Nucleoside analog studies indicate mechanistic differences between RNA-editing adenosine deaminases [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2012 Adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADAR1 and ADAR2) are human RNA-editing adenosine deaminases responsible for the conversion of adenosine to inosine at specific locations in cellular RNAs. Since inosine is recognized during translation as guanosine, this often results in the expression of protein sequences different from those encoded in the genome ...
Mizrahi, Rena A. +3 more
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Bacterial cytidine deaminases as versatile activators of fluoropyrimidine nucleoside prodrugs
European Journal of Medicinal ChemistryA platform for modification of 5-fluoropyrimidine nucleosides as potential prodrugs has been developed utilizing bacterial-derived cytidine deaminases (CDAs) for activation. It has been demonstrated that CDA_EH, CDA_F14, and CDA_Lsp effectively convert 5-fluoropyrimidine analogs into 5-fluoro-(2′-deoxy)uridine exhibiting cytotoxic effects.
Preitakaitė, Viktorija +7 more
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Efficient Biocatalytic Synthesis of Dihalogenated Purine Nucleoside Analogues Applying Thermodynamic Calculations [PDF]
, 2020 The enzymatic synthesis of nucleoside analogues has been shown to be a sustainable and efficient alternative to chemical synthesis routes. In this study, dihalogenated nucleoside analogues were produced by thermostable nucleoside phosphorylases in ...
Giessmann, Robert T. +9 more
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DNA editing in DNA/RNA hybrids by adenosine deaminases that act on RNA. [PDF]
, 2017 Adenosine deaminases that act on RNA (ADARs) carry out adenosine (A) to inosine (I) editing reactions with a known requirement for duplex RNA. Here, we show that ADARs also react with DNA/RNA hybrid duplexes.
Beal, Peter A +2 more
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Trading in cooperativity for specificity to maintain uracil-free DNA [PDF]
, 2016 Members of the dUTPase superfamily play an important role in the maintenance of the pyrimidine nucleotide balance and of genome integrity. dCTP deaminases and the bifunctional dCTP deaminase-dUTPases are cooperatively regulated by dTTP.
Merenyi, G. +4 more
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Probing RNA recognition by human ADAR2 using a high-throughput mutagenesis method. [PDF]
, 2016 Adenosine deamination is one of the most prevalent post-transcriptional modifications in mRNA. In humans, ADAR1 and ADAR2 catalyze this modification and their malfunction correlates with disease. Recently our laboratory reported crystal structures of the
Beal, Peter A, Wang, Yuru
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Expanding a fluorescent RNA alphabet: synthesis, photophysics and utility of isothiazole-derived purine nucleoside surrogates. [PDF]
, 2017 A series of emissive ribonucleoside purine mimics, all comprised of an isothiazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidine core, was prepared using a divergent pathway involving a key Thorpe-Ziegler cyclization.
Fin, Andrea +2 more
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New insights into the biological role of mammalian ADARs; the RNA editing proteins [PDF]
, 2015 The ADAR proteins deaminate adenosine to inosine in double-stranded RNA which is one of the most abundant modifications present in mammalian RNA.
Arieti, Fabiana +4 more
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Activation-induced deoxycytidine deaminase (AID) co-transcriptional scanning at single-molecule resolution [PDF]
, 2015 Activation-induced deoxycytidine deaminase (AID) generates antibody diversity in B cells by initiating somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class-switch recombination (CSR) during transcription of immunoglobulin variable (IgV) and switch region (IgS) DNA ...
Bertram, JG +7 more
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Adenosine deaminase production by an endophytic bacterium (Lysinibacillus sp.) from Avicennia marina [PDF]
, 2013 The present study was carried out with the following objectives: (1) to isolate the endophytic bacilli strains from the leaves of mangrove plant Avicennia marina, (2) to screen the potential strains for the production of adenosine deaminase, (3) to ...
Kandasamy Kathiresan +3 more
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