1Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development and Department of Pediatrics, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; 2Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; 3Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; 4Department of Hemat...

High-throughput technologies of functional genomics such as T-DNA insertional mutagenesis and microarray expression profiling have been employed to identify genes related to pathogenicity in Magnaporthe oryzae. However, validation of the functions of individual genes identified by these high-throughput approaches is laborious. In this study, we compared two published lists of genes putatively r...

Abstract Teratological spores and pollen are widespread in sediments that record the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. The malformations thought to be result of extreme environmental conditions at time, but mutagenic agents precise timing events remain unclear. We examined abundance teratological sporomorphs metal concentrations a tropical peatland succession southwestern China. find significan...

Post-translational modifications of proteins are ubiquitous in living organisms, as they enable an accurate control the interactions these macromolecules. For mechanistic studies, it would be highly advantageous to able produce vitro post-translationally modified with site-specificity. Here, we demonstrate one facile way achieve this goal through use post-translational chemical mutagenesis. We ...

The effects of gamma radiation are investigated by studying seed germination, survival rate and morphological characteristics Stevia rebaudiana. Improvement stevia plant through mutagenesis could be one the ways to produce with delay flowering.

Screening insertional mutants for loss of virulence is an effective method for investigating the molecular genetic basis of bacterial pathogenesis, but has only recently been applied to fungal pathogens. For many pathogenic fungi transformation with heterologous plasmid DNA results in complex integration events. This problem can now be circumvented for some species using restriction enzyme medi...

γ-Retroviral and lentiviral vectors allow the permanent integration of a therapeutic transgene in target cells and have provided in the last decade a delivery platform for several successful gene therapy (GT) clinical approaches. However, the occurrence of adverse events due to insertional mutagenesis in GT treated patients poses a strong challenge to the scientific community to identify the me...