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in order to investigation of planting pattern and plant density effects on vegetative and reproductive organs and yield of early maturing cotton cultivars, an experiment was carried out as split–split plot using randomized complete block design with 4 replications, in karkandeh research station, during 2004-2205. three row spaces (60, 70 and 80 cm) were consisted as main factors, plant space in...

In a new system for DNA computation called programmed mutagenesis, DNA strands are rewritten according to 'rules' that are sequence specific. In a programmed mutagenesis reaction DNA sequences undergo programmed changes, and these changes are implemented by an in-vitro mutagenesis system that is based on thermal cycling the rewriting reaction. We describe experimental results that demonstrate t...

Site-directed and random mutagenesis have been useful tools in molecular biology. The application of directed mutagenesis in medically important fungi has been limited by the availability of molecular genetic techniques. Even species in which efficient genetic transformation methodologies exist, mutagenesis approaches were sparsely used due to diploidism. Lack of genetic tools hindered understa...

This review focuses on eukaryotic DNA polymerase ζ (Pol ζ), the enzyme responsible for the bulk of mutagenesis in eukaryotic cells in response to DNA damage. Pol ζ is also responsible for a large portion of mutagenesis during normal cell growth, in response to spontaneous damage or to certain DNA structures and other blocks that stall DNA replication forks. Novel insights in mutagenesis have be...

CRISPR/Cas9 is now regularly used for targeted mutagenesis in a wide variety of systems. Here we report the use of ribozymes for the generation of gRNAs both in vitro and in zebrafish embryos. We show that incorporation of ribozymes increases the types of promoters and number of target sites available for mutagenesis without compromising mutagenesis efficiency. We have tested this by comparing ...

Protein engineering uses oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis to modify DNA sequences through a two-step process of hybridization and enzymatic synthesis. Inefficient reactions confound attempts to introduce mutations, especially for the construction of vast combinatorial protein libraries. This paper applied computational approaches to the problem of inefficient mutagenesis. Several results im...

A causal association between genetic alterations and cancer is supported by extensive experimental and epidemiological data. Mutational inactivation of tumor suppressor genes and activation of oncogenes are associated with the development of a wide range of cancers. The link between mutagenesis and carcinogenesis is particularly evident for cancers induced by chemical exposures, which, in some ...

Site-directed mutagenesis (SDM) is a powerful tool to create defined collections of protein variants for experimental and clinical purposes, but effectiveness is compromised when a large number of mutations is required. We present here a one-tube-only standardized SDM approach that generates comprehensive collections of amino acid substitution variants, including scanning- and single site-multi...