Miller, Sara E. M.S., Purdue University, August 2012. Functional Characterization of Two Putative Nucleobase Transporters in Arabidopsis Using Heterologous Complementation in Yeast. Major Professor: George S. Mourad. To identify the substrate profile function for AtNAT5, one of the twelve members of the NAT/NCS2 gene family putatively identified to transport xanthine and/or uric acid, and to id...

Amphiphilic nucleobase-containing block copolymers with poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate) as the hydrophilic block and nucleobase-containing blocks as the hydrophobic segments were successfully synthesized using RAFT polymerization and then self-assembled via solvent switch in aqueous solutions. Effects of the common solvent on the resultant morphologies of the adenine (A) ...

Nucleic acid double helices are stabilized by hydrogen bonding and stacking forces (a combination of hydrophobic, dispersive and electrostatic forces) of the base pairs in the helix. One would predict the hydrogen bonding contributions to increase and the stacking contributions to decrease as the water activity in the medium decreases. Study of nucleobase paired duplexes in the absence of water...

The strongest gas-phase MP2/6-31G*(0.25) stacking energies between the aromatic amino acids and the natural or methylated nucleobases were considered. The potential energy surfaces of dimers were searched as a function of the vertical separation, angle of rotation and horizontal displacement between monomers stacked according to their centers of mass. Our calculations reveal that the stacking i...

is a new fluorescent thymidine mimic composed of 2'-deoxyuridine fused to dimethylaniline. exhibits the same pKa and base pairing characteristics as native thymidine residues, and its fluorescence properties are highly sensitive to nucleobase ionization, base pairing and metal binding.

nanocrystalline sio2–hclo4, as a newly reported catalyst, has been used as an efficient and reusable catalyst for the synthesis of pyrimidine derivatives. the procedure can be successfully applied to the efficient synthesis of mono substituted pyrimidine derivatives, using triethyl orthoformate, ammonium acetate, methyl ketone derivatives. in practice, this method is a combination of a satisfac...

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are single nucleotide gene variations. SNPs in a protein-encoding region can result in a mutant protein and subsequently predispose human beings to common diseases and disorders. Thus, disease diagnosis and identification of targets for drug discovery by SNP detection is an active area of research. Most methods that have been developed for detection of SNP...

We prepared an oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) bearing two 4-hydroxy-2-mercaptobenzimidazole nucleobase analogues (SB(NV) and SB(NB)) modified with different photolabile groups. This ODN enabled a light-triggered strand exchange reaction in a wavelength-selective manner.

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) induces numerous changes to the host metabolic network that are critical for high-titer viral replication. We find that HCMV infection substantially induces de novo pyrimidine biosynthetic flux. This activation is important for HCMV replication because inhibition of pyrimidine biosynthetic enzymes substantially decreases the production of infectious virus, which can...

In an endeavor to find a novel series of antihyperglycemic agents, new benzimidazole and pyrimidine derivatives were successfully synthesized efficiently in high yield with high purity, starting from amino acids in the presence of phosphorus oxychloride (POCl3). The synthesized compounds were identified by 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, FT-IR spectroscopic techniques and elemental analysis. All products were...