DsrA RNA Regulates Translation of RpoS Message by an Anti-antisense Mechanism, Independent of its Action as an Antisilencer of Transcription, N. Majdalani, C. Cunning, D. Sledjeski, T. Elliott, S. Gottesman, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 12462-12467 (1998).

Antigenic Variation in Giardia lambllia is Regulated by RNA Interference, C. Prucca, I. Slavin, R. Quiroga, E. Elias, F. Rivero, A. Saura, P. Carranza, H. Lujan, Nature 456, 750-54 (2008). 


Eukaryotic Nucleus, Sept. 25

Translational and Rotational Settings of H2A.Z Nucleosomes Across the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genome, I. Albert, T. Mavrich, L. Tomsho, J. Qi, S. Zanton, S. Schuster, B. Pugh, Nature 446, 572-576 (2007).

 

Recovery of Learning and memory is Associated with Chromatin Remodelling, A. Fischer, F. Sananbenes, X. Wang, M. Dobbin, L. Tsai, Nature 447, 178-182 (2007).


Protein Structure, Sept. 30, Chap. 6

Protein Structure by Mechanical Triangulation, H. Dietz, M. Rief, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 1244-47 (2006).

Xray Structure of the GCN4 Leucine Zipper, a Two-stranded, Parallel Coiled Coil, E. O'Shea, J. Klemm, P. Kim, T. Alber, Science 254, 539-544 (1991).

Design of a Novel Globular Protein Fold with Atomic-level Accuracy, Kuhlman B, Dantas G, Ireton GC, Varani G, Stoddard BL, Baker D, Science 21, 1364-8 (2003).

Protein Synthesis, Ribosome Function Oct. 2, Chap. 7

The Transfer RNA Identity Problem: A Search for Rules, M. Saks, J. Sampson, J. Abelson, Science 263, 191-197 (1994).

Role of a Peptide Tagging System in Degradation of Proteins Synthesized from Damaged Messenger RNA, K. Keiler, P. Waller, R. Sauer, Science 271, 990-993, (1996).

Genetics, Oct. 9, Chap. 8

The Processing of Recombination Intermediates: Mechanistic Insights from Studies of Bacterial Proteins, S. West, Cell 76, 915 (1994)

General Model for Genetic Recombination, M. Meselson, C. Radding, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 72, 358-361 (1975).

Genetic Engineering, Oct. 14, 16, 21, Chaps. 9, 10

The Two-hybrid System: A Method to Identify and Clone Genes for Proteins that Interact with a Protein of Interest, C. Chien, P. Bartel, R. Sternglanz, S. Fields, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 9578-9582 (1991).

An RNA Motif that Binds ATP, M. Sassanfar, J. Szostak, Nature 364, 550-553 (1993).

Regional Codon Randomization: Defining a TATABinding Protein Surface Required for RNA Polymerase III Transcriiption, B. Cormack, K. Struhl, Science 262, 244-248 (1993).

PCR Analysis of Tissue Samples from the 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Victims: The Presence of Multiple Bacillus Anthrax Strains in Different Victims, P. Jackson, M. Hugh-Jones, D. Adair, G. Green, K. Hill, C. Kuske, L. Grinberg, F. Abromova, P. Keim, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 1224-1229 (1998).

Protein Design by Binary Patterning of Polar and Nonpolar Amino Acids, S. Kamtkar, J. Schiffer, H. Xiong, J. Babik, M. Hecht, Science 262, 1680-1685 (1993).

Molecular Computation of Solutions to Combinatorial Problems, L. Adleman, Science 266, 1021-24 (1994).

Identification of D-peptide Ligands Through Mirrorimage Phage Display, T. Schumacher. L. Mayr, D. Minor, Jr., M. Milhollen, M. Burgess, P. Kim, Science 271, 1854-1857 (1996).

Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and Rapid Decline of Cental African Wildlife, E. Leroy, P. Rouquet, P. Formenty, S. Souquiere, A. Kilbourne, J. Froment, M. Bermejo, S. Smit, W. Karesh, R. Swanepoel, S. Zake, Science 303, 387-90 (2004).

Probing TBP Interactions in Transcription Initiation and Reinitiation with RNA Aptamers that Act in Distinct Modes, X. Fan, H. Shi, K. Adelman, J. Lis, PNAS 101, 6934-39 (2004).


Genomics and Proteomics, Oct. 23

Global Identification of Human Transcribed Sequences with Genome Tiling Arrays, Bertone, et. al. Science 306, 2242-46, 2004.

An in Vivo Map of the yeast Protein Interactome, K. Tarassov et. al., Science 320, 1465-1470 (2008).

