Partial Reading List-Fall 2010

BIO 401/501

NOTE: Not all these papers will be assigned. This list is also incomplete, additional papers may be assigned. See also UBLearns site for this course!

Reference Book

Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure by Wolfram Saenger. (on reserve in library)

Journal Articles

Base Stacking
Wang & Kool, Biochemistry (1995), 34, 4125-4132
Freier, et al. Biochemistry 1983, 22, 6198-6206

Matray & Kool JACS (1998) 120 6191-2

DNA Structure

Dickerson, et al. (1982) Science 216, 475-485.
Vargason, et al. (2001) Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA 98, 7265-7270
                    See the Movies! Helix Basepair


Dickerson, R.E., & Ng, H.-L., (2002) Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA 98, 6986-6988

Protein-DNA Interactions

DNA Sequence specific binding overview

CAP_DNA complex structure

DNA sequence determinants for CAP binding

CAP in vitro selection

Chain Behavior

Shore et al., (1981) PNAS 78, 4833-4837

Taylor, W.H. and Hagerman. P.J. (1990) J. Mol. Biol. 212, 363-376.

Transcriptionally-Induced Supercoiling

Tsao, et al. (1989) Cell 56, 111-118.

Rhee KY, Opel M, Ito E, Hung Sp, Arfin SM, Hatfield GW. (1999) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96:14294-14299

Nucleosomes

Satchwell, S. C., Drew, H. R. & Travers, A. A. (1986).
Sequence periodicities in chicken nucleosome core
DNA. J. Mol. Biol. 191, 659–675.

Buttinelli et al PNAS (1998) 95; 8544-8549

Richmond & Davey Nature  (2003) 423, 145-150

Widlund et al. J. Mol. Biol. (1997) 267, 807-817

Luger, et al. NATURE (1997) 389, 251-260

ThaÊ stro Èm, et al. J. Mol. Biol. (1999) 288, 213-229

Sequence-Induced DNA Bending

Koo, et al. (1986) Nature 320, 501-506.

Nelson et al. (1987) Nature 330, 221-226.

Gartenberg et al. (1988) Nature 333, 824-829.

Howerton, et al. (2001) Biochemistry 40, 10023-31

Maki, et. al. (2003) Nucl. Acids Res. 31 1059-1066

Protein-DNA Interactions

Parkinson, et al. (1996) Journal of Molecular Biology 260, p 395-408 (Adobe-PDF)

Gunasekera A, Ebright YW, Ebright RH (1992) J Biol Chem; 267(21):14713-20

RNA Structure and Protein-RNA Interactions

Rould, et al. (1989) Science 246, 1135-1142.

Puglisi JD (1995) Science 270,1200-1203

Gait & Karn (1993) Trends in Biochem. Sci. 18, 255-259

Weeks & Crothers (1991) Cell 66, 577-588

Weeks & Crothers (1993) Science 261, 1574-1577.

Hamy et al. (1993) J. Mol. Biol. 230, 111-123.