Chimeric genes
Alternative Transposition Generates New Chimeric Genes and Segmental Duplications at the Maize p1 Locus
... fusion genes induced by alternative ...functional chimeric genes in the maize ...of chimeric genes and further illustrate the potential role of TEs in generating genetic ...
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Hundreds of novel composite genes and chimeric genes with bacterial origins contributed to haloarchaeal evolution
... ChiC genes are significantly involved in metabolism Functional analysis indicated that the 126 ChiC genes do not play the same roles as other composite genes in the cell ...ChiC genes are ...
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Formation of chimeric genes with essential functions at the origin of eukaryotes
... tend to be involved in physical interactions. They have been linked with the evolution of eukaryotes and of or- ganismal complexity [67, 68]. For these reasons, it is im- portant to note that 30% of S-genes are ...
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Properties of the human hepatitis B virus enhancer: position effects and cell-type nonspecificity.
... Using gene expression assays in both stably and transiently transfected cells, we found that the HBV enhancer element, when located in a transcribed region of chimeric genes, dramaticall[r] ...
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Meiotic Recombination Between Paralogous RBCSB Genes on Sister Chromatids of Arabidopsis thaliana
... RBCSB genes, chimeric RBCSB::LUC alleles were se- quenced from 25 independent Luc ⫹ lines representing all eight ...recombinant chimeric RBCS3B/1B intervals, indicating that all of the sequences ...
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Evolutionary patterns of RNA based gene duplicates in Caenorhabditis nematodes coincide with their genomic features
... formed chimeric genes in ...of chimeric genes in these 5 Caenorhabditis species (more information in Additional file 2: Table ...of chimeric retrocopies are intact compared to their ...
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Concordant Modulation of Neutralization Resistance and High Infectivity of the Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 MN Strain and Definition of a Potential gp41 Binding Site in gp120
... using genes chimeric for various segments of the MN-P and MN-TCLA genes demonstrated that the two characteristics of the pheno- type were dependent on sequences in the segment of gp41 encoding the LZ ...
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Structural features of the herpes simplex virus alpha gene 4, 0, and 27 promoter-regulatory sequences which confer alpha regulation on chimeric thymidine kinase genes.
... Chimeric genes constructed by fusion of the coding and 5' nontranslated leader sequences of the thymidine kinase TK gene to the sequences upstream from the site of initiation of transcri[r] ...
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Original Article Generation of a chimeric dust mite hypoallergen using DNA shuffling for application in allergen-specific immunotherapy
... protocols described by Stemmer [17]. The shuf- fled DNA library was inserted into a pUCm-T vector (Sangon Biotech, Shanghai, China), and sequenced on an ABI DNA sequencer (ABI, Foster City, CA, USA). Sequenced ...
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Recombinant domains III of Tick Borne Encephalitis Virus envelope protein in combination with dextran and CpGs induce immune response and partial protectiveness against TBE virus infection in mice
... Three recombinant plasmids: pDBD2-D3S, pDBD2-D3E, and pDBD2-D3F containing chimeric genes composed of dextran binding domain DBD2 from Leuconostoc citreum KM20 DBD2, nucleotide sequence [r] ...
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Regulation of Na,K adenosine triphosphatase gene expression by sodium ions in cultured neonatal rat cardiocytes
... Transfection experiments with chimeric plasmids containing 5'-flanking sequences of al, a2, and a3 isoform genes and a luciferase reporter gene revealed that 1 mM ouabain caused a twofol[r] ...
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The Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus Internal Scaffold Domain Enables In Vitro Assembly of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Gag
... HIV-1 immature particles determined from cryo-electron mi- croscopy, where the modal width of these heterogeneous and imperfectly spherical particles was found to be between 140 and 160 nm with numerous larger-sized ...
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Bovine Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 (BPIV3) Fusion and Hemagglutinin-Neuraminidase Glycoproteins Make an Important Contribution to the Restricted Replication of BPIV3 in Primates
... HN genes of BPIV3 that were introduced into the HPIV3 backbone as a set of two ...of chimeric and parental viruses for the lower respiratory tracts of rhesus monkeys due to a low level of replication of ...
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Improved Antigen Yield in Pandemic H1N1 (2009) Candidate Vaccine Viruses with Chimeric Hemagglutinin Molecules
... Altogether, these data show that the two viruses containing chimeric HA genes are significantly improved as CVVs com- FIG. 2. (a) Hemagglutination titers of allantoic fluids prior to virus concentrate ...
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Characterization of chimeras between the ecotropic Moloney murine leukemia virus and the amphotropic 4070A envelope proteins.
... chimeras. Chimeric junctions for exchange of VRA segments were generated at the amphotropic AflII site located approximately 14 amino acids downstream of junction 2 in this ...
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Constitutive retinoid receptors expressed from adenovirus vectors that specifically activate chromosomal target genes required for differentiation of promyelocytic leukemia and teratocarcinoma cells.
... of chimeric retinoid receptors generated by fusion with the transactivation domain of VP16 and expression in adenovirus ...several chimeric proteins activated both RAR and RXR target genes, fusion of ...
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Influenza Virus PB1 and Neuraminidase Gene Segments Can Cosegregate during Vaccine Reassortment Driven by Interactions in the PB1 Coding Region
... of chimeric PB1 genes revealed that the coselection of NA and PB1 segments was not directed through the previously identified packaging sequences but through interactions involving the internal coding ...
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Functional Characterization of Glycoprotein H Chimeras Composed of Conserved Domains of the Pseudorabies Virus and Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Homologs
... a chimeric protein containing major parts of the gD ectodomain (amino acids [aa] 1 to 271) fused to a truncated gH lacking the N-terminal 96 ...This chimeric gDH was able to substitute for gD, gH, and gL in ...
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Molecular Characterization and Evolution of Self-Incompatibility Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana: The Case of the Sc Haplotype
... two genes that comprise the self-incompatibility (SI) speci fi city-determining S -locus haplotype, the S -locus receptor kinase ( SRK ) and the S -locus cysteine-rich ( SCR ) genes, as well as unlinked modi ...
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Sindbis virus replicons and Sindbis virus: assembly of chimeras and of particles deficient in virus RNA.
... viral genes, are translated from the genomic RNA; the structural proteins, the capsid protein that interacts with the RNA to form the nucleocapsid and the proteins embedded in the lipid envelope, are translated ...
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