Nascent RNA Sequencing Reveals Widespread Pausing and Divergenet Initiation at Human Promoters, L. Core, J. Waterfall, J. Lis, Science 322, 1845-48 (2008).


Bioinformatics, Oct. 28

A General Method Applicable to the Search for Similarities in the Anino Acid Sequence of two Proteins, S. Needleman, C. Wunsch, J. Mol. Biol. 48, 443-53 (1970).

http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/Education/BLASTinfo/similarity.html.


Lactose Operon, Oct 30, Chap. 11

Identification of the Functional Subunit of a Dimeric Transcription Activator Protein by Use of Oriented Heterodimers, Y. Zhou, S. Busby, R. Ebright, Cell 73, 375-379 (1993).

Mechanism of Corepressor-mediated Specific DNA Binding by the Purine Repressor, M. Schumacher, K. Choi, F. Lu, H. Zalkin, R. Brennan,Cell 83, 147-155 (1995).

Modeling the Lac Repressor-Operator Assembly:  The Influence of DNA Looping on Lac Repressor Conformation, D. Swigon, B. Coleman, W. Olson, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 9879-84 (2006).


Arabinose Operon, Nov. 4, Chap. 12

DNA Looping and Unlooping by AraC Protein, R. Lobell, R. Schleif, Science 250, 528-532 (1990).

Regulation of the L-arabinose Operon of Escherichia coli, R. Schleif, Trends in Genetics 16, 559-565 (2000).

The Role of Rigidity in DNA Looping-unlooping by AraC, T. Harmer, M. Wu, R. Schleif, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 427-431 (2001).

Arm-Domain Interactions in AraC, B. Saviola, R. Seabold, R. Schleif, J. Mol. Biol. 278, 539-548 (1998).

Prions and the Tryptophan Operon, Nov. 6, Chap. 13

Mice Devoid of PrP are Resistant to Scrapie, H. Bueler, A. Aguzzi, A. Sailer, R. Greiner, P. Autenried, M. Aguet, C. Weissmann, Cell 73, 1339-1347 (1993).

[URE3] as an Altered URE2 Protein: Evidence for a Prion Analog in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, R. Wickner, Science 264, 566-569 (1994).


Yeast Mating Type, Nov. 13, Chap. 16

A 700 bp cis-Acting Region Controls Mating-Type Dependent Recombination Along the Entire Left Arm of Yeast Chromosome III. X. Wu, J. Haber, Cell 87, 277-285 (1996).

“Mutagenesis” by Peptide Aptamers Identifies Genetic Network Members and Pathway Connections, C. Geyer, A. Colman-Lerner, R. Brent, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 8567-72 (1999).


Molecular Aspects of Development, Nov. 18, Chap. 17

P-ElementMediated Enchancer Detection: An Efficient Method for Isolating and Characterizing Developmentally Regulated Genes in Drosophila, Wilson, C., Pearson, R., Bellen, H., O'Kane, C., Grossniklaus, U., and Gehring, W., Genes and Development 3, 1288-1300 (1989).

Determination of Left-right Patterning of the Mouse Embryo by Artificial Nodal Flow, S. Nonaka, H. Shiratori, Y. Saljoh, H. Hamada, Nature 418, 96-99 (2002).


Transposable Elements, Nov. 20, Chap. 19

Genetic Evidence that Tn10 Transposes by a Nonreplicative Mechanism, J. Bender, N. Kleckner, Cell 45, 801-815 (1986).

Role of DNA Topology in Mu Transposition: Mechanism of Sensing the Relative Orientation of Two DNA Segments, Craigie, R., Mizuuchi, K., Cell 45, 793-800 (1986).


Molecular Aspects of the Immune System, Nov. 25, Chap. 20

Mismatch Repair Co-opted by Hypermutation, M. Cascalho, J. Wong, C. Steinberg, M. Wabl, Science 279, 1207-1210 (1998).

Cell-free V(D)J Recombination, D. Ramsden, T. Paull, M. Gellert, Nature 388, 488-491 (1997).

Activation-induced cytidine deaminase turns on somatic hypermutation in hybridomas, M. Bardwell, C. Woo, M. Fan, M. Shulman, M. Scharff, Nature, 415, 802-802 (2002).


Oncogenesis, Dec. 2, Chap. 23

Dietary Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens, B. Ames, Science 221, 1256-1264 (1983).

An Adenovirus Mutant that Replicates Selectively in p53-deficient Human Tumor Cells, J. Bischoff, D. Kirn, A. Williams, C. Heise, S. Horn, M. Muna, L. Ng, J. Nye, A. Sampson-Johannes, A. Fattaey, F. McCormick, Science 274, 373-376 (1996).

DNA Sequencing of a Cytogenetically Normal Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Genome, Lots of Authors, Nature 456, 66-72 (2008).