Phylogenetic studies of yeast nuclear RNase P RNA genes have shown a striking conservation of secondary structure for the Saccharomyces and Schizosaccharomyces RNase P RNAs, yet much of the primary sequence and many substructures vary among the RNAs examined. To investigate which sequences and structural features can be varied and still allow function in a heterologous organism, RNase P genes f...

Ribonucleases (RNases) are ubiquitous enzymes that can detrimentally affect RNA isolation in the laboratory. Many applications such as RT-PCR and in vitro transcription and translation may be affected as well. RNase can renature after autoclaving and is difficult to inactivate. Many RNase inhibitors are available commercially. Promega’s RNasin® Ribonuclease Inhibitor, one of the first introduce...

Human RNase P is implicated in transcription of small non-coding RNA genes by RNA polymerase III (Pol III), but the precise role of this ribonucleoprotein therein remains unknown. We here show that targeted destruction of HeLa nuclear RNase P inhibits transcription of 5S rRNA genes in whole cell extracts, if this precedes the stage of initiation complex formation. Biochemical purification analy...

A 38-year-old woman was referred to our department with persisting pain and swelling of the right ankle, 10 months following an inversion trauma. Initial standard radiographs were unremarkable. Conservative treatment with physiotherapy and local infiltration was unsuccessful. Three month later, repeated plain radiographs revealed a slightly radiodense mass at the anterior aspect of the talocrur...

The magnetic field resulting from material magnetization in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has an object orientation effect, which produces an orientation dependence for acquired T2* images. On one hand, the orientation effect can be exploited for object anisotropy investigation (via multi-angle imaging); on the other hand, it is desirable to remove the orientation dependence using magnetic s...

Typical Near East mitochondrial haplotypes of the T2 lineage were found in one cattle metacarpus sample from the Roman period and in two present-day Evolène cattle in Switzerland. Sequences from eight additional Evolène and four Raetian Grey aligned to the European haplotype T3. Analysis of nucleotide diversity within the mitochondrial D-loop of both studied Swiss cattle breeds revealed high ha...

Upon introducing charge carriers into the copper-oxygen sheets of the enigmatic lamellar cuprates, the ground state evolves from an insulator to a superconductor and eventually to a seemingly conventional metal (a Fermi liquid). Much has remained elusive about the nature of this evolution and about the peculiar metallic state at intermediate hole-carrier concentrations (p). The planar resistivi...